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Series: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Hardcover Yuval Noah Harari 9780771048852 $34.95 HISTORY Sep 04, 2018

New York Times BestsellerNational BestsellerWith Sapiens and Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari first explored the past, then the future of humankind, garnering the praise of no less than Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, to name a few, and selling millions of copies in the over 30 countries it was published. In 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, he devotes himself to the present.21 Lessons For the 21st Century provides a kind of instruction manual for the present day to help readers find their way around the 21st century, to understand it... + Read More
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Series: Sapiens/Homo Deus Boxed Set Yuval Noah Harari 9780735253407 $46.00 HISTORY Nov 14, 2017

The gift of the 2017 holiday season: Sapiens and Homo Deus in a gorgeous boxed set.100,000 years ago, at least six species of human inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo Sapiens.In Sapiens, Dr. Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical—and sometimes devastating—breakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural, and Scientific Revolutions. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, palaeontology, and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shap... + Read More
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Series: Homo Deus A Brief History of Tomorrow Paperback Yuval Noah Harari 9780771038709 $23.00 HISTORY Oct 31, 2017

From the author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind comes an extraordinary folllow-up that explores the future of the human species. Now available as a trade paperback.Humans today enjoy unprecedented levels of power and an increasingly god-like status. The great epidemics of the past - famine, plague and war - no longer control our lives. We are the only species in history that has single-handedly changed the entire planet, and we can no longer blame a higher being for our fate.But as our gods take a back seat... + Read More
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Series: Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind Paperback Yuval Noah Harari 9780771038518 $23.00 HISTORY May 10, 2016

Destined to become a modern classic in the vein of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Sapiens is a lively, groundbreaking history of humankind told from a unique perspective—and it is now available in paperback.100,000 years ago, at least six species of human inhabited the earth. Today there is just one: us. Homo Sapiens.How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations, and human rights; to trust money, books, and laws; and to be... + Read More
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Series: Measuring Up A Memoir of Fathers and Sons Paperback Dan Robson 9780735234697 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 11, 2021

SHORTLISTED for the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize“Dan Robson’s book is a heart-wrenching portrait of grief. Anyone who has lost a parent will recognize it, know it intimately as you roll through the stages and finally come to the realization that a parent’s ultimate gift to a child is showing them how to live.”—Tanya Talaga, bestselling author of Seven Fallen Feathers A tender memoir of fathers and sons, love and loss, and learning to fill boots a size too big. Dan Robson’s father is a builder, a fixer. A man whose high-school educat... + Read More
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Series: Dad Up! Long-Time Comedian. First-Time Father. Paperback Steve Patterson 9780735238350 $22.95 HUMOR Jun 01, 2021

From one of the country’s most beloved comedians and host of CBC Radio’s incredibly popular program The Debaters comes a funny, poignant, and at times unexpectedly wise look at what it means to be a dad in this day and age.Steve Patterson has been thinking about dad-dom for quite a while. In Dad Up! he gives his all to be the best father possible to two young girls while imparting his hard-won wisdom and insights to readers everywhere.The youngest of five boys growing up in an Irish Catholic household, Patterson mines his childhood for any sage... + Read More
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Series: The Expectant Father The Ultimate Guide for Dads-to-Be Paperback Armin A. Brott 9780789214041 $21.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS May 25, 2021

The Expectant Father is the best-selling pregnancy guide for men, trusted by millions of dads-to-be and their partners. This reassuring month-by-month overview gives you the facts and advice you need to understand your baby’s development, support your partner, and prepare for the joys and challenges of fatherhood. It concludes with two special sections: one on labor and delivery, and the other covering the first few months after your baby’s arrival. The fifth edition of this New York Times best seller is updated from cover to cover with the ... + Read More
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Series: The Perfect Gentleman The Pursuit of Timeless Elegance and Style in London Paperback James Sherwood 9780500023723 $53.95 DESIGN Apr 27, 2021

For the man who has everything, and for the luxury industry trying to seduce him: a rich insight into what makes a product endure and bring pleasure to all who possess itIn an age of globalization with fashion trends that change by the day, the quality and workmanship of the great British luxury brands endure and flourish like never before. Valued for their craftsmanship, superlative quality, exclusivity, and the status they confer on their owners, these “heritage houses” have been synonymous with the finest production for hundreds of years. Th... + Read More
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Series: Dad, Tell Me A Give & Get Back Book Hardcover Elma Van Vliet 9780241449295 $35.99 SELF-HELP Jul 28, 2020

