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Series: Bitcoin Billionaires A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption Hardcover Ben Mezrich 9781250217745 $36.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 21, 2019

From Ben Mezrich, the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, comes Bitcoin Billionaires--the fascinating story of brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss's big bet on crypto-currency and its dazzling pay-off. Ben Mezrich's 2009 bestseller The Accidental Billionaires is the definitive account of Facebook's founding and the basis for the Academy Award–winning film The Social Network. Two of the story's iconic characters are Harvard students Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss: identical twins, Olympic... + Read More
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Series: Bitcoin Billionaires A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption CD-Audio Ben Mezrich 9781250220844 $51.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 21, 2019

"Narrating with subtle pitch and phrasing variations, Will Damron connects with every bit of the drama and interpersonal tension that pervade this story. His pleasing voice and facility with dialogue are enormously enjoyable...Damron's superb performance adds to the excitement and makes this captivating listening." --AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winnerFrom Ben Mezrich, theNew York Timesbestselling author ofThe Accidental BillionairesandBringing Down the House,comesBitcoin Billionaires--the fascinating story of brothers Tyler and Cameron ... + Read More
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Series: The Guest Book A Novel Hardcover Sarah Blake 9781250110251 $34.99 FICTION May 07, 2019

Instant New York Times BestsellerLonglisted for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence2020 New England Society Book Award Winner for Fiction“The Guest Book is monumental in a way that few novels dare attempt.” —The Washington PostThe thought-provoking new novel by New York Times bestselling author Sarah BlakeAn exquisitely written, poignant family saga that illuminates the great divide, the gulf that separates the rich and poor, black and white, Protestant and Jew. Spanning three generations, The Guest Book deftly examines the life and legacy of ... + Read More
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Series: The Guest Book A Novel CD-Audio Sarah Blake 9781250220875 $58.99 FICTION May 14, 2019

"Orlagh cassidy narrates Blake's beautifully written multigenerational story of love and lies with consummate skill. Elegant and clear, distant yet passionate, she helps listeners discover the quirks in characters' personalities and explore their motives, both evident and hidden." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winnerThis program includes a bonus conversation with the author.The thought-provoking new audiobook byNew York Times bestselling author Sarah BlakeA lifetime of secrets. A history untold.No. It is a simple word, uttered on a summ... + Read More
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Series: FKA USA A Novel Hardcover Reed King 9781250108890 $36.50 FICTION Jun 18, 2019

“Mr. King looks at all our upcoming problems, and imagines a local reaction to each one.The result is often funny, usually sardonic, and always imaginative, what with all the mole rats, flesh drones, dimeheads, and especially ‘The Grifter’s Guide to the Territories FKA USA,’ a notable addition to the line of imaginary authorities.”—The Wall Street JournalIndie Next Pick for JulyBest of June: io9, AV Club, Amazing Stories, The VergeReed King’s amazingly audacious novel is something of a cross between L. Frank Baum’sThe Wizard of Oz, Douglas Adam... + Read More
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Series: Tasting Table Cooking with Friends Recipes for Modern Entertaining Hardcover Geoff Bartakovics 9781250139542 $42.50 COOKING May 07, 2019

Tasting Table's Cooking with Friends: Recipes for Modern Entertaining is Geoff Bartakovics' and Todd Coleman's first cookbook from TastingTable.com, whose delicious content inspires more than three million foodies daily, features recipes for the new style of entertaining where everyone pitches in.
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Series: The Flatshare A Novel Hardcover Beth O'Leary 9781250295637 $34.99 FICTION May 28, 2019

What if your roommate is your soul mate? A joyful, quirky romantic comedy, Beth O'Leary'sThe Flatshareis a feel-good novel about finding love in the most unexpected of ways.Tiffy and Leon share an apartment. Tiffy and Leon have never met.After a bad breakup, Tiffy Moore needs a place to live. Fast. And cheap. But the apartments in her budget have her wondering if astonishingly colored mold on the walls counts as art.Desperation makes her open minded, so she answers an ad for a flatshare. Leon, a night shift worker, will take the apartment durin... + Read More
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Series: Honestly, We Meant Well A Novel Hardcover Grant Ginder 9781250143150 $36.50 FICTION Jun 11, 2019

