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Marguerite A Novel Hardcover Marina Kemp 9781984877833 $35.00 FICTION Mar 24, 2020

In this haunting novel, a young nurse forms an unlikely connection with the elderly man she cares for, and finds herself confronting the guilt she carries from her pastMarguerite Demers is twenty-five when she leaves Paris for the sleepy southern village of Saint Sulpice to take up a job as a live-in nurse. Her charge is Jerome Lanvier--once one of the most powerful men in the village, now dying alone in his large and secluded house surrounded by rambling neglected gardens. Manipulative and tyrannical, Jerome has scared away all of his previous... + Read More
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How We Learn Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now Hardcover Stanislas Dehaene 9780525559887 $37.00 SCIENCE Jan 28, 2020

An illuminating dive into the latest science on our brain’s remarkable learning abilities and the potential of the machines we program to imitate themThe human brain is an extraordinary machine. Its ability to process information and adapt to circumstances by reprogramming itself is unparalleled and it remains the best source of inspiration for recent developments in artificial intelligence. In How We Learn, Stanislas Dehaene decodes the brain’s biological mechanisms, delving into the neuronal, synaptic, and molecular processes taking place. He... + Read More
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The Authenticity Project A Novel Large type / large print edition Paperback Clare Pooley 9780593171820 $37.00 FICTION Feb 18, 2020

A story about a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love—think Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meets Love, Actually“Everybody lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth?”This is the question that Julian Jessop, an eccentric, seventy-nine-year-old artist, poses within a pale green exercise book that he labels The Authenticity Project, before leaving it behind in Monica’s Café.When Monica discovers Julian’s abandoned notebook, not only does she add her ... + Read More
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You Never Forget Your First A Biography of George Washington Hardcover Alexis Coe 9780735224100 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 04, 2020

“Alexis Coe energetically dusts off an old-boys genre to present a life in full, without sentiment or whitewashing. It’s a public service, and it’s also a lot of fun.”—Irin Carmon, New York Times bestselling co-author of Notorious RBGAlexis Coe takes a closer look at our first—and finds he is not quite the man we rememberYoung George Washington was raised by a struggling single mother, demanded military promotions, caused an international incident, and never backed down—even when his dysentery got so bad he had to ride with a cushion on his sad... + Read More
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Delivering inspiration and “parenting comedy at its finest,”* here is one woman’s story of ditching her fairytale dreams and falling in love with her unpredictable, chaotic, imperfect lifeKristina Kuzmic has made herself a household name, speaking directly to mothers from the trenches of parenthood via her viral videos and social media presence. She is now bringing her message of self-acceptance, resilience, and joy to book readers. With a refreshingly unpretentious, funny, and galvanizing voice, Kuzmic goes behind the scenes to reveal how she ... + Read More
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Hold On, But Don't Hold Still Hope and Humor from My Seriously Flawed Life Unabridged edition CD-Audio Kristina Kuzmic 9780593166420 $54.00 SELF-HELP Jan 02, 2080

Delivering inspiration and “parenting comedy at its finest,”* here is one woman’s story of ditching her fairytale dreams and falling in love with her unpredictable, chaotic, imperfect lifeKristina Kuzmic has made herself a household name, speaking directly to mothers from the trenches of parenthood via her viral videos and social media presence. She is now bringing her message of self-acceptance, resilience, and joy to book readers. With a refreshingly unpretentious, funny, and galvanizing voice, Kuzmic goes behind the scenes to reveal how she ... + Read More
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Sinking in the Swamp How Trump's Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington Hardcover Lachlan Markay 9781984878564 $37.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 11, 2020

An eyewitness account of Donald Trump’s clown car of lieutenants and lackeys who have polluted the corridors of power with their unprecedented awfulness.Two of Washington’s most meddlesome reporters take readers on a deep dive into the murky underworld of President Trump’s Washington, dishing the hilarious and frightening dirt on the charlatans, conspiracy theorists, ideologues, and run-of-the-mill con artists who have infected the highest echelons of American political power.For the past three years, reporting from the White House, the Trump h... + Read More
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The Ones We've Been Waiting For How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America Hardcover Charlotte Alter 9780525561507 $36.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 18, 2020

