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Dark Archives A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin Hardcover Megan Rosenbloom 9780374134709 $34.99 ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES Oct 20, 2020

On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand?In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy—the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. Dozens of such books live on in the world’s most famous libraries and museums. Dark Archives exhumes their origins and brings to life the doctors, murd... + Read More
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Atlantis A Journey in Search of Beauty Hardcover Carlo Piano 9781609456238 $35.95 ARCHITECTURE Nov 13, 2020

Renowned architect Renzo Piano (the New Whitney Museum, the Pompidou Center, Potsdamer Platz, Cite Internationale, New York Times Building, The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, etc.) and his son Carlo, a well-regarded journalist, set sail from Genoa one late Summer day to search for Atlantis, the perfect city, built to harbor a perfect society. Embarking not only on a life-changing journey but also on series of conversations that are humorous, irreverent, erudite, and always entertaining, Renzo and Carlo travel from Genoa in search of the pe... + Read More
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Doodle It All Paperback Zakka Workshop 9781940552507 $25.50 ART Age (years) from 10 Sep 11, 2020

Learn how to draw just about everything under the sun—from bumblebees and broccoli to pianos and pizza. With over 1000 cute and easy illustrations, there’s something for everyone! Inside these pages, you’ll find endless inspiration for drawing people, animals, flowers, food, everyday objects, holiday motifs, and more! Each illustration is broken down into simple steps using basic shapes and lines. There’s no reason to be intimidated—anyone can draw following these easy techniques. Use these adorable illustrations to decorate your calendar or ... + Read More
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ArtCurious Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History Paperback Jennifer Dasal 9780143134596 $23.00 ART Sep 15, 2020

A wildly entertaining and surprisingly educational dive into art history as you've never seen it before, from the host of the beloved ArtCurious podcastWe're all familiar with the works of Claude Monet, thanks in no small part to the ubiquitous reproductions of his water lilies on umbrellas, handbags, scarves, and dorm-room posters. But did you also know that Monet and his cohort were trailblazing rebels whose works were originally deemed unbelievably ugly and vulgar? And while you probably know the tale of Vincent van Gogh's suicide, you may n... + Read More
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Medium Design Knowing How to Work on the World Hardcover Keller Easterling 9781788739320 $25.95 ART Jan 19, 2021

How to Design the World: Working Without SolutionsIn Medium Design everyone is a designer. But design, in this case, inverts the typical focus on object over its settings to concentrate on the medium—the matrix space between objects, events, and ideological declarations. It disrupts habitual modern approaches to the world’s intractable dilemmas—from climate cataclysm to inequality to concentrations of authoritarian power. In a series of case studies dealing with everything from automation and migration to explosive urban growth and atmospheric ... + Read More
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The Story of Contemporary Art Hardcover Tony Godfrey 9780262044103 $53.95 ART Nov 10, 2020

A lively introduction to contemporary art that stretches from Andy Warhol’s Brillo boxes to Marina Abramović’s performance art to today’s biennale circuit and million-dollar auctions.Encountering a work of contemporary art, a viewer might ask, “What does it mean?” “Is it really art?” and “Why does it cost so much?” These are not the questions that E. H. Gombrich set out to answer in his magisterial The Story of Art. Contemporary art seems totally unlike what came before it, departing from the road map supplied by Raphael, Dürer, Rembrandt, and ... + Read More
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The Nolan Variations The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan Hardcover Tom Shone 9780525655329 $54.00 ART Nov 03, 2020

An in-depth look at Christopher Nolan, considered to be the most profound, commercially successful director at work today, written with his full cooperation. A rare, revelatory portrait, “as close as you’re ever going to get to the Escher drawing that is Christopher Nolan’s remarkable brain” (Sam Mendes). In chapters structured by themes and motifs (“Time”; “Chaos”; “Dreams”), Shone offers an unprecedented intimate view of the director. Shone explores Nolan’s thoughts on his influences, his vision, his enigmatic childhood past—and his movies, f... + Read More
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My Name is Tani The Amazing True Story of One Boy's Journey from Refugee to Chess Champion Paperback Tanitoluwa Adewumi 9780310112457 $23.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 15, 2020

My Name is Tani: The Amazing True Story of One Boy’s Journey from Refugee to Chess Champion The story that is inspiring everyone! Soon to be a Paramount motion picture.Draw deep into the dramatic account of escape from terrorism.Tani Adewumi’s story begins amid Boko Haram’s reign of terror in Nigeria, but this doesn’t stop him from pursuing a most unlikely dream. At the age of eight, when Tani and his family’s lives are threatened, they are forced to flee for their lives and seek asylum. The odds were against Tani for ever finding a prosperous ... + Read More
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Because He's Jeff Goldblum The Movies, Memes, and Meaning of Hollywood's Most Enigmatic Actor Hardcover Travis M. Andrews 9781524746032 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 04, 2021

