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May New Releases

  • The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) By Abraham Verghese Cover Image
  • The Late Americans: A Novel By Brandon Taylor Cover Image
  • Chain Gang All Stars: A Novel By Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Cover Image
  • The Half Moon: A Novel By Mary Beth Keane Cover Image
  • Yellowface: A Novel By R. F. Kuang Cover Image
  • The Daydreams By Laura Hankin Cover Image
  • Atalanta By Jennifer Saint Cover Image
  • The Senator's Wife: A Novel By Liv Constantine Cover Image

Next Events

Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 7:00pm
Andrew McCarthy — Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain — at Conn Ave
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 7:00pm
Stephen Vladeck — The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic - with Mark Joseph Stern — at Conn Ave
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Bestselling Nonfiction

  • Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature By Elizabeth Winkler Cover Image
  • Share My Life: A Journey of Love, Faith and Redemption By Kem, David Ritz (With) Cover Image
  • The Watchdog: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two By Steve Drummond Cover Image
  • The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder By David Grann Cover Image
  • Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats By Andrew Hoehn, Thom Shanker Cover Image
  • Poverty, by America By Matthew Desmond Cover Image
  • The Story of Art Without Men By Katy Hessel Cover Image
  • Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself By Luke Russert Cover Image
  • Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir By Lucinda Williams Cover Image
  • Alexandra Petri's US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up) By Alexandra Petri Cover Image

Bestselling Fiction

  • The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) By Abraham Verghese Cover Image
  • Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner By Barbara Kingsolver Cover Image
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel By Gabrielle Zevin Cover Image
  • Happy Place By Emily Henry Cover Image
  • The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece: A novel By Tom Hanks, R. Sikoryak (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel By Ann Napolitano Cover Image
  • Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel By Bonnie Garmus Cover Image
  • Small Things Like These By Claire Keegan Cover Image
  • Foster By Claire Keegan Cover Image
  • The Postcard By Anne Berest, Tina Kover (Translator) Cover Image

Children and Teens

  • Saints of the Household By Ari Tison Cover Image
  • Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel By Jason Reynolds, Zeke Peña (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Pardalita By Joana Estrela, Lyn Miller-Lachmann (Translated by) Cover Image
  • Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider By Jessica Lanan, Jessica Lanan (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Daddy & Me, Side by Side By Pierce Freelon, Nadia Fisher (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Walter Finds His Voice: The Story of a Shy Crocodile By Ann Kim Ha Cover Image
  • Cool Green: Amazing, Remarkable Trees By Lulu Delacre, Lulu Delacre (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Big By Vashti Harrison Cover Image
  • The Courage of the Little Hummingbird: A Tale Told Around the World By Leah Henderson, Magaly Morales (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Maribel’s Year By Michelle Sterling, Sarah Gonzales (Illustrator) Cover Image

Diverse Voices

  • Build Your House Around My Body: A Novel By Violet Kupersmith Cover Image
  • Burnt Sugar: A Novel By Avni Doshi Cover Image
  • The Family Chao: A Novel By Lan Samantha Chang Cover Image
  • Kaikeyi: A Novel By Vaishnavi Patel Cover Image
  • Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth: A Novel By Wole Soyinka Cover Image
  • L.A. Weather: A Novel By María Amparo Escandón Cover Image
  • On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library By Glory Edim (Editor) Cover Image
  • The Trees: A Novel By Percival Everett Cover Image
  • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel By Ocean Vuong Cover Image
  • Radiant Fugitives: A Novel By Nawaaz Ahmed Cover Image

Staff Picks

  • March Comes in Like a Lion, Volume 1 By Chica Umino Cover Image
  • Shuna's Journey By Hayao Miyazaki, Alex Dudok de Wit (Translated by) Cover Image
  • Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast: The Book By Scott Aukerman, Patton Oswalt (Foreword by), Bob Odenkirk (Foreword by), Jack Quaid (Preface by), Tatiana Maslany (Preface by), Lin-Manuel Miranda (Introduction by), “Weird Al” Yankovic (Introduction by) Cover Image
  • The Gull Yettin By Joe Kessler Cover Image
  • Where the Light Falls: Selected Stories By Nancy Hale, Lauren Groff (Editor) Cover Image
  • The Secret Hours By Mick Herron Cover Image
  • Translation State By Ann Leckie Cover Image
  • The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal By Laine Nooney Cover Image
  • The Wall By Marlen Haushofer, Shaun Whiteside (Translated by), Claire Louise-Bennett (Afterword by) Cover Image
  • Second Star: and other reasons for lingering By Philippe Delerm, Jody Gladding (Translated by) Cover Image

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