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Longlisted for the National Book Award, this highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide. With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life.

Now in paperback: A captivating, heralded memoir, "unflinching and full of truth" (Katherine May), of a woman making a home on a small farm while grappling with an unexpected ADHD diagnosis. "When you think about ADHD . . . do you picture a woman in the bucolic English countryside, raising her children along with an assortment of animals and vegetables? Why not?"—Salon. Moving to a small farm is Rebeca Schiller's dream come true. But as her young family adjusts to a new life in the countryside, her dream is threatened by something within.

The number one bestseller. "Chris Broad explores Japan in all its quirky glory... Endlessly fascinating!" —Will Ferguson, author of Hokkaido Highway Blues. "Carves a unique path across Japan, bringing him into contact with far too many cats, heartening renewal in Tohoku, and even pizza with Ken Watanabe." —Iain Maloney, author of The Only Gaijin in the Village. "Fascinating, fact-packed and very funny... An excellent and enjoyable read for the Japan-curious. I loved it and learned a lot." —Sam Baldwin, author of For Fukui's Sake: Two Years in Rural Japan.

Génie de l'informatique et héros de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Alan Turing est célèbre pour avoir décrypté les communications codées de l'armée allemande en venant à bout d'Enigma, la machine de chiffrement utilisée par les nazis, réputée inviolable. Il faut dire que lorsqu'il « casse » le code secret allemand, à 30 ans, le mathématicien n'en est pas à son premier coup d'éclat.

Décryptez l'univers d'Albert Camus en moins d'une heure ! Novembre 1913, Mondovi, Algérie. Un des écrivains français les plus prestigieux du XXe siècle vient de naître. Pourtant, rien ne prédestine Albert Camus, issu d'un milieu pauvre et populaire, à un avenir aussi brillant. Après avoir un temps fait cause commune avec Sartre et l'existentialisme, il suit sa propre voie, développant inlassablement le thème de l'absurde, mais aussi les notions d'humanisme et de révolte, comme réponses à l'absurdité de la condition humaine.

Empoisonné au Novitchok en août 2020 et évacué en Allemagne pour y être soigné, Alexeï Navalny, figure sans égale de l'opposition russe, est rentré à Moscou sous les feux des médias du monde entier en janvier 2021. Son arrestation immédiate a ouvert la voie à un affrontement inédit avec Vladimir Poutine. Qui est vraiment Alexeï Navalny ? Un héros de la démocratie ? Un nationaliste, un raciste ou un traître à la mère patrie ?

In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores their childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. A New York Times Bestseller! Featured on Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and MSNBC. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.

Winner of the 2024 ECPA Book of the Year. New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestseller. An incredibly thoughtful, disarmingly funny, and intensely vulnerable glimpse into the life and ministry of a woman familiar to many but known by few. "It's a peculiar thing, this having lived long enough to take a good look back. We go from knowing each other better than we know ourselves to barely sure if we know each other at all, to precisely sure that we don't.

New York Times bestseller. Named one of the best books of the year by the New York Public Library, the Financial Times, the New York Post, Book Riot, and the Sunday Times (London). An "exquisite" (The Washington Post) "hauntingly beautiful" (Associated Press) portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard. Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year, but only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny.

Au sein de la microsphère fashion, où paillettes et coups bas sont de mise, vit et règne Anna Wintour. Est-elle vraiment la tyrannique rédactrice en chef du Diable s'habille en Prada ou bien simplement une femme engagée, visionnaire et passionnée, à la tête de l'un des plus grands magazines de mode ? Dans cette biographie non autorisée, Amy Odell nous raconte l'ascension, et les faux pas, d'Anna Wintour jusqu'au sommet de l'univers de la mode.