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Series: Natural Killer A Memoir Paperback Harriet Alida Lye 9780771049231 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dec 29, 2020

“I need people to know that I exist, that their experiment worked, that by some combination of luck and science, I’m alive.”In this harrowing and intimate memoir, Harriet Alida Lye explores how, at just fifteen years old, she was diagnosed with a form of leukemia called Natural Killer, named “the rarest and worst malignancy.” The average survival time of patients with this diagnosis is fifty-eight days. There are no known survivors. There were no known survivors.Fifteen years after Harriet’s diagnosis, she became pregnant, despite having been t... + Read More
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Series: The Scientist and the Psychic A Son's Exploration of His Mother's Gift Paperback Christian Smith 9780735276826 $24.95 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Dec 29, 2020

Weaving together the story of his fractured relationship to his mother with research into her paranormal abilities, Dr. Christian Smith has created, in The Scientist and the Psychic, a captivating, one-of-a-kind memoir of belief, skepticism and familial love.Christian Smith realized his mother was different in the autumn of 1977 when he was eight years old. Before then, he’d witnessed séances at home and the kids at school sometimes teased him about his mom being a witch—so he sensed that his life wasn’t typical. But it wasn’t until he was back... + Read More
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Series: The Last Interview Series Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Last Interview and Other Conversations Paperback MELVILLE HOUSE 9781612199191 $23.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dec 01, 2020

The newest entry in the increasingly popular series collects fascinating and in-depth interviews with Bill Moyers, Nina Totenberg, and more, and conversations (with Antonin Scalia and high school students) from throughout the long, ground-breaking career of one of the greatest, most influential, and most exciting legal minds in American history.From her start in Depression-era New York, to her final days at the pinnacle of the American legal system, Ruth Bader Ginsburg defied convention, blazing a trail that helped bring greater equality to wom... + Read More
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Series: Wonder Woman: Dead Earth Hardcover Daniel Johnson 9781779502612 $39.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Dec 01, 2020

Wonder Woman’s mission was to save Man’s World from itself. She failed.When Diana awakens from a centuries-long sleep, she discovers Earth has been reduced to a nuclear wasteland. Now she’s marooned in a dark and dangerous future, protecting the last human city from titanic monsters and struggling to uncover the secret of this dead Earth…and how she may be responsible for it.In the newest title from DC’s critically acclaimed Black Label line, Daniel Warren Johnson, the celebrated creator of Murder Falcon and Extremity, mixes sci-fi and fantasy ... + Read More
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Series: Attack on Titan Attack on Titan 32 Paperback Hajime Isayama 9781646510313 $14.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Dec 22, 2020

The blockbuster action manga that inspired the epic anime stampedes towards its climax!THE DAWN OF MANDetermined to protect his beloved home of Paradis, Eren uses the Founding Titan’s power in an attempt to wipe out the rest of humanity. As the droves of Titans press on, Eren, long unrecognizable as a friend, a brother, a savior, has become indiscernible from a devil…Now, Mikasa, Armin, and the surviving members of the Survey Corps must band together with their sworn enemies—Marleyan soldiers and 104th defectors—to save the world.Story Locale: ... + Read More
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Series: An Embla Nyström Investigation Snowdrift Hardcover Helene Tursten 9781641291606 $35.95 FICTION Dec 08, 2020

When a new lead breaks in the cold case that has long haunted Swedish Detective Inspector Embla Nyström, the truth she’s been seeking about her best friend’s disappearance may finally be revealed—if it doesn’t kill her first. One winter night, 28-year-old Detective Inspector Embla Nyström receives a phone call that sends her reeling. It’s been fourteen years since her best friend disappeared from a nightclub in Gothenburg, but Embla recognizes her voice before the call abruptly disconnects. Embla is thrilled to learn Lollo is still alive, but b... + Read More
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Series: The Opium Prince Hardcover Jasmine Aimaq 9781641291583 $35.95 FICTION Dec 01, 2020

