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Series: Hate The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism in France (and What It Means for Us) Hardcover Marc Weitzmann 9780544649644 $38.00 HISTORY Mar 12, 2019

From an awardâ??winning journalist, a provocative, deeply reported exposé of the history and present crisis of antiâ??Semitism in France—and its dire message for the rest of the world. What is the connection between a rise in the number of random attacks against Jews on the streets of France and strategically planned terrorist acts targeting the French population at large? Before the attacks on Charlie Hebdo, the Bataclan night club, and others made international headlines, Marc Weitzmann had noticed a surge of seemingly random acts of violen... + Read More
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Series: The Stranger Diaries Hardcover Elly Griffiths 9781328577856 $36.00 FICTION Mar 05, 2019

International Bestseller "This lively whodunit keeps you guessing until the end." —People“Utterly bewitching…As unforgettable as it is original.” —A.J. Finn“Goose-bump spooky, smart, and haunting…I loved this book!” —Louise PennyDeath lies between the lines when the events of a dark story start coming true in this haunting modern gothic mystery, perfect for fans ofMagpie Murders andThe Lake House.Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic writer R. M. Holland, she teaches a course on it ever... + Read More
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Series: The Chaos Function Hardcover Jack Skillingstead 9781328526151 $35.00 FICTION Mar 19, 2019

"This crackling road trip through the apocalypse offers thrills all the way to its explosive, satisfying finale.”—Publishers Weekly “Relentless, terrifying, and affecting, this book left me feeling like I’d been strapped to the front of the car like Mad Max in Fury Road—not realizing that it was taking me to an emotional ending that would leave me gutted. I’ve been a huge fan of Skillingstead’s work for years, but in The Chaos Function he’s outdone himself!”—Daryl Gregory, award-winning author of SpoonbendersFor readers of the bestâ??selling no... + Read More
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Series: Peterson Field Guides Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Western North America Paperback Nathan Pieplow 9780547905570 $40.00 NATURE Apr 02, 2019

A comprehensive field guide that uses an innovative Sound Index to allow readers to quickly identify unfamiliar songs and calls of birds in western North America. Bird songs and calls are at least as important as visual field marks in identifying birds. Yet short of memorizing each bird’s repertoire, it’s difficult to sort through them all. Now, with the western edition of this groundbreaking book, it’s possible to visually distinguish bird sounds and identify birds using a field-guide format. At the core of this guide is the spectrogram, a ... + Read More
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Series: Inside the Empire The True Power Behind the New York Yankees Hardcover Bob Klapisch 9781328589354 $40.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Mar 26, 2019

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A riveting look at what is really said and done behind closed doors with the New York Yankees, the most famous and wealthiest sports franchise in the world Using the 2018 baseball season as the backdrop, Inside the Empire gives readers the real, unvarnished “straight-from-the-gut” truth from Brian Cashman, Aaron Boone, Giancarlo Stanton, C.C. Sabathia—even Hal Steinbrenner and Randy Levine—and many more. This is baseball’s version of HBO’s award-winning NFL series “Hard Knocks.” Klapisch and Solotaroff take you dee... + Read More
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Series: Talk to Me How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think Hardcover James Vlahos 9781328799302 $40.00 COMPUTERS Mar 26, 2019

**To chat with the author, ask your Alexa device to "open the voice computing book."** The next great technological disruption is coming The titans of Silicon Valley are racing to build the last, best computer that the world will ever need. They know that whoever successfully creates it will revolutionize our relationship with technology—and make billions of dollars in the process. They call it conversational AI. Computers that can speak and think like humans may seem like the stuff of science fiction, but they are rapidly moving toward reali... + Read More
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Series: Infinite Powers How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe Hardcover Steven Strogatz 9781328879981 $40.00 MATHEMATICS Apr 02, 2019

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Marvelous . . . an array of witty and astonishing stories . . . to illuminate how calculus has helped bring into being our contemporary world.”—The Washington PostFrom preeminent math personality and author ofThe Joy of x, a brilliant and endlessly appealing explanation of calculus – how it works and why it makes our lives immeasurably better. Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pock... + Read More
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Series: Outrages Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love Hardcover Naomi Wolf 9780544274020 $42.00 HISTORY May 14, 2020

Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love
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Series: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed Hardcover Lori Gottlieb 9781328662057 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 02, 2019

INSTANTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Now being developed as a television series with Eva Longoria and ABC!“Rarely have I read a book that challenged me to see myself in an entirely new light, and was at the same time laugh-out-loud funny and utterly absorbing.”—Katie Couric “This is a daring, delightful, and transformative book.”—Arianna Huffington, Founder, Huffington Post and Founder & CEO, Thrive Global “Wise, warm, smart, and funny. You must read this book.”—Susan Cain,New York Times best-selling author of QuietFrom aNew York Times best-selli... + Read More
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Series: Down from the Mountain The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear Hardcover Bryce Andrews 9781328972453 $35.00 NATURE Apr 16, 2019

"Andrews’ wonderfulDown from the Mountain is deeply informed by personal experience and made all the stronger by his compassion and measured thoughts... Welcome and impressive work.” —Barry Lopez Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Competition's Mountain Environment & Natural History Award The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they reveal about the changing character of the American West The grizzly is one of North America’s few remaining large predators. Their range is diminished, but they’re spreading a... + Read More
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Series: The Risk of Us Hardcover Rachel Howard 9781328588821 $34.00 FICTION Apr 09, 2019

Nearly half a million children are in foster care. Most placements fail. Will seven-year-old Maresa's? "It starts with a face in a binder. CHILDREN AVAILABLE, reads the cover." So begins Rachel Howard's intimate and heartbreaking novel about a couple hoping to adopt a child from foster care, then struggling to make it as a family. Seven-year-old Maresa arrives with an indomitable spirit, a history of five failed foster care "placements," and a susceptibility to angry panic attacks fueled by memories of abuse. Maresa's new foster mother, whose n... + Read More
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Series: Peterson Reference Guides Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America Hardcover Rick Wright 9780547973166 $50.00 NATURE Mar 19, 2019

Sparrows are as complicated as they are common. This is an essential guide to identifying 76 kinds, along with a fascinating history of human interactions with them. What, exactly, is a sparrow? All birders (and many nonâ??birders) have essentially the same mental image of a pelican, a duck, or a flamingo, and a guide dedicated to waxwings or kingfishers would need nothing more than a sketch and a single sentence to satisfactorily identify its subject. Sparrows are harder to pin down. This book covers one family (Passerellidae), which include... + Read More
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Series: A Season on the Wind Inside the World of Spring Migration Hardcover Kenn Kaufman 9781328566423 $38.00 NATURE Apr 02, 2019

A close look at one season in one key site that reveals the amazing science and magic of spring bird migration, and the perils of human encroachment. Every spring, billions of birds sweep north, driven by ancient instincts to return to their breeding grounds. This vast parade often goes unnoticed, except in a few places where these small travelers concentrate in large numbers. One such place is along Lake Erie in northwestern Ohio. There, the peak of spring migration is so spectacular that it attracts bird watchers from around the globe, culm... + Read More
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Series: Upon a Burning Throne Hardcover Ashok K. Banker 9781328916280 $37.00 FICTION Apr 16, 2019

From international sensation Ashok K. Banker, pioneer of the fantasy genre in India, comes the first book in a ground-breaking, epic fantasy series inspired by the ancient Indian classic,The Mahabharata In a world where demigods and demons walk among mortals, the Emperor of the vast Burnt Empire has died, leaving a turbulent realm without an emperor. Two young princes, Adri and Shvate, are in line to rule, but birthright does not guarantee inheritance: For any successor must sit upon the legendary Burning Throne and pass The Test of Fire. Imbue... + Read More
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Series: SprawlBall A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA Hardcover Kirk Goldsberry 9781328767516 $35.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Apr 30, 2019

“Beautifully illustrated and sharply written,SprawlBall is both a celebration and a critique of the 3-point shot. If you want to understand how the modern NBA came to be, you’ll need to read this book.”—Nate Silver, editor of fivethirtyeight.comFrom the leading expert in the exploding field of basketball analytics, a stunning infographic decoding of the modern NBA: who shoots where, and how. The field of basketball analytics has leaped to overdrive thanks to Kirk Goldsberry, whose visual maps of players, teams, and positions have helped teams u... + Read More
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Series: Ghosts of Gold Mountain The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad Hardcover Gordon H. Chang 9781328618573 $40.00 HISTORY May 07, 2019

