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  Look at the Lights My Love

  Annie Ernaux

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  A revelatory meditation on class and consumer culture, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux 
    
  “A dryly charming look at the way the French live now, through the sharp eyes of its most acclaimed chronicler.”—Kirkus Reviews 
   
  For half a century, the French writer Annie Ernaux has transgressed the boundaries of what stories are considered worth telling, what subjects worth exploring. In this probing meditation, Ernaux turns her attention to the phenomenon of the big-box superstore, a ubiquitous feature of modern life that has received scant attention in literature. 
   
  Recording her visits to a store near Paris for over a year, she captures the world that exists within its massive walls. Through Ernaux’s eyes, the superstore emerges as “a great human meeting place, a spectacle”—a flashy, technologically advanced incarnation of the ancient marketplace where capitalism, cultural production, and class converge, dictating our rhythms of desire. With her relentless powers of observation, Ernaux takes the measure of a place we thought we knew, calling us to question the experiences we overlook and to gaze more deeply into ordinary life.

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  The Rector of Justin - A Novel

  Louis Auchincloss

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  “[A] certifiable masterpiece” from the acclaimed chronicler of New York City’s old money elite (The New York Observer).   Widely considered Louis Auchincloss’s greatest novel, The Rector of Justin is an astute dissection of the social mores of the Northeast’s privileged establishment. The story centers on Rev. Frank Prescott, the charismatic founder and rector of a prestigious Episcopal school for boys. With laser-sharp insight, Auchincloss delivers a prismatic portrait of this commanding and complicated man through the eyes of those who knew—or thought they knew—him best.   Seamlessly interweaving multiple points of view—from an adoring teacher to that of a rebellious daughter—The Rector of Justin presents a social history of the eighty years of his life: the sources of his virtues and failings, his successes, his love, and his crises of faith.   As Jonathan Yardley put it in the Washington Post, “Auchincloss is one of the most accomplished and distinctive writers this country has known . . . [and] Frank Prescott is one of the great characters in American fiction.”   “A daring and ambitious book . . . Its poise and taste and intelligence strike one on every page, as do its unerring knowledge and literary skill.” —The New Yorker   “[The Rector of Justin] should sit on the shelf of any serious reader of American fiction.” —Jay Parini, The New York Observer   “A taut and elegant study of a distinguished American whose closest friends cannot decide whether they like or detest him.” —The Times Literary Supplement   “Fascinating . . . We do come to feel the reality, the complicated reality, of Francis Prescott.” —Saturday Review   “My favorite of Auchincloss’s novels. Both decadent and demanding, high-hat and frank . . . A subversive in lace-up oxfords and rep tie.” —Amy Bloom  

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  The Great Getty - The Life and...

  Robert Lenzner

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  J. Paul Getty (1892-1976) was a shrewd industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company in 1942, ultimately becoming a dominant player in the oil industry. In The Great Getty, Robert Lenzner presents an in-depth biography of the savviest entrepreneur of the 20th century and the world's richest private citizen at the time of his death—             worth $6 billion, the equivalent of more than $27 billion in today'             s money. As Lenzner chronicles Getty's life—             through interviews with those closest to him—             a picture emerges of a frugal man, a truly miserly art collector, and a notorious womanizer, but also a puritan and philanthropist—             and perhaps a Nazi spy.

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  Hidden Soldier - An Irish...

  Ralph Riegel, Padraig O'Keeffe

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  Pádraig O'Keeffe joined the elite and secretive French Foreign Legion at the age of twenty, seeking a challenge that would absorb his interests and intensity. He served with the Legion in Cambodia and Bosnia, then returned to civilian life, but military habits would not allow him to settle.
  His need for intense excitement and extreme danger drove him back to the lifestyle he knew and loved, and using his Legion training, he became a 'hidden soldier' by opting for security missions in Iraq and Haiti.
  In Iraq he was the sole survivor of an ambush in no man's land between Abu Ghraib and Fallujah, the most dangerous place on earth.
  An intense, exciting and vivid account of extraordinary and sometimes horrific events, Hidden Soldier lifts the veil on the dark and shadowy world of security contractors and what the situation is really like in Iraq as well as other trouble spots.
  This bestseller also includes photographs taken by Padraig O'Keeffe while he was a Legionnaire and when he was in Iraq.

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  Fire Season - Field Notes from a...

  Philip Connors

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  “Fire Season both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature, from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau—and I loved it.” 
  —J.R. Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar“[Connors’s] adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading.” 
  —Walter Kirn, author of Up in the AirPhillip Connors is a major new voice in American nonfiction, and his remarkable debut, Fire Season, is destined to become a modern classic. An absorbing chronicle of the days and nights of one of the last fire lookouts in the American West, Fire Season is a marvel of a book, as rugged and soulful as Matthew Crawford’s bestselling Shop Class as Soulcraft, and it immediately places Connors in the august company of Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Aldo Leopold, Barry Lopez, and others in the respected fraternity of hard-boiled nature writers.

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  Beatles The: Inside Interviews -...

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  Here is the Beatles' incredible story in their own words! Once again, internationally acclaimed, best-selling biographer and actor Geoffrey Giuliano tears back the decades-old veil of myth and unquestioning hero worship surrounding the Beatles’ turbulent lives and presents the frank, often heart-wrenching tale of four talented, driven young men from suburban Liverpool thrust upon the world stage and into the stratosphere of untouchable, eternal superstardom. Utilizing a wealth of rare press conferences and never-before-heard conversations, here is the last word on the Beatles' astounding life and times. The Fab Four speak out exclusively on their groundbreaking music, art, incredible success, the often oppressive constraints of global Beatlemania, and the life-changing effect it had on their amazing, yet turbulent lives. Here is the perfect collection celebrating the Beatles for every dedicated fan, music historian, the media, as well as all school, library, institutional, and university collections. An ultra-rare, exciting, once-in-a-life time audio experience for every generation!  The interviews are from 1962 to 1970.  Additional narration by Josephine Rigonan Puno Noble Bobby Parrs, associate producer  Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of 32 internationally best-selling biographies on the Beatles and other iconic rock groups of the 1960s. He is also a screenwriter, the voice on more than 500 popular audiobooks, as well as a compelling character actor in more than 25 classic films.   Series producer Avalon Giuliano based in New York. Produced by Alex Franchi in Milan. Edited and mixed by Macc Kay in Bangkok. ICON intern Eden Garret Giuliano. Music by AudioNautix.

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