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Series: The Fact of a Body A Murder and a Memoir Hardcover Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich 9781250080547 $37.99 TRUE CRIME May 16, 2017

"Complex and challenging... push[es] the boundaries of writing about trauma." —The New York Times“A True Crime Masterpiece” –VogueEntertainment Weekly"Must" List and Best Books of the Year So FarReal Simple's Best New BooksGuardian Best Book of the YearLambda Literary Award WinnerChautauqua Prize Winner"The Fact of a Body is one of the best books I've read this year. It's just astounding." — Paula Hawkins, author ofInto the WaterandThe Girl on the Train"This book is a marvel.The Fact of a Body is equal parts gripping and haunting and will leav... + Read More
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Series: The Fact of a Body A Murder and a Memoir CD-Audio Alex Marzano-Lesnevich 9781427286550 $55.99 TRUE CRIME May 16, 2017

"This book is a marvel.The Fact of a Body is equal parts gripping and haunting and will leave you questioning whether any one story can hold the full truth."-- Celeste Ng, author of theNew York Times bestsellingEverything I Never Told YouBefore Alex Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men accused of murder, they think their position is clear. The child of two lawyers, Alex is staunchly anti-death penalty. But the moment convicted murderer Ricky Langley’s face flashes on the screen as Alex rev... + Read More
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Series: Knife Texas Steakhouse Meals at Home Hardcover John Tesar 9781250079176 $41.99 COOKING May 02, 2017

James Beard nominee and Bravo’s “Top Chef” contestant Chef John Tesar reveals the secrets to cooking the purest, beefiest, most delicious steak you’ve ever tasted.“I've had some phenomenal meals at Knife. Tesar really knows how to cook a steak, and this great book shows you how he does it!” – Aaron Franklin, author ofTheNew York Times bestseller,Franklin BarbecueNo one cooks a steak like legendary chef John Tesar. In his first ever cookbook,Knife reveals Chef Tesar’s secrets to cooking the purest, beefiest, most delicious steak you’ve ever tast... + Read More
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Series: Pantsuit Nation Hardcover Libby Chamberlain 9781250153326 $38.99 POLITICAL SCIENCE May 09, 2017

An inspiring collection of stories and photographs that capture what it means to live, work, love, and resist in America—from the Facebook group with millions of engaged and impassioned members.In October 2016, Maine resident Libby Chamberlain created a “secret” Facebook group encouraging a handful of friends to wear pantsuits to the polls. Overnight, the group of thirty exploded to 24,000 members. By November 8, the group was three million strong. Since Pantsuit Nation’s inception, its members have shared personal stories that illustrate the c... + Read More
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Series: Tornado Weather A Novel Hardcover Deborah E. Kennedy 9781250079572 $34.99 FICTION Jul 11, 2017

An Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel“Dark and dangerous and strange and wonderful…Kennedy writes with the gritty poetry of Daniel Woodrell and misfit sensibility of Flannery O’Connor.” —Benjamin PercyDeborah Kennedy tells the story of a five-year old girl who goes missing in a small town, a place where everyone knows something different about her disappearance and about each other.Five-year-old Daisy Gonzalez’s father is always waiting for her at the bus stop. But today, he isn’t, and Daisy disappears. When Daisy goes missing, nearly eve... + Read More
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Series: Tornado Weather A Novel CD-Audio Deborah E. Kennedy 9781427286482 $55.99 FICTION Jul 11, 2017

“Dark and dangerous and strange and wonderful…Kennedy writes with the gritty poetry of Daniel Woodrell and misfit sensibility of Flannery O’Connor.” —Benjamin PercyFive-year-old Daisy Gonzalez’s father is always waiting for her at the bus stop. But today, he isn’t, and Daisy disappears. When Daisy goes missing, nearly everyone in town suspects or knows something different about what happened. And they also know a lot about each other. The immigrants who work in the dairy farm know their employers’ secrets. The hairdresser knows everything e... + Read More
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Series: You Don't Look Your Age. . . and Other Fairy Tales And Other Fairy Tales Hardcover Sheila Nevins 9781250111302 $34.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 02, 2017

INSTANTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Thank you to Sheila Nevins for putting all this down for posterity. Women need this kind of honest excavation of the process of living.” —Meryl StreepAn astonishingly frank, funny, poignant book for any woman who wishes they had someone who would say to them, “This happened to me, learn from my mistakesand my successes. Because you don’t get smarter as you get older, you get braver.”Sheila Nevins is the best friend you never knew you had. She is your discreet confidante you can tell any secret to, your sage me... + Read More
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Series: You Don't Look Your Age. . . and Other Fairy Tales and Other Fairy Tales CD-Audio Sheila Nevins 9781427286659 $34.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 02, 2017

