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Great Fiction Now Available in Paperback Browse All See all items The Marriage Portrait: A novel Maggie O'Farrell Current price: $17.00 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional por ... Bitter Orange Tree Jokha Alharthi Current price: $16.95 Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award A TIME Best Book of the YearA New Yorker Best Book of the Year ... Chéri and The End of Chéri Colette Current price: $16.95 An exquisite new translation of Colette’s tragicomic masterpiece, a pair of novels exploring the relationship between an aging courtesan and a much younger man. ... Confidence Denise Mina Current price: $17.99 In this "edge-of-your-seat" thriller and sequel to the Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine book club pick Conviction (The Los Angeles Times), Anna and Fin find themselves on another breathtaking chase across Europe—and another race to save their own lives. ... New Release Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy #2) Stephen Graham Jones Current price: $18.99 NATIONAL BESTSELLER ... Fire Season: A Novel Leyna Krow Current price: $17.00 "Devilishly funny and endlessly inventive." —Jess Walter, #1 New York Times bestselling author Beautiful Ruins A Publisher’s Weekly Summer Reads Staff Pick One of Lit Hub’s “35 Novels You Need to Read This Summer” ... The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories Jamil Jan Kochai Current price: $17.00 FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE 2023 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE, AND THE 2023 O. HENRY PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2022 ... The Lunar Housewife: A Novel Caroline Woods Current price: $17.00 A stylish and suspenseful historical page-turner following an up-and-coming journalist who stumbles onto a web of secrets, deceptions, and mysteries at a popular new literary magazine--inspired by the true story of CIA intervention in Cold War American arts and letters. ... Sirens & Muses: A Novel Antonia Angress Current price: $18.00 Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets of New York in this “gripping, provocative, and supremely entertaining” (BuzzFeed) debut ... The Retreat: A Novel (Detective Elin Warner Series #2) Sarah Pearse Current price: $17.00 AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From the New York Times bestselling author of The Sanatorium, a Reese’s Book Club pick, here, Detective Elin Warner uncovers the truth behind the suspicious deaths on a stunning island getaway ... The House at the End of the World Dean Koontz Current price: $16.99 Soon no one on Earth will have a place to hide in this novel about fears known and unknown by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz. ... Dark Earth: A Novel Rebecca Stott Current price: $18.00 A “superb” (The Guardian) novel about two sisters fighting for survival in Dark Ages Britain that weaves “a dazzling blend of history and fantasy” (BuzzFeed) ... Groupies: A Novel Sarah Priscus Current price: $18.99 "What a thrill it is to read Sarah Priscus’ 70s rock, California-dreaming Groupies. This shimmering debut is packed with tenderness and awe against a backdrop of drugs, sex, rock stars, and high drama. ... Mademoiselle Revolution Zoe Sivak Current price: $17.00 A powerful, engrossing story of a biracial heiress who escapes to Paris when the Haitian Revolution burns across her island home. But as she works her way into the inner circle of Robespierre and his mistress, she learns that not even oceans can stop the flames of revolution. ... Calling for a Blanket Dance Oscar Hokeah Current price: $17.99 A moving and deeply engaging novel about a young Native American man as he learns to find strength in his familial identity. ... Lessons: A novel Ian McEwan Current price: $18.00 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From the best-selling author of Atonement and Saturday comes the epic and intimate story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals. ... The Whalebone Theatre: A novel Joanna Quinn Current price: $18.00 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatre made of whalebones to covert operations during World War II—a story of love, family, bravery, lost innoce ... Bloomsbury Girls: A Novel Natalie Jenner Current price: $18.00 "Delightful." --People, Pick of the Week*Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Katie Couric Media, the CBC, the Globe and Mail, BookBub, POPSUGAR, SheReads, Women.com and more!* ... The Book of Goose: A Novel Yiyun Li Current price: $18.00 Winner of the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Long-listed for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction ... Killers of a Certain Age Deanna Raybourn Current price: $17.00 Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that’s their secret weapon. ... The Devil Takes You Home: A Novel Gabino Iglesias Current price: $17.99 This genre-defying, Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning thriller follows a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family—even if it means a descent into violence. ... Our Missing Hearts: A Novel Celeste Ng Current price: $18.00 An instant New York Times bestseller • A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 • Named a Best Book of 2022 by People, TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, USA Today, NPR, Los Angeles Times, and Oprah Daily, ... The Change: A Good Morning America Book Club PIck Kirsten Miller Current price: $19.99 GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK "The Change is like a guttural rage scream (and somehow a soft, tearful hug) of a book, and I couldn't have loved it