HOME ABOUT US SHOP PROGRAMS & EVENTS LAYDOWN PODCAST GIBSON'S CAFE CONTACT US MY ACCOUNT 2021 HOLIDAY CATALOG HomeCurated book lists!What's new on our Front Tables last week WHAT'S NEW ON OUR FRONT TABLES LAST WEEK Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone: A Novel (Outlander #9) (Hardcover) By Diana Gabaldon $36.00 ISBN: 9781101885680 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Delacorte Press - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST #1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon returns with the newest novel in the epic Outlander series. The past may seem the safest place to be . . . but it is the most dangerous time to be alive. . . . These Precious Days: Essays (Hardcover) By Ann Patchett $26.99 ISBN: 9780063092785 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Harper - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. The King Arthur Baking Company Essential Cookie Companion (Hardcover) By King Arthur Baking Company $35.00 ISBN: 9781682686577 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Countryman Press - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST Newly revised and updated—The must-have cookie cookbook for bakers of all levels with over 400 recipes from America's most trusted baking resource. Fear No Evil (Alex Cross #27) (Hardcover) By James Patterson $29.00 ISBN: 9780316499149 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Little, Brown and Company - November 22nd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST Alex Cross enters the final battle with the all-knowing genius who has stalked him and his family for years. Dr. Clanlands Almanac: Season Stories from Scotland (Hardcover) By Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish (With) $19.99 ISBN: 9781529372151 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Mobius - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST A seasonal meander through the wilds of Scotland. If Clanlands was a gentle road trip through Scotland, this almanac is a top down, pedal to the metal up and down odyssey through the many byways of a Scottish year. An invitation to anyone who picks up the book to join us on a crazy camper van exploration over 12 glorious, whisky fueled months. The Becoming: The Dragon Heart Legacy, Book 2 (Hardcover) By Nora Roberts $28.99 ISBN: 9781250272706 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: St. Martin's Press - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST A new epic of love and war among gods and humans, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Awakening. Amos McGee Misses the Bus (Hardcover) By Philip C. Stead, Erin E. Stead (Illustrator) $18.99 ISBN: 9781250213228 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Roaring Brook Press - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST Hooray! Our good friends are back! Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, is very considerate and always on time. But after a late night planning a surprise for all his friends, Amos is tired. So tired, in fact, that he falls asleep during breakfast and misses his bus to the zoo! Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love (Hardcover) By Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel (Translated by) $25.00 ISBN: 9780593320426 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Knopf - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami’s extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public. A Snake Falls to Earth (Hardcover) By Darcie Little Badger $18.99 ISBN: 9781646140923 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Levine Querido - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature ★ "Two richly constructed worlds using a style that evokes the timeless feeling of listening to traditional oral storytelling. A coming-of-age story that beautifully combines tradition and technology for modern audiences."—Kirkus Reviews (starred) Grains for Every Season: Rethinking Our Way with Grains (Hardcover) By Joshua McFadden, Martha Holmberg $40.00 ISBN: 9781579659561 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Artisan - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST Named one of Amazon’s Best Books of the Year Named one of Amazon’s Holiday Gift Picks “A gift to readers . . . War Lord: A Novel (Saxon Tales #13) (Paperback) By Bernard Cornwell $16.99 ISBN: 9780062563248 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Harper Paperbacks - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “I gulped it right down. Excellent, as always. . . . Cornwell brings battles to life like no one else.” –George R.R. Martin, Author of Game of Thrones Field Notes for Food Adventure: Recipes and Stories from the Woods to the Ocean (Hardcover) By Brad Leone $35.00 ISBN: 9780316497350 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Voracious - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST A FOOD52 BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR Join Brad Leone, star of Bon Appetit's hit YouTube series It's Alive, for a year of cooking adventures, tall tales, and fun with fire and fermentation in this cookbook with more than 80 ingenious recipes Come along with Brad Leone as he explores forests, fields, rivers, and the ocean in the hunt for great food and The City of Mist: Stories (Paperback) By Carlos Ruiz Zafon $15.99 ISBN: 9780063118096 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Harper Perennial - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST “Ruiz Zafón’s visionary storytelling prowess is a genre unto itself.”