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Series: Quit Like a Woman The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol Hardcover Holly Whitaker 9781984825056 $37.00 SELF-HELP Dec 31, 2019

The founder of a female-focused recovery program offers a radical, new path to sobriety.We live in a world obsessed with drinking. We drink at baby showers and work events, brunch and book club, graduations and funerals. Yet no one ever questions alcohol’s ubiquity—in fact, the only thing ever questioned is why someone doesn’t drink. It is a qualifier for belonging and if you don’t imbibe, you are considered an anomaly. As a society, we are obsessed with health and wellness, yet we uphold alcohol as some kind of magic elixir, though it is anyth... + Read More
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Series: To the River Losing My Brother Paperback Don Gillmor 9780345814678 $21.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 03, 2020

The Governor General’s Literary award-winning exploration of suicide in which one of Canada’s most gifted writers attempts to understand why his brother took his own life. Which leads him to another powerful question: Why are boomers killing themselves at a far greater rate than the Silent Generation before them or the generations that have followed?In the spring of 2006, Don Gillmor travelled to Whitehorse to reconstruct the last days of his brother, David, a talented musician whose truck and cowboy hat had been found at the edge of the Yukon ... + Read More
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Series: Working Paperback Robert A. Caro 9780593081914 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 07, 2020

“One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer.” —The Sunday Times (London)From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply moving recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books.Now in paperback, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these evocatively written, personal pieces. He describes what it was like to interview the mighty Robert Moses and to begin di... + Read More
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Series: Franchise The Golden Arches in Black America Hardcover Marcia Chatelain 9781631493942 $38.95 HISTORY Jan 07, 2020

An estimated one-third of all American adults eats something from at a fast-food restaurant every day. Millions start their mornings with paper-wrapped English muffin breakfast sandwiches, order burritos hastily secured in foil for lunch, and end their evenings with extravalue dinners consumed in cars. But while people of all ages and backgrounds enjoy and depend on fast food, it does not mean the same thing to each of us. For African Americans, as acclaimed historian Marcia Chatelain reveals in Franchise, fast food is a source of both despair ... + Read More
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Series: Deep Creek Finding Hope in the High Country Paperback Pam Houston 9780393357660 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 07, 2020

"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us."On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongsi... + Read More
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Series: The Magical Language of Others A Memoir Hardcover Ej Koh 9781947793385 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 07, 2020

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award and the Washington State Book Award in Biography/Memoir Named One of the Best Books by Asian American Writers by Oprah Daily Longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award The Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daughter. After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji Koh’s parents return to South Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in California. Overnight, Eun Ji finds herself abandoned and adrift i... + Read More
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Series: Horizon Paperback Barry Lopez 9780307356000 $21.00 NATURE Jan 07, 2020

From the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams, a masterwork in which he recounts the travels around the world and the encounters—human, animal, and natural—that have shaped his extraordinary life.Barry Lopez gives us his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date, a book Robert Macfarlane calls “magnificent; a contemprary epic, at once pained and urgent, personal and oracular.” Horizon moves through the author’s travels in six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert;... + Read More
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Series: El monarca de las sombras / Lord of All the Dead Paperback Javier Cercas 9780593081174 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 14, 2020

Más de quince años después de la publicación de Soldados de Salamina, Javier Cercas regresa a la guerra civil española con una novela más íntima y personal, que indaga en el pasado más incómodo de su familia. Esta es la novela que Javier Cercas se había estado preparando para escribir desde que quiso ser novelista. O desde antes. En ella se narra la búsqueda del rastro perdido de un muchacho casi anónimo que peleó por una causa injusta y murió en el lado equivocado de la historia. Se llamaba Manuel Mena, y en 1936 se incorporó al ejército de F... + Read More
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Series: Never Enough The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction Paperback Judith Grisel 9780525434900 $24.00 PSYCHOLOGY Jan 14, 2020

