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Series: Treason A Novel Hardcover Rick Campbell 9781250164650 $36.50 FICTION Mar 19, 2019

In Rick Campbell’s newest thriller, a military coup in Russia leads to a swift invasion of former Soviet territories—while the U.S. has been rendered powerless to respond.In Russia, the military is anxious to assert its military strength and regain its role as a superpower. The Russian President refuses to greenlight a bold plan to disable American strategic nuclear capability and retake Ukraine and the Baltic States, fearing the potential consequences of involving nuclear weapons. But the generals won't have it and at the first opportunity, th... + Read More
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Series: Win or Die Leadership Secrets from Game of Thrones Hardcover Bruce Craven 9781250301178 $37.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 19, 2019

“When it comes to the most-anticipated business books of 2019,Win or Die: Leadership Secrets From Game of Thronesis the one to beat.”—Inc.A guide to leading without losing your head, inspired by the bestselling books and smash television seriesGame of Thrones."When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground." —Cersei LannisterOne of the great joys ofGame of Thrones is strategizing what bold moves you'd make in this bloody, volatile world—from the comfort of your living room. And one of the great terrors of being... + Read More
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Series: Win or Die Leadership Secrets from Game of Thrones CD-Audio Bruce Craven 9781250316165 $51.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 19, 2019

This program is read by the author.A guide to leading without losing your head, inspired by the bestselling books and smash television series."When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground." — Cersei LannisterOne of the great joys ofGame of Thrones is strategizing what bold moves you'd make in this bloody, volatile world—from the comfort of your living room. And one of the great terrors of being a leader is knowing your real world can be just as brutal—and offices bring no comfort.Every day you're presented wi... + Read More
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Series: Someday Is Not a Day in the Week 10 Hacks to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life Hardcover Sam Horn 9781250201225 $36.50 SELF-HELP Mar 12, 2019

"Inspired me to ask myself why and to stop postponing the forgotten dreams." —Geneen Roth, #1New York Timesbestselling author ofWomen Food and God andThis Messy Magnificent LifeFull of inspirational insights and advice, lifehacks, and real-world examples, Someday is Not a Day in the Week is CEO Sam Horn’s motivational guide to help readers get what they want in life today rather than "someday."Are you:• Working, working, working?• Busy taking care of everyone but yourself?• Wondering what to do with the rest of your life?• Planning to do what m... + Read More
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Series: When Brooklyn Was Queer A History Hardcover Hugh Ryan 9781250169914 $38.99 HISTORY Mar 05, 2019

The never-before-told story of Brooklyn’s vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present day.***NAMED ONE OF THE BEST LGBTQ BOOKS OF 2019 by Harper's Bazaar***"A romantic, exquisite history of gay culture." —Kirkus Reviews, starred“[A] boisterous, motley new history...entertaining and insightful.” —The New York Times Book ReviewHugh Ryan’sWhen Brooklyn Was Queeris a groundbreaking exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the queer women who worked at the ... + Read More
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Series: The Billionaire Boondoggle How Our Politicians Let Corporations and Bigwigs Steal Our Money and Jobs Hardcover Pat Garofalo 9781250162335 $37.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 12, 2019

"An alarming, fact-driven jeremiad urging change and action." –KirkusThe first comprehensive look at how politicians let the entertainment industry bilk taxpayers, hijack public policy and hurt economic investment, starting and ending with Trump. From stadiums and movie productions to casinos and mega-malls to convention centers and hotels, cities and states have paid out billions of dollars in tax breaks, subsidies, and grants to the world's corporate titans. They hope to boost their economies, create new and better jobs, and lure well-known e... + Read More
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Series: Dear George, Dear Mary A Novel of George Washington's First Love Hardcover Mary Calvi 9781250162946 $36.50 FICTION Feb 19, 2019

A novel about heiress Mary Philipse's relationship with George Washington, based on historical accounts, letters, and personal journals bynine-time New York Emmy Award-winning journalistMary Calvi.“Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted.” —George WashingtonDid unrequited love spark a flame that ignited a cause that became the American Revolution? Never before has this story about George Washington been told. Crafted from hundreds of letters, witness accounts, and journal entries,Dea... + Read More
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Series: Bosstown Novel A Town Called Malice A Novel Hardcover Adam Abramowitz 9781250076304 $37.99 FICTION Mar 19, 2019

