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New Releases | July 28th, 2026

July 24, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • The Wedding People - Espach, Alison (Author)

    • Meet Me in Paris - Harmel, Kristin (Author)

    • The Good Parts - Normandin, Evann (Author)

    • Beginning Middle End - Luiselli, Valeria (Author)

    Arts & Entertainment

    • But Have You Read the Book? Romance Edition: 40 Love Stories That Inspired Our Favorite Films - Lopez, Kristen (Author)

    Biography

    • All That's Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir - Hackney, Emilee (Author)

    • Baldwin: A Love Story - Boggs, Nicholas (Author)

    Board Books

    • Dr. Seuss's What Was I Scared Of? with 12 Silly Sounds!: An Interactive Read and Listen Book [With Battery] (Dr. Seuss Sound Board Books) - Dr Seuss (Author)

    • Wonderful Halloween - Martin, Emily Winfield (Author), Martin, Emily Winfield (Illustrator)

    • Luna and the Witch Throw a Halloween Party - Plaza, Aubrey (Author), Murphy, Dan (Author), Peck, Hannah (Illustrator)

    Children's Poetry

    • Mother Boo: Poems from Spookytown - Vansickle, Vikki (Author), Lounsbury, Jennica (Illustrator)

    D&D TCG

    • Pokécology an Illustrated Guide to Pokémon Ecology (Pokemon Pikachu Press)

    Graphic Novels

    • Dare You to Dance: (A Graphic Novel) - Mock, Rebecca (Author)

    • The Girl Who Loved Monsters (A Devilfish Bay Book) - Fitzpatrick, Insha (Author), Franklin, Ashley Robin (Illustrator)

    History

    • Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History - Gregory, Philippa (Author)

    • Victory '45: The End of the War in Eight Surrenders - Holland, James (Author), Murray, Al (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • Who Is John Cena? (Who Was?) - Van Cleave, Ryan G (Author), Who Hq (Author), Copeland, Gregory (Illustrator)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Castle in the Sky Film Comic: All-In-One Edition (Castle in the Sky Film Comic: All-In-One Edition) - Miyazaki, Hayao (Author)

    • Spice and Wolf Collector's Edition, Vol. 3 (Manga): Volume 3 (Spice and Wolf Collector's Edition (Manga) #3) - Hasekura, Isuna (Author), Koume, Keito (Artist), Ayakura, Jyuu (Artist), Eckerman, Alexis (Letterer), Starr, Paul (Translator), Blakeslee, Katie (Letterer)

    • Seeds of Anxiety*, Vol. 1 (Seeds of Anxiety* #1) - Nakayama, Masaaki (Author), Paul, Stephen (Translator), Blackman, Abigail (Letterer)

    • Wonder Cats - Nitori, Sasami (Author)

    • Beneath the Fur, Vol. 1 (Beneath the Fur #1) - Ruike, Umi (Author), Haley, Amanda (Translator), Jose, Madeleine (Letterer)

    • Luca the Dragon Vet 1 (Luca the Dragon Vet) - Hirasawa, Yuna (Author)

    Middle Readers

    • Campfire Stories to Scare Your Socks Off! - Espinosa, Andi (Illustrator), Harper, Benjamin (Author), Dahl, Michael (Author), Atwood, Megan (Author), Sutton, Laurie S (Author)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • The Girl with Ice in Her Veins: A Lisbeth Salander Novel, Continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) - Smirnoff, Karin (Author)

    • Getting Away with Murder - Lapena, Shari (Author)

    Nature

    • The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness - Flyn, Cal (Author)

    Personal Growth

    • All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning - Smith, S E (Author)

    Picture Books

    • The Pumpkin Thief (The Leaf Thief) - Hemming, Alice (Author), Slater, Nicola (Illustrator)

    • The Very Eager Evergreen - Wade, Stef (Author), Taylor, Erin (Illustrator)

    • Today Is the Day - Wallace, Chelsea Lin (Author), Rex, Adam (Illustrator)

    Puzzle Books

    • New York Times Games Take Your Time Crosswords: 100 Easy to Hard Puzzles to Do Whenever You Want - New York Times (Author), Shortz, Will (Editor)

    Romance

    • Swordheart (Swordheart #1) - Kingfisher, T (Author)

    • Sea of Charms: A Spellshop Novel (Spellshop #3) - Durst, Sarah Beth (Author)

    • Return to Sender - Parente, Stephanie (Author)

    • Daggermouth (The Heart Duology #1) - Wolfe, H M (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches: Deluxe Edition (Special) - Mandanna, Sangu (Author)

    • Warbreaker: A Cosmere Novel - Sanderson, Brandon (Author)

    • Star Wars: Legacy (Star Wars) - Roux, Madeleine (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • The runaway New York Times bestselling Today Show Read With Jenna Book Club Pick, with more than 1.5 million copies sold, about an unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, Time, Chicago Tribune, Elle, Real Simple, and Glamour

    It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she's actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn't here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she's dreamed of coming for years--she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she's here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan--which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can't stop confiding in each other.

    In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach's The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined--and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.

  • From New York Times bestselling author of The Leaf Thief comes the funny Halloween-y companion picture book!

    Squirrel and Bird are back, and this time there's a mystery in the vegetable patch! Bird's pumpkins keep disappearing, and this time there's EVIDENCE--footprints, peck-marks, a feather! There is a PUMPKIN THIEF!

    With vibrant art and captivating characters, the magic of Halloween's preparations are captured beautifully on each page as readers tag along on Squirrel's forest adventure. Is there truly a pumpkin thief on the loose, or is something else going on? And does it have anything to do with the jack-o'-lanterns appearing on his neighbor's doorsteps?

    Bonus material explaining Halloween's traditions. Poised to be a new classic.

    Pick up The Pumpkin Thief if you are looking for:

    A classic read for ages 4 and up

    Books for Halloween, ideal for your classroom, homeschool curriculum, and more!

    Seasonal and educational stories about the changing seasons

  • Kristin Harmel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names and The Winemaker's Wife, returns with a captivating new novel about several intertwined stories of love, loss, courage, and redemption set over the course of one magical week in Paris.

    Nine Americans in Paris. Seven intertwined love stories. One City of Light.

    Love Actually meets The Notebook in a tale of love, loss, and finding your way home, all set over the course of one life-changing week in Paris.

    Julia Glover has brought her twenty-three-year-old daughter, Piper, to Paris for the first time--but they know it will also be their last trip here together. Julia is dying, and as the mother and daughter desperately try to make memories together as the clock ticks down, the world opens up around them. Piper meets a cute French waiter, who might just understand her better than anyone she's ever met, and Julia meets a man at a dive bar and struggles with how to tell him the truth about her future.

    Rock star Jackson Quick's glory days are behind him. He had a handful of hit songs thirty years ago, but he hasn't toured in a decade. This week, he'll launch his reunion tour in Paris, the city where it all began. But he wants more out of life than being defined by fame. When he meets a woman who finally sees him for who he is at his core, the ground shifts beneath his feet.

