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Series: Mysterious Dreams of the Dead Paperback Terry Watada 9781772141504 $20.00 FICTION Dec 10, 2020

At the heart of Mysterious Dreams of the Dead is the spiritual search for a father who died in a plane crash north of Lake Superior when his son was fifteen. Mike Shintani decides in his early thirties to address the curious circumstances surrounding his father's death; the senior Shintani's body was never found, and wolves circled the crash site as if guarding the area. The impetus for Mike's search for truth is a diary he found in the basement of his home. It was obviously his father's, but it was written in Japanese. Mike never knew his fat... + Read More
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Series: The Bear Paperback Andrew Krivak 9781942658702 $26.95 FICTION Feb 21, 2020

From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earth’s last two human inhabitants, and a girl’s journey homeIn an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last of humankind. But whe... + Read More
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Series: Cesare A Novel of War-Torn Berlin Hardcover Jerome Charyn 9781942658504 $40.50 FICTION Jan 17, 2020

A spy navigates the labyrinthine horrors of Nazi Germany, on a mission to save the woman he loves“Charyn’s blunt, brilliantly crafted prose bubbles with the pleasure of nailing life to the page in just the right words. . . . [Cesare is] provocative, stimulating and deeply satisfying.” —Washington PostOn a windy night in 1937, a seventeen-year-old German naval sub-cadet is wandering along the seawall when he stumbles upon a gang of ruffians beating up a tramp, whose life he saves. The man is none other than spymaster Wilhelm Canaris, chief of th... + Read More
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Series: Pain Studies Paperback Lisa Olstein 9781942658689 $25.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 14, 2020

“A fascinating, totally seductive read!” —Eula Biss, author of Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays and On Immunity: An Inoculation“A book built of brain and nerve and blood and heart. . . . Irreverent and astute. . . . Pain Studies will change how you think about living with a body.” —Elizabeth McCracken, author of Thunderstruck and Bowlaway“A thrilling investigation into pain, language, and Olstein’s own exile from what Woolf called ‘the army of the upright.’ On a search path through art, science, poetry, and prime-time television, Olste... + Read More
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Series: The Aosawa Murders Paperback Riku Onda 9781912242245 $22.50 FICTION Feb 28, 2020

Selected by NYT as one of MOST NOTABLE BOOKS of 2020. On a stormy summer day the Aosawas, owners of a prominent local hospital, host a large birthday party. The occasion turns into tragedy when 17 people die from cyanide in their drinks. The only surviving links to what might have happened are a cryptic verse that could be the killer's, and the physician's bewitching blind daughter, Hisako, the only person spared injury. But the youth who emerges as the prime suspect commits suicide that October, effectively sealing his guilt while consigning... + Read More
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Series: Summer of Reckoning Paperback Marion Brunet 9781912242269 $19.50 FICTION May 08, 2020

The story takes place in the suffocating atmosphere of a social housing estate in the south of France. Sixteen-year-old CÃ©line and her sister Jo, fifteen, dream of escaping to somewhere far from their daily routine, far from their surly, alcoholic father and uncaring mother, both struggling to make ends meet. That summer Celine falls pregnant, devastating news that reopens deep family wounds. Those of the mother Severine whose adolescence was destroyed by her early pregnancy and subsequent marriage with Manuel. Those of Manuel, grandson of Spa... + Read More
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Series: Yellow Earth Hardcover John Sayles 9781642590210 $41.95 FICTION Feb 07, 2020

In Yellow Earth, John Sayles introduces an epic cast of characters, weaving together narratives of competing agendas and worldviews with lyrical dexterity, insight, and wit.When rich layers of shale oil are discovered beneath the town of Yellow Earth, all hell breaks loose. Locals, oil workers, service workers, politicians, law enforcement, and get-rich-quick opportunists—along with an earnest wildlife biologist—commingle and collide as the population of the town triples overnight. Harleigh Killdeer, chairman of the tribal business council of t... + Read More
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Series: Include Me Out Paperback Maria Sonia Cristoff 9781945492303 $25.50 FICTION Feb 14, 2020

