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The Book Table s Holiday Catalog 2020
r e b o t c o is the new r e b m e c e d y l r a e y bu l a c o L y u B WHY Demand for books is high Supply shortages are expected indie bookstores need your help Dear Friends Here at The Book Table we ve always been firmly in the camp of waiting for one holiday to finish before moving on to the next one So why on earth are we asking you to do your Christmas shopping this year before many of you have finished hanging the fake cobwebs and skeletons Well because it s 2020 This year hasn t been easy for anyone and it s been near catastrophic for small businesses Some of the issues are systemic After delaying many book releases that were supposed to come in the spring there is now a log jam at the printing presses so the book industry is expecting major delays in reprinting books this season So order the books you want now while we can still guarantee their timely arrival Spreading out the Christmas season will also help with our cash flow so we can catch up on bills And most important of all Safety We simply cannot let you all in the store at once the way we normally do in those last couple of weeks before Christmas It s not safe for you and it s not safe for our staff So order on our website use our contactless curbside pickup and please shop as early as you possibly can Gratefully Rachel Jason Staff
r e b o t c o is the new r e b m e c e d y l r a e y bu l a c o L y u B WHY Demand for books is high Supply shortages are expected indie bookstores need your help Dear Friends Here at The Book Table we ve always been firmly in the camp of waiting for one holiday to finish before moving on to the next one So why on earth are we asking you to do your Christmas shopping this year before many of you have finished hanging the fake cobwebs and skeletons Well because it s 2020 This year hasn t been easy for anyone and it s been near catastrophic for small businesses Some of the issues are systemic After delaying many book releases that were supposed to come in the spring there is now a log jam at the printing presses so the book industry is expecting major delays in reprinting books this season So order the books you want now while we can still guarantee their timely arrival Spreading out the Christmas season will also help with our cash flow so we can catch up on bills And most important of all Safety We simply cannot let you all in the store at once the way we normally do in those last couple of weeks before Christmas It s not safe for you and it s not safe for our staff So order on our website use our contactless curbside pickup and please shop as early as you possibly can Gratefully Rachel Jason Staff
Literary Fiction Transcendent Kingdom by Ya Gyaasi Yaa Gyasi s stunning follow up to her acclaimed national bestseller Homegoing is a powerful raw intimate deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief a novel about faith science religion love Exquisitely written emotionally searing this is an exceptionally powerful follow up to Gyasi s phenomenal debut Our Price 25 16 Available now The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi Propulsively readable teeming with unforgettable characters The Death of Vivek Oji is a novel of family and friendship that challenges expectations a dramatic story of loss and transcendence that will move every reader A puzzle wrapped in beautiful language raising questions of identity and loyalty that are as unanswerable as they are important The New York Times Book Review Our Price 24 30 Available now Staff Pick Luster by Raven Lailani Luster is a hand grenade disguised as a coming of age novel It s everything you want in a bildungsroman it s intimate funny and daring but in Raven Leilani s skilled hands it is also volatile and complex a profound meditation on the intersection of race and loneliness a thorny examination of sexuality and trauma of power and privilege and the subtle interplay between all of the above It s also so absorbing and compelling that it s hard not to read it in one sitting As of September this is my favorite book published in 2020 so far Rachel Our Price 23 40 Available now Literary Fiction The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante the New York Times bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend and the Neopolitan Novels Named one of 2016 s most influential people by Time Magazine and frequently touted as a future Nobel Prize winner Elena Ferrante has become one of the world s most read and beloved writers With this new novel about the transition from childhood to adolescence to adulthood Ferrante proves once again that she deserves her many accolades In The Lying Life of Adults readers will discover another gripping highly addictive and totally unforgettable Neapolitan story Our Price 23 40 Available now What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez The New York Times bestselling National Book Award winning author of The Friend brings her singular voice to a story about the meaning of life and death and the value of companionship In What Are You Going Through Nunez brings wisdom humor and insight to a novel about human connection and the changing nature of relationships in our times A surprising story about empathy and the unusual ways one person can help another through hardship her book offers a moving and provocative portrait of the way we live now Our Price 23 40 Available now Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam One of the most anticipated books of the fall and shortlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction Leave the World Behind is a magnetic novel about two families strangers to each other who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong Leave the World Behind is so many things funny sharp insightful about modernity and race and parenthood and home but at its core it s a story of our shared apocalypse a steady look at humanity in the moment it tumbles from a great height I have not been this profoundly unnerved by a science fiction novel since Ishiguro s Never Let Me Go Carmen Maria Machado author of Her Body and Other Parties Our Price 25 19 Available now
Literary Fiction Transcendent Kingdom by Ya Gyaasi Yaa Gyasi s stunning follow up to her acclaimed national bestseller Homegoing is a powerful raw intimate deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief a novel about faith science religion love Exquisitely written emotionally searing this is an exceptionally powerful follow up to Gyasi s phenomenal debut Our Price 25 16 Available now The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi Propulsively readable teeming with unforgettable characters The Death of Vivek Oji is a novel of family and friendship that challenges expectations a dramatic story of loss and transcendence that will move every reader A puzzle wrapped in beautiful language raising questions of identity and loyalty that are as unanswerable as they are important The New York Times Book Review Our Price 24 30 Available now Staff Pick Luster by Raven Lailani Luster is a hand grenade disguised as a coming of age novel It s everything you want in a bildungsroman it s intimate funny and daring but in Raven Leilani s skilled hands it is also volatile and complex a profound meditation on the intersection of race and loneliness a thorny examination of sexuality and trauma of power and privilege and the subtle interplay between all of the above It s also so absorbing and compelling that it s hard not to read it in one sitting As of September this is my favorite book published in 2020 so far Rachel Our Price 23 40 Available now Literary Fiction The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante the New York Times bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend and the Neopolitan Novels Named one of 2016 s most influential people by Time Magazine and frequently touted as a future Nobel Prize winner Elena Ferrante has become one of the world s most read and beloved writers With this new novel about the transition from childhood to adolescence to adulthood Ferrante proves once again that she deserves her many accolades In The Lying Life of Adults readers will discover another gripping highly addictive and totally unforgettable Neapolitan story Our Price 23 40 Available now What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez The New York Times bestselling National Book Award winning author of The Friend brings her singular voice to a story about the meaning of life and death and the value of companionship In What Are You Going Through Nunez brings wisdom humor and insight to a novel about human connection and the changing nature of relationships in our times A surprising story about empathy and the unusual ways one person can help another through hardship her book offers a moving and provocative portrait of the way we live now Our Price 23 40 Available now Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam One of the most anticipated books of the fall and shortlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction Leave the World Behind is a magnetic novel about two families strangers to each other who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong Leave the World Behind is so many things funny sharp insightful about modernity and race and parenthood and home but at its core it s a story of our shared apocalypse a steady look at humanity in the moment it tumbles from a great height I have not been this profoundly unnerved by a science fiction novel since Ishiguro s Never Let Me Go Carmen Maria Machado author of Her Body and Other Parties Our Price 25 19 Available now
Literary Fiction Jack by Marilyn Robinson Marilynne Robinson s mythical world of Gilead Iowa the setting of her novels Gilead Home Lila and now Jack and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history the power of our emotions and the wonders of a sacred world In Jack Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton the prodigal son of Gilead s Presbyterian minister and his romance with Della Miles a high school teacher who is also the child of a preacher Their deeply felt tormented star crossed interracial romance resonates with all the paradoxes of American life then and now Our Price 24 30 Available now Memorial by Bryan Washington Benson and Mike are a young couple in Houston They ve been together for a few years good years but now they re not sure why they re still a couple When Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother arrives in Texas for a visit Mike picks up and flies across the world to say goodbye Back home Mitsuko and Benson are stuck living together as unconventional roommates an absurd domestic situation that ends up meaning more to each of them than they ever could have predicted Both men will change in ways that will either make them stronger together or fracture everything they ve ever known And just maybe they ll all be okay in the end Our Price 24 30 Available October 27th Pre order now The Cold Millions by Jess Walter The author of the 1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins delivers another literary miracle NPR An intimate story of brotherhood love sacrifice and betrayal set against the panoramic backdrop of an early twentieth century America that eerily echoes our own time The Cold Millions offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation grappling with the chasm between rich and poor between harsh realities and simple dreams Featuring an unforgettable cast of cops and tramps suffragists and socialists madams and murderers it is a tour de force from a writer who has planted himself firmly in the first rank of American authors Boston Globe Our Price 26 09 Available October 27th Pre order now Literary Fiction The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem From the award