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The Palace of Forty Pillars By Armen Davoudian Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781959030362
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Published: Tin House Books - March 19th, 2024

A San Francisco Chronicle and LitHub Best Book of Spring

A Most Anticipated Book of the Season at The Rumpus, Publishers Weekly, and Autostraddle

“Brilliant and deft and heartfelt."—Richie Hofmann


Cascade Failure: A Novel (Ambit's Run #1) By L. M. Sagas Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250871251
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Published: Tor Books - March 19th, 2024

L. M. Sagas's debut, Cascade Failure, is a high-octane, sci-fi adventure blending J. S. Dewes's Divide series with Firefly. It features a fierce, messy, chaotic space family, vibrant worlds, and an exploration of the many ways to be—and not to be—human.

Most Anticipated Books of 2024—Goodreads, Polygon, The Nerd Daily


Jumpnauts: A Novel (Folding Universe) By Hao Jingfang, Ken Liu (Translated by) Cover Image
By Hao Jingfang, Ken Liu (Translated by)
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ISBN: 9781534422117
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Published: S&S/Saga Press - March 12th, 2024

From the Hugo Award­–winning author of Folding Beijing comes a gripping science fiction thriller in which three unlikely allies attempt a desperate mission of first contact with a mysterious alien race before more militaristic minds can take matters into their own hands.

In a future where the world is roughly divided into two factions, the Pacific League of N


Anita de Monte Laughs Last: Reese's Book Club Pick (A Novel) By Xochitl Gonzalez Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781250786210
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Published: Flatiron Books - March 5th, 2024

REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death


Fruit of the Dead: A Novel By Rachel Lyon Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781668020852
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Published: Scribner - March 5th, 2024

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld.

Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the fathe


The Breakup Vacation (Beach House) By Anna Gracia Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781668010969
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Published: MTV Books - March 5th, 2024

It’s the summer before senior year of college, and Grace is about to make the worst decision of her life in this “sexy, sun-drenched cocktail of chaotic good fun and heartfelt hilarity” (Sarah Kuhn, author of the Heroine Complex series) that captures the messiness of your early twenties, while highlighting the necessity of girlfriends at any—and every—age.


It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over By Anne de Marcken Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9780811237857
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Published: New Directions - March 5th, 2024

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how much of our memory, of our bodies, of the world as we know it — how much of what we love can we lose before we are lost? And then what happens? 

This third perspective on myself is disconcerting. 


Underestimated: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls By Chelsey Goodan Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781668032688
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Published: Gallery Books - March 5th, 2024

“If you have a teenage girl in your life, you need to read this.” Oprah Daily

In the vein of Reviving Ophelia and Untangled comes a fresh, unexpected, and empowering guide to better understand teenage girls, revealing how their insights can create heartfelt connections and impactful change.

Written with warmth and


The Other Valley: A Novel By Scott Alexander Howard Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781668015476
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Published: Atria Books - February 27th, 2024

*Soon to be a TV series*

A Goodreads Most Anticipated Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror Book of 2024

For fans of Never Let Me Go and The Giver, an elegant and exhilarating literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, and a young girl who spots two elderly visitors from across the border: the grieving pare


Weyward: A Novel By Emilia Hart Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9781250842725
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - February 27th, 2024

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF TWO GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS (Best Debut Novel & Best Historical Fiction)

An Indie Next March 2023 Pick • A LibraryReads March 2023 Pick An Amazon "Best Books of the Year So Far" 2023 Pick


Green Dot: A Novel By Madeleine Gray Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250890597
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Published: Henry Holt and Co. - February 27th, 2024

Madeleine Gray takes a scalpel to millennial malaise, office romance, and infidelity, and the result is a brainy, gutsy, nervy—and hilarious—wonder of a novel.”
—Meg Howrey, author of They're Going to Love You

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises nothing


What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier #2) By T. Kingfisher Cover Image
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Published: Tor Nightfire - February 13th, 2024

An Instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller

Enter a cold, silent forest and find out what feasts at night in this new gothic tale from bestselling and award-winning author T. Kingfisher, set in the world of What Moves the Dead.


The Women: A Novel By Kristin Hannah Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781250178633
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Published: St. Martin's Press - February 6th, 2024

A #1 bestseller on The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times!

From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided.


Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Queer Histories By Diarmuid Hester Cover Image
$29.95
ISBN: 9781639365555
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Published: Pegasus Books - February 6th, 2024

An exploration of artistic freedom, survival, and the hidden places of the imagination, including James Baldwin in Provence, Josephine Baker in Paris, Kevin Killian in San Francisco, and E. M.


Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain By Amy Jeffs Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781524886363
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Published: Andrews McMeel Publishing - February 6th, 2024

Journey into the wilderness of northwestern Europe between the sixth and tenth centuries, an oft forgotten time in a mystical and magical place where the terror of the wilderness was surpassed only by its potential for salvation.

Wild: Tales from the Early Medieval World takes you on a journey out of the present and into the wilderness of another age.


Interesting Facts about Space: A Novel By Emily Austin Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781668014233
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Published: Atria Books - January 30th, 2024

A fast-paced, hilarious, and ultimately hopeful novel for anyone who has ever worried they might be a terrible person—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead.

Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettify you without batting an eye in fear. Her one major phobia?


The Ukraine By Artem Chapeye, Zenia Tompkins (Translated by) Cover Image
By Artem Chapeye, Zenia Tompkins (Translated by)
$18.95
ISBN: 9781644212950
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Published: Seven Stories Press - January 30th, 2024

A stunning debut collection of fiction and creative nonfiction— irreverent and unglorified; loving and tender; uncomfortable and inconvenient—by a Ukrainian writer currently fighting for his country in Kyiv.

Includes the celebrated title story "The Ukraine," which was published in the New Yorker in 2022.


