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Series: A Strange Country Paperback Muriel Barbery 9781609455859 $26.95 FICTION Apr 14, 2020

From the author of the New York Times international bestseller, THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG, comes an epic fantasy rich in poetry and imagination about the eternal conflict between good and evil.Alejandro de Yepes and JesÃºs Rocamora, young officers in the Spanish regular army, are stationed alone at Castillo when, out of nowhere, a friendly redhead appears to them in the cellar. There is something magnetic and deeply mysterious about this Petrus. Alejandro and JesÃºs are bewitched, and, in the middle of the sixth year of the longest war human... + Read More
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Series: The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries Trace Elements A Comissario Guido Brunetti Mystery Hardcover Donna Leon 9780802148674 $40.50 FICTION Mar 13, 2020

From theNew York Times bestselling author ofUnto Us a Son is Given, comes one of her most dark and thrilling mysteries yet.A woman’s cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lead Guido Brunetti to uncover a threat to the entire region in Donna Leon’s haunting twenty-ninth Brunetti novel.When Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, waste no time in responding.“They killed him. It was bad money... + Read More
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Series: The Last Stone A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation Paperback Mark Bowden 9780802148919 $25.50 TRUE CRIME Mar 27, 2020

From “master of narrative journalism” (New York Times) and #1 bestselling author Mark Bowden, comes a gripping true crime story about the disappearance of the two Lyon sisters in 1975, and the extraordinary effort—40 years later—to bring their kidnapper to justiceOn March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyon, age 10 and 12, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washington, D.C. As shock spread, then grief, a massive police effort found nothing. The investigation was shelved, and mystery endured. Then, in 2013, a cold case squad detec... + Read More
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Series: Normandy '44 D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France Paperback James Holland 9780802148964 $32.95 HISTORY May 29, 2020

On the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a new history of the momentous Normandy campaign with fresh insights from award-winning historian James HollandD-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west—the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and ... + Read More
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Series: A Daughter's Choice A True Story of Hardship, Heartache and Hope Paperback Margaret Ford 9781529027242 $17.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 02, 2020

A moving true story of a young girl escaping hardship and coming of age in the Second World War. Margaret Ford grew up with her older brother Bobby in the mill town of Blackburn, England. Spending her early childhood living between her grandparents' rural pub and her parents' small terraced house, she thought they were a happy family. She was too young to understand her mother's sadness or that her father was gambling away what little money he earned. When she was ten, her father abandoned them, leaving her mother struggling to survive. Aged t... + Read More
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Series: Two Rivers The Long Call (Two Rivers #1) Paperback Ann Cleeves 9781509889600 $19.99 FICTION Apr 07, 2020

Bestselling author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope series', Ann Cleeves returns with the first in a brand-new series set in North Devon and featuring Detective Matthew Venn. In this rural idyll, where two rivers meet, crime is always there waiting to rise from the water.In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family to... + Read More
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Series: The Hidden Beach Paperback Karen Swan 9781529006216 $24.99 FICTION May 01, 2020

A compulsive story of heartbreak, loyalty, and hope, set in the historic city of Stockholm and along the beautiful archipelagos of the Swedish coast, from Canadian bestseller Karen Swan. In the oldest part of Stockholm, Bell Everhurst is working as a nanny for an affluent family. Hanna and Max Von Greyerz are parents to seven-year-old Linus and five-year-old twins Ellinor and Tilde, and Bell has been with the family for over two years. One early Spring morning, as she's rushing out to take the children to school, she answers the phone - and e... + Read More
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Series: The Spanish Promise Paperback Karen Swan 9781529006186 $18.99 FICTION May 01, 2020

