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BLOOMSBURY
Fall 2022
September – December
B L O O M S B U RY P U B L I S HI N G A U G U S T 20 22
The House of Fortune
Jessie Burton
Alive with the magic of 18th-century Amsterdam, an
enchanting stand-alone companion novel to the New York
Times bestseller The Miniaturist, which sold two million copies
worldwide.
Amsterdam, 1705. It is Thea Brandt’s eighteenth birthday. She feels ready for
adulthood, but life at home is difficult. Her father Otto and her aunt Nella argue
endlessly over money, selling off furniture to try to keep the family home.
As catastrophe threatens to engulf the household, Thea seeks refuge in
Amsterdam’s playhouses. She loves the performances. But even better, in the
backrooms of her favorite theater, Thea can spend a few precious minutes with
her secret lover, Walter, the chief set painter. The thrill of their hidden romance
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offers Thea an exciting distraction. But it also puts her in mind of another secret
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possesses uncanny abilities to capture that which is hidden.
Aunt Nella believes the solution to all Thea’s problems is to find her a husband.
An unexpected invitation to Amsterdam’s most exclusive ball seems like a
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the family . . .
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unputdownable novel about love and obsession, family and loyalty, and the
Extensive bookseller outreach fantastic power of secrets.
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for The Miniaturist:
Targeted influencer outreach “One of the year’s most hyped novels, and it’s easy to see why. Burton conjures
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“A seductive meditation on greed, power and the tortuous journey even the
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media
“The pleasure lies in giving in to well-wrought illusions, and the result is a beach
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broadcast, and online
“Burton gives her narrative the propulsive drive of a thriller, but her distinctive
National review coverage prose conveys deeper, harder answers than a whodunit. This fine historical novel
mirrors the fullness of life, in which growt...
National book tour – with appearances at
bookstores, libraries, book festivals
Jessie Burton’s first novel, The Miniaturist, was a New York Times bestseller and was adapted into
Potential appearances at regional a PBS series starring Anya Taylor-Joy. Jessie’s second novel, The Muse, was also a #1 international
bookseller trade shows bestseller. Jessie has written essays and reviews for the New York Times and the Wall Street
Journal. She lives in London.
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Sister Novelists
The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen
and the Brontës
Devoney Looser
For readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, a
fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister
novelists before the Brontës.
Before Charlotte and Emily Brontë picked up their pens, or Jane Austen’s
heroines Elizabeth and Jane Bennet became household names, the literary world
was celebrating a different pair of sisters: Jane and Anna Maria Porter. The
Porters—exact contemporaries of Jane Austen—were brilliant, attractive,
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self-made single women of polite reputation who between them published 26
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expected their renown to last past their lifetimes, they saved their correspondence
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16 page insert But history has not been kind to the Porters. Now, Dr. Devoney Looser, a
Guggenheim fellow in women’s writing, sets out to reintroduce the world to the
authors who cleared the way for Austen, Mary Shelley, and the Brontë sisters.
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Capturing the Porter sisters’ incredible rise, from when Anna Maria published
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the Victorian era, and then to the auctioning off of the family’s massive archive
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ARC giveaways via Goodreads and social “Before the Brontës introduced us to Heathcliff, before Jane Austen’s wit made her
media famous, two best-selling 'sister-novelists' captivated readers and scandalized society.
National media campaign including print, Today, their names have been forgotten. But, as Devoney Looser shows in this
broadcast, and online ground-breaking biography of Maria and Jane Porter, their works and legacy are
still very much with us.” —Tilar Mazzeo, New York Times bestselling author of
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Irena’s Children and The Widow Clicquot
Focus on essays and excerpts “Clever, compassionate and compelling, Devoney Looser is my favourite person to
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read on the subject of writers. The Porter Sisters have found the perfect biographer
to uncover their scandalously neglected s...
Devoney Looser is Foundation Professor of English at Arizona State University and the author or
editor of nine books on literature by women. Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, the New York
Times, the Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly. Looser, who has played roller derby as
Stone Cold Jane Austen, is a Guggenheim Fellow and a National Endowment for the Humanities
Public Scholar. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with her husband and two sons.
