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The Kudzu Queen By Mimi Herman Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9781646033102
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Published: Regal House Publishing - January 10th, 2023

“Funny, sad, and tender… Mimi Herman has written a novel that possesses a true and hard won understanding of the South.” —David Sedaris, author of Happy-Go-Lucky


The Creative Act: A Way of Being By Rick Rubin Cover Image
$32.00
ISBN: 9780593652886
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Published: Penguin Press - January 17th, 2023

The #1 New York Times bestseller.

"A gorgeous and inspiring work of art on creation, creativity, the work of the artist. It will gladden the hearts of writers and artists everywhere, and get them working again with a new sense of meaning and direction. A stunning accomplishment.” —Anne Lamott


The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science By Alan Lightman Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780593317419
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Published: Pantheon - March 14th, 2023

From the acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams comes a rich, fascinating answer to the question, Can the scientifically inclined still hold space for spirituality?
 


Stone Blind: A Novel By Natalie Haynes Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780063258396
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Published: Harper - February 7th, 2023

Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023

"Haynes is master of her trade . . . She succeeds in breathing warm life into some of our oldest stories.”—Telegraph (UK)


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Indigo Field By Marjorie Hudson Cover Image
$22.95
ISBN: 9781646033256
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Published: Regal House Publishing - March 14th, 2023

"Indigo Field brims with multigenerational drama, earthy spirituality, and deeply imagined characters you are unlikely to forget." Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Invention of Wings, The Book of Longings, and The Secret Life of Bees

In the rural South, a retired colonel in an upscale retirement community grieves the sudden death of h


The Passenger Box Set: The Passenger, Stella Maris By Cormac McCarthy Cover Image
$56.00
ISBN: 9780593536049
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Published: Knopf - December 6th, 2022

The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with a two-volume masterpiece in an artfully designed box set. The Passenger is a fast-paced and sprawling novel while Stella Maris is a tightly controlled coda, told entirely in dialogue.


Remainders of the Day: A Bookshop Diary By Shaun Bythell Cover Image
$27.95
ISBN: 9781567927566
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Published: David R. Godine Publisher - December 6th, 2022

New from the author of Confessions of a Bookseller and Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops, another hilariously grumpy year behind the counter at The Bookshop. Though diaries of daily life, Shaun Bythell has created an endearing and cozy world for booklovers, a warm and welcome memoir of a life in books.


Anatomy of 55 More Songs: The Oral History of Top Hits That Changed Rock, Pop and Soul By Marc Myers Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780802160201
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Published: Grove Press - December 6th, 2022

Following his 2016 smash hit Anatomy of a Song, acclaimed music
journalist Marc Myers collects fifty-five new oral histories of
iconic songs from his popular Wall Street Journal column
Songs that sell the most copies become hits, but some of those hits become
something more--iconic recordings that not only inspire a generation but also


Wayward: A Novel (Wanderers #2) By Chuck Wendig Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9780593158777
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Published: Del Rey - November 15th, 2022

“If King had written a sequel to The Stand, it might look something like this monumental epic of a story.”—James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Kingdom of Bones


Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story By Bono Cover Image
By Bono
$34.00
ISBN: 9780525521044
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Published: Knopf - November 1st, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.


Stella Maris By Cormac McCarthy Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780307269003
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Published: Knopf - December 6th, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence.


The Passenger By Cormac McCarthy Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780307268990
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Published: Knopf - October 25th, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God.


The Philosophy of Modern Song By Bob Dylan Cover Image
$45.00
ISBN: 9781451648706
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Published: Simon & Schuster - November 1st, 2022

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.

Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music.


The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times By Michelle Obama Cover Image
$32.50
ISBN: 9780593237465
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Published: Crown - November 15th, 2022

#1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME’S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2022 • In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world.


All the Broken Places: A Novel By John Boyne Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593653067
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Published: Pamela Dorman Books - November 29th, 2022

“You can’t prepare yourself for the magnitude and emotional impact of this powerful novel.” —John Irving, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The World According to Garp


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


The World Record Book of Racist Stories By Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9781538724552
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - November 22nd, 2022

A new collection of hilarious, intergenerational anecdotes full of absurd detail about everyday experiences of racism from the New York Times bestselling authors of You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey, comedian Amber Ruffin and her sister Lacey.

Families may not always see eye to eye; we get on each other’s nerves, have different perspective


How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future By Maria Ressa Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9780063257511
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Published: Harper - November 29th, 2022

Introduction by Amal Clooney

From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, an impassioned and inspiring memoir of a career spent holding power to account.


Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger By Tony Tetro, Giampiero Ambrosi Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780306826481
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Published: Hachette Books - November 22nd, 2022

The world’s most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the masters—exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art history lesson wrapped in sex, drugs, and Caravaggio.

