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Series: Eatertainment Recipes and Ideas for Effortless Entertaining Hardcover Sebastien Centner 9780525611226 $40.00 COOKING Sep 13, 2022

Everything you need to make everyday entertaining a flawless reality!There are few moments in life as special as gathering around a table with friends and family. But for many people, the idea of planning a dinner party can bring on stress. There’s the menu, the seating plan, the drinks…it can lead a would-be-host to miss the point altogether: enjoying time with your guests. As the owners of a leading event management and catering company, Sebastien and Sheila Centner know that entertaining can be overwhelming. With their... + Read More
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Series: The Vegan Chinese Kitchen Recipes and Modern Stories from a Thousand-Year-Old Tradition: A Cookbook Hardcover Hannah Che 9780525611356 $40.00 COOKING Sep 20, 2022

100+ fresh, plant-based, umami-packed recipes for regional Chinese classics we all know and love.When Hannah Che decided to become a vegan, she was concerned that it would alienate her from the traditions and food that her Chinese family celebrated. But that was before she learned about Zhai cai, or vegetarian cooking, a fascinating subset of Chinese cookery that empasizes umami-rich ingredients and can be traced back over hundreds, if not a thousand, years to Buddhist temple kitchens. In The Vegan Chinese Kitchen, Hannah Che shows us the magic... + Read More
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Series: Don't Worry, Just Cook Delicious, Timeless Recipes for Comfort and Connection Hardcover Bonnie Stern 9780525611585 $35.00 COOKING Sep 20, 2022

“I tell you not to worry because I’ve done all the worrying for you!”Bonnie Stern, beloved teacher and bestselling cookbook author, wants nothing more than for you to feel like she’s in the kitchen cooking beside you.In her latest cookbook, Don’t Worry, Just Cook, written with her daughter Anna Rupert (who has, in fact, been in the kitchen cooking beside Bonnie her whole life!), Bonnie and Anna are here to help cooks of all experience foster comfort and connection through food.With her trademark encouraging style and attention to detail, Bonnie... + Read More
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Series: More Mandy's More Recipes We Love Hardcover Mandy Wolfe 9780525610496 $35.00 COOKING Sep 20, 2022

We’re baaaaack…! From the sisters behind the bestselling cookbook Mandy’s Gourmet Salads—and the Montreal salad bars of the same name—comes More Mandy’s.This second sensational cookbook, following the runaway bestseller Mandy’s Gourmet Salads, is packed with even more salads, more smoothies, more sweets—and now morning fuel and soups too! Indulge in and be inspired by these heartwarming recipes for cold-weather meals, plus plenty of year-round favorites. Even in wintertime, there’s nothing a Mandy’s salad can’t fix.It wouldn’t be Mandy’s withou... + Read More
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Series: Snow Country Paperback Sebastian Faulks 9780385687355 $24.00 FICTION Sep 06, 2022

LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTIONA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSnow Country is the spectacular, sweeping new novel from the internationally acclaimed author of Birdsong and Human Traces.Looking back to the Vienna of Klimt and Freud and forward to the shadow that is starting to fall over Europe, Sebastian Faulks’s new novel is an intensely personal story that focuses on Lena, a spirited girl born with nothing, and Anton, a man of passion and self-doubt.Lena was born with nothing but her own strength of character to an alcoh... + Read More
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Series: Permanent Astonishment Growing Up Cree in the Land of Snow and Sky Paperback Tomson Highway 9780385696227 $21.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 06, 2022

WINNER OF THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION * NOMINATED FOR THE EVERGREEN AWARD * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL, WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, AND CBCCapricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada’s most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performersTomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the eleventh of twelve children in a nomadic, caribou-hunting Cree family. Growing up in a land of ten thousand lakes and islands, Tomson relished being pulled by dogsled beneath a... + Read More
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Series: 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows The story of two lives, one nation, and a century of art under tyranny Paperback Ai Weiwei 9780385683210 $26.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 13, 2022

In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei—one of the world’s most famous artists and activists—tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing, the nation’s most celebrated poet.Once an intimate of Mao Zedong, Ai Weiwei’s father was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as “Little Siberia,” where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in ... + Read More
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Series: Strangers to Ourselves Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us Hardcover Rachel Aviv 9780385684460 $33.00 PSYCHOLOGY Sep 13, 2022

