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New Releases | May 12th, 2026

May 8, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • The Foursome - Kline, Christina Baker (Author)

    • The Thorn Birds - McCullough, Colleen (Author)

    • June Baby (Thousand Voices) - Garvey, Shannon (Author)

    Award Winners

    • Will's Race for Home (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner) - Rhodes, Jewell Parker (Author)

    Board Books

    • Lion's Wobbly Bottom (Wobbly Bottoms) - Frost, Kit (Author), Rennocks, Sam (Illustrator)

    • Where's Uncle Sam? (Where's the) - Arrhenius, Ingela P (Illustrator)

    • Red, White, and Blue, I Love You - Burton, Jeffrey (Author), Cleland, Josh (Illustrator)

    • Bluey: Playtime Little Library 4-Book Box Set (Bluey)

    • This Little Kitten: A Touch and Feel Book (This Little) - Arrhenius, Ingela P (Illustrator)

    Business & Technology

    • Get It in Writing: The Ultimate Guide to Your Rights at Work - Stygar, Ryan (Author)

    Children's Science & Nature

    • A Forest Begins Anew - Aamodt, Louise M (Author), MacKay, Elly (Illustrator)

    Cookbooks

    • Dig In!: Over 100 Easy, Delicious, and Stress-Free Recipes to Make on Repeat (a Cookbook) - O'Brien, Erin (Author)

    • Every Salad Ever: From Grains to Greens and Pasta to Beans Plus Every Salad in Betweens - Podleski, Greta (Author)

    Graphic Novels

    • Camp Frenemies: Bunkmates for Never (Camp Frenemies) - Montague, Liz (Author)

    History

    • American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington - Brands, H W (Author)

    • Vengeance: The Last Stands of Custer, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull - Clavin, Tom (Author)

    • These Truths: A History of the United States - Lepore, Jill (Author)

    • The Flag Was Still There: A History of the American Experiment in Five Anniversaries - McKean, David (Author), Bennett, M Todd (Author)

    Homestead

    • Feel Free Home: The Art of Freethinking Design - Ford, Leanne (Author)

    Horror

    • Femme Feral - Beckbessinger, Sam (Author)

    • With a Vengeance - Sager, Riley (Author)

    • Make Me Better - Gailey, Sarah (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • What Is American Sign Language? (What Was?) - Herman, Gail (Author), Who Hq (Author), Squier, Robert (Illustrator)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Planet Hulk [Marvel Premier Collection] (Marvel Premier Collection) - Pak, Greg (Author), Pagulayan, Carlo (Illustrator), Lopresti, Aaron (Illustrator), Frank, Gary (Illustrator), Ladronn, Jose (Not Available)

    • Disney Manga: Stitch! the Manga Collection (Special Edition) - Tsukurino, Yumi (Author), Asada, Miho (Author)

    • Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 30 (Jujutsu Kaisen) - Akutami, Gege (Author)

    Middle Readers

    • The Last Dragon House (The Last Dragon House) - Morris, Olivia Mae (Author)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • The Last Mandarin - Penny, Louise (Author), Fung, Mellissa (Author)

    • The Last Mandarin (Indie) - Penny, Louise (Author), Fung, Mellissa (Author)

    • The First Gentleman: A Thriller - Patterson, James (Author), Clinton, Bill (Author)

    Nature

    • A Bird's IQ: Innovation, Intelligence, and Problem Solving in the Avian World - Lefebvre, Louis (Author), Strauss, Pablo (Translator)

    Personal Growth

    • Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence - Perel, Esther (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Do You Know the Dark?: Exploring the Unseen, Unknown, and Unusual - MacLean, Roz (Author), MacLean, Roz (Illustrator)

    • Dad - Robinson, Christian (Author), Robinson, Christian (Illustrator)

    • The Underwearwolf - Sterer, Gideon (Author), Santoso, Charles (Illustrator)

    • Some Days - Sosa, Daniela (Author), Sosa, Daniela (Illustrator)

    • Love from America - Jospitre, Sarah (Author), Thomas, Amandine (Illustrator)

    • The Baby Who Only Said No! - Salsbury, Sandra (Author)

