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New Releases | February 3rd, 2026

February 1, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • Infinite Jest (30th Anniversary Edition) (Special) - Wallace, David Foster (Author), Zauner, Michelle (Foreword by)

    • The End of Romance - Meyer, Lily (Author)

    • Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming - Krasznahorkai, László (Author), Mulzet, Ottilie (Translator)

    • The Sirens - Hart, Emilia (Author)

    • Family Drama - Fallon, Rebecca (Author)

    Arts & Entertainment

    • Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play - MacDonald, Keza (Author)

    Award Winners

    • The Lions' Run - Pennypacker, Sara (Author), Klassen, Jon (Illustrator)

    Biography

    • Patriot: A Memoir - Navalny, Alexei (Author), Navalnaya, Yulia (Foreword by)

    Board Books

    • Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct (Board Book) - Willems, Mo (Author)

    • The Pigeon Needs a Bath! (Pigeon) - Willems, Mo (Author)

    • Leaf Thief: 1, 2, 3, Can You Count Along? - Hemming, Alice (Author), Slater, Nicola (Illustrator)

    • Merlin, Are You Near or Far? (Merlin First Concept Board Books) - Rasano, Eva (Author), Rasano, Eva (Illustrator)

    • Merlin, Are You Small or Big? (Merlin First Concept Board Books) - Rasano, Eva (Author), Rasano, Eva (Illustrator)

    • Just Because - Barnett, Mac (Author), Arsenault, Isabelle (Illustrator)

    • Make Way for Ducklings - McCloskey, Robert (Author), McCloskey, Robert (Illustrator)

    • The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Easter Day - Carle, Eric (Author), Carle, Eric (Illustrator)

    • This Little Dinosaur: A Touch and Feel Book (This Little) - Arrhenius, Ingela P (Illustrator), Nosy Crow Ltd (Author)

    Chapter Books

    • Leader of the Pack (Scrapper #1) - Higgins, Cam (Author), Landy, Ariel (Illustrator)

    • Pup vs. Squirrel (Scrapper #2) - Higgins, Cam (Author), Landy, Ariel (Illustrator)

    Children’s Poetry

    • Rumpelstiltskin - Barnett, Mac (Author), Ellis, Carson (Illustrator)

    Children’s Science & Nature

    • Klutz Steam Lab Shark-Tastic Teeth!

    Coloring Books

    • Magical Nature: Coloring Pages for Relaxation and Happiness - Bastin, Marjolein (Author)

    Cookbooks

    • Dinner Tonight: 200 Quick Recipes for Inspired Weeknight Cooking - America's Test Kitchen (Author)

    Fun & Games Books

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

    • Wings of Fire Folded Flyers [With Paper]

    Graphic Novels

    • A Kid Like Me: A Graphic Novel - Feuti, Norm (Author), Feuti, Norm (Illustrator)

    • Hilo Presents: The Mighty: (A Graphic Novel) - Winick, Judd (Author)

    • Space Chasers: To the Moon (Space Chasers by Leland Melvin #2) - Melvin, Leland (Author), Caramagna, Joe (Author) , Acton, Alison (Illustrator)

    • I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018 (I Survived Graphic Novel #13)(I Survived Graphix) - Tarshis, Lauren (Author), Ball, Georgia (Adapted by), Anderson, Cassie (Illustrator)

    • A Blood Moon (Snowlands #1) - Meroz, Morr (Author), Fogel, Collin (Illustrator)

    • Camp Monster - Messner, Kate (Author), Koch, Falynn (Illustrator)

    • Fantastic Frog and the Amazing Tad Lad (Fantastic Frog and the Amazing Tad Lad) - Reese, Brandon (Author)

    Hiking

    • Appalachian Trail Thru-Hikers' Companion 2026 - Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association (Author)

    • A Fabulous Thru-Hike: 3,100 Miles on the Continental Divide Trail - Lugo, Derick (Author)

    History

    • The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution - O'Malley, Gregory E (Author)

    Homestead

    • The Continuous Vegetable Garden: Create a Perpetual Food Garden That Sows and Grows Itself - Nardozzi, Charlie (Author)

    • Make Things. from Wood: Easy Woodworking Skills and Designs for the Modern Maker - Buckland, Annabelle June (Author)

    Literary Collections

    • Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon - Morrison, Toni (Author), Brodsky, Claudia (Introduction by), Brodsky, Claudia (Notes by)

    • Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out (First Time Trade) - Reed, Shannon (Author)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Fantastic Four Fanfare - Davis, Alan (Author), Waid, Mark (Author), Davis, Alan (Illustrator), Pichelli, Sara (Illustrator), Stott, Rachael (Not Available)

    • Batman: White Knight: DC Compact Comics Edition - Murphy, Sean (Author), Murphy, Sean (Illustrator)

    • Absolute Batman Vol. 2: Abomination - Snyder, Scott (Author), Martin, Marcos (Illustrator), Dragotta, Nick (Illustrator)

    • Absolute Power - Waid, Mark (Author), Mora, Dan (Illustrator)