Second Chances in New Port Stephen: A Novel By TJ Alexander Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781668021965
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Published: Atria/Emily Bestler Books - December 5th, 2023

A trans man returns to his Florida hometown for Christmas after his career goes up in flames, only to cross paths with his high school ex in this charming rom-com about family and second chances from the author of the “delectable” (Time) Chef’s Kiss.

Eli Ward hasn’t been back to his suffocating hometown of New Port Stephen, Florida, in age


Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games By Carmen Maria Machado (Editor), J. Robert Lennon (Editor) Cover Image
By Carmen Maria Machado (Editor), J. Robert Lennon (Editor)
$18.00
ISBN: 9781644452615
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Published: Graywolf Press - November 21st, 2023

A wide-ranging anthology of essays exploring one of the most vital art forms on the planet today


From the earliest computers to the smartphones in our pockets, video games have been on our screens and part of our lives for over fifty years. Critical Hits celebrates this sophisticated medium and considers its lasting impact on our culture and ourselves.


The Future By Naomi Alderman Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781668025680
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Published: Simon & Schuster - November 7th, 2023

A Most Anticipated Book of Fall at Associated Press, Booklist, Chicago Tribune, Goodreads, Good Housekeeping, Literary Hub, Time, The Week, and W Magazine

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power


The Liberators By E. J. Koh Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781959030157
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Published: Tin House Books - November 7th, 2023

As heard on NPR'S All Things Considered


Let Us Descend: A Novel By Jesmyn Ward Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781982104498
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Published: Scribner - October 24th, 2023

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Instant New York Times Bestseller • Named one of the best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, Time, The New Yorker, and more.

“Nothing short of epic, magical, and intensely moving.” —Vogue • “A novel of triump


The Delivery By Margarita García Robayo, Megan McDowell (Translator) Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781913867690
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Published: Charco Press - October 24th, 2023

From the acclaimed author ofFish Soup, a wickedly self-aware novel of family, memory, and possibility just this side of the uncanny.


Marigold and Rose: A Fiction By Louise Glück Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781250893536
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Published: Picador - October 10th, 2023

Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from the Nobel laureate Louise Glück.


My Work By Olga Ravn, Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell (Translated by) Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780811234719
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Published: New Directions - October 10th, 2023

From the acclaimed author of The Employees, a radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood. 


The Mysteries By Bill Watterson, Bill Watterson and John Kascht (Illustrator) Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781524884949
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Published: Andrews McMeel Publishing - October 10th, 2023

New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Indie Bestseller.

From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, one of America’s most renowned caricaturists, comes a mysterious and beautifully illustrated fable about what lies beyond human understanding. 


In a fable for grown


Starling House: A Reese's Book Club Pick By Alix E. Harrow Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781250799050
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Published: Tor Books - October 3rd, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

“This book has everything you could possibly want this fall...a cursed town, a haunted house, a vivid & eerie setting—plus, characters willing to risk everything.” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club October ’23 Pick)


How to Say Babylon: A Memoir By Safiya Sinclair Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781982132330
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Published: 37 Ink - October 3rd, 2023

A New York Times Notable Book
A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
A Best Book of 2023 by the New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, Vulture, Shelf Awareness, Goodreads, Esquire, The Atlantic, NPR, and Barack Obama

With echoes of Educated and Born a C


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Death Valley: A Novel By Melissa Broder Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781668024843
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Published: Scribner - October 3rd, 2023

Named a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times ("incandescent...hilarious...a triumph"), Oprah Daily ("surreal, absurd, lucid, and wise"), Vanity Fair ("Broder [is] a genius and a sorceress"), and more!

From the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief and a “magical tale of survival”


The Fragile Threads of Power By V. E. Schwab Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9780765387493
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Published: Tor Books - September 26th, 2023

A New York Times Bestseller
A USA Today Bestseller
September IndieNext Pick

A new door opens...


Once there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a single city: London.


The Navigating Fox By Christopher Rowe Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781250804501
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Published: Tordotcom - September 26th, 2023

The Navigating Fox is a fantastical fable of "knowledgeable creatures", in the vein of Brian Jacques's Redwall series but for adults, by Hugo and Nebula Award finalist Christopher Rowe

"Half fable, half caper, and a pure joy to read."—Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author of Book of Night


Pig: Poems By Sam Sax Cover Image
By Sam Sax
$17.00
ISBN: 9781668019993
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Published: Scribner - September 19th, 2023

From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third collection of poems that uses the humble pig as a lens to explore the body, faith, desire, and power.

This imaginative and singular poetry collection interrogates the broadest ideas surrounding the humble pig—farm animal, men/masculinity, police and state violence, desire, queerne


Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World By Naomi Klein Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780374610326
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - September 12th, 2023

A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award

NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLER | National Indie Bestseller


A New York Times notable book of 2023 | Vulture’s #1 book of 2023


The Swayze Year: You're Not Old, You're Just Getting Started! By Colleen AF Venable, Meghan Daly Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781524875114
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Published: Andrews McMeel Publishing - September 12th, 2023

Did you know that Patrick Swayze was 35 when he got his big break in Dirty Dancing?


Holly By Stephen King Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781668016138
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Published: Scribner - September 5th, 2023

#1 New York Times Bestseller * New York Times Notable Book * NPR Best Book of the Year

Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and resourceful characters, returns in this chilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.

“Sometimes the universe throws you a rope.”


The River We Remember: A Novel By William Kent Krueger Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781982179212
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Published: Atria Books - September 5th, 2023

AN EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by a shocking murder, pouring fresh fuel on old grievances in this dazzling novel, an instant New York Times bestseller and “a work of art” (The Denver Post).