—USA Today 100 Slopes of a Lifetime: The World's Ultimate Ski and Snowboard Destinations (Hardcover) By Gordy Megroz $35.00 ISBN: 9781426221958 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: National Geographic - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST This ultimate skier and snowboarder bucket list, from celebrated runs in Alta, Utah, to the challenge of Switzerland's 4 Vallees races through 100 energizing snowy experiences for all levels. Tiger King: The Official Tell-All Memoir (Hardcover) By Joe Exotic $28.00 ISBN: 9781982180423 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Gallery Books - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST Joe Exotic, star of the Netflix original documentary that “consumed the pop-cultural imagination” (The Atlantic) and transfixed a nation in the midst of a global crisis, opens up about his outlandish journey from Midwestern farmer to infamous Tiger King, and finally, to federal inmate. The Fowl Twins Get What They Deserve (A Fowl Twins Novel, Book 3) (Artemis Fowl) (Hardcover) By Eoin Colfer $18.99 ISBN: 9781368075671 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Disney-Hyperion - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST Irish Twins Myles and Beckett, Artemis Fowl's younger brothers, return in their third and most bizarre adventure yet. *"Like its bestselling progenitors, a nonstop spinoff afroth with high-tech, spectacular magic, and silly business."--Kirkus (starred review) Vegan, at Times: 120+ Recipes for Every Day or Every So Often (Hardcover) By Jessica Seinfeld, Sara Quessenberry (With) $29.99 ISBN: 9781982149574 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Gallery Books - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST An all-new collection of more than 120 recipes that are so delicious and easy to make, you might forget they’re vegan, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Deceptively Delicious, Double Delicious, The Can’t Cook Book, and Food Swings. Jessica Seinfeld isn’t a committed vegan. The Power of the Dog: A Novel (Paperback) By Thomas Savage, Annie Proulx (Afterword by) $16.99 ISBN: 9780316436601 Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days Published: Back Bay Books - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST Now an award-winning Netflix film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst: Thomas Savage's acclaimed Western is "a pitch-perfect evocation of time and place" (Boston Globe) for fans of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain. Set in the wide-open spaces of the American West, The Power of the Dog is a stunning sto Leave the World Behind: A Novel (Paperback) By Rumaan Alam $16.99 ISBN: 9780062667649 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Ecco - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award (Fiction) The Golden Hour (Paperback) By Niki Smith $12.99 ISBN: 9780316540339 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST From the author of The Deep & Dark Blue comes a tender graphic novel, perfect for our time, that gently explores themes of self-discovery, friendship, healing from tragedy, and hope for a better tomorrow. Struggling with anxiety after witnessing a harrowing instance of gun violence, Manuel Soto copes through photography, using his cell-phone camera to find anchors The Anomaly: A Novel (Paperback) By Hervé Le Tellier, Adriana Hunter (Translated by) $16.99 ISBN: 9781635421699 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Other Press - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST NAMED A BEST MYSTERY/THRILLER OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, A BEST MYSTERY/THRILLER OF THE MONTH BY POPSUGAR, AND A MOST ANTICIPATED READ OF THE YEAR BY CRIMEREADS Harsh Times: A Novel (Hardcover) By Mario Vargas Llosa, Adrian Nathan West (Translated by) $28.00 ISBN: 9780374601232 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST The true story of Guatemala’s political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it Literature in 30 Seconds or Less!: 100 Classics Cut Down for the Pace of the Modern World (Hardcover) By Tim Rayborn $14.95 ISBN: 9781646431731 Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days Published: Cider Mill Press - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST Build your brain and blitz through the canon with Literature in 30 Seconds of Less!, a collection of illuminating synopses of the great works. Bursting with illuminating synopses of humanity’s great works, you no longer have to lower your gaze when the conversation turns to the classics. Hornswoggled!: A Wacky Words Whodunit (Hardcover) By Josh Crute, Jenn Harney (Illustrator) $17.99 ISBN: 9781645672845 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Page Street Kids - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST Deer wakes up to find one of his antlers is missing…and there’s a tennis racket in its place? One by one his friends also uncover that their important items from glasses to lucky boots have been swapped with silly, useless replacements like donuts and swim flippers. They’ve been hornswoggled! (Hornswoggled means tricked.) It’s pure poppycock! (Poppycock means nonsense.) Blood in the Water: A True Story of Small-Town Revenge (Paperback) By Silver Donald Cameron $17.00 ISBN: 9781586422936 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Steerforth - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST “Fascinating! [A] must-read for all concerned about how humans manage to live together. Or not.” —Margaret Atwood “Superb... an instant true crime classic.