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Series: The First Conspiracy The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington Hardcover Brad Meltzer 9781250130334 $38.99 HISTORY Jan 08, 2019

Taking place during the most critical period of our nation’s birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington’s character, but also illuminates the origins of America’s counterintelligence movement that led to the modern day CIA.In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington’s bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of them were part of a treasonous plan. In the months leading ... + Read More
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Series: The First Conspiracy The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington CD-Audio Brad Meltzer 9781427299185 $51.99 HISTORY Jan 08, 2019

This program includes a bonus conversation with the authors.Taking place during the most critical period of our nation’s birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington’s character, but also illuminates the origins of America’s counterintelligence movement that led to the modern day CIA.In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington’s bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of... + Read More
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Series: The Path Made Clear Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose Hardcover Oprah Winfrey 9781250307507 $36.50 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Mar 26, 2019

Everyone has a purpose. And, according to Oprah Winfrey, “Your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you are meant to be, and begin to honor your calling in the best way possible.”That journey starts right here.In her latest book,The Path Made Clear, Oprah shares what she sees as a guide for activating your deepest vision of yourself, offering the framework for creating not just a life of success, but one of significance. The book’s ten chapters are organized to help you recognize the important milestones alon... + Read More
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Series: I Know Who You Are A Novel Hardcover Alice Feeney 9781250147349 $36.50 FICTION Apr 23, 2019

From theNew York Times and international bestselling author ofSometimes I Lie comes a brand new, highly anticipated, dark and twisted thriller:I Know Who You Are.Meet Aimee Sinclair: the actress everyone thinks they know but can’t remember where from.Except one person.Someone knows Aimee very well.They know who she is and they know what she did.When Aimee comes home and discovers her husband is missing, she doesn’t seem to know what to do or how to act. The police think she’s hiding something and they’re right, she is—but perhaps not what they ... + Read More
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Series: I Know Who You Are A Novel CD-Audio Alice Feeney 9781250317018 $51.99 FICTION Apr 23, 2019

"Alice Feeney's latest thriller is a compelling listen...Narrator Stephanie Racine deftly portrays characters from a variety of regions and classes across the U.K. and Ireland. She shines in this first-person narration, capturing Aimee's self-doubt, worry and determination." —BookPageFrom theNew York Times and international bestselling author ofSometimes I Lie comes a brand new, highly anticipated, dark and twisted thriller:I Know Who You Are.Meet Aimee Sinclair: the actress everyone thinks they know but can’t remember where from.Except one per... + Read More
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Series: I.M. A Memoir Hardcover Isaac Mizrahi 9781250074089 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 26, 2019

INSTANTNEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER“InI.M., Isaac Mizrahi puts his life to paper with the same mix of spirit and wryness as the designs he popularized.” —Vanity FairIsaac Mizrahi is sui generis: designer, cabaret performer, talk-show host, a TV celebrity. Yet ever since he shot to fame in the late 1980s, the private Isaac Mizrahi has remained under wraps. Until now.InI.M., Isaac Mizrahi offers a poignant, candid, and touching look back on his life so far. Growing up gay in a sheltered Syrian Jewish Orthodox family, Isaac had unique talents that ult... + Read More
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Series: I.M. A Memoir CD-Audio Isaac Mizrahi 9781427274649 $51.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 26, 2019

"Mizrahi speaks passionately...the warmth in both his voice and writing creates a singularly satisfying listening experience." —AudioFile Magazine,Earphones Award winnerThis program is read by Isaac Mizrahi, whose "warm and wry voice provides an extra incentive to check out this version of his story." —LitHub“Isaac Mizrahi is a true Renaissance man. He can do it all! He’s managed to live several lives in one lifetime." —RuPaulIsaac Mizrahi is sui generis: designer, cabaret performer, talk-show host, a TV celebrity. Yet ever since he shot to fam... + Read More
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Series: The Night Tiger A Novel Hardcover Yangsze Choo 9781250175458 $34.99 FICTION Feb 12, 2019

The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club PickINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“A sumptuous garden maze of a novel that immerses readers in a complex, vanished world.” —Kirkus (starred review)An utterly transporting novel set in 1930s colonial Malaysia, perfect for fans of Isabel Allende and Min Jin LeeQuick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother’s Mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may... + Read More
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Series: The Night Tiger A Novel CD-Audio Yangsze Choo 9781250316998 $51.99 FICTION Feb 12, 2019

