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New Releases | June 23rd, 2026

June 19, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • Among Friends - Ebbott, Hal (Author)

    • Birds of Prey - Coben, Harlan (Editor), Box, C J (Editor)

    • I'll Be Right Here - Bloom, Amy (Author)

    • When You Loved Me - Williams, Beatriz (Author)

    • Tata - Perrin, Valérie (Author), Serle, Hildegarde (Translator)

    Animals

    • A Horse's World: A Neuroscientist's Journey Into the Equine Mind - SJones, Janet L (Author)

    Board Books

    • The Digger and the Dark (Digger #4) - Kuefler, Joseph (Author), Kuefler, Joseph (Illustrator)

    • The Pigeon Won't Play with Shapes!

    Business & Technology

    • The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think about Artificial Intelligence--Before It's Too Late - Doctorow, Cory (Author)

    Children's Art Book

    • ‍ A Million Dragons (Million Creatures to Color) - Mayo, Lulu (Author)

    Children's Poetry

    • A Treasury of Ballet Stories: Four Captivating Retellings - Hart, Caryl (Author), Smith, Briony May (Illustrator)

    Graphic Novels

    • Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Graphic Novel: Titanic - Osborne, Mary Pope (Author), Hashimoto, Meika (Adapted by), Tejido, Jomike (Illustrator)

    History

    • The Housewives Underground: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK Assassination Our Most Enduring Mystery - Tiffany, Kaitlyn (Author)

    Horror

    • Slasher Summer - Chen, E L (Author)

    Literary Collections

    • Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life - Smith, Maggie (Author)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Escape Volume 1 - Remender, Rick (Author), Acuña, Daniel (Artist)

    • Absolute Flash Vol. 2: Still Point (Absolute Universe) - Lemire, Jeff (Author), Robles, Nick (Illustrator)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • Hunter's Heart Ridge: A Mystery (Franklin Warren and Alice Bellows Mystery #2) - Taylor, Sarah Stewart (Author)

    • The Housemaid's Wedding - McFadden, Freida (Author)

    • It Could Have Been Her - Jewell, Lisa (Author)

    Nature

    • In Deep Water: A True Story of Sharks, Survival, and Courage - Tougias, Michael J (Author)

    • Noticing: Intimate Encounters with the Natural World - Louv, Richard (Author)

    Picture Books

    • The Wise Pickle - Howden, Sarah (Author), Hahn, Sabina (Illustrator)

    • Bluey: Queens and Other Stories: 4 Stories in 1 Book. Hooray! (Bluey)

    Poetry

    • The Aeneid - Virgil (Author), McGill, Scott (Translator), Wright, Susannah (Translator), Wilson, Emily (Introduction by)

    Political Sciences

    • Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump - Haberman, Maggie (Author), Swan, Jonathan (Author)

    Puzzle Books

    • New York Times Games Easiest Crosswords Volume 5: 100 Easy Crossword Puzzles - New York Times (Author), Shortz, Will (Editor)

    Romance

    • Weddings - Steel, Danielle (Author)

    • Night Witch: A Spicy Magical Dark Academia Forbidden Romantasy (Original) (Weatherstone College #2) - Eve, Jaymin (Author)

    • The Very Definition of Love (The Bancroft Sisters) - Benoit, Sophia (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • A Magical Girl Retires - Seolyeon, Park (Author), Hur, Anton (Translator)

    • The Sixth Nik - Kraus, Daniel (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • A riveting, intimate, and revelatory account of the most radical and consequential presidency of our time.

    From the two reporters who have covered him more closely than perhaps anyone else over the past decade comes this definitive portrait of Donald Trump in the White House. Regime Change covers the first year of Trump's second presidency--a term liberated from every constraint that defined his first. The generals who once told him "no" are gone, and the lawyers who remain have learned to pick their battles. His administration has flouted court orders and he has claimed powers that Congress once checked. What remains is a President willing to take enormous risks that have upended global markets and toppled heads of state; an imperial President operating almost entirely on instinct alone.

    Based on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented reporting from deep within the administration's most closely guarded rooms, Regime Change takes the reader inside the Situation Room and into the secret Oval Office deliberations that have launched a new war in the Middle East and seen Trump seal the border, surge National Guard troops into cities, and send immigration agents into deadly clashes with protestors. Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan bring us behind the scenes of a presidency that has transformed the culture, turned the Justice Department into an agent of retribution against the President's enemies and the office itself into a brazen vehicle for profit. They reveal a second term propelled by a historical irony that Trump himself has come to understand: that the indictments, the convictions, the assassination attempts, and four years of exile made him not weaker but far more powerful, more vengeful, and more willing to gamble than any President in modern history.