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Revver the Speedway Squirrel: The Big Race Home (Hardcover) By Sherri Duskey Rinker, Alex Willan $15.99 ISBN: 9781547603671 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Bloomsbury Children's Books - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST "I love this little squirrel!" - Katherine Applegate, Newbery Award winning author of THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN on REVVER THE SPEEDWAY SQUIRREL The author of the bestselling Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site picture books continues her fun, illustrated middle grade series that's perfect for fans of Beverly Cleary's The Mouse and the Motorcycle. Medusa's Ankles: Selected Stories (Hardcover) By A. S. Byatt, David Mitchell (Introduction by) $28.00 ISBN: 9780593321584 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Knopf - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST A ravishing, luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt, "a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights" (The New York Times Book Review). With an introduction by David Mitchell, best-selling author of Cloud Atlas His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation (Hardcover) By Diana Schaub $27.99 ISBN: 9781250763457 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: St. Martin's Press - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST An expert analysis of Abraham Lincoln's three most powerful speeches reveals his rhetorical genius and his thoughts on our national character. Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers (Hardcover) By James Andrew Miller $50.00 ISBN: 9781250624017 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Henry Holt and Co. - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST Tinderbox tells the exclusive, explosive, uninhibited true story of HBO and how it burst onto the American scene and screen to detonate a revolution and transform our relationship with television forever. ExtraOrdinary (Hardcover) By V. E. Schwab $24.99 ISBN: 9781785865886 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Titan Comics - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, launches her incredible world of super beings with this ALL-NEW dazzlingly illustrated graphic novel set in the five years between Vicious and Vengeful. A must for all Schwab fans everywhere! Roar!: A Collection of Mighty Women (Hardcover) By Ashley Longshore, Diane von Fürstenberg (Introduction by) $45.00 ISBN: 9780847870783 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Rizzoli - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST On the heels of Ashley Longshore’s successful I Do Not Cook, I Do Not Clean, I Do Not Fly Commercial comes Roar! A Collection of Mighty Women: inspirational portraits of the most culturally seminal women in history, created in the artist’s colorful signature style. Pies Are Awesome: The Definitive Pie Art Book: Step-by-Step Designs for All Occasions (Hardcover) By Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin, Duff Goldman (Foreword by) $28.00 ISBN: 9781631067907 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Rock Point - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST World-renowned pie artist Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin shares her easy, approachable, and never-before-seen pie art techniques, delicious recipes, and 28 pie art designs centered around holidays and life occasions. Let pie baker extraordinaire Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin take you by the oven mitt and spirit you away to a delicious, magical, new world of pie-sibilities in this Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life (Hardcover) By George B. Nesbitt, Prexy Nesbitt (Editor), Zeb Larson (Editor), Imani Perry (Foreword by), St. Clair Drake (Foreword by) $27.50 ISBN: 9780226783123 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: University of Chicago Press - November 22nd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST An immersive multigenerational memoir that recounts the hopes, injustices, and triumphs of a Black family fighting for access to the American dream in the twentieth century. The late Chicagoan George Nesbitt could perhaps best be described as an ordinary man with an extraordinary gift for storytelling. God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments (Hardcover) By Hannah Brown $27.99 ISBN: 9780063098206 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Harper - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST “My life was a complete mess, and God bless all of it. Because it’s in the messes where we learn the most—as long as we slow down enough to realize what God is trying to show us.” American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History (Hardcover) By Casey Michel $29.99 ISBN: 9781250274526 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: St. Martin's Press - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST A remarkable debut by one of America's premier young reporters on financial corruption, Casey Michel's American Kleptocracy offers an explosive investigation into how the United States of America built the largest illicit offshore finance system the world has ever known. John Lewis: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) (Paperback) By MELVILLE HOUSE (Editor), Jelani Cobb (Introduction by) $16.99 ISBN: 9781612199627 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Melville House - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST Featuring interviews of civil rights activist and congressman John Lewis at almost every stage of his career, this collection illustrates why Lewis has become a human rights icon and remains an inspiration to activists today The Book of All Books (Hardcover) By Roberto Calasso, Tim