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Series: Essential Prose Series Tales from the Bottom of My Sole Paperback David Kingston Yeh 9781771835411 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2020

#1 Best Canadian Gay Fiction on Goodreads When a long-lost sister shows up as a trans man named Luke, a series of precipitous events throws the lives of boyfriends Daniel and David into turmoil. While David attends an extravagant family reunion in Sicily, Daniel's ex Marcus plans the world-premiere of his one-man show. The couple's vertiginous exploration of sex, intimacy and love comes to a head when a shocking revelation tests their commitment and future together.
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Series: Love Your Life A Novel Hardcover Sophie Kinsella 9780593132852 $37.00 FICTION Oct 27, 2020

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I Owe You One, an utterly delightful novel about a woman who ditches her dating app for a writer’s retreat in Italy—only to find that real love comes with its own filtersCall Ava romantic, but she thinks love should be found in the real world, not on apps that filter men by height, job, or astrological sign. She believes in feelings, not algorithms. So after a recent breakup and dating app debacle, she decides to put love on hold and escapes to a remote writers’ retreat in coastal Italy. She’s de... + Read More
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Series: Missionaries A Novel Hardcover Phil Klay 9781984880659 $37.00 FICTION Oct 06, 2020

The debut novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment“[This] compact epic of a novel contains perhaps Klay’s finest writing yet…Using his formidable gifts for scene-setting, meaningful irony and deep human empathy, Klay weaves together a set of stories over the course of nearly three decades…Amid raging fires and illness and constitutional crises, Klay’s book roars something vital: Never forget about war or the blood and bone and the evil and the reckless idealism of who we all really are.” —Los Angeles TimesA group of Col... + Read More
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Series: Fogg Lake All the Colors of Night Hardcover Jayne Ann Krentz 9781984806819 $36.00 FICTION Jan 05, 2021

Two gifted people fall deep into the dark world of ancient secrets in this second installment of the new chilling Fogg Lake series by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz.North Chastain has always had the mysterious ability to channel energy through crystals. He and his father both have the ability, which is what the doctors believe is the cause of his father’s sudden coma. But North knows that isn’t the case. He’s convinced it was brought on by an artifact his father had been looking for—and found. With his unique talent of chann... + Read More
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Series: Something Unbelievable A Novel Hardcover Maria Kuznetsova 9780525511908 $36.00 FICTION Apr 13, 2021

An overwhelmed new mom asks to hear her grandmother’s story of her family’s desperate escape from the Nazis, discovering unexpected parallels to her own life in America in this sharp, heartfelt novel.Larissa is a stubborn, brutally honest woman in her eighties, tired of her home in Kiev, Ukraine—tired of everything in life, really, except for her beloved granddaughter, Natasha. Natasha is tired as well, but that’s because she just had a baby, and she’s struggling to balance her roles as a new mother, a wife, an actress (or she used to be one, a... + Read More
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Series: Kink Stories Paperback R.O. Kwon 9781982110215 $23.00 FICTION Feb 09, 2021

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum, edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, and featuring a roster of all-star contributors including Alexander Chee, Roxane Gay, Carmen Maria Machado, and more. A Most-Anticipated book of 2021 as selected by * Marie Claire * O, The Oprah Magazine * Cosmopolitan * Time * The Millions * The Advocate * Autostraddle * Refinery29 * Shape * Town & Country * Book Riot * Literary Hub ... + Read More
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Series: Blunt Force Paperback Lynda La Plante 9781499862478 $22.00 FICTION Aug 25, 2020

Jane Tennison must navigate the salacious world of theatre to solve a brutal murder in the heart of London's West End, in the brilliant new thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama, Lynda La Plante.Things can't get much worse for detective Jane Tennison. Unceremoniously kicked off the adrenaline-fuelled Flying Squad, she now plies her trade in Gerald Road, a small and sleepy police station in the heart of London's affluent Knightsbridge. With only petty crime to sink her teeth into, Tennison can feel her career slowly flatlining. That is until t... + Read More
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Series: Serena Singh Flips the Script Paperback Sonya Lalli 9780593100936 $22.00 FICTION Feb 16, 2021

