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Series: The Ghost Ships of Archangel The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis Hardcover William Geroux 9780525557463 $37.00 HISTORY May 14, 2019

An extraordinary story of survival and alliance during World War II: the icy journey of four Allied ships crossing the Arctic to deliver much needed supplies to the Soviet war effort.On the fourth of July, 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic separated from their decimated convoy to head further north into the ice field of the North Pole, seeking safety from Nazi bombers and U-boats in the perilous white maze of ice floes, growlers, and giant bergs. Despite the risks, they had a better chance of survival than the rest of Convoy PQ-17, ... + Read More
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Series: More Than Enough Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say) Hardcover Elaine Welteroth 9780525561583 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 11, 2019

In this part-manifesto, part-memoir, the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue explores what it means to come into your own—on your own termsThroughout her life, Elaine Welteroth has climbed the ranks of media and fashion, shattering ceilings along the way. In this riveting and timely memoir, the groundbreaking journalist unpacks lessons on race, identity, and success through her own journey, from navigating her way as the unstoppable child of a unlikely interracial marriage in small-town California ... + Read More
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Series: Leaving the Witness Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life Hardcover Amber Scorah 9780735222540 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 04, 2019

“À la Tara Westover’s Educated, Scorah’s pensive, ultimately liberating memoir chronicles her formative years as a Jehovah’s Witness…and captures the bewilderment of belief and the bliss of self-discovery.”—O, The Oprah Magazine, Named one of “The Best Books by Women of Summer 2019”“Scorah’s book, the bravery of which cannot be overstated, is an earnest one, fueled by a plucky humor and a can-do spirit that endears. Her tale, though an exploration of extremity, is highly readable and warm.”—The New York Times Book ReviewA riveting memoir of los... + Read More
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Series: A History of the Bible The Story of the World's Most Influential Book Hardcover John Barton 9780525428770 $47.00 RELIGION Jun 04, 2019

A literary history of our most influential book of all time, by an Oxford scholar and Anglican priestIn our culture, the Bible is monolithic: It is a collection of books that has been unchanged and unchallenged since the earliest days of the Christian church. The idea of the Bible as “Holy Scripture,” a non-negotiable authority straight from God, has prevailed in Western society for some time. And while it provides a firm foundation for centuries of Christian teaching, it denies the depth, variety, and richness of this fascinating text. In A Hi... + Read More
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Series: Aunt Dimity and the Heart of Gold Hardcover Nancy Atherton 9780525522683 $35.00 FICTION Jun 18, 2019

In the newest installment of the bestselling Aunt Dimity series, a dreary Christmas leads to hidden treasure and new friendships It’s almost Christmas in the small English village of Finch—and everyone is sick. Though many of the villagers regretfully decline their invitations to Emma Harris’s annual Christmas bash, Lori Shepherd has no intention of missing it. When the winter weather takes a turn for the worse, it’s agreed that none of the guests will leave until morning. There’s general merriment as the Christmas party becomes a pajama party—... + Read More
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Series: How Could She A Novel Hardcover Lauren Mechling 9780525559382 $35.00 FICTION Jun 25, 2019

Named a Best Book of 2019 (So Far) by Real Simple and Glamour“Bitingly funny and often painfully realistic.”—Entertainment Weekly“Brilliant…. Devastating, reliably hilarious.”—Nylon“[A] compulsively readable page-turner.”—CosmopolitanAn assured and savagely funny novel about three old friends as they navigate careers, husbands, an ex-fiancé, new suitors, and, most importantly, their relationships with one anotherAfter a devastating break-up with her fiancé, Geraldine is struggling to get her life back on track in Toronto. Her two old friends, S... + Read More
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Series: American Predator The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century Hardcover Maureen Callahan 9780525428640 $36.00 TRUE CRIME Jul 02, 2019

A Los Angeles Times “Seven Highly Anticipated Books for Summer Reading”A USA Today “20 of the Season’s Hottest New Books”A New York Post “25 Best Beach Reads of 2019 You Need to Pre-Order Now”“Maureen Callahan’s deft reporting and stylish writing have created one of the all-time-great serial-killer books: sensitive, chilling, and completely impossible to put down.”—Ada Calhoun, author of St. Marks Is Dead Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-known; they echo in the news and in publi... + Read More
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Series: Death and Other Happy Endings A Novel Hardcover Melanie Cantor 9780525562115 $35.00 FICTION Jul 09, 2019