An irreverent yet deeply researched biography about the always offbeat, suddenly meme-able and wildly popular actor.When did you first encounter Jeff Goldblum? Maybe as a deranged killer in his 1974 screen debut in Death Wish? Maybe as a cynical journalist in 1983’s The Big Chill? Or a brilliant if egotistical scientist-turned-fly in 1986’s The Fly? Perhaps as the wise-cracking skeptical mathematician in 1993’s Jurassic Park? Or maybe you’re not a film buff but noticed his face as part of one of the Internet’s earliest memes. Who knows?Whenever... + Read More
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Our Last Season A Writer, a Fan, a Friendship Hardcover Harvey Araton 9781984877987 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 27, 2020

The moving story of a bond between sportswriter and fan that was forged in a shared love of basketball and grew over several decades into an extraordinary friendship“This is a story about friendship, sports, aging, and ultimately time itself—the things it strips away and the things it cannot touch. I loved it.”—Wright Thompson, author of PappylandHarvey Araton is one of New York’s—and the nation’s—best-known sports journalists, having covered thousands of Knicks games over the course of a long and distinguished career. But the person at the hea... + Read More
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If I Knew Then Finding wisdom in failure and power in aging Hardcover Jann Arden 9780735279971 $32.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 27, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERJann Arden—bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star—is back with this funny, heartfelt and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity and freedom she’s found at fifty-seven are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash.Digging deep into her strengths, her failures and her losses, Jann Arden brings us an inspiring account of how she has surprised herself, in her fifties, by at last becoming completely her own person. Like many women, it took Jann a long time to realize tha... + Read More
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The Shadow Commander Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions Hardcover Arash Azizi 9781786079442 $36.95 HISTORY Nov 24, 2020

‘An excellent contribution to our knowledge of Iran and Soleimani.’ Kim Ghattas, author of Black Wave When the US assassinated Qassem Soleimani, he was one of the most powerful men in Iran. Known as ‘the shadow commander’, he enacted the wishes of the country’s Supreme Leader across the Middle East, establishing the Islamic Republic as a major force in the region. But all this was a long way from where he began – on the margins of a nation whose ruler was seen as a friend of the West. Through Soleimani, Arash Azizi examines how Iran came to be... + Read More
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The New Corporation How "Good" Corporations Are Bad for Democracy Paperback Joel Bakan 9780735238848 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 22, 2020

Silver WINNER of the 2021 Axiom Business Book Awards in Business EthicsWINNER of the 2021 Jim Deva Prize for Writing That ProvokesFrom the author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power comes this deeply informed and unflinching look at the way corporations have slyly rebranded themselves as socially conscious entities ready to tackle society’s problems, while CEO compensation soars, income inequality is at all-time highs, and democracy sits in aprecarious situation.Over the last decade and a half, business leaders, Sil... + Read More
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The Man Who Ran Washington The Life and Times of James A. Baker III Hardcover Peter Baker 9780385540551 $47.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 29, 2020

BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times • The Washington Post • Fortune • BloombergFrom two of America’s most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III: the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world.For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency without his help or ran the White House without his advice. James Addison Baker III was the indispensable man for four pr... + Read More
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This Is Not the End of Me Lessons on Living from a Dying Man Paperback Dakshana Bascaramurty 9780771009631 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 18, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA BEST BOOK OF 2020CBC – The Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2020The Globe and Mail’s Globe 100: Our Favourite Books of 2020Chatelaine’s 10 Best Books of 2020The Walrus’s Favourite Books of 2020For readers of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air and Will Schwalbe, the moving, inspiring story of a young husband and father who, when diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of thirty-three, sets out to build a legacy for his infant son. i can’t make you feel what it’s like to be a young, dumb, naïve thirty-year-old sitting in t... + Read More
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You Don't Belong Here How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War Hardcover Elizabeth Becker 9781541768208 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 23, 2021

WINNER OF THE 2022 GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2022 SPERBER PRIZE The long-buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the barriers to women covering war. Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade. At a time when women were considered unfit to be foreign rep... + Read More
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I'll Be Seeing You A Memoir Hardcover Elizabeth Berg 9780593134672 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 27, 2020

