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Happy September!
School is back in session, and fall is on the way! Personally, we're excited for the prospect of cozy evenings spent curled up with a good book - aren't you?
But for now, we hope that you're enjoying the sunshine and that your jump into a new semester has been a good one for our friends still in school. And if you find yourself missing the back-to-school season, stop by and we'll be happy to help you build up a reading list of your own, just because!
Please note that this month we will be closed Friday-Monday, September 3rd-6th, for the Labor Day holiday.
Happy Labor Day - may your September be bright!
p.s…make sure to scroll to the end of this month’s newsletter for a fun surprise - Tigger is in love!
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From the Team at Fiction Addiction: -Nancy -Jill -Lee -Grace Anne -Melissa
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We Remember: 20 Years Since 9/11 |
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2/2/21 - Scholastic Press: 2021 - $17.99
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller.
In time for the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, master storyteller Alan Gratz (Refugee) delivers a pulse-pounding and unforgettable take on history and hope, revenge and fear -- and the stunning links between the past and present.
September 11, 2001, New York City: Brandon is visiting his dad at work, on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center. Out of nowhere, an airplane slams into the tower, creating a fiery nightmare of terror and confusion. And Brandon is in the middle of it all. Can he survive -- and escape?
September 11, 2019, Afghanistan: Reshmina has grown up in the shadow of war, but she dreams of peace and progress. When a battle erupts in her village, Reshmina stumbles upon a wounded American soldier named Taz. Should she help Taz -- and put herself and her family in mortal danger?
Two kids. One devastating day. Nothing will ever be the same.
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September 12th is Grandparents' Day! |
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8/10/21 - Abrams Appleseed: 2021 - $16.99
From acclaimed creators Shelly Becker and Dan Yaccarino comes this joyful picture book about a girl and her grandmother as they plan the perfect visit together
One, two, Grandma loves you. Three, four, visit more. Five, six, precious pics. Seven, eight, mark the date.
A young girl and her grandmother count up to their next visit and then do all of their favorite things together in this joyful rhyming picture book.
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6/1/21 - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers: 2021 - $17.99
A migh-TEA mix-up leads to a delightful day for a little girl and her grampy.
Frannie and Grandy both have an idea about what the perfect day should look like, but when that day arrives, there is a migh-TEA mix-up. Tea gets splashed, sandwiches smashed, and expectations, crushed. Luckily, Frannie and Grandy discover that a perfect day is just one they spend together.
New York Times bestselling author Beth Ferry partners with award-winning illustrator Dana Wulfekotte to bring us a funny and tender ode to the relationship between children and grandparents.
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September 20th-26th is Thinking of You Week! |
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Thinking of You Week is an international movement to celebrate the joy of sending and receiving hand-written notes and greeting cards.
With the events of 2020, many people have discovered, or rediscovered, the pleasure and comfort that greeting cards and hand-written notes can bring as a way of keeping in touch with friends and family. Scientists have studied people’s brains as they open a piece of hand-written personal mail and observed how the pleasure waves just light up!
Join us in letting the ones you love know that you're thinking of them.
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The earlier we get your pre-orders (a month early is ideal!), the better chance you'll get the book by its pub date.
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Preorder The Wish by Nicholas Sparks |
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9/28/21 - Grand Central Publishing: 2021 - $28.00
From the author of The Longest Ride and The Return comes a novel about the enduring legacy of first love, and the decisions that haunt us forever. 1996 was the year that changed everything for Maggie Dawes. Sent away at sixteen to live with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind . . . until she meets Bryce Trickett, one of the few teenagers on the island. Handsome, genuine, and newly admitted to West Point, Bryce gradually shows her how much there is to love about the wind-swept beach town—and introduces her to photography, a passion that will define the rest of her life.
By 2019, Maggie is a renowned travel photographer. At thirty-seven, she splits her time between running a successful gallery in New York and photographing remote locations around the world. But this year she finds herself unexpectedly grounded over Christmas, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis. Increasingly dependent on a young assistant, she finds herself becoming close to him.
As they count down the last days of the season together, she begins to tell him the story of another Christmas, decades earlier—and the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.
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9/28/21 - Grand Central Publishing - $28.00
From the author of The Longest Ride and The Return comes a novel about the enduring legacy of first love, and the decisions that haunt us forever.
1996 was the year that changed everything for Maggie Dawes. Sent away at sixteen to live with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina's Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind . . . until she meets Bryce Trickett, one of the few teenagers on the island. Handsome, genuine, and newly admitted to West Point, Bryce gradually shows her how much there is to love about the wind-swept beach town--and introduces her to photography, a passion that will define the rest of her life.
By 2019, Maggie is a renowned travel photographer. She splits her time between running a successful gallery in New York and photographing remote locations around the world. But this year she is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis. Increasingly dependent on a young assistant, she finds herself becoming close to him.
As they count down the last days of the season together, she begins to tell him the story of another Christmas, decades earlier--and the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.
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9/28/21 - St. Martin's Press - $19.99
From May Kay Andrews, the New York Times bestselling author of Hello, Summer, comes a novella celebrating the magic of Christmas and second chances in The Santa Suit.
When newly-divorced Ivy Perkins buys an old farmhouse sight unseen, she is definitely looking for a change in her life. The Four Roses, as the farmhouse is called, is a labor of love—but Ivy didn't bargain on just how much labor. The previous family left so much furniture and so much junk, that it's a full-time job sorting through all of it.
