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    Cover of Stations

    Stations

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    "A marvel."–People“Blisteringly good… Her questions will burn themselves into your heart.” –The Guardian“I loved this...
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    Simply More

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    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this vulnerable and enlightening book of life lessons, globally renowned performe...
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    Vaim Hotel

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    By Nobel Laureate in Literature Jon Fosse, Vaim Hotel continues a triptych of novels set in a remote Norwegian fishin...
    Public Access Afterworld

    Public Access Afterworld

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    The narrative acts as a culmination of Schoenbrun’s "Screen Trilogy" (which includes their films We're All Going to t...
    Cursed Daughters

    Cursed Daughters

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    On the exact day that nineteen-year-old Monife Falodun is buried after tragically walking into the ocean, her cousin...
    Seven Stories About Tammy

    Seven Stories About Tammy

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    The novella begins when Morris Harkin brings home his older, enigmatic new girlfriend, Tammy, to meet his judgmental ...
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    The Names of the New World

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    From the award-winning author of Sharks in the Time of Saviors, a sweeping and epic tale of resilience amidst a devas...
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    The Radiance

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    Most Anticipated Books of the Year by Time · Best Books of September by The New York Times and NPR · Best Books of Fa...
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    American Hagwon

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    The National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko returns with a breathtaking contem...
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    Ply

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    "Ply is majestic. A cracked mirror world, a lot like ours; peopled by survivors, a lot like us; sentences so fine the...
    Cover of John Berger

    John Berger

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    A magisterial biography of novelist and critic John Berger, whose work—including Ways of Seeing and the Booker-prize ...
    Cover of Hollywood, Ending

    Hollywood, Ending

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    Instant #1 New York Times bestseller!Bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return to fiction with ...
    Cover of Said the Dead

    Said the Dead

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS • O...
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    Exit Party

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    The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility returns with a breathtaking novel of d...
    Cover of End Times Fascism

    End Times Fascism

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    One of The Guardian's 'Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2026' • Quill & Quire Fall 2026 Nonfiction Pick • A C...
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    Fruit Fly

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    New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller “A seething, hilarious, and wildly shrewd takedown of modern identity ...
    Life of M

    Life of M

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    “A terse, singular meditation on time, fame, innocence and self-creation.” ―The New York TimesFrom the critically acc...
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    Carrion Crow

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    There are some things only your mother can teach you . . . In this viscerally strange and dark, queer Victorian goth...
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    Country People: A GMA Book Club Pick

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    GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A year in the life of a family as they strike out i...
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    Whistler

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    A Katie Couric Book Club Pick / One of President Obama's '26 Summer Reading List Picks / A Good Housekeeping Book Clu...
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    London Falling

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    INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling, prize-winning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, a sp...
    The Women of Troy

    The Women of Troy

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    A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it—an extra...
    The World of James Joyce 1000 Piece Puzzle

    The World of James Joyce 1000 Piece Puzzle

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    1000-PIECE PUZZLE – The perfect gift for fans of James Joyce, Ulysses and Irish literaturePIECE TOGETHER THE STORY – ...
    A Book Lover's Christmas 1000 Piece Puzzle

    A Book Lover's Christmas 1000 Piece Puzzle

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    This intricate jigsaw puzzle brings together iconic festive scenes from beloved books, poetry, short stories and fair...
    The Shards

    The Shards

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    NOW AN FX DRAMA SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A novel of sensational literary and psychological suspense from...
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    Said the Dead

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS • O...
    The Anthropologists

    The Anthropologists

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    ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD LONGLIST * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF TH...
    Wild Milk

    Wild Milk

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    A genre-expanding collection of stories that Publishers Weekly calls “perplexingly captivating” and “astonishing.” W...
    Visitation

    Visitation

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    A forested property on a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin lies at the heart of this darkly sensual, elegiac novel. Enc...
    Caledonian Road

