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Series: Home Winemaking The Simple Way to Make Delicious Wine Paperback Jack B. Keller Jr. 9781591939474 $37.50 COOKING Jun 04, 2021

Simple Instructions and Superb Recipes from a Winemaking Legend With local breweries and wineries popping up everywhere, learning how to make wine is on everyone’s “to do” list. Utilize the guidance of home-winemaking legend Jack B. Keller, Jr. In the 1990s, Jack started one of the first (if not the first) wine blogs on the internet. His expertise, along with that of wine chemistry guru Daniel Pambianchi, is shared with you in Home Winemaking. It takes a fun, practical, step-by-step approach to making your own wine. The book begins with an in... + Read More
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Series: Crystal Healing The Science and Psychology Behind What Works, What Doesn't, and Why Paperback Dan R. Lynch 9781591939177 $28.50 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Apr 16, 2021

A Fact-Based Introduction to Crystal Healing Whether you’re new to the practice of crystal healing or have a level of experience with it, chances are you have questions: What works? What doesn’t? How and when should I spend my money? And so on. Forget the magic, the mysticism, and the mythology. You’ve come to the right place for answers. Dan R. Lynch is the author of many books about rocks and minerals. Julie A. Kirsch is a trained psychologist. Together, they delve into the fascinating study of crystal healing, and they share their answers wi... + Read More
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Series: In Their Own Words Martha Stewart: In Her Own Words Paperback Suzanne Sonnier 9781572842885 $19.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 21, 2020

Get inside the head of one of the most influential women in the world, one who has penetrated almost every media space with her unique combination of savvy business sense, practical homemaking advice, and good humor.This collection of quotes has been gathered from Martha Stewart’s numerous public statements—interviews, op-eds, television appearances, books, and more. It’s a comprehensive picture of her business empire, her advice for life and the home, and her comeback after scandal and imprisonment.Martha Stewart has called herself a “late blo... + Read More
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Series: In Their Own Words Richard Branson: In His Own Words Paperback Danielle McLimore 9781572842915 $19.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 23, 2020

Richard Branson, who has been called "England's most outrageous billionaire," is also one of the world's most successful business leaders.Since the age of 16, when he founded Student magazine, Branson has been creating companies and finding innovative ways to grow them into the prodigious conglomerate known as the Virgin Group. At the age of 20, Branson founded a mail-order record retailer. Two years later he built a recording studio where the first artist signed to his Virgin label, Mike Oldfield, recorded the haunting soundtrack to The Exorci... + Read More
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Series: The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Bears, 2nd ed. Hardcover Chicago Tribune Staff 9781572842939 $59.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 11, 2020

In Chicago, the Bears’s grip on the city spans generations and cultures, endures disappointments, and impels celebration of triumphs great and small. From the team’s humble beginnings to its century-long status as the flagship NFL franchise, the Chicago Tribune has documented every season. The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Bears is an impressive testament to Bears tradition, compiling photography, original box scores, and entertaining essays from Hall of Fame reporters. This expanded second edition will include updated writing from the pa... + Read More
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Series: State Paperback Melissa Isaacson 9781572842908 $25.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 18, 2020

Set against a backdrop of social change during the 1970s, State is an important, compelling, and entertaining first-person account of what it was like to live through both traditional gender discrimination in sports and the joy of the very first days of equality—or at least the closest that one high school girls’ basketball team ever came to it. In 1975, freshman Melissa Isaacson—along with the other girls who’d spent summers with their noses pressed against the fences of Little League ball fields, unable to play—entered Niles West High School... + Read More
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Series: The Tahini Table Go Beyond Hummus with 100 Recipes for Every Meal Hardcover Amy Zitelman 9781572842892 $43.50 COOKING Nov 20, 2020

Most people who know about tahini understand the sesame paste as simply one of the building blocks of hummus. But for Amy Zitelman, CEO and cofounder of woman-owned Soom Foods—the leading purveyor of tahini and tahini products in the American market—the culinary potential of tahini goes far beyond hummus. In The Tahini Table: Go Beyond Hummus with 100 Recipes for Every Meal, tahini is introduced to home cooks as a new pantry staple that can be used in recipes from dips to desserts.Tahini, made from pressed roasted sesame seeds, is a healthy, ve... + Read More
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Series: Pregnancy & Diabetes A Real-Life Guide for Women with Type 1, Type 2, and Gestational Diabetes Paperback Marina Chaparro RDN CDE MPH 9781580407304 $26.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Age (years) from 18 - 50 Oct 16, 2020