From the author ofThe People We Hate at teh Wedding, soon to be a major motion picture starring Kristen Bell, Allison Janney and Ben Platt!“This rollicking book has it all: sex, lies, and scenery. Grant Ginder weaves a wonderful, engrossing multi-generational family story, with the Greek isles as a backdrop so beautiful that the reader will want to dive in.”— Emma Straub,New York Times bestselling author ofThe Vacationers andModern LoversAnEntertainment Weekly Must ReadNamed Best Book of the Summer by:The New York Post - Newsweek - Bloomberg Bu... + Read More
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Series: The Ultimate Scratch & Sniff Guide to Loving Beer Hardcover Richard Betts 9781250124821 $28.99 COOKING May 14, 2019

What's the difference between a pilsner and a stout? Why is water so important to beer? What's the best temperature to serve a lager, an ale, or a stout? What the heck is a hop anyways?There are few things in the world as beloved as beer. By far and away it is the most popular alcoholic beverage in the world, but there is so much more to this beverage than we know. Richard Betts breaks down the ingredients, the science, and the processes behind how beer is made. With this knowledge in hand, and some scratching and sniffing, you'll have the tool... + Read More
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Series: Drive-Thru Dreams A Journey Through the Heart of America's Fast-Food Kingdom Hardcover Adam Chandler 9781250090720 $37.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 25, 2019

“This is a book to savor, especially if you’re a fast-food fan.”—Bookpage"This fun, argumentative, and frequently surprising pop history of American fast food will thrill and educate food lovers of all speeds."—Publishers WeeklyMost any honest person can own up to harboring at least one fast-food guilty pleasure. In Drive-Thru Dreams, Adam Chandler explores the inseparable link between fast food and American life for the past century. The dark underbelly of the industry’s largest players has long been scrutinized and gutted, characterized as im... + Read More
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Series: A Higher Loyalty Truth, Lies, and Leadership Paperback James Comey 9781250192479 $23.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 07, 2019

#1 New York Times Bestseller now in paperback with new materialIn his book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader.Mr. Comey served as director of the FBI from 2013 to 2017, appointed to the pos... + Read More
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Series: My Ex-Life A Novel Paperback Stephen McCauley 9781250122445 $22.50 FICTION May 07, 2019

National BestsellerBest Book of the Year: NPR, Shelf AwarenessIn prose filled with hilarious and heartbreakingly accurate one-liners, Stephen McCauley has written a novel that examines how we define home, family, and love. Be prepared to laugh, shed a few tears, and have thoughts of your own ex-life triggered.David Hedges’s life is coming apart at the seams. His job helping San Francisco rich kids get into the colleges of their (parents’) choice is exasperating; his younger boyfriend has left him; and the beloved carriage house he rents is bein... + Read More
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Series: Small Animals Parenthood in the Age of Fear Paperback Kim Brooks 9781250089571 $22.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 20, 2019

"It might be the most important book about being a parent that you will ever read." —Emily Rapp Black, New York Times bestselling author of The Still Point of the Turning World"Brooks's own personal experience provides the narrative thrust for the book — she writes unflinchingly about her own experience.... Readers who want to know what happened to Brooks will keep reading to learn how the case against her proceeds, but it's Brooks's questions about why mothers are so judgmental and competitive that give the book its heft." —NPROne morning, Kim... + Read More
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Series: The Family Tabor A Novel Paperback Cherise Wolas 9781250081476 $25.99 FICTION Jul 16, 2019

“Wolas writes with gorgeous intensity about the strata of loving relationships that entwine families in all their messy contradictions that often stubbornly resist transparency, the truth, and resolution. Savor this.” —Library Journal, starred reviewThe Family Tabor, the new novel from Cherise Wolas, acclaimed author ofThe Resurrection of Joan AshbyHarry Tabor is about to be named Man of the Decade, a distinction that feels like the culmination of a life well lived. Gathering together in Palm Springs for the celebration are his wife, Roma, a di... + Read More
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Series: If You See Me, Don't Say Hi Stories Paperback Neel Patel 9781250183217 $22.99 FICTION Jul 09, 2019

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and an NPR Best Book of the YearIn his sharp, surprising debut, Neel Patel gives voice to our most deeply held stereotypes and then slowly undermines them. His characters, almost all of who are first-generation Indian Americans, subvert our expectations that they will sit quietly by. We meet two brothers caught in an elaborate web of envy and loathing; a young gay man who becomes involved with an older man whose secret he could never guess; three women who almost gleefully throw off the pleasant agre... + Read More
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Series: Into? A Novel Paperback North Morgan 9781250147462 $23.50 FICTION May 21, 2019

