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Series: Four Hundred Souls A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Hardcover Ibram X. Kendi 9780593134047 $42.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 02, 2021

A “choral history” of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 90 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and award-winning historian Keisha N. Blain.2019 marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first captive Africans in Virginia—and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, and Keisha N. Blain, associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh an... + Read More
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Series: The Sum of Us What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together Hardcover Heather McGhee 9780525509561 $37.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 16, 2021

A powerful new exploration about the self-destructive bargain of white supremacy and its rising cost to all of us—including white people—from one of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers.Heather C. McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. As she dug into subject after subject, from the financial crisis to declining wages to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a common problem at the bottom of them all: racism—but not just in the obvious ways that hurt people of c... + Read More
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Series: For the People A Story of Justice and Power Hardcover Larry Krasner 9780593132920 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 20, 2021

Philadelphia’s progressive District Attorney offers an inspiring vision for how people can take back power to reform criminal justice, based on lessons from a life’s work as an advocate for the accused.Larry Krasner spent thirty years learning about America’s carceral system as a civil rights and criminal defense lawyer in Philadelphia, working to get some kind of justice for his clients in a broken system, before deciding that the way to truly transform the system was to get inside of it. So he launched an unlikely campaign to become the Distr... + Read More
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Series: Till the End Hardcover CC Sabathia 9780593133750 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 06, 2021

The memoir of the life of one of the most beloved baseball players of his generation, a raw, compelling story of baseball, family, fame, addiction, loss, and a champion’s resilience.How does it feel to be born with enormous gifts, in a life shadowed by tragedy? What does it mean when the gift that opens the world for us is not enough to stop us from losing the things we love? And what new gifts do we find in that loss? Baseball had been CC Sabathia’s life since he was a kid in gritty, baseball-obsessed Vallejo, California. He was a star by the ... + Read More
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Series: My Broken Language A Memoir Hardcover Quiara Alegría Hudes 9780399590047 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 06, 2021

A Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright tells her lyrical story of coming-of-age against the backdrop of a devastated barrio, with her sprawling, idiosyncratic, love-and-trouble filled Puerto Rican family as a collective muse.Quiara Alegria Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced in her grandmother’s tight South Philly kitchen, “frizzy hair cut short, bangs teased into stiff clouds, sweat glistening in the summer fog, pamper-butt babies weaving between legs.” Quiara was awed by her aunts and uncles and cousins, but haunt... + Read More
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Series: I Had a Brother Once A Poem, A Memoir Hardcover Adam Mansbach 9780593134795 $35.00 POETRY Apr 13, 2021

A brilliant, genre-defying work—both memoir and epic poem—about the struggle for wisdom, grace, and ritual in the face of unspeakable lossmy father saiddavid has taken his own lifeAdam was in media res—in the middle of his own busy life, and approaching a career high in the form of a #1 New York Times bestselling book—when these words from his father opened a chasm beneath his feet. I Had a Brother Once is the story of everything that comes after. In the shadow of David’s inexplicable death, Adam is forced to re-remember a brother he thought he... + Read More
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Series: Minor Feelings An Asian American Reckoning Paperback Cathy Park Hong 9781984820389 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 02, 2021

A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged exploration of the psychological condition of being Asian American, by an award-winning poet and essayistHow do we speak honestly about the Asian American condition—if such a thing exists?Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively confronts this thorny subject, blending memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America. Binding these essays together is Hong’s theory of “minor feelings.” As the daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park H... + Read More
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Series: The Undocumented Americans Paperback Karla Cornejo Villavicencio 9780399592706 $23.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 06, 2021

One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation.Traveling across the country, journalist Karla Cornejo Villavicencio risked arrest at every turn to report the extraordinary stories of her fellow undocumented Americans. Her subjects have every reason to be wary around reporters, but Cornejo Villavicencio has unmatched access to their stories. Her work culminates in a stunning, essential read for our time... + Read More
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Series: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life Hardcover George Saunders 9781984856029 $37.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Jan 12, 2021

