Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson ($28)

Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. At 27-years-old, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time. Until Halloween night, when Jet is violently attacked by an unseen intruder. She suffers a catastrophic head injury. The doctor is certain that within a week, the injury will trigger a deadly aneurysm.

Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar by Katie Yee ($26.99)

A man and a woman walk into a restaurant. The woman expects a lovely night filled with endless plates of samosas. Instead, she finds out her husband is having an affair with a woman named Maggie. A short while after, her chest starts to ache. She walks into an examination room, where she finds out the pain in her breast isn’t just heartbreak—it’s cancer. This book follows the narrator as she embarks on a journey of grief, healing, and reclamation. 

Pan by Michael Cune ($29)

Nicholas is 15 when he forgets how to breathe. He had plenty of reason to feel unstable already: He’s been living with his dad in the bleak Chicago suburbs since his Russian-born mom kicked him out. Then one day in geometry class, Nicholas suddenly realizes that his hands are objects. The doctor says it’s just panic, but Nicholas suspects that his real problem might not be a psychiatric one: maybe the Greek god Pan is trapped inside his body. 

Girl, 1983 by Linn Ullmann, translated by Martin Aitken ($29.99)

Set in Oslo, New York, and Paris, this is a quest through layers of memory and oblivion. Ullmann’s narrator continues to probe the elegiac sway of memory as she looks for ways to disclose a long-guarded secret. A delineation of time and place over the course of a life, this remarkable novel insistently crisscrosses the path of a wayward 16-year-old girl lost in Paris.

Stan and Gus: Art, Ardor and the Friendship That Built the Gilded Age by Henry Wiencek ($29)

Stanford White was a cultural entrepreneur—the creator of landmark buildings that elevated American architecture to new heights. Augustus Saint-Gaudens was the son of an immigrant shoemaker, a committed procrastinator whose painstaking work brought emotional depth to American sculpture. They pursued their own careers in Italy and France, then came together again in New York, where they maintained an intimate friendship and partnership that defined the art of the Gilded Age. 

Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story by Barry Mazor ($32)

The definitive biography of the Everly Brothers, one of the greatest and most influential acts in popular music history, based on dozens of exclusive and archival interviews, as well as long-lost global reporting. In between the Elvis years and the rise of the Beatles, there was no bigger act than The Everly Brothers. From 1957-1962, they were among the highest selling pop acts in the U.S.

Sharing the Groove: The Untold Story of the '90s Jam Band Explosion and that Scene That Followed by Mike Ayers ($32)

The wild, untold oral history of the unlikely rise of Phish, Dave Matthews Band, Widespread Panic, Blues Traveler, and numerous other bands that helped define the 1990s Jam band scene.

The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith and Brotherhood by Nina Willner ($35)

The soldiers of D Company could not believe their eyes as they came face-to-face with the human cost of Hitler’s evil: two teenage boys—survivors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald—who had escaped. This book  follows the parallel journeys of Company D and Eddie Willner, the author’s father, as they are caught up on two sides of World War II.

Shade: The Promise of a Natural Resource by Sam Bloch ($32)

Every summer, as Bloch argues, we ignore the benefits of shade at our own peril. Heatwaves are now the country’s deadliest natural disasters, with victims concentrated in poorer, less shady areas. Public health, mental health, and crime statistics are worse in neighborhoods without it. For some, finding shade is a matter of life and death.

Recess by Lane Smith ($19.99)

"Ever the troublemaker, Smith stages a jubilant, eye-popping, and highly interactive mutiny against the tyranny of strictly scheduled fun...a playful work that suggests an effective educational strategy can consist of knowing when to momentarily abandon ship." — Publishers Weekly Ages 4 - 8

The Dreams I’ll Dream Tonight by Sarah Ruhl, illustrated by Sally Deng ($19.99)

When bad dreams and scary things threaten a child’s peaceful sleep, they ask for one more bedtime story to fill their head with kittens, kisses, and the love they have for their family. Ages 4 - 8

How to Train Your Dragon School: Doom of the Darkwing by Cressida Crowell ($6.99)

In this exciting How to Train Your Dragon spin-off series, perfect for developing readers and packed with beautiful illustrations and easy-to-read stories, follow Hiccup and his fellow Warriors-in-Training in their hilarious, hair-raising adventures.  Ages 7 - 10

Another by Paul Tremblay ($19.99)

When Casey Wilson’s parents tell him that his friend is coming for a sleepover, he has no idea who that might be. Ever since the Zoom Incident, everyone treats him like a pariah, and his tics are worse than ever. When Morel appears, he’s not like any friend Casey has ever met. His skin is like clay, and he doesn’t speak. But Casey’s parents are charmed by the strange kid, and it’s nice to have someone to talk to besides his sister, Ally, who is away at college. Ages 8 - 12

The Metamorphosis of Bunny Baxter by Barbara Carroll Roberts ($18.99)

Bunny Baxter thinks nothing could be worse than starting 7th grade at a school where she knows no one. But after her first day, she realizes things can actually get much worse. Ages 10 and up