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Series: Crisis Point Why We Must - and How We Can - Overcome Our Broken Politics in Washington and Across America Paperback Trent Lott 9781632864628 $24.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 17, 2017

"An astute case for a model of public service that is professional and principled, attributes that distinguished [Lott and Daschle's] former service." --The Wall Street JournalWith a new afterword on the 2016 electionTrent Lott and Tom Daschle, two of the most prominent senators of recent time, served as leaders of their respective parties from the 1990s to the current century. Their congressional tenure saw the Reagan tax cuts, the Clinton impeachment, 9/11, and the Iraq War. Despite stark ideological differences, the two have always maintaine... + Read More
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Series: Gangster Warlords Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America Paperback Ioan Grillo 9781620403815 $24.00 HISTORY Jan 17, 2017

"Without this testimony, we simply cannot grasp what is going on . . . Americans would do well to read [Gangster Warlords]." --The New York Times Book ReviewOn a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner leaves five hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit men to gun down forty-one police officers and prison guards in two days. In southwest Mexico, a meth maker is venerated as a saint while enforcing Old Testament justice on his enemies.A new kind of criminal kingpin has arisen... + Read More
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Series: Nation on the Take How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It Paperback Wendell Potter 9781632861115 $23.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 07, 2017

"A rallying cry to bring government back under the control of the people . . . Their argument is impassioned and accessible." --Library Journal American democracy has become coin operated. Special interest groups increasingly control every level of government. The necessity of raising huge sums of campaign cash has completely changed the character of politics and policy making, determining what elected representatives stand for and how their time is spent. The marriage of great wealth and intense political influence has rendered our country una... + Read More
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Series: Buddhist Economics An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science Hardcover Clair Brown 9781632863669 $34.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Feb 21, 2017

In the tradition of E. F. Schumacher'sSmall Is Beautiful, renowned economist Clair Brown argues persuasively for a new economics built upon equality, sustainability, and right living."Buddhist Economicswill give guidance to all those who seek peace, fairness, and environmental sustainability." -Jeffrey Sachs, author ofThe Age of Sustainable Development.Traditional economics measures the ways in which we spend our income, but doesn't attribute worth to the crucial human interactions that give our lives meaning. Clair Brown, an economics professo... + Read More
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Series: At the Edge of the World The Heroic Century of the French Foreign Legion Hardcover Jean-Vincent Blanchard 9780802743879 $40.00 HISTORY Apr 04, 2017

The remarkable story of the French Foreign Legion, its dramatic rise throughout the nineteenth century, and its most committed champion, General Hubert Lyautey.An aura of mystery, romance, and danger surrounds the French Foreign Legion, the all-volunteer corps of the French Army, founded in 1831. Famous for its physically grueling training in harsh climates, the legion fought in French wars from Mexico to Madagascar, Southeast Asia to North Africa. To this day, despite its reputation for being assigned the riskiest missions in the roughest terr... + Read More
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Series: The Doomsday Machine Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Hardcover Daniel Ellsberg 9781608196708 $40.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Dec 05, 2017

Shortlisted for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFinalist for The California Book Award in NonfictionThe San Francisco Chronicle’sBest of 2017 ListIn These Times “Best Books of 2017”Huffington Post’sTen Excellent December Books ListLitHub’s “Five Books Making News This Week”From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposÃ© of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that continues to this day.Here, for the first time, former high-level defense analyst... + Read More
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Series: Floodpath The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles Paperback Jon Wilkman 9781620409176 $25.00 HISTORY Jan 16, 2018

"Floodpath attempts to rescue the disaster from obscurity . . . The author captures many heartbreaking stories of survivors . . . The effect is powerful." --The Wall Street JournalJust before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam, a twenty-story-high concrete structure just fifty miles north of Los Angeles, suddenly collapsed, releasing a devastating flood that roared fifty-four miles to the Pacific Ocean, destroying everything in its path. It was a horrific catastrophe, yet one which today is virtually forgotten.With research gathere... + Read More
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Series: Havana A Subtropical Delirium Hardcover Mark Kurlansky 9781632863911 $35.00 TRAVEL Mar 07, 2017

A city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life byNew York Timesbestselling author Mark Kurlansky.Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, and Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings throughout,Havanacelebrates the city's singular music, literature, baseball, and... + Read More
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Series: Arthur and Sherlock Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes Hardcover Michael Sims 9781632860392 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 24, 2017

