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1.
Resistance The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945 Hardcover Halik Kochanski 9781324091653 $60.00 HISTORY May 24, 2022

“To resist, therefore. But how, when and where? There were no laws, no guidelines, no precedents to show the way…” —Dutch resister Herman Friedhoff In every country that fell to the Third Reich during the Second World War, from France in the west to parts of the Soviet Union in the east, a resistance movement against Nazi domination emerged. And every country that endured occupation created its own fiercely nationalist account of the role of homegrown resistance in its eventual liberation. Halik Kochanski’s panoramic, prodigiously researched wo... + Read More
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Rebels at Sea Privateering in the American Revolution Hardcover Eric Jay Dolin 9781631498251 $42.50 HISTORY May 31, 2022

Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award A Massachusetts Center for the Book “Must-Read” The bestselling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters reclaims the daring freelance sailors who proved essential to the winning of the Revolutionary War. The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories of America’s first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels that truly revealed the new nation’s character—above all, its ambition and entrepreneurial ethos. I... + Read More
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Boys and Oil Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land Hardcover Taylor Brorby 9781324090861 $36.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 07, 2022

“I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terror before its power.” So begins Taylor Brorby’s Boys and Oil, a haunting, bracingly honest memoir about growing up gay amidst the harshness of rural North Dakota, “a place where there is no safety in a ravaged landscape of mining and fracking.” In visceral prose, Brorby recounts his upbringing in the coalfields; his adolescent infatuation with books; and how he felt intrinsically different from other boys. Now an environmentalist, Brorby uses the ... + Read More
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In the Houses of Their Dead The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits Hardcover Terry Alford 9781631495601 $36.95 HISTORY Jun 14, 2022

In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet—and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed actor John Wilkes Booth, killed the son of the other, President Abraham Lincoln, in the most significant assassination in American history. The murder, however, did not come without warning—in fact, it had been foretold. In the Houses of Their Dead is the first book of the many thousands written about Lincoln to focus on the president’s fascination... + Read More
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Mrs. March A Novel Paperback Virginia Feito 9781324091967 $22.00 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

George March’s latest novel is a smash. No one could be prouder than his dutiful wife, Mrs. March, who revels in his accolades. A careful creature of routine and decorum, she lives a precariously controlled existence on the Upper East Side until one morning, when the shopkeeper of her favorite patisserie suggests that her husband’s latest protagonist—a detestable character named Johanna—is based on Mrs. March herself. Clutching her ostrich leather pocketbook and mint-colored gloves, she flees the shop. What could have merited this humiliation? ... + Read More
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The Colony Faith and Blood in a Promised Land Hardcover Sally Denton 9781631498077 $36.95 TRUE CRIME Jun 28, 2022

On the morning of November 4, 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen on a desolate stretch of road in northern Mexico controlled by the Sinaloa drug cartel. Firing semi-automatic weapons, the attackers killed nine people and gravely injured five more. The victims were members of the LeBaron and La Mora communities—fundamentalist Mormons whose forebears broke from the LDS Church and settled in Mexico when their religion outlawed polygamy in the late nineteenth century. The massacre produced international ... + Read More
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Napoleon A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows Paperback Ruth Scurr 9781324092025 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 05, 2022

Best Books of the Year • Financial Times, The Times (of London), History Today Marking the 200th anniversary of his death, Napoleon is an unprecedented portrait of the emperor told through his engagement with the natural world. “How should one envisage this subject? With a great pomp of words, or with simplicity?” —Charlotte Brontë, “The Death of Napoleon” The most celebrated general in history, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) has for centuries attracted eminent male writers. Since Thomas Carlyle first christened him “our last Great Man,” regime... + Read More
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Big Girl A Novel Hardcover Mecca Jamilah Sullivan 9781324091417 $36.00 FICTION Jul 12, 2022

“Alive with delicious prose and the cacophony of ’90s Harlem, Big Girl gifts us a heroine carrying the weight of worn-out ideas, who dares to defy the compulsion to shrink, and in turn teaches us to pursue our fullest, most desirous selves without shame.” —Janet Mock Malaya Clondon hates when her mother drags her to Weight Watchers meetings in the church’s stuffy basement community center. A quietly inquisitive eight-year-old struggling to suppress her insatiable longing, she would much rather paint alone in her bedroom, or sneak out with her ... + Read More
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America on Fire The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s Paperback Elizabeth Hinton 9781324092001 $24.95 HISTORY Jul 19, 2022