A practical, down-to-earth guide to managing diabetes and pregnancy from an educator, nutrition professional, and mother living with diabetes. Diabetes during pregnancy can be a scary experience for women, whether they are diagnosed with gestational diabetes or have been living type 1 or type 2 diabetes for years. This book gives moms-to-be practical, easy-to-follow, and reassuring advice to successfully manage diabetes during the nine months of pregnancy. It answers common questions such as: Can I have a healthy pregnancy if I have diabete... + Read More
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Series: Cooking for Latinos with Diabetes (Cocinando para Latinos con Diabetes), 3rd Edition Paperback Olga V. Fuste MS RD CDE 9781580407298 $28.50 COOKING Age (years) from 18 - 80 Oct 30, 2020

Take a culinary journey through Latin America! Capture the flavor and culinary traditions of authentic Latin cooking with more than 100 healthy and diabetes-friendly recipes. This newly revised and updated edition of the best-selling bilingual cookbook features both new recipes and updated classics that meet nutrition guidelines set by the American Diabetes Association. Plus, each recipe is provided in English and Spanish! In addition to classic favorites, you'll find dozens of new recipes, including: Fainá Arroz Imperial Peanut & Caramel... + Read More
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Series: The 2020-21 Guide to Medications for the Therapy of Diabetes Mellitus Paperback John R. Jr. White PA-C, PharmD 9781580407670 $104.95 MEDICAL Age (years) from 22 - 80 Sep 25, 2020

Newly updated to reflect the latest research and medical guidance, the2020-21 Guide to Medications for the Treatment of Diabetes offers a bridge between drug handbooks and pharmacology texts.Focusing entirely on diabetes drugs, this reference is divided into two sections:Drugs used to manage hyperglycemia, andManagement of diabetic comorbidities.The first section includes:Pharmacologic Therapy for Type 1 DiabetesManagement of Hyperglycemia in Type 1 DM– info from practical use of insulin, pathophysiology, treatment strategyInsulins: RAIAs, Shor... + Read More
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Series: Diabetic Cooking Made Easy A Beginner's Guide to Healthy Meals at Home Paperback Jennifer Bucko Lamplough 9781580407656 $14.95 COOKING Age (years) from 18 - 80 Oct 30, 2020

Cooking more meals at home is one of the best ways to change the way you eat and manage your diabetes. But If you haven’t spent much time in the kitchen, this task may feel nearly impossible! You don’t need to be a professional chef to create wholesome meals at home that will help you manage your diabetes and save you money. Diabetic Cooking Made Easy is an introductory guide that will give you all the information you need to get started and help you feel more confident in the kitchen. In addition to tips and guidance on meal planning, equippin... + Read More
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Series: Diabetic Cooking Made Easy A Beginner's Guide to Healthy Meals at Home Hardcover Jennifer Bucko Lamplough 9781580407861 $29.50 COOKING Age (years) from 18 - 80 Oct 02, 2020

Cooking more meals at home is one of the best ways to change the way you eat and manage your diabetes. But If you haven’t spent much time in the kitchen, this task may feel nearly impossible! You don’t need to be a professional chef to create wholesome meals at home that will help you manage your diabetes and save you money.Diabetic Cooking Made Easy is an introductory guide that will give you all the information you need to get started and help you feel more confident in the kitchen. In addition to tips and guidance on meal planning, equipping... + Read More
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Series: The What Do I Cook Now? Cookbook Recipes and Action Plan for People with Diabetes or Prediabetes Paperback Tami A. Ross RDN, LD, CDE, MLDE 9781580407601 $37.50 COOKING Age (years) from 18 - 80 Mar 12, 2021

The cookbook that answers the question every person with diabetes and prediabetes asks: What do I cook now? From the authors of the bestselling What Do I Eat Now? nutrition and meal planning bible comes the cookbook that puts meal planning advice into practice. If you've been diagnosed with diabetes or prediabetes, you probably know that healthy eating is essential to the successful management or prevention of type 2 diabetes. With so much nutrition advice out there and so many different diets, it’s hard to know who to trust or what is best fo... + Read More
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Series: Conspiracy to Riot The Life and Times of One of the Chicago 7 Hardcover Lee Weiner 9781948742689 $38.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Age (years) from 16 Aug 04, 2020

