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November 22–28

Monstress / Marjorie Liu, writer ; Sana Takeda, artist ; Rus Wooton, lettering & design ; Jennifer M. Smith, editor.
Made for living : collected interiors for all sorts of styles / Amber Lewis ; photographs by Tessa Neustadt.
The book on pie : everything you need to know to bake perfect pies / Erin Jeanne McDowell ; photographs by Mark Weinberg.
The backyard birdwatcher's bible / written by Christopher Perrins, Sonya Patel Ellis, Paul Sterry, and Dominic Couzens ; original illustrations, Lynn Hatzius.
Science and cooking : physics meets food, from homemade to haute cuisine / Michael Brenner, Pia S{u00F6}rensen, and David Weitz.
Mastering bread : the art and practice of handmade sourdough, yeast bread, and pastry / Marc Vetri and Claire Kopp McWilliams with David Joachim ; photography by Ed Anderson.
Tarot : connect with yourself, develop your intuition, live mindfully / [text and illustrations] by Tina Gong.
The cold millions a novel / Jess Walter.
Pottering : a cure for modern life / Anna McGovern ; illustrations by Charlotte Ager.
Calm Christmas and a Happy New Year : a little book of festive joy / Beth Kempton.
We hear voices / Evie Green.
Funeral for a friend / Brian Freeman.
The diplomat's wife / Pam Jenoff.
Fool me twice : a novel / Jeff Lindsay.
How to raise an elephant / Alexander McCall Smith.
The new map : energy, climate, and the clash of nations / Daniel Yergin.
Monopolies suck : 7 ways big corporations rule your life and how to take back control / Sally Hubbard.
South to freedom : runaway slaves to Mexico and the road to the Civil War / Alice L. Baumgartner.
Power your profits : how to take your business from $10,000 to $10,000,000 / Susie Carder.
What we don't talk about when we talk about fat / Aubrey Gordon.
Our Only Home : A Climate Appeal to the World
Waste : one woman's fight against America's dirty secret / Catherine Coleman Flowers ; foreword by Bryan Stevenson.
The last days of Ellis Island / Ga{u00EB}lle Josse ; translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer.
Perestroika in Paris / Jane Smiley.
Star Wars, Darth Vader / writer, Kieron Gillen ; artist, Salvador Larroca ; colorist, Edgar Delgado ; letterer, VC's Joe Caramagna.
Unconditional : learning to navigate & reframe mental illness together / Allison & Piper Garner.
The sustainable economy : the hidden costs of climate change and the path to a prosperous future / Robert S. Devine.
Saving seeds : a home gardener's guide to preserving plant biodiversity / Dan Jason.
Rewilding : the radical new science of ecological recovery / Paul Jepson & Cain Blythe.
The searcher Tana French.
The sentinel Lee Child and Andrew Child.
Magic lessons the prequel to practical magic / Alice Hoffman.
The hand on the wall Maureen Johnson.
The switch a novel / Beth O'Leary.
Survivor song a novel / Paul Tremblay.
Goodnight beautiful a novel / Aimee Molloy.
Deadlock Catherine Coulter.
Shakeup Stuart Woods.

November 15–21

The night of the fire : a mystery / Kjell Eriksson ; translated from the Swedish by Paul Norlen.
The orchard : a novel / David Hopen.
Eartheater / Dolores Reyes ; translated from the Spanish by Julia Sanches.
The killer's shadow : the FBI's hunt for a white supremacist serial killer / John Douglas and Mark Olshaker.
Piece of my heart / Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke.
Dog's best friend : the story of an unbreakable bond / Simon Garfield.
No time like the future : an optimist considers mortality / Michael J. Fox.
Rhythm of war / Brandon Sanderson.
The complete one pot : 400 meals : skillet, sheet pan, Instant Pot, dutch oven + more.
Student voice : 100 argument essays by teens on issues that matter to them : an anthology from the New York times Learning Network / [edited by] Katherine Schulten.
The heart and other monsters : a memior / Rose Andersen.
The love lives of birds : courting and mating rituals / Laura Erickson.
The greatest beer run ever : a memoir of friendship, loyalty, and war / John Chick
Nazi wives : the women at the top of Hitler's Germany / James Wyllie.
The Kraken's Tooth / Anthony Ryan.
The law book / [contributors, Peter Chrisp, Claire Cock-Starkey, Frederick Cowell, Thomas Cussans, John Farndon, Philip Parker, Marcus Weeks].
