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Series: Normal People A Novel Paperback Sally Rooney 9780735276499 $21.00 FICTION Feb 18, 2020

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEA PENGUIN BOOK CLUB PICKA wondrously wise, genuinely unputdownable novel from Sally Rooney, winner of the 2017 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award (at 26, tied with Zadie Smith for the youngest-ever recipient)—the quintessential coming-of-age love story for our time.Connell Waldron is one of the most popular boys in his small-town high school—he is a star of the football team, an excellent student, and never wanting for attention from girls. The one thing he doesn’t have is m... + Read More
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Series: Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line Hardcover Deepa Anappara 9780771001703 $32.95 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

“Warning: if you begin reading the book in the morning, don’t expect to get anything done for the rest of the day.”—New York TimesWe children are not just stories. We live. Come and see.Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality cop shows, thinks he’s smarter than his friend Pari (even though she always gets top marks) and considers himself to be a better boss than Faiz (even though Faiz is the one with a job).When a boy at school goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from episodes of Police Patrol to find h... + Read More
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Series: The Authenticity Project A Novel Paperback Clare Pooley 9780735238435 $24.95 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BESTSELLERGlobe and Mail bestsellerToronto Star bestsellerA WASHINGTON POST “FEEL-GOOD BOOK guaranteed to lift your spirits”“I loved The Authenticity Project. It’s a clever, uplifting book that entertains and makes you think.”—Sophie Kinsella, #1 New York Times bestselling authorThe story of a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even loveJulian Jessop, an eccentric, lonely artist and septuagenarian believes that most people aren’t really honest with... + Read More
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Series: Daisy Jones & The Six A Novel Paperback Taylor Jenkins Reid 9780385692199 $21.00 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

A PENGUIN BOOK CLUB PICKNATIONAL AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2019 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR HISTORICAL FICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICENAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: The Washington Post • Esquire • Glamour • CBC • NPR • Marie Claire • Real Simple • Good Housekeeping • Parade • Shelf Awareness • BookRiot • E! News • Mental Floss • Paste"I devoured Daisy Jones & The Six in a day, falling head over heels for it. Daisy and the band captured my heart." —Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine pick)A... + Read More
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Series: The Spirit of Science Fiction A Novel Paperback Roberto Bolano 9780735233553 $18.00 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

From a master of contemporary fiction, a tale of bohemian youth on the make in Mexico CityTwo young poets, Jan and Remo, find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world—or sacrifice themselves to it. Roberto Bolaño’s The Spirit of Science Fiction is a story of youth hungry for revolution, notoriety, and sexual adventure, as they work to construct a reality out of the fragments of their dreams.But as close as these friends are, the city tugs t... + Read More
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Series: The Dark Star Trilogy Black Leopard, Red Wolf Paperback Marlon James 9780385690348 $24.00 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

The epic novel, an African Game of Thrones, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven KillingsIn the first novel in Marlon James’ Dark Star trilogy, African myth, fantasy and history come together in the story of a band of mercenaries hired to find a missing child.Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: “He has a nose,” people say. Engaged by a mysterious slave trader to track down a boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself par... + Read More
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Series: Kincaid Strange Series, The Voodoo Shanghai A Kincaid Strange Novel Paperback Kristi Charish 9780345815927 $24.00 FICTION Feb 18, 2020

The third and final installment in Kristi Charish’s thrilling urban fantasy series finds beloved heroine and voodoo practitioner Kincaid Strange shanghaied away from Seattle and pursuing the ghost of a serial killer in Portland.Just when Kincaid Strange thinks her life is back on track and she’s finally put her time as a paranormal practitioner with the Seattle PD to rest, her ex (and Seattle cop) Aaron asks her for help with yet another strange and ominous case. Martin Dane, the White Picket Fence Serial Killer who terrorized West Coast famili... + Read More
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Series: A Fine Balance Paperback Rohinton Mistry 9780771060540 $24.99 FICTION Apr 05, 1997

A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry’s stunning internationally acclaimed bestseller, is set in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a “State of Internal Emergency.” Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances – and their fates – become inextricably linked in ways no one could have foreseen. Mistry’s prose is alive with enduring images and a cast of unforgettable characters. Written with compassion, humour, and insight, ... + Read More
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Series: Detective Varg Series The Department of Sensitive Crimes A Detective Varg Novel Paperback Alexander McCall Smith 9780735277960 $19.95 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

