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Series: D-Day Girls The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II Hardcover Sarah Rose 9780451495082 $37.00 HISTORY Apr 23, 2019

The dramatic, untold story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain’s elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victoryIn 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was fighting. Believing that Britain was locked in an existential battle, Winston Churchill created a secret agency, the Special Operations Executive (SOE), whose spies were trained in everything from demolition to sharpshooting. Their job, he declared, was to “set Europe ablaze.” But with most men on the front lines, the S... + Read More
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Series: The Spies of Shilling Lane A Novel Hardcover Jennifer Ryan 9780525576495 $36.00 FICTION Jun 04, 2019

From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir comes a second story set against a backdrop of WWII about a divorced (gasp!) mother who, fancying herself a Miss Marple, travels to London to “investigate” the disappearance of her daughter, discovering both herself and a second chance at love along the way.Mrs. Braithwaite, a middle-aged mother and divorcee, hasn’t been happy in a long time. She’s estranged from her daughter—who now lives in London—and was recently alienated by her small English village. In the midst of her frustration ... + Read More
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Series: The War for Kindness Building Empathy in a Fractured World Hardcover Jamil Zaki 9780451499240 $36.00 PSYCHOLOGY Jun 04, 2019

A Stanford psychologist offers a bold new understanding of empathy, revealing it to be a skill, not a fixed trait, and showing, through science and stories, how we can all become more empathetic.In this age of political tribalism, racism, and xenophobia, it feels like empathy is in short supply. We struggle to understand, never mind care about, people who aren’t just like us. Indeed, studies show that Americans are more isolated and less kind than we were even thirty years ago. As former president Obama has said, the United States isn’t sufferi... + Read More
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Series: Recursion A Novel Hardcover Blake Crouch 9781524759780 $36.00 FICTION Jun 11, 2019

What if someone could rewrite your entire life?“My son has been erased.” Those are the last words the woman tells Barry Sutton, before she leaps from the Manhattan rooftop.Deeply unnerved, Barry begins to investigate her death, only to learn that this wasn’t an isolated case. All across the country, people are waking up to lives different from the ones they fell asleep to. Are they suffering from False Memory Syndrome, a mysterious new disease that afflicts people with vivid memories of a life they never lived? Or is something far more sinister... + Read More
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Series: Home for Erring and Outcast Girls A Novel Hardcover Julie Kibler 9780451499332 $36.00 FICTION Jul 23, 2019

An emotionally raw and resonant story of love, loss, and the enduring power of friendship, following the lives of two young women connected by a home for “fallen” girls and inspired by historical eventsIn turn-of-the-twentieth-century Texas, “fallen” women—those whose birth, circumstances, or personal tragedies have resigned them to the dangerous poverty of the streets—have one hope: the Berachah Home for the Redemption and Protection of Erring Girls. Built in 1903 in the dusty, tumbleweed outpost of Arlington, the progressive home for cast-out... + Read More
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Series: Lost You A Novel Hardcover Haylen Beck 9781524759582 $35.00 FICTION Aug 06, 2019

A provocative and unputdownable psychological suspense about two women locked in a desperate fight over a child each believes is rightfully hersLibby needs a break. Three years ago her husband split, leaving her to raise their infant son Ethan alone as she struggled to launch her writing career. Now for the first time in years, things are looking up. She’s just sold her first novel, and she and Ethan are going on a much-needed vacation. Everything seems to be going their way, so why can’t she stop looking over her shoulder or panicking every ti... + Read More
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Series: Leave Only Footprints My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park Hardcover Conor Knighton 9781984823540 $37.00 TRAVEL Apr 07, 2020

The Emmy-winning CBS Sunday Morning correspondent chronicles his year traveling to every one of our National Parks, discovering the most beautiful places and most interesting people that America has to offer.When Conor Knighton decided to spend a year wandering through America’s “best idea,” he was worried the whole thing might end up being his worst idea. But after a broken engagement and a broken heart, Conor desperately needed a change of scenery. The ambitious plan he cooked up went a bit overboard in that department; Knighton set out to vi... + Read More
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Series: Home Remedies Stories Hardcover Xuan Juliana Wang 9781984822741 $34.00 FICTION May 14, 2019

“This dazzling collection interrogates the fractures, collisions and glorious new alloys of what it means to be a Chinese millennial. Xuan Juliana Wang has the dark soul of an old poet’s inkwell, the deep knowing of an ancient remedy, and linguistic incandescence of a megacity skyline.” - Adam Johnson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Orphan Master’s Son.In twelve stunning stories of love, family, and identity, Xuan Juliana Wang’s debut collection captures the unheard voices of an emerging generation. Young, reckless, and catapulted tow... + Read More
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Series: The Ditch A Novel Hardcover Herman Koch 9780525572381 $35.00 FICTION Jun 11, 2019