From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December, a literary masterclass on what makes great stories work, how to become both a better writer and reader, and what they can tell us about how to live.In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he’s been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy,... + Read More
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Series: Sanctuary A Memoir Hardcover Emily Rapp Black 9780525510949 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 19, 2021

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Still Point of the Turning World comes an incisive memoir about how she came to question and redefine the concept of resilience after the trauma of her first child’s death.“Congratulations on the resurrection of your life,” a colleague wrote to Emily Rapp Black when she announced the birth of her second child. The line made Emily pause. Her first child, a boy named Ronan, had died before he turned three years old from Tay-Sachs disease, an experience she wrote about in her second book, The Sti... + Read More
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Series: The Attributes 25 Hidden Drivers of Optimal Performance Hardcover Rich Diviney 9780593133941 $37.00 SELF-HELP Jan 26, 2021

Do you have what it takes to succeed in any situation? According to a commander who ran Navy SEAL training, true optimal performance goes beyond just skill. It’s all about THE ATTRIBUTES.During his twenty years as a Navy officer and SEAL, Rich Diviney was intimately involved in a specialized SEAL selection process, which whittled a group of hundreds of extraordinary candidates down to a handful of the most elite performers. Diviney was often surprised by which candidates washed out and which succeeded. Someone could have all the right skills an... + Read More
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Series: Big Time Stories Hardcover Jen Spyra 9781984855268 $36.00 FICTION Mar 16, 2021

The debut collection of raucous, dark, strange, satirical stories from the former Late Show with Stephen Colbert writer and New Yorker contributor, featuring an introduction by Stephen Colbert.A bride so desperate to get in shape for her wedding that she enrolls in a new kind of workout program which promises the moon but costs more than she bargained for. A snowman who, on the wish of a child, comes to life in a decidedly less savory way than the childhood classic. And in the title story, a time-hopping 1940s starlet tries to claw her way to t... + Read More
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Series: The Smash-Up A Novel Hardcover Ali Benjamin 9780593229651 $36.00 FICTION Feb 23, 2021

Smart, sublime, and laugh-out-loud funny, The Smash-Up captures—then transcends—our current polarized momentEthan has always been one of the good guys… and for years, nobody has appreciated this fact more than his wife, Zo. That is, until now. Jolted into activism by the 2016 election, Zo’s transformed their home the headquarters for the local resistance, turning their comfortable decades-long marriage inside-out.Meanwhile, their boisterous daughter, Alex, grows more unruly by the day. Ethan’s former business partner needs help in saving the me... + Read More
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Series: Two Truths and a Lie A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice Hardcover Ellen McGarrahan 9780812998665 $37.00 TRUE CRIME Feb 02, 2021

In this powerful memoir, a journalist turned private investigator revisits the case that has haunted her for decades, asking profound questions about grief, complicity, and justice.In 1990, Ellen McGarrahan was a young reporter for the Miami Herald when she covered the execution of Jesse Tafero, a man convicted of murdering two police officers. When it later emerged that Tafero may have been innocent, McGarrahan was appalled by her unquestioning acceptance of the state’s version of events. The revelation propelled her into a new career as a pri... + Read More
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Series: Between Two Kingdoms A Memoir of a Life Interrupted Hardcover Suleika Jaouad 9780399588587 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 09, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER / A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life—from the author of the Life, Interrupted column in The New York TimesIn the summer of 2010, Suleika Jaouad had just graduated from college, preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The “real world” she found, howev... + Read More
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Series: Mutualism Building the Next Economy from the Ground Up Hardcover Sara Horowitz 9780593133521 $37.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Feb 16, 2021

A profound look at the new reality of work, the collapse of the safety net, and a vision for a better way forward rooted in America’s cooperative spirit—from the game-changing founder of the Freelancers Union and chair of the New York Federal ReserveThe progressive twentieth century changed every facet of life for American workers—from how much life you could expect to have, to what you had the right to demand of it. But by 2027, a majority of American workers will go to work every day as a part of the gig economy, and without the traditional e... + Read More
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Series: The Power of Strangers The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World Hardcover Joe Keohane 9781984855770 $37.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jul 13, 2021

