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Bestsellers Titles: October

October Bestsellers Items

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award! Set in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now, Anthony Doerr's gorgeous third novel is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope--and a book.

The Wandering Earth

These ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet Earth, its pasts, and its futures.

Apples Never Fall

A novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest.

Don't Forget Us Here

This moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Guantánamo Bay for fifteen years tells a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Guantánamo.

Countdown Bin Laden

The book delivers new information collected from Wallace's in-depth interviews with more than a dozen central figures, including Admiral William H. McRaven--leader of the operation in Pakistan--as well as CIA Director Panetta, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, and two members of SEAL Team Six who participate in the raid, including the special operator who kills Osama bin Laden.

The Book of Magic

Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters.

A Spindle Splintered

A vivid, subversive and feminist reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, where implacable destiny is no match for courage, sisterhood, stubbornness and a good working knowledge of fairy tales.

Wrong End of the Telescope

A transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman's journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island.

Only the Rich Can Play

In a Winners Take All meets This Town narrative, a New York Times bestselling author tells the story of the creation of a massive tax break, in which political and economic elites attend to the care and feeding of the super-rich, and inequality compounds.

Enemy at the Gates

Mitch Rapp, the CIA's top operative, searches for a high-level mole with the power to rewrite the world order in this riveting thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn.

Beautiful Country

The moving story of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world--an incandescent debut from an astonishing new talent

We Want What We Want

An Esquire Best Book of Summer - A collection of glittering, surprising, darkly funny stories of people testing the boundaries of their lives--from the award-winning author of Dual Citizens

Miss Kopp Investigates

Life after the war takes an unexpected turn for the Kopp sisters, but soon enough, they are putting their unique detective skills to use in new and daring ways.

Reprieve

A chilling and blisteringly relevant literary novel of social horror centered around a brutal killing that takes place in a full-contact haunted escape room--a provocative exploration of capitalism, hate politics, racial fetishism, and our obsession with fear as entertainment.