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This Week's New Releases

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New Releases: April 8, 2025

Authority: Essays

Andrea Long Chu
Current price: $30.00

A bold, provocative collection of essays on one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything?

Since her canonical 2017 essay “On Liking Women,” the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as a public...

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The Float Test: A Novel

Lynn Steger Strong
Current price: $28.99

From Lynn Steger Strong, critically acclaimed author of Flight, a sophisticated and layered novel about sisters, betrayal, love, and climate change, for readers of The Dutch House and The Most Fun We Ever Had.

"With surgical precision, Lynn Steger Strong dissects and then elegantly reconstructs an...

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Make Sure You Die Screaming: A Novel

Zee Carlstrom
Current price: $26.99

An electrifying debut about a nonbinary corporate burnout embarking on a road trip from Chicago to Arkansas to find their conspiracy-theorist father, who has gone missing—for fans of Detransition Baby and Chain-Gang All-Stars

The newly nameless narrator of Make Sure You Die Screaming has rejected the...

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Audition: A Novel

Katie Kitamura
Current price: $28.00

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“A tightly wound family drama that reads like a psychological thriller."—NPR

“Bold, stark, genre-bending, Audition will haunt your dreams.”—The Boston Globe

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks...

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Flirting Lessons

Jasmine Guillory
Current price: $19.00

A captivating and sizzling new queer romance by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory.

Avery Jensen is almost thirty, fresh off a breakup, and she’s tired of always being so uptight and well-behaved. She wants to get a hobby, date around (especially women), flirt with everyone she sees...

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Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir

Mark Hoppus, Dan Ozzi
Current price: $32.50

***The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!***

A smart, funny, and refreshing memoir from Mark Hoppus, the vocalist, bassist, and founding member of pop-punk band blink-182.

This is the story of an angst-filled kid from the desert, navigating the chaos of his parents' bitter divorce and searching...

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My Documents: A Novel

Kevin Nguyen
Current price: $28.00

The paths of four family members diverge drastically when the U.S. government begins detaining Vietnamese Americans, in this “rich, gripping novel that lands squarely as a mirror of our contemporary moral squalor” (Los Angeles Times).

“Funny, powerful, and propulsive . . . a moving portrait of the...

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I Love Shopping

Lauren Cook
Current price: $15.95

Lauren Cook's I Love Shopping--beloved on the Internet and IRL--is back in print.

Chickens have a collective soul. Heaven is full of the skateboarders you kissed in middle school. If the algorithm is its own hell, Lauren Cook, author of the critically (and uncritically) acclaimed Sex Goblin, stands...

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity.

Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet Nguyen arrived in the United States as a child...

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Heart Lamp: Selected Stories

Banu Mushtaq
Current price: $19.95

Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize

Winner of the PEN Translates Award

A monumental first collection in English from Banu Mushtaq: lawyer, activist, champion of Muslim women, and winner of India's highest literary honors.

In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely...

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Happy Land

Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Current price: $29.00

A woman learns the incredible story of a real-life American Kingdom—and her family’s ties to it—in this enthralling novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand.

As featured in The Washington Post ∙ People ∙ Harper's Bazaar ∙ NPR ∙ TODAY ∙ PopSugar ∙ Rea...

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Story of Your Mother

Chantal Braganza
Current price: $22.00

What if we considered motherhood an organizing principle instead of a genre or subject?

In her debut book of essays, Chantal Braganza considers the limits of understanding motherhood as identity or action alone, while reflecting on her upbringing as a daughter of Mexican and Indian immigrants and...

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Perspective(s): A Novel

Laurent Binet
Current price: $28.00

"As full of epic characters as the Sistine Chapel ceiling . . . Sinfully fun to read." —Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker

"[A] thorough success . . . A dazzling romp." —Steven Poole, The Guardian

"Historical fiction doesn’t get much better than this." —George Cochrane, The Telegraph (5/5 stars)

A pulse...

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A stunning visual homage to Black bookstores, featuring a selection of shops around the country alongside essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces embody, with an original foreword by Nikki Giovanni.

Black literature is perhaps the most powerful, polarizing...

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Sam McKinniss

Natasha Stagg (Contributions by)
Current price: $75.00

The artist’s debut monograph delves into his vibrant paintings, capturing pop culture icons with wit and pathos.

Drawing inspiration from iconic figures and imagery from popular media, press photos, and other artworks, McKinniss transforms familiar images of bold-faced names—including Leonardo...

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The Meaning of Life: The True Ingredients of Fulfilment

The School of Life
Current price: $14.99

The School of Life's thought-provoking and practical guide to one of the greatest questions we will ever face - now in paperback

To wonder too openly or intensely about the meaning of life can seem a peculiar, ill-fated and faintly ridiculous pastime. It can seem like a topic on which ordinary...

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A tech insider explains how capitalism and software development make for such a dangerous mix.

Software was supposed to radically improve society. Outdated mechanical systems would be easily replaced; programs like PowerPoint would make information flow more freely; social media platforms like...

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In the Kusina: My Seasonal Filipino Cooking

Woldy Reyes
Current price: $35.00

A brightly flavorful, artfully presented celebration of chef and tastemaker Woldy Reyes’ heritage, featuring more than 100 recipes for classic Filipino dishes updated to be lighter, fresher, and vegetable-forward.

Growing up in Southern California as a first-generation Filipino American, Woldy Reyes...

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Big Chief

Jon Hickey
Current price: $28.99

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by The Washington Post, Debutiful, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and LitHub
Publishers Weekly Writer to Watch for Spring 2025

There, There meets The Night Watchman in this gripping literary debut about power and corruption, family, and facing the...

