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Connectography Mapping the Future of Global Civilization Hardcover Parag Khanna 9780812988550 $40.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Apr 19, 2016

From the visionary bestselling author of The Second World and How to Run the World comes a bracing and authoritative guide to a future shaped less by national borders than by global supply chains, a world in which the most connected powers—and people—will win.Connectivity is the most revolutionary force of the twenty-first century. Mankind is reengineering the planet, investing up to ten trillion dollars per year in transportation, energy, and communications infrastructure linking the world’s burgeoning megacities together. This has profound co... + Read More
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The Girls A Novel Hardcover Emma Cline 9780812998603 $34.00 FICTION Jun 14, 2016

Girls, their vulnerability, strength, and desire to belong, are at the heart of this un-put-downable first novel set during the violent end of the 1960s in Northern California. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader.Hidden ... + Read More
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Witness to the Revolution Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul Hardcover Clara Bingham 9780812993189 $40.00 HISTORY May 31, 2016

The electrifying story of the turbulent year when the sixties ended and America teetered on the edge of revolutionNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCHAs the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. From August 1969 to August 1970, the nation witnessed nine thousand protests and eighty-four acts of arson or bombings at schools across the country. It was the year of the My Lai massacre investigation, the Cambodia invasion, Woodstock, and the Moratorium to End the War. The American d... + Read More
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Bobby Kennedy The Making of a Liberal Icon Hardcover Larry Tye 9780812993349 $42.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 05, 2016

New York Times bestselling author of Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend Larry Tye was given unprecedented access by the Kennedy family to write this in-depth, vibrant and editorially independent biography.History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last progressive knight. But Kennedy—nurtured on the rightist orthodoxies of his dynasty-building father—started his public life as counsel to the left-baiting, table-thumping Senator Joseph McCarthy. A bare-knuckled political operative who ... + Read More
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A Hero of France A Novel Hardcover Alan Furst 9780812996494 $36.00 FICTION May 31, 2016

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling master espionage writer, hailed by Vince Flynn as “the best in the business,” comes a riveting novel about the French Resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST1941. The City of Light is dark and silent at night. But in Paris and in the farmhouses, barns, and churches of the French countryside, small groups of ordinary men and women are determined to take down the occupying forces of Adolf Hitler. Mathieu, a leader of the French Resistance, le... + Read More
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The Iran Wars Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals That Reshaped the Middle East Hardcover Jay Solomon 9780812993646 $37.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 23, 2016

From the Wall Street Journal reporter who’s been breaking news on the historic and potentially disastrous Iran nuclear deal comes a deeply reported exploration of the country’s decades-long power struggle with the United States—for readers of Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars and Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower For more than a decade, the United States has been engaged in a war with Iran as momentous as any other in the Middle East—a war all the more significant as it has largely been hidden from public view. Through a combination of economic sanctio... + Read More
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Douglas MacArthur American Warrior Hardcover Arthur Herman 9780812994889 $54.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 14, 2016

A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nation’s great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim—from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & Churchill Douglas MacArthur was arguably the last American public figure to be worshipped unreservedly as a national hero, the last military figure to conjure up the romantic stirrings once evoked by George Armstrong Custer and Robert E. Lee. But he was also one of America’s most divisive figures, a... + Read More
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The Content Trap A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change Hardcover Bharat Anand 9780812995381 $41.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Oct 18, 2016

“My favorite book of the year.”—Doug McMillon, CEO, Wal-Mart Stores Harvard Business School Professor of Strategy Bharat Anand presents an incisive new approach to digital transformation that favors fostering connectivity over focusing exclusively on content.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BLOOMBERG Companies everywhere face two major challenges today: getting noticed and getting paid. To confront these obstacles, Bharat Anand examines a range of businesses around the world, from The New York Times to The Economist, from Chinese Inte... + Read More
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Jackson, 1964 And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America Hardcover Calvin Trillin 9780399588242 $36.00 HISTORY Jun 28, 2016

From bestselling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, a deeply resonant, career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism, from the 1960s to the present In the early sixties, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Over the next five decades of reporting, he often returned to scenes of racial tension. Now, for the first time, the best of Trillin’s pieces on race in America have been collected in one volume. In the title essay of Jackson, 1964, we experience Trillin’s... + Read More
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The Dream Life of Astronauts Stories Hardcover Patrick Ryan 9780385341387 $35.00 FICTION Jul 05, 2016