Jasmine Aimaq’s stunning debut explores Afghanistan on the eve of a violent revolution and the far-reaching consequences of a young Kochi girl’s tragic death. Afghanistan, 1970s. Born to an American mother and a late Afghan war hero, Daniel Sajadi has spent his life navigating a complex identity. After years in Los Angeles, he is returning home to Kabul at the helm of a US foreign aid agency dedicated to eradicating the poppy fields that feed the world’s opiate addiction. But on the drive out of Kabul for an anniversary trip with his wife... + Read More
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Series: The Dead Girls Club A Novel Paperback Damien Angelica Walters 9781643856483 $22.99 FICTION Dec 08, 2020

One of Refinery29’s and POPSUGAR’s Favorite New Books A scary story becomes far too real in this “unsettling” supernatural thriller in the vein of A Head Full of Ghosts that “will keep you guessing to the very last page” (Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger) Red Lady, Red Lady, show us your face… In 1991, Heather Cole and her friends were members of the Dead Girls Club. Obsessed with the macabre, the girls exchanged stories about serial killers and imaginary monsters, like the Red Lady, the spirit of a vengeful witch killed centuries before. Heath... + Read More
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Series: Love, Kurt The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945 Hardcover Kurt Vonnegut 9780593133019 $47.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Dec 01, 2020

A never-before-seen collection of deeply intimate love letters from Kurt Vonnegut to his first wife, Jane, compiled and edited by their daughter and reproduced in gorgeous full color.“If ever I do write anything of length—good or bad—it will be written with you in mind.”Kurt Vonnegut’s oldest daughter, Edith, was cleaning out her mother’s attic when she stumbled upon a dusty box. Inside were more than two-hundred love letters written by Kurt to Jane, spanning the early years of their relationship: from 1941, when nineteen-year-old Kurt heads of... + Read More
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Series: Bag Man The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House Hardcover Rachel Maddow 9780593136683 $37.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Dec 08, 2020

The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon’s White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come—with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow’s Peabody Award-nominated podcastIs it possible for a sitting vice president to direct a vast criminal enterprise within the halls of the White House? To have one of the most brazen corruption scandals in American history play out while nobody’s paying attention? And for that scandal to be all but forgotten decades later?The year was 1973, and Spiro T. Agn... + Read More
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Series: Read This for Inspiration Simple Sparks to Ignite Your Life Hardcover Ashly Perez 9780593135334 $25.99 SELF-HELP Dec 01, 2020

From former BuzzFeed personality Ashly Perez comes a funny, honest, and unabashedly feminist book of inspiration and wisdom to help you plant some roots, live in the process, and accept you for you.We each need a little push in order to live the life we want. Wisdom and motivation can be found everywhere, and Ashly Perez compiles tons of it in Read This for Inspiration. She pulls these sparks from figures in pop culture, history, literature, and even from her own mother, peppering in her own strong wit and humor.References and sayings from the ... + Read More
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Series: Do One Thing Every Day Journals Do One Thing Every Morning to Make Your Day A Journal Diary Robie Rogge 9780593137468 $17.50 SELF-HELP Dec 01, 2020

365 quotes and prompts to help you put your best foot forward at the start of every single day—part of the bestselling Do One Thing Every Day journal series.Just like breakfast is the most important meal of the day, what you do when you first wake up is important for setting the tone of the day in terms of mood, motivation, and overall wellness. Do One Thing Every Morning to Make Your Day is the best way to start every day to live a happier, healthier lifestyle.This guided journal offers a quote and a prompt or activity for every day of the yea... + 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: The MeatEater Guide to Wilderness Skills and Survival Paperback Steven Rinella 9780593129692 $34.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Dec 01, 2020

An indispensable guide to surviving everything from an extended wilderness exploration to a day-long boat trip, with hard-earned advice for hikers, hunters, and outdoor enthusiasts, from the host of the television series and podcast MeatEaterAlong with lessons from the real-life experiences of renowned outdoors expert and host of the Netflix Original Series MeatEater Steven Rinella, the pages are packed with tried-and-true tips, techniques, and gear recommendations from Rinella and his trusted crew of expert hunters, anglers, emergency room doc... + Read More
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Series: How to Do Nothing Resisting the Attention Economy Paperback Jenny Odell 9781612198552 $23.99 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Dec 29, 2020