The bracing and inventive new novel of suspicions and secrecy from Herman Koch, the New York Times bestselling author of The DinnerWhen Robert Walter, popular mayor of Amsterdam, sees his wife toss her head back with laughter while chatting to one of his aldermen at a New Year’s reception, he immediately suspects the worst. Despite their long and happy marriage, Robert is convinced that Sylvia is cheating on him—with the respectable alderman who is dedicated to the environment, no less. The man who wants to spoil the capital’s skyline with wind... + Read More
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Series: The Travelers A Novel Hardcover Regina Porter 9780525576198 $36.00 FICTION Jun 18, 2019

A sweeping and devastating debut novel following two American families, one white and one black, from the 1950s through Barack Obama’s first year as president, and grappling with America’s painful history of racism and sexismJames Vincent is born in 1942 to a working-class white couple whose marriage was already on the rocks. James struggles to move beyond a difficult childhood and escapes the violence at home to attend law school in Michigan, where he begins, ultimately, to envision his future as prosperous and bright.Meanwhile, on a rural roa... + Read More
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Series: King of the Mississippi A Novel Hardcover Mike Freedman 9780525573784 $35.00 FICTION Jul 09, 2019

A biting, hilarious literary satire of war, business, and contemporary masculinity, set in the cutthroat-but-ridiculous world of management consultingKing of the Mississippi is an incisive, uproarious dissection of contemporary male vanity and delusion, centered around a “war” for dominance of a prestigious Houston consulting firm. On one side of the conflict is Brock Wharton, an old money ex-jock whose delight in telling clients to downsize is matched only by his firm conviction that people like himself deserve to run the world. On the other i... + Read More
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Series: Only to Sleep A Philip Marlowe Novel Paperback Lawrence Osborne 9781524759629 $22.00 FICTION Apr 02, 2019

Lawrence Osborne brings one of literature’s most enduring detectives back to life—as Private Investigator Philip Marlowe returns for one last adventure.The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. And Philip Marlowe—now in his 72nd year—is living out his retirement in the terrace bar of the La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his silver-tipped cane at the ready. When in saunter two men dressed like undertakers, with a case that has his name written all over it. For Marlowe, this is his last roll of the dice, his swan song. His m... + Read More
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Series: The Uninhabitable Earth Life After Warming Hardcover David Wallace-Wells 9780525576709 $36.00 SCIENCE Feb 19, 2019

A chilling, groundbreaking portrait of the near future if global warming continues uncheckedIt is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, “500-year” storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually.This is only a preview of the changes to come. And they are coming fast. With... + Read More
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Series: Appeasement Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War Hardcover Tim Bouverie 9780451499844 $40.00 HISTORY Jun 04, 2019

A gripping new history of the British appeasement of the Third Reich in the lead up to World War IIOn a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off a plane and prepared to address the crowd of journalists, cabinet ministers, and well-wishers waiting at Heston airfield. Chamberlain had just returned from Munich, where he had averted the greatest crisis of the century. Under his leadership, Britain and France had conceded the German-speaking fringe of Czechoslovakia to Hitler, after which the Führer was persuad... + Read More
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Series: Hungry Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World Hardcover Jeff Gordinier 9781524759643 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 09, 2019

A food critic chronicles four years spent traveling with renowned chef René Redzepi in search of the most tantalizing flavors the world has to offer.Hungry is a book about not only the hunger for food, but for risk, for reinvention, for creative breakthroughs, and for connection. Feeling stuck in his work and home life, writer Jeff Gordinier happened into a fateful meeting with Danish chef René Redzepi, whose restaurant, Noma, has been called the best in the world. A restless perfectionist, Redzepi was at the top of his game but was looking to ... + Read More
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Series: Unbelievable The Story of Two Detectives' Relentless Search for the Truth Paperback T. Christian Miller 9781524759940 $23.00 TRUE CRIME Sep 03, 2019

Now in paperback and soon to be a Netflix original series, the riveting true story of Marie, a teenager who was charged with lying about having been raped, and the detectives who followed a winding path to arrive at the truthOn August 11, 2008, 18-year-old Marie reported that a masked man broke into her apartment near Seattle, Washington, and raped her. Within days, police and even those closest to Marie became suspicious of her story. The police swiftly pivoted and began investigating Marie. Confronted with inconsistencies in her story and the... + Read More
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Series: Give People Money How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World Paperback Annie Lowrey 9781524758776 $22.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 09, 2019

