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1.
The Piranhas The Boy Bosses of Naples: A Novel Hardcover Roberto Saviano 9780374230029 $35.00 FICTION Sep 04, 2018

In Gomorrah, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, Roberto Saviano revealed a true, devastating portrait of Naples, Italy under the rule of the Camorra, a crime organization more powerful and violent than the Mafia. In The Piranhas, now a major motion picture, the international bestselling author returns to his home city with a novel of gang warfare and a young man’s dark desire to rise to the top of Naples’s underworld.Nicolas Fiorillo is a brilliant and ambitious fifteen-year-old from the slums of Naples, eager to make his ma... + Read More
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Can Democracy Work? A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World Hardcover James Miller 9780374137649 $35.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 18, 2018

"Of all the books on democracy in recent years one of the best is James Miller’s Can Democracy Work? . . . Miller provides an intelligent journey through the turbulent past of this great human experiment in whether we can actually govern ourselves." —David Blight, The GuardianA new history of the world’s most embattled ideaToday, democracy is the world’s only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has become synonymous with disappointment and crisis. How did it come to this? In Can Democracy Work? James Miller, the author of the classic ... + Read More
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Heart: A History Hardcover Sandeep Jauhar 9780374168650 $35.00 MEDICAL Sep 18, 2018

The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tickFor centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in Heart: A History, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that have changed the way we live.Deftly alternating between key historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells... + Read More
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The Golden State A Novel Hardcover Lydia Kiesling 9780374164836 $34.00 FICTION Sep 04, 2018

NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35 PICK. FINALIST FOR THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE.Named one of the Best Books of 2018 by NPR, Bookforum and Bustle. One of Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best Debut Novels of 2018. An Amazon Best Book of the Month and named a fall read by Buzzfeed, Nylon, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, Vanity Fair, Vulture, Refinery29 and Mind Body GreenA gorgeous, raw debut novel about a young woman braving the ups and downs of motherhood in a fractured AmericaIn Lydia ... + Read More
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The Field of Blood Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War Hardcover Joanne B. Freeman 9780374154776 $36.50 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 11, 2018

"One of the best history books I've read in the last few years." —Chris HayesThe Field of Blood recounts the previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War.A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARAN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF SMITHSONIAN'S BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEARHistorian Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Ci... + Read More
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CoDex 1962 A Trilogy Hardcover Sjon 9780374125639 $39.00 FICTION Sep 11, 2018

Spanning eras, continents, and genres, CoDex 1962—twenty years in the making—is SjÃ³n’s epic three-part masterpieceOver the course of four dazzling novels translated into dozens of languages, SjÃ³n has earned a global reputation as one of the world’s most interesting writers. But what the world has never been able to read is his great trilogy of novels, known collectively as CoDex 1962—now finally complete.Josef LÃ¶we, the narrator, was born in 1962—the same year, the same moment even, as SjÃ³n. Josef’s story, however, stretches back decades in... + Read More
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Identity The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment Hardcover Francis Fukuyama 9780374129293 $34.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 11, 2018

The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examination of modern identity politics: its origins, its effects, and what it means for domestic and international affairs of stateIn 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in decay, as the state was progressively captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatened to destabil... + Read More
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Life in Culture Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling Hardcover Lionel Trilling 9780374185152 $45.50 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 25, 2018

A great critic’s quarrels with himself and others, as revealed in his correspondenceIn the mid-twentieth century, Lionel Trilling was America’s most respected literary critic. His powerful and subtle essays inspired readers to think about how literature shapes our politics, our culture, and our selves. His 1950 collection, The Liberal Imagination, sold more than 100,000 copies, epitomizing a time that has been called the age of criticism.To his New York intellectual peers, Trilling could seem reserved and circumspect. But in his selected letter... + Read More
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Like Poems Hardcover A. E. Stallings 9780374187323 $31.50 POETRY Sep 25, 2018

A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in PoetryA stunning new collection by the award-winning young poet and translatorLike, that currency of social media, is a little word with infinite potential; it can be nearly any part of speech. Without it, there is no simile, that engine of the lyric poem, the lyre’s note in the epic. A poem can hardly exist otherwise. In this new collection, her most ambitious to date, A. E. Stallings continues her archeology of the domestic, her odyssey through myth and motherhood in received and invented forms, from sonne... + Read More
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Deviation A Novel Hardcover Luce D'Eramo 9780374138455 $35.00 FICTION Sep 18, 2018

