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New Releases | August 13th, 2024

August 11, 2024 Clare Brooks
  • Activity Books

    • Bluey's Halloween Mix-And-Match

    Adult Fiction

    • Burn - Peter Heller

    • Mina's Matchbox - Yoko Ogawa

    • The Unraveling - Melanie Hamrick

    Adult Science

    • Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans - Bill Schutt

    Arts & Entertainment

    • What's Next: A Backstage Pass to the West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service... - Melissa Fitzgerald, Mary McCormack

    • Witches Run Amok: The Oral History of Disney's Hocus Pocus - Shannon Carlin

    Biography

    • Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir - Anna Marie Tendler

    • A Promised Land - Barack Obama

    • Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World - Anupreeta Das

    Board Books

    • Trunk or Treat: A Lift-The-Flap Pop-Up Story - Hannah Eliot

    • The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Creepy-Crawly Halloween: A Lift-The-Flap Book - Eric Carle

    Chapter Books & Early Readers

    • School Trip : [Diary of an Accidental Witch 5] - Perdita Cargill, Honor Cargill

    Children's Art Books

    • Draw with Art for Kids Hub Cute and Funny Foods - Rob Jensen, Art For Kids Hub

    Children's Poetry

    • Supernatural Creatures: Mythical and Sacred Creatures from Around the World - DK

    Coloring Books

    • Bluey: Hooray, It's Halloween!: A Coloring Book

    Cookbooks

    • What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking - Caroline Chambers

    Current Events & Politics

    • Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy - Brian Tyler Cohen

    Graphic Novels

    • In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers: The Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, and Years Afte... - Don Brown

    History

    • Kent State: An American Tragedy - Brian Vandermark

    • Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation - Brenda Wineapple

    Horror

    • Red Rabbit - Alex Grecian

    Just The Facts

    • History Smashers: Salem Witch Trials - Kate Messner

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu Academy, Vol. 3 - Natsuki Hokami

    • Superman: Lost - Christopher Priest

    • Deadpool: Samurai--The Official Coloring Book

    My First Readers

    • Matilda: Matilda's Miracles Level 3 - Roald Dahl

    • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: They All Come Out in the Wash Level 3 - Roald Dahl

    Mystery & Thriller

    • Worst Case Scenario - T.J. Newman

    • Angel of Vengeance: Volume 22 - Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    • The Last Devil to Die: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery - Richard Osman

    Nature

    • Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks - Marcia Bjornerud

    Personal Growth

    • Moving on Doesn't Mean Letting Go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss - Gina Moffa

    Picture Books

    • Fall Parade: A Picture Book - Camelia Kay

    Romance

    • Collided - Lauren Asher

    • House of Beating Wings (Deluxe Edition) - Olivia Wildenstein

    • Born of Blood and Ash - Jennifer L. Armentrout

    • The Phoenix Keeper - S. A. MacLean

    • The Break-Up Pact - Emma Lord

    • Joy - Danielle Steel

    • Offer from a Gentleman & Romancing Mister Bridgerton: Bridgerton Collector's Ed - Julia Quinn

    • Enemies to Lovers - Laura Jane Williams

    • Haunted Ever After - Jen Deluca

    • A Werewolf's Guide to Seducing a Vampire - Sarah Hawley

    • No More Secrets - Lucy Score

    Science & Nature

    • How Technology Works: From Monster Trucks to Mars Rovers - DK

    Science

    • Over and Under the Wetland - Kate Messner

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • Lady Macbeth - Ava Reid

    • Wicked: Volume One in the Wicked Years - Gregory Maguire

    • Son of a Witch: Volume Two in the Wicked Years - Gregory Maguire

    • A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in the Wicked Years - Gregory Maguire

    • Out of Oz: The Final Volume in the Wicked Years - Gregory Maguire

    Social Sciences

    • It's Your Body: The Young Woman's Guide to Empowered Sexual Health - Dena Moes

    • The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America - Kathryn J. Edin, Luke H. Shaefer, Timothy Nelson

    • The Hate Next Door: Why White Supremacists Are All Around Us--And How to Spot Them - Matson Browning

    • Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty - Nikhil Goyal

    Travel

    • Go to Hell: A Traveler's Guide to Earth's Most Otherworldly Destinations - Erika Engelhaupt

    Young Adult

    • Read at Your Own Risk - Remy Lai

    • The Maid and the Crocodile: A Novel in the World of Raybearer - Jordan Ifueko


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  • From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes the thrilling conclusion to her beloved Flesh and Fire series...

