481.
Series:
Perestroika in Paris
A novel
Hardcover
Jane Smiley
9780525520351
$35.95
FICTION
Dec 01, 2020
INSTANT NATIONAL BEST SELLER“If you’re looking for a feel-good escape, try this.” —The New York TimesFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals—and a young boy—whose lives intersect in Paris.Paras, short for “Perestroika,” is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. One afternoon at dusk, she finds the door of her stall open and—she’s a curious filly—wanders all the way to the City of Light. She’s dazzled and often mystified by the sights, sounds...
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482.
Series:
Summer
Hardcover
Ali Smith
9780670070060
$32.00
FICTION
Aug 25, 2020
From the Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to Be Both, comes the last instalment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet.Here is the exciting culmination of Ali Smith’s celebrated Seasonal Quartet, a series of stand-alone novels, separate but interconnected (as the seasons are), wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories.Series Overview: Summer is the fourth (and final) book in the Seasonal Quartet.
483.
Series:
Nick
Hardcover
Michael Farris Smith
9780316529761
$34.00
FICTION
Jan 05, 2021
Critically acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith pulls Nick Carraway out of the shadows and into the spotlight in this "masterful" look into his life before Gatsby (Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of EMPIRE FALLS and CHANCES ARE…) Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby's periphery, he was at the center of a very different story-one taking place along the trenches and deep within the tunnels of World War I. Floundering in the wake of the destruction he witnessed firsthand, Nick delays his return home, hoping to e...
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484.
Series:
Simmer Down
Paperback
Sarah Smith
9781984805447
$22.00
FICTION
Oct 13, 2020
In this finger-licking good rom-com, two is the perfect number of cooks in the kitchen.Nikki DiMarco knew life wouldn’t be all sunshine and coconuts when she quit her dream job to help her mom serve up mouthwatering Filipino dishes to hungry beach goers, but she didn’t expect the Maui food truck scene to be so eat-or-be-eaten—or the competition to be so smoking hot.But Tiva’s Filipina Kusina has faced bigger road bumps than the arrival of Callum James. Nikki doesn’t care how delectable the British food truck owner is—he rudely set up shop next ...
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485.
Series:
Call of the Raven
Hardcover
Wilbur Smith
9781499862294
$38.99
FICTION
Sep 08, 2020
The new novel by Wilbur Smith and the prequel to A Falcon Flies. 'The right of the cat over the mouse, of the strong over the weak. The natural law of existence.' Augustus Mungo St John, A Falcon Flies The son of a wealthy plantation owner and a doting mother, Augustus Mungo St John is accustomed to the wealth and luxuries his privilege has afforded him. That is until he returns from university to discover his family ruined, his inheritance stolen and his childhood sweetheart, Camilla, taken by the conniving Chester Marion. Fuelled by anger, ...
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487.
Series:
The Ex Talk
Paperback
Rachel Lynn Solomon
9780593200124
$22.00
FICTION
Jan 26, 2021
Public radio co-hosts navigate mixed signals in Rachel Lynn Solomon’s adult, romantic comedy debut.Shay Goldstein has been a producer at the Seattle public radio station for nearly a decade, and she can’t imagine working anywhere else. But lately it’s been a constant clash between her and her newest colleague, Dominic Yeung, who’s fresh off a journalism master’s program and convinced he knows everything about public radio.When the struggling station needs a new concept, Shay proposes a show that her boss green-lights with excitement. On The Ex ...
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489.
Series: A Cape Light Novel
Thomas Kinkade's Cape Light: One Bright Christmas
Hardcover
Katherine Spencer
9780593198919
$35.00
FICTION
Nov 03, 2020
Holiday cheer can’t be stopped this Christmas season in this next novel by the New York Times bestselling author of the Angel Island series.Cape Light sees more miracles this Christmas in the next heartwarming novel by New York Times bestselling author Katherine Spencer.Story Locale: Cape Light, MASeries Overview: In the little community of Cape Light, Reverend Ben and the townspeople struggle with life’s many challenges—but pull together to find hope, healing, and joy.
490.
