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New Releases | April 1st, 2025

March 31, 2025 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Art

    • Colourful Modern Calligraphy - Withers, Milly (Author)

    Adult Fiction

    • Tom Lake - Patchett, Ann (Author)

    • Rabbit Moon - Haigh, Jennifer (Author)

    • Lessons in Chemistry - Garmus, Bonnie (Author)

    • All That Life Can Afford - Everett, Emily (Author)

    • The Sirens - Hart, Emilia (Author)

    • The Cemetery of Untold Stories - Alvarez, Julia (Author)

    • The Ministry of Time - Bradley, Kaliane (Author)

    • The Most Beautiful Book in the World: 8 Novellas - Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel (Author) , Anderson, Alison (Translator)

    • The Distant Marvels - Acevedo, Chantel (Author)

    • Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio - Lakhous, Amara (Author) , Goldstein, Ann (Translator)

    • The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Barbery, Muriel (Author) , Anderson, Alison (Translator)

    • A Novel Bookstore - Cossé, Laurence (Author) , Anderson, Alison (Translator)

    • I Loved You for Your Voice - Nassib, Sélim (Author) , Anderson, Alison (Translator)

    Award Winners

    • The Eyes and the Impossible: (Newbery Medal Winner) - Eggers, Dave (Author) , Harris, Shawn (Illustrator)

    • Ferris - DiCamillo, Kate (Author)

    Board Books

    • Little Excavator - Dewdney, Anna (Author) , Dewdney, Anna (Illustrator)

    • Diggers Love Their Daddies! (Where Do...Series) - Sayres, Brianna Caplan (Author) , Slade, Christian (Illustrator)

    • Mommies Are Amazing - Scholastic (Author) , Eone (Illustrator)

    Body, Mind & Spirit

    • Mere Christianity Deluxe Edition - Lewis, C S (Author)

    Chapter Books

    • Night of the Dream Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #28) - West, Tracey (Author) , Loveridge, Matt (Illustrator)

    • Fuecoco, I Choose You! (Pokémon Chapter Book) - Barbo, Maria S (Author)

    • Night Night, Sweet Screams (Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol #24) - Miedoso, Andres (Author) , Rivas, Victor (Illustrator)

    Children’s Poetry

    • How to Spot a Magical Woodland Creature: A Field Guide to Enchanted Forest Animals - Marsh, Sarah Glenn (Author) , Bolecz, Lilla (Illustrator)

    Cookbooks

    • Dessert Course: Lessons in the Whys and Hows of Baking - Delwiche, Benjamin (Author)

    • Dinner: 120 Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes for the Most Important Meal of the Day - Sodha, Meera (Author)

    • Your Pasta Sucks: A Cookbook - Lane, Matteo (Author) , Goode, J J (Author) , Achilleos, Antonis (Photographer)

    Family Issues

    • Autism Out Loud: Life with a Child on the Spectrum, from Diagnosis to Young Adulthood - Swenson, Kate (Author) , Cariello, Carrie (Author) , Wood, Adrian (Author)

    • Making the Best of What's Left: When We're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered - Viorst, Judith (Author)

    Fun & Games

    • Legendary and Mythical Guidebook: Deluxe Updated Edition (Pokémon) - Scholastic (Author)

    Graphic Novels

    • Coven - Chainani, Soman (Author) , Gennari, Joel (Illustrator)

    • Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Graphic Novel: Dinosaurs - Osborne, Mary Pope (Author) , Laird, Jenny (Adapted by) , Tejido, Jomike (Illustrator)

    • Nightmare Hunter #1: A Graphic Novel (Maxwell Dark) - Smith, Brady (Author) , Smith, Brady (Illustrator)

    • The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel - Telgemeier, Raina (Author) , McCloud, Scott (Author)

    • Karen's Prize: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #10) - Grant, Shauna J (Adapted by) , Grant, Shauna J (Illustrator) , Martin, Ann M (Author)

    • Around the Spider-Verse (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel Anthology) - Leon, Pablo (Author) , Reynolds, Justin A (Author) , Brown, Roseanne A (Author) , Gaylord, Penelope Rivera (Illustrator) , Gil, Maca (Illustrator)

    • How to Talk to Your Succulent - Persico, Zoe (Author)

    Great Outdoors

    • Enough: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest - Arnot Reid, Melissa (Author)

    • The Zen of Flyfishing - Kaminsky, Peter (Author)

    History

    • Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus - Pagels, Elaine (Author)

    • Resolute: John Franklin's Lost Expedition and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship (Revised) - Sandler, Martin W (Author)

    • The Trial of the Century - Jarrett, Gregg (Author) , Yaeger, Don (With)

    Horror

    • This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances - Larocca, Eric (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • What Do We Know About the Lost Colony of Roanoke? - Berne, Emma Carlson (Author) , Who Hq (Author) , Marchesi, Stephen (Illustrator)

    • Who Is Shohei Ohtani? - Buckley, James (Author) , Who Hq (Author) , Copeland, Gregory (Illustrator)

    • Woods & Words: The Story of Poet Mary Oliver - Ackerman, Sara Holly (Author) , Stoop, Naoko (Illustrator)

    • Politics (My World) - Altarriba, Eduard (Author)

    • Frida Kahlo's Flower Crown: A Picture Book - Armendia-Sánchez, Nydia (Author) , Lora, Loris (Illustrator)

    • Who Is Caitlin Clark? - Borzilleri, Meri-Jo (Author) , Copeland, Gregory (Illustrator) , Who Hq (Author)

    Literary Collections

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

    Middle Readers

    • The Dragon's Apprentice - Riley, James (Author)

    • The Green Kingdom - Funke, Cornelia (Author) , Hartung, Tammi (Author) , Castrillon, Melissa (Illustrator)