    Caledonian Road

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    From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel—the story of one man’s epic fa...
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    The Creative Act

    The Creative Act

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    The #1 New York Times bestseller."A gorgeous and inspiring work of art on creation, creativity, the work of the artis...
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    Glitch Feminism

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    A New York Times Best Art Book of 2020 A new manifesto for cyberfeminism: finding liberation in the glitch between bo...
    Paved Paradise

    Paved Paradise

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    Shortlisted for the Zócalo Book PrizeNamed one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic“C...
    Cover of The Architecture of Happiness

    The Architecture of Happiness

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    Bestselling author Alain de Botton considers how our private homes and public edifices influence how we feel, and how...
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    Landscapes

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    A major new work from the world’s leading writer on artLandscapes, the companion volume to John Berger’s highly accla...
    Cover of Ungrounding

    Ungrounding

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    “Ungrounding is a work of profound moral clarity and scientific precision, based on years of tireless collaboration a...
    Cover of How Music Works

    How Music Works

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very incep...
    Atlas of Perfumed Botany

    Atlas of Perfumed Botany

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    A cartography of fragrance that charts the botany and geography of perfume composition.For perfume makers, each smell...
    Cover of The Shadow of the Object

    The Shadow of the Object

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    A magnificent work of shadow-play and a meditation on desire, metamorphosis, and mortality.Before publishing her firs...
    Cover of Design in a Frame of Emotion

    Design in a Frame of Emotion

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    A conversation about design, filmmaking, Afrofuturism, world-building, and other topics with Hannah Beachler, Academy...
    Cover of The Milk of Dreams

    The Milk of Dreams

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    In English for the first time, a wild and darkly funny book that combines Surrealist painter Leonora Carringon's fant...
    Cover of Democracy and Urban Form

    Democracy and Urban Form

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    If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse?“Never hav...
    Cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities

    The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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    Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and keenly detailed, a monumental work that provides an essential framework for a...
    Cover of Spatializing Politics

    Spatializing Politics

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    Spatializing Politics is an anthology of emerging scholarship that treats built and imagined spaces as critical to kn...
    Cover of Earth, Sky & Water

    Earth, Sky & Water

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    Instantly calming houses in remote Scandinavian locations that will have you dreaming of your own perfect escape.In a...
    Cover of Medium Hot

    Medium Hot

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    The Future of the Image in the Age of Climate ChangeMedium Hot is the essential handbook for our present conjuncture,...
    Cover of The Third Eye

    The Third Eye

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    An intimate, beautiful collection of more than two hundred never-before-collected photos of the Beatles at work and a...
    Cover of John Berger

    John Berger

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    A magisterial biography of novelist and critic John Berger, whose work—including Ways of Seeing and the Booker-prize ...
    Ulysses

    Ulysses

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    This strikingly illustrated edition presents Joyce’s epic novel in a new, more accessible light, while showcasing the...
    Cover of Pidginization as Curatorial Method

    Pidginization as Curatorial Method

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    A new vision for activist curatorial practice.In Pidginization as Curatorial Method: Messing with Languages and Praxe...
    Cover of Paintings in Proust

    Paintings in Proust

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    A visually stunning and surprisingly accessible book that brings out subtle facets of Proust’s masterpiece, as well a...
    Cover of Atlas of Botanical Fragrance

    Atlas of Botanical Fragrance

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    The follow-up volume to Atlas of Perfumed Botany continues the exploration of nature’s most captivating scents, focus...
    Cover of The Upside-Down World

    The Upside-Down World

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    A Washington Post Notable Book of 2023 Plunged into a strange land at twenty-five, Benjamin Moser began an obsessi...
    Cover of The Years of Theory

    The Years of Theory

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    Magisterial lectures on the major figures of French theory from 'America’s leading Marxist critic'Fredric Jameson int...
    The Beauty of Everyday Things

    The Beauty of Everyday Things

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    The Japanese philosopher and aesthete's definitive, hugely influential exposition of his philosophy of folkcrafts, se...
    Cover of The Story of Art Without Men

