1.
Series:
A Different Kind of Happy
A family in patchwork can be perfect
Paperback
Rachaele Hambleton
9781529105193
$16.99
FICTION
Jun 28, 2022
Happiness comes in all shapes and sizes.Jo said goodbye to peace and quiet when she got pregnant at 19, but now she has a chance to hit refresh. A partner she loves, five amazing kids and a house by the sea. But life is never simple and there is more than a little emotional baggage coming along for the ride.Starting with that tw*t of an ex-husband who doesn’t pull his weight. Then there’s the untrained puppy, the work/life balance, a custody battle for the children and all the everyday ups and downs and chaos of being a patchwork family. Surro...
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3.
Series:
All the Water I've Seen Is Running
A Novel
Paperback
Elias Rodriques
9781324021926
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 21, 2022
Former high school classmates reckon with the death of a friend in this stunning debut novel.Along the Intracoastal waterways of North Florida, Daniel and Aubrey navigated adolescence with the electric intensity that radiates from young people defined by otherness: Aubrey, a self-identified “Southern cracker” and Daniel, the mixed-race son of Jamaican immigrants. When the news of Aubrey’s death reaches Daniel in New York, years after they’d lost contact, he is left to grapple with the legacy of his precious and imperfect love for her. At ease n...
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4.
Series: Slovenian Literature
And Love Itself
Paperback
Drago Jancar
9781628973488
$24.99
Nov 23, 2021
After the occupation of Yugoslavia by German forces in 1941, the Slovenian city of Maribor, historically a German-speaking town with a large German minority, is annexed to the Third Reich. In the city renamed Marburg an der Drau, neighbours and friends of yesterday are torn apart and a resistance movement is organised in the surrounding hills. The three characters at the heart of the novel, Valentin, a partisan resistance fighter, his girlfriend Sonja, and the SS officer Ludwig, once called Ludek, each try in their own way to defend their love...
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5.
Series: Spanish Literature Series
Antagony
Paperback
Luis Goytisolo
9781628973983
$42.50
FICTION
Dec 02, 2022
Antagony surveys the social history of Barcelona and Catalonia, primarily since the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. The work, originally published as a tetralogy and now collected into one volume, follows the youth and education of Raúl Ferrer Gaminde, son of a well-connected, middle-class Catalan family that embraces Franco and Spanish Nationalism. Its potent drama plays out through Goytisolo’s crisp, forceful presentation of youth, humor, optimism, rebellion, violence, sexual awakening, indulgence, punishment, and the realization of one...
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6.
Series:
Ashton Hall
A Novel
Hardcover
Lauren Belfer
9780593359495
$37.00
FICTION
Jun 07, 2022
An American woman and her son unearth the buried secrets and past lives of an English manor house in this masterful and riveting novel from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Belfer.“Infused with the brooding, gothic atmosphere of Jane Eyre or Rebecca…a novel that must be savored, one page at a time.”— Melanie Benjamin, author of The Children’s Blizzard“How many lives can you imagine yourself living?”Or so Hannah Larson wonders. When an uncle falls ill, Hannah and her young son, Nicky, decide to join him for the summer at Ashton Hall, a h...
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7.
Series:
Before Takeoff
Hardcover
Adi Alsaid
9780593375761
$24.99
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 12
Jun 07, 2022
The Sun Is Also a Star meets Jumanji when two teens meet and fall in love during a layover-gone-wrong at the Atlanta airport in this thrilling new novel from the author of Let’s Get Lost!James and Michelle find themselves in the Atlanta airport on a layover. They couldn’t be more different, but seemingly interminable delays draw them both to a mysterious flashing green light—and each other. Where James is passive, Michelle is anything but. And she quickly discovers that the flashing green light is actually…a button. Which she presses. Which may...
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8.
Series:
Betrayed by Rita Hayworth
Paperback
Manuel Puig
9781946022424
$23.00
FICTION
Jun 14, 2022
Manuel Puig's "dazzling and wholly original debut" (New York Times Book Review) is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts, and gossip--but most of all, to the movies. When it appeared in 1968, Manuel Puig’s debut—a portrait of the artist as a child in small-town Argentina—was hailed as revolutionary. Borrowing from the language of "true romance" and movie magazines, the techniques of American modernism, and Hollywood montage, Puig created an exuberant queer aesthetic while also celebrat...
