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New and Notable Books

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!

The White Lady: A Novel Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780062867988
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Published: Harper - March 21st, 2023

Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593243732
Availability: Backordered
Published: The Dial Press - March 14th, 2023

Old Babes in the Wood: Stories Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780385549073
Availability: Backordered
Published: Doubleday - March 7th, 2023

I Have Some Questions for You: A Novel Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593490143
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Published: Viking - February 21st, 2023

Intriguing review in The Washington Post, here.


Every Man a King: A King Oliver Novel Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316460217
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Published: Mulholland Books - February 21st, 2023

Walter Mosley’s new mystery reminds us why he’s a master of noir. Review in The Washington Post here.


Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780593230275
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - February 14th, 2023

Finally in paperback!


Someone Else's Shoes: A Novel Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9781984879295
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Published: Pamela Dorman Books - February 7th, 2023

Terrific/intriguing review in The New York Times here.


Love & Saffron: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Love Cover Image
By Kim Fay
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593419359
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - February 7th, 2023

Staff recommended now in paperback!


Exiles: A Novel Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250235350
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Published: Flatiron Books - January 31st, 2023

Everybody Knows: A Novel of Suspense Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316457910
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Published: Mulholland Books - January 10th, 2023

Review from friend of the Bookshop Neal Thompson:
"There’s a LOT packed into this book… powerful men abusing their power; corrupt cops; drug-addled celebs. Also, someone is setting fires at homeless camps. It’s edgy, fun and funny. I’d put it right up there with other L.A. noir-ish faves (James Ellroy, Ivy Pochoda, Dorothy B. Hughes, Walter Mosley, Don Winslow, Kem Nunn, Joe Ide, Steph Cha, plus the classics, Chandler, MacDonald, etc.). All the requisites are here: rich fuckers, sickos, outstanding one-liners, some good food. Harper is a TV writer and gives a sharp-eyed, insidery view of today’s L.A., just snarky enough. Next to a yoga place people eat “bowls of wet health.” There’s also a gritty beauty to his depictions of that singular, flawed and fiery city."

And. A fantastic Q+A with Jordan Harper here. Thank you Neal Thompson!


Sam: A Novel Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593447819
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Published: The Dial Press - January 3rd, 2023

January 16, 2023. Allegra Goodman’s look at the traumas, revelations of growing up. The column here.

Staff recommended: Told through Sam's prospective from age 7 to early adulthood you get all of her confusing honest perspectives - and her earnest attempts at navigating this complex [though really quite straight forward world] - just be who you are.  ~Michelle


Stella Maris Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780307269003
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Published: Knopf - December 6th, 2022

The Light Pirate: GMA Book Club Selection Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781538708279
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - December 6th, 2022

Chosen as the lead title for the December 2022 Indie Next List: by our very own Michelle Bear!

“A survivor of a book. In the not-too-distant future, Florida is hurricane central, and Wanda (a hurricane namesake) is in the eye of this story that wraps around you; you’ll hold on for dear life, with everybody else.”
— Michelle Bear, Edmonds Bookshop, Edmonds, WA

More information on IndieBound here.

Lily Brooks-Dalton begins her novel “The Light Pirate” with an apocalypse; what follows is something like peace. Lovely review in The New York Times here.


A World of Curiosities: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel #18) Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9781250145291
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Published: Minotaur Books - November 29th, 2022

December 19, 2022. Review in The Seattle Times. Here.


The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times Cover Image
$32.50
ISBN: 9780593237465
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Published: Crown - November 15th, 2022

Michelle Obama Has Some Advice
In her new book, “The Light We Carry,” the former first lady shares coping strategies for surviving stress and uncertainty. Review in the New York Times, here.

Also one of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2022!


The Queen: Her Life Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781538700433
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - November 15th, 2022

The World We Make: A Novel (The Great Cities #2) Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780316509893
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Published: Orbit - November 1st, 2022

N.K. Jemisin offers a hopeful — if fantastical — message of tolerance.
In Jemisin’s new novel, "The World We Make," avatars representing the boroughs of New York take on a malevolent alien.
Great review in The Washington Post, here.


The Passenger Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780307268990
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Published: Knopf - October 25th, 2022

In His New Books, Cormac McCarthy Gets Real.
The Pulitzer-winning novelist uses “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris,” his first novels in 16 years, to explore math and physics, fields that have long fascinated him.

A couple of fascinating reviews in The New York Times, here, and here.


The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams Cover Image
$35.00
ISBN: 9780316441117
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - October 25th, 2022

The Rabble-Rouser Who ‘Wired a Continent for Rebellion’
In “The Revolutionary,” Stacy Schiff presents an enthralling portrait of Samuel Adams, who, perhaps more than any other of America’s founders, set the country on its course toward independence.

Review in The New York Times, here.

Also one of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2022!


No Plan B: A Jack Reacher Novel Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781984818546
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Published: Delacorte Press - October 25th, 2022

Demon Copperhead: An Oprah's Book Club Pick Cover Image
$32.50
ISBN: 9780063251922
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Published: Harper - October 18th, 2022

In Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel, she reimagines an Appalachian David Copperfield.

Great review in the The New York Times, here.