"Choo narrates this richly complex novel herself, her gorgeous writing delivered in a voice that is deep and precise and lovely, both British and not quite. Her tone and words transport us..." — San Francisco ChronicleThis program is read by the author.A sweeping historical audiobook about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers.Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother’s Mahjong ... + Read More
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Series: The Lost Man Three Brothers, One Death, No Answers... Hardcover Jane Harper 9781250105684 $36.50 FICTION Feb 05, 2019

INSTANTNEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLERTwo brothers meet in the remote Australian outback when the third brother is found dead, in this stunning new standalone novel from Jane HarperBrothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first time in months at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback.Their third brother, Cameron, lies dead at their feet.In an isolated belt of Australia, their homes a three-hour drive apart, the brothers were one another’s nearest neighbors. Cameron was the middle child, the one who ran the famil... + Read More
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Series: The Lost Man CD-Audio Jane Harper 9781250316936 $51.99 FICTION Feb 05, 2019

"Australian narrator Stephen Shanahan returns for another knockout performance...It's a slow and bleak affair, but no less enthralling than Harper's and Shanahan's previous efforts." — AudioFile Magazine,Earphones Award winnerTwo brothers meet in the remote Australian outback when the third brother is found dead, in this stunning new standalone audiobook fromNew York Times bestseller Jane Harper.Brothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first time in months at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback.Their t... + Read More
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Series: At the Wolf's Table A Novel Hardcover Rosella Postorino 9781250179142 $34.99 FICTION Jan 29, 2019

The international bestseller based on a haunting true story that raises provocative questions about complicity, guilt, and survival.They called it the Wolfsschanze, the Wolf’s Lair. “Wolf” was his nickname. As hapless as Little Red Riding Hood, I had ended up in his belly. A legion of hunters was out looking for him, and to get him in their grips they would gladly slay me as well.Germany, 1943: Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Sauer’s parents are gone, and her husband Gregor is far away, fighting on the front lines of World War II. Impoverished and alo... + Read More
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Series: At the Wolf's Table A Novel CD-Audio Rosella Postorino 9781250316929 $51.99 FICTION Jan 29, 2019

"Narrator Polly Stone gives us a believable depiction of Rosa Sauer...The story is compelling, and the performance memorable." — AudioFile MagazineAt the Wolf's Table is a moving audiobook based on the untold true story of the women conscripted to be Hitler’s food tasters, from internationally bestselling author Rosella Postorino."They called it the Wolfsschanze, the Wolf’s Lair. 'Wolf' was his nickname. As hapless as Little Red Riding Hood, I had ended up in his belly. A legion of hunters was out looking for him, and to get him in their grips ... + Read More
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Series: Why You Like It The Science and Culture of Musical Taste Hardcover Nolan Gasser 9781250057198 $42.50 MUSIC Apr 30, 2019

From the chief architect of the Pandora Radio’s Music Genome Project comes a definitive and groundbreakingexamination of why we respond to music the way we do.Everyone loves music. But what is it that makes music so universally beloved and have such a powerful effect on us? In this sweeping and authoritative book, Dr. Nolan Gasser—a composer, pianist, and musicologist, and the chief architect of the Music Genome Project, which powers Pandora Radio—breaks down what musical taste is, where it comes from, and what our favorite songs say about us. ... + Read More
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Series: How to Date Men When You Hate Men Hardcover Blythe Roberson 9781250193421 $25.99 HUMOR Jan 08, 2019

From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedy philosophy book aimed at interrogating what it means to date men within the trappings of modern society. Blythe Roberson’s sharp observational humor is met by her open-hearted willingness to revel in the ugliest warts and shimmering highs of choosing to live our lives amongst other humans. She collects her crushes like ill cared-for pets, skewers her own suspect decisions, and assures readers that any date you can mess up, she can top ... + Read More
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Series: The Fatburn Fix Boost Energy, End Hunger, and Lose Weight by Using Body Fat for Fuel Hardcover Catherine Shanahan M.D. 9781250114495 $38.50 HEALTH & FITNESS Mar 24, 2020

