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Songs in Ursa Major A novel Paperback Emma Brodie 9781524712037 $23.00 FICTION Jun 22, 2021

A scintillating debut from a major new voice in fiction, Songs in Ursa Major is a love story set in 1969, alive with music, sex, and the trappings of fame.Raised on an island off Massachusetts by a mother who wrote songs for famous musicians, Jane Quinn is singing in her own band before she’s old enough to even read music. When folk legend Jesse Reid hears about Jane’s performance at the island’s music festival, a star is born—and so is a passionate love affair: they become inseparable when her band joins his on tour. Wary of being cast as his ... + Read More
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Songs in Ursa Major A novel Hardcover Emma Brodie 9780593318621 $35.95 FICTION Jun 22, 2021

A scintillating debut from a major new voice in fiction, Songs in Ursa Major is a love story set in 1969, alive with music, sex, and the trappings of fame.Raised on an island off Massachusetts by a mother who wrote songs for famous musicians, Jane Quinn is singing in her own band before she’s old enough to even read music. When folk legend Jesse Reid hears about Jane’s performance at the island’s music festival, a star is born—and so is a passionate love affair: they become inseparable when her band joins his on tour. Wary of being cast as his ... + Read More
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Great Circle A novel Hardcover Maggie Shipstead 9780525656975 $36.00 FICTION May 04, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • The unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost: an “epic trip—through Prohibition and World War II, from Montana to London to present-day Hollywood—and you’ll relish every minute” (People).After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There—after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town ... + Read More
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Rake's Progress The Madcap True Tale of My Political Midlife Crisis Hardcover Rachel Johnson 9780593318195 $35.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 13, 2021

The madcap true story of how Rachel Johnson—born into one of Britain’s most famous political families and known since childhood as “Rake”—tries and fails to get elected in the 2019 hard-fought effort to stop Brexit, running against her older brother, Boris, and what she learns in the process about politics, ambition, family, marriage, and winning and losing.In this fast-paced, irresistible tale, part comic memoir, part diary, part manifesto, Rachel Johnson, daughter of one of England’s most brilliant and idiosyncratic families, tells the story ... + Read More
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Things We Lost to the Water A novel Hardcover Eric Nguyen 9780593317952 $35.95 FICTION May 04, 2021

A captivating novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain connected to one another as their lives are inextricably reshaped. This stunning debut is "vast in scale and ambition, while luscious and inviting … in its intimacy” (The New York Times Book Review).When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried about her husband, Cong, who remains in Vietnam. As she and her boys begin to settle in to life in America, she continues to send letters and tape... + Read More
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Phase Six A novel Hardcover Jim Shepard 9780525655459 $35.95 FICTION May 18, 2021

This "novel of contagion and collapse is also the story of love’s unlikely survival in the most hostile conditions” (Karen Russell, bestselling author of Swamplandia!)—from the National Book Award-nominated author of The Book of Aron.In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their village, and from there Shepard’s harrowing and deeply moving story follows Aleq, one o... + Read More
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The Living Sea of Waking Dreams A novel Hardcover Richard Flanagan 9780593319604 $36.95 FICTION May 25, 2021

From the acclaimed Booker Prize-winning author comes a dazzling novel of family, love and love’s disappointmentsAnna’s aged mother is dying. Condemned by her children’s pity to living, subjected to increasingly desperate medical interventions, she turns her focus to her hospital window, through which she escapes into visions of horror and delight. When Anna’s finger vanishes and a few months later her knee disappears, Anna too feels the pull of the window. She begins to see that all around her, others are similarly vanishing, yet no one else no... + Read More
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Everyone You Hate Is Going to Die And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life Hardcover Daniel Sloss 9780525658146 $37.00 HUMOR Oct 12, 2021

One of this generation’s hottest and boldest young comedians presents a transgressive and hilarious analysis of all of our dysfunctional relationships, and attempts to point us in the vague direction of sanity.Daniel Sloss’s stand-up comedy engages, enrages, offends, unsettles, educates, comforts, and gets audiences roaring with laughter—all at the same time. In his groundbreaking specials, seen on Netflix and HBO, he has brilliantly tackled everything from male toxicity and friendship to love, romance, and marriage—and claims (with the data to... + Read More
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The Sack of Detroit General Motors and the End of American Enterprise Hardcover Kenneth Whyte 9780525521679 $40.00 HISTORY Jun 01, 2021