2018 Edgar Award NomineeShortlisted for the H. R. F. Keating Award from the International Crime Writers AssociationFrom Michael Sims, the acclaimed author ofThe Story of Charlotte’s Web, the rich, true tale tracing the young Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation of Sherlock Holmes and the modern detective story.As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle studied in Edinburgh under the vigilant eye of a diagnostic genius, Dr. Joseph Bell. Doyle often observed Bell identifying a patient’s occupation, hometown, and ailments from the smallest details of... + Read More
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Series: The Art of the Affair An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence Hardcover Catherine Lacey 9781632866554 $27.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 03, 2017

A vibrantly illustrated chain of entanglements (romantic and otherwise) between some of our best-loved writers and artists of the twentieth century--fascinating, scandalous, and surprising.Poet Robert Lowell died of a heart attack, clutching a portrait of his lover, Caroline Blackwood, painted by her ex-husband, Lucian Freud. Lowell was on his way to see his own ex-wife, Elizabeth Hardwick, who was a longtime friend of Mary McCarthy. McCarthy left the father of her child to marry Edmund Wilson, who had encouraged her writing, and had also broug... + Read More
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Series: Bring Back the King The New Science of De-extinction Hardcover Helen Pilcher 9781472912251 $36.00 SCIENCE Jan 10, 2017

Helen Pilcher is uniquely qualified to explain the cutting-edge science that makes the resurrection of extinct animals a very real possibility, while acknowledging the serious and humorous aspects of giving a deceased animal a second chance to live. If you could bring back to life a person or animal, what would you choose? Pilcher highlights her own choices from eras gone, including the King of the Dinosaurs,Tyrannosaurus rex, and the King of Rock 'n' Roll, Elvis Presley. From dinosaurs to dodos and Neanderthals,Bring Back the King reveals how ... + Read More
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Series: Indelible Hardcover Adelia Saunders 9781632863942 $35.00 FICTION Jan 17, 2017

An Indie Next PickA masterful, enthralling debut novel about fate, family secrets, and the stories our bodies tell.Magdalena has an unsettling gift. She sees the truth about people written on their skin--names, dates, details both banal and profound--and her only relief from the onslaught of information is to take off her glasses and let the world recede. Mercifully, her own skin is blank.When she meets Neil, she is intrigued to see her name on his cheek. He’s in Paris for the summer, studying a medieval pilgrimage to the coast of Spain, where ... + Read More
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Series: The Stress Test How Pressure Can Make You Stronger and Sharper Hardcover Ian Robertson 9781632867292 $36.00 PSYCHOLOGY Jan 03, 2017

From one of the world's most respected neuroscientists, an eye-opening study of why we react to pressure in the way we do and how to be energized rather than defeated by stress.Why is it that some people react to seemingly trivial emotional upsets--like failing an unimportant exam or tackling a difficult project at work--with distress, while others power through life-changing tragedies showing barely any emotional upset whatsoever? How do some people shine brilliantly at public speaking while others stumble with their words and seem on the verg... + Read More
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Series: Furry Logic The Physics of Animal Life Hardcover Matin Durrani 9781472914095 $36.00 SCIENCE Jan 31, 2017

A captivating introduction to the physics of animal behavior.The principles of physics lie behind many of the ways animals go about their daily lives. Scientists have discovered that the way cats and dogs lap up liquids can be explained by the laws of surface tension, how ants navigate is due to polarized light, and why pistol shrimps can generate enough force to destroy aquarium glass using their "elbows!"Each ofFurry Logic’s six chapters tackles a separate branch of physics and, through more than 30 animal case studies, examines each creature... + Read More
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Series: This is the Ritual Hardcover Rob Doyle 9781632865366 $35.00 FICTION Jan 24, 2017

"A tremendous talent. Every page fizzes with vitality." --Kevin Barry, author ofBeatleboneA young man in a dark depression roams the vast, formless landscape of a Dublin industrial park where he meets a vagrant in the grip of a dangerous ideology. A woman fleeing a breakup finds herself taking part in an unusual sleep experiment. A man obsessed with Nietzsche clings desperately to his girlfriend's red shoes. And whatever happened to Killian Turner, Ireland's vanished literary outlaw?Lost and isolated, the characters in these masterful stories p... + Read More
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Series: High Notes Selected Writings of Gay Talese Paperback Gay Talese 9781632867469 $27.00 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Jan 17, 2017