"A striking, clever novel."—Publishers WeeklyMara is a simultaneous interpreter who moves to a provincial town in Argentina in order to speak as little as possible for a year. Steeled with the ten rules of silence set out in her manual of rhetoric, she takes a job as a guard in the local museum. The advantages of her work are threatened when she’s asked to assist in the re-embalming of the museum’s pride and joy: two horses—of great national and historical significance—are disintegrating and must be saved. But her goal and her slippery grasp on... + Read More
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Series: Rag & Bone Man A Novel Paperback Don Dickinson 9781550502749 $24.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2019

A coming-of-age story about a Canadian hockey player set adrift in 1970s London who finds himself in the middle of one of the UK's most turbulent eras. Set in London in the 1970s, Rag & Bone Man is a picaresque chronicle of a man trying to put his life back together. Rob Hendershot is a Canadian who went to England to play professional hockey. Now that career is on hold. His battered body is recovering from hockey games, and street fights in the downtrodden back alleys of London. His roommate is an 83-year-old pensioner whose hobby is shadowing... + Read More
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Series: Kaidenberg's Best Sons A Novel in Stories Paperback Jason Heit 9781550502312 $24.95 FICTION Oct 12, 2019

Kaidenberg’s Best Sons is an unvarnished view of the lives of settlers in the early days of immigration to the Canadian priaries. Set in the early years of the 20th century, this book is the story of German-speaking Catholics who have emigrated from Russia to North Dakota. They learn of an opportunity to settle plots of land in Saskatchewan. As some members start packing and heading north for the promise of new land, others resent the idea of relocating.Author Jason Heit describes his work as a “novel in stories.” Some characters dovetail throu... + Read More
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Series: Booker Prize Winner Girl, Woman, Other A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) Paperback Bernardine Evaristo 9780802156983 $25.50 FICTION Nov 15, 2019

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE “A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood . . . An impressive, fierce novel about the lives of black British families, their struggles, pains, laughter, longings and loves . . . Her style is passionate, razor-sharp, brimming with energy and humor. There is never a single moment of dullness in this book and the pace does not allow you to turn away from its momentum.” —Booker Prize Judges Bernardine Evaristo is the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and the first black woman to receive this highe... + Read More
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Series: Why We Can't Sleep Women's New Midlife Crisis Hardcover Ada Calhoun 9780802147851 $38.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 17, 2020

A generation-defining exploration of the new midlife crisis facing Gen X women and the unique circumstances that have brought them to this point, Why We Can’t Sleep is a lively successor to Passages by Gail Sheehy and The Defining Decade by Meg Jay When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too? Calhoun decided to find some answ... + Read More
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Series: Will A Memoir Hardcover Will Self 9780802128461 $38.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 24, 2020

Unflinching, intoxicating, heartfelt, and propelled by an exceptional energy, Will is the long-awaited memoir by Will Self, whose works have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and translated into over twenty languages. A portrait of the artist as a young addict, Will is one of the most eloquent and unusual depictions of the allure of hard drugs ever written.Will spins the reader from Self’s childhood in a quiet North London suburb to his mind-expanding education at Oxford, to a Burroughsian trip to Morocco, an outback vision in Australia, an... + Read More
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Series: Track Changes Hardcover Sayed Kashua 9780802147899 $38.95 FICTION Jan 24, 2020

Hailed as “an unusually gifted storyteller with exceptional insight” (Jewish Tribune), Bernstein award-winning writer Sayed Kashua presents his masterful fourth novel Track Changes which follows an Arab-Israeli man as he reckons with the weight of his past, his memories, and his cultural identity. Having emigrated to America years before, a nameless memoirist now residing in Illinois receives word that his estranged father, whom he has not spoken to in fourteen years, is dying. Leaving his wife and their three children, he returns to Jerusal... + Read More
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Series: Shuggie Bain A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) Hardcover Douglas Stuart 9780802148049 $40.50 FICTION Feb 21, 2020