In the Swedish criminal justice system, certain cases are considered especially strange and difficult, in Malmö, the dedicated detectives who investigate these crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Sensitive Crimes Division. These are their stories.The first case: the small matter of a man stabbed in the back of the knee. Who would perpetrate such a crime and why? Next: a young woman’s imaginary boyfriend goes missing. But how on Earth do you search for someone who doesn’t exist? And in the final investigation: eerie secrets that ar... + Read More
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Series: Indelicacy Paperback Amina Cain 9780771021831 $22.00 FICTION Feb 11, 2020

FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION’S FIRST NOVEL PRIZEAn intimate, elegant, and deceptively sinister story of what a woman will do to take control of her life.A woman aspiring to a contemplative life faces innumerable obstacles—cultural, financial, sexual, and metaphysical—that stand between her and the freedom to live as she desires.In “a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch” (Blake Butler), a cleaning woman at a museum of art nurtures aspirations to do more than simply dust the paintings that surround her... + Read More
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Series: City of the Lost Alone in the Wild A Rockton Thriller (City of the Lost 5) Paperback Kelley Armstrong 9780385694476 $24.95 FICTION Feb 11, 2020

In #1 New York Times bestseller Kelley Armstrong’s latest thriller, the hidden town of Rockton is about to face a challenge none of them saw coming: a baby.Every season in Rockton seems to bring a new challenge. At least that’s what Detective Casey Duncan has felt since she decided to call this place home. Between all the secretive residents, the sometimes-hostile settlers outside, and the surrounding wilderness, there’s always something to worry about.While on a much needed camping vacation with her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, Casey hears ... + Read More
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Series: The Suspect INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Paperback Fiona Barton 9780143197782 $19.95 FICTION Feb 25, 2020

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Utterly engrossing…I lived inside this book for two days—and I’m still thinking about it. Superb!”—Shari Lapena, #1 internationally bestselling author of The Couple Next DoorThe New York Times bestselling author of The Widow returns with a brand-new novel of twisting psychological suspense about every parent’s worst nightmare…When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight—desperate, bereft, and frantic with worry. What were the girls up to before th... + Read More
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Series: Children of the Moon Paperback Anthony De Sa 9780385685993 $22.00 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

From celebrated author Anthony De Sa comes a raw and compelling novel of love, war and the heartbreaking effects of memory.“’You must listen to my words. You must promise to tell my story the way I have shared it with you.’”Tanzania, 1956. A Maasai woman gives birth to a child with albinism. The child is seen as a curse upon her tribe, and so begins Pó’s tumultuous story. As Pó navigates the world, she must claim her life in the face of violence and ostracism.Further south, in Portuguese-controlled Mozambique, Ezequiel struggles for acceptance ... + Read More
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Series: Real Life A Novel Hardcover Brandon Taylor 9780525538882 $35.00 FICTION Feb 18, 2020

A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE“A blistering coming of age story”—O: The Oprah MagazineA novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice. 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 he is working toward a... + Read More
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Series: Jughead's Time Police Paperback Sina Grace 9781645769699 $17.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Feb 18, 2020

Sina Grace (Iceman) and Derek Charm (Jughead) traverse the time stream to bring back a cult classic series!When Jughead messes up his Riverdale Annual Bake-Off pie recipe so terribly, he is disqualified and banned from all future Bake-Offs! Jug goes to unthinkable lengths to fix his error: time travel! Even Riverdale's most erudite teenager can't manage the delicate dance of going back in time, and poor Juggie lands himself in an epic battle to keep the time stream intact!
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Series: Books of Magic Vol. 2: Second Quarto (The Sandman Universe) Paperback Kat Howard 9781401299040 $22.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Feb 11, 2020

Not all fairy tales have happy ending. Classes. Quizzes. Crushes. Classmates going missing. Cults dedicated to your destruciton. School is rough on everybody, but it’s especially hard on kids like Tim Hunter - a teenage magician destined to change the world.So when Tim’s mentor, Dr. Rose, whisks him away from London on an important mission to a magical realm beyond space and time, it seems like just the break that the boy wizard needs. In fact, the land of Faerie is such a trip that Tim quickly starts to forget why he came there…or why he wo... + Read More
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Series: House of Whispers Vol. 2: Ananse Paperback Nalo Hopkinson 9781401299170 $22.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Feb 25, 2020

