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Series: Tribe of Mentors Short Life Advice from the Best in the World Hardcover Timothy Ferriss 9781328994967 $43.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Nov 21, 2017

Tim Ferriss, the #1New York Times best-selling author ofThe 4-Hour Workweek, shares the ultimate choose-your-own-adventure book—a compilation of tools, tactics, and habits from 130+ of the world's top performers. From iconic entrepreneurs to elite athletes, from artists to billionaire investors, their short profiles can help you answer life's most challenging questions, achieve extraordinary results, and transform your life.From the author: In 2017, several of my close friends died in rapid succession. It was a very hard year, as it was for man... + Read More
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Series: The Big Picture The Fight for the Future of Movies Hardcover Ben Fritz 9780544789760 $39.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 06, 2018

The stunning metamorphosis of twenty-first-century Hollywood and what lies ahead for the art and commerce of film In the past decade, Hollywood has endured a cataclysm on a par with the end of silent film and the demise of the studio system. Stars and directors have seen their power dwindle, while writers and producers lift their best techniques from TV, comic books, and the toy biz. The future of Hollywood is being written by powerful corporate brands like Marvel, Amazon, Netflix, and Lego, as well as censors in China. Ben Fritz chronicles thi... + Read More
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Series: China's Great Wall of Debt Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans, and the End of the Chinese Miracle Hardcover Dinny McMahon 9781328846013 $40.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 13, 2018

A stunning inside look at how and why the foundations upon which China has built the world’s second largest economy, have started to crumble. Over the course of a decade spent reporting on the ground in China as a financial journalist, Dinny McMahon gradually came to the conclusion that the widely held belief in China’s inevitable economic ascent is dangerously wrong. In this unprecedented deep dive, McMahon shows how, lurking behind the illusion of prosperity, China’s economic growth has been built on a staggering mountain of debt. While sto... + Read More
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Series: Peterson Field Guides Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America Paperback Seabrooke Leckie 9780544252110 $42.00 NATURE Mar 13, 2018

Southeastern North America is home to an incredible variety of moths, from drab browns to bright yellows and pinks, the small and simple to the flashy or bizarrely shaped. Just a few are common house and garden pests; thousands more harmless species live hidden in woods and meadows. This comprehensive guide of more than 1,800 common species is the best tool for identifying and appreciating these ubiquitous insects. With helpful tips and techniques for observing moths, range maps and graphs showing when and where to see them, and keys to ident... + Read More
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Series: The Guide to Walden Pond An Exploration of the History, Nature, Landscape, and Literature of One of America's Most Iconic Places Paperback Robert M. Thorson 9781328969217 $24.99 NATURE Mar 13, 2018

An exploration of the history, nature, landscape, and literature of one of America’s most iconic places This is the first guidebook to Henry David Thoreau’s most defining place, visited by half a million people each year and widely known as the fountainhead of America's environmental consciousness. Using this guide, both armchair readers and trail-walkers alike can amble around the pond’s shoreline, pausing at fifteen special places to learn about people, historic events, and the natural world. Thoreau will be a constant companion via quotes... + Read More
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Series: The Guide to Walden Pond An Exploration of the History, Nature, Landscape, and Literature of One of America's Most Iconic Places Hardcover Robert M. Thorson 9781328489173 $38.00 NATURE Mar 13, 2018

An exploration of the history, nature, landscape, and literature of one of America’s most iconic places This is the first guidebook to Henry David Thoreau’s most defining place, visited by half a million people each year and widely known as the fountainhead of America's environmental consciousness. Using this guide, both armchair readers and trail-walkers alike can amble around the pond’s shoreline, pausing at fifteen special places to learn about people, historic events, and the natural world. Thoreau will be a constant companion via quot... + Read More
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Series: I Feel You The Surprising Power of Extreme Empathy Hardcover Cris Beam 9780544558168 $38.00 PSYCHOLOGY Mar 20, 2018

A cogent, gorgeous examination of empathy, illuminating the myths, the science, and the power behind this transformative emotion Empathy has become a gaping fault line in American culture. Pioneering programs aim to infuse our legal and educational systems with more empathic thinking, even as pundits argue over whether we should bother empathizing with our political opposites at all. Meanwhile, we are inundated with the buzzily termed “empathic marketing”—which may very well be a contradiction in terms. InI Feel You, Cris Beam carves through th... + Read More
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Series: The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind My Tale of Madness and Recovery Hardcover Barbara K. Lipska Ph.D 9781328787309 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 03, 2018

