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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: Great Circle A novel Hardcover Maggie Shipstead 9780525656975 $36.00 FICTION May 04, 2021

Spanning Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London, and modern-day Los Angeles, Great Circle tells the unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost.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 in beat-up biplanes—Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight.... + Read More
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Series: 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 (known since childhood as “Rake”)—born into one of Britain’s most famous political families—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 of... + Read More
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Series: Things We Lost to the Water A novel Hardcover Eric Nguyen 9780593317952 $35.95 FICTION May 04, 2021

A stunning debut 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.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 tapes back to Cong, hopeful that they will be reunited and her children will grow up with a father.But with time, Huong realizes she w... + Read More
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Series: Phase Six A novel Hardcover Jim Shepard 9780525655459 $35.95 FICTION May 18, 2021

A spare and gripping novel about the next pandemic—completed by the award-winning Jim Shepard before COVID-19 even emerged—that reads like a fictional sequel to our current crisis.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 of the few survivors of the initial outbreak, through h... + Read More
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Series: The Living Sea of Waking Dreams A novel Hardcover Richard Flanagan 9780593319604 $36.95 FICTION May 25, 2021

From the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning The Narrow Road to the Deep North comes a wrenching novel of family, climate change, and the resilience of the human spirit—an elegy to our disappearing world.In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna’s aged mother is dying—if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living, subjected to increasingly desperate medical interventions, she instead turns her focus to her hospital window, through which she escapes into visions of horror and delight. When Anna’... + Read More
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Series: 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 $34.95 HUMOR Oct 12, 2021

One of this generation’s hottest and boldest young comedians, Daniel Sloss 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 (wi... + Read More
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Series: The Sack of Detroit General Motors, Its Enemies, and the End of American Enterprise Hardcover Kenneth Whyte 9780525521679 $40.00 HISTORY Jun 01, 2021

A provocative, ground-breaking history of the downfall of the American auto industry from the widely praised author of Herbert Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times.In the 1950s, America enjoyed massive growth and affluence, and no companies contributed more to its success than automakers. They were the biggest and best businesses in the world, their leadership revered, their methods imitated, and their brands synonymous with the nation’s aspirations. But by the end of the 1960s, Detroit’s profits had evaporated and its famed exe... + Read More
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Series: Chasing the Thrill Obsession, Death, and Glory in America's Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt Hardcover Daniel Barbarisi 9780525656173 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 08, 2021

A full-throttle, first-person account of the treasure hunt created by eccentric millionaire art dealer—and, some would say, robber baron—Forrest Fenn that became the stuff of contemporary legend. When 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 leading to the treasure’s secret location. But he didn’t die, and after hiding the treasure in 2010, Fenn instead presided over a decade-long gold rush that saw ... + Read More
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Series: Widespread Panic A novel Hardcover James Ellroy 9780593319345 $37.00 FICTION Jun 15, 2021

From the modern master of noir comes a novel about the malevolent monarch of the 1950s Hollywood underground—a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies, FBI finks, celebrity smut films, and strange bedfellows.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 scur... + Read More
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Series: The Great Mistake A novel Hardcover Jonathan Lee 9780525658498 $35.95 FICTION Jun 15, 2021

From the acclaimed author of High Dive comes an enveloping, exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, a story of one man’s rise to fame and fortune, and his mysterious murder.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. Green was born to a poor farmer, yet without him there would be no Central Park, no Metropolitan Museum of Art, no Museum of Natural Hi... + Read More
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Series: 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 a brilliant team, the world’s first digital electronic computer, and the race to decrypt the Nazis’ toughest code Planning the invasion of Normandy, the Allies knew that decoding the communications of the Nazi high command was imperative for its success. But standing in their way was an encryption machine they called Tunny (British English for “tuna”), which was vastly more difficult to crack than the infamous Enigma cipher. To surmount this seemingly impossible challenge, Alan Turing, the Enigma codebreaker, bro... + Read More
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Series: Objects of Desire Stories Hardcover Clare Sestanovich 9780593318096 $35.00 FICTION Jun 29, 2021

Eleven stories that lay bare the beauties and ironies of contemporary life—a debut of sly and disarming power that announces an extraordinary new literary voice. *Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Lit Hub and The Millions*A college freshman, flying home, strikes up an odd, ephemeral friendship with the couple next to her on the airplane. A long-lost stepbrother’s visit to New York prompts a reckoning with a family’s old taboos. An office worker, exhausted by the ambitions of the men around her, emerges into the gridlocked city one aftern... + Read More
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Series: The Cover Wife A novel Hardcover Dan Fesperman 9780525657835 $35.95 FICTION Jul 06, 2021

