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Adult Art
Bookish Crafts: 40 Fun, Easy Projects for Book Lovers - Butler, Kanlin (Author)
Adult Fiction
It Girl - Pataki, Allison (Author)
Westward Women - Martin, Alice (Author)
Once and Again - Serle, Rebecca (Author)
The Natural Way of Things - Wood, Charlotte (Author)
Animals
The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love - Hoffman, Alice (Author)
Biography
Judy Blume: A Life - Oppenheimer, Mark (Author)
William and Catherine: The Monarchy's New Era: The Inside Story - Myers, Russell (Author)
Board Books
ABCD . . . Earth!: An Alphabet Book with Spinning Earth Cover (Our Little Universe) - McAnulty, Stacy (Author), Chou, Joey (Illustrator)
See, Touch, Feel Busy Book: The Ultimate Sensory Book for Kids! (See, Touch, Feel) - Priddy Books (Author)
Little Cottage Frog: Finger Puppet Book - Huang, Yu-Hsuan (Illustrator)
Body, Mind & Spirit
Llewellyn's Little Book of Pendulums - Webster, Richard (Author)
Shadow Magick Spellbook: Spells, Charms & Rituals for Positive Change - Digitalis, Raven (Author)
Nero and Paul: How the Gospel of Grace Defeated the Ruler of Rome - Gifford, Kathie Lee (Author), Litfin, Bryan M (With)
Children’s Science & Nature
Shapes of Nature: A Kaleidoscope of the Natural World - Hoare, Ben (Author)
Great Outdoors
Out There: An Uncomplicated Field Guide to Outdoor Photography - Burkard, Chris (Author)
History
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War - Larson, Erik (Author)
Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus - Pagels, Elaine (Author)
The History Book (DK Big Ideas)
Just the Facts
Blast Off!: Look Inside Spectacular Spacecraft - Elcomb, Ben (Author), D'Hipolito, Romolo (Illustrator)
Manga & Adult Graphic Novels
Punisher: Welcome Back, Frank [Marvel Premier Collection] (Marvel Premier Collection) - Ennis, Garth (Author), Dillon, Steve (Illustrator), Dillon, Steve (Not Available), Bernthal, Jon (Foreword by), Ennis, Garth (Introduction by)
One Piece, Vol. 111 (One Piece #111) - Oda, Eiichiro (Author)
Middle Readers
Big Nate: Code Red!: Volume 34 - Peirce, Lincoln (Author)
Mystery & Thrillers
Judge Stone - Patterson, James (Author), Davis, Viola (Author)
Picture Books
Wake Up, Grouchy Bear! - Stein, David Ezra (Author), Stein, David Ezra (Illustrator)
Romance
The Wings That Bind (Deluxe Edition) (Bloodwing Academy #3) - Boleyn, Briar (Author)
Science Fiction & Fantasy
The Book That Held Her Heart (The Library Trilogy) - Lawrence, Mark (Author)
Voidverse - Ober, Damien (Author)
Young Adult
They All Had a Fear (They All Had a Reason #3) - Leathers, Michele (Author)
Armaveni: A Graphic Novel of the Armenian Genocide - Takvorian, Nadine (Author)
Erase Me - Silver, Josh (Author)
This Week’s Top 5 Picks
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Bursting with color and charm, this adorable frog finger puppet book lets babies and inquisitive toddlers touch, feel, and explore their growing world.
Newborns and toddlers will love snuggling up with Little Cottage Frog! A tad reminiscent of Frog and Toad, this cottagecore frog lives in a little cottage log, and he is the perfect friend to help children experience woodland magic and wonder. In these pages, Little Cottage Frog hops, skips, and jumps through a mushroom forest to get to a frog party on the pond!
Featuring a plush finger puppet that peeks into each lovingly illustrated page, this addition to the bestselling Finger Puppet board book series offers parents and children a fun, interactive way to play and read together as little ones build a lifelong love of books (and nature!).
MORE THAN 9 MILLION COPIES SOLD IN THE SERIES: The Finger Puppet books are a trusted, go-to series for new parents and gift-givers.
LEARNING PLUS PLAYTIME: A simple storyline celebrates pond life, while a bright and colorful cloth finger puppet offers a chance for little hands to play and build motor skills.
IRRESISTIBLE ANIMAL: Frogs are wildly popular for their silliness and sliminess! This board book is perfect for lovers of this adorable amphibian.
NEW BABY GIFT: Just the thing for baby showers, birthdays, and stocking stuffers! Pair with a cute frog plush toy or set of frog stickers to create an adorably memorable gift.
STURDY AND SECURE: Never worry about losing this soft plush finger puppet, which is permanently attached to the back cover of the book.
Perfect for:
Parents and caregivers looking for an interactive and educational way to entertain little ones
Gift-givers searching for cute, distinctive presents for birthday parties, baby showers, or holidays
Fans of frogs, newts, salamanders, axolotls, and other amphibians
Nature lovers of all ages
Fans of finger puppet books for babies and toddlers
Fans of the Frog and Toad and Froggy series
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From a renowned National Book Award-winning scholar, an extraordinary new account of the life of Jesus that explores the mystery of how a poor young man inspired a religion that reshaped the world.
