#1
Never Whistle at Night
by Shane Hawk, Theodore C Van Alst
A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and gritty crime by both new and established indigenous authors that dares to ask the question: "Are you ready to be un-settled?" Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at... (read more)
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Doppelganger
by Naomi Klein
"If ever a book was necessary, it's this one." — Bill McKibben
"Thoughtful and honest...Incisive...Klein moves her reader toward the truer grounds of solidarity in these times." — Judith Butler
What if you woke up one morning and... (read more)
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Blackbird Girls
by Anne Blankman
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER A SYDNEY TAYLOR MIDDLE GRADE HONOR BOOK Like Ruta Sepetys for middle grade, Anne Blankman pens a poignant and timeless story of friendship that twines together moments in underexplored history. On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and... (read more)
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Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
by Sy Montgomery and Matt Patterson
National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgomery turns her journalistic curiosity to the wonder and wisdom of our long-lived cohabitants — turtles — and through their stories of hope and rescue, reveals to us... (read more)
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Psalm for the Wild Built (Monk & Robot Book 1)
by Becky Chambers
In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future.
It's been centuries since the robots of Earth gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en... (read more)
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Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna
by Alda P Dobbs
- 2022 Pura Belpr Honor Book
- NYPL Best Book of 2021
- Texas Bluebonnet Master List Selection
- NPR Best Book of 2021
Based on a true story, the tale of one girl's perilous journey to... (read more)
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#10
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
by Sabrina Imbler
"A miraculous, transcendental book. Sabrina Imbler is a generational talent, and this book is a gift to us all." — ED YONG, New York Times Bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field,... (read more)
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Supers of Nobles Green 01 Powerless
by Matthew Cody
Superheroes soar in this promising debut—and theyre kids! Twelve-year-old Daniel, the new kid in town, soon learns the truth about his nice—but odd—new friends: one can fly, another can turn invisible, yet another controls electricity. Incredible. The superkids use their... (read more)
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#13
High Five for Glenn Burke
by Phil Bildner
A heartfelt and relatable novel from Phil Bildner, weaving the real history of Los Angeles Dodger and Oakland Athletic Glenn Burke--the first professional baseball player to come out as gay--into the story of a middle-school kid learning to be himself. When sixth grader Silas Walker... (read more)
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#14
Katie the Catsitter
by Colleen AF Venable, Stephanie Yue
Calling all Raina Telgemeier fans! Introducing an irresistible new middle-grade graphic novel series about growing up, friendship, heroes, and cats (lots of cats)—perfect for fans of Guts, Awkward... (read more)
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#15
Benefits of Being an Octopus
by Ann Braden
One of Edutopia's "25 Essential Middle School Reads from the Last Decade," NPR Best Book of 2018, Bank Street List for Best Children's Books of 2019, Named to the Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fisher List, Maine's Student Book Award List, Louisiana Young Reader's Choice Award List, Rhode Island Middle... (read more)
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#16
Black AF History The Un Whitewashed Story of America
by Michael Harriot
From beloved columnist Michael Harriot comes a comprehensive and bitingly hilarious appraisal of American history, confronting and correcting the record to showcase the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans. It should come as no surprise that the dominant... (read more)
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Fermenter: DIY Fermentation for Vegan Fare
by Aaron Adams and Liz Crain
Heads (of cabbage) are gonna roll Learn how to make funky, flavorful ferments + fantastic hippie food that incorporate them. Fermenter is perfect for those looking to add some serious culinary wizardry and revolutionary DIY spirit to their vegan kitchen.
Like The... (read more)
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#19
Curious Gorge 4th Edition
by Scott Cook
Curious Gorge is a Columbia River Gorge outdoors guidebook like no other. Curious Gorge features all the popular (and oft-crowded) hiking trails, but unlike other Gorge guidebooks Curious Gorge also highlights "local-secret" trails, hidden waterfalls, swimming holes,... (read more)
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#20
Prine on Prine Interviews & Encounters with John Prine
by Holly Gleason
Curated by a critic who knew him across five decades, Prine on Prine distills the essence of an iconic American writer: unguarded, unfiltered and real. In his own words, in his own time--on the road, in the kitchen, the Library of Congress, radio shows, movie scripts, and beyond. ... (read more)
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#21
Annihilation (Southern Reach Trilogy #1)
by Jeff Vandermeer
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third expedition in a hail of gunfire as its... (read more)
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#22
Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
The Pulitzer Prize–winning American classic of the American West that follows two aging Texas Rangers embarking on one last adventure. An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America.
