Staff Picks

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

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Black Bottom Saints: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Alice Randall
$26.99
ISBN: 9780062968623
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Published: Amistad - August 18th, 2020
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Actress: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Anne Enright
$26.95
ISBN: 9781324005629
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - March 3rd, 2020
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Transcendent Kingdom: A novel (Hardcover)

By Yaa Gyasi
$27.95
ISBN: 9780525658184
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Published: Knopf - September 1st, 2020
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Northernmost: A novel (Hardcover)

By Peter Geye
$26.95
ISBN: 9780525655756
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Published: Knopf - August 18th, 2020
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The Woman Before Wallis: A Novel of Windsors, Vanderbilts, and Royal Scandal Cover Image

The Woman Before Wallis: A Novel of Windsors, Vanderbilts, and Royal Scandal (Paperback)

By Bryn Turnbull
$17.99
ISBN: 9780778361022
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Published: Mira Books - July 21st, 2020
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Set My Heart to Five (Hardcover)

By Simon Stephenson
$27.99
ISBN: 9781335551207
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Published: Hanover Square Press - September 1st, 2020
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Atomic Love (Hardcover)

By Jennie Fields
$26.00
ISBN: 9780593085332
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - August 18th, 2020
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Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)

By Isabel Wilkerson
$32.00
ISBN: 9780593230251
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Published: Random House - August 4th, 2020
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Intimations: Six Essays (Paperback)

By Zadie Smith
$10.95
ISBN: 9780593297612
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Published: Penguin Books - July 28th, 2020
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His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope (Hardcover)

By Jon Meacham, John Lewis (Afterword by)
$30.00
ISBN: 9781984855022
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Published: Random House - August 25th, 2020
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The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: A Memoir Cover Image

The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Sarah Ramey
$27.95
ISBN: 9780385534079
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Published: Doubleday - March 17th, 2020
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The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers Cover Image

The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers (Hardcover)

By Emily Levesque
$25.99
ISBN: 9781492681076
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Published: Sourcebooks - August 4th, 2020
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The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts Cover Image

The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts (Hardcover)

By Scott Anderson
$30.00
ISBN: 9780385540452
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Published: Doubleday - September 1st, 2020
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When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry Cover Image

When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (Paperback)

By Joy Harjo (Editor), LeAnne Howe (With), Jennifer Elise Foerster (With)
$19.95
ISBN: 9780393356809
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - August 25th, 2020
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Finna: Poems (Paperback)

By Nate Marshall
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593132456
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Published: One World - August 11th, 2020
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The Wright Sister: A Novel (Paperback)

By Patty Dann
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062993113
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Published: Harper Perennial - August 18th, 2020