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZENEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A stunning debut novel by a masterful writer telling the heartwrenching story of a young boy and his alcoholic mother, whose love is only matched by her pride. Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher’s policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city’s notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shug... + Read More
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Series: First, Catch Study of a Spring Meal Hardcover Thom Eagle 9780802148223 $37.50 COOKING Mar 20, 2020

Praised in Britain as a return to a forgotten tradition of literary food writing, a delectable and surprising celebration of cooking through the story of an early spring mealFirst, Catch is a cookbook without recipes, an invitation to journey through the digressive mind of a chef at work, and a hymn to a singular nine-dish festive spring lunch. In Eagle’s kitchen, open shelves reveal colorful jars of vegetables pickling over the course of months, and a soffrito of onions, celery, and carrots cook slowly under a watchful gaze in a skillet heavy ... + Read More
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Series: Three Brothers Memories of My Family Hardcover Yan Lianke 9780802148087 $38.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 20, 2020

From one of China’s most highly regarded writers, winner of the Franz Kafka Prize and twice finalist for the International Booker Prize, Three Brothers is a beautiful and heartwrenching memoir of the author’s childhood and family life during the Cultural Revolution In this heartfelt, intimate memoir, Yan Lianke brings the reader into his childhood home in Song County in Henan Province, painting a vivid portrait of rural China in the 1960s and ’70s. Three Brothers is a literary testament to the great humanity and small joys that exist even in... + Read More
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Series: Wilmington's Lie (WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE) The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy Hardcover David Zucchino 9780802128386 $41.95 HISTORY Jan 17, 2020

WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION From Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to most Americans. By the 1890s, Wilmington was North Carolina’s largest city and a shining example of a mixed-race community. It was a bustling port city with a burgeoning African American middle class and a Fusionist government of Republicans and Populists that included black aldermen, police officers and magistrates. There were successful black-own... + Read More
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Series: Eight Days at Yalta How Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World Hardcover Diana Preston 9780802147653 $41.95 HISTORY Feb 14, 2020

While some of the last battles of WWII were being fought, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin—the so-called “Big Three”—met from February 4-11, 1945, in the Crimean resort town of Yalta. Over eight days of bargaining, bombast, and intermittent bonhomie, while Soviet soldiers and NKVD men patrolled the grounds of the three palaces occupied by their delegations, they decided, among other things, on the endgame of the war against Nazi Germany and how a defeated and occupied ... + Read More
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Series: The Joe Wilderness Novels Hammer to Fall Hardcover John Lawton 9780802148124 $38.95 FICTION Mar 20, 2020

The third Joe Wilderness spy thriller from a master of the genre, moving from icy Finland to tumultuous Cold War Prague, Hammer to Fall is a tale of vodka smuggling and a legendary female Red Army general who is playing a dangerous game It’s London, the swinging sixties, and by all rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as good a time as James Bond. But alas, his postings are more grim than glamorous. Luckily, Wilderness has a knack for doing well for himself even in the most unpromising postings, though this has gotten him into hot ... + Read More
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Series: The Remarkable Life of the Skin An Intimate Journey Across Our Largest Organ Hardcover Monty Lyman 9780802129406 $40.50 SCIENCE Jun 12, 2020

A fascinating exploration of the skin in its multifaceted physical, psychological, and social aspects Providing a cover for our delicate and intricate bodies, the skin is our largest and fastest-growing organ. We see it, touch it, and live in it every day. It is a habitat for a mesmerizingly complex world of micro-organisms and physical functions that are vital to our health and our survival. It is also a waste removal plant, a warning system for underlying disease and a dynamic immune barrier to infection. One of the first things people see... + Read More
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Series: The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries Trace Elements A Comissario Guido Brunetti Mystery Hardcover Donna Leon 9780802148674 $40.50 FICTION Mar 13, 2020

From the New York Times bestselling author of Unto Us a Son is Given, comes one of her most dark and thrilling mysteries yet. A woman’s cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lead Guido Brunetti to uncover a threat to the entire region in Donna Leon’s haunting twenty-ninth Brunetti novel. When Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, waste no time in responding.... + Read More
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Series: Bird Summons A Novel Paperback Leila Aboulela 9780802149152 $23.95 FICTION Feb 21, 2020