There’s nothing like being told that in three months you’ll be dead to make you think about what you really want in life“A novel about self-discovery, with plenty of surprises and a snappy, Bridget-Jones-gets-a-terminal-diagnosis vibe.” -BooklistJennifer Cole has just been told that she has a terminal blood disorder and has just three months to live—ninety days to say goodbye to friends and family, and to put her affairs in order. Ninety days to come to terms with a diagnosis that is unfair, unexpected, and completely unpronounceable. Focusing ... + Read More
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Series: This Land How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West Hardcover Christopher Ketcham 9780735220980 $39.00 HISTORY Jul 16, 2019

A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West—and a plea for the protection of these last wild placesThe public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It’s an American commons, and it is under assault as never before.Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the reade... + Read More
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Series: The Nature Cure A Doctor's Guide to the Science of Natural Medicine Hardcover Andreas Michalsen MD 9780525561279 $37.00 HEALTH & FITNESS Aug 06, 2019

International bestselling author Dr. Andreas Michalsen uncovers the natural cures that will transform your health and change your lifeSunlight. Forest bathing. Fasting. Cold-water baths. Bloodletting. Leeches. Cupping. These ways of healing have been practiced in different cultures around the world for centuries. But as a cardiologist working with the most high-tech medical tools, Dr. Andreas Michalsen was taught that these practices were medieval and outdated, even dangerous. As he saw surprising results in his patients, however, Dr. Michalsen... + Read More
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Series: The Lager Queen of Minnesota A Novel Hardcover J. Ryan Stradal 9780399563058 $35.00 FICTION Jul 23, 2019

“The perfect pick-me-up on a hot summer day.”—Washington Post“Delightfully intoxicating…will make you go back for more.” —USA TodayA novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer, from the bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great MidwestTwo sisters, one farm. A family is split when their father leaves their shared inheritance entirely to Helen, his younger daughter. Despite baking award-winning pies at the local nursing home, her older sister, Edith, struggles to make what most people would ... + Read More
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Series: A Pure Heart A Novel Hardcover Rajia Hassib 9780525560050 $36.00 FICTION Aug 06, 2019

“Hassib, herself an Egyptian immigrant living in West Virginia, articulates the full-bodied chorus of Egypt’s voices.” —The New York Times Book Review“Exquisite…. Anchoring the story is a pair of Cairo-born sisters whose fates spin in radically different directions in the wake of the Egyptian revolution…. A lovely novel that does a remarkable job of bringing troubling realities to light, and life.” —Vanity FairA Real Simple Best Book of the Year (So Far)A powerful novel about two Egyptian sisters—their divergent fates and the secrets of one fam... + Read More
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Series: Strange Harvests The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects Hardcover Edward Posnett 9780399562792 $36.00 NATURE Aug 06, 2019

“[Strange Harvests is] an impressive addition to the modern travelogue, painting some of the world’s most remote terrain in visceral and sometimes breathtaking prose…an engrossing read.”—NPRAn original and magical map of our world and its riches, formed of the stories of the small-scale harvests of seven natural objectsIn this beguiling book, Edward Posnett journeys to some of the most far-flung locales on the planet to bring us seven wonders of the natural world—eiderdown, vicuña fiber, sea silk, vegetable ivory, civet coffee, guano, and edibl... + Read More
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Series: A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves One Family and Migration in the 21st Century Hardcover Jason DeParle 9780670785926 $37.00 HISTORY Aug 20, 2019

“A remarkable book…indispensable.”—The Boston Globe“A sweeping, deeply reported tale of international migration…DeParle’s understanding of migration is refreshingly clear-eyed and nuanced.”—The New York Times“This is epic reporting, nonfiction on a whole other level…One of the best books on immigration written in a generation.”—Matthew Desmond, author of EvictedThe definitive chronicle of our new age of global migration, told through the multi-generational saga of a Filipino family, by a veteran New York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Pri... + Read More
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Series: Copperhead A Novel Hardcover Alexi Zentner 9781984877284 $35.00 FICTION Jul 09, 2019

