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October New Releases

  • The Passenger By Cormac McCarthy Cover Image
  • Demon Copperhead: A Novel By Barbara Kingsolver Cover Image
  • The Last Chairlift By John Irving Cover Image
  • Our Missing Hearts: A Novel By Celeste Ng Cover Image
  • Dinosaurs: A Novel By Lydia Millet Cover Image
  • Illuminations: Stories By Alan Moore Cover Image
  • Ghost Town By Kevin Chen, Darryl Sterk (Translator) Cover Image

Next Events

Saturday, October 1, 2022 - 3:00pm
Shanterra Mcbride & Rosalind Wiseman — Courageous Discomfort: How to Have Important, Brave, Life-Changing Conversations about Race and Racism - with Lena Derhally — at Conn Ave
Saturday, October 1, 2022 - 5:00pm
Robert J. Lieber — Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World — at Conn Ave


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Bestselling Fiction

  • The Marriage Portrait: A novel By Maggie O'Farrell Cover Image
  • How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water: A Novel By Angie Cruz Cover Image
  • Lucy by the Sea: A Novel By Elizabeth Strout Cover Image
  • The Bullet That Missed: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery By Richard Osman Cover Image
  • Lessons: A novel By Ian McEwan Cover Image
  • Less Is Lost (The Arthur Less Books #2) By Andrew Sean Greer Cover Image
  • Horse: A Novel By Geraldine Brooks Cover Image
  • Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution By R. F. Kuang Cover Image
  • Marple: Twelve New Mysteries (Miss Marple Mysteries) By Agatha Christie, Naomi Alderman, Leigh Bardugo, Alyssa Cole, Lucy Foley, Elly Griffiths, Natalie Haynes, Jean Kwok, Val McDermid, Karen M. McManus, Dreda Say Mitchell, Kate Mosse, Ruth Ware Cover Image
  • The Book of Goose: A Novel By Yiyun Li Cover Image

Bestselling Nonfiction

  • Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less By Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, Roy Schwartz Cover Image
  • The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 By Peter Baker, Susan Glasser Cover Image
  • Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America By Dahlia Lithwick Cover Image
  • Uncultured: A Memoir By Daniella Mestyanek Young Cover Image
  • Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships By Nina Totenberg Cover Image
  • Holding the Line: Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department By Geoffrey Berman Cover Image
  • Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases By Cory Franklin, MD Cover Image
  • We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism By Andy B. Campbell Cover Image
  • Fighting for Recovery: An Activists' History of Mental Health Reform By Phyllis Vine Cover Image
  • Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America By Pekka Hämäläinen Cover Image

Children and Teens

  • The Crab Ballet By Renée LaTulippe, Cécile Metzger (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Gibberish By Young Vo Cover Image
  • Uncle John's City Garden By Bernette Ford, Frank Morrison (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Attack of the Black Rectangles By A. S. King Cover Image
  • Invisible: A Graphic Novel By Christina Diaz Gonzalez, Gabriela Epstein (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow By Zoulfa Katouh Cover Image
  • Kings of B'more By R. Eric Thomas Cover Image
  • Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement By Angela Joy, Janelle Washington (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Ablaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas By Jeanne Walker Harvey, Loveis Wise (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Sky Wolf's Call: The Gift of Indigenous Knowledge By Eldon Yellowhorn, Kathy Lowinger Cover Image
  • Better Than New / Mejor Que Nuevo: A Recycle Tale / Un Cuenta de Reciclaje By Robert Broder, Lake Buckley (Illustrator) Cover Image

Diverse Voices

  • Night of the Living Rez By Morgan Talty Cover Image
  • Disorientation: A Novel By Elaine Hsieh Chou Cover Image
  • Wash Day Diaries By Jamila Rowser, Robyn Smith Cover Image
  • You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation By Julissa Arce Cover Image
  • Afterparties: Stories By Anthony Veasna So Cover Image
  • Fruit Punch: A Memoir By Kendra Allen Cover Image
  • Olga Dies Dreaming: A Novel By Xochitl Gonzalez Cover Image
  • We Are the Land: A History of Native California By Damon B. Akins, William J. Bauer, Jr. Cover Image
  • Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air By Afeefah Khazi-Syed, Aleena Shabbir, Ayse Angela Guvenilir Cover Image
  • Hell of a Book: A Novel By Jason Mott Cover Image
  • Kaikeyi: A Novel By Vaishnavi Patel Cover Image

New Staff Picks

  • Saga Volume 1 (Saga (Comic Series)) By Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples (Artist) Cover Image
  • Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands By Kate Beaton Cover Image
  • Look Back By Tatsuki Fujimoto Cover Image
  • Talk to My Back By Murasaki Yamada, Ryan Holmberg (Translated by) Cover Image
  • The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water: Making a Life on Moving Water By Chris Dombrowski Cover Image
  • A Death on W Street: The Murder of Seth Rich and the Age of Conspiracy By Andy Kroll Cover Image
  • Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings By Chrysta Bilton Cover Image
  • The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven By Nathaniel Ian Miller Cover Image
  • The Swimmers: A novel By Julie Otsuka Cover Image
  • Vicious (Villains #1) By V. E. Schwab Cover Image

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