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Here are a few new books we're especially excited about. Use the pull-down menu for more suggestions in specific categories, or visit the store for personalized recommendations from our staff.

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White Houses: A Novel By Amy Bloom Cover Image
$27.00
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ISBN: 9780812995664
Published: Random House - February 13th, 2018

Amy Bloom's fictional recreation of the ambiguous relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickock adds the kind of depth and intimacy to history that only the most deft of novelists can achieve. And FDR, too, comes across as complex and compelling. I loved this book!

-Nina


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Orphan Monster Spy By Matt Killeen Cover Image
$18.99
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ISBN: 9780451478733
Published: Viking Books for Young Readers - March 20th, 2018

It's like Harry Potter meets James Bond in Nazi Germany, starring a Jewish orphan who just keeps kicking butt. Published as a Young Adult novel, but adults will enjoy it too. Nina couldn't put it down!


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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century By Timothy Snyder Cover Image
$12.00
ISBN: 9780804190114
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Crown - February 28th, 2017

"History does not repeat, but it does instruct." 

Here are 20 lessons we can learn from Europe's various slide into totalitarianism during the 20th century. An important and very timely read!


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Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel By George Saunders Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780812985405
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - February 6th, 2018

This is one of the most astonishing works of fiction I've ever read-- an original, unique, possibly perfect novel. It's in the form of an extended conversation mostly among dead (or mostly-dead) people that is simultaneously sad, very funny, profoundly moving, and overflowing with insight into what it means to lose life and lose loved ones. 


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The Hike: A Novel By Drew Magary Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780399563874
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Published: Penguin Books - July 4th, 2017

 

Dave says: It doesn't get much weirder and wackier than this! A surreal tale of a normal middle-aged man thrown into a world of rottweiler-faced killers, giants, a foul-mouthed crab, poisons, magic seeds and much, much, more. A cynical Alice in Wonderland, the Hike follows a crazy path down into the rabbit hole for the worst LSD trip ever! 


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The Power By Naomi Alderman Cover Image
$26.00
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ISBN: 9780316547611
Published: Little, Brown and Company - October 10th, 2017

George says: A gritty, violent, and timely scifi story that turns young girls into powerful killing machines. It's a great ride that will scare men for generations.