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Series: Pretty as a Picture A Novel Paperback Elizabeth Little 9780143110552 $22.00 FICTION Dec 29, 2020

A Wall Street Journal, Seattle Times, and CrimeReads Best Mystery Book of 2020“Funny, fast-paced, and a pleasure to read.”—The Wall Street JournalAn egomaniacal movie director, an isolated island, and a decades-old murder—the addictive new novel from the bestselling author of Dear DaughterMarissa Dahl, an up-and-coming film editor with a flair for faux pas, travels to a small island off the coast of Delaware to work with the legendary—and legendarily demanding—director Tony Rees on a feature film with a familiar logline.Some girl dies. It’s not... + Read More
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Series: The Liar's Dictionary Hardcover Eley Williams 9780735281493 $29.95 FICTION Jan 05, 2021

An exhilarating, clever, funny debut novel from a prize-winning talent, chronicling the misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman who decodes his trail of made-up words a century later. Will enthrall readers of CS Richardson, Helen Simonson’s Major Pettigrew and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.Mountweazel n. the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement.Peter Winceworth is a lexicographer in Victorian-era London, toiling away... + Read More
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Series: The Push Paperback Ashley Audrain 9780735239890 $24.95 FICTION Jan 05, 2021

A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, told through the eyes of a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for—and everything she feared.Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, supportive mother she never had to her new baby Violet.But in the thick of motherhood’s exhausting early days, Blythe doesn’t find the connection with her daughter she expected. She’s convinced that something is wrong with Violet—the little girl is distant, rejects affection, and be... + Read More
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Series: Picnic In the Ruins Paperback Todd Robert Petersen 9781640093225 $23.00 FICTION Jan 05, 2021

“Part mystery; part quirky, darkly funny, mayhem-filled thriller; and part meditation on what it means to ’own’ land, artifacts, and the narrative of history in the West…A fast-paced, highly entertaining hybrid of Tony Hillerman and Edward Abbey.”—Kirkus ReviewsAnthropologist Sophia Shepard is researching the impact of tourism on cultural sites in a remote national monument on the Utah-Arizona border when she crosses paths with two small-time criminals. The Ashdown brothers were hired to steal maps from a “collector” of Native American artifact... + Read More
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Series: The Center of Everything A Novel Hardcover Jamie Harrison 9781640092341 $26.00 FICTION Jan 12, 2021

Set against the wild beauty of Montana as a woman attempts to heal from a devastating accident, this generational saga from the award-winning author of The Widow Nash is a heartfelt examination of how the deep bonds of family echo throughout our lives.For Polly, the small town of Livingston, Montana, is a land charmed by raw, natural beauty and a close network of family that extends back generations. But the summer of 2002 finds Polly at a crossroads: a recent head injury has scattered her perception of the present, bringing to the surface long... + Read More
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Series: The Children's Blizzard A Novel Hardcover Melanie Benjamin 9780399182280 $37.00 FICTION Jan 12, 2021

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator’s Wife comes a story of courage on the prairie, inspired by the devastating storm that struck the Great Plains in 1888, threatening the lives of hundreds of immigrant homesteaders, especially schoolchildren.The morning of January 12, 1888, was unusually mild, following a punishing cold spell. It was warm enough for the homesteaders of the Dakota territory to venture out again, and for their children to return to school without their heavy coats—leaving them unprepared when disaster struc... + Read More
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Series: The Inland Sea A Novel Paperback Madeleine Watts 9781646220175 $23.00 FICTION Jan 12, 2021

In this “eloquent debut,” a young Australian woman unable to find her footing in the world begins to break down when the emergencies she hears working as a 911 operator and the troubles within her own life gradually blur together, forcing her to grapple with how the past has shaped her present (Publishers Weekly).Drifting after her final year in college, a young writer begins working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator in Sydney. Over the course of an eight-hour shift, she is dropped into hundreds of crises, hearing only pieces of each.... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Contemporaries Weather Paperback Jenny Offill 9780345806901 $22.00 FICTION Jan 19, 2021

