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New Releases | January 20th, 2026

January 18, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • Crux - Tallent, Gabriel (Author)

    • Half His Age - McCurdy, Jennette (Author)

    • Discipline - Pham, Larissa (Author)

    • Evelyn in Transit - Guterson, David (Author)

    • The Infamous Gilberts - Tomaski, Angela (Author)

    Board Books

    • My Little Chick (My Little) - Eliot, Hannah (Author), Bircham, Jess (Illustrator)

    • My Heart Knows Love - Yav, Yuli (Author), Hanson, Sydney (Illustrator)

    Graphic Novels

    • Wrong Friend - Harper, Charise Mericle (Author), Lucey, Rory (Illustrator)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Batman: Gotham by Gaslight: DC Compact Comics Edition (DC Compact Comics) - Augustyn, Brian (Author), Mignola, Mike (Illustrator)

    Mystery & Thriller

    • My Husband's Wife - Feeney, Alice (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Welcome, Spring! - Stott, Apryl (Author), Stott, Apryl (Illustrator)

    • Chicka Chicka Peep Peep (Chicka Chicka Book) - Chung, Julien (Author), Chung, Julien (Illustrator)

    Romance

    • The Elsewhere Express - Sotto Yambao, Samantha (Author)

    • Blood & Roses Volume 1 - Hart, Callie (Author)

    • The Things We Leave Unfinished (Signed) - Yarros, Rebecca (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • Nine Goblins: A Tale of Low Fantasy and High Mischief - Kingfisher, T (Author)

    Sports

    • Football - Klosterman, Chuck (Author)

    Workbooks

    • Brain Quest Phonics Readers: Set 1: 12 Decodable Readers: Short and Long Vowels (Brain Quest Phonics Readers #1)

    Young Adult

    • On the Fence - West, Kasie (Author)

This Weeks’ Top 5 Picks

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  • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom Died comes a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths we'll go to in order to get what we want.

    A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, USA Today, Bustle, Town & Country

    Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn't know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn't? Or is it purer than that, rooted in their unlikely connection, their kindred spirits, the similar filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it's just enough that he sees her when no one else does.

    Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles--or attempts to overcome them--in her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.

  • Description text goes hereThe New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists is back with a psychological masterpiece that will leave you questioning everything you know about love, identity, and revenge.

    "Nonstop thrills! The best Feeney book yet!" --FREIDA MCFADDEN

    "Propulsive, compulsive, addictive." --LISA JEWELL

    Eden Fox, an artist on the brink of her big break, sets off for a run before her first exhibition. When she returns to the home she recently moved into, Spyglass, an enchanting old house in Hope Falls, nothing is as it should be. Her key doesn't fit. A woman, eerily similar to her, answers the door. And her husband insists that the stranger is his wife.

    One house. One husband. Two women. Someone is lying.

    Six months earlier, a reclusive Londoner called Birdy, reeling from a life-changing diagnosis, inherits Spyglass. This unexpected gift from a long-lost grandmother brings her to the pretty seaside village of Hope Falls. But then Birdy stumbles upon a shadowy London clinic that claims to be able to predict a person's date of death, including her own. Secrets start to unravel, and as the line between truth and lies blurs, Birdy feels compelled to right some old wrongs.

    My Husband's Wife is a tangled web of deception, obsession, and mystery that will keep you guessing until the last page. Prepare yourself for the ultimate mind-bending marriage thriller and step inside Spyglass - if you dare - to experience a story where nothing is as it seems.

  • When you lose your way in life, the Elsewhere Express just might find you. Step on board the train that may take you to your life's purpose in this wistful, Ghibli-esque fantasy from the bestselling author of Water Moon.

