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New This Week
  • Lucky
  • The Paris Novel
  • Catullus
  • Your Presence Is Mandatory
  • I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays
  • Chernobyl’s Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future
  • The Rulebreaker
  • The Great Abolitionist
  • Yemen Model, The
  • Tree. Table. Book
  • Funny Story
  • A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages
  • The Road to Freedom
  • We Are Home
  • Minority Rule
  • The White Bonus
  • Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
  • Fieldwork
  • Mott Street
  • The Late Americans
  • Small Mercies
  • Children of a Modest Star
  • Restricted Data
  • Waiting in the Wings
  • Two Together
  • Unhappy Camper
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Hardcover Best Sellers
  • We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For
  • The Cemetery of Untold Stories
  • Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border
  • Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder: A Graphic Novel (Dog Man #12): From the Creator of Captain Underpants
  • Table for Two
  • An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
  • Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
  • Somehow : Thoughts on Love
  • The Importance of Being Educable: A New Theory of Human Uniqueness
  • Until August
  • Chip War
  • The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel
  • The Familiar: A Novel
  • All Things Are Too Small
  • Grown Woman Talk: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Healthy
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Paperback Best Sellers
  • Glass Jaw: Poems
  • The Three-Body Problem
  • Dune
  • Everything I Know about Love: A Memoir
  • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
  • The Idiot: A Novel
  • My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
  • The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
  • The Midnight Library: A Novel
  • Big Swiss: A Novel
  • ADHD 2. 0
  • Normal People: A Novel
  • István Szabó
  • Dune Messiah
  • The Lioness of Boston
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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
  • A Walk in the Woods
  • Where the Dark Stands Still
  • Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead: A Novel
  • The Saint of Bright Doors
  • 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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