Perfect for father's day: a gift book that asks your Dad to share his experiences, dreams and wishes, creating a personal treasury of memoriesDad, Tell Me is a gift book that gives back, asking your father to record everything from his favourite band as a teenager and his childhood games to his proudest accomplishment and first memory of you. Give it to him as a gift, get it back as a chronicle of his life. The end result will be a deeply personal keepsake, one that helps you to remember what is really important in life: the people we love and ... + Read More
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Series: Dad Dancing: and Other Embarrassing Dad Behaviour Hardcover Ian Allen 9781911622406 $16.95 HUMOR Apr 15, 2020

It’s official: dads were put onto this planet to embarrass the rest of their families. This hilarious book is a spotter’s guide to the innumerable ways Dad can achieve this, whether it’s via ridiculous dancing, experimental facial hair, cringeworthy sportswear or putting his foot in it at funerals.Contains a wealth of highly useful information for the discerning dad, including countdowns of the most embarrassing things Dads say in wedding speeches, the fashion fads Dad really shouldn’t have bothered with and the 10 signs that Dad is having a mi... + Read More
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Series: Bad Dad Jokes: Because Dads aren't as funny as they think they are Hardcover Ian Allen 9781911622253 $19.95 HUMOR Mar 27, 2020

A quality collection of over 1,000 really terrible Dad jokes, the perfect Father’s Day gift.What do you call a decomposing whale?Mouldy Dick.How does a rabbit get dry after a storm?He borrows a hare dryer.Proving that dads are never as funny as they think they are, this ridiculous book of really rubbish Dad jokes has arrived to make the rest of your family’s life utter hell. Crammed with 1,000 jokes that will make your daft Dad roll all over the floor laughing, this book is guaranteed to turn any father into a joke monster of epic proportions, ... + Read More
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Series: A Life Beyond Reason A Father's Memoir Hardcover Chris Gabbard 9780807060575 $33.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 28, 2019

An unflinching and luminous memoir that explores a father’s philosophical transformation when he must reconsider the questions what makes us human? and whose life is worth living?Before becoming a father, Chris Gabbard was a fast-track academic finishing his doctoral dissertation at Stanford. A disciple of Enlightenment thinkers, he was a devotee of reason, believed in the reliability of science, and lived by the dictum that an unexamined life is not worth living. That is, until his son August was born.Despite his faith that modern medicine wou... + Read More
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Series: The Reality Bubble Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World Hardcover Ziya Tong 9780735235564 $32.95 SCIENCE May 14, 2019

From one of the world’s most engaging science journalists, a groundbreaking and wonder-filled look at the hidden things that shape our lives in unexpected and sometimes dangerous ways.Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality.We are blind in comparison to the X-rays that peer through skin, the mass spectrometers that detect the dead inside the living, or the high-tech surveillance systems that see with artificial intelligence.And we are blind compared to the animals that can see in infrared, or ultraviolet, or in 360-degree vision. These... + Read More
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Series: Kings of the Yukon A River Journey in Search of the Chinook Paperback Adam Weymouth 9780345811806 $21.00 NATURE May 07, 2019

“Travel writing? Climate change? Here’s a book that does it all…. [Weymouth] writes like Annie Dillard, Bruce Chatwin and Jack London combined: suspenseful and sensitive storytelling and sumptuous descriptions.”—National ObserverThe Yukon River is 3,190 kilometres long, flowing northwest from British Columbia through the Yukon Territory and Alaska to the Bering Sea. Every summer, millions of salmon migrate the distance of this river to their spawning ground, where they go to breed and then die. The Chinook is the most highly prized among the fi... + Read More
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Series: Nine Lessons I Learned from My Father Paperback Murray Howe 9780735234192 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 07, 2019

Part Tuesdays with Morrie, part Mr. Hockey, Nine Lessons I Learned from My Father is a son’s intimate account of all that lies behind the towering legacy of the beloved Gordie Howe.When Gordie Howe passed away, the world paused to acknowledge the legacy of the game’s greatest player. For twelve straight hours—9 to 9—thousands of mourners passed through Joe Louis Arena in Detroit to pay their respects. As one after another dignitary spoke, it became clear that as staggering as Howe’s achievements were on the ice, he was even greater as a person.... + Read More
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Series: Dr. Seuss's Gift Books Dr. Seuss's I Love Pop! A Celebration of Dads Hardcover Dr. Seuss 9781984848123 $11.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 7 May 07, 2019

