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Series: She Lies in Wait A Novel Hardcover Gytha Lodge 9781984817358 $36.00 FICTION Jan 08, 2019

Six friends. One killer. Who do you trust? A teen girl goes missing after a night of partying; thirty years later, the discovery of her body reopens a cold case in a gripping thriller for readers of Tana French, The Woman in Cabin 10, and the Lynley series.If you go down to the woods today…On a scorching July night in 1983, a group of teenagers goes camping in the forest. Bright and brilliant, they are destined for great things, and the youngest of the group—Aurora Jackson—is delighted to be allowed to tag along. The evening starts like any oth... + Read More
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Series: That Churchill Woman A Novel Hardcover Stephanie Barron 9781524799564 $37.00 FICTION Jan 29, 2019

The Paris Wife meets PBS’s Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of history’s most remarkable women: Winston Churchill’s scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome.Wealthy, privileged, and fiercely independent New Yorker Jennie Jerome took Victorian England by storm when she landed on its shores. As Lady Randolph Churchill, she gave birth to a man who defined the twentieth century: her son Winston. But Jennie—reared in the luxury of Gilded Age Newport and the Paris of the Second Empire—lived an outrageously modern life ... + Read More
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Series: Reproduction Hardcover Ian Williams 9780735274051 $35.00 FICTION Jan 22, 2019

A hilarious, surprising and poignant love story about the way families are invented, told with the savvy of a Zadie Smith and with an inventiveness all Ian Williams’ own, Reproduction bangs lives together in a polyglot suburb of Toronto.Felicia and Edgar meet as their mothers are dying. Felicia, a teen from an island nation, and Edgar, the lazy heir of a wealthy German family, come together only because their mothers share a hospital room. When Felicia’s mother dies and Edgar’s “Mutter” does not, Felicia drops out of high school and takes a job... + Read More
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Series: We Cast a Shadow A Novel Hardcover Maurice Carlos Ruffin 9780525509066 $36.00 FICTION Jan 29, 2019

A bold, provocative debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, about a father’s obsessive quest to protect his son—even if it means turning him white.“You can be beautiful, even more beautiful than before.” This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga’s Clinic, where anyone can get their lips thinned, their skin bleached, and their noses narrowed. A complete demelanization will liberate you from the confines of being born in a black body—if you can afford it.In this near-future Southern city plagued by fenced-in ghettos and police ... + Read More
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Series: The Plotters A Novel Paperback Un-su Kim 9780735276765 $24.95 FICTION Jan 29, 2019

A fantastical crime novel set in an alternate Seoul where assassination guilds compete for market dominance, for fans of Han Kang, Patrick DeWitt and Kill Bill.Reseng is an assassin, and behind every assassination, there is an anonymous mastermind—a plotter—working in the shadows. Raised by a philosophical and cantankerous killer named Old Raccoon in his crime headquarters, The Library, Reseng has always been surrounded by plots—and by books that no one ever reads. But, when Reseng steps out of line on a job, he risks his future. And when he un... + Read More
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Series: DARK STAR TRILOGY, THE Black Leopard, Red Wolf Hardcover Marlon James 9780385690324 $36.50 FICTION Feb 05, 2019

The epic new novel from Marlon James, the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings:an African Game of Thrones.In the first novel in Marlon James’ Dark Star trilogy, African myth, fantasy and history come together in the story of a band of mercenaries hired to find a missing child.Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: “He has a nose,” people say. Engaged by a mysterious slave trader to track down a boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he ... + Read More
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Series: Finding Dorothy A Novel Hardcover Elizabeth Letts 9780525622109 $37.00 FICTION Feb 12, 2019

A richly imagined novel that tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum’s intrepid wife, Maud—from the family’s hardscrabble days in South Dakota to the Hollywood film set where she first meets Judy Garland.Maud Gage Baum, widow of the author of the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, met Judy Garland, the young actress playing the role of Dorothy on the set of The Wizard of Oz in 1939. At the time, Maud was seventy-eight and Judy was sixteen. In spite of thei... + Read More
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Series: Into That Fire Paperback M. J. Cates 9780735273764 $24.95 FICTION Feb 19, 2019

Fans of Ian McEwan and Paula McLain will fall for this absorbing novel about love and madness, the toll of the First World War and family secrets, and an extraordinary woman’s struggle to succeed in a man’s world.Imogen is going to hurt Quentin, and she can’t bear it. He has been her only friend and confidant during her time at medical school in Chicago, but he wants more than friendship and she doesn’t. Unlike most well-brought-up young women in 1916, Imogen does not want to be a wife—she wants to become one of the country’s first female psych... + Read More
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Series: WOMEN'S WAR, THE The Women's War Hardcover Jenna Glass 9781984817204 $37.00 FICTION Mar 05, 2019

