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Back to topSeptember 2023 Pre-Orders!
So many great books coming this Fall - and it all starts with September!
Pre-Order any of these books, and we will let you know as soon as they are available to pick up!
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$18.99
ISBN: 9781454952770
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Published: Union Square Kids - September 5th, 2023
From award-winning author and illustrator Mo Willems comes a new holiday classic...
It’s the most wonderful time of the year—for driving a sleigh! ’Tis also the season—for driving a sleigh! Oh, and joy to the—driving a sleigh! The Pigeon has made a list and checked it once. Can his holiday dream come true? Or will The Pigeon be left out in the cold?
$30.00
ISBN: 9781668016138
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Published: Scribner - September 5th, 2023
Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King's most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.
Stephen King's "Holly" marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in "Mr. Mercedes" to Bill Hodges's partner in "Finders Keepers" to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in "The Outsider." In King's new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries.
$28.99
ISBN: 9781982179212
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Published: Atria Books - September 5th, 2023
In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh fuel on old grievances in this dazzling standalone novel from the bestselling author of "This Tender Land."
$29.00
ISBN: 9780593297315
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Published: Viking - September 5th, 2023
Walt Longmire faces one of his most challenging crime scenes as he tries to reckon with the revelations of his last case where he confronted the ghosts of his past and questioned the very nature of justice and mercy in the hard country of the West.
$29.00
ISBN: 9780525558965
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Published: Penguin Press - September 5th, 2023
From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story — and who gets to be believed.
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593439425
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Published: Berkley - September 5th, 2023
Selena Montgomery is the nom de plume of Stacey Abrams-- as Selena Montgomery, she is an award-winning author of eight romantic suspense novels.
One doomed love affair after another has made lovely Alex Walton swear off men. Now, she’s determined to try something that maybe she can succeed at: a writing career. Little does she know that a chance meeting with a strikingly handsome stranger, a mysterious obelisk, and a lost kingdom will change her life forever. As Alex is about to discover, truth can be stranger — and far more dangerous — than fiction.
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593470633
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Published: Vintage - September 5th, 2023
A fast-paced and hilarious debut crime novel, in which a burnt-out Millennial medium must utilize her ability to see ghosts and team-up with a band of oddball investigators to figure out which member(s) of a posh English family are guilty of murder.
$18.99
ISBN: 9781668011300
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Published: Atria Books - September 5th, 2023
When soccer executive Adalyn Reyes loses her cool with her team’s mascot in a PR nightmare, the team’s owner (her dad) ships her off to North Carolina to take over management of a local girls’ soccer team. As if that weren’t challenging enough, Adalyn finds herself butting heads with retired pro soccer player Cameron Caldani. Until she starts to wonder . . . could they actually make the perfect team, on and off the field?
$18.99
ISBN: 9780593617533
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers - September 5th, 2023
For Young Adult Readers... Seven friends throw a 1920s–themed party, where it’s all pretend — until one of them is murdered. 'One of Us Is Lying' meets 'Knives Out' in this glamorous locked-room mystery.
$27.00
ISBN: 9781982186470
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Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - September 5th, 2023
Myriam Gurba dissects and analyzes the dark characters (serial killers, xenophobes, homophobes, even literary figures) that lurk in the shadows—and sometimes in the broad daylight—of our lives. Gurba also confronts the culture that has fostered and even decorated this legacy of creeps.
$26.99
ISBN: 9781668021415
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Published: Simon & Schuster - September 5th, 2023
Brand new fiction from Palahniuk!
Otto and Cecil enjoy the privileged countryside life, along with their eccentric family activities like . . . murdering the staff, until maintaining the family’s bloody legacy becomes complicated. While dealing with an influx of escaped convicts; a Greek-speaking, doll-dismembering tutor; a mother increasingly reliant on opioids; and an absent father; the brothers find their hands full. With Grandfather pressuring Otto to rise to the occasion, the outcome is uncertain. It's either a nuclear apocalypse or just another ordinary day in their twisted world.
$35.00
ISBN: 9781982181284
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Published: Simon & Schuster - September 12th, 2023
Isaacson shadowed the Tesla and SpaceX founder’s day-to-day life for two years. He spent hours interviewing Musk, as well as his family, friends, coworkers, and adversaries, in hopes of understanding how the South African boy who was bullied by his classmates became one of the world’s greatest tech disruptors. The result is a 688-page tome that promises to be the most complete profile of Musk yet. Even Musk seems excited to read it.
