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Series: Girl A A Novel Hardcover Abigail Dean 9780593295847 $36.00 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

“Nothing short of astonishing…Rarely does a novel offer up such unique plotting, such heart-stopping psychological drama, and such a rich portrayal of its inhabitants. A modern-day classic.”—Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author of The Goodbye Man and The Bone CollectorFor readers of Room and Sharp Objects, a propulsive and psychologically immersive novel about a young girl who escapes captivity—but not the secrets that shadow the rest of her life.“’Girl A,’ she said. ’The girl who escaped. If anyone was going to make it, it was goi... + Read More
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Series: Think Again The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know Hardcover Adam Grant 9781984878106 $37.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Feb 02, 2021

#1 New York Times Bestseller“THIS. This is the right book for right now. Yes, learning requires focus. But, unlearning and relearning requires much more—it requires choosing courage over comfort. In Think Again, Adam Grant weaves together research and storytelling to help us build the intellectual and emotional muscle we need to stay curious enough about the world to actually change it. I’ve never felt so hopeful about what I don’t know.”—Brené Brown, Ph.D., #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dare to LeadThe bestselling author of Give and ... + Read More
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Series: Think Again The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know Large type / large print edition Paperback Adam Grant 9780593395783 $40.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Feb 16, 2021

#1 New York Times Bestseller “THIS. This is the right book for right now. Yes, learning requires focus. But, unlearning and relearning requires much more—it requires choosing courage over comfort. In Think Again, Adam Grant weaves together research and storytelling to help us build the intellectual and emotional muscle we need to stay curious enough about the world to actually change it. I’ve never felt so hopeful about what I don’t know.”—Brené Brown, Ph.D., #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dare to LeadThe bestselling author of Give and... + Read More
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Series: The Good Hand A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in an American Boomtown Hardcover Michael Patrick F. Smith 9781984881519 $39.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 16, 2021

“Remarkable…this is the book that Hillbilly Elegy should have been.”—Kirkus ReviewsA vivid window into the world of working class men set during the Bakken fracking boom in North DakotaLike thousands of restless men left unmoored in the wake of the 2008 economic crash, Michael Patrick Smith arrived in the fracking boomtown of Williston, North Dakota five years later homeless, unemployed, and desperate for a job. Renting a mattress on a dirty flophouse floor, he slept boot to beard with migrant men who came from all across America and as far awa... + Read More
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Series: Northern Spy A Novel Hardcover Flynn Berry 9780735224995 $35.00 FICTION Apr 06, 2021

The acclaimed author of Under the Harrow and A Double Life returns with her most thrilling novel to date: the story of two sisters who become entangled with the IRAA producer at the BBC and mother to a new baby, Tessa is at work in Belfast one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground in the two decades since the Good Friday Agreement, but they never really went away, and lately bomb threats, security checkpoints, and helicopters floating ominously over the city have become features of everyday life. ... + Read More
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Series: Hope in Times of Fear The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter Hardcover Timothy Keller 9780525560791 $36.00 RELIGION Mar 09, 2021

The Resurrection accounts of Jesus in the Gospels are the most dramatic and impactful stories ever told. One similarity unites each testimony—that none of his most loyal and steadfast followers could “see” it was him, back from the dead. The reason for this is at the very foundation of the Christian faith.She turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. (John 20:14)Hope in the Time of Fear is a book that unlocks the meaning of Jesus’s resurrection for readers. Easter is considered the most solemn and... + Read More
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Series: Murder at the Mission A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West Hardcover Blaine Harden 9780525561668 $40.00 HISTORY Apr 27, 2021

From New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, a riveting and revealing account of one of the most persistent “alternative facts” in American history: the story of a missionary, a tribe, a massacre, and a myth that shaped the American West In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would become the Oregon Trail. Dr. Marcus Whitman and Reverend Henry Spalding were headed to present-day Washington state and Idaho, where they aimed to convert members of the... + Read More
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Series: Water, Wood, and Wild Things Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town Hardcover Hannah Kirshner 9781984877529 $35.00 TRAVEL Mar 23, 2021