    Henry McGee has been writing hit songs for decades--including Jackson Quick's biggest hit, City of Light. But his secret is that every love song he's ever written is for a woman named Celeste, whom he loved a lifetime ago, when they were both teenagers in Paris during World War II. He has spent eighty years believing she died--but when a letter arrives telling him the opposite, he's on the first flight to France. Can he break through the haze of her dementia, using the songs he's written all these years, to remind her of who they once were to each other--and to tell her he came back for her?

    Henry's granddaughter, Melody, has just discovered that her husband of twenty years, Gilles, a French cosmetics executive, is having an affair. When she confronts him, he tearfully apologizes and begs her to forgive him. But can she? And, perhaps even more importantly, does she want to? Or is there a different kind of life out there for her if she chooses to be alone?

    These intertwining stories--plus several others--unfold over a few breathtaking spring days, as an unforgettable group of Americans in Paris must find their way to their own versions of happily ever after in the City of Light.

  • DELUXE EDITION--a gorgeous hardcover edition featuring beautiful cerulean blue sprayed edges!

    A LibraryReads pick! An Indie Next pick!

    Most anticipated from BookBub, Apple Books and BookPage. Featured in: The New York Times and ScreenRant.

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Beth Durst brings cozy fantasy romance to the high seas in Sea of Charms, the third magical adventure in the Spellshop series!

    Marin has always belonged on the great blue sea.

    Betrayed by love, Marin lives and works as a supply runner, sailing from island to island, delivering an array of goods with Perri the sea serpent and Ree the sailor shrub as her crew.

    On one of her routine trips to the capital, Alyssium, Marin finds a revolution underway--and her friend Dax in the line of fire.

    What starts as a rescue evolves into a deal: Marin will keep Dax on as a member of her crew if he pretends to be her boyfriend at the End-of-Harvest Festival back home.

    But against her better judgment, Marin finds herself intrigued by his stubbornness, his passion for stories, his charming smile--and realizes that perhaps she isn't saving him. Maybe it's the other way around.

    Sea of Charms is a cozy fantasy romance about finding your crew, your family, and moreover, finding yourself.

    Read in whatever order your heart desires, but don't miss The Spellshop and The Enchanted Greenhouse.

    "I, for one, couldn't ask for more." --Sangu Mandanna on The Spellshop

    Expect:

    Standalone romance

    Friends to lovers

    Magical creatures

    Swimming lessons

  • Take Your First Look Into The Lives of Pokémon!

    This book and its vivid illustrations introduce you to the ecologies of Pokémon based on data from the Pokédex . Pokécology: An Illustrated Guide to Pokémon Ecology focuses on the similarities, differences, generalities, and relationships between Pokémon ecologies. The results of those observations and analyses are presented alongside spectacular artwork. The author and illustrator--both of whom hold doctorate degrees and have studied animal behavior and ecology--explain "Pokécology" from a brand-new perspective.

Tags Shop Local, little village toy & Book Shop, Indie bookstore, Kristin Harmel, New York Times, Shari Lapena, Campfires, Dr. Seuss, Halloween, James Baldwin, dance, Pokemon, Star Wars

New Releases | July 21st, 2026

July 20, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • Cool Machine (The Harlem Trilogy) - Whitehead, Colson (Author)

    • Pan - Clune, Michael (Author)

    • The Story Keeper: A New Novel from the Author of the Things We Cannot Say (Original) - Rimmer, Kelly (Author)

    • Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar - Yee, Katie (Author)

    • My Friends - Backman, Fredrik (Author)

    • Practical Magic: Deluxe Edition (Special) (Practical Magic) - Hoffman, Alice (Author)

    Biography

    • Dad, Love, Me: A Memoir - Quick, Matthew (Author)

    Board Books

    • How Many Babies? - Xiao, Forest (Author), Xiao, Forest (Illustrator)

    • The Very Clumsy Click Beetle - Carle, Eric (Author), Carle, Eric (Illustrator)

    • The Cranky Cranberry: A Thanksgiving Story about Gratitude and Friendship (First Seasonal Stories)

    Graphic Novels

    • Pia in the Forest - Bruggink, David (Author), Bruggink, David (Illustrator)

    • Pizza and Taco: Scariest Sleepover Ever!: (A Graphic Novel) (Pizza and Taco) - Shaskan, Stephen (Author)

    History

    • The Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism, 1818-1915 - Kelly, Joseph (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • The Lost Women of Science (Theâ Lost Women of Science) - Bellows, Melina Gerosa (Author), Hafner, Katie (Author), Lee, Karyn (Illustrator)

    • History Smashers: The Space Race (History Smashers) - Messner, Kate (Author)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Ultimate Spider-Man by Jonathan Hickman Vol. 4: One Last Day (Ultimate Spider-Man) - Hickman, Jonathan (Author), Checchetto, Marco (Illustrator), Messina, David (Illustrator), Checchetto, Marco (Not Available)

    • Bug Ego, Vol. 2 (Bug Ego #2) - One (Author), Shitara, Kiyoto (Illustrator)

    • Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi, Vol. 2 (Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi #2) - Usui, Shoichi (Author)

    • Solo Leveling: Ragnarok, Vol. 1 (Comic) (Solo Leveling: Ragnarok (Comic) #1) - Jin(redice Studio) (Artist), Brix(redice Studio) (Adapted by), Daul (Based on a Book by), Torres, J (Translator), Noon, Tansy Noon (Letterer), Im, Hye Young (Translator)

    • Gachiakuta 11 (Gachiakuta) - Urana, Kei (Author), Andou, Hideyoshi (Designed by)

    Middle Readers

    • Artemis Fowl 25th Anniversary Edition - Colfer, Eoin (Author)

    My First Readers

    • DK Super Readers Level 2 Lego Star Wars: Meet Grogu!

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • The Hamptons Lawyer: A Jane Smith Thriller (A Jane Smith Thriller) - Patterson, James (Author), Lupica, Mike (Author)

    • The Killer Question - Hallett, Janice (Author)

    • The Mortons - Larbalestier, Justine (Author), Westerfeld, Scott (Author)

    Nature

    • This Patch of Earth: Observations on a Rural Life - Hoffstot, Daryln Brewer (Author)

    Picture Books

    • The Cow in the Dark at Night - Hannigan, Jess (Author), Hannigan, Jess (Illustrator)

    • The Magician's Nephew Picture Book - Lewis, C S (Author), Phuong, Thai My (Illustrator)

    • The Bats on the Bus - Jackson, Alison (Author), Magoon, Scott (Illustrator)

    • The Haunted Playground - Palacio, R J (Author), Helquist, Brett (Illustrator)

    Political Sciences

    • Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America - Phillips-Fein, Kim (Author)

    • This Is the Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy - Wikler, Ben (Author)

    Romance

    • If Books Could Kill - Eberle, Kate (Author)

    • Prince of Swords (Arcana Academy) - Kova, Elise (Author)

    • Ready or Not: A Dark Stalker Romance (Deluxe Limited Edition) (Hide and Seek #2) - Anne, Sheridan (Author

    Young Adult

    • How (Not) to Renovate a Haunted House - Howe, Jenny L (Author)

    • Salvage: A Graphic Novel - Nault (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • #1 New York Times bestseller, more than 1 million copies sold!