A selection of classic high points in the illustrious career of Gay Talese.“[High Notes] reminds us of the indefatigable reporting skills and inventive use of language that made Talese a paragon of the New Journalism.” —New York Times Book ReviewAdmired by generations of reporters, Gay Talese has for more than six decades enriched American journalism with an unmatched ability to inhabit the worlds of his subjects. From the article that germinated intoThy Neighbor's Wife,to indelible portraits of Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Lady Gaga,High N... + Read More
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Series: We Chose to Speak of War and Strife The World of the Foreign Correspondent Hardcover John Simpson 9781408872222 $47.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 03, 2017

From distinguished foreign correspondent John Simpson, a fascinating history of what it is to risk life and limb to bring home news of the troubled world.In corners of the globe where fault lines seethe into bloodshed and civil war, foreign correspondents have, since the early nineteenth century, been engaged in uncovering the latest news and--despite obstacles bureaucratic, political, violent--reporting it by whatever means available. It's a working life that is difficult, exciting and glamorous.These stories from the last two hundred years ce... + Read More
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Series: Waves Passing in the Night Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists Hardcover Lawrence Weschler 9781632867186 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 31, 2017

From Pulitzer Prize nominee Lawrence Weschler, a fascinating profile of Walter Murch, a film legend and amateur astrophysicist whose investigations could reshape our understanding of the universe.For film aficionados, Walter Murch is legendary--a three-time Academy Award winner, arguably the most admired sound and film editor in the world for his work onApocalypse Now,The Godfather trilogy,The English Patient, and many others. Outside of the studio, his mind is wide-ranging; his passion, pursued for several decades, has been astrophysics, in pa... + Read More
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Series: The Violated A Novel Hardcover Bill Pronzini 9781632866608 $35.00 FICTION Mar 07, 2017

A new stand-alone thriller by an acclaimed master of the genre and author of the Nameless Detective series.Bill Pronzini is crime-writing royalty. His more than eighty published novels have won or been nominated for Edgar, Hammett, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards--a clean sweep of the crime fiction award field--and received rave reviews from critics. He crafts masterful stories, often from multiple perspectives, in which the human condition is on full display.TheViolated is no exception. In Echo Park, in the small town of Santa Rita, Calif... + Read More
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Series: Keep You Close Paperback Lucie Whitehouse 9781632863225 $23.00 FICTION Jan 17, 2017

"An absorbing, twisty psychological thriller that plays with the line between love and obsession." --BooklistWhen the artist Marianne Glass falls to her death, everyone insists it was a tragic accident. But Rowan Winter, once her closest friend, knows better.Marianne--and the whole Glass family--once meant everything to Rowan. Their lively, intellectual household offered a world of possibility and the warmth and encouragement missing in her own home. But the friends have been estranged for a decade when Marianne dies, and of those years Rowan k... + Read More
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Series: The Vegetarian Athlete's Cookbook More Than 100 Delicious Recipes for Active Living Paperback Anita Bean 9781632866431 $27.00 COOKING Jan 10, 2017

For anyone who takes fitness seriously--from committed to weekend athletes--the vegetarian recipes of bestselling author and nutritionist Anita Bean will fuel workouts and aid recovery.The way we eat is changing. More and more of us are opting to eat fewer animal products or to cut them out entirely. Eating well to support a training regimen presents its own challenges, but as celebrated nutritionist Anita Bean shows, it is possible to eat delicious, healthy food and reach your athletic potential. Her new cookbook offers athletes--from weekend ... + Read More
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Series: The Man Who Broke Out of the Bank and Went for a Walk across France Paperback Miles Morland 9781408872987 $23.00 TRAVEL Jan 10, 2017

Witty and beguiling, thisSunday Timesbestselling memoir chronicles the hilarious and inspirational adventures of a man who escaped a career in finance to walk across France.After twenty-two years spent "shouting down a phone," Miles Morland gave up his highly paid city job and walked across France with his wife. With no plans for the future, and accustomed to walking no further than the distance between a restaurant and a waiting taxi, they set off to walk from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, through the foothills of the Pyrenees.The Man Who... + Read More
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Series: Hide Paperback Matthew Griffin 9781632863409 $24.00 FICTION Jun 12, 2018

