Staff Picks

This month's Staff Picks! For previous lists, check out blog, Musing.

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Black Futures (Hardcover)

By Kimberly Drew, Jenna Wortham
$40.00
ISBN: 9780399181139
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Published: One World - December 1st, 2020
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays (Paperback)

By Kiese Laymon
$16.00
ISBN: 9781982170820
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Published: Scribner - November 10th, 2020
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HRH: So Many Thoughts on Royal Style (Hardcover)

By Elizabeth Holmes
$35.00
ISBN: 9781250625083
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Published: Celadon Books - November 17th, 2020
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The Ancient Way: Discoveries on the Path of Celtic Christianity (Paperback)

By River Jordan
$24.99
ISBN: 9781506460451
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Published: Broadleaf Books - October 13th, 2020
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Time to Eat: Delicious Meals for Busy Lives: A Cookbook (Hardcover)

By Nadiya Hussain
$29.99
ISBN: 9780593233535
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Published: Clarkson Potter - November 10th, 2020
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Secret Santa (Paperback)

By Andrew Shaffer
$15.99
ISBN: 9781683692058
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Published: Quirk Books - November 10th, 2020
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The Undocumented Americans (Hardcover)

By Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
$26.00
ISBN: 9780399592683
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Published: One World - March 24th, 2020
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Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Hardcover)

By Ben Macintyre
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593136300
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Published: Crown - September 15th, 2020
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Here the Whole Time (Hardcover)

By Vitor Martins, Larissa Helena (Translated by)
$18.99
ISBN: 9781338620825
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Published: Scholastic Press - November 10th, 2020
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The Lying Life of Adults (Hardcover)

By Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator)
$26.00
ISBN: 9781609455910
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Published: Europa Editions - September 1st, 2020
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The Cold Millions: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Jess Walter
$28.99
ISBN: 9780062868084
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Published: Harper - October 27th, 2020
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The Pull of the Stars: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Emma Donoghue
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316499019
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - July 21st, 2020
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Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Emily M. Danforth, Sara Lautman (Illustrator)
$27.99
ISBN: 9780062942852
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Published: William Morrow - October 20th, 2020
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Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky) (Hardcover)

By Rebecca Roanhorse
$27.99
ISBN: 9781534437678
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Published: Gallery / Saga Press - October 13th, 2020
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Butter Honey Pig Bread (Paperback)

By Francesca Ekwuyasi
$19.95
ISBN: 9781551528236
Availability: Backordered
Published: Arsenal Pulp Press - November 3rd, 2020
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V2: A novel of World War II (Hardcover)

By Robert Harris
$28.95
ISBN: 9780525656715
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Published: Knopf - November 17th, 2020
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The Once and Future Witches (Hardcover)

By Alix E. Harrow
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316422048
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Published: Redhook - October 13th, 2020
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The World That We Knew: A Novel (Paperback)

By Alice Hoffman
$17.00
ISBN: 9781501137587
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Published: Simon & Schuster - September 1st, 2020
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Greetings from New Nashville: How a Sleepy Southern Town Became It City (Paperback)

By Steve Haruch
$24.95
ISBN: 9780826500274
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Published: Vanderbilt University Press - October 15th, 2020
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The Fragile Earth: Writing from The New Yorker on Climate Change (Hardcover)

By David Remnick, Henry Finder
$29.99
ISBN: 9780063017542
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Published: Ecco - October 6th, 2020
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)

By Robin Wall Kimmerer
$35.00
ISBN: 9781571311771
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Published: Milkweed Editions - October 13th, 2020
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In Faulkner's Shadow: A Memoir (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography) (Hardcover)

By Lawrence Wells
$25.00
ISBN: 9781496829917
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Published: University Press of Mississippi - August 10th, 2020
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In Bibi's Kitchen: The Recipes and Stories of Grandmothers from the Eight African Countries that Touch the Indian Ocean [A Cookbook] (Hardcover)

By Hawa Hassan, Julia Turshen (With)
$35.00
ISBN: 9781984856739
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Published: Ten Speed Press - October 13th, 2020
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The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently (Hardcover)

By Amy-Jill Levine, Marc Zvi Brettler
$34.99
ISBN: 9780062560155
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Published: HarperOne - October 27th, 2020
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Having and Being Had (Hardcover)

By Eula Biss
$26.00
ISBN: 9780525537458
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Published: Riverhead Books - September 1st, 2020
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The Book of Delights: Essays (Hardcover)

By Ross Gay
$23.95
ISBN: 9781616207922
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Published: Algonquin Books - February 12th, 2019
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Negotiations (Paperback)

By Destiny O. Birdsong
$16.95
ISBN: 9781951142131
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Published: Tin House Books - October 13th, 2020
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Whale Day: And Other Poems (Hardcover)

By Billy Collins
$26.00
ISBN: 9780399589751
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Published: Random House - September 29th, 2020