A memoir of a life in activism by one of the original defendants in the Trial of the Chicago 7, subject of the 2020 Oscar-nominated Aaron Sorkin film of the same name. In March 1969, eight young men were indicted by the federal government for conspiracy to incite a riot. First dubbed the “Conspiracy 8” and later the “Chicago 7,” the group included firebrands like Abbie Hoffman and Bobby Seale, but also a little-known community activist and social worker named Lee Weiner, from the South Side of Chicago, who was just as surprised as the rest o... + Read More
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Series: Black in the Middle An Anthology of the Black Midwest Paperback Terrion L. Williamson 9781948742696 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 01, 2020

Black Americans have been among the hardest hit by the rapid deindustrialization and accompanying economic decline that have become so synonymous with the Midwest. Since the 2016 election, many traditional media outlets have renewed attention on the conditions of “Middle America,” but the national discourse continues to marginalize the Black people who live there. Black in the Middle brings the voices of Black Midwesterners front and center. Filled with compelling personal narratives, thought-provoking art, and searing commentaries, this anthol... + Read More
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Series: The Art of Hearthstone The Art of Hearthstone: Year of the Mammoth Hardcover Robert Brooks 9781950366224 $44.95 ART Oct 23, 2020

It was a year of exploration, adventures… and loot!The third volume of The Art of Hearthstone chronicles the artistic achievements that infused the Year of the Mammoth with charm, character, and beauty. Artists, developers, technical wizards, and cinematic geniuses gave players the chance to explore the exotic wilds in Journey to Un’goro Crater, challenge the Lich King in Knights of the Frozen Throne, and plunder a bizarre empire of Kobolds & Catacombs. Through vivid illustrations and behind-the-scenes interviews with artists and game designers... + Read More
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Series: The Cinematic Art Of The Cinematic Art of Overwatch Hardcover Matt Burns 9781945683640 $67.50 ART Age (years) from 12 Dec 18, 2020

Starting with the announcement trailer in 2014, Overwatch’s award-winning cinematics captured the hearts of millions across the world, introducing them to a hopeful science-fiction world where heroes are needed.Crafting these animated shorts required the Blizzard cinematics team to explore new ways of animated film making with a bold new art style, more frequent releases, and intimate collaboration with the game team. The Cinematic Art of Overwatch chronicles this journey, featuring never-before-seen art and anecdotes that illustrate how Overwa... + Read More
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Series: StarCraft: Ghost Academy, Volume One Blizzard Legends Paperback Keith Decandido 9781950366255 $19.50 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 30, 2020

Elite Soldiers known as ghosts are trained to use their special psychic powers for military operations, and one Ghost Academy cadet, Nova, must handle both her teammates and her own demons.Ghost Academy chronicles the early years of six StarCraft characters all destined for greatness-and tragedy. Five teenaged fourth-class Terrans (Nova, Tosh, Aal, Kath, and Lio) are rough-around-the-edges Ghost cadets in training - and they are forced to deal with everyday teen issues such as crushes, physical and emotional pain, addiction to drugs and their o... + Read More
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Series: World of Warcraft: Pearl of Pandaria Blizzard Legends Hardcover Micky Neilson 9781950366262 $22.50 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 30, 2020

In this enthralling original graphic novel published in a landscape format, you will meet the PANDAREN, one of the most beloved (and mysterious) races in World of Warcraft!Written by Micky Neilson (the World of Warcraft MMORPG, World of Warcraft: Ashbringer and World of Warcraft: Curse of the Worgen), with art by fan-favorite Sean "Cheeks" Galloway (TV's Teen Titans Go and Wednesday Comics), this story ties directly into the upcoming World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria expansion pack. World of Warcraft: Pearl of Pandaria introduces Li Li Stor... + Read More
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Series: Exploring Azeroth World of Warcraft: Exploring Azeroth The Eastern Kingdoms Hardcover Christie Golden 9781950366279 $37.50 FICTION Age (years) from 13 Dec 04, 2020

For over a quarter of a century, Warcraft and World of Warcraft players have been treated to a treasure trove of artifacts, gear, weaponry, and trinkets of both awe and amusement. Now players can get an in-depth look at the items they have collected…and the fearsome powers they hold.From the shining towers of Silvermoon to the sulfurous Blackrock Mountain to the white stone castles of Stormwind, the Eastern Kingdoms are vast and full of wonder. Every corner of the majestic isle contains countless stories, treasures, and more than a few secrets ... + Read More
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Series: A Crane and Drake mystery The Heights Main Paperback Parker Bilal 9781838850807 $22.50 FICTION Nov 03, 2020

