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Series: A Raven and Fisher MysteryThe Art of DyingA Raven and Fisher MysteryMainPaperback
Ambrose Parry9781786896735
$20.50FICTION
Mar 30, 2021
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Series: A River Called TimeHardcover
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$43.95FICTION
Apr 16, 2021
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Series: Guido Guerrieri SeriesThe Measure of TimePaperback
Howard Curtis9781913394486
$23.95FICTION
May 07, 2021
"Mr. Carofiglio, drawing on his own professional background, excels at describing everyday legal proceedings in ways that transfix the reader." Wall Street Journal -------The latest in the Guido Guerrieri series. The setting is Bari in Southern Italy. Against his own instincts, defence attorney Guerrieri takes on an appeal against what looks like an unassailable murder conviction. The alleged perpetrator is the son of a former lover. A taught legal thriller and a meditation about the ravages of time.
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Series: OccupationPaperback
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$23.95FICTION
Aug 27, 2021
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Series: Faeries of the FaultlinesExpanded, Edited EditionHardcover
Iris Compiet9781777081720
$48.95FICTION
Aug 17, 2021
Let me tell you about Faeries, let me take you away on a journey, an adventure. The Faultlines is an ancient name given to those places where the veil between this world and the Other is thinnest. It is the place where faeries dwell, creatures creep, and magic oozes through the cracks. Recently the Faultlines have been stirring, opening up to all who wish to see, and to all who dare to venture... Faeries of the Faultlines was an instant Kickstarter success in 2017, and this edited, expanded edition includes the complete original documentation... + Read More
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Series: Winter in SokchoPaperback
Elisa Shua Dusapin9781948830416
$22.50FICTION
May 07, 2021
2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREAs if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman—a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French Korean authorIt’s winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down. Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach guns point out from the North’s watchtowers. A young French Korean woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse. One evening, an unexpected guest arrives: a French cartoonist determined to f... + Read More
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Series: Higher GroundPaperback
Anke Stelling9781950354627
$23.95FICTION
May 14, 2021
A prize-winning novel about class, money, creativity, and motherhood, that ultimately reveals what happens when the hypocrisies we live by are exposed... Resi is a writer in her mid-forties, married to Sven, a painter. They live, with their four children, in an apartment building in Berlin, where their lease is controlled by some of their closest friends. Those same friends live communally nearby, in a house they co-own and have built together. Only Resi and Sven, the token artists of their social circle, are renting. As the years have passed, ... + Read More
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Series: A Room Made of LeavesHardcover
Kate Grenville9781922330024
$40.95FICTION
Jun 25, 2021
Kate Grenville’s return to the territory of The Secret River is historical fiction turned inside out, a stunning sleight of hand by one of Australia’s most celebrated writers.What if Elizabeth Macarthur—wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney—had written a candid secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously found and published it? That’s the starting point for A Room Made of Leaves, a dance of possibilities between worlds real and invented.Marriage to a ruthless bully, the impulse... + Read More
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Series: Father / GenocidePaperback
Margo Tamez9781933527048
$26.95POETRY
Sep 10, 2021
“A necessary, urgent, and affecting work.” —Publishers Weekly “Tamez's poetry disturbs the mind with its bravery of language, musical indictments of culture, and profound good heart. She is one of our great lyric poets. This book is simply wonderful!" —Norman Dubie, author of The Quotations of Bone On the night before he “walked on,” Margo Tamez's father recorded two questions onto a cassette tape: "Where did all the good men go? Where did they go?" Two decades later, Tamez reconstructs her father's struggle to "be a man" under American dominat... + Read More
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Series: HeavenA NovelHardcover
Mieko Kawakami9781609456214
$34.95FICTION
Jun 04, 2021
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami, a sharp and illuminating novel about the impact of violence and the power of solidarity. A bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy chooses to suffer in complete resignation. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classm... + Read More