Journey to... (read more)
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Margarets Unicorn
by Briony May Smith
A perfect gift for the unicorn lovers in your life, this lovely and utterly transporting picture book tells the story of what every little girl wishes would happen to her: a girl finds and takes care of a lost baby unicorn. Margaret's whole world changes when her family moves to a... (read more)
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Red White & Royal Blue Collectors Edition
by Casey McQuiston
The special Collector's Edition of Casey McQuiston's beloved New York Times bestselling novel, featuring illustrated endpapers, an all new Henry-POV chapter, and more What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? When his mother became... (read more)
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Starter Villain
by John Scalzi
Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place.
Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to... (read more)
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#28
The World Central Kitchen Cookbook: Feeding Humanity, Feeding Hope
by José Andrés and Sam Chapple-Sokol
A captivating collection of stories and recipes from renowned chefs, local cooks, and celebrity friends of Jos Andr s's beloved nonprofit World Central Kitchen (WCK), which feeds communities impacted by natural disasters and humanitarian crises; with a foreword from Stephen Colbert. In... (read more)
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#29
Last Devil to Die
by Richard Osman
A new mystery is afoot in the fourth book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard Osman You'd think you be allowed to relax over Christmas, but not in the world of the Thursday Murder Club. On Boxing Day, a dangerous package is smuggled across... (read more)
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#30
Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them
In... (read more)
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#31
The Enchanted Symphony
by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton
The Enchanted Symphony is an inspiring picture book about the power of art, nature, and community from New York Times bestselling mother-daughter duo, beloved Academy Award-winner Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton. When a lively village is beset by a mysterious... (read more)
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Vaster Wilds
by Lauren Groff
A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive
A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few... (read more)
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#34
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, and Chicago Tribune, now in paperback with a new reading group guide.
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and... (read more)
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#35
A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
The New York Times - The Washington Post - The Wall Street Journal - NPR - Vanity Fair - Vogue - Minneapolis Star Tribune - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - The Guardian - O, The Oprah Magazine - Slate - Newsday - Buzzfeed - The... (read more)
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#36
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Gregory Rabassa
A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to... (read more)
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#37
Crucial Conversations Third Edition
by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan
This New York Times bestseller and business classic has been fully updated for a world where skilled communication is more important than ever. The book that revolutionized business communications has been updated for today's workplace. Crucial Conversations provides powerful... (read more)
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#38
Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
"Kingsolver is a writer who can help us understand and navigate the chaos of these times." — Minneapolis Star Tribune
From the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which... (read more)
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#39
Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
by Julia Wertz
In her keenly observed graphic memoir, Impossible People, celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronicles her haphazard attempts at sobriety and the relentlessly challenging, surprisingly funny, and occasionally absurd cycle of addiction and recovery.
Opening at... (read more)
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#40
Listen, Beautiful Márcia
by Marcelo Quintanilha
Márcia is a nurse in a hospital near Rio and lives in a favela with her boyfriend, Aluisio, and her daughter, Jaqueline, whom she had very young with another man. Jaqueline, a troubled young adult, makes life difficult for her mother and Aluisio and rebelliously hangs out with members of a... (read more)
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#41
The Fraud
by Zadie Smith
From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story — and who gets to be believed.
It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the... (read more)
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System Collapse (Murderbot Diaries #8) - Signed Edition
by Martha Wells
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the latest installment in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series.
Following the events in Network Effect, the... (read more)
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#44
Mariners Compass
by Earlene Fowler
To claim an inheritance that a mysterious stranger left her, Benni must delve into the secrets of her own past--and a place she once called home.
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#45
Denial of Death
by Ernest Becker
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie ... (read more)
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#46
Excellent Women
by Barbara Pym
Excellent Women is one of Barbara Pym’s richest and most amusing high comedies. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman’s daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of those “excellent women,” the smart,... (read more)
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#47
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
A realistic and emotional novel about a woman battling mental illness and societal pressures written by the iconic American writer Sylvia Plath.
"It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath's voice in The Bell Jar that make this book... (read more)
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#48
Meditations
by Aurelius, Marcus
Gregory Hays is associate professor of classics at the University of Virginia. He maintains an annotated bibliography of Fulgentius the Mythmaker.
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#49
By Night in Chile
by Roberto Bolano and Chris Andrews
A deathbed confession revolving around Opus Dei and Pinochet, By Night in Chile pours out the self-justifying dark memories of the Jesuit priest Father Urrutia. As through a crack in the wall, By Night in Chile's single night-long rant provides a terrifying, clandestine view of the... (read more)
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#50
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
by Samin Nosrat and Wendy MacNaughton
Now a Netflix series!
New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the 2018 James Beard Award for Best General Cookbook and multiple IACP Cookbook Awards
Named one of the Best Books of 2017 by: NPR, BuzzFeed, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune,... (read more)
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