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Series: Level Up Rise Above the Hidden Forces Holding Your Business Back Hardcover Stacey Abrams 9780593539828 $35.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Feb 22, 2022

A must-read guide for small business owners navigating a critical turning point: when you either level up or give up.It’s never been easier to start a business—and it’s never been harder to scale it. Half of new businesses in America don’t make it past five years. Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodgson want to help today’s entrepreneurs beat the odds by revealing the unseen tethers that keep small businesses from growing and thriving.Drawing on firsthand experience starting and scaling multiple companies over nearly two decades, Now® cofounders Abrams ... + Read More
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Series: The Revolution That Wasn't GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors Hardcover Spencer Jakab 9780593421154 $37.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Feb 01, 2022

“The saga of GameStop and other meme stocks is revealed with the skill of a thrilling whodunit. Jakab writes with an anti-Midas touch. If he touched gold, he would bring it to life.”—Burton G. Malkiel, author of A Random Walk Down Wall StreetFrom Wall Street Journal columnist Spencer Jakab, the real story of the GameStop squeeze—and the surprising winners of a rigged game.During one crazy week in January 2021, a motley crew of retail traders on Reddit’s r/wallstreetbets forum had seemingly done the impossible—they had brought some of the bigges... + Read More
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Series: His Name Is George Floyd One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice Hardcover Robert Samuels 9780593490617 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 17, 2022

• A Finalist for the National Book Award• A Best Book of the Year from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Hudson Retail, TIME, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Review, Library Journal, Booklist, Book Riot, and more!A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd’s life and legacy—from his family’s roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, health care, criminal justice, and policing—telling the singular story of how one ma... + Read More
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Series: His Name Is George Floyd One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice Large type / large print edition Paperback Robert Samuels 9780593607633 $42.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 24, 2022

FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTIONA landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd’s life and legacy—from his family’s roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, health care, criminal justice, and policing—telling the story of how one man’s tragic experience brought about a global movement for change.“It is a testament to the power of His Name Is George Floyd that the book’s most vital moments come not af... + Read More
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Series: Walk the Vanished Earth A Novel Hardcover Erin Swan 9780593299333 $36.00 FICTION May 31, 2022

In the tradition of Station Eleven, Severance and The Dog Stars, a beautifully written and emotionally stirring dystopian novel about how our dreams of the future may shift as our environment changes rapidly, while the earth continues to spin.The year is 1873, and a buffalo hunter named Samson travels the Kansas plains, full of hope for his new country. The year is 1975, and an adolescent girl named Bea walks those very same plains; pregnant, mute, and raised in captivity by people who were not her parents, she lands in an institution, where do... + Read More
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Series: In the Shadow of the Gods The Emperor in World History Hardcover Dominic Lieven 9780735222199 $54.00 HISTORY Jun 07, 2022

A dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world’s empires, a book that probes the essence of leadership and power through the centuries and around the world.From the rise of Sargon of Akkad, who in the third millennium BCE ruled what is now Iraq and Syria, to the collapse of the great European empires in the twentieth century, the empire has been the dominant form of power in history. Dominic Lieven’s expansive book explores strengths and failings of the human beings who held those empires together (or let them crumble). ... + Read More
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Series: My Life in the Sunshine Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family Hardcover Nabil Ayers 9780593295960 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 07, 2022

A memoir about one man’s journey to connect with his musician father, ultimately redefining what family really meansThroughout his adult life, whether he was opening a Seattle record store in the ’90s or touring the world as the only non-white band member in alternative rock bands, Nabil Ayers felt the shadow and legacy of his father’s musical genius, and his race, everywhere. In 1971, a white, Jewish, former ballerina, chose to have a child with the famous Black jazz musician Roy Ayers, fully expecting and agreeing that he would not be involve... + Read More
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Series: Raising Raffi The First Five Years Hardcover Keith Gessen 9780593300442 $36.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Jun 07, 2022