A devoted fascist changes her mind and her life after witnessing the horrors of the HolocaustFirst published in Italy in 1979, Luce D’Eramo’s Deviation is a seminal work in Holocaust literature. It is a book that not only confronts evil head-on but expands that confrontation into a complex and intricately structured work of fiction, which has claims to standing among the greatest Italian novels of the twentieth century.Lucia is a young Italian girl from a bourgeois fascist family. In the early 1940s, when she first hears about the atrocities be... + Read More
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Listen to the Marriage A Novel Hardcover John Jay Osborn 9780374192020 $32.50 FICTION Oct 23, 2018

A riveting drama of marital therapyGretchen and Steve have been married for a long time. Living in San Francisco, recently separated, with two children and demanding jobs, they’ve started going to a marriage counselor. Unfolding over the course of ten months and taking place entirely in the marriage counselor’s office, John Jay Osborn’s Listen to the Marriage is the story of a fractured couple in a moment of crisis, and of the person who tries to get them to see each other again. A searing look at the obstacles we put in our own way, as well as... + Read More
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He Held Radical Light The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art Hardcover Christian Wiman 9780374168469 $30.00 RELIGION Sep 11, 2018

A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poetsWhat is it we want when we can’t stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores the relationships between art and faith, death and fame, heaven and oblivion. Above all, He Held Radical Light is a love letter to poetry, filled with moving, surprising, and sometimes funny encounters with the poets Wiman has known. Seamus Heaney opens a... + Read More
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Walking Backwards Poems 1966-2016 Hardcover John Koethe 9780374285791 $52.00 POETRY Nov 20, 2018

Collected poems from America’s searching and thoughtful philosopher-poet. . . There’s somethingComforting about rituals renewed, even adolescents’ pipe dreams:They’ll find out soon enough, and meanwhile find their placesIn the eternal scenery, less auguries or cautionary talesThan parts of an unchanging whole, as ripe for contemplationAs a planisphere or the clouds: the vexed destinies, the shared life,The sempiternal spectacle of someone preaching to the choirWhile walking backwards in the moment on a warm spring afternoon.John Koethe’s poems—... + Read More
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Hiking with Nietzsche On Becoming Who You Are Hardcover John Kaag 9780374170011 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 25, 2018

"A stimulating book about combating despair and complacency with searching reflection." --Heller McAlpin, NPR.org Named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR. One of Lit Hub's 15 Books You Should Read in September and one of Outside's Best Books of FallA revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich NietzscheHiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are is a tale of two philosophical journeys—one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen, the other seventeen years later, in radically different circumstance... + Read More
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Godsend A Novel Hardcover John Wray 9780374164706 $34.00 FICTION Oct 09, 2018

Inspired by the story of John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban,” Whiting Award–winning author John Wray explores the circumstances that could impel a young American to abandon identity and home to become an Islamist militant.Like many other eighteen-year-olds, Aden Sawyer is intently focused on a goal: escape from her hometown. Her plan will take her far from her mother’s claustrophobic house, where the family photos have all been turned to face the wall; far from the influence of her domineering father—a professor of Islamic studies—and his... + Read More
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The Hell of Good Intentions America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy Hardcover Stephen M. Walt 9780374280031 $36.50 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 16, 2018

In 1992, the United States stood at the pinnacle of world power and Americans were confident that a new era of peace and prosperity was at hand. Twenty-five years later, those hopes have been dashed. Relations with Russia and China have deteriorated, the European Union is wobbling, and violent extremism is spreading. The reason for these recurring failures, Stephen M. Walt argues in The Hell of Good Intentions, is the combination of America's still-unmatched power and the foreign policy establishment's stubborn consensus around a strategy of ... + Read More
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Grand Improvisation America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957 Hardcover Derek Leebaert 9780374250720 $45.50 HISTORY Oct 16, 2018