A proven plan to optimize your health by reclaiming your natural ability to burn body fat for fuelThe ability to use body fat for energy is essential to health—but over decades of practice, renowned family physician Catherine Shanahan, M.D., observed that many of her patients could not burn their body fat between meals, trapping them in a downward spiral of hunger, fatigue, and weight gain. In The Fatburn Fix, Dr. Shanahan shows us how industrially produced vegetable oils accumulate in our body fat and disrupt our body’s energy-producing syste... + Read More
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Series: The Reign of the Kingfisher A Novel Hardcover T.J. Martinson 9781250170217 $36.50 FICTION Mar 05, 2019

"Hits a grand slam for its intended audience. It might even convince skeptics that superhero stories can make good literature."—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"An extraordinary novel." —Emily St. John Mandel, bestselling author ofStation Eleven30 years ago a superhero tried to save Chicago. Now the city is again under siege, in this gritty, suspenseful, and beautifully written novel from award-winning debut author T.J. MartinsonSomewhere in Chicago, a roomful of people have been taken hostage. The hostages will be killed one by one, the masked gunman s... + Read More
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Series: The Prairie Homestead Cookbook Simple Recipes for Heritage Cooking in Any Kitchen Hardcover Jill Winger 9781250190192 $49.50 COOKING Apr 02, 2019

Jill Winger, creator of the award-winning blog The Prairie Homestead, introduces her debut The Prairie Homestead Cookbook, including 100+ delicious, wholesome recipes made with fresh ingredients to bring the flavors and spirit of homestead cooking to any kitchen table.With a foreword by bestselling author Joel SalatinThe Pioneer Woman Cooks meets 100 Days of Real Food, on the Wyoming prairie. While Jill produces much of her own food on her Wyoming ranch, you don’t have to grow all—or even any—of your own food to cook and eat like a homesteader.... + Read More
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Series: Nikki Griffin Save Me from Dangerous Men A Novel Hardcover S. A. Lelchuk 9781250170248 $36.50 FICTION Mar 19, 2019

“An outstanding debut...If you’re a fan of Jack Reacher or Lisbeth Salander, you are gonna love Nikki Griffin.”—New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston“Action packed and razor sharp - Jack Reacher would love Nikki Griffin.”—Lee Child, #1New York Times bestselling author ofPast TenseNikki Griffin isn't your typical private investigator. In her office above her bookstore’s shelves and stacks, where she luxuriates in books and the comfort they provide, she also tracks certain men. Dangerous men. Men who have hurt the women they claim to ... + Read More
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Series: As Long as We Both Shall Live A Novel Hardcover JoAnn Chaney 9781250076397 $36.50 FICTION Jan 15, 2019

“Unputdownable….This novel is anything but predictable. The female characters are forces of nature, and the plot twists are deliciously demented, a laGone Girl andBig Little Lies.” —PeopleYou can’t be married to someone without sometimes wanting to kill them...As Long As We Both Shall Live is JoAnn Chaney’s wicked, masterful examination of a marriage gone very wrong, a marriage with lots of secrets…“My wife! I think she’s dead!” Matt frantically tells park rangers that he and his wife, Marie, were hiking when she fell off a cliff into the ragin... + Read More
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Series: Force of Nature A Novel Paperback Jane Harper 9781250105653 $22.50 FICTION Jan 08, 2019

Goodreads Choice Award Finalist (Mystery & Thriller, 2018)BookBrowse Best Books of 2018Winner of the Prix Polar Award for Best International NovelBookRiot’s 25 Best Suspense Books from 2018Davitt Awards shortlist for Adult Crime Novel 2018Dead Good Reads shortlist for Best Small Town Mystery 2018Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, theNew York Times bestselling author ofThe Dry,asks: How well do you really know the people you work with?When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluct... + Read More
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Series: What You Don't Know A Novel Paperback JoAnn Chaney 9781250160676 $22.50 FICTION Dec 04, 2018

"Superb characters, sparkling dialogue, and a gripping, terrifying plot, plus flashes of humor to boot; JoAnn Chaney's What You Don't Know has it all." --Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author A series of murders brings Denver to its knees in this wonderfully voice-driven, dark, wry, and wholly original page-turning debut.He didn’t take their lives -- but he ruined them.The final victims of an infamous serial killer may be the ones he didn’t kill.Hoskins cracked the case of one of the most infamous serial killers -- and then it crac... + Read More
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Series: Caddyshack The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story Paperback Chris Nashawaty 9781250105967 $25.99 PERFORMING ARTS Mar 05, 2019

