1.
Series:
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
A Novel
Paperback
Ocean Vuong
9780525562047
$23.00
FICTION
Jun 01, 2021
The brilliant, New York Times bestselling debut that has taken the literary world by storm: Award-winning poet Ocean Vuong’s debut novel, a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytellingOn Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born—a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam—and serves as a doorway into parts of his life...
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2.
Series:
She Said
Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
Paperback
Jodi Kantor
9780525560364
$24.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 30, 2020
The instant New York Times bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment and abuse“An instant classic of investigative journalism…’All the President’s Men’ for the Me Too era.”—Carlos Lozada, The Washington PostFor years, reporters had tried to get to the truth about Harvey Weinstein’s treatment of women. Rumors of wrongdoing had long circulated. But in 2017, when Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey began their investigation for the New York Times, his name was still synonymous with pow...
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3.
Series:
The Water Cure
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018
Paperback
Sophie Mackintosh
9780735239715
$19.95
FICTION
Jun 02, 2020
The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Virgin Suicides in this dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three sisters on an isolated island, raised to fear men.“A gripping, sinister fable!”—Margaret Atwood, via TwitterKing has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters. He has lain the barbed wire; he has anchored the buoys in the water; he has marked out a clear message: Do not enter. Or viewed from another angle: Not safe to leave. Here women are protected from the chaos and violence of men on the mainland. The cult-like rituals a...
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4.
Series:
Bunny
Paperback
Mona Awad
9780735235908
$21.00
FICTION
Jun 09, 2020
The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this“wickedly hilarious” (New Yorker), “audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel” (Los Angeles Times).Samantha Heather Mackey couldn’t be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England’s Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort—a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other “Bunny,” and seem to move and speak as one.But everything...
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5.
Series:
Blue Ticket
A Novel
Paperback
Sophie Mackintosh
9780735239166
$24.95
FICTION
Jun 30, 2020
THE GUARDIAN’S “BEST BOOKS OF 2020 - picked by our acclaimed guest authors”BELLETRIST’S AUGUST 2020 BOOK PICK“[Mackintosh’s] writing is clear and sharp, with piercing moments of wisdom and insight that drive toward a pitch-perfect ending…Blue Ticket adds something new to the dystopian tradition set by Orwell’s 1984 or Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.”—New York Times Book ReviewFrom the author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted novel The Water Cure comes another mesmerizing, refracted vision of our society: In a world where women can’t have it all,...
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6.
Series:
How the Penguins Saved Veronica
Paperback
Hazel Prior
9780735238107
$24.95
FICTION
Jun 16, 2020
“A glorious, life-affirming story. I read it in a day. I’m going to buy it for so many people this year!”—Clare Mackintosh, New York Times bestselling author of Let Me LieA heartwarming story about a curmudgeonly but charming old woman, her estranged grandson, and a colony of penguins that proves it’s never too late to be the person you want to be…and that family is what you make it.After a disastrous first meeting with the grandson she never knew she had, eighty-four-year-old Veronica McCreedy wants to find a worthwhile cause to endow with her...
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7.
Series:
Seven Lies
A Novel
Paperback
Elizabeth Kay
9780735239265
$24.95
FICTION
Jun 16, 2020
“Scalpel-sharp writing and a killer concept-dark, clever, compelling and utterly assured.”—Lucy Foley, author of The Guest List, a Hello Sunshine x Reese Witherspoon Book Club PickIt all started with just one little lie. But we all know that it never ends there. Because, of course, one lie leads to another…Growing up, Jane and Marnie shared everything. They knew the other’s deepest secrets. They wouldn’t have had it any other way. But when Marnie falls in love, things begin to change.Because Jane has a secret: she loathes Marnie’s wealthy, prig...
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8.
Series:
After the End
Paperback
Clare Mackintosh
9780451490575
$23.00
FICTION
Jun 16, 2020
“After the End is a beautifully written novel, compelling and clever, tender and true. I can’t stop thinking about it.”—Liane MoriartyFrom New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh, a deeply moving and page-turning novel about an impossible choice—and the two paths fate could take.Max and Pip are the strongest couple you know. They’re best friends, lovers, unshakable. But then their son gets sick and the doctors put the question of his survival into their hands. For the first time, Max and Pip can’t agree. They each want a different fu...
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9.
