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  • THE MUSICAL CHILD
    JOAN KOENIG
    “Wonderful.”—Herbie Hancock A pioneering music educator reveals how music can supercharge early childhood development—and how parents and educators can harness its power. Since opening her famed Parisian conservatory over three decades ago, Joan Koenig has led a global movement to improve children’s lives and minds with the transformative power of music. With a curriculum and p...

    $510.99

  • MAYDAY 1971
    LAWRENCE ROBERTS
    A vivid account of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon’s Washington They surged into Washington by the tens of thousands in the spring of 1971. Fiery radicals, flower children, and militant vets gathered for the most audacious act in a years-long movement to end America’s war in Vietnam: a blockade of the nation’s capital. And the White House, ...

    $309.99

  • THE BOHEMIANS
    NORMAN OHLER
    “A story of love, incredible bravery and self-sacrifice . . . brilliantly told.”—Antony Beevor, New York Times best-selling author of The Fall of Berlin 1945, The Second World War, and D-Day   “A taut, absorbing tale of anti-Nazi resistance.”—Kirkus Reviews Harro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their ...

    $309.99

  • ROCKAWAY
    DIANE CARDWELL
    The inspirational story of one woman learning to surf and creating a new life in gritty, eccentric Rockaway Beach Unmoored by a failed marriage and disconnected from her high-octane life in the city, Diane Cardwell finds herself staring at a small group of surfers coasting through mellow waves toward shore—and senses something shift. Rockaway is the riveting, joyful story of on...

    $291.99

  • THE DALAI LAMA
    ALEXANDER NORMAN
    The first definitive biography of the Dalai Lama—a story by turns inspiring, surprising—from an acclaimed Tibetan scholar with exceptional access to his subject The Dalai Lama’s message of peace and compassion resonates with people of all faiths and none. Yet, for all his worldwide fame, he remains personally elusive. Now, Alexander Norman, acclaimed Oxford-trained scholar of t...

    $328.49

  • THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD
    KENT GARRETT / JEANNE ELLSWORTH
    The untold story of the Harvard class of ’63, whose Black students fought to create their own identities on the cusp between integration and affirmative action. In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited an unprecedented eighteen “Negro” boys as an early form of affirmative action. Four years later they would graduate as African Americans. Some fifty years later, one of these trail...

    $492.49

  • VIRGINIA WOOLF
    GILLIAN GILL
    An insightful, witty look at Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her. How did Adeline Virginia Stephen become the great writer Virginia Woolf? Acclaimed biographer Gillian Gill tells the stories of the women whose legacies—of strength, style, and creativity—shaped Woolf’s path to the radical writing that inspires so many today.    Gill casts ba...

    $547.49

  • IMPEACH
    NEAL KATYAL / SAM KOPPELMAN
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Why impeachment is the only remedy for the dangers posed by President Trump, as explained by celebrated Supreme Court lawyer and former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal. No one is above the law. This belief is as American as freedom of speech and turkey on Thanksgiving—held sacred by Democrats and Republicans alike. But as celebrated Supre...

    $273.49

  • RETURN TO THE REICH
    ERIC LICHTBLAU
    The remarkable story of Fred Mayer, a German-born Jew who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission behind enemy lines. Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis' rise to power. When he was sixteen, his family made the decision to flee to the United States—they were among the last German Jews to escape, in 1938.   In America, ...

    $309.99

  • EYES IN THE SKY
    ARTHUR HOLLAND MICHEL
    The fascinating history and unnerving future of high-tech aerial surveillance, from its secret military origins to its growing use on American citizens Eyes in the Sky is the authoritative account of how the Pentagon secretly developed a godlike surveillance system for monitoring America's enemies overseas, and how it is now being used to watch us in our own backyards. Whereas ...

    $510.99

  • THEY BLED BLUE
    JASON TURBOW
    The wildly entertaining narrative of the outrageous 1981 Dodgers from the award-winning author of Dynastic, Fantastic, Bombastic and The Baseball Codes In the Halberstam tradition of capturing a season through its unforgettable figures, They Bled Blue is a sprawling, mad tale of excess and exuberance, the likes of which could only have occurred in that place, at that time. That...

    $309.99

  • DIARY OF A MURDERER
    YOUNG-HA KIM
    “Filled with the kind of sublime, galvanizing stories that strike like a lightning bolt, searing your nerves . . . It’s easy enough to see why Kim . . . is acclaimed as the best writer of his generation; pick up this book and find out for yourself.” — Nylon   It’s been twenty-five years since I last murdered someone, or has it been twenty-six?   Diary of a Murderer captivates a...

    $255.49

  • DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN
    BRYCE ANDREWS
    The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they reveal about the changing character of the American West. An "ode to wildness and wilderness" (Outside Magazine), Down from the Mountain tells the story of one grizzly in the changing Montana landscape. Millie was cunning, a fiercely protective mother to her cubs. But raising those cubs in the mo...

    $291.99

  • THE RISK OF US
    RACHEL HOWARD
    Nearly half a million children are in foster care. Most placements fail. Will seven-year-old Maresa's? "It starts with a face in a binder. CHILDREN AVAILABLE, reads the cover." So begins Rachel Howard's intimate and heartbreaking novel about a couple hoping to adopt a child from foster care, then struggling to make it as a family. Seven-year-old Maresa arrives with an indomitab...

    $419.49

  • A SEASON ON THE WIND
    KENN KAUFMAN
    A close look at one season in one key site that reveals the amazing science and magic of spring bird migration, and the perils of human encroachment.   Every spring, billions of birds sweep north, driven by ancient instincts to return to their breeding grounds. This vast parade often goes unnoticed, except in a few places where these small travelers concentrate in large numbers...

