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November 20–26

The smooth renal diet cookbook / Katie Shawn.
It's not in your head : your body doesn't feel right but you don't know why / by Dr. Efrat LaMandre.
Finding the magic in middle school : tapping into the power and potential of the middle school years / Chris Balme.
Just like home Sarah Gailey.
Still broke : Walmart's remarkable transformation and the limits of socially conscious capitalism / Rick Wartzman.
Dickens and Prince : a particular kind of genius / Nick Hornby.
Our wives under the sea Julia Armfield.
The last resort a chronicle of paradise, profit, and peril at the beach / Sarah Stodola.
The man I never met : a novel / Elle Cook.
Two wrongs make a right / Chloe Liese.
Astrid Parker doesn't fail / Ashley Herring Blake.
Aesthetica / Allie Rowbottom.
The ice orphan / Kathleen O'Neal Gear.
The choice / Nora Roberts.
The Comedians in cars getting coffee book / Jerry Seinfeld.
The perfect assassin James Patterson and Brian Sitts.
My travels with Mrs. Kennedy Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin Hill.
Dark objects a novel / Simon Toyne.
The loneliest time Carly Rae Jepsen.
God did DJ Khaled.
Curtain call 2. Eminem.
In real life Mandy Moore.
Melt my eyez see your future Denzel Curry.
The U.S. and the Holocaust a film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick & Sarah Botstein ; a Florentine Films production ; directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein ; telescript by Geoffrey C. Ward ; produced by Sarah Botsein, Lynn Novick, Ken Burns and Mike Welt.
When we were Apollo Contact Light Films presents ; produced and directed by Zachary Weil ; produced by John Filson ; additional producing by Giovanna Aguilar, Jason Cochran & Dave Stone.
Harry Potter 20th anniversary : return to Hogwarts.
Blade of the 47 Ronin Universal 1440 Entertainment presents ; a 1440 production ; produced by Tim Kwok ; written by John Swetnam and Aimee Garcia & AJ Mendez ; directed by Ron Yuan.
G-man : J. Edgar Hoover and the making of the American century / Beverly Gage.
Control : the dark history and troubling present of eugenics / Adam Rutherford.
The harbor a novel / Katrina Engberg ; translated by Tara Chace.

