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BLOOMSBURY
Fall 2021
September – December
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Today a Woman Went Mad in the
Supermarket
Stories
Hilma Wolitzer
The uncannily relevant, clear-eyed collected stories of an
acclaimed, award-winning “American literary treasure” (Boston
Globe), ripe for rediscovery—with a foreword by Elizabeth
Strout.
From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer—now 90 years old and at the
top of her game—has gained a reputation as one of our best fiction writers, who
“raises ordinary people and everyday occurrences to a new height” (The
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( S I N G L E AU T H O R ) Washington Post). These collected short stories—most of them originally
Bloomsbury Publishing | 8/31/2021 published in magazines including Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post in the
9781635577624 | $26.00 / $34.99 Can. 1960s and 1970s, along with a new story that brings her early characters into the
Hardcover with dust jacket | 208 pages present—are evocative of an era that still resonates deeply today.
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In the title story, a bystander tries to soothe a woman who seems to have cracked
under the pressures of motherhood. And in several linked stories throughout, the
relationship between the narrator and her husband unfolds in telling and often
MARKETING hilarious vignettes. Of their time and yet timeless, Wolitzer’s stories zero in on
Early consumer review campaign on the domestic sphere and ordinary life with wit, candor, grace, and an acutely
NetGalley
Promotion to librarians and library observant eye. Brilliantly capturing the tensions and contradictions of daily life,
marketing Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket is full of heart and insight,
Indie bookseller outreach providing a lens into a world that was often unseen at the time, and is often
Outreach to blogs/bookstagrammers overlooked now—reintroducing a beloved writer to be embraced by a whole
covering literature and memoir
Social media campaign on Bloomsbury new generation of readers.
accounts
Digital assets: excerpt available on PRAISE
Bloomsbury website
National print and online campaign for “[Wolitzer] shows us the ever-shifting alliances of family life and ways in which
reviews and features
Pitch for reviews and seasonal reading love can both change and endure.” —The New York Times
roundups and most anticipated lists “To read Hilma Wolitzer is to laugh in a special way and to allow yourself little
National broadcast campaign intermissions of sheer satisfaction in which you lay the open book facedown on
your heart and snuggle with the human race.” —Gail Godwin
“Wolitzer’s vision of the world, for all its sorrow, is often hilarious and always
compassionate.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Wolitzer is a champ at the closely observed, droll novel of manners.” —NPR
“Funny, wise, and touching.” —The Washington Post on An Available Man
Hilma Wolitzer is a critically hailed author and a recipient of Guggenheim and National
Endowment for the Arts fellowships, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and a
Barnes & Noble Writer for Writers Award. Her first published short story appeared in print when she
was thirty-six. Eight years later, she published her first novel. Since then, her novels have drawn
praise for illuminating the dark interiors of the American home. She lives in New York City.
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Baked to Perfection
Delicious gluten-free recipes, with a pinch of science
Katarina Cermelj
The only gluten-free baking book you'll ever need, with
delicious recipes that work perfectly every time.
Baked to Perfection heralds the end of dry, tasteless, gluten-free baking. Armed
with a chemistry degree and a weakness for cake, Katarina Cermelj set out to
rewrite the recipe book and create gluten-free recipes that don’t just work, but
work perfectly.
Katarina has devised and rigorously tested 100 recipes that are so delicious they
COOKING / METHODS / BAKING will astound your friends and family, including triple chocolate brownies,
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caramel apple pie, cinnamon rolls, lemon poppy seed cupcakes and caramelised
9781526613486 | $28.00 / $38.00 Can.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 384 pages onion & cherry tomato tarts. The easy-to-follow recipes are accompanied by
9.7 in H | 7.4 in W simple explanations of the science at work, so you can become a more skillful
Color photography throughout gluten-free baker with the freedom to adapt the recipes to your tastes.
With the most sumptuous and mouth-watering food photography, Baked to
Perfection is set to become the gluten-free bible for every home baker.
