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Empty Spaces Hardcover Jordan Abel 9780771002014 $30.00 FICTION Aug 29, 2023

From the acclaimed, boundary-breaking author of NISHGA comes a hypnotic and mystifying exploration of land and legacy.Reimagining James Fenimore Cooper’s nineteenth-century text The Last of the Mohicans from the contemporary perspective of an urban Nisga’a person whose relationship to land and traditional knowledge was severed by colonial violence, Jordan Abel explores what it means to be Indigenous without access to familial territory and complicates popular understandings about Indigenous storytelling. Engaging the land through fiction and me... + Read More
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After That Poems Paperback Lorna Crozier 9780771004285 $22.95 POETRY Sep 05, 2023

From Lorna Crozier, the poet that Ursula Le Guin called a “truth teller” and “visionary,” comes this new collection of soul-stirring poems that follow the death of a loved one.After That is a book written from the dark hollow we fall into when we lose those we love. Lorna Crozier’s sure poetry finds the words to engage with the grief that comes from the death of her partner, the writer Patrick Lane, whom she’d lived with for forty years, many of them tumultuous. With grace and precision, she illuminates sorrow. The light the poems cast travels ... + Read More
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The MANIAC Hardcover Benjamin Labatut 9780771010415 $36.00 FICTION Oct 03, 2023

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the impact of his singular legacy on the dreams andnightmares of the twentieth century and the nascent age of AIBenjamín Labatut’s When We Cease to Understand the World electrified a global readership. A Booker Prize and National Book Award finalist, and one of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of the Year, it explored the life and thought of a clutch of mathematicians and physicists who took science to ... + Read More
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The Duel Diefenbaker, Pearson and the Making of Modern Canada Hardcover John Ibbitson 9780771003264 $45.00 HISTORY Oct 10, 2023

One of Canada’s foremost authors and journalists, offers a gripping account of the contest between John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson, two prime ministers who fought each other relentlessly, but who between them created today’s Canada.John Diefenbaker has been unfairly treated by history. Although he wrestled with personal demons, his governments launched major reforms in public health care, law reform and immigration. On his watch, First Nations on reserve obtained the right to vote and the federal government began to open up the North. He es... + Read More
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The Class A Memoir of a Place, a Time, and Us Hardcover Ken Dryden 9780771009235 $39.95 HISTORY Oct 17, 2023

From bestselling author Ken Dryden, a riveting new book.On Tuesday, September 6, 1960, the day after Labour Day, class 9G at Etobicoke Collegiate Institute in a suburb of Toronto assembled for the first time. Its thirty-five students, having written special exams, came to be known as the “Selected Class.”They would stay together through high school, with few exceptions. They would spend more than two hundred days a year together. Few had known each other before. Few have been in other than accidental contact in all the decades since.Their ances... + Read More
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From the Lost and Found Department New and Selected Poems Paperback Joy Kogawa 9780771005138 $24.00 POETRY Nov 07, 2023

A career-spanning volume that brings together new and selected works by an iconic voice in Canadian literature.From the Lost and Found Department, by the trailblazing Joy Kogawa, is a profound work of spare, trenchant, and haunting poems that lets us stay with the quietest qualities of beauty and the sublime.This essential volume brings together thrilling new work with selected poems from The Splintered Moon (1967), A Choice of Dreams (1974), Jericho Road (1977), Woman In the Woods (1985), and A Garden of Anchors: Selected Poems (2003).Kogawa’s... + Read More
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The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1 A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island Hardcover Kent Monkman 9780771061226 $48.00 ART Nov 07, 2023

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America.For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego of sorts, a shape-shifting, time-travelling elemental being named Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Though we have glimpsed her across the years in films and on countless canvases, it is finally time to hear ... + Read More
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The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 2 A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island Hardcover Kent Monkman 9780771006470 $44.00 ART Nov 28, 2023

