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New Releases | July 14th, 2026

July 10, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • The Emperor of Gladness - Vuong, Ocean (Author)

    • Men Like Us - Markland, Carson (Author)

    • The Half Life - Beanland, Rachel (Author) ‍

    • Famous Men - Buntin, Julie (Author)

    Biography

    • Fierce Country: The Untold Story of Three Women Who Ignited America's Love for the Wild (Original) - Hansman, Heather (Author)

    Board Books

    • Grumpy Monkey Up All Night (Grumpy Monkey Board Books) - Lang, Suzanne (Author), Lang, Max (Illustrator)

    • The House with Nobody in It (The Nobody Books) - Klassen, Jon (Author), Klassen, Jon (Illustrator)

    Coloring Books

    • Kpop Demon Hunters: The Official Deluxe Coloring Book (Kpop Demon Hunters)

    Fun & Game Books

    • Murdle Jr.: Wild Goose Case: Solve Your Way Through 40 Puzzle Mysteries! (Murdle Jr. #3) - Karber, G T (Author)

    Graphic Novels

    • Howliday Inn the Graphic Novel (Bunnicula the Graphic Novels #2) - Howe, James (Author), Donkin, Andrew (Author), Gilpin, Stephen (Illustrator)

    • Sama Crushes the Code: A Graphic Novel - Mehta, Samaira (Author), Alvarado, Jenny (Illustrator)

    History

    • They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy - Collins, Lauren (Author)

    Homestead

    • The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Bulbs: Paperback Reissue (Kew Experts) - Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (Author), Wilford, Richard (Author)

    Horror

    • We Live Here Now - Pinborough, Sarah (Author)

    • The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Jones, Stephen Graham (Author)

    • From a Buick 8 - King, Stephen (Author)

    • Doctor Sleep - King, Stephen (Author)

    • Cell - King, Stephen (Author)

    • The Intrigue - Moreno-Garcia, Silvia (Author)

    • Cross My Heart, I Hope You Die (Deluxe Edition) - Arnold, Mallory (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • Simone Biles: A Who HQ Illustrated Biography (Who HQ Illustrated Biographies) - Hubbard, Crystal (Author), Who Hq (Author), Perera, Maria Diaz (Illustrator)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Infamous Iron Man: The Rise of Doom - Bendis, Brian Michael (Author), Maleev, Alex (Illustrator), Maleev, Alex (Not Available)

    • Strange Pictures Vol.1 - Uketsu (Author), Aiba, Kikou (Illustrator)

    • Star Wars Visions: Tsukumo (Star Wars Visions: Tsukumo) - Shimizu, Eiichi (Author), Shimoguchi, Tomohiro (Author)

    • Champion of the Rose, Vol. 1 (Champion of the Rose #1) - Aquino, Cat (Author), Duran, Dominique (Author)

    • Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 4: Broken (Amazing Spider-Man) - Kelly, Joe (Author), Larraz, Pepe (Illustrator), Laiso, Emilio (Illustrator), Bradshaw, Nick (Illustrator) , Larraz, Pepe (Not Available)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls Thriller #1) - Slaughter, Karin (Author)

    • Ransom - Silva, Daniel (Author)

    • The Country Road Murders: A Thriller - Patterson, James (Author), Lupica, Mike (Author)

    • Sheepdogs - Ackerman, Elliot (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Story Rug - Blackall, Sophie (Author), Wahl, Phoebe (Illustrator)

    • School for Woodland Creatures (Our Friend Hedgehog) - Castillo, Lauren (Author)

    • The Birds in the Boat - Weber, Audrey Helen (Author)

    • School Spirits - Gunnufson, Charlotte (Author), Crane, Rebecca (Illustrator)

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

    • Big Rig Pig - Tattersfield, Claire (Author), Sayegh, Rob, Jr (Illustrator)

    • Duck & Goose, Honk! Quack! Boo!: A Halloween Story with Fun Stickers (Duck & Goose) - Hills, Tad (Author)

    Poetry

    • The Poems of Catullus: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text - Catullus, Gaius Valerius (Author), McCarter, Stephanie (Translator), McCarter, Stephanie (Introduction by)

    Political Sciences

    • The Day After: How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World - Cohen, Brian Tyler (Author)

    Romance

    • Die for Me - Obuobi, Shirlene (Author)

