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  • The Curse of Pietro Houdini
  • Behind You Is the Sea
  • The Tusks of Extinction
  • John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community
  • Tripping on Utopia
  • Witchcraft
  • Transient and Strange
  • The Allure of the Multiverse
  • Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present
  • Not Quite a Ghost
  • True North
  • City of Laughter
  • The Longest Autumn
  • Sheridan’s Secret Mission
  • One Day I’ll Work for Myself
  • Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
  • The Alternative
  • The Weirdness of the World
  • Rough Sleepers
  • Master Slave Husband Wife
  • Horse
  • Escaping Mr. Rochester
  • All Boys Aren’t Blue
  • Rick Riordan Presents: A Drop of Venom
  • The New Life
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Hardcover Best Sellers
  • The Atlas Complex
  • Making It in America
  • Untitled Red Tower 2023 Release
  • North Woods: A Novel
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel
  • River East, River West
  • So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
  • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
  • The Goodbye Cat
  • Demon Copperhead: A Novel
  • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
  • Slow Down
  • 1000 Words
  • The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
  • The English Understand Wool
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Paperback Best Sellers
  • The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
  • Everything I Know about Love: A Memoir
  • The Idiot: A Novel
  • This Other Eden: A Novel
  • All About Love: New Visions
  • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
  • The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel
  • The Midnight Library: A Novel
  • Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
  • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel
  • Trust
  • This Is How You Lose the Time War
  • Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
  • An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
  • The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (a Hunger Games Novel)
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Featured Titles
  • Eyeliner: A Cultural History
  • Camille Pissarro
  • The Fabulist
  • Airplane Mode
  • Art Monsters
  • Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles
  • The Book at War
  • Pure Wit
  • A Hitch in Time
  • Songs on Endless Repeat
  • Way Makers: An Anthology of Women’s Writing about Walking
  • Listen
  • Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
  • The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac
  • Happy: A Novel
  • After World
  • System Collapse
  • Treacle Walker
  • Alice Sadie Celine
  • The Book of Ayn: A Novel
  • Day: A Novel
  • Dirtbag
  • Alexandria
  • Her Side of the Story: A Novel
  • Orbital
  • Prophet Song
  • A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself
  • Wild and Distant Seas
  • Anna O
  • The Mystery Guest
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Black Lives Matter
  • New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
  • When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting
  • Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle
  • Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
  • Homebodies: 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
  • Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
  • Chasing the Black Eagle: A Novel
  • Minor Notes, Volume 1
  • Afrofuturism
  • In Our Shoes
  • King: A Life
  • Sink: A Memoir
  • Ordinary Notes
  • Spoken Word: A Cultural History
  • Maame: A Novel
  • Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
  • In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays
  • White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation
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  • Carnality
  • The Hunger of Women
  • The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
  • From From: Poems
  • Big
  • This Other Eden: A Novel
  • Chain Gang All Stars: A Novel
  • Gwen & Art Are Not in Love
  • Okay, Cupid
  • Ink Girls
  • The Red Fruit
  • Who Will Make the Snow?
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