An enduring myth of the twentieth century is that the United States rapidly became a superpower in the years after World War II, when the British Empire-the greatest in history-was too wounded to maintain a global presence. In fact, Derek Leebaert argues in Grand Improvisation, the idea that a traditionally insular United States suddenly transformed itself into the leader of the free world is illusory, as is the notion that the British colossus was compelled to retreat. The United States and the U.K. had a dozen abrasive years until Washington... + Read More
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Fryderyk Chopin A Life and Times Hardcover Dr. Alan Walker 9780374159061 $52.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 16, 2018

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. The Sunday Times (U.K.) Classical Music Book of 2018 and one of The Economist's Best Books of 2018."A magisterial portrait." --Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, The New York Times Book ReviewA landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his timeBased on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker’s monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times is the most comprehensive... + Read More
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Evening in Paradise More Stories Hardcover Lucia Berlin 9780374279486 $34.00 FICTION Nov 06, 2018

"Berlin probably deserved a Pulitzer Prize." —Dwight Garner, The New York TimesNew York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Named one of the Best Books of 2018 by The Boston Globe, Kirkus, and Lit Hub. Named a Fall Read by Buzzfeed, ELLE, TIME, Nylon, The Boston Globe, Vulture, Newsday, HuffPost, Bustle, The A.V. Club, The Millions, BUST, Reinfery29, Fast Company and MyDomaine. A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia BerlinIn 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published A Manual for Cle... + Read More
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Welcome Home A Memoir with Selected Photographs and Letters Hardcover Lucia Berlin 9780374287597 $32.50 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Nov 06, 2018

"As the case with her fiction, Berlin's pieces here are as faceted as the brightest diamond." --Kristin Iversen, NYLONNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE. Named a Fall Read by Buzzfeed, Vulture, Newsday and HuffPostA compilation of sketches, photographs, and letters, Welcome Home is an essential nonfiction companion to the stories by Lucia BerlinBefore Lucia Berlin died, she was working on a book of previously unpublished autobiographical sketches called Welcome Home. The work consisted of more than twenty chapters that started in 1936 i... + Read More
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Peaches Goes It Alone Poems Hardcover Frederick Seidel 9780374230531 $31.50 POETRY Nov 13, 2018

A stunning new collection from a “beguiling and magisterial” poet (The New York Times Book Review)This is the End of Days.This is what we’ve been waiting for always.I walked over to the Hudson River, heading for Mars.Each poem of mine is a suicide belt.I say that to my girlfriend Life.Peaches Goes It Alone, Frederick Seidel’s newest collection of poems, begins with global warming and ends with Aphrodite. In between is everything. Peaches Goes It Alone presents the sexual and political themes that have long preoccupied Seidel—and thrilled and of... + Read More
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Asymmetry Poems Hardcover Adam Zagajewski 9780374106478 $30.00 POETRY Nov 20, 2018

A stunning new collection from Poland’s leading poetGive me back my childhood,republic of loquacious sparrows,measureless thickets of nettlesand the timid wood owl's nightly sobs.One of the most vibrant voices of our time, Adam Zagajewski is a modern master of the poetic form. In Asymmetry, his first collection of poems in five years, he revisits the themes that have long concerned him: the enduring imprint of history, the beauty of nature, the place of the exile. Though as sanguine as ever, Zagajewski often turns to elegy in this deeply powerf... + Read More
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The Circuit A Tennis Odyssey Hardcover Rowan Ricardo Phillips 9780374123772 $34.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Nov 20, 2018

Winner of the 2019 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing“The Circuit is the best sports book I've read in years, maybe ever.” —Rich Cohen, author of The Chicago Cubs and Monsters “As sports writing goes, The Circuit is unusual in the very best way. Rowan Ricardo Phillips writes with such fluidity, and packs the book with bursts of brilliance. This is a compulsively readable guide to one truly Homeric year of professional tennis.” —John Green, author of The Fault in Our StarsAn energetic, lyrical, genre-defying account of the 2017 tennis s... + Read More
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Muck A Novel Hardcover Dror Burstein 9780374215835 $35.00 FICTION Nov 13, 2018