“With this book, you feel you can stop time and savor the rituals of life.” —Maira KalmanAn immersive journey through the culture and cuisine of one Japanese town, its forest, and its watershed—where ducks are hunted by net, saké is brewed from the purest mountain water, and charcoal is fired in stone kilns—by an American writer and food stylist who spent years working alongside artisansOne night, Brooklyn-based artist and food writer Hannah Kirshner received a life-changing invitation to apprentice with a “saké evangelist” in a misty Japanese ... + Read More
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Series: Brothers, Sisters, Strangers Sibling Estrangement and the Road to Reconciliation Hardcover Fern Schumer Chapman 9780525561699 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 06, 2021

A warm, empathetic guide to understanding, coping with, and healing from the unique pain of sibling estrangement“Whenever I tell people that I am working on a book about sibling estrangement, they sit up a little straighter and lean in, as if I’ve tapped into a dark secret.”Fern Schumer Chapman understands the pain of sibling estrangement firsthand. For the better part of forty years, she had nearly no relationship with her only brother, despite many attempts at reconnection. Her grief and shame were devastating and isolating. But when she trie... + Read More
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Series: Miss Julia Miss Julia Happily Ever After A Novel Hardcover Ann B. Ross 9780593296462 $36.00 FICTION Apr 06, 2021

The delightful final installment of the beloved and New York Times bestselling Miss Julia seriesWedding fever hits Abbotsville and several of Miss Julia’s friends have plans to tie the knot. But, as usual, nothing is so simple. Christy Hargrove suddenly gives up a lifelong dream and drops out of medical school to marry, Helen Stroud and Thurlow Jones decide to change their commercial arrangement into a marital one, and, to Miss Julia’s consternation, Lillian, her housekeeper and closest companion, is considering a less-than-romantic offer to we... + Read More
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Series: Heart of Fire An Immigrant Daughter's Story Hardcover Mazie K. Hirono 9781984881601 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 20, 2021

The intimate and inspiring life story of Mazie Hirono, the first Asian-American woman and the only immigrant serving in the U.S. SenateMazie Hirono is one of the most fiercely outspoken Democrats in Congress, but her journey to the U.S. Senate was far from likely. Raised on a rice farm in rural Japan, she was seven years old when her mother, Laura, left her abusive husband and sailed with her two elder children to Hawaii, crossing the Pacific in steerage in search of a better life. Though the girl then known as “Keiko” did not speak or read Eng... + Read More
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Series: Heart of Fire An Immigrant Daughter's Story Large type / large print edition Paperback Mazie K. Hirono 9780593396162 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 11, 2021

From the first Asian-American woman and the only immigrant to serve in the U.S. Senate, a moving and inspiring account of a woman coming into her own voice and power over the course of a historic career in American politics Now one of the most outspoken leaders on the left, Senator Mazie Keiko Hirono’s journey to the U.S. Senate was anything but likely. Raised in poverty on a rice farm in rural Japan, Hirono was eight years old when her mother left the abusive man she had married and journeyed with her two elder children to the United States, c... + Read More
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Series: Battle for the Soul Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump Hardcover Edward-Isaac Dovere 9781984878076 $40.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 25, 2021

An award-winning political journalist for The Atlantic tells the inside story of how the embattled Democratic Party, seeking a direction for its future during the Trump years, successfully regained the White House.The 2020 presidential campaign was a defining moment for America. As Donald Trump and his nativist populism cowed the Republican Party into submission, many Democrats—haunted by Hillary Clinton’s shocking loss in 2016 and the resulting four-year-long identity crisis—were convinced that he would be unbeatable. Their party and the count... + Read More
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Series: The Science of Can and Can't A Physicist's Journey through the Land of Counterfactuals Hardcover Chiara Marletto 9780525521921 $36.00 SCIENCE May 04, 2021