“A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times“Memoirs of fatherhood are rarely so honest or so blunt.” —Daniel Engber, The Atlantic“An instant classic.” —M. C. Mah, RomperNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY LIT HUB & THE MILLIONSAn unsparing, loving account of fatherhood and the surprising, magical, and maddening first five years of a son’s life“I was not prepared to be a father—this much I knew.”Keith Gessen was nearing forty and hadn’t given much thought to the idea of being a father. He... + Read More
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Series: Horse A Novel Hardcover Geraldine Brooks 9780399562969 $37.00 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American historyKentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a p... + Read More
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Series: Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair A Novel Hardcover June Gervais 9780593298794 $35.00 FICTION Jun 21, 2022

“I adored this novel. It’s a story about being an awkward, misfit girl with big dreams in a man’s world. It made me laugh out loud, and it made me really, really want a tattoo.” —Clare Pooley, New York Times bestselling author of The Authenticity ProjectAn uplifting, feminist coming-of-age love story about a young woman who dreams of becoming a tattoo artist, and living life on her own termsIntrovert Gina Mulley is determined to become a tattoo artist, and to find somewhere she belongs in her conventional Long Island town. But this is 1985, whe... + Read More
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Series: Crying in the Bathroom A Memoir Hardcover Erika L. Sánchez 9780593296936 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 12, 2022

“Equal parts pee-your-pants hilarity and break your heart poignancy- like the perfect brunch date you never want to end!"—America Ferrera, Emmy award-winning actress in Ugly BettyFrom the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly original memoir-in-essays that is as deeply moving as it is disarmingly funnyGrowing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the ‘90s, Erika L. Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment—a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who paint... + Read More
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Series: Crying in the Bathroom A Memoir Large type / large print edition Paperback Erika L. Sánchez 9780593607602 $39.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 23, 2022

“Equal parts pee-your-pants hilarity and break your heart poignancy- like the perfect brunch date you never want to end!"—America Ferrera, Emmy award-winning actress in Ugly BettyFrom the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly original memoir-in-essays that is as deeply moving as it is disarmingly funnyGrowing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the ‘90s, Erika L. Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment—a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who paint... + Read More
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Series: Fire Season A Novel Hardcover Leyna Krow 9780593299609 $36.00 FICTION Jul 12, 2022

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE“Devilishly funny and endlessly inventive.” —Jess Walter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins“This story is darkly funny, deliciously devious and hugely inventive, a magical twist on the allure of the American West and who goes there to seek their fortune.” —Good Housekeeping, “The 30 Best and Most Anticipated Books of 2022 (So Far)”The propulsive story of three scheming opportunists—a banker, a conman, and a woman with an extraordinary gift—whose lives collide in the wa... + Read More
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Series: The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories Hardcover Jamil Jan Kochai 9780593297193 $35.00 FICTION Jul 19, 2022

FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONNAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORKER’S BEST BOOKS OF 2022“An endlessly inventive and moving collection from a thrilling and capacious young talent.” —Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins.A luminous new collection of stories from a young writer who “has brought his culture’s rich history, mythology, and lyricism to American letters.” —Sandra CisnerosPen/Hemingway finalist Jamil Jan Kochai breathes life into his contemporary Afghan characters, moving between modern-day Afghanistan and the Afghan dias... + Read More
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Series: Status and Culture How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change Hardcover W. David Marx 9780593296707 $40.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 06, 2022

“Subtly altered how I see the world.” —Michelle Goldberg, New York Times“[Status and Culture] consistently posits theories I’d never previously considered that instantly feel obvious.” —Chuck Klosterman, author of The Nineties“Why are you the way that you are? Status and Culture explains nearly everything about the things you choose to be—and how the society we live in takes shape in the process.” —B.J. Novak, writer and actorSolving the long-standing mysteries of culture—from the origin of our tastes and identities, to the perpetual cycles of ... + Read More
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Series: An Honest Living A Novel Hardcover Dwyer Murphy 9780593489246 $35.00 FICTION Jul 26, 2022

