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Series: A Cry from the Far Middle Dispatches from a Divided Land Hardcover P.J. O'Rourke 9780802157737 $38.95 HUMOR Sep 25, 2020

Observations on the present political moment, and the discord that defines it, from the best man for the job: bestselling author and acclaimed satirist P.J. O’RourkeP. J. O’Rourke says we’ve worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it’s no surprise because perplexed and angry are what Americans have been since the Roanoke Colony got lost. This astute and entertaining look at the state of these United States includes essays on everything from our fraught history (“Oh Beautiful for . . . Pilgrim Feet?”) to the political effects ... + Read More
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Series: Chicago's Great Fire The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City Hardcover Carl Smith 9780802148100 $41.95 HISTORY Oct 16, 2020

From an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memories of those who experienced itBetween October 8–10, 1871, much of the city of Chicago was destroyed by one of the most legendary urban fires in history. Incorporated as a city in 1837, Chicago had grown at a breathtaking pace in barely three decades, from just over 4,000 in 1840 to greater than 330,000 at the time of the fire. Built hastily, the city was largely made of wood. Once it began in the ba... + Read More
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Series: Inspector Karen Pirie Mysteries Still Life A Karen Pirie Novel Hardcover Val McDermid 9780802157447 $38.95 FICTION Oct 16, 2020

From internationally bestselling author Val McDermid comes a propulsive new Karen Pirie thriller that delves into a historic missing persons case, fake identities, and art forgery.Val McDermid is the award-winning, international bestselling author of more than thirty novels and has been hailed as Britain’s Queen of Crime. InStill Life, McDermid returns to her propulsive series featuring DCI Karen Pirie, who finds herself investigating the shadowy world of forgery, where things are never what they seem.When a lobster fisherman discovers a dead b... + Read More
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Series: Tony Hill Novels How The Dead Speak A Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Thriller Paperback Val McDermid 9780802157348 $23.95 FICTION Oct 30, 2020

Val McDermid is an award-winning, crime-writing powerhouse, and now she returns to her explosive, thrilling series featuring psychological profiler Tony Hill and ex-DCI Carol Jordan in her latestHow The Dead SpeakWith Tony behind bars and Carol finally out of road as a cop, he’s finding unexpected outlets for his talents in jail and she’s joined forces with a small informal group of lawyers and forensics experts looking into suspected miscarriages of justice. But they’re doing it without each other; being in the same room at visiting hour is to... + Read More
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Series: The Fallen Angel Hardcover Tracy Borman 9780802157614 $40.50 FICTION Nov 20, 2020

In the gripping conclusion to Tracy Borman’s Stuart-era trilogy, Frances Gorges must face a dangerous new enemy deep within the court of James ILife has never been quiet for Frances Gorges at the court of King James, but after finding herself at the center of plots and conspiracies for many years both as an accused witch and a secret Catholic, by 1614 Frances hopes to distance herself from the decadence and ruthlessness of the aging and venal monarch. However, when a handsome stranger appears at a courtier’s country estate, he immediately draws... + Read More
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Series: Frances Gorges Historical Trilogy The Devil's Slave A Novel Paperback Tracy Borman 9780802157294 $26.95 FICTION Nov 27, 2020

At the end ofThe King’s Witch, the first book in Tracy Borman’s Stuart-era trilogy, Frances Gorges was pregnant with the child of her dead lover, Thomas Wintour, executed for his role as a conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Now, inThe Devil’s Slave, Frances is compelled to return to the dissolute and dangerous court where she has been suspected of witchcraft.Catholics have gone underground in the new Puritan regime of King James I, and yet whispers of conspiracies continue to echo behind closed doors and down the halls of the royal pala... + Read More
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Series: Sicily '43 The First Assault on Fortress Europe Hardcover James Holland 9780802157188 $44.95 HISTORY Nov 13, 2020

A major new history of one of World War II’s most crucial campaigns—the first Allied attack on European soil—by the acclaimed author ofNormandy ’44 and a rising star in military historyOn July 10, 1943, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted took place, larger even than the Normandy invasion eleven months later: 160,000 American, British, and Canadian troops came ashore or were parachuted onto Sicily, signaling the start of the campaign to defeat Nazi Germany on European soil. Operation HUSKY, as it was known, was enormously complex, invo... + Read More
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Series: Wild Minds The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation Hardcover Reid Mitenbuler 9780802129383 $41.95 PERFORMING ARTS Dec 11, 2020