In her adventurous new novel, New York Times Notable author Leila Aboulela delivers a lively portrait of three women who embark on a journey of self-discovery while grappling with the conflicting demands of family, duty, and faith. When Salma, Moni, and Iman—friends and active members of their local Muslim Women's group—decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustrated desire, and dull predictability. Each wants something more out of life, but fears the cost of t... + Read More
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Series: Second Sister A Novel Paperback Chan Ho-Kei 9780802129475 $25.50 FICTION Feb 28, 2020

From the author of the acclaimed novel The Borrowed, a very timely and propulsively plotted tale of cyberbullying and revenge, about a woman on the hunt for the truth about her sister’s death. Chan Ho-Kei’s The Borrowed was one of the most acclaimed international crime novels of recent years, a vivid and compelling tale of power, corruption, and the law spanning five decades of the history of Hong Kong. Now he delivers Second Sister, an up-to-the-minute tale of a Darwinian digital city where everyone from tech entrepreneurs to teenagers is s... + Read More
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Series: A Small Town Hardcover Thomas Perry 9780802148063 $38.95 FICTION Dec 27, 2019

From the New York Times bestselling author Thomas Perry, “who can be depended upon to deliver high-voltage shocks” (Stephen King), comes a new thriller about an ingenuous jailbreak and the manhunt it unleashes. In A Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town—burning down homes and businesses. An immense search ensues, but the twe... + Read More
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Series: The Good Killer A Novel Hardcover Harry Dolan 9780802148414 $38.95 FICTION Feb 14, 2020

In the newest thriller from best-selling author Harry Dolan, Sean Tennant stops a deadly mass shooter. And that act of courage may get him killed. Sean Tennant and Molly Winter are living quietly and cautiously in Houston when a troubled, obsessive stranger shatters the safety they have carefully constructed for themselves. Sean is at a shopping mall when Henry Alan Keen, scorned by a woman he’s been dating, pulls out a gun at the store where she works and begins shooting everyone in sight. A former soldier, Sean rushes toward Keen and ends ... + Read More
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Series: Fandorin Mystries She Lover of Death A Fandorin Mystery Hardcover Boris Akunin 9780802148148 $38.95 FICTION Mar 13, 2020

From Boris Akunin, the writer who invented the popular Russian crime novel, a gripping tale of a secret suicide society in turn-of-the-century Moscow featuring a naÃ¯ve young protagonist and the inimitable hero Erast Fandorin. Naive young Masha Mironova arrives in Moscow at the turn of the century with a modest inheritance and a determination to shed her provincial Siberian upbringing. As soon as she alights in Moscow, she becomes Columbine, a reckless and daring young woman with eccentric outfits and a pet snake worn as a necklace. In her q... + Read More
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Series: The Union of Smokers Paperback Paddy Scott 9781988784458 $19.95 FICTION Mar 01, 2020

Longlisted for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour Huckleberry Finn meets The Catcher in the Rye meets Ferris Bueller's Day Off in this outlandish debut novel. Kaspar Pine begins his day with a simple task: replace a pet canary. By day's end, as Kaspar is being loaded into an ambulance, he delivers one hell of a "theme essay," covering such subjects as his ability to source and catalogue the cigarette butts he harvests; information on maintaining the social order of chickens, along with general and historic farming details that run fr... + Read More
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Series: Hurricane Season Hardcover Fernanda Melchor 9780811228039 $34.50 FICTION Mar 31, 2020

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse—by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals—propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village. Li... + Read More
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Series: Our Riches Paperback Kaouther Adimi 9780811228152 $23.95 FICTION Apr 28, 2020

Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto “by the young, for the young,” discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by the French colonial forces, but despite financial difficulties (he was hopelessly generous) and the vicissitudes of wars and revolutions, Charlot (often ... + Read More
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Series: A Midwinter Promise Paperback Lulu Taylor 9781529029659 $17.99 FICTION Jan 14, 2020