    • The Playmakers - Morris, Chad (Author) , Brown, Shelly (Author)

    My First Readers

    • DK Super Readers Level 1 a Day in the Life of a Pilot

    • DK Super Readers Level 1 Deadly Dinosaurs

    Mystery & Thriller

    • Local Woman Missing Collector's Edition (Reissue) - Kubica, Mary (Author)

    • The Cabinet of Curiosities - Preston, Douglas (Author) , Child, Lincoln (Author)

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

    Nature

    • Birding to Change the World: A Memoir - O'Kane, Trish (Author)

    Personal Growth

    • Secrets of Adulthood: Simple Truths for Our Complex Lives - Rubin, Gretchen (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Big Enough - Linke, Regina (Author)

    • The Littlest Drop - Alper, Sascha (Author) , Pinkney, Jerry (Illustrator) , Pinkney, Brian (Illustrator)

    • Mommy Love: A Mindfulness Exercise for Mothers and Babies - Verde, Susan (Author) , Stoop, Naoko (Illustrator)

    • Mistaco: A Tale of Tragedy Y Tortillas - Kinkz, Eliza (Author) , Kinkz, Eliza (Illustrator)

    • Grumpy Monkey Mom for a Day: Includes Fun Stickers - Lang, Suzanne (Author) , Lang, Max (Illustrator)

    • We Leap Together - Neal, Christopher Silas (Author)

    • That's My Truck!: A Good Inside Story about Hitting - Kennedy, Becky (Author) , Stone, Joanie (Illustrator)

    • Fairy Walk - Cornwall, Gaia (Author) , Cornwall, Gaia (Illustrator)

    • Tabby McTat, the Musical Cat - Donaldson, Julia (Author) , Scheffler, Axel (Illustrator)

    • 5-Minute Stories (Pokémon) - Webster, Christy (Author)

    Poetry

    • Resurrection - Steel, Danielle (Author)

    Romance

    • Swept Away - O'Leary, Beth (Author)

    • Identity - Roberts, Nora (Author)

    • Say You'll Remember Me - Jimenez, Abby (Author)

    • Wildfire: Deluxe Edition Hardcover (The Maple Hills) - Grace, Hannah (Author)

    • Sweet Obsession (Dark Olympus #8) - Robert, Katee (Author)

    Science & Nature

    • I Know Dino!: Amazing Breakthroughs, Mega Mistakes, and Unsolved Mysteries in Dinosaur Science - Ricci, Sabrina (Author) , Kruger, Garret (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • Gifted & Talented - Blake, Olivie (Author)

    Spinner Rack

    • Maisy Goes on a Bike Ride (Maisy First Experiences) - Cousins, Lucy (Author) , Cousins, Lucy (Illustrator)

    • The A-Meow-Zing Race (Gabby's Dollhouse 8 X 8 #11) - Bobowicz, Pamela (Author)

    Sports

    • The Golf 100: A Spirited Ranking of the Greatest Players of All Time - Arkush, Michael (Author)

    True Crime

    • Deviant - Schechter, Harold (Author)

    Workbooks

    • National Geographic Kids Explore! Workbook Kindergarten

    • National Geographic Kids Explore! Workbook Pre-K

    • Brain Quest Workbook: Learn Spanish

    • Mega Math Maze: A Multiplication Adventure - Poskitt, Kjartan (Author)

    Young Adult

    • Murtagh: The World of Eragon (Inheritance Cycle) - Paolini, Christopher (Author)

    • Run Away with Me - Selznick, Brian (Author)

Our Top 5 Picks

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  • In this hilarious fantasy adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of the Story Thieves series, a girl strikes a deal with the ancient, cranky dragon she accidentally summoned to teach her the forbidden magic she needs to save her mother.

    STOP. Don't read any further. There are magic spells in this book, and the Emperor has forbidden anyone from learning magic, because it's way too dangerous! If you try one of the spells, any number of terrible things might happen (or so the Emperor says).

    Don't be like Ciara, a twelve-year-old girl living in the tiny village of Skael. When she used a spell from within this book, she ended up summoning a dragon. A DRAGON! Those things breathe fire! From their mouths! She's obviously doomed.

    And don't listen if Ciara tells you that dragons won't hurt humans, and that they even once taught us magic, a thousand years ago. Definitely don't pay any attention to the fact that the dragon she summoned, Scorch, might be willing to help rescue Ciara's mother and free her village from the Emperor and his Warden, because it's all obviously a big lie. So put this book down, and forget about it. Magic is just way too dangerous. After all, you wouldn't want to summon your own dragon, would you?

  • Hannah Grace's #1 New York Times bestselling Wildfire in a spectacular deluxe hardcover edition featuring:

    Stunning sprayed edges
    Designed endpapers
    Foil stampedcover boards

    The latest in the TikTok sensation and deliciously "swoonworthy" (Elena Armas,New York Timesbestselling author) Maple Hills series follows two summer camp counselors who reconnect after a sizzling one-night stand.

    Maple Hills students Russ Callaghan and Aurora Roberts cross paths at a party celebrating the end of the academic year, where a drinking game results in them having a passionate one-night stand. Never one to overstay her welcome (or expect much from a man), Aurora slips away before Russ even has the chance to ask for her full name.

    Imagine their surprise when they bump into each other on the first day of the summer camp where they are both counselors, hoping to escape their complicated home lives by spending the summer working. Russ hopes if he gets far enough away from Maple Hills, he can avoid dealing with the repercussions of his father's gambling addiction, while Aurora is tired of craving attention from everyone around her, and wants to go back to the last place she truly felt at home.

