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Series: Inspector Karen Pirie Mysteries Still Life A Karen Pirie Novel Hardcover Val McDermid 9780802157447 $38.95 FICTION Oct 16, 2020

From internationally bestselling author Val McDermid comes a propulsive new Karen Pirie thriller that delves into a historic missing persons case, fake identities, and art forgery.Val McDermid is the award-winning, international bestselling author of more than thirty novels and has been hailed as Britain’s Queen of Crime. In Still Life, McDermid returns to her propulsive series featuring DCI Karen Pirie, who finds herself investigating the shadowy world of forgery, where things are never what they seem. When a lobster fisherman discovers... + Read More
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Series: Tony Hill Novels How The Dead Speak A Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Thriller Paperback Val McDermid 9780802157348 $25.50 FICTION Oct 30, 2020

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

In the gripping conclusion to Tracy Borman’s Stuart-era trilogy, Frances Gorges must face a dangerous new enemy deep within the court of James ILife has never been quiet for Frances Gorges at the court of King James, but after finding herself at the center of plots and conspiracies for many years both as an accused witch and a secret Catholic, by 1614 Frances hopes to distance herself from the decadence and ruthlessness of the aging and venal monarch. However, when a handsome stranger appears at a courtier’s country estate, he immediately draws... + Read More
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Series: Chicago's Great Fire The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City Hardcover Carl Smith 9780802148100 $41.95 HISTORY Oct 16, 2020

From an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memories of those who experienced it Between October 8–10, 1871, much of the city of Chicago was destroyed by one of the most legendary urban fires in history. Incorporated as a city in 1837, Chicago had grown at a breathtaking pace in barely three decades, from just over 4,000 in 1840 to greater than 330,000 at the time of the fire. Built hastily, the city was largely made of wood. Once it began in the b... + Read More
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Series: A Cry from the Far Middle Dispatches from a Divided Land Hardcover P.J. O'Rourke 9780802157737 $38.95 HUMOR Sep 25, 2020

Observations on the present political moment, and the discord that defines it, from the best man for the job: bestselling author and acclaimed satirist P.J. O’Rourke P. J. O’Rourke says we’ve worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it’s no surprise because perplexed and angry are what Americans have been since the Roanoke Colony got lost. This astute and entertaining look at the state of these United States includes essays on everything from our fraught history (“Oh Beautiful for . . . Pilgrim Feet?”) to the political effe... + Read More
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Series: Frances Gorges Historical Trilogy The Devil's Slave A Novel Paperback Tracy Borman 9780802157294 $26.95 FICTION Nov 27, 2020

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

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

The vivid and untold story of the Golden Age of classic animation and the often larger-than-life artists who created some of the most iconic cartoon characters of the twentieth centuryIn 1911, famed cartoonist Winsor McCay debuted one of the first animated cartoons, based on his sophisticated newspaper strip “Little Nemo in Slumberland,” itself inspired by Freud’s recent research on dreams. McCay is largely forgotten today, but he unleashed an art form, and the creative energy of artists from Otto Messmer and Max Fleischer to Walt Disney and Wa... + Read More
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Series: The Awkward Black Man Hardcover Walter Mosley 9780802149565 $38.95 FICTION Sep 25, 2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From a master “mind reader who writes psychological horror stories about seriously disturbed minds” (New York Times Book Review), comes an eerie, psychologically complex thriller about a newlywed wife haunted by her secret, traumatic past. As a child, Abby had the same recurring nightmare night after night, in which she wandered through a field ridden with human skulls and bones. Now an adult, Abby thinks she’s outgrown her demons, until, the evening before her wedding, the terrible dream returns and forces her to confront the dark secrets fr... + Read More
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Series: Cardiff, by the Sea Four Novellas of Suspense Hardcover Joyce Carol Oates 9780802157997 $38.95 FICTION Oct 16, 2020

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

In the newest novel in Bruen’s thrilling series, ex-cop turned private eye Jack Taylor is pulled out of his quiet new life on a farm by three mysteries that soon prove dangerously linkedJack Taylor has finally escaped the despair of his violent life in Galway in favor of a quiet retirement in the country with his friend Keefer, a former Rolling Stones roadie, and a falcon named Maeve. But on a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a truck in front of Galway’s Famine Memorial, left in a coma but mysteriously without... + Read More
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Series: Eddie's Boy A Butcher's Boy Novel Hardcover Thomas Perry 9780802157775 $38.95 FICTION Dec 11, 2020

Thomas Perry’s Edgar Award–winning Butcher’s Boy is back and redeploying the violent ways of his youth to escape a new reward on his head in Eddie’s Boy Michael Shaeffer is a retired American businessman, living peacefully in England with his aristocratic wife. But her annual summer party brings strangers to their house, and with them, an attempt on Michael’s life. He is immediately thrust into action, luring his lethal pursuers to Australia before venturing into the lion’s den—the States—to figure out why the mafia is after him again, and h... + Read More
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Series: Vera Stanhope The Darkest Evening (Vera #9) Hardcover Ann Cleeves 9781509889518 $42.99 FICTION Oct 13, 2020