A gripping and compelling gothic novel from Lulu Taylor, bestselling author of The Snow Rose and Her Frozen Heart. One family across two generations.A marriage marred by trauma and infidelity.Lives marked by death, divorce and a shattered family.A dark secret at the heart of a tragedy.Now the Pengelly family reunites around the sickbed of David, a beloved husband and father, to confront the emotions and the secrets that have divided them over the years.Set around the beautiful wildness of Tawray, a house near the Cornish coast, A Midwinter... + Read More
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Series: The Daughter Paperback Michelle Frances 9781509821549 $18.99 FICTION Jan 01, 2020

A gripping, powerful story of a mother's courage and devotion, by the internationally bestselling author of The Girlfriend and The Temp, Michelle Frances. Getting pregnant as a teenager was never part of Kate's plan, but when it happens she's determined to do right by her daughter, showing her the love she never had as a child. Life as a single mother is hard, sometimes impossible, but it only brings Kate and Becky closer together. By the time Becky is making her own way in the world as a tenacious trainee journalist, Kate couldn't be prouder... + Read More
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Series: I Thought I Knew You Hardcover Penny Hancock 9781509867851 $28.99 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

Can you always believe the people you love? This is the question at the heart of Penny Hancock's gripping new novel, for fans of He Said/She Said and Anatomy of a Scandal. Who do you know better - your oldest friend or your child? And, who should you believe when one accuses the other of an abhorrent crime? Jules and Holly have been best friends since university. They tell each other everything, trading revelations and confessions, and sharing both the big moments and the small details of their lives. Holly is the only person who knows about... + Read More
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Series: The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing Hardcover Mary Paulson-Ellis 9781447293941 $37.99 FICTION Jan 28, 2020

An heir hunter in modern-day Edinburgh searches out the rightful inheritor to a dead man's fortune - an investigation that will lead him to the battlefields of WWI France, and the mystery of a six-man firing squad. Solomon knew that he had one advantage. A pawn ticket belonging to a dead man tucked into his top pocket - the only clue to the truth. An old soldier dies alone in his Edinburgh nursing home. No known relatives, and no last will and testament to enact. Just a pawn ticket found amongst his belongings, and fifty thousand pounds in u... + Read More
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Series: Cowl Paperback Neal Asher 9781529002287 $21.99 FICTION Mar 10, 2020

A 2004 Philip K. Dick Award Nominee Neal Asher is in top form in this fast-paced space opera. His protagonists must race through time to escape their worst nightmare - as events escalate for assassins, soldiers and civilians alike. Now reissued with a fresh cover look. In the far-future, the Heliothane Dominion triumphed after a bitter war. But some enemies escaped into the past, to wreak havoc across time. The worst is Cowl - originally human, until artificially-forced evolution made him something else entirely. Polly is unprepared for her ... + Read More
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Series: Babes in the Wood Catching a Killer Paperback Graham Bartlett 9781529025569 $19.99 TRUE CRIME Apr 07, 2020

The powerful, gripping first-hand account of Brighton's most notorious murders from long-serving detective Graham Bartlett and bestselling author Peter James. On the October 9, 1986, nine-year-olds Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway went out to play on their Brighton estate. They would never return home. Their bodies were found concealed in a small clearing in the woodland of Wild Park. Drifter and petty criminal Russell Bishop immediately drew suspicion due to his shifty behaviour during the search and inconsistences in his alibi. He was charge... + Read More
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Series: The First Breath How Modern Medicine Saves the Most Fragile Lives Hardcover Olivia Gordon 9781509871179 $37.99 MEDICAL Jan 28, 2020

A powerful medical memoir about the extraordinary fetal and neonatal medicine bringing a new generation of babies into the world. This is a story about the cutting-edge medicine that has saved a generation of babies. It's about the love and fear a parent feels for a child they haven't yet met. It's about doctors, mothers, fathers and babies as together they fight for the first breath. The First Breath is the first popular science book about the pioneering fetal and neonatal medicine bringing a new generation into the world - a generation of b... + Read More
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Series: A Place For Everything The Story of Alphabetical Order Hardcover Judith Flanders 9781509881567 $37.99 HISTORY Mar 24, 2020