For readers of Tom Perrotta and Lorrie Moore, these nine unforgettable stories, all set in and around Cape Canaveral, showcase Patrick Ryan’s masterly understanding of regret and hope, relationships and family, and the universal longing for love.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY St. Louis Post Dispatch • Refinery 29 • Electric Literature The Dream Life of Astronauts balances heartbreak with wry humor as its characters try to make sense of the paths they find themselves on. A would-be Miss America auditions for a shady local talent scou... + Read More
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Look at You Now My Journey from Shame to Strength Hardcover Liz Pryor 9780812998009 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 28, 2016

CHICAGO TRIBUNE BESTSELLER • For readers of Orange Is the New Black and The Glass Castle, a riveting memoir about a lifelong secret and a girl finding strength in the most unlikely place In 1979, Liz Pryor is a seventeen-year-old girl from a good family in the wealthy Chicago suburbs. Halfway through her senior year of high school, she discovers that she is pregnant—a fact her parents are determined to keep a secret from her friends, siblings, and community forever. One snowy January day, after driving across three states, her mother drops her ... + Read More
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Good Morning, Midnight A Novel Hardcover Lily Brooks-Dalton 9780812998894 $35.00 FICTION Aug 09, 2016

For readers of Station Eleven and The Snow Child, Lily Brooks-Dalton’s haunting debut is the unforgettable story of two outsiders—a lonely scientist in the Arctic and an astronaut trying to return to Earth—as they grapple with love, regret, and survival in a world transformed.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SHELF AWARENESS AND THE CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS • COLSON WHITEHEAD'S FAVORITE BOOK OF 2016 (Esquire) Augustine, a brilliant, aging astronomer, is consumed by the stars. For years he has lived in remote outposts, studying the sky f... + Read More
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The View from a Small Mountain Reading the American Landscape Hardcover Suzannah Lessard 9780385316316 $37.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 07, 2020

A visionary look at America's history and future, through the lens of its landscape and architecture. Moving from agrarian times to the Industrial Age to the Digital Age, Lessard investigates our most iconic landscapes, and connects the dots in a way no one else has done before, blending geography, history, sociology, philosophy, literature, art and architecture to deliver an entirely original view of America. * In this book, Lessard moves landscape from the background to the foreground, treating our "settings" as important and essential acto... + Read More
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Dinosaurs on Other Planets Stories Hardcover Danielle McLaughlin 9780812998429 $36.00 FICTION Aug 09, 2016

For fans of Alice Munro, Anne Enright, and William Trevor comes a stunning debut collection from a deeply original writer and observer of love, betrayal, and turning points in ordinary peoples’ lives. In a raw seacoast cabin, a young woman watches her boyfriend go out with his brother, late one night, on a mysterious job she realizes she isn’t supposed to know about. A man gets a call at work from his sister-in-law, saying that his wife and his daughter never made it to nursery school that day. A mother learns that her teenage daughter has to... + Read More
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Patient H.M. A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets Hardcover Luke Dittrich 9780812992731 $37.00 SCIENCE Aug 09, 2016

A National Magazine Award-winning investigative journalist explores the scientific, ethical and, above all, human dimensions of one of the most important stories in the history of medicine.In the summer of 1953, a renowned Yale neurosurgeon named William Beecher Scoville performed a novel brain operation on a 27-year-old epileptic patient named Henry Molaison. The operation failed to eliminate Molaison’s seizures, but it did have another, unintended effect: it left Molaison profoundly amnesic for the rest of his life, unable to create new long ... + Read More
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Addlands A Novel Hardcover Tom Bullough 9780812998726 $36.00 FICTION Aug 16, 2016

The stark beauty of the Welsh countryside is given powerful life in this sweeping tale of one family from World War II to the present day, for readers of Alice Munro, Kent Haruf, Bruce Chatwin, and Louise Erdrich.Addlands (i.e., headlands): the border of plough land which is ploughed last of all.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR The patriarch of Funnon Farm is Idris Hamer, stubborn, strong, a man of the plough and the prayer-sheet, haunted by his youth in the trenches of France. The son is Oliver, a junior boxing champion and hell-... + Read More
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Behold the Dreamers A Novel Hardcover Imbolo Mbue 9780812998481 $37.00 FICTION Aug 23, 2016