“One of the bravest, most bracing novels I’ve read in years.”—Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime WalkJessup’s stepfather gave him almost everything good in his life—a sober mother, a sister, a sense of home, and the game of football. But during the years that David John spent in prison for his part in a brutal hate crime, Jessup came to realize that his stepfather is also a source of lethal poison for his family. Now it’s Jessup’s senior year, and all he wants to do is lay low until he can accept one of the football scholarships... + Read More
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Series: The Deep History of Ourselves The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains Hardcover Joseph LeDoux 9780735223837 $40.00 SCIENCE Aug 27, 2019

A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and human beings todayRenowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux digs into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between us and our ancestors in deep time. This page-turning survey of the whole of terrestrial evolution sheds new light on how nervous systems evolved in animals, how the brain developed, and what it means to be human.In The Deep History of Ourselves, LeDoux argue... + Read More
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Series: Range Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World Hardcover David Epstein 9780735214484 $37.00 PSYCHOLOGY May 28, 2019

What’s the most effective path to success in any domain? It’s not what you think.Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you dabble or delay, you’ll never catch up to the people who got a head start. But a closer look at research on the world’s top performers, from professional athletes to Nobel laureates, shows that early specialization is the exception, not the rule.David Epste... + Read More
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Series: City of Girls A Novel Hardcover Elizabeth Gilbert 9781594634734 $37.00 FICTION Jun 04, 2019

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don’t have to be a good girl to be a good person.“A spellbinding novel about love, freedom, and finding your own happiness.” - PopSugar“Intimate and richly sensual, razzle-dazzle with a hint of danger.” -USA Today“Pairs well with a cocktail…or two.” -TheSkimm“Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in den... + Read More
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Series: The Gifted School A Novel Hardcover Bruce Holsinger 9780525534969 $35.00 FICTION Jul 02, 2019

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Wise and addictive…The Gifted School is the juiciest novel I’ve read in ages…a suspenseful, laugh-out-loud page-turner and an incisive inspection of privilege, race and class.”—J. Courtney Sullivan in The New York Times“The summer read that predicted the college-admissions scandal.” -The Wall Street Journal Smart and juicy, a compulsively readable novel about a previously happy group of friends and parents that is nearly destroyed by their own competitiveness when an exclusive school for gifted children opens in the ... + Read More
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Series: A Prayer for Travelers A Novel Hardcover Ruchika Tomar 9780525537014 $36.00 FICTION Jul 09, 2019

“Sometimes characters come along that demand a new kind of novel. The young women at the center of Ruchika Tomar’s A Prayer for Travelers - elusive Penny and wounded Cale - are two spirits hitchhiking through geographies of dislocation and desire. The human collisions in Tomar’s novel are emotionally seismic, and they leave us haunted and unsettled.”—Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master’s SonCale Lambert, a bookish loner of mysterious parentage, lives in a dusty town near the California-Nevada border, a place where coyotes scavenge for bac... + Read More
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Series: Because Internet Understanding the New Rules of Language Hardcover Gretchen McCulloch 9780735210936 $35.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jul 23, 2019

A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.Language is humanity’s most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What’s more, social media is a vast laboratory... + Read More
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Series: Marilou Is Everywhere A Novel Hardcover Sarah Elaine Smith 9780525535249 $35.00 FICTION Jul 30, 2019

One of Los Angeles Times “Most Anticipated Books of the Summer”A SKIMM READS PICKA BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK“This novel reads like a miracle.”—NPRConsumed by the longing for a different life, a teenager flees her family and carefully slips into another—replacing a girl whose own sudden disappearance still haunts the town. Fourteen-year-old Cindy and her two older brothers live in rural Pennsylvania, in a house with occasional electricity, two fierce dogs, one book, and a mother who comes and goes for months at a time. Deprived of adult supervis... + Read More
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Series: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead A Novel Hardcover Olga Tokarczuk 9780525541332 $36.00 FICTION Aug 13, 2019