What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defiantly flooded into the nation’s streets, demanding an end to police brutality and to the broader, systemic repression of Black people and other people of color. To many observers, the protests appeared to be without precedent in their scale and persistence. Yet, as the acclaimed historian Elizabeth Hinton demonstrates in America on Fire, the events o... + Read More
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The Metaverse And How it Will Revolutionize Everything Hardcover Matthew Ball 9781324092032 $40.00 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Jul 19, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the leading theorist of the Metaverse comes the definitive account of the next internet: what the Metaverse is, what it will take to build it, and what it means for all of us.The term “Metaverse” is suddenly everywhere, from the front pages of national newspapers and the latest fashion trends to the plans of the most powerful companies in history. It is already shaping the policy platforms of the US government, the European Union, and the Chinese Communist Party.But what, exactly, is the Metaverse? As pioneering theorist... + Read More
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Inventing the It Girl How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood Hardcover Hilary A Hallett 9781631490699 $42.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 26, 2022

A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Selection The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study in this addictively readable biography of pioneering celebrity author Elinor Glyn. Unlike typical romances, which end with wedding bells, Elinor Glyn’s (1864–1943) story really began after her marriage up the social ladder and into the English gentry class in 1892. Born in the Channel Islands, Elinor Sutherland, like most Victorian women, aspired only to a good match. But when her husband, Clayton Glyn, gambled their fortune away, she ... + Read More
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Presumed Guilty How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights Paperback Erwin Chemerinsky 9781324091974 $24.95 LAW Aug 09, 2022

New York Times Book Review • Editors’ Choice An unprecedented work of civil rights and legal history, Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court has enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses through its decisions over the last half-century. Police are nine times more likely to kill African-American men than they are other Americans—in fact, nearly one in every thousand will die at the hands, or under the knee, of an officer. As eminent constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky powerfully argues, this is no accident, but ... + Read More
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Victory Is Assured Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch Hardcover Stanley Crouch 9781324090908 $42.50 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 13, 2022

The grievous loss of Stanley Crouch, one of America’s most renowned intellectuals, is underscored by the posthumous appearance of these remarkable essays.With Stanley Crouch’s untimely death in 2020, American literature lost “a critic without peer” (Ta-Nehisi Coates). Born in Los Angeles in 1945, Crouch—a towering stylist, fearless columnist, and without question, one of the finest jazz critics of all time—was Rabelaisian both in stature and in intellectual appetite. Beloved yet cantankerous, Crouch delighted and enflamed the passions of his re... + Read More
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Big Red A Novel Hardcover Jerome Charyn 9781324091332 $37.00 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

Apple Books • Best Books of the Month A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Selection Narrated by a starry-eyed lesbian, Big Red reimagines the tragic career of Rita Hayworth and her indomitable husband, Orson Welles. Since he first appeared on the American literary scene, Jerome Charyn has dazzled readers with his “blunt, brilliantly crafted prose” (Washington Post). Yet Charyn, a beloved comedic novelist, also possesses an extraordinary knowledge of Golden Age Hollywood, having taught film history both in the United States and France. With Big Re... + Read More
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Covered with Night A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America Paperback Nicole Eustace 9781324092162 $27.00 HISTORY Aug 09, 2022

In the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois) and Anglo-American colonists, a pair of colonial fur traders brutally assaulted a Seneca hunter near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten today, the crime ignited a contest between Native American forms of justice—rooted in community, forgiveness, and reparations—and the colonial ideology of harsh reprisal that called for the accused killers to be executed if found guilty. In Covered with Night, histo... + Read More
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It's Better to Be Feared The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness Paperback Seth Wickersham 9781324091998 $24.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Aug 30, 2022

Over two unbelievable decades, the New England Patriots were not only the NFL’s most dominant team, but also—and by far—the most secretive. How did they achieve and sustain greatness—and what were the costs? In It’s Better to Be Feared, Seth Wickersham, one of the nation’s finest investigative sportswriters, presents the definitive account of the New England Patriots dynasty, capturing the brilliance, ambition, and ruthlessness that powered it. Having covered the team since Tom Brady took over as starting quarterback in 2001, Wickersham draws o... + Read More
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Extenuating Circumstances Hardcover Joyce Carol Oates 9781613163153 $40.00 FICTION Jul 12, 2022