** A New York Times Bestseller **NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time • The New Yorker • NPR • GQ • Elle • Vulture • Fortune • Boing Boing • The Irish Times • The New York Public Library • The Brooklyn Public Library “A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto.”—Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book ReviewOne of President Barack Obama’s “Favorite Books of 2019” Porchlight’s Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the YearIn a ... + Read More
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Series: An Outsider's Guide to Humans What Science Taught Me About What We Do and Who We Are Hardcover Camilla Pang PhD 9781984881632 $36.00 SCIENCE Dec 01, 2020

WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZEAn instruction manual for life, love, and relationships by a brilliant young scientist whose Asperger’s syndrome allows her—and us—to see ourselves in a different way…and to be better at being humanDiagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her. Desperate for a solution, she asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. With no blueprint to life, Pang began to create her own, using the la... + Read More
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Series: The Chicken Sisters Paperback KJ Dell'Antonia 9780593085141 $22.00 FICTION Dec 01, 2020

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK“A charming, hilarious, feel-good story about the kind of bonds & rivalries only sisters can share. Also, a great present for your sister for the holidays!!”—Reese WitherspoonThree generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster.In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken Mimi’s and Chicken Frannie’s have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken in the state—and the legendary feud between their respective owners, the Moores and the Pogociellos, has lasted just as long. No on... + Read More
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Series: A Riley Wolfe Novel Fool Me Twice A Novel Hardcover Jeff Lindsay 9781524743970 $36.00 FICTION Dec 01, 2020

A masterful thief plots an impossible crime in Book 2 of the Riley Wolfe seriesFrom the author of the wildly successful Dexter series, in the follow-up to the 2019 series launch Just Watch Me, the master thief and master of disguise is back, with a bigger take and much higher stakes, all kicked off by the robbery of a highly prized Faberge egg. But if anyone can get away with it, it’s Riley Wolfe. He’s always liked a challenge, and there is nothing more satisfying than robbing the rich!
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Series: Long Bright River A Novel Paperback Liz Moore 9780525540687 $23.00 FICTION Dec 01, 2020

Two sisters travel the same streets,though their lives couldn’t be more different.Then one of them goes missing.In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey, walks those same blocks on her police beat. They don’t speak anymore, but Mickey never stops worrying about her sibling.Then Kacey disappears, suddenly, at the same time that a mysterious string of murders begins in Mickey’s district, and Mickey ... + Read More
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Series: Relax, Dammit! A User's Guide to the Age of Anxiety Hardcover Timothy Caulfield 9780735236325 $32.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 01, 2020

WINNER of the 2021 Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Book AwardWINNER of the 2021 Alberta Literary Awards’ Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction“Will vaccinate you against misinformation!”—Dr. Jen Gunter, renowned gynecologist and author of The Vagina BibleAn entertaining and practical guide to getting through the day with less stress and better health, from the host of the hit TV series A User’s Guide to Cheating Death.We make a ridiculous number of decisions every day—possibly even thousands. We make decisions about when to wake up... + Read More
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Series: Brigid Quinn Series We Were Killers Once Paperback Becky Masterman 9780735241107 $12.99 FICTION Dec 01, 2020

Inspired by mysteries that still surround the case explored by Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, We Were Killers Once pits Brigid Quinn against a man who has gotten away with evil for nearly fifty years—and now has his sights on her family.In present-day Arizona, retired FBI agent Brigid Quinn and her husband, Carlo, a former priest and university professor, are trying to enjoy this new stage in their lives. But a memento from Carlo’s days as a prison chaplain—a handwritten document hidden away in a box of his old things—has made him a target for ... + Read More
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Series: This Time Next Year Paperback Sophie Cousens 9780593191200 $22.00 FICTION Dec 01, 2020