$27.95
ISBN: 9781641295215
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Published: Soho Crime - September 12th, 2023
A gripping standalone spy thriller from the bestselling author of "Slow Horses," with a riveting reveal about a disastrous MI5 mission in Cold War Berlin--an absolute must-read for Slough House fans.
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593418390
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Published: Riverhead Books - September 12th, 2023
A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive.
$19.99
ISBN: 9780593622032
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Published: Viking Books for Young Readers - September 12th, 2023
The debut picture book by Academy Award-winning actor and author Matthew McConaughey.
Filled with his trademark humor and wisdom, he has crafted a soulful and irreverent collection of life lessons that empowers readers, big and small, to celebrate how we are all full of possibility.
$18.99
ISBN: 9781536223767
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Published: Candlewick - September 12th, 2023
The beloved, multi-award-winning duo of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen tackle a perennial question:
When Santa arrives at a child's house on Christmas Eve, does he go down the chimney feetfirst or headfirst? What if he gets stuck? What if there's no chimney? Maybe he slides under the door, as thin as a piece of paper? Or is it possible he pours himself through the faucet? What happens once he's inside?
$28.00
ISBN: 9781982169695
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Published: S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books - September 12th, 2023
Mona Awad’s seductive fourth novel looks at the complicated relationships between mothers, daughters, and their mirrors. When the skin-care obsessed Belle’s estranged mother mysteriously dies, she searches for answers at the enigmatic spa her mom used to frequent. There, Belle is promised a transformative experience, but she soon finds herself descending deeper into self-care madness in this surreal gothic tale.
$28.00
ISBN: 9780385549509
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Published: Doubleday - September 12th, 2023
A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the award-winning author of "Life After Life," with everything that readers love about her novels — the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop.
$35.00
ISBN: 9780593535950
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Published: Knopf - September 12th, 2023
The long-awaited new and selected collection by the author of "some of the most important poetry in the world today" (The New York Times Magazine).
Hirshfield will be at SAL October 2, 2023. All the information here.
$30.00
ISBN: 9780593545409
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Published: Portfolio - September 12th, 2023
Family, friendship, work, and faith are the four pillars of living a happier life, according to Arthur C. Brooks, a social scientist and writer who has focused extensively on the study of happiness, and the Queen of All Media herself, Oprah Winfrey. With this new book, the two offer science-backed solutions that they say will help anyone, no matter their circumstances, build those pillars and change their life for the better.
$13.95
ISBN: 9781644213209
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Published: Seven Stories Press - September 12th, 2023
When French author and 2022 Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux was in her 50s, she embarked on a brief but passionate love affair with a man nearly 30 years her junior. Her trim, 64-page book "The Young Man," first published in France last year and newly translated by Alison Strayer, is a meditation on a dalliance that made her think differently about love, time, and aging.
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593315200
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Published: Anchor - September 12th, 2023
The multiple prize-winner now in paperback!
WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN MEMOIR and NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
"An elegant and poignant coming of age account that considers intense, youthful friendships but also random violence that can suddenly and permanently alter the presumed logic of our personal narratives." --2023 Pulitzer Prize Committee
$27.99
ISBN: 9781501153228
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Published: S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books - September 19th, 2023
Two women from opposite sides of the country are brought together by violent acts of the same man, and become allies and sisters in arms as they pursue the justice that would otherwise elude them in one of the most acclaimed, highly-anticipated thrillers of the year.
In her fictionalized version of a real-life serial killer, Knoll chillingly highlights how tabloid hunger and public fascination with (supposed) criminal genius fed into this notoriety, while ignoring the victims and survivors at the heart of the story. Following two women whose lives were forever changed by the killer’s violence, the novel’s suspense ramps up as the women relentlessly pursue answers in the face of incompetent law enforcement, a sexist culture, and their own grief. A stunning, unputdownable read that will leave you breathless.
$30.00
ISBN: 9780063010109
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Published: William Morrow - September 19th, 2023
It's a crossover episode! Local author and staff favorite, JA Jance, pulls from both her Brady and Walker novels. Federal investigator Dan Pardee, Brandon Walker's son-in-law, crosses paths with Sheriff Joanna Brady as he traces the bloody path of a merciless serial killer across the Southwest in this intense thriller.