    Romance

    • The Love Haters - Center, Katherine (Author)

    • Hart's Landing (Hart's Landing #1) - Harlow, Melanie (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • Anima Rising - Moore, Christopher (Author)

    • Star Wars: Sanctuary (a Bad Batch Novel) - Giles, Lamar (Author)

    • Seek the Traitor's Son - Roth, Veronica (Author)

    • The Bone Door (Deluxe Limited Edition) (Original) - White, Frances (Author)

    • Angel Down - Kraus, Daniel (Author)

    • A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl) - Dinniman, Matt (Author)

    Spinner Rack Books

    • Bluey: BBQ (Bluey)

    Travel

    • American Rambler: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed - Fitzgerald, Isaac (Author)

    Young Adult BK

    • Royal Summer - Morgan, Kass (Author)

    • Queer and How We Got Here: A (Personal) History - Newlevant, Hazel (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION

    NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2025

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER

    The critically acclaimed author of the "crazily enjoyable" (The New York Times) Whalefall returns with an immersive, cinematic novel about five World War I soldiers who stumble upon a fallen angel that could hold the key to ending the war.

    Private Cyril Bagger has managed to survive the unspeakable horrors of the Great War through his wits and deception. But his survival instincts are put to the ultimate test when he and four other grunts are given a deadly mission: venture into the perilous No Man's Land to euthanize a wounded comrade.

    What they find amid the ruined battlefield, however, is not a man in need of mercy but a fallen angel, seemingly struck down by artillery fire. This celestial being may hold the key to ending the brutal conflict, but only if the soldiers can suppress their individual desires and work together. As jealousy, greed, and paranoia take hold, the group is torn apart by their inner demons, threatening to turn their angelic encounter into a descent into hell.

    Angel Down plunges you into the heart of World War I and weaves a polyphonic tale of survival, supernatural wonder, and moral conflict.

  • This one-time only printing indie bookstore edition features a gorgeous new version of the jacket, a special note from Louise and Mellissa, and a bonus scene not available anywhere else. Exclusively in the US and Canada.

    In a fast-paced, all-too-real thriller co-written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny and award-winning journalist Mellissa Fung, global politics become personal for two unlikely heroines. Alice Li, a first-generation Chinese American and former food blogger, has long lived in the shadow of her mother, Vivien Li— a Tiananmen Square dissident turned world-renowned human rights activist and passionate advocate for a free and democratic China.

    When security and fire alarms go off simultaneously all around the world, setting off a panic, the signal is traced back to China. As world leaders scramble to respond, Vivien and Alice are called to the White House in hopes Madame Li can interpret the Chinese intentions. But why involve Alice?

    If China isn’t behind the attack, Vivien warns, someone even more dangerous is pulling the strings. Mother and daughter must join together to overcome their estrangement if they have any hope of preventing global catastrophe. From DC to Ohio to Hong Kong, they work to prevent the next attack, along the way decoding an ancient legend and uncovering a secret language invented by women, for women.

    The Last Mandarin is an electrifying study of absolute power and voracious greed, political terror and personal conviction. But it is also an intimate examination of choice, of sacrifice, of memory and myths, both cultural and personal. It is the story of a mother and daughter, as well as a compelling international thriller about the precarious balance of power across the world, and within a family. And what happens when both break down.

    In a world ruled by power, even family can be a weapon.

  • It's off to the races in the explosive eighth book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series--featuring bonus material exclusive to this print edition.

    As chaos and mass panic spread outside the dungeon in the wake of Faction Wars, Carl and Donut find themselves on the tenth floor, where they're forced to compete in a surprisingly normal set of tasks. Well, normal for the dungeon.

    Races. Get from point A to point B, and don't come in last. After each race, they pick an upgrade for their vehicle and the track gets more challenging. It all seems a little too normal, a little too simple.

    Ignore those strange glitches that are occurring with increasing frequency. Don't listen to those whispers about what's happening on the mysterious eleventh floor, something the system AI calls A Parade of Horribles. Nobody, not even the showrunners, knows what that means. Just that the AI has ominously dubbed it "a coming-out party for the ages."

    Everything is fine, Crawler. I repeat, everything is fine.