Creep: Accusations and Confessions By Myriam Gurba Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781982186470
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Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - September 5th, 2023

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FINALIST IN CRITICISM

“Quite simply one of the best books of the decade.” —Los Angeles Review of Books * “The mother of intersectional Latinx identity.” —Cosmopolitan * “Brilliant…a hopeful book…rooted in the steadfast belief other worlds are possible.” —The New


The Devil of the Provinces By Juan Cárdenas, Davis (Translator) Cover Image
By Juan Cárdenas, Davis (Translator)
$17.95
ISBN: 9781566896771
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Published: Coffee House Press - September 12th, 2023

After a series of failures, a biologist returns to his hometown to live with his grieving mother. But in this gripping crime novel that upends the genre's conventions, strange events unravel what he thought he knew of his past, his present, and himself.


The Book of Light: Anniversary Edition By Lucille Clifton, Ross Gay (Foreword by), Sidney Clifton (Afterword by) Cover Image
By Lucille Clifton, Ross Gay (Foreword by), Sidney Clifton (Afterword by)
$22.00
ISBN: 9781556596780
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Published: Copper Canyon Press - August 29th, 2023

The Men Can't Be Saved: A Novel By Ben Purkert Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9781419767135
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Published: Harry N. Abrams - August 1st, 2023

* A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF SUMMER 2023 * NYLON * THE MILLIONS * LITHUB * DEBUTIFUL * AND MORE! *

“Blistering . . .


The Road to the City By Natalia Ginzburg, Gini Alhadeff (Translated by) Cover Image
By Natalia Ginzburg, Gini Alhadeff (Translated by)
$17.95
ISBN: 9780811234757
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Published: New Directions - July 4th, 2023

A magnificently stark book—within the smallness of one poor, muddled, provincial life, Natalia Ginzburg finds enormous pain and loss


In the Act By Rachel Ingalls Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780811232043
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Published: New Directions - July 4th, 2023

From Rachel Ingalls, the author of Mrs. Caliban, another delicious, highly improbable, and hilariously believable tale of a wife’s scorched-earth rebellion


In Light-Years There's No Hurry: Cosmic Perspectives on Everyday Life By Marjolijn van Heemstra, Jonathan Reeder (Translated by) Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9781324035695
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - June 20th, 2023

A New Scientist Best Popular Science Book of 2023

How seeing Earth through the eyes of an astronaut brings new wonder and meaning to life on our planet.


The Memory of Animals By Claire Fuller Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781953534873
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Published: Tin House Books - June 6th, 2023

A Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Gizmodo, Shondaland, LitHub & Tor.com Best Book of Summer and Good Housekeeping Best Book of 2023 So Far!

“A haunting novel of second chances.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review


Such Kindness: A Novel By Andre Dubus, III Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781324000464
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - June 6th, 2023

A working-class white man takes a terrible fall.


Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law By Leah Rothstein, Richard Rothstein Cover Image
$25.00
ISBN: 9781324093244
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Published: Liveright - June 1st, 2023

The Color of Law brilliantly recounted how government at all levels created segregation. Just Action describes how we can begin to undo it.


Open Throat: A Novel By Henry Hoke Cover Image
$25.00
ISBN: 9780374609870
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Published: MCD - June 6th, 2023

Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize. One of the Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023. One of The New York Times' 10 Best California Books of 2023.

Open Throat is what fiction should be.” The New York Times Book Review


Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances By Kwame Alexander Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316417228
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - May 23rd, 2023

This powerful memoir from a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medalist features poetry, letters, recipes, and other personal artifacts that provide an intimate look into his life and the loved ones he shares it with.

In an intimate and non-traditional (or "new-fashioned") memoir, Kwame Alexander shares snapshots of a man learning how to love.


Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary Edition By Rainer Maria Rilke, M. D. Herter Norton (Translated by), Julia Reidhead (Afterword by), Damion Searls (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Rainer Maria Rilke, M. D. Herter Norton (Translated by), Julia Reidhead (Afterword by), Damion Searls (Foreword by)
$20.00
ISBN: 9781324050728
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - May 23rd, 2023

A gorgeous edition of one of the most beloved classics of the twentieth century, published in celebration of W. W. Norton’s 100th anniversary.


Shy: A Novel By Max Porter Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781644452295
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Published: Graywolf Press - May 2nd, 2023

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’re not alone


This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy.

You mustn’t do that to yourself Shy. You mustn’t hurt yourself like that.


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In the Lives of Puppets By TJ Klune Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781250217448
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Published: Tor Books - April 25th, 2023

A NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND INDIE BESTSELLER!

New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.


Ordinary Notes By Christina Sharpe Cover Image
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - April 25th, 2023

A finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction
A finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award in Nonfiction

Named a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times, NPR, New York Magazine, Kirkus, and Barnes and Noble


The Moose Paradox (The Rabbit Factor series #2) By Antti Tuomainen, David Hackston (Translated by) Cover Image
By Antti Tuomainen, David Hackston (Translated by)
$26.00
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Published: Orenda Books - April 11th, 2023

Insurance mathematician Henri has his life under control, when a man from the past appears and a shady trio take over the adventure park’ s equipment supply company … Things are messier than ever in the absurdly funny, heart-stoppingly tense second instalment in Antti Tuomainen’ s bestselling series…


The All-American: A Novel By Joe Milan, Jr. Cover Image
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 4th, 2023

Introducing a character as viscerally believable and unforgettable as any in fiction, The All-American is a triumph—full of energy, dark humor, suspense, and hard-won wisdom.


The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape By Katie Holten, Ross Gay (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Katie Holten, Ross Gay (Introduction by)
$29.95
ISBN: 9781953534682
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Published: Tin House Books - April 4th, 2023

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"Inspiring. . . . insights that are scientific, intimate and surprising. . . . a call to action for those who still care."—The Washington Post


Fly Girl: A Memoir By Ann Hood Cover Image
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 4th, 2023

An entertaining and fascinating memoir of “gifted storyteller” (People) Ann Hood’s adventurous years as a TWA flight attendant.


Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist By Frans de Waal Cover Image
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 4th, 2023

Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

“Every new book by Frans de Waal is a cause for excitement, and this one is no different. A breath of fresh air in the cramped debate about the differences between men and women. Fascinating, nuanced, and very timely.” —Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind: A Hopeful History

 


Saltwater Demands a Psalm: Poems By Kweku Abimbola Cover Image
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Published: Graywolf Press - April 4th, 2023

In Ghana’s Akan tradition, on the eighth day of life a child is named according to the day of the week on which they were born. This marks their true birth. In Kweku Abimbola’s rhapsodic debut, the intimacy of this practice yields an intricately layered poetics of time and body based in Black possibility, ancestry, and joy.


The Immortal King Rao: A Novel By Vauhini Vara Cover Image
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 4th, 2023

Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
Nominated for the 2022 NBCC John Leonard Prize
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Esquire, Vox, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Literary Hub


A House With Good Bones By T. Kingfisher Cover Image
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Published: Tor Nightfire - March 28th, 2023

A Barnes & Noble Best Horror Book of 2023

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explores the dark, twisted roots lurking just beneath the veneer of a perfect home and family.


"Mom seems off."


The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown #1) By Hannah Whitten Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780316434997
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Published: Orbit - March 7th, 2023

In this lush, romantic epic fantasy series from a New York Times bestselling author, a young woman’s secret power to raise the dead plunges her into the dangerous and glamorous world of the Sainted King’s royal court.

When Lore was thirteen, she escaped a cult in the catacombs beneath the city of Dellaire.


What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez By Claire Jimenez Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781538725962
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - March 7th, 2023

A powerful novel that's "hilarious, heartbreaking, and ass-kicking" (Jamie Ford), of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their long‑missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and they set out to bring her home.

A March Indie Next Pick! Belletrist, Phenomenal, and Readers Digest book club pick!


The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance By Dan Egan Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781324002666
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - March 7th, 2023

A New Yorker Best Book of 2023 • A Smithsonian Staff Favorite of 2023

The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over the world.


The Gospel of Orla By Eoghan Walls Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781644212820
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Published: Seven Stories Press - March 7th, 2023

Most anticipated in the IRISH TIMES, TORONTO STAR, and the BOOK CULTURE newsletter INDIE NEXT LIST PICK LIBRARY READS SELECTION • PERFECT FOR BOOK CLUBS • DEBUT NOVEL

"A consistently surprising, evocative, almost impossible to put down, and gloriously original work." —Booklist


The Crane Husband By Kelly Barnhill Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781250850973
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Published: Tordotcom - February 28th, 2023

“If I had to nominate a worthy successor to Angela Carter, I would nominate Kelly Barnhill. "—Laura Ruby, two-time National Book Award finalist and author of Bone Gap

"A slim little novella that packs a narrative punch more intense than that of many books ten times its length."—NPR


The Sense of Wonder: A Novel By Matthew Salesses Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780316425711
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - January 17th, 2023

From the author of PEN/Faulkner finalist Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear and Craft in the Real World comes a "a smart, very meta take(Kirkus Reviews) on the ways Asian Americans navigate the thorny worlds of sports and entertainment when everything is stacked against them.

An Asian American basketball star walks into a gym.


Chrome Valley: Poems By Mahogany L. Browne Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781324092278
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Published: Liveright - February 7th, 2023

Best Books of 2023: TIME, Electric Literature

From Lincoln Center’s inaugural poet-in-residence comes this unflinching collection that intricately mines the experience of being a Black woman in America.


The Wise Hours: A Journey into the Wild and Secret World of Owls By Miriam Darlington Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781953534835
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Published: Tin House Books - February 7th, 2023

People Pick of the Week

“Unfailingly precise and lovingly poetic. . . .  Nature writing of the first order.” —The Wall Street Journal

“A beautiful book; wise and sharp-eared as its subject.” —Robert Macfarlane


Stolen By Ann-Helén Laestadius, Rachel Willson-Broyles (Translated by) Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781668007167
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Published: Scribner - January 31st, 2023

* SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM * AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR *

A spellbinding Swedish novel that follows a young indigenous woman as she struggles to defend her family’s reindeer herd and culture amidst xenophobia, climate change, and a devious hunter whose targeted kills are considered mere theft in the eyes of the law.


On a winter day north of the Arctic


The Evidence of Things Not Seen By James Baldwin, Stacey Abrams (Foreword by) Cover Image
By James Baldwin, Stacey Abrams (Foreword by)
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250844897
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Published: Holt Paperbacks - January 17th, 2023

Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atlanta despite national attention and outcry; they were all Black. James Baldwin investigated these murders, the Black administration in Atlanta, and Wayne Williams, the Black man tried for the crimes.


Hell Bent: A Novel (Ninth House Series #2) By Leigh Bardugo Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781250313102
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Published: Flatiron Books - January 10th, 2023

#1 New York Times BestsellerGoodreads Choice Award Winner

"A tour de force of suspenseful pacing and empathetic writing." ―The New York Times

"All hail the queen of dark academia!" ―NPR


How to Communicate: Poems By John Lee Clark Cover Image
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - December 6th, 2022

Winner of the 2023 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry
Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poetry

A stunning debut from an award-winning DeafBlind poet, “How to Communicate is a masterpiece” (Kaveh Akbar).


Factory Girls By Michelle Gallen Cover Image
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Published: Algonquin Books - November 29th, 2022

A funny, fierce, and unforgettable read about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory in Northern Ireland, while tensions rise both inside and outside the factory walls.

