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Book Cover for: Ma and Me: A Memoir, Putsata Reang

Ma and Me: A Memoir

Putsata Reang
Picador USAPicador USA

Happy paperback publication day to MA AND ME by Putsata Reang! “A nuanced mediation on love, identity, and belonging. This story of survival radiates with resilience and hope.” (@PublishersWkly) https://t.co/CysGBrTXhD https://t.co/yr9ouNhsD6

Paperback, 2023

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Pure Flame: A Legacy, Michelle Orange

Pure Flame: A Legacy

Michelle Orange
Picador USAPicador USA

PURE FLAME by @michelleorange is out today in paperback! https://bit.ly/3M1nShB "Rich and moving . . . PURE FLAME may be Orange’s legacy. It is already her gift." @nytimesbooks https://t.co/vkVlmmfI2h

Paperback, 2022

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents, Ellen Ullman

Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents

Ellen Ullman
Picador USAPicador USA

This 25th Anniversary Edition of CLOSE TO THE MACHINE is out today! Featuring a new introduction by Anna Wiener, author of #UncannyValley, this edition resurfaces Ellen Ullman’s astonishing account of computing and the ways it shapes our very existence 🖥️ https://t.co/xJVLABFFDW https://t.co/44NkHvzF6D

Paperback, 2012

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Colony, Audrey Magee

The Colony

Audrey Magee
Picador USAPicador USA

Now in paperback! Audrey Magee’s THE COLONY reckons with the inevitable ruptures of independence. In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west coast in search of their own answers. https://t.co/Ls61LUEQbo https://t.co/qzHJcL63mt

Paperback, 2023

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Liberalism and Its Discontents, Francis Fukuyama

Liberalism and Its Discontents

Francis Fukuyama
Picador USAPicador USA

Now in paperback! LIBERALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS is a short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by @FukuyamaFrancis, the bestselling author of #TheOriginsofPoliticalOrder https://t.co/ICbxt5gYnd https://t.co/1iAVf1Ohxg

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Refugee: A Memoir, Emmanuel Mbolela

Refugee: A Memoir

Emmanuel Mbolela
Picador USAPicador USA

Persecuted for his political activism, Emmanuel Mbolela left the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2002. His search for a new home would take six years. REFUGEE: A MEMOIR is out today in paperback. https://t.co/lN3DDjAEy4 https://t.co/4IG37P1dR8

Paperback, 2022

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade, Nathaniel Rich

Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade

Nathaniel Rich
Picador USAPicador USA

ICYMI, Natalie Portman recommended SECOND NATURE by @NathanielRich for #EarthDay reading! 🌎 https://t.co/DdKvmiWqqk

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Youth: The Copenhagen Trilogy: Book 2, Tove Ditlevsen

Youth: The Copenhagen Trilogy: Book 2

Tove Ditlevsen
Picador USAPicador USA

"I was walking around in a daze the day I finished it." Sofia Coppola says Tove Ditlevsen's THE COPENHAGEN TRILOGY is a book that broke her heart ❤️‍🩹 @ELLEmagazine https://t.co/u2JMLF6o8S

Paperback, 2021

$13.00$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Silence and Silences, Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

Silence and Silences

Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
Picador USAPicador USA

A meditation on the infinite search for meanings in silence, from Wallis Wilde-Menozzi. SILENCE AND SILENCES is out today in paperback. https://t.co/tg24Cg7f2u https://t.co/SYrqE3x6xp

Paperback, 2022

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Against Nature, Joris Karl Huysmans

Against Nature

Joris Karl Huysmans
Picador USAPicador USA

📖 AGAINST NATURE is Joris-Karl Huysmans’s cult classic of deviance and decadence that inspired #OscarWilde’s PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, now in a new translation by Theo Cuffe. Out now! #Picador #PaperbackRelease https://t.co/G2v2QSQHTR https://t.co/OXIMGF48eh

Paperback, 2024

$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book