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From the sharp, inventive mind of comedian and writer Josie Long comes a vibrant collection of short stories that capture the quiet chaos and unlikely beauty of everyday life. In these offbeat and emotionally resonant tales, three teenage girls are convinced they're witches, a...

The name of John Muir has come to stand for the protection of wild land and wilderness in both America and Britain. Born in Dunbar in 1838, Muir is famed as the father of American conservation. This collection, including the rarely-seen Stickeen, presents the...

It had never been done before. Not in 2,000 years of Japanese recorded history had anyone followed the Cherry Blossom Front from one end of the country to the other. Nor had anyone hitchhiked the length of Japan. But, heady on sakura and sake,...

In Berlin’s artistic underground, where techno and drugs fill warehouses still pockmarked from the wars of the twentieth century, nineteen-year-old Nila at last finds her tribe. Born in Germany to Afghan parents, raised in public housing graffitied with swastikas, drawn to philosophy, photography, and...

On a bright spring afternoon, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything. Grabbing an armful of clothes off the clothesline, she straps her two young daughters into her car and drives away. Head spinning, all she knows for certain is that...

Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they’re nobodies. First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch who stayed in Tehran during the revolution. She lives in a shabby apartment, paranoid and alone. Except when she is visited by Niaz, her...

It’s been nearly ten years since Gabe’s been gone when Lucy finds a tiny piece of paper in a box of his old photos. An address in Rome. Why did Gabe keep it, and what was he doing in Italy? Lucy buys a last-minute...

From the celebrated writer, observer and naturalist Robert Macfarlane comes a brilliant, perspective-shifting new book, which answers a resounding "yes" to the question of its title. Macfarlane takes readers on three unforgettable journeys teeming with extraordinary people and places: to the miraculous cloud-forests and mountain streams...

New York City, late September 2001. The walls of the city are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady’s father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. When a letter arrives from an aunt she didn’t know existed...

Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to...

Roberto Burle Marx Lectures: Landscape as Art and Urbanism Essential lectures on the art of landscaping from Roberto Burle Marx, described by the New York Times as "the designer most responsible for our utopian impressions of the Brazilian built environment Roberto Burle Marx (1909–94)...

Japanese Architecture: An Exploration of Elements & Forms In Japanese Architecture, author Mira Locher explores how each of these stories encompasses the particular development, construction, function and symbolism inherent in historic architectural elements. Japanese architecture developed with influences from abroad and particular socio-political situations...

This deluxe limited edition includes sprayed edges and stunning designed endpapers! Among the Burning Flowers opens on a world poised for ruin. Centuries have passed since fire-breathing dragons nearly wiped out humankind—but now, deep beneath the earth, they begin to stir once more. In...

One night, ten-year-old Louisa walks the beach with her father. He carries a flashlight. He cannot swim. By morning, Louisa is found barely alive on the shore. Her father is gone. In Flashlight, Susan Choi traces the ripples of that night through a fractured...

With over two million copies sold, The Woman in Me is the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir hailed as “moving” (Time), “powerful” (Los Angeles Times), and “radiant” (The New York Times). In June 2021, the world stopped to listen as Britney Spears spoke...

Collection 1. Thirty-eight years after World War III, Neo-Tokyo has risen from the ashes of the old city: a neon-drenched metropolis bordered by irradiated wastelands where criminals, cultists, and street gangs rule the night. Among them are childhood friends and rivals Kaneda and Tetsuo,...

A little life follows the lives of four college friends—Jude, Willem, JB, and Malcolm—as they build their lives in New York City, chasing careers, connection, and meaning. Over the decades, their incredibly strong bond is tested by ambition, addiction, and personal demons, and at...

Hierarchy #2. The Hierarchy still call me Vis Telimus. They still hail me as Catenicus. They believe they know who I am. They are wrong. I won the Iudicium — and lost everything. Now, through an ancient device hidden beyond the Labyrinth, I have been...

Rising star Mieko Kawakami reaches new heights in this fast-paced, electrifying novel — a Japanese Breaking Bad — in which a group of friends fight for freedom, independence, and survival in 1990s Tokyo, a city increasingly split between haves and have-nots. Each of them...

What We Can Learn From History’s Greatest Civilizations Throughout history, golden ages have been defined by extraordinary bursts of cultural creativity, scientific discovery, technological innovation, and economic expansion. Yet no two have looked alike. Each was shaped by its own beliefs, institutions, and position...

The Bridge kingdom #1 featuring: • Designed sprayed edges• A deluxe jacket with new cover art• A full-color illustrated book case with new character art• A new interior black-and-white map• Designed endpapers• A spine design that will stretch across future deluxe hardcover editions in...

The Indispensable Collection of Literary Wisdom Since its founding in 1953, The Paris Review has produced interviews that are more than conversations—they are vivid literary self-portraits. Across decades, the magazine has invited the world’s most accomplished writers to reflect on their craft with unusual...

Former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano faces a new threat to the New Republic! When a key prisoner breaks free, the hunt for answers reunites two old allies. The dangerous Morgan Elsbeth resurfaces, joined by two enigmatic Force users—Baylan Skoll and his apprentice, Shin Hati....

Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design. As more people settle into dense urban cores, mixed-use suburbs, and rapidly growing towns, the way we live has transformed, but has our happiness kept pace? Are shorter commutes and walkable streets truly improving our lives, or have...