An optimistic look at the future of American leadership by a brilliant young reporterA new generation is stepping up. There are now twenty-six millennials in Congress--a fivefold increase gained in the 2018 midterms alone. They are governing Midwestern cities and college towns, running for city councils, and serving in state legislatures. They are acting urgently on climate change (because they are going to live it); they care deeply about student debt (because they have it); they are utilizing big tech but still want to regulate it (because th... + Read More
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The Lucky Star A Novel Hardcover William T. Vollmann 9780399563522 $47.00 FICTION Feb 18, 2020

The National Book Award winning author returns to his original fictional territory--the lives of the dispossessed in San Francisco--with a parable about the limitations of desire and life at the margins of societyIn such earlier works of fiction as The Rainbow Stories and The Royal Family, William T. Vollmann wrote of pimps, prostitutes, addicts and homeless dreamers in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. In this new novel, Vollmann returns there with a story that centers around a woman with magical powers whom everyone loves, and who has to l... + Read More
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Pretty as a Picture A Novel Hardcover Elizabeth Little 9780670016396 $36.00 FICTION Feb 25, 2020

A Wall Street Journal, Seattle Times, and CrimeReads Best Mystery Book of 2020“Funny, fast-paced, and a pleasure to read.”—The Wall Street JournalAn egomaniacal movie director, an isolated island, and a decades-old murder—the addictive new novel from the bestselling author of Dear DaughterMarissa Dahl, a shy but successful film editor, travels to a small island off the coast of Delaware to work with the legendary—and legendarily demanding—director Tony Rees on a feature film with a familiar logline.Some girl dies. It’s not much to go on, but th... + Read More
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Hood Feminism Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot Hardcover Mikki Kendall 9780525560548 $37.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 25, 2020

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The fights against hunger, homelessness, poverty, health disparities, poor schools, homophobia, transphobia, and domestic violence are feminist fights. Kendall offers a feminism rooted in the livelihood of everyday women.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist, in The Atlantic“One of the most important books of the current moment.”—Time “A rousing call to action... It should be required reading for everyone.”—Gabrielle Union, author of We’re Going to Need More Wine A ... + Read More
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A Citizen's Guide to Beating Donald Trump Hardcover David Plouffe 9781984879493 $34.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Mar 03, 2020

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAs seen on CBS This Morning, PBS NewsHour, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Pod Save America and moreA voter's playbook on making a difference in the 2020 election and beyond from the most recognized and most successful political strategist in the countryIf you've asked yourself the question, what more can I do to make sure Donald Trump does not continue to occupy the Oval Office on January 20, 2021?--then this book is for you. A playbook for the common citizen, A Citizen's Guide to Beating Donald Trump addresses the ... + Read More
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Recollections of My Nonexistence A Memoir Hardcover Rebecca Solnit 9780593083338 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 10, 2020

Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for BiographyLonglisted for The Orwell Prize for Political WritingAn electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silentIn Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the ci... + Read More
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Whistleblower My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber Hardcover Susan Fowler 9780525560128 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 18, 2020

The powerful and inspiring story of the young woman who faced down one of the most valuable startups in Silicon Valley historyNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by Vogue, Forbes, and CosmopolitanSusan Fowler was just twenty-five years old when her blog post describing the sexual harassment and retaliation she’d experienced at Uber riveted the nation. Her post would eventually lead to the ousting of Uber’s powerful CEO, but its ripples extended far beyond that, as her courageous choice to attach her name to the post inspired other women to sp... + Read More
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Hex A Novel Hardcover Rebecca Dinerstein Knight 9781984877376 $35.00 FICTION Mar 31, 2020

One of Vanity Fair’s 21 Best Books of 2020 (So Far)A Vulture, LitHub, and PureWow Most Anticipated Book of 2020“As precise as any scientific observation and far more tantalizing.”—Vogue“A sophisticated, surprising take on the campus novel (with a welcome dose of witchery). Knight’s writing feels a little wild and charged, as if you’re constantly on the edge of discovering something new with her.” —Goop“Hex is some dark and joyous witchery.”—Lauren Groff, author of Florida“A beautiful, spooky spell.”—Jenny Slate, actress and author of Little Wei... + Read More
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A memoir by the internationally famous fashion designer and style iconMention the name "Betsey Johnson" and almost every woman from the age of 15 to 75 can rapturously recall a favorite dress or outfit; whether worn for a prom, a wedding, or just to stand out from the crowd in a colorful way. They may also know her as a renegade single mom who palled around with Edie Sedgwick, Twiggy, and The Velvet Underground, or even as a celebrity contestant on Dancing with the Stars. Betsey is also famous for her iconic pink stores (she had 65 shops acros... + Read More
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Mastering the Process From Idea to Novel Hardcover Elizabeth George 9781984878311 $39.00 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Apr 07, 2020

