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Series: The Heart of Things An Anthology of Memory and Lament Main Hardcover Richard Holloway 9781838854959 $37.95 REFERENCE Jan 18, 2022

Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. As Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church he put principle over Church policy to advocate for gay rights and women in the priesthood. He never shied away from confronting his own doubts and fears, whether questioning his own faith, or facing the inevitability of death. Across numerous bestselling books he has been a radical voice of compassion and realism, helping us navigate the hectic modern world.Throughout his life Richard has turned to poets and writers t... + Read More
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Series: Time Out Shortlist Time Out New York Shortlist Travel Guide Paperback Time Out 9781780592718 $19.50 TRAVEL May 05, 2023
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Series: In the Shadow of the White House A Memoir of the Washington and Watergate Years, 1968-1978 Paperback Jo Haldeman 9781947856332 $29.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 22, 2022

For her first forty years, Jo Haldeman’s life followed a conventional path. While her husband, Bob, built his career in advertising, Jo comfortably settled into her role as mother of four, housewife, and community volunteer.In 1968, Jo’s world changed dramatically. Richard Nixon was elected President of the United States, and Bob was offered the job of a lifetime—White House Chief of Staff. As Jo and Bob discussed the opportunities and challenges that this move would entail, little did she anticipate the course that her life, and her relationsh... + Read More
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Series: Time Out Guides Time Out Vienna City Guide Travel Guide Paperback Time Out 9781780592817 $32.95 TRAVEL Age (years) from 14 May 05, 2023

The Time Out Vienna City Guide takes you on an in-depth tour around the grandiose streetscapes of Austria's elegant capital. It covers the history of Habsburg Vienna and its impact on European culture, from music and literature to art and architecture. But this guide is not stuck in the past: local writers ensure you also get the low-down on life in the 21st-century city, including where to find the best coffeehouses, wine taverns, street markets and nightlife. Whether you want to go for a spin on the Riesenrad or take a boat out on the Danube,... + Read More
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Series: The Letters of John McGahern Main Hardcover Frank Shovlin 9780571326662 $78.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Jan 11, 2022

I am no good at letters. John McGahern, 1963John McGahern is consistently hailed as one of the finest Irish writers since James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.This volume collects some of the witty, profound and unfailingly brilliant letters that he exchanged with family, friends and literary luminaries - such as Seamus Heaney, Colm Tóibín and Paul Muldoon - over the course of a well-travelled life.It is one of the major contributions to the study of Irish and British literature of the past thirty years, acting not just as a crucial insight into the ... + Read More
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Series: In Their Own Words Jane Fonda: In Her Own Words Paperback Suzanne Sonnier 9781572843028 $18.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 20, 2022

Get inside the head of Jane Fonda: actress, political activist, environmentalist, philanthropist, and creator of an unlikely fitness empire that captivated the country beginning in the 1980s. This collection of quotes has been curated from Jane Fonda’s numerous public statements—interviews, books, social media posts, television appearances, and more. It’s a comprehensive picture of her legacy and her impact on American popular culture. Fonda began her career in the public eye as a model before taking up acting and bursting onto the scene as a s... + Read More
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Series: Like A River To The Sea Heartbreak and Hope in the Wake of United 93 Hardcover Jack Grandcolas 9781644282229 $33.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 16, 2022

The story of heartbreak to triumph in the wake of a tragedy. Their first date in college was a U2 concert and after that Lauren and Jack Grandcolas were inseparable. He was mesmerized by her sweetness, fierce intelligence and eyes that were as blue and alive as the ocean. They married and settled in San Francisco, each pursuing their dreams in the business world. After a decade of trying, Lauren finally got pregnant at the age of 38. On Sept. 6, 2001 she flew to New Jersey—her beloved Little Grandma had died and following the funeral Lauren sha... + Read More
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Series: The Power of Positive Horse Training Creating Exceptional Behavior by Changing Equine Relationships with the World Around Them Paperback Shawna Karrasch 9781646010370 $43.50 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 07, 2022

