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Tropes & Trifles, 2709 E. 38th Street, Minneapolis, MN (2026)

09/25/2026

New books this week!

Top row:
- Restitution / Leigh Rivers (previously indie!)
- The Sweetest Fiend / Raven Kennedy (sold out! more copies on the way!)
- Special Edition: Gothikana / RuNyx
- Special Edition: Heartless / Elsie Silver
- When They Burned the Butterfly / Wen-Yi Lee (new in paper!)

Row 2:
- The Ice Beyond / Olivia Wildenstein
- Faery Queen / Michelle M. Pillow
- A Stroke of Midnight / Laurell K. Hamilton
- Kiss of the Black Flame / Helen Scheuerer (bookplates and swag available!)
- A Complement of Scoundrels / S.V. Lockwood
- Harbinger / Geneva Lee
- The Wretched Divine / Adalyn Grace
- The Tiny Magic Bookshop / August Bloom
- Damned if I Do / Alexandria Bellefleur
- You're the One that I Haunt / Katie Jung
- A Season for Falling / Katie O'Shaughnessy
- Death in Verse / Julie Lew
- Hearts on the Table / Susan Metallo
- To Our Untamed Core / Sonido Reyes Sonido Reyes
- A Steeping of Blood / Hafsa Faizal

Row 3:
- Falling for the Protagonist / Bex Goos
- Hooking Nash / Annica Dahl Annica Dahl
- Well Versed / Jen DeLuca
- Best Woman / Rose Dommu Rose Dommu
- So It Grows / Andie Burke
- Love Between the Lectures / Christie Curry
- Take a Number / Amy Daws
- Never Lasting / Angela Bourassa
- The Life I Didn't Plan / Charlotte Butterfield Charlotte Butterfield
- A Map to Murder / Michelle Chouinard Michelle Chouinard
- A Killer for Christmas / Kim Harrington Kim Harrington
- Christmas in Austenland / Shannon Hale
- A Curse for Christmas Past / Morgan Lockhart
- The Little Shop of Merry and Bright / Jenny Bayliss Jenni Bayliss-Jennings/Jenny Bayliss/ Jenni Jennings

Bottom row:
- Prey for Me / Allie Oleander
- The Isle in the Silver Sea / Tasha Suri (new in paper!)
- Isn't He Romantic / Adib Khorram
- Free Falling / Lyla Sage
- They Know if You've Been Bad or Good / Alta Hensley

09/23/2026

✨Minnesota author preorder alert!✨

Preorder SAVAGE HEART, the first book in the new Harrington Ranch series from Willow Aster, from Tropes & Trifles to receive a hand-signed copy, a double-sided bookmark, a sticker, and an art print! (Want a personalized copy? Just note the name for the inscription in the notes field at checkout!)

Preorder by next Friday, 10/2 :)

About SAVAGE HEART:

From USA Today bestselling author Willow Aster comes a heartfelt second-chance romance about a cowboy and a single mom wrangling their tragic past into hope for the future on a proud Wyoming ranch.

A car accident on prom night changes everything for eighteen-year-old Maverick Harrington. In a flash, he loses two best friends: one who dies in the crash, the other who carries the blame. Finding hate easier than grief, Maverick’s heart slowly hardens. Now twelve years later, he runs Harrington Ranch, bearing the family name on his shoulders and wearing the past like a brand on his heart.

Iris Sullivan didn’t have the sense to leave Ironwood, where loyalty is law. She’s raised her son in the same town that turned its back on her, surviving on stubborn resilience as a single mother. When a golden opportunity takes her back to Harrington Ranch, she comes face-to-face with the man who once said she was dead to him. But forced proximity has a way of weakening defenses.

As old secrets and new sparks ignite, Maverick starts to see the woman behind the whispers—and the twelve-year-old boy whose legacy he can’t ignore.

09/22/2026

We're so excited...NEXT Saturday (not this Saturday, NEXT Saturday, October 3, noon - 3PM), we're hanging out in the store with Bex Goos, who will be signing copies of her debut FALLING FOR THE PROTAGONIST! (Parts of it take place in Minneapolis and a Roseville-like suburb! There’s a s*x psychic!)

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!

In addition to being an author, Bex is also a glass artist, and her art is SO PRETTY AND CUTE, so we begged her to also bring some of her glass art for a combo book signing/art pop-up!

Here's all the details for how things will work!

📚 Come pop in to meet Bex! We will have copies of FALLING FOR THE PROTAGONIST for sale at the register during the signing, or you can pop into the store between now and then to grab a copy to bring to the signing, OR order online to pickup in the store at any point.

📚 Bex is also bringing handcrafted glass earrings, rings, and marble monsters! (What's a marble monster? Thank you so much for asking! Check the graphic to meet Marv! Marv the Marble Monster!) Glass art will be for sale through Bex directly at the signing table.

📚 Glass art will average $15-$25 apiece, with some pieces slightly less and some slightly more.