What starts with the gruesome discovery of a severed head on the Tube soon becomes personal for former DI Cal Drake. After one betrayal too many, Drake has abandoned the police force to become a private detective. He's teamed up with enigmatic forensic psychologist Dr Rayhana Crane and it's not long before the case leads them to the darkest corners of the nation's capital and in dangerously close contact with an international crime circuit, a brutal local rivalry and a very personal quest for retribution. With the murder victim tied to Drake's ... + Read More
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Series: A Bad Bad Thing Main Paperback Elena Forbes 9781786898685 $19.95 FICTION Jun 08, 2021

'An ending that will leave readers breathless' Booklist'A master at complex plots' Globe and MailAfter a police operation ends in catastrophe, DCI Eve West is suspended. She faces expulsion from the force, until John Duran - a violent criminal Eve incarcerated, still serving his sentence - offers to help clear her name. But nothing comes without a price.Duran wants Eve to help free a fellow prisoner, who he claims has been wrongly convicted of murder. But as her investigation takes a dark turn, Eve finds that more than just her job is at stake,... + Read More
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Series: Unspeakable The Things We Cannot Say Main Paperback Harriet Shawcross 9781786890078 $23.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 21, 2020

'Compassionate' Guardian'Extremely affecting' ScotsmanAs a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated by the limits of language.From the inexpressible trauma of trench warfare and the aftermath of natural disaster to the taboo of coming out, Harriet examines all the ways in which words scare us.She studies wartime poet George Oppen, interviews the author of The Vagina Monologues, meets Nepalese earthquake-survivors and the founders of the Samaritans and asks what makes us silent?
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Series: The Honours Main Paperback Tim Clare 9781782114796 $23.95 FICTION Sep 08, 2020

TRUE HONOUR IS ENDLESS.1935. Norfolk. War is looming in Great Britain and the sprawling country estate of Alderberen Hall is shadowed by suspicion and paranoia. Alderberen's newest resident, Delphine Venner, is determined to uncover the secrets of the Hall's elite society, which has taken in her gullible mother and unstable father.As she explores the house and discovers the secret network of hidden passages that thread through the estate, Delphine unearths a world more dark and threatening than she ever imagined. With the help of head gamekeepe... + Read More
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Series: Rise Life Lessons in Speaking Out, Standing Tall & Leading the Way Main Paperback Gina Miller 9781786892911 $22.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 18, 2020

An extraordinary account of what it means to stand up for justice, and for yourself, no matter the cost; now with a new epilogue'It is when things feel the most uncertain, and we are at our most tired, frustrated and worn out, that we must dig deep. That's when we need to find it within ourselves not to turn away and hide in our bunkers, but to rise up and be even more vocal . . . If we hide, when we emerge from our hiding places the world might be transformed into a hostile, alien environment in which we have no say at all and where the things... + Read More
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Series: Another Planet A Teenager in Suburbia Main Paperback Tracey Thorn 9781786892584 $23.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 08, 2020

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE'Tender, wise and funny' Sunday Express'Beautifully observed, deadly funny' Max PorterBefore becoming an acclaimed musician and writer, Tracey Thorn was a typical teenager: bored and cynical, despairing of her aspirational parents. Her only comfort came from house parties and the female pop icons who hinted at a new kind of living.Returning to the scene of her childhood, Thorn takes us beyond the bus shelters, the pub car parks and the weekly discos, to the parents ... + Read More
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Series: The Ice House Main Paperback Tim Clare 9781786894823 $23.95 FICTION Sep 18, 2020

War doesn't end. It sleeps.Delphine Venner remembers everything. She remembers what it is to be a child of war, and what the terrifying creatures from another world took from her all those years ago.And in that other world, Avalonia, someone waits for Delphine. Hagar, a centuries-old assassin, daily paying a terrible price for her unending youth, is planning one final death, the death that will cost her everything. The death which requires Delphine.In the battle to destroy an ageless evil, Delphine must remember who she is and be ready to fight... + Read More
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Series: The Art of Rest How to Find Respite in the Modern Age Main Hardcover Claudia Hammond 9781786892805 $38.95 PSYCHOLOGY Oct 30, 2020

Shortlisted for the British Psychological Society Book Award for Popular ScienceToday busyness has become a badge of honour. We want to say we're busy, yet at the same time we feel exhausted. Instead we should start taking rest seriously as a method of self-care and this book can help us to work out how.The Art of Rest draws on ground-breaking research Claudia Hammond collaborated on - 'The Rest Test' - the largest global survey into rest ever undertaken, which was completed by 18,000 people across 135 different countries. Much of value has bee... + Read More
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Series: A Long Stride The Story of the World's No. 1 Scotch Whisky Main Hardcover Nicholas Morgan 9781838852078 $37.95 COOKING Nov 03, 2020

The history of Johnnie Walker, tracing its roots back to 1820, is also the history of Scotch whisky. But who was John Walker - the man who started the story? And how did his business grow from the shelves of a small grocery shop in Kilmarnock to become the world's No. 1 Scotch? A Long Stride tells the story of how John Walker and a succession of ingenious and progressive business leaders embraced their Scottish roots to walk confidently on an international stage. By doing things their own way, Johnnie Walker overturned the conventions of late V... + Read More
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Series: Think Like a White Man A Satirical Guide to Conquering the World . . . While Black Main Paperback Dr Boule Whytelaw III 9781786894403 $23.95 HUMOR Nov 03, 2020

'This book rewarded me with dark, dry chuckles on every page' Reni Eddo-Lodge'Hilarious . . . This original approach to discussing race is funny, intellectual and timely' Independent'The work of a true mastermind' Benjamin ZephaniahI learned early on that, for me as a black professional, to rise through the ranks and really attain power, I needed to adopt the most ruthless of mindsets possible: the mindset of the White Man who would tear your cheek from your face before he even considered turning his one first.
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Series: The Shadow King SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 Main Paperback Maaza Mengiste 9781838851170 $23.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, ELLE, TIME, SPECTATOR'DEVASTATING' Marlon James, 'BRILLIANT' Salman Rushdie, 'MAGNIFICENT' Aminatta Forna, 'WONDERFUL' Laila Lalami, 'UNFORGETTABLE' The Times, 'REMARKABLE' New York TimesEthiopia, 1935.With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid. Her new employer, Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilise his strongest men before the Italians invade.Hirut and... + Read More
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Series: Tiny Nightmares Very Short Stories of Horror Paperback Lincoln Michel 9781948226622 $21.00 FICTION Oct 13, 2020

]A collection of horror–inspired flash fiction, featuring over 40 new stories from literary, horror, and emerging writers—edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto, the twisted minds behind Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder.In this playful, inventive collection, leading literary and horror writers spin chilling tales in only a few pages. Each slim, fast–moving story brings to life the kind of monsters readers love to fear, from brokenhearted vampires to Uber–taking serial killers and mind–reading witches. But what also makes... + Read More
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Series: What Happens at Night Hardcover Peter Cameron 9781948226967 $26.00 FICTION Aug 04, 2020
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Series: Black Card A Novel Paperback Chris L. Terry 9781646220199 $16.95 FICTION Aug 11, 2020
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Series: In the Country of Women A Memoir Paperback Susan Straight 9781646220205 $23.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Aug 25, 2020

One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year“Straight’s memoir is a lyric social history of her multiracial clan in Riverside that explores the bonds of love and survival that bind them, with a particular emphasis on the women’s stories…The aftereffect of all these disparate stories juxtaposed in a single epic is remarkable. Its resonance lingers for days after reading.” —San Francisco ChronicleIn the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. In inland Southern Ca... + Read More
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Series: PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2020 The PEN America Dau Prize Paperback Yuka Igarashi 9781646220229 $16.95 FICTION Aug 25, 2020

The essential annual guide to the newest voices in short fiction, selected this year by Tracy O’Neill, Nafissa Thompson–Spires, and Deb Olin Unferth. Who are the most promising short story writers working today? Where do we look to discover the future stars of literary fiction? This book will offer a dozen compelling answers to these questions.The stories collected here represent the most recent winners of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, which recognizes twelve writers who have made outstanding debuts in literary m... + Read More
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Series: The Baddest Bitch in the Room A Memoir Hardcover Sophia Chang 9781646220090 $26.00 MUSIC Sep 08, 2020

The first Asian woman in hip-hop, Sophia Chang shares the inspiring story of her career in the music business, working with such acts as The Wu-Tang Clan and A Tribe Called Quest, her path to becoming an entrepreneur, and her candid accounts of marriage, motherhood, aging, desire, marginalization, and martial arts.Fearless and unpredictable, Sophia Chang prevailed in a male-dominated music industry to manage the biggest names in hip-hop and R&B. The daughter of Korean immigrants in predominantly white suburban Vancouver, Chang left for New York... + Read More
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Series: The Ungrateful Refugee What Immigrants Never Tell You Paperback Dina Nayeri 9781646220212 $23.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 15, 2020

A Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction“Nayeri combines her own experience with those of refugees she meets as an adult, telling their stories with tenderness and reverence.” —The New York Times Book Review”Nayeri weaves her empowering personal story with those of the ‘feared swarms’…Her family’s escape from Isfahan to Oklahoma, which involved waiting in Dubai and Italy, is wildly fascinating…Using energetic prose, Nayeri is an excellent conduit for these heart–rending stories, eschewing judgment and employing care in threading the s... + Read More
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Series: High as the Waters Rise A Novel Hardcover Anja Kampmann 9781948226523 $26.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2020

This “gorgeously written” National Book Award finalist is a dazzling, heart-rending story of an oil rig worker whose closest friend goes missing, plunging him into isolation and forcing him to confront his past (NPR, One of the Best Books of the Year).One night aboard an oil drilling platform in the Atlantic, Waclaw returns to his cabin to find that his bunkmate and companion, Mátyás, has gone missing. A search of the rig confirms his fear that Mátyás has fallen into the sea.Grief-stricken, he embarks on an epic emotional and physical journey t... + Read More
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Series: White Tears/Brown Scars How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color Paperback Ruby Hamad 9781948226745 $24.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 06, 2020

Called “powerful and provocative“ by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist, this explosive book of history and cultural criticism reveals how white feminism has been used as a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women, and women of color.Taking us from the slave era, when white women fought in court to keep “ownership” of their slaves, through the centuries of colonialism, when they offered a soft face for brutal tactics, to the modern workplace, White Tea... + Read More
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Series: The Socialist Awakening What's Different Now About the Left Paperback John B. Judis 9781734420708 $23.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 09, 2020

“A person of the left, Judis specializes in speaking truth to liberals.” —E.J. Dionne Jr., The Washington Post As the pandemic depression lays bare the failure of market capitalism worldwide, and as protesters flood the streets in unprecedented numbers seeking racial and economic equality, you can find something in common among many of those disillusioned with the way things are—socialism. How did this happen? Why now? John B. Judis, himself a veteran of socialist movements, explores how an ideology thought to be long dead has taken hold as a... + Read More
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Series: The Transpacific Experiment How China and California Collaborate and Compete for Our Future Paperback Matt Sheehan 9781640094208 $16.95 USD HISTORY Aug 04, 2020

A timely, vital account of California’s unique relationship with China, told through the exploits of the entrepreneurs, activists, and politicians driving transformations with international implications.Tensions between the world’s superpowers are mounting in Washington, D.C., and Beijing. Yet, the People's Republic of China and the state of California have built deep and interdependent socioeconomic exchanges that reverberate across the globe, making California and China a microcosm of the most important international relationship of the tw... + Read More
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Series: Looking for Miss America A Pageant's 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood Hardcover Margot Mifflin 9781640092235 $28.00 HISTORY Aug 04, 2020

Winner of the Popular Culture Association’s Emily Toth Best Book in Women’s Studies AwardFrom an author praised for writing “delicious social history” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) comes a lively account of memorable Miss America contestants, protests, and scandals—and how the pageant, now in its one hundredth year, serves as an unintended indicator of feminist progressLooking for Miss America is a fast–paced narrative history of a curious and contradictory institution. From its start in 1921 as an Atlantic City tourist draw to its curren... + Read More
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Series: The Disaster Tourist A Novel Paperback Yun Ko-Eun 9781640094161 $16.95 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

This stunning “dystopian feminist eco-thriller” from an award-winning South Korean author “takes on climate change, sexual assault, greed, and dark tourism” (Ms. Magazine). Welcome to the desert island of Mui, where a paid vacation to paradise is nothing short of a disaster in this “mordantly witty novel [that] reads like a highly literary, ultra–incisive thriller” (Refinery29). Jungle is a cutting–edge travel agency specializing in tourism to destinations devastated by disaster and climate change. And until she found herself at the mercy of ... + Read More
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Series: The Way of Imagination Essays Paperback Scott Russell Sanders 9781640093652 $16.95 PHILOSOPHY Aug 11, 2020