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the beloved author of the nationwide bestseller Dept. of Speculation—one of the New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of the Year—a hilarious and shimmering “darkly funny and urgent” (NPR) tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis.Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. T... + Read More
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Series: Kill the Mall Paperback Pasha Malla 9780735273498 $25.00 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

Douglas Adams meets David Lynch in this witty yet horror-tinged fable about one of North America’s scariest inventions—the local mall.After writing a letter in praise of “malls,” our eccentric narrator is offered a “residency” at a shabby suburban shopping centre. His mission: to occupy the mall for several weeks, splitting his time between “making work” and “engaging the public,” all while chronicling his adventures in weekly progress reports.Before long, a series of strange after-hour events rattles our hero, and he sets forth on a nightly qu... + Read More
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Series: U UP? Paperback Catie Disabato 9781612198910 $23.99 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

In the follow up to her smart debut, The Ghost Network, Catie Disabato creates a vivid portrait of a young woman investigating her best friend’s disappearance while navigating codependent friendships, toxic exes, and witchy ritualsEve has a carefully curated online life, works occasionally, and texts constantly with her best friend, Ezra. Basically, she is an archetypal L.A. millennial. She has also been carrying on a year-long conversation with her deceased friend Miggy over text. But when Ezra goes missing on the anniversary weekend of Miggy... + Read More
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Series: Dear Edward A Novel Paperback Ann Napolitano 9781984854803 $24.00 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today A “dazzling” novel that “will break your heart and put it back together again” (J. Courtney Sullivan, bestselling author of Saints for All Occasions) about a young boy who must learn to go on after surviving tragedyWhat does it mean not just to survive, but to truly live?One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them is a Wall Street wunderk... + Read More
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Series: Annie and the Wolves Hardcover Andromeda Romano-Lax 9781641291699 $34.00 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

A modern-day historian finds her life intertwined with Annie Oakley’s in an electrifying novel that explores female revenge and the allure of changing one’s past. Ruth McClintock is obsessed with Annie Oakley. For nearly a decade, she has been studying the legendary sharpshooter, convinced that a scarring childhood event was the impetus for her crusade to arm every woman in America. This search has cost Ruth her doctorate, a book deal, and her fiancé—but finally it has borne fruit. She has managed to hunt down what may be a journal of Oakley’s ... + Read More
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Series: Deacon King Kong A Novel Paperback James McBride 9780735216730 $23.00 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

“Terrific…deeply felt, beautifully written, and profoundly humane.”—The New York Times Book Review cover“Hilarious…A rich and vivid multicultural history.”—Time MagazineFrom James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, one of the most anticipated novels of the year: a wise and witty tale about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting.In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses ho... + Read More
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Series: My Year Abroad A Novel Hardcover Chang-rae Lee 9781594634574 $37.00 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

From the award-winning author of Native Speaker and On Such a Full Sea, an exuberant and entertaining story of a young American whose life is transformed when a Chinese-American businessman suddenly takes him under his wing on a global adventure.Tiller is an average college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations and talents. Then he meets Pong Lou, a successful Chinese-American businessman, and everything changes. With Pong’s unmatched charisma, richly varied interests and skills, enviable resources, and loyal circle of friends and b... + Read More
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Series: Verge Paperback Lidia Yuknavitch 9780525534884 $22.00 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

“Spellbinding.”—O: The Oprah Magazine“Bracing [and] profound.”—Entertainment WeeklyA fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction. Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer of rare insight into the jagged boundaries between pain and survival. Her characters are scarred by the unchecked hungers of others and themselves, yet determined to find salvation within lives that can feel beyond their control. In novels such as The Small Backs of Children and The Bo... + Read More
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Series: A Bright Ray of Darkness A novel Hardcover Ethan Hawke 9780385352383 $36.95 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

The blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut in Henry IV just as his marriage implodes—an utterly transfixing book about art and love, fame and heartbreak from the acclaimed actor/writer/director. Hawke’s first novel in nearly twenty years is a bracing meditation on fame and celebrity, and the redemptive, healing power of art; a portrait of the ravages of disappointment and divorce; a poignant consideration of the rites of fatherhood and manhood; a novel soaked in rage and sex, longing and despair; and a passionate love letter... + Read More
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Series: Girl A A Novel Hardcover Abigail Dean 9780593295847 $36.00 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