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9.
Series:
Castles from Cobwebs
Hardcover
J.A. Mensah
9781912235766
$37.50
FICTION
Jun 17, 2022
Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and named among the 50 most notable new books from Africa, Castles from Cobwebs follows one girl’s transition from youthful innocence to understanding as she navigates questions about family, identity, and race."I'd always known that I was Brown. Black was different though; it came announced. Black came with expectations, of rhythm and other things that might trip me up."Imani is a foundling. Rescued as a baby and raised by nuns on a remote Northumbrian island, she grows up with an ever-increasing feelin...
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11.
Series:
Dele Weds Destiny
A novel
Hardcover
Tomi Obaro
9780593320297
$36.00
FICTION
Jun 28, 2022
The story of three once-inseparable college friends in Nigeria who reunite in Lagos for the first time in thirty years—a sparkling novel about the extraordinary resilience of female friendship. “A story rendered with so much heart.” —Taylor Jenkins Reid, best-selling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and the Six Funmi, Enitan, and Zainab first meet at university in Nigeria and become friends for life despite their differences. Funmi is beautiful, brash, and determined; Enitan is homely and eager, seeking escape from he...
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12.
Series: SEMIOTEXT(E) / NATIVE AGENTS
Diego Garcia
A Novel
Paperback
Natasha Soobramanien
9781635901627
$23.95
FICTION
Jun 21, 2022
Sad and funny and bitter and true, a novel about grief, discovering your own story, and trying to listen for those stories that are not yours to tell.August 2014. Two friends, writers Damaris Caleemootoo and Oliver Pablo Herzberg, arrive in Edinburgh from London, the city that killed Daniel—his brother, her frenemy and loved by them both. Every day is different but the same. Trying to get to the library, they get distracted by bickering—will it rain or not and what should they do about their tanking bitcoin?—in the end failing to write or resis...
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14.
Series:
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
A Novel
Paperback
Emily Austin
9781982167363
$23.00
FICTION
Jun 28, 2022
In this “fun, page-turner of a novel” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that’s perfect for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, a morbidly anxious young woman stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church and soon finds herself obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death. Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a loca...
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15.
Series:
Finding Edward
Paperback
Sheila Murray
9781770866263
$24.95
FICTION
Jun 15, 2022
Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary AwardLonglisted for Canada Reads 2023A Globe and Mail Best Book Cyril Rowntree migrates to Toronto from Jamaica in 2012. Managing a precarious balance of work and university he begins to navigate his way through the implications of being racialized in his challenging new land. A chance encounter with a panhandler named Patricia leads Cyril to a suitcase full of photographs and letters dating back to the early 1920s. Cyril is drawn into the letters and their story of a white mother’s struggle with ...
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16.
Series:
Free Pass
Paperback
Julian Hanshaw
9781603095051
$25.99
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Jun 07, 2022
Free Pass is an intoxicating tale of liberty, privacy, and shame, set in the sticky place where sex, politics, and technology come together.George Orwell said “You are free to be a drunkard, an idler, a coward, backbiter, a fornicator. You are not free to think for yourself.” Huck and Nadia are enjoying their twenties: working in Big Tech and developing an adventurous sex life. Together they fantasize about opening their relationship with a “free pass” to sleep with certain friends or celebrities. It’s all in good fun. But Huck is leading a dou...
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17.
Series:
Full Whack
Paperback
Charlie Higson
9780349144863
$17.99
FICTION
Jun 21, 2022
'Charlie Higson's thrillers are major events' Mark Billingham'Piercing wit and accelerated action in finely paced style' Time Out'Lively narration, a superabundance of action... gruesome and hilarious' Evening StandardDennis 'The Menace' Pike, former wild man of Tottenham, is going grey and going straight. Anyway, it was hard work being a yob- the birds, the brawls, the endless beers- and he hasn't really got the energy any more for life on the edge. Then two old faces turn up from the past- the Bishop brothers, Chas and Noel. Famously inept, t...
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18.