Twenty-two disturbing tales of crime and suspense from “America’s preeminent fiction writer” (New Yorker) Two hitmen in a depressed rust belt town struggle with a job gone wrong. A girl witnesses a horrifying accident and carries it with her for the rest of her life. Medical students bring a severed foot to a college party. Five-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates has made a career of exploring the forbidden corners of human experience, and the stories collected here, spanning her first three decades as a writer, are among her most u... + Read More
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Our Anxious Selves Neuropsychological Processes and their Enduring Influence on Who We Are Hardcover Efrat Ginot 9780393714531 $63.50 PSYCHOLOGY Aug 02, 2022

Discussing the outsized role that fear, anxiety, and other distressing emotions play in forming fundamental aspects of who we are.Using recent findings from neuropsychology, this new book in the best-selling Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology shows that who we are psychologically starts with the early presence of an easily aroused fear/anxiety system. It goes on to discuss how clinicians can view people’s difficulties with self-confidence and identity, and how self-destructive patterns can be traced back to these systems and what clini... + Read More
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The Mapmakers Hardcover Tamzin Merchant 9781324016014 $24.95 JUVENILE FICTION May 03, 2022

Return to Cordelia Hatmaker’s spellbinding world of magic and millinery in this sparkling sequel to The Hatmakers. Cordelia Hatmaker has saved England from war. She stopped Lord Whitloof’s sinister plans, rescued the King and Princess, and restored the Makers Guild. But she still hasn’t found her missing father. Ever since Cordelia discovered the hidden map in her father’s telescope, she’s been searching the streets of London by starlight, trying to uncover its secrets. She never expects to stumble upon a secret society of Mapmakers—or to learn... + Read More
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Crossing the Stream Paperback Elizabeth-Irene Baitie 9781324030393 $13.50 JUVENILE FICTION Jun 07, 2022

"A powerful coming-of-age story of self-discovery and overcoming fear.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewAto hasn’t visited his grandmother’s house since he was seven. He’s heard the rumors that she’s a witch, and his mother has told him he must never sit on the old couch on her porch. Now here he is, on that exact couch, with a strange-looking drink his grandmother has given him, wondering if the rumors are true. What’s more, there’s a freshly dug hole in her yard that Ato suspects may be a grave meant for him. Meanwhile at school, Ato and his fr... + Read More
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Deep Dive into Deep Sea Exploring the Most Mysterious Levels of the Ocean Hardcover Tim Flannery 9781324019770 $23.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Jun 07, 2022

Internationally renowned author and scientist Tim Flannery explores the most remote and mysterious levels of Earth’s oceans.Who is the giant squid’s mortal enemy? Can you see ghosts in the deep sea? What in the world is a headless chicken monster? Tim Flannery has the answers. In this informed and accessible book, he takes readers on a journey into the darkest depths of this unchartered realm to learn about the incredible creatures living there. Divided into sections that focus on the various depths of the ocean, readers can navigate their way ... + Read More
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It's My Whole Life Charlotte Salomon: An Artist in Hiding During World War II Hardcover Susan Wider 9781324015451 $25.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Aug 02, 2022

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Young Adult Literature A gripping middle grade biography of Charlotte Salomon, and an ode to how art can capture both life’s everyday beauty and its monumental horrors. “It’s my whole life” are the words Charlotte Salomon is said to have used to describe a series of thirteen hundred paintings she created between 1940 and 1942 while in hiding from the Nazis. The paintings are an extraordinary, vivid document: saturated in the sunlit colors of the Mediterranean; full of powerfully expressed love, anxi... + Read More
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Series: I, WITNESS Accused My Story of Injustice Paperback Adama Bah 9781324030409 $10.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Aug 09, 2022

Launching a propulsive middle grade nonfiction series, a young woman shares her harrowing experience of being wrongly accused of terrorism.Adama Bah grew up in East Harlem after immigrating from Conakry, Guinea, and was deeply connected to her community and the people who lived there. But as a thirteen-year-old after the events of September 11, 2001, she began experiencing discrimination and dehumanization as prejudice toward Muslim people grew. Then, on March 24, 2005, FBI agents arrested Adama and her father. Falsely accused of being a potent... + Read More
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Series: I, WITNESS Hurricane My Story of Resilience Paperback Salvador Gómez-Colón 9781324030416 $10.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Aug 09, 2022