📚 Bex accepts the following payment methods:
- Credit card
- Venmo
- Apple Pay
- Cash

Can't wait, see you there!

09/21/2026

Join us October 20 for a joint celebration of Elizabeth Davis's THE FRIENDSGIVING PACT and Jenna Levine's TIL UNDEATH DO US PART!

Details!
🗓 Tuesday, October 20
⏰ 7:00 - 9:00 PM (doors open at 6:30)
📍 In store @ Tropes & Trifles! 2709 E 38th St., Mpls, MN 55406
🎟 $10 coupon tickets! (Available on our w3bs!te!)

But wait, there's more!

Can't make it to the event? Preorder THE FRIENDSGIVING PACT from Tropes & Trifles and receive a signed and personalized copy and a sticker sheet, while supplies last! (All copies purchased at the event will also come with the preorder goodies.)

09/16/2026

New books! Fresh out in the world and on the shelf 📚

Top row:
- Cruelest Cowboy / Cora Brent
- Kill the Beast / Serra Swift (new in paper!)
- Thoughts be Bloody / Auden Patrick auden patrick
- A Thousand Monstrous Forms / Saratoga Schaefer
- The New Age of Sexism: How AI, Chatbots, and Deepfakes Are Making the World More Dangerous for Women / Laura Bates Laura Bates
- Breaking ICE: Community Defense Against State Terror & MAGA Fascism / Sonali Kolhatkar
- Just Pills: The Extraordinary Story of a Revolution in Abortion Care / Rebecca Kelliher
- A Romance Reader's Cookbook: Seductive Recipes Inspired by the Books You Love to Read / Rochelle Bilow Rochelle Bilow

Row 2:
- The Ordeals / Rachel Greenlaw Rachel Greenlaw
- Avalon Tower: Book 1 / C.N. Crawford & Alex Rivers C.N. Crawford (Christine)
- A Crown of Blood and Magick / Amy de la Force Amy de la Force ⛥ Author
- Locusta / Emily Dexter
- Bodies of Magic / Freya Marske Freya Marske
- The Emperor's Enemy / Jasmine Mas
- Daughter of the Dark / R.J. Valldeperas (🔥 meet the author at our event Saturday 9/26! 🔥)
- The Hopeless Romantic's Guide to Enchantment / Marie O'Regan & Paul Kane
- A Spell of Heart & Havoc / Kristen Vale (signed book plate and sticker sheet!)
- Blood & Bedlam / T.C. Kraven .c.kraven
- 10 Things I Hate About Zombies / Hazel Graves
- Clearly Charmed / Amy True Amy Trueblood/Amy True
- Doomsdate / Laura Piper Lee Laura Piper Lee
- Blind Date with a Werewolf / Patricia Briggs

Row 3:
- Winterveil / Ava Reid
- Lobizona AND Cazadora / Romina Garber
- A Theory of Dreaming / Ava Reid (new in paper!)
- The End Crowns All / Bea Fitzgerald
- Joy to the Girls / Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick
- Blue Jean Summer / Maggie Gates
- A Smart Girl's Guide to Second Chances / Steph Vizard
- Reckoning / Sharon Sala Sharon Sala
- Egotistical Puckboy / Eden Finley & Saxon James (previously indie!)
- Thank You for Remembering / Emily Harding
- A Study in Sparkling / Jodi McAlister
- The Call-Up / K.C. Carmichael K.C. Carmichael
- Fall Me Maybe / Laney Hatcher

Bottom row:
- Eldritch / Keri Lake
- Shield of Sparrows / Devney Perry (new in paper!)
- The Never Heirs / G.M. Fairy
- More / Gillian Anderson
- Grim Tidings / B.K. Borison

09/15/2026

Join us to celebrate the release of DAUGHTER OF THE DARK, the South American-inspired, dark, twisty, zombie-huntin' romantasy by R.J. Valldeperas! R.J. will be joined in conversation by Adeline Bryant, author of FATED.

Details!
🗓 Saturday, September 26
⏰ 7:00 - 9:00 PM (doors open at 6:30)
📍 Tropes & Trifles, 2709 E 38th St., Mpls, MN 55406
🎟 Ticket includes a copy of DAUGHTER OF THE DARK to be signed after the event!
🎟🎟 Plus-one tickets available!

🔥 About DAUGHTER OF THE DARK 🔥

From the flesh of a fallen god, a demon slayer rises.

Supay lives under a curse of eternal death. For the greed of their god, the people are damned to live as human... and then again as muki.

For Solana, survival means staying sharp and staying alone. Armed with only a blood-forged dagger, she's carved out a life as Supay's fiercest slayer, freeing souls even as she's trapped by duty.

But when a twist of fate offers her the title of Royal Demon Hunter, Solana finally finds a path to the freedom she's always craved... but it draws her closer to the darkness threatening Supay—darkness that calls to her soul alone.