winning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly original post collapse yarn about two siblings the man that came between them and a nuclear powered super car The Arrest isn t post apocalyptic It isn t a dystopia It isn t a utopia It s just what happens when much of what we take for granted cars guns computers and airplanes for starters quits working Written with unrepentant joy and shot through with just the right amount of contemporary dread The Arrest is speculative fiction at its absolute finest Our Price 25 19 Available November 10th Pre order now Hamnet by Maggie O Farrell England 1580 The Black Death creeps across the land an ever present threat infecting the healthy the sick the old and the young alike The end of days is near but life always goes on A luminous portrait of a marriage a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss and a tender and unforgettable re imagining of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten and whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time Hamnet is mesmerizing seductive impossible to put down a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists Our Price 24 26 Available now Staff Pick Red Pill by Hari Kunzru From academic satire to fevered paranoia to the dread inducing realism of election night 2016 Hari Kunzru has written a novel maybe the novel for these troubled times Many of the choices Kunzru makes are unexpected but they are never the easy or obvious choice and under a lesser writer the novel might have floundered But Hari Kunzru is one of those writers I would follow anywhere and I have including into ghostly realms see White Tears 2017 But perhaps the most interesting point Kunzru seems to be making in this book is this sometimes novels don t need a bogeyman sometimes reality is far scarier Rachel Our Price 25 16 Available now
Mysteries Thrillers The Searcher by Tana French Cal Hooper thought a fixer upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape After twenty five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm twists him into investigating Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat and starts to realize that even small towns shelter dangerous secrets The inimitable French weaves a masterful atmospheric tale of suspense asking what we sacrifice in our search for truth and justice and what we risk if we don t Our Price 24 30 Available now Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen From the bestselling author of Skinny Dip and Razor Girl a hilarious new novel of social and political intrigue set against the glittering backdrop of Florida s gold coast Carl Hiaasen can brighten even the darkest of days and Squeeze Me is pure unadulterated Hiaasen Irreverent ingenious and highly entertaining Squeeze Me perfectly captures the absurdity of our times Our Price 26 06 Available now Staff Pick One by One by Ruth Ware The fun thing about reading Ruth Ware is that she writes psychological thrillers that feel both pleasantly old fashioned and yet quite contemporary How would Turn of the Screw have turned out if it took place in a 21st Century smart home Try Turn of the Key The Lady Vanishes but on a contemporary luxury cruise The book to read is The Woman in Cabin Ten How about And Then There Were None but at a tech company s ski weekend One By One is for you Her novels give the delightful impression that Agatha Christie or Daphne Du Maurier woke up in the 21st century and decided they weren t done writing yet Rachel Our Price 25 19 Available now Mysteries Thrillers A Time for Mercy by John Grisham Clanton Mississippi 1990 Jake Brigance the hero from A Time to Kill finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble a timid sixteen year old boy accused of murdering a local deputy Many in Clanton want a swift trial and the death penalty but Brigance digs in and discovers that there is more to the story than meets the eye Jake s fierce commitment to saving Drew from the gas chamber puts his career his financial security and the safety of his family on the line Our Price 26 96 Available now All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny The 16th novel by 1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the S ret du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light Armand Gamache seems as much a spiritual warrior as a homicide detective What stays with the reader are the tender passages the human insights the reminders of what makes life worth living Wall Street Journal Our Price 26 09 Available now A Song for the Dark Times by Ian Rankin When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night John Rebus knows it s not good news Her husband has been missing for two days Rebus fears the worst and knows from his lifetime in the police that his daughter will be the prime suspect As he leaves at dawn to drive to the windswept coast and a small town with big secrets he wonders whether this might be the first time in his life where the truth is the one thing he doesn t want to find Our Price 24 30 Available now
Mysteries Thrillers The Searcher by Tana French Cal Hooper thought a fixer upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape After twenty five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm twists him into investigating Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat and starts to realize that even small towns shelter dangerous secrets The inimitable French weaves a masterful atmospheric tale of suspense asking what we sacrifice in our search for truth and justice and what we risk if we don t Our Price 24 30 Available now Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen From the bestselling author of Skinny Dip and Razor Girl a hilarious new novel of social and political intrigue set against the glittering backdrop of Florida s gold coast Carl Hiaasen can brighten even the darkest of days and Squeeze Me is pure unadulterated Hiaasen Irreverent ingenious and highly entertaining Squeeze Me perfectly captures the absurdity of our times Our Price 26 06 Available now Staff Pick One by One by Ruth Ware The fun thing about reading Ruth Ware is that she writes psychological thrillers that feel both pleasantly old fashioned and yet quite contemporary How would Turn of the Screw have turned out if it took place in a 21st Century smart home Try Turn of the Key The Lady Vanishes but on a contemporary luxury cruise The book to read is The Woman in Cabin Ten How about And Then There Were None but at a tech company s ski weekend One By One is for you Her novels give the delightful impression that Agatha Christie or Daphne Du Maurier woke up in the 21st century and decided they weren t done writing yet Rachel Our Price 25 19 Available now Mysteries Thrillers A Time for Mercy by John Grisham Clanton Mississippi 1990 Jake Brigance the hero from A Time to Kill finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble a timid sixteen year old boy accused of murdering a local deputy Many in Clanton want a swift trial and the death penalty but Brigance digs in and discovers that there is more to the story than meets the eye Jake s fierce commitment to saving Drew from the gas chamber puts his career his financial security and the safety of his family on the line Our Price 26 96 Available now All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny The 16th novel by 1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the S ret du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light Armand Gamache seems as much a spiritual warrior as a homicide detective What stays with the reader are the tender passages the human insights the reminders of what makes life worth living Wall Street Journal Our Price 26 09 Available now A Song for the Dark Times by Ian Rankin When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night John Rebus knows it s not good news Her husband has been missing for two days Rebus fears the worst and knows from his lifetime in the police that his daughter will be the prime suspect As he leaves at dawn to drive to the windswept coast and a small town with big secrets he wonders whether this might be the first time in his life where the truth is the one thing he doesn t want to find Our Price 24 30 Available now
Mysteries Thrillers How to Raise an Elephant by Alexander McCall Smith The next book in the perennially adored No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series sees Precious Ramotswe calling upon all her maternal instincts when she s faced with a two ton case They say it takes a village to raise a child but can Mma Ramotswe and the rest of the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency come together to raise a pipsqueak pachyderm We may find out in this novel We may not Who can say Our Price 24 26 Available November 24th Pre order now The Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller must defend himself against murder charges in the heart stopping new thriller from 1 New York Timesbestselling author Michael Connelly Taken together Connelly s novels form an indispensable compelling chronicle of LA His books are rich in the details and meanings of seismic events that have formed the rough contours of LA law and order Jonathan Shapiro Los Angeles Times Our Price 26 10 Available November 10th Pre order now Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders this brilliantly complex literary thriller from New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz has echoes of Agatha Christie at her best Brilliantly clever relentlessly suspenseful full of twists that will keep readers guessing with each revelation and clue Moonflower Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction from one of its greatest masterminds Our Price 26 09 Available November 10th Pre order now Sci Fi Fantasy Horror Piranesi by Susanna Clarke From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange Mr Norrell an intoxicating hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality Piranesi will wreck you the novel establishes Susanna Clarke as one of our greatest living writers New York Magazine Our Price 24 30 Available now To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini The skills honed in his YA fantasy series Inheritance are on full display here in his vibrant world building especially in the mythology of the alien tech Paolini populates this universe with a large cast of interesting and relatable characters and mostly avoids reductive good guy bad guy dynamics lending the story a sincere emotional depth Highly recommended for fans of James A Corey s The Expanse series and for fantasy fans willing to try space opera Booklist starred review Our Price 26 99 Available now Staff Pick Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia Silvia Moreno Garcia is a radiant writer who isn t afraid of putting the ick in Gothic Socialite Noemi is called away from the sophistication of 1950s Mexico City when her delicate recently married cousin Catalina begs her to come to save her from life in her husband s family s crumbling mansion in the mountains Once there she discovers that the relentlessly Anglo Doyle family are harboring secrets and scandals that quickly plunge the brave and resolute Noemi into a waking nightmare Lynda Our Price 24 30 Available now
