Category: New Release: Nonfiction

"The ultimate literary bucket list." --The Washington Post "If there's a heaven just for readers, this is it." --O, The Oprah Magazine Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that's as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the 1,000-plus titles it recommends. Covering fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography, children's books, history, and more, 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die ranges across cultures and through time to offer an eclectic collection of works t...
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A Book of Days

By: Smith, Patti

Price: $28.99

Publisher: Random House : November 2022

Seller ID: 455770

ISBN-13: 9780593448540

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A Dangerous Business: A novel

By: Smiley, Jane

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Knopf : December 2022

Seller ID: 450713

ISBN-13: 9780525520337

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A Fade of Light

By: Fakes, Nate

Price: $19.99

Publisher: West Margin Press : October 2022

Seller ID: 450436

ISBN-13: 9781513134994

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership

By: Comey, James

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Flatiron Books : May 2018

Seller ID: 218580

ISBN-13: 9781250192455

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

#1 New York Times Bestseller now in paperback with new material The inspiration for The Comey Rule, the Showtime limited series starring Jeff Daniels premiering September 2020 In his book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power, and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader. Mr. Comey serv...
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A Left-Handed Woman: Essays

By: Thurman, Judith

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : December 2022

Seller ID: 454461

ISBN-13: 9780374607166

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance

By: Abdurraqib, Hanif

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks : March 2022

Seller ID: 437740

ISBN-13: 9781984801203

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A Little History of Art (Little Histories)

By: Mullins, Charlotte

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Yale University Press : April 2022

Seller ID: 405505

ISBN-13: 9780300253665

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Dawidziak, Mark

Price: $28.99

Publisher: St. Martin's Press : February 2023

Seller ID: 477487

ISBN-13: 9781250792495

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

By: Mayes, Frances

Price: $27.00

Publisher: Crown : August 2022

Seller ID: 446938

ISBN-13: 9780593443330

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism (Discovering America)

By: Youngquist, Paul

Price: $27.95

Publisher: University of Texas Press : October 2016

Seller ID: 100523

ISBN-13: 9780292726369

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Sun Ra said he came from Saturn. Known on earth for his inventive music and extravagant stage shows, he pioneered free-form improvisation in an ensemble setting with the devoted band he called the "Arkestra." Sun Ra took jazz from the inner city to outer space, infusing traditional swing with far-out harmonies, rhythms, and sounds. Described as the father of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra created "space music" as a means of building a better future for American blacks here on earth.A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism offers a spirited introduction to the life and work of this legend...
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Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan

By: Barbas, Samantha

Price: $29.95

Publisher: University of California Press : February 2023

Seller ID: 468777

ISBN-13: 9780520385825

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

After Icebergs with a Painter: A Summer Voyage to Labrador and around Newfoundland

By: Noble, Louis Legrand

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Black Dome Press Corp. : October 2022

Seller ID: 451487

ISBN-13: 9798985692129

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars

By: Zahra, Tara

Price: $35.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : January 2023

Seller ID: 458568

ISBN-13: 9780393651966

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business

By: Brooks, Mel

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Ballantine Books : November 2022

Seller ID: 476861

ISBN-13: 9780593159132

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

All I Ever Wanted: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir

By: Valentine, Kathy

Price: $18.95

Publisher: University of Texas Press : March 2020

Seller ID: 279015

ISBN-13: 9781477312339

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Go-Go's bassist Kathy Valentine's story is a roller coaster of sex, drugs, and of course, music; it's also a story of what it takes to find success and find yourself, even when it all comes crashing downAt twenty-one, Kathy Valentine was at the Whisky in Los Angeles when she met a guitarist from a fledgling band called the Go-Go's--and the band needed a bassist. The Go-Go's became the first multi-platinum-selling, all-female band to play instruments themselves, write their own songs, and have a number one album. Their debut, Beauty and the Beat, spent six weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 ...
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America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

By: Hinton, Elizabeth

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Liveright : July 2022

Seller ID: 433743

ISBN-13: 9781324092001

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795

By: Larson, Edward J.

Price: $32.50

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : January 2023

Seller ID: 457575

ISBN-13: 9780393882209

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs

By: Davis, Wes

Price: $30.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : June 2023

Seller ID: 478513

ISBN-13: 9781324000327

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

By: Hochschild, Adam

Price: $29.99

Publisher: Mariner Books : October 2022

Seller ID: 451139

ISBN-13: 9780358455462

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics

By: Hazzard, Kevin

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Hachette Books : September 2022

Seller ID: 478999

ISBN-13: 9780306926075

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

American Wife: A Novel

By: Sittenfeld, Curtis

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Random House : September 2008

Seller ID: 464311

ISBN-13: 9781400064755

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

On what might become one of the most significant days in her husband's presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that has led her to the White House-and the repercussions of a life lived, as she puts it, "almost in opposition to itself." A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice learned the virtues of politeness early on from her stolid parents and small Wisconsin hometown. But a tragic accident when she was seventeen shattered her identity and made her understand the fragility of life and the tenuousness of luck. So more than a decade later, when she met bo...
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Yong, Ed

