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The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters
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The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
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Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything
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Ask a Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know
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This I Know: Marketing Lessons from Under the Influence
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Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
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As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
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A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Daily Life
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Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
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Secrets of a Fashion Therapist: What You Can Learn Behind the Dressing Room Door
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Think Like an Engineer
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Ah-Choo!: The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold
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Run, Ride, Sink or Swim: A Rookie's Year in Women's Triathlon
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Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives
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A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family
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Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream
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Sumo: A Thinking Fan's Guide to Japan's National Sport
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From A to Biba: The Autobiography of Barbara Hulanicki
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The Tastemakers: Why We're Crazy for Cupcakes but Fed Up with Fondue
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52 Loaves: A Half-Baked Adventure
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Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father's Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater
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Running Like a Girl
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Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table
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The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York
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At Large and at Small: Confessions of a Literary Hedonist
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Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory
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Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood
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Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana
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The Whole Fromage: Adventures in the Delectable World of French Cheese
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Fortissimo: Backstage at the Opera with Sacred Monsters and Young Singers
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Don't Stop Believin': How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life
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Cookoff: Recipe Fever in America
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Amped: How Big Air, Big Dollars, and a New Generation Took Sports to the Extreme
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The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread
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Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
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The Hotel on the Roof of the World: From Miss Tibet to Shangri-La
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Serve The People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China – An Unforgettable Apprenticeship Memoir of Contemporary Asian Cooking
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The Accidental Office Lady: An American Woman in Corporate Japan
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
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Jewels: A Secret History
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Sorcerer's Apprentices: a season at elBulli
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Color: A Natural History of the Palette
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The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy
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The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket
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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
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The Interesting Bits: The History You Might Have Missed
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Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity
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Don't Look Behind You! A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos
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Madeleines in Manhattan : a Memoir with Recipes
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Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria
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Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language
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Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse
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Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
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Meeting Mr Kim: Or How I Went to Korea and Learned to Love Kimchi
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Penguins Stopped Play: Eleven Village Cricketers Take on the World
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Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
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Women on Waves: A Cultural History of Surfing: From Ancient Goddesses and Hawaiian Queens to Malibu Movie Stars and Millennial Champions
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The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us
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