From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict comes an authoritative and accessible guide to understanding drug addiction: clearly explained brain science and vivid personal stories reveal how addiction happens, show why specific drugs—from opioids to alcohol to coke and more—are so hard to kick, and illuminate the path to recovery for addicts, loved ones, caregivers, and crafters of public policy.Drawing on years of research—as well as personal experience as a recovered addict—researcher and professor Judith Grisel has re... + Read More
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Series: Imperfect Union How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War Hardcover Steve Inskeep 9780735224353 $42.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 14, 2020

Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple John C. Frémont, one of the United States’s leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in 1842, when he commanded the first of his expeditions to the uncharted West. But in only a few years, he was one of the most acclaimed people of the age – known as a wilderness explorer, bestselling writer... + Read More
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Series: Joy Enough A Memoir Paperback Sarah Mccoll 9781631496639 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 14, 2020

February 2019 Selection, Emma Roberts's Belletrist Book Club From a bracing new voice comes this life-affirming memoir of a daughter making and remaking her life in her mother’s image. Sifting gingerly through memories of her late mother, brilliant newcomer Sarah McColl has penned an indelible tribute to the joy and pain of loving well. Even as her own marriage splinters, McColl drops everything when her mother is diagnosed with cancer, returning to the family farmhouse and laboring over elaborate meals in the hopes of nourishing her back to he... + Read More
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Series: Era of Ignition Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution Paperback Amber Tamblyn 9781984822994 $22.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 14, 2020

A passionate and deeply personal exploration of feminism during divisive times by actor, filmmaker, and activist Amber Tamblyn, now with a new afterwordIn her late twenties, Amber Tamblyn experienced a crisis of character while trying to break out of the confines of the acting career she’d forged as a child in order to become the writer and director she dreamed of being as an adult. After a particularly low period fueled by rejection and disillusionment, she grabbed hold of her own destiny and entered into what she calls an Era of Ignition—name... + Read More
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Series: Together A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap Paperback Judy Goldman 9780525563136 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 21, 2020

Novelist and poet Judy Goldman's inspiring account of the mishap that left her husband paralyzed, how it tested their marriage, and their struggle to regain their "normal" life.When Judy Goldman’s husband of almost four decades has a routine spinal injection to alleviate back pain, he is instantly paralyzed from the waist down—a phenomenon no doctor can explain or undo. She’s forced to take over, navigating the byzantine medical world they suddenly find themselves in. Her husband is forced to give in. This is the starting point for Together, wh... + Read More
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Series: Lady First The World of First Lady Sarah Polk Paperback Amy S. Greenberg 9780804173445 $25.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 21, 2020

The little-known story of remarkable First Lady Sarah Polk—a brilliant master of the art of high politics and a crucial but unrecognized figure in the history of American feminism.While the Women’s Rights convention was taking place at Seneca Falls in 1848, First Lady Sarah Childress Polk was wielding influence unprecedented for a woman in Washington, D.C. Yet, while history remembers the women of the convention, it has all but forgotten Sarah Polk. Now, in her riveting biography, Amy S. Greenberg brings Sarah’s story into vivid focus. We see S... + Read More
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Series: A House in the Mountains The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism Paperback Caroline Moorehead 9780735279728 $21.00 HISTORY Jan 21, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe extraordinary story of four courageous women who helped form the Italian Resistance against the Nazis and the Fascists during the Second World War.In the late summer of 1943, when Italy changed sides in WWII and the Germans, now their enemies, occupied the north of the country, an Italian Resistance was born. Ada, Frida, Silvia and Bianca were four young Piedmontese women who joined the Resistance, living secretively in the mountains surrounding Turin. They were not alone. Between 1943 and 1945, as the Allies battled thei... + Read More
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Series: All the Lives We Ever Lived Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf Paperback Katharine Smyth 9781524760632 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 21, 2020