The vivid and untold story of the Golden Age of classic animation and the often larger-than-life artists who created some of the most iconic cartoon characters of the twentieth centuryIn 1911, famed cartoonist Winsor McCay debuted one of the first animated cartoons, based on his sophisticated newspaper strip “Little Nemo in Slumberland,” itself inspired by Freud’s recent research on dreams. McCay is largely forgotten today, but he unleashed an art form, and the creative energy of artists from Otto Messmer and Max Fleischer to Walt Disney and Wa... + Read More
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Series: Elements of Fiction Paperback Walter Mosley 9780802157355 $23.95 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Oct 02, 2020

Following his essential writing guide,This Year You Write Your Novel, award-winning author Walter Mosley delivers an eloquent treatise on the craft of fiction writing—part writing guide, part study of the mechanics of the genre.In his essential writing guide,This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley supplied aspiring writers with the basic tools to write a novel in one year. In this com-plementary follow up, Mosley guides the writer through the elements of not just any fiction writing, but the kind of writing that transcends convention and ... + Read More
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Series: The Awkward Black Man Hardcover Walter Mosley 9780802149565 $38.95 FICTION Sep 25, 2020

A masterful collection of stories that showcases one of the country’s most beloved and acclaimed writers—award-winning author, Walter MosleyBestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television.The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley’s most accomplished short stories to showcase the full range of his remarkable talent.Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories—heroes who are... + Read More
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Series: A Lover's Discourse Hardcover Xiaolu Guo 9780802149527 $38.95 FICTION Oct 23, 2020

A story of desire, love, language, and the meaning of home—told through conversations between a Chinese graduate student and an Australian man, falling in love against the backdrop of Brexit London.“I don’t believe in love at first sight.”I was taken aback. I thought we were definitely in love at first sight.“What do you mean? Wasn’t it clear the moment you picked the elderflowers by the park and we looked at each other? Or was it in that book club?”You gave me a damp smile, as if my confusion proved that you were right.A Chinese woman moves fr... + Read More
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Series: Freeman's Freeman's: Love Paperback John Freeman 9780802157836 $23.95 FICTION Oct 23, 2020

The latest installment from “a powerful force in the literary world” (Los Angeles Times)Freeman’s turns to one of the greatest elevating forces of life: loveIn a time of contentiousness and flagrant abuse, it often feels as if our world is run on hate. Invective. Cruelty and sadism. But is it possible the greatest and most powerful force is love? In the newest issue of this acclaimed series,Freeman’s Love asks this question, bringing together literary heavyweights like Tommy Orange, Anne Carson, Louise Erdrich, and Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokar... + Read More
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Series: Earthlings A Novel Hardcover Sayaka Murata 9780802157003 $38.95 FICTION Oct 16, 2020

From the beloved author of cult sensationConvenience Store Woman, which has now sold more than one million copies worldwide and has been translated into thirty-three languages, comes a spellbinding and otherworldly novel about a woman who believes she is an alien Sayaka Murata’sConvenience Store Woman was one of the most unusual and refreshing bestsellers of recent years, depicting the life of a thirty-six-year-old clerk in a Tokyo convenience store. Now, inEarthlings, Sayaka Murata pushes at the boundaries of our ideas of social conformity ... + Read More
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Series: All The Young Men Hardcover Ruth Coker Burks 9780802157249 $38.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dec 11, 2020

All The Young Men, a gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, is the true story of Ruth Coker Burks, a young single mother in Hot Springs, Arkansas, who finds herself driven to the forefront of the AIDS crisis, and becoming a pivotal activist in America’s fight against AIDS.In 1986, 26-year old Ruth visits a friend at the hospital when she notices that the door to one of the hospital rooms is painted red. She witnesses nurses drawing straws to see who would tend to the patient inside, all of them reluctant to enter the room. Out of imp... + Read More
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Series: America An Anthology of France and the United States Paperback Francois Busnel 9780802149343 $23.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 25, 2020

