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Somehow: Thoughts on Love

Anne Lamott · Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"Anne Lamott is my Oprah." - Chicago Tribune. From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, a joyful celebration of love. "Love is our only hope," Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. "It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always...
 
 
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their stories are better than the bestsellers

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, inspiring true stories as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Patterson.. To be a bookseller or librarian ... You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker....
 
 
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson · Crown
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War - a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two.On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln...
 
 
The Paradise Problem

Christina Lauren · Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

Christina Lauren, the instant New York Times bestselling and "reigning romance queens" (PopSugar) , returns with a delicious new romance between the buttoned-up heir of a grocery chain and his free-spirited artist ex as they fake their relationship in order to receive a massive...
 
 
Long Island (Eilis Lacey Series)

Colm Toibin · Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, the story of Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Tóibín's most popular work twenty years later.....
 
 
Indulge: Delicious and Decadent Dishes to Enjoy and Share

Valerie Bertinelli · Harvest
Format: Hardcover

Beloved actress and New York Times bestselling author Valerie Bertinelli returns with her most indulgent cookbook yet; a collection of 100 recipes to nourish the body and the soul.in·dulge: to allow oneself to enjoy the pleasure of.When Valerie Bertinelli turned 60, she said "Enough...
 
 
Lucky: A novel

Jane Smiley · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musician who rises to fame across our changing times. Before Jodie Rattler became a star, she was a girl growing up in St. Louis. One day in 1955, when she was just six years old, her uncle Drew...
 
 
The Museum of Lost Quilts: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel (The Elm Creek Quilts Series, 22)

Jennifer Chiaverini · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Jennifer Chiaverini's beloved and bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series returns with the first Elm Creek Quilts novel since 2019's The Christmas Boutique.Summer Sullivan, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, has spent the last two years pursuing a master's degree...
 
 
The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo · Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishaverse series comes a highly anticipated historical fantasy set during the Spanish Golden AgeIn a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic...
 
 
Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir

Brianna Madia · HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller Nowhere for Very Long continues her story with this deeply honest, moving account of a woman walking the line between independence and isolation when she moves to the Southwest desert with nothing and no one but her four dogs.In her debut memoir,...
 
 
Camino Ghosts: A Novel

John Grisham · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham takes you back to Camino Island where bookseller Bruce Cable and novelist Mercer Mann always manage to find trouble in paradise.. In this new thriller on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale...
 
 
The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Jeff Shaara · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author comes the story of rising conflict between the super-powers that gripped the world, a global war that almost happened: The Cuban Missile Crisis.In 1961, the new president John F. Kennedy, inherited an ill-conceived, poorly executed invasion of Cuba that failed...
 
 
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon...
 
 
The Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel

Julia Alvarez · Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself that will be an instant classic. Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesn't want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long...
 
 
Bless Your Heart

Lindy Ryan · Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

It's 1999 in Southeast Texas and the Evans women, owners of the only funeral parlor in town, are keeping steady with ... normal business. The dead die, you bury them. End of story. That's how Ducey Evans has done it for the last eighty years, and her progeny -- Lenore the experimenter...
 
 
Circle in the Water (A Sharon McCone Mystery)

Marcia Muller · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A series of pranks turn deadly in the latest installment in New York Times bestselling author Marcia Muller's gripping Sharon McCone series.. San Francisco is home to more than 200 privately owned streets. Most are alleyways, but a select few look torn straight from the pages of a magazine....
 
 
Rebel Rising: A Memoir

Rebel Wilson · Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Book

From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilarious, and inspiring book about her unconventional journey to Hollywood success and loving herself.For decades, Rebel Wilson had single-mindedly focused on her career, making a name for herself...