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Great Fiction Now Available in Paperback Browse All See all items Biography of X: A Novel Catherine Lacey Current price: $19.00 Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2023 by Time (#1), Vulture, and Publishers Weekly, and one of the Best Books of 2023 by The New York Times, the New Yorker, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, ... The Half Life of Valery K Natasha Pulley Current price: $18.99 “An absorbing Cold War thriller” (Christian Science Monitor) with a slow burn romance at its heart, set in a mysterious town in Soviet Russia. ... Sisters of the Lost Nation Nick Medina Current price: $18.00 Named a Most Anticipated Book by Barnes and Noble ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ GoodReads ∙ Book Riot ∙ CrimeReads ∙ Ms. Magazine ∙ SheReads ∙ Amazon Editor's Pick ∙ Tor.com ∙ and more! ... The Trackers: A Novel Charles Frazier Current price: $19.99 From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that paints a vivid portrait of life in the Great Depression ... The Last Animal: A Novel Ramona Ausubel Current price: $18.00 A NATIONAL BESTSELLER ... New Release Dead Mountain (Nora Kelly) Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child Current price: $18.99 #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child return in the latest installment of the bestselling series featuring renowned archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, who investigate a mystery so enigmatic it may have no solution. ... New Release Ascension: A Novel Nicholas Binge Current price: $18.00 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE! "You've gotta read Ascension by Nicholas Binge. Old-school creepy. . .five-star horror."—Stephen King ... The Tree Doctor: A Novel Marie Mutsuki Mockett Current price: $17.00 A startling, erotic novel about the need to balance care for others with care for one’s self ... Zero Days Ruth Ware Current price: $18.99 The New York Times bestselling “new Agatha Christie” (Air Mail) Ruth Ware returns with this adrenaline-fueled thriller that combines Mr. and Mrs. ... Fury: A Novel Clyo Mendoza Current price: $17.95 In this debut novel, Clyo Mendoza, a young, award-winning Mexican poet and novelist, weaves together multiple narratives into a lyrical, shape-shifting existential reflection on love, violence, and the power of myth. ... Pineapple Street: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) Jenny Jackson Current price: $18.00 A New York Times bestseller | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick ... House of Odysseus (Songs of Penelope #2) Claire North Current price: $19.99 Men go to war, gods scheme, and the choices of a queen will change the course of the world, in this powerful sequel to Ithaca from multi-award-winning author Claire North. ... The Perfumist of Paris (Jaipur Trilogy #3) Alka Joshi Current price: $18.99 "A stunning portrait of a woman blossoming into her full power...this is Alka Joshi's best book yet " --Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye ... The Great Reclamation: A Novel Rachel Heng Current price: $18.00 WINNER OF THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE AND THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, TOWN & COUNTRY, KIRKUS, ELECTRIC LITERATURE AND BOOKPAGE! ... The Mistress of Bhatia House (A Perveen Mistry Novel #4) Sujata Massey Current price: $18.95 Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex family dynamics as she seeks justice for a mistreated young woman in this thrilling fourth installment in Sujata Massey’s award-winning series. ... Homecoming: A Historical Mystery Kate Morton Current price: $19.99 New York Times bestseller From the bestselling author of The Clockmaker’s Daughter, a sweeping novel that begins with a shocking crime, the effects of which echo across continents and generations. ... Such Kindness: A Novel Andre Dubus, III Current price: $18.99 A working-class white man takes a terrible fall. ... Companion Piece: A Novel Ali Smith Current price: $18.00 "A woman receives an unexpected call from a former classmate asking for help deciphering a puzzling interaction, and from there, Smith spins out a broader story about loneliness, refuge and freedom.” —The New York Times Book Review ... New Release Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories Kate Atkinson Current price: $18.00 A collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, “Stunning...A master class in literary worldbuilding… Full of speculative glee, but tinged with poignancy." (Publishers Weekly) ... New Release The Peacock and the Sparrow: A Novel I.S. Berry Current price: $18.99 EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker • NPR • The Diplomatic Courier • Deadly Pleasures mystery magazine • The Cipher Brief • Spybrary ... New Release The Late Americans: A Novel Brandon Taylor Current price: $18.00 INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE, ELLE, OPRAH DAILY, THE WASHINGTON POST, BUZZFEED AND VULTURE ... Great Nonfiction Now Available in Paperback Browse All See all items A Chance Meeting: American Encounters Rachel Cohen Current price: $19.95 Weaving a tapestry of creativity and circumstance, this lauded chronicle of the many links and serendipitous meetings between giants of American culture—from Henry James to Gertrude Stein to Zora Neale Hurston to Marcel Duchamp—now includes a new afterword by the author. ... Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power Rose Hackman Current price: $18.99 “An urgent look at emotional labor....Hackman’s words reveal the agency of women is still possible while the power of care, empathy, and love in action can lead us to the best in our humanity.”― Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author of Fair Play ... New Release Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic Simon Winchester Current price: $21.99 From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—this is award winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology contin ... New Release The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times Michelle Obama Current price: $19.99 #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • In an inspiring follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncer ... New Release The Earth Transformed: An Untold History Peter Frankopan Current price: $27.00 A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development—and demise—of civilizations across time ... Preorder Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World Gretchen Rubin Current price: $20.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, luck, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. ... Preorder The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America Monica Potts Current price: $20.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small town in Arkansas while her brilliant friend could not, and, in the process, illuminates the unemployment, drug abuse, sexism, and evangelicalism killing poor, rural white women ... Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco Stephan Talty Current price: $21.99 "Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve. ... Talty delves the deepest into the history and twisted personality of David Koresh." —Wall Street Journal ... New Release Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage Jeff Guinn Current price: $19.99 “Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is the definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-seen documents, photographs, and interviews, from former investigative reporter Je ... Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Malcolm Harris Current price: $22.99 Named One of the Year's Best Books by VULTURE • THE NEW REPUBLIC • DAZED • WIRED • BLOOMBERG • ESQUIRE • SALON • THE NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB ... The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific Brandon Presser Current price: $19.99 CLICK HERE to read our review of this book. For fans of The Wager and Mutiny on the Bounty comes a thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at the edge of the world. In 1808, an American merchant ship happened upon an uncharted island in the South Pacific and un ... Real Life: The Journey from Isolation to Openness and Freedom Sharon Salzberg Current price: $18.99 Merging the insights of inspiring voices with her own understanding of mindfulness, New York Times bestselling author Sharon Salzberg shows us how we can recover from the emotional effects of crisis. ... I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays Michael Arceneaux Current price: $19.99 "Very good writers have an ability to make you understand what they're feeling. But the very best writers have an ability to make you understand what you're feeling. And that's where Michael Arceneaux sits, and that's what he does in this new book. ... Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice Cristina Rivera Garza Current price: $18.00 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister’s murderer to justice years after the fact” (The Boston Globe), from “one of Mexico’s greatest living writers” (Jonathan Let ... Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues Jonathan Kennedy Current price: $20.00 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “gripping” (The Washington Post) account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism—have been shaped not by humans but by germs ... The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine M.D. Ricardo Nuila Current price: $18.00 “Nuila’s storytelling gifts place him alongside colleagues like Atul Gawande.” —Los Angeles Times ... The Sniper: The Untold Story of the Marine Corps' Greatest Marksman of All Time Jim Lindsay Current price: $19.00 Jim Lindsay's The Sniper reveals, for the first time ever, the full story of the deadliest sniper in Marine Corps history, Chuck Mawhinney, who served in the Vietnam war at age 18—written with his full cooperation and participation. ... Poverty, by America Matthew Desmond Current price: $20.00 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. ... Cinema Speculation Quentin Tarantino Current price: $21.00 Instant New York Times bestseller ... Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope Sarah Bakewell Current price: $20.00 The New York Times bestseller • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 • A New York Times Notable Book ... How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind Clancy Martin Current price: $19.00 FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION • ONE OF TIME'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S CRITICS' PICKS • ONE OF THE BOSTON GLOBE’S 55 BOOKS WE LOVED THIS YEAR • ... Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence Paco Calvo Current price: $19.99 “Weaves science and history into an absorbing exploration of the many ways that plants rise to the challenge of living.” —Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Life An astonishing window into the inner world of plants, and the cutting-edge science in plant intelligence. ... The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery Adam Gopnik Current price: $18.99 "[W]ise, companionable, and often extremely funny.” —Oliver Burkeman, The Atlantic Best-selling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik investigates a foundational human question: How do we learn—and master—a new skill? ... Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature Sarah Hart Current price: $18.99 A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Wide-ranging and thoroughly winning.” —Jordan Ellenberg, The New York Times Book Review ... New Release Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb James M. Scott Current price: $21.99 "Riveting.…This book is required reading for anyone with even a passing interest in World War II and the Pacific Theater." —Bob Carden, Boston Globe ... New Release Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood Hilary A. Hallett Current price: $22.00 A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Selection The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study in this addictively readable biography of pioneering celebrity author Elinor Glyn. ... New Release Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming Ava Chin Current price: $18.00 “Essential reading for understanding not just Chinese American history but American history—and the American present.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere ... New Release Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy--And the Sister She Betrayed Jim Popkin Current price: $21.99 *An Amazon Best Book of 2023**An Apple Book of the Month for January* ... New Release Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America's Legendary Racehorse Kim Wickens Current price: $22.00 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A vivid portrait of America’s greatest stallion, the larger-than-life men who raced and bred him, and the dramatic times in which they lived.”—Geraldine Brooks, author of Horse ... New Release Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding) Laura Dern, Diane Ladd Current price: $18.99 Now in paperback, a collection of deeply personal conversations from award-winning actress and activist Laura Dern and the woman she admires most, her mother—legendary actress Diane Ladd. What happens when we are brave enough to speak our truths to the ones we love the most? ...
Biography of X: A Novel Catherine Lacey Current price: $19.00 Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2023 by Time (#1), Vulture, and Publishers Weekly, and one of the Best Books of 2023 by The New York Times, the New Yorker, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, ...
The Half Life of Valery K Natasha Pulley Current price: $18.99 “An absorbing Cold War thriller” (Christian Science Monitor) with a slow burn romance at its heart, set in a mysterious town in Soviet Russia. ...
Sisters of the Lost Nation Nick Medina Current price: $18.00 Named a Most Anticipated Book by Barnes and Noble ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ GoodReads ∙ Book Riot ∙ CrimeReads ∙ Ms. Magazine ∙ SheReads ∙ Amazon Editor's Pick ∙ Tor.com ∙ and more! ...
The Trackers: A Novel Charles Frazier Current price: $19.99 From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that paints a vivid portrait of life in the Great Depression ...
New Release Dead Mountain (Nora Kelly) Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child Current price: $18.99 #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child return in the latest installment of the bestselling series featuring renowned archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, who investigate a mystery so enigmatic it may have no solution. ...
New Release Ascension: A Novel Nicholas Binge Current price: $18.00 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE! "You've gotta read Ascension by Nicholas Binge. Old-school creepy. . .five-star horror."—Stephen King ...
The Tree Doctor: A Novel Marie Mutsuki Mockett Current price: $17.00 A startling, erotic novel about the need to balance care for others with care for one’s self ...
Zero Days Ruth Ware Current price: $18.99 The New York Times bestselling “new Agatha Christie” (Air Mail) Ruth Ware returns with this adrenaline-fueled thriller that combines Mr. and Mrs. ...
Fury: A Novel Clyo Mendoza Current price: $17.95 In this debut novel, Clyo Mendoza, a young, award-winning Mexican poet and novelist, weaves together multiple narratives into a lyrical, shape-shifting existential reflection on love, violence, and the power of myth. ...