Winner of the Comedy Women in Print 2022-23 Published Novel Award


It’s the summer of 1994, and all smart-mouthed Maeve Murray wants are good final exam results so she can earn her


Raising Adventurous Eaters: Practical Ways to Overcome Picky Eating and Food Sensory Sensitivities By Lara Dato, Suzanne Mouton-Odum (Foreword by), Ruth Goldfinger Golomb (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Lara Dato, Suzanne Mouton-Odum (Foreword by), Ruth Goldfinger Golomb (Foreword by)
$18.95
ISBN: 9781684039524
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Published: New Harbinger Publications - December 1st, 2022

Help kids develop a positive relationship with food, so they can become healthy and adventurous eaters for life


Overcoming Parental Anxiety: Rewire Your Brain to Worry Less and Enjoy Parenting More By Debra Kissen, Micah Ioffe, Hannah Romain Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9781648480300
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Published: New Harbinger Publications - December 1st, 2022

Be the calm and collected parent you aspire to be with this powerful, neuroscience-based guide.


A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of Return By Sandy White Hawk, Gene Thin Elk (Foreword by), Terry Cross (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Sandy White Hawk, Gene Thin Elk (Foreword by), Terry Cross (Introduction by)
$18.95
ISBN: 9781681342412
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Published: Minnesota Historical Society Press - December 6th, 2022

An adoptee reconnects with the Lakota family and culture she was born into--and nurtures a new tradition that helps others to do the same.


Cursed Bunny: Stories By Bora Chung, Anton Hur (Translated by) Cover Image
By Bora Chung, Anton Hur (Translated by)
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ISBN: 9781643753607
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Published: Algonquin Books - December 6th, 2022

FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE

A wildly original debut from a rising star of Korean literature—surreal, chilling fables that take on the patriarchy, capitalism, and the reign of big tech with absurdist humor and a (sometimes literal) bite.


Great Short Books: A Year of Reading—Briefly By Kenneth C. Davis Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781982180034
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Published: Scribner - November 22nd, 2022

This entertaining guide to some of the best short novels of all time, from a bestselling historian, is the “perfect gift for busy bibliophiles” (BookPage).

Experience the joys of literature with this this “exciting guide to all that the world of fiction has to offer” (The New York Times Book Review): a compulsively readable, deeply engaging discu


Desert Creatures By Kay Chronister Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781645660521
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Published: Erewhon Books - November 8th, 2022

“A vivid investigation of faith, perseverance, and human violence as they exist at the end of the world . . . Scintillating.” —Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling World


Toad: A Novel By Katherine Dunn, Molly Crabapple (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Katherine Dunn, Molly Crabapple (Foreword by)
$28.00
ISBN: 9780374602321
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Published: MCD - November 1st, 2022

A previously unpublished novel of the reflections of a deeply scarred and reclusive woman, from the cult icon Katherine Dunn, the author of Geek Love.


Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years By Joy Harjo, Sandra Cisneros (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Joy Harjo, Sandra Cisneros (Foreword by)
$25.00
ISBN: 9781324036487
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - November 1st, 2022

A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s fifty years as a poet.


Saha: A Novel By Cho Nam-joo, Jamie Chang (Translated by) Cover Image
By Cho Nam-joo, Jamie Chang (Translated by)
$22.00
ISBN: 9781324090885
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Published: Liveright - November 1st, 2022

TIME • Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2022

From the international best-selling author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 comes this chilling dystopian fable for fans of Netflix’s Squid Game.


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Inciting Joy: Essays By Ross Gay Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781643753041
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Published: Algonquin Books - October 25th, 2022

From Ross Gay, the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights, comes an intimate and electrifying collection of essays about the joy that comes from connection. “BRILLIANT.” —Ada Limón, U.S.


Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America By Dan Flores Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781324006169
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - October 25th, 2022

Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award
Winner of the 2023 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature
Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Society Ralph Waldo Emerson Award

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2022


Mordew (Cities of the Weft #1) By Alex Pheby Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781250817242
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Published: Tor Books - October 18th, 2022

Alex Pheby's Mordew launches an astonishingly inventive epic fantasy trilogy.

God is dead, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew.


Random By Penn Jillette Cover Image
$27.95
ISBN: 9781636140711
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Published: Akashic Books, Ltd. - October 11th, 2022

From Penn Jillette of the legendary magic duo Penn & Teller: a rollicking crime caper that will bend your mind like a spoon.


Dinosaurs: A Novel By Lydia Millet Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781324021469
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - October 11th, 2022

One of NPR's Books We Love for 2022 • A New Yorker Best Books of 2022 So Far • A Publishers Weekly Best Novel of 2022 • A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2022 • One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 • An Oprah Daily and Literary Hub Favorite Book of 2022 • A BookBrowse Top 20 Best Books of 2022


Freeman's: Animals By John Freeman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780802160126
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Published: Grove Press - October 11th, 2022

Featuring new work from Mieko Kawakami, Mart n Espada, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Arthur Sze, Camonghne Felix, and more, the latest installment of the acclaimed literary journal Freeman's explores the irrevocably intertwined lives of animals and the humans that exist alongside themOver a century ago, Rilke went to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where he watched a pair of flamingos.


Lark Ascending By Silas House Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781643751597
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Published: Algonquin Books - September 27th, 2022

Winner of the Southern Book Prize ​for Fiction * Winner of a Nautilus Award (Gold)​

A timely, powerful story of survival set in the not-too-distant future that Margaret Renkl (Late Migrations) calls “a beautiful book...shot through with such tenderness and humanity, such love and courage and beauty and hope, that it feels almost like a prayer.&rdq


Solutions and Other Problems By Allie Brosh Cover Image
$23.00
ISBN: 9781982156954
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Published: Gallery Books - September 27th, 2022

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Allie Brosh—beloved author and artist of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller Hyperbole and a Half—returns with a long-awaited collection of “hilarious and slyly poignant” (People), autobiographical, illustrated essays.