"...the decided advantage of the audio book is that it is read by a cast of stars as long as your arm — thanks to Nevins' considerable achievements in television and production...This is choice listening for the car, as the stories are short and thus lend themselves to erranding and other short hops." Fran Wood,NJ.comThis program is read by the author and a full cast:Cynthia Adler, Alan Alda, Bob Balaban, Christine Baranski, Kathy Bates, Ellen Burstyn, Glenn Close, Katie Couric, John Henry Cox, Blythe Danner, Lena Dunham, Edie Falco, Tovah Feld... + Read More
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Series: The People We Hate at the Wedding A Novel Hardcover Grant Ginder 9781250095206 $36.99 FICTION Jun 06, 2017

"It’s for the same audience that flocked toThe Nest, Where’d You Go, Bernadette? or dare I say a little book you might be a fan of,Crazy Rich Asians."—Kevin Kwan,New York Timesbestselling author ofCrazy Rich Asians"Sinfully good."— Elin HilderbrandEntertainment Weekly's Summer Must-ReadAPublishers Weekly BEST SUMMER BOOKS, 2017New York Post Best Books of SummerRedbook's 10 Books You Have To Read This SummerRelationships are awful. They'll kill you, right up to the point where they start saving your life.Paul and Alice’s half-sister Eloise is ge... + Read More
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Series: The People We Hate at the Wedding A Novel CD-Audio Grant Ginder 9781427287328 $55.99 FICTION Jun 06, 2017

"It’s for the same audience that flocked toThe Nest, Where’d You Go, Bernadette? or dare I say a little book you might be a fan of,Crazy Rich Asians."—Kevin Kwan,New York Timesbestselling author ofCrazy Rich AsiansEntertainment Weekly's Summer Must-ReadAPublishers Weekly BEST SUMMER BOOKS, 2017Redbook's 10 Books You Have To Read This SummerRelationships are awful. They'll kill you, right up to the point where they start saving your life.Paul and Alice’s half-sister Eloise is getting married! In London! There will be fancy hotels, dinners at “it... + Read More
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Series: The Book of Cheese The Essential Guide to Discovering Cheeses You'll Love Hardcover Liz Thorpe 9781250063458 $56.00 COOKING Sep 26, 2017

EXPLORE THE WORLD OF CHEESE BY ASKING YOURSELF ONE SIMPLE QUESTION: WHAT CHEESES DO I ALREADY LOVE?This is the first book of its kind to be organized not by country, milk type, or any other technical classification. The Book of Cheese maps the world of cheese using nine familiar favorites, what author Liz Thorpe calls theGateway Cheeses.From basics like Swiss, blue, and cheddar, Liz leads the way to more adventurous types. Love Brie? Liz shows you how to find other Brie-like cheeses, from the mild Moses Sleeper to the pungent Fromage de Meaux. ... + Read More
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Series: Man of the Year A Memoir Hardcover Lou Cove 9781250123961 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 09, 2017

"Hilarious and poignant" —PeopleMagazineFor one 1970’s family, the center may not hold, but it certainly does fold.In 1978 Jimmy Carter mediates the Camp David Accords, Fleetwood Mac tops charts withRumours, Starsky fights crime with Hutch, and twelve-year-old Lou Cove is uprooted from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Salem, Massachusetts– a backwater town of witches, Puritans, and sea-captain wannabes. After his eighth move in a dozen years, Lou figures he should just resign himself to a teenage purgatory of tedious paper routes, school bul... + Read More
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Series: The Plea A Novel Hardcover Steve Cavanagh 9781250105561 $0.01 FICTION Feb 13, 2018

When David Child, a major client of a corrupt New York law firm, is arrested for murder, the FBI ask con-artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn to secure David as his client and force him to testify against the firm. The FBI swears David is guilty as hell - plus they have incriminating files on Eddie's wife. If Eddie can't or won't get David to hire him, she'll pay the price. Though the evidence overwhelmingly says that David killed his girlfriend, when Eddie meets David, he's convinced the man is innocent. With the FBI putting pressure on him to se... + Read More
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Series: Once Upon a Time in Shaolin The Untold Story of the Wu-Tang Clan's Million-Dollar Secret Album, the Devaluation of Music, and America's New Public Enemy No. 1 Hardcover Cyrus Bozorgmehr 9781250125279 $37.99 MUSIC Jul 11, 2017