Series: Rebels of the Ton
Notorious
A Thrilling Historical Regency Romance Saga
Paperback
Minerva Spencer
9781496732835
$21.95
FICTION
Nov 24, 2020
Critically acclaimed author Minerva Spencer brings a rebellious spirit to the Regency with a vibrant new series focused on how the youth of that era subvert the social expectations and mores of the day in order to carve their own paths in life. Full of witty humor, Minerva Spencer weaves a tale of a forthright and unapologetically opinionated lady and the effortlessly charming rogue who find themselves thrown together by a fluke of circumstance and into a marriage of necessity. Can the wallflower and the rake find common ground in their distast...
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491.
Series:
The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany
Paperback
Lori Nelson Spielman
9781984803160
$22.00
FICTION
Nov 17, 2020
The enduring bonds of sisterhood flourish in this heartwarming and dazzling Italian adventure, where a love that spans generations reveals the path to one woman’s destiny, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Life List.When the fiercely independent and mysterious Paulina “Poppy” Fontana invites her great-nieces and fellow second-born daughters, Emilia and Lucy, to visit her birthplace of Italy, she makes a wild declaration. On her eightieth birthday, Poppy claims she’ll meet the love of her life on the steps of the Ravello Cathedra...
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492.
Series: The Gilded Age Heiresses
The Heiress Gets a Duke
Paperback
Harper St. George
9780593197202
$10.99
FICTION
Jan 26, 2021
Even a fortune forged in railroads and steel can’t buy entrance into the upper echelons of Victorian high society—for that you need a marriage of convenience.American heiress August Crenshaw has aspirations. But unlike her peers, it isn’t some stuffy British Lord she wants wrapped around her finger—it’s Crenshaw Steel, the family business. When it’s clear that August’s outrageously progressive ways render her unsuitable for a respectable match, her parents offer up her younger sister to the highest entitled bidder instead. This simply will not ...
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493.
Series:
We Germans
A Novel
Hardcover
Alexander Starritt
9780316429801
$34.00
FICTION
Sep 01, 2020
A letter from a German soldier to his grandson recounts the terrors of war on the Eastern Front, and a postwar ordinary life in search of atonement, in this “raw, visceral, and propulsive” novel (New York Times Book Review).A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice In the throes of the Second World War, young Meissner, a college student with dreams of becoming a scientist, is drafted into the German army and sent to the Eastern Front. But soon his regiment collapses in the face of the onslaught of the Red Army, hell-bent on revenge in its r...
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494.
Series:
Royal
A Novel
Hardcover
Danielle Steel
9780399179655
$38.99
FICTION
Aug 18, 2020
In this spellbinding tale from Danielle Steel, a princess is sent away to safety during World War II, where she falls in love, and is lost forever.As the war rages on in the summer of 1943, causing massive destruction and widespread fear, the King and Queen choose to quietly send their youngest daughter, Princess Charlotte, to live with a trusted noble family in the country. Despite her fiery, headstrong nature, the princess’s fragile health poses far too great a risk for her to remain in war-torn London.Third in line for the throne, seventeen ...
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495.
Series:
All That Glitters
A Novel
Hardcover
Danielle Steel
9780399179686
$38.99
FICTION
Nov 17, 2020
In Danielle Steel’s dazzling new novel, a young woman must overcome tremendous adversity in her quest to find herself and achieve real happiness. Nicole “Coco” Martin is destined to have it all. As the only child of doting and successful parents, she has been given every opportunity in life. Having inherited her mother’s stunning beauty and creativity, along with her father’s work ethic and diligence, the world is at her feet. Her graduation from Columbia is fast approaching, and with it, the summer job of her dreams working at a magazine. Betw...
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496.
Series:
Neighbors
A Novel
Hardcover
Danielle Steel
9781984821379
$38.99
FICTION
Jan 05, 2021
In Danielle Steel’s gripping new novel, a reclusive woman opens up her home to her neighbors in the wake of a devastating earthquake, setting off events that reveal secrets, break relationships apart, and bring strangers together to forge powerful new bonds.Meredith White was one of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces. But a personal tragedy cut her acting career short and alienated her from her family. For the last fifteen years, Meredith has been living alone in San Francisco with two trusted caretakers. Then, on a muggy late summer day, a ma...
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497.
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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500.
