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Series: Topics of Conversation A novel Hardcover Miranda Popkey 9780525656289 $32.00 FICTION Jan 07, 2020

A compact tour de force about sex, violence, and self-loathing from a ferociously talented new voice in fiction, perfect for fans of Sally Rooney, Rachel Cusk, Lydia Davis, and Jenny Offill. “Shrewd and sensual, Popkey's debut carries the scintillating charge of a long-overdue girls' night." —O, The Oprah Magazine A Best Book of the Year by TIME, Esquire, Real Simple, Marie Claire, Glamor, Bustle, and more Composed almost exclusively of conversations between women—the stories they tell each other, and the stories they tell themselves—Topic... + Read More
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Series: Tightrope Americans Reaching for Hope Hardcover Nicholas D. Kristof 9780525655084 $36.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 14, 2020

New York Times Best Seller "A deft and uniquely credible exploration of rural America, and of other left-behind pockets of our country. One of the most important books I've read on the state of our disunion."—Tara Westover, author of Educated The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, best-selling Half the Sky now issue a plea--deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans--to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.With stark poignancy a... + Read More
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Series: Slaying Goliath The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools Hardcover Diane Ravitch 9780525655374 $36.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 21, 2020

From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, Slaying Goliath is an impassioned, inspiring look at the ways in which parents, teachers, and activists are successfully fighting back to defeat the forces that are trying to privatize America’s public schools. Diane Ravitch writes of a true grassroots movement sweeping the country, from cities and towns across America, a movement dedicated to protecting public schools from those who are funding privatization and who believe that America’s schools should be run like busin... + Read More
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Series: Invisible Americans The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty Hardcover Jeff Madrick 9780451494184 $34.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 28, 2020

“A clarion call to address this most unjust blight upon the American landscape. Madrick has provided a valuable service in presenting a highly readable and cogent argument for change.”—Mark R. Rank, The Washington PostBy official count, more than one out of every six American children live beneath the poverty line. But statistics alone tell little of the story. In Invisible Americans, Jeff Madrick brings to light the often invisible reality and irreparable damage of child poverty in America. Keeping his focus on the children, he examines the ro... + Read More
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Series: The Resisters A novel Hardcover Gish Jen 9780525657217 $35.95 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

The provocative, moving, and paradoxically buoyant story of one family struggling to maintain their humanity in circumstances that threaten their every value. The time: not so long from now. The place: AutoAmerica, a country surveilled by one “Aunt Nettie,” a Big Brother that is part artificial intelligence, part internet, and oddly human—even funny. The people: divided. The “angelfair” Netted have jobs and, what with the country half under water, literally occupy the high ground. The Surplus live on swampland if they’re lucky, on water if the... + Read More
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Series: Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets A novel Hardcover Patricio Pron 9780451493170 $35.95 FICTION May 05, 2020

Pinerolo, Italy. April 1945. At a fascist conference, a writer disappears and is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. Thirty years later, a young man—a political activist or maybe a terrorist—interviews the survivors to try to uncover the truth about what happened and its consequences. Who was this writer? What did he believe in? Why, shortly before his death, did he save a man who could have killed him? Where is his lost work? And what does any of this have to do with a teenager in contemporary Milan involved in a violent confrontation with th... + Read More
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Series: When My Time Comes Conversations About Whether Those Who Are Dying Should Have the Right to Determine When Life Should End Hardcover Diane Rehm 9780525654759 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 04, 2020

The renowned radio host and one of the most trusted voices in the nation candidly and compassionately addresses the hotly contested right-to-die movement, of which she is one of our most inspiring champions. The basis for the acclaimed PBS series.Through interviews with terminally ill patients and their relatives, as well as physicians, ethicists, religious leaders, and representatives of both those who support and vigorously oppose this urgent movement, Rehm gives voice to a broad range of people personally linked to the realities of medical a... + Read More
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Series: Stranger by Night Poems Hardcover Edward Hirsch 9780525657781 $36.00 POETRY Feb 11, 2020