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Series: Remote SympathyHardcover
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$38.95FICTION
May 21, 2021
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Series: NivesPaperback
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$23.95FICTION
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Series: Friends and Dark ShapesPaperback
Kavita Bedford9781609456641
$25.95FICTION
May 14, 2021
Shortlisted for the 2021 Queensland Literary Awards A group of housemates in Sydney’s inner city contend with gentrification, divisive politics, stalled careers, their own complicated privilege as second-generation Australians, and the evolving world of dating in this moving, funny, and stylish debut novel. Sydney’s inner city is very much its own place, yet also a stand in for gentrifying inner-city suburbs the world over. Here, four young housemates struggle to untangle their complicated relationships while a poignant story of loss, grievin... + Read More
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Series: Monkey BoyHardcover
Francisco Goldman9780802157676
$40.95FICTION
May 13, 2021
A novel of enormous achievement, Monkey Boy tells the tale of Francisco Goldberg, a middle-aged writer who grapples with the challenges of family and love, legacies of violence and war, and growing up Guatemalan and Jewish in America. "Full of rebellious comedy and vitality. . . Goldman’s autobiographical immersion answers the urgent cry of memory. . . [He] is a natural storytellerâfunny, intimate, sarcastic, all-noticing.” âJames Wood, New Yorker Francisco Goldman’s first novel since his acclaimed, nationally bestselling Say Her Name (wi... + Read More
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Series: Hard Like WaterHardcover
Yan Lianke9780802158123
$40.95FICTION
Jun 25, 2021
From a visionary, world-class writer, dubbed “China’s most controversial novelist” by the New Yorker, a gripping and biting story of ambition and betrayal, following two young communist revolutionaries whose forbidden love sets them apart from their traditionally minded village, as the Cultural Revolution sweeps the nationGao Aijun is a son of the soil of Henan’s Balou Mountains, and after a service in the Army, he is on his way back to his ancestral village, feeling like a hero. Close to his arrival, he sees a strikingly attractive woman walki... + Read More
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Series: The Killing HillsHardcover
Chris Offutt9780802158413
$38.95FICTION
Jun 25, 2021
A literary master across genres, award-winning author Chris Offutt’s latest novel, The Killing Hills, is a compelling, propulsive thriller in which a suspicious death exposes the loyalties and rivalries of a deep-rooted and fiercely private community in the Kentucky backwoods. Mick Hardin, a combat veteran now working as an Army CID agent, is home on a leave that is almost done. His wife is about to give birth, but they aren’t getting along. His sister, newly risen to sheriff, has just landed her first murder case, and local politicians are pus... + Read More
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Series: The Human ZooHardcover
Sabina Murray9780802157508
$40.95FICTION
Aug 18, 2021
A blistering new novel that follows a Filipino American journalist’s return to dictatorship-ruled Manila to research her book on tribes from a “cracklingly original” (Elle) and “singular” (New York Times Book Review) author, PEN Faulkner award-winner, Sabina Murray. Filipino-American Christina “Ting” Klein has just travelled from New York to Manila, both to escape her imminent divorce, and to begin research for a biography of Timicheg, an indigenous Filipino brought to America at the start of 20th century to be exhibited as part of a "human zo... + Read More
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Series: The Joe DeMarco ThrillersHouse StandoffA Joe DeMarco ThrillerHardcover
Mike Lawson9780802158567
$38.95FICTION
Apr 16, 2021
When someone close to him is shot dead in a roadside motel in a small-town in Wyoming, DeMarco shirks his responsibilities as the Speaker of the House’s fixer to make sure the authorities are doing everything that can be done to catch the killer. He soon realizes that the rural area is dominated by Hiram Bunt, a wealthy rancher with an obstructionist streak who is willing to take on the federal government at gunpoint and seems to have a number of politicians under his thumb. But Bunt is not the only one in the way. DeMarco also l... + Read More
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Series: The Old EnemyHardcover
Henry Porter9780802158659
$38.95FICTION
Jun 18, 2021
Paul Samson is living in London and picking up some extra work for a private security company when he is almost killed by a thuggish assassin while tailing a mysterious and gifted young employee of a powerful environmental NGO. The murder of legendary spy Robert Harland, the poisoning of billionaire philanthropist Denis Hisami with a neurotoxin in the United States House of Representatives, and a second attempt on Samson’s own life send him on the run to Estonia to figure out who is trying to kill him, and why. An... + Read More
