• Welcome
    • About
    • Current Business Hours & Info
    • Employment
    • Meet The Staff
    • Staff Picks
    • Awards
  • Local Author Consignment
  • Blog
  • Testimonials
    • Special Order Requests
    • School & Library Special Order Requests
  • Contact
Menu

Little Village Toy & Book Shop

81B Main Street
Littleton, NH, 03561
(603) 444-4TOY
Play... Laugh... Learn...

Your Custom Text Here

Little Village Toy & Book Shop

  • Welcome
    • Welcome
    • About
    • Current Business Hours & Info
    • Employment
    • Meet The Staff
    • Staff Picks
    • Awards
  • Local Author Consignment
  • Blog
  • Testimonials
  • Special Orders
    • Special Order Requests
    • School & Library Special Order Requests
  • Contact

New Releases | September 22nd, 2026

September 18, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • Hollywood, Ending (Signed Edition) - Green, John (Author)

    • Time of the Child - Williams, Niall (Author)

    • Circle of Days - Follett, Ken (Author)

    Arts & Entertainment

    • Rock*: A Mainstream Alternative History of Alternative Mainstream Music - Klosterman, Chuck (Author)

    Biography

    • An Unexpected Life: A Memoir - Steinem, Gloria (Author)

    • Actually, Nevermind: Essays - Tomlinson, Taylor (Author)

    • Swan Song: Diana, My Sister - Spencer, Charles (Author)

    Board Books

    • Your Horse: (A Board Book with Minimalist Illustrations That Explores Imagination, Friendship, and Companionship) (Your Things) - Klassen, Jon (Author), Klassen, Jon (Illustrator)

    • Our Little Adventure at Thanksgiving: Featuring Foundational Language Concepts and Lessons on Gratitude (Tabitha Paige Children's Book) - Paige, Tabitha, MS CCC-SLP (Author)

    Children's Science & Nature

    • Pack Ice Paradise (Tiny Habitats) - Hevron, Amy (Author), Hevron, Amy (Illustrator)

    Cookbooks

    • All Hours: Crazy Good Food for Whatever, Whenever: A Cookbook - Onwuachi, Kwame (Author), Stein, Joshua David (Author)

    • Meals You Can't Mess Up: 100+ Actually Easy Recipes for Big Flavor with Little Effort - Spence, Shay (Author), Drummond, Ree (Foreword by)

    • Happy Snacking, Don't Die!: Foraging and Vegan Recipes with Black Forager (a Cookbook) - Nelson, Alexis Nikole (Author)

    Family Issues

    • The Dysregulated Kid: The Parenting Playbook for Helping Your Child Find Calm in a Chaotic World - Capanna-Hodge, Roseann (Author)

    Graphic Novels

    • Framed: A Graphic Novel - Evans, Karina (Author), Bell, Andrea (Author)

    Great Outdoors

    • The Echo: Stories from the Edge of Survival - Blanchard, Barry (Author), Dean, Jeremy (Not Available)

    History

    • Shadow Before the Flame: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Prelude to War - Katz, Catherine Grace (Author)

    • Witchland: A Deadly Moral Panic in Seventeenth-Century Britain - Gibson, Marion (Author)

    Horror

    • Widow's Point: The Complete Haunting - Chizmar, Richard (Author), Chizmar, W H (Author)

    • Mazywood - Due, Tananarive (Author)

    • Sometimes I Scare Myself: A Collection of Horror - Rose, Jeneva (Author), Rose, Jeneva (Afterword by), Rose, Jeneva (Introduction by)

    • Traps and Specters: Stories - Fracassi, Philip (Author), Dinniman, Matt (Introduction by)

    • Coffin Moon - Rosson, Keith (Author)

    Humor Book

    • Star Wars Quips and Comebacks: Mix and Match More Than 150,000 Zingers from a Galaxy Far, Far Away. . . . (Star Wars) - Lucasfilm Ltd (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • Weird But True! Christmas: Expanded Edition: 350 Festive Facts to Light Up the Holidays (Weird But True!) - National Geographic Kids (Author)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Ultimate Endgame (Ultimate Endgame) - Camp, Deniz (Author), Dodson, Terry (Illustrator), Scharf, Jonas (Illustrator), Brooks, Mark (Not Available)

    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Mirage Years 1984-1987--IDW Classic Collections - Eastman, Kevin (Author), Laird, Peter (Author)

    • Cells at Work! Cat 1 (Cells at Work! Cat) - Kaire, Meku (Illustrator), Aozora, Choco (Author), Shimizu, Akane (Created by)

    Middle Readers

    • I Am a Good Dog: A Dogtown Book (Dogtown Book #3) - Applegate, Katherine (Author), Choldenko, Gennifer (Author), West, Wallace (Illustrator)

    • Deerheart - Colfer, Eoin (Author), Lynch, P J (Illustrator)

    • Bravepaw and the Clawstone of Rotwood Mire (Bravepaw #2) - Wilkinson, L M (Author), Naidu, Lavanya (Illustrator)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel: The New Miss Marple Mystery - Foley, Lucy (Author), Christie, Agatha (Author)

    • The Munich Affair - Patterson, James (Author), Ellis, David (Author)

    • No Rest for the Wicked: A Coldren County Novel (Coldren County Novel #1) - Adams, Rachel Louise (Author)

    • Nash Falls - Baldacci, David (Author)

    • Double Tap: A Mitch Rapp Novel by Don Bentley (Mitch Rapp Novel #25) - Flynn, Vince (Author), Bentley, Don (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Pete the Cat and the Cookie Catastrophe (Pete the Cat) - Dean, James (Author), Dean, Kimberly (Author), Dean, James (Illustrator)

    • The Lonely Fox - Phan, Neena (Author), Phan, Neena (Illustrator)

    • Diffy - Lies, Brian (Author)

    • The Inactivity Book - Maclear, Kyo (Author), Subisak, Tracy (Illustrator)

    • Young Cat, Old Cat - Tamaki, Jillian (Author), Tamaki, Jillian (Illustrator)

    • Rebecca - Beaton, Kate (Author), Smith, Sydney (Illustrator)

    • Beware the Sock Monkeys! - Stutzman, Jonathan (Author), Fox, Heather (Illustrator)

    • The Voice of the Snow! - Ohnari, Yuko (Author), Hata, Koshiro (Illustrator), Balistrieri, Emily (Translator)

    • Horizontal Crocodile - Rothman, Scott (Author), Won, Brian (Illustrator)

    • Tom Nancy: The Sheep Who Swapped Brains with a Boy - Barnett, Mac (Author), Fang, X (Illustrator)

    • Fire in Your Belly - LaFond, Rebecca (Author), McKnight, Aly (Illustrator)

    • The Captain's Christmas - Tourbillon, Mathilde (Author), Cerocchi, Beatrice (Illustrator)

    Political Sciences

    • All the Wrong Moves: How Three Catastrophic Decisions Led to the Rise of Trump - Scaramucci, Anthony (Author)

    • Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country - Beshear, Andy (Author)

    • The Elections That Changed the World: Fifteen Pivotal Moments That Shaped How We Live (Original) - Bash, Dana (Author), Fisher, David (With)

    Romance

    • The Sweetest Fiend (Deluxe Limited Edition) (Played by the Piper #1) - Kennedy, Raven (Author)

    • Harbinger - Lee, Geneva (Author)

    • The Little Shop of Merry and Bright - Bayliss, Jenny (Author)‍

    • ‍The Wretched Divine (Wretched Divine #1) - Grace, Adalyn (Author) ‍

    • A Curse for Christmas Past - Lockhart, Morgan (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • No Killing Goblins: Book One, Part Two of the Wandering Inn Series (Wandering Inn #2) - Pirateaba (Author)

    • The Strangers - Alderman, Naomi (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • Fast Food Nation 25th Anniversary Edition: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal - Schlosser, Eric (Author)

    Sports

    • It's All about the Players: What I've Learned from Baseball's Best - Gammons, Peter (Author)

    Stickers

    • The Collector's Curio: A Sticker Treasury - Roux, Jessica (Author)

    Travel

    • A World of Bookish Places: Travel Inspiration for Book Lovers - Dk Travel (Author)

    Young Adult

    • Empire (Heir Duology) - Tahir, Sabaa (Author)

    • School Bus Graveyard, Volume 2 (School Bus Graveyard) - Red (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

Untitled-6073-Hardcover-9780525556657_9c94d025-e805-427a-aee6-4da24aa6812d.55994c4889868c8be9b1250b90d52f3a.jpeg 9780063376694.jpeg 9798217379743.jpeg 9781538758007.jpeg images.jpeg
  • #1 bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return to fiction with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story about finding someone to trust in an untrustworthy world. Signed edition

    "Green's novel of betrayal and survival, trust and love is a fluent condemnation of the machine of commercialization and a paean to art.... A spellbinding, tender, incisive, funny, and compassionate story of love and creativity." --Booklist, starred review

    For rising talents Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, being cast in the buzzy biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old is the opportunity they've both been waiting for. They're on the verge of breaking out, and maybe even falling in love. Soon, the movie is blowing up, and so are their lives--in exciting, but also terrifying, ways.