She may be the goddess of love and beauty, but for Voodoo deity Erzulie things are getting uglier by the minute.As a magical epidemic rages, Erzulie’s legendary House of Dahomey has been stranded on the shores of the Dreaming, leaving the soulless bodies of the plague’s victims to roam the Earth. And all the while, Shakpana—god of pox, plague, and pestilence—grows stronger. It’s enough to confound even the most experienced of Loas. So to help her untangle the threads of her own history, Erzulie turns to Ananse, the spider-god of stories. But An... + Read More
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Series: Harley Quinn & the Gotham Girls Paperback Paul Storrie 9781401299712 $22.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Feb 18, 2020

Unable to resist a golden opportunity to fund her beloved lion preserve, Catwoman heists a vial of a mysterious formula for a shady company—only to discover she’s actually working for Poison Ivy and mallet-wielding sidekick Harley Quinn! This action-packed five-issue miniseries is collected here in its entirety, featuring the fan-favorite girls of Gotham, including Catwoman, Harley Quinn, Poson Ivy, Renee Montoya, and Batgirl!Detective Renee Montoya, investigating the theft of a mysterious chemical compound, follows the deadly trail of Poison I... + Read More
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Series: Wonder Woman by George Perez Vol. 4 Paperback George Perez 9781401291266 $45.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Feb 18, 2020

Once upon a time, the world's greatest heroine was reimagined by a comic book legend.More than 40 years after debuting in All Star Comics #8, Wonder Woman was reshaped by legendary comics creator George Pérez and returned to the public eye in 1986. This updated Amazonian Princess met with such acclaim that Pérez's original six-month commitment to the title was extended--and extended--until nearly five years had passed. Working with scripter Mindy Newell and artist Chris Marrinan, plus a host of talented inkers (including Steve Montano and Romeo... + Read More
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Series: Romance in Marseille Paperback Claude McKay 9780143134220 $22.00 FICTION Feb 11, 2020

The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and black international politics. A vital document of black modernism and one of the earliest overtly queer fictions in the African American tradition. Published for the first time.A Penguin ClassicA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice/Staff PickVulture’s Ten Best Books of 2020 pickBuried in the archive for almost ninety years, Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille traces the adventures of a rowdy troupe of dockworkers, prostitutes, and political organizers—collectively str... + Read More
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Series: The Night Swimmers Paperback Peter Rock 9781641291279 $20.00 FICTION Feb 11, 2020

“Swimming at night, to compare its slipperiness to that of a dream would be to ignore the work of staying afloat, the mesmerism brought on by the rhythm, the repetition of the strokes.” Beneath the surface of Lake Michigan there are vast systems: crosscutting currents, sudden drop-offs, depths of absolute darkness, shipwrecked bodies, hidden places. Peter Rock’s stunning autobiographical novel begins in the ’90s on the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin. The narrator, a recent college graduate, and a young widow, Mrs. Abel, swim together at night, ma... + Read More
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Series: Penguin Vitae The Yellow Wall-Paper and Selected Writings Hardcover Charlotte Perkins Gilman 9780143134794 $42.00 FICTION Feb 25, 2020

A collection of the groundbreaking feminist writer's most famous works, with a thought-provoking introduction by bestselling author Kate Bolick.A Penguin Vitae EditionWonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustrations with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the twentieth century began. Perhaps best known for her chilling depiction of a woman's mental breakdown in her unforgettable 1892 short stor... + Read More
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Series: Blumhouse Books The Invisible Man (Movie Tie-in) Media tie-in Paperback H. G. Wells 9780593082942 $14.00 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

Rediscover H. G. Wells’ classic novel and inspiration for the terrifying new film starring Emmy® winner Elisabeth Moss and written and directed by Leigh Whannell.Wells’ novel, The Invisible Man (1897), blends horror and tragedy in its story of a scientist who discovers a way to make himself invisible. His inability to reverse the process leads to a radical disconnection from society—and eventually from his own sanity. Arriving in a town where no one knows him, disguised in bandages and dark glasses, the invisible man is driven to violent and cr... + Read More
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Series: Oksana, Behave! A Novel Paperback Maria Kuznetsova 9780525511892 $23.00 FICTION Feb 11, 2020