"A crafty plot and a nuanced look at gentrified Boston lifts Abramowitz’s impressive second mystery featuring bike messenger and would-be stand-up comic Zesty Meyers (after 2017’sBosstown)...Robert B. Parker fans will appreciate Abramowitz’s depiction of the darker corners of Beantown."—Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewA bike messenger navigates Boston’s gritty underworld of gangsters and blood money in this novel with more twists and turns than Boston’s streets, in Adam Abramowitz's A Town Called Malice.Boston’s fastest-talking, baddest bike m... + Read More
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Series: Twilight of the Gods A Novel Paperback Scott Oden 9780312372958 $37.99 FICTION Feb 18, 2020

In A Gathering of Ravens, he fought for vengeance. Now, Grimnir is back to fight for his survival. It is the year of Our Lord 1218 and in the land of the Raven-Geats, the Old Ways reach deep. And while the Geats pay a tax to the King in the name of the White Christ, their hearts and souls belong to the gods of Ásgarðr. But no man can serve two masters. Pledging to burn this Norse heresy from the land, famed crusader Konráðr the White leads a host against the Raven-Geats, using torch and sword to bring forth the light of the new religion. Bu... + Read More
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Series: Hangry 5 Simple Steps to Balance Your Hormones and Restore Your Joy (Including a Customizable Paleo/Mediterranean Plan!) Hardcover Sarah Fragoso 9781250189844 $34.99 HEALTH & FITNESS Jun 25, 2019

HANGRY IS THE COMPREHENSIVE HORMONE BOOK WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR.Get ready to restore your joy, heal your hormones, and reset your metabolism in just four weeks.Sarah Fragoso, the bestselling author and creator of Everyday Paleo, and Dr. Brooke Kalanick, a leading expert in functional medicine and women’s health, bring you the ultimate guide to feeling your best. Hangry offers women a one-of-a-kind plan that is uniquely customizable to your individual hormonal imbalances, with special attention paid to challenges such as low thyroid, PCOS, perim... + Read More
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Series: Ladies Who Punch The Explosive Inside Story of "The View" Hardcover Ramin Setoodeh 9781250112095 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 02, 2019

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERLike Fire & Fury, the gossipy real-life soap opera behind a serious show. When Barbara Walters launchedThe View, network executives told her that hosting it would tarnish her reputation. Instead, within ten years, she’d revolutionized morning TV and made household names of her co-hosts: Joy Behar, Star Jones, Meredith Vieira and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. But the daily chatfest didn’t just comment on the news. It became the news. And the headlines barely scratched the surface.Based on unpr... + Read More
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Series: Ladies Who Punch The Explosive Inside Story of "The View" CD-Audio Ramin Setoodeh 9781250316196 $51.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 02, 2019

This program is read by the author.Like Fire & Fury, the gossipy real-life soap opera behind a serious show.When Barbara Walters launchedThe View, network executives told her that hosting it would tarnish her reputation. Instead, within ten years, she’d revolutionized morning TV and made household names of her co-hosts: Joy Behar, Star Jones, Meredith Vieira and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. But the daily chatfest didn’t just comment on the news. It became the news. And the headlines barely scratched the surface.Based on unprecedented access, including... + Read More
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Series: The Girl He Used to Know A Novel Hardcover Tracey Garvis Graves 9781250200358 $34.99 FICTION Apr 02, 2019

New York Times bestselling author ofOn the Island, Tracey Garvis Graves, presents the compelling, hopelessly romantic novel of unconditional love.Annika Rose is an English major at the University of Illinois. Anxious in social situations where she finds most people's behavior confusing, she'd rather be surrounded by the order and discipline of books or the quiet solitude of playing chess.Jonathan Hoffman joined the chess club and lost his first game—and his heart—to the shy and awkward, yet brilliant and beautiful Annika. He admires her ability... + Read More
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Series: The Girl He Used to Know A Novel CD-Audio Tracey Garvis Graves 9781250315946 $45.50 FICTION Apr 02, 2019

New York Times bestselling author ofOn the Island, Tracey Garvis Graves, presents the compelling, hopelessly romantic audiobook of unconditional love.Annika (rhymes with Monica) Rose is an English major at the University of Illinois. Anxious in social situations where she finds most people's behavior confusing, she'd rather be surrounded by the order and discipline of books or the quiet solitude of playing chess.Jonathan Hoffman joined the chess club and lost his first game--and his heart--to the shy and awkward, yet brilliant and beautiful Ann... + Read More
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Series: The Stressed Years of Their Lives Helping Your Kid Survive and Thrive During Their College Years Hardcover Dr. B. Janet Hibbs 9781250113139 $37.99 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Apr 23, 2019