PRAISE
“Gluten-free baking just got a whole lot easier! The knowledge that Katarina
shares is indispensable.” –Julie Jones, author of The Pastry School
“Beautiful and inspiring . . . a magnificent achievement.” –Juliet Sear, author of
The Cake Decorating Bible
“Effortlessly combines . . . both science and baking to demystify gluten-free baking
once and for all.” –Erin Jeanne McDowell, author of The Fearless Baker
“Put what you know about wheat-based baking aside, and let Katarina teach you
the wonders of decadent cookies, flaky tartlets, and tender cakes that all happen to
be baked without gluten.” –Tessa Huff, author of Layered
Katarina Cermelj is undertaking a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from Oxford. After cutting out
gluten from her diet, she used her scientific background to experiment with gluten-free baking, and
in 2016 set up her hugely popular baking blog, The Loopy Whisk, sharing her sumptuous allergy-
friendly recipes. Baked to Perfection is her first cookbook.
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Unfollow Me
Essays on Complicity
Jill Louise Busby
Trick Mirror meets White Fragility—an intimate and insolent
essay collection about race, progress, and hypocrisy from
cultural commentator Jill Louise Busby, aka Jillisblack.
Jill Louise Busby spent almost ten years in the nonprofit sector, specializing in
Diversity & Inclusion. She spoke at academic institutions, businesses, and
detention centers on the topics of race, power, and privilege and delivered over
two hundred workshops and trainings to nonprofit organizations across the Bay
Area.
One summer, fed up with the faux liberal innocence of the Pacific Northwest,
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Busby made a short video about race, white institutions, and the danger of
Bloomsbury Publishing | 9/7/2021 intentional gradualism and posted it on Instagram. The video went viral,
9781635577112 | $27.00 / $36.50 Can. receiving millions of views across platforms. Over the next few years, as her
Hardcover with dust jacket | 272 pages pithy persona Jillisblack became an “it voice” for all things race-based, Jill
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began to notice parallels between the performances of “diversity” for the white
corporate world and “wokeness” for her followers. Both, she realized, were
scripted.
MARKETING Unfollow Me is a memoir-in-essays about these scripts; about tokenism,
National trade and consumer advertising micro-fame, and inhabiting spaces—real and virtual, black and white—where
campaign at publication complicity is the price of admittance. Busby’s social commentary is wryly funny
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finished books and achingly open-hearted as she recounts her shape-shifting moves among the
Extensive social media promotion, cover subtle rules and hierarchies of “progressive” communities. Unfollow Me is a
reveal and online influencer outreach deeply personal, razor-sharp critique of white fragility (and other words for
ARC giveaways via Goodreads and social
media
racism), respectability politics (and other words for shame), and all the places
Bloomsbury consumer email marketing where fear masquerades as progress.
campaign
Extensive independent bookseller Jill Louise Busby (or Jillisblack) had spent ten years in the nonprofit sector specializing in diversity
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and inclusion when she posted on Instagram an incisive attack on liberal gradualism and the
Book club marketing
Library marketing campaign “progressive” nonprofit machine. The video went viral, making her the indulgently honest “it-voice”
National media campaign including print, for all things race. She now has a loyal following of over 80,000. She continues to use her platform
broadcast, and online to expose contradictions, challenge performative authenticity, and campaign for accountability.
National review coverage
Focus on op-ed pieces, profiles
4-city autho...
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Tenderness
Alison MacLeod
For readers of A Gentleman in Moscow and Z: A Novel of Zelda
Fitzgerald, an ambitious, spellbinding historical novel about
sensuality, censorship, and the novel that set off the sexual
revolution...
On the glittering shores of the Mediterranean in 1928, a dying author in exile
races to complete his final novel. Lady Chatterley’s Lover is a sexually bold love
story, a searing indictment of class distinctions, and a study in sensuality. But the
author, D.H. Lawrence, knows it will be censored. He publishes it privately,
loses his copies to customs, and dies bereft.
Booker Prize-longlisted author Alison MacLeod brilliantly recreates the novel’s
origins and boldly imagines its journey to freedom through the story of Jackie
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Kennedy, who was known to be an admirer. In MacLeod’s telling, Jackie—in
Bloomsbury Publishing | 9/14/2021 her last days before becoming first lady—learns that publishers are trying to
9781635576108 | $29.00 bring D.H. Lawrence’s long-censored novel to American and British readers in
Hardcover with dust jacket | 624 pages its full form. The U.S. government has responded by targeting the postal service
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for distributing obscene material. Enjoying what anonymity she has left,
determined to honor a novel she loves, Jackie attends the hearing incognito. But
there she is quickly recognized, and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover takes note of
MARKETING her interest and her outrage.