As the author of twenty-four novels, Elizabeth George is one of the most successful--and prolific--novelists today. In Mastering the Process, George offers readers a master class in the art and science of crafting a novel. This is a subject she knows well, having taught creative writing both nationally and internationally for over thirty years."I have never before read a book about writing that is so thorough, thoughtful, and most of all, helpful." --Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of The Island of Sea WomenFor many writers, the big... + Read More
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Learning by Heart An Unconventional Education Hardcover Tony Wagner 9780525561873 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 07, 2020

“A page turner. With candor and clarity, Tony Wagner tells the story of his remarkable life and, in so doing, tells the story of our education system.”—Angela Duckworth, Founder and CEO, Character Lab, and New York Times bestselling author of GritOne of the world's top experts on education delivers an uplifting memoir on his own personal failures and successes as he sought to become a good learner and teacher.Tony Wagner is an eminent education specialist: he has taught at every grade level from high school through graduate school; worked at Ha... + Read More
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The Gift of Forgiveness Inspiring Stories from Those Who Have Overcome the Unforgivable Hardcover Katherine Schwarzenegger 9781984878250 $27.00 SELF-HELP Mar 10, 2020

A fresh, inspiring book on learning how to forgive—with firsthand stories from those who have learned to let go of resentment and find peace“When we learn to embrace forgiveness, it opens us up to healing, hope, and a new world of possibility.”—Katherine Schwarzenegger PrattWritten with grace and understanding and based on more than twenty in-depth interviews and stories as well as personal reflections from Schwarzenegger Pratt herself, The Gift of Forgiveness is about one of the most difficult challenges in life—learning to forgive. Here, Kath... + Read More
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Series: Miss Julia Miss Julia Knows a Thing or Two A Novel Hardcover Ann B. Ross 9780525560517 $36.00 FICTION Apr 14, 2020

The delightful new installment of the beloved and New York Times bestselling Miss Julia seriesMiss Julia has decided to turn over a new leaf. It's time to stop meddling in other peoples' lives, she thinks--but her hands are full before long! Her neighbor Mildred is sent into a tizzy when a grandchild she's never met shows up on her doorstep. And Mildred's husband keeps forgetting who she is, so she's all on her own. Meanwhile, Etta Mae is worried about losing her job now that the Handy Home Helpers is up for sale. Luckily, Miss Julia has experi... + Read More
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A Thousand Moons A Novel Hardcover Sebastian Barry 9780735223103 $36.00 FICTION Apr 21, 2020
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After the Last Border Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America Hardcover Jessica Goudeau 9780525559139 $36.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 04, 2020

"Simply brilliant, both in its granular storytelling and its enormous compassion" --The New York Times Book ReviewThe story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to survive and belong in AmericaThe welcoming and acceptance of immigrants and refugees have been central to America's identity for centuries--yet America has periodically turned its back in times of the greatest humanitarian need. After the Last Border is an intimate look at the lives of two women as they struggle for the twenty-first century American dre... + Read More
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Exile Music A Novel Hardcover Jennifer Steil 9780525561811 $36.00 FICTION May 05, 2020

Based on an unexplored slice of World War II history, Exile Music is the captivating story of a young Jewish girl whose family flees refined and urbane Vienna for safe harbor in the mountains of BoliviaAs a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic, her mother is a well-regarded opera singer, her beloved and charismatic older brother holds the neighborhood in his thrall, and most of her eccentric and wonderful extended family live nearby. Only va... + Read More
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Humble Pi When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World Hardcover Matt Parker 9780593084687 $36.00 MATHEMATICS Jan 21, 2020

An instant #1 bestseller in the UK, this entertaining tour of real-world mathematical disasters reveals the importance of math in our everyday livesOur whole world is built on math, from the code running a website to the equations enabling the design of skyscrapers and bridges. Most of the time this math works quietly behind the scenes…until it doesn’t. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences.Humble Pi is the book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math class and asked, “When a... + Read More
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Blue Flowers A Novel Hardcover Carola Saavedra 9781594631757 $35.00 FICTION Jan 28, 2020

