1.
Series: Complete ATK TV Show Cookbook
The Complete America's Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook 2001-2021
Every Recipe from the HIt TV Show Along with Product Ratings Includes the 2021 Season
Hardcover
America's Test Kitchen
9781948703420
$50.00
COOKING
Oct 27, 2020
21 years of foolproof recipes from the hit TV show captured in one complete volumeThe Complete America’s Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook is back after a year-long 20th anniversary party. Find every recipe prepared on 21 seasons of public television’s top-rated cooking show all in a single compendium, including the new season that debuts in January 2021. You’ll also get the latest equipment and ingredient ratings drawn from the show’s equipment testing and taste testing segments.Cook along with Bridget and Julia and the test kitchen chefs as the n...
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2.
Series: Pantheon Graphic Library
Lon Chaney Speaks
Hardcover
Pat Dorian
9781524747435
$34.00
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Oct 06, 2020
A stunning graphic debut: the life of the legendary silent-film actor Lon Chaney (the original Phantom of the Opera and Hunchback of Notre Dame), as imagined by an artist whose work recalls the style and skill of early-era New Yorker cartoonists.From the artist: “’No one will ever love me!’ I believe it was this near-universal fear that makes Lon Chaney’s characters continue to resonate with us today. On their surface, most of them are distinctly unlikeable: they are monsters, outcasts, criminals. But through his unique magic, Chaney makes them...
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3.
Series:
Hope in the Balance
A Newfoundland Doctor Meets a World in Crisis
Hardcover
Andrew Furey
9780385692618
$32.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 13, 2020
How the caring spirit of Newfoundland was exported to a world in crisis.Dr. Andrew Furey, an orthopedic surgeon, was sitting by a large fireplace at home in St John’s, watching an even larger flat-screen TV, when dreadful images of the aftermath of an earthquake in Haiti burst in on the cosy domestic scene. Human suffering on an epic scale was being documented in real time. Dr. Furey spent a sleepless night, and woke knowing he had to help in some way. In what has been a theme throughout Newfoundland and Labrador’s history, he found himself ans...
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4.
Series: Jake Brigance
A Time for Mercy
Hardcover
John Grisham
9780385545969
$39.00
FICTION
Oct 13, 2020
Jake Brigance is back! The hero of A Time to Kill, one of the most popular novels of our time, returns in a courtroom drama that The New York Times says is “riveting” and “suspenseful.” Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid sixteen-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy. Many in Clanton want a swift trial and the death penalty, but Brigance digs in and discovers that there is more to the story than meets the eye. Jak...
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5.
Series:
Ottolenghi Flavor
A Cookbook
Hardcover
Yotam Ottolenghi
9780525610137
$45.00
COOKING
Oct 13, 2020
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe New York Times-bestselling author of Plenty breaks down the three factors that create flavor to deliver more than 100 super-delicious recipes for innovative ways to cook vegetables.Yotam Ottolenghi—the beloved chef who captured the hearts of home cooks looking for inspiration and great-tasting, plant-based food for weeknight cooking—is back with another collection of instant-hit recipes, with 60 percent of them ideal for the rapidly growing vegan market. Ottolenghi’s landmark book Plenty ushered i...
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6.
Series:
Inside Story
Hardcover
Martin Amis
9780735281301
$36.00
FICTION
Oct 27, 2020
Martin Amis’s dazzling autobiographical novel of a unique literary life seen through the lens of friendships, family, sex and love, is wise, warm, heartbreaking and funny: the heart-to-heart testimony of an incomparable writer.This is the portrait of an extraordinary life lived by a great writer. Martin Amis leads us through boisterous romantic entanglements and literary friendships, the encompassing ties of family to generously revealing details about how to write (from the master of prose style), and finally to the intimate sorrow of a death ...
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7.
Series:
Red Comet
The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Hardcover
Heather Clark
9780307961167
$54.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 27, 2020
“Finally, the biography that Sylvia Plath deserves…A spectacular achievement.” —Ruth Franklin, author of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted LifeThe highly anticipated new biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art.With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials—including unpublished letters and manuscripts; court, police, and psychiatric records; and new interviews—Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant daughter ...
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8.
Series:
The Art of Jazz
A Visual History
Hardcover
Alyn Shipton
9781623545048
$41.00
MUSIC
Oct 20, 2020
The Art of Jazz explores how the expressionism and spontaneity of jazz spilled onto its album art, posters, and promotional photography, and even inspired standalone works of fine art.Everyone knows jazz is on the cutting edge of music, but how much do you know about its influence in the visual arts? With album covers that took inspiration from the avant-garde, jazz’s primarily African American musicians and their producers sought to challenge and inspire listeners both musically and visually.Arranged chronologically, each chapter covers a key ...