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDFINALIST FOR THE 2019 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE“A brilliant literary murder mystery.” -Chicago Tribune“Extraordinary. Tokarczuk’s novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work.” -Annie ProulxIn a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputat... + Read More
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Series: The Plateau Hardcover Maggie Paxson 9781594634758 $37.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 13, 2019

“Maggie Paxson went in search of human goodness and found a story that affected me in ways few books ever have. The Plateau is exquisite, excruciating, fearless—a book not only for these times, when our need for understanding is so great, but for all times. A masterpiece.” -David Finkel, author of The Good Soldiers and Thank You for Your ServiceDuring World War II, French villagers offered safe harbor to countless strangers - mostly children - as they fled for their lives. The same place offers refuge to migrants today. Why?In a remote pocket o... + Read More
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Series: The Optimist's Telescope Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age Hardcover Bina Venkataraman 9780735219472 $37.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Aug 27, 2019

A trailblazing exploration of how we can plan better for the future—our own, our families’, and our society’s.Many of us never learned—or have forgotten—how to make smart decisions for the long run. In a world where immediate satisfaction is the norm, it’s easy to avoid thinking ahead. Whether it’s decisions about our health (our chronic overuse of antibiotics has triggered a shocking rise in superbugs that are resistant to them), our finances (20 percent of Americans save nothing for retirement), or our jobs (we slash R&D budgets to improve sh... + Read More
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Series: The Art of Gathering How We Meet and Why It Matters Paperback Priya Parker 9781594634932 $23.00 SELF-HELP Apr 14, 2020

“Hosts of all kinds, this is a must-read!”—Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TEDA bold new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together—at work, at home, in our communities, and beyond.In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive—which they don’t have to be. We rely too much on routine and the conventions of gatherings when we should focus on distinctiveness and the people involved. At a time when coming together is more important than ever,... + Read More
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Series: Florida Paperback Lauren Groff 9781594634529 $22.00 FICTION May 21, 2019

FINALIST FOR 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDThe universally-acclaimed return of the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies.In Lauren Groff’s Florida, the hot sun shines, but a wild darkness lurks. Florida is a “superlative” book (Boston Globe), “gorgeously weird and limber” (New Yorker), “frequently funny” (San Francisco Chronicle), “brooding, inventive and often moving” (NPR Fresh Air)—as Groff is recognized as “Florida’s unofficial poet laureate, as Joan Didion was for California.” (Washington Post) “Groff’s gifts as a writer just kee... + Read More
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Series: Reviving Ophelia 25th Anniversary Edition Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls Paperback Mary Pipher PhD 9780525537045 $23.00 PSYCHOLOGY Jun 04, 2019

The 25th anniversary edition of the iconic book, revised and updated for 21st-century adolescent girls and their families.In 1994, Reviving Ophelia was published, and it shone a much-needed spotlight on the problems faced by adolescent girls. The book became iconic and helped to reframe the national conversation about what author Mary Pipher called “a girl-poisoning culture” surrounding adolescents. Fast forward to today, and adolescent girls and the parents, teachers, and counselors who care about them find themselves confronting many of the s... + Read More
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Series: Tell the Machine Goodnight A Novel Paperback Katie Williams 9780525533139 $22.00 FICTION Jun 18, 2019

Smart and inventive, an emotional page-turner that considers the elusive definition of happiness.Pearl’s job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She’s good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful. But how does one measure an emotion?Meanwhile, there’s Pearl’s teenage son, Rhett. A sensitive kid who has forged an unconventional path through adolescence, Rhett seems to find greater satisfaction in being unhappy. The very rejection of joy is his own kind... + Read More
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Series: Can You Tolerate This? Essays Paperback Ashleigh Young 9780525534044 $22.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Jul 02, 2019

From the prizewinning writer heralded as “Lena Dunham from Down Under” (Vogue), a wry and luminous collection of essays on youth and aging, ambition and loneliness, the limitations of the body and fierce, complicated attachments to home. Youth and frailty, ambition and anxiety, the limitations of the body and the challenges of personal transformation: these are the undercurrents that animate acclaimed poet Ashleigh Young’s first collection of essays. In Can You Tolerate This?—the title comes from the question chiropractors ask to test a patient... + Read More
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Series: The Incendiaries A Novel Paperback R. O. Kwon 9780735213906 $22.00 FICTION Jul 30, 2019

