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    Events Slideshow 1 - Noir at the Bookstore

  • Michele Goodwin (left) discusses LADY JUSTICE with Dahlia Lithwick

    Events Slideshow 2 - Dahlia Lithwick

  • Anthony Marra (right) talks MERCURY PICTURES PRESENTS with Angie Kim

    Events Slideshow 3 - Anthony Marra

  • Anthony Marra (right) talks MERCURY PICTURES PRESENTS with Angie Kim

    Events Slideshow 4 - The DIVIDER

  • John Gallagher MAX MEOW event

    Events Slideshow 5 - John Gallagher

January New Releases

  • Age of Vice: A Novel By Deepti Kapoor Cover Image
  • Spare By The Duke of Sussex Prince Harry Cover Image
  • Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people By Tracy Kidder Cover Image
  • How to Sell a Haunted House By Grady Hendrix Cover Image
  • Wade in the Water: A Novel By Nyani Nkrumah Cover Image
  • Hell Bent: A Novel (Alex Stern #2) By Leigh Bardugo Cover Image
  • After Sappho: A Novel By Selby Wynn Schwartz Cover Image
  • Bad Cree: A Novel By Jessica Johns Cover Image
  • The Sense of Wonder: A Novel By Matthew Salesses Cover Image
  • I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself: A Novel By Marisa Crane Cover Image

Next Events

Friday, January 27, 2023 - 7:00pm
Poetry Panel with Courtney Faye Taylor & Camonghne Felix — at Conn Ave

Saturday, January 28, 2023 - 3:00pm
Richard Hurowitz — In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust - with Michael J. Abramowitz - at Conn Ave

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Bestselling Nonfiction

  • Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter By John Hendrickson Cover Image
  • In the Nation's Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz By Philip Taubman Cover Image
  • A Woman's Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice By Felicia Kornbluh Cover Image
  • Spare By The Duke of Sussex Prince Harry Cover Image
  • Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people By Tracy Kidder Cover Image
  • I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction By Kidada E. Williams Cover Image
  • The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America By Philip Bump Cover Image
  • Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past By Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer Cover Image
  • Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman By Julia Scheeres, Allison Gilbert Cover Image
  • An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us By Ed Yong Cover Image

Bestselling Fiction

  • Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel By Bonnie Garmus Cover Image
  • Horse: A Novel By Geraldine Brooks Cover Image
  • Small Things Like These By Claire Keegan Cover Image
  • Demon Copperhead: A Novel By Barbara Kingsolver Cover Image
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel By Gabrielle Zevin Cover Image
  • Trust By Hernan Diaz Cover Image
  • Hell Bent: A Novel (Alex Stern #2) By Leigh Bardugo Cover Image
  • The Shards: A novel By Bret Easton Ellis Cover Image
  • Wade in the Water: A Novel By Nyani Nkrumah Cover Image
  • Sea of Tranquility: A novel By Emily St. John Mandel 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

  • 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

Staff Picks

  • The Creative Act: A Way of Being By Rick Rubin Cover Image
  • Deep Wheel Orcadia By Harry Josephine Giles Cover Image
  • Lavinia By Ursula K. Le Guin Cover Image
  • Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear By Erica Berry Cover Image
  • Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop By Martin Puchner Cover Image
  • The Strudlhof Steps: The Depth of the Years By Heimito von Doderer, Vincent Kling (Translated by), Daniel Kehlmann (Afterword by) Cover Image
  • Sailor Moon 1 (Naoko Takeuchi Collection) (Sailor Moon Naoko Takeuchi Collection #1) By Naoko Takeuchi Cover Image
  • A Band with Built-In Hate: The Who from Pop Art to Punk By Peter Stanfield Cover Image
  • The Complete Eightball 1-18 By Daniel Clowes Cover Image
  • Luda: A Novel By Grant Morrison Cover Image

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