1.
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...
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2.
Series:
All the Wrong Places
Paperback
Joy Fielding
9780385696678
$19.95
FICTION
Mar 02, 2021
National BestsellerFour women—friends, family, rivals—turn to online dating for companionship, only to run afoul of a tech-savvy killerusing an app to target his victims in this thriller from New York Times bestselling author Joy Fielding.A husband’s death, a difficult divorce, a brutal dumping, dissatisfaction with a boring relationship: for various reasons, four women turn to the app “Mr. Right Now,” hoping to right-swipe their way to love and happiness.Paige and Heather are cousins, locked in a lifelong rivalry that recently culminated in He...
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3.
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...
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4.
Series:
It Doesn't Matter What We Meant
Poems
Paperback
Rob Winger
9780771025396
$19.95
POETRY
Mar 23, 2021
An astonishing new collection of poems that question perception, meaning, and context.How does private thinking align with public action? And what might it mean to intend something anyhow? To name our particulars? To translate from the personal to the communal, the pedestrian to the universal? In Rob Winger’s new collection of poetry, such questions are less a circulatory system—heart and lungs and blood—than a ribcage, a structure that protects the parts that matter most. “I’d like to think,” Winger writes, “it doesn’t matter / what we meant.”...
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5.
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...
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6.
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...
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7.
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...
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8.
Series:
Redhead by the Side of the Road
Paperback
Anne Tyler
9780385694872
$21.00
FICTION
Mar 30, 2021
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the beloved and bestselling Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances and the sometimes elusive power of human connection.Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a “girlfriend”) tells him she’s fac...
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9.
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 ...
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10.
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...
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11.
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...
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12.
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...
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13.
Series:
sulphurtongue
Paperback
Rebecca Salazar
9780771094699
$19.95
POETRY
Mar 23, 2021
An urgent, powerful examination of place and the ways in which all kinds of identities exist and collide.The poems in sulphurtongue ask how to redefine desire and kinship across languages, and across polluted environments. An immigrant family scatters over a stolen continent. Oracles appear in public transit, and online. Bodies are transformed by nearby nickel mines. Doppelgangers, Catholic saints, and polyamorists alike pass on unusual inheritances. Deeply entangled in relations both emotional and ecological, this collection confronts the stor...
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14.
Series:
The Bad Daughter
Paperback
Joy Fielding
9780385696661
$19.95
FICTION
Mar 02, 2021
National BestsellerA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOKWhat first appears to be a random home invasion and brutal attack reveals a family’s dark secrets in this domestic ticking-clock suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author Joy Fielding.A voice mail from her estranged sister, Melanie, sends Robin’s heart racing and her mind spiraling in a full-blown panic attack. Melanie’s message is dire: Their father, his second wife, and his twelve-year-old stepdaughter have been shot—likely in a home invasion—and lie in the hospital in critical cond...
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15.
Series:
The Memory Wood
Paperback
Sam Lloyd
9781400026975
$11.99
FICTION
Mar 30, 2021
A heart-stopping, chilling thriller about an abducted girl, the boy who can save her and the terrifying cat-and-mouse game of deception and betrayal that they are playing.“If you’ve only just arrived…then why do you want to leave?”Elissa arrived in Memory Wood on the most important day of her life. The thirteen-year-old chess prodigy was competing at the English Youth Grand Prix when she was snatched, and then woke up in a makeshift cell underground. Elijah has lived beside Memory Wood for as long as he can remember. He’s only twelve but he’s s...
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16.
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 ...
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17.
Series:
The Relatives
A Novel
Hardcover
Camilla Gibb
9780385678094
$29.95
FICTION
Mar 23, 2021
From the renowned author of Sweetness in the Belly, The Beauty of Humanity Movement and This Is Happy, comes a bold, urgent and richly imagined novel about what it means to be a family in our modern world.Lila is on a long, painful journey toward motherhood. Tess and Emily are reeling after their ugly separation and fighting over ownership of the embryos that were supposed to grow their family together. And thousands of miles away, the unknown man who served as anonymous donor to them all is being held in captivity in Somalia. While his life re...
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18.
Series: Detective Varg Series
The Talented Mr. Varg
A Detective Varg Novel (2)
Paperback
Alexander McCall Smith
9780735280090
$21.00
FICTION
Mar 02, 2021
In the second installment of the bestselling Detective Varg novels, Ulf and his team investigate a notorious philanderer—a wolf of a man whose bad reputation may be all bark and no bite.The Department of Sensitive Crimes, renowned for taking on the most obscure and insignificant cases, is always prepared to commit to an investigation, no matter how complex. So when the girlfriend of an infamous author decides her bad boy beau is being blackmailed, she approaches the department for help. The department’s lead detective Ulf Varg takes the case. H...
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19.
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 ...
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20.
Series: A Castle Bookshop Mystery
A Deadly Chapter
A Castle Bookshop Mystery
Hardcover
Essie Lang
9781643855769
$35.99
FICTION
Mar 09, 2021
Thousand Islands bookseller Shelby Cox is caught between a lethal rock and a hardheaded newcomer in Essie Lang’s third Castle Bookshop mystery, a must-read for fans of Lorna Barrett and Vicki Delany.Wake up on a houseboat, moored in scenic Alexandria Bay, New York. Ride the gentle waves to work at quaint Bayside Books, where you spend your days supplying literature and conversation to the charming locals and seasonal tourists. Sounds pleasant, doesn’t it? Except bookseller Shelby Cox has already sleuthed two murders from Bayside Books’s home b...
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21.
Series:
Big Time
Stories
Hardcover
Jen Spyra
9781984855268
$36.00
FICTION
Mar 16, 2021
The debut collection of raucous, dark, strange, satirical stories from the former Late Show with Stephen Colbert writer and New Yorker contributor, featuring an introduction by Stephen Colbert.A bride so desperate to get in shape for her wedding that she enrolls in a new kind of workout program which promises the moon but costs more than she bargained for. A snowman who, on the wish of a child, comes to life in a decidedly less savory way than the childhood classic. And in the title story, a time-hopping 1940s starlet tries to claw her way to t...
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22.
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...
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23.
Series:
I Was Anastasia
Paperback
Ariel Lawhon
9780593314531
$12.99
FICTION
Mar 30, 2021
Ariel Lawhon unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson’s fifty-year battle to be recognized as Anastasia Romanov: is she the beloved daughter, revered icon, and Russian grand duchess or is she an imposter, liar, and thief of another woman’s legacy?Countless others have rendered their verdict. Now it is your turn.Russia, July 17, 1918: Under direct orders from Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik secret police force Anastasia Romanov, along with the entire imperial family, into a damp basement in Siberia, where they face a merciless fir...
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24.
Series:
Later
Paperback
Stephen King
9781789096491
$19.95
FICTION
Mar 02, 2021
#1 bestselling author Stephen King returns with a brand-new novel about the secrets we keep buried and the cost of unearthing them.SOMETIMES GROWING UPMEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine - as he discovers when an NYPD detective draw...
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25.
Series:
Lurkers
Hardcover
Sandi Tan
9781641292559
$34.00
FICTION
Mar 30, 2021
From author and filmmaker Sandi Tan, director of the acclaimed documentary Shirkers, comes a novel about a neighborhood of immigrants, seekers, lovers, and lurkers. The residents of Santa Claus Lane do their best to stay out of each other’s way, but desire, fury and mischief too often propel these suburban neighbors to collide. Precocious Korean American sisters Mira and Rosemary find their world rocked by a suicide, and they must fight to keep their home; a charismatic and creepy drama teacher grooms his students; a sardonic gay horror novelis...
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26.
Series:
Nature Girl
Paperback
Carl Hiaasen
9780593082379
$22.95
FICTION
Mar 23, 2021
From the author of Squeeze Me and Razor Girl comes the gleefully zany and incisively sharp tale of a young woman on a mission to rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime sales calls.Impassioned, willful, and possibly bipolar Honey Santana is taking rude, gullible Relentless, Inc., telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie—the fifteen-minute-famous girlfriend of a tabloid murderer—into the wilderness of Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands for a gentle lesson in civility. What she doesn’t know is...
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27.
Series:
No Way Out
A Gripping Novel of Suspense
Hardcover
Fern Michaels
9781496731180
$35.00
FICTION
Mar 30, 2021
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels comes a brand-new novel that blends her rich, character-driven storytelling with a hint of suspense, as a reclusive young woman struggles to piece her life back together…A riveting new read that will thrill you from #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels, perfect for fans of Nora Roberts, Rachel Caine, and J.D. Robb. Ellie Bowman barely remembers the incident that put her into a coma. When she awoke, filled with unease, all she knew for certain was that her boyfriend, Rick, w...