“Nothing short of astonishing…Rarely does a novel offer up such unique plotting, such heart-stopping psychological drama, and such a rich portrayal of its inhabitants. A modern-day classic.”—Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author of The Goodbye Man and The Bone CollectorFor readers of Room and Sharp Objects, a propulsive and psychologically immersive novel about a young girl who escapes captivity—but not the secrets that shadow the rest of her life.“’Girl A,’ she said. ’The girl who escaped. If anyone was going to make it, it was goi... + Read More
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Series: The Low Desert Gangster Stories Hardcover Tod Goldberg 9781640093362 $34.00 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

Raymond Carver meets Elmore Leonard in this extraordinary collection of contemporary crime writing set in the critically acclaimed Gangsterland universe, a series called “gloriously original” by The New York Times Book Review.With gimlet-eyed cool and razor-sharp wit, these spare, stylish stories from a master of modern crime fiction assemble a world of gangsters and con men, of do-gooders breaking bad and those caught in the crossfire. The uncle of an FBI agent spends his life as sheriff in different cities, living too close to the violent act... + Read More
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Series: Fake Accounts Hardcover Lauren Oyler 9781948226929 $34.00 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

Named a Most-Anticipated Book of the Year by Elle * Vulture * BuzzFeed * The Millions * Literary Hub * The Rumpus * Bustle * and more.“An invigorating work, deadly precise in its skewering of people, places and things…Stylish, despairing and very funny, Fake Accounts …adroitly maps the dwindling gap between the individual and the world.” —Katie Kitamura, The New York Times Book ReviewA woman in a tailspin discovers that her boyfriend is an anonymous online conspiracy theorist in this “absolutely brilliant take on the bizarre and despicable ways... + Read More
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Series: The Absolute Book Hardcover Elizabeth Knox 9780735240803 $35.00 FICTION Feb 09, 2021

An epic fantasy about ancient treacheries that span worlds, a mysterious scroll box that has survived centuries of fire, and the undying power of stories.Taryn Cornick believes she has put her sister’s violent death and her own complicity in an act of retribution behind her. But her successful book about the perils that threaten libraries mentions an ancient scroll box—called the Firestarter—that has inexplicably survived numerous fires, including one at her own grandparents’ estate, and now powers in both this world and beyond are looking for ... + Read More
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Series: Good Citizens Need Not Fear Paperback Maria Reva 9780735281967 $19.95 FICTION Feb 09, 2021

“Bang-on brilliant.”—Miriam Toews“Luminous”—Yann Martel“Outstanding.”—Anthony Doerr“Bright, funny, satirical and relevant…. A new talent to watch!”—Margaret Atwood (via Twitter)A brilliant, bitingly funny debut collection of stories united around a single crumbling apartment building in Ukraine.A bureaucratic glitch omits an entire building, along with its residents, from municipal records. So begins Reva’s darkly hilarious intertwined narratives, nine stories that span the chaotic years leading up to and immediately following the fall of the S... + Read More
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Series: Actress A Novel Paperback Anne Enright 9780771005930 $21.00 FICTION Feb 09, 2021

Man Booker Prize-winner and bestselling author Anne Enright’s brings readers a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter’s search to understand her mother’s hidden truths.This is the story of Irish theatre legend, Katherine O’Dell, as written by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London’s West End. Katherine’s life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings. But as Norah uncovers her mother’s secrets, she acquires a few of her ... + Read More
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Series: Devolution A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre Paperback Max Brooks 9781984826800 $23.00 FICTION Feb 09, 2021

This New York Times bestsellertakes on the Bigfoot legend with a tale that blurs the lines between human and beast—and asks what we are capable of in the face of the unimaginable.As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined…until now. The journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing—and too earth-shattering in its implications—to be forgotten. In these pages, Max Brooks brings Kate... + Read More
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Series: Super Host Hardcover Kate Russo 9780593187708 $36.00 FICTION Feb 09, 2021

