Your favorite Planeswalkers as super cute animals?! Bloomburrow is here!

Venture to a tiny idyllic land, and gather your friends in a woodland party, for this larger-than-life Magic set! Take to the battlefield and defend your folk!

• Starter Kits

  Looking to hop into Magic? The Starter Kit is the perfect way to learn to play, with 2 ready-to-play decks and an included play guide.

• Bundles

  Put your best paw forward with a box full of 9 Play Boosters, 30 Land cards (including 20 Full-Art Lands), plus exclusive accessories.

• Collector Boosters

  Squirrel away the best finds in the valley—Collector Boosters are full of Rares, foils, and special card treatments you won’t find anywhere else.

• Play Boosters

  The best boosters for playing with friends, Play Boosters are balanced for Limited play and contain at least 1 shiny foil card to decorate your nest with.

• Commander Decks

  Battle your friends with armies of adorable critters. Ready to play right out of the box, each deck contains 3 foil Legendary Creature cards.

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"...and then, somehow, perhaps against all odds, life brings us back to each other."

• Publisher Marketing (click to expand)

  Nostalgic - Intimate - Bittersweet - Romantic - Emotional

  "A beautifully observed, tender love story with characters you really care about... a bit like Normal People. I devoured it."―Jojo Moyes, New York Times bestselling author of Someone Else's Shoes

  "A gorgeous story of first love, loss, and the people who stick to your ribs... Beautiful, poignant, and heart-wrenching in the best way possible." ―Carley Fortune, New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After

  For fans of Netflix's ONE DAY, a poignant and emotional will they/won't they story that cleverly captures both the thrill and trepidation of first love

  Will and Rosie meet as teenagers.

  They're opposites in every way. She overthinks everything; he is her twin brother's wild and unpredictable friend. But over secret walks home and late-night phone calls, they become closer - destined to be one another's great love story.

  Until, one day, tragedy strikes, and their future together is shattered.

  But as the years roll on, Will and Rosie can't help but find their way back to each other. Time and again, they come close to rekindling what might have been.

  What do you do when the one person you should forget is the one you just can't let go?
  

Gen Z often call them "second chance romances". 

And to Millennials they're about "the ones that got away".

They are the stories of those who come into our lives and leave an indelible mark. Those who change our world and how we see ourselves in it. Then, for better or worse, things end. 

...and then, somehow, perhaps against all odds, life brings us back to each other. They're stories about how sometimes lives are fated to be intertwined. Whether across years or decades. Across miles or continents. Stories about the comfortable familiarity of the patterns we fall into as the relationship continues as though not a moment has passed despite holding the fear in our hearts, all the while, that it could end this time, too. 

Love is messy. As too, is life. Few types of stories understand this and the connection between them as well as these. Few too, are as brimming with hope.

In the grand romantic tradition of Austen's 'Persuasion' & Rooney's, perennial Millennial favorite, 'Normal People' and beloved films like 'When Harry Met Sally' & last year's 'Past Lives' comes Claire Daverly's 'Talking at Night', our Monthly Staff Pick this August available for 20% off through month’s end, while supplies last.

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August 2024 Monthly Staff Pick

Storytime returns to Little Village!

Storytime returns to Little Village!

Let our storytime be one more tool in your parenting toolkit: explore new books, connect with other parents, and encourage early literacy. Storytime is every Monday (excluding holidays) at 11 AM in our Book Annex starting August 12th. We hope you can join us for another way to Play, Laugh, Learn!

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New Releases | July 30th, 2024

• New Release List

  Adult Fiction

  • The Bookshop Sisterhood - Michelle Lindo-Rice

  • The Most - Jessica Anthony

  • The Wedding People - Alison Espach

  • Off The Books - Soma Mei Sheng Frazier

  • Maria: A Novel of Maria Von Trapp - Michelle Moran

  • Someone Like Us - Dinaw Mengetsu

  Arts & Entertainment

  • The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982 - Chris Nashawaty

  Body, Mind, & Spirit

  • The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity - Timothy C. Winegard