From a young British scientist, a groundbreaking exploration of a radically different approach to physicsThere is a vast class of things that science has so far almost entirely neglected. They are central to the understanding of physical reality both at an everyday level and at the level of the most fundamental phenomena in physics, yet have traditionally been assumed to be impossible to incorporate into fundamental scientific explanations. They are facts not about what is (the actual) but about what could be (counterfactuals).According to phys... + Read More
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Series: Aunt Dimity Mystery Aunt Dimity and the Enchanted Cottage Hardcover Nancy Atherton 9780593295779 $35.00 FICTION May 03, 2022

In the twenty-fifth installment of the bestselling Aunt Dimity series, when an inscrutable newcomer arrives in Finch, Lori is determined to befriend him—and in the process discovers Finch’s own heart-wrenching pastIt’s early May in the small English village of Finch and the air is crackling with excitement: a newcomer is about to move into Pussywillows, a riverside cottage with a romantic reputation. Will the cottage’s newest resident prove yet again its enchanting ability to matchmake? But when Crispin Windle arrives, no one knows what to make... + Read More
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Series: Sentence Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison Hardcover Daniel Genis 9780525429555 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 22, 2022

A memoir of a decade in prison by a well-educated young addict known as the “Apologetic Bandit”In 2003 Daniel Genis, the son of a famous Soviet émigré writer, broadcaster, and culture critic, was fresh out of NYU when he faced a serious heroin addiction that led him into debt and ultimately crime. After he was arrested for robbing people at knifepoint, he was nicknamed the “apologetic bandit” in the press, given his habit of expressing his regret to his victims as he took their cash. He was sentenced to twelve years—ten with good behavior, a de... + Read More
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Series: The Data Detective Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics Hardcover Tim Harford 9780593084595 $37.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Feb 02, 2021

From “one of the great (greatest?) contemporary popular writers on economics” (Tyler Cowen) comes a smart, lively, and encouraging rethinking of how to use statistics.Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse us. That’s a mistake, Tim Harford says in The Data Detective. We shouldn’t be suspicious of statistics—we need to understand what they mean and how they can improve our lives: They are, at heart, human behavior seen through the prism of numbers and are often “the only way of grasping much of what is going... + Read More
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Series: My Year Abroad A Novel Hardcover Chang-rae Lee 9781594634574 $37.00 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

From the award-winning author of Native Speaker and On Such a Full Sea, an exuberant and entertaining story of a young American whose life is transformed when a Chinese-American businessman suddenly takes him under his wing on a global adventure.Tiller is an average college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations and talents. Then he meets Pong Lou, a successful Chinese-American businessman, and everything changes. With Pong’s unmatched charisma, richly varied interests and skills, enviable resources, and loyal circle of friends and b... + Read More
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Series: My Year Abroad A Novel Large type / large print edition Paperback Chang-rae Lee 9780593396025 $40.00 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERA New York Times Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, TIME, and Marie Claire“A manifesto to happiness—the one found when you stop running from who you are.” –New York Times Book Review “An extraordinary book, acrobatic on the level of the sentence, symphonic across its many movements—and this is a book that moves…My Year Abroad is a wild ride—a caper, a romance, a bildungsroman, and something of a satire of how to get filthy rich in rising Asia.” – Vogue From the award-winning au... + Read More
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Series: No One Is Talking About This A Novel Hardcover Patricia Lockwood 9780593189580 $34.00 FICTION Feb 16, 2021

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZEA NATIONAL BESTSELLER“No One Is Talking About This reaches for the sublime, online and off…Lockwood is a modern word witch, her writing splendid and sordid by turns.” —New York Times Book Review“Wow. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book. What an inventive and startling writer…I’m so glad I read this. I really think this book is remarkable.” —David SedarisFrom “a formidably gifted writer” (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet?As this urg... + Read More
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Series: No One Is Talking About This A Novel Large type / large print edition Paperback Patricia Lockwood 9780593395714 $36.00 FICTION Mar 16, 2021

