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Series: Every Drop of Blood The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln Hardcover Edward Achorn 9780802148742 $41.95 HISTORY Mar 13, 2020

A brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story—Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln’s historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the Civil WarBy March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000 Americans and left intractable wounds on the nation. After a morning of rain-drenched fury, tens of thousands crowded Washington’s Capitol grounds that day to see Abraham Lincoln take the oath for a second term. As the sun emerged, Lincoln rose to give perhaps the greatest in... + Read More
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Series: Live in Love Growing Together Through Life's Changes Hardcover Lauren Akins 9780593129043 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 05, 2020

In this refreshing and inspiring memoir, Lauren Akins, the wife of country music star Thomas Rhett, shows what it’s really like to be “the perfect couple” fans imagine, and reveals what it actually takes to live in love, stay in love, and grow together. When country music star Thomas Rhett won the ACM Award for Single of the Year with “Die a Happy Man,” his wife, Lauren Akins, was overjoyed. Her childhood best friend and now husband was being anointed the hottest new star in country music—for a song he had written about her. He was living his d... + Read More
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Series: Spirit Run A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land Hardcover Noe Alvarez 9781948226462 $38.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 13, 2020

The son of working-class Mexican immigrants flees a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American marathon from Canada to Guatemala, challenging himself to reimagine North America and his place in it in this "stunning memoir that moves to the rhythm of feet, labor, and the many landscapes of the Americas (Catriona Menzies-Pike, author ofThe Long Run).Growing up in Yakima, Washington, NoÃ© Ãlvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who “slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mot... + Read More
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Series: Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 Hardcover Gotz Aly 9781250170170 $43.50 HISTORY Apr 07, 2020

From the award-winning historian of the Holocaust,Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 is the first book to move beyond Germany’s singular crime to the collaboration of Europe as a whole.The Holocaust was perpetrated by the Germans, but it would not have been possible without the assistance of thousands of helpers in other countries: state officials, police, and civilians who eagerly supported the genocide. If we are to fully understand how and why the Holocaust happened, GÃ¶tz Aly argues in this groundbreaking study, we must examine its prehisto... + Read More
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Series: Resistance A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage Hardcover Tori Amos 9781982104153 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 05, 2020

A timely and passionate call to action for engaging with our current political moment, from the Grammy-nominated and multiplatinum singer-songwriter and New York Times bestselling author Tori Amos.Since the release of her first, career-defining solo album Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos has been one of the music industry’s most enduring and ingenious artists. From her unnerving depiction of sexual assault in “Me and a Gun” to her post-September 11 album, Scarlet’s Walk, to her latest album, Native Invader, her work has never shied away from inter... + Read More
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Series: Do What You Want The Story of Bad Religion Hardcover Bad Religion 9780306922220 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 18, 2020

The all-access autobiography of Bad Religion, a Southern Californian institution and one of the most influential and long-standing punk rock bands of all timeDO WHAT YOU WANT: The Bad Religion Story reveals the ups and downs of the band's 40-year career. From their beginnings as teenagers jamming in a San Fernando Valley garage dubbed "The Hell Hole" to headlining major music festivals around the world, DO WANT YOU WANT tells the whole story in irreverent style. While DO WHAT YOU WANT tracks down nearly all of Bad Religion's members past and p... + Read More
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Series: The Man Who Ran Washington The Life and Times of James A. Baker III Hardcover Peter Baker 9780385540551 $47.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 12, 2020

From 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 presidents because he understood better than anyone how to make Washington work at a ti... + Read More
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Series: Craigslist Confessional A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous Strangers Hardcover Helena Dea Bala 9781982114961 $33.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 07, 2020

For fans of Humans of New York and PostSecret, a collection of raw, urgent, and heartfelt stories, shared anonymously.What would you confess if you knew it would never get back to your spouse, your colleagues, or your family? What story would you tell about your life if a stranger was willing to listen with no judgement, no stigma, and no consequences—just an unburdening and the relief of confession? After graduating from law school, Helena Dea Bala was a lobbyist in Washington, DC, struggling to pay off her student loans. She felt lonely and ... + Read More
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Series: Quitter A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery Hardcover Erica C. Barnett 9780525522324 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 07, 2020