“Vigorous, provocative…The Sack of Detroit is compelling, bold and stylishly written.”—Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal A provocative, revelatory history of the epic rise—and unnecessary fall—of the U.S. automotive industry, uncovering the vivid story of innovation, politics, and business that led to a sudden, seismic shift in American priorities that is still felt today, from the acclaimed author of Hoover In the 1950s, America enjoyed massive growth and affluence, and no companies contributed more to its succes... + Read More
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Chasing the Thrill Obsession, Death, and Glory in America's Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt Hardcover Daniel Barbarisi 9780525656173 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 18, 2021

“Daniel Barbarisi plunges into an adventure from another era when he goes in search of buried treasure, guided only by a cryptic poem, a mischievous art collector, and the footsteps another pursuer who died on the quest… Every page draws you deeper into this no-man’s-land where fortune—or tragedy—awaits.” —Christopher McDougall, author of Born to RunWhen Forrest Fenn was given a fatal cancer diagnosis, he came up with a bold plan: He would hide a chest full of jewels and gold in the wilderness, and publish a poem that would serve as a map leadi... + Read More
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Widespread Panic A novel Hardcover James Ellroy 9780593319345 $37.00 FICTION Jun 15, 2021

From the modern master of noir comes a novel based on the real-life Hollywood fixer Freddy Otash, the malevolent monarch of the 1950s L.A. underground, and his Tinseltown tabloid Confidential magazine.Freddy Otash was the man in the know and the man to know in ‘50s L.A. He was a rogue cop, a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp—and, most notably, the head strong-arm goon for Confidential magazine. Confidential presaged the idiot internet—and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink, and the scurrilous skank. It mauled misant... + Read More
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The Great Mistake A novel Hardcover Jonathan Lee 9780525658498 $35.95 FICTION Jun 15, 2021

An exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, about one man’s rise to fame and fortune, and his mysterious murder—“engrossing” (Wall Street Journal), “immersive” (The New Yorker), and “seriously entertaining” (The Sunday Times, London). Andrew Haswell Green is dead, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing—on Park Avenue in broad daylight, on Friday the thirteenth—shook the city.Born to a struggling farmer, Green was a self-made man without whom there wo... + Read More
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Geniuses at War Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age Hardcover David A. Price 9780525521549 $37.00 HISTORY Jun 22, 2021

The dramatic, untold story of the brilliant team whose feats of innovation and engineering created the world’s first digital electronic computer—decrypting the Nazis’ toughest code, helping bring an end to WWII, and ushering in the information age.• Winner, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Middleton Award for “a book…that both exemplifies exceptional scholarship and reaches beyond academic communities toward a broad public audience.” • A Kirkus Best Book of 2022 •Planning the invasion of Normandy, the Allies knew that decoding ... + Read More
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Objects of Desire Stories Hardcover Clare Sestanovich 9780593318096 $35.00 FICTION Jun 29, 2021

“A debut story collection of the rarest kind…you wish that every single entry could be an entire novel." —Entertainment WeeklyFresh, intimate stories of women’s lives from an extraordinary new literary voice, laying bare the unexpected beauty and irony in contemporary lifeA college freshman, traveling home, strikesup an odd, ephemeral friendship with the couple next to her on the plane. A mother prepares for her son’s wedding, her own life unraveling as his comes together. A long-lost stepbrother’s visit to New York prompts a family’s reckoning... + Read More
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The Cover Wife A novel Hardcover Dan Fesperman 9780525657835 $36.00 FICTION Jul 06, 2021

From the award-winning author of Safe Houses—an "intelligent, tense and sharply written espionage thriller” (Wall Street Journal) about a CIA agent and a young expat who find themselves caught up in a dangerous world, whose secrets, if revealed, could have disastrous repercussions for them both.When CIA agent Claire Saylor is told that she’ll be going undercover in Hamburg to pose as the wife of an academic who has published a controversial interpretation of the Quran’s promise to martyrs, she assumes the job is a punishment for past unorthodox... + Read More
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Wayward A novel Hardcover Dana Spiotta 9780593318737 $36.00 FICTION Jul 06, 2021