Series: A Vineyard Novel
A Vineyard Morning
Paperback
Jean Stone
9781496728838
$21.95
FICTION
Jan 26, 2021
In Jean Stone’s third Vineyard Novel, a visit from her biological mother threatens to upend bestselling novelist and island transplant Annie Sutton’s new life on Martha’s Vineyard.Life is usually quiet during the off-season on Martha’s Vineyard, but not for island newbie and bestselling novelist Annie Sutton…Finally settled into her adopted island home, Annie is looking forward to writing her next mystery, making soap for her new business, and starting renovations on the Inn she plans to open by the summer. She’s also enjoying spending more tim...
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501.
Series: The Gunfighter Series
Ralph Compton Dalton's Justice
Paperback
Carlton Stowers
9780593102466
$10.99
FICTION
Feb 23, 2021
In this compelling new installment of bestselling author Ralph Compton’s Gunfighter series, Marshal Ben Dalton travels to Fort Worth to prove an old friend innocent of murder.It’s been ten years since the worst day of Ben Dalton’s life. After four grinding years of war, the Confederate veteran returned to his hometown of Aberdeen, Texas, to find that his girl, Mandy, had run off with his best friend, John Rawlings. Dalton recovered from the betrayal and spent the next decade settling down to life as the town’s marshal.That quiet life is shatter...
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502.
Series:
The Queen of Tuesday
A Lucille Ball Story
Hardcover
Darin Strauss
9780812992762
$36.00
FICTION
Aug 18, 2020
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Chang & Eng and Half a Life, a new novel about Lucille Ball, a thrilling love story starring Hollywood’s first true media mogul, and an epic multi-layered look at America’s most fascinating era.This indelible romance begins with a daring conceit—that the author’s grandfather may have had an affair with Lucille Ball. Strauss offers a fresh view of a celebrity America loved more than any other. Lucille Ball—the most powerful woman in the history of Hollywood—starred in America’s first big-time interr...
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505.
Series: Watch Dogs: Legion
Day Zero
A Watch Dogs: Legion Novel
Paperback Original
Paperback
James Swallow
9781839080487
$22.95
FICTION
Nov 03, 2020
A secretive resistance movement is the last line of defense in this heart-pounding prequel to 2020’s most-anticipated video game release, Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs: LegionBike messenger and wannabe troublemaker Olly Soames is the newest recruit to DedSec’s Resistance movement, but when a stranger is shot dead in front of him, he realizes that danger is closer than he thinks… Sarah Lincoln is an aggressive young politician with questionable methods and big ambitions, and when a string of murders unfolds in her borough, it may be the opportunity she h...
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506.
Series:
Together by Christmas
Paperback
Karen Swan
9781529061055
$24.99
FICTION
Nov 03, 2020
Escape to the snow-covered streets of Amsterdam in this surprising and heartwarming novel for the holiday season by Canadian bestseller Karen Swan. When Lee first came to Amsterdam, it was with a newborn baby and a secret. Five years later, her life is approaching normal: her career as a celebrity photographer is flourishing, her son Jasper is growing up, and they are enjoying the run-up to Christmas with their tight circle of close friends. But all this changes one morning when Lee finds a book in the basket of her bicycle - and scrawled ins...
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508.
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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510.
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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512.
Series:
The Decameron Project
29 New Stories from the Pandemic
Hardcover
The New York Times
9781982170790
$34.00
FICTION
Nov 10, 2020
A stunning collection of short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, this year's National Book Award winner Charles Yu, and more.When reality is surreal, only fiction can make sense of it. In 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote The Decameron: one hundred nested tales told by a group of young men and women passing the time at a villa outside Florence while waiting out the gruesome Black Death, a plague...
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513.
Series:
Finding Love at the Christmas Market
Paperback
Jo Thomas
9780552176859
$16.99
FICTION
Dec 08, 2020
’It’s Christmas in a book!’ Katie Fforde ’Sprinkled with Christmas magic!’ Milly Johnson ’A scrumptious seasonal treat!’ Heidi Swain Cosy up with the new Christmas book from bestselling author Jo Thomas ___Residential-home caterer Connie has had one online-dating disaster too many. Hurt in the past and with her son to consider, now she’s feeling hesitant. Then one of Connie’s residents sets her up on a date at a beautiful German Christmas market - with the promise she’ll take a mini-bus full of pensioners along with her…Amongst the twinkl...