The Oprah’s Book Club Sit-Down with "Demon Copperhead" Author Barbara Kingsolver:
Oprah and the author talked addiction, abandonment, and being labeled a hillbilly. Here.
This epic tale by one of our most revered authors follows the title character and the overwhelming obstacles he navigates in a community upended by the opioid crisis. Another review from Oprah's bookclub here.


The Last Chairlift Cover Image
$38.00
ISBN: 9781501189272
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Published: Simon & Schuster - October 18th, 2022

Sex, Secrets and Absent Fathers: It’s the New John Irving, Of Course.
At 900 pages, “The Last Chairlift,” his 15th novel, is an overstuffed family saga about a screenwriter very much like the author himself. The entire review here in The New York Times.


Liberation Day: Stories Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780525509592
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Published: Random House - October 18th, 2022

Chosen as one of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2022!


And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle Cover Image
$40.00
ISBN: 9780553393965
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Published: Random House - October 18th, 2022

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: The Illustrated Edition (Harry Potter, Book 5) Cover Image
By J. K. Rowling, Mr. Jim Kay (Illustrator), Neil Packer (Illustrator)
$54.99
ISBN: 9780545791434
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Published: Scholastic Inc. - October 11th, 2022

Finally after 3 years #5 is ready!


Mad Honey: A Novel Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9781984818386
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Published: Ballantine Books - October 4th, 2022

This is the new GMA book club pick!


Our Missing Hearts: A Novel Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780593492543
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Published: Penguin Press - October 4th, 2022

Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorites of 2022. The list here.

Chosen by Seattle Times Book Reviewers Best of 2022. The list here.


The Bullet That Missed: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780593299395
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Published: Pamela Dorman Books - September 20th, 2022

A new mystery is afoot in the third book in the series.
It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal...
Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case--their favorite kind--leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers.


Lucy by the Sea: A Novel Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593446065
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Published: Random House - September 20th, 2022

Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781982188085
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Published: Simon & Schuster - September 13th, 2022

September 12, 2022. NPR's Nina Totenberg offers a window into her world in "Dinners with Ruth." The review here.

September 13, 2022. Nina Totenberg Opens Up About Her Friend Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
In her memoir, “Dinners With Ruth,” the NPR journalist writes about their parallel ascents in fields that were not friendly to women. The column/review here.

September 13, 2022. "Dinners with Ruth" shows how friendship can flourish despite clashing careers.
NPR's Book of the Day: 8 minute listen, here.
Nina Totenberg talks with Steve Inskeep about their respect for each other's obligations as a journalist and a Supreme Court judge, and how they lifted each other up in a time when women were even more undervalued.


Lessons: A novel Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780593535202
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Published: Knopf - September 13th, 2022

From the best-selling author of "Atonement" and "Saturday" comes the epic and intimate story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals. From the Suez Crisis to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall to the current pandemic, Roland Baines sometimes rides with the tide of history, but more often struggles against it...


Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9780593136331
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Published: Crown - September 13th, 2022

Staff favorite author!
In this gripping non-fiction narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own.


Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone: A Novel (Outlander #9) Cover Image
$22.00
ISBN: 9781101885703
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Published: Bantam - September 13th, 2022

Fairy Tale Cover Image
$32.50
ISBN: 9781668002179
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Published: Scribner - September 6th, 2022

The Marriage Portrait: A novel Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593320624
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Published: Knopf - September 6th, 2022

The Sentence: A Novel Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780062671134
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Published: Harper Perennial - September 6th, 2022

Staff recommended! Both Michelle and Susan loved this new novel.


Carrie Soto Is Back: A Novel Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593158685
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Published: Ballantine Books - August 30th, 2022

The Ink Black Heart (A Cormoran Strike Novel) Cover Image
$32.00
ISBN: 9780316413039
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Published: Mulholland Books - August 30th, 2022

Afterlives: A Novel Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593541883
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Published: Riverhead Books - August 23rd, 2022

A lovely review of "Afterlives" in The New York Times, here.

Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorites of 2022.


Billy Summers Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781982173623
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Published: Gallery Books - August 2nd, 2022

Staff recommended! ~Elaine


The Daughter of Doctor Moreau Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593355336
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Published: Del Rey - July 19th, 2022

Upgrade: A Novel Cover Image
$28.00
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!


The It Girl Cover Image
$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!


Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593321201
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Published: Knopf - July 5th, 2022

Great review in the Washington Post, here.

And a podcast at The New York Times!

Gabrielle Zevin’s novel “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” is a love letter to the Literary Gamer. This review in The New York Times is here.

Chosen by Seattle Times Book Reviewers Best of 2022. The list here.

 


The Angel of Rome: And Other Stories Cover Image
$27.99
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.


Tracy Flick Can't Win: A Novel Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781501144066
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Published: Scribner - June 7th, 2022

Chosen by Seattle Times Book Reviewers Best of 2022. The list here.


Nightcrawling: A novel Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593318935
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Published: Knopf - June 7th, 2022

We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593329580
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Published: Riverhead Books - June 7th, 2022

The Madness of Crowds: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel #17) Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250145277
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Published: Minotaur Books - May 24th, 2022

Staff recommended!


River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile Cover Image
$32.50
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.”

The column is here.

Staff recommended author!


Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Read with Jenna Pick Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9780063204157
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Published: Ecco - May 3rd, 2022

Staff recommended! Michelle and Elaine and Susan and Eleanor all 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.