Staff Picks

Our staff are voracious readers, and they're always the source of a great book, whether it's for you or for a friend. Here are some of what we currently recommend. For even more picks, come visit us in the store and check out our famous Staff Picks table. Also, check out our new Staff Pick of the Month Book Club, where you can subscribe and receive new books in the mail each month!

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Taste: My Life Through Food (Hardcover)

By Stanley Tucci
$28.00
ISBN: 9781982168018
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Gallery Books - October 5th, 2021
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An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed (Hardcover)

By Helene Tursten, Marlaine Delargy (Translated by)
$14.99
ISBN: 9781641291675
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Soho Crime - October 5th, 2021
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The Man Who Died Twice: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery (Hardcover)

By Richard Osman
$26.00
ISBN: 9781984880994
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Pamela Dorman Books - September 28th, 2021
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A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding #1) (Hardcover)

By Freya Marske
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250788870
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Tordotcom - November 2nd, 2021
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The Weekday Vegetarians: 100 Recipes and a Real-Life Plan for Eating Less Meat: A Cookbook (Hardcover)

By Jenny Rosenstrach
$32.50
ISBN: 9780593138748
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Clarkson Potter - August 31st, 2021
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Chu's Day (Hardcover)

By Neil Gaiman, Adam Rex (Illustrator)
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062017819
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: HarperCollins - January 8th, 2013
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Fortunately, the Milk (Paperback)

By Neil Gaiman, Skottie Young (Illustrator)
$7.99
ISBN: 9780062224088
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: HarperCollins - September 30th, 2014
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Stardust: A Novel (Paperback)

By Neil Gaiman
$16.99
ISBN: 9780063070714
Availability: Not in stock at Bear Pond: usually arrives in 2-5 days
Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - February 16th, 2021
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Five Tuesdays in Winter (Hardcover)

By Lily King
$27.00
ISBN: 9780802158765
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Grove Press - November 9th, 2021
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The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Ruth Ozeki
$30.00
ISBN: 9780399563645
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Viking - September 21st, 2021
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The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven (Hardcover)

By Nathaniel Ian Miller
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316592550
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Little, Brown and Company - October 26th, 2021
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This Is Happiness (Paperback)

By Niall Williams
$17.00
ISBN: 9781635576313
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - August 31st, 2021
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North: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Brad Kessler
$26.00
ISBN: 9781419750427
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: The Overlook Press - October 5th, 2021
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Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy (Hardcover)

By Misty Copeland, Salena Barnes (Illustrator)
$19.99
ISBN: 9781534474246
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Aladdin - November 2nd, 2021
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Cooking at Home: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Recipes (And Love My Microwave): A Cookbook (Hardcover)

By David Chang, Priya Krishna
$35.00
ISBN: 9781524759247
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Clarkson Potter - October 26th, 2021
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The Death of Jane Lawrence: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Caitlin Starling
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250272584
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: St. Martin's Press - October 5th, 2021
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All the Murmuring Bones (Paperback)

By A.G. Slatter
$15.95
ISBN: 9781789094343
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Titan Books - March 9th, 2021
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Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America (Hardcover)

By Ijeoma Oluo
$28.00
ISBN: 9781580059510
Availability: Not in stock at Bear Pond: usually arrives in 2-5 days
Published: Seal Press - December 1st, 2020
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)

By Jessica Bruder
$16.95
ISBN: 9780393356311
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 4th, 2018
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The Big East: Inside the Most Entertaining and Influential Conference in College Basketball History (Hardcover)

By Dana O'Neil
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593237939
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Ballantine Books - November 9th, 2021
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I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems (Paperback)

By Kate Baer
$12.00
ISBN: 9780063137998
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Harper Perennial - November 9th, 2021
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Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems (Hardcover)

By Louise Glück
$25.00
ISBN: 9780374604103
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - October 26th, 2021
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Fight Night (Hardcover)

By Miriam Toews
$24.00
ISBN: 9781635578171
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - October 5th, 2021
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All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (Paperback)

By Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (Editor), Katharine K. Wilkinson (Editor)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593237083
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: One World - July 20th, 2021
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When Things Get Dark: Stories inspired by Shirley Jackson (Hardcover)

By Ellen Datlow (Editor), Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Carmen Maria Machado, Paul Tremblay
$24.95
ISBN: 9781789097153
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Titan Books - September 28th, 2021
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Come With Me (Paperback)

By Ronald Malfi
$15.95
ISBN: 9781789097375
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Titan Books - July 20th, 2021
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It Ends with Us: A Novel (Paperback)

By Colleen Hoover
$16.99
ISBN: 9781501110368
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Atria Books - August 2nd, 2016
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2 Kinds of People: A Visual Compatibility Quiz (Paperback)

By João Rocha (By (artist))
$12.95
ISBN: 9780761189497
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Workman Publishing Company - July 11th, 2017
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Bewilderment: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Richard Powers
$27.95
ISBN: 9780393881141
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 21st, 2021
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Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution (Hardcover)

By Carlo Rovelli, Erica Segre (Translated by), Simon Carnell (Translated by)
$20.00
ISBN: 9780593328880
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Riverhead Books - May 25th, 2021
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Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases (Hardcover)

By Lydia Kang, MD, Nate Pedersen
$24.95
ISBN: 9781523513291
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Workman Publishing Company - November 16th, 2021
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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer (Hardcover)

By Dean Jobb
$27.95
ISBN: 9781616206895
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Algonquin Books - July 13th, 2021
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)

By Clint Smith
$29.00
ISBN: 9780316492935
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Little, Brown and Company - June 1st, 2021
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Hearts Unbroken (Paperback)

By Cynthia Leitich Smith
$8.99
ISBN: 9781536213133
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Candlewick - April 14th, 2020
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The Baseball 100 (Hardcover)

By Joe Posnanski
$40.00
ISBN: 9781982180584
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - September 28th, 2021
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That Sounds So Good: 100 Real-Life Recipes for Every Day of the Week: A Cookbook Cover Image

That Sounds So Good: 100 Real-Life Recipes for Every Day of the Week: A Cookbook (Hardcover)

By Carla Lalli Music
$35.00
ISBN: 9780593138250
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Clarkson Potter - October 19th, 2021
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Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide (Atlas Obscura) (Hardcover)

By Cecily Wong, Dylan Thuras, Atlas Obscura
$42.50
ISBN: 9781523502196
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Workman Publishing Company - October 12th, 2021
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Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography (Hardcover)

By Laurie Woolever
$29.99
ISBN: 9780062909107
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Ecco - September 28th, 2021
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The Ministry for the Future: A Novel (Paperback)

By Kim Stanley Robinson
$17.99
ISBN: 9780316300148
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Orbit - October 19th, 2021
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Nature Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of the Natural World (Paperback)

By Julia Rothman
$16.95
ISBN: 9781612122311
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Storey Publishing, LLC - January 27th, 2015
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Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet (Hardcover)

By Thich Nhat Hanh
$27.99
ISBN: 9780062954794
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: HarperOne - October 5th, 2021
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From the Caves (Paperback)

By Thea Prieto
$14.95
ISBN: 9781636280028
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Red Hen Press - August 9th, 2021
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The Great Gatsby (Hardcover)

By F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tavia Gilbert (Director)
$24.99
ISBN: 9798200813063
Availability: Not in stock at Bear Pond: usually arrives in 2-5 days
Published: Blackstone Publishing - November 30th, 2021