The ninth novel in the Vera Stanhope series from the Sunday Times bestseller Ann Cleeves; now a major TV series from ITV. Driving home during a swirling blizzard, Vera Stanhope's only thought is to get there quickly. But with the snow driving down heavily, she becomes disorientated and loses her way. Ploughing on, she sees a car slewed off the road ahead of her. With the driver's door open, Vera assumes the driver has sought shelter but when she inspects the car she is shocked to find a young toddler strapped in the back seat. Afraid they w... + Read More
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Series: Vera Stanhope The Darkest Evening (Vera #9) CD-Audio Ann Cleeves 9781529051094 $49.99 FICTION Oct 13, 2020

The ninth novel in the Vera Stanhope series from the Sunday Times bestseller Ann Cleeves; now a major TV series from ITV. Driving home during a swirling blizzard, Vera Stanhope's only thought is to get there quickly. But with the snow driving down heavily, she becomes disorientated and loses her way. Ploughing on, she sees a car slewed off the road ahead of her. With the driver's door open, Vera assumes the driver has sought shelter but when she inspects the car she is shocked to find a young toddler strapped in the back seat. Afraid they w... + Read More
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Series: Roy Grace Find Them Dead (Roy Grace #16) CD-Audio Peter James 9781529051070 $55.99 FICTION Sep 08, 2020

Roy Grace, creation of the award-winning author Peter James, unearths a powerful criminal network in Find Them Dead, the sixteenth book in the series. Ending his secondment to London's Met Police, Roy Grace gets a tip-off about a county lines drugs mastermind operating out of Brighton. On his first day back in his old job in Sussex, he is called to a seemingly senseless murder. Separately, Meg Magellan finally has her life back together, five years after the car crash that killed her husband and their son. Her daughter, Laura, now 18, is on h... + Read More
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Series: I Follow You Hardcover Peter James 9781509816279 $44.99 FICTION Nov 17, 2020

A spine-tingling thriller of obsession from bestselling author Peter James. To the outside world, suave, charming and confident doctor Marcus Valentine has it all. A loving wife, three kids, a great job. But there's something missing, there always has been. Or rather, someone. Driving to work one morning, his mind elsewhere and not on the road, he nearly mows down a female jogger on a crossing. As she runs on, Marcus is transfixed. She is the spitting image of a girl he was crazy about in his teens. A girl he has never been able to get out of... + Read More
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Series: Rhona MacLeod The Innocent Dead (Rhona MacLeod #15) Hardcover Lin Anderson 9781529033649 $33.99 FICTION Nov 03, 2020

A gripping new crime novel by Lin Anderson featuring forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod, who is tasked with solving the case of a young girl who went missing forty-five years ago. Mary McIntyre's disappearance tore the local community apart, inflicting wounds that still prove raw for those who knew her. So when the present-day discovery of a child?s remains are found in a peat bog south of Glasgow, it seems the decades-old mystery may finally be solved. Called in to excavate the body, forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod uses the advances made in f... + Read More
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Series: If I Can't Have You Hardcover Charlotte Levin 9781529032390 $33.99 FICTION Aug 25, 2020

If I Can't Have You by Charlotte Levin is an all-consuming novel about loneliness, obsession and how far we go for the ones we love. What if the problem with your love life is you? Samuel, the day we met I knew I'd finally found what I've been waiting for. You. Happiness, at last. Then you left me. And now I am alone. Everyone I love leaves in the end. But not this time. I'm not giving up on us. I'm not giving up on you. When you love someone, you never let them go. That's why for me, this is just beginning.
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Series: The Girl from the Tanner's Yard Paperback Diane Allen 9781509895250 $18.99 FICTION Nov 03, 2020

An evocative historical saga set in Yorkshire during the 19th century. Set on the wild moors of West Yorkshire, The Girl from the Tanner's Yard by Diane Allen is a moving family drama about a girl who rises to prosperity from humble beginnings. After facing the horrors of the Crimean War, Adam Brooksbank returns to Black Moss Farm filled with regret over the path in life he has chosen. Starting anew, he decides to focus on rebuilding his family's rundown farm and make it a home again. Lucy Bancroft lives with her parents on Prospect Terrace... + Read More
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Series: Christmas with the Teashop Girls Paperback Elaine Everest 9781529015928 $19.99 FICTION Dec 01, 2020

Set in the Second World War, Christmas with Teashop Girls is a heartwarming and moving story of wartime love, bravery and hope, by the bestselling author of the Woolworths series. It is late 1940 and the war feels closer to home than ever for Rose Neville and her staff at the Lyon's Teashop in Margate. The worry of rationing hangs overhead as the Nippies do their best to provide a happy smile and a hot cup of tea for their customers. But when a heavy bombing raid targets the Kent coastline, Lyon's is badly hit, throwing the future of the cafe ... + Read More
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Series: Mountain Road, Late at Night Hardcover Alan Rossi 9781529002355 $33.99 FICTION Sep 08, 2020