"You must read this now!" - The New York Times Book ReviewIn Into? North Morgan shines a coolly mesmerizing light on the modern generation of gay men that are living firmly outside the closet, elevated by popular culture, but plagued by a new set of problems, insecurities and self-destructions. As the men of Into? swipe right from bed to bed, North Morgan spins a darkly hilarious, and shockingly perceptive story of excess and love that’s like nothing you’ve ever read. You know Konrad from your various social feeds – sun kissed, gym ripped and... + Read More
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Series: A Dog Named Beautiful A Marine, a Dog, and a Long Road Trip Home Hardcover Rob Kugler 9781250164254 $34.99 PETS May 07, 2019

An uplifting and unforgettable story of a US Marine, his extraordinary dog, and the road trip of a lifetime."A beautiful, beautiful book." — Jenna Bush HagerWhen US Marine Rob Kugler returns from war he had given up not only a year of his life in service to his country, but he had also lost a brother in the fighting as well. Lost in grief, Rob finds solace and relief in the one thing that never fails to put a smile on his face: his chocolate lab Bella. Exceptionally friendly, and always with - you wouldn’t believe it - a smile on her face, Bell... + Read More
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Series: Four Friends Promising Lives Cut Short Hardcover William D. Cohan 9781250070524 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 09, 2019

A powerful portrait of the lives of four boarding school graduates who died too young, John F. Kennedy, Jr. among them, by their fellow Andover classmate,New York Times bestselling author William D. Cohan.In his masterful pieces forVanity Fair and in his bestselling books, William D. Cohan has proven to be one of the most meticulous and intrepid journalists covering the world of Wall Street and high finance. In his utterly original new book,Four Friends, he brings all of his brilliant reportorial skills to a subject much closer to home: four fr... + Read More
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Series: This Land Is Our Land An Immigrant's Manifesto Hardcover Suketu Mehta 9780374276027 $36.50 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 04, 2019

A 2019 NPR Staff Pick“Written ‘in sorrow and anger,’ this is a brilliant and urgently necessary book, eloquently making the case against bigotry and for all of us migrants—what we are not, who we are, and why we deserve to be welcomed, not feared.” —Salman RushdieA timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrantsThere are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and controversy than immigration. But do we really understand it? InThis Land Is Our Land, the renowned author Suketu... + Read More
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Series: My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You An Introduction Hardcover Aleksandar Hemon 9780374217433 $36.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 11, 2019

Two books in one in a flip dos-Ã -dos format: The story of Aleksandar Hemon’s parents’ immigration from Sarajevo to Canada and a book of short memories of the author’s family, friends, and childhood in SarajevoInMy Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents’ immigration to Canada—of the lives that were upended by the war in Bosnia and siege of Sarajevo and the new lives his parents were forced to build. As ever with his work, he portrays both the perfect, intimate details (his mother’s lonely upbringing, his father’s fanatical bee... + Read More
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Series: The Organs of Sense A Novel Hardcover Adam Ehrlich Sachs 9780374227371 $34.00 FICTION May 21, 2019

"This book is only for people who like joy, absurdity, passion, genius, dry wit, youthful folly, amusing historical arcana, or telescopes." —Rivka Galchen, author ofLittle LaborsandAmerican InnovationsIn 1666, an astronomer makes a prediction shared by no one else in the world: at the stroke of noon on June 30 of that year, a solar eclipse will cast all of Europe into total darkness for four seconds. This astronomer is rumored to be using the longest telescope ever built, but he is also known to be blind—and not only blind, but incapable of sig... + Read More
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Series: Endeavour The Ship That Changed the World Hardcover Peter Moore 9780374148416 $36.50 HISTORY May 14, 2019

"An immense treasure trove of fact-filled and highly readable fun.” --Simon Winchester, The New York Times Book ReviewA Sunday Times (U.K.) Best Book of 2018 and Winner of the Mary Soames Award for HistoryAn unprecedented history of the storied ship that Darwin said helped add a hemisphere to the civilized worldThe Enlightenment was an age of endeavors, with Britain consumed by the impulse for grand projects undertaken at speed. Endeavour was also the name given to a collier bought by the Royal Navy in 1768. It was a commonplace coal-carrying v... + Read More
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Series: Dawson's Fall A Novel Hardcover Roxana Robinson 9780374135218 $35.00 FICTION May 14, 2019