An ALA Stonewall Honor book and a finalist for the Lambda Literary and Publishing Triangle awards,Hideis a tender, aching story of a hidden life in the recent history of gay love in America.*The hardcover was an ABA Indies Introduce Pick, an Indie Next List Selection, and an Amazon Best Book of the Month.* Wendell and Frank meet at the end of World War II, when Frank returns home to their North Carolina town. Soon he's loitering around Wendell's taxidermy shop, and the two come to understand their connection as love-a love that, in this time... + Read More
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Series: The Man Who Invented Fiction How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World Paperback William Egginton 9781620401774 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 10, 2017

In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That book,Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history. Cervantes did more than just publish a bestseller, tho... + Read More
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Series: Beast Blood, Struggle, and Dreams at the Heart of Mixed Martial Arts Paperback Doug Merlino 9781632864048 $23.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Jan 17, 2017

"[A] gifted writer, [Merlino's] got me thinking seriously about the history, culture and business of professional cage fighting." --The New York Times Book ReviewMixed martial arts is America's fastest-growing sport--around the country, new gyms open their doors and enthusiastic viewers tune in to UFC matches. Although some dismiss it as brutal combat, its fighters are among the most dedicated athletes in any arena. But MMA also takes a heavy toll on the body, and it's a rare fighter who can earn a living in the sport's top ranks.Beastfollows f... + Read More
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Series: The Detox Kitchen Bible Paperback Lily Simpson 9781408852927 $29.00 COOKING Jan 03, 2017

The cookbook that will leave you feeling cleansed from the inside out--with two hundred delicious recipes and tailored detox plans.The power of good, natural food beats any fad diet. By bombarding your body with a sea of nutrients and a range of delicious flavors, your skin will glow, your hair will shine, your stress levels will decrease, and you'll feel full of energy. This is what the Detox Kitchen philosophy is all about: fresh, bright, delicious, and nutritious food that will leave you radiant with health.Using mouthwatering flavor combina... + Read More
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Series: Playing Scared A History and Memoir of Stage Fright Paperback Sara Solovitch 9781620400937 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 03, 2017

Sara Solovitch studied piano as a young child and fell in love with music. As a teen, she played Bach and Mozart in her hometown's annual music festival but was overwhelmed by fear. She attended the Eastman School of Music's preparatory department, where stage fright led her to give up aspirations of becoming a professional pianist. In her late fifties, Sara gave herself a one-year deadline to tame performance anxiety and play before an audience. She resumed music lessons while exploring meditation, exposure therapy, cognitive therapy, biofeedb... + Read More
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Series: Mr Iyer Goes To War Hardcover Ryan Lobo 9781408881651 $36.00 FICTION Jan 31, 2017

A fresh, unique interpretation ofDon Quixote, set in modern India.Dispatched to a hospice center in the sacred city of Varanasi, seventy-something Lalgudi Iyer spends his days immersed in scripture, awaiting spiritual transcendence. After he suffers a concussion, he sees a vision of his past life--he is the reincarnation of the mythological warrior Bhima sent from the heavens to destroy evil.Convinced of his need to continue his mission and revive the noble principles of Hindu mythology, Iyer embarks on an epic adventure across India with the h... + Read More
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Series: Cyberphobia Identity, Trust, Security and the Internet Paperback Edward Lucas 9781632862273 $24.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 10, 2017

Cybercrime is increasingly in the news on both an individual and national level--from the stolen identities and personal information of millions of Americans to the infiltration of our national security networks allowing access to both economic and trade secrets.InCyberphobia, Edward Lucas unpacks this shadowy but metastasizing problem confronting our security. The uncomfortable truth is that we do not take cybersecurity seriously enough. When it comes to the internet, it might as well be the Wild West. Standards of securing our computers and o... + Read More
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Series: Abandon Me Memoirs Hardcover Melissa Febos 9781632866578 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 28, 2017

Named One of the Best Books of 2017 by:Esquire,Refinery29,LitHub,BookRiot,Medium, Electric Literature,The Brooklyn Rail, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Largehearted Boy, The Coil andThe Cut.Winner of the Lambda Literary Jeanne Cordova Prize for Lesbian/Queer NonfictionFinalist, Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/BiographyFinalist, Publishing Triangle’s Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian NonfictionAn Indie Next PickFor readers of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, a fierce and dazzling personal narrative that explores the many ways identity and art are shaped ... + Read More
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Series: The Coming A Novel Hardcover David Osborne 9781632863850 $42.00 FICTION Feb 07, 2017