The untold story of the world's most controversial album---a surreal tale of secret recordings, the Wu-Tang Clan, baffled customs agents, the world's most hallowed art institutions, and a villain of comic book proportions: Martin Shkreli.In 2007, the innovative young Wu-Tang producer, Cilvaringz, took an incendiary idea to his mentor the RZA. They felt that the impact of digitization threatened the sustainability of the record industry and independent artists, while shifting the perception of music from treasured works of art to disposable cons... + Read More
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Series: One Summer Day in Rome A Novel Hardcover Mark Lamprell 9781250105530 $34.99 FICTION Aug 01, 2017

“New York, Paris, London—every grand metropolis—has its own irresistible attraction but Rome so swirls with stories of saints and sinners…lovers and fighters, that she compels you towards her, like gravity…. No one leaves her unaltered. Part of you always loves her. This is the place where passions are aroused, senses inflamed, and lovers fall into each other’s arms. It all appears to unfold like magic but I will tell you what really happens…Come with me, if you will, and observe my labors.”Mark Lamprell'sOne Summer Day in Rome is an enchanting... + Read More
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Series: Fake Plastic Love A Novel Hardcover Kimberley Tait 9781250093899 $36.99 FICTION May 09, 2017

“Prepare yourself for a daring, unsparing takedown of millennial Manhattan, trick by glossy trick.” —Beatriz WilliamsWe are a bifurcated generation, the Romantics versus the Realists: those who prefer transistor radios to Bose sound systems, scuffed ocean liner trunks to gleaming Rimowa hard shells, fountain pens to BlackBerry keyboards, restored old roadsters to eco-friendly hybrids, the unsmudgeable guarantee of old illusions to present-life ones, tinny and certain to disappoint.When M. meets Belle at Dartmouth, they become the unlikeliest be... + Read More
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Series: Freshman Year of Life Essays That Tell the Truth About Work, Home, and Love After College Paperback MindSumo 9781250071187 $20.99 SELF-HELP Apr 11, 2017

How do you get a fulfilling job after college?What if you're still living with your parents?What's it like navigating hook-ups, dating, and new friendships outside campus life?Millions of books, blog posts, personal essays, and advice columns are written about college, but what about after college? Those first few years of finding your footing in the real world are filled with transitional crises and fraught introspection. You’re a freshman all over again.The thirty-eight stories in Freshman Year of Life tell the truth about life beyond college... + Read More
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Series: The Romance Reader's Guide to Life A Novel Hardcover Sharon Pywell 9781250101754 $36.99 FICTION Apr 04, 2017

"Smart, funny, and compulsively readable." --Kirkus (starred review)As a young girl, Neave was often stuck in a world that didn’t know what to do with her. As her mother not unkindly told her, she was never going to grow up to be a great beauty. Her glamorous sister, Lilly, moved easily through the world, a parade of handsome men in pursuit. Her brother didn’t want a girl joining his group of friends. And their small town of Lynn, Massachusetts, didn’t have a place for a girl whose feelings often put her at war with the world -- often this mea... + Read More
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Series: If We Were Villains A Novel Hardcover M. L. Rio 9781250095282 $37.99 FICTION Apr 11, 2017

“Much like Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, M. L. Rio’s sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments.”—Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest"Nerdily (and winningly) in love with Shakespeare…Readable, smart.”—New York Times Book ReviewOn the day Oliver Marks is released from jail, the man who put him there is waiting at the door. Detective Colborne wants to know the truth, and after ten years, Oliver is finally ready ... + Read More
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Series: If We Were Villains A Novel CD-Audio M. L. Rio 9781427286468 $55.99 FICTION Apr 11, 2017

“Much like Donna Tartt’sThe Secret History, M. L. Rio’s sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...If We Were Villainswill keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments.”--Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney,New York Times bestselling author ofThe NestOliver Marks has just served ten years in jail – for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a de... + Read More
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Series: The F Word A Novel Paperback Liza Palmer 9781250083470 $22.99 FICTION Apr 25, 2017

“Fresh, frank, and fearless. Liza Palmer is a road warrior of contemporary fiction.” —Georgia Clark, author ofThe RegularsOlivia Morten is perfect. Maybe she’s constantly hungry, but her body is to die for. Maybe her high-flying publicist job has taken over her life, but her clients are L.A.’s hottest celebrities. Maybe her husband is never around, but he is a drop-dead-gorgeous doctor. And maybe her past harbors an incredibly embarrassing secret, but no one remembers high school…right?When Ben Dunn, Olivia’s high school arch nemesis and onetim... + Read More
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Series: The Guineveres A Novel Paperback Sarah Domet 9781250086624 $29.99 FICTION Jul 11, 2017