    Russ knows breaking the camp's strict "no staff fraternizing" rule will have him heading back to Maple Hills before the summer is over, but unfortunately for him, Aurora has never been very good at caring about the rules. Will the two learn to peacefully coexist? Or did their one night together start a fire they can't put out?

  • INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Master storyteller and internationally bestselling author Christopher Paolini returns to the World of Eragon in this stunning epic fantasy set a year after the events of the Inheritance Cycle. Join Dragon Rider--and fan favorite--Murtagh and his dragon as they confront a perilous new enemy!

    "Christopher Paolini is a true rarity." --The Washington Post

    The world is no longer safe for the Dragon Rider Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn. An evil king has been toppled, and they are left to face the consequences of the reluctant role they played in his reign of terror . Now they are hated and alone, exiled to the outskirts of society.

    Throughout the land, hushed voices whisper of brittle ground and a faint scent of brimstone in the air--and Murtagh senses that something wicked lurks in the shadows of Alagaësia. So begins an epic journey into lands both familiar and untraveled, where Murtagh and Thorn must use every weapon in their arsenal, from brains to brawn, to find and outwit a mysterious witch. A witch who is much more than she seems.

    In this gripping novel starring one of the most popular characters from Christopher Paolini's blockbuster Inheritance Cycle, a Dragon Rider must discover what he stands for in a world that has abandoned him. Murtagh is the perfect book to enter the World of Eragon for the first time . . . or to joyfully return.

    Praise for Christopher Paolini:
    "[A] spellbinding fantasy writer." --The Boston Globe
    "A breathtaking and unheard-of success." --USA Today
    "Make[s] literary magic." --People

  • #1 GLOBAL BESTSELLER WITH MORE THAN 8 MILLION COPIES SOLD - Meet Elizabeth Zott: "a gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention" (The Washington Post) in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show. - STREAM ON APPLE TV+

    This novel is "irresistible, satisfying and full of fuel" (The New York Times Book Review) and "witty, sometimes hilarious...the Catch-22 of early feminism" (Stephen King, via Twitter).

    A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Oprah Daily, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek

    Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with--of all things--her mind. True chemistry results.

    But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth's unusual approach to cooking ("combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride") proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn't just teaching women to cook. She's daring them to change the status quo.

    Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.

  • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

    In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers.

    "Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature." --The Guardian

    In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

    Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.

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New Releases | November 19th, 2024

November 16, 2024 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Art

    • Joyful Colorwork Socks: 25 New Knitting Patterns for Fun & Whimsical Footwear Featuring Pets, Games… - Stone, Charlotte (Author)

    Adult Fiction

    • The City and Its Uncertain Walls - Murakami, Haruki (Author) , Gabriel, Philip (Translator)

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

    • A Winter Dream (A Holiday Bestseller) - Evans, Richard Paul (Author)

    • Christmas with the Queen - Gaynor, Hazel (Author) , Webb, Heather (Author)

    • Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club) - Napolitano, Ann (Author)

    Arts & Entertainment

    • Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation - O'Heir, Jim (Author)

    Biography

    • Cher: The Memoir, Part One - Cher (Author)

    • Citizen: My Life After the White House - Clinton, Bill (Author)

    Children’s Reference

    • (Be Smart About) Screen Time!: Stay Grounded, Set Boundaries, and Keep Safe Online (A Be Smart about Book #3) - Brian, Rachel (Author)

    Cookbooks

    • Half Baked Harvest Quick & Cozy: A Cookbook - Gerard, Tieghan (Author)

    Current Events & Politics

    • A Certain Idea of America: Selected Writings - Noonan, Peggy (Author)

    Fun & Games

    • Exit: The Book - The Clue in the Attic: A Puzzle Adventure - Baumeister, Jens (Author) , Brand, Inka (Author) , Brand, Markus (Author) , Schulz, Burkhard (Illustrator) , Beroy + San Julian (Illustrator)

    Great Outdoors

    • The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering - Light, Daniel (Author)

    History

    • The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 - Darnton, Robert (Author)

    • The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World's Greatest City - Roberts, Sam (Author)

    • Ghosts of Panama: A Strongman Out of Control, a Murdered Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an Invasion - Harmon, Mark (Author) , Carroll, Leon (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • Up Periscope!: How Engineer Raye Montague Revolutionized Shipbuilding - Swanson, Jennifer (Author) , Miller Jamison, Veronica (Illustrator)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • After God, Vol. 1 - Eno, Sumi (Author)

    Nature

    • The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World - Kimmerer, Robin Wall (Author) , Burgoyne, John (Illustrator)

    Personal Growth

    • I Decided to Live as Me: An Illustrated Checklist for How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others So You Can Learn to Love Yourself - Suhyun, Kim (Author) , Hur, Anton (Translator)

    Puzzle Books

    • New York Times Games Easiest Crosswords Volume 3: 100 Easy Crossword Puzzles - New York Times (Author) , Shortz, Will (Editor)

    Romance

    • The Half King (Deluxe Limited Edition) - Landers, Melissa (Author)

    • Trial by Fire - Steel, Danielle (Author)

    • Icebreaker: Deluxe Edition Hardcover (The Maple Hills #1) - Grace, Hannah (Author)

    • The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King: Book 2 of the Nightborn Duet (The Crowns of Nyaxia #2) - Broadbent, Carissa (Author)

    • The Songbird & the Heart of Stone: The Shadowborn Duet, Book One (The Crowns of Nyaxia #3) - Broadbent, Carissa (Author)

    • The Mirror: The Lost Bride Trilogy, Book 2 - Roberts, Nora (Author)

    • Is She Really Going Out with Him? - Cousens, Sophie (Author)

    • Variation - Yarros, Rebecca (Author)

    • The Front Runner (Special) (Gold Rush Ranch #3) - Silver, Elsie (Author)

    • Rush - Roy, Saskia (Author)

    • A Chill in the Flame (Special) (Villains #1) - Cj, Piper (Author)

    • The Serpent and the Wolf (Dark Inheritance Trilogy #1) - Robinson, Rebecca (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • Red Sonja: Consumed (Red Sonja #1) - Simone, Gail (Author)

    • The Last Hour Between Worlds (Echo Archives #1) - Caruso, Melissa (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough - Nayeri, Dina (Author)

Overview (Our Top 5 Picks)

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  • The extraordinary life of Cher can be told by only one person . . . Cher herself.

    After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir.

    Her remarkable career is unique and unparalleled. The only woman to top Billboard charts in seven consecutive decades, she is the winner of an Academy Award, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Cannes Film Festival Award, and an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who has been lauded by the Kennedy Center.

    She is a lifelong activist and philanthropist.

    As a dyslexic child who dreamed of becoming famous, Cher was raised in often-chaotic circumstances, surrounded by singers, actors, and a mother who inspired her in spite of their difficult relationship.

    With her trademark honesty and humor, Cher: The Memoir traces how this diamond in the rough succeeded with no plan and little confidence to become the trailblazing superstar the world has been unable to ignore for more than half a century.

    Cher: The Memoir, Part One follows her extraordinary beginnings through childhood to meeting and marrying Sonny Bono--and reveals the highly complicated relationship that made them world-famous, but eventually drove them apart.

    Cher: The Memoir reveals the daughter, the sister, the wife, the lover, the mother, and the superstar.

    It is a life too immense for only one book.

  • A powerful, candid, and richly detailed memoir from an American icon, revealing what life looks like after the presidency: triumphs, tribulations, and all.

    On January 20, 2001, after nearly thirty years in politics--eight of them as president of the United States--Bill Clinton was suddenly a private citizen. Only fifty-four years old, full of energy and ideas, he wanted to make meaningful use of his skills, his relationships with world leaders, and all he'd learned in a lifetime of politics, but how? Just days after leaving the White House, the call came to aid victims of a devastating earthquake in India, and Clinton hit the ground running. Over the next two decades, he would create an enduring legacy of public service and advocacy work, from Indonesia to Louisiana, Northern Ireland to South Africa, and in the process reimagine philanthropy and redefine the impact a former president could have on the world.

    Citizen is Clinton's front-row, first-person chronicle of his postpresidential years and the most significant events of the twenty-first century, including 9/11 and the runup to the Iraq War, the Haiti earthquake, the Great Recession, the January 6 insurrection, and the enduring culture wars of our times. With clarity and compassion, he also weighs in on the unprecedented challenges brought on by a global pandemic, ongoing income inequality, a steadily warming planet, and authoritarian forces dedicated to weakening democracy. Yet Citizen is more than a political memoir. These pages capture Clinton in a rare and unforgettable light: not only as a celebrated former president and a foundation leader, but as a father, grandfather, and husband. He recounts his support for Hillary Clinton during her time as senator, secretary of state, and presidential candidate, and shares the frustration and pain of the 2016 election.

    In this landmark publication, the highly anticipated follow-up to the best-selling My Life, Clinton pens an illuminating account of American democracy on a global stage, offering a frank reflection on the past and, with it, a fearless embrace of our future. Citizen is a self-portrait of equal parts eloquence, insight, and candor, a testament to one man's unwavering commitment to family and nation.

  • From the bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our peculiar times.

    "Haruki Murakami invented 21st-century fiction." --The New York Times - "More than any author since Kafka, Murakami appreciates the genuine strangeness of our real world." --San Francisco Chronicle - "Murakami is masterful." --Los Angeles Times

    We begin with a nameless young couple: a boy and a girl, teenagers in love. One day, she disappears . . . and her absence haunts him for the rest of his life.

    Thus begins a search for this lost love that takes the man into middle age and on a journey between the real world and an other world - a mysterious, perhaps imaginary, walled town where unicorns roam, where a Gatekeeper determines who can enter and who must remain behind, and where shadows become untethered from their selves. Listening to his own dreams and premonitions, the man leaves his life in Tokyo behind and ventures to a small mountain town, where he becomes the head librarian, only to learn the mysterious circumstances surrounding the gentleman who had the job before him. As the seasons pass and the man grows more uncertain about the porous boundaries between these two worlds, he meets a strange young boy who helps him to see what he's been missing all along.

    The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature's most important writers.

    "Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change/movement. Isn't this the quintessential core of what stories are all about?" --Haruki Murakami, from the afterword

  • Hannah Grace's #1 New York Times bestselling Icebreaker in a spectacular deluxe hardcover edition featuring:

    New bonus material
    Pearlized and foiled jacket
    Stunning sprayed edges
    Designed endpapers
    Foil stamped case

    Sparks fly when a competitive figure skater and hockey team captain are forced to share a rink.

    Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. It looks like everything is going according to plan when she gets a full scholarship to the University of California, Maple Hills and lands a place on their competitive figure skating team.

    Nothing will stand in her way, not even the captain of the hockey team, Nate Hawkins.

    Nate's focus as team captain is on keeping his team on the ice. Which is tricky when a facilities mishap means they are forced to share a rink with the figure skating team--including Anastasia, who clearly can't stand him.

    But when Anastasia's skating partner faces an uncertain future, she may have to look to Nate to take her shot.

    Sparks fly, but Anastasia isn't worried...because she could never like a hockey player, right?

  • In this inspiring novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, the life of a Parisian woman changes in a heartbeat when she's trapped by wildfires in Napa Valley.

