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  • Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life

    Jonathan Sperber

    Paperback

    In this magisterial biography of Karl Marx, “likely to be definitive for many years to come” (John Gray, New York Review of Books), historian...

  • Devotion and Defiance: My Journey in Love, Faith and Politics

    Humaira Awais Shahid, Kelly Horan

    Hardback

  • My Foreign Cities: A Memoir

    Elizabeth Scarboro

    Paperback

    Winner of the Chautauqua Prize
    Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and Library Journal

    “Uplifting... it’s about savoring the present, not allowing sadness to dominate and surrendering yourself to love, for better or worse.” —San Francisco Chronicle

  • The Kennan Diaries

    George F. Kennan, Frank Costigliola

    Hardback

    A landmark collection, spanning ninety years of U.S. history, of the never-before-published diaries of George F. Kennan, America’s most famous diplomat.

  • Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism

    Thomas Brothers

    Hardback

    The definitive account of Louis Armstrong—his life and legacy—during the most creative period of his career.