At the top of a closet, Ivy finds an old Santa suit—beautifully made and decades old. In the pocket of a suit she finds a note written in a childish hand: it's from a little girl who has one Christmas wish, and that is for her father to return home from the war. This discovery sets Ivy off on a mission. Who wrote the note? Did the man ever come home? What mysteries did the Rose family hold?
Ivy's quest brings her into the community, at a time when all she wanted to do was be left alone and nurse her wounds. But the magic of Christmas makes miracles happen, and Ivy just might find more than she ever thought possible: a welcoming town, a family reunited, a mystery solved, and a second chance at love.
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9/28/21 - Scribner - $30.00
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time, comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story.
The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are trying to figure out the world around them: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city walls during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour in an attack on a public library in present day Idaho; and Konstance, on an interstellar ship bound for an exoplanet, decades from now. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of peril.
An ancient text—the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky—provides solace and mystery to these unforgettable characters. Doerr has created a tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness—with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us and those who will be here after we’re gone.
Dedicated to “the librarians then, now, and in the years to come,” Cloud Cuckoo Land is a hauntingly beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship—of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart.
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9/14/21 - Doubleday - $28.95
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.
"Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home.
Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time.
Cash is tight, especially with all those installment-plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace, Ray doesn't ask where it comes from. He knows a discreet jeweler downtown who doesn't ask questions, either.
Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa—the "Waldorf of Harlem"—and volunteers Ray's services as the fence. The heist doesn't go as planned; they rarely do. Now Ray has a new clientele, one made up of shady cops, vicious local gangsters, two-bit pornographers, and other assorted Harlem lowlifes.
Thus begins the internal tussle between Ray the striver and Ray the crook. As Ray navigates this double life, he begins to see who actually pulls the strings in Harlem. Can Ray avoid getting killed, save his cousin, and grab his share of the big score, all while maintaining his reputation as the go-to source for all your quality home furniture needs?
Harlem Shuffle's ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem.
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9/7/21 - Hanover Square - $27.99
Braided with haunting saloon tunes and just the right dose of magic, The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All is a novel bursting with heart, humor and an utterly transporting adventure that is sure to sweep you away into the beauty of the tall snowy mountain timber.
In the tiny timber town of Cordelia, Idaho, everyone has heard tales of the Applegates. Local legend says their family line boasts some of the greatest lumberjacks to ever roam the American West, and from the moment young Weldon stepped foot in the deep Cordelia woods as a child, he dreamed of joining the rowdy ranks of his ancestors in their epic axe-swinging adventures. But at the beginning of the twentieth century, times are changing fast, and the jacks are dying out.
On his deathbed nearly a century later, Weldon Applegate recounts his life in all its glory, filled with tall tales writ large with murder, mayhem, avalanches and bootlegging. It's the story of dark pine forests brewing with ancient magic, and Weldon's struggle as a boy to keep his father's inherited timber claim, the Lost Lot, from the ravenous clutches of Linden Laughlin.
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9/7/21 - Riverhead Books - $28.00
One of our best American writers, Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies.
Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease.
At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie’s vision be bulwark enough?
Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff’s new novel, her first since Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.
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9/21/21 - Simon & Schuster - $30.00
The transition from President Donald J. Trump to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stands as one of the most dangerous periods in American history.
But as # 1 internationally bestselling author Bob Woodward and acclaimed reporter Robert Costa reveal for the first time, it was far more than just a domestic political crisis.
Woodward and Costa interviewed more than 200 people at the center of the turmoil, resulting in more than 6,000 pages of transcripts—and a spellbinding and definitive portrait of a nation on the brink.
This classic study of Washington takes readers deep inside the Trump White House, the Biden White House, the 2020 campaign, and the Pentagon and Congress, with vivid, eyewitness accounts of what really happened.
Peril is supplemented throughout with never-before-seen material from secret orders, transcripts of confidential calls, diaries, emails, meeting notes and other personal and government records, making for an unparalleled history.
It is also the first inside look at Biden’s presidency as he faces the challenges of a lifetime: the continuing deadly pandemic and millions of Americans facing soul-crushing economic pain, all the while navigating a bitter and disabling partisan divide, a world rife with threats, and the hovering, dark shadow of the former president.
“We have much to do in this winter of peril,” Biden declared at his inauguration, an event marked by a nerve-wracking security alert and the threat of domestic terrorism.
Peril is the extraordinary story of the end of one presidency and the beginning of another, and represents the culmination of Bob Woodward’s news-making trilogy on the Trump presidency, along with Fear and Rage. And it is the beginning of a collaboration with fellow Washington Post reporter Robert Costa that will remind readers of Woodward’s coverage, with Carl Bernstein, of President Richard M. Nixon’s final days.
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9/28/21 - William Morrow - $17.99
In this irresistible collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living and Garden & Gun, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Rick Bragg muses on everything from his love of Tupperware to the decline of country music; from the legacy of Harper Lee to the metamorphosis of the pickup truck; and from the best way to kill fire ants to why any self-respecting Southern man worth his salt should carry a good knife. An ode to the stories and the history of the South, crackling with tenderness, wit, and deep affection, Where I Come From celebrates “a litany of great talkers, blue-green waters, deep casseroles, kitchen-sink permanents, lying fishermen, haunted mansions, and dogs that never die, things that make this place more than a dotted line on a map or a long-ago failed rebellion, even if only in some cold-weather dream.” Evoking the beauty and the odd particularity of humble origins, Bragg's searching vision, generous humor, and richly nuanced voice bring a place, a people, and a world vividly to life.