    • The Enchanted Greenhouse (Spellshop #2) - Durst, Sarah Beth (Author)

    • The Romance Revival - Lauren, Christina (Author)

    • In Stormy Weather - Curto, Chelsea (Author)

    • Extracurricular - Solomon, Rachel Lynn (Author)

    • Sweet Talk (Love Lines) - Bastone, Cara (Author)

    • Seatmate (Love Lines) - Bastone, Cara (Author)

    • Foxx (Standard Edition) (The Soldiers of Bedlam #3) - Hope, Paisley (Author)

    • Dominion (The Silk and Iron Trilogy) - Kwok, Jean (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • The Eye of Leviathan (The Sea Beyond #1) - Carrick, M A (Author)

    • The Dragon Has Some Complaints - Wiswell, John (Author)

    • The Moonsingers (Deluxe Edition): A Cozy Fairy Tale - Pritzker, Robyn J (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • Aging Out: An Exploration of Caregiving, Community, and How Americans Grow Old - Schiller, Lucy (Author)

    Travel

    • Don't Go There: A Tour of the World's Most Sinister Spots - Ocker, J W (Author)

    True Crime

    • Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast - Colloff, Pamela (Author)

    Young Adult

    • The Gilded Blade (The Grandest Game #3) - Barnes, Jennifer Lynn (Author)

    • Difficult Girls - Bane, Veronica (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • The instant New York Times bestseller - Oprah's Book Club Pick - Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, USA Today, NPR, People, Christian Science Monitor, Scientific American, and Kirkus Reviews - Winner of the Nautilus Book Award - Longlisted for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence

    "Stunning . . . A heartfelt and powerful examination of those living on the fringes of society, and the unique challenges they face to survive and thrive." --Oprah Winfrey

    Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive

    The hardest thing in the world is to live only once...

    One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to transform Hai's relationship to himself, his family, and a community on the brink.

    Following the cycles of history, memory, and time, The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which love, labor, and loneliness form the bedrock of American life. At its heart is a brave epic about what it means to exist on the fringes of society and to reckon with the wounds that haunt our collective soul. Hallmarks of Ocean Vuong's writing--formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness--are on full display in this story of loss, hope, and how far we would go to possess one of life's most fleeting mercies: a second chance.

  • From two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall and beloved artist Phoebe Wahl comes a luminous book that braids together the joy of storytelling with the satisfaction of learning a new craft.​

    The children of Class 203 are learning to braid. They started with hair and shoelaces, and now the children have brought rags from home. Their braid gets longer and longer until one idea transforms it into an extraordinary surprise for their teacher.

    Here is the story of a rag rug, woven through with the stories of the scraps used to create it and those told during its making. The result is a special handmade spot where the whole class can gather, ready for more stories.

    This beguiling celebration of storytelling is woven through with an easy-to-learn and impressive craft project, including instructions, will have readers reaching for scraps to make their own rag rug.

  • The inspiring, untold story of three incredible women who spearheaded recreation, conservation and resilience in America's most beloved landscapes, for readers of Pam Houston and David Grann

    Throughout the 20th century Georgie White, Anne LaBastille, and Dolores LaChapelle did more to inspire our love of the great outdoors than just about anyone.

    Georgie devoted her life to the Grand Canyon, kickstarting the river running craze in the 40s and igniting the recreation industry

    Anne, a wilderness guide and bestselling author, protected endangered species and predicted the impacts of climate change from her isolated, off-grid cabin in the Adirondacks.

    And deep powder skier Dolores developed an environmental philosophy that shaped everything from the radical environmental movement of the '70s to modern conservation ethics.

    Now, for the first time, outdoor journalist and bestselling author of Powder Days Heather Hansman goes deep into multiple rugged American landscapes to bring three fascinating lives to the forefront of the outdoor movement, affirming their rightful place in the larger story of an evolving American wild.

  • New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren returns with an unforgettable romance in which a fateful accident erases a troubled marriage from memory--and a scientific breakthrough gives love one extraordinary do-over.

