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“[An] utterly enthralling piece of music, sharp and soulful and ferociously insightful all at once…This singular, spellbinding novel is…an exploration of identity itself.” —Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering and Make It Scream, Make It Burn
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"Unforgettable...Behind her brilliantly witty and uplifting message is a remarkable vulnerability and candor that reminds us that we are not alone in our struggles—and that we can, against all odds, get through them." —Lori Gottlieb, New York Times-bestselling author of Maybe Y$18.99ISBN: 9780062899651Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Balzer + Bray - July 7th, 2020From Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin’, comes the first in a two-book origin story of Faith, a groundbreaking, plus-sized superhero from the Valiant Entertainment comics.
$18.99ISBN: 9781368053297Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Disney-Hyperion - July 7th, 2020From Stonewall Award-winning author Brandy Colbert comes an all-in-one-day love story perfect for fans of The Sun is Also A Star.Marva Sheridan was born ready for this day. She's always been driven to make a difference in the world, and what better way than to vote in her first election?$26.00ISBN: 9780802149121Availability: We can get this book for you, usually within two days.Published: Grove Press - July 14th, 2020It's 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and fifteen-year-old Justine grows up in a family of tough, complicated, and loyal women, presided over by her mother, Lula, and Granny. After Justine's father abandoned the family, Lula became a devout member of the Holiness Church - a community that Justine at times finds stifling and terrifying.
$28.99ISBN: 9780062834843Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Harper - July 14th, 2020From Daniel Silva, the internationally acclaimed #1 New York Times–bestselling author, comes a riveting new thriller featuring art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon.
$26.00ISBN: 9781982111908Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Simon & Schuster - July 14th, 2020A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that!
$17.99ISBN: 9781368059596Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Disney-Hyperion - July 21st, 2020Readers will twist and shout for this headbanging companion to the #1 New York Times best-selling We Don't Eat Our Classmates.
$27.99ISBN: 9780062248572Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Ecco - July 28th, 2020A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy
At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother.$28.99ISBN: 9780062688675Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Harper Voyager - July 28th, 2020The epic conclusion to the long-awaited trilogy featuring one of the most beloved characters in all of fantasy—Drizzt Do'Urden—a rollicking tale of life, death, intrigue, magic, danger, and the timeless bonds of family and friendship from New York Times bestselling author R. A.
$24.99ISBN: 9781683963103Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Fantagraphics - July 28th, 2020The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Art of Racing in the Rain and the co-creator of Stumptown, now a hit series on ABC TV, team up for an action-packed coming of age story about a mutant from the Pacific Northwest.
$27.99ISBN: 9781250266071Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Flatiron Books - July 28th, 2020FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF Sometimes I Lie
“Stunning. Addictive. This book should not be missed!” —Samantha Downing
“Deliciously dark…will have readers tearing through the pages.” —Mary Kubica
“Gives Gone Girl a run for its money…I couldn’t stop reading.” —Christina Dalcher$28.99ISBN: 9780062858108Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: William Morrow - August 4th, 2020“If you’re into mystery thrillers, then you’re into Karin Slaughter.” —THESKIMM
He watches. He waits. He takes. Who will be next . . .
THE SILENT WIFE
$16.99ISBN: 9780358248361Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Mariner Books - August 4th, 2020From the best-selling author of One Day comes a bittersweet and brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill of first love—and how just one summer can forever change a life.
Now: On the verge of marriage and a fresh start, thirty-eight year old Charlie Lewis finds that he can’t stop thinking$19.99ISBN: 9780062971067Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: HarperCollins - August 11th, 2020NBA champion and cultural icon LeBron James pens a slam-dunk picture book inspired by his foundation’s I PROMISE program that motivates children everywhere to always #StriveForGreatness.
$25.99ISBN: 9780062936790Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: HarperOne - August 25th, 2020A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.
$27.00ISBN: 9780802128812Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Grove Press - August 25th, 2020Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves.
$26.00ISBN: 9781609455910Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Europa Editions - September 1st, 2020Soon to be a NETFLIX Original Series.
A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL set in a divided Naples by ELENA FERRANTE, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.
"There's no doubt the publication of The Lying Life of Adults] will be the literary event of the year."--Elle
$19.95ISBN: 9781635862225Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Storey Publishing, LLC - September 1st, 2020In the ancient world there were three medicine kingdoms: animal, vegetable, and mineral.
$28.99ISBN: 9780062969651Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Harper - September 8th, 2020A brilliantly insightful novel, engrossing and haunting, about marriage, love, family, happiness and sorrow, from New York Times bestselling author Sue Miller.
