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  • New Movies & TV in October
  • New Fiction in September
  • New Nonfiction in September
  • New in Large Type
  • Horror Fiction

New Fiction in September

Lies He Told Me
Here One Moment
Counting Miracles
Bad Liar
Safe Enough : And Other Stories
The Life Impossible
Fatal Intrusion
Den of Iniquity
We Solve Murders
Capture or Kill
Passions in death
Tell Me Everything
The Forest of Lost Souls
On the Hunt
Intermezzo
The Night We Lost Him
An Eye for an Eye
Death at the Sign of the Rook
What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust
Entitlement
Creation Lake
Somewhere Beyond the Sea
Playground

New in Large Type: Fall 2024

And So I Roar
The Life Impossible
We Solve Murders
The Library Thief
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Shadow
The Year of What If
Arkangel: A Sigma Rorce Novel
Here One Moment
Murder at an English Séance
Our Little Secret
A Better World
The Search Party
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
One of Our Kind
All the Colors of the Dark
Trust Her
The Hollywood Assistant
Think Twice
One of Us Knows
Nosy Neighbors
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II
Elevate and Dominate: 21 Ways to Win On and Off the Field
Amish Love Letters
The House on Biscayne Bay
It Had to Be You
Missing White Woman
Somehow: Thoughts on Love

New Nonfiction in September

The longest con : how grifters, swindlers, and frauds hijacked American conservatism
The home I worked to make : voices from the new Syrian diaspora
Autocracy, Inc. : the dictators who want to run the world
The genius of Judy : how Judy Blume rewrote childhood for all of us
This fierce people : the untold story of America's Revolutionary War in the South
Should we go extinct? : a philosophical dilemma for our unbearable times
Impossible monsters : dinosaurs, Darwin, and the battle between science and religion
Lucid Dying : The New Science Revolutionizing How We Understand Life and Death
Circle of Hope : A Reckoning With Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church
What's next : a backstage pass to The West Wing, its cast and crew, and its enduring legacy of service
Meet the neighbors : animal minds and life in a more-than-human world
Die hot with a vengeance : essays on vanity
Democracy in retrograde : how to make changes big and small in our country and in our lives
Telltale hearts : a public health doctor, his patients, and the power of story
Life as no one knows it : the physics of life's emergence
How to be a citizen : learning to be civil without the state
Guilty creatures : sex, God, and murder in Tallahassee, Florida
Midnight in Moscow : A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West
Dinner tonight : simple meals full of Mediterranean flavor
Alexander at the end of the world : the forgotten final years of Alexander the Great
Kent State : an American tragedy
A hunger to kill : a serial killer, a determined detective, and the quest for a confession that changed a small town forever
Lonely Planet's Guide to Death, Grief and Rebirth
Feeding the Machine : The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.i.
The bluestockings : a history of the first women's movement
Madoff : the final word
The secret lives of numbers : a hidden history of math's unsung trailblazers
The boys of Riverside : a deaf football team and a quest for glory
Into the clear blue sky : the path to restoring our atmosphere
The Age of Loneliness : Essays
On the edge : the art of risking everything
Sharks don't sink : adventures of a rogue shark scientist

New Movies & TV in October

Bad boys : ride or die
Blind date book club ; A lifelong love
Daddio
The exorcism
Horizon : an American saga. Chapter 1
In a violent nature
Late night with the devil
Longlegs
The secrets of Bella Vista ; Mystery island
The crown. The complete final season
Reacher. Season two
The walking dead. The ones who live. Season 1
Young Sheldon. The seventh and final season
Tótem

Horror Fiction

My Heart is a Chainsaw
And Then She Fell
Nothing but Blackened Teeth
Bird Box
Horrorstör
Such Sharp Teeth
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
House of Hunger
White Horse
Hidden Pictures
Our Wives Under the Sea
Looking Glass Sound
The Cherry Robbers
Vampires of El Norte
The Centre
The Militia House
The September House
Ghost Eaters
The Haunting of Hill House
Maeve Fly
The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
Out There Screaming : An Anthology of New Black Horror
The Drift
The Spite House
Lone Women
Carrie

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