A cinematic Reconstruction-era drama of violence and fraught moral reckoningIn Dawson’s Fall, a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinson’s great-grandparents, we see America at its most fragile, fraught, and malleable. Set in 1889, in Charleston, South Carolina, Robinson’s tale weaves her family’s journal entries and letters with a novelist’s narrative grace, and spans the life of her tragic hero, Frank Dawson, as he attempts to navigate the country’s new political, social, and moral landscape.Dawson, a man of fierce opinions, came to this c... + Read More
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Series: User Friendly How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play Hardcover Cliff Kuang 9780374279752 $38.00 DESIGN Nov 19, 2019

AMAZON BEST BOOKS OF 2019 PICKFORTUNE WRITERS AND EDITORS' RECOMMENDED BOOKS OF 2019 PICK"User Friendly is a tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and revelations from intrepid firsthand reporting."—EDWARD TENNER, The New York Times Book ReviewIn User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. Spanning over a century of sweeping changes, from women’s rights to the Gr... + Read More
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Series: The Unpassing A Novel Hardcover Chia-Chia Lin 9780374279363 $34.00 FICTION May 07, 2019

Finalist for the 2019 NBCC John Leonard Prize for Best First Book.Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. One ofEntertainment Weekly's 10 Best Debut Novels of 2019.Named one of the Best Books of 2019 byTIME,The Washington Post, andEsquire.ANew York Times Book Review Editors' Choice."A singularly vast and captivating novel . . . What makes Lin’s novel such an important book is the extent to which it probes America’s mythmaking about itself." --The New York Times Book ReviewA searing debut novel that explores community, identi... + Read More
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Series: Statins The Battle for Perfect Evidence-Based Medicine Hardcover Ben Goldacre 9780374271510 $38.00 MEDICAL Dec 31, 2027

An urgent examination of statins, the drugs at the heart of debates on evidence-based medicine and of the malign influence of Big PharmaStatins are the single most commonly prescribed class of drugs in the developed world. They?re taken by more than 100 million patients, with millions more people being offered them every year.We know that statins do some good. But we don?t know how big the benefits are. We don?t know which statins are the best. We don?t know how common the side effects are. We don?t give clear information to patients, so they a... + Read More
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Series: What Is Missing A Novel Hardcover Michael Frank 9780374298388 $36.50 FICTION Oct 08, 2019

"A wise and necessary book, one I’ve been recommending ardently to everyone I know. " —Julie Orringer, author of The Flight Portfolio Suspenseful and gripping, award-winning author Michael Frank’s What is Missing is a psychological family drama about a father, a son, and the woman they both love.Costanza Ansaldo, a half-Italian and half-American translator, is convinced that she has made peace with her childlessness. A year after the death of her husband, an eminent writer, she returns to the pensione in Florence where she spent many happy time... + Read More
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Series: Mosses and Lichens Poems Hardcover Devin Johnston 9780374213497 $30.00 POETRY May 07, 2019

A new collection from the author of TravelerNot days of angerbut days of mild congestion,infants of inconstant sorrow,days of foam in gutters,blossoms and snowmingling where they fall,a spring of cold profusion.If a rolling stone gathers no moss, the poems in Devin Johnston’s Mosses and Lichens attend to what accretes over time, as well as to what erodes. They often take place in the middle of life’s journey, at the edge of the woods, at the boundary between human community and wild spaces. Following Ovid, they are poems of subtle transformatio... + Read More
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Series: Lotharingia A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country Hardcover Simon Winder 9780374192181 $0.00 HISTORY Apr 23, 2019

In 843 AD, the three surviving grandsons of the great emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who would inherit the family land, they finally decided to divide the territory and go their separate ways. In a moment of staggering significance, one grandson inherited the area we now know as France, another Germany and the third received the piece in between: Lotharingia. Lotharingia is a history of in-between Europe. It is the story of a place between places. In this beguiling, hilarious and compelling book, Simo... + Read More
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Series: Amazing Decisions The Illustrated Guide to Improving Business Deals and Family Meals Paperback Dan Ariely 9780374536749 $24.50 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jul 23, 2019