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “furious and addictive new novel” (The New York Times) about mothers and daughters, and one woman’s midlife reckoning as she flees her suburban life.“A virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad.” —The New York Times Book Review“Riddled with insights into aging, womanhood, and discontent, Wayward is as elegant as it is raw, and almost as funny as it is sad.” —Philadelphia Inquirer “A comic, vital new novel.” —The New Yorker Samantha Raymond’... + Read More
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The President and the Frog A novel Hardcover Carolina De Robertis 9780593318416 $34.00 FICTION Aug 03, 2021

A “sublime and gripping novel…about hope: that within the world’s messy pain there is still room for transformation and healing” (Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe), from the acclaimed author of Cantoras. “In the president’s excruciating (and sometimes humorous) encounters with his strangely healing frog…De Robertis daringly invites us to imagine a man’s Promethean struggle to wrest control of his broken psyche under the most dire circumstances possible.” —The New York Times Book ReviewAt his modest home on the edge ... + Read More
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Cry Back My Sea 48 Poems in 6 Waves Hardcover Sarah Arvio 9780593319505 $37.00 POETRY Aug 10, 2021

Stunning poems of obsession, loss, and the desire for a renewed self, from the award-winning poet“I thought I had left behind the darkness / of the heart,” Arvio confesses in the poem “Small War.” The love Arvio traces in these pages is indeed a battle, one in which the best-laid plans are shattered. Rarely has a poet tackled intimate love with so much invention and bravery. In poem after poem, we meet the troubling lover whose nearness and force undoes her. There are moments of reprieve: “my naked body and budding pleasure / in the weath... + Read More
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Skinship Stories Hardcover Yoon Choi 9780593318218 $35.00 FICTION Aug 17, 2021

WINNER OF THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE • The breathtaking debut of an important new voice—centered on a constellation of Korean American families“To encounter these achingly truthful, beautiful stories of newcomer Americans is like gazing up at the starry vault of a perfect night sky; it’s immediately dazzling and impressive, and yet the closer and deeper you look, the more you appreciate the sheer countless brilliance.” —Chang-rae Lee, author of My Year Abroad A long-married couple is forced to confront thei... + Read More
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Competing with Idiots Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait Hardcover Nick Davis 9781400041831 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 14, 2021

A fascinating, complex dual biography of Hollywood’s most dazzling—and famous—brothers, and a dark, riveting portrait of competition, love, and enmity that ultimately undid them both.One most famous for having written Citizen Kane (with Orson Welles, as most recently portrayed in David Fincher’s acclaimed Netflix film, Mank); the other, All About Eve; one, who only wrote screenplays but believed himself to be a serious playwright, slowly dying of alcoholism and disappointment; the other, a four-time Academy Award-winning director, auteur, sorce... + Read More
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The Octopus Museum Poems Paperback Brenda Shaughnessy 9781524711498 $24.00 POETRY Jun 29, 2021

Now in paperback, this collection of bold and scathingly beautiful feminist poems imagines what comes after our current age of environmental destruction, racism, sexism, and divisive politics.Informed as much by Brenda Shaughnessy’s worst fears as a mother as they are by her superb craft as a poet, the poems in The Octopus Museum blaze forth from her pen: in these pages, we see that what was once a generalized fear for our children is now hyper-reasonable, specific, and multiple: school shootings, nuclear attack, loss of health care, a polluted... + Read More
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Stereo(TYPE) Poems Paperback Jonah Mixon-Webster 9781524711948 $24.00 POETRY Jul 13, 2021

A radical, urgent collection of poems about Blackness, the self, and the dismantling of corrupt powers in the fight for freedom. A PEN America Literary Award WinnerJonah Mixon-Webster works at the intersections of space and the body, race and region, sexuality and class. Stereo(TYPE), his debut collection of poetry, is a reckoning and a force, a revision of our most sacred mythologies, and a work of documentary reporting from Mixon-Webster’s hometown of Flint, Michigan, where clean tap water remains an uncertainty and the aftermath of racist po... + Read More
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Tiny Tales Stories of Romance, Ambition, Kindness, and Happiness Hardcover Alexander McCall Smith 9780593316009 $34.95 FICTION May 04, 2021