From “a formidably gifted writer” (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms “the portal,” where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threats—from climate change and eco... + Read More
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Series: The Books of Jacob A Novel Hardcover Olga Tokarczuk 9780593087480 $47.00 FICTION Feb 01, 2022

The Nobel Prize-winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, Messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe.In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly ferven... + Read More
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Series: Dusk, Night, Dawn On Revival and Courage Hardcover Anne Lamott 9780593189696 $27.00 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Mar 02, 2021

“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.”—Chicago TribuneFrom the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow comes an inspiring guide to restoring hope and joy in our lives.In Dusk Night Dawn, Anne Lamott explores the tough questions that many of us grapple with. How can we recapture the confidence we once had as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As bad newspiles up—from climate crises to daily assaults on civility—how can we cope? Where, she asks, “do we start to our world and joy and hope and our faith in life itself back…with our... + Read More
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Series: Dusk, Night, Dawn On Revival and Courage Large type / large print edition Paperback Anne Lamott 9780593395738 $29.00 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Apr 13, 2021

“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” -Chicago TribuneFrom the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow comes an inspiring guide to restoring hope and joy in our lives.In Dusk, Night, Dawn, Anne Lamott explores the tough questions that many of us grapple with. How can we recapture the confidence we once had as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As bad newspiles up—from climate crises to daily assaults on civility—how can we cope? Where, she asks, “do we start to get our world and joy and hope and our faith in life itself back…w... + Read More
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Series: The Performance A Novel Hardcover Claire Thomas 9780593329160 $35.00 FICTION Mar 16, 2021

A novel about three women at turning points in their lives, and the one night that changes everything.One night, three women go to the theater to see a play. Wildfires are burning in the hills outside, but inside the theater it is time for the performance to take over.Margot is a successful, flinty professor on the cusp of retirement, distracted by her fraught relationship with her adult son and her ailing husband. After a traumatic past, Ivy is is now a philanthropist with a seemingly perfect life. Summer is a young drama student, an usher at ... + Read More
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Series: What Comes After A Novel Hardcover JoAnne Tompkins 9780593085998 $37.00 FICTION Apr 13, 2021

After the shocking death of two teenage boys tears apart a community in the Pacific Northwest, a mysterious pregnant girl emerges out of the woods and into the lives of those same boys’ families—a moving and hopeful novel about forgiveness and human connection.In misty, coastal Washington State, Isaac lives alone with his dog, grieving the recent death of his teenage son Daniel. Next door, Lorrie, a working single mother, struggles with a heinous act committed by her own teenage son. Separated by only a silvery stretch of trees, the two parents... + Read More
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Series: What Comes After A Novel Large type / large print edition Paperback JoAnne Tompkins 9780593395721 $40.00 FICTION Apr 27, 2021

Named a top beach read of summer by Oprah Daily, Good Housekeeping, The Wall Street Journal, and more “Nail-biting wallop of a debut…a thoughtful, unexpectedly optimistic tale.” —The New York Times “If you enjoyed The Searcher by Tana French, read What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins…. a mystery—and a gritty meditation on loss and redemption, drenched in stillness and grief.” —The Washington Post After the shocking death of two teenage boys tears apart a community in the Pacific Northwest, a mysterious pregnant girl emerges out of the woods and ... + Read More
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Series: Leda and the Swan A Novel Hardcover Anna Caritj 9780525540144 $37.00 FICTION May 04, 2021

In a hothouse of collegiate sex and ambition, one young woman mysteriously disappears after a wild campus party, and another becomes obsessed with finding her.It’s Halloween, Saturday night, on a pastoral East Coast college campus. Scantily-costumed students ride the fine line between adolescence and adulthood as they prepare for a night of debauchery. Alcohol is flowing. Sex is in the air. Expectations are high as Leda flirts with her thrilling new crush, Ian, and he flirts back. But by the end of the night things will have taken a turn.When L... + Read More
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Series: Extra Life A Short History of Living Longer Hardcover Steven Johnson 9780525538851 $37.00 SCIENCE May 11, 2021

