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New This Week
  • Shine Bright
  • Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau
  • The Bookseller of Florence
  • Fevered Star
  • Stay Gone Days
  • Rebel Speak
  • Spear
  • Housebreaking
  • The Faces
  • The Trouble with Happiness
  • The Heart of American Poetry
  • Hope and Glory
  • Rouge Street
  • Happy for You
  • The Great Experiment
  • The Lonely Stories
  • Shelter
  • The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World
  • Indelible City
  • The Memory Librarian
  • Some of My Best Friends
  • The Song of Our Scars
  • The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures
  • Slaves for Peanuts
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Hardcover Best Sellers
  • Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
  • In Praise of Good Bookstores
  • Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
  • Poison for Breakfast
  • A Brief History of Equality
  • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
  • Atlas of the Heart
  • Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
  • Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons
  • Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life
  • Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel
  • Portrait of a Thief: A Novel
  • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
  • Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
  • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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Paperback Best Sellers
  • All About Love: New Visions
  • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
  • When We Cease to Understand the World
  • Whereabouts: A Novel
  • First Person Singular: Stories
  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
  • Bringing Down the Duke
  • It Ends with Us
  • Klara and the Sun: A Novel
  • Pachinko
  • The Searcher: A Novel
  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
  • My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
  • Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
  • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel
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Featured Titles
  • French Braid: A Novel
  • Glory: A Novel
  • The Kissing of Kissing: Poems
  • Sea of Tranquility
  • Time Is a Mother
  • The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories
  • When We Were Birds: A Novel
  • a Year & other poems
  • Young Mungo
  • Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation
  • 100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting
  • Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
  • The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters
  • Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
  • How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain
  • Imaginable
  • In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
  • In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
  • The Intersectional Environmentalist
  • Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
  • The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
  • The Trayvon Generation
  • Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley
  • Content Warning: Everything
  • Disorientation: A Novel
  • Fencing with the King: A Novel
  • Nine Lives: A Novel
  • Booth: A Novel
  • The Candy House
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Black Lives Matter
  • This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
  • Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
  • None But the Righteous: A Novel
  • You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
  • Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century
  • An Abolitionist’s Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World
  • Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters
  • Don’t Cry for Me: A Novel
  • Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
  • What the Fireflies Knew: A Novel
  • Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness
  • Recitatif: A Story
  • Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life
  • How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged
  • Fear of Black Consciousness
  • You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
  • Ain’t Burned All the Bright
  • Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
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  • A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
  • New England Soups from the Sea
  • The Suite Spot
  • Those Kids from Fawn Creek
  • The Atlas Six
  • Selected Poems of Oksana Zabuzhko
  • Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine
  • The Waste Land and Other Poems
  • Words for War
  • Dancing in Odessa
  • Let’s Do Everything and Nothing
  • The Ogress and the Orphans
  • Perfectly Pegasus
  • Witchlings
  • Kiss and Tell
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