    The line between love and obsession has never been wider.

    While Sera is finally free of Kolis and back with those she loves, not everything is calm. Memories of all she's endured still haunt her, but Sera finally has hope for a future with the other half of her heart and soul. Nyktos desires, loves, and accepts every part of her--even the monstrous bits she still battles.

    More than ever, Sera and Ash have everything under the realms to fight for, and Nyktos has no doubt Sera is fit to be the Queen of the Gods. But she must find that faith within herself if they hope to convince the other Courts to support them against Kolis and make Iliseeum and the mortal realm better, safer places for all.

    But as Sera begins to piece together the importance of her bloodline and the true meaning behind the foreboding prophecy, it becomes clear that everything that has happened and is yet to come is much bigger than Kolis and his dark obsessions.

    They cannot help but wonder exactly how much influence the Fates have had and what their ultimate goal is. What Sera does know for sure is that they can trust very few--including her.

    A battle between the gods is brewing, and heartbreaking losses are imminent with the true Primal of Death strengthening. With a family of the heart willing to battle by their side, can Sera and Nyktos stop Kolis before he destroys the realms, or will it all disappear in a fiery inferno of blood and ash?

    And the line between justice and vengeance has never been so thin.

  • From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men--friends since boyhood--who emerge from the woods of rural Maine to a dystopian country racked by bewildering violence

    Every year, Jess and Storey have made an annual pilgrimage to the most remote corners of the country, where they camp, hunt, and hike, leaving much from their long friendship unspoken. Although the state of Maine has convulsed all summer with secession mania--a mania that has simultaneously spread across other states--Jess and Storey figure it's a fight reserved for legislators or, worst-case scenario, folks in the capital.

    But after weeks hunting off the grid, the men reach a small town and are shocked by what they find: a bridge blown apart, buildings burned to the ground, and bombed-out cars abandoned on the road. Trying to make sense of the sudden destruction all around them, they set their sights on finding their way home, dragging a wagon across bumpy dirt roads, scavenging from boats left in lakes, and dodging armed men--secessionists or U.S. military, they cannot tell--as they seek a path to safety. Then, a startling discovery drastically alters their path and the stakes of their escape.

    Drenched in the beauty of the natural world and attuned to the specific cadences of male friendship, even here at the edge of doom, Burn is both a blistering warning about a divided country's political strife and an ode to the salvation found in our chosen families.

  • A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the lives of women.

    In early 2021, popular artist Anna Marie Tendler checked herself into a psychiatric hospital following a year of crippling anxiety, depression and self-harm. Over two weeks, she underwent myriad psychological tests, participated in numerous therapy sessions, connected with fellow patients and experienced profound breakthroughs, such as when a doctor noted, "There is a you inside that feels invisible to those looking at you from the outside."

    In Men Have Called Her Crazy, Tendler recounts her hospital experience as well as pivotal moments in her life that preceded and followed. As the title suggests, many of these moments are impacted by men: unrequited love in high school; the twenty-eight-year-old she lost her virginity to when she was sixteen; the frustrations and absurdities of dating in her mid-thirties; and her decision to freeze her eggs as all her friends were starting families.

    This stunning literary self-portrait examines the unreasonable expectations and pressures women face in the 21st century. Yet overwhelming and despairing as that can feel, Tendler ultimately offers a message of hope. Early in her stay in the hospital, she says, "My wish for myself is that one day I'll reach a place where I can face hardship without trying to destroy myself." By the end of the book, she fulfills that wish.

  • "Utterly addictive and smolderingly sexy!" --DANIELLE L. JENSEN, New York Times bestselling author of A Fate Inked in Blood

    First in the tantalizing, lush, and epic Kingdom of Crows romantasy series from USA Today bestselling author and BookTok favorite Olivia Wildenstein, now in a deluxe edition including:

    • sprayed edges

    • bonus art

    • a brand-new chapter

    

    Free the crows, Fallon, and they will make you queen.