Series:
Getting Rid Of Mister Kitchen
Paperback
Charlie Higson
9780349144849
$17.99
FICTION
Jul 05, 2022
'Charlie Higson's thrillers are major events' Mark Billingham'Very funny and utterly unstoppable' The Times'A sizzlingly paced modern thriller' NMEA man kills a prospective buyer for his car. On the verge of becoming a name in the interior design world, he can't afford a scandal and must discreetly dispose of the body - not an easy job when the whole of London seems to be conspiring against him.Action, consequence, retribution: Getting Rid of Mister Kitchen is a sustained nightmare of thwarted ambition, a Dante-esque tour of a world at home wit...
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19.
Series:
Ghost Lover
Stories
Hardcover
Lisa Taddeo
9781982122188
$36.00
FICTION
Jun 14, 2022
“Raw and searching...Taddeo returns with more ruthless explorations of the feminine mystique.” —Entertainment Weekly, “The Best New Books of the Month” * “Provocative.” —Los Angeles Times From the #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Three Women and “our most eloquent and faithful chronicler of human desire” (Esquire), comes an electrifying collection of nine fearless and ferocious short stories.Behind anonymous screens, an army of cool and beautiful girls manage the dating service Ghost Lover, a forwarding system for text ...
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21.
Series:
Godspeed
Paperback
Nickolas Butler
9780593190425
$23.00
FICTION
Jun 07, 2022
Longlisted for the Reading the West Book AwardFor the right price, you’d risk your life. Wouldn’t you?Cole, Bart, and Teddy, the three principals of True Triangle Construction, are hired to finish a project for a mysteriously wealthy homeowner. The grand house is unlike anything they’ve worked on before, and they’re sure it’ll put their name on the map. But the owner is intent on having it built in a few months, an impossible task made irresistible by an exorbitant bonus.Up against the critical deadline and the threat of a harsh Wyoming winter,...
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23.
Series:
Happy Now
Paperback
Charlie Higson
9780349144856
$17.99
FICTION
Jul 05, 2022
'Charlie Higson's thrillers are major events' Mark Billingham'An off-beat, atmospheric novel' Mirror'Written with chilling perception' Time Out'I do not believe that a man can be truly happy unless he fully understands what he is and can act accordingly... how can it be wrong to be happy?' These lines are taken from Will's diary, a seemingly innocuous exercise book which details his house-breaking activities. Will carefully selects houses - forty-seven so far - ensuring their owners will be in. As they cook their supper or watch television, W...
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24.
Series:
Hard Like Water
Paperback
Yan Lianke
9780802158130
$25.50
FICTION
Jun 24, 2022
Gao Aijun is a son of the soil of Henan’s Balou Mountains, and after a service in the Army, he is on his way back to his ancestral village, feeling like a hero. Close to his arrival, he sees a strikingly attractive woman walking barefoot alongside a railway track in the warm afternoon sun, and he is instantly smitten. She is Xia Hongmei and lives up to her name of “beautiful flower.” Hiding their relationship from their spouses, the pair hurl themselves into the struggle to bring revolution to their backwater village. They spend their days and ...
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25.
Series:
Here Be Icebergs
Paperback
Katya Adaui
9781913867195
$23.95
FICTION
Jun 24, 2022
The mysteries of kinship (families born into and families made) take disconcerting and familiar shapes in these refreshingly frank short stories. A family is haunted by a beast that splatters fruit against its walls every night, another undergoes a near-collision with a bus on the way home from the beach. Mothers are cold, fathers are absent—we know these moments in the abstract, but Adaui makes each as uncanny as our own lives: close but not yet understood.
26.
Series:
Highway Blue
A Novel
Paperback
Ailsa McFarlane
9780593229132
$23.00
FICTION
Jun 21, 2022
A hypnotic debut of broken love on the run: “You’ve never read a road trip novel like Ailsa McFarlane’s Highway Blue"(Entertainment Weekly).In the lonely town of San Padua, Anne Marie can never get the sound of the ocean out of her head. And it’s here—dog-walking by day, working bars by night—where she tries to forget about her ex-husband, Cal: both their brief marriage and their long estrangement.When Cal shows up on Anne Marie’s doorstep one day, clearly in trouble, she reluctantly agrees to a drink. But later that night a gun goes off in a v...
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27.