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his longtime collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America.For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego of sorts, a shape-shifting, time-travelling elemental being named Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Though we have glimpsed her across the years, and on countless canvases, it is finally time to hear her story... + Read More
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My Fighting Family Borders and Bloodlines and the Battles That Made Us Hardcover Morgan Campbell 9780771050190 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 23, 2024

The debut memoir from award-winning journalist Morgan Campbell: an incredible history of a family’s battles across generations, a hilarious and emotional coming-of-age story, and a powerful reckoning with what it means to be Black in Canada—particularly when you have strong American roots.Morgan Campbell comes from “a fighting family,” a connection and clash that reaches back to the south side of Chicago in the 1930s. His father’s and mother’s families were both part of the Great Migration from the U.S. rural south to the industrial north, but ... + Read More
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Kiss the Red Stairs The Holocaust, Once Removed: A Memoir Paperback Marsha Lederman 9780771049385 $24.00 HISTORY Aug 22, 2023

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFor readers of All Things Consoled by Elizabeth Hay and They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson, Kiss the Red Stairs is a compelling memoir by award-winning journalist Marsha Lederman delves into her parents’ Holocaust stories in the wake of her own divorce, investigating how trauma migrates through generations with empathy, humour, and resilience.With compelling Holocaust stories, deep research into trauma theory, and a powerful personal narrative about family and motherhood, the book brings together subjects readers are fas... + Read More
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Peace and Good Order The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada Paperback Harold R. Johnson 9780771048746 $22.00 HISTORY Aug 29, 2023

A Globe and Mail Best Book of the YearAn urgent, informed, intimate condemnation of the Canadian state and its failure to deliver justice to Indigenous people by national bestselling author and former Crown prosecutor Harold R. Johnson. Now with brand new Afterword.“The night of the decision in the Gerald Stanley trial for the murder of Colten Boushie, I received a text message from a retired provincial court judge. He was feeling ashamed for his time in a system that was so badly tilted. I too feel this way about my time as both defence counse... + Read More
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Burning Questions Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004-2022 Paperback Margaret Atwood 9780771096426 $26.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 05, 2023

From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes an brilliant collection of essays—funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient— which seek answers to Burning Questions such as:Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?How can we live on our planet?Is it true? And is it fair?What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. This roller-coaste... + Read More
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Son of Elsewhere A Memoir in Pieces Paperback Elamin Abdelmahmoud 9780771002243 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 03, 2023

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom one of the most beloved media personalities of his generation comes a one-of-a-kind reflection on Blackness, faith, language, pop culture, and the challenges and rewards of finding your way in the world.Professional wrestling super fandom, Ontario’s endlessly unfurling 401 highway, late nights at the convenience store listening to heavy metal—for writer and podcast host Elamin Abdelmahmoud, these are the building blocks of a life. Son of Elsewhere charts that life in wise, funny, and moving reflections on the many thr... + Read More
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Held A Novel Hardcover Anne Michaels 9780771005459 $32.00 FICTION Nov 14, 2023

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling author of Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault.1917. On a battlefield near the River Aisne, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory—a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast—as the snow falls.1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river—alive, but not whole... + Read More
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Do You Remember Being Born? Hardcover Sean Michaels 9781039006751 $35.00 FICTION Sep 05, 2023

Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner Sean Michaels’ luminous new novel takes readers on a lyrical joy ride—seven, epic days in Silicon Valley with a tall, formidable poet (inspired by the real-life Marianne Moore) and her unusual new collaborator, a digital mind just one month old. It’s both a love letter to and an aching examination of art-making, family, identity and belonging.Dear Marian, the letter from the Company begins. You are one of the great writers of this century.At 75, Marian Ffarmer is almost as famous for her signature tricorn hat and ... + Read More
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Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology Are You Ready to Be Un-Settled? Paperback Shane Hawk 9781039003798 $25.00 FICTION Sep 19, 2023