Launching a propulsive middle grade nonfiction series, a young man shares how he combated Puerto Rico’s public health emergency after Hurricane Maria.Suffering heavy damage in the wake of Hurricane Maria in 2017, Puerto Rican communities lacked access to clean water and electricity. Salvador Gómez-Colón couldn’t ignore the basic needs of his homeland, and knew that nongovernmental organizations and larger foreign philanthropies could only do so much. With unstoppable energy and a deep knowledge of local culture, Salvador founded Light and Hope ... + Read More
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Series: I, WITNESS Resistance My Story of Activism Hardcover Frantzy Luzincourt 9781324016694 $22.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Aug 09, 2022

A young activist opens a window for young readers into his fight for equal education, racial justice, and economic equity.Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Haitian immigrants, Frantzy Luzincourt has dedicated his life to service and the empowerment of youth voices. When he was fifteen, Frantzy became the founding president of his high school’s Black Student Union, where he advocated for more Black male teachers and for bringing social justice into school curriculum. Frantzy now fights to ensure that all students, no matter their background, have a... + Read More
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Playing a Dangerous Game Paperback Patrick Ochieng 9781324030386 $13.50 JUVENILE FICTION Aug 16, 2022

This whip-smart coming-of-age novel sees a group of boys embark on a madcap, high-stakes adventure of survival and friendship.Lumush and his three friends live with their families in Railway Estate, spending their free time in the countryside or in the yards behind the estate, playing a game of chance called pata potea next to the wreck of an old car. When the boys’ attention begins to wander farther, they discover a deserted house believed to be haunted. As they explore the house, they learn that it’s not ghosts they have to fear but the malev... + Read More
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Firesong A Brightstorm Adventure Hardcover Vashti Hardy 9781324030454 $24.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Aug 23, 2022

In this spirited third Brightstorm adventure, the twins journey north to protect the legendary earth-bear and to discover their family’s hidden history. Arthur and Maudie Brightstorm are back home in Lontown and finally settling in after their exhilarating—and secret—adventures in Erythea. Maudie’s sky-ak invention is a hit, and Harriet has just announced that she will share her sky-ship’s hydroelectric technology. But tensions are brewing. Pitch is becoming more and more difficult to mine, and the existence of super-sapient creatures on other ... + Read More
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Black Ice Paperback Ian Giles 9781613163085 $22.95 FICTION Jun 28, 2022

ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY’S BEST BOOKS OF 2021 A twisty thriller by “a very exciting new voice from the North” (Ragnar Jónasson, bestselling author of the Dark Iceland series)In the snow-covered silence of Swedish midwinter, a terrible accident and a deadly secret draws several strangers together… January in Gotland. The days are short, the air is cold, and all the roads are covered in snow. On a deserted, icy backroad, these wintery conditions will soon bring together a group of strangers with a force devastating enough to change their lives fo... + Read More
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Finding Tessa Paperback Jaime Lynn Hendricks 9781613163078 $22.95 FICTION Jun 28, 2022

One of Suspense Magazine’s Best Debuts of 2021 “A sharp and deftly constructed suspense thriller that hooks the reader immediately and never lets go…. Fans of Gillian Flynn’s GONE GIRL will love this debut novel”—The Florida Times-UnionJace and Tessa appear to be a young couple in love with nothing to hide. But looks can be deceiving. When Jace Montgomery comes home late from entertaining clients, he discovers that his wife Tessa is missing. There’s broken glass at the back door. Clumps of her hair. Blood. The cops in their small New Jersey tow... + Read More
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Saving Grace Paperback Debbie Babitt 9781613163061 $22.95 FICTION Jun 28, 2022

One of Suspense Magazine’s Best Debuts of 2021 “I’m the only one who knows what happened to those girls…” In this gripping suspense debut, the first female sheriff of a small mountain village investigates a disappearance that echoes the crimes that shattered her town decades before. For twenty-four years, Mary Grace Dobbs has been searching for salvation. Orphaned at eleven, she was forced to go live with her Bible salesman uncle, wheelchair-bound aunt, and a cousin who tortured and killed small animals. At school, a bully made her life a night... + Read More
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Basil's War A WWII Spy Thriller Paperback Stephen Hunter 9781613163092 $24.95 FICTION Jun 28, 2022