The highly anticipated debut from the acclaimed award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv compels us to examine how the stories we tell about mental illness shape our sense of who we are.Strangers to Ourselves poses fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Rachel Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. She follows an I... + Read More
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Series: OUTLANDER Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone Paperback Diana Gabaldon 9780385685566 $28.00 FICTION Sep 13, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe #1 New York Times bestselling Outlander series returns with the newest novel in the epic tale from Diana Gabaldon.Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1743, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same.It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser’s Ridge. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of... + Read More
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Series: Dreamland A Novel Hardcover Nicholas Sparks 9780385675253 $37.00 FICTION Sep 20, 2022

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wish comes a poignant love story about risking everything for a dream—and whether it’s possible to leave the past behind.Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, until tragedy grounded his aspirations. Now the head of a small family farm in North Carolina, he spontaneously takes a gig playing at a bar in St. Pete’s Beach, Florida, seeking a rare break from his duties at home. But when he meets Morgan Lee, his world is turned upside-do... + Read More
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Series: Shrines of Gaiety A Novel Hardcover Kate Atkinson 9780385694940 $36.00 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

The #1 internationally bestselling, award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to the dazzling London of the Roaring Twenties in a whirlwind tale of corruption, seduction and debts that have come due.1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters and girls sell dances for a shilling a time.The notorious queen of this glittering world is Nellie Coker, ruthless ... + Read More
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Series: Probably Ruby A Novel Paperback Lisa Bird-Wilson 9780385696708 $19.95 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

A CBC BEST CANADIAN FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARProbably Ruby is an audacious, brave, and beautiful book about an adopted woman’s search for her Indigenous identity, for readers of Tommy Orange’s There There and Terese Marie Mailhot’s Heart Berries.Relinquished as an infant, Ruby is placed in a foster home and finally adopted by Alice and Mel, a less-than-desirable couple who can’t afford to complain too loudly about Ruby’s Indigenous roots. But when her new parents’ marriage falls apart, Ruby finds herself vulnerable and in compromising situations... + Read More
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Series: A Little Bit Broken A Memoir Hardcover Roz Weston 9780385658645 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 27, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERIt never gets better, but it does get easier. That’s the first thing Roz says to anyone who asks him for advice. Anyone who’s fighting like hell, just hanging on or putting the pieces back together. When you’re broken, fixed becomes an obsession. Roz is a multi-platform entertainer and storyteller who hosts three shows a day and sleeps five hours a night. On The Roz & Mocha Show, ET Canada Live and Entertainment Tonight Canada Roz built an audience and turned them into family. But as with most families, there is just some shi... + Read More
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Series: Sacred Nature Restoring our Ancient Bond with the Natural World Hardcover Karen Armstrong 9780735282421 $32.95 RELIGION Sep 06, 2022

ONE OF THE NEW YORKER’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR (SO FAR)A profound exploration of the spiritual power of nature—and an urgent call to reclaim that power in everyday life.Since the beginning of time, humankind has looked upon nature and seen the divine. In the writings of the great thinkers across religions, the natural world inspires everything from fear to awe to tranquil contemplation; God, or however one defined the sublime, was present in everything. Yet today, even as we admire a tree or take in a striking landscape, we rarely see nature as... + Read More
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Series: NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY A Song of Comfortable Chairs No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (23) Hardcover Alexander McCall Smith 9781039004382 $34.00 FICTION Sep 06, 2022

In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Grace Makutsi encounters a pair of quandaries that will require all of her and Mma Ramotswe’s cleverness and generosity to resolve.Mma Grace Makutsi’s husband, Phuti, is in a bind. An international firm is attempting to undercut his prices in the office furniture market. Phuti has always been concerned with quality and comfort, but this new firm seems interested only in profits. To make matters worse, they have a slick new advertising campaign that seems hard to be... + Read More
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Series: The Marriage Portrait Hardcover Maggie O'Farrell 9781039005631 $34.00 FICTION Sep 06, 2022