A wise and moving debut about the pain of losing a parent and a celebration of how literature can serve as a beacon in dark times, using the modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse.Following her father’s death, Katharine Smyth turned to her favorite novel, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, as a way of making sense of her bereavement. Written out of a lifelong admiration for Woolf and her work, Katharine’s story moves between the New England of her childhood and Woolf’s Cornish coast and Bloomsbury squares, addressing universal questions about... + Read More
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Series: A House for Two Pounds Hardcover K. Iggulden 9780241417829 $21.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 28, 2020

A richly recounted memoir of growing up in an Irish farming community in the 1940sA love of Ireland and the Irish is what shines through this little memoir. Growing up amongst the fields, woods and characters of a farming community near Cork, Kathleen Iggulden depicts a world that is both immediate and real, yet belongs to a now-distant past. Here is a pony and trap to church every Sunday, evenings full of fiddle, flute and song, and new shoes and clothes twice a year. Kathleen’s childhood in the 1930s involved two or three generations - her pa... + Read More
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Series: A Woman Like Her The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star Hardcover Sanam Maher 9781612198408 $36.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 28, 2020

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 “An exemplary work of investigative journalism.” —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times The murder of a Pakistani social media star exposes a culture divided between accelerating modernity and imposed traditional values—and the tragedy of those caught in the middle. In 2016, Pakistan’s first social media celebrity, Qandeel Baloch, was murdered in a suspected honor killing. Her death quickly became a media sensation. It was both devastatingly routine and breathtakingly brutal, and in a new media landscape, it... + Read More
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Series: Mengele Unmasking the Angel of Death Hardcover David G Marwell 9780393609530 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 28, 2020

A gripping biography of the infamous Nazi doctor, from a former Justice Department official tasked with uncovering his fate.Perhaps the most notorious war criminal of all time, Josef Mengele was the embodiment of bloodless efficiency and passionate devotion to a grotesque worldview. Aided by the role he has assumed in works of popular culture, Mengele has come to symbolize the Holocaust itself as well as the failure of justice that allowed countless Nazi murderers and their accomplices to escape justice. Whether as the demonic doctor who direct... + Read More
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Series: Figuring Paperback Maria Popova 9780525565420 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 28, 2020

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE AND BOOKPAGEFiguring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries—beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalyzed the environmental movement. Stretching between these figures is a cast of artists, writers, and scientists—mostly women, mostly queer—whose public contributi... + Read More
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Series: Inheritance A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love Paperback Dani Shapiro 9780525434030 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 28, 2020

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of Signal Fires and host of the hit podcast Family Secrets: a memoir about the staggering family secret uncovered by a genealogy test, an exploration of the urgent ethical questions surrounding fertility treatments and DNA testing, and a profound inquiry of paternity, identity, and love. “Memoir gold: a profound and exquisitely rendered exploration of identity and the true meaning of family.” —People In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had casually submitted her D... + Read More
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Series: Salt in My Soul An Unfinished Life Paperback Mallory Smith 9781984855442 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 28, 2020

The diaries of a remarkable young woman who was determined to live a meaningful and happy life despite her struggle with cystic fibrosis and a rare superbug—from age fifteen to her death at the age of twenty-five—the inspiration for the original streaming documentary Salt in My Soul“An exquisitely nuanced chronicle of a terrified but hopeful young woman whose life was beginning and ending, all at once.”—Los Angeles Times Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at the age of three, Mallory Smith grew up to be a determined, talented young woman who inspir... + Read More
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Series: Yesterday's Man The Case Against Joe Biden Paperback Branko Marcetic 9781839760280 $25.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 29, 2020

A deep dive into Joe Biden’s history and the origins of his political valuesYesterday’s Man exposes the forgotten history of Joe Biden, one of the United States’s longest-serving politicians, and one of its least scrutinized. Over nearly fifty years in politics, the man called “Middle-Class Joe” served as a key architect of the Democratic Party’s rightward turn, ushering in the end of the liberal New Deal order and enabling the political takeover of the radical right. Far from being a liberal stalwart, Biden often outdid even Reagan, Gingrich, ... + Read More
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Series: My Brother Moochie Regaining Dignity in the Face of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South Paperback Issac J. Bailey 9781635420036 $22.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 04, 2020

