Instant New York Times Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal Business BestsellerInstant Washington Post Bestseller“Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice.”—The Wall Street JournalDaniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human, unlocks the scientific secrets to good timing to help you flourish at work, at school, and at home.Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don’t know much about timing itself. Our lives are a never-ending stream of “when” decisions: when to start a business, schedule a ... + Read More
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Series: The Line Becomes a RiverDispatches from the BorderHardcoverFrancisco Cantú9780735217713$35.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 06, 2018
NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POSTSHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL OF EXCELLENCEFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITIC CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE The instant New York Times bestseller, “A must-read for anyone who thinks ’build a wall’ is the answer to anything.” —EsquireFor Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Driven to understand the hard realities of the landscape he loves, Cantú joins the Bor... + Read More
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Series: The FriendA NovelHardcoverSigrid Nunez9780735219441$34.00FICTION Feb 06, 2018
“Nunez’s prose itself comforts us. Her confident and direct style uplifts—the music in her sentences, her deep and varied intelligence.” -The New York Times Book Review“A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory…Nunez has a wry, withering wit.” -NPRA moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by ... + Read More
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Series: Without PrecedentChief Justice John Marshall and His TimesHardcoverJoel Richard Paul9781594488238$40.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 20, 2018
The remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States.No member of America’s Founding Generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did more to preserve the delicate unity of the fledgling United States. From the nation’s founding in 1776 and for the next forty years, Marshall was at the center of every political battle. As Chief Justice of the United States - the longest-serving in history - he e... + Read More
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Series: AwaylandStoriesHardcoverRamona Ausubel9781594634901$35.00FICTION Mar 06, 2018
An inventive story collection that spans the globe as it explores love, childhood, and parenthood with an electric mix of humor and emotion.Acclaimed for the grace, wit, and magic of her novels, Ramona Ausubel introduces us to a geography both fantastic and familiar in eleven new stories, some of them previously published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review. Elegantly structured, these stories span the globe and beyond, from small-town America and sunny Caribbean islands to the Arctic Ocean and the very gates of Heaven itself. And though som... + Read More
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Series: Fisherman's BluesA West African Community at SeaHardcoverAnna Badkhen9781594634864$36.00SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 13, 2018
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR AND PASTE MAGAZINEAn intimate account of life in a West African fishing village, tugged by currents ancient and modern, and dependent on an ocean that is being radically transformed.The sea is broken, fishermen say. The sea is empty. The genii have taken the fish elsewhere.For centuries, fishermen have launched their pirogues from the Senegalese port of Joal, where the fish used to be so plentiful a man could dip his hand into the grey-green ocean and pull one out as big as his thig... + Read More
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Series: The Female PersuasionA NovelHardcoverMeg Wolitzer9781594488405$35.00FICTION Apr 03, 2018
“[Wolitzer] writes in warm, specific prose that neither calls attention to itself nor ignores the mandate of the best books: to tell us things we know in ways we never thought to know them…[She] is an infinitely capable creator of human identities that are as real as the type on this page.” -The New York Times Book Review“Equal parts cotton candy and red meat, in the best way.” -People From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings, an electric, multilayered novel about ambition, power, friendship, and mentorship, and the romant... + Read More
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Series: Beneath a Ruthless SunA True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and FoundHardcoverGilbert King9780399183386$37.00HISTORY Apr 24, 2018
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST“Compelling, insightful and important, Beneath a Ruthless Sun exposes the corruption of racial bigotry and animus that shadows a community, a state and a nation. A fascinating examination of an injustice story all too familiar and still largely ignored, an engaging and essential read.”—Bryan Stevenson, author of Just MercyFrom the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Devil in the Grove, the gripping true story of a small town with a big secret.In December 1957, the wife of ... + Read More
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Series: The EnsembleA NovelHardcoverAja Gabel9780735214767$35.00FICTION May 15, 2018
“A riveting look inside the world of classical musicians and an intimate study of friendships.”—Marie ClaireThe addictive novel about four young friends navigating the cutthroat world of classical music and their complex relationships with each other, as ambition, passion, and love intertwine over the course of their lives.Jana. Brit. Daniel. Henry. They would never have been friends if they hadn’t needed each other. They would never have found each other except for the art which drew them together. They would never have become family without t... + Read More
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Series: Reality Is Not What It SeemsThe Journey to Quantum GravityPaperbackCarlo Rovelli9780735213937$22.00SCIENCE Jan 23, 2018
From the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universeWhat are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. Here he explains how our image of the world has changed over the last few dozen centuries.In elegant and accessible prose, Rovelli takes us on a wondrous journey from Aristotle to Albert Einstei... + Read More
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Series: The Kite Runner (Play Script)Based on the novel by Khaled HosseiniPaperbackMatthew Spangler9780735218062$23.00PERFORMING ARTS Feb 06, 2018
