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Story Time
Peter Ganim Reads Everyone's Awake by Colin Meloy
Actor Peter Ganim returns to read Everyone’s Awake, a way-too-true rhyming story about a family’s bedtime routine that’s... -
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Groups + Workshops
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May 26th to July 14th
N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy: An Online Reading Group led by Joy Sanchez-Taylor
$120
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May 27th to July 8th
Borges and Friends: An Online Reading Group led by Sam Rutter
$120
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June 8th to August 31st
Tough Women in Hard Times: An Online Reading Group led by Anne E. Fernald
$120
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Featured
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Online Event: Elliot Ackerman Launches Red Dress in Black and White with Özgür Mumcu
Wednesday, 1:00 pm May 27, 2020
A love letter to Istanbul that puts the reader squarely in the heart of personal and political conflicts taking place. -
Examining Home in Fiction by Women of Color: An Online Reading Group led by Regina A. Bernard Carreno
6/29, 7/6, 7/27, 8/17 Mondays, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm June 29 to August 17, 2020
Since the publication of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, many women writers of color have explored immigration and migration... -
Online Event: Martha McPhee Launches An Elegant Woman in Conversation with Julia Phillips
Tuesday, 7:30 pm June 2, 2020
“…[a] wonderfully imagined novel, wherein the American art of self-invention is explored with a clear eye to the price it exacts.”
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All Book Recs
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Bookstore Picks
British Imports: Lost Gems and Pocket-Sized Reads
This week we are highlighting a selection of our British imports—collections of short fiction and essays from classic to contemporary... -
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Stunning Memoirs, New Paperbacks, and More Recommendations for Mother's Day
This week we celebrate the coming of Mother’s Day with some authors from home and abroad, some enticing paperbacks you might... -
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Follow Along at Home: Selections from Story Time
First of all, thank you, our treasured customers, for ordering books from the Center for Fiction and helping to support us through... -
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Escape Into Crime Fiction
There are so many delicious new crime novels it is hard to select a handful to recommend but these that follow are some of the... -
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Spotlight on Small and Independent Presses
We have always appreciated the work that the small and independent presses do, from their discovery of new voices to their commitment... -
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Books, New and Old, from Writers We Love
This week we wanted to draw your attention to some of our favorite new releases, and—since we might all have a little more... -
2020 Whiting Award Winners
Our friends at The Whiting Foundation have supported emerging writers through the annual Whiting Awards for 35 years -
Comic Relief: Six Classic Novels that Bring the Laughs
These are troubling times and, though our physical bookstore is closed, we want to continue offering our community a respite from the stress