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Series: The Wonder TestHardcover
Michelle Richmond9780802158505
$38.95FICTION
Jul 16, 2021
AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF JULY 2021 "A sure-footed, darkly funny, semi-satirical thriller that never misses a beat."—Amazon Editors Review "A gripping blend of danger and sharp social commentary on high-stakes education, the 1%, and suburban tropes: imagine a coffee date with Lisa Lutz's Spellmans and Tom Perotta's suburbanites in a sun-drenched Twin Peaks."—Booklist (starred review) New York Times bestselling author Michelle Richmond introduces a tough and spirited new protagonist, FBI Agent Lina Connerly, in this exhilarating race to save Silic... + Read More
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Series: Open WaterPaperback
Caleb Azumah Nelson9780802157942
$23.95FICTION
Apr 23, 2021
WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARDA NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTIONA stunning first novel about two young Black artists in London falling in and out of love by a new literary virtuoso and finalist for the BBC Short Story Award, twenty-six-year-old writer and photographer Caleb Azumah Nelson“Open Water is tender poetry, a love song to Black art and thought, an exploration of intimacy and vulnerability between two young artists learning to be soft with each other in a world that hardens aga... + Read More
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Series: ResistancePaperback
Val McDermid9780802158727
$25.95COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Jun 25, 2021
The first graphic novel from Britain’s “Queen of Crime” (Scotsman) and gorgeously illustrated by up-and-comer Kathryn Briggs, Resistance is a chilling but incredibly moving and inspiring story of individuals pressed to rise above their station, first to nail down the truth of a looming pandemic, and later to try to fight it. Journalist Zoe Beck has taken a break from hard-hitting investigative reporting to spend more time with her family, which is how she finds herself doing celebrity Q&As at an outdoor music festival near the Scottish b... + Read More
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Series: GordoPaperback
Jaime Cortez9780802158086
$23.95FICTION
Aug 27, 2021
Shedding profound natural light on the inner lives of migrant workers, Jaime Cortez’s debut collection ushers in a new era of American literature that gives voice to a marginalized generation of migrant workers in the West. The first-ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez, Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California in the 1970s. A young, probably gay, boy named Gordo puts on a wrestler’s mask and throws fists with a boy in the neighborhood, fighting his own tears as he tries to grow into the idea of manhood s... + Read More
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Series: The Quiet is LoudPaperback
Samantha Garner9781988784717
$23.95FICTION
May 04, 2021
Shortlisted for the 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize The perfect marriage of literary and speculative fiction for readers of Kazuo Ishiguro and NK Jemisin. When Freya Tanangco was ten, she dreamed of her mother's death right before it happened. That’s when she realized she was a veker, someone with enhanced mental abilities and who is scorned as a result. Freya's adult life has been spent in hiding: from the troubled literary legacy created by her author father, and from the scrutiny of a society in which vekers often meet with violence. When h... + Read More
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Series: The BeginnersPaperback
Anne Serre9780811230315
$22.95FICTION
Jul 06, 2021
Anna has been living happily for twenty years with loving, sturdy, outgoing Guillaume when she suddenly (truly at first sight) falls in love with Thomas. Intelligent and handsome, but apparently scarred by a terrible early emotional wound, he reminds Anna of Jude the Obscure. Adrift and lovelorn, she tries unsuccessfully to fend off her attraction, torn between the two men. “How strange it is to leave someone you love for someone you love. You cross a footbridge that has no name, that’s not named in any poem. No, nowhere is a name given to this... + Read More
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Series: A ShockPaperback
Keith Ridgway9780811230858
$26.95FICTION
Jul 06, 2021
Finally, Ridgway gives us A Shock, his thrilling and unsparing, slippery and shockingly good new novel. Â Â Â Â Â Â Formed as a rondel of interlocking stories with a clutch of more or less loosely connected repeating characters, it’s at once deracinated yet potent with place, druggy yet frighteningly shot through with reality. His people appear, disappear, and reappear. They’re on the fringes of London, clinging to sanity or solvency or a story by their fingernails, consumed by emotions and anxieties in fuzzily understood situations. A deft, h... + Read More
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Series: Catch the RabbitHardcover