In his seventieth year, the award-winning poet looks back on what was and accepts what is, in a deeply moving and beautiful sequence about what sustains him.Beginning with "My Friends Don't Get Buried," the lament of a delinquent mourner as his friends have begun to die, and ending with the plaintive note to self "don't write elegies/anymore," Edward Hirsch takes us backward through the decades in these memory poems of startling immediacy. He recalls the black dress a lover wore when he couldn't yet know the tragedy of her burning spirit; the r... + Read More
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Series: 1774 The Long Year of Revolution Hardcover Mary Beth Norton 9780385353366 $42.50 HISTORY Feb 11, 2020

From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book tracing the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from the Boston Tea Party and the First Continental Congress to the Battles of Lexington and Concord.A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARIn this masterly work of history, the culmination of more than four decades of research and thought, Mary Beth Norton looks at the sixteen months leading up to the clashes at Lexington and Concord in mid-April 1775. This was the crit... + Read More
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Series: Weather A novel Hardcover Jenny Offill 9780385351102 $31.95 FICTION Feb 11, 2020

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation—one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year—a “darkly funny and urgent” (NPR) tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabili... + Read More
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Series: House of Trelawney A novel Hardcover Hannah Rothschild 9780525654919 $36.95 FICTION Feb 11, 2020

From the author of The Improbability of Love: a dazzling novel both satirical and moving, about an eccentric, dysfunctional family of English aristocrats, and their crumbling stately home that reminds us how the lives and hopes of women can still be shaped by the ties of family and love.For more than seven hundred years, the vast, rambling Trelawney Castle in Cornwall--turrets, follies, a room for every day of the year, four miles of corridors and 500,000 acres--was the magnificent and grand "three dimensional calling card" of the earls of Trel... + Read More
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Series: Congress at War How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America Hardcover Fergus M. Bordewich 9780451494443 $42.50 HISTORY Feb 18, 2020

The story of how Congress helped win the Civil War--a new perspective that puts the House and Senate, rather than Lincoln, at the center of the conflict.This brilliantly argued new perspective on the Civil War overturns the popular conception that Abraham Lincoln single-handedly led the Union to victory and gives us a vivid account of the essential role Congress played in winning the warBuilding a riveting narrative around four influential members of Congress--Thaddeus Stevens, Pitt Fessenden, Ben Wade, and the pro-slavery Clement Vallandigham-... + Read More
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Series: Until the End of Time Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe Hardcover Brian Greene 9781524731670 $40.00 SCIENCE Feb 18, 2020

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose from the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe "Few humans share Greene’s mastery of both the latest cosmological science and English prose." —The New York Times Until the End of Time is Brian Greene's breathtaking new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to find meaning in the face of this vast expanse. Greene takes us on a journey from the big bang to the end of time, exploring how lasting structures form... + Read More
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Series: Eide Family Series Northernmost A novel Hardcover Peter Geye 9780525655756 $35.95 FICTION Aug 18, 2020

ONE OF HOUSTON CHRONICLE’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARFrom the acclaimed author of Wintering: a thrilling ode to the spirit of adventure and the vagaries of loss and love."A beautiful, big-hearted, triumphant novel.”—Nathan Hill, author of The NixIn 1897, Odd Einar Eide returns home from a near-death experience in the Arctic only to discover his own funeral underway. His wife, Inger, stunned to see him alive, is slow to warm back up to him, having spent many sleepless nights convinced she had lost both him and their daughter, Thea, who traveled to A... + Read More
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Series: iBauhaus The iPhone as the Embodiment of Bauhaus Ideals and Design Hardcover Nicholas Fox Weber 9780525657286 $36.95 DESIGN Feb 25, 2020

A rich, wide-ranging meditation on the iPhone as direct descendant of the 1930s Bauhaus, one of the twentieth century's most influential schools of art and design (summed up in Mies van der Rohe's dictum, "less is more") whose principle aim was to connect art and industry. From one of the leading authorities on the Bauhaus and modernism.Nicholas Fox Weber, in this deft, entertaining, and brilliant rumination on art and technology, writes of the iPhone as the essence of the Bauhaus principles of form following function--of honesty of design and ... + Read More
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Series: The Nation City Why Mayors Are Now Running the World Hardcover Rahm Emanuel 9780525656388 $35.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 25, 2020