A striking, compulsive and immensely powerful debut novel about what happens when tragedy strikes a family. Nicholas and his wife April live in a remote cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains with their four-year-old son, Jack. They keep their families at a distance, rejecting what their loved ones think of as 'normal'. In the early hours of a Wednesday morning, they are driving home from a party when their car crashes on a deserted road and they are killed. As the couple's grieving relatives descend on the family home, they are forced to decide w... + Read More
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Series: The Long Forgotten Paperback David Whitehouse 9781509827527 $19.99 FICTION Sep 15, 2020

A sensational novel about love, loss, memory and obsession from award-winning author David Whitehouse. Memories make us who we are - but what if yours belonged to someone else? David Whitehouse's The Long Forgotten is the story of a missing plane, a rare-flower hunter, and a lonely young man who has begun to remember a past that isn't his. It's the story of a long-buried mystery, a quest that ended in tragedy, and a love that can never be forgotten. "Powerful, eccentric. Whitehouse's writing is energetic and pacey, spiked with startling mom... + Read More
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Series: The Doors of Eden Paperback Adrian Tchaikovsky 9781509865895 $29.99 FICTION Oct 27, 2020

It's the world we know, but as you've never seen it before. An extraordinary new novel from Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner Adrian Tchaikovsky. On another Earth, anything is possible. Four years ago, Lee's best friend Mal went missing on Bodmin Moor. Their search for an elusive monster had turned up something only too real - and she hadn't seen Mal since. Now, out of the blue, Mal gets in touch. But where has she been, and who brought her back? MI5 agent Julian Sabreur tried to save a government physicist from a racist attack. But someone else... + Read More
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Series: Sex Robots and Vegan Meat Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex & Death Hardcover Jenny Kleeman 9781509894888 $37.99 SCIENCE Sep 22, 2020

What if we could have babies without bearing children, eat meat without killing animals, have a perfect sexual relationship without involving another human being or chose the time of our painless death? Sex Robots and Vegan Meat is a timely investigation into the forces that are driving innovation in the four core areas of human experience: birth, food, sex and death. We are on the brink of seismic change in every one of these four areas, from artificial wombs, to lab-grown meat; from sex robots programmable to have polite conversations with ... + Read More
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Series: The Girl with the Saddest Secret The True Story of a Troubled Little Girl and the Foster Carer who Gives her Hope Paperback Angela Hart 9781529024456 $18.99 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Nov 03, 2020

A little girl who nobody cared for. A devoted foster carer who fights for the support for a child in need. Jasmine is a little girl with a difficult upbringing whose current foster carers have refused to keep her on as they can no longer handle her 'off the wall' behaviour. Social Services place her with specialist foster carer Angela Hart. Angela does her best to provide a secure environment for Jasmine in the hope that she can begin to move on, but it proves challenging as Jasmine often breaks out in bursts of anger and physical violence. Ca... + Read More
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Series: Organised Fun A Treasure Trove of Games and Tomfoolery Paperback Josie Curran 9781447248880 $26.99 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Jul 21, 2020

A big, fizzing sherbert bomb of games invented and perfected by generations of friends and families. The suggestion of playing a game will divide any room in two quicker than the Marmite debate. There are those who leap gleefully from their seats with suggestions and pointy elbows, and others who hide behind cushions quaking at the potential humiliation. When it comes to games, Josie Curran probably falls into the 'pointy elbow' category. Organised Fun is a big, beautifully illustrated reminder of a time before television when we made our own... + Read More
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Series: Macmillan Collector's Library Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Hardcover Mary Seacole 9781529040326 $24.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 01, 2020

Soon to be a major motion picture, Seacole, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Sam Worthington. The first autobiography written by a British Black woman. The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands is a wonderfully entertaining autobiography by Mary Seacole - nurse, entrepreneur and intrepid traveller. This edition includes the original preface by war correspondent W. H. Russell. Mary Seacole left her native Jamaica to travel through the Caribbean, The Bahamas, Central America and to England. Keen to offer her services to English troop... + 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: 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: 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: 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: Everyday Low Carb A Complete Guide to Carb-Savvy Eating for People with Diabetes and Prediabetes Paperback Christy Brissette MS, RD 9781580407458 $37.50 COOKING Age (years) from 18 - 80 Dec 25, 2020

Everyday Low Carb is the definitive guide to low-carb eating for people with diabetes, from the experts at the American Diabetes Association.As many people living with diabetes know, carbohydrate is an important nutrient that plays a large role in managing blood glucose. With this in mind, a number of diets have been created over the years designed to reduce or eliminate carbs as a way to improve glycemic control. Unfortunately, many of these fad diets weren't based on scientific evidence and were unhealthy, heard to follow, and sometimes dange... + 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: What Happens at Night Hardcover Peter Cameron 9781948226967 $26.00 FICTION Aug 04, 2020
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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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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