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Adult Fiction Coming Soon
Adult Bestsellers Coming Soon

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Thomasson, Anna

Art

A story of friendship, love, and the pursuit of art—including Pablo Picasso, Lee Miller, Paul Éluard, and Man Ray—set against the precarious backdrop of the late 1930s, World War II, and its aftermath.
 

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Ostler, Catherine

Art

Three sisters, the daughters of a prominent French Jewish family, all painted as children by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In the turbulent years from the Belle Epoque to World War II, one would marry an English aristocrat and escape; one would become a collaborator with the Nazis; one would die in Auschwitz. This is the remarkable hidden history of the lives behind Renoir’s beguiling portraits.
 

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Aviv, Rachel

Essays

A collection of reported stories that explore the relationship between mothers and daughters, from the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for her work in The New Yorker.
 

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Thomson, David

Film

From one of cinema’s wisest and most penetrating observers, an arresting new perspective on the sweep of film history.
 

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Moore, Thomas

Health

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Care of the Soul comes a revelatory approach to healing and renewal.
 

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Romiszewski, Stephanie

Health

A smart and sometimes counterintuitive (who cares when you go to bed?) guide that will solve readers’ sleep anxiety once and for all!
 

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Rogoyska, Jane

History

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NONFICTION From an award-winning historian, the story of World War II artists, intellectuals, and refugees, and one famed Paris hotel.

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Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd

History

A vibrant, colorful, and authoritative exploration of the world's first and most illustrious metropolis.
 

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Collins, Lauren

History

In this ambitious and groundbreaking history, Lauren Collins weaves together stories of four Wilmington, NC, families over 125 years to create a full accounting of the long-term effects of the 1898 white supremacist massacre and coup and its critical role in subverting American democracy.

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O'Connell, Robert L

History

A riveting retelling of one of the great adventure stories of antiquity—when Greek philosopher-warrior Xenophon led a stranded band of the “Ten Thousand” mercenary soldiers on a treacherous escape from the Persians.
 

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Weizman, Eyal

History

From an acclaimed architect and investigator, a devastating, meticulous accounting of Israel’s destruction of Gaza and crimes against its people
 

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Leiby, Alison

Humor

In this witty, absurd, and surprisingly moving memoir-in-essays, comedian Alison Leiby unpacks the multitudes women are told to be—and the joy of refusing to pick just one.
 

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Lopez, Kristen

Literature Criticism

For film buffs and literature lovers alike, Turner Classic Movies presents an essential guide to 40 cinema classics and the love stories that served as their inspiration.

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Smith, S E

Memoirs

Have you suffered a loss? How was your life changed by the grief you experienced? Did you feel like your grief was properly acknowledged? Mourning is a personal experience and shouldn't be judged. There are no do-overs in death, but there are do-betters.

 

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Hackney, Emilee

Memoirs

In her luminous debut, Emilee Hackney offers both a love letter to and a reckoning of the place that made her—a story of losing her faith, finding her way back to her Appalachian home, and discovering what endures
 

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Lockhart, Chris

Memoirs

A glimpse into the mind of an American conspiracy theorist, the schizophrenia, trauma, and misinformation that drove him to the brink, and the friendship that brought him back.

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Quick, Matthew

Memoirs

Written in the form of a letter to his ailing father, this debut memoir from the bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook explores the complicated burden of caring for an abusive parent who is dying—here is Matthew Quick’s most personal and potent work to date.
 

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Hotchkiss, Sean

Memoirs

A brutally honest confessional that reckons with the darkest parts of the male psyche and provides a framework for men to heal themselves and their relationships.
 

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Craig, Nephi

Memoirs

From Indigenous chef Nephi Craig, a searing personal and cultural reckoning that demonstrates the power of food to heal intergenerational wounds
 

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Schnipper, Matthew

Memoirs

An unforgettable memoir of fatherhood, grief, and the life-saving power of love and art in the wake of unimaginable loss
 

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Murphy, Laura

Memoirs

A romantic, life-affirming memoir about a young woman’s solo honeymoon to Europe after her fiancé's sudden death weeks before their wedding, and the community of hope and wonder she built along the way
 

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Glass, Angelica

Memoirs

In this revelatory memoir of discovery and transformation, a woman walks every street in Santa Cruz County, California, and finds unexpected healing.
 

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Holmes, David

Memoirs

As stunt double to Daniel Radcliffe in the Harry Potter film franchise, stuntman David Holmes helped to move J.K. Rowling's era-defining story from the page to the big screen. His work as a real-life Fall Guy enabled him to create some of the most memorable action sequences in the Wizarding World, as he became the first person ever to play Quidditch. In living his own hero's journey, David was also one of only a handful of people to have worn the iconic wizard's cape, glasses and scar in front of the cameras. That is, until an accident changed his life forever. 