Series:
Death in Her Hands
A Novel
Hardcover
Ottessa Moshfegh
9781984879356
$36.00
FICTION
Jun 23, 2020
“[An] intricate and unsettling new novel…Death in Her Hands is not a murder mystery, nor is it really a story about self-deception or the perils of escapism. Rather, it’s a haunting meditation on the nature and meaning of art.”-Kevin Power, The New YorkerFrom one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds an ominous note on a walk in the woods.While on her daily walk with her dog in a secluded woods, a woman comes across a note, han...
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10.
Series:
A Brightness Long Ago
Paperback
Guy Gavriel Kay
9780143192633
$22.00
FICTION
Jun 02, 2020
Internationally bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay’s latest work is set in a world evoking early Renaissance Italy and offers an extraordinary cast of characters whose lives come together through destiny, love, and ambition, now in paperback.In a chamber overlooking the nighttime waterways of a maritime city, a man looks back on his youth and the people who shaped his life. Danio Cerra’s intelligence won him entry to a renowned school even though he was only the son of a tailor. He took service at the court of a ruling count—and soon learned wh...
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11.
Series:
This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart
A Memoir in Halves
Paperback
Madhur Anand
9780771007774
$26.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 30, 2020
“Wondrously and elegantly written in language that astonishes and moves the reader…. This is an important book: an emotional and intellectual tour de force.”—Jane UrquhartAn experimental memoir about Partition, immigration, and generational storytelling, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart weaves together the poetry of memory with the science of embodied trauma using the imagined voices of the past and the vital authority of the present.We begin before the red line is drawn across Punjab, with a man off balance: one in one thousand, the o...
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12.
Series:
Mexican Gothic
Hardcover
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
9780525620785
$36.00
FICTION
Jun 30, 2020
From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes a reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel, a story about an isolated mansion in 1950s Mexico—and the brave socialite drawn to its treacherous secrets.He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noemí. You have to save me.After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband, a handsome Engli...
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13.
Series: Harry Hole Series
Knife
A Harry Hole novel
Paperback
Jo Nesbo
9780735275362
$22.00
FICTION
Jun 02, 2020
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWinner of the 2019 Riverton PrizeBrilliant, rogue police detective Harry Hole—at the centre of 11 bestselling crime novels including The Snowman and The Thirst—is back and once again hunting the mastermind killer who has haunted his entire career. This time his reasons are intensely personal. Harry Hole is not in a good place. Rakel—the only woman he’s ever loved—has kicked him out, permanently. He’s been given a chance for a new start with the Oslo Police, but it’s in the cold case office, when what he really wants is ...
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14.
Series:
The Guardians
A Novel
Paperback
John Grisham
9780525620945
$12.99
FICTION
Jun 16, 2020
John Grisham delivers a classic legal thriller—with a twist.In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo’s.Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison, maintaining his innocence. But no one was listening. He had no lawyer, no advocate...
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15.
Series:
The Wrong Hands and Other Stories
Not Safe After Dark / The Price of Love
Paperback
Peter Robinson
9780771000577
$25.00
FICTION
Jun 30, 2020
Over two dozen of the very best mystery short stories from crime-fiction’s maestro, Peter Robinson. Set in places as far-flung as Inspector Alan Banks’s turf in Yorkshire, Robinson’s own neighbourhood in Toronto, and in Los Angeles and Florida, these stories also reach back in time: to 1873 to an utopian milltown in northern England, Thomas Hardy country in 1939, and a small Yorkshire town during the Second World War.Complete with the award-winning stories “Innocence” (Crime Writers of Canada Best Short Story Award), “The Two Ladies of Rose Cot...
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16.
Series:
A Burning
Hardcover
Megha Majumdar
9780771059834
$32.00
FICTION
Jun 02, 2020
For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise—to the middle class, to politcal power, to fame in the movies—and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India.Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir is an opportunistic gym teacher who hitches his aspirations to a right-wing political p...
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17.
Series:
Under Occupation
A Novel
Paperback
Alan Furst
9780399592317
$23.00
FICTION
Jun 02, 2020
From “America’s preeminent spy novelist” (The New York Times) comes a fast-paced, mesmerizing thriller of the French resistance fighters working secretly and bravely to defeat Hitler.Occupied Paris, 1942. Just before he dies, a man being chased by the Gestapo hands off a strange-looking document to the unsuspecting novelist Paul Ricard. It looks like a blueprint of a part for a military weapon, one that might have important information for the Allied forces. Ricard realizes he must try to get the diagram into the hands of members of the resista...