    John Green artfully blends a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story with an unflinching examination of the insatiable attention economy. Told through dual points of view, the novel brilliantly juxtaposes the on-screen study of Warhol's life at the dawn of celebrity culture with the intimate struggles of two young people figuring out who they are, both together and alone.

    Tender, heartbreaking, and shrewdly funny, this is a story as only Green can tell it. Hollywood, Ending is a deeply observed novel about the tension between a public and a private life, and the audacity to pursue the kind of love we all deserve.

  • "Lucy Foley channels the one-and-only Agatha Christie with precision and flair. I couldn't put it down!" -- Bonnie Garmus, #1 New York Times bestselling author

    The brand-new Miss Marple mystery from Lucy Foley, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List and The Midnight Feast.

    High in the Swiss Alps, accessible only by a single, winding railway, stands the luxurious Grand Alpine Hotel. With glorious mountain views and exclusive access to powdery slopes, it draws guests from far and wide.

    The notorious actress.

    The high-flying politician.

    The society wife.

    The reckless friend.

    The shrewd doctor.

    But not everyone is here for a winter holiday.

    Beneath the champagne and furs, dark histories simmer; old grudges emerge like cracks in the ice.

    And someone is watching from the shadows. A polite, unassuming woman with an extraordinary mind: Miss Marple.

    When a body is found and a blizzard cuts off all escape, only Miss Marple can connect the clues before the killer strikes again. Because it isn't a question of who has a motive, but who's next...

  • Beautiful. Beloved. Hunted. The extraordinary life and death of Diana, as told by her brother, Charles.

    "When asked, 'What was it like, growing up with Diana?', my first thought is always, But I don't know what it was like not to grow up with her..."

    In September 1997, Charles Spencer stood in Westminster Abbey before a watching world and shared his grief at losing his beloved sister, Diana. Now, nearly thirty years later, he tells the astonishing story of his life with Diana and the tragic week of her death.

    In childhood, Charles and Diana, the youngest Spencers, were inseparable - secretly calling one another Duch and Carlos. As each other's closest confidantes, they roamed the family estate, endured extremely challenging boarding schools, survived terrifying nannies, and helped each other through the agony of their parents' divorce.

    Yet everything changed when Diana married the Prince of Wales, now King Charles III, and overnight became a global icon. Charles saw his older sister serve the world's marginalized and relish being mother to her treasured sons.

    But, pursued by a barbaric press as her royal marriage crumbled, she was left desperately alone. Charles always tried to be there for Diana - until that black night in August, 1997.

    In Swan Song, Charles Spencer provides the most intimate, loving, and honest portrait yet of his sister.

  • When Walter Nash is recruited by the FBI to help bring down a global crime network his life is turned completely upside down in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.

    Nash is an intelligent man, tough but fair-minded. He has a wife and a daughter and a very high-level position at Sybaritic Investments, where his innate skills and dogged tenacity have carried him to the top of the pyramid in his business career. Despite never going on grand adventures, and always working too many hours, he has a happy and upscale life with his family.

    However, following his estranged Vietnam-veteran father's funeral, Nash is unexpectedly approached by the FBI in the middle of the night. They have an important request: become their inside man to expose an enterprise that is laundering large sums of money through Sybaritic. At the top of this illegal operation is Victoria Steers, an international criminal mastermind that the FBI has been trying to bring down for years.

    Nash has little choice but to accept the FBI's demands and try to bring Steers and her partners to justice. But when Steers discovers that Nash is working with the FBI, she turns the tables on him in a way he never could have contemplated. And that forces Nash to take the ultimate step both to survive and to take his revenge: He must become the exact opposite of who he has always been.

    And even that may not be enough.

  • "The Munich Affair is a master class in tension and a perfect historical thriller." --Martha Hall Kelly, New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls

    "This World War II-era thriller feels startlingly modern and essential. As you watch a detective, a journalist, a resistance leader, and a professor race to solve past crimes, the boundaries of time quickly give way to pure suspense." --Brad Meltzer, bestselling author of The Nazi Conspiracy

    A suspenseful thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author, James Patterson, that spans a century--set in motion by the murder of Adolf Hitler's young lover by his own hand.

    A determined detective, Thomas Bauer, obsessively pursues Hitler--putting Bauer's Jewish wife and children in grave danger.

    A courageous journalist, Fritz Gerlich, writes story after story detailing the murder--making Gerlich a target for Hitler's Gestapo.

    An American professor, Eleanor Robbins, picks up the trail of evidence from present-day Neo-Nazis guarding the Führer's long-held secrets to the death.

    "Much more than a historical murder mystery, this lively and engaging story--from two masters at the top of their game--reminds us that 'those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' You need to read this one and never forget." --Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author

Tags Shop Local, little village toy & Book Shop, Matt Dinniman, Baseball, Christmas, Elections, Pete the Cat, James Patterson, Marvel, Star Wars, Thanksgiving, Princess Diana, John Green

New Releases | September 8th, 2026

September 4, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • Some Bright Nowhere - Packer, Ann (Author)

    • Taipei Story (Deluxe Limited Edition) - Kuang, R F (Author)

    • The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny - Desai, Kiran (Author)

    • The Pirate Queen: A Novel from the New York Times Bestselling Author of the Frozen River - Lawhon, Ariel (Author)

    • Switzy - Cline, Emma (Author)

    • We Love You, Bunny - Awad, Mona (Author)

    • The Witches of Cambridge - Hoffman, Alice (Author)

    • A Guardian and a Thief - Majumdar, Megha (Author)

    Animals

    • Living with Freddie: How a Dog Taught Me to Be Human - Heyward, Anna (Author)

    Biography

    • The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir - Bishop, Kelly (Author), Sherman-Palladino, Amy (Foreword by)

    Board Books

    • Counting Winter - Carlstrom, Nancy White (Author), McGehee, Claudia (Illustrator)

    • Santa Bruce: A Perfect Gift for the Holidays! (Mother Bruce) - Higgins, Ryan T (Author)

    • The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Peekaboo Thanksgiving - Carle, Eric (Author), Carle, Eric (Illustrator)

    • Holiday House: A Scratch-And-Sniff Adventure - Elys, Dori (Author), Neradova, Maria (Illustrator)

    Body, Mind & Spirit

    • Krampus, Witches, and the Wild Hunt: Alpine Traditions for the Dark Half of the Year - Brunner, Christian (Author), Reyer, Sophie (Author), Liemberger, Wolfgang (Author), Leonards, Amelia (Contribution by)

    • The Joy of Tarot: Reading the Cards with Daring and Delight - Fernie (Author), Reed the Tarot Lady, Theresa (Foreword by)

    • Backslide: Reclaiming a Faith and a Nation After the Christian Turn Against Democracy - Jones, Robert P (Author)

    Children’s Poetry

    • The Extraordinary History of the Fae: Fairies, Spirits, and Other Magical Beings (The Extraordinary Histories) - Atkinson, Hazel (Author), Pham, Camelia (Illustrator)

    Children’s Science & Nature

    • A Riddle of Eels - Day, Nicholas (Author), Tabor, Corey R (Illustrator)

    • Wonders of the Wild: Sharks (Wonders of the Wild) - Birkmanis, Charlotte (Author), Dejert, Gustav (Illustrator)

    Cookbooks

    • Food Is a Feeling: Recipes & Stories, with Love - Lalli, Carla (Author)

    • Carla Bakes: Sweet, Savory, and from the Heart [A Baking Book] - Hall, Carla (Author), Chattman, Lauren (With)

    • Sips on the Slopes: Drinks + Bites for Après-Ski - Epstein, Kelley (Author), Fuller, Ren (Photographer)

    Family Issues Books

    • What to Do When There's a New Baby in the Family (Big Feelings Books for Toddlers) - Goodwin, Cara, PhD (Author), Turner, Katie (Illustrator)

    Graphic Novels

    • Very Far from Home: A Graphic Novel - Larson, Hope (Author), Larson, Hope (Illustrator)

    • Mind vs. Machine: The Chess Match That Changed the World - Sheinkin, Steve (Author), Ashley, Maurice (Author), Pham, Thien (Illustrator)

    • Don't Be Scared: A Graphic Novel - Faruqi, Saadia (Author), Amin, Shadia (Illustrator)

    • Minecraft: The Manga, Vol. 7 - Seto, Kazuyoshi (Author)

    • Detective Beans: And the Map of Mystery: Volume 3 (Detective Beans) - Chen, Li (Author)

    Homestead

    • Your Flower Year: Blooms to Grow and Enjoy Every Month of the Year (Your Year) - DK (Author), Robin, Clover (Illustrator)

    Horror

    • Pictures of You - Malerman, Josh (Author)

    • All Hallows Eve - Datlow, Ellen (Editor), Golden, Christopher (Author), Graham Jones, Stephen (Author), Emelumadu, Chikodili (Author), Murray, Lee (Author), Langan, John (Author), Ballingrud, Nathan (Author), Nix, Garth (Author), Evenson, Brian (Author), Malerman, Josh (Author), Larson, Rich (Author), Chapman, Clay McLeod (Author), Llewellyn, Livia (Author), Marshall Smith, Michael (Author), Addison, Linda D (Author)

    • She's a Doll - Truelove, Barbara (Author)

    Humor Books

    • Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes - Cathcart, Thomas (Author), Klein, Daniel (Author)