“Radiant…A dark, absorbing story of how first love can be as intoxicating and dangerous as religious fundamentalism.”—New York Times Book ReviewA powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into a cult’s acts of terrorism. Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet in their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn’t tell anyone she blames herself for her mother’s recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edw... + Read More
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Series: The World in a Grain The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization Paperback Vince Beiser 9780399576447 $23.00 SCIENCE Aug 06, 2019

The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world—sand—and the crucial role it plays in our lives.After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other—even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from sand. From Egypt’s pyramids to the Hubble telescope, from the world’s tallest skyscraper to the sidewalk below it, from Chartres’ stained-glass windows to your iPhone, sand shelters us, empowers us, engages us, and insp... + Read More
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Series: Flights Paperback Olga Tokarczuk 9780525534204 $23.00 FICTION Aug 13, 2019

2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD SHORTLIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREWINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEAS FEATURED IN THE NEW YORK TIMESFrom the internationally acclaimed author of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, a visionary work of fiction with “echoes of Sebald [and] Kundera…[There’s] no better travel companion in these turbulent, fanatical times” (The Guardian).A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin’s heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring... + Read More
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Series: Rules for Visiting A Novel Hardcover Jessica Francis Kane 9780525559221 $35.00 FICTION May 14, 2019

A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year.At forty, May Attaway is more at home with plants than people. Over the years, she’s turned inward, finding pleasure in language, her work as a gardener, and keeping her neighbors at arm’s length while keenly observing them. But when she is unexpectedly granted some leave from her job, May is inspired to reconnect with four once close friends. She knows they will never have a... + Read More
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Series: Spying on the South An Odyssey Across the American Divide Hardcover Tony Horwitz 9781101980286 $40.00 HISTORY May 14, 2019

The best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America’s greatest landscape architect.In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it during an extraordinary journey, as an undercover correspondent in the South for the up-and-coming New York Times.For the Connecticut Yankee, pen name “Yeoman,” the South was alien, often hostile territory. Yet Olmsted traveled for 14 months, by horseba... + Read More
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Series: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous A Novel Hardcover Ocean Vuong 9780525562023 $35.00 FICTION Jun 04, 2019

The brilliant, New York Times bestselling debut that has taken the literary world by storm: Award-winning poet Ocean Vuong’s debut novel, a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytellingOn Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born—a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam—and serves as a doorway into parts of his life... + Read More
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Series: Scholars of Mayhem My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France Hardcover Daniel C. Guiet 9780735225206 $37.00 HISTORY Jun 04, 2019

The astonishing untold story of the author’s father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German lines in France, whose epic feats of irregular warfare proved vital in keeping Nazi tanks away from Normandy after D-Day.When Daniel Guiet was a child and his family moved country, as they frequently did, his father had one possession, a tin bread box, that always made the trip. Daniel was admonished never to touch the box, but one day he couldn’t resist. What he found astonished him: a .45 automatic and five full clips; ... + Read More
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Series: Play Hungry The Making of a Baseball Player Hardcover Pete Rose 9780525558675 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 04, 2019

The story of how Pete Rose became one of the greatest and most controversial players in the history of baseballPete Rose was a legend on the field. As baseball’s Hit King, he shattered hitting records that were thought to be unbreakable. And during the 1970s, he was the leader of the Big Red Machine, the Cincinnati Reds teams that dominated the game. But he’s also the greatest player who may never make the Hall of Fame because of his lifetime ban from the sport. Perhaps no other athlete’s story is so representative of the triumphs and tragedies... + Read More
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Series: Places and Names On War, Revolution, and Returning Hardcover Elliot Ackerman 9780525559962 $35.00 HISTORY Jun 11, 2019