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9.
Series:
Flavorbomb
A Rogue Guide to Making Everything Taste Better
Hardcover
Bob Blumer
9780525610892
$35.00
COOKING
Oct 27, 2020
If you live for wildly addictive, life-affirming taste sensations that knock you off your feet, but can’t figure out how to make them at home, you have just found your kindred cookbook spirit. Welcome to Flavorbomb.You keep a running list of restaurants you go to for your favorite flavorbombs—a vibrant, pungent Caesar salad, extra crispy garlic fries, or a spicy puttanesca pasta maybe. You might even be able to articulate exactly what it is about those dishes that you find so addictive. But when you try to reproduce the same flavors at home, yo...
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10.
Series:
The Company
The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire
Hardcover
Stephen Bown
9780385694070
$37.00
HISTORY
Oct 27, 2020
A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada’s origins.The story of the Hudson’s Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada’s creation. And yet it hasn’t been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown’s exciting new telling.The Company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous inhabitants of inland subarctic Canada. Controlled by a handful of English aristocrats, it expanded into a powerful...
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11.
Series:
The Pasta Codex
1001 Recipes
Hardcover
Vincenzo Buonassisi
9780847868742
$67.50
COOKING
Oct 27, 2020
Featuring 1,001 recipes compiled over thirty years of research and travel, The Pasta Codex relates the history and traditions behind the world’s most famous food, with recipes for every shape and type of pasta and sauce.For decades, home cooks and pasta lovers have yearned for a complete English translation of Vincenzo Buonassisi’s 1974 Italian masterwork, Il Codice della Pasta. At last, that wait is over. Never before available in its complete form in English, Buonassisi’s landmark work in John Alcorn’s famed design represents a lost gem of cl...
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12.
Series:
Tecumseh and the Prophet
The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation
Hardcover
Peter Cozzens
9781524733254
$47.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 27, 2020
“An insightful, unflinching portrayal of the remarkable siblings who came closer to altering the course of American history than any other Indian leaders.”—Professor H.W. Brands, author of The Zealot and the Emancipator and Heirs of the FoundersThe first biography of the great Shawnee leader in more than twenty years, and the first to make clear that his misunderstood younger brother, Tenskwatawa, was an equal partner in the last great pan-Indian alliance against the United States. Until the Americans killed Tecumseh in 1813, he and his brothe...
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13.
Series:
Baking Day with Anna Olson
Recipes to Bake Together: 120 Sweet and Savory Recipes to Bake with Family and Friends
Hardcover
Anna Olson
9780525610953
$40.00
COOKING
Oct 27, 2020
NATIONAL BESTSELLERCanada’s baking sweetheart, Anna Olson, returns with an essential guide to baking for and with those you love.Baking Day is the book we have all been waiting for. In this new cookbook, Anna Olson encourages you to spend time with your loved ones, baking along with her easy-to-follow, delicious recipes for all your favourite treats. This is a cookbook to bring family and friends together, and to bond over quality time spent baking. With over 120 recipes for all skill levels, there is a baking project in Baking Day for everyone...
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14.
Series: A Pentecost and Parker Mystery
Fortune Favors the Dead
A Novel
Hardcover
Stephen Spotswood
9780385546553
$35.95
FICTION
Oct 27, 2020
“[Fortune Favors the Dead has] razor-sharp style, tons of flair, a snappy sense of humor, and all the most satisfying elements of a really good noir novel, plus plenty of original twists of its own.”—Tana FrenchA wildly charming and fast-paced mystery written with all the panache of the hardboiled classics, Fortune Favors the Dead introduces Pentecost and Parker, an audacious new detective duo for the ages.It’s 1942 and Willowjean “Will” Parker is a scrappy circus runaway whose knife-throwing skills have just saved the life of New York’s best, ...
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15.
Series:
Elevator Pitch
Paperback
Linwood Barclay
9781400026753
$12.99
FICTION
Oct 27, 2020
The #1 bestselling Linwood Barclay returns with an edge-of-your-seat thriller that does for elevators what Psycho did for showers and Jaws did for the beach—a heart-pounding tale of terror and menace that will make you think twice the next time you hit Up.It all begins on a Monday, when four people board an elevator in a Manhattan office tower. Each presses a button for their floor, but the elevator proceeds, nonstop, to the top. Once there it pauses for a few seconds, but the doors don’t open. Instead, the elevator begins to descend floor-by-floor...
