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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).
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.
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).
TitleJanesville
AuthorGoldstein, Amy
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatPaperback
Category 1Political Science
ISBN-139781501102264
US Price$17
CDN Price$23
Pages368
Title StatusAS
* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize​ * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017 * An Economist Best Book of 2017 * A Business Insider Best Book of 2017 *

“A gripping story of psychological defeat and resilience” (Bob Woodward, The Washington Post)—an intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, and a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle class.
TitleThe Last Slave Ship
AuthorRaines, Ben
Sub-ImprintSimon & Schuster
FormatPaperback
Category 1History
ISBN-139781982136154
US Price$18.99
CDN Price$25.99
Pages304
Title StatusAS
The “enlightening” (The Guardian) true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors’ founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day—by the journalist who discovered the ship’s remains.