“Those who lament that the novel has lost its prophecy should pay heed and cover-price: Muck is the future, both of Jerusalem and of literature. God is showing some rare good taste, by choosing to speak to us through Dror Burstein.” —Joshua Cohen, author of Moving Kings and Book of Numbers In a Jerusalem both ancient and modern, where the First Temple squats over the populace like a Trump casino, where the streets are literally crawling with prophets and heathen helicopters buzz over Old Testament sovereigns, two young poets are about to have ... + Read More
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The Best Bad Things A Novel Hardcover Katrina Carrasco 9780374123697 $35.00 FICTION Nov 06, 2018

**Finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Lambda Award in Bisexual Fiction**"Sexy, fun, serious and unputdownable." —Bethanne Patrick, The Washington Post“Brazen, brawny, sexy . . . full of unforgettable characters and insatiable appetites. I was riveted. Painstakingly researched and pulsing with adrenaline, Carrasco’s debut will leave you thirsty for more.” —Lyndsay Faye, author of The Gods of GothamA vivid, sexy barn burner of a historical crime novel, The Best Bad Things introduces readers to the fiery Alma Rosales—detective, sm... + Read More
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Bringing Down the Colonel A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took On Washington Hardcover Patricia Miller 9780374252663 $36.50 HISTORY Nov 13, 2018

“I’ll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his.”In Bringing Down the Colonel, the journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely nineteenth-century women’s rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left her “ruined,” Pollard brought the man—and the hypocrisy of America’s control of women’s sexuality—to trial. And, surprisingly, she won.Pollard and the married Colonel Breckinridge began their decade-long affair when she was just a teenager. After the death of his wife, Breckinridge a... + Read More
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The Patch Hardcover John McPhee 9780374229481 $34.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Nov 13, 2018

The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction master, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It is divided into two parts. Part 1, “The Sporting Scene,” consists of pieces on fishing, football, golf, and lacrosse—from fly casting for chain pickerel in fall in New Hampshire to walking the linksland of St. Andrews at an Open Championship. Part 2, called “An Album Quilt,” is a montage of fragments of varying length from pieces done across the years that have never appeared in book form—occasional pieces, memorial pieces, ref... + Read More
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Breaking News The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now Hardcover Alan Rusbridger 9780374279622 $39.00 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Nov 27, 2018

An urgent account of the revolution that has upended the news business, written by one of the most accomplished journalists of our timeTechnology has radically altered the news landscape. Once-powerful newspapers have lost their clout or been purchased by owners with particular agendas. Algorithms select which stories we see. The Internet allows consequential revelations, closely guarded secrets, and dangerous misinformation to spread at the speed of a click.In Breaking News, Alan Rusbridger demonstrates how these decisive shifts have occurred,... + Read More
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Barking with the Big Dogs On Writing and Reading Books for Children Hardcover Natalie Babbitt 9780374310400 $34.99 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Age (years) from 0 Nov 20, 2018

In this collection of essays and speeches written over the course of four decades, beloved storyteller Natalie Babbitt explores what it was like to be a “little dog” in the literary world, continually being forced to justify her choice to write books for children—instead of doing something more serious. Babbitt offers incisive commentary on classic children’s books as well as contemporary works, and reveals colorful insights into her own personal creative life. Filled with a voice that rings with truth, wisdom, and humor across the years, the e... + Read More
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Destroy All Monsters The Last Rock Novel Paperback Jeff Jackson 9780374537661 $21.00 FICTION Oct 16, 2018

"A wild roar of a novel . . . Writing about music is tricky. Ninety-nine percent of the time hearing the actual song or going to the actual concert is far more revealing than any paragraph describing it. But Jackson pulls off this near-impossible feat, pulling the reader past the velvet ropes into the black-box theaters and sweaty, sticky-floored stadiums." —Marisha Pessl,The New York Times Book ReviewAn epidemic of violence is sweeping the country: musicians are being murdered onstage in the middle of their sets by members of their audience.... + Read More
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The Bus on Thursday A Novel Paperback Shirley Barrett 9780374110444 $19.50 FICTION Sep 18, 2018