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to be un-settled?” Featuring stories by:Norris Black • Amber Blaeser-Wardzala • Phoenix Boudreau • Cherie Dimaline • Carson Faust • Kelli Jo Ford • Kate Hart • Shane Hawk • Brandon Hobson • Darcie Little Badger • Conley Lyons • Nick Medina • Tiffany Morris • Tommy Orange • Mona Susan Power • Marcie R. Rendon • Waubgeshig Rice • Rebecca Roanhorse • Andrea L. Rogers • Morgan Talty • D.H. Trujillo • Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. • Richard... + Read More
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Eve How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution Hardcover Cat Bohannon 9780345813299 $42.00 SCIENCE Oct 03, 2023

An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new researcher and writer.Why do women live longer than men? Why do women have menopause? Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer’s? Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly their scores plummet? And does the female brain really exist?In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, she covers t... + Read More
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Moon of the Turning Leaves Paperback Waubgeshig Rice 9780735281585 $24.95 FICTION Oct 10, 2023

Twelve years after the lights go out…An epic journey to a forgotten homelandThe hotly anticipated sequel to the bestselling novel Moon of the Crusted SnowIn the years since a mysterious cataclysm caused a permanent blackout that toppled infrastructure and thrust the world into anarchy, Evan Whitesky has led his community in remote northern Canada off the rez and into the bush, where they’ve been rekindling their Anishinaabe traditions, isolated from the outside world. As new generations are born, and others come of age in a world after everythi... + Read More
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Great-Uncle Harry A Tale of War and Empire Hardcover Michael Palin 9781039001985 $38.00 HISTORY Oct 10, 2023

Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier—his great-uncle Harry.Some years ago a stash of family records was handed down to Michael Palin, among which were photos of an enigmatic young man in army uniform, as well as photos of the same young man as a teenager looking uncomfortable at family gatherings. This, Michael learned, was his Great-Uncle Harry, born in 1884, died in 1916. He had previously had no idea that he had a Great-Uncle Harry, much less that his life was cut short at the age of 32... + Read More
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I Love Russia Reporting from a Lost Country Hardcover Elena Kostyuchenko 9781039008816 $38.00 HISTORY Oct 17, 2023

“Elena Kostyuchenko is an important guide to the 21st century.” —Timothy Snyder, author of The Road to Unfreedom“A fascinating, frightening, compulsively readable chronicle of life in Putin’s Russia.” —Carol Off, author of All We Leave BehindTo be a journalist is to tell the truth.I Love Russia is Elena Kostyuchenko’s fearless attempt to document Putin’s Russia as experienced by those it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer provinces; patients and doctors in a Ukrainian maternity w... + Read More
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Her Space, Her Time How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe Hardcover Shohini Ghose 9781039002401 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 17, 2023

One of Canada’s leading physicistscelebrates the many, groundbreaking women scientists who came before her—unsung explorers of the cosmos who both discovered the fundamental rules of the universe and challenged social rules, yet whose names remain largely unknown to us.Her Space, Her Time shares the stories of women in physics and astronomy whose work expanded scientific understanding yet whose accomplishments are often overlooked—creating a thrilling account of scientific discovery, inspirational leadership and persistence in the face of overw... + Read More
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Undisputed A Champion's Life Hardcover Donovan Bailey 9781039005143 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 31, 2023

A memoir of Olympic glory, the value of mentorship and the courage to champion your own excellence, from the long-reigning world’s fastest man, Canadian sprinting legend Donovan Bailey.From the lush fields of his boyhood in Jamaica, to the basketball courts of Oakville, where he came of age in one of Canada’s most thriving cultural mosaics, to his sprint toward double Olympic gold for Canada in Atlanta in 1996, Donovan Bailey got a long way on natural talent. But he also learned that in the bureaucratic world of Canadian sports, an athlete who ... + Read More
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The Tenth Nerve A Brain Surgeon's Stories of the Patients Who Changed Him Paperback Dr. Chris Honey 9781039001183 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 29, 2023