A British spy goes behind enemy lines to crack a secret code in this “highly entertaining World War II espionage thriller” (Seattle Times).Basil St. Florian is an accomplished agent in the British Army, tasked with dozens of dangerous missions for crown and country across the globe. But his current mission, going undercover in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, might be his toughest assignment yet. He will be searching for an ecclesiastic manuscript that doesn’t officially exist, one that genius professor Alan Turing believes may hold th... + Read More
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Night, Neon Tales of Mystery and Suspense Paperback Joyce Carol Oates 9781613163115 $22.95 FICTION Jul 12, 2022

A new collection of dark, chilling tales from the #1 New York Times Bestselling authorFrom literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery & suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life—from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger’s house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America’s ideals of be... + Read More
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It Could Be Anyone Hardcover Jaime Lynn Hendricks 9781613162996 $34.95 FICTION Jun 21, 2022

“Hendricks excels at sharp twists and dangerous turns that domestic suspense readers will devour.”—Vanessa Lillie Murder motives abound when the groom dies at a destination wedding in this new novel by the author of Finding TessaTo anyone on their flight out of New York, they appear to be five best friends excited for a destination wedding in Miami. No one would guess that each of them has a reason to want the groom dead. Trevor Vaughn, the groom in question, wooed his bride-to-be by first becoming close with her friends—which is to say that h... + Read More
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The Last Commandment Paperback Scott Shepherd 9781613163108 $22.95 FICTION Jul 12, 2022

A Scotland Yard detective tracks a serial killer from London to New York CityChristmastime in London. When three seemingly unconnected victims are murdered with matching sequential Roman numerals carved into their foreheads, Metropolitan Police Commander Austin Grant finds his answer in one of the last places he’d expect: the Holy Bible. Each of the deaths correspond to a transgression of one of the Ten Commandments, and Grant must find the killer before the remaining Commandments are commemorated with homicides. Unfortunately for Grant, the ne... + Read More
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Deadline at Dawn Paperback Cornell Woolrich 9781613163269 $21.95 FICTION Jul 12, 2022

In this thrilling mystery from “the Hitchcock of the written word,” two lovers rush to solve a murder before the end of a New York night (Believer) When Quinn first meets Bricky, she’s working as a partner-for-hire at a dancehall and he’s struggling to shake the anxiety of his guilty conscience. Earlier that day, the young man took advantage of a found key and used it to rob a stranger’s home. Now, with the purloined money in his pocket, Quinn is unable to escape the memory of his wrongdoing—and not even a night spent dancing is enough to silen... + Read More
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Deadline at Dawn Hardcover Cornell Woolrich 9781613163276 $34.95 FICTION Jul 12, 2022

In this thrilling mystery from “the Hitchcock of the written word,” two lovers rush to solve a murder before the end of a New York night (Believer) When Quinn first meets Bricky, she’s working as a partner-for-hire at a dancehall and he’s struggling to shake the anxiety of his guilty conscience. Earlier that day, the young man took advantage of a found key and used it to rob a stranger’s home. Now, with the purloined money in his pocket, Quinn is unable to escape the memory of his wrongdoing—and not even a night spent dancing is enough to silen... + Read More
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Should I Fall Hardcover Scott Shepherd 9781613163122 $34.95 FICTION Jul 26, 2022

A retired Scotland Yard Inspector races to prove the innocence of a falsely accused fugitive—his daughter’s fiancee—in this whodunnit from “a marvellous storyteller” (Michael Koryta).When John Frankel’s ex-wife is discovered dead on the floor of his Manhattan studio apartment, the NYPD Detective instantly becomes the prime suspect in her murder. Then more information surfaces, linking his gun to the fatal bullet, a motive is discovered, and Frankel flees the city, all of which further convinces his colleagues of his guilt. In spite of the moun... + Read More
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First Victim Hardcover Debbie Babitt 9781613163023 $34.95 FICTION Jul 12, 2022

The line between justice and revenge blurs when a judge takes the law into her own hands.The Honorable Alice D. McKerrity is no stranger to violence. From the bench at Manhattan Supreme, she has seen the most hardened killers pass through her courtroom. But there’s something about this trial—a defendant charged with the murder of a pregnant woman—that affects her as no other case ever has. Her chaotic, stressful home life only adds to her mounting feelings of panic and fear. She’s also harboring a secret that if exposed could have far-reaching ... + Read More
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Death and the Conjuror Hardcover Tom Mead 9781613163184 $34.95 FICTION Jul 26, 2022

