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Featured Event

Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) Cover Image

Virtual Book Club

Thursday, January 28, 2021 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm

For more details and to RSVP, please contact our volunteer book club coordinator, Laura McGaha at lauramcgaha@gmail.com

Pre-order the Year's Most Anticipated Books

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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Cover Image

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The Committed Cover Image

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Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring '20s Cover Image

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How Beautiful We Were: A Novel Cover Image

The Liar's Dictionary: A Novel Cover Image

Staff Picks: New in Translation

On Lighthouses Cover Image

In Praise of Paths: Walking Through Time and Nature Cover Image

Magnetized: Conversations with a Serial Killer Cover Image

The Other Name: Septology I-II Cover Image

A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire Cover Image

Staff Picks: Children's Books

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Parachutes Cover Image

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Something to Say Cover Image

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Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration Cover Image

Feed Your Mind: A Story of August Wilson Cover Image

Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir Cover Image

City of Asylum Exiled Writers-in-Residence

The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories Cover Image

The Conspiracy Cover Image

Night Birds and Other Stories Cover Image

Senselessness Cover Image

The Thunder of Deep Thought: House of the Sun Notebooks, Number Two Cover Image

Recent Bestsellers

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How to Be an Antiracist Cover Image

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism Cover Image

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor Cover Image

So You Want to Talk About Race Cover Image

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Cover Image

New in paperback

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Travelers: A Novel Cover Image

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Dominicana: A Novel Cover Image

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The Shadow King: A Novel Cover Image

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde Cover Image

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Underland: A Deep Time Journey Cover Image

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