A deeply funny and shrewdly observed debut novel about being lost in the very place you know by heart.Bennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize-nominated artist who was once a rising star. Now, at age fifty-five, his wife has left him, he hasn’t sold a painting in two years, and his gallery wants to stop selling his work, claiming they’ll have more value retrospectively…when he’s dead. So, left with a large West London home and no income, he’s forced to move into his artist’s studio in the back garden and list his house on the popular vacation rental ... + Read More
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Series: Slough House Slough House Hardcover Mick Herron 9781641292368 $35.95 FICTION Feb 09, 2021

In his best and most ambitious novel yet, Mick Herron, “the le Carré of the future” (BBC), offers an unsparing look at the corrupt web of media, global finance, spycraft, and politics that power our modern world. “This is a darker, scarier Herron. The gags are still there but the satire’s more biting. The privatization of a secret service op and the manipulation of news is relevant and horribly credible.”—Ann Cleeves, author of the Vera Stanhope seriesAt Slough House—MI5’s London depository for demoted spies—Brexit has taken a toll. The “sl... + Read More
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Series: The Future Is Yours A Novel Hardcover Dan Frey 9780593158210 $36.00 FICTION Feb 09, 2021

Two best friends create a computer that can predict the future. But what they can’t predict is how it will tear their friendship—and society—apart.If you had the chance to look one year into the future, would you?For Ben Boyce and Adhi Chaudry, the answer is unequivocally yes. And they’re betting everything that you’ll say yes, too. Welcome to The Future: a computer that connects to the internet one year from now, so you can see who you’ll be dating, where you’ll be working, even whether or not you’ll be alive in the year to come. By forming a ... + Read More
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Series: It's Not All Downhill From Here A Novel Paperback Terry McMillan 9781984823755 $23.00 FICTION Feb 09, 2021

After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out what she’s going to do with the rest of her life in this New York Times bestseller. “McMillan brings her signature wit and wisdom to It’s Not All Downhill From Here.”—O: The Oprah MagazineLoretha Curry’s life is full. A little crowded sometimes, but full indeed. On the eve of her sixty-eighth birthday, she has a booming beauty supply empire, a gaggle of lifelong friends, and a husband who’s still got moves that surprise. True, she’s carrying a fe... + Read More
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Series: The Centaur's Wife Paperback Amanda Leduc 9780735272859 $24.95 FICTION Feb 16, 2021

Amanda Leduc’s brilliant new novel, woven with fairy tales of her own devising and replete with both catastrophe and magic, is a vision of what happens when we ignore the natural world and the darker parts of our own natures.Heather is sleeping peacefully after the birth of her twin daughters when the sound of the world ending jolts her awake. Stumbling outside with her babies and her new husband, Brendan, she finds that their city has been destroyed by falling meteors and that her little family are among only a few who survived.But the mountai... + Read More
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Series: A Town Called Solace Hardcover Mary Lawson 9780735281271 $32.00 FICTION Feb 16, 2021

New York Times bestselling author Mary Lawson, acclaimed for digging into the “wilderness of the human heart”, is back after almost a decade with a fresh and timely novel that is different in subject but just as emotional and atmospheric as her beloved earlier work.A Town Called Solace—the brilliant and emotionally radiant new novel from Mary Lawson, her first in nearly a decade—opens on a family in crisis: rebellious teenager Rose been missing for weeks with no word, and Rose’s younger sister, the feisty and fierce Clara, keeps a daily vigil a... + Read More
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Series: Cowboy Graves Three Novellas Hardcover Roberto Bolaño 9780735233584 $30.00 FICTION Feb 16, 2021

One more voyage to the literary universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of Latin American literature.Roberto Bolaño’s boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into enduring fiction is unmistakable in these three exhilarating novellas. In “Fatherland,” a young poet reckons with the fascist overthrow of his country, as a friend disappears in the violence that ensues and a Third Reich fighter plane mysteriously writes her poetry in the sky overhead. In “French Comedy of Horrors,” in the wak... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Contemporaries We Ride Upon Sticks A Novel Paperback Quan Barry 9780525565437 $22.95 FICTION Feb 16, 2021

