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New This Week
  • The Second Coming: A Novel
  • The Winner
  • The Safekeep
  • The Editor
  • Lichenpedia
  • The Playbook
  • The Book-Makers
  • A Place of Our Own
  • The Guide to the Perplexed
  • Twelfth Knight
  • Housemates
  • A Fine Life
  • Evocation
  • The Afterlife of Data
  • World Travel
  • Ninetails: Nine Tales
  • Spoken Word
  • The Brothers Karamazov
  • Hell
  • Flawless Girls
  • Sea of Constellations
  • Mr. Pei’s Perfect Shapes: the Story of Architect I. M. Pei
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Hardcover Best Sellers
  • The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
  • Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in a Post-Roe America
  • This Strange Eventful History: A Novel
  • All Fours
  • The Kamogawa Food Detectives
  • An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
  • Long Island
  • Table for Two
  • North Woods: A Novel
  • The Last Murder at the End of the World
  • Chasing Hope: A Reporter’s Life
  • The Anxious Generation
  • The Importance of Being Educable: A New Theory of Human Uniqueness
  • Reading the Constitution
  • The Great Divide
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Paperback Best Sellers
  • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
  • Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances
  • The Backyard Bird Chronicles
  • All About Love: New Visions
  • The Three-Body Problem
  • The Idiot: A Novel
  • The Tools: 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower—and Inspire You to Live L…
  • Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
  • ADHD 2. 0
  • Dune
  • My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
  • Kairos
  • The Midnight Library: A Novel
  • Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead: A Novel
  • Never Let Me Go
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Featured Titles
  • 888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers
  • Alien Earths
  • Bite by Bite
  • Close to Death
  • Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit
  • Funny Story
  • The Gravity of Math
  • A House Restored
  • I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays
  • Last Days in Plaka: A Novel
  • The Limits: A Novel
  • A Magical Girl Retires
  • Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
  • The Paris Novel
  • The Rulebreaker
  • The Secret Life of Data
  • Silk
  • The Sleepwalkers
  • The Swans of Harlem
  • Their Divine Fires: A Novel
  • A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages
  • The Way That Leads Among the Lost
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Black Lives Matter
  • White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation
  • Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
  • In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays
  • When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting
  • Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle
  • Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
  • Sink: A Memoir
  • Chasing the Black Eagle: A Novel
  • My Seven Black Fathers: A Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Me Whole
  • The Last Gift of the Master Artists: A Novel
  • Above Ground: Poems
  • King: A Life
  • New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
  • Ordinary Notes
  • Minor Notes, Volume 1
  • Afrofuturism
  • In Our Shoes
  • Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
  • Homebodies: A Novel
  • Spoken Word: A Cultural History
  • Maame: A Novel
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  • Cleopatra and Frankenstein
  • A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum
  • One Dark Window
  • Someone You Can Build a Nest In
  • Granny Rex: A Picture Book
  • This Other Eden: A Novel
  • Chain Gang All Stars: A Novel
  • The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
  • From From: Poems
  • Big
  • Dalmartian
  • Grace Notes
  • Roy Is Not a Dog
  • Song of the Six Realms
  • Tree. Table. Book
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