Serena Singh is tired of everyone telling her what she should want—and she is ready to prove to her mother, her sister, and the aunties in her community that a woman does not need to be in a romantic relationship to have a happy life.Serena’s life has a lot of positives. She is smart, confident, and just got a kick-ass new job at a top advertising firm in Washington, D.C. When her younger sister gets married in a big, traditional wedding, Serena knows she does not need a husband or children to make her own dreams come true. But with her mother... + Read More
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Series: Petra Paperback Shaena Lambert 9780735279575 $22.95 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

Inspired by Petra Kelly, the original Green Party leader and political activist who fought for the planet in 1980s Germany, Shaena Lambert brings us a captivating new novel about a woman who changed history and transformed environmental politics—and who, like many history-changing women, has been largely erased. Award-winning novelist Madeleine Thien calls Petra “a masterpiece—a fierce, humane and powerful novel for our times.”January, 1980. At the height of the Cold War, Petra Kelly inspires hundreds of thousands to take to the streets to prot... + Read More
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Series: Those Who Are Saved Hardcover Alexis Landau 9780593190531 $36.00 FICTION Feb 23, 2021

In the spirit of We Were the Lucky Ones and We Must Be Brave, a heartbreaking World War II novel of one mother’s impossible choice, and her search for her daughter against the odds.As a Russian Jewish émigré to France, Vera’s wealth cannot protect her or her four-year-old-daughter, Lucie, once the Nazis occupy the country. After receiving notice that all foreigners must report to an internment camp, Vera has just a few hours to make an impossible choice: Does she subject Lucie to the horrid conditions of the camp, or does she put her into hidin... + Read More
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Series: Good Neighbors A Novel Hardcover Sarah Langan 9781982144364 $36.00 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

Named by Goodreads as One of the Most Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers of 2021 “A modern-day Crucible….Beneath the surface of a suburban utopia, madness lurks.” —Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish “A sinkhole opens on Maple Street, and gossip turns the suburban utopia toxic. A taut teachable moment about neighbors turning on neighbors.” —People “One of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American suburbia I've ever read. Langan cuts to the heart of upper middle class lives like a skilled surgeon.” —NPR ... + 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: Red Island House A Novel Hardcover Andrea Lee 9781982137809 $36.00 FICTION Mar 23, 2021

From National Book Award–nominated writer Andrea Lee comes a gorgeously evocative epic about love, clashing cultures, and identity, set in the tropical African island nation of Madagascar.“People do mysterious things when they think they’ve found paradise,” reflects Shay, the heroine of Red Island House. When Shay, a Black American professor who’s always had an adventurous streak, marries Senna, an Italian businessman, she doesn’t imagine that her life’s greatest adventure will carry her far beyond their home in Milan to an idyllic stretch of b... + 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: Greyfriars Reformatory Hardcover Frazer Lee 9781787584754 $32.95 FICTION Oct 20, 2020

"Greyfriars Reformatory delivers on suspense and a classic asylum setting that brings to mind novels like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest." — Chicago Review of BooksNineteen year-old Emily's acute dissociative disorder causes her to be institutionalised - again - at Greyfriars Reformatory For Girls. Caught in the crossfire between brutal Principal Quick and cruel bully Saffron Chassay, Emily befriends fellow outcast Victoria. When the terrifying apparition of the mysterious ‘Grey Girl' begins scaring the inmates to death, Emily’s disorder may b... + Read More
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Series: Private Means A Novel Hardcover Cree LeFavour 9780802148889 $38.95 FICTION Aug 21, 2020