From the author of Safe Houses—An electrifying new novel about a CIA agent and a young expat who find themselves caught up in a dangerous world.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 behavior. But when she discovers her team leader is Paul Bridger, another Agency maverick, she realizes there may be more to this mission than meets th... + Read More
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Series: Wayward A novel Hardcover Dana Spiotta 9780593318737 $35.95 FICTION Jul 06, 2021

A moving, funny, engrossing novel about mothers and daughters, and one woman’s midlife reckoning, from the renowned author of Stone Arabia and Eat the DocumentOn the heels of the election of 2016, Samantha Raymond’s life begins to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at fifty-two she finds herself staring into “the Mids”—that hour of supreme wakefulness between three and four in the morning in which women of a certain age suddenly find themselves contemplating motherhood, mortality, and, in this case,... + Read More
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Series: The President and the Frog A novel Hardcover Carolina De Robertis 9780593318416 $33.95 FICTION Aug 03, 2021

From the acclaimed author of Cantoras comes an incandescent novel—political, mystical, timely, and heartening—about the power of memory, and the pursuit of justice.At his modest home on the edge of town, the former president of an unnamed Latin American country receives a journalist in his famed gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe. Once known as the Poorest President in the World, his reputation is the stuff of myth: a former guerilla who was jailed for inciting revolution before bec... + Read More
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Series: Cry Back My Sea 48 Poems in 6 Waves Hardcover Sarah Arvio 9780593319505 $36.00 POETRY Aug 10, 2021

Stunning poems of obsession, loss, and the desire for a renewed self, from the award-winning poet and translator of Lorca.“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 plea... + Read More
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Series: Skinship Stories Hardcover Yoon Choi 9780593318218 $34.95 FICTION Aug 17, 2021

An exquisite collection from a breathtakingly new voice—centered on a constellation of Korean American families, these stories announce the debut of a master of short fiction.A long-married couple is forced to confront their friend’s painful past when a church revival comes to a nearby town…A woman in an arranged marriage struggles to connect with the son she hid from her husband for years…A well-meaning sister unwittingly reunites an abuser with his victims…Through the lives of an indelible array of individuals—musicians, housewives and pastor... + Read More
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Series: Competing with Idiots Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait Hardcover Nick Davis 9781400041831 $42.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 24, 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, most recently portrayed in David Fincher’s newly released 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, sor... + Read More
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Series: 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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Series: 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. Jonah 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 policies persist. Challenging stereot... + Read More
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Series: Tiny Tales Stories of Romance, Ambition, Kindness, and Happiness Hardcover Alexander McCall Smith 9780593316009 $34.95 FICTION May 04, 2021

From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series comes a delightful compendium of very short fiction and comics that celebrate the joy and absurdity of the human experience.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: brief, utterly engaging tales that offer lasting surprise and delight. From the original Greek financial crisis (when the profligate Gods of Olympus were punished by Odin and the other Norse Gods for the... + Read More
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Series: England's Magnificent Gardens How a Billion-Dollar Industry Transformed a Nation, from Charles II to Today Hardcover Roderick Floud 9781101871034 $54.00 GARDENING May 25, 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 17th-century gardens of Charles II to those of Prince Charles today; how gardens transformed England; what they cost in their time and the billion-dollar industry they created.“One of the most important books on garden history in the last half century. For anyone serious about the subject, Floud’s book is a must buy.” —Historic GardensIn this rich, revelatory history, one o... + Read More
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Series: There Plant Eyes A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness Hardcover M. Leona Godin 9781524748715 $37.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 01, 2021

A probing, witty, and deeply insightful history of blindness—in Western culture and literature, and in the author’s own experience—that ranges from Homer and Milton to Louis Braille, Helen Keller, and Stevie WonderM. Leona Godin begins her fascinating, wide-ranging study with an exploration of how the idea of sight is inextricably linked with knowledge and understanding; how “blindness” has, for millennia, been used as a metaphor for ignorance; and how, in metaphorical terms, blindness can also be made to suggest a door to artistic or spiritual... + Read More
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Series: The Engagement America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage Hardcover Sasha Issenberg 9781524748739 $54.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 01, 2021

The riveting story of the conflict over same-sex marriage in the United States—the most significant civil rights breakthrough of the new millenniumOn 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 this definitive account, Sasha Issenberg vividly guides us through same-sex marriage’s unexpected path from the unimaginable to the inevitable. It is a story that begins in... + Read More
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Series: Morningside Heights A Novel Hardcover Joshua Henkin 9781524748357 $35.95 FICTION Jun 15, 2021