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The Weekend Cook
Good Food for Real Life
Angela Hartnett
"Everything one wants in a cookbook. Beautiful, elegant
simplicity. Angela’s gorgeous Weekend Cook is a vital addition
to any cook's kitchen." —Stanley Tucci
An invitation to supper at Angela Hartnett’s house is a real treat. Nestled in
London’s vibrant East End, her home is a place to experience delicious food,
great company and a relaxed atmosphere that is as far removed from the
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high-octane stress of a professional kitchen as it is from the social anxiety that
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shares them.
Great flavors and simple, yet delicious foods abound in these pages, from
satisfying one-pot dishes and comforting risottos to perfect party food and baked
goods to feed a hungry crowd—each one a joy to cook and eat. With 100 recipes
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broadcast, and online “This is a brilliant cookery book by a brilliant woman.” —Claudia Winkleman
“Warm and welcoming . . . A book I know will be a kitchen companion for many
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years to come. I can't remember the last time I wanted to make absolutely
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publication
“Whether you are planning a festive dinner party or a simple night in for two,
Angela’s sumptuous recipes will fill you with joy.” —Michel Roux Jr
“Incredible . . . Every dish is heartfelt and flavour-led.” —Tom Kerridge
Angela Hartnett, MBE, is one of the UK’s most-loved chefs and restaurateurs, known for her
sophisticated yet simple, Italian-inspired cooking. Born in Britain, she developed a passion for
good, honest food and the best ingredients inspired by her Italian grandmother and mother.
Working with Gordon Ramsay for many years, she launched Amaryllis in Scotland, Verre in Dubai,
and Menu and The Grill Room at the Connaught. In 2007 Angela was awarded an MBC for
services to the hospita...
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A Court of Silver Flames
Sarah J. Maas
Sarah J. Maas’s sexy, richly imagined series continues with
the journey of Feyre’s fiery sister, Nesta.
Nesta Archeron has always been prickly—proud, swift to anger, and slow to
forgive. And since the war—since being made High Fae against her will—she’s
struggled to forget the horrors she endured and find a place for herself within the
strange and deadly Night Court.
The person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-
scarred, winged warrior who is there at Nesta’s every turn. But her temper isn’t
the only thing Cassian ignites. The fire between them is undeniable, and it only
burns hotter as they are forced to work closely together.
As the threat of war casts its shadow over them once again, Nesta and Cassian
F I C T I O N / FA N TA S Y / R O M A N C E must battle monsters from within and without as they search for acceptance—and
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healing—in each other’s arms.
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bestseller • A Los Angeles Times and National Indie bestselle
“Deeply sexy and spectacularly propulsive.” —Christina Lauren, New York Times
bestselling author
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for full ACOTAR series Intensely emotional, wildly sexy, and absolutely unputdownable. Cassian and Nesta
are my new OTP.” —Sarah MacLean, New York Times bestselling author
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“A shimmering erotic romance that probes vulnerability and grief. It’s a viciously
Big mouth/Bookstagram mailing + ongoing vibrant epic, determined to remind us why forgiveness is the bravest act of all.”
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advertising campaign Sarah J. Maas is the #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the Court of
Thorns and Roses, Throne of Glass, and Crescent City series. Her books have sold millions of
Giveaways on Goodreads and social copies and are published in thirty-seven languages. Sarah lives with her husband, son, and dog.
media sarahjmaas.com • facebook.com/theworldofsarahjmaas • instagram.com/therealsjmaas
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Meme Wars
The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in
America
Joan Donovan, Emily Dreyfuss, Brian Friedberg
A page-turning investigation into the alt-right’s use of memes
as a tool to gain unprecedented political and cultural power.
How did a group of fringe online micro-celebrities, trafficking in nonsense and
conspiracy, rock the foundations of American democracy? How did an online
playbook first drafted during the Occupy movement mutate from “Gamergate” to
“Unite the Right” to QAnon to “Stop the Steal,” ultimately breaking upon the
steps of the United States capitol in a literal and deadly insurrection?
Meme Wars pulls back the curtain on the digital war room, where the “Carnage at
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the Capitol” went from online to in real life. The authors—leading media expert
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Joan Donovan, PhD, veteran tech journalist Emily Dreyfuss, and Brian
Bloomsbury Publishing | 9/20/2022 Friedberg, an ethnographer specializing in the far-right media ecosystem
9781635578638 | $30.00 / $40.00 Can. —examine alt-right political capital in the form of memes: memorable pieces of
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tweaked, and built upon to spread ideas. Memes are bedrock to the strategy of the
b+w images throughout reactionary army of conspiracists such as Alex Jones, white nationalist
influencers like Nick Fuentes, and countless other extremists. Organized and
armed with these weapons of communication at their disposal, the alt-right has
gained support at unprecedented speeds as the war of disinformation wages on
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without Donald J. Trump in office—or on Twitter.