The art world is a much dirtier, nastier business than you might expect.


Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands By Linda Ronstadt, Lawrence Downes, Bill Steen (Photographer) Cover Image
$35.00
ISBN: 9781597145794
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Published: Heyday Books - October 4th, 2022

A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller

2023 Southwest Book of the Year Selection

"The arid land that starts in Arizona and stretches into Mexico's west coast is Ronstadt's foothold in the world. It's a story she has told through music, and now wants to tell through food."--The New York Times


Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës By Devoney Looser Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781635575293
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - October 25th, 2022

For readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, a fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister novelists before the Brontës.


How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures By Sabrina Imbler Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780316540537
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - December 6th, 2022

WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE in SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award

One of TIME’s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year •  A PEOPLE Best New Book  •  A Barnes & Noble and SHELF AWARENESS Best Book of 2022  •  An Indie Next Pick  •  One of Winter&rsq


Winterland: A Novel By Rae Meadows Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250834522
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Published: Henry Holt and Co. - November 29th, 2022

Perfection has a cost . . . With transporting prose and meticulous detail, set in an era that remains shockingly relevant today, Rae Meadows's Winterland tells a story of glory, loss, hope, and determination, and of finding light where none exists.


The Quentin Blake Book By Jenny Uglow Cover Image
$45.00
ISBN: 9780500094358
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Published: Thames & Hudson - November 15th, 2022

A fascinating, fully illustrated overview of the life and work of one of the world’s best-loved illustrators, Quentin Blake, celebrating more than seventy years of work that has redefined illustration. 


The Light Pirate: GMA Book Club Selection By Lily Brooks-Dalton Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781538708279
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - December 6th, 2022

Set in the near future, this hopeful story of survival and resilience follows Wanda—a luminous child born out of a devastating hurricane—as she navigates a rapidly changing world: A “symphony of beauty and heartbreak” (Associated Press).

A Good Morning America Book Club pick · #1 Indie Next pick · LibraryReads pick · Book of the Mon


Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation By Linda Villarosa Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780385544887
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Published: Doubleday - June 14th, 2022

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • "A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and die quicker'—an eye-opening game changer."—Oprah Daily


The Boy and the Dog: A Novel By Seishu Hase, Alison Watts (Translated by) Cover Image
By Seishu Hase, Alison Watts (Translated by)
$23.00
ISBN: 9780593300411
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Published: Viking - November 15th, 2022

“An amazing, beautiful book . . . It shows how one dog’s dignified presence can bring connection and love to a fractured world.” ―Cat Warren, New York Times bestselling author of What the Dog Knows


None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive: A Novel By Carolyn Prusa Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781982188863
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Published: Atria Books - November 22nd, 2022

Perfect for fans of Maria Semple and Jennifer Weiner, this smart and witty debut novel follows Ramona through the forty-eight hours after her life has been upended by the discovery of her husband’s affair and an approaching Category Four hurricane.

Ramona’s got a bratty boss, a toddler teetering through toilet training, a critical mom who doesn’t mind sharing, and o


Mad Honey: A Novel By Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9781984818386
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Published: Ballantine Books - October 4th, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Alternatingly heart-pounding and heartbreaking. This collaboration between two best-selling authors seamlessly weaves together Olivia and Lily’s journeys, creating a provocative exploration of the strength that love and acceptance require.”—The Washington Post
 


The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation By John Lancaster Cover Image
$28.95
ISBN: 9781631496370
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Published: Liveright - November 15th, 2022

The untold, almost unbelievable, story of the daring pilots who risked their lives in an unprecedented air race in 1919—and put American aviation on the map.


The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of Obsession By Kate Summerscale Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780593489758
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Published: Penguin Books - September 27th, 2022

From the winner of the Edgar Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize, a cultural history of “everyday madness”

The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of animals).
 


American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis By Adam Hochschild Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9780358455462
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Published: Mariner Books - October 4th, 2022

National Bestseller • One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfiction

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast Company


Lucy by the Sea: A Novel By Elizabeth Strout Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593446065
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Published: Random House - September 20th, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown—and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart.


Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm: A Novel By Laura Warrell Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593316443
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Published: Pantheon - September 27th, 2022

GMA BUZZ PICK Passion and risk, fathers and daughters, wives and single women, jazz and soul: a "gorgeously written debut" (Celeste Ng, best-selling author of Little Fires Everywhere) about the perennial temptations of dangerous love, told by the women who love Circus Palmer—trumpet player and old-school ladies’ man—as they ultimately discover the power of


Brave Companions: Portraits in History By David McCullough Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781668003541
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Published: Simon & Schuster - September 20th, 2022

Master historian David McCullough’s classic book about some of history’s most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh.