Dan Ariely, theNew York Times bestselling author ofPredictably Irrational, and illustrator Matt R. Trower present a playful graphic novel guide to better decision-making, based on the author’s groundbreaking research in behavioral economics, neuroscience, and psychology.The internationally renowned author Dan Ariely is known for his incisive investigations into the messy business of decision-making. Now, inAmazing Decisions, his unique perspective—informed by behavioral economics, neuroscience, and psychology—comes alive in the graphic form. Th... + Read More
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Series: Amazing Decisions The Illustrated Guide to Improving Business Deals and Family Meals Hardcover Dan Ariely 9780374103767 $47.50 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jul 23, 2019

Dan Ariely, theNew York Times bestselling author ofPredictably Irrational, and illustrator Matt R. Trower present a playful graphic novel guide to better decision-making, based on the author’s groundbreaking research in behavioral economics, neuroscience, and psychology.The internationally renowned author Dan Ariely is known for his incisive investigations into the messy business of decision-making. Now, inAmazing Decisions, his unique perspective—informed by behavioral economics, neuroscience, and psychology—comes alive in the graphic form. Th... + Read More
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Series: The Electric Hotel A Novel Hardcover Dominic Smith 9780374146856 $36.50 FICTION Jun 04, 2019

A sweeping work of historical fiction from theNew York Times–bestselling author Dominic Smith,The Electric Hotel is a spellbinding story of art and love.For more than thirty years, Claude Ballard has been living at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel. A French pioneer of silent films who started out as a concession agent for the LumiÃ¨re brothers, the inventors of cinema, Claude now spends his days foraging for mushrooms in the hills of Los Angeles and taking photographs of runaways and the striplings along Sunset Boulevard. But when a film histo... + Read More
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Series: The Electric Hotel A Novel CD-Audio Dominic Smith 9781250221346 $54.50 FICTION Jun 04, 2019

From theNew York Times bestselling author Dominic Smith, a radiant audiobook tracing the intertwined fates of a silent-film director and his muse.Dominic Smith’sThe Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey—America’s first movie town—and on the battlefields of Belgium during World War I. A sweeping work of historical fiction, it shimmers between past and present as it tells the story of the rise and fall of a prodigious film studio and one man’s doomed obsession with all that passes in front of th... + Read More
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Series: Mr. Know-It-All The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder Hardcover John Waters 9780374214968 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 21, 2019

No one knows more about everything—especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling—than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Hairspray, Cry-Baby, and A Dirty Shame, is one of the world’s great sophisticates, and in Mr. Know-It-All he serves it up raw: how to fail upward in Hollywood; how to develop musical taste, from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas; how to build a home so ugly and trendy that no one but you would dare live in it; more important, ho... + Read More
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Series: Mr. Know-It-All The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder CD-Audio John Waters 9781250223944 $51.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 21, 2019

"[Just] like reading a description of a Waters film is nothing like seeing it on the screen, listening to him tell his own stories brings the context and inflection needed to truly appreciate his art. A singular experience." — BooklistThis program is read by the author and includes a bonus conversation.No one knows more about everything—especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling—than John Waters.The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classicsPink Flamingos,Polyester, the originalHairspray,Cry-... + Read More
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Series: Degrade and Destroy The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State--from Barack Obama to Donald Trump Hardcover Michael R. Gordon 9780374279899 $40.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 14, 2022

In 2014, President Obama overcame his long-standing aversion to large-scale military action in the Middle East and took the United States to war against the Islamic State. Assembling a coalition of regional and European allies, the U.S. military began a massive bombing campaign and returned its advisers to Iraq. Three years later, the Islamic State's self-declared caliphate straddling the Syria-Iraq border was apparently on the brink of collapse, as its key strongholds of Mosul and Raqqa fell to U.S.-supported forces. But was the war really ove... + Read More
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Series: The Sun on My Head Stories Hardcover Geovani Martins 9780374223779 $30.00 FICTION Jun 11, 2019