The ultimate guide to using positive reinforcement on the ground and in the saddle, from a pioneer in the field of reward-based training. For more than 30 years renowned animal trainer Shawna Karrasch has used positive reinforcement—reward-based training, also called “R+”—to mold behavior, shape attitude, and teach valuable skills. She took her pioneering work in a pool with marine mammals and evolved it to support pursuits in the competitive equestrian arena. There, she immediately demonstrated how her ideas could help horses not only choose ... + Read More
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Series: No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader Main Hardcover Mark Hodkinson 9781786899972 $33.95 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Apr 12, 2022

Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. His dad kept it on top of a wardrobe with other items of great worth - wedding photographs and Mark's National Cycling Proficiency certificate. If Mark wanted to read it, he was warned not to crease the pages or slam shut the covers.Today, Mark is an author, journalist and publisher. He still lives in Rochdale, but is now snugly ensconced (or is that buried?) in a 'book cave' surrounded by 3,500 titles - at the last count. No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy ... + Read More
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Series: A Crane and Drake mystery The Trenches Main Paperback Parker Bilal 9781838855123 $19.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2022

In London, private investigator Dr Rayhana Crane is contacted by a woman who has received an unexpected letter from her estranged son Jason, not seen since he left to become a fighter for Islamic State. When his steps are traced back to the old stamping ground of her partner, Cal Drake, the former policeman goes undercover to infiltrate the sinister network which took Jason abroad.Meanwhile, Crane pursues a woman whose seemingly unconnected disappearance off the English coast is soon found to reveal a deadlier connection. As the two investigato... + Read More
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Series: Hamid and Shakespeare The tragi-comic journey of a refugee Paperback Majid Adin 9781912408801 $33.50 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 02, 2022

A chance spotting from the back of a refrigerated lorry of a poster marking Shakespeare’s 400th birthday spurs a refugee’s imagination to transport himself from his detention cell to a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at London’s Globe Theatre. As we move between the 21st and 17th centuries, Shakespeare introduces Hamid both to a promised new land, and to a series of well- known plays through which Hamid tells his own experiences: of interrogation, of his journey from home: crossing the sea, getting lost in the forest, his months spent ... + Read More
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Series: Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal: Quotidian Issue Fall 2021, No. 36 Paperback Tom Lutz 9781940660561 $17.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Dec 09, 2022

Los Angeles Review of Books is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and disseminating rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts. Since its founding in 2011, LARB has quickly established itself as a thriving institution for writers and readers. TheLARB Quarterly Journal, a signature print edition, reflects the best that this institution brings to a national and international readership. The print magazine cultivates a stable of regular and ongoing contributors, both eminent and emerg... + Read More
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Series: Brood X Paperback Joshua Dysart 9781952203282 $12.99 FICTION May 03, 2022

A nail-biting murder mystery unlike any other that will leave you guessing until the very last page. With the Red Scare on the rise and a looming fear of nuclear war gripping the nation, seven laborers gather under the smoldering heat of an Indiana summer to begin a curious project: constructing a bomb shelter in the middle of nowhere. But when the emergence of a once-in-a-century cicada swarm ushers in a series of increasingly unlikely accidental deaths on the site, the survivors start eying each other with more than just suspicion. And with g... + Read More
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Series: One Eye Open Paperback Alex Grecian 9781952203299 $12.99 FICTION May 03, 2022

A thrilling, illustrated novella about coming home and the monsters that await us there from the New York Times bestselling author of The Yard.After her mother’s sudden passing, Laura and her daughter Juniper return to her childhood home in the rural outskirts of Denmark. In the scenic village amidst seas of wheat fields, Laura hopes they have finally let tragedy behind them. Then, Juniper begins to notice something strange about the people she encounters, the same people who have worked in these fields for centuries. In tracing her lineage bac... + Read More
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Series: TKO Presents: Tales of Terror Hardcover Liana Kangas 9781952203572 $36.50 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Age (years) from 18 Jun 17, 2022

TKO Studios presents a collection of nine bone-chilling and blood-curdling shorts by modern comic masters.A soldier faces a horror worse than death in the trenches. A space pioneer faces the hell of a false Eden of her own creation. A little boy’s insomnia that haunts his entire life. Featuring stories by ... Liana Kangas, Joe Corallo, Paul Azaceta (SEEDS OF EDEN) Sebastian Girner, Baldemar Rivas (THE FATHER OF ALL THINGS) Steve Foxe, Lisandro Estherren (NIGHT TRAIN) Rob Pilkington, Kit Mills (DAME FROM THE DARK) Alex Paknadel, Jen Hickman (HAN... + Read More
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Series: Was It Worth It? A Wilderness Warrior's Long Trail Home Hardcover Doug Peacock 9781952338045 $40.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 04, 2022

