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Concrete Rose
By Angie Thomas
In the storeInternational phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood.
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Shuggie Bain: A Novel
By Douglas Stuart
In the storeFinally back in stock - this year's Man Booker Prize winner is an unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland.
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
By George Saunders
In the storeFor the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years.
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Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
By Katherine May
In the storeBack in stock and a much sought after book - for obvious reasons!
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In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays
By Martin Aitken, Karl Ove Knausgaard
In the storeThese essays beautifully capture Knausgaard's ability to mediate between the deeply personal and the universal, demonstrating his trademark self-scrutiny and his deep longing to authentically see, understand, and experience the world.
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Accidentally Wes Anderson
By Wally Koval
In the storeAll the world's a Wes Anderson film, or so one would glean from this handsome book… A charming, whimsical tribute to the Anderson aesthetic.
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The Push
By Ashley Audrain
In the storeA tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, told through the eyes of a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for--and everything she feared. Audrian previously worked as the publicity director of Penguin Books Canada!
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The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History
By Andy Greene
In the storeJust arrived in paperback - the untold stories behind The Office, one of the most iconic television shows of the twenty-first century, told by its creators, writers, and actors.
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REVIEW: BREATH
ArticleBy Barb Minett
In Breath, James Nestor delivers fascinating and vital stories about the thing that gives us life.
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On Immunity: An Inoculation
By Eula Biss
In the storeIn this bold, fascinating book, Eula Biss addresses our fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what may be in our children's air, food, mattresses, medicines, and vaccines.
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
By Jenny Odell
In the storeOne of last year's bestsellers now in paperback. Sounds like a book for the lockdown!
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A Promised Land
By Barack Obama
In the storeFinally available, get yours now as quantities in North America have been limited. A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.
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By Rian Hughes
In the storeHow can UK graphic design, illustrator, comics artist, author of a stack popular culture books, and now novelist, do it all?...to have conceived, written, and designed a sci-fi extravaganza on the intricacies of AI where complex, nuanced typography is essential to the narrative structure and, in effect, has redefined the structure of the graphic and illustrated novel, is short of miraculous.
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The Evening and the Morning
By Ken Follett
In the storeFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a thrilling and addictive new novel--a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth--set in England at the dawn of a new era: the Middle Ages
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2021 Moleskine Daily Planner, 12M, Large, Myrtle Green, Hard Cover (5 x 8.25)
By Anon
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2021 Ansel Adams Engagement Calendar
By Ansel Adams
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2021 We'Moon (Spiral) Datebook
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The Devil and the Dark Water: A Novel
By Stuart Turton
In the storeNew from the bestselling author of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle! Take Stephen King horror, a Sherlock Holmes-esque detective, and add a dash of Pirates of the Caribbean for an utterly unique murder mystery on the high seas.
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Indians on Vacation: A Novel
By Thomas King
In the storeWE HAVE AUTOGRAPHED COPIES!!! Nominated for the Rogers Trust Fiction Prize, you're sure to enjoy Tom's latest book, inspired by a handful of old postcards sent by Uncle Leroy nearly a hundred years ago. Any book by Tom is always a reason to celebrate!!!
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Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics
By Robert K. Oermann, Dolly Parton
In the storeDolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics is a landmark celebration of the remarkable life and career of a country music and pop culture legend.
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Wild Iris
By Louise Gluck
In the storeLouise Gluck is this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature! This collection of stunningly beautiful poems encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realms, and is bound together by the universal themes of time and mortality.
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Cinephile: A Card Game
By Cory Everett, Steve Isaacs
In the storeA card game for film nerds, movie geeks, and cinephiles. One deck. 150 cards. Multiple ways to play.
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Transcendent Kingdom
By Yaa Gyasi
In the storeYaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national bestseller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.
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The Ickabog
By J. K. Rowling
In the storeFrom J.K. Rowling, a warm, fast-paced, funny fairy tale of a fearsome monster, thrilling adventure, and hope against all odds.
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The Overstory: A Novel
By Richard Powers
In the storeMonumenta - The Overstory accomplishes what few living writers from either camp, art or science, could attempt. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize!
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The 99% Invisible City: a Field Guide to the Hidden World of
By Roman Mars
In the storeA field guide, a boon, a bible for the urban curious!
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Ready Player Two: A Novel
By Ernest Cline
In the storeThe highly anticipated sequel to the beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One, the "ridiculously fun and large-hearted" (NPR) near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film. One of Steph's Fresh Air picks.
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Oh She Glows for Dinner: Nourishing Plant-Based Meals to Keep You Glowing
By Angela Liddon
In the storeAngela Liddon, author of The New York Times bestselling Oh She Glows cookbooks, returns to offer readers nourishing plant-based dinners bursting with layers of flavor.
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Ridgerunner
By Gil Adamson
In the storeJust won the Roger's Trust Fiction Prize - Ridgerunner is part literary Western and part historical mystery, and a follow-up to Gil Adamson's award-winning and critically acclaimed novel The Outlander.
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Dearly
By Margaret Atwood
In the storeThe collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet. By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals.
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How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
By Souvankham Thammavongsa
In the storeCongratulations to Souvankham Thammavongsa for winning this year's Scotia Giller Prize!! These poignant and deceptively quiet stories are powerhouses of feeling and depth; How to Pronounce Knife is an artful blend of simplicity and sophistication.
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Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
By Ruth Ben-Ghiat
In the storeWhat modern authoritarian leaders have in common (and how they can be stopped).Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin-enabling her to predict with uncanny accuracy the recent experience in America.
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer
In the storeThe focus that day is to reflect on "Education: the roles and responsibilities of Institutions within the journey of reconciliation and how Institutions build relationships that are respectful and reciprocal with indigenous people."
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HYPERtheticals: 50 Questions for Insane Conversations
By Chuck Klosterman
In the storeA popular Esquire columnist and all-around pop culture fanatic, Chuck Klosterman overanalyzes everything -- from the cultural significance of The Sims to Billy Joel's greatness level -- in essay collections like Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Chuck Klosterman IV.
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The Pull of the Stars: A Novel
By Emma Donoghue
In the storePull of the Stars is a meticulously researched and timely novel! Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love largely rendered.
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