the indie NEXT list Hyperbole and a Half Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened, by Allie Brosh (Touchstone, 9781451666175, paper, $17.99) “Brosh has been an Internet sensation for years with literally thousands of fans following her scribbled illustrations on her blog. She has won over readers and stalkers alike with her honest and stark humor and her fun stories and rants. This book takes readers into not just the fun and fuzzy world of candied cakes and dumb dogs, but also into the brutally honest self-evaluation and exploration of its unique author. Always balancing the serious with the silly, the dark with the ridiculous, Brosh says the things we wish we could, admits the things we’re ashamed of, and explores what we’re afraid of, always with color and humor and, ultimately, with hope. And don’t forget the scribbles!” —Jocelyn Shratter, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA We Are Water Death of a Nightingale A Nina Borg Thriller, by Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis (Soho Crime, 9781616953041, $26.95) Recommended by Mary Fran Buckley, Eight Cousins, Falmouth, MA Bellman & Black A Novel, by Diane Setterfield (Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 9781476711959, $26.99) Recommended by Kristine Kaufman, The Snow Goose Bookstore, Stanwood, WA This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett (Harper, 9780062236678, $27.99) Recommended by Cheryl McKeon, Book Passage, San Francisco, CA The Lion Seeker A Novel, by Kenneth Bonert (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 9780547898049, $28) Recommended by Gayle Shanks, Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe, AZ The Cartographer of No Man’s Land A Novel, by P.S. Duffy (Liveright, 9780871403766, $25.95) Recommended by Bill Cusumano, Nicola’s Books, Ann Arbor, MI The Last Animal Stories, by Abby Geni (Counterpoint [Dist. PGW], 9781619021822, $24) Recommended by Daniel Goldin, Boswell Book Company, Milwaukee, WI The Tulip Eaters A Novel, by Antoinette van Heugten (Harlequin MIRA, 9780778313885, paper, $15.95) Recommended by Rebecca Harrison, Lincoln’s Loft, Hodgenville, KY Vanished The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II, by Wil S. Hylton (Riverhead, 9781594487279, $27.95) Recommended by Betsey Detwiler, Buttonwood Books & Toys, Cohasset, MA Provence, 1970 M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste, by Luke Barr (Clarkson Potter, 9780307718341, $26) Recommended by Jennifer Gwydir, Blue Willow Bookshop, Houston, TX Find more independent bookseller recommendations at IndieBound.org IndieBound is a movement of the American Booksellers Association. All rights reserved. A Novel, by Wally Lamb (Harper, 9780061941023, $29.99) Recommended by Lynn Beeson, Loganberry Books, Cleveland, OH The Two Hotel Francforts A Novel, by David Leavitt (Bloomsbury, 9781596910423, $25) Recommended by Cathy Langer, Tattered Cover Book Store, Denver, CO The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan (Ecco, 9780062107312, $29.99) Recommended by Carol Hicks, Bookshelf at Hooligan Rocks, Truckee, CA Monument Road A Novel, by Charlie Quimby (Torrey House Press [Dist. Consortium], 9781937226251, paper, $16.95) Recommended by Sheryl Cotleur, Copperfield’s Books, Sebastopol, CA The Men Who United the States America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible, by Simon Winchester (Harper, 9780062079602, $29.99) Recommended by Carole Horne, Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA Tatiana An Arkady Renko Novel, by Martin Cruz Smith (Simon & Schuster, 9781439140215, $25.99) Recommended by Sue Richardson, Maine Coast Bookshop, Damariscotta, ME Where the Moon Isn’t A Novel, by Nathan Filer (St. Martin’s Press, 9781250026989, $24.99) Recommended by Karen Briggs, Great Northern Books & Hobbies, Oscoda, MI The Heart of Everything That Is The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend, by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin (Simon & Schuster, 9781451654660, $30) Recommended by George Rishel, The Sly Fox, Virden IL The Circle of Thirteen A Novel, by William Petrocelli (Turner Publisher [Dist. Ingram Publisher Services], 9781620454145, $26.95) Recommended by Betsy Burton, The King’s English Bookshop, Salt Lake City, UT : available in e-book format Two Prospectors The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark, Chad Hammett, Ed. (University of Texas Press, 9780292735828, $35) Recommended by Laurie Greer, Politics and Prose Bookstore and Coffee House, Washington, DC :Indies Introduce NOVEMBER ’13