As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness—only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In the tradition ofMy Stroke of Insight andBrain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts her ordeal and explains its unforgettable lessons about the brain and mind. In January 2015, Barbara Lipska—a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness—was diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to her brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of cognition, began shutting down. Sh... + Read More
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Series: American by Day Hardcover Derek B. Miller 9781328876652 $38.00 FICTION Apr 03, 2018

“Ingenious. Humorous. Wonderful.”—Lee Child A gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid—the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller's best-selling debut Norwegian by Night—from Oslo to the United States on a quest to find her missing brother SHE KNEW IT WAS A WEIRD PLACE. She’d heard the stories, seen the movies, read the books. But now police Chief Inspector Sigrid Ødegård has to leave her native Norway and actually go there; to that land across the Atlantic where her missing brother is implicated in the mysterious death of a prominent A... + Read More
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Series: Peterson Guide to Bird Identification - in 12 Steps Hardcover Steve N. G. Howell 9781328662064 $25.95 NATURE Apr 03, 2018

Identifying birds can be overwhelming. Where and how do you start? The good news is that most people already know more than they realize about birds, which can greatly simplify the identification process. Written in a helpful, conversational style and illustrated with numerous photos, this “12-step program” starts with the basics and builds logically into a manageable framework that enables anyone to get into, or get more out of, the world of watching, identifying, and enjoying birds. “Identifying birds is a science and an art. These lea... + Read More
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Series: Ecstasy A Novel Hardcover Mary Sharratt 9780544800892 $38.00 FICTION Apr 10, 2018

In the glittering hotbed of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Vienna, one woman’s life would define and defy an era Gustav Klimt gave Alma her first kiss. Gustav Mahler fell in love with her at first sight and proposed only a few weeks later. Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius abandoned all reason to pursue her. Poet and novelist Franz Werfel described her as “one of the very few magical women that exist.” But who was this woman who brought these most eminent of men to their knees? InEcstasy, Mary Sharratt finally gives one of the most controversial an... + Read More
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Series: Hang Time My Life in Basketball Hardcover Elgin Baylor 9780544617056 $39.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 10, 2018

Elgin Baylor’s memoir of an epic all-star career in the NBA—during which he transformed basketball from a horizontal game to a vertical one—and his fights against racism during his career as a player and as general manager of the LA Clippers under the infamous Donald Sterling People think of Elgin Baylor as one of the greatest basketball players in the history of the game—and one of the NBA’s first black superstars—but the full extent of his legacy stretches beyond his spectacular, game-changing shots and dunks. With startling symmetry, Baylor ... + Read More
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Series: The Soul of Basketball The Epic Showdown Between LeBron, Kobe, Doc, and Dirk That Saved the NBA Hardcover Ian Thomsen 9780547746517 $39.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Apr 17, 2018

The Soul of Basketball tells the story of an NBA prodigy, his league and their sport in the throes of crisis during the pivotal 2010-11 season. It began with The Decision, that infamous televised moment when uber-star LeBron James revealed that he was leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers – thereby distancing himself from his role model Michael Jordan – to pursue his first championship with his former opponents on the Miami Heat. To the great fortune of LeBron, the NBA and basketball itself, the mission didn’t work out as planned. In the cultural tr... + Read More
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Series: The Darkening Age The Christian Destruction of the Classical World Hardcover Catherine Nixey 9780544800885 $40.00 HISTORY Apr 17, 2018

A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 “Searingly passionate…Nixey writes up a storm. Each sentence is rich, textured, evocative, felt…[A] ballista-bolt of a book.” —New York Times Book Review In Harran, the locals refused to convert. They were dismembered, their limbs hung along the town’s main street. In Alexandria, zealots pulled the elderly philosopher-mathematician Hypatia from her chariot and flayed her to death with shards of broken pottery. Not long before, their fellow Christians had invaded the city’s greatest temple and razed it—sma... + Read More
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Series: The Myth of the Nice Girl Achieving a Career You Love Without Becoming a Person You Hate Hardcover Fran Hauser 9781328832955 $38.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Apr 17, 2018