From two leading child and adolescent mental health experts comes a guide for the parents of every college and college-bound student who want to know what’s normal mental health and behavior, what’s not, and how to intervene before it’s too late.“The title says it all...Chock full of practical tools, resources and the wisdom that comes with years of experience,The Stressed Years of their Lives is destined to become a well-thumbed handbook to help families cope with this modern age of anxiety.” —Brigid Schulte, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist,... + Read More
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Series: Saving Meghan A Novel Hardcover D.J. Palmer 9781250107459 $36.50 FICTION Apr 09, 2019

Saving Meghan is a riveting new thriller full of secrets and lies from author D.J. Palmer.Can you love someone to death?Some would say Becky Gerard is a devoted mother and would do anything for her only child. Others, including her husband Carl, claim she's obsessed and can't stop the vicious circle of finding a cure at her daughter's expense.Fifteen-year-old Meghan has been in and out of hospitals with a plague of unexplained illnesses. But when the ailments take a sharp turn, clashing medical opinions begin to raise questions about the puzzli... + Read More
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Series: Saving Meghan A Novel CD-Audio D.J. Palmer 9781250314239 $51.99 FICTION Apr 09, 2019

Saving Meghan is a riveting new thriller full of secrets and lies from author D.J. Palmer.Can you love someone to death?Some would say Becky Gerard is a devoted mother and would do anything for her only child. Others, including her husband Carl, claim she's obsessed and can't stop the vicious circle of finding a cure at her daughter's expense.Fifteen-year-old Meghan has been in and out of hospitals with a plague of unexplained illnesses. But when the ailments take a sharp turn, clashing medical opinions begin to raise questions about the puzzli... + Read More
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Series: The Mother-in-Law A Novel Hardcover Sally Hepworth 9781250120922 $36.50 FICTION Apr 23, 2019

•"Deliciously entertaining!"—People Magazine's "People Pick" •Entertainment Weekly's "MUST List" •OMagazine’s "15 Best Beach Books of the Year So Far" •Bustle "Best Book of April" •Refinery29"Best Book of April" •Cosmopolitan "Best Book of April" •Woman's Day's "27 Fiction Books of 2019 to Add to Your Reading List ASAP" •BookBub's "Biggest Books of April" •PopSugar's"30 Must-Read Books of 2019"A twisty, compelling new novel about one woman's complicated relationship with her mother-in-law that ends in death...From the moment Lucy met he... + Read More
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Series: The Mother-in-Law A Novel CD-Audio Sally Hepworth 9781250314444 $51.99 FICTION Apr 23, 2019

“Deliciously entertaining, this Australian novel is packed with wit and suspense, and it also delivers sharp insights about family dynamics and love.” — People MagazineA twisty, compelling new audiobook about one woman's complicated relationship with her mother-in-law that ends in death...From the moment Lucy met her husband’s mother, she knew she wasn’t the wife Diana had envisioned for her perfect son. Exquisitely polite, friendly, and always generous, Diana nonetheless kept Lucy at arm’s length despite her desperate attempts to win her over.... + Read More
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Series: Ten Years a Nomad A Traveler's Journey Home Hardcover Matthew Kepnes 9781250190512 $37.99 TRAVEL Jul 16, 2019

Part memoir and part philosophical look at why we travel, filled with stories of Matt Kepnes' adventures abroad, an exploration of wanderlust and what it truly means to be a nomad."Matt is possibly the most well-traveled person I know...His knowledge and passion for understanding the world is unrivaled, and never fails to amaze me." —Mark Manson,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckTen Years a Nomad isNew York Times bestselling author Matt Kepnes’ poignant exploration of wanderlust and what it truly means to be ... + Read More
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Series: When They Come for You How Police and Government Are Trampling Our Liberties - and How to Take Them Back Hardcover David Kirby 9781250064363 $39.99 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 29, 2019

A revealing book about how government, law enforcement, and bureaucratic interests are seizing our property, our children, our savings, and our fundamental American rights—and how to fight back.Liberty and justice for all is the bedrock of American democracy, but has America betrayed our founders’ vision for the nation? InWhen They Come For You,New York Timesbestselling author David Kirby exposes federal, state, and local violations of basic constitutional rights that should trouble every American, whether liberal, conservative, or libertarian.... + Read More
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Series: The League of Wives The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home Hardcover Heath Hardage Lee 9781250161109 $37.99 HISTORY Apr 02, 2019

"With astonishing verve, The League of Wives persisted to speak truth to power to bring their POW/MIA husbands home from Vietnam. And with astonishing verve, Heath Hardage Lee has chronicled their little-known story — a profile of courage that spotlights 1960s-era military wives who forge secret codes with bravery, chutzpah and style. Honestly, I couldn’t put it down."— Beth Macy, author ofDopesick andFactory Man"Exhilarating and inspiring."— Elaine Showalter,Washington PostThe true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington—and H... + Read More
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Series: Wayfinding The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World Hardcover M. R. O'Connor 9781250096968 $38.99 SCIENCE Apr 30, 2019

At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human."A marvel of storytelling." —Kirkus (Starred Review)In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity. Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate and orient with such precision—especially since our own adventurous ancestors spread across the world without maps or instruments. O'Connor goes to th... + Read More
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Series: White Peak A Thriller Hardcover Ronan Frost 9781250130082 $36.50 FICTION May 21, 2019

Ronan Frost'sWhite Peakis a fast-paced action thriller full of death-defying adventure.Greg Rask, a dying tech billionaire, has invested millions chasing miracle cures. None of them are worth a damn, but he refuses to give up. Now, he’s gathering a team willing to go to the ends of the earth chasing life.Each of Rask's crew has beaten incredible odds to rise from the ashes of their old lives to where they are now. Together, their next task is to retrieve a painting that is believed to hide a map which, if genuine, marks it as a treasure of the ... + Read More
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Series: Wild at Heart America's Turbulent Relationship with Nature, from Exploitation to Redemption Hardcover Alice Outwater 9781250085788 $37.99 NATURE Apr 02, 2019

"Alice Outwater’s infectiously readableWild at Heart captures the essence of ecology: Everything is connected, and every connection leads to ourselves." —Alan Weisman, author,The World Without UsandCountdown"A wonderful book. Information rich to say the least, and the indigenous human connections and portrait of the deep connectivity of nature, are both strong elements." —Jim McClintock, author ofA Naturalist Goes FishingNature on the brink? Maybe not. With so much bad news in the world, we forget how much environmental progress has been made. ... + Read More
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Series: Doublespeak Hardcover Alisa Smith 9781250097859 $0.01 FICTION Apr 16, 2019
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Series: A Florida State of Mind An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State Hardcover James D. Wright 9781250185655 $36.50 HISTORY Apr 30, 2019

A witty history of the state that's always in the news, for everything from alligator attacks to zany crimes.There's an old clip of Bugs Bunny sawing the entire state of Florida off the continent—and every single time a news story springs up about some shenanigans in Florida, someone on the internet posts it in response. Why are we so ready to wave goodbye to the Sunshine State? InA Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State,James D. Wright makes the case that there are plenty of reasons to be scandalized by the land and ... + Read More
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Series: Black Star Renegades We Are Mayhem A Black Star Renegades Novel Hardcover Michael Moreci 9781250117854 $38.99 FICTION Apr 09, 2019

The second entry in theStar Wars-inspired series thatNerdistcalls "the next big thing."Though the ragtag group of misfits known as the Black Star Renegades won a decisive battle by destroying Ga Halle’sWar Hammer, the war is far from over. In response to losing the crown jewel of its fleet, the evil Praxis empire has vengefully reinforced its tyranny across the galaxy--but its rule won't be had so easily. Led by hotshot pilot Kira Sen, a growing rebel force stands in the way of Praxis’s might. Not only do they possess the will to fight for gala... + Read More
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Series: The Bloated Belly Whisperer See Results Within a Week and Tame Digestive Distress Once and for All Hardcover Tamara Duker Freuman 9781250195234 $37.99 HEALTH & FITNESS Dec 24, 2018

America's trusted digestive nutrition expert shares her personal program to vanquish bloating in a groundbreaking book that will help readers see results in a week or less!With 50 recipes from formerBon AppÃ©tit editor and cookbook author Kristine Kidd“This book could bea game-changer for anyone suffering from chronic belly upset...a deliciously do-able plan to keep you happy, healthy and bloat-free.” --Ellie Krieger, MS RD, host of Ellie’s Real Good Food, and award-winning cookbook author"With candor and science-based expertise, Freuman offer... + Read More
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Series: Sophie's Planet A Search for Truth About Our Remarkable Home Planet and Its Future Hardcover James Hansen 9781632868947 $36.50 SCIENCE Feb 09, 2021

