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  • YESTERDAY'S SPY
    TOM BRADBY
    A father searches for his missing son in 1953 Tehran in this brilliantly plotted espionage thriller from the bestselling author of Triple Cross.   London, 1953. Harry Towers is a recently retired, and even more recently widowed, British intelligence officer. But he springs to action when hears that his estranged son Sean has disappeared in Tehran after writing a damning article...

    $329.00

  • THE DARK FLOOD
    DEON MEYER
    Disappearances ensnare two South African detectives in a web of corruption in this stunning thriller by the Barry Award–winning author of The Last Hunt.   Assigned to investigate the disappearance of a young university student and brilliant computer programmer detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido hit dead ends. But the trail—including the death of a fellow police officer...

    $329.00

  • REDEMPTION
    MIKE LAWSON
    A man discovers that quitting his job comes with a price—his life—in this breakneck financial thriller from the acclaimed author of the Joe DeMarco series. With his reputation permanently marred by an insider trading conviction, Jamison Maddox, a young Wall Street broker, reluctantly takes a job doing research for a small company in the sleepy town of Redemption, Illinois. But ...

    $299.00

  • BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY
    FAY WELDON
    A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. “[A] wry and witty examination of where feminism went wrong and, occasionally, right . . . sharp, funny.” —Kirkus Reviews This latest offering from critically acclaimed author Fay Weldon is a darkly comic romp through the minefields of friendship and feminism. On a balmy evening in 1971, five women meet in a cramped living room in the ...

    $179.00

  • 1979
    VAL MCDERMID
    A Scottish journalist is drawn into a world of corruption, terror, and murder in the new novel by "one of crime fiction's most eminent writers" ( Entertainment Weekly).   The year started badly and only got worse—blizzards, strikes, power cuts, and political unrest were the norm. For investigative journalist Allie Burns, however, someone else's bad news was the unmistakable sou...

    $338.00

  • TRIPLE CROSS
    TOM BRADBY
    Former MI6 agent Kate Henderson returns in the series for "fans of cerebral spycraft in the vein of le Carré" from the international bestselling author ( Publishers Weekly).   Attempting to rebuild her shattered life on vacation in the South of France, former MI6 operative Kate Henderson receives an unexpected and most unwelcome visit from an old adversary: the UK Prime Ministe...

    $329.00

  • LATE CITY
    ROBERT OLEN BUTLER
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author shares an "exceptionally nuanced, tender, funny, tragic, and utterly transfixing portrait" of one man's troubled century ( Booklist, starred review). At 115 years old, former newspaperman Sam Cunningham is also the last surviving veteran of World War I. As he prepares to die in a Chicago nursing home, the results of the 2016 presidential electi...

    $329.00

  • RABBIT HOLE
    MARK BILLINGHAM
    A gripping standalone thriller from the "first-rate British crime writer" and internationally bestselling author of the Tom Thorne novels ( The Washington Post).   Alice Armitage is a police officer. Or she was.   Or perhaps she just imagines she was.   Whatever the truth is, following a debilitating bout of PTSD, self-medication with drink and drugs, and a psychotic breakdown,...

    $229.00

  • WHEN THE STARS BEGIN TO FALL
    THEODORE R. JOHNSON
    A "persuasive . . . heartfelt and vividly written" call to counter systemic racism and build national solidarity in America ( Publishers Weekly). The American Promise enshrined in our Constitution states that all men and women are inherently equal. And yet racism continues to corrode our society. If we cannot overcome it, Theodore Johnson argues, the promise that made America u...

    $251.00

  • HOUSE STANDOFF
    MIKE LAWSON
    A D.C. fixer heads to Wyoming on a personal mission in the new novel from the Edgar Award–finalist and "reliably excellent writer" ( Seattle Times).   When someone close to him is shot dead in a roadside motel in a small Wyoming town, Joe DeMarco shirks his responsibilities as the Speaker of the House's fixer to make sure the authorities are doing everything they can to catch t...