From the bestselling literary magazine that took France by storm after its launch in the wake of the 2016 presidential election, a collection of pieces by today’s leading Francophone writers that constructs a unique map of AmericaFrom Alexis de Tocqueville’sDemocracy in America to the moveable feasts of the Lost Generation, France and the United States have long shared a special relationship, defined as much by romantic fascination as occasional incomprehension. FrancÌ§ois Busnel, host of the acclaimed literary talk showLa Grande Librairie, see... + Read More
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Series: The Forger's Daughter Hardcover Bradford Morrow 9780802149251 $38.95 FICTION Sep 18, 2020

Threats, promises, and the allure of Edgar Allan Poe’sTamerlane—the rarest book in American literature—pull readers back into the dangerous world of literary forgery in this heart-stopping sequel toThe ForgersWhen a scream shatters the summer night outside their country house in the Hudson Valley, reformed literary forger Will and his wife Meghan find their daughter Maisie shaken and bloodied, holding a parcel her attacker demanded she present to her father. Inside is a literary rarity the likes of which few have ever handled, and a letter layi... + Read More
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Series: White Hot Silence A Novel Paperback Henry Porter 9780802157300 $23.95 FICTION Oct 02, 2020

On a deserted road in Calabria, Greek aid worker Anastasia Cristakos is driving alone to visit one of the new refugee centers funded by billionaire Denis Hisami whom she has recently married. She slows down to greet two African migrants she recognizes. Too late she realizes they are not her friends. This is an ambush.She manages a desperate phone call to Hisami before her Mafia kidnappers silence her with a powerful drug. Hours later she wakes up in the pitch dark on a container ship, powering eastwards across the Mediterranean.Anastasia has be... + Read More
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Series: Pursuit Paperback Joyce Carol Oates 9780802157324 $23.95 FICTION Oct 30, 2020

As a child, Abby had the same recurring nightmare night after night, in which she wandered through a field ridden with human skulls and bones. Now an adult, Abby thinks she’s outgrown her demons, until, the evening before her wedding, the terrible dream returns and forces her to confront the dark secrets from her past she has kept from her new husband, Willem. The following day—less than 24 hours after exchanging vows—Abby steps out into traffic. As his wife lies in her hospital bed, sleeping in fits and starts, Willem tries to determine wheth... + Read More
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Series: Cardiff, by the Sea Four Novellas of Suspense Hardcover Joyce Carol Oates 9780802157997 $38.95 FICTION Oct 16, 2020

Joyce Carol Oates, the “grand mistress of ghoulishness” (Publishers Weekly), showcases her mastery in four deeply disturbing novellas that will leave the reader both quaking and pining for more In the titular novella, an academic in Pennsylvania discovers a terrifying trauma from her past after inheriting a house in Cardiff, Maine from someone she has never heard of. Mia, the protagonist of “Miao Dao,” is a pubescent girl overcome with loneliness, who befriends a feral cat that becomes her protector from the increasingly aggressive males tha... + Read More
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Series: Jack Taylor Novels A Galway Epiphany A Jack Taylor Novel Hardcover Ken Bruen 9780802157034 $38.95 FICTION Nov 13, 2020

In the newest novel in Bruen’s thrilling series, ex-cop turned private eye Jack Taylor is pulled out of his quiet new life on a farm by three mysteries that soon prove dangerously linkedJack Taylor has finally escaped the despair of his violent life in Galway in favor of a quiet retirement in the country with his friend Keefer, a former Rolling Stones roadie, and a falcon named Maeve. But on a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a truck in front of Galway’s Famine Memorial, left in a coma but mysteriously without... + Read More
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Series: Jack Taylor Novels Galway Girl A Jack Taylor Novel Paperback Ken Bruen 9780802157331 $23.95 FICTION Nov 27, 2020

Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life together, but now he has truly hit rock bottom. Still reeling from a violent family tragedy, Taylor is busy drowning his grief in Jameson and uppers, as usual, when a high-profile officer in the local Garda is murdered. After another Guard is found dead, and then another, Taylor’s old colleagues from the force implore him to take on the case. The plot is one big game, and all of the pieces seem to be moving at the behest of one dangerouslymysterious team: a trio of young killers with very diffe... + Read More
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Series: Eddie's Boy A Butcher's Boy Novel Hardcover Thomas Perry 9780802157775 $38.95 FICTION Dec 11, 2020