At a time of anxiety about the effectiveness of our national government, Rahm Emanuel provides a clear vision, for both progressives and centrists, of how to get things done in America today--a bracing, optimistic vision of America's future from one of our most experienced and original political minds.In The Nation City, Rahm Emanuel, former two-term mayor of Chicago and White House Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama, offers a firsthand account of how cities, rather than the federal government, stand at the center of innovation and effec... + Read More
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Series: Keep Saying Their Names A novel Hardcover Simon Stranger 9780525657361 $35.95 FICTION May 19, 2020

An extraordinary work of fiction, inspired by historical events--an exquisitely crafted double portrait of a Nazi war criminal and a family savaged by World War II, conjoined by an actual house of horrors they both called homeOn a street in modern-day Norway, a writer kneels with his son and tells him that according to Jewish tradition, a person dies twice: first when their heart stops beating, and then again the last time their name is read or thought or said. Before them is a stone engraved with the name Hirsch Komissar, the boy's great-great... + Read More
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Series: Brown Poems Paperback Kevin Young 9781524711146 $24.00 POETRY Mar 03, 2020

James Brown. John Brown's raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prizewinning author of Blue Laws meditates on all things "brown" in this powerful new collection.“Vital and sophisticated ... sinks hooks into you that cannot be easily removed.” —The New York TimesDivided into "Home Recordings" and "Field Recordings," Brown speaks to the way personal experience is shaped by culture, while culture is forever affected by the personal, recalling a black Kansas boyhood to comment on our times. From "History"—a song of Kansas high-school fixture M... + Read More
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Series: Ledger Poems Hardcover Jane Hirshfield 9780525657804 $36.00 POETRY Mar 10, 2020

A pivotal book of personal, ecological, and political reckoning tuned toward issues of consequence to all who share this world's current and future fate, from the internationally renowned poet.Ledger's pages hold the most important and masterly work yet by Jane Hirshfield, one of our most celebrated contemporary poets. From the already much-quoted opening lines of despair and defiance ("Let them not say: we did not see it. / We saw"), Hirshfield's poems inscribe a registry, both personal and communal, of our present-day predicaments. They call ... + Read More
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Series: American Poison How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise Hardcover Eduardo Porter 9780451494887 $35.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 17, 2020

A sweeping examination of how American racism has broken the country's social compact, eroded America's common goods, and damaged the lives of every American--and a heartfelt look at how these deep wounds might begin to heal.Compared to other industrialized nations, the United States is losing ground across nearly every indicator of social health. Its race problem, argues Eduardo Porter, is largely to blame.In American Poison, the New York Times veteran shows how racial animus has stunted the development of nearly every institution crucial for ... + Read More
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Series: Overcoming Dyslexia Second Edition, Completely Revised and Updated Hardcover Sally Shaywitz M.D. 9780385350327 $47.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Mar 24, 2020

From one of the world's preeminent experts on reading and dyslexia, the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical book available on identifying, understanding, and overcoming reading problems--now revised to reflect the latest research and evidence-based approaches. Dyslexia is the most common learning disorder on the planet, affecting about one in five individuals, regardless of age or gender. Now a world-renowned expert gives us a substantially updated and augmented edition of her classic work: drawing on an additional fifteen years of c... + Read More
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Series: An Onion in My Pocket My Life with Vegetables Hardcover Deborah Madison 9780525656012 $35.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 10, 2020

From the author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone (“The Queen of Greens,” The Washington Post)—a warm, bracingly honest memoir that also gives us an insider’s look at the vegetarian movement. Madison’s “insightful memoir” (The Wall Street Journal) is “a true delight to read as she uncovers her love for all real foods, peeling off layer by layer like an onion, recounting her own personal, culinary, and gardening experiences” (Lidia Bastianich).Thanks to her beloved cookbooks and groundbreaking work as the chef at Greens Restaurant in San Franci... + Read More
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Series: Nobody Will Tell You This But Me A true (as told to me) story Hardcover Bess Kalb 9780525654711 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 17, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:VOGUE • FORBES • BOOKPAGE • NEW YORK POST • WIRED“I have not been as profoundly moved by a book in years.” —Jodi PicoultEven after she left home for Hollywood, Emmy-nominated TV writer Bess Kalb saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever left her. Bobby was a force—irrepressible, glamorous, unapologetically opinionated. Bobby doted on Bess; Bess adored Bobby. Then, at ninety, Bobby died. But in this debut memoir, Bobby is speaking to Bess once more, in a voice as passionate as it e... + Read More
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Series: Brother & Sister A Memoir Hardcover Diane Keaton 9780451494504 $34.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Feb 04, 2020