The script for the stage production of Khaled Hosseini’s first and internationally bestselling novel, The Kite Runner, as adapted by playwright Matthew Spangler. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. Now adapted for the stage, the story is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption, and is an exploration of the i... + Read More
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Series: A Thousand Splendid Suns (Play Script)Based on the novel by Khaled HosseiniPaperbackUrsula Rani Sarma9780735218246$23.00PERFORMING ARTS Feb 06, 2018
The script for the stage production of the bestselling Khaled Hosseini novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, as adapted by playwright Ursula Rani Sarma.Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss, and by fate. As they endure the ever-escalating dangers around them—in their home, as well as in the streets of Kabul—they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not... + Read More
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Series: A SeparationA NovelPaperbackKatie Kitamura9780399576119$22.00FICTION Feb 06, 2018
This is her story. About the end of her marriage. About what happened when Christopher went missing and she went to find him. These are her secrets, this is what happened…A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it’s time for them to separate. For the moment it’s a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, she gets word that Christopher has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged south of Greece; she reluctantly agrees to go look for him, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart, s... + Read More
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Series: Exit WestA NovelPaperbackMohsin Hamid9780735212206$22.00FICTION Feb 27, 2018
One of the most anticipated and thunderously greeted books of 2017: an astonishingly timely love story that brilliantly imagines the forces that transform ordinary people into refugees and the impossible choices that follow, to the uncertain embrace of new lands.In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning fam... + Read More
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Series: Fever DreamA NovelPaperbackSamanta Schweblin9780399184604$22.00FICTION Mar 06, 2018
The hallucinatory, terrifying debut novel of a young international literary star and “genius” (The New Yorker), translated into English for the first time.A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He’s not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family.Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come ... + Read More
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Series: The Knowledge IllusionWhy We Never Think AlonePaperbackSteven Sloman9780399184369$22.00PSYCHOLOGY Mar 13, 2018
“The Knowledge Illusion is filled with insights on how we should deal with our individual ignorance and collective wisdom.”—Steven PinkerWe all think we know more than we actually do.Humans have built hugely complex societies and technologies, but most of us don’t even know how a pen works. So how have we achieved so much despite understanding so little? Cognitive scientists Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach argue that we survive and thrive despite our mental shortcomings because we live in a rich community of knowledge. We’re constantly drawin... + Read More
A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind mothers and daughters and men and women to each other and to the places they call home. Lesley Arimah emigrated from Nigeria to Louisiana at the age of thirteen, a disorienting transition that left her keenly attuned to the shock waves set in motion by displacement. In these twelve powerful stories—half of which have never been published—which embrace magical-realist elements while deploying a powerfully empathetic understanding of character and circumstance, she explores ho... + Read More
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Series: Where the Water GoesLife and Death Along the Colorado RiverPaperbackDavid Owen9780735216099$22.00SCIENCE Apr 10, 2018
A brilliant, eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goesThe Colorado River is a crucial resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s headwaters to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and RV parks, to the spo... + Read More
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Series: PriestdaddyA MemoirPaperbackPatricia Lockwood9780399573262$22.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2018
A “vivid, unrelentingly funny” (The New Yorker) memoir about balancing identity with family and traditionGreg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met—a man who lounges in boxer shorts, loves action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates “like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972.” His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the Church’s country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents’ rectory, their two worlds collide.In Priestdaddy, Lockwood inte... + Read More
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Series: The Storied CityThe Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its PastPaperbackCharlie English9781594634291$23.00HISTORY May 01, 2018
The thrilling account of how a band of Malians risked their lives to save priceless ancient manuscripts from destruction in Al Qaeda-occupied Timbuktu, interwoven with the 19th century race to the famed, mythologized city.Timbuktu. To Westerners, for centuries the name conjured up a near-unattainable paradise. According to a handful of tantalizing first-hand accounts, it was an El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold. But it wasn’t until the late 18th century that a number of explorers, gripped by the fever for “discovery,” mounted a series o... + Read More
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Series: We Have No IdeaA Guide to the Unknown UniversePaperbackJorge Cham9780735211520$24.00SCIENCE May 08, 2018
Prepare to learn everything we still don’t know about our strange, mostly mysterious universe.PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have teamed up to spelunk through the enormous gaps in our cosmological knowledge, armed with their popular infographics, cartoons, and unusually entertaining and lucid explanations of science.In We Have No Idea, they explore the biggest unknowns in the universe, why these things are still mysteries, and what a lot of smart people are doing to figure out the answers (or at least ask t... + Read More
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