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| | Title | Prophetic City | | Author | Klineberg, Stephen | | Sub-Imprint | Avid Reader press | | Format | Hardcover | | Category Full 1 | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development/Economic Development | | Category Full 2 | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology/Urban | | Category Full 3 | HISTORY / United States/State & Local/Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781501177910 | | On Sale | 06/02/20 | | Title Status | AS | | US Price | $28 | | CDN Price | $37 | | Pages | 336 | | Cover Status | Final |
| | Sociologist Stephen Klineberg presents fascinating and groundbreaking research that shows how the city of Houston has emerged as a microcosm for America’s future—based on an unprecedented thirty-eight-year study of its changing economic, demographic, and cultural landscapes. |
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| | Title | Countdown 1945 | | Author | Wallace, Chris | | Sub-Imprint | Avid Reader Press | | Format | Hardcover | | Category Full 1 | HISTORY / United States/20th Century | | Category Full 2 | HISTORY / Military/World War II | | Category Full 3 | HISTORY / Asia/Japan |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781982143343 | | On Sale | 06/09/20 | | Title Status | AS | | US Price | $30 | | CDN Price | $39.99 | | Pages | 320 | | Cover Status | Final |
| #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * “Riveting.” —The New York Times * “Propulsive.” —Time * “Reads like a tense thriller.” —The Washington Post * “The book is deservedly the nonfiction blockbuster of the season.” —The Wall Street Journal
From Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday, comes an electrifying behind-the-scenes account of the 116 days leading up to the American attack on Hiroshima. |
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| | Title | Three Women | | Author | Taddeo, Lisa | | Sub-Imprint | Avid Reader press | | Format | Paperback | | Category Full 1 | HISTORY / Social History | | Category Full 2 | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality (see also PSYCHOLOGY/Human Sexuality) | | Category Full 3 | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781451642308 | | On Sale | 07/07/20 | | Title Status | AS | | US Price | $17 | | CDN Price | $19.99 | | Pages | 336 | | Cover Status | Final |
| #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 INDIE NEXT PICK
Named a Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post * NPR * The Atlantic * New York Public Library * Vanity Fair * PBS * Time * Economist * Entertainment Weekly * Financial Times * Shelf Awareness * Guardian * Sunday Times * BBC * Esquire * Good Housekeeping * Elle * Real Simple * And more than twenty additional outlets
“Staggeringly intimate...Taddeo spent eight years reporting this groundbreaking book.” —Entertainment Weekly
“A breathtaking and important book…What a fine thing it is to be enthralled by another writer’s sentences. To be stunned by her intellect and heart.” —Cheryl Strayed
“Extraordinary...This is a nonfiction literary masterpiece...I can't remember the last time a book affected me as profoundly as Three Women.” —Elizabeth Gilbert
“A revolutionary look at women's desire, this feat of journalism reveals three women who are carnal, brave, and beautifully flawed.” —People (Book of the Week)
A riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of reporting. |
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| | Title | Civilized to Death | | Author | Ryan, Christopher | | Sub-Imprint | Avid Reader press | | Format | Paperback | | Category Full 1 | HISTORY / Civilization | | Category Full 2 | NATURE / Natural Resources | | Category Full 3 | SCIENCE / Life Sciences/Human Anatomy & Physiology |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781451659115 | | On Sale | 08/11/20 | | Title Status | AS | | US Price | $18 | | CDN Price | $25 | | Pages | 304 | | Cover Status | Final |
| | 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. |
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