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researched history, Meme Wars will be the most complete, and most timely,
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Joan Donovan, PhD, is the research director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center.
Targeted influencer outreach Emily Dreyfuss is a tech journalist whose writing has appeared in WIRED, the Atlantic, and the
New York Times, among others. Brian Friedberg is a Harvard Kennedy School ethnographer who
Extensive social media promotion researches political communities online. Together, the authors collaborate on Harvard’s Technology
and Social Change Research Project out of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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España
A Brief History of Spain
Giles Tremlett
Bestselling author of Ghosts of Spain Giles Tremlett traverses
the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric times to
today, in a brief, accessible primer with color illustrations
throug...
Spain's position on Europe’s southwestern corner has exposed the country to
cultural, political, and literal winds blowing from all quadrants throughout the
country’s ancient history. Africa lies a mere nine miles to the south, separated by
the Strait of Gibraltar—a mountain range struck, Spaniards believe, by Hercules,
H I S TO RY / E U R O P E / W E S T E R N in an immaculate and divine display of strength. The Mediterranean connects
Bloomsbury Publishing | 9/20/2022 Spain to the civilizational currents of Phoenicians, Romans, Carthaginians, and
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Byzantines as well as the Arabic lands of the near east. Hordes from the Russian
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Color images throughout winds and currents extended its borders to the American continent, allowing it to
conquer and colonize much of the New World as the first ever global empire.
Spain, as we know it today, was made by generations-worth of changing peoples,
worshipping Christian, Jewish, and Muslim gods over time. The foundation of its
story has been drawn and debated, celebrated and reproached. Whenever it has
tried to deny its heterogeneity and create a “pure” national identity, the narrative
has proved impossible to maintain.
In España, Giles Tremlett, who has lived in and written about Spain for over
twenty years, swiftly traces every stretch of Spain’s history to argue that a lack of
a homogenous identity is Spain's defining trait. With gorg...
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"Nothing less than magisterial . . . rich details are provided through a combination
of first-hand witness and participant accounts, newspaper articles, and secondary
sources." —The Boston Globe, on The International Brigades
"A remarkable act of scholarship, as well as being captivatingly readable . . . a
dazzling mosaic of vignettes and sources, of lives lived and lost, of acts of heroism,
solidarity, betrayal and futility . . . as close to a definitive history as we are likely to
get." —The Guardian, on The International Brigades
"A country finally facing its past could scarcely hope for a better, or more enamored
chronicler of its present."...
Giles Tremlett is a prize-winning historian, author and journalist based in Madrid, Spain. He has
lived in, and written extensively about, Spain almost continuously since graduating from Oxford
University thirty-five years ago. He is Visiting Fellow of the Cañada Blanch Centre at the London
School of Economics, writes opinion and long form reportage for the Guardian and is a former
Madrid correspondent for The Economist.
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Spirits of San Francisco
Voyages through the Unknown City
Gary Kamiya
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Today a Woman Went Mad in the
Supermarket
Stories
Hilma Wolitzer
The “often hilarious and always compassionate” (NYTBR)
stories of an “American literary treasure” (Boston Globe), now
in paperback—with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout.
From her many well-loved novels, Hilma Wolitzer—now ninety-one 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.”
(Washington Post) These collected short stories—most of them originally
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published in magazines including Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post, in the
Bloomsbury Publishing | 9/27/2022 1960s and 1970s, along with a new story that brings her early characters into the
9781635579802 | $17.00 / $23.00 Can. present—are evocative of an era that still resonates deeply today.
Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Carton Qty: 1 In the title story, a bystander tries to soothe a woman who seems to have cracked
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under the pressures of her life. And in several linked stories throughout, the
Other Available Formats: relationship between the narrator and her husband unfolds in telling and often
Hardcover ISBN: 9781635577624 hilarious vignettes. Of their time and yet timeless, Wolitzer’s stories zero in on
the domestic sphere with wit, candor, grace, and an acutely observant eye.
Brilliantly capturing the tensions and contradictions of daily life, Today a Woman
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of readers.