The beloved New York Times bestselling author tells the moving love story of caring for her parents in their final years in this beautifully written memoir.Elizabeth Berg’s father was an Army veteran who was a tough man in every way but one: He showed a great deal of love and tenderness to his wife. Berg describes her parents’ marriage as a romance that lasted for nearly seventy years; she grew up watching her father kiss her mother upon leaving home, and kiss her again the instant he came back. His idea of when he should spend time away from h... + Read More
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The Bright Side Twelve Months, Three Heartbreaks, and One (Maybe) Miracle Paperback Cathrin Bradbury 9780735239388 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 02, 2021

“Anyone who has had their life completely gutted and rewired will adore this family story. Bradbury’s dark humour and gloriously upbeat voice makes it the perfect antidote to a tough year. I loved it!”—Plum Johnson, author of They Left Us EverythingThe hilarious and moving story of how a modern woman’s life can change utterly in a single year—and how, even when life whacks you in the head, you can find yourself rewarded with grace.Cathrin Bradbury’s life imploded in the space of a few months. Her beloved parents died, her marriage limped to an ... + Read More
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Speak, Okinawa A Memoir Hardcover Elizabeth Miki Brina 9780525657347 $35.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 23, 2021

A “hauntingly beautiful memoir about family and identity” (NPR) and a young woman’s journey to understanding her complicated parents—her mother an Okinawan war bride, her father a Vietnam veteran—and her own, fraught cultural heritage.Elizabeth’s mother was working as a nightclub hostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance that defined their early relationship followed them to the predominantly white, upstate New York suburb where they moved to raise t... + Read More
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They Just Seem a Little Weird How KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz Remade Rock and Roll Hardcover Doug Brod 9780306845192 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dec 01, 2020

A veteran music journalist explores how four legendary rock bands—KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz—laid the foundation for two diametrically opposed subgenres: hair metal in the '80s and grunge in the '90s. It was the age when heavy-footed, humorless dinosaurs roamed the hard-rock landscape. But that all changed when into these dazed and confused mid-'70s strut-ted four flamboyant bands that reveled in revved-up anthems and flaunted a novel theatricality. In They Just Seem a Little Weird, veteran entertainment journalist Doug Brod offers... + Read More
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Sometimes You Have to Lie The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy Hardcover Leslie Brody 9781580057691 $38.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dec 01, 2020

In this inspiring biography, discover the true story of Harriet the Spy author Louise Fitzhugh -- and learn about the woman behind one of literature's most beloved heroines. Harriet the Spy, first published in 1964, has mesmerized generations of readers and launched a million diarists. Its beloved antiheroine, Harriet, is erratic, unsentimental, and endearing -- very much like the woman who created her, Louise Fitzhugh. Born in 1928, Fitzhugh was raised in segregated Memphis, but she soon escaped her cloistered world and headed for New York, w... + Read More
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The Last American Aristocrat The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams Hardcover David S. Brown 9781982128234 $39.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 24, 2020

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A revelatory biography of literary icon Henry Adams—one of America’s most prominent writers and intellectuals of his era, who witnessed and contributed to the United States’ dramatic transition from a colonial society to a modern nation.Henry Adams is perhaps the most eclectic, accomplished, and important American writer of his time. His autobiography and modern classic The Education of Henry Adams was widely considered one of the best English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. The last m... + Read More
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Burke's Law A Life in Hockey Hardcover Brian Burke 9780735239470 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 13, 2020

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe gruffest man in hockey opens up about the challenges, the feuds, and the tragedies he’s fought through.Brian Burke is one of the biggest hockey personalities—no, personalities full-stop—in the media landscape. His brashness makes him a magnet for attention, and he does nothing to shy away from it. Most famous for advocating “pugnacity, truculence, testosterone, and belligerence” during his tenure at the helm of the Maple Leafs, Burke has lived and breathed hockey his whole life. He has been a player, an agent, a league... + Read More
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All The Young Men Hardcover Ruth Coker Burks 9780802157249 $38.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dec 11, 2020

All The Young Men, a gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, is the true story of Ruth Coker Burks, a young single mother in Hot Springs, Arkansas, who finds herself driven to the forefront of the AIDS crisis, and becoming a pivotal activist in America’s fight against AIDS. In 1986, 26-year old Ruth visits a friend at the hospital when she notices that the door to one of the hospital rooms is painted red. She witnesses nurses drawing straws to see who would tend to the patient inside, all of them reluctant to enter the room. Out of... + Read More
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Can You Hear Me Now? How I Found My Voice and Learned to Live with Passion and Purpose Hardcover Celina Caesar-Chavannes 9780735279599 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 02, 2021