    Winner of the 2025 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fiction A Fallon Book Club Pick USA TODAY Best Books of the Year NPR Best Books of the Year Marie Claire 25 Best Novels of the Year BookPage Best Fiction of the Year Real Simple Best Books of the Year * Libby Audiobook of the Year

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger's life twenty-five years later.

    Most people don't even notice them--three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it's just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures.

    Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love.

    Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be placed into eighteen-year-old Louisa's care. She embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn how the painting came to be and to decide what to do with it. The closer she gets to the painting's birthplace, the more nervous she becomes about what she'll find. Louisa is proof that happy endings don't always take the form we expect in this stunning testament to the transformative, timeless power of friendship and art.

  • A picture book retelling of C. S. Lewis's classic story The Magician's Nephew, abridged for the youngest fans! Introduce readers to the magic of Narnia with this all-new picture book featuring illustrations by Thai My Phuong.

    This is how it happened--the glorious birth of the land of Narnia. It didn't begin with a wardrobe or a lamp-post. It began with a lion's song and two children named Polly and Digory. What happens when they touch some magic rings is beyond anything they could have imagined. Their adventure opens the doorway to Narnia, where animals speak and trees walk. Where the great lion, Aslan, sings life into a new world. But they have brought evil with them, and now Polly and Digory must find a way to save them all. Begin one of the greatest adventures of all time and explore a world that has become as real as our own.

    The Magician's Nephew can also be read as a novel and it is one of the seven books in C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, which has been drawing readers of all ages into a magical land with unforgettable characters for over seventy-five years.

  • From #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy

    1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era predatory capitalism. Up in Harlem, successful business owner/master fence Ray Carney has just been named Sterling Furniture's Dealer of the Month. When the banks won't give his beloved wife Elizabeth a loan for her new travel agency, however, Carney gambles on one last heist, and finds himself entangled with a legendary criminal mastermind.

    1983. To some, Carney's friend and partner in crime, Pepper, is a stone-cold sociopath. To others, a top thief with questionable people skills. Either way, he's feeling his age in his troubled gut and his aching bones. When he takes on a bodyguard gig as a favor to Elizabeth, he's plunged into the alien territory of the East Village art and club scene. Luckily for him, whether you're uptown or down, everyone speaks the same language of violence--Pepper is a native speaker.

    1986. Carney has always been haunted by his inability to save his cousin Freddie. Now, twenty years after Freddie's death, he has a chance to rescue Freddie's son from the violent forces of the city. But coming out of retirement and teaming up with Pepper again will mean risking the safety and security he's spent decades building for his family, with only one shot to get it right.

    With his usual pitch-perfect prose, Whitehead paints a portrait of a city in transition, where shimmering skyscrapers rise to the heavens as displaced people huddle in abandoned tunnels below. In a dazzling display of protean imagination, Cool Machine roves all over the city, from Windows on the World to the Meadowlands, to show that in New York, and in the lives of Whitehead's vivid characters, it's what's below the surface that reveals the truth.

  • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wonder and the illustrator of A Series of Unfortunate Events comes a spine-tingling Halloween picture book adventure!

    I cast the spell that brings to life this playground of the night.

    Here my phantoms come--but not to spook or fright.

    They're here because they want to laugh, to frolic and be merry.

    They're here because they need to take a break from being scary.

    When all the trick-or-treating is done and children are tucked in, ghosts are drawn to one special place: the Haunted Playground! Ruled by Rex Magnificus, ghosts arrive not to haunt but to play. But will the appearance of two human children interrupt their revelry?

    From two master storytellers, this Halloween story is a modern classic!

  • A NOVEL LOVE STORY meets LOVE IN THE TIME OF SERIAL KILLERS in this rom-com following Roxie Mitchell, an adventure-loving romance reader who finds herself trapped in a meet-cute turned murderous

    When Roxie makes a tongue-in-cheek wish to live out the plot of her favorite author's next novel, she has romance in mind--namely, the sweet, safe, swoon-worthy storylines Anna Matthews is known for. It should be a dream come true when her wish is granted and she finds herself swept into a first date with a handsome stranger who seems designed to take her breath away.

    Except for one little hiccup: That handsome stranger tries to take her breath away. Literally. With a knife. The thing is, Roxie may be the new Anna Matthews protagonist--but this time, Anna is writing a crime thriller.

    Thrown into a perilous genre she's never read, Roxie is desperate for help. So when her escape takes her straight into the path of Grant Hoffman, an anxious English professor with a convenient love of crime novels, she decides that kidnapping a grown man is a small price to pay for her own survival. Together, Roxie and Grant navigate a madcap story in which the lines between fiction and reality blur. They'll find out if they have what it takes to make it to The End--or maybe even Happily Ever After.

Tags Indie Bookstore, little village toy & Book Shop, booktok, bookstagram, Colson Whitehead, Star Wars, Fredrik Backman, Artemis Fowl, James Patterson, Elise Kova, Practical Magic, Eric Carle, Narnia

New Releases | July 14th, 2026

July 10, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • The Emperor of Gladness - Vuong, Ocean (Author)

    • Men Like Us - Markland, Carson (Author)

    • The Half Life - Beanland, Rachel (Author) ‍

    • Famous Men - Buntin, Julie (Author)

    Biography

    • Fierce Country: The Untold Story of Three Women Who Ignited America's Love for the Wild (Original) - Hansman, Heather (Author)

    Board Books

    • Grumpy Monkey Up All Night (Grumpy Monkey Board Books) - Lang, Suzanne (Author), Lang, Max (Illustrator)

    • The House with Nobody in It (The Nobody Books) - Klassen, Jon (Author), Klassen, Jon (Illustrator)

    Coloring Books

    • Kpop Demon Hunters: The Official Deluxe Coloring Book (Kpop Demon Hunters)

    Fun & Game Books

    • Murdle Jr.: Wild Goose Case: Solve Your Way Through 40 Puzzle Mysteries! (Murdle Jr. #3) - Karber, G T (Author)

    Graphic Novels

    • Howliday Inn the Graphic Novel (Bunnicula the Graphic Novels #2) - Howe, James (Author), Donkin, Andrew (Author), Gilpin, Stephen (Illustrator)

    • Sama Crushes the Code: A Graphic Novel - Mehta, Samaira (Author), Alvarado, Jenny (Illustrator)

    History

    • They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy - Collins, Lauren (Author)

    Homestead

    • The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Bulbs: Paperback Reissue (Kew Experts) - Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (Author), Wilford, Richard (Author)

    Horror

    • We Live Here Now - Pinborough, Sarah (Author)

    • The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Jones, Stephen Graham (Author)

    • From a Buick 8 - King, Stephen (Author)

    • Doctor Sleep - King, Stephen (Author)

    • Cell - King, Stephen (Author)

    • The Intrigue - Moreno-Garcia, Silvia (Author)