“The Ukrainian American heroine of this sweet-bitter debut is a wisecracking fatalist who can be counted on to say the inappropriate thing, a tendency that becomes more pronounced as doomed crushes and family crises pile up on the road to adulthood.” O: The Oprah MagazineWhen Oksana moves from the Ukraine to Florida to begin a new American life, her physicist father delivers pizza at night to make ends meet, her cranky mother sits at home all day worrying, and her flamboyant grandmother relishes the attention she gets from men. All Oksana wants... + Read More
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Series: Bangkok Wakes to Rain A Novel Paperback Pitchaya Sudbanthad 9780525534778 $23.00 FICTION Feb 18, 2020

“Recreates the experience of living in Thailand’s aqueous climate so viscerally that you can feel the water rising around your ankles.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post“Important, ambitious, and accomplished.”—Mohsin Hamid, New York Times bestselling author of Exit WestA missionary doctor pines for his native New England even as he succumbs to the vibrant chaos of nineteenth-century Siam. A post-World War II society woman marries, mothers, and holds court, little suspecting her solitary fate. A jazz pianist in the age of rock, haunted by his own gh... + Read More
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Series: The Resisters A novel Hardcover Gish Jen 9780525657217 $35.95 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

“A dystopia so chillingly plausible that an entire review could be spent simply describing its components…. Marvelous.” —The Boston Globe The time: not so long from now. The place: AutoAmerica, a country surveilled by one “Aunt Nettie,” a Big Brother that is part artificial intelligence, part internet, and oddly human—even funny. The people: divided. The “angelfair” Netted have jobs and, what with the country half under water, literally occupy the high ground. The Surplus live on swampland if they’re lucky, on water if they’re not. The stor... + Read More
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Series: Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes Hardcover Kathleen West 9780593098400 $35.00 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

Class Mom meets Small Admissions in this wryly observed debut about the privileged bubble that is Liston Heights High—the micro-managing parents, the overworked teachers, and the students caught in the middle—and the fallout for each of them when that bubble finally bursts.Isobel Johnson can’t stand helicopter parents like Julia Abbott, a stage mom whose world revolves around interfering in her children’s lives. Julia resents teachers like Isobel, who effortlessly bond with students, including Julia’s own teenagers, who’ve been pulling away fro... + Read More
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Series: PANTHEON GRAPHIC LIBRARY My Brother's Husband, Volumes 1 & 2 Paperback Gengoroh Tagame 9780375715181 $42.00 FICTION Feb 11, 2020

EISNER AWARD WINNER • The acclaimed global sensation, now in one volume—a “beautifully rendered meditation on the struggle for gay acceptance in today’s Japan" (CNN)Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; formerly married to Natsuki, and father to their young daughter, Kana. Their lives suddenly change with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares himself to be the widower of Yaichi's estranged gay twin, Ryoji. Mike is on a quest to explore Ryoji's past, and the family r... + Read More
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Series: The Rock Blaster Paperback Henning Mankell 9780525566168 $22.00 FICTION Feb 18, 2020

Henning Mankell’s first novel, never before released in English, explores the reflections of a working class man who has struggled against the constraints of his station for his entire life. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL.The year is 1911. The young rock blaster Oskar Johansson has been killed in an accident. Or so it says in the local newspaper. In spite of serious injuries, however, Oskar survives. Decades later, Oskar looks back and reflects on his working life as an invalid, his marriage, his dreams, and his hopes. Oskar’s life is woven together out of... + Read More
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Series: Beside Myself A Novel Paperback Sasha Marianna Salzmann 9781892746443 $21.99 FICTION Feb 18, 2020

A brilliant literary debut about belonging, family, and love, and the enigmatic nature of identity. Beside Myself is the disturbing and exhilarating story of a family across four generations. At its heart is a twin’s search for her brother. When Anton goes missing and the only clue is a postcard sent from Istanbul, Ali leaves her life in Berlin to find him. Without her twin, the sharer of her memories and the mirror of her own self, Ali is lost. In a city steeped in political and social upheaval, where you can buy gender-changing drugs on ... + Read More
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Series: Early Riser A Novel Paperback Jasper Fforde 9780143111276 $24.00 FICTION Feb 11, 2020