“Deft and lovely…The perfect weight, in all ways. It’s suitable for a vacation, and you can describe it in one inviting line, but then it keeps unfolding and deepening, taking unexpected turns.”—TheNew York Times Book ReviewTo four girls who have nothing, their friendship is everything: they are each other’s confidants, teachers, and family. The girls are all named Guinevere—Vere, Gwen, Ginny, and Win—and it is the surprise of finding another Guinevere in their midst that first brings them together. They come to The Sisters of the Supreme Adora... + Read More
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Series: Truly Madly Guilty Paperback Liane Moriarty 9781250069801 $23.99 FICTION Jul 25, 2017

Nine Perfect Strangers on sale nowTHE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF BIG LITTLE LIES, now an HBO series.Winner of Goodreads Choice Award for Best FictionEntertainment Weekly's “Best Beach Bet”A USA Today Hot Books for Summer SelectionA Miami Herald Summer Reads Pick2017's 20 Most-Read Books on Goodreads“Here’s the best news you’ve heard all year: Not a single page disappoints....The only difficulty with Truly Madly Guilty? Putting it down.” —Miami Herald“Captivating, suspenseful…tantalizing.” —People MagazineSix responsible ad... + Read More
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Series: The Fire Line The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots Paperback Fernanda Santos 9781250054043 $25.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 06, 2017

“In Fernanda Santos’ expert hands, the story of 19 men and a raging wildfire unfolds as a riveting, pulse-pounding account of an American tragedy; and also as a meditation on manhood, brotherhood and family love. The Fire Line is a great and deeply moving book about courageous men and women.”- HÃ©ctor Tobar, author of Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine and the Miracle that Set Them Free.When a bolt of lightning ignited a hilltop in the sleepy town of Yarnell, Arizona, in June of 2013, setting off a blaze that ... + Read More
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Series: Quench Your Own Thirst Business Lessons Learned Over a Beer or Two Paperback Jim Koch 9781250135018 $23.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 26, 2017

NATIONAL BESTSELLER and named a 2016 Best Book of the Year by Inc., Business Insider, Forbes, and Amazon“Boston Beer’s Jim Koch offers readers a six-packof wisdom.” – The Boston Globe"Like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and the other greats, Jim Koch's entrepreneurial journeyis motivated by a deep commitment to making superb products and building aunique culture that reinforces innovation and risk-taking. This book tells acompelling story about how he did it. The lessons will be invaluable for anyonestarting a business or building a car... + Read More
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Series: Cracking the Aging Code The New Science of Growing Old - And What It Means for Staying Young Paperback Josh Mitteldorf 9781250061713 $23.99 SCIENCE Jun 13, 2017

A revolutionary examination of why we age, what it means for our health, and how we just might be able to fight it.InCracking the Aging Code, theoretical biologist Josh Mitteldorf and award-winning writer and ecological philosopher Dorion Sagan reveal that evolution and aging are even more complex and breathtaking than we originally thought. Using meticulous multidisciplinary science, as well as reviewing the history of our understanding about evolution, this book makes the case that aging is not something that “just happens,” nor is it the res... + Read More
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Series: The 100 Year Miracle A Novel Paperback Ashley Ream 9781250082237 $29.99 FICTION May 16, 2017

"Ashley Ream has an absolutely astounding voice—she is one of the most compelling, sharpest writers working today.The 100 Year Miracle is already one of my favorite novels of 2016."—Gillian Flynn, #1New York Times bestselling author ofGone GirlOnce a century, for only six days, the bay around a small Washington island glows like a water-bound aurora. Dr. Rachel Bell, a scientist studying the 100-Year Miracle and the tiny sea creatures that create it, knows a secret about the phenomenon that inspired the region’s myths and folklore: the rare gre... + Read More
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Series: Famous Nathan A Family Saga of Coney Island, the American Dream, and the Search for the Perfect Hot Dog Paperback Lloyd Handwerker 9781250074553 $31.25 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 02, 2017

From a nickel to an empire, the extraordinary rise of one man, a nation and America's favorite snack. Before the gut-busting eating contests and franchise stores across the country, there was a single man, Nathan Handwerker. An Eastern European Jewish immigrant who left the small provincial world he knew for a fresh start in America, Nathan arrived at Ellis Island speaking not a word of English, unable to read or write, and with twenty-five dollars hidden in his shoes. He had a simple goal: work hard and carve out a piece of the American dream... + Read More
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Series: The Hockey Stick Principles The 4 Key Stages to Entrepreneurial Success Paperback Bobby Martin 9781250116673 $23.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS May 23, 2017

