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Cool Beans: The Ultimate Guide to Cooking with the World's Most Versatile Plant-Based Protein, with 125 Recipes [A Cookbook] (Hardcover)

By Joe Yonan

$30.00

ISBN: 9780399581489

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Published: Ten Speed Press - February 4th, 2020
The Cactus League: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Emily Nemens

$27.00

ISBN: 9780374117948

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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - February 4th, 2020
Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country (Hardcover)

By E.J. Dionne, Jr.

$27.99

ISBN: 9781250256478

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Published: St. Martin's Press - February 4th, 2020
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington (Hardcover)

By Alexis Coe

$27.00

ISBN: 9780735224100

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Published: Viking - February 4th, 2020
Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote (Hardcover)

By Craig Fehrman

$30.00

ISBN: 9781476786391

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Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - February 11th, 2020
And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories and Other Revenges (Hardcover)

By Amber Sparks

$23.95

ISBN: 9781631496202

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Published: Liveright - February 11th, 2020
A Witch in Time (Hardcover)

By Constance Sayers

$26.00

ISBN: 9780316493598

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Published: Redhook - February 11th, 2020

At Union Market

Friday, January 24, 2020 at 7 p.m.

Calendar Sale!

50% off 2020 Calendars

In conversation with Natalie Hopkinson

Tuesday, January 28, 2020 at 7 p.m.

In conversation with Lissa Muscatine

Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 7 p.m.

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Next Events

Fri

24

7:00 pm

Andrea Bernstein - American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power — in conversation with Franklin Foer

Fri

24

7:00 pm

E.J. Koh - The Magical Language of Others & Julia McKenzie Munemo - The Book Keeper — in conversation with Jeannie Vanasco — at Union Market

Sat

25

1:00 pm

James S. Gordon, MD - The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma

Sat

25

3:30 pm

James Mann - The Great Rift: Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, and the Broken Friendship That Defined an Era

Sat

25

6:00 pm

Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan - Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus — in conversation with Emma Brown

Sat

25

6:00 pm

Philippe Lançon - Disturbance: Surviving Charlie Hebdo — at Union Market, presented with the French Embassy

Sun

26

1:00 pm

Daniel H. Weiss - In That Time: Michael O'Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam — in conversation with Peter Osnos

Sun

26

3:00 pm

Fanchon Jean Silberstein - Art Insight: Understanding Art and Why It Matters

Sun

26

5:00 pm

William Gibson - Agency

Mon

27

7:00 pm

Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes - Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office

Tue

28

7:00 pm

Marcia Chatelain - Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America — in conversation with Natalie Hopkinson

Tue

28

7:00 pm

Kyle Chayka - The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism — in conversation with Tope Folarin — at Union Market

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