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March New Releases

  • Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel By Ann Napolitano Cover Image
  • Pineapple Street: A Novel By Jenny Jackson Cover Image
  • Weyward: A Novel By Emilia Hart Cover Image
  • The Farewell Tour: A Novel By Stephanie Clifford Cover Image
  • The Dig: A Novel By Anne Burt Cover Image
  • The Golden Spoon: A Novel By Jessa Maxwell Cover Image
  • Monstrilio By Gerardo Sámano Córdova Cover Image
  • A House With Good Bones By T. Kingfisher Cover Image
  • Poverty, by America By Matthew Desmond Cover Image
  • The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery By Adam Gopnik Cover Image
  • The God of Endings: A Novel By Jacqueline Holland Cover Image

Next Events

Sunday, April 2, 2023 - 3:00pm
Jane F. McAlevey — Rules to Win by: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations - with Sara Nelson — at Conn Ave
Sunday, April 2, 2023 - 5:00pm
Liam Callanan — When in Rome - with Abby Maslin — at Conn Ave
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Bestselling Nonfiction

  • Poverty, by America By Matthew Desmond Cover Image
  • Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right By Matthew Dallek Cover Image
  • Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people By Tracy Kidder Cover Image
  • The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession By Alexandra Robbins Cover Image
  • The Creative Act: A Way of Being By Rick Rubin Cover Image
  • Would You Believe...the Helsinki Accords Changed the World?: Human Rights And, for Decades, Security in Europe By Peter L. W. Osnos, Holly Cartner (With) Cover Image
  • Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction By Lynne Olson Cover Image
  • George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy By Sally Bedell Smith Cover Image
  • Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age By Katherine May Cover Image
  • Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking By Mehdi Hasan Cover Image

Bestselling Fiction

  • Biography of X: A Novel By Catherine Lacey 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
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel By Gabrielle Zevin Cover Image
  • Pineapple Street: A Novel By Jenny Jackson Cover Image
  • Demon Copperhead: An Oprah's Book Club Pick By Barbara Kingsolver Cover Image
  • Foster By Claire Keegan Cover Image
  • The Lioness of Boston By Emily Franklin Cover Image
  • Birnam Wood: A Novel By Eleanor Catton Cover Image

Children and Teens

  • Muhammad Najem, War Reporter: How One Boy Put the Spotlight on Syria By Muhammad Najem, Nora Neus, Julie Robine (By (artist)) Cover Image
  • Chester Keene Cracks the Code By Kekla Magoon Cover Image
  • Man Made Monsters By Andrea Rogers, Jeff Edwards (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • When the Angels Left the Old Country By Sacha Lamb Cover Image
  • Wild Animals of the World By Dieter Braun Cover Image
  • Counting in Dog Years and Other Sassy Math Poems By Betsy Franco, Priscilla Tey (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • On Her Wings: The Story of Toni Morrison By Jerdine Nolen, James E. Ransome (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • The Storyteller's Handbook: 52 Illustrations to Inspire Your Own Tales and Adventures By Elise Hurst, Elise Hurst (Illustrator), Neil Gaiman (Foreword by) Cover Image
  • The Penguin Who Was Cold By Philip Giordano Cover Image
  • A Land of Books: Dreams of Young Mexihcah Word Painters By Duncan Tonatiuh 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

  • A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe By Mark Dawidziak Cover Image
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  • Hild: A Novel By Nicola Griffith Cover Image
  • Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller By Oliver Darkshire Cover Image
  • Enter Ghost By Isabella Hammad Cover Image
  • The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance By Dan Egan Cover Image
  • Whale By Cheon Myeong-Kwan, Chi-Young Kim (Translated by) Cover Image
  • Open Throat: A Novel By Henry Hoke Cover Image
  • Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It By Greg Marshall Cover Image
  • The Easy Life By Marguerite Duras, Kate Zambreno (Foreword by), Emma Ramadan (Translated by), Olivia Baes (Translated by) Cover Image

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