Lana Bastasic9781529039603
$34.99FICTION
Jul 13, 2021
A moving story about loss, forgetting and female friendship: two women on a roadtrip across Bosnia head towards a lost brother and a collision with the lies they've told themselves about where they're from. Sara lives in Dublin with her partner Michael, their avocado plant, and a naturist neighbour. If little trace remains of her old life back in Bosnia, of her mother tongue, this is not entirely by accident. So when she receives a call from Lejla, the best friend with whom she shared everything until their friendship ended suddenly on one s... + Read More
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Series: The Secret PathPaperback
Karen Swan9781529006254
$24.99FICTION
May 03, 2021
Another instantly addictive summer read from Globe and Mail and Toronto Star bestselling author Karen Swan. Taking you from the high pressure of a London hospital to the lush beaches and ancient towns of Costa Rica. Every step leads me back to you. At just twenty years old, Tara Tremain has everything: a trainee doctor, engaged to the man of her dreams - a passionate American biology student called Alex Carter. But just when life seems perfect, Alex betrays her in the worst way possible. Ten years later, she's moved on, with a successful car... + Read More
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Series: The PromisePaperback
Lucy Diamond9781529027044
$19.99FICTION
Jun 29, 2021
An incredibly moving novel from the Sunday Times bestseller Lucy Diamond. A book to break your heart and put it back together again. When Patrick Sheppard suddenly and tragically dies, he leaves behind a family in pieces. Zoe has lost the love of her life. Ethan, Gabe and Beatrice have lost their larger-than-life dad. There's a hole where Patrick should be and none of them can see a way forward. For Patrick's brother Dan, his mission is clear. He needs to help the Sheppards to find some sort of happy again and he makes a promise to himself ... + Read More
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Series: A Stitch in TimeThe Hidden WifeA Stitch in Time, Book TwoPaperback
Joanna Rees9781529018875
$18.99FICTION
May 04, 2021
The second novel in the sweeping historical trilogy, A Stitch in Time, by bestselling author Joanna Rees, following The Runaway Daughter. Paris, 1928. Having fled London and been on the run around Europe, Vita Casey has established a new life for herself, keeping a low profile as a dresser at a cabaret hall where Nancy is part of the risqué dance troupe. It's a vibrant world of wild parties, drugs and jazz music. But despite the fun, hedonistic lifestyle they lead, Vita longs for a proper career and to re-kindle her dream of designing linge... + Read More
Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigates the case of a missing woman in the seventeenth novel of the series, from the highly acclaimed number one bestselling author, Peter James. Is this Roy Grace's most challenging case yet? A mystery that is leaving him totally confounded for the first time in his career. Most Sundays, Niall and Eden Paternoster like to go for a drive and visit country houses. She likes to look at them, he likes to dream that one day... However, most weeks they end up bickering about something or other. This particu... + Read More
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary new space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all. The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery... Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. After earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enh... + Read More
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Series: Jack FourPaperback
Neal Asher9781529049985
$33.99FICTION
Jul 27, 2021
An action-packed new standalone novel set in the Polity Universe by prolific science fiction author Neal Asher. Created to die, determined to live. Jack Four - one of twenty human clones - has been created to be sold. His purchasers are the alien prador and they only want him for their experimentation program. But there is something different about Jack. No clone should possess the knowledge that's been loaded into his mind. And no normal citizen of humanity's Polity worlds would have this information. The prador's king has been mutated by t... + Read More
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Series: The Seed KeeperA NovelPaperback
Diane Wilson9781571311375
$26.95FICTION
Mar 19, 2021
A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakhóta family’s struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters most.Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakhóta people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn’t return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato—where the reserved, bookish teenager meets ... + Read More