REESE’S BOOK CLUB DECEMBER PICKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de’ Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court.“I could not stop reading this incredible true story.” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club December ’22 Pick)“O’Farrell pulls out little threads of historical detail to weave this story of a precocious girl sensitive to the contradictions of her station…You may k... + Read More
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Series: The Myth of Normal Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture Hardcover Gabor Maté MD 9780735278363 $39.95 PSYCHOLOGY Sep 13, 2022

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“This riveting and beautifully written tale has profound implications for all of our lives, including the practice of medicine and mental health.” —Bessel van der Kolk, MD, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Body Keeps the Score“Wise, sophisticated, rigorous and creative: an intellectual and compassionate investigation of who we are and who we may become. Essential reading for anyone with a past and a future.” —Tara Westover, New York Times bestselling author of Educated“The Myth of Normal... + Read More
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Series: Lessons A Novel Hardcover Ian McEwan 9781039004689 $37.00 FICTION Sep 13, 2022

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE • THE NEW YORKER • THE GUARDIAN • VOX • THE WASHINGTON POST • BOOKPAGEBoth epic and intimate, the story of one man’s life across generations and historical upheavals. From the Suez Crisis to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall to the current pandemic—from #1 bestselling author Ian McEwan.When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines’s life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his ... + Read More
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Series: Jennie's Boy A Newfoundland Childhood Hardcover Wayne Johnston 9781039001664 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 20, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CBCConsummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of his Newfoundland boyhood.For six months between 1966 and 1967, Wayne Johnston and his family lived in a wreck of a house across from his grandparents in Goulds, Newfoundland. At seven, Wayne was sickly and skinny, unable to keep food down, plagued with insomnia and a relentless cough that no doctor could diagnose, though they had alre... + Read More
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Series: The Morning Star Paperback Karl Ove Knausgaard 9780345811165 $28.00 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR“Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive.” —Dwight Garner, New York TimesThe Morning Star is an astonishing, ambitious, and rich novel about what we don’t understand, and our attempts to make sense of our world nonetheless.One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Their friend Egil has his own place nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her marriage. Journalist Jos... + Read More
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Series: The Women of Troy A Novel Paperback Pat Barker 9780593311325 $23.00 FICTION Sep 06, 2022

A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it—an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy and “one of contemporary literature’s most thoughtful and compelling writers" (The Washington Post).Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war—including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean.It does not come, because the gods are off... + Read More
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Series: VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL Medusa's Ankles Selected Stories Paperback A. S. Byatt 9780593466858 $24.00 FICTION Sep 06, 2022

A ravishing, luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt, “a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights” (The New York Times Book Review). With an introduction by David Mitchell, best-selling author of Cloud AtlasIncludes the story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye”—the basis for the George Miller film Three Thousand Years of Longing starring Idris Elba and Tilda SwintonMirrors shatter at the hairdresser’s when a middle-aged client explodes in rage. Sno... + Read More
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Series: EML POCKET CLASSICS SERIES Stories of Southern Italy Hardcover Ella Carr 9780593535516 $29.00 FICTION Oct 18, 2022

This dazzling hardcover collection brings to life the magnificent southern regions of Italy, from Naples to Sicily, as seen through the eyes of literary greats from Ovid and Virgil to Elsa Morante and Elena Ferrante.Southern Italy has long inspired one of the most vigorous literary traditions in Europe. Visitors since antiquity have sought to capture the extraordinary natural beauty and cultural riches of the region, and in this wide-ranging collection such notable foreign visitors as Goethe and Somerset Maugham sit alongside many of Italy’s fi... + Read More
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Series: Year of the Tiger An Activist's Life Paperback Alice Wong 9780593315392 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 06, 2022

This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist’s journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility ProjectIn Chinese culture, the tiger is deeply revered for its confidence, passion, ambition, and ferocity. That same fighting spirit resides in Alice Wong.Drawing on a collection of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more, Alice us... + Read More
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Series: Woman Without Shame Poems Hardcover Sandra Cisneros 9780593534823 $37.00 POETRY Sep 13, 2022