    $299.00

  • TRANSIENT DESIRES
    DONNA LEON
    New York Times Bestseller: Two injured, unconscious American women are found in Venice, Italy, leading a police detective down a dark path: "A splendid read." — BookPage In his many years as a commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native city, Venice, to discover the person responsible. In this...

    $229.00

  • ENDPAPERS
    ALEXANDER WOLFF
    "A powerfully told story of family, honor, love, and truth . . . the beautiful and haunting stories told in this book transcend policy and politics." —Beto O'Rourke A literary gem researched over a year the author spent living in Berlin, Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author's grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed "perhaps the...

    $229.00

  • THE DELUSIONS OF CROWDS
    WILLIAM J. BERNSTEIN
    This "disturbing yet fascinating" exploration of mass mania through the ages explains the biological and psychological roots of irrationality ( Kirkus Reviews). From time immemorial, contagious narratives have spread through susceptible groups—with enormous, often disastrous, consequences. Inspired by Charles Mackay's nineteenth-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular ...

    $440.00

  • EXIT
    BELINDA BAUER
    A volunteer who helps people die with dignity finds himself on the run after a routine visit goes shockingly wrong in this "ingeniously plotted" thriller ( New York Times Book Review). Retired and widowed for more than a decade, Felix Pink is waiting, not unhappily, to die a boring death. In the meantime, Felix volunteers as an Exiteer: someone who sits with terminally ill peop...

    $251.00

  • BREATH TAKING
    MICHAEL J. STEPHEN
    An expert in pulmonary medicine shares a wide-ranging exploration of the human lung: the organ that explains our origins and holds the keys to our future. We take an average of 7.5 million breaths a year and some 600 million in our lifetime, and what goes on in our body each time oxygen is taken in and carbon dioxide expelled is nothing short of miraculous. "Our lungs are the l...

    $251.00

  • THE OCEAN HOUSE
    MARY-BETH HUGHES
    A stunning story cycle that explores the fractured lives of families in a Jersey Shore beach town from the bestselling, New York Times Notable author. Faith, a mother of two young children, Cece and Connor, is in need of summer childcare. As a member of a staid old beach club in her town and a self-made business consultant, she is appalled when her brother-in-law sends her an u...

    $251.00

  • WILD MINDS
    REID MITENBULER
    "A thoroughly captivating behind-the-scenes history of classic American animation . . . A must-read for all fans of the medium." —Matt Groening In 1911, famed cartoonist Winsor McCay debuted one of the first animated cartoons, based on his sophisticated newspaper strip "Little Nemo in Slumberland," itself inspired by Freud's recent research on dreams. McCay is largely forgotten...

    $229.00

  • FALLEN ANGEL
    TRACY BORMAN
    The gripping conclusion to the historical trilogy featuring Stuart-era healer Frances Gorges—from the author of The King's Witch and The Devil's Slave.   Life has never been quiet for Frances Gorges at the court of King James, but after finding herself at the center of plots and conspiracies for many years both as an accused witch and a secret Catholic, by 1614 Frances hopes to...

    $369.00

  • DOUBLE AGENT
    TOM BRADBY
    The journalist and bestselling author delivers the sequel to the "cracking, uber-topical spy thriller"  Secret Service featuring Kate Henderson ( Financial Times).   Kidnapped in Venice by a Russian defector, Kate knows she's in trouble. But when he offers her conclusive video evidence that the British Prime Minister is a live agent working for Moscow, Kate's holiday quickly be...

    $299.00

  • MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO PRAGUE
    CAROL WINDLEY
    The acclaimed author of  Home Schooling   returns with a timeless tale of friendship, romance, betrayal, and survival that spans two world wars.   In 1927, as Natalia Faber travels from Berlin to Prague with her mother, their train is delayed in Saxon Switzerland. In the brief time the train is idle, Natalia learns the truth about her father—who she believed died during her inf...