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514.
Series:
The Cowboy Who Saved Christmas
Paperback
Jodi Thomas
9781496725493
$21.95
FICTION
Oct 27, 2020
In these Texas-set stories of romance and adventure, the Civil War is over, Christmas is coming—and it’s time for three rugged fighters to become lovers… FATHER GOOSE New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Jodi Thomas Dispirited by war, when Trapper Hawkins accepts a job hauling five little rich girls to Dallas, all he cares about is the money. He doesn’t expect they’ll awaken his spirit—or that their intriguing nursemaid, Emery Adams, will awaken his heart. And when danger strikes as Christmas Eve nears, he definitely doesn’t expect...
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515.
Series:
Lost in Paris
Paperback
Elizabeth Thompson
9781982149086
$22.99
FICTION
Apr 13, 2021
“A luscious, layered story of inheritance, heartbreak, reinvention, and family. I adored this book.” —Kristan Higgins, New York Times bestselling author When a deed to an apartment in Paris turns up in an old attic trunk, an estranged mother and daughter must reunite to uncover the secret life of a family matriarch—perfect for fans of The Little Paris Bookshop and The Beekeeper’s Daughter.Hannah Bond has always been a bookworm, which is why she fled Florida—and her unstable, alcoholic mother—for a quiet life leading Jane Austen-themed tours thr...
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516.
Series: A Counterfeit Lady Novel
City of Schemes
Hardcover
Victoria Thompson
9780593197509
$35.00
FICTION
Jan 05, 2021
Elizabeth Miles is preparing for her wedding to Gideon Bates, when a menacing shadow from her past threatens to destroy the life she’s built for herself in this all new Counterfeit Lady Novel from USA Today bestselling author, Victoria Thompson.The Great War is over, and Elizabeth and Gideon are busily planning their wedding and welcoming home old friends now discharged from the army. One of them, Captain Archie Carstens, the son and heir of a wealthy Knickerbocker family, seems less happy to be home than Gideon had expected. While Archie was ...
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517.
Series:
The Memory Theater
A Novel
Hardcover
Karin Tidbeck
9781524748333
$34.95
FICTION
Feb 16, 2021
***One of Buzzfeed’s 21 Fantasy Books to Get Excited About This Winter*** ***One of Tor’s 30 Most Anticipated SFF Books of 2021***From the award-winning author of Amatka and Jagannath—a fantastical tour de force about friendship, interdimensional theater, and a magical place where no one ages, except the young In a world just parallel to ours exists a mystical realm known only as the Gardens. It’s a place where feasts never end, games of croquet have devastating consequences, and teenagers are punished for growing up. For a select group of ma...
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518.
Series:
Siri, Who Am I?
A Novel
Paperback
Sam Tschida
9781683691686
$21.99
FICTION
Jan 12, 2021
Indie Next and Library Reads PickOne of Cosmopolitan’s “Best New Books Coming Out in 2021”One of POPSUGAR’s “Best New Books Coming Out in 2021”A Millennial with amnesia uses her Instagram account to piece together her identity in this hilarious and whip-smart comedy about the ups and downs of influencer culture.Mia might look like a Millennial but she was born yesterday. Emerging from a coma with short-term amnesia after an accident, Mia can’t remember her own name until the Siri assistant on her iPhone provides it. Based on her cool hairstyle ...
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520.
Series:
The Lies You Told
Hardcover
Harriet Tyce
9781538762752
$35.00
FICTION
Dec 01, 2020
From the acclaimed author of Blood Orange, a dark new psychological thriller about the perfect mother, the perfect wife, the perfect family -- and the perfect murder.In the playground it's the law of the jungleBut at the school gate, there are no rules at all...When Sadie Roper moves back to London, she's determined to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. First, she needs to get her daughter settled into a new school-one of the most exclusive in the city. Next, she's going to get back the high-flying criminal barrister career she sacrifice...
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522.