 A Journey to Conscious Femininity The renowned analyst and author here provides deep insight into the process required to bring feminize wisdom to consciousness in a patriarchal culture—as struggle in which many women are more fully engaged today that ever before. Presenting the personal...

Christopher Herwig documents the surprising and imaginative architecture of Soviet-era bus stops across 14 former Soviet countries. What began as a bicycle journey from London to St. Petersburg became a years-long project capturing these overlooked structures in all their creativity and diversity. Featuring striking...

Christopher Herwig explores the remarkable underground architecture of metro systems built across the Soviet Union and former Eastern Bloc countries. Through striking photography, the book captures stations designed not only for transportation, but as grand artistic expressions of Soviet ideals. From ornate chandeliers and...

A Global History of Women, Wealth, and Power. For centuries, women have played a vital role in shaping economies, building businesses, driving innovation, and creating wealth—yet their contributions have often been overlooked or forgotten. Economica uncovers the stories of remarkable female entrepreneurs, merchants, industrialists,...

The Trials of Irody Hasp #1 In a city of ancient automata, restless spirits, and slumbering gods, death has a voice—and Irody Hasp is one of the few who can hear it. As a Mortedant, Irody is charged with reading the final thoughts of...

Saeris Fane never asked for power. She certainly didn’t want her name whispered across the courts. Yet now, as the newly crowned queen of the Blood Court, she is discovering that a crown is far heavier than she imagined. Her life is no longer...

In the fifth installment of The Bone Season series, Paige Mahoney awakens in the free world—beyond Scion’s grasp for the first time in over a decade. But half a year of her life is missing, and the path that brought her here is shrouded...

The Bridge Kingdom #2 Deluxe Edition featuring: • Designed sprayed edges• A deluxe jacket with new cover art• A full-color illustrated book case with new character art• An interior black-and-white map• Designed endpapers• A spine design that will stretch across future deluxe hardcover editions...

This "eye-opening and essential" book (Bill Gates) will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems—and explains how we can solve them. In this bold, radically hopeful book, data scientist Hannah Ritchie argues that if we zoom out, a very different picture emerges. In...

A stunning collectible edition containing the first two novels in #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Bridgerton series. This edition features: gorgeous sprayed edges, intricate foil iconography, ribbon bookmark and beautiful endpapers. The Duke and I When Daphne Bridgerton and Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings,...

A stunning collectible edition containing the third and fourth novels in #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Bridgerton series. This edition features: gorgeous sprayed edges, intricate foil iconography, ribbon bookmark and beautiful endpapers. Benedict's Story Sophie Beckett never dreamed she'd be...

Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon—a prominent noetic scientist with whom he has recently begun a relationship. Katherine is on the verge of publishing an explosive book that contains startling discoveries about the...

The Empyrean #2.Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College—Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.Now the real training begins, and Violet’s already wondering...

When her estranged mother dies, Stella is left with an unusual inheritance: a one-way plane ticket and a note reading "Go to Paris." But Stella is hardly cut out for adventure; a childhood trauma, and her mother's negligent parenting style, have kept her strictly...

Infused with magic and romance, this sweeping fantasy adventure inspired by the legend of Mulan follows a young woman determined to choose her own destiny—even if that means going against everyone she loves. The Three Kingdoms are at war, but Meilin’s father refuses to...

In the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis misinterprets a moment between her sister Cecilia and Robbie Turner, the servant's son. Fueled by imagination and wounded pride, Briony’s accusation sets off a chain of events that will shatter lives and haunt her for decades....

In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built...

When a novice French diplomat arrives for an audience with the Emperor, he is enraptured by the Joseon Dynasty’s magnificent culture, then at its zenith. But all fades away when he sees Yi Jin perform the delicate traditional Dance of the Spring Oriole. Though...

A thrilling illustrated guide to Formula 1 racing, from its fascinating origins and inner workings to the top drivers of the twentieth century and today. Will Buxton chronicles the history of Formula 1, highlighting the achievements and stories of forty-five notable Formula 1 drivers...

On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black rushed down the aisle toward him, wielding a knife.What...

Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants....

This remarkable, newly revised collection of Ayn Rand's early fiction—including her previously unpublished short story The Night King—ranges from beginner's exercises to excerpts from early versions of We the Living and The Fountainhead.

When 17-year-old Diana Brewer is found dead in a hayfield, the shockwaves rip through her seemingly peaceful community. But as police dig deeper, what looks like a tragic case of violence becomes a tangled web of secrets, lies, and long-held grudges. Told through multiple...

A powerful collection of confessions from women across the globe, revealing the hidden depths of female sexuality. This groundbreaking and eye-opening exploration asks a bold question: How do women experience sex when they can be completely anonymous? What do you want when no one...

This stunning collection takes us from fairy tale to fantasy, myth to history, and mystery to science fiction as we travel through Naomi Novik’s most beloved stories: • A mushroom witch who learns that sometimes the worst thing in the Scholomance can be your...

This boxed set includes Nicola Yoon's #1 New York Times Bestsellers "Everything, Everything" and "The Sun Is Also a Star", both of which are now major motion pictures. In "Everything, Everything" Maddy is a girl who's literally allergic to the outside world, and Olly...