A boy with a facial deformity starts school. How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery. Kristen Arnett’s debut novel, set in a swampy Florida town, explores Jessa’s unusual journey to understanding grief, love and memory as she watches her mother and brother spiral out of control. There's a problem loading this menu right now.

When disenchanted philosophy professor Oscar Boatright receives some terrible family news, he feels his life start to spiral out of control. The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer creates a portrait of Representative John Lewis, the late civil rights leader and congressman for Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District.

In a powerful, gutsy memoir, Miller — the sexual assault survivor in the Stanford case — reclaims her name and her story, taking us through the trial, the support of her steadfast attorney, the humiliation of testifying and her rage at her assailant’s light sentence.

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A primer for creating a more just and equitable society through identifying and opposing racism. Get lost in a book today at Barnes & Noble®. It’s fair to say that the last thing the world was itching for is another speculative account of Jimmy Hoffa’s final days, which is precisely why Goldsmith’s gripping hybrid of personal memoir and forensic procedural lands with the force of a sucker punch.

NOV. 25, 2019. And listen to us on the Book … The eminent environmentalist reconstructs decades’ worth of his observations of the natural world, from the Arctic to Australia. This profound cultural analysis, a model of black intellectualism, deftly mixes the academic and the popular. Ware’s long-awaited new graphic novel, opening in his native Omaha circa 1975, is at least four books in one, with a sum greater than its (great) parts. Structured in the form of a letter from the narrator to his illiterate mother, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous reveals a son’s dissection of his ancestral suffering, which is intrinsically tied to the Vietnam War. Dennis-Bean weaves the narratives of mother and daughter together in a moving tale of separation, growth and womanhood. Prepare to read some of your new favorite books at Barnes & Noble®'s New York Times Best Sellers section.

Cep’s remarkable first book is really two: a gripping investigation of a rural Alabama preacher who murdered five family members for the insurance in the 1970s, and a sensitive portrait of the novelist Harper Lee, who tried and failed to write her own book about the case. In eight stories, Danticat takes readers to locales including the city of her birth, Port-au Prince, Haiti, as well as an unnamed Caribbean island and Miami. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. by Chelsea Clinton. The best of these stories suggest that Smith is eager to explore wilder, less charted territory. Historical and cultural analyses on what causes defensive moves by white people and how this inhibits cross-racial dialogue.

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Although he’s best known for doling out fashion advice on Netflix’s Queer Eye, Tan France has wise words to offer across all areas of life. Kira Navárez might be the only one who can save the Earth and its colonies from being destroyed. The problem is, Maddie and Theo hate each other — or at least, that’s what they keep telling themselves as they attempt to stave off the irresistible attraction drawing them together. Using his ample comedic gifts to describe a slow-boil tragedy, Poniewozik, the chief television critic of The New York Times, traces the contemporaneous histories of Trump and TV. In the early 1970s, American running coach Bob Larsen became renowned for his success with the track team at UCLA, then went on to help coach several Olympic medalists to victory. A dual biography that traces the poet’s tangled legacy and its influence on the lives of his widow and their daughter, who made a name for herself as a mathematician and astronomer. The narrator of the Irish writer’s latest novel is kidnapped by jihadi fighters in northeastern Nigeria. A collection of stories that probe the fleeting connections of characters struggling to adjust to the rush of time. Recursion, which is being developed as both a feature film and a television series by Shonda Rhimes and Matt Reeves for Netflix, asks how altering our past impacts the present and future. The nine essays in Trick Mirror cover everything from the horrors of the Internet to Tolentino’s appearance on a reality television show as a teenager. by Rachael Lippincott with Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis. A family is torn apart when the daughter becomes addicted to drugs and goes missing. In King’s most frightening books — like this one, about the abduction of psychically gifted children — the evil is perpetrated not by supernatural creatures, but by ordinary people like you and me. The 16th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. “Running informants was about cultivating their trust,” the heroine says. First animals and flowers disappear, then bells, ribbons and photographs, then, at the hands of the Memory Police, the few people who can recall that those vanished objects ever existed. The former F.B.I.