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TitleJust Pursuit
AuthorCoates, Laura
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatPaperback
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139781982173777
US Price$17.99
CDN Price$24.99
Pages272
Title StatusAS
This instant New York Times bestseller offers “a firsthand, eye-opening story of a prosecutor that exposes the devastating criminal punishment system” (Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award–winning author of How to Be an Antiracist) in this “compelling collection of engaging, well-written, keenly observed vignettes from [Laura Coates’s] years as a lawyer with the US Department of Justice” (The New York Times Book Review).
TitleChildren of the State
AuthorHobbs, Jeff
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatHardcover
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139781982116361
US Price$28.99
CDN Price$38.99
Pages384
Title StatusAS
From the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace comes “an eye-opening, fully humanizing, deeply affecting look at the often-misunderstood juvenile justice system and its inhabitants—young people of earnestness, disappointment, hope, and resilience” (Booklist, starred review).
TitleDon't Let It Get You Down
AuthorNolan, Savala
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatPaperback
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139781982137281
US Price$17.99
CDN Price$24.99
Pages208
Title StatusAS
A “brutal, beautifully rendered” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society’s most charged, politicized, and intractable polar spaces—between black and white, rich and poor, thin and fat.
TitleLet's Talk About Hard Things
AuthorSale, Anna
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatPaperback
Category 1Psychology
ISBN-139781501190261
US Price$17.99
CDN Price$24.99
Pages304
Title StatusAS
From the host of the popular WNYC podcast Death, Sex, & Money, Let’s Talk About Hard Things is “like a good conversation with a friend” (The New Yorker) where “no topic is off-limits when it comes to creating meaningful connection” (Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone).
TitleRace Against Time
AuthorMitchell, Jerry
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatPaperback
Category 1History
ISBN-139781451645149
US Price$20
CDN Price$27
Pages448
Title StatusAS
“For almost two decades, investigative journalist Jerry Mitchell doggedly pursued the Klansmen responsible for some of the most notorious murders of the civil rights movement. This book is his amazing story. Thanks to him, and to courageous prosecutors, witnesses, and FBI agents, justice finally prevailed.” —John Grisham, author of The Guardians
TitleThe Reckonings
AuthorJohnson, Lacy M
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category 1Social Science
ISBN-139781501159015
US Price$19.99
CDN Price$26.99
Pages352
Title StatusAS
“Unflinching and honest…both timely and timeless” (Houston Chronicle), this extraordinary collection of essays by the award-winning writer of The Other Side—rooted in her own experience with sexual assault—pursues questions that strike at the heart of our national conversation about the justness of society.
TitleThe Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
AuthorHobbs, Jeff
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category 1Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-139781476731919
US Price$17.99
CDN Price$24.99
Pages432
Title StatusAS
*Now a major motion picture—Rob Peace—starring Jay Will, Mary J. Blige, and Chiwetel Ejiofor*

*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, and more* The New York Times bestselling account of a young African-American man who escaped Newark, NJ, to attend Yale, but still faced the dangers of the streets when he returned is, “nuanced and shattering” (People) and “mesmeric” (The New York Times Book Review).