Indie Bookstore Staff Picks

Monk and Robot

Becky Chambers

$18.99 Tordotcom

On our shelves now in Skaneateles

Becky Chambers' two award-winning, bestselling, beloved, and uplifting Monk and Robot stories, A Psalm for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, together in trade paperback for the first time! Becky Chambers' delightful, post-Utopian, Hugo Award-winning series gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend.

Things Fall Apart: A Novel

Chinua Achebe

$16.00 Penguin

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“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.”, Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.”, Toni Morrison "A magical writer - one of the greates of the twentieth century.", Margaret Atwood Named one of America's most-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy.

The Group

Mary McCarthy

$19.99 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The Lincoln Highway: A Novel

Amor Towles

$20.00 Penguin

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, a New York Times Readers’ Choice Best Book of the Century, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.”, The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.”, Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “Fantastic.

A Crane Among Wolves

June Hur

$19.99

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To save her sister, a teen girl becomes entangled in a political conspiracy with an enigmatic prince in this fiery new YA from the bestselling author of The Red Palace.

Manhunt

Gretchen Felker-Martin

$18.99 Tor Nightfire

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"Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate. Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: Other people aren't safe.

Feng Shui Modern

Cliff Tan

$24.00 Bloomsbury Publishing

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Would changing the position of my bed help me sleep? Would shifting my desk make me more successful? Will changing my home really change my life? Does feng shui even work? The answer to all these questions is yes. In this book, Cliff Tan teaches you how to use feng shui to fix any room and optimise any space, in order to transform your home into a happy, healthy oasis. He takes you behind the mysticism to reveal the logic of this ancient practice.

The Alice Network: A Novel

Kate Quinn

$19.99 William Morrow Paperbacks

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Featuring an exclusive excerpt from Kate Quinn's next incredible historical novel, THE HUNTRESS NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLER #1 GLOBE AND MAIL HISTORICAL FICTION BESTSELLER One of NPR's Best Books of the Year! One of Bookbub's Biggest Historical Fiction Books of the Year! Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick! The 2017 Girly Book Club Book of the Year!

The Obstacle is the Way Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

Ryan Holiday

$28.00 Penguin

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An updated and expanded edition of the book that launched a global phenomenon, The Obstacle Is the Way presents an infinitely elastic formula for turning our toughest trials into our greatest triumphs. Since bestselling author Ryan Holiday introduced Stoicism to the world with The Obstacle Is the Way in 2014, this simple but powerful philosophy for life has taken the world by storm.

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

$17.99 HarperOne

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A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure.

The Latecomer: A Novel

Jean Hanff Korelitz

$18.99

On our shelves now in Cortland

*A New York Times Notable Book of 2022* *A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction* *An NPR Best Book of the Year* From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a layered and immersive literary novel about three siblings, desperate to escape one another, and the upending of their family by the late arrival of a fourth.

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Carmen Maria Machado

$17.00

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Scythe

Neal Shusterman

$13.99 Simon and Schuster

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Two teens must learn the "art of killing" in this Printz Honorwinning book, the first in a chilling new series from the author of the New York Times-bestselling Unwind dystology. 5 1/2 x 8 5/16.

Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World

Dorian Lynskey

$32.00 Random House

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A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A rich, captivating, and darkly humorous look into the evolution of apocalyptic thought, exploring how film and literature interact with developments in science, politics, and culture, and what factors drive our perennial obsession with the end of the world.

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead: A Novel

Emily Austin

$18.99 Simon and Schuster

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"Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, follows a morbidly anxious young woman?" the kindhearted heroine we all need right now" (Courtney Maum, New York Times bestselling author)?who stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church and becomes obsessed with her predecessor's mysterious death. Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death.

Outline: A Novel

Rachel Cusk

$18.00 Picador

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A Finalist for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction One of The New York Times' Top Ten Books of the Year Named a A New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Vogue, NPR, The Guardian, The Independent, Glamour, and The Globe and Mail Chosen as one of fifteen remarkable books by women that are shaping...

The Lamb: A Novel

Lucy Rose

$18.99 Harper Perennial

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"From an incendiary new talent, a contemporary folktale in which a mother and daughter take in passersby and eat them, exploring queerness, first loves, and tense mother-daughter relationships."--

Life After Life

Kate Atkinson

$21.99 Back Bay Books

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"One of the best novels I've read this century. Kate Atkinson is a marvel. There aren't enough breathless adjectives to describe LIFE AFTER LIFE: Dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profound."--Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born, the third child of a wealthy English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath.

The Berry Pickers: A Novel

Amanda Peters

$17.95 Catapult

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER 2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize Winner Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years "A stunning debut about love, race, brutality, and the balm of forgiveness.", People, A Best New Book July 1962.

White Noise (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Don DeLillo

$19.00 Penguin

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The National Book Award, winning classic by the author of Underworld and Libra, featuring an introduction by Richard Powers, the Pulitzer Prize, winning author of The Overstory and Playground Now a major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultra­modern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism.