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Series: The Handmaid's Tale Paperback Margaret Atwood 9780771008795 $19.95 FICTION Sep 06, 2011

An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss.In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’ s per... + Read More
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Series: Homegoing Paperback Yaa Gyasi 9780385686150 $21.00 FICTION May 02, 2017

A stunning debut novel that signals the beginning of a major career: a story of race, ancestry, and love that traces for seven generations the descendants of two sisters torn apart in eighteenth-century Ghana.Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and will live in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising children who will be sent abroad to be educated before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrator... + Read More
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Series: The Trickster trilogy Son of a Trickster Paperback Eden Robinson 9780345810793 $21.00 FICTION Mar 13, 2018

CANADA READS 2020 FINALISTNATIONAL BESTSELLERMore than ten years after her Giller-shortlisted title Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson returns with a striking and precise coming-of-age novel, in which everyday teen existence meets Indigenous beliefs, crazy family dynamics and cannibalistic river otters.Meet Jared Martin: sixteen-year-old pot cookie dealer, smoker, drinker and son with the scariest mom ever. But Jared's the pot dealer with a heart of gold--really. Compassionate, caring, and nurturing by nature, Jared's determined to help hold his famil... + Read More
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Series: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Paperback Gail Honeyman 9780143199113 $19.95 FICTION Jun 05, 2018

Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heartSoon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon.No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine.Eleanor Oliphant is, well, a bit of an oddball—albeit a loveable one. She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking…and that, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred c... + Read More
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Series: Where the Crawdads Sing Hardcover Delia Owens 9780735219090 $35.00 FICTION Aug 14, 2018

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING PHENOMENONMore than 10 million copies sold worldwideA Reese’s Book Club PickA Business Insider Defining Book of the Decade“I can’t even express how much I love this book! I didn’t want this story to end!”—Reese Witherspoon“Painfully beautiful.”—The New York Times Book ReviewFor years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is... + Read More
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Series: Little Fires Everywhere A Novel Paperback Celeste Ng 9780735224315 $23.00 FICTION May 07, 2019

The blockbuster, critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller, now in paperback.From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives.In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Ele... + Read More
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Series: Aria Paperback Nazanine Hozar 9780345811820 $24.95 FICTION Jun 11, 2019

National BestsellerThis extraordinary, gripping debut is a rags-to-riches-to-revolution tale about an orphan girl's coming of age in Iran."Aria is a feminist odyssey, about a girl in a time of intolerance as the revolution in Iran is breaking out . . . a poised and dramatic historical novel with contemporary relevance." --John Irving"Here comes a sweeping saga about the Iranian revolution as it explodes--told from the ground level and the centre of chaos. A Doctor Zhivago of Iran." --Margaret Atwood (on Twitter)It is the early 1950s in a restle... + Read More
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Series: The Testaments A Novel Hardcover Margaret Atwood 9780771009433 $35.00 FICTION Sep 10, 2019

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEMargaret Atwood’s dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid’s Tale, has become a modern classic—and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel.More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially ex... + Read More
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Series: Empire of Wild Hardcover Cherie Dimaline 9780735277182 $29.95 FICTION Sep 17, 2019

INDIGO’S #1 BEST BOOK OF 2019NATIONAL BESTSELLERFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MARROW THIEVES, THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER, MULTI-AWARD WINNER AND CANADA READS FINALIST“Wildly entertaining and profound and essential.”—Tommy Orange, The New York TimesBroken-hearted Joan has been searching for her husband, Victor, for almost a year—ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument. One hung-over morning in a Walmart parking lot in a little town near Georgian Bay, she is drawn to a revival tent where the local Métis have been fl... + Read More
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Series: Beloved Special Edition Hardcover Toni Morrison 9780525659273 $37.00 FICTION Oct 22, 2019

The magnificent Pulitzer Prize–winning work that brought the wrenching experience of slavery into the literature of our time, enlarging our comprehension of America’s original sin. Upon the original publication of Beloved in 1987, John Leonard wrote in the Los Angeles Times: “I can’t imagine American literature without it.” Nearly two decades later, The New York Times chose Beloved as the best American novel of the previous fifty years.Set in post–Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has lost a husband and buried a chi... + Read More
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Series: Such a Fun Age Hardcover Kiley Reid 9780525541905 $35.00 FICTION Dec 31, 2019

A Best Book of the Year:The Washington Post | NPR | Chicago Tribune | Slate | Parade | Elle | Real Simple | InStyle | Good Housekeeping | Vox | Kirkus Reviews | Library Journal | BookPageLONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZEAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK“The most provocative page-turner of the year.” —Entertainment Weekly “I urge you to read Such a Fun Age.”—NPRA striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set ar... + Read More
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Series: Recipe for a Perfect Wife A Novel Paperback Karma Brown 9780735236240 $24.95 FICTION Dec 31, 2019

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERA PENGUIN BOOK CLUB PICK“Recipe for a Perfect Wife is a bold, intoxicating, page-turner. Karma Brown has long been a favorite of mine and this book is proof she just keeps getting better and better. This is a thrilling, audacious story about women daring to take control.”—Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones and the SixWhen Alice Hale reluctantly leaves a promising career in publicity, following her husband to the New York suburbs, she is unaccustomed to filling her days alone in a big, emp... + Read More
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Series: Daisy Jones & The Six A Novel Paperback Taylor Jenkins Reid 9780385692199 $19.95 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous break up.Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the real reason why they split at the absolute height of their popularity…until now.Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most. By t... + Read More
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Series: Normal People A Novel Paperback Sally Rooney 9780735276499 $21.00 FICTION Feb 18, 2020