A bestselling literary sensation in Brazil, a powerful debut short-story collection about favela life in Rio de JaneiroInThe Sun on My Head, Geovani Martins recounts the experiences of boys growing up in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the early years of the twenty-first century. Drawing on his childhood and adolescence, Martins uses the rhythms and slang of his neighborhood dialect to capture the texture of life in the slums, where every day is shadowed by a ubiquitous drug culture, the constant threat of the police, and the confines of pover... + Read More
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Series: Flash Count Diary Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life Hardcover Darcey Steinke 9780374156114 $34.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 18, 2019

“Many days I believe menopause is the new (if long overdue) frontier for the most compelling and necessary philosophy; Darcey Steinke is already there, blazing the way. This elegant, wise, fascinating, deeply moving book is an instant classic. I’m about to buy it for everyone I know.” —Maggie Nelson, author ofThe ArgonautsA brave, brilliant, and unprecedented examination of menopauseMenopause hit Darcey Steinke hard. First came hot flashes. Then insomnia. Then depression. As she struggled to express what was happening to her, she came up agains... + Read More
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Series: This Is Not a T-Shirt A Brand, a Culture, a Community - a Life in Streetwear Hardcover Bobby Hundreds 9780374275792 $38.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 25, 2019

The story of The Hundreds and the precepts that made it an iconic streetwear brand by Bobby Hundreds himselfStreetwear occupies that rarefied space where genuine "cool" coexists with big business; where a star designer might work concurrently with Nike, a tattoo artist, Louis Vuitton, and a skateboard company. It’s the ubiquitous style of dress comprising hoodies, sneakers, and T-shirts. In the beginning, a few brands defined this style; fewer still survived as streetwear went mainstream. They are the OGs, the “heritage brands.” The Hundreds is... + Read More
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Series: The History of Living Forever A Novel Hardcover Jake Wolff 9780374170660 $36.50 FICTION Jun 11, 2019

A chemistry student falls for his teacher and uncovers a centuries-old quest for the elixir of lifeThe morning after the death of his first love, Conrad Aybinder receives a bequest. Sammy Tampari was Conrad’s lover. He was his teacher. And, it turns out, he was not just a chemist, but analchemist, searching for a mythic elixir of life. Sammy’s death was sudden, yet he somehow managed to leave twenty years’ worth of his notebooks and a storage locker full of expensive, sometimes baffling equipment in the hands of his star student. The notebooks ... + Read More
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Series: Roughhouse Friday A Memoir Hardcover Jaed Coffin 9780374251956 $36.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 18, 2019

A beautifully crafted memoir about fathers and sons, masculinity, and the lengths we sometimes go to in order to confront our past"[A] lucidly written memoir . . . Coffin’s triumph lies in ridding the language of his father, a language that compelled him to dwell in a house he did not recognize." —Matthew Janney, The Los Angeles Review of BooksWhile lifting weights in the Seldon Jackson College gymnasium on a rainy autumn night, Jaed Coffin heard the distinctive whacking sound of sparring boxers down the hall. A year out of college, he had been... + Read More
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Series: Aug 9 - Fog Hardcover Kathryn Scanlan 9780374106874 $24.50 FICTION Jun 04, 2019

"The searing strokes of this book remind me of the infinitude inside every life." --Leslie JamisonParis ReviewStaff Pick, one ofChicago Tribune's 25 Hot Books of Summer, and one ofThe A.V. Club's 15 Most Anticipated Books of 2019A stark, elegiac account of unexpected pleasures and the progress of seasonsFifteen years ago, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger’s five-year diary at an estate auction in a small town in Illinois. The owner of the diary was eighty-six years old when she began recording the details of her life in the small book, a gift fr... + Read More
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Series: A Primer for Forgetting Getting Past the Past Hardcover Lewis Hyde 9780374237219 $38.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 18, 2019

“One of our true superstars of nonfiction” (David Foster Wallace), Lewis Hyde offers a playful and inspiring defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche. We live in a culture that prizes memory—how much we can store, the quality of what’s preserved, how we might better document and retain the moments of our life while fighting off the nightmare of losing all that we have experienced. But what if forgetfulness were seen not as something to fear—be it in the form of illness or simple absentmindedness—b... + Read More
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Series: Out of the Shadows Reimagining Gay Men's Lives Hardcover Walt Odets 9780374285852 $40.75 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 04, 2019