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Random House : June 2022

Seller ID: 456428

ISBN-13: 9780593133231

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

And Don't F&%k It Up: An Oral History of RuPaul's Drag Race (The First Ten Years)

By: Fernandez, Maria Elena

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing : June 2023

Seller ID: 478253

ISBN-13: 9781538717660

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Archeophonics (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

By: Gizzi, Peter

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Wesleyan : September 2016

Seller ID: 100544

ISBN-13: 9780819576804

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Archeophonics is the first collection of new work from the poet Peter Gizzi in five years. Archeophonics, defined as the archeology of lost sound, is one way of understanding the role and the task of poetry: to recover the buried sounds and shapes of languages in the tradition of the art, and the multitude of private connections that lie undisclosed in one's emotional memory. The book takes seriously the opening epigraph by the late great James Schuyler: "poetry, like music, is not just song." It recognizes that the poem is not a decorative art object but a means of organizing the world, in th...
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Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night

By: Saltz, Jerry

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Riverhead Books : November 2022

Seller ID: 442194

ISBN-13: 9780593086490

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Because it Didn't Stop when it Ended

By: Wennell, Patricia M

Price: $15.99

Publisher: Gutenberg Press : September 2022

Seller ID: 452106

ISBN-13: 9781913822347

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Beer-Can Chicken: And 74 Other Offbeat Recipes for the Grill

By: Raichlen, Steven

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company : May 2002

Seller ID: 460214

ISBN: 019628120168

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

By: Heyam Ph.D, Dr. Kit

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Seal Press : September 2022

Seller ID: 453712

ISBN-13: 9781541603080

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Bet My Soul on Rock 'n' Roll: Diary of a Black Punk Icon

By: Beauvoir, Jean

Price: $27.99

Publisher: Chicago Review Press : March 2022

Seller ID: 460126

ISBN-13: 9781641604765

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The life and career of Haitian American musician Jean Beauvoir, a member of the New York City punk band the Plasmatics Jean Beauvoir joined the Plasmatics in 1979, playing bass and keyboards for the most notorious band to emerge out of the New York City punk scene. By 1982, he was a member of Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, a retro-rock revival act headed by Steven Van Zandt. The Disciples of Soul videos played on MTV during the network's earliest years, making Beauvoir one of the first Black recording artists to break the start-up music channel's "color line." Bet My Soul on Rock an...
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Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show

By: Karl, Jonathan

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Dutton : November 2021

Seller ID: 378008

ISBN-13: 9780593186329

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Picking up where the New York Times bestselling Front Row at the Trump Show left off, this is the explosive look at the aftermath of the election--and the events that followed Donald Trump's leaving the White House--from ABC News' chief Washington correspondent.Nobody is in a better position to tell the story of the shocking final chapter of the Trump show than Jonathan Karl. As the reporter who has known Donald Trump longer than any other White House correspondent, Karl told the story of Trump's rise in the New York Times bestseller Front Row at the Trump Show. Now he tells the story of Trump...
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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

By: Jaouad, Suleika

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks : March 2022

Seller ID: 477355

ISBN-13: 9780399588600

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey

By: McCormick, Robert Mack

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Smithsonian Books : April 2023

Seller ID: 475539

ISBN-13: 9781588347343

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Black and Female: Essays

By: Dangarembga, Tsitsi

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Graywolf Press : January 2023

Seller ID: 471503

ISBN-13: 9781644452110

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 2

By: Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Price: $15.99

Publisher: Marvel : January 2017

Seller ID: 160768

ISBN-13: 9781302900540

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Dark times for the Black Panther, as Ta-Nehisi Coates chronicles the fi nal days of the kingdom of Wakanda As Zenzi and the People poison Wakanda's populace against their king, a cabal of nation-breakers is assembled. With few allies of his own to call on, T'Challa must rely on his elite secret police, the Hatut Zeraze -and fellow Avenger Eden Fesi, a.k.a. Manifold Meanwhile, Shuri's spirit journeys through the Djalia...but what awaits her there? The blockbuster reinvigoration of the Black Panther continues

COLLECTING: BLACK PANTHER 5-8

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Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America

By: Rankin, Lauren

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Counterpoint : April 2023

Seller ID: 473530

ISBN-13: 9781640095915

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

By: Howley, Kerry

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Knopf : March 2023

Seller ID: 468066

ISBN-13: 9780525655497

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

By: Burnham, Margaret A.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : September 2022

Seller ID: 451172

ISBN-13: 9780393867855

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Camel Combat Ace: The Great War Flying Career of Edwin Swale CBE OBE DFC*

By: Marsden, Barry M.

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Pen and Sword : December 2016

Seller ID: 113565

ISBN-13: 9781473866843

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

This work follows the First World War career of Captain (later wing commander) Edwin Swale, CBE DFC and bar, who served with 210 Squadron RAF, piloting Sopwith Camel scouts between March and October 1918. During this timeframe, he destroyed seventeen enemy aircraft, the majority being the formidable Fokker DV11. He undertook a series of perilous operations, including patrols, bombing and strafing missions and bomber escorts. After the cessation of hostilities, he continued his flying career by piloting gliders over his native Derbyshire. He rejoined the RAF during the Second World War and ende...
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