At the intersection of Americanah and the fiction of Amy Tan, a riveting debut novel about two marriages—one immigrant and working class, the other from the top 1%—both chasing their version of the American Dream.In the fall of 2007, Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Jende hopes the new job will enable him, his adored wife, Neni, and his young son, to live a better life in America.Their situation only improves when Neni is hired as househol... + Read More
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A Lucky Life Interrupted A Memoir of Hope Paperback Tom Brokaw 9780812982084 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 10, 2016

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR • A powerful memoir of a dramatic year spent battling cancer and reflecting on a long, happy, and lucky life—from the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, whose iconic career in journalism has spanned more than fifty yearsTom Brokaw has led a fortunate life, with a strong marriage and family, many friends, and a brilliant journalism career culminating in his twenty-two years as anchor of the NBC Nightly News and as bestselling author. But in the summer of 2013, when back pai... + Read More
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Let Me Tell You New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings Paperback Shirley Jackson 9780812987324 $24.00 FICTION Jun 07, 2016

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • From the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House, a spectacular volume of previously unpublished and uncollected stories, essays, and other writings.Features “Family Treasures,” nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Short Story Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American writers of the last hundred years. Since her death in 1965, her place in the landscape of twentieth-century fiction has grown only more exalted. As we approach the centenary of her birth comes t... + Read More
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Among the Ten Thousand Things A Novel Paperback Julia Pierpont 9780812985344 $22.00 FICTION Jun 14, 2016

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND THE HUFFINGTON POST • Features an exclusive conversation between Julia Pierpont and Lena DunhamFor fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Lorrie Moore, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Among the Ten Thousand Things is a dazzling first novel, a portrait of an American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and a startlingly original story of love and time lost. Jack Shanley is a well-known New York artist, charming and vain, who doesn’t mean to plunge h... + Read More
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The Truth According to Us A Novel Paperback Annie Barrows 9780385342957 $23.00 FICTION Jun 14, 2016

Evoking the same small town charm with the same great eye for character, the coauthor of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society finds her own voice in this new novel about a young debutante working for the Federal Writer’s Project whose arrival in Macedonia, West Virginia, changes the course of history for a prominent family who has been sitting on a secret for decades.Miss Layla Beck, the daughter of a powerful Senator from Delaware, is forced to get a job with the Federal Writer’s Project writing the first official account of Maced... + Read More
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Love and Other Ways of Dying Essays Paperback Michael Paterniti 9780385337038 $24.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Jun 28, 2016

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS • In this moving, lyrical, and ultimately uplifting collection of essays, Michael Paterniti turns a keen eye on the full range of human experience, introducing us to an unforgettable cast of everyday people. Michael Paterniti is one of the most original and empathic storytellers working today. His writing has been described as “humane, devastating, and beautiful” by Elizabeth Gilbert, “spellbinding” by Anthony Doerr, and “expansive and joyful” by ... + Read More
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Series: New Yorker: The Story of a Decade The 50s: The Story of a Decade Paperback The New Yorker Magazine 9780812983302 $29.00 HISTORY Jul 05, 2016

This engrossing anthology assembles classic New Yorker pieces from a complex era enshrined in the popular imagination as the decade of poodle skirts and Cold War paranoia—featuring contributions from Philip Roth, John Updike, Nadine Gordimer, and Adrienne Rich, along with fresh analysis of the 1950s by some of today’s finest writers. The New Yorker was there in real time, chronicling the tensions and innovations that lay beneath the era’s placid surface. In this thrilling volume, classic works of reportage, criticism, and fiction are complement... + Read More
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Miami and the Siege of Chicago An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968 Paperback Norman Mailer 9780399588334 $24.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 05, 2016

Available for the first time in a Random House trade paperback edition and perfectly timed to tie in to the 2016 political conventions.In Miami and the Siege of Chicago, Norman Mailer, America’s most provocative writer, brings a novelist’s eye to bear on the events of 1968, a decisive year in modern American politics, from which today’s bitterly divided country arose. In April, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and riots broke out in inner cities throughout America. Bobby Kennedy was killed after winning the California primary in June. In... + Read More
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The Hunt for Vulcan . . . And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe Paperback Thomas Levenson 9780812988307 $22.00 SCIENCE Aug 02, 2016