Set in the cobbled streets of Madrid and sun-soaked Andalucia, The Spanish Promise is a gripping page-turner full of intrigue, romance and escapism, from Toronto Star and Globe and Mail bestseller Karen Swan. One of Spain's richest men is dying. But as he prepares his estate, his family is shocked to discover he is making plans to give away his wealth to a young woman they have never even heard of. Who is she and what hold does she have over him? Charlotte Fairfax is asked to travel to the troubled family's home in Spain to get to the b... + Read More
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Series: Your Truth or Mine? Paperback Trisha Sakhlecha 9781509886265 $18.99 FICTION May 05, 2020

An incredible debut from Trisha Sakhlecha about the unraveling of a marriage and the dark secrets couples keep from one another. Now in paperback. At their wedding Mia and Roy Kapoor promised to love and cherish each other forever. While not perfect, their marriage is sacred and their commitment absolute. But a knock at the door changes everything when Roy is questioned over the disappearance of a young woman. As Roy and Mia's life unravels, they must question everything they know about each other if their marriage is to survive. But what if... + Read More
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Series: Macmillan Collector's Library Meditations Hardcover Marcus Aurelius 9781529015027 $21.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 19, 2020

The private notebooks of Roman Emperor and Philosopher, Marcus Aurelius, published here with an introduction by John Sellars. The Meditations are a set of personal reflections by Marcus Aurelius. He writes about the vicissitudes of his own life and explores how to live wisely and virtuously in an unpredictable world. Marcus Aurelius was a follower of the Stoic tradition of philosophy, and one of its finest advocates, both in the clarity of his writing and in the uprightness of his life. The aphorisms show how for him, as perhaps for us all, ... + Read More
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Series: The City Blues Quartet The Mobster's Lament Paperback Ray Celestin 9781509838967 $19.99 FICTION Jun 02, 2020

Award-winning author Ray Celestin's The Mobster's Lament is both a gripping crime novel and a vivid, panoramic portrait of 1940s New York as the mob rises to the height of its powers. From the acclaimed author of The Axeman's Jazz and Dead Man's Blues, Ray Celestin's gripping third book follows a gangster's last chance to escape the clutches of New York's mafia families, but as a blizzard descends on NYC, a ruthless serial killer is tracking his every move. New York, 1947. Mob fixer Gabriel Leveson's plans to flee the city are put on ho... + Read More
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Series: Wedding Bells for Woolworths Paperback Elaine Everest 9781529015881 $17.99 FICTION Jun 22, 2020

Wedding Bells at Woolworths is the latest installment in Elaine Everest's much-loved series, following A Gift from Woolworths. July 1947. Britain is still gripped by rationing, even as the excitement of Princess Elizabeth's engagement sweeps the nation. In the Woolworths' canteen, Freda is still dreaming of meeting her own Prince Charming. So far she's been unlucky in love. When she has an accident on her motorbike, knocking a cyclist off his bicycle, it seems bad luck is still following her around. Anthony is not only a fellow Woolworths empl... + Read More
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Series: To Calais, In Ordinary Time Main Hardcover James Meek 9781786896742 $40.50 FICTION Apr 17, 2020

Three journeys. One road.England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a Scots proctor sets out for Avignon, and a young plowman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais.Coming in their direction from across the English Channel is the Black Death, the plague that will wipe out half of the population of Northern Europe. As the journey unfolds, overshadowed by the archers’ past misdeeds and clerical warnings of the imminent end of the world, the wayfarers ... + Read More
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Series: Rough Magic Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race Paperback Lara Prior-Palmer 9781948226981 $25.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 08, 2020

"Taking off on a horse into the Mongolian Steppe sounds like the bracing inverse to an overpopulated, busy urban life, but having the skills and grit to pull it off is another thing entirely. . . . Lara Prior-Palmer attempted the Mongol Derby not really knowing what she was getting into; she ended it knowing much more about herself, and a race champion besides." â??Estelle Tang,ElleAt the age of nineteen, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to “the world’s longest, toughest horse race”â??an annual competition of endurance and skill t... + Read More
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Series: Officer Clemmons A Memoir Hardcover Francois Clemmons 9781948226707 $38.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 15, 2020

