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Series: THURSDAY MURDER CLUB MYSTERY, The Last Devil to Die A Thursday Murder Club Mystery Hardcover Richard Osman 9780593299425 $39.00 FICTION Sep 19, 2023

A new mystery is afoot in the fourth book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard OsmanIt’s rarely a quiet day for the Thursday Murder Club.Shocking news reaches them—an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing.The gang’s search leads them into the antiques business, where the tricks of the trade are as old as the objects themselves. As they encounter drug dealers, art forgers, and online fraudsters—as well as heartache close to home—Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and... + Read More
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Series: THURSDAY MURDER CLUB MYSTERY, The Last Devil to Die A Thursday Murder Club Mystery Large type / large print edition Paperback Richard Osman 9780593792650 $41.00 FICTION Oct 17, 2023

THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB BOOK 4: The Fourth Book in the Thursday Murder Club SeriesA new mystery is afoot in the fourth book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard Osman. Coming September 2023!Readers can’t get enough of the Thursday Murder Club series!“A thing of joy.” —Kate Atkinson“Mystery fans are going to be enthralled.” —Harlan Coben“[Feels] like a reunion with old friends. Clever, witty, and touching, this thriller has it all.” —Lisa GardnerStory Locale: English countryside
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First Lie Wins A Novel Hardcover Ashley Elston 9780593492918 $37.99 FICTION Jan 09, 2024

Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist.“Buckle up. First Lie Wins features some of the best cat and mouse suspense I’ve read in years, while serving up plenty of heart along this wild ride.”—Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Step Too Far“First Lie Wins is a high-stakes thriller…Smart and sharp, fast-paced and twisty…a truly unpredictable, unforgettable stor... + Read More
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Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist.“Buckle up. First Lie Wins features some of the best cat and mouse suspense I’ve read in years, while serving up plenty of heart along this wild ride.”—Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Step Too Far“First Lie Wins is a high-stakes thriller…Smart and sharp, fast-paced and twisty…a truly unpredictable, unforgettable stor... + Read More
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Once a rising star of the Republican Party, Adam Kinzinger became a traitor when he voted to impeach Donald Trump after the January 6 attacks on the Capitol. Now he shares a gripping firsthand account of the events that led to this moment, and the sacrifice required to do what is right.On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump incited a violent mob to storm the US Capitol in attempts to overturn the presidential election. It was a betrayal of our Constitution, and one of the darkest days in recent history. Yet to former congressman Adam Kinzinger it was... + Read More
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Sheriff Walt Longmire uncovers a cold case that hits very close to home and forces him to put his life on the line with implications that some people would kill to keep buried foreverSheriff Walt Longmire and Dog are called on a routine search and rescue to Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains, where Walt finds himself on a rock outcropping remembering when his father told him about the first time he saw a man die. In the late forties, Bill Sutherland was shot but the investigation was stymied because no member of the elk camp—where he was found—was c... + Read More
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“A deeply honest and funny look at how exhausting it can be to live a human life, Unreliable Narrator is a book for anyone who wants to laugh and feel less alone.”—Amy Poehler A hilarious and insightful collection of essays exploring impostor syndrome, from the inside and out, by the most successful fraud in comedyAparna Nancherla is a superstar comedian on the rise—a darling of Netflix and Comedy Central’s comedy special lineups, a headliner at comedy shows and music festivals, a frequenter of late night television and the subject of numerous... + Read More
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The long-awaited sequel to A Column of Fire, The Armor of Light, heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge, England, where progress clashes with tradition, class struggles push into every part of society, and war in Europe engulfs the entire continent and beyond.The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother’s husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young wo... + Read More
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Series: KINGSBRIDGE The Armor of Light A Novel Unabridged edition CD-Audio Ken Follett 9780593789612 $79.00 FICTION Sep 26, 2023

