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270 pp. Hardcover
Art, Architecture & Design
Chicagoland Dream Houses: How a Mid-Century Architecture Competition Reimagined the American Home
Siobhan Moroney

Siobhan Moroney situates the 1945 Chicagoland Prize Homes competition in its time both socially and architecturally, analyzing floor plans and other materials to reveal how the designs reflected the expectations of middle-class families and the social norms that dictated their everyday lives and aspirations.

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280 pp. Hardcover
Art, Architecture & Design
Color Charts: A History
Anne Varichon

A beautifully illustrated history of the many inventive, poetic, and alluring ways in which color swatches have been selected and staged.

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258 pp. Hardcover
Art, Architecture & Design
In Italy: Sketches & Drawings
Laurie Olin, Pablo Mandel

Over the arc of fifty years, sketchbook in hand, Laurie Olin has observed the rich vitality of Italian cities and landscapes. This selection of nearly 250 drawings and watercolors, handsomely reproduced, displays Olin's unique combination of precise observation, sensitivity to context, and graphic spontaneity. These remarkable images will speak to architects, landscape designers, and urban planners, as well as all those who appreciate Italian art, food, and culture

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209 pp. Hardcover
Art, Architecture & Design
Joining the Dots: Uniting Salisbury's Past through Holes in the Ground
Phil Harding, Lorrain Higbee, Lorraine Mepham

This volume attempts to bring diverse strands of archaeological evidence together for the first time to tell the story of this cathedral city, Salisbury, and its residents through its engaging past.

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95 pp. Hardcover
Art, Architecture & Design
Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories
Joe Baker (Editor), Laura Igoe (Editor)

Through a focus on Lenape art, culture, and history and a critical examination of historical visualizations of Native and European American relationships, Never Broken explores the ways in which art can create, challenge, and rewrite history.

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278 pp. Hardcover
Art, Architecture & Design
Saving Michelangelo's Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution
Wayne Kalayjian

In 1742, when the legendary dome atop St. Peter’s Basilica—designed by Michelangelo—cracks and threatens to collapse, Pope Benedict XIV summons three mathematicians whose groundbreaking ideas spark a revolution in the world of architecture.

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348 pp. Paperback
Art, Architecture & Design
The Art of Landscape Lighting: A Designer's Companion
Janet Lennox Moyer

Aimed at practicing professionals and students in landscape architecture, this book is the must-have inspirational resource that provides you with everything you need to design and implement landscape lighting across multiple scales.

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256 pp. Hardcover
Art, Architecture & Design
Two Hundred Years: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1824-2024
David R. Brigham (Editor)

As the Historical Society of Pennsylvania commemorates its 200th anniversary, this volume celebrates the growth of its extraordinary collections of more than twenty-one million manuscripts, books, photographs, maps, broadsides, prints, and drawings.

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322 pp. Hardcover
Art, Architecture & Design
Yuan: Chinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire
Nancy Steinhardt

A monumental illustrated survey of the architecture of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century China.

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224 pp. Paperback
Biography
Antoni Gaudí
Michael Eaude

An accessible account of the contradictory life and work of the modernist Catalan architect.

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305 pp. Hardcover
Biography
Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
Kara Swisher

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.

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360 pp. Hardcover
Biography
Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile
Fiona Maddocks

The moving story of Rachmaninoff's years in exile in America and the composition of his last great work, against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy.

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191 pp. Hardcover
Biography
Grief Is for People
Sloane Crosley

Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley's memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend.

An Instant New York Times Bestseller

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320 pp. Hardcover
Biography
Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII
Jane Marguerite Tippett

Using never before seen sources, Once a King is a fresh, revelatory and gripping insight into the Duke of Windsor - King Edward VIII - who gave up the throne to marry the woman he loved, twice divorced American Wallis Simpson.