The key to everything by Valerie Fraser Luesse.
An Amish Christian wedding Amy Clipston, Kelly Irvin, Kathleen Fuller, Vannetta Chapman.
Mayo Clinic on Alzheimer's disease and other dementias / medical editors: Jonathan Graff-Radford, Angela M. Lunde.
The cookbook club : a novel of food and friendship / Beth Harbison.
Everything beautiful in its time seasons of love and loss / Jenna Bush Hager.
Rage Bob Woodward.
Transcendent kingdom Yaa Gyasi.
The end of her a novel / Shari Lapena.
Invisible girl Lisa Jewell.
Friendsgiving producers, Ben Stiller, Nicholas Weinstock, Haroon Saleem, Malin Akerman ; writer/director, Nicol Paone.
The craft : how Freemasons made the modern world / John Dickie.
Dolly Parton : songteller, my life in lyrics / Dolly Parton ; with Robert K. Oermann.
Living without plastic : more than 100 easy swaps for home, travel, dining, holidays, and beyond / Brigette Allen and Christine Wong.
The glorious American essay : one hundred essays from colonial times to the present / edited and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate.
The no-till organic vegetable farm / How to Start and Run a Profitable Market Garden That Builds Health in Soil, Crops, and Communities Daniel Mays.
In five years a novel / Rebecca Serle.
Nose dive : a field guide to the world's smells / Harold McGee.
Tasty adulting : all your faves, all grown up.
Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants / Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Inside the NRA : a tell-all account of corruption, greed and paranoia within the most powerful political group in America / Joshua L. Powell.
The burning god / R.F. Kuang.
The pattern seekers : how autism drove human invention / Simon Baron-Cohen.
Uncomfortable conversations with a black man / Emmanuel Acho.
Britain at bay : the epic story of the Second World War, 1938-1941 / Alan Allport.
Paper bullets : two artists who risked their lives to defy the Nazis / Jeffrey H. Jackson.
Do not disturb : a novel / Claire Douglas.
A promised land / Barack Obama.
Conjure women by Afia Atakora.
Marauder Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison.
Muzzled David Rosenfelt.
Deadly Cross
People who love to eat are always the best people : and other wisdom / Julia Child ; foreword by Alex Prud'homme.
All that glitters a novel / Danielle Steel.
Entering Hekate's garden : the magick, medicine, and mystery of plant spirit witchcraft / Cyndi Brannen.
Wedding hacks : 500+ ways to stick to your budget, stay stress-free, and plan the best wedding ever! / Maddie Eisenhart.
Fevers, feuds, and diamonds : Ebola and the ravages of history / Paul Farmer.
Kitchenwise : Essential Food Science for Home Cooks
Deadly cross / James Patterson.
Nights when nothing happened / Simon Han.
The thirty names of night : a novel / Zeyn Joukhadar.
Saving freedom : Truman, the Cold War, and the fight for western civilization / Joe Scarborough.
The short the long and the tall : short stories / Jeffrey Archer ; illustrated by Paul Cox.
War Lord : a novel / Bernard Cornwell.
The awakening / Nora Roberts.
This will make it taste good : a new path to simple cooking / Vivian Howard ; photographs by Baxter Miller.
American contagions : epidemics and the law from Smallpox to Covid-19 / John Fabian Witt.
Singular sensation : the triumph of Broadway / Michael Riedel.
Cyber privacy : who has your data and why you should care / April Falcon Doss.
Talking to GOATs : the moments you remember and the stories you never heard / Jim Gray with Greg Bishop ; foreword by Tom Brady.
How can it be gluten free cookbook collection : 350+ groundbreaking recipes for all your favorite foods.
Snacking cakes : simple treats for anytime cravings / Yossy Arefi ; photo styling by Ali Slagle.
Milk Street cookish : throw it together / Christopher Kimball ; with writing and editing by J.M. Hirsch and Michelle Locke ; recipes by Matthew Card, Diane Unger and the cooks at Milk Street ; art direction by Jennifer Baldino Cox and Brianna Coleman ; photography by Connie Miller ; food styling by Christine Tobin.
The secret language of cells : what biological conversations tell us about the brain-body connection, the future of medicine, and life itself / Jon Lieff, MD.
This time next year we'll be laughing : a memoir / Jacqueline Winspear.
Deadly cross / James Patterson.
Nobody ever asked me about the girls : women, music, and fame / Lisa Robinson.
A demon-haunted land : witches, wonder doctors, and the ghosts of the past in post-WWII Germany / Monica Black.