    This is the story of how Trump has used that power, who has tried to stop him, and why nearly all of them have failed. It is also the story of something American journalists are more accustomed to chronicling in distant capitals than in their own: a President who has fundamentally altered the nature of the office he holds--and, with it, how the rest of the world understands American power. It is an account of Regime Change right here in America--a landmark real-time history of a modern presidency like no other.

  • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone Lisa Jewell, two women's lives converge in a house containing devastating secrets that refuse to stay buried in this "deliciously dark, devilishly addictive" (Alice Feeney, bestselling author of My Husband's Wife) novel.

    Jane Trevally is walking her dogs on her country estate when a small white terrier appears, alone and with no sign of the teenaged girl he'd been staying with nearby. When the teenager is reported missing, Jane offers to return the dog to his registered owner, hours away in London. Arriving at a run-down house called Thornwood in the deepest backwaters of Hampstead, she is immediately on alert--because Jane has a dark history with this house.

    The man who answers the door is not the man that Jane remembers from her past. He is cagey, and claims to know nothing about the missing teenage girl. Then, through the window of the house, Jane catches a glimpse of a haunted-looking woman.

    Conjuring her memories from twenty-five years ago, Jane knows this unsettling house holds the key--to the missing teenager, to her own traumatic story, and to the dark secrets of the past.

  • A shapes adventure you WON'T want to miss from Mo Willems Workshop.

    The Pigeon won't play with shapes, and here's why:

    Circles. They're pointless.

    Triangles. Too pointy.

    Squares? Boring.

    Rectangle? Long and boring.

    Do YOU think The Pigeon will play with shapes?

    From Mo Willems Workshop comes this funny and engaging early-learning concept board book all about shapes, with touch-and-trace features throughout. The Pigeon WON'T Play With Shapes! is part of a collection of original board books featuring The Pigeon, ideal for babies, toddlers, and fans of the picture book series.

  • Wedding bells chime in this thrilling addition to The Housemaid series - a short story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden...

    This edition features exclusive content from Freida McFadden's upcoming, not yet announced hardcover release!

    Today is supposed to be the happiest day of my life.

    I'm engaged to the man of my dreams, and in a few short hours, I'm going to stand before a judge, who will declare us husband and wife, till death does us part. Despite some bumps in the road, this day is everything I dreamed it would be.

    There's only one problem:

    Someone out there doesn't want me to live long enough to say my vows.

    And if I'm not careful, they may very well get their wish....

  • A short, provocative guide to what's good, bad, and stupid about AI and the discourse around AI, by the author of Enshittification.

    In modern tech parlance, a centaur is a person who is able to use technology to be a better, more productive version of themself. A reverse centaur is a person who is forced by technology to work at an inhuman pace--a driver made to deliver all day long, nonstop; a warehouse worker made to work without food or bathroom breaks; a programmer made to crank out impossible amounts of code.

    The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI is not another anti-AI screed. Cory Doctorow uses AI in his work every day. As a creative person, he has no moral or dogmatic issue with AI--he thinks the technology is useful, even exciting, and full of potential. And yet.

    AI has arrived surrounded by unprecedented hype driven by a tech industry desperate to maintain its unprecedented valuation based on its own promises of endless financial growth. Despite the fact that almost all of AI's real-world implementations have proved underwhelming, AI is projected to be worth more than $16 trillion--a number that only makes sense if AI replaces vast swathes of the wage-earning human workforce. To justify that level of "value," every story about AI must be presented as inevitable, world-changing disruption. Even the tales of the robot apocalypse are a calculated attempt to bolster the fearsome power of AI.

    For Doctorow, it is imperative to see through that hype to the real story, to understand the technology not just for what it does, but for who it does it to and who it does it for. From that point of view, the story of AI is indeed dramatic and unprecedented, having generated an investment bubble so big that it endangers the entire world economy. In The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI--as he so successfully did in Enshittification--Doctorow recounts both how we found ourselves in this dire situation and how we can get through it, to a life "after" AI in which the tools work for us, not the other way around.

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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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