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18.
Series:
Devolution
A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
Hardcover
Max Brooks
9781984826787
$37.00
FICTION
Jun 16, 2020
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of World War Z reinvents the Bigfoot legend with a thriller that blends fact and fiction, natural and supernatural—human and beast. When Max Brooks first came across the news story, he dismissed it as just another piece of tabloid clickbait. “Bigfoot Destroys Town.” Come on.Then he stumbled upon victim Kate Holland’s journals, recovered from the wreckage—her day-by-day, firsthand account of what happened. A hoax? Maybe. The ranger who found the carnage sure seems to be convinced, though. As is Kate’s bro...
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19.
Series:
The Spies of Shilling Lane
A Novel
Paperback
Jennifer Ryan
9780525576501
$23.00
FICTION
Jun 02, 2020
From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir comes a thrilling new WWII story about a village busybody—the mighty Mrs. Braithwaite—who resolves to find, and then rescue, her missing daughterMrs. Braithwaite, a middle-aged mother and divorcee, hasn’t been happy in a long time. She’s estranged from her daughter—who now lives in London—and was recently alienated by her small English village. In the midst of her frustration and despair, she decides she must travel to London to find Betty and share a secret she has kept from her for far...
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20.
Series:
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
A Novel
Paperback
Christy Lefteri
9780593128176
$23.00
FICTION
Jun 23, 2020
This unforgettable novel puts human faces on the Syrian war with the immigrant story of a beekeeper, his wife, and the triumph of spirit when the world becomes unrecognizable.“Courageous and provocative, The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a beautifully crafted novel of international significance which has the capacity to have us open our eyes, and see.” Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzNuri is a beekeeper and Afra, his wife, is an artist. Mornings, Nuri rises early to hear the call to prayer before driving to his hives in the country...
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21.
Series:
Love
Paperback
Roddy Doyle
9780735279889
$24.95
FICTION
Jun 23, 2020
Two old friends reconnect in Dublin for a dramatic, revealing evening of confidences—some planned, some spontaneous—in this captivating new book from the author of the Booker Prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.Old friends meet up on a summer’s evening at a Dublin restaurant. Both are now married with grown-up children, and their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has to tell Davy, and Davy, a grief he wants to keep from Joe. Both are not the men they used to be.Neither Davy nor Joe know what the night has in stor...
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22.
Series:
The Lies That Bind
Hardcover
Emily Giffin
9780385689731
$34.00
FICTION
Jun 02, 2020
NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the irresistible new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted, a woman is falling hard for a man she’s just met when he disappears without a trace on 9/11.It’s 2 a.m. in a dive bar on the Lower East Side, May 2001. Cecily figures it’s the perfect place to order a beer and try to forget that she’s just been dumped by the man she suspects she’ll always think of as The One Who Got Away. Her best friend warned her to hunker down and avoid any risk of late-night drunk di...
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23.
Series:
Grown Ups
Paperback
Marian Keyes
9780385695893
$24.00
FICTION
Jun 30, 2020
A brand-new book from the #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Woman Who Stole My Life.They’re a glamorous family, the Caseys. Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beautiful, talented wives and all their kids spend a lot of time together—birthday parties, anniversary celebrations, weekends away. And they’re a happy family. Johnny’s wife, Jessie—who has the most money—insists on it.Under the surface, though, conditions are murkier. While some people clash, other people like each other far too much…Still, everything manages to ...
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24.
Series:
The BC Wine Lover's Cookbook
Recipes & Stories from Wineries Across British Columbia
Hardcover
Jennifer Schell
9780525610366
$35.00
COOKING
Jun 23, 2020
NATIONAL BESTSELLERDiscover the vineyards, valleys, islands, deserts—and kitchens—of BC’s Wine Country in this collection of recipes, tour ideas, menus and more.Take a tour through beautiful British Columbia with award-winning cookbook author and winemaker Jennifer Schell. The BC Wine Lover’s Cookbook shares family stories and recipes from 53 top wineries located across the province—from the verdant, rolling fields of the Okanagan and Fraser Valley, to the misty coastlines of Vancouver Island, and beyond.Meet the winemakers of BC wine country a...
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25.
