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Series: The Butterfly Lampshade A Novel Hardcover Aimee Bender 9780385534871 $35.95 FICTION Jul 28, 2020

The first novel in ten years from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake, a luminous, poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, mental illness, and the fluctuating barrier between the mind and the worldOn the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she’s sleeping, the shade ador... + Read More
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Series: True Crimes and Misdemeanors The Investigation of Donald Trump Hardcover Jeffrey Toobin 9780385536738 $40.00 TRUE CRIME Aug 04, 2020

From CNN chief legal analyst and bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin, a real-life legal thriller about the prosecutors and congressional investigators pursuing the truth about Donald Trump’s complicity in several crimes—and why they failed.Donald Trump’s campaign chairman went to jail. So did his personal lawyer. His long-time political consigliere was convicted of serious federal crimes, and his national security advisor pled guilty to others. Several Russian spies were indicted in absentia. Career intelligence agents and military officers were ... + Read More
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Series: Grasp The Science Transforming How We Learn Hardcover Sanjay Sarma 9780385541824 $38.95 SCIENCE Aug 18, 2020

A groundbreaking look at the science of learning: how it works both in the mind and in the classroom, which teaching techniques are most effective, and how schools should (and absolutely should not) use instructional technology. This is an essential resource for teachers, anyone interested in cutting-edge research into learning, and parents considering the educational alternatives available to their children.As the head of Open Learning at MIT, renowned professor Sanjay Sarma has a daunting job description: to fling open the doors of the MIT ex... + Read More
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Series: Red Line The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World Hardcover Joby Warrick 9780385544467 $39.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 23, 2021

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Black Flags, the thrilling unknown story of America’s mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons and keep them out of the hands of the Islamic State In August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. When secret intelligence revealed that the dictator might resort to using chemical weapons, President Obama warned that doing so would cross “a red line.” Assad did it anyway, bombing the Damascus suburb of Ghouta with sarin gas, killing hund... + Read More
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Series: The Zealot and the Emancipator John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom Hardcover H. W. Brands 9780385544009 $40.00 HISTORY Oct 06, 2020

Gifted storyteller and bestselling historian H. W. Brands narrates the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln—two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin. John Brown was a charismatic and deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to destroy slavery by any means. When Congress opened Kansas territory to slavery in 1854, Brown raised a band of followers to wage war. His men tore pro-slavery settlers from their homes and hacked the... + Read More
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Series: Jake Brigance A Time for Mercy Hardcover John Grisham 9780385545969 $39.00 FICTION Oct 13, 2020

Jake Brigance is back! The hero of A Time to Kill, one of the most popular novels of our time, returns in a courtroom drama that The New York Times says is “riveting” and “suspenseful.” Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid sixteen-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy. Many in Clanton want a swift trial and the death penalty, but Brigance digs in and discovers that there is more to the story than meets the eye. Jak... + Read More
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Series: Jake Brigance A Time for Mercy - Limited Edition Hardcover John Grisham 9780385545983 $324.00 FICTION Nov 10, 2020

Books are leather-bound, signed and numbered, with printed endpapers, gold stamping, a slipcase, and a ribbon marker.Jake Brigance, the protagonist of A Time to Kill, John Grisham’s classic legal thriller is back. This time he’s at the epicenter of a sensational murder trial that bitterly divides the citizens of Clanton, Mississippi. A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. It established Jake as a classic American hero—a lawyer who seeks truth and justice at all costs, even when his life and reputation are on the line. ... + Read More
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Series: The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity Hardcover Carlo M. Cipolla 9780385546478 $20.00 HUMOR Apr 06, 2021

“A masterly book” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan “A classic” —Simon Kuper, Financial Times An economist explores the five laws that confirm our worst fears: stupid people can and do rule the worldThroughout history, a powerful force has hindered the growth of human welfare and happiness. It is more powerful than the Mafia or the military. It has global catastrophic effects and can be found anywhere from the world’s most powerful boardrooms to your local bar. It is human stupidity. Carlo M. Cipolla, noted professor of economi... + Read More
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Series: A Pentecost and Parker Mystery Fortune Favors the Dead A Novel Hardcover Stephen Spotswood 9780385546553 $35.95 FICTION Oct 27, 2020