Many business books fuel unrealistic notions about what a good idea looks like, how fast a founder should attract investment, and how quickly growth will take off. The problem with this mythology is that it can sometimes end with entrepreneurs abandoning their dreams too soon if they don't see immediate results. In The Hockey Stick Principles, author Bobby Martin shifts his focus away from all the hype about rapid growth and the pursuit of funding and instead takes a look at the real process behind getting a good idea off the ground. Using a ho... + Read More
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Series: Real Love The Art of Mindful Connection Hardcover Sharon Salzberg 9781250076502 $34.99 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Jun 06, 2017

TheNew York Times bestselling author and a central figure in the field of meditation, Sharon Salzberg, uses ancient Buddhist wisdom to redefine love and experience it in a more profound way.You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to deserve all the love in the world.Real Loveis a creative tool kit of mindfulness exercises and meditation techniques that help you to truly engage with your present experience and create deeper love relationships with yourself, your partner, friends and family, and with life itself.Sharon Sal... + Read More
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Series: Borne A Novel Hardcover Jeff VanderMeer 9780374115241 $0.00 FICTION Apr 25, 2017

In a ruined, nameless city of the future, Rachel makes her living as a scavenger. She finds a creature she names Borne entangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic despotic bear that once prowled the corridors of a biotech firm, the Company, until he was experimented on, grew large, learned to fly, and broke free. Made insane by the company's torture of him, Mord terrorizes the city even as he provides sustenance for scavengers. At first, Borne looks like nothing at all-just a green lump that might be a discard from the Company, which, although s... + Read More
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Series: The Mighty Franks A Memoir Hardcover Michael Frank 9780374210120 $0.01 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 16, 2017

"My feeling for Mike is something out of the ordinary," Michael Frank overhears his aunt say to his mother when he is a boy. "I wish he were mine." Michael's childless Auntie Hankie and Uncle Irving, glamorous Hollywood screenwriters, are doubly his aunt and uncle-brother and sister married sister and brother. The two families live just blocks away from each other in Laurel Canyon. In this strangely intertwined family, even the author's two grandmothers share an apartment together. Talented, sparkling, and lavish with her money, attention, ... + Read More
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Series: Autumn of the Black Snake The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion That Opened the West Hardcover William Hogeland 9780374107345 $39.00 HISTORY May 16, 2017

The forgotten story of how the U.S. Army was created to fight a crucial Indian warWhen the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, the newly independent United States savored its victory and hoped for a great future. And yet the republic soon found itself losing an escalating military conflict on its borderlands. In 1791, years of skirmishes, raids, and quagmire climaxed in the grisly defeat of American militiamen by a brilliantly organized confederation of Shawnee, Miami, and Delaware Indians. With nearly one thousand U.S. casualties, this was the wo... + Read More
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Series: The End of Eddy A Novel Hardcover Edouard Louis 9780374266653 $32.99 FICTION May 02, 2017

An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy.“Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again . . .Today I’m really gonna be a tough guy.” Growing up in a poor village in northern France, all Eddy Bellegueule wanted was to be a man in the eyes of his family and neighbors. But from childhood, he was different—“girlish,” intellectually precocious, and attracted to other men.Already translated into twenty languages,The End of Eddy captures the violence and desperation ... + Read More
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Series: Before Dawn on Bluff Road / Hollyhocks in the Fog Selected New Jersey Poems / Selected San Francisco Poems Hardcover August Kleinzahler 9780374282110 $35.00 POETRY May 09, 2017

A collection of August Kleinzahler’s best poems, divided—like his life—between New Jersey and San FranciscoWhen August Kleinzahler won the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize for his collectionThe Strange Hours Travelers Keep, the judges’ citation referred to his work as “ferociously on the move, between locations, between forms, between registers.” They might also have added “between New Jersey and San Francisco,” the places Kleinzahler has spent his life traveling between, both on the road and on the page.This collection assembles the best of his New J... + Read More
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Series: Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs Selected Prose, 2000-2016 Hardcover August Kleinzahler 9780374282097 $42.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 09, 2017

Sixteen years’ worth of incisive essays by the great poet and memoirist“Witty, gritty poet and memoirist Kleinzahler” (Publishers Weekly) has gathered the best of sixteen years’ worth of essays, remembrances, and reviews in this scabrous and essential collection, setting down his thoughts about great poets and bad poets, about kvetching fiction writers and homicidal musicians, about eccentric critics and discerning nobodies, always with insight and humor, and never suffering fools gladly.Here, inSallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs, August ... + Read More
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Series: Isadora A Novel Hardcover Amelia Gray 9780374279981 $38.00 FICTION May 23, 2017