A journalist’s raw, first-person account of what his family endured after his eldest brother killed a man and was sentenced to life in prison. At the age of nine, Issac J. Bailey saw his hero, his eldest brother, taken away in handcuffs, not to return from prison for thirty-two years. Bailey tells the story of their relationship and of his experience living in a family suffering guilt and shame. Drawing on sociological research as well as his expertise as a journalist, he seeks to answer the crucial question of why Moochie and many other young ... + Read More
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Series: The Great Blue Hills of God A Story of Facing Loss, Finding Peace, and Learning the True Meaning of Home Hardcover Kreis Beall 9781984822246 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 04, 2020

The creative force behind Blackberry Farm, Tennessee’s award-winning farm-to-table resort, reveals how she found herself only after losing everything in this powerful memoir of resilience.Born with “the gift of hospitality,” Kreis Beall helped create one of the South’s most enchanting destinations, Blackberry Farm, in Tennessee’s Smoky Mountain foothills. For decades, she was a fixture in the entertaining world and on the glossy pages of popular home and design magazines.But beautiful exteriors and glowing accolades papered over deep inner pain... + Read More
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Series: You Never Forget Your First A Biography of George Washington Hardcover Alexis Coe 9780735224100 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 04, 2020

“Alexis Coe energetically dusts off an old-boys genre to present a life in full, without sentiment or whitewashing. It’s a public service, and it’s also a lot of fun.”—Irin Carmon, New York Times bestselling co-author of Notorious RBGAlexis Coe takes a closer look at our first—and finds he is not quite the man we rememberYoung George Washington was raised by a struggling single mother, demanded military promotions, caused an international incident, and never backed down—even when his dysentery got so bad he had to ride with a cushion on his sad... + Read More
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Series: Half Broke A Memoir Hardcover Ginger Gaffney 9781324003076 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 04, 2020

A top-ranked horse trainer’s gorgeous, life-affirming memoir that offers profound insight into the fascinating ways both horses and humans seek relationships to survive.At the start of this remarkable story of recovery, healing, and redemption, Ginger Gaffney answers a call to help retrain the troubled horses at an alternative prison ranch in New Mexico, a facility run entirely by the prisoners. The horses are scavenging through the dumpsters, kicking and running down the residents when they bring the trash out after meals. One horse is severel... + Read More
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Series: Murder by the Book The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London Paperback Claire Harman 9780525436157 $22.95 TRUE CRIME Feb 04, 2020

Early on the morning of May 6, 1840, the elderly Lord William Russell was found in his London house with his throat so deeply cut that his head was nearly severed. The crime soon had everyone, including Queen Victoria, feverishly speculating about motives and methods. But when the prime suspect claimed to have been inspired by a sensational crime novel, it sent shock waves through literary London and drew both Dickens and Thackeray into the fray. Could a novel really lead someone to kill? In Murder by the Book, Claire Harman blends a riveting t... + Read More
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Series: The Wrong Kind of Women Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood Hardcover Naomi McDougall Jones 9780807033456 $35.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 04, 2020

A brutally honest look at the systemic exclusion of women in film—an industry with massive cultural influence—and how, in response, women are making space in cinema for their voices to be heard.Generation after generation, women have faced the devastating reality that Hollywood is a system built to keep them out. The films created by that system influence everything from our worldviews to our brain chemistry. When women’s voices are excluded from the medium, the impact on society is immense. Actor, screenwriter, and award-winning independent fi... + Read More
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Series: In Praise of Difficult Women Life Lessons From 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules Paperback Karen Karbo 9781426220890 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 04, 2020
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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: 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: The Master Plan My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose Paperback Chris Wilson 9780735215597 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 04, 2020