A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Best Mysteries of 2022 Selection In this “sharply-drawn period piece” (New York Times), a magician-turned-sleuth in pre-war London solves three impossible crimesIn 1930s London, celebrity psychiatrist Anselm Rees is discovered dead in his locked study, and there seems to be no way that a killer could have escaped unseen. There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. Stumped by the confounding scene, the Scotland Yard detective on the case calls on retired stage magician-turned-part-time sleut... + Read More
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Vicious Creatures Hardcover Ashton Noone 9781613163382 $34.95 FICTION Aug 16, 2022

“Bound to be one of the best debuts of the year.”—CrimeReads, Most Anticipated Crime Books In this haunting psychological thriller, a mother and daughter face a deadly secret lurking in the wilds of the Pacific NorthwestAva Montgomery never wanted to return home. She fled Reachwood fourteen years ago after the discovery of Adam Albright’s body in the forest shattered her young life. But when a violent divorce sends her running back to her parents’ house with her troubled daughter Marjorie in tow, Ava discovers that not much has changed in the s... + Read More
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The Benson Murder Case Hardcover S. S. Van Dine 9781613163313 $34.95 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

Brilliant amateur sleuth Philo Vance solves a puzzling murder in one of the most influential detective novels of the twentieth centuryAll of Wall Street and Manhattan high society is abuzz after playboy stockbroker Alvin Benson is discovered dead in his brownstone mansion, slumped over in an easy chair with a bullet in his head. The man’s body is found in a room locked from the inside, and his head is missing the toupee that usually adorned it. Ballistics experts, detectives, and the NYPD’s top brass can’t solve the crime, but luckily they don’... + Read More
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The Benson Murder Case Paperback S. S. Van Dine 9781613163320 $21.95 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

Brilliant amateur sleuth Philo Vance solves a puzzling murder in one of the most influential detective novels of the twentieth centuryAll of Wall Street and Manhattan high society is abuzz after playboy stockbroker Alvin Benson is discovered dead in his brownstone mansion, slumped over in an easy chair with a bullet in his head. The man’s body is found in a room locked from the inside, and his head is missing the toupee that usually adorned it. Ballistics experts, detectives, and the NYPD’s top brass can’t solve the crime, but luckily they don’... + Read More
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Nameless Acts of Cruelty Hardcover Julie Cameron 9781613163047 $34.95 FICTION Aug 30, 2022

Decades after the loss of his younger sister, a man haunted by horrific memories returns to the sleepy English village where she diedJeremy Horton is a man denying his past, haunted by a dysfunctional childhood full of dark secrets—including the suspicious death of his younger sister. Married to lawyer Sarah and with children of his own, Jeremy keeps his eyes firmly focused on the present, never daring to glance in the rear-view mirror for fear of what he might see there. But when a chance encounter awakens the memories he’s fought so hard to s... + Read More
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If There Are Any Heavens A Memoir Hardcover Nicholas Montemarano 9780892555574 $32.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 19, 2022

Written with visceral urgency in the earliest days of grief, If There Are Any Heavens resists categorization: it is a memoir, a poem, a mournful but loving song. On January 6, 2021, at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in America, while the U.S. Capitol is under attack, Nicholas Montemarano drives six hundred miles to see his mother, who is hospitalized with COVID pneumonia and in a critical state. For ten days he lives in a hotel minutes from the hospital, alternating between hope and helplessness. This is the story of those ten days. It is th... + Read More
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A House Party in Tuscany Hardcover Amber Guinness 9781760762575 $66.00 COOKING May 03, 2022

Art meets food in this celebratory story of family and friends in Tuscany at the Arniano Painting School. Few farmhouses in Tuscany are as magical as Arniano. Bought and restored in the 1980s by an English couple, this 18th-century ruin, surrounded by staggering beauty as far as the eye can see, became synonymous with delicious food and sparkling company. At Arniano, their daughter, Amber Guinness, found a passion for cooking and established The Arniano Painting School with cofounder William Roper Curzon. A marriage of food and art, the school ... + Read More
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Color Is Home A Brave Guide to Designing Classic Interiors Hardcover Charlotte Coote 9781760762544 $60.00 ARCHITECTURE May 03, 2022