November 13–19

The seed detective : uncovering the secret histories of remarkable vegetables / Adam Alexander ; foreword by Professor Tim Lang.
Just dope : a leading attorney's personal journey inside the war on drugs / Allison Margolin.
How we win the Civil War : securing a multiracial democracy and ending White supremacy for good / Steve Phillips.
Serbia : the Bradt travel guide / Laurence Mitchell.
It came from the closet : queer reflections on horror / edited by Joe Vallese ; interior illustrations by Bishakh Som.
Bringing up kids when Church lets you down : a guide for parents questioning their faith / Bekah McNeel.
Chokepoint capitalism : how big tech and big content captured creative labor markets and how we'll win them back / Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow.
The voyage of the forgotten : a novel / Nick Martell.
A force of nature / Nora Roberts.
External forces / Shannon Fay.
Aliens. a novel by V. Castro.
Unspeakable : surviving my childhood and finding my voice / Jessica Willis Fisher.
Quilt of souls : a memoir / by Phyllis Biffle Elmore.
The acrobat / Edward J. Delaney.
Twisted hate / Ana Huang.
Neom / Lavie Tidhar.
Twisted games / Ana Huang.
Twisted love / Ana Huang.
Beyond welcome : centering immigrants in our Christian response to immigration / Karen Gonz{u00E1}lez.
Abandoned in death J. D. Robb.
We are the ark : returning our gardens to their true nature with acts of restorative kindness / Mary Reynolds ; illustrations by Ruth Evans.
You are not a before picture : how to finally make peace with your body, for good / Alex Light.
Girl, forgotten a novel / Karin Slaughter.
Going rogue rise and shine twenty-nine / Janet Evanovich.
On rotation Shirlene Obuobi.
Ways the world could end a novel / Kim Hooper.
Last summer boys Bill Rivers.
Forests of wonder director, Peter Lamberti.
Alpha Zulu Phoenix.
Maus now : selected writings / edited by Hillary Chute.
The complete modern pantry : 350+ ways to cook well with what's on hand / America's Test Kitchen.
Ship wrecked : a novel / Olivia Dade.
Things we do in the dark a novel / Jennifer Hillier.
The sea wolves Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul.
Next in line Jeffrey Archer.
Robert Ludlum's the Blackbriar genesis Simon Gervais.
The atlas paradox Olivie Blake.
Complete national parks of the United States : 400+ parks, monuments, battlefields, historic sites, scenic trails, recreation areas, and seashores / Mel White.
Getting permission : how to license & clear copyrighted materials online & off.
Credit repair.
The makers guide to cricut : easy projects for creating fabulous home decor, wearables, and gifts / Megan Meketa.
Confessions of a crappy Christian : real-life talk about all the things Christians aren't sure we're supposed to say-- and why they matter to God / Blake Guichet.
Putin's wars : from Chechnya to Ukraine / Mark Galeotti.
Number one is walking : my life in the movies and other diversions / Steve Martin ; drawings by Harry Bliss.
The boys from Biloxi John Grisham.
Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing a memoir / Matthew Perry.
Thief of fate Jude Deveraux and Tara Sheets.
A Christmas deliverance a novel / Anne Perry.
Liberation day stories / George Saunders.
Dawnlands a novel / Philippa Gregory.
Tread of angels / Rebecca Roanhorse
Before I let go / Kennedy Ryan.
Heart of the sun warrior / Sue Lynn Tan.
The Christmas wish : a novel / Lindsey Kelk.
Hallelujah Leonard Cohen, a journey, a song / Sony Pictures Classics & Dogwoof present ; a Geller/Goldfine production ; directed by Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine ; produced by Dayna Goldfine, Dan Geller.
The Queen : her life / Andrew Morton.
Takin' it back Meghan Trainor.
Africa risen : a new era of speculative fiction / edited by Sheree Ren{u00E9}e Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight.
Idol, burning : a novel / Rin Usami ; translated by Asa Yoneda.
A light in the flame / Jennifer L. Armentrout.
A ghost of caribou : a novel of suspense / Alice Henderson.
Control freak : my epic adventures making video games / Cliff Bleszinski.
A book of days / Patti Smith.
Have I told you this already? : stories I don't want to forget to remember / Lauren Graham.
Portable magic : a history of books and their readers / Emma Smith.
Paper collage workshop / Samuel Price.
True biz
Sophie Go's lonely herts club
Santa's little yelpers David Rosenfelt.
Acts of violet
Prisoner
Voice of fear Heather Graham.
Midnight on the marne
Making a scene Constance Wu.
The stories we tell : every piece of your story matters / Joanna Gaines.
Welcome to the game : a novel / Craig Henderson.
From scratch : adventures in harvesting, hunting, fishing, and foraging on a fragile planet / David Moscow & Jon Moscow.
The ink black heart Robert Galbraith.
The wilderwomen / Ruth Emmie Lang.
The double agent : a novel / William Christie.
A Christmas memory / Richard Paul Evans.
They're going to love you : a novel / Meg Howrey.
Defending Alice : a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties / Richard Stratton.
The Whittiers : a novel / Danielle Steel.
The twist of a knife : a novel / Anthony Horowitz.
The premonition at Withers Farm / Jaime Jo Wright.
Hollywood : the oral history / Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson.
Wonderdog : the science of dogs and their unique friendship with humans / Jules Howard.
Anywhere you run a novel / Wanda M. Morris.
The perfect crimes of Marian Hayes a novel / Cat Sebastian.
Bindle punk bruja a novel / Desideria Mesa.
Christmas at the Amish market / New York times bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray.
Babel or the necessity of violence : an arcane history of the oxford translators' revolution / R.F. Kuang.
Ghetto Gastro : black power kitchen / Jon Gray, Pierre Serrao, and Lester Walker with Osayi Endolyn ; foreword by Dr. Jessica B. Harris ; photography by Nayquan Shuler and Joshua Woods.
The banned bookshop of Maggie Banks / Shauna Robinson.
The quarry girls / Jess Lourey.
The call of the Wrens / Jenni L. Walsh.
The rewind / Allison Winn Scotch.
Racing the light a novel / Robert Crais.
It starts with us a novel / Colleen Hoover.

