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Sunday: 11 am - 4 pm

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The Beach at Summerly: A Novel By Beatriz Williams Cover Image
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By Beatriz Williams
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The Secret Hours (Hardcover)
By Mick Herron
$27.95
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By Connor Sullivan
$28.99
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Damascus Station: A Novel By David McCloskey Cover Image
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Princess Elizabeth's Spy: A Maggie Hope Mystery By Susan Elia MacNeal Cover Image
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By Susan Elia MacNeal
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Code Red: A Mitch Rapp Novel by Kyle Mills By Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills Cover Image
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Dead Fall: A Thriller (The Scot Harvath Series #22) By Brad Thor Cover Image
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Only the Dead: A Thriller (Terminal List #6) By Jack Carr Cover Image
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The Alice Network: A Reese's Book Club Pick By Kate Quinn Cover Image
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Countdown: Amy Cornwall Is Patterson’s Greatest Character Since Lindsay Boxer By James Patterson, Brendan DuBois Cover Image
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Honoring Hispanic/Latine Heritage Month

  • Cajas de cartón: The Circuit (Spanish Edition) (Cajas de carton #1) By Francisco Jiménez Cover Image
  • How to Speak in Spanglish By Mónica Mancillas, Olivia de Castro (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Rafa Counts on Papá By Joe Cepeda Cover Image
  • My Papi Has a Motorcycle By Isabel Quintero, Zeke Peña (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • ¡Vamos! Let's Go Read (World of ¡Vamos!) By III Raúl the Third, III Raúl the Third (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • ChupaCarter and the Haunted Piñata By George Lopez, Ryan Calejo, Santy Gutierrez (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Barely Floating By Lilliam Rivera Cover Image
  • Witchlings By Claribel A. Ortega Cover Image
  • Efrén Divided By Ernesto Cisneros Cover Image
  • ChupaCarter By George Lopez, Ryan Calejo, Santy Gutierrez (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Spanish Is the Language of My Family By Michael Genhart, John Parra (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Esperanza Rising (Scholastic Gold) By Pam Muñoz Ryan Cover Image
  • Frizzy By Claribel A. Ortega, Rose Bousamra (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Merci Suárez Changes Gears By Meg Medina Cover Image
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    Invisible: A Graphic Novel By Christina Diaz Gonzalez, Gabriela Epstein (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Sofia Valdez, Future Prez (The Questioneers) By Andrea Beaty, David Roberts (Illustrator) Cover Image

Eerie and exciting reads!

  • The Otherwoods By Justine Pucella Winans, Justine Pucella Winans Cover Image
  • Celebrate the Day of the Dead! By Diane de Anda, Gloria Félix (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • The Light Inside By Dan Misdea, Dan Misdea (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Herbert's First Halloween: (Halloween Children's Books, Early Elementary Story Books, Picture Books about Bravery) By Cynthia Rylant, Steven Henry (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Boo Bark! Board Book By Mudpuppy, Kathryn Selbert (By (artist)) Cover Image
  • Dem Bones By Bob Barner Cover Image
  • Not a Pumpkin! (A Lift-the-Flap Book) By Susie Lee Jin, Susie Lee Jin (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Hidden Pictures My First Lift-the-Flap Halloween Jokes (Highlights Joke Books) By Highlights (Created by) Cover Image
  • Hopefully the Scarecrow By Michelle Houts, Sara Palacios (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Room on the Broom By Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • The Wheels on the Costume By Cindy Jin, Lauren Lowen (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror By Erica Waters, Chloe Gong, Tori Bovalino, Hannah Whitten, Allison Saft, Olivia Chadha, Courtney Gould, Aden Polydoros, Shakira Toussaint, Alex Brown Cover Image
  • Hellaween By Moss Lawton Cover Image
  • Boo! Baa, La La La! By Sandra Boynton, Sandra Boynton (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Happy Halloweenie By Katie Vernon, Katie Vernon (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Grumpy Monkey Don't Be Scared By Suzanne Lang, Max Lang (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Spooky Pookie (Little Pookie) By Sandra Boynton, Sandra Boynton (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Boo Bark! Board Book By Mudpuppy, Kathryn Selbert (By (artist)) Cover Image
  • Boris and Bella By Carolyn Crimi, Gris Grimly (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • Halloween Fun (Holiday Fun Activity Books) By Highlights (Created by) Cover Image
  • Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror & Delight By Shelly Page (Editor), Alex Brown (Editor), Kalynn Bayron, Alex Brown, Vanessa Montalban, Rebecca Kim Wells, Kosoko Jackson, Trang Thanh Tran, Maya Gittelman, Em X. Liu, Shelly Page, Tara Sim, Ayida Shonibar, Ryan Douglass, Sara Farizan Cover Image

Staff Picks

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Better the Blood By Michael Bennett Cover Image

Better the Blood (Hardcover)

By Michael Bennett
$27.00

Richly textured contemporary crime novel set in Auckland, New Zealand, with pivots back to a major 19th century historical injustice of a Maori chief, this cinematic story introduces a feisty, intuitive female Maori detective, Hana Westerman, as she tracks down a terrifying serial killer intent on righting the historical injustice. Who is evil and why is one of the major themes in this first-rate debut from Bennett. Not to be missed!

(Adult Mystery) - Reviewed by Maureen


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