A startlingly frank memoir of one woman’s struggles with alcoholism and recovery, with essential new insights into addiction and treatmentErica C. Barnett had her first sip of alcohol when she was thirteen, and she quickly developed a taste for drinking to oblivion with her friends. In her late twenties, her addiction became inescapable. Volatile relationships, blackouts, and unsuccessful stints in detox defined her life, with the vodka bottles she hid throughout her apartment and offices acting as both her tormentors and closest friends.By the... + Read More
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Series: Faster How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best Hardcover Neal Bascomb 9781328489876 $40.00 HISTORY Mar 17, 2020

For fans ofThe Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph by an improbable team of upstarts over Hitler’s fearsome Silver Arrows during the golden age of auto racing. They were the unlikeliest of heroes. Rene Dreyfus, a former top driver on the international racecar circuit, had been banned from the best European teams—and fastest cars—by the mid-1930s because of his Jewish heritage. Charles Weiffenbach, head of the down-on-its-luck automaker Delahaye, was desperately trying to save his company as the world t... + Read More
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Series: House Lessons Renovating a Life Hardcover Erica Bauermeister 9781632172440 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 24, 2020

FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ERICA BAUERMEISTER COMES A MEMOIR ABOUT THE POWER OF HOME—AND THE TRANSFORMATIVE ACT OF RESTORING ONE HOUSE IN PARTICULAR. “I think anyone who saves an old house has to be a caretaker at heart, a believer in underdogs, someone whose imagination is inspired by limitations, not endless options.” In this mesmerizing memoir-in-essays, Erica Bauermeister renovates a trash-filled house in eccentric Port Townsend, Washington, and in the process takes readers on a journey to discover the ways our spaces subliminal... + Read More
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Series: Broken Glass Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece Hardcover Alex Beam 9780399592713 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 17, 2020

The true story of the intimate relationship that gave birth to the Farnsworth House, a masterpiece of twentieth-century architecture—and disintegrated into a bitter feud over love, money, gender, and the very nature of art.In 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the German architect Mies van der Rohe, already renowned for his avant-garde buildings, to design a weekend home for her outside of Chicago. Edith was a woman ahead of her time—unmarried, she was a distinguished medical researcher, as well as an accomplished violinist, translator, and poet. The... + Read More
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Series: A History of My Brief Body Hardcover Billy-Ray Belcourt 9780735237780 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 19, 2020

The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be.Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation. From there, it expands to encompass the big and broken world around him, in all its complexity and contradictions: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it, first loves and first loves lost, sexua... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Gender and History Purchasing Power Women and the Rise of Canadian Consumer Culture Paperback Donica Belisle 9781442629110 $29.95 HISTORY Apr 08, 2020

Exploring the roots of Canadian consumer culture, Purchasing Power uncovers the meanings that Canadians have attached to consumer goods. Focusing on women during the early twentieth century, it reveals that for thousands of Canadians between the 1890s and World War II, consumption was about not only survival, but also civic expression. Offering a new perspective on the temperance, conservation, home economics, feminist, and co-operative movements, this book brings women’s consumer interests to the fore. Due to their exclusion from formal polit... + Read More
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Series: Child of Light A Biography of Robert Stone Hardcover Madison Smartt Bell 9780385541602 $47.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 17, 2020

The first and definitive biography of one of the great American novelists of the postwar era, the author of Dog Soldiers and A Flag for Sunrise, and a penetrating critic of American power, innocence, and corruptionRobert Stone (1937-2015), probably the only postwar American writer to draw favorable comparisons to Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, and Joseph Conrad, lived a life rich in adventure, achievement, and inner turmoil. He grew up rough on the streets of New York, the son of a mentally troubled single mother. After his Navy service in t... + Read More
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Series: George Washington, Entrepreneur How Our Founding Father's Private Business Pursuits Changed America and the World Hardcover John Berlau 9781250172600 $38.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 30, 2020

