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Guide to Chicago's Twenty-First-Century Architecture
John Hill, Chicago Architecture Center (University of Illinois Press) $34.95
Nature's Palette: A Color Reference System from the Natural World
Patrick Baty (Princeton University Press)
$39.95
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
Linda Nochlin (Thames & Hudson) $14.95
Immutable: Designing History
Chris Lee (Onomatopee Press) $25.00
Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction
Sophie Taeuber-Arp, ed. Charlotte Healy
(Museum of Modern Art)
$75.00
Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect
Edited by Romi Crawford (The Green Lantern Press)
$29.95
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Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (Penguin) $60
Abloh-isms
Virgil Abloh,
ed. Larry Warsh (Princeton University Press) $14.95
Treasures of the New York Public Library
New York Public Library (St. Martin's Press)
$50.00
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Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art
Robert Cozzolino (University of Chicago Press) $50.00
The Bloomsbury Group
Frances Spalding (National Portrait Gallery, London) $24.95
Hip-Hop Architecture
Sekou Cooke
(Bloomsbury Visual Arts)
$34.95
As architecture grapples with its own racist legacy, Hip-Hop Architecture outlines a powerful new manifesto-the voice of the underrepresented, marginalized, and voiceless within the discipline. Exploring the production of spaces, buildings, and urban environments that embody the creative energies in hip-hop, it is a newly expanding design philosophy which sees architecture as a distinct part of hip-hop's cultural expression, and which uses hip-hop as a lens through which to provoke new architectural ideas.
Remember to Dream!: 100 Artists, 100 Notes
Hans Ulrich Obrist (HENI Publishing) $14.95
The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512-1570
Keith Christiansen (Metropolitan Museum of Art) $65.00
Anita Kunz (Fantagraphics)
$24.99
Georgia O’Keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe (D.A.P./Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza) $65.00
Cheese, Wine, and Bread: Discovering the Magic of Fermentation in England, Italy, and France
Katie Quinn (William Morrow Cookbooks) $29.99
Lindsay Gardner
(Workman Publishing Company)
$24.95
With more than one hundred women restaurateurs, activists, food writers, professional chefs, and home cooks—all of whom are changing the world of food. Featuring essays, profiles, recipes, and more, Why We Cook is curated and illustrated by author and artist Lindsay Gardner, whose visual storytelling gifts bring nuance and insight into their words and their work, revealing the power of food to nourish, uplift, inspire curiosity, and effect change.
Rodney Scott's World of BBQ: Recipes and Perspectives from the Legendary Pitmaster
Lolis Eric Elie, Rodney Scott (Clarkson Potter) $29.99
We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
Alice Waters (Penguin Press)
$26.00
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The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook
Alice B. Toklas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) $16.99
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Milk Street: Tuesday Nights Mediterranean
Christopher Kimball (Voracious) $35.00
The Family Meal: Home Cooking With Ferran Adrià
Ferran Adrià (Phaidon Press)
$45.00
Jew-ish: Reinvented Recipes From a Modern Mensch
Jake Cohen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) $30.00
The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (With Recipes)
Kate Lebo (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) $28.00
The Kitchen Without Borders: Recipes and Stories from Refugee and Immigrant Chefs
The Eat Offbeat Chefs (Workman Publishing Company) $24.95
Getaway: Food and Drink to Transport You
Renee Erickson (Abrams)
$40.00
A Table: Recipes for Cooking and Eating the French Way
Rebekah Peppler (Chronicle Books)
$29.95
The Twisted Soul Cookbook: Modern Soul Food With Global Flavors
Deborah VanTrece (Rizzoli) $35.00
Mother Grains: Recipes for the Grain Revolution
Roxana Jullapat
(W. W. Norton & Company)
$40.00
Fermented Foods: The History and Science of a Microbiological Wonder
Christine Baumgarthuber (Reaktion Books) $20.00
Bress 'n' Nyam: Gullah Geechee Recipes from a Sixth-Generation Farmer
Matthew Raiford
(Countryman Press)
$30.00
From Hot Buttermilk Biscuits and Sweet Potato Pie to Salmon Cakes on Pepper Rice and Gullah Fish Stew, Gullah Geechee food is an essential cuisine of American history. From the Carolinas to Georgia and Florida, this is where descendants of enslaved Africans came together to make extraordinary food, speaking the African Creole language called Gullah Geechee. In this groundbreaking and beautiful cookbook, Matthew Raiford pays homage to this cuisine that nurtured his family for seven generations. In this collection of heritage and updated recipes, he traces a history of community and family brought together by food.
