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Series: Waiting for Eden Paperback Elliot Ackerman 9781101971567 $22.00 FICTION Sep 03, 2019

From the National Book Award finalist, a breathtakingly spare and shattering new novel that explores the unseen aftereffects—and unacknowledged casualties—of war.Eden was once big and bold and physical. His fellow Marines nicknamed him “BASE Jump.” He loved to wrap his body around his wife’s when they slept at night. But now Eden lies in a bed, unable to move or speak. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his hospital room. He has never even met their young daughter. And he will never again see the friend and fellow soldier who didn’t ... + Read More
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Series: In My Father's House A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family Paperback Fox Butterfield 9781400034246 $23.95 TRUE CRIME Sep 03, 2019

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist: a pathbreaking examination of our huge crime and incarceration problem that looks at the influence of the family—specifically one Oregon family with a generations-long legacy of lawlessness.The United States currently holds the distinction of housing nearly one-quarter of the world’s prison population. But our reliance on mass incarceration, Fox Butterfield argues, misses the intractable reality: As few as 5 percent of families account for half of all crime, and only 10 percent account ... + Read More
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Series: Daemon Voices On Stories and Storytelling Paperback Philip Pullman 9780525562955 $24.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 10, 2019

The internationally bestselling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy shares his creative secrets and the keys to mastering the art of storytelling.One of the most acclaimed and bestselling authors of our time gives us a book that charts the history of his own enchantment with stories—from his own books to those of Blake, Milton, Dickens, and the Brothers Grimm, among others—and delves into the role of story in education, religion, and science. At once personal and wide-ranging, Daemon Voices is not only a revelation of the writing mind and ... + Read More
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Series: What Is It All but Luminous Notes from an Underground Man Paperback Art Garfunkel 9780525564393 $27.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 29, 2019

From the golden-haired, curly-headed half of Simon & Garfunkel, a memoir (of sorts)—moving, lyrical impressions, interspersed throughout a narrative, punctuated by poetry, musings, lists of resonant books loved and admired, revealing a life and the making of a musician, that show us, as well, the evolution of a man, a portrait of a lifelong friendship, and a collaboration that became the most successful singing duo in the roiling age that embraced, and was defined by, their pathfinding folk-rock music.In What Is It All but Luminous, Art Garfunk... + Read More
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Series: Taína Paperback Ernesto Quiñonez 9781984897480 $21.95 FICTION Sep 03, 2019

A uniquely dark, coming-of-age novel ripe with magical realism, music, sorcery and redemption, with sweeping narrative from the author of Bodega Dreams. A Vintage Original.When Julio, a young Puerto Rican-Ecuadorian boy in Spanish Harlem, hears that Taina, a fifteen-year-old girl from his church, is pregnant, and that both mother and daughter insist that she is a virgin, he decides to believe them.Ridiculed for his naiveté, Julio begins to feel like even more of a misfit than he’s always felt. His staunch yet unrequited loyalty to Taina soon un... + Read More
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Series: Provocations Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education Paperback Camille Paglia 9780525433866 $24.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 17, 2019

A lavishly comprehensive collection of essays, articles, columns, and interviews from the inimitable intellectual firebrand: tackling topics from Picasso to punk rock, from religion to Rihanna, and covering the full span of her wide-ranging and important career.Much has changed since Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her bestselling Sexual Personae, but her laser-sharp insight, matchless wit, and fearless commentary continue to be ahead of the curve—not only capturing the tone of the moment but often anticipating it. Provocations g... + Read More
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Series: Vintage International Love Is Blind A novel Paperback William Boyd 9780525564447 $22.95 FICTION Sep 24, 2019

A novel of ineffable passions—familial, artistic, romantic—and their power to shape a life, set against the backdrop of fin-de-siècle Europe. From the award-winning author of Any Human Heart.Brodie Moncur is a brilliant piano tuner, as brilliant in his own way as John Kilbarron—the “Irish Liszt”—the pianist Brodie accompanies on all of his tours, from Paris to St. Petersburg, as essential to Kilbarron as the pianist’s own hands. It is a luxurious life, and a level of success Brodie could hardly have dreamed of growing up in a remote Scottish vi... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Contemporaries Motherless Brooklyn (Movie Tie-In Edition) Media tie-in Paperback Jonathan Lethem 9781984899392 $22.95 FICTION Oct 01, 2019

