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White Ivy A Novel Anxious People By Susie Yang A Novel White Ivy is a fascinating, page-turning look at By Fredrik Backman Hardcover: 9781982100599 how far one young woman will go in order to fit Ebook: 9781982100612 Fredrik Backman’s writing in Anxious People had her definition of “ideal.” Ivy Lin has never been Simon & Schuster, September 2020 Hardcover: 9781501160837 Literary Fiction/Asian American me laughing out loud and left me wanting more. Ebook: 9781501160851 satisfied with her life; her parents are too strict This latest novel is the inside-out telling of a Atria Books, September 2020 and too Chinese, her clothes are too cheap, her Literary Fiction/Friendship bank robbery—starting with one scenario and neighborhood too poor. In her twenties, a chance encounter with an old school leading into a million others in the past, present, crush gives her the opportunity to snatch the wealthy, New England life she’s and future, zooming in and out on details you might have overlooked, but that always wanted for herself. But what price is she willing to pay for the life she thinks ultimately bring all of the characters’ storylines together. It is funny, heartwarming, she wants? and devastating at times, but reading this book reminded me that to have flaws and For fans of Everything I Never Told You and We Could Be Beautiful to care is what makes us human. For fans of A Man Called Ove and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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Cuyahoga Group A Novel How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life By Pete Beatty By Christie Tate This is the kind of novel that sweeps you into a I was instantly drawn to Christie Tate’s Group whirlpool full of larger‑than‑life characters and because I love to read memoirs. At times I was rushes you head-first along a rowdy and bumpy Hardcover: 9781982155551 shocked by her brutal honesty in telling the story Hardcover: 9781982154615 current. In order for Meed’s brother, Big Son, to Ebook: 9781982155575 of how years of group therapy helped her deal Ebook: 9781982154639 Scribner, October 2020 Avid Reader Press, October 2020 win the hand of his beloved Cloe, Big must earn Family Life/Cultural Heritage with an eating disorder, self-doubt, and intimate Memoir/Interpersonal Relationships an honest living. And In 1830’s Ohio, that means relationships. I felt uncomfortable reading building a bridge between two warring cities: something so personal, yet I had to stay on the journey with her. Group is a story of Ohio City and Cleveland. Told in equal parts hilarity and sincerity, each sentence transformation and the strength found in strangers who become family. of Cuyahoga is an event as the book reinvents the myth-making tall tales of the For fans of The Valedictorian of Being Dead and Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Midwest into a fresh picaresque epic. For fans of Lincoln in the Bardo and Night Boat to Tangier

TURN THE PAGE FOR MORE FALL 2020 RELEASES Audio Is Available Black Sun The End of the Day A Novel A Novel By Rebecca Roanhorse By Bill Clegg New York Times bestselling author (Star Wars: Moved from Summer 2020 Resistance Reborn, Trail of Lightning) Rebecca A widow in Connecticut wakes to an unexpected Roanhorse’s Black Sun is a fresh and vital visit from her childhood best friend whom she addition to the wave of fantasy novels inspired hasn’t seen in forty-nine years. A man arrives at by underrepresented cultures and societies. a Pennsylvania hotel to introduce his estranged Inspired by the indigenous civilizations of the father to his newborn daughter and finds him Americas before European colonization, Black collapsed on the floor. A sixty-seven-year-old taxi Sun follows warring matriarchies, all vying for driver in Kauai receives a call that jars her back to power in a world filled with celestial prophecies, a traumatic past. These seemingly disconnected political machinations, and forbidden magic. lives come together as old secrets begin to For fans of the Broken Earth trilogy and Hardcover: 9781534437678 Hardcover: 9781476798202 surface. It is in this moment that Bill Clegg Black Leopard, Red Wolf Ebook: 9781534437692 Ebook: 9781476798226 reminds us how choices become our legacy Saga Press, October 2020 Scout Press, September 2020 Epic Fantasy/Native American Literary Fiction/Friendship For fans of Did You Ever Have a Family and Clock Dance Cobble Hill A Novel Fortune and Glory By Cecily von Ziegesar A Stephanie Plum Novel (#27) From the author of the bestselling Gossip Girl By Janet Evanovich books comes a highly entertaining novel following The #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet four married couples as they seek purpose, Evanovich and everyone’s favorite fictional community, and meaningful relationships bounty hunter Stephanie Plum have found a in their excessively comfortable, hip south new home with Atria Books! Filled with all of the Brooklyn neighborhood. As private storms brew series characters readers have come to love, amongst the couples and their children, their including Joe Morelli, Ranger, Lula, and of course lives intersect. Cobble Hill is a delightfully witty Grandma Mazur, Fortune and Glory is as fresh, portrait of modern life and the strangest regular funny, and exciting as Stephanie Plum herself. people New York City has to offer. For fans of Stephanie Plum and the Fox & O’Hare For fans of Modern Lovers and When Life Gives Hardcover: 9781982147037 Hardcover: 9781982154837 Ebook: 9781982147051 Ebook: 9781982154868 series You Lululemons Atria Books, October 2020 Atria Books, November 2020 Women’s Fiction/Marriage & Divorce Crime Thriller/Humorous Dark Tides Guns, an American Conversation A Novel How to Bridge Political Divides By Philippa Gregory By the editors at Spaceship Media The #1 New York Times bestselling author, A first-of-its-kind experiment in a new type of Philippa Gregory, continues where Tidelands left public discourse, strangers were recruited from off, following a poor young woman as she flees a across the country and across the political divide brutal past and begins to build a shipping empire. to discover if they could have a civil conversation This sweeping historical fiction takes the reader about guns. Based on an article by Pulitzer from London to Venice, delivering Gregory’s Prize–winning reporters, this book is one of the signature compelling plots, suspense and intrigue, first full-length narrative books about the Second romance, and expertly researched historical Amendment—a contentious election-year detail in a novel that proves both a satisfying issue—to tackle understanding and accepting sequel and stand‑alone. both sides of the issue through productive dialogue. For fans of Tidelands and The Last Tudor Hardcover: 9781501187186 Hardcover: 9781982132989 Ebook: 9781501187209 Ebook: 9781982132996 For fans of First Freedom and Control Atria Books, November 2020 Tiller Press, September 2020 Historical Fiction/Women’s Fiction Commentary & Opinion/Social Theory The Deepest South of All The Hollow Places True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi A Novel By Richard Grant By T. Kingfisher Richard Grant, the bestselling author of Set in a small Southern town filled with the Dispatches from Pluto, returns to Mississippi bewildering, sinister wonder of a Grimm’s fairy where he explores the thin line between the tale, The Hollow Places is cloaked in a dark, past and present in an unforgettable Southern palpable atmosphere, and culminates in a chilling town that serves as a microcosm for the end that will stay with readers long after the book country. Seamlessly weaving together history is finished. T. Kingfisher combines distinctively and adventure, Grant tells the story between modern storytelling with direct inspiration from scenes in the Antebellum South and a cast of folklore, fairy tales, and supernatural monsters, modern‑day Natchez residents. The result is a appealing to die-hard horror fans and newcomers piercing exploration of the nation’s past that also alike. happens to be riotously entertaining. 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SSEdLib @SSEdLib SimonandSchuster.net/TheBookDrop Invisible Girl The Museum of Forgotten Memories A Novel A Novel By Lisa Jewell By Anstey Harris International bestseller Lisa Jewell returns with After Cate’s partner Richard dies by suicide and another sensational thriller. In Invisible Girl, she is fired from her job in London, she packs people’s lives intersect when young Saffyre up and moves to a crumbling Victorian museum Maddox disappears in their neighborhood. Owen owned by Richard’s uncle. Cate falls in love with is suspended from his teaching job for sexual the quirky exhibits and makes it her mission misconduct accusations and gets involved in dark to revive the museum. As she becomes more web forums. Across the street lives the Fours invested in the museum and family that runs it, family, a physiotherapist and child psychologist she must finally confront Richard’s death and parents and two teenagers, with secrets of their the part she played in it in order to reimagine own. Owen is the last person to see Saffyre and is her future. suspect number one, but should he be? Hardcover: 9781982137335 Paperback: 9781982126896 For fans of Evvie Drake Starts Over and How to For fans of Then She Was Gone and Turn of the Key Ebook: 9781982137359 Ebook: 9781982127107 Walk Away Atria Books, October 2020 Gallery Books, November 2020 Suspense Thriller/Women’s Fiction Family Life/Women’s Fiction Little Cruelties Once I Was You A Novel A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America By Liz Nugent By Maria Hinojosa With stunning insight into the secret life of a Detailing her family’s own gripping story of troubled family, bestselling author Liz Nugent adjusting to life on the south side of Chicago, tries to fathom what turns a much-loved little Emmy Award–winning NPR journalist Maria boy into a sexual predator, or a shy child seeking Hinojosa shares how the communities that his mother’s love into a drug-addled narcissist, surrounded her went from being celebrated or an eager, ambitious young man into a liar to erased, and why the mainstream media is and a traitor. A thought-provoking, meaningful, complicit in maintaining the status quo. Once frequently moving and sometimes uneasy read, it I Was You is perfect for readers of Rachel seeks to explain why, indeed, “some of the most Maddow’s Blowout, Jose Antonio Vargas’s Dear poisonous people come disguised as family.” America, or any other work that reflects how American systems shut people out. 