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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).
TitleAll the Single Ladies
AuthorTraister, Rebecca
Sub-ImprintMarysue Rucci Books
FormatPaperback
Category 1History
ISBN-139781476716572
US Price$18.99
CDN Price$25.99
Pages368
Title StatusAS
The New York Times bestselling investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women is “an informative and thought-provoking book for anyone—not just the single ladies—who want to gain a greater understanding of this pivotal moment in the history of the United States” (The New York Times Book Review).
TitleAppalachian Fall
AuthorYoung, Jeff
Sub-ImprintSimon Element
FormatHardcover
Category 1Social Science
ISBN-139781982148867
US Price$24.99
CDN Price$33.99
Pages256
Title StatusAS
A searing, on-the-ground examination of the collapsing coal industry—and the communities left behind—in the midst of economic and environmental crisis.
TitleBlack and White
AuthorFortune, T. Thomas
Sub-ImprintAtria Books
FormatPaperback
Category 1Social Science
ISBN-139781982187255
US Price$17.99
CDN Price$24.99
Pages272
Title StatusAS
Featuring a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley, this updated edition of the classic exploration of the economic inequality that fuels systematic racism, from one of the leading Black public intellectuals of the 19th century, is as timely and radical today as it was when it was first published.
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).
TitleCivilized to Death
AuthorRyan, Christopher
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader press
FormatPaperback
Category 1Social Science
ISBN-139781451659115
US Price$19.99
CDN Price$26.99
Pages304
Title StatusAS
The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live—how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die—in this “engaging, extensively documented, well-organized, and thought-provoking” (Booklist) book.
TitleDeath in Mud Lick
AuthorEyre, Eric
Sub-ImprintScribner
FormatPaperback
Category 1Technology
ISBN-139781982105327
US Price$18.99
CDN Price$25.99
Pages304
Title StatusAS
A New York Times Critics’ Top Ten Book of the Year * 2021 Edgar Award Winner Best Fact Crime * A Lit Hub Best Book of The Year

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at the Charleston Gazette-Mail, a “powerful,” (The New York Times) urgent, and heartbreaking account of the corporate greed that pumped millions of pain pills into small Appalachian towns, decimating communities.
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.
TitleFight of the Century
Author
Sub-ImprintAvid Reader press
FormatPaperback
Category 1Literary Collections
ISBN-139781501190414
US Price$17
CDN Price$23
Pages336
Title StatusAS
The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case.
TitleThe First
AuthorFish, Stanley
Sub-ImprintAtria/One Signal Publishers
FormatPaperback
Category 1Political Science
ISBN-139781982115258
US Price$18
CDN Price$25
Pages240
Title StatusAS
From celebrated public intellectual, New York Times bestselling author, and “America’s most famous professor” (BookPage) comes an urgent and sharply observed look at freedom of speech and the First Amendment offering a “nonpartisan take on what it does and doesn’t protect and what kind of speech it should and shouldn’t regulate” (Publishers Weekly).