any more." --Emily Henry ... Dinosaurs: A Novel Lydia Millet Current price: $17.95 One of NPR's Books We Love for 2022 • A New Yorker Best Books of 2022 So Far • A Publishers Weekly Best Novel of 2022 • A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2022 • One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 • An Oprah Daily and Literary Hub Favorite Bo ... A Beautiful Rival: A Novel of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden Gill Paul Current price: $18.99 In this stunning new novel, bestselling author Gill Paul reveals the unknown history of cosmetic titans Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein and their infamous rivalry that spanned not only decades, but also broken marriages, personal tragedies, and a world that was changing dramatically ... Jacqueline in Paris: A Novel Ann Mah Current price: $18.99 “Captivating...Mah channels Kennedy and brings postwar Paris to life with exquisite detail and insight.” -- People ... Act of Oblivion: A Novel Robert Harris Current price: $19.99 From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliantly imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King Charles I and the im ... The Birdcatcher Gayl Jones Current price: $17.00 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 2022 Publishers Weekly Top 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 “Gayl Jones’s work represents a watershed in American literature."—Imani Perry ... Lucy by the Sea: A Novel Elizabeth Strout Current price: $18.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown—and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart. ... Great Nonfiction Now Available in Paperback Browse All See all items Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era Laurence Leamer Current price: $18.00 DON’T MISS FX’s FEUD: CAPOTE VS. THE SWANS—THE ORIGINAL SERIES BASED ON THE BESTSELLING BOOK—COMING SOON! ... The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World Nichola Raihani Current price: $19.00 "Enriching" —Publisher's Weekly"Excellent and illuminating"—Wall Street Journal ... Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods Lyndsie Bourgon Current price: $18.99 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NELLIE BY CHANTICLEER INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FOR JOURNALISTIC NON-FICTION ... A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home Frances Mayes Current price: $17.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the author of Under the Tuscan Sun, in which the queen of wanderlust reflects on the comforts of home. ... An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us Ed Yong Current price: $20.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “thrilling” (The New York Times), “dazzling” (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize–winning ... New Release Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America Hugh Eakin Current price: $20.00 A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world—and Picasso the most famous artist alive—in the shadow of World War II ... The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori Cristina De Stefano Current price: $18.99 A fresh, comprehensive biography of the pioneering educator and activist who changed the way we look at children’s minds, from the author of Oriana Fallaci. ... Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Curtis Bunn, Nick Charles, Keith Harriston Current price: $18.99 This definitive guide to America's present-day racial reckoning examines the forces that pushed our unjust system to its breaking point after the death of George Floyd. ... Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test: How Behavior Evolves and Why It Matters Marlene Zuk Current price: $18.95 Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A lively exploration of animal behavior in all its glorious complexity, whether in tiny wasps, lumbering elephants, or ourselves. ... Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2022 Margaret Atwood Current price: $19.00 In this brilliant selection of essays—including three new pieces—the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaid ... Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose Leigh Cowart Current price: $18.99 An exploration of why people all over the world love to engage in pain on purpose--from dominatrices, religious ascetics, and ultramarathoners to ballerinas, icy ocean bathers, and sideshow performers ... The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir Paul Newman Current price: $18.00 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. ... Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer Kathy Kleiman Current price: $19.99 CLICK HERE to read our review of this book! ... The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World David K. Randall Current price: $17.95 A Science Friday Best Book to Read This Summer A gripping narrative of a fearless paleontologist, the founding of America’s most loved museums, and the race to find the largest dinosaurs on record. ... Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire Jonathan M. Katz Current price: $20.00 A groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power—and how its legacies shape our world today—told through the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine. ... Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller Alec Nevala-Lee Current price: $24.99 One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nominated for The Next Big Idea Club * The Week Magazine Book of the Week ... Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays Barry Lopez Current price: $18.00 NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “lyrical” (Chicago Tribune) final work of nonfiction from the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams and Horizon, a literary icon whose writing, fieldwork, and mentorship inspired generati ... Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers Mary Rodgers, Jesse Green Current price: $20.00 The memoirs of Mary Rodgers—writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and “a woman who tried everything.” ... Long Train Runnin': Our Story of The Doobie Brothers Pat Simmons, Tom Johnston Current price: $20.00 For the first time, the incredible true story of the legendary band, the Doobie Brothers, written by founding members Pat Simmons and Tom Johnston. ... The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir Ingrid Rojas Contreras Current price: $17.00 PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the bestselling author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's o ... Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop Music: A History Bob Stanley Current price: $22.00 The must-read music book of the year—and the first such history bringing together all musical genres to tell the definitive narrative of the birth of Pop from 1900 to the mid-1950s. ... France: An Adventure History Graham Robb Current price: $21.95 A wholly original history of France, filled with a lifetime’s knowledge and passion—by the author of the New York Times bestseller Parisians. ... A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick Cathy Curtis Current price: $21.95 The first biography of the extraordinary essayist, critic, and short story writer Elizabeth Hardwick, author of the semiautobiographical novel Sleepless Nights. ... Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821 Michael Broers Current price: $22.00 An accomplished Oxford scholar delivers a dynamic new history covering the last chapter of the emperor's life—from his defeat in Russia and the drama of Waterloo to his final exile—as the world Napoleon has created begins to crumble around him. ... Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon Kate Andersen Brower Current price: $21.99 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women, the first ever authorized biography of the most famous movie star of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Taylor. ... Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America Pekka Hämäläinen Current price: $22.00 NATIONAL BESTSELLERNew York Times Book Review • 100 Notable Books of 2022 Best Books of 2022 — New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence ... Life's Work: A Memoir David Milch Current price: $18.00 The creator of Deadwood and NYPD Blue reflects on his tumultuous life, driven by a nearly insatiable creative energy and a matching penchant for self-destruction. ... Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires Douglas Rushkoff Current price: $17.95 "A devastating portrait of the cultures and logics underlying big tech. Rushkoff is going to make you mad enough to fight back. A vital, lucid, and enraging read." —Naomi Klein ...
The Marriage Portrait: A novel Maggie O'Farrell Current price: $17.00 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional por ...
Bitter Orange Tree Jokha Alharthi Current price: $16.95 Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award A TIME Best Book of the YearA New Yorker Best Book of the Year ...
Chéri and The End of Chéri Colette Current price: $16.95 An exquisite new translation of Colette’s tragicomic masterpiece, a pair of novels exploring the relationship between an aging courtesan and a much younger man. ...
Confidence Denise Mina Current price: $17.99 In this "edge-of-your-seat" thriller and sequel to the Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine book club pick Conviction (The Los Angeles Times), Anna and Fin find themselves on another breathtaking chase across Europe—and another race to save their own lives. ...
New Release Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy #2) Stephen Graham Jones Current price: $18.99 NATIONAL BESTSELLER ...
Fire Season: A Novel Leyna Krow Current price: $17.00 "Devilishly funny and endlessly inventive." —Jess Walter, #1 New York Times bestselling author Beautiful Ruins A Publisher’s Weekly Summer Reads Staff Pick One of Lit Hub’s “35 Novels You Need to Read This Summer” ...
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories Jamil Jan Kochai Current price: $17.00 FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE 2023 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE, AND THE 2023 O. HENRY PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2022 ...
The Lunar Housewife: A Novel Caroline Woods Current price: $17.00 A stylish and suspenseful historical page-turner following an up-and-coming journalist who stumbles onto a web of secrets, deceptions, and mysteries at a popular new literary magazine--inspired by the true story of CIA intervention in Cold War American arts and letters. ...
Sirens & Muses: A Novel Antonia Angress Current price: $18.00 Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets of New York in this “gripping, provocative, and supremely entertaining” (BuzzFeed) debut ...
The Retreat: A Novel (Detective Elin Warner Series #2) Sarah Pearse Current price: $17.00 AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From the New York Times bestselling author of The Sanatorium, a Reese’s Book Club pick, here, Detective Elin Warner uncovers the truth behind the suspicious deaths on a stunning island getaway ...
The House at the End of the World Dean Koontz Current price: $16.99 Soon no one on Earth will have a place to hide in this novel about fears known and unknown by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz. ...