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEA PENGUIN BOOK CLUB PICKA wondrously wise, genuinely unputdownable novel from Sally Rooney, winner of the 2017 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award (at 26, tied with Zadie Smith for the youngest-ever recipient)—the quintessential coming-of-age love story for our time.Connell Waldron is one of the most popular boys in his small-town high school—he is a star of the football team, an excellent student, and never wanting for attention from girls. The one thing he doesn’t have is m... + Read More
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Series: Pretty Things A Novel Hardcover Janelle Brown 9780525479123 $35.00 FICTION Apr 21, 2020

Two wildly different women—one a grifter, the other an heiress—are brought together by the scam of a lifetime in a page-turner from the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Me Disappear.Nina once bought into the idea that her fancy liberal arts degree would lead to a fulfilling career. When that dream crashed, she turned to stealing from rich kids in L.A. alongside her wily Irish boyfriend, Lachlan. Nina learned from the best: Her mother was the original con artist, hustling to give her daughter a decent childhood despite their wayward li... + Read More
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Series: Rodham A Novel Hardcover Curtis Sittenfeld 9780399590917 $37.00 FICTION May 19, 2020

From the New York Times bestselling author of American Wife and Eligible, a novel that imagines a deeply compelling what-might-have-been: What if Hillary Rodham hadn’t married Bill Clinton?In 1971, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise. Life magazine covered her Wellesley commencement speech, she’s attending Yale Law School, and she’s on the forefront of student activism and the women’s rights movement. Then she meets a fellow law student named Bill Clinton. A charismatic Southerner, Bill is already laying the groundwork for his polit... + Read More
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Series: Beach Read Paperback Emily Henry 9781984806734 $22.00 FICTION May 19, 2020

A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.They’re polar opposites.In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block.U... + Read More
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Series: The Vanishing Half A Novel Hardcover Brit Bennett 9780525536291 $36.00 FICTION Jun 02, 2020

From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it’s everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with ... + Read More
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Series: Sex and Vanity Hardcover Kevin Kwan 9780385695404 $34.95 FICTION Jun 30, 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with a glittering tale of love and longing as a young woman finds herself torn between two worlds—the WASP establishment of her father’s family and George Zao, a man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with.On her very first morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao and she instantly can’t stand him. She can’t stand it when he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her ... + Read More
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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,... + Read More
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Series: Self Care A Novel Paperback Leigh Stein 9780143135197 $22.00 FICTION Jun 30, 2020

A lightly satirical novel about female cofounders of a wellness start-up struggle to find balance between being good people and doing good business, while trying to stay BFFs.Maren Gelb is on a company-imposed digital detox. She tweeted something terrible about the President’s daughter, and as the COO of Richual, “the most inclusive online community platform for women to cultivate the practice of self-care and change the world by changing ourselves,” it’s a PR nightmare. Not only is CEO Devin Avery counting on Maren to be fully present for thei... + Read More
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Series: The Starless Sea A Novel Paperback Erin Morgenstern 9780385686242 $22.00 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus comes a timeless love story set in a secret underground world—a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered and desperate to make sense of what he’s reading, Zac... + Read More
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Series: The Boat People Paperback Sharon Bala 9780771024313 $21.00 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

#1 National Bestseller and Winner of the Harper Lee PrizeInspired by a real incident, The Boat People is gripping, page-turning, and morally complex novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage to reach Canada—only to face the threat of deportation and accusations of terrorism in their new land.When the rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees reaches the shores of British Columbia, the young father is overcome with relief: he and his six-year-old son can finally put Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war... + Read More
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Series: Songs for the End of the World A Novel Paperback Saleema Nawaz 9780771072574 $24.95 FICTION Aug 25, 2020

“In these dark days, Saleema Nawaz dares to write of hope. Songs for the End of the World is a loving, vivid, tenderly felt novel about men, women, and a possible apocalypse. I couldn’t put it down.”—Sean Michaels, author of Us Conductors and The WagersNATIONAL BESTSELLER. An immersive, deeply engaging, and hopeful novel about the power of human connection in a time of crisis, as the bonds of love, family, and duty are tested by an impending catastrophe. Named a Book of the Year by the Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, 49th Shelf, and a Book You S... + Read More
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Series: The Testaments A Novel Paperback Margaret Atwood 9780771009457 $22.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEMargaret Atwood’s dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid’s Tale, has become a modern classic—and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel.The Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the regime come face to face with the legendary, ruthless Aunt Lydia. But how far will each go for what she believes?Story Locale: Gilead
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Series: Empire of Wild Paperback Cherie Dimaline 9780735277205 $21.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2020

INDIGO’S #1 BEST BOOK OF 2019NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Ripping, roaring, fur-flying, and more!” says Margaret Atwood about this captivating novel from the author of The Marrow Thieves, the #1 national bestseller, multi-award winner, and Canada Reads finalist“Wildly entertaining and profound and essential.”—Tommy Orange, The New York TimesBroken-hearted Joan has been searching for her husband, Victor, for almost a year—ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument. One hung-over morning in a Walmart parking lot in a lit... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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Series: Begin Again James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own Hardcover Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780525575320 $36.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 30, 2020

James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the Civil Rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. In the era of Trump, what can we learn from his struggle?“Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.”—James BaldwinWe live, according to Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., in the after times, when the promise of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America were challenged by the election of Donald Trump, a racist president whose victory... + Read More