From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.“War hath determined us…” - John Milton, Paradise LostToward the beginning of Places and Names, Elliot Ackerman sits in a refugee camp in southern Turkey, across the table from a man named Abu Hassar, who fought for al-Qaeda in Iraq and whose connections to the Islamic State are murky. At first, Ackerman pretends to have been a journalist during the Iraq War, but ... + Read More
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Series: Ill Winds Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency Hardcover Larry Diamond 9780525560623 $37.00 HISTORY Jun 11, 2019

From America’s leading scholar of democracy, a personal, passionate call to action against the rising wave of authoritarianism that challenges our world order—and the very value of liberty Larry Diamond has made it his life’s work to secure democracy’s future by understanding its past and by advising dissidents fighting autocracy around the world. Deeply attuned to the cycles of democratic expansion and retreat that determine the fates of nations, he watched with mounting unease as illiberal rulers rose in Hungary, Poland, Turkey, the Philippin... + Read More
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Series: The Code Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America Hardcover Margaret O'Mara 9780399562181 $40.00 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Jul 09, 2019

The epic human story of how, out of a small patch of land in Northern California, high tech re-created America in its image, for good and for ill.Long before Margaret O’Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest days of the commercial Internet. There she saw firsthand how deeply intertwined Silicon Valley was with the federal government—and always had been—and how shallow the common understanding of the secrets of the Vall... + Read More
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Series: If The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years Hardcover Christopher Benfey 9780735221437 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 09, 2019

A captivating new exploration of Rudyard Kipling’s life in Gilded Age America, and the essential work he did here, from a celebrated author and scholar of American literatureRudyard Kipling once towered over not just English literature, but indeed the entire literary world. In 1907, at just forty-two, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming its youngest winner and the first in the English language. Today, however, when he is read, if indeed he is read at all, it is regarding the history of colonial India, his birthplace and the ... + Read More
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Series: Burn the Ice The American Culinary Revolution and Its End Hardcover Kevin Alexander 9780525558026 $37.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jul 09, 2019

“Inspiring”—Danny Meyer, CEO, Union Square Hospitality Group; Founder, Shake Shack; and author, Setting the TableJames Beard Award-winning food journalist Kevin Alexander traces an exhilarating golden age in American diningOver the past decade, Kevin Alexander saw American dining turned on its head. Starting in 2006, the food world underwent a transformation as the established gatekeepers of American culinary creativity in New York City and the Bay Area were forced to contend with Portland, Oregon. Its new, no-holds-barred, casual fine-dining s... + Read More
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Series: The Fifth Domain Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats Hardcover Richard A. Clarke 9780525561965 $40.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 16, 2019

An urgent new warning from two bestselling security experts—and a gripping inside look at how governments, firms, and ordinary citizens can confront and contain the tyrants, hackers, and criminals bent on turning the digital realm into a war zone.“In the battle raging between offense and defense in cyberspace, Clarke and Knake have some important ideas about how we can avoid cyberwar for our country, prevent cybercrime against our companies, and in doing so, reduce resentment, division, and instability at home and abroad.”—Bill ClintonThere is ... + Read More
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Series: Raised in Captivity Fictional Nonfiction Hardcover Chuck Klosterman 9780735217928 $35.00 FICTION Jul 16, 2019

Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from the best-selling author of But What if We’re Wrong?A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one, very special, play. A man explains to the police why he told the employee of his local bodega that his colleague looked like the lead singer of Depeche Mode, a statement that may or may not have led in some way to a violen... + Read More
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Series: The Last Ocean A Journey Through Memory and Forgetting Hardcover Nicci Gerrard 9780525521969 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 13, 2019

From the award-winning journalist and author, a lyrical, raw, and humane investigation of dementia that explores both the journey of the person who lives with the condition and that of their loved ones.Diagnosed with dementia, Nicci Gerrard’s father, John, continued to live life on his own terms, alongside the disease. But when an isolating hospital stay precipitated a dramatic turn for the worse, Gerrard, an award-winning journalist and author, recognized that it was not just the disease, but misguided protocol and harmful practice that cause ... + Read More
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Series: In Montparnasse The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dalí Hardcover Sue Roe 9781101981177 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 20, 2019

