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  • Close to Death
  • The Alternatives
  • The Spoiled Heart
  • An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
  • Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
  • We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For
  • The Gravity of Math
  • After 1177 B.C.
  • The Blue Period
  • Sheine Lende
  • woke up no light
  • Alien Earths
  • The Work of Art
  • New Cold Wars
  • Tomás Nevinson
  • The Light We Carry
  • A Book of Days
  • Normal Rules Don’t Apply
  • We Who Produce Pearls: an Anthem for Asian America
  • Signs of Hope
  • The Kill Factor
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Hardcover Best Sellers
  • Somehow : Thoughts on Love
  • Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
  • Last Days in Plaka: A Novel
  • Grown Woman Talk: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Healthy
  • Judaism Is About Love
  • Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation
  • The Performer
  • The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions
  • The Familiar: A Novel
  • Nuclear War: A Scenario
  • The Limits: A Novel
  • Village Weavers
  • Finish What We Started
  • Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder: A Graphic Novel (Dog Man #12): From the Creator of Captain Underpants
  • All Things Are Too Small
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Paperback Best Sellers
  • The Three-Body Problem
  • Dune
  • Everything I Know about Love: A Memoir
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow
  • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
  • The Idiot: A Novel
  • The Midnight Library: A Novel
  • ADHD 2. 0
  • The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
  • The Lioness of Boston
  • The Tools: 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower—and Inspire You to Live L…
  • The Way Forward
  • 111 Places in Boston That You Must Not Miss
  • Poverty, by America
  • All About Love: New Visions
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Featured Titles
  • Jaded
  • James
  • Memory Piece: A Novel
  • The Morningside
  • Mother Doll
  • Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
  • Wolf at the Table
  • Worry: A Novel
  • A Year of Last Things
  • The Black Box
  • There’s Always This Year
  • Who’s Afraid of Gender?
  • A Paradise of Small Houses
  • Reading the Constitution
  • An Emancipation of the Mind
  • Puerto Rico
  • Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below
  • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
  • The Beauty of Falling
  • Secrets of the Octopus
  • We Loved it All: A Memory of Life
  • Reading Genesis
  • Provincials
  • Choice
  • Great Expectations
  • Headshot
  • Lake of Souls
  • The Emperor and the Endless Palace
  • How War Begins
  • Annie Bot
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Black Lives Matter
  • White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation
  • Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
  • In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays
  • When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting
  • Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle
  • Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
  • Sink: A Memoir
  • Chasing the Black Eagle: A Novel
  • My Seven Black Fathers: A Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Me Whole
  • The Last Gift of the Master Artists: A Novel
  • Above Ground: Poems
  • King: A Life
  • New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
  • Ordinary Notes
  • Minor Notes, Volume 1
  • Afrofuturism
  • In Our Shoes
  • Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
  • Homebodies: A Novel
  • Spoken Word: A Cultural History
  • Maame: A Novel
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  • The Other Valley
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  • This Other Eden: A Novel
  • Chain Gang All Stars: A Novel
  • The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
  • From From: Poems
  • Big
  • The Last Zookeeper
  • Olivetti
  • Where Sleeping Girls Lie
  • The Book That Almost Rhymed
  • The Book That Can Read Your Mind
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