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Finna
Nate Marshall
One World
$17.00
Memorial
Bryan Washington
Riverhead Books
$27.00
Memorial Drive
Natasha Trethewey
Ecco Press
$27.99
For Now
Eileen Myles
Yale University Press
$18.00
Having and Being Had
Eula Biss
Riverhead Books
$26.00
Runaway
Jorie Graham
Ecco Press
$26.99
How Should One Read a Book?
Virginia Woolf
Laurence King
$9.99
The Searcher
Tana French
Viking
$27.00
Just Us: An American Conversation
Claudia Rankine
Graywolf Press
$30.00
Think Least of Death
Steven Nadler
Princeton University Press
$27.95
Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi
Knopf Publishing Group
$27.95
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Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America
Okwui Enwezor
Phaidon Press
$79.95
Angela Davis: Seize the Time
Gerry Beegan,
Donna Gustafson
Hirmer Verlag GmbH
$45.00
GLORY: Magical Visions of Black Beauty
Kahran and Regis Bethencourt
St. Martin's Press
$30.00
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
AK Press
$15.00
Revolution or Death: The Life of Eldridge Cleaver
Justin Gifford
Lawrence Hill Books
$28.99
Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream
Mychal Denzel Smith
Bold Type Books
$26.00
White Negroes
Lauren Michele Jackson
Beacon Press
$16.00
You Next: Reflections in Black Barber Shops
Antonio Johnson
Lawrence Hill Books
$26.99
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Martha S Jones
Basic Books
$30.00
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The Conservatory: Gardens Under Glass
Alan Stein, Nancy Virts Princeton Architectural Press $60.00
Celebrate People's History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution
Josh MacPhee
Feminist Press
$28.95
Bisa Butler: Portraits
Erica Warren
Art Institute of Chicago
$35.00
Hilma af Klint: Artist, Researcher, Medium
Iris Muller-Westermann
Hatje Cantz
$55.00
Goya: A Portrait of the Artist
Janis Tomlinson
Princeton University Press
$35.00
Golem Girl
Riva Lehrer
One World
$30.00
Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History
Elizabeth Ferrer
University of Washington Press
$95.00
Island Zombie: Iceland Writings
Roni Horn
Princeton University Press
$35.00
Joan Mitchell
Katy Siegel
Yale University Press
$65.00
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Max Siedentopf: Home Alone: A Survival Guide
Max Siedentopf
Hatje Cantz
$14.00
Matisse: The Books
Louise Rogers Lalaurie
University of Chicago Press
$75.00
Monet: Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Katie Hanson
MFA Publications
$19.95
Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair
Tameka Ellington, Joseph L Underwood
Hirmer Verlag GmbH
$39.95
Take Care of Your Self: The Art and Politics of Care and Liberation
Sundus Abdul Hadi
Common Notions
$16.00
Walker Evans: Starting from Scratch
Svetlana Alpers
Princeton University Press
$39.95
A Promised Land (Crown Publishing Group)
Barack Obama
In the first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world. A Promised Land is the story of one man’s bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage. Yet Obama never wavers from his belief that progress is always possible. This book captures Barack Obama’s conviction that democracy is not a gift from on high but something built together, day by day.
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The Obama Portraits (Princeton University Press)
Taina Caragol, Kim Sajet, Dorothy Moss, Richard Powell
The portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama have become two of the most beloved artworks of our time. The Obama Portraits is the first book about the making, meaning, and significance of these remarkable artworks. This book offers insight into what these paintings can tell us about the history of portraiture and American culture. The volume also features a transcript of the unveiling ceremony. A reversible dust jacket allows readers to choose which portrait to display on the front cover. This book speaks to the power of art—especially portraiture—to bring people together and promote cultural change.
Becoming (Crown Publishing Group)
Michelle Obama
As First Lady of the United States of America, Michelle Obama helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls around the world. In her memoir, Obama chronicles the experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive, to her time spent at the White House. Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same.