“Gripping… Chang has accomplished the seemingly impossible… he has written a remarkably rich, human and compelling story of the railroad Chinese.”—Peter Cozzens,Wall Street Journal A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now. From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek their fortunes in America. Converging on the enormous western worksite of the... + Read More
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Series: The Visual MBA Two Years of Business School Packed into One Priceless Book of Pure Awesomeness Hardcover Jason Barron 9780358023951 $31.50 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Apr 16, 2019

Jason Barron spent 516 hours in class, completed mountains of homework and shelled out tens of thousands of dollars to complete his MBA at the BYU Marriott School of Business. Along the way, rather than taking boring notes that he would never read (nor use) again, Jason created sketch notes for each class—visually capturing the essential points of his education—and providing an engaging and invaluable resource. Once finished with his MBA, Jason launched a widely successful Kickstarter campaign distilling these same notes into a self-published... + Read More
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Series: FDR at War FDR at War Boxed Set The Mantle of Command, Commander in Chief, and War and Peace Multiple copy pack Nigel Hamilton 9780358067764 $108.00 HISTORY May 07, 2019

The definitive three-volume history that FDR did not live to write: the story of World War II from his perspective, showing his mastery of strategy, his vision, and how he overcame resistance from Churchill and his own generals to set the course for victory.Mantle of Command, Commander in Chief, and War and Peace have been celebrated as “masterly” (The Wall Street Journal).
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Series: FDR at War War and Peace FDR's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945 Hardcover Nigel Hamilton 9780544876804 $43.00 HISTORY May 07, 2019

To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton’s three-part saga of FDR at war—proof that he was WWII’s key strategist, even on his deathbed. “A first-class, lens-changing work.” —James N. Mattis, former United States Secretary of Defense Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-day landings he had championed, so was he found to be mortally ill in the spring of 1944. He was the architect of a victorious peace that he would not live to ... + Read More
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Series: Chumps to Champs How the Worst Teams in Yankees History Led to the '90s Dynasty Hardcover Bill Pennington 9781328849854 $40.00 SPORTS & RECREATION May 07, 2019

The untold story of the time when the New York Yankees were a laughingstock—and how out of that abyss emerged the modern Yankees dynasty, one of the greatest in all of sports The New York Yankees have won 27 world championships and 40 American League pennants, both world records. They have 26 members in the Hall of Fame. Their pinstripe swag is a symbol of “making it” worn across the globe. Yet some 25 years ago, from 1989 to 1992, the Yankees were a pitiful team at the bottom of the standings, sitting on a 14-year World Series drought and a 35... + Read More
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Series: How to Raise Successful People Simple Lessons for Radical Results Hardcover Esther Wojcicki 9781328974860 $40.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS May 07, 2019

The Godmother of Silicon Valley, legendary teacher, and mother of a Super Family shares her tried-and-tested methods for raising happy, healthy, successful children using Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness: TRICK. Esther Wojcicki—“Woj” to her many friends and admirers—is famous for three things: teaching a high school class that has changed the lives of thousands of kids, inspiring Silicon Valley legends like Steve Jobs, and raising three daughters who have each become famously successful. What do these three accomplishm... + Read More
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Series: Ruth Galloway Mysteries The Stone Circle Hardcover Elly Griffiths 9781328974648 $39.00 FICTION May 07, 2019

In a chilling entry to the award-winning Ruth Galloway series, she and DCI Nelson are haunted by a ghost from their past, just as their future lands on shaky ground. DCI Nelson has been receiving threatening letters. They are anonymous, yet reminiscent of ones he has received in the past, from the person who drew him into a case that’s haunted him for years. At the same time, Ruth receives a letter purporting to be from that very same person—her former mentor, and the reason she first started working with Nelson. But the author of those letters... + Read More
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Series: Ghost Work How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass Hardcover Mary L. Gray 9781328566249 $39.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS May 07, 2019

In the spirit ofNickel and Dimed, a necessary and revelatory expose of the invisible human workforce that powers the web—and that foreshadows the true future of work.Hidden beneath the surface of the web, lost in our wrong-headed debates about AI, a new menace is looming. Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri team up to unveil how services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast, invisible human labor force. These peopl... + Read More
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Series: Crescent City Novel Gather the Fortunes Hardcover Bryan Camp 9781328876713 $34.00 FICTION May 21, 2019

