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  • Cassandra Speaks

    When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes

    What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers?Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women’s voices had been equally heard and respected throughout history, humankind would have followed ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Algospeak

    How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language

    by Adam Aleksic ...
    “Packed with fascinating facts, of-the-moment observations, and a sparkling voice, Algospeak is a gift to any word nerd. Deftly covering everything from emoji etymologies and trendbait to Taylor Swift fanilects... Adam Aleksic is the wise, yet accessible internet linguistics oracle we need.”—Amanda Montell, author of The Age of Magical Overthinking and CultishFrom “brainrot” memes and incel slang ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Don't Trust Your Gut

    Using Data to Get What You Really Want in LIfe

    "Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is more than a data scientist. He is a prophet for how to use the data revolution to reimagine your life. Don’t Trust Your Gut is a tour de force—an intoxicating blend of analysis, humor, and humanity.**” —** Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of When, Drive, and To Sell Is HumanBig decisions are hard. We consult friends and family, make sense ... ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • The Age of Grievance

    by Frank Bruni ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Brilliant...Bruni writes with humor, insight, and precision.” —Wall Street Journal • “The best prescription for our redemption.” —The New York Times • “A wise and humane book for our foolish and cruel era.” —Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious GenerationFrom bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful examination of ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • All About Love

    New Visions

    by bell hooks ...
    Series Book 1 - Love Song to the Nation
    A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $12.49 USD

  • The Secret History of Wonder Woman

    by Jill Lepore ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Within the origin of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of feminism in the twentieth-century.“Everything you might want in a page-turner…skeletons in the closet, a believe-it-or-not weirdness in its biographical details, and something else that secretly powers even the most “serious” feminist history—fun.” ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • World's Great Men of Color, Volume I

    by J.A. Rogers ...
    The classic, definitive title on the great Black figures in world history, beginning in antiquity and reaching into the modern age.World’s Great Men of Color is the comprehensive guide to the most noteworthy Black personalities in world history and their significance. J.A. Rogers spent the majority of his lifetime pioneering the field of Black studies with his exhaustive research on the major ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Magic in the Air

    The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk

    by Mike Sielski ...
    **"Who doesn't wanna read an entire book about the slam dunk? I love basketball." - Ann Patchett"The definitive dunking dissertation." - Jack McCallum, Wall Street JournalFrom the author of the bestselling Kobe Bryant biography The Rise comes the legend of the most powerful shot in basketball: the slam dunk.**The evolution of basketball, and much of the social and cultural change in America, can ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Enshittification

    Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

    by Cory Doctorow ...
    Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit. It’s frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying.Enshittification identifies the problem and proposes a solution.When Cory ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Get the Picture

    A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

    by Bianca Bosker ...
    **AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY NPR, TIME, AND THE ECONOMIST“Get the Picture is one of the funniest books I’ve read . . . Brilliant.” —The Washington Post“A gripping and often hilarious investigation into the art world. . . . Bosker goes full Tom Wolfe.” —TIME“Funny, whip-smart, and gorgeously written, Get the Picture will forever transform the way you see. . . . ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Second Life

    Having a Child in the Digital Age

    by Amanda Hess ...
    “Hess’s debut memoir bursts with humor and intelligence as it weaves the story of her own pregnancy....This unexpected page-turner is as vulnerable as it is sharp.” —VultureAs an internet culture critic for The New York Times, Amanda Hess had built a reputation among readers as a sharp observer of the seductions and manipulations of online life. But when Hess discovered she was pregnant with her ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How to Break Up with Your Phone, Revised Edition

    The 30-Day Digital Detox Plan

    Now fully revised and updated, this evidence-based, user-friendly guide presents a 30-day digital detox plan that will help you set boundaries with your phone and live a more joyful and fulfilling life.“If you are a human being and you own a smartphone, you need this book.”—Jonathan Haidt, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Anxious GenerationDo you feel addicted to your phone? Do you ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Girls & Sex

    Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

    A generation gap has emerged between parents and their girls. The mothers and fathers of tomorrow’s women have little idea what their daughters are up to sexually or how they feel about it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with more than seventy young women and a wide range of psychologists, academics, and experts, renowned journalist Peggy Orenstein goes where most others fear to tread, pulling ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • The Genius Myth

    A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea

    by Helen Lewis ...
    **From acclaimed Atlantic staff writer and host of BBC’s podcast “The New Gurus” Helen Lewis comes a timely and provocative interrogation of the myth of genius, exploring the surprising inventions, inspirations and distortions by which some lives are elevated to 'greatness' - and others are not*A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman and GQ Book for 2025***You can tell what a society values by ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Invisible Strings

    113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift

    An anthology of brand-new poems inspired by Taylor Swift songs, from a powerhouse group of contemporary poets, including Kate Baer, Maggie Smith, and Joy Harjo.Let the decoding begin!With a record-breaking four Grammy awards for Album of the Year, Taylor Swift stands alone in the world of pop music. One of the most talented lyricists of all time, her music captivates millions of fans throughout ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Doppelganger

    A Trip into the Mirror World

    by Naomi Klein ...
    A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle AwardWinner of the Women's Prize for NonfictionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | National Indie BestsellerA New York Times notable book of 2023 | Vulture’s #1 book of 2023One of Slate’s ten best books of 2023 | A Guardian best ideas book of 2023 | One of Time’s ten best... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Deviant

    From the author of “top-drawer true crime” (Booklist) books comes the definitive account of Ed Gein—the man whose shocking crimes inspired Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs.The year was 1957. To his Wisconsin neighbors, Ed Gein was a slight, Midwestern farmhand with a twisted little smile. To an unsuspecting nation, he would become one of the most notorious crime ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $3.99 USD

  • Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek

    How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television

    by Thea Glassman ...
    The untold stories of seven revolutionary teen shows (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, My So-Called Life, Dawson’s Creek, Freaks and Geeks, The O.C., Friday Night Lights, and Glee) that shaped the course of modern television and our pop cultural landscape forever.The modern television landscape is defined by influential and ambitious shows for and about teenagers. Groundbreaking series like Euphoria< ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $3.99 USD

  • Very Important People

    Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit

    by Ashley Mears ...
    A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of menMillion-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne. In today's New Gilded Age, the world's moneyed classes have taken conspicuous consumption to new extremes. In ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Way the World Works

    Essays

    Nicholson Baker, who “writes like no one else in America” (Newsweek), here assembles his best short pieces from the last fifteen years.The Way the World Works, Baker’s second nonfiction collection, ranges over the map of life to examine what troubles us, what eases our pain, and what brings us joy. Baker moves from political controversy to the intimacy of his own life, from forgotten heroes of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Genius of Judy

    How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

    NATIONAL BESTSELLERThis “lively and important portrait of a true literary revolutionary” (Los Angeles Times) explores Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic—and controversial—young adult novels, from Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret to Blubber.Everyone knows Judy Blume.Her books have garnered her fans of all ages for decades and sold tens of millions of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Invention of Culture

    by Roy Wagner ...
    “This new edition of one of the masterworks of twentieth-century anthropology is more than welcome…enduringly significant insights.”—Marilyn Strathern, emerita, University of CambridgeIn the field of anthropology, few books manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance. Roy Wagner's The Invention of Culture, originally published in 1975, is one that does. Wagner breaks new ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Will to Change

    Men, Masculinity, and Love

    by bell hooks ...
    From New York Times bestselling author, feminist pioneer, and cultural icon bell hooks, a timelessly necessary treatise on how patriarchy and toxic masculinity hurts us all.Feminist writing did not tell us about the deep inner misery of men.Everyone needs to love and be loved—including men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways in which patriarchal culture keeps them from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Girl on Girl

    How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

    **“Searing… rigorously researched but never stuffy… Gilbert has compiled perhaps the first comprehensive examination of turn-of-the-millennium mainstream, cool-kid trends and ephemera, and how they were largely molded by those in power to sell a generation of girls and young women reality-warping lies.” —The New York Times“So clear-eyed that it’s startling." —The Washington Post“Entertaining and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD