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Add some fall flair to your TBR pile with our October Monthly Picks! 🍂

Happy October book lovers!! A new month means new BN Monthly Picks, get ready to stack up your fall TBR pile📚

Love Diary of a Wimpy Kid?! Get your tickets for the Hot Mess Show! Jeff Kinney will be celebrating the release of “Diary of Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess” with a tour stop in Buffalo on Saturday, October 26th at Cheektowaga Central at 5:00pm! Tickets can be purchased on Eventbrite, if you have any questions please contact us at (716) 634-1011.

Add some sprayed edges to your TBR pile! We can’t get enough ❤️

Join us in welcoming author Ed Rahill (formerly from Buffalo) Friday, October 4th at noon!

This gloomy fall weather has us in the mood for something by the King of Horror!

This week on Poured Over:
Wright Thompson on The Barn
Richard Powers on Playground
Tammy Armstrong on Pearly Everlasting

Listen to these great authors and more on Poured Over — new episodes drop Tuesdays and Thursdays (with some Saturdays) wherever you get your podcasts!

In a hole in the ground, there lived a Hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
– The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien –

Happy Birthday, Bilbo & Frodo Baggins.

Join us on Monday, September 23 at 3PM ET, as we welcome USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Wrobel, in conversation with Vanessa Lillie, for a live, virtual discussion of THE HITCHCOCK HOTEL, as part of our B&N Midday Mystery Virtual Event series.

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Join Barnes & Noble as we welcome Rick Riordan on September 24th @ 7 PM EST.

Rick will be joining us for a live, virtual discussion to celebrate the release of the newest Percy Jackson and the Olympians adventure, WRATH OF THE TRIPLE GODDESS.

BONUS!: Each ticket includes a copy of the B&N Exclusive Edition of WRATH OF THE TRIPLE GODDESS which features beautiful stained edges and extra content about the witches of Greek mythology. ---> PLUS, a "Camp Half-Blood" magnetic bookmark!

Join us tomorrow at 11:00am in the Kids Department for a special Storytime celebrating the upcoming first day of Fall!! 🍂

Here are two new nonfiction books that we love at Poured Over — both authors joined us for episodes this week.

Available wherever you get your podcasts.

He’s back and sooner than we expected!! We are so excited to report that “The Book of Bill” is back in stock: give us a call to reserve a copy!

Nelson DeMille
1943 - 2024

Happy New Release Tuesday book lovers!! The pile of new books was so big, it wouldn’t fit in one photo!

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Calling all “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” fans: The Hot Mess Tour is coming to Buffalo!!

Head over to Eventbrite to get your tickets today. Each ticket includes admission for 2 people plus a signed copy of Diary of a Wimpy Kid #19 Hot Mess.

Reach out to the booksellers at BN Clarence (716) 634-1011 if you have any questions!

The Booker Prize shortlist is finally here, and we’re thrilled to see which authors have been recognized for their incredible works of fiction.

Edmund de Waal, Chair of the Booker Prize 2024 judges says, “This is timely and timeless fiction, in which there is much at stake. Here are books that unfold with quietness and stealth, as well as books that are incendiary . . . they are works of fiction that inhabit ideas by making us care deeply about people and their predicaments, their singularity in a world that can be indifferent or hostile.”

Take a look through this year’s shortlist on B&N Reads and stack up your .



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This week on Poured Over:
Timothy Snyder on On Freedom
Rebecca Nagle on By the Fire We Carry
Sarah Smarsh on Bone of the Bone

Listen to these great authors and more on Poured Over — new episodes drop Tuesdays and Thursdays (with some Saturdays) wherever you get your podcasts!

It’s time for your Villain Era!! 👑 Add our BN Monthly Pick “Long Live Evil” to your TBR pile and you won’t be disappointed!

Whether you and your young’uns are excited that school is back in session or not, school is, in fact, back in session.