“This feels like an Ian McEwan novel. Served on a bed of Cheever. I can’t offer higher praise than that. But written by a woman. Which is even better.”— Elizabeth Gilbert Spanning the course of a single summer, Private Means is acclaimed memoirist Cree LeFavour’s sumptuous fiction debut—a sharply observed comedy of manners and a moving meditation on marriage, money, and loss. A deliciously compulsive first novel from New York Times Editor’s Choice author of Lights On, Rats Out, Cree LeFavour’s Private Means captures the very essen... + Read More
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Series: Moving Violations Strong, Silent Cowboy A Moving Violations Novel Paperback Lora Leigh 9781250220097 $10.99 FICTION Mar 09, 2021

From #1New York Times bestseller Lora Leigh and Veronica Chadwick comes a second chance at love and bodyguard romanceStrong, Silent Cowboy, a Moving Violations novel.“Leigh’s books can scorch the ink off the page.”—RT Book ReviewHe Will Do Anything…Sallie Hamblen had three incredibly hot, sexy nights with Jacob Donovan, an undercover CIA agent, before he disappeared, leaving her broken hearted and forever yearning for the man she lost. Years later, Jacob doesn’t know that the beauty he’s about to seduce in a small town bar is the woman he held ... + Read More
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Series: Fifty Words for Rain A Novel Hardcover Asha Lemmie 9781524746360 $35.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

A Good Morning America book club pick and New York Times bestseller, Asha Lemmie’s debut is a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman’s quest for acceptance in post-World War II Japan.Kyoto, Japan, 1948. “If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent…Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist.” Such is eight-year-old Noriko “Nori” Kamiza’s first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these final words. She will not fight her confinement to the attic of her grandparents’ i... + Read More
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Series: The Beggar's Pawn A Novel Paperback John L'Heureux 9780143135234 $22.00 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

The final book by the noted novelist, short story writer, and teacher John L’Heureux: the story of an affable stranger whose appeals for money gradually upend the lives of an academic’s familyAfter a decades-long career as a critically acclaimed writer (including several novels with Viking and Penguin in the late ’80s and early ’90s) John L’Heureux had a late flowering in his career. In the year before his death in April of 2019, The New Yorker published three of his stories, and a collection of his short stories will be published by A Public S... + 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: Hades, Argentina A Novel Hardcover Daniel Loedel 9780593188644 $36.00 FICTION Jan 12, 2021

A decade after fleeing for his life, a man is pulled back to Argentina by an undying love.It was the most obvious thing in the world that I’d follow her wherever she went. I always had. In 1976, Tomás Oriilla is a medical student in Buenos Aires, where he’s moved in hopes of reuniting with Isabel, a childhood crush. But the reckless passion that has always drawn him is leading Isabel ever deeper into the ranks of young insurgents fighting an increasingly oppressive regime. As its thuggish milicos begin to disappear more and more people like her... + Read More
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Series: Marrying Matthew Paperback Kelly Long 9781420151657 $11.99 FICTION Dec 01, 2020

CBA bestselling author Kelly Long writes deeply emotional Amish romances that explore the intricacies of the human heart and the joys of a simpler way of life. In a captivating new series set in a tiny Appalachian community, young women determined to wed decide to advertise for mail order grooms in an Amish newspaper…Everyone in Blackberry Falls knows that Tabitha Stolfus is heir to her daed’s wood carving company. To find a man who values more than her purse, Tabitha creates an ad and sends it far from home. But from her first meeting with han... + Read More
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Series: The Kew Gardens Girls Paperback Posy Lovell 9780593328231 $22.00 FICTION Apr 20, 2021

A heart-warming novel inspired by real life events, about the brave women during WWI who worked in the historic grounds of London’s Kew Gardens.Can the women of Kew keep the gardens alive in the midst of war?London, 1916. England is at war. Desperate to help in whatever way they can, Ivy and Louisa enlist as gardeners at Kew, the Royal Botanic Gardens, taking on the jobs of the men who have gone to fight. Under their care, the gardens begin to flourish and become a safe haven for those seeking solace—but not everyone wants women working at Kew.... + Read More
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Series: Wrapped Up in Christmas Wrapped Up in Christmas Joy An uplifting small-town romance from Hallmark Publishing Paperback Janice Lynn 9781952210037 $20.99 FICTION Oct 27, 2020