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME and GOODREADS • A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango Street.It has been twenty-eight years since Sandra Cisneros published a book of poetry. With dozens of never-before-seen poems, Woman Without Shame is a moving collection of songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a woman artist. These bluntly honest and often humorous meditations on memory, desire, and the essential natur... + Read More
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Series: Your Baby & Child The Classic Childcare Guide, Revised and Updated Paperback Penelope Leach 9780593321171 $25.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Sep 13, 2022

The classic—beloved, trusted, best-selling—guide to baby and child care completely redesigned and revised for a new generation of parents • From Penelope Leach, “a luminary in the world of child development” (The Boston Globe)Penelope Leach has helped millions of parents raise their children for more than forty years with her thoroughly researched, practical, baby-led advice, her wise, empathic, and sensible perspective, and her comforting voice. This new edition has been completely redesigned for today’s parents. Leach has revised the text to ... + Read More
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Series: Thistlefoot A Novel Hardcover GennaRose Nethercott 9780593468838 $37.99 FICTION Sep 13, 2022

In the tradition of modern fairy tales like Neil Gaiman’s American Gods and Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver comes an immersive fantasy saga, a debut novel about estranged siblings who are reunited after receiving a mysterious inheritance.“A wonderfully imaginative, wholly enchanting novel of witness, survival, memory, and family that reads like a fairy tale godfathered by Neil Gaiman and Tim Burton in a wild America alive with wonders and devils alike. Thistlefoot shimmers with magic and mayhem and a thrilling emotional momentum.” —Libba Bray, be... + Read More
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Series: Magnificent Rebels The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self Hardcover Andrea Wulf 9780525657118 $48.00 HISTORY Sep 13, 2022

A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebels—poets, novelists, philosophers—who, through their epic quarrels, passionate love stories, heartbreaking grief, and radical ideas launched Romanticism onto the world stage, inspiring some of the greatest thinkers of the time.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times • The Washington Post "Make[s] the reader feel as if they were in the room with the great personalities of the age, bearing wit... + Read More
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Series: A Play for the End of the World A novel Paperback Jai Chakrabarti 9780593081808 $23.00 FICTION Sep 20, 2022

A dazzling novel—set in early 1970’s New York and rural India—the story of a turbulent, unlikely romance, a harrowing account of the lasting horrors of World War II, and a searing examination of one man’s search for forgiveness and acceptance.“Looks deeply at the echoes and overlaps among art, resistance, love, and history…an impressive debut.” —Meg Wolitzer, best-selling author of The Female PersuasionNew York City, 1972. Jaryk Smith, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, and Lucy Gardner, a southerner, newly arrived in the city, are in the first b... + Read More
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Series: Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking 30th Anniversary Edition: A Cookbook Hardcover Marcella Hazan 9780593534328 $54.00 COOKING Sep 20, 2022

A BON APPETIT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A beautiful new edition of one of the most beloved cookbooks of all time, from “the Queen of Italian Cooking” (Chicago Tribune). A timeless collection of classic Italian recipes—from Basil Bruschetta to the only tomato sauce you’ll ever need (the secret ingredient: butter)—beautifully illustrated and featuring new forewords by Lidia Bastianich and Victor Hazan“If this were the only cookbook you owned, neither you nor those you cooked for would ever get bored.” —Nigella Lawson Marcella Hazan introduced Amer... + Read More
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Series: Several People Are Typing A Novel Paperback Calvin Kasulke 9780593313534 $22.00 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! • A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. • “An absurd, hilarious romp through the haunted house of late-stage capitalism.” —Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack messages, this irresistible, relatable satire of both virtual work and contemporary life is The Office for a new world.Gerald, a mid-level employee of a New York–based public relations firm has been uploaded into the company’s internal Slack channels—at least his consciousness ... + Read More
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Series: Beautiful Country A Memoir of an Undocumented Childhood Paperback Qian Julie Wang 9780593313008 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 27, 2022

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The moving story of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world—an incandescent debut from an astonishing new talent • A TODAY SHOW #READWITHJENNA PICK In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. In China, Qian’s parents were professors; in America, her family is “illegal” and it will require all the... + Read More
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Series: Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm A Novel Hardcover Laura Warrell 9780593316443 $37.99 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

