Your Local Independent Bookstore Delivers Holiday Joy Everywhere
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IN STORE, ONLINE, CURBSIDE, AND RIGHT TO YOUR DOOR, your local independent bookstore delivers holiday joy everywhere. Winners Just Announced Booksellers from your favorite bookstores throughout the Greater Midwest selected these titles as award-winning books from the region this year. Celebrate these authors by shopping for their books at your local independent bookstore. FICTION NONFICTION POETRY Everywhere You In the Dream House Homie Don’t Belong Carmen Maria Machado Danez Smith Gabriel Bump Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Algonquin Books $16.00 | 9781644450031 $16.00 | 9781644450109 $25.95 | 9781616208790 YA / MIDDLE GRADE PICTURE BOOK The Fountains of Silence A Map into the World Ruta Sepetys Kao Kalia Yang Philomel Books Carolrhoda Books $11.99 | 9780399160318 $17.99 | 9781541538368 See all finalists for the Heartland Booksellers Award at heartlandfallforum.org/heartland-booksellers-award.html 3 Fiction Good Reads Sapiens: A Graphic History Snow African American Poetry: Make Life Beautiful Yuval Noah Harari John Banville 250 Years of Struggle & Syd & Shea McGee The graphic adaptation of the The incomparable Booker Prize Song Meet Syd and Shea #1 New York Times bestseller winner’s next great crime novel: Kevin Young, Editor McGee, the powerhouse couple by Yuval Noah Harari, now with a beautifully crafted and darkly A literary landmark: the behind Studio McGee, the gorgeous color illustrations and evocative story of an aristocratic biggest, most inclusive fastest-growing interior design digestible text for readers of family whose secrets resurface anthology of Black poetry ever studio in the U.S. Learn how all ages. when a parish priest is found published, gathering nearly 250 classic design principles can be Harper Paperbacks murdered. poets from the colonial period used to build an authentically $25.99 | 9780063051331 Hanover Square Press to the present. beautiful life. $27.99 | 9781335230003 Library of America Harper Horizon $45.00 | 9781598536669 $26.99 | 9780785233879 American Gospel: A Novel Piranesi The Broken Heart of She Come By It Natural Lin Enger Susanna Clarke America Sarah Smarsh Radically personal and From New York Times Walter Johnson A laser-sharp portrait of country quintessentially American, an bestselling author of Jonathan A searing portrait of the racial music legend, Dolly Parton, and intimate drama at the heart of Strange & Mr. Norrell comes an dynamics that lie inescapably the women she has inspired. an apocalyptic vision. intoxicating, hypnotic new novel at the heart of our nation, told Exploring the intersection of University of Minnesota Press set in a dreamlike alternative through the turbulent history of gender, class, and culture, She $24.95 | 9781517910549 reality. the city of St. Louis. Come By It Natural is a fitting Bloomsbury Basic Books tribute to an American icon. $27.00 | 9781635575637 $35.00 | 9780465064267 Scribner $22.00 | 9781982157289 The Return Notorious (Rebels of the Patrick J. Lucey: A Lasting Coming Out, Moving Nicholas Sparks Ton, Book 1) Legacy Forward In the romantic tradition of Minerva Spencer Dennis Dresang R. Richard Wagner Dear John, #1 New York Times Thrown into a marriage Meet the politician who loved The second volume in a ground- bestselling author Nicholas of necessity, can an unapologet- political combat but in a breaking work on gay history Sparks returns with the story ically opinionated lady and an context of civility — the Kennedy profiles post-Stonewall-Wisconsin of an injured Navy doctor and effortlessly charming rogue confidant, governor, and VP LGBT leaders and efforts to right two women whose secrets will find common ground in their candidate who shepherded major past oppressions and secure change his life. distaste for convention? progressive reforms. equality. Grand Central Publishing Kensington Books Wisconsin Historical Society Press Wisconsin Historical Society Press $28.00 | 9781538728574 $15.95 | 9781496732835 $28.95 | 9780870209369 $28.95 | 9780870209277 Saving Ruby King Daylight My Life in the Purple Tending the Valley: A Prairie Catherine Adel West David Baldacci Kingdom Restoration Odyssey An epic, enthralling story set on FBI Agent Atlee Pine’s search BrownMark Alice D’Alessio the South Side of Chicago about for her sister clashes with Prince’s bassist, BrownMark, Combining keenly observed a young woman determined military investigator John on growing up in Minneapolis, nature writing and humor, this to protect her best friend and Puller’s high-stakes case in the joining Prince and The Revolu- memoir chronicles one couple’s a deadly secret that threatens new blockbuster thriller from tion, and his life in the purple adventures (and misadventures) in to undermine both of their #1 New York Times bestselling kingdom. prairie restoration in Wisconsin’s families. author David Baldacci. University of Minnesota Press famed Driftless Area. Park Row Grand Central Publishing $22.95 | 9781517909277 Wisconsin Historical Society Press $27.99 | 9780778305095 $29.00 | 9781538761694 $15.95 | 9780870209505 One Night Two Souls Went The Arctic Fury The Wolf’s Trail: An Ojibwe Is This Anything? Walking Greer Macallister Story, Told by Wolves Jerry Seinfeld Ellen Cooney A dozen women join a secret Thomas D. Peacock The first book in twenty-five “I believe in expecting light. 