The surprising and important story of how humans gained what amounts to an extra life, from the bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come FromAs a species we have doubled our life expectancy in just one hundred years. All the advances of modern life—the medical breakthroughs, the public health institutions, the rising standards of living—have given us each about twenty thousand extra days on average. There are few measures of human progress more astonishing than our increased longevity.This book is Steven Johnson’s attem... + Read More
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Series: Extra Life A Short History of Living Longer Large type / large print edition Paperback Steven Johnson 9780593395691 $40.00 SCIENCE May 25, 2021

The surprising and important story of how humans gained what amounts to an extra life, from the bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come FromAs a species we have doubled our life expectancy in just one hundred years. All the advances of modern life—the medical breakthroughs, the public health institutions, the rising standards of living—have given us each about 20,000 extra days on average. There are few measures of human progress more astonishing than our increased longevity, and yet it’s easy to overlook.This book is ... + Read More
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Series: Humble Pi When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World Paperback Matt Parker 9780593084694 $23.00 MATHEMATICS Jan 19, 2021

#1 International BestsellerAN ADAM SAVAGE BOOK CLUB PICKThis entertaining tour of real-world mathematical disasters reveals the importance of math in our everyday livesOur whole world is built on math, from the code running a website to the equations enabling the design of skyscrapers and bridges. Most of the time this math works quietly behind the scenes…until it doesn’t. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences.Humble Pi is the book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand upin math class... + Read More
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Series: Blue Flowers A Novel Paperback Carola Saavedra 9780593086865 $22.00 FICTION Jan 26, 2021

A novel of dark obsession, missed connections, and violent love.Marcos has just been through a divorce and moved into a new apartment. He feels alienated from his ex-wife, from his daughter, from society; everything feels flat and fake to him. He begins to receive letters at his new address from an anonymous troubled woman who signs off as A. and who clearly believes she is writing to the former tenant, her ex-lover, in the aftermath of a violent heartbreak. Marcos falls under the spell of the manic, hypnotic missives and for the first time in ... + Read More
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Series: Verge Paperback Lidia Yuknavitch 9780525534884 $22.00 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

“Spellbinding.”—O: The Oprah Magazine“Bracing [and] profound.”—Entertainment WeeklyA fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction. Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer of rare insight into the jagged boundaries between pain and survival. Her characters are scarred by the unchecked hungers of others and themselves, yet determined to find salvation within lives that can feel beyond their control. In novels such as The Small Backs of Children and The Bo... + Read More
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Series: The Scientist and the Spy A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage Paperback Mara Hvistendahl 9780735214293 $24.00 TRUE CRIME Feb 02, 2021

A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction.In September 2011, sheriff’s deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near a field where a farmer was growing corn seed under contract with Monsanto. What began as a simple trespassing inquiry mushroomed into a two-year FBI operation in which investigators bugged the men’s rental cars, used a warrant intended for foreign terrorists and... + Read More
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Series: Real Life A Novel Paperback Brandon Taylor 9780525538899 $22.00 FICTION Feb 16, 2021

A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE“A blistering coming of age story”—O: The Oprah MagazineOne of the year’s most talked about novels, following a young man who runs away to a Midwestern university townonly to fight a deeper psychic battle.A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend—and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where... + Read More
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Series: Under the Rainbow A Novel Paperback Celia Laskey 9780525536178 $23.00 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

When a group of social activists arrive in a small town, the lives and beliefs of residents and outsiders alike are upended, in this wry, embracing novel.Big Burr, Kansas, is the kind of place where everyone seems to know everyone, and everyone shares the same values-or keeps their opinions to themselves. But when a national nonprofit labels Big Burr “the most homophobic town in the US” and sends in a task force of queer volunteers as an experiment-they’ll live and work in the community for two years in an attempt to broaden hearts and minds-no... + Read More
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Series: Deacon King Kong A Novel Paperback James McBride 9780735216730 $23.00 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