Series: Hand Drawn
Hand Drawn Vancouver
Sketches of the City's Neighbourhoods, Buildings, and People
Hardcover
Emma FitzGerald
9780147531209
$24.95
TRAVEL
Jun 23, 2020
Visitors and locals alike will love this book of whimsical sketches of Vancouver, British Columbia, accompanied by thoughtful observations and snippets of overheard conversations.Take a tour of Vancouver’s sights and sidewalks with Emma FitzGerald’s hand-drawn impressions of her hometown, a city filled with stories—funny, surprising, and sometimes dark—amidst the cherry blossoms, beaches, and forests. Included are more than 100 sketches completed on location that, together, capture the essence of Vancouver. From Stanley Park’s seawall to Kitsil...
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26.
Series:
The Secrets We Kept
Paperback
Lara Prescott
9780385693288
$19.95
FICTION
Jun 30, 2020
A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice—the real-life story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago.At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dares publish it, and help Pasternak’s magnum opus make its way into print around ...
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27.
Series:
Heart Berries
A Memoir
Paperback
Terese Marie Mailhot
9780385691161
$19.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 02, 2020
*NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Heart Berries is a sledgehammer…a mixture of vulnerability and rage, sexual yearning and artistic ambition, swagger and self-mockery…. A new model for the memoir.”—The New York Times“An astounding memoir in essays. Here is a wound. Here is need, naked and unapologetic. Here is a mountain woman, towering in words great and small…. What Mailhot has accomplished in this exquisite book is brilliance both raw and refined.” -Roxane Gay, author of Hunger Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman’s coming of age on the ...
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28.
Series: Paul Stuart Series
The Second-Worst Restaurant in France
A Paul Stuart Novel (2)
Paperback
Alexander McCall Smith
9780735277991
$19.95
FICTION
Jun 02, 2020
In this delightful sequel to the bestselling comedic novel My Italian Bulldozer, Paul Stuart’s travels take him to a French village, where the local restaurant’s haute cuisine leaves a lot to be desired.Renowned Scottish cookbook writer Paul Stuart is hard at work on his new book, The Philosophy of Food, but complicated domestic circumstances, and two clingy cats, are making that difficult.So when Paul’s cousin Chloe suggests that he join her at the house she’s rented in the French countryside, he jumps at the chance. The two quickly befriend t...
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29.
Series:
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Paperback
Alicia Elliott
9780385692403
$21.00
HISTORY
Jun 02, 2020
Finalist for the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction#1 National BestsellerA bold and profound work by Haudenosaunee writer Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground is a personal and critical meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America. In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight and unde...
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30.
Series:
The Nickel Boys
Paperback
Colson Whitehead
9780385693981
$19.95
FICTION
Jun 30, 2020
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Florida, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: he is “as good as anyone.” Abandoned by his parents, ...
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31.
Series:
An Unwanted Guest
A Novel
Paperback
Shari Lapena
9781400027033
$12.99
FICTION
Jun 02, 2020
A remote lodge in upstate New York is the perfect winter wonderland getaway…until the bodies start piling up.It’s winter in the Catskills and Mitchell’s Inn, nestled deep in the woods, is the perfect setting for a relaxing—maybe even romantic—weekend away. It boasts spacious old rooms with huge woodburning fireplaces, a well-stocked wine cellar, and opportunities for cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, or just curling up with a good murder mystery.So when the weather takes a turn for the worse, and a blizzard cuts off the electricity—and all con...
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32.
Series:
Exhalation
Paperback
Ted Chiang
9781101972083
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 30, 2020
From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others—the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film Arrival: a groundbreaking new collection of short fiction.“THE UNIVERSE BEGAN AS AN ENORMOUS BREATH BEING HELD.”In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.In “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and second chances....
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33.
Series:
Death in the East
Paperback
Abir Mukherjee
9781784708535
$19.99
FICTION
Sep 29, 2020
** Selected by the Telegraph, FT and Guardian as one of the best crime books of 2019****’A skilfully blended dual narrative: twice the intrigue, twice the fun. Mukherjee is at the top of his game’ Mick Herron, author of the Jackson Lamb series, on Death in the East****’The gloriously atmospheric Death in the East is his [Mukherjee’s] best book so far, a cracking read’ Scotsman****’The perfect combination of mystery and history’ Telegraph**Calcutta police detective Captain Sam Wyndham and his quick-witted Indian Sergeant, Surrender-not Banerjee,...
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