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New Releases | December 2nd, 2025

November 30, 2025 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • Television - Rothery, Lauren (Author)

    • The Award - Pearl, Matthew (Author)

    • Homeseeking: A GMA Book Club Pick - Chen, Karissa (Author)

    • House of Day, House of Night - Tokarczuk, Olga (Author), Lloyd-Jones, Antonia (Translator)

    • Isola: Reese's Book Club - Goodman, Allegra (Author)

    • The Idiot (Penguin Clothbound Classics) - Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Author), McDuff, David (Translator), Mills Todd, William (Introduction by), McDuff, David (Notes by), Bickford-Smith, Coralie (Not Available)

    • Before I Forget - Hoen, Tory Henwood (Author)

    • Private Rites - Armfield, Julia (Author)

    • The Orchard (Vintage Contemporaries) - Heller, Peter (Author)

    Adult Science

    • Cells: The Illustrated Story of Life - Sardet, Christian (Author), Karsenti, Eric (Foreword by)

    Biography

    • The Woman in Me - Spears, Britney (Author)

    • In the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt in War, Peace, and Revolution - Brown, David S (Author)

    Board Books

    • Lunar New Year with the Very Hungry Caterpillar: A Tabbed Board Book - Carle, Eric (Author), Carle, Eric (Illustrator)

    Chapter Books

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

    Coloring Books

    • A Million Hugs & Kisses (Co-Edition) (Million Creatures to Color) - Mayo, Lulu (Author)

    History

    • American Canto - Nuzzi, Olivia (Author)

    Homestead

    • The Preserver's Garden: How to Grow a Garden for Fermenting, Canning, Pickling, Dehydrating, Freeze Drying, and More - Hill, Staci And Jeremy (Author)

    Humor Books

    • The Peanuts Guide to Love (Peanuts Guide to Life) - Schulz, Charles M (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • What Was the Industrial Revolution? (What Was?) - Gigliotti, Jim E (Author), Who Hq (Author), Malan, David (Illustrator)

    • We Are Palestinian: A Celebration of Culture and Tradition - Kassis, Reem (Author), Eilouti, Noha (Illustrator)

    Literary Collections

    • Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear: A. A. Milne and the Creation of Winnie-The-Pooh - Brandreth, Gyles (Author)

    • The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation - Drout, Michael DC (Author)

    • Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books - Bo-Reum, Hwang (Author), Tan, Shanna (Translator)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe One Last Time - Bunn, Cullen (Author), Talajic, Dalibor (Illustrator), Paratore, Davide (Not Available)

    • Kaiju No. 8: Relax, Vol. 1 - Watanabe, Kizuku (Author)

    • Nana 25th Anniversary Edition, Vol. 2 - Yazawa, Ai (Author)

    Middle Readers

    • The Hidden Sea (Wildsmith 3) - Flanagan, Liz (Author), Todd-Stanton, Joe (Illustrator)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe: A True Crime Thriller - Patterson, James (Author), Edwards-Jones, Imogen (Author)

    Nature

    • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic - Shea, Neil (Author

    • Evergreen: The Trees That Shaped America - Preszler, Trent (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Meet the Smushkins (The Smushkins) - Rueda, Claudia (Author), Rueda, Claudia (Illustrator)

    • A Stickler Valentine (A Stickler Story) - Smith, Lane (Author)

    • Lunar New Year (My Little Golden Book About...) - Man-Kong, Mary (Author), Chan, Michelle Jing (Illustrator)

    Romance

    • Something Wicked (Idle Reputations) - Ballard, Falon (Author)

    • The Mating Game - Ferguson, Lana (Author)

    • The Night Is Defying: A Nytefall Novel (Nytefall Trilogy #2) - Peñaranda, Chloe C (Author)

    • The Dark Is Descending: A Nytefall Novel (Nytefall Trilogy #3) - Peñaranda, Chloe C (Author)

    • Sweet Venom (Deluxe Edition) (The Vipers #2) - Kent, Rina (Author)

    • Nocticadia (Deluxe Edition) - Lake, Keri (Author)

    • Fallen Gods - Van Dyken, Rachel (Author)

    • Tender Cruelty (Dark Olympus #9) - Robert, Katee (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • The City of Brass Deluxe Collector's Edition (Daevabad Trilogy 1) - Chakraborty, S A (Author)

    • Snake-Eater - Kingfisher, T (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It - McDonald, Samuel Miller (Author)

    Young Adult

    • Crowntide (the Lightlark Saga Book 4) - Aster, Alex (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • DELUXE PAPERBACK WITH GORGEOUS PINK SPRAYED EDGES

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD! - GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR BEST MEMOIR - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY PEOPLE

    Named a Best Book of the Year by Elle, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, NPR, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, and more!

