1.
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...
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2.
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 ...
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3.
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...
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4.
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...
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5.
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...
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6.
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...
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7.
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. ...
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9.
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...
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10.
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, ...
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11.
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...
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12.
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...
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13.
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. ...
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14.
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...
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15.
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...
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16.
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...
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17.
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...
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18.
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...
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19.
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 ...
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20.
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...
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21.
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...
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22.
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...
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23.
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...
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24.
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 ...
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25.
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...
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26.
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...
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27.
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...
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28.
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...
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29.
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 ...
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30.
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,...
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31.
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...
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32.
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...
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33.
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...
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34.
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...
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35.
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...
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36.
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...
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37.
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...
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38.
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? ...
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39.
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...
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40.
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 ...
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41.
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...
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42.
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...
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43.
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...
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44.
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...
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45.
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...
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46.
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...
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47.
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 ...
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48.
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...
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49.
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...
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50.
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 ...
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51.
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...
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52.
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...
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53.
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...
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54.
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 ...
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55.
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...
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56.
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...
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57.
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...
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58.
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...
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59.
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...
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60.
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...
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