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Flatiron Books nonfiction Fall 2023 on sale November 14
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Now in its 40th edition, this title is a comprehensive and practical source of biographical information on the key personalities and organizations of the literary world, whether world-famous or lesser…
Rachel Kushner
From Rachel Kushner, Booker Prize finalist and two-time National Book Award finalist, comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France
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Garry Disher
A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia's most esteemed crime authors.
Shelley Burr
Gemma Guillory has lived in Rainier her entire life. She knows the town's ins and outs like the back of her hand, the people like they are her family, their…
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An Yu
For readers of early Murakami, a beautiful and uncanny novel of music, dreams and memory
For three years Song Yan has filled her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of…
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Rumaan Alam
Keenly observed and compulsively disturbing, Entitlement is an engrossing and resonant tale of money, morality and madness, affirming Rumaan Alam as a major literary talent of our time.
Katherine Arden
In a world torn apart by war, a brother and sister fight to find each other. The sweeping new novel from New York Times bestselling author Katherine Arden.
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Clare Chambers
A life-affirming novel about all the different ways we can be confined, how ordinary lives are built of delicate layers of experience, the joy of freedom and the transformative power…
Louise Erdrich
A new novel by Louise Erdrich is a major literary event; gorgeous and heartrending, The Mighty Red is a triumph.
David Dyer
Like the moon landing itself, a feat of enormous ingenuity imagining the lives of the Apollo mission heroes, and those on planet earth in the tumultuous 1960s.
Ceridwen Dovey
A transformative new collection from the award-winning author of Only the Animals.
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Eliza Clark
An utterly chilling, compulsive story of a murder among teenagers, on the eve of the historic Brexit vote, by a major new voice in British fiction.
Thomas Mullen
A determined reporter and a reluctant FBI agent face off against fascist elements in this gripping historical thriller set in World War II-era Boston from the multi-award-nominated author.
M. L. Rio
The bestselling author of international BookTok sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story of a group of misfits who meet in the local cemetery each night to unearth…
Don Winslow
Following the epic, ambitious, instant New York Times bestseller City on Fire, 'The Godfather for our generation' (Adrian McKinty), comes the dramatic second novel in an epic crime trilogy…
Jock Serong
From multi-award-winning author Jock Serong comes Cherrywood, an imaginative, darkly playful and deeply meaningful delight, a novel about legacy, community, wonder, love and reinvention.
Rachel Williams, Leonie Lord (illus.)
Discover how there is a season for everything in this antidote to an instant world.
Following City on Fire and City of Dreams, City in Ruins is the explosive, impossible to put down conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow's epic, genre-defining crime…
Jane Harrison
From award-winning author, Jane Harrison, comes an audacious, earthy, funny, gritty and powerful re-imagining of a crucial moment in Australia's history - an unputdownable work of fiction.
Steven Carroll
Who killed Martin Friedrich? From award-winning writer Steven Carroll comes the first book in a series of post-war literary crime novels featuring Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter, with shades of The…
Nikki Gemmell
An explosive, contemporary literary thriller from international bestselling author Nikki Gemmell - Wing is Lord of the Flies meets Picnic at Hanging Rock meets Promising Young Woman.
Dervla McTiernan
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families pitted against each other -- one seeking justice in the disappearance…
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Andrea Long Chu
A bold, provocative collection of essays on one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything?
Since her canonical 2017…
Peter Winch
This volume makes available Peter Winch's previously unpublished manuscripts on political philosophy. Editorial notes and an interpretive essay show the development of Winch's thinking over time and situate the manuscripts…
Kyle C. Lincoln
During the long reign of Alfonso VIII, Castilian bishops were crusaders, castellans, cathedral canons, and collegiate officers, and they served as powerful intermediaries between the pope and the king of…
A. P. Thornton
First published in 1966, The Habit of Authority looks at the continuity of paternalism and its attitudes in the face of the rising principle of democracy in Britain.
Dr Robert Jubb
Unjust Authority provides a realist account of the authority of liberal democratic rule.
Nnedi Okorafor
Multi-award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor presents a sweeping story about a disabled Nigerian American who writes a science fiction novel that becomes a global phenomenon - but at a price. A…
Eugenia Ossana
It underscores Nigerian women authors' relatively unknown or dispersed role and acknowledges the emergence of a current Generation called the Me-Generation. Straddling the trope of blackness, three contemporary novels are…
"Her best work yet... about fame and family, culture and change, the power of story, the writer's life... and robots. This one has it all." -- George R.R. Martin
In…
Author Nancy Tomes
In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it…
Author Vajra Chandrasekera
Rakesfall is a groundbreaking, standalone science fiction epic about two souls bound together from here until the ends of time, from the author of The Saint of Bright Doors.
Some…
Author Gigi Pandian
In heroine Tempest Raj, modern-day queen of the locked room mystery Gigi Pandian has created a brilliant homage to the greats of classic detective fiction.
There's a body in the library-and everyone is a suspect.
Author Stacy Willingham
A sharp and twisty exploration of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things.
Lucy Sharpe is larger…
Author Benjamin Delwiche
Benjamin Delwiche, AKA Benjamin the Baker, is a math teacher by day and a renegade baking scientist by night. His obsession with sweets began in childhood, when he could be…
Author Lindsay Moser, Author Lindsay Moser
The debut cookbook from Lindsay Moser featuring 80 incredible, easy-to-make recipes from decadent pasta to scrumptious sandwiches and tasty desserts
Satisfy your hunger for a balanced diet without compromising on…
Timothy Morton
From "our most popular guide to the new epoch" (Guardian), a new edition of the book about ecology without information dumping, guilt inducing, or preaching to the choir.
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Preorder now and receive the stunning DELUXE LIMITED EDITION while supplies last-featuring a special alternate cover design on the hardcover case, gorgeous sprayed edges, and exclusive endpapers. This breathtaking edition…
Matthias Stern
How did the late Roman Empire operate in rural areas, where most of its subjects lived? The papyri from Egypt provide glimpses of state activity at the local level, how…
Multiple Authors
The Ultimate Math Catch-Up Set. This 7-Book Set includes one book per grade beginning with Kindergarten.
Families appreciate that these full-color books offers simple step-by-step explanations of each topic and…
Noah Charney
"A widely published author shares the knowledge and tools you need to become a successful author. The 12-Hour Author lifts the veil and invites the reader in on the secrets…
As a result of a 20-year international military campaign, Afghanistan has been at the centre of global academic and policy debates on intervention and statebuilding. Yet these debates have often…
In the Middle Ages, authority and power were linked to emotional expressions. This book, through specific cases, analyses emotional strategies used in the game of power and the emotive models…