    Until an oracle predicted my regal future, I'd never imagined myself rising above the curve of my round ears. After all, I was the magicless halfling loved by beasts but loathed by every pure-blooded faerie at court. Well . . . by all but one.

    Dante Regio, prince of Luce, had owned my heart since he gave me my first kiss. If gathering a slew of iron relics could help me overthrow the current monarch and crown his brother to rule at my side, then treasure hunting I'd go.

    If only the oracle had warned me what winged demon I was releasing into the world.

    And that I'd become this demon's obsession.

    "Unputdownable! House of Beating Wings is a fantastical delight of a book, rich with its imagination and lush with its storytelling." --RuNyx, New York Times bestselling author of Gothikana

  • #1 New York Times bestseller!

    A new mystery is afoot in the fourth book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard Osman

    "The best Murder Club book yet. . . A poignant complement to both the fair-play mystery plot and the characters' lively humor."
    --The New York Times Book Review

    We Solve Murders, a new series from Richard Osman, coming September 17

    It's rarely a quiet day for the Thursday Murder Club.

    Shocking news reaches them--an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing.

    The gang's search leads them into the antiques business, where the tricks of the trade are as old as the objects themselves. As they encounter drug dealers, art forgers, and online fraudsters--as well as heartache close to home--Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim have no idea whom to trust.

    With the body count rising, the clock ticking down, and trouble firmly on their tail, has their luck finally run out?

    And who will be the last devil to die?

New Releases | August 13th, 2024
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August 10, 2024 Clare Brooks

Crayons & markers & paints... oh my! Join us on Saturday, August 17th for a Crayola giveaway! We'll be handing out freebies on the 17th while supplies last, no purchase necessary.

This is also our way of saying, "Hey... guess what? We carry Crayola products now!"

You may or may not have the opportunity to see Clare dressed as a giant crayon...

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That pregnancy, labor, birth and the postpartum are honored and respected as pieces of a sacred journey. You’re on a journey like no other, and WOMB Initiative is here to support you throughout the whole process. They're known for holistic information and research that will help you gather vital resources for your journey into and through motherhood.

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You can learn more about the WOMB Initiative and the services they provide via their website or Facebook.

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New Releases | August 6th, 2024

August 4, 2024 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • Plays Well With Others - Sophie Brickman

    • Canary Girls - Jennifer Chiaverini

    • There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven: Stories - Ruben Reyes Jr.

    • The Seventh Veil of Salome - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

    • The Princess of 72nd Street - Elaine Kraf

    • California Golden - Melanie Benjamin

    • Speech Team - Tim Murphy

    Biography

    • The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington's Most Private First Lady - Rick Jervis

    Body, Mind & Spirit

    • The Essential Signs & Skymates (Abridged Edition): Astrological Compatibility for Every Sign - Dossé-Via Trenou

    Board Books

    • Hello, World! from Seed to Pumpkin - Jill McDonald

    • How Do Dinosaurs Show Good Manners? - Jane Yolen

    Chapter Books & Early Readers

    • The Epic Guide to Dragon Masters - Tracey West

    • Dragon Girls 14 : Mina the Lightning Dragon - Maddy Mara

    • Ash Wins It All! : [Pokémon: World Championship Trilogy 3] - Jeanette Lane

    • Anne Chapter Book 6HC : [Anne Dreams] - Kallie George

    • Super Duper Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokémon) - Scholastic

    • Catrat's Birthday Surprise (Gabby's Dollhouse 8x8 #10) - Pamela Bobowicz

    • Welcome to the City (Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) - Matt Huntley

    Current Events & Politics

    • The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House - Nancy Pelosi

    • Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections - David Daley

    Fun & Games

    • Herbal Activities for Kids: 50 Nature Crafts, Recipes, and Garden Projects - Molly Meehan Brown

    • Can You See What I See?: Curiosity Shop (from the Creator of I Spy) - Walter Wick