“More fun to read than the movie was to watch… a scene-stealing book.”— The Washington PostAnEntertainment Weekly "Must List" selectionCaddyshack is one of the most beloved comedies of all time, a classic snobs vs. slobs story of working class kids and the white collar buffoons that make them haul their golf bags in the hot summer sun. It has sex, drugs and one very memorable candy bar, but the movie we all know and love didn’t start out that way, and everyone who made it certainly didn’t have the word “classic” in mind as the cameras were roll... + Read More
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Series: Girls Burn Brighter A Novel Paperback Shobha Rao 9781250309501 $23.50 FICTION Mar 05, 2019

Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Paste, LitHub, Real Simple2018 Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist: Best FictionLonglisted for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize“Incandescent...A searing portrait of what feminism looks like in much of the world.” —Vogue“A treat for Ferrante fans, exploring the bonds of friendship and how female ambition beats against the strictures of poverty and patriarchal societies.” —The Huffington PostAn electrifying debut novel about the extraordinary bond between two girls driven... + Read More
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Series: Mothers of Sparta A Memoir in Pieces Paperback Dawn Davies 9781250133724 $22.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 29, 2019

“Davies' collection of essays soars.... It's a memoir that locates the profound within the ordinary.”—Entertainment WeeklyIf you’re looking for a typical parenting book, this is not it. This is not a treatise on how to be a mother.This is a book about a young girl who moves to a new town every couple of years; a misfit teenager who finds solace in a local music scene; an adrift twenty-something who drops out of college to pursue her dream of making cheesecake on a stick a successful business franchise (ah, the ideals of youth). Alone in a new ... + Read More
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Series: You Don't Look Your Age. . . and Other Fairy Tales Paperback Sheila Nevins 9781250111319 $29.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 16, 2019

INSTANT NEW 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 mistakes and 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 ... + Read More
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Series: The Kings of Big Spring God, Oil, and One Family's Search for the American Dream Paperback Bryan Mealer 9781250058928 $24.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 05, 2019

Bryan Mealer'sThe Kings of Big Spring: God, Oil, and One Family's Search for the American Dream is a saga of fortune, failure and Texas, where blood may be thicker than water, but oil is king.
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Series: The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater Essays on Crafting Paperback Alanna Okun 9781250095633 $22.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 19, 2019

The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater is a memoir about life truths learned through crafting.People who craft know things. They know how to transform piles of yarn into sweaters and scarves. They know that some items, like woolen bikini tops, are better left unknit. They know that making a hat for a newborn baby isn’t just about crafting something small but appreciating the beginnings of life, which sometimes helps make peace with the endings. They know that if you knit your boyfriend a sweater, your relationship will most likely be over before th... + Read More
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Series: Oliver Loving A Novel Paperback Stefan Merrill Block 9781250122872 $39.25 FICTION Jan 15, 2019

"A dazzling novel about love, loss, and the mysteries of the mind."—David Ebershoff, bestselling author of The Danish Girl and The 19th Wife"A breathtaking tale of tragedy and redemption...A triumph."—PeopleA family in crisis, a town torn apart, and the boy who holds the secret has been cocooned in a coma for ten years.One warm, West Texas November night, a shy boy named Oliver Loving joins his classmates at Bliss County Day School’s annual dance, hoping for a glimpse of the object of his unrequited affections, an enigmatic Junior named Rebekka... + Read More
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Series: The Five Invitations Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully Paperback Frank Ostaseski 9781250076748 $23.50 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Jan 22, 2019

The cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project and pioneer behind the compassionate care movement shares an inspiring exploration of the lessons dying has to offer about living a fulfilling life. Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in plain sight, helping us to discover what matters most.Life and death are a package deal. They cannot be pulled apart and we cannot truly live unless we are aware of death. The Five Invitations is an exhila... + Read More
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Series: The Mamba Mentality How I Play Hardcover Kobe Bryant 9780374201234 $45.50 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 23, 2018

The Mamba Mentality: How I Play is Kobe Bryant’s personal perspective of his life and career on the basketball court and his exceptional, insightful style of playing the game—a fitting legacy from the late Los Angeles Laker superstar.In the wake of his retirement from professional basketball, Kobe “The Black Mamba” Bryant decided to share his vast knowledge and understanding of the game to take readers on an unprecedented journey to the core of the legendary “Mamba mentality.” Citing an obligation and an opportunity to teach young players, hard... + Read More
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Series: The Mamba Mentality How I Play CD-Audio Kobe Bryant 9781250212719 $25.99 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 23, 2018

