Climb: Taking Every Step with Conviction, Courage, and Calculated Risk to Achieve a Thriving Career and a Successful Life
A professional playbook offering guidance to women in the contemporary workplace.
The Thinning
What You Should Worry About
Fame: The Hijacking of Reality (Paperback edition)
Go the Fuck to College
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Creatures of Passage
With echoes of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Yejidé’s novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington, DC, and the ghosts that haunt it.
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New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tatu)
This limited-edition nine-piece box set, an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project, features the work of new African poets.
Upcoming Events
Adam Mansbach — Newtonville Books (Newton, MA)
6/8/26, 7:00pm
Adam Mansbach presents Go the Fuck to College, in conversation with Melissa Mohr, author of Holy Shit: A Brief History of Swearing.
Meryl Branch-McTiernan — Rockville Centre Public Library (Rockville Centre, NY)
6/8/26, 7:00pm
Meryl Branch-McTiernan presents What You Should Worry About, in conversation with Susan Scarf Merrell.
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Ani DiFranco Preorder Package and Other Special Offers
Check out these exclusive limited edition packages by Ani DiFranco, Kenny Stills, Steve Schirripa, Jesse Malin, Rick Fröberg, and more.
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- Listen to “Catastrophe Will Never Let You Down” by Adam Gwon, performed by Margo Seibert
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Exclusive Robyn Hitchcock Preorder Package
The preorder package for Robyn Hitchcock’s memoir Stranded in the Future is now available for preorder!
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Exclusive Justine Bateman Preorder Package
Justine Bateman’s preorder package for the updated, paperback edition of Fame is now available!
- Exclusive Gina Gershon Preorder Package
- Now Available: Hey Yang, Where’s My Thousand Bucks?
- Akashic Remembers Elizabeth Nunez
- Quarantine Q&A: David Duchovny