A tender, powerful, and big-hearted novel about love in the face of loss, from the award-winning author of The World Without You and Matrimony When Ohio-born Pru Steiner arrives in New York in 1976 after graduating from Yale, she follows in a long tradition of young people determined to take the city by storm. But when she falls in love with 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 a... + 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 06, 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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Series: Bolla A Novel Hardcover Pajtim Statovci 9781524749200 $34.95 FICTION Jul 06, 2021

From the author of Crossing—a National Book Award finalist—comes a dazzling tale full of fury, tenderness, longing, and lust.April 1995. Arsim is a twenty-two-year-old, recently married student at the University of Pristina, in Kosovo, keeping his head down to gain a university degree in a time and place deeply hostile to Albanians. In a café he meets a young man named Miloš, a Serb. Before the day is out, everything has changed for both of them, and within a week two milestones erupt in Arsim’s married life: his wife announces her first pregna... + Read More
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Series: M, King's Bodyguard A Novel Hardcover Niall Leonard 9781524749057 $35.95 FICTION Jul 13, 2021

Based on a true story, M, King’s Bodyguard is a gripping, atmospheric thriller about anarchy and assassination in Edwardian London, and 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 Britain’s Special Branch, personal bodyguard to Queen Victoria and her family, and the scourge of anarchists at home and abroad. But when in January 1901 the aged Queen dies and the ... + Read More
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Series: A Song Everlasting A Novel Hardcover Ha Jin 9781524748791 $35.95 FICTION Jul 27, 2021

From the universally admired, award-winning author of Waiting and The Boat Rocker, an urgent, timely novel that follows a famous Chinese singer severed from his country as he works to find his way in the United States.After popular singer Yao Tian takes a private gig in New York at the end of a tour with his state-supported choir, expecting to pick up some extra cash for his daughter’s tuition fund, the consequences of his choice spiral out of control. On his return to China, he is informed that the sponsors of the event were in support of Taiw... + Read More
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Series: The Oracle of Night The History and Science of Dreams Hardcover Sidarta Ribeiro 9781524746902 $42.50 SCIENCE Aug 17, 2021

A ground-breaking history of the human mind told through our experience of dreams—from the earliest accounts to current scientific findings—and the essential role of dreams in the formation of who we are and the world we have made.What is a dream? Why do we dream? How do our bodies and minds use dreams? These questions are the starting point for this unprecedented, astonishing study of the role and significance of dreams, from the beginning of human history. It is an investigation on the grand scale, encompassing literature, anthropology, reli... + Read More
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Series: Olympus, Texas A Novel Hardcover Stacey Swann 9780385545211 $35.95 FICTION May 04, 2021

A bighearted debut 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 (“Wildly entertaining”—Richard Russo)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. His mother, June, hardly welcomes him back with open arms. Her husband’s own past affairs have made her tired of being the long-s... + Read More
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Series: While Justice Sleeps A Novel Hardcover Stacey Abrams 9780385546577 $37.00 FICTION May 11, 2021

From celebrated national leader and bestselling author Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps is a gripping, complexly plotted thriller set within the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court. “Stacey Abrams is a true novelist, and While Justice Sleeps is a first-class legal thriller, favorably compared to many of the best, starting with The Pelican Brief, which it brings to mind. It’s fast-paced and full of surprises—a terrific read.” —Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent and The Last Trial Avery Keene, a brilliant young... + Read More
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Series: 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

The definitive insider story of the cheating scandal that rocked Major League Baseball in 2019, bringing down high-profile coaches and players, and exposing a long-rumored “sign-stealing” dark side of baseball. By the fall of 2019, most teams around Major League Baseball suspected that the Houston Astros had been stealing signs for several years. The Astros had won the 2017 World Series and made the playoffs the next two seasons. All the while, opponents felt that Houston’s hitters knew what pitches were coming.The ensuing scandal rivaled that ... + Read More
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Series: Rainbow Milk A Novel Hardcover Paul Mendez 9780385547062 $35.95 FICTION Jun 08, 2021

“The kind of novel you never knew you were waiting for.”—Marlon JamesAn 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.In 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 illness and racism, Norman and his family are resilie... + Read More
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Series: Bath Haus A Thriller Hardcover P. J. Vernon 9780385546737 $35.95 FICTION Jun 15, 2021