A celebration of alphabetical order, from its humble beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the sum of the world's knowledge. While we emphasize our subconscious appreciation for the importance of the alphabet, it is alphabetic order, its organization, that allows us to sift through the centuries of thought, knowledge, poetry, literature, scientific discovery and discourse. Alphabetic order allows us to locate the information we need, and disseminate it further. Without alphabetic order, all the knowledge in the world w... + Read More
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Series: Vegan(ish) 100 simple budget recipes that don't cost the earth Paperback Jack Monroe 9781529005080 $37.99 COOKING Feb 11, 2020

A vegan cookbook for every budget from award-winning food writer and anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe. A collection of one hundred tasty and creative recipes that makes vegan food affordable for all. Jack Monroe is determined to prove that everyone can enjoy delicious vegan dishes without the need for pricey ingredients or fancy equipment. Vegan(ish) brings together one hundred affordable, crowd-pleasing vegan recipes. From brunches and five-minute meals, to table-loading feasts and indulgent desserts, this food appeals whether you are a f... + Read More
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Series: The Vegetarian Kitchen Essential Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone Hardcover Prue Leith 9781509891504 $44.99 COOKING Apr 07, 2020

The only vegetarian cookbook you'll ever need from the founder of Leiths School of Food and Wine, chef and Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith, and niece Peta Leith, patisserie chef and lifelong vegetarian. This gorgeous cookbook features simple, meat-free family dishes that have brought delight to the extended Leith family table, time and time again. Recipes include: Slow-Roasted Tomato and Goat's Cheese Galette, Black Bean Chilli with Lime Salsa, Blackberry and Lemon Pavlova, and Stone Fruit Streusel Cake. We all need easy comfort foods... + Read More
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Series: Bake 125 Show-Stopping Recipes Made Simple Hardcover Lorraine Pascale 9781509820733 $44.99 COOKING Feb 04, 2020

The modern and creative baking bible from celebrity chef, Lorraine Pascale. Are you ready for your best bake? From Courgette, Lemon and Pistachio Drizzle Loaf to Coffee Éclairs with Espresso and Hazelnut Cream, Bake by Lorraine Pascale is a delicious collection of simple and sophisticated recipes that will take your baking to the next level. Delight friends and family with sweet and savoury bakes that are perfect for an array of tastes and dietary needs. Lorraine's friendly and thorough guidance makes it easy to master impressive celebration ... + Read More
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Series: Oligarchy Export/Airside - Export/Airside/Ireland Paperback Scarlett Thomas 9781786898029 $26.95 FICTION Jan 07, 2020

A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN EVENING STANDARD and METROWhen Tash, daughter of a Russian oligarch, is sent to an English boarding school, she is new to the strange rituals of the girls there. Theirs is a world of strict pecking orders, eating disorders and Instagram angst.While she spends her time with the other girls at the lake and the stables, a hand-picked few are invited to join the Headmaster at his house for extra lessons. Then her friend Bianca mysteriously vanishes, and quickly the routines of her dorm-mates seem darker and more alien than eve... + Read More
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Series: Harry Tate thrillers Red Station Main Paperback Adrian Magson 9781786898609 $20.95 FICTION Dec 03, 2019

'Fast-paced, with more twists and turns than a high-octane roller coaster' New York Journal of Books'Nail-biting suspense, high-octane action and a keep-'em-guessing plot . . . Superb!' Booklist'One of the most entertaining writers of British spy fiction currently operating' Deadly Pleasures Mystery MagazineFOUR WASHED-UP SPOOKS. TWO DEAD CIVILIANS. ONE REMOTE AND DEADLY OUTPOST.Harry Tate is a loyal MI5 officer and a servant of the State. But when two civilians are shot dead during a drugs intercept gone wrong, he is forced to take an immediat... + Read More
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Series: Jack Blackjack series Rebellion's Message Main Paperback Michael Jecks 9781786894977 $20.95 FICTION Dec 13, 2019