National trade and consumer advertising Through the story of Lawrence’s writing of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, the historic
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obscenity trial that sought to suppress it in the United Kingdom, and the men
finished books and women who fought for its worldwide publication, Alison MacLeod captures
Global Bloomsbury social media the epic sweep of the twentieth century from war and censorship to sensuality
promotion at launch and freedom. Exquisite, evocative, a...
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Extensive independent bookseller for All the Beloved Ghosts
marketing “Through nuanced and often lyrical prose, MacLeod imbues cultural figures and
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National media campaign including luminous believability until they are beyond doubt.” —LA Review of Books
pitching for print, broadcast, and online “Blends memoir and fiction to stunning effect . . . [All the Beloved Ghosts’s]
interviews and features
National review coverage and inclusion in haunting prose is by turns heartbreaking and uplifting, transforming the stories’
most-anticipate... heavy themes into something entirely unique.” —Paste, Best of 2017
“Striking prose . . . tapping into the unknown with compassion and genuine
human emotion . . . Subtly moving and thoroughly engaging.” —Kirkus Reviews
Alison MacLeod is the Canadian-born author of three novels, The Changeling, The Wave Theory of
Angels, and Unexploded, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2013, and
two collections of stories, Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction and All the Beloved Ghosts. She is the
joint winner of the 2016 Eccles British Library Writer in Residence Award and works as professor of
contemporary fiction at the University of Chichester. She lives in Brighton.
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Can We Talk About Israel?
A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted
Daniel Sokatch
From the expert who understands both sides of the world’s
most complex, controversial conflicts, a modern-day Guide for
the Perplexed—a primer on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian
issue.
"Can’t you just explain the Israel situation to me? In, like, 10 minutes or less?”
This is the question Daniel Sokatch is used to answering on an almost daily
basis. As the head of the New Israel Fund, which is dedicated to equality and
democracy for all Israelis (not just Jews), Sokatch is supremely well-versed on
H I S TO RY / M I D D L E E A S T / the Israeli conflict.
I S R A E L & PA L E S T I N E Can We Talk About Israel? is the story of that conflict, and of why so many
Bloomsbury Publishing | 9/21/2021
9781635573879 | $27.00 / $36.50 Can.
people feel so strongly about it without actually understanding it very well at all.
Hardcover with dust jacket | 256 pages It is an attempt to understand a century-long struggle between two peoples that
8.3 in H | 5.5 in W both perceive themselves as (and indeed are) victims. And it’s an attempt to
Black and white illustrations throughout explain why Israel (and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict) inspires such extreme
feelings — why it seems like Israel is the answer to “what is wrong with the
world” for half the people in it, and “what is right with the world” for the other
MARKETING half. As Sokatch asks, is there any other topic about which so many intelligent,
Targeted influencer mailing with ARCs and educated and sophisticated people express such strongly and passionately held
finished books convictions, and about which they actually know so little?
Extensive social media promotion and
online influencer outreach Easy-to-read yet fiercely penetrating and original, Can We Talk About Israel? is
ARC giveaways via Goodreads and social a digestible yet thoughtful and surprisingly comprehensive look at Israel and the
media Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Christopher Noxon’s engaging illustrations assist in
Bloomsbury consumer email marketing explaining the history and basic contours of the most complicated conflict in the
campaign
Extensive independent bookseller world.
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Book club marketing PRAISE
Library marketing campaign
National media campaign including print, Christopher Noxon (illustrator) is a journalist and illustrator whose work has
broadcast, and online
National review coverage and op-ed appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, Salon, and
pieces and profiles his book Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook. He writes and
CA author events draws in Ojai, California.
Daniel Sokatch is the chief executive officer of the New Israel Fund. He served as the executive
director of the Progressive Jewish Alliance and the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco,
the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties. Sokatch has four times been named to the Forward’s
“Forward 50,” an annual list of the fifty leading Jewish decision-makers and opinion-shapers. His
writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and other
publications. He lives i...
