because not every author in the canon is dead, male, and white

Sun-tzu

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oregon

The Art of War is composed of only about 6,000 Chinese characters, it is considered by many to be the greatest book on strategy and strategic thinking ever written. . 350F PROFESSIONAL READING LIST.

The Art of War

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Toni Morrison

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

Relates the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes, and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted

The Bluest Eye

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W. S. Merwin

Cristina García

Pablo Neruda

Dual-Language Edition

The most popular work by Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet, and the subject of Pablo Larraín's acclaimed feature film Neruda starring Gael García Bernal

A Penguin Classic

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin's incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition with an introduction by Cristina Garcia, this book stands as an essential collection that continues to inspire lovers and poets around the world.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

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Nikhil Krishnan

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Washington

Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960

A lively, immersive account of the colorful and brilliant philosophers who roamed the halls of mid-twentieth-century Oxford and taught the world the importance of language “This is Oxford philosophy in the round. The philosophical arguments, the personal lives, the colorful quotes, the elbow patches and buttered crumpets—brilliantly written.”—James Franklin, author of Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia What are the limits of language? How can philosophy be brought closer to everyday life? What is a good human being? These were among the questions that philosophers wrestled with in mid-twentieth-century Britain, a period shadowed by war and the rise of fascism. In response to these events, thinkers such as Philippa Foot (originator of the famous trolley problem), Isaiah Berlin, Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth Anscombe, Gilbert Ryle, and J. L. Austin aspired to a new level of watchfulness and self-awareness about language as a way of keeping philosophy true to everyday experience. A Terribly Serious Adventure traces the friendships and the rivalries, the shared preoccupations and the passionate disagreements of some of Oxford’s most innovative thinkers. Far from being stuck in their ivory towers, the Oxford philosophers lived. They were codebreakers, diplomats, and soldiers in both World Wars, and they often drew on their real-world experience in creating their greatest works, masterpieces of British modernism original in both thought and style. Steeped in the dramatic history of the twentieth century, A Terribly Serious Adventure is an eye-opening look inside the rooms that changed how we think about our world. Shedding light on the lives and intellectual achievements of a large and spirited cast of characters, Cambridge academic Nikhil Krishnan shows us how much we can still learn from the Oxford philosophers. In our fractious, post-truth world, their acute sense of responsibility for their words, their passionate desire to get the little things right, stands as an inspiring example.