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16.
Series:
Bowie Bingo
Icon. Rock God. Alien. Bingo!
Game
Niki Fisher
9781925811872
$40.00
GAMES & ACTIVITIES
Oct 13, 2020
A bingo game celebrating the enduring legacy of David Bowie, the interplanetary icon who’s missed around the world, every single day.This flat-pack bingo game is a perfect gift for the true David Bowie fan (i.e. any person who can hear, love, and/or think). This box contains: 1 giant game board, 8 double-sided (and randomized) bingo cards, 48 tokens, and 150 counters, all bursting with Bowie references. Designed to be played with 1-7 people, and certainly with your favorite Bowie record blasting in the background. Have fun picking a favorite!(B...
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17.
Series:
The Bite Me Balance Cookbook
Wholesome Daily Eats & Delectable Occasional Treats
Paperback
Julie Albert
9780525610540
$32.00
COOKING
Oct 06, 2020
Ditch diets forever because The Bite Me Balance Cookbook, chock full of easy, healthy recipes (and occasional treats), is sure to help you get (and stay) in your happy pants.When the number one question you are asked is, “How do you eat dessert and still do up your pants?” you know that you have to share your answers. Enter Bite Me sisters Julie Albert and Lisa Gnat, the saucy siblings who have said buh-bye to the fad diet world, forced the food police into early retirement, and figured out the secret to waist management: moderation. While this...
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18.
Series:
Frankissstein
A Love Story
Paperback
Jeanette Winterson
9780735279711
$22.00
FICTION
Oct 06, 2020
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEFrom New York Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson comes an audacious love story about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire.Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, 2019, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels. Meanwh...
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19.
Series:
The Lost Art of Scripture
Rescuing the Sacred Texts
Paperback
Karen Armstrong
9780345812353
$24.00
RELIGION
Oct 20, 2020
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKFrom one of the most trusted and admired writers on the world of faith, a timely and important examination of the meaning of scriptureThe significance of scripture may not be immediately obvious in our secular world, but its misunderstanding is perhaps the root cause of many of today’s controversies. The sacred texts have been co-opted by fundamentalists, who insist that they must be taken literally, and by others who interpret scripture to bolster their own prejudices. These texts are seen to prescribe ethical norm...
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20.
Series:
L.E.L.
The Lost Life and Mysterious Death of the "Female Byron"
Paperback
Lucasta Miller
9780593311158
$27.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 20, 2020
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography: the fascinating, rediscovered story of a writer who changed English poetry and explored the dark side of sexuality through a woman’s voice.Letitita Elizabeth Landon (pen name L.E.L.) lived a life in a blaze of scandal and worship, one of the most famous women of her time (the Romantic Age in London’s 1820s), her life and writing on the ascendency as Byron’s came to an end. Lucasta Miller tells the full story and re-creates the literary London of her time. She was born in 1802 ...
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21.
Series:
Waiting for a Star to Fall
A Novel
Paperback
Kerry Clare
9780385695473
$22.95
FICTION
Oct 27, 2020
“A love story at its core, though one without an ending written in the stars…. Timely and insightful.”—Karma Brown, #1 bestselling author of Recipe for a Perfect WifeFor fans of Joanne Ramos, Josie Silver, and Emily Giffin, a gripping and powerful story that asks: Just how much are you willing to forgive in the name of love? Brooke has long been caught in the orbit of Derek, a rising political superstar. First he was her boss, then they were friends and she became his confidant, the one person he shared everything with. And even though she had...
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22.
Series: Jack Reacher
The Sentinel
A Jack Reacher Novel
Hardcover
Lee Child
9781984818461
$38.99
FICTION
Oct 27, 2020
Jack Reacher is back! The “utterly addictive” (The New York Times) series continues as #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child teams up with his brother—and fellow thriller writer—Andrew Child.It is close to midnight on a Saturday night when Jack Reacher gets off a bus at the Greyhound station in Nashville. Reacher is in no hurry. He has no appointments to keep. No people to see. No scores to settle. Not yet anyway.But in the early morning hours, under particular circumstances, a familiar thought will be snaking through his sharp, instin...
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23.
Series:
American Crisis
Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Hardcover
Andrew Cuomo
9780593239261
$40.00
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Oct 13, 2020
Governor Andrew Cuomo tells the riveting story of how he took charge in the fight against COVID-19 as New York became the epicenter of the pandemic, offering hard-won lessons in leadership and his vision for the path forward.When COVID-19 besieged the United States, New York State emerged as the global “ground zero” for a deadly contagion that threatened the lives and livelihoods of millions. Quickly, Governor Andrew Cuomo provided the leadership to address the threat, becoming the standard-bearer of the organized response the country desperate...