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9/7/21 - Orbit - $30.00
Iconic actress Hayley Mills shares personal memories from her storied childhood, growing up in a famous acting family and becoming a Disney child star, trying to grow up in a world that wanted her to stay forever young.
The daughter of acclaimed British actor Sir John Mills was still a preteen when she began her acting career and was quickly thrust into the spotlight. Under the wing of Walt Disney himself, Hayley Mills was transformed into one of the biggest child starlets of the 1960s through her iconic roles in Pollyanna, The Parent Trap, and many more. She became one of only twelve actors in history to be bestowed with the Academy Juvenile Award, presented at the Oscars by its first recipient, Shirley Temple, and went on to win a number of awards including a Golden Globe, multiple BAFTAs, and a Disney Legacy Award.
Now, in her charming and forthright memoir, she provides a unique window into when Hollywood was still 'Tinseltown' and the great Walt Disney was at his zenith, ruling over what was (at least in his own head) still a family business. This behind-the-scenes look at the drama of having a sky-rocketing career as a young teen in an esteemed acting family will offer both her childhood impressions of the wild and glamorous world she was swept into, and the wisdom and broader knowledge that time has given her. Hayley will delve intimately into her relationship with Walt Disney, as well as the emotional challenges of being bound to a wholesome, youthful public image as she grew into her later teen years, and how that impacted her and her choices--including marrying a producer over 30 years her senior when she was 20 With her regrets, her joys, her difficulties, and her triumphs, this is a compelling read for any fan of classic Disney films and an inside look at a piece of real Hollywood history.
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9/14/21 - W.W. Norton & Company - $26.95
Join "America’s funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post), Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.
What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology.
Roach tags along with animal-attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and "danger tree" faller blasters. Intrepid as ever, she travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St. Peter’s Square in the early hours before the pope arrives for Easter Mass, when vandal gulls swoop in to destroy the elaborate floral display. She taste-tests rat bait, learns how to install a vulture effigy, and gets mugged by a macaque.
Combining little-known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows, langur impersonators, and trespassing squirrels, Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature’s lawbreakers. When it comes to "problem" wildlife, she finds, humans are more often the problem—and the solution. Fascinating, witty, and humane, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat.
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9/14/21 - The Viking Press - $30.00
Does George Washington still matter? Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues for Washington's unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new president through all thirteen former colonies, which were now an unsure nation. Travels with George marks a new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history and personal reflection into a single narrative.
When George Washington became president in 1789, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative political experiment. Washington undertook a tour of the ex-colonies to talk to ordinary citizens about his new government, and to imbue in them the idea of being one thing—Americans.
In the fall of 2018, Nathaniel Philbrick embarked on his own journey into what Washington called "the infant woody country" to see for himself what America had become in the 229 years since. Writing in a thoughtful first person about his own adventures with his wife Melissa and their dog Dora, Philbrick follows Washington's presidential excursions: from Mount Vernon to the new capital in New York; a month-long tour of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island; a venture onto Long Island and eventually across Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The narrative moves smoothly between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries as we see the country through both Washington's and Philbrick's eyes.
Written at a moment when America's founding figures are under increasing scrutiny, Travels with George grapples bluntly and honestly with Washington's legacy as a man of the people, a reluctant president, and a plantation owner who held people in slavery. At historic houses and landmarks, Philbrick reports on the reinterpretations at work as he meets reenactors, tour guides, and other keepers of history's flame. He paints a picture of eighteenth century America as divided and fraught as it is today, and he comes to understand how Washington compelled, enticed, stood up to, and listened to the many different people he met along the way—and how his all-consuming belief in the Union helped to forge a nation.
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9/21/21 - Harper - $30.00
New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts.
When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires—one in shipping and another in railroads—that would make him the richest man in America. His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after his death in 1877, sowing familial discord that would never fully heal. Though his son Billy doubled the money left by “the Commodore,” subsequent generations competed to find new and ever more extraordinary ways of spending it. By 2018, when the last Vanderbilt was forced out of The Breakers—the seventy-room summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island, that Cornelius’s grandson and namesake had built—the family would have been unrecognizable to the tycoon who started it all.
Now, the Commodore’s great-great-great-grandson Anderson Cooper, joins with historian Katherine Howe to explore the story of his legendary family and their outsized influence. Cooper and Howe breathe life into the ancestors who built the family’s empire, basked in the Commodore’s wealth, hosted lavish galas, and became synonymous with unfettered American capitalism and high society. Moving from the hardscrabble wharves of old Manhattan to the lavish drawing rooms of Gilded Age Fifth Avenue, from the ornate summer palaces of Newport to the courts of Europe, and all the way to modern-day New York, Cooper and Howe wryly recount the triumphs and tragedies of an American dynasty unlike any other.
Written with a unique insider’s viewpoint, this is a rollicking, quintessentially American history as remarkable as the family it so vividly captures.
