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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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Series: Slovenian Literature And Love Itself Paperback Drago Jancar 9781628973488 $26.50 FICTION Jun 24, 2022

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 lo... + Read More
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Series: Spanish Literature Series Antagony Paperback Luis Goytisolo 9781628973983 $34.95 FICTION Jun 03, 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... + Read More
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Series: Ashton Hall A Novel Hardcover Lauren Belfer 9780593359495 $37.00 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

An American woman and her son stumble upon the dark history of a rambling English manor house in this “masterful, riveting, and atmospheric” (Alka Joshi, author of The Henna Artist) novel from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Befler.“With vibrant prose, Lauren Belfer shepherds us through a centuries-old mystery and into a modern-day introspection on motherhood, marriage, and love.”—Georgia Hunter, New York Times bestselling author of We Were the Lucky OnesWhen a close relative falls ill, Hannah Larson and her young son, Nicky, join him ... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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Series: Castles from Cobwebs Hardcover J.A. Mensah 9781912235766 $33.95 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... + Read More
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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 debut novel about mothers and daughters, culture and class, sex and love, and the extraordinary resilience of female friendship. “The bonds between women—as friends, and across the generations—are the jewels that make this story shine.” —Tayari Jones, author of An American MarriageFunmi, Enitan, and Zainab first meet at university in Nigeria and become friends for life despite their differences. Funmi is beautiful, ... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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Series: Finding Edward Paperback Sheila Murray 9781770866263 $24.95 FICTION Jun 15, 2022

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 the need to give up her mixed race baby, Edward. Abandoned by his own white father as a small child, Cyril’s kee... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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Series: Full Whack Paperback Charlie Higson 9780349144863 $17.99 FICTION Jun 21, 2022

Dennis '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, they were bad news then, and they haven't aged well. What's worse, they need Pike's expertise on a scheme wealth distribution really- offloading one of the old gang's ill-gotten millions. Robbing the robbers- now what's... + Read More
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Series: Getting Rid Of Mister Kitchen Paperback Charlie Higson 9780349144849 $17.99 FICTION Jul 05, 2022

A 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 iwth Tarantino and temazepam, where motive is meaningless and justice is just another victim.'This is black farce with bellson, or Martin Amis as sla... + Read More
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Series: Ghost Lover Stories Hardcover Lisa Taddeo 9781982122188 $36.00 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

From Lisa Taddeo, #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Three Women and “our most eloquent and faithful chronicler of human desire” (Esquire), Ghost Lover is an electrifying collection of 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 messages that promises to spare you the anguish of trying to stay composed while communicating with your crush. At a star-studded political fundraiser in a Los Angeles mansion... + Read More
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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,... + Read More
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Series: Happy Now Paperback Charlie Higson 9780349144856 $17.99 FICTION Jul 05, 2022

'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, Will (wearing surgical gloves and leaving no trace behind) enters not only their houses, but their secret lives. A secret museum, housed in his l... + Read More
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Series: Hard Like Water Paperback Yan Lianke 9780802158130 $23.50 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 ... + Read More
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Series: Here Be Icebergs Paperback Katya Adaui 9781913867195 $21.95 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.
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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... + Read More
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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.Allison Brody is thirty-two and newly arrived on the East Coast after just managing to flee her movie producer boyfriend. She has some money, saved up from years of writing and waitressing, and so she spends it, buying a small house on the beach. But then a Category 3 hurricane makes landfall and scatters her home up and down the shore, ... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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Series: In the City of Pigs Paperback André Forget 9781459749085 $23.99 FICTION Jun 14, 2022

A 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 could be his ticket to a better job and a be... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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Series: King Of The Ants Paperback Charlie Higson 9780349144870 $17.99 FICTION Jun 21, 2022

It 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 of being caught. Sean is a drifter, working as a building labourer and waiting for something to happen.When Sean is offered easy money to tail someone and even m... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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 ... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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Series: Now Lila Knows Hardcover Elizabeth Nunez 9781636140247 $36.95 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“In Now Lila Knows, Elizabeth Nunez has crafted an indelible saga, one that is both of the times and timeless; both personal and universal. This beautifully, masterfully written novel is at once a compelling love story, a crucial exploration of the contemporary immigrant experience, and a trenchant critique of American racism.”—Mitchell S. Jackson, Pulitzer Prize winner, author of The Residu... + Read More
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Series: One Day I Shall Astonish the World Hardcover Nina Stibbe 9780241451168 $25.99 FICTION Jun 28, 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________________________________________________... + Read More
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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 and is 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 confidante is Nao, ... + Read More
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Series: Papers Paperback Violaine Schwartz 9781735297330 $22.95 FICTION Jun 07, 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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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Series: Shifty's Boys Hardcover Chris Offutt 9780802159984 $36.95 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... + Read More
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Series: Life Silence Hardcover Bruce Mutard 9781912278299 $34.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jul 15, 2022

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... + Read More
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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 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 is reluctant. A queer academic, Robin is dubious of the elaborate wedding rituals now sweeping the nation, which go far beyond champagne toasts and a bouquet toss. But loyalty ... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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 ... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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Series: The Killing Hills Paperback Chris Offutt 9780802159878 $23.50 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 ... + Read More
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Series: The Men Hardcover Sandra Newman 9780802159663 $36.95 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... + Read More
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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... + Read More