“Like the best noir practitioners, Murphy uses the mystery as scaffolding to assemble a world of fallen dreams and doom-bitten characters…Murphy’s hard-boiled rendering of the city is nothing short of exquisite…For anyone who wants a portrait of this New York, few recent books have conjured it so vividly.” —The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice• A Best Book of the Year from The New Yorker, LitHub, CrimeReads, and more!A sharp and stylish debut from the editor-in-chief of CrimeReads in which an unwitting private eye gets caught up in a... + Read More
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Series: How to Read Now Essays Hardcover Elaine Castillo 9780593489635 $36.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Jul 26, 2022

“How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our buried and entangled histories.”“A book that doesn’t seek to shut down the current literary discourse so much as shake it up.” (The New York Times Book Review) Offering “its audience the opportunity to look past the simplicity we’re all too often spoon-fed into order to restore ourselves to chaos and complexity — a way of seeing and reading that demands... + Read More
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Series: All This Could Be Different A Novel Hardcover Sarah Thankam Mathews 9780593489123 $36.00 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

A Phenomenal Book Club Pick • A Vogue Book Club Pick • A The Rumpus Book Club Pick“All This Could Be Different is a bildungsroman, a gorgeous queer love story, and a musing on labor and immigration. But you’ll fall most in love with its wickedly sharp narrator, who’s funny, passionate, and complicated.” —The Cut“If you’ve ever wanted to read a love letter to friendship, this is it… Through exquisite observations, Sarah Thankam Mathews reflects on the gift of having people you can count on, who anchor you through new chapters.” —NPR’s “Books We ... + Read More
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Series: All This Could Be Different A Novel Large type / large print edition Paperback Sarah Thankam Mathews 9780593607596 $39.00 FICTION Aug 09, 2022

2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTONE OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES’ TOP 5 FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF TIME AND SLATE’S TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, Vogue, Vulture, BuzzFeed, Harper’s Bazaar, and more “One of the buzziest, most human novels of the year…breathless, dizzying, and completely beautiful.” —Vogue “Dazzling and wholly original…[written] with such mordant wit, insight, and specificity, it feels like watching a new literary star being born in real time.” —Entertainment Weekly From a brilliant new ... + Read More
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Series: The Fishermen and the Dragon Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast Hardcover Kirk Wallace Johnson 9781984880123 $37.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 09, 2022

New York Public Library Best of 2022A gripping, twisting account of a small town set on fire by hatred, xenophobia, and ecological disaster—a story that weaves together corporate malfeasance, a battle over shrinking natural resources, a turning point in the modern white supremacist movement, and one woman’s relentless battle for environmental justice.“Riveting…it has a little of everything that a thrilling story needs. It feels quite prescient, as if something we’re living out now, you can see scenes of it then. A gripping book that deserves ... + Read More
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Series: Diary of a Void A Novel Hardcover Emi Yagi 9780143136873 $30.00 FICTION Aug 09, 2022

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker · NPR · WBEZ’s Nerdette · The New York Public Library · Literary HubA New York Times Editors’ Choice“One of the most passionate cases I’ve ever read for female interiority, for women’s creative pulse and rich inner life.” ―Katy Waldman, The New Yorker“Always expect the unexpected when you’re not expecting.” ―Sloane CrosleyA woman in Tokyo avoids harassment at work by perpetuating, for nine months and beyond, the lie that she’s pregnant in this prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about the mot... + Read More
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Series: Existential Physics A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions Hardcover Sabine Hossenfelder 9781984879455 $37.00 SCIENCE Aug 09, 2022

A contrarian scientist wrestles with the big questions that modern physics raises, and what physics says about the human conditionNot only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The notion that there are universes within particles, or that particles are conscious, is ascientific, as is the hypothesis that our universe is a computer simulation. On the other hand, the idea that the universe itself is conscious is difficult to rule out entirely. According to Sabine Hossenfel... + Read More
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Series: This Time Tomorrow A Novel Hardcover Emma Straub 9780525539001 $37.00 FICTION May 17, 2022