    Literary Collections

    • Plot Twist: Life, Craft, and the Messy First Draft: A Memoir on Writing - Coben, Harlan (Author)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • The End 2099 - Orlando, Steve (Author), Roberson, Ibraim (Illustrator), Marquez, David (Not Available)

    • Absolute Batman Vol. 3: Devil's Workshop (Absolute Universe) - Snyder, Scott (Author), Dragotta, Nick (Illustrator)

    • DC/Marvel: The Cosmic Kiss Caper & Other Stories - Morrison, Grant (Author), Waid, Mark (Author), Mora, Dan (Illustrator), Jimenez, Jorge (Illustrator)

    • The Amazing Digital Circus, Vol. 1 (The Amazing Digital Circus #1) - Glitch Productions (Author), Gooseworx (Author), Sakura (Illustrator)

    Middle Readers

    • Princess Bulldog #1: Princess Power Trip (Princess Bulldog #1) - Goyal Yu, Lovi (Author)

    • Old School - Korman, Gordon (Author)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • The Proving Ground: A Lincoln Lawyer Novel (Lincoln Lawyer Novel) - Connelly, Michael (Author)

    • The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon) - Brown, Dan (Author)

    • Fury in Death (In Death #63) - Robb, J D (Author)

    • Christmas Mysteries at the Mysterious Bookshop - Penzler, Otto (Editor)

    Personal Growth

    • Trust: Knowing When to Give It, When to Withhold It, How to Earn It, and How to Fix It When It Gets Broken - Cloud, Henry (Author)

    • The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict - Parker, Priya (Author)

    Picture Books

    • The Woodland Nutcracker: A Picture Book - Pray, Faith (Author)

    • Bear's Nap - Gravett, Emily (Author)

    • Lennie and the Mighty Oak: (A Picture Book about a New Baby, Sibling Feelings, and Friendship for Kids Ages 4-8) - Twist, Anne (Author), Sutton, Emily (Illustrator)

    • The Weather Keeper - Buchet, Nelly (Author), Haidle, Elizabeth (Author)

    • I Am a Spicy Nugget - Brantz, Loryn (Author), Brantz, Loryn (Illustrator)

    • The First Christmas - Burton, Jeffrey (Author), Caparo, Antonio Javier (Illustrator)

    Political Sciences

    • How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time - Longwell, Sarah (Author)

    • Off Ramp: How to Be a Peacemaker in an Age of Contempt - Cox, Spencer (Author), Haidt, Jonathan (Foreword by)

    Romance

    • Big Bad Wolf (Maple Hollow #1) - Gilmore, Laurie (Author)

    • Tempest (Deluxe Limited Edition) (Lyrian Sea #1) - Aveyard, Victoria (Author)

    • The Exorcism of Faeries (Morbid Realities #1) - Vampa, J L (Author)

    • Disenchanted - Wood, Lucy Jane (Author)

    • Love Felt Like This - Olivia, Julie (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • Massif - Nix, Garth (Author)

    • He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 2: Adventurer (He Who Fights with Monsters #2) - Deverell, Travis (Author), Shirtaloon (Author)

    • The Passing of the Dragon and Other Stories - Liu, Ken (Author)

    • Among the Burning Flowers (Roots of Chaos) - Shannon, Samantha (Author)

    • Neuromancer: Deluxe Edition (Special) - Gibson, William (Author)

    Spinner Rack Books

    • Bluey: The Weekend (Bluey)

    Sports

    • The Playbook: The Hidden Forces Shaping Winners and Losers in the Modern NFL - Robinson, Joshua (Author), Clegg, Jonathan (Author)

    Travel

    • The World's Most Haunted Places - Belanger, Jeff (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

9780593313015.jpeg 9780307744555.jpeg christmas-mysteries-at-the-mysterious-bookshop-9781613168165_hr.jpg 9780385550345.jpeg 03d7939b-2592-432c-a768-e33a5076eab6.jpg
  • GLOBAL PHENOMENON NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK

    INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    THE NEW ROBERT LANGDON THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC AUTHOR OF THE DA VINCI CODE

    The world's most celebrated thriller writer and author of The Da Vinci Code returns with his most stunning novel yet--a propulsive, twisty, thought-provoking masterpiece that will entertain readers as only Dan Brown can do.

    Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, has traveled to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon--a prominent noetic scientist with whom he has recently begun a romantic relationship. Katherine is on the verge of publishing a breakthrough book that contains explosive scientific discoveries about the nature of human consciousness . . . revelations that threaten to disrupt centuries of established belief.

    When a brutal murder catapults the trip into chaos, Katherine suddenly goes missing--and her manuscript disappears. Desperate to find the woman he loves, Langdon embarks on a thrilling race through the mystical landscape of Prague, ruthlessly hunted by a powerful organization and a chilling assailant sprung from the city's ancient mythology.

    As the action expands to London and New York, Langdon plunges into the dual worlds of futuristic science and historical lore--navigating a labyrinth of codes and symbols . . . and finally uncovering a shocking truth about a secret project that will forever change the way we think about the human mind.

  • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR

    ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

    ONE OF PEOPLE'S TOP 5 BOOKS OF THE YEAR

    BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST

    KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR, Time, Oprah Daily, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Economist, Harper's Bazaar, The Globe and Mail, BBC, New York Post, Kirkus Reviews, Elle, Library Journal, Libby, Chicago Public Library, Lit Hub

    LONGLISTED FOR THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD - A LIBBY BOOK AWARD NOMINEE - ONE OF BOOKPAGE'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

    A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years--an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss

    "A transcendent triumph . . . not so much a novel as a marvel."--The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

    "A magnificent saga."--Washington Post

    "Lavish, funny, smart, and wise, this is a novel that will last."--The Boston Globe

    "A spectacular literary achievement. I wanted to pack a little suitcase and stay inside this book forever."--Ann Patchett

    "A novel so wonderful, when I got to the last page, I turned to the first and began again."--Sandra Cisneros

    "Devastating, lyrical, and deeply romantic . . . an unmitigated joy to read."--Khaled Hosseini

    "A masterpiece."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review

    "A sweeping page-turner, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is a kind of Romeo and Juliet story for a modern, globalized age."--Publishers Weekly (Top 10 New Fall Books)

    When Sonia and Sunny first glimpse each other on an overnight train, they are immediately captivated yet also embarrassed by the fact that their grandparents had once tried to matchmake them, a clumsy meddling that served only to drive Sonia and Sunny apart.

    Sonia, an aspiring novelist who recently completed her studies in the snowy mountains of Vermont, has returned to her family in India. She fears that she is haunted by a dark spell cast by an artist to whom she had once turned for intimacy and inspiration. Sunny, a struggling journalist resettled in New York City, is attempting to flee his imperious mother and the violence of his warring clan. Uncertain of their future, Sonia and Sunny embark on a search for happiness together as they confront the many alienations of our modern world.

    The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is the sweeping tale of two young people navigating the many forces that shape their lives: country, class, race, history, and the complicated bonds that link one generation to the next. A love story, a family saga, and a rich novel of ideas, it is the most ambitious and accomplished work yet by one of our greatest novelists.

  • Eighteen puzzling Christmas tales set in New York City's beloved mystery bookstore

    In 1993, The Mysterious Bookshop--the oldest mystery specialty bookstore in the world--began an annual tradition by inviting bestselling author Donald E. Westlake to write an original short story set in the bookshop during the holiday season. Each year since then, The Mysterious Bookshop commissions a new short story from a leading author to give out as a holiday gift for its customers.

    The prompt for the story requires three elements: that it be set at Christmastime, that it involve a crime of some kind, or the suspicion of one, and that it be set at least partially in the bookstore. Beyond these guidelines, authors had free rein to take the story in whatever direction they chose. This volume collects the first eighteen stories commissioned by the bookshop from 1993 to 2010.

    Included are tales by Megan Abbott, Rupert Holmes, Mary Higgins Clark, Andrew Klavan, and Ed McBain, plus an updated introduction by Mysterious Bookshop proprietor Otto Penzler. Some of the stories are humorous, others thrilling, and still others are tales of pure detection. But all are guaranteed to put you in the holiday spirit.

  • A sweeping historical adventure inspired by the life of Grace O'Malley, the legendary Irish folk heroine who risked everything to defend her people. Venture onto the high seas with the thrilling latest from the New York Times bestselling author of The Frozen River and I Was Anastasia.

    Grace O'Malley was born to be a sea captain. But despite her natural skill on the water, Grace learns early that her dreams of a life at the helm are not compatible with the expectations of her noble family. As the only daughter of a powerful chieftain, her role is to secure a strong alliance and bear children. But when she's sent to foster with a nearby clan, Grace falls for a clever and open-minded second son--a man she cannot have.

    Married off against her will to a brutal warrior, Grace performs her duty, all the while gathering followers loyal to her, and consolidating her husband's power, only to be ousted from his lands. But this betrayal offers Grace the opportunity to return to sea, finally leading clan O'Malley's mighty fleet. Just as she finds true independence, Queen Elizabeth's incursions into Ireland grow bolder and Grace must fight to defend her land, her ships, and the people she loves most against the cruel and power-hungry English deputies, who will stop at nothing to check her influence.