    • Cross My Heart, I Hope You Die (Deluxe Edition) - Arnold, Mallory (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • Simone Biles: A Who HQ Illustrated Biography (Who HQ Illustrated Biographies) - Hubbard, Crystal (Author), Who Hq (Author), Perera, Maria Diaz (Illustrator)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Infamous Iron Man: The Rise of Doom - Bendis, Brian Michael (Author), Maleev, Alex (Illustrator), Maleev, Alex (Not Available)

    • Strange Pictures Vol.1 - Uketsu (Author), Aiba, Kikou (Illustrator)

    • Star Wars Visions: Tsukumo (Star Wars Visions: Tsukumo) - Shimizu, Eiichi (Author), Shimoguchi, Tomohiro (Author)

    • Champion of the Rose, Vol. 1 (Champion of the Rose #1) - Aquino, Cat (Author), Duran, Dominique (Author)

    • Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 4: Broken (Amazing Spider-Man) - Kelly, Joe (Author), Larraz, Pepe (Illustrator), Laiso, Emilio (Illustrator), Bradshaw, Nick (Illustrator) , Larraz, Pepe (Not Available)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls Thriller #1) - Slaughter, Karin (Author)

    • Ransom - Silva, Daniel (Author)

    • The Country Road Murders: A Thriller - Patterson, James (Author), Lupica, Mike (Author)

    • Sheepdogs - Ackerman, Elliot (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Story Rug - Blackall, Sophie (Author), Wahl, Phoebe (Illustrator)

    • School for Woodland Creatures (Our Friend Hedgehog) - Castillo, Lauren (Author)

    • The Birds in the Boat - Weber, Audrey Helen (Author)

    • School Spirits - Gunnufson, Charlotte (Author), Crane, Rebecca (Illustrator)

    • Monsters Are the Worst! (The Worst!) - Willan, Alex (Author), Willan, Alex (Illustrator)

    • Big Rig Pig - Tattersfield, Claire (Author), Sayegh, Rob, Jr (Illustrator)

    • Duck & Goose, Honk! Quack! Boo!: A Halloween Story with Fun Stickers (Duck & Goose) - Hills, Tad (Author)

    Poetry

    • The Poems of Catullus: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text - Catullus, Gaius Valerius (Author), McCarter, Stephanie (Translator), McCarter, Stephanie (Introduction by)

    Political Sciences

    • The Day After: How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World - Cohen, Brian Tyler (Author)

    Romance

    • Die for Me - Obuobi, Shirlene (Author)

    • The Enchanted Greenhouse (Spellshop #2) - Durst, Sarah Beth (Author)

    • The Romance Revival - Lauren, Christina (Author)

    • In Stormy Weather - Curto, Chelsea (Author)

    • Extracurricular - Solomon, Rachel Lynn (Author)

    • Sweet Talk (Love Lines) - Bastone, Cara (Author)

    • Seatmate (Love Lines) - Bastone, Cara (Author)

    • Foxx (Standard Edition) (The Soldiers of Bedlam #3) - Hope, Paisley (Author)

    • Dominion (The Silk and Iron Trilogy) - Kwok, Jean (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • The Eye of Leviathan (The Sea Beyond #1) - Carrick, M A (Author)

    • The Dragon Has Some Complaints - Wiswell, John (Author)

    • The Moonsingers (Deluxe Edition): A Cozy Fairy Tale - Pritzker, Robyn J (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • Aging Out: An Exploration of Caregiving, Community, and How Americans Grow Old - Schiller, Lucy (Author)

    Travel

    • Don't Go There: A Tour of the World's Most Sinister Spots - Ocker, J W (Author)

    True Crime

    • Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast - Colloff, Pamela (Author)

    Young Adult

    • The Gilded Blade (The Grandest Game #3) - Barnes, Jennifer Lynn (Author)

    • Difficult Girls - Bane, Veronica (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • The instant New York Times bestseller - Oprah's Book Club Pick - Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, USA Today, NPR, People, Christian Science Monitor, Scientific American, and Kirkus Reviews - Winner of the Nautilus Book Award - Longlisted for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence

    "Stunning . . . A heartfelt and powerful examination of those living on the fringes of society, and the unique challenges they face to survive and thrive." --Oprah Winfrey

    Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive

    The hardest thing in the world is to live only once...

    One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to transform Hai's relationship to himself, his family, and a community on the brink.

    Following the cycles of history, memory, and time, The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which love, labor, and loneliness form the bedrock of American life. At its heart is a brave epic about what it means to exist on the fringes of society and to reckon with the wounds that haunt our collective soul. Hallmarks of Ocean Vuong's writing--formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness--are on full display in this story of loss, hope, and how far we would go to possess one of life's most fleeting mercies: a second chance.

  • From two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall and beloved artist Phoebe Wahl comes a luminous book that braids together the joy of storytelling with the satisfaction of learning a new craft.​

    The children of Class 203 are learning to braid. They started with hair and shoelaces, and now the children have brought rags from home. Their braid gets longer and longer until one idea transforms it into an extraordinary surprise for their teacher.

    Here is the story of a rag rug, woven through with the stories of the scraps used to create it and those told during its making. The result is a special handmade spot where the whole class can gather, ready for more stories.

    This beguiling celebration of storytelling is woven through with an easy-to-learn and impressive craft project, including instructions, will have readers reaching for scraps to make their own rag rug.

  • The inspiring, untold story of three incredible women who spearheaded recreation, conservation and resilience in America's most beloved landscapes, for readers of Pam Houston and David Grann

    Throughout the 20th century Georgie White, Anne LaBastille, and Dolores LaChapelle did more to inspire our love of the great outdoors than just about anyone.

    Georgie devoted her life to the Grand Canyon, kickstarting the river running craze in the 40s and igniting the recreation industry

    Anne, a wilderness guide and bestselling author, protected endangered species and predicted the impacts of climate change from her isolated, off-grid cabin in the Adirondacks.

    And deep powder skier Dolores developed an environmental philosophy that shaped everything from the radical environmental movement of the '70s to modern conservation ethics.

    Now, for the first time, outdoor journalist and bestselling author of Powder Days Heather Hansman goes deep into multiple rugged American landscapes to bring three fascinating lives to the forefront of the outdoor movement, affirming their rightful place in the larger story of an evolving American wild.

  • New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren returns with an unforgettable romance in which a fateful accident erases a troubled marriage from memory--and a scientific breakthrough gives love one extraordinary do-over.

    Three years ago, scientist Emery Finch did something completely out of character: She got married. To Luca--the impossibly charming landscaper she met on one blistering night in Vegas who made her laugh, made her dance, made her feel. But now, Emery is consumed by her top research, missing dinners, forgetting anniversaries, and promising herself Luca will understand once her cutting-edge discoveries come to light. Until the unthinkable happens: A tragic accident takes Luca from her. Desperate not to lose him, Emery breaks every rule, using the classified technology she's developed to bring him back to life. And Luca would probably thank her for it, if only he could remember her. Their first kiss, their Sunny Sundays at the beach, the life they built together...all of it is gone. It may be a miracle of science, but for Emery it's her one shot at a second chance. And this time, she won't waste it--because true love is always worth reviving.