"A horror novel about a breast cancer survivor told in the voice of your funniest but most anxious friend, The Bus on Thursday is an appealing mix of genres that is both fluffy and deeply affecting at the same time." —Maris Kreizman, Vulture"Funny, angry, feminist . . . [Barrett is] a masterly world-builder." —Melissa Maerz, The New York Times Book ReviewBridget Jones meets The Exorcist in this wickedly funny, dark novel about one woman’s post-cancer retreat to a remote Australian town and the horrors awaiting herIt wasn’t just the bad breakup ... + Read More
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Impossible Owls Essays Paperback Brian Phillips 9780374175337 $23.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Oct 02, 2018

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. SEMI-FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR ART OF THE ESSAY.One of Amazon, Buzzfeed, ELLE, Electric Literature and Pop Sugar's Best Books of 2018. Named one of the Best Books of October and Fall by Amazon, Buzzfeed, TIME, Vulture, The Millions and Vol. 1 Brooklyn.“Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating.” —Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad A globe-spanning, ambitious book of essays from one of the most enthralling storytellers in narrative nonfictionIn his highly anticipated ... + Read More
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Hardly Children Stories Paperback Laura Adamczyk 9780374167899 $27.25 FICTION Nov 20, 2018

Named a Fall Pick by Boston Globe, ELLE, Library Journal and MyDomainAn eerie debut collection featuring missing parents, unrequited love, and other uncomfortable momentsA man hangs from the ceiling of an art gallery. A woman spells out messages to her sister using her own hair. Children deemed “bad” are stolen from their homes. In Hardly Children, Laura Adamczyk’s rich and eccentric debut collection, familiar worlds—bars, hotel rooms, cities that could very well be our own—hum with uncanny dread. The characters in Hardly Children are keyed up,... + Read More
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Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret Hardcover Craig Brown 9780374906047 $36.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 07, 2018

“Rollicking, irresistible, un-put-downable . . . For anyone . . . who swooned to Netflix’s The Crown, this book will be manna from heaven.” —Hamish Bowles, Vogue“Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret is a brilliant, eccentric treat.” —Anna Mundow, The Wall Street Journal“I ripped through the book with the avidity of Margaret attacking her morning vodka and orange juice . . . The wisdom of the book, and the artistry, is in how Brown subtly expands his lens from Margaret’s misbehavior . . . to those who gawked at her, who huddled around her, ... + Read More
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Draft No. 4 On the Writing Process Paperback John McPhee 9780374537975 $23.00 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Sep 04, 2018

The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacherDraft No. 4 is a master class on the writer’s craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most esteemed writers of recent decades. McPhee offers definitive guidance in the decisions regarding arrangement, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces, and he presents extracts from his work, subje... + Read More
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The Dharma of The Princess Bride What the Coolest Fairy Tale of Our Time Can Teach Us About Buddhism and Relationships Paperback Ethan Nichtern 9780865477773 $19.50 PHILOSOPHY Sep 11, 2018

An engagingly contemporary approach to Buddhism—through the lens of an iconic film and its memorable charactersHumorous yet spiritually rigorous in the tradition ofZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance andThe Tao of Pooh, drawing from pop culture and from personal experience,The Dharma of “The Princess Bride” teaches us how to understand and navigate our most important personal relationships from a twenty-first-century Buddhist perspective.Friendship. Romance. Family. These are the three areas Ethan Nichtern delves into, taking as departur... + Read More
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Unstoppable My Life So Far Paperback Maria Sharapova 9780374538026 $21.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 04, 2018

From the five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova, the candid, captivating story of her rise to tennis stardom.*One of The Boston Globe's Best Books of 2017*In the middle of the night, a father and his daughter step off a Greyhound bus in Florida and head straight to the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy. They ring the bell, though no one is expecting them and they don’t speak English. The two have arrived from Russia with only seven hundred dollars and the conviction that this six-year-old will be the next tennis star. Amazingly, they are rig... + Read More
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The Butchering Art Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine Paperback Lindsey Fitzharris 9780374537968 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 02, 2018

Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science WritingShort-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book PrizeA Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers WeeklyA Best History Book of 2017, The Guardian "Warning: She spares no detail!" —Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead Wake In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed by advances made in germ theory and antiseptics between 1860 and 1875. She conjures up early operating theaters—no place f... + Read More
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The Gourmands' Way Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy Paperback Justin Spring 9780374538019 $27.25 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 16, 2018