Combining a humane perspective, lively anecdotes, and a deep curiosity about the uncharted territories of the human brain, The Tenth Nerve is a richly fascinating memoir that will fill you with wonder.“The scalpel can only go so deep, and technical skill can only take one so far.”In this absorbing narrative, Dr. Chris Honey, an accomplished neurosurgeon at Vancouver General Hospital, weaves his personal journey together with case studies that reflect the thrill of scientific discovery and the limitations of medicine. Operating on a terminally i... + Read More
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Playing the Long Game A Memoir Paperback Christine Sinclair 9781039004627 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 03, 2023

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“A captivatingly honest read.” —CBC SportsFor the first time in depth and in public, Olympic soccer gold-medalist Christine Sinclair, the top international goal scorer of all time and one of Canada’s greatest athletes, reflects on both her exhilarating successes and her heartbreaking failures. Playing the Long Game is a book of earned wisdom on the value of determination and team spirit, and on leadership that changed the landscape of women’s sport.Christine Sinclair is one of the world’s most respected and admired athletes. ... + Read More
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The Examined Life How We Lose and Find Ourselves Paperback Stephen Grosz 9780307359117 $22.00 SELF-HELP Dec 09, 2014

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA book of stories as powerful as therapy itself: psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws vivid, compelling lessons from his decades of practice to uncover the hidden feelings behind our ordinary behaviour.These beautifully rendered tales illuminate the fundamental pathways of life, from birth to death. A woman finds herself daydreaming as she returns home from a business trip; a young man loses his wallet. We learn, too, from more extreme examples: the patient who points an unloaded gun at a police officer, the compulsive liar... + Read More
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Flip Thinking The Life-Changing Art of Turning Problems into Opportunities Hardcover Berthold Gunster 9780593723555 $36.00 SELF-HELP Sep 05, 2023

Change your mindset from problem-focused (“yes, but”) to opportunistic (“yes, and”) using Omdenken, the Dutch art of flip thinking—from the bestselling author and founder of the Omdenken philosophyImagine this: You’ve got a great idea, and all you hear are the yes-buts.“Yes, but that’s been tried before, and it didn’t work.”“Yes, but shouldn’t we just let it sit for a while?”“Yes, but what if it doesn’t work…”Now in English for the first time, this international bestseller introduces the power of flip thinking to transform stuck-in-the-mud, pes... + Read More
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The Performance Paradox Turning the Power of Mindset into Action Hardcover Eduardo Briceño 9780593356906 $37.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 05, 2023

Discover how to balance learning and performing to bolster personal and team success with this revolutionary guide from a world-renowned expert on growth mindset.To succeed in a fast-changing world, individuals and companies know they must create a culture of growth, where experimentation and feedback are encouraged, and learning is integrated into the everyday. Yet we often get stuck in a well-worn pattern of habits that don’t move us forward. Why?Because many of us get trapped in the Performance Paradox: the counterintuitive phenomenon that i... + Read More
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The Mindful Body Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health Hardcover Ellen J. Langer 9780593497944 $37.99 PSYCHOLOGY Sep 05, 2023

Learn how adjusting your thoughts can change your health—from the “mother of mindfulness” and first female tenured professor of psychology at Harvard.When it comes to our health, too many of us think that a medical diagnosis describes a static or worsening condition. We live our lives as though our ailments—our stiff knees or frayed nerves or failing eyesight—can only change in one direction: for the worse. Ellen J. Langer’s life’s work proves the fault in that logic. She has spent more than forty years testing the limiting effects of our negat... + Read More
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XOXO, Cody An Opinionated Homosexual's Guide to Self-Love, Relationships, and Tactful Pettiness Hardcover Cody Rigsby 9780593722534 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 12, 2023

The beloved Peloton Instructor and Dancing with the Stars finalist chronicles his journey from small town North Carolina to New York City stardom in an empowering story that reveals his secret to success: not taking yourself—or life—too seriously.Cody Rigsby has a lot of opinions: Kevin is the hottest Backstreet Boy; grape jelly is a crime against nature; if you wear flip-flops in New York City, you do not love yourself. But if there is one opinion—one truth—that he holds above all others, it’s that we shouldn’t take ourselves too seriously. We... + Read More
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Come Together The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections Hardcover Emily Nagoski PhD 9780593500828 $39.99 SELF-HELP Jan 30, 2024