This program is read by Kobe Bryant.The Mamba Mentality: How I Play is Kobe Bryant’s personal perspective of his life and career on the basketball court and his exceptional, insightful style of playing the game—a fitting legacy from the late Los Angeles Laker superstar.In the wake of his retirement from professional basketball, Kobe “The Black Mamba” Bryant decided to share his vast knowledge and understanding of the game to take readers on an unprecedented journey to the core of the legendary “Mamba mentality.” Citing an obligation and an oppo... + Read More
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Series: In Extremis The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin Hardcover Lindsey Hilsum 9780374175597 $0.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 30, 2018

When Marie Colvin was killed by an IED in Homs, Syria, in 2012, at age fifty-six, the world lost one of its most fearless, accomplished, and iconoclastic war correspondents, an eye-patch wearing, party-throwing, and risk-taking female combat reporter who covered the most significant and destructive global calamities of her lifetime. In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Reporter Marie Colvin, written by Colvin's friend and prizewinning fellow reporter Lindsey Hilsum, is a thrilling and powerful investigation into Colvin's epic life and t... + Read More
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Series: Miracle Creek A Novel Hardcover Angie Kim 9780374156022 $35.00 FICTION Apr 16, 2019

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVELThe “gripping… page-turner” (Time) hitting all the best of summer reading lists, Miracle Creek is perfect for book clubs and fans of Liane Moriarty and Celeste NgHow far will you go to protect your family? Will you keep their secrets? Ignore their lies? In a small town in Virginia, a group of people know each other because they’re part of a special treatment center, a hyperbaric chamber that may cure a range of conditions from infertility to autism. But then the chamber explodes, two people die, and... + Read More
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Series: Vibrate Higher A Rap Story Hardcover Talib Kweli 9780374283407 $36.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 16, 2021

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY LITERARY PRIZEFrom one of the most lyrically gifted, socially conscious rappers of the past twenty years, Vibrate Higher is a firsthand account of hip-hop as a political forceBefore Talib Kweli became a world-renowned hip-hop artist, he was a Brooklyn kid who liked to cut class, spit rhymes, and wander the streets of Greenwich Village with a motley crew of artists, rappers, and DJs who found hip-hop more inspiring than their textbooks (much to the chagrin of the educator parents who had given thei... + Read More
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Series: Mothers Stories Hardcover Chris Power 9780374213664 $34.00 FICTION Jan 15, 2019

An “extraordinary” (The Sunday Times) debut of unnerving beauty, Chris Power’s short story collectionMothersevokes the magic and despair of the essential human longing for purpose.Chris Power’s stories are peopled by men and women who find themselves at crossroads or dead ends—characters who search without knowing what they seek. Their paths lead them to thresholds, bridges, rivers, and sites of mysterious, irresistible connection to the past. A woman uses her mother’s old travel guide, aged years beyond relevance, to navigate on a journey to n... + Read More
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Series: Unexampled Courage The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring Hardcover Richard Gergel 9780374107895 $35.00 HISTORY Jan 22, 2019

A 2019 NPR Staff PickHow the blinding of Sergeant Isaac Woodard changed the course of America’s civil rights history Richard Gergel’sUnexampled Courage details the impact of the blinding of Sergeant Woodard on the racial awakening of President Truman and Judge Waring, and traces their influential roles in changing the course of America’s civil rights history.On February 12, 1946, Sergeant Isaac Woodard, a returning, decorated African American veteran, was removed from a Greyhound bus in Batesburg, South Carolina, after he challenged the bus ... + Read More
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Series: Ghost Wall A Novel Hardcover Sarah Moss 9780374161927 $29.00 FICTION Jan 08, 2019

A Southern Living Best New Book of Winter 2019; A Refinery29 Best Book of January 2019; A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at The Week, Huffington Post, Nylon, and Lit Hub; An Indie Next Pick for January 2019“Ghost Wall has subtlety, wit, and the force of a rock to the head: an instant classic.” —Emma Donoghue, author of Room"A worthy match for 3 a.m. disquiet, a book that evoked existential dread, but contained it, beautifully, like a shipwreck in a bottle.” —Margaret Talbot, The New YorkerA taut, gripping tale of a young woman and an Iron Age re... + Read More
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Series: One Simple Thing A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life Hardcover Eddie Stern 9780865478398 $34.00 HEALTH & FITNESS Mar 12, 2019