    Graphic Novels

    • How It All Ends - Emma Hunsinger

    • Unico: Awakening (Volume 1): An Original Manga - Samuel Sattin

    History

    • The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore - Evan Friss

    Homestead

    • Wild Wisdom: Primal Skills to Survive in Nature - Donny Dust

    • 101 Tips for a Zero-Waste Kitchen - Kathryn Kellogg

    Horror

    • The Wishing Pool and Other Stories - Tananarive Due

    • House of Bone and Rain - Gabino Iglesias

    • A Sorceress Comes to Call - T. Kingfisher

    • A Mask of Flies - Matthew Lyons

    Humor

    • Life in the Present: A Joyful Collection of Comics about Living in the Moment - Liz Climo

    Just the Facts

    • World More Beautiful: The Life and Art of Barbara Cooney - Angela Burke Kunkel

    Literary Collections

    • The Age of Loneliness: Essays - Laura Marris

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Spy X Family, Vol. 12 - Tatsuya Endo

    • Batman and Robin Vol. 1: Father and Son - Joshua Williamson

    • Batman: Hush: DC Compact Comics Edition - Jeph Loeb

    • Wonder Woman: Earth One: DC Compact Comics Edition - Grant Morrison

    Middle Readers

    • Cucumber Madness! [Cat on the Run 2] - Aaron Blabey

    • The Crossbow of Destiny - Brandon Hoang

    My First Readers

    • National Geographic Readers: Superstars of the Sea Collection Level 2 - National Geographic Kids

    Mystery & Thriller

    • The Perfect Son - Freida McFadden

    • Agony Hill: A Mystery - Sarah Stewart Taylor

    • Long Shadows - David Baldacci

    • The Raging Storm: A Detective Matthew Venn Novel - Ann Cleeves

    • Bright Young Women - Jessica Knoll

    • Conclave - Robert Harris

    Personal Growth

    • I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Conversations with My Psychiatrist - Baek Sehee

    • I Want to Die But I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Further Conversations with My Psychiatrist - Baek Sehee

    Picture Books

    • Tiny Jenny: Little Fairy, Big Trouble - Briony May Smith

    • The Endless Sleepover! (Disney Junior Ariel) - Golden Books

    • Feeling Boo: A Picture Book - Alex Boniello, April Lavalle

    • Love and Hugs: Fall - Tracey Colliston

    • The Dictionary Story - Oliver Jeffers, Sam Winston

    • A Mischief of Mice - Christie Matheson

    • Who's in Charge? - Stephanie Allain, Jenny Kilon

    • We Are Definitely Human - X. Fang

    Poetry

    • A Month of Sundays - Courtney Peppernell

    • The Illiad - Homer

    Romance

    • The Pairing: Special 1st Edition - Casey McQuiston

    • Dark Restraint - Katee Robert

    • The Coven: Special Edition - Harper L. Woods

    • Throne of the Fallen - Kerri Maniscalco

    • The Enemy - Sarah Adams

    • Four Weekends and a Funeral - Ellie Palmer

    Science & Nature

    • Volcanoes - Nell Cross Beckerman

    • Eyewitness Horse - DK

    Science Ficiton & Fantasy

    • The Hobbit Collector's Edition - J. R. R. Tolkien

    • The Silmarillion Collector's Edition - J. R. R. Tolkien

    • Apprentice to the Villain - Hannah Nicole Maehrer

    • The Mercy of Gods - James S. A. Corey

    Stickers

    • The Extreme Horror Sticker Book: 500+ Stickers to Keep You Up at Night

    True Crime

    • The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer - Rick Jervis

    • McMillions: The Absolutely True Story of How an Unlikely Pair of FBI Agents Brought Down the Most Su... - James Lee Hernandez, Brian Lazarte

    • Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice - Barbara Bradley Hagerty

    Young Adult

    • Deity [Covenant 3] - Jennifer L. Armentrout

    • Death at Morning House - Maureen Johnson

    • The Sunbearer Trials : [Sunbearer Duology 1] - Aiden Thomas

    • The House Where Death Lives - Alex Brown, Nova Ren Suma, Gina Chen

    • Hovergirls - Geneva Bowers

    • Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice - Katie Cicatelli-Kuc


Overview (Our Top 5 Picks)

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  • LIMITED FIRST PRINT RUN--featuring sprayed edges with a stenciled script design. Only available for a limited time and while supplies last.