$28.00
ISBN: 9781643753096
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Published: Algonquin Books - September 19th, 2023
These short lyrical essayettes -- a follow-up to the bestselling "The Book of Delights" -- finds the award-winning author continuing his celebration of the everyday delights, inspiring us at this exact moment when we all need a little more hope and joy in our our lives.
$27.95
ISBN: 9781324005681
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 19th, 2023
Anne Enright’s eighth novel deals with the complicated legacy of Phil McDaragh, a respected Irish poet who abandoned his young children and cancer-stricken wife to pursue his dreams. Decades later, when his daughter, Carmel, begins to see shades of her late father in her own daughter, Nell, she is forced to unearth the pain she buried long ago.
Enright’s latest book is a generational tale about the trauma we inherit without even realizing it."An incandescent novel from one of our greatest living novelists ( The Times)" about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women.
$29.00
ISBN: 9780593299425
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Published: Pamela Dorman Books - September 19th, 2023
A new mystery is afoot in the fourth book in the Thursday Murder Club series!
Shocking news reaches them--an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing.
The gang's search leads them into the antiques business, where the tricks of the trade are as old as the objects themselves. As they encounter drug dealers, art forgers, and online fraudsters--as well as heartache close to home--Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim have no idea whom to trust.
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593597033
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Published: Random House - September 19th, 2023
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries — a daring, moving tale of memory and fate from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of "The Piano Tuner."
$38.00
ISBN: 9780525954996
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Published: Viking - September 26th, 2023
The long-awaited sequel to "A Column of Fire." heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge, England, where progress clashes with tradition, class struggles push into every part of society, and war in Europe engulfs the entire continent and beyond.
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593538241
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Published: Riverhead Books - September 26th, 2023
The award-winning author of "How Much of These Hills Is Gold" returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world.
$29.99
ISBN: 9780593158746
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Published: Del Rey - September 26th, 2023
A small town is transformed when seven strange trees begin bearing magical apples in this masterpiece of horror from the bestselling author of "Wanderers" and "The Book of Accidents."
Staff recommended author!
$32.50
ISBN: 9780316572101
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Published: Mulholland Books - September 26th, 2023
In the seventh installment in the "outrageously entertaining" Strike series, Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult.
$30.00
ISBN: 9780316497398
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Published: Little, Brown Spark - September 26th, 2023
Throughout this profoundly moving and beautifully written memoir, Washington attempts to answer the questions so many have struggled with: Who am I? What is my truest and most authentic self? How do I find a deeper sense of connection and belonging? With grace and honesty, she inspires readers to search for--and find--themselves.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson & the Olympians) (Hardcover)
$19.99
ISBN: 9781368098175
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Published: Disney Hyperion - September 26th, 2023
The original heroes from "The Lightning Thief" are reunited for their biggest challenge yet: getting Percy to college when the gods are standing in his way.
Rick Riordan will be in town with Seattle Arts + Lectures September 26, 2023. All the information here.
$18.99
ISBN: 9780593203255
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Published: Viking Books for Young Readers - September 26th, 2023
This hopeful message from poet Amanda Gorman, charmingly illustrated by Caldecott honoree Christian Robinson's painted collage pieces, follows a young boy who notices a heap of trash in his neighborhood and takes small steps to clean it up.
$18.99
ISBN: 9780593376287
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Published: Knopf Books for Young Readers - September 26th, 2023
Target Age Group: 10 to 13. When fifteen-year-old Valdez Jones VIII, a.k.a. Wrecker, unwittingly becomes entangled with a group of smugglers and grave robbers, he must deep dive into their shady dealings in order to escape their twisted net.
$17.99
ISBN: 9780316669412
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - September 26th, 2023
"The Wild Robot" series returns, taking Roz on an action-packed under-the-ocean journey to save her beloved island!
$35.00
ISBN: 9780525657422
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Published: Knopf - September 26th, 2023
A personal collection of more than a hundred favorite family recipes--from Crespelle with Herb Pesto and Penne with Sausage, Mushrooms and Ricotta Vegetable Polpette, to Lidia's Simple Roast Chicken and Mimosa Cake--from the best-selling, award-winning "doyenne of Italian cooking..."