  Board Books

  • We're Going on a Ghost Hunt: A Lift-The-Flap Adventure - Martha Mumford

  • Hey! Look at You!: A Captivating Mirror Book - Sandra Boynton

  • Dinosaur's Binkit - Sandra Boynton

  • Trucks, Cars, and Things with Wings! (Sesame Street) - Andrea Posner-Sanchez

  Children's Poetry

  • Into the Goblin Market - Vikki Vansickle

  Current Events & Politics

  • Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge - Ted Conover

  Dungeons & Dragons

  • Dungeons & Dragons: Quests from the Infinite Staircase (D&d Adventure Book)

  Horror

  • Looking Glass Sound - Catriona Ward

  • Ghost Camera - Darcy Coates

  • Heads Will Roll - Josh Winning

  Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

  • Stoker's Dracula - Roy Thomas

  Middle Readers

  • The Great Catnapping - Emily Ecton

  Mystery & Thriller

  • Hard to Kill: Meet the Toughest, Smartest, Doesn't-Give-A-****-Est Thriller Heroine Ever - James Patterson, Mike Lupica

  • What Have You Done? - Shari Lapena

  Puzzle Books

  • New York Times Games Easiest Crosswords Volume 2: 100 Easy Crossword Puzzles - Will Shortz

  Romance

  • Long Live Evil - Sarah Rees Brennan

  • Slow Dance - Rainbow Rowell

  • The Fiance Dilemma - Elena Armas

  • The Rogue King - Abigail Owen

  • The Blood King - Abigail Owen

  • Runaway Love - Melanie Harlow

  Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Annihilation (10th Anniversary Edition) - Jeff VanderMeer

  • Authority (10th Anniversary Edition) - Jeff VanderMeer

  • Acceptance (10th Anniversary Edition) - Jeff VanderMeer

  Young Adult

  • Beneath These Cursed Stars - Lexi Ryan

  • The Grandest Game 1HC - Jennifer Lynn Barnes

  • Nothing More to Tell - Karen M. McManus

  • Such Charming Liars - Karen M. McManus

  • Eighteen Roses - Shannon C.F. Rogers

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Overview (Our Top 5 Picks)

• Looking Glass Sound | Cartiona Ward

  A USA TODAY BESTSELLER - A Best Book of 2023(Vulture) - A Best Horror Book of All Time (Cosmopolitan) - A Best Horror Book of 2023 (Esquire) - An Indie Next Pick - A LibraryReads Hall of Fame Pick!

  The author of The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward, delivers a masterful story about friendship and betrayal, dark obsessions, and the impossibility of escaping your own story. "Here's your next obsession." (Kelly Link, author of Get In Trouble)

  In a cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow has begun the last book he will ever write.

  It is the story about the sun-drenched summer days of his youth in Whistler Bay, and the blood-stained path of the killer that stalked his small vacation town. About the terrible secret he and his companions, Nat and Harper, discovered entombed in the coves off the bay. And how the pact they swore that day echoed down the decades, forever shaping their lives.

  But the more Wilder writes, the less he trusts himself and his memory. He starts to see things that can't be real - notes hidden in the cabin, from an old friend now dead; a woman with dark hair drowning in the icy waters below, calling for help; entire chapters he doesn't recall typing, appearing overnight. Who, or what, is haunting Wilder?

  No longer able to trust his own eyes, Wilder begins to fear that this will not only be his last book, but the last thing he ever does.

  " An origami puzzle of a book, the mystery so beautifully crafted you don't see the folds, with edges sharp as a paper cut."--Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls

• The Grandest Game #1 | Jennifer Lynn Barnes

  Get ready for a new series that brings readers deeper into the lush, romantic, and puzzle-filled world of the #1 bestselling Inheritance Games series (over 3 million copies sold!), set a year after we last saw Avery and the Hawthornes.

  Seven tickets. An island of dreams. The chance of a lifetime.

  Welcome to the Grandest Game, an annual competition run by billionaire Avery Grambs and the four infamous Hawthorne brothers, whose family fortune she inherited. Designed to give anyone a shot at fame and fortune, this year's game requires one of seven golden tickets to enter. With millions on the line, those seven players will do whatever it takes to win.

  Some of the players are in it for the money. Some for power. Some for reasons all their own. Every single one of them has secrets. Amidst it all is Grayson Hawthorne, tasked with a vital role in this year's game. But as tensions rise and the mind-bending challenges push the players to their limits--physically, mentally, and emotionally--it soon becomes clear that not everyone is playing by the rules.

  #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Lynn Barnes delivers a brand-new series in the world of The Inheritance Games, where fan-favorite and new characters collide in a game you'll never forget.

  Do you have what it takes to play?

• Heads Will Roll | Josh Winning

  "Bloody, uplifting, and fun! Every copy should come with a bucket of popcorn." --Gus Moreno, author of This Thing Between Us

  Willow's worst nightmare was being canceled. But the shadows in the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more than her reputation.

  After sitcom star Willow tweets herself into infamy and stumbles blind-drunk into a swimming pool, her agent ships her off to Camp Castaway. Nestled deep in upstate New York, Castaway is a summer camp for adults who are desperate to leave their mistakes behind. No real names, no phones . . . no way to call for help.

  Willow's fellow campers seem okay. Her own favorite actress is even here, making a s'more. And did that jaded writer, Dani, just wink at her? But the peaceful vibe is shattered when one of the campers vanishes and Willow finds a mutilated doll in her room with a threatening message rolled up inside its mouth. Terror grips the group, campers begin to lose their heads--literally--and disturbing past deeds come to light.

  Is Willow about to get cancelled all over again, this time for good?

• What Have You Done? | Shari Lapena

  Dark - Addictive - Twisty - Chilling - Domestic Suspense

  "Lapena is a master of manipulation." --USA Today

  The new unputdownable novel from the "queen of the one-sit read," and New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door

  Nothing ever happens in sleepy little Fairhill, Vermont. But this morning that will change. And one innocent question could be deadly. What have you done?

  The teenagers get their kicks telling ghost stories in the old graveyard. The parents trust their kids will arrive home safe from school. Everyone knows everyone. Curtains rarely twitch. Front doors are left unlocked.

  But Diana Brewer isn't lying safely in her bed where she belongs. Instead she lies in a hayfield, circled by vultures, discovered by a local farmer.

  How quickly a girl becomes a ghost. How quickly a town of friendly, familiar faces becomes a town of suspects, a place of fear and paranoia.

  Someone in Fairhill did this. Everyone wants answers.
  

• Hard To Kill | James Patterson, Mike Lupica

  "With Jane Smith, Alex Cross has reason to be jealous" (Good Morning America). Hard to Kill features James Patterson's greatest character yet-a tough-as-nails attorney up against a relentless killer.

  Attorney Jane Smith is mounting an impossible criminal defense.

  Her client, Rob Jacobson, is the unluckiest of the unlucky. No sooner is he accused of killing a family of three in the Hamptons than a second family is gunned down.

  It's not double jeopardy. It's not double murder. It's double triple homicide.

  Jane's career has spanned from NYPD beat cop to Hamptons courtroom. She's tough to beat. She's even tougher to kill.

  The defense may never rest.

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New Releases | July 30th, 2024

Get into the Olympic spirit!

We realize these aren’t Olympic sports, but it’s all in the spirit of outdoor fun and friendly competition.

“While collecting items for this post I realized I had never personally heard of Bocce Ball (which happens to be an Olympic sport). Soooo I went down a rabbit hole and found some interesting history behind the game I thought would be fun to share.” - Tristan

From HGTV.com:

A Brief History of Bocce

• The first documented history of the game was in 5200 BC in a painting in an Egyptian tomb.

• Bocce spread through Palestine and by 600 BC was adopted by the Greeks, who passed it on to the Romans.

• In 1319 AD, bocce was prohibited from play by anyone of lesser than noble status, as it was feared that it took too much time away from practical endeavors and military training. 

• By 1519, the game once again became public and spread to places like Belgium and Holland.

• The Republic of Venice condemned the sport in 1576 and the Catholic Church prohibited clergymen from playing bocce.

• Guissepi Garibaldi, sometimes referred to as the George Washington of Italy, popularized the sport and made it what it is today whilst unifying Italy.

• In 1896, the first Bocce Olympiad was played in Athens, Greece. It has been an international sport ever since.

• The first bocce clubs were formed in Italy and the first recorded Italian league was established in 1947. This was also the first year of the annual Bocce World Championships.
  
  You can read the full article on the HGTV website here.

What’s in the box?