Mysteries Thrillers How to Raise an Elephant by Alexander McCall Smith The next book in the perennially adored No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series sees Precious Ramotswe calling upon all her maternal instincts when she s faced with a two ton case They say it takes a village to raise a child but can Mma Ramotswe and the rest of the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency come together to raise a pipsqueak pachyderm We may find out in this novel We may not Who can say Our Price 24 26 Available November 24th Pre order now The Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller must defend himself against murder charges in the heart stopping new thriller from 1 New York Timesbestselling author Michael Connelly Taken together Connelly s novels form an indispensable compelling chronicle of LA His books are rich in the details and meanings of seismic events that have formed the rough contours of LA law and order Jonathan Shapiro Los Angeles Times Our Price 26 10 Available November 10th Pre order now Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders this brilliantly complex literary thriller from New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz has echoes of Agatha Christie at her best Brilliantly clever relentlessly suspenseful full of twists that will keep readers guessing with each revelation and clue Moonflower Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction from one of its greatest masterminds Our Price 26 09 Available November 10th Pre order now Sci Fi Fantasy Horror Piranesi by Susanna Clarke From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange Mr Norrell an intoxicating hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality Piranesi will wreck you the novel establishes Susanna Clarke as one of our greatest living writers New York Magazine Our Price 24 30 Available now To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini The skills honed in his YA fantasy series Inheritance are on full display here in his vibrant world building especially in the mythology of the alien tech Paolini populates this universe with a large cast of interesting and relatable characters and mostly avoids reductive good guy bad guy dynamics lending the story a sincere emotional depth Highly recommended for fans of James A Corey s The Expanse series and for fantasy fans willing to try space opera Booklist starred review Our Price 26 99 Available now Staff Pick Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia Silvia Moreno Garcia is a radiant writer who isn t afraid of putting the ick in Gothic Socialite Noemi is called away from the sophistication of 1950s Mexico City when her delicate recently married cousin Catalina begs her to come to save her from life in her husband s family s crumbling mansion in the mountains Once there she discovers that the relentlessly Anglo Doyle family are harboring secrets and scandals that quickly plunge the brave and resolute Noemi into a waking nightmare Lynda Our Price 24 30 Available now
Sci Fi Fantasy Horror Sci Fi Fantasy Horror The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones A tale of revenge cultural identity and the cost of breaking from tradition in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature Stephen Graham Jones The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V E Schwab France 1714 In a moment of desperation a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets But everything changes when after nearly 300 years Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name In the vein of The Time Traveler s Wife and Life After Life The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V E Schwab s genre defying tour de force Our Price 24 29 Available now Axiom s End by Lindsay Ellis Axiom s End is the most relatable sci fi novel in years if you want to read a serious sci fi novel that feels like it was written by a fan who understands the pop culture side of fandom you re in good hands It s a heartfelt story of alien first contact but luckily unlike so many big idea sci fi books it s utterly unpretentious You ve read other books about similar things but you ve never read them from this perspective Syfy Wire Our Price 25 19 Available now Staff Pick The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune When I read The House in the Cerulean Sea the story of an orphanage for unusual children including the Antichrist who loves 50s rock and roll and helping in the kitchen and goes by Lucy prior to its release in March I adored everything about it and couldn t wait until it came out so I could tell people this was the book they needed Then well we all know what happened in March But now in a worn and wearying year perhaps we need it even more A gentle and optimistic fantasy which also has no illusions about the cruelty inherent in both humans and the bureaucracies we create that knows we combat darkness with love a wicked and knowing sense of humor bravery in the face of the unkindness of others and disobedience I adore this book I bet you will too Lynda Our Price 24 29 Available now Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives Tracked by an entity bent on revenge these childhood friends are helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in a violent vengeful way Our Price 24 29 Available now Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline The highly anticipated sequel to the beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One the ridiculously fun and large hearted NPR near future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film Our Price 26 09 Available November 24th Pre order now The Last Human by Zack Jordan Most days Sarya doesn t feel like the most terrifying creature in the galaxy Most days she s got other things on her mind Like hiding her identity among the hundreds of alien species roaming the corridors of Watertower Station Or making sure her adoptive mother doesn t casually eviscerate one of their neighbors Again And most days she can almost accept that she ll never know the truth that she ll never know why humanity was deemed too dangerous to exist Or whether she really is impossibly the lone survivor of a species destroyed a millennium ago That is until an encounter with a bounty hunter and a miles long kinetic projectile leaves her life and her perspective shattered The Last Human is a sneakily brilliant gleefully oddball space opera debut by local author Zack Jordan a masterful play on perspective intelligence and free will wrapped in a rollicking journey through a strange and crowded galaxy Our Price 21 60 Available now
Sci Fi Fantasy Horror Sci Fi Fantasy Horror The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones A tale of revenge cultural identity and the cost of breaking from tradition in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature Stephen Graham Jones The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V E Schwab France 1714 In a moment of desperation a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets But everything changes when after nearly 300 years Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name In the vein of The Time Traveler s Wife and Life After Life The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V E Schwab s genre defying tour de force Our Price 24 29 Available now Axiom s End by Lindsay Ellis Axiom s End is the most relatable sci fi novel in years if you want to read a serious sci fi novel that feels like it was written by a fan who understands the pop culture side of fandom you re in good hands It s a heartfelt story of alien first contact but luckily unlike so many big idea sci fi books it s utterly unpretentious You ve read other books about similar things but you ve never read them from this perspective Syfy Wire Our Price 25 19 Available now Staff Pick The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune When I read The House in the Cerulean Sea the story of an orphanage for unusual children including the Antichrist who loves 50s rock and roll and helping in the kitchen and goes by Lucy prior to its release in March I adored everything about it and couldn t wait until it came out so I could tell people this was the book they needed Then well we all know what happened in March But now in a worn and wearying year perhaps we need it even more A gentle and optimistic fantasy which also has no illusions about the cruelty inherent in both humans and the bureaucracies we create that knows we combat darkness with love a wicked and knowing sense of humor bravery in the face of the unkindness of others and disobedience I adore this book I bet you will too Lynda Our Price 24 29 Available now Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives Tracked by an entity bent on revenge these childhood friends are helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in a violent vengeful way Our Price 24 29 Available now Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline The highly anticipated sequel to the beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One the ridiculously fun and large hearted NPR near future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film Our Price 26 09 Available November 24th Pre order now The Last Human by Zack Jordan Most days Sarya doesn t feel like the most terrifying creature in the galaxy Most days she s got other things on her mind Like hiding her identity among the hundreds of alien species roaming the corridors of Watertower Station Or making sure her adoptive mother doesn t casually eviscerate one of their neighbors Again And most days she can almost accept that she ll never know the truth that she ll never know why humanity was deemed too dangerous to exist Or whether she really is impossibly the lone survivor of a species destroyed a millennium ago That is until an encounter with a bounty hunter and a miles long kinetic projectile leaves her life and her perspective shattered The Last Human is a sneakily brilliant gleefully oddball space opera debut by local author Zack Jordan a masterful play on perspective intelligence and free will wrapped in a rollicking journey through a strange and crowded galaxy Our Price 21 60 Available now
Biographies Memoirs JFK Coming of Age in the American Century by Fredrik Logevall A Pulitzer Prize winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic yet still elusive thirty fifth president An utterly incandescent study of one of the most consequential figures of the twentieth century Jill Lepore Our Price 36 00 Available now Eleanor by David Michaelis Prize winning bestselling author David Michaelis presents a breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt America s longest serving First Lady an avatar of democracy whose ever expanding agency as diplomat activist and humanitarian made her one of the world s most widely admired and influential women Our Price 31 50 Available now A Promised Land by Barack Obama A riveting deeply personal account of history in the making from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil Our Price 36 00 Available November 17th Pre order now Biographies Memoirs I ll Be Seeing You A Memoir by Elizabeth Berg Elizabeth Berg s father was an Army veteran who was a tough man in every way but one He showed a great deal of love and tenderness to his wife Berg describes her parents marriage as a romance that lasted for nearly seventy years But then Berg s father developed Alzheimer s disease and her parents were forced to leave the home they loved and move into a facility that could offer them help It was time for the couple s children to in effect parent the people who had for so long parented them It was a hard transition mitigated at least by flashes of humor and joy The mix of emotions on everyone s part could make every day feel like walking through a minefield Then came redemption I ll Be Seeing You charts the passage from the anguish of loss to the understanding that even in the most fractious times love can heal transform and lead to graceful and grateful acceptance Our Price 24 30 Available October 27th Pre order now Cary Grant A Brilliant Disguise by Scott Eyman Film historian and acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer Scott Eyman has written the definitive biography of Hollywood legend Cary Grant one of the most accomplished and beloved actors of his generation who remains as popular as ever today Our Price 31 50 Available October 20th Pre order now Red Comet The Short Life Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark With a wealth of never before accessed materials including unpublished letters and manuscripts court police and psychiatric records and new interviews Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant daughter of Wellesley Massachusetts who had poetic ambition from a very young age Determined not to read Plath s work as if her every act from childhood on was a harbinger of her tragic fate Clark evokes a culture in transition in the shadow of the atom bomb and the Holocaust as she explores Plath s world her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife her conflicted ties to her well meaning widowed mother her troubles at the hands of an unenlightened mental health industry her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes a marriage of true minds that would change the course of poetry in English and much more Our Price 36 00 Available October 27th Pre order now
