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Are You Enjoying? Stories Paperback Mira Sethi 9780525434214 $23.00 FICTION Jul 26, 2022

An exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative, funny, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart.“Emotional, equally hilarious, and gutting. I couldn’t put this book down because I’d been welcomed into the most intimate parts of these characters’ lives.” —Rupi Kaur, author of Milk and HoneyFrom the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home—including the bedroom—these wryly observed, deeply ... + Read More
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gripping, complexly plotted thriller set within the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court, where a young law clerk finds herself embroiled in a shocking mystery crafted by one of the most preeminent judges in America—from celebrated national leader and bestselling author Stacey Abrams.“Abrams follows in Dan Brown’s footprint with this masterfully plotted thriller that unfolds like the ultimate chess match—bold move to bolder move with lives hanging in the balance.”—Lisa Gardner, author of Before She Disappeared“A firs... + Read More
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WINNER OF THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE • The breathtaking debut of an important new voice—centered on a constellation of Korean American families“To encounter these achingly truthful, beautiful stories of newcomer Americans is like gazing up at the starry vault of a perfect night sky; it’s immediately dazzling and impressive, and yet the closer and deeper you look, the more you appreciate the sheer countless brilliance.” —Chang-rae Lee, author of My Year Abroad A long-married couple is forced to confront thei... + Read More
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The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with an “inspiring, hilarious, straight-to-the-point” (Entertainment Weekly) collection of essays on friendship among grown-ass women.“Ellis’ prose is filled with so many laugh lines, you might want to go ahead and book the Botox.” —NPRWhen Helen Ellis and her lifelong friends arrive for a reunion on the Redneck Riviera, they unpack more than their suitcases: stories of husbands and kids, lost parents and lost jobs, powdered onion dip and photographs you have to hold by... + Read More
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One-of-a-kind timeless lessons for handling challenges and living with joy, the Italian way—“with unparalleled insight and brilliant wit, Severgnini’s book not only transports us to Italy but deep into the Italian mind and spirit" (Stanley Tucci, host of Searching for Italy).Is there an Italian way to deal with life? Can we all learn something from the Italians? Italy often arouses in Americans a unique mix of attraction and bafflement, moderate disapproval and incredible allure. From the Italians’ love of poetry to an innate desire to socializ... + Read More
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My Old Kentucky Home The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song Hardcover Emily Bingham 9780525520795 $40.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 03, 2022

The long journey of an American song, passed down from generation to generation, bridging a nation’s fraught disconnect between history and warped illusion, revealing the country’s ever evolving self.MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME, from its enormous success in the early 1850s, written by a white man, considered the father of American music, about a Black man being sold downriver, performed for decades by white men in blackface, and the song, an anthem of longing and pain, turned upside down and, over time, becoming a celebration of happy plan... + Read More
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From the National Book Award-winning, bestselling author of Three Junes comes “an engrossing, richly drawn and exquisitely told story of small-town residents grappling with the difficulties of changing times” (People).“Full of secrets and surprises…A must-read.” —J. Courtney Sullivan, author of Friends and StrangersWhen two unexpected visitors arrive in an insular coastal village, they threaten the equilibrium of a community already confronting climate instability, political violence, and domestic upheavals.A decade from now, in the historic to... + Read More
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When Women Were Dragons A Novel Hardcover Kelly Barnhill 9780385548229 $37.00 FICTION May 03, 2022

A GOODREADS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A fiery feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions of a woman’s place in the world and expanding minds about accepting others for who they really are. “Completely fierce, unmistakably feminist, and subversively funny.” —Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry In the first adult novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Ogress and The Orphans, Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours, ... + Read More
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The best-selling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where he uncovers a plot of shocking menace amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests.“Peter Heller is the poet laureate of the literary thriller.“ —Michael Koryta, New York Times best-selling author of Those Who Wish Me DeadKingfisher Lodge, nestled in a canyon on a mile and a half of the most pristine river water on the planet, is known by locals as ”Billionaire... + Read More
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The Interrupted Journey Two Lost Hours Aboard a UFO: The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill Paperback John Fuller 9780593468234 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 10, 2022

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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Selma Blair has played many roles: Ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best as … a mean baby. In a memoir that is as wildly funny as it is emotionally shattering, Blair tells the captivating story of growing up and finding her truth. “Blair is a rebel, an artist, and it turns out: a writer.” —Glennon Doyle, Author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Untamed and Fou... + Read More
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The Great Mistake A novel Paperback Jonathan Lee 9780593081013 $23.00 FICTION May 17, 2022