GMA BUZZ PICK • Passion and risk, fathers and daughters, wives and single women, jazz and soul: a “gorgeously written debut” (Celeste Ng, best-selling author of Little Fires Everywhere) about the perennial temptations of dangerous love, told by the women who love Circus Palmer—trumpet player and old-school ladies’ man—as they ultimately discover the power of their own voices.“A modern masterpiece.” —Jason Reynolds, best-selling author of Look Both WaysIt’s 2013, and Circus Palmer, a forty-year-old Boston-based trumpet player and old-school ladi... + Read More
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Series: 100 Queer Poems Hardcover Vintage 9781529115321 $27.99 POETRY Sep 13, 2022

Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan’s luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thrilling contemporary voices and visionary poets of the past. Featuring Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Ocean Vuong, Carol Ann Duffy, Kae Tempest and many more.* A Guardian Best Poetry Book of the Year ** Shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2022 *Encompassing both the flowering of queer poetry over the past few decades and the poets who came before and broke new ground, 100 Queer Poems presents an electrifying range of writing from ... + Read More
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Series: Stars and Spies The story of Intelligence Operations Paperback Christopher Andrew 9781847925299 $31.99 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 27, 2022

A vastly entertaining and unique history of spying and showbiz, from the Elizabethan age to the Cold War and beyond.Throughout history, there has been a lively crossover between show business and espionage. While one relies on publicity and the other on secrecy both require high levels of creative thinking, improvisation, disguise and role-play. This crossover has produced some of the most extraordinary undercover agents and, occasionally, disastrous and dangerous failures.Stars and Spies is the first history of the interplay between the two wo... + Read More
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Series: Dreaming the Karoo A People Called the /Xam Paperback Julia Blackburn 9781787332188 $35.99 HISTORY Sep 27, 2022

A spellbinding new book by the much-acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the /Xam - a haunting book about the brutality of colonial frontiers and the fate of those they dispossess.In spring 2020, Julia Blackburn travelled to the Karoo region of South Africa to see for herself the ancestral lands that had once belonged to an indigenous group called the /Xam.Throughout the nineteenth century the /Xam were persecuted and denied the right to live in their own territories. In the 1870s, facing cultural exti... + Read More
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Series: The Secret Body How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live Paperback Daniel M Davis 9781529110975 $21.99 SCIENCE Sep 27, 2022

Welcome to a revolution in the science of human health…This book takes us to the frontier of medical research and reveals stunning recent advances that are changing our understanding of how human body works, how we combat and prevent disease and how we understand what it means to be human.We see how super-resolution nano-scopes are revealing hitherto hidden operations within our cells and opening up new new ways of manipulating the immune system; how human embryos can now be preserved alive long enough to see how genetic abnormalities can be co... + Read More
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Series: A Change of Circumstance The new Simon Serrailler novel from the million-copy bestselling author Paperback Susan Hill 9781529110531 $19.99 FICTION Oct 11, 2022

The latest novel in the million-copy selling Simon Serrailler seriesInnocent or guilty. It’s a matter of which lines you cross.It’s mid-winter and a body is discovered in a flat just outside Lafferton. It’s a drugs overdose but something doesn’t feel right. The place is entirely empty. Damp walls, bare floorboards. Not even a bed.And then there’s the man known as Fats. Preying on young children to run errands for him. Burner phones with instructions messaged through. Bribes followed by threats.Can Serrailler finally break the drugs network that... + Read More
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Series: Blank Pages and Other Stories Paperback Bernard Maclaverty 9781529114256 $21.99 FICTION Oct 25, 2022

The extraordinary new story collection from one of Ireland’s greatest writers and bestselling author of Mindwinter Break. Bernard MacLaverty is a consummately gifted short-story writer and novelist whose work - like that of John McGahern, William Trevor, Edna O’Brien or Colm Tóibín - is deceptively simple on the surface, but carries a turbulent undertow. Everywhere, the dark currents of violence, persecution and regret pull at his subject matter: family love, the making of art, Catholicism, the Troubles and, latterly, ageing. Blank Pages is a c... + Read More
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Series: The Man with the Compound Eyes Paperback Wu Ming-Yi 9781784877903 $21.99 FICTION Oct 25, 2022