An Amazon Best Business Book of 2018 Selected by Audible as the Best Business Book of 2018 Named “Best New Book” byPeople Magazineand Refinery29Named a Most Anticipated Title of April 2018 byBustleand LevoAWomen@Forbes “Boss Moves Book Club” pick A candid guide for ambitious women who want to succeed without losing themselves in the process In THE MYTH OF THE NICE GIRL, Fran Hauser deconstructs the negative perception of "niceness" that many women struggle with in the business world. If women are nice, they are seen as weak and ineffective, but... + Read More
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Series: Crescent City Novel The City of Lost Fortunes Hardcover Bryan Camp 9781328810793 $35.00 FICTION Apr 17, 2018

The fate of New Orleans rests in the hands of a wayward grifter in this novel of gods, games, and monsters. The post–Katrina New Orleans ofThe City of Lost Fortunesis a place haunted by its history and by the hurricane’s destruction, a place that is hoping to survive the rebuilding of its present long enough to ensure that it has a future. Street magician Jude Dubuisson is likewise burdened by his past and by the consequences of the storm, because he has a secret: the magical ability to find lost things, a gift passed down to him by the father ... + Read More
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Series: Human Errors A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes Hardcover Nathan H. Lents 9781328974693 $39.00 SCIENCE May 01, 2018

An illuminating, entertaining tour of the physical imperfections that make us human We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution’s greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often—two hundred times more often than a dog does? How come our wrists have so many useless bones? Why is the vast majority of our genetic code pointless? And are we really supposed to swallow and breathe through the same narrow tube? Surely there’s been some kind of mistake. As pr... + Read More
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Series: Play On The New Science of Elite Performance at Any Age Hardcover Jeff Bercovici 9780544809987 $39.00 SPORTS & RECREATION May 01, 2018

A lively, deeply reported tour of the science and strategies helping athletes like Tom Brady, Serena Williams, Carli Lloyd, and LeBron James redefine the notion of “peak age.” Season after season, today’s sports superstars seem to defy the limits of physical aging that inevitably sideline their competitors. How much of the difference is genetic destiny and how much can be attributed to better training, medicine and technology? Is athletic longevity a skill that can be taught, or a mental discipline that can be mastered? Can career-ending injuri... + Read More
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Series: Friend of a Friend . . . Understanding the Hidden Networks That Can Transform Your Life and Your Career Hardcover David Burkus 9780544971264 $39.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS May 01, 2018

What if all the advice we’ve heard about networking iswrong? What if the best way to grow your networkisn’t by introducing yourself to strangers at cocktail parties, handing out business cards, or signing up for the latest online tool, but by developing a better understanding of the existing network that’s already around you? We know that it’s essential to reach out and build a network. But did you know that it’s actually your distant or former contacts who will be the most helpful to you? Or that many of our best efforts at meeting new... + Read More
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Series: A Naturalist at Large The Best Essays of Bernd Heinrich Hardcover Bernd Heinrich 9780544986831 $38.00 NATURE May 08, 2018

Some of the world’s greatest writings on ravens and other birds, insects, trees, elephants, and more, collected for the first time in book form showing why Bernd Heinrich is so beloved for his “passionate observations [that] superbly mix memoir and science” (New York Times) From one of the finest scientist/writers of our time comes an engaging record of a life spent in close observation of the natural world, one that has yielded “marvelous, mind-altering” (Los Angeles Times) insight and discoveries. In essays that span several decades, Heinric... + Read More
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Series: From Cold War to Hot Peace An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia Hardcover Michael McFaul 9780544716247 $43.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 08, 2018

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the diplomat Putin wants to interrogate—and has banned from Russia—a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the present“A fascinating and timely account of the current crisis in the relationship between Russia and the United States.”—New York Times Book ReviewPutin would need an enemy, and he turned to the most reliable one in Russia’s recent history: the United States and then, by extension, me. In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely pr... + Read More
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Series: Ruth Galloway Mysteries The Dark Angel Hardcover Elly Griffiths 9780544750326 $39.00 FICTION May 15, 2018

In this highly atmospheric mystery, Ruth Galloway—“a captivating amateur sleuth” (Louise Penny)—and DCI Nelson investigate a murder in a medieval Italian town where dark secrets are buried as deep as bones. It’s not every day that you’re summoned to the Italian countryside on business, so when archaeologist Angelo Morelli asks for Ruth Galloway’s help identifying bones found in the tiny hilltop town of Fontana Liri, she jumps at the chance to go, bringing her daughter along with her for a working vacation. Upon arriving, she begins to hear murm... + Read More
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Series: Born to Fish How an Obsessed Angler Became the World's Greatest Striped Bass Fisherman Hardcover Tim Gallagher 9780544787247 $38.00 SPORTS & RECREATION May 15, 2018