Now in paperback, a brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income—the idea of giving every citizen an annual stipend, no questions asked—and why, in an age of rapid automation, it might just be our best hopeThe second industrial revolution is coming. Advances in artificial intelligence are about to cause the greatest social upheaval we’ve seen in centuries. Within the next decade, 3.5 million truck drivers will likely be replaced by self-driving trucks. Factory workers, even many white-collar professionals, will be replaced by rob... + Read More
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Series: Ticker The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart Paperback Mimi Swartz 9780804138024 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 10, 2019

Now in paperback, Texas Monthly executive editor and two-time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz takes readers behind the scenes of perhaps the greatest medical and technological quest of our time, as she follows pioneering heart surgeon O. H. “Bud” Frazier and his partner, Dr. Billy Cohn, in Frazier’s lifelong effort to develop, perfect, and successfully implant an artificial heart in patients whose hearts are failing.Renowned journalist Mimi Swartz takes readers on an incredible behind-the-scenes journey into a heart surgeon’s epic qu... + Read More
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Series: Boom Town The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding... Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis Paperback Sam Anderson 9780804137331 $24.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 20, 2019

Now in paperback, award-winning journalist Sam Anderson’s “enthralling, hilarious, and unexpectedly moving biography of Oklahoma City that already feels like a classic of its kind” (Slate)Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded on the afternoon of a bizarre but momentous “Land Run” in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn between its own outsized ambitions to become a grand metropolis and the powerful provincial p... + Read More
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Series: Mother American Night My Life in Crazy Times Paperback John Perry Barlow 9781524760199 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 04, 2019

A “ceaselessly mind-blowing [memoir]…bubbling over with psychedelic wisdom” (WIRED) that documents a Zelig-like life from a childhood as Wyoming ranching royalty to friendships with Neal Cassady, Steve Jobs, and JFK Jr.Mother American Night is the heartrendingly sad, hysterically funny, and often unbelievable yet always completely true story of a singular individual. Referred to by more than one publication as “The Most Interesting Man in the World,” Barlow has throughout his life maintained close relationships with such diverse cultural figure... + Read More
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Series: Astroball The New Way to Win It All Paperback Ben Reiter 9780525576655 $22.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Mar 26, 2019

A “superb narrative” of the Houston Astros’ unexpected rise to win the 2017 World Series, providing “powerful insights into how organizations—not just baseball clubs—work best” (Wall Street Journal)When Sports Illustrated writer Ben Reiter declared, on the cover of the magazine in 2014, that the Houston Astros would win the World Series in 2017, people thought he was crazy. The team, which had just finished a three-year losing streak of terrible performances, was widely considered an underdog, and the cover story met instant and nearly universa... + Read More
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Series: The Billionaire Raj A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age Paperback James Crabtree 9781524760076 $23.00 HISTORY Jul 02, 2019

A colorful portrait of India’s new billionaire class and its role in a radically unequal society. Now in paperback.Ever since India’s insular socialist economy was reformed in 1991, the country has become one of the fastest growing in the world, recently surpassing China. But this growth has not been shared equally, and 1 percent of India’s population now owns 60 percent of its wealth. In megacities like Mumbai, where some 6 million people live on less than $2 a day, twelve-story private homes dot the skyline. Corporate dynasties such as the Am... + Read More
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Series: No Matter Poems Paperback Jana Prikryl 9781984825117 $20.00 POETRY Jul 23, 2019

An urgent, visionary collection of poems from the author of The After PartyJana Prikryl’s No Matter argues for the necessity of vision in a time of darkness. Set in cities toppling past the point of decline-and-fall—Rome, London, Dublin, and most of all New York—these poems capture the experience of being human in the late days of empire, when the laws protecting weak from strong are being torn away. Ranging from free verse through sonnets and invented forms, Prikryl’s poems insist that every demolition also builds something new and unforeseen.... + Read More
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Series: The Skinnytaste Air Fryer Cookbook The 75 Best Healthy Recipes for Your Air Fryer Hardcover Gina Homolka 9781984825643 $29.00 COOKING May 07, 2019

The must-have cookbook for any air fryer, with flavorful recipes that are healthy, convenient, and quick to prepare#1 New York Times bestselling author Gina Homolka is beloved for her incredible recipes that transform your favorite, comforting foods into healthy, low-cal dishes with tons of flavor. Now, she brings her expertise to the game-changing air fryer appliance. Using high-powered, super hot, circulating air like a convection oven, air fryers crisp up your favorite “fried” foods with barely any oil needed. Cook times are shorter than tra... + Read More
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Series: Camp Stories and Itineraries for Sleeping Under the Stars Hardcover Luc Gesell 9780525577256 $34.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Jun 04, 2019