Biographies Memoirs JFK Coming of Age in the American Century by Fredrik Logevall A Pulitzer Prize winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic yet still elusive thirty fifth president An utterly incandescent study of one of the most consequential figures of the twentieth century Jill Lepore Our Price 36 00 Available now Eleanor by David Michaelis Prize winning bestselling author David Michaelis presents a breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt America s longest serving First Lady an avatar of democracy whose ever expanding agency as diplomat activist and humanitarian made her one of the world s most widely admired and influential women Our Price 31 50 Available now A Promised Land by Barack Obama A riveting deeply personal account of history in the making from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil Our Price 36 00 Available November 17th Pre order now Biographies Memoirs I ll Be Seeing You A Memoir by Elizabeth Berg Elizabeth Berg s father was an Army veteran who was a tough man in every way but one He showed a great deal of love and tenderness to his wife Berg describes her parents marriage as a romance that lasted for nearly seventy years But then Berg s father developed Alzheimer s disease and her parents were forced to leave the home they loved and move into a facility that could offer them help It was time for the couple s children to in effect parent the people who had for so long parented them It was a hard transition mitigated at least by flashes of humor and joy The mix of emotions on everyone s part could make every day feel like walking through a minefield Then came redemption I ll Be Seeing You charts the passage from the anguish of loss to the understanding that even in the most fractious times love can heal transform and lead to graceful and grateful acceptance Our Price 24 30 Available October 27th Pre order now Cary Grant A Brilliant Disguise by Scott Eyman Film historian and acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer Scott Eyman has written the definitive biography of Hollywood legend Cary Grant one of the most accomplished and beloved actors of his generation who remains as popular as ever today Our Price 31 50 Available October 20th Pre order now Red Comet The Short Life Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark With a wealth of never before accessed materials including unpublished letters and manuscripts court police and psychiatric records and new interviews Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant daughter of Wellesley Massachusetts who had poetic ambition from a very young age Determined not to read Plath s work as if her every act from childhood on was a harbinger of her tragic fate Clark evokes a culture in transition in the shadow of the atom bomb and the Holocaust as she explores Plath s world her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife her conflicted ties to her well meaning widowed mother her troubles at the hands of an unenlightened mental health industry her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes a marriage of true minds that would change the course of poetry in English and much more Our Price 36 00 Available October 27th Pre order now
Biographies Memoirs Revolution or Death The Life of Eldridge Cleaver by Justin Clifford The figure who embodied the militant and controversial spirit of the Black Panther Party more than anyone was Eldridge Cleaver Charismatic brilliant and courageous Cleaver built a base of power and influence that struck fear deep in the heart of white America It was therefore shocking to many left wing radicals when Cleaver turned his back on black revolution the Nation of Islam and communism in 1975 His influence declined significantly through the 1980s until he found himself back on the streets committing petty crimes By the time he died in 1998 he was largely viewed as a turncoat who had betrayed the cause of black freedom How can we make sense of Cleaver s precipitous decline from a position as one of America s most vibrant black writers and activists Revolution or Death provides the first life story of one of the most notorious black revolutionaries in history Our Price 26 09 Available October 20th Pre order now One Life by Megan Rapinoe Using anecdotes from her own life and career as an Olympic gold medalist and two time women s World Cup champion from suing the US Soccer Federation over gender discrimination to her widely publicized refusal to visit the White House Megan Rapinoe discusses the obligation we all have to speak up and the impact each of us can have on our communities Deeply personal and inspiring One Life reveals that real concrete change lies within all of us and asks If we all have the same resource this one precious life made up of the decisions we make every day what are you going to do Our Price 24 30 Available November 10th Pre order now The Dead Are Arising The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne Les Payne the renowned Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty year long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X all living siblings of the Malcolm Little family classmates street friends cellmates Nation of Islam figures FBI moles and cops and political leaders around the world His goal was ambitious to transform what would become over a hundred hours of interviews into an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X one that would separate fact from fiction The result is this historic biography rewriting much of the known narrative Our Price 31 50 Available October 20th Pre order now Biographies Memoirs The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey The global icon award winning singer songwriter producer actress mother daughter sister storyteller and artist finally tells the unfiltered story of her life in The Meaning of Mariah Carey Carey s memoir is an incisive entertaining and impressively well written account of her road from poverty and obscurity to superstardom The New Yorker Our Price 26 99 Available now Is This Anything by Jerry Seinfeld For this book Jerry Seinfeld has selected his favorite material organized decade by decade In page after hilarious page one brilliantly crafted observation after another readers will witness the evolution of one of the great comedians of our time and gain new insights into the thrilling but unforgiving art of writing stand up comedy Our Price 31 50 Available now Staff Pick Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh With the cut through the bullshit way Allie Brosh wrote about depression on her blog of yore and again in her 2013 book Hyperbole and a Half many of us worried over what happened to her over the last 7 years not just because we felt like we were missing a dear friend but because her voice has been so desperately needed If one good thing came out of 2020 it s that she s finally back with a new book at a time when her voice is even more necessary than ever Her delightfully chaotic worldview selfdeprecating humor absurdist drawing style and hilarious anecdotes are all fully on display in this new collection In the time of COVID we could all use an extra friend and that s exactly what reading Allie Brosh is like a no holds barred deep and deeply silly heart toheart with your bestie Rachel Our Price 27 00 Available now
History Agent Sonya Moscow s Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben MacIntyre The master storyteller San Francisco Chronicle behind the New York Times bestseller The Spy and the Traitor uncovers the true story behind the Cold War s most intrepid female spy This true life spy story is a masterpiece about the woman code named Sonya Over the course of her career she was hunted by the Chinese the Japanese the Nazis MI5 MI6 and the FBI and she evaded them all Her story reflects the great ideological clash of the twentieth century between Communism Fascism and Western democracy and casts new light on the spy battles and shifting allegiances of our own times Macintyre writes with the diligence and insight of a journalist and the panache of a born storyteller John Banville Our Price 25 20 Available now Twilight of the Gods by Ian W Toll Twilight of the Gods is the final volume of the magisterial Pacific War Trilogy from acclaimed historian Ian W Toll one of the great storytellers of War Evan Thomas Drawing from a wealth of rich archival sources and new material the book casts a penetrating light on the battles grand strategic decisions and naval logistics that enabled the Allied victory in the Pacific Our Price 36 00 Available now If Then How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore The Simulmatics Corporation launched during the Cold War mined data targeted voters manipulated consumers destabilized politics and disordered knowledge decades before Facebook Google and Cambridge Analytica Jill Lepore best selling author of These Truths came across the company s papers in MIT s archives and set out to tell this forgotten history the long lost backstory to the methods and the arrogance of Silicon Valley Our Price 26 06 Available now History The Last Million Europe s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War by David Nasaw A masterwork from acclaimed historian David Nasaw The Last Million tells the gripping yet until now largely hidden story of postwar displacement and statelessness By 1952 the Last Million the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWII were scattered around the world As they crossed from their broken past into an unknowable future they carried with them their wounds their fears their hope and their secrets Here for the first time Nasaw illuminates their incredible history and with profound contemporary resonance shows us that it is our history as well Our Price 31 50 Available now Bag Man by Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz Bag Man is the knockdown drag out untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon s White House and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come with new reporting that takes a deeper look into the subject of Rachel Maddow s Peabody Award nominated podcast Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz expand on their riveting podcast to create a work both scholarly and disturbing in its parallels to current events Preet Bharara Our Price 25 20 Available December 8th Pre order now His Truth Is Marching On John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham Civil rights activist and Congressman John Lewis who at age twenty five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge was a visionary and a man of faith Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham writes of how the activist and leader was inspired by the Bible his mother s unbreakable spirit his sharecropper father s tireless ambition and his teachers in nonviolence Reverend James Lawson and Martin Luther King Jr A believer in hope above all else Lewis learned from a young age that nonviolence was not only a tactic but a philosophy a biblical imperative and a transforming reality Our Price 27 00 Available now
