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Packing for Mars for Kids Hardcover Mary Roach 9781324019374 $22.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Apr 05, 2022

“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) asks the questions children ask in this young readers adaptation of her best-selling Packing for Mars. What is it like to float weightlessly in the air? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a spacewalk? How do astronauts go to the bathroom? Is it true that they don’t shower? Can farts really be deadly in space? Best-selling Mary Roach has the answers. In this whip-smart, funny, and informative young readers adaptation of her best-selling Packing for Mars, Roach guides us through ... + Read More
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How to Bake a Universe Hardcover Alec Carvlin 9781324004233 $24.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 6 - 8 Mar 01, 2022

This whimsical and informed debut picture book takes a leaf from a cookbook to show readers how the universe came into being.To bake a universe, you’ll need a heaping pile of nothing. That’s right, not a single thing! Just make sure you have enough…Alec Carvlin breaks down the Big Bang into the steps of a recipe, from the formation of quarks and atoms (preheat your oven to Absolute Hot) to the compression of gases into stars and planets (just set your timer for 180 million years). Carvlin expertly balances mind-boggling facts with snappy story... + Read More
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Somewhere in the Bayou Hardcover Jarrett Pumphrey 9781324015932 $23.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 8 Mar 01, 2022

Simple, subtle, and drolly funny, the Pumphrey brothers’ newest picture book is a layered exploration of the foolishness of making assumptions and the virtue of curiosity.When four swamp creatures looking to cross a river come upon a log that would allow for precisely that, they can’t believe their luck. But a questionable tail adjacent to that log gives them second thoughts. Opossum believes it’s a sneaky tail and that they must pass it quietly. Squirrel thinks it’s a scary tail that can be cowed by intimidation. Rabbit decides it’s a mean tai... + Read More
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From the award-winning duo behind If I Had a Dinosaur comes this humorous and imaginative celebration of kangaroos. Have you ever given any thought to what the perfect jumping pet would be? Wombats are cute, and koalas can cling, but what about a springy kangaroo? Being an ace on the trampoline is a breeze when you have a kangaroo for a pet, but hold on to your stomach during the school run—it’s pretty bumpy being bounced around in a pouch. In this charming, rhyming bedtime story, a young protagonist imagines what it would be like to have an ou... + Read More
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The Lady in the Silver Cloud A Stewart Hoag Mystery Hardcover David Handler 9781613162910 $34.94 FICTION Mar 08, 2022

“This is confection in the guise of a mystery novel; it goes down easy as a milkshake.”—Sarah Weinman, The New York Times Book ReviewA 1955 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud is a fantastically expensive car, especially in the pristine condition of the one owned by Muriel Cantrell. Living in a luxury apartment building on Central Park West, the delicate, sweet 75-year-old woman is a neighbor of Merilee Nash, the beautiful movie star, and Stuart Hoag, whose first book was a sensation but whose career crashed when he became involved with drugs and alcohol.... + Read More
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Series: The New Father The New Father A Dad's Guide to the First Year Paperback Armin A. Brott 9780789214249 $21.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS May 09, 2023

The essential guide for fathers of one- and two-year-olds, completely revised and updated Learn how to make a positive impact in these milestone years of your child’s development, when he or she goes from crawling to walking, and from knowing just a few words to speaking in complete sentences. Armin Brott guides you through this crucial phase of fatherhood three months at a time, in the third volume of the New Father series trusted by millions of dads nationwide. Each chapter covers: Your child’s physical, intellectual, verbal, and emotional/s... + Read More
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Six Walks In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau Hardcover Ben Shattuck 9781953534040 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 19, 2022

On an autumn morning in 1849, Henry David Thoreau stepped out his front door to walk the beaches of Cape Cod. Over a century and a half later, Ben Shattuck does the same. With little more than a loaf of bread, brick of cheese, and a notebook, Shattuck sets out to retrace Thoreau’s path through the Cape’s outer beaches, from the elbow to Provincetown’s fingertip. This is the first of six journeys taken by Shattuck, each one inspired by a walk once taken by Henry David Thoreau. After the Cape, Shattuck goes up Mount Katahdin and Mount Wachusett, ... + Read More
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The House on Vesper Sands Paperback Paraic O'Donnell 9781951142988 $22.95 FICTION Jan 25, 2022