The long-awaited sequel to A Column of Fire, The Armor of Light, heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge, England, where progress clashes with tradition, class struggles push into every part of society, and war in Europe engulfs the entire continent and beyond.The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother’s husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young wo... + Read More
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Democracy Awakening Notes on the State of America Hardcover Heather Cox Richardson 9780593652961 $39.99 HISTORY Sep 26, 2023

“Engaging and highly accessible.”—Boston Globe“A vibrant, and essential history of America’s unending, enraging and utterly compelling struggle since its founding to live up to its own best ideals… It’s both a cause for hope, and a call to arms.”—Jane Mayer, author Dark MoneyFrom historian and author of the popular daily newsletter LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy—and how we can turn back.In the midst of the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heath... + Read More
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Democracy Awakening Notes on the State of America Large type / large print edition Paperback Heather Cox Richardson 9780593792612 $42.00 HISTORY Oct 24, 2023

“Engaging and highly accessible.”—Boston Globe“A vibrant, and essential history of America’s unending, enraging and utterly compelling struggle since its founding to live up to its own best ideals… It’s both a cause for hope, and a call to arms.”—Jane Mayer, author Dark MoneyFrom historian and author of the popular daily newsletter LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy—and how we can turn back.In the midst of the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heath... + Read More
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A Nearby Country Called Love A Novel Hardcover Salar Abdoh 9780593653906 $37.99 FICTION Nov 07, 2023

A sweeping, propulsive novel about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves, in which a man struggles to find his place in an Iran on the brink of combustingAmid the alleyways of the Zamzam neighborhood of Tehran, a woman lights herself on fire in a desperate act of defiance, setting off a chain reaction of violence and protest. Haunted by the woman’s death, Issa is forced to confront the contradictions of his own family history, throughout which his late brother Hashem, a prominent queer artist in Tehran’s undergrou... + Read More
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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years A Novel Hardcover Shubnum Khan 9780593653456 $37.99 FICTION Jan 09, 2024

Rebecca and The House of Spirits meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, the djinn that haunts it, and a curious girl who unearths the tragedy that happened there a hundred years previousAkbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins: an isolated boardinghouse for misfits, seeking to forget their pasts and disappear into the mansions dark corridors.Until Sana. She and her father are the latest of... + Read More
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Legacy A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine Hardcover Uché Blackstock MD 9780593491287 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 23, 2024

“Legacy is both a compelling memoir and an edifying analysis of the inequities in the way we deliver healthcare in America. Uché Blackstock is a force of nature.” —Abraham Verghese, MD, New York Times-bestselling author of The Covenant of Water and Cutting for StoneThe rousing, captivating story of a Black physician, her career in medicine, and the deep inequities that still exist in the U.S. healthcare systemGrowing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicia... + Read More
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Optimal Illusions The False Promise of Optimization Hardcover Coco Krumme 9780593331118 $39.00 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Sep 12, 2023

A mathematical modeler explains how optimization took over the world, arguing that we urgently need a new approach.Optimization is the driving principle of our modern world. We now can manufacture, transport, and organize things more cheaply and faster than ever. Optimized models underly everything from supply chains and airplane schedules to dating site matches. We strive for efficiency in our daily lives, obsessed with productivity and optimal performance. How did a mathematical concept take on such outsized cultural shape? And what is lost, ... + Read More
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The Vaster Wilds A Novel Hardcover Lauren Groff 9780593418390 $37.99 FICTION Sep 12, 2023

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated, bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive.A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief of everything that her own civilization has taught her.Lauren Groff’s new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story a... + Read More
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The Vaster Wilds A Novel Unabridged edition CD-Audio Lauren Groff 9780593788950 $54.00 FICTION Oct 03, 2023

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Lauren Groff just reinvented the adventure novel.”—Los Angeles Times“Glorious…surroundings come alive in prose that lives and breathes upon the page.” —Boston Globe“I know of few other writers whose sentences are so beautiful and so propulsive." —New York Times Book ReviewA taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with... + Read More
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The Vaster Wilds A Novel Large type / large print edition Paperback Lauren Groff 9780593792636 $39.99 FICTION Oct 10, 2023