Pineapple Street: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) Jenny Jackson Current price: $18.00 A New York Times bestseller | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick ...
House of Odysseus (Songs of Penelope #2) Claire North Current price: $19.99 Men go to war, gods scheme, and the choices of a queen will change the course of the world, in this powerful sequel to Ithaca from multi-award-winning author Claire North. ...
The Perfumist of Paris (Jaipur Trilogy #3) Alka Joshi Current price: $18.99 "A stunning portrait of a woman blossoming into her full power...this is Alka Joshi's best book yet " --Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye ...
The Great Reclamation: A Novel Rachel Heng Current price: $18.00 WINNER OF THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE AND THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, TOWN & COUNTRY, KIRKUS, ELECTRIC LITERATURE AND BOOKPAGE! ...
The Mistress of Bhatia House (A Perveen Mistry Novel #4) Sujata Massey Current price: $18.95 Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex family dynamics as she seeks justice for a mistreated young woman in this thrilling fourth installment in Sujata Massey’s award-winning series. ...
Homecoming: A Historical Mystery Kate Morton Current price: $19.99 New York Times bestseller From the bestselling author of The Clockmaker’s Daughter, a sweeping novel that begins with a shocking crime, the effects of which echo across continents and generations. ...
Such Kindness: A Novel Andre Dubus, III Current price: $18.99 A working-class white man takes a terrible fall. ...
Companion Piece: A Novel Ali Smith Current price: $18.00 "A woman receives an unexpected call from a former classmate asking for help deciphering a puzzling interaction, and from there, Smith spins out a broader story about loneliness, refuge and freedom.” —The New York Times Book Review ...
New Release Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories Kate Atkinson Current price: $18.00 A collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, “Stunning...A master class in literary worldbuilding… Full of speculative glee, but tinged with poignancy." (Publishers Weekly) ...
New Release The Peacock and the Sparrow: A Novel I.S. Berry Current price: $18.99 EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker • NPR • The Diplomatic Courier • Deadly Pleasures mystery magazine • The Cipher Brief • Spybrary ...
New Release The Late Americans: A Novel Brandon Taylor Current price: $18.00 INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE, ELLE, OPRAH DAILY, THE WASHINGTON POST, BUZZFEED AND VULTURE ...
A Chance Meeting: American Encounters Rachel Cohen Current price: $19.95 Weaving a tapestry of creativity and circumstance, this lauded chronicle of the many links and serendipitous meetings between giants of American culture—from Henry James to Gertrude Stein to Zora Neale Hurston to Marcel Duchamp—now includes a new afterword by the author. ...
Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power Rose Hackman Current price: $18.99 “An urgent look at emotional labor....Hackman’s words reveal the agency of women is still possible while the power of care, empathy, and love in action can lead us to the best in our humanity.”― Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author of Fair Play ...
New Release Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic Simon Winchester Current price: $21.99 From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—this is award winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology contin ...
New Release The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times Michelle Obama Current price: $19.99 #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • In an inspiring follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncer ...
New Release The Earth Transformed: An Untold History Peter Frankopan Current price: $27.00 A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development—and demise—of civilizations across time ...
Preorder Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World Gretchen Rubin Current price: $20.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, luck, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. ...
Preorder The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America Monica Potts Current price: $20.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small town in Arkansas while her brilliant friend could not, and, in the process, illuminates the unemployment, drug abuse, sexism, and evangelicalism killing poor, rural white women ...
Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco Stephan Talty Current price: $21.99 "Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve. ... Talty delves the deepest into the history and twisted personality of David Koresh." —Wall Street Journal ...
New Release Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage Jeff Guinn Current price: $19.99 “Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is the definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-seen documents, photographs, and interviews, from former investigative reporter Je ...
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Malcolm Harris Current price: $22.99 Named One of the Year's Best Books by VULTURE • THE NEW REPUBLIC • DAZED • WIRED • BLOOMBERG • ESQUIRE • SALON • THE NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB ...
