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June New Releases

  • Banyan Moon: A Novel By Thao Thai Cover Image
  • Lady Tan's Circle of Women: A Novel By Lisa See Cover Image
  • All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel By S. A. Cosby Cover Image
  • The Puzzle Master: A Novel By Danielle Trussoni Cover Image
  • Loot: A novel By Tania James Cover Image
  • The First Ladies By Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray Cover Image
  • The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession By Michael Finkel Cover Image
  • Lucky Red: A Novel By Claudia Cravens Cover Image

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Summer Member Sale
Saturday, June 10, 2023 - 3:00pm
Qin Sun Stubis — Once Our Lives - in conversation with Mark Stubis — at Conn Ave
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Bestselling Nonfiction

  • The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams By Seth Godin Cover Image
  • Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain By Andrew McCarthy Cover Image
  • The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic By Stephen Vladeck Cover Image
  • Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421 (A Novel) By T. J. Newman Cover Image
  • King: A Life By Jonathan Eig Cover Image
  • The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder By David Grann Cover Image
  • Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary Edition By Rainer Maria Rilke, M. D. Herter Norton (Translated by), Julia Reidhead (Afterword by), Damion Searls (Foreword by) Cover Image
  • The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man By David Von Drehle Cover Image
  • Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity By Peter Attia, MD, Bill Gifford (With) Cover Image
  • Poverty, by America By Matthew Desmond Cover Image

Bestselling Fiction

  • Swimming with Ghosts By Michelle Brafman Cover Image
  • 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
  • Homebodies: A Novel By Tembe Denton-Hurst Cover Image
  • Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421 (A Novel) By T. J. Newman Cover Image
  • Halcyon: A novel By Elliot Ackerman Cover Image
  • Small Things Like These By Claire Keegan Cover Image
  • The Postcard By Anne Berest, Tina Kover (Translator) Cover Image
  • Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel By Bonnie Garmus 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

  • Offshore: A Novel By Penelope Fitzgerald Cover Image
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Novel By Muriel Spark Cover Image
  • People Collide: A Novel By Isle McElroy Cover Image
  • Bluebeard's Castle: A Novel (Verso Fiction) By Anna Biller Cover Image
  • Human Sacrifices By María Fernanda Ampuero, Frances Riddle (Translator) Cover Image
  • Rewriting Illness By Elizabeth Benedict Cover Image
  • The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man By David Von Drehle 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
  • Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences By Joan Biskupic Cover Image
  • It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs By Mary Louise Kelly Cover Image

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