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A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! • A bighearted novel with technicolor characters, plenty of Texas swagger, and a powder keg of a plot in which marriages struggle, rivalries flare, and secrets explode, all with a clever wink toward classical mythology.For fans of Madeline Miller’s Circe: “The Iliad meets Friday Night Lights in this muscular, captivating debut” (Oprah Daily). The Briscoe family is once again the talk of their small town when March returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his brother’s wife.... + Read More
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You Have a Friend in 10A Stories Hardcover Maggie Shipstead 9780525656999 $36.00 FICTION May 17, 2022

From the Booker Prize nominee and New York Times best-selling author of Great Circle, a piercing, irresistible first collection of short stories exquisite in their craft and audacious in their range A love triangle plays out over decades on a Montana dude ranch. A hurdler and a gymnast spend a single night together in the Olympic village. Mistakes and mysteries weave an intangible web around an old man’s deathbed in Paris, connecting disparate destinies. On the slopes of an unfinished ski resort, a young woman searches for her vanished lover. A... + Read More
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River of the Gods Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile Hardcover Candice Millard 9780385543101 $42.50 HISTORY May 17, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy—from the New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the RepublicA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST • GOODREADS“A lean, fast-paced account of the almost absurdly dangerous quest by [Richard Burton and John Speke] to solve the geographic riddle of their era.” —The New York Times Book ReviewFor millennia the location of the Nile River’s headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the 19th ... + Read More
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Chasing the Thrill Obsession, Death, and Glory in America's Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt Paperback Daniel Barbarisi 9780525566113 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 24, 2022

“Daniel Barbarisi plunges into an adventure from another era when he goes in search of buried treasure, guided only by a cryptic poem, a mischievous art collector, and the footsteps another pursuer who died on the quest… Every page draws you deeper into this no-man’s-land where fortune—or tragedy—awaits.” —Christopher McDougall, author of Born to RunWhen Forrest Fenn was given a fatal cancer diagnosis, he came up with a bold plan: He would hide a chest full of jewels and gold in the wilderness, and publish a poem that would serve as a map leadi... + Read More
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Series: VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES Phase Six A novel Paperback Jim Shepard 9780525565031 $23.00 FICTION May 24, 2022

This "novel of contagion and collapse is also the story of love’s unlikely survival in the most hostile conditions” (Karen Russell, bestselling author of Swamplandia!)—from the National Book Award-nominated author of The Book of Aron.In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their village, and from there Shepard’s harrowing and deeply moving story follows Aleq, one o... + Read More
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Tall Men, Short Shorts The 1969 NBA Finals: Wilt, Russ, Lakers, Celtics, and a Very Young Sports Reporter Paperback Leigh Montville 9780525567318 $24.00 SPORTS & RECREATION May 24, 2022

This “part memoir, part sports story” (Wall Street Journal) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Big Bam chronicles the clash of NBA titans over seven riveting games—Celtics versus Lakers, Russell versus Chamberlain—covered by one young reporter. Welcome to the 1969 NBA Finals!They don’t set up any better than this. The greatest basketball player of all time - Bill Russell - and his juggernaut Boston Celtics, winners of ten (ten!) of the previous twelve NBA championships, squeak through one more playoff run and land in the Finals a... + Read More
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Bath Haus A Thriller Paperback P. J. Vernon 9780593311318 $23.00 FICTION May 24, 2022

Nominated for a 34th annual Lambda Literary Award • A scintillating thriller with an emotional punch: “The tension builds to unbearably claustrophobic levels. To say more would rob readers of the ’no, he didn’t’ suspense that makes Bath Haus an unexpectedly twisted, heart-pounding cat-versus-mouse thriller" (Los Angeles Times).Oliver Park, a recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving, wealthy partner in Nathan, a prominent DC trauma surgeon. Despite their difference in age and disparate backgrou... + Read More
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Tales of Al The Water Rescue Dog Hardcover Lynne Cox 9780593319376 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 24, 2022

The moving, inspiring story of Al, the ungainly, unruly, irresistible Newfoundland puppy who grows up to become a daring rescue dog and super athlete—part of Italy’s elite, highly specialized corps of water rescue dogs who swoop out of helicopters and save lives.Lynne Cox—acclaimed best-selling author of Swimming to Antarctica—is internationally famous for swimming the world’s most difficult waterways without a wet suit, and able to endure water temperatures so cold that they would kill anyone else, recognizes and celebrates all forms of athlet... + Read More
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Avalon A novel Hardcover Nell Zink 9780593534892 $36.00 FICTION May 24, 2022