Pulitzer Prize–winning author David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women who shaped the course of history and changed how we see the world.


A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories By Leonard Cohen Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780802160478
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Published: Grove Press - October 11th, 2022

A never-before-published early novel and stories by the legendary musician, songwriter, and poet Leonard CohenBefore Leonard Cohen's worldwide fame expanded to fourteen studio albums, Grammy awards, and late-career global tours, he yearned for literary stardom.


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Shutter By Ramona Emerson Cover Image
$25.95
ISBN: 9781641293334
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Published: Soho Crime - August 2nd, 2022

Longlisted for the National Book Award

This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller, supernatural horror, and poignant portrayal of coming of age on the reservation.


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Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber By Andy Borowitz Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781668003886
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Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - September 13th, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER *WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER *

Andy Borowitz, “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly “chronicles our embrace of anti-intellectualism” (Walter Isaacson) in American politics, from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle, from George W.


The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible By Luke Mogelson Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780593489215
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Published: Penguin Press - September 13th, 2022

The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle its accelerating civic breakdown, in an indelible eyewitness narrative of startling explanatory power


This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You By Susan Rogers, Ogi Ogas Cover Image
$28.95
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.


I'm Glad My Mom Died By Jennette McCurdy Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781982185824
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Published: Simon & Schuster - August 9th, 2022

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life.


The House of Fortune By Jessie Burton Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781635579741
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - August 30th, 2022

Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensational New York Times bestseller The Miniaturist, which has sold more than two million copies.


Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir By Jann S. Wenner Cover Image
$35.00
ISBN: 9780316415194
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - September 13th, 2022

In this New York Times bestseller, Rolling Stone founder, co-editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a "touchingly honest" and "wonderfully deep" memoir from the beating heart of classic rock and roll (Bruce Springsteen).

Jann Wenner has been called by his peers “the greatest editor of his generation.”

His deeply persona


Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs By Jamie Fiore Higgins Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781668001028
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Published: Simon & Schuster - August 30th, 2022

A “riveting and powerful” (Gretchen Carlson, cofounder of Lift Our Voices) insider’s account on Wall Street where greed coupled with misogyny and discrimination enforces a culture of exclusion in the upper echelons of Goldman Sachs.

Jamie Fiore Higgins became one of the few women at the highest ranks of Goldman Sachs.


Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery By Casey Parks Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780525658535
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Published: Knopf - August 30th, 2022

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, New York Public Library, Minneapolis Star Tribune


Act of Oblivion: A Novel By Robert Harris Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9780063248007
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Published: Harper - September 13th, 2022

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliantly imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King Charles I and the implacable foe on their trail—an epic journey into the wilds of seventeeth-century New England,


A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems By Professor Joseph L. Graves, Jr. Ph.D Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781541600713
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Published: Basic Books - September 13th, 2022

Why understanding evolution—the most reviled branch of science—can help us all, from fighting pandemics to undoing racism 

Evolutionary science has long been regarded as conservative, a tool for enforcing regressive ideas, particularly about race and gender. But in A Voice in the Wilderness, evolutionary biologist Joseph L.


Lessons: A novel By Ian McEwan Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780593535202
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Published: Knopf - September 13th, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From the best-selling author of Atonement and Saturday comes the epic and intimate story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals.


Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories By Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9780063117044
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Published: Amistad - September 13th, 2022

“I couldn’t put this book down and I loved spending time in the lives of Nonso, Remi, Aisha, and Solape. Truly this book will grab hold of your heart and mind and everything in between.”—Roxane Gay, author of Hunger and Bad Feminist


Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure By Bryn Nelson, PhD Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781538720028
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - September 13th, 2022

For readers of Giulia Enders’ Gut and Bill Bryson’s The Body, a surprising, witty and sparkling exploration of the teeming microbiome of possibility in human feces from microbiologist and science journalist Bryn Nelson.

The future is sh*t: the literal kind.


Sacrificio By Ernesto Mestre-Reed Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781641293648
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Published: Soho Press - September 6th, 2022

Set in Cuba in 1998, Sacrificio is a triumphant and mesmeric work of violence, loss, and identity, following a group of young HIV-positive counterrevolutionaries who seek to overthrow the Castro government.


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Solito: A Memoir By Javier Zamora Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593498064
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Published: Hogarth - September 6th, 2022

New York Times Bestseller • Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography • Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award


The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture By Gabor Maté, MD, Daniel Maté (With) Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780593083888
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Published: Avery - September 13th, 2022

The instant New York Times bestseller

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.


American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper By Daniel Stashower Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781250041166
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Published: Minotaur Books - September 6th, 2022

New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Demon, a historical true crime starring legendary lawman Eliot Ness.