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the beloved film star and best-selling author of Then Again--a heartfelt memoir about Diane Keaton's relationship with her younger brother, and a poignant exploration of the divergent paths siblings' lives can take.When they were children in the suburbs of Los Angeles in the 1950s, Diane Keaton and her younger brother, Randy, were best friends and companions: they shared stories at night in their bunk beds; they swam, laughed, dressed up for Halloween. Their mother captured their American-dream childhoods in her di... + Read More
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Series: Sibley Guides What It's Like to Be a Bird From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing--What Birds Are Doing, and Why Hardcover David Allen Sibley 9780307957894 $47.00 NATURE Apr 14, 2020

The bird book for birders and nonbirders alike that will excite and inspire by providing a new and deeper understanding of what common, mostly backyard, birds are doing—and why: “Can birds smell?”; “Is this the same cardinal that was at my feeder last year?”; “Do robins ’hear’ worms?”“The book’s beauty mirrors the beauty of birds it describes so marvelously.” —NPR In What It’s Like to Be a Bird, David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the birds we see most often. This special, large-format volume is geared as much to nonb... + Read More
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Series: Fifty-Two Stories Hardcover Anton Chekhov 9780525520818 $47.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Apr 14, 2020

From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov: a lavish volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time Anton Chekhov left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now, renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their renderings of fifty-two Chekhov stories. These stories, which span the complete arc of his career, reveal the extraordinary variety and unexpectedness of his work, from... + Read More
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Series: A Life of Calder Calder: The Conquest of Space The Later Years: 1940-1976 Hardcover Jed Perl 9780451494115 $79.00 ART Apr 14, 2020

The concluding volume to the first biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved twentieth-century sculptors, and one of the greatest artists in the cultural history of America--is a vividly written, illuminating account of his triumphant later years.The second and final volume of this magnificent biography begins during World War II, when Calder--known to all as Sandy--and his wife, Louisa, opened their home to a stream of artists and writers in exile from Europe. In the postwar decades, they divided their time between the U... + Read More
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Series: Chi Spacca A New Approach to American Cooking Hardcover Nancy Silverton 9780525654650 $47.00 COOKING Oct 13, 2020

From the James Beard Award-winning star of Netflix’s Chef’s Table: A whole new approach to American cooking, one that blends the cutting edge culinary ethos of Los Angeles, the timeless flavors of Italy, and the pleasures of grilling with fire. Featuring 100+ recipes from Chi Spacca, her acclaimed Los Angeles restaurant.In her tenth cookbook, Nancy Silverton (“Queen of L.A.’s restaurant scene”—Los Angeles Times), shares the secrets of cooking like an Italian butcher with recipes for meats, fish, and vegetables that capture the spirit of Italy. ... + Read More
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Series: The Knockout Queen A novel Hardcover Rufi Thorpe 9780525656784 $35.95 FICTION Apr 28, 2020

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD"Full of verve... Revelatory." —Los Angeles TimesA dazzling and darkly comic novel of love, violence, and friendship in the California suburbsBunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore⁠—beautiful, tall, blond, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael⁠⁠—with a ponytail down his back and a septum piercing⁠—lives with his aunt in the cramped stucco cottage next door. When Bunny catches Michael smoking in her yard, he discovers that her life is not as perfect as ... + Read More
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Series: Broadway for Paul Poems Hardcover Vincent Katz 9780525656579 $36.00 POETRY Apr 07, 2020

Friendship, love, and the potential energy of change animate these poems of walking through New York City.Broadway, the famous artery, both off the grid and definitive of Manhattan as it cuts its way downtown, is a metaphor for Katz’s path through these poems: from Lincoln Plaza on the Upper West Side to the African Burial Ground and the courthouses downtown, Katz mines his native city for the deep humanity that undergirds its streets. His title, with its implication that one could give something as large and undefinable as Broadway to a single... + Read More
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Series: My Mother's House A novel Hardcover Francesca Momplaisir 9780525657156 $35.95 FICTION May 12, 2020