In a thrilling feminist fantasy epic, a revolutionary spell gives women the ability to control their own fertility—with consequences that rock their patriarchal society to its core.When a nobleman’s first duty is to produce a male heir, women have always been treated like possessions and bargaining chips. But now, as the aftereffects of this world-altering spell ripple out, women at last have a bargaining chip of their own. Alys is the widowed mother of two teenage children, and the disinherited daughter of a king. Her existence has been carefu... + Read More
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Series: Daisy Jones & The Six A Novel Paperback Taylor Jenkins Reid 9780385692175 $24.95 FICTION Mar 05, 2019

A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of a world-famous 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer—and the secret reasons behind their dramatic break up.Daisy Jones is a beautiful, broken girl growing up in L.A. with rich parents who barely know she exists…. But when she sings in a crowded, smoky club, you can hear a pin drop. All she wants is to write her own songs, but the record studio has its own ideas. It’s the early 1970s and free love and drugs are everywhere, and Daisy wants to experience it all.Billy Dunne and his brother hav... + Read More
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Series: Oksana, Behave! A Novel Hardcover Maria Kuznetsova 9780525511878 $35.00 FICTION Mar 19, 2019

An irresistible debut that follows a Russian American girl’s bumpy path to adulthood as she longs for a homeland she never knew.When Oksana’s family begins their new American life in Florida after emigrating from Ukraine, her physicist father delivers pizza at night to make ends meet, her depressed mother sits home all day worrying, and her flamboyant grandmother relishes the attention she gets when she walks Oksana to school, not realizing that the street they’re walking down is know as “Prostitute Street.” Oksana just wants to have friends an... + Read More
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Series: The Old Drift A Novel Hardcover Namwali Serpell 9781101907146 $37.00 FICTION Mar 26, 2019

An electrifying debut from the winner of the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing, The Old Drift is the Great Zambian Novel you didn’t know you were waiting forOn the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the epic story of a small African nation, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis. The tale? A playful panorama of history, fairytale, romance and science fiction. The moral? To err is human.In 1904... + Read More
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Series: Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss Paperback Rajeev Balasubramanyam 9781784742546 $25.00 FICTION Mar 26, 2019

Follow the eccentric, cantankerous, utterly charming Professor Chandra as he tries to answer the biggest question of all: What makes us happy? “Searingly funny, uplifting, and wonderful…Professor Chandra is as unbending a curmudgeon as one could wish to find scowling from the pages of a novel.”—Helen Simonson, New York Times bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand and The Summer Before the War Professor Chandra is an internationally renowned economist, divorced father of three (quite frankly baffling) children, recent victim of a bic... + Read More
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Series: Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss Hardcover Rajeev Balasubramanyam 9781784742539 $34.00 FICTION Mar 26, 2019

Follow the eccentric, cantankerous, utterly charming Professor Chandra as he tries to answer the biggest question of all: What makes us happy? “Searingly funny, uplifting, and wonderful…Professor Chandra is as unbending a curmudgeon as one could wish to find scowling from the pages of a novel.”—Helen Simonson, New York Times bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand and The Summer Before the War Professor Chandra is an internationally renowned economist, divorced father of three (quite frankly baffling) children, recent victim of a bic... + Read More
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Series: Normal People A Novel Hardcover Sally Rooney 9780735276475 $29.95 FICTION Apr 16, 2019

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE: A wondrously wise, genuinely unputdownable new novel from Sally Rooney, winner of the 2017 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award (at 26, tied with Zadie Smith for the youngest-ever recipient)—the quintessential coming-of-age love story for our time.Connell Waldron is one of the most popular boys in his small-town high school—he is a star of the football team, an excellent student, and never wanting for attention from girls. The one thing he doesn’t have is money. Marianne Sheridan, a classmate of Conne... + Read More
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Series: Wunderland A Novel Hardcover Jennifer Cody Epstein 9780525576907 $36.00 FICTION Apr 23, 2019

An intimate portrait of a friendship severed by history, and a sweeping saga of wartime, motherhood, and legacy by an award-winning novelistIt’s 1989 in New York City and Ava Fischer is a mess: she’s broke, her teenage daughter is barely speaking to her, and her estranged mother’s ashes have just arrived from Germany by mail. Things were never easy between Ava and her mother, Ilse. Throughout Ava’s childhood in Germany, first in an orphanage after WWII and then in Ilse’s care, too many unspoken secrets hovered between them: Who was Ava’s father... + Read More
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Series: Children of the Moon Hardcover Anthony De Sa 9780385685979 $32.95 FICTION May 07, 2019