“Terrific…deeply felt, beautifully written, and profoundly humane.”—The New York Times Book Review cover“Hilarious…A rich and vivid multicultural history.”—Time MagazineFrom James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, one of the most anticipated novels of the year: a wise and witty tale about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting.In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses ho... + Read More
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Series: How Much of These Hills Is Gold A Novel Paperback C Pam Zhang 9780525537212 $22.00 FICTION Apr 06, 2021

“Belongs on a shelf all of its own.”—NPR“Revolutionary…A visionary addition to American literature.” - Minneapolis Star TribuneAn electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape—trying not just to survive but to find a home.Ba dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the o... + Read More
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Series: All Adults Here A Novel Paperback Emma Straub 9781594634703 $23.00 FICTION Apr 13, 2021

“Brimming with kindness, forgiveness, humor and love and yet (magically) also a page turner that held me captive until it was finished. This is Emma Straub’s absolute best and the world will love it. I love it.”—Ann PatchettThis instant New York Times bestseller is “literary sunshine” (NYT) from the beloved “queen of the summer novel” (Entertainment Weekly): a warm, funny story about the life cycle of one family.When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting... + Read More
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Series: Little Family A Novel Paperback Ishmael Beah 9780735211780 $23.00 FICTION Apr 27, 2021

A powerful novel about young people living at the margins of society, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together. Hidden away from a harsh outside world, five young people have improvised a home in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their country’s tumultuous past. Elimane, the bookworm, is as street-smart as he is wise. Clever Khoudiemata maneuvers to keep the younger kids—athletic, pragmatic Ndevui, thoughtful Kpindi, and especially their newest member, Namsa—safe and fed. When Elimane makes himself ... + Read More
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Series: Shiner A Novel Paperback Amy Jo Burns 9780525533658 $22.00 FICTION May 04, 2021

On a lush mountaintop trapped in time, two women vow to protect each other at all costs-and one young girl must defy her father to survive.An hour from the closest West Virginia mining town, fifteen-year-old Wren Bird lives in a cloistered mountain cabin with her parents. They have no car, no mailbox, and no visitors-except for her mother’s lifelong best friend. Every Sunday, Wren’s father delivers winding sermons in an abandoned gas station, where he takes up serpents and praises the Lord for his blighted white eye, proof of his divinity and k... + Read More
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Series: Enemy of All Mankind A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt Paperback Steven Johnson 9780735211612 $23.00 HISTORY May 11, 2021

“Most confrontations, viewed from the wide angle of history, are minor disputes, sparks that quickly die out. But every now and then, someone strikes a match that lights up the whole planet.”Henry Every was the seventeenth century’s most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular—and wildly inaccurate—reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Every’s most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering of a major shift... + Read More
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Series: Mike Nichols A Life Hardcover Mark Harris 9780399562242 $47.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 02, 2021

A magnificent biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment history, a life of dazzling highs and vertiginous plunges—some of the worst largely unknown until now—by the acclaimed author of Pictures at a Revolution and Five Came BackMike Nichols burst onto the scene as a wunderkind: while still in his twenties, he was half of a hit improv duo with Elaine May that was the talk of the country. Next he directed four consecutive hit plays, won back-to-back Tonys, ushered in a new era of Hollywood moviemaking with Who... + Read More
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Series: Tangled Up in Blue Policing the American City Hardcover Rosa Brooks 9780525557852 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 09, 2021

Journalist and law professor Rosa Brooks goes beyond the “blue wall of silence” in this radical inside examination of American policingIn her forties, with two children, a spouse, a dog, a mortgage, and a full-time job as a tenured law professor at Georgetown University, Rosa Brooks decided to become a cop. A liberal academic and journalist with an enduring interest in law’s troubled relationship with violence, Brooks wanted the kind of insider experience that would help her understand how police officers make sense of their world—and whether t... + Read More
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Series: The Black Church This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Hardcover Henry Louis Gates Jr. 9781984880338 $40.00 HISTORY Feb 16, 2021