A business biography of George Washington, focusing on his many innovations and inventions.George Washington: general, statesman...businessman? Most people don't know that Washington was the country's first true entrepreneur, responsible for innovations in several industries. InGeorge Washington, Entrepreneur, John Berlau presents a fresh, surprising take on our forefather's business pursuits.History has depicted Washington as a gifted general and political pragmatist, not an intellectual heavyweight. But he was a serious inventor and inveterat... + Read More
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Series: The Silver Swan In Search of Doris Duke Hardcover Sallie Bingham 9780374142599 $39.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 07, 2020

A bold portrait of Doris Duke, the defiant and notorious tobacco heiress who was perhaps the greatest modern woman philanthropist“Don’t touch that girl, she’ll burn your fingers,” the FBI director J. Edgar Hoover once said about Doris Duke, the inheritor of James Buchanan Duke’s billion-dollar tobacco fortune. During her life, she would be blamed for scorching many, including her mother (whom she sued) and various ex-lovers. She established her first foundation when she was twenty-one; cultivated friendships with the likes of Jackie Kennedy, Im... + Read More
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Series: The New One Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad Hardcover Mike Birbiglia 9781538701515 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 05, 2020

With laugh-out-loud funny parenting observations, the NYT bestselling author and award-winning comedian delivers a book that is perfect for anyone who has ever raised a child, been a child, or refuses to stop acting like one.In 2016 comedian Mike Birbiglia and poet Jennifer Hope Stein took their fourteen-month-old daughter Oona to the Nantucket Film Festival. When the festival director picked them up at the airport she asked Mike if he would perform at the storytelling night. She said, "The theme of the stories is jealousy."Jen quipped, "You're... + Read More
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Series: The Book of Atlantis Black Hardcover Grace Bonner 9781947793774 $35.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 04, 2020

Reminiscent of Alex Marzano-Lesnevich’s The Fact of a Body and Robert Kolker’s Lost Girls, with equal parts memoir and true crime, The Book of Atlantis Black will have you questioning facts, rooting for secrets, and asking what it means to know the truth. A young woman is found dead on the floor of a Tijuana hotel room. An ID in a nearby purse reads “Atlantis Black.” The police report states that the body does not seem to match the identification, yet the body is quickly cremated and the case is considered closed. So begins Betsy Bonner’s searc... + Read More
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Series: Good Boy My Life in Seven Dogs Hardcover Jennifer Finney Boylan 9781250261878 $36.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 21, 2020

From bestselling author ofShe’s Not There,New York Timesopinion columnist, and human rights activist Jennifer Finney Boylan,Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, a memoir of the transformative power of loving dogs.This is a book about dogs: the love we have for them, and the way that love helps us understand the people we have been.It’s in the love of dogs, and my love for them, that I can best now take the measure of the child I once was, and the bottomless, unfathomable desires that once haunted me.There are times when it is hard for me to fully r... + Read More
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Series: Blaze of Light The Inspiring True Story of Green Beret Medic Gary Beikirch, Medal of Honor Recipient Hardcover Marcus Brotherton 9780525653783 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 24, 2020

From one of the fiercest skirmishes of the Vietnam War to years of seclusion in a mountain cave, Medal of Honor recipient, Gary Beikirch has faced more than his fair share of battles and overcome each of them through perseverance and faith. He inspires readers to do the same. On April 1, 1970, Army Green Beret medic Gary Beikirch knew the odds were stacked against his survival. Some 10,000 enemy soldiers sought to obliterate the twelve American Special Forces troops and five hundred South Vietnamese fighters who stood fast to defend the women a... + Read More
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Series: Empty A Memoir Hardcover Susan Burton 9780812992847 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 23, 2020

An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated her adolescence and shapes her still.Growing up, Susan Burton had never heard of binge-eating. She just knew she felt her best when she was empty, “like a straw”, as she says “something you could blow through.”For almost thirty years, Susan Burton has hidden her obsession with food and the secret life of compulsive eating and starving that dominated her adolescence. This is the relentlessly honest, fiercely intelligent story of living with both a... + Read More
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Series: Magnetized Conversations with a Serial Killer Hardcover Carlos Busqued 9781948226684 $34.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 12, 2020

