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New Releases March 31st, 2026

March 27, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Activity Books

    • It's the Pigeon Party Book! - Mo Willems Workshop (Author)

    • Kpop Demon Hunters: Official Activity Book

    Adult Art

    • Colorwork Knitting from Head to Toe: 20 Stranded Knitting Patterns for Colorful Accessories - Jorissen, Carmen (Author)

    • Stumpwork Studio--Mastering 3-D Embroidery: 15 Realistic Nature-Inspired Projects to Stitch - Zaniewski, Megan (Author)

    Adult Fiction

    • Upward Bound - Brown, Woody (Author)

    • Son of Nobody - Martel, Yann (Author)

    • The News from Dublin: Stories - Toibin, Colm (Author)

    • American Han - Lee, Lisa (Author)

    • The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau - Harmel, Kristin (Author)

    • Small Great Things (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) - Picoult, Jodi (Author)

    Biography

    • How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself - Lawson, Jenny (Author)

    Board Books

    • Grumpy Monkey Party Time! (Grumpy Monkey) - Lang, Suzanne (Author), Lang, Max (Illustrator)

    • Thank You, Mom! from Baby Bear and Friends (World of Eric Carle) - Carle, Eric (Author), Odd Dot (Author), Carle, Eric (Illustrator)

    • Ten Little Butterflies: A Counting Storybook (Counting Storybooks) - Sobotka, Amanda (Author), Jarzabek, Ela (Illustrator)

    Body, Mind & Spirit

    • Fortunate Frogs: Tarot Deck and Guidebook - Short, Devon (Author)

    Children’s Science & Nature

    • My Encyclopedia of Very Important Animals: For Little Animal Lovers Who Want to Know Everything (My Very Important Encyclopedias)

    • When Twilight Comes: The Animals and Plants That Bring Dawn and Dusk to Life - Atkins, Marcie Flinchum (Author), Morin, Michelle (Illustrator)

    Cookbooks

    • Ohana Style: Food from Hawai'i, for Your Family - Simeon, Sheldon (Author), Snyder, Garrett (With)

    • The Complete Grilling and Barbecue Cookbook: 400+ Recipes Plus Techniques, Tools, and Science - America's Test Kitchen (Author)

    Graphic Novels

    • Inbetweens - Hicks, Faith Erin (Author)

    Great Outdoors

    • To Catch a Fish: Essays on the Joy, Frustration, Curiosity, and Allure of Fishing - Kurlansky, Mark (Author)

    History

    • The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier - Nelson, Megan Kate (Author)

    Horror

    • Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng (First Time Trade) - Baker, Kylie Lee (Author)

    • The Eyes Are the Best Part: Deluxe Limited Edition - Kim, Monika (Author)

    Humor Books

    • At Least You're Not an English Major: And Other Comforting Sentiments for the New Graduate - Boozan, Glenn (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • How a Bear Became a Book: The Collaboration That Created Winnie-The-Pooh - Pimentel, Annette Bay (Author), Pray, Faith (Illustrator)

    • Cowboys at the Ballet: The Story of Choreographer Agnes de Mille - Bobrow, Claire Wrenn (Author), Urbinati, Ilaria (Illustrator)

    • The Aztecs: The Rise and Fall of a Mighty Empire (DK Ancient Histories)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Supergirl Vol. 1: Misadventures in Midvale - Campbell, Sophie (Author), Campbell, Sophie (Illustrator)

    • Batman: Dark Patterns - Watters, Dan (Author), Sherman, Hayden (Illustrator)

    Middle Readers

    • Worst in Show - Gardner, Pj (Author), Jessell, Tim (Illustrator)

    • Tested - Monders, Anna (Author)

    • Wilderness Hacks (Wilderness Hacks) - Brorsen, Joslin (Author)

    • The Green Kingdom: New York Times Bestseller - Funke, Cornelia (Author), Hartung, Tammi (Author), Castrillon, Melissa (Illustrator)

    My First Readers

    • Fox Catches a Wave (My First I Can Read #478) - Tabor, Corey R (Author), Tabor, Corey R (Illustrator)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • The Keeper - French, Tana (Author)

    • King of Ashes - Cosby, S a (Author)

    Nature

    • When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World - Simard, Suzanne (Author)