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24.
Series:
Greenlights
Hardcover
Matthew McConaughey
9780593139134
$40.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 20, 2020
From the Academy Award®-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction“Unflinchingly honest and remarkably candid, Matthew McConaughey’s book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did—and to see that the point was never to win, but to understand.”—Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckI’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries o...
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25.
Series:
The Spider
Inside the Criminal Web of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
Hardcover
Barry Levine
9780593237182
$37.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 20, 2020
Who was Jeffrey Epstein? A Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist unearths never-before-reported details in the most comprehensive account yet of the disgraced financier’s life, death, and criminal web, including the role of Ghislaine Maxwell.By now, the basic contours of Epstein’s horrendous crimes—his decades-long serial abuse of young women and underage girls—are familiar. But for all that has been written about Epstein since his shocking death in a lower Manhattan jail cell, an astonishing amount remains unknown. A shy Brooklyn kid turned rene...
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26.
Series: The Fall of Shannara
The Last Druid
Hardcover
Terry Brooks
9780399178542
$38.99
FICTION
Oct 20, 2020
Hope blooms anew for the Four Lands in this riveting conclusion not only to the Fall of Shannara series, but to the entire Shannara saga—a truly landmark event over forty years in the making!Since he first began the Shannara saga in 1977, Terry Brooks has had a clear idea of how the series should end, and now that moment is at hand.As the Four Lands reels under the Skaar invasion—spearheaded by a warlike people determined to make this land their own—our heroes must decide what they will risk to save the integrity of their home. Even as one grou...
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27.
Series: Prelude to Dune
Dune: House Atreides
Paperback
Brian Herbert
9780593159606
$12.99
FICTION
Oct 27, 2020
Book One of the Epic Prequel to the Classic Novel Dune—Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture.Step into the universe of Frank Herbert’s Dune, one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time.Before Paul Atreides became Muad’Dib, the dynamic leader who unified the wild Fremen on the desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune…Before the evil Baron Harkonnen overthrew House Atreides and sent Paul and his mother Jessica fleeing into the deadly wasteland of sand…Before the secrets of the spice and the sandworms were discovered…There was another stor...
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28.
Series: Prelude to Dune
Dune: House Corrino
Paperback
Brian Herbert
9780593159620
$12.99
FICTION
Oct 27, 2020
Book Three of the Epic Prequel to the Classic Novel Dune—Soon to Be a Major Motion PictureThe grand finale of the complex epic trilogy of the generation before Frank Herbert’s masterwork Dune.Shaddam Corrino IV, Emperor of the Known Universe, has risked everything to create a substitute for the spice melange…The substance that makes space travel possible…That prolongs life…That allows prescience…A substance that is found only on the desert planet Arrakis, a harsh world of storms and monstrous sandworms.Shaddam has used the noble houses as chess...
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29.
Series: Prelude to Dune
Dune: House Harkonnen
Paperback
Brian Herbert
9780593159613
$12.99
FICTION
Oct 27, 2020
Book Two of the Epic Prequel to the Classic Novel Dune—Soon to Be a Major Motion PictureStep into the universe of Frank Herbert’s Dune, one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time.Before Dune…The epic tale of Duke Leto Atreides and his rise to power…The fierce ambitions of his mortal enemy, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen…The struggles of the young girl Jessica, the Baron’s secret daughter, under the harsh training of the Sisterhood school…The schemes of Shaddam Corrino to create a synthetic spice that may bring unlimited wealth, or cause t...
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30.
Series:
Hallmark Channel Countdown to Christmas
Have a Very Merry Movie Holiday
Hardcover
Caroline McKenzie
9781950785247
$37.00
COOKING
Oct 20, 2020
The Publishers Weekly and USA TODAY Best Seller! The official Hallmark Channel Christmas keepsake takes you behind-the-scenes of your favorite feel-good holiday films with the casts’ memories, photos, recipes and more. This stunning book invites readers to an exclusive inside look at the making of everyone’s favorite holiday classics with secrets from the stars, screenwriters, set designers, costume designers, and directors who create the movie magic. Featuring the network’s top leading ladies and gentlemen—Candace Cameron Bure, Lacey Chabert, ...
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31.