Boards, Platters, Plates: Recipes for Entertaining, Sharing, and Snacking
Maria Zizka (Artisan) $19.95
Tables & Spreads: A Go-To Guide for Beautiful Snacks, Intimate Gatherings, and Inviting Feasts
Shelly Westerhausen (Chronicle Books) $27.95
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Everyday Dinners: Real-Life Recipes to Set Your Family Up for a Week of Success: A Cookbook
Jessica Merchant
(Rodale Books)
$29.99
To Write As If Already Dead
Kate Zambreno (Columbia University Press)
$18.00
Just as I Am
Cecily Tyson (HarperCollins Publishers) $28.99
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Natasha Trethewey (Ecco)
$16.99
Nothing Personal
James Baldwin (Beacon Press) $18.00
Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace
Yiyun Li (A Public Space Books)
$22.00
Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser
Susan Bernofsky (Yale University Press) $35.00
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Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton
Gail Crowther (Gallery Books) $28.00
Of Human Kindness: What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy
Paula Marantz Cohen
(Yale University Press) $24.00
Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin
James Campbell (University of California Press)
$19.95
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The Prairie Gardener's Go-To for Small Spaces
Janet Melrose, Sheryl Normandeau (Touchwood Editions) $15.00
Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse
Anahid Nersessian (University of Chicago Press)
$20.00
The Hidden History of Coined Words
Ralph Keyes (Oxford University Press)
$29.95
Books Promiscuously Read: Reading As a Way of Life
Heather Cass White (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) $25
Patented: 1,000 Design Patents
Thomas Rinaldi (Phaidon Press)
$39.95
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
John McWhorter (Avery) $24.00
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
Olivia Laing (W. W. Norton & Company) $16.95
The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm
Caleb Scharf
(Riverhead Books)
$28.00
The Inner Life of Animals: Life, Grief, and Compassion - Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
Peter Wohlleben
(Greystone Books)
$16.95
Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water
Kazim Ali (Milkweed Editions)
$24.00
Tom Stoppard: A Life
Hermione Lee (Knopf) $37.50
Vera Rubin: A Life
Jacqueline Mitton, Simon Mitton
(Belknap Press)
$29.95
The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
$24.00
The Craft of Poetry: A Primer in Verse
Lucy Newlyn (Yale University Press) $25.00
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
Akwaeke Emezi
(Riverhead Books) $27.00
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Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
Stephen Budiansky
(W. W. Norton & Company)
$30.00
Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
Gina Frangello (Counterpoint) $27.00
Blackface
Ayanna Thompson
(Bloomsbury Academic) $14.95
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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
Kate Moore (Sourcebooks) $27.99
The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive
Phillippe Sands (Knopf) $30.00
A Life in the Making
Franz Michael Felder
(Pushkin Press)
$18.95
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
Timothy Brennan (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) $35.00
Sensational: The Hidden History of America's “Girl Stunt Reporters”
Kim Todd (Harper) $27.99
For Joshua: An Ojibwe Father Teaches His Son
Richard Wagamese (Milkweed Editions) $16.00
Own the Arena: Getting Ahead, Making a Difference, and Succeeding as the Only One
Katrina M. Adams (Amistad) $26.99
Feelings: A Story In Seasons
Manjit Thapp (Random House) $21.99
Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir
Rajiv Mohabir (Restless Books) $27.00
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
Dipesh Chakrabarty
(University of Chicago Press) $25.00
An Atlas of Extinct Countries: The Remarkable (And Occasionally Ridiculous) Stories of 48 Nations that Fell off the Map
Gideon Defoe (Europa Compass)
$26.00
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Rebecca Hall (Simon & Schuster) $29.99
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Penguin Press)
$30.00
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
Elinor Cleghorn (Dutton) $28.00
Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture
Annelise Heinz
(Oxford University Press) $34.95
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Letters to Camondo
Edmund de Waal (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) $28.00
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
Elizabeth Hinton (Liveright) $29.95
On Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed (Liveright)
$15.95
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Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960
Arnold R. Hirsch (University of Chicago Press) $20.00
The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France
James McAuley
(Yale University Press)
$30.00
Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
Anne Sebba (St. Martin's Press) $27.99
The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom
James Romm
(Scribner)
$28.00
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Louis Menand (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) $35.00
Euripides' Trojan Women
Rosanna Bruno, Anne Carson
(New Directions) $19.95
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Yang Jisheng, trans. Guo Jian and Stacy Mosher
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) $40.00
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
Claudio Saunt (W. W. Norton & Company)
$16.95
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home
Alexander Wolff (Atlantic Monthly Press) $28.00
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
Mia Bay
(Belknap Press)
$35.00
Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World
Johanna Katrin Friðriksdottir
(Bloomsbury Academic)
$17.95
Valkyries: the female supernatural beings that choose who dies and who lives on the battlefield. The women in these stories take full part in the power struggles and upheavals in their communities, for better or worse. Drawing on the latest historical and archaeological evidence, Valkyrie introduces readers to the dramatic and fascinating texts recorded in medieval Iceland, a culture able to imagine women in all kinds of roles carrying power, not just in this world, but pulling the strings in the other-world, too. In the process, this fascinating book uncovers the reality behind the myths and legends to reveal the dynamic, diverse lives of Viking women.