  • Selected as One of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of the Year

    A Barack Obama Summer Read

    Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel

    Nebula Award Winner for Best Novel

    Locus Award for Horror

    Libby Award for Best Horror

    Nebula, Bram Stoker, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Award Finalist

    A Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, The Toronto Star, and Publishers Weekly Best of the Year

    Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction

    The New York Times bestseller and "horror masterpiece" (NPR) from Stephen Graham Jones--the master of modern horror--is a chilling historical horror novel tracing the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.

    "Jones has written his Interview with the Indigenous Vampire. A landmark of horror and historical fiction alike, perhaps the closest thing we have to horror's Moby-Dick." --Vulture

    "Inventive and spine-tingling...a master class in voice. Queasy, uneasy, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter plays with the interplay between religion and historical guilt, identity and appetite." --The Washington Post

    A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones.

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New Releases | July 7th, 2026

July 3, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Activity Books

    • Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie: Official Activity Book - Golden Books (Author), Golden Books (Illustrator)

    Adult Fiction

    • Men in Love - Welsh, Irvine (Author)

    • An Infinite Love Story - Cleeton, Chanel (Author)

    • Bitter Sweet - Williams, Hattie (Author)

    • Finding Grace - Rothschild, Loretta (Author)

    • The Great Wherever - Sanders, Shannon (Author)

    • The Simp: A Novel Without a Hero - Sethi, Roshan (Author)

    • Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt - Reeves, Ben (Author)

    • Country People - Mason, Daniel (Author)

    • We Were Forbidden - Harpman, Jacqueline (Author), Schwartz, Ros (Translator)

    Chapter Books

    • The Princess in Black and the Trick-Or-Treating Trouble (Princess in Black) - Hale, Shannon (Author), Hale, Dean (Author), Pham, Leuyen (Illustrator)

    Children’s Art Books

    • Mega How to Draw (Pokémon)

    Coloring Books

    • Spooky Cutie: Coloring Book for Adults and Kids (Cozy Spaces Coloring) - Wyo, Coco (Author)

    • Wings of Fire Glow-In-The-Dark Coloring Book (Media Tie-In) - Sutherland, Tui T (Author), Walsh, Brianna C (Illustrator)

    Graphic Novels

    • A Super Scary Narwhalloween (a Narwhal and Jelly Book #8) (Narwhal and Jelly Book) - Clanton, Ben (Author)

    • Wolf's Belly - August, John (Author), Estrada, Simón (Illustrator)

    • My Tokyo Summer: A Graphic Novel - Denson, Abby (Author), Utomaru (Illustrator)

    • Offside: A Graphic Novel - Gonzalez, Christina Diaz (Author), Costa, Mari (Illustrator)

    • Unico: Lost (Volume 3): An Original Manga (Unico Awakening) - Tezuka, Osamu (Created by), Sattin, Samuel (Author), Gurihiru (Illustrator)

    • I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 (I Survived Graphic Novel #14) (I Survived Graphix) - Tarshis, Lauren (Author), Wartman, Peter (Illustrator)

    • Exit Elsewhere (Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly #13) - Quinn, Jordan (Author), Glass House Graphics (Illustrator)

    Horror

    • Fabulous Bodies - Tingle, Chuck (Author)

    • You Weren't Meant to Be Human - White, Andrew Joseph (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • Who Was Lizzie Borden? (Who Was?) - Belviso, Meg (Author), Who Hq (Author), Marchesi, Stephen (Illustrator)

    Literary Collections

    • I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays - Kreizman, Maris (Author)

    Manga & Graphic Novels

    • Amazing Spider-Man: Torn (Amazing Spider-Man: Torn) - Straczynski, J Michael (Author), Perez, Pere (Illustrator), Hughes, Adam (Not Available)

    • Spider-Men: Worlds Collide [Marvel Premier Collection] - Bendis, Brian Michael (Author), Pichelli, Sara (Illustrator), Bagley, Mark (Illustrator), Pichelli, Sara (Not Available)

    • The Credits Roll Into the Sea Volume 1 (The Credits Roll Into the Sea) - Tarachine, John (Author), Tarachine, John (Illustrator), Allen, Jocelyne (Translator)

    • Batgirl of Burnside: DC Compact Comics Edition (DC Compact Comics) - Stewart, Cameron (Author), Fletcher, Brenden (Author), Koh, Irene (Illustrator), Tarr, Babs (Illustrator)

    • Batman and the Monster Men (New Edition) - Wagner, Matt (Author), Wagner, Matt (Illustrator)

    • One Piece, Vol. 112 - Oda, Eiichiro (Author)

    Middle Readers

    • The Chime Seekers - Montgomery, Ross (Author)

    • Sleepless - Korman, Gordon (Author)

    • The Trouble with Heroes - Messner, Kate (Author)

    • The Frog Princess and Peter Pan (Or, Wendy Darling and the Secret Prince) (Princess Swap) - Bussing, Kim (Author)

    My First Readers

    • DK Super Readers Level 1 Pokémon Pumpkin Party

    • DK Super Readers Level 2 Pokémon Explore Paldea

    Mystery and Thrillers

    • Stolen in Death (In Death #62) - Robb, J D (Author)

    • Billion-Dollar Ransom: A Thriller - Patterson, James (Author), Swierczynski, Duane (Author)

    • The Woman in Suite 11 - Ware, Ruth (Author)

    • Helpless - Knoll, Jessica (Author)

    • The Man - Sims, Laura (Author)

    Nature

    • Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature - Kaishian, Patricia Ononiwu (Author)

    Picture Books

    • The Skeleton and the Cat - Scott, Brandon James (Author), Scott, Brandon James (Illustrator)

    • The Teacher's Pet - Rissi, Anica Mrose (Author), Ohora, Zachariah (Illustrator)

    • Vampurr - Colón, Justin (Author), Wen, Lenny (Illustrator)

    • Fritz: A Mushroom Story - Garrity-Riley, Kelsey (Author)

    • We Are Lock, Shock, and Barrel (Disney Tim Burton's the Nightmare Before Christmas) (Little Golden Book) - Gilbert, Matthew J (Author), Robinson, Bill (Illustrator)

    • Mysterious Mittens: A Moontime Cats Halloween Story(Moontime Cats) - Morris, Jordan (Author), Mylie, Charlie (Illustrator)

    • Just for Today (a Maybe Tomorrow Book) - Agell, Charlotte (Author), Ramírez González, Ana (Illustrator)

    • How to Draw a Zombie - Abbott, Zoey (Author), Wagner, August (Author), Abbott, Zoey (Illustrator), Wagner, August (Illustrator)

    • A Day Off School - Jeffers, Oliver (Author), Waldron, Kevin (Illustrator)

    • All the Ways We Learn - Ito Ward, Chloe (Author), Apollonova, Yaroslava (Illustrator)