The son of a mobster goes from deadbeat to world champion to protector of “the people's fish.”Born to Fish tells the story of a man who led a harrowing, sometimes dissolute life until he turned himself around, thanks to his rod and reel. Overcoming learning disabilities, substance abuse, and the violence associated with a father in the mob, Greg Myerson, a lifelong sport-fisherman, caught an 82-pound striped bass in 2011, shattering a world record that had stood for 29 years. Without any training in biological research, he began studying the st... + Read More
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Series: The Man Who Climbs Trees The Lofty Adventures of a Wildlife Cameraman Hardcover James Aldred 9781328473059 $38.00 NATURE May 22, 2018

“A vertiginous, white-knuckled adventure through some of the most spectacular forests in the world.” â??—Washington Post Meet the man who climbs trees for a living.â?? In this adventure memoir, Aldred carries us with him across the globe and up to the top of these towering forest titans as he recalls his most memorable encounters with trees and their inhabitants.â?? Every child knows the allure of climbing trees. But how many of us get to make a living at it, spending days observing nature from the canopies of stunning forests all around the wo... + Read More
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Series: Visible Empire Hardcover Hannah Pittard 9780544748064 $36.00 FICTION Jun 05, 2018

An epic novel—based on true events—of love, grief, race, and wealth, charting a single sweltering summer in Atlanta that left no one unchanged On a humid summer day, the phones begin to ring: disaster has struck. Chateau de Sully, a Boeing 707 chartered to ferry home more than one hundred of Atlanta’s most prominent citizens from a European jaunt, crashed in Paris shortly after takeoff. It is the second-deadliest disaster in the history of aviation. Overnight, the city of Atlanta changes. Left behind are children, spouses, lovers, and friends f... + Read More
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Series: We Are Gathered Hardcover Jamie Weisman 9781328793294 $35.00 FICTION Jun 05, 2018

"A big-hearted and clear-eyed story of life’s biggest choices: who to love and how best to love them…Compulsively readable and oh so worth the read." —Heather Harpham, author of Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After YOU ARE INVITED… To the wedding of Elizabeth and Hank. But the bride and groom are beside the point. Because, on this hot Atlanta afternoon, the people of the hour are the wedding’s (adoring, envious, resentful, hilarious) guests. Among them, Carla, Elizabeth’s quick-witted, ugly duckling childhood best friend... + Read More
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Series: Rocket Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race Hardcover Tim Fernholz 9781328662231 $40.00 SCIENCE Mar 20, 2018

The inside story of the new race to conquer space, as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos spend billions of their own money to explore the final frontier For the largerâ??thanâ??life personalities now staking their fortunes on the development of rocket ships, the new race to explore space could be a dead end, a lucrative opportunity — or the key to humanity’s salvation. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos take center stage in this fastâ??paced narrative as they attempt to disrupt the space economy, feed their own egos, and maybe even save the world. We also meet a... + Read More
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Series: The Robots of Gotham Hardcover Todd McAulty 9781328711014 $38.00 FICTION Jun 19, 2018

A thrilling adventure in a world one step away from total subjugation by machines After long years of war, the United States has sued for peace, yielding to a brutal coalition of nations ruled by fascist machines. One quarter of the country is under foreign occupation. Manhattan has been annexed by a weird robot monarchy, and in Tennessee, a permanent peace is being delicately negotiated between the battered remnants of the U.S. government and an envoy of implacable machines. Canadian businessman Barry Simcoe arrives in occupied Chicago d... + Read More
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Series: Tango Lessons A Memoir Hardcover Meghan Flaherty 9780544980709 $38.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 19, 2018

From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut memoir about a young woman learning to dance tango, becoming comfortable in her own skin and in the arms of others Tango was an unlikely choice for Meghan Flaherty. A young woman living with the scars of past trauma, she was terrified of being touched and shied away from real passion. But by her late twenties, she knew something had to change. She dug up an old dream and tried on her dancing shoes. In tango, there’s a leader and a follower, and, traditionally, the woman follows. As Meghan moved fr... + Read More
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Series: 4MK Thriller The Fifth to Die Hardcover J. D. Barker 9780544973978 $39.00 FICTION Jul 10, 2018