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICKTheir lives began together, but their worlds couldn’t be more different. After thirty years of missed connections, they’re about to meet again…Minnie Cooper knows two things with certainty: that her New Year’s birthday is unlucky, and that it’s all because of Quinn Hamilton, a man she’s never met. Their mothers gave birth to them at the same hospital just after midnight on New Year’s Day, but Quinn was given the cash prize for being the first baby born in London in 1990—and t... + Read More
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Series: The Chelsea Girls A Novel Paperback Fiona Davis 9781524744601 $23.00 FICTION Dec 08, 2020

The bright lights of the theater district, the glamour and danger of 1950s New York, and the wild scene at the iconic Chelsea Hotel come together in a dazzling new novel about a twenty-year friendship that will irrevocably change two women’s lives—from the national bestselling author of The Dollhouse, The Address, and The Masterpiece.From the dramatic redbrick facade to the sweeping staircase dripping with art, the Chelsea Hotel has long been New York City’s creative oasis for the many artists, writers, musicians, actors, filmmakers, and poets ... + Read More
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Series: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Movie Tie-In) A Play Media tie-in Paperback August Wilson 9780593184967 $17.50 DRAMA Dec 22, 2020

NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND CHADWICK BOSEMANFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes the extraordinary Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom—winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play.The time is 1927. The place is a run-down recording studio in Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blues singer, is due to arrive with her entourage to cut new sides of old favorites. Waiting for her are her Black musician sidemen, the white owner of the record company, and her white manager. What goes d... + Read More
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Series: A Field Guide to Lies Critical Thinking with Statistics and the Scientific Method Paperback Daniel J. Levitin 9780735241756 $22.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Dec 29, 2020

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS WEAPONIZED LIES Updated with an exciting new package, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever. We are bombarded with more information each day than the mind can process—especially in election season. New York Times bestselling author Daniel Levitin shows how to recognize misleading announcements, statistics, graphs, and written reports with engaging humor and authority.It’s becoming harder to separate the wheat from the digital chaff. How do we distinguish misinformation, pseudo-facts, dist... + Read More
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Series: A Woman Makes a Plan Advice for a Lifetime of Adventure, Beauty, and Success Paperback Maye Musk 9780735238251 $19.95 SELF-HELP Dec 29, 2020

The international supermodel shares personal stories and lessons learned from a life of “living dangerously—carefully.”Maye Musk at seventy-one is a fashionable, charming, jet-setting supermodel with a fascinating and tight-knit circle of family and friends. But things were not always so easy or glamourous—she became a single mom at thirty-one years old, struggling through poverty to provide for her three children; dealt with weight issues as a plus-size model and overcame ageism in the modeling industry; and established a lifelong career as a ... + Read More
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Series: Enlightenment The Search for Happiness 1680-1790 Hardcover Ritchie Robertson 9780241004821 $63.95 FICTION Dec 29, 2020

The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead of modern values such as human rights, religious toleration, freedom of thought, scientific thought as an exemplary form of reasoning, and rationality and evidence-based argument. Others accuse the Enlightenment of putting forward a scientific rationality which ignores the complexity and variety of human beings, propagates shallow atheism, and aims to subjugate nature to so-... + Read More
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Series: Successful Aging A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives Paperback Daniel J. Levitin 9780735236912 $23.00 PSYCHOLOGY Dec 29, 2020

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER * TORONTO STAR BESTSELLERNow in paperback, the bestselling book that will change everything you thought you knew about getting older.Author of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, Daniel J. Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age, why we should think about healthspan, not lifespan, and, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence, what you can do to make the most of your 70s, 80s, and... + Read More
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Series: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry Paperback Gabrielle Zevin 9780735241114 $12.99 FICTION Dec 29, 2020

