TWO-TIME PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD AND NICKEL BOYS

Harlem Shuffle's ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem.

But mostly, it's a joy to read, another dazzling novel from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning Colson Whitehead.

DELICIOUS, INDULGENT RECIPES, COZY WINTER PHOTOGRAPHY, AND LOTS OF HOLIDAY CHEER

Baking for the Holidays: 50+ Treats for a Festive Season By Sarah Kieffer

Delight family and friends with edible gifts and whip up some delicious baked goods to treat yourself through the long winter months after the holidays have ended. Recipes include: Triple Chocolate Peppermint Bark, Meyer Lemon-White Chocolate Scones, Pear-Almond Danish Bread, Hot Chocolate Cake, and Pumpkin Pie with Candied Pepita Streusel.

With cozy holiday imagery, a lovely, clean aesthetic, and easy yet innovative recipes, this is a go-to cookbook for baking enthusiasts, anyone who loves the holiday season, and, of course, fans of Sarah Kieffer and her hugely popular cookie book, 100 Cookies.

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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law By By Mary Roach

What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology.

Combining little-known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows, langur impersonators, and trespassing squirrels, Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature’s lawbreakers. When it comes to "problem" wildlife, she finds, humans are more often the problem—and the solution. Fascinating, witty, and humane, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat.

LAUREN GROFF RETURNS WITH HER EXHILARATING FIRST NEW NOVEL SINCE THE GROUNDBREAKING FATES AND FURIES

Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff's new novel, her first since Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.

A DAZZLING, EPIC FAMILY SAGA SPANNING FROM WORLD WAR I TO THE COLD WAR.

The Magician: A Novel By Colm Toibin

Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable. Young Mann hides his artistic aspirations from his father and his homosexual desires from everyone. He is infatuated with one of the richest, most cultured Jewish families in Munich, and marries the daughter Katia. They have six children.

On a holiday in Italy, he longs for a boy he sees on a beach and writes the story Death in Venice. He is the most successful novelist of his time, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, a public man whose private life remains secret. He is expected to lead the condemnation of Hitler, whom he underestimates. His oldest daughter and son, leaders of Bohemianism and of the anti-Nazi movement, share lovers. He flees Germany for Switzerland, France and, ultimately, America

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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint By Maggie Nelson

Drawing on a vast range of material, from critical theory to pop culture to the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience, or talk about freedom in ways responsive to the conditions of our day. Her abiding interest lies in ongoing “practices of freedom” by which we negotiate our interrelation with—indeed, our inseparability from—others, with all the care and constraint that entails, while accepting difference and conflict as integral to our communion.

2019 POET LAUREATE OF THE UNITED STATES

Poet Warrior: A Memoir By Joy Harjo

Harjo listens to stories of ancestors and family, the poetry and music that she first encountered as a child, and the messengers of a changing earth—owls heralding grief, resilient desert plants, and a smooth green snake curled up in surprise. She celebrates the influences that shaped her poetry, among them Audre Lorde, N. Scott Momaday, Walt Whitman, Muscogee stomp dance call-and-response, Navajo horse songs, rain, and sunrise. In absorbing, incantatory prose, Harjo grieves at the loss of her mother, reckons with the theft of her ancestral homeland, and sheds light on the rituals that nourish her as an artist, mother, wife, and community member.

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The Olive Editions from Harper Perennial are back with limited editions of select titles including Plague of Doves, Beasts of No Nation, and House Made of Dawn.

Patrick Strait

Heather Tosteson, Patricia Barone, Roseann Lloyd, Margaret Hasse, Norita Dittberner-Jax, Patrick Hansel, Deborah Bower & Charissa M. Menefee

“Dead Dad Jokes”

Ollie Schminkey

“Raising Ollie: How My Nonbinary Art-Nerd Kid Changed (Nearly) Everything I Know”

Tom Rademacher

Monday, October 18th, 2021 |6:00pm CST

"A 21st Century Plague: Poetry from a Pandemic" Edited By Elayne Clift

and John Krumberger

Go to NextChapterBooksellers.com/event for a full schedule of author visits, signings, and readings.

Next Chapter Book Club discusses Sisters by Daisy Johnson -Sunday, September 26, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Born just ten months apart, July and September are thick as thieves, never needing anyone but each other. Now, following a case of school bullying, the teens have moved away with their single mother to a long-abandoned family home near the shore. In their new, isolated life, July finds that the deep bond she has always shared with September is shifting in ways she cannot entirely understand. A creeping sense of dread and unease descends inside the house. Meanwhile, outside, the sisters push boundaries of behavior—until a series of shocking encounters tests the limits of their shared experience, and forces shocking revelations about the girls’ past and future.

Outside the Margins: A Speculative Fiction Book Club discusses Little Eyes: A Novel, by Samanta Schweblin

-Tuesday, October 5th, 2021 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm

They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of in Sierra Leone, town squares in Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Indiana. They're everywhere. They're here. They're us. They're not pets, or ghosts, or robots. They're real people, but how can a person living in Berlin walk freely through the living room of someone in Sydney? How can someone in Bangkok have breakfast with your children in Buenos Aires, without your knowing? Especially when these people are completely anonymous, unknown, unfindable.

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