The captivating, all-but-forgotten story of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and the search for a planet that never existed For more than fifty years, the world’s top scientists searched for the “missing” planet Vulcan, whose existence was mandated by Isaac Newton’s theories of gravity. Countless hours were spent on the hunt for the elusive orb, and some of the era’s most skilled astronomers even claimed to have found it. There was just one problem: It was never there. In The Hunt for Vulcan, Thomas Levenson follows the visionary scientists who i... + Read More
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Known and Strange Things Essays Paperback Teju Cole 9780812989786 $25.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 09, 2016

The first book of essays by Teju Cole, award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief, and one of the most powerful and original voices in contemporary literature and commentaryA blazingly intelligent first book of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the ThiefNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYTime • The Guardian • Harper’s Bazaar • San Francisco Chronicle • The Atlantic • Financial Times • KirkusFinalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay and PEN/Jean St... + Read More
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The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones Hardcover Rich Cohen 9780804179232 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 10, 2016

A panoramic narrative history that will give readers a new understanding of the Rolling Stones, viewed through the impassioned and opinionated lens of the Vanity Fair contributor—and co-creator of HBO’s Vinyl—who was along for the ride as a young reporter on the road with the band in the 1990s Rich Cohen enters the Stones epic as a young journalist on the road with the band and quickly falls under their sway—privy to the jokes, the camaraderie, the bitchiness, the hard living. Inspired by a lifelong appreciation of the music that borders on obs... + Read More
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We Are Not Such Things The Murder of a Young American, a South African Township, and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation Hardcover Justine van der Leun 9780812994506 $37.00 TRUE CRIME Jun 28, 2016

Justine van der Leun reopens the murder of a young American woman in South Africa, an iconic case that calls into question our understanding of truth and reconciliation, loyalty, justice, race, and class—a gripping investigation in the vein of the podcast Serial“Timely . . . gripping, explosive . . . the kind of obsessive forensic investigation—of the clues, and into the soul of society—that is the legacy of highbrow sleuths from Truman Capote to Janet Malcolm.”—The New York Times Book Review The story of Amy Biehl is well known in South Africa... + Read More
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Arrowood A Novel Hardcover Laura McHugh 9780812996395 $34.00 FICTION Aug 09, 2016

A dark, gripping novel of literary suspense about a mysterious kidnapping and the ways in which our lives are shaped by memory and the stories we create about our past.Arrowood is the most ornate and beautiful of the grand historical houses that line the Mississippi river in southern Iowa where the days are long and humid and communities are small and closed. It has its own secrets and ghostly presence: it’s where two small twin girls were abducted twenty years previously - never to be seen again. Now, Arden has inherited Arrowood, and she retu... + Read More
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Brazillionaires Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country Hardcover Alex Cuadros 9780812996760 $37.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jul 12, 2016

For readers of Michael Lewis comes an engrossing tale of a country’s spectacular rise and fall, intertwined with the story of Brazil’s wealthiest citizen, Eike Batista—a universal story of hubris and tragedy that uncovers the deeper meaning of this era of billionaires.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES When Bloomberg News invited the young American journalist Alex Cuadros to report on Brazil’s emerging class of billionaires at the height of the historic Brazilian boom, he was poised to cover two of the biggest busine... + Read More
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The Apartment A Novel Hardcover Danielle Steel 9780345531070 $38.95 FICTION May 03, 2016

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This vibrant, tender, and moving tale pulses with the excitement of New York City, as Danielle Steel explores twists of fate, and the way that sometimes, in special places, friends can be the family we need most.They come together by chance in the heart of New York City, four young women at turning points in their lives. Claire Kelly finds the walk-up apartment—a spacious loft in Hell’s Kitchen. But the aspiring shoe designer needs at least one roommate to manage it. She meets Abby Williams, a writer trying to make i... + Read More
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Magic A Novel Hardcover Danielle Steel 9780345531100 $38.95 FICTION Jul 05, 2016

It starts on a summer evening, with the kind of magic found only in Paris. Once a year in the City of Light, a lavish dinner takes place outside a spectacular landmark—the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame…a new setting each time. Selected by secret invitation, the guests arrive dressed in white, with tables and chairs, white linens, flowers, fine china, sparkling crystal, and an elegant dinner. As the sun sets, thousands of candles are lit. And when the night is over, hundreds of white paper lanterns, each with a flame within, bearing every... + Read More
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How to Celebrate Everything Recipes and Rituals for Birthdays, Holidays, Family Dinners, and Every Day In Between: A Cookbook Hardcover Jenny Rosenstrach 9780804176309 $40.00 COOKING Sep 20, 2016