“The Master Plan is less of a road map and more of a philosophy that we should all take to heart: We are all better than our worst decision, our sense of justice should honor the redemptive possibilities inherent in every person, and our destinies are truly intertwined.”—Wes Moore, author of The Other Wes MooreGrowing up in Washington, DC, Chris Wilson was surrounded by violence and despair. He watched his family and neighborhood shattered by trauma, and he lost his faith. One night when he was seventeen, defending himself, he killed a man. He ... + Read More
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Series: Dressed for a Dance in the Snow Women's Voices from the Gulag Hardcover Monika Zgustova 9781590511770 $34.99 HISTORY Feb 04, 2020

Named a Notable Translated Book of the Year by World Literature Today A poignant and unexpectedly inspirational account of women’s suffering and resilience in Stalin’s forced labor camps, diligently transcribed in the kitchens and living rooms of nine survivors.The pain inflicted by the gulags has cast a long and dark shadow over Soviet-era history. Zgustová’s collection of interviews with former female prisoners not only chronicles the hardships of the camps, but also serves as testament to the power of beauty in face of adversity. Where one w... + Read More
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Series: Smacked A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy Hardcover Eilene Zimmerman 9780525511007 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 04, 2020

A journalist pieces together the mysteries surrounding her ex-husband’s unexpected death from drug abuse. Smacked takes readers on an intimate journey into the world of white-collar drug use, through the story of one man, one woman, and one family.Something was wrong with Peter. Eilene Zimmerman noticed that her ex-husband looked thin, seemed distracted, and was frequently absent from activities with their children. She thought he looked sick and needed to see a doctor, and indeed, he told her he had been diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder. ... + Read More
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Series: Machiavelli The Art of Teaching People What to Fear Paperback Patrick Boucheron 9781590519523 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 11, 2020

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEIn a series of poignant vignettes, a preeminent historian makes a compelling case for Machiavelli as an unjustly maligned figure with valuable political insights that resonate as strongly today as they did in his time. Whenever a tempestuous period in history begins, Machiavelli is summoned, because he is known as one for philosophizing in dark times. In fact, since his death in 1527, we have never ceased to read him to pull ourselves out of torpors. But what do we really know about this man apart from the term i... + Read More
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Series: How to Disappear Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency Paperback Akiko Busch 9781101980422 $23.00 NATURE Feb 11, 2020

Vivid, surprising, and utterly timely, Akiko Busch’s HOW TO DISAPPEAR explores the idea of invisibility in nature, art, and science, in search of a more joyful and peaceful way of living in today’s increasingly surveilled and publicity-obsessed worldIn our networked and image-saturated lives, the notion of disappearing has never been more alluring. Today, we are relentlessly encouraged to reveal, share, and promote ourselves. The pressure to be public comes not just from our peers, but from vast and pervasive technology companies that want to p... + Read More
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Series: What You Have Heard Is True A Memoir of Witness and Resistance Paperback Carolyn Forché 9780525560395 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 11, 2020

The powerful story of a young poet who becomes an activist through a trial by fireCarolyn Forche is twenty-seven when the mysterious stranger appears on her doorstep. He has driven from El Salvador and she’s heard rumors about who he might be: a lone wolf, a Communist, a CIA operative, a sharpshooter, a revolutionary, a small coffee farmer—but no one seems to know for certain. Captivated for reasons she doesn’t fully understand, she accepts his invitation to visit and learn about his country, and becomes enmeshed in his life and a nation on the... + Read More
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Series: On the Road and Off the Record with Leonard Bernstein My Years with the Exasperating Genius Paperback Charlie Harmon 9781623545420 $18.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 11, 2020