    • Tree Lore: Magic, Myth, and Wisdom from Root to Bough - Nelson, Dawn (Author), Asenbaum, Julia (Illustrator)

    Personal Growth

    • The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness - Brooks, Arthur C (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Little O Wanted to Know: A Fable about Finding Your True Self - Sarason, Rhea (Author), Barroux (Illustrator)

    • Get Ready for Kindergarten, Curious George (Curious George) - Rey, H A (Author), Rey, H A (Illustrator)

    • Flowers for Mama - Freedman, Deborah (Author), Freedman, Deborah (Illustrator)

    • Serafina Makes Waves - Burgess, Matthew (Author), Rosenthal, Robin (Illustrator)

    • Grumpy Monkey Father's Day Fuss: Includes Fun Stickers! (Grumpy Monkey) - Lang, Suzanne (Author), Lang, Max (Illustrator)

    • Danny Go's Volcano Adventure: A Picture Book (Danny Go!) - Danny Go! (Author), Zolotic, Aleksandar (Illustrator)

    • It's My Bird-Day! - Willems, Mo (Author)

    • Shrinking Violet - Snyder, Laurel (Author), Pham, Leuyen (Illustrator)

    Romance

    • Starside (Deluxe Limited Edition) - Aster, Alex (Author)

    • This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying #1) - Andrews, Ilona (Author)

    • Game on (Into Darkness) - Allen, Navessa (Author)

    Young Adult

    • We're a Bad Idea, Right? - Walther, K L (Author)

    • The Faraway Inn - Durst, Sarah Beth (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    New York Times bestselling author Kristin Harmel returns with a "dazzling diamond of a novel" (Hazel Gaynor, New York Times bestselling author of Before Dorothy) about two jewel thieves, a priceless bracelet that disappears in 1940s Paris, and a quest for answers in a decades-old murder.

    Colette Marceau has been stealing jewels for nearly as long as she can remember, following the centuries-old code of honor instilled in her by her mother, Annabel: take only from the cruel and unkind, and give to those in need. Never was their family tradition more important than seven decades earlier, during the Second World War, when Annabel and Colette worked side by side in Paris to fund the French Resistance.

    But one night in 1942, it all went wrong. Annabel was arrested by the Germans, and Colette's four-year-old sister, Liliane, disappeared in the chaos of the raid, along with an exquisite diamond bracelet sewn into the hem of her nightgown for safekeeping. Soon after, Annabel was executed, and Liliane's body was found floating in the Seine--but the bracelet was nowhere to be found.

    Seventy years later, Colette--who has "redistributed" $30 million in jewels over the decades to fund many worthy organizations--has done her best to put her tragic past behind her, but her life begins to unravel when the long-missing bracelet suddenly turns up in a museum exhibit in Boston. If Colette can discover where it has been all this time--and who owns it now--she may finally learn the truth about what happened to her sister. But she isn't the only one for whom the bracelet holds answers, and when someone from her childhood lays claim to the diamonds, she's forced to confront the ghosts of her past as never before. Against all odds, there may still be a chance to bring a murderer to justice--but first, Colette will have to summon the courage to open her own battered heart.

  • From #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author and illustrator Mo Willems, comes the highly anticipated annual event, The Pigeon's BIRD-DAY!

    The Pigeon has the hat. And the hot dog cake! He is ready for the presents! But ... do YOU think The Pigeon can handle his BIG bird-day surprise!?!

    Get ready for a very special birthday celebration from three-time Caldecott honoree Mo Willems.

  • Book three in the #1 New York Times bestselling Into Darkness Series, following the dark rom-com sensations Lights Out and Caught Up. The game is on for these enemies-to-lovers with laugh-out-loud banter and scorching-hot brat play.

    I hate that woman.

    Tyler Neumann has spent years looking for his father, and not because he wants to meet the man. No, he wants to destroy him. And he'll manipulate whoever he can to exact his revenge.

    Including Stella McCormick. She's everything Tyler hates. Her wealth and privilege have protected her for her entire life, and Tyler thinks it's time she finally paid the price. Whether she's ready to or not.

    I hate that man.

    Stella might not believe in love at first sight, but loathing at first sight--no question. From the moment she sets eyes on Tyler in her tattoo parlor, she knows he's the devil planning to make her life hell.