From the author of the widely acclaimed She Weeps Each Time You’re Born, a comic tour de female force about a 1980s field hockey team that (maybe) makes a deal with the devil.In the coastal town of Danvers, Massachusetts, home of the original 1692 witch trials, the 1989 Danvers Falcons will do anything to make it to the state finals—even if it means tapping into some devilishly dark powers. In chapters dense with 1980s iconography—from Heathers to “big hair”—Quan Barry expertly weaves together the individual and collective progress of this ench... + Read More
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Series: No One Is Talking About This A Novel Hardcover Patricia Lockwood 9780593189580 $34.00 FICTION Feb 16, 2021

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER“No One Is Talking About This reaches for the sublime, online and off…Lockwood is a modern word witch, her writing splendid and sordid by turns.” —New York Times Book Review “Wow. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book. What an inventive and startling writer…I’m so glad I read this. I really think this book is remarkable.” —David Sedaris From “a formidably gifted writer” (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet?As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a w... + Read More
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Series: Real Life A Novel Paperback Brandon Taylor 9780525538899 $22.00 FICTION Feb 16, 2021

A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE“A blistering coming of age story”—O: The Oprah MagazineOne of the year’s most talked about novels, following a young man who runs away to a Midwestern university townonly to fight a deeper psychic battle.A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend—and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where... + Read More
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Series: The Smash-Up A Novel Hardcover Ali Benjamin 9780593229651 $36.00 FICTION Feb 23, 2021

A family is upended when their small-town life becomes the latest battlefield in the culture wars in this of-the-moment novel for readers of Meg Wolitzer and Fleishman Is in TroubleLife for Ethan and Zo used to be simple. Ethan co-founded a lucrative media start-up, and Zo was well on her way to becoming a successful filmmaker. Then they moved to a rural community for a little more tranquility—or so they thought.When newfound political activism transforms Zo into a barely recognizable ball of outrage and #MeToo allegations rock his old firm, Et... + Read More
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Series: The Kitchen Front A Novel Hardcover Jennifer Ryan 9780593158807 $37.00 FICTION Feb 23, 2021

Four women compete for a once-in-a-lifetime spot hosting a BBC cooking program during World War II in this vibrant historical novel from the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir.Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses; the Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio program called The Kitchen Front is putting on a cooking contest—and the grand prize is a job as the program’s first-ever female c... + Read More
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Series: A Hannah Swensen Mystery Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder An Entertaining & Delicious Cozy Mystery with Recipes Hardcover Joanne Fluke 9781496718921 $36.00 FICTION Feb 23, 2021

This fun new story from the Queen of Culinary Cozies is just the indulgence you need this winter! Cozy mystery fans know that a trip to The Cookie Jar—Hannah Swensen’s famous bakery—will always result in a delightfully page-turning whodunit… “Another sweet-tempered outing filled with tempting sweets.”— Kirkus Reviews Spring has sprung in Lake Eden, Minnesota, but Hannah Swensen doesn’t have time to stop and smell the roses—not with hot cross buns to make, treats to bake, and a sister to exonerate! Hannah’s up to her ears with Easter orders ru... + Read More
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Series: Camino Camino Winds A Novel Paperback John Grisham 9780593157787 $24.00 FICTION Feb 23, 2021

“In American icon John Grisham’s new novel, Camino Winds, an odd assortment of mystery and crime authors, some of them felons themselves, discover one of their colleagues has been murdered during the fury of a massive hurricane—the perfect crime scene. Since officials are preoccupied with the aftermath of the storm, the authors set out to solve the mystery themselves, in the type of wild but smart caper that Grisham’s readers love.” Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads SingJust as Bruce Cable’s Bay Books is preparing for the return of best... + Read More
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Series: Half Life Paperback Krista Foss 9780771036491 $24.95 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