A Terribly Serious Adventure

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Wynn Kapit

Lawrence Elson

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Colorado

Science

Why use this coloring book? For more than 35 years, The Anatomy Coloring Book has been the #1 best-selling human anatomy coloring book! A useful tool for anyone with an interest in learning anatomical structures, this concisely written text features precise, extraordinary hand-drawn figures that were crafted especially for easy coloring and interactive study. Organized according to body systems, each of the 162 two-page spreads featured in this book includes an ingenious color-key system where anatomical terminology is linked to detailed illustrations of the structures of the body. When you color to learn with The Anatomy Coloring Book, you make visual associations with key terminology, and assimilate information while engaging in kinesthetic learning. Studying anatomy is made easy and fun! The Fourth Edition features user-friendly two-page spreads with enlarged art, clearer, more concise text descriptions, and new boldface headings that make this classic coloring book accessible to a wider range of learners. TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION TO COLORING ORIENTATION TO THE BODY 1. Anatomic Planes & Sections 2. Terms of Position & Direction 3. Systems of the Body (1) 4. Systems of the Body (2) 5. Cavities & Linings CELLS & TISSUES 6. The Generalized Cell 7. Cell Division / Mitosis 8. Tissues: Epithelial 9. Tissues: Fibrous Connective Tissues 10. Tissues: Supporting Connective Tissues 11. Tissues: Muscle 12. Tissues: Skeletal Muscle Microstructure 13. Tissues: Nervous 14. Integration of Tissues INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM 15. The Integument: Epidermis 16. The Integument: Dermis SKELETAL & ARTICULAR SYSTEMS 17. Long Bone Structure 18. Endochondral Ossification 19. Axial / Appendicular Skeleton 20. Classification of Joints 21. Terms of Movements 22. Bones of the Skull (1) 23. Bones of the Skull (2) 24. Temporomandibular Joint 25. Vertebral Column 26. Cervical & Thoracic Vertebrae 27. Lumbar, Sacral, & Coccygeal Vertebrae 28. Bony Thorax 29. Upper Limb: Pectoral Girdle & Humerus 30. Upper Limb: Glenohumeral (Shoulder) Joint 31. Upper Limb: Bones of the Forearm 32. Upper Limb: Elbow & Related Joints 33. Upper Limb: Bones / Joints of the Wrist & Hand 34. Upper Limb: Bones / Joints in Review 35. Lower Limb: Hip Bone, Pelvic Girdle, & Pelvis 36. Lower Limb: Male & Female Pelves 37. Lower Limb: Sacroiliac & Hip Joints 38. Lower Limb: Bones of the Thigh & Leg 39. Lower Limb: Knee Joint 40. Lower Limb: Ankle Joint & Bones of the Foot 41. Lower Limb: Bones & Joints in Review MUSCULAR SYSTEM 42. Introduction to Skeletal Muscle 43. Integration of Muscle Action 44. Head: Muscles of Facial Expression 45. Head: Muscles of Mastication 46. Neck: Anterior & Lateral Muscles 47. Torso: Deep Muscles of the Back & Posterior Neck 48. Torso: Muscles of the Bony Thorax & Posterior Abdominal Wall 49. Torso: Muscles of the Anterior Abdominal Wall & Inguinal Region 50. Torso: Muscles of the Pelvis 51. Torso: Muscles of the Perineum 52. Upper Limb: Muscles of Scapular Stabilization 53. Upper Limb: Muscles of the Musculotendinous Cuff 54. Upper Limb: Movers of the Shoulder Joint 55. Upper Limb: Movers of Elbow & Radioulnar Joints 56. Upper Limb: Movers of Wrist & Hand Joints 57. Upper Limb: Movers of Hand Joints (Intrinsics) 58. Upper Limb: Review of Muscles 59. Lower Limb: Muscles of the Gluteal Region 60. Lower Limb: Muscles of the Posterior Thigh 61. Lower Limb: Muscles of the Medial Thigh 62. Lower Limb: Muscles of the Anterior Thigh 63. Lower Limb: Muscles of the Anterior & Lateral Leg 64. Lower Limb: Muscles of the Posterior Leg 65. Lower Limb: Muscles of the Foot (Intrinsics) 66. Lower Limb: Review of Muscles 67. Functional Overview NERVOUS SYSTEM 68. Organization 69. Functional Classification of Neurons 70. Synapses & Neurotransmitters 71. Neuromuscular Integration CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM 72. Development of the Central Nervous System (CNS) 73. Cerebral Hemispheres 74. Tracts / Nuclei of Cerebral Hemispheres 75. Diencephalon 76. Brain Stem / Cerebellum 77. Spinal Cord 78. Ascending Tracts (Pathways) 79. Descending Tracts CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM: CAVITIES & COVERINGS 80. Ventricles of the Brain 81. Meninges 82. Circulation of Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM 83. Cranial Nerves 84. Spinal Nerves & Nerve Roots 85. Spinal Reflexes 86. Distribution of Spinal Nerves 87. Brachial Plexus & Nerves to the Upper Limb 88. Lumber & Sacral Plexuses: Nerves to the Lower Limb 89. Dermatomes 90. Sensory Receptors AUTONOMIC (VISCERAL) NERVOUS SYSTEM 91. ANS: Sympathetic Division (1) 92. ANS: Sympathetic Division (2) 93. ANS: Parasympathetic Division SPECIAL SENSES 94. Visual System (1) 95. Visual System (2) 96. Visual System (3) 97. Auditory & Vestibular Systems (1) 98. Auditory & Vestibular Systems (2) 99. Taste & Smell CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM 100. Blood & Blood Elements 101. Scheme of Blood Circulation 102. Blood Vessels 103. Mediastinum, Walls, & Coverings of the Heart 104. Chambers of the Heart 105. Cardiac Conduction System & the ECG 106. Coronary Arteries & Cardiac Veins 107. Arteries of the Head & Neck 108. Arteries of the Brain 109. Arteries & Veins of the Upper Limb 110. Arteries of the Lower Limb 111. Aorta, Branches, & Related Vessels 112. Arteries to Gastrointestinal Tract & Related Organs 113. Arteries of the Pelvis & Perineum 114. Review of Principal Arteries 115. Veins of the Head & Neck 116. Caval & Azygos Systems 117. Veins of the Lower Limb 118. Hepatic Portal System 119. Review of Principal Veins LYMPHATIC SYSTEM 120. Lymphatic Drainage & Lymphocyte Circulation IMMUNE (LYMPHOID) SYSTEM 121. Introduction 122. Innate & Adaptive Immunity 123. Thymus & Red Marrow 124. Spleen 125. Lymph Node 126. Mucosal Associated Lymphoid Tissue (M.A.L.T.) RESPIRATORY SYSTEM 127. Overview 128. External Nose, Nasal Septum, & Nasal Cavity 129. Paranasal Air Sinuses 130. Pharynx & Larynx 131. Lobes & Pleura of the Lungs 132. Lower Respiratory Tract 133. Mechanism of Respiration DIGESTIVE SYSTEM 134. Overview 135. Oral Cavity & Relations 136. Anatomy of a Tooth 137. Pharynx & Swallowing 138. Peritoneum 139. Esophagus and Stomach 140. Small Intestine 141. Large intestine 142. Liver 143. Biliary System & Pancreas URINARY SYSTEM 144. Urinary Tract 145. Kidneys & Related Retroperitoneal Structures 146. Kidney & Ureter 147. The Nephron 148. Tubular Function & Renal Circulation ENDOCRINE SYSTEM 149. Introduction 150. Pituitary Gland & Hypothalamus 151. Pituitary Gland & Target Organs 152. Thyroid & Parathyroid Glands 153. Adrenal (Suprarenal) Glands 154. Pancreatic Islets REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM 155. Male Reproductive System 156. Testis 157. Male Urogenital Structures 158. Female Reproductive System 159. Ovary 160. Uterus, Uterine Tubes, & Vagina 161. Menstrual Cycle 162. Breast (Mammary Gland) BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES APPENDIX A: ANSWER KEYS APPENDIX B: INNERVATION OF SKELETAL MUSCLES GLOSSARY INDEX