Show Dad some love this Father’s Day with this gift book that features art from Dr. Seuss! Includes unrhymed lines about fatherly love and makes an ideal choice instead of a card!This small hardcover book of simple, unrhymed observations about all the things we love and appreciate about our dads makes an ideal gift for fathers (and grandfathers!) of all ages. Dr. Seuss’s I Love Pop is illustrated with full-color art by Dr. Seuss from the books Hop on Pop, Horton Hatches the Egg, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, and many others. Shower Pop ... + Read More
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Series: My First Rodeo How Three Daughters, One Wife, and a Herd of Others Are Making Me a Better Dad Hardcover Stoney Stamper 9780735291652 $23.99 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Apr 30, 2019

My First Rodeo is a heartwarming collection of stories that reveal the ups, downs, and delights of being a family man, from a guy who never dreamed of being one.Happily unmarried with no desire for a change in status, Stoney Stamper met a beautiful lady with two daughters, and to his surprise fell head over boots in love. At the encouragement of family and friends, he decided to chronicle his new life and created the popular blog—The Daddy Diaries. My First Rodeo will inspire those just starting out with families to hang in there, they can do i... + Read More
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Series: Lightning Sky A U.S. Fighter Pilot Captured during WWII and His Father's Quest to Find Him Hardcover R.C. George 9780806538969 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 30, 2019

A U.S. fighter pilot captured by the enemy. A father determined to rescue his son. One of the most remarkable and moving true stories of faith and perseverance to come out of World War II. October 6, 1944. Twenty-year-old Army Air Corps Second Lieutenant David “Mac” Warren MacArthur was on a strafing mission over Greece when a round of 88-mm German anti-aircraft flak turned his P-38 Lightning into a comet of fire and smoke. Dave parachuted to safety as the Lightning lived up to her name and struck the Adriatic Sea like a bolt of flames. In mi... + Read More
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Series: Machines Like Me A Novel Hardcover Ian McEwan 9780735278196 $32.00 FICTION Apr 23, 2019

The new novel from the master storyteller is his best in years. Brilliantly McEwan, richly entertaining, a moving love story and a mystery--yet for all its gripping plotline one of the most morally layered novels written for our times, as it carries us into a provocatively real alternative history and the profound challenges of Artificial Intelligence.Set in 1980s London, the story revolves around Charlie: young and reckless, and in love with his upstairs neighbour, the enchanting Miranda whose hidden, murky past hangs between them. He has spen... + Read More
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Series: The Beneficiary Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father Hardcover Janny Scott 9781594634192 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 16, 2019

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR"[A] poignant addition to the literature of moneyed glamour and its inevitable tarnish and decay…like something out of Fitzgerald or Waugh."—The New YorkerA parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance—financial, cultural, genetic—conspired in one person's self-destruction.Land, houses, and money tumbled from one generation to the next on the eight-hundred-acr... + Read More
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Series: Warlight A novel Paperback Michael Ondaatje 9780771073809 $22.00 FICTION Apr 02, 2019

From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement.In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself – shadowed and luminous at once – we read the story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when ... + Read More
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Series: Say Nothing A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland Hardcover Patrick Radden Keefe 9780385521314 $38.95 TRUE CRIME Feb 26, 2019

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Empire of Pain—a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions“Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast home in 1972. In this meticulously reported book—as finely paced as a novel—Keefe uses McConville’s murder as a prism to tell the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Interviewing people on both sides of the conflict, he transforms the tragic damage and waste of the era ... + Read More
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Series: Stuff You Should Know Stuff Every Grandfather Should Know Hardcover James Knipp 9781683691006 $10.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Feb 12, 2019

This pocket-sized guide is the perfect gift for new and first-time grandfathers.Grandfathering is a serious job—and not always an easy one—but that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun. This handy gift book contains all the wisdom, know-how, and trivia grandfathers and grandfathers-to-be need to know, and gifting it is a terrific way to announce that you’re expecting! Topics include: • How to Pick Your Grandfather Nickname • How to Give Parenting Advice • Kid Care and Feeding 101 • How to Stay Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise • Six Classic Grandfatherly Tric... + Read More
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Series: Father and Son Paperback Edmund Gosse 9781784874391 $19.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 29, 2019

