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Store Hours: Monday - Saturday: 10 am - 6 pm and Sunday: 11 am - 4 pm

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The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel (A Thursday Murder Club Mystery #1) Cover Image
The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel...
By Richard Osman
$17.00
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The Man Who Died Twice: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery Cover Image
The Man Who Died Twice: A Thursday...
By Richard Osman
$26.00
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The Last Flight: A Novel Cover Image
The Last Flight: A Novel (...
By Julie Clark
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Next to Last Stand: A Longmire Mystery Cover Image
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By Craig Johnson
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Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition): An Easy Rawlins Novel (Easy Rawlins Mystery #1) Cover Image
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By Walter Mosley
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Sudden Death (The Andy Carpenter Series #4) Cover Image
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By David Rosenfelt
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Finding Nouf (Paperback)
By Zoë Ferraris
$14.99
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The Burglar (Paperback)
By Thomas Perry
$16.00
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The First Phone Call from Heaven: A Novel Cover Image
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By Mitch Albom
$8.99
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The Investigator (Hardcover)
By John Sandford
$29.00
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Shadows Reel (A Joe Pickett Novel #22) Cover Image
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By C. J. Box
$28.00
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The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel (A Thursday Murder Club Mystery #1) Cover Image
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By Richard Osman
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  • Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History Cover Image
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    Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American Cover Image
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  • Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality Cover Image
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  • The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1) Cover Image
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  • If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Vintage Contemporaries) Cover Image
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    The Priory of the Orange Tree Cover Image
  • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel Cover Image
  • Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb Series #1) Cover Image
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    Written in the Stars: A Novel Cover Image
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    The Song of Achilles: A Novel Cover Image
  • Skate for Your Life (Pocket Change Collective) Cover Image
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Garlic and the Vampire (Paperback)

By Bree Paulsen, Bree Paulsen (Illustrator)
$12.99

Local Witch Agnes and her vegetable companions’ peaceful lives are thrown into unease when a vampire moves in nearby! And only one vegetable can face him: poor anxiety-ridden Garlic! Garlic is tasked with confronting this vampire in order to help her friends, and her journey becomes one of finding her courage and discovering that people we don't know are not always as terrifying as our anxiety tells us. Absurdly cute and weirdly wonderful, with exemplary autumn vibes, this magical Witchy story is an all-ages, heart-filled adventure to sink your teeth into, with each character vibrant and completely lovable. I've never identified with vegetables so much in my life!

(Graphic Novel, Ages 8+) - reviewed by Isabel 


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