Staff Picks

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

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The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus (Hardcover)

By Allan Gurganus
$25.95
ISBN: 9780871403780
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Published: Liveright - January 12th, 2021
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Nick (Hardcover)

By Michael Farris Smith
$27.00
ISBN: 9780316529761
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - January 5th, 2021
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Mystery of Mrs. Christie (Hardcover)

By Marie Benedict
$26.99
ISBN: 9781492682721
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Published: Sourcebooks Landmark - December 29th, 2020
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A Thousand Ships: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Natalie Haynes
$27.99
ISBN: 9780063065390
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Published: Harper - January 26th, 2021
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The Fortunate Ones (Hardcover)

By Ed Tarkington
$26.95
ISBN: 9781616206802
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Published: Algonquin Books - January 5th, 2021
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Milk Blood Heat (Hardcover)

By Dantiel W. Moniz
$25.00
ISBN: 9780802158154
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Published: Grove Press - February 2nd, 2021
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We Can Only Save Ourselves: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Alison Wisdom
$26.99
ISBN: 9780063048171
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Published: Harper - February 2nd, 2021
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The Prophets (Hardcover)

By Robert Jones, Jr.
$27.00
ISBN: 9780593085684
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - January 5th, 2021
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The Center of Everything (Hardcover)

By Jamie Harrison
$26.00
ISBN: 9781640092341
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Published: Counterpoint LLC - January 12th, 2021
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life (Hardcover)

By George Saunders
$28.00
ISBN: 9781984856029
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Published: Random House - January 12th, 2021
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)

By Simon Winchester
$29.99
ISBN: 9780062938336
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Published: Harper - January 19th, 2021
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Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods Cover Image

Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods (Hardcover)

By Amelia Pang
$27.95
ISBN: 9781616209179
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Published: Algonquin Books - February 2nd, 2021
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Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty (Hardcover)

By Maurice Chammah
$28.00
ISBN: 9781524760267
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Published: Crown - January 26th, 2021
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Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping (Paperback)

By Matthew Salesses
$16.95
ISBN: 9781948226806
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Published: Catapult - January 19th, 2021
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You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism (Hardcover)

By Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar
$28.00
ISBN: 9781538719367
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - January 12th, 2021
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Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy (Hardcover)

By Rachel Ricketts
$27.00
ISBN: 9781982151270
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Published: Atria Books - February 2nd, 2021
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A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism (The Resistance Quartet #4) Cover Image

A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism (The Resistance Quartet #4) (Hardcover)

By Caroline Moorehead
$29.99
ISBN: 9780062686350
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Published: Harper - January 28th, 2020
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (Hardcover)

By Ibram X. Kendi (Editor), Keisha N. Blain (Editor)
$32.00
ISBN: 9780593134047
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Published: One World - February 2nd, 2021