An irresistible novel about second chances and finding room for all the books—and all the love—that transform our lives.A.J. Fikry’s life is not at all what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession—a rare collection of Poe poems—has been stolen. Slowly but surely, he is isolating himself from all the people of Alice Island, and even the books in his store have stopped holding pleasure for him. Then a mysterious package appears at the bookstore. It’s a sm... + Read More
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Series: Norse Myths and Legends Hardcover Andy Orchard 9780140515633 $42.95 FICTION Dec 27, 2022

New Penguin Guide to World Mythology. A narrative guide to the myths and legends of ancient Scandinavia.
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Series: Pianos and Flowers Brief Encounters of the Romantic Kind Hardcover Alexander McCall Smith 9780735281226 $29.95 FICTION Dec 01, 2020

From the beloved and bestselling author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, a charming short story collection about life and romance.In these delightful stories, McCall Smith imagines the lives and loves behind some of the everyday people featured in the Sunday Times newspaper photographic archive. A young woman finds unexpected love while perusing Egyptian antiquities. A family is forever fractured when war comes to colonial Panang, Thailand. Iron jelloid tablets help expose a young man’s inner strength. And twin sisters discover tha... + Read More
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Series: 44 Scotland Street Series A Promise of Ankles A 44 Scotland Street Novel (14) Paperback Alexander McCall Smith 9781039000131 $21.00 FICTION Dec 08, 2020

From the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series comes the latest adventures of Bertie and his family and friends.The winds of change are blowing through Scotland Street. Though Bertie is getting older, he can't resist an adventure to escape his domineering mother, and Bruce, ever the navel-gazer, will have to bring his best self to navigate the complexities of the pas de deux. While Alexander McCall Smith's delightfully warm and witty comedy takes some surprising turns, the improbable adventures of this quirky cast of Scots will affirm the h... + Read More
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Series: Perestroika in Paris A novel Hardcover Jane Smiley 9780525520351 $35.95 FICTION Dec 01, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals—and a young boy—whose lives intersect in Paris in this “feel-good escape” (The New York Times).Paras, short for ”Perestroika," is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. One afternoon at dusk, she finds the door of her stall open and—she’s a curious filly—wanders all the way to the City of Light. She’s dazzled and often mystified by the sights, sounds, and smells around her, but sh... + Read More
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Series: The Stand (Movie Tie-in Edition) Media tie-in Paperback Stephen King 9780593313886 $14.99 FICTION Dec 01, 2020

The tie-in edition of the nine-part CBS All Access series starring Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgard, and James Marsden.A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world’s population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge—Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious “D... + Read More
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Series: The Case for Keto Rethinking Weight Control and the Science and Practice of Low-Carb/High-Fat Eating Hardcover Gary Taubes 9780525520061 $35.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Dec 29, 2020

After a century of misunderstanding the differences between diet, weight control, and health, The Case for Keto revolutionizes how we think about healthy eating—from the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat and The Case Against Sugar.Based on twenty years of investigative reporting and interviews with 100 practicing physicians who embrace the keto lifestyle as the best prescription for their patients’ health, Gary Taubes gives us a manifesto for the twenty-first-century fight against obesity and diabetes.For years, health organizations have pr... + Read More
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Series: Bolder How to Age Better and Feel Better about Ageing Paperback Carl Honore 9780735273368 $22.00 PSYCHOLOGY Dec 29, 2020

A radical re-think of our approach to everything from education, healthcare and work, to design, relationships and politics. An essential and inspiring read for everyone interested in our collective future.A revolution in how we age is here. Yes, ageing is inevitable: one year from now we will all be a year older; that will never change. What can and will change is how we age—and how we can all take a much bolder approach to doing it with vigour and joy.The time has come to cast off prejudices and to blur the lines of what is possible and permi... + Read More
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Series: The Complete ATK Cookbook Series The Complete Plant-Based Cookbook 500 Inspired, Flexible Recipes for Eating Well Without Meat Paperback America's Test Kitchen 9781948703369 $40.00 COOKING Dec 01, 2020

