Metropolitan Books
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Miracle Children: Race, Education, and a True Story of False Promises
$29.99 Add to cartA riveting investigation into a school, a scam, and a notorious college admissions scandal that exposes the inequalities and racial segregation of American education, from two award-winning New York T
- Author: Benner, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1250759102
- Language: English
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Berlin Shuffle
$26.99 Add to cartA prophetic lost classic from interwar Germany, now translated into English for the first time, following a group of Berliners on the skids as their nation unravels
Berlin in the 1920s is the largest- Author: Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1250869498
- Language: English
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Paying the Land
$22.99 Add to cartNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, THE BROOKLYN RAIL, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, POP MATTERS, COMICS BEAT, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
From the “heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman” (Th- Author: Sacco, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1250410894
- Language: English
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The Once and Future Riot
$27.99 Add to cartFrom “our greatest living comics journalist” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), a revelatory investigation of deadly sectarian riots in Uttar Pradesh, India, that explores the mechanics, dynamics, mythologie
- Author: Sacco, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1250880262
- Language: English
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Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History
The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and poli
Winner of the James Beard Media Award in Food Issues and Advocacy- Author: Freeman, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1250871034
- Language: English
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We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance
$31.99 Read moreShortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize
A deeply reported work of journalism that explores the promises and perils of microfinance, told through the eyes of international lenders and women borrower- Author: Kardas-Nelson, Mara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1250817226
- Language: English
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All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
$18.99 Add to cartA glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent.
In her- Author: Rothfeld, Becca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1250849942
- Language: English
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Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
$19.99 Add to cartNamed one of NPR’s Best Books of 2023
Learn more about Jennifer Pahlka’s work at recodingamerica.us. “The book I
Named one of Ezra Klein’s “Books That Explain Where We Are in 2023,” The New York Times- Author: Pahlka, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1250342732
- Language: English
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Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It
$27.99 Add to cartFrom the creator of “a unified field theory of racism” (NPR’s Planet Money), a dollars-and-cents reckoning of the state of Black America and a new framework to close the power gap
Historically, Black- Author: Perry, Andre M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1250869714
- Language: English
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Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank
$25.99 Read moreEric Orner, the acclaimed cartoonist of one of the country’s most popular and longest-running gay comic strips, The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green, presents his debut graphic novel–a da
- Author: Orner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1250191580
- Language: English
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
$18.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times. Immersive and gripping, an in- Author: Thrall, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1250854962
- Language: English
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Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided Wars
$17.99 Add to cartAmerican veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan offer invaluable firsthand perspectives on what made America’s post-9/11 wars so costly and disastrous.
Twenty years of America’s Global War on Ter- Author: Bacevich, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1250832497
- Language: English
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A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany
$19.99 Add to cart“Evocative. . . . Epic. . . . Chock-full of colorful anecdotes and charismatic figures, A Demon-Haunted Land not only offers a brilliant rethinking of postwar German history, but also asks us to see t
- Author: Black, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1250813859
- Language: English
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What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
$19.99 Add to cartWith a New Afterword by the Author
The New York Times bestseller, praised as “hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic a- Author: Frank, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 080507774X
- Language: English
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Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
$20.00 Add to cartIn this first collection of interviews since the
Timely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating,
bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign policy- Series: American Empire Project
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 05 2005
- ISBN10: 080507967X
- Language: English
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Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam
$28.00 Add to cart“The most clear and engaging history of the deadly, historic partnership between Western powers and political Islam.”–Salon.com
Devil’s Game is the first comprehensive account of America’s misguided- Series: American Empire Project
- Author: Dreyfuss, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0805081372
- Language: English
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Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness
$19.99 Add to cartNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ATLANTIC, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND NEW STATESMAN
A radically immersive exploration of three pivotal moments in the evolution of human consciousness, asking what kinds- Author: Foster, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1250855403
- Language: English
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Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of the National Jewish Book Award for Memoir
“An unparalleled achievement, a work of shattering, almost unbearable radiance. I did not stop crying throughout. For Mills. For my young self. For a- Author: Mills, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1250871158
- Language: English
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In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust
$32.99 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD * SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE
“The mass killings of Jews from 1918 to 1921 are a bridge between local pogroms and the extermination of the Holoc- Author: Veidlinger, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1250812127
- Language: English
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A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America
$18.99 Add to cartNamed a best book of 2020 by the New York Times and Kirkus Reviews
“A smart, timely, deeply disturbing and essential book by a veteran scholar and leading expert on the criminal legal system. . . . Th- Author: Currie, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1250798493
- Language: English