Parks (Translated by) $35.00 ISBN: 9780374601898 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST A book that begins before Adam and ends after us. In this magisterial work by the Italian intellectual superstar Roberto Calasso, figures of the Bible and its whole outline emerge in a new light: one that is often astonishing and disquieting, as indeed—more than any other—is the book from which they originate Minecraft: Blockopedia: Updated Edition (Hardcover) By Mojang Ab, The Official Minecraft Team $34.99 ISBN: 9780593355909 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Del Rey - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST A completely updated version of the bestselling Minecraft: Blockopedia! Detailing each block found in the #1 game of all time, this is a must-have reference guide for all Minecrafters! Profusely Illustrated: A Memoir (Hardcover) By Edward Sorel $30.00 ISBN: 9780525521068 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Knopf - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST The fabulous life and times of one of our wittiest, most endearing and enduring caricaturists—in his own words and inimitable art. Sorel has given us "some of the best pictorial satire of our time ... [his] pen can slash as well as any sword” (The Washington Post). Cytonic (The Skyward Series #3) (Hardcover) By Brandon Sanderson $19.99 ISBN: 9780399555855 Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days Published: Delacorte Press - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, the Mistborn trilogy, and the Stormlight Archive comes the third book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction. The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers: And Other Gruesome Tales (Hardcover) By Jen Campbell, Adam de Souza (Illustrator) $19.95 ISBN: 9780500652589 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Thames & Hudson - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST In this collection, fourteen of fairy tales from around the world are retold for young readers, restored to their original, grisly versions. The Big Book of Belonging (The Big Book Series) (Hardcover) By Yuval Zommer $19.95 ISBN: 9780500652640 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Thames & Hudson - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST The new installment in the popular Big Book series connects young readers from around the world by emphasizing that we all belong to the same planet Earth. The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell (Hardcover) By Kate Brauning $17.99 ISBN: 9781645673125 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Page Street Kids - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST Nothing is more dangerous than a girl with nothing left to lose. New York: An Illustrated History (Revised and Expanded) (Hardcover) By Ric Burns, James Sanders, Lisa Ades $75.00 ISBN: 9780593534144 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Knopf - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST An expanded edition of the only comprehensive illustrated history of New York—with more than 600 ravishing photographs and illustrations—that tells the remarkable 400-year-long story of the city from its beginning in 1624 up to the current moment. The companion volume to the acclaimed PBS series. Stephen McCranie's Space Boy Volume 11 (Paperback) By Stephen McCranie, Stephen McCranie (Illustrator) $10.99 ISBN: 9781506718859 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Dark Horse Books - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST Oliver is faced with the choice that will drive the course for the rest of his life, as the young boy needs to learn to cope with the new world around him. On top of that, the saga of the Arno and the mysterious Artifact thickens, and the people on Earth struggle to find answers. Dvorak's Prophecy: And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music (Hardcover) By Joseph Horowitz, George Shirley (Foreword by) $30.00 ISBN: 9780393881240 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: W. W. Norton & Company - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white"—how it got to be that way and what can be done about it. How to Live Like a Monk: Medieval Wisdom for Modern Life (Hardcover) By Danièle Cybulskie, Anna Lobanova (Illustrator) $24.95 ISBN: 9780789214133 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Abbeville Press - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST How medieval monastic practices—with their emphasis on a healthy soul, mind, and body—can inspire us to live fuller lives today Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World (Hardcover) By Michael J. Benton, Bob Nicholls (Illustrator) $39.95 ISBN: 9780500052198 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Thames & Hudson - November 23rd, 2021 ADD TO WISH LIST The world’s leading paleontologist takes us on a visual tour of the latest dinosaur science, illustrated with accurate and stunning paleoart. ‹ What's new on our Front Tables this week up What's new on our Front Tables (archived weeks) › Search for (almost) any book Advanced Search Shopping cart Items in the cart 0 Items Total: $0.00 Upcoming Events Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart tour 12/02/2021 - 8:00pm Gibson's Book club reads The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog 12/06/2021 - 5:30pm Michael J Fox, No Time Like the Future 12/07/2021 - 7:00pm See All Events The Laydown Podcast The Laydown is a podcast where 3 booksellers from Gibson's Bookstore in Concord, New Hampshire chat about all things literary! 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