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“Wolitzer has a gentle touch for conveying the nuances and humor to be found in
small moments of intrigue . . . Intrigue may lead a story, but for Wolitzer the daily
rituals of family always carry it.” —New York Times Book Review
“Like its author, the stories in Today a Woman Went Mad shine as brightly, cut as
deeply and entertain as deliciously as if they’d been written today.” —Los Angeles
Times
“The best book title of the year . . . [Wolitzer has] demonstrated literature’s power
to both move and console.” —NPR
“A timeless examination of the bonds that connect us and the staying power of
love.” —Time
Hilma Wolitzer is a recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships,
an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and a Barnes & Noble Writers for
Writers Award. She has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Bread Loaf Writers’
Conference. Her first story was published at thirty-six, and her first novel eight years later. Her
writing has drawn critical praise for illuminating the dark interiors of the American home. She lives
in New York City.
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Illuminations
Stories
Alan Moore
From the unparalleled imagination of Alan Moore, author of
Watchmen and V for Vendetta, eight stories full of wonder and
strangeness, which take us to the fantastical underside of
reality.
In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work and
features many never-before-published pieces, Alan Moore presents a series of
wildly different and equally unforgettable characters who discover—and in some
cases even make and unmake—the various uncharted parts of existence.
F I C T I O N / S H O R T S TO R I E S In “A Hypothetical Lizard,” two concubines in a brothel for sorcerers fall in love,
( S I N G L E AU T H O R ) with tragic ramifications. In “Not Even Legend,” a paranormal study group is
Bloomsbury Publishing | 10/11/2022 infiltrated by one of the otherworldly beings they seek to investigate. In
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youth and finds the past all too close at hand. And in the monumental novella
9.3 in H | 6.1 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt “What We Can Know about Thunderman,” which charts the surreal and
Kafkaesque history of the comics industry over the last seventy-five years
through several sometimes-naive and sometimes-maniacal people rising and
falling on its career ladders, Moore reveals the dark, beating heart of the
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superhero business.
campaign From ghosts and otherworldly creatures to the four horsemen of the apocalypse
to theoretical Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang,
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contemporary legend that reveal the full power of imagination and magic.
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“His bighearted passion for his people . . . and the whole monstrous endeavor of the
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human condition is infectious. I’m not sure there’s a God, but I thank Her for Alan
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“Moore makes the parochial universal, the mundane sublime and the temporal
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media neverending.” —Financial Times
“One of the great fiction minds of his generation.” —Rolling Stone
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also poetic, insightful, and beautiful.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Alan Moore is widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics. His
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seminal works include V for Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell, and
Select events (in-person, or virtual) by Watchmen, which won a Hugo Award and was adapted into a film as well as an HBO original
request series. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Jerusalem. He was born in
1953 in Northampton, UK, and has lived there ever since.
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Rambutan
Recipes from Sri Lanka
Cynthia Shanmugalingam
Shortlisted for the Jane Grigson Trust Award for New Food and Drink
Writers
Since Cynthia Shanmugalingam was a young girl, she has worked to piece
together a sense of Sri Lanka, her ancestral homeland that she experienced
through the wondrous flavors of her immigrant parents’ kitchen in England. In
Rambutan, these ingredients, methods, and tastes—combining Javanese, Malay,
Indian, Arab, Portuguese, Dutch and British influences—come together to create
an irresistible portrait of modern Sri Lankan cuisine.
In more than 80 recipes, Shanmugalingam takes her favorite parts of the island
COOKING / REGIONAL & ETHNIC nation’s culinary tradition and adapts them to be accessible and fun for every
/ INDIAN & SOUTH ASIAN
kitchen: with sticky chicken buriani and spicy stuffed roti, slow-cooked lamb red
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4-color photography throughout
Combining luscious recipe photography and stunning candids from the island,
this exuberant guide is perfect for home cooks looking to explore the exciting Sri
Lankan tradition in Southeast Asian cuisine.
PRAISE
“Delicious . . . This book makes me hungry to travel, explore and eat new things,
especially curries.” —Yotam Ottolenghi
“The honesty, humor, and generosity of spirit that flows from each page is a true gift
to anyone who reads it.” —Alison Roman
“Rambutan takes us by the hand to Sri Lanka, a tantalizingly delicious cookbook
filled with spirited tales, cooking knowhow and tender family stories.” —Lara Lee
“A proper (and honest) insider’s guide to Sri Lankan home cooking. I picked up this
book for the food, but I’ll treasure it forever for the stories.” —Meera Sodha
“The vivacity of storytelling is poured into recipes that beguile and transport t...