A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Culinary History."The broad outline of Spring's thesis is so persuasive, the details so evocative (not to mention mouth watering), that anyone interested in the evolution of cooking in America will find The Gourmands' Way informative and indispensable." —Wendy Smith, The Boston GlobeA biography of six writers on food and wine whose lives and careers intersected in mid-twentieth-century France. During... + Read More
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Ramp Hollow The Ordeal of Appalachia Paperback Steven Stoll 9780809080199 $27.00 HISTORY Nov 20, 2018

Short-listed for the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Book AwardIn Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, and why it matters. He begins with the earliest European settlers, whose desire for vast forests to hunt in was frustrated by absentee owners—including George Washington and other founders—who laid claim to the region. Even as Daniel Boone became famous as a backwoods hunter and guide, the economy he represented was already in peril. Within just a few decades, Appalachian hunters and farmers went from... + Read More
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The Bughouse The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound Paperback Daniel Swift 9780374538040 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 20, 2018

In 1945, the American poet Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War.Before the trial could take place, however, he was pronounced insane. Escaping a possible death sentence, he was sent to St. Elizabeths Hospital near Washington, D.C., where he was held for more than a decade.At the hospital, Pound was at his most infamous, and most contradictory. He was a genius and a traitor, a great poet and a madman. He was also an irresistible figure and, in his cell on Chestnut Ward and ... + Read More
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The Wine Lover's Daughter A Memoir Paperback Anne Fadiman 9780374537944 $21.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 13, 2018

A memoir by the celebrated essayist that explores her relationship with her father, a lover of wineInThe Wine Lover’s Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines—with all her characteristic wit and feeling—her relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine.An appreciation of wine—along with a plummy upper-crust accent, expensive suits, and an encyclopedic knowledge of Western literature—was an essential element of Clifton Fadiman’s escape from lower-middle-class Brooklyn to swa... + Read More
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James Wright A Life in Poetry Paperback Jonathan Blunk 9780374537937 $24.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 12, 2019

The authorized and sweeping biography of one of America’s most complex, influential, and enduring poetsIn the extraordinary generation of American poets who came of age in the middle of the twentieth century, James Wright (1927–1980) was frequently placed at the top of the list. With a fierce, single-minded devotion to his work, Wright escaped the steel town of his Depression-era childhood in the Ohio valley to become a revered professor of English literature and a Pulitzer Prize winner. But his hometown remained at the heart of his work, and h... + Read More
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An Uncommon Reader A Life of Edward Garnett, Mentor and Editor of Literary Genius Paperback Helen Smith 9780374537999 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dec 11, 2018

One of The Sunday Times' (U.K.) Books of the Year"Garnett's life will not need to be written again." —Andrew Morton, Times Literary SupplementA penetrating biography of the most important English-language editor of the early twentieth centuryDuring the course of a career spanning half a century, Edward Garnett—editor, critic, and reader for hire—would become one of the most influential men in twentieth-century English literature. Known for his incisive criticism and unwavering conviction in matters of taste, Garnett was responsible for identify... + Read More
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Unreconciled Poems 1991-2013; A Bilingual Edition Paperback Michel Houellebecq 9780374538071 $23.00 POETRY Jul 16, 2019

Selected poems from the critically acclaimed author of Submission and The Elementary ParticlesA shimmering selection of poems chosen from four collections of one of France’s most exciting authors, Unreconciled shines a fresh light on Michel Houellebecq and reveals the radical singularity of his work. Drawing on themes that are similar to the ones in his novels, these poems are a journey into the depths of individual experience and universal passions.Divided into five parts, Unreconciled forms a narrative of love, hopelessness, catastrophe, dedi... + Read More
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A Scattering and Anniversary Poems Paperback Christopher Reid 9780374538088 $19.00 POETRY Oct 09, 2018

An exploration of love and loss by the renowned Costa Award–winning poetYou lived at such speed that the ballpoint script running aslant and fadingacross the faded bluecan scarcely keep up. Many words are illegible. I missimportant steps. Your movements blur. I want to follow, but can’t.A Scattering is a book of lamentation and remembrance, its subject being Christopher Reid’s wife, the actress Lucinda Gane, who died of cancer at the age of fifty-five. First published in the UK in 2009 to wide acclaim, winning the Costa Book of the Year, this m... + Read More