'Jecks keeps the suspense at a steady boil as his well-rounded characters fight for a corner in tumultuous London' Publishers Weekly'I look forward to seeing what mishap next awaits the unlikely hero of Jack Blackjack' Historical Novel SocietyDANGER LIES IN WAIT IN TUDOR LONDON . . .London, 1554. Light-fingered Jack Blackjack wakes in a tavern's yard with a sore head, his knife smeared with blood and a dead stranger lying beside him. Jack may have robbed the man but he's certain that he didn't kill him.Unfortunately, the man's purse contains so... + Read More
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Series: Mother Aquinas mysteries A Shameful Murder Main Paperback Cora Harrison 9781786894984 $20.95 FICTION Dec 03, 2019

'Outstanding' Booklist'A savvy detective and a setting fraught with intrigue and tension' Publishers WeeklyNOT ALL FLOODS WASH AWAY SIN . . .Ireland, 1923. The country has been torn apart by the War of Independence and is now in the throes of sectarian violence and severe flooding. But Mother Aquinas knows that not all floods cleanse the deeds of humanity . . . When a body washes up at her convent chapel dressed in evening finery, she immediately suspects foul play. The overstretched police force may be ready to dismiss the case as accidental d... + Read More
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Series: David Mitre thrillers A Sudden Death in Cyprus Main Paperback Michael Grant 9781786898418 $20.95 FICTION Feb 14, 2020

'Full of colourful characters, with a charming raconteur at its center' Kirkus Reviews'Action-packed . . . Readers will eagerly await David's next adventure' Publishers Weekly'A driving, torrential narrative' STEPHEN KING on Michael Grant's series, Gone CAN ONE GOOD DEED REDEEM A CRIMINAL?David Mitre has a very unusual set of skills, skills he has acquired over a long criminal career. Skills that make him an irritant for people like the FBI. Hiding among the ex-pat community of the Greek islands, his cover is blown when he is witness to a stabb... + Read More
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Series: The Ice House Main Hardcover Tim Clare 9781786894816 $38.95 FICTION Jan 17, 2020

War doesn't end. It sleeps.Delphine Venner is an old woman now. She is old, but she remembers everything. She remembers what it is to be a child of war, she remembers fighting for her life and she remembers what the terrifying creatures from another world took from her all those years ago. She remembers the gateway, and those she lost.And in that other world, beast-filled and brutal, someone waits for her.Hagar, a centuries-old assassin, daily paying a terrible price for her unending youth, is planning one final death: that of her abhorrent mas... + Read More
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Series: Black Sunday A Novel Hardcover Tola Rotimi Abraham 9781948226561 $26.00 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

Named a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Year and called "simultaneously unique and universal,” this fiercely original debut novel follows the fate of four siblings over the course of two decades in Nigeria as they search for agency, love, and meaning in a society rife with hypocrisy (NPR).“I like the idea of a god who knows what it’s like to be a twin. To have no memory of ever being alone.”Twin sisters Bibike and Ariyike are enjoying a relatively comfortable life in Lagos in 1996. Then their mother loses her job due to political strife... + Read More
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Series: Godshot A Novel Hardcover Chelsea Bieker 9781948226486 $26.00 FICTION Mar 31, 2020

“Imagine if Annie Proulx wrote something like White Oleander crossed with Geek Love or Cruddy, and then add cults, God, motherhood, girlhood, class, deserts, witches, the divinity of women…Terrifying, resplendent, and profoundly moving, this book will leave you changed.“ —T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless GirlsDrought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen–year–old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it’s an environmental d... + Read More
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Series: Night Theater A Novel Paperback Vikram Paralkar 9781948226547 $16.95 FICTION Jan 14, 2020
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Series: Spirit Run A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land Hardcover Noe Alvarez 9781948226462 $26.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Mar 03, 2020
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Series: On Vanishing Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear Hardcover Lynn Casteel Harper 9781948226288 $26.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 14, 2020