Series:
Once Removed
Paperback
Andrew Unger
9780888017093
$21.95
FICTION
Sep 15, 2020
Timothy Heppner is a frustrated ghostwriter struggling to make ends meet in Edenfeld, a small Mennonite community bulldozing its way towards modernity--if it's old, it has to go!A member of the Preservation Society but desperate to keep his job with the mayor's Parks and "Wreck" department, Timothy finds himself in an awkward position when he is hired to write an updated version of the town's history book. Fuelled by warring loyalties, the threat of personal bankruptcy, and a good deal of fried bologna, Timothy must find his own voice to tell t...
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525.
Series:
In Search of a Name
A Novel
Hardcover
Marjolijn van Heemstra
9781982100483
$35.00
FICTION
Nov 24, 2020
This spellbinding and intimate novel explores the burden of legacy as a young woman wrestles with discoveries that contradict her great-uncle’s supposed heroism during World War II. D says that a name always fits in the end, that a name is like a leather shoe that forms itself to the foot. But in my mind, it’s the other way around: a person grows into his name. Marjolijn van Heemstra has heard about her great-uncle’s heroism for as long as she can remember. As a resistance fighter, he was the mastermind of a bombing operation that killed a Du...
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526.
Series:
The Great Offshore Grounds
A novel
Hardcover
Vanessa Veselka
9780525658078
$36.95
FICTION
Aug 25, 2020
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD!A wildly original, cross-country novel that subverts a long tradition of family narratives and casts new light on the mythologies—national, individual, and collective—that drive and define us.On the day of their estranged father’s wedding, half sisters Cheyenne and Livy set off to claim their inheritance. It’s been years since the two have seen each other. Cheyenne is newly back in Seattle, crashing with Livy after a failed marriage and a series of dead ends. Livy works refinishing boats, her resentme...
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527.
Series:
Ordesa
A Novel
Hardcover
Manuel Vilas
9780593084045
$37.00
FICTION
Dec 01, 2020
The international bestselling phenomenon: a profound and riveting story of love, loss, and memory.A man at a crossroads in the middle of his life returns to the small mountain town where he was born, and where his parents have recently died. In the face of enormous personal tumult, he sits down to write. What follows is a dizzying, audacious chronicle of his childhood and an unsparing account of his life’s trials, failures, and triumphs that becomes a moving look at what family gives and takes away.In the shadow of the Pyrenees, with the intima...
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528.
Series:
The Librarian of Boone's Hollow
A Novel
Paperback
Kim Vogel Sawyer
9780525653721
$23.00
FICTION
Sep 15, 2020
A traveling librarian ventures into the mining towns of Kentucky on horseback and rediscovers her passions in this powerful novel from the best-selling author of A Silken Thread.During the Great Depression, Addie Cowherd dreams of being a novelist and offering readers the escape that books gave her during her tragic childhood. When her adoptive father loses his job, she is forced to leave college and take the only employment she can find—delivering books on horseback to poor coal mining families in the hills of Kentucky.The small community of B...
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529.
Series:
The High-Rise Diver
Paperback
Julia von Lucadou
9781642860764
$25.50
FICTION
Mar 12, 2021
For readers ofThe Handmaid’s Tale, The Circle, andBrave New World comes a chilling and distressingly plausible dystopia which creates a world in which performance is everything and one woman’s failure to achieve becomes another’s downfall. Riva is a “high-rise diver,” a top athlete with millions of fans, and a perfectly functioning human on all levels. Suddenly she rebels, breaking her contract and refusing to train. Cameras are everywhere in her world, but she doesn’t know her every move is being watched by Hitomi, the psychologist tasked w...
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530.
Series:
Two White Queens and the One-Eyed Jack
Paperback
Heidi von Palleske
9781459746787
$22.99
FICTION
Feb 09, 2021
Fate, circumstance, and the symbolism of sight collide in this modern gothic novel spanning the shores of Lake Ontario to post-war Berlin between the 1960s and 1980s.On a hot June day in 1965, two six-year-old boys, Gareth and Jack, compete to see who can climb higher up a tree. When Jack falls and loses his eye on a thorn bush, the accident brings about a series of events that will bind the boys together for the rest of their lives. When the best friends meet albino twins Clara and Blanca, a shared fate unfolds. With Gareth and Jack’s help, th...
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531.