“If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.” Edward Abbey In a collection of gripping stories of adventure, Doug Peacock, loner, iconoclast, environmentalist, and contemporary of Edward Abbey, reflects on a life lived in the wild, asking the question many ask in their twilight years: “Was It Worth It?” Recounting sojourns with Abbey, but also Peter Matthiessen, Doug Tompkins, Jim Harrison, Yvon Chouinard and others, Peacock observes that what he calls “solitary walks” were the greatest currency he and his buddies ever s... + Read More
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Series: City Blues Quartet Sunset Swing The City Blues Quartet, Book 4 Paperback Ray Celestin 9781509839001 $33.99 FICTION Feb 21, 2022

Shortlisted for the 2022 CWA Gold Dagger Award Shortlisted for the 2022 CWA Historical Dagger Award The fourth and final book in Ray Celestin's critically acclaimed City Blues Quartet, folllowing The Mobster's Lament. Los Angeles. Christmas, 1967. A city on fire as a killer strikes... A young nurse, Kerry Gaudet, travels to the City of Angels desperate to find her missing brother, fearing that something terrible has happened to him. A serial killer is terrorising the city, picking victims at random, and Kerry has precious few leads. Ida ... + Read More
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Series: Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh Main Paperback Amy Raphael 9780571353828 $56.50 PERFORMING ARTS Jan 18, 2022

This new revised edition brings Mike Leigh's career up-to-date, including his film about J.M.W. Turner, Mr. Turner, and his epic masterpiece, Peterloo.Five-time Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner, the only British director to have won the top prize at both Cannes (for Secrets & Lies) and Venice (for Vera Drake) - Mike Leigh is unquestionably one of world cinema's pre-eminent figures. Now, in this definitive career-length interview, he reflects on all that has gone into the making of his unique body of work.In their commingling of bleakness and humo... + Read More
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Series: Female Fear Factory Unravelling Patriarchy's Cultures of Violence Paperback Pumla Dineo Gqola 9781913175153 $24.50 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 06, 2022

"Patriarchy does not respect national boundaries. It is unabashedly promiscuous in its influences and tethers. Yet, it does use nationalism very productively." An empty street at night. A crowded bus. A lecture hall. All sites of female fear, instilled in women and those who have been constructed female, from an early age. Drawing on examples from around the world - from Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa to Saudi Arabia, the Americas and Europe, Gqola traces the construction and machinations of the female fear factory by exposing its lies, myths,... + Read More
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Series: Vampeerz Vampeerz, Volume 2 Paperback DENPA 9781634429351 $19.50 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Reading age from 13 Oct 07, 2022

Ichika is in love! In love with Aria, a vampire! And now Aria has decided to transfer to Ichika's school! Her whole life is Aria! At home...there's Aria! At school...there's Aria! In her dreams...Aria is there feasting on her and later kissing her!
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Series: Heavenly Delusion Heavenly Delusion, Volume 4 Paperback Masakazu Ishiguro 9781634429238 $19.50 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 07, 2022
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Series: Sweet Dreams From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics Main Paperback Dylan Jones 9780571353446 $28.95 MUSIC Jan 18, 2022

*Includes an exclusive new chapter*'Excellent' Guardian'Hugely enjoyable' Irish Times'Dazzling' LRB 'Fascinating' New Statesman 'An absolute must-read' GQAn NME and BBC Culture Book of the Year 2020For a while, Sweet Dreams were made of this.From the testimony of the people who lived it, comes Dylan Jones' masterful history of the Blitz kids, synth-pop and the style press, from 1975 to 1985. 'Few music scenes have received more opprobrium than the New Romantics. A bunch of fame-grabbing clothes-horses? Certainly. But also, a progressive force t... + Read More
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Series: Joseph Urban Unlocking an Art Deco Bedroom Hardcover Amy M. Dehan 9781911282563 $70.95 DESIGN Feb 11, 2022