A moving exploration of how gay men construct their identities, fight to be themselves, and live authenticallyIt goes without saying that even today, it’s not easy to be gay in America. While young gay men often come out more readily, even those from the most progressive of backgrounds still struggle with the legacy of early-life stigma and a deficit of self-acceptance, which can fuel doubt, regret, and, at worst, self-loathing. And this is to say nothing of the ongoing trauma wrought by AIDS, which is all too often relegated to history. Drawin... + Read More
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Series: Moonbound Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight Paperback Jonathan Fetter-Vorm 9780374537913 $26.99 SCIENCE Jun 04, 2019

On a summer night in 1969, two men climbed down a ladder onto a sea of dust at the edge of an ancient dream. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on lunar soil, the moon ceased to be a place of mystery and myth. It became a destination.Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of that journey,Moonbound tells the monumental story of the moon and the men who went there first. With vibrant images and meticulous attention to detail, Jonathan Fetter-Vorm conjures the long history of the visionaries, stargazers, builders, and adventurers who sen... + Read More
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Series: Moonbound Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight Hardcover Jonathan Fetter-Vorm 9780374212452 $47.50 SCIENCE Jun 04, 2019

On a summer night in 1969, two men climbed down a ladder onto a sea of dust at the edge of an ancient dream. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on lunar soil, the moon ceased to be a place of mystery and myth. It became a destination.Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of that journey,Moonbound tells the monumental story of the moon and the men who went there first. With vibrant images and meticulous attention to detail, Jonathan Fetter-Vorm conjures the long history of the visionaries, stargazers, builders, and adventurers who sen... + Read More
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Series: Stay and Fight A Novel Hardcover Madeline ffitch 9780374268121 $36.50 FICTION Jul 09, 2019

"LikeBastard Out of Carolina, ffitch's electrifying debut novel isa paean to independence and a protest against the materialism of our age." —O: The Oprah Magazine"Delightfully raucous." —Sam Sacks,The Wall Street JournalHelen arrives in Appalachian Ohio full of love and her boyfriend’s ideas for living off the land. Too soon, with winter coming, he calls it quits. Helped by Rudy—her government-questioning, wisdom-spouting, seasonal-affective-disordered boss—and a neighbor couple, Helen makes it to spring. Those neighbors, Karen and Lily, are a... + Read More
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Series: The Weil Conjectures On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown Hardcover Karen Olsson 9780374287610 $34.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 16, 2019

A New York Times Editors' Pick and Paris Review Staff Pick"A wonderful book." --Patti Smith"I was riveted. Olsson is evocative on curiosity as an appetite of the mind, on the pleasure of glutting oneself on knowledge." --Parul Sehgal, The New York TimesAn eloquent blend of memoir and biography exploring the Weil siblings, math, and creative inspirationKaren Olsson’s stirring and unusual third book, The Weil Conjectures, tells the story of the brilliant Weil siblings—Simone, a philosopher, mystic, and social activist, and AndrÃ©, an influential ... + Read More
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Series: One Lark, One Horse Poems Hardcover Michael Hofmann 9780374226596 $31.50 POETRY Jul 16, 2019

A new collection of poems by Michael Hofmann—his first in twenty yearsMichael Hofmann, renowned as one of our most brilliant critics and translators, is also regarded as among our most respected poets. Hofmann’s status—he is the author of “one of the definitive bodies of work of the last half-century" (The Times Literary Supplement)—is all the more impressive for his relatively concentrated output. One Lark, One Horse is his fifth collection of poems since his debut in 1983, and his first since Approximately Nowhere in 1999. Tt is also one of t... + Read More
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Series: Jacob's Ladder A Novel Hardcover Ludmila Ulitskaya 9780374293659 $47.50 FICTION Jul 09, 2019

One of Russia’s most renowned literary figures and a Man Booker International Prize nominee, Ludmila Ulitskaya presents what may be her final novel. Jacob’s Ladder is a family saga spanning a century of recent Russian history—and represents the summation of the author’s career, devoted to sharing the absurd and tragic tales of twentieth-century life in her nation. Jumping between the diaries and letters of Jacob Ossetsky in Kiev in the early 1900s and the experiences of his granddaughter Nora in the theatrical world of Moscow in the 1970s and b... + Read More
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Series: The Catholic School A Novel Hardcover Edoardo Albinati 9780374119256 $54.50 FICTION Aug 13, 2019