Cynthia Shanmugalingam is a British-Sri Lankan cook who grew up in Coventry in the UK,
visiting Sri Linka every childhood holiday. She has run pop-ups and street food stalls since 2014
and is the founder of a social enterprise street food truck, Kitchenette Karts, which helps
ex-offenders get a start in the food industry. In 2019 she started doing Sri Lankan Rambutan
pop-ups, which she plans to develop into a restaurant. She has been featured on BBC news and
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In the Mouth of the Wolf
A Murder, a Coverup, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press
Katherine Corcoran
Former AP Mexico bureau chief Katherine Corcoran’s
pulsating investigation into the murder of a legendary woman
journalist on the verge of exposing government corruption in
Mexico.
Regina Martínez was no stranger to retaliation. A journalist out of Mexico’s Gulf
Coast state of Veracruz, whose stories laid out corruption, abuse, and the general
underside of Mexican politics to a national audience, Martínez was regularly
barred from press conferences. Copies of her newspaper Proceso often
disappeared before they made the newsstands. In 2012, just as she uncovered
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CRIME damning evidence about the disappearance of thousands of Mexican people,
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Corcoran journeyed to Veracruz to find out what had happened. Once there, she
bonded with four of Regina’s grief-stricken mentees, each desperate to prove
who was to blame for the death of their friend. Together they battled cover-ups,
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Wolf confronts how silencing the free press threatens basic protections and rule of
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broadcast, and online Katherine Corcoran is a former Associated Press bureau chief and Hewlett Fellow for Public
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The New Yorkers
31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of
the World's Greatest City
Sam Roberts
From The New York Times reporter and past Urban Affairs
correspondent, a history of New York told through 31
little-known yet pivotal inhabitants—just in time for the city’s
400th birthday
With its vast, pulsating history, some of the most vital contributions to the
lifeblood of New York won’t be found in boldface names—and in The New
Yorkers, you’ll meet the city anew through 31 of key New Yorkers you’ve never
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soirée ended the Gilded Age with an embarrassing bang; the husband and wife
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racial discrimination a century before Rosa Parks.
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“Fun facts abound . . . An enjoyable portrait of New York as embodied in 27 key
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“The best thing to happen to New York since Nathan’s hot dogs and Junior’s
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Sam Roberts, a 50-year veteran of New York journalism, is an obituaries reporter at the New York
Times and formerly its Urban Affairs correspondent. He hosts The New York Times “Close Up.” He
is the author of A History of New York in 27 Buildings, A History of New York in 101 Objects,
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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 one of the
world’s most complex, controversial topics, a modern-day
Guide for the Perplexed—a primer on Israel and the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict.
"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, an organization dedicated to equality and
democracy for all Israelis, not just Jews, Sokatch is supremely well-versed on the
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feelings—why it seems like Israel is the answer to “what is wrong with the
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half. As Sokatch asks, is there any other topic about which so many intelligent,
educated and sophisticated people express such strongly and passionately held
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“An engaging and evenhanded . . . history of the conflict, from its 19th-century
origins to the most recent mini-war between Israel and Hamas in May 2021.” —The
New York Times Book Review
“An important book, exceedingly well written, full of insight and empathy and even
humor in the face of all available evidence.” —Colum McCann, National Book
Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin and Apeirogon
"One of the best short contemporary guides to the complicated politics of the
place." —American Prospect
Daniel Sokatch is the chief executive officer of the New Israel Fund (NIF). 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 been named four times to the
Forward’s “Forward 50." His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los
Angeles Times, and other publications. Sokatch holds an MA from the Fletcher School at Tufts
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
Paperback Box Set (5 books)
Sarah J. Maas
All five of the Court of Thorns and Roses paperbacks in a
gorgeous box set perfect for the holiday season.
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sister, Nesta.
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Sarah J. Maas includes A Court of Thorns and Roses, A Court of Mist and Fury,
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Flames.
