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We take great joy in picking out what we hope is an appealing selection of books. And we love making recommendations to customers. If only we had time to read them all!
Here are some of our recent staff favorites.
Wow. First, you're reading a satire of an upper middle class Brooklyn family on vacation, then it becomes something else when a couple knocks on the door of their air bnb in the middle of the night, claiming to be the owners, then it becomes something even more disturbing, and you've read all 241 pages without being able to put it down!
Carol
In this Crime Writers Association John Creasey Dagger Award winner and Guardian Best Crime and Thriller of the Year, a former Marine sniper and a newly orphaned boy race across the Norwegian wilderness, fleeing demons both real and imagined.
Sheldon Horowitz—widowed, impatient, impertinent—has grudgingly agreed to leave New York and move in with his granddaught
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
“If you liked Where the Crawdads Sing, you’ll love This Tender Land...This story is as big-hearted as they come.” —Parade
A magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the bestselling author of Ordinary Grace.
The first novel in ten years from award-winning, bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is a sweeping story of new beginnings against all odds that follows the inhabitants of a hard luck town in their quest to revive its flagging heart.
Susan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” (USA TODAY)—a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries.
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER
ALA CARNEGIE MEDAL WINNER
THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER
Soon to Be a Major Television Event, optioned by Amy Poehler
From the instant #1 New York Times bestselling author of the “eerie and fascinating” (USA TODAY) The Thirteenth Tale comes a “swift and entrancing, profound and beautiful” (Madeline Miller, internationally bestselling author of Circe) novel about how we explain the world to ourselves, ourselves to others, and the meaning of our lives in a univ
In this moving new novel from celebrated author Nickolas Butler, a Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when one of their own falls under the influence of a radical church
Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with his wife, Peg, daughter, Shiloh, and six-year old grandson, Is
A good resource to keep next to your binoculars and learn about the behaviors of birds. Did you know a chickadee can stash thousands of seeds and remember where it stashed them?!
Kathy
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
THE OBSERVER (LONDON) • KIRKUS REVIEWS
WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WASHINGTON POST, AMAZON, NPR, CBS SUNDAY MORNING, KIRKUS, CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BEST BOOK OF 2020
A New York Times Bestseller • A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
Another horrifying chapter in the treatment of Native Americans, about which I had never heard. Engaging and constructed as a good mystery.
Carol
A National Bestseller!
“The perfect pick-me-up on a hot summer day.”
—Washington Post
“[A] charmer of a tale. . . Warm, witty and--like any good craft beer--complex, the saga delivers a subtly feminist and wholly life-affirming message.”
—People Magazine
This is the first of a trilogy that transports the reader to the time of horses & carriages and to the lives of women making their way in an unwelcoming business world. You'll hate to say goodbye to the well-developed characters.
Cindy
Because of the troubling story on which this novel is based, I probably wouldn't have read it if someone hadn't put it in my hands. What a powerful and beautiful read.
Carol & Eva
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
A fun take on Pride & Prejudice, set in the Muslim community in Toronto.
Carol
If you're interested in the Vikings and just want a good story, this is the series for you. Half-Drowned King is the first book in the Goden Wolf Saga.
-Heidi
Absolutely fascinating. And puts our time on earth in perspective.
Carol
#ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today
Emma Roberts Belletrist Book Club Pick
A New York Times Book Review's Group Text Selection
Beautiful writing...you'll find yourself wanting to share little nuggets with others.
Carol
I have so much going through my mind after finishing this book! The author imagines Jesus' life and gives voice to women during that time through Ana, the wife of Jesus.
Kathy
This book made me laugh and cry--and want to throw it! So many feelings in one book.
-Heidi
Miriam Toews is a brilliant writer. She can take a difficult subject and write with humor and love. I was sad to finish it.
-Carol
A new pick from Kathy
Love, love, love this novel, featuring a 1970's rock 'n' roll band--written in a fascinating interview style!
Denise
Migrations is an entrancing, yet unsettling novel. Set in a near future of climate change and mass species extinction, Franny decides to follow the last migration of the Arctic Tern. I found myself wondering if we have waited too long to do anything to stop what may be inevitable.
Carol
A 1940s story of adventure and glamour of life behind the scenes of show girls and theater in NYC.
Denise