When a quilt shop owner finds a former Marine’s journal, she longs to heal his heart… When Sophie Davis sorts through a box of donated books to her church, she’s surprised to discover a soldier’s journal. As the daughter of a veteran who watched her father struggle over the years, she feels a deep connection to the man who wrote the emotional entries. Former Marine Cole Aaron battled to find peace after returning to civilian life. He’s always needed to protect others. Now, fighting fires in Pine Hill, Kentucky helps him put out the demons wit... + Read More
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Series: Consent Hardcover Annabel Lyon 9780345811455 $29.95 FICTION Sep 29, 2020

A smart, mysterious and heartbreaking novel centred on two sets of sisters whose lives are braided together when tragedy changes them forever. From the award-winning author of The Golden Mean.Saskia and Jenny are twins who are alike only in appearance. Saskia is a hard-working grad student whose interests are solely academic, while Jenny, an interior designer, is glamourous, thrill-seeking, capricious and narcissistic. Still, when Jenny is severely injured in an accident, Saskia puts her life on hold to be with her sister.Sara and Mattie are si... + Read More
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Series: Cranberry Cove Friends Like Us Paperback Sarah Mackenzie 9781538751114 $21.99 FICTION Jan 26, 2021

Fans of Netflix's Virgin River, Jill Shalvis, and Susan Mallery will fall in love with this heartwarming, relatable, and charming beach read, where two best friends discover second chances only happen once in a lifetime.After a cancer scare turns out to be a false alarm, Bree Robinson decides it's time to swim outside her comfort zone. Together with her best friend, Jill, she forms an anti-bucket list -- starting with a steamy fling. Only it turns out that her one-night stand is also the handsome architect renovating her house -- and the chemis... + Read More
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Series: Jingle All the Way A Novel Hardcover Debbie Macomber 9781984818751 $27.00 FICTION Oct 13, 2020

Love can transform even the best-laid plans in this heartfelt Christmas novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author and the queen of Christmas stories, Debbie Macomber.Trapped in the middle of five siblings, Everly Lancaster always had big dreams. Now a top real-estate executive, Everly finds her work is her life, leaving no space for anything (or anyone) else. Sensing her stress, Everly’s boss insists she take December off. At first, a month away seems crazy—how will the company survive without her? But Everly’s mother convinces her otherw... + Read More
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Series: A House at the Bottom of a Lake Paperback Josh Malerman 9780593237779 $22.00 FICTION Jan 19, 2021

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie comes a haunting tale of love and horror, as the date of a lifetime becomes a maddening exploration of the depths of the heart.The story begins: young lovers, anxious to connect, agree to a first date.At seventeen, James and Amelia can feel the rest of their lives beginning. It feels like they have this summer and this summer alone to experience the extraordinary.They didn’t expect to find it in a house at the bottom of a lake.The house is cold and dark, but it’s also their own.... + 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: The Land Hardcover Thomas Maltman 9781641292207 $32.00 FICTION Oct 13, 2020

A story of violence at the heart of a pastoral landscape, from the author of Indie Next pick and All Iowa Reads selection Little Wolves Recovering from a terrible auto accident just before the turn of the millennium, college dropout and hobbyist computer-game programmer Lucien Swenson becomes the caretaker of a house in northern Minnesota. Shortly after moving in, Lucien sets out to find a woman with whom he had an affair, who vanished along with money stolen from the bank where they had worked together. His search will take him to Rose of Sh... + Read More
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Series: I'll Be Strong for You A Novel Hardcover Nasim Marashi 9781662600364 $34.00 FICTION Apr 06, 2021

This award-winning debut novel by Iranian journalist Nasim Marashi follows the lives of three young women in Tehran over the course of two seasons as they pursue their wildly different dreams even as they discover that it may mean breaking with the past and endangering their longstanding friendship.Three recent college graduates in Tehran struggle to find their footing in this award-winning debut by Iranian journalist Nasim Marashi. Roja, the most daring of the three, works in an architecture firm and is determined to leave Tehran for graduate ... + Read More
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Series: In a Book Club Far Away Paperback Tif Marcelo 9781982148096 $22.00 FICTION Apr 06, 2021

