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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
$18.99 Add to cartIn 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live i
- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110384
- Language: English
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This Strange Eventful History
$18.99 Add to cartOver seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state–separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian ind
- Author: Messud, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110406
- Language: English
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Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs
$31.99 Add to cartTo his admirers, Luis W. Alvarez was the most accomplished, inventive, and versatile experimental physicist of his generation. During World War II, he achieved major breakthroughs in radar, played a k
- Author: Nevala-Lee, Alec
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1324075104
- Language: English
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Summers in Squid Tickle: A Newfoundland Odyssey
$29.99 Add to cartRobert Finch arrived in Newfoundland in the summer of 1995 heartsick, directionless, his old life on Cape Cod in tatters. Burnside, located in Newfoundland’s rugged northeast, seemed like a good place
- Author: Finch, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1324051310
- Language: English
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Grand Finales: The Creative Longevity of Women Artists
$35.00 Add to cartIn 2008, academic and scholar Susan Gubar was told by a trusted oncologist that she had only a few years left to live. Though she outlived that dire prognosis, this brush with mortality refocused her
- Author: Gubar, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1324065648
- Language: English
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Some Strange Music Draws Me in
$18.99 Add to cartIt’s the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) meets Sylvia, a tough-as-nails trans woman whose shameless swagger inspires Mel’s dawning self-awareness. But Sylvia’s
- Author: Hansbury, Griffin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105240
- Language: English
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The Original
$28.99 Add to cartBrought to her uncle’s decaying Oxfordshire estate when she was a child, Grace has grown up on the periphery of a once-great household, an outsider in her own home. Now a self-possessed and secretive
- Author: Stevens, Nell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110694
- Language: English
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Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution
$31.99 Add to cartFew women of the American Revolution have come through 250 years of US history with such clarity and color as Angelica Schuyler Church. She was Alexander Hamilton’s “saucy” sister-in-law, and the hear
- Author: Beer, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1324050217
- Language: English
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We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
$18.99 Add to cartAcross more than a dozen acclaimed works of fiction, readers have become intimate with Lydia Millet’s distinctive voice and sly wit. We Loved It All, her first nonfiction book, combines the precision
- Author: Millet, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105259
- Language: English
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Gingko Season
$19.99 Add to cartAfter suffering her first big heartbreak two years earlier, Penelope Lin has built a quiet life with no romantic entanglements. She spends her days cataloging a museum’s vast collection of Qing Dynast
- Author: Xu Elegant, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1324086149
- Language: English
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Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
$22.99 Add to cartElla Fitzgerald (1917-1996) possessed one of the twentieth century’s most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald’s death, historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of
- Author: Tick, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105224
- Language: English
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Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin
$18.99 Add to cartDuring childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III’s grandfather taught him that men’s work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with p
- Author: Dubus, Andre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105046
- Language: English
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The Big Hop: The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future
$29.99 Add to cartIn 1919, in Newfoundland, four teams of aviators came from Britain to compete in “the Big Hop” an audacious race to be the first to fly, nonstop, across the Atlantic Ocean. One pair of competitors was
- Author: Rooney, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1324050969
- Language: English
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The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
$31.99 Add to cart“Having left this material for his writer son, my father must have wanted the story told, even if he couldn’t bear to tell it himself.” So begins the story of a forgotten American dynasty, a farming
- Author: Seabrook, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1324003529
- Language: English
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The Optimist: Sam Altman, Openai, and the Race to Invent the Future
$31.99 Add to cartOn November 30, 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a chatbot that captivated the world with its uncanny ability to hold humanlike conversations. Not even a year later, on November 17, 2023, Sam Altman, th
- Author: Hagey, Keach
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1324075961
- Language: English
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Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece’s Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece
$31.99 Add to cartPlato is one of history’s most influential thinkers, the “sublime philosopher” whose writings remain foundational to Western culture. He is known for the brilliant dialogues in which he depicted his t
- Author: Romm, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1324093188
- Language: English
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This Is Salvaged: Stories
$17.99 Add to cartPushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, or lover, and the relationships between self and othe
- Author: Vara, Vauhini
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324076097
- Language: English
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Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give
$15.95 Add to cartWe hear plenty about whether or not to get married, but much less about what it takes to stay married. Clich?s around marriage–eternal bliss, domestic harmony, soul mates–leave out the real stuff. A
- Author: Calhoun, Ada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356000
- Language: English
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Insectopolis: A Natural History
$35.00 Add to cartThis visually immersive work of graphic nonfiction dives into a world where ants, cicadas, bees, and butterflies visit a library exhibition that displays their stories and humanity’s connection to the
- Author: Kuper, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1324035714
- Language: English
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Take to the Trees: A Story of Hope, Science, and Self-Discovery in America’s Imperiled Forests
$28.99 Add to cartJournalist Marguerite Holloway arrives at the Women’s Tree Climbing Workshop as a climbing novice, but with a passion for trees and a deep concern about their future. Run by twin sister tree doctors B
- Author: Holloway, Marguerite
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1324036443
- Language: English
