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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Ocean Vuong

$26.00

ISBN: 9780525562023

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Published: Penguin Press - June 4th, 2019
This Storm: A novel (Hardcover)

By James Ellroy

$29.95

ISBN: 9780307957009

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Published: Knopf - June 4th, 2019
Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon (Hardcover)

By Ash Carter

$30.00

ISBN: 9781524743918

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Published: Dutton - June 11th, 2019
Evvie Drake Starts Over: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Linda Holmes

$26.00

ISBN: 9780525619246

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Published: Ballantine Books - June 25th, 2019

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Bestsellers

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No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir Cover Image

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century Cover Image

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The Art of Diplomacy: Strengthening the Canada-U.S. Relationship in Times of Uncertainty Cover Image

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland Cover Image

Educated: A Memoir Cover Image

The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West Cover Image

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Children & Teens Books

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Music

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1:00 pm

Damian Barr - You Will Be Safe Here — in conversation with Bethanne Patrick

Sun

19

3:00 pm

Sarah Rose - D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

Sun

19

4:00 pm

Paul Goldberger - Ballpark: Baseball in the American City — at Politics and Prose at The Wharf

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19

5:00 pm

Michael Kranish - The World's Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero

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20

7:00 pm

John Urschel and Louisa Thomas - Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football

Tue

21

10:30 am

Story Time at Union Market

Tue

21

7:00 pm

Casey Cep - Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Tue

21

7:00 pm

Annie Jacobsen - Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins — at Politics and Prose at The Wharf

Wed

22

4:00 pm

Scott Pelley - Truth Worth Telling: A Reporter's Search for Meaning in the Stories of Our Times

Wed

22

7:00 pm

Jared Yates Sexton - The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making — at Politics and Prose at The Wharf

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22

7:00 pm

Adam Gopnik - A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism — in conversation with Andrew Sullivan

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23

7:00 pm

SOLD OUT: Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere and Amor Towles - A Gentleman in Moscow—at Sidwell Friends

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In 1974 Francisco Franco died. The Spanish people could finally begin openly discussing the legacy of... read more
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Albert Woodfox was held in solitary confinement for more than 45 years, longer than any prisoner in our... read more

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