Prize–winning essayist turns to the imagination as a spiritual guide and material method of living through climate disruption, as climate change and broad extinction forever alter our place on the planet and our lives together.Scott Russell Sanders shows how imagination, linked to compassion, can help us solve the urgent ecological and social challenges we face. While reflecting on the conditions needed for human flourishing, he tells the story of his own intellectual and moral journey from childhood religion to an adult philosophy of life. Tha... + Read More
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Series: The Revisioners A Novel Paperback Margaret Wilkerson Sexton 9781640094260 $23.00 FICTION Aug 18, 2020

This New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year from the author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, On the Rooftop, is "a powerful tale of racial tensions across generations" (People) that explores the depths of women’s relationships—influential women and marginalized women, healers, and survivors.In 1924, Josephine is the proud owner of a thriving farm. As a child, she channeled otherworldly power to free herself from slavery. Now her new neighbor, a white woman named Charlotte, seeks her company, and an uneasy friendship grows b... + Read More
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Series: Evening A Novel Hardcover Nessa Rapoport 9781640094086 $26.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

Two sisters, lost youth, and youthful obsessions; organized by day as the family sits shiva, Evening unfolds the paradoxes of love, ambition, siblings, and the way the past continues to inflect the present, sometimes against our will.In her thirties, Eve is summoned home by her distraught family to mourn the premature death of her sister, Tam, a return that becomes an unexpected encounter with the past. Eve bears the burden of a secret: Two weeks before Tam died, Eve and Tam argued so vehemently that they did not speak again. Her sister was fam... + Read More
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Series: This Is Ohio The Overdose Crisis and the Front Lines of a New America Hardcover Jack Shuler 9781640093553 $26.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 08, 2020

Winner of the 2019-2020 Malott Prize for Recording Community Activism Winner of the 2020 Richard Frisbie Award for Adult Nonfiction from the Society of Midland AuthorsFor readers of Dopesick and Dreamland, journalist Jack Shuler explores the current addiction crisis as a human rights problem fostered by poverty and inadequate health care in this “insightful look at how the issues in Ohio affect the rest of the country” (Cosmopolitan, A Best Nonfiction Book of the Year).Tainted drug supplies, inadequate civic responses, and prevailing negative o... + Read More
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Series: The Practice of the Wild Essays Paperback Gary Snyder 9781640094215 $23.00 RELIGION Sep 08, 2020

A collection of captivatingly meditative essays that display a deep understanding of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world from an American cultural force.With thoughts ranging from political and spiritual matters to those regarding the environment and the art of becoming native to this continent, the nine essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder. These essays, first published in 1990, stand as the mature centerpiece of Snyder's work and thought, and this profound collectio... + Read More
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Series: Three Flames A Novel Paperback Alan Lightman 9781640094253 $16.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2020

“Lightman’s best book since Einstein’s Dreams…a piercing story of social dissolution in damaged Cambodia…an important story of global women’s rights.” —Annie ProulxThe stories of one Cambodian family are intricately braided together in Alan Lightman’s first work of fiction in seven years.Three Flames portrays the struggles of a Cambodian farming family against the extreme patriarchal attitudes of their society and a cruel and dictatorial father, set in a rural community that is slowly being exposed to the modern world and its values. Ryna is a ... + Read More
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Series: What It Means to Be Moral Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life Paperback Phil Zuckerman 9781640094246 $16.95 USD PHILOSOPHY Sep 15, 2020

“A thoughtful perspective on humans' capacity for moral behavior.” —Kirkus Reviews“A comprehensive introduction to religious skepticism.” —Publishers WeeklyIn What It Means to Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life, Phil Zuckerman argues that morality does not come from God. Rather, it comes from us: our brains, our evolutionary past, our ongoing cultural development, our social experiences, and our ability to reason, reflect, and be sensitive to the suffering of others.By deconstructing religious arguments for God–b... + Read More
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Series: Nature Matrix New and Selected Essays Paperback Robert Michael Pyle 9781640092761 $16.95 NATURE Sep 15, 2020

Nature Matrix is a gathering of some of Robert Michael Pyle’s most significant, original, and timely expressions of a life immersed in the natural world, in all its splendor, power, and perilNature Matrix: New and Selected Essays contains sixteen pieces that encompass the philosophy, ethic, and aesthetic of Robert Michael Pyle. The essays range from Pyle’s experience as a young national park ranger in the Sierra Nevada to the streets of Manhattan; from the suburban jungle to the tangles of the written word; and from the phenomenon of Bigfoot to... + Read More
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Series: Lincoln's Lie A True Civil War Caper Through Fake News, Wall Street, and the White House Hardcover Elizabeth Mitchell 9781640092822 $36.00 HISTORY Oct 06, 2020