Interior designer Charlotte Coote mixes color, fabric, and originality in this bold guide to creating classic interiors. The way interior designer Charlotte Coote mixes colors, textures, and patterns, reveals a whole new way of approaching design. In this gorgeous, inspirational, and practical book, Coote guides readers through the process of designing a space, from creating the original design brief through to the finished room. Using her five principles of design—timelessness, authenticity, lifestyle, scale, and quality—Coote shows how to bal... + Read More
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George Condo Painting Reconfigured Paperback Simon Baker 9780500296493 $60.00 ART May 10, 2022

The definitive monograph of the outrageous, unorthodox New York painter George CondoWith his arresting, unsettling style, George Condo emerged from the dynamism of the New York art scene in the early 1980s, and he has been restlessly painting, drawing, and sculpting—bringing forms into the world in one way or another—ever since. Reliably inconsistent, Condo’s references and inspirations, in both style and content, ricochet deliriously around the canon of Western art history. Somewhere between his fake Tiepolos, reconfigured Manets, impossibly i... + Read More
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How to French Country Color and design inspiration from southwest France Hardcover Sara Silm 9781760762452 $60.00 DESIGN May 10, 2022

The ultimate guide to surrounding yourself with French country style, wherever you are. From deep in the countryside of southwest France comes a comprehensive guide to surrounding yourself with French country style wherever you are. Capturing the beauty and tranquility of the region, interior designer and journalist Sara Silm distills the unique colors, textures, and flavors of this distinctive corner of the world. Inherent in Sara’s detailed knowledge of French country style are philosophical lines drawn between color, temporality, style, sens... + Read More
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Memento Mori The Dead Among Us Paperback Paul Koudounaris 9780500252611 $54.00 HISTORY Jun 21, 2022

The astonishing story of how the dead live on in memorials and traditions across the globe, from Ethiopia and Nepal to Cambodia and Rwanda, told through arresting images and captivating narrationDeath is universal, but the human response to death varies widely. In Western society, death is usually medicalized and taboo, and kept apart from the world of the living, while in much of the rest of the world, and for much of human history, death has commonly been far more integrated into peoples’ daily existence, and human remains are as much a remin... + Read More
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Keith Tyson Iterations and Variations Hardcover Keith Tyson 9780500023938 $125.00 ART May 24, 2022

This definitive volume on artist Keith Tyson’s thirty- year career examines all aspects of his artistic endeavors. British Turner Prize–winning artist Keith Tyson is known for a distinctive and diverse body of work, including drawing, painting, installation, and sculpture. Showing a wide range of influences extending from mathematics and science through to poetry and mythology, he has an interest in how art emerges from the combination of information systems and physical processes that surround us every day. For over thirty years, Tyson has pro... + Read More
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A Day by the Sea Hardcover Barbara Nascimbeni 9780500652954 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Jul 26, 2022

From the creator of Home Alone comes this delightful celebration of a day spent by the sea, complete with salty air, run-ins with sea life, and making forever friends. From the author of Home Alone comes a hilarious story that will delight young readers and dog owners alike. Our plucky canine friend Frido is back, and this time he’s on a beach vacation. While his owner takes a nap in the shade, Frido sets off to explore. There are sandcastles to dig, waves to surf, beach games to disrupt, and ice-cream to sample. But can Frido find his way back... + Read More
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Affinities A Journey Through Images from The Public Domain Review Hardcover Adam Green 9780500025208 $79.00 ART Jun 07, 2022

An exploration of echoes and resonances across two millennia of visual culture, this book brings together weird, wondrous, and unforgettable imagery in one stunning volume. A remarkable collection of over five hundred images, Affinities is a carefully curated visual journey illuminating connections across more than two thousand years of image-making. Drawing on a decade of archival immersion at The Public Domain Review, an online journal and not-for- profit project dedicated to exploring curious and compelling works from the history of art, lit... + Read More
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Mouse's Wood A Year in Nature Hardcover Alice Melvin 9780500652701 $25.95 JUVENILE FICTION Jun 07, 2022