Series:
Hurricane Girl
A novel
Hardcover
Marcy Dermansky
9780593320884
$35.00
FICTION
Jun 14, 2022
A propulsive and daring new novel by the author of Very Nice about a woman on the run from catastrophe, searching for love, home, a swimming pool, and for someone who can perhaps stop the bleeding from her head.“Marcy Dermansky is one of the most wildly original writers that I’ve ever read, and Hurricane Girl showcases what makes her so amazing. In tracking the unpredictable movements of a strange and hypnotic journey in the aftermath of a natural disaster, Dermansky nails the sensation of being alive, of navigating a world so strange that it’s...
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28.
Series:
I Buried Paul
A Novel
Paperback
Bruce Ferber
9781611883282
$21.95
FICTION
Jun 14, 2022
Jimmy Kozlowski has a regular gig playing Paul McCartney in the Beatles tribute band, Help!. The band is part of a cottage industry built around mimicry, where each group strives to be the ultimate Fake Fab Four. And none strives harder than Help!, thanks to Gene Klein, its John Lennon and leader. Gene's just gotten his Medicare card and spends much of his time caring for his ailing mother. But he hasn't lost a step on guitar or vocals, and is determined to take Help! to the top, his goal being to perform in Liverpool one day. Though the notion...
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29.
Series:
In the City of Pigs
Paperback
André Forget
9781459749085
$23.99
FICTION
Jun 14, 2022
LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEA failed musician obsessed with avant-garde art enters a shadowy world where bohemian excess meets the avaricious interests of a real estate cabal.Alexander Otkazov is finished with Montreal. Having wasted his youth on the love of art, he’s ready for a life of anonymous condo towers and profitable boredom. But when he moves to Toronto, he is forced into a monkish existence by the unforgiving pressures of the city — until he stumbles across a story about an ambitious experimental music collective that co...
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30.
Series:
In the Quick
A Novel
Paperback
Kate Hope Day
9780525511274
$23.00
FICTION
Jun 21, 2022
A young, ambitious female astronaut’s life is upended by a fiery love affair that threatens the rescue of a lost crew in this brilliantly imagined novel in the tradition of Station Eleven and The Martian.June is a brilliant but difficult girl with a gift for mechanical invention, who leaves home to begin a grueling astronaut training program. Younger by two years than her classmates at the Peter Reed School for Space Preparation, she flourishes in her classes but struggles to make friends and find true intellectual peers. Six years later, she h...
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31.
Series:
John Updike: Novels 1986–1990 (LOA #354)
Roger's Version / Rabbit at Rest
Hardcover
John Updike
9781598537178
$54.00
FICTION
May 31, 2022
John Updike, at the peak of his powers, concludes his unforgettable Rabbit series and reimagines Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter for contemporary AmericaThe latest volume in Library of America’s John Updike edition presents two essential novels by the master stylist of postwar American fiction. Roger’s Version (1986) stakes out ground that encompasses Updike’s recurring themes of sex, desire, and adultery as well as an emerging interest in the cosmic implications of contemporary scientific breakthroughs. In a dazzling refashioning of the love triang...
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32.
Series:
July Underwater
Paperback
Zoe Maeve
9781772620696
$20.00
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Jun 01, 2022
As dusk falls over the lake, Lina's world is beginning to dissolve.It's a typically sticky Toronto summer and Lina's spending her first couple of weeks after graduation reading and hanging out with her best friend Cara. Everything's calm--until she finds out that her childhood friend Alicia has died. With her high school friends quickly drifting apart and her parents out of town, Lina tries to make sense of what has happened on her own. Hoping for answers, she turns to Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse and Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Sal...
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33.
Series:
King Of The Ants
Paperback
Charlie Higson
9780349144870
$17.99
FICTION
Jun 21, 2022
'Charlie Higson's thrillers are major events' Mark Billingham'Funny, very tough and full of action' Patricia Highsmith 'Uncoils with wit and imagination'Time OutIt seemed straightforward enough. Sean had now consumed so much alcohol that everything seemed perfectly reasonable. He'd started planning the job already. The first problem was how to do it. Thirteen thousand pounds in an envelope seems a fair price for a man's life. Particularly if you don't know the man, he seems a nonentity, and you quite fancy his wife. And there's no chance o...