Celebrating Leonard Bernstein’s centenary with an intimate and detailed look at the public and private life of the Maestro written by his former assistant. Foreword by Broadway legend Harold Prince.“An affectionate portrait of an eminent musician who was driven by demons.” —Kirkus Reviews “Harmon’s personable and warm account of what it was like to work for one of the twentieth century’s musical giants casts new light on Bernstein and his world.” —Booklist “This multifaceted perspective gives readers plenty of salacious gossip paired with... + Read More
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Series: Sounds Like Titanic A Memoir Paperback Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman 9780393357738 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 11, 2020

A young woman leaves Appalachia for life as a classical musician—or so she thinks.When aspiring violinist Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman lands a job with a professional ensemble in New York City, she imagines she has achieved her lifelong dream. But the ensemble proves to be a sham. When the group “performs,” the microphones are never on. Instead, the music blares from a CD. The mastermind behind this scheme is a peculiar and mysterious figure known as The Composer, who is gaslighting his audiences with music that sounds suspiciously like the Tita... + Read More
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Series: Brother & Sister A Memoir Large type / large print edition Paperback Diane Keaton 9780593171585 $37.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Feb 11, 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: Mrs. Paine's Garage And the Murder of John F. Kennedy Paperback Thomas Mallon 9781984899750 $22.95 HISTORY Feb 11, 2020

Nearly forty years have passed since Ruth Hyde Paine, a Quaker housewife in suburban Dallas, offered shelter and assistance to a young man named Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife, Marina. For nine months in 1963, Mrs. Paine was so deeply involved in the Oswalds’ lives that she eventually became one of the Warren Commission’s most important witnesses. Mrs. Paine’s Garage is the tragic story of a well-intentioned woman who found Oswald the job that put him six floors above Dealey Plaza—into which, on November 22, he fired a rifle he’d ... + Read More
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Series: Sinking in the Swamp How Trump's Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington Hardcover Lachlan Markay 9781984878564 $37.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 11, 2020

An eyewitness account of Donald Trump’s clown car of lieutenants and lackeys who have polluted the corridors of power with their unprecedented awfulness.Two of Washington’s most meddlesome reporters take readers on a deep dive into the murky underworld of President Trump’s Washington, dishing the hilarious and frightening dirt on the charlatans, conspiracy theorists, ideologues, and run-of-the-mill con artists who have infected the highest echelons of American political power.For the past three years, reporting from the White House, the Trump h... + Read More
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Series: The Bold World A Memoir of Family and Transformation Paperback Jodie Patterson 9780399179037 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 11, 2020

Inspired by her transgender son, activist Jodie Patterson explores identity, gender, race, and authenticity to tell the real-life story of a family’s history and transformation.“A courageous and poetic testimony on family and the self, and the learning and unlearning we must do for those we love.”—Janet Mock In 2009, Jodie Patterson, mother of five and beauty entrepreneur, has her world turned upside down when her determined toddler, Penelope, reveals, “Mama, I’m not a girl. I am a boy.” The Pattersons are a tribe of unapologetic Black matriarc... + Read More
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Series: Pounding the Rock Basketball Dreams and Real Life in a Bronx High School Paperback Marc Skelton 9780525434023 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 11, 2020

Welcome to Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, in a working-class corner of the Bronx, where a driven coach inspires his teams to win games and championships--and learn Russian history and graduate and go on to college.In 2006, the Fannie Lou Hamer Panthers basketball team was 0-18. Since 2007, the year Marc Skelton, a New Hampshire native, took over as head coach, the Panthers' record has been 228-68, and they've won three Public School Athletic League championships and one statewide championship. This tiny 400-student school has become a po... + Read More
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Series: The Man in the Red Coat Hardcover Julian Barnes 9780735279940 $39.95 HISTORY Feb 18, 2020

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi.IN THE SUMMER OF 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days’ shopping: a prince, a count and a commoner with an Italian name. In time, each of these men would achieve a certain level of renown, but who were they then and what was the significance of their sojourn to England? Answering these questions, Julian Barnes unfurls the stories of their lives,... + Read More
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Series: Whistleblower My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber Hardcover Susan Fowler 9780525560128 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 18, 2020