Boston had its Strangler. California had the Zodiac Killer. And in the depths of the Great Depression, Cleveland had the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run.


Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better By Woo-kyoung Ahn Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781250805959
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Published: Flatiron Books - September 13th, 2022

“An INVALUABLE RESOURCE to anyone who wants to think better.” —Gretchen Rubin

Award-winning YALE PROFESSOR Woo-kyoung Ahn delivers “A MUST-READ
a smart and compellingly readable guide to cutting-edge research into how people think.” (Paul Bloom)

“A FUN exploration.”
Dax Shepard


The Fortunes of Jaded Women: A Novel By Carolyn Huynh Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781982188733
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Published: Atria Books - September 6th, 2022

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
A WASHINGTON POST BEST FEEL-GOOD BOOK OF THE YEAR

For fans of Amy Tan, KJ Dell’Antonia, and Kevin Kwan, this “sharp, smart, and gloriously extra” (Nancy Jooyoun Kim, author of The Last Story of Mina Lee) debut celebrates a family of estranged Vietnamese women who experiences mishaps and


Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage By Nathalia Holt Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780593328484
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - September 13th, 2022

From the New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls comes the never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early days of the CIA—women who helped create the template for cutting-edge espionage (and blazed new paths for equality in the workplace) in the treacherous post-WWII era.


The Unfolding: A Novel By A.M. Homes Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780735225350
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Published: Viking - September 6th, 2022

"In this much-anticipated, wickedly funny and sharply observed political satire, Homes takes readers inside the homes and meeting rooms of a dyed-in-the-wool conservative with big plans for change.


On the Rooftop: A Reese's Book Club Pick By Margaret Wilkerson Sexton Cover Image
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Published: Ecco - September 6th, 2022

A Reese’s Book Club Pick

“An utterly original and brilliant story.” –Reese Witherspoon

A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters’ ambitions for their own lives—set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San Francisco


The Bad Angel Brothers: A Novel By Paul Theroux Cover Image
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Published: Mariner Books - September 6th, 2022

From the legendary American master Paul Theroux comes a brilliant new novel of chilling psychological depth, the tale of a younger brother whose lifelong rivalry with his older brother—a powerful lawyer with a pattern of gleefully vicious betrayals—culminates in the ultimate plan: murder.


How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals By Tom Mustill Cover Image
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - September 6th, 2022

What if animals and humans could speak to one another?


If I Survive You By Jonathan Escoffery Cover Image
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Published: MCD - September 6th, 2022

FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD. NOMINATED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION, THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZE, THE 2023 PEN/JEAN STEIN OPEN BOOK AWARD, THE 2023 PEN/BINGHAM PRIZE, THE 2022 STORY PRIZE, THE 2023 CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION, AND THE 2023 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE


The Birdcatcher By Gayl Jones Cover Image
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 2022

Publishers Weekly Top 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2022

“Gayl Jones’s work represents a watershed in American literature."
—Imani Perry


Legendary writer Gayl Jones returns with a stunning new novel about Black American artists in exile


Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power By Eleanor Herman Cover Image
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Published: William Morrow - September 6th, 2022

New York Times bestseller Eleanor Herman, author of Sex with Kings and Sex with Presidents, returns with another work of popular history, exploring the history of misogyny against women with power from Cleopatra to Kamala Harris.

Imagine Donald Trump as a woman, called Donna.


The House with the Golden Door: Volume 2 By Elodie Harper Cover Image
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Published: Union Square & Co. - September 6th, 2022

From prize-winning and international bestselling author Elodie Harper, the second book in the Wolf Den Trilogy follows Amara as she escapes her life as a slave in the city's most notorious brothel, the Wolf Den. Her survival depends on the affections of a man she might not know as well as she once thought . . .


The Village Idiot By Steve Stern Cover Image
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022

"A frothy picaresque that ... vibrates to the “sweet celestial confusion” of Soutine’s painting: delirious and earthy, reverent and irreligious." -- The New York Times Book Review


Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century By Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell Cover Image
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Published: St. Martin's Press - September 6th, 2022

In a sparkling, beautifully illustrated social history, Skirts traces the shifting roles of women over the twentieth century through the era’s most iconic and influential dresses.


White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds By Roland Martin, Leah Lakins Cover Image
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Published: BenBella Books - September 13th, 2022

White Fear has shaped our democracy and society from the beginning—and today, it’s more intense and visible than ever. To neutralize it, we must first understand it.


Hysterical: A Memoir By Elissa Bassist Cover Image
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Published: Hachette Books - September 13th, 2022

Writer Elissa Bassist shares her journey to reclaim her authentic voice in a culture that doesn't listen to women in this medical mystery, cultural criticism, and rallying cry.

