New Releases

Welcome to this week's new releases. Here you will find, roughly in the following order:

Fiction (adults)

Mystery (adults)

Poetry (adults)

Non-fiction (adults)

Kids, YA, and teens

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead: A Novel By Emily Austin Cover Image
$26.00
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ISBN: 9781982167356
Published: Atria Books - July 6th, 2021

In this “fun, page-turner of a novel” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that’s perfect for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, a morbidly anxious young woman stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church and soon finds herself obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death.


Anxious People: A Novel By Fredrik Backman Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781501160844
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Published: Atria Books - July 6th, 2021

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller, the new novel from the author of A Man Called Ove is a “quirky, big-hearted novel….Wry, wise and often laugh-out-loud funny, it’s a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure” (People).

Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-


Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation: A Graphic Novel Adaptation By Octavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy (Adapted by), John Jennings (Illustrator), Nalo Hopkinson (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Octavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy (Adapted by), John Jennings (Illustrator), Nalo Hopkinson (Introduction by)
$16.99
ISBN: 9781419754050
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Published: Harry N. Abrams - July 6th, 2021

The acclaimed graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s groundbreaking dystopian novel, Parable of the Sower, is a don't-miss classic that resonates today more than ever.As The Washington Post noted: "A 1993 dystopian novel imagined the world in 2024.


Incense and Sensibility: A Novel (The Rajes Series #3) By Sonali Dev Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780063051805
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - July 6th, 2021

"Incense and Sensibility is a tender, well-crafted novel, as much about finding purpose as it is about falling in love. Dev writes with such rare empathy and humor that I often found myself holding my breath on one page only to be giggling by the next.


Dear Miss Metropolitan: A Novel By Carolyn Ferrell Cover Image
$27.99
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ISBN: 9781250793614
Published: Henry Holt and Co. - July 6th, 2021

A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel

Introducing an extraordinary and original writer whose first novel explores the intersections of grief and rage, personal strength and healing--and what we owe one another.


Out of Darkness, Shining Light: A Novel By Petina Gappah Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781982110345
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Published: Scribner - July 6th, 2021

“Engrossing, beautiful, and deeply imaginative” (Yaa Gyasi, author of Homegoing), this epic novel about the explorer David Livingstone and the extraordinary group of Africans who carry his body across impossible terrain “illuminates the agonies of colonialism and blind loyalty” (O, The Oprah Magazine).


Transcendent Kingdom: A novel By Yaa Gyasi Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781984899767
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Published: Vintage - July 6th, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed novel Homegoing is "a book of blazing brilliance" (The Washington Post)—a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.

A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZE


Via Negativa: A novel By Daniel Hornsby Cover Image
$15.00
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ISBN: 9780593081006
Published: Vintage - July 6th, 2021

A heartfelt, daring, divinely hilarious debut novel about a priest who embarks on a fateful journey with a pistol in his pocket and an injured coyote in his backseat.

"A beautiful and meditative exploration of shattered faith." —Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half


The Jane Austen Society: A Novel By Natalie Jenner Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781250797179
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - July 6th, 2021

* INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER *

"This novel delivers sweet, smart escapism."
People


Antkind: A Novel By Charlie Kaufman Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780399589690
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - July 6th, 2021

The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar®-winning screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New York.


The Exiles: A Novel By Christina Baker Kline Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062356338
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Published: Mariner Books - July 6th, 2021

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

OPTIONED FOR TELEVISION BY BRUNA PAPANDREA, THE PRODUCER OF HBO'S BIG LITTLE LIES


Build Your House Around My Body: A Novel By Violet Kupersmith Cover Image
$27.00
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ISBN: 9780812993325
Published: Random House - July 6th, 2021

Part puzzle, part revenge tale, part ghost story, this ingenious novel spins half a century of Vietnamese history and folklore into “a thrilling read, acrobatic and filled with verve” (The New York Times Editors’ Choice).
 


A Boring Wife Settles the Score By Marie-Renée Lavoie, Arielle Aaronson (Translator) Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781487009373
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Published: Arachnide Editions - July 6th, 2021

The eagerly anticipated sequel to the critically beloved and bestselling Autopsy of a Boring Wife finds the saucy and ever-appealing Diane, now turning fifty and with the wreckage of her marriage behind her, setting off on a new and hilarious journey for romance.


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Migrations: A Novel By Charlotte McConaghy Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250204035
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Published: Flatiron Books - July 6th, 2021

* INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER *

"Visceral and haunting" (New York Times Book Review) · "Hopeful" (Washington Post) · "Powerful" (Los Angeles Times) · "Thrilling" (TIME) · "Tantalizingly beautiful" (Elle) · "Suspenseful, atmospheric" (Vogue) · "Aching and poignant" (Guardian)
· "Gripping" (The Economist)


Island Queen: A Novel By Vanessa Riley Cover Image
$27.99
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ISBN: 9780063002845
Published: William Morrow - July 6th, 2021


“Riveting and transformative, evocative and immersive...by turns vibrant and bold and wise, discovering Dorothy’s story is a singular pleasure.”--The New York Times


Brotherhood By Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Alexia Trigo (Translator) Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781609456726
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Published: Europa Editions - July 6th, 2021

WINNER of the French Voices Grand Prize, Prix Ahmadou Kourouma, and Grand Prix du Roman M tis

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's searing and thought-provoking debut novel, Brotherhood takes place in the imaginary town of Kalep, where a fundamentalist Islamist government has spread its brutal authority.