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Vacationers and All Adults Here combines her trademark charm and wit with a moving father-daughter story and a playful twist on the idea of time travelWhat if you could take a vacation to your past?On the eve of her fortieth birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected. She’s happy with her apartment, her romantic status, and her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But something is missing. Her father, the single parent who... + Read More
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Series: This Time Tomorrow A Novel Unabridged edition CD-Audio Emma Straub 9780593584569 $54.00 FICTION May 17, 2022

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER“The pages brim with tenderness and an appreciation for what we had and who we were. I could not have loved it more.“—Ann Patchett “The kind of book that will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you call the people you love. Exceptional.”—Emily Henry“Delightful”—Boston Globe“Poignant”—New York TimesWhat if you could take a vacation to your past? With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, beloved New York Times bestseller Emma Straub offers her own twist on traditional time travel tropes, and a different kind of lo... + Read More
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Series: This Time Tomorrow A Novel Large type / large print edition Paperback Emma Straub 9780593607688 $40.00 FICTION May 17, 2022

The New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers and All Adults Here combines her trademark charm and wit with a moving father-daughter story, and a playful twist on the idea of time travel.What if you could take a vacation to your past?On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected. She’s happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But something is missing. Her father, the single parent who raise... + Read More
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Series: We Refuse to Forget A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power Hardcover Caleb Gayle 9780593329580 $37.00 HISTORY Jun 07, 2022

A landmark work of Black and Native American history that reconfigures our understanding of identity, race, and belonging and the inspiring ways marginalized people have pushed to redefine their world.In this paradigm-shattering work of American history, Caleb Gayle tells the extraordinary story of the Creek Nation, a Native tribe that two centuries ago both owned slaves and accepted Black people as full members. Thanks to the leadership of a chief named Cow Tom—a former Black slave—a treaty with the U.S. government recognized Creek citizenship... + Read More
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Series: The Long Answer A Novel Hardcover Anna Hogeland 9780593418130 $35.00 FICTION Jun 21, 2022

A woman considers pregnancy, motherhood, and the nature of female relationships in this profound and provocative novel.Twelve weeks pregnant for the first time, Anna speaks to her sister on the other side of the country and learns she has just miscarried her second child. As this loss strains their bond and complications with Anna’s own pregnancy emerge, her tenuous steps towards motherhood are shadowed and illuminated by the women she meets along the way, whose stories of the children they have had, or longed for, or lost, crowd in.The Long An... + Read More
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Series: Thrust A Novel Hardcover Lidia Yuknavitch 9780525534907 $37.00 FICTION Jun 28, 2022

As rising waters—and an encroaching police state—endanger her life and family, a girl with the gifts of a “carrier” travels through water and time to rescue vulnerable figures from the margins of historyLidia Yuknavitch has an unmatched gift for capturing stories of people on the margins—vulnerable humans leading lives of challenge and transcendence. Now, Yuknavitch offers an imaginative masterpiece: the story of Laisvė, a motherless girl from the late 21st century who is learning her power as a carrier, a person who can harness the power of me... + Read More
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Series: The Displacements A Novel Hardcover Bruce Holsinger 9780593189719 $36.00 FICTION Jul 05, 2022

An adrenaline-fueled story of lives upended and transformed by an unprecedented catastropheTo all appearances, the Larsen-Hall family has everything: healthy children, a stable marriage, a lucrative career for Brantley, and the means for Daphne to pursue her art full-time. Their deluxe new Miami life has just clicked into place when Luna—the world’s first category 6 hurricane—upends everything they have taken for granted.When the storm makes landfall, it triggers a descent of another sort. Their home destroyed, two of its members missing, and f... + Read More
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Series: The Displacements A Novel Large type / large print edition Paperback Bruce Holsinger 9780593607664 $39.00 FICTION Jul 19, 2022