Between 2016 and 2018, Elissa Bassist saw over twenty medical professionals for a variety of mysterious ailments.


I Walk Between the Raindrops: Stories By T.C. Boyle Cover Image
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Published: Ecco - September 13th, 2022

An electric collection of new short stories from the inimitable, bestselling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking In


One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World By Michael Frank, Maira Kalman (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Michael Frank, Maira Kalman (Illustrator)
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Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - September 6th, 2022

One of Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of the Year * Winner of the National Jewish Book Awards for Holocaust Memoir and Sephardic Culture * Recipient of the Jewish Book Council’s Natan Notable Book Award * Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal

The remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose conve


A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories By Leonard Cohen Cover Image
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Published: Grove Press - October 11th, 2022

A never-before-published early novel and stories by the legendary musician, songwriter, and poet Leonard CohenBefore Leonard Cohen's worldwide fame expanded to fourteen studio albums, Grammy awards, and late-career global tours, he yearned for literary stardom.


The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II By Buzz Bissinger Cover Image
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Published: Harper - September 13th, 2022

Instant New York Times Bestseller · Winner of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation


Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America By Pekka Hämäläinen Cover Image
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Published: Liveright - September 20th, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
New York Times Book Review • 100 Notable Books of 2022
Best Books of 2022 — New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence


Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World By Karen Armstrong Cover Image
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Published: Knopf - September 6th, 2022

From one of the most original thinkers on the role of religion in the modern world, a profound exploration of the spiritual power of nature—and an urgent call to reclaim that power in everyday life.


Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships By Nina Totenberg Cover Image
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Published: Simon & Schuster - September 13th, 2022

Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship of nearly fifty years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Four years before Nina Totenberg was hired at NPR, where she cemented her legacy as a prizewinning reporter, and nearly twenty-two y


The Many Daughters of Afong Moy: A Novel By Jamie Ford Cover Image
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Published: Atria Books - August 2nd, 2022

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!

“One of the most beautiful books of motherhood and what we pass on to those that come after us.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Today

The New York Times bestselling author of the “mesmerizing and evocative&rdq


The Rabbit Hutch: A novel By Tess Gunty Cover Image
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Published: Knopf - August 2nd, 2022

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER The standout literary debut that everyone is talking about "Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny."—The Guardian

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME, NPR, Oprah Daily, People

Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building.


Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan By Randall Kenan, Tayari Jones (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Randall Kenan, Tayari Jones (Introduction by)
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - August 9th, 2022

A New York Times Notable Book
A Book Riot Best Book of 2022

A personal, social, and intellectual self-portrait of the beloved and enormously influential late Randall Kenan, a master of both fiction and nonfiction.


Painting Beyond Walls By David Rhodes Cover Image
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Published: Milkweed Editions - September 13th, 2022

As a young man, David Rhodes worked in fields, hospitals, and factories across Iowa. After receiving an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he published three acclaimed novels: The Last Fair Deal Going Down (1972), The Easter House (1974), and Rock Island Line (1975). In 1976, a motorcycle accident left him partially paralyzed.


Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison By A. J. Verdelle Cover Image
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Published: Amistad - May 10th, 2022

“Passionate, personal, insightful, testy, and unique.” —Kirkus (starred review)


Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China By Michael Beckley, Hal Brands Cover Image
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - August 16th, 2022

A provocative and urgent analysis of the U.S.–China rivalry.

It has become conventional wisdom that America and China are running a “superpower marathon” that may last a century. Yet Hal Brands and Michael Beckley pose a counterintuitive question: What if the sharpest phase of that competition is more like a decade-long sprint?


Elizabeth Finch: A novel By Julian Barnes Cover Image
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Published: Knopf - August 16th, 2022

From the best-selling, award-winning author of The Sense of an Ending, a magnetic tale that centers on the presence of a vivid and particular woman, whose loss becomes the occasion for a man’s deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography.


Mika in Real Life: A Novel By Emiko Jean Cover Image
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Published: William Morrow - August 2nd, 2022

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK


Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism By Jo Glanville (Editor) Cover Image
By Jo Glanville (Editor)
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - August 16th, 2022

Great Jewish thinkers offer salient historical commentary on the roots of antisemitism and its contemporary resurgence.


Letter to My Transgender Daughter: A Girlhood By Carolyn Hays Cover Image
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Published: Blair - September 13th, 2022

A parent's love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is.

One ordinary day, a caseworker from the Department of Children and Families knocked on the Hays family's door to investigate an anonymous complaint about the upbringing of their transgender child.


Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors By Amber Share Cover Image
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**A New York Times Bestseller!** Based on the wildly popular Instagram account, Subpar Parks features both the greatest hits and brand-new content, all celebrating the incredible beauty and variety of America’s national parks juxtaposed with the clueless and hilarious one-star reviews posted by visitors.


Acts of Violet: A Novel By Margarita Montimore Cover Image
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Published: Flatiron Books - July 5th, 2022

A DAZZLING NEW NOVEL FROM NATIONAL BESTSELLING AND GMA BOOK CLUB PICK MARGARITA MONTIMORE, AUTHOR OF OONA OUT OF ORDER

“[A] twisty, genre-defying family drama…Reminiscent of Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones & the Six.” --Shelf Awareness (starred review)


Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel By Gabrielle Zevin Cover Image
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Published: Knopf - July 5th, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have read before.


The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays By CJ Hauser Cover Image
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A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century.


Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages By Matthew Green Cover Image
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One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2022

A “brilliant London historian” (BBC Radio) tells the story of Britain as never before—through its abandoned villages and towns.


The Seaplane on Final Approach: A Novel By Rebecca Rukeyser Cover Image
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Published: Doubleday - June 7th, 2022

A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER • A lusty young woman seeks out experience on a remote Alaskan homestead in this erotic and darkly humorous novel

"Rukeyser weaves a dreamlike spell—'Twin Peaks’ by way of ‘Northern Exposure.’" —LA Times

"Fantastic.” —The New York Times


Kaleidoscope: A Novel By Cecily Wong Cover Image
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Published: Dutton - July 5th, 2022

A dazzling novel about the tumultuous relationship between two sisters, a shocking loss that changes everything, and the life-altering adventure that follows.


Venomous Lumpsucker By Ned Beauman Cover Image
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Published: Soho Press - July 12th, 2022

A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed author of The Teleportation Accident.


The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I By Lindsey Fitzharris Cover Image
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - June 7th, 2022

A New York Times Bestseller
Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize | Named a best book of the year by The Guardian

"Enthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking. And utterly redemptive. Lindsey Fitzharris hit this one out of the park." —Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile


The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything By Matthew Ball Cover Image
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Published: Liveright - July 19th, 2022

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER — United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and China (Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Nielsen Bookscan, Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Toronto Star, Globe & Mail, BookNet Canada, Bookseller.com, Bookdao/Nielsen, JD, DangDang)


True Biz: A Novel By Sara Novic Cover Image
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Published: Random House - April 5th, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A “tender, beautiful and radiantly outraged” (The New York Times Book Review) novel that follows a year of seismic romantic, political, and familial shifts for a teacher and her students at a boarding school for the deaf, from the acclaimed author of Girl at War


The Mermaid of Black Conch: A novel By Monique Roffey Cover Image
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Published: Knopf - July 12th, 2022

WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD • This enchanting tale of a cursed mythical creature and the lonely fisherman who falls in love with her is "a daring, mesmerizing novel …  single-handedly bringing magic realism up-to-date (Maggie O’Farrell, best-selling author of Hamnet).


Florida Woman By Deb Rogers Cover Image
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"Razor-sharp... Deb Rogers writes with such verve and honesty about all the ways we stumble through life, and, like all great storytellers, gives us something wondrous when we reach the end of the journey." --Kevin Wilson, bestselling author of Nothing to See Here


A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting: A Novel By Sophie Irwin Cover Image
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Published: Pamela Dorman Books - July 12th, 2022

“Bridgerton fans will swoon over this entertaining romp through Britain’s Regency-era high society.”
People


Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir By Erika L. Sánchez Cover Image
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Published: Viking - July 12th, 2022

“Equal parts pee-your-pants hilarity and break your heart poignancy- like the perfect brunch date you never want to end!"--America Ferrera, Emmy award-winning actress in Ugly Betty

From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly original memoir-in-essays that is as deeply moving as it is disarmingly funny


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

A GOODREADS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A fiery feminist 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.


Bitter Orange Tree By Jokha Alharthi, Marilyn Booth (Translated by) Cover Image
By Jokha Alharthi, Marilyn Booth (Translated by)
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Published: Catapult - May 10th, 2022

Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award

A TIME Best Book of the Year
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year


The Swift and the Harrier By Minette Walters Cover Image
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Published: Blackstone Publishing - July 12th, 2022

A sweeping historical adventure set during one of the most turbulent periods of British history--featuring a heroine you'll never forget ...

Dorset, 1642.

When bloody civil war breaks out between the king and Parliament, families and communities across England are riven by different allegiances.

A rare few choose neutrality.


Corinne: A Novel By Rebecca Morrow Cover Image
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Published: St. Martin's Press - July 12th, 2022

"I was riveted...A modern-day Romeo & Juliet."—Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways

You want to walk away from the things that are bad for you and never look back.