From the author of The Stolen Bicycle - longlisted for the International Man Booker PrizeOn the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice to the Sea God. Atile’i however is determined to defy destiny and become the first to survive. Across the sea, Alice Shih’s life is interrupted when a vast trash vortex comes crashing onto the shore of Taiwan, bringing Atile’i with it. In the aftermath of the catastrophe, Atile’i and Alice retrace her late husband’s footsteps into the mountains, hoping to solv... + Read More
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Series: The Shadows of Men 'An unmissable series' The Times Paperback Abir Mukherjee 9781784708542 $19.99 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

’Abir Mukherjee is doing something uniquely different in the crime genre. His evocation of 1920s India under British occupation is breathtaking’ Peter May, Sunday Times bestseller, on The Shadows of MenCalcutta, 1923.When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can officers of the Imperial Police Force, Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant Surendranath Banerjee track down those responsible in time to stop a bloodbath? Set at a time of heightened political tension, beginning in atmospheri... + Read More
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Series: Men in My Situation Paperback Per Petterson 9781529111521 $21.99 FICTION Oct 25, 2022

A major new novel from the author of the international bestseller Out Stealing Horses. Men in My Situation is a tender, scintillating portrait of grief, fatherhood and a life nearly going to pieces.In 1992 Arvid Jansen is thirty-eight and divorced. Turid has left with their three girls, slipping into her young, exuberant crowd of friends - the colourful - and a new house with no trace of their previous life together. More than a year has passed since the tragic accident that took his parents and two of his brothers. Existence has become a quest... + Read More
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Series: The Long Knives Hardcover Irvine Welsh 9781787333963 $31.99 FICTION Oct 25, 2022

The highly-anticipated second instalment in the CRIME trilogy, now a hit TV SeriesJustice can be a blunt instrument“Men like him usually tell the story. In business. Politics. Media. But not this time: I repeat, he is not writing this story.” Ritchie Gulliver MP is dead. Castrated and left to bleed in an empty Leith warehouse. Vicious, racist and corrupt, many thought he had it coming. But nobody could have predicted this. After the life Gulliver has led, the suspects are many: corporate rivals, political opponents, the countless groups he’s of... + Read More
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Series: The Last Quarter of the Moon Paperback Chi Zijian 9781784877897 $21.99 FICTION Oct 25, 2022

‘A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have weathered me, and I too have weathered them’.At the end of the twentieth-century an old woman sits among the birch trees and thinks back over her life, her loves, and the joys and tragedies that have befallen her family and her people. She is a member of the Evenki tribe who wander the remote forests of north-eastern China with their herds of reindeer, living in close sympathy with nature at its most beautiful and cruel.An idyllic childhood playing by th... + Read More
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Series: Modern Bistro Home Cooking Inspired by French Classics Hardcover America's Test Kitchen 9781948703468 $40.00 COOKING Sep 06, 2022

Why eat out? Bring home the bistro and make your table the delicious place everyone wants to linger, with more than 150 classic and modern dishes to share.Bistro cooking is intimate and inviting, rustic yet casually elegant. America’s Test Kitchen brings you recipes that will comfort and impress, from simple Chicken Provençal with Saffron, Orange, and Basil; French Onion Burgers; and Leeks Vinaigrette to splendid Gnocchi à la Parisienne and Chocolate Brioche Buns. Foolproof techniques and plentiful photos help you master even the most finicky f... + Read More
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Series: YOUNG CHEFS SERIES Kids Can Cook Anything! The Complete How-To Cookbook for Young Chefs, with 75 Kid-Tested, Kid-Approved Recipes Hardcover America's Test Kitchen Kids 9781954210240 $29.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Sep 20, 2022

With the fifth book in the #1 New York Times Best Selling Young Chef Series, America’s Test Kitchen is bringing its scientific know-how, rigorous testing, and hands-on learning to KIDS in the kitchen! Have you ever wondered about the best way to chop an onion or separate an egg? Or even how to make fancy-looking Chocolate Pastry Puffs for breakfast and Oven-Baked Chicken with Teriyaki Sauce for dinner? This book answers all those questions and more. Learn to cook like a pro—it’s easier than you think, especially with all the video resources inc... + Read More
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Series: Desserts Illustrated The Ultimate Guide to All Things Sweet 600+ Recipes Hardcover America's Test Kitchen 9781954210066 $50.00 COOKING Oct 11, 2022