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“Passionate, violent, sexy and daring . . . A true page-turner.” —USA TODAY on A
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Sarah J. Maas is the #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the Court of
Thorns and Roses, Throne of Glass, and Crescent City series. Her books have sold millions of
copies and are published in thirty-seven languages. Sarah lives with her husband, son, and dog.
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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat
Tteokbokki
The runaway Korean bestseller recommended by BTS
Baek Sehee
The South Korean runaway bestseller, debut author Baek
Se-Hee’s intimate therapy memoir—think Crying in H Mart
meets Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.
PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?
ME: I don’t know, I’m—what’s the word—depressed? Do I have to go into detail?
Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house
when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her—what to call it?—depression?
B I O G R A P H Y & AU TO B I O G R A P H Y She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly
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judgmental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends; adept
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Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over a 12-week period, Baek
begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions, and harmful
behaviors that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse. Part memoir, part
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Bliss on Toast
75 Simple Recipes
Prue Leith
75 delicious things on toast from Prue Leith, judge of the Great
British Baking Show.
There is nothing more comforting and delicious than toast. And when you top it
with a few cleverly paired ingredients it becomes a full meal, not to mention pure
bliss.
These recipes for things on toast will help you make quick, cheap and incredibly
versatile meals year-round from January through to December. It has recipes for
working-from-home lunches and cozy Sunday suppers. It spans light bites
COOKING / METHODS / through to indulgent treats. And it is as much a toolkit for quick fridge-raids as it
C O O K E RY F O R O N E is inspiration for yummy seasonal hauls. Recipes include avocado, mixed
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Prue Leith has 81 years experience cooking and eating and knows a thing or two
about what makes a meal bliss.
Prue Leith is internationally known for revolutionizing food and restaurants in London early in her
career. She now serves as a judge on The Great British Baking Show. She is a published author of
eight novels and three cookbooks.
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The Least of Us
True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and
Meth
Sam Quinones
From the New York Times bestselling author of Dreamland, a
searing follow-up that explores the terrifying next stages of the
opioid epidemic and the quiet yet ardent stories of community
repair.
Sam Quinones traveled from Mexico to main streets across the U.S. to create
Dreamland, a groundbreaking portrait of the opioid epidemic that awakened the
nation. As the nation struggled to put back the pieces, Quinones was among the
SOCIAL SCIENCE / DISEASE & first to see the dangers that lay ahead: synthetic drugs and a new generation of
H E A LT H I S S U E S kingpins whose product could be made in Magic Bullet blenders. In fentanyl,
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traffickers landed a painkiller a hundred times more powerful than morphine.
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Quinones hit the road to investigate these new threats, discovering how addiction
is exacerbated by consumer-product corporations. “In a time when drug
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"This layered chronicle traces how methamphetamine and fentanyl became
scourges of American life . . . Quinones places the narrative in a range of
illuminating contexts." —The New Yorker
"Sam Quinones is perhaps our best big-picture analyst of America’s markets for
addictive drugs . . . He is a fluent storyteller who delivers his argument through a
palette of affecting stories . . . Few readers will keep dry eyes through the entire
book." —The Washington Post
"American pain. This is the territory of Sam Quinones, a masterly reporter a...
Sam Quinones is a journalist, storyteller, former LA Times reporter, and author of three acclaimed
books of narrative nonfiction, including New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics
Circle Award winner Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic. "The most original
writer on Mexico and the border" (San Francisco Chronicle), he lives with his family in Southern
California.
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Zorrie
Laird Hunt
From prize-winning, acclaimed author Laird Hunt, a poignant
novel about a woman searching for her place in the world and
finding it in the daily rhythms of life in rural Indiana.
“It was Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she was,
what she felt, how she thought, what she knew.”
As a girl, Zorrie Underwood’s modest and hardscrabble home county was the
only constant in her young life. After losing both her parents to diphtheria, Zorrie
moved in with her aunt, whose own death orphaned Zorrie all over again, casting
her off into the perilous realities and sublime landscapes of rural, Depression-era
Indiana. Drifting west, Zorrie survived on odd jobs, sleeping in barns and under
the stars, before finding a position at a radium processing plant. At the end of
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each day, the girls at her factory glowed from the radioactive material.
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build a new life, Zorrie discovers that her trials have only begun.
