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  • MISS KIM KNOWS -15%
    MISS KIM KNOWS
    CHO, NAM-JOO
    Written in Cho Nam-joo's signature razor-sharp prose, Miss Kim Knows follows eight women as they confront how gender shapes and orders their lives. A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. A woman is gaslit. A woman is discriminated against at work. A woman grows old. A woman becomes famous. A woman is hated, and loved, and then hated again. As with Kim Jiy...
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    Q. 180Q. 153

  • GOING INFINITE -15%
    GOING INFINITE
    MICHAEL LEWIS
    "When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world's youngest billionaire and crypto's Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he ...
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    Q. 310Q. 264

  • THE POLE -15%
    THE POLE
    COETZEE, J.M.
    Renowned for his sparse yet powerful prose, J. M. Coetzee is unquestionably among the most influential--and provocative--authors of our time. With characteristic insight and a "brittle wit that forces our attention on the common terrors we don't want to think about" (Washington Post), Coetzee here challenges us to interrogate our preconceptions not only of love, but of truth it...
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    Q. 270Q. 230

  • MARGOT -15%
    MARGOT
    WENDELL STEAVENSON
    It’s the mid-1950s and Margot Thornsen is growing up between a Park Avenue apartment in New York and her family’s sumptuous Oyster Bay estate as the presumed heir to her late grandfather’s steel fortune. Her domineering mother has charted a course for her—to forego education and marry well—but Margot is more interested in microscopes and beetles and books. When a devastating fi...
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    Q. 300Q. 255

  • NICKY AND VERA -15%
    NICKY AND VERA
    PETER SIS
    In December 1938, a young Englishman canceled a ski vacation and went instead to Prague to help the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Nazis who were crowded into the city. Setting up a makeshift headquarters in his hotel room, Nicholas Winton took names and photographs from parents desperate to get their children out of danger. He raised money, found foster families in...
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    Q. 205Q. 174

  • A DOMINANT CHARACTER -50%
    A DOMINANT CHARACTER
    SAMANTH SUBRAMANIAN
    B. S. Haldane's life was rich and strange, never short on genius or drama--from his boyhood apprenticeship to his scientist father, who first instilled in him a devotion to the scientific method; to his time in the trenches during the First World War, where he wrote his first scientific paper; to his numerous experiments on himself, including inhaling dangerous levels of carbon...
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    Q. 405Q. 203

  • A CHILDREN'S BIBLE -15%
    A CHILDREN'S BIBLE
    LYDIA MILLET
    "An indelible and haunting new novel that explores the loss of childhood, intergenerational conflict, and humanity's complacency in the face of its own demise. Lydia Millet's multilayered new novel - her first since the National Book Award Longlist Sweet Lamb of Heaven -- follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrat...
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    Q. 265Q. 225

  • A CLOCKWORK ORANGE -15%
    A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
    BURGESS, ANTHONY
    In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends' intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and ...
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    Q. 170Q. 145

  • CLICK HERE TO KILL EVERYBODY: SECURITY AND SURVIVAL IN A HYPER-CONNECTED WORLD -50%
    CLICK HERE TO KILL EVERYBODY: SECURITY AND SURVIVAL IN A HYPER-CONNECTED WORLD
    BRUCE SCHNEIER
    The Internet is powerful but it is not safe. As “smart” devices proliferate the risks will get worse, unless we act now.From driverless cars to smart thermostats, the Internet now has direct effects on the physical world. Although this computerized future, often called the Internet of Things, carries enormous potential, best- selling author Bruce Schneier argues that catastroph...
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    Q. 185Q. 93