A guide to bringing your family closer together by turning holidays, birthdays, and everyday moments with your family into lifelong memories.In this digital, overscheduled age, Jenny Rosenstrach, bestselling author and blogger (dinneralovestory.com), wants to help families slow down, reconnect, and preserve the moments that matter, and to show that life is full of them. With her recipes, rituals and personal stories as their guide, readers can celebrate them in ways big, small, and always special. Organized into birthdays, Sunday dinners, vacat... + Read More
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The Island House A Novel Hardcover Nancy Thayer 9781101967041 $36.00 FICTION May 31, 2016

New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer evokes the shimmering seascape of Nantucket in a delightful novel that resonates with the heartache and hope of growing up, growing wise, and the bittersweet choices we must be brave enough to make. Courtney Hendricks will never forget the magical summers she spent on Nantucket with her college roommate, Robin Vickerey, and Robin’s charismatic, turbulent, larger-than-life family, in their gorgeous island house. Now a college English professor in Kansas City, Courtney is determined to experience o... + Read More
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Series: Six Tudor Queens Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen A Novel Hardcover Alison Weir 9781101966488 $37.00 FICTION May 31, 2016

Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir takes on what no fiction writer has done before: creating a dramatic six-book series in which each novel covers one of King Henry VIII’s wives. In this captivating opening volume, Weir brings to life the tumultuous tale of Katherine of Aragon, Henry’s first, devoted, and “true” queen. A princess of Spain, Catalina is only sixteen years old when she sets foot on the shores of England. The youngest daughter of the powerful monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella, Catalina is a coveted prize for a r... + Read More
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Chancers Addiction, Prison, Recovery, Love: One Couple's Memoir Hardcover Susan Stellin 9781101882740 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 07, 2016

In this powerful memoir of addiction, prison, and recovery, a reporter and a photographer tell their gripping story of falling in love, the heroin habit that drove them apart, and the unlikely way a criminal conviction brought them back together.Books for a Better Life Award Finalist • LitHub Best Book of the Month When Susan Stellin asked Graham MacIndoe to shoot her author photo for an upcoming travel book, she barely knew him except for a few weekends with mutual friends at a summer house in Montauk. He was a gregarious, divorced Scotsman wh... + Read More
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The Mistresses of Cliveden Three Centuries of Scandal, Power, and Intrigue in an English Stately Home Hardcover Natalie Livingstone 9780553392074 $42.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 14, 2016

Built in the 1660s by a duke as a retreat for his scandalous affair with a countess, Cliveden has been ruled by a dynasty of rich and powerful English women including the author of this book, who has compiled the stories of her five most fascinating predecessors into a historical epic tailor-made for fans of Downton Abbey.From its inception, Cliveden has been an emblem of elite misbehavior and intrigue. Previous owners of this notorious rural mansion over the centuries include:an aristocrat turned adulteress, whose husband fought a duel with he... + Read More
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Outlander Kitchen The Official Outlander Companion Cookbook Hardcover Theresa Carle-Sanders 9781101967577 $47.00 COOKING Jun 14, 2016

Take a bite out of Diana Gabaldon’s New York Times bestselling Outlander novels, the inspiration for the hit Starz series, with this immersive official cookbook from Outlander Kitchen founder Theresa Carle-Sanders!“If you thought Scottish cuisine was all porridge and haggis washed down with a good swally of whiskey, Outlander Kitchen’s here to prove you wrong.”—Entertainment Weekly Claire Beauchamp Randall’s incredible journey from postwar Britain to eighteenth-century Scotland and France is a feast for all five senses, and taste is no excepti... + Read More
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Series: Fox and O'Hare The Pursuit A Fox and O'Hare Novel Hardcover Janet Evanovich 9780553392777 $37.00 FICTION Jun 21, 2016

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Janet Evanovich, author of the blockbuster Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, writer for the Monk television show, team up once again in their New York Times bestselling Fox and O’Hare series!Nicolas Fox, international con man, thief, and one of the top ten fugitives on the FBI’s most-wanted list, has been kidnapped from a beachfront retreat in Hawaii. What the kidnapper doesn’t know is that Nick Fox has been secretly working for the FBI. It isn’t long before Nick’s covert partner, Special Agent Kate O’Hare,... + Read More
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The Last One A Novel Hardcover Alexandra Oliva 9781101965085 $35.00 FICTION Jul 12, 2016

