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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 | February 18th, 2025

February 17, 2025 Clare Brooks
  • Activity Books

    • Sticker Jigsaw: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Baum, L Frank (Author) , Odd Dot (Author) , Mirtalipova, Dinara (Illustrator)

    Adult Fiction

    • The Turtle House - Churchill, Amanda (Author)

    • The Dressmakers of London - Kelly, Julia (Author)

    • The Nightingale Deluxe Edition - Hannah, Kristin (Author)

    • King Nyx - Bakis, Kirsten (Author)

    Adult Science

    • Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them - Kang, Lydia (Author) , Pedersen, Nate (Author)

    Arts & Entertainment

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

    Biography

    • Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe - Guy, John (Author) , Fox, Julia (Author)

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

    Board Books

    • Spring Blooms - Elys, Dori (Author) , Dulieu, Fiona (Illustrator)

    Coloring Books

    • Creative Haven the Four Elements Coloring Book - Adatto, Miryam (Author)

    • Picture the Past(tm) Western Pioneers: Historical Coloring Book - Copeland, Peter F (Author)

    Current Events & Politics

    • The Future of Geography: How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World (Politics of Place #5) - Marshall, Tim (Author)

    Family Issues

    • The 5 Principles of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans - Pressman, Aliza (Author)

    Graphic Novels

    • Halfway to Somewhere - Pimienta, Jose (Author)

    • Investigators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: Wild Ghost Chase - Green, John Patrick (Author) , Hastings, Christopher (Author) , Lewis, Pat (Illustrator)

    • Cassi and the House of Memories - Stuart, Dean (Author) , Stuart, Dean (Illustrator)

    • Almost Sunset - Algarmi, Wahab (Author) , Algarmi, Wahab (Illustrator)

    History

    • Golden State: The Making of California - Hiltzik, Michael (Author)

    • Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK Through Reagan and Bush - Gillon, Steven M (Author)

    • Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts - O'Reilly, Bill (Author) , Dugard, Martin (Author)

    Horror

    • The Gwendy Trilogy (Bind-Up): Gwendy's Button Box, Gwendy's Magic Feather, Gwendy's Final Task (Bind-Up) (Gwendy's Button Box Trilogy) - King, Stephen (Author) , Chizmar, Richard (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • Revolutionary Mary: The True Story of One Woman, the Declaration of Independence, and America's Fight for Freedom - Blumenthal, Karen (Author) , McCartney, Jen (Author) , Baddeley, Elizabeth (Illustrator)

    Literary Collections

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

    • Treenotes: A Year in the Company of Trees - Nadkarni, Nalini (Author)

    Mystery & Thriller

    • A Death in Cornwall (Gabriel Allon #24) - Silva, Daniel (Author)

    • The 24th Hour: A Women's Murder Club Thriller (A Women's Murder Club Thriller #24) - Patterson, James (Author) , Paetro, Maxine (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Good Golden Sun - Wenzel, Brendan (Author)

    • Night Walk - Cockcroft, Jason (Author) , Cockcroft, Jason (Illustrator)

    • Worm Makes a Sandwich - Farley, Brianne (Author)

    Puzzle Books

    • Sudoku Rush: Test Your Skills and Beat the Clock with 175+ Easy to Hard Challenges - Timmerman, Charles (Author)

    Romance

    • The Fox and the Falcon (Deluxe Edition) (Special) (No Other Gods #2) - Cj, Piper (Author)

    • I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com - Lemming, Kimberly (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • Latinoland: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority - Arana, Marie (Author)

    • Who's Afraid of Gender? - Butler, Judith (Author)

    • Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass - Jones, Sarah (Author)

    True Crime

    • The Serial Killer's Apprentice - Ramsland, Katherine (Author) , Ullman, Tracy (Author)

Our Top 5 Picks

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  • The definitive biography of Lorne Michaels, the man behind America's most beloved comedy show

    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.

  • National Bestseller. Named a Best Book of 2024 by NPR, Harper's Bazaar, W, and Esquire.