From the New York Times bestselling author of Come as You Are and co-author of Burnout comes an illuminating exploration of how to maintain a happy sex life in a long-term relationship.In Come as You Are, Emily Nagoski, PhD, provided science-backed lessons that revolutionized the way we think about women’s sexuality. Now, in Come Together, Nagoski takes on a fundamentally misunderstood subject: sex in long-term relationships.Most of us struggle at some point to maintain a sexual connection with our partner/s or spouse. And many of us are given ... + Read More
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The Big Freeze A Reporter's Personal Journey into the World of Egg Freezing and the Quest to Control Our Fertility Hardcover Natalie Lampert 9781524799380 $39.99 HEALTH & FITNESS Apr 02, 2024

A fascinating investigation into the lucrative, minimally regulated, fast-growing industry of egg freezing, from a young reporter on a personal journey into the world of cutting-edge reproductive medicineOvaries. Most women have two; journalist Natalie Lampert has only one—and then in her early twenties she almost lost it, along with her ability to ever have biological children. Doctors urged her to freeze her eggs, and Lampert started asking questions. The Big Freeze is the story of Lampert’s personal quest to investigate the multi-billion-do... + Read More
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It's On Me Accept Hard Truths, Discover Your Self, and Change Your Life Hardcover Sara Kuburic 9780593449264 $37.99 SELF-HELP Sep 19, 2023

From an existential psychotherapist, USA Today columnist, and Instagram’s popular “Millennial Therapist,” comes a guide to identifying self-loss—one of our greatest unspoken human sufferings, that feeling of being estranged or disconnected from your true Self—so we can answer the most essential question: “Who am I?”So many of us feel lonely, unfulfilled, or trapped—in our roles and relationships, in cycles of self-sabotage and wrong decisions, by our toxic patterns and misguided attempts to feel happy—or to feel something. Many of us struggle t... + Read More
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The Power of Fun How to Feel Alive Again Paperback Catherine Price 9780593241424 $25.99 SELF-HELP Jan 02, 2024

If you’re not having fun, you’re not fully living. The author of How to Break Up with Your Phone makes the casethat, far from being frivolous, fun is actually critical to our well-being - and shows us how to have more of it.We often think of fun as indulgent, even immature and selfish. We claim to not have time for it, even as we find hours a day for what Price calls Fake Fun—bingeing on television, doomscrolling the news, or posting photos to social media, all in hopes of filling some of the emptiness we feel inside.In this follow-up to her hi... + Read More
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On Thriving Harnessing Joy Through Life's Great Labors Hardcover Brandi Sellerz-Jackson 9780593496671 $37.99 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Jan 02, 2024

A renowned doula shares powerful lessons on healing and thriving through the murky seasons of life in this moving, intimate guide to deeper self-awareness and radical joy.We’ve all been there: We take a pause, look at our lives, and desire more—more from our relationships, more from our wellness journeys, maybe simply more from ourselves. For some, it might be more fun, more peace, more exploration—but what does it take to get to the other side of living in survival mode? In On Thriving, Brandi Sellerz-Jackson helps us wade through what she cal... + Read More
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The Loom of Time Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China Hardcover Robert D. Kaplan 9780593242797 $39.99 HISTORY Aug 22, 2023

A sweeping exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach and which may hold the key to the shifting world order of the 21st centuryThe Greater Middle East, which Robert D. Kaplan defines as the vast region between the Mediterranean and China encompassing much of the Arab world, parts of northern Africa, and Asia, existed for millennia as the crossroads of empire: Macedonian, Roman, Persian, Mongol, Ottoman, British, Soviet, American. But with the dissolution of empires in the twentieth centur... + Read More
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Up Home One Girl's Journey Hardcover Ruth J. Simmons 9780593446003 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 05, 2023