Winner of the 2018 Spur Award for Historical NovelA sweeping historical novel of the American West that follows the dramatic life of Daytime Smoke, Nez Perce son of explorer William Clark.The Coming is an epic novel of native-white relations in North America, intimately told through the life of Daytime Smoke--the real-life red-haired son of William Clark and a Nez Perce woman. In 1805, Lewis and Clark stumble out of the Rockies on the edge of starvation. The Nez Perce help the explorers build canoes and navigate the rapids of the Columbia, then... + Read More
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Series: High Noon The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic Hardcover Glenn Frankel 9781620409480 $37.00 HISTORY Feb 21, 2017

From theNew York Times-bestselling author ofThe Searchers, the revelatory story behind the classic movieHigh Noonand the toxic political climate in which it was created.It's one of the most revered movies of Hollywood's golden era. Starring screen legend Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly in her first significant film role,High Noon was shot on a lean budget over just thirty-two days but achieved instant box-office and critical success. It won four Academy Awards in 1953, including a best actor win for Cooper. And it became a cultural touchstone, ofte... + Read More
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Series: The Horseman The West Country Trilogy Hardcover Tim Pears 9781632866936 $39.00 FICTION Feb 28, 2017

From acclaimed author Tim Pears, the first novel in a sweeping historical trilogy, beginning in rural, pre-WWI England.Somerset, 1911. The forces of war are building across Europe, but this pocket of England, where the rhythms of lives are dictated by the seasons and the land, remains untouched. Albert Sercombe is a farmer on Lord Prideaux's estate and his eldest son, Sid, is underkeeper to the head gamekeeper. His son, Leo, a talented rider, grows up alongside the master's spirited daughter, Charlotte--a girl who shoots and rides, much to the ... + Read More
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Series: Insomniac City New York, Oliver, and Me Hardcover Bill Hayes 9781620404935 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 14, 2017

Amazon’s Best Biographies and Memoirs of 2017 ListA moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls "the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected" of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks."A beautifully written once-in-a-lifetime book, about love, about life, soul, and the wonderful loving genius Oliver Sacks, and New York, and laughter and all of creation."--Anne LamottBill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at ... + Read More
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Series: Identity Unknown Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists Hardcover Donna Seaman 9781620407585 $47.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 14, 2017

An award-winning writer rescues seven first-rate twentieth-century women artists from oblivion--their lives fascinating, their artwork a revelation.Who hasn't wondered where-aside from Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo-all the women artists are? In many art books, they've been marginalized with cold efficiency, summarily dismissed in the captions of group photographs with the phrase "identity unknown" while each male is named. Donna Seaman brings to dazzling life seven of these forgotten artists, among the best of their day: Gertrude Abercrombie... + Read More
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Series: Systematic How Systems Biology Is Transforming Modern Medicine Hardcover James R. Valcourt 9781632860293 $36.00 SCIENCE Feb 07, 2017

A brilliant young scientist introduces us to the fascinating field that is changing our understanding of how the body works and the way we can approach healing.SYSTEMATIC is the first book to introduce general readers to systems biology, which is improving medical treatments and our understanding of living things. In traditional bottom-up biology, a biologist might spend years studying how a single protein works, but systems biology studies how networks of those proteins work together--how they promote health and how to remedy the situation whe... + Read More
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Series: Divided We Stand The Battle Over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics Hardcover Marjorie J. Spruill 9781632863140 $44.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 28, 2017

More than forty years ago, two women's movements drew a line in the sand between liberals and conservatives. The far-reaching legacy of that rift is still felt today.One ofSmithsonian Magazine's “Ten Best History Books of the Year”Gloria Steinem was quoted in 2015 (the New Yorker) as saying the National Women's Conference in 1977 "may take the prize as the most important event nobody knows about." After the United Nations established International Women's Year (IWY) in 1975, Congress mandated and funded state conferences to elect delegates to a... + Read More
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Series: The Bricks that Built the Houses A Novel Paperback Kate Tempest 9781620409039 $22.00 FICTION Feb 14, 2017

