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A “brilliant” portrait of the Florida city in the 1980s and its hidden world of Cuban exiles, CIA informants, and cocaine traffickers, by the author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Washington Post).

“Didion gives the reader a sense of the never-ending feeling of exile that is locked in the heart of every refugee...masterful.” —Library Journal

This new edition of Balkan Ghosts includes six opinion pieces written by Robert Kaplan about the Balkans between 1996 and 2000, beginning just after the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords and ending after the conclusion of the Kosovo war.

For over fifty years, Jan Morris has been captivated by Trieste—a moody Adriatic city steeped in history and change. This richly layered meditation weaves the city’s past with tales of iconic visitors, reflecting Morris’s own journey through love, loss, and memory in a place unlike any other.

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From the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered, a stirring memoir-in-essays that is also a lover letter to journalism.

“The Best Strangers in the World is a witty, poignant book that captures Ari Shapiro’s love for the unusual, his pursuit of the unexpected, and his delight at connection against the odds.”—Ronan Farrow, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and New York Times-bestselling author of Catch and Kill and War on Peace