“[Fortune Favors the Dead has] razor-sharp style, tons of flair, a snappy sense of humor, and all the most satisfying elements of a really good noir novel, plus plenty of original twists of its own.”—Tana FrenchA wildly charming and fast-paced mystery written with all the panache of the hardboiled classics, Fortune Favors the Dead introduces Pentecost and Parker, an audacious new detective duo for the ages.It’s 1942 and Willowjean “Will” Parker is a scrappy circus runaway whose knife-throwing skills have just saved the life of New York’s best, ... + Read More
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Series: The Bad Muslim Discount A Novel Hardcover Syed M. Masood 9780385545259 $35.95 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

“A future classic.” Gary ShteyngartFollowing two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016, The Bad Muslim Discount is an inclusive, comic novel about Muslim immigrants finding their way in modern America.It is 1995, and Anvar Faris is a restless, rebellious, and sharp-tongued boy doing his best to grow up in Karachi, Pakistan. As fundamentalism takes root within the social order and the zealots next door attempt to make Islam great again, his family decides, not quite unanimously, to start life over in California. I... + Read More
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Series: Ageless The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old Hardcover Andrew Steele 9780385544924 $39.00 SCIENCE Mar 23, 2021

A startling chronicle by a brilliant young scientist takes us onto the frontiers of the science of aging, and reveals how close we are to an astonishing extension of our life spans and a vastly improved quality of life in our later years.Aging—not cancer, not heart disease—is the true underlying cause of most human death and suffering. We accept as inevitable that as we advance in years our bodies and minds begin to deteriorate and that we are ever more likely to be felled by dementia or disease. But we never really ask—is aging necessary? Biol... + Read More
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Series: Khalil A Novel Hardcover Yasmina Khadra 9780385545914 $34.95 FICTION Feb 16, 2021

From the internationally bestselling author of The Attack and The Swallows of Kabul, a gripping first-person narrative about one young man’s involvement in France’s worst terrorist attack.Khalil, a twenty-three-year-old Belgian of Moroccan descent, plans to detonate a suicide vest in a crowd outside the Stade de France on November 13, 2015. Explosions are rocking Paris, at cafés and the Bataclan theater, and when other bombs drive the stadium crowd to flee in his direction, near the Metro, his time has come. He presses his button, and…nothing. ... + Read More
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Series: The Power of Adrienne Rich A Biography Hardcover Hilary Holladay 9780385541503 $42.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 17, 2020

The first comprehensive biography of Adrienne Rich, feminist and queer icon and internationally revered National Book Award winning poet.Adrienne Rich was the female face of American poetry for decades. Her forceful, uncompromising writing has more than stood the test of time, and the life of the woman behind the words is equally impressive. Motivated by personal revelations, Rich transformed herself from a traditional, Radcliffe-educated lyric poet and married mother of three sons into a path-breaking lesbian-feminist author of prose as well a... + Read More
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Series: Running with Sherman How a Rescue Donkey Inspired a Rag-tag Gang of Runners to Enter the Craziest Race in America Paperback Christopher McDougall 9780525433255 $22.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Jul 28, 2020

From the bestselling author of Born to Run comes the heartwarming story of Sherman, a rescue donkey who would overcome all odds to run one of the most unbelievable races in America.When Christopher McDougall agreed to adopt a donkey, he figured it would hang out in a field, look cute, and eat carrots. But then he met Sherman, who was in such bad shape that Chris knew he was in over his head. Luckily, Chris’s neighbors—Amish farmers and an outspoken equine expert with a donkey of her own—were happy to help. They told him that what Sherman needed... + Read More
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Series: Tightrope Americans Reaching for Hope Paperback Nicholas D. Kristof 9780525564171 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2020

The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, bestselling 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 and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an “other America.” The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon, an area that prospered for much of the twen... + Read More
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Series: The Outlaw Ocean Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier Paperback Ian Urbina 9781101972373 $24.00 TRAVEL Aug 25, 2020

A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas.There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world’s oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation.Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion prov... + Read More
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Series: The Districts Stories of Crime and Justice from the Federal Courts Paperback Johnny Dwyer 9781101970188 $22.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 08, 2020

A fascinating, unprecedented plunge into New York City’s federal court system—a world of organized crime, terrorism, drug trafficking, and Wall Street criminality—and a revelatory look at how our justice system, and the pursuit of justice, really works.The Southern and Eastern District Courts of New York are proving grounds for ambitious prosecutors who turn their service in government into power, position, and, in some cases, celebrity; these attorneys don’t hope for victory in the courtroom, they expect it. In The Districts, Johnny Dwyer take... + Read More
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Series: Vintage International The Scandal of the Century And Other Writings Paperback Gabriel García Márquez 9780525566809 $22.95 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Sep 15, 2020