    Three years ago, scientist Emery Finch did something completely out of character: She got married. To Luca--the impossibly charming landscaper she met on one blistering night in Vegas who made her laugh, made her dance, made her feel. But now, Emery is consumed by her top research, missing dinners, forgetting anniversaries, and promising herself Luca will understand once her cutting-edge discoveries come to light. Until the unthinkable happens: A tragic accident takes Luca from her. Desperate not to lose him, Emery breaks every rule, using the classified technology she's developed to bring him back to life. And Luca would probably thank her for it, if only he could remember her. Their first kiss, their Sunny Sundays at the beach, the life they built together...all of it is gone. It may be a miracle of science, but for Emery it's her one shot at a second chance. And this time, she won't waste it--because true love is always worth reviving.

  • Selected as One of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of the Year

    A Barack Obama Summer Read

    Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel

    Nebula Award Winner for Best Novel

    Locus Award for Horror

    Libby Award for Best Horror

    Nebula, Bram Stoker, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Award Finalist

    A Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, The Toronto Star, and Publishers Weekly Best of the Year

    Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction

    The New York Times bestseller and "horror masterpiece" (NPR) from Stephen Graham Jones--the master of modern horror--is a chilling historical horror novel tracing the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.

    "Jones has written his Interview with the Indigenous Vampire. A landmark of horror and historical fiction alike, perhaps the closest thing we have to horror's Moby-Dick." --Vulture

    "Inventive and spine-tingling...a master class in voice. Queasy, uneasy, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter plays with the interplay between religion and historical guilt, identity and appetite." --The Washington Post

    A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones.

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New Releases | February 17th, 2026

February 13, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • The Astral Library (Deluxe Limited Edition) - Quinn, Kate (Author)

    • Rebel English Academy - Hanif, Mohammed (Author)

    • So Old, So Young - Ginder, Grant (Author)

    • Laws of Love and Logic (Thousand Voices) - Curtis, Debra (Author)

    • Ashland - Simon, Dan (Author)

    Arts & Entertainment

    • Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live - Morrison, Susan (Author)

    Biography

    • Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour - Haddon, Mark (Author)

    • A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides - Pelicot, Gisèle (Author), Lehrer, Natasha (Translator), Diver, Ruth (Translator)

    Board Books

    • The Pigeon Won't Say the Abcs! - Mo Willems Workshop (Author)

    • Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Sheepy: A Sleepy Sheepy Story (Sleepy Sheepy) - Cummins, Lucy Ruth (Author), Oswald, Pete (Illustrator)

    • 123s of Kindness at Bedtime: A Touch & Feel Board Book (Books of Kindness) - Hegarty, Patricia (Author), Macon, Summer (Illustrator)

    • The Very Hungry Caterpillar's First Poems - Ghigna, Charles (Author), Carle, Eric (Illustrator)

    Children’s Science & Nature

    • Unfathomable: 20 Wild (But True) Stories about the Ocean - Boone, Mary (Author), Temescu, Max (Illustrator)

    Field Guides

    • How to Forage for Medicinal Plants Without Dying: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Identifying 32 Healing Wild Herbs - Ruiz, Brandon (Author)

    Fun & Games

    • Basketball Encyclopedia - Kingfisher (Author)

    Graphic Novels

    • Investigators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: Sew Much Trouble (Investigators: Agents of S.U.I.T. #4) - Green, John Patrick (Author), Hastings, Christopher (Author), Lewis, Pat (Illustrator)

    • Huck 'n' Hairball and the Litterbox Time Machine - Moyer, Rich (Author)

    • Minecraft: Heart of Cobblestone Volume 2 (Minecraft) - Clemson, Andrew (Author), Lawson, Jeremy (Illustrator)

    History

    • American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology - Meacham, Jon (Author)

    • The First to Go West: American Ambition, Bloody Conquest, and the Fateful Journey of Jedediah Smith - Clavin, Tom (Author), Drury, Bob (Author)

    • Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance - Targoff, Ramie (Author)

    Homestead

    • Chasing Lewis's Monkeyflower: The Amazing Afterlife of the Lewis and Clark Expedition's Wild Plants - Adelman, Elizabeth (Author)

    • Don't Throw It, Grow It, 2nd Edition: 68 Windowsill Plants from Kitchen Scraps - Peterson, Deborah (Author), Selsam, Millicent (Author), Martin, Laurelynn G (Foreword by), Martin, Byron E (Foreword by)

    Literary Collections

    • On Morrison - Serpell, Namwali (Author)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Ultimate Incursion (Ultimate Spider-Man: Incursion) - Camp, Deniz (Author), Ziglar, Cody (Author), Scharf, Jonas (Illustrator), Pichelli, Sara (Not Available)

    • Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 2: As My Mothers Made Me - Thompson, Kelly (Author), Sherman, Hayden (Illustrator)

    • Parasyte Paperback Collection 3 - Iwaaki, Hitoshi (Author)

    Middle Readers

    • The Cursed Spotlight: Adventure Stories for K-Pop Fans (K-Pop Academy #2) - Finch, Mina (Author)

    • Pirate Academy: New Kid on Deck (Pirate Academy 1) - Somper, Justin (Author), Skaffa, Teo (Illustrator)

    • Pirate Academy: Missing at Sea(Pirate Academy 2) - Somper, Justin (Author), Skaffa, Teo (Illustrator)

    My First Readers

    • Uni and the Magic Paintbrush (Step Into Reading) - Krouse Rosenthal, Amy (Author), Barrager, Brigette (Illustrator)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • Paranoia: A Michael Bennett Thriller (A Michael Bennett Thriller) - Patterson, James (Author), Born, James O (Author)

    Picture Books

    • The Dream - Sterer, Gideon (Author), Henderson, Nik (Illustrator)

    • Leave the Trees, Please - Zephaniah, Benjamin (Author), Castrillón, Melissa (Illustrator)

    • All That Glimmers - Baker, Laura (Author), Kaulitzki, Ramona (Illustrator)

    • Exca-Gator! - Hartman, Brooke (Author), Slack, Michael (Illustrator)

    • The Great Escape - Marcero, Deborah (Author), Marcero, Deborah (Illustrator)

    • Duck Delivers - Tinn-Disbury, Tom (Author)

    Poetry

    • Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry - Plunkett, Adam (Author)

    Political Sciences

    • On Democracy - Whitman, Walt (Author), Bromwich, David (Introduction by)

    Puzzle Books

    • New York Times Games Rookie Crosswords: 200 Easy Puzzles - New York Times (Author), Shortz, Will (Editor)

    Romance

    • Firebird (Fire That Binds #1) - Cross, Juliette (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • The Martian Chronicles - Bradbury, Ray (Author)

    • Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter - Fawcett, Heather (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth - Hernández, Daisy (Author)

    True Crime

    • Mafia: A Global History - Gingeras, Ryan (Author)

    Young Adult

    • Love, Sivvy: A Novel Inspired by the Life, Letters, and Diaries of Young Sylvia Plath - Toalson, R L (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • "When I'm faced with a Pilkey fan looking to branch out, this graphic novel is the first book I reach for... If eight books aren't enough, the spinoff series, Agents of S.U.I.T., continues the fun." ―The New York Times

    More than four million copies in print!

    InvestiGators fans, get ready to dive into the fourth volume of Agents of S.U.I.T. with the weirdest mystery yet!

    Someone has stolen the Notorious P.I.G. food truck, and with it, Piggy Smalls's special BBQ sauce! But before Bongo and Marsha can solve the case, they need to solve the problems they're having with each other. To help them realize what a great team they truly are, General Inspector decides to split them up. He assigns Marsha to work with Cilantro on a super-secret pilot program, and Bongo to work with Sven on a not so-secret reality competition: "Sew You Think You Can Sew!"

    But here's the rub: This season includes a chef challenge, and underground sources say Piggy Smalls's notorious sauce was stolen to help one of the contestants win!

  • The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of America unites centuries of essential American voices to understand our national debates and divisions from 1619 to the present, with his signature commentary on the consequential speeches, letters, and essays that led us to this moment.

    "Jon Meacham has done it again. If there is a soul in American history, it emerges--indeed, explodes--from these pages."--David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

    In a polarized era, history can become a subject of political contention. Many see America as perfect; many others argue that the national experiment is fundamentally flawed. The truth, Meacham shows, likely lies between these extremes. America has had shining hours, and also dark ones.

    In American Struggle, Jon Meacham illuminates the nation's complicated past. This rich and diverse collection covers a wide spectrum of history, from 1619 to the twenty-first century, with primary-source documents that take us back to critical moments in which Americans fought over the meaning and the direction of the national experiment. From the founders to Lincoln to Obama, from Andrew Jackson to Theodore Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan, from Seneca Falls to the March on Washington, this chorus--sometimes discordant and always fascinating--tells the story of the country and of its people. As clashes over liberty and slavery, inclusion and exclusion, play out, these voices, brilliantly framed by Meacham's singular commentary, remind us that contentious citizenship and fair-minded observations are essential to bringing about the more perfect union envisioned in the Preamble to the Constitution, which Frederick Douglass called a "glorious liberty document."