The intimate debut memoir by the man known to the world asMister Rogers’ Neighborhood’s Officer Clemmons, who made history as the first African American actor to have a recurring role on a children’s television program.When he created the role of Officer Clemmons on the award-winning television seriesMister Rogers’ Neighborhood, FranÃ§ois Clemmons made history as the first African American actor to have a recurring role on a children’s program. A new, wide world opened for Clemmons—but one that also required him to make painful personal choices... + Read More
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Series: On Nostalgia Paperback David Berry 9781552454060 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jul 07, 2020

From Mad Men to MAGA: how nostalgia came to be and why we are so eager to indulge it. From movies to politics, social media posts to the targeted ads between them, nostalgia is one of the most potent forces of our era. On Nostalgia is a panoramic cultural history of nostalgia, exploring how a force that started as a psychological diagnosis of soldiers fighting far from home has come become a quintessentially modern condition. Drawing on everything from the modern science of memory to the romantic ideals of advertising, and traversing cultural m... + Read More
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Series: Braver Than You Think Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother's) Lifetime Hardcover Maggie Downs 9781640092921 $38.95 TRAVEL May 22, 2020

Newly married and established in her career as an award-winning newspaper journalist, Maggie Downs quits her job, sells her belongings, and embarks on the solo trip of a lifetime: Her mother’s.As a child, Maggie Downs often doubted that she would ever possess the courage to visit the destinations her mother dreamed of one day seeing. “You are braver than you think,” her mother always insisted. That statement would guide her as, over the course of one year, Downs backpacked through seventeen countriesâ??visiting all the places her mother, struck... + Read More
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Series: Between Everything and Nothing The Journey of Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal and the Quest for Asylum Hardcover Joe Meno 9781640093140 $38.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 12, 2020

"The most important book I’ve read in a long time" (Sigrid Nunez), this harrowing true story of two young men from Ghana and their quest for asylum highlights not only the unjust political system of their homeland, but the chaos of the United States’ failing immigration system.Long before their chance meeting at a Minneapolis bus station, Ghanaian asylum seekers Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal had already crossed half the world in search of a new home. Seidu, who identifies as bisexual, lived under constant threat of exposure and violence in a co... + Read More
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Series: Norco '80 The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History Paperback Peter Houlahan 9781640093881 $26.95 TRUE CRIME Jun 12, 2020

5 young men. 32 destroyed police vehicles. 1 spectacular bank robbery. This “cinematic” true crime story transports readers to the scene of one of the most shocking bank heists in U.S. history—a crime that’s almost too wild to be real (The New York Times Book Review).Norco ’80 tells the story of how five heavily armed young men—led by an apocalyptic born-again Christian—attempted a bank robbery that turned into one of the most violent criminal events in U.S. history, forever changing the face of American law enforcement. Part action thriller an... + Read More
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Series: The Story of a New Name (HBO Tie-in Edition) Book 2: Youth Paperback Elena Ferrante 9781609455538 $26.95 FICTION Mar 17, 2020

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER“One of the great novelists of our time.”—Roxana Robinson, theNew York TimesLila has recently married and made her entrÃ©e into her husband’s family business. Elena, meanwhile, continues her studies and her exploration of the world beyond the Neapolitan neighborhood that she so often finds stifling. Love, jealousy, family, freedom, commitment, and above all friendship: these are signs under which both women live out this phase of their stories. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila, and t... + Read More
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Series: Benny Griessel Mysteries The Last Hunt A Benny Griessel Novel Hardcover Deon Meyer 9780802156921 $40.50 FICTION Apr 17, 2020