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Chicago's Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City
Carl Smith
Atlantic Monthly Press
$28.00
Chicago Apartments: A Century and Beyond of Lakefront Luxury
Neil Harris
University of Chicago Press
$85.00
The City in a Garden
John Mark Hansen
University of Chicago Press
$34.98
In the Eye of the Storm: My Time as Chairman of Bank of America During the Country's Worst Financial Crisis
Walter E Massey
Beckham Publications
$14.95
I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters
David Masciotra
I. B. Tauris & Company
$27.00
Mayor Harold Washington: Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago
Roger Biles
University of Illinois Press
$24.95
Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL
R D Rosen
Grove Press
$18.00
Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City
William Sites
University of Chicago Press
$30.00
The Opening of the American Mind: Ten Years of The Point
The Point
University of Chicago Press
$18.00
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Aegean: Recipes from the Mountains to the Sea
Marianna Leivaditaki
Interlink Books
$35.00
Chi Spacca: A New Approach to American Cooking
Nancy Silverton, Ryan DeNicola, Carolynn Carreno
Knopf Publishing Group
$35.00
Coconut & Sambal: Recipes from My Indonesian Kitchen
Lara Lee
Bloomsbury Publishing
$35.00
The Complete America's Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook 2001-2021: Every Recipe from the Hit TV Show with Product Ratings and a Look Behind the Scenes
America's Test Kitchen
$45.00
The French Laundry, Per Se: The Art of Finesse
Thomas Keller
Artisan Publishers
$75.00
The Flavor Equation: The Science of Great Cooking Explained in More Than 100 Essential Recipes
Nik Sharma
Chronicle Books
$35.00
I Cook in Color: Bright Flavors from My Kitchen and Around the World
Asha Gomez and Martha Hall Foose
Running Press
$32.50
The Goode Guide to Wine: A Manifesto of Sorts
Jamie Goode
University of California Press
$18.95
Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter
Nigel Slater
Ten Speed Press
$26.00
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Ottolenghi Flavor
Yotam Ottolenghi, Ixta Belfrage
Ten Speed Press
$35.00
The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food
Marcus Samuelsson
Voracious
$38.00
Pieometry: Modern Tart Art and Pie Design for the Eye and the Palate
Lauren Ko
William Morrow and Company
$32.50
Two Dollar Radio Guide to Vegan Cooking: Recipes, Stories Behind the Recipes, and Inspiration for Vegan Cheffing
Jean-Claude Van Randy, Speed Dog
Two Dollar Radio
$14.99
The Tahini Table: Go Beyond Hummus with 100 Recipes for Every Meal
Amy Zitelman with Andrew Schloss
Agate Surrey
$29.00
This Will Make It Taste Good: A New Path to Simple Cooking
Vivian Howard
Voracious
$35.00
Xi'an Famous Foods: The Cuisine of Western China, from New York's Favorite Noodle Shop
Jason Wang
Abrams
$35.00
World Food: Mexico City: Heritage Recipes for Classic Home Cooking
James Oseland
Ten Speed Press
$26.00
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In Bibi's Kitchen: The Recipes and Stories of Grandmothers from the Eight African Countries that Touch the Indian
Hawa Hassan, Julia Turshen
Ten Speed Press
$35.00
Il Buco: Stories & Recipes
Donna Lennard, Joshua David Stein
Harper Design
$60.00
Jacques Pépin Quick & Simple
Jacques Pépin
Houghton Mifflin
$35.00
The Mexican Home Kitchen: Traditional Home-Style Recipes That Capture the Flavors and Memories of Mexico
Mely Martínez
Rock Point Calendars
$28.00
Kiin: Recipes and Stories from Northern Thailand
Nuit Regular
Penguin Books Canada
$28.00
Living Lively: 80 Plant-Based Recipes to Activate Your Power and Feed Your Potential
Haile Thomas
William Morrow & Company
$24.99
Oh She Glows for Dinner: Nourishing Plant-Based Meals to Keep You Glowing
Angela Liddon
Avery Publishing Group
$35.00
Milk Street: Cookish: Throw It Together
Christopher Kimball
Voracious
$35.00
Modern Comfort Food: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
Ina Garten
Clarkson Potter Publishers
$35.00
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Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
Richard Ovenden
Belknap Press
$29.95
Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
Alan Jacobs
Penguin Press
$25.00
Émigrés: French Words that Turned English
Richard Scholar
Princeton University Press
$29.95
The Look of the Book: Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edge of Literature
Peter Mendelsund, David J Alworth
Ten Speed Press
$50.00
Garner's Quotations: A Modern Miscellany
Dwight Garner
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
$25.00
Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread
Michiko Kakutani
Clarkson Potter Publishers
$25.00
Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land
N Scott Momaday
Harper
$17.99
Kant's Little Prussian Head & Other Reasons Why I Write
Claire Messud
W. W. Norton & Company
$25.95
The Best of Me
David Sedaris
Little, Brown and Company
$30.00
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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Heather Clark
Knopf Publishing Group
$40.00
The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography
Hilary Holladay
Nan A. Talese
$30.00
Sister Outsider
Audre Lorde
Penguin Group
$26.00
Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us About the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy
Robert C Bartlett
University of California Press
$19.95
This Is Not My Memoir
André Gregory, Todd London
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
$27.00
This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing
Jacqueline Winspear
Soho Press
$27.95
First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
Thomas E Ricks
Harper
$29.99
Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
Bettany Hughes
Basic Books
$26.00
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
Adrian Goldsworthy
Basic Books
$35.00
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Wolf Hall (Picador USA)
Hilary Mantel
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition.