“Describes with plenty of colour how surrealism, from Rene Magritte’s bowler hats to Salvador Dali’s watches, was born and developed.” - The Times (UK)As she did for the Modernists In Montmartre, noted art historian and biographer Sue Roe now tells the story of the Surrealists in Montparnasse.In Montparnasse begins on the eve of the First World War and ends with the 1936 unveiling of Dalí’s Lobster Telephone. As those extraordinary years unfolded, the Surrealists found ever more innovative ways of exploring the interior life, and asking new que... + Read More
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Series: A Gentleman in Moscow A Novel Paperback Amor Towles 9780143110439 $23.00 FICTION Mar 26, 2019

The mega-bestseller with more than 1.5 million readers that is soon to be a major television series“The novel buzzes with the energy of numerous adventures, love affairs, [and] twists of fate.”—The Wall Street JournalAs this “irresistible” (O, the Oprah Magazine) second novel by Amor Towles opens, in 1922, a Russian Count in his early thirties is sentenced by the Bolsheviks to spend the rest of his life in a small attic room in a luxury hotel near the Kremlin. Unexpectedly, the Count’s reduced circumstances provide him entry to a much larger w... + Read More
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Series: Birds by the Shore Observing the Natural Life of the Atlantic Coast Paperback Jennifer Ackerman 9780143134183 $22.00 NATURE May 07, 2019

From the bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, the revised and reissued edition of her beloved book of essays describing her forays along the Delaware shoreFor three years, Jennifer Ackerman lived in the small coastal town of Lewes, Delaware, in the sort of blue-water, white-sand landscape that draws summer crowds up and down the eastern seaboard. Birds by the Shore is a book about discovering the natural life at the ocean’s edge: the habits of shorebirds and seabirds, the movement of sand and water, the wealth of creatures that survive am... + Read More
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Series: The Scholar A Novel Paperback Dervla McTiernan 9780143133698 $22.00 FICTION May 14, 2019

From the author of The Ruin comes a compulsive new crime thriller set in the fiercely competitive, cutthroat world of research and academia, where the brightest minds will stop at nothing to succeed.When Dr. Emma Sweeney stumbles across the victim of a hit-and-run outside Galway University early one morning, she calls her boyfriend, Detective Cormac Reilly, bringing him first to the scene of a murder that would otherwise never have been assigned to him. The dead girl is carrying an ID that will put this crime at the center of a scandal—her card... + Read More
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Series: Awards for Good Boys Tales of Dating, Double Standards, and Doom Paperback Shelby Lorman 9780143134312 $22.00 ART Jun 04, 2019

From the creator of the wildly popular Instagram account @AwardsForGoodBoys, a wickedly funny illustrated look at living and dating in a patriarchal culture so mired in misogyny that it celebrates men for displaying the bare minimum of human decencyWith trophies and ribbons, cartoonist and comedian Shelby Lorman makes literal our collective tendency to applaud men for (barely) edging above our already subterranean standards for them—for being “good boys.”A good boy puts “feminist” in his Tinder bio but talks over the women in his Gender Studies... + Read More
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Series: One-Way Ticket Nine Lives on Two Wheels Paperback Jonathan Vaughters 9780143134145 $23.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Aug 27, 2019

The new memoir tracing story of cycling since the 1980s, throught he eyes of Jonathan Vaughters, founder of team EF-Drapac and one of the sport’s most towering figures.Jonathan Vaughters’ story is the story of modern cycling. From his early years as a keen cyclist in his hometown in Colorado to his unflinching rite of passage as a professional rider with US Postal to his elevation as one of cycling’s most resilient, ethical and intelligent team bosses, the highs and lows of his career have mirrored those of the sport itself. Vaughters has had a... + Read More
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Series: PENGUIN POETS Sightseer in This Killing City Paperback Eugene Gloria 9780143133841 $24.00 POETRY Jun 04, 2019

A fourth collection from a prize-winning poet whose “gift is breathtaking” (Naomi Shihab Nye)Eugene Gloria’s Sightseer in This Killing City captures the surreal and disorienting feelings of the present. In the wake of recent presidential elections in the United States and in the Philippines, Gloria’s latest collection sharpens his obsession with arrivals and departures, gun violence, displacement, cultural legacy, and the bitter divisions in America. Through the voice of Nacirema, the central persona of the collection, we are introduced to a ch... + Read More
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Series: INSPECTOR MAIGRET Maigret and the Tramp Paperback Georges Simenon 9780241303993 $17.50 FICTION Jul 16, 2019