A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacreEdoardo Albinati’s The Catholic School, the winner of Italy’s most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy.Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and captivated the country, exposing the violen... + Read More
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Series: gods with a little g A Novel Hardcover Tupelo Hassman 9780374164461 $36.50 FICTION Aug 13, 2019

"Triumphant . . . as heartwarming as it is beautifully written." —Michael Schaub, NPRFrom the acclaimed author ofGirlchild, this gritty, irreverent novel sees a young misfit grow into hopeUnsinkable and wrecked by grief, motherless and aimless and looking for connection, Helen Dedleder is a girl with a gift she doesn't want to use and a pack of friends who are all just helping each other get by.So cut off from the rest of the world that even the internet is blocked (never mind traffic in and out), Rosary, California, is run by evangelicals but ... + Read More
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Series: Coventry Essays Hardcover Rachel Cusk 9780374126773 $35.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 17, 2019

NPR's Favorite Books of 2019Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. Now, inCoventry, she gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling criti... + Read More
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Series: Valerie or, The Faculty of Dreams: A Novel Hardcover Sara Stridsberg 9780374151911 $36.50 FICTION Aug 06, 2019

A fever dream of a novel—strangely funny, entirely unconventional—Valerieconjures the life, mind, and art of American firebrand Valerie SolanasIn April 1988, Valerie Solanas—the writer, radical feminist, author of theSCUM Manifesto and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol—was discovered dead at fifty-two in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco, alone, penniless, and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings.InValerie, a nameless narrator revisits the room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of ... + Read More
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Series: And How Are You, Dr. Sacks? A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks Hardcover Lawrence Weschler 9780374236410 $38.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 13, 2019

The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patient"[An] engrossing biographical memoir. This is Sacks at full blast: on endless ward rounds, observing his post-encephalitic patients . . . exulting over horseshoe crabs and chunks of Iceland spar." —Barbara Kiser,NatureThe author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for his own new employer,The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpieceAwakenings—the account of his ... + Read More
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Series: Learning from the Germans Race and the Memory of Evil Hardcover Susan Neiman 9780374184469 $39.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 27, 2019

As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classicEvil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the pastIn the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Susan Neiman’sLearning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdo... + Read More
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Series: A State at Any Cost The Life of David Ben-Gurion Hardcover Tom Segev 9780374112646 $54.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 24, 2019

2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist"[A] fascinating biography . . . a masterly portrait of a titanic yet unfulfilled man . . . this is a gripping study of power, and the loneliness of power." —The Economist As the founder of Israel, David Ben-Gurion long ago secured his reputation as a leading figure of the twentieth century. Determined from an early age to create a Jewish state, he thereupon took control of the Zionist movement, declared Israel’s independence, and navigated his country through wars, controversies and remarkable achievemen... + Read More
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Series: When the Plums Are Ripe A Novel Hardcover Patrice Nganang 9780374288990 $38.00 FICTION Aug 13, 2019

The second volume in a magisterial trilogy, the story of Cameroon caught between empires during World War IIIn Cameroon, plum season is a highly anticipated time of year. But for the narrator ofWhen the Plums Are Ripe, the poet Pouka, the season reminds him of the “time when our country had discovered the root not so much of its own violence as that of the world’s own, and, in response, had thrown its sons who at that time were called Senegalese infantrymen into the desert, just as in the evenings the sellers throw all their still-unsold plums ... + 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

"Men who inherit great wealth are respected, but women who do the same are ridiculed. In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham rescues Doris Duke from this gendered prison and shows us just how brave, rebellious, and creative this unique woman really was, and how her generosity benefits us to this day.” —Gloria Steinem A bold portrait of Doris Duke, the defiant and notorious tobacco heiress who was perhaps the greatest modern woman philanthropistIn The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham chronicles one of the great underexplored lives of the twentieth centur... + Read More
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Series: Equality An American Dilemma, 1866-1896 Hardcover Charles Postel 9780809079636 $39.99 HISTORY Aug 20, 2019

An in-depth study of American social movements after the Civil War and their lessons for today by a prizewinning historianThe Civil War unleashed a torrent of claims for equality—in the chaotic years following the war, former slaves, women’s rights activists, farmhands, and factory workers all engaged in the pursuit of the meaning of equality in America. This contest resulted in experiments in collective action, as millions joined leagues and unions. In Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866–1886, Charles Postel demonstrates how taking stock of th... + Read More