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This week we'd like to highlight some exciting new books on our shelves, including a powerful new book by Salman Rushdie about the recent attempt on his life, a memoir about the gig economy and scraping by as an Uber driver, a
collection of essays about the ugly history of beautiful items like perfume and jewelry, an examination of modern masculinity, and other timely books about liberation and love. You can browse our complete selection of new and forthcoming titles on our website.
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by Salman Rushdie
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Rushdie answers that violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. Knife is a gripping, intimate, and ultimately life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, and art.
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by Katy Kelleher
Katy Kelleher has spent much of her life chasing beauty and this obsession has led her to become a home, garden, and design writer, where she studied how beautiful things are mined, grown, made, and enhanced. In researching these objects, Kelleher concluded that most of us are unaware of the true cost of our desires. In these dazzling essays, she blends science, history, and memoir to uncover the dark underbellies of our favorite goods, from the crushed beetle shells in our lipstick to the realities of the silk and diamond industries. Ultimately, she invites readers to examine their own relationships with these objects and think about how they can most ethically partake in the beauty of the world.
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Somehow: Thoughts on Loveby Anne Lamott
In Somehow, beloved writer Anne Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives and how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. “Love just won’t be pinned down,” she says. “It is in our very atmosphere” and lies at the heart of who we are. We are, Lamott says, creatures of love. She draws from her own life and experience to delineate the intimate and elemental ways that love buttresses us in the face of despair as it galvanizes us to believe that tomorrow will be better than today. Somehow is classic Anne Lamott: funny, warm, and wise
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into Political and Spiritual Powerby Rahiel Tesfamariam
Rahiel Tesfamariam is a social activist, journalist, and public theologian. In Imagine Freedom, she offers a bold path to liberation and healing for people of
African descent struggling in the shadows of the American Dream. Weaving storytelling, socioeconomic analysis, and cultural criticism with the spiritual and political threads of liberation theology and Pan Africanism, Imagine Freedom empowers people of African descent to begin the work of decolonizing their minds to discover new ways of imagining self, community, nation, and world, and most importantly, a new way to achieve the freedom that has been too long denied.
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by Jonathan Rigsby
Jonathan Rigsby spends his days as a crime intelligence analyst and his nights as an Uber driver. Reeling from his divorce and struggling to pay rent while caring for his autistic son, Rigsby became a rideshare driver, joining the millions of people with a side hustle just to make ends meet. With a blend of honesty and sardonic wit, Rigsby invites readers into his car to reveal the harsh reality of gig work for so many: long hours, living paycheck to paycheck, and hoping to avoid disaster long enough to pay the next bill. Drive exposes an ugly truth that hides in the background of the American dream: you can do everything right and still fail. Buckle up.
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by MIchael Andor Brodeur
Michael Brodeur is a Gen-X gay writer with a passion for bodybuilding and an insatiable curiosity about masculinity. In our current moment, where “manfluencers” on TikTok tease their audiences with their latest videos, where right-wing men espouse the importance of being “alpha,” as toxic masculinity and the patriarchy are being rightfully criticized, the nature of masculinity has become murkier than ever. Interweaving history, cultural criticism, memoir, and reportage, Brodeur takes us into the unique culture centered around men’s bodies, probing its limitations and the promise beyond: how men can love themselves while rejecting the
aggression, objectification, and misogyny that have for so long accompanied the quest to become swole.
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