When a beggar is pulled from the River Seine, having been badly beaten, Inspector Maigret must investigate the man to uncover his attackerWhile sleeping under the Pont Marie bridge, a homeless man known as Doc is viciously beaten and thrown into the River Seine to drown. A pair of bargemen manage to rescue him, and his identification reveals he was once a doctor in Mulhouse, where, coincidentally, Inspector Maigret’s sister-in-law lives. Seizing on this connection, Maigret must delve into the man’s personal circumstances to figure out just who ... + Read More
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Series: La perla En español (Spanish Language Edition of The Pearl) Paperback John Steinbeck 9780143121381 $16.00 FICTION Jun 11, 2019

Steinbeck’s classic cautionary tale, now in an accessible new Spanish-language translationOne of Steinbeck’s most taught works, The Pearl is the story of the Mexican diver Kino, whose discovery of a magnificent pearl from the Gulf beds means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife Juana cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to tragedy. This classic novella from Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck... + Read More
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Series: The Poison Thread A Novel Paperback Laura Purcell 9780143134053 $22.00 FICTION Jun 18, 2019

A thrilling Victorian gothic horror tale about a young seamstress who claims her needle and thread have the power to killDorothea Truelove is young, wealthy, and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor, and awaiting trial for murder.When Dorothea’s charitable work brings her to Oakgate Prison, she is delighted by the chance to explore her fascination with phrenology and test her hypothesis that the shape of a person’s skull can cast a light on their darkest crimes. But when she meets one of the prisoners, the teenaged seamstress Ruth, she is f... + Read More
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Series: The Brink of Being Talking About Miscarriage Paperback Julia Bueno 9780143133230 $22.00 HEALTH & FITNESS Jul 02, 2019

“Wise and compassionate…a profound game-changer of a book.”—Caroline Leavitt, author of Pictures of YouThough approximately one in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage, it remains a rarely talked about, under-researched, and largely misunderstood area of women’s health. This profoundly necessary book—the first comprehensive portrait of the psychological, emotional, medical, and cultural aspects of miscarriage—aims to help break that silence.With candor, warmth, and empathy, psychotherapist Julia Bueno blends women’s stories (including her own) ... + Read More
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Series: PENGUIN POETS Spiritual Exercises Paperback Mark Yakich 9780143133278 $27.00 POETRY Jul 02, 2019

A new collection from a poet of “wily verve” whose work is “filled with more satire and jeopardy than anything going today” (Terrance Hayes)Mark Yakich’s fifth collection of poetry is a dynamic and discerning journey of devotion and temptation in pursuit of the divine. Not trifling in ambiguity but diving headlong into it, Spiritual Exercises wrestles with popular gods as much as with personal ghosts. From autism to eroticism, from benediction to excommunication, and from grief to gratitude, this collection lays bare a full spectrum of emotiona... + Read More
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Series: INSPECTOR MAIGRET Maigret's Anger Paperback Georges Simenon 9780241304013 $17.50 FICTION Jul 23, 2019

When a well-liked nightclub owner turns up dead in a cemetery, Inspector Maigret must track down the killer—despite a lack of suspectsDuring a quiet spell in June, Maigret is called to investigate the disappearance of a reputable businessman, a nightclub owner with properties in Montmarte and on the Champs-Élysées. Things take a dark turn when the man’s body is discovered near the famous Père Lachaise cemetery. There’s no trace of the man having any enemies and Maigret struggles to find any clues to the perpetrator—and loses his temper when his... + Read More
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Series: Our Women on the Ground Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World Paperback Zahra Hankir 9780143133414 $23.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 06, 2019

19 Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane AmanpourA growing number of intrepid Arab and Middle Eastern sahafiyat—female journalists—are working tirelessly to shape nuanced narratives about their changing homelands, often risking their lives on the front lines of war. From sexual harassment on the streets of Cairo to the difficulty of traveling without a male relative in Yemen, their... + Read More