Winner of the 2022 Governor’s Arts AwardA 2022 Reading the West Award FinalistA Refinery29 Best New Book to Read in 2021From Deirdre McNamer, a masterful exploration of the rich and hidden facets of human character, as illuminated by the mysterious connections among the residents of a senior residence in Montana.At the deteriorating Pheasant Run, the occupants keep their secrets and sadnesses locked tight behind closed apartment doors. Kind Leo Umberti, formerly an insurance agent, now quietly spends his days painting abstract landscapes and mo... + Read More
ONE OF THE "BEST NEW BOOKS" BY BOOKLISTCRIMEREADS' LIST OF THE BEST DEBUT NOVELS OF 2022"40 NEW BOOKS FOR SUMMER READING" BY THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINELA riveting debut novel from an unforgettable new voice that is literary, suspenseful, and a compelling story about identity and how you define “home.”Masha remembers her childhood in the former USSR, but found her life and heart in Israel. Anna was just an infant when her family fled, but yearns to find her roots. When Anna is contacted by a stranger from their homeland and then disappears, M... + Read More
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Series: Michael O'HigginsLast SeenHardcover
Kent Harrington9781951709235
$40.95FICTION Age (years) from 18 - 99
May 28, 2021
A captivating new novel from one of the best crime writers working today. In August, San Francisco is a cold beauty...and the perfect place for a killer targeting young women visiting the Bay Area. The latest victim is Emma Barre, a deaf French teenager. Emma is also brilliant and due to enter one of France’s best universities. But Emma, just seventeen, has disappeared while visiting the City’s famous Pier 39 with her parents. The extremely well known and heavily visited tourist attraction is the site of all the killer’s previous abductions.... + Read More
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Series: Walking Through NeedlesHardcover
Heather Levy9781951709389
$38.95FICTION Reading age from 18 - 99
Jul 09, 2021
A riveting, dark debut psychological thriller perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, S.J. Watson, and Megan Abbott From an early age, Sam Mayfair knew she was different. Like any young girl, she developed infatuations and lust—but her desires were always tinged with darkness. Then, when Sam was sixteen, her life was shattered by an abuser close to her. And she made one shocking decision whose ramifications would reverberate throughout her life. Now, fifteen years later, Sam learns that her abuser has been murdered. The death of the man who plague... + Read More
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Series: The Shadow PeopleHardcover
Joe Clifford9781951709402
$40.95FICTION Age (years) from 18 - 99
Jul 23, 2021
A riveting, twisty psychological thriller from acclaimed author Joe Clifford, perfect for fans of The Whisper Man Brandon Cossey is finishing his last semester as an undergrad when he learns his childhood best friend, Jacob Balfour, has committed suicide. The news about Jacob, who had long battled schizophrenia, does not come as a surprise—but the bizarre details surrounding his death do. Jacob was found several states away, in a quarry, burned alive. Brandon returns to his hometown and discovers Jacob had been moonlighting as an amateur DIY r... + Read More
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Series: Treachery & IntrigueSerial KillersThe Minds, Methods, and Mayhem of History's Most Notorious MurderersHardcover
Richard Estep9781578597475
$74.95TRUE CRIME
Apr 11, 2021
Pain, torment, and torture. Cruelty, brutality, and violence. The twisted psyches, murder. and yes, even the ability to charm people. Take a deep dive into the terrifyingly real serial murderers, spree killers, and true faces of evil! They prey on the innocent with a malicious desire to inflict damage and harm. They hunt and stalk misfortunate victims in the dark, in broad daylight, in quiet neighborhoods, and in the local woods. Their bloodthirst isn't satisfied after their first kill. Or their second. Or third. Serial Killers: The Minds, ... + Read More
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Series: Treachery & IntrigueDisinformation and YouIdentify Propaganda and ManipulationHardcover
Marie D. Jones9781578597482
$70.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
May 11, 2021
They provoke you with anger because fear-filled people are easier to manipulate. The tricks, tools and tactics used to influence you and your loved ones—along with the history of propaganda—explained and explored. We live in an age of disinformation, misinformation, and outright lies. The modern world blasts us with information, talking points, spin, advertising, and attempts to persuade. But what are we to believe and whom should we trust? Examining the history of propaganda and disinformation in war, politics, polling, media, entertainm... + Read More
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Series: Ninja Wilderness Survival GuideSurviving Extreme Outdoor Situations (Modern Skills from Japan's Greatest Survivalists)Paperback
Hakim Isler9780804854085
$22.95SPORTS & RECREATION
Jun 15, 2021