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A profound and singular story about a young woman searching for her place in the world, from one of America’s most original voices—the irresistible story of one teenager’s reckoning with society at large and her search for a personal utopia.“Effulgent and clever…. What fun.” —The New York TimesBran’s Southern California upbringing is anything but traditional. After her mother joins a Buddhist colony, Bran is raised by her “common-law stepfather” on Bourdon Farms—a plant nursery that doubles as a cover fo... + Read More
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The Engagement America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage Paperback Sasha Issenberg 9781984898517 $30.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 31, 2022

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The riveting story of the conflict over same-sex marriage in the United States—the most significant civil rights breakthrough of the new millennium"Full of intimate details, battling personalities, heated court cases, public persuasion.” —John Williams, The New York TimesOn June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal across the United States. But the road to that momentous decision was much longer than many know. In t... + Read More
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Rainbow Milk A Novel Paperback Paul Mendez 9780593313077 $23.00 FICTION May 31, 2022

Nominated for a 34th annual Lambda Literary Award • An essential and revelatory coming-of-age novel from a thrilling new voice, Rainbow Milk follows nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of his Jehovah’s Witness upbringing.In the 1950s, ex-boxer Norman Alonso has immigrated to Britain from Jamaica with his wife and children in order to secure a brighter future. Blighted with unexpected illness and racism, Norman and his family are resilient but are all too aware that their fam... + Read More
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Musical Revolutions How the Sounds of the Western World Changed Hardcover Stuart Isacoff 9780525658634 $48.00 MUSIC Jun 07, 2022

From the critically acclaimed author of Temperament, a narrative account of the most defining moments in musical history—classical and jazz—all of which forever altered Western culture "A fascinating journey that begins with the origins of musical notation and travels through the centuries reaching all the way to our time.”—Semyon Bychkov, chief conductor and music director of the Czech PhilharmonicThe invention of music notation by a skittish Italian monk in the eleventh century. The introduction of multilayered hymns in the ... + Read More
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Diary of a Misfit A Memoir and a Mystery Hardcover Casey Parks 9780525658535 $39.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 30, 2022

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, New York Public Library, Minneapolis Star Tribune Part memoir, part sweeping journalistic saga: As Casey Parks follows the mystery of a stranger’s past, she is forced to reckon with her own sexuality, her fraught Southern identity, her tortured yet loving relationship with her mother, and the complicated role of faith in her life.“Most moving is Parks’s depiction of a queer lineage, her assertion of an ancestry of outcasts, a tapestry of fellow m... + Read More
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The Lifestyle A Novel Hardcover Taylor Hahn 9780593316351 $36.00 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

A heartwarming and hilarious novel about swinging, marriage, and complexities of the heart.“This book is fun as hell. Hilarious, addictive, moving, and sexy. I lost track of time reading it, and I couldn’t get enough!” —Jasmine Guillory, bestselling author of While We Were DatingGeorgina Wagman has it all—a great marriage, a great job at a prestigious law firm, and great friends. She’s living the life she always wanted, and everything is perfect. Until, that is, she walks in on her husband Nathan in a compromising position with a junior associa... + Read More
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I'm Not Broken A Memoir Paperback Jesse Leon 9780593466513 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 23, 2022

In this unflinching and inspiring memoir, Jesus Leon tells an extraordinary story of resilience and survival, shining a light on a childhood spent devastated by sex trafficking, gang life, and substance abuse.Born to indigenous working-class Mexican immigrants in San Diego in the 1970s, Jesus Leon’s childhood was violently ruptured. A dangerous and harrowing encounter at a local gift shop when he was eleven years old left Leon with a deadly secret. Hurt, alone, and scared for his life, Leon numbed his pain by losing himself in the macho culture... + Read More
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Asylum A personal, historical, natural inquiry in 103 lyric sections Paperback Jill Bialosky 9781524711627 $27.00 POETRY Jul 12, 2022

This book-length sequence by the critically acclaimed poet is a seeker’s story, revealing personal and historical traumas and how we search for understanding and meaning in their wake.In Asylum, poet Jill Bialosky embarks on a Virgilian journey, building a narrative sequence from 103 elegant poems and prose sections that cohere in their intensity and their need to explore darkness and sustenance both. Taken together, these piercing pieces—about her nascent calling as a writer; her sister’s suicide and its still unfolding aftermath; the horror u... + Read More
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Broadway for Paul Poems Paperback Vincent Katz 9781524711535 $27.00 POETRY Jul 12, 2022

