Eagerly Awaiting: May 2023

The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) By Abraham Verghese Cover Image
$32.00
ISBN: 9780802162175
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Published: Grove Press - May 2nd, 2023

If, like me, you've been waiting 14 years since Cutting for Stone for his next one, read & rejoice in these 700 pages of more Verghese magic. If you're new to this author, Verghese is doctor and all of his works have a strong medical narrative; this one is no exception as the mystery of a family curse plays out over generations of one family in Kerala, India. Written with joy and mastery, it is an absolute delight to be swept along for the ride. (Pick up his memoir, My Own Country, next.)


Chain Gang All Stars: A Novel By Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780593317334
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Published: Pantheon - May 2nd, 2023

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A History of Burning By Janika Oza Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9781538724248
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - May 2nd, 2023

Shy: A Novel By Max Porter Cover Image
$25.00
ISBN: 9781644452295
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Published: Graywolf Press - May 2nd, 2023

The Salt Grows Heavy By Cassandra Khaw Cover Image
$21.99
ISBN: 9781250830913
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Published: Tor Nightfire - May 2nd, 2023

Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets By Burkhard Bilger Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9780385353984
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Published: Random House - May 2nd, 2023

The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them By Peter Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst (Editor), Jane Billinghurst (Translator) Cover Image
$28.95
ISBN: 9781771647748
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Published: Greystone Books - May 2nd, 2023

The Half Moon: A Novel By Mary Beth Keane Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781982172602
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Published: Scribner - May 2nd, 2023

The Rope Artist By Fuminori Nakamura, Sam Bett (Translated by) Cover Image
By Fuminori Nakamura, Sam Bett (Translated by)
$27.95
ISBN: 9781641293259
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Published: Soho Crime - May 2nd, 2023

The East Indian: A Novel By Brinda Charry Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781668004524
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Published: Scribner - May 2nd, 2023

You or Someone You Love: Reflections from an Abortion Doula By Hannah Matthews Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781668005255
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Published: Atria Books - May 2nd, 2023

The Ferryman: A Novel By Justin Cronin Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780525619475
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Published: Ballantine Books - May 2nd, 2023

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Swamp Story: A Novel By Dave Barry Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781982191337
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Published: Simon & Schuster - May 2nd, 2023

Talk of Champions: Stories of the People Who Made Me: A Memoir By Kenny Smith Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780385548052
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Published: Doubleday - May 9th, 2023

Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” By Héctor Tobar Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780374609900
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Published: MCD - May 9th, 2023

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece: A novel By Tom Hanks, R. Sikoryak (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Tom Hanks, R. Sikoryak (Illustrator)
$32.50
ISBN: 9780525655596
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Published: Knopf - May 9th, 2023

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Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan (American Music Series) By Alex Pappademas, Joan LeMay Cover Image
$35.00
ISBN: 9781477324998
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Published: University of Texas Press - May 9th, 2023

Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain By Andrew McCarthy Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781538709207
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - May 9th, 2023

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World By Henry Grabar Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781984881137
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Published: Penguin Press - May 9th, 2023

The Guest: A Novel By Emma Cline Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780812998627
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Published: Random House - May 16th, 2023

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Alex loses her precariously schemed position as girlfriend (escort?) to a wealthy man and is cast out of the bright, carefree Hamptons summer illusion into eddies of dead-ends. Dark, uncomfortable, propulsive. An earworm of a book in the best possible way. --Elese


Quietly Hostile: Essays By Samantha Irby Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593315699
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Published: Vintage - May 16th, 2023

Building: A Carpenter's Notes on Life & the Art of Good Work By Mark Ellison Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9780593449127
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Published: Random House - May 16th, 2023

The Postcard By Anne Berest, Tina Kover (Translator) Cover Image
By Anne Berest, Tina Kover (Translator)
$28.00
ISBN: 9781609458386
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Published: Europa Editions - May 16th, 2023

Dykette: A Novel By Jenny Fran Davis Cover Image
$26.99
ISBN: 9781250843135
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Published: Henry Holt and Co. - May 16th, 2023

Yellowface: A Reese's Book Club Pick By R. F. Kuang Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780063250833
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Published: William Morrow - May 16th, 2023

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King: A Life By Jonathan Eig Cover Image
$35.00
ISBN: 9780374279295
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - May 16th, 2023

A Line in the Sand: A Novel By Kevin Powers Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780316507127
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - May 16th, 2023

An interesting, unusual cast of characters in a police procedural - thriller- private military mashup that's a compelling read with satisfying plot twists. --Jamie F.


Size: How It Explains the World By Vaclav Smil Cover Image
$32.00
ISBN: 9780063324091
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Published: William Morrow - May 16th, 2023

The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History By Serhii Plokhy Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781324051190
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - May 16th, 2023

Flavor+Us: Cooking for Everyone [A Cookbook] By Rahanna Bisseret Martinez Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9781984860569
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Published: 4 Color Books - May 16th, 2023

The Late Americans: A Novel By Brandon Taylor Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593332337
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Published: Riverhead Books - May 23rd, 2023

Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances By Kwame Alexander Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316417228
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - May 23rd, 2023

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Rogue Justice: A Thriller (Avery Keene #2) By Stacey Abrams Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780385548328
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Published: Doubleday - May 23rd, 2023

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Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs By Jamie Loftus Cover Image
$26.99
ISBN: 9781250847744
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Published: Forge Books - May 23rd, 2023

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The Lock-Up: A Detective Mystery By John Banville Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781335449634
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Published: Hanover Square Press - May 23rd, 2023

Boy Parts: A Novel By Eliza Clark Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780063328921
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Published: Harper Perennial - May 23rd, 2023

Sing Her Down: A Novel By Ivy Pochoda Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780374608484
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Published: MCD - May 23rd, 2023

Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street By Victor Luckerson Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780593134375
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Published: Random House - May 23rd, 2023

Witch King (The Rising World #1) By Martha Wells Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781250826794
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Published: Tordotcom - May 30th, 2023

The Celebrants: A Read with Jenna Pick (A Novel) By Steven Rowley Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593540428
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - May 30th, 2023

Good Night, Irene: A Novel By Luis Alberto Urrea Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780316265850
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - May 30th, 2023

Beautiful, flowing language illustrates the bonds between women serving in a little-known capacity in the European theater of WWII, and the stereotypes they were bucking. As rewarding as historical fiction gets. --Jamie F.


Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea By Rita Chang-Eppig Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781639730377
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - May 30th, 2023

Like a sharp-edged cutlass, this novel eviscerates simplistic ideas about morality. Though her brutality and hard-heartedness make her difficult to like, pirate queen Shek Yeung is nevertheless hard not to root for. A briny exploration of power and the stories we tell ourselves to justify clinging to it with bloodied tooth and nail. --Talia


Tenderheart: A Cookbook About Vegetables and Unbreakable Family Bonds By Hetty Lui McKinnon Cover Image
$40.00
ISBN: 9780593534861
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Published: Knopf - May 30th, 2023

Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World By Theresa MacPhail Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9780593229194
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Published: Random House - May 30th, 2023