• Franklin Bocce Ball Set

  • EVERYTHING YOU NEED: The perfect family afternoon starts with the perfect bocce ball set. Whether it’s your first bocce set or you’re teaching the next generation, this classic set includes everything you need

  • READY TO PLAY: The set includes (8) 90mm bocce balls: (2) red, (2) blue, (2) yellow, and (2) green. It also comes with (1) 40mm pallino scoring jack

  • ALL-WEATHER DEPENDABILITY: Sturdy bocce balls provide all-weather reliability, making them the ideal set for family barbecues, on the beach, or just on the lawn. Play on sand or grass—bocce balls go anywhere

  • STURDY, RUGGED, QUALITY: Dependable quality makes this bocce ball set the ideal recreational game for the whole family to enjoy

  • COMPACT CARRYING: The carrying box provides ample room for the entire set of Franklin bocce balls, but it’s lightweight and portable enough to keep your bocce ball set compact and easy to carry

• Franklin MLB Foam Batting Tee Set

  Features:

  • Designed for the beginner, this tee has a flexible post designed to absorb the momentum of the swing to prevent the tee from falling over

  • Minimal resistance ball holder adjustment from 23" to 33"

  • Sturdy x design with weighted legs for added stability

  • High impact post with flex joint

  • Easy twist and lock height

  Includes:

  • 1 Foam Baseball

  • 1 Batting Tee

  • 1 22" Foam Bat

• Slackers 8' Ninja Climbing Rope

  • PLAY IN THE AIR - slackers is a Colorado-based company that focuses on active kids' toys that will inspire children to play in the air. Your kids will enjoy this fun and exciting addition to their ninja warrior course.

  • EASY TO INSTALL - The colorful slackers climbing rope is easy to install. Our signature poly rope includes a steel carabiner designed specifically for a quick attachment to your Ninjaline obstacle course.

  • SAFETY FIRST - At slackers, we are focused on creating safe, reliable obstacle course equipment, ideal for building up your inner ninja warrior. Our Ninjaline accessories are rated ages 5+ and hold up to 250 LBS.

  • QUALITY DESIGN - At slackers, we focus on making quality children's active play games at affordable prices. The Ninjaline climbing ropes durable design holds up to even the most enthusiastic play.

• Slackers Ninjaline 36' Intro Kit

  • PLAY IN THE AIR- Have fun playing and training as a real ninja with our signature Slackers Ninjaline. Create your very own backyard gym. Watch your children play in the air and unleash their warrior within.

  • CONVENIENT AND PORTABLE- With its versatile design, the Slackers Ninjaline is easy to install and fun for all ages. Easily hang your Ninjaline between two healthy trees or wooden posts, attache your obstacles, and enjoy.

  • QUALITY DESIGN- Quality is our top priority. We use only the best materials for our outdoor play equipment. With the Slacker Ninjaline we made no exceptions. All components are carefully tested for strength and durability.

  • SAFETY FIRST- At Slackers, we are focused on creating safe, reliable obstacle course equipment, ideal for building up your inner ninja warrior. Our Ninjalines are rated ages 5+ and hold up to 250 LBS. Parental supervision required.

• Slackers 50' Slackline

  • ENHANCE BALANCE & CORE STRENGTH - Master balance skills and strengthen core muscles with this 50-foot fluorescent yellow slackline set.

  • COMPLETE KIT FOR BEGINNERS & EXPERTS - Includes a bonus 50-foot teaching line with a metal ratchet, perfect for beginners. Advanced users can enjoy the challenge with the main slackline.

  • PORTABLE & CONVENIENT - Comes with a storage bag for easy transport to parks, camping sites, or friends' houses. Setup between healthy trees (within 40 feet) for outdoor fun.

  • SAFE & VERSATILE FOR ALL AGES - Suitable for ages 5 and above, with a maximum weight capacity of 350 lbs. Adult supervision required for safe usage.

  • ELEVATE OUTDOOR PLAY - Elevate kids' outdoor experiences! Within minutes, they'll be walking the line, improving balance, confidence, and strength while having a blast.