Dark Earth: A Novel Rebecca Stott Current price: $18.00 A “superb” (The Guardian) novel about two sisters fighting for survival in Dark Ages Britain that weaves “a dazzling blend of history and fantasy” (BuzzFeed) ...
Groupies: A Novel Sarah Priscus Current price: $18.99 "What a thrill it is to read Sarah Priscus’ 70s rock, California-dreaming Groupies. This shimmering debut is packed with tenderness and awe against a backdrop of drugs, sex, rock stars, and high drama. ...
Mademoiselle Revolution Zoe Sivak Current price: $17.00 A powerful, engrossing story of a biracial heiress who escapes to Paris when the Haitian Revolution burns across her island home. But as she works her way into the inner circle of Robespierre and his mistress, she learns that not even oceans can stop the flames of revolution. ...
Calling for a Blanket Dance Oscar Hokeah Current price: $17.99 A moving and deeply engaging novel about a young Native American man as he learns to find strength in his familial identity. ...
Lessons: A novel Ian McEwan Current price: $18.00 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From the best-selling author of Atonement and Saturday comes the epic and intimate story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals. ...
The Whalebone Theatre: A novel Joanna Quinn Current price: $18.00 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatre made of whalebones to covert operations during World War II—a story of love, family, bravery, lost innoce ...
Bloomsbury Girls: A Novel Natalie Jenner Current price: $18.00 "Delightful." --People, Pick of the Week*Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Katie Couric Media, the CBC, the Globe and Mail, BookBub, POPSUGAR, SheReads, Women.com and more!* ...
The Book of Goose: A Novel Yiyun Li Current price: $18.00 Winner of the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Long-listed for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction ...
Killers of a Certain Age Deanna Raybourn Current price: $17.00 Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that’s their secret weapon. ...
The Devil Takes You Home: A Novel Gabino Iglesias Current price: $17.99 This genre-defying, Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning thriller follows a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family—even if it means a descent into violence. ...
Our Missing Hearts: A Novel Celeste Ng Current price: $18.00 An instant New York Times bestseller • A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 • Named a Best Book of 2022 by People, TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, USA Today, NPR, Los Angeles Times, and Oprah Daily, ...
The Change: A Good Morning America Book Club PIck Kirsten Miller Current price: $19.99 GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK "The Change is like a guttural rage scream (and somehow a soft, tearful hug) of a book, and I couldn't have loved it any more." --Emily Henry ...
Dinosaurs: A Novel Lydia Millet Current price: $17.95 One of NPR's Books We Love for 2022 • A New Yorker Best Books of 2022 So Far • A Publishers Weekly Best Novel of 2022 • A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2022 • One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 • An Oprah Daily and Literary Hub Favorite Bo ...
A Beautiful Rival: A Novel of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden Gill Paul Current price: $18.99 In this stunning new novel, bestselling author Gill Paul reveals the unknown history of cosmetic titans Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein and their infamous rivalry that spanned not only decades, but also broken marriages, personal tragedies, and a world that was changing dramatically ...
Jacqueline in Paris: A Novel Ann Mah Current price: $18.99 “Captivating...Mah channels Kennedy and brings postwar Paris to life with exquisite detail and insight.” -- People ...
Act of Oblivion: A Novel Robert Harris Current price: $19.99 From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliantly imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King Charles I and the im ...
The Birdcatcher Gayl Jones Current price: $17.00 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 2022 Publishers Weekly Top 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 “Gayl Jones’s work represents a watershed in American literature."—Imani Perry ...
Lucy by the Sea: A Novel Elizabeth Strout Current price: $18.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown—and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart. ...
Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era Laurence Leamer Current price: $18.00 DON’T MISS FX’s FEUD: CAPOTE VS. THE SWANS—THE ORIGINAL SERIES BASED ON THE BESTSELLING BOOK—COMING SOON! ...
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World Nichola Raihani Current price: $19.00 "Enriching" —Publisher's Weekly"Excellent and illuminating"—Wall Street Journal ...
Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods Lyndsie Bourgon Current price: $18.99 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NELLIE BY CHANTICLEER INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FOR JOURNALISTIC NON-FICTION ...
A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home Frances Mayes Current price: $17.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the author of Under the Tuscan Sun, in which the queen of wanderlust reflects on the comforts of home. ...
