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In Absolutely on Music, internationally Haruki Murakami sits down with his friend Seiji Ozawa, the revered former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, for a series of conversations on their shared passion: music. Over the course of two years, Murakami and Ozawa discuss everything from Brahms to Beethoven, from Leonard Bernstein to Glenn Gould, from Bartók to Mahler, and from pop-up orchestras to opera. They listen to and dissect recordings of some of their favorite performances, and Murakami questions Ozawa about his career conducting orchestras around the world. Culminating in Murakami's ten-day visit to the banks of Lake Geneva to observe Ozawa's retreat for young musicians, the book is interspersed with ruminations on record collecting, jazz clubs, orchestra halls, film scores, and much more. A deep reflection on the essential nature of both music and writing, Absolutely on Music is an unprecedented glimpse into the minds of two maestros.

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<b>The influential masterpiece of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant-and neglected-science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called "the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced."-now in development as a miniseries directed by Johan Renck.<br/></b> <br/><b>"[Wyndham] avoids easy allegories and instead questions the relative values of the civilisation that has been lost, the literally blind terror of humanity in the face of dominant nature. . . . Frightening and powerful, Wyndham's vision remains an important allegory and a gripping story."-<i>The Guardian</i> </b><br/><br/><i>What if a meteor shower left most of the world blind-and humanity at the mercy of mysterious carnivorous plants?&#160;<br/></i><br/>Bill Masen undergoes eye surgery and awakes the next morning in his hospital bed to find civilization collapsing. Wandering the city, he quickly realizes that surviving in this strange new world requires evading strangers and the seven-foot-tall plants known as triffids-plants that can walk and can kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers.

<b>A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia-from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature</b><br/><br/><b>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF&#160;THE YEAR BY</b><br/> <b><i>The Washington Post</i>&#160;-&#160;<i>The Guardian</i>&#160;- NPR -&#160;<i>The Economist</i>&#160;-&#160;<i>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</i>&#160;-&#160;<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br/><br/>For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of the twentieth century. When the Swedish Academy awarded her the Nobel Prize, it cited her invention of "a new kind of literary genre," describing her work as "a history of emotions . . . a history of the soul."<br/><br/> In <i>The Unwomanly Face of War, </i>Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women-more than a million in total-were nurses and doctors, pilots, tank drivers, machine-gunners, and snipers. They battled alongside men, and yet, after the victory, their efforts and sacrifices were forgotten.<br/><br/> Alexievich traveled thousands of miles and visited more than a hundred towns to record these women's stories. Together, this symphony of voices reveals a different aspect of the war-the everyday details of life in combat left out of the official histories.<br/><br/> Translated by the renowned Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, <i>The Unwomanly Face of War</i> is a powerful and poignant account of the central conflict of the twentieth century, a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human side of war.<br/><br/> <b>THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE</b><br/> <b>"for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time."</b>&#160;<br/><br/>"A landmark."<b>-Timothy Snyder, author of&#160;<i>On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century</i></b><br/><br/> "An astonishing book, harrowing and life-affirming . . . It deserves the widest possible readership."<b>-Paula Hawkins, author of&#160;<i>The Girl on the Train</i></b><br/><br/> "Alexievich has gained probably the world's deepest, most eloquent understanding of the post-Soviet condition. . . . [She] has consistently chronicled that which has been intentionally forgotten."<b>-Masha Gessen,&#160;National Book Award-winning author of&#160;<i>The Future Is History</i></b>

<b>Delve into the history of the sinister Count Dooku in the original script to the thrilling&#160;<i>Star Wars&#160;</i>audio production!</b><br/><br/>Darth Tyranus. Count of Serenno. Leader of the Separatists. A red saber, unsheathed in the dark. But who was he before he became the right hand of the Sith? As Dooku courts a new apprentice, the hidden truth of the Sith Lord's past begins to come to light.&#160;<br/>&#160;<br/>Dooku's life began as one of privilege-born within the stony walls of his family's estate, orbited by the Funeral Moon where the bones of his ancestors lie interred. But soon, his Jedi abilities are recognized, and he is taken from his home to be trained in the ways of the Force by the legendary Master Yoda.<br/>&#160;<br/>As he hones his power, Dooku rises through the ranks, befriending fellow Jedi Sifo-Dyas and taking a Padawan of his own, the promising Qui-Gon Jinn-and tries to forget the life that he once led. But he finds himself drawn by a strange fascination with the Jedi Master Lene Kostana, and the mission she undertakes for the Order: finding and studying ancient relics of the Sith, in preparation for the eventual return of the deadliest enemies the Jedi have ever faced.<br/>&#160;<br/>Caught between the world of the Jedi, the ancient responsibilities of his lost home, and the alluring power of the relics, Dooku struggles to stay in the light-even as the darkness begins to fall.

<b><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER </b>- Engaging and fast-paced, this gripping coming-of-age novel of chess, feminism, and addiction speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four. Now a highly acclaimed, award-winning Netflix series.</b><br/><br/>Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting.

When the war on terror became a war on journalists. This book would not exist if things had not gone off the rails. On the night of 28 June 2011, we risked everything when, under cover of darkness, we slipped across the border between Somalia and Ethiopia. We wanted to investigate how relentless oil prospecting was affecting people in the closed-off and conflict-ridden region of Ogaden. Our goal was to go beyond the alarmist reports, or the descriptions provided by refugees to get at the truth using our own eyes and ears. Five days later we lay shot and bleeding in the desert sand. But in that very moment when the original assignment died, another story began. A story of legal tampering, propaganda, and geopolitical manoeuvring. After a Kafkaesque trial we were sentenced to eleven years in prison for terrorist offences. We were far from alone. Streams of journalists and ­politicians, as if on a conveyor belt, were being imprisoned for refusing to be at the beck and call of the dictatorship. Our investigation into oil had turned into a story about ink. Everyday life turned into a battle for survival in the notorious Kality Prison. On a cement floor under a corrugated iron roof in a world of deadly diseases, beatings and oppression we carved an existence based on rigid adherence to routine. Despite our shoe-laces and our freedom of speech being taken from us, we struggled to hold on to the most valuable thing in the world. The freedom to determine ones own identity. /Martin Schibbye & Johan Persson "438 Days" is one of the best-selling non-fiction books ever in Sweden, and is about to be turned into a motion picture. It has been unanimously hailed by critics as a real page-turner, utterly outstanding and extremely well-written, captivating and fascinating. Its authors have received numerous prizes, among them the Anna Politkovskaya Memorial Award and Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Prize.