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Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new
novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality.
Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors
endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one
different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is
imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But
Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of
the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house.
There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits
Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret
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Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a
9781635577808 | $17.00 / $23.00 Can. terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has
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For readers of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane and fans of
Other Available Formats: Madeline Miller’s Circe, Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an
Hardcover ISBN: 9781635575637 infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides
and the clouds.
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advertising campaign at publication “[Piranesi] flooded me, as the tides flood the halls, with a scouring grief, leaving
Extensive social media promotion and gleaming gifts in its wake . . . rich, wondrous, full of aching joy and sweet sorrow.”
online influencer outreach
Giveaways via Goodreads and social —The New York Times Book Review
media “A novel that feels like a surreal meditation on life in quarantine.” —The New
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Book club marketing “Unforgettable—surely one of the most original works of fiction this season. It
Paperback review coverage drops you into a mind-bending fantasy world . . . It’s a hypnotic tale that you can
Extensive independent bookseller devour in a day (and probably will; it’s that hard to put down).” —AARP.org
marketing
“A high-quality page turner.” —The Wall Street Journal
Susanna Clarke is the author of the The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories and the New York
Times bestseller and Hugo Award–winning Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. She lives in England.
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The Next Great Migration
The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
Sonia Shah
A prizewinning journalist upends our centuries-long
assumptions about migration through science, history, and
reporting—predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate
change.
The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. Wild species,
too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands, creeping, swimming, and
flying in a mass exodus from their past habitats. News media presents this
scrambling of the planet’s migration patterns as unprecedented, provoking fears
S C I E N C E / E N V I R O N M E N TA L of the spread of disease and conflict and waves of anxiety across the Western
SCIENCE world. On both sides of the Atlantic, experts issue alarmed predictions of
Bloomsbury Publishing | 9/7/2021 millions of invading aliens, unstoppable as an advancing tsunami, and countries
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respond by electing anti-immigration leaders who slam closed borders that were
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But the science and history of migration in animals, plants, and humans tell a
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different story. Unhampered by barbed wire, migration catapulted us to the
heights of the Himalayas and the isles of the Pacific. Climate changes triggered
the first human migrations out of Africa. Falling sea levels allowed our passage
across the Bering Sea. Far from being a disruptive behavior to be quelled at any
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cost, migration is an ancient and lifesaving response to environmental change, a
online influencer outreach biological imperative as necessary as breathing. Migration is not the crisis: it is
Giveaways via Goodreads and social the solution.
media Conclusively tracking the history of misinformation from the 18th century
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campaign through today’s anti-immigration policies, The Next Great Migration makes the
Book club marketing case for a future in which migration is not a source of fear, but of hope.
Paperback review coverage
Independent bookseller marketing
PRAISE
“Shah [tackles] with compassion and insight a deeply complex and challenging
subject . . . her work addresses issues of fundamental importance to the survival
and well-being of us all.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A refreshing and crucially humane counterargument to the idea that migration
spells societal catastrophe . . . a provocative invitation to imagine the inevitable
migration of the future as an opportunity, rather than a threat.” —The Washington
Post
“Dazzlingly original . . . At a moment when migrants face walls of hatred, this is a
story threaded with joy and inspiration.” —Naomi Klein
Sonia Shah is a science journalist and the prizewinning author of Pandemic: Tracking Contagions
from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the New
York Public Library Award for Excellence in Journalism. She has written for the New York Times,
the Wall Street Journal, and many others. Her TED talk, “Three Reasons We Still Haven’t Gotten
Rid of Malaria,” has been viewed by more than one million people around the world. She lives in
Baltimore, Maryland.
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Dancing with the Octopus
A Memoir of a Crime
Debora Harding
One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just
fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was
thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm
descended over the city.
Debora survived. She identified her attacker to the police and then returned to
her teenage life in a dysfunctional home, where she was expected to simply
move on. Denial became the family coping strategy offered by her fun-loving,
conflicted father and her cruelly resentful mother.