The New York Times bestselling standalone novel from Jasper FfordeEvery Winter, the human population hibernates.During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, devoid of human activity.Well, not quite.Your name is Charlie Worthing and it’s your first season with the Winter Consuls, the committed but mildly unhinged group of misfits who are responsible for ensuring the hibernatory safe passage of the sleeping masses.You are investigating an outbreak of viral dreams that you dismiss as nonsens... + Read More
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Series: A Song of Ice and Fire A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Paperback George R. R. Martin 9781101965887 $24.00 FICTION Feb 25, 2020

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Taking place nearly a century before the events of A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R. R. Martin’s ongoing masterwork, A Song of Ice and Fire. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LOS ANGELES TIMES AND BUZZFEED These never-before-collected adventures recount an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne, and the memory of the last dragon has not yet passed from living consciousness. Before Tyrion Lannister and Podrick Pay... + Read More
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Series: The Golden Key Paperback Marian Womack 9781789093254 $19.95 FICTION Feb 18, 2020

“…Part Shirley Jackson’s stories of inner demons, part Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland…part Astrid Lindgren’s faith in children’s resilience and part ghost story.”“Enter a mysterious world in the hands of capable women. Getting drawn into this story is easy; getting out again is trickier.”-BookPage1901. After the death of Queen Victoria, England heaves with the uncanny. Séances are held and the dead are called upon from darker realms.Helena Walton-Cisneros, known for her ability to find the lost and the displaced, is hired by the elusive Lady ... + Read More
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Series: Kellanved's Reach Path to Ascendancy Book 3 Paperback Ian C. Esslemont 9780857502858 $19.99 FICTION Feb 21, 2020

The incessant war between the bickering city states of Quon Tali rages. So engrossed are the warring lords and princes in their own petty feuds that few notice that an upstart mage from Dal Hon has gained control of the southern seas. But some powers are alarmed And in the meantime, as Purge and Tali indulge in what seems like a their never-ending game of war, a mercenary caught up in the fight between the two states suddenly refuses to play along and causes all sorts of chaos. Simultaneously, a pair of escapees from Castle Gris make their way... + Read More
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Series: Gods of Jade and Shadow Paperback Silvia Moreno-Garcia 9780525620778 $23.00 FICTION Feb 18, 2020

The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own.Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day she finds a curious wooden box in her grandfather’s room. She opens it—and accidentally frees th... + Read More
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Series: Red Letter Days Paperback Sarah-Jane Stratford 9780451475572 $23.00 FICTION Feb 25, 2020

A striking novel from the acclaimed author of Radio Girls about two daring women who escape McCarthy-era Hollywood for London, where they find creative freedom and fight the injustices of the Red Scare.Nineteen-fifties America is bright and full of promise, and Phoebe Adler, a New Yorker brimming with talent and ambition, is forging her way as the rarest of things: a female television writer in Hollywood. But fears of a growing Red Menace cloud the optimism, egged on by the hate-mongering of Senator McCarthy. A blacklist is created to cast out ... + Read More
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Series: The Traitor A Heart-Wrenching Saga of WWII Nazi-Resistance Paperback V.S. Alexander 9781496720399 $21.95 FICTION Feb 25, 2020

Fans of Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club picks eager for their next moving historical novel—look no further! Readers of The Alice Project and The Lost Girls of Paris will be enthralled by V.S. Alexander’s The Traitor. Drawing on the true story of the White Rose—the resistance movement of young Germans against the Nazi regime—The Traitor tells of one woman who offers her life in the ultimate battle against tyranny during one of history’s darkest hours. In the summer of 1942, as war rages across Europe, a series of anonymous leaflets appears aro... + Read More
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Series: The Convert A Novel Hardcover Stefan Hertmans 9781524747084 $36.95 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