The debut novel from "dynamic" "wunderkind" Kate Tempest proves her talent to be boundless and unstoppable.*Becky, Harry, and Leon are leaving London in a fourth-hand Ford with a suitcase full of stolen money, in a mess of tangled loyalties and impulses. But can they truly leave the city that's in their bones?Kate Tempest's novel reaches back through time--through tensely quiet dining rooms and crassly loud clubs--to the first time Becky and Harry meet. It sprawls through their lives and those they touch--of their families and friends and faces... + Read More
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Series: The Road Taken The History and Future of America's Infrastructure Paperback Henry Petroski 9781632863621 $24.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 21, 2017

A renowned historian and engineer explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure.Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is to America's economic health. Petroski reveals the genesis of the many parts of America's highway system--our interstate numbering system, the centerline that divides roads, and such taken-for-granted objects as guardrails, stop signs, and traffic lights--all ... + Read More
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Series: Beside Myself Paperback Ann Morgan 9781632864345 $22.00 FICTION Feb 07, 2017

Now in paperback, a page-turning and darkly brilliant psychological thriller about the fragility of what makes us who we are.Six-year-old Helen and Ellie are identical twins, but Helen is smarter, more popular, and their mother's favorite. Ellie, on the other hand, requires special instruction at school, is friendless, and is punished at every turn.Until they decide to swap places--just for fun, and just for one day--and Ellie refuses to switch back. Everything of Helen's, from her toys to her friends to her identity, now belongs to her sister... + Read More
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Series: The Photographer's Wife Paperback Suzanne Joinson 9781620408315 $22.00 FICTION Feb 07, 2017

From the bestselling author ofA Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar, an incredible story of colonialism, war, and the power of art in the face of trauma.It is 1937. Prue, an artist living a reclusive life by the sea, is visited by William Harrington, a British pilot she knew as a child in Jerusalem. Prue remembers an attraction between Harrington and Eleanora, the wife of a famous Jerusalem photographer, and the troubles that arose when Harrington learned Eleanora's husband was part of an underground group intent on removing the British.During his ... + Read More
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Series: Bone Season The Bone Season A Novel Paperback Samantha Shannon 9781632868480 $25.99 FICTION Age (years) from 14 Feb 07, 2017

TheNew York Times bestselling first novel in the Bone Season series, an epic fantasy about a young woman fighting to use her powers and stay alive in an England entirely different from our own.In 2059, Scion has taken over most of the world's cities, promising safety for all the citizens it deems worthy and wiping out clairvoyants wherever it can find them.Paige Mahoney, though, is a clairvoyant--and a criminal just for existing. Paige is determined to fight Scion's power, and as part of the Seven Seals, Paige has found a use for her powers: sh... + Read More
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Series: Bone Season The Mime Order A Novel Paperback Samantha Shannon 9781632868497 $23.00 FICTION Age (years) from 14 Feb 07, 2017

Paige Mahoney has escaped the brutal prison camp of Sheol I, but her problems have only just begun: many of the survivors are missing and she is the most wanted person in London . . .As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on Paige, the mime-lords and mime-queens of the city's gangs are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly. Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take center stage, but there are bitter fault lines running through the clairvoyant community and dark secrets around every corner.Then the Rephaim begin crawling out from t... + Read More
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Series: Bone Season The Song Rising Hardcover Samantha Shannon 9781632866240 $35.00 FICTION Age (years) from 14 Mar 07, 2017

The magnificent new book in theNew York Times-bestselling series: a fantastic tale of rebellion and courage against enormous odds.Following a bloody battle against foes on every side, Paige Mahoney has risen to the dangerous position of Underqueen, ruling over London's criminal population.But, having turned her back on Jaxon Hall and with vengeful enemies still at large, the task of stabilizing the fractured underworld has never seemed so challenging.Little does Paige know that her reign may be cut short by the introduction of Senshield, a dead... + Read More
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Series: So High a Blood The Story of Margaret Douglas, the Tudor that Time Forgot Hardcover Morgan Ring 9781632866059 $47.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 25, 2017

Niece to Henry VIII, heir to the throne, courtier at risk of being killed, spy-mistress, and ambitious political player, Lady Margaret Douglas is a vital new character in the Tudor story.Amidst the Christmas revels of 1530, a fifteen-year-old girl arrived at the court of King Henry VIII. Half-English, half-Scottish, she was his niece, the Lady Margaret Douglas. For the next fifty years, Margaret held a unique and precarious position at the courts of Henry and his children. As the Protestant Reformations unfolded across the British Isles and the... + Read More
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Series: Isabella of Castile Europe's First Great Queen Hardcover Giles Tremlett 9781632865205 $47.00 HISTORY Mar 07, 2017