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34.
Series:
Lake Effect
Paperback
Dayle Furlong
9781770865723
$22.95
FICTION
Jun 12, 2022
This collection of stories charts the emotional lives of characters in the midst of private sorrows and triumphs. Each story, set in the cities and towns around the Great Lakes, reveals the author’s fierce love for a landscape merciless and opulent, yet speaks with eloquence about its inhabitants. The humanitarian crisis in Thunder Bay is seen from the perspective of a police officer whose stepson is missing; fearing he will be found, like so many others, in the McIntyre River, his mother’s grief causes an insurmountable rift. Crumbling buildi...
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35.
Series:
Lapvona
A Novel
Hardcover
Ottessa Moshfegh
9780593300268
$36.00
FICTION
Jun 21, 2022
In a village buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself part of a power struggle that puts the community’s faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh’s most exciting leap yetLittle Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother—his father told him she died in childbirth. One of Marek’s few consolations is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby, as she did many of the village’s children. Ina’s ...
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36.
Series:
Loved and Lost: A Relationship Trilogy
Paperback
Jeffrey Brown
9781603095068
$39.99
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Jun 14, 2022
A pioneer of 21st-century graphic memoir, Jeffrey Brown captures timeless insights into love, intimacy, and vulnerability in three unforgettable relationship portraits.Twenty years ago, young painter Jeffrey Brown grew frustrated with the expectations of the art world and wanted desperately to make something real. In a single sketchbook, working directly in ink, he began recording his memories of a recent long-distance relationship, matching the emotional frailty of the young lovers with painfully honest writing and art. As that book, Clumsy, s...
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39.
Series:
Now Lila Knows
Hardcover
Elizabeth Nunez
9781636140247
$40.50
FICTION
Jun 17, 2022
Caribbean professor Lila Bonnard arrives in Vermont for a short-term teaching position and is forced to confront the terrible legacy of American (in)justice"The racial politics of a small town in Vermont, as seen through Lila’s eyes, provides an illuminating counterplay between Caribbean and American Blackness."—Publishers Weekly"As a portrait of Lila's political and racial awakening, the novel is a grand success."—Kirkus Reviews"I fell deep, hard and fast into this book. The very first sentence slices clean and that energy continues throughout...
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41.
Series:
One Day I Shall Astonish the World
Hardcover
Nina Stibbe
9780241451168
$25.99
FICTION
Jul 19, 2022
From the prize-winning author of Reasons to be Cheerful comes a story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime’A true gift of a novel, I utterly adored it. For as long as I could make it last, the world just felt a bit nicer’ Meg Mason’Stibbe turns out more perfect, sharp, unique sentences than anyone else’ Caitlin Moran’Stibbe has an extraordinary gift’ Marian Keyes’Nina Stibbe makes being funny look easy, but that’s just because she’s very, very good at it’ Clare Chambers________________________________________________...
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42.
Series: PANTHEON GRAPHIC LIBRARY
Our Colors
Hardcover
Gengoroh Tagame
9781524748562
$42.50
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Jun 21, 2022
A mesmerizing coming-of-age and coming-out graphic novel by the genius writer-artist of the Eisner Award–winning breakout hit My Brother’s HusbandSet in contemporary suburban Japan, Our Colors is the story of Sora Itoda: a sixteen-year-old aspiring painter who experiences his world in synesthetic hues of blues and reds, governed by the emotional turbulence of being a teenager. He wants to live honestly as a young gay man in high school, but that is still not acceptable in Japanese society. His best friend and childhood confidant is Nao, a young...
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43.
Series:
Papers
Paperback
Violaine Schwartz
9781735297330
$22.95
FICTION
Nov 08, 2022
Assembled from testimonials and interviews with current and former asylum seekers in France, as well as hearing records, administrative letters, and newspaper articles, Papers is a quietly monumental work of both literary and documentary art, a harrowing and enlightening portrayal of the modern refugee experience. Gathered here are the voices of men and women from around the world, united by the urgent need to leave their native country, risk their lives to make it to Europe, and begin the often bewildering process of securing the papers that w...
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44.
