This year, the books in our Spring Sale are filled with friendships and first loves, hotel rooms and haunted houses, mobsters and serial killers, scams and schemes. Grab a copy (or three, or ten) — any of these books would BEE perfect springtime reading.
Offer good on new and used copies of select titles, in the featured edition only.
Sally Butcher
“[A] fun and enticing volume... Throughout, Butcher complements the recipes with bits of lore and culinary culture... An expert guide to grilling vegetables and unique beverage concoctions including a sage cocktail and spiced brandy cream round things out. The result is a vegan cookbook with real universal appeal.” – Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Will Schwalbe
“We Should Not Be Friends is as funny, warm, brutally honest and entertaining as it is profound. It’s unlike any memoir I’ve ever read. Maxey and Schwalbe show us that our hearts are far bigger and more accommodating than we ever would have imagined.” – Louise Penny
DK Nnuro
“What Napoleon Could Not Do is an exquisitely written meditation on family, secrets, duty, loss, and the desire for success and inner peace. D.K. Nnuro has crafted each character — whether their role is large or small — with great care and singularity. What a striking debut.” – De'Shawn Charles Winslow
David Sanchez
“David Sanchez has written the rarest kind of novel. His subject matter, spanning so many aspects of contemporary American pain, is incredibly important, but it is his beautifully constructed sentences which make the narrative sing.” – Garrard Conley
Eoghan Walls
“The Gospel of Orla is written with immense control and precision so that the voice of the protagonist emerges as alive, individual and memorable. Eoghan Walls manages to make every single emotion Orla feels — every thought, response and action — utterly convincing and fresh and original.” – Colm Tóibín
Deepti Kapoor
“This book. This epic, crazy, shocking, mind-blowing, brutal, tender, heartbreaking book is one of the best I’ve read.” – Marlon James
Claire Jiménez
“I loved this book. Equal measures hilarious and haunting, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez is about a family who must keep living in the face of sudden loss. The humor makes the pages glide, but there’s true heartache at the center of this story, and I held my breath as I reached the end — full of such hope and fear for these women. Claire Jiménez is a stand out talent.” – Crystal Hana Kim
Jessica Johns
“In evocative yet understated prose, Jessica Johns weaves a captivating tale of love, loss, the violence of greed and the healing power of family. In Bad Cree, Johns delivers a suspenseful and thought-provoking page turner you won’t want to put down.” – Michelle Good
Alison Rumfitt
“Punk in every sense of the word, this is a debut unlike anything you’ve read before. Rumfitt’s horrifying talent shrieks out from every page and rings in your ears for days.” – Eliza Clark
Rafael Frumkin
“A caper and a love story, a rollicking takedown of the absurdist proposition that is the American Dream, Confidence will seduce you with its characters, keep hold of you with its artfully constructed house of cards, and devastate you with the very human hunger and desire that still pulses underneath.” – Lynn Steger Strong
Robin Yeatman
“Imagine if Patricia Highsmith had written The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and instead of heroic daydreams she gave her protagonist murderous ones — that would be Bookworm. Robin Yeatman’s story is subversive, surprising, and satisfying in a way that only the best comic noir can be.” – Claire Oshetsky
Claire-Louise Bennett
“A kind of tapestry. . . . Once you allow yourself to get swept along by Bennett’s instinctive, synaptic abilities as a storyteller, the vivid textures of her sentences, and her subversive sense of humor, Checkout 19 is a strange and delicious treat.” – Vogue
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
“With a poet’s gift for language and a psychologist’s eye for the tender, error-prone hearts of mankind, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai weaves a web of impossible choices, inescapable circumstance, and searing loss, set to the backdrop of a war that changed everything . . . A heartbreaking, beautifully told, utterly unique story of love, loss, and longing that speaks to the very heart of the human experience.” – Kristin Harmel
Jennifer Savran Kelly
“A mystery wrapped in a love story wrapped in an artist’s coming of age, Endpapers is an ode to queer joy and the messiness of selfhood. With tenderness and insight, Jennifer Savran Kelly explores what we lose when we keep our innermost selves hidden — and what it means to forge an authentic life through art.” – Antonia Angress
Jennifer Haigh
“Extraordinary . . . Wonderfully entertaining, boasting a large, varied cast of vividly drawn characters whose company readers will find deeply rewarding, in no small part because lurking in their shadows is the devastatingly wry humor of their creator. . . . [Haigh is] paying close attention to their choices, large and small. That’s not artifice, it’s art. And I was gobsmacked.” – Richard Russo, New York Times Book Review
Bushra Rehman
“Rehman’s storytelling shares the elliptical grace of poetry. Her deeply sensitive protagonist, Razia, comes into sharp-focus like a shaken photograph, and Queens rears off the page in all its glorious vibrancy and complexity. I loved every moment I spent in Razia’s company. A stunning novel from a vital writer.” – Karen Russell
Martin Riker
“The Guest Lecture is a funny and surprising novel about failure, economic history, the logic of memory, and what it means to care for one another at this terrifying moment in history. Abby’s dark night of the soul left me feeling something I had not felt in a long time — hope.” – Christine Smallwood
Benjamin Stevenson
“I absolutely loved it. Utterly original, hugely entertaining, and a must-read for every fan of the mystery genre. What an exceptionally fresh, smart, funny book — I’ve never read anything like this before.” – Jane Harper
Jesse Q. Sutanto
“Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers is flawless. With a clever plot filled with marvellous, lovable characters who feel like real people, it’s laugh-inducing, heart-warming, and fabulously crafted. Truly a joy to read.” – India Holton
Bret Easton Ellis
“Breathtaking . . . a compulsively readable novel informed by suspense . . . The setting is beautifully realized not only by its evocation of place, but also by its myriad references to popular music of the day. Sometimes horrifying, sometimes nostalgic and even poignant, Ellis’s latest is an unqualified success.” – Booklist, Starred Review
Sofi Thanhauser
“Sofi Thanhauser’s history of cloth is not just about clothing: it is about ethics, workers’ rights, women’s progress, climate justice. It is the about the fabric of who we are. And as told in Worn, it also makes an absolutely gripping read!” – Peggy Orenstein
edited by Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters
“A stunning collection that will change your life, Wanting is a deep excavation into desire’s endless forms and perspectives. No anthology has moved, thrilled, and expanded me as much as this one, delivering essay after essay that shifts desire’s ground from under its reader’s feet. True to its own subject, Wanting is sure to leave you hungry for more.” – Meredith Talusan
Sara Dykman
“An extraordinary story in which Dykman seamlessly weaves together science, a real love of nature and the adventure and hazards of biking with butterflies from Mexico to Canada and back....The migration of the monarch butterflies is one of the wonders of the world — we must save it for future generations.” – Dr. Jane Goodall
Gabrielle Bates
“Inside the slipperiness of language, Gabrielle Bates writes with a precision that is both lush and masterful. Her writing feels like a laser beam dancing under a waterfall, drenched with exquisite diction, ache, and desire.” – Tiana Clark
Kate Fagan and Seimone Augustus, illustrated by Sophia Chang
“There is nothing like this book in existence. Seimone Augustus has been a curator of culture and a bedrock of women’s sports for decades. This gives us the history lesson and future dreams we’ve deserved all along.” – Megan Rapinoe