Collected here for the first time: a selection of the great writer’s journalism, which he considered more important to his legacy than his acclaimed novels.“I don’t want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel Prize but rather for my journalism,” Gabriel García Márquez said in the final years of his life. And while some of his journalistic writings have been made available over the years, this is the first volume to gather a representative selection from across the first four decades of his career—years during which ... + Read More
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Series: Slaying Goliath The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools Paperback Diane Ravitch 9780525564768 $22.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 22, 2020

From one of the foremost authorities on education and the history of education in the United States, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, author of the bestselling Reign of Error—an impassioned, inspiring look at the ways in which parents, teachers, activists—citizens—are successfully fighting back to defeat the forces that are privatizing America’s public schools.Diane Ravitch writes of those who have privatized the schools, the Disrupters, who believe America’s schools should be run like businesses, with teachers incentivized with th... + Read More
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Series: Homeland A Novel Paperback Fernando Aramburu 9780593310892 $23.00 FICTION Sep 22, 2020

One of the most acclaimed Spanish novels of recent years, a devastating exploration of the meaning of family and friendship in the shadow of terrorism.In Fernando Aramburu’s internationally acclaimed novel of life in the Basque Country, lifetime friends become bitter enemies when the father of one family is killed by militants—one of whom is a son from the other family. Told in short sections highlighting a rich multiplicity of characters from all walks of life, Homeland brilliantly unfolds in nonlinear fashion as it traces the moral dilemmas f... + Read More
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Series: Plagued by Fire The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright Paperback Paul Hendrickson 9780804172882 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 22, 2020

From the award-winning and nationally bestselling author of Hemingway’s Boat and Sons of Mississippi—an illuminating, pathbreaking biography that will change the way we understand the life, mind, and work of the premier American architect.Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made.This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biography: t... + Read More
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Series: Long Way Home A Memoir of Fame, Family, and Redemption Paperback Cameron Douglas 9780525562450 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 29, 2020

A searing memoir about the rise, fall, and ultimate redemption of the scion of Hollywood royalty—son of Michael Douglas, grandson of Kirk Douglas. A moving, shocking, and inspiring story detailing Cameron Douglas’s struggle to regain his dignity, humanity, and place in society after many years of drug abuse and almost eight years in prison.On the surface, Cameron Douglas had everything: descended from Hollywood royalty, he was born into a life of wealth, privilege, and comfort, growing up in mansions in California and Mallorca and a luxurious a... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Contemporaries Sleep Donation Paperback Karen Russell 9780525566083 $22.00 FICTION Sep 29, 2020

For the first time in paperback, a haunting novella from the uncannily imaginative author of the national bestsellers Swamplandia! and Orange World: the story of a deadly insomnia epidemic and the lengths one woman will go to to fight it.Trish Edgewater is the Slumber Corps’ top recruiter. On the phone, at a specially organized Sleep Drive, even in a supermarket parking lot: Trish can get even the most reluctant healthy dreamer to donate sleep to an insomniac in crisis—one of hundreds of thousands of people who have totally lost the ability to ... + Read More
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Series: Galileo's Error Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness Paperback Philip Goff 9780525564775 $22.95 PHILOSOPHY Oct 06, 2020

From a leading philosopher of the mind comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radically new picture of human consciousness: panpsychismUnderstanding how brains produce consciousness is one of the great scientific challenges of our age. Some philosophers argue that consciousness is something “extra,” beyond the physical workings of the brain. Others think that if we persist in our standard scientific methods, our questions about consciousness will eventually be answered. And some suggest that the mystery is so deep, it will never b... + Read More
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Series: Vintage International Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition) Paperback Gabriel García Márquez 9780593310854 $34.00 FICTION Oct 27, 2020

A beautifully packaged edition of one of García Márquez’s most beloved novels, with never-before-seen illustrations by the Chilean artist Luisa Rivera and an interior design created by the author’s son, Gonzalo García Barcha.In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies... + Read More
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Series: Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen A Novel Paperback Dexter Palmer 9780525432739 $22.95 FICTION Oct 13, 2020