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298 pp. Hardcover
Biography
One Way Back
Christine Blasey Ford

The compelling true story behind the testimony that awed the nation. The book reveals riveting new details about the leadup to her testimony and its overwhelming aftermath and describes how she continues to navigate her way out of the storm.

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295 pp. Paperback
Biography
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
James McBride

From the bestselling author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird. James Mcbride describes life as the son of a white mother and Black father, reflecting on his mother's contributions to his life and his confusion over his own identity.

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629 pp. Hardcover
Biography
The Life and Ideas of James Hillman: Volume II: Re-Visioning Psychology
Dick Russell

Volume Two of The Life and Ideas of James Hillman takes up Hillman’s mid-life when he set about returning psychology to its Soul-rich roots in Greek mythology and Renaissance esotericism.

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304 pp. Hardcover
Biography
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
Rob Henderson

In this unflinching portrait of shattered families, desperation and determination, the author, born to a drug-addicted mother, recounts growing up in foster care, and despite his military career, undergraduate education from Yale and a PhD from Cambridge,he argues that stability at home is more important than external accomplishments.

A National Bestseller

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293 pp. Hardcover
Biography
Whiskey Tender
Deborah Taffa

Reminiscent of the works of Mary Karr and Terese Marie Mailhot, a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and of the frictions between mainstream American culture and Native inheritance; assimilation and reverence for tradition.

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329 pp. Hardcover
Biography
Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
Shannon Reed

In this uproarious exploration of the joys of reading, a long-time teacher, lifelong reader and The New Yorker contributor shares surprising stories from her life and the poignant ways in which books have impacted her students and shows us how literaturecan transform us for the better.

National Bestseller

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320 pp. Paperback
Fiction
A Woman of Pleasure
Kiyoko Murata

An unforgettable novel of fearless women banding together to pursue the lives they want, inspired by the real-life historic Japanese courtesan strike

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320 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Acts of Forgiveness
Maura Cheeks

With powerful insight and moving prose, Acts of Forgiveness asks how history shapes who we become and considers the weight of success when it is achieved despite incredible odds—and ultimately what leaving behind a legacy truly means.

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304 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
After Annie
Anna Quindlen

Anna Quindlen’s trademark wisdom on family, friendship, and the ties that bind us are at the center of this novel about the power of love to transcend loss and triumph over adversity, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Still Life with Bread Crumbs and One True Thing.

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368 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
All Our Yesterdays
Joel H. Morris

A propulsive and piercing debut, set ten years before the events of Shakespeare’s historic play, about the ambition, power, and fate that define one of literature’s most notorious figures: Lady Macbeth.

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240 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
American Spirits
Russell Banks

From one of America’s most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the residents of a rural New York town, and the shocking headlines that become their local mythologies.

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400 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Anita de Monte Laughs Last
Xochitl Gonzalez

New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death.

A Most Anticipated Book of 2024: TIME, The Washington PostRefinery 29Barnes & Noble, LitHub

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326 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Beautyland
Marie-Helene Bertino

From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel about a woman who doesn't feel at home on Earth.

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390 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Burma Sahib
Paul Theroux

From the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast and The Bad Angel Brothers comes a riveting new novel exploring one of English literature’s most beloved and controversial figures—George Orwell—and the early years as an officer in colonial Burma that transformed him from Eric Blair, the British Raj policeman, into Orwell the anticolonial writer.

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256 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Change
Édouard Louis

An autobiographical novel from Édouard Louis, hailed as one of the most important voices of his generation―about social class, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind.

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386 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Come and Get It
Kiley Reid

From the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age comes a fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students.

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147 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Satoshi Yagisawa

The wise and charming international bestseller and hit Japanese movie—about a young woman who loses everything but finds herself—a tale of new beginnings, romantic and family relationships, and the comfort that can be found in books.

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324 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Diva
Daisy Goodwin

New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the richest men in the world.

