The Gutfeld Monologues: Classic Rants From The Five

By Greg Gutfeld

Threshold Editions, hardcover $27.00, available this Tuesday, July 31

Fox News star Greg Gutfeld has covered everything from crazed academics, to unhinged celebrities, to the wildest election in recent history on his shows The Five, which airs weekday afternoons, and The Greg Gutfeld Show on the weekend.

Gutfeld is known for delivering sharp, hilarious monologues, and he has put together his favorites in this funny, unorthodox collection, The Gutfeld Monologues.

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Sugar: Michael Ray Richardson, Eightees Excess, and the NBA

By Charley Rosen

Nebraska University Press, 192 pages, $24.95

The 1980s were arguably the NBA’s best decade, giving rise to Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and Michael Jordan. They were among the game’s greatest players who brought pro basketball out of its 1970s funk and made it faster, more fluid, and more exciting. Off the court the game was changing rapidly too, with the draft lottery, shoe commercials, and a style driven largely by excess.

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A Blood Thing

By James Hankins

Thomas & Mercer, 455 pages, $24.95 hardcover, $15.95 paperback, and $4.99 Kindle ebook

Critically-acclaimed bestselling author James Hankins’ latest, A Blood Thing, follows a relentless blackmailer who pushes family ties to a sickening breaking point in this how-far-would-you-go thriller.

Andrew Kane, Vermont’s promising young governor, is at a public meet-and-greet moving through the line shaking hands when something unexpected happens.

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I Love Capitalism! An American Story

By Ken Langone

Penguin Random House, $28.00

Ken Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot and former director of the New York Stock Exchange, shares the story of his unlikely rise and storied career in his memoir, I Love Capitalism! 

This story is also Langone’s passionate defense of the American Dream: a country in which any young striver can reach the maximum potential of his or her talents and work ethic.

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Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles

By Fran Leadon

W.W. Norton and Company, hardcover, $35.00

Broadway is possibly the most iconic street in the world. Nineteenth-century journalist Junius Henri Browne spoke for many when he wrote, “Broadway represents the national life.”

Its thirteen miles tell the history of New York, as it evolved from a seventeenth-century cow path into its twentieth-century incarnation, the “Great White Way.”

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The Summer Sail: A Novel

By Wendy Francis

Touchstone, trade paperback, $16.00

Wendy Francis’ new novel, The Summer Sail, looks at a trio of lifelong friends reuniting aboard a cruise ship to Bermuda.

The women deemed themselves “forever sisters” while they were college roommates, and their sisterly bond has continued to grow over the years. They are set to embark on an unforgettable vacation with their families in tow as one of them celebrates their twentieth wedding anniversary.

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The Cash and Carter Family Cookbook

By John Carter Cash

Thomas Nelson, $29.99

John Carter Cash shares memories, recipes, and celebrity stories about meals shared around the kitchen table with his parents, Johnny and June Carter Cash in The Cash and Carter Family Cookbook.

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The Existentialist’s Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age

By Gordon Marino

HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Gordon Marino, a professor of philosophy and Director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College and the boxing correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, recasts the practical take-aways existentialism offers for the 21st century in his new book The Existentialist’s Survival Guide.

In an era in which every crisis feels like an existential crisis, Marino dispenses wisdom rooted in the works of the existentialists on how to face life head on and still keep your heart intact, especially when the universe feels like it’s working against you and nothing seems to matter.

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(Coney Island beach)

As summer progresses and people are taking vacations, it’s time to think of what books to read on lazy days at the beach.

There are four thrillers coming out this Tuesday that are sure to delight, thrill, and entertain – Little Girl Lost by Wendy Corsi Staub, What Remains Of Her by Eric Rickstad, A Noise Downstairs by Linwood Barclay, and Whistle In the Dark by Emma Healey.

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