Now a major motion picture starring Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, and Willem Dafoe, Motherless Brooklyn is a compelling and complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America’s most inventive novelist.Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, Lionel Essrog is an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent’s Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna’s limo service cum detective age... + Read More
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Series: Winners Take All The Elite Charade of Changing the World Paperback Anand Giridharadas 9781101972670 $22.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 01, 2019

An insider’s groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite’s efforts to “change the world” preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve.Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can—except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. We see how they rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor; how they lavishly reward “thought leaders” wh... + Read More
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Series: The William H. Gass Reader Paperback William H. Gass 9781101873342 $27.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Oct 08, 2019

The definitive William Gass collection: this comprehensive volume, curated by the author himself before his death, covers the full span of his highly influential career, sampling from his novels, essays, story collections, and criticism.Throughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the aesthetics of the written word. Now, the best and most important of his work is collected in one volume. There are essays on Plato, Hobbes, James, Joyce, Beckett, Stein, Gaddis, St... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Contemporaries Old Newgate Road A novel Paperback Keith Scribner 9780525563464 $23.00 FICTION Oct 08, 2019

The story of a father’s return to his childhood home—the site of unspeakable tragedy—and of the complex and often warring obligations we have to our family, our friends, and our past.Old Newgate Road runs through the tobacco fields of northern Connecticut that once drove the local economy. It’s where Cole Callahan spent his youth, in a historic white colonial that his family was devoted to restoring—painstakingly, relentlessly, pointlessly. Cole has not come back to this house, to this street, in thirty years—not since he was a teenager, when o... + Read More
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Series: The Gift How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World Paperback Lewis Hyde 9781984897787 $23.00 SELF-HELP Sep 24, 2019

Our reissue of the classic inquiry into the value of creative work that has guided some of our finest writers—now with restored cover art and an introduction by Margaret Atwood.The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value of creative labor and its importance in a culture increasingly governed by money and overrun with commodities. With great sensitivity and insight, Lewis Hyde traces the history of art and gift exchange from funeral traditions to modern economic theory, from tribal customs to copyright law. A gift, he explains, m... + Read More
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Series: God in Three Classic Scriptures God in the Qur'an Paperback Jack Miles 9780307389947 $22.95 RELIGION Oct 22, 2019

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography, an erudite, hugely informative portrait of the God of Islam, the world’s second largest, fastest-growing, and perhaps most tragically misunderstood religion.Who is Allah? What makes Him unique? And what does He ask of those who submit to His teachings? In the spirit of his Pulitzer Prize-winning God, a trailblazing “biography” of the protagonist of the Old Testament, and Christ—a brilliant portrait of biblical Jesus, acclaimed religious scholar Jack Miles undertakes to answer these que... + Read More
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Series: A Savage Order How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security Paperback Rachel Kleinfeld 9780525432968 $23.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 22, 2019

An urgent, provocative examination of how violence can cripple democratic societies and institutions, and what nations can do to successfully establish peace.The most violent places in the world today are not at war. More people have died in Mexico in recent years than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. These parts of the world are instead buckling under a maelstrom of gangs, organized crime, political conflict, corruption, and state brutality. Such devastating violence can feel hopeless, yet some places—from Colombia to the Republic of Georgia—... + Read More
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Series: Bad Blood Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup Paperback John Carreyrou 9780525431992 $22.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jan 28, 2020

A riveting exposé that traces the breathtaking rise and collapse of the multibillion-dollar biotech startup Theranos—told by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite legal threats from the company’s charismatic CEO.In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed... + Read More
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Series: The Weight of a Piano A novel Paperback Chris Cander 9780525563587 $22.00 FICTION Oct 29, 2019

A tour-de-force about two women and the piano that inexorably ties their lives together through time and across continents—for better and for worse.In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, built at the turn of the century in Germany, on which she discovers everything that she herself can do with music and what music, in turn, does for her. Yet after marrying, her husband insists the family emigrate from Russia to America—and loses her piano in the process.In 2012, ... + Read More
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Series: Create Dangerously The Power and Responsibility of the Artist Paperback Albert Camus 9781984897381 $10.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Oct 29, 2019

A bold, timely argument for the responsibility of artists to challenge, provoke, and speak up for those who cannot, from the Nobel Prize-winning philosopher. In a new translation and available as a stand-alone little book for the first time.“To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.” In 1957, Albert Camus gave a speech entitled “Create Dangerously,” which was, in effect, a call to arms for artists, in particular those who came from an immigrant ... + Read More
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Series: Elsey Come Home Paperback Susan Conley 9780525562559 $22.00 FICTION Nov 05, 2019