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGIn Can You Hear Me Now?, Celina Caesar-Chavannes digs deep into her childhood and her life as a young Black woman entrepreneur and politician, and shows us that effective and humane leaders grow as much from their mistakes and vulnerabilities as from their strengths.Celina Caesar-Chavannes, already a breaker of boundaries as a Black woman in business, got into politics because she wanted to make a bigger difference in the world. But when she became the first Black person elec... + Read More
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Family in Six Tones A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter Hardcover Lan Cao 9781984878168 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 15, 2020

“A brilliant duet and a moving exploration of the American immigrant experience.”—Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time BeingA dual first-person memoir by the acclaimed Vietnamese-American novelist and her thoroughly American teenage daughterIn 1975, thirteen-year-old Lan Cao boarded an airplane in Saigon and got off in a world where she faced hosts she had not met before, a language she didn’t speak, and food she didn’t recognize, with the faint hope that she would be able to go home soon. Lan fought her way through confusion, and racism, ... + Read More
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Surviving the White Gaze A Memoir Hardcover Rebecca Carroll 9781982116255 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 02, 2021

An Esquire Best Book of 2021 A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America.Rebecca Carroll grew up the only black person in her rural New Hampshire town. Adopted at birth by artistic parents who believed in peace, love, and zero population growth, her early childhood was loving and idyllic—and yet she couldn’t articulate the deep sense of isolation she increasingly felt as she grew older... + Read More
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Eat a Peach A Memoir Hardcover David Chang 9781524759216 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 08, 2020

The chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix’s Ugly Delicious gets uncomfortably real in his debut memoir.In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in a tiny, stark space in Manhattan’s East Village. Its young chef-owner, David Chang, worked the line, serving ramen and pork buns to a mix of fellow restaurant cooks and confused diners whose idea of ramen was instant noodles in Styrofoam cups. It would have been impossible to know it at the time—and certainly Chang would have bet against himself—but he, who had failed at almost every endeavor in his li... + Read More
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Red Comet The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath Hardcover Heather Clark 9780307961167 $54.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 27, 2020

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art.“One of the most beautiful biographies I’ve ever read." —Glennon Doyle, author of #1 New York Times Bestseller, UntamedWith a wealth of never-before-accessed materials, Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant Sylvia Plath, who had precocious poetic ambition and was an accomplished published writer even before she became a s... + Read More
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Elway A Relentless Life Hardcover Jason Cole 9780316455770 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 15, 2020

The unauthorized biography of John Elway, Hall of Fame Quarterback, two-time Super Bowl Champion, now President of Football Operations and General Manager of the Denver Broncos.John Elway's historic moments are known by two-word phrases. He was at the center of the wildest play in college football history, simply known as "The Play." Before he signed a pro contract, there was "The Trade." His NFL career included "The Drive" and "The Fumble," and, of course, "The Helicopter," one of the most iconic highlights in Super Bowl lore. There are so man... + Read More
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Tecumseh and the Prophet The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation Hardcover Peter Cozzens 9781524733254 $47.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 27, 2020

“An insightful, unflinching portrayal of the remarkable siblings who came closer to altering the course of American history than any other Indian leaders.”⁠—Professor H.W. Brands, author of The Zealot and the EmancipatorThe first biography of the great Shawnee leader to make clear that his misunderstood younger brother, Tenskwatawa, was an equal partner in the last great pan-Indian alliance against the United States. Until the Americans killed Tecumseh in 1813, he and his brother Tenskwatawa were the co-architects of the broadest pan-Indian con... + Read More
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Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton Hardcover Gail Crowther 9781982138394 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 20, 2021

Named a Best Book of 2021 by the Los Angeles Times A vividly rendered and empathetic exploration of how two of the greatest poets of the 20th century—Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton—became bitter rivals and, eventually, friends. Introduced at a workshop in Boston University led by the acclaimed and famous poet Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton formed a friendship that would soon evolve into a fierce rivalry, colored by jealousy and respect in equal terms. In the years that followed, these two women would not only become iconic figures i... + Read More
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I'm Fine...And Other Lies Paperback Whitney Cummings 9780735212619 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 02, 2021