An entertaining, surprising, and ultimately inspiring look at what happens when we talk to strangers, and why it affects everything from our own health and well-being to the rise and fall of nations, in the tradition of Susan Cain’s Quiet and Yuval Noah Harari’s SapiensIn our cities, we stand in silent buses and subway cars, barely acknowledging one another, even as rates of loneliness skyrocket. Online, we retreat into ideological silos reinforced by algorithms designed to serve us only familiar ideas and like-minded users. In our politics, we... + Read More
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Series: We Own This City A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption Hardcover Justin Fenton 9780593133668 $37.00 TRUE CRIME Feb 23, 2021

The astonishing true story of “one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation” (New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter who exposed a gang of criminal cops and their years-long plunder of Baltimore.Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year old black man who had died while in police custody. At the same time, drug and violent crime were surging, and that year, Baltimore would reach its deadliest year in over two decades: 342 hom... + Read More
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Series: Feelings A Story in Seasons Hardcover Manjit Thapp 9780593129753 $28.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 02, 2021

A gorgeous visual journey through one young woman’s year of emotions—from the saturated highs of early summer to the grey isolation of late winter.Enter Manjit Thapp’s world, where you’ll find moods that change as quickly as the weather; the different shades of anxiety and hope that each new season brings; and the stages of joy and pain that fuel our growth. From the spark of possibility and jolt of creativity in High Summer, to the need for release from anxiety and pressure during Monsoon, to the desolation and numbness of Winter, Thapp implor... + Read More
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Series: In the Quick A Novel Hardcover Kate Hope Day 9780525511250 $36.00 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

A young, ambitious female astronaut’s life is upended by a fiery love affair that threatens the rescue of a lost crew in this brilliantly imagined novel in the tradition of Station Eleven and The Martian.June is a brilliant but difficult girl with a gift for mechanical invention, who leaves home to begin a grueling astronaut training program. Younger by two years than her classmates at the Peter Reed School for Space Preparation, she flourishes in her classes but struggles to make friends and find true intellectual peers. Six years later, she h... + Read More
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Series: How Beautiful We Were A Novel Hardcover Imbolo Mbue 9780593132425 $37.00 FICTION Mar 09, 2021

From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers comes a sweeping, wrenching story about the collision of a small African village and an American oil company.We should have known the end was near.So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promi... + Read More
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Series: Untitled 9705 Hardcover Random House 9780593229705 $40.00 SCIENCE Mar 07, 2023

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Series: We Play Ourselves A Novel Hardcover Jen Silverman 9780399591525 $37.00 FICTION Feb 09, 2021

In the pursuit of fame, how do you know when you’ve gone too far?After a humiliating scandal, a young writer flees to the West Coast, where she is drawn into the morally ambiguous orbit of a charismatic filmmaker and the teenage girls who are her next subjects.Not too long ago, Cass was a promising young playwright in New York, hailed as “a fierce new voice” and “queer, feminist, and ready to spill the tea.” But at the height of all this attention, Cass finds herself at the center of a searing public shaming, and flees to Los Angeles to escape—... + Read More
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Series: The Gospels Hardcover Sarah Ruden 9780399592942 $37.00 RELIGION Mar 16, 2021

A remarkable and accessible new translation of the Gospels, destined to become a definitive edition of these canonical texts, from one of today’s most respected translators of ancient literature. For millennia, the first four books of the New Testament have not only supported the central tenets of Christianity, but have also proved to be formative texts for the modern Western world.The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John comprise the life and ministry of Jesus Christ—but they are perhaps best understood as four separate versions of the sam... + Read More
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Series: The Truth at the Heart of the Lie How the Catholic Church Lost Its Soul Hardcover James Carroll 9780593134702 $38.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 23, 2021