In a series of letters to his granddaughter, Sophie, the world's leading climatologist shows how it is still possible to ensure that young people inherit a clean world.Dr. James Hansen the single most credible scientific voice worldwide on the issue of global warming. In his celebrated first book,Storms of My Grandchildren, he presented the full truth about climate change, a truth born out in the years since as climate disasters continue to ravage our world. The urgency is apparent; the response so far, inadequate. But Hansen remains an optimis... + Read More
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Series: Lost Connections Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope Paperback Johann Hari 9781632868312 $24.50 SELF-HELP Dec 03, 2019

TheNew York Timesbestseller from the author ofChasing the Scream, offering a radical new way of thinking about depression and anxiety.There was a mystery haunting award-winning investigative journalist Johann Hari. He was thirty-nine years old, and almost every year he had been alive, depression and anxiety had increased in Britain and across the Western world. Why?He had a very personal reason to ask this question. When he was a teenager, he had gone to his doctor and explained that he felt like pain was leaking out of him, and he couldn't con... + Read More
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Series: A World Without "Whom" The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age Paperback Emmy J. Favilla 9781632867582 $24.00 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Jan 22, 2019

"[A] provocative and jaunty romp through the dos and don''ts of writing for the internet" (NYT)--the practical, the playful, and the politically correct--from BuzzFeed copy chief Emmy Favilla.A World Without "Whom" isEats, Shoots & Leavesfor the internet age, and Emmy Favilla is the witty go-to style guru of webspeak. As language evolves faster than ever, what is the future of "correct" writing? When Favilla was tasked with creating a style guide for BuzzFeed, she opted for guidelines that would reflect not only the site's lighthearted tone, bu... + Read More
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Series: Women Rowing North Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing As We Age Hardcover Mary Pipher 9781632869609 $36.00 PSYCHOLOGY Jan 15, 2019

New York Times Bestseller *USA Today Bestseller *Los Angeles Times Bestseller *Publishers Weekly BestsellerThe instantNew York Times bestseller from the author ofReviving Ophelia--a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age.Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic, and wise people they have always wanted to be.InWomen Rowing North, Piph... + Read More
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Series: Here Is Real Magic A Magician's Search for Wonder in the Modern World Paperback Nate Staniforth 9781632864253 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 12, 2020

“A vivid, deeply compelling, startlingly personal account of life on the far side of the illusion.” --Lev Grossman,New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians trilogyNate Staniforth has spent most of his life and all of his professional career trying to understand wonder--what it is, where to find it, and how to share it with others. He became a magician because he learned at a young age that magic tricks don't have to be frivolous. Magic doesn't have to be about sequins and smoke machine--rather, it can create a moment of genuine astoni... + Read More
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Series: Holy Lands A Novel Hardcover Amanda Sthers 9781635572834 $29.00 FICTION Jan 22, 2019

A witty, heartwarming, and heart-wrenching epistolary novel, soon to be a major motion picture starring James Caan, Rosanna Arquette, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, about a dysfunctional family--led by a Jewish pig farmer in Israel--struggling to love and accept each other.As comic as it is deeply moving,Holy Lands chronicles several months in the lives of an estranged family of colorful eccentrics. Harry Rosenmerck is an aging Jewish cardiologist who has left his thriving medical practice in New York--to raise pigs in Israel. His ex-wife, Monique, ... + Read More
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Series: Three Daughters of Eve Paperback Elif Shafak 9781632869968 $24.00 FICTION Jan 22, 2019

The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author ofThe Architect's Apprentice andThe Bastard of Istanbul. Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground--an old Polaroid of three young women and their university professor. A relic from a past--and a love--Peri had tried desperately to forget.Three Daughters of Eve is set over an evening in c... + Read More
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Series: A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland Hardcover DaMaris B. Hill 9781635572612 $34.00 HISTORY Jan 15, 2019