In 1726 in the small town of Godalming, England, a young woman confounds the medical community by giving birth to dead rabbits. This incredible true story is the basis for Dexter Palmer’s stunning, powerfully evocative new novel.Surgeon’s apprentice Zachary Walsh knows that his master, John Howard, is a rational man. But even John cannot explain how or why Mary Toft, the wife of a local journeyman, manages to give birth to a dead rabbit. When this singular event becomes a regular occurrence, John and Zachary realize that nothing in their experi... + Read More
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Series: The Big Book of Espionage Paperback Otto Penzler 9781984898050 $35.00 FICTION Nov 17, 2020

Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler is back with a new anthology that has gathered the intel on the world’s greatest secret agents, declassified in these pages for the first time.Statesecrets. Double agents. Leaks. Otto Penzler brings you all this and more with his latest title in the Big Book series. No need to wait for the government to release redacted information, Otto is ready to declassify confidential matters.Great stories from Lee Child and Charles McCarry are pulled from the shadows and into the light. So pull your fedora down, adj... + Read More
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Series: Finding Latinx In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity Paperback Paola Ramos 9781984899095 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 20, 2020

Debut author and journalist Paola Ramos travels to near and far corners of the country in search of Latin-X voices that illustrate a growing movement and represent a community of young Latinos that hold more political, social, and cultural relevance today than ever beforeLatinos are the youngest demographic in the country, with an estimated 32.5 million millennials and Gen Zers across the country. Ten out of six Latinos are millennials or younger and, every single year, one million Latinos turn eighteen. Latin-X: How a New Movement is Changing ... + Read More
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Series: Mud and Stars Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age Paperback Sara Wheeler 9780525565406 $23.00 TRAVEL Oct 20, 2020

Using its greatest writers as a guide, an award-winning travel writer conducts a witty and immersive tour of contemporary Russia, illuminating the country in all its confusions and contradictions in a narrative overflowing with humor, insight, and charmSearching for a Russia not in the news, author Sara Wheeler embarks on an adventure inspired by the country’s great literary legacy. Bypassing major cities as much as possible, Wheeler travels from rinsed northwestern beet fields and the Far Eastern Arctic tundra to the cauldron of nationalities,... + Read More
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Series: The Spirit of Music The Lesson Continues Paperback Victor L. Wooten 9780593081662 $22.00 MUSIC Feb 02, 2021

Grammy Award winner Victor Wooten’s inspiring parable of the importance of music and the threats that it faces in today’s world. A VINTAGE ORIGINALWe may not realize it as we listen to the soundtrack of our lives through tiny earbuds, but music and all that it encompasses is disappearing all around us. In this fable-like story three musicians from around the world are mysteriously summoned to Nashville, the Music City, to join together with Victor to do battle against the “Phasers,” whose blinking “music-cancelling” headphones silence and dest... + Read More
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Series: The Passion Economy The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century Paperback Adam Davidson 9780804172776 $22.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Nov 24, 2020

The brilliant creator of NPR’s Planet Money podcast and award-winning New Yorker staff writer explains our current economy: laying out its internal logic and revealing the transformative hope it offers for millions of people to thrive as they never have beforeContrary to what you may have heard, the middle class is not dying and robots are not stealing our jobs. In fact, writes Adam Davidson—one of our leading public voices on economic issues—the twenty-first-century economic paradigm offers new ways of making money, fresh paths toward professi... + Read More
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Series: Decoding "Despacito" An Oral History of Latin Music Paperback Leila Cobo 9780593081334 $22.95 MUSIC Mar 02, 2021

A behind the scenes look at the music that is currently the soundtrack of the globe, reported on and written by Leila Cobo, Billboard’s VP of Latin Music and the world’s ultimate authority on popular Latin music.Decoding “Despacito” tracks the stories behind the biggest Latin hits of the past fifty years. From the salsa born and bred in the streets of New York City, to Puerto Rican reggaetón and bilingual chart-toppers, this rich oral history is a veritable treasure trove of never-before heard anecdotes and insight from a who’s who of Latin mus... + Read More
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Series: Vintage International Think, Write, Speak Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Letters to the Editor Paperback Vladimir Nabokov Literary Trust 9781101873700 $24.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Feb 09, 2021

A rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy.“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child”: so Nabokov famously, and infamously, wrote when introducing his 1973 volume of selected prose, Strong Opinions. Think, Write, Speak follows up where Strong Opinions left off, presenting Nabokov’s public writings, from a 1921 essay about Cambridge to two final i... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Contemporaries Interior Chinatown A Novel Paperback Charles Yu 9780307948472 $22.00 FICTION Nov 17, 2020