A 2017 NPR Great ReadUsing the scaffolding of Isadora Duncan’s life and the stuff of her spirit, Amelia Gray’s breakout novel delivers an incredibly imaginative portrait of the artist, resulting in “a stunning meditation on art and grief by one of America’s most exciting young authors” (NPR).As dynamic, enthralling, and powerful as the visionary artist it captures, Amelia Gray’sIsadorais a relentless and living portrayal of a woman who shattered convention, even in the darkest days of her life.In 1913, Isadora Duncan was known as much for her s... + Read More
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Series: Hymns & Qualms New and Selected Poems and Translations Hardcover Peter Cole 9780374173883 $42.00 POETRY May 23, 2017

“[Peter Cole’s] poetry is perhaps most remarkable for its combination of intellectual rigor with delight in surface, for how its prosody returns each abstraction to the body, linking thought and breath, metaphysics and musicality. Religious, erotic, elegiac, pissed off—the affective range is wide and the forms restless.”—Ben Lerner,BOMBHymns & Qualms brings together MacArthur Fellow Peter Cole’s acclaimed poetry and translations, weaving them into a helical whole. Praised for his “prosodic mastery” and “keen moral intelligence” (American Poets)... + Read More
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Series: 40 Sonnets Hardcover Don Paterson 9780374100186 $28.00 POETRY May 02, 2017

This collection, which won the 2015 Costa Poetry Award, is an exhibition of the Dundee-born poet’s stunningly accomplished adoption of the sonnet’s ancient structureThis collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward Prize–winningRain in 2009, is a series of forty luminous sonnets. Some take a traditional form, while others experiment with the reader’s conception of the sonnet, but they all share the lyrical intelligence and musical gift that has made Paterson one of our most celebrated poets.Addressed to friends and enemies, the liv... + Read More
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Series: Would Everybody Please Stop? Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas Hardcover Jenny Allen 9780374118327 $35.00 HUMOR Jun 06, 2017

"One of the funniest writers in America." That's what The New Yorker 's Andy Borowitz calls Jenny Allen-and with good reason. In her debut essay collection, the longtime humorist and performer declares no subject too sacred, no boundary impassable. With her eagle eye for the absurd and hilarious, Allen reports from the potholes midway through life's journey. One moment she's flirting shamelessly-and unsuccessfully-with a younger man at a wedding; the next she's stumbling upon X-rated images on her daughter's computer. She ponders the connect... + Read More
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Series: The Last Kid Left A Novel Hardcover Rosecrans Baldwin 9780374298562 $38.00 FICTION Jun 06, 2017

One ofThe MillionsMost Anticipated Books of 2017When a scandalous small-town crime goes viral, a teen girl takes center stage in Rosecrans Baldwin's story of a twenty-first century Puritan witch-huntThe Last Kid Left begins when a car smashes into a sculpture of a giant cowgirl. The police find two bodies in the trunk. 19-year-old Nick Toussaint Jr. is arrested for murder, and after details of the crime rip across the internet, his 16-year-old girlfriend, Emily Portis—a sheltered teen who’s been off the grid until now, her first romance coincid... + Read More
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Series: Reckless Daughter A Portrait of Joni Mitchell Hardcover David Yaffe 9780374248130 $0.01 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 28, 2017

Joni Mitchell is a cultural touchstone for generations of Americans. In her heyday she released ten experimental, challenging, and revealing albums; her lyrics captivated people with the beauty of their language and the rawness of their emotions, both deeply personal to Mitchell and universally relatable to her audience. In this intimate biography, composed of dozens of in-person interviews with Mitchell, David Yaffe reveals the backstory behind the famous songs-from her youth on the Canadian prairie, her pre-vaccine bout with polio at age nine... + Read More
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Series: The Answers A Novel Hardcover Catherine Lacey 9780374100261 $37.00 FICTION Jun 06, 2017

In Catherine Lacey's ambitious second novel we are introduced to Mary, a young woman living in New York City and struggling to cope with a body that has betrayed her. All but paralyzed with pain, Mary seeks relief from a New Agey treatment called Pneuma Adaptive Kinesthesia, PAKing for short. And, remarkably, it works. But PAKing is prohibitively expensive and Mary is dead broke. So she scours Craigslist for fast-cash jobs and finds herself applying for the "Girlfriend Experiment," the brainchild of an eccentric and narcissistic actor, Kurt Sky... + Read More
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Series: New Collected Poems Hardcover Marianne Moore 9780374221041 $42.00 POETRY Jun 20, 2017