Over the course of one ghostly week in September 1982, the bodies of four taxi drivers were found in Buenos Aires, each murder carried out with the same cold precision. The assailant: a nineteen-year-old boy, odd and taciturn, who gave the impression of being completely sane. But the crimes themselves were not: four murders, as exact as they were senseless.More than thirty years later, Argentine author Carlos Busqued began visiting Ricardo Melogno, the serial killer, in prison. Their conversations return to the nebulous era of the crimes and a ... + Read More
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Series: The Celestial Hunter Hardcover Roberto Calasso 9780374120061 $47.50 HISTORY Apr 28, 2020

The eighth part of Roberto Calasso’s monumental series on the primal forces of civilizationThe eighth part of Roberto Calasso’s singular work in progress that began in 1983 withThe Ruin of Kasch,The Celestial Hunteris an inspired and provocative exploration of mankind’s relationship with myth, the divine, and the idea of transformation.There was a time, even before prehistory, when man was simply a defenseless animal. The gods he worshiped took the form of other beasts or were the patterns of the stars he saw above him each night in the sky, wh... + Read More
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Series: Bright Precious Thing A Memoir Hardcover Gail Caldwell 9780525510055 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 07, 2020

From the New York Times bestselling author of Let’s Take the Long Way Home comes a moving memoir about how the women’s movement revolutionized and saved her life, from the 1960s to the #MeToo era.In a voice as candid as it is evocative, Gail Caldwell traces a path from her west Texas girlhood through her emergence as a young daredevil, then as a feminist—a journey that reflected seismic shifts in the culture itself. Caldwell’s travels took her to California and Mexico and dark country roads, and the dangers she encountered were rivaled only by ... + Read More
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Series: Conversations with Einstein A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts Hardcover Carlos Calle 9781786783844 $16.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 14, 2020

Imagined by one of the world’s leading experts on Einstein, this fictionalized conversation presents the essential biography of history’s most famous mathematicianBy power of thought alone, Albert Einstein gave us a fresh conception of the universe. He showed us that space and time are elastic - shrinking or expanding, speeding up or slowing down, depending on your movement. Beginning with an inspiring foreword by eminent Professor of Mathematics Sir Roger Penrose, the book is then divided into two parts: a biographical essay that provides a co... + Read More
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Series: Champions Day The End of Old Shanghai Hardcover James Carter 9780393635942 $38.95 HISTORY Jun 16, 2020

How a single day revealed the history and foreshadowed the future of Shanghai.It is November 12, 1941, and the world is at war. In Shanghai, just weeks before Pearl Harbor, thousands celebrate the birthday of China’s founding father, Sun Yat-sen, in a new city center built to challenge European imperialism. Across town, crowds of Shanghai residents from all walks of life attend the funeral of China’s wealthiest woman, the Chinese-French widow of a Baghdadi Jewish businessman whose death was symbolic of the passing of a generation that had seen ... + Read More
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Series: Who Ate the First Oyster? The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History Paperback Cody Cassidy 9780143132752 $23.00 HISTORY May 05, 2020

Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing innovations.Who invented the wheel? Who told the first joke? Who drank the first beer? Who was the murderer in the first murder mystery, who was the first surgeon, who sparked the first fire—and most critically, who was the first to brave the slimy, pale oyster?In this book, writer Cody Cassidy digs dee... + Read More
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Series: Everything She Touched The Life of Ruth Asawa (Women Artists Book, Ruth Asawa Biography, Wire Sculpture Art Book Hardcover Marilyn Chase 9781452174402 $42.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 07, 2020

Everything She Touched recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa.This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling biography, author Marilyn Chase brings Asawa's story to vivid life. She draws on Asawa's extensive archives and weaves together many voices—family, friends, teachers, and critics—to offer a complex and fascinating portrait of the artist.Born in California in 1926, Ruth Asawa grew from a farmer's daug... + Read More
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Series: Midwest Futures Hardcover Phil Christman 9781948742610 $38.95 HISTORY Age (years) from 16 Apr 17, 2020