Series:
Before the Lights Go Out
A Season Inside a Game on the Brink
Paperback
Sean Fitz-Gerald
9780771024214
$22.00
SPORTS & RECREATION
Oct 06, 2020
A Globe and Mail Best BookA finalist for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer PrizeA love letter to a sport that’s losing itself, from one of our best sports writers.Hockey is approaching a state of crisis in Canada. It’s become more expensive, more exclusive, and effectively off-limits to huge swaths of the potential sports-loving population. Youth registration numbers are stagnant; efforts to appeal to new Canadians are often grim at best; the game, increasingly, does not resemble the country of which it’s for so long been an integral part.As a l...
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32.
Series: Killer Instinct
The Rabbit Hunter
Joona Linna Series: #6
Paperback
Lars Kepler
9780771048128
$21.00
FICTION
Oct 13, 2020
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER14 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEThe sixth gripping thriller in Lars Kepler’s series featuring Joona Linna.Joona Linna has spent two years languishing in a high security prison when he is swept into a secret meeting with the police. They need his help to stop a mysterious killer who goes by the name of the Rabbit Hunter. The only connection between the victims is that they all hear a child chanting a rhyme about rabbits before the killer strikes. A twist of fate unexpectedly places celebrity chef Rex Müller at the centre ...
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33.
Series:
The Topeka School
Paperback
Ben Lerner
9780771049347
$21.00
FICTION
Oct 06, 2020
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeWinner of the Hefner Heitz Kansas Book AwardOne of Barack Obama’s favourite books of 2019From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century, hailed by Maggie Nelson as Ben Lerner’s “most discerning, ambitious, innovative, and timely novel to date.” For fans of Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room, Elif Batuman’s The Idiot, Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers.Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High...
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34.
Series:
The Night Piece
Collected Short Fiction
Hardcover
Andre Alexis
9780771006630
$34.95
FICTION
Oct 13, 2020
A career-spanning collection of stories from the author of Fifteen Dogs, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and Canada Reads.Vivid, profound, moving, and with moments of sly humour, the stories in The Night Piece reveal worlds both familiar and deeply strange. Drawing from Alexis’s acclaimed debut collection, Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa, and the highly original Beauty and Sadness, and including previously uncollected stories, here is the surreal and brilliant short fiction of André Alexis—one...
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35.
Series: Inspector Alan Banks
Many Rivers to Cross
Paperback
Peter Robinson
9780771072826
$21.00
FICTION
Oct 20, 2020
NATIONAL BESTSELLERPeter Robinson, “master of the police procedural” (Mail on Sunday), returns with the twenty-sixth instalment of the #1 bestselling Inspector Banks series.A skinny young boy is found dead—his body carelessly stuffed into a wheelie bin. Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team are called to investigate. Who is the boy, and where did he come from? Was his body discarded, or left as a warning to someone? He looks Middle Eastern, but no one on the Eastvale Estate has seen him before.As the local press seize upon an illegal...
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36.
Series:
Scotty
A Hockey Life Like No Other
Paperback
Ken Dryden
9780771027529
$22.00
SPORTS & RECREATION
Oct 27, 2020
A #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERA Globe and Mail and Toronto Star Best BookA hockey book like no other. A hockey life like no other.Scotty Bowman is renowned as the best coach in hockey history, and one of the greatest coaches in all of sports. He won more games and more Stanley Cups than anyone else. Remarkably, he coached at the very top for more than four decades with twenty-nine years between his first and last Cup wins. And he’s seen more than anyone in hockey. With his precious standing room pass to the Montreal Forum, he saw “Rocket” Richard pla...
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37.
Series:
Friends and Enemies
A Memoir
Hardcover
Barbara Amiel
9780771006715
$42.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 13, 2020
NATIONAL BESTSELLERBarbara Amiel’s much-talked-about life has been a subject of endless fascination for the media, many unauthorized biographies, as well as screen depictions. An instinctive feminist and now a foe of feminism’s political correctness, she covers a formidable array of experiences—political, sexual, marital, and material—in these memoirs.Born in London during World War II’s Blitz, the only consistent strains in her life were a fi erce belief in her identity as a Jew, even as the Jewish community disowned her, and an unquestioned v...
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38.
Series:
Sapiens: A Graphic History
The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1)
Paperback
Yuval Noah Harari
9780771038747
$29.99
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Oct 27, 2020
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERVolume one of the epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari’s internationally bestselling phenomenonIn a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power. How can we see the big picture without getting caught up in an infinity of little details? One way is to step back, to look at the really big picture: the entire history of the human species. Sapiens: A Graphic History is the story of how an insignificant ape became the ruler of planet Earth, capable of splitting t...
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39.