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The Maid's Secret: A Maid Novel

Nita Prose
Current price: $30.00

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A daring art heist on the eve of Molly’s wedding reveals long-buried secrets in this intriguing and heartwarming novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid and The Mystery Guest.

”A big-hearted examination of wealth and social class.”—Oprah Daily

”A glorious...

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Worry: A Novel

Alexandra Tanner
Current price: $17.99

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, NPR, Vogue, the Washington Post, Electric Lit, and more!

A “dryly witty” (The New Yorker) and “fabulously revealing” (The New York Times Book Review) debut that follows two sisters-turned-roommates navigating an absurd world on...

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Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

Angela Garbes
Current price: $18.99

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“Angela Garbes has given us the definitive explanation for something we all share: the sense that something is not right about our society’s treatment of parenting. Essential Labor is a beautifully written, painstakingly researched, and courageously personal book. Garbes reveals...

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Table for Two: Fictions

Amor Towles
Current price: $19.00

A New York Times Bestseller

“This may be Towles’ best book yet. Each tale is as satisfying as a master chef’s main course, filled with drama, wit, erudition and, most of all, heart.” —Los Angeles Times

“The book spans the 20th century, bringing characters into tableaus of deceit and desire. Beneath...

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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie
Current price: $18.00

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The...

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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Acclaimed reporter Taylor Lorenz, founder of User Magazine and host of the Power User podcast, presents an “enlightening history” (Associated Press) of the internet—revealing how online influence and the creators who amass it have reshaped our world, online and off.

For over a...

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Kittentits

Holly Wilson
Current price: $18.00

It's 1992, and ten-year-old Molly is tired of living in the fire-rotted, nun-haunted House of Friends: a Semi-Cooperative Living Community of Peace Faith(s) in Action with her formerly blind dad and grieving Evelyn. But when twenty-three-year-old Jeanie, a dirt bike-riding ex-con with a questionable...

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You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

Ada Limón
Current price: $20.00

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The #1 bestselling and beloved poetry anthology, now in paperback

"Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection."
-Margaret Renkl, New York Times"A lovely book to take with you to read at the end of your next hike."
-Los...

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Sociopath: A Memoir

Ph.D. Patric Gagne
Current price: $19.99

An engrossing, “completely fascinating” (Cosmopolitan) memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own sociopathy and shed light on the often maligned and misunderstood mental disorder.

Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. Something...

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The Little Liar: A Novel

Mitch Albom
Current price: $18.99

An Instant New York Times Bestseller

Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with his most important novel to date, an unforgettable story of truth and lies set during the Holocaust.

Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis has never told a lie. When the Nazis invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the...

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Out and about: What Cats Do When We're Away

Daniel Carlsten
Current price: $19.95

Spy on the secret lives of cats in this sophisticated romp by Scandinavian illustrator Daniel Carlsten-known for his work with brands such as Herm's, Google and Van Cleef & Arpels.

What do cats do when their owners are away? They go out and about And you'll never believe what they get up to: Poppy...

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Come along with New York Times-bestselling author Andy Griffiths (The 13-Story Treehouse) on a brand-new adventure that plunks the reader right into the middle of all the wacky action and laughs with its unique storytelling style.

Hey, you and me sure have had a lot of amazing adventures together...

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Love, Dad: Inspiring Notes from Fathers to Kids

Dr. Joel Warsh, Andrew Gardner
Current price: $14.99

This illustrated collection of heartfelt letters is about the many beautiful hopes and dreams that fathers have for their children. A perfect gift for any dad!

When you grow up, I hope you...

...let your smile change the world
...feel you are loved, in every cell of your body
...learn how to help those...

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Picopaco: The Woodpecker Who Built a Town

Mocculere
Current price: $17.99

A sweet and heart-warming picture book about celebrating difference and working together.

Deep in the woods, lives the woodpeckers. All woodpeckers are known for making perfectly O-shaped holes to build their nests in. All, except one woodpecker – Picopaco. Unlike all the other birds she chooses to...

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Carousel Summer

Kathleen Gros
Current price: $15.99

For twelve-year-old Lucy Stulligross, a boring summer without her best friend turns into an unexpected coming-of-age journey of firsts. Perfect for fans of Kayla Miller and Jarad Greene.

With her best friend away at camp, tons of chores to do, and her dad always on her case for being such a tomboy...

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Pride Is Love

Dano Moreno
Current price: $8.99

Young kids will develop a sense of pride when they read this book that follows a girl and her two dads as they prepare to walk in a Pride parade.

Pride is believing.
You are enough exactly as you are.

A little girl and her two dads discover the true meaning of Pride as they prepare their colorful...

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Getting Ready for First Grade

Vera Ahiyya
Current price: $5.99

Get ready for first grade in this exciting new series for kids embarking on new adventures! Vera Ahiyya, the Tutu Teacher, knows everything your family needs to get ready... and to celebrate every precious moment!

This edition includes an adorable punch-out sign for first day photo opps!

It's Leilani...

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I Love You S'more

Auriane Desombre
Current price: $12.99

A sapphic rival-to-lovers story about two counselors who find an unexpected romance during a summer they will never forget! Perfect for fans of Auriane Desombre''s beloved debut I Think I Love You.
 
Ivy Raines needs camp for an escape like she did as a child. After going through a very public...

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Midnight Motorbike

Maureen Shay Tajsar
Current price: $18.99

Imagine Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site set in the jungle. On a night too hot to sleep, Amma takes her daughter on a magical, moonlit motorbike ride through South India.

In this lush mother-daughter nighttime adventure through the jungles of southern India, debut author Maureen Shay Tajsar...

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