Renaissance Raines has found her place among the psychopomps—the guides who lead the souls of the recently departed through the Seven Gates of the Underworld—and done her best to avoid the notice of gods and mortals alike. But when a young boy named Ramses St. Cyr manages to escape his foretold death, Renai finds herself at the center of a deity-thick plot unfolding in New Orleans. Someone helped Ramses slip free of his destined end—someone willing to risk everything to steal a little slice of power for themselves. Is it one of the storm gods t... + Read More
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Series: The Farmer's Son Calving Season on a Family Farm Hardcover John Connell 9781328577993 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 07, 2019

For fans of James Herriot, a poignant memoir—and #1 Irish bestseller—about a wayward son’s return home to his family’s farm, and how he found a new beginning in an age-old world Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, after more than a decade away, he finds himself back on the farm. Connell records the hypnotic rhythm of the farming day—cleaning the barns, caring for the herd, tending to sickly lambs, helping the cows give birth. Alongside the routi... + Read More
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Series: Where the Lost Dogs Go A Story of Love, Search, and the Power of Reunion Hardcover Susannah Charleson 9781328995056 $39.00 PETS Jun 04, 2019

From aNew York Times best-selling author, an important and heartfelt exploration into the world of lost dogs and the power of reunionOne in six dogs go missing at some point in their lives, leaving bereft owners to search high and low, hang missing posters, check shelters, and hope for good news. But amid these grim statistics, countless happy endings are forged. Tails wag again. Best friends are reunited. In Where the Lost Dogs Go, Susannah Charleson, author of Scent of the Missing and a trusted chronicler of the human/animal bond, dives hea... + Read More
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Series: Reentry Hardcover Peter Cawdron 9781328589910 $34.00 FICTION Jun 11, 2019

After almost dying on Mars, astronaut Liz Anderson returns to Earth, but not to a hero’s welcome. America is in turmoil. The war is over, but the insurgency has just begun. So while life on Mars may have been deadly, at least up there she knew who the enemy was. Along with her, Liz has brought the remnants of the artificial intelligence that waged war on two planets. Buried somewhere deep within the cold electronic circuits lies the last vestiges of her dead partner Jianyu. Liz is torn, unsure whether he’s somehow still alive in electronic form... + Read More
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Series: In at the Deep End Hardcover Kate Davies 9781328629678 $35.00 FICTION Jun 04, 2019

A deliciously disarming debut novel about a twenty-something Londoner who discovers that she may have been looking for love — and pleasure — in all the wrong places (i.e. from men). Julia has had enough. Enough of the sex noises her roommate makes. Enough of her dead-end government job. Enough of the one-night stand who accused her of breaking his penis. The only thing she hasn’t had enough of is orgasms; she hasn’t had proper sex in three years. So when Julia gets invited to a warehouse party in a part of town where trendy people who have lots... + Read More
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Series: The Dalai Lama An Extraordinary Life Hardcover Alexander Norman 9780544416581 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 25, 2020

The first definitive biography of the Dalai Lama—a story by turns inspiring, surprising—from an acclaimed Tibetan scholar with exceptional access to his subject The Dalai Lama’s message of peace and compassion resonates with people of all faiths and none. Yet, for all his worldwide fame, he remains personally elusive. Now, Alexander Norman, acclaimed Oxford-trained scholar of the history of Tibet, delivers the definitive biography—unique, multi-layered, and at times even shocking. The Dalai Lama illuminates an astonishing odyssey from isolated... + Read More
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Series: Reckoning The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment Hardcover Linda Hirshman 9781328566447 $39.00 HISTORY Jun 11, 2019

The first history—incisive, witty, fascinating—of the fight against sexual harassment, from the author of theNew York Times bestsellerSisters in Law Linda Hirshman, acclaimed historian of social movements, delivers the sweeping story of the struggle leading up to #MeToo and beyond: from the first tales of workplace harassment percolating to the surface in the 1970s, to the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal—when liberal women largely forgave Clinton, giving men a free pass for two decades. Many liberals even resisted the movement to end rape on campu... + Read More
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Series: They Bled Blue Fernandomania, Strike-Season Mayhem, and the Weirdest Championship Baseball Had Ever Seen: The 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers Hardcover Jason Turbow 9781328715531 $37.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Jun 04, 2019