It is often said that the best things in life come in small packages; anyone in search of proof need look no further than the stories in this collection from the acclaimed author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series: brief, utterly engaging tales that offer lasting surprise and delight, accompanied by charming illustrations by Iain McIntosh. In Tiny Tales, Alexander McCall Smith explores romance, ambition, kindness, and happiness in thirty short stories accompanied by thirty witty cartoons designed by Iain McIntosh, McCall Smith’s longt... + Read More
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England's Magnificent Gardens How a Billion-Dollar Industry Transformed a Nation, from Charles II to Today Hardcover Roderick Floud 9781101871034 $54.00 GARDENING Jun 15, 2021

An altogether different kind of book on English gardens—the first of its kind—a look at the history of England’s magnificent gardens as a history of Britain itself, from the seventeenth-century gardens of Charles II to those of Prince Charles today. In this rich, revelatory history, Sir Roderick Floud, one of Britain’s preeminent economic historians, writes that gardens have been created in Britain since Roman times but that their true growth began in the seventeenth century; by the eighteenth century, nurseries in London took up 100 acres, w... + Read More
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There Plant Eyes A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness Hardcover M. Leona Godin 9781524748715 $37.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 01, 2021

From Homer to Helen Keller, from Dune to Stevie Wonder, from the invention of braille to the science of echolocation, M. Leona Godin explores the fascinating history of blindness, interweaving it with her own story of gradually losing her sight. “[A] thought-provoking mixture of criticism, memoir, and advocacy." —The New YorkerThere Plant Eyes probes the ways in which blindness has shaped our ocularcentric culture, challenging deeply ingrained ideas about what it means to be “blind.” For millennia, blindness has been used to signify such things... + Read More
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The Engagement America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage Hardcover Sasha Issenberg 9781524748739 $54.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 01, 2021

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The riveting story of the conflict over same-sex marriage in the United States—the most significant civil rights breakthrough of the new millennium"Full of intimate details, battling personalities, heated court cases, public persuasion.” —John Williams, The New York TimesOn June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal across the United States. But the road to that momentous decision was much longer than many know. In t... + Read More
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Morningside Heights A Novel Hardcover Joshua Henkin 9781524748357 $35.95 FICTION Jun 15, 2021

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Book • When Ohio-born Pru Steiner arrives in New York in 1976, she follows in a long tradition of young people determined to take the city by storm. But when she falls in love with and marries Spence Robin, her hotshot young Shakespeare professor, her life takes a turn she couldn’t have anticipated. Thirty years later, something is wrong with Spence. The Great Man can’t concentrate; he falls asleep reading The New York Review of Books. With their daughter, Sarah, away at medical school, Pru must st... + Read More
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Series: Pantheon Graphic Library Seek You A Journey Through American Loneliness Hardcover Kristen Radtke 9781524748067 $40.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jul 13, 2021

From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This—a timely and moving meditation on isolation and longing, both as individuals and as a society.There is a silent epidemic in America: loneliness. Shameful to talk about and often misunderstood, loneliness is everywhere, from the most major of metropolises to the smallest of towns. In Seek You, Kristen Radtke’s wide-ranging exploration of our inner lives and public selves, Radtke digs into the ways in which we attempt to feel closer to one another, and the distance that remains. Through the l... + Read More
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Bolla A Novel Hardcover Pajtim Statovci 9781524749200 $35.00 FICTION Jul 06, 2021

From the author of National Book Award finalist Crossing comes an unlikely love story in Kosovo with unpredictable consequences that reverberates throughout a young man’s life—a dazzling tale full of fury, tenderness, longing, and lust.“Devastating in the most beautiful ways. From the first pages you realize that you are in the hands of an absolute artist.” —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, BabyApril 1995. Arsim is a twenty-four-year-old, recently married student at the University of Pristina, in Kosovo, keeping his head down to gain a un... + Read More
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M, King's Bodyguard A Novel Hardcover Niall Leonard 9781524749057 $36.00 FICTION Jul 13, 2021

A thrilling, “action-packed page-turner” (Wall Street Journal) based on a true story of anarchy and assassination in Edwardian London, centred around one detective’s mission to preserve the life of his king and prevent a bloody war in Europe. From humble beginnings in Ireland, William Melville has risen through hard work, intelligence, and occasional brute force to become head of Scotland Yard’s Special Branch, personal bodyguard to Queen Victoria and her family, and the scourge of anarchists at home and abroad. But when the aged Queen dies i... + Read More
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A Song Everlasting A Novel Hardcover Ha Jin 9781524748791 $37.00 FICTION Jul 27, 2021