    The Story of Art Without Men

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    Instant New York Times bestseller One of Vanity Fair's Favorite Books to Gift • One of PureWow's 42 Books to Gift Th...
    White White

    White

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    An exploration of the essence of "White,” from the art director of MujiWhite is not a book about colors. It is rather...
    Cover of Comic Sans

    Comic Sans

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    A compact and charming history of the font we love to hate by the New York Times best-selling author of Just My Type....
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    Botticelli's Secret

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    Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Society Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Guardian B...
    Cover of Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities

    Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities

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    On the advanced knowledge economy, which perpetuates patterns of discrimination and exclusion, and the threat of clim...
    Bookstores

    Bookstores

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    Explore the magic of independent bookstores in this beautiful photographic journey across the world.Bookstores are tr...
    Cover of Spatial Memories and Preoccupations of an Architect

    Spatial Memories and Preoccupations of an Architect

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    How does an architect become an architect? In this intimate and playful work of autobiography and criticism, Turner B...
    Cover of Margiela. The Hermès Years

    Margiela. The Hermès Years

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    "Anybody who's aware of what life is in a contemporary world is influenced by Margiela." - Marc Jacobs. Martin Margie...
    Cover of What Is a Sculpture?

    What Is a Sculpture?

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    Learn how art and sculpture are all around us in this captivating, gallery-like picture book for kids and curious hum...
    Reading and Writing a Screenplay

    Reading and Writing a Screenplay

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    Reading and Writing a Screenplay by Isabelle Raynauld is a comprehensive guide that reveals how a script...
    Cover of What Artists Wear

    What Artists Wear

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    An eye-opening and richly illustrated journey through the clothes worn by artists, and what they reveal to us.From Yv...
    Cover of Coltrane

    Coltrane

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    The definitive photographic celebration of John Coltrane's life and music, featuring exclusive contributions written ...
    Cover of Decolonizing Design

    Decolonizing Design

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    A guidebook to the institutional transformation of design theory and practice by restoring the long-excluded cultures...
    Cover of Vivienne Westwood

    Vivienne Westwood

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    A beautifully illustrated celebration of the life and work of activist, provocateur, and fashion icon Vivienne Westwo...
    Cover of Arcades Project

    Arcades Project

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    "To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labo...
    Cover of A Meaningful Life

    A Meaningful Life

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    L.J. Davis’s 1971 novel, A Meaningful Life, is a blistering black comedy about the American quest for redemption thr...
    Cover of Vermeer

    Vermeer

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    This revelatory biography persuasively addresses the two great unresolved questions about Vermeer: why did he paint h...
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    House Held Up by Trees

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    From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Kooser and rising talent Jon Klassen comes a poignant tale of loss, change, and ...
    Cover of Four Walls and a Roof

    Four Walls and a Roof

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    A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year“Sharp, revealing, funny.”—The Gu...
    Cover of Dieter Rams

    Dieter Rams

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    $66.00
    New in paperback, this book presents Dieter Rams' aesthetic philosophy through highlights from a forty-year career de...
    Cover of 33 Artists in 3 Acts

    33 Artists in 3 Acts

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    This compelling narrative goes behind the scenes with important living artists around the world to humanize and demys...
    Philosophy of the Home

    Philosophy of the Home

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    A bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom - are these rooms all that make a home? Not at all, argues Emanuele Coccia. The buil...
    The Poetics of Space

    The Poetics of Space

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    A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin ClassicsSince its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of S...
    Cover of The Sense of Sight

    The Sense of Sight

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    Weaving art criticism with poetry, memoir with political commentary, this collection of essays is a prompt to reimagi...
    Cover of Fashion, Annotated

    Fashion, Annotated

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    $79.00
    Take a front-row seat at the catwalk and prepare to be dazzled by the most important and groundbreaking fashions of t...
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