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9/21/21 - Alfred A. Knopf - $26.00
From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin' and The Best Cook in the World, the warm hearted and hilarious story of how his life was transformed by his love for a poorly behaved, half-blind stray dog.
Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a defiant, self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and screen door moocher who spends his days playing chicken with the Fed Ex man, picking fights with thousand-pound livestock, and rolling in donkey manure, and his nights howling at the moon. He has been that way since the moment he appeared on the ridgeline behind Rick Bragg's house, a starved and half-dead creature, seventy-six pounds of wet hair and poor decisions.
Speck arrived in Rick's life at a moment of looming uncertainty. A cancer diagnosis, chemo, kidney failure, and recurring pneumonia had left Rick lethargic and melancholy. Speck helped, and he is helping, still, when he is not peeing on the rose of Sharon. Written with Bragg's inimitable blend of tenderness and sorrow, humor and grit, The Speckled Beauty captures the extraordinary, sustaining devotion between two damaged creatures who need each other to heal.
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9/28/21 - Workman Publishing Company - $7.95
The moose plays the cello. The deer, violin. And it’s ONE-two-three, ONE-two-three, time to begin!
Destined to be a read-aloud favorite, Woodland Dance is a mystical, waltzing story from beloved author and illustrator Sandra Boynton, and a magical book to share with a magical child. Woodland animals heed the call of the fox’s bugle to join the woodland dance in a moonlit glade, dancing all night to the music of the Woodland Dance Trio. As the animals wander off to bed, the Trio plays one last piece to welcome the sun. A lovely, lyrical way to end, or start, the day.
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9/28/21 - Greenwillow Books - $18.99
Caldecott Medal–winner and #1 New York Times–bestselling author Kevin Henkes explores what it means to be at home in this stunning picture book. Brimming with interactive call-and-response questions, A House is a timeless and irresistible must-have for both very young children and emergent readers—as well as the entire family.
Where is the door to the house? Do you see any clouds? What does the house look like when it is sunny outside? When it is raining? And what will the house turn into when its family returns? A home.
Caldecott Medal–winner Kevin Henkes employs interactive questions, declarative sentences, basic shapes, and a limited color palette in this brilliant and classic picture book. A House introduces young readers to shapes, numbers, the weather, and the parts of a house, with a rhythmic, repetitive text and remarkable illustrations.
A story about home, family, community, and belonging, A House is an excellent choice for emergent readers, for social and emotional development, and for storytime sharing.
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9/28/21 - HarperCollins - $18.99
The #1 New York Times bestselling author-artist of the Pinkalicious series, Victoria Kann, is back with an all new-picture book about generosity and kindness, starring Pinkalicious and Peterrific.
Pinkalicious is searching for stones for her rock collection when suddenly—POOF!—out pops a surprise! Rocky is here to grant Pinkalicious and her brother Peter one wish, and one wish only, so they must choose wisely.
Should they wish for a pile of sweets? Or the ability to fly? Or maybe a castle with a fire-breathing dragon? But are any of those things good enough to be their very best, most special wish in the whole wide world? And what will happen to Rocky after they make their wish?
This gem of a book looks at how being selfless can be its own best reward. Rubylicious is a sparkling addition to the Pinkalicious library!
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9/7/21 - Feiwel & Friends - $16.99
From #1 New York Times bestseller Katherine Applegate, a singular middle-grade novel about a girl who risks everything to help a handmade creature who comes to life.
The earth is old and we are not, and that is all you must remember . . .
Eleven-year-old Willodeen adores creatures of all kinds, but her favorites are the most unlovable beasts in the land: strange beasts known as “screechers.” The villagers of Perchance call them pests, even monsters, but Willodeen believes the animals serve a vital role in the complicated web of nature.
Lately, though, nature has seemed angry indeed. Perchance has been cursed with fires and mudslides, droughts and fevers, and even the annual migration of hummingbears, a source of local pride and income, has dwindled. For as long as anyone can remember, the tiny animals have overwintered in shimmering bubble nests perched atop blue willow trees, drawing tourists from far and wide. This year, however, not a single hummingbear has returned to Perchance, and no one knows why.
When a handmade birthday gift brings unexpected magic to Willodeen and her new friend, Connor, she’s determined to speak up for the animals she loves, and perhaps even uncover the answer to the mystery of the missing hummingbears.
A timely and timeless tale about our fragile earth, and one girl’s fierce determination to make a difference.
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9/28/21 - Random House Books for Young Readers - $18.99
Celebrate the fun that grandparents and grandkids can get up to in this action-packed undersea adventure—a companion picture book to Paul McCartney’s #1 New York Timesbestseller Hey Grandude. Grandude’s inventions are the stuff of legend, and his new green submarine doesn’t disappoint. In fact, it flies as well as submerges! Grandude whisks the grandkids off on another adventure, but he and the Chillers soon find themselves in a pickle. Suddenly, it’s Nandude to the rescue! Nandude is an explorer as courageous as Grandude, with an amazing accordion-ship to boot! Between Grandude’s magic compass and Nandude’s magical music, everyone arrives home safely. But not before enjoying a parade, dancing rainforest animals, and a narrow escape from a grabby octopus. This tale is perfect for little explorers and Paul McCartney fans alike! Artist Kathryn Durst returns with glorious, humor-filled illustrations that are as beautiful as ever.