Dark tides : a novel / Philippa Gregory.

November 8–14

Chicken soup for the soul : age is just a number : 101 tales of humor & wisdom for life after 60 / [compiled by] Amy Newmark.
Border wars : inside Trump's assault on immigration / Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear.
Ex Libris / Michiko Kakutani ; illustrated by Dana Tanamachi.
Expect a miracle : quotations to live and love by / Danielle Steel.
Greenlights / Matthew McConaughey.
The Wim Hof method : activate your full human potential / Wim Hof.
A walk around the block : stoplight secrets, mischievous squirrels, manhole mysteries & other stuff you see every day (and know nothing about) / Spike Carlsen.
Chicago's great fire : the destruction and resurrection of an iconic American city / Carl Smith.
Magic : a history : from alchemy to witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the present / Chris Gosden.
One life / Megan Rapinoe ; with Emma Brockes.
Eleanor / David Michaelis.
Clanlands : whisky, warfare, and a Scottish adventure like no other / Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish, with Charlotte Reather ; [foreword by Diana Gabaldon].
Burden of proof / Davis Bunn.
Wyoming true / Diana Palmer.
Personal finance 101 : from saving and investing to taxes and loans, an essential primer on personal finance / Alfred Mill ; with a technical review by Michele Cagan, CPA.
The purpose of power : how we come together when we fall apart / Alicia Garza.
The Transatlantic book club : a novel / Felicity Hayes-McCoy.
What every girl should know : Margaret Sanger's journey : a novel / by J. Albert Mann.
The domestic revolution : how the introduction of coal into Victorian homes changed everything / Ruth Goodman.
The law of innocence Michael Connelly.
You will never know : a novel of suspense / S.A. Prentiss.
Joe Biden : the life, the run, and what matters now / Evan Osnos.
High crimes : the corruption, impunity, and impeachment of Donald Trump / Michael D'Antonio and Peter Eisner.
The Batman who laughs / Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, writers ; Jock, Eduardo Risso, artists ; David Baron, Dave Stewart, colorists ; Sal Cipriano, letterer.
The sun collective : a novel / Charles Baxter.
Written in the stars : a novel / Alexandria Bellefleur.
A cat's tale : a journey through feline history / Paul Koudounaris.
At night all blood is black / David Diop ; translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis.
The archer / Paulo Coelho ; illustrated by Christoph Niemann ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
V2 : a novel of World War II / Robert Harris.
The saints of salvation / Peter F. Hamilton.
Metazoa : animal life and the birth of the mind / Peter Godfrey-Smith.
Answers in the form of questions : a definitive history and insider's guide to Jeopardy! / by Claire McNear ; foreword by Ken Jennings.
Forgiving what you can't forget : discover how to move on, make peace with painful memories, and create a life that's beautiful again / Lysa TerKeurst.
The office of historical corrections : a novella and stories / Danielle Evans.
Star Wars from the Journals of Obi-wan Kenobi
Dearly : new poems / Margaret Atwood.
Murder of Innocence
The talented Miss Farwell : a novel / Emily Gray Tedrowe.
Conspiracy / S.J. Parris.
The girl in the mirror : a novel / Rose Carlyle.
Tom Clancy : shadow of the dragon / Marc Cameron.
Daylight / David Baldacci.
The Best of Me
Absence of mercy / S.M. Goodwin.
The return Nicholas Sparks.
Chicken soup for the soul : Christmas is in the air : 101 stories about the most wonderful time of the year / [compiled by] Amy Newmark.
A Christmas love story a Team Two Entertainment production ; produced by Dustin Rikert ; written by Nicole Baxter ; director, Eric Close.
Hard kill producers, Randall Emmett [and 5 others] ; writers, Joe Russo, Chris Lamont ; director, Matt Eskandari.
Fatima director, Marco Pontecorvo ; written by Marco Pontecorvo & Valerio D'Annunzio and Barbara Nicolosi.
Antebellum producers, Raymond Mansfield [and 5 others] ; writers, Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz ; directors, Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz.
A million little things. directors, James Griffiths, Richard J. Lewis ; writer, D.J. Nash.
How to write one song / Jeff Tweedy.
Flower school : a practical guide to the art of flower arranging / Calvert Crary ; illustrations by Monica Hellstr{u00F6}m.
Truly, madly, deeply Karen Kingsbury.
Fortune and glory tantalizing twenty-seven / Janet Evanovich.
Invisible girl Lisa Jewell.