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Lauren Groff just reinvented the adventure novel.”—Los Angeles Times“Glorious…surroundings come alive in prose that lives and breathes upon the page.” —Boston Globe“I know of few other writers whose sentences are so beautiful and so propulsive." —New York Times Book ReviewA taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with... + Read More
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Love in a Time of Hate Art and Passion in the Shadow of War Hardcover Florian Illies 9780593713938 $39.00 HISTORY Sep 19, 2023

An ingeniously orchestrated popular history brings to life the most pivotal decade of the twentieth centuryAs the Roaring Twenties wind down, Jean-Paul Sartre waits in a Paris café for a first date with Simone de Beauvoir, who never shows. Marlene Dietrich slips away from a loveless marriage to cruise the dive bars of Berlin. The fledgling writer Vladimir Nabokov places a freshly netted butterfly at the end of his wife’s bed. Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Zelda and Scott, Dali and Gala, Picasso and his many muses, Henry and June and Anaïs Nin... + Read More
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Land of Milk and Honey A Novel Hardcover C Pam Zhang 9780593538241 $37.99 FICTION Sep 26, 2023

The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world.A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent, mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world’s troubles.There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one tha... + Read More
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Family Meal A Novel Hardcover Bryan Washington 9780593421093 $37.99 FICTION Oct 10, 2023

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel about two young men, once best friends, whose lives collide again after a loss.Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai’s ghost won’t leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, and unexpected. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the orbit of his former best friend, TJ, and TJ’s family bakery. TJ’s not sure how to navigate this changed Cam, impenetrably cool and self-... + Read More
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How Infrastructure Works Inside the Systems That Shape Our World Hardcover Deb Chachra 9780593086599 $39.00 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Oct 17, 2023

A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us.Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and productivity that would have been unimaginable just a century ago. It is the physical manifestation of our social contract—of our ability to work collectively for the public good—and it consists of the most complex and vast technological systems ever created by humans.A soaring bridge is an obvious infrastructural feat, but so are the mostly hidden r... + Read More
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Edith Holler A Novel Hardcover Edward Carey 9780593188903 $37.99 FICTION Oct 31, 2023

The witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse—and the mysterious figure who threatens the theater’s very survivalThe year is 1901. England’s beloved queen has died, and her aging son has finally taken the throne. In the eastern city of Norwich, bright and inquisitive young Edith Holler spends her days among the boisterous denizens of the Holler Theatre, warned by her domineering father that the playhouse will literally tumble down if she should ever leave its confines. Fascinated by tales of the city ... + Read More
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White Holes Hardcover Carlo Rovelli 9780593545447 $36.00 SCIENCE Oct 31, 2023

A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of TimeLet us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. We slip beyond its horizon and tumble down this crack in the universe. As we plunge, we see geometry fold. Time and space pull and stretch. And finally, at the black hole’s core, space and time dissolve, and a white hole is born. Rovelli has dedicated his career to uniting the time-warping ideas of general relativity and the... + Read More
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A Death in Malta An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice Hardcover Paul Caruana Galizia 9780593543733 $39.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 07, 2023

A journalist’s spellbinding account of the shocking murder of his muckraking mother and a quest for justice that has reverberated far beyond their tiny homelandAn archipelago off the southern coast of Italy, Malta is a country of contradictions, a picturesque gem eroded by a climate of extreme corruption, polarization, and inequality, and a virtual absence of civic spirit. In this unpromising soil, a fearless journalist took root. Daphne Caruana Galizia fashioned herself into the country’s lonely voice of conscience, her outspoken writing and c... + Read More
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The Vulnerables A Novel Hardcover Sigrid Nunez 9780593715512 $37.99 FICTION Nov 07, 2023