The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
Danielle Dreilinger
(W. W. Norton & Company)
$27.95
On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience
Michael D. Gordin
(Oxford University Press) $18.95
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Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE
Kate Vigurs
(Yale University Press)
$27.50
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The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History
David F. Walker
(Ten Speed Press) $19.99
Black Women's Health: Paths to Wellness for Mothers and Daughters
Michele Tracy Berger (NYU Press) $30.00
Anna Malaika Tubbs (Flatiron Books) $28.99
Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them. In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes.
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Edited by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain
(One World) $32.00
Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
Michelle Duster (Atria/One Signal Publishers) $27.00
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Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual
Luvvie Ajayi Jones
(Penguin Life)
$26.00
Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resistance
Moya Bailey (NYU Press) $28.00
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Winter Pasture: One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders
Li Juan, trans. Jack Hargreaves and Yan Yan
(Astra House)
$28.00
Selina Mahmood
(Belt Publishing) $16.95
My Broken Language: A Memoir
Quiara Alegría Hudes
(One World) $28.00
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
Kristen Radtke
(Pantheon) $30.00
Synthesizing Gravity
Kay Ryan (Grove Press) $16.00
Allegorizings
Jan Morris (Liveright)
$24.95
The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency
Tove Ditlevsen, trans. Michael Favala Goldman and Tiina Nunnally (Farrar, Straus and Grioux)
$30.00
Migratory Birds
Mariana Oliver, trans. Julia Sanches (Transit Books) $15.95
Father Figure: How to Be a Feminist Dad
Jordan Shapiro (Little Brown Spark)
$27.00
Migratory Birds
Mariana Oliver, trans. Julia Sanches (Transit Books) $15.95
Voices in the Evening
Natalia Ginsburg, trans. D.M. Low
(New Directions)
$14.95
Second Place
Rachel Cusk (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) $25.00
The Membranes
Chi Ta-wei, trans. Ari Larissa Heinrich (Columbia University Press) $17.00
Cleanness
Garth Greenwell (Picador)
$16.00
Painting Time
Maylis de Kerangal, trans. Jessica Moore
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) $27.00
The Removed
Brandon Hobson (Ecco) $26.99
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Of Women and Salt
Gabriela Garcia
(Flat Iron Books) $26.99
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf) $28.00
The Other Black Girl
Zakiya Dalila Harris (Atria Books)
$27.00
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An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
Clarice Lispector, trans. Stefan Tobler
(New Directions) $22.95
Whereabouts
Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf)
$24.00
Caul Baby
Morgan Jerkins (Harper) $27.99
Deacon King Kong
James McBride (Riverhead Books) $17.00
My Year Abroad
Chang-rae Lee (Riverhead Books) $28.00
Heaven
Mieko Kawakami, trans. Sam Bett and David Boyd
(Europa Editions) $23.00
Slipping
Mohamed Kheir, trans. Robin Moger
(Two Lines Press) $16.95
Death and So Forth
Gordon Lish
(Dzanc Books)
$24.95
Monogamy
Sue Miller
(Harper Perennial) $17.00
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Antiquities
Cynthia Ozick (Knopf) $21.00
First Person Singular
Haruki Murakami (Knopf)
$28.00
Tokyo Ueno Station
Yu Miri (Riverhead Books) $16.00
Milk Blood Heat
Dantiel W. Moniz (Grove Press) $25.00
The Women of Brewster Place
Gloria Naylor (Penguin Classics)
$26.00
The Five Wounds
Kristin Valdez Quade (W.W Norton & Company) $26.95
Summerwater
Sarah Moss
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) $25.00
Things We Lost to the Water
Eric Nguyen (Knopf) $26.95
Magic City
Jewell Parker Rhodes (Harper Perennial) $16.99
The Lost Soul
Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Seven Stories Press)
$22.95
The Man Who Lived Underground
Richard Wright (Library of America) $22.95
Gold Diggers
Sanjena Sathian (Penguin Press) $27.00
The Secret Talker
Geling Yan, trans. Jeremy Tiang
(Harper Via) $23.99
Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead (Knopf) $28.95
We Run the Tides
Vendela Vida (Ecco)
$26.99
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The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Dawnie Walton (Simon & Schuster) $27.00
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (University of Minnesota Press) $24.95
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Lorna Mott Comes Home: A Novel
Diane Johnson (Knopf) $28.00
The Echo Wife
Sarah Gailey (Tor Books) $24.99
The Vixen:
A Novel
Francine Prose
(Harper)
$25.99
The Sweetness of Water:
A Novel
Nathan Harris (Little, Brown and Company) $28.00
Filthy Animals
Brandon Taylor (Riverhead Books) $26.00
First, Become Ashes
K.M. Szpara (Tordotcom) $27.99
Girl One:
A Novel
Sara Flannery Murphy
(MCD)
$27.00
Last Comes the Raven
Italo Calvino (Mariner Books) $15.99
The Ninth Metal
Benjamin Percy (Mariner Books) $15.99
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
Rivka Galchen
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
$27.00
The Kindest Lie
Nancy Johnson (William Morrow)
$27.99
Black Sun
Rebecca Roanhorse
(Gallery/
Saga Press)
$16.99
A Girl Is A Body of Water
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
(Tin House Books) $17.95
Under the Spell: A Novel
Benjamin Hedin
(Triquarterly Books) $21.95
Rainbow Milk
Paul Mendes
(Doubleday)
$26.95
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Of One Blood
Pauline Hopkins (Poisoned Pen Press) $14.99
Malice
Heather Walter (Del Rey) $27.00
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The Golden Ass
Apuleius, ed. Peter Singer, trans. Ellen Finkelpearl (Liveright)
$19.95
Vernon Subutex 3
Virginie Despentes, trans. Frank Wynne (FSG Originals) $18.00
Mieko Kawakami, trans. Sam Bett, David Boyd (Europa Editions) $16.95
Breasts and Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own. It tells the story of three women: the thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko’s daughter, Midoriko. Makiko has traveled to Tokyo in search of an affordable breast enhancement procedure. She is accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently grown silent, finding herself unable to voice the vague yet overwhelming pressures associated with growing up. Her silence proves a catalyst for each woman to confront her fears and frustrations.
