Shopping Now: Run Riot by Daniel Walls
Arrested at fifteen, a runaway at sixteen, and facing life in prison at seventeen; Jacky McShane is fleeing a childhood mired by financial hardship and religious extremes. Chasing what it means to be normal. However, this is rural America in the 1980s, and once he’s typecast, it’s firm as an unfortunate tattoo. In the same lane as Jonathan Tropper or Nikolas Butler

Shopping Now: Red Ink by Carolina Garcia-Aguilera 
Patrick O’Malley, a down on his luck accountant, has always played it safe. Divorced and supporting his ex-wife and two kids he’s reliant on the meagre salary from a dull and uninspiring accounting job, he’s reached a boiling point and sets out to make a change.
 
After meeting Sybil, a beautiful red head at his local bar he becomes further inspired.  Desperate, he hatches a plan against his employer who he knows is already corrupt. Seeking revenge for his life gone awry, Patrick takes on more than just a scam to set himself right financially, he’s hoping to win over this beautiful woman along the way. Readers soon find out Sybil has plans of her own too.
 
Shopping Now: The Road Home by Terry Adams
At 42 years old Terry Adams has had a long, illustrious career in the sport of flatland BMX—a career most can only dream of. Hailing from Hammond, Louisiana, the X Games gold medal winner has been riding and competing in BMX for over 25 years, receiving an impressive number of awards and accolades—including three NORA CUP (Number One Rider Award) wins and being a role model for future BMX riders both in the U.S. and globally. This is his story. 
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Shopping Now: Cooking My Way Home: An Expatriate’s Journey from the Argentine Pampas to the Minnesota Prairie by Carolina Li A stunning collection of Argentine recipes Carolina grew up with adapted for American kitchens, re-created family recipes passed down verbally from great-grandparents, and recipes inspired by life in Minnesota

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Shopping Now: Last Individualist - by Martin Keller
A singular Dylan memoir that combines substantial personal interactions, a weighty interview and professional analysis of the Nobel Laureate’s life, work and times, The Last Individualist features a 3+ hour taped interview from 1983 never before published or heard in its entirety, while also recapping a week on Dylan’s Never-Ending Tour.
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February 2025
Shamus Award-winning author Carolina Garcia-Aguilera's HAVANA HEAT and six more in the Lupe Solano mystery series, about a scrappy Miami PI whose social status as a daughter of the Cuban-exile aristocracy opens a lot of doors in South Florida, to Christine Gillespie at Open Road, in a multi-book deal, for publication in fall 2025
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