An inspiring, practical guide for outdoor enthusiasts of all stripes (from weekend campers to extreme adventurers) and a celebration of sleeping under the stars. Through interviews, inspiring quotes, and instruction, Luc Gesell gets to the heart of why camping is such a calling: behind the gear and techniques, it’s as much about living off the grid as it is the thrill of staying alive.Whether you love car camping with kids, “glamping” safari style, or roughing it in a rustic lean-to in the middle of nowhere, this wild guide will get you itching... + Read More
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Series: My Small Space Starting Out in Style Hardcover Anna Ottum 9781524762667 $24.99 HOUSE & HOME Jun 25, 2019

This is the ultimate guide to moving out on your own—whether that’s in a campus dorm, an apartment with seven other friends, a two-bedroom with your best friend, or your very own studio. With cool photography of city spaces and smart design tips, room-by-room checklists, interviews with renters, and more, this is an inspiring book about taking that first step toward adulting.My Small Space reflects how urbanites really live today—in all kinds of small spaces that have limitations. Every page is packed with cool photography and tips, such as how... + Read More
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Series: Kawaii Sweet World Cookbook 75 Yummy Recipes for Baking That's (Almost) Too Cute to Eat Hardcover Rachel Fong 9780525575429 $33.99 COOKING Jul 30, 2019

From YouTube star Rachel Fong, Kawaii Sweet World is the definitive guide to baking in the vibrant, Kawaii-style (“cute” in Japanese), featuring 75 brand new, easy-to-follow recipes for totally original and delicious cakes, candies, cookies, cupcakes, and more.Since starting her YouTube career at age 12, Rachel Fong has amassed a huge dedicated following of two million young and hungry aspiring home bakers from around the world. The key to Rachel’s success is not just her bevy of bright, easy recipe videos that appeal to bakers of all ages, but... + Read More
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Series: Living with Color Inspiration and How-Tos to Brighten Up Your Home Hardcover Rebecca Atwood 9781524763459 $47.00 HOUSE & HOME Aug 27, 2019

In this vibrant, lush home-decor lookbook and manual from the author of LIVING WITH PATTERN, textile designer Rebecca Atwood explains how to create a color palette, teaching readers to find what resonates with their personal aesthetic and bring the magic of color into their homes.In her first book, Living with Pattern, textile designer Rebecca Atwood demystified how to conceptualize and feature pattern in your home designs. Now in Living with Color, Atwood delivers another definitive style guidebook that is both an aspirational design showcase ... + Read More
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Series: The Truffle Underground A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus Paperback Ryan Jacobs 9780451495693 $22.00 COOKING Jun 04, 2019

The Truffle Underground takes readers through the fascinating underworld of the truffle industry.Beneath the glossy veneer of star chefs and crystal-laden tables, a hidden world of intrigue, sabotage, and crime undergirds the elegance of truffles: Feuding factions plant poisoned meatballs in competitors’ fields to eliminate rival truffle-hunting dogs. Crime syndicates steal research from the labs of scientists attempting to cultivate them, and unsuspecting foragers are held at gunpoint while bandits lift an entire month’s worth of income from t... + Read More
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Series: 100 Side Hustles Unexpected Ideas for Making Extra Money Without Quitting Your Day Job Hardcover Chris Guillebeau 9780399582578 $33.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jun 04, 2019

Best-selling author Chris Guillebeau presents a full-color ideabook featuring 100 stories of regular people launching successful side businesses that almost anyone can do. This unique guide features the startup stories of regular people launching side businesses that almost anyone can do: an urban tour guide, an artist inspired by maps, a travel site founder, an ice pop maker, a confetti photographer, a group of friends who sell hammocks to support local economies, and many more. In 100 Side Hustles, best-selling author of The $100 Startup Chri... + Read More
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Series: Don't Hate, Meditate! 5 Easy Practices to Get You Through the Hard Sh*t (and into the Good) Hardcover Megan Monahan 9780399582554 $24.00 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Jun 04, 2019

Meditation instructor, Deepak Chopra protégé, director of Meditation Wanderlust Hollywood, and Lululemon ambassador Megan Monahan presents a no-nonsense guide to meditation for everyday soul-searchers.This modern guide to meditation from instructor Megan Monahan takes readers beyond empty Instagram truisms to the simple yet effective ways to “meditate their way through the bad shit and into the good shit.” With a fresh voice and perspective, Monahan presents a set of tools grounded in a meditation technique that is impossible to screw up. With ... + Read More
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Series: Finnish Nightmares An Irreverent Guide to Life's Awkward Moments Hardcover Karoliina Korhonen 9781984857040 $19.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Aug 20, 2019