With Teeth
Kristen Arnett (Riverhead Books) $27.00
The Smash-Up
Ali Benjamin (Random House) $27.00
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Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story
Talib Kweli (MCD)
$27.00
The Guitar: Tracing the Grain Back to the Tree
Chris Gibson, Andrew Warren (University of Chicago Press) $20.00
Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
Soyica Diggs Colbert (Yale University Press) $30.00
A Singing Army: Zilphia Horton and the Highlander Folk School
Kim Ruehl (University of Texas Press)
$29.95
The Life of Music: New Adventures in the Western Classical Tradition
Nicholas Kenyon
(Yale University Press)
$27.50
Mike Nichols: A Life
Mark Harris (Penguin Press) $35.00
Giving A Damn: Racism, Romance and Gone With The Wind
Patricia Williams (TLS Books) $12.99
Fred Rogers: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Fred Rogers (Melville House) $16.99
Why Labelle Matters
Adele Bertei (University of Texas Press) $18.95
The Survivors
Jane Harper (Flatiron Books)
$27.99
Girl A
Abigail Dean (Viking) $27.00
Stacey Abrams (Doubleday) $28.00
The Consequences of Fear
Jacqueline Winspear (Harper) $27.99
The Lightseekers
Femi Kayode (Mulholland Books)
$28.00
Little Eyes
Samanta Schweblin (Riverhead Books) $16.00
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Maxwell's Demon
Steven Hall (Grove Press) $26.00
Lady Joker, Volume 1
Kaoru Takamura, trans. Marie Lida and Allison Markin Powell
(Soho Crime)
$28.95
Transient Desires
Donna Leon
(Atlantic Monthly Press) $27.00
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The Bedside Books of Birds: An Avian Miscellany
Graeme Gibson (Nan A. Talese)
$40.00
Diary of a Young Naturalist
Dara McAnulty (Milkweed Editions) $25.00
Rosa: The Story of the Rose
Peter E. Kukielski, Charles Phillips (Yale University Press) $30.00
Florapedia: A Brief Compendium of Floral Lore
Carol Gracie (Princeton University Press)
$16.95
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Work, Talk, Play, Parent, and Think
Jennifer Ackerman (Penguin Books) $18.00
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Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
Cal Flyn
(Viking)
$27.00
The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings
Sy Montgomery (Atria Books)
$20.00
Lessons from Plants
Beronda L. Montgomery (Harvard University Press) $22.95
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The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living with Less
Christine Platt (Tiller Press) $27.99
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
Scott Weidensaul (W.W. Norton & Company) $32.00
What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be?
Edited by John Hausdoerffer, Brook Parry Hecht, Melissa K. Nelson, Katherine Kassouf Cummings
(University of Chicago Press)
$27.50
As we face an ever-more-fragmented world, What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? demands a return to the force of lineage—to spiritual, social, and ecological connections across time. Published in association with the Center for Humans and Nature and interweaving essays, interviews, and poetry, this book brings together a thoughtful community of Indigenous and other voices—including Linda Hogan, Wendell Berry, Winona LaDuke, Vandana Shiva, Robin Kimmerer, and Wes Jackson—to explore what we want to give to our descendants.
Birdpedia: A Brief Compendium of Avian Lore
Christopher W. Leahy (Princeton University Press) $16.95