A major biography of the queen who transformed Spain into a principal global power, and sponsored the voyage that would open the New World.In 1474, when Castile was the largest, strongest, and most populous kingdom in Hispania (present day Spain and Portugal), a twenty-three-year-old woman named Isabella ascended the throne. At a time when successful queens regnant were few and far between, Isabella faced not only the considerable challenge of being a young, female ruler in an overwhelmingly male-dominated world, but also of reforming a major E... + Read More
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Series: Weathering A Novel Paperback Lucy Wood 9781632863591 $22.00 FICTION Mar 14, 2017

Pearl doesn't know how she's ended up in the river--the same messy, cacophonous river in the same rain-soaked valley she'd been stuck in for years. But here her spirit swirls and stays . . .Ada, Pearl's daughter, doesn't know how she's ended up back in the house she left thirteen years ago--with no heating apart from a fire she can't light, no way of getting around apart from an old car she's scared to drive, and no company apart from her own young daughter, Pepper. She wants to clear out Pearl's house so she can leave and not look back.Pepper ... + Read More
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Series: Ludwig Wittgenstein An Intellectual Biography Hardcover Miles Hollingworth 9781472906182 $54.00 PHILOSOPHY Nov 21, 2020

After the triumph of his intellectual biographySaint Augustine of Hippo, Miles Hollingworth turns his attention to one of Augustine's greatest contemporary admirers: the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein has had more influence on postwar philosophical investigation than almost any other and was the de facto founder of the major movement logical positivism. Yet he was also an Austrian Jewish refugee and a heedless ascetic, who lived a tortured existence in his final years at Trinity College Cambridge.Hollingworth continues to pioneer... + Read More
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Series: Walking to Listen 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time Hardcover Andrew Forsthoefel 9781632867001 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 07, 2017

A memoir of one young man’s coming of age on a journey across America--told through the stories of the people of all ages, races, and inclinations he meets along the way.Life is fast, and I’ve found it’s easy to confuse the miraculous for the mundane, so I’m slowing down, way down, in order to give my full presence to the extraordinary that infuses each moment and resides in every one of us.At 23, Andrew Forsthoefel headed out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and R... + Read More
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Series: Breaking the Chains of Gravity The Story of Spaceflight before NASA Paperback Amy Shira Teitel 9781472911247 $23.00 SCIENCE Jan 30, 2018

The revealing backstory of spaceflight before the establishment of NASA.NASA's history is a familiar story, culminating with the agency successfully landing men on the moon in 1969, but itsprehistory is an important and rarely told tale.Breaking the Chains of Gravity looks at the evolving roots of America's space program--the scientific advances, the personalities, and the rivalries between the various arms of the United States military.America's space agency drew together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. The National A... + Read More
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Series: Leo Durocher Baseball's Prodigal Son Hardcover Paul Dickson 9781632863119 $37.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Mar 21, 2017

From the Casey Award–winning author ofBill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick, the first full biography of Leo Durocher, one of the most colorful and important figures in baseball history.Leo Durocher (1906–1991) was baseball's all-time leading cocky, flamboyant, and galvanizing character, casting a shadow across several eras, from the time of Babe Ruth to the Space Age Astrodome, from Prohibition through the Vietnam War. For more than forty years, he was at the forefront of the game, with a Zelig-like ability to be present as a player or mana... + Read More
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Series: The Most Perfect Thing Inside (and Outside) a Bird's Egg Paperback Tim Birkhead 9781632863706 $23.00 NATURE Mar 06, 2018

Shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016.Renowned ornithologist Tim Birkhead opens this gripping story as a female guillemot chick hatches, already carrying her full quota of tiny eggs within her undeveloped ovary. As she grows into adulthood, only a few of her eggs mature, are released into the oviduct, and are fertilized by sperm stored from copulation that took place days or weeks earlier. Within a matter of hours, the fragile yolk is surrounded by albumen and the whole is gradually encased within a turquo... + Read More
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Series: Witness Tree Seasons of Change with a Century-Old Oak Hardcover Lynda V. Mapes 9781632862532 $36.00 SCIENCE Apr 11, 2017

