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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
  • Community Board: A Novel By Tara Conklin Cover Image

Next Events

Friday, March 24, 2023 - 7:00pm
Anastacia-Reneé — Side Notes from the Archivist — in conversation with dani tirrell - at Conn Ave
Saturday, March 25, 2023 - 3:00pm
Catherine Lacey — Biography of X - with Hillary Kelly — at Conn Ave
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Bestselling Nonfiction

  • Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking By Mehdi Hasan Cover Image
  • Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City By Adam Brookes Cover Image
  • Homework: New Houses Changed Houses Not Houses By Mark McInturff, Julia Heine Cover Image
  • When Innocence Is Not Enough: Hidden Evidence and the Failed Promise of the Brady Rule By Thomas L. Dybdahl Cover Image
  • Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson By Rebecca Boggs Roberts Cover Image
  • Revolutionary Roads: Searching for the War That Made America Independent...and All the Places It Could Have Gone Terribly Wrong By Bob Thompson Cover Image
  • Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people By Tracy Kidder Cover Image
  • We the Scientists: How a Daring Team of Parents and Doctors Forged a New Path for Medicine By Amy Dockser Marcus Cover Image
  • People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account By Mark Pomerantz Cover Image
  • Breakdown: Lessons for a Congress in Crisis By Jeff Bingaman, Norman J. Ornstein (Foreword by) Cover Image

Bestselling Fiction

  • Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel By Bonnie Garmus Cover Image
  • Demon Copperhead: An Oprah's Book Club Pick By Barbara Kingsolver Cover Image
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel By Gabrielle Zevin Cover Image
  • Small Things Like These By Claire Keegan Cover Image
  • Foster By Claire Keegan Cover Image
  • Victory City: A Novel By Salman Rushdie Cover Image
  • Trust By Hernan Diaz Cover Image
  • Horse: A Novel By Geraldine Brooks Cover Image
  • What Have We Done: A Novel By Alex Finlay Cover Image
  • The World and All That It Holds: A Novel By Aleksandar Hemon 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

  • 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
  • The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team By Kara Goucher, Mary Pilon (With) Cover Image
  • Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark By Cassandra Peterson Cover Image
  • World By Ana Luísa Amaral, Margaret Jull Costa (Translated by) Cover Image
  • This is Not Miami By Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes (Translated by) Cover Image
  • The Translations of Seamus Heaney By Seamus Heaney, Marco Sonzogni (Editor) Cover Image
  • Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories By Damion Searls (Translated by), Thomas Mann Cover Image

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