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific Brandon Presser Current price: $19.99 CLICK HERE to read our review of this book. For fans of The Wager and Mutiny on the Bounty comes a thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at the edge of the world. In 1808, an American merchant ship happened upon an uncharted island in the South Pacific and un ...
Real Life: The Journey from Isolation to Openness and Freedom Sharon Salzberg Current price: $18.99 Merging the insights of inspiring voices with her own understanding of mindfulness, New York Times bestselling author Sharon Salzberg shows us how we can recover from the emotional effects of crisis. ...
I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays Michael Arceneaux Current price: $19.99 "Very good writers have an ability to make you understand what they're feeling. But the very best writers have an ability to make you understand what you're feeling. And that's where Michael Arceneaux sits, and that's what he does in this new book. ...
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice Cristina Rivera Garza Current price: $18.00 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister’s murderer to justice years after the fact” (The Boston Globe), from “one of Mexico’s greatest living writers” (Jonathan Let ...
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues Jonathan Kennedy Current price: $20.00 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “gripping” (The Washington Post) account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism—have been shaped not by humans but by germs ...
The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine M.D. Ricardo Nuila Current price: $18.00 “Nuila’s storytelling gifts place him alongside colleagues like Atul Gawande.” —Los Angeles Times ...
The Sniper: The Untold Story of the Marine Corps' Greatest Marksman of All Time Jim Lindsay Current price: $19.00 Jim Lindsay's The Sniper reveals, for the first time ever, the full story of the deadliest sniper in Marine Corps history, Chuck Mawhinney, who served in the Vietnam war at age 18—written with his full cooperation and participation. ...
Poverty, by America Matthew Desmond Current price: $20.00 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. ...
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope Sarah Bakewell Current price: $20.00 The New York Times bestseller • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 • A New York Times Notable Book ...
How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind Clancy Martin Current price: $19.00 FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION • ONE OF TIME'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S CRITICS' PICKS • ONE OF THE BOSTON GLOBE’S 55 BOOKS WE LOVED THIS YEAR • ...
Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence Paco Calvo Current price: $19.99 “Weaves science and history into an absorbing exploration of the many ways that plants rise to the challenge of living.” —Merlin Sheldrake, author of Entangled Life An astonishing window into the inner world of plants, and the cutting-edge science in plant intelligence. ...
The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery Adam Gopnik Current price: $18.99 "[W]ise, companionable, and often extremely funny.” —Oliver Burkeman, The Atlantic Best-selling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik investigates a foundational human question: How do we learn—and master—a new skill? ...
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature Sarah Hart Current price: $18.99 A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Wide-ranging and thoroughly winning.” —Jordan Ellenberg, The New York Times Book Review ...
New Release Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb James M. Scott Current price: $21.99 "Riveting.…This book is required reading for anyone with even a passing interest in World War II and the Pacific Theater." —Bob Carden, Boston Globe ...
New Release Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood Hilary A. Hallett Current price: $22.00 A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Selection The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study in this addictively readable biography of pioneering celebrity author Elinor Glyn. ...
New Release Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming Ava Chin Current price: $18.00 “Essential reading for understanding not just Chinese American history but American history—and the American present.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere ...
New Release Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy--And the Sister She Betrayed Jim Popkin Current price: $21.99 *An Amazon Best Book of 2023**An Apple Book of the Month for January* ...
New Release Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America's Legendary Racehorse Kim Wickens Current price: $22.00 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A vivid portrait of America’s greatest stallion, the larger-than-life men who raced and bred him, and the dramatic times in which they lived.”—Geraldine Brooks, author of Horse ...
New Release Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding) Laura Dern, Diane Ladd Current price: $18.99 Now in paperback, a collection of deeply personal conversations from award-winning actress and activist Laura Dern and the woman she admires most, her mother—legendary actress Diane Ladd. What happens when we are brave enough to speak our truths to the ones we love the most? ...