The Anatomy Coloring Book

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Eric Geron

Utah

Dive into the world of Disney's Hocus Pocus with this stunning spell book.

It's all just a bunch of hocus pocus inside this gorgeous Hocus Pocus Spell Book. Fans of the annual Halloween favorite, Hocus Pocus will love this enchanting title featuring spells, potions, witch history, and more! Full of magical of illustrations, comments from Winnie, Mary, and Sarah, and more, this beautiful book is a must-have accessory for any want-to-be Sanderson sister and the perfect gift for Hocus Pocus fans of any age.

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 * Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel
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New York

This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit America the comic book. Inspired by their own fears and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapists, The Monitor, and Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is the winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

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Elena Ferrante

*Spanish Language Edition* - Ex-library copy with typical internal stamps/markings - La niña Perdida (Dos Amigas / Neapolitan Novels Series) 

New Jersey

La niña perdida pone punto final a «Dos amigas», la historia de dos amigas que nacieron a mediados del siglo XX en Nápoles. UNA SAGA MEMORABLE Lina y Elena son ahora adultas y han tomado caminos distintos: Elena dejó Nápoles para casarse y convertirse en una escritora de éxito en Florencia. Solo un amor de juventud que vuelve a florecer la devolverá a Nápoles, donde la espera Lina, que ahora es madre y además ha triunfado muy a su manera en el negocio local. Elena es la señora culta, Lina es en apariencia la mujer de barrio, ignorante y poco dispuesta al refinamiento, pero la inteligencia pura y la intuición están del lado de Lina. Los hechos se precipitan cuando un buen día de repente, la hija de Lina desaparece: ¿asesinato, rapto, muerte? Nadie sabe, y el barrio murmura. Desde entonces, Lina ya no es la misma y la locura acecha. Todo -los hombres, las mujeres, el paisaje, la ciudad entera de Nápoles- se convierten en testigos del duelo de una madre que no sabe llorar y un buen día también desaparecerá, devolviendo al lector a las primeras páginas de esta espléndida saga. Inteligencia, emoción contenida, escritura que se pliega a los acontecimientos y se ajusta como un guante a la trama: todo está en estas páginas donde se ha ido cosiendo una de las obras más brillantes del siglo XXI. «Quería contar solo la vida de dos mujeres. Y para hacerlo era necesario que filtrara la historia en el trasfondo de sus existencias, las cosas que de un modo u otro tenían que ver con ellas. Me gustaría que el relato ayudase a contemplar en términos narrativos un pedazo de la historia de Italia.».-Elena Ferrante ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Soon to be an HBO series, book four in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today's most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, "one of the great novelists of our time." (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times) Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila. In this book, life’s great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women’s friendship, examined in its every detail over the course of four books, remains the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. But now, she has returned to Naples to be with the man she has always loved. Lila, on the other hand, never succeeded in freeing herself from Naples. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect her neighborhood. Yet somehow this proximity to a world she has always rejected only brings her role as unacknowledged leader of that world into relief. Ferrante is one of the world’s great storytellers. With the Neapolitan quartet she has given her readers an abundant, generous, and masterfully plotted page-turner that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight readers for many generations to come.

La niña Perdida (The Story of the Lost Child)

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Richard Powers

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Texas

A Novel

The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers's twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours--vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

The Overstory

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New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century

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Yoko Ogawa

Stephen Snyder

North Carolina

Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young writer discovers that her editor is in danger, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her f loorboards, and together they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past. Powerful and provocative, The Memory Police is a stunning novel about the trauma of loss. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * TIME * CHICAGO TRIBUNE * THE GUARDIAN * ESQUIRE * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS * FINANCIAL TIMES * LIBRARY JOURNAL * THE A.V. CLUB * KIRKUS REVIEWS * LITERARY HUB

