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Sunrise on the Reaping (a Hunger Games Novel)
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Patriot: A Memoir
Orbital: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home
The Message
The Vegetarian
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
On Freedom
The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
Intermezzo
Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
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Recent Fiction
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Martyr!
You Dreamed of Empires
The God of the Woods
Julia
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
Playworld
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
The Bee Sting
More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Land of Milk and Honey
Dispatches from the District Committee
Erasure
The Tatami Galaxy
Ripe
The Goodbye Cat
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Coming Soon!
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The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning
Mother Mary Comes to Me
Shadow Ticket
Surviving the 21st Century
The Complete C Comics
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide
Speaking in Tongues
Dream Count
Mark Twain
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
Those Passions: On Art and Politics
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Politics & International Relations
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Surviving the 21st Century
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World
The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
Where Have All the Democrats Gone?: The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes
Nature, Culture, and Inequality: A Comparative and Historical Perspective
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking for
Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World
The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government
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Classic Fiction
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The Diaries of Franz Kafka
Their Eyes Were Watching God
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Anna Karenina
The Remains of the Day: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition
To the Lighthouse
The Guyana Quartet
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
The Handmaid's Tale
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights (Revised)
The Bookshop (Revised)
Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare's the Tempest Retold: A Novel
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Poetry!
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Padam Padam: The Collected Poems
Regaining Unconsciousness: Poems
The Spiritual Hunt
The Golden Book of Words
Don't Forget to Love Me
Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
J.H. Prynne: Poems 2016-2024
Being Reflected Upon
Loner Forensics: Poems
Fierce Elegy
Time Is a Mother
The Collected Poems of Anselm Hollo
The Lights: Poems
A Working Life
Exilee and Temps Morts: Selected Works (First Edition, Reissue)
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Antiracism
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The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
Black Intellectuals and Black Society
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
The Essential Dick Gregory
The Message
This Fiction Called Nigeria: The Struggle for Democracy
An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1
King: A Life
When the Smoke Cleared: The 1968 Rebellions and the Unfinished Battle for Civil Rights in the Nation's Capital
Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
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Philosophy etc.
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The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
Politically Red
Mad World: War, Movies, Sex
Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 6
Debord, Time and Spectacle: Hegelian Marxism and Situationist Theory
I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole: An Elias Canetti Reader
Private Notebooks: 1914-1916
Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiesis in Black
Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
Speaking the Truth about Oneself: Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982
Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime: Why Ideas Matter
Being and Nothingness
Women of Ideas: Interviews from Philosophy Bites
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Histories
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An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
The CIA: An Imperial History
Pirates: A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
Paris: A Short History
Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
The Deadline: Essays
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (Revised)
The Greeks: A Global History
Churchill's Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
The Invention of Terrorism in Europe, Russia, and the United States
The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
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Art & Architecture
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Arts & Architecture 1950-1954
The World According to David Hockney
Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics
Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary
Jasper Johns: Drawings: 1982-2021
Federico Herrero: A Piece of Waterfall in the Sound of Crickets
Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity
Bonnard
Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute
Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of EDO: The Definitive Collector's Edition (Woodblock Prints)
Rosario Candela & the New York Apartment: 1927-1937 the Architecture of the Age
Love, Joe: The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard
Feint of Heart: Art Writings: 1982-2002
The New Modernist House: Mid-Century Homes Renewed for Contemporary Living
How Painting Happens (and Why It Matters)
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