The Beginners By Anne Serre, Mark Hutchinson (Translated by) Cover Image
By Anne Serre, Mark Hutchinson (Translated by)
$14.95
ISBN: 9780811230315
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Published: New Directions - July 6th, 2021

Quintessential Anne Serre—this restless, prowling novel explores love as a form of greed, and confused need as one shape of bereftness


The Lost Book of Adana Moreau By Michael Zapata Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781335147356
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Published: Hanover Square Press - July 6th, 2021

*Winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction*

A Heartland Booksellers Award Nominee

An NPR Best Book of the Year

A BookPage Best Book of the Year

A Library Journal Best Winter/Spring Debut of 2020


Razorblade Tears: A Novel By S. A. Cosby Cover Image
$26.99
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ISBN: 9781250252708
Published: Flatiron Books - July 6th, 2021

*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer New York Times Notable Book • NPR’s Best Books of 2021 • Washington Post’s Best Thriller and Mystery Books of the Year • TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 • New York Public Library’s Best Books of the Year • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee • Book


Silver Tears: A novel (Faye's Revenge #2) By Camilla Läckberg, Ian Giles (Translated by) Cover Image
By Camilla Läckberg, Ian Giles (Translated by)
$27.00
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ISBN: 9780525657996
Published: Knopf - July 6th, 2021

From the internationally bestselling author of The Golden Cage comes a bold, mesmerizing thriller of seduction, deceit, and female power, in which a woman’s secret cannot stay buried forever.


The Lantern Men: A Mystery (Ruth Galloway Mysteries #12) By Elly Griffiths Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780358522454
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Published: Mariner Books - July 6th, 2021

Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway changed her life—until a convicted killer tells her that four of his victims were never found, drawing her back to the place she left behind.

Everything has changed for Ruth Galloway. She has a new job, home, and partner, and she is no longer north Norfolk police’s resident forensic archaeologist.


The Hollywood Spy: A Maggie Hope Mystery By Susan Elia MacNeal Cover Image
$27.00
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ISBN: 9780593156926
Published: Bantam - July 6th, 2021

Maggie Hope is off to California to solve a crime that hits too close to home—and to confront the very evil she thought she had left behind in Europe—as the acclaimed World War II mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Susan Elia MacNeal continues.


Falling: A Novel By T. J. Newman Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781982177881
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Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - July 6th, 2021

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“T. J. Newman has written the perfect thriller! A must-read.” —Gillian Flynn
“Stunning and relentless.


Black Bottom Saints: A Novel By Alice Randall Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062970862
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Published: Amistad - July 6th, 2021

An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit's legendary neighborhood, a mecca for jazz, sports, and politics, Black Bottom Saints is a powerful blend of fact and imagination reminiscent of E.L. Doctorow's classic novel Ragtime and Marlon James' Man Booker Award-winning masterpiece, A Brief History of Seven Killings.


The Bone Code: A Temperance Brennan Novel By Kathy Reichs Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781982139964
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Published: Scribner - July 6th, 2021

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs’s twentieth “brilliant” (Louise Penny) thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose examinations of unidentified bodies ignite a terrifying series of events.


An Irish Hostage: A Novel (Bess Crawford Mysteries #12) By Charles Todd Cover Image
$27.99
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ISBN: 9780062859853
Published: William Morrow - July 6th, 2021

“[Readers] are bound to be caught up in the adventures of Bess Crawford . . . While her sensibility is as crisp as her narrative voice, Bess is a compassionate nurse who responds with feeling.”— The New York Times Book Review


Survivor Song: A Novel By Paul Tremblay Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062679178
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - July 6th, 2021

A propulsive and chillingly prescient novel of suspense and terror from the Bram Stoker award–winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.

“Absolutely riveting.” — Stephen King


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The Collection Plate: Poems By Kendra Allen Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780063048478
Published: Ecco - July 6th, 2021

A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice 


Black Earth: Selected Poems and Prose By Osip Mandelstam, Peter France (Translated by) Cover Image
By Osip Mandelstam, Peter France (Translated by)
$16.95
ISBN: 9780811230971
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Published: New Directions - July 6th, 2021

Russia’s foremost modernist master in a major new translation


Somebody Else Sold the World (Penguin Poets) By Adrian Matejka Cover Image
$25.00
ISBN: 9780143136446
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Published: Penguin Books - July 6th, 2021

A resonant new collection on love and persistence from the author of The Big Smoke, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize


The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans By Cynthia Barnett Cover Image
$27.95
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ISBN: 9780393651447
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - July 6th, 2021

A Science Friday Best Science Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the Year
A Tampa Bay Times Best Book of the Year