An inspiring, indelible memoir from the daughter of sharecroppers in East Texas who became the first Black president of an Ivy League University—an uplifting story of girlhood and the power of family, community, and the classroom to transform one young person’s life.I was born at a crossroads: a crossroads in history, a crossroads in culture, and a geographical crossroads in North Houston County in East Texas.Born in 1945, Ruth J. Simmons grew up the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Her first home had no running water, no electricity to light th... + Read More
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When the Game Was War The NBA's Greatest Season Hardcover Rich Cohen 9780593229545 $37.99 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 05, 2023

The gritty, no-holds-barred account of the 1987 NBA season, a thrilling year of fierce battles and off-the-court drama between Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Isiah Thomas, and Michael Jordan—from New York Times bestselling author Rich Cohen.The 1980s were a transformative decade for the NBA. Since its founding in 1946, the league had evolved from a bruising, earthbound game of mostly nameless, underpaid players to one in which athletes became household names for their thrilling, physics-defying play. The 1987 season was the peak of that golden era,... + Read More
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Taming the Street The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR's Fight to Regulate American Capitalism Hardcover Diana B. Henriques 9780593132647 $39.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 12, 2023

The dramatic story of FDR’s fight for the soul of American capitalism—from award-winning journalist Diana B. Henriques, author of The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of TrustTaming the Street tells the epic story of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s battle to regulate Wall Street in the wake of the 1929 Crash and the ensuing Great Depression. Deeply reported and vividly told, this tale takes readers back to a time when America’s financial landscape was a jungle ruled by the titans of vast wealth, largely unrestrained by government. ... + Read More
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Your Face Belongs to Us A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It Hardcover Kashmir Hill 9780593448564 $38.99 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Sep 19, 2023

The story of the small tech company that sold facial recognition to law enforcement and ended privacy as we know it—from a star tech reporter at The New York Times.New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill was skeptical when she got a tip about a mysterious app called Clearview AI that claimed it could, with 99 percent accuracy, identify anyone based on just one snapshot of their face. The app could supposedly scan a face and, in just seconds, surface every detail of a person’s online life: their name, social media profiles, friends and family ... + Read More
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Fear Is Just a Word A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance Hardcover Azam Ahmed 9780593448410 $37.99 TRUE CRIME Sep 26, 2023

The riveting true story of a vigilante mother in Mexico who fought back against the drug cartels to avenge the murder of her daughter, and a portrait of Mexico, from the New York Times Global Investigative Correspondent and former New York Times Mexico Bureau Chief.This unputdownable book weaves together two narratives: the story of a courageous mother, and an account of the rise of drug cartels and of violence in Mexico. The book begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the U.S. Miriam Rodriguez is stalking one of the men who murde... + Read More
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Some People Need Killing A Memoir of Murder in My Country Hardcover Patricia Evangelista 9780593133132 $39.99 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 17, 2023

A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into a violent autocracy—told through harrowing stories of the Philippines’ state-sanctioned killings of its citizens—from a leading journalist of international renown“My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I don’t wait very long.”Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new future for the Philippines. Three... + Read More
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Ours Was the Shining Future The Story of the American Dream Hardcover David Leonhardt 9780812993202 $42.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Oct 24, 2023

The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist behind The New York Times’s “The Morning” newsletter.Two decades into the 21st century, we find ourselves in a cynical time. The phrase “American dream” is often used ironically or even with bitterness. Indeed, we hear more about the death of the dream than anyone achieving it. And the stagnation of living standards for most people has been the defining trend of American life. Life expectancy has dec... + Read More
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How to Know a Person The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen Hardcover David Brooks 9780593230060 $39.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 24, 2023

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Road to Character and The Second MountainAs #1 New York Times bestselling author David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen—to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued,... + Read More
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On Great Fields The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Hardcover Ronald C. White 9780525510086 $48.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 31, 2023

From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero.Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union army, but he was undeterred and later became known as one of the North’s greatest heroes: On the second day at Gettysbu... + Read More
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Entangled Life: The Illustrated Edition How Fungi Make Our Worlds Hardcover Merlin Sheldrake 9780593729984 $54.00 SCIENCE Nov 07, 2023