    • The Pup That Never Gives Up (Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie) (Little Golden Book) - Roth, Megan (Author), Golden Books (Illustrator)

    • Illumination's Minions & Monsters Little Golden Book (Little Golden Book) - Golden Books (Author), Golden Books (Illustrator)

    • Millie Fleur's Pumpkin Problem (Millie Fleur) - Mandin, Christy (Author), Mandin, Christy (Illustrator)

    Poetry

    • The Acrobat: Essential Poems - Szymborska, Wislawa (Author), Cavanagh, Clare (Introduction by)

    Romance

    • Manor of Decay (Threadmender Chronicles #2) - Martineau, Maxym M (Author)

    • The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy (Dearly Beloathed) - Knightley, Brigitte (Author)

    • The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk: Book 2 of the Shadowborn Duet (The Crowns of Nyaxia #4) - Broadbent, Carissa (Author)

    • Most Ardently Yours - Sampson, Freya (Author)

    • The Farewitch of Foxe Holler - Goff, Ellen Pauley (Author)

    • The MASH Up - Meyers, Laura Marie (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 1: Outworlder (He Who Fights with Monsters #1) - Deverell, Travis (Author), Shirtaloon (Author)

    • Dune: Deluxe Trade Paperback Edition (Special) (Dune) - Herbert, Frank (Author)

    Spinner Rack Books

    • How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words - Galer, Sophia Smith (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words - Galer, Sophia Smith (Author)

    Spinner Rack

    • Big Dinosaur Adventure (Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie) (Pictureback) - Roth, Megan (Author), Random House (Illustrator)

    • Peppa Pig: Peppa Loves Unicorns and Mermaids

    Young Adult

    • Shadow Over the Pumpkin Queen (Pumpkin Queen) - Shepherd, Megan (Author)

    • Coming Out Perfect #1: A Graphic Novel - Mercado, Richard (Author), Mercado, Richard (Illustrator)

    • Heartstopper #6: A Graphic Novel (Heartstopper) - Oseman, Alice (Author), Oseman, Alice (Illustrator)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • New York Times and Sunday Times Bestselling Author

    Heartstopper Forever movie coming soon from Netflix

    Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. The final installment in the bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel series about life, love, and everything that happens in between.

    Everyone in school knows Nick and Charlie. Everyone knows they're going to be together forever. But Charlie's busy with his bid to become Head Boy. And while Nick is preparing to leave for college, he's starting to wonder who he'll be... without Charlie.

    Contains discussions around mental health and eating disorders, and sexual references.

  • An instant New York Times bestseller!

    A USA Today bestseller!

    Read with Jenna Jr. Summer Reading List Pick!

    "Genuinely moving." --The New York Times Book Review

    "Explores the healing power of hiking." --NPR's All Things Considered

    Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year School Library Journal Best Book of the Year Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year: Middle Grade The Week Jr. Best Book of the Year Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year An NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Honor Book The Week Jr.'s Book Club Pick

    Bestselling and award-winning author Kate Messner takes readers on a heart-filling journey as a boy finds his path to healing.

    One summer.

    46 mountain peaks.

    A second chance to make things right.

    Finn Connelly is nothing like his dad, a star athlete and firefighter hero who always ran toward danger until he died two years ago. Finn is about to fail seventh grade and has never made headlines . . . until now.

    Caught on camera vandalizing a cemetery, he's in big trouble for knocking down some dead old lady's headstone. Turns out that grave belongs to a legendary local mountain climber, and her daughter makes Finn an unusual offer: she'll drop all the charges if he agrees to climb all forty-six Adirondack High Peaks in a single summer. And there's just one more thing--he has to bring along the dead woman's dog.

    In a wild three months of misadventures, mountain mud, and unexpected mentors, Finn begins to find his way on the trails. At the top of each peak, he can see for miles and slowly begins to understand more about himself and his dad. But the mountains don't care about any of that, and as the clock ticks down to September, they have more surprises in store. Finn's final summit challenge may be more than even a hero can face.

  • A year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown (aka Vermont), leaving all the comforts of home behind--a rollicking, lyrical novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, the bestselling author of North Woods and one of America's greatest living writers

    Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he's become a disappointment to his family. So when his wife, Kate, accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the faraway forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life.

    But Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, one who possesses, in Kate's words, a great capacity "to fall in with anyone, anywhere." And no sooner does he arrive than he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as those of any of his folktales, from a ghostly tree surgeon to a scythe-mad biochemist, from a Shakespearean temptress to a photographer of snowflakes obsessed with chronicling, on thousands of index cards, the world's delusions in an Inventory of Wrong Ideas.

    The new friends, the enchanted woods, the histories: sure, no PhD, but all good fun. Until Miles stumbles upon a bizarre--perhaps ridiculous--local legend, which, he soon suspects, might not be just a legend after all.

    Joyous, absurd, and life-affirming, Country People is a luminous exploration of marriage and parenthood, the nature of belief and the power of stories, and the ways in which we find connection in an increasingly fragmented world.

  • New York Times bestselling character Millie Fleur has a BIG problem in this compact storybook perfect for the season! Includes stickers!

    Autumn has arrived, and the residents of Garden Glen are feeling dreary thinking about the gray months ahead. Lucky for them, Millie Fleur has a plan to bring color back to town. Her unusual pumpkin patch is sure to delight her neighbors.

    But when Millie Fleur's growing gourds take on a life of their own, she'll have to find a way out of this pumpkin problem!

    A new compact storybook featuring kid-favorite character Millie Fleur, Millie Fleur's Pumpkin Problem is the perfect pick for fall! Includes stickers!

  • PRAISED BY ANA REYES, MONA AWAD, ANDREA BARTZ, VANESSA CHAN, DANIELLE TRUSSONI, AND MORE!

    "Fiercely intelligent and deeply chilling. . . . The perfect book club read." --Ana Reyes, New York Times bestselling author of The House in the Pines

    From the highly acclaimed author of How Can I Help You, a New York Times Best Thriller of the Year: a singular take on the psychological suspense novel that follows a 1960s housewife turned amateur photographer who begins to fear for her life when she notices the dark silhouette of a man in the background of her self-portraits.

    The photos Judith Stanley takes are just for her, a private passion to fill her suburban days. But when she shares them with Paul Sorenson, her new photography instructor, she's unprepared to hear his astonished praise. "Stunning," he calls her photos. "Extraordinary." She has an uncanny eye, he says, and should consider publication. He could help. Except Judith has no interest in sharing her work; in fact, the mere idea of it frightens her.

    Still, emboldened by Paul's encouragement, Judith ventures out beyond her quiet neighborhood to the city in search of increasingly striking images. When she starts to notice the dark shape of a man in the corner of her self-portraits, Judith is certain he's an attacker from her past. She doesn't know why he has returned, but she's sure of his presence: the hoarse sound of his breathing, his hard grip on her elbow. Perhaps it would appease the man if she were to put her camera down and give up her private passion. But she can't; she refuses. Until one night when the man finally emerges from the shadows, and Judith's story suddenly and irrevocably becomes his own.