From the widely praised author of Paris Was the Place—a shattering new novel that bravely delves into the darkest corners of addiction, marriage, and motherhood.When Elsey’s husband, Lukas, hands her a brochure for a weeklong mountain retreat, she knows he is really giving her an ultimatum: Go, or we’re done. Once a successful painter, Elsey set down roots in China after falling in love wtih Lukas when she saw him MC at a warehouse rave in downtown Beijing. Now, with two young daughters and unable to find a balance between her identities as pai... + Read More
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Series: I Lost My Girlish Laughter Paperback Jane Allen 9781984897763 $22.00 FICTION Nov 05, 2019

A lost literary gem of Hollywood in the 1930s, I Lost My Girlish Laughter, is a thinly veiled send-up of the actors, producers, writers, and directors of the Golden Age of the studio system.Madge Lawrence, fresh from New York City, lands a job as the personal secretary to the powerful Hollywood producer Sidney Brand. In a series of letters home, Western Union telegrams, office memos, Hollywood gossip newspaper items, and personal journal entries, we get served up the inside scoop on all the shenanigans, romances, backroom deals, and betrayals ... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Classics Little Women Paperback Louisa May Alcott 9781984898852 $14.00 FICTION Nov 12, 2019

A Vintage Classics edition of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved story of the March sisters—in time for a major motion picture.Little Women has long been one of the most enduringly beloved classics of children’s literature, as popular with adults as it is with young readers. Generations have been entranced by the adventures of the four March sisters, each with their distinct and realistic virtues and flaws: tomboyish, ambitious Jo; frail and sweet Beth; beautiful, confident Meg; and artistic, willful Amy. With their patient mother, Marmee, they surviv... + Read More
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Series: The Stories of Alice Adams Paperback Alice Adams 9781984898111 $24.00 FICTION Nov 19, 2019

Never before published in Vintage paperback: this career-defining collection showcases the very best of Adams’s celebrated short fiction—and our November publication will coincide with the release of a major biography of this incomparable writer.Throughout her life, Alice Adams’s short fiction appeared dozens of times in The New Yorker and was a mainstay of the O. Henry Award collections. The Stories of Alice Adams gathers fifty-three of her best pieces into one volume. In “Verlie I Say Unto You,” the unexpected death of Verlie Jones’s lover re... + Read More
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Series: American Dialogue The Founders and Us Paperback Joseph J. Ellis 9780804172479 $23.00 HISTORY Nov 26, 2019

The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.The story of history is a ceaseless conversation between past and present and in American Dialogue Joseph J. Ellis focuses the conversation on the often-asked question “What would the Founding Fathers think?” He examines four of our most seminal historical figures through the prism of part... + Read More
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Series: Gwynne's Grammar The Ultimate Introduction to Grammar and the Writing of Good English Paperback N.M. Gwynne 9781984897961 $21.00 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Nov 26, 2019

A witty, opinionated, and astonishingly useful guide to grammar that was a runaway bestseller in Britain.Anxious about apostrophes? In a pickle over your pronouns and prepositions? Fear not—Mr. Gwynne is here with his wonderfully concise and highly enjoyable handbook. Within these pages, adults and children alike will find all they need to rediscover the woefully neglected science of writing good English and to sharpen up their skills. Mr. Gwynne, a retired banker turned language maven with attitude, believes that happiness depends at least par... + Read More
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Series: Proust's Duchess How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris Paperback Caroline Weber 9780345803122 $27.00 HISTORY Nov 26, 2019

From the author of Queen of Fashion—a glittering look at fin-de-siècle Paris through the three women who inspired Proust’s supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes.The three superstars of turn-of-the-century Parisian high society were Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, Comtesse Greffulhe. All unhappily married, these women sought fulfillment by reinventing themselves as icons, and their fabled salons inspired generations of artists, composers, an... + Read More
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Series: The Goodness Paradox The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution Paperback Richard Wrangham 9781101970195 $23.00 SCIENCE Dec 03, 2019

From the author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human comes this provocative and startlingly original argument about how the invention of socially sanctioned capital punishment facilitated increased cooperation, the accumulation of culture, and ultimately the rise of civilization itself.Throughout history, no matter how peaceful a society is, war has never been far away, and even within cooperative societies violence always looms as a threat. This uncanny combination of peacefulness and violence crystallized after our ancestors acquired l... + Read More
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Series: Black Is the Body Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine Paperback Emily Bernard 9781101972410 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dec 03, 2019