What does the future hold for the Midwest? A vast stretch of fertile farmland bordering one of the largest concentrations of fresh water in the world, the Midwestern US seems ideally situated for the coming challenges of climate change. But it also sits at the epicenter of a massive economic collapse that many of its citizens are still struggling to overcome. The question of what the Midwest is (and what it will become) is nothing new. As Phil Christman writes in this idiosyncratic newbook, ambiguity might be the region's defining characteristi... + Read More
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Series: Tombstone The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell Hardcover Tom Clavin 9781250214584 $39.99 HISTORY Apr 21, 2020

The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the New York Times bestselling author ofDodge City andWild Bill.On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, nine men clashed in what would be known as the most famous shootout in American frontier history. Thirty bullets were exchanged in thirty seconds, killing three men and wounding three others.The fight sprang forth from a tense, hot summer. Cattle rustlers had been terrorizing the back country of Mexico and selling the livestock they stole to corrupt r... + Read More
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Series: Officer Clemmons A Memoir Hardcover Francois Clemmons 9781948226707 $38.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 15, 2020

Officer Clemmons: A Memoir details the incredible life story of FranÃ§ois Clemmons, beginning with his early years in Alabama and Ohio, marked by family trauma and loss, through his studies as a music major at Oberlin College, where Clemmons began to investigate and embrace his homosexuality, to a chance encounter with Fred Rogers which changed the whole course of both men’s lives, leading to a deep, spiritual friendship and mentorship spanning nearly forty years.When he earned the role as “Officer Clemmons” on the award-winning television seri... + Read More
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Series: The Fight for History 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War Hardcover Tim Cook 9780735238336 $35.00 HISTORY Apr 21, 2020

A masterful telling of the way World War Two has been remembered, forgotten, and remade by Canada over seventy-five years. The Second World War shaped modern Canada. It led to the country’s emergence as a middle power on the world stage; the rise of the welfare state; industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. After the war, Canada increasingly turned toward the United States in matters of trade, security, and popular culture, which then sparked a desire to strengthen Canadian nationalism from the threat of American hegemony.The Fi... + Read More
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Series: Stray A Memoir Hardcover Stephanie Danler 9781101875964 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 05, 2020

From the bestselling author of Sweetbitter, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction, and of one woman’s attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past. Stray is a moving, sometimes devastating, brilliantly written and ultimately inspiring exploration of the landscapes of damage and survival.After selling her first novel—a dream she’d worked long and hard for—Stephanie Danler knew she should be happy. Instead, she found herself driven to face the difficult past she’d left behind a decade ago: a mother disabled b... + Read More
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Series: Crucible of Hell The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945 Hardcover Saul David 9780316534673 $38.00 HISTORY Apr 14, 2020

From the award-winning historian, Saul David, the riveting narrative of the heroic US troops, bonded by the brotherhood and sacrifice of war, who overcame enormous casualties to pull off the toughest invasion of WWII's Pacific Theater -- and the Japanese forces who fought with tragic desperation to stop them.With Allied forces sweeping across Europe and into Germany in the spring of 1945, one enormous challenge threatened to derail America's audacious drive to win the world back from the Nazis: Japan, the empire that had extended its reach sout... + Read More
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Series: The Cubans Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times Hardcover Anthony DePalma 9780525522447 $37.00 HISTORY May 26, 2020

Modern Cuba comes alive in a vibrant portrait of a group of families’s varied journeys in one community over the last twenty years.Cubans today, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, are hesitantly embracing the future. In his new book, Anthony DePalma, a veteran reporter with years of experience in Cuba, focuses on a neighborhood across the harbor from Old Havana to dramatize the optimism as well as the enormous challenges that Cubans face: a moving snapshot of Cuba with all its contradictions as the new regime o... + Read More
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Series: The Unidentified Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained Hardcover Colin Dickey 9780525557562 $36.00 HISTORY Jul 21, 2020