    Chilling and heart-poundingly propulsive, The Man is a phenomenal and timely novel exploring the inescapable fear of living as a woman, the tantalizing seduction of artistic freedom, and the very real dangers that lurk both inside and outside the confines of the mind. The Man marks Laura Sims as an extraordinary talent at the top of her game; and this, her third novel, is her greatest achievement yet.

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Monthly Staff Picks | July, 2026

July 3, 2026 Clare Brooks

New Monthly Staff Picks are here for July to help you beat the heat this summer!

Susie Dent’s mystery ‘Guilty by Definition’ is our Adult selection this month. The kick-off to a brand new series, this crime puzzler sees a letter arrive at the offices of the Clarendon English Dictionary that begins the unraveling of the mysterious disappearance of one of their own. This fun, code-filled novel is perfect for word-nerds and British cozy mystery fans alike.

This month’s Young Adult selection is perfect for those looking for a beachy romance read; K.L. Walther’s ‘Summer of Second Chances’ is a Martha Vineyard set story of summer and young love as Olivia follows in her grandmother’s footsteps during a family vacation only to be reintroduced to a boy from her past who might be the key to opening her heart.

‘Norman and the Smell of Adventure’ is our pick for picture book readers this month. Norman is back in this Ryan T. Higgins sequel and he’s ready for an adventure, but when that means leaving behind his best friend Mildred, a tree, he learns that perhaps the best adventures are the ones that we share.

It’s a cryptid creature double feature for our Chapter Book and Middle Reader picks this month! ‘Big Foot and Little Foot’ is an early chapter book that sees a Sasquatch and a young boy’s worlds collide as they set out on an adventure in search of even more mythical beasts. ‘What Do We Know About Bigfoot?’ is perfect for fact finding fans as this favorite series follows the sightings, science, and lore of one of the world’s most recognizable cryptids.

Visit us throughout the month of July for 20% off of this month’s picks, while supplies last!

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New Releases | June 30th, 2026

June 26, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Art

    • Watercolor the Easy Way Paint-Your-Own Watercolor Cards Garden: Notecard Paint Kit with Paint and Brush Included (Watercolor the Easy Way #5) - Wenger, Lori (Author)

    • Watercolor the Easy Way Paint-Your-Own Watercolor Cards Friends: Notecard Paint Kit with Paint and Brush Included (Watercolor the Easy Way #6) - Wenger, Lori (Author)

    Adult Fiction

    • The Dream Hotel: A Read with Jenna Pick - Lalami, Laila (Author)

    • Vera, or Faith - Shteyngart, Gary (Author)

    • The Ascended (The Aesymarean Duet) - Grenwich, Bree (Author), Lennox, Parker (Author)

    • The Top of the World - Joella, Ethan (Author)

    • The Shampoo Effect: A Read with Jenna Pick - Jackson, Jenny (Author)

    Biography

    • A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck - Elmhirst, Sophie (Author)

    Board Books

    • Bizzy Bear: Swimming Fun (Bizzy Bear) - Davies, Benji (Illustrator)

    • Touch and Feel Fire Engine: With Tactiles for Toddlers to Explore (Touch and Feel)

    • How Monster Trucks Work - Detner, Malgorzata (Illustrator), Redwing, Jack (Author), Cottage Door Press (Editor)

    Chapter Books

    • Forest Field Day (Adventures of Sophie Mouse #23) - Green, Poppy (Author), Jaskina, Valentina (Illustrator)

    Children's Classics

    • A Little House Chapter Book Collection: Stories of Family: Pioneer Sisters, Christmas Stories, School Days (Little House Chapter Book) - Wilder, Laura Ingalls (Author), Kim, Ji-Hyuk (Illustrator)

    • A Little House Chapter Book Collection: Stories of Adventure: Adventures of Laura & Jack, Animal Adventures, Laura & Nellie (Little House Chapter Book) - Wilder, Laura Ingalls (Author), Kim, Ji-Hyuk (Illustrator)

    Graphic Novels

    • Warriors Graphic Novel: The New Prophecy, Part One of Three (Warriors Graphic Novel #4) - Hunter, Erin (Author), Twist, Gibson (Author), Savos, Sammy (Illustrator)

    • The Princess Diaries: The Graphic Novel (Princess Diaries #1) - Cabot, Meg (Author), Crandall, Bethany (Illustrator)

    • Katie the Catsitter 5: Villain Con: (A Graphic Novel) - Venable, Colleen Af (Author), Yue, Stephanie (Illustrator)

    • Through the Black Gate - Cáceres, Alfredo (Author), Cáceres, Alfredo (Illustrator)

    • Rainbow Magic Rainbow Fairies #1: Ruby the Red Fairy Graphic Novel (Rainbow Magic) - Meadows, Daisy (Author), Giuliani, Claudia (Illustrator), Turner, Erika (Author)

    History

    • The World: A Family History of Humanity - Montefiore, Simon Sebag (Author)

    • The Road That Made America: A Modern Pilgrim's Journey on the Great Wagon Road - Dodson, James (Author)

    Horror

    • Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep - Tremblay, Paul (Author)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Captain America Vol. 1: Our Secret Wars (Captain America) - Zdarsky, Chip (Author), Schiti, Valerio (Illustrator), Harvey, Ben (Not Available)

    • Robin: Year One (New Edition) - Dixon, Chuck (Author), Beatty, Scott (Author), Pulido, Javier (Illustrator), Martin, Marcos (Illustrator)

    Middle Readers

    • Minecraft: Battle of the Block (Minecraft) - Thompkins-Bigelow, Jamilah (Author)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • Storm Tide (Mike Bowditch Mysteries #16) - Doiron, Paul (Author)

    • Guilty by Definition (Guilty by Definition #1) - Dent, Susie (Author)

    • Gray After Dark: Deluxe Stenciled Edges - Ihli, Noelle West (Author)

    • The King's Ransom (The Recovery Agent #2) - Evanovich, Janet (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Bear Hair - Mack, Jeff (Author), Mack, Jeff (Illustrator)

    • Incredibly Fast and Not at All Fun - Bentley, Tadgh (Author), Bentley, Tadgh (Illustrator)

    • Whale, That Was Unexpected - Lyall, Casey (Author), Durst, Kathryn (Illustrator)

    • Who Loves Blueberries? - Rule, Rebecca (Author), Choudhury, Arpita (Illustrator)

    • Today We'll Be Eaten - Barillaro, Alan (Author), Barillaro, Alan (Illustrator)

    Political Sciences

    • On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear - Angwin, Julia (Author), Fields-Meyer, Ami (Author)

    Romance

    • Tempting Venom (Deluxe Edition) (The Vipers #3) - Kent, Rina (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • Six of Crows: A Darker Shore, Letters from Ketterdam - Bardugo, Leigh (Author)

    Young Adult

    • Wings of Starlight (Wings of Pixie Hollow) - Saft, Allison (Author)

    • Thornbird - Kennedy, E (Author)

    • 13 Little Love Stories: An Anthology Inspired by Taylor Swift Songs - Bryant, Elise (Author), Dugan, Jennifer (Author), Elle, J (Author), Goodman, Jessica (Author), Harlow, Sloan (Author), Maldonado, Crystal (Author), Marquis, Krystal (Author), McGee, Katharine (Author), Murphy, Julie (Author), Painter, Lynn (Author), Sebastian, Laura (Author), Shepard, Sara (Author), Sutanto, Jesse Q (Author)

    • School Bus Graveyard, Volume 1 (School Bus Graveyard) - Red (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • Game Warden Mike Bowditch investigates a series of brutal killings during a life-changing year in Storm Tide, the harrowing new thriller from Edgar Award-nominated author Paul Doiron.