A raw, absorbing, tender, and witty novel about a woman’s long-overdue reckoning with memory, truth, and the multiverse of familial love.Elin Henriksen is a middle-aged single parent under pressure. Her formidable mother’s health is declining, her fearless teenage daughter wants to leave but won’t say where, and the new high school principal has problems with her unorthodox teaching of physics.And then there is the upcoming ceremony at the Art Museum. In ten days, a gallery will be named after her late father, Tig Henriksen, a modernist furnitu... + Read More
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Series: Sharks in the Time of Saviors Paperback Kawai Strong Washburn 9780771094477 $22.00 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

A groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawai’ian gods into an engrossing family saga—a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation.In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. But instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, marking his story as the stuff of legends.Nainoa’s family, struggling amidst the collapse of the sugarcane indu... + Read More
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Series: The Paris Wife Paperback Paula McLain 9780385691949 $17.95 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERNo 20th-century American writer has captured the collective imagination as much as Ernest Hemingway. This is the stunningly evocative, beautifully rendered story told in the voice of Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley.Hadley Richardson is a quiet 28-year-old in 1920 Chicago, who has all but given up on love and happiness—until she meets the returning war-hero Ernest Hemingway, and becomes captivated by his good looks, intensity, and passionate desire to write. After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail ... + Read More
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Series: Klara and the Sun Hardcover Kazuo Ishiguro 9780735281240 $34.00 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

The magnificent new novel from Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro—author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day.“The Sun always has ways to reach us.”From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too mu... + Read More
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Series: Satellite Love A Novel Paperback Genki Ferguson 9780771049873 $24.95 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

Set in 1999 Japan, Satellite Love is a heartbreaking and beautifully unconventional debut novel about a girl, a boy, and a satellite—and a bittersweet meditation on loneliness, alienation, and what it means to be human.On the eve of the new millennium, in a city in southern Japan that progress has forgotten, sixteen-year-old Anna Obata looks to the stars for solace. An outcast at school, and left to fend for herself and care for her increasingly senile grandfather at home, Anna copes with her loneliness by searching the night sky for answers. B... + Read More
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Series: Who Do You Think You Are? Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Alice Munro 9780735234642 $19.95 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

A small-town girl who dreams of greater things, trying to get away from a place that wants to hold her back. A series of stories exploring the pursuit of ambition, and the fear and shame of potential failure.In this award-winning collection from the acclaimed Alice Munro, we follow Rose and her stepmother, Flo: residents of the poorer side of Hanratty. Rose is determined to get away, to pursue her ambitions, but as she moves through her life, from university in Vancouver to a crumbling marriage to a career as an actress and interviewer, she is ... + Read More
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Series: Lives of Girls and Women Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Alice Munro 9780735234659 $19.95 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

A mother and daughter, caged with the internal strife of stifled desires, trapped ambition, and silenced dreams, seeking more in the world beyond home.“There is a change coming in the lives of girls and women.” Del Jordan and her mother long for more outside of their small home town of Jubilee, though they cannot say so, at the risk of inviting the ire of the town. In her distinctive literary style, Munro presents a thought-provoking cycle on two women coping with the claustrophobic habits and norms of small town life competing with their grea... + Read More
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Series: Speak, Silence Hardcover Kim Echlin 9780735240612 $29.95 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

From the internationally bestselling and Giller-shortlisted author of The Disappeared, an astounding, poetic novel about war and loss, suffering and courage, and the strength of women through it all.It’s been eleven years since Gota has seen Kosmos, yet she still finds herself fantasizing about their intimate year together in Paris. Now it’s 1999 and, working as a journalist, she hears about a film festival in Sarajevo, where she knows Kosmos will be with his theatre company. She takes the assignment to investigate the fallout of the Bosnian wa... + Read More
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Series: Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron Victory's Price (Star Wars) An Alphabet Squadron Novel Hardcover Alexander Freed 9781984820075 $38.99 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