A fascinating, profusely illustrated, study of the impact of Austrian-born architect and designer Joseph Urban (1872–1933), on the development and acceptance of American Modernism through the story of one of his last commissions.Designed in 1929 and completed in 1930, this rare, bespoke bedroom, created for the seventeen-year-old Elaine Wormser, embodies the skillful blend of Viennese artistic influences, sleek modern finishes, daring color and pattern that marked all of the artist’s greatest achievements. The interior, whose elements are held ... + Read More
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Series: Excavation A Journey Through Loss Hardcover Jason Paul Reimer 9781954119062 $63.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Jan 13, 2023

Made in response to the death of the artist’s sister shortly before the birth of his first child, Jason Reimer’s work ponders the meaning of life, death, suffering, and human nature. It does so in the form of a fragmented, apocalyptic narrative embodied within a book that utilizes multiple textures, substrates, and complex image sequencing.
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Series: I can be myself when everyone I know is dead... The delightfully dreadful art of Kamila Mlynarczyk Hardcover Kamila Mlynarcyk 9781777081782 $39.95 ART Oct 18, 2022

Art book, local Canadian artist, creepy/off-beat horror art "Kamila is a cornucopia of dreadfulness. Her works at once beautiful and terrible, each piece like being tickled by Death's cold little fingers, every bewitching creation a world I want to know more about." - Gerald Brom Welcome to the art and mind of Kamila Mlynarczyk (better known as @WoodedWoods). This book houses a collection of Kamila's art (some from online and some not) created from 2017 - 2019 and charts her progression into illustration art from her most famous Art Dolls. She... + Read More
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Series: The Mixtape Series Go All The Way A Literary Appreciation of Power Pop Paperback Paul Myers 9781644281611 $26.95 MUSIC Feb 24, 2023

In Go All The Way, today's best and brightest writers go deep on what certain Power Pop bands and songs mean and have meant to them.Fun, bright, and playful, Power Pop is a sometimes adored, sometimes maligned, often misunderstood genre of music. From its heyday in the 70s and 80s to its resurgence in the 90s and 00s, Power Pop has meant many things to many people. Whether they love or hate it, Go All The Way is a dive into the Beatles-inspired pop rock of the last five decades.Featuring:Heather Havrilesky on BlondieCarrie Courogen on Liz Phair... + Read More
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Series: Active Hope (revised) How to Face the Mess We're in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power Paperback Joanna Macy 9781608687107 $28.50 NATURE Jun 24, 2022

The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, war, political polarization, economic upheaval, and the dying back of nature together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. This revised, tenth anniversary edition of Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face these crises so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power. Drawing on decades of teaching an empowerment approach known as the Work That Reconnects, the authors guide us through a transformational proce... + Read More
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Series: Mulysses Hardcover Oyvind Torseter 9781592702763 $39.50 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 Apr 21, 2023

An astonishing, high-adventure graphic novel that playfully remixes The Odyssey, Moby Dick, and more, from Norway’s greatest cartoonist. Fresh out of a job, with his apartment slated for demolition and his possessions seized, Mulysses is in need of $5,000—and fast! As luck would have it, he crosses paths just in time with a wealthy collector, who offers him the fortune he seeks if he succeeds in bringing back the world’s biggest eye, fabled to grant its owner enormous power. Like Ulysses, Ishmael, and many others before him, Mulysses takes to t... + Read More
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Series: Tasha's Voice Hardcover Carmen Bogan 9781951179045 $24.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Aug 25, 2023

A Black girl finds connection through a day out in nature. Tasha is a girl who has trouble finding her voice to speak in school or to even make a friend. But all that changes when she visits the best park ever. Tasha’s story takes place on the same class trip featured in the ground-breaking book, Where’s Rodney?, and shows the power of nature to transform a child.
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Series: Koguma's Bake Shop Baby Bear's Bakery, Part 2 Paperback DENPA 9781634429825 $23.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Age (years) from 6 Dec 23, 2022

Big changes are coming to Baby Bear's Bakery! First, Bear has been isekai'd and has become the Demon Lord! Now as an evil villain Bear's current obsession is bad customer service! Mwa ha ha! Then, Bear decides to go to school! There's still plenty for him to learn, but in this case, Bear's got his share of topics to teach the next generation of dessert lovers.
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Series: Alphabet of Unloved Beasts Hardcover Kelly Ward-Wills 9781777081768 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Jul 19, 2022

Picturebook, unusual alphabet book In an old house, you'll find spiders, mice, and dust. But in the oldest houses you'll find things far worse than bugs. A house that's lived enough years will gather in its eaves a crew of several monstrous things that settle and won't leave. They moan and scratch and knock the walls. They rattle in the drains. When little humans shake with fear, they think, "Well, that was a very fun game!" For monstrous beasts love nothing more than a good old-fashioned fright. They love to play with their beloved friends in... + Read More
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Series: Who Loves The Son Paperback Frank Strausser 9781644282144 $26.50 FICTION Apr 21, 2023
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Series: Judging Hunters and Hunter Seat Equitation Paperback Anna Jane White-Mullin 9781646011162 $42.50 SPORTS & RECREATION Mar 18, 2022

Your key to success in the hunter and equitation ring, from one of the sport’s classic judges and competitors, completely revised for today’s rider. Revised and updated with the most current USEF rules and tests, Judging Hunters and Hunter Seat Equitation is the only single written source on how to judge hunter show competitions, and understand exactly how they are judged. This must-have resource gives anyone competing in or judging hunter or equitation classes the edge, with professionally reviewed and approved sections that examine: Confo... + Read More
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Series: Bob Honey Bob Honey Sings Jimmy Crack Corn Paperback Sean Penn 9781644281178 $23.95 FICTION Jun 23, 2023

<div><b>Bob Honey Sings Jimmy Crack Corn</b>—the madcap follow-up to his debut novel, which was hailed by authors as diverse as Salman Rushdie, Jane Smiley, and Paul Theroux —explores the deepest recesses of American politics and culture. Bob Honey, the disillusioned divorcee with a penchant for murder by mallet, weaves his way toward Washington DC for the ultimate showdown with a certain nefarious “landlord,” but nothing is as it seems, and Bob will have more than just the government working against him. Part comedy and part thriller,... + Read More
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Series: The Velvet Rose Paperback Susan Holmes McKagan 9781644281161 $28.50 FICTION Dec 16, 2022

In the early nineties, Scarlet, a painter and high fashion model, finds herself working in some of the world’s most famous fashion capitals. As her adventure continues, she meets Johnny of The Westies, an up-and-coming band on the cusp of superstardom. What ensues is an unhinged ride of a novel following the audacious lead female protagonist as she navigates her life through fame, addiction, infidelity, and all the ups and downs of dating a legendary musician from one of the biggest rock bands in history. A riveting and heartfelt journey of fig... + Read More
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Series: Better Than New / Mejor Que Nuevo A Recycle Tale / Un cuenta de reciclaje Hardcover Robert Broder 9781952338038 $25.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Jun 03, 2022

“Will You Help Me?” Isidora and Julian, playing in the Chilean ocean, hear a plaintive cry -- a sea lion is tangled in an abandoned fishing net. They free their ocean friend then consider what to do with the net. With the help of a bird building its nest, they recycle it into something useful again, something better than new. Presented in both English and Spanish, Better than New: A Recycle Tale/Mejor que Nuevo: Un cuenta de reciclaje is an inspiring story that presents children with a problem and shows how they find the solution, while... + Read More
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Series: The Bear Woman Paperback Karolina Ramqvist 9781552454312 $21.95 FICTION Feb 08, 2022

A writer’s obsession with the story of Marguerite de la Rocque leads her to question how women’s stories have been told, and how she will tell her own. Blending autofiction and the essay, The Bear Woman takes us on a journey of feminism and literary detective work that spans centuries and continents. In the 1540s, a young French noblewoman, Marguerite de la Rocque, was abandoned by her guardian on an island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with her maidservant and her lover. In present-day Stockholm, an author and mother of three becomes captivate... + Read More
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Series: Dream States Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias Paperback John Lorinc 9781552454282 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 23, 2022

Is the ‘smart city’ the utopia we’ve been waiting for? The promise of the so-called smart city has been at the forefront of urban planning and development since the early 2010s, and the tech industry that supplies smart city software and hardware is now worth hundreds of billions a year. But the ideas and approaches underpinning smart city tech raise tough and important questions about the future of urban communities, surveillance, automation, and public participation. The smart city era, moreover, belongs firmly in a longer historical narrativ... + Read More
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Series: Jewish Noir II Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds Paperback Kenneth Wishnia 9781629638225 $25.50 FICTION Sep 02, 2022

