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 On This Week's Front Table, journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility to unveil the unexpected revolution revitalizing urban nightlife; navigate the labyrinths of history, love, and ethics in a fractured American present; explore the astonishing science of bird life, an unexpected blueprint for muscular citizenship, powered by joy; and ask, when you have lived a life in flux, how do you find rest? Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.

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On This Week's Front Table, analyze the roles assigned to women and the ways that they've used puzzles to negotiate the constraints and play of desire; explode the conventions of biography, with its assumptions about who makes history and how; examine the big questions through the microscope of a shambolic human perspective; and considers the lines between illusion and delusion. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com.

The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle
(HarperOne) 
Anna Shechtman

The indisputable...

On this week's Front Table, explore the place of women in history, their creativity, and the enduring power of Emily Dickinson's poetry. Delve into an action-theoretical account of the aesthetic, and an intimate foray onto the dancefloor that speaks to the heart of what it is that makes us move. Then an epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border, told through the lives of the migrants. Immerse yourself in exhilarating lyric poems that chart the history of a family, and explore a debut novel that delves into the devastation of feeling invisible and the transformative power of being seen. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com...

On This Week's Front Table, celebrate radical queer survival, learn about what may have been history's first pandemic which struck the Roman Empire, and find the levity within the stormiest of crises. Also, ensure a bright future by embracing the darkness, question if sanctions work in the way they should, and then dive into a fresh and intimate portrait of desire, consumption, and reckless abandon. Explore these titles and more at semcoop.com.

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