A hilarious personal account of the life, times, and crippling anxiety of rising star comic, actress, writer, producer, and director Whitney Cummings, now in paperback.After getting her start as a stand-up comic and then breaking out with her wildly successful CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls (she’s the creator, writer, and executive producer), Whitney Cummings has seen a few things and is turning to the written word to tell us all the stuff she doesn’t say on stage.This book contains some delicious schadenfreude in which Whitney recalls such humiliati... + Read More
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Under Our Roof A Son's Battle for Recovery, a Mother's Battle for Her Son Hardcover Madeleine Dean 9780593138069 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 16, 2021

A Congresswoman and her son reveal how he survived a ten-year battle with opioid abuse—and what their family’s journey to recovery can teach us about finding hope amidst the unspeakable.When Madeleine Dean discovered that her son, Harry, was stealing from the family to feed a painkiller addiction, she was days away from taking the biggest risk of her life: running for statewide office in Pennsylvania. For years, she had sensed something was wrong. Harry was losing weight and losing friends. He had lost the brightness in his eyes and voice, chan... + Read More
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The Seekers Meetings With Remarkable Musicians (and Other Artists) Hardcover John Densmore 9780306846236 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 17, 2020

The iconic drummer of The Doors investigates his own relationship with creativity and explores the meaning of artistry with other artists and performers in this compelling and spellbinding memoir.Whether it's the curiosity that blossoms after we listen to our favorite band's newest record, or the sheer admiration we feel after watching a knockout performance, many of us have experienced art so pure-so innovative-that we can't help but wonder afterwards: "How did they do that?" And yet, few of us are in a position to be able to ask those memorab... + Read More
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Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger A Memoir Hardcover Lisa Donovan 9780525560944 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 04, 2020

Renowned southern pastry chef Lisa Donovan’s memoir of cooking, survival, and the incredible power in reclaiming the stories of womenNoted chef and James Beard Award-winning essayist Lisa Donovan helped establish some of the South’s most important kitchens, and her pastry work is at the forefront of a resurgence in traditional desserts. Yet Donovan struggled to make a living in an industry where male chefs built successful careers on the stories, recipes, and culinary heritage passed down from generations of female cooks and cooks of color. At ... + Read More
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Series: Penguin Vitae Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Hardcover Frederick Douglass 9780143134411 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 16, 2021

The classic African American autobiography and American slave narrative, now a part of the Penguin Vitae series.A Penguin Classic HardcoverThe preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838, how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and driver, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only l... + Read More
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Saga Boy My Life of Blackness and Becoming Paperback Antonio Michael Downing 9780735237308 $26.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 19, 2021

SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Speaker’s Book AwardLONGLISTED for the 2021 Toronto Book AwardThe triumph of Saga Boy is the triumph of Blackness everywhere—the irrepressible instinct for survival in a world where Blacks are prey."—Ian Williams, Giller Prize-winning author of ReproductionAn enthralling, deeply personal account of a young immigrant’s search for belonging and Black identity amid the long-lasting effects of cultural dislocation.Antonio Michael Downing’s memoir of creativity and transformation is a startling mash-up of memories and mythol... + Read More
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Series: Penguin Vitae The Souls of Black Folk With "The Talented Tenth" and "The Souls of White Folk" Hardcover W. E. B. Du Bois 9780143134435 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 23, 2021

A collectible hardcover edition of the landmark book about being black in America, featuring an introduction by Ibram X. Kendi, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an AntiracistA Penguin Vitae EditionWhen The Souls of Black Folk was first published in 1903, it had a galvanizing effect on the conversation about race in America—and it remains both a touchstone in the literature of African America and a beacon in the fight for civil rights. Believing that one can know the “soul” of a race by knowing the souls of individuals, W. E... + Read More
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Dreaming in a Nightmare Finding a Way Forward in a World That's Holding You Back Hardcover Jeremiah Emmanuel 9781529118612 $27.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 27, 2020

A moving and powerful account of the problems faced by a new generation, from crime to poverty to an increasingly divided society, from an extraordinarily accomplished young activist and entrepreneur.My name is Jeremiah Emmanuel. I’m twenty years old. I’m an activist, an entrepreneur, a former deputy young mayor of Lambeth and member of the UK Youth Parliament. I wanted to change the world, but the world I was born into changed me first.Raised in south London, I lived in an area where crime and poverty were everywhere and opportunities to escap... + Read More
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Cary Grant A Brilliant Disguise Hardcover Scott Eyman 9781501192111 $47.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 20, 2020