From awkward interactions on public transportation to avoiding small talk with salespeople, introverts from all over the world will find something to love in this comic sensation from Finland.Mild-mannered protagonist Matti is a typical Finn who appreciates peace, quiet, and personal space—but things do not always go according to his wishes. Finnish Nightmares is an illustrated collection of his and many people’s worst fears when it comes to social interactions. Divided into sections on dealing with neighbors, going shopping, sharing public spa... + Read More
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Series: Wild Beauty Wisdom & Recipes for Natural Self-Care Hardcover Jana Blankenship 9780399582813 $24.00 HEALTH & FITNESS Jul 23, 2019

An inspiring and easy-to-use primer on natural beauty, featuring 45 recipes for making your own essential oils, lip balm, face and body oils, bath salts, juices, tonics, and more, including an overview of important plant ingredients, the benefits of detoxing your beauty regimen, and tips for creating a cleaner self-care routine.Just like chemical additives in our food, synthetic ingredients in our hair and skin care can wreak havoc with our bodies. Luckily, there’s no need to compromise luxurious, effective skin and hair care for safety. From a... + Read More
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Series: The Farmhouse Culture Guide to Fermenting Crafting Live-Cultured Foods and Drinks with 100 Recipes from Kimchi to Kombucha [A Cookbook] Hardcover Kathryn Lukas 9780399582653 $47.00 COOKING Aug 27, 2019

An authoritative and easy-to-use guide to fermentation with 100+ recipes for fermented foods and drinks.Fermented and preserved foods are beloved for their bold and layered flavors as well as their benefits for gut health, boosting immunity, and curbing sugar cravings, but until now, there hasn’t been a book that is both authoritative and easy to use. The Farmhouse Culture Guide to Fermenting provides you with the history, health information, and safest methods for preserving, along with 115 recipes for krauts, pickles, kimchi, fermented vegeta... + Read More
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Series: Natural Wine for the People What It Is, Where to Find It, How to Love It Hardcover Alice Feiring 9780399582431 $24.99 COOKING Aug 06, 2019

A compact illustrated guide to the emerging and enormously popular category of natural wine, a style that focuses on minimal intervention, lack of additives, and organic and biodynamic growing methods.Today, wine is more favored and consumed that it’s ever been in the United States—and millennials are leading the charge, drinking more wine than any other generation in history. Many have been pulled in by the tractor beam of natural wine—that is, organic or biodynamic wine made with nothing added, and nothing taken away—a movement that has compl... + Read More
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Series: Amazing Facts About Baby Animals An Illustrated Compendium Hardcover Maja Säfström 9780399580680 $19.99 NATURE Sep 10, 2019

A whimsically illustrated collection of fascinating, surprising, and funny facts about baby animals and their parents, from the author of The Illustrated Compendium of Amazing Animal Facts.Who doesn’t love baby animals? Amazing Facts About Baby Animals is an adorable celebration of all kinds of fuzzy, fluffy, scaly, and feathery animal babies and their parents. This charming collection by beloved Swedish artist Maja Säfström is full of interesting, weird, and funny facts about animals before they are born (elephants are pregnant for 22 months!)... + Read More
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Series: Nests, Eggs, Birds An Illustrated Aviary Hardcover Kelsey Oseid 9780399581854 $22.99 NATURE Mar 10, 2020

Discover the world’s birds, their homes, and their eggs in this gorgeously illustrated, entertaining, and educational guide.Did you know that the tailorbird “sews” leaves together to make its nest? Or that hummingbird eggs are the size of jellybeans?Birds are some of the world’s most beautiful and interesting creatures, and their nests and eggs are no exception, displaying a stunning diversity of shapes, sizes, functions, and materials. In Nests, Eggs, Birds, celebrated artist and author Kelsey Oseid explores the fascinating ins and outs of whe... + Read More
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Series: Cannabis and CBD for Health and Wellness An Essential Guide for Using Nature's Medicine to Relieve Stress, Anxiety, Chronic Pain, Inflammation, and More Paperback Aliza Sherman 9781984856852 $22.99 HEALTH & FITNESS Jun 04, 2019

A safe, comprehensive, and easy-to-use guide to using cannabis—including CBD and THC—to ease chronic and acute health issues such as pain, insomnia, inflammation, depression, anxiety, grief, stress, and more, from the founder of a global cannabis wellness network and an osteopathic physician. With legalization of recreational cannabis in 10 states and medical marijuana in 33 states, interest is growing in cannabis-related health products, especially those made with CBD—a cannabinoid that has healing properties without the psychoactive effects o... + Read More
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Series: Improv for Writers 10 Secrets to Help Novelists and Screenwriters Bypass Writer's Block and Generate Infinite Ideas Paperback Jorjeana Marie 9780399582035 $19.99 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Aug 27, 2019

