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The Triumph of Madame Chiang

The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China

by Hannah Pakula


In the World of Facebook

The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal

by Ben Mezrich

Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America

by Julia Angwin


A Knife at the Door

Lit: A Memoir

by Mary Karr


Food

“I was brought up on English food. But not fish and chips, spotted dick, toad in the hole, Yorkshire pud, or other delicacies of British home cooking. These my mother scorned as somehow unhealthy…. So she did what every other cook in England in those days did: she boiled everything to death.”

Silent Quantum Genius

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom

by Graham Farmelo


The Cabinet of Dr. Strangelove

A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon

by Neil Sheehan


Stars Without Sky

Chronic City

by Jonathan Lethem


Not So Grand Illusion

The American Leonardo: A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money

by John Brewer


A Deal with the Taliban?

My Life with the Taliban

by Abdul Salam Zaeef, translated from the Pashto and edited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn


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