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247 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Earthlings
Sayaka Murata

Dreamlike, sometimes shocking, and always strange and wonderful, Earthlings asks what it means to be happy in a stifling world, and cements Sayaka Murata's (author of Convenience Store Woman) status as a master chronicler of the outsider experience and our own uncanny universe.

National Bestseller

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368 pp. Paperback
Fiction
Familia
Lauren E. Rico

Readers of Olga Dies Dreaming and fans of Julia Alvarez will be captivated by this spellbinding story told from multiple perspectives and spanning a generation, as a baffling genealogy test connects two young women across cultures and class and sets in motion the events that might unravel a decades-old crime at last.

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386 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Family Family
Laurie Frankel

New from the New York Times bestselling author, a propulsive sharply funny and strikingly tender novel tackling first love, second love, parenting, adoption, and all the ways families are fraught, no matter how they're formed and even if you happen to be a movie star.

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256 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Fervor
Toby Lloyd

A chilling and unforgettable story of a close-knit Jewish family in London pushed to the brink when they suspect their daughter is a witch.

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363 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel
The Authors Guild, Margaret Atwood, Douglas Preston

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice—from Margaret Atwood and Celeste Ng to Tommy Orange and John Grisham.

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340 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Hard by a Great Forest
Leo Vardiashvili

Amid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one family must rescue one another and put the past to rest: a stirring novel about what happens after the fighting is over.

Named one of The Observer's 10 Best New Novelists for 2024

 

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425 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Honeybees and Distant Thunder
Riku Onda

Tender and intense from the million-copy award-winning Japanese bestseller, this is the unflinching story of love, courage and rivalry as three young people come to understand what it means to truly be a friend.

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320 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
James
Percival Everett

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. From the “literary icon” (Oprah Daily) and Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose novel Erasure is the basis for Cord Jefferson’s critically acclaimed film American Fiction.

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191 pp. Paperback
Fiction
Life Ceremony: Stories
Sayaka Murata

The long-awaited first short story-collection by the author of the cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, tales of weird love, heartfelt friendships, and the unsettling nature of human existence.

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112 pp. Paperback
Fiction
Love Novel
Ivana Sajko

Love in late capitalism: Ivana Sajko takes us to the frontlines of a war waged between kitchen and bedroom.

Winner of the HKW Internationaler Literaturpreis • Shortlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award 

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105 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Minor Detail
Adania Shibli

A searing, beautiful novel meditating on war, violence, memory, and the sufferings of the Palestinian people.

Finalist for the National Book Award

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107 pp. Paperback
Fiction
Morning and Evening
Jon Fosse

A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Morning and Evening is a novel concerning the beautiful dream that our lives have meaning.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023

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352 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
My Beloved Life
Amitava Kumar

Piercing, fleet-footed, and undeniably resonant, here is a novel about how we tell stories and write history, how individuals play a counterpoint to big movements, how no single life is without consequence, tracing the arc of a man’s life, an ordinary life made exceptional by the fact that he has loved and has been loved in turn.

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398 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
My Friends
Hisham Matar

A devastating meditation on friendship and family, and the ways in which time tests—and frays—those bonds.

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320 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Neighbors and Other Stories
Diane Oliver

A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature, with an introduction by Tayari Jones

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400 pp. Paperback
Fiction
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Editors)

Introduced and contextualized by bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones, these stories are a celebration of Indigenous peoples’ survival and imagination, and a glorious reveling in all the things an ill-advised whistle might summon.

National Bestseller; Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Superior Achievement in an Anthology 

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256 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Parasol Against the Axe
Helen Oyeyemi

The prize-winning, bestselling author of Peaces and Gingerbread returns with a novel about competitive friendship, the elastic boundaries of storytelling, and the meddling influence of a city called Prague. 

A Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Elle, LitHub, The Millions.

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662 pp. Paperback
Fiction
Praiseworthy
Alexis Wright

An astonishing and monumental masterpiece from the towering Australian writer Alexis Wright whose “words explode from the page” (The Monthly)

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342 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
River East, River West
Aube Rey Lescure

Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, this mesmerizing literary debut is part coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world—perfect for readers of Behold the DreamersWhite Ivy, and The Leavers.