1850s Arctic expedition, and a “We who are not Ojibwe learn years from Jerry Seinfeld That’s my job.” A hospital sensational murder trial unfolds so much about our Native features his best work across chaplain offers compassion to when some of them don’t come brothers and sisters. The five decades in comedy. Page her patients — and herself — back. What happened out there Wolf’s Trail is a small, quiet after hilarious page reveals the during one eventful night shift. on the ice? masterpiece.” — Star Tribune evolution of one of the great Coffee House Press Landmark Holy Cow! Press comedians of our time. $16.95 | 9781566895972 $16.99 | 9781728215693 $16.95 | 9781513645629 Simon & Schuster $35.00 | 9781982112691 4 5 Nonfiction Nonfiction Modern Cast Iron How to Astronaut Ashley L. Jones Terry Virts A comprehensive guide to all In this wildly entertaining things cast iron and home-style account of the rules, lessons, cookin’, Modern Cast Iron offers procedures, and experiences of a new way for cooks to spice space travel, Virts reveals the up the kitchen using all-natural often-untold side of something tools and ingredients. few will ever know firsthand. Red Lightning Workman $22.00 | 9781684351022 $27.95 | 9781523509614 A Walk Around the Block Beyond Your Bubble Vesper Flights Ballad of an American Spike Carlsen Tania Israel Helen Macdonald Sharon Rudahl, Edited by Paul “An eye-opening and “Strategies for connecting From New York Times Buhle & Lawrence Ware exuberantly informative walk- across the political divide.” bestselling author of H is for The life story of singer, actor, around-the-block tour that is — New York Times Hawk and winner of the Samuel scholar, athlete, and activist made to order for this time of “Practical advice for talking to ... Johnson Prize for Nonfiction Robeson: “an artistic genius, necessary at-homeness.” those whose campaign yard comes a transcendent collection moral titan, and courageous — Booklist, Starred Review signs make you wince.” of essays about the human freedom fighter whom we must HarperOne — Publishers Weekly relationship to the natural never forget!” — Dr. Cornel West $24.99 | 9780062954756 American Psychological world. Rutgers University Press Association Grove Press $19.95 | 9781978802070 $16.99 | 9781433833557 $27.00 | 9780802128812 Weird Earth The Antiquarian Great Adaptations Take Arms Against Donald R. Prothero Sticker Book Kenneth Catania A Sea Of Troubles Aliens. Ley lines. Water Odd Dot The story of how one Harold Bloom dowsing. Conspiracies and A treasure trove of over scientist unlocked the secrets The last book written by the myths captivate imaginations 1,000 ornate stickers for the behind some of nature’s most most famous literary critic of and promise mystery. Prothero modern-day crafter, stationery astounding animals. Through his generation. In passages of answers these claims with facts, enthusiast, scrapbooker, art a series of gripping vignettes, breathtaking intimacy, Bloom offering historical and scientific lover, or anyone who loves Great Adaptations offers a takes us on an invigorating context in a light-hearted, stickers. wondrous journey into nature’s journey of the immortal and accessible manner. Odd Dot grand designs. sustaining power of poetry. Red Lightning $24.99 | 9781250208149 Princeton University Press Yale University Press $20.00 | 9781684350612 $27.95 | 9780691195254 $35.00 | 9780300247282 French Like Moi: A When the White Pine How the World We Keep the Dead Close Midwesterner in Paris Was King Looks to a Bee Becky Cooper Scott Dominic Carpenter Jerry Apps Don Glass, Editor Dive into this “tour de force & Liam Golden Jerry Apps transports readers The perfect armchair of investigative reporting” Scott Carpenter moves from to Wisconsin’s lumber boom companion for curious people (Ron Chernow): a “searching, Minnesota to Paris, never and reveals the history that built who want to know more about atmospheric and ultimately suspecting the dramas that the Midwest and the lessons the science of everyday life but entrancing” (Patrick Radden await. Eighteen tales unveil the that resonate through the have only a moment to spare, Keefe) true crime narrative of Parisian everyday, one hilarious Northwoods today. these fascinating