From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, whe... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Classics The Prince Paperback Niccolo Machiavelli 9780593310861 $11.00 PHILOSOPHY Oct 13, 2020

A Vintage Classics edition of the Renaissance masterpiece on the art of getting and keeping political power.That Machiavelli’s name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Prince—the world’s preeminent how-to manual on the art of getting and keeping power, and one of the literary landmarks of the Italian Renaissance. Written in a vigorous, straightforward style that reflects its author’s realism, this treatise on states, statecraft, and the ideal ruler is essential reading for a... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Classics The Wealth of Nations Paperback Adam Smith 9780593310878 $22.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 13, 2020

A Vintage Classics edition of the first—and still the most eloquent—expression of the economic theories of capitalism.Published in 1776, in the same year as the Declaration of Independence, The Wealth of Nations has had an equally great impact on the course of modern history. Adam Smith’s celebrated defense of free market economies was written with such expressive power and clarity that the first edition sold out in six months. While its most remarkable and enduring innovation was to see the whole of economic life as a unified system, it is not... + Read More
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Series: Lord of All the Dead A Nonfiction Novel Paperback Javier Cercas 9780525562504 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dec 01, 2020

From the internationally renowned author of Soldiers of Salamis, a “nonfiction novel” about his own family history and the legacy of the Spanish Civil War.Javier Cercas grew up hearing the legend of his adored great-uncle Manuel Mena, who died at nineteen in the bloodiest battle of the Spanish Civil War—while fighting for Franco’s army. Who was this young man? A fascist hero whose memory is an embarrassment or a committed idealist who happened to fall on the wrong side of history? Is it possible to be a moral person defending an immoral cause? ... + Read More
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Series: Physical Intelligence (canceled) The Science of How the Body and the Mind Guide Each Other Through Life Paperback Scott Grafton 9780525436362 $22.95 SCIENCE Jan 02, 2079

Elegantly written and deeply grounded in personal experience, 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? Or how you decide if you can drive through a snowstorm? Or how high you are willing to climb up a ladder to change a lightbulb? Through the prisms of behavioral neurology and cognitive neuroscience, Scott Grafton brilliantly accounts for the design a... + Read More
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Series: Invisible Americans The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty Paperback Jeff Madrick 9781101974056 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 01, 2020

An essential, and impossible-to-ignore, examination of one of the most pressing, harmful, and heartbreaking problems facing our country: the widespread poverty among American children.By 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 roots of the problem, including the ... + Read More
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Series: The Affirmative Action Puzzle (Canceled) A Living History from Reconstruction to Today Paperback Melvin I. Urofsky 9781101970201 $24.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 02, 2079

The definitive, multifaceted history of affirmative action from the Civil Rights Act of 1866 through today’s tumultuous times.From acclaimed legal historian Melvin Urofsky, The Affirmative Action Puzzle is an ambitious, rich history of affirmative action, from its beginning in 1961 when John F. Kennedy created the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, mandating federal contractors to take “affirmative action” to ensure that there be no discrimination by “race, creed, color, or national origin.”Covering cases decided by the Supr... + Read More
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Series: Dancers on the Shore Paperback William Melvin Kelley 9781984899354 $22.00 FICTION Sep 29, 2020

The first and only short story collection by William Melvin Kelley, author of A Different Drummer, and the source from which he drew inspiration for his subsequent novels.Originally published in 1964, this collection of sixteen stories includes two linked sets of stories about the Bedlow and Dunford families. They represent the earliest work of William Melvin Kelley and provided a rich source of stories and characters who were to fill out his later novels. Spanning generations from the Deep South during Reconstruction to New York City in the 1... + Read More
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Series: Dunfords Travels Everywheres Paperback William Melvin Kelley 9781984899378 $22.00 FICTION Sep 29, 2020

William Melvin Kelley’s final work, a Joycean, Rabelaisian romp in which he brings back some of his most memorable characters in a novel of three intertwining stories.Ride on out with Rab and Turt, two o’New Afriqueque’s toughfast, ruefast Texnosass Arangers, as they battle Chief Pugmichillo and ricecure Mr. Charcarl Walker-Rider.Cut in on Carlyle Bedlowe, wrecker of marriage, saver of souls.Or just along with Chig Dunford, product of Harlem and private schools, on the circular voyage of self-discovery that takes him from Europe’s Cafe of One H... + Read More
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Series: Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China Paperback Jung Chang 9781101972922 $23.00 HISTORY Sep 22, 2020

