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A startling new look at quantum theory, from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time. One of the world's most renowned theoretical physicists, Carlo Rovelli has entranced millions of readers with his singular...

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to the weirdest questions you never thought to ask The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those qu...

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"This house, this place, knows all my secrets." A story of summer, secrets, love, and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades. It is a perfect July...

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A chilling and unflinching portrait of one of the most fearsome figures in world politics. Boris Yeltsin and his cronies thought they could mold Vladimir Putin in their own image. But Putin, with ruthless efficiency, dismantled the country's media...

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The definitive book about soccer. With a new foreword for the American edition. There may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of soccer are universal. No world religion...

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The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited-and remade. Lesley Hazleton's new book, Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto, is out now from Riverhead Books. Muhammad's was a life of almost unparalleled historical import...

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In this compassionate and important bestseller, the author of "Living Buddha, Living Christ" provides real help in transforming the negative force of anger into a positive and useful energy, bringing harmony and healing to all aspects of...

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From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa. When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast ...

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A "marvelous" (Lauren Groff) and "gentle, mysterious and profound" (Marina Abramovic) novel about a woman who has come undone. A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a painter, Agnes, wh...

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The first book, the definitive book from HIP-HOP'S ORIGINAL DYNASTY! Long awaited and much anticipated, The Wu-Tang Manual is The RZA's first written introduction to the philosophy and history of Hip-Hop's original Dynasty, the Wu-Tang Clan. Since...

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A sharp, timely debut about a young woman's toxic relationship with an older man and her battle to free herself from the suffocating expectation to be "good." When personal scandal forces her to leave Paris, Frances, a young British grad...

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Ford explains how individuals hide, deny, and reject their dark sides--and how, through stories and exercises, they can reconcile these impulses, finding the gifts they offer and reclaiming our wholeness once again.

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From the trailblazing, New York Times-bestselling author of Thinking in Pictures, a landmark book that reveals, celebrates, and advocates for the special brains and contributions of visual thinkers A quarter of a century after her first book, Thin...

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Now in paperback, this national bestseller "offers painful childhood memories of straddling two vastly different cultures . . . to fashion a cautionary tale about the power of race in shaping identity" ("Entertainment Weekly").

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"A once-in-a-generation voice." -Vulture "One of our greatest living writers." -Shondaland "Emezi is changing the world." -The Paris Review One of the year's most powerful and talked-about books: a full-throated and p...

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A provocative novel that upends the history of the transatlantic slave trade,"Blond Roots" reverses and reexamines notions of savagery and civilization asit follows a young woman's journey to freedom.

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A celebrated writer pens an irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life.

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A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed. Look out for Elizabeth Gilbert's newest book, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear. In...

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The New York Times bestseller from the author of The Order of Time and Reality Is Not What It Seems "One of the year's most entrancing books about science."-The Wall Street Journal "Clear, elegant...a whirlwind tour of some of the b...

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A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. F...

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From the guitarist of the pioneering band Sleater-Kinney, the book Kim Gordon says "everyone has been waiting for" and a New York Times Notable Book of 2015-- a candid, funny, and deeply personal look at making a life--and finding yourse...

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A Vogue Best Book of the Year"What Ferrante did for female friends-exploring the tumult and complexity their relationships could hold-Spiegelman sets out to do for mothers and daughters. She's essentially written My Brilliant Mom." -Slat...

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An electrifying novel about a woman caught between many truths, by the author of A Separation. "A perfect novel-taut and seductive." -Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life and Filthy Animals "Gripping and elegant. No one's work simmer...

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As rising waters-and an encroaching police state-endanger her life and family, a girl with the gifts of a "carrier" travels through water and time to rescue vulnerable figures from the margins of history Lidia Yuknavitch has an unmatched...

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FINALIST FOR THE PEN JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY "Feminism, history, literature, politics-this tale has all of that, and a heroine worthy of her own turn in the spotlight." -Therese Anne Fowler, bestselling author of Z: A ...

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Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Time, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, O, The Oprah Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, BuzzFeed, Vulture, and more: The much-talked-about, deeply satisfying group portrait of young adults...

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The New York Times-bestselling author of The Vacationers and All Adults Here combines her trademark charm and wit with a moving father-daughter story and a playful twist on the idea of time travel What if you could take a vacation to your past? On...

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