Finalist for the 2020 National Jewish Book AwardsIn this dazzling work of historical fiction, the Man Booker International–long-listed author of War and Turpentine reconstructs the tragic story of a medieval noblewoman who leaves her home and family for the love of a Jewish boy. In eleventh-century France, Vigdis Adelaïs, a young woman from a prosperous Christian family, falls in love with David Todros, a rabbi’s son and yeshiva student. To be together, the couple must flee their city, and Vigdis must renounce her life of privilege and comfor... + Read More
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Series: The Queen's Fortune A Novel of Desiree, Napoleon, and the Dynasty That Outlasted the Empire Hardcover Allison Pataki 9780593128183 $37.00 FICTION Feb 11, 2020

A sweeping, riveting novel about the extraordinary woman who captured Napoleon’s heart, created a dynasty, and changed the course of history—from the multiple New York Times bestselling author of The Traitor’s Wife, The Accidental Empress, and Sisi.As the French revolution ravages the country, Desiree Clary is faced with the life-altering truth that the world she has known and loved is gone. Her head—as well as her family—is at risk, and it’s fallen on her to save them from the guillotine. A chance encounter with Napoleon Bonaparte, the ambitio... + Read More
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Series: Diary of a Dead Man on Leave Paperback David Downing 9781641291293 $22.95 FICTION Feb 11, 2020

From bestselling author David Downing, master of historical espionage, comes a heart-wrenching depiction of Germany in the days leading up to World War II and the difficult choices of one man of conviction. In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding house in Hamm, Germany, and lets a room from the widow who owns it. Fifty years later, Walter Gersdorff, the widow’s son, who was eleven years old in the spring of 1938, discovers the carefully hidden diary the boarder had kept during his stay, even though he never sho... + Read More
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Series: Wunderland A Novel Paperback Jennifer Cody Epstein 9780525576914 $23.00 FICTION Feb 25, 2020

An intimate portrait of a friendship severed by history, and a sweeping saga of wartime, motherhood, and legacy by an award-winning novelist.It’s 1989 in New York City and Ava Fischer is a mess: she’s broke, her teenage daughter is barely speaking to her, and her estranged mother’s ashes have just arrived from Germany by mail. Things were never easy between Ava and her mother, Ilse. Throughout Ava’s childhood in Germany, first in an orphanage after WWII and then in Ilse’s care, too many unspoken secrets hovered between them: Who was Ava’s fathe... + Read More
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Series: The Promise of Elsewhere A novel Paperback Brad Leithauser 9780525564126 $23.00 FICTION Feb 25, 2020

A comic novel about a Midwestern professor who tries to prop up his failing prospects for happiness by setting out on the Journey of a Lifetime.Louie Hake is forty-three and teaches architectural history at a third-rate college in Michigan. His second marriage is collapsing, and he's facing a potentially disastrous medical diagnosis. In an attempt to fend off what has become a soul-crushing existential crisis, he decides to treat himself to a tour of the world's most breathtaking architectural sites. Perhaps not surprisingly, Louie gets waylai... + Read More
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Series: High Fidelity (TV Tie-in) Media tie-in Paperback Nick Hornby 9780593191767 $22.00 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

A wise and hilarious novel about love, heartbreak, and rock and roll from the bestselling author of About a Boy and Dickens and PrinceNow a Hulu series starring Zoë Kravitz!“I’ve always loved Nick Hornby, and the way he writes characters and the way he thinks. It’s funny and heartbreaking all at the same time.”—Zoë KravitzRob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with someone ... + Read More
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Series: Verge Hardcover Lidia Yuknavitch 9780525534877 $35.00 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

A fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction. I tell you, do not go near that place. Do not go near it. Graywolves guard the ground there. Girls are growing from guts, enough for a body and language all the way out of this world. An eight-year-old trauma victim is enlisted as an underground courier, rushing frozen organs through the alleys of Eastern Europe. A young janitor transforms discarded objects into a fantastical, sprawling miniatur... + Read More
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Series: The Lucky Star A Novel Hardcover William T. Vollmann 9780399563522 $47.00 FICTION Feb 18, 2020

The National Book Award winning author returns to his original fictional territory--the lives of the dispossessed in San Francisco--with a parable about the limitations of desire and life at the margins of societyIn such earlier works of fiction as The Rainbow Stories and The Royal Family, William T. Vollmann wrote of pimps, prostitutes, addicts and homeless dreamers in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. In this new novel, Vollmann returns there with a story that centers around a woman with magical powers whom everyone loves, and who has to l... + Read More
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Series: Arturo's Island A Novel Paperback Elsa Morante 9781631496622 $24.95 FICTION Feb 18, 2020