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232 pp. Paperback
Fiction
Self-Portraits
Osamu Dazai

In these short stories, collected and translated by Ralph McCarthy, we can see just how closely Dazai’s life mirrored his art, and vice versa, as the writer/narrator falls from grace, rises to fame, and falls again.

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122 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Shy
Max Porter

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’re not alone.

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309 pp. Paperback
Fiction
Sisters of Belfast
Melanie Maure

In the spirit of Heather Morris, Kate Quinn, and Pam Jenoff, an enthralling and deeply moving story that begins during World War II, about orphaned twin sisters in Ireland whose lives diverge for decades, until fate—and faith—reunite them in the twilight of their lives.

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182 pp. Paperback
Fiction
Spirit Nights
Easterine Kire

A powerful, magical indigenous novel from Nagaland, India's foremost writer.

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352 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Sylvia's Second Act
Hillary Yablon

Her husband’s cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn’t going to take it anymore. She’s moving back north, to the city of her dreams—with her best friend, Evie, in tow. Think a screwball comedy featuring a sophisticated Thelma and Louise with martinis in hand . . .

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360 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
The Curse of Pietro Houdini
Derek B. Miller

From the Dagger Award–winning author of Norwegian by Night comes a vivid, thrilling, and moving World War II art-heist-adventure tale where enemies become heroes, allies become villains, and a child learns what it means to become an adult—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See.

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397 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
The Deep Sky
Yume Kitasei

An enthralling sci-fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew.

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288 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
The Extinction of Irena Rey
Jennifer Croft

From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest.

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417 pp. Paperback
Fiction
The Good Lord Bird
James McBride

From the bestselling author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade—and who must pass as a girl to survive.

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

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336 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
The Great Divide
Cristina Henriquez

A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there.

A Read With Jenna pick; Named a Most Anticipated Book by:  Washington Post, Book Riot, Electric Literature, LitHub, ELLE, The Millions, Goodreads, Reader’s Digest

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432 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
The Hunter
Tana French

From the writer who is “in a class by herself,” (The New York Times), a nuanced, atmospheric tale–set in the Irish countryside–that explores what we’ll do for our loved ones, what we’ll do for revenge, and what we sacrifice when the two collide.

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325 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven
Nathan Ian Miller

In The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven, a "briskly entertaining" (New York Times Book Review), "transporting and wholly original" (People Magazine) novel by Nathaniel Ian Miller, one man banishes himself to a solitary life in the Arctic Circle, and is saved by good friends, a loyal dog, and a surprise visit that changes everything.

An Athenaeum Read With Us Book Club Pick

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304 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
The Morningside
Téa Obreht

From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife and Inland, a sweeping novel of mothers and daughters, displacement and belonging, and wondrous tales of a world both fallen and new.

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475 pp. Paperback
Fiction
The Most Secret Memory of Men
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

An astonishing novel about the choice between living and writing, and the desire to transcend the divide between Africa and the West. Above all, it is an ode to literature and its timelessness.

Winner of the Prix Goncourt; A New York Times Best Book of 2023; Longlisted for the National Book Award

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320 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
The Painter's Daughters
Emily Howes

A “beautifully written” (Hilary Mantel) story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renowned 1700s English painter Thomas Gainsborough, who struggle to live up to the perfect image the world so admired in their portraits.

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391 pp. Paperback
Fiction
The Phoenix Crown
Kate Quinn, Janie Chang

From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles.

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272 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
The Road from Belhaven
Margot Livesey

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late-nineteenth-century Scotland.