    Conflict is nothing new in our democracy; rather, as Meacham and these texts show, tensions are inherent, stubborn, and perennial. And American Struggle teaches us anew that to know what has come before, to watch as long-running disputes rise and fall, is to be armed against despair.

  • From Mo Willems Workshop, the team behind the #1 bestselling Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, comes this hilarious and engaging alphabet early-learning concept board book with touch-and-trace features throughout.

    The Pigeon won't say the ABCs! He has at least 26 reasons and excuses why not! From absolutely no way to zero chance!

    The Pigeon WON'T Say the ABCs! is part of a collection of original board books featuring the beloved character: The Pigeon.

    Ideal for babies, toddlers, and fans of the picture book series.

  • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The definitive biography of Lorne Michaels, the man behind America's most beloved comedy show

    "The kind of biographical monument usually consecrated to founding fathers, canonical authors and world-historical scientific geniuses."--The New York Times (Editors' Choice)

    "Readers are treated to the Holy Grail for any journalist hoping to crack the show: a warts-and-all week in the life of SNL, where Morrison gets to see the real process of putting the thing together."--Variety

    LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, The New Yorker, Elle, Kirkus Reviews, Denver Public Library

    Over the fifty years that Lorne Michaels has been at the helm of Saturday Night Live, he has become a revered and inimitable presence in the entertainment world. He's a tastemaker, a mogul, a withholding father figure, a genius spotter of talent, a shrewd businessman, a name-dropper, a raconteur, the inspiration for Dr. Evil, the winner of more than a hundred Emmys--and, essentially, a mystery. Generations of writers and performers have spent their lives trying to figure him out, by turns demonizing and lionizing him. He's "Obi-Wan Kenobi" (Tracy Morgan), the "great and powerful Oz" (Kate McKinnon), "some kind of very distant, strange comedy god" (Bob Odenkirk).

    Lorne will introduce you to him, in full, for the first time. With unprecedented access to Michaels and the entire SNL apparatus, Susan Morrison takes readers behind the curtain for the lively, up-and-down, definitive story of how Michaels created and maintained the institution that changed comedy forever.

    Drawn from hundreds of interviews--with Michaels, his friends, and SNL's iconic stars and writers, from Will Ferrell to Tina Fey to John Mulaney to Chris Rock to Dan Aykroyd-- Lorne is a deeply reported, wildly entertaining account of a man singularly obsessed with the show that would define his life and have a profound impact on American culture.

  • A STUNNING DEBUT NOVEL FROM JENNA BUSH HAGER'S NEW VENTURE, THOUSAND VOICES

    A woman finds herself torn between her first love and her devoted husband in this extraordinary debut novel that asks the question: Can one heart hold two great loves?

    "A magnificent, spellbinding love story."--Clare Leslie Hall, New York Times bestselling author of Broken Country

    In the serene town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Lily Webb is deeply in love with a charismatic boy, a college-bound quarterback whose spectacular athletic talents are matched only by his fierce devotion. But their dreams of a life together are cut short when his passionate protectiveness leads to an irrevocable choice--one that tears them apart and leads Lily down a path of heartbreak from which she may never recover.

    Lily already knows the sting of loss, beginning with the death of her mother, a tragedy that left deep scars on both her and her gifted younger sister, Jane. Jane seeks escape in the abstract world of mathematics and quantum mechanics--when she can keep the demons that fuel her addictions at bay. As the years pass, Lily buries her twin griefs deep in her heart, finding solace and a new beginning with Marshall Middleton, a renowned ornithologist whose love is as steadfast as the migration patterns he studies. Yet the shadows of her past linger.

    When the boy who was once everything to Lily reappears in her life, she struggles with questions around that terrible night in high school. Can she reconcile the wild wonderment of her first love with the comfort and safety of her second? Laws of Love and Logic explores love's enduring power and the human spirit's capacity for forgiveness and redemption.

