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Ways to Support Politics and Prose In Trying Times

In times of crisis, independent bookstores like Politics and Prose historically have served as havens of comfort, reassurance, and information to many people in need. With this in mind, when the covid-19 threat emerged, we here at P&P had hoped to keep our stores open to the public as long as possible. But pandemics a... read more

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Bestsellers

The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President Cover Image

Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning Cover Image

The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis Cover Image

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Cover Image

Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America Cover Image

The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists Cover Image

A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America Cover Image

Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World Cover Image

The Obama Portraits Cover Image

Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist Cover Image

Weather: A novel Cover Image

The Night Watchman Cover Image

Apeirogon: A Novel Cover Image

The Dutch House: A Novel Cover Image

The Hidden Girl and Other Stories Cover Image

Disappearing Earth: A novel Cover Image

American Dirt (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel Cover Image

A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel Cover Image

Nothing to See Here Cover Image

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Cover Image

Children & Teens Books

Little Bear Dreams Cover Image

Thank You, Omu! Cover Image

We've Got the Whole World in Our Hands Cover Image

What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan Cover Image

Now You Know How It Works Cover Image

Kitten and the Night Watchman Cover Image

Audiobooks: Start Listening

Daisy Jones & The Six: A Novel Cover Image

Educated: A Memoir Cover Image

The Witch Elm: A Novel Cover Image

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Next Events

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8:00 pm

P&P Live! : Jen Gotch - The Upside of Being Down

Sun

29

3:00 pm

P&P Live! : Alissa Hirshfeld-Flores and Amy Roost - Fury, in conversation with Shannon Brescher Shea

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29

6:00 pm

P&P Live! : Matthew Kroenig - The Return of Great Power Rivalry: Democracy Versus Autocracy from the Ancient World to the U.S. and China

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30

6:00 pm

P&P Live! : Lily King - Writers & Lovers

Tue

31

6:00 pm

P&P Live! : Neil Shubin - Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA

Tue

31

7:00 pm

P&P Live! Robin Talley - Music From Another World

Thu

2

8:00 pm

P&P Live! : Jonathan Karl - Front Row at the Trump Show

Sat

4

6:00 pm

P&P Live! : Richard J. Lazarus - The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court

Tue

7

2:00 pm

P&P Live! David Shannon - Roy Digs Dirt

Fri

1

7:00 pm

Vivek Murthy - Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World

Sat

2

1:00 pm

Lise Van Susteren and Stacey Colino - Emotional Inflammation: Discover Your Triggers and Reclaim Your Equilibrium During Anxious Times

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3:30 pm

Amity Gaige - Sea Wife

Staff Picks

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This is a story about a woman and her dog sent to clean out her estranged, and now deceased, grandmother... read more
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Since Lab Girl, Jahren relocated to Oslo, Norway, where, along with her award-winning work in... read more
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What happens when your savior isn't enough? How do you protect your family? Through visceral and vibrant... read more
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After college, Jason Hardy finds himself selling watches at J.C. Penney’s. Totally unsuited for the job... read more
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Voting rights are under attack. If we want a fair election, consider this book required reading.... read more
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Prescott’s favorite writer is Kafka, so any echo of The Trial or The Castle in his title is likely... read more

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Ben Fletcher is making things a little bit better, one stitch at a time. After one of his friends’... read more
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In Faith Ringgold’s first picture book, Tar Beach (Dragonfly, $7.99), readers are thrust into a... read more
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The Imaginaries: Little Scraps of Larger Stories (Random House, $18.99), is an ethereal collection... read more

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Politics and Prose Gift Cards can be purchased on our website or over the phone.... read more
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We’re stuck on you, your notebook, laptop, and really anywhere else you care to (... read more
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"It's not hoarding of it's books"

16" wide x 15 1⁄2" tall x 5" gusset natural... read more
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Nothing goes together like good books and strong coffee. Drink your morning Joe from... read more

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