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1.
Endeavour The Ship That Changed the World Hardcover Peter Moore 9780374148416 $36.50 HISTORY May 14, 2019

"An immense treasure trove of fact-filled and highly readable fun.” --Simon Winchester, The New York Times Book ReviewA Sunday Times (U.K.) Best Book of 2018 and Winner of the Mary Soames Award for HistoryAn unprecedented history of the storied ship that Darwin said helped add a hemisphere to the civilized worldThe Enlightenment was an age of endeavors, with Britain consumed by the impulse for grand projects undertaken at speed. Endeavour was also the name given to a collier bought by the Royal Navy in 1768. It was a commonplace coal-carrying v... + Read More
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The Organs of Sense A Novel Hardcover Adam Ehrlich Sachs 9780374227371 $34.00 FICTION May 21, 2019

"This book is only for people who like joy, absurdity, passion, genius, dry wit, youthful folly, amusing historical arcana, or telescopes." —Rivka Galchen, author ofLittle LaborsandAmerican InnovationsIn 1666, an astronomer makes a prediction shared by no one else in the world: at the stroke of noon on June 30 of that year, a solar eclipse will cast all of Europe into total darkness for four seconds. This astronomer is rumored to be using the longest telescope ever built, but he is also known to be blind—and not only blind, but incapable of sig... + Read More
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Mr. Know-It-All The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder Hardcover John Waters 9780374214968 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 21, 2019

No one knows more about everything—especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling—than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Hairspray, Cry-Baby, and A Dirty Shame, is one of the world’s great sophisticates, and in Mr. Know-It-All he serves it up raw: how to fail upward in Hollywood; how to develop musical taste, from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas; how to build a home so ugly and trendy that no one but you would dare live in it; more important, ho... + Read More
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The Sun on My Head Stories Hardcover Geovani Martins 9780374223779 $30.00 FICTION Jun 11, 2019

A bestselling literary sensation in Brazil, a powerful debut short-story collection about favela life in Rio de JaneiroInThe Sun on My Head, Geovani Martins recounts the experiences of boys growing up in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the early years of the twenty-first century. Drawing on his childhood and adolescence, Martins uses the rhythms and slang of his neighborhood dialect to capture the texture of life in the slums, where every day is shadowed by a ubiquitous drug culture, the constant threat of the police, and the confines of pover... + Read More
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The Unpassing A Novel Hardcover Chia-Chia Lin 9780374279363 $34.00 FICTION May 07, 2019

Finalist for the 2019 NBCC John Leonard Prize for Best First Book.Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. One ofEntertainment Weekly's 10 Best Debut Novels of 2019.Named one of the Best Books of 2019 byTIME,The Washington Post, andEsquire.ANew York Times Book Review Editors' Choice."A singularly vast and captivating novel . . . What makes Lin’s novel such an important book is the extent to which it probes America’s mythmaking about itself." --The New York Times Book ReviewA searing debut novel that explores community, identi... + Read More
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The History of Living Forever A Novel Hardcover Jake Wolff 9780374170660 $36.50 FICTION Jun 11, 2019

A chemistry student falls for his teacher and uncovers a centuries-old quest for the elixir of lifeThe morning after the death of his first love, Conrad Aybinder receives a bequest. Sammy Tampari was Conrad’s lover. He was his teacher. And, it turns out, he was not just a chemist, but analchemist, searching for a mythic elixir of life. Sammy’s death was sudden, yet he somehow managed to leave twenty years’ worth of his notebooks and a storage locker full of expensive, sometimes baffling equipment in the hands of his star student. The notebooks ... + Read More
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Roughhouse Friday A Memoir Hardcover Jaed Coffin 9780374251956 $36.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 18, 2019

A beautifully crafted memoir about fathers and sons, masculinity, and the lengths we sometimes go to in order to confront our past"[A] lucidly written memoir . . . Coffin’s triumph lies in ridding the language of his father, a language that compelled him to dwell in a house he did not recognize." —Matthew Janney, The Los Angeles Review of BooksWhile lifting weights in the Seldon Jackson College gymnasium on a rainy autumn night, Jaed Coffin heard the distinctive whacking sound of sparring boxers down the hall. A year out of college, he had been... + Read More
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Out of the Shadows Reimagining Gay Men's Lives Hardcover Walt Odets 9780374285852 $40.75 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 04, 2019

