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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.

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