A former priest and National Book Award-winning writer examines his crisis of faith and his journey to renewal in this beautifully written memoir that also traces the roots of the Catholic sex abuse scandal back to the history and power structure of the church itself.James Carroll weaves together the story of his quest to understand his personal beliefs and his relationship to the Catholic church with the history of the church itself. From his first awakening of faith as a boy to his gradual restlessness and disillusionment as a Catholic, Carro... + Read More
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Series: A Little Devil in America Notes in Praise of Black Performance Hardcover Hanif Abdurraqib 9781984801197 $36.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 30, 2021

From Hanif Abdurraqib, the New York Times bestselling author of Go Ahead in the Rain, comes a stirring meditation on the modes of black performance in America.At the March On Washington in 1963, Josephine Baker was 57 years old, well beyond her most prolific days. But in her speech at the march, she was in a mood to consider her life, her legacy, her departure from the country she was now triumphantly returning to. “I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too,” she told the crowd. From those few words, Hanif Abdur... + Read More
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Series: Something Unbelievable A Novel Hardcover Maria Kuznetsova 9780525511908 $36.00 FICTION Apr 13, 2021

An overwhelmed new mom asks to hear her grandmother’s story of her family’s desperate escape from the Nazis, discovering unexpected parallels to her own life in America in this sharp, heartfelt novel.Larissa is a stubborn, brutally honest woman in her eighties, tired of her home in Kiev, Ukraine—tired of everything in life, really, except for her beloved granddaughter, Natasha. Natasha is tired as well, but that’s because she just had a baby, and she’s struggling to balance her roles as a new mother, a wife, an actress (or she used to be one, a... + Read More
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Series: You You Love Me A You Novel Hardcover Caroline Kepnes 9780593133781 $37.00 FICTION Apr 06, 2021

The highly anticipated new thriller in Caroline Kepnes’s hit You series, now a blockbuster Netflix show…Joe Goldberg is back. And he’s going to start a family—even if it kills him.Joe Goldberg is done with cities, done with the muck and the posers, done with Love. Now, he’s saying hello to nature, to simple pleasures on a cozy island in the Pacific Northwest. For the first time in a long time, he can just breathe.He gets a job at the local library—he does know a thing or two about books—and that’s where he meets her: Mary Kay DiMarco. Librarian... + Read More
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Series: A Short History of Humanity A New History of Old Europe Hardcover Johannes Krause 9780593229422 $36.00 HISTORY Apr 13, 2021

A radical retelling of humanity’s restless, genetically mingled history based on the revolutionary science of archaeogenetics.In this eye-opening book, Johannes Krause, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and journalist Thomas Trappe offer a new way of understanding our past, present, and future. Krause is a pioneer in the revolutionary new science of archaeogenetics, archaeology augmented by revolutionary DNA sequencing technology, which has allowed scientists to uncover a new version of human history reaching b... + Read More
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Series: All That She Carried The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Hardcover Tiya Miles 9781984854995 $37.00 HISTORY Jun 08, 2021

A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft an extraordinary testament to people who are left out of the archives.In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits a rough cotton bag, called Ashley’s Sack, embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love, passed down through generations.In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose gave this sack filled with a few prec... + Read More
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Series: Lincoln in Private What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President Hardcover Ronald C. White 9781984855091 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 04, 2021

From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses, a revelatory glimpse into the mind and soul of our sixteenth president through his private notes to himself, explored together here for the first time.A deeply private man, closed off to even those who worked closely with him, Abraham Lincoln often captured “his best thoughts,” as he called them, in short notes to himself. He would work out personal stances on the biggest issues of the day, never expecting anyone to see these frank, unpolished pieces of writing, whic... + Read More
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Series: The Great Gatsby Paperback F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780593133552 $23.00 FICTION Jan 05, 2021