    Carl hates that it's business as usual. The rules of this floor have taken away his agency. That just will not do.

    So Carl is planning a party of his own. It's a plan so dangerous, so insane, he can't even consult his friends lest the AI put a stop to it. Because if it goes wrong, it's not just the end of Carl and Donut. No. The stakes are higher than they've ever been.

    Includes part eight of the exclusive bonus story "Backstage at the Pineapple Cabaret."

  • THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    A haunted past. A train with no stops. Thirteen hours to reckon with the truth.

    In 1954, Anna Matheson boards a luxury overnight train bound for Chicago that she's commissioned, along with a list of names and a heart hardened by loss. Twelve years earlier, during the height of World War II, six people shattered her family's life. Now, under a false guise, Anna has orchestrated a chilling reunion--trapping each of them aboard.

    Her plan is precise: confront the ghosts of her past, unearth long-buried truths, and ensure justice is waiting at journey's end. But when one of the passengers is found murdered before dawn, it becomes clear that Anna isn't the only one harboring secrets--or seeking revenge.

    As the train hurtles into the icy night, Anna must navigate layers of deception, reckon with the cost of vengeance, and come to protect the very people she came to condemn. Because someone on board is determined that none of them--Anna included--reach the final stop alive.

  • From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline comes a boldly original reimagining of the astonishing true story of two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina -- Kline's own distant relatives -- who married world-famous conjoined twins from Siam.

    When Eng and Chang Bunker arrive in Wilkes County in 1839, they're not just a curiosity--they're a sensation. Everyone is eager to learn whether the salacious rumors about them are true. Within months, the twins have opened a general store, bought land, and begun building a plantation. Now, word has it, they're looking for wives--and in a place that thrives on gossip and legacy, their ambitions set the community on edge.

    Sarah and Adelaide Yates, daughters of a once-prominent local family brought low by scandal, are drawn into their orbit. Bold, beautiful Adelaide sees in the twins' fame a chance to reclaim her future. Sarah, quiet and observant, isn't so sure. When the twins' lives become entangled with theirs, they must navigate loyalty, longing, and identity in a world where everything--including race, class, and gender--is rigidly defined.

    Spanning five decades and unfolding against the backdrop of a fractured nation hurtling toward war, The Foursome is both intimate and epic: a story of love and constraint, identity and reinvention. With piercing insight and emotional precision, Kline brings to life a forgotten chapter of American history and the complex, boundary-defying marriages at its center.

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New Releases | December 30th, 2025

December 28, 2025 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Art

    • Book Lover's Embroidery: Stitch 50+ Iron-On Designs - Ray, Aimee (Author)

    Adult Fiction

    • The Rest of Our Lives - Markovits, Ben (Author)

    Biography

    • Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton - Ackmann, Martha (Author)

    Chapter Books

    • Vortex of the Chaos Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #30) - West, Tracey (Author), Howells, Graham (Illustrator)

    Graphic Novels

    • Talons of Power: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel #9) (Wings of Fire Graphix) - Sutherland, Tui T (Author), Holmes, Mike (Illustrator)

    • A Waffle Lot of Love! (a Narwhal and Jelly Book #10) - Clanton, Ben (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World - Haidt, Jonathan (Author), Price, Catherine (Author), Cheng, Cynthia Yuan (Illustrator)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale: Captain America (Captain America: White) - Loeb, Jeph (Author), Sale, Tim (Illustrator), Sale, Tim

    Mystery & Thriller

    • Beautiful Ugly - Feeney, Alice (Author)

    • Run Away - Coben, Harlan (Author)

    Personal Growth

    • Eight Million Ways to Happiness: Wisdom for Inspiration and Healing from the Heart of Japan - Yoda, Hiroko (Author)

    • Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time - Beattie, Melody (Author)

    Picture Books

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

    Romance

    • To Bleed a Crystal Bloom (Crystal Bloom #1) - Parker, Sarah A (Author)

    • An Arcane Inheritance (Deluxe Edition) - Cole, Kamilah (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl 1) - Dinniman, Matt (Author)

    Young Adult

    • Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy 1) - Roberts, Lauren (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The apocalypse will be televised! Welcome to the first book in the wildly popular and addictive Dungeon Crawler Carl series--now with bonus material exclusive to this print edition.