    In #1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston's latest romantic comedy, two bisexual exes accidentally book the same European food and wine tour and challenge each other to a hookup competition to prove they're over each other--except they're definitely not.

    Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, in love, and now estranged exes. After a brutal breakup on the transatlantic flight to their dream European food and wine tour, they exited each other's lives once and for all.

    Time apart has done them good. Theo has found confidence as a hustling bartender by night and aspiring sommelier by day, with a long roster of casual lovers. Kit, who never returned to America, graduated as the reigning sex god of his pastry school class and now bakes at one of the finest restaurants in Paris. Sure, nothing really compares to what they had, and life stretches out long and lonely ahead of them, but--yeah. It's in the past.

    All that remains is the unused voucher for the European tour that never happened, good for 48 months after its original date and about to expire. Four years later, it seems like a great idea to finally take the trip. Solo. Separately.

    It's not until they board the tour bus that they discover they've both accidentally had the exact same idea, and now they're trapped with each other for three weeks of stunning views, luscious flavors, and the most romantic cities of France, Spain, and Italy. It's fine. There's nothing left between them. So much nothing that, when Theo suggests a friendly wager to see who can sleep with their hot Italian tour guide first, Kit is totally game. And why stop there? Why not a full-on European hookup competition?

    But sometimes a taste of everything only makes you crave what you can't have.

    "The summer's best romance novel." - Rolling Stone

    "Spicy, sexy and absolutely delicious." - People

    "Move over 'hot girl summer' - 'hot bisexual summer' is ready for its moment and Casey McQuiston's new novel The Pairing is here to usher it in." - USA Today

  • LIMITED FIRST PRINT RUN--featuring stenciled edges with a floral design and designed endpapers. Only available for a limited time and while supplies last.

    From indie darling Harper L. Woods comes THE COVEN, a sexy, deliciously imaginative fantasy romance where The Magicians meets Ninth House with vampires.

    Revenge.

    Raised to be my father's weapon against the Coven that took away his sister and his birthright, I would do anything to protect my younger brother from suffering the same fate. My duty forces me to the secret town of Crystal Hollow and the prestigious Hollow's Grove University--where the best and brightest of my kind learn to practice their magic free from human judgment.

    There are no whispered words here. No condemnation for the blood that flows through my veins. The only animosity I face comes from the beautiful and infuriating Headmaster, Alaric Grayson Thorne, a man who despises me just as much as I loathe him and everything he stands for.

    But that doesn't mean secrets don't threaten to tear the school in two. No one talks about the bloody massacre that forced it to close decades prior, only the opportunity it can afford to those fortunate enough to attend.

    Because for the first time in fifty years, the Coven will open its wards to the Thirteen.

    Thirteen promising students destined to change the world.

    If the ghosts of Hollow's Grove's victims don't kill them first.

  • Set in rural Vermont in the volatile 1960s, Agony Hill is the first novel in a new historical series full of vivid New England atmosphere and the deeply drawn characters that are Sarah Stewart Taylor's trademark.

    In the hot summer of 1965, Bostonian Franklin Warren arrives in Bethany, Vermont, to take a position as a detective with the state police. Warren's new home is on the verge of monumental change; the interstates under construction will bring new people, new opportunities, and new problems to Vermont, and the Cold War and protests against the war in Vietnam have finally reached the dirt roads and rolling pastures of Bethany.

    Warren has barely unpacked when he's called up to a remote farm on Agony Hill. Former New Yorker and Back-to-the-Lander Hugh Weber seems to have set fire to his barn and himself, with the door barred from the inside, but things aren't adding up for Warren. The people of Bethany--from Weber's enigmatic wife to Warren's neighbor, widow and amateur detective Alice Bellows -- clearly have secrets they'd like to keep, but Warren can't tell if the truth about Weber's death is one of them. As he gets to know his new home and grapples with the tragedy that brought him there, Warren is drawn to the people and traditions of small town Vermont, even as he finds darkness amidst the beauty.