From the author of Once Upon a Sunset and The Key to Happily Ever After comes a heartwarming and moving novel following three Army wives—estranged friends—who must overcome their differences when one of them is desperate for help.Regina Castro, Adelaide Wilson-Chang, and Sophie Walden used to be best friends. As Army wives at Fort East, they bonded during their book club and soon became inseparable. But when an unimaginable betrayal happened amongst the group, the friendship abruptly ended, and they haven’t spoken since. That’s why, eight years... + Read More
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Series: The Boy Toy Paperback Nicola Marsh 9780593198629 $22.00 FICTION Nov 17, 2020

A woman ready to give up on love discovers that age is truly just a number in this heartwarming and steamy new romantic comedy by Nicola Marsh.For almost a decade, successful thirty-seven-year-old Samira Broderick has used her bustling L.A. practice as an excuse to avoid a trip home to Australia. She still resents her meddling Indian mother for arranging her marriage to a man who didn’t stick around when the going got tough, but now with a new job Down Under, she’s finally ready to reconnect with her. And while she’s there, a hot international... + Read More
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Series: Hearts of Alaska Heart on a Leash Paperback Alanna Martin 9780593198834 $10.99 FICTION Apr 27, 2021

A pack of rescue huskies inspires love and romance in a coastal Alaskan town fractured by feuding families—but can young pups really teach frozen hearts new tricks? Taylor Lipin has made it her life’s mission to leave her hometown and its ridiculous, century-old feud with the Porters behind. But when her sister needs help running the family inn, Taylor agrees to return to Helen, Alaska on a temporary, definitely not longer than two weeks, basis. Or so she thinks, until she’s quite literally swept off her feet and into enemy territory by three h... + Read More
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Series: Playbook, The Snapped Paperback Alexa Martin 9780593102503 $22.00 FICTION Oct 20, 2020

The game gets more serious off the field in this new football romance in the Playbook series.Elliot Reed is living her best life. Well, that might be an exaggeration, but she’s trying really hard. With her dad’s passing, this year has not been the easiest. But now that she’s landed her dream job as the Strategic Communications Manager for the Denver Mustangs, things are starting to look up. Or at least they were until Quinton Howard Jr. decides to use the field as his stage when he becomes the first player to take a knee during the national ant... + Read More
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Series: Glimmer As You Can A Novel Hardcover Danielle Martin 9781643855233 $35.99 FICTION Nov 10, 2020

“A timely and beautiful story of female friendship and strength.”—Allison Pataki, New York Times bestselling author of The Queen’s Fortune“Martin deftly and exquisitely captures this historical moment.”—Jillian Cantor, USA Today bestselling author of In Another TimeIn the glitz and glamor tradition of Beatriz Williams’s Tiny Little Thing and Fiona Davis’s The Chelsea Girls, Danielle Martin’s debut is “a love letter to…women” (Greer Macallister, The Magician’s Lie) that illustrates the courage of women and the strength of sisterhood.Welcome to t... + Read More
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Series: Highland Falls Christmas on Reindeer Road Paperback Debbie Mason 9781538716960 $11.99 FICTION Sep 29, 2020

Fans of RaeAnne Thayne and Debbie Macomber will love this USA Today bestselling author's latest holiday romance about two single parents whose holiday wishes come true in the small town of Highland Falls.Can the magic of mistletoe bring together two busy single parents?Mallory Maitland knows all too well what it's like to feel abandoned, which is why she's sworn never to give up on her two stepsons -- her late husband's children. But when the teens land in hot water, she's got a whole new problem: how to resist the caring and incredibly hot Chi... + Read More
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Series: The Bad Muslim Discount A Novel Hardcover Syed M. Masood 9780385545259 $35.95 FICTION Feb 02, 2021