  • OLLIE AND HARRY'S MARVELLOUS ADVENTURES -15%
    OLLIE AND HARRY'S MARVELLOUS ADVENTURES
    HARRY FERGUSON / OLLIE FERGUSON / MACNEILL FERGUSON
    Outdoor adventure and makerspace tech combine in this inspiring how-to from the brothers behind the popular Facebook page "The Days Are Just Packed."Ollie and Harry Ferguson have sailed a toy pirate ship across the Atlantic, engineered a giant catapult, and launched toy astronauts into space?and they haven’t stopped there. They’ve created a list of 500 adventures to help them l...
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    Q. 205Q. 174

  • TEN LESSONS FOR A POST-PANDEMIC WORLD -15%
    TEN LESSONS FOR A POST-PANDEMIC WORLD
    FAREED ZAKARIA
    COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come?Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and ec...
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    Q. 165Q. 140

  • I HEARD THERE WAS A SECRET CHORD -15%
    I HEARD THERE WAS A SECRET CHORD
    DANIEL J. LEVITIN
    Music is one of humanity's oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures have developed their own rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, promote healing, and calm the mind. In his latest work, neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author Daniel J. Levitin (This Is Your Bra...
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    Q. 210Q. 179

  • NORSE MYTHOLOGY -15%
    NORSE MYTHOLOGY
    GAIMAN, NEIL
    In this dazzling, illustrated edition of the instant classic that has sold more than a million copies, award-winning illustrator Levi Pinfold brings Neil Gaiman's bravura rendition of the Norse gods and their world to life.Bursting off the page with breathtaking, full-color art are tales of fierce battles with giants, storied quests for knowledge, and the gods in Asgard: Odin, ...
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    Q. 360Q. 306

  • THE BOOK OF HOURS -15%
    THE BOOK OF HOURS
    RAINER MARIA RILKE
    Long hailed as a masterwork of modern German literature, The Book of Hours (1905) marks the origin of Rainer Maria Rilke's distinctive voice and vision--where clarity of diction meets unexpected imagery and first-person poetry discovers its full lyric possibility. In these audacious poems, a devout but candid speaker addresses an ultimately unknowable deity, passing through lov...
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    Q. 360Q. 306

  • THE REAL WORK -15%
    THE REAL WORK
    ADAM GOPNIK
    For decades now, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic of art, food, France, and more. But recently, he became obsessed by a more fundamental matter, one he had often meditated on in The New Yorker: How do masters learn their miraculous skill, whether it was drawing a museum-ready nude or baking a perfect sourdough loaf? How could...
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    Q. 200Q. 170

  • FOREVER BARBIE -15%
    FOREVER BARBIE
    M.G. LORD
    Since her introduction in 1959, Barbie's impact has been revolutionary. Far from being a toy designed by men to oppress women, she was a toy invented by women to teach women what was expected of them, for better or for worse. Whether tarred-and-glittered as antifeminist puffery or celebrated as a feminist icon (or, at any rate, an important cultural touchstone in understanding ...
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    Q. 200Q. 170

  • ONCE UPON A TOME -15%
    ONCE UPON A TOME
    OLIVER DARKSHIRE
    Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd (est. 1761) to apply for a job. Allured by the smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap, Darkshire was soon unteetering stacks of first editions and placating the store's resident ghost (the late Mr. Sotheran, hit by a tram). A novice in this ancient, pote...
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    Q. 190Q. 162

  • CULTURE -15%
    CULTURE
    MARTIN PUCHNER
    What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the "know-how" of life, but the "know-why"--the meaning and purpose of our existence, as expressed in art, architecture, religion, and philosophy. This crucial passing down of knowledge has required the radical integration of in...
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    Q. 200Q. 170

  • THE ONCE AND FUTURE SEX -15%
    THE ONCE AND FUTURE SEX
    JANEGA, ELEANOR
    What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about women and reveal what's shifted over time-and what hasn't. Enshrined medieval thinkers, almost always male, subscribed to a blen...
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    Q. 190Q. 162

  • THE WATERS -15%
    THE WATERS
    CAMPBELL, BONNIE JO
    On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp--an area known as "The Waters" to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan--herbalist and eccentric Hermine "Herself" Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart, and even in her own three estranged daughte...
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    Q. 310Q. 264

  • AFTER SAPPHO -15%
    AFTER SAPPHO
    SCHWARTZ, SELBY WYNN
    "The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho," so begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by the same muse, a myriad of women break from their small, predetermined lives for seemingly disparate paths: in 1892, Rina Faccio trades her needlepoint for a pen; in 1902, Romaine Brooks sails for Capri...
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    Q. 190Q. 162

  • THIS OTHER EDEN -15%
    THIS OTHER EDEN
    PAUL HARDING
    In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys' descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated, and often hungry, but nevertheless protected from the hostility awaiting them on the mainland. During the tumultuous summer of 1912, Matthew ...
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    Q. 190Q. 162

  • THE LYRICS -15%
    THE LYRICS
    PAUL MCCARTNEY
    Finally in paperback and featuring seven new song commentaries, the #1 New York Times bestseller celebrates the creative life and unparalleled musical genius of Paul McCartney. Spanning sixty-four years--from his early days in Liverpool, through the historic decade of The Beatles, to Wings and his solo career--Paul McCartney's The Lyrics revolutionized the way artists write abo...
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    Q. 310Q. 264

  • SAHA -15%
    SAHA
    CHO, NAM-JOO
    In a country called Town, a doctor named Su is found dead in an abandoned car. There is only one place the police intend to look for her suspected killer: the Saha Estates. Controlled by a secretive organization of ministers, Town is the safest, richest nation in the world. But it is a society clearly divided into the haves and have-nots, and those who have the very least--wh...
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    Q. 180Q. 153

  • THE ILIAD -15%
    THE ILIAD
    HOMER
    When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilso...
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    Q. 410Q. 349

  • BELONGING -15%
    BELONGING
    GEOFFREY L. COHEN
    Discover the secret to flourishing in an age of division: belonging. In a world filled with discord and loneliness, finding harmony and happiness can be difficult. But what if the key to unlocking our potential lies in this deceptively simple concept? Belonging is the feeling of being a part of a group that values, respects, and cares for us--a feeling that we can all cultivate...
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    Q. 210Q. 179

  • GIRLFRIEND ON MARS -15%
    GIRLFRIEND ON MARS
    DEBORAH WILLIS
    Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She and twenty-three reality TV contestants from around the world--including attractive Israeli soldier Adam, endearing fellow Canadian Pichu, and an assortment of science nerds and wannabe influencers--are competing for two seats on the first human-led mission to Mars, sponsored by ...
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    Q. 295Q. 251

  • LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET -15%
    LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET
    RAINER MARIA RILKE
    This slim volume of letters from the poet and mystic, Rainer Maria Rilke, to a nineteen-year-old cadet and aspiring poet named Franz Xaver Kappus, has touched millions of readers since it was first published in English in 1934. The translator, Mary Dows Herter Norton--a polymath extraordinaire with expertise in music, literature, and science, and who, along with her husband, Wi...
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    Q. 210Q. 179

  • WRITE YOURSELF OUT OF A CORNER -15%
    WRITE YOURSELF OUT OF A CORNER
    ALICE LAPLANTE
    100 imagination-stretching writing exercises inspired by the idea of creative constraints, from the author of The Making of a Story. When you are facing down a blank page (or screen), a constraint-based prompt—for example, “you must use the words ‘cloud’ and ‘green’” or “you must set the scene in a crowded grocery store”—can get your brain working in unexpected ways. In this cr...
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    Q. 210Q. 179

  • DIFFERENT -15%
    DIFFERENT
    FRANS DE WAAL
    “Every new book by Frans de Waal is a cause for excitement, and this one is no different. A breath of fresh air in the cramped debate about the differences between men and women. Fascinating, nuanced, and very timely.” —Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind: A Hopeful History In Different, world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal draws on decades of observation and studies of b...
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    Q. 210Q. 179