One of the Best Books of the Year: Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Vulture • This uncompromising look at the immigrant experience, and the depravity of one man, is an electrifying page-turner rooted in a magical reality • “Impossible to stop reading” —VultureWhen Lucien flees Haiti with his wife, Marie-Ange, and their three children to New York City’s South Ozone Park, he does so hoping for reinvention, wealth, and comfort. He buys a run-down house in a quickly changing community, and begins life anew. Lucien and Marie-Ange call their home La Kay—“my mo... + Read More
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Series: The Equivalents A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s Hardcover Maggie Doherty 9781524733056 $39.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 19, 2020

The timely, never-before-told story of five brilliant, passionate women who, in the early 1960s, converged at the newly founded Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study and became friends as well as artistic collaborators, and who went on to shape the course of feminism in ways that are still felt today.In 1960, Harvard’s sister college, Radcliffe, announced the founding of an Institute for Independent Study, a “messy experiment” in women’s education that offered paid fellowships to those with a PhD or “the equivalent” in artistic achievement.... + Read More
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Series: Sea Wife A novel Hardcover Amity Gaige 9780525656494 $35.95 FICTION Apr 28, 2020

A New York Times Notable Book"Sea Wife is a gripping tale of survival at sea—but that’s just the beginning. Amity Gaige also manages, before she’s done, to probe the underpinnings of romantic love, marriage, literary ambition, political inclinations in the Trump age, parenthood, and finally, the nature of survival itself in our broken world. Gaige is thrillingly talented, and her novel enchants."—Jennifer Egan“Sea Wife brilliantly breathes life not only into the perils of living at sea, but also into the fraught and hidden dangers of domestic... + Read More
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Series: Red Dress in Black and White A novel Hardcover Elliot Ackerman 9780525521815 $35.95 FICTION May 26, 2020
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Series: Bruno, Chief of Police Series The Shooting at Chateau Rock A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel Hardcover Martin Walker 9780525656654 $34.95 FICTION May 26, 2020

It’s summer in the Dordogne and the heirs of a modest sheep farmer learn that they have been disinherited. Their father’s estate has been sold to an insurance company in return for a policy that will place him in a five-star retirement home for the rest of his life. But the farmer dies before he can move in. Was it a natural death? Or was there foul play? Chief of Police Bruno Courrèges is soon on the case, embarking on an investigation that will lead him to several shadowy insurance companies owned by a Russian oligarch with a Cypriot passport... + Read More
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Series: Physical Intelligence The Science of How the Body and the Mind Guide Each Other Through Life Hardcover Scott Grafton 9781524747329 $35.95 SCIENCE Jan 07, 2020

Elegantly written and deeply grounded in personal experience—works by Oliver Sacks come to mind—Physical Intelligence gives us a clear, illuminating examination of the intricate, mutually responsive relationship between the mind and the body as they engage (or don’t engage) in all manner of physical action.Ever wonder why you don’t walk into walls or off cliffs? How you decide if you can drive through a snowstorm? How high you are willing to climb up a ladder to change a lightbulb? Through the prisms of behavioral neurology and cognitive neuros... + Read More
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Series: The Affirmative Action Puzzle A Living History from Reconstruction to Today Hardcover Melvin I. Urofsky 9781101870877 $47.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 28, 2020

A rich, multifaceted history of affirmative action from the Civil Rights Act of 1866 through today’s tumultuous times From acclaimed legal historian, author of a biography of Louis Brandeis (“Remarkable” —Anthony Lewis, The New York Review of Books, “Definitive”—Jeffrey Rosen, The New Republic) and Dissent and the Supreme Court (“Riveting”—Dahlia Lithwick, The New York Times Book Review), a history of affirmative action from its beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to the first use of the term in 1935 with the enactment of the National... + Read More
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Series: The Convert A Novel Hardcover Stefan Hertmans 9781524747084 $36.95 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

Finalist for the 2020 National Jewish Book AwardsIn this dazzling work of historical fiction, the Man Booker International–long-listed author of War and Turpentine reconstructs the tragic story of a medieval noblewoman who leaves her home and family for the love of a Jewish boy. In eleventh-century France, Vigdis Adelaïs, a young woman from a prosperous Christian family, falls in love with David Todros, a rabbi’s son and yeshiva student. To be together, the couple must flee their city, and Vigdis must renounce her life of privilege and comfor... + Read More
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Series: Pantheon Graphic Library My Brother's Husband, Volumes 1 & 2 Paperback Gengoroh Tagame 9780375715181 $39.95 FICTION Feb 11, 2020