An extraordinary, exquisitely written memoir through essays that looks at race in a fearless, penetrating, honest way.“I am black—and brown, too,” writes Emily Bernard. “Brown is the body I was born into. Black is the body of the stories I tell.”In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited from a white man, surviving a random stabbing at a New Haven coffee shop while taking graduate studies at Yale, marrying a white man from the north and bring hi... + Read More
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Series: The Banished Immortal A Life of Li Bai (Li Po) Paperback Ha Jin 9780525562436 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dec 03, 2019

From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai—also known as Li Po.Li Bai (701-762) was one of China’s greatest poets—like Homer in the West, he is a touchstone for millions of readers in the East. His verses are still taught to China’s schoolchildren and recited at parties and toasts; they remain an inextricable part of the Chinese language. But his influence extends far beyond Asia: he has been taken up by Ezra Pound, Robert Bly, and others at certain moment... + Read More
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Series: The Life of Saul Bellow, Volume 2 Love and Strife, 1965-2005 Paperback Zachary Leader 9781101910184 $29.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dec 03, 2019

The second volume in the life of literary giant Saul Bellow, vividly capturing a personal life that was always tumultuous and career that never ceased being triumphant.Bellow, at forty-nine, is at the pinnacle of American letters—rich, famous, critically acclaimed. The expected trajectory is one of decline: volume 1, rise; volume 2, fall. Bellow never fell, producing in the latter half of his life some of his greatest fiction (Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Humboldt’s Gift), winning two more National Book Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize. A... + Read More
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Series: The Big Book of Reel Murders Stories that Inspired Great Crime Films Paperback Otto Penzler 9780525563884 $38.95 FICTION Oct 22, 2019

Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler’s new anthology rolls out the red carpet for the stories that Hollywood is made of. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original.Lights! Camera! Action! The latest book in the Big Book series takes us behind the curtain to uncover the stories that became some of the greatest films of the silver screen. There’s the W. Somerset Maugham short story that inspired Hitchcock’s Secret Agent; Robert Louis Stevenson’s horrifying tale that was later turned into the iconic movie The Body Snatcher, starring Bela Lugosi and ... + Read More
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Series: Berta Isla / Berta Isla: A novel Paperback Javier Marías 9781984898258 $22.95 FICTION Aug 06, 2019

Una apasionante historia de espías y, al mismo tiempo, un profundo examen del matrimonio basado en secretos y mentiras. En el colegio, Berta Isla decidió que se casaría con Tomás Nevinson, el apuesto chico de su clase, medio español medio inglés, con un extraordinario don de lenguas. Pero cuando Tomás regresa a Madrid tras sus estudios en Oxford, es un hombre diferente. Allí ha sido reclutado por un agente de los servicios secretos británicos, desencadenando así una serie de acontecimientos que afectarán la vida que ambos habían planeado. Con... + Read More
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Series: La gran estafa / The Rooster Bar Paperback John Grisham 9781984898265 $23.00 FICTION Aug 20, 2019

“Un exuberante y malicioso thriller. . . Grisham escribe con un espíritu tan ingenioso. . . Una delicia de lectura”. – Janet Maslin, The New York Times Mark, Todd y Zola decidieron estudiar Derecho en Washington para cambiar el mundo, para hacer de él un lugar mejor. Pero ahora que están en el tercer año de carrera, se dan cuenta de que han sido víctimas de un fraude: pidieron un cuantioso préstamo para estudiar en lo que ha terminado siendo una escuela de segunda categoría, centrada en ganar dinero, y tan mediocre que los alumnos rara vez apru... + Read More
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Series: Poesía reunida / Collected Poems: Roberto Bolaños Paperback Roberto Bolano 9781984898043 $29.00 POETRY Aug 20, 2019

“Escribiendo poesía en el país de los imbéciles. / Escribiendo con mi hijo en las rodillas. / Escribiendo hasta que cae la noche / con un estruendo de los mil demonios. / Los demonios que han de llevarme al infierno, / pero escribiendo.” Bolaño se sintió siempre, en esencia, un poeta, pese a que el reconocimiento le llegó por su narrativa. Este volumen recoge, además de los publicados en La Universidad Desconocida, Los perros románticos y Tres, los poemas que aparecieron en revistas, plaquettes y volúmenes colectivos en sus comienzos literarios... + Read More
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Series: De dónde son los gusanos: Crónica de un regreso a Cuba después de 37 años de exilio / Where Traitors Come from Crónica de un regreso a Cuba después de 37 años de exilio Paperback Néstor Díaz de Villegas 9781984898418 $19.00 HISTORY Aug 20, 2019