Solutions and Other Problems includes humorou


Early Light (Storybook ND Series) By Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene (Translated by), Ralph McCarthy (Translated by) Cover Image
By Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene (Translated by), Ralph McCarthy (Translated by)
$17.95
ISBN: 9780811231985
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Published: New Directions - September 27th, 2022

Early Light gathers three tales by Osamu Dazai, author of the wildly popular No Longer Human


Spadework for a Palace (Storybook ND Series) By László Krasznahorkai, John Batki (Translated by) Cover Image
By László Krasznahorkai, John Batki (Translated by)
$17.95
ISBN: 9780811228404
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Published: New Directions - September 27th, 2022

A joyful ode—in a single soaring, crazy sentence—to the interconnectedness of great (and mad) minds


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The English Understand Wool (Storybook ND Series) By Helen DeWitt Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9780811230070
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Published: New Directions - September 27th, 2022

A modern amorality play about a 17-year-old girl, the wilder shores of connoisseurship, and the power of false friends


Three Streets (Storybook ND Series) By Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani (Translated by) Cover Image
By Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani (Translated by)
$17.95
ISBN: 9780811229302
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Published: New Directions - September 27th, 2022

Yoko Tawada—winner of the National Book Award—presents three terrific new ghost stories, each named after a street in Berlin


The Famous Magician (Storybook ND Series) By César Aira, Chris Andrews (Translated by) Cover Image
By César Aira, Chris Andrews (Translated by)
$17.95
ISBN: 9780811228893
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Published: New Directions - September 27th, 2022

A writer is offered a devil’s bargain: will he give up reading books in exchange for total world domination?


The Woman Who Killed the Fish (Storybook ND Series) By Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser (Translated by) Cover Image
By Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser (Translated by)
$17.95
ISBN: 9780811229609
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Published: New Directions - September 27th, 2022

Four beguiling tales for children of all ages.

A surprising new facet of Clarice Lispector’s genius


Fairy Tale By Stephen King Cover Image
$32.50
ISBN: 9781668002179
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Published: Scribner - September 6th, 2022

A #1 New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice!

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours.


This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You By Susan Rogers, Ogi Ogas Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780393541250
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 20th, 2022

One of the Next Big Idea Club's Favorite Nonfiction Books
A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2022

A legendary record producer–turned–brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music.


Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter By Yohuru Williams, Michael G. Long Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780374389956
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) - September 20th, 2022

An enthralling, eye-opening portrayal of this barrier-breaking American hero as a lifelong, relentlessly proud fighter for Black justice and civil rights.


A Single Rose By Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson (Translator) Cover Image
By Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson (Translator)
$16.95
ISBN: 9781609457945
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Published: Europa Editions - September 13th, 2022

From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a story about a woman's journey to discover the father she never knew and a love she never thought possible.


The Ski Jumpers: A Novel By Peter Geye Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781517913496
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Published: Univ Of Minnesota Press - September 13th, 2022

Now in paperback: a writer and former ski jumper facing a terminal diagnosis takes one more leap—into a past of soaring flights and broken family bonds

A brilliant ski jumper has to be fearless—Jon Bargaard remembers this well.


The Family Izquierdo: A Novel By Rubén Degollado Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780393866827
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 6th, 2022

A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2022
Longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award

A masterful debut that weaves together the lives of three generations of a Mexican American family bound by love, and a curse.


Ithaca (Songs of Penelope #1) By Claire North Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780316422963
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Published: Redhook - September 6th, 2022

From the multi-award-winning author Claire North comes a daring reimagining that breathes life into ancient myth and gives voice to the women who stand defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men. It’s time for the women of Ithaca to tell their tale . . .

"North brings a powerful, fresh, and unflinching voice to ancient myth.


Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent By Dipo Faloyin Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780393881530
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 6th, 2022

A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2022

An exuberant, opinionated, stereotype-busting portrait of contemporary Africa in all its splendid diversity, by one of its leading new writers.


Literature and the New Culture Wars: Triggers, Cancel Culture, and the Teacher's Dilemma By Deborah Appleman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781324019183
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 6th, 2022

Can educators continue to teach troubling but worthwhile texts?


Parrot Tales: Our 30 Years with a Magical Bird By Debby Smith, Michael Steven Smith, Eric Hanson (Calligrapher) Cover Image
$21.95
ISBN: 9781682193136
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Published: OR Books - August 9th, 2022

Charlie Parker is an African Gray Parrot. He entered the life of Debby and Michael Smith three decades ago when, at the insistence of their young son, Eli, they brought him home from a downtown Manhattan bird shop. He has been an integral, and voluble, member of the family ever since.


Calling for a Blanket Dance By Oscar Hokeah Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781643751474
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Published: Algonquin Books - July 26th, 2022

Winner of the PEN America/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel * Finalist for the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize * Finalist for the L.A.


The Wall By Marlen Haushofer, Shaun Whiteside (Translated by), Claire Louise-Bennett (Afterword by) Cover Image
By Marlen Haushofer, Shaun Whiteside (Translated by), Claire Louise-Bennett (Afterword by)
$16.95
ISBN: 9780811231947
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Published: New Directions - June 21st, 2022

A haunting feminist sci-fi masterpiece and international bestseller that is “as absorbing as Robinson Crusoe” (Doris Lessing)


Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land By Taylor Brorby Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781324090861
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Published: Liveright - June 7th, 2022

"Brorby has written not only a truly great memoir, but also a frighteningly relevant one that speaks to the many battles we still have left to fight." —Jung Yun, New York Times Book Review

From a young, gay environmentalist, a searing coming-of-age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota, where homosexuality “seems akin to a ticking bomb.”


Fruiting Bodies: Stories By Kathryn Harlan Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781324021223
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - June 7th, 2022

Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
One of Vulture's Best Books of the Year

This genre-bending debut collection of stories constructs eight eerie worlds full of desire, wisdom, and magic blooming amidst decay.


Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between By Joseph Osmundson Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780393881363
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - June 7th, 2022

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Literary Hub

A leading microbiologist tackles the scientific and sociopolitical impact of viruses in eleven striking essays.


Buffalo Is the New Buffalo By Chelsea Vowel Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781551528793
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Published: Arsenal Pulp Press - June 7th, 2022

Powerful stories of "M tis futurism" that envision a world without violence, capitalism, and colonization.

"Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to signify the importance of education to their survival and ability to support themselves, as once Plains nations supported themselves as buffalo peoples.


Auē By Becky Manawatu Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781950354955
Availability: Backordered
Published: Scribe Us - May 24th, 2022

WINNER OF THE JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTION
WINNER OF THE MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK OF FICTION
WINNER OF THE NGAIO MARSH AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL

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Metropolis: A Novel By B. A. Shapiro Cover Image
$27.95
ISBN: 9781616209582
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Published: Algonquin Books - May 17th, 2022

The New York Times bestselling author of The Art Forger delivers a spellbinding and moving novel about what we hang on to, what we might need to let go, and how unexpected events can lead us to deeper truths.

Six people, six secrets, six different backgrounds.


When Women Were Dragons: A Novel By Kelly Barnhill Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780385548229
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Published: Doubleday - May 3rd, 2022

A GOODREADS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A fiery feminist fantasy tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions of a woman’s place in the world and expanding minds about accepting others for who they really are.
 


A Factotum in the Book Trade By Marius Kociejowski Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9781771964562
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Published: Biblioasis - April 26th, 2022

The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it's because of books, what they are, what they release in ourselves, and what they become when we make them magnets to our desires.


The Good Enough Parent: How to Raise Contented, Interesting, and Resilient Children By Life of School the, Alain de Botton (Editor) Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781912891542
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Published: School of Life - April 19th, 2022

A parenting guide providing compassionate instruction and insight into raising a resilient, well-balanced child.

Bringing up a child to be an authentic and mentally robust adult is one of life's great challenges. It is also, fortunately, not a matter of luck.


Time Is a Mother By Ocean Vuong Cover Image
$25.00
ISBN: 9780593300237
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Published: Penguin Press - April 5th, 2022

The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong

"Take your time with these poems, and return to them often.” —The Washington Post


How else do we return to ourselves but to fold
The page so it points to the good part
 


How to Live Like the Little Prince: A Grown-Up's Guide to Rediscovering Imagination, Adventure, and Awe By Stéphane Garnier Cover Image
$22.95
ISBN: 9781797215730
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Published: Chronicle Prism - April 12th, 2022

"All grown-ups were once children... but only a few of them remember it."
–Antoine St. Exupéry, The Little Prince


Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life: A Memoir By Delia Ephron Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780316267656
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - April 12th, 2022

The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-life love story in her "resplendent memoir," complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution (Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Good Left Undone).

Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak.


The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy By James Crews (Editor), Danusha Laméris (Foreword by) Cover Image
By James Crews (Editor), Danusha Laméris (Foreword by)
$14.95
ISBN: 9781635865332
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Published: Storey Publishing, LLC - April 12th, 2022

Following the success and momentum of his anthology How to Love the World (93,000 copies in print)James Crews's new collection, The Path to Kindness, offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable poems from a diverse range of voices including well-known writers Julia Alvarez, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto R&iacute


Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist By Frans de Waal Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781324007104
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 5th, 2022

A Kirkus Best Science and Medicine Book of 2022
Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award


Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us By Colleen Kinder (Editor), Leslie Jamison (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Colleen Kinder (Editor), Leslie Jamison (Foreword by)
$19.95
ISBN: 9781643751245
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Published: Algonquin Books - March 22nd, 2022

“Beautiful. The human condition is on full display in these glimpses of our essential connectedness.


A Modern Parents' Guide to Nursery Rhymes: Because It's Two O'Clock in the Morning and You Can't Remember
$15.00
ISBN: 9781523512355
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(This book cannot be returned.)
Published: Workman Publishing Company - March 29th, 2022

Because it’s two o'clock in the morning and you can’t remember “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”

Once upon a time, every parent knew Little Jack Horner, Wee Willie Winkie, and Little Miss Muffet. Now you will, too, with this crash course on timeless pleasures of Mother Goose and beyond.


Small Odysseys: Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories By Hannah Tinti (Editor), Neil Gaiman (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Hannah Tinti (Editor), Neil Gaiman (Foreword by)
$19.95
ISBN: 9781643751993
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Published: Algonquin Books - March 15th, 2022

“Lovers of the short story, rejoice! There’s something for everyone in this anniversary collection . . .


A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds By Scott Weidensaul Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9780393882414
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - March 15th, 2022

New York Times Bestseller
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the Year

An exhilarating exploration of the science and wonder of global bird migration.


White Magic By Elissa Washuta Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781953534019
Availability: Backordered
Published: Tin House Books - March 15th, 2022

Finalist for the PEN Open Book Award

Longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Award

A TIME, NPR, New York Public Library, Lit Hub, Book Riot, and Entropy Best Book of the Year

“Beguiling and haunting. . . . Washuta's voice sears itself onto the skin.” —The New York Times Book Review


Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR By Lisa Napoli Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781419750410
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Published: Harry N. Abrams - March 8th, 2022

A group biography of four beloved women who fought sexism, covered decades of American news, and whose voices defined NPR.

National Bestseller

“Particularly moving . . . Their solidarity was inspiring and sometimes intimidating . . .