The New York Times–bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through brings her singular voice to a story about modern life and connection.Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez’s ninth novel. The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past.H... + Read More
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This Wheel of Rocks An Unexpected Spiritual Journey Hardcover Sister Marya Grathwohl 9781594487309 $39.00 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Nov 14, 2023

The memoir of a Catholic nun’s spiritual journey that explores the deep connections between faith and the natural world.Growing up in the Midwest, Judy Grathwohl never felt she belonged. “I belong out west,” she remembers telling her father. After joining the Sisters of St. Francis in the early 1960s and becoming Sister Marya, she came to realize that she craved a life beyond the traditional path of a Catholic nun.“Something other than dedicating my life to God was summoning me, some other life purpose,” she writes.It took several years and sev... + Read More
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The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac Stories Hardcover Louise Kennedy 9780593540923 $37.99 FICTION Dec 05, 2023

Brilliant, dark stories of women’s lives by “a very major talent” (Joseph O’Connor, Irish Times)In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories by the author of the much-acclaimed Trespasses, women’s lives are etched by deprivation—material, emotional, sexual—but also splashed by beauty, sometimes even joy, as they search for the good in the cards they’ve been dealt.A wife is abandoned by her new husband in a derelict housing estate. An expectant mother’s worst fears about her husband’s entanglement with a teenage girl are confirmed. A sister is ... + Read More
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You Dreamed of Empires A Novel Hardcover Alvaro Enrigue 9780593544792 $37.99 FICTION Jan 09, 2024

From the visionary author of Sudden Death, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story.One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés entered the city of Tenochtitlan – today’s Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures.Cortés was accompanied by his nine captains, his troops, and his two translators: Friar Aguilar, a taciturn, former slave, and Malinalli, a strategic, former princess. Greeted at a ceremonial welcome meal by the steely p... + Read More
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Best of Friends A Novel Paperback Kamila Shamsie 9780593421833 $24.95 FICTION Sep 26, 2023

From the acclaimed author of Home Fire, the moving and surprising story of a lifelong friendship and the forces that bring it to the breaking pointZahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though—or maybe because—they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences in their backgrounds or their values, not even after the fateful night when a moment of adolescent impulse upends their plans for the future.Three decades later, Zahra and Maryam have grown into powerful women who have each cut a... + Read More
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Life Is Hard How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way Paperback Kieran Setiya 9780593538227 $24.95 SELF-HELP Oct 03, 2023

A philosophical guide to facing life’s inevitable hardshipsThere is no cure for the human condition: life is hard. But Kieran Setiya believes philosophy can help. He offers us a map for navigating rough terrain, from personal trauma to the injustice and absurdity of the world. In this profound and personal book, Setiya shows how the tools of philosophy can help us find our way. Drawing on ancient and modern philosophy as well as fiction, history, memoir, film, comedy, social science, and stories from Setiya’s own experience, Life Is Hard is a b... + Read More
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Visual Thinking The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions Paperback Temple Grandin PhD 9780593418376 $24.95 PSYCHOLOGY Oct 10, 2023

A landmark book that reveals, celebrates, and advocates for the special minds and contributions of visual thinkersA quarter of a century after her memoir, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin—the “anthropologist on Mars,” as Oliver Sacks dubbed her—transforms our awareness of the different ways our brains are wired. Do you have a keen sense of direction, a love of puzzles, the ability to assemble IKEA furniture without crying? You are likely a visual thinker.With her genius for demystifying scien... + Read More
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Seven Empty Houses (National Book Award Winner) Paperback Samanta Schweblin 9780525541400 $24.95 FICTION Oct 17, 2023

A National Book Award finalist, a blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the 3 time International Booker Prize finalist, "lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon.” –O, the Oprah magazineThe seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty. But in Samanta Schweblin’s tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back inside: a ghost, a fight, tres... + Read More
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Trespasses A Novel Paperback Louise Kennedy 9780593540909 $24.95 FICTION Oct 31, 2023

Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and unsanctioned love. Amid daily reports of sectarian violence, Cushla is living a quiet life with her mother in a small town near Belfast. By day she teaches at a parochial school, and at night she fills in at her family’s pub. It’s there that she meets Michael Agnew, a barrister who’s made a name for himself defending IRA members. Against her better judgment – Michael is not only Protestant but older, and married – Cushl... + Read More
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Series: NUMA FILES, THE Clive Cussler Condor's Fury Hardcover Graham Brown 9780593543979 $39.95 FICTION Sep 05, 2023

Kurt Austin faces mind-control technology and cutting-edge weaponry in the latest novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series created by the “grand master of adventure” Clive Cussler.On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun.While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The trawler th... + Read More
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Series: NUMA FILES, THE Clive Cussler Condor's Fury Unabridged edition CD-Audio Graham Brown 9780593787823 $60.00 FICTION Sep 19, 2023

Kurt Austin faces mind-control technology and cutting-edge weaponry in the latest novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series created by the “grand master of adventure” Clive Cussler. On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The tr... + Read More
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Series: NUMA FILES, THE Clive Cussler Condor's Fury Large type / large print edition Paperback Graham Brown 9780593792520 $42.00 FICTION Sep 26, 2023

Kurt Austin faces mind-control technology and cutting-edge weaponry in the latest novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series created by the “grand master of adventure” Clive Cussler. On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The tr... + Read More
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Series: PETER ASH NOVEL, A The Price You Pay Hardcover Nick Petrie 9780593540558 $39.00 FICTION Feb 06, 2024

Peter Ash must follow his closest friend, Lewis, into the criminal underworld when secrets from the past threaten everything they hold dear in this propulsive new thriller from the bestselling and award-winning series.Lewis has helped Peter Ash out of more trouble than Peter cares to remember. So he doesn’t hesitate when Lewis asks a favor in return. Lewis has left his criminal past behind, but a former associate may be in trouble, and he and Peter must drive into the teeth of a blizzard to find him. When they discover blood in the snow and a ... + Read More
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The Black Angels The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis Hardcover Maria Smilios 9780593544921 $39.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 19, 2023

New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nursing shortage.In the pre-antibiotic days when tuberculosis stirred people’s darkest fears, killing one in seven, white nurses at Sea View, New York’s largest municipal hospital, began quitting en masse. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on an isolated hilltop in the remote borough of St... + Read More
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Series: PREY NOVEL, A Judgment Prey Hardcover John Sandford 9780593542811 $39.95 FICTION Oct 03, 2023

Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to crack an unsolvable case in this thrilling new novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.Alex Sand was spending the evening at home playing basketball with his two young sons when all three were shot in cold blood. A wealthy federal judge, there’s no short list of people who could have a vendetta against Sands, but the gruesome murders, especially that of his children, turn their St. Paul community on its head. Sand was on the verge of a major donation to a local housing charity, H... + Read More
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Series: PREY NOVEL, A Judgment Prey Unabridged edition CD-Audio John Sandford 9780593788004 $54.00 FICTION Oct 17, 2023

Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to crack an unsolvable case in this thrilling new novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.Alex Sand was spending the evening at home playing basketball with his two young sons when all three were shot in cold blood. A wealthy federal judge, there’s no short list of people who could have a vendetta against Sands, but the gruesome murders, especially that of his children, turn their St. Paul community on its head. Sand was on the verge of a major donation to a local housing charity, H... + Read More
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Series: PREY NOVEL, A Judgment Prey Large type / large print edition Paperback John Sandford 9780593792568 $42.00 FICTION Oct 31, 2023

Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to crack an unsolvable case in this thrilling new novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford.Alex Sand was spending the evening at home playing basketball with his two young sons when all three were shot in cold blood. A wealthy federal judge, there’s no short list of people who could have a vendetta against Sands, but the gruesome murders, especially that of his children, turn their St. Paul community on its head. Sand was on the verge of a major donation to a local housing charity, H... + Read More
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Hitchcock's Blondes The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession Hardcover Laurence Leamer 9780593542972 $39.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 10, 2023