Series:
Cobble Hill
A Novel
Hardcover
Cecily von Ziegesar
9781982147037
$36.00
FICTION
Nov 10, 2020
“Best Novels of Fall 2020” —Vogue “Most Anticipated List for Fall 2020” —Parade “Best of Fall 2020” —PopSugar “Best Books of 2020” —Marie Claire From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Gossip Girl series, a deliciously irresistible novel chronicling a year in the life of four families in an upscale Brooklyn neighborhood as they seek purpose, community, and meaningful relationships—until one unforgettable night at a raucous neighborhood party knocks them to their senses.Welcome to Cobble Hill. In this eclectic Brooklyn neighborhood...
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532.
Series:
Cobble Hill
A Novel
Canadian Export
Paperback
Cecily von Ziegesar
9781982165291
$24.99
FICTION
Nov 10, 2020
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Gossip Girl series, a deliciously irresistible novel chronicling a year in the life of four families in an upscale Brooklyn neighborhood as they seek purpose, community, and meaningful relationships—until one unforgettable night at a raucous neighborhood party knocks them to their senses.Welcome to Cobble Hill. In this eclectic Brooklyn neighborhood, private storms brew amongst four married couples and their children. There’s ex-groupie Mandy, so underwhelmed by motherhood and her current phy...
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533.
Series: Guernica Prize
This Cleaving and This Burning
Paperback
J.A. Wainwright
9781771835664
$20.00
FICTION
Oct 01, 2020
Two unrelated, aspiring writers, born on the same day in the same year to parents with the same first names, grow up together and eventually gain national prominence as authors. As the years pass, the complex sexual identities of Miller Sark and Hal Pierce undermine their intense private relationship, inflicting damage that cannot be undone by the distinction of their fiction and poetry. Inspired by the lives and works of American literary giants Ernest Hemingway and Hart Crane, This Cleaving and This Burning reveals the passion and purpose beh...
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536.
Series:
Dog Days
Hardcover
Ericka Waller
9780857527233
$31.99
FICTION
Apr 27, 2021
’Funny, sad, gritty and beautifully told, this story will make you look at life again and appreciate the small acts of kindness that make everything worthwhile.’ HAZEL PRIOR, author of AWAY WITH THE PENGUINS’A soulful, lyrical tale…Such a treat.’ BETH MORREY, author of SAVING MISSY’A charming, surprising and moving story of three troubled characters’ encounter with love, grief, healing…and dogs’ CLARE CHAMBERS, author of SMALL PLEASURES George is very angry. His wife has upped and died on him, and all he wants to do is sit in his underpants an...
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538.
Series:
Body of Stars
A Novel
Hardcover
Laura Maylene Walter
9780593183052
$35.00
FICTION
Mar 16, 2021
From debut novelist Laura Maylene Walter, a bold and dazzling exploration of fate and female agency in a world very similar to our own—except that the markings on women’s bodies reveal the future.Perfect for fans of Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks and Naomi Alderman’s The Power, Body of Stars is a unique and timely exploration of girlhood, womanhood, and toxic masculinity. A piercing indictment of rape culture, it is an inventive and urgent read about what happens when women are objectified and stripped of choice—and what happens when they fight back.C...
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539.
Series:
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Hardcover
Dawnie Walton
9781982140168
$36.00
FICTION
Mar 30, 2021
A kaleidoscopic fictional oral history of the beloved rock ’n’ roll duo who shot to fame in 1970s New York, and the dark, fraught secret that lies at the peak of their stardom.Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and attitude, Afro-punk before that term existed. Coming of age in Detroit, she can’t imagine settling for a 9-to-5 job—despite her unusual looks, Opal believes she can be a star. So when the aspiring British singer/songwriter Neville Charles discovers her at a bar’s amateur night, she takes...
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540.
Series: A Rocking R Ranch Western
The Devil's Rope
Paperback
Tim Washburn
9780786045693
$11.99
FICTION
Dec 29, 2020
From acclaimed storyteller Tim Washburn, the second adventure in a thrilling new saga of the Old West, the sprawling story of one frontier family—and the Texas home they fought for, lived for, and died for…The Ridgeway family faces their greatest challenge when a devastating drought threatens to spark an open range war, forcing them to fight for their ranch, their dream—and their lives…It’s the summer of 1883. A severe drought threatens to bankrupt the Ridgeway’s Rocking R Ranch and every rancher in northwest Texas. The cattle are thirsty and h...
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