November 6–12

Follow me down / by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips ; colors by Jacob Phillips.
A murder at Balmoral / Chris McGeorge.
What to do about your troubled child : a practical guide for all parents at their wits' end / Laura J. Stevens, Richard W. Walker, Jr.
The breach : the untold story of the investigation into January 6th / Denver Riggleman with Hunter Walker.
Not Russian / Mikhail Shevelev ; translated by Brian James Baer and Ellen Vayner ; afterword by Ludmila Ulitskaya.
The floating girls : a novel / Lo Patrick.
Ghost town : a novel in 45 chapters / Kevin Chen ; translated from the Mandarin (and the Taiwanese) by Darryl Sterk.
Break : a novel / Katie Sise.
Godmersham Park : a novel of the Austen family / Gill Hornby.
Sign here / Claudia Lux.
Righteous prey John Sandford.
Our missing hearts a novel / Celeste Ng.
Field guide to stains : how to identify and remove virtually every stain on earth / by Virginia M. Friedman, Melissa Wagner and Nancy Armstrong.
The stars undying / Emery Robin.
The last hero : a novel / Linden A. Lewis.
The ruin of all witches : life and death in the New World / Malcolm Gaskill.
How do we know ourselves? : curiosities and marvels of the human mind / David G. Myers.
Declutter your photo life : curating, preserving, organizing, and sharing your photos / Adam Pratt.
She-Hulk / Rainbow Rowell, writer ; Rog{u00EA} Ant{u00F4}nio & Luca Maresca, artists ; Rico Renzi, colorist ; VC's Joe Caramagna, letterer ; Jen Bartel, cover art.
Influenced : the impact of social media on our perception / Brian Boxer Wachler, MD.
Pride and protest / Nikki Payne.
A child alone with strangers / Philip Fracassi.
The light we carry : Overcoming in uncertain times / Michelle Obama.
Strega / Johanne Lykke Holm ; translated by Saskia Vogel.
A house rabbit primer : understanding and caring for your companion rabbit / Lucile C. Moore.
The Big Bang Theory : the definitive, inside story of the epic hit series / Jessica Radloff.
The island of extraordinary captives : a painter, a poet, an heiress, and a spy in a World War II British internment camp / Simon Parkin.
Dinner on Mars : the technologies that will feed the red planet and transform agriculture on Earth / Lenore Newman and Evan D.G. Fraser.
Desert star Michael Connelly.
The Christmas spirit a novel / Debbie Macomber.
Verity Colleen Hoover.
The light we carry overcoming in uncertain times / Michelle Obama.
Death on a deadline / Joyce St. Anthony.
A rattle of bones : a Rebecca Connolly thriller / Douglas Skelton.
A trace of poison / Colleen Cambridge.
Viviana Valentine gets her man : a Girl Friday mystery / Emily J. Edwards.
Bleeding Heart Yard
The devil's blaze : Sherlock Holmes 1943 / Robert J. Harris.
All the blood we share : a novel of the bloody benders of Kansas / Camilla Bruce.
Revolutionary women : 50 women of color who reinvented the rules / Ann Shen.
Novelist as a vocation / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen.
Two old broads : stuff you need to know that you didn't know you needed to know / M.E. Hecht, MD and Whoopi Goldberg.
Even though i knew the end / C.L. Polk.
The pirate's wife : the remarkable true story of Sarah Kidd / Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos.
Chuck Berry : an American life / by RJ Smith.
Fatty fatty boom boom : a memoir of food, fat, and family / Rabia Chaudry.
Anything but plain / Suzanne Woods Fisher.
A model of devotion / Mary Connealy.
Murder for profit / Veronica Heley.
How it went : thirteen late stories of the Port William membership / Wendell Berry.
Marked for life : one man's fight for justice from the inside / Isaac Wright Jr., with Jon Sternfeld.
The Lost Metal
Flight risk : a novel / Cherie Priest.
The Serpent in Heaven
The Lindbergh nanny : a novel / Mariah Fredericks.
Silent Spring Revolution : John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening
Hunting Time
Before your memory fades : a novel / Toshikazu Kawaguchi ; translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot.
A Wish for Winter
The perfect assassin / James Patterson and Brian Sitts.
Cheap land Colorado : off-gridders at America's edge / Ted Conover.
Waypoints : my Scottish journey / Sam Heughan.
Medical medium brain saver protocol cleanses & recipes : for neurological, autoimmune & mental health / Anthony William ; foreword by Alejandro Junger, M.D.
Tracers in the dark : the global hunt for the crime lords of cryptocurrency / Andy Greenberg.
The King : the life of Charles III / Christopher Andersen.
So Help Me God
Playing under the piano : from Downton to darkest Peru / Hugh Bonneville.
A more just future : psychological tools for reckoning with our past and driving social change / Dolly Chugh.
The age-proof brain : new strategies to improve memory, protect immunity, and fight off dementia / Marc Milstein, PhD.
Musical tables : poems / Billy Collins.
Smitten kitchen keepers : new classics for your forever files: a cookbook / Deborah Perelman.
Total body beautiful : secrets to a strong, healthy body after age 35 / Andrea Orbeck, Desi Bartlett and Nicole Stuart.
You don't know what war is : the diary of a young girl from Ukraine / Yeva Skalietska.
Marie Kondo's kurashi at home : how to organize your space and achieve your ideal life / translated from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano.
Letter to the American Church / Eric Metaxas.