America’s favorite cultural historian and author of Ghostland takes a tour of the country’s most persistent “unexplained” phenomenaIn a world where rational, scientific explanations are more available than ever, belief in the unprovable and irrational—in fringe—is on the rise: from Atlantis to aliens, from Flat Earth to the Loch Ness monster, the list goes on. It seems the more our maps of the known world get filled in, the more we crave mysterious locations full of strange creatures.Enter Colin Dickey, Cultural Historian and Tour Guide of the ... + Read More
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Series: The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941 The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor Hardcover Paul Dickson 9780802147677 $44.95 HISTORY Jul 17, 2020

In September 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland and initiated World War II, a strong strain of isolationism existed in Congress and across the country. The U.S. Army stood at fewer than 200,000 men—unprepared to defend the country, much less carry the fight to Europe and the Far East. And yet, less than a year after Pearl Harbor, the American army led the Allied invasion of North Africa, beginning the campaign that would defeat Germany, and the Navy and Marines were fully engagedwith Japan in the Pacific.The story of America’s astounding in... + Read More
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Series: Ferment A Memoir of Mental Illness, Redemption, and Winemaking in the Mosel Hardcover Patrick Dobson 9781510757318 $32.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 16, 2020

A deeply moving account of one man’s return to the German town where he first pursued a career in winemaking, and his attempt to reckon with the mental illness, alcoholism, and enduring relationships that defined the most formative chapter of his life.After an attempted suicide by hanging—with his son in the next room—author Patrick Dobson checks into a mental hospital, clueless, reeling from bone-crushing depression and tortuous, racing thoughts. A long overdue diagnosis of manic depression offers relief but brings his confused and eventful pa... + Read More
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Series: My Meteorite Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing Paperback Harry Dodge 9780143134367 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 17, 2020

An expansive, radiant, and genre-defying investigation into bonding—and how we are shaped by forces we cannot fully knowIs love a force akin to gravity? A kind of invisible fabric which enables communications through space and time? Artist Harry Dodge finds himself contemplating such questions as his father declines from dementia and he rekindles a bewildering but powerful relationship with his birth mother. A meteorite Dodge orders on eBay becomes a mysterious catalyst for a reckoning with the vital forces of matter, the nature of consciousnes... + Read More
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Series: A Higher Calling Pursuing Love, Faith, and Mount Everest for a Greater Purpose Hardcover Harold Earls IV 9780525653752 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 02, 2020

The husband and wife behind the popular Earls Family Vlogs share their inspiring love story of how an expedition to climb Mount Everest deepened their faith, strengthened their commitment, and sharpened their vision to make a difference in the world. As a senior at West Point, Harold Earls dreamed of summiting Mount Everest after graduation and bringing awareness to the issue of PTSD in soldiers and veterans. But as a novice mountain climber and newlywed, could he really leave his wife, Rachel, on the other side of the world to pursue such a da... + Read More
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Series: Un-American A Soldier's Reckoning of Our Longest War Hardcover Erik Edstrom 9781635573749 $38.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 19, 2020

A whistle-blowing manifesto about America's unchallenged war machine, from anAfghanistan veteran andnew kind of military hero.First: Imagine your own death. Second: Imagine America's wars from “the other side.” Third: Imagine what might have been if the war were never fought.Un-American poses these startling circumstances in a searing examination of America and Americans at war.Erik Edstrom grew up in suburban Massachusetts with an idealistic desire to make an impact, ultimately leading him to the gates of West Point. Five years later, he was d... + Read More
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Series: Girl Decoded A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology Hardcover Rana el Kaliouby 9781984824769 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 21, 2020

In a captivating memoir, an Egyptian-American visionary and scientist provides an intimate view of her personal transformation as she follows her calling—to humanize our technology and how we connect with one another.Rana el Kaliouby is a rarity in both the tech world and her native Middle East: a Muslim leader and CEO, a woman in charge in a field that is still overwhelmingly white and male. Growing up in Egypt and Kuwait, el Kaliouby was raised by a conservative father who valued tradition—yet also had high expectations for his daughters—and ... + Read More
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Series: Franci's War A Woman's Story of Survival Paperback Franci Rabinek Epstein 9780143135579 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 17, 2020