A 4MK Thriller Detective Porter and the team have been pulled from the hunt for Anson Bishop, the Four Monkey Killer, by the feds. When the body of a young girl is found beneath the frozen waters of Jackson Park Lagoon, she is quickly identified as Ella Reynolds, missing three weeks. But how did she get there? The lagoon froze months earlier. More baffling? She’s found wearing the clothes of another girl, missing less than two days. While the detectives of Chicago Metro try to make sense of the quickly developing case, Porter secretly continues... + Read More
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Series: A Carnival of Losses Notes Nearing Ninety Hardcover Donald Hall 9781328826343 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 10, 2018

“Hall lived long enough to leave behind two final books, memento mori titled ‘Essays After Eighty’ (2014) and now ‘A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety.’ They’re up there with the best things he did.” —Dwight Garner, New York TimesFrom the former poet laureate of the United States, essays from the vantage point of very old age Donald Hall lived a remarkable life of letters, one capped most recently by theNew York Times bestseller Essays After Eighty, a “treasure” of a book in which he “balance[s] frankness about losses with humor and grat... + Read More
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Series: Eden Hardcover Andrea Kleine 9781328884084 $36.00 FICTION Jul 10, 2018

One of “Summer’s Smartest and Most Innovative Thrillers” (Vanity Fair): A bold, page-turning novel that follows the rippling effects of a childhood abduction on two sisters Every other weekend, Hope and Eden—backpacks, Walkmans, and homework in hand—wait for their father to pick them up, as he always does, at a strip-mall bus stop. It’s the divorce shuffle; they’re used to it. Only this weekend, he’s screwed up, forgotten, and their world will irrevocably change when a stranger lures them into his truck with a false story and smile. Twenty ye... + Read More
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Series: Homeplace A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk Hardcover John Lingan 9780544932531 $39.00 TRAVEL Jul 17, 2018

An intimate account of country music, social change, and a vanishing way of life as a Shenandoah town collides with the twenty-first century Winchester, Virginia is an emblematic American town. When John Lingan first traveled there, it was to seek out Jim McCoy: local honky-tonk owner and the DJ who first gave airtime to a brassy-voiced singer known as Patsy Cline, setting her on a course for fame that outlasted her tragically short life. What Lingan found was a town in the midst of an identity crisis. As the U.S. economy and American culture... + Read More
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Series: Driven A White-Knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back Hardcover Melissa Stephenson 9781328768292 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 24, 2018

For fans ofWild,a searing memoir about one woman’s road to hope following the death of her troubled brother, told through the series of cars that accompanied her Growing up in a blue-collar family in the Midwest, Melissa Stephenson longed for escape. Her wanderlust was an innate reaction to the powerful personalities around her, and came too from her desire to find a place in the world where her artistic ambitions wouldn’t be thwarted. She found in automobiles the promise of a future beyond Indiana state lines. From a lineage of secondhand fami... + Read More
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Series: The Buddhist on Death Row Finding Light in the Darkest Place Hardcover David Sheff 9780544931220 $38.00 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Dec 31, 2049

The true story of the death row inmate who became a world-renowned Buddhist teacher, and what his journey can teach us about freedom, love, and forgiveness Jarvis Jay Masters arrived in San Quentin at age nineteen, convicted of armed robbery. After five violent years there, he was charged with murdering a guard and sentenced to death—a verdict he still contests today. His journey to enlightenment began in the darkest place: death row. Sleepless, anxious, and angry, Masters at first sneered at the idea of meditation. But in desperation, he star... + Read More
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Series: Hate The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism in France (and What It Means for Us) Hardcover Marc Weitzmann 9780544649644 $38.00 HISTORY Mar 12, 2019

From an awardâ??winning journalist, a provocative, deeply reported exposé of the history and present crisis of antiâ??Semitism in France—and its dire message for the rest of the world. What is the connection between a rise in the number of random attacks against Jews on the streets of France and strategically planned terrorist acts targeting the French population at large? Before the attacks on Charlie Hebdo, the Bataclan night club, and others made international headlines, Marc Weitzmann had noticed a surge of seemingly random acts of violen... + Read More
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Series: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel Essays Paperback Alexander Chee 9781328764522 $22.99 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Apr 17, 2018

Named a Best Book by:TIME, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, NPR,Wired, Esquire, Buzzfeed, New York Public Library,Boston Globe, The Paris Review, Mother Jones,The A.V. Club, Out Magazine, Book Riot,Electric Literature, PopSugar,The Rumpus,My Republica,Paste,Bitch, Library Journal, Flavorwire,Bustle,Christian Science Monitor, Shelf Awareness,Tor.com,Entertainment Cheat Sheet,Roads and Kingdoms, Chicago Public Library,Hyphen Magazine,Entropy Magazine,The Chicago Review of Books, The Coil, iBooks, andWashington Independent Review of Books Wi... + Read More
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Series: Hangman's Daughter Tales The Council of Twelve Paperback Oliver Potzsch 9781328508317 $26.00 FICTION May 29, 2018