APublishers Weekly Top 10 History Title for the seasonBooklist's Top 10 Diverse Nonfiction titles for the yearBookRiot's "50 Must-Read Poetry Collections"Most Anticipated Books of the Year--The Rumpus, NylonA revelatory work in the tradition of Claudia Rankine's Citizen, DaMaris Hill's searing and powerful narrative-in-verse bears witness to American women of color burdened by incarceration.“It is costly to stay free and appear / sane.”From Harriet Tubman to Assata Shakur, Ida B. Wells to Sandra Bland and Black Lives Matter, black women freedom... + Read More
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Series: Kindred Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art Hardcover Rebecca Wragg Sykes 9781472937490 $38.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 25, 2020

InKindred, Neanderthal expert Rebecca Wragg Sykes shoves aside the clichÃ© of the shivering ragged figure in an icy wasteland, and reveals the Neanderthal you don't know, our ancestor who lived across vast and diverse tracts of Eurasia and survived through hundreds of thousands of years of massive climate change. This book sheds new light on where they lived, what they ate, and the increasingly complex Neanderthal culture that researchers have discovered.Since their discovery 150 years ago, Neanderthals have gone from the losers of the human fa... + Read More
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Series: The Edge of Memory Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World Hardcover Patrick Nunn 9781472943286 $37.00 SCIENCE Jan 08, 2019

InThe Edge of Memory, Patrick Nunn explores the science in folk history. He looks at ancient tales and traditions that may be rooted in scientifically verifiable fact, and can be explored via geological evidence, such as the Biblical Flood.We all know those stories that have been told in our families for generations. The ones that start "Have I ever told you about your great, great Uncle …?" In some cultures these stories have been passed down for thousands of years, and often reveal significant information about how the surrounding environment... + Read More
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Series: Groupthink A Study in Self Delusion Hardcover Christopher Booker 9781472959058 $38.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 07, 2020

Bestselling author and columnist Christopher Booker considers whether we have found ourselves in the grip of self-delusion and the mentality of the crowd.Politics has always been colored by groupthink. Each political party of faction or grouping naturally has its own idea of how it sees the world more clearly than its rivals. Political decisions have ended badly because a little group of powerful men have collectively become so fixated on a single narrow view of what they hoped to achieve that they shut their minds to anything that contradicts ... + Read More
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Series: The Ethical Leader Why Doing the Right Thing Can Be the Key to Competitive Advantage Hardcover Morgen Witzel 9781472956590 $47.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Feb 12, 2019

Ethical behavior in and by businesses is often seen as a bolt-on extra--something that is nice-to-do but not must-do. Morgen Witzel argues that by flipping this view--and making ethical behavior the cake and not just the icing--businesses can gain long-term competitive advantage.Trust and respect among key stakeholder groups, especially employees and customers, cannot be overstated in their importance to an organization's success. Trust engenders loyalty and good reputation, which in turn builds brand value.The Ethical Leader provides a practic... + Read More
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Series: Transforming Organizations Engaging the 4Cs for Powerful Organizational Learning and Change Hardcover Michael Anderson 9781472949318 $47.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jan 22, 2019

In a world where current political climates and management cultures make risk aversion commonplace,Transforming Organizationsshows how large and cumbersome organizations can adapt to an increasingly volatile and uncertain operating environment through the 4 Cs: Creativity, Critical reflection, Communication, and Collaboration. Based on extensive research in both the education and business sectors, the authors show how the 4 Cs can be embedded and enacted in many different types of organizations to make them more effective and responsive to emer... + Read More
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Series: Hard to Love Essays and Confessions Hardcover Briallen Hopper 9781632868800 $36.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Feb 05, 2019

A sharp and entertaining essay collection about the importance of multiple forms of love and friendship in a world designed for couples, from a laser-precise new voice.Sometimes it seems like there are two American creeds, self-reliance and marriage, and neither of them is mine. I experience myself as someone formed and sustained by others' love and patience, by student loans and stipends, by the kindness of strangers.Briallen Hopper'sHard to Love honors the categories of loves and relationships beyond marriage, the ones that are often treated ... + Read More
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Series: The Wild Bunch Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film Hardcover W. K. Stratton 9781632862129 $37.00 PERFORMING ARTS Feb 12, 2019

For the fiftieth anniversary of the film, W.K. Stratton’s definitive history of the making ofThe Wild Bunch, named one of the greatest Westerns of all time by the American Film Institute.Sam Peckinpah’s filmThe Wild Bunchis the story of a gang of outlaws who are one big steal from retirement. When their attempted train robbery goes awry, the gang flees to Mexico and falls in with a brutal general of the Mexican Revolution, who offers them the job of a lifetime. Conceived by a stuntman, directed by a blacklisted director, and shot in the sand an... + Read More
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Series: Eat the Apple Paperback Matt Young 9781632869517 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 26, 2019

