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| | Title | Golf's Holy War | | Author | Cyrgalis, Brett | | Sub-Imprint | Avid Reader press | | Format | Hardcover | | Category Full 1 | SPORTS & RECREATION / Golf | | Category Full 2 | TECHNOLOGY / Social Aspects | | Category Full 3 | SPORTS & RECREATION / Coaching/General |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781476707594 | | On Sale | 05/05/20 | | Title Status | AS | | US Price | $28 | | CDN Price | $37 | | Pages | 272 | | Cover Status | Final |
| | Just as Michael Lewis’s Moneyball captured baseball at a technological turning point, Brett Cyrgalis’s Golf’s Holy War takes us inside golf’s clash between its beloved artistic tradition and its analytic future. |
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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 | Lady Romeo | | Author | Wojczuk, Tana | | Sub-Imprint | Avid Reader Press | | Format | Hardcover | | Category Full 1 | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women | | Category Full 2 | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts | | Category Full 3 | DRAMA / Shakespeare |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781501199523 | | On Sale | 07/07/20 | | Title Status | AS | | US Price | $27 | | CDN Price | $36 | | Pages | 240 | | Cover Status | Final |
| “A lively, illuminating new biography…Wojczuk reveals the force and vitality of this woman, on the stage and off.” —Nina MacLaughlin, The Boston Globe
“Once the empress of the stage, the indomitable 19th-century superstar Charlotte Cushman has been lost to us. Tana Wojczuk resurrects her here, charisma and originality intact. A brisk, beautifully crafted life of a pioneering actor who—on and off the stage—indeed seems to have been, as Wojczuk puts it, ‘a better man than most men.’” —Stacy Schiff, bestselling author of The Witches and Cleopatra
For fans of Book of Ages and American Eve, this illuminating and enthralling biography of 19th-century queer actress Charlotte Cushman portrays her radical lifestyle that riveted New York City and made headlines across America. |
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| | Title | Filthy Beasts | | Author | Hamill, Kirkland | | Sub-Imprint | Avid Reader press | | Format | Hardcover | | Category Full 1 | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs | | Category Full 2 | PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology/Addiction | | Category Full 3 | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich & Famous |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781982122768 | | On Sale | 07/14/20 | | Title Status | AS | | US Price | $27 | | CDN Price | $36 | | Pages | 320 | | Cover Status | Final |
| | Running with Scissors meets Grey Gardens in this gripping, true riches-to-rags tale of a wealthy family who lost it all and the unforgettable journey of a man coming to terms with his family’s deep flaws and his own long-buried truths. |
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| | Title | Kings County | | Author | Goodwillie, David | | Sub-Imprint | Avid Reader Press | | Format | Hardcover | | Category Full 1 | FICTION / Literary | | Category Full 2 | FICTION / City Life | | Category Full 3 | FICTION / Urban |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781501192135 | | On Sale | 07/28/20 | | Title Status | AS | | US Price | $28 | | CDN Price | $37 | | Pages | 432 | | Cover Status | Final |
| A Brooklyn love story, set to music.
“Kings County crystallizes how it feels to be young and in love in New York City.” —Stephanie Danler
“A true and continual delight...Goodwillie captures the rapturous soul of a bygone Brooklyn.” —Joshua Ferris |
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| | Title | The Socrates Express | | Author | Weiner, Eric | | Sub-Imprint | Avid Reader press | | Format | Hardcover | | Category Full 1 | PHILOSOPHY / Essays | | Category Full 2 | PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers | | Category Full 3 | TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues |
| | ISBN-13 | 9781501129018 | | On Sale | 08/25/20 | | Title Status | AS | | US Price | $28 | | CDN Price | $37 | | Pages | 352 | | Cover Status | Final |
| | The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each—from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir—offers practical and spiritual lessons for today’s unsettled times. |
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