The wildly entertaining narrative of the outrageous 1981 Dodgers from the award-winning author ofDynastic, Fantastic, Bombastic andThe Baseball Codes In the Halberstam tradition of capturing a season through its unforgettable figures,They Bled Blue is a sprawling, mad tale of excess and exuberance, the likes of which could only have occurred in that place, at that time.That it culminated in an unlikely World Series win—during a campaign split by the longest player strike in baseball history—is not even the most interesting thing about this team... + Read More
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Series: Eyes in the Sky The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All Hardcover Arthur Holland Michel 9780544972001 $40.00 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Jun 18, 2019

The fascinating history and unnerving future of high-tech aerial surveillance, from its secret military origins to its growing use on American citizensEyes in the Sky is the authoritative account of how the Pentagon secretly developed a godlike surveillance system for monitoring America's enemies overseas, and how it is now being used to watch us in our own backyards. Whereas a regular aerial camera can only capture a small patch of ground at any given time, this system—and its most powerful iteration, Gorgon Stare—allow operators to track thou... + Read More
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Series: Lifelines Hardcover Heidi Diehl 9781328483720 $37.00 FICTION Jun 18, 2019

“A graceful, attentive, and beautiful debut.” —George Saunders"Gorgeous...Lifelines has everything you'd want in a book." —CosmopolitanNamed a Best Book of the Summer byO Magazine,Cosmopolitan, Nylon,and theMinneapolis Star-TribuneFor fans of Meg Wolitzer and Maggie Shipstead: a sweeping debut novel following an American artist who returns to Germany—where she fell in love and had a child decades earlier—to confront her past at her former mother-in-law’s funeral. It’s 1971 when Louise leaves Oregon for Düsseldorf, a city grappling with its nati... + Read More
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Series: Slime How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us Hardcover Ruth Kassinger 9780544432932 $37.00 SCIENCE Jun 11, 2019

“No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae. InSlime, Ruth Kassinger gives this under-appreciated group its due.” —Elizabeth Kolbert Say “algae” and most people think of pond scum. What they don’t know is that without algae, none of us would exist. There are as many algae on Earth as stars in the universe, and they have been essential to life on our planet for eons. Algae created the Earth we know today, with its oxygen-rich atmosphere, abundant oceans, and coral reefs. Crude oil is made of dead algae, and algae are the an... + Read More
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Series: The Trouble with Gravity Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet Hardcover Richard Panek 9780544526747 $40.00 SCIENCE Jul 09, 2019

"A thoughtful meditation on the mythic, cultural, philosophical and, yes, scientific implications of what happens when a wet potato or a crystal vase slips from your hand."—Billy Collins A mind-bending exploration of gravity, the universe's greatest mystery. What is gravity? Nobody knows—and just about nobody knows that nobody knows. How something so pervasive can also be so mysterious, and how that mystery can be so wholly unrecognized outside the field of physics, is one of the greatest conundrums in modern science. But as award-winning autho... + Read More
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Series: Break Through the Noise The Nine Rules to Capture Global Attention Hardcover Tim Staples 9781328618566 $39.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jul 09, 2019

The odds of getting a video onto YouTube’s front page are 1-in-2,000,0000, but Tim Staples, founder and CEO of Shareability, knows how to make the algorithms of Youtube, Google, Facebook and Instagram work for you – and he has the results to prove it, with a thriving business that has gotten their videos onto YouTube’s front page an amazing 25 times. Here he shows savvy marketers, entrepreneurs, and online celebrity wannabes how they, too, can develop clever videos that amass millions of views.Staples outlines a nine-step approach that anyone c... + Read More
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Series: In the Full Light of the Sun Hardcover Clare Clark 9780544147577 $39.00 FICTION Jul 09, 2019

Based on a true story, this gorgeous new novel follows the fortunes of three Berliners caught up in an art scandal—involving newly discovered van Goghs—that rocks Germany amidst the Nazis’ rise to power.Hedonistic and politically turbulent, Berlin in the 1920s is a city of seedy night clubs and sumptuous art galleries. It is home to millionaires and mobs storming bakeries for rationed bread. These disparate Berlins collide when Emmeline, a young art student; Julius, an art expert; and a mysterious dealer named Rachmann all find themselves caugh... + Read More
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Series: Body Leaping Backward Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood Hardcover Maureen Stanton 9781328900234 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 16, 2019