Jewish Noir II is unique collection of twenty-three all-new stories (and one reprint) by Jewish and non-Jewish literary and genre writers, including numerous award-winning authors such as Gabriela Alemán, Doug Allyn, Rita Lakin, Rabbi Ilene Schneider, E.J. Wagner, and Kenneth Wishnia, with a foreword by MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block. The stories explore such issues as the perpetual challenge of confronting resurgent anti-Semitism in the US, the enduring legacy of regional warfare in the land of Israel since biblical times, how the “entitled” ... + Read More
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Series: Spectre Critique of the Gotha Program Paperback Karl Marx 9781629639161 $22.50 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 30, 2022

Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program is a revelation. It offers the fullest elaboration of his vision for a communist future, free from the shackles of capital, but also the state. Neglected by the statist versions of socialism, whether Social Democratic or Stalinist that left a wreckage of coercion and disillusionment in their wake, this new annotated translation of Marx’s Critique makes clear for the first time the full emancipatory scope of Marx’s notion of life after capitalism. An erudite new introduction by Peter Hudis plumbs the depth of... + Read More
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Series: A Horse by Nature Managing Emotional and Mental Stress in Horses Paperback Mary Ann Simonds 9781646010431 $44.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Jul 01, 2022

A color-coded guide to creating better horse-human interactions and reducing mental, emotional, and physical stress in the horse. Renowned wild horse ecologist Mary Ann Simonds provides a soup-to-nuts manual for stress-reduction in performance horses. Based on her 30-plus years of personal research and experience of wild horse ecology and domestic horse behavior, as well as data provided by other equine scientists, readers will find a foundation of understanding related to the natural life cycle and history of the horse, from birth to forming... + Read More
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Series: The Commemorative PiHKAL and TiHKAL 30th Anniversary Edition Hardcover Alexander Shulgin 9780999547236 $283.95 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Age (years) from 21 - 101 Jun 24, 2022

This 30th Anniversary Commemorative edition of PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story and TIHKAL: The Continuation features the original texts with complete errata, new essays, anecdotes & reminiscences by numerous colleagues, over 200 photographs, original art, and never before published items from the Shulgin archives including the DEA file from the 1994 raid on the Shulgin Farm, correspondences, and other fascinating material from the Shulgin file drawers. In addition a sneak peak of the third book in the trilogy is included! PIHKAL is the fiction... + Read More
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Series: The Bach Cello Suites A Companion Main Hardcover Steven Isserlis CBE 9780571366248 $28.95 MUSIC Jan 04, 2022

A unique Companion to J S Bach's iconic Cello Suites from internationally-renowned cellist Steven Isserlis.'Isserlis is the master of the material, yet always able to make it accessible . . . It is an absolute treat to be led to this sublime music by such an ethusiastic expert.' MICHAEL PALIN'The book I've always wanted: an accessible, eloquent guide to the world's greatest - and maybe most elusive - pieces of music. And written by the man I'd want to tell me about it. This is such a delight.'DERREN BROWN'Illuminating.' OBSERVER'Striking.' THE ... + Read More
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Series: Hedgehog & Friends While We Can't Hug Main Board book Eoin McLaughlin 9780571369133 $15.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 0 - 5 Jan 04, 2022

Hedgehog and Tortoise were the best of friends. They wanted to give each other a great, big hug. But they weren't allowed to touch. "Don't worry," said Owl. "There are lots of ways to show someone you love them." So the two friends wave to each other, blow kisses, sing songs, dance around and write letters. And even though they can't hug and they can't touch, they both know that they are loved. A gorgeous, uplifting, inspiring picture book that makes social distancing fun!
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Series: Mark My Words Paperback Muhammad Khan 9781529029949 $17.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 13 Jun 21, 2022

A powerful new novel about standing out and being heard from Muhammad Khan, the Branford Boase Award-winning author of I Am Thunder. Fifteen-year-old Dua Iqbal has always had trouble minding her own business. With a silver-tongue and an inquisitive nature, a career in journalism seems fated. When her school merges with another to form an Academy, Dua seizes her chance and sets up a rival newspaper, exposing the controversial stories that teachers and the kids who rule the school would rather keep buried. Dua's investigations are digging up ... + Read More
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Series: Allegorizings Main Hardcover Jan Morris 9780571234134 $33.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 11, 2022