A moving exploration of how gay men construct their identities, fight to be themselves, and live authenticallyIt goes without saying that even today, it’s not easy to be gay in America. While young gay men often come out more readily, even those from the most progressive of backgrounds still struggle with the legacy of early-life stigma and a deficit of self-acceptance, which can fuel doubt, regret, and, at worst, self-loathing. And this is to say nothing of the ongoing trauma wrought by AIDS, which is all too often relegated to history. Drawin... + Read More
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Mosses and Lichens Poems Hardcover Devin Johnston 9780374213497 $30.00 POETRY May 07, 2019

A new collection from the author of TravelerNot days of angerbut days of mild congestion,infants of inconstant sorrow,days of foam in gutters,blossoms and snowmingling where they fall,a spring of cold profusion.If a rolling stone gathers no moss, the poems in Devin Johnston’s Mosses and Lichens attend to what accretes over time, as well as to what erodes. They often take place in the middle of life’s journey, at the edge of the woods, at the boundary between human community and wild spaces. Following Ovid, they are poems of subtle transformatio... + Read More
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Stay and Fight A Novel Hardcover Madeline ffitch 9780374268121 $36.50 FICTION Jul 09, 2019

"LikeBastard Out of Carolina, ffitch's electrifying debut novel isa paean to independence and a protest against the materialism of our age." —O: The Oprah Magazine"Delightfully raucous." —Sam Sacks,The Wall Street JournalHelen arrives in Appalachian Ohio full of love and her boyfriend’s ideas for living off the land. Too soon, with winter coming, he calls it quits. Helped by Rudy—her government-questioning, wisdom-spouting, seasonal-affective-disordered boss—and a neighbor couple, Helen makes it to spring. Those neighbors, Karen and Lily, are a... + Read More
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The Weil Conjectures On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown Hardcover Karen Olsson 9780374287610 $34.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 16, 2019

A New York Times Editors' Pick and Paris Review Staff Pick"A wonderful book." --Patti Smith"I was riveted. Olsson is evocative on curiosity as an appetite of the mind, on the pleasure of glutting oneself on knowledge." --Parul Sehgal, The New York TimesAn eloquent blend of memoir and biography exploring the Weil siblings, math, and creative inspirationKaren Olsson’s stirring and unusual third book, The Weil Conjectures, tells the story of the brilliant Weil siblings—Simone, a philosopher, mystic, and social activist, and AndrÃ©, an influential ... + Read More
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One Lark, One Horse Poems Hardcover Michael Hofmann 9780374226596 $31.50 POETRY Jul 16, 2019

A new collection of poems by Michael Hofmann—his first in twenty yearsMichael Hofmann, renowned as one of our most brilliant critics and translators, is also regarded as among our most respected poets. Hofmann’s status—he is the author of “one of the definitive bodies of work of the last half-century" (The Times Literary Supplement)—is all the more impressive for his relatively concentrated output. One Lark, One Horse is his fifth collection of poems since his debut in 1983, and his first since Approximately Nowhere in 1999. Tt is also one of t... + Read More
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Jacob's Ladder A Novel Hardcover Ludmila Ulitskaya 9780374293659 $47.50 FICTION Jul 09, 2019

One of Russia’s most renowned literary figures and a Man Booker International Prize nominee, Ludmila Ulitskaya presents what may be her final novel. Jacob’s Ladder is a family saga spanning a century of recent Russian history—and represents the summation of the author’s career, devoted to sharing the absurd and tragic tales of twentieth-century life in her nation. Jumping between the diaries and letters of Jacob Ossetsky in Kiev in the early 1900s and the experiences of his granddaughter Nora in the theatrical world of Moscow in the 1970s and b... + Read More
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The Catholic School A Novel Hardcover Edoardo Albinati 9780374119256 $54.50 FICTION Aug 13, 2019

A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacreEdoardo Albinati’s The Catholic School, the winner of Italy’s most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy.Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and captivated the country, exposing the violen... + Read More
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Degrade and Destroy The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State--from Barack Obama to Donald Trump Hardcover Michael R. Gordon 9780374279899 $40.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 14, 2022

In 2014, President Obama overcame his long-standing aversion to large-scale military action in the Middle East and took the United States to war against the Islamic State. Assembling a coalition of regional and European allies, the U.S. military began a massive bombing campaign and returned its advisers to Iraq. Three years later, the Islamic State's self-declared caliphate straddling the Syria-Iraq border was apparently on the brink of collapse, as its key strongholds of Mosul and Raqqa fell to U.S.-supported forces. But was the war really ove... + Read More
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gods with a little g A Novel Hardcover Tupelo Hassman 9780374164461 $36.50 FICTION Aug 13, 2019

"Triumphant . . . as heartwarming as it is beautifully written." —Michael Schaub, NPRFrom the acclaimed author ofGirlchild, this gritty, irreverent novel sees a young misfit grow into hopeUnsinkable and wrecked by grief, motherless and aimless and looking for connection, Helen Dedleder is a girl with a gift she doesn't want to use and a pack of friends who are all just helping each other get by.So cut off from the rest of the world that even the internet is blocked (never mind traffic in and out), Rosary, California, is run by evangelicals but ... + Read More
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Coventry Essays Hardcover Rachel Cusk 9780374126773 $35.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 17, 2019

NPR's Favorite Books of 2019Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. Now, inCoventry, she gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling criti... + Read More
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Valerie or, The Faculty of Dreams: A Novel Hardcover Sara Stridsberg 9780374151911 $36.50 FICTION Aug 06, 2019

A fever dream of a novel—strangely funny, entirely unconventional—Valerieconjures the life, mind, and art of American firebrand Valerie SolanasIn April 1988, Valerie Solanas—the writer, radical feminist, author of theSCUM Manifesto and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol—was discovered dead at fifty-two in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco, alone, penniless, and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings.InValerie, a nameless narrator revisits the room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of ... + Read More
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And How Are You, Dr. Sacks? A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks Hardcover Lawrence Weschler 9780374236410 $38.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 13, 2019

The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patient"[An] engrossing biographical memoir. This is Sacks at full blast: on endless ward rounds, observing his post-encephalitic patients . . . exulting over horseshoe crabs and chunks of Iceland spar." —Barbara Kiser,NatureThe author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for his own new employer,The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpieceAwakenings—the account of his ... + Read More
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Learning from the Germans Race and the Memory of Evil Hardcover Susan Neiman 9780374184469 $39.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 27, 2019

As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classicEvil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the pastIn the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Susan Neiman’sLearning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdo... + Read More
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This Land Is Our Land An Immigrant's Manifesto Hardcover Suketu Mehta 9780374276027 $36.50 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 04, 2019

A 2019 NPR Staff Pick“Written ‘in sorrow and anger,’ this is a brilliant and urgently necessary book, eloquently making the case against bigotry and for all of us migrants—what we are not, who we are, and why we deserve to be welcomed, not feared.” —Salman RushdieA timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrantsThere are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and controversy than immigration. But do we really understand it? InThis Land Is Our Land, the renowned author Suketu... + Read More
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When the Plums Are Ripe A Novel Hardcover Patrice Nganang 9780374288990 $38.00 FICTION Aug 13, 2019

The second volume in a magisterial trilogy, the story of Cameroon caught between empires during World War IIIn Cameroon, plum season is a highly anticipated time of year. But for the narrator ofWhen the Plums Are Ripe, the poet Pouka, the season reminds him of the “time when our country had discovered the root not so much of its own violence as that of the world’s own, and, in response, had thrown its sons who at that time were called Senegalese infantrymen into the desert, just as in the evenings the sellers throw all their still-unsold plums ... + Read More
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The Silver Swan In Search of Doris Duke Hardcover Sallie Bingham 9780374142599 $39.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 07, 2020

"Men who inherit great wealth are respected, but women who do the same are ridiculed. In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham rescues Doris Duke from this gendered prison and shows us just how brave, rebellious, and creative this unique woman really was, and how her generosity benefits us to this day.” —Gloria Steinem A bold portrait of Doris Duke, the defiant and notorious tobacco heiress who was perhaps the greatest modern woman philanthropistIn The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham chronicles one of the great underexplored lives of the twentieth centur... + Read More
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Brazil: A Biography Paperback Lilia M. Schwarcz 9780374538484 $34.00 HISTORY Apr 07, 2020

A sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the presentFor many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty; beautiful beaches and violence-torn favelas. Brazil occupies a vivid place in the American imagination, and yet it remains largely unknown. In an extraordinary journey that spans five hundred years, from European colonization to the 2016 Summer Olympics, Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa M. Starling’s Brazil offers a... + Read More
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The Disordered Mind What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves Paperback Eric R. Kandel 9780374538446 $24.00 SCIENCE Aug 13, 2019

A Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist’s probing investigation of what brain disorders can tell us about human natureEric R. Kandel, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his foundational research into memory storage in the brain, is one of the pioneers of modern brain science. His work continues to shape our understanding of how learning and memory work and to break down age-old barriers between the sciences and the arts.In his seminal new book, The Disordered Mind, Kandel draws on a lifetime of pathbreaking research and th... + Read More
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Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret Paperback Craig Brown 9780374538392 $24.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 21, 2019

“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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Carrying the Fire An Astronaut's Journeys: 50th Anniversary Edition Paperback Michael Collins 9780374537760 $25.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 16, 2019

Reissued with a new preface by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 journey to the moonThe years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing to alter the fundamental wonder of the event: man reaching the moon remains one of the great events—technical and spiritual—of our lifetime.In Carrying the Fire, Collins conveys, in a very personal way, the drama, beauty, and humor of that adventure. He also traces his development f... + Read More
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When Einstein Walked with Godel Excursions to the Edge of Thought Paperback Jim Holt 9780374538422 $25.00 SCIENCE May 14, 2019

From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with GÃ¶del: Excursions to the Edge of Thought.Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who’ve tried to encompass the latter with the former. With his trademark clarity and humor,... + Read More
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Miss Subways A Novel Paperback David Duchovny 9780374538378 $21.00 FICTION May 07, 2019

New York Times bestselling author David Duchovny reimagines the Irish mythological figure of Emer inMiss Subways, a darkly comic fantasy love story set in New York City.Emer is just a woman living in New York City who takes the subway, buys ice cream from the bodega on the corner, has writerly aspirations, and lives with her boyfriend, Con. But is this life she lives the only path she’s on? Taking inspiration from the myth of Emer and Cuchulain and featuring an all-star cast of mythical figures from all over the world, David Duchovny’s darkly f... + Read More
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The Electric Woman A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts Paperback Tessa Fontaine 9780374538408 $21.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 07, 2019

A New York Times Editors' Choice; A Southern Living Best Book of 2018; An Amazon Editors' Best Book of 2018; A Refinery29 Best Book of 2018; A New York Post Most Unforgettable Book of 2018"Fascinating." —Vogue“This is the story of a daughter and her mother. It’s also a memoir, a love story, and a tale of high-flying stunts . . . An adventure toward and through fear.” —Southern Living Tessa Fontaine’s astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery—through her... + Read More
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Adventures on the Wine Route A Wine Buyer's Tour of France (25th Anniversary Edition) Paperback Kermit Lynch 9780374538538 $27.00 COOKING May 07, 2019

The newly designed twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the classic volume, brought up-to-date.“Wine is, above all, about pleasure. Those who make it ponderous make it dull . . . If you keep an open mind and take each wine on its own terms, there is a world of magic to discover.” So wrote the renowned wine expert Kermit Lynch in the introduction to Adventures on the Wine Route, his ultimate tour of France, especially its wine cellars. The “magic” of wine is Lynch’s subject as he takes the reader on a singular journey through the Loire, Bordeaux,... + Read More
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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy or, How Capitalism Works - and How It Fails Paperback Yanis Varoufakis 9780374538491 $23.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS May 21, 2019

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionInTalking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and the author of the international bestsellerAdults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world economics.Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of nations, assemblies of experts, and countless students around the world. Now, he faces his most important—and difficult—audience yet. Using clear language and viv... + Read More
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Evolutions Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World Paperback Oren Harman 9780374538415 $22.00 SCIENCE Jun 18, 2019