Bestselling author of Capote’s Women Laurence Leamer shares an engrossing account of the enigmatic director Alfred Hitchcock that finally puts the dazzling actresses he cast in his legendary movies at the center of the story.Alfred Hitchcock was fixated—not just on the dark, twisty stories that became his hallmark, but also by the blond actresses who starred in many of his iconic movies. The director of North by Northwest, Rear Window, and other classic films didn’t much care if they wore wigs, got their hair coloring out of a bottle, or were t... + Read More
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Shoot the Moon Hardcover Isa Arsén 9780593543887 $37.99 FICTION Oct 10, 2023

How far would you travel for love?Intelligent but isolated recent physics graduate Annie Fisk feels an undeniable pull toward space. Her childhood memories dimmed by loss, she has left behind her home, her family, and her first love in pursuit of intellectual fulfillment. When she finally lands a job as a NASA secretary during the Apollo 11 mission, the work is everything she dreamed, and while she feels a budding attraction to one of the engineers, she can’t get distracted. Not now.When her inability to ignore mistaken calculations propels her... + Read More
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Series: TEDDY FAY NOVEL, A Obsession Hardcover Stuart Woods 9780593188484 $39.00 FICTION Oct 10, 2023

Teddy Fay must put all his skills to the test in this electrifying new adventure in the New York Times bestselling series.While filming on location in scenic Santa Barbara, California, Peter Barrington and Ben Bacchetti look to expand Centurion Studios’ business by making a deal with a young Croatian tech billionaire. But when the magnate’s wife is kidnapped, Teddy Fay is brought in to assess the threat and recover the young woman.As Teddy unravels the threads of her disappearance, he quickly comes to find an old vendetta seethes at the center,... + Read More
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Hidden Potential The Science of Achieving Greater Things Large type / large print edition Paperback Adam Grant 9780593676738 $45.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Nov 14, 2023

“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would’ve helped me find a more joyful path to progress.” —Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles tennis championThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights.We live in a world that’s obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in mus... + Read More
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Series: TEDDY FAY NOVEL, A Obsession Large type / large print edition Paperback Stuart Woods 9780593743836 $41.00 FICTION Nov 07, 2023

Teddy Fay must put all his skills to the test in this electrifying new adventure in the New York Times bestselling series.While filming on location in scenic Santa Barbara, California, Peter Barrington and Ben Bacchetti look to expand Centurion Studios’ business by making a deal with a young Croatian tech billionaire. But when the magnate’s wife is kidnapped, Teddy Fay is brought in to assess the threat and recover the young woman.As Teddy unravels the threads of her disappearance, he quickly comes to find an old vendetta seethes at the center,... + Read More
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Opposable Thumbs How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever Hardcover Matt Singer 9780593540152 $39.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 24, 2023

Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB.You asked whether Siskel & Ebert had given it “two thumbs up.”On a cold Saturday afternoon in 1975, two men (who had known each other for eight years before they’d ever exchanged a word) met for lunch in a Chicago pub. Gene Siskel was the film critic for the Chicago Tribune. Roger Ebert had recently won the Pulitzer Prize—the first ever awarded to a film critic—for his work at the Chicago Sun-Times. To say they despised each other w... + Read More
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Series: DIRK PITT ADVENTURE Clive Cussler The Corsican Shadow Hardcover Dirk Cussler 9780593544174 $39.95 FICTION Nov 07, 2023

Intrepid adventurer Dirk Pitt must unravel an enduring historical mystery in the latest novel in the beloved New York Times best-selling series created by the “grand master of adventure” Clive Cussler.In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Musee de l’Armee is ordered to get a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. When he arrives at the port of Le Havre and learns that his intended ship has been sunk, he places the object on a decrepit steamer that sails out under German fir... + Read More