Return to Virgin River Robyn Carr.
A Holly Dolly Christmas Dolly Parton.
Shakeup Stuart Woods.
A very Trainor Christmas Meghan Trainor.
Elsewhere Dean Koontz.
The Kacey Musgraves Christmas show Kacey Musgraves.
The speed of now. Keith Urban.
No pressure Logic.
Legends never die Juice WRLD.
Letter to you Bruce Springsteen.
Tickets to my downfall / Machine Gun Kelly.
Bigger love John Legend.
The rarities Mariah Carey.
Opening to grief : finding your way from loss to peace / Claire B. Willis ; Marnie Crawford Samuelson ; foreword by Megan Devine.
Agatha Arch is afraid of everything : a novel / Kristin Bair.
Best colleges.
Tecumseh and the prophet : the Shawnee brothers who defied a nation / Peter Cozzens.
One of our own / Jane Haddam.
Hot to trot / M.C. Beaton with R.W. Green.
All that glitters : a novel / Danielle Steel.

November 1–7

Once two sisters Sarah Warburton.
Fierce, free, and full of fire the guide to being glorious you / Jen Hatmaker.
When you're not OK : a toolkit for tough times / Jill Stark ; with illustrations by Carla McRae.
Finding freedom Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family / Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand.
Superman's not coming our national water crisis and what we the people can do about it / Erin Brockovich ; with Suzanne Boothby.
Girls of Brackenhill / Kate Moretti.
The eyes of the Queen / Oliver Clements.
Consensual hex / Amanda Harlowe.
The hidden habits of genius : beyond talent, IQ, and grit--unlocking the secrets of greatness / Craig Wright.
Instant pot cheese : discover how easy it is to make mozzarella, feta, ch{u00E8}vre, and more / Claudia Lucero.
Animal embroidery workbook : step-by-step techniques & patterns for 30 cute critters & more / Jessica Long.
The alignment problem : machine learning and human values / Brian Christian.
Big dirty money : the shocking injustice and unseen cost of white collar crime / Jennifer Taub.
Cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution : Bitcoin and beyond / Brendan January.
A portrait of loyalty / Roseanna M. White.
Doomsday clock : the complete collection / Geoff Johns, writer ; Gary Frank, illustrator ; Brad Anderson, colorist ; Rob Leigh, letterer.
Fortune and glory : tantalizing twenty-seven / Janet Evanovich.
Tsarina / Ellen Alpsten.
The dirty South / John Connolly.
East : 120 vegan and vegetarian recipes from Bangalore to Beijing / Meera Sodha, David Loftus, Monika Forsberg.
The interior design handbook : furnish, decorate, and style your space / Frida Ramstedt ; illustrations by Mia Olofsson ; English translation by Peter Graves.
Oceanology.
The cutting place / Jane Casey.
The iron sea : how the Allies hunted and destroyed Hitler's warships / Simon Read.
Coffeeland one man's dark empire and the making of our favorite drug / by Augustine Sedgewick.
In the lion's den / Barbara Taylor Bradford.
Murder in old Bombay / Nev March.
Marauder : a novel of the Oregon files / Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison.
On deadly tides / Elizabeth J. Duncan.
Murder by milk bottle / Lynne Truss.
We keep the dead close : a murder at Harvard and a half century of silence / Becky Cooper.
Cobble Hill : a novel / Cecily von Ziegesar.
Scandinavian sweaters : over 25 stunning patterns to knit / by Kristin Wiola {u00D8}deg{u00E5}rd ; translation into English, Carol Huebscher Rhoades.
Meat illustrated : a foolproof guide to understanding and cooking with cuts of all kinds / America's Test Kitchen.
Smithsonian makers workshop : fascinating history & essential how-tos : gardening, crafting, decorating & food / The Smithsonian Institution.
Liberty from all masters : the new American autocracy vs. the will of the people / Barry C. Lynn.
The city on the Thames : the creation of a world capital : a history of London / Simon Jenkins.
Memphis mayhem : a story of the music that shook up the world / David A. Less.
How to do it now because it's not going away : an expert guide to getting stuff done / Leslie Josel.
Live not by lies : a manual for Christian dissidents / Rod Dreher.
The story of life in 10 1/2 species / Marianne Taylor.
First-time landlord : your guide to renting out a single-family home / Attorney Janet Portman, Ilona Bray, J.D., & Marcia Stewart.
Countdown 1945 the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world / Chris Wallace with Mitch Weiss.