    Born to a French mother and American father, graceful Dahlia de Beaumont has been sole owner and CEO of the venerable family perfume business based in Paris since her early twenties, following the death of her parents. For twenty-five years, after losing her young skier husband in an avalanche, her life has centered on running Lambert Perfumes and being a devoted single mother to her four now-adult children: indecisive Charles, volatile Alexa, kind-hearted business visionary Delphine, and dreamy artist Emma. Now fifty-six, she has an "arrangement" with a married French man but has been questioning that relationship.

    Dahlia comes to San Francisco on a routine business trip to check on her stores in the States. But shortly after her arrival, brush fires ignite in Napa Valley. Watching the sweeping devastation on the news, Dahlia is moved to help. But doing so will bring unforeseen consequences that endanger not only her life, but her entire future. Forced to remain in San Francisco in the aftermath, she will make unexpected connections while also fighting to protect all she has worked for. What Dahlia learns will provide a new perspective of her life, forever changing what really matters to her and what comes next for her journey.

    With this uplifting novel, Danielle Steel beautifully dramatizes how life's unforeseen challenges can sow the seeds for growth and a fresh chance at love--if one is willing to take the risk.

New Releases | November 19th, 2024
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New Releases | November 12th, 2024

November 10, 2024 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • Lazarus Man - Price, Richard (Author)

    • Street Haunting (Little Clothbound Classics) - Woolf, Virginia (Author) , Bickford-Smith, Coralie (Not Available)

    • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue (Penguin Clothbound Classics) - Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Author) , McDuff, David (Translator) , McDuff, David (Introduction by) , McDuff, David (Notes by) , Bickford-Smith, Coralie (Not Available)

    • White Nights (Little Clothbound Classics) - Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Author) , Meyer, Ronald (Translator) , Bickford-Smith, Coralie (Not Available)

    • About Love (Little Clothbound Classics) - Chekhov, Anton (Author) , Wilks, Ronald (Translator) , Bickford-Smith, Coralie (Not Available)

    • Chess (Little Clothbound Classics) - Zweig, Stefan (Author) , Bell, Anthea (Translator) , Bickford-Smith, Coralie (Not Available)

    • April Storm - Meacham, Leila (Author)

    • She's Always Hungry: Stories - Clark, Eliza (Author)

    • The Book of Ayn - Freiman, Lexi (Author)

    • We Shall Be Monsters - Wees, Alyssa (Author)

    • The Unmaking of June Farrow - Young, Adrienne (Author)

    • Lolly Willowes (Little Clothbound Classics) - Warner, Sylvia Townsend (Author) , Bickford-Smith, Coralie (Not Available)

    Adult Reference

    • Cabinet of Curiosities: A Historical Tour of the Unbelievable, the Unsettling, and the Bizarre - Mahnke, Aaron (Author) , Marks, Harry (With)

    Animals

    • Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures - Rundell, Katherine (Author)

    Arts & Entertainment

    • 60 Songs That Explain the '90s - Harvilla, Rob (Author)

    • Life's Short, Talk Fast: Fifteen Writers on Why We Can't Stop Watching Gilmore Girls - Hood, Ann (Editor)

    • Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music - Sheffield, Rob (Author)

    • Didion and Babitz - Anolik, Lili (Author)

    Award Winners

    • Bea and the New Deal Horse - Elliott, L M (Author)

    Biography

    • Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist - Munson, Richard (Author)

    • Greenlights - McConaughey, Matthew (Author)

    Board Books

    • Gabby Loves (Gabby's Dollhouse Valentine's Day Board Book) - Scholastic (Author)

    • The Heart of a Whale - Pignataro, Anna (Author) , Pignataro, Anna (Illustrator)

    Body, Mind & Spirit

    • Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned - McLaren, Brian D (Author)

    • Astrostyle: The Intersection of Fashion and Astrology - Perrotta, Anthony (Author)

    • How to Let Things Go: 99 Tips from a Zen Buddhist Monk to Relinquish Control and Free Yourself Up for What Matters - Masuno, Shunmyo (Author) , Powell, Allison Markin (Translator)

    Business

    • The Economic Government of the World: 1933-2023 - Daunton, Martin (Author)

    Coloring Books

    • The Night Before Christmas Coloring Book - Moore, Clement C (Author) , Goodridge, Teresa (Illustrator)

    • The Mindfulness Journeys Coloring Book: Get Lost in an Adult Coloring Adventure - Martín, Mario (Author)

    Cookbooks

    • Willie and Annie Nelson's Cannabis Cookbook: Mouthwatering Recipes and the High-Flying Stories Behind Them - Nelson, Willie (Author) , Nelson, Annie (Author) , Ritz, David (With) , Tangredi, Mia (With) , Drummer, Andrea (With)

    • The Pasta Queen: The Art of Italian Cooking - Munno, Nadia Caterina (Author) , Gass, Anna Francese (With)

    • Sun-Kissed Cooking: Vegetables Front and Center - Williamson, Brooke (Author)

    • Bake Club: 101 Must-Have Moves for Your Kitchen: A Cookbook - Tosi, Christina (Author) , Salzano, Shannon (Author)

    • The League of Kitchens Cookbook: Brilliant Tips, Secret Methods & Favorite Family Recipes from Around the World - Gross, Lisa Kyung (Author)

    • Martha: The Cookbook: 100 Favorite Recipes, with Lessons and Stories from My Kitchen - Stewart, Martha (Author)

    Dungeons & Dragons

    • Dungeons & Dragons Rpg: Dungeon Masters Guide Hard Cover (2024)

    Fun & Games

    • I Spy Love - Wick, Walter (Illustrator) , Marzollo, Dan (Author) , Marzollo, Dave (Author)

    Graphic Novels

    • The Squad: A Graphic Novel (the Tryout #2) - Soontornvat, Christina (Author) , Cacao, Joanna (Illustrator)