’The classic of memoir of inter-generational strife, with an afterword from author of The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry and an introduction from Anthony Quinn. Subtitled ‘a study of two temperaments’ Edmund Gosse’s childhood memoir tells the often fractious, often comic story of Gosse’s relationship with his authoritarian father. A pioneering naturalist and marine biologist, Philip Henry Gosse’s strictly religious worldview is brought into crisis by the discoveries of Charles Darwin and the death of his wife - and Edmund’s mother - Emily. As Edmun... + Read More
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Series: An Odyssey A Father, a Son, and an Epic Paperback Daniel Mendelsohn 9780771057441 $21.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 31, 2018

Now available in paperback, the lyrical memoir from lauded critic and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn, as he recounts the transformative adventure that brought him and his father closer to understanding the Homerian epic, and each other.“[A] subtle and profoundly moving book…shimmering…beautiful.”—New York TimesMy octogenarian dad wanted to study Homer’s epic and learn its lessons about life’s journeys. First he took my class. Then we sailed for Ithaca.When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar h... + Read More
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Series: Ghostbuster's Daughter Life with My Dad, Harold Ramis Hardcover Violet Ramis Stiel 9780735217874 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 05, 2018

From the daughter of comedy legend Harold Ramis (and featuring a Foreword by Seth Rogen) comes a hilarious and heartwarming account of his life, work, and legacy.Most of us know Harold Ramis as the writer, director, and actor who brought warmth and humor to the big screen in classics like Animal House, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, National Lampoon’s Vacation, and Groundhog Day. To his daughter, Violet, he was best known as an amazing father, confidant, and friend. In Ghostbuster’s Daughter, Violet reflects on the life and legacy of her father, pro... + Read More
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Series: I've Been Meaning to Tell You A Letter to My Daughter Hardcover David Chariandy 9780771018077 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 29, 2018

In the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, acclaimed novelist David Chariandy’s latest is an intimate and profoundly beautiful meditation on the politics of race today.When a moment of quietly ignored bigotry prompted his three-year-old daughter to ask “what happened?” David Chariandy began wondering how to discuss with his children the politics of race. Today, in a newly heated era of both struggle and divisions, he has completed ... + Read More
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Series: Fathers Paperback Sam Miller 9781784705084 $21.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 15, 2018

In early 2014, after many years living abroad, Sam Miller returned to his childhood home in London. His father was dying.In the months after his death, Sam began to write about his father. He had been told, long ago, a family secret involving his parents and a close friend. Now, by reading his father’s papers and with the help of his mother, he was able to piece together a remarkable story.Fathers is the result: a tender, thoughtful exploration of childhood and parenthood, of friendship, love and loyalty.
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Series: Just Let Me Look at You On Fatherhood Paperback Bill Gaston 9780735234062 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 08, 2018

From Giller-nominated, award-winning Bill Gaston, a tender, wry, and unforgettable memoir about alcohol, fishing, and all the things fathers and sons won’t say to each otherSons clash with fathers, sons find reasons to rebel. And, fairly or unfairly, sons judge fathers when they take to drinking.But Bill Gaston and his father could always fish together. When they were shoulder-to-shoulder, joined in rapt fascination with the world under their hull, they had what all fathers and sons wish for. Even if it was temporary, even if much of it would b... + Read More
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Series: The Seasons Series Spring Hardcover Karl Ove Knausgaard 9780345811097 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 08, 2018

Spring is a deeply moving, lyrical, and inspiring memoir about family, our everyday lives, our joys and struggles, set over the course of a single day.Today is Wednesday the thirteenth of April 2016, it is twelve minutes to eleven, and I have just finished writing this book for you. What happened that summer nearly three years ago, and its repercussions, are long since over.Sometimes it hurts to live, but there is always something to live for.In Spring, third volume of the Seasons quartet, we follow Karl Ove and his three-month-old daughter, An... + Read More
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Series: Bibi The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu Hardcover Anshel Pfeffer 9780771072956 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2018

The first biography that collects the threads of Benjamin Netanyahu’s tumultuous personal life, controversial public career and struggle to endure as the Jewish state’s leader and the master of its destiny. It is told by a writer who has spent his career explaining the world to Israelis and interpreting Israel for a global readership.Benjamin Netanyahu was born a year after Israel. His story in many ways embodies that of the ideological underdogs of the Zionist enterprise: members of the right-wing Revisionist movement, the religious, the Mizra... + Read More
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Series: Renoir: Father and Son / Painting and Cinema Painting and Cinema Hardcover Sylvie Patry 9782080203809 $67.50 ART May 01, 2018