Elsa Morante’s novels are “astonishing for the quality of the writing, . . . the complexity of the invented world, the wide-ranging view of the human condition” (Elena Ferrante).Once considered the greatest writer of Italy’s postwar generation—and admired by authors as varied as John Banville and Rivka Galchen—Elsa Morante is experiencing a literary renaissance, marked not least by Ann Goldstein’s translation of Arturo’s Island, the novel that brought Morante international fame. Imbued with a spectral grace, as if told through an enchanted look... + Read More
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Series: Little Fires Everywhere (Movie Tie-In) A Novel Media tie-in Paperback Celeste Ng 9780143135166 $23.00 FICTION Mar 17, 2020

The #1 New York Times bestseller!Now a Hulu original series starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington.“I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single, breathless sitting.” —Jodi Picoult“To say I love this book is an understatement. It’s a deep psychological mystery about the power of motherhood, the intensity of teenage love, and the danger of perfection. It moved me to tears.” —Reese Witherspoon“Extraordinary . . . books like Little Fires Everywhere don't come along often.” —John GreenFrom the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told Yo... + Read More
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Series: If, Then A Novel Paperback Kate Hope Day 9780525511243 $22.00 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

The residents of a sleepy mountain town are rocked by mysterious visions of an alternate reality in this dazzling debut that combines the family-driven suspense of Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere with the inventive storytelling of The Immortalists and Station Eleven.In the quiet mountain haven of Clearing, Oregon, four neighbors find their lives upended when they begin to see themselves in a parallel reality. Ginny, a devoted surgeon whose work often takes precedence over her family, has a baffling vision of her beautiful coworker in her b... + Read More
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Series: The Dragonfly Sea A novel Paperback Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor 9781101973622 $23.00 FICTION Feb 25, 2020

NAMED A REAL SIMPLE BOOK OF THE YEARFrom the award-winning author of Dust comes a vibrant, stunning coming-of-age novel about a young woman struggling to find her place in a vast world--a poignant exploration of fate, mortality, love, and loss.On the island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives solitary, stubborn Ayaana and her mother, Munira. When a sailor named Muhidin, also an outsider, enters their lives, Ayaana finds something she has never had before: a father. But as Ayaana grows into adulthood, forces of nature and history begin to res... + Read More
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Series: kaddish.com A novel Paperback Nathan Englander 9780525434054 $22.00 FICTION Feb 11, 2020

When his father dies, it falls to Larry—the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews—to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for eleven months. But to the horror and dismay of his sister, Larry refuses, imperiling the fate of his father’s soul. To appease her, he hires a stranger through a website called kaddish.com to say the prayer instead—a decision that will have profound, and very personal, repercussions. Irreverent, hilarious, and wholly irresistible, Nathan Englander’s tale of a son who makes a diabolica... + Read More
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Series: Tyll A Novel Hardcover Daniel Kehlmann 9781524747466 $35.95 FICTION Feb 11, 2020

From the internationally best-selling author of You Should Have Left, Measuring the World, and F, a transfixing retelling of the German myth of Tyll Ulenspiegel: a story about the devastation of war and a beguiling artist’s decision never to die Daniel Kehlmann masterfully weaves the fates of many historical figures into this enchanting work of magical realism and adventure. This account of the seventeenth-century vagabond performer and trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel begins when he’s a scrawny boy growing up in a quiet village. When his father, a... + Read More
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Series: Weather A novel Hardcover Jenny Offill 9780385351102 $31.95 FICTION Feb 11, 2020

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation—one of the New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of the Year—a “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. They have both stabili... + Read More
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Series: The Death of Jesus Paperback J. M. Coetzee 9781787302129 $29.99 FICTION Feb 21, 2020

A masterful new novel completes an incomparable trilogy from J. M. Coetzee, Nobel laureate and two-times winner of the Booker PrizeIn The Childhood of Jesus, Simòn found a boy, David, and they began life in a new land, together with a woman named Inès. In The Schooldays of Jesus, the small family searched for a home in which David could thrive.In The Death of Jesus, David, now a tall ten-year-old, is spotted by Julio Fabricante, the director of a local orphanage, playing football with his friends in the street. He shows unusual talent. When Dav... + Read More
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Series: Vintage International The Plot Against America (Movie Tie-in Edition) Media tie-in Paperback Philip Roth 9780593310885 $23.00 FICTION Mar 03, 2020