    History

    • UFO: The Inside Story of the Us Government's Search for Alien Life Here--And Out There - Graff, Garrett M (Author)

    • Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics - Brands, H W (Author)

    Horror

    • The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and MR Hyde: And Other Tales of Terror (Penguin Clothbound Classics) - Stevenson, Robert Louis (Author) , Mighall, Robert (Editor) , Mighall, Robert (Introduction by) , Mighall, Robert (Notes by) , Bickford-Smith, Coralie (Not Available)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • One Piece, Vol. 107 - Oda, Eiichiro (Author)

    • X-Men: The Manga: Remastered, Vol. 1 - Higuchi, Hiroshi (Author) , Yasue, Koji (Author) , Cojima, Miyako (Author) , Nakahara, Rei (Author) , Hagiwara, Reiji (Author) , Ichikawa, Hirofumi (Author)

    • Wanted! Eiichiro Oda Before One Piece - Oda, Eiichiro (Author)

    • Eden of Witches Volume 1 - Yumeji (Author)

    • The Dog Who Followed the Moon - Norbury, James (Author)

    Middle Readers

    • The Bad Guys in One Last Thing (the Bad Guys #20) - Blabey, Aaron (Author)

    • Minecraft: Journey to the Ancient City - Lore, Danny (Author)

    Mystery & Thriller

    • To Die for (6:20 Man) - Baldacci, David (Author)

    • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Penguin Clothbound Classics) - Le Carré, John (Author) , Bickford-Smith, Coralie (Not Available)

    • The Professor - Nossett, Lauren (Author)

    • N or M?: A Tommy and Tuppence Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries #3) - Christie, Agatha (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Dogs Love Books, Too - Coco, Maria (Author)

    • The Helping Sweater - Davidson, Rachel Más (Author)

    Romance

    • Butcher & Blackbird Collector's Edition (Ruinous Love Trilogy) - Weaver, Brynne (Author)

    • Fall of Ruin and Wrath (Awakening #1) - Armentrout, Jennifer L (Author)

    • The Courting of Bristol Keats: [Limited Stenciled Edge Edition] (Courting of Bristol Keats #1) - Pearson, Mary E (Author)

    • The Co-Op - DeWitt, Tarah (Author)

    • Always Mine (Honey Mountain #1) - Pavlov, Laura (Author)

    • Reel (Hollywood Renaissance #1) - Ryan, Kennedy (Author)

    • Bride of the Shadow King - Mercedes, Sylvia (Author)

    • Kingmakers: Year Two (Deluxe Edition) (Special) (Kingmakers #2) - Lark, Sophie (Author)

    • Court of the Vampire Queen (Collector's Edition) - Robert, Katee (Author)

    • The West Wind (Four Winds #2) - Warwick, Alexandria (Author)

    • The Traitor Queen (The Bridge Kingdom) - Jensen, Danielle L (Author)

    • Servant of Earth (The Shards of Magic) - Hawley, Sarah (Author)

    • Pickleballers - Long, Ilana (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • Norse Mythology: The Illustrated Edition - Gaiman, Neil (Author) , Pinfold, Levi (Illustrator)

    • Toto - Hackwith, A J (Author)

    • Wool Collector's Edition: Book One of the Silo Series (Silo #1) - Howey, Hugh (Author)

    Social Sciencs

    • The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .: Essays - Graeber, David (Author) , Dubrovsky, Nika (Editor) , Solnit, Rebecca (Foreword by)

    • He/She/They: How We Talk about Gender and Why It Matters - Bailar, Schuyler (Author)

    • The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters - Gómez Urzaiz, Begoña (Author) , Davis, Lizzie (Translator)

    Young Adult

    • Dead Girls Don't Dream - Cipri, Nino (Author)

    • Games Untold (The Inheritance Games #5) - Barnes, Jennifer Lynn (Author)


Overview (Our Top 5 Picks)

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  • From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, the 6:20 Man returns, this time sent to the Pacific Northwest to aid in a complicated FBI case--and he's about to come face-to-face with his nemesis, the girl on the train.

    Travis Devine has become a pro at accomplishing any mission he's given. But this time it's not his skills that send him to Seattle to aid the FBI in escorting orphaned, twelve-year-old Betsy Odom to a meeting with her uncle, who's under federal investigation. Instead, he's hoping to lay low and keep off the radar of an enemy-the girl on the train.

    But as Devine gets to know Betsy, questions begin to arise around the death of her parents. Devine digs for answers, and what he finds points to a conspiracy bigger than he could've ever imagined.

    It might finally be time for Devine and the girl on the train to come face-to-face. Devine is going to find out the difference between his friends and his enemies-and in some cases, they might well be both.

  • Fast-talking, warm-hearted, and endlessly rewatchable, Gilmore Girls has bonded real-life mothers and daughters since 2000, when its iconic pilot introduced us to Lorelai, Rory, and their idyllic Connecticut town of Stars Hollow. More than twenty years later, it has become one of the most-streamed TV shows, ever.

    In an anthology as intimate and quick-witted as Gilmore Girls itself, best-selling author Ann Hood invites fifteen writers to investigate their personal relationships to the show. ("It's a show? It's a lifestyle. It's a religion.") Joanna Rakoff considers how Emily Gilmore helped her understand her own mother; Sanjena Sathian sees herself--and Asian American defiance--in Lane Kim; Freya North connects with her son through the show; Francesco Sedita discovers an antidote to pandemic loneliness; Nina de Gramont offers a comic ode to the unreality of Stars Hollow. For anyone who identifies as Team Logan, Team Jess, or even Team Dean, Life's Short, Talk Fast reveals what Gilmore Girls tells us about ourselves--and why it matters.

