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Look What You Made Me Do
$31.99 Add to cart“Every successful marriage has its own private language.” So it is for baby boomer Kate and her beloved architect husband Jack, thirty years into their seemingly idyllic metropolitan North London lif
- Author: Lanchester, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1324131349
- Language: English
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How to Not Know: The Value of Uncertainty in a World That Demands Answers
$29.99 Add to cartFrom our careers to our politics to our personal lives, the future is unknown. And yet, our capacity to tolerate this uncertainty is in decline. How to Not Know will help you prepare for and even appr
- Author: Stolzoff, Simone
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1324089458
- Language: English
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Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower
$35.00 Add to cartFor thousands of years, the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta has been famed as the ultimate warrior society. The flowing crimson capes and bronze shields of Spartan warriors remain the enduring imag
- Author: Bayliss, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1324117516
- Language: English
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Life Without a Recipe: A Memoir
$15.95 Add to cartOn one side, there is Grace: prize-winning author Diana Abu-Jaber’s tough, independent sugar-fiend of a German grandmother, wielding a suitcase full of holiday cookies. On the other, Bud: a flamboyant
- Author: Abu-Jaber, Diana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 271
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 039335377X
- Language: English
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The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car
$19.99 Add to cartIn this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynski–hailed as “one of the best writers on design working today” by Publishers Weekly–tells the story of the most distinctive cars in history and t
- Author: Rybczynski, Witold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123516
- Language: English
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Cornucopia: New and Selected Poems
$22.99 Add to cartIn poems humorous and daring, forthright and wise, Molly Peacock returns in this collection to the landscape of North American poetry she has helped create–the investigation of love in all its manife… [more below]
- Author: Peacock, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: July 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0393325490
- Language: English
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One Leg on Earth
$26.99 Add to cartThe lonely daughter of a distant mother, Yosoye arrives in Lagos ready to change her life. Weeks after she begins an internship at a fancy architectural firm, she discovers she is pregnant. Yosoye is
- Author: Aguda, ‘Pemi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1324065877
- Language: English
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The Family Man: Blood and Betrayal in the House of Murdaugh
$31.99 Add to cartIn March 2023, Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of murdering his wife and younger son at Moselle, their home in South Carolina’s Lowcountry. In The Family Man, James Lasdun takes a new angle on this sto
- Author: Lasdun, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1324075325
- Language: English
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The Return of the Oystercatcher: Saving Birds to Save the Planet
$32.99 Add to cartAs populations fall and once-great migration multitudes wither away, the future of birds may seem grim. But surprisingly, from gnatcatchers and waterfowl to select groups of forest songbirds, some bir
- Author: Weidensaul, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1324036788
- Language: English
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Wound Is the Origin of Wonder: Poems
$15.99 Add to cartAward-winning poet Maya C. Popa suggests that our restless desires are inseparable from our mortality in this pressing and precise collection. Rooting out profound meaning in language to wrench us fro
- Author: Popa, Maya C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076216
- Language: English
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The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
$19.99 Add to cartThe Occasional Human Sacrifice is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face, and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine.
Carl Elliott is a bioethici
- Author: Elliott, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1324116838
- Language: English
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Enormous Morning: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartPhilip Schultz is famous for his empathetic explorations of male shortcomings, primarily those of his late father. Enormous Morning, his incisive new volume, reflects on the sacrifices of women in the
- Author: Schultz, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123826
- Language: English
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Big Time: A Simple Path to Time Abundance
$29.99 Add to cartMost of us have an adversarial relationship with time. We’re constantly trying to beat the clock–behavior rooted in a fear that time is scarce and must be obsessed over, hoarded, and ultraoptimized.
- Author: VanderKam, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1324110759
- Language: English
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This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, a Life
$33.99 Add to cartEmily Bront? (1818-1848) was only twenty-seven-years old when she began work on one of the most important novels in the English language. Two years later in 1847, she completed Wuthering Heights. It t
- Author: Lutz, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1324037113
- Language: English
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The Neverending Book
$27.99 Add to cartAn aged, near-blind, book-loving king sends two of his subjects out into the world to learn about unusual and magical books. One year later, they return to tell the whimsical, tender, and touching sto
- Author: Matayoshi, Naoki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 132412380X
- Language: English
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Fatherland
$29.99 Add to cartMartin and Lora Brier, with three young children, possess all the trappings of a perfect life . . . except Martin is having yet another affair. Without warning, he abandons the family for his mistress
- Author: Shorr, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1324117559
- Language: English
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T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life
$45.00 Add to cartT. S. Eliot was arguably the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. In poems such as The Waste Land and Four Quartets, he spoke directly to his times, and his essays influenced a who
- Author: Gordon, Lyndall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123230
- Language: English
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Comfort Women: Japan’s Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War
$23.99 Add to cartIn 1938 the Japanese Imperial Forces established a “comfort station” in Shanghai. This was the first of many officially sanctioned brothels set up across Asia to service the needs of the Japanese forc
- Author: Hicks, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0393316947
- Language: English
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Law on Trial: An Unlikely Insider Reckons with Our Legal System
$31.99 Add to cartThe law promises justice. Too often, it delivers inequality. This contradiction raises a basic question: Why does a legal system that claims to stand for fairness and equality fail to uphold these ide
- Author: Ossei-Owusu, Shaun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1324091266
- Language: English
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Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
$49.99 Read moreTo those of us in the West, the Soviet Union is synonymous with Stalinism. The common view of the USSR is of a brutal regime that squelched dissent and oversaw a drab, terrified society. Yet as Cambri
- Author: Smith, Mark B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1631498290
- Language: English