    $299.00

  • STILL LIFE
    VAL MCDERMID
    A Scottish police inspector deals with forgeries and false identities in a new murder mystery in the "superior series" ( The New York Times). When a lobster fisherman discovers a dead body in Scotland's Firth of Forth, DCI Karen Pirie is called into investigate. She quickly discovers that the case will require untangling a complicated web—involving a long-ago disappearance, art...

    $338.00

  • A CRY FROM THE FAR MIDDLE
    P. J. O'ROURKE
    In a time of chaos, the #1 New York Times–bestselling political humorist asks his fellow Americans to take it down a notch.   Is there an upside to being woke (and unable to get back to sleep)? If we license dentists, why don't we license politicians? Is your juicer sending fake news to your FitBit about what's in your refrigerator? The legendary P. J. O'Rourke addresses these ...

    $338.00

  • THE RISE OF THE G.I. ARMY, 1940–1941
    PAUL DICKSON
    "A must-read book that explores a vital pre-war effort [with] deep research and gripping writing." — Washington Times In The rise of the G.I. Army, 1940–1941, Paul Dickson tells the dramatic story of how the American Army was mobilized from scattered outposts two years before Pearl Harbor into the disciplined and mobile fighting force that helped win World War II. In September ...

    $229.00

  • CLEAN HANDS
    PATRICK HOFFMAN
    A New York Times Book Review Summer Thriller Pick. "With its crisp pace and superb timing, Clean Hands is a special treat to read."— The Wall Street Journal   Corporate lawyer Elizabeth Carlyle is under a lot of pressure. Her prestigious New York law firm is working on the most high-stakes case in company history, defending a prominent bank. When Elizabeth gets the news that on...

    $299.00

  • THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF THE SKIN
    MONTY LYMAN
    This "seriously entertaining book" explores the skin in its multifaceted physical, psychological, and social aspects ( Times, UK). Providing a cover for our delicate bodies, the skin is our largest and fastest-growing organ. We see it, touch it, and live in it every day. It is a habitat for a mesmerizingly complex world of micro-organisms and physical functions that are vital t...

    $179.00

  • BOOK OF THE LITTLE AXE
    LAUREN FRANCIS-SHARMA
    This "masterful epic" spans decades and oceans from Trinidad to the American frontier during the tumultuous days of westward expansion ( Publishers Weekly). Trinidad, 1796. Young Rosa Rendón quietly rebels against the life others expect her to lead. Bright, competitive, and opinionated, she does not intend to cook and keep house, for it is obvious her talents lie in running the...

    $189.00

  • THE LOUVRE
    JAMES GARDNER
    The centuries-long history of the Louvre, from humble fortress to Royal palace to the world's greatest art museum—with photos and building maps. Some ten million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre each year to enjoy its incomparable art collection. Yet few of them are aware of the remarkable history of the site and buildings themselves—a fascinating story that h...

    $251.00

  • THE LAST HUNT
    DEON MEYER
    A cold case reaches from Cape Town's shadowy past to bucolic Bordeaux, France, in this thriller by the Barry Award-winning author of Thirteen Hours. When a cold case dossier lands on Captain Benny Griessel's desk, he and his partner Vaughn Cupido, fellow member of the Hawks elite police unit in South Africa, reluctantly set to work reviewing the evidence. Did ex-cop Johnson Joh...

    $369.00

  • HAMMER TO FALL
    JOHN LAWTON
    British agent Joe Wilderness returns in "Lawton's ongoing recreation of Cold War chicanery . . . one of the great pleasures of modern spy fiction" (Mick Herron, award-winning author of the Slough House series). It's London, the swinging sixties, and by all rights, MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as good a time as James Bond. But alas, his postings are more grim than gla...

    $338.00

  • EVERY DROP OF BLOOD
    EDWARD ACHORN
    This vividly rendered Civil War history presents "a lively guided tour of Washington during the 24 hours or so around Lincoln's swearing-in" (Adam Goodheart, Washington Post). By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had left intractable wounds on the nation. Tens of thousands crowded Washington's Capitol grounds that day to see Abraham Lincoln take the oath for a second term—and witnes...

    $229.00


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