Series: The Last Interview Series
Marilyn Monroe: The Last Interview
and Other Conversations
Paperback
MELVILLE HOUSE
9781612198774
$22.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 06, 2020
“I’m so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me!”—Marilyn MonroeNearly sixty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe remains an icon whom everyone loves but no one really knows. The conversations gathered here—spanning her emergence on the Hollywood scene to just days before her death at age 36—show Monroe at her sharpest and most insightful on the thorny topics of ambition, fame, femininity, desire, and more. Together with an introduction by Sady Doyle, these pieces reveal yet another Marilyn: not the tragic heroine she’s beco...
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40.
Series:
Divorcing
Paperback
Susan Taubes
9781681374949
$22.95
FICTION
Oct 27, 2020
Now back in print for the first time since 1969, a stunning novel about childhood, marriage, and divorce by one of the most interesting minds of the twentieth century.Dream and reality overlap in Divorcing, a book in which divorce is not just a question of a broken marriage but names a rift that runs right through the inner and outer worlds of Sophie Blind, its brilliant but desperate protagonist. Can the rift be mended? Perhaps in the form of a novel, one that goes back from present-day New York to Sophie’s childhood in pre–World War II Budape...
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41.
Series:
Happy Half-Hours
Selected Writings
Hardcover
A. A. Milne
9781912559053
$25.95
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Oct 27, 2020
A delightful selection of articles by the ever-popular A. A. Milne, many of which haven’t been in print for decades. Introduced by the prize-winning children’s author Frank Cottrell Boyce, this volume brings Milne’s brilliant non-fiction back to the spotlight.A. A. Milne was a successful writer long before the classic Winnie-the-Pooh stories made him famous. Milne had a talent for regularly turning out a thousand whimsical words on lost hats and umbrellas, golf, married life, cheap cigars, and any amount of life’s little difficulties. This anth...
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42.
Series:
An Illustrated History of UFOs
Hardcover
Adam Allsuch Boardman
9781910620694
$25.95
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
Oct 06, 2020
A deep dive into the world of Ufology—the study and search for extraterrestrial life—with a fun, informative, humorous look at the history of this strange world of conspiracy.Throughout history people have witnessed a dizzying show of mysterious lights in the sky. Whether they are the devices of alien interlopers or more mundane weather phenomena, they have spawned a legacy of government inquiries, secretive societies, and countless dedicated investigators. We call them “Unidentified Flying Objects,” and they have claimed a prominent position i...
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43.
Series:
Chaat
Recipes from the Kitchens, Markets, and Railways of India: A Cookbook
Illustrated edition
Hardcover
Maneet Chauhan
9781984823885
$42.50
COOKING
Oct 06, 2020
Explore the bold flavors, regional dishes, and stunning scenery of India with Chopped judge and James Beard Award-winning chef Maneet Chauhan.In Chaat, Maneet Chauhan explores India’s most iconic, delicious, and fun-to-eat foods coming from and inspired by her discoveries during an epic cross-country railway journey that brought her to local markets, street vendors, and the homes of family and friends. From simple roasted sweet potatoes with star fruit, lemon, and spices to a fragrant layered chicken biryani rice casserole, and the flakiest oni...
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44.
Series:
Modern Comfort Food
A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
Illustrated edition
Hardcover
Ina Garten
9780804187060
$47.00
COOKING
Oct 06, 2020
A collection of all-new soul-satisfying dishes from America’s favorite home cook!In Modern Comfort Food, Ina Garten shares 85 new recipes that will feed your deepest cravings. Many of these dishes are inspired by childhood favorites—but with the volume turned way up, such as Cheddar and Chutney Grilled Cheese sandwiches (the perfect match for Ina’s Creamy Tomato Bisque), Smashed Hamburgers with Caramelized Onions, and the crispiest hash browns that are actually made in a waffle iron!There are few things more comforting than gathering for a meal...
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45.
Series:
Martha Stewart's Cake Perfection
100+ Recipes for the Sweet Classic, from Simple to Stunning: A Baking Book
Illustrated edition
Hardcover
Editors of Martha Stewart Living
9780593138656
$38.99
COOKING
Oct 13, 2020
Martha Stewart perfects the art of cakes with 125 recipes for all occasions, featuring exciting flavors, must-try designs, and dependable techniques.Martha Stewart’s authoritative baking guide presents a beautiful collection of tiers and tortes, batters and buttercreams, and sheet cakes and chiffons to tackle every cake creation. Teaching and inspiring like only she can, Martha Stewart demystifies even the most extraordinary creations with her guidance and tricks for delicious cake perfection.From everyday favorites to stunning showstoppers, Ma...
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46.
