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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
$14.95 Add to cartPassing from the mannered drawing rooms of Pakistan’s cities to the harsh mud villages beyond, Daniyal Mueenuddin’s linked stories describe the interwoven lives of an aging feudal landowner, his serva
- Author: Mueenuddin, Daniyal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393337200
- Language: English
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Since You’re Mortal . . .: Life Lessons from the Lost Greek Plays
$24.99 Read more“The truly happy man ought to stay at home.”
“Hunger, and lack of coin, put a stop to love.”
“Hades, alone of the gods, does not enjoy bribes.”
These quotes and many others from the great Greek dramatist
- Author: Romm, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1324086084
- Language: English
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The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
$21.99 Add to cartWe are a nation born from the conviction that people must be free. But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted. Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by c
- Author: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123389
- Language: English
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Atavists: Stories
$19.99 Add to cartThe word atavism, coined by a botanist and popularized by a criminologist, refers to the resurfacing of a primitive evolutionary trait or urge in a modern being. This inventive collection from Lydia M
- Author: Millet, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123559
- Language: English
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Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the “Terrible Year” by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans–then imperiled aga
- Author: Smee, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1324116765
- Language: English
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Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum
$21.99 Add to cartThe Louvre is the most famous museum in the world, attracting millions of visitors every year with its masterpieces. In Adventures in the Louvre, Elaine Sciolino immerses herself in this magical space
- Author: Sciolino, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123435
- Language: English
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Love in the Afternoon, and Evening: Essays and Conversations on Soap Operas
$21.99 Read morePart cultural analysis, part backstage tour, Love in the Afternoon, and Evening is a love letter to a misunderstood, often-dismissed American genre. Critics, friends, and soap obsessives Charlotte Dru
- Author: Druckman, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1324075562
- Language: English
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Ulysses S. Cat and Other Animals I Have Known
$24.99 Read moreScott Simon’s household does not make much distinction between humans and other animals. Whether two-legged or four-, flesh-covered, fur-covered, feathered, or gilled–everyone is family. Today, Simon
- Author: Simon, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1324117184
- Language: English
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Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground
$32.99 Read moreZayd Ayers Dohrn was born underground. His parents were fugitives after a decade fighting the US government; his mother was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list. All his life, Dohrn’s parents said his bi
- Author: Dohrn, Zayd Ayers
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1324089318
- Language: English
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Spanish in 32 Lessons
$20.99 Add to cartHere is a rapid and practical way for tourists, students, and businesspeople to master the basics of Spanish and begin speaking it. Unlike traditionally dry language texts based on rote memorization a… [more below]
- Author: Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0393313050
- Language: English
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Gimmick I: Francais Parle
$19.99 Add to cartAdrienne’s Gimmick helps you speak and understand French. With its vocabulary of words and expressions, the Gimmick can serve as exercise books (with or without a teacher), class book or reference boo… [more below]
- Series: Gimmick (W.W. Norton)
- Author: Penner, Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 20 2010
- ISBN10: 0393044742
- Language: English
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The Arcadian
$29.99 Read moreSpain, the 1500s. The Iberian Peninsula is splintered by faith and ambition, its kingdoms locked in endless struggle. Armies clash, religions collide, and empires rise on tides of blood. Into this cru
- Author: Pressfield, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1324124253
- Language: English
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The Devil and Mrs. Gooch
$28.99 Read moreIn the storm-drenched city of Verdigris, home to indolent sorcerers and undead hotels, something is dreadfully wrong. Buildings are starting to crumble due to the kidnapping of their hobs, the many-le
- Author: Darkshire, Oliver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1324124466
- Language: English
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Look What You Made Me Do
$31.99 Read more“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 Read moreFrom 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 Read moreFor 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 Read moreThe 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