    You know what's worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what's worse than that? An alien invasion, the destruction of all man-made structures on Earth, and the systematic exploitation of all the survivors for a sadistic intergalactic game show. That's what.

    Join Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend's cat, Princess Donut, as they try to survive the end of the world--or just get to the next level--in a video game-like, trap-filled fantasy dungeon. A dungeon that's actually the set of a reality television show with countless viewers across the galaxy. Exploding goblins. Magical potions. Deadly, drug-dealing llamas. This ain't your ordinary game show.

    Welcome, Crawler. Welcome to the Dungeon. Survival is optional. Keeping the viewers entertained is not.

    Includes part one of the exclusive bonus story "Backstage at the Pineapple Cabaret."

  • The graphic novel adaptations of the #1 New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series continue to set the world on fire!

    For every villain, there is a hero ...

    Turtle isn't one of the heroes he reads about in stories. If he were, he'd use his animus powers to help Pyrrhia -- instead of keeping his abilities a secret, even from his own sister. Now that Darkstalker, the sinister and impossibly old dragon from Pyrrhia's most notorious legends, has returned, Turtle knows his own role is simple: hide. And stay hidden.

    The more he watches Darkstalker from the shadows, the more Turtle knows that someone needs to stop the powerful dragon. A real hero. But Turtle is running out of time to find one, which means ... he might have to try to save the day himself.

    The #1 New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series soars to new heights in the ninth graphic novel adaptation, with art by Mike Holmes.

  • INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    "Her best book yet." -- Harlan Coben

    The million-copy bestselling Queen of Twists Alice Feeney returns with a gripping and deliciously dark thriller about marriage. . .

    . . . and revenge.

    Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.

    Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared.

    A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can't sleep, and he can't write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible - a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.

    Wives think their husbands will change but they don't.

    Husbands think their wives won't change but they do.

    "Magnetic and jaw-dropping." --Mary Kubica, bestselling author

    "Unforgettable." --Chris Whitaker, bestselling author

  • "The most lovable duo since Frog and Toad." --Dav Pilkey, bestselling creator of Dog Man and Captain Underpants

    The funny and adorable New York Times bestselling kids graphic novel series starring happy-go-lucky, waffle-loving Narwhal and somewhat cynical sidekick, Jelly.

    In this hilarious 10th book, Narwhal's PALentine's Day celebrations for Jelly go a little overboard! Includes bonus fun facts!

    Dive into three new stories with best buds Narwhal and Jelly! It's PALentine's Day and Jelly gives Narwhal a whaley nice card -- but now Narwhal has no idea what to give him! One card isn't nearly enough, and soon Narwhal is flooding Jelly with gifts galore: waffles, a book about Jelly, more waffles, a song about Jelly . . . MORE waffles!

    Jelly is grateful, but would prefer the present of Narwhal's presence more than all of Narwhal's over-the-top displays of friendship. Can Narwhal realize what true friendship means before they go off the deep end trying to please their pal?w heights in the ninth graphic novel adaptation, with art by Mike Holmes.

  • FINALIST FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE

    "Feels less like reading a novel and more like sitting in a car beside a dear friend as he navigates the road up ahead. A profoundly moving experience." --Ann Patchett

    "Deeply human...a beautifully quiet and devastating book." --Sarah Jessica Parker

    A triumphantly life-affirming road trip novel about marriage, middle-age, and a man at a crossroads in his life.

    When Tom Layward's wife had an affair twelve years ago, he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest child left the nest. Now, while driving his college-bound daughter to Pittsburgh, he remembers his promise to himself. He is also on the run from his own health issues and a forced leave from work.

    So, rather than returning to his wife in Westchester, Tom keeps driving west, with the vague plan of visiting people from his past--an old college friend, his ex-girlfriend, his brother, his son--en route, maybe, to California. He's moving towards a future he hasn't even envisioned yet while he considers his past and the choices he's made that have brought him to this particular present. Pitch-perfect, tender, and keenly observed, The Rest of Our Lives is a story about what to do when the rest of your life is only just the beginning of your story.

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