'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.'Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary life, witnessing such seminal moments as the first ascent of Everest, the Suez Canal Crisis, the Eichmann Trial, The Cuban Revolution and so much more. Now, in Allegorizings, published posthumously as was her wish, Morris looks back over some of the key moments of her life, and sees a multitude of meanings.From her final travels to the USA and across Europe to late journeys on her beloved trains and ships, from t... + Read More
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Series: Schumann The Faces and the Masks Main Paperback Judith Chernaik 9780571331277 $33.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 04, 2022

Schumann: The Faces and the Masks is a groundbreaking account of a major composer whose life and works have been the subject of intense controversy ever since his attempted suicide and early death in an insane asylum. Schumann was a key figure in the Romanticism which swept Europe and America in the 19th century, inspiring writers, musicians and painters, delighting their enthralled audiences, and reaching to the furthest corners of the world. All the contradictions of his age enter Schumann's works, from the fantastic disguises of his carniva... + Read More
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Series: The Poems of Dorothy Molloy Main Paperback Dorothy Molloy 9780571348473 $24.95 POETRY Jan 25, 2022

Dorothy Molloy was a star in the making when Faber prepared her debut Hare Soup (2004) for publication, before tragedy struck, and she died four days before advance copies arrived. With its distinctive and unsettling mix of comedy and complicity, dark humour and disturbance (a feminist burlesque that has seen her work christened as 'gurlesque'), Hare Soup stripped the veneer from the niceties of relations in family life and the Catholic church, turning its inventive and sexually charged gaze to corruption and abuse in our most private spaces. T... + Read More
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Series: Sybil & Cyril Cutting through Time Main Hardcover Jenny Uglow 9780571354153 $44.95 ART Jan 11, 2022

'Whatever Uglow writes about she makes absolutely fascinating.' DIANA ATHILLThe story of Sybil Andews and Cyril Power, two artists who changed each other in an age of experiment and turmoil.'In all her books, she makes us feel the life behind the facts.' GUARDIAN'Wonderfully sharp and sympathetic . . . Uglow is a perfect biographer.' CRAIG BROWN, MAIL ON SUNDAYIn 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for thei... + Read More
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Series: The Explorers' Clubs Explorers at Pirate Island Main Paperback Alex Bell 9780571359738 $17.95 JUVENILE FICTION Jan 11, 2022

In their fifth thrilling adventure, the explorers journey deep into the Bubble Ocean on their quest to stop the evil Collector, but time is running out . . .The Poison Tentacle Sea was home to the powerful Bone Current. As they had feared, it gave a sudden surge and pulled them in.Half-mermaid Ursula Jellyfin has always longed for adventure, and this time the stakes are higher than ever. The Collector is holding a group of children prisoner on Pirate Island, and it's up to Ursula and her friends Jai, Max and Genie to set them free. Armed with a... + Read More
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Series: The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 9 1939-1941 Main Hardcover T. S. Eliot 9780571362813 $134.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Jan 18, 2022

This volume covers the production of Eliot's play The Family Reunion; the publication of The Idea of a Christian Society; and the joyous versifying of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. After exhausting himself through nights of fire-watching in the London wartime blackout, he travels the country, attends meetings of The Moot, delivers talks, and advises a fresh generation of writers including Cyril Connolly, Keith Douglas, Kathleen Raine and Vernon Watkins. Major correspondents include W. H. Auden, George Barker, William Empson, Geoffrey Fab... + Read More
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Series: Mohamed Makiya A Modern Architect Renewing Islamic Tradition Hardcover Karen Dabrowska 9780863564161 $47.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 18, 2022

‘Makiya was Baghdad and Baghdad was Makiya.’ These words sum up the life of one of the Middle East’s most famous architects, whose career spanned seven decades and included projects in more than ten countries. Mohamed Makiya was a master of incorporating traditional styles into modern architecture.
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Series: Post-Traumatic Thriving The Art, Science, & Stories of Resilience Paperback Randall Bell PhD 9780996793179 $37.50 HEALTH & FITNESS Reading age from 18 Jan 11, 2021