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New Releases | January 27th, 2026

January 25, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • Vigil - Saunders, George (Author)

    • This Is a Love Story: A Read with Jenna Pick - Soffer, Jessica (Author)

    • Heartwood (a Read with Jenna Pick) - Gaige, Amity (Author)

    • Fire Exit - Talty, Morgan (Author)

    Board Books

    • Peter Rabbit: A Fluffy Easter Tale: A Touch-And-Feel Book - Potter, Beatrix (Author)

    • Chicka Chicka You You: A Mirror Book (Chicka Chicka Book) - Martin Jr, Bill (Author), Archambault, John (Author), Roode, Daniel (Illustrator)

    • I've Got a Dog!: A Happy Little Tune - Boynton, Sandra (Author), Boynton, Sandra (Illustrator)

    Graphic Novels

    • Serendipity - Benda, Gabbie (Author), Benda, Gabbie (Illustrator)

    • Run Home: A Graphic Memoir - Bermudez, Alyssa (Author), Bermudez, Alyssa (Illustrator)

    • The Haunted House Next Door the Graphic Novel (Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol: The Graphic Novel #1) - Miedoso, Andres (Author), Glass House Graphics (Illustrator)

    History

    • Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island - Pitts, Mike (Author)

    • Nuclear War: A Scenario - Jacobsen, Annie (Author)

    • Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire - Sancton, Julian (Author)

    • Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space - Higginbotham, Adam (Author)

    Homestead

    • The Regenerative Gardener's Handbook: Essential Techniques for Growing a Garden That Leaves the Land Healthier Than You Found It - Bosch, Briana Selstad (Author)

    Literary Collections

    • Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend - Romney, Rebecca (Author)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Princess Mononoke Film Comic: All-In-One Edition (Princess Mononoke Film Comic: All-In-One Edition #3) - Miyazaki, Hayao (Author)

    Middle Readers

    • Disney/Pixar Hoppers: The Junior Novelization

    • The Stage of Shadows (K-Pop Academy #1) - Finch, Mina (Author)

    Mystery & Thriller

    • Dear Debbie - McFadden, Freida (Author)

    • Pendergast: The Beginning (Agent Pendergast) - Preston, Douglas (Author), Child, Lincoln (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Disney/Pixar Hoppers Little Golden Book

    Political Sciences

    • Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage - Thompson, Heather Ann (Author)

    Puzzle Books

    • Minute Cryptic: Over 160 Wordplay Puzzles to Decipher, Unlock, and Untangle - Tiernan, Angas (Author), Runnalls, Liam (Author)

    Romance

    • The Re-Do List - Williams, Denise (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • To Ride a Rising Storm: The Second Book of Nampeshiweisit - Blackgoose, Moniquill (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • The Great Shadow: A History of How Sickness Shapes What We Do, Think, Believe, and Buy - Bauer, Susan Wise (Author)

    Workbooks

    • Big Feelings, Little Feelings: Get to Know Your Emotions - Mills, Andrea (Author), Scriven, Luke (Illustrator)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • Winner of the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction - Winner of the 2024 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize - Shortlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction - A New York Times Notable Book of 2024

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Stunning...A heart-pounding thriller...Challenger is a remarkable book." --The Atlantic - "Devastating...A universal story that transcends time." --The New York Times - "Dramatic...a moving narrative." --The Wall Street Journal

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, "compelling, and exhaustively researched" (The Washington Post) minute-by-minute account of the Challenger disaster, based on fascinating and new archival research--a riveting history that reads like a thriller.

    On January 28, 1986, just seventy-three seconds into flight, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all seven people on board. Millions of Americans witnessed the tragic deaths of the crew, which included New Hampshire schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe. Like the assassination of JFK, the Challenger disaster is a defining moment in 20th-century history--one that forever changed the way America thought of itself and its optimistic view of the future. Yet the full story of what happened, and why, has never been told.

    Based on extensive archival research and metic-ulous, original reporting, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space follows a handful of central protagonists--including each of the seven members of the doomed crew--through the years leading up to the accident, and offers a detailed account of the tragedy itself and the inves-tigation afterward. It's a compelling tale of ambition and ingenuity undermined by political cynicism and cost-cutting in the interests of burnishing national prestige; of hubris and heroism; and of an investigation driven by leakers and whistleblowers determined to bring the truth to light. Throughout, there are the ominous warning signs of a tragedy to come, recognized but then ignored, and later hidden from the public.

