Staff Picks

What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing--What Birds Are Doing, and Why (Sibley Guides) (Hardcover)

By David Allen Sibley

$35.00

ISBN: 9780307957894

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Published: Knopf - April 14th, 2020

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This is simply a beautiful book, and truly a work of art. From the wonderful illustrations, many of them roughly life-size, to the fascinating little essays scattered throughout (“Why don’t woodpeckers get concussions?” is only one of many), this book is a pure delight, and one I will treasure for many years.

 

James

I Capture the Castle (Paperback)

By Dodie Smith

$17.99

ISBN: 9780312201654

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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - March 15th, 1999

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This is the book I turn to when I need cheering up. Set in a crumbling English castle populated by a quirky and delightful cast of characters, the diary entries of the witty, charismatic, and "consciously naive" Cassandra Mortmain make up a coming of age story so utterly charming that I couldn't stop smiling while reading.

 

Katie

Sansei and Sensibility (Paperback)

By Karen Tei Yamashita

$16.95

ISBN: 9781566895781

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Published: Coffee House Press - May 5th, 2020

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Yamashita continues to make her case as one of our of greatest living writers with this collection of stories, narratives, and imaginative engagements with Jane Austen. Yamashita's intelligence, sense of humor, and mastery over multiple prose styles cracks open our notions of identity, culture, and community creating space for new ways of reading about and thinking about how we become who we are.

 

Josh

The Golden Age, Book 1 (The Golden Age Graphic Novel Series #1) (Hardcover)

By Roxanne Moreil, Cyril Pedrosa (Illustrator), Cyril Pedrosa

$29.99

ISBN: 9781250237941

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Published: First Second - February 11th, 2020

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A high fantasy adventure of peasant uprisings, stolen thrones, and secret treasure, The Golden age is a winner for YA and adult fantasy fans. The artwork is simply magnificent, drawing inspiration from Disney's Sleeping Beauty. The intricate, fluid line-work and astonishing palette will marvel readers.

 

Marika

Apeirogon: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Colum McCann

$28.00

ISBN: 9781400069606

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Published: Random House - February 25th, 2020

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A masterpiece of storytelling. Of two real people, an Israeli and a Palestinian man, who both lost teenage daughters (one to a suicide bomber and one to an Israeli soldier's bullet) and who have become close friends and allies in a attempt to reshape common understanding of the conflict.  The novel is brilliant, empathic, illuminating - it will cause you to rethink much of what you "know" and ask questions you didn't know to ask.  The book is not political, it simply weaves together an incredible number of stories and perspectives and history. 

David

The Deceivers (Vale Hall #1) (Paperback)

By Kristen Simmons

$10.99

ISBN: 9781250175809

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Published: Tor Teen - February 4th, 2020

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Private academy for teenage con artists! What's not to love? Fast-paced, fun, diverting, and there's a sequel once you've finished this one!

Rebecca

Finna (Paperback)

By Nino Cipri

$14.99

ISBN: 9781250245731

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Published: Tor.com - February 25th, 2020

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Is this capitalist hellscape the best of all possible verses in the multiverse? When an elderly customer at a big box furniture store (not that one) goes through a portal, it's up to two minimum wage workers to risk life and limb to retrieve her. Very diverting, very queer, very relatable for all people who have worked retail.

Rebecca