March New Releases We're Excited For!
Have a peak at the new releases coming out this month handpicked by our book buyer!
Here are our Fiction and Nonfiction New Releases!
Guatemalan Rhapsody: Stories by Jared Lemus
If you’ve read these lists before, you know I love me a good short story, and damn are these good stories. From native Guatemalans to those who have moved away, every narrator asks what home is and how to make it where they are.
Out March 4th!
Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton
This memoir is about more than a woman raising a wild hare; it’s even about more than our relationship with nature. It’s also about freedom--letting the rabbit run free, trust--the rabbit allowing human care, and loss--knowing the hare will one day never return.
Out March 4th!
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
I read one of McConaghy’s earlier novels, Migrations, and adored it. This story similarly follows the path of different forms of love faced with rapid climate change. What would you do to save your beloveds when the world around you is falling apart?
Out March 4th!
Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for My Land and My People by Dalai Lama
A departure from the Dalai Lama’s previous books on spirituality, this title focuses on the Tibetan people’s plight under Chinese rule. Writing from India, where he’s been exiled since 1959, the Dalia Lama shares his pain and hope in returning freedom to his people.
Out March 11th!
The Antidote by Karen Russell
This novel follows five characters in the dust bowl whose lives become entangled during a dangerous storm. This seems like a departure from Russell’s earlier work, but fear not, time travel is involved. Plus I’d just read anything this author writes.
Out March 11th!
Unusual Fragments: 20th Century Japanese Fiction edited by Sarah Coolidge
More short stories! This is a collection of five undertranslated Japanese authors, four of whom are women. All the stories are linked by the sense that everyday life is becoming unsettled, revealing a darker world. Think Osamu Dazai.
Out March 11th!
The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream by Blake Gopnik
The Barnes Museum in Philadelphia has an astounding collection, and this biography is about the man who started it. A wealthy eccentric, Barnes never forgot his working class roots, and was more likely to show his art to a mine worker than a mine owner.
Out March 18th!
The Death and Life of August Sweeney by Samuel Ashworth
We are lucky enough to be hosting the author on Wednesday, March 19 at Kramers! Looking forward to hearing about this novel that combines restaurant culture with autopsy…I’m going to have questions for Ashworth, a professor at George Washington University.
Out March 20th!
Tilt by Emma Pattee
I love when a whole book takes place in one day. Pattee’s novel occurs on the day a massive earthquake hits Portland, OR, and the pregnant narrator must walk across the city to get home. Along the way she reflects on her life choices and makes vows for her future.
Out March 25th!
Hey You Assholes by Kyle Seibel
And one more short story collection (I have a problem). Billed as “hilarious, poignant, gritty and bizarre,” (I’m so there!) these sometimes surreal stories tackle the lives of society’s misfits. Find this guy online (@kylerseibel) for a taste of what you’ll find here.
Out March 25th!
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Despite spending decades on the East Coast, Llalan remains a stalwart Midwesterner. And although she has an MA in Publishing and Writing from Emerson College in Boston, she prefers the life of a Bookstore Lady. Llalan loves literary fiction, nature writing, and craft beer.