The powerful and inspiring story of the young woman who faced down one of the most valuable startups in Silicon Valley historyNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by Vogue, Forbes, and CosmopolitanSusan Fowler was just twenty-five years old when her blog post describing the sexual harassment and retaliation she’d experienced at Uber riveted the nation. Her post would eventually lead to the ousting of Uber’s powerful CEO, but its ripples extended far beyond that, as her courageous choice to attach her name to the post inspired other women to sp... + Read More
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Series: The Genius of Women From Overlooked to Changing the World Hardcover Janice Kaplan 9781524744212 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 18, 2020

What is genius? How is it defined, why is it important—and why do NINETY PERCENT of Americans still, in 2019, think that geniuses are more likely to be men? New York Times bestselling journalist Janice Kaplan dives in, both to explore why and figure out how to make change happen.As long as the word genius has existed it’s been narrowly defined and understood. Surveys show that when anyone, male or female, is asked to name a genius, the answers are predictable—Albert Einstein. Leonardo Da Vinci. Steve Jobs. But when the same group of people are ... + Read More
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Series: Counterpoint A Memoir of Bach and Mourning Hardcover Philip Kennicott 9780393635362 $35.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 18, 2020

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2020 A Pulitzer Prize–winning critic reflects on the meaning and emotional impact of a Bach masterwork. As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It was the only music that didn’t seem trivial or irrelevant, and it enabled him to both experience her death and remove himself from it. For him, Bach’s music held the elements of both joy and despair, life and its inevitable end. He spent the next five years trying to learn one of the composer’s greatest keyb... + Read More
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Series: Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There Hardcover Tara Schuster 9780525509882 $36.00 SELF-HELP Feb 18, 2020

Brutally honest, often hilarious, hard-won lessons in learning to love and care for yourself from a former vice president at Comedy Central who was called “ahead of her time” by Jordan Peele“You’re going to want Tara Schuster to become your new best friend.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed“Compelling, persuasive, and useful no matter where you are in your life.”—Chelsea Handler, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Life Will Be the Death of MeBy the time she was in her late twenties, Tara Schuster was a rising ... + Read More
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Series: Here for It Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays Hardcover R. Eric Thomas 9780525621034 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 18, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today • From the creator of Elle’s “Eric Reads the News,” a heartfelt and hilarious memoir-in-essays about growing up seeing the world differently, finding unexpected hope, and experiencing every awkward, extraordinary stumble along the way.“Pop culture–obsessed, Sedaris-level laugh-out-loud funny . . . [R. Eric Thomas] is one of my favorite writers.”—Lin-Manuel Miranda, Entertainment WeeklyFINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ... + Read More
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Series: Unfree Speech The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now Paperback Joshua Wong 9780143135715 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 18, 2020

An urgent manifesto for global democracy from Joshua Wong, the 23-year-old phenomenon leading Hong Kong’s protests - and Nobel Peace Prize nominee - with an introduction by Ai WeiweiWith global democracy under threat, we must act together to defend out rights: now.When he was 14, Joshua Wong made history. While the adults stayed silent, Joshua staged the first-ever student protest in Hong Kong to oppose National Education—and won.Since then, Joshua has led the Umbrella Movement, founded a political party, and rallied the international community... + Read More
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Series: Last Boat Out of Shanghai The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution Paperback Helen Zia 9780345522337 $24.00 HISTORY Feb 18, 2020

The dramatic, real-life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist Revolution—a precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today.Shanghai has historically been China’s jewel, its richest, most modern city. The bustling metropolis was home to sophisticated intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and a thriving middle class when Mao’s proletarian revolution emerged victorious from the long civil war. Terrified of the horrors the Communists would wreak upon their lives, citizens of Shanghai... + Read More
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Series: Before We Was We Madness by Madness Hardcover Mike Barson 9780753553923 $42.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 19, 2020