    Keenly observed and fiercely written, Ariel Lawhon's new action-packed novel channels the untamed beauty and harsh realities of sixteenth-century Ireland, as seen through the eyes of an unforgettable heroine who rightly became "the Pirate Queen of Ireland."

  • This limited deluxe hardcover features gorgeous stenciled edges - available on the first printing only!

    From R.F. Kuang, the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author of Katabasis and Yellowface, comes a wryly humorous and profoundly moving coming-of-age novel that grapples with grief, language, and culture shock--all set against the backdrop of an unforgettable summer in Taipei.

    College freshman Lily Chen is off to spend the summer in Taipei at an intensive language program like so many Chinese American students before her, hoping to connect with the culture she inherited but never fully understood. But a promising start quickly unravels. Her classes are grueling, her roommate is driving her insane, and a reckless trip to the hot springs with a guy she barely knows soon has her classmates viciously gossiping. She feels adrift, a foreigner in a country she thought would feel like home.

    Then shocking news arrives: Lily's grandfather has passed away. The loss forces her to grapple with now-unanswerable questions about her family history. As Lily grieves, she's drawn into a journey of self-discovery--piecing together memories, stories, and silences over a series of hilarious and devastating attempts at connection.

    Taipei Story asks: What if the diaspora fantasy of homecoming never comes true? What if learning a language can't bring you any closer to the people you're trying to reach? What if you search for your family's history, but your family doesn't want to share? What if you wait too long to ask the right questions? As Lily struggles for answers, her summer becomes a poignant search for understanding--of herself, her family, and the meaning of home.

Tags Shop Local, little village toy & Book Shop, RF Kuang, Holidays, Batman, Laurie Gilmore, DC comics, Marvel, Nutcracker, Bluey, NFL

New Releases | August 18th, 2026

August 14, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • Wreck - Newman, Catherine (Author)

    • Where Are You Really from: Stories - Hsieh Chou, Elaine (Author)

    • The Lost Baker of Vienna - Kurtzman, Sharon (Author)

    Adult Science

    • Bioinspired: How Nature Made Us Modern, Drives Today's Technological Innovation, and Inspires a Future Worth Inventing - Stier, Samuel Cord (Author)

    Board Books

    • The Power of Our - Hurston, Zora Neale (Author), Kendi, Ibram X (Author), Ejaita, Diana (Illustrator)

    • Noisy Nursery Rhymes: Includes 6 Sounds and an On/Off Switch on the Back Cover! (My First)

    Body, Mind & Spirit

    • The Surrender Experiment: My Journey Into Life's Perfection - Singer, Michael A (Author)

    Coloring Books

    • Comfy Buddies: A Cozy Christmas Coloring Book - Wu, Lucy (Author)

    • Color and Solve: Murder Mansion: Color the Crime Scene and Solve the Murder Mystery! - Santelli, Alessandra (Author)

    Cookbooks

    • The Great Little Pumpkin Cookbook - Krondl, Michael (Author)

    Graphic Novels

    • Spaced Out the Graphic Novel (Moon Base Alpha the Graphic Novel) - Gibbs, Stuart (Author), Jenkins, Ward (Illustrator)

    Great Outdoors

    • Up on Cove Mountain: Adventure, Tragedy, and a Quest for Meaning on the Appalachian Trail - Swift, Earl (Author)

    History

    • Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire - Strauss, Barry (Author)

    Horror

    • Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II - Hawk, Shane (Editor), Van Alst, Theodore C, Jr (Editor)

    Just the Facts

    • Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story (Race to the Truth) - Fairbanks, Ashley (Author)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Avengers: Time Runs Out [Marvel Premier Collection] (Marvel Premier Collection) - Hickman, Jonathan (Author), Caselli, Stefano (Illustrator), Deodato, Mike, Jr (Illustrator), Mayhew, Mike (Illustrator)

    • Avengers: Secret Wars [Marvel Premier Collection] (Marvel Premier Collection) - Hickman, Jonathan (Author), Ribic, Esad (Illustrator)

    • D'Orc Volume 1: The Book of Certain Doom - Bean, Brett (Author), Beaulieu, Jean-Francois (Colorist), Piekos, Nate (Letterer)

    • Batman & Son: DC Compact Comics Edition (DC Compact Comics) - Morrison, Grant (Author), Kubert, Andy (Illustrator), Delperdang, Jesse (Illustrator)

    • Harley & Ivy: Life & Crimes - Henderson, Erica (Author) , Henderson, Erica (Illustrator)

    • Half Is More, Vol. 1 (Half Is More #1) - Fujimi, Yoiko (Author)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • Brain Damage - McFadden, Freida (Author)

    • That Night - McAllister, Gillian (Author)

    • Delusional: A Michael Bennett Thriller (A Michael Bennett Thriller #18) - Patterson, James (Author), Born, James O (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Little Blue Truck Lost and Found (Little Blue Truck #41) - Schertle, Alice (Author), McElmurry, Jill (Illustrator)

    • Penelope Rex vs. the New Kid (A Penelope Rex Book) - Higgins, Ryan T (Author)

    • I Am a Leaf - Mozzillo, Angelo (Author), Balducci, Marianna (Illustrator)

    • I've Loved You from the Start: A Tender Story of Unconditional Love (Tabitha Paige Children's Book) - Paige, Tabitha, MS CCC-SLP (Author)

    Political Sciences

    • The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy - Durán, Gil (Author)

    Romance

    • How to Find a Romance in a Bookshop - Alexander, Poppy (Author)

    • A Fellowship of Curses & Cats (Deluxe Edition) (Adenashire #4) - Penner, J (Author)

    • Rose in Chains (The Evermore Trilogy #1) - Soto, Julie (Author)

    • Sinister: A Dark Academia Gothic Romance - Lancet, Veronica (Author)

    • The Blue Moon Café & 24-Hour Occult Emporium - Sharabianlou, Lexie (Author)

    • Something about September: A Cozy Fall Romance - McKay, Julia (Author)

    • The Poison Daughter - Masterson, Sheila (Author)

    • Book Lovers: Deluxe Edition - Henry, Emily (Author)

    • Five Broken Blades: A Slow-Burn Assassin Romantic Fantasy - Corland, Mai (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • The Society of Unknowable Objects - Brown, Gareth (Author)

    • The Calamities (Fiends) - Wendig, Chuck (Author)

    • Time to Play - Ampersand, Erin (Author)

    Sports

    • Pardon My Book: Ten Years of the Best (and Worst) in Sports from Pardon My Take - Big Cat (Author), Commenter, Pft (Author)

    Young Adult

    • Knocking on Windows: A Memoir (Reprint) - Atkins, Jeannine (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

612eaa6c-f0ad-481b-ab38-add02b31fd18.jpg a1b92049-edab-4fe0-bf3c-435353b9b14a.jpg 9781368108706.jpg 9780063488953.jpg 9781302970291.jpg
  • It's a fun day on the farm with the #1 New York Times bestselling Little Blue Truck and friends--until Toad goes missing!

    Toad helps prepare for a hayride by loading piles of hay into Little Blue's truck bed. But when they're ready for a ride, Toad is nowhere to be found! Can Blue and his farm animal friends find Toad in time for him to join the fun?

    This seventh picture book in the beloved and bestselling Little Blue Truck series features all the rhyme, rhythm, animal sounds, and good old-fashioned fun and friendship that Blue is known for. Join Blue and friends for another adventure on the farm!

    Check out the other exciting stories and formats in the Little Blue Truck series and celebrate all year 'round with Blue and friends!

  • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK - INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    "Wreck is a delight. What an absolute joy to be reunited with Rocky and her family, the characters we all fell in love with in Sandwich. Newman's prose is laugh-out-loud funny. It's also profound. I couldn't stop reading, even though I didn't want it to end."--J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of The Cliffs

    "Wreck is the kind of book that pulls up a chair, pours the wine, and dives deep--equal parts hilarious, sharp, and achingly sincere. I didn't just read it--I felt known by it. A luminous, laugh-out-loud triumph."--Alison Espach, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding People

    The acclaimed bestselling author of Sandwich is back with a wonderful novel, full of laughter and heart, about marriage, family, and what happens when life doesn't go as planned.

    If you loved Rocky and her family on vacation on Cape Cod, wait until you join them at home two years later. (And if this is your first meeting with this crew, get ready to laugh and cry--and relate.)

    Rocky, still anxious, nostalgic, and funny, is living in Western Massachusetts with her husband Nick and their daughter Willa, who's back home after college. Their son, Jamie, has taken a new job in New York, and Mort, Rocky's widowed father, has moved in.

    It all couldn't be more ridiculously normal . . . until Rocky finds herself obsessed with a local accident that only tangentially affects them--and with a medical condition that, she hopes, won't affect them at all.

    With her signature wit and wisdom, Catherine Newman explores the hidden rules of family, the heavy weight of uncertainty, and the gnarly fact that people--no matter how much you love them--are not always exactly who you want them to be.

  • A brand-new Penelope Rex book from Ryan T. Higgins, the #1 New York Times best-selling author-illustrator ofWe Don't Eat Our Classmates and Mother Bruce!

    Just when she has gotten used to being the only dinosaur in a class full of children, Penelope Rex is surprised to learn that the new kid is...a dinosaur just like her! Will the playground be big enough for the two of them?