Film historian and acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer Scott Eyman has written the definitive, “captivating” (Associated Press) biography of Hollywood legend Cary Grant, one of the most accomplished—and beloved—actors of his generation, who remains as popular as ever today.Born Archibald Leach in 1904, he came to America as a teenaged acrobat to find fame and fortune, but he was always haunted by his past. His father was a feckless alcoholic, and his mother was committed to an asylum when Archie was eleven years old. He believed her... + Read More
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My Mother's Daughter A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph Hardcover Perdita Felicien 9780385689960 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

A raw and affecting memoir about a mother and daughter who beat the odds together.Decades before Perdita Felicien became a World Champion hurdler running the biggest race of her life at the 2004 Olympics, she carried more than a nation’s hopes: she carried her mother’s dreams.In 1974, teenage Catherine is determined and tenacious, but she’s also pregnant with her second child and just scraping by in St. Lucia. When she meets a wealthy white Canadian family vacationing on the island, she knows it’s her chance. They ask her to come to Canada to b... + Read More
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No Time Like the Future An Optimist Considers Mortality Hardcover Michael J. Fox 9781250265616 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 17, 2020

A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. ?The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in Spin City; and through numerous other movie roles and guest appearances on shows such as The Good Wife and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Diagnosed at age 29, Michael is equally engaged in Parkinson’s advocacy work, raising global awareness of the disea... + Read More
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Do You Feel Like I Do? A Memoir Hardcover Peter Frampton 9780316425315 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 20, 2020

From his early rise to fame to battles with his health, this revelatory memoir by legendary guitarist Peter Frampton celebrates the life of a rock icon.Do You Feel Like I Do? is the incredible story of Peter Frampton's positively resilient life and career told in his own words for the first time. His monu-mental album Frampton Comes Alive! spawned three top-twenty singles and sold eight million copies the year it was released (more than seventeen million to date), and it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in January 2020.Frampton was on ... + Read More
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The Growing Season How I Built a New Life--and Saved an American Farm Hardcover Sarah Frey 9780593129395 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 25, 2020

One tenacious woman’s journey to escape poverty and create a billion-dollar farming business—without ever leaving the land she loved.The youngest of her parents’ combined twenty-one children, Sarah Frey grew up on a struggling farm in southern Illinois, often having to grow, catch, or hunt her own dinner alongside her brothers. She spent much of her early childhood dreaming of running away to the big city—or really anywhere with central heating. At fifteen, she moved out of her family home and started her own fresh produce delivery business wit... + Read More
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The Panic Years Dates, Doubts, and the Mother of All Decisions Hardcover Nell Frizzell 9781250268129 $38.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 09, 2021

Renowned journalist Nell Frizzell explores what happens when a woman begins to ask herself: should I have a baby?We have descriptors for many periods of life—adolescence, menopause, mid-life crisis, quarter-life crisis—but there is a period of profound change that many women face, often in their late twenties to early forties, that does not yet have a name.Nell Frizzell is calling this period of flux “the panic years,” and it is often characterized by a preoccupation with one major question: should I have a baby? And from there—do I want a baby... + Read More
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Catching the Wind Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975 Hardcover Neal Gabler 9780307405449 $54.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 27, 2020

The epic, definitive biography of Ted Kennedy—an immersive journey through the life of a complicated man and a sweeping history of the fall of liberalism and the collapse of political morality.Edward M. Kennedy was never expected to succeed. The youngest of nine, he lacked his brothers’ natural gifts and easy grace. Yet after winning election to the Senate at the tender age of thirty, he became the most consequential legislator of his lifetime, perhaps even American history. Surviving the traumas of his brothers’ assassinations, Ted Kennedy ult... + Read More
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A Synthesizing Mind A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory Hardcover Howard Gardner 9780262044264 $39.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 29, 2020

An authority on the human mind reflects on his intellectual development, his groundbreaking work, and different types of intelligences—including his own.Howard Gardner’s Frames of Mind was that rare publishing phenomenon—a mind-changer. Widely read by the general public as well as by educators, this influential book laid out Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences. It debunked the primacy of the IQ test and inspired new approaches to education; entire curricula, schools, museums, and parents’ guides were dedicated to the nurturing of the sev... + Read More
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Dog Flowers A Memoir Hardcover Danielle Geller 9781984820396 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 12, 2021

A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to confront her family’s troubled history and retrace her mother’s life—using both narrative and archive in this unforgettable and heart-wrenching memoir.After Danielle Geller’s mother dies of a withdrawal from alcohol during a period of homelessness, she is forced to return to Florida. Using her training as a librarian and archivist, Geller collects her mother’s documents, diaries, and photographs into a single suitcase and begins on a journey of confronting her family’s history and the decisio... + Read More