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A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER
“[A] diverse and enlightening book . . .$32.00ISBN: 9780593230251Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Random House - August 4th, 2020#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
$34.95ISBN: 9780807172971Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: LSU Press - May 6th, 2020The West Bank has been a vital part of greater New Orleans since the city's inception, serving as its breadbasket, foundry, shipbuilder, railroad terminal, train manufacturer, and even livestock hub. At one time it was the Gulf South's St. Louis, boasting a diversified industrial sector as well as a riverine, mercantilist, and agricultural economy.
$12.99ISBN: 9781338535624Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Graphix - September 1st, 2020The mayor has had enough of Dog Man's shenanigans in the ninth book from worldwide bestselling author and artist Dav Pilkey.$16.99ISBN: 9780062913494Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Ecco - September 1st, 2020A New York Times Bestseller • A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
$27.00ISBN: 9780525536291Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Riverhead Books - June 2nd, 2020#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick$18.00ISBN: 9781501145254Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Simon & Schuster - August 7th, 2018The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—“a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fascinating life of one of our generation's most influential voices in both law and public opinion” (Harper’s Bazaar).
My Own Words “showcases Ruth Ginsburg$28.00ISBN: 9781501160837Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Atria Books - September 8th, 2020Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
A People Book of the Week, Book of the Month Club selection, #1 Indie Next Pick, and Best of Fall in Good Housekeeping, PopSugar, The Washington Post, New York Post, Shondaland, CNN, and more!
“[A] quirky, big-hearted novel… Wry, wise, and often laugh-ou$16.99ISBN: 9780062060624Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Ecco - August 28th, 2012“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.”
—Ann Patchett$27.99ISBN: 9780062868930Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: William Morrow - June 2nd, 2020A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
$28.00ISBN: 9780316422048Availability: Not in stock. Usually arrives in 2-5 DaysPublished: Redhook - October 13th, 2020In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in Alix E. Harrow's powerful novel of magic and the suffragette movement.$19.99ISBN: 9780316458214Availability: BackorderedPublished: Voracious - October 22nd, 2019From Pete Souza, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Obama: An Intimate Portrait, comes a potent commentary on the Presidency -- and our country.
$32.00ISBN: 9780385348713Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Crown - February 25th, 2020#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz—an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis
$49.95ISBN: 9780393081084Availability: Not in stock. Usually arrives in 2-5 DaysPublished: W. W. Norton & Company - September 21st, 2015A New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the James Beard Award for General Cooking and the IACP Cookbook of the Year Award
"The one book you must have, no matter what you’re planning to cook or where your skill level falls."—New York Times Book Review$22.50ISBN: 9780674725904Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Harvard University Press - October 14th, 2013This is the story of a city that shouldn't exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America's most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, battered by hurricanes.
$35.00ISBN: 9780674971714Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Harvard University Press - July 7th, 2020The definitive history of Katrina: an epic of citymaking, revealing how engineers and oil executives, politicians and musicians, and neighbors black and white built New Orleans, then watched it sink under the weight of their competing ambitions.
$27.00ISBN: 9780735218482Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: G.P. Putnam's Sons - September 8th, 2020The New York Times bestselling author of My Sunshine Away returns with another instant Southern classic: a gripping and heartfelt novel about a mysterious machine that upends a small Louisiana town, asking us all to wonder if who we truly are is who we truly could be.
$17.00ISBN: 9780802149039Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Grove Press - June 30th, 2020A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction
A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East.
$35.00ISBN: 9780804187060Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Clarkson Potter - October 6th, 2020#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A collection of all-new soul-satisfying dishes from America’s favorite home cook!
$26.95ISBN: 9780820353555Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: University of Georgia Press - August 1st, 2018In Creole Italian, Justin A. Nystrom explores the influence Sicilian immigrants have had on New Orleans foodways. His culinary journey follows these immigrants from their first impressions on Louisiana food culture in the mid-1830s and along their path until the 1970s.
$16.00ISBN: 9781101911815Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Vintage - July 28th, 2020Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.$16.95ISBN: 9781101972052Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Vintage - September 29th, 2020This “superbly written true-crime story” (Michael Lewis, The New York Times Book Review) masterfully brings together the tales of a serial killer in 1970s Alabama and of Harper Lee, the beloved author of To Kill a Mockingbird, who tried to write his story.
$29.99ISBN: 9781250164681Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Andy Cohen Books - September 29th, 2020The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
The global icon, award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, actress, mother, daughter, sister, storyteller, and artist finally tells the unfiltered story of her life in The Meaning of Mariah Carey$26.00ISBN: 9781609455910Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Europa Editions - September 1st, 2020A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER. Soon to be a NETFLIX Original Series.A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL set in a divided Naples by ELENA FERRANTE, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.
$23.95ISBN: 9781616207922Availability: Not in stock. Usually arrives in 2-5 DaysPublished: Algonquin Books - February 12th, 2019A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
As Heard on NPR's This American Life
“Ross Gay’s eye lands upon wonder at every turn, bolstering my belief in the countless small miracles that surround us.” —Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S.$19.95ISBN: 9781642503272Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Mango Media Inc - August 11th, 2020The New Orleans Flood, U.S. Corruption, and Disasters
"Anyone who is interested in Hurricane Katrina, and in America's failing infrastructure, will want to read this book told in a fast-paced narrative." --Scott G. Knowles, Drexel University professor and author
$26.00ISBN: 9781982111908Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Simon & Schuster - July 14th, 2020A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that!
$30.00ISBN: 9781982156947Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Gallery Books - September 22nd, 2020INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
For the first time in seven years, Allie Brosh—beloved author and artist of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller Hyperbole and a Half—returns with a new collection of comedic, autobiographical, and illustrated essays.$19.83ISBN: 9780393314922Availability: Not in stock. Usually arrives in 2-5 DaysPublished: W. W. Norton & Company - July 17th, 1996Welcome to the first anthology to identify and celebrate a new nonfiction form: the Short!
$16.00ISBN: 9780525436140Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Vintage - May 7th, 2019“Powerful. . . . a revelation.” —The New York Times
“With a literary authority rare in a debut novel, it places Native American voices front and center before readers’ eyes.” —NPR/Fresh Air
$15.95ISBN: 9780307455918Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Anchor - June 1st, 2010A dazzling story collection from the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists.
$17.00ISBN: 9780525511304Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: One World - April 7th, 2020NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection—a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands.