    Higginbotham reveals the history of the shuttle program and the lives of men and women whose stories have been overshadowed by the disaster, as well as the designers, engineers, and test pilots who struggled against the odds to get the first shuttle into space. A masterful blend of riveting human drama and fascinating and absorbing science, Challenger identifies a turning point in history--and brings to life an even more complex and astonishing story than we remember.

  • "The best thriller of 2025." --The Boston Globe * "Genius." --The Washington Post

    "A literary thriller of the highest order" (Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Couple), Heartwood takes you on a gripping journey as a search and rescue team race against time after a woman mysteriously disappears on the Appalachian Trail.

    Deep in the Maine woods, an experienced hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping.

    At the heart of the investigation is Beverly, the determined Maine State Game Warden tasked with finding Valerie, who leads the search on the ground. Meanwhile, Lena, a seventy-six-year-old birdwatcher in a Connecticut retirement community, becomes an unexpected armchair detective. Roving between these compelling narratives, a puzzle emerges, intensifying the frantic search, as Valerie's disappearance may not be accidental.

    Heartwood is a "gem of a thousand facets--suspenseful, transporting, tender, and ultimately soul-mending," (Megha Majumdar, New York Times bestselling author of A Burning) that tells the story of a lost hiker's odyssey and is a moving rendering of each character's interior journey. The mystery inspires larger questions about the many ways in which we get lost, and how we are found. At its core, Heartwood is an "unputdownable" ( Real Simple) and redemptive novel, written with both enormous literary ambition and love.

  • "A perfectly plotted, diabolically fun revenge story. Debbie is such an endearing psychopath -- I couldn't stop reading!" -- Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door

    A brand new twisted thriller that will have you cheering "good for her!" from the #1 New York Times bestselling and global sensation Freida McFadden, author of The Housemaid!

    Sometimes, enough is enough...

    Debbie Mullen is losing it. For years, she has compiled all of her best advice into her column, Dear Debbie, where the wives of New England come for sympathy and neighborly advice. Through her work, Debbie has heard from countless women who are ignored, belittled, or even abused by their husbands. And Debbie does her best to guide them in the right direction.

    Or at least, she did.

    These days, Debbie's life seems to be spiraling out of control. She just lost her job. Something strange is happening with her teenage daughters. And her husband is keeping secrets, according to the tracking app she installed on his phone. Now, Debbie's done being the bigger person. She's done being reasonable and practical. It's time to take her own advice.

    And now it's time for payback against all the people in her life who deserve it the most.

    From #1 New York Times and international bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a biting, subversive thriller about what happens when women finally choose to take justice into their own hands - with killer results.

  • An electric novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world into the next

    Not for the first time, Jill "Doll" Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge, yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife, and lands headfirst in the circular drive of his ornate mansion.

    She has performed this sacred duty 343 times since her own death. Her charges, as a rule, have been greatly comforted in their final moments. But this charge, she soon discovers, isn't like the others. The powerful K. J. Boone will not be consoled, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big, bold, epic life, and the world is better for it. Isn't it?

    Vigil transports us, careening, through the wild final evening of a complicated man. Visitors begin to arrive (worldly and otherworldly, alive and dead), clamoring for a reckoning. Birds swarm the dying man's room; a black calf grazes on the love seat; a man from a distant, drought-ravaged village materializes; two oil-business cronies from decades past show up with chilling plans for Boone's postdeath future.

    With the wisdom, playfulness, and explosive imagination we've come to expect, George Saunders takes on the gravest issues of our time--the menace of corporate greed, the toll of capitalism, the environmental perils of progress--and, in the process, spins a tale that encompasses life and death, good and evil, and the thorny question of absolution.

  • This Little Golden Book is based on Disney and Pixar's Hoppers, releasing in theaters Spring 2026!

    What if you could talk to animals and understand what they're saying? In Disney and Pixar's all-new feature film Hoppers, scientists have discovered how to "hop" human consciousness into lifelike robotic animals, allowing people to communicate with animals as animals! The adventure introduces Mabel, an animal lover who seizes an opportunity to use the technology, uncovering mysteries within the animal world that are beyond anything she could have imagined. This Little Golden Book retelling of the film is perfect for children ages 2 to 5, as well as Disney Little Golden Book collectors of all ages!

    Little Golden Books enjoy nearly 100% consumer recognition. They feature beloved classics, hot licenses, and new original stories . . . the classics of tomorrow.

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