Beloved Beasts : Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
Michelle Nijhuis
(W.W. Norton & Company) $27.95
The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucalt and the End of Revolution
Mitchell Dean, Daniel Zamora (Verso)
$26.95
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, ed. Robin Waterfield (Basic Books) $28.00
Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment
Benjamin Storey, Jenna Silber Storey (Princeton University Press) $27.95
The Great Guide: What David Hume can Teach Us About Being Human and Living Well
Julian Baggini (Princeton University Press) $24.95
Radical Humility: Essays on Ordinary Acts
Edited by Rebekah Modrak, Jamie Vander Broek (Belt Publishing)
$16.95
Citadels of Pride: Sexual Abuse, Accountability, and Reconciliation
Martha C. Nussbaum (W.W. Norton & Company) $27.95
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Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience
Nancy Sherman (Oxford University Press) $24.95
Bald: 35 Philosophical Shortcuts
Simon Critchley (Yale University Press) $25.00
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The Salon of 1846
Charles Baudelaire (David Zwirner Books) $12.95
Dēmos: An American Multitude
Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley (Milkweed Editions)
$16.00
The Essential Muriel Rukeyser: Poems
Muriel Rukeyser (Ecco) $16.99
The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women
Translated by Dick Davis
(Penguin Classics) $17.00
Poems of Healing
Karl Kirchwey (Everyman's Library)
$15.95
Collected Poems
Sonia Sanchez (Beacon Press) $29.95
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry
Edited by Joy Harjo
(W. W. Norton & Company) $15.00
Field Study
Chet'la Sebree (FSG Originals)
$16.00
Black Girl, Call Home
Jasmine Mans (Berkley) $15.00
The Renunciations
Donika Kelly
(Graywolf Press)
$16.00
Somebody Else Sold the World
Adrian Matejka (Penguin Books)
$20.00
What Water Knows
Jacqueline Jones LaMon (Triquarterly) $17.00
Black Earth: Selected Poems and Prose
Osip Mandelstam (New Directions) $16.95
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021
Yusef Komunyakaa (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
$35.00
Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Finished Longer Works
John Ashbery (Ecco) $26.99
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The New World Written: Selected Poems
Maria Barranda (Yale University Press) $30.00
Tropical Lung: exi(s)t(s)
Roberto Harrison
(Omnidawn)
$19.95
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Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares: Horses in Indian Myth and History
Wendy Doniger (University of Virginia Press) $35.00
Sufi Lyrics: Selections from a World Classic
Bullhe Shah, trans. Christopher Shackle $19.95. (Harvard University Press)
Take Back What the Devil Stole: An African American Prophet's Encounters in the Spirit World
Onaje X. O. Woodbine
(Columbia University Press)
$30.00
Ms. Donna Haskins is an African American woman who wrestles with structural inequity in the streets of Boston by inhabiting an alternate dimension she refers to as the “spirit realm.” In this other place, she is prepared by the Holy Spirit to challenge the restrictions placed upon Black female bodies in the United States. Growing into her spiritual gifts of astral flight and time travel, Donna meets the spirits of enslaved Africans, conducts spiritual warfare against sexual predators, and tends to the souls of murdered Black children whose ghosts haunt the inner city.