Merlin Sheldrake’s New York Times bestseller, Entangled Life, is now a lavish visual journey into the hidden lives of fungi.When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave.In the first edition of the mind-bending, “gorgeous” (Marga... + Read More
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The Killing Season The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany a War Hardcover Robert Cowley 9781400068524 $51.00 HISTORY Dec 03, 2024

An in-depth, authoritative account of the First Battle of Ypres, an early turning point in World War I that irrevocably changed the course of modern warfare—by the founding editor of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military HistoryThe Marne may have saved Paris and prevented a humiliating setback for the Allies, but it did not spell eventual defeat for Germany. Ypres did.The final months of 1914 were the bloodiest interval in a famously bloody war, truly a killing season. They ended in the First Battle of Ypres, a struggle whose importance has be... + Read More
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Our Moon How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are Hardcover Rebecca Boyle 9780593129722 $38.99 SCIENCE Jan 16, 2024

Our Moon provokes us to reexamine our relationship with our closest cosmic companion.Many of us know that the Moon pulls on our oceans, driving the tides, but did you know that it smells like gunpowder? Or that it was essential to the development of science and religion? Acclaimed journalist, Rebecca Boyle takes us on a dazzling cultural and scientific tour to reveal the intimate role our 4.34-billion-year-old companion has played in our biological and cultural evolution.Our Moon’s gravity stabilized the Earth’s orbit—and our climate; pulled nu... + Read More
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Egyptian Made Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation Hardcover Leslie T. Chang 9780525509219 $39.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 23, 2024

An incisive exploration of women and work, showing how globalization’s promise of liberation instead set the stage for repression—from the acclaimed author of Factory Girls.What happens to the women who choose to work in a country struggling to reconcile a traditional culture with the demands of globalization? In this sharply drawn, immersive portrait of Egyptian society, veteran reporter Leslie T. Chang follows three women as they establish businesses and careers in a country that throws up obstacles at every step, from economic upheaval to co... + Read More
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Becoming FDR The Personal Crisis That Made a President Paperback Jonathan Darman 9780812978780 $27.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 05, 2023

“An illuminating account of how Franklin D. Roosevelt’s struggles with polio steeled him for the great struggles of the Depression and of World War II.” —Jon Meacham“A valuable book for anyone who wants to know how adversity shapes character. By understanding how FDR became a deeper and more empathetic person, we can nurture those traits in ourselves and learn from the challenges we all face.” —Walter IsaacsonIn popular memory, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the quintessential political “natural.” Born in 1882 to a wealthy, influential family an... + Read More
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Liberation Day Stories Paperback George Saunders 9780525509615 $23.00 FICTION Oct 10, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of our most inventive purveyors of the form returns with pitch-perfect, genre-bendingstories that stare into the abyss of our national character…. An exquisite work from a writer whose reach is galactic.”—Oprah DailyONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, NPR, Time,USA Today, The Guardian, Esquire, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library JournalThe “best short story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics... + Read More
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The Black Period On Personhood, Race, and Origin Paperback Hafizah Augustus Geter 9780593448663 $27.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 26, 2023

WINNER OF THE PEN/OPEN BOOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews • Acclaimed poet Hafizah Augustus Geter reclaims her origin story in this “lyrical memoir” (The New Yorker)—combining lyrical prose, biting criticism, and haunting visuals.“I say, ‘the Black Period,’ and mean ‘home’ in all its shapeshifting ways.” In The Black Period, Hafizah creates a space for the beauty of Blackness, Islam, disability, and queerness to flourish, celebrating the many layers of her exis... + Read More
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And There Was Light Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle Paperback Jon Meacham 9780553393989 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 17, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America.“In his captivating new book, Jon Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.A President who governed a country at war with itself has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secess... + Read More
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Mr. B George Balanchine's 20th Century Paperback Jennifer Homans 9780812984781 $32.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 07, 2023

