Books
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ENEMIES TO THE END “Meet You in Hell!” (Crown) takes its title from a letter Henry Clay Frick wrote to his nemesis, Andrew Carnegie, as Carnegie lay on his deathbed. Frick was responding to the olive branch Carnegie offered after decades of business feuding. Les Standiford discusses his account of this Gilded Age friendship gone wrong. Tonight, 7:30 p.m., Barnes & Noble Greenwich Village, 396 Sixth Ave. at 8th Street, 212-674-8780, free.
NATURE AND NURTURE Roxana Robinson reads from “Sweetwater” (Random House), her novel about a widow who, working as an environmental advocate, lives in a forest lodge with her new fiance’s family for a tumultuous summer. The book is set in New York City and the Adirondacks. Tonight, 7 p.m., Half King, 505 W. 23rd St. at Tenth Avenue, 212-462-4300, free.
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