Beloved Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir left a vibrant legacy that influenced the life and films of his son, the acclaimed director Jean Renoir.The Impressionist paintings of Pierre-Auguste Renoir are characterized by portraits and lively episodes from daily life. These joyful scenes influenced the life and work of his son, filmmaker Jean Renoir, who Orson Welles described as “the greatest of all directors.”This catalogue—and the traveling exhibition it accompanies—demonstrates how Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s artistic practice and creat... + Read More
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Series: Co-edikit The New Dad Survival Handbook Hardcover Cheryl Caldwell 9781944833411 $10.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Apr 24, 2018

A clever take on all things baby 101, will have you outright laughing as you attempt to bathe, feed, and provide comfort to your newborn. This survival guide for dads is everything parents have secretly thought but hesitated to say with its hilarity and no-boundaries approach to live out loud and brighten your day. Series Overview: A play on the words “etiquette” and “co-ed,” Co-edikit presents a refreshingly honest - and humorous - alternative to “polite” means of self-expression. It’s a celebration of the kinds of things everybody thinks, but... + Read More
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Series: Master of Persuasion Brian Mulroney's Global Legacy Hardcover Fen Osler Hampson 9780771039072 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 10, 2018

Based on unprecedented access—interviews with key players, diaries, memos, etc.—the first book to document Brian Mulroney’s impressive foreign policy record, from NAFTA to the collapse of the Soviet Union, climate change to the release of Nelson Mandela.Prime Minister Brian Mulroney led and lifted Canada’s voice and influence in world affairs to unprecedented heights. He understood better than many of his predecessors that Canada’s power and influence derived from a solid grasp of our vital national interests, and a purposeful commitment to pur... + Read More
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Series: Stuff You Should Know Stuff Every Dad Should Know Hardcover Brett Cohen 9781683690641 $10.99 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Mar 27, 2018

A pocket-sized parenting guide for dads and dads-to-be, perfect as a gift. This handy little book is filled with all the fail-safe fatherhood tips and tricks a dad needs. From changing diapers and burping babies to building sand castles and hosting a sleepover party, this book is the perfect gift for everything from baby showers to Father’s Day. Chapters include: • How to Rid a Room of Monsters • How to Squelch a Temper Tantrum • How to Assign Chores • How to Discuss the Birds and the Bees • How to Save for College
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Series: Astral Weeks A Secret History of 1968 Hardcover Ryan H. Walsh 9780735221345 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 06, 2018

A mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, James Brown, and many more Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is an iconic rock album shrouded in legend, a masterpiece that has touched generations of listeners and influenced everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Martin Scorsese. In his first book, acclaimed musician and journalist Ryan H. Walsh unearths the album's fascinating backstory--along with the untold secrets of the time and place that birthed... + Read More
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Series: The Seasons Series Winter Hardcover Karl Ove Knausgaard 9780345811066 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 23, 2018

Winter, written to introduce his youngest daughter to the wonders of life, is one of the most profoundly moving and beautiful of Karl Ove Knausgaard's beloved works. While it stands alone for readers, it is also the exquisitely interwoven, second volume of the Seasons quartet--his new landmark literary project: written by a father to his unborn child.It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world looks like. It's strange that there is a first time to see the sky, a first time to see the sun, a first time to ... + Read More
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Series: 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos Hardcover Jordan B. Peterson 9780345816023 $39.00 PSYCHOLOGY Jan 23, 2018

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWhat does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the stre... + Read More
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Series: The Undoing Project A Friendship That Changed Our Minds Paperback Michael Lewis 9780393354775 $22.95 SCIENCE Oct 31, 2017

“Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncertainty and the limits of human reason.” —William Easterly, Wall Street Journal Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original papers that invented the field of behavioral economics. One of the greatest partnerships in the history of science, Kahneman and Tversky’s extraordinary friendship incited a revolution in Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approac... + Read More
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Series: Sticky Fingers The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine Hardcover Joe Hagan 9780345815057 $37.95 MUSIC Oct 24, 2017

A delicious romp through the heyday of rock and roll and a revealing portrait of the man at the helm of the iconic magazine that made it all possible, with candid look backs at the era from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Elton John, Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, and others. The story of Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone's founder, editor, and publisher, and the pioneering era he helped curate, is told here for the first time in glittering, glorious detail. Joe Hagan provides readers with a backstage pass to storied concert venues and rock-s... + Read More
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Series: Fatherland Paperback Robert Harris 9781787460485 $19.99 FICTION Oct 24, 2017