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portrait of the dreams that propel one tenacious woman onward and the losses
that she cannot outrun. Set against a harsh, gorgeous, quintessentially American
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souls,’ a sustenance greater than romance or material wealth for those wise enough
to join in.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A slim yet profound portrait of the life of an Indiana woman named Zorrie,
spanning a humble lifetime shaped by the events of the 20th century.” —USA Today
Laird Hunt is the author of eight novels, a collection of stories, and two book-length translations
from the French. He has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and won the
Anisfield-Wolf Award for Fiction, the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine, and Italy’s Bridge
prize. His reviews and essays have been published in the New York Times, The Washington Post,
The Wall Street Journal, and many others. He teaches in the Literary Arts program at Brown
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Himalaya
Exploring the Roof of the World
John Keay
A groundbreaking new look at Himalaya and how climate
change is recasting one of the world’s most unique
geophysical, historical, environmental, and social regions.
More rugged and elevated than any other zone on earth, Himalaya embraces all
of Tibet, plus six of the world’s eight major mountain ranges and nearly all its
highest peaks. It contains around 50,000 glaciers and the most extensive
permafrost outside the polar region. Thirty-five percent of the global population
depends on Himalaya’s freshwater for crop irrigation, protein, and, increasingly,
hydropower. Over an area nearly as big as Europe, the population is scattered,
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and few are related. Religious allegiances are equally diverse. The region is also
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Himalaya has drawn an illustrious succession of admirers, from explorers,
surveyors, and athletes, to botanists and zoologists, ethnologists and geologists,
missionaries and mountaineers. It now sits seismically unstable, as tectonic plates
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Is This a Cookbook?
Adventures in the Kitchen
Heston Blumenthal
A culinary adventure from three-time James Beard Award–
winning, Michelin-starred chef Heston Blumenthal.
It’s time to open your eyes to a new way of cooking.
To world-famous chef Heston Blumenthal, food is the start of a conversation. In
Heston’s newest cookbook, he will shake up your cooking style with essential
food secrets and mind-blowing hacks. These straightforward and easy-to-follow
recipes create a journey of exploration in the kitchen, doing away with overly-
structured instructions and the pressure to create a dish that’s 100% perfect.
Cooking with Heston is all about learning, making mistakes, and discovering
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In 2004 he won the three Michelin stars for his restaurant, The Fat Duck, which has twice been
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publication two–Michelin star restaurant in London, and two pubs in Bray, Berkshire. Heston has published
multiple books and in 2006 was awarded an OBE for his contributions to British gastronomy. He
lives in the UK.
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China After Mao
The Rise of a Superpower
Frank Dikötter
From internationally renowned historian Frank Dikötter, a
mythshattering history of China from the death of the
Chairman to Xi Jinping.
Through decades of direct experience of the People’s Republic combined with
extraordinary access to hundreds of hitherto unseen documents in communist
party archives, the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of The People’s Trilogy
offers a riveting account of China’s rise from the disaster of the Cultural
Revolution. He takes us inside the country's unprecedented four-decade
economic transformation—from rural villages to industrial metropoles and elite
H I S TO RY / A S I A / C H I N A party conclaves—that vaulted the nation from 126th largest economy in the
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world to secondlargest. A historian at the pinnacle of his field, Dikötter
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contradictions, illusions, and palace intrigue, of disasters narrowly averted,
shadow banking, anti-corruption purges, and extreme state wealth existing
alongside everyday poverty. He examines China’s navigation of the 2008
financial crash, its increasing hostility towards perceived Western interference,
and its development into a thoroughly entrenched dictatorship with a sprawling
security apparatus and the most sophisticated surveillance system in the world.
As this magisterial book makes clear, the communist party’s goal was never to
join the democratic world, but to resist it—and ultimately defeat it.
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“If [The Cultural Revolution] were widely circulated in China, it could undermine
the legitimacy of the current regime . . . significant event in our understanding of
modern China.” —New York Times Book Review
“Mesmerizing . . . The Chinese themselves suppress this history, but for anyone who
wants to understand the current Beijing regime, this is essential background
reading.” —Anne Applebaum on The Tragedy of Liberation
“Dikötter performs here a tremendous service by making legible the hugely
controversial origins of the present Chinese political order.” —Tim Snyder on The
Tragedy of Liberation
Frank Dikötter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong andSenior
Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His books have changed the way historians view China, from the
classic The Discourse of Race in Modern China to his award-winning People’s Trilogy
documenting the lives of ordinary people under Mao. He lives in Hong Kong.
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