Bring Up the Bodies (Picador USA)
Hilary Mantel
The sequel to Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Bring Up the Bodies delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn.
Mantel Pieces (Fourth Estate)
Hilary Mantel
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, 'I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.' This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three decades, tells the story of what happened next. Her subjects range far and wide: Robespierre and Danton, the Hite report, Saudi Arabia where she lived for four years in the 1980s, the Bulger case, John Osborne, the Virgin Mary as well as the pop icon Madonna, a brilliant examination of Helen Duncan, Britain's last witch. There are essays about Jane Boleyn, Charles Brandon, Christopher Marlowe and Margaret Pole, which display the astonishing insight into the Tudor mind we are familiar with from the bestselling Wolf Hall Trilogy. Her famous lecture, 'Royal Bodies', which caused a media frenzy, explores the place of royal women in society and our imagination. Here too are some of her LRB diaries, including her first meeting with her stepfather and a confrontation with a circus strongman.
The Mirror and the Light (Henry Holt & Company)
Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Hanover Square Press
$19.99
Aseroë
François Dominique
Bellevue Literary Press
$16.99
The Ancestry of Objects
Tatiana Ryckman
Deep Vellum Publishing
$15.95
Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino
Julian Herbert
Graywolf Press
$16.00
Card Catalogue
Alistair Ian Blyth
Dalkey Archive Press
$14.95
Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey
Kathleen Rooney
Penguin Books
$17.00
The Distance
Ivan Vladislavic
Archipelago Books
$20.00
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
One World
$27.00
The Dark Library
Cyrille Martinez
Coach House Books
$15.95
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Gun Island
Amitav Ghosh
Picador USA
$17.00
Earthlings
Sayaka Murata
Grove Press
$26.00
A Girl is a Body of Water
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Tin House Books
$27.95
In Love with George Eliot
Kathy O'Shaughnessy
Scribe US
$17.00
Homeland Elegies
Ayad Akhtar
Little, Brown and Company
$28.00
High as the Waters Rise
Anja Kampmann
Catapult
$26.00
The Lost Writings
Franz Kafka
New Directions Publishing Coroporation
$18.95
Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam
Ecco Press
$27.99
Kraft
Jonas Lüscher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
$26.00
Pride and Prejudice (Chronicle Books)
Jane Austen, Barbara Heller
Jane Austen (USA Oxford University Press)
Tom Keymer
Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language. Her books pioneered new techniques for representing voices, minds, and hearts in narrative prose, and, despite some accusations of a blinkered domestic and romantic focus, they represent the world of their characters with unsparing clarity. Here, Tom Keymer explores the major themes throughout Austen's novels, setting them in the literary, social, and political backgrounds from which they emerge, and showing how they engage with social tensions in an era dominated by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.
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Austen Years (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Rachel Cohen
In the turbulent period around the birth of her first child and the death of her father, Rachel Cohen turned to Jane Austen to make sense of her new reality. For Cohen, simultaneously grief-stricken and buoyed by the birth of her daughter, reading Austen became her refuge and her ballast. She was able to reckon with difficult questions about mourning, memorializing, living in a household, paying attention to the world, reading, writing, and imagining through Austen’s novels. Austen Years is a deeply felt and sensitive examination of a writer’s relationship to reading, and to her own family, winding together memoir, criticism, and biographical and historical material about Austen herself.
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Home (Picador USA)
Marilynne Robinson
Jack (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson’s mythical world of Gilead, Iowa and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. Jack is Robinson’s fourth novel in this now-classic series. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead’s Presbyterian minister, and his romance with Della Miles, a high school teacher who is also the child of a preacher. Their deeply felt, tormented, star-crossed interracial romance resonates with all the paradoxes of American life, then and now.
Lila (Picador USA)
Marilynne Robinson
Lila, homeless and alone, steps inside a small-town Iowa church and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the life that preceded her newfound security. Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and brought up by her in a hardscrabble childhood. Together they crafted a life on the run. Despite bouts of petty violence and moments of desperation, their shared life was laced with moments of joy and love. When Lila arrives in Gilead, she struggles to reconcile the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle Christian worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves.