    Penelope Rex is the only dinosaur in her school and she likes it that way. But when a new kid joins her class, Penelope doesn't know how to feel about it--because this new kid is another dinosaur! As she tries to welcome Patty Topps, Penelope is faced with some dino-size questions about standing out, fitting in, and what really makes her feel special.

    Readers will root for Penelope as she navigates what it means to be one of a kind (even if she's no longer the only kid in her class who is seven feet tall and covered in scales).

  • NOW STREAMING ON NETFLIX

    "McAllister is the best at putting her characters in impossible situations and making her readers not only contemplate but feel what it would be like to find themselves in those situations." -- Emily Henry

    From the author of Reese's Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong Time comes an electrifying thriller about three siblings torn apart by the cover-up of a death while on a family vacation in Italy.

    On vacation in Europe, Frannie makes two urgent phone calls. One to her sister, and one to her brother. The siblings come running, and they find their sister covered in blood, kneeling over an unmoving body.

    There's been an accident: Frannie has hit a man with her car, and she needs their help. They bury the body, and they make a promise. They'll never tell anyone.

    But when the police come calling, the siblings' lies start to spiral. They begin to doubt their trust in each other. Because what really happened that night?

    And who will be the first to crack?

    With the incredible twists and turns and a unique look at family relationships that McAllister has become known for, That Night is the ultimate summer thriller that asks: what would you do to protect your family?

  • THE MARVEL UNIVERSE IS DESTROYED...BUT WHAT COMES NEXT?!

    The end has arrived. The unstoppable wave of interdimensional Incursions has obliterated universe after universe until only two remained -- the Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe. Their collision has left nothing but Battleworld a vast, patchwork planet forged from the shattered remnants of countless realities.

    On this broken stage, heroes and villains struggle to survive. Strange new domains rise. Familiar faces return in shocking new forms. And at the throne of creation itself sits Doom -- absolute master of all.

    VISIONARY. DEFINITIVE. UNMISSABLE.

    From master storyteller Jonathan Hickman comes the definitive Marvel saga -- the cataclysmic event where the Fantastic Four, Avengers, Spider-Man, the X-Men and more face their final battle as the entire Multiverse falls!

    COLLECTING: Secret Wars (2015) #1-9, Free Comic Book Day 2015 (Secret Wars) #0 (A story)

Tags Shop Local, little village toy & Book Shop, Christmas, Anthony Bourdain, Marvel, James Patterson, Little Blue Truck, Romance, Julie Soto, Appalachian Trail

New Releases | August 11th, 2026

August 7, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • Another Brooklyn, 10th Anniversary Edition - Woodson, Jacqueline (Author)

    • Under the Falls - Russo, Richard (Author)

    • You'll Love It Here - Sue, Natalie (Author)

    Adult Science

    • Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization - McKibben, Bill (Author)

    Biography

    • Hannah Arendt: A Life of the Mind - Meyer, Thomas (Author), Frisch, Shelley (Translator)

    • A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care, and Survival: A Memoir - Eubanks, Virginia (Author)

    Board Books

    • The Baby Wide-Mouthed Frog: A Pop-Up Book - Faulkner, Keith (Author), Best, Amelia (Illustrator)

    Body, Mind, & Spirit

    • Holly Black's Faerie Tarot Deck and Guidebook: From the World of Elfhame - Black, Holly (Author)

    • A Walk in the Wood: Meditations on Mindfulness with a Bear Named Pooh - Parent, Joseph (Author)

    Business & Technology

    • The Technology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Big Ideas)

    Children's Science & Nature

    • A Bear Belongs: A Wildlife Rescue Story - Barr, Catherine (Author), Hobday, Harriet (Illustrator)

    Coloring Book

    • Cozy Capybara: Coloring Book for Adults and Kids (Cozy Spaces Coloring) - Wyo, Coco (Author)

    • The Official Baldur's Gate 3 Coloring Book

    Cookbooks

    • What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking: Make It Fast - Chambers, Caroline (Author)

    • Coffee Shop at Home: The Ultimate Guide to Making Your Favorite Coffee Drinks - Diaz, Katerina (Author)

    • Healthy Everyday Gluten Free: 70 Delicious Recipes Designed with Nutrition in Mind (Healthy Everyday)

    Graphic Novels

    • Exposures: A Story about Life with Ocd and the Power of Facing Your Fears - Williams, Lily (Author)

    Horror

    • Reliquary - Whitten, Hannah (Author)

    • Tantrum - Moulton, Rachel Eve (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • Who Circled the Globe in Seventy-Two Days? Nellie Bly: A Who HQ Graphic Novel (Who HQ Graphic Novels) - Gillman, Melanie (Author), Mock, Rebecca (Illustrator), Who Hq (Author)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Lynx, Vol. 1 (Lynx #1) - Sattin, Samuel (Author), Tokitokoro (Illustrator)

    Middle Readers

    • How to Train Your Dragon School: Fight of the Flamestrike (How to Train Your Dragon School #2) - Cowell, Cressida (Author)

    • Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories 2: From the Creator of Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Awesome Friendly Kid) - Street Kinney, Jeff (Author)

    • Secrets of the Purple Pearl (The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science #2) - McKinnon, Kate (Author)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • The Secrets We Hide: A North Falls Thriller (North Falls Thriller #2) - Slaughter, Karin (Author)

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

    Personal Growth

    • The Greatest Secret in the World: The Powerful Book That Unlocks a World of Personal Happiness and Achievement - Mandino, Og (Author)

    Picture Books

    • A Very Scary Book - Diterlizzi, Angela (Author), Diterlizzi, Tony (Illustrator)

    • Fall Days with Frog and Toad (Frog and Toad) - Lobel, Arnold (Author), Lobel, Arnold (Illustrator)

    • Billy and the Hole - Goecke, Jessica (Author), Goecke, Jessica (Illustrator)

    • Landing in a New Pond - Ramel, Marisa (Author), Doehring, Jennifer (Illustrator)

    • Eon: My Pet Tardigrade - Young, Cybèle (Author), Jocelyn, Nell (With)

    • This Book Is Seriously Silly! (a Narwhal and Jelly Picture Book #2) - Clanton, Ben (Author)

    • Richard Scarry's Busiest People Ever! 50th Anniversary Edition - Scarry, Richard (Author)

    Political Sciences

    • We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza's Youth - Alnaouq, Ahmed (Editor), Bailey, Pam (Editor)

    • What Happened to Liberal Democracy?: Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity - Acemoglu, Daron (Author)

    Romance

    • The Magic We Made (Witches of West Harbor #2) - Cabot, Meg (Author)

    • Bonds of Hercules (Reissue) (Villains of Lore #2) - Mas, Jasmine (Author)

    • Anathema (The Eating Woods #1) - Lake, Keri (Author)

    • Insatiable: The Edge of Darkness Trilogy - Rivers, Leigh (Author)

    • Bonfire and Bliss Bookstore (a Hope Harbor Novel): A Cozy Fall Romance - Nicole, Brittanée (Author)

    • In What World - Morrissey, Bridget (Author)

    • The Matchmaker's Cottage: A Cozy Fall Romance - Sloane, Kat (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • The Wandering Inn: Book One, Part One of the Wandering Inn Series (Wandering Inn #1) - Pirateaba (Author)

    • Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil - Schwab, V E (Author)

    • Awaken Online, Book 1: Catharsis - Bagwell, Travis (Author)

    Workbooks

    • Lots and Lots of Ocelots: A Skip Counting Book - Fang, Vicky (Author), Chang, Angel (Illustrator)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

9798217229277.jpg images.jpg 44932576-1e61-47ea-ae48-fef042df4d93.png 9780063516380.jpg 292fd3c9-2142-44a8-a35c-64d81389b543.jpg
  • Cuddle up with your very own capybara friend in this brand new coloring book from the bestselling Coco Wyo!

    Imagine a world filled with capybaras! In this cozy coloring book, there is a capybara on every page just waiting for your creative spark. So grab your colors and get ready to soothe your soul and light your imagination with your new capybara friends!

    This coloring book includes:

    - 45 hand-drawn pages ready for your creativity

    - Large, bold designs that are easy to color

    - Convenient 8 x 8-inch size, perfect for relaxing anywhere

    - Crisp, high-resolution illustrations that bring each page to life

  • Instant New York Times Bestseller!

    Return of the Spider is the stunning companion novel to Along Came a Spider , the New York Times bestselling classic thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author, James Patterson .

    Enter the thrilling world of the #1 bestselling detective series that inspired the Prime Video show, Cross .

    Along Came a Spider introduced Detective Alex Cross to readers around the globe and delivered an unsurpassed rivalry: Cross--named the "human superhero" by The New York Times--versus Gary Soneji, who the Lexington-Herald Leader called the "most deliciously wicked character since Hannibal Lecter". 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 as a rookie homicide detective.

    Now, Alex must retrace the steps of that long-ago investigation and face ... the Return of the Spider.

    "Alex Cross is a legend. He has thrilled us and kept us on the edge of our seats for twenty years now." --Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Gone Before Goodbye

  • #1 New York Times bestseller - #1 USA Today bestseller - #1 National Indie bestseller - #1 IndieNext List, June 2025 - 2025 Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Fantasy

    A genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger from V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Now in trade paperback with a new short story!

    This is a story about hunger.

    1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada.