BBQ Revolution: Innovative Barbecue Recipes from an All-Star Pitmaster By Mitch Benjamin Cover Image
$30.00
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ISBN: 9781592339952
Published: Harvard Common Press - July 6th, 2021

First Place Award Winner, National Barbecue and Grilling Association (NBBQA) 2023 Awards of Excellence

From classic, competition-winning recipes to boundary-pushing ’que, join the founder of Meat Mitch competition BBQ team and Char Bar Smoked Meat and Amusements for a BBQ Revolution! Mitch Benjamin has helped open BBQ restaurants in P


The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice By David Hill Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9781250782748
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Published: Picador - July 6th, 2021

A 2020 New York Times notable book | One of the Chicago Tribune's best nonfiction books of 2020

"Complex, turbulent, as haunting as a pedal steel solo"
—Jonathan Miles, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)


The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic: Revised and Expanded Edition By Jessica Hopper, Samantha Irby (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Jessica Hopper, Samantha Irby (Foreword by)
$21.00
ISBN: 9780374538996
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Published: MCD x FSG Originals - July 6th, 2021

"Jessica Hopper's criticism is a trenchant and necessary counterpoint not just on music, but on our culture at large." —Annie Clark, St. Vincent

An acclaimed, career-spanning collection from a fiercely feminist and revered contemporary rock critic, reissued with new material


Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots By Morgan Jerkins Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062873064
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Published: Harper Perennial - July 6th, 2021

One of TIME's 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping's Best Books of the Year

“One of the smartest young writers of her generation.”—Book Riot


This Is Your Mind on Plants By Michael Pollan Cover Image
$28.00
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ISBN: 9780593296905
Published: Penguin Press - July 6th, 2021

The instant New York Times bestseller | A Washington Post Notable Book | One of NPR's Best Books of the Year

“Expert storytelling . . . [Pollan] masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in new ways.” —New York Times Book Review


Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close By Aminatou Sow, Ann Friedman Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781982111915
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Published: Simon & Schuster - July 6th, 2021

A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that!


Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body By Rebekah Taussig Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062936806
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Published: HarperOne - July 6th, 2021

A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.


Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life By Heather Cass White Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780374115265
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - July 6th, 2021

The critic and scholar Heather Cass White offers an exploration of the nature of reading


Goodnight Everyone By Chris Haughton, Chris Haughton (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Chris Haughton, Chris Haughton (Illustrator)
$10.99
ISBN: 9781536217957
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Published: Candlewick - July 6th, 2021

From the creator of Shh! We Have a Plan comes a mesmerizing bedtime tale of a forest settling into slumber and one little bear trying to stay awake.


The Queen Will Betray You: The Kingdoms of Sand & Sky Book Two (Kingdoms of Sand and Sky #2) By Sarah Henning Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781250237460
Published: Tor Teen - July 6th, 2021

The breathtaking sequel to Sarah Henning's The Princess Will Save You--a brilliantly-executed YA fantasy homage to The Princess Bride

KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE CROWN…


The Princess Will Save You (Kingdoms of Sand and Sky #1) By Sarah Henning Cover Image
$10.99
ISBN: 9781250237439
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Published: Tor Teen - July 6th, 2021

DON’T MESS WITH THE CROWN…

When her father dies, Princess Amarande is given an ultimatum: marry the leader of a neighboring kingdom, or lose her crown—and possibly her life. To force her hand, her beloved, the stableboy Luca, is kidnapped. But Amarande was raised to be a warrior, not a sacrifice. And nothing will stop her from saving her true love.


Second Helpings: A Jessica Darling Novel By Megan McCafferty, Rebecca Serle (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Megan McCafferty, Rebecca Serle (Introduction by)
$10.99
ISBN: 9781250781819
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Published: Wednesday Books - July 6th, 2021

Second Helpings continues Megan McCafferty's New York Times bestselling series - now with a new foreword by New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Serle


What We Devour By Linsey Miller Cover Image
$10.99
ISBN: 9781492679257
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Published: Sourcebooks Fire - July 6th, 2021

The eat-the-rich, deliciously dark fantasy you've been waiting for.

A girl with the power of the banished gods must bind herself to a wicked Prince to save her crumbling world, as the poor are sacrificed to save the rich.


The Okay Witch and the Hungry Shadow By Emma Steinkellner, Emma Steinkellner (Illustrator) Cover Image
$12.99
ISBN: 9781534431485
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Published: Aladdin - July 6th, 2021

“A satisfying, brilliant sequel, solidifying Steinkellner’s reputation as a graphic novelist to watch.” —School Library Journal (starred review)

In this hilarious and heartwarming sequel to the bestselling and critically acclaimed graphic novel, The Okay Witch, half-witch Moth Hush uses magic to boost her confidence with disastrous results


Any Way the Wind Blows (Simon Snow Trilogy #3) By Rainbow Rowell Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781250254337
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Published: Wednesday Books - July 6th, 2021

New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell's epic fantasy, the Simon Snow trilogy, concludes with Any Way the Wind Blows.