The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and our Place in the Middle By Sarah Krasnostein Cover Image
$27.95
ISBN: 9781953534002
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Published: Tin House Books - March 1st, 2022

A New Yorker Best Book of 2022

A Best Book of the Month at The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Deeply beautiful, and never simple.” —James Gleick, author of Time Travel: A History


The Wonders By Elena Medel, Lizzie Davis (Translated by), Thomas Bunstead (Translated by) Cover Image
By Elena Medel, Lizzie Davis (Translated by), Thomas Bunstead (Translated by)
$26.95
ISBN: 9781643752112
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Published: Algonquin Books - March 1st, 2022

The Wonders is a poet’s novel, delicate but strong, impressing its images firmly on the imagination.”​ —Hilary Mantel  

LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
NOW TRANSLATED INTO FIFTEEN LANGUAGES 

From award-winning Spanish poet Elena Medel comes a mesmerizing new novel of class, sex,


Eating Salad Drunk: Haikus for the Burnout Age by Comedy Greats By Gabe Henry, Aparna Nancherla (Introduction by), Emily Flake (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Gabe Henry, Aparna Nancherla (Introduction by), Emily Flake (Illustrator)
$15.99
ISBN: 9781250774217
Availability: Unavailable to Order
Published: St. Martin's Griffin - February 22nd, 2022

“I’m huge on Twitter.”
—An ancient proverb that means
Lonely in real life.
—JOEL KIM BOOSTER


*Vulture's Best Comedy Books of 2022*


The Family Chao: A Novel By Lan Samantha Chang Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780393868074
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - February 1st, 2022

One of Literary Hub's and The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of 2022
A Goodreads Readers' Most Anticipated Mystery of 2022

An acclaimed storyteller returns with “a gorgeous and gripping literary mystery” that explores “family, betrayal, passion, race, culture and the American Dream” (Jean Kwok).


Shady Hollow (A Shady Hollow Mystery #1) By Juneau Black Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780593315712
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Published: Vintage - January 25th, 2022

The first book in the Shady Hollow series, in which we are introduced to the village of Shady Hollow, a place where woodland creatures live together in harmony—until a curmudgeonly toad turns up dead and the local reporter has to solve the case.


Enough Rope: A Book of Light Verse (Vintage Classics) By Dorothy Parker Cover Image
$11.00
ISBN: 9780593466353
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Published: Vintage - January 25th, 2022

Now available as a stand-alone edition, the famous humorist’s debut collection—a runaway bestseller in 1926—ranges from lighthearted self-deprecation to acid-tongued satire, all the while gleefully puncturing sentimental clichés about relations between men and women.


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Ain't Burned All the Bright By Jason Reynolds, Jason Griffin (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Jason Reynolds, Jason Griffin (Illustrator)
$19.99
ISBN: 9781534439467
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Published: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books - January 11th, 2022

A Caldecott Honor winner!

Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now. Written by #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds.

Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin, had a mind-meld.


Anthem By Noah Hawley Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9781538711514
Availability: Unavailable to Order
Published: Grand Central Publishing - January 4th, 2022

 “A blistering thriller that follows a group of teenagers on an adventure through an apocalyptic America much like our own.” ―Entertainment Weekly 

Bestselling author of Before the Fall and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Noah Hawley (FX’s Fargo) returns with a chilling and prophetic allegory of America


Call Us What We Carry: Poems By Amanda Gorman Cover Image
$24.99
ISBN: 9780593465066
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Published: Viking Books - December 7th, 2021

The instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller


The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman


Girl Gone Missing (MN Edition) (A Cash Blackbear Mystery #2) By Marcie R. Rendon Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781641293891
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Published: Soho Crime - November 23rd, 2021

Nineteen-year-old Cash Blackbear helps law enforcement solve the mysterious disappearance of a local girl from Minnesota's Red River Valley.


Station Eleven (Television Tie-in) By Emily St. John Mandel Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780593468074
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Published: Vintage - November 23rd, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. Now an original series on HBO Max. Over one million copies sold!


The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story By Nikole Hannah-Jones (Created by), The New York Times Magazine (Created by), Caitlin Roper (Editor), Ilena Silverman (Editor), Jake Silverstein (Editor) Cover Image
By Nikole Hannah-Jones (Created by), The New York Times Magazine (Created by), Caitlin Roper (Editor), Ilena Silverman (Editor), Jake Silverstein (Editor)
$38.00
ISBN: 9780593230572
Availability: On Our Shelves Now (Subject to Availability)
Published: One World - November 16th, 2021

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.


The Every By Dave Eggers Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781952119361
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Published: McSweeney's Publishing - October 5th, 2021

This title is available exclusively through independent bookstores and the book’s independent, nonprofit publisher, McSweeney’s. When the world’s largest search engine/social media company, the Circle, merges with the planet’s dominant e-commerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous–and, oddly enough, most beloved–monopoly ever known: the Every.


The Sentence By Louise Erdrich Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9780062671127
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Published: Harper - November 9th, 2021

"Dazzling. . . . A hard-won love letter to readers and to booksellers, as well as a compelling story about how we cope with pain and fear, injustice and illness. One good way is to press a beloved book into another's hands. Read The Sentence and then do just that."—USA Today, Four Stars


All Dogs Are Good: Poems & Memories By Courtney Peppernell Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781771682558
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Published: Central Avenue Publishing - November 9th, 2021

Written for anyone who has known the touch of a cold nose on their hand, the bark of a best friend, or the joy of a walk accompanied by a wagging tail, All Dogs Are Good pays tribute to the special bond we share with our canine companions.

Filled with heartfelt poems and prose on the love, dedication, and laughter our dogs bring, as well as the unique lesson


The Writer's Cats By Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson (Translator), Maria Guitart (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson (Translator), Maria Guitart (Illustrator)
$16.95
ISBN: 9781609457167
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Published: Europa Editions - November 9th, 2021

From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes this delightful, delicate tale that pays tribute to the poetry of the everyday, to Japanese philosophy, and to the ingenuity and sardonic humor of cats.

What a mysterious, confounding thing is a writer Yet, spend a little time with the writer's cats and one might just understand her better.