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City Books Summer Catalog 2024

I’m pleased to share the first City Books Summer “Catalog” with our Libro.fm customers new and old. After reviewing the industry compilation that our regional bookselling association distributed to its members, I decided that those selections didn’t adequately reflect the level of curation that City Books patrons have come to expect from us. So, I decided to create my own. This list includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry--and Pittsburgh-based authors who are getting national attention. All of these books will be available in-store until Labor Day, and listed in our City Books Summer Catalogs on Bookshop.org and on Libro.fm where available. Please visit our website at citybookspgh.com/summer24 for a PDF of the paper catalog--not all selections are available as audiobooks.

City Books season: summer

Hester

A Novel

By: Laurie Lico Albanese
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

“A magical retelling of a strong woman coming into her power. I would have enjoyed The Scarlet Letter in high school if this was the book we were forced to read. I love the incorporation of synesthesia and the art of the needle and thread. Read more

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The Mermaid of Black Conch

A novel

By: Monique Roffey
Narrated by: Ben Onwukue & Vivienne Acheampong
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

This enchanting tale of a cursed mythical creature and the lonely fisherman who falls in love with her is "a daring, mesmerizing novel…single-handedly bringing magic realism up-to-date" (Maggie O’Farrell, best-selling author of Hamnet).

"Sentence by sensuous sentence, Roffey builds a verdant, complicated world that is a pleasure to live...
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Sugar, Baby

By: Celine Saintclare
Narrated by: Sara Novak
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

“What a ride!! Any story centered around religious guilt and shame is the story for me. Agnes had me on her side the entire time. I loved all her scenes with her roommates, and how alive she became in their company. How they greeted her with genuine love and care right off the bat is what kept her grounded to the reality of herself. Amazing book!! Read more

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Witchcraft

A History in Thirteen Trials

By: Marion Gibson
Narrated by: Rose Akroyd
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

“Gibson insightfully illuminates the social construct of the “witch” across several centuries. While ideas about magic have long abounded—and concern humans’ relationship with the surrounding world—the “witch” has more to do with control. Some of these trials are what you’d expect, but Gibson smartly expounds upon much lesser known incidents as... Read more

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Our Missing Hearts: Reese's Book Club

A Novel

By: Celeste Ng
Narrated by: Lucy Liu & Celeste Ng
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

“This may be her best book yet! Set in the near future where Asian Americans are mistrusted, children can be removed form their families due to parents' 'harmful' views and libraries are forced to remove unpatriotic books, this is a story about the boy Bird trying to find his mother who vanished a few years earlier when her work became seen as... Read more

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The Marriage Portrait: Reese's Book Club

A novel

By: Maggie O'Farrell
Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt & Maggie O'Farrell
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

“Lucrezia de'Medici is only 15 when she's married off to the Duke of Ferrara, and barely 16 when she realizes he intends to have her killed. Lucrezia is thrust into a world of honey-covered lies and manipulation, where her husband's sisters vie for her favor, her husband is kind one moment and volatile the next, and everyone waits for her to... Read more

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Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh

By: Rachael Lippincott
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus & Shakira Shute
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Feet Apart and She Gets the Girl comes a fresh and inventive sapphic romantic comedy that’s “a gem of a book” (Booklist, starred review) “perfect for fans of Outlander and Bridgerton” (Kirkus Reviews).

What if you found a once-in-a-lifetime love…just not in your lifetime?

Audrey Cameron has... Read more

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