Finesse the final course with confidence using this must-have companion for making dessert magic with 91 types of sweets and 600+ foolproof recipes.Part cookbook, part handbook, Desserts Illustrated is the last word on the last (but definitely not least) course. In it, America’s Test Kitchen far expands on previous explorations of the world of sweets, teaching all types of candies, custards, frozen treats, and fruit desserts in addition to a bounty of baked goods, and upping the ante on flavor. With 600+ recipes, you’ll find modern desserts fo... + Read More
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Series: Palmares Paperback Gayl Jones 9780807007150 $23.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2022

2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in FictionA NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2021 SelectionA New York Times “Biggest New Books Coming Out in September” Selection · A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Pick · A Guardian “50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2021” Selection · An Esquire “Best Books of Fall 2021” Selection · A Buzzfeed “Best Books Coming Out This Fall” Selection · A Bustle “Most Anticipated Books of September 2021” Selection · A LitHub “22 Novels You Need to Read This Fall” Selection · A Kirkus Reviews “16 Best Books to Read in September” Selection ·... + Read More
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Series: And the Category Is… Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community Paperback Ricky Tucker 9780807007327 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 13, 2022

A 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in NonfictionAn Electric Literature “Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2022” SelectionA love letter to the legendary Black and Latinx LGBTQ underground subculture, uncovering its abundant legacy and influence in popular culture.What is Ballroom? Not a song, a documentary, a catchphrase, a TV show, or an individual pop star. It is an underground subculture founded over a century ago by LGBTQ African American and Latino men and women of Harlem. Arts-based and intersectional, it transcends identity, acting as a ... + Read More
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Series: Kindred, Gift Edition Hardcover Octavia Butler 9780807006924 $36.95 FICTION Sep 20, 2022

The New York Times best-selling author’s time-travel classic that makes us feel the horrors of American slavery and indicts our country’s lack of progress on racial reconciliationThe series adaption from FX premieres December 13 on Hulu. Developed for television by writer/executive producer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen), executive producers also include Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields (The Americans, The Patient), and Darren Aronofsky (The Whale). Janicza Bravo (Zola) is director and an executive producer of the pilot. Kindred stars Mallori Jo... + Read More
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Series: Chokepoint Capitalism How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back Hardcover Rebecca Giblin 9780807007068 $35.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 27, 2022

A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big MediaCorporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (where sellers have excessive power over buyers) or monopsonies (where buyers hold the whip hand over sellers)—or both.In Chokepoint Capitalism, scholar Rebecca Giblin and writer and activist Cory Doctorow argue we’re in a new era of “chokepoint capitalism,” with exploitative businesses crea... + Read More
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Series: Cocktail Botanica 60+ Drinks Inspired by Nature Hardcover Elouise Anders 9781922417336 $26.95 COOKING Sep 06, 2022

Create delicious botanical cocktails using flowers, fruit, and herbs.Cocktail Botanica is a celebration of all things floral, herbaceous, fruity, and boozy. Featuring cocktails, punches, and botanical-infused spirits, this book uses herbs, fruits, flowers, and all things botanical that you can buy, forage, or grow. Full of botanical twists on classics, like a peachy old-fashioned, rose martini, or thyme salty dog, this book will delight your guests and put your garden to good use when you’re entertaining. With beautiful botanical... + Read More
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Series: The Ethical Traveler 100 Ways to Roam the World (Without Ruining It!) Hardcover Imogen Lepere 9781925811988 $22.95 TRAVEL Sep 06, 2022

Practical choices we can all make to travel the world more ethically. Travel can be a blast, but there are hidden costs to your trips that go deeper than your pockets. From potential impacts on the environment or the communities we visit to respecting others’ cultures, taking a moment to consider our choices can make a real impact on the planet and other people. Whether it’s doing the research to make sure the money we pay to see wild animals isn’t going into the pockets of those abusing them or forgoing the familiarity of Star... + Read More
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Series: Anatomy of Comics Famous Originals of Narrative Art Paperback Damien MacDonald 9782080281876 $55.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 06, 2022