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9/28/21 - Knopf Books for Young Readers - $17.99
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wonder comes a new American classic about a boy on a quest to find his father, guided by a ghost and a mysterious pony. Part True Grit, part War Horse, Pony is an enthralling story of adventure, friendship, and the invisible bonds that connect us.
Twelve-year-old Silas is awoken in the dead of night by three horsemen, who arrive unannounced to take his father away. Silas is left shaken, scared, and alone, except for the presence of his companion, Mittenwool . . . who happens to be a ghost. But when a pony shows up at his door, Silas knows what he has to do. He will set out on a perilous journey across a vast American landscape to find his father—a journey that will ultimately connect him with his past and future, and the unfathomable mysteries of the world around him.
R. J. Palacio spins a harrowing yet distinctly beautiful tale about the power of love and the ties that bind us across distance and time. For readers who love the poignant depth of War Horse and the singular voice of True Grit, this is one of those rare books for readers of all ages with the makings of a modern classic.
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9/7/21 - HarperCollins - $18.99
When a cloudy gray sky cancels Pete the Cat’s beach day plans, a big box is all he needs to beat the rainy-day blues.
Pete the Cat wants to go surfing, but he looks outside and—oh no!—it’s gray and rainy. Does Pete get sad? No, he doesn’t! Instead, he finds a really big and GROOVY box. Find out in this epic adventure just where Pete’s imagination takes him.
From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestselling Pete the Cat series, James and Kimberly Dean, this out-of-the-box picture book is reminiscent of Pete favorites like Magic Sunglasses and perfect for fans of Not a Box by Antoinette Portis.
Don't miss Pete's other adventures, including Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes, Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons, Pete the Cat Saves Christmas, Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses, Pete the Cat and the Bedtime Blues, Pete the Cat and the New Guy, Pete the Cat and the Cool Cat Boogie, Pete the Cat and the Missing Cupcakes, and Pete the Cat and the Perfect Pizza Party, and Pete the Cat: Crayons Rock!.
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9/7/21 - Balzer & Bray - $17.99
From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes the long-awaited sequel to Pax; this is a gorgeously crafted, utterly compelling novel about chosen families and the healing power of love.
It’s been a year since Peter and his pet fox, Pax, have seen each other. Once inseparable, they now lead very different lives.
Pax and his mate, Bristle, have welcomed a litter of kits they must protect in a dangerous world. Meanwhile Peter—newly orphaned after the war, racked with guilt and loneliness—leaves his adopted home with Vola to join the Water Warriors, a group of people determined to heal the land from the scars of the war.
When one of Pax's kits falls desperately ill, he turns to the one human he knows he can trust. And no matter how hard Peter tries to harden his broken heart, love keeps finding a way in. Now both boy and fox find themselves on journeys toward home, healing—and each other, once again.
As he did for Pax, Jon Klassen, New York Times bestseller, Caldecott medalist, and two-time Caldecott Honoree, has created stunning jacket and interior illustrations.
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9/21/21 - Viking Books for Young Readers - $18.99
A lyrical picture book debut from presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman and #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Loren Long "I can hear change humming In its loudest, proudest song. I don't fear change coming, And so I sing along." In this stirring, much-anticipated picture book by presidential inaugural poet and activist Amanda Gorman, anything is possible when our voices join together. As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes—big or small—in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves. With lyrical text and rhythmic illustrations that build to a dazzling crescendo by #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Loren Long, Change Sings is a triumphant call to action for everyone to use their abilities to make a difference.
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9/21/21 - HarperCollins - $17.99
You think you know these stories, don’t you?
You are wrong.
You don’t know them at all.
Twelve tales, twelve dangerous tales of mystery, magic, and rebellious hearts. Each twists like a spindle to reveal truths full of warning and triumph, truths that free hearts long kept tame, truths that explore life . . . and death.
A prince has a surprising awakening . . .
A beauty fights like a beast . . .
A boy refuses to become prey . . .
A path to happiness is lost. . . . then found again.
New York Times bestselling author Soman Chainani respins old stories into fresh fairy tales for a new era and creates a world like no other. These stories know you. They understand you. They reflect you. They are tales for our times. So read on, if you dare.
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9/21/21 - Scholastic Inc. - $19.99
A ship. A garden. A library. A key. In Kaleidoscope, the incomparable Brian Selznick presents the story of two people bound to each other through time and space, memory and dreams. At the center of their relationship is a mystery about the nature of grief and love which will look different to each reader. Kaleidoscope is a feat of storytelling that illuminates how even the wildest tales can help us in the hardest times.
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Our picks have won awards, been made into movies, or have simply been really good reads.
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Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy, $27.99
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Meet our newest employee, Gretchen!
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Gretchen S., Bookseller
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I love to read historical fiction, classic literature, biographies, and young adult. My favorites stories are those that make me think or look at the world with a different perspective.
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11/17/20 - HC - $19.99 |
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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If you had a chance to travel in time, would you? Even if there were multiple rules that must be followed, including you cannot change the present, and the cost of breaking the rules means losing your life. Would you do it? In Before the Coffee gets Cold, you follow four different people who have come to a coffee shop, hidden in the alleys of Tokyo, for the chance to experience just one moment in time. What would be so important that you would be willing to take that chance? The opportunity to to find the answer to a question long forgotten, or to see a loved one take to soon. If you are looking for a heartwarming tale about reflecting on the past and embracing the future, Before the Coffee gets Cold is your next read. So go grab coffee, and remember to drink it before it gets cold.