A novel of dark obsession, missed connections, and violent love.Marcos has just been through a divorce and moved into a new apartment. He feels alienated from his ex-wife, from his daughter, from society; everything feels flat and fake to him. He begins to receive letters at his new address from an anonymous troubled woman who signs off as A. and who clearly believes she is writing to the former tenant, her ex-lover, in the aftermath of a violent heartbreak. Marcos falls under the spell of the manic, hypnotic missives and for the first time in ... + Read More
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The Scientist and the Spy A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage Hardcover Mara Hvistendahl 9780735214286 $37.00 TRUE CRIME Feb 04, 2020

A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction.In September 2011, sheriff’s deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near a field where a farmer was growing corn seed under contract with Monsanto. What began as a simple trespassing inquiry mushroomed into a two-year FBI operation in which investigators bugged the men’s rental cars, used a warrant intended for foreign terrorists and... + Read More
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Verge Hardcover Lidia Yuknavitch 9780525534877 $35.00 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

A fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction. I tell you, do not go near that place. Do not go near it. Graywolves guard the ground there. Girls are growing from guts, enough for a body and language all the way out of this world. An eight-year-old trauma victim is enlisted as an underground courier, rushing frozen organs through the alleys of Eastern Europe. A young janitor transforms discarded objects into a fantastical, sprawling miniatur... + Read More
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Real Life A Novel Hardcover Brandon Taylor 9780525538882 $35.00 FICTION Feb 18, 2020

A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE“A blistering coming of age story”—O: The Oprah MagazineA novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice. A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend—and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a... + Read More
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Deacon King Kong (Oprah's Book Club) A Novel Hardcover James McBride 9780735216723 $37.00 FICTION Mar 03, 2020

“Terrific…deeply felt, beautifully written, and profoundly humane.” --The New York Times Book Review cover“Hilarious…A rich and vivid multicultural history.” --Time MagazineFrom James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, one of the most anticipated novels of the year: a wise and witty tale about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting.In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause House... + Read More
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Deacon King Kong (Oprah's Book Club) A Novel Unabridged edition CD-Audio James McBride 9780593166970 $60.00 FICTION Mar 03, 2020

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Gotham Book PrizeOne of Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of the Year"Oprah's Book Club PickNamed one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine A Washington Post Notable Novel From the author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat sh... + Read More
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Deacon King Kong (Oprah's Book Club) A Novel Large type / large print edition Paperback James McBride 9780593171837 $40.00 FICTION Mar 03, 2020

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Gotham Book PrizeOne of Barack Obama’s “Favorite Books of the Year”Oprah’s Book Club PickNamed one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine A Washington Post Notable Novel From the author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old ... + Read More
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Under the Rainbow A Novel Hardcover Celia Laskey 9780525536161 $36.00 FICTION Mar 03, 2020

When a group of social activists arrive in a small town, the lives and beliefs of residents and outsiders alike are upended, in this wry, embracing novel.Big Burr, Kansas, is the kind of place where everyone seems to know everyone, and everyone shares the same values-or keeps their opinions to themselves. But when a national nonprofit labels Big Burr “the most homophobic town in the US” and sends in a task force of queer volunteers as an experiment-they’ll live and work in the community for two years in an attempt to broaden hearts and minds-no... + Read More
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How to Be an Artist Hardcover Jerry Saltz 9780593086469 $29.00 SELF-HELP Mar 17, 2020

“Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz’s new book on creativity…. This book is for the artist or non-artist, for the person who gets plain English, for the person who understands that practical talk can coax out the mystical messages that lie underneath.”—Steve MartinArt has the power to change our lives. For many, becoming an artist is a lifelong dream. But how to make it happen? In How to Be an Artist, Jerry Saltz, one of the art world’s most celebrated and passionate voices, offers an indispensable handbook for creative people of ... + Read More
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How Much of These Hills Is Gold A Novel Hardcover C Pam Zhang 9780525537205 $35.00 FICTION Apr 07, 2020

An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape—trying not just to survive but to find a home.Ba dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way, they encounter giant buffalo bones, tiger paw prints, and the s... + Read More
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How Much of These Hills Is Gold A Novel Large type / large print edition Paperback C Pam Zhang 9780593171844 $37.00 FICTION Apr 21, 2020

