SEQUEL TO THE RIVER

The Guide: A novel by Peter Heller

"Jack, whom we know from Heller's The River, takes a job at an elite fishing lodge. Amid natural beauty of the forest and streams, he and the young woman he is guiding, Alison, uncover a secret and sinister operation taking place at the lodge. Another wilderness thriller!"

A REISSUE OF THE SECOND INSTALLMENT OF THE LILITH'S BROOD TRILOGY

Adulthood Rites By Octavia E. Butler

The Oankali are able to read and mutate genetic code, and they use these skills for their own survival, interbreeding with new species to constantly adapt and evolve. They value the intelligence they see in humankind but also know that the species—rigidly bound to destructive social hierarchies—is destined for failure. They are determined that the only way forward is for the two races to produce a new hybrid species—and they will not tolerate rebellion.

Akin looks like an ordinary human child. But as the first true human-alien hybrid, he is born understanding language, then starts to form sentences at two months old. He can see at a molecular level and kill with a touch. More powerful than any human or Oankali, he will be the architect of both races' future. But before he can carry this new species into the stars, Akin must reconcile with his own heritage in a world already torn in two.

FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF MEXICAN GOTHIC

Velvet Was the Night by Sylvia Morena-Garcia

FROM THE AUTHOR OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

Not A Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

While some of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, others are descendants of white settlers who arrived as colonizers to displace those who were here since time immemorial, and still others are descendants of those who were kidnapped and forced here against their will. This paradigm shifting new book from the highly acclaimed author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States charges that we need to stop believing and perpetuating this simplistic and a historical idea and embrace the real (and often horrific) history of the United States.

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When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim's home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member. And Miriam is the nosy neighbor clearly keeping secrets from the police. Three women with separate connections to the victim. Three women who are - for different reasons - simmering with resentment. Who are, whether they know it or not, burning to right the wrongs done to them. When it comes to revenge, even good people might be capable of terrible deeds. How far might any one of them go to find peace? How long can secrets smolder before they explode into flame?

AUTHOR OF SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS

When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim's home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member. And Miriam is the nosy neighbor clearly keeping secrets from the police. Three women with separate connections to the victim. Three women who are - for different reasons - simmering with resentment. Who are, whether they know it or not, burning to right the wrongs done to them. When it comes to revenge, even good people might be capable of terrible deeds. How far might any one of them go to find peace? How long can secrets smolder before they explode into flame?

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Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies…especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold.

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Pre order Mary Roach's new science and conservation book Fuzz to get a signed copy and an exclusive embroidery patch.

Pre Order a copy of Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays and you'll get to join Phoebe Robinson for a virtual happy hour event

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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

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

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

-Tuesday, September 7, 2021 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm

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.

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