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9/28/21 - PB - $18.99 |
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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
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Malcolm Gladwell has done it again with an elegant deconstruction of an important and timely topic that will shift your perspective and encourage new ways to debate important public policies. His drawn-from-the-headlines examples add to this important intellectual work the fascination and readability of a true crime novel. My hope is that everyone I know will read and discuss this book.
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9/28/21 - HC - $25.00 |
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Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave by Ryan Holiday
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I listen to Ryan's podcast, The Daily Stoic, but this is the first of his books I've read and I absolutely loved it. It's a perfect graduation gift or stocking stuffer for anyone on your list: a wonderful mix of inspiration, advice, admonition, and history.
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9/21/21 - HC - $27.00 |
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Can We Talk About Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted by Daniel Sokatch
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I am technically Jewish (my mom is Jewish) but I was raised Christian and never really learned anything about Israel in school. I found this book very informative and well presented and think the author did a good job of trying to convey all the positions, while still advocating for his own. The main thing the book convinced me of is that the Israel/Palestine situation has broad implications for democracy as a whole and thus should be of interest to most Americans.
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9/7/21 - HC - $18.99 |
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I Eat Poop: A Dung Beetle Story by Mark Pett
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Perfect for 5-year-old boys. The poop will get their attention long enough for them to digest the wonderful anti-bullying message in this book. Plus, the endpapers include a whole rogues' gallery of different insects.
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Nancy M. (Jill's mom)
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I love mysteries & thrillers, police procedurals, and psychological mysteries. I also love well written southern fiction set in the early to late 1900's.
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9/7/21 - HC - $26.95 |
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The Necklace by Matt Witten
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The Necklace contains a lot of tough topics: the rape and murder of a 7 yo child, guilt, blame , grief, the end of a marriage, etc and should be a tough read. But it is a surprisingly easy and very fast read because of Susan, the childs mother. The story of Susans determination and new found strength and purpose as she faces one hardship after the other trying to get from upstate NY to ND to witness the execution of the man convicted of killing her daughter 20 years earlier makes this a compelling read you wont be able to put down.Based on two true crime stories, The Necklace will have you thinking about what ifs long after you finish this intense and emotionally charged book.
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9/7/21 - HC - $27.99 |
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Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian
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Just the premise of Never Saw Me Coming should get anyone who loves real psychological thrillers to start reading. What could be more intriguing than a psychological experiment that brings 7 diagnosed young psychopaths together on a college campus? Each character has their own story to tell and sometimes they even tell the truth. When 2 members of the program are found murdered three others kind of band together (psychopaths aren't very trusting of others) to try and find out who is killing their group before they perhaps fall victim. I am not sure how Kurian had me rooting for known psychopaths to not get hurt, but I was sure hoping they would find the killer before anyone else got hurt.
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9/28/21 - PB - $16.99 |
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A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson
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A Solitude of Wolverines is a heart stopping action packed wilderness survival story, an education about the lives of endangered wolverines, and an introduction to the unforgettable, tough as nails heroine, wildlife biologist Dr. Alex Carter. Alex was living in Boston trying to decide if she and her long time beau, Brad, were really finished when she was almost killed at the dedication of a new wildlife preserve she had helped save from a developer. That very day she got the offer of a job in the Bitterroots of Montana. Alex loved field work, she loved nature, she loved being alone with the animals and more than anything she wanted to preserve habitats to protect them and she needed to get away from what had almost happened to her. So she packed up and left the next day for Montana. I loved reading all about the wolverines and all of the things Alex rigged up to try and get information about them. I knew the towns people didnt like the Land Trust that had taken away their hunting land but I had no idea that there was going to be a lot more and a lot worse for Alex to deal with than poachers. I cant wait to see what trouble might lie ahead for Alex as she tries to find out who the mysterious person is who keeps popping up at the last minute to save her life. Highly recommended for fans of Nevada Barr, Jane Harper and C.J. Box
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9/21/21 - HC - $28.99 |
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When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash - SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE
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Only Wiley Cashs exquisite story telling could turn a story full of sad and depressing topics into a powerful, beautiful and meaningful story. It is the story of Sheriff Winston Barnes, the longtime sheriff of the small community of Oak Island, NC who is up for re-election and doubts that he will win. It is the story of how something in his past still haunts him and because of that he always tries to do the right thing, not what everyone wants or expects him to do, it is the story of his family and how much they mean to each other, it is a story of the racial unrest in the area in the 80s. And it is also a mystery which starts when a ghost plane and the dead body of a young black resident of Oak Island are found at the small airport and ends with a totally surprising outcome.
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9/7/21 - HC - $28.00 |
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The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
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One night in 2017 nineteen-year-old Tallulah and her boyfriend Zach leave their one-year-old son with her mother Kim and go out for a date night. It is now one year later and neither of them have been seen since that night. The story starts of slowly introducing us to Tallulahs friends from back then and to the people who currently live in the area of the posh boarding school near the property the two were last seen. With dual timelines slowly letting us see into the lives of both Josh and Tallulah the story picks up speed and ends with several twists and a most satisfying ending. (seconded by Jackie W., store volunteer!)