  • Slacklines help improve core strength, and balance

  • Set up in 10 minutes

  • The kits comes with 2 sets of lines for easy set up and take down

  • Comes with bonus "teaching line"

  • Attractive carry bag

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Outdoor Fun Highlight

New Releases | July 23rd, 2024

• New Release List

  Adult Fiction

  • The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia - Juliet Grames

  • Catalina - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

  • Nicked - M.T. Anderson

  • Day - Michael Cunningham

  • Another Person - Kang Hwagil

  Adult Science

  • The Metaverse: Fully Revised and Updated Edition: Building the Spatial Internet - Matthew Ball

  Biography

  • Diana, William, and Harry: The Heartbreaking Story of a Princess and Mother - James Patterson, Chris Mooney

  • The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight - Andrew Leland

  Chapter Books

  • Numbers Queen [Addy McBean 1] - Margery Cuyler

  Current Events & Politics

  • Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World - Anne Applebaum

  Graphic Novels

  • Wagnificent: The Adventures of Thunder and Sage - Bethanie Murguia

  • The Ghostkeeper - Johanna Taylor

  Homestead

  • Traditional Bushcraft: Simple Projects for Wild Woodcraft: Tools, Tables, Live Fire Cooking and More - Craig Caudill

  Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

  • Alley: Junji Ito Story Collection - Junji Ito

  • Search and Destroy Vol. 1 - Atsushi Kaneko, Osamu Tezuka

  • X-Men: Reign of X by Jonathan Hickman Vol. 1 - Jonathan Hickman, Marvel Various

  • Poison Ivy Vol. 2: Unethical Consumption - Willow G. Wilson

  Middle Readers

  • Something Like Home - Andrea Beatriz Arango

  • The Great Zoodini - P.J. Gardner

  My First Readers

  • Ollie the Stomper Level My First - Olivier Dunrea

  • Gossie Level My First - Olivier Dunrea

  Mystery & Thriller

  • Run, Rose, Run - James Patterson, Dolly Parton

  Nature

  • Do You Know Where the Animals Live?: Discovering the Incredible Creatures All Around Us - Peter Wohllenben

  Picture Books

  • Trick or Treat on Scary Street - Lance Bass

  Romance

  • A Photo Finish - Elsie Silver

  • The Duke and I and the Viscount Who Loved Me: Bridgerton Collector's Edition - Julia Quinn

  • The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love - India Holton

  Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • The Book of Elsewhere - Keanu Reeves, China Mieville

  Social Sciences

  • Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years - Elizabeth Wayland Barber

  Spinner Rack Books

  • Just a Nap - Mercer Mayer

  True Crime

  • A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Chang... - Kim Mager, Lisa Pulitzer

  Young Adult

  • Time and Time Again - Chatham Greenfield

  • So Witches We Became - Jill Baguchinsky

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Overview (Our Top 5 Picks)

• The Duke and I and the Viscount Who Loved Me: Bridgerton Collector's Edition | Julia Quinn

  A stunning collectible edition containing the first two novels in #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn's beloved Bridgerton series. This edition features:

  • gorgeous sprayed edges intricate foil iconography ribbon bookmark beautiful endpapers

  See these beloved stories come to life on screen in Bridgerton, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix.

  The Duke and I

  When Daphne Bridgerton and Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings, agree to a fake courtship, they think they've found the perfect solution to their problems. Romantically associated with one of London's most desirable catches, Daphne's prospects among the ton will soar. For avowed bachelor Simon, an attachment to Daphne will deter would-be brides and their ambitious mamas. Their plan works like a charm--at first. But amid the glittering, gossipy, cut-throat world of London's elite, there is only one certainty: love ignores every rule. . .

  The Viscount Who Loved Me

  London's most elusive bachelor, Anthony Bridgerton is determined to wed. But one obstacle stands in his way--his intended's older sister, Kate Sheffield, who is driving Anthony mad with her determination to stop the betrothal. Kate is quite sure that reformed rakes do not make the best husbands, and Anthony Bridgerton is the most wicked rogue of them all. She's determined to protect her sister--even as she fears she may not be able to resist the reprehensible and oh so desirable rake herself . . .

• The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia | Juliet Grames

  One unidentified skeleton. Three missing men. A village full of secrets. The best-selling author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna brings us a sparkling--by turns funny and moving--novel about a young American woman turned amateur detective in a small village in Southern Italy ("Terrific" -Boston Globe).

  Calabria, 1960. Francesca Loftfield, a twenty-seven-year-old, starry-eyed American, arrives in the isolated mountain village of Santa Chionia tasked with opening a nursery school. There is no road, no doctor, no running water or electricity. And thanks to a recent flood that swept away the post office, there's no mail, either.

