Recent Staff Picks

Our staff is made up of full-time booksellers as well as teachers, students, librarians, lawyers, potters, writers, musicians, and parents. Most importantly, we are all passionate about books. We have diverse interests and tastes in what we read, so select a few different booksellers and read about our personal recommendations. 

Here are some of the books currently on our "Staff Favorites" table:

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The Overstory (Hardcover)

By Richard Powers
$27.95
ISBN: 9780393635522
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 3rd, 2018
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Two Kinds of Truth (Harry Bosch Novel #20) (Paperback)

By Michael Connelly
$15.99
ISBN: 9781455524174
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Grand Central Publishing - May 1st, 2018
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (Paperback)

By Arundhati Roy
$16.95
ISBN: 9780525434818
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage - May 1st, 2018
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Mother Land (Paperback)

By Paul Theroux
$15.99
ISBN: 9781328915825
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Published: Eamon Dolan/Mariner Books - May 1st, 2018
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Go, Went, Gone (Paperback)

By Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky (Translator)
$16.95
ISBN: 9780811225946
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Published: New Directions Publishing Corporation - September 26th, 2017
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Circe (#1 New York Times Bestseller) (Hardcover)

By Madeline Miller
$27.00
ISBN: 9780316556347
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Published: Little Brown and Company - April 10th, 2018
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Priestdaddy: A Memoir (Paperback)

By Patricia Lockwood
$16.00
ISBN: 9780399573262
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Riverhead Books - May 1st, 2018
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The Essex Serpent: A Novel (Paperback)

By Sarah Perry
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062666383
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Custom House - April 24th, 2018
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Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found Cover Image

Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found (Hardcover)

By Gilbert King
$28.00
ISBN: 9780399183386
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Riverhead Books - April 24th, 2018
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The Silent Companions (Paperback)

By Laura Purcell
$16.00
ISBN: 9780143131632
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Penguin Books - March 6th, 2018
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The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)

By Timothy Snyder
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525574460
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Published: Tim Duggan Books - April 3rd, 2018
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The Only Story (Hardcover)

By Julian Barnes
$25.95
ISBN: 9780525521211
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Published: Knopf Publishing Group - April 17th, 2018
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The Marsh King's Daughter (Paperback)

By Karen Dionne
$16.00
ISBN: 9780735213012
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - April 17th, 2018
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The Lying Game (Paperback)

By Ruth Ware
$16.99
ISBN: 9781501156205
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Gallery/Scout Press - March 6th, 2018
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Welcome to Lagos (Hardcover)

By Chibundu Onuzo
$26.00
ISBN: 9781936787807
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Catapult - May 1st, 2018
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The Night Ocean (Paperback)

By Paul La Farge
$17.00
ISBN: 9781101981092
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Penguin Books - April 3rd, 2018
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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (Paperback)

By Kathleen Rooney
$16.00
ISBN: 9781250151162
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Published: St. Martin's Press - April 3rd, 2018
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In This Grave Hour: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Paperback)

By Jacqueline Winspear
$15.99
ISBN: 9780062436627
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Harper Perennial - February 27th, 2018
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The Stars Are Fire (Paperback)

By Anita Shreve
$16.00
ISBN: 9780345806369
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage - March 27th, 2018
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Magpie Murders: A Novel Cover Image

Magpie Murders: A Novel (Paperback)

By Anthony Horowitz
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062645234
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Harper Perennial - March 27th, 2018
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Anything Is Possible (Paperback)

By Elizabeth Strout
$17.00
ISBN: 9780812989410
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Published: Random House Trade - March 27th, 2018
A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life Cover Image

A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life (Paperback)

By Jim Harrison
$17.00
ISBN: 9780802127662
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Published: Grove Press - March 20th, 2018
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Katalin Street (Paperback)

By Magda Szabo, Len Rix (Translator)
$15.95
ISBN: 9781681371528
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: New York Review of Books - September 12th, 2017
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The Heart's Invisible Furies (Paperback)

By John Boyne
$17.00
ISBN: 9781524760793
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Hogarth Press - March 6th, 2018
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Exit West (Paperback)

By Mohsin Hamid
$16.00
ISBN: 9780735212206
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Riverhead Books - February 27th, 2018
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The Power (Hardcover)

By Naomi Alderman
$26.00
ISBN: 9780316547611
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Little Brown and Company - October 10th, 2017
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Don't Skip Out on Me: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Willy Vlautin
$22.99
ISBN: 9780062684455
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Harper Perennial - February 13th, 2018
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A Piece of the World: A Novel Cover Image

A Piece of the World: A Novel (Paperback)

By Christina Baker Kline
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062356277
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - January 30th, 2018
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Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town Cover Image

Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town (Paperback)

By Brian Alexander
$17.00
ISBN: 9781250165770
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: St. Martin's Press - January 2nd, 2018
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit Cover Image

The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit (Paperback)

By Michael Finkel
$16.00
ISBN: 9781101911532
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage - January 30th, 2018
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Difficult Women (Paperback)

By Roxane Gay
$16.00
ISBN: 9780802127372
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Grove Press - November 14th, 2017
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Celine (Vintage Contemporaries) (Paperback)

By Peter Heller
$16.00
ISBN: 9781101973486
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage - January 2nd, 2018
South and West: From a Notebook (Vintage International) Cover Image

South and West: From a Notebook (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By Joan Didion
$15.00
ISBN: 9780525434191
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage - January 2nd, 2018
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Transit (Outline Trilogy #2) Cover Image

Transit (Outline Trilogy #2) (Paperback)

By Rachel Cusk
$16.00
ISBN: 9781250151797
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Picador USA - December 19th, 2017
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No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters (Hardcover)

By Ursula K. Le Guin, Karen Joy Fowler (Introduction by)
$22.00
ISBN: 9781328661593
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Houghton Mifflin - December 5th, 2017
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Akata Witch Cover Image

Akata Witch (Paperback)

By Nnedi Okorafor
$10.99
ISBN: 9780142420911
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Speak - July 11th, 2017
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Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship (Paperback)

By Isabel Vincent
$14.95
ISBN: 9781616206949
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Algonquin Books - June 13th, 2017
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All the Light We Cannot See (Paperback)

By Anthony Doerr
$17.00
ISBN: 9781501173219
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Scribner Book Company - April 4th, 2017
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story Cover Image

The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story (Paperback)

By Douglas J. Preston
$15.99
ISBN: 9781455540013
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Grand Central Publishing - September 5th, 2017
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News of the World: A Novel (Paperback)

By Paulette Jiles
$15.99
ISBN: 9780062409218
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - June 20th, 2017
The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time Cover Image

The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time (Paperback)

By Brooke Gladstone
$8.95
ISBN: 9781523502387
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Workman Publishing - May 16th, 2017
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The Woman in Cabin 10 (Paperback)

By Ruth Ware
$16.00
ISBN: 9781501132957
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Gallery/Scout Press - April 11th, 2017
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Cover Image

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)

By Timothy Snyder
$8.99
ISBN: 9780804190114
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Tim Duggan Books - February 28th, 2017
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