An adrenaline-fueled story of lives upended and transformed by an unprecedented catastropheTo all appearances, the Larsen-Hall family has everything: healthy children, a stable marriage, a lucrative career for Brantley, and the means for Daphne to pursue her art full-time. Their deluxe new Miami life has just clicked into place when Luna—the world’s first category 6 hurricane—upends everything they have taken for granted.When the storm makes landfall, it triggers a descent of another sort. Their home destroyed, two of its members missing, and f... + Read More
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Series: The Light We Give How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life Hardcover Simran Jeet Singh 9780593087978 $37.00 SELF-HELP Jul 19, 2022

An author and human rights activist offers his inspiring approach to a happier, more ethical way of life by embracing Sikh teachings.In The Light We Give, Simran Jeet Singh—writer, educator, and human rights activist—shares a powerful approach to living a purposeful and rewarding life. Growing up in Texas the son of Indian immigrants, he has confronted racism, bullying, and ethnic slurs throughout his life: at school, on the athletic field, in his San Antonio neighborhood, and on the streets of New York City. Instead of growing bitter or angry,... + Read More
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Series: The Last White Man A Novel Hardcover Mohsin Hamid 9780593538814 $35.00 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change.One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders’s skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening in new incarnations, uncertain how their neighbors, friends, and family will greet them.Some see the... + Read More
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Series: The Last White Man A Novel Large type / large print edition Paperback Mohsin Hamid 9780593607640 $37.00 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change.One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders’s skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening in new incarnations, uncertain how their neighbors, friends, and family will greet them.Some see the... + Read More
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Series: Mother In the Dark A Novel Hardcover Kayla Maiuri 9780593083284 $35.00 FICTION Aug 09, 2022

“Tender and unsparing, this is a novel to hold onto.” —Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave MeA novel about family secrets and a volatile relationship between a mother and her daughters.When Anna’s sister calls with an urgent message, Anna doesn’t return the call. She knows it’s about their mother.Growing up in working class Boston in an Italian American family, Anna’s childhood was sparse but comfortable—filled with homemade pasta sauce and a close-knit neighborhood. Anna and her sisters are devoted to their mother, orbiting her like the s... + Read More
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Series: Paul A Novel Hardcover Daisy Lafarge 9780593538845 $35.00 FICTION Aug 16, 2022

A sharp, timely debut about a young woman’s toxic relationship with an older man and her battle to free herself from the suffocating expectation to be “good.”When personal scandal forces her to leave Paris, Frances, a young British graduate student, travels to southern France one summer to volunteer on a farm. Almost as soon as she arrives, she is pulled into a relationship with the farm’s enigmatic owner, Paul, a well-traveled older artist. Alone in a foreign country, drawn into his orbit and eventually tangled up in his sheets, Frances starts... + Read More
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Series: The Paper Palace A Novel Paperback Miranda Cowley Heller 9780593329832 $24.00 FICTION Apr 19, 2022

“This house, this place, knows all my secrets.”A story of summer, secrets, love, and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades.It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at “The Paper Palace”—the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: last night Elle and her oldest friend Jonas crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each othe... + Read More
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Series: The First Day of Spring A Novel Paperback Nancy Tucker 9780593191576 $23.00 FICTION May 31, 2022

A tense, psychological novel about what propels one 8-year-old girl to murder, and the complex ways the past chases her down in later life.“So that was all it took,” I thought. “That was all it took for me to feel like I had all the power in the world. One morning, one moment, one yellow-haired boy. It wasn’t so much after all.”Meet Chrissie…Chrissie is eight and she has a secret: she has just killed a boy. The feeling made her belly fizz like soda pop. Her playmates are tearful and their mothers are terrified, keeping them locked indoors. But ... + Read More
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Series: Beyond How Humankind Thinks About Heaven Paperback Catherine Wolff 9781594634468 $23.00 RELIGION May 24, 2022