The engrossing memoir of a spirited and glamorous young fashion designer who survived World War ll, with an afterword by her daughter, Helen Epstein.In the summer of 1942, twenty-two year-old Franci Rabinek—designated a Jew by the Nazi racial laws—arrived at Terezin, a concentration camp and ghetto forty miles north of her home in Prague. It would be the beginning of her three-year journey from Terezin to the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, to the slave labor camps in Hamburg, and Bergen Belsen. After liberation by the British in April... + Read More
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Series: Save Yourself Hardcover Cameron Esposito 9781455591435 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 24, 2020

From rising comedy star Cameron Esposito, a memoir that is "as hilarious and honest as she is on the stage," tackling the big issues explored in her comedy, including gender, sexuality and feminism - and how her Catholic childhood prepared her for a career as an outspoken lesbian comedian in ways the Pope could never have imagined (Abby Wambach).Cameron Esposito wanted to be a priest and ended up a stand-up comic. Now she would like to tell the whole queer as hell story. Her story. Not the sidebar to a straight person's rebirth-she doesn't give... + Read More
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Series: This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire A Memoir Hardcover Nick Flynn 9781324005544 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 25, 2020

A searing memoir from critically acclaimed author Nick Flynn, on how childhood spills into parenthood.When Nick Flynn was a child, his mother set fire to their home. With the spare lyricism and dark irony of his classic, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Flynn excavates the terrain of his traumatic upbringing and his mother’s suicide. Now a parent himself, he discovers that he too may be burning his house down. He returns with his young daughter to the landscape of his youth, reflecting on how his “feral childhood” has him still in its reins... + Read More
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Series: I Want You to Know We're Still Here A Post-Holocaust Memoir Hardcover Esther Safran Foer 9780525575986 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 31, 2020

A woman unearths family secrets and gives voice to things unspoken in this poignant memoir that traces her parents’ escape from the Holocaust.Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust loomed in the backdrop of daily life, felt but never discussed. The result was a childhood marked by painful silences and continued tragedy. Even as she built a successful career, married, and raised three children, E... + Read More
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Series: In Truth A History of Lies from Ancient Rome to Modern America Hardcover Matthew Fraser 9781633886247 $26.50 HISTORY Apr 07, 2020

From ancient Rome to the current Internet age, this sweeping history of ideas explores how different epochs wrestled with the issue of truth and lies.From the ancient Greeks and Romans to the modern era, how have people determined what is true? How have those with power and influence sought to control the narrative? Are we living in a post-truth era, or is that notion simply the latest attempt to control the narrative? The relationship between truth and power is the key theme.Moving through major historical periods, the author focuses on notabl... + Read More
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Series: The Growing Season How I Saved an American Farm--and Built a New Life Hardcover Sarah Frey 9780593129395 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 02, 2020

One woman’s tenacious 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. She spent much of her early childhood dreaming of running away to Hollywood, Chicago—or really anywhere with central heating. At fifteen, she moved out of her family home and started her own fresh produce delivery business with nothing more th... + Read More
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Series: The Last Children of Mill Creek Paperback Vivian Gibson 9781948742641 $25.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Age (years) from 16 Apr 30, 2020

Vivian Gibson grew up in Mill Creek Valley, a segregated working-class neighborhood of St. Louis that was razed in 1959 to build a highway, an act of racism disguised under urban renewal as “progress.” The three rooms of her childhood home were heated by a wood-burning stove; her family had no hot water or furnace, but what Gibson lacked in material comforts she made up for in imagination. A moving memoir of family life at a time very different from the present,The Last Children of Mill Creek chronicles the everyday lived experiences of Gibson’... + Read More
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Series: Lady in Waiting My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown Hardcover Anne Glenconner 9780306846366 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 24, 2020

**International Bestseller****The Times (UK) Memoir of the Year****One of Newsweek's Most Anticipated Books of 2020**An extraordinary memoir of drama, tragedy, and royal secrets by Anne Glenconner--a close member of the royal circle and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. As seen on Netflix's The Crown.Anne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood, when she met and befriended the future Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, the Princess Margaret. Though the firstborn child of the 5th Earl of Leicester, who... + Read More