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W. W. Norton & Company

Big-box store workers find themselves shut out of the American Dream in 'Help Wanted'

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Founded in 1955, the Village Voice stopped publishing print editions in in 2017. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption

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This oral history of the 'Village Voice' captures its creativity and rebelliousness

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Dishy-yet-earnest, 'Cocktails' revisits the making of 'Virginia Woolf'

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Penguin Random House

You'll savor the off-beat mysteries served up by 'The Kamogawa Food Detectives'

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A person dressed as Bigfoot makes their way through the snow during a blizzard in Boston in January 2015. John O'Connor's The Secret History of Bigfoot explores the myth and its lingering appeal. Kayana Szymczak/Getty Images hide caption

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