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice An essential book for those coping with Alzheimer’s and other cognitive disorders that “reframe[s] our understanding of dementia with sensitivity and accuracy…to grant better futures to our loved ones and ourselves” (The New York Times). An estimated fifty million people in the world suffer from dementia. Diseases such as Alzheimer’s erase parts of one’s memory but are also often said to erase the self. People don’t simply die from such diseases; they are imagined, in the clichés of our era, as va... + Read More
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Series: A Map Is Only One Story Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home Paperback Nicole Chung 9781948226783 $16.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Feb 11, 2020

From rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian, the search for belonging crosses borders and generations. Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, the essays in A Map Is Only One Story highlight the human side of immigration policies and polarized rhetoric, as twenty writers share provocative personal stories of existing between languages and cultures.Victoria Blanco relates how those with family in both El Paso and Ciudad Juárez experience life on the border. Nina Li Coomes... + Read More
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Series: Vera Violet A Novel Paperback Melissa Anne Peterson 9781640092327 $16.95 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

Set against the backdrop of a decaying Pacific Northwest lumber town, Vera Violet is a debut that explores themes of poverty, violence, and environmental degradation as played out in the young lives of a group of close–knit friends. Melissa Anne Peterson’s voice is powerful and poetic, her vision unflinching.Vera Violet recounts the dark story of a rough group of teenagers growing up in a twisted rural logging town. There are no jobs. There is no sense of safety. But there is a small group of loyal friends, a truck waiting with the engine runni... + Read More
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Series: This Town Sleeps A Novel Hardcover Dennis E. Staples 9781640092846 $26.00 FICTION Mar 03, 2020

A “tender, suspenseful, irresistible first novel” that explores Indigenous legend, queer relationship, and the power of landscape and lineage to shape our lives (Louise Erdrich, author of The Round House). An unsolved murder becomes the fixation of an Indigenous American man living in far northern Minnesota as he grapples with his relationship with a closeted white man. On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake, within the small town of Geshig at the hub of the rez, two men enter into a secret romance. Marion Lafournier, a midtwenties ga... + Read More
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Series: Death and the Butterfly A Novel Hardcover Colin Hester 9781640093256 $26.00 FICTION Jul 14, 2020
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Series: Trees in Trouble Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change Hardcover Daniel Mathews 9781640091351 $26.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 07, 2020

A troubling story of the devastating and compounding effects of climate change in the Western and Rocky Mountain states, told through in–depth reportage and conversations with ecologists, professional forest managers, park service scientists, burn boss, activists, and more. Climate change manifests in many ways across North America, but few as dramatic as the attacks on our western pine forests. In Trees in Trouble, Daniel Mathews tells the urgent story of this loss, accompanying burn crews and forest ecologists as they study the myriad risk f... + Read More
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Series: The Professor and the Parson A Story of Desire, Deceit, and Defrocking Hardcover Adam Sisman 9781640093287 $26.00 HISTORY Feb 04, 2020
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Series: The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree A Novel Paperback Shokoofeh Azar 9781609455651 $26.95 FICTION Jan 17, 2020

LONGLISTED for the 2021 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZELONGLISTED for the 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Translated LiteratureFINALIST for the 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE From the pen of one of Iran’s rising literary stars, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is a family story about the unbreakable connection between the living and the dead. Set in Iran in the decade following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, this moving, richly imagined novel is narrated by the ghost of Bahar, a thirteen-year-old girl, whose family is compelled to flee their home in... + Read More
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Series: Just After the Wave Paperback Sandrine Collette 9781609455675 $26.95 FICTION Jan 24, 2020

A small boat, alone on the furious ocean. A family stranded on an island, battered by waves on all sides. A decision which looms, unavoidable, on the horizon. When a volcano collapses in the ocean and generates a tidal wave of biblical proportions, the world disappears around Louie, his parents and his eight siblings. Their house, perched on a summit, stands firm. As far as the eye can see there is only silver water. It is shaken by violent storms, like jolts of rage. A remarkable story of destruction, resilience, love, and the invisible... + Read More