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181 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
The Second Sword: A Tale from the Merry Month of May, & My Day in the Other Land: A Tale of Demons
Peter Handke

Two novellas by Peter Handke―his first new works since he won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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219 pp. Paperback
Fiction
The Singularity
Balsam Karam

Lyrical and devastating, The Singularity is a breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhood from one of Sweden’s most exciting new novelists.

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339 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
The Storm We Made
Vanessa Chan

A sweeping epic about an unlikely spy, a secret love affair, and the uncontrollable forces that will test even the most unbreakable ties. Set in Malaya (now Malaysia) during World War II, this spellbinding novel chronicles a mother and her children as they grapple with the consequences of colonial power and the shocking repercussions that follow for their family and their country.

National Bestseller; A Good Morning America Pick

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273 pp. Paperback
Fiction
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith

Andrew Scott stars as Tom Ripley in the new Netflix limited series.

The Talented Mr. Ripley follows the life of Tom Ripley, a young and talented but socially awkward man who becomes entangled in a web of lies, manipulation, and murder. The story is set against the backdrop of 1950s Europe.

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265 pp. Paperback
Fiction
The Ukraine
Artem Chapeye

A stunning debut collection of fiction and creative nonfiction— irreverent and unglorified; loving and tender; uncomfortable and inconvenient—by a Ukrainian writer currently fighting for his country in Kyiv.

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471 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
The Women
Kristin Hannah

From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women―at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided.

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177 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
This Plague of Souls
Mike McCormack

The follow-up to Booker-listed literary sensation Solar Bones is a terse metaphysical thriller, named a most anticipated book of the year by The GuardianThe Irish Times, and The New Statesman.

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129 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Until August
Gabriel García Márquez

Constantly surprising, joyously sensual, Until August is a profound meditation on freedom, regret, self-transformation, and the mysteries of love—an unexpected gift from one of the greatest writers the world has ever known.

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336 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange

Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in There There.

Time Most Anticipated Book. 

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168 pp. Paperback
Fiction
Where the Wind Calls Home
Samar Yazbek

In this new novel by Syria’s most prominent writer of the National Book Award Finalist Planet of Clay, a wounded nineteen-year-old soldier in the Syrian Army remembers his life lived in the traditional Alawite way. 

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255 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Wild Houses
Colin Barrett

The riotous, raucous and deeply resonant debut novel from “one of the best story writers in the English language today” (Financial TimesWild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry.

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346 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
Women of Good Fortune
Sophie Wan

Set against a high-society Shanghai wedding, a heartfelt, funny, dazzling novel about a reluctant bride and her two best friends, each with their own motives and fed up with the way society treats women, who forge a plan to steal all the gift money on the big day.

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222 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
You Dreamed of Empires
Álvaro Enrigue

From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagines the fall of Tenochtitlan. The incomparably original Alvaro Enrigue sets afire the moment of conquest and turns it into a moment of revolution, a restitutive, fantastical counter-attack, in a novel so electric and so unique that it feels like a dream.

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144 pp. Paperback
Fiction
You Glow in the Dark
Liliana Colanzi

Introducing the Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi, You Glow in the Dark glimmers with an unearthly light and a nearly radioactive power.

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323 pp. Hardcover
Fiction
You Only Call When You're in Trouble
Stephen McCauley

“Funny, poignant, joyous, explosive, but most of all affirming of our connections to one another. You Only Call When You're in Trouble is a book to cherish. A book that loves you back. What more could you want, my gosh? Read it!” —Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less Is Lost

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299 pp. Hardcover
Graphic Novel
MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus
Art Spiegelman

In the pages of MetaMaus, Art Spiegelman re-enters the Pulitzer prize–winning Maus, the modern classic that has altered how we see literature, comics, and the Holocaust ever since it was first published twenty-five years ago.

National Jewish Book Award Winner

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529 pp. Hardcover
Graphic Novel
Okinawa
Susumu Higa

This heartbreaking manga, by an award-winning cartoonist, examines the history of Okinawa and its military occupation. An essential manga classic presented in English for the first time.