A brilliant lyrical exploration of how modern science illuminates what it means to be human, from the award-winning author of The Price of AltruismWe no longer think, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing-apart of a love embrace. The Greeks told of a tempestuous Hera and a cunning Zeus, but we now use genes and natural selection to explain fear and desire, and physics to demystify the workings of the universe.Science is an astounding achievement, but are we really... + Read More
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Moonbound Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight Hardcover Jonathan Fetter-Vorm 9780374212452 $47.50 SCIENCE Jun 04, 2019

On a summer night in 1969, two men climbed down a ladder onto a sea of dust at the edge of an ancient dream. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on lunar soil, the moon ceased to be a place of mystery and myth. It became a destination.Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of that journey, Moonbound tells the monumental story of the moon and the men who went there first. With vibrant images and meticulous attention to detail, Jonathan Fetter-Vorm conjures the long history of the visionaries, stargazers, builders, and adventurers who se... + Read More
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Moonbound Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight Paperback Jonathan Fetter-Vorm 9780374537913 $26.99 SCIENCE Jun 04, 2019

On a summer night in 1969, two men climbed down a ladder onto a sea of dust at the edge of an ancient dream. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on lunar soil, the moon ceased to be a place of mystery and myth. It became a destination.Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of that journey, Moonbound tells the monumental story of the moon and the men who went there first. With vibrant images and meticulous attention to detail, Jonathan Fetter-Vorm conjures the long history of the visionaries, stargazers, builders, and adventurers who se... + Read More
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Amazing Decisions The Illustrated Guide to Improving Business Deals and Family Meals Paperback Dan Ariely 9780374536749 $24.50 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jul 23, 2019

Dan Ariely, theNew York Times bestselling author ofPredictably Irrational, and illustrator Matt R. Trower present a playful graphic novel guide to better decision-making, based on the author’s groundbreaking research in behavioral economics, neuroscience, and psychology.The internationally renowned author Dan Ariely is known for his incisive investigations into the messy business of decision-making. Now, inAmazing Decisions, his unique perspective—informed by behavioral economics, neuroscience, and psychology—comes alive in the graphic form. Th... + Read More
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Amazing Decisions The Illustrated Guide to Improving Business Deals and Family Meals Hardcover Dan Ariely 9780374103767 $47.50 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jul 23, 2019

Dan Ariely, the New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational, and illustrator Matt R. Trower present a playful graphic novel guide to better decision-making, based on the author’s groundbreaking research in behavioral economics, neuroscience, and psychology. The internationally renowned author Dan Ariely is known for his incisive investigations into the messy business of decision-making. Now, in Amazing Decisions, his unique perspective—informed by behavioral economics, neuroscience, and psychology—comes alive in the graphic form... + Read More
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Aug 9 - Fog Hardcover Kathryn Scanlan 9780374106874 $24.50 FICTION Jun 04, 2019

"The searing strokes of this book remind me of the infinitude inside every life." --Leslie JamisonParis ReviewStaff Pick, one ofChicago Tribune's 25 Hot Books of Summer, and one ofThe A.V. Club's 15 Most Anticipated Books of 2019A stark, elegiac account of unexpected pleasures and the progress of seasonsFifteen years ago, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger’s five-year diary at an estate auction in a small town in Illinois. The owner of the diary was eighty-six years old when she began recording the details of her life in the small book, a gift fr... + Read More
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This Is Not a T-Shirt A Brand, a Culture, a Community - a Life in Streetwear Hardcover Bobby Hundreds 9780374275792 $38.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 25, 2019

The story of The Hundreds and the precepts that made it an iconic streetwear brand by Bobby Hundreds himselfStreetwear occupies that rarefied space where genuine "cool" coexists with big business; where a star designer might work concurrently with Nike, a tattoo artist, Louis Vuitton, and a skateboard company. It’s the ubiquitous style of dress comprising hoodies, sneakers, and T-shirts. In the beginning, a few brands defined this style; fewer still survived as streetwear went mainstream. They are the OGs, the “heritage brands.” The Hundreds is... + Read More
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Losing Earth A Recent History Hardcover Nathaniel Rich 9780374191337 $32.50 SCIENCE Apr 09, 2019