The aces of the New Republic have one final chance to defeat the darkness of Shadow Wing in this thrilling conclusion to the Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron trilogy!In the wake of Yrica Quell’s shocking decision—and one of the fiercest battles of their lives—the remnants of Alphabet Squadron seek answers and closure across a galaxy whose old war scars are threatening to reopen.Soran Keize has returned to the tip of Shadow Wing’s spear. Operation Cinder, the terrifying protocol of planetary extermination which began in the twilight of the Imperial ... + Read More
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Series: Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer A Novel Hardcover Jamie Figueroa 9781948226882 $33.00 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

A fableistic, “beautifully crafted, poetic” debut novel of enormous power and grace about a sister trying to hold back her brother from the edge of the abyss for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Tommy Orange (The New York Times Book Review). In the tourist town of Ciudad de Tres Hermanas, in the aftermath of their mother’s passing, two siblings spend a final weekend together in their childhood home. Seeing her brother, Rafa, careening toward a place of no return, Rufina devises a bet: if they can make enough money performing for privileged tourists i... + Read More
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Series: Northern Spy A Novel Hardcover Flynn Berry 9780735224995 $35.00 FICTION Apr 06, 2021

The acclaimed author of Under the Harrow and A Double Life returns with her most thrilling novel to date: the story of two sisters who become entangled with the IRAA producer at the BBC and mother to a new baby, Tessa is at work in Belfast one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground in the two decades since the Good Friday Agreement, but they never really went away, and lately bomb threats, security checkpoints, and helicopters floating ominously over the city have become features of everyday life. ... + Read More
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Series: The Two Lives of Lydia Bird A Novel Paperback Josie Silver 9780593135914 $23.00 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

Two lives. Two loves. One impossible choice. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick One Day in December…“I read The Two Lives of Lydia Bird in a single sitting. What a beautiful, emotional gift Josie Silver has given us.”—Jodi PicoultLydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They’d been together for more than a decade, and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. But she was wrong. On her twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident.So now it’s just Lydia, and all she wants to do is hide indoors an... + Read More
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Series: The Affair A Novel Hardcover Danielle Steel 9781984821409 $38.99 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

In this riveting novel, Danielle Steel explores a high-profile affair that reverberates throughout an entire family, from the wounded wife to her husband—torn between two women—to the wife’s close-knit sisters and their mother.When Rose McCarthy’s staff at Mode magazine pitches a cover shoot with Hollywood’s hottest young actress, the actress’s sizzling affair with a bestselling French author is exposed. The author happens to be Rose’s son-in-law, which creates a painful dilemma for her. Her daughter Nadia, a talented interior designer, has bee... + Read More
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Series: The Trickster trilogy Return of the Trickster Hardcover Eden Robinson 9780735273467 $32.00 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

In the third book of her brilliant and captivating Trickster Trilogy, Eden Robinson delivers an explosive, surprising and satisfying resolution.All Jared Martin had ever wanted was to be normal, which was already hard enough when he had to cope with Maggie, his hard-partying, gun-toting, literal witch of a mother, Indigenous teen life and his own addictions. When he wakes up naked, dangerously dehydrated and confused in the basement of his mom’s old house in Kitimat, some of the people he loves—the ones who don’t see the magic he attracts—just ... + Read More
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Series: Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy Hardcover Gary Barwin 9780735279520 $32.00 FICTION Mar 09, 2021

A middle-aged Jewish man who fantasizes about being a cowboy goes on an eccentric quest across Europe after the 1941 Nazi invasion of Lithuania in this wild and witty yet heartrending novel from the bestselling author of Yiddish for Pirates, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.Motl is middle-aged, poor, nerdy, Jewish and in desperate need of a shave. Since having his balls shot cleanly off as a youth in WWI, he’s lived a quiet life at home in Vilnius with his shrewd and shrewish mom, Gitl, losing himself in the masculine fantasy world o... + Read More
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Series: A Funny Kind of Paradise Paperback Jo Owens 9780735278820 $22.95 FICTION Mar 09, 2021