Thomas Perry’s Edgar Award–winning Butcher’s Boy is back and redeploying the violent ways of his youth to escape a new reward on his head inEddie’s BoyMichael Shaeffer is a retired American businessman, living peacefully in England with his aristocratic wife. But her annual summer party brings strangers to their house, and with them, an attempt on Michael’s life. He is immediately thrust into action, luring his lethal pursuers to Australia before venturing into the lion’s den—the States—to figure out why the mafia is after him again, and how to... + Read More
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Series: A Small Town Paperback Thomas Perry 9780802148445 $23.95 FICTION Dec 25, 2020

InA Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town—burning down homes and businesses. An immense search ensues, but the twelve who plotted it all get away. After two years, all efforts by the local and federal police agencies have been in vain. The mayor and city attorney meet, and Leah Hawkins, a six-foot, two-inch former star basketb... + Read More
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Series: Clear My Name Paperback Paula Daly 9780802157317 $23.95 FICTION Oct 02, 2020

Paula Daly is widely acclaimed for her masterful plotting and thrilling page-turners. Now she deliversClear My Name, a page-turning new thriller about an investigator, who in order to free her client, must confront secrets she has struggled a lifetime to hide.When Carrie was accused of brutally murdering her husband’s lover, she denied it. She denied it again when they found her blood inside his house, again when they put her in front of a jury, and again when they sent her to prison. Now she’s three years into her fifteen-year sentence, gradua... + Read More
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Series: Fentanyl, Inc. How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic Paperback Ben Westhoff 9780802157379 $26.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 02, 2020

A remarkable four-year investigation into the dangerous world of synthetic drugs—from black market drug factories in China to users and dealers on the streets of the U.S. to harm reduction activists in Europe—which reveals for the first time the next wave of the opioid epidemicA deeply human story,Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illicit industry that has created a worldwide epidemic, ravaging communities and overwhelming and confounding government agencies that are challenged to combat it. “A whole new cro... + Read More
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Series: Tough Luck Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL Paperback R. D. Rosen 9780802157362 $26.95 TRUE CRIME Oct 02, 2020

In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As 18-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his high school football exploits at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, his father, Meyer Luckman, was making headlines in the same papers for a very different reason: the gangland murder of his own brother-in-law. Amazingly, when Sid became a star at Columbia and a Hall of Fame NFL quarterback in Chicago, all of it while Meyer Luckman served 20-years-to-life in Sing... + Read More
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Series: Richard Jury Mystery The Old Success Paperback Martha Grimes 9780802148995 $23.95 FICTION Oct 22, 2020

When the body of a French woman washes up on a wild inlet off the Cornish coast, Brian Macalvie, divisional commander with the Devon-Cornwall police is called in. Who could have killed this beautiful tourist, the only visible footprints nearby belonging to the two little girls who found her?While Macalvie stands in the Scilly Islands, inspector Richard Jury–twenty miles away on Land’s End—is at The Old Success pub, sharing a drink with the legendary former CID detective Tom Brownell, a man renowned for solving every case he undertook. Except on... + Read More
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Series: Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America's Xanadu Paperback Les Standiford 9780802157386 $25.50 HISTORY Nov 27, 2020

Looking at the island of Palm Beach today, with its unmatched mansions, tony shops, and pristine beaches, one is hard pressed to visualize the dense tangle of Palmetto brush and mangroves that it was when visionary entrepreneur and railroad tycoon Henry Flagler first arrived there in April 1893. Trusting his remarkable instincts, within less than a year he had built the Royal Poinciana Hotel, and two years later what was to become the legendary Breakers—instantly establishing the island as the preferred destination for those who could afford it... + Read More
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Series: Shuggie Bain A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) Paperback Douglas Stuart 9780802148506 $25.50 FICTION Oct 13, 2020

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZENEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDShuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher’s policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city’s notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie’s mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie’s guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. She dreams of a house with its own front door whil... + Read More
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Series: Country of the Bad Wolfes Paperback James Carlos Blake 9780802157966 $23.95 FICTION Nov 27, 2020