    This publication has not been prepared, approved, or licensed by Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.; Warner Bros Television; or any other entity or individual associated with the creation or production of Gilmore Girls.

  • An intimate look at the life and music of modern pop's most legendary figure, Taylor Swift, from leading music journalist Rob Sheffield.

    A cultural phenomenon. A worldwide obsession. An agent of emotional chaos. There's no parallel to Taylor Swift in history: a teenage girl who turns into the world's favorite pop star, songwriter, storyteller, guitar hero, live performer, changing how music is made and heard. An all-time great on the level of The Beatles, Prince, or David Bowie.

    Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music is the first book that goes deep on the musical and cultural impact of Taylor Swift. Nobody can tell the story like Rob Sheffield, the bestselling and award-winning author of Dreaming the Beatles, On Bowie, and Love Is a Mix Tape. The legendary Rolling Stone journalist is the writer who has chronicled Taylor for every step of her long career, from her early days to the Eras Tour. Sheffield gets right to the heart of Swift and her music, her lyrics, her fan connection, her raw power.

    At once one of the most beloved music figures of the past two decades and one of the most criticized, Taylor Swift is known as much for her life beyond her music as she is for her hits--the most public of stars, yet also the weirdest and most mysterious. In the tradition of Sheffield's Dreaming the Beatles, Heartbreak Is the National Anthem will inform and delight a legion of fans who hang on every word from Taylor and every word Rob writes on her.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson's immortal tale of personality and evil, now in a Clothbound Classic

    A Penguin Classics Hardcover

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have become synonymous with the idea of a split personality. More than a morality tale, this dark psychological fantasy is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution, criminality, and secret lives. Also in this volume are "The Body Snatcher," which charts the murky underside of Victorian medical practice, and "Olalla," a tale of vampirism and "the beast within," with a beautiful woman at its center.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

  • A series of original works by the mastermind behind the worldwide hit One Piece.

    See another version of Luffy in the original short story that launched a legend. The creator of One Piece presents this unique collection of his earliest works. From Western to fantasy to ghost story, this special volume has it all--including "Romance Dawn," the one-shot that would become the international megahit One Piece!

New Releases | November 12th, 2024
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A Thrilling and Chilling Blind Date With a Book!

October 20, 2024 Clare Brooks

The witching hour draws near and so arrives the penultimate Blind Dates of 2024 here at Little Village Toy & Book Shop!

October’s Blind Date with a Boooo-k comes in three seasonal favorites, all available for 20% off. Our “Season of the Witch” selections feature histories of magic, witchcraft, and witch trials, as well as plenty of fiction favorites. The “Thrills & Chills” theme has all of the spine-tingling horror and lit-fic for one’s Halloween season. Lastly, our “Fall into Romance” picks are the perfect romances to cozy up with as the nights stretch longer, and winter’s chill begins to linger.

Visit us today. This iteration of Blind Date with a Book is available while supplies last!

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"Last Chance at Love"

September 21, 2024 Clare Brooks

Our next Blind Date with a Book selection has arrived! This month's theme, "Last Chance at Love", features well liked hardcovers from the last few years looking for a loving home as we make room on our shelves for an upcoming Fall and Winter full of exciting releases. This batch of Blind Dates are available for 25% OFF, while supplies last!

Keep an eye out here for future Blind Date with a Book announcements, including a spooky take coming in October .

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New Releases | August 27th, 2024

August 24, 2024 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Art

    • The New Artist's Guide to Drawing: Learn How to Draw People, Animals, Landscapes and More the Easy Way - Mark Liam Smith

    Adult Fiction

    • The Wren, the Wren - Anne Enright

    • A Grandmother Begins the Story - Michelle Porter

    • Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver

    Adult Reference

    • The 2025 Old Farmer's Almanac Trade Edition - Old Farmer's Almanac

    Arts & Entertainment

    • I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine - Daniel J. Levitin

    Board Books

    • Little Witch Cat: Finger Puppet Book - Emily Dove

    • You're the Pumpkin in My Pie - Laura Gehl

    • Meet Bluey's Family: A Tabbed Board Book - Penguin Young Readers

    Business

    • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon - Michael Lewis

    Cookbooks

    • The Weekday Vegetarians Get Simple: Strategies and So-Good Recipes to Suit Every Craving and Mood: A Cookbook - Jenny Rosenstrach

    Current Events & Politics

    • Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the Fbi, and the War on Democracy - David Rohde

    • At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House - H.R. McMaster

    Graphic Novels

    • Garfield Donut Disturb: His 76th Book - Jim Davis

    History

    • The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History - Serhii Plokhy

    • Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor - Mark Harmon

    Horror

    • The Edge of Sleep - Jake Emanuel, Willie Block, Jason Gurley

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • My Neighbor Totoro Film Comic: All-In-One Edition (My Neighbor Totoro: All-In-One Edition - Hayao Miyazaki

    • Dark Souls: Redemption, Vol. 1 (Manga): Humanity Lost - Julien Blondel

    • Avengers: Twilight - Chip Zdarsky, Daniel Acuna, Alex Ross

    • Batman Vol. 1: I Am Gotham (2024 Edition) - Tom King, Ivan Reis, David Finch, Mikel Janin

    Middle Readers

    • A Horse Named Sky - Rosanne Parry

    My First Readers

    • Biscuit Visits the Firehouse (My First I Can Read) - Alyssa Satin Capucilli, Pat Schories

    • Nothing Scares a Dinosaur: Ready-To-Read Level 1 (Ready-To-Read) - Jonathan Fenske

    Mystery & Thriller

    • 12 Months to Live: Jane Smith Has a Year to Live, Unless They Kill Her First (A Jane Smith Thriller #1) - James Patterson, Mike Lupica

