Books

New fiction

Lady tan's circle of women : a novel

Lisa See, author

The heaven & earth grocery store : a novel

James McBride, author

Staff Pick

If an Egyptian cannot speak English

Noor Naga

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo and fall in love. Noor Naga explores questions of homeland, fetishization, 21st century notions of empire in this experimental novel.

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New non-fiction

The power to change : mastering the habits that matter most

Craig Groeschel, author

Drama free : a guide to managing unhealthy family relationships

Nedra Glover Tawwab, author

How trust works : the science of how relationships are built, broken, and repaired

Peter H. Kim, author

The art of clear thinking : a stealth fighter pilot's timeless rules for making tough decisions

Hasard Lee, author

Awe : the new science of everyday wonder and how it can transform your life

Dacher Keltner, author

Stress-free productivity : a personalized toolkit to become your most efficient and creative self

Alice Boyes, author

Breakthrough women's running : dream big and train smart

Neely Spence Gracey, author

How big things get done : the surprising factors that determine the fate of every project, from home renovations to space exploration and everything in between

Bent Flyvbjerg, author

The emotional brain : lost and found in the science of emotion

Dean Burnett, author

Emotional : how feelings shape our thinking

Leonard Mlodinow, author

Just one thing : how simple changes can transform your life

Michael Mosley, author

Staff Pick

Before We Were Trans

Kit Heyam

Before We Were Trans is a new and different story of gender, that seeks not to be comprehensive or definitive, but - by blending culture, feminism and politics - to widen the scope of what we think of as trans history by telling the stories of people across the globe whose experience of gender has been transgressive, or not characterized by stability or binary categories. Transporting us from Renaissance Venice to seventeenth-century Angola, from Edo Japan to North America, the stories this book tells leave questions and resist conclusions. They are fraught with ambiguity, and defy modern Western terminology and categories-not least the category of 'trans' itself. But telling them provides a history that reflects the richness of modern trans reality more closely than any previously written.

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New teen fiction

After dark with Roxie Clark

Davis, Brooke Lauren

Castles in their bones

Sebastian, Laura, author

Children of Ragnarok

Chima, Cinda Williams, author

Decoding Dot Grey

Davison, Nicola, 1970- author

The do-over

Painter, Lynn, author

The edge of being

Brandon, James (Young adult author), author

How you grow wings

Onoseta, Rimma, author

If you come softly

Woodson, Jacqueline, author

The Luminaries

Dennard, Susan, author

Rebel Seoul

Oh, Axie

Staff Pick

The Final Gambit

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

In this thrilling conclusion to the Inheritance Games series, all Avery has to do to inherit billions is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. But as the clock ticks down, trouble arrives in the form of a visitor who needs her help - and whose presence could change everything.

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