A fresh repackage of the “Great American Novel”, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best-known work about love, the frailty of success, and darkness lurking amidst the brightness of the Jazz Age, featuring a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and critic, Wesley Morris.Nick Carraway is an aspiring writer; his cousin, Daisy, is married to the fabulously wealthy Tom Buchanan. Their neighbor, Jay Gatsby, throws extravagant and extraordinary parties in the exclusive and hallowed neighborhood of West Egg. The entanglements between these four ch... + Read More
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Series: Young Heroes of the Soviet Union A Memoir and a Reckoning Paperback Alex Halberstadt 9780812978773 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 26, 2021

In this luminous memoir of identity, exile, ancestry, and reckoning, an American writer returns to Russia to face a family history that still haunts him.Can trauma be inherited? It is this question that sets Alex Halberstadt off on a quest to name and acknowledge a legacy of family trauma, and to end a century-old cycle of estrangement.His search takes him across the troubled, enigmatic land of his birth. In Ukraine he tracks down his paternal grandfather—most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph Stalin—to reckon with the ways in which de... + Read More
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Series: Call Sign Chaos Learning to Lead Paperback Jim Mattis 9780812986631 $24.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 02, 2021

A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis—the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time—and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine.Call Sign Chaos is the account of Jim Mattis’s storied career, from wide-ranging leadership roles in three wars to ultimately commanding a quarter of a million troops across the Middle East. Along the way, Mattis recounts his foundational experiences as a leader, extracting the lessons he has le... + Read More
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Series: Conjure Women A Novel Paperback Afia Atakora 9780525511502 $24.00 FICTION Feb 23, 2021

A dazzling debut novel that sweeps across eras and generations to tell the story of a mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing—and the conjuring of curses.The intimate bonds and transgressions among people and across racial divides, during both slaverytime and freedomtime, are at the heart of this mesmerizing and surprising first novel.Like her mother, Rue is an all-knowing midwife, healer, and conjurer of curses on the plantation of Marse Charles. Moving back and forth in time between the years before and after the Civil War, Conju... + Read More
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Series: Yellow Bird Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country Paperback Sierra Crane Murdoch 9780399589171 $24.00 TRUE CRIME Feb 16, 2021

The true crime story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it—an urgent, page-turning work of literary journalism and social criticism.When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addi... + Read More
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Series: Broken Glass Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece Paperback Alex Beam 9780399592737 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

The true story of the intimate relationship that gave birth to the Farnsworth House, a masterpiece of twentieth-century architecture—and disintegrated into a bitter feud over love, money, gender, and the very nature of art.“An amazing story, brilliantly told.”—Sebastian Smee, Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic and author of The Art of RivalryIn 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the German architect Mies van der Rohe, already renowned for his avant-garde buildings, to design a weekend home for her outside of Chicago. Edith was a woman ahead of her tim... + Read More
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Series: Empires of the Sky Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World Paperback Alexander Rose 9780812989984 $27.00 HISTORY May 25, 2021

The Golden Age of Aviation is brought to life by the story of the giant Zeppelin airships that once roamed the sky and ended with the fiery destruction of the Hindenburg.At the dawn of the twentieth century, when human flight was still considered an impossibility, Germany’s Count von Zeppelin vied with the Wright Brothers to build the world’s first successful flying machine. As the Wrights labored to invent the airplane, Zeppelin fathered the wondrous airship, sparking a bitter rivalry between the two types of aircraft and their innovators that... + Read More
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Series: This Is All I Got A New Mother's Search for Home Paperback Lauren Sandler 9780399589973 $24.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 25, 2021

A riveting account of a year in the life of a young, homeless single mother, her quest to find stability and shelter in New York City.More than forty-five million Americans attempt to survive under the poverty line, day by day. Nearly 60,000 people sleep in New York City-run shelters every night—forty percent of them children. This Is All I Got makes this issue deeply personal, vividly depicting one woman’s hope and despair and her steadfast determination to improve her situation, despite the myriad setbacks she encounters.Camila is a twenty-tw... + Read More
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Series: This Is Chance! The Great Alaska Earthquake, Genie Chance, and the Shattered City She Held Together Paperback Jon Mooallem 9780525509929 $24.00 HISTORY Mar 16, 2021

The thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster—and the unlikely woman around whom it pulled together.In 1964, Anchorage, Alaska, was a modern-day frontier town yearning to be a metropolis—the largest, proudest city in a state that was still brand-new. Then, just before sundown on Good Friday, the most powerful earthquake in American history struck. For four and a half minutes, the ground lurched and rolled. Streets cracked open and swallowed buildings whole. When the shaking stopped, night fell and Anchorage went dark. Ever... + Read More
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Series: Entangled Life How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures Paperback Merlin Sheldrake 9780525510321 $24.00 SCIENCE Apr 13, 2021

A mind-altering look at the secret life of fungi and the extraordinary way they shape our world from a lively young Cambridge scientist.Fungi are neither plant nor animal, but they are vital to nearly all living systems. Merlin Shelldrake is one of a handful of scientists who specialize in the behavior of this massively diverse kingdom of life. His mind-bending introduction to this world will show us that humanity is just a small piece of a much larger puzzle.Perched at the border between life and non-life, fungi use diverse cocktails of potent... + Read More
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Series: The Price of Peace Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes Paperback Zachary D. Carter 9780525509059 $27.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Apr 20, 2021

A “spectacular new biography” (Washington Post) of world-changing economist John Maynard Keynes and the big ideas that outlived him.In the spring of 1934, Virginia Woolf sketched an affectionate biographical portrait of her great friend John Maynard Keynes. Writing a full two years before Keynes would revolutionize the economics world with the publication of The General Theory, Woolf jotted down twenty-five themes at the opening of her homage: “Politics. Art. Dancing. Letters. Economics. Youth. The Future. Glands. Genealogies. Atlantis. Mortali... + Read More
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Series: Modern Library Torchbearers Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings Paperback Sui Sin Far 9780593241202 $22.00 FICTION May 11, 2021

A rediscovered classic of linked short stories set in San Francisco’s Chinatown, portraying Chinese Americans as they fall in love, encounter racism, and wrestle with their new, hyphenated identities—a century before writers like Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan.Set in early twentieth-century Chinatown, Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings is the story of Chinese men and women living in the United States as they wrestle with prejudice and forced detention; choose to become wholly Americanized or stay true to their cultural heritage; meet bo... + Read More
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Series: Modern Library Torchbearers The Southern Woman Selected Fiction Paperback Elizabeth Spencer 9780593241189 $24.00 FICTION May 11, 2021

A stunning collection from one of the South’s masters of short fiction, including the novella “Light in the Piazza”Elizabeth Spencer wrote masterly, lyrical short stories and novellas about Southerners for more than fifty years. Her short fiction, infused with the sense of place and the elegant precision of an original voice, has earned her a reputation as one of our most accomplished writers of the form.The Southern Woman collects the best of Spencer’s shorter fiction. The book displays Spencer’s range of place—the agrarian South, Italy in the... + Read More
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Series: Modern Library Torchbearers A Country Doctor Paperback Sarah Orne Jewett 9780593241950 $20.00 FICTION Jul 25, 2023

A forgotten nineteenth-century classic novel about a young woman torn between her passion for medicine and what society expects of her.Bright, vivacious, and “wild as a hawk,” Nan Prince is a young child when she is adopted by the local general practitioner, Dr. Leslie, upon the death of her elderly aunt. Dr. Leslie encourages Nan’s curiosity and indulges her innate interest in medicine, despite the opposition and skepticism of their small Maine town.As Nan grows up, her determination to become a doctor sets her apart from other children. Once ... + Read More
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Series: Arrival Stories Women Share Their Experiences of Becoming Mothers Hardcover Amy Schumer 9780593230282 $37.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Apr 05, 2022

