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New titles every Tuesday! [sometimes even more often!] We post books that we already love and recommend; books by authors we love; books that are receiving great reviews ... books that we are so excited to see in person and to share with you!
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Published: Del Rey - July 19th, 2022
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ISBN: 9780593157534
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Published: Ballantine Books - July 12th, 2022
Staff recommended author! Many of us deemed his first novel, "Dark Matter" tag worthy. We will let you know when we get a chance to read his newest!
$28.99
ISBN: 9781982155261
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Published: Gallery/Scout Press - July 12th, 2022
Staff recommended author! Elaine has deemed many of her earlier novels tag-worthy!
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Published: Knopf - July 5th, 2022
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ISBN: 9780062868114
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Published: Harper - June 28th, 2022
Staff recommended!
Great review in The New York Times, here. The stories in “The Angel of Rome” are largehearted and wonderfully inventive.
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593312377
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Published: Vintage - June 28th, 2022
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ISBN: 9781984818430
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Published: Ballantine Books - June 14th, 2022
From the bestselling author of "Small Great Things" and "The Book of Two Ways" comes “a powerfully evocative story of resilience and the triumph of the human spirit” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Malibu Rising)
Rights sold to Netflix for adaptation as a feature film.
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ISBN: 9781501144066
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Published: Scribner - June 7th, 2022
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ISBN: 9780593318935
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Published: Knopf - June 7th, 2022
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ISBN: 9780316296816
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Published: Back Bay Books - June 7th, 2022
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ISBN: 9781250859044
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Published: Picador - June 7th, 2022
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ISBN: 9780593329580
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Published: Riverhead Books - June 7th, 2022
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ISBN: 9781250304469
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Published: Celadon Books - May 24th, 2022
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ISBN: 9781250145277
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Published: Minotaur Books - May 24th, 2022
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ISBN: 9780385543101
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Published: Doubleday - May 17th, 2022
Fun Q+A with the author, Candice Millard Has Given Up on Organizing Her Book Collection
“My family has too many,” says the author, whose latest narrative history is “River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile.”
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ISBN: 9781250276698
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Published: St. Martin's Press - May 17th, 2022
Fun extra gifts with purchase! while they last!
$27.99
ISBN: 9780063204157
Availability: Backordered
Published: Ecco - May 3rd, 2022
Staff recommended! Michelle and Elaine both highly recommend this book!
Great review of the debut novel in The Washington Post!
Chosen for May IndieBound. Review here!
We had a great author event! All the information is here on our Event Calendar.
Shelby was so generous with her time -- we have a few signed copies of her book left! Claim yours soon!
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ISBN: 9781250812483
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Published: Holt Paperbacks - May 3rd, 2022
Jenny Lawson on the Difference a Community Makes When It Comes to Depression
In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast, here.
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ISBN: 9780593310939
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Published: Anchor - April 12th, 2022
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ISBN: 9780593382103
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Published: Doubleday Books for Young Readers - April 12th, 2022
The classic tale with beautiful new illustrations by Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Erin Stead. Staff recommended.
$18.00
ISBN: 9781984897701
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Published: Vintage - April 5th, 2022
Shortlisted for The 2021 Booker Prize. Info here.
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ISBN: 9781335425782
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Published: Hanover Square Press - April 5th, 2022
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ISBN: 9781324035534
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 5th, 2022
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ISBN: 9780593237915
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Published: Ballantine Books - April 5th, 2022
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ISBN: 9780062943514
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Published: William Morrow - March 29th, 2022
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ISBN: 9780593232552
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Published: Clarkson Potter - March 29th, 2022
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ISBN: 9780593136287
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Published: Crown - April 5th, 2022
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ISBN: 9780593321096
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Published: Knopf - March 22nd, 2022
3/20/2022: From The Times of London
Anne Tyler: ‘What am I going to do with my life? I’m only 80!’
As her 24th novel comes out, America’s Jane Austen says she never intended to become a writer...She rarely gives interviews, so this is a lovely surprise. Wide-ranging and very interesting to hear her thoughts on some current hot-button issues! The article is here.
From the beloved best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author--a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore family's foibles, from a boyfriend with a red Chevy in the 1950s up to a longed-for reunion with a grandchild in our pandemic present.
The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understand. Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts' influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation.
Full of heartbreak and hilarity, "French Braid" is classic Anne Tyler: a stirring, uncannily insightful novel of tremendous warmth and humor that illuminates the kindnesses and cruelties of our daily lives, the impossibility of breaking free from those who love us, and how close--yet how unknowable--every family is to itself.Lovely review in the Washington Post here.
March 29, 2022. Anne Tyler’s "French Braid" captures the avoidances and silences of family life. Lovely review in the Seattle Times, here.
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ISBN: 9780143135517
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Published: Penguin Books - March 15th, 2022
David was in the store April 1, 2022 and signed all of the lovely paperbacks that we have in stock! Thank you David!!
March 16, 2021.
David Laskin of Seattle sets his first novel, “What Sammy Knew,” in the New York City suburbs of the 1970s, telling a memoirlike coming-of-age tale... Great article/review in The Seattle Times, here.David Laskin wrote a great article explaining why/how he switched to fiction for his brand new book. He also gives great credit to his friend and ours, Ivan Doig. We miss him too. The lovely article here.
