Barnes & Noble This Month's Book Club Pick Is Everything You Could Possibly Want

From: Barnes & Noble - Tuesday Sep 07, 2021 07:04 am

New & Notable Books

The Best Combination of Family Saga, Ghost Story & Historical Mystery.

We've thought the world of Lauren Groff's work, ever since her hauntingly original debut novel The Monsters of Templeton, the best combination of family saga, ghost story and historical mystery. She gets better with every book, asking big questions about life and why we do what we do. Fates and Furies put her in front of a whole new set of readers who were dazzled by her indelible characters, prose and insights into marriage and power. Just wait until you pick up her deceptively slim new novel of passion and faith, creativity and power, set in 12th-century France — it's everything you could possibly want and then some. It's no wonder that Matrix is this month's Book Club Pick. Pick up our Exclusive Edition featuring a Q&A with author Lauren Groff and a reading group guide.

A compulsively readable and astonishingly relatable debut novel about marriage, motherhood, love, self and the vibrant, surprising city that is modern Tokyo. This bright, thoughtful novel asks plenty of universal questions about what we need and what we want in ways that fans of Sally Rooney's novels, Emma Straub's All Adults Here or Miranda Cowley Heller's The Paper Palace won't want to miss.

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In Beautiful World, Where Are You, the author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends treats us to more of her trademark wit and richly rendered characters. Falling in and out of love as they go, the four world-weary Irish millennials at the center of Sally Rooney’s latest masterpiece grapple with the world and their place in it. And if you’re just dying for more, our B&N Exclusive Edition features a bonus short story.

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This gimlet-eyed, laugh-out-loud page turner has a bit of The Nest and Malibu Rising, along with echoes of one of the great L.A. novels, The Barbarian Nurseries.

From singer-songwriter Josh Ritter comes a lyrical, sweeping novel about a young boy's coming-of-age during the last days of the lumberjacks that is sure to sweep you away into the beauty of the tall snowy mountain timber.

This hypnotic novel has already been optioned for film, and it's a terrific recommendation for fans of The Pull of the Stars, The Clockmaker's Daughter and The Essex Serpent.

The author of the Brooklyn Brujas series returns with a gorgeously written novel about a family searching for the truth hidden in their past and the power they've inherited. Cutting between past and present, from the tiny town of Four Corners to New York City and across continents, this stunning page-turner will have you reading deep into the night. Perfect for fans of Alice Hoffman, Isabel Allende, and Sarah Addison Allen.

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— Stories of Strong Women —

Available 9/14

Three-term Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. Check out Harjo's episode on Poured Over: The B&N Podcast.

Evocative, ironic, aspirational and crushing, Qian Julie Wang has written an unforgettable memoir of the soul shaking experience of being undocumented. Fervent and cinematic, Beautiful Country is an extraordinary debut.

Unbound is the story of an inimitable woman's inner strength and perseverance, but it is also a story of possibility, of empathy, of power and of the leader we all have inside ourselves.

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	An explosive memoir from Bobby Hall, the multiplatinum recording artist known as Logic. Our Exclusive Edition includes a bonus chapter.		An in-depth look at the solo work of one of popular music's most versatile and prolific composers and performers.