***EISNER AWARD WINNER***Gengoroh Tagame's global sensation, now in one volume!Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; formerly married to Natsuki, and father to their young daughter, Kana. Their lives suddenly change with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares himself to be the widower of Yaichi's estranged gay twin, Ryoji. Mike is on a quest to explore Ryoji's past, and the family reluctantly but dutifully takes him in. What follows is an unprecedented and heartbreak... + Read More
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Series: Jewish Encounters Series Jews and Power Paperback Ruth R. Wisse 9780805211740 $22.00 RELIGION Feb 04, 2020

Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesTaking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power. Traditional Jews believed that upholding the covenant with God constituted a treaty with the most powerful force in the universe; this later transformed itself into a belief that, unburdened by a military, Jews could pursue their religious mission on a purely moral plain. Wisse, an eminent professor of comparative literature at Harvard, demonstrates how Jewish... + Read More
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Series: Tyll A Novel Hardcover Daniel Kehlmann 9781524747466 $35.95 FICTION Feb 11, 2020

From the internationally best-selling author of You Should Have Left, Measuring the World, and F, a transfixing retelling of the German myth of Tyll Ulenspiegel: a story about the devastation of war and a beguiling artist’s decision never to die Daniel Kehlmann masterfully weaves the fates of many historical figures into this enchanting work of magical realism and adventure. This account of the seventeenth-century vagabond performer and trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel begins when he’s a scrawny boy growing up in a quiet village. When his father, a... + Read More
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Series: We Ride Upon Sticks A Novel Hardcover Quan Barry 9781524748098 $35.95 FICTION Mar 03, 2020

“We Ride Upon Sticks… is for the kind of adults who watch Stranger Things and still have, somewhere, an athletic award inscribed on a paper plate.” —NPR ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR • TIME • BOOK RIOT • LITHUB • KIRKUS REVIEWS Acclaimed novelist Quan Barry delivers a tour de female force in this delightful novel. Set in the coastal town of Danvers, Massachusetts, where the accusations began that led to the 1692 witch trials, We Ride Upon Sticks follows the 1989 Danvers High School Falcons field hockey team, who will do anything to mak... + Read More
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Series: Jewish Encounters Series The Dairy Restaurant Hardcover Ben Katchor 9780805242195 $39.95 RELIGION Mar 10, 2020

Ben Katchor retells the history of where we choose to eat—a history that starts with the first man who was allowed to enter a walled garden and encouraged by the garden's owner to enjoy its fruits. He examines the biblical milk-and-meat taboo, the first vegetarian practices, and the invention of the restaurant. Through text and drawings, Katchor illuminates the historical confluence of events and ideas that led to the development of a “milekhdike (dairy) personality” and the proliferation of dairy restaurants in America, and he recollects his o... + Read More
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Series: Pantheon Graphic Library Fly Paper: A Short Story Introduction by Art Spiegelman Hardcover Dashiell Hammett 9781524748777 $47.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Feb 04, 2024

A ravishingly illustrated version of Dashiell Hammett's Fly Paper--his first truly hard-boiled story--with over two hundred water-based monochromes, that reimagine and recreate in unexpected ways the unsettling atmosphere and sensibility of Hammett's tale.Hans Hillmann (1925-2014) was a German graphic illustrator and teacher, widely known for the 130 movie posters he designed between 1953 and 1974 that accompanied the release in Germany of many of the most important postwar films by internationally celebrated directors such as Buñuel, Bergman, ... + Read More
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Series: Some Assembly Required Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA Hardcover Neil Shubin 9781101871331 $35.95 SCIENCE Mar 17, 2020

An exciting and accessible new view of the evolution of human and animal life on Earth. From the author of national bestseller, Your Inner Fish, this extraordinary journey of discovery spans centuries, as explorers and scientists seek to understand the origins of life's immense diversity. “Fossils, DNA, scientists with a penchant for suits of armor—what’s not to love?”—BBC Wildlife MagazineOver billions of years, ancient fish evolved to walk on land, reptiles transformed into birds that fly, and apelike primates evolved into humans that walk on... + Read More
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Series: My Wild Garden Notes from a Writer's Eden Hardcover Meir Shalev 9780805243512 $40.00 GARDENING Mar 31, 2020