London, 1893: high up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So begins the swirling, serpentine world of Paraic O’Donnell’s Victorian-inspired mystery, the story of a city cloaked in shadow, but burning with questions: why does the seamstress jump from the window? Why is a cryptic message stitched into her skin? And how is she connected to a rash of missing girls, all of whom seem to have disappeared under similar circumstances? On the case is Inspector Cutter, a detective as sharp and committed to his work as ... + Read More
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The Immortal King Rao A Novel Hardcover Vauhini Vara 9780393541755 $36.95 FICTION May 03, 2022

Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction • One of The New York Times 100 Notable books of 2022 • One of NPR’s Books We Love in 2022 • Named a Best Book of the Year by Esquire, Vox, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Literary HubShortlisted for the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeIn an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmers. King Rao will grow up to be the most accomplished tech CEO in the world and, eventually, the leader of a global, corporate-led government.In a future in which t... + Read More
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Mid-Air Two Novellas Hardcover Victoria Shorr 9780393882100 $35.95 FICTION May 17, 2022

“[B[oth these fine novellas unfurl the kind of complicated family tapestries that every generation ends up weaving from money and love.” —Wall Street Journal Fate is explored in the fall and rise of two twentieth-century American families. Victoria Shorr’s remarkable gift for depicting the inner lives of complex characters shines in two powerful explorations of family, ambition, class, and status. In “Great Uncle Edward,” a family gathers for dinner. At ninety-three, Great Uncle Edward commands the table in his three-piece suit; Cousin Russell... + Read More
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Fruiting Bodies Stories Hardcover Kathryn Harlan 9781324021223 $34.00 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction One of Vulture’s Best Books of the Year This genre-bending debut collection of stories constructs eight eerie worlds full of desire, wisdom, and magic blooming amidst decay. In stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the gothic to the uncanny as it follows characters—mostly queer, mostly women—on the precipice of change. Echoes of timeless myth and folklore reverberate through urgent narratives of discovery, appetite, and coming-of-age in a t... + Read More
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One's Company A Novel Paperback Ashley Hutson 9780393866643 $22.95 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

One of the New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022 So Far and BuzzFeed’s Must-Read Summer Books For readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Mona Awad, this fearless debut chronicles one woman’s escape into a world of obsessive imagination. Bonnie Lincoln just wants to be left alone. To come home from work, shut out the ghosts of some devastating losses, and unwind in front of the nostalgic, golden glow of her favorite TV show, Three’s Company. When Bonnie wins the lottery, a more grandiose vision—to completely shuck off her own troublesome identity—takes shap... + Read More
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Hawk Mountain A Novel Hardcover Conner Habib 9780393542172 $35.95 FICTION Jul 05, 2022

Named a a Best Crime and Thriller of 2002 by The Guardian and Irish Times An English teacher is gaslit by his charismatic high school bully in this tense story of deception, manipulation, and murder. Single father Todd is relaxing at the beach with his son, Anthony, when he catches sight of a man approaching from the water’s edge. As the man draws closer, Todd recognizes him as Jack, who bullied Todd relentlessly in their teenage years but now seems overjoyed to have “run into” his old friend. Jack suggests a meal to catch up. And can he sp... + Read More
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The Empire of Dirt A Novel Paperback Francesca Manfredi 9780393881776 $22.95 FICTION Jul 12, 2022

In this captivating English-language debut, three generations of women must face their secrets and regrets when an old family curse awakens.There has always been tension in “the blind house,” where Valentina lives with her mother and grandmother in the Italian countryside. Valentina’s pious grandmother often hints at a family curse, while Valentina’s mother scoffs at superstition; it’s one of the battlegrounds on which they fight to control Valentina’s upbringing. But in the summer of 1996, when Valentina is twelve, she gets her period for the ... + Read More
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Fly Girl A Memoir Hardcover Ann Hood 9781324006237 $35.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 03, 2022

An entertaining and fascinating memoir of “gifted storyteller” (People) Ann Hood’s adventurous years as a TWA flight attendant. In 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamor and sophistication. Fresh out of college and hungry to experience the world—and maybe, one day, write about it—Ann Hood joined their ranks. After a grueling job search, Hood survived TWA’s rigorous Breech Training Academy and learned to evacuate seven kinds of aircraft, deliver a baby, mix proper cocktails, administer... + Read More
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Kiki Man Ray Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris Hardcover Mark Braude 9781324006015 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 09, 2022