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Stories about women, absent of The Rules of Magic, and her journey from theoretical jargon, who would otherwise go 17th‑century England to the vibrant Dutch unheard: the poor woman, the poor mother, the Caribbean and the dangers of the Salem single mother, the woman least valued by society witch trials. yet essential to its labor. Delivered with Smarsh’s For fans of Practical Magic and A Discovery of characteristic insight and intelligence, this book Witches pays tribute to the icon Dolly Parton, and the Hardcover: 9781982108847 Hardcover: 9781982157289 organic feminism she embodies. Ebook: 9781982108861 Ebook: 9781982157302 For fans of Dream More and Girl in a Band Simon & Schuster, October 2020 Scribner, October 2020 Historical Fiction/Occult & Supernatural Entertainment/Country & Bluegrass Midland Solutions and Other Problems Reports from Flyover Country A Graphic Memoir Edited by Michael Croley and Jack Shuler By Allie Brosh After the 2016 presidential election, as national Touching, absurd, and darkly comic, Allie Brosh’s media fretted over what they had missed, the new collection of autobiographical essays Between Coasts forum was called together. showcases her singular voice, leaping wit, and The forum was created to push out the robust her ability to capture complex emotions with journalism from the middle to coastal media deceptively simple illustrations. This full‑color, outlets to counter the traditional narrative foisted beautifully illustrated edition features all‑new on “flyover” country and rural communities. In material, including stories from Brosh’s childhood, short, the journalists who attend the Between the misadventures of her very bad dogs, Coasts forum and fill this anthology didn’t miss merciless dissection of her own character flaws, Donald Trump’s rise. In many cases, they saw and serious meditations of grief, loneliness, and powerlessness in the wake of personal tragedy. it coming. Paperback: 9781982147778 Hardcover: 9781982156947 Ebook: 9781982147785 Ebook: 9781982156961 For fans of Hyperbole and a Half and For fans of Heartland and The Kings of Big Spring Tiller Press, September 2020 Gallery Books, September 2020 Essays/Commentary & Opinion Comic Strips/Personal Memoirs Furiously Happy

SSEdLib @SSEdLib SimonandSchuster.net/TheBookDrop They Never Learn A Novel MORE STAFF PICKS By Layne Fargo Every year, Professor Scarlett Clark searches for the worst man on campus and plots his well-deserved demise—and she’s gotten very good at getting away with murder, thanks to hel’s her meticulous planning. But this year, as she’s ac preparing for her biggest kill yet, the school R starts looking into its rising body count. While Pick Scarlett struggles to stay under the radar, freshman Carly seeks revenge for her roommate who was sexually assaulted at a party, and the One by One two worlds collide. Hardcover: 9781982132026 A Novel For fans of Temper and Tell Me Everything Ebook: 9781982132040 Scout Press, October 2020 By Ruth Ware Psychological Thriller/Noir Getting snowed into a gorgeous mountain chalet Hardcover: 9781501188817 Ebook: 9781501188831 The Times I Knew I Was Gay doesn’t sound like a huge problem…unless you’re Scout Press, September 2020 By Eleanor Crewes stranded there with eight coworkers you can’t Suspense Thriller/Psychological trust. The #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellie always knew she was different. Contrary and Ruth Ware takes us to the mountains in One by creative, she wore black, obsessed over Willow One where a company retreat goes wrong when a monster storm shuts them in Buffy, and somehow never really liked boys. inside and the corporate food chain becomes irrelevant. Come Monday, how many As she grew, so did her fears and a deep sense members short will the team be? of unbelonging. From her first communion to her first girlfriend via a swathe of self-denial, awkward For fans of In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Silent Wife encounters, and everyday courage, Ellie’s journey is told through tender and funny illustrations—a graphic memoir sketched out from the heart. For fans of Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me and My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness Hardcover: 9781982147105 ’s Ebook: 9781982147129 rah Scribner, October 2020 Sa Memoir/LGBT Pick Truly, Madly, Deeply A Novel By Karen Kingsbury The 2084 Report America’s favorite inspirational storyteller Karen An Oral History of the Great Warming Kingsbury returns to the Baxter family in Truly, By James Lawrence Powell Madly, Deeply. Tommy Baxter is determined to We may not see much of the narrator once he be a police officer when he graduates high school skillfully hands the reigns over to a variety of in the spring, despite his mother’s fear of him experts, including a Brazilian anthropologist Hardcover: 9781982150211 running into a danger that will get him killed like Ebook: 9781982150228 and the last director of the National Indian Atria Books, September 2020 her own police officer father. But when Tommy Foundation, a hydraulic engineer, and a global- Alternative History/Post-Apocalyptic learns that his girlfriend is very sick, he becomes warming correspondent for Le Monde, but his more determined than ever to follow his dream. honest introduction about his responsibilities and intentions as an oral historian is For fans of Someone Like You and The Road Home thoughtful and compelling. The book puts today’s climate facts in the context of a Hardcover: 9781982104382 worrisome imagined future, giving us gut-wrenching motivations and hopefully a Ebook: 9781982104405 Atria Books, October 2020 fresh sense of urgency to examine what we can still save. Christian Romance/Family Life For fans of The End of October and The Water Knife

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