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.
REQUESTAnne Varichon
A beautifully illustrated history of the many inventive, poetic, and alluring ways in which color swatches have been selected and staged.
REQUESTLaurie 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
REQUESTPhil 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.
REQUESTJoe 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.
REQUESTWayne 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.
REQUESTJanet 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.
REQUESTDavid 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.
REQUESTNancy Steinhardt
A monumental illustrated survey of the architecture of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century China.
REQUESTMichael Eaude
An accessible account of the contradictory life and work of the modernist Catalan architect.
REQUESTKara 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.
REQUESTFiona 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.
REQUESTSloane 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
REQUESTJane 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.
REQUESTChristine 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.
REQUESTJames 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.
REQUESTDick 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.
REQUESTRob 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
REQUESTDeborah 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.
REQUESTShannon 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
REQUESTKiyoko Murata
An unforgettable novel of fearless women banding together to pursue the lives they want, inspired by the real-life historic Japanese courtesan strike
REQUESTMaura 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.
REQUESTAnna 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.
REQUESTJoel 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.
REQUESTRussell 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.
REQUESTXochitl 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 Post, Refinery 29, Barnes & Noble, LitHub
REQUESTMarie-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.
REQUESTPaul 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.
REQUESTÉdouard 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.
REQUESTKiley 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.
REQUESTSatoshi 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.
REQUESTDaisy 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.
REQUESTSayaka 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
REQUESTLauren 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.
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.
REQUESTToby 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.
REQUESTThe 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.
REQUESTLeo 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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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.
REQUESTPercival 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.
REQUESTSayaka 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.
REQUESTIvana 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
REQUESTAdania Shibli
A searing, beautiful novel meditating on war, violence, memory, and the sufferings of the Palestinian people.
Finalist for the National Book Award
REQUESTJon 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
REQUESTAmitava 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.
REQUESTHisham Matar
A devastating meditation on friendship and family, and the ways in which time tests—and frays—those bonds.
REQUESTDiane 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
REQUESTShane 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
REQUESTHelen 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.
REQUESTAlexis Wright
An astonishing and monumental masterpiece from the towering Australian writer Alexis Wright whose “words explode from the page” (The Monthly)
REQUESTAube 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 Dreamers, White Ivy, and The Leavers.
REQUESTOsamu 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.
REQUESTMax Porter
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’re not alone.
REQUESTMelanie 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.
REQUESTEasterine Kire
A powerful, magical indigenous novel from Nagaland, India's foremost writer.
REQUESTHillary 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 . . .
REQUESTDerek 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.
REQUESTYume 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.
REQUESTJennifer 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.
REQUESTJames 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
REQUESTCristina 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
REQUESTTana 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.
REQUESTNathan 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
REQUESTTéa 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.
REQUESTMohamed 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
REQUESTEmily 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.
REQUESTKate 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.
REQUESTMargot 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.
REQUESTPeter Handke
Two novellas by Peter Handke―his first new works since he won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature.
REQUESTBalsam Karam
Lyrical and devastating, The Singularity is a breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhood from one of Sweden’s most exciting new novelists.
REQUESTVanessa 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
REQUESTPatricia 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.
REQUESTArtem 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.
REQUESTKristin 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.
REQUESTMike 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 Guardian, The Irish Times, and The New Statesman.
REQUESTGabriel 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.
REQUESTTommy 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.
A Time Most Anticipated Book.
REQUESTSamar 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.
REQUESTColin Barrett
The riotous, raucous and deeply resonant debut novel from “one of the best story writers in the English language today” (Financial Times) Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry.
REQUESTSophie 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.
REQUESTÁlvaro 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.
REQUESTLiliana Colanzi
Introducing the Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi, You Glow in the Dark glimmers with an unearthly light and a nearly radioactive power.
REQUESTStephen 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
REQUESTArt 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
REQUESTSusumu 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.
REQUESTDebasmita Dasgupta
Breathing against the backdrop of conflict, Terminal 3, is the story of the everyday people striving to live their dreams in the Valley.
REQUESTJudith 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.
REQUESTLauren 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.
REQUESTKatja 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
REQUESTAmy 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.
REQUESTMark 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.
REQUESTRachel 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
REQUESTAmitav 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 Policy, Literary Hub, and The Millions
REQUESTDaniel Brook
A technicolor history of the first civil rights movement and its collapse into black and white.
REQUESTHenry 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.
REQUESTDaniel 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
REQUESTJim 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.
REQUESTDenise 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.
REQUESTDavid 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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