Based on a decade of research by The New Yorker’s celebrated dance critic, the first major biography of George Balanchine, the man The New York Times called “the Shakespeare of dancing.”"A fascinating read about a true genius and his unrelenting thirst for beauty in art and in life.”—Mikhail BaryshnikovWinner of the Marfield Prize for Arts Writing • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award“A truly great work that changes everything.”—Hilton AlsArguably the gr... + Read More
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Nero Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome Paperback Anthony Everitt 9780593133217 $29.99 HISTORY Nov 14, 2023

A striking, nuanced biography of Nero—the controversial populist ruler and last of the Caesars—and a vivid portrait of ancient Rome.“This exciting and provocative book grabs the reader while supporting its arguments with careful classical scholarship.” —Barry Strauss, author of The War That Made the Roman EmpireThe Roman emperor Nero has long been the very image of a bad ruler—cruel, vain, and incompetent. He committed incest with his mother, who had schemed and killed to place him on the throne, and later murdered her. He supposedly set fire t... + Read More
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Morgenthau Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty Paperback Andrew Meier 9780812981049 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 21, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • An “epic and intimate” (David M. Kennedy) portrait of four generations of theMorgenthau family, a dynasty of power brokers and public officials with an outsize—and previously unmapped—influenceextending from daily life in New York City to the shaping of the American Century“Magisterial…a vivid retelling of critical domestic and world events over two centuries.”—Dr. Fiona Hill"After coming to America from Germany in 1866, the Morgenthaus made history in international diplomacy, in domestic politics, and in Americ... + Read More
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Series: MODERN LIBRARY TORCHBEARERS Narrative of Sojourner Truth Paperback Sojourner Truth 9780593242643 $16.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 11, 2024

The autobiography of a Black woman who defied nineteenth-century conventions to become a preacher, popular speaker, abolitionist, and women’s rights activist.“Sojourner Truth [was] an outspoken, tell-it-like-it-is kind of woman…[She] fought for her own freedom, and then used her powers, young people—then she used her power to help others…I hope that Sojourner Truth would be proud to see me, a descendant of slaves, serving as the First Lady of the United States of America.”—Michelle ObamaSojourner Truth was an incredible, remarkable, epoch-defyi... + Read More
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The Greek Histories The Sweeping History of Ancient Greece as Told by Its First Chroniclers: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch Paperback Mary Lefkowitz 9781984854322 $29.99 HISTORY Jan 02, 2024

From the leading scholars behind The Greek Plays, a collection of the best translations of the foremost early Greek historians, presenting a sweeping history of Ancient Greece by its first chroniclers.“This astute selection of texts, intelligently and accessibly interconnected and in highly readable translations, is just the thing to remind usat human history, though lamentably a work in progress, is always something we can understand better.” —Sarah Ruden, translator of The Gospels and author of The Face of WaterThe historians of Ancient Greec... + Read More
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What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures Hardcover Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 9780593229361 $42.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 16, 2024

Our climate future is not yet written.What if we act as if we love the future?Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures.Through clear-eyed essays and vibrant conversations, infused with data, poetry, and art, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson guides us through solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice. Visionary farmers and financers, architects and advocates hel... + Read More
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Lucky Me A Memoir of Changing the Odds Hardcover Rich Paul 9780593448472 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 10, 2023

A memoir of will, success, and the luck we make—from the founder and CEO of Klutch Sports Group and one of the most influential figures in the multibillion-dollar sports industry.There’s a story about Rich Paul that everyone knows: A 21-year-old kid from Cleveland who makes his living selling sports jerseys out of his car meets a high-school basketball phenom named Lebron James at an airport—the two become friends and forge a decades-long partnership that reinvents the business of sports. That random meeting might seem like the lucky break that... + Read More
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The 1619 Project A New Origin Story Paperback Nikole Hannah-Jones 9780593230596 $34.00 HISTORY Jun 04, 2024

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Esquire, Electric Lit, Kirkus ReviewsIn late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented syste... + Read More