    This deluxe first edition hardcover includes:

    - Intricately designed sprayed edges

    - Interactive endpapers with a scene you can color in

    - A full-color illustrated book case beneath the jacket

    "A delicately layered dream of a book that glimmers with the promise of hope after grief, The Elsewhere Express will carry you to the stars."--Molly O'Neill, author of Greenteeth

    You can't buy a ticket for the Elsewhere Express. Appearing only to those whose lives are adrift, it's a magical train seeming to carry very rare and special cargo: a sense of purpose, peace, and belonging.

    Raya is one of those lost souls. She had dreamed of being a songwriter, but when her brother died, she gave up on her dream and started living his instead.

    One day on the subway, as her thoughts wander, she's swept off to the Elsewhere Express. There she meets Q, an intriguing artist who, like her, has lost his place in the world.

    Together they find a train full of wonders, from a boarding car that's also a meadow to a dining car where passengers can picnic on lily pads to a bar where jellyfish and whales swim through pink clouds.

    Over the course of their long, strange night on the train, they also discover that it harbors secrets--and danger: A mysterious stranger has stowed away and brought with him a dark, malignant magic that threatens to destroy the train.

    But in investigating the stowaway's identity, Raya also finds herself drawing closer to the ultimate question: What is her life's true purpose--and is it a destination the Elsewhere Express can take her to?

    ★ "A stunning, visual fever dream of a story akin to both the game Spiritfarer and Erin Morgenstern's The Starless Sea--a character-driven tale wrapped in a sparklingly creative spectacle of a world that inhabits a Studio Ghibli-like chaos even as it comes with a well-organized passenger rulebook."--Booklist (starred review)

  • Adorable animal friends share their favorite ways to welcome spring in this sweet picture book from the New York Times bestselling creator of the Coco and Bear series, Ruby's Tools for Making Friends, and Almost Always Best, Best Friends.

    On the first beautiful morning of spring, Bunny goes on a walk. She encounters Little Cow and Little Pig and asks, "How do you welcome spring?" Her friends share that they welcome spring by making flower crowns and ask her to join them.

    As Bunny continues on, she meets new friends and joins in their different activities like dancing in puddles, eating strawberries, and making sailboats. Her friends finally ask, "How do you welcome spring, Bunny?" And she answers her favorite way to welcome spring is by playing with all her friends!

  • From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes Nine Goblins, a tale of low fantasy and high mischief.

    DELUXE EDITION--a gorgeous hardcover with endpapers illustrated by the author and a foil case stamp

    No one knows exactly how the Goblin War began, but folks will tell you that goblins are stinking, slinking, filthy, sheep-stealing, henhouse-raiding, obnoxious, rude, and violent. Goblins would actually agree with all this, and might throw in "cowardly" and "lazy" too for good measure.

    But goblins don't go around killing people for fun, no matter what the propaganda posters say. And when a confrontation with an evil wizard lands a troop of nine goblins deep behind enemy lines, goblin sergeant Nessilka must figure out how to keep her hapless band together and get them home in one piece.

    Unfortunately, between them and safety lies a forest full of elves, trolls, monsters, and that most terrifying of creatures...a human being.

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New Releases | November 18th, 2025

November 16, 2025 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • P.S. You're the Worst - Seager, Chloe (Author)

    • On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) - Balle, Solvej (Author), Russell (Translator)

    • The Ferryman and His Wife - Grytten, Frode (Author), McCullough, Alison (Translator)

    Adult Science

    • Nightmare Obscura: A Dream Engineer's Guide Through the Sleeping Mind - Carr, Michelle (Author)

    Arts & Entertainment

    • Point Blank: (Quick Studies) - Dylan, Bob (Author)

    Biography

    • Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much - Erivo, Cynthia (Author)

    • 100 Rules for Living to 100: An Optimist's Guide to a Happy Life - Van Dyke, Dick (Author)

    • I'm Glad My Mom Died - McCurdy, Jennette (Author)

    Children’s Science & Nature

    • Knowledge Encyclopedia Dinosaur! (DK Knowledge Encyclopedias)

    Cookbook

    • Rooted in Fire: A Celebration of Native American and Mexican Cooking - DeSpain, Pyet (Author)

    Great Outdoors

    • Favorite Flies for Vermont: 50 Essential Patterns from Local Experts - Price, Drew (Author)

    History

    • The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind - Winchester, Simon (Author)

    • Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and the Battle That Changed the War, the Speech That Changed the Nation - McGrath, Tim (Author)

    • The Greatest Sentence Ever Written - Isaacson, Walter (Author)

    Homestead

    • The Goth Garden: The Mystery, Beauty, and Lore of Dark Gardening - Feaster, Felicia (Author)

    Horror

    • The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings: Poems, Tales, Essays, and Reviews (Penguin Clothbound Classics) - Poe, Edgar Allan (Author), Galloway, David (Editor), Galloway, David (Introduction by), Galloway, David (Notes by), Bickford-Smith, Coralie (Not Available) v

    Just the Facts

    • What Are Taylor Swift's Eras? (What Was?) - Catherine, Niki (Author), Who Hq (Author), Conley, Laurie A (Illustrator)

    Literary Collections

    • Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth -Century Novel - Frank, Edwin (Author)

    • Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times (A Norton Short) - Smith, Tracy K (Author)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • How a Game Lives - Geller, Jacob (Author)

    • We3: DC Compact Comics Edition (DC Compact Comics) - Morrison, Grant (Author), Quitely, Frank (Illustrator)

    • Absolute Martian Manhunter Vol. 1: Martian Vision (Absolute Universe) - Camp, Deniz (Author), Rodriguez, Javier (Illustrator)

    • Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple, Vol. 1 (Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple #1) - ARC (Author) , Tabii (Artist)

    Middle Readers

    • Dork Diaries 1 Full-Color Edition: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life - Russell, Rachel Renée (Author), Russell, Rachel Renée (Illustrator)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • Return of the Spider: An Alex Cross Thriller (Alex Cross Novels #31) - Patterson, James (Author)

    • Along Came a Spider: An Alex Cross Thriller (Special) - Patterson, James (Author)

    Poetry

    • Dog Show: Poems - Collins, Billy (Author), Sztybel, Pamela (Illustrator)

    • New and Selected Poems - Howe, Marie (Author)

    • The Quiet After: Poems of Healing Silence (The Healing Verses) - Sin, R H (Author)

    Romance

    • The Color of Hope - Steel, Danielle (Author)

    • And Then There Was You - Cousens, Sophie (Author)

    • I, Medusa - Gray, Ayana (Author)

    • Secret Nights and Northern Lights - Oliver, Megan (Author)

    • Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore - Krempholtz, Emily (Author)

    • The Bond That Burns (Deluxe Limited Edition) (Original) (Bloodwing Academy #2) - Boleyn, Briar (Author)- Boleyn, Briar (Author)

    • The Seven Rings: The Lost Bride Trilogy, Book 3 - Roberts, Nora (Author)

    • Brimstone (Deluxe Limited Edition) (Fae & Alchemy #2) - Hart, Callie (Author)

    • Heat of the Everflame - Cole, Penn (Author) - Grace, Hannah (Author)

    • Daydream: Deluxe Edition Hardcover (The Maple Hills #3) - Grace, Hannah (Author)

    • People We Meet on Vacation: Collector's Edition (Netflix Tie-In): Collector's Edition - Henry, Emily (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • The Bovadium Fragments: Together with the Origins of Bovadium - Tolkien, JRR (Author)

    • The Shadow of the Gods (Deluxe Limited Hardcover Edition) (The Bloodsworn Trilogy #1) - Gwynne, John (Author)

    • This Is How You Lose the Time War (Deluxe Edition) - El-Mohtar, Amal (Author), Gladstone, Max (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century - Marx, W David (Author)

    Young Adult

    • Mindworks: An Uncanny Compendium of Short Fiction - Shusterman, Neal (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD!