Un viaje al corazón de la Cuba contemporánea que convoca a los fantasmas del oscuro pasado revolucionario de la isla. Por escribir un poema a los dieciocho años en Cuba, Néstor Díaz de Villegas fue acusado por la Seguridad del Estado de ser un "diversionista ideológico" y condenado a seis años en un campo de trabajos forzados, de donde saldrá en 1979 rumbo a Miami. Treinta y siete años después, el autor regresa a la isla con la perspicacia de un periodista experimentado. Tras la reanudación de las relaciones diplomáticas entre los Estados Unido... + Read More
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Series: Especias que curan / Spices That Heal Paperback Josep Lluis Berdonces 9781984898296 $22.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Aug 20, 2019

¡Descubre las virtudes terapéuticas de las especias! Habitualmente, usamos las especias en la cocina para aderezar o dar color a nuestros platos. Pero ¿sabías que las especias tienen extraordinarios beneficios para nuestra salud? En Especias que curan encontrarás recetas, consejos y datos sorprendentes que te permitirán aprovecharlas al máximo. Descubre las propiedades de una gran variedad de hierbas y especias que pueden despertar tus sentidos y ayudar a preservar tu salud, y atrévete a experimentar y crear tus propios brebajes en casa. I... + Read More
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Series: La caseta mágica / The Phantom Tollbooth Paperback Norton Juster 9781984897671 $12.00 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Aug 20, 2019

Milo está triste y aburrido porque no sabe qué hacer. Nada le parece interesante ni tampoco se le ocurre ningún sitio al que le gustaría ir. Pero un día todo cambia cuando encuentra un regalo muy extraño en su habitación. Este extraordinario regalo es la caseta mágica que lo conducirá al Reino de Sabiduría: un lugar insólito en el cual se venden letras en los mercados y los mineros desentierran números. Desgraciadamente, este maravilloso reino sufre grandes problemas y Milo debe rescatar a las princesas Rima y Razón. Ellas son las únicas qu... + Read More
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Series: Prohibido nacer: Memorias de racismo, rabia y risa. / Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Memorias de racismo, rabia y risa. Paperback Trevor Noah 9781984897534 $23.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 03, 2019

MÁS DE UN MILLÓN DE EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS NOMBRADO UNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DEL AÑO POR Michiko Kakutani, New York Times • USA Today • San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • Esquire • Newsday • Booklist La impresionante trayectoria de Trevor Noah, desde su infancia en Sudáfrica durante el apartheid hasta el escritorio de The Daily Show, comenzó con un acto criminal: su nacimiento. Trevor nació de un padre suizo blanco y una madre Xhosa negra, en una época de la historia sudafricana en que tal unión era castigada con cinco años de prisión. Como prueba v... + Read More
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Series: El poder de los hábitos: Por qué hacemos lo que hacemos en la vida y los negocios / The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business Por qué hacemos lo que hacemos en la vida y los negocios Paperback Charles Duhigg 9780525567141 $22.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 03, 2019

“Hay pocos libros que se convierten en manuales esenciales de vida. Este es uno de ellos”. — Financial Times En El poder de los hábitos, el premiado periodista Charles Duhigg nos lleva al límite de los descubrimientos científicos que explican por qué existen los hábitos, cómo nos condicionan y cómo cambiarlos. Duhigg ofrece una gran cantidad de información en una fascinante narrativa que nos lleva a las salas de reuniones de Procter & Gamble, a las gradas de la NFL, y hasta al movimiento por los derechos civiles, y presenta una manera complet... + Read More
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Series: Cuentos completos / Complete Short Stories: Jorge Luis Borges Paperback Jorge Luis Borges 9780525567127 $23.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2019

“He intentado, no sé con qué fortuna, la redacción de cuentos directos. No me atrevo a afirmar que son sencillos; no hay en la tierra una sola página, una sola palabra, que lo sea, ya que todas postulan el universo, cuyo más notorio atributo es la complejidad”. Este volumen reúne todos los cuentos de Borges, uno de los legados más influyentes y deslumbrantes de la literatura occidental. El universo borgiano, con sus espejos, laberintos, tigres, bibliotecas, gauchos o máscaras, es ya uno de los paisajes fundamentales del siglo XX. En este libr... + Read More
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Series: Taína (Spanish Edition) / Taína: A Novel Paperback Ernesto Quiñonez 9781984897503 $21.95 FICTION Sep 03, 2019