"This is a brilliant and necessary book. Sober, wise, respectful, and fearless." --Jon Meacham, author of The Soul of America
"Pagels's story is for believers and non-believers alike." --Tara Westover, author of Educated
"The depth of spirituality she uncovers is profound." --The New York Times Book Review
Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In Miracles and Wonder she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.
The book reads like a historical mystery, with each chapter addressing a fascinating question and answering it based on the gospels Jesus's followers left behind. Why is Jesus said to have had a virgin birth? Why do we say he rose from the dead? Did his miracles really happen and what did they mean?
The story Pagels tells is thrilling and tense. Not just does Jesus comes to life but his desperate, hunted followers do as well. We realize that some of the most compelling details of Jesus's life are the explanations his disciples created to paper over inconvenient facts. So Jesus wasn't illegitimate, his mother conceived by God; Jesus's body wasn't humiliatingly left to rot and tossed into a common grave--no, he rose from the dead and was seen whole by his followers; Jesus isn't a failed messiah, his kingdom is a metaphor: he lives in us. These necessary fabrications were the very details and promises that electrified their listeners and helped his followers' numbers grow.
In Miracles and Wonder, Pagels does more than solve a historical mystery. She sheds light on Jesus's enduring power to inspire and attract.
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Academy Award winning actress Viola Davis and the world's #1 bestselling author James Patterson's Judge Stone " delivers first-class courtroom drama, small-town excitement, and strong characters all wrapped in a moral dilemma. Tense, readable, and relevant." ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
"Talk about a power combo! ... With Davis's razor-sharp emotional insight and Patterson's mastery of rocket-fuel pacing, this is the dream team to deliver an up-all-night read that will keep the group chat buzzing." --Oprah Daily
"Wonderfully satisfying ... This legal thriller from [a] superstar duo ... demands attention from its opening pages and never lets go." --Booklist, starred review
All rise ... for Judge Stone.
The most respected citizen in Union Springs, Alabama (population 3,314), is Judge Mary Stone. She holds two responsibilities sacred: running her family farm and presiding over her courtroom. It's there she draws the most controversial case in the history of the South.
Criminally, it's open-and-shut.
Ethically, there is no middle ground. Essentially, it's a choice between life and death.
No judge can satisfy everyone. It would be dangerous to try. But Judge Stone is willing to fight to bring justice to the people and place she loves.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this "riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult" (Los Angeles Times).
"A feast of historical insight and narrative verve . . . This is Erik Larson at his best, enlivening even a thrice-told tale into an irresistible thriller."--The Wall Street Journal
A PARADE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter.
Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln's election and the Confederacy's shelling of Sumter--a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of these five months were "so great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them."
At the heart of this suspense-filled narrative are Major Robert Anderson, Sumter's commander and a former slave owner sympathetic to the South but loyal to the Union; Edmund Ruffin, a vain and bloodthirsty radical who stirs secessionist ardor at every opportunity; and Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of a prominent planter, conflicted over both marriage and slavery and seeing parallels between them. In the middle of it all is the overwhelmed Lincoln, battling with his duplicitous secretary of state, William Seward, as he tries desperately to avert a war that he fears is inevitable--one that will eventually kill 750,000 Americans.
Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, Larson gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led America to the brink--a dark reminder that we often don't see a cataclysm coming until it's too late.
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A sweeping, sensational novel of America's first "It Girl," whose dramatic journey to center stage echoes through the decades--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
"As stunning as the incomparable leading lady who inspired it . . . unputdownable, with a twist that will leave you breathless."--Emily Giffin
At the dawn of the twentieth century, New York's streets teem with change: electricity, automobiles, the brash young President Teddy Roosevelt--and the It Girls. As artists' muses and working models, these independent young women soar to stardom not because of their pedigrees or inherited wealth, but because of their talent, charisma, and irresistible beauty. Pop culture is born, and in a world alight with Mr. Edison's new bulbs, no one shines brighter than America's sweetheart, Evelyn Talbot.
But the journey to stardom is not simple or straight. While working as a shopgirl, the young Evelyn is recruited as a studio model and soon catches the eye of the preeminent artists of the age. When Broadway comes calling, Evelyn solidifies her status as the first self-made American female celebrity: the iconic Gibson Girl, the most sought-after figure and face of her time. Enter a parade of powerful and power-hungry men, from world-famous architect Stanley Pierce, the visionary behind Manhattan's mansions and iconic landmarks, to Hal Thorne, the shockingly wealthy railroad heir and premier "playboy" of high society. Each man promises comfort, glamour, security--even love. But fame and fortune are cruel teachers, and Evelyn learns that the only person she can rely on is herself.
When Evelyn finds herself at the center of a murder of passion declared "the Crime of the Century," she is blamed for the acts of the men in her life. In the media frenzy that spirals around her, Evelyn realizes that to survive, she will have to write her own ending. But can this artists' muse turned showgirl pull off the greatest act of her life?
It Girl is a breathtaking ride inspired by a singular artist and icon who captured the collective imagination of American society. Allison Pataki has crafted yet another unforgettable leading lady, a heroine who must find the power to change not only the world around her but her own destiny.