"Stylish, smart, and scary as hell.” Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hour of the Witch A young gay man in a perfect marriage will do anything to keep a dangerous indiscretion from his loving husband.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 backgrounds, they’ve made a perfect life together. With everything to lose, Oliver shouldn’t be visiting Haus, a ... + Read More
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Series: 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 that ... + Read More
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Series: Red Traitor A Novel Hardcover Owen Matthews 9780385543422 $36.95 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. For fans of Philip Kerr and Alan Furst.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... + Read More
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Series: The Perfume Thief A Novel Hardcover Timothy Schaffert 9780385545747 $36.95 FICTION Aug 03, 2021

“This is a superb novel, enchanting and brutal in equal measure. This is historical fiction at its finest, vivid and beautifully rendered; and yet in their longing for a lost world, Schaffert’s characters feel entirely contemporary to our present moment.”—Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Glass HotelA Gentleman in Moscow meets “Moulin Rouge” in this stylish, sexy page-turner about Clementine, a queer American ex-pat and notorious thief who is drawn out of retirement and into one last scam when the Nazis invade Paris on the eve of World War I... + Read More
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Series: Power Play Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century Hardcover Tim Higgins 9780385545457 $40.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Aug 03, 2021

Inside the outrageous, come-from-behind story of Elon Musk and Tesla’s bid to build the world’s greatest car.Elon Musk is among the most controversial titans of Silicon Valley. To some he’s a genius and a visionary; to others he’s a mercurial huckster. Billions of dollars have been gained and lost on his tweets; his personal exploits are the stuff of tabloids. But for all his outrageous talk of mind-uploading and space travel, his most audacious vision is the one closest to the ground: the electric car.When Tesla was founded in the 2000s, elect... + Read More
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Series: 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

By an experimental physicist who works on the Large Hadron Collider, a mind-altering look at the foundational questions bedeviling modern physics: Where does matter come from? Why does the universe exist?Carl Sagan famously said, “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” But what fundamental matter is the universe made of? What banged in the Big Bang? And how did that matter arise from nothing into the world we now know? In How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch, Harry Cliff—a University of Cambridge ... + Read More
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Series: Silent Winds, Dry Seas A Novel Hardcover Vinod Busjeet 9780385547024 $35.95 FICTION Aug 17, 2021

“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 WorldVinod Busjeet’s sweeping debut novel 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.In the 1950s, Vishnu Bhushan is a young boy yet to learn the truth beyond the ru... + Read More
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Series: God, Human, Animal, Machine Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning Hardcover Meghan O'Gieblyn 9780385543828 $35.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 24, 2021

From the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States, a strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence. Meghan O’Gieblyn deftly weaves anecdotes from her life as a formerly religious believer with a sharp analysis of the rapid rise of technology, its impact on our understanding of identity, and the claims for transhumanism that bear a striking resemblance to Christian prophecies of resurrection and immortality.For most of human history the world was a magical and ench... + Read More
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Series: Tall Men, Short Shorts The 1969 NBA Finals: Wilt, Russ, Lakers, Celtics, and a Very Young Sports Reporter Hardcover Leigh Montville 9780385545198 $38.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Jul 13, 2021

A lively and colorful account of the 1969 NBA Finals—one of the greatest upsets in basketball history—through the eyes of future sports writing legend Leigh Montville, who was covering the coast-to-coast event as a brand-new twenty-four-year-old reporter for The Boston Globe.In 1969, the L.A. Lakers and Boston Celtics were two of America’s powerhouse NBA franchises. The Lakers were stacked with stars like Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor, and Jerry West, and the Celtics were built around the legendary Bill Russell. The Lakers were destined to win... + 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

The best-selling author of Maine and Saints for All Occasions brings us an insightful, hilarious, and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different stages in life.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. She neglects her work, losing untold hours to her Brooklyn moms’ Fa... + Read More
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Series: Exercise of Power American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World Paperback Robert M. Gates 9780525432586 $23.00 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 in all its manifestations, 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 Amer... + Read More
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Series: Seven Demons Paperback Aidan Truhen 9780593311622 $22.00 FICTION May 04, 2021

