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New Release Your Presence Is Mandatory: A Novel Sasha Vasilyuk Current price: $28.99 A riveting debut novel, based on real events, about a World War II veteran with a secret that could land him in the Gulag, and his family who are forced to live in the shadow of all he has not told them. ...
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New Release Thorn Tree: A Novel Max Ludington Current price: $29.00 "Terrifically vivid. . . stirring." - New York Times A beautifully wrought novel on the aftershocks of the heady but dangerous late 1960s and the relationship between trauma and the creative impulse. ...
New Release An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s Doris Kearns Goodwin Current price: $35.00 An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. ...
New Release Indian Burial Ground Nick Medina Current price: $28.00 A man lunges in front of a car. An elderly woman silently drowns herself. A corpse sits up in its coffin and speaks. On this reservation, not all is what it seems, in this new spine-chilling mythological horror from the author of Sisters of the Lost Nation. ...
New Release The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions Adam Kuper Current price: $35.00 A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • From one of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists, an important and timely work of cultural history that looks at the origins and much debated future of anthropology museums ...
New Release Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder Asako Yuzuki Current price: $30.00 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer, and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story ...
New Release Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World Will Cockrell Current price: $29.99 Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest. ...
New Release While We Were Burning Sara Koffi Current price: $28.00 Parasite meets Such a Fun Age in a scorching debut that is as heartbreaking as it is thrilling, examining the intersection of race, class, and female friendship, and the devastating consequences of everyday actions. ...
New Release Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger Current price: $30.00 "Lisa's breezy narrative style invites you to experience with her the challenges and joys of being a scientist on the frontier of discovery." —Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History ...
2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed Eric Klinenberg Current price: $32.00 A meticulously reported, character-driven, unforgettable investigation of a time when nothing was certain and everything was at stake, by the acclaimed sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg ...
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science Benjamin Breen Current price: $30.00 A Los Angeles Times Bestseller One of The New Yorker's best books of 2024 ...
Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration Harold Holzer Current price: $35.00 From acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln’s grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War. ...
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America Kathleen DuVal Current price: $38.00 “An essential American history” (The Wall Street Journal) that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today ...
New Release Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder Salman Rushdie Current price: $28.00 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him ...
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool James Kaplan Current price: $35.00 The national bestseller! “A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date.” —Los Angeles Times ...
Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories Elijah Wald Current price: $32.00 A bestselling music historian follows Jelly Roll Morton on a journey through the hidden worlds and forbidden songs of early blues and jazz. ...
Discounted Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life Jason Roberts Previous price: $35.00 Current price: $28.00 An epic, extraordinary account of scientific rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth—a competition “with continued repercussions for Western views of race. ...
Discounted Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery Earl Swift Previous price: $32.50 Current price: $26.00 "Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in the 20th century—and the methodical process that followed to erase those crimes fro ...
The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky Simon Shuster Current price: $32.99 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ...
One Way Back: A Memoir Christine Blasey Ford Current price: $29.00 Now a New York Times bestseller ...
Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin Andre Dubus, III Current price: $28.99 From the literary master and best-selling author of Townie, reflections on a life of challenges, contradictions, and fulfillments. ...
The Black Box: Writing the Race Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Current price: $30.00 “Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its manufactured divisions.” ...
An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country David Finkel Current price: $32.00 A man navigates the deep divisions in America today and discovers that sometimes change can start by finding common ground with your neighbors in this immersive account by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Thank You for Your Service and The Good Soldiers. ...
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The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture Tricia Romano Current price: $35.00 A rollicking history of America's most iconic weekly newspaper told through the voices of its legendary writers, editors, and photographers. ...
Four Thousand Paws: Caring for the Dogs of the Iditarod: A Veterinarian's Story Lee Morgan Current price: $27.99 An intimate account—the first from a trail veterinarian—of the canines who brave the challenges of the Iditarod. ...
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