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  • THE FATE OF KATHERINE CARR
    THOMAS H. COOK
    An “eerily poignant novel” about a grieving father and a cold-case mystery, from an Edgar Award winner (PublishersWeekly, starred review). George Gates used to be a travel writer who specialized in places where people disappeared—Judge Crater, the Lost Colony. Then his eight-year-old son was murdered, the killer never found, and Gates gave up disappearance. Now he writes storie...

    $229.00

  • FABULOUS SMALL JEWS
    JOSEPH EPSTEIN
    Witty, “utterly compelling” short stories about Jewish men of a certain age, by the New York Times–bestselling author of Snobbery (San Francisco Chronicle Book Review). Set in Chicago and populated by characters ranging from lawyers and professors to scrap metal dealers, this collection of insightful and entertaining short fiction examines the crossroads and turning points of l...

    $249.00

  • THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING
    THOMAS H. COOK
    A “gripping” mystery revolving around a family tragedy, and a woman who may or may not be descending into madness (Entertainment Weekly). David Sears grew up terrorized by the ravings of his schizophrenic father, a frustrated literary genius who openly preferred David’s sister Diana for her superior intelligence. When the Old Man died, David thought the madness had finally died...

    $229.00

  • THE LAST TALK WITH LOLA FAYE
    THOMAS H. COOK
    A “marvelously tense” novel of psychological suspense centered on a long-ago crime of passion, from an Edgar Award–winning author (Publishers Weekly, starred review). With dreams of academic greatness, Lucas Paige rose from humble and sordid beginnings to attend Harvard. But his achievements since then have been meager. In St. Louis to give yet another sparsely attended reading...

    $229.00

  • SEPHARAD
    ANTONIO MUÑOZ MOLINA
    An “amazing” novel about the diaspora of Sephardic Jews amid the tumult of twentieth century history (The Washington Post Book World). From one of Spain’s most celebrated writers, this extraordinary blend of fiction, history, and memoir tells the story of the Sephardic diaspora through seventeen interlinked chapters.   “If Balzac wrote The Human Comedy, [Antonio] Muñoz Molina h...

    $229.00

  • RED LEAVES
    THOMAS H. COOK
    A father questions whether his son could be guilty of a terrible crime in this “gripping, beautifully written [and] devastating” thriller (Harlan Coben). Eric Moore has reason to be happy. He has a prosperous business, comfortable home, and stable family life in a quiet town. Then, on an ordinary night, his teenage son, Keith, is asked to babysit Amy Giordano, the eight-year-ol...

    $229.00

  • ORGANIC, INC.
    SAMUEL FROMARTZ
    A “lively, comprehensive, and . . . definitive account of organic food’s rise” from a “first-rate business journalist” (Michael Pollan). Who would have thought that a natural food supermarket could have been a financial refuge from the dot-com bust? But it had. Sales of organic food had shot up about 20 percent per year since 1990, reaching $11 billion by 2003 . . . Whole Foods...

    $249.00

  • AMBITIOUS BREW
    MAUREEN OGLE
    A “fascinating and well-documented social history” of American beer, from the immigrants who invented it to the upstart microbrewers who revived it (Chicago Tribune). Grab a pint and settle in with AmbitiousBrew, the fascinating, first-ever history of American beer. Included here are the stories of ingenious German immigrant entrepreneurs like Frederick Pabst and Adolphus Busch...

    $249.00

  • THE LAST LIFE
    CLAIRE MESSUD
    A “mesmerizing” novel of a family falling apart by the New York Times bestselling author of The Burning Girl.   Set in colonial Algeria, the south of France, and New England, and narrated by a fifteen-year-old girl with a ruthless regard for the truth, The Last Life is the tale of the LaBasse family, whose quiet integrity is shattered by the shots from a grandfather’s rifle. As...

    $199.00

  • THE BATTLE FOR WINE AND LOVE
    ALICE FEIRING
    An “entertaining and passionate” connoisseur tours the vineyards of Europe and California, arguing for an old-fashioned appreciation of authenticity (The New York Times). The drastic effects that influential wine critic Robert M. Parker Jr. has had on the winemaking industry are best described as wine Parkerization. Many vintners are leaving old techniques behind and turning to...

    $249.00

  • MASTER OF THE DELTA
    THOMAS H. COOK
    “Edgar–winner Cook examines the slow collapse of a prominent Southern family in this magnificent tale of suspense set in 1954.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) In 1954 Mississippi, Jack Branch returns to his father’s Delta estate, Great Oaks, to perform an act of noblesse oblige: teaching at the local high school. Conducting a class on historical evil, Jack is shocked to di...

    $229.00

  • THE N WORD
    JABARI ASIM
    A renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word.   The N Word reveals how the term “nigger” has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America over the four hundred years since it was first spoken on our shores. Jabari Asim pinpoints Thomas Jefferson as the source of our enduring image of the “nigger.” In...

    $229.00

  • AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FACE
    LUCY GREALY
    In this celebrated memoir and exploration of identity, cancer transforms the author’s face, childhood, and the rest of her life. At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. It took her twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more t...

    $229.00

  • THE TOSS OF A LEMON
    PADMA VISWANATHAN
    A “superbly done” novel of a woman, her family, and a village in India that “makes a vanished world feel completely authentic” (Booklist).   Sivakami was married at ten, widowed at eighteen, and left with two children. According to the dictates of her caste, her head is shaved and she puts on widow’s whites. From dawn to dusk, she is not allowed to contaminate herself with huma...

    $249.00