Improv instructor and writer Jorjeana Marie presents the first book to harness the creative power of improvisation exercises to help both aspiring and seasoned authors defeat writer’s block and generate new ideas. Suffering from writer’s block and inner critics? Having trouble generating ideas for plots, settings, and characters? Introducing the rules and techniques of improvisation as they apply to fiction writing, improv instructor and writer Jorjeana Marie addresses each major element of storytelling by applying writer’s-block-busting games ... + Read More
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Series: The Jungle [A Graphic Novel] Paperback Upton Sinclair 9781984856487 $33.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jul 02, 2019

A compelling graphic novel adaptation of Upton Sinclair’s seminal protest novel that brings to life the harsh conditions and exploited existences of immigrants in Chicago’s meatpacking industry in the early twentieth century.Long acclaimed around the world, Upton Sinclair’s 1906 muckraking novel The Jungle remains a powerful book even today. Not many works of literature can boast that their publication brought about actual social and labor change, but that’s just what The Jungle did, as it led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 190... + Read More
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Series: Zak George's Guide to a Well-Behaved Dog Proven Solutions to the Most Common Training Problems for All Ages, Breeds, and Mixes Paperback Zak George 9780399582417 $19.99 PETS Jul 09, 2019

Celebrity dog trainer, YouTube sensation, and Animal Planet star Zak George presents a pragmatic issue-based guide that uses his infectiously energetic style to teach dog-lovers everything they need to know about solving common behavioral problems.Does your dog have accidents, bark at other dogs, pull on the leash, or hate to be left alone? Zak George to the rescue! An Animal Planet star who has trained thousands of animals and author of Zak George’s Dog Training Revolution, George is the most popular trainer on YouTube. In this problem-based g... + Read More
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Series: Let's Make Ramen! A Comic Book Cookbook Paperback Hugh Amano 9780399581991 $25.99 COOKING Jul 16, 2019

A comic book cookbook with accessible ramen recipes for the home cook, including simple weeknight bowls, weekend project stocks, homemade noodles, and an array of delicious accompaniments, with insights and tips from notable ramen luminaries.Playful and instructive, this hybrid cookbook/graphic novel introduces the history of ramen and provides more than 40 recipes for everything you need to make the perfect bowl at home including tares, broths, noodles, and toppings. Authors Hugh Amano and Sarah Becan present colorful, humorous, and easy-to-fo... + Read More
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Series: Fruit Trees for Every Garden An Organic Approach to Growing Apples, Pears, Peaches, Plums, Citrus, and More Paperback Orin Martin 9780399580024 $33.99 GARDENING Aug 27, 2019

Written by the long-time manager of the renowned Alan Chadwick Garden at the University of California, Santa Cruz, this substantial, authoritative, and beautiful full-color guide covers everything you need to know about organically growing healthy, bountiful fruit trees.For more than forty years, Orin Martin has taught thousands of apprentices, students, and home gardeners the art and craft of growing fruit trees organically. In Fruit Trees for Every Garden, Orin shares—with hard-won wisdom and plenty of humor—his recommended fruit varieties an... + Read More
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Series: Draw People Every Day Short Lessons in Portrait and Figure Drawing Using Ink and Color Paperback Kagan McLeod 9780399581977 $29.99 ART Jun 04, 2019

A lively, colorful figure drawing instruction book that encourages aspiring illustrators to work in ink and watercolor to create quick, confident renderings of diverse, contemporary people.While today’s illustrators work primarily in ink and watercolor, figure drawing instruction still tends to emphasize work in pencil. Commercial illustrator Kagan McLeod offers an approach to figure and portrait drawing more in keeping with today’s preferred tools and techniques, one that focuses on cultivating spontaneity, energy, and confidence by providing ... + Read More
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Series: Everyday Watercolor Flowers A Modern Guide to Painting Blooms, Leaves, and Stems Step by Step Paperback Jenna Rainey 9780399582219 $29.99 ART Jun 11, 2019

Author of Everyday Watercolor and Instagram darling Jenna Rainey presents a beautiful step-by-step guide to painting botanicals from lilies to daffodils in a wide variety of styles.Artist Jenna Rainey shares easy-to-follow ways to paint a wide range of botanicals, all in her fresh, modern style that appeals to the next generation of watercolor artists and creatives, from beginners to hobbyists. With gorgeously illustrated instructions for both loose and realistic watercolor depictions of more than 25 flowers, leaves, and plants, organized by fo... + Read More
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Series: Pop Manga Drawing 30 Step-by-Step Lessons for Pencil Drawing in the Pop Surrealism Style Paperback Camilla d'Errico 9780399581502 $22.99 ART Jul 02, 2019

An easy-to-follow, step-by-step manga drawing instruction book from fan favorite manga artist and painter Camilla d’Errico, featuring 30 lessons on illustrating cute, cool, and quirky characters in the Pop Surrealist style with pencils.With wildly popular appearances at Comic Cons and her paintings displayed in art galleries around the world, Camilla d’Errico has established herself as a go-to resource for manga-influenced art. Following in the footsteps of her past art instruction books Pop Manga and Pop Painting, Pop Manga Drawing provides th... + Read More
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Series: Positive Discipline for Preschoolers, Revised 4th Edition For Their Early Years -- Raising Children Who Are Responsible, Respectful, and Resourceful Paperback Jane Nelsen Ed.D. 9780525576419 $22.99 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Jul 09, 2019

Completely updated with the latest research in child development and learning, Positive Discipline for Preschoolers will help parents understand their preschooler and provide early methods to raise a child who is responsible, respectful, and resourceful.Caring for young children is one of the most challenging tasks an adult will ever face. No matter how much you love your child, there will be moments filled with frustration, anger, and even desperation. There will also be questions: Why does my four-year-old deliberately lie to me? Why is every... + Read More
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Series: The Secret Therapy of Trees Harness the Healing Energy of Forest Bathing and Natural Landscapes Hardcover Marco Mencagli 9781984824141 $25.99 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Jul 09, 2019

In The Secret Therapy of Trees, Marco Mencagli and Marco Nieri explore the relationship between plants and organisms, and illustrate how to benefit from nature’s positive impact on our psychological and physical well-being.Our connection to nature is deeply rooted in the history of our evolution. And yet, we have less contact with green space now than ever, and our stress and anxiety levels are at an all-time high. The Secret Therapy of Trees helps us rediscover the restorative value of our natural environment and presents the science behind gr... + Read More
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Series: Sunny-Side Up More Than 100 Breakfast & Brunch Recipes from the Essential Egg to the Perfect Pastry: A Cookbook Hardcover Waylynn Lucas 9781635653700 $33.99 COOKING Aug 27, 2019

Breakfast and brunch recipes from the essential egg to the perfect pastry, from pastry chef and Cake Wars judge Waylynn Lucas.Sunny-Side Up is about making delicious brunch and breakfast food with love and attention—whether it’s a scrambled egg for one or a full-on champagne brunch buffet for a special occasion. And it’s not an exclusive party for seasoned foodies. In fact, Waylynn considers it her responsibility as a trained pastry chef to make things less—not more—complicated for home cooks who want to make super-yummy breakfast delights in t... + Read More
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Series: The Potassium Promise An Essential Plan to Lower Blood Pressure, Improve Metabolic Health, and Keep Sodium in Check Paperback Mark Moyad MD MPH 9781635653076 $22.99 HEALTH & FITNESS Jan 02, 2080

A comprehensive plan that outlines the little-known importance of potassium, and how to enrich your diet to counteract the effects of too much sodium, resulting in lower blood pressure, weight loss, and overall good health.Potassium is a nutrient that is essential to the health, wellbeing, and function of the body. Associated with lower blood pressure, kidney health, and weight loss, potassium also naturally counteracts the dangerous and all-too-common effects of too much sodium in the diet, including heart attacks, stroke kidney failure, and e... + Read More
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Series: What We See in the Stars A 12-Notebook Set Diary Kelsey Oseid 9781984823182 $27.00 SELF-HELP Jun 04, 2019

The perfect gift for stargazers and astrology lovers alike, this 12-notebook set with blank, lined, dotted, and graph pages is a stylish homage to the constellations of the zodiac.This striking and cool set of 12 pocket-size notebooks features celebrated illustrator Kelsey Oseid’s signature paintings of the 12 constellations of the zodiac, from Aries to Pisces. Each notebook features a different foil-stamped constellation on the cover, and features high-quality interior paper (either blank, lined, dotted, or graph).
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Series: What We See in the Stars Journal Clothbound Writing Notebook with Dotted Pages and an Elastic Band Diary Kelsey Oseid 9781984823175 $24.00 SELF-HELP Jun 04, 2019

The perfect gift for stargazers and astronomy lovers alike, this journal is a stylish homage to the constellations of the universe.Featuring celebrated illustrator Kelsey Oseid’s signature paintings of many of the constellations of the night sky, from Andromeda to Pegasus, this keepsake journal with dotted paper and lay-flat binding gives you plenty of space for writing, doodling, and dreaming.
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Series: Moon Lists Questions and Rituals for Self-Reflection: A Guided Journal Diary Leigh Patterson 9781984822727 $19.99 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Jun 25, 2019