    Forced to play the part of his girlfriend and invite him into her family's glittering circles, Stella quickly clocks Tyler's ulterior motives. But love and hate are two sides of the same coin, and soon she doesn't know which is worse: being blackmailed by a man who wants to ruin her, or that they can't seem to keep their hands off each other.

    This is an enemies-to-lovers dark romance with morally grey characters. Some themes and scenes may be disturbing to readers. Please check the content warning at the beginning of the book.

  • Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Oprah Daily, Today, BookPage, Goodreads, and more

    From the iconic crime writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has been called "incandescent" by Stephen King, comes the third and final book in the million-copy-bestselling Cal Hooper trilogy.

    On a cold night in the remote Irish village of Ardnakelty, a girl goes missing. Sweet, loving Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the local big shot. Instead, she's dead in the river.

    In a close-knit small town, a death like this isn't simple. It comes wrapped in generations-old grudges and power struggles, and it splits the townland in two. Retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper has friends here now, and he owes them loyalty, but his fiancée Lena wants nothing to do with Ardnakelty's tangles. As the feud becomes more vicious, their settled peace starts to crack apart. And when they uncover a scheme that casts a new light on Rachel's death and threatens the whole village, they find themselves in the firing line.

    "One of the greatest crime novelists writing today" ( Vox) crafts a masterwork of atmospheric suspense that brings the story of one of her most beloved characters to a spellbinding conclusion.

  • From Colm Tóibín, "one of the world's best living literary writers" (The Boston Globe), comes a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America--about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love.

    Celebrated as "his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power" ( Los Angeles Times), Colm Tóibín is a master of short fiction as well as the novel, able to summon an extraordinary intensity of emotion in a brief tale. The eleven stories transport readers across continents and eras.

    In "The Journey to Galway," a mother who has learned of the death of her son, a fighter pilot in World War I, travels to Galway to inform his wife and their three now fatherless children. "Sleep," originally published in The New Yorker, explores the rift between two lovers as one of them cannot reckon with his grief and fear after the death of his brother. Death, again, is a central character in the title story, "The News from Dublin," as Maurice Webster travels to Dublin to try to save his younger brother who is dying of tuberculosis. Maurice must petition the health minister for access to a new experimental drug, and this is the only hope.

    Tóibín's stories are rich with the complexities of family dynamics, the haunting pull of the past, and the quiet revelations that define our lives. His characters, whether navigating the aftermath of war, or forbidden love, or the desires of a girl in Catalan, or the quiet struggles mundane life, are rendered with illuminating, unforgettable empathy and insight.

    The News from Dublin is an exquisite introduction to Tóibín's short fiction for new readers who may have discovered Tóibín with the publication of Long Island, and a glorious new collection for longtime fans of this "achingly beautiful writer...with infinite compassion" ( The Miami Herald).

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New Releases | February 24th, 2026

February 20, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • Playworld (Vintage Contemporaries) - Ross, Adam (Author)

    • Kin - Jones, Tayari (Author)

    • Brawler: Stories - Groff, Lauren (Author)

    • More Than Enough - Quindlen, Anna (Author)

    • A Good Animal - Maurer, Sara (Author)

    • Saoirse - Hurtubise, Charleen (Author)

    • One of Us - Day, Elizabeth (Author)

    Adult Science

    • A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness - Pollan, Michael (Author)

    Animals

    • Raising Hare: A Memoir - Dalton, Chloe (Author)

    Biography

    • The Pit Bull King: Building Dark Dynasty with the World's Most Legendary Dogs - Grennan, Marlon (Author), Alexander, Jamie (With)

    Children’s Science & Nature

    • The Weedy Garden: A Happy Habitat for Wild Friends - Renkl, Margaret (Author), Renkl, Billy (Illustrator)

    • Bog Buddies (Tiny Habitats) - Hevron, Amy (Author), Hevron, Amy (Illustrator)

    • An Anthology of Flowers: A Collection of Flowers from Gardens, Mountains and More, with Fascinating Secrets (DK Little Anthologies)

    Cookbooks

    • Obsessed with the Best: 100+ Methodically Perfected Recipes Based on 20+ Head-To-Head Tests - Quittner, Ella (Author)

    Graphic Novels

    • Cat & Cat Adventures: The Lair of the Owl King: A Graphic Novel (Cat & Cat Adventures #6) - Yi, Susie (Author), Yi, Susie (Illustrator)