A colorfully illustrated round of the season in the garden of the best-selling novelist, memoirist, and champion putterer with a wheelbarrow On the perimeter of Israel’s Jezreel Valley, with the Carmel mountains rising up in the west, Meir Shalev has a beloved garden, “neither neatly organized nor well kept,” as he cheerfully explains. Often covered in mud and scrapes, Shalev cultivates both nomadic plants and “house dwellers,” using his own quirky techniques. He extolls the virtues of the lemon tree, rescues a precious variety of purple sna... + Read More
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Series: Attention: A Love Story Hardcover Casey Schwartz 9781524747107 $35.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 07, 2020

"A rich inquiry into what it means to pay (and maintain) attention in a world increasingly permeated with distraction and interference.” —Publisher’s WeeklyCombining expert storytelling with genuine self-scrutiny, Casey Schwartz details the decade she spend taking Adderall to help her pay attention (or so she thought) and then considers the role of attention in defining our lives as it has been understood by thinkers such as William James, David Foster Wallace, and Simone Weil. From our craving for distraction to our craving for a cure, from Si... + Read More
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Series: Filled with Fire and Light Portraits and Legends from the Bible, Talmud, and Hasidic World Hardcover Elie Wiesel 9780805243536 $36.00 RELIGION Nov 02, 2021

Here are magnificent insights into the lives of biblical prophets and kings, talmudic sages, and Hasidic rabbis from the internationally acclaimed writer, Nobel laureate, and one of the world’s most honored and beloved teachers.“This posthumous collection encourages a path toward purpose and transcendence.” —The New York Times Book ReviewFrom a multitude of sources, Elie Wiesel culls facts, legends, and anecdotes to give us fascinating portraits of notable figures throughout Jewish history. Here is the prophet Elisha, wonder-worker and adviser ... + Read More
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Series: Conditional Citizens On Belonging in America Hardcover Laila Lalami 9781524747169 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 22, 2020

A New York Times Editors’ Choice • Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, Bookpage, L.A. TimesWhat does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize–finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of American rights, liberties, and protections.“Sharp, bracingly clear essays.”—Entertainment WeeklyTapping into history, politics, and literature, she elucidates how accidents of birth—such as national origin, race, ... + Read More
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Series: Ordinary Insanity Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America Hardcover Sarah Menkedick 9781524747770 $38.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 07, 2020

A groundbreaking exposé and diagnosis of the silent epidemic of fear afflicting new mothers, and a candid, feminist deep dive into the culture, science, history, and psychology of contemporary motherhood Anxiety among mothers is a growing but largely unrecognized crisis. In the transition to motherhood and the years that follow, countless women suffer from overwhelming feelings of fear, grief, and obsession that do not fit neatly within the outmoded category of “postpartum depression.” These women soon discover that there is precious little ... + Read More
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Series: Suddenly, Love A Novel Paperback Aharon Appelfeld 9780805212464 $20.00 FICTION Apr 15, 2020

"Aharon Appelfeld is one of the subtlest, most unorthodox, and most exactingly perceptive novelists to make the memory of the Holocaust his abiding project." --Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker A lonely older man and his devoted young caretaker transform each other’s lives in ways they could never have imagined. Ernst is a gruff seventy-year-old Red Army veteran from Ukraine who landed, almost by accident, in Israel after World War II. A retired investment adviser, he lives alone (his first wife and baby daughter were killed by the Nazis; he di... + Read More
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Series: A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings A Year of Keeping Bees Hardcover Helen Jukes 9781524747862 $35.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 05, 2020

An inspiring, up-close portrait of tending to a honeybee hive—a year of living dangerously—watching and capturing the wondrous, complex universe of honeybees and learning an altogether different way of being in the world."As strange, beautiful, and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings as bees in a hive. I loved it."--Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings begins as the author is entering her thirties and feeling disconnected in her life. Uneasy about her future and struggling to settle into ... + Read More
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Series: The Storm Before the Calm America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond Hardcover George Friedman 9780385540490 $38.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 25, 2020