The Memory Police

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Alexandra Chang

Kentucky

A wry, tender portrait of a young woman--finally free to decide her own path, but unsure if she knows herself well enough to choose wisely--from a captivating new literary voice The plan is to leave. As for how, when, to where, and even why--she doesn't know yet. So begins a journey for the twenty-four-year-old narrator of Days of Distraction. As a staff writer at a prestigious tech publication, she reports on the achievements of smug Silicon Valley billionaires and start-up bros while her own request for a raise gets bumped from manager to manager. And when her longtime boyfriend, J, decides to move to a quiet upstate New York town for grad school, she sees an excuse to cut and run. Moving is supposed to be a grand gesture of her commitment to J and a way to reshape her sense of self. But in the process, she finds herself facing misgivings about her role in an interracial relationship. Captivated by the stories of her ancestors and other Asian Americans in history, she must confront a question at the core of her identity: What does it mean to exist in a society that does not notice or understand you? Equal parts tender and humorous, and told in spare but powerful prose, Days of Distraction is an offbeat coming-of-adulthood tale, a touching family story, and a razor-sharp appraisal of our times.

Days of Distraction

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Kamila Shamsie

West Virginia

"Ingenious... Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I've read in a novel this century." --The New York Times WINNER OF THE 2018 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST FOR THE 2019 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she's accepted an invitation from a mentor in America that allows her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London, or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream, to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. When he resurfaces half a globe away, Isma's worst fears are confirmed. Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. Son of a powerful political figure, he has his own birthright to live up to--or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz's salvation? Suddenly, two families' fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined, in this searing novel that asks: What sacrifices will we make in the name of love?

Home Fire

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I’ll really hand you the most emotionally devastating book and say it’s my comfort read.

Michigan

NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships” (People) from the author of Conversations with Friends, “a master of the literary page-turner” (J. Courtney Sullivan). ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE—Entertainment Weekly TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—People, Slate, The New York Public Library, Harvard Crimson AND BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, O: The Oprah Magazine, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Vogue, Esquire, Glamour, Elle, Marie Claire, Vox, The Paris Review, Good Housekeeping, Town & Country Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation—awkward but electrifying—something life changing begins. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Normal People is the story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find that they can’t. Praise for Normal People “[A] novel that demands to be read compulsively, in one sitting.”—The Washington Post “Arguably the buzziest novel of the season, Sally Rooney’s elegant sophomore effort . . . is a worthy successor to Conversations with Friends. Here, again, she unflinchingly explores class dynamics and young love with wit and nuance.”—The Wall Street Journal “[Rooney] has been hailed as the first great millennial novelist for her stories of love and late capitalism. . . . [She writes] some of the best dialogue I’ve read.”—The New Yorker

Normal People

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Ottessa Moshfegh

Virginia

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Amazon,Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller “One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly “Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —Vogue From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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Zadie Smith

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel. Kilburn, 1873. The 'Tichborne Trial' has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England. Readers are at odds over whether the defendant is who he claims to be - or an imposter. Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her novelist cousin and his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects England of being a land of façades, in which nothing is quite what it seems. Andrew Bogle meanwhile finds himself the star witness, his future depending on telling the right story. Growing up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica, he knows every lump of sugar comes at a human cost. That the rich deceive the poor. And that people are more easily manipulated than they realise. Based on real historical events, The Fraud is a dazzling novel about how in a world of hypocrisy and self-deception, deciding what's true can prove a complicated task. PRAISE FOR ZADIE SMITH: 'A writer of remarkable wit and originality' Observer 'A brilliant writer' A M Homes 'She's a genius' Dolly Alderton 'Zadie Smith is a national treasure' James Gleick 'A tremendous talent . . . Smith is simply wonderful' Boyd Tonkin, Independent

The Fraud

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Kansas

Yoko Ogawa's The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family.

He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.

She is an astute young Housekeeper--with a ten-year-old son--who is hired to care for the Professor.
And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is like a tape that begins to erase itself every eighty minutes), the Professor's mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. And the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her young son. The Professor is capable of discovering connections between the simplest of quantities--like the Housekeeper's shoe size--and the universe at large, drawing their lives ever closer and more profoundly together, even as his memory slips away.

The Housekeeper and the Professor

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Barbara Kingsolver

Alabama

An Oprah's Book Club Selection

"Demon is a voice for the ages--akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield--only even more resilient. I'm crazy about this book, which parses the epidemic in a beautiful and intimate new way. I think it's her best." --Beth Macy, author of Dopesick

"An Appalachian David Copperfield...Demon Copperhead reimagines Dickens's story in a modern-day rural America contending with poverty and opioid addiction...Like Dickens, she is unblushingly political and works on a sprawling scale...Episode by episode she persuasively conveys the mind of a teenage boy...It's hard to think of another living novelist who could take a stab at Dickens and rise above the level of catastrophe." --New York Times

From the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity.

"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose."

Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It's the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.

Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.

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