The Gospels
Translated by Sarah Ruden (Modern Library) $28.00
Against the Hounds of Hell: A Life of Howard Thurman
Peter Eisenstadt (University of Virginia Press) $34.95
Beyond: How Humankind Thinks About Heaven
Catherine Wolff (Riverhead Books) $28.00
Poems of the First Buddhist Women
Trans. Charles Hallisey (Harvard University Press) $19.95
Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic
Emma Goldberg (Harper) $27.99
Extraordinary Orchids
Sandra Knapp (University of Chicago Press) $30.00
In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration
Shane O'Mara
(W. W. Norton & Company) $15.95
What Is Life? Five Great Ideas in Biology
Paul Nurse (W. W. Norton & Company) $20.00
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
Jordan Ellenberg (Penguin Press) $28.00
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A Sense of Self: Memory, the Brain, and Who We Are
Veronica O'Keane (W. W, Norton & Company) $27.95
Nathaniel Rich
(MCD)
$27.00
Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How it Made Us Human
Rob Dunn, Monica Sanchez (Princeton University Press) $27.95
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A Planet of Viruses
Carl Zimmer (University of Chicago Press)
$15.00
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, & Dreams Deferred
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
(Bold Type Books)
$28.00
In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter. One of the leading physicists of her generation, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is also one of fewer than one hundred Black American women to earn a PhD from a department of physics. Her vision of the cosmos is vibrant, buoyantly non-traditional, and grounded in Black feminist traditions. She lays out a bold new approach to science and society that begins with the belief that we all have a fundamental right to know and love the night sky. The Disordered Cosmos dreams into existence a world that allows everyone to experience and understand the wonders of the universe.
Do Not Erase: Mathematicians and Their Chalkboards
Jessica Wynne (Princeton University Press) $28.00
Mathematics for Human Flourishing
Francis Su
(Yale University Press)
$16.00
This Is Your Mind on Plants
Michael Pollan (Penguin Press) $28.00
Hummingbird Salamander
Jeff VanderMeer (MCD) $27.00
Winter's Orbit
Everina Maxwell (Tor Books) $24.99
Rise & Shine
Patrick Allington (Scribe US) $16.00
Remote Control
Nnedi Okorafor (Tordotcom) $19.99
Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories (LOA #338)
Octavia E. Butler (Library of America) $35.00
The Widow Queen
Elzbieta Cherezinska (Forge Books) $25.99
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A Court of Silver Flames
Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Publishing) $28.00
Sorrowland
Rivers Solomon (MCD) $27.00
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Suzanne Koven (W. W. Norton & Company) $26.95
Suffragette Manifestos
Various Authors
(Penguin Books)
$13.00
The Feminist Book Society (The Feminist Press at CUNY) $25.95
In essays, short fiction, poetry, and more, writers respond to the personal and the political in the time of pandemic. This Is How We Come Back Stronger provides an essential feminist perspective on how we might move forward—and reminds us that, despite it all, we are not alone.
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
Daphne A. Brooks (Belknap Press) $39.95
The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marraige
Sasha Issenberg (Pantheon) $40.00
Ain't I A Woman?