From celebrated author Anthony De Sa comes a raw and compelling novel of love, war and the heartbreaking effects of memory.“’You must listen to my words. You must promise to tell my story the way I have shared it with you.’”Tanzania, 1956. A Maasai woman gives birth to a child with albinism. The child is seen as a curse upon her tribe, and so begins Pó’s tumultuous story. As Pó navigates the world, she must claim her life in the face of violence and ostracism.Further south, in Portuguese-controlled Mozambique, Ezequiel struggles for acceptance ... + Read More
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Series: The Red Daughter A Novel Hardcover John Burnham Schwartz 9781400068463 $35.00 FICTION Apr 30, 2019

Running from her father’s brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin’s daughter defects to the United States against the turbulence of the 1960s: The Red Daughter is a sweeping historical novel and unexpected love story inspired by the remarkable life of Svetlana Alliluyeva.In one of the most momentous events of the Cold War, Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of the infamous Soviet despot, abruptly abandoned her life in Moscow in 1967, arriving in New York to throngs of reporters and a nation hungry to hear her story. By her side is Peter Horvath, a you... + Read More
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Series: The Farm A Novel Paperback Joanne Ramos 9780385693219 $24.95 FICTION May 07, 2019

A riveting debut novel about four very different women whose lives intersect at a high-end facility where surrogate mothers for the uber wealthy live for the duration of their pregnancies.Welcome to Golden Oaks, the next big thing in the fertility economy. Backed by a multibillion-dollar conglomerate, “The Farm” is fitted with every amenity for the surrogates who have come to bring the babies of the very rich to term: doctors, nutritionists, fitness instructors and coordinators who monitor every detail of their day-to-day existence. In return, ... + Read More
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Series: Bina A Novel in Warnings Hardcover Anakana Schofield 9780735273214 $29.95 FICTION May 14, 2019

The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed writer whose previous book, Martin John, was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, and whose debut, Malarky, won the Amazon First Novel Award.“My name is Bina and I’m a very busy woman. That’s Bye-na, not Beena. I don’t know who Beena is but I expect she’s having a happy life. I don’t know who you are, or the state of your life. But if you’ve come all this way here to listen to me, your life will undoubtedly get worse. I’m here to warn you…”So begins this “novel in warnings”—an unforgettable tour de fo... + Read More
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Series: A Mind Spread Out on the Ground Hardcover Alicia Elliott 9780385692380 $25.00 HISTORY Mar 26, 2019

A bold and profound work by Haudenosaunee writer Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground is a personal and critical meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America. In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight and understanding to the ongoing legacy of colonialism. What are the links between depression, coloni... + Read More
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Series: To Stop a Warlord My Story of Justice, Grace, and the Fight for Peace Hardcover Shannon Sedgwick Davis 9780812995923 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 02, 2019

One woman’s inspiring true story of an unlikely alliance to stop the atrocities of a warlord, proving that there is no limit to what we can do, even in the face of unspeakable injustice and impossible odds.Late one night in the summer of 2010, Shannon Sedgwick Davis, a lawyer, human rights advocate, and Texas mom to two young boys, first met the Ugandan general to discuss an unconventional plan to stop Joseph Kony, a murderous warlord who’d terrorized communities in four countries across Central and East Africa.For twenty-five years, Kony and h... + Read More
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Series: A Sin by Any Other Name Reckoning with Racism and the Heritage of the South Hardcover Robert W. Lee 9780525576389 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 02, 2019

A direct descendant of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee chronicles his story of growing up with the South’s most honored name, and confronts the privilege, racism, and subversion of the Gospel that came with it.The Reverend Robert W. Lee was a little-known associate rector at a church in North Carolina until the Charlottesville protests, when he went public with his denunciation of white supremacy. His riveting speech at the 2017 MTV Awards got him appearances on All Things Considered and The View. But as the adulation poured in, so did th... + Read More
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Series: La Passione How Italy Seduced the World Hardcover Dianne Hales 9780451499165 $35.00 HISTORY Apr 16, 2019

A charming narrative and “pop historical” look into how Italy has shaped the Western world’s most vibrant passions, from literature to love, music to art, food to wine.What makes Italian passion so undeniably unique? Dianne Hales unspools the answer to this question with gusto in La Passione: How Italy Seduced the World, her ambitious follow-up to La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World’s Most Enchanting Language. Whether they built aqueducts, chiseled arches, conducted choirs, directed movies, raced cars, or designed fashion an... + Read More
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Series: The Fate of Food What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World Hardcover Amanda Little 9780804189033 $36.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 04, 2019

In this fascinating look at the race to secure the global food supply, environmental journalist and professor Amanda Little tells the defining story of the sustainable food revolution as she weaves together stories from the world’s most creative and controversial innovators on the front lines of food science, agriculture, and climate change.Climate models show that global crop production will decline every decade for the rest of this century due to drought, heat, and flooding. Water supplies are in jeopardy. Meanwhile, the world’s population is... + Read More