Ninja master and survival expert Hakim Isler presents modern day survival strategies based on the techniques of Japan's ancient ninja.If you find yourself in an unexpected extreme situation--while wilderness camping, hiking or adventuring off the beaten path--a fundamental understanding of your surroundings can make the difference between life and death. By harnessing the powers of nature, the ninja built a legendary reputation as survivalists with an ability to thrive in even the most inhospitable situations. By studying their ancient philosop... + Read More
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Series: News and How to Use ItWhat to Believe in a Fake News WorldMainHardcover
Alan Rusbridger9781838851613
$42.95LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
Mar 30, 2021
Nothing in life works without facts.A society that isn't sure what's true can't function. Without facts there can be no government or law. Science is ignored. Trust evaporates.People everywhere feel ever more alienated from - and mistrustful of - news and those who make it. We no longer seem to know who or what to believe. We are living through a crisis of 'information chaos'.News and How to Use It is a glossary for this bewildering age. From AI to Bots, from Climate Crisis to Fake News, from Clickbait to Trolls (and more), here is the definiti... + Read More
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Series: Seconds OutWomen and FightingPaperback
Alison Dean9781552454190
$21.95SPORTS & RECREATION
May 18, 2021
Kicking ass and taking notes—what it’s like to be a woman in the ring. Alison Dean teaches English literature. She also punches people. Hard. But despite several amateur fights under her belt, she knows she will never be taken as seriously as a male boxer. “You punch like a girl” still isn’t a compliment — women aren’t supposed to choose to participate in violence. Her unique perspective as a 30-something university lecturer turned amateur fighter allows Dean to articulately and with great insight delve into the ways martial arts can change a p... + Read More
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Series: Emergent Strategy SeriesWe Will Not Cancel UsAnd Other Dreams of Transformative JusticePaperback
Adrienne Maree Brown9781849354226
$14.50SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 30, 2020
Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through.“Cancel” or “call-out” culture is a source of much tension and debate in American society. The infamous “Harper’s Letter,” signed by public intellectuals of both the left and right, sought to settle the matter and only caused greater division. Originating as a way for marginalized and disempowered people to take down more powerful abusers, often with the help of social media, cancel culture is seen by some as having gone “too far.” Adrienne maree bro... + Read More
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Series: Swimming to the Top of the TideFinding Life Where Land and Water MeetPaperback
Patricia Hanlon9781942658870
$26.95NATURE
Jun 18, 2021
Four seasons of immersion in New England’s Great Marsh“Like Wendell Berry and Rachel Carson, Hanlon is a true poet-ecologist, sharing in exquisitely resonant prose her patient observations of nature’s most intimate details. As she and her husband, through summer and snow, swim their local creeks and estuaries, we marvel at the timeless yet fragile terrain of both marshlands and marriage. This is the book to awaken all of us, right now, to how our coastline is changing and what it means for our future.” —Julia Glass, author of Three Junes and A ... + Read More
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Series: The Red DealIndigenous Action to Save Our EarthPaperback
The Red Nation9781942173434
$22.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Apr 30, 2021
When the Red Nation released their call for a Red Deal, it generated coverage in places from Teen Vogue to Jacobin to the New Republic, was endorsed by the DSA, and has galvanized organizing and action. Now, in response to popular demand, the Red Nation expands their original statement filling in the histories and ideas that formed it and forwarding an even more powerful case for the actions it demands. One-part visionary platform, one-part practical toolkit, the Red Deal is a platform that encompasses everyone, including non-Indigenous comrad... + Read More
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Series: This Is How We Come Back StrongerFeminist Writers on Turning Crisis into ChangePaperback
The Feminist Book Society9781952177903
$38.95LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Apr 16, 2021
In the spring of 2020, a rapidly spreading global pandemic changed the contemporary world. For industrialized countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, which had long enjoyed the illusion that they were capable of handling large-scale crises, COVID-19 exposed dangerous fault lines. It brought to the fore institutional failures concerning public health, unemployment, and government stability, and exacerbated conditions for vulnerable and marginalized groups. Racial disparity, domestic abuse, food insecurity, and social welfare had... + Read More
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