Almost memoirlike in its portrait of its specific time and place, “What Sammy Knew” — the first work of fiction by Seattle writer David Laskin (“The Children’s Blizzard”) — is both a coming-of-age novel and an examination of how young people plunge into the historical moment in which they happen to find themselves.
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ISBN: 9780063142268
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Published: Harper - March 22nd, 2022
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ISBN: 9780385547482
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Published: Doubleday - March 1st, 2022
In "Burning Questions," Margaret Atwood ponders an astonishing array of subjects. The column/review in The Washington Post, here.
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ISBN: 9780385348737
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Published: Crown - February 15th, 2022
Staff highly recommended! A year in the life of the Churchill family in London during the Blitz. Amazing. Crazy. Horrifying. And - weekends at the country house... as if life were sort of normal.... all so interesting and so well written!
Words from Mr. Larson:
“It is not my intent with my books to inform in the way that perhaps a hardcore historian might be inclined to do. My goal is to create as rich a historical experience as I possibly can."
Author Erik Larson talks to host J.T. Ellison about "The Splendid and the Vile" on NPT’s A Word on Words. Here.
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ISBN: 9780593315033
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Published: Knopf - February 1st, 2022
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ISBN: 9780593087480
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Published: Riverhead Books - February 1st, 2022
Wow! talk about a book with hype!
Author Olga Tokarczuk is already a Nobel Prize winner!
Many great reviews:
NY Times: ‘The Books of Jacob,’ a Nobel Prize Winner’s Sophisticated and Overwhelming Novel. Here.
The Guardian: The Nobel laureate’s visionary epic about 18th-century religious leader Jacob Frank takes on the biggest philosophical themes. Here.
npr: Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk releases 'The Books of Jacob.' Here.
The book was Shortlisted for The 2022 International Booker Prize. Information about book and author on the Booker Prize website.
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer and activist, and one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland.
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ISBN: 9780593156629
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Published: Del Rey - February 1st, 2022
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ISBN: 9780593449349
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Published: One World - February 1st, 2022
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ISBN: 9780593496206
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Published: Ballantine Books - January 25th, 2022
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ISBN: 9780593138519
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Published: Crown - January 25th, 2022
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ISBN: 9780593184127
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Published: Dutton - January 11th, 2022
A Fateful Train Ride Connects Eras and Cultures in This Novel
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ISBN: 9781643752488
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Published: Algonquin Books - January 11th, 2022
Staff favorite local author!
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ISBN: 9780525521327
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Published: Knopf - January 11th, 2022
In David Guterson’s New Novel, a Criminal Trial Is All in the Family
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ISBN: 9780593465066
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Published: Viking Books - December 7th, 2021
Lovely review in The New York Times, here.
And an interesting interview asking her all kinds of great questions, here.
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ISBN: 9780399592553
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Published: Random House - November 30th, 2021
Brené Brown Thinks You Should Talk About These 87 Emotions. Great article at Time here.
Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience and so much more information at her website, here.
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ISBN: 9781101885680
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Published: Delacorte Press - November 23rd, 2021
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ISBN: 9780063092785
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Published: Harper - November 23rd, 2021
Ann Patchett Has Thoughts on a Bunch of Subjects:
Patchett’s heart, smarts and 40 years of craft create an economy that delivers her perfectly understated stories emotionally whole. Her writing style is most gloriously her own. The New York Times article here.
$38.00
ISBN: 9780593230572
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Published: One World - November 16th, 2021
November 17, 2021. "1619 Project" journalist says Black people shouldn't be an asterisk in U.S. history.
Heard on Fresh Air. The interview here.
$28.99
ISBN: 9780062671127
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Published: Harper - November 9th, 2021
Staff recommended! Both Michelle and Susan loved this new novel.
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ISBN: 9781631492563
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Published: Liveright - November 2nd, 2021
How did the Beatles do it? Paul McCartney is finally telling us. The Washington Post article here.
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ISBN: 9780062868091
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Published: Harper Perennial - October 5th, 2021
Staff recommended.
Chosen for our Bookclub June 15, 2022 . The information here!
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ISBN: 9781982168438
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Published: Scribner - September 28th, 2021
September 28, 2021. Anthony Doerr's New Novel Spans Centuries, Yet Fits Together Like Clockwork
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ISBN: 9780593203224
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Published: Viking Books for Young Readers - September 21st, 2021
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ISBN: 9780393881141
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 21st, 2021
Staff Recommended: A kind of companion to "The Overstory," builds on that arc, using a more intimate narrative but still taking the reader toward hope, even with the book's references to recent national leadership. ~David
Fiction/Literature/Family Life/Nature + Environment
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ISBN: 9780385545136
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Published: Doubleday - September 14th, 2021
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ISBN: 9781335522535
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Published: Hanover Square Press - September 7th, 2021
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ISBN: 9781982173616
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Published: Scribner - August 3rd, 2021
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ISBN: 9780593135204
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Published: Ballantine Books - May 4th, 2021
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ISBN: 9780316426480
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Published: Little, Brown Spark - May 4th, 2021
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ISBN: 9780062802798
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Published: Ecco - April 20th, 2021
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ISBN: 9780385545686
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Published: Doubleday - April 13th, 2021