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Did you find our book at the NYS Fair?
Welcome to Lit Actually! Central NY’s only romance bookshop.
Throughout the NYS Fair, we’re leaving behind some of our favorite books from the shop. These are contemporary adult romance books, so if you’re not 18+ we recommend you gift your book and gift card to someone who would enjoy this book!
Come visit us in the shop to use the gift card or you promo code NYSFAIR on our website for 10% off your purchase (code expires 9/12/26).
We are located inside Olive’s Eatery at 25 Syracuse Street in Baldwinsville, NY.
Who We Are
Lit Actually is a woman-owned independent bookshop in Central New York. Not only do we sell books (feel free to check out our online shop), but we offer a place for readers to connect, celebrate stories out loud and feel books in ways that are immersive, joyful and, yes … unforgettable.
We’ve hosted sold-out author events like Hockey Romance Night with the Crunch or Hot Dogs & HEAs with the Mets, to exclusive launch events and community collaborations across Central New York, I am obsessed with creating experiences that feel bigger than just “shopping for book.” The biggest names in romance have made their way to Lit Actually including Tessa Bailey, Ashley Poston, Emily Rath, Chelsea Curto, Stephanie Archer, Grace Reilly, Rebecca Jenshak, Brittanee Nicole, Sarina Bowen, Sloane St. James and more!
Join us for the fun!
—> That’s Ashley Poston on the right, and Katie Jung on the left, two icons in speculative romance. Ashley Poston is the author of best-selling novels like The Seven Year Slip and Dead Romantics, and Katie Jung’s debut romance novel comes out September 22.
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Featured Books
Cozy up with your pumpkin spiced latte and a slice of apple pie, because it's time to fall in love in Bramley Hollow...
A fall-inspired second-chance romance about a woman who returns home after inheriting her grandmother's diner, only to discover the contractor she must hire was her high school crush.
Sweater weather is better together.
Rebecca Macintosh has always felt that there's just something about September--nostalgia, crisp mornings, and possibility. But not this year. Rebecca has thirty days to return home to fix up her late grandmother's diner or face the consequences. And the only contractor in town? Cort Adams. The man who rejected her one year ago. He's somehow even better looking as a single dad than when he was the high school football star she once tutored. She'd been hoping to avoid him forever.
As the golden leaves start to fall, Rebecca may find that there's more to her hometown--and to Cort--than she'd realized, and that the dreams she's been chasing might have been the wrong ones. Could a spark kindle hot enough in the cool autumn air to call Rebecca home for good?
This is a pre-order. You can choose the paperback or the hardcover. Books will be available on April 6, 2027.
Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from #1 New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Yarros, now as a beautifully illustrated graphic novel
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general―also known as her tough-as-talons mother―has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.
But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.
With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter―like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.
She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.
Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.
Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda―because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.
Lavishly illustrated with full-color artwork and adapted by Rebecca Yarros herself, this breathtaking graphic novel features the first half (chapters 1-22) of Fourth Wing, offering an immersive experience for fans of the #1 New York Times bestselling Empyrean series and new readers alike!
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK - From the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.
The stunning hardcover of Atmosphere features beautiful endpapers and a premium dust jacket!
"Thrilling . . . heartbreaking . . . uplifting . . . the fast-paced, emotionally charged story of one ambitious young woman, finding both her voice and her passion."--Kristin Hannah, author of The Women
"NASA? Space missions? The '80s? This is a collection of all the things I love."--Andy Weir, author of Project Hail Mary and The Martian
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, People, Good Housekeeping, them, Marie Claire, Elle, Seattle Times, Book Riot, Library Journal, Chicago Public Library, She Reads, Denver Public Library
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA's space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.
Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston's Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easygoing even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane.
As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.
Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant.
Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, creating complex protagonists, and telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love--this time among the stars.