From the universally admired, National Book Award-winning, bestselling author of Waiting—a timely novel that follows a famous Chinese singer severed from his country, as he works to find his way in the United States At the end of a U.S. tour with his state-supported choir, popular singer Yao Tian takes a private gig in New York to pick up some extra cash for his daughter’s tuition fund, but the consequences of his choice spiral out of control. On his return to China, Tian is informed that the sponsors of the event were supporters of Taiwan’s... + Read More
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The Oracle of Night The History and Science of Dreams Hardcover Sidarta Ribeiro 9781524746902 $42.50 SCIENCE Aug 17, 2021

A groundbreaking history of the human mind told through our experience of dreams—from the earliest accounts to current scientific findings—and their essential role in the formation of who we are and the world we have made.“A resounding case for the mystery, beauty and cognitive importance of dreams.” —The New York Times What is a dream? Why do we dream? How do our bodies and minds use them? These questions are the starting point for this unprecedented study of the role and significance of this phenomenon. An investigation on a grand scale, i... + Read More
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Olympus, Texas A Novel Hardcover Stacey Swann 9780385545211 $35.95 FICTION May 04, 2021

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! • A bighearted novel with technicolor characters, plenty of Texas swagger, and a powder keg of a plot in which marriages struggle, rivalries flare, and secrets explode, all with a clever wink toward classical mythology.For fans of Madeline Miller’s Circe: “The Iliad meets Friday Night Lights in this muscular, captivating debut” (Oprah Daily). The Briscoe family is once again the talk of their small town when March returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his brother’s wife.... + Read More
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Series: Avery Keene While Justice Sleeps A Thriller Hardcover Stacey Abrams 9780385546577 $37.00 FICTION May 11, 2021

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A gripping, complexly plotted thriller set within the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court, where a young law clerk finds herself embroiled in a shocking mystery crafted by one of the most preeminent judges in America—from celebrated national leader and bestselling author Stacey Abrams.“Abrams follows in Dan Brown’s footprint with this masterfully plotted thriller that unfolds like the ultimate chess match—bold move to bolder move with lives hanging in the balance.”—Lisa Gardner, author of Before She Disappeared “A fi... + Read More
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Cheated The Inside Story of the Astros Scandal and a Colorful History of Sign Stealing Hardcover Andy Martino 9780385546799 $37.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Jun 08, 2021

“A baseball book that reads like a spy novel—a story about cheaters and the cheated that has the power to forever change how we feel about the game.” —Brian Williams, MSNBC anchor and host of The 11th Hour The definitive insider story of one of the biggest cheating scandals to ever rock Major League Baseball, bringing down high-profile coaches and players, and exposing a long-rumored “sign-stealing” dark side of baseballThe ensuing scandal rivaled that of the 1919 “Black Sox” and the more recent steroid era, and became one of the most significa... + Read More
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Rainbow Milk A Novel Hardcover Paul Mendez 9780385547062 $35.95 FICTION Jun 08, 2021

Nominated for a 34th annual Lambda Literary Award • An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling new voice, Rainbow Milk follows nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of his Jehovah’s Witness upbringing. “The kind of novel you never knew you were waiting for.” —Marlon JamesIn the 1950s, ex-boxer Norman Alonso is a determined and humble Jamaican who has immigrated to Britain with his wife and children to secure a brighter future. Blighted with unexpected... + Read More
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Bath Haus A Thriller Hardcover P. J. Vernon 9780385546737 $35.95 FICTION Jun 15, 2021

Nominated for a 34th annual Lambda Literary Award • A scintillating thriller with an emotional punch: “The tension builds to unbearably claustrophobic levels. To say more would rob readers of the ’no, he didn’t’ suspense that makes Bath Haus an unexpectedly twisted, heart-pounding cat-versus-mouse thriller" (Los Angeles Times).Oliver Park, a recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving, wealthy partner in Nathan, a prominent DC trauma surgeon. Despite their difference in age and disparate backgrou... + Read More
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Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light Essays Hardcover Helen Ellis 9780385546157 $30.00 HUMOR Jul 13, 2021