A poignant, uplifting, brilliantly insightful story of one woman’s end-of-life reckoning with her past, her lost daughter and herself, for readers of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Still Alice and Elizabeth Is Missing.When her husband left her with a baby, a toddler and a fledgling business, Francesca managed—she wasn’t always gentle or patient, but the business thrived and Chris and Angelina had food to eat. At nearly 70, she feels she’s earned a peaceful retirement. But when a massive stroke leaves her voiceless, partially paralyzed a... + Read More
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Series: Topics of Conversation A novel Paperback Miranda Popkey 9780525566366 $21.00 FICTION Mar 09, 2021

A compact tour de force about sex, violence, and self-loathing from a ferociously talented new voice in fiction, perfect for fans of Sally Rooney, Rachel Cusk, Lydia Davis, and Jenny Offill.Composed almost exclusively of conversations between women—the stories they tell each other, and the stories they tell themselves, about shame and love, infidelity and self-sabotage—Topics of Conversation careens through twenty years in the life of an unnamed narrator hungry for experience and bent on upending her life. Touching upon desire, disgust, motherh... + Read More
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Series: The Transit of Venus Paperback Shirley Hazzard 9780143135654 $24.00 FICTION Mar 09, 2021

The award-winning, New York Times bestselling literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard—the story of two beautiful orphan sisters whose fates are as moving and wonderful, and yet as predestined, as the transits of the planets themselvesA Penguin ClassicConsidered “one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century” (The Paris Review), The Transit of Venus follows Caroline and Grace Bell as they leave Australia to begin a new life in post-war England. From Sydney to London, New York, and Stockholm, and from the 1950s to the 1980s, t... + Read More
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Series: How Beautiful We Were A Novel Hardcover Imbolo Mbue 9780593132425 $37.00 FICTION Mar 09, 2021

From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers comes a sweeping, wrenching story about the collision of a small African village and an American oil company.We should have known the end was near.So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promi... + Read More
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Series: Cosmogony Stories Paperback Lucy Ives 9781593765996 $23.00 FICTION Mar 09, 2021

An energetic, witty collection of stories where the supernatural meets the anomalies of everyday life—deception, infidelity, lost cats, cute memes, amateur pornography, and more.There are analogies between being female and being left-handed, I think, or being an animal.A woman answers a Craigslist ad (to write erotic diaries for money). A woman walks onto a tennis court (from her home at the bottom of the ocean). A woman goes to the supermarket and meets a friend’s husband (who happens to be an immortal demon). A woman goes for a run (and accid... + Read More
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Series: The Love Story of Missy Carmichael Paperback Beth Morrey 9780525542452 $23.00 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

For readers of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and A Man Called Ove, a life-affirming, deeply moving “coming-of-old” story, a celebration of how ordinary days are made extraordinary through friendship, family, and the power of forgiving yourself—at any age.“At a time when people are having to isolate, [this novel is] a balm, offering an expansive sense of love and possibility when the main characters feel like those chances are gone.”—Christian Science MonitorMissy Carmichael’s life has become small.Grieving for a family she has lost or los... + Read More
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Series: On Harrow Hill Hardcover John Verdon 9781640093102 $36.00 FICTION Mar 16, 2021

When an old colleague comes to him for help solving the mysterious death of his town’s most prominent resident, retired NYPD detective Dave Gurney must use all of his analytical skills to hunt a murderer who just might be killing from beyond the grave.The idyllic community of Larchfield is rocked to its core when Angus Russell, its wealthiest and most powerful citizen, is found dead in his mansion on Harrow Hill. A preliminary analysis of DNA gathered at the crime scene points to the guilt of local bad boy Billy Tate, whose hatred for the victi... + Read More
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Series: The Sweet Taste of Muscadines A Novel Hardcover Pamela Terry 9780593158456 $36.00 FICTION Mar 16, 2021

In this intimate debut novel, written with deep compassion and sharp wit, a woman returns to her small southern hometown in the wake of a tragedy—only to find the past upended by stunning family secrets.Lila Bruce Breedlove never quite felt at home in Wesleyan, Georgia, especially after her father’s untimely demise when she was a child. Both Lila and her brother, Henry, fled north after high school, establishing fulfilling lives of their own. In contrast, their younger sister, Abigail, opted to remain behind to dote on their domineering, larger... + Read More