    "In Britney Spears's memoir, she's stronger than ever." --The New York Times

    Critically acclaimed as "a miracle" (The Guardian), "powerful" (Los Angeles Times), "radiant" (The New York Times), and "poignant" (Vogue), The Woman in Me reveals for the first time Britney Spears's incredible story.

    "A genuine page-turner" ( Financial Times), it's "presented so cleanly and candidly, The Woman in Me seems designed to be read in one sitting" ( The New York Times). A "heartbreaking, jaw-dropping, but ultimately empowering story" ( New York Post), this unforgettable memoir is "a testament to Spears's essential fortitude of spirit--something that burns off these pages" ( The Telegraph).

  • Available in paperback at last, Peter Heller's masterful coming-of-age tale, the story of a mother and daughter living on a Vermont apple orchard, escaping ghosts of the past.

    Hayley and her seven-year-old daughter, Frith, live in a rustic cabin with no electricity in the foothills of Vermont's Green Mountains. A renowned translator of Tang dynasty poetry, Hayley walked away from her career and her addict husband to raise Frith alone in a land populated not by ambition-fueled academics but by hawks, beavers, and other wild things--including their exuberant Bernese Mountain dog, Bear. They get by on what little they earn from their overgrown apple orchard and the syrup they make from their maple trees. Frith-- precocious, homeschooled, and a voracious reader--considers herself queen of this backwoods paradise. She is too young to understand the pain and regret that have followed her mother here.

    Season after season, it is the three of them--mother, daughter, and dog--until the spring day when Rose Lattimore appears at their door and upends Hayley and Frith's solitary existence. When tragedy unexpectedly strikes, Frith must come to terms with heartbreak for the very first time. By turns joyful and searing, The Orchard reminds us that, even during the hardest of times, the enduring power of nature, love, and friendship will prevail.

  • Love is in the air! The Peanuts gang shares their musings on love in this beautifully packaged gift book for fans of Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the rest of Charles M. Schulz's beloved characters.

    Celebrate all types of love Peanuts style, with the help of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Sally, Lucy, and more. From what to write to the Little Red-Haired Girl to waiting for Valentine's Day letters, this sweet little package is brimming with heartwarming musings. You'll be calling your loved one "Sweet Baboo" or telling your friends to make their move, just like when Sally tells Charlie Brown to "Kiss her you blockhead!" before you know it.

  • REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A shocking story, made all the more stunning by the fact that it has its roots in true history."--Jodi Picoult, author of By Any Other Name

    "A new generation of survival story . . . an extraordinary book that reads like a thriller, written with the care of the most delicate psychological and historical fiction."--Vogue (Best of 2025 Preview)

    A young woman and her lover are marooned on an island in this "lushly painted" (People) historical epic of love, faith, and defiance from the bestselling author of Sam.

    A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, KIRKUS REVIEWS - FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE - LONGLISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS BOOK AWARD

    Heir to a fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility. Then she is orphaned, and her guardian--an enigmatic and volatile man--spends her inheritance and insists she accompany him on an expedition to New France. That journey takes a unexpected turn when Marguerite, accused of betrayal, is brutally punished and abandoned on a small island.

    Once a child of privilege who dressed in gowns and laced pearls in her hair, Marguerite finds herself at the mercy of nature. As the weather turns, blanketing the island in ice, she discovers a faith she'd never before needed.

    Inspired by the real life of a sixteenth-century heroine, Isola is the timeless story of a woman fighting for survival.

  • From the world's #1 bestselling author, The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe is a true crime thriller about a woman who changed Hollywood history, and whose indelible image captures our imagination to this day.

    "Electrifying ... A spellbinding new account of the star's final days by the world's greatest thriller writer." -- Daily Mail

    In life, Marilyn Monroe's superstardom defies classification. In death, she remains shrouded in mystery.

    In the months before her death, Marilyn polishes the script for her ultimately unfinished film, Something's Got to Give.

    In the weeks before her death, she drinks champagne on Santa Monica Beach with the last photographer to take her picture.

    In the days before her death, she's a guest of Frank Sinatra in the Celebrity Room at the Cal Neva Lodge.

    In the hours before her death, she argues with US Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and his brother-in-law Peter Lawford.

    In an emergency session with her psychiatrist, she confesses: "Here I am, the most beautiful woman in the world, and I do not have a date for Saturday night."