    A young girl grows up wild and wily--her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, María makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets.

    This is a story about love.

    1827. London.

    A young woman lives an idyllic but cloistered life on her family's estate, until a moment of forbidden intimacy sees her shipped off to London. Charlotte's tender heart and seemingly impossible wishes are swept away by an invitation from a beautiful widow--but the price of freedom is higher than she could have imagined.

    This is a story about rage.

    2019. Boston.

    College was supposed to be her chance to be someone new. That's why Alice moved halfway across the world, leaving her old life behind. But after an out-of-character one-night stand leaves her questioning her past, her present, and her future, Alice throws herself into the hunt for answers . . . and revenge.

    This is a story about life--how it ends, and how it starts.

    "Schwab has impressively woven a compelling character drama and feminist critique into a horror thriller...sumptuous descriptions of place and time, and the slow-burn melodrama between each of the women... a tale told sharply but sweetly enough it goes down as easy as that happy-hour cocktail that, surprisingly, knocks you flat." -- The New York Times

    "Schwab sends you whirling through a dizzying kaleidoscopic adventure through centuries filled with love, loss, art and war--all the while dazzling your senses with hundreds of tiny magical moments along the way." --Naomi Novik

  • "Pirateaba is an amazing world builder, and as a writer, I am in awe of their story constructing skills....The Wandering Inn is a favorite... You won't find anything else like it." - Matt Dinniman, New York Times Bestselling Author of Dungeon Crawler Carl

    Enter the Innverse: the massive epic fantasy world created by pirateaba that has become a LitRPG sensation, now for the first time in a physical edition!

    "No killing Goblins."

    So reads the sign outside of The Wandering Inn, a small building run by a young woman named Erin Solstice. She serves pasta with sausage, blue fruit juice, and dead acid flies on request. And she comes from another world. Ours.

    It's a bad day when Erin finds herself transported to a fantastical world and nearly gets eaten by a Dragon. She doesn't belong in a place where monster attacks are a fact of life, and where Humans are one species among many. But she must adapt to her new life. Or die.

    In a dangerous world where magic is real and people can level up and gain classes, Erin Solstice must battle somewhat evil Goblins, deadly Rock Crabs, and hungry [Necromancers]. She is no warrior, no mage. Erin Solstice runs an inn. She's an [Innkeeper].

    Thus starts the first volume of The Wandering Inn, an epic fantasy series filled with heart and fear, magic, dragons, and monsters, adventurers and chess players...and humans pulled from the real world into a wondrous and deadly land where the game is to survive and these new pieces could decide who's the winner.

  • The INSTANT New York Times bestseller

    Are you ready? Bonds of Hercules the sequel to the viral hit Blood of Hercules is here! The deluxe limited paperback edition features gorgeous sprayed edges and full-color character art. Packed with spicy romance, Greek mythology, and dangerous husbands, Bonds of Hercules is perfect for fans of tension, betrayal, and choosing sides.

    I'm Hercules, but my powers are not what they seem.

    I'm trapped in a marriage with my two enemies and I've accidentally joined a cult. To make matters worse, Augustus and Kharon are trying to seduce me. It doesn't help that my mentors, Achilles and Patro, are acting really strange.

    Now, a dangerous prisoner has escaped from the Underworld, and things are spiraling out of control.

    Men are fighting over me.

    Mysteries are unfolding left and right.

    And I've had enough.

    Everybody better beware because I'm fighting in the Gladiator Competition and seizing my power.

    Things are about to get very messy.

    For Sparta.

    A Dark Romantasy for readers who love:

    "Who did this to you?"

    Kickass heroine

    Extreme Enemies to Lovers

    Morally Gray Alpha Heroes

    Greek Myths and Gladiator competitions

    Zodiac Academy, Quicksilver and Shield of Sparrows

Tags Shop Local, little village toy & Book Shop, Hannah Whitten, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Karin Slaughter, James Patterson, Frog and Toad, Richard Scarry, VE Schwab

New Releases | August 4th, 2026

July 31, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Art

    • The Hunger Games Cross-Stitch Kit: Includes 4 Patterns (Rp Minis)

    Adult Fiction

    • Flesh: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) - Szalay, David (Author)

    • Take What You Can - Coster, Naima (Author)

    • Meet Me in the Garden - Lacour, Nina (Author)

    • Kitten - Yu, Stacey (Author)

    Biography

    • The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn - Zirin, Dave (Author)

    Board Books

    • The Gruffalo's Child - Donaldson, Julia (Author), Scheffler, Axel (Illustrator)

    Body, Mind & Spirit

    • The Llewellyn Tarot: Updated and Enhanced 20th Anniversary Edition - Ferguson, Anna-Marie (Author)

    Chapter Books

    • Super Diaper Baby: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers: Color Edition (from the Creator of Dog Man) (Color) (Captain Underpants) - Pilkey, Dav (Author), Pilkey, Dav (Illustrator)

    • Ghoulia and the Ghost with No Name (Book #3) - Cantini, Barbara (Author)

    • Heart of the Ruby Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #32) - West, Tracey (Author), Howells, Graham (Illustrator)

    • Unlikely Friends: A Branches Book (Diary of a Dinoghost #1) - Arnaldo, Monica (Author), Arnaldo, Monica (Illustrator)

    Children's Science & Nature

    • National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Space, 2nd Edition - Hughes, Catherine D (Author), National Geographic Kids (Author)

    Coloring Books

    • Color and Solve: Murder Mansion: Color the Crime Scene, Analyze the Clues, and Solve the Murder Mystery! (Color and Solve) - Santelli, Alessandra (Author)

    Cookbooks

    • The Complete High-Protein Cookbook: Hit Your Protein Goals, Boost Fiber, Love Every Bite - America's Test Kitchen (Author)

    Fun & Games Books

    • I Spy Fantasy: A Book of Picture Riddles (I Spy) - Marzollo, Jean (Author), Wick, Walter (Illustrator)

    • Total Nightmare Mad Libs: World's Greatest Word Game (Mad Libs) - Fehrenbaker, Katie (Author), Mad Libs (Author)

    Graphic Novels

    • Rex Rocket: Cosmic Wiener Dog: (A Graphic Novel) (Rex Rocket) - Gallagher, John (Author)

    • The New Student: A Graphic Novel (Mr. Wolf's Class #6) (Mr. Wolf's Class) - Steinke, Aron Nels (Author), Steinke, Aron Nels (Illustrator)

    • Feeling Good! (Cabin Head and Tree Head, Book #2) - Campbell, Scott (Author)

    • Cat Loaf Adventures Volume 1 - Kat Ariyn (Author), Kat Ariyn (Illustrator)

    Horror

    • It (Special Edition) - King, Stephen (Author)

    • The Unknown - Sager, Riley (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • What Do We Know about Fairies? (What Do We Know About?) - Hubbard, Ben (Author), Who Hq (Author), Conley, Laurie A (Illustrator)

    • What Do We Know about Werewolves? (What Do We Know About?) - Medina, Nico (Author), Who Hq (Author), Gutierrez, Manuel (Illustrator)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Dark Nights: Metal: DC Compact Comics Edition (DC Compact Comics) - Snyder, Scott (Author), Capullo, Greg (Illustrator)

    • DC K.O. - Snyder, Scott (Author), Fernandez, Javi (Illustrator)

    • DC K.O.: All Fight - Various (Author), Various (Illustrator)

    • DC K.O.: Battle Royale - Williamson, Joshua (Author), Adams, Jeremy (Author), Mora, Dan (Illustrator), Di Giandomenico, Carmine (Illustrator), Boutin, Pat (Illustrator)

    • The Marshal King, Vol. 1 (The Marshal King #1) - Boichi (Author)

    • Shinobi Undercover, Vol. 2 (Shinobi Undercover #2) - Takegushi, Ippon (Author), Mitarashi, Santa (Illustrator)

    Middle Readers

    • The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures) - Rundell, Katherine (Author), MacKenzie, Ashley (Illustrator)

    • Shook - Randall, Julian (Author), Walker, Nathan (Illustrator)

    • What We Do at Night (Goosebumps House of Shivers #7) (Goosebumps House of Shivers) - Stine, R L (Author)

    • Nando: Volume 4 (Best Friends Dog Tales) - Hoyle, McCall (Author)

    My First Readers

    • Playing Rough (Pokémon: Scholastic Reader, Level 2) - Webster, Christy (Author)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • The Amateur - Bohjalian, Chris (Author)

    • The Impossible Fortune: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery (A Thursday Murder Club Mystery) - Osman, Richard (Author)

    • The Widow - Grisham, John (Author)

    • Death Row - McFadden, Freida (Author)

    • The Killing Stones: A Detective Jimmy Perez Novel (Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves #1) - Cleeves, Ann (Author)

    Nature

    • The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life - Whybrow, Helen (Author)

    Personal Growth

    • Psych.: The Story of Psychology (DK Essential Histories)

    • How to Grow Up Without Becoming a Grown-Up: Big Lessons from Little Kids - Shapiro-Barnum, Julian (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Owl by Myself (An Owl by Myself Story) - Oswald, Pete (Illustrator)

    • The Next Shiny Object - Talbott, Hudson (Author), Talbott, Hudson (Illustrator)

    • Sunday Scaries - Shumaker, Debra Kempf (Author), Naidu, Lavanya (Illustrator)