Una original y oscura novela de iniciación, rebosante de realismo mágico urbano, amor y redención, del autor de El vendedor de sueños. Julio, un joven de origen puertorriqueño y ecuatoriano que vive en el barrio de Spanish Harlem en Nueva York, sufre de extrañas visiones. Cuando decide creer a Taina, una chica de su escuela que está embarazada, pero que dice ser virgen, su amor ciego por ella desata un torbellino de emociones que llevarán a Julio a cuestionar a sus padres, su religión e incluso los principios básicos de la ciencia. Junto al tío... + Read More
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Series: Doctor Sueño (Movie Tie-In Edition) / Doctor Sleep (Movie Tie-In Edition) Media tie-in Paperback Stephen King 9781984898708 $23.95 FICTION Oct 22, 2019

La inolvidable y terrorífica secuela de El resplandor. Danny Torrance, aquel niño aterrorizado del Hotel Overlook, es ahora un adulto alcohólico atormentado por los fantasmas de su infancia. Tras décadas tratando de desprenderse del violento legado de su padre, decide asentarse en una ciudad de New Hampshire donde asiste a las reuniones de Alcohólicos Anónimos y encuentra trabajo en una residencia de ancianos donde emplea su “resplandor” para confortar a quienes van a morir. Allí le llega la visión de Abra Stone, una niña que necesita su ayuda.... + Read More
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Series: Verduras sin límites y otras historias Hardcover José Andrés 9780525565604 $52.95 COOKING Mar 24, 2020

José Andrés se ha propuesto cambiar la forma en que vemos las verduras. Conocido por su energía inagotable y su desbordada imaginación, el chef español vuelva sus treinta años de cocinar y comer por todo el mundo en Verduras sin límites, una sorprendente, apasionada y deliciosa carta de amor al reino vegetal. El objetivo de este libro es mostrarnos cómo podemos comer más verduras de las formas más diversas y satisfactorias posibles. En Verduras sin límites encontraremos las recetas, los trucos y los consejos que se esconden tras los platos que ... + Read More
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Series: Misery En espanol Paperback Stephen King 9781984898722 $23.00 FICTION Nov 26, 2019

Estaba loca, pero él la necesitaba. Paul Sheldon es un escritor que sufre un grave accidente y recobra el conocimiento en una apartada casa, donde vive una misteriosa mujer, capaz de cometer los mayores horrores. Paul tendrá que luchar por su vida. Misery Chastain ha muerto. Paul Sheldon la ha matado. Con alivio y hasta con alegría. Misery lo ha hecho rico. Porque Misery es la protagonista de sus exitosos libros. Paul quiere volver a escribir. Algo diferente, algo auténtico. Pero entonces sufre un accidente y despierta inmóvil y atravesado po... + Read More
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Series: Mr. Mercedes En Espanol Paperback Stephen King 9781984898685 $24.00 FICTION Nov 26, 2019

Bill Hodges es un policía jubilado. Brady Hartsfield es un asesino múltiple cuya culpabilidad Bill Hodges nunca logró demostrar. Ahora vuelven a encontrarse y cientos de vidas están en juego. ¿Quién es el cazador y quién la presa? Antes del amanecer, en una ciudad del medio-oeste, cientos de desempleados esperan la apertura de la oficina de empleo para solicitar uno de los mil puestos de trabajo que se han anunciado. Han hecho fila durante toda la noche. De repente, sin previo aviso, un Mercedes surge de la fría niebla de la madrugada y atropel... + Read More
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Series: Tao te ching / Tao Te Ching Paperback Lao Tzu 9781984897848 $23.00 RELIGION Nov 05, 2019

Traducido al español del chino clásico por Alejandro BárcenasUna guía para vivir en armonía con nosotros mismos y la naturaleza. Esta nueva traducción al español aspira a presentar el Tao Te Ching como una experiencia de lectura lenta y meditativa. “El Tao Te Ching es sin duda alguna uno de los libros que mayor influencia ha tenido en la historia de la humanidad. A través de su longeva existencia ha servido de inspiración a un sinnúmero de artistas, pensadores, santos, guerreros, líderes políticos, y a muchos otros por igual, en el mundo enter... + Read More
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Series: Afrodita: Cuentos, recetas y otros afrodisíacos / Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses Cuentos, recetas y otros afrodisíacos Paperback Isabel Allende 9780525436010 $23.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 19, 2019