"TheIliad of the Iraq war" (Tim Weiner)--a gut-wrenching, beautiful memoir of the consequences of war on the psyche of a young man.Eat the Apple is a daring, twisted, and darkly hilarious story of American youth and masculinity in an age of continuous war. Matt Young joined the Marine Corps at age eighteen after a drunken night culminating in wrapping his car around a fire hydrant. The teenage wasteland he fled followed him to the training bases charged with making him a Marine. Matt survived the training and then not one, not two, but three de... + Read More
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Series: Aerialists Stories Hardcover Mark Mayer 9781635572179 $35.00 FICTION Feb 19, 2019

"Mark Mayer writes with a humorous, wistful elegance. His stories are singular, as detached and intimate as dreaming." --Marilynne RobinsonWelcome to the sublime circus of Mark Mayer's Michener-Copernicus-winning debut,Aerialists, a fiercely inventive collection of nine stories in which classic carnival characters become ordinary misfits seeking grandeur in a lonely world.Under the luminous tent of Mayer's prose, we see P.T. Barnum's caravan remade: A young misogynist finds a confidante in a cable-TV strongwoman. A realtor for the one percent i... + Read More
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Series: Chief Engineer Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge Paperback Erica Wagner 9781620400524 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 05, 2019

“A welcome tribute to the persistence, precision and humanity of Washington Roebling and a love-song for the mighty New York bridge he built.” -The Wall Street JournalChief Engineeris the first full biography of a crucial figure in the American story--Washington Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge. One of America's most iconic and recognizable structures, the Brooklyn Bridge is as much a part of New York as the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building. Yet its distinguished builder is too often forgotten--and his life is of interest ... + Read More
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Series: Dragtastic The legendary book of fun, facts and fabulosity Paperback Richard Williams 9781448216994 $17.50 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Feb 12, 2019

Can you build your ideal queen? Select fabulous dresses, wigs and shoes? Is she chunky yet funky or a 7ft glamazon? Including stickers and colouring, a Drag Name calculator and fabulous facts, quirky quotes and stunning figures about all things drag.Drag has always influenced mainstream pop culture, but because of its underground roots, many aspects bled through into popular, mainstream culture without credit. Things have improved for this next generation of young queens, RuPaul's Drag Race has taken drag culture beyond its radical roots. O... + Read More
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Series: The Merciful Humility of God The 2019 Lent Book Paperback Jane Williams 9781472954817 $22.00 RELIGION Feb 12, 2019

The 2019 Lent Book is a stirring meditation on God's humility.In one of the most moving stories of Christian literature, Augustine describes himself as sitting in turmoil, knowing that his current way of life had become untenable and was making him ill, because he could find no resting place for his heart and mind. As he sat sobbing in the garden, he heard the voice of children, as though playing a game in another part of the garden. The children's voices were crying, "Pick up and read it, pick up and read it." Looking around Augustine saw an o... + Read More
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Series: The List A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump's First Year Paperback Amy Siskind 9781635572926 $25.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 26, 2019

The shocking first-draft history of the Trump regime and its clear authoritarian impulses, based on the viral Internet phenom the Weekly List.In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump''s election as president, Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street executive and the founder of The New Agenda, began compiling a list of actions taken by the Trump regime that pose a threat to our democratic norms. Under the headline "Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you, so you'll remember," Siskind's Weekly List began... + Read More
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Series: The Priory of the Orange Tree Hardcover Samantha Shannon 9781635570298 $40.00 FICTION Feb 26, 2019

TheNew York Timesbestselling "epic feminist fantasy perfect for fans ofGame of Thrones" (Bustle).A world divided.A queendom without an heir.An ancient enemy awakens.The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction--but assassins are getting closer to her door.Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly... + Read More
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Series: Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls A Memoir Hardcover T Kira Madden 9781635571851 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 05, 2019

“Frank and funny and powerful and surprising. An utterly gorgeous debut.”-Lauren GroffOne of the most anticipated books of 2019--Electric Literature, Entertainment Weekly, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed,The Millions, Hyphen, Lit Hub, Nylon, The AV Club, The Advocate, The Rumpus, The Week,Books are Magic,Reading Women, AlmaAcclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where she f... + Read More
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Series: America The Epic Story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898 Hardcover Robert Goodwin 9781632867223 $54.00 HISTORY Mar 05, 2019