A landmark definitive edition of one of our most innovative and beloved poetsThe landmark oeuvre of Marianne Moore, one of the major inventors of poetic modernism, has had no straight path from beginning to end; until now, there has been no good vantage point from which to see the body of her remarkable work as a whole. Throughout her life Moore arranged and rearranged, visited and revisited, a large majority of her existing poetry, always adding new work interspersed among revised poems. This makes sorting out the complex textual history that ... + Read More
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Series: The Songs We Know Best John Ashbery's Early Life Hardcover Karin Roffman 9780374293840 $42.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 13, 2017

The first biography of an American masterThe Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery—the winner of nearly every major American literary award—reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that made him one of the most original and unpredictable forces of the last century in arts and letters.Drawing on unpublished correspondence, juvenilia, and childhood diaries as well as more than one hundred hours of conversation with the poet, Karin Roffman offers an insight... + Read More
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Series: To Die in Spring A Novel Hardcover Ralf Rothmann 9780374278144 $35.00 FICTION Aug 29, 2017

The lunacy of the final months of World War II, as experienced by a young German soldierDistant, silent, often drunk, Walter Urban is a difficult man to have as a father. But his son—the narrator of this slim, harrowing novel—is curious about Walter’s experiences during World War II, and so makes him a present of a blank notebook in which to write down his memories. Walter dies, however, leaving nothing but the barest skeleton of a story on those pages, leading his son to fill in the gaps himself, rightly or wrongly, with what he can piece toge... + Read More
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Series: The City Always Wins A Novel Hardcover Omar Robert Hamilton 9780374123970 $0.00 FICTION Jun 13, 2017

The City Always Wins is a novel from the front line of a revolution. Deeply enmeshed in the 2011 uprising in Tahrir Square, Mariam and Khalil move through Cairo's surging streets and roiling political underground, their lives burning with purpose, their city alive in open revolt, the world watching, listening, as they chart a course into an unknown future. They are-they believe-fighting a new kind of revolution; they are players in a new epic in the making. From the communal highs of night battles against the police to the solitary lows of po... + Read More
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Series: 1944 Diary Hardcover Hans Keilson 9780374535599 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 06, 2017

[1944 Diary] is a deeply personal account, made even more remarkable that it was written during World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust . . . A moving and fascinating read." —Library JournalIn 2010, FSG published two novels by the German- Jewish writer Hans Keilson: Comedy in a MinorKey—written in 1944 while Keilson was in hiding in the Netherlands, first published in German in 1947, and never before in English—andThe Deathof the Adversary, begun in 1944 and published in 1959, also in German. With their Chekhovian sympathy for perpetrator... + Read More
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Series: Housman Country Into the Heart of England Hardcover Peter Parker 9780374173043 $42.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Jun 20, 2017

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and Nominated for the 2017 PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for BiographyA captivating exploration of A. E. Housman and the influence of his particular brand of EnglishnessA. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad made little impression when it was first published in 1896 but has since become one of the best-loved volumes of poetry in the English language. Its evocation of the English coun - tryside, thwarted love, and a yearning for things lost is as potent today as it was more than a century ago, and the book has neve... + Read More
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Series: Maureen Coughlin The Devil's Muse A Maureen Coughlin Novel Hardcover Bill Loehfelm 9780374279776 $37.00 FICTION Jul 11, 2017

A Southern Indie Bookseller Alliance 2017 Summer OKRA pick!One ofKirkus Review’s “11 Thrillers That Will Keep You Awake This Summer”Watch the trailer forThe Devil's Muse here: https://vimeo.com/224000865In the thrilling fifth book in the critically acclaimed series that’s “edgy, dangerous, but pulsing with life” (Bill Ott,Booklist), a Mardi Gras parade turns deadly.It’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans and rookie cop Maureen Coughlin has no idea what she’s in for. Her night working the parades begins calmly enough—until a half-naked man careens throug... + Read More
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Series: Ants Among Elephants An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India Hardcover Sujatha Gidla 9780865478114 $39.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 18, 2017

A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2017A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2017"Ants Among Elephants is an arresting, affecting and ultimately enlightening memoir. It is quite possibly the most striking work of non-fiction set in India since Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, and heralds the arrival of a formidable new writer." —The EconomistThe stunning true story of an untouchable family who become teachers, and one, a poet and revolutionaryLike one in six people in India, Sujatha Gi... + Read More
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Series: Like a Fading Shadow A Novel Hardcover Antonio Munoz Molina 9780374126902 $38.00 FICTION Jul 18, 2017