Survival is the name of the game as the line blurs between reality TV and reality itself in Alexandra Oliva’s fast-paced novel of suspense.She wanted an adventure. She never imagined it would go this far. It begins with a reality TV show. Twelve contestants are sent into the woods to face challenges that will test the limits of their endurance. While they are out there, something terrible happens—but how widespread is the destruction, and has it occurred naturally or is it man-made? Cut off from society, the contestants know nothing of it. Wh... + Read More
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The Nearness of You A Novel Hardcover Amanda Eyre Ward 9781101887158 $36.00 FICTION Feb 21, 2017

In this profound and lyrical novel, acclaimed author Amanda Eyre Ward explores the deeper meanings of motherhood—from the first blissful hello to the heart-wrenching prospect of saying goodbye. Brilliant heart surgeon Suzette Kendall is stunned when Hyland, her husband of fifteen years, admits his yearning for a child. From the beginning they’d decided that having children was not an option, as Suzette feared passing along the genes that landed her mother in a mental institution. But Hyland proposes a different idea: a baby via surrogate. Suzet... + Read More
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A Song of Ice and Fire 2017 Calendar Illustrations by Didier Graffet Calendar George R. R. Martin 9781101965696 $23.00 FICTION Jul 19, 2016

Twelve new full-color visual interpretations of the world of New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, with illustrations by artist Didier Graffet.George R. R. Martin is the author of A Song of Ice and Fire—one of the most successful and beloved fantasy series ever written. With a dedicated fan base clamoring for new material, this calendar is a “timely” addition to a franchise that has continued to grow with each passing year. Stunning four-color paintings depict the characters and world of A Song o... + Read More
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Bounty A Novel Hardcover Michael Byrnes 9780804178341 $37.00 FICTION Jul 26, 2016

Mob justice meets the internet in this globe-spanning thriller—think EBay for assassins—where outraged citizens bid up bounties to take out unrepentant crooks. Following a team of FBI agents striving to counter an untraceable web site and the elusive forces behind it, and tracking the real perils of cyber-saturation across the globe, this all-too-topical thriller explores what happens when pervasive corruption, widespread public unrest, and the shattering of any last illusions of privacy clash in a perfect storm outside the rule of law.Story L... + Read More
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We Are All Made of Stars A Novel Hardcover Rowan Coleman 9780553394146 $36.00 FICTION Jul 26, 2016

“Fans of Jojo Moyes will love We Are All Made of Stars” (Good Housekeeping). “A beautiful web of a book” (Jodi Picoult), this life-affirming novel tells an unforgettable story about second chances, the power of words, and the resilience of the heart.A dedicated nurse, Stella finds comfort at the hospice where she works the late shift, especially since her husband returned from Afghanistan—cold, distant, and shattered by painful memories he refuses to share. The hospice at night is another world, where the dying receive closure by creating the l... + Read More
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Series: Rose Harbor Sweet Tomorrows A Rose Harbor Novel Hardcover Debbie Macomber 9780553391831 $35.00 FICTION Aug 02, 2016

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The much-anticipated conclusion to Debbie Macomber’s beloved Rose Harbor series, set in the picturesque town of Cedar Cove, Sweet Tomorrows is a vibrant and poignant novel of letting go of fear, following your heart, and embracing the future—come what may. Nine months ago, Mark Taylor abruptly left Cedar Cove on a perilous mission to right a wrong from his past. Though Mark finally confessed his love for her, innkeeper Jo Marie Rose is unsure if he’s ever coming back. The Rose Harbor Inn barely seems the same with... + Read More
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The Boy Who Runs The Odyssey of Julius Achon Hardcover John Brant 9780553392159 $37.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Aug 16, 2016

For runners and readers of Outcasts United and Running for My Life, the story of Julius Achon, the Ugandan boy soldier who became a world-class runner, then found his true calling as director of a charity that saves lives and inspires people every day.Julius Achon was born into poverty in Uganda; at the age of 12, he was kidnapped and made a boy soldier in the murderous Lord’s Resistance Army.After he escaped, he became known locally as a talented distance runner—so good that, as he won more and bigger races, American colleges offered him schol... + Read More
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Jim Henson The Biography Paperback Brian Jay Jones 9780345526120 $27.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 10, 2016

The New York Times bestselling biography of the iconic American cultural figure, perfect for readers of Steve Jobs, Schulz and Peanuts, and Walt Disney—or anyone who loves the Muppets or Sesame Street.Millions around the world know the name; millions more know the countless iconic characters he created. Kermit the Frog. Bert and Ernie. Grover. Miss Piggy. Big Bird. The Muppets. All of these creations, and more, sprang from the fertile imagination of James Maury Henson, one of the most wonderfully innovative artists and entertainers of the twent... + Read More
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The Guest Cottage A Novel Paperback Nancy Thayer 9780345545725 $24.95 FICTION May 10, 2016

New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer whisks readers back to the beloved island of Nantucket in this delightful novel about two single parents who accidentally rent the same summer house—and must soon decide where their hearts truly lie.Sensible thirty-six-year-old Sophie Anderson has always known what to do. She knows her role in life: supportive wife of a successful architect and calm, capable mother of two. But on a warm summer night, as the house grows quiet around her and her children fall asleep, she wonders what’s missing from h... + Read More
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Series: Garfield Garfield Chickens Out His 61st Book Paperback Jim Davis 9780425285152 $22.00 HUMOR May 10, 2016

Free-Range Fun Meister!Garfield’s always hatching a new plan to prank his poor owner. Whether he’s garnishing Jon’s soup with cat hair, putting a goldfish in his shoe (it was Jon’s birthday!), or hiding the car, Garfield rules the roost!
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Series: Garfield Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack #18 Paperback Jim Davis 9780399594403 $24.00 HUMOR Jun 07, 2016

This uproarious collection includes three books in one: Garfield Lard of the Jungle, Garfield Brings Home the Bacon, and Garfield Gets in a Pickle. It’s a triple portion of big fat hairy fun! The fat is in the fire when Garfield is on the scene. Cooking up trouble—and laughs—is the specialty of the house. Of course, Garfield has plenty of help with über nerd Jon and doofus dog Odie as his not-so-trusty sous chefs. Whether Garfield is suffering fools such as Jon and Odie, or chillin’ like a villain, he’s always entertaining, and there are ... + Read More
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Series: Garfield Garfield Thinks Big His 32nd Book Paperback Jim Davis 9780425285169 $19.00 HUMOR Jul 19, 2016

The perfect holiday gift for fans of the world’s favorite fat cat!Big Thoughts from an Even Bigger Cat Garfield is a true Aristotle of cats, pondering such tough questions as: How many plates of lasagna can a cat consume in a single sitting? That’s a lot of food for thought, but you can bet this feline philosopher will gobble his way to an answer—and still find room for dessert! It’s nothing less than sidesplitting fun, so don’t miss out as Garfield thinks (and eats) BIGGER than ever before! The GARFIELD CLASSICS series collects the early y... + Read More
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The Girl Who Came Back A Novel Paperback Susan Lewis 9780345549570 $22.00 FICTION Jun 07, 2016

For readers of Diane Chamberlain and Heather Gudenkauf, the story of a woman determined to avenge her daughter’s murder.When a beautiful young woman named Daisy goes missing, her mother Jules knows in her heart that Daisy’s ex-best-friend, Amelia, is responsible.But the police convict Daisy’s childhood friend Danny, and Amelia gets off with a light sentence.Jules, mourning her daughter’s death, struggles with her own feelings of guilt as her marriage slowly deteriorates.Five years later, Amelia is free—and she has an agenda of her own…Story Loc... + Read More
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The Fateful Lightning A Novel of the Civil War Paperback Jeff Shaara 9780345549211 $24.00 FICTION Jun 14, 2016

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Jeff Shaara comes the riveting final installment in the Civil War series that began with A Blaze of Glory and continued in A Chain of Thunder and The Smoke at Dawn. November 1864: As the Civil War rolls into its fourth bloody year, the tide has turned decidedly in favor of the Union. A grateful Abraham Lincoln responds to Ulysses S. Grant’s successes by bringing the general east, promoting Grant to command the entire Union war effort, while William Tecumseh Sherman now directs the Federal forces that occupy all ... + Read More
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Series: Rose Harbor Love Letters A Rose Harbor Novel Paperback Debbie Macomber 9780553391787 $22.00 FICTION Jun 28, 2016