Friendship, love, and the potential energy of change animate these poems of walking through New York City.“I love the vibrant cinematic hunger of this book, its urbanity, yours and mine too.” —Eileen Myles Broadway, the famous artery, both off the grid and definitive of Manhattan as it cuts its way downtown, is a metaphor for Katz’s path through these poems. From Lincoln Plaza on the Upper West Side to the African Burial Ground and the courthouses downtown, Katz mines his native city for the deep humanity that undergirds its streets. His title,... + Read More
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The Summer Friend A Memoir Hardcover Charles McGrath 9780593321157 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 07, 2022

Alive with the intoxicating magic of summer in New England, former editor of the New York Times Book Review Charles McGrath’s evocative memoir looks back at that sun-soaked season, at family, youth, and a singular bond made at a time when he thought he was beyond making friends. “To read Chip McGrath’s gentle, elegant memoir … is to lose yourself in your own past summers, especially the ones of your youth, when you imagined there’d be an infinite number of them, and also friends to share those summers with. That both turn out to be numbered mak... + Read More
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A Secret About a Secret A novel Hardcover Peter Spiegelman 9780307961297 $37.00 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

A hypnotic literary mystery thriller about a murder at a secluded research facility and the secrets that it exposes. • "Cyber thievery, lust, corporate espionage, and a host of deleterious secrets comprise the chords of this sweeping, riveting symphony. A bold and original thriller by a masterful storyteller.” —Elizabeth Brundage, author of The Vanishing PointLooming high above the cliffside along a remote coastline, Ondstrand House is the headquarters of the shadowy biotech firm Ondstrand Biologic. When the body of the organization’s most gif... + Read More
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The Seaplane on Final Approach A Novel Hardcover Rebecca Rukeyser 9780385547604 $36.00 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

A TIME Best Book of the Summer • One of The Week’s Best Novels of 2022 • A lusty young woman seeks out experience on a remote Alaskan homestead in this erotic and darkly humorous novel that “perfectly telegraphs the suspended animation of tourist-trap life within an eerie life-changing season, the gravity of which will only be felt decades later” (Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch).“Humor, insight and just the right amount of raunch.”—Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House“Sexy and dark and strange and absolutely perfect.”—Ca... + Read More
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The Lunar Housewife A Novel Hardcover Caroline Woods 9780385547833 $37.00 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

A stylish and suspenseful historical page-turner following an up-and-coming journalist who stumbles onto a web of secrets, deceptions, and mysteries at a popular new literary magazine—inspired by the true story of CIA intervention in Cold War American arts and letters.“Sly and delightful… the book is the equivalent of a flinty, modern dame holding her own in a room full of condescending men.” —The New York Times Book ReviewNew York City, 1953: Louise Leithauser’s star is on the rise. She’s filed some of the best pieces at her boyfriend Joe’s br... + Read More
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M, King's Bodyguard A Novel Paperback Niall Leonard 9780593081693 $23.00 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

A thrilling, “action-packed page-turner” (Wall Street Journal) based on a true story of anarchy and assassination in Edwardian London, centred around one detective’s mission to preserve the life of his king and prevent a bloody war in Europe. From humble beginnings in Ireland, William Melville has risen through hard work, intelligence, and occasional brute force to become head of Scotland Yard’s Special Branch, personal bodyguard to Queen Victoria and her family, and the scourge of anarchists at home and abroad. But when the aged Queen dies i... + Read More
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Body Grammar A Novel Paperback Jules Ohman 9780593466698 $23.00 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

A coming-of-age queer love story set in the glamorous but grueling world of international modeling—a radiant debut by a talented new writer.By the time Lou turns eighteen, modeling agents across Portland have scouted her for her striking androgynous look. Lou has no interest in fashion or being in the spotlight. She prefers to take photographs, especially of Ivy, her close friend and secret crush.But when a hike ends in a tragic accident, Lou finds herself lost and ridden with guilt. Determined to find a purpose, Lou moves to New York and steps... + Read More
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Hurricane Girl A novel Hardcover Marcy Dermansky 9780593320884 $35.00 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