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Stony the Road and one of our most important voices on the African-American experience, a powerful new history of the Black church in America as the Black community’s abiding rock and its fortress.For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, segregated West Virginia town, the church was his family and his community’s true center of gravity. Within those walls, voices were lifted up in song to call forth the best in each other, and to comfort each other when times were at their worst.... + Read More
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Series: The Daughters of Kobani A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice Hardcover Gayle Tzemach Lemmon 9780525560685 $36.00 HISTORY Feb 16, 2021

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won“The Daughters of Kobani is an unforgettable and nearly mythic tale of women’s power and courage. The young women profiled in this book fought a fearsome war against brutal men in impossible circumstances—and proved in the process what girls and women can accomplish when given the chance to lead. Brilliantly researched and respectfully reported, this book is a lesson in heroism, sacrifice, and the real meaning of sisterhood. I am so grateful tha... + Read More
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Series: The Empathy Diaries A Memoir Hardcover Sherry Turkle 9780525560098 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 02, 2021

MIT psychologist and bestselling author of RECLAIMING CONVERSATION and ALONE TOGETHER, Sherry Turkle’s intimate memoir of love and workFor decades, Sherry Turkle has shown how we remake ourselves in the mirror of our machines. Here, she illuminates our present search for authentic connection in a time of uncharted challenges. Turkle has spent a career composing an intimate ethnography of our digital world; now, marked by insight, humility, and compassion, we have her own.In this vivid and poignant narrative, Turkle ties together her coming-of-a... + Read More
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Series: 2034 A Novel of the Next World War Hardcover Elliot Ackerman 9781984881250 $36.00 FICTION Mar 09, 2021

From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034—and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration.On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones, conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China Sea when her ship detects an unflagged trawler in clear distress, smoke billowing from its bridge... + Read More
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Series: Fierce Poise Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York Hardcover Alexander Nemerov 9780525560180 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 23, 2021

A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth century’s most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, as she came of age as an artist in postwar New York“The magic of Alexander Nemerov’s portrait of Helen Frankenthaler in Fierce Poise is that it reads like one of Helen’s paintings. His poetic descriptions of her work and his rich insights into the years when Helen made her first artistic breakthroughs are both light and lush, seemingly easy and yet profound. His book is an ode to a truly great artist who, some seventy years after this story begi... + Read More
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Series: The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens--and Ourselves Hardcover Arik Kershenbaum 9781984881960 $37.00 SCIENCE Mar 16, 2021

From a noted Cambridge zoologist, a wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like, using universal laws that govern life on Earth and in space.Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be like, we imagine that life on other planets is the stuff of science fiction. The time has come to abandon our fantasies of space invaders and movie monsters and place our expectations on solid scientific footing.But short of aliens land... + Read More
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Series: Gold Diggers A Novel Hardcover Sanjena Sathian 9781984882035 $36.00 FICTION Apr 06, 2021

A brilliant Indian-American magical realist coming of age story and the debut of a major talentSpanning two continents, two coasts, and four epochs, Gold Diggers expertly balances social satire and magical realism in a classic striver story that skewers the model minority narrative, asking what a community must do to achieve the American dream. In razor sharp and deeply funny prose, Sathian perfectly captures what it is to grow up as a member of a family, of a diaspora, and of the American meritocracy. This blockbuster novel both entertains and... + Read More
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Series: Gold Diggers A Novel Large type / large print edition Paperback Sanjena Sathian 9780593401088 $39.00 FICTION Apr 06, 2021
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Series: The Haunting of Alma Fielding A True Ghost Story Hardcover Kate Summerscale 9780525557920 $37.00 TRUE CRIME Apr 27, 2021