    Picture Books

    • Little Fir Tree: Finger Puppet Book - Yu-Hsuan Huang

    • The Next Scientist: The Unexpected Beginnings and Unwritten Future of the World's Great Scientists - Kate Messner, Julia Kuo

    • Gingerbread Dreidels - Jane Breskin Zalben, Thai Phuong

    Romance

    • Daydream - Hannah Grace

    • Truly Madly Magically - Hazel Beck

    • Long Live Evil - Sarah Rees Brennan

    • Confounding Oaths - Alexis Hall

    • Hers for the Weekend - Helena Greer

    • Haunting Adeline - H.D. Carlton

    Science & Nature

    • Our World in Numbers Dinosaurs & Other Prehistoric Life: An Encyclopedia of Fantastic Facts - DK

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • After the Forest - Kell Woods

    Social Sciences

    • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe, Geoff Dyer

    • That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America - Amanda Jones

    Young Adult

    • Sync - Ellen Hopkins

    • Sunderworld, Vol. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry - Ransom Riggs


Overview (Our Top 5 Picks)

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  • The Old Farmer's Almanac has been making every day special since 1792, and, with the 2025 edition, it continues this tradition in its inimitable fashion. Trusted by generations from all walks of life for its honesty and accuracy, the Almanac delivers fun facts, predictions, feature articles, and advice across many interest areas to readers who actually live--or aspire to live--the country lifestyle, with the intent of helping them to make better decisions. As a calendar of the heavens, it provides detailed daily astronomical data (Sun/Moon rise/set times, length of day), tide times, and planet/star sightings for every sky watcher, from novice to expert. As a calendar of the year, it presents annual and seasonal events, holidays, anniversaries, and timely trivia; astrological "Best Days" and cycles; and much more for the curious and the conscientious. As a time capsule of the year, it contains cultural trends; weather forecasts and conditions; articles on interesting topics such as gardening, home arts and remedies, amusements and contests, history, husbandry, nature, cooking and recipes, folklore, pets, and sports; and more--all in a way that is "useful, with a pleasant degree of humor."

    Long recognized as North America's most beloved and best-selling annual, this handy "little yellow book" is often imitated but never equaled. It is an American icon that instills in readers a feeling of being connected to the history of North America and its people.

    This paperback classic edition of the 2025 Almanac is distinguished by the hole in the upper left corner so that it can be conveniently hung on a hook or nail in the kitchen, greenhouse, barn--or wherever this indispensable guide will be needed!

  • "Amanda Jones started getting death threats, all for standing up for our right to read . . . but she's not stopped fighting against book bans, or stopped advocating for access to diverse stories."-Oprah Winfrey, in a speech at the 2023 National Book Awards

    "Amanda Jones clearly outlines how we got here, who's leading this false charge against qualified educators, media specialists, and authors-and most importantly, explores the steps we all must take to make the voice of truth and reason louder than their caterwauling."-Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author

    Part memoir, part manifesto, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivity on the front lines of our vicious culture wars.

    One of the things small town librarian Amanda Jones values most about books is how they can affirm a young person's sense of self. So in 2022, when she caught wind of a local public hearing that would discuss "book content," she knew what was at stake. Schools and libraries nationwide have been bombarded by demands for books with LGTBQ+ references, discussions of racism, and more to be purged from the shelves. Amanda would be damned if her community were to ban stories representing minority groups. She spoke out that night at the meeting. Days later, she woke up to a nightmare that is still ongoing.

    Amanda Jones has been called a groomer, a pedo, and a porn-pusher; she has faced death threats and attacks from strangers and friends alike. Her decision to support a collection of books with diverse perspectives made her a target for extremists using book banning campaigns-funded by dark money organizations and advanced by hard right politicians-in a crusade to make America more white, straight, and "Christian." But Amanda Jones wouldn't give up without a fight: she sued her harassers for defamation and urged others to join her in the resistance.

    Mapping the book banning crisis occurring all across the nation, That Librarian draws the battle lines in the war against equity and inclusion, calling book lovers everywhere to rise in defense of our readers.

  • VIRAL BOOKTOK SENSATION AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR!

    The Manipulator

    I can manipulate the emotions of anyone who lets me.
    I will make you hurt, make you cry, make you laugh and sigh.
    But my words don't affect him. Especially not when I plead for him to leave.
    He's always there, watching and waiting.
    And I can never look away.
    Not when I want him to come closer.

    The Shadow

    I didn't mean to fall in love.
    But now that I have, I can't stay away.
    I'm mesmerized by her smile, by her eyes, and the way she moves.
    The way she undresses...
    I'll keep watching and waiting. Until I can make her mine.
    And once she is, I'll never let her go.
    Not even when she begs me to.

    While not required, it is highly suggested to read the novella, Satan's Affair, first.

  • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

    New York Times Readers' Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century - An Oprah's Book Club Selection - An Instant New York Times Bestseller - An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller - A #1 Washington Post Bestseller - A New York Times "Ten Best Books of the Year"

    "Demon is a voice for the ages--akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield--only even more resilient." --Beth Macy, author of Dopesick

    "May be the best novel of [the year]. . . . Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love." --Ron Charles, Washington Post

    From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity

    Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.

    Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.

  • "Patterson and Lupica make a great team" (Carl Hiaasen) who get "deep into the lives of strong women" (Louise Penny) and Jane Smith is their greatest creation--a badass lawyer with a year to live.

    "Jane Smith is the best character we've ever created. Bar none."
    --James Patterson and Mike Lupica

    Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century.

    Actually, her charmless client might've committed several murders.

    She's also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt.

    But Jane doesn't have much time. She's just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months.

    Unless she's murdered before her expiration date.

New Releases | August 27th, 2024
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