The early days and inexorable rise of the young Bernie Sanders, the one-of-a-kind visionary who changed American politics forever, told by a son of the People's Republic of Burlington, Vermont
"The more I read of Dan Chiasson's book, the more moved I was by how absolutely unwavering Bernie's message has been across the many decades of his career." --Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, on creating the cover art for Bernie for Burlington AVAILABLE NOW. Click HERE to reserve your copy. reserve your copy.
"The more I read of Dan Chiasson's book, the more moved I was by how absolutely unwavering Bernie's message has been across the many decades of his career." --Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, on creating the cover art for Bernie for Burlington AVAILABLE NOW. Click HERE to reserve your copy. reserve your copy.
Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation's collective unconscious. With profound erudition and wit, Morrison breaks wide open the American conception of race with energetic, enlivening readings of the nation's canon. To read these lectures, collected here for the first time, is to encounter Morrison, not just the writer but also the teacher, in the most penetrating and subversive way yet. AVAILABLE NOW. Click HERE to reserve.reserve your copy.
In paperback. Exploring 500 years of protest and resistance in US history--and what the unsung heroes of social movements past can teach us about navigating our chaotic world In this timely new book in Beacon's successful ReVisioning History series, professor Gloria Browne-Marshall delves into the history of protest movements and rebellion in the United States. Beginning with Indigenous peoples' resistance to European colonization and continuing through to today's climate change demonstrations.
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Emily Nemens's Clutch follows a group of five friends as they navigate the biggest challenges of their lives, asking: When you're hanging on by your fingernails, how can you extend a hand to the ones you love? As undergrads, Gregg, Reba, Hillary, Bella, and Carson formed the kind of rare bond that college brochures promise. Two decades later, the women are spread across the country but remain firmly tethered through their group chat. They've made it through COVID and childbirth and midcareer challenges, but no one can anticipate what's coming down the pike. AVAILABLE NOW. Click HERE to reserve your copy. ryour copy.
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An electric novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world into the next. With his trademark playfulness a George Saunders takes on the gravest issues of our time--the menace of corporate greed, the toll of capitalism, the environmental perils of progress. AVAILABLE NOW. Click HERE to reserve your copy. reserve your copy.
An electric novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world into the next. With his trademark playfulness a George Saunders takes on the gravest issues of our time--the menace of corporate greed, the toll of capitalism, the environmental perils of progress. AVAILABLE NOW. Click HERE to reserve your copy. reserve your copy.
Here is Dylan's second thirty years. Across chapters surveying his albums, performances, films, and books since 1991--since that rainy February night in New York City when Dylan, then forty-nine, accepted a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, signaling in effect that his extraordinary vocation as a vital and indispensable creative force had ended, was over--After the Flood reveals Dylan's creative output during the last three decades as his most ambitious and accomplished yet. AVAILABLE NOW. Click HERE to reserve your copy. reserve your copy.
A grounded and intimate portrait of life by Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. Where We Keep the Light is the story of public service and personal faith. From an early age, Josh Shapiro learned and practiced the power of showing up, listening, and executing, to make people's lives a little better. In the pages of this account of his life, Shapiro relates powerful stories about his family, his faith, and what matters to Americans tired of all the divisiveness and distrust in our leaders. AVAILABLE NOW. Click HERE to reserve your copy. reserve your copy.
The untold story of the Black patriots--from soldiers in combat to peace protesters--who ended the Vietnam War and defended the soul of American democracy, from a pre-eminent civil rights historian and the award-winning author of Half American.
Vivid, revelatory, and meticulously researched, Until the Last Gun Is Silent is essential reading for anyone looking to understand the enduring legacy of Black military service, protest, and patriotism in the United States. AVAILABLE NOW. Click HERE to reserve your copy. reserve your copy.
Vivid, revelatory, and meticulously researched, Until the Last Gun Is Silent is essential reading for anyone looking to understand the enduring legacy of Black military service, protest, and patriotism in the United States. AVAILABLE NOW. Click HERE to reserve your copy. reserve your copy.
The riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk off the coast of Colombia with over $1 billion in gold and silver--and one man's obsessive quest to find it--from the New York Times bestselling author of Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"Splendid . . . Sancton is an expert guide through eighteenth-century European geopolitics and] modern marine archaeology."--The Wall Street Journal AVAILABLE NOW. Click HERE to reserve your copy. reserve your copy.
"Splendid . . . Sancton is an expert guide through eighteenth-century European geopolitics and] modern marine archaeology."--The Wall Street Journal AVAILABLE NOW. Click HERE to reserve your copy. reserve your copy.
ELLEN'S PICK! A bold, inventive, and fiercely original debut novel that begins with an uncle dead and his tween niece's private confession to the reader--she and her sister killed him, and they blame the British. Summer, 1986. The Creel sisters, Georgie Ayyar and Agatha Krishna, welcome their aunt, uncle and young cousin--newly arrived from India--into their house in rural Wyoming where they'll all live together. Because this is what families do. That is, until the sisters decide that it's time for their uncle to die. AVAILABLE NOW. Click HERE to reserve your copy. reserve your copy.
On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, one of our great novelists delivers a playful and profound work about memory, love, and the writer's endgame.
Shortly after our narrator, a writer named Julian, begins this compact book by discussing the workings of involuntary memory, he interrupts himself with a bulletin to the reader: "There will be a story--or a story within the story--but not just yet." AVAILABLE NOW. Click HERE to reserve your copy. reserve your copy.
