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February 15, 2022 at 12 p.m.

The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

Thi Bui - Abrams ComicArts
Pages: 327
Format: Hardcover

National bestseller
ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection
Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection

An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui.

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March 8, 2022 at 12 p.m.

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
Pages: 306
Format: Paperback

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South

Cora is a slave on a cotton...
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April 12, 2022 at 12 p.m.

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel

GAIL HONEYMAN - Penguin Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick"Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life beautifully unfolds after a chance...
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May 17, 2022 at 12 p.m.

Do Not Say We Have Nothing: A Novel

Madeleine Thien - W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Finalist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize

"A vivid, magisterial novel that reaches back to China's civil war and up to the present day" -- The Guardian

"In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time,...

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