Today we see crime, abuse, alcoholism, drugs, anger, and anxiety everywhere. Jails and prisons are crammed on an industrial scale. Recovery centers are packed with patients. Extreme political and religious groups regularly trap more members. Too many schools are simply factories for dropouts. All of this is the result of unresolved trauma. Ultimately, the quality of our lives depends on our ability to successfully process our heartbreaks and catastrophes. By college age, 66% to 85% of all people have been impacted by at least one traumatic e... + Read More
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Series: The Agents Paperback Grégoire Courtois 9781552454329 $21.95 FICTION Jan 18, 2022

Nineteen Eighty-Four meets Squid Game, via The Office, in this boldly dystopian novel The agents don’t know what they’re agents of, but they’re very busy agenting, which means watching endless data feeds in their cubicles, cubicles that are piled one on top of another in a massive tower in which the agents both live and work. Empty floors serve as battlefields where different guilds of agents fight for territory. It seems that defenestration is the only way out, the ‘ballet of suicides.’ It is here we meet Theodore, who has amputated his own to... + Read More
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Series: Simple Gimpl The Definitive Bilingual Edition Hardcover Isaac Bashevis Singer 9781632060389 $28.50 FICTION Mar 03, 2023

A gorgeously produced, bilingual edition of Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer's canonical story about a hapless yet charmingly resilient baker named Gimpl, who resists taking revenge on the town that makes him the butt of every joke. Singer's original Yiddish appears alongside his own partial translation, now completed and edited by writer and scholar David Stromberg, and the 1953 translation by fellow Nobel laureate Saul Bellow. With illustrations by Liana Finck and an afterword by David Stromberg.Isaac Bashevis Singer’s “Gimpl tam” w... + Read More
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Series: Black Tights Black Tights Wide Paperback DENPA 9781634422918 $57.95 ART Reading age from 14 May 06, 2022

Collecting 100 full-color pages and featuring 48 different Japanese manga and anime artists, Black Tights features some of the best illustrators in Japan. With stockings as their primary themes, WIDE focuses on thighs. Overseen by cover artist and art director, Yom, audiences have been captivated by their character designs in the 2019 anime short, Miru Tights.
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Series: Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics Volume II, Issue 2 Paperback Leon Wieseltier 9781735718750 $26.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 04, 2022

“A Meteor of Intelligent Substance”“Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is”"Liberties is THE place to be. Change starts in the mind.” Liberties, a journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues and causes of our time. Liberties features serious, independent, stylish, and controversial essays by significant writers and leaders throughout the world; new poetry; and, introduces the next generation of writers and voices to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative li... + Read More
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Series: Your Still Beating Heart Paperback Tyler Keevil 9781838386009 $17.50 FICTION Jan 08, 2022

From its show-stopping opening scene, Keevil’s tightly plotted page turner is full of momentum and unforgettable characters. Moving, profound and ultimately joyful, it turns on an exceptionally clever twist and is as revealing in its psychological acuity as it is in its portrait of organised crime. All it takes to change a life is a single moment. A random stabbing on a London bus leaves Eira stripped of a future that should have been hers and propels her into a life skewed out of all recognition. In Prague, the city where she and her ... + Read More
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Series: The Fugitives Main Hardcover Jamal Mahjoub 9781838850821 $33.95 FICTION Jan 18, 2022

The Kamanga Kings, a Khartoum jazz band of yesteryear, is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime when a surprise letter arrives inviting them to perform in Washington, D.C. The only problem is . . . the band no longer exists.Rushdy is a disaffected secondary school teacher and the son of an original Kamanga King. Determined to see a life beyond his own home, he sets out to revive the band. Aided by his unreliable best friend, all too soon an unlikely group are on their way, knowing the eyes of their country are on them.As the group moves ... + Read More
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Series: Fatal Ally Main Paperback Tim Sebastian 9781838853969 $17.50 FICTION Feb 15, 2022

Your closest friend could be your deadliest foeA British intelligence operation to recover an asset from Moscow goes catastrophically wrong, compromised by a rogue element at the highest level of US government. So Margo Lane, one of MI6's top agents, is ordered to deliver a message the White House won't forget.Satisfied at the chance for retribution, Margo embarks on a mission that will take her from the violent heart of Russia to the edge of the civil war in Syria - until she is led to a terrifying personal decision she hoped she would never h... + Read More