“Beautifully written, expertly researched and masterfully presented, this tour of how heaven has been understood throughout history is absolutely fascinating.” —James Martin, SJ, author of Jesus: A PilgrimageA smart and thought-provoking cultural history of heaven.What do we think of when we think about heaven? What might it look like? Who or what might be there?Since humans began to huddle together for protection thousands of years ago, these questions have been part of how civilizations and cultures define heaven, the good place beyond this o... + Read More
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Series: Helgoland Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution Paperback Carlo Rovelli 9780593328897 $22.00 SCIENCE May 24, 2022

A startling new look at quantum theory, from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time.One of the world’s most renowned theoretical physicists, Carlo Rovelli has entranced millions of readers with his singular perspective on the cosmos. In Helgoland, he examines the enduring enigma of quantum theory. The quantum world Rovelli describes is as beautiful as it is unnerving.Helgoland is a treeless island in the North Sea where the twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg made the crucial breakthrough for the crea... + Read More
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Series: With Teeth A Novel Paperback Kristen Arnett 9780593191521 $22.00 FICTION May 31, 2022

"Come for the wackiness and wonder of queer family dynamics, stay for the poignant portrait of motherhood on the brink.” —O, The Oprah MagazineFrom “a rare, brave writer” (Ron Charles, Washington Post), a hilarious, harrowing summer read: The surprising and moving story of two mothers, one difficult son, and the limitations of marriage, parenthood, and loveIf she’s being honest, Sammie Lucas is scared of her son. Working from home in the close quarters of their Florida house, she lives with one wary eye peeled on Samson, a sullen, unknowable bo... + Read More
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Series: Dear Senthuran A Black Spirit Memoir Paperback Akwaeke Emezi 9780593329207 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 07, 2022

“A once-in-a-generation voice.” –Vulture“One of our greatest living writers.” –Shondaland“Emezi is changing the world.” –The Paris ReviewOne of the year’s most powerful and talked-about books: a full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times bestselling author and Time Magazine Next Generation LeaderIn three critically acclaimed novels, Akwaeke Emezi has introduced readers to a landscape marked by familial tensions, Igbo belief systems, and a boundless search for what it means to be free. Now, in this extraordinary memo... + Read More
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Series: Tin Camp Road A Novel Paperback Ellen Airgood 9781101982846 $23.00 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

Set against the wide open beauty of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a wise, big-hearted novel in which a young single mother and her 10-year-old daughter stand up to the trials of rural poverty and find the community they need in order to survive.Laurel Hill and her precocious daughter Skye have always been each other’s everything. The pair live on Lake Superior, where the local school has classes of just four children, and the nearest hospital is a helicopter ride away. Though they live frugally, eking out a living with Laurel’s patchwork of jobs,... + Read More
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Series: The Ascent of Information How Data Rules the World Paperback Caleb Scharf 9780593087251 $24.00 COMPUTERS Jun 14, 2022

Information has a life of its own, and it’s using you to get what it wants.One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion bits we create every day, we’ve failed to ask exactly why we’re expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, resources, and human effort to maintain all this data.Drawing on deep ideas and frontier thinking in evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, ... + Read More
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Series: Filthy Animals Paperback Brandon Taylor 9780525538929 $22.00 FICTION Jun 21, 2022

Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Time, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, O, The Oprah Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, BuzzFeed, Vulture, and more: The much-talked-about, deeply satisfying group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, from the “modern E. M. Forster” (Vulture) and Booker Prize finalist.One of the breakout literary stars of 2020, Brandon Taylor has been hailed by Roxane Gay as “a writer who wields his craft in absolutely unforgettable ways.” With Filthy Animals he renews and expands o... + Read More
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Series: Intimacies A Novel Paperback Katie Kitamura 9780399576171 $22.00 FICTION Jul 19, 2022