“Me arrepiento de los platos deliciosos rechazados por vanidad, tanto como lamento las ocasiones de hacer el amor que he dejado pasar por ocuparme de tareas pendientes o por virtud puritana, ya que la sexualidad es un componente de la buena salud, inspira la creación y es parte del camino del alma... Por desgracia, me demoré treinta años en descubrirlo”. —Isabel Allende Isabel Allende despliega aquí sus poderes mágicos como cuentista y, con un encanto peculiar, entrelaza las sensuales artes de la comida y el amor, combinando recuerdos persona... + Read More
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Series: La educación de Margot Sanchez Paperback Lilliam Rivera 9781984899057 $15.00 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Nov 26, 2019

COSAS/PERSONAS QUE MARGOT ODIA: · Mami, por destruir mi vida social. · Papi, por dejar que Junior se convierta en un neandertal. · Junior, por convertirse en un neandertal. · Este supermercado. · Todo lo demás. Después de "tomar prestada" la tarjeta de crédito de su padre para renovar su vestuario con más estilo, Margot Sánchez se encuentra de repente castigada. Y eso significa pasar el verano trabajando en el supermercado de su familia para pagar sus deudas. Y cada vez que rebana una orden de fiambres M... + Read More
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Series: Cocina latina ligera Recetas y consejos para una vida más saludable Paperback Johana Clavel 9780525565574 $25.95 COOKING Dec 03, 2019

Cocina latina ligera, el primer libro de la chef venezolana Johana Clavel, reune más de 170 recetas latinoamericanas en sus versiones más saludables, inspiradas por su misión de llevar bienestar y conocimiento nutricional a nuestros hogares. La comida latinoamericana es deliciosa, pero también puede ser excesivamente frita y alta en carbohidratos y azúcar. Johana busca romper los esquemas e inspirar a madres, padres y cualquier amante de la cocina a recrear sus recetas favoritas en sus versiones más saludables. Desde incluir linaza molida en su... + Read More
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Series: La uruguaya / The Woman from Uruguay Paperback Pedro Mairal 9781984899071 $21.00 FICTION Nov 12, 2019

Publicada con gran éxito en Argentina en 2016, La uruguaya ha confirmado a Mairal como uno de los más destacados narradores de la literatura argentina contemporánea. Lucas Pereyra, un escritor recién entrado en la cuarentena, viaja de Buenos Aires a Montevideo para recoger un dinero que le han mandado desde el extranjero y que no puede recibir en su país debido a las restricciones cambiarias. Casado y con un hijo, no atraviesa su mejor momento, pero la perspectiva de pasar un día en otro país en compañía de una joven amiga es suficiente para an... + Read More
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Series: My Sister, the Serial Killer A Novel Paperback Oyinkan Braithwaite 9780525564201 $19.95 FICTION Jul 30, 2019

A short, darkly funny, hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends.Korede’s sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead, stabbed through the heart with Ayoola’s knife. Korede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood (bleach, bleach, and more bleach), the best way to move a body (wrap it in sheets like a mummy), and she ... + Read More
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Series: Bird by Bird Some Instructions on Writing and Life Paperback Anne Lamott 9780385480017 $22.00 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Sep 01, 1995

The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Anne Lamott’s quintessential guide to the craft, and philosophy, of writingFor a quarter-century, over a million readers—scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities—have been inspired by Anne Lamott’s hilarious, big-hearted, homespun advice. Advice that begins with the simple words of wisdom passed down from Anne’s father—also a writer—in the iconic passage that gives the book its title:“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written ... + Read More
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Series: Rising Out of Hatred The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist Paperback Eli Saslow 9780525434955 $22.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 03, 2019

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind. This is a book to help us understand the American moment and to help us better understand one another.Derek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a KKK Grand Wizard. By the time Derek turned nineteen, he had become an elected politician with his own daily radio show—already regarded as the "the leading... + Read More
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Series: Classic Krakauer Essays on Wilderness and Risk Paperback Jon Krakauer 9781984897695 $21.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 29, 2019

From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the masterful investigative reporting that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mount Everest to a volcano in Washington State; from a wilderness therapy program for teens to an extraordinary cave in New Mexico so unearthly that is used by NASA to better understand Mars.The gripping articles collected in Classic Krakauer—originally published in periodicals such as The New Yorker, Outside, and Smithsonian—show why he is considered a standard-bearer of m... + Read More
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Series: On Sunset Paperback Kathryn Harrison 9780525434085 $23.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 03, 2019

