This September’s Monthly Staff Picks feature favorite returning authors and contemporary classics that make perfect additions to your late summer or early fall reading!

Since launching our Monthly Staff Picks with Charlotte McConaghy’s ‘Once There Were Wolves’ in January 2023, it has become an environmental fiction favorite and frequent bestselling title in our store ever since. This month McConaghy returns to our Adult Picks with ‘Wild Dark Shore’, as it hits shelves in paperback; this mysterious family drama sees a woman wash ashore on a remote island as a storm lingers on the horizon.

Author and Illustrator Lucy Fleming’s ‘Oak: The Littlest Leaf Girl’ is our picture book selection this month. Big changes are in store for the titular Oak and her forest dwelling friends as the air chills in this beautifully illustrated tale about the adventure that lies in life’s changes.

Our Middle Reader pick is the Japanese fantasy classic ‘Kiki’s Delivery Service’, which inspired the beloved Studio Ghibli film, and follows Kiki and her cat Jiji as they leave for a new town, new friends, and new adventures… with plenty of magic in tow. Available in both a paperback and a Hardcover Deluxe Edition.

‘The Hate U Give’ is Angie Thomas’s award-winning novel and our Young Adult selection for September. This debut follows Starr Carter, a young woman torn between the two worlds of her poor neighborhood and the wealthy suburban prep school she attends, when tragedy strikes and she finds herself in the middle of it all.

Visit us in-store throughout September for 20% off all of these Monthly Staff Picks, while supplies last!