By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change—including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. Losing Earth is their story, and ours.The New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to Nathaniel Rich’s groundbreaking chronicle of that decade, which became an instant journalistic phenomenon—the subject of news coverage, edit... + Read More
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My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You An Introduction Hardcover Aleksandar Hemon 9780374217433 $36.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 11, 2019

Two books in one in a flip dos-Ã -dos format: The story of Aleksandar Hemon’s parents’ immigration from Sarajevo to Canada and a book of short memories of the author’s family, friends, and childhood in SarajevoInMy Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents’ immigration to Canada—of the lives that were upended by the war in Bosnia and siege of Sarajevo and the new lives his parents were forced to build. As ever with his work, he portrays both the perfect, intimate details (his mother’s lonely upbringing, his father’s fanatical bee... + Read More
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Tears of the Trufflepig A Novel Paperback Fernando A. Flores 9780374538330 $23.00 FICTION May 14, 2019

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE. One of Tor.com's Best Books of 2019."Readers of this breakout work [will leave] thrilled and disoriented in equal measure." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street JournalOne of The Daily Beast's Best Summer Beach Reads of 2019, one of Lit Hub and The Millions's Most Anticipated Books of 2019, one of Buzzfeed and Tor.com's Books to Read This Spring, and one of the Chicago Review of Books' Best New Books of MayA parallel universe. South Texas. A third border wall might be erected between the United S... + Read More
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Beowulf: A New Translation A New Translation Paperback Maria Dahvana Headley 9780374110031 $22.00 POETRY Aug 25, 2020

Named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by The GuardianLonglisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry. Picked for Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction in Translation of 2020. Named a Book of the Year by NPR, Vox, and The New Statesman. Picked for Loyalty Books’ Holiday List. A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere Wife"Brash and belligerent, lunatic and invigorating, with passages of sublime poetry punctuated by obscenities and social-media shorthand." —Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker... + Read More
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The Electric Hotel A Novel Hardcover Dominic Smith 9780374146856 $36.50 FICTION Jun 04, 2019

A sweeping work of historical fiction from the New York Times–bestselling author Dominic Smith, The Electric Hotel is a spellbinding story of art and love.For more than thirty years, Claude Ballard has been living at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel. A French pioneer of silent films who started out as a concession agent for the LumiÃ¨re brothers, the inventors of cinema, Claude now spends his days foraging for mushrooms in the hills of Los Angeles and taking photographs of runaways and the striplings along Sunset Boulevard. But when a film his... + Read More
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Flash Count Diary Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life Hardcover Darcey Steinke 9780374156114 $34.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 18, 2019

“Many days I believe menopause is the new (if long overdue) frontier for the most compelling and necessary philosophy; Darcey Steinke is already there, blazing the way. This elegant, wise, fascinating, deeply moving book is an instant classic. I’m about to buy it for everyone I know.” —Maggie Nelson, author ofThe ArgonautsA brave, brilliant, and unprecedented examination of menopauseMenopause hit Darcey Steinke hard. First came hot flashes. Then insomnia. Then depression. As she struggled to express what was happening to her, she came up agains... + Read More
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Dawson's Fall A Novel Hardcover Roxana Robinson 9780374135218 $35.00 FICTION May 14, 2019

A cinematic Reconstruction-era drama of violence and fraught moral reckoningIn Dawson’s Fall, a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinson’s great-grandparents, we see America at its most fragile, fraught, and malleable. Set in 1889, in Charleston, South Carolina, Robinson’s tale weaves her family’s journal entries and letters with a novelist’s narrative grace, and spans the life of her tragic hero, Frank Dawson, as he attempts to navigate the country’s new political, social, and moral landscape.Dawson, a man of fierce opinions, came to this c... + Read More
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Underbug An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology Paperback Lisa Margonelli 9780374538460 $22.00 SCIENCE Sep 03, 2019

The award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, investigates the environmental and economic impact termites inflict on human societies in this fascinating examination of one of nature’s most misunderstood insects.Are we more like termites than we ever imagined? In Underbug, the award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli introduces us to the enigmatic creatures that collectively outweigh human beings ten to one and consume $40 billion worth of valuable stuf... + Read More