Book Picks From Our Staff

Our BIG Selection of Books for March! 

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March Recommendations 2023

 

The Dog of the North: A Novel By Elizabeth McKenzie Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593300695
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Published: Penguin Press - March 14th, 2023

Nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction


Biography of X: A Novel By Catherine Lacey Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780374606176
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - March 21st, 2023

Named a Best Book of March by Apple Books and Amazon, and a Most Anticipated Book by The New York Times, Esquire, The Guardian, TIME, Buzzfeed, Electric Literature, Lit Hub and Chicago Review of Books

"A major novel, and a notably audacious one."
—Dwight Garner, The New York Times


The Great Reclamation: A Novel By Rachel Heng Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593420119
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Published: Riverhead Books - March 28th, 2023

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 BY TIME, THE WASHINGTON POST, OPRAH DAILY, BUSTLE, ELECTRIC LITERATURE AND MORE!


Hang the Moon: A Novel By Jeannette Walls Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781501117299
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Published: Scribner - March 28th, 2023

Named a LibraryReads Pick for March 2023 and a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Oprah Daily, Elle, and LitHub!

From Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, comes a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition.


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Pineapple Street: A Novel By Jenny Jackson Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593490693
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Published: Pamela Dorman Books - March 7th, 2023

A New York Times bestseller | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick

“The season’s first beach read, a delicious romp of a debut featuring family crises galore.”— The New York Times


In Memoriam: A novel By Alice Winn Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593534564
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Published: Knopf - March 7th, 2023

GMA BUZZ PICK • INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER • A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I • “Dazzling and wrenching, witty and wildly romantic, with echoes of Brideshead Revisited and Atonement.” —Lev Grossman, best-selling author of The Magicians


Old God's Time: A Novel By Sebastian Barry Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593296103
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Published: Viking - March 21st, 2023

“You should be reading Sebastian Barry. [He] has a special understanding of the human heart.” Adam Begley, The Atlantic

“Combining verbal exuberance and narrative intricacy, Barry reimagines the hauntings of Irish history.” Giles Harvey, The New Yorker


Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel By Ann Napolitano Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593243732
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Published: The Dial Press - March 14th, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes a “powerfully affecting” (People) family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole?


Night Flight to Paris (A Kate Rees WWII Novel #2) By Cara Black Cover Image
$27.95
ISBN: 9781641293556
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Published: Soho Crime - March 7th, 2023

It is once again up to American markswoman Kate Rees to take the shot that just might win—or lose—World War II, in the followup to national bestseller Three Hours in Paris.

Three missions. Two cities. One shot to win the war.


Just One More By Annette Lyon Cover Image
$26.95
ISBN: 9781613163757
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Published: Scarlet - March 21st, 2023

A librarian investigates her husband’s dark past and winds up dead. Now it’s up to her best friend to uncover the truth.


The White Lady: A Novel By Jacqueline Winspear Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780062867988
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Published: Harper - March 21st, 2023

The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine from Jacqueline Winspear, creator of the best-selling Maisie Dobbs series.


Birnam Wood: A Novel By Eleanor Catton Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780374110338
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - March 7th, 2023

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER & NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER

Birnam Wood is terrific. As a multilayered, character-driven thriller, it’s as good as it gets. Ruth Rendell would have loved it. A beautifully textured work—what a treat.” —Stephen King


The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession By Alexandra Robbins Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9781101986752
Availability: Backordered
Published: Dutton - March 14th, 2023

A riveting, must-read, year-in-the-life account of three teachers, combined with reporting that reveals what’s really going on behind school doors, by New York Times bestselling author and education expert Alexandra Robbins.
 


The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science By Kate Zernike Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781982131838
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Published: Scribner - February 28th, 2023

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who broke the story, the inspiring account of the sixteen female scientists who forced MIT to publicly admit it had been discriminating against its female faculty for years—sparking a nationwide reckoning with the pervasive sexism in science.


Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: a Memoir By Michelle Dowd Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781643751856
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Published: Algonquin Books - March 7th, 2023

A moving, heartbreaking, and inspiring true story of the author’s escape from an apocalyptic cult—and the deep understanding of the natural world that helped her find freedom.
 
My family prepared me for the end of the world, but I know how to survive on what the earth yields.


We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship By Will Schwalbe Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780525654933
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Published: Knopf - February 21st, 2023

A warm, funny, irresistible memoir that follows an improbable and life-changing college friendship over the course of forty years—from the best-selling author of The End of Your Life Book Club • “A rare view of male friendship.”—NPR


Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age By Katherine May Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780593329993
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Published: Riverhead Books - February 28th, 2023

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“I love Katherine May’s new book, Enchantment.…It’s a beautiful offering of light, truth and charm in these strange, dark times.” – New York Times bestselling author Anne Lamott

 


The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery By Adam Gopnik Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781324090755
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Published: Liveright - March 14th, 2023

Best-selling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik investigates a foundational human question: How do we learn—and master—a new skill?


The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening By Ari Shapiro Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9780063221345
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Published: HarperOne - March 21st, 2023

The Best Strangers in the World is a witty, poignant book that captures Ari Shapiro’s love for the unusual, his pursuit of the unexpected, and his delight at connection against the odds.”—Ronan Farrow, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and New York Times-bestselling author of Catch and Kill and War on Peace


Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us By Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780593449233
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Published: Random House - March 21st, 2023

A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brains and bodies transform when we participate in the arts—and how this knowledge can improve our health, enable us to flourish, and build stronger communities.


Women Are the Fiercest Creatures By Andrea Dunlop Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781958506004
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Published: Zibby Books - March 7th, 2023

In this wildly addictive novel, three overlooked women take on the charming, manipulative tech CEO who wrote them out of his startup's history.


The Candy House: A Novel By Jennifer Egan Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781476716770
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Published: Scribner - March 7th, 2023

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2022
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST TOP SIX BOOKS OF 2022
ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2022
ONE OF SLATE’S TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2022
ONE OF THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2022

Also named


The Four Winds: A Novel By Kristin Hannah Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781250178619
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - March 14th, 2023

"The Bestselling Hardcover Novel of the Year."--Publishers Weekly


Sea of Tranquility: A novel By Emily St. John Mandel Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593466735
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Published: Vintage - March 28th, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.


Fencing with the King: A Novel By Diana Abu-Jaber Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781324050315
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - March 14th, 2023

One of The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of the Month

A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent.


Chorus: A Novel By Rebecca Kauffman Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781640095892
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Published: Counterpoint - March 14th, 2023

For readers of Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and Claire Lombardo, Chorus shepherds seven siblings through two life-altering events—their mother's untimely death, and a shocking teenage pregnancy—that ultimately follow them through their lives as individuals and as a family


Young Mungo By Douglas Stuart Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780802162120
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Published: Grove Press - March 21st, 2023

A story of queer love and working-class families, Young Mungo is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie BainAcclaimed as one of the best books of the year by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Time, and Amazon, and named a Top 10 Book of the Year by the Washington Post, Young Mungo is a brilliantly constructed and deeply


Mecca: A Novel By Susan Straight Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9781250863072
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Published: Picador - March 14th, 2023

“A wide and deep view of a dynamic, multiethnic Southern California . . . Susan Straight is an essential voice in American writing and in writing of the West.” —The New York Times Book Review

Named a most anticipated book of March 2022 by the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and Alta