Series:
Rattlebone
Paperback
Maxine Clair
9781946022462
$23.00
FICTION
Jun 28, 2022
Too long unavailable, this luminous classic of small-town life in the segregated 1950s has "magic dust sprinkled over each and every page" (Veronica Chambers, New York Times Book Review).Irene Wilson knows that a “no-name invisible something” has settled over her parents’ marriage and suspects her glamorous new teacher is to blame. Irene is not alone in her suspicions. In the town of Rattlebone, a small Black neighborhood of Kansas City, secrets are hard to keep and growing up is a community affair. As Irene is initiated into adult passion and...
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45.
Series:
Shifty's Boys
Hardcover
Chris Offutt
9780802159984
$40.50
FICTION
Jun 17, 2022
Army-CID-officer-cum-unofficial-PI Mick Hardin is up against unforeseen forces who will stop at nothing in this vividly atmospheric thriller from acclaimed novelist Chris Offutt.Chris Offutt is a literary master across genres, and his most recent novel THE KILLING HILLS was one of his most successful, earning him a new audience and earning praise from the likes of The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Crime Reads. His latest book, Shifty’s Boys, is a compelling, propulsive thriller of murder and mayhem in the hills of eastern Kentuck...
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46.
Series: Life
Silence
Hardcover
Bruce Mutard
9781912278299
$37.50
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Apr 07, 2023
A provocative graphic novel about the nature of art, told through the eyes of Choosy McBride, gallery manager and curator, and her artist partner, Dmitri When Choosy McBride discovers an extraordinary artwork she is determined to track down the unknown artist. With her partner Dmitri, an artist wrestling with his own creative demons, she follows the trail to an exhibition at an enigmatic gallery in Northern Queensland, but the creator of the mysterious artworks remains elusive. Increasingly frustrated, and resolved on a dramatic course of actio...
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48.
Series:
So Happy for You
A Novel
Original
Hardcover
Celia Laskey
9781335426901
$33.50
FICTION
Jun 07, 2022
*A PureWow Best Beach Read of Summer 2022**A Washington Post Best Book of June**An Entertainment Weekly Best Book for Summer*?*A Glamour Best New Book to Get Your Summer Started**A Vogue Queer Book to Read This Summer*A wedding weekend spirals out of control in this bold, electrifying, hilarious novel about the complexities of female friendship Robin and Ellie have been best friends since childhood. When Robin came out, Ellie was there for her. When Ellie's father died, Robin had her back. But when Ellie asks Robin to be her maid of honor, she ...
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49.
Series:
Summer Fires
Hardcover
Giulia Sagramola
9781506726717
$33.99
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Age (years) from 14
Jul 12, 2022
In Giulia Sagramola’s first long-form graphic novel, we follow the story of two sisters, Rachel and Sylvia, as they come of age in a typical Italian town.The two find themselves faced with the tough choices of teenaged life, which mirror the fires in the surrounding hillsides of the town, as one decision or another leads to unsettled feelings and desires. This wonderfully and meticulously illustrated tale takes all of the consternation and heartbreak we know too well from teenaged life, and puts it on display in a beautiful and subdued package...
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50.
Series:
That Summer Night on Frenchmen Street
Hardcover
Chris Clarkson
9781643795010
$29.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 14 - 18
Jun 30, 2022
Being there for her family is the most important thing to Jessamine Monet. And her family is complicated. Her twin brother Joel has a secret boyfriend, and her transgender cousin Solange is flourishing, despite the disapproval of Solange's dying mother. Yet Jessamine doesn't mind being caught up in family drama. Being busy keeps the water at bay —— the water of memories, of Katrina, of past trauma. So when Tennessee Williams —— a rich white boy named after the writer —— asks her out, she hesitantly says yes. He'll be like a library book, she fi...
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52.
Series:
The Catch
A Novel
Hardcover
Alison Fairbrother
9780593134290
$36.00
FICTION
Jun 21, 2022
A young woman searches for the truth about her father and the secrets of her family in this electric debut novel.Two years out of college, Ellie Adler has a job in journalism, an older lover, and a circle of smart friends. Then she finds herself shaken by the unexpected death of her father, James. At the reading of his will, Ellie learns that instead of leaving her his prized possession—a baseball that holds emotional resonance for them both—he has left her a seemingly ridiculous, even insulting gift. Worse, he’s given the baseball to someone n...