This “delicious, suspenseful…and cleverly written romp through a dramatic and forgotten moment in American history” reveals how Lincoln manipulated the media during the Civil War—shining new light on the current ‘fake news’ crisis (Elizabeth Gilbert)In 1864, during the bloodiest days of the Civil War, two newspapers published a call, allegedly authored by President Lincoln, for the immediate conscription of 400,000 more Union soldiers. New York streets erupted in pandemonium. Wall Street markets went wild.When Lincoln sent troops to seize the n... + Read More
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Series: Zero Zone A Novel Hardcover Scott O'Connor 9781640093737 $36.00 FICTION Oct 06, 2020

A literary thriller about an infamous desert art installation, the cult it inspired, and the search for a missing young woman that is “cinematic…readers will be compelled to start again at page one to discover how O’Connor pieces together his suspenseful, incredibly well–written narrative” (Library Journal, starred review).Los Angeles, the late 1970s: Jess Shepard is an installation artist who creates environments that focus on light and space, often leading to intense sensory experiences for visitors to her work. A run of critically lauded pro... + Read More
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Series: The Beadworkers Stories Paperback Beth Piatote 9781640094277 $24.00 FICTION Oct 13, 2020

Beth Piatote’s luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary worldTold with humor, subtlety, and spareness, the mixed–genre works of Beth Piatote’s first collection find unifying themes in the strength of kinship, the pulse of longing, and the language of return.A woman teaches her niece to make a pair of beaded earrings while ruminating on a fractured relationship. An elev... + Read More
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Series: The National Road Dispatches From a Changing America Hardcover Tom Zoellner 9781640092907 $36.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Oct 13, 2020

This collection of “eloquent essays that examine the relationship between the American landscape and the national character” serves to remind us that despite our differences we all belong to the same land (Publishers Weekly).“How was it possible, I wondered, that all of this American land––in every direction––could be fastened together into a whole?”What does it mean when a nation accustomed to moving begins to settle down, when political discord threatens unity, and when technology disrupts traditional ways of building communities? Is a shared... + Read More
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Series: A Human Algorithm How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are Paperback Flynn Coleman 9781640094284 $24.00 COMPUTERS Oct 20, 2020

A groundbreaking narrative on the urgency of ethically designed AI and a guidebook to reimagining life in the era of intelligent technology.The Age of Intelligent Machines is upon us, and we are at a reflection point. The proliferation of fast–moving technologies, including forms of artificial intelligence akin to a new species, will cause us to confront profound questions about ourselves. The era of human intellectual superiority is ending, and we need to plan for this monumental shift.A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefini... + Read More
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Series: Discovering the True Self Kodo Sawaki's Art of Zen Meditation Paperback Kodo Sawaki 9781640093775 $24.00 PHILOSOPHY Oct 20, 2020

In easy-to-understand language, a 20th-century Zen master explains profound teachings from Zen Buddhism, offering an essential resource for anyone interested in Zen meditation. “You can’t see your true Self. [But] you can become it. Becoming your true Self is zazen.” Having come of age as an orphan in the slums of Tsu City, Japan, Kodo Sawaki had to fight his way to adulthood, and became one of the most respected Zen masters of the 20th century. He had a great understanding of Dogen Zenji’s teaching and he knew how to express Dogen’s philosophy... + Read More
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Series: The Doll A Portrait of My Mother Paperback Ismail Kadare 9781640094222 $24.00 FICTION Nov 17, 2020

In this autobiographical novel, Albania’s most renowned novelist and poet Ismail Kadare explores his relationship with his mother in a delicately wrought tale of home, family, creative aspirations, and personal and political freedom.“Houses like ours seemed constructed with the specific purpose of preserving coldness and misunderstanding for as long as possible.”In his father’s great stone house with hidden rooms and even a dungeon, Ismail grows up with his mother at the center of his universe. Fragile as a paper doll, she finds herself at odds... + Read More
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Series: Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami Paperback David Karashima 9781593765897 $16.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Sep 01, 2020

How did a loner destined for a niche domestic audience become one of the most famous writers alive? A “fascinating” look at the “business of bringing a best-selling novelist to a global audience” (The Atlantic)―and a “rigorous” exploration of the role of translators and editors in the creation of literary culture (The Paris Review). Thirty years ago, when Haruki Murakami’s works were first being translated, they were part of a series of pocket-size English-learning guides released only in Japan. Today his books can be read in fifty languages... + Read More