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  • The Let Them Theory

    The Life-Changing Hack That Millions of People Cant Stop Talking About

    Robbins, Mel
    NEW FOR DECEMBER! Adult Nonfiction. "If you've ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn't you. The problem is the power you give to other people. Two simple words - Let Them - will set you free. Free…
    BookHay House Inc 2024
  • NEW FOR DECEMBER! Adult Fiction. "A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space…
    BookNew York : Grove Press, 2023. — FIC HARVEY 2023
  • NEW FOR DECEMBER! Adult Fiction. "One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in…
    BookNew York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006. — FIC GARCIA 2006
  • Cabin

    Off the Grid Adventures With a Clueless Craftsman

    Hutchison, Patrick
    NEW FOR DECEMBER! Adult Nonfiction. "Wit's End isn't just a state of mind. It's the name of a gravel road, the address of a run-down off-the-grid cabin, 120 shabby square feet of fixer-upper Hutchison purchased on a whim in the mossy woods…
    BookSt Martins Pr 2024
  • Feasts of Good Fortune

    75 Recipes for a Year of Chinese American Celebrations, From Lunar New Year to Mid-Autumn Festival and Beyond

    Chou, Hsiao-Ching, 1972-
    NEW FOR DECEMBER! Adult Nonfiction. "Chou brings her on-ramp approach to Chinese cooking full circle with fresh, uncomplicated home cooking for celebrations typical of the Chinese American experience. Master dumplings, scallion pancakes,…
    BookSeattle : Sasquatch Books, [2024] — 641.5951 C4573F 2024
  • NEW FOR DECEMBER! Adult Fiction. "David Alvarez is running out of time and money. His novel, The Millers, was a smashing success; his sophomore outing, not so much. His agent, Stacey, is supportive but wary... One night, David meets…
    BookNew York : Grand Central Publishing, 2024. — FIC ALEMAN 2024
  • NEW FOR DECEMBER! Adult Fiction. "It's been raining for a long time now, so long that the land has reshaped itself and arcane rituals and religions are creeping back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene, and Agnes have not spoken in some…
    BookNew York : Flatiron Books, 2024. — FIC ARMFIELD 2024
  • NEW FOR DECEMBER! Adult Fiction. "Wang returns with the story of Keru and Nate, a Chinese American woman and a white man who meet at Yale, fall in love, and get married. Some years later, they go on two vacations - to Cape Cod and the…
    BookNew York : Riverhead Books, 2024. — FIC WANG 2024
  • The Serviceberry

    Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

    Kimmerer, Robin Wall
    NEW FOR NOVEMBER! Adult Nonfiction. "Potawatomi environmentalist Kimmerer (Braiding Sweetgrass) explains that the Potawatomi root word for 'berry' (min) is also the root word for 'gift,' illustrating how in the tribe's 'culture of…
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2024. — 581.63097 K571S 2024
  • NEW FOR NOVEMBER! Adult Fiction. "Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from the town. His eldest daughter, Ronnie, has grown up in…
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. — FIC WILLIAM 2024
  • NEW FOR NOVEMBER! Adult Poetry. "A poem is best, [Collins] feels, when it begins in clarity but ends with a whiff of mystery. In Water, Water, Collins combines his vigilant attention and respect for the peripheral to create moments of…
    BookNew York : Random House, 2024. — 811.54 C6924M 2024
  • NEW FOR NOVEMBER! Adult Nonfiction. "Journalist Anolik follows up Hollywood's Eve, her 2019 biography of writer Eve Babitz, with a revealing investigation of Babitz's complicated relationship with Joan Didion. Anolik reveals that Didion…
    BookNew York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2024. — 813.54 D562A 2024
  • NEW FOR NOVEMBER! Adult Fiction. "Price delivers a remarkable excavation of urban angst in this story of a five-story East Harlem tenement building that collapses, killing six of its tenants. Price... focuses on survivor Anthony Carter, an…
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. — FIC PRICE 2024
  • Vanishing Treasures

    a Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

    Rundell, Katherine
    NEW FOR NOVEMBER! Adult Nonfiction. "The award-winning author of young adult books... turns her sharp literary style and wit to endangered animals in this brisk, eye-opening, thoroughly entertaining book. Animals who exhibit 'everlasting…
    BookNew York : Doubleday, [2024] — 591.68 R871V 2024
  • NEW FOR NOVEMBER! Adult Fiction. "When Penny Marcus, a third-grade teacher in a small California town, is arrested for a decades-old murder that took place in her East Coast hometown when she was 12 years old, her former pony (named Pony)…
    BookNew York : Berkley, 2024. — MYSTERY LYNCH 2024
  • Adult Nonfiction. "From a difficult childhood to meeting the love of her life, Jeffrey, and marrying him while still in college, from a boring bureaucratic job in Washington, D.C., to answering an ad for a specialty food store in the…
    BookNew York : Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2024] — B G196G 2024
  • Adult Fiction. "Vitrine, a capricious and powerful demon, has nurtured the city of Azril into a vibrant metropolis bursting with joy, chaos, and hedonism. Her world shatters when angels descend, reducing her beloved city to ruins.…
    BookNew York : Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group, 2024. — SCI-FIC VO 2024
  • Field Notes From a Fungi Forager

    An Illustrated Journey Through the World of Pacific Northwest Mushrooms

    Rodriguez, Ashley
    Adult Nonfiction. "From evergreen forests shrouded in mist to the urban backyards of Seattle, mushrooms are everywhere in the Pacific Northwest if you know how to look. Here, forager-chef and forest therapy guide Ashley Rodriguez provides…
    BookSeattle : Sasquatch Books, [2024] — 579.60979 R6183F 2024
  • Adult Fiction. "Moore brings the rich detail and intricate plotting familiar to his fans to the first epic fantasy in his Long London series, set in 1949 and premised on the notion that 'there might be a higher world concealed behind our…
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. — SCI-FIC MOORE 2024
  • How to Winter

    Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days

    Leibowitz, Kari
    Adult Nonfiction. "Do you dread the end of Daylight Saving Time and grouch about the long, chilly season of gray skies and ice? Psychologist and winter expert Kari Leibowitz...uses mindset science to help readers embrace winter as a season…
    Book[New York] : Penguin Life, [2024] — 616.8527 L5315H 2024