History Tecumseh and the Prophet by Peter Cozzens The first biography of the great Shawnee leader in more than twenty years and the first to make clear that his misunderstood younger brother Tenskwatawa was an equal partner in the last great pan Indian alliance against the United States Until the Americans killed Tecumseh in 1813 he and his brother Tenskwatawa were the co architects of the broadest pan Indian confederation in United States history In previous accounts of Tecumseh s life Tenskwatawa has been dismissed as a talentless charlatan and a drunk But award winning historian Peter Cozzens now shows us that while Tecumseh was a brilliant diplomat and war leader admired by the same white Americans he opposed it was Tenskwatawa called the Shawnee Prophet who created a vital doctrine of religious and cultural revitalization that unified the disparate tribes of the Old Northwest Our Price 31 50 Available October 27th Pre order now Hitler Downfall 1939 1945 by Volker Ullrich From the author of Hitler Ascent 1889 1939 comes a riveting account of the dictator s final years when he got the war he wanted but his leadership led to catastrophe for his nation the world and himself This is a masterful account of a spectacular downfall and an essential addition to our understanding of Hitler and the Second World War Our Price 36 00 Available now The Zealot and the Emancipator by H W Brands What do moral people do when democracy countenances evil The question implicit in the idea that people can govern themselves came to a head in America at the middle of the nineteenth century in the struggle over slavery John Brown s answer was violence violence of a sort some in later generations would call terrorism Abraham Lincoln s answer was politics Gifted storyteller and bestselling historian H W Brands narrates the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation s gravest sin Our Price 27 00 Available now Nonfiction Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald Helen Macdonald author of the beloved bestseller H Is for Hawk brings together a collection of her best loved essays along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep By one of this century s most important and insightful nature writers Vesper Flights is a captivating and foundational book about observation fascination time memory love and loss and how we make sense of the world around us Our Price 24 30 Available now World of Wonders In Praise of Fireflies Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil From beloved award winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction a collection of essays about the natural world and the way its inhabitants can teach support and inspire us Warm lyrical and gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Nakamura World of Wonders is a book of sustenance and joy Our Price 22 50 Available now Having and Being Had by Eula Biss My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts Eula Biss writes the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after Having just purchased her first home the poet and essayist now embarks on a provocative exploration of the value system she has bought into Through a series of engaging exchanges in libraries and laundromats over barstools and backyard fences she examines our assumptions about class and property and the ways we internalize the demands of capitalism Described by The New York Times as a writer who advances from all sides like a chess player Biss offers an uncommonly immersive and deeply revealing new portrait of work and luxury of accumulation and consumption of the value of time and how we spend it Ranging from IKEA to Beyonc to Pokemon Biss asks of both herself and her class In what have we invested Our Price 23 40 Available now
History Tecumseh and the Prophet by Peter Cozzens The first biography of the great Shawnee leader in more than twenty years and the first to make clear that his misunderstood younger brother Tenskwatawa was an equal partner in the last great pan Indian alliance against the United States Until the Americans killed Tecumseh in 1813 he and his brother Tenskwatawa were the co architects of the broadest pan Indian confederation in United States history In previous accounts of Tecumseh s life Tenskwatawa has been dismissed as a talentless charlatan and a drunk But award winning historian Peter Cozzens now shows us that while Tecumseh was a brilliant diplomat and war leader admired by the same white Americans he opposed it was Tenskwatawa called the Shawnee Prophet who created a vital doctrine of religious and cultural revitalization that unified the disparate tribes of the Old Northwest Our Price 31 50 Available October 27th Pre order now Hitler Downfall 1939 1945 by Volker Ullrich From the author of Hitler Ascent 1889 1939 comes a riveting account of the dictator s final years when he got the war he wanted but his leadership led to catastrophe for his nation the world and himself This is a masterful account of a spectacular downfall and an essential addition to our understanding of Hitler and the Second World War Our Price 36 00 Available now The Zealot and the Emancipator by H W Brands What do moral people do when democracy countenances evil The question implicit in the idea that people can govern themselves came to a head in America at the middle of the nineteenth century in the struggle over slavery John Brown s answer was violence violence of a sort some in later generations would call terrorism Abraham Lincoln s answer was politics Gifted storyteller and bestselling historian H W Brands narrates the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation s gravest sin Our Price 27 00 Available now Nonfiction Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald Helen Macdonald author of the beloved bestseller H Is for Hawk brings together a collection of her best loved essays along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep By one of this century s most important and insightful nature writers Vesper Flights is a captivating and foundational book about observation fascination time memory love and loss and how we make sense of the world around us Our Price 24 30 Available now World of Wonders In Praise of Fireflies Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil From beloved award winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction a collection of essays about the natural world and the way its inhabitants can teach support and inspire us Warm lyrical and gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Nakamura World of Wonders is a book of sustenance and joy Our Price 22 50 Available now Having and Being Had by Eula Biss My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts Eula Biss writes the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after Having just purchased her first home the poet and essayist now embarks on a provocative exploration of the value system she has bought into Through a series of engaging exchanges in libraries and laundromats over barstools and backyard fences she examines our assumptions about class and property and the ways we internalize the demands of capitalism Described by The New York Times as a writer who advances from all sides like a chess player Biss offers an uncommonly immersive and deeply revealing new portrait of work and luxury of accumulation and consumption of the value of time and how we spend it Ranging from IKEA to Beyonc to Pokemon Biss asks of both herself and her class In what have we invested Our Price 23 40 Available now
Nonfiction Humans by Brandon Stanton Brandon Stanton created Humans of New York in 2010 What began as a photographic census of life in New York City soon evolved into a storytelling phenomenon A global audience of millions began following HONY daily Over the next several years Stanton broadened his lens to include people from across the world Traveling to more than forty countries he conducted interviews across continents borders and language barriers Humans is the definitive catalogue of these travels The faces and locations vary from page to page but the stories will feel deeply familiar Our Price 31 50 Available now The Knowledge Machine How Irrationality Created Modern Science by Michael Strevens Why is science so powerful Why did it take so long two thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics for the human race to start using science to learn the secrets of the universe In a groundbreaking work that blends science philosophy and history leading philosopher of science Michael Strevens answers these challenging questions showing how science came about only once thinkers stumbled upon the astonishing idea that scientific breakthroughs could be accomplished by breaking the rules of rational argument Our Price 27 00 Available now Shit Actually by Lindy West New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author Lindy West was once the in house movie critic for Seattle s alternative newsweekly The Stranger where she covered film with brutal honesty and giddy irreverence In Shit Actually Lindy returns to those roots re examining beloved and iconic movies from the past 40 years with an eye toward the big questions of our time Is Twilight the horniest movie in history Why do the zebras in The Lion King trust Mufasa WHO IS A LION to look out for their best interests Why did anyone bother making any more movies after The Fugitive achieved perfection And my god why don t any of the women in Love Actually ever fucking talk Shit Actually is a love letter and a break up note all in one to the films that shaped us and the ones that ruined us More often than not Lindy finds they re one and the same Our Price 24 30 Available October 20th Pre order now Nonfiction The 99 Invisible City by Roman Mars In The 99 Invisible City A Field Guide to Hidden World of Everyday Design podcast host Roman Mars and coauthor Kurt Kohlstedt zoom in on the various elements that make our cities work exploring the origins and other fascinating stories behind everything from power grids and fire escapes to drinking fountains and street signs With deeply researched entries and beautiful line drawings throughout The 99 Invisible City will captivate devoted fans of the podcast and anyone curious about design urban environments and the unsung marvels of the world around them Our Price 27 00 Available now How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy Perfect for gifting during the holidays and beyond a thoughtful counterintuitive book about creativity from the celebrated songwriter leader of the band Wilco and New York Times bestselling author of Let s Go So We Can Get Back inspiring others by taking the reader through the process of writing one song Our Price 20 70 Available now The Black Books by C G Jung In 1913 C G Jung started a unique self experiment that he called his confrontation with the unconscious an engagement with his fantasies in a waking state which he charted in a series of notebooks referred to as The Black Books These intimate writings shed light on the further elaboration of Jung s personal cosmology and his attempts to embody insights from his self investigation into his life and personal relationships Presented in a magnificent seven volume boxed collection featuring a revelatory essay by noted Jung scholar Sonu Shamdasani illuminated by a selection of Jung s vibrant visual works and both translated and facsimile versions of each notebook The Black Books offer a unique portal into Jung s mind and the origins of analytical psychology Our Price 270 00 Available now
Blcak Lives Matter Black The Purpose of Power How We Come Together When We Fall Apart by Alicia Garza An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time from one of the country s leading organizers and a co creator of Black Lives Matter But long before BlackLivesMatter became a rallying cry for this generation Garza had spent the better part of two decades learning and unlearning some hard lessons about organizing The lessons she offers are different from the rules for radicals that animated earlier generations of activists and diverge from the charismatic patriarchal model of the American civil rights movement She reflects instead on how making room amongst the woke for those who are still awakening can inspire and activate more people to fight for the world we all deserve Our Price 24 30 Available October 20th Pre order now Begin Again James Baldwin s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S Glaude Jr James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race In our own moment when that confrontation feels more urgently needed than ever what can we learn from his struggle In the midst of an ugly Trump regime and a beautiful Baldwin revival Eddie Glaude has plunged to the profound depths and sublime heights of Baldwin s prophetic challenge to our present day crisis Cornel West Our Price 24 30 Available now Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Y Davis In her now classic work on prison abolition Angela Y Davis uses her characteristic brilliance grace and radical audacity to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end She argues forthrightly for decarceration and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole In a perfect stocking sized package Davis discusses how mass incarceration has had little or no effect on crime how disproportionate numbers of the poor and minorities end up in prison and the obscene profits the system generates A perfect gift for every budding activist in your life Our Price 14 36 Available now Black Lives Matter Just Us An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand how best might we approach one another Claudia Rankine urges us to begin the discussions that might open pathways through this divisive and stuck moment in American history Just Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together even and especially in breaching the silence guilt and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness This brilliant arrangement of essays poems and images includes the voices and rebuttals of others white men in first class responding to and with their white male privilege a friend s explanation of her infuriating behavior and women confronting the political currency of dying their hair blond all running alongside fact checked notes and commentary that complements Rankine s own text complicating notions of authority and who gets the last word Sometimes wry often vulnerable and always prescient Just Us is Rankine s most intimate work less interested in being right than in being true being together Our Price 27 00 Available now Mediocre The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Olou From the author of the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race comes a subversive history of white male American identity What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color instead of by actual accomplishments As provocative as it is essential this book will upend everything you thought you knew about American identity and offers a bold new vision of American greatness Our Price 25 20 Available December 1st Pre order now Caste The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson 1 New York Times Bestseller Oprah s Book Club Pick Longlisted For The National Book Award The Pulitzer Prize winning bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far Dwight Garner The New York Times Our Price 28 80 Available now
Blcak Lives Matter Black The Purpose of Power How We Come Together When We Fall Apart by Alicia Garza An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time from one of the country s leading organizers and a co creator of Black Lives Matter But long before BlackLivesMatter became a rallying cry for this generation Garza had spent the better part of two decades learning and unlearning some hard lessons about organizing The lessons she offers are different from the rules for radicals that animated earlier generations of activists and diverge from the charismatic patriarchal model of the American civil rights movement She reflects instead on how making room amongst the woke for those who are still awakening can inspire and activate more people to fight for the world we all deserve Our Price 24 30 Available October 20th Pre order now Begin Again James Baldwin s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S Glaude Jr James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race In our own moment when that confrontation feels more urgently needed than ever what can we learn from his struggle In the midst of an ugly Trump regime and a beautiful Baldwin revival Eddie Glaude has plunged to the profound depths and sublime heights of Baldwin s prophetic challenge to our present day crisis Cornel West Our Price 24 30 Available now Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Y Davis In her now classic work on prison abolition Angela Y Davis uses her characteristic brilliance grace and radical audacity to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end She argues forthrightly for decarceration and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole In a perfect stocking sized package Davis discusses how mass incarceration has had little or no effect on crime how disproportionate numbers of the poor and minorities end up in prison and the obscene profits the system generates A perfect gift for every budding activist in your life Our Price 14 36 Available now Black Lives Matter Just Us An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand how best might we approach one another Claudia Rankine urges us to begin the discussions that might open pathways through this divisive and stuck moment in American history Just Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together even and especially in breaching the silence guilt and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness This brilliant arrangement of essays poems and images includes the voices and rebuttals of others white men in first class responding to and with their white male privilege a friend s explanation of her infuriating behavior and women confronting the political currency of dying their hair blond all running alongside fact checked notes and commentary that complements Rankine s own text complicating notions of authority and who gets the last word Sometimes wry often vulnerable and always prescient Just Us is Rankine s most intimate work less interested in being right than in being true being together Our Price 27 00 Available now Mediocre The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Olou From the author of the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race comes a subversive history of white male American identity What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color instead of by actual accomplishments As provocative as it is essential this book will upend everything you thought you knew about American identity and offers a bold new vision of American greatness Our Price 25 20 Available December 1st Pre order now Caste The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson 1 New York Times Bestseller Oprah s Book Club Pick Longlisted For The National Book Award The Pulitzer Prize winning bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far Dwight Garner The New York Times Our Price 28 80 Available now
Cookbooks Flavor by Yotam Ottolenghi In this groundbreaking cookbook Yotam Ottolenghi and Ixta Belfrage offer a next level approach to vegetables that breaks down the fundamentals of cooking into three key elements process pairing and produce For process Yotam and Ixta show how easy techniques such as charring and infusing can change the way you think about cooking Discover how to unlock new depths of flavor by pairing vegetables with sweetness fat acidity or chile heat and learn to identify the produce that has the innate ability to make dishes shine Our Price 31 50 Available now The Rise Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food by Marcus Samuelsson It is long past time to recognize Black excellence in the culinary world the same way it has been celebrated in the worlds of music sports literature film and the arts Black cooks and creators have led American culture forward with indelible contributions of artistry and ingenuity from the start but Black authorship has been consistently erased from the story of American food Now in The Rise chef author and television star Marcus Samuelsson gathers together an unforgettable feast of food culture and history to highlight the diverse deliciousness of Black cooking today Our Price 34 20 Available October 27th Pre order now Modern Comfort Food by Ina Garten In Modern Comfort Food Ina Garten shares 85 new recipes that will feed your deepest cravings Many of these dishes are inspired by childhood favorites but with the volume turned way up such as Cheddar and Chutney Grilled Cheese sandwiches the perfect match for Ina s Creamy Tomato Bisque Smashed Hamburgers with Caramelized Onions and the crispiest hash browns that are actually made in a waffle iron From cocktails to dessert from special weekend breakfasts to quick weeknight dinners you ll find yourself making these cozy and delicious recipes over and over again Our Price 31 50 Available now Cookbooks Food Writing Dessert Person by Claire Saffitz Claire Saffitz host of Bon App tit s Gourmet Makes is a baking hero for a new generation In Dessert Person fans will find Claire s signature spin on recipes like Babkallah a babka Challah mashup Apple and Concord Grape Crumble Pie Strawberry Cornmeal Layer Cake and Malted Forever Brownies She outlines the problems and solutions for each recipe like what to do if your pie dough for Sour Cherry Pie cracks patch it with dough or a quiche flour paste as well as practical do s and don ts skill level prep and bake time step by step photography and foundational know how With her trademark warmth and superpower ability to explain anything baking related Claire is ready to make everyone a dessert person Our Price 31 50 Available October 20th Pre order now Time to Eat by Nadiya Hussain From the host of the beloved Netflix series Time to Eat and winner of The Great British Baking Show come over 100 time smart recipes to tackle family mealtime In Time to Eat Nadiya teaches you to make recipes from her show including Peanut Butter Jelly Traybake Instant Noodles Egg Rolls and zesty Marmalade Haddock Each recipe also notes exactly how long it will take to prepare and cook making planning easy Helpful icons identify which recipes can be made ahead which ones are freezer friendly and which ones can be easily doubled Our Price 26 99 Available November 10th Pre order now Tasty Adulting Tasty Adulting is made specifically for the young and young at heart cooks who are just getting their footing as grown ups First this book walks you through the foundations of cooking and builds up your kitchen confidence and know how Then 75 fun quick and totally doable recipes meet you exactly where you are allowing you to make mistakes encouraging you to try new techniques and gearing you up to reign supreme at the dinner table With chapters like Souper Heroes Put Some Meat On Your Bones and A Sweet Finish as well as a whole section for entertaining this book helps you move toward that golden I have my life together feeling Our Price 18 90 Available November 10th Pre order now
The Book Table s Holiday Catalog 2020