Shortly after our narrator, a writer named Julian, begins this compact book by discussing the workings of involuntary memory, he interrupts himself with a bulletin to the reader: "There will be a story--or a story within the story--but not just yet." AVAILABLE NOW. Click HERE to reserve your copy. reserve your copy.
"Tender, immersive, and thrilling." --Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
"One of the best novels I've ever read about friendship." --Stephen King, #1 bestselling author
In this story of intense friendship and grit, two down-and-out teens escape their lives and chase a different future through rock-climbing -- from the New York Times bestselling author of My Absolute Darling
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"One of the best novels I've ever read about friendship." --Stephen King, #1 bestselling author
In this story of intense friendship and grit, two down-and-out teens escape their lives and chase a different future through rock-climbing -- from the New York Times bestselling author of My Absolute Darling
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KEVIN'S PICK! NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY NPR
A hilarious but nonetheless groundbreaking contribution to the argument about which force shapes American life the most. For two kinds of readers--those who know it's football and those who are about to find out. A century ago, Yale's legendary coach Walter Camp wrote his unified theory of the game. He called it Football. Chuck Klosterman has given us a new Camp for the new age, rooted in a personal history he cannot escape. AVAILABLE NOW. Click HERE to reserve your copy. reserve your copy.
A hilarious but nonetheless groundbreaking contribution to the argument about which force shapes American life the most. For two kinds of readers--those who know it's football and those who are about to find out. A century ago, Yale's legendary coach Walter Camp wrote his unified theory of the game. He called it Football. Chuck Klosterman has given us a new Camp for the new age, rooted in a personal history he cannot escape. AVAILABLE NOW. Click HERE to reserve your copy. reserve your copy.
XANDRA'S PICK! She says: "The Old Fire is a wonderful book to get lost in for a few hours. Set in the French countryside, Dusapin invites you into Agathe's world for a moment in time that uncovers glimpses of the past and beautifully explores the complexity of family and memory."
Perfect for readers of Katie Kitamura and Elena Ferrante.
"Vivid and intriguing...Evokes unresolved family history with subtle heat." --The New York Times
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Perfect for readers of Katie Kitamura and Elena Ferrante.
"Vivid and intriguing...Evokes unresolved family history with subtle heat." --The New York Times
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The Remains of the Day meets The Royal Tenenbaums in this darkly funny debut novel about a wealthy, eccentric family in decline and the secrets held within the walls of their crumbling country manor.
Reminiscent of the haunting atmospheres in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Infamous Gilberts offers a fresh take on a classic genre, capturing the essence of a troubled but fascinating family. AVAILABLE JAN 20. Click HERE to reserve a copy.
Reminiscent of the haunting atmospheres in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Infamous Gilberts offers a fresh take on a classic genre, capturing the essence of a troubled but fascinating family. AVAILABLE JAN 20. Click HERE to reserve a copy.
Ellen's Pick: Ready for a bit of absurdist humor?
A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
"A wonderful storyteller with a vibrant voice."--New York Times
From the author of the cult classic Treasure Island , a delightfully unhinged comedy following a woman as she attempts to exorcise the spirit of a dead corgi from her nephew and renegotiate the borders of her previously rational world. AVAILABLE NOW!
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A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
"A wonderful storyteller with a vibrant voice."--New York Times
From the author of the cult classic Treasure Island , a delightfully unhinged comedy following a woman as she attempts to exorcise the spirit of a dead corgi from her nephew and renegotiate the borders of her previously rational world. AVAILABLE NOW!
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The magnificent follow-up to Wild Swans, the multi-million copy, internationally bestselling sensation that traces the history o modern China through the true stories of three generations of courageous women in one family. Fly, Wild Swans is Jung's love letter and emotional tribute to her extraordinary mother. Profoundly moving, it is filled with drama, love, curiosity and incredible history--both personal and global. Told in Jung's clear, honest and compelling voice, it is memoir writing at its best. AVAILABLE NOW! Click HERE to reserve your copy.
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'A transfixing look at David Bowie's life through a spiritual lens... fresh and revealing' Publishers Weekly
In this wide-ranging biography, Peter Ormerod explores the quest for spirituality that powered David Bowie's creativity from his earliest recordings to his death-defying final album. Bowie's genre-expanding, era-crossing genius had an extraordinary impact on popular culture but his life-long search for spiritual truth and enlightenment has been overlooked. AVAILABLE NOW!. Click HERE to reserve your copy. eserve your copy. your copy.
In this wide-ranging biography, Peter Ormerod explores the quest for spirituality that powered David Bowie's creativity from his earliest recordings to his death-defying final album. Bowie's genre-expanding, era-crossing genius had an extraordinary impact on popular culture but his life-long search for spiritual truth and enlightenment has been overlooked. AVAILABLE NOW!. Click HERE to reserve your copy. eserve your copy. your copy.
A gorgeous memoir about the sudden end to a seemingly happy marriage--an aching, love-filled, and transcendent account of surviving betrayal and discovering joy. Belle Burden was safe and secure with her family at their house on Martha's Vineyard, navigating the early days of the pandemic. Then, with no warning or explanation, her husband of twenty years announced that he was leaving her. In Strangers, Burden revisits her marriage, searching for clues that her husband was not who she always thought he was. AVAILABLE NOW!. Click HERE to reserve your copy. eservyour copy. your copy.