  Most troubling, though, is the human skeleton that surfaced after the flood waters receded. Who is it? And why don't the police come and investigate? When the local priest's housekeeper begs Francesca to help determine if the remains are those of her long-missing son, Francesca begins to ask a lot of inconvenient questions. As an outsider, she might be the only person who can uncover the truth. Or she might be getting in over her head. As she attempts to juggle a nosy landlady, a suspiciously dashing shepherd, and a network of local families bound together by a code of silence, Francesca finds herself forced to choose between the charitable mission that brought her to Santa Chionia, and her future happiness, between truth and survival.

  Set in the wild heart of Calabria, a land of sheer cliff faces, ancient tradition, dazzling sunlight--and one of the world's most ruthless criminal syndicates-- The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia is a suspenseful puzzle mystery, a captivating romance, and an affecting portrait of a young woman in search of a meaningful life.

• Nicked | M.T. Anderson

  From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction debut. Based on a bizarre but true quest to steal the mystical corpse of a long-dead saint, Nicked is a fantastical, genre-defying, and delightfully queer historical romp

  "Miracles, marvels, saints, sinners, love, plague, and treachery! M. T. Anderson has laid out a medieval feast of a novel, stuffed with everything I could have wished for. If I could canonize him for it, I would. But I'll settle for shouting about how much I love this book."--Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love

  "M. T. Anderson is one of our greatest and most precious voices. His books aren't just brilliantly witty and vastly entertaining, they're fixed stars of wisdom and sanity in our increasingly unhinged universe. When lost, I use them to steer by."--Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians Trilogy

  The year is 1087, and a pox is sweeping through the Italian city of Bari. When a lowly monk is visited by Saint Nicholas in his dreams, he interprets the vision as a call to serve the sick. But his superiors, and the power brokers they serve, have different plans for the tender-hearted Brother Nicephorus.

  Enter Tyun, a charismatic treasure hunter renowned for "liberating" holy relics from their tombs. The seven-hundred-year-old bones of Saint Nicholas are rumored to weep a mysterious liquid that can heal the sick, Tyun says. For the humble price of a small fortune, he will steal the bones and deliver them to Bari, curing the plague and restoring glory to the fallen city. And Nicephorus, the "dreamer," will be his guide.

  What follows is a heist for the ages, as Nicephorus is swept away on strange tides, and alongside even stranger bedfellows, to commit sacrilegious theft. Based on real historical accounts, Nicked is a swashbuckling saga, a medieval novel noir, a meditation on the miraculous, and a monastic meet-cute, filled with wide-eyed wonder at the world that awaits beyond our own borders.

• Day | Michael Cunningham

  NATIONAL BESTELLER - An "exquisite" (The Boston Globe) exploration of love and loss, the struggles and limitations of family life--and how we all must learn to live together and apart--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours
  
  "The only problem with Michael Cunningham's prose is that it ruins you for mere mortals' work. He is the most elegant writer in America."--The Washington Post

  NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Harper's Bazaar, Chicago Public Library, Lit Hub, Paste, Kirkus Reviews
  
  April 5, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, husband and wife, are slowly drifting apart--and both, it seems, are a little bit in love with Isabel's younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, is living vicariously through a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house--and whose departure threatens to break the family apart. And then there is Nathan, age ten, taking his first uncertain steps toward independence, while his sister, Violet, five, does her best not to notice the growing rift between her parents.

  April 5, 2020: As the world goes into lockdown, the cozy brownstone is starting to feel more like a prison. Violet is terrified of leaving the windows open, obsessed with keeping her family safe. Isabel and Dan communicate mostly in veiled sleights and frustrated sighs. And dear Robbie is stranded in Iceland, alone in a mountain cabin with nothing but his thoughts--and his secret Instagram life--for company.

  April 5, 2021 Emerging from the worst of the crisis, the family reckons with a new, very different reality--and with what they've learned, what they've lost, and how they might go on.

• Alley: Junji Ito Story Collection | Junji Ito

  A collection full of grotesque imagination and surreal urban legends.

  Every night, a young man hears children playing outside his boarding house--but the alley below his window is fenced off from the world. Then, when a young woman's family starts acting strangely at the same time she begins having bizarre dreams, she decides to stay with her aunt, but the town she heads for has neither addresses nor roads... Also, an all-you-can-eat ice cream bus that's more sinister than sweet!

  Legendary horror author Junji Ito presents ten bloodcurdling short stories.

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New Releases | July 23rd, 2024