New Releases

HARDCOVER FICTION
Enon by Paul Harding
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Tinkers comes a new novel that follows a year in the life of Charlie Crosby as he tries to come to terms with a shattering personal tragedy.  Statesman Selects Pick for September!  Books & tickets available for 9/19 event

Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem
The man who brought us Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn (and so many others) is back with a new novel set in Sunnyside, Queens that takes us from the parlor communism of the ’30s, McCarthyism, through the civil rights movement and ragged ’70s communes, the romanticization of the Sandinistas, and up to the Occupy movement of the moment. Lethem has outdone himself.  Books & tickets available for 10/25 event.

Someone by Alice McDermott
An ordinary life—its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusion—lived by an ordinary woman is the subject of Someone, the new novel from National Book Award winner Alice McDermott Books & tickets available for 10/2 event.

Bones of Paris by Laurie R. King
New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King, beloved for her acclaimed Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series, consistently writes richly detailed and thoroughly suspenseful novels that bring a distant time and place to brilliant life. Now, in this thrilling new book, King leads readers into the vibrant and sensual Paris of the Jazz Age—and reveals the darkest secrets of its denizens. Meet King here 9/18!

Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford
Jaime Ford discovers more rich history in Seattle’s International District, this time in the Depression years preceding the WWII era he so beautifully revealed in Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent – Meet Kent here 9/30!
In beautiful, cut-glass prose, Hannah Kent portrays Iceland’s formidable landscape, where every day is a battle for survival, and asks, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others?

The Thicket by Joe Lansdale – Meet Lansdale here 9/12!
In the throes of being civilized, East Texas is still a wild, feral place. Oil wells spurt liquid money from the ground. But as Jack’s about to find out, blood and redemption rule supreme.

Nine Inches by Tom Perrotta
Nine Inches, Tom Perrotta’s first true collection, features ten stories—some sharp and funny, some mordant and surprising, and a few intense and disturbing. Perrotta writes with a sure sense of his characters and their secret longings.

W is for Wasted by Sue Grafton – SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE!
In this multilayered tale, the surfaces seem clear, but the underpinnings are full of betrayals, misunderstandings, and outright murderous fraud. And Kinsey, through no fault of her own, is thoroughly compromised.

My Brief History by Steven Hawking
Stephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, perhaps the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inward for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution.

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PAPERBACK FICTION

The Hydrogen Sonata by Ian Banks
“This rich, sweeping panorama of heroism and folly celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Culture, Banks’s far-future semi-utopian society…. The action tumbles along at a dizzying pace, bouncing among a fascinating array of characters and locales. It’s easy to see why Banks’s fertile, cheerfully nihilistic imagination and vivid prose have made the Culture space operas bestsellers and award favorites.” -Publishers Weekly

Joseph Anton: A Memoir by Salman Rushdie
On February 14, 1989, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran.” In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells the story of this experience for the first time; the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech.

Boxers & Saints by Gene Luen Yang