    • Off the Wall: Making Stuff Together - Martinez-Neal, Juana (Author), Idle, Molly (Author), Martinez-Neal, Juana (Illustrator), Idle, Molly (Illustrator)

    • If the Moon - Burgess, Matthew (Author), Forsythe, Matthew (Illustrator)

    • Who Knows the Way to Mr. Grimly's Classroom? - Priestley, Chris (Author), Di Giorgio, Mariachiara (Illustrator)

    • Thank You for This Day - Aiyana, Sheleana (Author), Roux, Jessica (Illustrator)

    • Bluey's Heelerween (Bluey) - Magro, Jessica (Author)

    Romance

    • Devour Me (Devour Me #1) - Rath, Emily (Author)

    • The Lunatics - Allen, Navessa (Author)

    • Adversary to the Villain: A Cozy Fantasy Romantic Comedy (Assistant and the Villain #4) - Maehrer, Hannah Nicole (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl) - Dinniman, Matt (Author)

    • Be Still My Unbeating Heart - Winning, Josh (Author)

    • Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes #3) - Baldree, Travis (Author)

    • House of the Beast - Wong, Michelle (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • The Fight for Sex Ed: The Century-Long Battle Between Truth and Doctrine - Myers, Margaret Grace (Author)

    Spinner Rack Books

    • Race to Celebrate (Disney/Pixar's Cars) (Pictureback)

    • Monster Jam: Wheels Up, Classroom Crusher! - Aveling, Marisa (Author), Vandenberg, Neil (Illustrator)

    True Crime

    • The Vampire's Cult: The Untold Story of Obsession, Control, and a Shocking Small-Town Murder - Hardin, Chet (Author)

    • In the Still of the Night: The Strange Death of Ronda Reynolds and Her Mother's Unceasing Quest for the Truth (A Killer True Crime Bestseller) - Rule, Ann (Author)

    Young Adult

    • The Dream Thieves: The Graphic Novel (The Raven Cycle: The Graphic Novels) - Stiefvater, Maggie (Author), Milledge, Sas (Author), Milledge, Sas (Illustrator)

    • Wings of Reverie (Wings of Pixie Hollow) - Bright, Anna (Author)

    • Sunrise on the Reaping (the Hunger Games) - Collins, Suzanne (Author)

    • The Killing Rules: A Shape-Shifting Horror Romance - DeSpain, Bree (Author)

    • Everything Comes Back to You - Khalilieh, Jackie (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

9780593820278.jpg 71hEAt7jKBL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg 81W0Kkq0QKL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg 9780593685297.jpg c42c557c-2a85-4aae-b381-73b87f6f8c2e.png
  • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Join Carl and his ex-girlfriend's cat, Princess Donut, as they fight fantastical creatures and deadly mobs to make it to the next level and build the kind of fan following the dungeon masters can't ignore in the second book in the smash-hit Dungeon Crawler Carl series--now with bonus material exclusive to this print edition.

    "Greetings, Crawlers! The training levels have concluded. Now the games may truly begin."

    The aliens have come, and they've transformed Earth into a multilevel, video game-like dungeon. It's the newest season of the galaxy's most watched game show, Dungeon Crawler World. Now on the third floor, Carl and Donut have to fight harder than ever. They've already proven that a Coast Guard vet and once-and-forever feline royalty are an almost unstoppable team. Their ratings are off the charts. Viewers can't get enough. But the dungeon gets more dangerous each day, and now there's a whole new problem to deal with: Quests.

    They call it the Over City. A sprawling, once-thriving metropolis devastated by a mysterious calamity. But these streets are far from abandoned. An undead circus trawls the ruins. Murdered women rain from the sky. An ancient spell is finally ready to reveal its dark purpose. Can Carl and Donut solve the mystery in time?

    And can Carl finally find some pants?

    Includes part two of the exclusive bonus story "Backstage at the Pineapple Cabaret."

  • A thrilling novella from #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden!

    Death is coming for her... unless she finds the truth first.

    Talia Kemper is on death row for murdering her husband. She had an alibi and no known motive, yet Talia's unwavering protestations of innocence have always been ignored.

    Then one day in the visiting area, she sees a man she's certain is her husband. The person she's been convicted of killing may not be dead after all.

    But as the days tick away toward Talia's execution, what will it take for her to be believed?

    With all hope of an appeal fading away, the fate of a condemned murderess takes a shocking turn in a breathtaking novella from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid!

  • The phenomenal fifth book in the Hunger Games series: Haymitch's story.

    #1 USA Today Bestseller - #1 New York Times Bestseller - #1 Indie Bestseller - #1 Publishers Weekly Bestseller - A New York Times Editors' Choice

    "A propulsive, brutal Hunger Games prequel is here. And it's great." The New York Times

    When you've been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?

    As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes.

    Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves.

    When Haymitch's name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He's torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who's nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he's been set up to fail. But there's something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.

  • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - John Grisham is the acclaimed master of the legal thriller. Now, he's back with his first-ever whodunit, even more suspenseful than his courtroom dramas, as a small-time lawyer accused of murder races to find the real killer to clear his name.

    "A classic, compulsive, taut and thrilling novel from one of the great storytellers of our time. The Widow is John Grisham at his irresistible, unforgettable best."--Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colors of the Dark

    Simon Latch is a lawyer in rural Virginia, making just enough to pay his bills while his marriage slowly falls apart. Then into his office walks Eleanor Barnett, an elderly widow in need of a new will. Apparently, her husband left her a small fortune, and no one knows about it.

    Once he hooks the richest client of his career, Simon works quietly to keep her wealth under the radar. But soon her story begins to crack. When she is hospitalized after a car accident, Simon realizes that nothing is as it seems, and he finds himself on trial for a crime he swears he didn't commit: murder.

    Simon knows he's innocent. But he also knows the circumstantial evidence is against him, and he could spend the rest of his life behind bars. To save himself, he must find the real killer....

    Don't miss John Grisham's forthcoming thriller, The French Illusion!

  • Item descriptionThe first edition of this stunning hardcover features designed endpapers, a foil-stamped case, hued edges, and a shimmery jacket!

    In 1926, five women disappeared from a remote island in Vermont. Now, one hundred years later, it's happening again.

    Struggling actress Marin Keane is shocked when she lands a role in a major motion picture about the unsolved mystery of New Avalon, an island on sprawling Lake Faraday in Vermont. She's even more surprised when she learns that the role requires a weeklong research trip to that very spot.

    Because New Avalon isn't your ordinary island. A century ago, it was a commune for spiritual mediums--until they all vanished in 1926. The only trace of them was five dresses hanging from the branches of an old oak tree in the middle of the island, one for each missing woman. Some locals say they simply left. Others think they were murdered. But the prevailing opinion, thanks to a diary left behind by one of the vanished, a young woman named Daisy Rue, is that a séance gone wrong conjured something supernatural that took them all one by one.

    Not long after arriving, Marin and her castmates, including legendary actress Violet Wright and white-hot director Ronan Peters, begin to realize all is not right with New Avalon. They hear strange noises in the night and notice mysterious symbols left behind by the island's previous occupants. And after a sudden health emergency leaves Marin, Ronan, and the other actors stranded on the island, the disappearances begin again.

    Is it the work of someone trying to derail the movie? Or is the island's alleged supernatural past catching up with the present? As fear and suspicion mount, Marin turns to Daisy's diary, hoping it holds the key to figuring out what really happened to the women of New Avalon--and how to keep the island's terrible history from repeating itself.

Tags Shop Local, little village toy & Book Shop, Hunger Games, Dragons, National Geographic Kids, Stephen King, DC Comics, Dav Pilkey, Pokemon, Bluey, Dungeon Crawler Carl

New Releases | July 28th, 2026

July 24, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • The Wedding People - Espach, Alison (Author)

    • Meet Me in Paris - Harmel, Kristin (Author)

    • The Good Parts - Normandin, Evann (Author)

    • Beginning Middle End - Luiselli, Valeria (Author)

    Arts & Entertainment

    • But Have You Read the Book? Romance Edition: 40 Love Stories That Inspired Our Favorite Films - Lopez, Kristen (Author)

    Biography

    • All That's Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir - Hackney, Emilee (Author)

    • Baldwin: A Love Story - Boggs, Nicholas (Author)

    Board Books

    • Dr. Seuss's What Was I Scared Of? with 12 Silly Sounds!: An Interactive Read and Listen Book [With Battery] (Dr. Seuss Sound Board Books) - Dr Seuss (Author)

    • Wonderful Halloween - Martin, Emily Winfield (Author), Martin, Emily Winfield (Illustrator)

    • Luna and the Witch Throw a Halloween Party - Plaza, Aubrey (Author), Murphy, Dan (Author), Peck, Hannah (Illustrator)

    Children's Poetry

    • Mother Boo: Poems from Spookytown - Vansickle, Vikki (Author), Lounsbury, Jennica (Illustrator)

    D&D TCG

    • Pokécology an Illustrated Guide to Pokémon Ecology (Pokemon Pikachu Press)

    Graphic Novels

    • Dare You to Dance: (A Graphic Novel) - Mock, Rebecca (Author)

    • The Girl Who Loved Monsters (A Devilfish Bay Book) - Fitzpatrick, Insha (Author), Franklin, Ashley Robin (Illustrator)