“Perfect…I was torn between wanting to take my time to savor it, or just blazing through. This is a book that I didn’t know I deeply needed.” BuzzfeedFollowing two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016, The Bad Muslim Discount is an inclusive, comic novel about Muslim immigrants finding their way in modern America.It is 1995, and Anvar Faris is a restless, rebellious, and sharp-tongued boy doing his best to grow up in Karachi, Pakistan. As fundamentalism takes root within the social order and the zealots next doo... + Read More
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Series: Where the Wild Ladies Are Paperback Aoko Matsuda 9781593766900 $24.00 FICTION Oct 20, 2020

In this “delightfully uncanny” collection of feminist retellings of traditional Japanese folktales (The New York Times Book Review), humans live side by side with spirits who provide a variety of useful services—from truth-telling to babysitting, from protecting castles to fighting crime.A busybody aunt who disapproves of hair removal; a pair of door-to-door saleswomen hawking portable lanterns; a cheerful lover who visits every night to take a luxurious bath; a silent house-caller who babysits and cleans while a single mother is out working. W... + Read More
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Series: Game of the Gods Paperback Paolo Maurensig 9781642860436 $23.50 FICTION Jan 22, 2021

“Italian novelist Maurensig spins an intriguing historical narrative of Indian chess master Malik Mir Sultan Khan (1903–1966)...Maurensig’s tragic tale of genius and destiny duly salvages a forgotten hero.” â??Publishers WeeklyIn 1930s British India, a humble servant learns the art of chaturanga, the ancient Eastern ancestor of chess. His natural talent soon catches the attention of the maharaja, who introduces him to the Western version of the game. Brought to England as the prince’s pawn, Malik becomes a chess legend, winning the world champi... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series The Occidental Hotel Paperback John Mays 9781771835145 $20.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

"Mays’s passion for art electrifies fascinating sketches of Beuys." -Quill and QuireA brooding fugitive hides out in a crumbling hotel that was once filled with celebrities enjoying the successes of postwar America. He is a racist with a criminal past, an anti-hero who reflects on the ruins of the South and simultaneously on the life of a German performance artist called "Jupp". The fictional Jupp is a thinly-veiled cipher for the late real-life German artist, Joseph Beuys, and the photos in the novel are photos of the performances by the contr... + 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: Nightshade A novel Hardcover Annalena McAfee 9780525658290 $35.95 FICTION Aug 18, 2020

A lean, taut novel about an artist—a painter—at the height of her career, about the art world, about love, fidelity, fame, betrayal, and the large choices and prices paid in the quest for art for art’s sake. By the much-admired author of The Spoiler (“cutting wit and razor-sharp writing”—NYTBR; “a dark, sparkly gem of a book”—Christopher Buckley) and Hame (“I couldn’t put it down”—Patrick McGrath).Eve Laing, celebrated artist, once the muse of legendary painter and “monstre sacré” Florian Kiš, is a photorealist painter of flowers at the pe... + Read More
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Series: Pianos and Flowers Brief Encounters of the Romantic Kind Hardcover Alexander McCall Smith 9780735281226 $29.95 FICTION Dec 01, 2020

From the beloved and bestselling author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, a charming short story collection about life and romance.In these delightful stories, McCall Smith imagines the lives and loves behind some of the everyday people featured in the Sunday Times newspaper photographic archive. A young woman finds unexpected love while perusing Egyptian antiquities. A family is forever fractured when war comes to colonial Panang, Thailand. Iron jelloid tablets help expose a young man’s inner strength. And twin sisters discover tha... + Read More
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Series: A Sheriff Aaron Mackey Western The Dark Sunrise Paperback Terrence McCauley 9780786046546 $11.99 FICTION Dec 01, 2020

The sun has finally set on the violent hellstorm that fell on Dover Station, Montana, like a scourge. But when disaster returns, it falls to a lawman armed with a fistful of vengeance to make things right once more… THE BURDEN OF THE BADGE At long last, U.S. Marshal Aaron Mackey and Deputy Billy Sunday will see crime baron James Grant and his kill-crazy cronies stand trial for the mayhem and suff... + Read More