The “mesmerizing . . . daring and important”* story of a risk-taking girlhood spent in a working-class prison town *Andre Dubus IIIFor Maureen Stanton’s proper Catholic mother, the town’s maximum security prison was a way to keep her seven children in line (“If you don’t behave, I’ll put you in Walpole Prison!"). But as the 1970s brought upheaval to America, and the lines between good and bad blurred, Stanton’s once-solid family lost its way. A promising young girl with a smart mouth, Stanton turns watchful as her parents separate and her now-... + Read More
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Series: Tap Out Poems Paperback Edgar Kunz 9781328518125 $21.99 POETRY Mar 05, 2019

"Charts the gritty, physical terrain of blue-collar masculinity."â??New York Times New & Noteworthy “Kunz arrives with real poetic talent.”—The Millions,“Must Read Poetry” "[A] gritty, insightful debut." —Washington Post Approach these poems as short stories, plainspoken lyric essays, controlled arcs of a bildungsroman, then again as narrative verse.Tap Out, Edgar Kunz’s debut collection, reckons with his workingâ??poor heritage. Within are poignant, troubling portraits of blueâ??collar lives, mental health in contemporary America, and what is... + Read More
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Series: Diary of a Murderer And Other Stories Paperback Young-ha Kim 9781328545428 $19.99 FICTION Apr 16, 2019

“Filled with the kind of sublime, galvanizing stories that strike like a lightning bolt, searing your nerves . . . It’s easy enough to see why Kim . . . is acclaimed as the best writer of his generation; pick up this book and find out for yourself.” —Nylon It’s been twenty-five years since I last murdered someone, or has it been twenty-six? Diary of a Murderercaptivates and provokes in equal measure, exploring what it means to be on the edge—between life and death, good and evil. In the titular novella, a former serial killer suffering from m... + Read More
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Series: Home Grown Gardening Best Perennials for Sun and Shade Paperback Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 9781328620088 $26.99 GARDENING May 07, 2019

A quick-reference guide to planting perennials for gardeners with little experience and time Choosing perennials for a garden can be a daunting task, considering that there are thousands of choices. Yarrow? Columbine? Aster? To make the selection easier, this guide profiles the easiest-to-grow and best-performing perennials for both sunny and shady locations. Each plant is shown in a beautiful color photo for easy identification. The photo is accompanied by information on where and how to grow the featured plant, along with horticultural tips t... + Read More
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Series: Home Grown Gardening Best Roses, Herbs, and Edible Flowers Paperback Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 9781328618443 $26.99 GARDENING May 07, 2019

A quick-reference guide to roses, herbs, and edible flowers for gardeners with little experience and time.Roses represent love and beauty. Their colors and fragrance create the standard by which many other flowers are measured. Cultivated around the world for perfume, roses have a sweet and unforgettable scent. However, many would-be rose gardeners believe that roses require constant care and lavish doses of sprays and chemicals. Roses do require attention, but their glorious flowers make all your efforts worthwhile, and the roses in this book ... + Read More
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Series: Blood Relations Paperback Jonathan Moore 9781328987815 $21.50 FICTION Jun 18, 2019

"Taut, smart and electrifying." —Liv ConstantineA new thriller from a writer who’s been compared to Michael Crichton, Alfred Hitchcock, Raymond Chandler, Blake Crouch, and David Cronenberg takes us to the most menacing core of California’s upper crust, a class of billionaires with more money than they could spend in an eternity.Who is Claire Gravesend? So wonders PI Lee Crowe when he finds her dead, in a fine cocktail dress, on top of a Rolls Royce, in the most dangerous neighborhood in San Francisco. Claire’s mother, Olivia, is one of the ri... + Read More
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Series: Stubborn Archivist Paperback Yara Rodrigues Fowler 9780358006084 $24.99 FICTION Jul 16, 2019

“I readStubborn Archivist in a ravenous gulp. It’s stunning: so articulate about what it means to live between two languages and countries, tenderly unraveling the knots of unbelonging.”—Olivia Laing, author ofThe Lonely City andCrudo For fans ofChemistry andNormal People: A mesmerizing and witty debut novel about a young woman growing up between two disparate cultures, and the singular identity she finds along the wayBut where are youreally from? When your mother considers another country home, it’s hard to know where you belong. When the peo... + Read More
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Series: The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty Paperback Eudora Welty 9781328625649 $25.99 FICTION Mar 12, 2019