    History

    • Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History - Gregory, Philippa (Author)

    • Victory '45: The End of the War in Eight Surrenders - Holland, James (Author), Murray, Al (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • Who Is John Cena? (Who Was?) - Van Cleave, Ryan G (Author), Who Hq (Author), Copeland, Gregory (Illustrator)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Castle in the Sky Film Comic: All-In-One Edition (Castle in the Sky Film Comic: All-In-One Edition) - Miyazaki, Hayao (Author)

    • Spice and Wolf Collector's Edition, Vol. 3 (Manga): Volume 3 (Spice and Wolf Collector's Edition (Manga) #3) - Hasekura, Isuna (Author), Koume, Keito (Artist), Ayakura, Jyuu (Artist), Eckerman, Alexis (Letterer), Starr, Paul (Translator), Blakeslee, Katie (Letterer)

    • Seeds of Anxiety*, Vol. 1 (Seeds of Anxiety* #1) - Nakayama, Masaaki (Author), Paul, Stephen (Translator), Blackman, Abigail (Letterer)

    • Wonder Cats - Nitori, Sasami (Author)

    • Beneath the Fur, Vol. 1 (Beneath the Fur #1) - Ruike, Umi (Author), Haley, Amanda (Translator), Jose, Madeleine (Letterer)

    • Luca the Dragon Vet 1 (Luca the Dragon Vet) - Hirasawa, Yuna (Author)

    Middle Readers

    • Campfire Stories to Scare Your Socks Off! - Espinosa, Andi (Illustrator), Harper, Benjamin (Author), Dahl, Michael (Author), Atwood, Megan (Author), Sutton, Laurie S (Author)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • The Girl with Ice in Her Veins: A Lisbeth Salander Novel, Continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) - Smirnoff, Karin (Author)

    • Getting Away with Murder - Lapena, Shari (Author)

    Nature

    • The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness - Flyn, Cal (Author)

    Personal Growth

    • All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning - Smith, S E (Author)

    Picture Books

    • The Pumpkin Thief (The Leaf Thief) - Hemming, Alice (Author), Slater, Nicola (Illustrator)

    • The Very Eager Evergreen - Wade, Stef (Author), Taylor, Erin (Illustrator)

    • Today Is the Day - Wallace, Chelsea Lin (Author), Rex, Adam (Illustrator)

    Puzzle Books

    • New York Times Games Take Your Time Crosswords: 100 Easy to Hard Puzzles to Do Whenever You Want - New York Times (Author), Shortz, Will (Editor)

    Romance

    • Swordheart (Swordheart #1) - Kingfisher, T (Author)

    • Sea of Charms: A Spellshop Novel (Spellshop #3) - Durst, Sarah Beth (Author)

    • Return to Sender - Parente, Stephanie (Author)

    • Daggermouth (The Heart Duology #1) - Wolfe, H M (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches: Deluxe Edition (Special) - Mandanna, Sangu (Author)

    • Warbreaker: A Cosmere Novel - Sanderson, Brandon (Author)

    • Star Wars: Legacy (Star Wars) - Roux, Madeleine (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

0c58be3b-5a39-4877-ad24-dad040e7a48b.png 91pP085GTQL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg meet-me-in-paris-9781668092538_hr.jpg seaofcharms-712x1100.jpg e70d95ff-ed02-4f95-b733-7790655a363c.png
  • The runaway New York Times bestselling Today Show Read With Jenna Book Club Pick, with more than 1.5 million copies sold, about an unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, Time, Chicago Tribune, Elle, Real Simple, and Glamour

    It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she's actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn't here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she's dreamed of coming for years--she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she's here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan--which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can't stop confiding in each other.

    In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach's The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined--and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.

  • From New York Times bestselling author of The Leaf Thief comes the funny Halloween-y companion picture book!

    Squirrel and Bird are back, and this time there's a mystery in the vegetable patch! Bird's pumpkins keep disappearing, and this time there's EVIDENCE--footprints, peck-marks, a feather! There is a PUMPKIN THIEF!

    With vibrant art and captivating characters, the magic of Halloween's preparations are captured beautifully on each page as readers tag along on Squirrel's forest adventure. Is there truly a pumpkin thief on the loose, or is something else going on? And does it have anything to do with the jack-o'-lanterns appearing on his neighbor's doorsteps?

    Bonus material explaining Halloween's traditions. Poised to be a new classic.

    Pick up The Pumpkin Thief if you are looking for:

    A classic read for ages 4 and up

    Books for Halloween, ideal for your classroom, homeschool curriculum, and more!

    Seasonal and educational stories about the changing seasons

  • Kristin Harmel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names and The Winemaker's Wife, returns with a captivating new novel about several intertwined stories of love, loss, courage, and redemption set over the course of one magical week in Paris.

    Nine Americans in Paris. Seven intertwined love stories. One City of Light.

    Love Actually meets The Notebook in a tale of love, loss, and finding your way home, all set over the course of one life-changing week in Paris.

    Julia Glover has brought her twenty-three-year-old daughter, Piper, to Paris for the first time--but they know it will also be their last trip here together. Julia is dying, and as the mother and daughter desperately try to make memories together as the clock ticks down, the world opens up around them. Piper meets a cute French waiter, who might just understand her better than anyone she's ever met, and Julia meets a man at a dive bar and struggles with how to tell him the truth about her future.

    Rock star Jackson Quick's glory days are behind him. He had a handful of hit songs thirty years ago, but he hasn't toured in a decade. This week, he'll launch his reunion tour in Paris, the city where it all began. But he wants more out of life than being defined by fame. When he meets a woman who finally sees him for who he is at his core, the ground shifts beneath his feet.

    Henry McGee has been writing hit songs for decades--including Jackson Quick's biggest hit, City of Light. But his secret is that every love song he's ever written is for a woman named Celeste, whom he loved a lifetime ago, when they were both teenagers in Paris during World War II. He has spent eighty years believing she died--but when a letter arrives telling him the opposite, he's on the first flight to France. Can he break through the haze of her dementia, using the songs he's written all these years, to remind her of who they once were to each other--and to tell her he came back for her?

    Henry's granddaughter, Melody, has just discovered that her husband of twenty years, Gilles, a French cosmetics executive, is having an affair. When she confronts him, he tearfully apologizes and begs her to forgive him. But can she? And, perhaps even more importantly, does she want to? Or is there a different kind of life out there for her if she chooses to be alone?

    These intertwining stories--plus several others--unfold over a few breathtaking spring days, as an unforgettable group of Americans in Paris must find their way to their own versions of happily ever after in the City of Light.

  • DELUXE EDITION--a gorgeous hardcover edition featuring beautiful cerulean blue sprayed edges!

    A LibraryReads pick! An Indie Next pick!

    Most anticipated from BookBub, Apple Books and BookPage. Featured in: The New York Times and ScreenRant.

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Beth Durst brings cozy fantasy romance to the high seas in Sea of Charms, the third magical adventure in the Spellshop series!

    Marin has always belonged on the great blue sea.

    Betrayed by love, Marin lives and works as a supply runner, sailing from island to island, delivering an array of goods with Perri the sea serpent and Ree the sailor shrub as her crew.

    On one of her routine trips to the capital, Alyssium, Marin finds a revolution underway--and her friend Dax in the line of fire.

    What starts as a rescue evolves into a deal: Marin will keep Dax on as a member of her crew if he pretends to be her boyfriend at the End-of-Harvest Festival back home.

    But against her better judgment, Marin finds herself intrigued by his stubbornness, his passion for stories, his charming smile--and realizes that perhaps she isn't saving him. Maybe it's the other way around.

    Sea of Charms is a cozy fantasy romance about finding your crew, your family, and moreover, finding yourself.

    Read in whatever order your heart desires, but don't miss The Spellshop and The Enchanted Greenhouse.

    "I, for one, couldn't ask for more." --Sangu Mandanna on The Spellshop

    Expect:

    Standalone romance

    Friends to lovers

    Magical creatures

    Swimming lessons

  • Take Your First Look Into The Lives of Pokémon!

    This book and its vivid illustrations introduce you to the ecologies of Pokémon based on data from the Pokédex . Pokécology: An Illustrated Guide to Pokémon Ecology focuses on the similarities, differences, generalities, and relationships between Pokémon ecologies. The results of those observations and analyses are presented alongside spectacular artwork. The author and illustrator--both of whom hold doctorate degrees and have studied animal behavior and ecology--explain "Pokécology" from a brand-new perspective.

Tags Shop Local, little village toy & Book Shop, Indie bookstore, Kristin Harmel, New York Times, Shari Lapena, Campfires, Dr. Seuss, Halloween, James Baldwin, dance, Pokemon, Star Wars
Older Posts →
Summary Block
This block is invalid. Please check the block settings and try again.
Featured
Aenean eu leo Quam
Aenean eu leo Quam

Quisque iaculis facilisis lacinia. Mauris euismod pellentesque tellus sit amet mollis.

Read more →
66df2a7dd732dd581f52b748_Bookshop-Logo-Wide.png
logo-indiebound.png
images (6).jpeg
Libro.fm_logo.svg.png
Proud-Member-of-White-Mountains-Directory-3.png
kayak.png