In freewheeling 1920s Paris, Kiki de Montparnasse captivated as a nightclub performer, sold out gallery showings of her paintings, starred in Surrealist films, and shared drinks and ideas with the likes of Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp. Her best-selling memoir—featuring an introduction by Ernest Hemingway—made front-page news in France and was immediately banned in America. All before she turned thirty. Kiki was once the symbol of bohemian Paris. But if she is remembered today, it is only for posing for several now-celebrated male artists, in... + Read More
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Learning Korean Recipes for Home Cooking Hardcover Peter Serpico 9781324003229 $47.00 COOKING May 10, 2022

A “wildly inventive” (Food & Wine) James Beard Award–winning chef interprets one of Asia’s greatest cuisines for the everyday eater. The best Korean food is Korean home cooking. The cornerstones of every meal are kimchi and white rice, and once you unlock that perfect marriage of flavor, the universe of wholesome, vegetable-centric cooking will inspire healthy eating, every day. In this insightful and endearing cookbook, new flavors, techniques, and ways to enjoy one of the world’s greatest cuisines are revealed by chef and father Peter Serpico... + Read More
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I Am From Here Stories and Recipes from a Southern Chef Hardcover Vishwesh Bhatt 9781324006060 $50.00 COOKING Aug 16, 2022

A Vishwesh Bhatt dish conjures an evolving American South. Peanut Masala–Stuffed Baby Eggplant alongside fried okra, tossed in tangy chaat masala. Collard-Wrapped Catfish with a spicy Peanut Pesto. These much-loved dishes are stars on the menu at Snackbar in Oxford, Mississippi, where Bhatt has been the executive chef since 2009, earning him Best Chef: South (2019 James Beard Awards) and induction into the Fellowship of Southern Farmers, Artisans, and Chefs in 2022. His food draws from his Indian heritage and is unpretentious, inventive, and in... + Read More
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Atoms and Ashes A Global History of Nuclear Disasters Hardcover Serhii Plokhy 9781324021049 $40.00 HISTORY May 17, 2022

A chilling account of more than half a century of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the “definitive” (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly. Almost 145,000 Americans fled their homes in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in late March 1979, hoping to save themselves from an invisible enemy: radiation. The reactor at the nearby Three Mile Island nuclear power plant had gone into partial meltdown, and scientists feared an explosion that could spread radiation throughout the eastern United States. Thankfully, the explosion never took p... + Read More
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Who Killed Jane Stanford? A Gilded-Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University Hardcover Richard White 9781324004332 $47.00 HISTORY May 17, 2022

A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A New York Times Best True Crime of 2022 A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University founder to establish who did it, how, and why. In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity ... + Read More
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The Monster's Bones The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World Hardcover David K Randall 9781324006534 $36.95 HISTORY Jun 07, 2022

One of Smithsonian Magazine’s Ten Best Books of 2022 A gripping narrative of a fearless paleontologist, the founding of America’s most loved museums, and the race to find the largest dinosaurs on record. In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York’s struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a privileged socialite whose reputation rests on the museum’s success, and intrepid Kansas-born fossil hunter Barnum Brown. When Brown unearths the ... + Read More
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Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War Hardcover Zhuqing Li 9780393541779 $36.95 HISTORY Jun 21, 2022

Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence.Jun and Hong were scions of a once great southern Chinese family. Each other’s best friend, they grew up in the 1930s during the final days of Old China before the tumult of the twentieth century brought political revolution, violence, and a fractured national identity. By a quirk of timing, at the end of the Chinese Civil War, Jun ended up on an island under Nationalist control, and then settled in Taiwan, married a Nat... + Read More
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France An Adventure History Hardcover Graham Robb 9781324002567 $42.50 HISTORY Jul 12, 2022

A wholly original history of France, filled with a lifetime’s knowledge and passion—by the author of the New York Times bestseller Parisians. Beginning with the Roman army’s first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending in the era of Emmanuel Macron, France takes readers on an endlessly entertaining journey through French history. Frequently hilarious, always surprising, Graham Robb’s France combines the stylistic versatility of a novelist with the deep understanding of a scholar. Robb’s own adventures and discoveries while living, working... + Read More
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Shadowlands A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages Hardcover Matthew Green 9780393635348 $36.95 HISTORY Jul 19, 2022