An illustrated history of the most important and exceptional comics of the past 150 years.This comprehensive history of the world’s best comics art includes masterpieces by cartoonists from Richard Felton Outcault in 1896 to Chris Ware today. These comics—populated by meta-humans, hybrids, and superheroes—present imagined fantastical worlds that have attracted generations of devoted fans. A critical reference, this book is also a celebration of the characters who have accompanied readers from their first forays into reading through adolescence,... + Read More
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Series: The Vegan Butcher The ultimate guide to plant-based meat Hardcover Zacchary Bird 9781922754097 $40.00 COOKING Oct 25, 2022

The ultimate science-meets-magic guide to plant-based meat for vegans who are tired of burgers.For any vegans shedding a tear over bacon, eggs, or a porterhouse steak, this is your new bible. Whether you want to experiment with simple meat substitutes in everyday meals or make an entire vegan charcuterie board from scratch, this book is here to shake up your perception of plants and reintroduce you to your favorite classics.Veganism isn’t about missing out - it’s about getting creative, and with Zacchary’s ingenuity, meat’s no longer forbidden ... + Read More
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Series: The Queen's Pictures Masterpieces from the Royal Collection Hardcover Anna Poznanskaya 9780847870837 $170.00 ART Nov 15, 2022

This tour-de-force of Britain’s Royal Collection provides a very rare opportunity to see an art trove not readily accessible to the world at large—most of the paintings are not normally available for public viewing, including several that have never been publicly exhibited since entering the collection.While it is known that the Crown has one of the world’s great collections of Leonardo’s, visitors to the Royal Academy’s recent Charles I exhibition were amazed by the richness of the Royal Collection and its many unseen works. This extraordinary... + Read More
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Series: BUDMO! Recipes from a Ukrainian Kitchen Hardcover Anna Voloshyna 9780847872565 $53.95 COOKING Oct 11, 2022

Celebrate the rich culture of Ukrainian cuisine with these traditional Eastern European recipes infused with a fresh, contemporary approach for today’s home kitchen, from one of today’s most exciting young chefs of Ukrainian cuisine.With its emphasis on fresh ingredients, time-honored heritage, and warm hospitality, Eastern European cuisine is having a culinary moment, in addition to Ukraine being of great current interest. Meaning “cheers!” in Ukrainian, Budmo! is the first cookbook to celebrate classic Eastern European recipes with a modern, ... + Read More
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Series: Birds of Canada Paperback DK 9780744057874 $47.00 NATURE Sep 06, 2022

The ultimate photographic guide to over 600 bird species in Canada.Updated to reflect all the latest taxonomic data, Complete Birds of Canada is the complete photographic guide to 613 species of birds found in Canada, including the most common species, and rare and vagrant birds.Ideal for the armchair bird enthusiast or dedicated bird watcher, this book includes stunning full-color photographs revealing individual species with unrivaled clarity. The 436 most commonly seen birds are pictured with plumage variations, and information on similar bi... + Read More
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Series: Marvel Black Panther Wakanda Atlas Hardcover Evan Narcisse 9780744050301 $40.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 06, 2022

Newly commissioned, intricate maps, artwork, and essays bringing the world of Wakanda to life as never seen before.Uncover the mysteries of Black Panther’s Wakanda.Read key insights about the importance of these locations for T’Challa, Shuri, the Dora Milaje, the Avengers, and beyond.With detailed maps and information on key battlegrounds and timelines, this collection of intricate artworks and authoritative essays, produced in full collaboration with Marvel, is a book to treasure. © 2022 MARVEL
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Series: The End of Alzheimer's Program The First Protocol to Enhance Cognition and Reverse Decline at Any Age Paperback Dale Bredesen 9780593541876 $24.00 HEALTH & FITNESS Sep 06, 2022

The instant New York Times bestsellerThe New York Times Best Selling author of The End of Alzheimer’s lays out a specific plan to help everyone prevent and reverse cognitive decline or simply maximize brainpower.In The End of Alzheimer’s Dale Bredesen laid out the science behind his revolutionary new program that is the first to both prevent and reverse symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. Now he lays out the detailed program he uses with his own patients. Accessible and detailed, it can be tailored to anyone’s needs and will enhance cognitive abil... + Read More