The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with a viciously funny, deeply felt collection of essays on friendship among grown-ass women.When Helen Ellis and her lifelong friends arrive for a reunion on the Redneck Riviera, they unpack more than their suitcases: stories of husbands and kids; lost parents and lost jobs; powdered onion dip and photographs you have to hold by the edges; dirty jokes and sunscreen with SPF higher than they hair-sprayed their bangs senior year; and a bad mammogram. It’s a diagnosis tha... + Read More
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Red Traitor A Novel Hardcover Owen Matthews 9780385543422 $37.00 FICTION Jul 20, 2021

An electrifying new thriller set during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, seen from a bone-chilling vantage point: somewhere off the Florida coastline, trapped aboard the claustrophobic confines of an isolated Soviet submarine with open orders to fire its nuclear payload. The year is 1962, and KGB Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vasin is chasing a white elephant: the long-rumored existence of an American spy embedded at the highest echelon of Soviet power. In a wild-goose chase that has Vasin engaged in high-stakes espionage against a rival ... + Read More
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The Perfume Thief A Novel Hardcover Timothy Schaffert 9780385545747 $36.00 FICTION Aug 03, 2021

A stylish, sexy page-turner set in Paris on the eve of World War II, where Clementine, a queer American ex-pat and notorious thief, is drawn out of retirement and into one last scam when the Nazis invade. “A hint of Moulin Rouge, a whiff of Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale, a little spritz of Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief…The Perfume Thief is a pulse-pounding thriller and a sensuous experience you’ll want to savor.”—Oprah Daily “[A] superb novel…This is historical fiction at its finest, vivid and beautifully rendered.” —Emily St. John Mandel, a... + Read More
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Power Play Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century Hardcover Tim Higgins 9780385545457 $40.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Aug 03, 2021

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BUSINESS BESTSELLER • The riveting inside story of Elon Musk and Tesla’s bid to build the world’s greatest car—from award-winning Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter Tim Higgins. “A deeply reported and business-savvy chronicle of Tesla’s wild ride.” —Walter Isaacson, New York Times Book ReviewTesla is the envy of the automotive world. Born at the start of the millennium, it was the first car company to be valued at $1 trillion. Its CEO, the mercurial, charismatic Elon Musk has become not just a celebrity but the ... + Read More
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How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe, from the Origins of Atoms to the Big Bang Hardcover Harry Cliff 9780385545655 $40.00 SCIENCE Aug 10, 2021

NAMED A BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF 2021 BY KIRKUS * An acclaimed experimental physicist at CERN takes you on an exhilarating search for the most basic building blocks of our universe, and the dramatic quest to unlock their cosmic origins. “A fascinating exploration of how we learned what matter really is, and the journey matter takes from the Big Bang, through exploding stars, ultimately to you and me.” (Sean Carroll) Carl Sagan once quipped, “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” But finding the ultimat... + Read More
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Silent Winds, Dry Seas A Novel Hardcover Vinod Busjeet 9780385547024 $36.00 FICTION Aug 17, 2021

ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A sweeping debut novel that explores the intimate struggle for independence and success of a young descendant of Indian indentured laborers in Mauritius, a small multiracial island in the Indian Ocean. “The beauty of Busjeet’s splendid, often breathtaking book is, like the best stories of journeys to young adulthood, the precious and well-observed and heartbreaking details of day-to-day life.” —Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Known WorldIn the 1950s, Vishnu Bhushan is a young boy yet t... + Read More
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God, Human, Animal, Machine Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning Hardcover Meghan O'Gieblyn 9780385543828 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 24, 2021

A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States."Meghan O’Gieblyn is a brilliant and humble philosopher, and her book is an explosively thought-provoking, candidly personal ride I wished never to end…This book is such an original synthesis of ideas and disclosures. It introduces what will soon be called the O’Gieblyn genre of essay writing.” —Heidi Julavits, author of The Folded Clock For most of human history the... + Read More
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Tall Men, Short Shorts The 1969 NBA Finals: Wilt, Russ, Lakers, Celtics, and a Very Young Sports Reporter Hardcover Leigh Montville 9780385545198 $39.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Jul 13, 2021