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9/21/21 - HC - $27.99 |
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The Stowaway by James S. Murray and Darren Wearmouth
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The Stowaway is a horrific and graphic story of a serial killer of young children. It is a story of a trial of a man who the public was convinced was the killer but whom one juror could not convict with no DNA evidence and no consistent eyewitness evidence. When Wyatt Butler is set free Maria Fontana, the head of Psychology at Columbia Univ, who was on the jury thinks her sleepless nights are finally over. It is a year or so later and she and her family are on a two-week trans-Atlantic cruise when horrific murders, remarkably like those thought committed by Butler begin to occur. Maria is convinced that it is Wyatt, but the head of security isnt so sure. Maria must depend on her expertise in psychology to try and understand what the killer is doing her life and her childrens lives depend on her reading the killer correctly.
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8/31/21 - HC - $28.00 |
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A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
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This is a slow burning novel, as the title suggests. It has lots of unlikeable and unreliable characters, it jumps around a lot, it has at least one bona fide murder and maybe some that weren’t really accidents. Despite all of this you just must keep reading because the writing is superb, the atmosphere is intoxicating, and it all comes together in a very satisfying manor.
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Melissa O., Operations
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I love the faster pacing of books written for a younger audience (middle grade and young adult), but will try just about anything fiction, especially if it has some romance. I also have a soft spot for really special picture books.
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9/1/21 - PB - $7.99 |
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The Storybook Knight by Helen Docherty
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Fans of The Snatchabook won't be disappointed with this new picture book by the same author and illustrator team. The focus is again on the power of story as Leo, a gentle knight who much prefers reading to swordplay, is sent on a mission to conquer a fearsome dragon. On the way, he encounters other mythical monsters, and he is able to vanquish every threat by sharing his beloved books. The rhythmic, rhyming text lends itself easily to being shared aloud, and the fun illustrations add even more to the story.
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9/28/21 - HC - $17.99 |
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The Hungry Ghosts by Miguel Flores
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Milly has grown up hearing that witches are evil, so of course she doesn't want to think about what it means when her fingertips light up when she wishes for something especially hard. Besides, she has too many responsibilities already taking care of the younger girls at her foster home; there's no time left for Milly to have dreams. But when her youngest sister Cilla is mistaken for a witch and taken by another angry witch, Milly is determined to find her and bring her home. With help from a wind (in the shape of a cat) and a half giant, Milly must learn to trust in herself and her magicks while she journeys to the wider world full of people who have been taught to fear her. This book has everything I love in a middle-grade fantasy -- a quest, both of the physical and the self-discovery sorts; the importance of family, even (perhaps especially) found family; tongue-in-cheek humor; and a healthy dose of magic.
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9/14/21 - HC - $18.99 |
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Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer
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Since her parents were killed by the Night Patrol, Tessa has dedicated her life to helping the less fortunate people in the Wilds by distributing medicine to help them battle the mysterious illness that has swept through the kingdom -- medicine that is usually only available to those who are able to pay. Wes, Tessa's partner and friend (and hopefully something more), helps, until he, too, is captured and executed for treason. Meanwhile, the King's Justice Corrick, known as Cruel Corrick for his unwavering commitment to punishing everyone who breaks the law, grapples with his conflicted feelings about this role while working tirelessly to protect his brother, the king, from a new plot of rebellion. When Tessa and Corrick cross paths, they both have to come to terms with what they've done and why, while at the same time trying to determine what's best for everyone in their kingdom. This book has everything I loved about Kemmerer's Cursebreakers series -- romance, royalty, intrigue, rebellion -- and puts it in a world reminiscent of our own, forcing the characters to confront the system that put them where they are
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9/21/21 - PB - $11.99 |
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The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix
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When she turns 18, Susan decides to set off on her own to try to find her father and solve the mysteries that his absence has left in her and her mother's life. When she gets to London, though, she soon falls in with a group of booksellers -- the left-handed sect being the muscle with cool weapons, and the right-handed sect being the brains with some mystical abilities. As she runs from beings who want to destroy her for unknown reasons, her new companions help her on her quest for family secrets, though the answers they find may have as much to do with the old world as the new. A fun, bookselling-ish fantasy read that will appeal to fans of adventure fantasies.
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9/7/21 - PB - $17.00 |
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The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
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Dev is a hopeless romantic, which makes him perfect for his job as a producer on a reality dating show that promises fairy tale love. The show's new star Charlie, though, isn't there for love; he's there to prove that he can handle the fast-paced tech job he recently lost. When it becomes apparent that Charlie has a stronger connection with Dev than with any of the women contestants, and when Dev realizes that Charlie isn't going anywhere even when he's stuck in a major depression rut, they have to decide whether to tell the fairy tale story the world wants, or the one the two of them need. Relationships of all kinds, self love and acceptance, mental health -- this romance has it all, with the ultimate message that the most important thing is to choose yourself when others try to choose for you.
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9/21/21 - HC - $26.99 |
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Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
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Wallace has died. He was a lawyer, very important and very busy, so he's in a bit of denial at first, especially when a reaper comes to collect him...but instead of any kind of expected destination, he's taken to an odd tea shop of all places, where it's the job of the ferryman, Hugo, to guide Wallace and help him cross over. It's there that Wallace learns all of life's lessons. This is a story about friendship and family, love and loss, death and grief, letting go and moving on; but most of all, it's a a story about life and learning what it means to live, even when you don't think it's possible. Anyone whose life has been touched by death will find something profound in these pages, and readers of The House in the Cerulean Sea will not be disappointed.