A propulsive and daring new novel by the author of Very Nice about a woman on the run from catastrophe, searching for love, home, a swimming pool, and for someone who can perhaps stop the bleeding from her head.“Marcy Dermansky is one of the most wildly original writers that I’ve ever read, and Hurricane Girl showcases what makes her so amazing. In tracking the unpredictable movements of a strange and hypnotic journey in the aftermath of a natural disaster, Dermansky nails the sensation of being alive, of navigating a world so strange that it’s... + Read More
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Pig Years Hardcover Ellyn Gaydos 9780593318959 $36.00 NATURE Jun 14, 2022

This captivating memoir is a “startling testimony to the glories and sorrows of raising and harvesting plants and animals” (Anthony Doerr, best-selling author of All the Light We Cannot See), as an itinerant farmhand chronicles the wonders hidden within the ever-blooming seasons of life, death, and rebirth.Pig Years catapults American nature writing into the 21st century, and has been hailed by Lydia Davis and Aimee Nezhukumatathil as “engrossing” and “a marvel.” As a farmer in Upstate New York and Vermont, Ellyn Gaydos lives on the knife edge ... + Read More
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The Playbook How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World Hardcover Jennifer Jacquet 9781101871010 $37.00 SCIENCE Jul 12, 2022

From an astute observer of business behavior and expert in climate denial comes a thought-provoking explanation of how corporations delay, distract, and deflect blame and spread disinformation surrounding health issues, pollution, and climate change.“Brilliantly subversive and witty. If you want to be a vile, greedy capitalist, this how-to book will be a great help. And if you want to identify vile, greedy capitalists, it will show you how to recognize them. A landmark book.” —Brian EnoAre you a corporation out to make your fortune at any cost?... + Read More
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One Person, One Vote A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America Hardcover Nick Seabrook 9780593315866 $40.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 14, 2022

A redistricting crisis is now upon us. This surprising, compelling book tells the history of how we got to this moment—from the Founding Fathers to today’s high-tech manipulation of election districts—and shows us as well how to protect our most sacred, hard-fought principle of one person, one vote. Here is THE book on gerrymandering for citizens, politicians, journalists, activists, and voters.“Seabrook’s lucid account of the origins and evolution of gerrymandering—the deliberate and partisan doctoring of district borders for electoral advanta... + Read More
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The Local A Legal Thriller Hardcover Joey Hartstone 9780385547819 $37.00 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

A freewheeling, small-town attorney takes on a national murder trial when an out-of-town client is accused of killing a federal judge in Texas. “A spectacular courtroom thriller that kept me turning pages like the best of Grisham or Turow." —Michelle King, co-creator of The Good Wife, The Good Fight, and EvilIn the town of Marshall sits the Federal courthouse of the Eastern District of Texas, a place revered by patent lawyers for its speedy jury trails and massive punitive payouts. Marshall is flooded with patent lawyers, all... + Read More
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Under the Skin The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation Hardcover Linda Villarosa 9780385544887 $40.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 14, 2022

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • “A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society ’live sicker and die quicker’—an eye-opening game changer.”—Oprah DailyFrom an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation.In 2018, Linda Villarosa’s New York Times Magazine article on maternal and infant mortality among black mothers and babies in America ca... + Read More
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Objects of Desire Stories Paperback Clare Sestanovich 9780593311196 $22.00 FICTION Jun 21, 2022

“A debut story collection of the rarest kind…you wish that every single entry could be an entire novel." —Entertainment WeeklyFresh, intimate stories of women’s lives from an extraordinary new literary voice, laying bare the unexpected beauty and irony in contemporary lifeA college freshman, traveling home, strikesup an odd, ephemeral friendship with the couple next to her on the plane. A mother prepares for her son’s wedding, her own life unraveling as his comes together. A long-lost stepbrother’s visit to New York prompts a family’s reckoning... + Read More
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Wayward A novel Paperback Dana Spiotta 9780593312490 $23.00 FICTION Jun 21, 2022

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “furious and addictive new novel” (The New York Times) about mothers and daughters, and one woman’s midlife reckoning as she flees her suburban life.“Exhilarating…reads like a burning fever dream. A virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad.” —The New York Times Book Review Samantha Raymond’s life has begun to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at fifty-two she finds herself staring into “the Mid... + Read More
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Series: WHISTLER, THE The Judge's List A Novel Paperback John Grisham 9780593157848 $24.00 FICTION Jun 21, 2022

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect—a sitting judge—in “one of the best crime reads of the year.… Bristling with high-tech detail and shivering with suspense…. Worth staying up all night to finish” (Wall Street Journal).In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, s... + Read More
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Even the Darkest Night A Terra Alta Novel Hardcover Javier Cercas 9780593318805 $40.00 FICTION Jun 21, 2022

INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER • WINNER OF SPAIN’S BIGGEST LITERARY PRIZE • Barcelona detective Melchor Marín is sent to the countryside to investigate a horrific double murder. Before long, it becomes clear that nothing about the case is quite as it seems in this “sweeping romantic novel in the form of a police procedural” (Wall Street Journal).The first book in the internationally acclaimed series: Melchor, the son of a prostitute, went to prison as a teenager, convicted of working for a Colombian drug cartel. Behind bars, he read a book that chan... + Read More
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Cabin Fever The Harrowing Journey of a Cruise Ship at the Dawn of a Pandemic Hardcover Michael Smith 9780385547406 $40.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jun 21, 2022

The true story of the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam, which set sail with a deadly and little-understood stowaway—COVID-19—days before the world shut down in March 2020. This riveting narrative thriller takes readers behind the scenes with passengers and crew who were caught unprepared for the deadly ordeal that lay ahead.In early 2020, the world was on edge. An ominous virus was spreading on different continents, and no one knew what the coming weeks would bring. Far from the hot spots, the cruise ship Zaandam, owned by Holland America, w... + Read More
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Songs in Ursa Major A novel Paperback Emma Brodie 9780593312377 $23.00 FICTION Jun 28, 2022

A scintillating debut from a major new voice in fiction, Songs in Ursa Major is a love story set in 1969, alive with music, sex, and the trappings of fame.Raised on an island off Massachusetts by a mother who wrote songs for famous musicians, Jane Quinn is singing in her own band before she’s old enough to even read music. When folk legend Jesse Reid hears about Jane’s performance at the island’s music festival, a star is born—and so is a passionate love affair: they become inseparable when her band joins his on tour. Wary of being cast as his ... + Read More
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Series: The Whistler The Judge's List A Novel Paperback John Grisham 9780593157831 $12.99 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect—a sitting judge—in “one of the best crime reads of the year.… Bristling with high-tech detail and shivering with suspense…. Worth staying up all night to finish” (Wall Street Journal).In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, s... + Read More
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Dele Weds Destiny A novel Hardcover Tomi Obaro 9780593320297 $36.00 FICTION Jun 28, 2022

A VANITY FAIR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The story of three once-inseparable college friends in Nigeria who reunite in Lagos for the first time in thirty years—a sparkling novel about the extraordinary resilience of female friendship. “A story rendered with so much heart.” —Taylor Jenkins Reid, best-selling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and the Six Funmi, Enitan, and Zainab first meet at university in Nigeria and become friends for life despite their differences. Funmi is beautiful, brash, and determined; Enitan is ho... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Contemporaries Harrow A novel Paperback Joy Williams 9781984898807 $22.00 FICTION Jul 05, 2022

In her first novel since the Pulitzer Prize–nominated The Quick and the Dead, the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after an environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic. "She practices…camouflage, except that instead of adapting to its environment, Williams’s imagination, by remaining true to itself, reveals new colorations in the ecology around her.” —A.O. Scott, The New York Times Book ReviewKhristen is a teenager who, her mother believes, was marked ... + Read More
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Bolla A Novel Paperback Pajtim Statovci 9780593082447 $23.00 FICTION Jul 05, 2022

From the author of National Book Award finalist Crossing comes an unlikely love story in Kosovo with unpredictable consequences that reverberates throughout a young man’s life—a dazzling tale full of fury, tenderness, longing, and lust.“Devastating in the most beautiful ways. From the first pages you realize that you are in the hands of an absolute artist.” —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, BabyApril 1995. Arsim is a twenty-four-year-old, recently married student at the University of Pristina, in Kosovo, keeping his head down to gain a un... + Read More
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The Perfume Thief A Novel Paperback Timothy Schaffert 9781984899231 $23.00 FICTION Jul 05, 2022

A stylish, sexy page-turner set in Paris on the eve of World War II, where Clementine, a queer American ex-pat and notorious thief, is drawn out of retirement and into one last scam when the Nazis invade. “A hint of Moulin Rouge, a whiff of Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale, a little spritz of Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief…The Perfume Thief is a pulse-pounding thriller and a sensuous experience you’ll want to savor.”—Oprah DailyClementine is a seventy-two-year-old reformed con artist with a penchant for impeccably tailored suits. Her life of cri... + Read More