Sojourner Truth (Penguin Books)
$13.00
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Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture
Badia Ahad-Legardy (University of Illinois Press) $26.95
Hood Feminism: Notes From The Women That A Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall (Penguin Books) $16.00
Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition
Schomburg Center (Penguin Classics) $22.00
The New Age of Empire: How Racism & Colonialism Still Rule the World
Kehinde Andrews (Bold Type Books) $29.00
Shades of Black
Nathalie Etoke, trans. Gia Walker (Seagull Books) $14.50
Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?
Jesse McCarthy (Liveright) $27.95
How the World Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery
Clint Smith (Little, Brown & Company) $29.00
The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans
Jonathan Scott Holloway (Oxford University Press) $18.95
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
Michael Lewis (W. W. Norton & Company) $30.00
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
Wendell Berry (Counterpoint) $10.00
The Second: Race and Guns in Fatally Unequal America
Carol Anderson (Bloomsbury Publishing) $28.00
There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness
M. Leona Godin (Pantheon) $28.00
Nesrine Malik (W. W. Norton & Company) $23.95
Anarchist Communism
Peter Kropotkin
(Penguin Books)
$13.00
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Heather McGhee (One World) $28.00
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue
Adrian Miller (The University of North Carolina Press) $30.00
There's a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis
Edited by Tracy K. Smith, John Freeman (Vintage) $16.95
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Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women
Inger Burnett-Zeigler (Amistad Press) $24.99
Family Properties (10th Anniversary Edition): Race, Real Estate,
and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
Beryl Satter
(Picador)
$24.00
The World Explained
in 264 Infographics
Jan Schwochow (Prestel) $65.00
Racism and the Class Struggle: The Meaning of Black Revolt in the United States
James Boggs
(Monthly Review Press)
$19.00
The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers
Mark Gevisser
(Picador)
$21.00
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Amanda Montell (Harper Wave) $27.99
Queer Love in Color
Jamal Jordan
(Ten Speed Press)
$28.00
Monkey King: Journey to the West
Wu Cheng'en, trans. Julia Lovell (Penguin Classics) $30.00
On Violence and on Violence Against Women
Jacqueline Rose
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) $30.00
Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching
Jarvis R. Givens
(Harvard University Press)
$35.00
Black education was a subversive act from its inception. African Americans pursued education through clandestine means, often in defiance of law and custom, even under threat of violence. They developed what Jarvis Givens calls a tradition of “fugitive pedagogy”—a theory and practice of Black education in America. The enslaved learned to read in spite of widespread prohibitions; newly emancipated people braved the dangers of integrating all-White schools and the hardships of building Black schools. Teachers developed covert instructional strategies, creative responses to the persistence of White opposition. From slavery through the Jim Crow era, Black people passed down this educational heritage.
Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball
Christopher J. Phillips
(Princeton University Press) $19.95
King Kong Theory
Virginie Despentes, trans. Frank Wynne
(FSG Originals) $15.00
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Let the Record Show: A Political History of Act Up New York, 1987-1993
Sarah Schulman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) $40.00
How to Tell a Joke: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor
Marcus Tullius Cicero, trans. by Michael Fontaine
Can jokes win a hostile room, a hopeless argument, or even an election? You bet they can, according to Cicero, and he knew what he was talking about. One of Rome’s greatest politicians, speakers, and lawyers, Cicero was also reputedly one of antiquity’s funniest people. After he was elected commander-in-chief and head of state, his enemies even started calling him “the stand-up Consul.” How to Tell a Joke provides a lively new translation of Cicero’s essential writing on humor alongside that of the later Roman orator and educator Quintilian. The result is a timeless practical guide to how a well-timed joke can win over any audience.
How to Keep an Open Mind: An Ancient Guide to Thinking like a Skeptic
Sextus Empiricus, trans. by Richard Bett
Along with Stoicism and Epicureanism, Skepticism is one of the three major schools of ancient Greek philosophy that claim to offer a way of living as well as thinking. How to Keep an Open Mind provides an unmatched introduction to skepticism by presenting a fresh, modern translation of key passages from the writings of Sextus Empiricus, the only Greek skeptic whose works have survived.
Danny Caine
Danny Caine
El Dorado Freddy's may be the first book of fast food poetry. In "Olive Garden," "Culver's," "Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen," "Cracker Barrel," "Applebee's (after James Wright)" and other poems, Caine "reviews" chain restaurants, taking on topics such as parenting, the Midwest, politics, and chicken fingers along the way.