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Grace Anne J., Marketing Specialist
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I love historical fiction, with World War II fiction usually topping my list of favorites. I also love YA contemporaries, mysteries, and adore anything having to do with musical theatre.
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8/31/21 - PB - $15.99 |
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The Riviera House by Natasha Lester
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Alternating between the world of the 1940's and present day, The Riviera House is a book of mystery and romance, courage and grief. It's wonderfully descriptive, with characters that yank you along for the ride and a plot that keeps you guessing right up to the end. With a stark, honest perspective of the strength that it takes to begin again after immense loss and of the bravery to face the impossible, it's one that kept me up long into the night.
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9/28/21 - PB - $16.99 |
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Hench by Natalie Zine Walschots
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Anna is not a super villain herself, but she will do temp work for them from time to time in data support. Hench is the designation to low level employees and that's all she wanted to be. But after being injured by a superhero, Anna will find herself on a path of revenge against one of the most powerful beings on the planet armed only with a her blog post. A smart, exciting, action packed scifi.
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Linda H., Volunteer
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I enjoy nonfiction the most: biographies, true crime, sociology, and civil rights narratives to name a few. When I read fiction, I choose historical novels or literary fiction most often.
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9/7/21 - HC - $28.95 |
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Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
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Qian Julie Wang opens her heart and bares her soul in this striking memoir about an illegal Chinese immigrant family. Wang does a fine job describing the poverty and sweatshops of Chinatown, her parents fear of getting deported, and her determination to make something of herself in Mei Guo, America, the beautiful country. The poverty and prejudice her family faced as well as her parents marital difficulties created trauma that Wang today is still determined to break through.
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9/28/21 - PB - $16.95 |
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This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing by Jacqueline Winspear
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Jacquline Winspears memoir is a trip back in time to the countryside of England in the mid-1950s. Hers was not a privileged childhood but one of working in the fields and anywhere else she could make money to help out her family. Winspears humor is on spot as she relates her accident-prone childhood and her fathers penchant for finding the good in everything, hence the books title. Her vivid descriptions of the Kent countryside and post-war London make this a worthwhile read.
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Jackie W., Volunteer
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I enjoy suspense, complex political plots, psychological thrillers, really any good mystery. I also enjoy southern historical novels, especially those set in Appalachia as well as regency romance.
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9/28/21 - PB - $9.99 |
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Piece of My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke
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I anxiously await the collaborations between these authors. I read Mary Higgins Clark as soon as I discovered mysteries, and Alafair Burke quickly became a favorite. This series delves into personal relationships and crimes and merges the two into engaging and suspense filled plots. Laurie and Alex have found happiness and the making of a new family, then in an instant everything changes. When you have a judge, a former high ranking police official and a true crime show producer enemies are plentiful. The trick is finding out which one is involved. A fast paced plot with very emotional aspects makes for a great read.
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9/7/21 - HC - $27.99 |
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Striking Range by Margaret Mizushima
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This is an installment in this series that starts to connect many of the dots. It is an entertaining and suspense filled book that you can read as a stand alone, but will be enjoyed more if reading the series. Mattie has been through significant trauma in her life, but still manages to find the good in people and trust authority. From prison interviews to backcountry searches on horseback this book will keep you engaged until the last page. A great installment in an engaging series.
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9/14/21 - PB - $16.00 |
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The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
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This is a sweet and uplifting story about fitting in and finding your path. Everyone has their quirks, some just more than others. This book explores all of that in an academic setting. What is more logical for an academic, following their heart or using a scientific method? Perfect summer read.
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Brent B., Volunteer
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There are no limits to what I love to read, however I tend to gravitate to mystery/thriller action stories that are fast paced with lots of twists and turns that keep you guessing all the way to the end. There is nothing I love more than an ending that comes completely out of left field that I never saw coming.
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9/14/21 - PB - $16.95 |
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Slough House by Mick Herron
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For those of you unfamiliar with Mick Herron's series of novels of Slough House, you are doing yourself a great disservice. Slough House is where British Secret Service agents who have fallen from grace with the head office are sent to be forgotten. Despite this, the rag-tag group of spies manages to embroil themselves into a series of adventures and misadventures. Slough House is led by Jackson Lamb, whom Herron has built into one of the most iconic characters in the genre. To try to describe Lamb would be a great injustice, you simply have to experience him through the acerbic wit of Herron as described in this series. In this latest novel of Slough House, the team has been targeted by Russian assassins after having been (mis?)-identified as a secret British international hit team who may have been responsible for the killing of a Russian agent in Moscow. The story is compelling and action packed as we join with the Slough House team in a race for survival. To truly enjoy this one, I recommend you go back to the first (of 7) in this series, Slow Horses, and read them from beginning. Mick Herron is extraordinarily gifted in wrapping a contemporary gritty spy novel around a band of misfit agents in an often hilarious way. The magic comes from the empathy and familial closeness you will quickly begin to feel for the Slough House team, and the pulse-quickening feeling you get as the tension builds in seeing how the team can survive against their foes both foreign and domestic.
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Meet the newest member of the Hendrix family - Harley! Tigger is smitten, and all too excited for a new playmate. :-)
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