_________________________’The highest form of thriller…non-stop excitement’ The TimesNOW AVAILABLE: THE SECOND SLEEP, ROBERT HARRIS’S LATEST NOVEL_________________________What if Hitler had won the war? It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler’s 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin’s most prestigious suburb. As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich.... + Read More
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Series: Lucky Bastard My Life, My Dad, and the Things I'm Not Allowed to Say on TV Paperback Joe Buck 9781101984581 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 03, 2017

In this New York Times bestselling memoir, the announcer of the biggest sporting events in the country—including the 2017 Super Bowl and this century’s most-watched, historic, Chicago Cubs-winning World Series—reveals why he is one lucky bastard.Sports fans see Joe Buck everywhere: broadcasting one of the biggest games in the NFL every week, calling the World Series every year, announcing the Super Bowl every three years. They know his father, Jack Buck, is a broadcasting legend and that he was beloved in his adopted hometown of St. Louis.Yet t... + Read More
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Series: Falling A Daughter, a Father, and a Journey Back Paperback Elisha Cooper 9781101971840 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 13, 2017

Elisha Cooper spends his mornings creating children's books and his afternoons playing with his two daughters. But when he discovers a lump in five-year-old Zoë's midsection as she sits on his lap at a Chicago Cubs game, everything changes. Surgery, sleepless nights, months of treatment, a drumbeat of worry. Even as the family moves to New York and Zoë starts kindergarten, they must navigate a new normal: school and soccer and hot chocolate at the local café, interrupted by visits to the hospital. Elisha and his wife help their daughters maint... + Read More
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Series: Rogue Heroes The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War Paperback Ben Macintyre 9780771060328 $22.00 HISTORY May 30, 2017

The latest from the bestselling author of Operation Mincemeat and A Spy Among Friends—the untold story of one of WWII’s most important secret military units.Ben Macintyre’s latest book of derring-do and wartime intrigue reveals the incredible story of the last truly unsung secret organization of World War II—Britain’s Special Air Service, or the SAS. Facing long odds and a tough slog against Rommel and the German tanks in the Middle East theatre, Britain turned to the brainchild of one its most unlikely heroes—David Stirling, a young man whose ... + Read More
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Series: Ernest Hemingway A Biography Hardcover Mary V. Dearborn 9780307594679 $47.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 16, 2017

The first full biography of Ernest Hemingway in more than fifteen years; the first to draw upon a wide array of never-before-used material; the first written by a woman, from the widely acclaimed biographer of Norman Mailer, Peggy Guggenheim, Henry Miller, and Louise Bryant. A revelatory look into the life and work of Ernest Hemingway, considered in his time to be the greatest living American novelist and short-story writer, winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Mary Dearborn's new biography gi... + Read More
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Series: Jack Reacher No Middle Name The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories Hardcover Lee Child 9780399593574 $36.00 FICTION May 16, 2017

A collection of pulse-pounding Jack Reacher stories—one never-before-seen novella, plus eleven others collected for the first time in print—each with original introductions from the twelve-time #1 New York Times bestselling author.Detailed Publication History:Too Much Time An ORIGINAL, NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED novella featuring Reacher after his time in the army, in a story that leads into Child’s fall 2017 new Jack Reacher hardcover novel, The Midnight LineSecond Son: Originally published in 2011, this story was included in a 2014 audiobook bund... + Read More
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Series: The Romanovs 1613-1918 Paperback Simon Sebag Montefiore 9780307280510 $30.00 HISTORY May 16, 2017

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the national bestselling author of Stalin: An "epic history on the grandest scale” (Financial Times) about the most successful dynasty of modern times, a family who created the world’s greatest empire—and then lost it all. "An essential addition to the library of anyone interested in Russian history.” —The New York Times Book Review The Romanovs ruled a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality intoc the world’s greatest empire? And how did they lose it a... + Read More
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Series: Diaper Dude The Ultimate Dad's Guide to Surviving the First Two Years Paperback Chris Pegula 9780143110262 $23.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS May 09, 2017