Gilead (Picador USA)
Marilynne Robinson
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition. Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father--an ardent pacifist--and his grandfather, whose pistol and bloody shirts may be relics from the fight between the abolitionists and those settlers who wanted to vote Kansas into the union as a slave state. And he tells a story of the sacred bonds between fathers and sons, which are tested in his tender and strained relationship with his namesake, John Ames Boughton, his best friend's wayward son.
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The Sun Collective
Charles Baxter
Pantheon Books
$27.95
The Seventh Mansion
Maryse Meijer
FSG Originals
$16.00
The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gikuyu and Mumbi
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
New Press
$23.99
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song
Ed. Kevin Young
Library of America
$45.00
That Time of Year
Marie NDiaye
Two Lines Press
$19.95
What Are You Going Through
Sigrid Nunez
Riverhead Books
$26.00
Light for the World to See
Kwame Alexander
Houghton Mifflin
$14.99
How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton
BOA Editions
$28.00
Arrow
Sumita Chakraborty
Alice James Books
$17.95
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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Dey Street Books)
Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg never asked for fame. But something funny happened: she won the internet. Notorious RBG, inspired by the Tumblr that amused the Justice herself, is more than just a love letter. A hybrid of reported narrative, annotated dissents, archival photos and documents, and illustrations, the book tells a never-before-told story of an unusual and transformative woman who transcends generational divides. As the country struggles with the unfinished business of gender equality and civil rights, Ginsburg stands as a testament to how far we can come with a little chutzpah.
My Own Words (Simon and Schuster)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Hartnett, Wendy W. Williams
In this collection Justice Ginsburg discusses gender equality, the workings of the Supreme Court, being Jewish, law and lawyers in opera, and the value of looking beyond US shores when interpreting the US Constitution. This book’s sampling is selected by Justice Ginsburg and her authorized biographers, who introduce each chapter and provide biographical context. Witty, engaging, serious, and playful, My Own Words is a glimpse into the life of one of America’s most influential women and “a tonic to the current national discourse” (The Washington Post).
Decisions and Dissents of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Selection (Penguin Books)
Ed. Corey Brettschneider
This collection includes key concurrences, dissents, and selected writings by Justice Ginsburg that address gender equality and women’s rights, reproductive health care, and voting and civil rights. The volume includes Justice Ginsburg’s landmark Supreme Court opinions for cases including Bush v. Gore (2000), Lily Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (2007), Shelby County v. Holder (2013), Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014), and more.
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Memory Rose into Threshold Speech
Paul Celan
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
$40.00
Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose
Nikki Giovanni
William Morrow & Company
$19.99
The Lost Spells
Robert MacFarlane, illus. Jackie Morris
Anansi International
$26.00
That Was Now, This Is Then
Vijay Seshadri
Graywolf Press
$24.00
Taught by Women: Poems as Resistance Language
Haki R. Madhubuti
Third World Press
$19.95
On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light
Marge Piercy
Knopf Publishing Group
$28.00
The World That Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia
Ed. Aditi Anigras, Akhil Katyal
HarperCollins
$19.99
The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910
Stephen Johnson
University of Chicago Press
$26.00
Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces
Laura Tunbridge
Yale University Press
$35.00
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She Come By it Natural (Scribner Book Company)Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton (University of Illinois Press)
Lydia R Hamessley
Dolly Parton, Songteller
(Chronicle Books)
As told by Dolly Parton in her own inimitable words, explore the songs that have defined her journey.