Young Adult We Are Not Free by Traci Chee For fourteen year old budding artist Minoru Ito her two brothers her friends and the other members of the Japanese American community in southern California the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare attacked spat on and abused with no way to retaliate and now things are about to get worse their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps A beautiful painful and necessary work of historical fiction Veera Hiranandani Newbery Honor winning author of The Night Diary Ages 13 up Our Price 16 19 Available now Grown by Tiffany D Jackson When legendary R B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition her dreams of being a famous singer take flight Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night Who killed Korey Fields Before there was a dead body Enchanted s dreams had turned into a nightmare Because behind Korey s charm and star power was a controlling dark side Now he s dead the police are at the door and all signs point to Enchanted Award winning author Tiffany D Jackson delivers another riveting ripped from the headlines mystery that exposes horrific secrets hiding behind the limelight and embraces the power of a young woman s voice Ages 13 up Our Price 16 19 Available now Dear Justyce by Nic Stone In the highly anticipated sequel to her New York Times bestseller Dear Martin Nic Stone delivers an unflinching look into the flawed practices and silenced voices in the American juvenile justice system Vernell LaQuan Banks and Justyce McAllister grew up a block apart in the Southwest Atlanta neighborhood of Wynwood Heights Years later though Justyce walks the illustrious halls of Yale University and Quan sits behind bars at the Fulton Regional Youth Detention Center Through a series of flashbacks vignettes and letters to Justyce the protagonist of Dear Martin Quan s story takes form Troubles at home and misunderstandings at school give rise to police encounters and tough decisions But then there s a dead cop and a weapon with Quan s prints on it What leads a bright kid down a road to a murder charge Not even Quan is sure Ages 14 up Our Price 17 09 Available now Young Adult Sanctuary by Paola Mendoza Abby Sher It s 2032 and in this near future America all citizens are chipped and everyone is tracked from buses to grocery stores It s almost impossible to survive as an undocumented immigrant but that s exactly what sixteen year old Vali is doing She and her family have carved out a stable happy life in small town Vermont but when Vali s mother s counterfeit chip starts malfunctioning and the Deportation Forces raid their town they are forced to flee Now on the run Vali and her family are desperately trying to make it to her t a Luna s in California a sanctuary state that is currently being walled off from the rest of the country But when Vali s mother is detained before their journey even really begins Vali must carry on with her younger brother across the country to make it to safety before it s too late Ages 12 up Our Price 16 19 Available now Legendborn by Tracy Deonn To discover the truth behind her mother s mysterious death a teen girl infiltrates a magical secret society claiming to be the descendants of King Arthur and his knights Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system Tracy Deonn s YA contemporary fantasy Legendborn offers the dark allure of City of Bones with a modern day twist on a classic legend and a lot of Southern Black Girl Magic Ages 14 up Our Price 17 09 Available now Skyhunter by Marie Lu Talin is a Striker a member of an elite fighting force that stands as the last defense for the only free nation in the world Mara A refugee Talin knows firsthand the horrors of the Federation a world dominating war machine responsible for destroying nation after nation with its terrifying army of mutant beasts known only as Ghosts But when a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front to Mara s capital Talin senses there s more to him than meets the eye Is he a spy from the Federation What secrets is he hiding Only one thing is clear Talin is ready to fight to the death alongside her fellow Strikers for the only homeland she has left with or without the boy who might just be the weapon to save or destroy them all Ages 12 up Our Price 17 99 Available now
Young Adult We Are Not Free by Traci Chee For fourteen year old budding artist Minoru Ito her two brothers her friends and the other members of the Japanese American community in southern California the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare attacked spat on and abused with no way to retaliate and now things are about to get worse their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps A beautiful painful and necessary work of historical fiction Veera Hiranandani Newbery Honor winning author of The Night Diary Ages 13 up Our Price 16 19 Available now Grown by Tiffany D Jackson When legendary R B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition her dreams of being a famous singer take flight Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night Who killed Korey Fields Before there was a dead body Enchanted s dreams had turned into a nightmare Because behind Korey s charm and star power was a controlling dark side Now he s dead the police are at the door and all signs point to Enchanted Award winning author Tiffany D Jackson delivers another riveting ripped from the headlines mystery that exposes horrific secrets hiding behind the limelight and embraces the power of a young woman s voice Ages 13 up Our Price 16 19 Available now Dear Justyce by Nic Stone In the highly anticipated sequel to her New York Times bestseller Dear Martin Nic Stone delivers an unflinching look into the flawed practices and silenced voices in the American juvenile justice system Vernell LaQuan Banks and Justyce McAllister grew up a block apart in the Southwest Atlanta neighborhood of Wynwood Heights Years later though Justyce walks the illustrious halls of Yale University and Quan sits behind bars at the Fulton Regional Youth Detention Center Through a series of flashbacks vignettes and letters to Justyce the protagonist of Dear Martin Quan s story takes form Troubles at home and misunderstandings at school give rise to police encounters and tough decisions But then there s a dead cop and a weapon with Quan s prints on it What leads a bright kid down a road to a murder charge Not even Quan is sure Ages 14 up Our Price 17 09 Available now Young Adult Sanctuary by Paola Mendoza Abby Sher It s 2032 and in this near future America all citizens are chipped and everyone is tracked from buses to grocery stores It s almost impossible to survive as an undocumented immigrant but that s exactly what sixteen year old Vali is doing She and her family have carved out a stable happy life in small town Vermont but when Vali s mother s counterfeit chip starts malfunctioning and the Deportation Forces raid their town they are forced to flee Now on the run Vali and her family are desperately trying to make it to her t a Luna s in California a sanctuary state that is currently being walled off from the rest of the country But when Vali s mother is detained before their journey even really begins Vali must carry on with her younger brother across the country to make it to safety before it s too late Ages 12 up Our Price 16 19 Available now Legendborn by Tracy Deonn To discover the truth behind her mother s mysterious death a teen girl infiltrates a magical secret society claiming to be the descendants of King Arthur and his knights Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system Tracy Deonn s YA contemporary fantasy Legendborn offers the dark allure of City of Bones with a modern day twist on a classic legend and a lot of Southern Black Girl Magic Ages 14 up Our Price 17 09 Available now Skyhunter by Marie Lu Talin is a Striker a member of an elite fighting force that stands as the last defense for the only free nation in the world Mara A refugee Talin knows firsthand the horrors of the Federation a world dominating war machine responsible for destroying nation after nation with its terrifying army of mutant beasts known only as Ghosts But when a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front to Mara s capital Talin senses there s more to him than meets the eye Is he a spy from the Federation What secrets is he hiding Only one thing is clear Talin is ready to fight to the death alongside her fellow Strikers for the only homeland she has left with or without the boy who might just be the weapon to save or destroy them all Ages 12 up Our Price 17 99 Available now
Chapter Books Grime and Punishment Dog Man 9 by Dav Pilkey The mayor has had enough of Dog Man s shenanigans in the ninth book from worldwide bestselling author and artist Dav Pilkey The Supa Buddies bamboozled the baddies but all s not right in the world Dog Man has a new problem to pound and he s going to need his entire pack to help him Will he go barking up the wrong tree Ages 7 10 Our Price 11 69 Available now Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World by Elena Favilli The third book in the New York Times bestselling series for children Packed with 100 all new bedtime stories about the lives of incredible female figures from the past and the present this volume recognizes women who left their birth countries for a multitude of reasons some for new opportunities some out of necessity Readers will whip up a plate with Asma Khan strategize global affairs alongside Madeleine Albright venture into business with Rihanna and many more All of these unique yet relatable stories are accompanied by gorgeous full page fullcolor portraits illustrated by female artists from all over the globe Ages 8 12 Our Price 31 50 Available now Staff Pick The Witches of Brooklyn by Sophie Escabasse Effie is sent to live with her aunts in Brooklyn a development that angers her and surprises her elderly relations they d never even met Effie But she soon softens to the idea of staying when the magical nature of her new home becomes apparent Hilarious and full of heart this witch s tale is perfect for any young graphic novel reader in your life Ben Our Price 11 69 Available now Chapter Books Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson For as long as ZJ can remember his dad has been everyone s hero As a charming talented pro football star he s as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans But lately life at ZJ s house is anything but charming His dad is having trouble remembering things and seems to be angry all the time ZJ s mom explains it s because of all the head injuries his dad sustained during his career ZJ can understand that but it doesn t make the sting any less real when his own father forgets his name As ZJ contemplates his new reality he has to figure out how to hold on tight to family traditions and recollections of the glory days all the while wondering what their past amounts to if his father can t remember it And most importantly can those happy feelings ever be reclaimed when they are all so busy aching for the past Ages 10 up Our Price 16 19 Available now Cat Kid Comic Club by Dav Pilkey A pioneering new graphic novel series by Dav Pilkey the author and illustrator of the internationally bestselling Dog Man and Captain Underpants series In Cat Kid Comic Club Li l Petey Flippy and Molly introduce twenty one rambunctious funny and talented baby frogs to the art of comic making Filled with mini comics that are included as stories within the story readers of all ages will be inspired to dream up their own stories and unleash their own creativity as they dive into this new graphic novel adventure Ages 7 10 Our Price 11 69 Available December 1st Pre order now Rowley Jefferson s Awesome Friendly Adventure by Jeff Kinney You ve never seen the Wimpy Kid World like this before an entirely new awesome friendly truly fantastic fantasy quest from 1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney From the imagination of Rowley Jefferson comes an adventure of epic proportions Join Roland and his best friend Garg the Barbarian as they leave the safety of their village and embark on a quest to save Roland s mom from the White Warlock Will our heroes survive Find out in Rowley Jefferson s Awesome Friendly Adventure And don t miss Rowley Jefferson s first book the instant 1 bestseller Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid Rowley Jefferson s Journal Ages 8 12 Our Price 13 49 Available now