Yoga was created as a science for liberation, but in modern times it is used by many to improve physical and mental health, helping us become more productive at work, more caring in relationships, more responsible contributors to society, and better inhabitants of this planet. If yoga does accomplish all that—as many practitioners report—how exactly does yoga do it? How does yoga work? Believe it or not, the answers lie in how the human body and mind function. Eddie Stern’s One Simple Thing: A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Tran... + Read More
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Series: The Unnamable Present Hardcover Roberto Calasso 9780374279479 $34.00 HISTORY Apr 09, 2019

A decisive key to help grasp some of the essential points of what is happening around us. The ninth part of Roberto Calasso’s masterwork, The Unnamable Present, is closely connected with themes of the first book, The Ruin of Kasch (originally published in 1983, and reissued by FSG in a new translation). But while Kasch is an enlightened exploration of modernity, The Unnamable Present propels us into the twenty first century.Tourists, terrorists, secularists, fundamentalists, hackers, transhumanists, algorithmicians: these are all tribes that in... + Read More
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Series: Territory of Light A Novel Hardcover Yuko Tsushima 9780374273217 $31.50 FICTION Feb 12, 2019

From one of the most significant contemporary Japanese writers, a haunting, dazzling novel of loss and rebirth“Yuko Tsushima is one of the most important Japanese writers of her generation.” —Foumiko Kometani, The New York Times I was puzzled by how I had changed. But I could no longer go back . . . It is spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year, as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone. Her new home is filled with light stre... + Read More
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Series: How to Hide an Empire A History of the Greater United States Hardcover Daniel Immerwahr 9780374172145 $39.00 HISTORY Feb 19, 2019

Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago TribuneA Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff PickA pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empireWe are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories—the islands, atolls, and archipelagos—this country has governed and inhabited?In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Imme... + Read More
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Series: What We Did A Novel Hardcover Christobel Kent 9780374288754 $0.01 FICTION Feb 05, 2019

Something happened, she didn't know what, something spun, the world turning, back, back, too fast. She would be sick. Bridget put out a hand to steady herself against the wall. Bridget has a secret-one she keeps from everyone, even her husband. One that threatens to explode when her childhood music teacher, Carmichael, walks into her dress shop. With him is a young girl on the cusp of adulthood, fresh-faced and pretty. She reminds Bridget of herself at that age, naïve and vulnerable. Bridget wants him away-away from her, away from that gi... + Read More
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Series: My Glorious Defeats Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir Hardcover Barrett Brown 9780374217013 $39.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 10, 2023

Barrett Brown went to prison for four years for leaking intelligence documents. He was released to Trump’s America. My Glorious Defeats is his story. After a series of escapades both online and off that brought him in and out of 4chan forums, the halls of power, heroin, and federal prison, Barrett Brown is a free man. Brown was arrested for his part in an attempt to catalog, interpret, and disseminate top-secret documents exposed in a security lapse by the intelligence contractor Stratfor in 2011. An influential journalist and active in the hac... + Read More
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Series: Death Is Hard Work A Novel Hardcover Khaled Khalifa 9780374135737 $32.50 FICTION Feb 12, 2019

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREA dogged, absurd quest through the nightmare of the Syrian civil warKhaled Khalifa’s Death Is Hard Work is the new novel from the greatest chronicler of Syria’s ongoing and catastrophic civil war: a tale of three ordinary people facing down the stuff of nightmares armed with little more than simple determination.Abdel Latif, an old man from the Aleppo region, dies peacefully in a hospital bed in Damascus. His final wish, conveyed to his youngest son, Bolbol, is to be buried in the fa... + Read More
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Series: The Made-Up Man A Novel Hardcover Joseph Scapellato 9780374200077 $34.00 FICTION Feb 05, 2019