They were the most famous women in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history.Red Sister, Ching-ling, married the ’Father of China’, Sun Yat-sen, and rose to be Mao’s vice-chair.Little Sister, May-ling, became Madame Chiang Kai-shek, first lady of pre-Communist Nationalist China and a major political figure in her own right.Big Sister, Ei-ling, became Chiang’s unoffici... + Read More
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Series: Sandworm A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers Paperback Andy Greenberg 9780525564638 $23.00 COMPUTERS Oct 20, 2020

From Wired senior writer Andy Greenberg comes the true story of the desperate hunt to identify and track an elite team of Russian agents bent on digital sabotage.In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen, paralyzing some of the world’s largest businesses—from drug manufacturers to software developers to shipping companies. ATMs froze. The railway and postal systems shut down. Hospitals went dar... + Read More
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Series: Parisian Lives Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir Paperback Deirdre Bair 9780525432906 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 13, 2020

National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, revealing her time coming-of-age as a feminist through an intimate portrait of two literary giants.In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. Although he said he would “neither help nor hinder” her, he agreed that she could write his biography despite never having written—or even read—a biography herself. The ne... + Read More
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Series: L.E.L. The Lost Life and Mysterious Death of the "Female Byron" Paperback Lucasta Miller 9780593311158 $27.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 20, 2020

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography: the fascinating, rediscovered story of a writer who changed English poetry and explored the dark side of sexuality through a woman’s voice.Letitita Elizabeth Landon (pen name L.E.L.) lived a life in a blaze of scandal and worship, one of the most famous women of her time (the Romantic Age in London’s 1820s), her life and writing on the ascendency as Byron’s came to an end. Lucasta Miller tells the full story and re-creates the literary London of her time. She was born in 1802 ... + Read More
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Series: The Sustainable Economy The Hidden Costs of Climate Change and the Path to a Prosperous Future Paperback Robert S. Devine 9780307277176 $22.95 NATURE Oct 27, 2020

An original, engaging guide to creating a sustainable economy that will combat global warming while also improving our quality of life.Pick an environmental issue. Maybe air pollution, toxic waste, or deforestation. These all seem like solid choices, but none of these is actually an environmental problem—at least, not at its heart. Deep down, they are economic problems. Nearly all the issues we classify as environmental stem from defects in the DNA of America’s current market system. This is emphatically true of our greatest environmental threa... + Read More
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Series: An Alice Vega Novel The Janes An Alice Vega Novel Paperback Louisa Luna 9781984898494 $22.00 FICTION Mar 30, 2021

The electric follow-up to Louisa Luna’s acclaimed thriller Two Girls Down, featuring private investigators Alice Vega and Max Caplan.On the outskirts of San Diego, the bodies of two young women are discovered. They have no names, no IDs, and no family looking for them. Fearing the possibility of a human trafficking ring, the police and FBI reach out to Alice Vega, a private investigator known for finding the missing.Alice Vega is a powerful woman whose determination is matched only by her intellect, and, along with her partner Cap, she will sto... + Read More
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Series: Zed A Novel Paperback Joanna Kavenna 9781984898340 $22.00 FICTION Dec 08, 2020

From the winner of the 2008 Orange Award for New Writing comes a blistering, satirical novel about life under a global media and tech corporation that knows exactly what we think, what we want, and what we will do—before we do.One corporation has made a perfect world based on a perfect algorithm. Now, what to do with all these messy people?Lionel Bigman is dead. Murdered by a robot. Guy Matthias, the philandering founder and CEO of the mega-corporation Beetle, insists it was human error. But was it? Either the predictive algorithms of Beetle’s ... + Read More
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Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Series The Little Prince Hardcover Antoine De Saint-exupery 9781101908280 $24.00 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 01, 2020

A beautiful hardcover edition of one of the bestselling classic children’s stories in the world—long cherished by children and adults alike.Written during World War II, The Little Prince tells of the friendship between the narrator, an aviator stranded in the Sahara desert, and a mysterious boy he encounters there. Ruler of a tiny asteroid of which he is the only inhabitant, the Little Prince chats disarmingly about his curious adventures in space and since arriving on earth; of his distant home; and of his love for a beautiful and capricious r... + Read More
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Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series Border Lines Poems of Migration Hardcover Mihaela Moscaliuc 9781101908242 $19.95 POETRY Sep 08, 2020