    On June 1, 2026, the world celebrates Marilyn Monroe's one hundredth birthday ... without her.

    "Entertaining ... bursting with anecdotes ... zippy pacing and novelistic detail ... Readers with a soft spot for Hollywood's perennial muse will find plenty to enjoy."-- Publishers Weekly

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New Releases | February 11th, 2025

February 10, 2025 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • The American No: Stories - Everett, Rupert (Author)

    • Three Days in June - Tyler, Anne (Author)

    • We All Live Here - Moyes, Jojo (Author)

    • The Queens of Crime - Benedict, Marie (Author)

    • Idle Grounds - Bamford, Krystelle (Author)

    • Stone Yard Devotional - Wood, Charlotte (Author)

    • Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories - Peters, Amanda (Author)

    • The Fox Wife - Choo, Yangsze (Author)

    Biography

    • The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their Stories Are Better Than the Bestsellers (Heroes Among Us #4) - Patterson, James (Author) , Eversmann, Matt (Author)

    Board Books

    • The ABCs of Spring - Howarth, Jill (Illustrator)

    • The Digger and the Flower Board Book - Kuefler, Joseph (Author) , Kuefler, Joseph (Illustrator)

    • Why Does the Wind Blow?: Weather with the Very Hungry Caterpillar - Carle, Eric (Author) , Carle, Eric (Illustrator)

    Body, Mind & Spirit

    • Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious - Douthat, Ross (Author)

    Children’s Poetry

    • The MacMillan Collection of Greek Myths: A Luxurious and Beautiful Gift Edition - MacMillan (Author)

    Current Events & Politics

    • The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy - Toobin, Jeffrey (Author)

    • The Jack Smith Report: Final Report on Efforts to Interfere with the Lawful Transfer of Power Following the 2020 Presidential Election by Don - Smith, Jack (Author)

    Graphic Novels

    • Hilo Book 11: The Great Space Iguana - Winick, Judd (Author)

    • Unicorn Book Club: Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure Volume 21 - Simpson, Dana (Author)

    History

    • Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America - Inskeep, Steve (Author)

    • The World After Gaza: A History - Mishra, Pankaj (Author)

    Horror

    • The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy #3) - Jones, Stephen Graham (Author)

    • Boys in the Valley - Fracassi, Philip (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • The Six -- Young Readers Edition: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts - Grush, Loren (Author) , Stefoff, Rebecca (With)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • My Hero Academia, Vol. 40 - Horikoshi, Kohei (Author)

    • Fantastic Four: Grand Design - Scioli, Tom (Author) , Lee, Stan (Author) , Scioli, Tom (Illustrator) , Kirby, Jack (Illustrator) , Scioli, Tom (Not Available)

    • Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe - Ennis, Garth (Author) , Maberry, Jonathan (Author) , Braithwaite, Doug (Illustrator) , Parlov, Goran (Illustrator) , Percival, Nick (Not Available)

    My First Readers

    • DK Super Readers Level 1 Pokémon a New Journey - DK (Author)

    • DK Super Readers Level 2 Pokémon Battle Buddies! - DK (Author)

    Mystery & Thriller

    • Paranoia: The Most Beloved Family in Crime Fiction (A Michael Bennett Thriller #17) - Patterson, James (Author) , Born, James O (Author)

    • A Calamity of Souls - Baldacci, David (Author)

    Personal Growth

    • The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing - O'Connor, Mary-Frances (Author)

    • The Life Brief: A Simple Practice to Navigate Life's Big Decisions - Wan, Bonnie (Author)

    • Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms - Slawson, Nicola (Author)

    • Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections - Nagoski, Emily (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Hatch and Match: A Springtime Seek-And-Find Book - Paul, Ruth (Author) , Paul, Ruth (Illustrator)

    • Let's Be Bees - Harris, Shawn (Author)

    Poetry

    • Autopsy (of an Ex-Teen Heartthrob): (Poems of Rage, Love, Sex, and Sadness) - Jogia, Avan (Author)

    Romance

    • Scythe & Sparrow: The Ruinous Love Trilogy (Ruinous Love Trilogy #3) - Weaver, Brynne (Author)

    • The Launch Date - Slator, Annabelle (Author)

    • First-Time Caller (Heartstrings) - Borison, B K (Author)

    • What Lies Beyond the Veil (Of Flesh & Bone #1) - Woods, Harper L (Author)

    • Beneath the Stands (Sugarlake #2) - McIntire, Emily (Author)