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us Ed Yong Current price: $20.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “thrilling” (The New York Times), “dazzling” (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize–winning ...
New Release Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America Hugh Eakin Current price: $20.00 A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world—and Picasso the most famous artist alive—in the shadow of World War II ...
The Child Is the Teacher: A Life of Maria Montessori Cristina De Stefano Current price: $18.99 A fresh, comprehensive biography of the pioneering educator and activist who changed the way we look at children’s minds, from the author of Oriana Fallaci. ...
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Curtis Bunn, Nick Charles, Keith Harriston Current price: $18.99 This definitive guide to America's present-day racial reckoning examines the forces that pushed our unjust system to its breaking point after the death of George Floyd. ...
Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test: How Behavior Evolves and Why It Matters Marlene Zuk Current price: $18.95 Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A lively exploration of animal behavior in all its glorious complexity, whether in tiny wasps, lumbering elephants, or ourselves. ...
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2022 Margaret Atwood Current price: $19.00 In this brilliant selection of essays—including three new pieces—the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaid ...
Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose Leigh Cowart Current price: $18.99 An exploration of why people all over the world love to engage in pain on purpose--from dominatrices, religious ascetics, and ultramarathoners to ballerinas, icy ocean bathers, and sideshow performers ...
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir Paul Newman Current price: $18.00 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. ...
Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer Kathy Kleiman Current price: $19.99 CLICK HERE to read our review of this book! ...
The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World David K. Randall Current price: $17.95 A Science Friday Best Book to Read This Summer A gripping narrative of a fearless paleontologist, the founding of America’s most loved museums, and the race to find the largest dinosaurs on record. ...
Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire Jonathan M. Katz Current price: $20.00 A groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power—and how its legacies shape our world today—told through the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine. ...
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller Alec Nevala-Lee Current price: $24.99 One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nominated for The Next Big Idea Club * The Week Magazine Book of the Week ...
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays Barry Lopez Current price: $18.00 NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “lyrical” (Chicago Tribune) final work of nonfiction from the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams and Horizon, a literary icon whose writing, fieldwork, and mentorship inspired generati ...
Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers Mary Rodgers, Jesse Green Current price: $20.00 The memoirs of Mary Rodgers—writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and “a woman who tried everything.” ...
Long Train Runnin': Our Story of The Doobie Brothers Pat Simmons, Tom Johnston Current price: $20.00 For the first time, the incredible true story of the legendary band, the Doobie Brothers, written by founding members Pat Simmons and Tom Johnston. ...
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir Ingrid Rojas Contreras Current price: $17.00 PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the bestselling author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's o ...
Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop Music: A History Bob Stanley Current price: $22.00 The must-read music book of the year—and the first such history bringing together all musical genres to tell the definitive narrative of the birth of Pop from 1900 to the mid-1950s. ...
France: An Adventure History Graham Robb Current price: $21.95 A wholly original history of France, filled with a lifetime’s knowledge and passion—by the author of the New York Times bestseller Parisians. ...
A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick Cathy Curtis Current price: $21.95 The first biography of the extraordinary essayist, critic, and short story writer Elizabeth Hardwick, author of the semiautobiographical novel Sleepless Nights. ...
Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821 Michael Broers Current price: $22.00 An accomplished Oxford scholar delivers a dynamic new history covering the last chapter of the emperor's life—from his defeat in Russia and the drama of Waterloo to his final exile—as the world Napoleon has created begins to crumble around him. ...
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon Kate Andersen Brower Current price: $21.99 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women, the first ever authorized biography of the most famous movie star of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Taylor. ...
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America Pekka Hämäläinen Current price: $22.00 NATIONAL BESTSELLERNew York Times Book Review • 100 Notable Books of 2022 Best Books of 2022 — New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence ...
Life's Work: A Memoir David Milch Current price: $18.00 The creator of Deadwood and NYPD Blue reflects on his tumultuous life, driven by a nearly insatiable creative energy and a matching penchant for self-destruction. ...
Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires Douglas Rushkoff Current price: $17.95 "A devastating portrait of the cultures and logics underlying big tech. Rushkoff is going to make you mad enough to fight back. A vital, lucid, and enraging read." —Naomi Klein ...
