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Series: Home WinemakingThe Simple Way to Make Delicious WinePaperback
Jack B. Keller Jr.9781591939474
$37.95COOKING
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 HealingThe Science and Psychology Behind What Works, What Doesn't, and WhyPaperback
Dan R. Lynch9781591939177
$28.95BODY, 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 WordsMartha Stewart: In Her Own WordsPaperback
Suzanne Sonnier9781572842885
$19.95BIOGRAPHY & 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 WordsRichard Branson: In His Own WordsPaperback
Danielle McLimore9781572842915
$19.95BIOGRAPHY & 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
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
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 TableGo Beyond Hummus with 100 Recipes for Every MealHardcover
Amy Zitelman9781572842892
$43.95COOKING
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 & DiabetesA Real-Life Guide for Women with Type 1, Type 2, and Gestational DiabetesPaperback
Marina Chaparro RDN CDE MPH9781580407304
$26.95HEALTH & 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
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
Newly updated to reflect the latest research and medical guidance, the 2020-21 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, and Management of diabetic comorbidities. The first section includes: Pharmacologic Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes Management of Hyperglycemia in Type 1 DM– info from practical use of insulin, pathophysiology, treatment strategy ... + Read More
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Series: Diabetic Cooking Made EasyA Beginner's Guide to Healthy Meals at HomePaperback
Jennifer Bucko Lamplough9781580407656
$14.95COOKING 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 EasyA Beginner's Guide to Healthy Meals at HomeHardcover
Jennifer Bucko Lamplough9781580407861
$29.50COOKING 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? CookbookRecipes and Action Plan for People with Diabetes or PrediabetesPaperback
Tami A. Ross RDN, LD, CDE, MLDE9781580407601
$37.50COOKING 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 RiotThe Life and Times of One of the Chicago 7Hardcover
Lee Weiner9781948742689
$38.95BIOGRAPHY & 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 at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. First dubbed the “Conspiracy 8” and later the “Chicago 7,” the group included firebrands like Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and Bobby Seale. But it also included a little-known community activist and social worker from the South Side of C... + Read More
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Series: Black in the MiddleAn Anthology of the Black MidwestPaperback
Terrion L. Williamson9781948742696
$29.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 01, 2020
An ambitious, honest portrait of the Black experience in flyover country. One of The St. Louis Post Dispatch’s Best Books of 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. After the 2016 election, many traditional media outlets renewed their attention on the conditions of “Middle America,” but they often marginalized or completely overlooked the experience of the Black people who live there. Edited by Terrion Williamson, the... + Read More
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 OfThe Cinematic Art of OverwatchHardcover
Matt Burns9781945683640
$67.95ART 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
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
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 AzerothWorld of Warcraft: Exploring AzerothThe Eastern KingdomsHardcover
Christie Golden9781950366279
$37.95FICTION 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 mysteryThe HeightsMainPaperback
Parker Bilal9781838850807
$22.50FICTION
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 ThingMainPaperback
Elena Forbes9781786898685
$19.95FICTION
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: UnspeakableThe Things We Cannot SayMainPaperback
Harriet Shawcross9781786890078
$23.95BIOGRAPHY & 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 HonoursMainPaperback
Tim Clare9781782114796
$24.95FICTION
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: RiseLife Lessons in Speaking Out, Standing Tall & Leading the WayMainPaperback
Gina Miller9781786892911
$22.50BIOGRAPHY & 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 PlanetA Teenager in SuburbiaMainPaperback
Tracey Thorn9781786892584
$23.95BIOGRAPHY & 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 HouseMainPaperback
Tim Clare9781786894823
$23.95FICTION
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 RestHow to Find Respite in the Modern AgeMainHardcover
Claudia Hammond9781786892805
$38.95PSYCHOLOGY
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 StrideThe Story of the World's No. 1 Scotch WhiskyMainHardcover
Nicholas Morgan9781838852078
$37.95COOKING
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 ManA Satirical Guide to Conquering the World . . . While BlackMainPaperback
Dr Boule Whytelaw III9781786894403
$23.95HUMOR
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 KingSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020MainPaperback
Maaza Mengiste9781838851170
