New Releases: Sept 2019

Social media provides a fascinating laboratory for watching language evolve in real time.

Explains some of the ways in which technological advances are altering, for better or worse, large-scale human behavior,

Rich in drama, conflict, friendship, and love, Gods of the Upper Air is a brilliant and groundbreaking history of American progress and the opening of the modern mind.

This volume looks at the history of the idea of sin as it has influenced and shaped Western culture.

As Atwood unfolds The Testaments, she opens up the innermost workings of Gilead as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes.

An enchanting, comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the English language.

Told through the eyes of those destroyed by the Inland Empire Killings--including Robin, Quentin, and a fifteen-year-old April Cooper--Never Look Back asks the question: How well do we really know our parents, our partners--and ourselves?  

A dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age--an epic tour de force that is as much an homage to an immortal work of literature as it is to the quest for love and family, by 

"A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." --Washington Post

As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is Stephen King's gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. evil in a world where the good guys don't always win.