With a new introduction from bestâ??selling author Ann Patchett, the National Book Award–winning story collection that is one of the great works of twentiethâ??century American literature Eudora Welty wrote novels, novellas, and reviews over the course of her long career, but the heart and soul of her literary vision lay with the short story, and her National Book Award–winningCollected Stories, written when it was first published, confirmed her as a master of short fiction. With a new introduction by best-selling author Ann Patchett, the fort... + Read More
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Series: Rocket Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race Paperback Tim Fernholz 9781328592811 $22.99 SCIENCE Mar 26, 2019

Featured on NPR and PBS’sSciTech Now, and inFast Company,Forbes, and theWall Street Journal The inside story of the new race to conquer space For the outsize personalities staking their fortunes on spaceships, the new race to explore space could be a dead end, a lucrative opportunity—or the key to humanity’s survival. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos take center stage in this fastâ??paced narrative as they attempt to disrupt the space economy and feed their own egos. We meet a supporting cast of equally fascinating entrepreneurs, from th... + Read More
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Series: The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind My Tale of Madness and Recovery Paperback Barbara K. Lipska Ph.D 9781328589279 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 02, 2019

As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness—only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In the tradition ofMy Stroke of Insight andBrain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts her ordeal and explains its unforgettable lessons about the brain and mind. At the height of her career, Barbara Lipska—a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness—was diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to her brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of cognition, began shutt... + Read More
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Series: Crescent City Novel The City of Lost Fortunes Paperback Bryan Camp 9781328589828 $21.99 FICTION Apr 02, 2019

The fate of New Orleans rests in the hands of a wayward grifter in this novel of gods, games, and monsters. Jude Dubuisson knows things he shouldn’t. He has the supernatural ability to find lost things, a gift passed down to him by the father he has never known—a father who was more than human. But so much was lost during Hurricane Katrina that it played havoc with Jude’s magic, leaving him overwhelmed and cursed. Jude has been lying low since the waters receded, hiding from his own power, his divine former employer, and a debt owed... + Read More
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Series: American by Day Paperback Derek B. Miller 9781328585080 $21.99 FICTION Apr 02, 2019

“Ingenious. Humorous. Wonderful.”—Lee Child A gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid—the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller's best-selling debut Norwegian by Night—from Oslo to the United States on a quest to find her missing brother She knew it was a weird place. She’d heard the stories, seen the movies, read the books. But now police Chief Inspector Sigrid Ødegård has to leave her native Norway and actually go there; to that land across the Atlantic where her missing brother is implicated in the mysterious death of a prominent ... + Read More
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Series: Ecstasy A Novel Paperback Mary Sharratt 9781328614209 $21.99 FICTION Apr 09, 2019

Coming of age in the midst of a creative and cultural whirlwind in Vienna, young, beautiful Alma Schindler yearns to make her mark as a composer. A new era of possibility for women is dawning, and she is determined to make the most of it. But Alma loses her heart to the great composer Gustav Mahler, nearly twenty years her senior. He demands that she give up her music as a condition of their marriage. Torn by her love and in awe of his genius, how will she remain true to herself and her artistic passion? Part cautionary tale, part t... + Read More
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Series: A Carnival of Losses Notes Nearing Ninety Paperback Donald Hall 9780358056140 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 09, 2019

Former poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall’s final collection of essays, from the vantage point of very old age, once again “alternately lyrical and laughâ??outâ??loud funny.”* *(New York Times) “Why should a nonagenarian hold anything back?” Donald Hall answers his own question in these self-knowing, fierce, and funny essays on aging, the pleasures of solitude, and the sometimes astonishing freedoms arising from both. Nearing ninety at the time of writing, he intersperses memories of exuberant days in his youth, with unc... + Read More
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Series: The Namesake A Novel Paperback Jhumpa Lahiri 9780358062684 $22.99 FICTION Age (years) from 14 Jun 04, 2019

With a new afterword from Jhumpa Lahiri, a new edition of the contemporary classic. "Dazzling...An intimate, closely observed family portrait."—The New York Times "Hugely appealing."—People Magazine "An exquisitely detailed family saga."—Entertainment Weekly Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world—conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path thro... + Read More
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Series: Fly Girls How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History Paperback Keith O'Brien 9781328592798 $22.99 HISTORY Mar 05, 2019

