Fall In Love With A New Book
Whatever the state of your New Year's resolutions (abandoned, going strong, or nonexistent), it's never too late in the year to try something new -- like a book (hint, hint). Our latest crop of new books is in. Here are some recommendations to get you started:
Travel through America's culinary landscape in The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour through America's Food by Matthew Gavin Frank. Alternately, climb into a culinary time machine in A History of Food in 100 Recipes by William Sitwell.
Love it or hate it, Valentine's Day is a fact of February. Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray by Helen E. Fisher brings a sociological lens to romantic love, and Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connection with Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep kicks humans out of the equation altogether.
January may be over, but if there's room in your life for a new project or a bit of sprucing up, we've got books on personal finances (check out How to Retire with Enough Money: And How to Know What Is Enough by Teresa Ghilarducci and The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn't Have to be Complicated by Helaine Olen), entrepreneurship (check out We-Commerce: How to Create, Collaborate, and Succeed in the Sharing Economy), or feeling good and on top of the world (check out The Urban Monk: Eastern Wisdom and Modern Hacks to Stop Time and Find Success, Happiness, and Peace by Pedram Shojai, The Confidence Effect: Every Woman's Guide to the Attitude that Attract Success by Grace Killelea, or The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success by Emma Seppala).
Celebrate Black History month by reading about the musical legacy of the Godfather of Soul in The One: The Life and Music of James Brown by R. L. Smith, or about the friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and African-American writer-turned-activist, Pauli Murray, in The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott. Renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis writes about past liberation struggles and how they inform our current fight for human liberation in Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundation of a Movement. And in Salvage the Bones, by Jesymn Ward, a family in Mississippi prepares for what will later come to be known as Hurricane Katrina while dealing with their own personal troubles.
Read in public with these eye-catching titles: When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain: History's Unknown Chapters by Giles Milton is a collection of weird tales from history worthy of Ripley's Believe It or Not, and A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back plunges readers into the grisly work of an EMT.
You can find all these books and more in our catalog.
Travel through America's culinary landscape in The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour through America's Food by Matthew Gavin Frank. Alternately, climb into a culinary time machine in A History of Food in 100 Recipes by William Sitwell.
Love it or hate it, Valentine's Day is a fact of February. Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray by Helen E. Fisher brings a sociological lens to romantic love, and Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connection with Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep kicks humans out of the equation altogether.
January may be over, but if there's room in your life for a new project or a bit of sprucing up, we've got books on personal finances (check out How to Retire with Enough Money: And How to Know What Is Enough by Teresa Ghilarducci and The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn't Have to be Complicated by Helaine Olen), entrepreneurship (check out We-Commerce: How to Create, Collaborate, and Succeed in the Sharing Economy), or feeling good and on top of the world (check out The Urban Monk: Eastern Wisdom and Modern Hacks to Stop Time and Find Success, Happiness, and Peace by Pedram Shojai, The Confidence Effect: Every Woman's Guide to the Attitude that Attract Success by Grace Killelea, or The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success by Emma Seppala).
Celebrate Black History month by reading about the musical legacy of the Godfather of Soul in The One: The Life and Music of James Brown by R. L. Smith, or about the friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and African-American writer-turned-activist, Pauli Murray, in The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott. Renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis writes about past liberation struggles and how they inform our current fight for human liberation in Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundation of a Movement. And in Salvage the Bones, by Jesymn Ward, a family in Mississippi prepares for what will later come to be known as Hurricane Katrina while dealing with their own personal troubles.
Read in public with these eye-catching titles: When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain: History's Unknown Chapters by Giles Milton is a collection of weird tales from history worthy of Ripley's Believe It or Not, and A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back plunges readers into the grisly work of an EMT.
You can find all these books and more in our catalog.