Series:
SUPERtheticals
50 New HYPERthetical Questions for More Strange Conversations
Game
Chuck Klosterman
9781984826206
$21.99
GAMES & ACTIVITIES
Oct 13, 2020
From the king of pop philosophy and renowned author of the runaway hit card game HYPERtheticals comes more wild conversation starters featuring a range of unique new prompts.Imagine a person who is your genetic clone. They are a perfect replica of yourself but raised by different people in a different place. It has come to your attention that your clone is trying to destroy you. You have three options: you can go into hiding, you can meet your clone and try to use reason and diplomacy, or you can attempt to destroy your clone before it destroys...
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47.
Series:
Dessert Person
Recipes and Guidance for Baking with Confidence
Illustrated edition
Hardcover
Claire Saffitz
9781984826961
$47.00
COOKING
Oct 20, 2020
In her first cookbook, Bon Appétit and YouTube star of the show Gourmet Makes offers wisdom, problem-solving strategies, and more than 100 meticulously tested, creative, and inspiring recipes.Claire Saffitz is a baking hero for a new generation. In Dessert Person, fans will find Claire’s signature spin on sweet and savory recipes like Babkallah (a babka-Challah mashup), Apple and Concord Grape Crumble Pie, Strawberry-Cornmeal Layer Cake, Crispy Mushroom Galette, and Malted Forever Brownies. She outlines the problems and solutions for each recip...
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48.
Series:
Ex Libris
100+ Books to Read and Reread
Illustrated edition
Hardcover
Michiko Kakutani
9780525574972
$34.00
LITERARY CRITICISM
Oct 20, 2020
From “the most powerful book critic in the English-speaking world” (Vanity Fair) comes 100 personal, thought-provoking essays of the life-changing books she wouldn’t want you to miss—beautifully illustrated throughout.Legendary former New York Times critic and bestselling author Michiko Kakutani once again brings her wealth of knowledge and passion about books to eager readers—but this time with her personal selections of more than 140 works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that have had a profound effect on her life. “Why do we love books so...
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49.
Series:
Expect a Miracle
Quotations to Live and Love By
Hardcover
Danielle Steel
9780593136584
$22.00
SELF-HELP
Oct 27, 2020
New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel shares her favorite words of wisdom, sayings, and quotes that she has turned to time and time again for inspiration and comfort.When she was a young girl, Danielle Steel’s grandmother gave her a beautiful antique book with blank pages. She wasn’t quite sure what to do with it. “Write a story? Do drawings?” She wondered. Then she began to find quotes she liked—wise words, often about love and life. She began writing the sayings in the book, and so began a lifelong habit of collecting quotations. N...
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50.
Series:
In Bibi's Kitchen
The Recipes and Stories of Grandmothers from the Eight African Countries that Touch the Indian Ocean [A Cookbook]
Hardcover
Hawa Hassan
9781984856739
$45.00
COOKING
Oct 13, 2020
Grandmothers from eight eastern African countries welcome you into their kitchens to share flavorful recipes and stories of family, love, and tradition in this transporting cookbook-meets-travelogue.In this incredible volume, Somali chef Hawa Hassan and renowned food writer Julia Turshen present seventy-five recipes and stories gathered from bibis (grandmothers) from eight African nations: Eritrea, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa, Madagascar, and Comoros. We meet women such as Ma Shara, who helps tourists “see the real Zanzib...
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51.
Series: Critical Role
The World of Critical Role
The History Behind the Epic Fantasy
Hardcover
Liz Marsham
9780593157435
$47.00
GAMES & ACTIVITIES
Oct 20, 2020
Dive deep into the history of the world’s most popular fantasy RPG livestream with the cast of Critical Role in this definitive guide featuring never-before-seen illustrations and photos.From its unassuming beginnings as a casual home game between friends to the role-playing phenomenon it is today, Critical Role has become the stuff of legend. These pages chronicle how a circle of friends who all happen to be talented voice actors built the most-watched tabletop role-playing livestream of all time.Discover dazzling new illustrations and richly ...
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52.
Series: Dungeons & Dragons
Heroes' Feast (Dungeons & Dragons)
The Official D&D Cookbook
Hardcover
Kyle Newman
9781984858900
$47.00
COOKING
Oct 27, 2020
80 recipes inspired by the magical world of Dungeons & Dragons—perfect for a solo quest or a feast shared with fellow adventurers.From the D&D experts behind Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana comes a cookbook that invites fantasy lovers to learn about their favorite fictional cultures through their unique cuisines and lifestyles. With this book, you can prepare dishes delicate enough to dine like elves and their drow cousins or hearty enough to feast like a dwarven clan or a boisterous orcish horde. All eighty dishes—developed by a professional c...