November 1–5

Small game : a novel / Blair Braverman.
Trespasses / Louise Kennedy.
Ocean's echo / Everina Maxwell.
Kiss her once for me : a novel / Alison Cochrun.
Barkley : a biography / Timothy Bella.
Dead and gondola : a Christie Bookshop mystery / Ann Claire.
Jawbone / M{u00F3}nica Ojeda ; translated by Sarah Booker.
Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six (Original)
The sea wolves / Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul.
Blood moon / Heather Graham and Jon Land.
Wyoming homecoming / Diana Palmer.
The Killing God
Dark whisper Christine Feehan.
The winners a novel / Fredrik Backman ; translated by Neil Smith.
Suspect Scott Turow.
Concrete evidence / DiAnn Mills.
Foster / Claire Keegan.
A book club to die for / Dorothy St. James.
Hands down / Felix Francis.
Now Is Not the Time to Panic
Dawnlands : a novel / Philippa Gregory.
An unforgiving place : a national parks mystery / Claire Kells.
Flight
We all want impossible things : a novel / Catherine Newman.
The boy and the dog : a novel / Seishu Hase ; translated from the Japanese by Alison Watts.
The wintering place : a novel / Kevin McCarthy.
Wayward / Chuck Wendig.
Desert star / Michael Connelly.
Refrigerator full of heads / Rio Youers, writer ; Tom Fowler, penciller ; Tom Fowler & Craig Taillefer, inkers ; Bill Crabtree, colorist ; AndWorld Design, letterer ; Sam Wolfe Connelly, collection cover artist.
Cinema speculation / Quentin Tarantino.
Requiem for the Massacre : a Black history on the conflict, hope, and fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre / RJ Young.
Dr. No : a novel / Percival Everett.
Punishment of a Hunter / Yulia Yakovleva ; translated from the Russian by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp.
Weaving sundown in a scarlet light : fifty poems for fifty years / Joy Harjo.
Four wheels and a board : the Smithsonian history of skateboarding / edited by Betsy Gordon and Jane Rogers ; foreword by Rodney Mullen.
Make space for happiness : how to stop attracting clutter and start magnetizing the life you want / Tracy McCubbin.
Book of Extraordinary Tragedies
Revenge : how Donald Trump weaponized the US Department of Justice against his critics / Michael Cohen.
Holiday hearts director, Allan Harmon.
Harper (DVD)
The immaculate room / a Screen Media release ; produced by Daniel Baur, Joel David Moore, Doug Murray ; written & directed by Mukunda Michael Dewil.
Orphan. directed by William Brent Bell.
Christmas on My Mind (DVD)
Watcher IFC Midnight, Shudder and Image Nation Abu Dhabi present ; in association with AGC Studios ; a Spooky Pictures/Lost City production ; produced by Mason Novick, John Finemore, Aaron Kaplan, Sean Perrone, Roy Lee, Steven Schneider, Derek Dauchy ; written for the screen & directed by Chloe Okuno.
Gone in the night Boulderlight Pictures presentation in association with SSS Entertainment, Post Film, the Syndicate, and MM2 Entertainment ; produced by J.D. Lifshitz, Raphael Margules, Russ Posternak, Shaun Sanghani ; written by Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby ; directed by Eli Horowitz.
Descend to darkness Heather Graham.
The story of love / Beth Wiseman.
Legends & lattes : a novel of high fantasy and low stakes / Travis Baldree.
Better than fiction / Alexa Martin.
I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki / Baek Sehee ; translated from the Korean by Anton Hur.
A sliver of darkness : stories / C. J. Tudor.
Murder at Black Oaks : A Robin Lockwood Novel
The Inn at Tansy Falls / Cate Woods.
Blackwater Falls / Ausma Zehanat Khan.
The magic kingdom / Russell Banks.
Black paradox / by Junji Ito ; [translation & adaptation: Jocelyne Allen].
The stand-up groomsman / Jackie Lau.
Never rescue a rogue / Virginia Heath.
The passenger Cormac McCarthy.
Excuse me while I disappear : tales of midlife mayhem / Laurie Notaro.

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