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This Week's New Arrivals

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August 10, 2021

This week's new arrivals include debut novel Mrs. March by Virginia Feito; Everything I Have Is Yours, a memoir from novelist Eleanor Henderson; and the paperback release of Good Economics for Hard Times by winners of the Nobel Prize. We offer curbside pickup for your online and phone orders, and we are open for shopping daily. (We can also ship books, anywhere in the U.S.!) However you choose to shop, take a look at this week's new arrivals.

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This week's new fiction includes the featured title for one of tonight's virtual eventsMrs. March. "Mrs. March is just the Madame Bovary-meets-Patricia Highsmith feminist psychoanalytic comedy-of-manners thriller that I didn't know I so desperately needed. I almost destroyed my life by staying up so late reading," writes author Elif Batuman.

Featuring a new introduction from the author, Superdoom: Selected Poems brings together the best of Melissa Broder’s three cult out-of-print poetry collections—as well as the best of her fourth collection, Last Sext. She is also the author of the novel Milk Fed.

Winner of France's Prix du Premier Roman (the First Novel Prize), No Touching by Ketty Rouf is a story of liberation and a heartrending portrayal of a woman’s sense of self. The King of Infinite Space is a magical, queer, feminist take on Hamlet in modern-day New York City. In the Country of Others arrives this week from Leila Slimani, the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny, one of The New York Times Book Review’s "10 Best Books of the Year." It draws on her own family’s story for the first volume in a planned trilogy about race, resilience, and women’s empowerment.
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Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage arrives this week from bestselling author Eleanor Henderson. It's both a turbulent love story and a harrowing medical mystery: the true story of the author’s twenty-year marriage defined by her husband’s chronic illness. In Climate Change Is Racist, writer and environmental activist Jeremy Williams takes readers on a short, urgent journey across the globe—from Kenya to India, the USA to Australia—and argues that the damage unleashed by climate change overwhelmingly affects people of color. Experimental physicist and acclaimed science presenter Harry Cliff takes readers on the search for the most basic building blocks of our universe in How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe, from the Origins of Atoms to the Big Bang. Tracy Swinton Bailey's Forever Free is a memoir and a call to action looking at America’s long-standing struggle to adequately educate vulnerable children. And #SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of State Violence and Public Silence is a call to change the story of police violence against women and girls, edited by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School.
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This week's new scholarly titles include The Body Fantastic, in which Frank Gonzalez-Crussi looks at the human body through the lens of dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the bizarre, exploring the close connection of the fictitious and the fabulous to our conception of the body.

Dark Persuasion: A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media by Joel E. Dimsdale traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media. When Pavlov introduced scientific approaches, his research was enthusiastically supported by Lenin and Stalin, setting the stage for major breakthroughs in tools for social, political, and religious control.
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Good Economics for Hard Times arrives in paperback this week. Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, MIT professors and winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Here We Are is a novel of love set in the world of 1950s vaudeville and Axiom's End is an alternate history novel and a first contact adventure set in the early 2000s. Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History by Kurt Andersen tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants, only the rich get richer, and nothing should ever change—and charts a way back to the future. Walter Isaacson calls it "the one book everyone must read as we figure out how to rebuild our country.”
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Wednesday, August 11, 8PM ET

Bestselling, prize-winning author Joyce Carol Oates discusses her latest novel, Breathe, in which a woman is overcome by grief over her husband's illness and death. Joining in conversation is artist and writer Jonathan Santlofer, author of The Widower's Notebook. There are two ticket options available for this event. Online via Zoom. Learn more.  

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