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Town House Books

We are an independent bookstore for all ages, with a friendly knowledgeable staff located in historic downtown St. Charles, Illinois. Since 1974 Town House Books has been a vital part of our community recommending books to every kind of reader. We update our lists regularly, so keep coming back! JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER and receive a few emails each month with recommendations, notices of free shipping, etc.

Latest in Fiction... VIEW LIST (70 BOOKS)
Acts of Violet
Five-Part Invention
Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc
The Sweet Remnants of Summer: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (14)
Sparring Partners
The Messy Lives of Book People
I, John Kennedy Toole
It All Comes Down to This
Tracy Flick Can't Win
These Impossible Things
Horse
Lapvona
The Lioness
Companion Piece
Remarkably Bright Creatures

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Latest in Nonfiction... VIEW LIST (52 BOOKS)
Switchboard Soldiers
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015
The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain
Future Stories: What's Next?
The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind
The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity
Future Homes: Sustainable Innovative Designs
Art Can Help
In Praise of Good Bookstores
Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts
Everest 1922: The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World's Highest Mountain
Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist's Reckoning with the South
Jimmy the King: Murder, Vice, and the Reign of a Dirty Cop

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Exciting New Cookbooks VIEW LIST (142 BOOKS)
Fast Feasts: Quick, Easy Recipes with a Middle-Eastern Twist
A Spoonful of Sun: Mediterranean Cookbook for All Seasons
Alfresco: 125 Recipes for Eating & Enjoying Outdoors (Entertaining Cookbook, Williams Sonoma Cookbook, Grilling Recipes)
Snacks for Dinner: Small Bites, Full Plates, Can't Lose
Portugal: The Cookbook
The Backyard BBQ Bible: 100+ Recipes for Outdoor Grilling
Eitan Eats the World: New Comfort Classics to Cook Right Now: A Cookbook
Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from My Kitchen in Mexico: A Cookbook
For the Table: Easy, Adaptable, Crowd-Pleasing Recipes
The Modern Proper: Simple Dinners for Every Day (a Cookbook)
The Cook You Want to Be: Everyday Recipes to Impress [A Cookbook]
I Dream of Dinner (So You Don't Have To): Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes: A Cookbook
Boards: Stylish Spreads for Casual Gatherings
New England Soups from the Sea: Recipes for Chowders, Bisques, Boils, Stews, and Classic Seafood Medleys
Around the Board: Boards, Platters, and Plates: Seasonal Cheese and Charcuterie for Year-Round Cel Celebrations and Elevated Gatherings

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Sweets For The Sweet: Baking and Dessert Cookbooks VIEW LIST (27 BOOKS)
Bake: My Best Ever Recipes for the Classics
Good & Sweet: A New Way to Bake with Naturally Sweet Ingredients
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious--And Perplexing--City
Snackable Bakes: 100 Easy-Peasy Recipes for Exceptionally Scrumptious Sweets and Treats
A Good Bake: The Art and Science of Making Perfect Pastries, Cakes, Cookies, Pies, and Breads at Home: A Cookbook
The Cake Book: Beautiful Sweet Treats for Every Craving
The Southern Baking Cookbook: 60 Comforting Recipes Full of Down-South Flavor
Life Is What You Bake It: Recipes, Stories, and Inspiration to Bake Your Way to the Top: A Baking Book
Simply Sweet Nostalgic Bakes: 55 Elegant Takes on Comfort Classics
Earth to Table Bakes: Everyday Recipes for Baking with Good Ingredients
Jam Bake: Inspired Recipes for Creating and Baking with Preserves
The Pie and Tart Collection: 170 Recipes for the Pie and Tart Baking Enthusiast
Dream Desserts: 60 Over-The-Top Recipes for Truly Fabulous Flavor
Pie All the Time: Elevated Sweet and Savory Recipes for Every Occasion
Good Housekeeping the Best-Ever Cookie Book: 175 Tested-'Til-Perfect Recipes for Crispy, Chewy & Ooey-Gooey Treats

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Lost In Reading: Novel Sequences/Series VIEW LIST (46 BOOKS)
The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx & Crake/The Year of the Flood/MaddAddam
The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, the Obelisk Gate, the Stone Sky
Olive Kitteridge
Olive, Again
Autumn
Summer
Winter
Spring
Wolf Hall
Bring Up the Bodies
The Mirror & the Light
The Cardiff Giant
The Great Cyprus Think Tank
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played with Fire

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Best New History Titles VIEW LIST (55 BOOKS)
Recognition
France: An Adventure History
Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer
The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World
Sisters in Resistance: How a German Spy, a Banker's Wife, and Mussolini's Daughter Outwitted the Nazis
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
The Jesuits: A History
What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait
Feeding Washington's Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
Team America: Patton, Macarthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged
A Little History of Art
Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
California: An American History

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Earth Day, Every Day (Nature Writing) VIEW LIST (220 BOOKS)
Raven's Witness: The Alaska Life of Richard K. Nelson
Halcyon Journey: In Search of the Belted Kingfisher
New England's Roadside Ecology: Explore 30 of the Region's Unique Natural Areas
Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
The One Hundred Circle Farm
Trees: An Anthology of Writings and Paintings
The High Sierra: A Love Story
Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
The Whale Who Swam Through Time: A Two-Hundred-Year Journey in the Arctic
Bay of Life: From Wind to Whales
Living Roofs: Urban Gardens Around the World
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
Was It Worth It?: A Wilderness Warrior's Long Trail Home
We Are All Whalers: The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility

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Latest Biography and Memoir Titles... VIEW LIST (55 BOOKS)
Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara
James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life
Still Alright: A Memoir
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville
Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes
Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable
Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova
Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today
Happy-Go-Lucky
Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands
A Bright and Blinding Sun: A World War II Story of Survival, Love, and Redemption
Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser
Finding Me: A Memoir

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Mystery Corner VIEW LIST (101 BOOKS)
Extenuating Circumstances
The Man Who Died Twice: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery
Miss Aldridge Regrets
The Coldest Case: A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel
Last Call at the Nightingale: A Mystery
With a Mind to Kill: A James Bond Novel
Overboard
The Recovery Agent: A Novelvolume 1
Run, Rose, Run
The Berlin Exchange
Other People's Clothes
City of the Dead: An Alex Delaware Novel
Seasonal Work: Stories
The Good Son

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Making Sense of These Times VIEW LIST (234 BOOKS)
100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
Partial Truths: How Fractions Distort Our Thinking
The Walls Around Opportunity: The Failure of Colorblind Policy for Higher Education
The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas
The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood
The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times
Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
Light in Dark Times: The Human Search for Meaning
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts

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