An epic history of the Spanish empire in North America from 1493 to 1898 by Robert Goodwin, author ofSpain: The Centre of the World.At the conclusion of the American Revolution, half the modern United States was part of the vast Spanish Empire. The year after Columbus's great voyage of discovery, in 1492, he claimed Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands for Spain. For the next three hundred years, thousands of proud Spanish conquistadors and their largely forgotten Mexican allies went in search of glory and riches from Florida to California. Many ... + Read More
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Series: I Found My Tribe A Memoir Paperback Ruth Fitzmaurice 9781635572933 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 26, 2019

A transformative, euphoric memoir about finding solace in the unexpected for readers ofH is for Hawk, It's Not Yet Dark,andWhen Breath Becomes Air. Ruth's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker and author husband Simon Fitzmaurice who has ALS and can only communicate with his eyes. Ruth's other "tribe" are the friends who gather at the cove in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, and regularly throw themselves into the freezing cold water, just for kicks. The Tragic Wives' Swimming Club, as they jokingly call themselves, meet to cope with the extr... + Read More
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Series: Going Into Town A Love Letter to New York Paperback Roz Chast 9781632869777 $24.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Mar 05, 2019

The Washington Post "10 Best Graphic Novels of the Year"New Yorkmagazine "The Year's Most Giftable Coffee-Table Books"Newsday "Best Fall Books"The Verge "10 Best Comics of the Year"Oklahoman "Best Graphic Novels of the Year"Winner of the New York City Book AwardFrom the #1NYTbestselling author ofCan't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Roz Chast, an "absolutely laugh-out-loud hysterical" (AP) illustrated ode/guide/thank-you to Manhattan.New Yorkercartoonist andNYT bestselling author Roz Chast, native Brooklynite-turned-suburban commuter de... + Read More
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Series: Hitler in Los Angeles How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America Paperback Steven J. Ross 9781620405635 $24.00 HISTORY Mar 05, 2019

A 2018 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE“[Hitler in Los Angeles] is part thriller and all chiller, about how close the California Reich came to succeeding” (Los Angeles Times). No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine in the world. The Nazis plotted to kill the city's Jews and to sabotage the nation's military installations: Plans existed for murdering twenty-four prominent Hollywood figures, such as Al Jolson, Charlie Chaplin, and Louis B. Mayer; for driving through Boy... + Read More
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Series: Sexual Insurrection A Revolution of Desire Hardcover Laurie Penny 9781635572964 $34.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 16, 2021

An urgent, hopeful, and unapologetic new bookabout sexual consent, sexual politics, democracy, and the power of desire, from award-winning writer Laurie Penny.Based on Penny's celebrated, Ellie-nominated series at Longreads,Sexual Insurrection is a hand grenade of a book that demands a shake-up in gender and sexual relations.From mental health to abortion, issues of race to the rise of the far right, Penny shows that existing social and political paradigms breed from sexual inequality and injustice. As recent global movements demonstrate, it is... + Read More
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Series: Catching Breath The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis Paperback Kathryn Lougheed 9781472930354 $24.00 SCIENCE Mar 10, 2020

A biography of tuberculosis, an ancient disease--but still a present danger.With more than a million victims every year--more than any other disease, including malaria--and antibiotic resistance now found in every country worldwide, tuberculosis is once again proving itself to be one of the smartest killers that humanity has ever faced. But it's hardly surprising considering how long it's had to hone its skills. Forty-thousand years ago, our ancestors set off from the cradle of civilization on their journey towards populating the planet. Tuberc... + Read More
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Series: Borrowed Time The Science of How and Why We Age Hardcover Sue Armstrong 9781472936066 $37.00 SCIENCE Feb 26, 2019

The question of how and why organisms age has teased scientists for centuries. There are myriad competing theories, from the idea that aging is a simple wear and tear process, like the rusting of a car, to the belief that aging and death are genetically programmed and controlled. In fact, there is no clearly defined limit to life, and no single, predictable program playing itself out: different things are happening within and between tissues, and each system or organ accumulates damage at itsown pace, according to the kind of insults imposed on... + Read More
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Series: Women Talking Hardcover Miriam Toews 9781635572582 $0.01 FICTION Apr 02, 2019