Torn between turning her back on a fight she never asked for and the pull of loyalties old and new—including an irresistible connection to a man who should be her enemy—Solana must decide...

Choose fate and freedom?

Or death, destruction... and revolution.

09/14/2026

Two years in a row...I guess that makes this an annual event??

Therefore: You are cordially invited to the second annual "Oops, we bought too many books, come help us make room for fall" SALE!

Tuesday 9/15 — Sunday 9/20. In store only!

20% off select titles on the big white table. (Lauren added over 700 books to this table.) 🤯

Select clearance items on the green table.
- $5 mass markets
- $10 paperbacks
- $15 hardcovers and graphic novels

(While supplies last.) (All discounted sales are final.) (All items priced as marked.)

See you soon!

09/11/2026

New books out this week!

Top row:
- Twisted Kingdom / Rina Kent
- Sorrow & Strangers / Jeanette Rose & Alexis Rune
- Blackthorn / J.T. Geissinger (new in paper!)
- The Second Chance Cinema / Thea Weiss
- Inconceivable: The Impossibility of Family in an Age of Uncertainty / Anna Louie Sussman
- Mansfield Park / Jane Austen (new edition!)
- Sense and Sensibility / Jane Austen (new edition that we're all obsessed with it's so pretty omg)
- Our Vicious Descent / Hayley Dennings (new in paper!)

Row two:
- Morfran, Dark Lord Reformed / S.B. West
- Among the Burning Flowers / Samantha Shannon
- A Snake Among Swans / Hannah Laner
- The Dark Lord's Guide to Honeymooning / Tiffany Hunt
- Wicked Endeavors / Kamilah Cole
- Tethered / Elayna R. Gallea
- Modern Divination / Isa Agajanian (new in paper!)
- Meet Cute Magic / Morgan Elizabeth
- Hexy Beast / Avery Flynn
- Jingle Spells / Emily Grimoire
- Big Bad Wolf / Laurie Gilmore
- All the Jingle Ladies / Beth Garrod
- Pining for You / Stef Ferrari
- If Looks Could Kill / Julie Berry
- Slayer / Leia Stone

Row three:
- No Charm Done / Emily Grimoire
- Disenchanted / Lucy Jane Wood
- The Exorcism of Faeries / J.L. Vampa
- With All My Haunted Heart / Isabel Sterling
- Game Over / Bella North
- The Single Dad / Marni Mann
- The Love Hypothesis / Ali Hazelwood (movie tie-in cover!)
- Game Misconduct / Ari Baran
- Delay of Game / Ari Baran
- Home Ice Advantage / Ari Baran
- Goaltender Interference / Ari Baran
- See You Next Tuesday / Kate Stayman-London
- You Had Me at Pumpkin Patch / Anita Faulkner
- Hit or Miss / Elle Kelk
- Fall Into Place / Kristyn J. Miller
- You've Got a Place Here, Too / Ed. by Ebony LaDelle (new in paper!)

Bottom row:
- Burn of the Everflame / Penn Cole
- Tempest / Victoria Aveyard
- Gold Dust Woman / Mandy Bex
- Level Up For Love / Lenora Wood
- Love Felt Like This / Julie Olivia

09/08/2026

We're so excited to be welcoming Ally Carter back to Minnesota to celebrate the release of IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE MURDER!

Details!
🗓 Friday, October 16
⏰ 7:00 - 10:00 PM (doors open at 6:30)
🎟 General admission tickets include a pre-signed copy of the event book—choose either a hardcover OR a deluxe trade paperback when selecting your ticket!
🎟🎟 Limited plus-one tickets are available as an add-on option.

Everything to know!

- The event includes author conversation, audience Q&A, and signing. All attendees must have a ticket to enter the event. General admission tickets include a copy of the event book.

- The plus-one ticket option is available as an add-on to a general admission ticket. Plus-one tickets include entry into the event conversation and signing line only. This ticket option does not include a book.

- Signing groups will be assigned in order of check-in. Doors open at 6:30; conversation runs 7:00 - 8:00 PM.

- We will scan your QR ticket at check-in, and hand your pre-signed book to you at that point.

- Signing limits: Please limit books brought from home to two :) Ally will be offering optional personalization for the event book ONLY. The two books brought from home will be signed only.

- Limited additional pre-signed copies of the authors' titles will also be available for purchase on-site.

- If there are specific additional titles you want to be sure to snag, it is highly encouraged to preorder through the T&T website, selecting “Offsite event pickup: 10/16 @ St. Mary's” at checkout. All preordered books will be pre-signed.

- Can’t make it to the event? Order signed copies before October 2, 2026.

- The event will be hosted at Mary’s Episcopal Church (1895 Laurel Ave, St. Paul, MN 55104). St. Mary’s is an ADA-compliant space with an elevator to access the sanctuary room.

- For accommodations (including reserved wheelchair seating), please email [email protected].

09/06/2026

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