    • Charming Devil (Deluxe Edition) (Special) (Gilded Monsters #2) - Kenney, Rebecca (Author)

    • A Fate Inked in Blood: Book One of the Saga of the Unfated (Saga of the Unfated) - Jensen, Danielle L (Author)

    Science & Nature

    • We Spy Fungi: Search and Find Mushrooms, Cacti, and Other Fascinating Plants - Donnelly, Rebecca (Author) , Fonseca, Francisco (Illustrator)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • Mickey7 (Mickey7 #1) - Ashton, Edward (Author)

    • The Book of Love - Link, Kelly (Author)

    • Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales - Fawcett, Heather (Author)

    • The Crimson Road - Slatter, Angela (Author)

    Spinner Rack Books

    • Pete the Cat Rocks On!: Includes Over 30 Stickers! - Dean, James (Author) , Dean, James (Illustrator) , Dean, Kimberly (Author)

    Sports

    • Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk - Sielski, Mike (Author)

    Young Adult

    • A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic (Reprint) - Lai, Yi Shun (Author)

    • The Forest King's Daughter (Thirstwood #1) - Blake, Elly (Author)

Our Top 5 Picks

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  • NYPD Detective Michael Bennett will stop at nothing to protect family: his wife, his kids--and his fellow officers--in the latest psychological thriller from bestselling author James Patterson.

    At every death scene, Bennett says a prayer over the victim.
    But recently, too many of the departed have been fellow cops.
    "I want you to look at these deaths on special assignment," NYPD Inspector Celeste Cantor says. "Report only to me."
    Bennett excels as a solo investigator. But he's chasing a killer who feeds on isolation... and paranoia.

  • Now experience where the hit movie from Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho, starring Robert Pattinson, started in Mickey7 (the inspiration for the film Mickey 17).

    Dying isn't any fun...but at least it's a living.

    Mickey Barnes is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there's a mission that's too dangerous--even suicidal--the crew turns to Mickey. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. After six deaths, Mickey7 understands the terms of his deal...and why it was the only colonial position unfilled when he took it.

    On a routine scouting mission, Mickey7 goes missing and is presumed dead. By the time he returns to the colony base, surprisingly helped back by native life, his fate has been sealed. There's a new clone, Mickey8, reporting for Expendable duties, and there can only be one Expendable. If Mickey7 reports his survival to Command, one of them is going into the recycler. If he doesn't and they're caught, they both are.

    Meanwhile, life on Niflheim is getting worse. The atmosphere is unsuitable for humans, food is in short supply, and terraforming is going poorly. The native species are growing curious about their new neighbors, and that curiosity has Commander Marshall very afraid. Ultimately, the survival of both lifeforms will come down to Mickey7.

    That is, if he can just keep from dying for good.

  • The #1 New York Times bestselling author, whose books so many love, brings us a fresh, contemporary story of a woman and her unruly blended family

    "Nobody writes women the way Jojo Moyes does." --Jodi Picoult

    Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall and her love life is . . . complicated. So when her real dad--a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago--suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you: about love, and what it actually means to be family.

  • Learn why the wind blows with the help of The Very Hungry Caterpillar!

    In this nonfiction story, young readers will discover what makes the wind whoosh around them. The wonders of nature come to life in this early-learning series centered around weather, featuring simple text and Eric Carle's classic illustrations!

  • A shield maiden blessed by the gods battles to unite a nation under a power-hungry king--while also fighting her growing desire for his fiery son--in the first book of a Norse-inspired fantasy romance series from the bestselling author of The Bridge Kingdom series.

    Bound in an unwanted marriage, Freya spends her days gutting fish, but dreams of becoming a warrior. And of putting an axe in her boorish husband's back.

    Freya's dreams abruptly become reality when her husband betrays her to the region's jarl, landing her in a fight to the death against his son, Bjorn. To survive, Freya is forced to reveal her deepest secret: She possesses a drop of a goddess's blood, which makes her a shield maiden with magic capable of repelling any attack. It was foretold such a magic would unite the fractured nation of Skaland beneath the one who controls the shield maiden's fate.

    Believing he's destined to rule Skaland as king, the fanatical jarl binds Freya with a blood oath and orders Bjorn to protect her from their enemies. Desperate to prove her strength, Freya must train to fight and learn to control her magic, all while facing perilous tests set by the gods. The greatest test of all, however, may be resisting her forbidden attraction to Bjorn. If Freya succumbs to her lust for the charming and fierce warrior, she risks not only her own destiny but the fate of all the people she swore to protect.

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