An electrifying novel about a woman caught between many truths, by the author of A Separation.Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction“A perfect novel—taut and seductive.” —Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life and Filthy Animals“Gripping and elegant. No one’s work simmers with emotional complexity like Katie Kitamura’s.” —Mira Jacob, author of Good TalkAn interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home.She... + Read More
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Series: Virtue A Novel Paperback Hermione Hoby 9780593188606 $22.00 FICTION Jul 19, 2022

“[Hoby] might have just written the defining New York City novel of our fraught, socially anxious, and politically tumultuous times.” —InterviewA powerful novel of youth, desire, and moral conflict, as a young man is seduced by the mirage of glamour—at a terrible cost Arriving in New York City for an internship at an elite but fading magazine, Luca feels invisible: smart but not worldly, privileged but broke, and uncertain how to navigate a new era of social change. Among his peers is Zara, a young Black woman whose sharp wit and frank views on... + Read More
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Series: Songs for the Flames Stories Paperback Juan Gabriel Vasquez 9780593190142 $22.00 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez.The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence—sometimes directly, sometimes only in passing—but whose lives are changed forever, consumed by fire, and by unexpected encounters and unyielding forces.A photographer becomes obsessed with the traumatic past that an elegant woman, a fellow guest staying at a countryside ranch, would rather leave behind. A military reunion forces a soldier to confront a troubling hi... + Read More
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Series: The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters A True Story of Family Fiction Paperback Julie Klam 9780735216433 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 09, 2022

New York Times bestselling author Julie Klam’s funny and moving story of the Morris sisters, distant relations with mysterious pasts.Ever since she was young, Julie Klam has been fascinated by the Morris sisters, cousins of her grandmother. According to family lore, the sisters’ parents decided to move the family from Eastern Europe to Los Angeles early in the twentieth century so their father could become a movie director. On the way, their pregnant mother went into labor in St. Louis, where the baby was born and where their mother died. The f... + Read More
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Series: After the Sun Paperback Jonas Eika 9780593329122 $22.00 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

From a major new international voice, mesmerizing, inventive fiction that probes the tender places where human longings push through the cracks of a breaking world.Under Cancún’s hard blue sky, a beach boy provides a canvas for tourists’ desires, seeing deep into the world’s underbelly. An enigmatic encounter in Copenhagen takes an IT consultant down a rabbit hole of speculation that proves more seductive than sex. The collapse of a love triangle in London leads to a dangerous, hypnotic addiction. In the Nevada desert, a grieving man tries to m... + Read More
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Series: Leadership Six Studies in World Strategy Hardcover Henry Kissinger 9780593489444 $48.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 05, 2022

Henry Kissinger, consummate diplomat and statesman, examines the strategies of six great twentieth-century figures and brings to life a unifying theory of leadership and diplomacy“Leaders,” writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, “think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the future; the second, between the abiding values and aspirations of those they lead. They must balance what they know, which is necessarily drawn from the past, with what they intuit about the future, which is inherently conjectur... + Read More
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Series: Leadership Six Studies in World Strategy Unabridged edition CD-Audio Henry Kissinger 9780593587065 $66.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 05, 2022

An instant New York Times bestsellerHenry Kissinger, consummate diplomat and statesman, examines the strategies of six great twentieth-century figures and brings to life a unifying theory of leadership and diplomacy“An extraordinary book, one that braids together two through lines in the long and distinguished career of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger…In Leadership he presents a fascinating set of historical case studies and political biographies that blend the dance and the dancer, seamlessly.” - James Stavridis, The Wall Street Jour... + Read More
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Series: Either/Or Hardcover Elif Batuman 9780525557593 $36.00 FICTION May 24, 2022

From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Selin’s quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthoodSelin is the luckiest person in her family: the only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it’s sophomore year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of business: to figure out the meaning of everything that happened over the summer. Why did Selin’s elusive crush, Ivan, find her that job in the Hungarian ... + Read More
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Series: To Risk It All Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision Hardcover Admiral James Stavridis USN 9780593297742 $37.00 HISTORY May 24, 2022