That's what Corinne Callahan wants.


Sea of Tranquility: A novel By Emily St. John Mandel Cover Image
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Published: Knopf - April 5th, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.


Pure Colour: A Novel By Sheila Heti Cover Image
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - February 15th, 2022

Winner of the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award in Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize in Fiction
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vulture, The Times Literary Supplement, and more


In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing By Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator) Cover Image
By Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator)
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Published: Europa Editions - March 15th, 2022

A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER
A BEST BOOK OF 2022 (Air Mail)


Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.


Glory: A Novel By NoViolet Bulawayo Cover Image
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Published: Viking - March 8th, 2022

2022 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST

“Manifoldly clever…brilliant… ‘Glory’ is its own vivid world, drawn from its own folklore. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny.” —Violet Kupersmith, The New York Times Book Review


Beasts of a Little Land: A Novel By Juhea Kim Cover Image
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Published: Ecco - December 7th, 2021

"A spectacular debut filled with great characters and heart.” —Lisa See, author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

FINALIST FOR THE 2022 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE · FINALIST FOR THE BALCONES FICTION PRIZE · LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWN AWARD


Perpetual West By Mesha Maren Cover Image
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Published: Algonquin Books - January 25th, 2022

​“Stunning . . . A forceful addition to the literature of the U.S.-Mexican border and its ongoing history of tragedy and joy.”
—Jennifer Clement, The New York Times Book Review 

“Suspenseful, seductive . . .


To Paradise: A Novel By Hanya Yanagihara Cover Image
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Published: Doubleday - January 11th, 2022

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the award-winning, best-selling author of the classic A Little Life—a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia.


The Last House on the Street: A Novel By Diane Chamberlain Cover Image
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Published: St. Martin's Press - January 11th, 2022

A community’s past sins rise to the surface in New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain’s The Last House on the Street when two women, a generation apart, find themselves bound by tragedy and an unsolved, decades-old mystery.

1965


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The Gods of Green County By Mary Elizabeth Pope Cover Image
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Published: Blair - October 5th, 2021

Coralee Harper struggles for justice for her dead brother and her own sanity in Depression-era rural Arkansas.


The Latinist: A Novel By Mark Prins Cover Image
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - January 4th, 2022

One of The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of 2022
A CrimeReads Most Anticipated Crime Fiction of 2022 Selection

A contemporary reimagining of the Daphne and Apollo myth, The Latinist is a page-turning exploration of power, ambition, and the intertwining of love and obsession.


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The Family Chao: A Novel By Lan Samantha Chang Cover Image
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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).


The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Oprah's Book Club Pick By Honoree Fanonne Jeffers Cover Image
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Published: Harper - August 24th, 2021

An instant New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today Bestseller • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB SELECTION • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021 • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION


The Madness of Crowds: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel #17) By Louise Penny Cover Image
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Published: Minotaur Books - August 24th, 2021

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
AARP The Magazine – Recommended Summer Reading
CNN – A Most Anticipated Book of August
Bustle – A Most Anticipated Book of August


Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's latest spellbinding novel


You’re a coward.


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My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy #1) By Stephen Graham Jones Cover Image
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Published: Gallery / Saga Press - August 31st, 2021

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR

In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham


Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel By Sally Rooney Cover Image
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - September 7th, 2021

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Beautiful World, Where Are You
is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends.


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Published: Riverhead Books - September 7th, 2021

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WINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION

One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021


The Night She Disappeared: A Novel By Lisa Jewell Cover Image
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Published: Atria Books - September 7th, 2021

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GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK

“Utterly gripping with richly drawn, hugely compelling characters, this is a first-class thriller with heart.” —Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author

“Insane suspense.” —Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author


Daughter of the Morning Star: A Longmire Mystery By Craig Johnson Cover Image
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Published: Viking - September 21st, 2021

A new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series.


The Night She Disappeared: A Novel By Lisa Jewell Cover Image
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Published: Atria Books - September 7th, 2021

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“Utterly gripping with richly drawn, hugely compelling characters, this is a first-class thriller with heart.” —Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author

“Insane suspense.” —Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author


The Madness of Crowds: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel #17) By Louise Penny Cover Image
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Published: Minotaur Books - August 24th, 2021

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
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Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's latest spellbinding novel


You’re a coward.


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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest By Suzanne Simard Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780525656098
Published: Knopf - May 4th, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery


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People We Meet on Vacation By Emily Henry Cover Image
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Published: Berkley - May 11th, 2021

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers and Beach Read comes a sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.

Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.