  • A new, revolutionary look into the brilliant life of Pat Nixon.

    In America's collective consciousness, Pat Nixon has long been perceived as enigmatic. She was voted "Most Admired Woman in the World" in 1972 and made Gallup Poll's top ten list of most admired women fourteen times. She survived the turmoil of the Watergate scandal with her popularity and dignity intact. The real Pat Nixon, however, bore little resemblance to the woman so often described as elusive, mysterious and "plastic" in the press. Pat married Richard Nixon in June of 1940. As the couple rose to prominence, Pat became Second Lady from 1953-1961 and then First Lady from 1969-1974, forging her own graceful path between the protocols of the strait-laced mid-century and the bra-burning Sixties and Seventies.

    Pat was a highly travelled First Lady, visiting eighty-three countries during her tenure. After a devastating earthquake in Peru in 1970, she personally flew in medical supplies and food to hard-hit areas, meeting one-on-one with victims of the tragedy. The First Lady's 1972 trips with her husband to China and to Russia were critical to the detente that resulted. Back in the US, Pat greatly expanded upon previous preservation efforts in the White House, obtaining more art and antique objects than any other First Lady. In the domestic arena, she was progressive on women's issues, favoring the Equal Rights Amendment and backing a targeted effort to get more women into high level government jobs. Pat strongly supported nominating a woman for the Supreme Court. She was pro-choice, supporting women's reproductive rights publicly even before the landmark Roe v. Wade case in 1973.

    When asked to define her "signature" First Lady agenda, she defied being put into a box, often saying: "People are my project." The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon, Heath Hardage Lee presents readers with the essential nature of this First Lady, an empathetic, adventurous, self-made woman who wanted no power or influence, but who connected warmly with both ordinary Americans and people from different cultures she encountered world-wide.

  • The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from housewife to House Speaker--how she became a master legislator, a key partner to presidents, and the most visible leader of the Trump resistance.

    When, at age forty-six, Nancy Pelosi, mother of five, asked her youngest daughter if she should run for Congress, Alexandra Pelosi answered: "Mother, get a life!" And so Nancy did, and what a life it has been.

    In The Art of Power, Pelosi describes for the first time what it takes to make history--not only as the first woman to ascend to the most powerful legislative role in our nation, but to pass laws that would save lives and livelihoods, from the emergency rescue of the economy in 2008 to transforming health care. She describes the perseverance, persuasion, and respect for her members that it took to succeed, but also the joy of seeing America change for the better. Among the best-prepared and hardest working Speakers in history, Pelosi worked to find common ground, or stand her ground, with presidents from Bush to Biden. She also shares moving moments with soldiers sent to the front lines, women who inspired her, and human rights activists who fought by her side.

    Pelosi took positions that established her as a prophetic voice on the major moral issues of the day, warning early about the dangers of the Iraq War and of the Chinese government's long record of misbehavior. This moral courage prepared her for the arrival of Trump, with whom she famously tangled, becoming a red-coated symbol of resistance to his destructive presidency. Here, she reveals how she went toe-to-toe with Trump, leading up to January 6, 2021, when he unleashed his post-election fury on the Congress. Pelosi gives us her personal account of that day: the assault not only on the symbol of our democracy but on the men and women who had come to serve the nation, never expecting to hide under desks or flee for their lives--and her determined efforts to get the National Guard to the Capitol. Nearly two years later, violence and fury would erupt inside Pelosi's own home when an intruder, demanding to see the Speaker, viciously attacked her beloved husband, Paul. Here, Pelosi shares that horrifying day and the traumatic aftermath for her and her family.

    The woman who has been lauded by her opposition as "the most powerful Speaker" ever shows us why she is not afraid of a good fight. The Art of Power is about the fighting spirit that has always animated her, and the historic legacy that spirit has produced.

New Releases | August 6th, 2024
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Your favorite Planeswalkers as super cute animals?! Bloomburrow is here!

August 2, 2024 Clare Brooks

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!

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  • 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.

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

August 1, 2024 Clare Brooks
  • 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.

August 2024 Monthly Staff Pick
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