From one of the great naval leaders of our time, a master class in decision-making under pressure through the stories of nine famous acts of leadership in battle, drawn from the history of the United States Navy, with outcomes both glorious and notoriousAt the heart of Admiral James Stavridis’s training as a naval officer was the preparation to lead sailors in combat, to face the decisive moment in battle whenever it might arise. In To Risk it All, he offers up nine of the most useful and enthralling stories from the US Navy’s nearly 250-year h... + Read More
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Series: To Risk It All Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision Large type / large print edition Paperback Admiral James Stavridis USN 9780593607718 $40.00 HISTORY May 24, 2022

From one of the great naval leaders of our time, a master class in decision making under pressure through the stories of nine famous acts of leadership in battle drawn from the history of the United States Navy, with outcomes both glorious and notoriousAt the heart of Admiral James Stavridis’s training as a naval officer was the preparation to lead sailors in combat, to face the decisive moment in battle when it arises and make the best decision possible given the situation at hand. Over the course of his illustrious career he returned again an... + Read More
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Series: Game An Autobiography Hardcover Grant Hill 9780593297407 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 07, 2022

The full, frank story of a remarkable life’s journey—to the pinnacle of success as a basketball player, icon, and entrepreneur, to the depths of personal trauma and back, to a place of flourishing and peace—made possible above all by a family’s loveGrant Hill always had game. His choice of college was a subject of national interest, and his arrival at Duke University cemented the program’s arrival at the top. In his freshman year, he led the team to its first NCAA championship, and three championship appearances in four years. His Duke career p... + Read More
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Series: Thank You for Your Servitude Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission Hardcover Mark Leibovich 9780593296318 $39.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 12, 2022

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, the eyewitness account of how the GOP collaborated with Donald Trump to transform Washington’s “swamp” into a gold-plated hot tub—and a onetime party of rugged individualists into a sycophantic personality cultIn the early months of Trump’s candidacy, the Republican Party’s most important figures, people such as Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Lindsey Graham, were united—and loud—in their scorn and contempt. Even more, in their outrage: Trump was a menace and an affront to our democracy.... + Read More
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Series: A Way Out of No Way A Memoir of Truth, Transformation, and the New American Story Hardcover Raphael G. Warnock 9780593491546 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 14, 2022

On the heels of his historic election to the United States Senate, Raphael G. Warnock shares his remarkable spiritual and personal journeySenator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock occupies a singular place in American life. As senior pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, and now as a senator from Georgia, he is the rare voice who can call out the uncomfortable truths that shape contemporary American life and, at a time of division, summon us all to a higher moral ground.Senator Warnock grew up in the Kayton Homes housing projects in Savannah, ... + Read More
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Series: The Twilight World A Novel Hardcover Werner Herzog 9780593490266 $34.00 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War IIIn 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts asked him, Whom would you like to meet? He replied instantly: Hiroo Onoda. Onoda was a former solider famous for having quixotically defended an island in the Philippines for decades after World War II, unaware the fighting was over. Herzog and Onoda developed an insta... + Read More
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Series: Lapvona A Novel Hardcover Ottessa Moshfegh 9780593300268 $36.00 FICTION Jun 21, 2022

In a village buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself part of a power struggle that puts the community’s faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh’s most exciting leap yetLittle Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother—his father told him she died in childbirth. One of Marek’s few consolations is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby, as she did many of the village’s children. Ina’s ... + Read More
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Series: Lapvona A Novel Large type / large print edition Paperback Ottessa Moshfegh 9780593607701 $39.00 FICTION Jul 05, 2022

An Instant New York Times Bestseller!“Lapvona flips all the conventions of familial and parental relations, putting hatred where love should be or a negotiation where grief should be…Through a mix of witchery, deception, murder, abuse, grand delusion, ludicrous conversations, and cringeworthy moments of bodily disgust, Moshfegh creates a world that you definitely don’t want to live in, but from which you can’t look away.” —The AtlanticIn a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the u... + Read More