    "A profoundly urgent intervention." --Naomi Klein

    "A timely must-read for anyone actively invested in reimagining collective futurity." --Claudia Rankine

    From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world.

    Judith Butler, the groundbreaking thinker whose iconic bookGender Troubleredefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on "gender" that have become central to right-wing movements today. Global networks have formed "anti-gender ideology movements" that are dedicated to circulating a fantasy that gender is a dangerous, perhaps diabolical, threat to families, local cultures, civilization--and even "man" himself. Inflamed by the rhetoric of public figures, this movement has sought to nullify reproductive justice, undermine protections against sexual and gender violence, and strip trans and queer people of their rights to pursue a life without fear of violence.

    The aim ofWho's Afraid of Gender?is not to offer a new theory of gender but to examine how "gender" has become a phantasm for emerging authoritarian regimes, fascist formations, and trans-exclusionary feminists. In their vital, courageous new book, Butler illuminates the concrete ways that this phantasm of "gender" collects and displaces anxieties and fears of destruction. Operating in tandem with deceptive accounts of "critical race theory" and xenophobic panics about migration, the anti-gender movement demonizes struggles for equality, fuels aggressive nationalism, and leaves millions of people vulnerable to subjugation.

    An essential intervention into one of the most fraught issues of our moment,Who's Afraid of Gender?is a bold call to refuse the alliance with authoritarian movements and to make a broad coalition with all those whose struggle for equality is linked with fighting injustice. Imagining new possibilities for both freedom and solidarity, Butler offers us a hopeful work of social and political analysis that is both timely and timeless--a book whose verve and rigor only they could deliver.

  • A FEBRUARY LIBRARYREADS PICK!

    A hilarious and sexy romance about a woman who gets dropped on a strange planet only to fall for not one, but two, aliens, from the author of I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf.

    Dorothy Valentine is close to getting her PhD in wildlife biology when she's attacked by a lion. On the bright side, she's saved! On the not-so-bright side, it's because they're abducted by aliens. In her scramble to escape, Dory and the lion commandeer an escape pod and crash-land on an alien planet that has...dinosaurs?

    Dory and her new lion bestie, Toto, are saved in the nick of time by a mysterious and sexy alien, Sol. On their new adventure, they team up with the equally hot, equally dangerous Lok, who may or may not be a war criminal. Whether it be trauma, fate, or intrigue, Dory can't resist the attraction that's developing in their trio....

    As this ragtag group of misfits explore their new planet, Dory learns more about how and why they've all ended up together, battles more prehistoric creatures than she imagined (she imagined...zero), and questions if she even wants to go back home to Earth in this hilarious and steamy alien romance adventure comedy romp.

  • The complete omnibus collection of the New York Times bestselling trilogy from Stephen King and Richard Chizmar!

    In Gwendy's Button Box, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson's life is forever changed when she is given a mysterious wooden box by a stranger for safekeeping. It offers enticing treats and vintage coins, but he warns her that if she presses any of the box's beautifully colored buttons, death and destruction will follow.

    Years later, in Gwendy's Magic Feather, she's a successful novelist with a promising future in politics. But when the button box suddenly reappears in her life, she must decide if she is willing to risk everything for its temptations.

    And in the thrilling conclusion Gwendy's Final Task, evil forces seek to possess the button box and it is up to Senator Gwendy Peterson to keep it from them at all costs. But where can one hide something so destructive from such powerful entities?

  • THE MEGA-BESTSELLING GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES CONTINUES!

    More than three million copies in print!

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

    New S.U.I.T. recruit Zeb the sheep joins the flock to help crack the greatest mystery of all! But, uhh...just what is the greatest mystery of all?

    That's the question that's kept the dearly departed General Inspectre haunting Earth long after he should have moved on to the great super-spy base in the sky. Having a ghost in the halls of S.U.I.T. wouldn't be so bad...except he's possessing agents! Zeb -- along with Cilantro, Bongo, Marsha, and everyone's favorite Gators -- must decipher the series' biggest mystery EVER. They've got to free their pal and finish the Inspectre's unfinished business!

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