*One of Bloomberg’s Best Books of the Year*The master geopolitical forecaster and New York Times bestselling author of The Next 100 Years focuses on the United States, predicting how the 2020s will bring dramatic upheaval and reshaping of American government, foreign policy, economics, and culture. In his riveting new book, noted forecaster and bestselling author George Friedman turns to the future of the United States. Examining the clear cycles through which the United States has developed, upheaved, matured, and solidified, Friedman breaks d... + Read More
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Series: The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness A Memoir Hardcover Sarah Ramey 9780385534079 $36.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 17, 2020

"A best memoir of 2020" —BookPageThe darkly funny memoir of Sarah Ramey’s years-long battle with a mysterious illness that doctors thought was all in her head—but wasn’t. A revelation and an inspiration for millions of women whose legitimate health complaints are ignored.In her harrowing, defiant, and unforgettable memoir, Sarah Ramey recounts the decade-long saga of how a seemingly minor illness in her senior year of college turned into a prolonged and elusive condition that destroyed her health but that doctors couldn't diagnose or treat. Wor... + Read More
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Series: The Illness Lesson A Novel Hardcover Clare Beams 9780385544665 $35.95 FICTION Feb 11, 2020
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Series: The Body Double A Novel Hardcover Emily Beyda 9780385545273 $35.95 FICTION Mar 03, 2020

A dark, glittering debut novel echoing Hitchcock's Vertigo, The Body Double is the suspenseful story of a young woman who is recruited by a stranger to give up her old life and identity to impersonate a reclusive Hollywood star.A strange man discovers our nameless narrator selling popcorn at a decrepit small-town movie theater and offers her an odd and lucrative position: she will forget her job, her acquaintances, even her name, and move to Los Angeles, where she will become the body double of the famous and troubled celebrity Rosanna Feld. A ... + Read More
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Series: The Velvet Rope Economy How Inequality Became Big Business Hardcover Nelson D. Schwartz 9780385543088 $38.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 03, 2020

From New York Times business reporter Nelson D. Schwartz comes a gripping investigation of how a virtual velvet rope divides Americans in every arena of life, creating a friction-free existence for those with money on one side and a Darwinian struggle for the middle class on the other side.In nearly every realm of daily life--from health care to education, highways to home security--there is an invisible velvet rope that divides how Americans live. On one side of the rope, for a price, red tape is cut, lines are jumped, appointments are secured... + Read More
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Series: The Back Roads to March The Unsung, Unheralded, and Unknown Heroes of a College Basketball Season Hardcover John Feinstein 9780385544481 $38.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Mar 03, 2020

Thirty years ago after changing the sports book landscape with his mega-hit, A Season on the Brink, #1 New York Times bestselling author John Feinstein returns to his first love--college basketball--with a fascinating and compelling journey through a landscape of unsung, unpublicized and often unknown heroes of Division-1 college hoops. John Feinstein has already taken readers into the inner circles of top college basketball programs in The Legends Club. This time, Feinstein pulls back the curtain on college basketball's lesser-known Cinder... + Read More
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Series: The New Life of Hugo Gardner A Novel Hardcover Louis Begley 9780385545624 $34.95 FICTION Mar 17, 2020

Beloved author Louis Begley returns to the monied halls of the Upper East Side with a sharp new comedy of manners. Divorced after decades of comfortable marriage, retired journalist Hugo Gardner sets out to explore paths not travelled.After four decades of what he believes to be a happy, healthy partnership, Hugo Gardner's world is overturned when he learns that his wife, Valerie, is not only requesting a divorce but has left him for a younger, more vital man. Hugo, an octogenarian political writer and retired journalist for Time, must rethink ... + Read More
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Series: Child of Light A Biography of Robert Stone Hardcover Madison Smartt Bell 9780385541602 $47.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 17, 2020

The first and definitive biography of one of the great American novelists of the postwar era, the author of Dog Soldiers and A Flag for Sunrise, and a penetrating critic of American power, innocence, and corruptionRobert Stone (1937-2015), probably the only postwar American writer to draw favorable comparisons to Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, and Joseph Conrad, lived a life rich in adventure, achievement, and inner turmoil. He grew up rough on the streets of New York, the son of a mentally troubled single mother. After his Navy service in t... + Read More