ANew York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * ANew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice * ATime Best Book for Summer Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. While male pilots were lauded as heroes, the few women who dared to fly were more often ridiculed—until a cadre of women pilots banded together to break through the entrenched prejudice.Fly Girls weaves together the stories of five remarkable women: Florence Klingensmith, a high school dropout from Fargo, North Dakota;... + Read More
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Series: The Darkening Age The Christian Destruction of the Classical World Paperback Catherine Nixey 9781328589286 $24.99 HISTORY Apr 16, 2019

ANew York Times Notable Book | ANew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Named a Book of the Year by theTelegraph, theSpectator, theObserver, and BBC History Magazine In Harran, the locals refused to convert. They were dismembered, their limbs hung along the town’s main street. In Alexandria, zealots pulled the elderly philosopher-mathematician Hypatia from her chariot and flayed her to death with shards of broken pottery. Not long before, their fellow Christians had invaded the city’s greatest temple, smashing its world-famous statues and... + Read More
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Series: The Myth of the Nice Girl Achieving a Career You Love Without Becoming a Person You Hate Paperback Fran Hauser 9781328592828 $22.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Apr 16, 2019

An Amazon Best Business Book of 2018 Selected by Audible as the Best Business Book of 2018 Named “Best New Book” byPeople Magazineand Refinery29Named a Most Anticipated Title of April 2018 byBustleand LevoAWomen@Forbes “Boss Moves Book Club” pick A candid guide for ambitious women who want to succeed without losing themselves in the process Fran Hauser deconstructs the negative perception of "niceness" that many women struggle with in the business world. If women are nice, they are seen as weak and ineffective, but if they are tough, they are... + Read More
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Series: Human Errors A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes Paperback Nathan H. Lents 9781328589262 $22.99 SCIENCE May 07, 2019

An illuminating, entertaining tour of the physical imperfections that make us human We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution’s greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often—two hundred times more often than a dog does? How come our wrists have so many useless bones? Why is the vast majority of our genetic code pointless? And are we really supposed to swallow and breathe through the same narrow tube? Surely there’s been some kind of mistake. As ... + Read More
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Series: Ruth Galloway Mysteries The Dark Angel Paperback Elly Griffiths 9781328585202 $21.50 FICTION May 07, 2019

In this highly atmospheric mystery, Ruth Galloway—described by Louise Penny as “a captivating amateur sleuth”—and DI Nelson have their summer vacations horribly disrupted by a murder in a medieval Italian town where dark secrets are buried as deep as bones.It’s not often that you’re called to the Italian countryside on business, so when archaeologist Angelo Morelli asks for Ruth Galloway’s help identifying bones found in picturesque Fontana Liri, she jumps at the chance to go, bringing her daughter along for a working vacation. Upon arriving, s... + Read More
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Series: Kopp Sisters Novel Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit Paperback Amy Stewart 9781328614216 $21.50 FICTION May 07, 2019

Trailblazing Constance’s hard-won job as deputy sheriff is on the line inMiss Kopp Just Won’t Quit, the fourth installment of Amy Stewart’s Kopp Sisters series.After a year on the job, New Jersey’s first female deputy sheriff has collared criminals, demanded justice for wronged women, and gained notoriety nationwide for her exploits. But on one stormy night, everything falls apart. While transporting a woman to an insane asylum, Deputy Kopp discovers something deeply troubling about her story. Before she can investigate, another inmate bound fo... + Read More
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Series: Play On The New Science of Elite Performance at Any Age Paperback Jeff Bercovici 9781328595966 $22.99 SPORTS & RECREATION May 07, 2019

A lively, deeply reported tour of the science and strategies helping athletes like Tom Brady, Serena Williams, Carli Lloyd, and LeBron James redefine the notion of “peak age.” Season after season, today’s sports superstars seem to defy the limits of physical aging that inevitably sideline their competitors. How much of the difference is genetic destiny and how much can be attributed to better training, medicine, and technology? Is athletic longevity a skill that can be taught or a mental discipline that can be mastered? Can career-ending inju... + Read More
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Series: Figures in a Landscape People and Places Paperback Paul Theroux 9781328592781 $22.99 TRAVEL May 14, 2019

"A portrait of an optimist with curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms."—The New York Times Book Review "Theroux is at the top of his game with his third collection of essays, a magisterial grouping of intimate remembrances, globe-trotting adventures, and incisive literary critiques."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Theroux's observations are so keen and writerly skills so sharp that he butter-slices narratives with a razor-thin surgeon's scalpel, masterfully serving up both the world's dark underbelly and its gloriously up... + Read More