It wasn’t until decades later—when beset by the symptoms of PTSD—that
Debora undertook a radical project: she met her childhood attacker face-to-face
B I O G R A P H Y & AU TO B I O G R A P H Y
in prison and began to reconsider and reimagine his complex story. This was a
/ PERSONAL MEMOIRS quest for the truth that would threaten the lie at the heart of her family and with
Bloomsbury Publishing | 9/21/2021 it the sacred bond that once saved her. Dexterously shifting between the past and
9781635577846 | $17.00 / $23.00 Can. present, Debora Harding untangles the incident of her kidnapping and escape
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from unexpected angles, offering a vivid, intimate portrait of one family’s
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disintegration in the 1970s Midwest, a rusted landscape in which the loss of
Other Available Formats: white male power can flare into unspeakable violence.
Hardcover ISBN: 9781635576122
Written with dark humor and the pacing of a thriller, Dancing with the Octopus
is a literary tour de force and a groundbreaking narrative of reckoning, recovery,
and the inexhaustible strength it takes to survive.
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Bloomsbury consumer email marketing “A gripping memoir . . . both a heartbreaking reconstruction of a crime and a
campaign powerful account of healing from trauma.” —Electric Lit, “Most Anticipated
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Independent bookseller marketing “This moving story of grit and resilience will resonate with readers long after the
final page is turned.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Darkly humorous . . . Harding draws a complex web of interlinked experiences to
show how suffering can set up shop for good in a family and a town.”
—CrimeReads, “Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2020”
Debora Harding has had varied professional experiences including working in national U.S.
politics for ten years, cofounding the UK’s first local terrestrial television station, and managing a
bicycle business. Her work has been published in the Guardian, the Daily Mail, and Unbound, as
well as other publications. She spent her childhood in Nebraska and Iowa, and lives in England with
her husband, the writer Thomas Harding. She is the mother of two children, Kadian and Sam.
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The Least of Us
True Tales of America and Hope in the Age of Fentanyl and
Meth
Sam Quinones
From the bestselling author of Dreamland, a searing follow-up
that explores fentanyl and the quiet yet groundbreaking steps
communities are taking to end the opioid crisis nationwide.
Sam Quinones has traveled far and wide to investigate how drugs are created,
sold, and used. Since Dreamland, he has taken note as the drug world has
radically changed with the introduction of fentanyl on the market. Fentanyl — a
painkiller created to be more powerful and more potent than morphine — is
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often found laced in cocaine, methamphetamine, and sometimes even marijuana.
H E A LT H I S S U E S Highly profitable and easy to traffic, fentanyl is the new “go-to” addictive
Bloomsbury Publishing | 10/12/2021 behind hundreds of overdoses all over the United States.
9781635574357 | $28.00 / $37.00 Can. Heartbroken by the harrowing rise of an already steep death toll, counties and
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communities both large and small have been charged with the responsibility of
stopping this opioid epidemic from taking any more lives. Quinones reveals how
college presidents, Chambers of Commerce, clergy, hospital administrators,
parents, PTAs, and others are coming together to fight the scourge in a period of
MARKETING extreme political and cultural division. United by the urgent necessity for
Major national trade and consumer change, these task forces, working groups, and alliances are paving the way to
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finished books Weaving together his analysis of the drug trade with moving stories about
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delivers an unexpected and awe-inspiring response to the call that shocked the
media nation in his award-winning Dreamland.
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marketing “Over the last 15 years, he has filed the best dispatches about Mexican migration
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National review coverage with op-ed “A driven and important narrative.” —Wall Street Journal
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Midwest hollowing-out of the middle class to the greedy and reckless marketing of
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pharmaceutical opiates to the remarkable entrepreneurial industry of the residents
of the obscure Mexican state of Nayarit . . . Dreamland—true crime, sociology, and
exposé—illuminates a catastrophe unfolding all around us, right now.” —Slate
Sam Quinones is a journalist, author and storyteller whose two acclaimed books of narrative
nonfiction about Mexico and Mexican immigration, the New York Times bestseller Dreamland and
Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream, have made him, according to the San Francisco Chronicle
Book Review, “the most original writer on Mexico and the border.” He lives in Los Angeles.
