Emma's Picks
“[A] delicious literary Gothic debut.” –THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, EDITORS' CHOICE
“Moody and evocative as a fever dream, Catherine House is the sort of book that wraps itself around your brain, drawing you closer with each hypnotic step.” – THE WASHINGTON POST
Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory.$16.99ISBN: 9780062282712Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Harper Perennial - August 5th, 2014From the author of Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, the New York Times Bestseller, Best Book of the Year at NPR, the Boston Globe, Newsweek, and many more, and instant classic
A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay.
$16.00ISBN: 9780525522133Availability: Normally we can get this book to the store for you in a day or two. During the seasonal rush, this might not be possible.Published: Penguin Books - June 25th, 2019Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Amazon,Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible
A New York Times Bestseller$9.95ISBN: 9781616204556Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Algonquin Young Readers - September 9th, 2014Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children’s/Young Adult
One of Rolling Stone’s 40 Best YA Novels
A 2014 ALA Rainbow List Top 10 Title
A Booklist Top 10 First Novels for Youth 2013
A Chicago Public Library “Best of the Best” 2013
This Forbidden Romance Could Cost Them Their Lives
S$15.95ISBN: 9781947793569Availability: Normally we can get this book to the store for you in a day or two. During the seasonal rush, this might not be possible.Published: Tin House Books - July 16th, 2019National Bestseller
"The Seas took me back to how I felt as a kid, when you’re newly falling in love with literature, newly shocked by its capacity to cast a spell..." ?Maggie Nelson (from the Introduction)
A Most Anticipated Book of Summer at BuzzFeed, NYLON, and more.
$17.00ISBN: 9781400031702Availability: Normally we can get this book to the store for you in a day or two. During the seasonal rush, this might not be possible.Published: Vintage - April 13th, 2004Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch, established herself as a major talent with The Secret History, which has become a contemporary classic.
$14.00ISBN: 9780345806567Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Vintage - September 12th, 2013James Baldwin’s groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris.
$17.00ISBN: 9781250214997Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Picador - May 7th, 2019Maybe its the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Mas offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance.
"A stunning, audacious book with a fresh take on both office politics and what the apocalypse might bring." Michael Schaub, NPR.org$15.99ISBN: 9780786711031Availability: Normally we can get this book to the store for you in a day or two. During the seasonal rush, this might not be possible.Published: Da Capo Press - January 6th, 2003A young woman tumbles into a nightmare of decadent desire and corrupted innocence in a superb novella of suspense from National Book Award–winner Joyce Carol Oates. Art and arson, the poetry of D. H.$16.95ISBN: 9781101971062Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Vintage - May 2nd, 2017Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery.
$18.00ISBN: 9780143124870Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Penguin Books - December 31st, 2013A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness
Finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award
“A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.”$16.99ISBN: 9780316434782Availability: Normally we can get this book to the store for you in a day or two. During the seasonal rush, this might not be possible.Published: Back Bay Books - October 2nd, 2018In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo.
Five women. One question. What is a woman for?
$16.99ISBN: 9780062060624Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Ecco - August 28th, 2012A New York Times Bestseller
“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art….A book I could not put down.” —Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House
$17.00ISBN: 9780143135692Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Penguin Books - December 10th, 2019Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Alice Walker's iconic modern classic is now a Penguin Book.
$18.00ISBN: 9781609452698Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Europa Editions - May 26th, 2015Finalist for the 2016 PEN AWARD for Debut Fiction