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE 2020 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZEWINNER OF THE ROSENTHAL FAMILY FOUNDATION AWARD, FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERSA NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION “5 UNDER 35” HONOREENATIONAL BESTSELLER “Belongs on a shelf all of its own.” —NPR “Outstanding.” —The Washington Post “Revolutionary…A visionary addition to American li... + Read More
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Enemy of All Mankind A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt Hardcover Steven Johnson 9780735211605 $37.00 HISTORY May 12, 2020

“Most confrontations, viewed from the wide angle of history, are minor disputes, sparks that quickly die out. But every now and then, someone strikes a match that lights up the whole planet.”Henry Every was the seventeenth century’s most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular—and wildly inaccurate—reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Every’s most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering of a major shift... + Read More
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Enemy of All Mankind A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt Large type / large print edition Paperback Steven Johnson 9780593171813 $40.00 HISTORY Jun 02, 2020

“Most confrontations, viewed from the wide angle of history, are minor disputes, sparks that quickly die out. But every now and then, someone strikes a match that lights up the whole planet.”How did a single manhunt spark the modern era of multinational capitalism? Henry Every was the seventeenth century’s most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular—and wildly inaccurate—reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that ... + Read More
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Little Family A Novel Hardcover Ishmael Beah 9780735211773 $36.00 FICTION Apr 28, 2020

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of A Long Way Gone.A powerful novel about young people living at the margins of society, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together.Hidden away from a harsh outside world, five young people have improvised a home in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their country’s tumultuous past. Elimane, the bookworm, is as street-smart as he is wise. Clever Khoudiemata maneuvers to keep the younger kids—athletic, pragmatic Ndevui, thoughtful Kpindi, and especially thei... + Read More
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Little Family A Novel Large type / large print edition Paperback Ishmael Beah 9780593171776 $39.00 FICTION Apr 28, 2020

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of A Long Way Gone.A powerful novel about young people living at the margins of society, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together.Hidden away from a harsh outside world, five young people have improvised a home in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their country’s tumultuous past. Elimane, the bookworm, is as street-smart as he is wise. Clever Khoudiemata maneuvers to keep the younger kids—athletic, pragmatic Ndevui, thoughtful Kpindi, and especially thei... + Read More
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All Adults Here A Novel Hardcover Emma Straub 9781594634697 $36.00 FICTION May 04, 2020

“Brimming with kindness, forgiveness, humor and love and yet (magically) also a page turner that held me captive until it was finished. This is Emma Straub’s absolute best and the world will love it. I love it.” -New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett“A totally engaging and smart book about the absolutely marvelous messiness of what makes up family; a wonderful book.” - New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth StroutNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by The Today Show, Good Morning America, Vogue,Real Simple, Marie Claire, Good Ho... + Read More
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All Adults Here A Novel Unabridged edition CD-Audio Emma Straub 9780593166710 $54.00 FICTION Jan 02, 2079
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All Adults Here A Novel Large type / large print edition Paperback Emma Straub 9780593171806 $39.00 FICTION May 04, 2020

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! “In a time when all we want is hope, it’s a beautiful book to reach for.” -Jenna Bush Hager “Brimming with kindness, forgiveness, humor and love and yet (magically) also a page turner that held me captive until it was finished. This is Emma Straub’s absolute best and the world will love it. I love it.” —Ann Patchett “An immensely charming and warmhearted book. It’s a vacation for the soul.”—Vox A warm, funny, and keenly perceptive novel about the life cycle of on... + Read More
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Shiner A Novel Hardcover Amy Jo Burns 9780525533641 $36.00 FICTION May 05, 2020

On a lush mountaintop trapped in time, two women vow to protect each other at all costs-and one young girl must defy her father to survive.An hour from the closest West Virginia mining town, fifteen-year-old Wren Bird lives in a cloistered mountain cabin with her parents. They have no car, no mailbox, and no visitors-except for her mother’s lifelong best friend. Every Sunday, Wren’s father delivers winding sermons in an abandoned gas station, where he takes up serpents and praises the Lord for his blighted white eye, proof of his divinity and k... + Read More
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Bangkok Wakes to Rain A Novel Paperback Pitchaya Sudbanthad 9780525534778 $23.00 FICTION Feb 18, 2020