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28.
Series:
Stormy Weather
Paperback
Carl Hiaasen
9780525431787
$22.95
FICTION
Mar 23, 2021
When a ferocious hurricane hits southern Florida, it lures con artists, carpetbaggers, and would-be saviors and stirs up greed, corruption, and hilarity in this riotous novel from the bestselling author of Squeeze Me and Razor Girl.Two honeymooners wake up early, make love twice, and brace themselves for a spectacle they won’t be watching from the sidelines. A seductive con artist stumbles into a scam that promises more cool cash than the lottery. A shotgun-toting mobile home salesman is about to close a deal with disaster. A law school dropout...
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29.
Series:
Sunflower Sisters
A Novel
Hardcover
Martha Hall Kelly
9781524796402
$37.00
FICTION
Mar 30, 2021
Lilac Girls, the 1.7-million-copy bestselling novel by Martha Hall Kelly, introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday, an American philanthropist who helped young girls released from Ravensbruck concentration camp. Now, in Sunflower Sisters, Kelly tells the story of her ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse who joins the war effort during the Civil War, and how her calling leads her to cross paths with Jemma, a young enslaved girl who is sold off and conscripted into the army, and Ann-May Wilson, a southern plantation mistress whose husband en...
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30.
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...
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31.
Series:
The Book of Longings
A Novel
Paperback
Sue Monk Kidd
9780143111399
$23.00
FICTION
Mar 23, 2021
An extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from the celebrated number one New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of WingsIn her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd takes an audacious approach to history and brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. Raised in a wealthy family with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebellious and ambitious, with a brilliant mind and a daring spirit. She engag...
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32.
Series:
The Herd
A Novel
Paperback
Andrea Bartz
9781984826381
$23.00
FICTION
Mar 16, 2021
When an exclusive New York women’s workspace is rocked by the mysterious disappearance of its enigmatic founder, two sisters must uncover the haunting truth before they lose their friendships, their careers—maybe even their lives.The name of the elite, women-only coworking space stretches across the wall behind the check-in desk: THE HERD, the H-E-R always in purple. In-the-know New Yorkers crawl over each other to apply for membership to this community that prides itself on mentorship and empowerment. Among the hopefuls is Katie Bradley, who’s...
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33.
Series:
The Jetsetters
A Novel
Paperback
Amanda Eyre Ward
9780399181917
$23.00
FICTION
Mar 30, 2021
The irresistible New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club Pick—“Dysfunctional family goes away together on a Mediterranean cruise: What’s not to love? This novel fell squarely in my wheelhouse and I was delighted anew in every port. The Jetsetters is fun, sexy and engrossing.” #1 New York Times bestselling author Elin HildenbrandWhen seventy-year-old Charlotte Perkins submits a sexy essay to the “Become a Jetsetter” contest, she dreams of reuniting her estranged children: Lee, an almost-famous actress; Cord, a handsome Manhattan venture ...
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34.
Series:
The Martian
A Novel
Paperback
Andy Weir
9780593357132
$12.99
FICTION
Mar 30, 2021
A Pure Gold Premium mass market edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon timed to lead into the publication of Weir’s new hardcover, Project Hail Mary, coming from Ballantine Books May 4, 2021.Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate the planet while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded on Mars’ surface, completely alone, with no way to even signal Earth th...
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35.
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...
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36.
Series:
The Three Mrs. Greys
Paperback
Shelly Ellis
9781496731319
$21.95
FICTION
Mar 30, 2021
One wealthy businessman, a trio of unsuspecting wives, and an explosive turn of events. In this scandalous, twist-filled new series from award-winning author Shelly Ellis, will too many secrets and one devastating bond unite three women—or destroy them?Noelle. Diamond. Vanessa. Each woman believes she is Cyrus Grey’s only wife—until he’s nearly shot to death. Now, as he lies in a coma, the deceptions keep coming, unraveling everything they thought they knew…Gorgeous model Noelle’s marriage to Cyrus anchored her—though she couldn’t understand wh...
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37.
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...
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38.
Series:
Three Hours in Paris
Paperback
Cara Black
9781641292580
$20.95
FICTION
Mar 30, 2021
In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light—abruptly leaving, never to return. To this day, no one knows why. The New York Times bestselling author of the Aimée Leduc investigations reimagines history in her masterful, pulse-pounding spy thriller, Three Hours in Paris. Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Führer. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and...
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39.
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...
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