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Discounted The Book of Ayn: A Novel Lexi Freiman Previous price: $27.00 Current price: $21.60 An original and hilarious satire of both our political culture and those who rage against it, The Book of Ayn follows a writer from New York to Los Angeles to Lesbos as she searches for artistic and spiritual fulfillment in radical selfishness, altruism, and ego-death ...
Discounted Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor Mark Harmon Previous price: $29.99 Current price: $23.99 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." -- Publishers Weekly ...
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Discounted Happy: A Novel Celina Baljeet Basra Previous price: $26.00 Current price: $20.80 "Leaping, chattering, dancing atop this conundrum [of global migration] comes the hero of Celina Baljeet Basra’s debut novel, Happy Singh Soni, his head bursting with ideas, his heart set on gargantuan dreams."—New York Times ...
Discounted Eyeliner: A Cultural History Zahra Hankir Previous price: $26.00 Current price: $20.80 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick ...
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Discounted Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles Samuel Graydon Previous price: $30.00 Current price: $24.00 Walter Isaacson’s Einstein meets Craig Brown’s 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, in this innovative biography of the famous physicist told in ninety-nine dazzling vignettes. ...
Discounted Breaking Through: My Life in Science Katalin Karikó Previous price: $28.99 Current price: $23.19 A powerful memoir from Katalin Karikó, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, whose decades-long research led to the COVID-19 vaccines “Katalin Karikó’s story is an inspiration.”—Bill Gates ...
Discounted My Name Is Barbra Barbra Streisand Previous price: $47.00 Current price: $37.60 The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television ...
Discounted Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe John Guy, Julia Fox Previous price: $35.00 Current price: $28.00 “A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . ...
Discounted Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food Fuchsia Dunlop Previous price: $32.50 Current price: $26.00 An NPR 2023 "Books We Love" Pick A Financial Times Best Food and Drink Book of 2023 One of Smithsonian's Ten Best Books About Food of 2023 ...
Discounted The Once Upon a Time World: The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera Jonathan Miles Previous price: $35.00 Current price: $28.00 *A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice* Chronicling two-hundred years of glamour, intrigue, and hedonism, this rich and vivid history of the French Riviera features a vast cast of characters, from Pablo Picasso and Coco Chanel to Andre Matisse and James Baldwin. ...
Discounted Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided Scott Eyman Previous price: $29.99 Current price: $23.99 The remarkable, must-read story of Charlie Chaplin’s years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling biographer Scott Eyman. ...
Discounted The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food—Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes Mark Kurlansky Previous price: $28.00 Current price: $22.40 An Eater Best Food Book of 2023A Smithsonian Best Food Book of 2023 ...
Discounted A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy Nathan Thrall Previous price: $29.99 Current price: $23.99 Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day. ...
Discounted Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World Naomi Klein Previous price: $30.00 Current price: $24.00 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | National Indie Bestseller ...
Discounted Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt Previous price: $28.99 Current price: $23.19 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the authors of How Democracies Die ...
Discounted The Vaster Wilds: A Novel Lauren Groff Previous price: $28.00 Current price: $22.40 AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, TIME, ESQUIRE, VOGUE, LA TIMES, SLATE, HARPER'S BAZAAR and others ...
Discounted Sisters Under the Rising Sun: A Novel Heather Morris Previous price: $30.00 Current price: $24.00 From the New York Times bestselling author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a story of sisterhood and survival, inspired by a true story. ...
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Discounted The Future Naomi Alderman Previous price: $28.99 Current price: $23.19 A Most Anticipated Book of Fall at Associated Press, Booklist, Chicago Tribune, Goodreads, Good Housekeeping, Literary Hub, Time, The Week, and W Magazine ...
Discounted Learned by Heart Emma Donoghue Previous price: $28.00 Current price: $22.40 “A wrenching love story” (Chris Bohjalian, The Washington Post) based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder. ...
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Discounted Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell's 1984 Sandra Newman Previous price: $30.00 Current price: $24.00 A PEOPLE Magazine Must-Read Book for Fall 2023 | An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2023 | A Guardian Biggest New Book of 2023 | A LitHub ...
Discounted Brooklyn Crime Novel: A Novel Jonathan Lethem Previous price: $30.00 Current price: $24.00 Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by: New York Times * Boston Globe * CrimeReads ...
Discounted Let Us Descend: A Novel Jesmyn Ward Previous price: $28.00 Current price: $22.40 OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Instant New York Times Bestseller • Shortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence ...
Discounted Memory and Desire: A Novel Philip Caputo Previous price: $27.99 Current price: $22.39 From the acclaimed storyteller, a propulsive tale of desire, betrayal, duty, and infidelity—and the explosive consequences of a buried passion ...
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Discounted Tom Lake: A Reese's Book Club Pick Ann Patchett Previous price: $30.00 Current price: $24.00 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers. ...
Discounted Sun House: A Novel David James Duncan Previous price: $35.00 Current price: $28.00 An epic comedy about the quest for transcendence in an anything-but-transcendent America, set amid the gorgeous landscapes of the American west: A “spiritual journey” full of “fun, joy, love, courage and compassion” (Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers) from the author of the perennial c ...
Preorder 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. ...
Preorder City in Ruins: A Novel (The Danny Ryan Trilogy #3) Don Winslow Current price: $32.00 Following City on Fire and City of Dreams, City in Ruins is the explosive, impossible to put down conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow’s epic, genre-defining crime trilogy and the final book of Winslow's extraordinary career. ...
Preorder Frank Johnson, Secret Pioneer of American Comics Vol. 1: Wally's Gang Early Years (1928-1949) and The Bowser Boys (1946-1950) Frank Johnson Current price: $49.99 An astonishing historical and artistic discovery: a 2300 page proto-graphic novel begun by a “weekend cartoonist” in 1928 and continuing over the next 50 years! ...