The first official book by Madness.In Before We Was We Madness tell us how they became them. A story of seven originals, whose collective graft, energy and talent took them from the sweaty depths of the Hope and Anchor’s basement to the Top of the Pops studio.In their own words they each look back on shared adventures. Playing music together, riding freight trains, spraying graffiti and stealing records. Walking in one another’s footsteps by day and rising up through the city’s exploding pub music scene by night. Before We Was We is irreverent,... + Read More
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Series: Seven Signs of Life Paperback Aoife Abbey 9781784708474 $19.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 25, 2020

An insightful, tender and inspiring memoir that explores the reality of life on the NHS front line. ‘Brilliant, compelling… A hugely life-affirming book’ Mail on Sunday Grief. Anger. Joy. Fear. Distraction. Disgust. Hope. All emotions we expect to encounter over our lifetime. But what if this was every day? And what if your ability to manage them was the difference between life and death? For Aoife Abbey, a doctor in intensive care, these experiences are part of the job – from grief when you make a potentially fatal mistake to joy when the war... + Read More
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Series: These Fevered Days Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson Hardcover Martha Ackmann 9780393609301 $35.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 25, 2020

An engaging, intimate portrait of Emily Dickinson, one of America’s greatest and most-mythologized poets, that sheds new light on her groundbreaking poetry.On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, “All things are ready” and with this resolute statement, her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely “at home” (the occupation listed on her death certificate), Dickinson’s interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionately, was hesitant about publication, embraced seclusion, and created 1,789 poems that she tuc... + Read More
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Series: Gone at Midnight The Tragic True Story Behind the Unsolved Internet Sensation Hardcover Jake Anderson 9780806540054 $35.00 TRUE CRIME Feb 25, 2020

The case that captivated a nation and inspired the Netflix series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel! A Fortune Magazine “Most Anticipated Books of 2020” Selection A Goodreads Featured Release for February 2020 Oxygen’s List of “Best True Crime Books of 2020” Selection “The Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles is a palpable presence in Gone at Midnight. Given the checkered history of the Cecil Hotel (which was recently named to the Los Angeles registry of historic landmarks), I wouldn’t rule out Jack the Ripper.” —The New York Times “Outs... + Read More
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Series: Penguin Vitae Before Night Falls A Memoir Hardcover Reinaldo Arenas 9780143134848 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 25, 2020

The acclaimed memoir of a homosexual Cuban author chronicling his tumultuous yet luminary life, from his impoverished upbringing in Cuba to his imprisonment at the hands of a Communist regime, with a foreword by Colombian author Jaime Manrique.A Penguin Vitae EditionThe astonishing memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas “is a book above all about being free,” said The New York Review of Books—sexually, politically, artistically. Arenas recounts a stunning odyssey from his poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba and his adolescence as... + Read More
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Series: Dannemora Two Escaped Killers, Three Weeks of Terror, and the Largest Manhunt Ever in New York State Paperback Charles A. Gardner 9780806539256 $22.95 TRUE CRIME Feb 25, 2020

THE WIDOWMAKER MEETS POKER ALICE. The most famous lady gambler of the Old West teams up with Widowmaker Jones in a doomed search for lost treasure, a deadly trek through the desert—and a dangerous alliance with the greatest gunslingers in history… IT’S A MATCH MADE IN HELL. Card player extraordinaire Poker Alice knows when to hold ’em, when to fold ’em, and when to team up with master gunman Newt “Widowmaker” Jones. She’s betting on Jones to protect her—and her money—on a treasure hunt in the California desert. Legend has it that a shipwreck is... + Read More
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Series: Being Heumann An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist Hardcover Judith Heumann 9780807019290 $35.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 25, 2020

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year for Nonfiction“…an essential and engaging look at recent disability history.”— BuzzfeedOne of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human.A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s activism—from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington—Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann’s lifelong battle to achiev... + Read More