This “part memoir, part sports story” (Wall Street Journal) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Big Bam chronicles the clash of NBA titans over seven riveting games—Celtics versus Lakers, Russell versus Chamberlain—covered by one young reporter. Welcome to the 1969 NBA Finals!They don’t set up any better than this. The greatest basketball player of all time - Bill Russell - and his juggernaut Boston Celtics, winners of ten (ten!) of the previous twelve NBA championships, squeak through one more playoff run and land in the Finals a... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Contemporaries Friends and Strangers A novel Paperback J. Courtney Sullivan 9780525436478 $23.00 FICTION Apr 27, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICKAn insightful, hilarious, and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different stages in life, from the bestselling author of Maine and Saints for All Occasions.Elisabeth, an accomplished journalist and new mother, is struggling to adjust to life in a small town after nearly twenty years in New York City. Alone in the house with her infant son all day (and awake with him much of the night), she feels uneasy, adrift. Sh... + Read More
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Exercise of Power American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World Paperback Robert M. Gates 9780525432586 $24.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 04, 2021

From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 bestselling memoir, Duty, a candid, sweeping examination of power, and how it has been exercised, for good and bad, by American presidents in the post-Cold War world. Since the end of the Cold War, the global perception of the United States has progressively morphed from dominant international leader to disorganized entity. Robert Gates argues that this transformation is the result of the failure of political leaders to understand the complexity of American power, its expansive... + Read More
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Seven Demons Paperback Aidan Truhen 9780593311622 $22.95 FICTION May 04, 2021

Jack Price and his Seven Demons, the most dangerous and feared assassins in the world, are taking on the bank heist of the century. Meet Jack Price and the Seven Demons: Doc, the evil mad scientist presently using Jack for sex; Rex, an explosives expert who doesn’t ask too many questions so long as something goes boom; Volodya, a Ukrainian assassin who may or may not be a cannibal; Charlie, a comic book artist with computer skills and an anarchist bent; Lucille, whose specialty is razor-edged hugs; and Jack’s predecessor, Fred, who doesn’t cont... + Read More
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Superman's Not Coming Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It Paperback Erin Brockovich 9780525434597 $23.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 20, 2021

From the environmental activist, consumer advocate, and renowned crusader comes a riveting book that is “part memoir, part non-fiction report, and part call-to-action—a plea to readers to engage with the water crisis in America because no one else is going to do the work for you” (InStyle Magazine). Clean water is as basic to life on planet Earth as hydrogen or oxygen. In her long-awaited book—her first to reckon with the condition of water on our planet—Erin Brockovich shows us what’s at stake. She writes powerfully of the fraudulent science d... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Classics An American Tragedy Paperback Theodore Dreiser 9780593313329 $20.99 FICTION May 25, 2021

This landmark 1925 novel--the basis for the acclaimed 1951 film A Place in the Sun--is both a riveting crime story and a devastating commentary on the American dream.Theodore Dreiser was inspired by a true story to write this novel about an ambitious, socially insecure young man who finds himself caught between two very different women--and two very different visions of what his life could be. Clyde Griffiths was born poor and is poorly educated, but his prospects begin to improve when he is offered a job by a wealthy uncle who owns a shirt fac... + Read More
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In the Land of Good Living A Journey to the Heart of Florida Paperback Kent Russell 9780525563198 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 11, 2021

A wickedly smart, funny, and irresistibly off-kilter account of an improbable thousand-mile journey on foot into the heart of modern Florida, the state that Russell calls "America Concentrate."In the summer of 2016, Kent Russell--broke, at loose ends, hungry for adventure--set off to walk across Florida. Mythic, superficial, soaked in contradictions, maligned by cultural elites, segregated from the South, and literally vanishing into the sea, Florida (or, as he calls it: "America Concentrate") seemed to Russell to embody America's divided soul... + Read More
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Squeeze Me A novel Paperback Carl Hiaasen 9780525435280 $24.95 FICTION May 11, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A hilarious novel of social and political intrigue, set against the glittering backdrop of Florida’s gold coast, from the author of Skinny Dip and Razor Girl“If you could use some wild escapism right now, Hiaasen is your guy.” —The New York Times WITH A NEW EPILOGUEAt the height of Palm Beach’s charity ball season, Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons, a prominent member of geriatric high society, suddenly vanishes during a swank gala. Kiki Pew was a founding member of the Potussies, a group of women dedicated to supporting the Pre... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Classics The Waste Land and Other Poems Paperback T. S. Eliot 9780593313343 $15.00 POETRY May 11, 2021

