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French in 32 Lessons
$21.99 Add to cartThe Gimmick Books are based on the author’s many years of successfully teaching languages to tourists, business people, diplomats, and other international travelers.
- Series: Gimmick (W.W. Norton)
- Author: Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: August 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0393316475
- Language: English
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Ice Cream Queen: Flavors from Black America’s Past, Present, & Future
$29.99 Add to cartBack in the 1840s, a free Black woman ran a successful ice cream saloon in Nashville. Her name was Sarah Estell, and she became known as “the Ice Cream Queen.” Now taking up her crown is Lokelani Alab
- Author: Alabanza, Lokelani
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 0393881644
- Language: English
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Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex
$29.99 Add to cartIn delightful watercolor comics of pregnant seahorse dads, spider oral sex, and the four-headed echidna penis, Perrin Roosevelt Ireland takes us on a wild biodiversity ride through queerness, infideli
- Author: Ireland, Perrin Roosevelt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1324089040
- Language: English
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The Surgeon’s Mate
$15.95 Read moreBritish naval officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin, with his great love, Diana Villiers, speed home to England with news of their latest victory over the Americans. But Maturin is a marked … [more below]
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #7
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0393541649
- Language: English
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Is a River Alive?
$19.99 Add to cartHailed in the New York Times as “a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler,” Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing
- Author: MacFarlane, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1324130733
- Language: English
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Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence
$31.99 Add to cartWe think of the Declaration of Independence as timeless. We know the sacred phrases: “all men are created equal,” “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” “self-evident truths,” “certain inalien
- Author: Parkinson, Robert G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1324124547
- Language: English
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Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age
$31.99 Add to cartIn 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing like it had ever been attempted. Field knew nothing about te
- Author: Tabor, James M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1324036028
- Language: English
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The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss
$35.00 Add to cartThe Book of Birds is a field guide with a difference: It shows readers not just how to identify birds, but also how to identify with them. Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris conjure the unique spiri
- Author: MacFarlane, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1324006846
- Language: English
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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
$14.95 Read morePassing 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 Add to cart“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 Add to cartPart 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 Add to cartScott 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 Add to cartZayd 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 Add to cartSpain, 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