"Scapellato's blend of existential noir, absurdist humor, literary fiction, and surreal exploration of performance art merges into something special. . . . The Made-Up Man is a rare novel that is simultaneously smart and entertaining." —Gabino Iglesias, NPRStanley had known it was a mistake to accept his uncle Lech’s offer to apartment-sit in Prague—he’d known it was one of Lech’s proposals, a thinly veiled setup for some invasive, potentially dangerous performance art project. But whatever Lech had planned for Stanley, it would get him to Prag... + Read More
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Series: Oblivion Banjo The Poetry of Charles Wright Hardcover Charles Wright 9780374251017 $68.00 POETRY Nov 05, 2019

The selected works of one of our finest American poetsThe thread that dangles usbetween a dark and a darker dark,Is luminous, sure, but smooth sided.Don’t touch it here, and don’t touch it there.Don’t touch it, in fact, anywhere—Let it dangle and hold us hard, let it flash and swing.—from “Scar Tissue”Over the course of his work—more than twenty books in total—Charles Wright has built “one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century” (David Young,Contemporary Poets).Oblivion Banjo, a capacious n... + Read More
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Series: Nobody's Looking at You Essays Hardcover Janet Malcolm 9780374279493 $35.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Feb 19, 2019

ANew York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. A 2019 NPR Staff Pick."Malcolm is always worth reading; it can be instructive to see how much satisfying craft she brings to even the most trivial article." --Phillip Lopate,TLSJanet Malcolm’s previous collection,Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers, was “unmistakably the work of a master” (The New York Times Book Review). LikeForty-One False Starts,Nobody’s Looking at You brings together previously uncompiled pieces, mainly fromThe New YorkerandThe New York Review of Books.The title... + Read More
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Series: The Peacock Feast A Novel Hardcover Lisa Gornick 9780374230548 $34.00 FICTION Feb 05, 2019

From “one of the most perceptive, compassionate writers of fiction in America...immensely talented and brave” (Michael Schaub, NPR), a historical saga about love, class, and the past we never escape.The Peacock Feast opens on a June day in 1916 when Louis C. Tiffany, the eccentric glass genius, dynamites the breakwater at Laurelton Hall—his fantastical Oyster Bay mansion, with columns capped by brilliant ceramic blossoms and a smokestack hidden in a blue-banded minaret—so as to foil the town from reclaiming the beach for public use. The explosi... + Read More
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Series: A Piece of Good News Poems Hardcover Katie Peterson 9780374232795 $30.00 POETRY Feb 26, 2019

A rich and challenging new collection from the young award-winning poetIn those days I began to see light under everybushel basket, light nearly splittingthe sides of the bushel basket. Light camethrough the rafters of the dairy where the gracklescongregated like well-taxed citizensuntransfigured even by hope. Understand I was the oneunderneath the basket. I was certain I had nothing to say.When I grew restless in the interior,the exterior gave.Dense, rich, and challenging, Katie Peterson’sA Piece of Good News explores interior and exterior lan... + Read More
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Series: Instructions for a Funeral Stories Hardcover David Means 9780374279813 $32.50 FICTION Mar 05, 2019

"Poetic, insightful, and deeply moving. David Means is one of my very favorite writers." —Tara Westover, author ofEducatedFollowing the publication of his widely acclaimed, Man Booker-nominated novelHystopia, David Means here returns to his signature form: the short story. Thanks to his four previous story collections, Means has won himself an international reputation as one of the most innovative short fiction writers working today: an “established master of the form.” (Laura Miller,The Guardian).Instructions for a Funeral—featuring work fromT... + Read More
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Series: I'm Writing You from Tehran A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Past and Their Country's Future Hardcover Delphine Minoui 9780374175221 $35.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 02, 2019

A lucid, moving view into an often obscured part of our world, exploring notions of democracy, identity, and the resilience of the human spiritIn the wake of losing her beloved grandfather, Delphine Minoui decided to visit Iran for the first time since the revolution. It was 1998. She was twenty-two and a freshly minted journalist. She would stay for ten years.Quickly absorbed into the everyday life of the city, Minoui attends secret dance parties that are raided by the morality police and dines in the home of a young couple active in the Basij... + Read More
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Series: Far Country Scenes from American Culture Hardcover Franco Moretti 9780374272708 $30.00 LITERARY CRITICISM Mar 19, 2019