Jack Price and his Seven Demons, the most dangerous and feared assassins in the in the world, are taking on the bank heist of the century. A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL. Meet Jack Price and the Seven Demons: There’s Doc, a sexy mad scientist with anger issues; Rex, an explosives expert who doesn’t ask too many questions, Volodya, a Ukrainian assassin who may or may not be a cannibal; Charlie, a tech genius with an anarchist bent; Lucille, whose speciality is razor-edged hugs; Fred, a head on a stick; and of course, Jack himself, former ... + Read More
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Series: 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 environmental activist, consumer advocate and renowned crusader whose activism was dramatized in the Oscar-winning film, Erin Brokovich looks at our water crisis and reveals the imminent threats to our most precious, essential element, and inspires us to make change, showing how we can each take action before it is too late.In Erin Brockovich’s long-awaited book—her first to reckon with the condition of water on our planet—she makes clear why we are in the trouble we’re in, and how, in large and practical ways, we each can take actions to ... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Classics An American Tragedy Paperback Theodore Dreiser 9780593313329 $14.00 FICTION May 11, 2021

This landmark 1925 novel about a social climber who murders his pregnant lover is both a riveting crime story and a devastating commentary on the American dream. A VINTAGE CLASSIC.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 own... + Read More
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Series: 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. T... + Read More
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Series: Squeeze Me A novel Paperback Carl Hiaasen 9780525435280 $22.95 FICTION May 11, 2021

Now in paperback, the hilarious New York Times bestselling novel of social and political intrigue among the glamorous geriatrics along Florida’s Gold Coast.At the height of Palm Beach’s charity ball season, Kiki Pew, a prominent member of the geriatric high-society, suddenly vanishes during a swank gala. Kiki was a founding member of the POTUSSIES, a group of women dedicated to supporting the president, who spends half the year just down the road at the “Winter White House.” Meanwhile, Angie Armstrong, wildlife wrangler extraordinaire, is calle... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Classics The Waste Land and Other Poems Paperback T. S. Eliot 9780593313343 $14.00 POETRY May 11, 2021

A Vintage Classics edition of T. S. Eliot’s most groundbreaking poems, with the addition of the newly public domain long poem “The Hollow Men”“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 ... + 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 unforgettabl... + Read More
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Series: Stephen Hawking A Memoir of Friendship and Physics Paperback Leonard Mlodinow 9781984898395 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 18, 2021

An intimate and inspirational exploration of Stephen Hawking—the man, the friend, and the physicist.One of the most influential physicists of our time, Stephen Hawking touched the lives of millions. Recalling his nearly two decades as Hawking’s collaborator and friend, Leonard Mlodinow brings this complex man into focus in a unique and deeply personal portrayal. We meet Hawking the genius, who uncovers the mysteries of the universe with a pathbreaking theory of black holes; Hawking the colleague, whose illness leaves him able to communicate at ... + Read More
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Series: Hollow Paperback Brian Catling 9780593081150 $23.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2021

From the author of the Vorrh Trilogy comes an epic odyssey following a group of mercenaries hired to deliver a church’s ultimate power—a sacred oracle—as the decadence of carnival gives way to the gravity of lent and the mystic landscape grows ravenous. A VINTAGE ORIGINALSheltering 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... + Read More
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Series: Vintage International Juneteenth (Revised) Paperback Ralph Ellison 9780593314616 $22.95 FICTION May 18, 2021

Our reissue of Ralph Ellison’s radiant second novel, with new material by Ellison’s literary executor John F. Callahan and an updated introduction by National Book Award-winning author Charles Johnson.Here is the master of American vernacular—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 time,” demands the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the itinerant Negro preacher whom he calls Daddy Hickman. A... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Contemporaries Push (Revised) Paperback Sapphire 9780593314609 $19.95 FICTION Jun 01, 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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Series: Another Marvelous Thing Paperback Laurie Colwin 9780593313558 $22.00 FICTION Jun 08, 2021

A romantic comedy of the very highest order: the story of an affair between two improbable lovers, from the acclaimed author of Home Cooking.“Billy” Delielle and Francis Clemens are both happily married, just not to each other. Another Marvelous Thing is the story of their affair—told from their alternating perspectives across eight short stories—from beginning to end. Economists with little else—age, interests, aspirations—in common, Billy and Francis prove that opposites really do attract, embarking on a whirlwind romance that will shape both... + Read More
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Series: Family Happiness Paperback Laurie Colwin 9780593313541 $22.00 FICTION Jun 08, 2021

A modern classic from Laurie Colwin (Home Cooking), one of the most beloved romantic comedy authors of all time; the story of a woman who has everything…at least on the surface.Polly Solo-Miller Demarest has it all: a dashing lawyer husband, two beautiful children, and a cushy Uptown apartment. And yet…she feels trapped. Trapped by the pressure to be the perfect daughter to a distinguished family. Trapped in her marriage. Which is why Polly, much to her own shock, finds herself embarking on a thrilling affair with a painter—and a search to disc... + Read More