From the acclaimed author of The Kiss comes a gorgeous, poignant account of her childhood in her grandparents’ Tudor house above Sunset Boulevard, which contained the fascinating secret world of their family history—one that spanned continents, dynasties, and cultures.Kathryn Harrison was largely raised by her grandparents in an outsized Tudor confection of a house on the periphery of Bel Air, which she thought of as “Sunset:” her kingdom of the imagination, inhabited by the past and its numberless artifacts. True wandering Jews, her grandparen... + Read More
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Series: The O. Henry Prize Collection The O. Henry Prize Stories 100th Anniversary Edition (2019) Paperback Laura Furman 9780525565536 $22.95 FICTION Sep 10, 2019

Now celebrating its centenary, this prestigious annual anthology gathers the twenty best new short stories published in the previous year. An Anchor Books Original.The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019--continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence--contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. The winning writers are an impressive mix of celebrated names and new, emerging voices. Their stories evoke lives both near and distant, in settings ranging from Jamaica... + Read More
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Series: Vampire Chronicles Blood Communion A Tale of Prince Lestat Paperback Anne Rice 9780525433927 $22.00 FICTION Aug 20, 2019

The Vampire Chronicles continue with a riveting, rich saga—part adventure, part suspense—of Prince Lestat and the story of the Blood Communion as he tells the tale of his coming to rule the vampire world and the eternal struggle to find belonging, a place in the universe for the undead, and how, against his will, he must battle the menacing, seemingly unstoppable force determined to thwart his vision and destroy the entire vampire netherworld.In this spellbinding novel, Lestat, rebel outlaw, addresses the tribe of vampires, directly, intimately... + Read More
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Series: Heirs of the Founders Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants Paperback H. W. Brands 9780525433903 $24.95 HISTORY Oct 01, 2019

From the New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how America’s second generation of political giants—Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John Calhoun—battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and to decide the shape of our democracy.In the early days of the nineteenth century, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to retire to their farms. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion orator known for his eloq... + Read More
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Series: Quarterback Inside the Most Important Position in Professional Sports Paperback John Feinstein 9780525435532 $23.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Aug 27, 2019

From legendary sportswriter and #1 New York Times bestselling author John Feinstein, a deep dive into the most coveted and hallowed position in the NFL.In the mighty National Football League, one player becomes the face of a franchise, one player receives all the accolades and all the blame, and one player’s hand will guide the rise or fall of an entire team’s season—and the dreams of millions of fans. There are thirty-two starting quarterbacks in the NFL, and their lives are built around pressure, stardom, and incredible talent. In his most in... + Read More
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Series: What If This Were Enough? Paperback Heather Havrilesky 9780525434962 $22.00 SELF-HELP Oct 08, 2019

The acclaimed critic, memoirist, and advice columnist behind the popular “Ask Polly” gives us an impassioned collection tackling our obsession with self-improvement and urging readers to embrace the imperfections of the everyday.What If This Were Enough? is a mantra and a clarion call. In its chapters—many of them original to the book, others expanded from earlier publications—Havrilesky takes on the cultural forces that shape us. We’ve convinced ourselves, she says, that salvation can be delivered only in the form of new products, new technolo... + Read More
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Series: The April 3rd Incident Stories Paperback Yu Hua 9780525435624 $22.00 FICTION Oct 22, 2019

From one of China’s most famous contemporary writers, who celebrated novel To Live catapulted him to international fame: here is a stunning collection of stories, selected from the best of his early work and newly translated into English, that shows his far-reaching influence on a pivotal period in Chinese literature.In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Yu Hua and other young Chinese writers began to reimagine their national literature. Departing from conventional realism in favor of a more surreal and subjective approach inspired by Kafka, Faulk... + Read More
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Series: On Desperate Ground The Epic Story of Chosin Reservoir--the Greatest Battle of the Korean War Paperback Hampton Sides 9781101971215 $23.00 HISTORY Oct 29, 2019

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice, a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines during the greatest battle of the Korean WarOn October 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, supreme commander of UN troops in Korea, convinced President Harry Truman that the Communist forces of Kim Il-sung would be utterly defeated by Thanksgiving. The Chinese, he said with near certainty, would not intervene in the war.As he was speaking, 300,000 Red Chinese soldiers began secretly crossing the M... + Read More