Recommended Preorders

A bookstore is at heart a place to browse, to let serendipity and chance guide you, and though that experience will always be our primary focus, it's also important to seek different avenues of conveying our loves of books to you. That's where this page comes in handy.

Offering preorders is a way to share our excitement about upcoming books and offers benefits to authors, publishers, and us, your bookseller. You can preorder any forthcoming book on our site or in the store, so we'll limit our selection here to books of particular interest to us.

 

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Praiseworthy By Alexis Wright Cover Image
$22.95
ISBN: 9780811238014
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: New Directions - February 6th, 2024

Alexis Wright's Praiseworthy should be the last novel ever published: it's the ultimate expression of what fiction can do, a marvelous beast that gobbles and spits up all genres; whispers and screams and moans in all registers; and the vision of our world that it casts back in its distorted funhouse mirror seems more real than piddling reality itself. -- Stephen


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Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World By Patrick Joyce Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781668031087
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Scribner - February 20th, 2024

Remembering Peasants is a fascinating and evocative history of peasant culture that demonstrates just how much humanity loses as we continue to disassociate ourselves from the land. Joyce, the son of Irish peasants, paints a picture of a nearly extinct world of soil and toil without romanticism, but with a sober appreciation of the trials and abiding connection to place, among other things, that a peasant's deep roots instill. A lovely book. -- Stephen


Parasol Against the Axe: A Novel By Helen Oyeyemi Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593192368
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Riverhead Books - March 5th, 2024

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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth By Zoë Schlanger Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9780063073852
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Harper - May 7th, 2024

Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature By Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781503637320
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Stanford University Press - May 7th, 2024

Parade: A Novel By Rachel Cusk Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780374610043
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - June 18th, 2024

Concerning the Future of Souls By Joy Williams Cover Image
$22.95
ISBN: 9781959030591
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Tin House Books - July 2nd, 2024

The Age of Loneliness: Essays By Laura Marris Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781644452943
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Published: Graywolf Press - August 6th, 2024

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Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks By Marcia Bjornerud Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781250875891
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Flatiron Books - August 13th, 2024