That means it’s time to start new grades, new classes, perhaps even new schools, and meet some new teachers and friends in the process.

What better way to prepare for the mayhem ahead than with some good stories set in the hallowed halls of one school or another?

Check out our recommendations here:

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When your TBR pile is so good, it’s scary! 👻

I wrote an original essay about the creative process for Barnes & Noble's Exclusive Edition of The Blue Hour, which also features stunning custom endpapers. Check it out: https://bit.ly/45Hflfe

We totes love adding to your TBR pile!

Elizabeth Strout joins us to talk about Tell Me Everything today on Poured Over!

Available wherever you get your podcasts.

So excited!

We are less than two weeks away from the official release of on September 24th, and I can’t wait to see you all on my book tour!

I also always love partnering with booksellers like Barnes & Noble to bring you exclusive signed and special editions of my books. If you haven’t ordered yet, make sure you get your copy while supplies last!

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The Names by Billy Collins

Yesterday, I lay awake in the palm of the night.
A soft rain stole in, unhelped by any breeze,
And when I saw the silver glaze on the windows,
I started with A, with Ackerman, as it happened,
Then Baxter and Calabro,
Davis and Eberling, names falling into place
As droplets fell through the dark.
Names printed on the ceiling of the night.
Names slipping around a watery bend.
Twenty-six willows on the banks of a stream.
In the morning, I walked out barefoot
Among thousands of flowers
Heavy with dew like the eyes of tears,
And each had a name --
Fiori inscribed on a yellow petal
Then Gonzalez and Han, Ishikawa and Jenkins.
Names written in the air
And stitched into the cloth of the day.
A name under a photograph taped to a mailbox.
Monogram on a torn shirt,
I see you spelled out on storefront windows
And on the bright unfurled awnings of this city.
I say the syllables as I turn a corner --
Kelly and Lee,
Medina, Nardella, and O'Connor.
When I peer into the woods,
I see a thick tangle where letters are hidden
As in a puzzle concocted for children.
Parker and Quigley in the twigs of an ash,
Rizzo, Schubert, Torres, and Upton,
Secrets in the boughs of an ancient maple.
Names written in the pale sky.
Names rising in the updraft amid buildings.
Names silent in stone
Or cried out behind a door.
Names blown over the earth and out to sea.
In the evening -- weakening light, the last swallows.
A boy on a lake lifts his oars.
A woman by a window puts a match to a candle,
And the names are outlined on the rose clouds -
Vanacore and Wallace,
(let X stand, if it can, for the ones unfound)
Then Young and Ziminsky, the final jolt of Z.
Names etched on the head of a pin.
One name spanning a bridge, another undergoing a tunnel.
A blue name needled into the skin.
Names of citizens, workers, mothers and fathers,
The bright-eyed daughter, the quick son.
Alphabet of names in a green field.
Names in the small tracks of birds.
Names lifted from a hat
Or balanced on the tip of the tongue.
Names wheeled into the dim warehouse of memory.
So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.

#911

It’s New Release Tuesday: check out all the new books!

Disclaimer* by Renée Knight, Our Monthly Thriller pick, will keep you guessing until the last page. Luckily, we have Renée and Hank Phillippi Ryan, author of One Wrong Word, in conversation to unravel some mysteries.

Please join us on Thursday, September 12th at 3 PM EST for our B&N Midday Mystery.

Please check our link in bio to register.

*Soon to be an Apple TV+ series starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline.

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This week on Poured Over:
Attica Locke on Guide Me Home
Elizabeth Strout on Tell Me Everything
Chelsea Bieker on Madwoman

Listen to these great authors and more on Poured Over — new episodes drop Tuesdays and Thursdays (with some Saturdays) wherever you get your podcasts!

Looking for a nonfiction book that reads like a thriller? Check out our BN Nonfiction Monthly Pick for September, “Ghosts of Honolulu!”

Join us for a special Back to School Storytime this Saturday at 11:00am! We can’t wait to see you there!