An irreverent and expert follow-up to From Dude to Dad—this time exploring the first two years of fatherhood.Dude, you’re a dad now!Picking up where From Dude to Dad left off, author and founder of the popular Diaper Dude parenting brand Chris Pegula dives into the first two years of parenting and furthers his deeply held belief that you don’t have to lose yourself when you become a father.Once again written in Pegula’s everyman voice and filled with humorous takes on fatherhood from the front lines, the book is an easy-to-read resource for new... + Read More
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Series: Sleepless Nights and Kisses for Breakfast Reflections on Fatherhood Hardcover Matteo Bussola 9780143131373 $24.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS May 09, 2017

This #1 Italian bestseller, offering a father’s observations of the everyday moments that might otherwise go unnoticed, has struck a chord with readers around the globeMatteo Bussola is a designer and cartoonist who lives in Verona, Italy with his wife Paola; their three young daughters, Virginia, Ginevra, and Melania (ages eight, four, and two); and their two dogs. For two years, he’s been writing posts on Facebook capturing the beauty of ordinary moments with his family. Sleepless Nights and Kisses for Breakfast is the memoir that grew out of... + Read More
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Series: Father and Son Hardcover E. O. Plauen 9781681371207 $29.95 HUMOR May 09, 2017

Father and Son is one of the most beloved comic strips ever drawn—an uproarious, timeless ode to the pleasures, pitfalls, and endless absurdity of family life.Father and Son is a slyly heartwarming, dizzyingly inventive classic in the tradition of Calvin and Hobbes and The Simpsons. Created in 1934 by the German political cartoonist Erich Ohser (using the pseudonym E.O. Plauen after being blacklisted for his opposition to the Nazi regime), the gruff, loving, mustachioed father and his sweet but troublemaking son embark on adventures both ever... + Read More
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Series: Braving It A Father, a Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey into the Alaskan Wild Paperback James Campbell 9780307461254 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 09, 2017

Now in paperback, adventure journalist James Campbell journeys to farthest Alaska with his teenage daughter in a powerful and affirming memoir that “should be read by fathers and daughters everywhere.” (Alaska Dispatch News)Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to only a handful of people, is a harsh and lonely place. So when James Campbell’s cousin Heimo Korth asked him to spend a summer building a cabin in the rugged Interior, Campbell hesitated about inviting along his fifteen-year-old daughter, Aidan: Would she be able to withstand... + Read More
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Series: Amazing Dads Love and Lessons From the Animal Kingdom Hardcover Bridget Hamilton 9781426218088 $11.99 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS May 02, 2017
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Series: How Music Works Paperback David Byrne 9780804188937 $32.00 MUSIC May 02, 2017

Updated with new insights from the incomparable David Byrne, this is an illuminative look inside the formative elements of music from the Talking Heads musician, filmmaker, and authorUpdated with new material, How Music Works is a Three Rivers Press reprint of the initial 2012 McSweeney’s publication and David Byrne’s buoyant celebration of a subject he’s spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and myriad collaborators, Byrne reveals how music emerges from cultural circumstance as much ... + Read More
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Series: Solitude A Singular Life in a Crowded World Hardcover Michael Harris 9780385686044 $32.00 PSYCHOLOGY Apr 18, 2017

Governor General's Award-winner Michael Harris explores the profound emotional and intellectual benefits of solitude, and how we may achieve it in our fast-paced world.The capacity to be alone--properly alone--is one of life's subtlest skills. Real solitude is a contented and productive state that garners tangible rewards: it allows us to reflect and recharge, improving our relationships with ourselves and, paradoxically, with others. Today, the zeitgeist embraces sharing like never before. Fueled by our dependence on online and social media, w... + Read More
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Series: Pumpkinflowers An Israeli Soldier's Story Paperback Matti Friedman 9780771036927 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 18, 2017

From an award-winning Canadian-Israeli writer comes the true story of a band of young soldiers, the author among them, charged with holding one remote outpost in Lebanon, a task that changed them forever and foreshadowed today’s unwinnable conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.It was small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that continue to emanate worldwide today. The hill was called the Pumpkin; flowers was the military code word for “casualties.” Friedman’s visceral narrative recreates ha... + Read More
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Series: Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space Paperback Janna Levin 9780307948489 $22.00 SCIENCE Apr 18, 2017

The authoritative story of Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne’s Nobel Prize–winning discovery of gravitational waves—by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer.With A New PrefaceIn 1916, Einstein predicted the presence of gravitational waves. One century later, we are recording the first sounds from space, evidence of the waves’ existence caused by the collision of two black holes. An authoritative account of the headline-making discovery by theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer Janna Levin, Black Ho... + Read More