A Vintage Classics edition of T. S. Eliot's most groundbreaking poems"This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper." Those famous concluding lines of T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" have resonated with readers for nearly a century. As with "April is the cruelest month," from The Waste Land and "Do I dare disturb the universe?," from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," Eliot's words have permanently entered our cultural bloodstream. Through the poems in this volume, representing his first four published collections, Eliot res... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Contemporaries Animal Spirit Stories Paperback Francesca Marciano 9780525565741 $23.00 FICTION May 18, 2021

From the author of the acclaimed story collection The Other Language comes a fresh collection of six colorful, richly realized stories told with inimitable humor, exactitude, and heart.Centered in Rome but transporting us into worlds as varied and alluring as they are emotionally real, Francesca Marciano’s stories paint landscapes that are populated—vividly, hauntingly—by animals: from violent seagulls and starlings circling the evening sky in exhilarating formation to magical snakes and a tiny dog on the side of a deserted road. In unforgettab... + Read More
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Stephen Hawking A Memoir of Friendship and Physics Paperback Leonard Mlodinow 9781984898395 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 18, 2021

This “vivid and compelling account” (The Wall Street Journal) opens not only the inner workings of one of physics’ greatest minds, but also a view into an extraordinary friendship and the human capacity to overcome insurmountable challenges.A BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR (The Telegraph, The Guardian)A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (New Statesmen) One of the most influential physicists of our time, Stephen Hawking changed our understanding of the cosmos. Recalling his nearly two decades as Hawking’s collaborator and friend, Leonard Mlodinow brings this... + Read More
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Hollow Paperback Brian Catling 9780593081150 $23.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2021

From the acclaimed author of the Vorrh Trilogy comes an epic odyssey following a group of mercenaries hired to escort a divine oracle on a long journey amidst a war between the living and the dead.Sheltering beneath Das Kagel, the cloud-scraping structure rumored to be the Tower of Babel, the sacred Monastery of the Eastern Gate descends into bedlam. Their ancient oracle, Quite Testiyont—whose prophesies helped protect the church—has died, leaving the monks vulnerable to the war raging between the living and the dead. Tasked by the High Church ... + Read More
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Series: Vintage International Juneteenth (Revised) Paperback Ralph Ellison 9780593314616 $23.00 FICTION May 18, 2021

From Ralph Ellison, author of the classic novel Invisible Man, the long-awaited second great narrative—with a new preface by National Book Award-winning author Charles Johnson and an updated introduction by Ellison’s literary executor John F. Callahan.Here is the master of American vernacular—the preacher’s hyperbole and the politician’s rhetoric, the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech—at the height of his powers, telling a powerful, evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century. “Tell me what happened while there’s still ti... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Contemporaries Push (Revised) Paperback Sapphire 9780593314609 $21.95 FICTION Jun 22, 2021

A new 25th anniversary edition of the instant classic that inspired the major motion picture and Sundance Film Festival winner Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire, whose power and ferocity influenced a generation of writers.Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem’s casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher,... + Read More
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Another Marvelous Thing Paperback Laurie Colwin 9780593313558 $22.00 FICTION Jun 08, 2021

The acclaimed author of Happy All the Time charts the story of a whirlwind love affair of two people who are happily married (just not to each other)—from its fabulous inception to its inevitable end. • “Virtually flawless…. A tour de force.” —Los Angeles TimesBilly and Francis couldn’t be more different, at least when it comes to age and disposition, but that doesn’t prevent them from falling in love and settling into the easy rhythms of romance—phone calls every morning, rendezvous every weekday afternoon, the odd out-of-town escape—despite b... + Read More
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Family Happiness A Novel Paperback Laurie Colwin 9780593313541 $22.00 FICTION Jun 08, 2021

From the acclaimed author of Home Cooking comes a heartfelt novel about a midlife crisis and a woman tired of being taken for granted—and a reminder that family, like happiness, can take many forms.“Colwin wrings magic from ordinary lives.” —Entertainment WeeklyTo the rest of the world, Polly Solo-Miller Demarest lives acharmed life. She has a beautiful home, a dashing lawyer husband, and two delightful children. But beneath this idyllic surface, the pressure of being the “perfect flower”of an illustrious family—and a stable, always-available w... + Read More