From internationally acclaimed crime writer Deon Meyer, a new thriller that leads detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido into the treacherous waters of government corruption at the highest level.When a cold case dossier lands on Captain Benny Griessel’s desk, he and his partner Vaughn Cupido, fellow member of the Hawks elite police unit in South Africa, reluctantly set to work reviewing the evidence of the disappearance—and possible murder—of ex-cop Johnson Johnson on the world’s most luxurious train line. Two fellow travelers might have t... + Read More
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Series: How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs The Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance Hardcover Elizabeth F. Thompson 9780802148209 $44.95 HISTORY Apr 21, 2020

The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when Arabs established a representative democracy—and how the West crushed itWhen Europe’s Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of an independent Arab state. In October 1918, the Arabs’ military leader, Prince Faisal, victoriously entered Damascus and proclaimed a constitutional government in an independent Greater Syria.Faisal won American support for self-determination at the Paris P... + Read More
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Series: Benny Griessel Mysteries The Woman in the Blue Cloak A Benny Griessel Novel Paperback Deon Meyer 9780802148933 $22.50 FICTION Apr 21, 2020

Internationally acclaimed writer Deon Meyer returns to his beloved Benny Griessel series with a case that combines the disappearance of an Old Masters painting with a grisly murder.Early on a May morning in the depth of South Africa’s winter, a woman’s naked body, washed in bleach, is discovered on a stone wall beside the N2 highway at the top of Sir Lowry’s Pass, some thirty-five miles from Cape Town. The local investigation stalls, so the case is referred to Captain Benny Griessel and his colorful partner Vaughn Cupido of the Hawksâ??the Dire... + Read More
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Series: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery Drawing Conclusions A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery Paperback Donna Leon 9780802145857 $23.95 FICTION Apr 21, 2020

Late one night, Brunetti is called away from dinner to investigate the death of a widow in her modest apartment. Though there are some signs of a struggle, the medical examiner rules that she died of a heart attack. It seems there is nothing for Brunetti to investigate. But he can’t shake the feeling that something or someone may have triggered her heart attack, that perhaps the woman was threatened. Conversations with the woman’s son, her upstairs neighbor, and the nun in charge ofthe old-age home where she volunteered do little to satisfy Bru... + Read More
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Series: Synthesizing Gravity Selected Prose Hardcover Kay Ryan 9780802148186 $37.50 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Apr 24, 2020

The first-ever collection of essays by one of our most distinguished and distinctive poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Kay RyanSynthesizing Gravity gathers for the first time a thirty-year selection of Kay Ryan’s probings into aesthetics, poetics, and the mind in pursuit of art.A bracing collection of critical prose, book reviews, and her private previously unpublished soundings of poems and poets— including Robert Frost, Stevie Smith, Marianne Moore, William Bronk, and Emily Dickinson—Synthesizing Grav... + Read More
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Series: The Louvre The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum Hardcover James Gardner 9780802148773 $44.95 ART May 15, 2020

The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the palatial residence of the kings of France and then into the world’s greatest art museumSome ten million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre each year to enjoy its incomparable art collection. Yet few of them are aware of the remarkable history of that place and of the buildings themselves—a fascinating story that historian James Gardner elegantly chronicles in the first full-length history of the Louvre in ... + Read More
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Series: The Shapeless Unease A Year of Not Sleeping Hardcover Samantha Harvey 9780802148827 $35.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 22, 2020

This genre-defying debut memoir by Betty Trask Prize winner, Samantha Harvey, weaves a tapestry of confessional anguish, flash fiction, cathartic poetry, and feverish observations on politics and psychology in a transcendent search for reality and truth.In 2016, Samantha Harvey began to lose sleep. She tried everything to appease her wakefulness: from medication to therapy, changes in her diet to changes in her living arrangements. Nothing seemed to help.The Shapeless Unease is Harvey’s darkly funny and deeply intelligent anatomy of her insomni... + Read More
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Series: The Black Cabinet The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt Hardcover Jill Watts 9780802129109 $44.95 HISTORY May 22, 2020