    $474.49

  • INSIDE THE EMPIRE
    BOB KLAPISCH / PAUL SOLOTAROFF
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A riveting look at what is really said and done behind closed doors with the New York Yankees, the most famous and wealthiest sports franchise in the world   Using the 2018 baseball season as the backdrop, Inside the Empire gives readers the real, unvarnished “straight-from-the-gut” truth from Brian Cashman, Aaron Boone, Giancarlo Stanton, C.C. Sabathi...

    $309.99

  • CHEROKEE AMERICA
    MARGARET VERBLE
    From the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Maud’s Line, an epic novel that follows a web of complex family alliances and culture clashes in the Cherokee Nation during the aftermath of the Civil War, and the unforgettable woman at its center. Winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award (Best Western Traditional Novel) It’s the early spring of 1875 in the Cherokee Nat...

    $291.99

  • THE ULTIMATE FIT OR FAT
    COVERT BAILEY
    With more than three million copies of previous editions in print, this classic exercise manual has shown Americans from all walks of life the route from fatness to fitness. Now Covert Bailey has totally rewritten and revised FIT OR FAT for the first time since the book's original publication in the mid-1970s. His dramatically new approach to fitness incorporates the most recen...

    $236.49

  • SILENCE
    JANE BROX
    From the author of the “dazzling epic”* Brilliant, a compelling history of silence as a powerful shaper of the human mind—in prisons, in places of contemplation, and in our own lives Through her evocative intertwined histories of the penitentiary and the monastery, Jane Brox illuminates the many ways silence is far more complex than any absolute; how it has influenced ideas of ...

    $492.49

  • PRIUS OR PICKUP?
    MARC HETHERINGTON / JONATHAN WEILER
    Two award-winning political scientists provide the psychological key to America’s deadlocked politics, showing that we are divided not by ideologies but something deeper: personality differences that appear in everything from politics to parenting to the workplace to TV preferences, and which would be innocuous if only we could decouple them from our noxious political debate. W...

    $510.99

  • THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING 2018
    TIM FOLGER
    “This is one of the most exciting times in the history of science,” New York Times-bestselling author Sam Kean proclaims in his introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018. “Things aren’t perfect by any means. But there are more scientists making more discoveries in more places about more things than ever before.” The twenty-six pieces assembled here chart...

    $291.99

  • THE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING 2018
    SHEILA HETI / 826 NATIONAL
    Sheila Heti, author of the acclaimed How a Person Should Be? and coeditor of the best-selling anthology Women in Clothes, along with the students of 826 Valencia writing lab will edit this year’s anthology. Their compilation includes new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and the category-defying gems that have become one of the hallmarks of this lively collection. ...

    $291.99

  • THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2018
    HILTON ALS / ROBERT ATWAN
    The Pulitzer–Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing “the fierce style of street reading and the formal tradition of critical inquiry, reads culture, race, and gender” (New York Times) to the task. “The essay, like love, like life, is indefinable, but you know an essay when you see it, ...

    $291.99

  • CHINA'S GREAT WALL OF DEBT
    DINNY MCMAHON
    A stunning inside look at how and why the foundations upon which China has built the world’s second largest economy, have started to crumble. Over the course of a decade spent reporting on the ground in China as a financial journalist, Dinny McMahon gradually came to the conclusion that the widely held belief in China’s inevitable economic ascent is dangerously wrong.   In this...

    $510.99

  • THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING 2017
    HOPE JAHREN / TIM FOLGER
    “Undeniably exquisite . . . Reveal[s] not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity.” —Maria Popova   “An excellent introduction to the key issues in science today.” —P. D. Smith, Guardian   “[A] stellar compendium . . . Delightful to read.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review A renowned scientist and the best-selling author of Lab Gir...

    $291.99

  • THE BOOK OF SEPARATION
    TOVA MIRVIS
    The memoir of a woman who leaves her faith and her marriage and sets out to navigate the terrifying, liberating terrain of a newly mapless world Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Tova Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this way of life. After all, to observe was to be accepted and to be accepted was to be loved. She m...

    $273.49

  • DYNASTIC, BOMBASTIC, FANTASTIC
    JASON TURBOW
    “An exciting and engrossing book with stories that are worth telling. This work will engage fans of Charlie O. Finley and the Oakland Athletics, along with anyone captivated by baseball history.” — Library Journal, starred review   The Oakland A’s of the early 1970s: Never before had an entire organization so collectively traumatized baseball’s establishment with its outlandish...

    $291.99

  • THE DARK ROOM
    JONATHAN MOORE
    “If you like Michael Connelly’s novels, you will gobble up Jonathan Moore’s The Dark Room.” —James Patterson   “Channels the moody intensity of Raymond Chandler’s crime fiction.”—Washington Post   Gavin Cain, an SFPD homicide inspector, is at an exhumation when his phone rings. The mayor is being blackmailed and has ordered Cain back to the city; a helicopter is on its way. The...

    $273.49

  • ALL THE GALLANT MEN
    DONALD STRATTON / KEN GIRE
    The New York Times bestselling memoir of survival and heroism at Pearl Harbor “An unforgettable story of unfathomable courage.” —Reader’s Digest In this, the first memoir by a USS Arizona sailor, Donald Stratton delivers an inspiring and unforgettable eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack and his remarkable return to the fight.  At 8:10 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman ...

    $374.00

  • THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2016
    KAREN JOY FOWLER / JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS
    From quiet, elegiac, contemporary tales to far-future, deep-space sagas, the stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Karen Joy Fowler for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 demonstrate the vast spectrum of what science fiction and fantasy aims to illuminate, displaying the full gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and...

    $272.99