The carnivore code / Paul Saladino, MD ; foreward by Mark Sisson.
The wide world of coding : the people and careers behind the programs / by Jennifer Connor-Smith.
Apollo 13 : a successful failure / Laura B. Edge.
StarCraft. War chest.
Ruins of Ravencroft / writer: Frank Tieri ; artist (modern day), Angel Unzueta ; artists (flashbacks), Guiu Vilanova (Carnage), Guillermo Sanna (Sabretooth) & Stefano Landini (Dracula) ; color artist: Rachelle Rosenberg ; letterer: VC's Travis Lanham.
Inside story : a novel / by Martin Amis.
White trash warlock / David R. Slayton.
Then she vanished T. Jefferson Parker.
Jack Marilynne Robinson.
Desolation road Christine Feehan.
Whirlwind Janet Dailey.
Truth and justice Fern Michaels.
The blended quilt / Wanda E. Brunstetter & Jean Brunstetter, New York Times bestselling author.
Unstoppable : discover your true value, define your genius zone, and drive your dream career / Tracy Timm.
Life with the afterlife : 13 truths I learned about ghosts / Amy Bruni ; with Julie Tremaine.
Rough and rowdy ways Bob Dylan.
Imploding the mirage the Killers.
Fetch the bolt cutters Fiona Apple.
Hate for sale The Pretenders.
2020 Bon Jovi.
Folklore Taylor Swift.
The secret dare to dream / director, Andy Tennant.
Vikings. Take 5 Productions presents in assocation with Metro Goldwyn-Mayer presents and Corus Entertainment ; written and created by Michael Hirst.
The arrest : a novel / Jonathan Lethem.
The kingdom / Jo Nesb{u00F8} ; translated from the Norwegian by Robert Ferguson.
Moonflower murders : a novel / Anthony Horowitz.
Whispering hearts / V.C. Andrews.
After all I've done / Mina Hardy.
The rise : Black cooks and the soul of American food / Marcus Samuelsson with Osayi Endolyn ; recipes with Yewande Komolafe and Tamie Cook ; photographs by Angie Mosier.
The 10 greatest conspiracies of all time / Brad Meltzer, with Keith Ferrell.
This just speaks to me : words to live by every day / Hoda Kotb ; with Jane Lorenzini.
The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias : How to Reframe Bias, Cultivate Connection, and Create High-Performing Teams
I would leave me if I could : a collection of poetry / Halsey.
The cancer code : a revolutionary new understanding of a medical mystery / Jason Fung.
First principles : what America's founders learned from the Greeks and Romans and how that shaped our country / Thomas E. Ricks.
Trust : America's best chance / Pete Buttigieg.
7 Ways : Easy Ideas for Every Day of the Week, American Measurements
Last girl standing Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush.
The sentinel Lee Child and Andrew Child.
Big summer Jennifer Weiner.
The wonder boy of Whistle Stop a novel / Fannie Flagg.
Three women disappear James Patterson and Shan Serafin.
The flavor equation : the science of great cooking explained in more than 100 essential recipes / Nik Sharma ; foreword by Christopher Kimball ; illustrations by Matteo Riva.
Merry & Bright Hallmark Channel presents ; producer, Jeff Beesley ; teleplay by Karen Wyscarver, Sanford Golden, Erinne Dobson ; directed by Gary Yates.
Christmas scavenger hunt Johnson Production Group presents ; producer, Hayden Baptiste ; written by Tammy Klembith, George Klembith ; director, M.J. Grabiak.
Sense, sensibility & snowmen Hallmark Movies & Mysteries presents ; written by Samantha Herman ; directed by David Winning, story by Melissa de la Cruz & Samantha Herman.
Succession. HBO Entertainment ; created by Jesse Armstrong.
Succession. created by Jesse Armstrong.
Marriage story a Netflix presentation ; a Heyday Films production ; produced by David Heyman, Noah Baumbach ; written and directed by Noah Baumbach.
The haunting of Hill House. Amblin Television.
Eli Roth's history of horror.
Becky Quiver Distribution and Redbox Entertainment present a Yale Productions and BoulderLight Pictures production ; in association with SSS Entertainment and SSS Film Capital, Bondit Media Capital and Buffalo 8 ; produced by Jordan Yale Levine [and four others] ; written by Nick Morris and Ruckus Skye & Lane Skye ; directed by Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott.
AP U.S. history.
The gift : 12 lessons to save your life / Edith Eger ; with Esm{u00E9} Schwall Weigand.