    A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life.

    Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, "Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn't tint hers?" She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income.

    In I'm Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail--just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly, she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi ("Hi Gale!"), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.

    Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I'm Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.

  • America's bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans--and explains how it should shape our politics today.

    To celebrate America's 250th anniversary, Walter Isaacson takes readers on a fascinating deep dive into the creation of one of history's most powerful sentences: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

    Drafted by Thomas Jefferson and edited by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, this line lays the foundation for the American Dream and defines the common ground we share as a nation.

    Isaacson unpacks its genius, word by word, illuminating the then-radical concepts behind it. Readers will gain a fresh appreciation for how it was drafted to inspire unity, equality, and the enduring promise of America. With clarity and insight, he reveals not just the power of these words but describes how, in these polarized times, we can use them to restore an appreciation for our common values.

  • Return of the Spider is the stunning companion to Along Came a Spider, the New York Times bestselling series debut that introduced Detective Alex Cross, "the real deal, a character who matters" (Rolling Stone).

    The suspense classic Along Came a Spider introduced an unsurpassed rivalry:
    Detective Alex Cross; the "human superhero" ( New York Times) versus Gary Soneji; the "most deliciously wicked character since Hannibal Lecter" ( Lexington Herald-Leader).
    But that wasn't their first meeting...
    Police discover that Soneji kept a murder book, Profiles in Homicidal Genius, detailing his transformation from substitute teacher to hardened serial killer--including clues that imply missteps that Alex Cross may have made a rookie homicide detective.
    Now, Alex must retrace the steps of that long-ago investigation and face...the Return of the Spider.

  • The deluxe limited edition of The Bond That Burns features stenciled edges, custom endpapers, and a jacket with metallic effects! This breathtaking hardcover edition is available only on the first printing and is a must-have for any book lover while supplies last in the US and Canada.

    At Bloodwing Academy, blood is currency, but a dragon's legacy is priceless--and as dangerous as fire.

    I thought surviving my first year in Bloodwing's deadly halls would be enough. I was wrong.

    I accidentally woke a dragon--a creature of myth, of death, of fire.

    Now every highblood house wants control over me and the dragon's legacy I carry. But here's the truth: I have no control. I'm bluffing my way through every encounter, trying to keep everyone from realizing that I'm not the one pulling the dragon's strings.

    And then there's Blake Drakharrow. I thought he was on my side, that I might even be able to trust him. But he betrayed me. Now I'm his only blood source. How messed up is that? In a place like Bloodwing, where power and survival are everything, this bond may well be the death of us both. Unless I can find a way to end it.

    In this world of vampires, dragons, and lies, there are no happy endings. Just legends--and the darkness it takes to make them.

  • This limited deluxe edition with metallic edges, gorgeous cover effects, designed endpapers, and a stamped foil case continues the epic story begun in runaway bestseller and global phenomenon Quicksilver.

    Duty. Blood. Honor. Power.

    Saeris Fane doesn't want power. The very last thing she needs is her name whispered on an entire court's lips, but now that she's been crowned queen of the Blood Court, she's discovering that a queen's life is not her own. A heavy weight rests upon her shoulders. Her ward--and her brother--need her back in her homeland...but the changes that have strengthened Saeris have also made her weak. Born under blazing suns, Saeris will surely die if she makes her way home through the Quicksilver. Which means that, once again, she must send someone else in her stead...

    "Keep your mouth shut. Stick to the shadows. And for the love of all seven Gods, do NOT crack any jokes."

    Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate has defeated armies and survived all manner of horrors, but traveling back to Zilvaren with Carrion Swift might just be the death of him. The male just will not shut up. Hidden dangers await them down the narrow alleyways of the Silver City. Unfolding secrets pose impossible threats. Fisher must wrangle the smuggler and accomplish his goals quickly if he wants to see his mate again.

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