Moon Lists is a guided journal structured around the phases of the moon. It provides a place to note feelings of gratitude and moments of mindfulness while celebrating the turn of the seasons.Loosely organized around the phases of the moon and punctuated with references to ’70s astrology, architecture, and art, Moon Lists encourages journalers to stop and reflect on the precious moments in their lives before time passes them by. A set of evolving monthly writing prompts and suggestions for physical activities can be completed individually or wi... + Read More
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Series: The Bucket/F*ck it List 3,669 Things to Do. Or Not. Whatever. Diary Sara Kinninmont 9781984823380 $17.50 HUMOR Jul 02, 2019

Do you dream of seeing a honey badger in the wild? Roasting a turducken next Thanksgiving? Mastering Cockney rhyming slang? Wearing lederhosen? Drinking banana wine in the Canary Islands? Then this book is for you. (But if you’re content instead to stay home and binge watch Netflix, then this book is also for you.)Not your typical bucket list book, The Bucket/F*ck It List lets you check off “bucket,” “f*ck it,” or “done it” for each of the 3,669 items, depending on whether you intend to do it, couldn’t care less about it, or have already accomp... + Read More
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Series: 101 THINGS I LEARNED 101 Things I Learned® in Law School Hardcover Vibeke Norgaard Martin 9781524762025 $24.00 LAW Aug 06, 2019

A provocative, accessible, and cleverly illustrated guide to legal principles and practice, written by a law instructor and internationally experienced attorney for the bestselling 101 Things I Learned® series. This might be the most useful book law students ever read. Not because it contains the details of case law, but because it teaches them how to think like a lawyer. From the fundamentals of effective argument to the principles, structures, and assumptions underlying our legal system, 101 Things I Learned in Law School makes the impenetrab... + Read More
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Series: Rockonomics A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us about Economics and Life Hardcover Alan B. Krueger 9781524763718 $37.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jun 04, 2019

Alan Krueger, the former chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers, uses the music industry, from superstar artists to music executives, from managers to promoters, as a way in to explain key principles of economics, and the forces shaping our economic lives.The music industry is a leading indicator of today’s economy; it is among the first to be disrupted by the latest wave of technology, and examining the ins and outs of how musicians create and sell new songs and plan concert tours offers valuable lessons for what is in store ... + Read More
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Series: The Human Advantage The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines Paperback Jay W. Richards 9780451496171 $22.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jan 02, 2080

Bestselling author, economist, and Fox News regular Jay W. Richards makes the definitive case for how the free market and individual responsibility can save the American Dream in an age of automation and mass disruption.For two and a half centuries, America has been held together by the belief that if you work hard and conduct yourself responsibly in this country, you will be able to prosper and leave a better life for your children. But over the past decade, that idea has come into crisis. A recession, the mass outsourcing of stable jobs, and ... + Read More
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Series: Love Thy Neighbor A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America Hardcover Ayaz Virji M.D. 9780525577201 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 11, 2019

A powerful true story about a Muslim doctor’s service to small-town America and the hope of overcoming our country’s climate of division and fear.In 2013, Ayaz Virji left a comfortable job at an East Coast hospital and moved to a town of 1,400 in Minnesota, feeling called to address the shortage of doctors in rural America. But in 2016, this decision was tested when the reliably blue, working-class county swung for Donald Trump. Virji watched in horror as his children faced anti-Muslim remarks at school and some of his most loyal patients began... + Read More
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Series: Bless This Mess A Modern Guide to Faith and Parenting in a Chaotic World Paperback Rev. Molly Baskette 9781984824127 $22.99 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Aug 06, 2019

Pairing modern psychology with liberal Christian spirituality, Dr. Ellen O’Donnell and Rev. Molly Baskette deliver a clear and compelling modus operandi for making family life work—one rooted in research on parenting and Christian values, peppered with personal stories and a heavy dose of humor.When authors Ellen O’Donnell and Molly Baskette became parents, they read lots of books on parenting—many of them great. But when it came to practical suggestions that would help their family spiritually and psychologically, they came up short. Together,... + Read More
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Series: Living Unafraid Lessons on Hope from 31 of the Bible's Most Loved Stories Hardcover Adam Hamilton 9781524760526 $24.99 RELIGION Aug 06, 2019

In this 31-day devotional, pastor and bestselling author Adam Hamilton shows how the Bible’s most memorable stories can help us nurture lives of peace, courage, and hope.Our capacity to experience fear is a gift from God. It protects us from harm by sensing possible danger and motivating us to act. But fear can also dominate our lives. We worry about the future, about our health, about disappointing our friends and family. When these worries play over and over in our minds without resolution, it can rob us of joy and keep us from pursuing the l... + Read More