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Fight Night
Miriam Toews
From the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny
Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply
human new novel about three generations of women.
When Swiv is temporarily kicked out of school, her grandma gives her an
assignment to write a letter to her absent father. Swiv’s assignment to Grandma
is to write a letter to Gord, her unborn grandchild and Swiv’s brother or sister.
“You are a small thing,” Grandma writes to Gord, “but you must learn to fight.”
Grandma has been fighting all her life: from her upbringing in a strictly religious
community, ruled over by the odious Will Braun, she has fought the people who
wanted to take away her joy, her independence, and her spirit; she has fought to
F I C T I O N / FA M I LY L I F E protect her family, and she has fought to make peace with her loved ones when
Bloomsbury Publishing | 10/5/2021 they have chosen to leave her. Swiv’s mother, too, is fighting “on every front,”
9781635578171 | $24.00 as Grandma puts it, “Internally. Externally.”
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Fight Night is a love letter to the mothers and grandmothers who have raised us,
and to all the women who know what it costs to live in this world, but who are
still finding a way—painfully, ferociously—to live on their own terms.
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girl who is doing everything she can to keep her troubled mother from falling
Library and bookseller marketing apart and her irrepressible grandmother alive. Tender, heart-wrenching, darkly
campaign funny, and ultimately joyful, this novel pulses with life.” —Christina Baker Kline,
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relevant shows bestselling author of The Exiles and Orphan Train
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consumer advertising at publication “Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest . . . [Miriam Toews] is an artist of escape;
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Blogger and Bookstagram influencer she always finds a way for her characters, trapped by circumstance, to liberate
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Massive social media campaign at “A feminist manifesto that delicately unwraps the horror, but also bubbles with the
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publication... Miriam Toews is the author of seven previous bestselling novels, Women Talking, All My Puny
Sorrows, Summer of My Amazing Luck, A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, The
Flying Troutmans, and Irma Voth, and one work of nonfiction, Swing Low: A Life. She is winner of
the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, the Rogers
Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley Award. She lives in Toronto.
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Speak, Silence
In Search of W. G. Sebald
Carole Angier
The first biography of W. G. Sebald: a robust, intricate,
landmark portrait of one of the most significant and lauded
cultural figures of the twentieth century.
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Truffle Hound
On the Trail of the World’s Most Seductive Scent, with
Dreamers, Schemers, and Some Extraordinary Dogs
Rowan Jacobsen
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The Farmer's Lawyer
The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm
Sarah Vogel
The unforgettable true story of a young lawyer's impossible
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
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Sarah J. Maas
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Feyre is a huntress. The skin of a wolf would bring enough gold to feed her
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The Anarchy
The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage
of an Empire
William Dalrymple
The epic story of how the East India Company took over large
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In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor
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Beheld
TaraShea Nesbit
From the bestselling author of The Wives of Los Alamos, the
story of a stranger’s arrival in the fledgling Plymouth
Colony—and a crime that shakes the divided community to its
core.
Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil,
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dream of religious freedom, in reality the town is led by fervent puritans who
prohibit the residents from living, trading, and worshipping as they choose. By
the time an unfamiliar ship, bearing new colonists, appears on the horizon one
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Essential
Ollie Dabbous
Everyday recipes for home cooks, from a Michelin-starred chef.
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A Previous Life
Edmund White
A daring, category-confounding, and ruthlessly funny novel
from National Book Award–honored author Edmund White that
explores polyamory and bisexuality, ageing and love.
Sicilian aristocrat and musician Ruggero and his younger, American wife,
Constance, agree to break their marital silence and write their Confessions. Until
now they had a ban on speaking about the past, since transparency had wrecked
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Psycho by the Sea
Lynne Truss
In the latest installment of this charming series, a trio of
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an unlikely penchant for boiling the heads of policemen.
It’s September in the British beach town of Brighton, and the city is playing host
to weeks of endless rain and some brand new villains.
A trusted member of a local gang has disappeared part way through planning a
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The Rice Book
Sri Owen
The definitive book on rice, featuring more than 140 recipes
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of Food Writers Lifetime Achievement Award.
Rice is the staple food for more than half the world, and the creativity with
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