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Black Smoke

A smoke-filled story of Black perseverance, culinary innovation, and entrepreneurship.

You're Leaving When?

From the New York Times bestselling author of I See You Made an Effort comes a timely and hilarious chronicle of downward…

Average Expectations

From the star of Bravo's Southern Charm, a book of autobiographical essays offering tongue-in-cheek advice on modern love…

Notes From the Bathroom Line

A collection of never-before-seen humor pieces-essays, satire, short stories, poetry, cartoons, artwork, and more-from…

The Premonition

Medical visionaries who refused to follow directives that were based on misinformation and bad science. 

Single and Forced to Mingle

A laugh-out-loud, tongue-in-cheek guidebook filled with hilarious and helpful advice—from how to dodge family members'…

Sure, I'll Be your Black Friend

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend. In…

How Y'all Doing?

Viral sensation and Emmy Award winner Leslie Jordan regales fans with entertaining stories about the odd, funny, and…

Broken (in the Best Possible Way)

As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, Jenny brings readers along…

You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey

Writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers Amber Ruffin writes with her sister Lacey Lamar with humor and heart…

Antitrust

The history of the antitrust movement shows us what led to this being a pressing issue facing America today. 

Sorrowland

Vern plans to raise her twins far from the influence of the outside world, but she is a hunted woman.

The Last Thing He Told Me

When her husband of a year disappears, Hannah quickly learns he is not who he said he was.

Dial A for Aunties

Meddling Asian aunties come to the rescue for an accidental murder and possible curse!

The Wreckage of My Presence

Laugh-out-loud, deeply insightful and emotion-filled essays.

 

Project Hail Mary

The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth.

Great Circle

Two women's fates, and their hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and times, collide. 

Violence in the Hill Country

An in-depth history of the Civil War in the Texas Hill Country, this book examines patterns of violence on the Texas…

A Thousand May Fall

A pathbreaking history of the Civil War centered on a regiment of immigrants and their brutal experience of the conflict…

The Western Front

In this narrative history, Nick Lloyd brings together the latest research from America, France, Britain, and Germany,…

The Bomber Mafia

Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central…

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