The seventh chilling mystery in The Hangman's Daughter series The year is 1672. Hangman Jakob Kuisl and his family travel to Munich, the cosmopolitan heart of Bavaria, for a meeting of the prestigious—for dishonorable hangmen, at least—Council of Twelve, the leaders of the empire’s hangmen’s guild. But something dark is happening behind the scenes: in the past weeks, young women have begun turning up dead. At first, the authorities assume they are a rash of suicides, but when Kusil notices that each woman possesses a matchingamulet, suspicions ... + Read More
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Series: Bannerless Saga The Wild Dead Paperback Carrie Vaughn 9780544947313 $21.99 FICTION Jul 17, 2018

“The Wild Dead is a tightly plotted mind-thrill . . . This is the feminist dystopian mystery series you didn’t know you needed.” — Meg Elison, Philip K. Dick Award–winning author ofThe Road to Nowhere series Mysteries and murder abound in the sequel to the Philip K. Dick Award–winningBannerless A century after environmental and economic collapse, the people of the Coast Road have rebuilt their own sort of civilization, striving not to make the mistakes their ancestors did. They strictly ration and manage resources, including the ability to h... + Read More
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Series: The Defender How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America Paperback Ethan Michaeli 9781328470249 $24.99 HISTORY Mar 06, 2018

“An extraordinary history…Deeply researched, elegantly written…a towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten.”—Brent Staples,New York Times Book Review “[This] epic, meticulously detailed account not only reminds its readers that newspapers matter, but so do black lives, past and present.”—USA Today Giving voice to the voiceless,TheChicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great Migration, and focused the electoral power of black America. Robert S. Abbott foundedThe Defender in 1905, smuggled hundreds of thousands of copies in... + Read More
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Series: All Grown Up Paperback Jami Attenberg 9781328915320 $21.99 FICTION Mar 13, 2018

A National Bestseller “I read it twice, laughing, cringing, and even tearing up.” — Judy Blume,New York Times “Powerful . . .All Grown Upis so intimately [and] sharply observed.” —Vogue “Bravo to Attenberg, who, with hilarity and honesty, tells the story of an adult woman who wants what she wants, not what she’s supposed to want.” —Marie Claire Who is Andrea Bern? When her dippy therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say: she’s a designer, a friend, a daughter, a sister. But it’s what she leaves unsaid—she’s alone, a ... + Read More
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Series: How Emotions Are Made The Secret Life of the Brain Paperback Prof. Lisa Feldman Barrett Ph.D 9781328915436 $22.99 PSYCHOLOGY Mar 13, 2018

“Fascinating . . . A thought-provoking journey into emotion science.” —Wall Street Journal “A singular book, remarkable for the freshness of its ideas and the boldness and clarity with which they are presented.” —Scientific American “A brilliant and original book on the science of emotion, by the deepest thinker about this topic since Darwin.” — Daniel Gilbert, best-selling author ofStumbling on Happiness The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology.... + Read More
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Series: Papi My Story Paperback David Ortiz 9781328915849 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2018

WITH A NEW AFTERWORD “Baseball fans of all loyalties will enjoy learning about [Ortiz’s] unique experiences in and out of the game.” —Library Journal David “Big Papi” Ortiz is a baseball icon and one of the most popular figures ever to play the game. A key part of the Boston Red Sox for fifteen years, Ortiz helped to win three World Series, bringing back a storied franchise from “never wins” to “always wins.” He helped upend the doubters, the naysayers, and the nonbelievers, and, as he launched balls into the stands again and again and again, h... + Read More
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Series: Sympathy Paperback Olivia Sudjic 9781328916204 $21.99 FICTION Apr 17, 2018

“Packed with tension, pathos, and vitality . . . This is a potent first novel from a formidable talent.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune “The best fictional account I’ve read of the way the internet has shaped our inner lives.”—Guardian(UK) At twenty-three Alice Hare, a loner, arrives in New York with only the vaguest of plans: to find a city to call home. Instead she discovers the online profile of a Japanese writer called Mizuko Himura, whose stories blur the line between autobiography and fiction. Alice becomes infatuated with Mizuko from afar... + Read More
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Series: The Black Hand The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History Paperback Stephan Talty 9781328911193 $22.99 TRUE CRIME Apr 17, 2018