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53.
Series:
The Communist's Daughter
Paperback
Aroa Moreno Durán
9781472268976
$17.99
FICTION
Jun 21, 2022
'[I was] completely transported . . . so sparely and yet vividly told' Clare ChambersWinner of the Premio Ojo CríticoKatia has grown up amongst the ruins of the once mighty Berlin, now shattered by Allied bombs. In their tiny, freezing flat, Katia's father teaches her of the righteousness of the new Soviet republic, who will always keep watch over them.As a young woman, a chance encounter with a man from the west causes Katia to realise there might be more to life on the other side of the wall. But blinded by the first blush of love, she fails ...
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55.
Series:
The Countenance Divine
Paperback
Michael Hughes
9781473636514
$17.99
FICTION
Jun 07, 2022
'Michael Hughes writes like a brilliant cross between David Mitchell and Hilary Mantel' Toby LittIn 1999 a programmer is trying to fix the millennium bug, but can't shake the sense he's been chosen for something.In 1888 five women are brutally murdered in the East End by a troubled young man in thrall to a mysterious master.In 1777 an apprentice engraver called William Blake has a defining spiritual experience; thirteen years later this vision returns.And in 1666 poet and revolutionary John Milton completes the epic for which he will be remembe...
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56.
Series:
The Eternal Audience of One
Paperback
Rémy Ngamije
9781982164430
$24.99
FICTION
Jun 14, 2022
“Meet the future of African literature” (Mukoma Wa Ngugi, author of Nairobi Heat) with this “gorgeous, wildly funny, and, above all, profoundly moving and humane” (Peter Orner, author of Am I Alone Here) coming-of-age tale following a young man who is forced to flee his homeland of Rwanda and make sense of his reality.Nobody ever makes it to the start of a story, not even the people in it. The most one can do is make some sort of start and then work toward some kind of ending. One might as well start with Séraphin: playlist-maker, nerd-jock hyb...
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57.
Series:
The Full Catastrophe
A Novel
Paperback
Méira Cook
9781487009946
$24.99
FICTION
Jun 07, 2022
A compassionate and funny novel about defining yourself, the communities that support us, and the journeys that secrets propel. Charlie Minkoff, a thirteen-year-old boy born with intersex traits, would be happy to be left alone. Living with his artist mother in a derelict loft in downtown Winnipeg, perpetually wondering about the father who abandoned him, and tormented in school because of his differences, Charlie navigates the assorted catastrophes of his life. He’s helped along by the love of his beloved grandfather, Oscar, and the makeshif...
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58.
Series:
The Killing Hills
Paperback
Chris Offutt
9780802159878
$25.50
FICTION
Jun 17, 2022
A literary master across genres, award-winning author Chris Offutt’s latest novel, The Killing Hills, is a compelling, propulsive thriller in which a suspicious death exposes the loyalties and rivalries of a deep-rooted and fiercely private community in the Kentucky backwoods. Mick Hardin, a combat veteran now working as an Army CID agent, is home on a leave that is almost done. His wife is about to give birth, but they aren’t getting along. His sister, newly risen to sheriff, has just landed her first murder case, and local politicians are ...
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59.
Series:
The Men
Hardcover
Sandra Newman
9780802159663
$40.50
FICTION
Jun 24, 2022
From the author of The Heavens, a dazzling, mindbending novel in which all people with a Y chromosome mysteriously disappear from the face of the earthDeep in the California woods on an evening in late August, Jane Pearson is camping with her husband Leo and their five-year-old son Benjamin. As dusk sets in, she drifts softly to sleep in a hammock strung outside the tent where Leo and Benjamin are preparing for bed. At that moment, every single person with a Y chromosome vanishes around the world, disappearing from operating theaters mid-surger...
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60.
Series:
The Other Black Girl
A Novel
Paperback
Zakiya Dalila Harris
9781982160142
$23.00
FICTION
Jun 07, 2022
“Riveting, fearless, and vividly original” (Emily St. John Mandel, New York Times bestselling author), this instant New York Times bestseller explores the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing.Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she’s thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They’ve only just starte...
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