Wilmington's Lie (Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize): The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy By David Zucchino Cover Image
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Published: Grove Press - January 19th, 2021

WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION

From Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to most Americans.


Call Us What We Carry: Poems By Amanda Gorman Cover Image
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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


All In: An Autobiography By Billie Jean King, Johnette Howard, Maryanne Vollers Cover Image
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Published: Knopf - August 17th, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant tennis career, unwavering activism, and an ongoing commitment to fairness and social justice.


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The Book of Accidents: A Novel By Chuck Wendig Cover Image
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Published: Del Rey - July 20th, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A family returns to their hometown—and to the dark past that haunts them still—in this masterpiece of literary horror by the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers


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All the Lonely People By Mike Gayle Cover Image
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - July 13th, 2021

If you loved A Man Called Ove, then prepare to be delighted as Jamaican immigrant Hubert rediscovers the world he'd turned his back on this "warm, funny" novel (Good Housekeeping).

In weekly phone calls to his daughter in Australia, widower Hubert Bird paints a picture of the perfect retirement, packed with fun, friendship, and fulfillment.


Velvet Was the Night By Silvia Moreno-Garcia Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780593356821
Published: Del Rey - August 17th, 2021

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a simmering historical noir about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome enforcer, and the mystery of the missing woman they’re both desperate to find.


You Bet Your Life: Your Guide to Deadly Risk By Sheila Buff, Joe Buff Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780789270177
Published: Half Full Books - July 19th, 2022

The gritty and granular truth behind the wagers we make with our lives every single day—and, if we’re unlucky, just once in a lifetime.


The Force of Such Beauty: A Novel By Barbara Bourland Cover Image
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Published: Dutton - July 19th, 2022

“This is not your grandma’s fairy tale… Brilliant.” —The Washington Post

The Force of Such Beauty grips with the strength of an Olympian and holds it with the endurance of a marathoner … [to] an ending that actually caught my breath, not once, but twice in quick succession.”—The Associated Press


Briefly, A Delicious Life: A Novel By Nell Stevens Cover Image
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Published: Scribner - July 19th, 2022

*A Cosmopolitan Best Book of Summer * One of BuzzFeed’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books*

An “exquisite…too lovely to bear” (The New York Times Book Review) debut novel from an award-winning writer: a playful and daring tale about a teenage ghost who falls in love with the writer George Sands.

In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca


Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood By Hilary A. Hallett Cover Image
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Published: Liveright - July 26th, 2022

A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Selection

The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study in this addictively readable biography of pioneering celebrity author Elinor Glyn.


California Fever By John J. Jacobson Cover Image
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Published: Blackstone Publishing - August 2nd, 2022

SoCal surfer Dolphin Smoote just wanted to earn quick dough for a date with the brown-eyed beauty ... what he got was G-men (and G-women), ghosts, and a Colt 45.


Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish By Catherine Collins, Douglas Frantz Cover Image
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Published: Henry Holt and Co. - July 12th, 2022

A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and a former private investigator dive deep into the murky waters of the international salmon farming industry, exposing the unappetizing truth about a fish that is not as good for you as you have been told.


Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe By David Maraniss Cover Image
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Published: Simon & Schuster - August 9th, 2022

A riveting new biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete by the bestselling author of the classic biography When Pride Still Mattered.

Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport.


Mercury Pictures Presents: A Novel By Anthony Marra Cover Image
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Published: Hogarth - August 2nd, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction • The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini’s Italy to 1940s Los Angeles—a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena


Properties of Thirst By Marianne Wiggins Cover Image
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Published: Simon & Schuster - August 2nd, 2022

A National Bestseller
A New Yorker Best Book of 2022

Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a novel destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American Dream.


Acceptance: A Memoir By Emi Nietfeld Cover Image
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Published: Penguin Press - August 2nd, 2022

“Nietfeld’s gifts for capturing the fury of living at the mercy of bad circumstances, for critiquing the hero’s journey even while she tells it, make Acceptance a remarkable memoir.” —The New York Times Book Review


The Last White Man: A Novel By Mohsin Hamid Cover Image
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Published: Riverhead Books - August 2nd, 2022

A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER, VOGUE, AND NPR


“Perhaps Hamid’s most remarkable work yet … an extraordinary vision of human possibility.” –Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies


Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure By Rinker Buck Cover Image
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Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - August 9th, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Audacious…Life on the Mississippi sparkles.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection.” —St.


All This Could Be Different: A Novel By Sarah Thankam Mathews Cover Image
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Published: Viking - August 2nd, 2022

2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

ONE OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES' TOP 5 FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR

ONE OF TIME AND SLATE'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR

Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, Vogue, Vulture, BuzzFeed, Harper's Bazaar, and more