A magnificently researched, dramatically told work of narrative nonfiction about the history, evolution, impact, and ultimate demise of what was known in the 1930s and 1940s as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Black Cabinet.In 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency with the help of key African American defectors from the Republican Party. At the time, most African Americans lived in poverty, denied citizenship rights and terrorized by white violence. As the New Deal began, a “black Brain Tru... + Read More
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Series: Miss Iceland Paperback Audur Ava Olafsdottir 9780802149237 $23.95 FICTION Jun 26, 2020

The extraordinary new novel from Nordic Council Literature Prize-winning AuÃ°ur Ava Ã?lafsdÃ³ttir Iceland in the 1960s. Hekla always knew she wanted to be a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman. After packing her few belongings, including James Joyces’sUlysess and a Remington typewriter, Hekla heads for Reykjavik with a manuscript buried in her bags. She moves in wit... + Read More
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Series: National Book Award Winner The Yellow House A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner) Paperback Sarah M. Broom 9780802149039 $25.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 10, 2020

ANEW YORK TIMES BESTSLLERWinner of the 2019 National Book Award in NonfictionA brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East.In 1961, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant—the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried S... + Read More
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Series: The Case of the Vanishing Blonde And Other True Crime Stories Hardcover Mark Bowden 9780802128447 $38.95 TRUE CRIME Jul 17, 2020

From Mark Bowden, a “master of narrative journalism” (New York Times), comes a true-crime collection both deeply chilling and impossible to put down.Six captivating true-crime stories, spanning Mark Bowden’s long and illustrious career, cover a variety of crimes complicated by extraordinary circumstances. Winner of a lifetime achievement award from International Thriller Writers, Bowden revisits inThe Case of the Vanishing Blonde some of his most riveting stories and examines the effects of modern technology on the journalistic process.From a s... + Read More
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Series: Deep River A Novel Paperback Karl Marlantes 9780802148971 $29.95 FICTION Jul 24, 2020

From theNew York Times-bestselling author ofMatterhorn andWhat It Is Like to Go to War, a rich family saga about Finnish immigrants who settle and tame the Pacific Northwest, set against the early labor movements, World War I, and the upheaval of early twentieth-century AmericaKarl Marlantes’s debut novelMatterhorn has been hailed as a modern classic of war literature. In his new novel,Deep River, Marlantes turns to another mode of storytelling—the family epic—to craft a stunningly expansive narrative of human suffering, courage, and reinventio... + Read More
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Series: The AI-Powered Enterprise Harness the Power of Ontologies to Make Your Business Smarter, Faster, and More Profitable Hardcover Seth Earley 9781928055501 $41.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Apr 28, 2020

Learn how to develop and employ anontology, the secret weapon for successfully using artificial intelligence to create a powerful competitive advantage in your business.The AI-Powered Enterprise examines two fundamental questions: First, how will the future be different as a result of artificial intelligence? And second, what must companies do to stake their claim on that future?When the Web came along in the mid-90s, it transformed the behavior of customers and remade whole industries. Now, as part of its promise to bring revolutionary change ... + Read More
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Series: Stop Checking Your Likes Shake Off the Need for Approval and Live an Incredible Life Paperback Susie Moore 9781608686735 $23.95 SELF-HELP Apr 17, 2020

Your freedom’s knocking. Are you ready? Millions of us waste huge chunks of our days checking our phones and devices, looking for just one more thumbs-up or red heart. It’s the modern measurement of how accepted, wanted, or valued we seem to be. Susie Moore is going to help you shake off the need for that hollow approval and live the incredible, confident life you were meant to live. It’s time to proclaim and celebrate your talents, fend off naysayers, and live your life with magnetism and unshakable self-confidence. Here’s the rub: A perfect l... + Read More
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Series: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 42nd Anniversary Edition Paperback Douglas Adams 9781529034523 $19.99 FICTION May 05, 2020