Internationally bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Kate Summerscale follows a ghost hunter in 1938 London in a case that illuminates changing social attitudes toward psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the supernaturalLondon, 1938. In the suburbs of the city, a young housewife has become the eye in a storm of chaos. In Alma Fielding’s modest home, china flies off the shelves and eggs fly through the air; stolen jewellery appears on her fingers, white mice crawl out of her handbag, beetles appear from under her gloves; in the middle of a car ... + Read More
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Series: The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story Hardcover John Freeman 9781984877802 $37.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 04, 2021

A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John FreemanIn the past fifty years, the American short story has changed dramatically. New voices, forms, and mixtures of styles have brought this unique genre a thrilling burst of energy. The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story celebrates this avalanche of talent.This ri... + Read More
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Series: Finish Strong A Father's Code and a Son's Path Hardcover Nate Ebner 9780525560852 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 11, 2021

The inspiring story of Nate Ebner’s bond with his unconventional father and its remarkable consequencesNate Ebner and his father were inseparable. From an early age, they worked side-by-side in the family junkyard, where part of the job was dispensing citizen’s justice to aspiring robbers, and they worked out side-by-side in their grungy homemade gym. Even though Nate was a great peewee football player in football-mad Ohio, he followed his father’s passion for rugby and started playing for the same club as his father when he was only thirteen y... + Read More
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Series: Inside Money Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power Hardcover Zachary Karabell 9781594206610 $40.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS May 18, 2021

A sweeping history of the legendary private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman, exploring its central role in the story of American wealth and its rise to global powerConspiracy theories have always swirled around Brown Brothers Harriman, and not without reason. Throughout the nineteenth century, when America was convulsed by a devastating financial panic essentially every twenty years, Brown Brothers quietly went from strength to strength, propping up the U.S. financial system at crucial moments and catalyzing successive booms, from the c... + Read More
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Series: The World Turned Upside Down Radical Ideas During the English Revolution Paperback Christopher Hill 9780141993133 $27.00 HISTORY Feb 02, 2021

The definitive history of the radical ideas that took hold during the English Revolution, and shape the world we know today.In The World Turned Upside Down, Christopher Hill studies the beliefs of such radical groups as the Diggers, the Ranters, the Levellers and others, and the social and emotional impulses that gave rise to them. The relations between rich and poor classes, the part played by wandering “masterless” men, the outbursts of sexual freedom, the great imaginative creations of Milton and Bunyan—these and many other elements build up... + Read More
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Series: The State of the World Atlas Tenth Edition Paperback Dan Smith 9780143135074 $34.00 REFERENCE Feb 09, 2021

The completely up-to-date edition of a comprehensive overview of the elements that define our worldThe State of the World Atlas is an accessible, unique visual survey of current events and global trends, highlighting the international scope and complexity of many challenges facing the humanity today. With a bold new design, this distinctive atlas presents the latest statistics on international trade and migration, the globalization of work, aging and new health risks (up to and including the COVID-19 pandemic), food and water, energy resources ... + Read More
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Series: The 80/80 Marriage A New Model for a Happier, Stronger Relationship Hardcover Nate Klemp PhD 9781984880772 $35.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Feb 09, 2021

New York Times Editor’s Choice An accessible, transformative guide for couples seeking greater love, connection, and intimacy in our modern worldNate and Kaley Klemp were both successful in their careers, consulting for high-powered companies around the world. Their work as mindfulness and leadership experts, however, often fell to the wayside when they came home in the evening, only to end up fighting about fairness in their marriage. They believed in a model where each partner contributed equally and fairness ruled, but, in reality, they were... + Read More
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Series: Want Me A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire Paperback Tracy Clark-Flory 9780143134619 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 16, 2021

“Intimate, challenging, sad and so very smart. Tracy Clark-Flory’s Want Me is a gift.”—Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of Good and MadA prominent sex journalist shares the confusing, funny, and sometimes painful moments that shaped her young adulthood, offering an honest look at sex and culture for modern young women.Tracy Clark-Flory grew up wedged between fizzy declarations of “girl power” and the sexualized mandates of pop culture. It was “broken glass ceilings” and Girls Gone Wild infomercials. With a vague aim toward se... + Read More