Chapter Books Grime and Punishment Dog Man 9 by Dav Pilkey The mayor has had enough of Dog Man s shenanigans in the ninth book from worldwide bestselling author and artist Dav Pilkey The Supa Buddies bamboozled the baddies but all s not right in the world Dog Man has a new problem to pound and he s going to need his entire pack to help him Will he go barking up the wrong tree Ages 7 10 Our Price 11 69 Available now Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World by Elena Favilli The third book in the New York Times bestselling series for children Packed with 100 all new bedtime stories about the lives of incredible female figures from the past and the present this volume recognizes women who left their birth countries for a multitude of reasons some for new opportunities some out of necessity Readers will whip up a plate with Asma Khan strategize global affairs alongside Madeleine Albright venture into business with Rihanna and many more All of these unique yet relatable stories are accompanied by gorgeous full page fullcolor portraits illustrated by female artists from all over the globe Ages 8 12 Our Price 31 50 Available now Staff Pick The Witches of Brooklyn by Sophie Escabasse Effie is sent to live with her aunts in Brooklyn a development that angers her and surprises her elderly relations they d never even met Effie But she soon softens to the idea of staying when the magical nature of her new home becomes apparent Hilarious and full of heart this witch s tale is perfect for any young graphic novel reader in your life Ben Our Price 11 69 Available now Chapter Books Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson For as long as ZJ can remember his dad has been everyone s hero As a charming talented pro football star he s as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans But lately life at ZJ s house is anything but charming His dad is having trouble remembering things and seems to be angry all the time ZJ s mom explains it s because of all the head injuries his dad sustained during his career ZJ can understand that but it doesn t make the sting any less real when his own father forgets his name As ZJ contemplates his new reality he has to figure out how to hold on tight to family traditions and recollections of the glory days all the while wondering what their past amounts to if his father can t remember it And most importantly can those happy feelings ever be reclaimed when they are all so busy aching for the past Ages 10 up Our Price 16 19 Available now Cat Kid Comic Club by Dav Pilkey A pioneering new graphic novel series by Dav Pilkey the author and illustrator of the internationally bestselling Dog Man and Captain Underpants series In Cat Kid Comic Club Li l Petey Flippy and Molly introduce twenty one rambunctious funny and talented baby frogs to the art of comic making Filled with mini comics that are included as stories within the story readers of all ages will be inspired to dream up their own stories and unleash their own creativity as they dive into this new graphic novel adventure Ages 7 10 Our Price 11 69 Available December 1st Pre order now Rowley Jefferson s Awesome Friendly Adventure by Jeff Kinney You ve never seen the Wimpy Kid World like this before an entirely new awesome friendly truly fantastic fantasy quest from 1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney From the imagination of Rowley Jefferson comes an adventure of epic proportions Join Roland and his best friend Garg the Barbarian as they leave the safety of their village and embark on a quest to save Roland s mom from the White Warlock Will our heroes survive Find out in Rowley Jefferson s Awesome Friendly Adventure And don t miss Rowley Jefferson s first book the instant 1 bestseller Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid Rowley Jefferson s Journal Ages 8 12 Our Price 13 49 Available now
Chapter Books The Tower of Nero The Trials of Apollo 5 by Rick Riordan Will the Greek god Apollo cast down to Earth in the pathetic mortal form of a teenager named Lester Papadopoulos finally regain his place on Mount Olympus Now the former god and his demigod master Meg must follow a prophecy uncovered by Ella the harpy Lester s final challenge will be at the Tower of Nero back in New York Will Meg have a last showdown with her father Will this helpless form of Apollo have to face his arch nemesis Python Who will be on hand at Camp Half Blood to assist These questions and more will be answered in this book that all demigods are eagerly awaiting Ages 8 12 Our Price 17 99 Available now Logan Likes Mary Anne Baby Sitters Club Graphic Novel 8 It s the first day of a new school year and while Mary Anne doesn t know what to expect from the eighth grade she s looking forward to getting back into the swing of things One thing she definitely doesn t expect is to meet Logan Bruno who just moved to Stoneybrook Logan has a dreamy southern accent he s awfully cute and he might be interested in joining the BSC But the babysitters aren t sure if Logan would make a good club member so they send him on a job with Mary Anne as a test Logan and Mary Anne hit it off but Mary Anne isn t sure of where their friendship could go Life in the Baby sitters Club has never been this complicated or this fun Ages 8 12 Our Price 11 69 Available now The Bad Guys in The One by Aaron Blabey They may look like Bad Guys but these wannabe heroes are doing good deeds whether you like it or not This New York Times bestselling illustrated series is perfect for fans of Dog Man and Captain Underpants Seriously WHAT is going on with Snake Terrible powers have been revealed Evil allies have materialized Inter dimensional doors have opened Shady looking cloaks have been purchased What is his deal BAD GUYS 12 WILL MELT YOUR BRAIN Ages 7 10 Our Price 6 29 Available November 10th Pre order now Picture Books Pete the Cat Crayons Rock by Kimberly James Dean From rockin red to cool cat blue with a box of crayons there s nothing Pete can t do When his friends are less than impressed by the crayon portraits he draws of them Pete the Cat begins doubting his artistic abilities before reconnecting with his unfailingly creative groovy spirit and the realization that there are no mistakes in art Ages 4 8 Our Price 17 09 Available now What We ll Build by Oliver Jeffers A father and daughter set about laying the foundations for their life together Using their own special tools they get to work building memories to cherish a home to keep them safe and love to keep them warm A rare and enduring story about a parent s boundless love life s endless opportunities and all we need to build a together future From celebrated author illustrator and visual artist Oliver Jeffers comes a gorgeously told father daughter story Ages 4 7 Our Price 17 99 Available now Me Mama by Cozbi A Cabrera On a rainy day when the house smells like cinnamon and Papa and Luca are still asleep when the clouds are wearing shadows and the wind paints the window with beads of water I want to be everywhere Mama is With lyrical prose and a tender touch Mama and Me is an ode to the strength of the bond between a mother and a daughter as they spend a rainy day together Ages 4 7 Our Price 16 19 Available now
Chapter Books The Tower of Nero The Trials of Apollo 5 by Rick Riordan Will the Greek god Apollo cast down to Earth in the pathetic mortal form of a teenager named Lester Papadopoulos finally regain his place on Mount Olympus Now the former god and his demigod master Meg must follow a prophecy uncovered by Ella the harpy Lester s final challenge will be at the Tower of Nero back in New York Will Meg have a last showdown with her father Will this helpless form of Apollo have to face his arch nemesis Python Who will be on hand at Camp Half Blood to assist These questions and more will be answered in this book that all demigods are eagerly awaiting Ages 8 12 Our Price 17 99 Available now Logan Likes Mary Anne Baby Sitters Club Graphic Novel 8 It s the first day of a new school year and while Mary Anne doesn t know what to expect from the eighth grade she s looking forward to getting back into the swing of things One thing she definitely doesn t expect is to meet Logan Bruno who just moved to Stoneybrook Logan has a dreamy southern accent he s awfully cute and he might be interested in joining the BSC But the babysitters aren t sure if Logan would make a good club member so they send him on a job with Mary Anne as a test Logan and Mary Anne hit it off but Mary Anne isn t sure of where their friendship could go Life in the Baby sitters Club has never been this complicated or this fun Ages 8 12 Our Price 11 69 Available now The Bad Guys in The One by Aaron Blabey They may look like Bad Guys but these wannabe heroes are doing good deeds whether you like it or not This New York Times bestselling illustrated series is perfect for fans of Dog Man and Captain Underpants Seriously WHAT is going on with Snake Terrible powers have been revealed Evil allies have materialized Inter dimensional doors have opened Shady looking cloaks have been purchased What is his deal BAD GUYS 12 WILL MELT YOUR BRAIN Ages 7 10 Our Price 6 29 Available November 10th Pre order now Picture Books Pete the Cat Crayons Rock by Kimberly James Dean From rockin red to cool cat blue with a box of crayons there s nothing Pete can t do When his friends are less than impressed by the crayon portraits he draws of them Pete the Cat begins doubting his artistic abilities before reconnecting with his unfailingly creative groovy spirit and the realization that there are no mistakes in art Ages 4 8 Our Price 17 09 Available now What We ll Build by Oliver Jeffers A father and daughter set about laying the foundations for their life together Using their own special tools they get to work building memories to cherish a home to keep them safe and love to keep them warm A rare and enduring story about a parent s boundless love life s endless opportunities and all we need to build a together future From celebrated author illustrator and visual artist Oliver Jeffers comes a gorgeously told father daughter story Ages 4 7 Our Price 17 99 Available now Me Mama by Cozbi A Cabrera On a rainy day when the house smells like cinnamon and Papa and Luca are still asleep when the clouds are wearing shadows and the wind paints the window with beads of water I want to be everywhere Mama is With lyrical prose and a tender touch Mama and Me is an ode to the strength of the bond between a mother and a daughter as they spend a rainy day together Ages 4 7 Our Price 16 19 Available now
The Book Table s Holiday Catalog 2020
Seth s Christmas Ghost Stories from Biblioasis Reading a ghost story on Christmas Eve was once as much part of traditional Christmas celebrations as turkey eggnog and Santa Claus We re thrilled that independent publisher Biblioasis has announced three new books in this series of beautifully illustrated collectibles that share these classic Christmas ghost stories with readers across North America Seth the world famous and beloved cartoonist has designed and illustrated each book in his own inimitable way Their small trim size makes them perfect stocking stuffers Our Price 7 16 each Available October 27th Pre order now Older titles available now The Book Table 1045 Lake Street Oak Park IL 60301 708 386 9800 www booktable net