One of Literary Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2022 A “brilliant London historian” (BBC Radio) tells the story of Britain as never before—through its abandoned villages and towns. Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain’s eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life. Peering through the cracks of history, we find Dunwich, a medieval city plunged off a cliff by sea storms; the abandoned village of Wharram Percy, wiped out by the Black ... + Read More
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A Continent Erupts Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955 Hardcover Ronald H. Spector 9780393254655 $54.00 HISTORY Aug 23, 2022

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022 A harrowing history of the conflicts that swept Asia during the decade following World War II—and determined the fate of the continent. The end of World War II led to the United States’ emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it marked the beginning of decades of unprecedented cooperation and prosperity that one historian has labeled “the long peace.” Yet half a world away, in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea, and Malaya—the fighting never really stopped, as these regions sought to c... + Read More
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Looking for an Enemy 8 Essays on Antisemitism Hardcover Jo Glanville 9781324020653 $34.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 16, 2022

Great Jewish thinkers offer salient historical commentary on the roots of antisemitism and its contemporary resurgence.From medieval accusations that Jews murder Christians for their blood to the far-right conspiracy theories animating present-day political discourse, it’s clear that the belief that Jews are plotting against society never dies—it just adapts to suit the times. In eight illuminating essays from brilliant Jewish writers and thinkers, Looking for an Enemy offers an urgent, profound take on the experience of antisemitism and its hi... + Read More
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Write for Your Life A Guide to Clear and Purposeful Writing (and Presentations) Hardcover Charles Wheelan 9780393633979 $38.95 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES May 10, 2022

The best-selling author’s practical guide to writing clearly and convincingly in every professional setting.How would you create a winning pitch for your latest investment idea? Or persuasively argue for a major policy change? Or successfully ask your boss for a raise? The answer: clear and effective communication, whether in writing or through a presentation. Best-selling author Charles Wheelan has spent decades mastering effective communication skills in his work as a writer, college professor, journalist, speechwriter, political candidate, a... + Read More
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Comforts of the Abyss The Art of Persona Writing Hardcover Philip Schultz 9780393531848 $34.95 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Jun 07, 2022

A vivid, intimate, and inspiring exploration of how to write through persona, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning founder of an influential writing school.Throughout his growth as a writer, acclaimed poet Philip Schultz has battled with the dark voice in his head—the “shitbird,” as his late friend the poet Ralph Dickey termed it—that whispers his insecurities and questions his ability to create. Persona writing, a method of borrowing the voice and temperament of accomplished writers, offers him imaginative distance and perspective on his own negati... + Read More
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Black Folk Could Fly Selected Writings by Randall Kenan Hardcover Randall Kenan 9780393882162 $36.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Aug 09, 2022

A New York Times Notable Book A Book Riot Best Book of 2022 A personal, social, and intellectual self-portrait of the beloved and enormously influential late Randall Kenan, a master of both fiction and nonfiction. Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking fiction. Less visible were his extraordinary nonfiction essays, published as introductions to anthologies and in small journals, revealing countl... + Read More
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Into the Great Emptiness Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap Hardcover David Roberts 9780393868111 $40.00 NATURE Dec 20, 2022

A Library Journal Best Book of 2022 in Science and Technology The riveting story of one of the greatest but least-known sagas in the history of exploration from David Roberts, the “dean of adventure writing.” By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed “Gino”), a twenty-three-year-old British explorer, led thirteen scientists and explorers on an a... + Read More
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In Emergency, Break Glass What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World Hardcover Nate Anderson 9781324004790 $29.95 PHILOSOPHY May 10, 2022

An Ars Technica Holiday Reading Title of 2021 A lively and approachable meditation on how we can transform our digital lives if we let a little Nietzsche in. Who has not found themselves scrolling endlessly on screens and wondered: Am I living or distracting myself from living? In Emergency, Break Glass adapts Friedrich Nietzsche’s passionate quest for meaning into a world overwhelmed by “content.” Written long before the advent of smartphones, Nietzsche’s aphoristic philosophy advocated a fierce mastery of attention, a strict information diet... + Read More
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Strength in Numbers How Polls Work and Why We Need Them Hardcover G. Elliot Morris 9780393866971 $38.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 12, 2022