A wide range of women—actors, athletes, academics, CEOs, writers, small-business owners, birth workers, physicians, and activists—share their experiences of becoming mothers in this multifaceted, moving, and revealing collection.Two pink lines on a pregnancy test. The primal scream of a woman pushing through her thirty-fifth hour of labor. The moment a still-wet newborn is placed in his mother’s open arms after an unexpected C-section. The bottomless love reflected in the eyes of a father seeing his daughter for the first time. The moment a bab... + Read More
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Series: This Shining Life A Novel Paperback Harriet Kline 9781984854902 $24.00 FICTION Jun 22, 2021

A boy struggling to process his father’s death believes that his dad has left behind a series of clues to the biggest puzzle of all—the meaning of life—in this deeply felt debut novel about grief and healing.Meet Ollie. He’s eleven years old. He loves rules, has memorized every world capital and every soccer player in the Premier League, and hasn’t yet met a Killer Sodoku puzzle he can’t solve. He hates being asked two questions at once, or when grown-ups use words with double meanings. He loves his family fiercely, but sometimes he cannot cont... + Read More
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Series: Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There Paperback Tara Schuster 9780525509905 $24.00 SELF-HELP Dec 29, 2020

Brutally honest, often hilarious, occasionally heartbreaking lessons in self-care from a young Vice President at Comedy Central deemed “ahead of her time” by Jordan Peele.By the time she was in her late twenties, Tara Schuster was a sought-after TV executive who had worked with Jon Stewart and launched Key & Peele to viral superstardom. By all appearances, she had mastered being a grown-up. But beneath that veneer of success, she was a chronically-anxious, self-medicating mess. No one knew that her road to adulthood had been paved with depressi... + Read More
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Series: Dear Edward A Novel Paperback Ann Napolitano 9781984854803 $24.00 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today A “dazzling” novel that “will break your heart and put it back together again” (J. Courtney Sullivan, bestselling author of Saints for All Occasions) about a young boy who must learn to go on after surviving tragedyWhat does it mean not just to survive, but to truly live?One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them is a Wall Street wunderk... + Read More
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Series: What We Carry A Memoir Paperback Maya Shanbhag Lang 9780525512417 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 06, 2021

If our family stories shape us, what happens when we learn those stories were never true? Who do we become when we shed our illusions about the past?Maya Shanbhag Lang grew up idolizing her brilliant mother, an accomplished physician who immigrated to the United States from India and completed her residency all while raising her children and keeping a traditional Indian home. Maya’s mother had always been a source of support—until Maya became a mother herself. Then the parent who had once been so capable and attentive became suddenly and inexpl... + Read More
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Series: The Life of the Mind A Novel Hardcover Christine Smallwood 9780593229897 $36.00 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWS • A witty, intelligent novel of an American woman on the edge, by a brilliant new voice in fiction—“the glorious love child of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sally Rooney” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)As an adjunct professor of English with no hope of finding a permanent position, Dorothy feels “like a janitor in the temple who continued to sweep because she had no idea what else to do but who had lost her belief in the essential sanctity of the enterprise.” No one but her boyfriend ... + Read More
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Series: Highway Blue A Novel Hardcover Ailsa McFarlane 9780593229118 $34.00 FICTION May 18, 2021

A road trip. A love story. A tale of discovery. This is a hypnotic debut of broken love on the run, from a blazingly original writer. “In front of me the long length of the road wound out, wound out and wound on under hot sky. And I drove…”Highway Blue tells the story of Anne-Marie and Cal: the story of their brief marriage, and also of their long estrangement. And when a violent ambush hurls the two of them cross-country on the road, it becomes the story of their search for salvation. On their ill-at-ease odyssey along the darker seams of the ... + Read More
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Series: The Margot Affair A Novel Paperback Sanaë Lemoine 9781984854452 $23.00 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR’S CHOICEThe secret daughter of a French politician and a famous actress drops the startling revelation that will shatter her family, in this beguiling debut novel of intrigue and betrayal.Margot Louve has lived her whole life as a secret. The hidden daughter of a long-standing affair, she exists with her mother in the shadows, living in a small Parisian apartment on the Left Bank.It is a house of cards that Margot—fueled by a longing to be seen and heard—decides to tumble. The summer of her seventeenth birthday, she meet... + Read More
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Series: Project Hail Mary A Novel Hardcover Andy Weir 9780593135204 $38.99 FICTION May 04, 2021