An intimate look at one majestic hundred-year-old oak tree through four seasons--and the reality of global climate change it reveals. In the life of this one grand oak, we can see for ourselves the results of one hundred years of rapid environmental change. It's leafing out earlier, and dropping its leaves later as the climate warms. Even the inner workings of individual leaves have changed to accommodate more CO2 in our atmosphere. Climate science can seem dense, remote, and abstract. But through the lens of this one tree, it becomes immediate... + Read More
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Series: Tom & Lucky (and George & Cokey Flo) A Novel Paperback C. Joseph Greaves 9781620407868 $23.00 FICTION Apr 11, 2017

The year is 1936. Charles "Lucky" Luciano is the most powerful gangster in America. Thomas E. Dewey is an ambitious young prosecutor hired to bring him down, and Cokey Flo Brown--grifter, heroin addict, and sometimes prostitute--is the witness who claims she can do it. Only a wily defense attorney named George Morton Levy stands between Lucky and a life behind bars, between Dewey and the New York governor's mansion.As the Roaring Twenties give way to the austere reality of the Great Depression, four lives, each on its own incandescent trajector... + Read More
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Series: All the Beloved Ghosts Hardcover Alison Macleod 9781632865434 $0.01 FICTION Apr 18, 2017

Evocative, sensual, and tender, these stories confront our reality culture and interrogate our relationship with iconic figures, coming to life at the boundary between reality and fiction.A woman emerging from mourning spends her savings on a fur coat, a coat she will wear to a dance that will change her life. A professor of cardiovascular physiology lingers on the cusp of consciousness as he waits for his new heart to be delivered, still beating, from another body--and is carried on a tidal wave of memories to an attic room half a century ago.... + Read More
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Series: 1916 A Global History Paperback Keith Jeffery 9781408834329 $27.00 HISTORY Jan 03, 2017

A fascinating examination of the First World War beyond the Western Front told through the significant global events of 1916, which dramatically altered the fate of many nations.The mud-filled, blood-soaked trenches of the Low Countries and North-Eastern Europe were essential battlegrounds during the First World War, but the war reached many other corners of the globe, and events elsewhere significantly affected its course. Covering the twelve months of 1916, eminent historian Keith Jeffery uses twelve moments from a range of locations and sho... + Read More
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Series: Francis Bacon in Your Blood A Memoir Paperback Michael Peppiatt 9781408856307 $27.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 03, 2017

"This fine memoir is more insightful than gossipy, and as a subject Bacon is just about unbeatable." --The New York TimesIn June of 1963, when Michael Peppiatt first met Francis Bacon, the former was a college boy at Cambridge, the latter already a famous painter, more than thirty years his senior. And yet, Peppiatt was welcomed into the volatile artist's world; Bacon, considered by many to be "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," proved himself a devoted friend and father figure, even amidst the drinking and gambling.Though Peppiatt would later w... + Read More
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Series: Bricks And Mortals Paperback Tom Wilkinson 9781408843673 $19.99 ARCHITECTURE Jun 09, 2015
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Series: Coventry Thursday, 14 November 1940 Paperback Frederick Taylor 9781408860281 $27.00 HISTORY Jan 10, 2017

Serving as a companion volume to Frederick Taylor's acclaimedDresden,this is the definitive account of the bombing of Coventry, England on November 14 1940.At a few minutes past seven on the evening of Thursday, November 14 1940, the historic industrial city of Coventry was subjected to the longest, most devastating air raid England had yet experienced. Only after eleven hours of continual bombardment by the German Luftwaffe could its people emerge from their half-sunk Anderson shelters and their cellars, from under their stairs or kitchen tabl... + Read More
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Series: Up Against the Night Paperback Justin Cartwright 9781408858257 $23.00 FICTION Jan 10, 2017

"A gratifyingly unsound psychological odyssey . . . Cartwright destabilizes the novel's placid surface with aftershocks of historical tragedies." -The New York Times Book ReviewFrank McAllister has long since dropped "Retief" as his middle name, but the legacy of his family's history proves harder to shake. His ancestor Piet Retief, leader of the South African Great Trek, was killed by Zulu king Dingane in the 1838 massacre, along with a hundred men, women, and children. Afrikaner legend paints Retief as a homegrown Moses, bringing his people t... + Read More