An insightful exploration of political polling and a bold defense of its crucial role in a modern democracy.Public opinion polling is the ultimate democratic process; it gives every person an equal voice in letting elected leaders know what they need and want. But in the eyes of the public, polls today are tarnished. Recent election forecasts have routinely missed the mark and media coverage of polls has focused solely on their ability to predict winners and losers. Polls deserve better. In Strength in Numbers, data journalist G. Elliott Morris... + Read More
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What Your Food Ate How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health Hardcover David R Montgomery 9781324004530 $40.00 SCIENCE Jun 21, 2022

Are you really what you eat? David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples through to that of crops, livestock, and ultimately us. The long-running partnerships through which crops and soil life nourish one another suffuse plant and animal foods in the human diet with an array of compounds and nutrients our bodies need to protect us fr... + Read More
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Transformer The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death Hardcover Nick Lane 9780393651485 $40.00 SCIENCE Jul 12, 2022

What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been dominated by the study of genetic information. Information is important, but it is only part of what makes us alive. Our inheritance also includes our living metabolic network, a flame passed from generation to generation, right back to the origin of life. In Transformer, biochemist Nick Lane reveals a scientific renaissance that is hiding in plain sight —how the same simple chemistry gives rise to life and causes our demise. Lane is among the vanguard of ... + Read More
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What Artists Wear Hardcover Charlie Porter 9781324020400 $40.00 ART Jun 14, 2022

An eye-opening and richly illustrated journey through the clothes worn by artists, and what they reveal to us.From Yves Klein’s spotless tailoring to the kaleidoscopic costumes of Yayoi Kusama and Cindy Sherman, from Andy Warhol’s denim to Martine Syms’s joy in dressing, the clothes worn by artists are tools of expression, storytelling, resistance, and creativity. In What Artists Wear, fashion critic and art curator Charlie Porter guides us through the wardrobes of modern artists: in the studio, in performance, at work or at play. For Porter, c... + 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Letter to a Young Female Physician Thoughts on Life and Work Paperback Suzanne Koven 9781324021902 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 03, 2022

A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2021 A poignant and funny exploration of authenticity in work and life by a woman doctor.In 2017, Dr. Suzanne Koven published an essay describing the challenges faced by female physicians, including her own personal struggle with “imposter syndrome”—a long-held secret belief that she was not smart enough or good enough to be a “real” doctor. Accessed by thousands of readers around the world, Koven’s “Letter to a Young Female Physician” has evolved into a deeply felt reflection on her career in medicine.... + Read More
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The Secret History of Home Economics How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live Paperback Danielle Dreilinger 9781324021865 $23.95 HISTORY May 10, 2022

An NPR Favorite History Book of 2021 The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics. The term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and businesspeople. And it has something to teach us today. In ... + Read More
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Kill Switch The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy Paperback Adam Jentleson 9781324091981 $23.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 16, 2022

THE CASE FOR ENDING THE FILIBUSTER "A truly excellent book… blistering and persuasive.” —Ezra Klein, New York Times An insider’s account of how politicians representing a radical white minority of Americans have used “the world’s greatest deliberative body” to hijack our democracy. Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the United States Senate, an institution controlled by people who are almost exclusively white, overwhelmingly male, and disproportionately conservative... + Read More
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We Came, We Saw, We Left A Family Gap Year Paperback Charles Wheelan 9781324022053 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 31, 2022

Charlie Wheelan and his family do what others dream of: They take a year off to travel the world. This is their story.What would happen if you quit your life for a year? In a pre–COVID-19 world, the Wheelan family decided to find out; leaving behind work, school, and even the family dogs to travel the world on a modest budget. Equal parts “how-to” and “how-not-to”—and with an eye toward a world emerging from a pandemic—We Came, We Saw, We Left is the insightful and often hilarious account of one family’s gap-year experiment. Wheelan paints a pi... + Read More
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American Republics A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 Paperback Alan Taylor 9781324021803 $27.00 HISTORY May 17, 2022

Winner of the 2022 New-York Historical Society Book Prize in American History A Washington Post and BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent. In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The newly constituted United States actually emerged as a fragile, internally divided union of... + Read More
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Ravenous Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection Paperback Sam Apple 9781324092018 $24.95 SCIENCE May 17, 2022

