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What are your Wallace booksellers reading?

On the back of the door as you leave the shop you'll see a board with the names of the booksellers here at Wallace Books and a rotating list of what our current reads have been.

Emma is currently reading Patricia Wants to Cudddle by Samantha Allen and The Overseer Class by Dr. Thrasher - swipe through to see more about the books!



On this season of The Catch, contestants must compete for love. And their lives.

When the final four women in competition for an aloof, somewhat sleazy bachelor’s heart arrive on a mysterious island in the Pacific Northwest, they prepare themselves for another week of extreme sleep deprivation, invasive interviews, and, of course, the salacious drama eager viewers nationwide tune in to devour. Each woman came on The Catch for her own reasons: brand sponsorships, followers, and, yes, even love - and they’ve all got their eyes steadfastly trained on their respective prizes.

Enter Patricia, a temperamental and woefully misunderstood local living alone in the dark, verdant woods, and desperate for connection. Through twists as unexpected as they are wildly entertaining, the self-absorbed cast and jaded crew each make her acquaintance atop the island’s tallest and most desolate peak, finding themselves at the center of an action-packed thriller that is far from scripted...

and only a few will make the final cut.

Genre: contemporary horror comedy litfic with lgbtqia+ characters

Dr. Steven W. Thrasher of the critically acclaimed The Viral Underclass (one of Kirkus Reviews best books of 2022) is back with The Overseer Class, which explores what happens when members of historically minoritized groups are selected for high-visibility positions of power within existing institutions, but under the conditions of a kind of Faustian bargain.

Our society places so much weight and attention on those who become the first or only of their identifying group that we miss one of the inherent issues in that model.

This book is about the kinds of compromises made by a small but influential group of people from minoritized groups in the United States as the

At the front of the store we have special editions of classic titles, including these pocket sized sets from MacMillan Collector's Library!

Looking for some shelf candy or a nice gift for a new grad? Take a peek at this display shelf as soon as you walk in the door!

Happy new (and final) HEARTSTOPPER books Tuesday!

The long-awaited conclusion to Nick and Charlie's unforgettable love story.

By Alice Oseman, winner of the YA Book Prize, Heartstopper encompasses all the small moments of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us.

Swipe through to see some of the other titles we are excited about this week 📖



From Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Bury Your G**s, comes Fabulous Bodies, a supernatural joyride where Drive meets Beetlejuice. Fashion influencer by day and grave-robber by night, Poppy Stringer is on call when Eddie Michaels—a flamboyant, piano-slamming rockstar and q***r icon—unexpectedly dies. All Poppy has to do is retrieve Eddie’s body from the medical examiner’s office, but what starts as a routine delivery quickly goes off course when Eddie wakes up.

In Forest Euphoria, Kaishian shows us this making of a scientist and introduces readers to the q***rness, literal and otherwise, of all the life around us. Fungi, we learn, commonly have more than two biological sexes--and some as many as twenty-three thousand. Some intersex slugs mutually fire calcium carbonate "love darts" at each other during courtship. Glass eels are sexually undetermined until their last year of life, which stumped scientists once dubbed "the eel question." Nature, Kaishian shows us, is filled with the unusual, the overlooked, and the marginalized--and they have lessons for us all.

After a hack gone tragically wrong, a teen girl is given an ultimatum: accept a harsh prison sentence or leave her old life behind, adopt a new identity, and use her talents in the service of a covert government agency.

Three years later, the newly-named Augusta Pine has become a skilled wraith, one of the Identity Security Division’s secret operatives. She has no home, no family, and her only friends are her coolly professional handler and a snarky sentient AI spybot. So when she is sent to Portland for her next assignment, she seizes the chance to catch a glimpse of her grandmother and rents the apartment next door.

A man on the brink

Disability Pride Month is observed every July to celebrate disability identity and community, mark the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and push for full inclusion in everyday life.

Disability-led advocacy and design have helped create changes many people now rely on, like curb cuts, closed captioning, audiobooks, and voice dictation. What began as access often becomes a better experience for everyone, including caregivers pushing strollers, viewers who prefer captions, and commuters listening to books.

Browse this month's display and see both fiction and nonfiction stories by and about people and characters with disabilities!



Icarus Gallagher is a thief. He steals priceless art and replaces it with his father’s impeccable forgeries. For years, one man—the wealthy Mr. Black—has been their target in revenge for his role in the death of Icarus’s mother. To keep their secret, Icarus adheres to his own strict rules to keep people, and feelings, at bay: Don’t let anyone close. Don’t let anyone touch you. And, above all, don’t get caught.

Until one night, he does. Not by Mr. Black but by his mysterious son, Helios, now living under house arrest in the Black mansion. Instead of turning Icarus in, Helios bargains for something even more dangerous—a friendship that breaks every single one of Icarus’s rules.

Representation: Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS)

Nova Huang knows more about magic than your average teen witch. She works at her grandmothers’ bookshop, where she helps them loan out spell books and investigate any supernatural occurrences in their New England town. One fateful night, she follows reports of a white wolf into the woods, and she comes across the unexpected: her childhood crush, Tam Lang, battling a horse demon in the woods.

Representation: Hearing Loss

Demeter just wants to do her job: shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately, her passengers keep dying--and not from equipment failures, as her AI medical system, Steward, would have her believe. These are paranormal murders, and they began when one nasty, ancient vampire decided t

Today's the day!

See you at the rosecitybookandpaperfair from 10am - 5pm.

We will also have normal hours at Wallace Books from 10am - 6pm.

Stop by and say hi to Julie Wallace at the Book Fair booth 📚