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Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

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This is a really great book that really opens your eyes to the use of hokey-pokey snakeoil based teething pain treatments that aren't Tylenol or Motrin based. Or then something else entirely that has nothing to do

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Series: Before We Were Trans A New History of Gender Hardcover Dr. Kit Heyam Ph.D 9781541603080 $38.00 HISTORY Sep 13, 2022

A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity  Today’s narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people’s lives. Before We Were Trans illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied binary categories. Blending historical analysis with sharp cultural criticism, trans histori... + Read More
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Series: The Marriage Portrait Hardcover Maggie O'Farrell 9781039005631 $34.00 FICTION Sep 06, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the author of the breakout bestseller Hamnet—winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Women’s Prize—an electrifying new novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de Medici.Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and to devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her... + Read More
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Series: Something in the Heir A Novel Paperback Suzanne Enoch 9781250842527 $22.99 FICTION Sep 20, 2022

One of Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Romances of the Fall! New York Times bestseller, Suzanne Enoch takes a delightful new path in her joyful historical romantic comedy, Something in the Heir.Smart, capable heiress Emmeline Pershing will do anything to keep her beloved home; and all it takes is an arranged marriage and a teeny white lie to fulfill her family’s silly inheritance rules. But now her little fib means that she and her completely unsuspecting husband are going to inherit big — and very messy! —trouble.Emmeline and William Pershing have... + Read More
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Series: Nadiya's Everyday Baking From Weeknight Dinners to Celebration Cakes, Let Your Oven Do the Work Hardcover Nadiya Hussain 9780593579053 $39.99 COOKING Oct 11, 2022

The beloved Netflix host and New York Times bestselling author of Nadiya Bakes and Time to Eat presents more than ninety sweet and savory recipes for every meal, occasion, or mood.Nadiya Hussain, winner of The Great British Baking Show knows what we bake depends on the day of the week and what mood we’re in. In Nadiya’s Everyday Baking, Nadiya shares nearly 100 simple and achievable recipes for breakfast, dinner, dessert, and everything in between. Organized by situation and occasion, Nadiya’s recipes are designed to always provide for a delici... + Read More
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Series: We Spread Canadian Edition Hardcover Iain Reid 9781982165055 $29.99 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

The author of the “evocative, spine-tingling, and razor-sharp” (Bustle) I’m Thinking of Ending Things that inspired the Netflix original movie and the “short, shocking psychological three-hander” (The Guardian) Foe returns with a new work of philosophical suspense.Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the mundane rituals of old age, until things start to slip. Before her longtime partner passed away years earlier, provisions were made, unbekn... + Read More
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Series: A Bodies from the Library special Ghosts from the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (A Bodies from the Library special) Hardcover Tony Medawar 9780008514815 $19.99 FICTION Sep 29, 2022

A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of the masters of the Golden Age – thrills, spills and chills perfect for late-night reading.It is said that books are written to bring sunshine into our dull, grey lives – to show us places we want to escape to, lives we want to live, people we want to love. But there are also stories that can only be found in the deepest, darkest corners of the library. Stories about the unexplained, of lost souls, of things that go bump before the silence. Before t... + Read More
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Series: A Haunted History of Invisible Women True Stories of America's Ghosts Paperback Leanna Renee Hieber 9780806541587 $22.95 HISTORY Sep 27, 2022

“Deliciously eerie.” —Leslie Rule, Bestselling AuthorFrom the notorious Lizzie Borden to the innumerable, haunted rooms of Sarah Winchester’s mysterious mansion this offbeat, insightful, first-ever book of its kind from the brilliant guides behind “Boroughs of the Dead,” featured on NPR.org, The New York Times, and Jezebel, explores the history behind America’s female ghosts, the stereotypes, myths, and paranormal tales that swirl around them, what their stories reveal about us—and why they haunt us…Sorrowful widows, vengeful jezebels, innocent... + Read More
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Series: A Minor Chorus A Novel Hardcover Billy-Ray Belcourt 9780735242005 $27.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2022

*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE*NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of Canada’s most daring literary talents.An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape of the novel he yearns to write, an autobiography of his rural hometown, the answers to existential questions about family, love, and happiness.What ensues is a series of conversations, connections, and disconnections that reveals the texture o... + Read More
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Series: The Scholomance The Golden Enclaves A Novel Hardcover Naomi Novik 9780593158357 $37.99 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate.The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. But it’s all we dream about, the hideously slim chance we’ll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls.And now th... + Read More
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Series: People Person Hardcover Candice Carty-Williams 9781501196041 $32.99 FICTION Sep 13, 2022

The author of the “brazenly hilarious, tell-it-like-it-is first novel” (Oprah Daily) Queenie returns with another witty and insightful novel about the power of family—even when they seem like strangers.If you could choose your family...you wouldn’t choose the Penningtons. Dimple Pennington knows of her half siblings, but she doesn’t really know them. Five people who don’t have anything in common except for faint memories of being driven through Brixton in their dad’s gold jeep, and some pretty complex abandonment issues. Dimple has bigger thing... + Read More