“Recreates the experience of living in Thailand’s aqueous climate so viscerally that you can feel the water rising around your ankles.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post“Important, ambitious, and accomplished.”—Mohsin Hamid, New York Times bestselling author of Exit WestA missionary doctor pines for his native New England even as he succumbs to the vibrant chaos of nineteenth-century Siam. A post-World War II society woman marries, mothers, and holds court, little suspecting her solitary fate. A jazz pianist in the age of rock, haunted by his own gh... + Read More
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Skeleton Keys The Secret Life of Bone Paperback Riley Black (Brian Switek) 9780525539124 $23.00 SCIENCE Mar 03, 2020

“A provocative and entertaining magical mineral tour through the life and afterlife of bone.” —Wall Street Journal Our bones have many stories to tell, if you know how to listen. Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over more than four hundred million years of evolutionary history. It gives your body its shape and the ability to move. It grows and changes with you, an undeniable document of who you are and how you lived. Arguably, no other part of the human anatomy has such rich scientific and cultural signif... + Read More
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Lot Stories Paperback Bryan Washington 9780525533689 $23.00 FICTION Mar 17, 2020

In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He’s working at his family’s restaurant, weathering his brother’s blows, resenting his older sister’s absence. And discovering he likes boys.Around him, others live and thrive and die in Houston’s myriad neighborhoods: a young woman whose affair detonates across an apartment complex, a ragtag baseball team, a group of young hustlers, hurricane survivors, a local drug dealer who takes a Guatemalan teen under his wi... + Read More
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Naamah A Novel Paperback Sarah Blake 9780525536345 $22.00 FICTION Apr 07, 2020

A wildly imaginative novel of the reluctant heroine who rescued life on earth.With the coming of the Great Flood—the mother of all disasters—only one family is spared, left drifting on the endless waters, waiting for them to subside. We know the story of Noah, moved by divine word to build an ark and launch an escape. Now, in a work of astounding invention, Sarah Blake reclaims the story of his wife, Naamah, the matriarch who kept them alive. Here is the woman torn between faith and fury, lending her strength to her sons and their wives, caring... + Read More
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The Beneficiary Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father Paperback Janny Scott 9780399185038 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 14, 2020

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR"[A] poignant addition to the literature of moneyed glamour and its inevitable tarnish and decay…like something out of Fitzgerald or Waugh."—The New YorkerA parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance—financial, cultural, genetic—conspired in one person's self-destruction.Land, houses, and money tumbled from one generation to the next on the eight-hundred-acr... + Read More
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Walking on the Ceiling A Novel Paperback Aysegül Savas 9780525537427 $22.00 FICTION Apr 28, 2020

A mesmerizing novel set in Paris and a changing Istanbul, about a young Turkish woman grappling with her past - her country’s and her own - and her complicated relationship with the famous British writer who longs for her memories.A young woman named Nunu moves to Paris to start over, leaving behind her childhood home in Istanbul and the aftermath of her mother’s death. She knows no one in the city; she longs for connection.One day outside of a bookstore, she meets M., an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired.... + Read More
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Strangers and Cousins A Novel Paperback Leah Hager Cohen 9781594634840 $22.00 FICTION May 12, 2020

A novel about what happens when an already sprawling family hosts an even larger and more chaotic wedding: an entertaining story about family, culture, memory, and community.In the seemingly idyllic town of Rundle Junction, Bennie and Walter are preparing to host the wedding of their eldest daughter Clem. A marriage ceremony at their beloved, rambling home should be the happiest of occasions, but Walter and Bennie have a secret. A new community has moved to Rundle Junction, threatening the social order and forcing Bennie and Walter to confront ... + Read More
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Imperfect Union How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War Hardcover Steve Inskeep 9780735224353 $42.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 14, 2020

Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple John C. Frémont, one of the United States’s leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in 1842, when he commanded the first of his expeditions to the uncharted West. But in only a few years, he was one of the most acclaimed people of the age – known as a wilderness explorer, bestselling writer... + Read More
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Trump and His Generals The Cost of Chaos Hardcover Peter Bergen 9780525522416 $40.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Dec 10, 2019