An exquisitely illustrated picture book with special die-cut flaps that follows the woodland ramblings of Mouse and highlights the change in seasons. Written with a gentle rhyme that reflects the slow pace of Mouse’s rambling journey, and illustrated in Alice Melvin’s inimitable style, Mouse’s Wood is a heartwarming celebration of slow living in nature. This beautifully designed book also features special die-cut flaps and includes a spread featuring a nature calendar of plants, birds, and animals for children to search for in the wild. M... + Read More
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Polaroid The Complete Guide to Experimental Instant Photography Paperback Rhiannon Adam 9780500296523 $33.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Jun 07, 2022

An accessible and comprehensive how-to guide to expressive and experimental techniques and manipulation of Polaroid prints and cameras. Polaroid: The Complete Guide to Experimental Instant Photography is the go-to resource for all lovers of instant photography. Divided into two main parts, “Camera and Film Format Guide” and “Creative Techniques,” this unique reference offers a comprehensive introduction to instant photography, including a wide-ranging overview of instant cameras and compatible accessories and film; tips on what to buy and where... + Read More
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Rembrandt Paperback Christopher White 9780500204900 $28.95 ART Jul 19, 2022

This intelligently revised volume on the life and work of Rembrandt offers detailed insight into the artist from an authority on the subject. Rembrandt is among the few old masters to retain universal appeal among art lovers today. His striking self-portraits and scenes are on view at museums around the world—yet he remains an elusive, enigmatic figure. In Rembrandt, distinguished art historian Christopher White carefully considers Rembrandt’s history to build a sensitive and thorough account of the artist’s life and work. White describes the r... + Read More
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Blue Note Uncompromising Expression Paperback Richard Havers 9780500296516 $66.00 MUSIC Jun 14, 2022

The official illustrated history of Blue Note, the most influential and important brand in jazz. Tracing the evolution of jazz from the boogie-woogie and swing of the 1930s, through bebop, funk, and fusion, to the eclectic mix Blue Note releases today, this landmark publication tells the story of an influential jazz institution and commemorates Blue Note’s momentous contribution to modern music and style. Practically all of the jazz greats passed through Blue Note’s doors, including Miles Davis, Sidney Bechet, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Bud P... + Read More
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Cleopatra Tells All! Hardcover Chris Naunton 9780500652565 $22.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Aug 23, 2022

Cleopatra, the ultimate influencer, tells her version of events as the ruler of the last ancient Egyptian dynasty. What would happen if the famous people of ancient Egypt were given the opportunity to tell their version of historical events—in their own words? It would be incredible! In this highly entertaining and comically illustrated book, Cleopatra is brought back to life to tell her own version of history. The politically savvy, multilingual, cosmopolitan ruler of Alexandria, Cleopatra reveals herself to be the world’s first influencer. Fi... + Read More
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The Real and the Romantic English Art Between Two World Wars Hardcover Frances Spalding 9780500518649 $66.00 ART Sep 19, 2023

A fresh look at a period of English art that has surged in interest and popularity in recent years, authored by one of Britain’s leading art historians and critics.The twenty-first century has seen a surge of interest in English art of the interwar years. High-profile exhibitions have attracted record-breaking visitor numbers and challenged received opinion. In The Real and the Romantic, Frances Spalding takes a fresh and timely look at this rich period in English art. The devastation of World War I left the art world decentered and directionle... + Read More
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Running Wild Inspirational Trails from Around the World Paperback Julie Freeman 9780500295618 $39.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Jun 14, 2022

An inspirational collection of the most scenic trail runs around the globe, from leading figures in the world of trail running and the editors of the cult independent running magazine Like the Wind. Trail running is as simple as it sounds: just put one foot in front of the other, somewhere unpaved and outdoors. The opportunities it presents are endless, with a wide variety of routes that stretch over mountains, forests, and deserts, in hot climates and frigid ones, through some of the most wild and beautiful places on Earth. Running Wild highli... + Read More
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The British Surrealists Hardcover Desmond Morris 9780500024881 $53.95 ART Jun 14, 2022

The lives, loves, and works of key British Surrealists revealed by one of the last surviving members of this movement, best-selling author and artist Desmond Morris. Honored for their idiosyncratic and imaginative works, the surrealists marked a pivotal moment in the history of modern art in Britain— pioneering the Surrealist movement between World War I and II. Many artists banded together to form the British Surrealist Group, while others carved their own, independent paths. Here, best-selling author and surrealist artist Desmond Morris—one o... + Read More