2021 IACP Award Winner in the Health & Nutrition Category Make any recipe vegan or vegetarian to suit your preferencePlant-based cooking means different things to different people. We all come to plant-based eating with different goals in mind. ATK’s diverse, modern guide offers foolproof recipes for every occasion that you can tailor to suit your own needs, choosing whether to make any dish vegan or vegetarian. From building a plant-centric plate to cooking with plant-based meat and dairy, you’ll find everything you need here to create varied,... + Read More
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Series: Dickens at Christmas Hardcover Charles Dickens 9781784876746 $29.95 FICTION Dec 14, 2020

It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and within these pages you’ll certainly find all the elements of a quintessential traditional Christmas brought to vivid life: snowy rooftops, gleaming shop windows, steaming bowls of punch, plum puddings like speckled cannon balls, sage and onion stuffing, miracles, magic, charity and goodwill. This beautifully produced Vintage Classics edition gathers together not only Dickens’ Christmas Books (’A Christmas Carol’, ’The Chimes’, ’The Battle of Life’, ’The Cricket on the Hearth’ and ’The Haun... + Read More
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Series: Growth From Microorganisms to Megacities Paperback Vaclav Smil 9780262539685 $25.95 NATURE Dec 08, 2020

A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations.Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child’s growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial bo... + Read More
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Series: Zed A Novel Paperback Joanna Kavenna 9781984898340 $22.00 FICTION Dec 08, 2020

From the winner of the 2008 Orange Award for New Writing comes a blistering, satirical novel about life under a global media and tech corporation that knows exactly what we think, what we want, and what we will do—before we do.One corporation has made a perfect world based on a perfect algorithm. Now, what to do with all these messy people?Lionel Bigman is dead. Murdered by a robot. Guy Matthias, the philandering founder and CEO of the mega-corporation Beetle, insists it was human error. But was it? Either the predictive algorithms of Beetle’s ... + Read More
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Series: Red Dog Paperback Willem Anker 9781782274230 $22.95 FICTION Mar 09, 2021

A blistering, brutal novel of the South African frontier from a major new literary voiceIn the eighteenth century, a giant strides the border of the Cape Colony frontier. Coenraad de Buys is a legend, a polygamist, a swindler and a big talker; a rebel who fights with Xhosa chieftains against the Boers and British; the fierce patriarch of a sprawling mixed-race family with a veritable tribe of followers; a savage enemy and a loyal ally. Like the wild dogs who are always at his heels, he roams the shifting landscape of southern Africa, hungry and... + Read More
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Series: Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series Handprints on Hubble An Astronaut's Story of Invention Paperback Kathryn D. Sullivan 9780262539647 $23.95 SCIENCE Dec 01, 2020

The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the universe. It has, among many other achievements, revealed thousands of galaxies in what seemed to be empty patches of sky; transformed our knowledge of black holes; found dwarf planets with moons orbiting other stars; and measured precisely how fast the universe is expanding. In Handprints on Hubble, retired astrona... + Read More
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Series: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sherlock Holmes and the Crusader's Curse Paperback Stuart Douglas 9781789091588 $19.95 FICTION Dec 01, 2020

A new novel from the author of acclaimed Sherlock Holmes patisches The Albino’s Treasure, The Counterfeit Detective and The Improbable Prisoner The last Lord Thorpe, reclusive owner of Thorpe Manor, has died. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are invited to the auction at which the estate will be sold off, in hopes Holmes can uncover the whereabouts of the missing De Trop Diamond, a jewel-encrusted gemstone brought back from the Crusades by an earlier member of the Thorpe dynasty - and the source of a legendary curse. from TI 9781789091588 St... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Contemporaries The Flight Attendant (Television Tie-In Edition) A Novel Media tie-in Paperback Chris Bohjalian 9780593314005 $22.00 FICTION Dec 08, 2020

Now a limited series on HBO Max starring Kaley Cuoco and Rosie Perez, a powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: a flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man—and no idea what happened.Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She’s a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them—and the accompanying self-loathing. When she awakes in a Dubai hotel room, she tries to piec... + Read More