Philip Roth’s bestselling alternate history novel—the chilling story of what happens to one family when an America elects a charismatic, isolationist president—is soon to be an HBO limited series.In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Shortly thereafter, Lindbergh negotiates a cordial “understanding” with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program of ... + Read More
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Series: Firefly - Big Damn Hero Paperback James Lovegrove 9781785658280 $21.95 FICTION Feb 04, 2020

The original novel tying into the critically acclaimed and much-missed Firefly series from creator Joss Whedon.THE FIRST ORIGINAL NOVEL FROM THE MUCH-MISSED SPACE WESTERN FIREFLY, PRODUCED WITH JOSS WHEDON AS CONSULTING EDITOR, SET IN THE HEART OF THE SERIES.It should have been a routine job, transporting five crates from the planet of Persephone to a waiting buyer. And Lord knows, Captain Mal Reynolds needs the money if he’s to keep Serenity flying. But the client is Badger, and nothing that involves him is ever straightforward. The crates are... + Read More
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Series: A Mattie Winston Mystery Dead Ringer Hardcover Annelise Ryan 9781496722553 $35.00 FICTION Feb 25, 2020

A new murder victim with an old M.O. puts Mattie Winston on the trail of a killer who gives a grim new meaning to flower power… Spring is beginning to brighten Sorenson, Wisconsin, for Mattie and Steve Hurley and their family. While their son Matthew may be in his terrible twos and Steve’s daughter Emily a moody teenager, the kids bring light to their lives when their work is dark by its nature—Steve is a homicide detective and Mattie is a medicolegal death investigator, aka medical examiner. They deal in corpses. The latest corpse, a Jane ... + Read More
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Series: A Castle Bookshop Mystery Trouble on the Books A Castle Bookshop Mystery Paperback Essie Lang 9781643853499 $22.99 FICTION Feb 11, 2020

Essie Lang’s series debut is perfect for fans of Lorna Barrett, Vicki Delany, and book lovers everywhere.Rookie bookstore owner Shelby Cox must hit the books to learn the ropes before she loses a killer in the stacks.Shelby Cox never intended to become a bookseller, so when the former editor returns to her hometown of Alexandria Bay, nestled in upstate New York’s breathtaking Thousand Islands region, to take over her aunt’s bookstore, she has no idea what to expect. To her amazement, she discovers that she now owns a fifty-percent share in Bays... + Read More
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Series: A Handcrafted Mystery A Crafter Quilts a Crime A Handcrafted Mystery Hardcover Holly Quinn 9781643852904 $35.99 FICTION Feb 11, 2020

Perfect for fans of Betty Hechtman and Maggie Sefton, Holly Quinn's third Handcrafted mystery aspires to wrap you in its warmth.Community Craft proprietor Sammy Kane must piece together a patchwork of clues when a "live" mannequin ends up stone-cold dead.Snowcapped pines and glittery dusted sidewalks adorn tranquil Heartsford, Wisconsin, while residents cuddle beneath heirloom quilts in front of cozy wood fires. But come the next day, the below-zero temperatures won't keep the locals away from Heartsford's annual Fire & Ice event. To boost cust... + Read More
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Series: Pretty as a Picture A Novel Hardcover Elizabeth Little 9780670016396 $36.00 FICTION Feb 25, 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, a shy but successful film editor, 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 much to go on, but th... + Read More
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Series: Slow Motion Ghosts Paperback Jeff Noon 9781784163532 $19.99 FICTION Feb 25, 2020

’Noon’s storytelling is assured and compelling…it’s a belter’ Guardian‘Constantly surprising’ SpectatorA viciously occult murder.A curious clue left on the body.The soundtrack to the murder still playing…It is 1981 and Detective Inspector Henry Hobbes is still reeling in the aftermath of the fire and fury of the Brixton riots. The battle lines of society - and the police force - are being redrawn on a daily basis. With the certainties of his life already sorely tested, a brutal murder will shake his beliefs to their very core once more. The man... + Read More