    • Mr. Terrific: Year One - Letson, Al (Author), Galmon, Edwin (Illustrator)

    History

    • We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America - O'Donnell, Norah (Author), Andersen Brower, Kate (Author)

    Horror

    • Night of the Mannequins - Jones, Stephen Graham (Author)

    • Hungerstone - Dunn, Kat (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • Talking Books: Audiobook Inventor Dr. Robert B. Irwin and a New Way to Read - Lacika, Jenny (Author), Fortson, Ashanti (Illustrator)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell - Soule, Charles (Author), McNiven, Steve (Illustrator), McNiven, Steve

    • Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Madness Volume 1 - Sztybor, Bartosz (Author), Asano (Illustrator)

    Mystery & Thriller

    • Curtain: Poirot's Last Case: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition (Hercule Poirot Mysteries #37) - Christie, Agatha (Author)

    • Trust No One: A Thriller - Rollins, James (Author)

    • The Crossroads (Joe Pickett Novel) - Box, C J (Author)

    Personal Growth

    • How to Stop Trying: An Overachiever's Guide to Self-Acceptance, Letting Go, and Other Impossible Things - Williams, Kate (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Is It Spring? - Henkes, Kevin (Author), Henkes, Kevin (Illustrator)

    • Forty the Fortune Teller - Daywalt, Drew (Author), Cornell, Kevin (Illustrator)

    • Disney Frozen Ever After (Little Golden Book)

    • The Rare Bird - Cooper, Elisha (Author), Cooper, Elisha (Illustrator)

    • Kitty Caterpillar - Bondor-Stone, Annabeth (Author), White, Connor (Author), Barrager, Brigette (Illustrator)

    • The Monster and Puppet Show!-Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!) - Micucci, Kate (Author), Willems, Mo (Author)

    Political Sciences

    • Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery - Newsom, Gavin (Author)

    Romance

    • And Now, Back to You (Heartstrings) - Borison, B K (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • The Red Winter - Sullivan, Cameron (Author)

    • After the Fall - Ashton, Edward (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • If one day buds bloom and birds chirp, and the next day a late snow falls from the sky, is it spring? Will it ever be spring? An evergreen, child-friendly picture book that explores themes of patience, hope, the seasons, and nature by the New York Times bestseller and Caldecott Medalist Kevin Henkes.

    A flower in the garden down the street. Birds in the sky. Buds on the branches in the park. It must be spring.

    But wait! What is this icy gust of wind? Why are snowflakes falling from heavy gray clouds? Will it ever be spring? Yes, says the sun. Just be patient.

    Kevin Henkes, the #1 New York Times bestseller who has been awarded the Caldecott Medal, two Caldecott Honors, two Newbery Honors, two Geisel Honors, the Children's Literature Lecture Award, and Children's Literature Legacy Award, among numerous other honors, has created a masterful and classic picture book that combines an evocative call-and-response text with delicate and lovely illustrations. Readers will be left assured that the sun--and spring--will always come again.

  • NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - FINALIST FOR THE 2025 WOMEN'S PRIZE - A fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman's unlikely friendship with a wild hare.

    A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, TIME, The Boston Globe, The Economist, Scientific American, Slate

    "Moving. . . . Impart[s] valuable lessons about slowing down and the beauty in the unexpected."--USA Today

    "A perfect testimony to the transformative power of love."--Margaret Renkl, author of The Comfort of Crows

    Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and bounded around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, more than two years later, it still ran in from the fields when you called it and slept in your house for hours on end. For political advisor and speechwriter Chloe Dalton, who spent lockdown deep in the English countryside, far away from her usual busy London life, this became her unexpected reality.

    In February 2021, Dalton stumbles upon a newborn hare--a leveret--that had been chased by a dog. Fearing for its life, she brings it home, only to discover how difficult it is to rear a wild hare, most of whom perish in captivity from either shock or starvation. Through trial and error, she learns to feed and care for the leveret with every intention of returning it to the wilderness. Instead, it becomes her constant companion, wandering the fields and woods at night and returning to Dalton's house by day. Though Dalton feared that the hare would be preyed upon by foxes, weasels, feral cats, raptors, or even people, she never tried to restrict it to the house. Each time the hare leaves, Chloe knows she may never see it again. Yet she also understands that to confine it would be its own kind of death.

