$12.00
ISBN: 9780374110031
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Published: MCD x FSG Originals - August 25th, 2020
This new translation of Beowulf is everything the version you (perhaps begrudgingly) read in high school was not. The language is fresh and florid, brimming with alliteration and bravado and modern slang. Headley translates the characters of this age-old poem into people we can recognize, instead of the granite giants of legend. It is, in a word, readable, and delightfully so. Her introduction is also its own work of art; it would be worth the purchase for that alone.
Meaghan
$13.59
ISBN: 9780316421973
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Published: Redhook - May 12th, 2020
January Scaller lives a quiet, lonely life in her guardian's mansion, waiting for her father to return from his trips around the world and longing to go on adventures with him, until the day she discovers a mysterious book. The book tells the story of a star-crossed romance that spans multiple worlds, and before long, January realizes that this story is entwined with her own. Ten Thousand Doors is a beautiful love letter to portal fantasies and the power of the written word.
Ari
$22.39
ISBN: 9780062963635
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Published: Harper - September 15th, 2020
Easily one of the best books of the year! Paul and Julian will push and pull at your heartstrings with the expertise of grandmasters, and months after reading their twisted tale I am unable to evict them from my head. Initially skeptical of the comparison to The Secret History, this Tartt devotee is a convert to Nemerever's achingly rendered world, which effortlessly lives up to the billing.
Caleb
$22.39
ISBN: 9780062942852
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Published: William Morrow - October 20th, 2020
Plain Bad Heroines was not just up my alley, but had packed a bag and moved into my bedroom. A short list of things you’ll find in this novel; curses, lesbians, gilded-age society scandals, yellow jackets, a heaping dose of snark, multiple narratives that weave together beautifully, footnotes, historic queer icons, and the nagging sense that the line between what’s real and what isn’t has been blurred.This is the sort of New England Gothic that I can never get enough of. It’s the perfect autumn read for you and your best friend that you’re secretly in love with, trust me.
Katherine
$15.99
ISBN: 9781335430991
Availability: On Order at the Wholesaler
Published: Hanover Square Press - November 17th, 2020
Spend your January under blankets and a hot cup of coffee with this delightful time traveling book which takes place in a small cafe in Tokyo.
$12.80
ISBN: 9780374538583
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Published: FSG Originals - November 19th, 2019
I've been a huge fan of Nina MacLaughlin for ages and this book blew me away. It's shocking, enraging, beautiful, and heartfelt. I loved this.
Heather
$7.99
ISBN: 9781632156747
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Published: Image Comics - April 5th, 2016
Even if you didn’t live through the 80s, Paper Girls exudes a peculiar mix of nostalgia and foreboding that perfectly encapsulates existing in the world today. Especially as a young person. Though the story centers around four twelve-year-old girls, I’d say a myriad of ages could enjoy it, from teens to adults. I’ve never really considered myself a “sci-fi person” but I’m already on volume 5 of this series and I’m hooked. So even if a sci-fi graphic novel is not your go-to genre, give it a shot!
Janaea
$22.40
ISBN: 9781538726983
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - June 2nd, 2020
A hapless millennial's smart appliances decide she needs some help with her career, her love life, and her relationship with her mother. Always listen to your refrigerator.
Sarah
$21.60
ISBN: 9780525541608
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Published: Riverhead Books - August 4th, 2020
The way these characters and this family unfold around you is both exhilarating and tender. There's a feeling of both incredible momentum and a peaceful stillness that should be at odds with each other in one book, yet they dovetail together to celebrate the mingled beauty and terror of life and mortality, in particular one life: that of the unique and wonderful and tragic Vivek Oji.
Leila
$21.59
ISBN: 9780062946393
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Published: Harper - August 11th, 2020
Once again Margot Livesey (Mercury, The Flight of Gemma Hardy) soars with her latest novel, The Boy in the Field. Lyrically written with her usual elegant prose, this book, ostensibly a mystery, is far more than that; it’s literary fiction at its best with subtle twists and turns of plot and characters who strive to understand the ways of the world.
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