$23.95FICTION
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 NightmaresVery Short Stories of HorrorPaperback
Lincoln Michel9781948226622
$21.00FICTION
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 MurderIn 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 T... + Read More
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Series: What Happens at NightHardcover
Peter Cameron9781948226967
$26.00FICTION
Aug 04, 2020
A couple find themselves at a fading, grand European hotel full of eccentric and sometimes unsettling patrons in this "faultlessly elegant and quietly menacing" allegorical story that examines the significance of shifting desires and the uncertainty of reality (Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness).An unnamed American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It’s a difficult journey that leaves the wife, who is struggling with cancer, desperately weak, and her husband worries that her illness will prevent the orphanage ... + Read More
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Series: Black CardA NovelPaperback
Chris L. Terry9781646220199
$16.95FICTION
Aug 11, 2020
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Series: In the Country of WomenA MemoirPaperback
Susan Straight9781646220205
$23.00FAMILY & 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 AmericaBest Debut Short Stories 2020The PEN America Dau PrizePaperback
Yuka Igarashi9781646220229
$16.95FICTION
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
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 RefugeeWhat Immigrants Never Tell YouPaperback
Dina Nayeri9781646220212
$23.00SOCIAL 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 RiseA NovelHardcover
Anja Kampmann9781948226523
$26.00FICTION
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 ScarsHow White Feminism Betrays Women of ColorPaperback
Ruby Hamad9781948226745
$24.00SOCIAL 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 AwakeningWhat's Different Now About the LeftPaperback
John B. Judis9781734420708
$23.95POLITICAL 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 ExperimentHow China and California Collaborate and Compete for Our FuturePaperback
Matt Sheehan9781640094208
$16.95 USDHISTORY
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 AmericaA Pageant's 100-Year Quest to Define WomanhoodHardcover
Margot Mifflin9781640092235
$28.00HISTORY
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 TouristA NovelPaperback
Yun Ko-Eun9781640094161
$16.95FICTION
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 ImaginationEssaysPaperback
Scott Russell Sanders9781640093652
$16.95PHILOSOPHY
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 RevisionersA NovelPaperback
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton9781640094260
$23.00FICTION
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
Two sisters, lost youth, and old obsessions—a “compassionate, lyrical portrait of grief, longing, and love” that unfolds over the course of one day as a Jewish family sits shiva (Refinery29). Bohemian New Yorker Eve returns to her Toronto hometown to mourn the death of her more successful sister in this award-winning novel that’s “like a darker, sexier Little Women” (Forward).In her 30s, 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 ... + Read More
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Series: This Is OhioThe Overdose Crisis and the Front Lines of a New AmericaHardcover
Jack Shuler9781640093553
$26.00SOCIAL 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 WildEssaysPaperback
Gary Snyder9781640094215
$23.00RELIGION
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 FlamesA NovelPaperback
Alan Lightman9781640094253
$23.00FICTION
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... + Read More
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Series: What It Means to Be MoralWhy Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical LifePaperback
Phil Zuckerman9781640094246
$16.95 USDPHILOSOPHY
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 MatrixNew and Selected EssaysPaperback
Robert Michael Pyle9781640092761
$16.95NATURE
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 LieA True Civil War Caper Through Fake News, Wall Street, and the White HouseHardcover
Elizabeth Mitchell9781640092822
$36.00HISTORY
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 ZoneA NovelHardcover
Scott O'Connor9781640093737
$36.00FICTION
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 BeadworkersStoriesPaperback
Beth Piatote9781640094277
$24.00FICTION
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 RoadDispatches From a Changing AmericaHardcover
Tom Zoellner9781640092907
$36.00LITERARY 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 AlgorithmHow Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We ArePaperback
Flynn Coleman9781640094284
$24.00COMPUTERS
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 SelfKodo Sawaki's Art of Zen MeditationPaperback
Kodo Sawaki9781640093775
$24.00PHILOSOPHY
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 DollA Portrait of My MotherPaperback
Ismail Kadare9781640094222
$24.00FICTION
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
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
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