The influential and controversial critic takes literary history out of the classroom and into the publicIn the field of literary history and theory, Franco Moretti is synonymous with innovation. The cofounder of the Stanford Literary Lab, he brought quantitative methods into the study of the novel, enabling a “distant” reading that uses computation to analyze literary production over centuries. But at the same time, he was also teaching undergraduates the history of literature. Knowing Moretti, it’s no surprise that he didn’t teach the course t... + Read More
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Series: Pagan Light Dreams of Freedom and Beauty in Capri Hardcover Jamie James 9780374142766 $36.50 TRAVEL Mar 19, 2019

ANew York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice"Pagan Light is mesmerizing. Every detail is compelling. I felt I was reading a family history of a family far more interesting than mine." --Edmund White, author ofOur Young ManA rich, intimate embrace of Capri, which was a magnet for artistic renegades and a place of erotic refugeIsolated and arrestingly beautiful, the island of Capri has been a refuge for renegade artists and writers fleeing the strictures of conventional society from the time of Augustus, who bought the island in 29 BC after defeati... + Read More
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Series: The Twice-Born Life and Death on the Ganges Hardcover Aatish Taseer 9780374279608 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 05, 2019

InThe Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where ancient customs collide with the contemporary politics of revivalism and revengeWhen Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism, he was eighteen, the Westernized child of an Indian journalist and a Pakistani politician, raised among the intellectual and cultural elite of New Delhi. Nearly two decades later, Taseer leaves his life in Manhattan to go in search of the Brahmins... + Read More
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Series: A Desert Harvest New and Selected Essays Hardcover Bruce Berger 9780374220570 $34.00 NATURE Mar 12, 2019

A career-spanning collection of Bruce Berger’s beautiful, subtle, and spiky essays on the American desertOccupying a space between traditional nature writing, memoir, journalism, and prose poetry, Bruce Berger’s essays are beautiful, subtle, and haunting meditations on the landscape and culture of the American Southwest. Combining new, unpublished essays with selections from his acclaimed trilogy of “desert books”—The Telling Distance, There Was a River, and Almost an Island—A Desert Harvest is a career-spanning selection of the best work by th... + Read More
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Series: The Light Years A Memoir Hardcover Chris Rush 9780374294410 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 02, 2019

Lambda Literary Award Finalist | A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceNamed a best book of 2019 by ParadeThe Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American history"This stunningly beautiful, original memoir is driven by a search for the divine, a quest that leads Rush into some dangerous places . . . The Light Years is funny, harrowing, and deeply tender." —Kate Tuttle, The L.A. Times"Rush is a fantastically vivid writer, whether he’s remembering a New Jersey of 'meatballs ... + Read More
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Series: Thomas and Beal in the Midi A Novel Hardcover Christopher Tilghman 9780374276522 $35.00 FICTION Apr 16, 2019

A young interracial couple escapes from Maryland to France in 1892, living first among artists in the vibrant Latin Quarter of Paris, and then beginning a new life as winemakers in the rugged countryside of the LanguedocTwenty-three years after the publication of his acclaimed novelMason’s Retreat and six years afterThe Right-Hand Shore, Christopher Tilghman returns to the saga of the Mason and Bayly families inThomas and Beal in the Midi.Thomas Bayly and his wife, Beal, have run away to France, escaping the laws and prejudices of post-Reconstr... + Read More
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Series: The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez A Border Story Hardcover Aaron Bobrow-Strain 9780374191979 $36.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 16, 2019

Winner of the 2020 Pacific Northwest Book Award | Winner of the 2020 Washington State Book Award | Named a 2019 Southwest Book of the Year | Shortlisted for the 2019 Brooklyn Public Library Literary PrizeWhat happens when an undocumented teen mother takes on the U.S. immigration system?When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta, Mexico, the nearby U.S. border was little more than a worn-down fence. Eight years later, Aida’s mother took her and her siblings to live in Douglas, Arizona. By then, the border had become one of the most heav... + Read More
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Series: Mr. Straight Arrow The Career of John Hersey, Author of Hiroshima Hardcover Jeremy Treglown 9780374280260 $36.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 23, 2019

Few are the books with as immediate an impact and as enduring a legacy as John Hersey's Hiroshima . First published as an entire issue of The New Yorker in 1946, it was serialized in newspapers the world over and has never gone out of print. By conveying plainly the experiences of six survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing and its aftermath, Hersey brought to light the magnitude of nuclear war. And in his adoption of novelistic techniques, he prefigured the conventions of New Journalism. But how did Hersey-who was not Japanese, not an eyewitne... + Read More