Graham and Annie have been married for nearly thirty years. A golden couple, their seemingly effortless devotion has long been the envy of their circle of friends and acquaintances.
$24.00ISBN: 9781635576689Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing - September 8th, 2020From former Talking Heads frontman and multimedia visionary David Byrne and revered bestselling author, illustrator, and artist Maira Kalman-an inspiring celebration in words and art of the connections between us all.
$27.00ISBN: 9781635575637Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing - September 15th, 2020From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality.
$26.99ISBN: 9780062960627Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: William Morrow - September 8th, 2020Jenna Bush Hager, the former first daughter and granddaughter, bestselling author, and coanchor of the Today show, shares moving, funny stories about her beloved grandparents and the wisdom they passed on that has shaped her life.
$26.00ISBN: 9780802157737Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Atlantic Monthly Press - September 15th, 2020P.J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry is what America has always been about. This uproarious look at the current state of these United States includes essays like "Woke to the Sound of Laughter," about the upside of being "woke" (and unable to get back to sleep); "Sympathy vs.
$27.99ISBN: 9780062356345Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Custom House - August 25th, 2020The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant historical novel that captures the hardship, oppression, opportunity and hope of a trio of women’s lives—two English convicts and an orphaned Aboriginal girl — in nineteenth-century Australia.
$16.99ISBN: 9781771682282Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Central Avenue Publishing - September 1st, 2020ALONE TOGETHER: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19 is a collection of essays, poems, and interviews to serve as a lifeline for negotiating how to connect and thrive during this stressful time of isolation as well as a historical perspective that will remain relevant for years to come.$19.99ISBN: 9780062996480Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Balzer + Bray - September 1st, 2020From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and Elizabeth Acevedo.
The story that I thought
was my life
$30.00ISBN: 9781644450215Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Graywolf Press - September 8th, 2020Claudia Rankine’s Citizen changed the conversation—Just Us urges all of us into it
$28.00ISBN: 9781476798202Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Gallery/Scout Press - September 29th, 2020“Reading [The End of the Day] is like studying a stained-glass window up close, each piece bright and sharply cut, but when you step back and see it as a whole you discover a large, beautiful, mysterious work of art.” —David Ebershoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Danish Girl and The 19th Wife
Following his acclaimed N$19.99ISBN: 9781484746455Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Disney-Hyperion - October 6th, 2020At last, the breathtaking, action-packed finale of the #1 bestselling Trials of Apollo series is here! Will the Greek god Apollo, cast down to earth in the pathetic moral form of a teenager named Lester Papadopoulos, finally regain his place on Mount Olympus?$28.99ISBN: 9780062868084Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Harper - October 6th, 2020The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins delivers another “literary miracle” (NPR)—a propulsive, richly entertaining novel about two adventure-seeking brothers, the enemies who threaten them, and the women who reveal to them an unjust world on the brink of upheaval.
The Dolan brothers live by their wits, jumping freight$27.99ISBN: 9780062980786Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: William Morrow - October 6th, 2020After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen's "The Wild Swans," transforming this classic tale into an Italian-American girl's poignant coming-of-age story, set amid the magic of Christmas in 1960s New York.
$25.00ISBN: 9780802157003Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Grove Press - October 6th, 2020$35.00ISBN: 9781733329293Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Rebel Girls - October 13th, 2020The latest installment in the New York Times bestselling Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls series, featuring 100 immigrant women who have shaped, and will continue to shape, our world.
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World is the third book in the New York Times bestselling series for children.$19.99ISBN: 9780062995285Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: William Morrow - October 20th, 2020One of America’s most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart.
$18.99ISBN: 9780062954534Availability: Not Yet Published - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: HarperCollins - November 3rd, 2020Meet your new pal-tato in the fourth picture book from the #1 New York Times bestselling creators of The Bad Seed, The Good Egg, and The Cool Bean, Jory John and Pete Oswald.
$27.99ISBN: 9780062938787Availability: Not Yet Published - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Ecco - November 10th, 2020From the award-winning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly original postapocalyptic yarn about two siblings, the man that came between them, and a nuclear-powered super car.
$28.00ISBN: 9781982134198Availability: Not Yet Published - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Atria Books - February 2nd, 2021Based on the true World War II story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris, this is an unforgettable story of romance, friendship, family, and the power of literature to bring us together, perfect for fans of The Lilac Girls and The Paris Wife.
$27.00ISBN: 9780802157065Availability: Coming Soon - Please Pre-Order NowPublished: Grove Press - March 2nd, 2021The long-awaited new novel from one of America's most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows the Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing.
