Save the date for our fall retreat!

Our annual fall retreat will be October 26 to 28, at Our Lake Lodge, a comfortable and stunning lodge just north of the store.

Our theme is “What is Family? Before the event, we’ll each read Stray City and The End of the Wild. We’ll announce the title of the third book soon. (And when we do, we’ll open registration.) If you buy the books, we expect you to buy them from us.

Cost of the retreat will be $200 for a shared room; $250 for a single room. Registration is limited.

Fall New Releases!

Some great books are coming this fall! We’re very excited about the October release of Virgil Wander, by Leif Enger (author of Peace Like a River.) Here’s Enger talking about the book. You’ll be able to hear him in person this tall at Beagle and Wolf—date to be announced soon.

The Lost Queen of Crocker County
Fiction by Elizabeth Leiknes

Jane Willow may have moved to Los Angeles to become a famous film critic, but when a family tragedy prompts her return to Crocker County, Iowa, for the first time in eighteen years, she is forced to confront everything she left behind.

The Leopold and Loeb Files: An Intimate Look at One of America's Most Infamous Crimes
Nonfiction (true crime) by Nina Barrett Agate Midway

This comprehensive, ephemera-driven history allows the reader to act as a fly on the wall and speaks powerfully to the unsolved mysteries of this distinct crime, in which the guilt of the perpetrators is unambiguous but almost everything else is open to interpretation.

Tacky Goblin
Fiction by T. Sean Steele

Fleeing a talking mold stain in the ceiling of his bedroom in Chicago, a young man moves to Los Angeles, where he rents an apartment with his sister, Kim, in this fictional diary. Despite the new city, new friends, and love interests, something haunts him. Perhaps Kim can help him out of his funk. Or maybe she'll just lead him to hell...

New Poets of Native Nations
Poetry anthology edited by Heid E. Erdrich Graywolf