Danny Caine
A 16-page zine serving as a quick introduction to the struggles facing the USPS and why it needs to be saved. Much is at stake when we discuss the future of the USPS, including live-saving medications, the democratic process, millions of jobs, and the fate of any small business trying to compete in the big-tech-dominated online marketplace.
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How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future!
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Laurie Colwin
(Vintage)
$16.00
To the rest of the world, Polly Solo-Miller Demarest lives a charmed life. She has a beautiful home, a dashing lawyer husband, and two delightful children. But beneath this idyllic surface, the pressure of being the “perfect flower” of an illustrious family—and a stable, always-available wife, mother, and daughter—are getting to her. The spark has gone out of her marriage, and to her own surprise, she’s having an affair. What follows is at once cathartic and provoking, and both may be necessary states in order for Polly to become the kind of person she wants to be. Family Happiness is a heartfelt novel about a midlife crisis and a woman tired of being taken for granted—and a reminder that family, like happiness, can take many forms.
Laurie Colwin
(Vintage)
$16.00
Josephine “Billy” Delielle and Francis Clemens are happily married—just not to each other. Another Marvelous Thing is the story of their affair, from its fabulous inception to its inevitable end. Billy and Francis couldn’t be more different, at least when it comes to age and disposition, but that doesn’t prevent them from falling in love and settling into the easy rhythms of romance—phone calls every morning, rendezvous every weekday afternoon, the odd out-of-town escape—despite both still being very partial to their spouses. In interconnected stories, Laurie Colwin deftly reveals each character’s point of view and examines, in razor-sharp detail, the “marvelous” and messy glory of modern love and the curious desires of the heart. This whirlwind romance, perfectly captured in Colwinesque frank and funny style, is firm proof that opposites really do attract.
Laurie Colwin
(Vintage)
$16.00
Free to Be Elephant Me
(Ages 4-8)
Giles Andreae (Orchard Books) $18.99
Crunch the Shy Dinosaur
(Ages 3-5)
Ciocco Dunlap (Random House) $8.99
The Crayons' Book of Feelings
(Ages 1-3)
Drew Daywalt (Philomel Books)
$8.99
Memory Jars
(Ages 4-8)
Vera Brosgol (Roaring Brook Press) $18.99
Oddbird
(Ages 2-5)
Derek Desierto (Feiwel & Friends) $18.99
What Do You Know?
(Ages 5-8)
Aracelis Girmay (Enchanted Lion Books) $17.95
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Fred Gets Dressed
(Ages 3-6)
Peter Brown (Little Brown Books)
$18.99
Not Yeti
(Ages 4-7)
Kelly Dipuccio (Viking Books for Young Readers) $17.99
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Pillow Places
(Ages 4-8)
Joseph Kuefler (Balzer & Bray)
$18.99
I Am Smart, I Am Blessed I Can Do Anything!
(Ages 3-7)
Alissa Holder (Flamingo Books) $17.99
Hello from Here
(Ages 0-3)
Pamela Kennedy
(Worthy Kids)
$7.99
The Rock From the Sky
(Ages 4-8)
Jon Klassen (Candlewick Press)
$18.99
What Are Your Words?
(Ages 4-8)
Katherine Locke
(Little Brown Books)
$17.99
Turtle in a Tree
(Ages 3-7)
Neesha Hudson (Dial Books) $17.99
Sharing a Smile
(Ages 4-8)
Nicki Kramar (Simon & Schuster) $17.99
The Circles All Around Us
(Ages 3-6)
Brad Montague (Dial Books)
$17.99
Toasty
(Ages 4-6)
Sarah Hwang (Margaret Ferguson Books) $17.99
This Is Ruby
(Ages 4-7)
Sara O'Leary (Tundra Books) $17.99
A Boy Named Isamu
(Ages 4-7)
James Yang (Viking Books for Young Readers) $17.99
My Shadow is Pink (Ages 4-7) Scott Stuart (Larrikin House) $16.99
My Shadow is Pink is a beautifully written rhyming story that touches on the subjects of gender identity, self acceptance, equality and diversity. Inspired by the author's own little boy, The main character likes princesses, fairies and things 'not for boys'... he soon learns (through the support of his dad) that everyone has a shadow that they sometimes feel they need to hide. This is an important book for a new generation of children (and adults alike) which exemplifies the concepts of unconditional love, respect and positive parenting.