    Raising Hare chronicles their journey together while also taking a deep dive into the lives and nature of hares, and the way they have been viewed historically in art, literature, and folklore. We witness firsthand the joy at this extraordinary relationship between human and animal, which serves as a reminder that the best things, and most beautiful experiences, arise when we least expect them.

  • For readers of Colm Tóibín and Claire Keegan, Saoirse is a powerful novel set between the United States and Ireland about a woman who runs from her traumatic past and the secrets she carries to survive.

    In Michigan, Sarah's childhood was defined by fear and silence. As a teenager, she saw a chance to escape and took it. Now, in 1999, she is an artist living on the rugged coast of Donegal, Ireland, where she is known as Saoirse (pronounced Sear-sha)--a name that sounds like the sea and means freedom in the language of her adopted country. And free is precisely how she is finally beginning to feel. Her partner and two beloved daughters are regular subjects of her paintings, and together they have made the safe home she always longed for. But Saoirse's secrets haunt her. No one must learn of the identity she has stolen in order to survive; they cannot know of the dangers that she crossed an ocean to escape.

    When her artwork wins unexpected acclaim at a Dublin exhibition, the spotlight of fame threatens to unravel the careful lies that hold her world together. Journalists and admirers begin to ask questions about the mysterious artist from Donegal, and she fears the unwanted publicity will expose all that she has done.

    Saoirse is an evocative, suspenseful exploration of the intimate relationship between art and life and the lies we tell ourselves in the name of reinvention.

  • A vivid portrait of the unsung American women from 1776 to today who changed the course of history in their fight for freedom and helped shape a more perfect union

    "This terrific book reveals the central, though often hidden role that women have played at every stage of our country's history."--Doris Kearns Goodwin

    Over a decades-long, distinguished career, award-winning journalist Norah O'Donnell has made it her mission to shed light on untold wom­en's stories. Now, in honor of America's 250th birthday, O'Donnell focuses that passion on the American heroines who helped change the course of history.

    We the Women presents a fresh look at American his­tory through the eyes of women, introducing us to inspiring patriots who demanded that the country live up to the prom­ises made 250 years ago in the Declaration of Independence: "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." Since the signing of that document, the pressing question from women has been: Why don't those unalienable rights apply to us?

    Through extensive research and interviews, as well as historical documents and old photos, O'Donnell curates a compelling portrait of these fierce fighters for freedom. From Mary Katherine Goddard, who printed the first signed Declaration of Independence, to the Forten family women, who were active in the abolition and suffrage movements and were considered the "Black Founders" of Philadelphia, to the first women who served in the armed forces even before they had the right to vote, O'Donnell brings these extraordinary women together for the first time, and in doing so writes the American story anew.

  • From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of international intrigue comes a shocking new stand-alone thriller that thrusts a group of university students, falsely accused of murder, into a treacherous hunt across Europe, all to unlock the secrets buried within a centuries-old book that could change humankind forever.

    Knowledge can be magic--until it falls into the wrong hands.

    The ritualistic murder of a British professor at the University of Exeter points to a startling cast of suspects: his own students. All are enrolled in a postgraduate program covering the history of witchcraft, folklore, and spiritualism.

    All evidence points to Sharyn Karr--an American student. Prior to the professor's death, he had thrust a centuries-old book upon her. It appears to be the handwritten and encrypted diary of an eighteenth-century mystic and occultist, the Comte de Saint-Germain. The professor begged her to keep the text safe, ending with a warning: Trust no one.

    Such a responsibility forces her into cooperation with Duncan Maxwell, a fellow postgrad and the sixteenth in line to the British Crown. Already, Duncan has proven himself a savant with encryptions. Unfortunately, the pair clash at every level, but they both need one another. Especially when they discover the book's opening words: Herein lies the secret to my immortality. Come find me, if you dare.

    As dark forces close upon the pair, she and her friends are forced to flee, pursued by law enforcement and hunted by a powerful cabal. In an explosive chase across Europe--from the Tower of London to Parisian chateaus to a fortress in the Italian Alps--Sharyn must learn the true secret hidden in Saint-Germain's text. It will send her and the others across history and deep into the heart of one of the world's greatest mysteries, a secret buried at the roots of Western Civilization, a discovery that could topple empires and change humanity forever.

    For what lies at the end of Saint-Germain's diary is as shocking as its opening words.

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