    When the magnificent home of entrepreneur Brian Malloy mysteriously goes up in flames, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch tries to pull Malloy's burning body from the fire but is too late. Malloy was suspected of murdering his young, illegitimate son. Now it looks like someone else has delivered a verdict.

    Miles away, on a lonely stretch of icy railroad track, the body of Axl Deming, once accused of a brutal rape, is found literally cut in half. Though the two murders seem unrelated, a cryptic text from an unknown number draws Bowditch to the scene--and hints at a chilling connection. He believes someone is orchestrating the executions of criminals who escaped justice, and for reasons he can't explain, his own name is on the list, but the state police aren't convinced. His search for the truth takes him through frozen harbors, trackless forests, and remote islands, far from rescue.

    Meanwhile, Bowditch is facing a disciplinary hearing that could end his career. His wife Stacey, just weeks from giving birth, is being stalked by a stranger in a white van. And when he realizes someone has also been watching their home, the case turns increasingly personal.

    To protect his family, Bowditch must work alone to uncover who's behind the killings--and stop them before he becomes their next victim.

  • The next graphic novel adaptation of the blockbuster, New York Times bestselling Warriors series covers the first two novels of the second arc, The New Prophecy (Midnight and Moonrise).

    The wild cats of the forest have lived in peace for many moons--but when Brambleclaw, a warrior of ThunderClan, receives an ominous prophecy from StarClan that speaks of a mysterious danger, he must rally the fiercest warriors from all the Clans to seek answers in the mountains.

    But the journey is long and hard, and tensions rise back in the forest as Firestar and Leafpaw watch ThunderClan's world crumbling around them. As the questing cats struggle to uncover the meaning of the prophecy, turmoil threatens to overtake the Clans.

    Ever since the first Warriors book hit shelves, readers have devoured these epic adventures. This stunning adaptation, adapted by Gibson Twist and illustrated by Sammy Savos, retells the first two books in the second arc of the Warriors series as a full-color graphic novel.

  • THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025

    A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025

    ALSO NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY NPR, VOGUE, TIME MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, AND MORE

    "This is nonfiction that reads like fiction - the best kind. Elmhirst's retelling is a triumph, second only to the seemingly impossible feat of Maurice and Maralyn themselves. You won't be able to put it down." - USA Today

    "Remarkable... I found myself, alternately, holding my breath as I read at top speed, wandering rooms in search of someone to read aloud to, and placing the book facedown, arrested by quiet statements that left me reeling with their depth." - The New York Times

    "Such an emotionally vivid portrait of a couple in isolation that I was shocked it wasn't fiction. How could a writer get so deeply into the minds of two real people in such extraordinary circumstances? ... So brilliantly depicted." - Elle

    "A beautiful meditation on endurance, codependence, and the power of love. A dazzling book." - Patrick Radden Keefe

    "An enthralling, engrossing story of survival and the resilience of the human spirit." --Bill Bryson

    An instant New York Times bestseller, this is the electrifying true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea: a mind-blowing tale of obsession, survival, and partnership stretched to its limits.

    Maurice and Maralyn make an odd couple. He's a loner, awkward and obsessive; she's charismatic and ambitious. But they share a horror of wasting their lives. And they dream - as we all dream - of running away from it all. What if they quit their jobs, sold their house, bought a boat, and sailed away?

    Most of us begin and end with the daydream. But in June 1972, Maurice and Maralyn set sail. For nearly a year all went well, until deep in the Pacific, a breaching whale knocked a hole in their boat and it sank beneath the waves.

    What ensues is a jaw-dropping fight to survive in the wild ocean, with little hope of rescue. Alone together for months in a tiny rubber raft, starving and exhausted, Maurice and Maralyn have to find not only ways to stay alive but ways to get along, as their inner demons emerge and their marriage is put to the greatest of tests. Although they could run away from the world, they can't run away from themselves.

    Taut, propulsive, and dazzling, A Marriage at Sea pairs an adrenaline-fueled high seas adventure with a gutting love story that asks why we love difficult people, and who we become under the most extreme conditions imaginable.

  • "Will enthrall crime aficionados, puzzle solvers, Anglophiles and logophiles...fiendishly clever and marvelously entertaining debut--the perfect tonic for any philobiblist's mubble-fubbles." --The Washington Post

    She knew there'd be ghosts in Oxford, she just didn't think they'd make their way to the dictionary.

    Oxford, England. After a decade abroad, Martha Thornhill has returned home to the city whose ancient institutions have long defined her family. But the ghosts she had thought to be at rest seem to have been waiting for her to return. When an anonymous letter is delivered to the Clarendon English Dictionary, where Martha is a newly hired senior editor, it's rapidly clear that this is not the usual lexicographical enquiry. Instead, the coded letter hints at secrets and lies linked to a particular year.

    The date can mean only one thing: the summer Martha's brilliant older sister Charlie went missing.

    When more letters arrive, Martha and her team pull apart the complex clues within them, and soon, the mystery becomes ever more insistent and troubling. Because it seems Charlie had been keeping a powerful secret, and someone may be trying to lead the lexicographers towards the truth that will unravel the mystery of her disappearance. But other forces are no less desperate to keep their secrets well and truly buried, and Martha and her team must crack the codes before it's too late.

    From resident lexicographer Susie Dent comes a linguistic mystery that will both delight and shock readers.

  • From bestselling YA authors comes thirteen dazzling contemporary romantic stories inspired by the songs of Taylor Swift! Includes stories by Lynn Painter, Katharine McGee, and Jesse Q. Sutanto!

    If you could live inside one Taylor Swift song for a day, which would you pick? In this shimmering anthology, thirteen acclaimed, bestselling authors do just that, reimagining some of Taylor's most iconic songs as love stories.

    Whether you're in an era of fairy lights and folktales or diss tracks and dance floors, here's a playlist that features all the hits: The soaring high note of first love. The minor key of heartbreak. And the steady rhythm of true friendship and self-discovery.

    As clever and unforgettable as the songs that inspired them, these stories are sure to play on repeat in your head and your heart.

    Stories by:

    Elise Bryant

    Jennifer Dugan

    J. Elle

    Jessica Goodman

    Sloan Harlow

    Crystal Maldonado

    Krystal Marquis

    Katharine McGee

    Julie Murphy

    Lynn Painter

    Laura Sebastian

    Sara Shepard

    Jesse Q. Sutanto

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