The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat—and what it means for how we should.The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg—a cousin of the famous finance Warburgs—was widely regarded in his day as one of the most important biochemists of the twentieth century, a man whose research was integral to humanity’s understanding of cancer. He was also among the most despised figures in Nazi Germany. As a Jewish homosexual living openly with his male partner, Warburg represented all that the Third Reich abhorred. Y... + Read More
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Gods at Play An Eyewitness Account of Great Moments in American Sports Paperback Tom Callahan 9781324021971 $23.95 SPORTS & RECREATION May 31, 2022

A beautifully observed narrative of American sport: character, grit, tragedy, unremarked heroism, and, always, the illuminating story behind the story.As a columnist for Time magazine, among many other publications, Tom Callahan witnessed an extraordinary number of defining moments in American sport across four decades. He takes us from Roberto Clemente clinching his 3,000th, and final, regular-season hit in Pittsburgh; to ringside for the Muhammad Ali–George Foreman fight in Zaire; and to Arthur Ashe announcing, at a news conference, that he’d... + Read More
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The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense Paperback Edward White 9781324022121 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 07, 2022

An Economist Best Book of 2021 A finalist of the for the 2022 Edgar Award for Best Biography A fresh, innovative biography of the twentieth century’s most iconic filmmaker. In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon—what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core, and how its legacy continues to shape our cultural world. The book’s twelve chapters illuminate different aspects of Hitchcock’s life and work: “The Boy Who Couldn’t Grow Up”; “The Murderer”; “The Auteur”; ... + Read More
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The Life She Wished to Live A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling Paperback Ann McCutchan 9781324022008 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 07, 2022

A comprehensive and engaging biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the beloved classic The Yearling. Washington, DC, born and Wisconsin educated, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an unlikely author of a coming-of-age novel about a poor central Florida child and his pet fawn—much less one that has become synonymous with Florida literature writ large. Rawlings was a tough, ambitious, and independent woman who refused the conventions of her early-twentieth-century upbringing. Determined to forge a literary career beyo... + Read More
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Until Justice Be Done America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction Paperback Kate Masur 9781324021841 $27.00 HISTORY Jun 07, 2022

The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws that discouraged free African Americans from settling within their boundaries and restricted their rights to testify in court, move freely from place to place, work, vote, and attend public school. But over time, African American activists and their white allies, often facing mob violence, courageously built a movement to fight these racist laws. They countered the states’ insistences that states were ... + Read More
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Mercury Rising John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War Paperback Jeff Shesol 9781324022114 $24.95 HISTORY Jun 07, 2022

A riveting history of the epic orbital flight that put America back into the space race.If the United States couldn’t catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kennedy at the height of the Cold War—a perilous time when the Soviet Union built the wall in Berlin, tested nuclear bombs more destructive than any in history, and beat the United States to every major milestone in space. The race to the heavens seemed a race for survival—and America was losing. On February 20, 1962, ... + 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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Sidecountry Tales of Death and Life from the Back Roads of Sports Paperback John Branch 9781324021889 $24.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Jun 07, 2022

Breathtaking tales of climbers and hunters, runners and racers, winners and losers by the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter.New York Times reporter John Branch’s riveting, humane pieces about ordinary people doing extraordinary things at the edges of the sporting world have won nearly every major journalism prize. Sidecountry gathers the best of Branch’s work for the first time, featuring 20 of his favorites from the more than 2,000 pieces he has published in the paper. Branch is renowned for covering the offbeat in the sporting world, from allig... + 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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All the Water I've Seen Is Running A Novel Paperback Elias Rodriques 9781324021926 $22.95 FICTION Jun 21, 2022

Former high school classmates reckon with the death of a friend in this stunning debut novel.Along the Intracoastal waterways of North Florida, Daniel and Aubrey navigated adolescence with the electric intensity that radiates from young people defined by otherness: Aubrey, a self-identified “Southern cracker” and Daniel, the mixed-race son of Jamaican immigrants. When the news of Aubrey’s death reaches Daniel in New York, years after they’d lost contact, he is left to grapple with the legacy of his precious and imperfect love for her. At ease n... + Read More