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pp. Paperback
Graphic Novel
Terminal 3
Debasmita Dasgupta

Breathing against the backdrop of conflict, Terminal 3, is the story of the everyday people striving to live their dreams in the Valley.

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195 pp. Paperback
History
(re)FOCUS then and now : Philadelphia focuses on women in the visual arts, 1974-2024
Judith K. Brodsky & Diane Burko (Editors)

Published on the occasion of the exhibition (re)FOCUS Then and Now: Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts, The Galleries at Moore, January 27-March 16, 2024.  This exhibition was curated by Judith K. Brodsky and Diane Burko. (re)FOCUS celebrates the 50th anniversary of Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts/1974, a citywide festival recognizing women artists.

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259 pp. Hardcover
History
A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging
Lauren Markham

A mesmerizing, trailblazing synthesis of reporting, history, memoir, and essay, A Map of Future Ruins helps us see that the stories we tell about migration don’t just explain what happened. They are oracles: they predict the future.

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475 pp. Hardcover
History
Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany
Katja Hoyer

From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the definitive history of East Germany.

An International Bestseller 

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208 pp. Paperback
History
Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape: Deep Roots, Continuing Legacy
Amy Jane Cohen

Black Philadelphians have shaped Philadelphia history since colonial times. In this book, Amy Cohen recounts notable aspects of the Black experience in Philadelphia from the late 1600s to the 1960s and how this history is marked in the contemporary city.

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128 pp. Hardcover
History
Lost Chester County, Pennsylvania
Mark Dewitt Lanyon

Chester County has a deep and enriching history, from sites of the Underground Railroad to great moments of Women's Suffrage and incredible remnants of Native American culture. Author Mark DeWitt Lanyon charts Chester County's lost history and the places that defined it.

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334 pp. Hardcover
History
Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)
Rachel Slade

A moving and eye-opening look at the story of manufacturing in America, whether it can ever successfully return to our shores, and why our nation depends on it, told through the experience of one young couple in Maine as they attempt to rebuild a lost industry, ethically. • From the best-selling author of Into the Raging Sea

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398 pp. Hardcover
History
Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
Amitav Ghosh

Ghosh unravels the impact of the opium trade on global history and in his own family―the climax of a yearslong project.

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Foreign PolicyLiterary Hub, and The Millions

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344 pp. Hardcover
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The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction
Daniel Brook

A technicolor history of the first civil rights movement and its collapse into black and white.

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262 pp. Hardcover
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The Black Box: Writing the Race
Henry Louis Gates Jr.

A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country’s history.

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403 pp. Paperback
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Daniel James Brown

The #1 New York Times–bestselling story about the American Olympic rowing triumph in Nazi Germany—from the author of Facing the Mountain.

Now a Major Motion Picture directed by George Clooney

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256 pp. Hardcover
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The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers
Jim Morris

The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the lawyer who sought justice on their behalf, and the shameful lack of protection our society affords all workers. A gripping narrative in the tradition of A Civil Action and Toms River.

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352 pp. Hardcover
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The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
Denise Murrell

A groundbreaking volume resituating the Harlem Renaissance as integral to the development of twentieth century modernism. This reframing of a celebrated cultural phenomenon shows how the flow of ideas through Black artistic communities on both sides of the Atlantic contributed to international conversations around art, race, and identity while helping to define our notion of modernism.

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368 pp. Hardcover
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The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations
David montero

This groundbreaking book tracks the massive wealth amassed from slavery from pre-Civil War to today, showing how our modern economy was built on the backs of enslaved Black people—and lays out a clear argument for reparations that shows exactly what was stolen, who stole it, and to whom it is owed.

Amazon's Best History Book of the Month for February 2024

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775 pp. Hardcover
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Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
Dennis Romano
A sweeping and comprehensive history of Venice--from its formation in the early Middle Ages to the present day--that traces its evolution as a city, city-state, regional power, and overseas empire.
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