In this remarkable collection—the first of its kind—poets from around the world give eloquent voice to the trials, hopes, rewards, and losses of the experience of migration. Each year, millions join the ranks of intrepid migrants who have reshaped societies throughout history. The movement of peoples across borders—whether forcible, as with the Middle Passage and the Trail of Tears, or voluntary, as with the great migrations from Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America to the United States and Western Europe—brings with it emotional and psychol... + Read More
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Series: Everyman's Library Classics Series Independent People Hardcover Halldor Laxness 9781101908273 $35.00 FICTION Oct 06, 2020

A beautifully jacketed hardcover edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s beloved epic novel about a stubbornly independent Icelandic sheep farmer and his spirited daughter.Set in the early twentieth century, Independent People recalls both Iceland’s medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter. If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book’s protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic. Having spent eight... + Read More
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Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series Prague Stories Hardcover Richard Bassett 9780525659570 $23.00 FICTION Oct 20, 2020

A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of stories set in Prague, by an international array of brilliant writers.The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual center of the western world. The writers collected here range from the early nineteenth century to the present and include both Prague natives and visitors from elsewhere. Here are stories, legends, and scenes from the city’s past and present, from the Jewish fable of the golem, a creature conjured from clay, to tales of German and Soviet invasions. The international array of ... + Read More
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Series: Everyman's Library Classics Series The Babur Nama Hardcover Babur 9781101908235 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 03, 2020

“If you only read one autobiography from a sensitive 16th-century warlord this year, make it this one.” —The New York Times A hardcover edition of the colorful memoirs of Babur—founder and first emperor of the Mughal dynasty—that is “justly considered a masterpiece” (The Wall Street Journal). Zahiru’d-din Muhamad Babur (1483–1530), a poet-prince from Central Asia, was the author of one of the most remarkable autobiographies in world literature. The Babur Nama reveals him as not only a military genius but also a ruler unusually magnanimous for h... + Read More
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Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series Poems from Greek Antiquity Hardcover Paul Quarrie 9781101908211 $21.95 POETRY Nov 10, 2020

A beautiful Pocket Poet selection of short poems, odes, and epigrams from ancient Greece, translated into English by a wide array of distinguished translators and poetsPoems from Greek Antiquity presents a gloriously compact treasury of the enduring and influential poems of the ancient Greeks. Greek literature abounds in masterpieces, the most famous of which are lengthy epics, but it is also rich in poems of much smaller compass than The Iliad or The Odyssey. The short poems, odes, and epigrams included in this volume span a vast period of mor... + Read More
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Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series The Great Gatsby Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury Hardcover F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781101908297 $29.00 FICTION Jan 05, 2021

Fitzgerald’s masterpiece—the quintessential Jazz Age novel—now in a hardcover Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics editionFor generations of enthralled readers, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s mysterious millionaire, Jay Gatsby, has come to embody all the glamour and decadence of the Roaring Twenties. Gatsby emerges as if from nowhere, evading questions about his past and throwing dazzling parties sparkling with champagne and jazz at his luxurious Long Island mansion. Nick Carraway, a young man who has moved in next door, is fascinated by his oddly d... + Read More
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Series: El señor presidente Paperback Miguel Angel Asturias 9780593311387 $21.95 FICTION Aug 25, 2020

The Nobel Prize winning work of Guatemalan author and diplomat, Miguel Ángel Asturias, paints a jarring portrait of a Latin American dictator and his effect on the national psyche. (English edition: THE PRESIDENT, by Miguel Ángel Asturias [Waveland Press, 08/01/1963])Drawing from his experiences as a journalist writing under a repressive regime, Asturias tells the story of a ruthless dictator in an unnamed Latin American country and his schemes to dispose of a political adversary. El señor presidente employs satire and surrealistic dream seque... + Read More
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Series: El instituto Paperback Stephen King 9780593311219 $24.95 FICTION Aug 25, 2020

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It.(English edition: THE INSTITUTE, by Stephen King [Scribner, 9/10/2019])In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behi... + Read More
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Series: El resplandor Paperback Stephen King 9780593311233 $23.95 FICTION Aug 25, 2020

Before Doctor Sleep, there was The Shining, a classic of modern American horror from the undisputed master, Stephen King.English edition: THE SHINING, by Stephen King [Doubleday, 5/1/1990]Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote…and more sinister. And the only one to n... + Read More