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53.
Series:
Planet Canada
How Our Expats Are Shaping the Future
Hardcover
John Stackhouse
9780345815804
$35.00
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 06, 2020
A leading thinker on Canada’s place in the world contends that our country’s greatest untapped resource may be the three million Canadians who don’t live here.Entrepreneurs, educators, humanitarians: an entire province’s worth of Canadian citizens live outside Canada. Some will return, others won’t. But what they all share is the ability, and often the desire, to export Canadian values to a world sorely in need of them. And to act as ambassadors for Canada in industries and societies where diplomatic efforts find little traction. Surely a count...
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54.
Series:
If I Knew Then
Finding wisdom in failure and power in aging
Hardcover
Jann Arden
9780735279971
$32.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 27, 2020
NATIONAL BESTSELLERJann Arden—bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star—is back with this funny, heartfelt and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity and freedom she’s found at fifty-seven are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash.Digging deep into her strengths, her failures and her losses, Jann Arden brings us an inspiring account of how she has surprised herself, in her fifties, by at last becoming completely her own person. Like many women, it took Jann a long time to realize tha...
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55.
Series:
Be Antiracist
A Journal for Awareness, Reflection, and Action
Paperback
Ibram X. Kendi
9780593233009
$21.99
SELF-HELP
Oct 06, 2020
Reflect on your understanding of race and discover ways to work toward an antiracist future with this guided journal from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist and Stamped from the Beginning.Antiracism is not a destination but a journey—one that takes deliberate, consistent work. Ibram X. Kendi’s concept of antiracism has reenergized and reshaped the conversation about racial justice in America and pointed us toward new ways of thinking about ourselves and our society. Whether or not you’ve read How to Be an Antira...
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56.
Series:
Golem Girl
A Memoir
Hardcover
Riva Lehrer
9781984820303
$40.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 06, 2020
The vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of strange bodiesWhat do we sacrifice in the pursuit of normalcy? And what becomes possible when we embrace monstrosity?In 1958, Riva is one of the first children born with spina bifida to survive. Her parents and doctors are determined to “fix” her, sending the message over and over again that she is broken. That she will never have a job, a romantic relationship, or an independent life. Enduring count...
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57.
Series:
The Purpose of Power
How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
Hardcover
Alicia Garza
9780525509684
$36.00
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 20, 2020
An essential guide to building the type of movements that can address the challenges of our time, from one of the country’s leading organizers—one of the creators of Black Lives Matter.In 2013, Alicia Garza wrote what she called “a love letter to Black people” on Facebook, in the aftermath of the acquittal of the man who murdered seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin. Garza wrote:Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter.With the speed and networking capacities of social media, #BlackLivesMatter became the hashtag heard ’round the world...
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58.
Series:
Dear Girls
Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life
Paperback
Ali Wong
9780525508854
$24.00
HUMOR
Oct 06, 2020
Ali Wong’s heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they were still in utero) cover everything they need to know in life, like the unpleasant details of dating, how to be a working mom in a male-dominated profession, and how she trapped their dad.In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so heavily that she became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, Asian culture, working women, and why you neve...
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59.
Series:
Love Your Life
A Novel
Hardcover
Sophie Kinsella
9780593132852
$37.00
FICTION
Oct 27, 2020
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I Owe You One, an utterly delightful novel about a woman who ditches her dating app for a writer’s retreat in Italy—only to find that real love comes with its own filtersCall Ava romantic, but she thinks love should be found in the real world, not on apps that filter men by height, job, or astrological sign. She believes in feelings, not algorithms. So after a recent breakup and dating app debacle, she decides to put love on hold and escapes to a remote writers’ retreat in coastal Italy. She’s de...
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60.
Series:
Curse of Strahd: Revamped Premium Edition (D&D Boxed Set) (Dungeons & Dragons)
Novelty book
Wizards RPG Team
9780786967155
$130.99
GAMES & ACTIVITIES
Oct 20, 2020
Bury yourself in Gothic Horror in this premium edition boxed set adventure for the world’s greatest roleplaying game.Under raging storm clouds, the vampire Count Strahd von Zarovich stands silhouetted against the ancient walls of Castle Ravenloft. Rumbling thunder pounds the castle spires. The wind’s howling increases as he turns his gaze down toward the village of Barovia. Far below, yet not beyond his keen eyesight, a party of adventurers has just entered his domain. Strahd’s face forms the barest hint of a smile as his dark plan unfolds. He ...
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