A hypnotic novel intertwining the author’s past with James Earl Ray’s attempt to escape after shooting Martin Luther King Jr.The year is 1968 and James Earl Ray has just shot Martin Luther King Jr. For two months he evades authorities, driving to Canada, securing a fake passport, and flying to London, all while relishing the media’s confusion about his location and his image on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. Eventually he lands at the Hotel Portugal in Lisbon, where he anxiously awaits a visa to Angola. But the visa never comes, and for his last t... + Read More
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Series: Knots Stories Hardcover Gunnhild Oyehaug 9780374181673 $31.00 FICTION Jul 11, 2017

A mesmerizing collection of playfully surreal stories from one of Norway’s most celebrated writersFirst published in Norway in 2004,Knotsis Gunnhild Ã?yehaug’s radical collection of short stories that range from the surreal to the oddly mundane, and prod the discomforts of mental, sexual, and familial bonds.In both precise short-shorts and ruminative longer tales, Ã?yehaug meanders through the tangled, jinxed, and unavoidable conflicts of love and desire. From young Rimbaud’s thwarted passions to the scandalous disappearance of an entire family... + Read More
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Series: Arbitrary Stupid Goal Hardcover Tamara Shopsin 9780374105860 $38.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 18, 2017

One of The New Yorker 's Books We Loved in 2017"" Arbitrary Stupid Goal is a completely riveting world - when I looked up from its pages regular life seemed boring and safe and modern like one big iPhone. This book captures not just a lost New York but a whole lost way of life." - Miranda JulyIn Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood, a funky, tight-knit small town in the big city, long before Sex and the City tours and luxury condos. T... + Read More
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Series: Some Say Poems Hardcover Maureen N. McLane 9780374266585 $34.00 POETRY Jul 03, 2017

A dazzling collection of poems exploring the mental landscape of our momentMaureen N. McLane’sSomeSay revolves around a dazzling “old sun.” Here are poems on sex and death; here are poems testing the “bankrupt idea / of nature.”Some Say offers an erotics of attention; a mind roaming, registering, and intermittently blocked; a mortal poet going “nowhere fast but where / we’re all going.” From smartphones to dead gods to the beloved’s body,Some Say charts “the weather of an old day / suckerpunched” into the now.Following on her bravuraMz N: the s... + Read More
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Series: Safe A Novel Hardcover Ryan Gattis 9780374253370 $37.00 FICTION Aug 01, 2017

Winner of the First Annual McIntyre’s Fine Books Mystery Prize“Safe is a propulsive thriller that confirms Ryan Gattis as one of our most gifted novelists.” —Michael Connelly, author ofThe Wrong Side of GoodbyeRyan Gattis' gritty, fast-paced thriller,Safe,hurtles readers toward a shocking conclusion that asks the toughest question of all: how far would you go to protect the ones you love?Ricky ‘Ghost’ Mendoza, Jr. is trying to be good. In recovery and working as a freelance safecracker for the DEA, the FBI, and any other government agency willi... + Read More
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Series: Distant Mandate Poems Hardcover Ange Mlinko 9780374248215 $32.99 POETRY Jul 11, 2017

InDistant Mandate, Ange Mlinko moves between the tormented southern landscape, with its alternately arid and flooded scrublands, and the imaginative landscapes of Western art. Guided by her spiritual forbears—Orpheus, MallarmÃ©, Pound, Yeats, and others—Mlinko deftly places herself within the tradition of the poet in protest against the obduracy of the real.Mlinko takes the title from a piece by LaszlÃ³ Krasznahorkai on the unknowable origins of the Alhambra, the monument “for the sight of which there is only a distant mandate . . . [one] can s... + Read More
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Series: The Last Laugh A Novel Hardcover Lynn Freed 9780374286651 $35.00 FICTION Jul 03, 2017

*ANew York Times Book Review Editor's Choice*From the award-winning author Lynn Freed, who’s been called a “literary star” byThe New York Times BookReview, comes a hilarious and brilliant new novel about the riotous, passion-filled adventures of three women whothought they were past their prime.To escape their griping grown children, husbands and lovers, and an abundance of grandchildren underfoot, three self-proclaimed “old bags,” Dania, Ruth, and Bess, head for a quiet island on the Aegean Sea. They’ll spend a year by the water—watching the s... + Read More
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Series: Notes on a Foreign Country An American Abroad in a Post-American World Hardcover Suzy Hansen 9780374280048 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 15, 2017

Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award •Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionNew York Times Book Review Notable Book •Named a Best Book of the Year byNew York MagazineandThe Progressive"A deeply honest and brave portrait of of an individual sensibility reckoning with her country's violent role in the world."—Hisham Matar, The New York Times Book ReviewIn the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying... + Read More
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Series: The Incest Diary Hardcover Anonymous 9780374175559 $28.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 18, 2017

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