A special 42nd Anniversary edition of Douglas Adams's mega-selling cult classic, now with exclusive bonus material from the Adams' archives. On October 12, 1979 the most remarkable book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor (and Earth) was made available to humanity - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly afterwards to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and his best friend has just announced ... + Read More
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Series: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #3) 42nd Anniversary Edition Paperback Douglas Adams 9781529034547 $19.99 FICTION May 05, 2020

Part three of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy of five books. Featuring exclusive bonus material from the Douglas Adams archives, and an introduction from Simon Brett, producer of the original radio broadcast. In Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book in Douglas Adams' blockbuster sci-fi comedy series, Arthur Dent finds himself enlisted to prevent a galactic war. Following a number of stunning catastrophes, which have involved him being alternately blown up and insulted in ever stranger regions of the Galaxy, Arthur... + Read More
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Series: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #5) 42nd Anniversary Edition Paperback Douglas Adams 9781529034561 $19.99 FICTION May 05, 2020

The fifth and final installment of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy of five. Featuring exclusive bonus material from the Douglas Adams archives, and an introduction from Dirk Maggs. Arthur Dent hadn't had a day as bad as this since the Earth had been blown up. After years of galactic wanderings, Arthur finally settles on the small planet Lamuella and becomes a sandwich maker. Looking forward to a quiet life, his plans are thrown awry by the unexpected arrival of his daughter. There's nothing worse than a frustrated teenager wit... + Read More
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Series: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #2) 42nd Anniversary Edition Paperback Douglas Adams 9781529034530 $19.99 FICTION May 05, 2020

Part two of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy of five. Featuring exclusive bonus material from the Douglas Adams archives, and an introduction from Monty Python star, Terry Jones. Following the smash-hit sci-fi comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the second part in Douglas Adams' multi-media phenomenon and cult classic series. If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the end of the Universe? Which... + Read More
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Series: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #4) 42nd Anniversary Edition Paperback Douglas Adams 9781529034554 $19.99 FICTION May 05, 2020

Part four of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy of five. Featuring exclusive bonus material from the Douglas Adams archives, and an introduction from bestselling author, Neil Gaiman. There is a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. It's not an easy thing to do, and Arthur Dent thinks he's the only human who's been able to master this nifty little trick - until he meets Fenchurch, the woman of his dreams. Fenchurch once realized how the world could be made a good and happy place. ... + Read More
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Series: Rhona MacLeod Time for the Dead (Rhona MacLeod #14) Paperback Lin Anderson 9781509866243 $19.99 FICTION May 05, 2020

Forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod travels to the Isle of Skye to heal old wounds in the fourteenth novel in Lin Anderson's acclaimed crime series. When forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod returns to her roots on Scotland's Isle of Skye, a chance encounter in the woods behind a nearby activities centre leads her to what seems to be a crime scene, but without a victim. Could this be linked to a group of army medics, who visited the centre while on leave from Afghanistan and can no longer be located on the island? Enlisting the help of local tracker... + Read More
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Series: Constellations Reflections From Life Paperback Sinead Gleeson 9781509892778 $21.99 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 19, 2020

Winner of the 2019 Bookselling Ireland Non-Fiction Book of the Year An extraordinarily intimate book of essays that chart the experiences that have made Sinéad Gleeson the woman and the writer she is today, for readers of The Last Act of Love and I Am, I Am, I Am. I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal. A map, a tracing of connections and a guide to looking at things from different angles. How do you tell the story of a life in a body, as it... + Read More
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Series: From The Wreck Paperback Jane Rawson 9781529006568 $19.99 FICTION Jun 02, 2020

Winner of the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and nominated for the Miles Franklin Award. A novel of strange and wonderful imagination, imbued with beauty and feeling, existential loneliness and a deep awareness of the interdependence of all life. When George Hills was pulled from the wreck of the steamship Admella, he carried with him memories of a disaster that claimed the lives of almost every other soul on board. Almost every other soul. Because as he clung onto the wreck, George wasn't alone: someone else - or something ... + Read More
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Series: Confessions of a Forty-Something Paperback Alexandra Potter 9781529046236 $24.99 FICTION Jul 02, 2020