From one of America’s preeminent national security journalists, an explosive, news-breaking account of Donald Trump’s collision with the American national security establishment, and with the worldIt is a simple fact that no president in American history brought less foreign policy experience to the White House than Donald J. Trump. The real estate developer from Queens promised to bring his brash, zero-sum swagger to bear to cut through America’s most complex national security issues, and he did. If the cost of his “America First” agenda was b... + Read More
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Trump and His Generals The Cost of Chaos Large type / large print edition Paperback Peter Bergen 9780593171561 $42.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Dec 24, 2019

From one of America's preeminent national security journalists, an explosive, news-breaking account of the Trump Administration's reckless handling of American national security, foregrounding the generals--Jim Mattis, HR McMaster and John Kelly--who tried and failed to maintain adult supervision.Halfway through the first year of the Trump administration, the "axis of adults" on the team had reason to feel fairly sanguine. Feral ideologue Mike Flynn had blown up on the launch pad as National Security Advisor, and by the end of the summer, Steve... + Read More
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Golden Gates Fighting for Housing in America Hardcover Conor Dougherty 9780525560210 $37.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 18, 2020

A stunning, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisis Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties where the homeless make their homes. The adage that California is a glimpse of the... + Read More
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Supreme Inequality The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America Hardcover Adam Cohen 9780735221505 $40.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 25, 2020

From New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen, a revelatory examination of the conservative direction of the Supreme Court over the last fifty years since the Nixon administrationIn the early 1960s, the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren was at the height of its power, expanding civil rights for the poor and minorities and promoting equality in dramatic ways through rulings such as Brown v Board of Education and establishing the “Miranda warning” for persons in police custody. But when Warren announced his retirement in 1968, ne... + Read More
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Illustrated Hardcover Gertrude Stein 9781594204609 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 03, 2020

An illustrated edition of Gertrude Stein’s most well-known work, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, bursting with the bright, sophisticated, and fanciful images of artist Maira KalmanConsidered one of the richest and most irreverent biographies in history, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was written by Gertrude Stein in the style and voice of her life partner, Alice B. Toklas. Published in 1933 and narrated by Alice, this autobiography begins with her initial move to France in 1907, the day after which she meets Gertrude, sparking a rel... + Read More
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In the Lateness of the World Poems Hardcover Carolyn Forché 9780525560401 $32.00 POETRY Mar 10, 2020

A new poetry collection of uncanny grace and moral force from one of our country’s most celebrated poetsOver four decades, Carolyn Forché’s visionary work has reinvigorated poetry’s power to awaken the reader. Her groundbreaking poems have been testimonies, inquiries, and wonderments. They daringly map a territory where poetry asserts our inexhaustible responsibility to one another.Her first new collection in seventeen years, In the Lateness of the World is a tenebrous book of crossings, of migrations across oceans and borders, but also between... + Read More
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Shakespeare in a Divided America What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future Hardcover James Shapiro 9780525522294 $36.00 HISTORY Mar 10, 2020

From leading Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, a timely and insightful examination of what the world’s greatest dramatist can teach us about life in an America riven by conflictThe United States has always been divided, but Americans from all walks of life have also always shared a deep affinity for the plays William Shakespeare, even if their meaning has been fiercely contested. For well over two centuries now, Americans of all stripes—presidents and activists, writers and soldiers—have turned to his plays to prosecute the most intense and pi... + Read More
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Thinking Inside the Box Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them Hardcover Adrienne Raphel 9780525522089 $36.00 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Mar 17, 2020

A delightful, erudite, and immersive exploration of the crossword puzzle and its fascinating history by a brilliant young writerAlmost as soon as it appeared, the crossword puzzle had already become indispensable to our lives. Invented practically by accident in 1913, when a newspaper editor at the New York World was casting around for something to fill empty column space, it became a roaring commercial success practically overnight. Ever since then, the humble puzzle—consisting of a grid of blank squares in which solvers write answers in respo... + Read More
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Coffeeland One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug Hardcover Augustine Sedgewick 9781594206153 $40.00 HISTORY Apr 07, 2020

The epic story of how coffee connected and divided the modern worldCoffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world—one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism, the leading source of the world’s most popular drug, and perhaps the most widespread word on the planet. Augustine Sedgewick’s Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of how this came to be, tracing coffee’s five-hundred-year transformation from a mysterious Muslim ritual into an everyday necessity.This story is ... + Read More