A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this incredible new science-based thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Martian.Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions o... + Read More
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Series: The Children's Blizzard A Novel Hardcover Melanie Benjamin 9780399182280 $37.00 FICTION Jan 12, 2021

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator’s Wife comes a story of courage on the prairie, inspired by the devastating storm that struck the Great Plains in 1888, threatening the lives of hundreds of immigrant homesteaders, especially schoolchildren.The morning of January 12, 1888, was unusually mild, following a punishing cold spell. It was warm enough for the homesteaders of the Dakota territory to venture out again, and for their children to return to school without their heavy coats—leaving them unprepared when disaster struc... + Read More
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Series: Parent Like It Matters How to Raise Joyful, Change-Making Girls Hardcover Janice Johnson Dias PhD 9781984819628 $36.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Mar 02, 2021

An accessible blueprint to embolden our daughters to be critical thinkers, fearless doers, and joyful change agents for our future—from the proud mother of teen activist Marley Dias, founder of #1000BlackGirlBooks.Renowned sociologist Janice Johnson Dias has devoted her life to nurturing and training girls to become changemakers—whether through her investment in her daughter Marley’s humanitarian projects or through her work with the GrassROOTS Community Foundation “SuperCamp” she co-founded for girls. In these unprecedented times, her work has... + Read More
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Series: Alex Delaware Serpentine An Alex Delaware Novel Hardcover Jonathan Kellerman 9780525618553 $38.99 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

Psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis search for answers to a brutal, decades-old crime in this electrifying psychological thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis is a master detective. He has a near-perfect solve rate and he’s written his own rulebook. Some of those successes—the toughest ones—have involved his best friend, the brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. But Milo doesn’t call Alex in unless cases are “different.”This murder warrants an immediate call: M... + Read More
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Series: Just One Look A Novel Hardcover Lindsay Cameron 9780593159057 $36.00 FICTION Jul 27, 2021

A young woman’s escalating obsession with a seemingly perfect man leads her down a dangerous path in this novel of suspense brimming with envy, desire, and deception.“I inhaled Just One Look. I was going to read one chapter, then one chapter became the whole thing. YUM.”—Caroline Kepnes, New York Times bestselling author of the You seriesEyes aren’t the windows to the soul. Emails are.Cassie Woodson is adrift. After suffering an epic tumble down the corporate ladder, she pays her bills working a thankless temp job at a law firm, reviewing corre... + Read More
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Series: The Affair A Novel Hardcover Danielle Steel 9781984821409 $38.99 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

In this riveting novel, Danielle Steel explores a high-profile affair that reverberates throughout an entire family, from the wounded wife to her husband—torn between two women—to the wife’s close-knit sisters and their mother.When Rose McCarthy’s staff at Mode magazine pitches a cover shoot with Hollywood’s hottest young actress, the actress’s sizzling affair with a bestselling French author is exposed. The author happens to be Rose’s son-in-law, which creates a painful dilemma for her. Her daughter Nadia, a talented interior designer, has bee... + Read More
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Series: Finding Ashley A Novel Hardcover Danielle Steel 9781984821461 $38.99 FICTION Apr 27, 2021

In this blockbuster novel from Danielle Steel, two estranged sisters get the chance to connect again and right the wrongs of the past.Melissa Henderson is leading a quiet life. Once a bestselling author, she now pours all her energy into renovating a Victorian house nestled in the foothills of rural New England. Six years ago, she lost her young son to cancer, and her marriage dissolved. She stopped writing. It was only when she bought the old house that Melissa found a purpose, and came alive as she made it beautiful again.After a wildfire tha... + Read More