“Gripping . . . A valuable recounting of a lurid and little-known episode in American history.” —Washington Post Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave stirred New York City, then the entire country, into panic. The children of Italian immigrants were being kidnapped and dozens of innocent victims gunned down. Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, and society matrons were threatened with gruesome deaths. The perpetrators’ only calling card: the symbol of a black hand. Standing between the ... + Read More
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Series: The Fuzzy and the Techie Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World Paperback Scott Hartley 9781328915405 $24.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jun 05, 2018

“Scott Hartley artfully explains why it is time for us to get over the false division between the human and the technical.” —Tim Brown,CEO of IDEO and author ofChange by Design Scott Hartley first heard the termsfuzzy andtechie while studying political science at Stanford University. If you majored in humanities or social sciences, you were a fuzzy. If you majored in computer or hard sciences, you were a techie. While Silicon Valley is generally considered a techie stronghold, the founders of companies like Airbnb, Pinterest, Slack, LinkedIn, P... + Read More
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Series: The Half Wives Paperback Stacia Pelletier 9781328915412 $21.99 FICTION Apr 24, 2018

Finalist for the Townsend Prize “Pelletier’s writing is moving and enthralling . . . [she] keeps readers hooked right up to the book’s satisfying conclusion.” —Publishers Weekly “A poignant, sometimes heart-rending, beautifully crafted, always gripping tale of loss and love, and the human need to try to set things right.” — Kevin Baker, author ofThe Big Crowd Henry Plageman is a master secret-keeper. A former Lutheran minister, he lost his faith after losing his infant son, Jack, many years ago; his wife, Marilyn, remains consumed by grief.... + Read More
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Series: A Line Made by Walking Paperback Sara Baume 9781328915818 $21.99 FICTION Apr 24, 2018

Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize “Baume is a writer of outstanding grace and style. She writes beyond the time we live in.”—Colum McCann “Baume leaves nothing unturned in this dark and sometimes funny excavation of the human heart.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Fascinating, because of the cumulative power of the precise, pleasingly rhythmic sentences, and the unpredictable intelligence of the narrator’s mind.”—Guardian Struggling to cope with urban life—and life in general—Frankie, a twenty-something artist, retreats to her family’s rural... + Read More
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Series: The Night She Won Miss America Paperback Michael Callahan 9781328915832 $21.99 FICTION Apr 24, 2018

“Inspired by a true story,The Night She Won Miss Americais part love story, part true-crime saga, written with spirit and panache.” —Vanity Fair Betty Jane Welch reluctantly enters the Miss Delaware contest only to make her mother happy, but to her surprise, she’s the judges’ top choice. Just like that, she’s catapulted into the big time: the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City. Luckily, her pageant-approved escort for the week is the dashing but mercurial Griffin McAllister, and she falls for him hard. But when the spirited Betty unexp... + Read More
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Series: Kopp Sisters Novel Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions Paperback Amy Stewart 9781328497611 $21.99 FICTION May 01, 2018

The best-selling author ofGirl Waits with Gun andLady Cop Makes Trouble continues her extraordinary journey into the lives of the fabulous Kopp sisters. “Perfect for book groups.”—Booklist “Stewart has another winner on her hands.”—Suspense Magazine Constance Kopp is back—with a badge and a taste for justice. She has finally earned her deputy sheriff’s badge and is ready to tackle a new kind of case: defending independent young women brought into the Hackensack jail on dubious charges of waywardness, incorrigibility, and moral depravity. ... + Read More
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Series: Big Little Man In Search of My Asian Self Paperback Alex Tizon 9781328460141 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2018

“A ruthlessly honest personal story and a devastating critique of contemporary American culture.” —Seattle TimesA “searingly honest self-exploration”* of the experience and psyche of the Asian American male, including Tizon’s stunning final article, “My Family’s Slave” Shame, Alex Tizon tells us, is universal—his own happened to be about race. To counteract the steady diet of American television and movies that taught Tizon to be ashamed of his face, his skin color, his height, he turned outward. (“I had to educate myself on my own worth. It ... + Read More
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Series: Ruth Galloway Mysteries The Chalk Pit Paperback Elly Griffiths 9781328915351 $21.99 FICTION May 15, 2018

Winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award Praise for Elly Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway series “Gripping.” —Louise Penny | “Highly atmospheric.” —New York Times Book Review “Remarkable, delightful.” —Associated Press | “Must-reads.” —Deborah Crombie “Wonderfully rich . . . A great series.” —Guardian| “Smart, down-to-earth, and completely believable.” —Mercury News Far below Norwich is a maze of old mining tunnels. When Ruth Galloway is called to examine a set of human remains in one of them, she notices the bones are almost translucent, a ... + Read More
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Series: Lincoln's Lieutenants The High Command of the Army of the Potomac Paperback Stephen W. Sears 9781328915795 $27.99 HISTORY May 15, 2018

From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who led the Army of the Potomac “A masterful synthesis . . . A narrative about amazing courage and astonishing gutlessness . . . It explains why Union movements worked and, more often, didn’t work in clear-eyed explanatory prose that’s vivid and direct.” —Chicago Tribune The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until ... + Read More
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Series: 4MK Thriller The Fourth Monkey Paperback J. D. Barker 9781328915399 $21.99 FICTION May 29, 2018

Se7en meetsThe Silence of the Lambs in this dark and twisting novel from the author Jeffery Deaver called “a talented writer with a delightfully devious mind.” Two days to save her . . . For over five years, the Four Monkey Killer has terrorized the residents of Chicago. When his body is found, the police quickly realize he was on his way to deliver one final message, one which proves he has taken another victim who may still be alive. One day . . . As the lead investigator on the 4MK task force, Detective Sam Porter knows that even in ... + Read More
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Series: The Weight of Ink Paperback Rachel Kadish 9781328915788 $24.99 FICTION May 01, 2018

WINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD AUSA TODAY BESTSELLER "A gifted writer, astonishingly adept at nuance, narration, and the politics of passion."—Toni Morrison Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century,The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. When Helen is summoned by a former student ... + Read More
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Series: Salt Houses Paperback Hala Alyan 9781328915856 $21.99 FICTION Jun 05, 2018

Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR *Nylon *Kirkus Reviews *Bustle *BookPage “Moving and beautifully written.” —Entertainment Weekly On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is uprooted in the wake of the Six-Day War o... + Read More
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Series: The Sisters Chase Paperback Sarah Healy 9781328915863 $21.99 FICTION May 01, 2018

“Thoroughly surprising . . .The Sisters Chaseis that rare thing, a slow burner that conceals its cunning and sneaks up on you unawares.” —New York Times “Mary is a wonderful creation . . . A modern picaresque novel that surprises and delights.” —Toronto Star The hardscrabble Chase women—Mary, Hannah, and their mother, Diane—have been eking out a living running a tiny seaside motel that has been in the family for generations. Eighteen-year-old Mary Chase is a force of nature: passionate, beautiful, and free-spirited. Her much younger sister, H... + Read More
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Series: Cattle Kingdom The Hidden History of the Cowboy West Paperback Christopher Knowlton 9781328470256 $22.99 HISTORY Jun 05, 2018

“The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!” —Douglas Brinkley,author ofThe Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America The open-range cattle era lasted barely a quarter century, but it left America irrevocably changed.Cattle Kingdom reveals how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today. The tale takes us from dust-choked cattle drives to the unlikely splendors of boomtowns like Abilene, Kansas, an... + Read More
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Series: The Dark Net Paperback Benjamin Percy 9781328915375 $21.99 FICTION Jun 12, 2018

“Thrilling . . . one of the best Stephen King novels not written by the master himself. . . . The setup promises furious action, and Percy delivers, like [Richard] Matheson, like King. . . An awfully impressive literary performance.”—New York Times Book Review “Masterful crafting . . . a horror story for our times.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune The Dark Net is real. An anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret far reaches of the Web, some use it to manage Bitcoins, pirate movies and music, or traffic in drugs and stolen goods. ... + Read More
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Series: The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo Paperback Ian Stansel 9781328918291 $21.99 FICTION Jun 12, 2018

“One of the most compelling novels I’ve read in a long time.” —Eowyn Ivey “Shares the trail with the likes of Edward Abbey, Cormac McCarthy, and Larry McMurtry.” —Craig Johnson, best-selling author of theWalt Longmire Mysteries, the basis for the hit showLongmire When Silas Van Loy flees home on horseback to avoid capture for his brother’s murder, he is followed by both the police and his brother’s wife, Lena, who is intent on exacting revenge. She reluctantly lets her trusted stable assistant join her in a journey across the wilds of Northe... + Read More