Hilarious, poignant, and utterly relatable, Confessions of a Forty-Something is a must-read for anyone whose life isn't working out quite how they'd planned. Nell Stevens' life is a mess. Until recently she's been living in America with Ethan, her fiancé, but when her bookshop-cum-café goes bust - along with her relationship and all her savings - she moves back to London to start over. But a lot has changed since she's been gone. All her single friends are happily married with children and with rents sky-high she's forced to rent a room whil... + Read More
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Series: Roy Grace Find Them Dead (Roy Grace #16) Paperback Peter James 9781529004311 $25.99 FICTION Jul 02, 2020

The sixteenth Detective Superintendent Roy Grace novel from the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling author Peter James. Roy Grace, creation of the award-winning author Peter James, unearths a powerful criminal network in Find Them Dead. A Brighton gangster is on trial for conspiracy to murder, following the death of a rival crime family boss. As the jury file into Lewes Crown Court, twelve anonymous people selected randomly from fifty, there is one person sitting in the public gallery observing them with keen interest, and secretl... + Read More
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Series: The Manga Artist's Handbook: Drawing Dynamic Manga Characters The Easy 1-2-3 Method for Beginners Paperback Junka Morozumi 9784805315712 $19.95 ART Apr 14, 2020

Create interesting and expressive manga characters by learning the techniques of professional artists.This volume builds on the proven three-step technique presented in the companion volume,Drawing Basic Characters.1. Trace a simple outline of the character2. Add clothing, facial expressions and other details using the easy-to-follow tips3. Use color and pen to create the finished characterExperienced manga artists Junka Morozumi and Tomomi Mizuna are your guides to the dazzling world of lifelike and expressive manga characters who literally le... + Read More
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Series: Manga & Anime Masters: Drawing Fantastic Female Fighters Bringing Fierce Female Characters to Life (With Over 1,200 Illustrations) Paperback Hisashi Kagawa 9784805315842 $24.95 ART Apr 14, 2020

Two superstars of anime and manga open their studio doors and spill their secrets in this private master class.Join Hisashi Kagawa, an animation director forSailor Moon, and Yoshihiko Umakoshi, a character developer forMy Hero Academia, as they show you how to bring your battle heroines boldly to life.Helpful sidebars and tips appear in dialogue bubbles throughout this book, as the artists guide aspiring illustrators from initial idea to finished artworks, pointing out common missteps and pitfalls that can easily frustrate beginning artists alo... + Read More
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Series: The Ultimate Bonsai Handbook The Complete Guide for Beginners Paperback Yukio Hirose 9784805315026 $34.95 GARDENING Apr 21, 2020

Written by one of Japan's foremost experts,The Ultimate Bonsai Handbook provides a complete overview of every aspect of bonsai gardening.Over 1,000 photos demonstrate each step involved in raising and caring for 70 types of bonsai, supporting the book's "learn by imitation and observation" approach. This detailed book will serve as a timeless reference to cultivating pines, maples, flowering and fruit bearing trees and many other varieties.This practical, comprehensive bonsai guide includes information about: Types of bonsai and how to choose t... + Read More
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Series: How to Create Manga: Drawing Facial Expressions The Ultimate Bible for Beginning Artists (With Over 1,250 Illustrations) Paperback NextCreator Henshubu 9784805315620 $24.95 ART Apr 21, 2020

This book shows you how to accurately render human faces and emotions to create complex characters and add compelling immediacy to your work.The ability to draw realistic and powerful facial expressions is essential for every manga artist. All artists will tell you that human faces are the most important and challenging element of any drawing.How to Create Manga: Drawing Facial Expressions is an essential resource for artists who want to bring their skills to the next level.Thirteen professional Japanese artists have contributed their expertise... + Read More