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The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists, and the Suppression of the Communist Party
Aaron J Leonard
Repeater
$16.95
How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back
Jeff Tweedy
Dutton Books
$23.00
Silences So Deep: Music, Solitude, and Alaska
John Luther Adams
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
$26.00
All the Devils are Here
Louise Penny
Minotaur Books
$28.99
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
Alex Ross
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
$40.00
Wendy Carlos: A Biography
Amanda Sewell
Oxford University Press
$34.95
One by One
Ruth Ware
Gallery/Scout Press
$27.99
The Devil and the Dark Water
Stuart Turton
Sourcebooks Landmark
$26.99
The Kingdom
Jo Nesbo
Knopf Publishing Group
$28.95
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Prefecture D: Four Novellas Set in the World of Six Four
Hideo Yokoyama
MCD x FSG Originals
$17.00
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
Pamela Dorman Books
$26.00
Snow
John Banville
Hanover Square Press
$27.99
The Disappearing Ox: A Modern Version of a Classic Buddhist Tale
Lewis Hyde, Max Gimblett
Copper Canyon Press
$28.00
Eat a Peach
David Chang, Gabe Ulla
Clarkson Potter Publishers
$28.00
When No One Is Watching
Alyssa Cole
William Morrow and Company
$16.99
The Gifts of Imperfection
Brené Brown
Random House
$25.00
Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
Christie Tate
Avid Reader Press
$27.00
Games for Your Mind: The History and Future of Logic Puzzles
Jason Rosenhouse
Princeton University Press
$29.95
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The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard
John Birdsall
W. W. Norton and Company
$35.00
Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter
Curtis Jackson
Harper Collins Publishing Group
$27.99
An Onion in My Pocket: My Life with Vegetables
Deborah Madison
Knopf Publishing Group
$26.95
You Belong: A Call for Connection
Sebene Selassie
HarperOne
$27.99
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
John Gray
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
$25.00
A Field Guide to a Happy Life: 53 Brief Lessons for Living
Massimo Pigliucci
Basic Books
$20.00
Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
Paul Farmer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
$40.00
Scholarship and Freedom
Geoffrey Galt Harpham
Harvard University Press
$29.95
Philosophy for Polar Explorers
Erling Kagge
Pantheon Books
$20.00
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Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers, a series by Princeton University Press, presents the timeless and timely ideas of classical thinkers in lively new translations. Enlightening and entertaining, these books make the practical wisdom of the ancient world accessible for modern life.How to Give: An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving
Seneca
To give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do, but it is also the closest you can come to divinity. So argues Seneca (c. 4 BCE-65 CE) in his longest and most searching moral treatise, "On Benefits" (De Beneficiis). James Romm's new translation of essential selections from this work conveys the heart of Seneca's argument that generosity and gratitude are among the most important of all virtues.
How to Be a Bad Emperor: An Ancient Guide to Truly Terrible Leaders
Suetonius
Nearly 2,000 years ago, Suetonius wrote Lives of the Caesars, perhaps the greatest negative leadership book of all time. In How to Be a Bad Emperor, Josiah Osgood provides new translations of Suetonius's briskly paced, darkly comic biographies of the Roman emperors Julius Caesar, Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero. Entertaining and shocking, the stories of these ancient anti-role models show how power inflames leaders' worst tendencies, causing almost incalculable damage.
How to Drink: A Classical Guide to the Art of Imbibing
Vincent Obsopoeus
In sixteenth-century Germany, Vincent Obsopoeus (ca. 1498-1539) witnessed a culture of bingeing, hazing, peer pressure, and competitive drinking. Alarmed, he wrote The Art of Drinking (De Arte Bibendi) (1536), a manual for drinking with pleasure and discrimination. In How to Drink, Michael Fontaine offers the first proper English translation of Obsopoeus's text, rendering his poetry into contemporary prose and uncorking a forgotten classic that will appeal to drinkers of all (legal) ages.
How to Be Content: An Ancient Poet's Guide for an Age of Excess
Horace
Horace (65-8 BCE) has been cherished by readers not only for his wit, style, and reflections on Roman society, but also for his wisdom about how to live a life of contentment in a world of materialistic excess and personal pressures. In How to Be Content, Stephen Harrison provides fresh, contemporary translations of poems from Horace's works that continue to offer important lessons about the good life, friendship, love, and death.
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A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps
Jeremy Black
University of Chicago Press
$35.00
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking
Kerri Andrews
Reaktion Books
$20.00
War: How Conflict Shaped Us
Margaret MacMillan
Random House
$30.00
The Babur Nama
Babur
Everyman's Library
$30.00
Howard Thurman & the Disinherited: A Religious Biography
Paul Harvey
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
$28.99
The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently
Amy-Jill Levine, Marc Zvi Brettler
HarperOne
$34.99
Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis: How Jews Craft Resilience and Create Community
Jodi Eichler-Levine
University of North Carolina Press
$29.95
Love Is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times
Bishop Michael Curry
Avery Publishing Group
$27.00
Judaism for the World: Reflections on God, Life, and Love
Arthur Green
Yale University Press
$30.00
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Cheeky: A Head to Toe Memoir
Ariella Elovic
Bloomsbury Publishing
$26.00
Berlin
Jason Lutes
Drawn & Quarterly
$39.95
Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band
Sonia Paoloni, illus. Thibault Balahy
IDW Publishing
$19.99
The Sacrifice of Darkness
Roxane Gay, Tracy Lynne Oliver
Archaia
$24.99
Solutions and Other Problems
Allie Brosh
Gallery Books
$30.00
A Wealth of Pigeons: A Cartoon Collection
Steve Martin, illus. Harry Bliss
Celadon Books
$28.00
The Times I Knew I Was Gay
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