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Miller, Frank

Memoirs

From the all-time bestselling mind behind Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Daredevil, 300, and Sin City, Push the Wall is part memoir, part master class for budding artists and writers by one of the greatest living creators whose work has influenced pop culture for decades.
 

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Cunningham, Michael

Memoirs

An intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of The Hours and Day
 

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Eakin, Emily

Philosophy

From leading critic and essayist Emily Eakin, a stylish personal history of French theory and its unlikely domination of American culture
 

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Chang, Victoria

Poetry

A poet watches the limbs of a eucalyptus tree get sawed off: the image persists, refracting and recurring across poems of art, language, selfhood, memory, and loss.
 

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Kelly, Joseph

Politics

An eye-opening work of narrative history tracing the roots of American fascism back to the Antebellum South.

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Jacobsen, Annie

Politics

From Annie Jacobsen, the author of the bestselling Nuclear War: A Scenario, a book on a subject that has long orbited her reporting: biological warfare.
 

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Phillips-Fein, Kim

Politics

A Pulitzer-finalist historian charts a 250-year-old intellectual and political tradition--the conviction that all Americans are NOT created equal.

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Barrett, Devlin

Politics

No part of life in the United States has been untouched by Donald Trump’s relentless weaponization of the Justice Department. This is a cautionary tale about how, once a president amasses such power, future presidents may never relinquish it.
 

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Smith, Hanna Lucinda

Politics

A Pulitzer grantee's timely work of reportage from the borderlands of Europe, Russia, and Turkey, where brewing conflicts mark a significant fault line in shifting geopolitics.

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Wikler, Ben

Politics

"Ben Wikler is one of the most strategic and respected leaders of his generation. If we do what this book says, we will win."--Nancy Pelosi From one of the most successful Democratic strategists of the last decade, a revelatory account of what you--yes, you--can do to defeat Trumpism.

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Mark, Jason Dove

Science

A rallying cry and resistance manual from one of the leaders breathing new life into the environmental movement.

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Kwok, Roberta

Science

The real story of science isn't a triumphant breakthrough. It's messy, mysterious, and deeply human.

 

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Werb, Dan

Science

A dazzling journey into the hidden lives of synanthropes, the wild animals who’ve found ingenious ways to survive and thrive in human communities—from award-winning writer and scientist Dan Werb.

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Flyn, Cal

Science

A lyrical exploration of the world’s wildest, most forbiddingly remote places—and the humans who have always been there, by an award-winning and critically acclaimed writer
 

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St George, Zach

Science

A wry and thought-provoking tale about the defiant, eccentric figures obsessed with Australia's deadliest reptiles.

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Bishop, Gary John

Self Help

The New York Times bestselling author of Unfu*k Yourself helps you get out of the past, focus on the future, and build the life you’ve always wanted.

 

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Bogost, Ian

Self Help

From popular The Atlantic columnist Ian Bogost, a lively reflection on how we’ve become disconnected from the physical world—and how to reclaim gratification in our day-to-day lives.
 

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Schiller, Lucy

Social Science

A deeply personal investigation into the current state of eldercare and what it means to grow old in America
 

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Risam, Roopika

Social Science

From clay tablets to the algorithmic state, a groundbreaking new lens on human history arguing that information has always been the seed of power, for readers of Nexus and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.

 

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Hansman, Heather

Social Science

The inspiring, untold story of three incredible women who spearheaded recreation, conservation and resilience in America’s most beloved landscapes, for readers of Pam Houston and David Grann
 

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Galer, Sophia Smith

Social Science

An urgent, globe-spanning exploration of languages at risk, from Kichwa to Ukrainian, that asks: What do we lose—culturally, politically, and personally—when a language is silenced?
 

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Glassman, Thea

Television

In this definitive history of New Girl, entertainment reporter Thea Glassman lifts the curtain on one of the most beloved comedies of the 2010s, going inside the writers’ room and onto the set with exclusive interviews from the show’s creator, cast, writers, directors and crew.
 

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Colloff, Pamela

True Crime

The riveting, true story of an audacious con man who helped send another man to death row for a murder he did not commit
 

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Benefield, Eva

True Crime

Eva Benefield, the daughter of the victim of the viral “Black Swan Murder,” describes coming of age amid grief, violence, and a true-crime spectacle, in a poignant memoir "relatable to anyone who’s experienced grief or witnessed evil up close. Eva tells her story with grace and even humor in these pages” (Shari Franke, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The House of My Mother).
 

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Stevens, Rebecca Wright

True Crime

The stunning true story of a double homicide in the vibrant native Alaskan Iñupiat community at the arctic edge of the United States—written by the public defender at its center
 

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