In this enchanting novel set at Cedar Cove’s cozy Rose Harbor Inn, #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber celebrates the power of love—and a well-timed love letter—to inspire hope and mend a broken heart.Summer is a busy season at the inn, so proprietor Jo Marie Rose and handyman Mark Taylor have spent a lot of time together keeping the property running. Despite some folks’ good-natured claims to the contrary, Jo Marie insists that Mark is only a friend. However, she seems to be thinking about this particular friend a great deal l... + Read More
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Black-Eyed Susans A Novel of Suspense Paperback Julia Heaberlin 9780804178013 $23.00 FICTION May 31, 2016

For fans of Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn comes an electrifying novel of stunning psychological suspense, hailed as “tense, slow-burning, beautifully written” (William Landay) and “deliciously creepy” (Laura McHugh).“I am the star of screaming headlines and campfire ghost stories.I am one of the four Black-Eyed Susans.The lucky one.”As a sixteen-year-old, Tessa Cartwright was found in a Texas field, barely alive amid a scattering of bones, with only fragments of memory as to how she got there. Tessa’s testimony about those tragic hours put a ... + Read More
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Series: SIN Hottest Mess Paperback J. Kenner 9781101967478 $22.00 FICTION Jul 12, 2016

The S.I.N. series continues with the seductive follow-up to the Stark International Novel Dirtiest Secret, from the New York Times bestselling author of “red-hot and angsty” fiction that “keeps readers guessing” (Publishers Weekly, on Under My Skin).No one can know about our love—and hiding only makes it hotter. Dallas Sykes has a reputation. He is known for his parties, his money, and the countless women on his arm. Yet the Dallas I know is a different man—darker, smarter, and unbearably sexy. Just one look from him can leave me breathless; ... + Read More
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Housebroken Admissions of an Untidy Life Paperback Laurie Notaro 9781101886083 $23.00 HUMOR Jul 12, 2016

“If Laurie Notaro’s books don’t inspire pants-wetting fits of laughter, then please consult your physician, because, clearly, your funny bone is broken.”—Jen Lancaster, author of I Regret Nothing#1 New York Times bestselling author Laurie Notaro isn’t exactly a domestic goddess—unless that means she fully embraces her genetic hoarding predisposition, sneaks peeks at her husband’s daily journal, or has made a list of the people she wants on her Apocalypse Survival team (her husband’s not on it). Notaro chronicles her chronic misfortune in the do... + Read More
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No-Drama Discipline The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind Paperback Daniel J. Siegel 9780345548061 $24.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Jul 12, 2016

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The pioneering experts behind The Whole-Brain Child and The Yes Brain tackle the ultimate parenting challenge: discipline. “A lot of fascinating insights . . . an eye-opener worth reading.”—ParentsHighlighting the fascinating link between a child’s neurological development and the way a parent reacts to misbehavior, No-Drama Discipline provides an effective, compassionate road map for dealing with tantrums, tensions, and tears—without causing a scene. Defining the true meaning of the “d” word (to instruct, not to ... + Read More
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Series: Tudor Legacy The Virgin's War A Tudor Legacy Novel Paperback Laura Andersen 9780804179409 $22.00 FICTION Jul 12, 2016

For those who just can’t get enough of the scandalous Tudors, the Tudor Legacy series comes to its gripping conclusion. Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir.It’s 1585, and the balance of European power is tilting dangerously toward war. It will take all of Elizabeth Tudor’s skill and wiles to defend England from the looming threat of the Spanish Armada.Complicating matters is Elizabeth’s beloved daughter—the result of the Queen’s tempestuous marriage with her worst enemy: King Philip of Spain.As Elizabeth commits her riches, her... + Read More
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Results May Vary A Novel Paperback Bethany Chase 9780804179447 $22.00 FICTION Aug 09, 2016

From the bestselling author who Emily Giffin calls “a great new voice in fiction” and who Refinery29 selected as a “need to know author” comes a wise and relatable novel about a woman’s journey to rebuild her life and her heart after a stunning betrayal, and her quest to find out if you can you ever really know the person you love.She never saw it coming. Without even a shiver of suspicion to warn her, Caroline Hammond discovers that her husband is having an affair with a man—a revelation that forces her to question their entire history togethe... + Read More