    Middle Readers

    • Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey? (Choose Your Own Adventure Retro Editions) - Packard, Edward (Author)

    My First Readers

    • DK Super Readers Level 1 Pokémon Meet the Crew

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • Wolf Hour - Nesbo, Jo (Author), Ferguson, Robert (Translator)

    • It's Not Her (Original) - Kubica, Mary (Author)

    Personal Growth

    • Smitten: Romantic Obsession, the Neuroscience of Limerence, and How to Make Love Last - Bellamy, Tom (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Under One Roof - Paul, Miranda (Author), Paul, Baptiste (Author), Neal, Christopher Silas (Illustrator)

    • Because of a Shoe - Fogliano, Julie (Author), Frazee, Marla (Illustrator)

    • Start Your Engines! - Duffield, Katy S (Author), Galletti, Chiara (Illustrator)

    • Cat's New Book - Belhassen, Nathalie (Author)

    • A Fluffle of Bunnies - Matheson, Christie (Author)

    • Our Little Adventure at Easter: An Easter Book for Babies and Toddlers Featuring Lessons on Sacrifice, Love, and Forgiveness (Tabitha Paige Children's Book) - Paige, Tabitha (Author), Paige Tate & Co (Producer)

    • I'm So Happy You're Here: A Celebration of Library Joy - Threets, Mychal (Author), Nam, Lorraine (Illustrator)

    Political Science

    • To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right - Mathias, Christopher (Author)

    Romance

    • Get Over It, April Evans (A Clover Lake Novel) - Herring Blake, Ashley (Author)

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

    • Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die - Stothers, Greer (Author)

    • One & Only: A Read with Jenna Pick - Goo, Maurene (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • Isles of the Emberdark: A Cosmere Novel (Secret Projects) - Sanderson, Brandon (Author)

    Young Adult

    • Stolen Midnights (Stolen Midnights 1) - Quinn, Katherine (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • "Lucas DuBois is proof that a mere kitten can be the bravest of lions by always standing up for what's right." --Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of Refugee

    The acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Pax delivers an historical novel about an orphan during WWII who discovers unexpected courage within himself when he becomes involved with the Resistance.

    Petit éclair. That's what the other boys at the orphanage call Lucas DuBois. Lucas is tired of his cowardly reputation, just as he's tired of the war and the Nazi occupation of his French village. He longs to show how brave he can be.

    He gets the chance when he saves a litter of kittens from cruel boys and brings them to an abandoned stable to care for them. There he comes upon a stranger who is none too happy to see him: Alice, the daughter of a horse trainer, who is hiding her filly from German soldiers.

    Soon Lucas begins to realize they are not the only ones in the village with secrets. The housekeeper at the German maternity home and a priest at the orphanage pass coded messages; a young mother at the home makes dangerous plans to keep her baby from forced adoption; and a neighbor in town may be harboring a Jewish family.

    Emboldened by the unlikely heroes all around him, Lucas is forced to decide how much he is willing to risk to make the most courageous rescue of all.

    Perfect for fans of Alan Gratz, Ruta Sepetys, and Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, this accessible novel, told in short chapters, illuminates a little-known aspect of World War II history.

  • This instant #1 New York Times bestseller now features gorgeous step-back art and a preview of Abby's highly anticipated The Night We Met.

    "No one does funny, emotional, life-affirming love stories quite like Abby Jimenez. She just keeps outdoing herself." ―Emily Henry

    There's no such thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes disastrously close. A gorgeous veterinarian giving Greek god vibes--all while cuddling a tiny kitten? Immediate yes. That is until Xavier opens his mouth and proves that even sculpted gods can say the absolute wrong thing. Like, really wrong. Of course, there's nothing Samantha loves more than proving an asshole wrong ... unless, of course, he can admit he made a mistake.

    But after one incredible and seemingly endless date, Samantha is forced to admit the truth, that her family is in crisis and any kind of relationship would be impossible. Samantha begs Xavier to forget her. To remember their night together as a perfect moment, as crushing as that may be. Only no amount of distance or time is enough to forget what's between them. And the only thing better than one single perfect memory is to make a life--and even a love--worth remembering.

  • Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he longs to be reunited with his high-school sweetheart Marika. Confusions abound, and what follows is an endless storm of gossip, con men, and local politicians, vividly evoking the small town's alternately drab and absurd existence. All along, the Professor--a world-famous natural scientist who studies mosses and inhabits a bizarre Zen-like shack in a desolate area outside of town?offers long rants and disquisitions on his attempts to immunize himself from thought. Spectacular actions are staged as death and the abyss loom over the unsuspecting townfolk.

  • In the heart of the Snowlands, prey and predator alike mysteriously disappear as three outcasts join forces for the adventure of a lifetime in the first book of the heart-stopping Snowlands series -- perfect for fans of Wings of Fire and Warriors!

    Feba, an orphaned wolf cub, is believed to be cursed. Her rare white fur is said to be a bad omen. When a mysterious creature starts killing members of Feba's pack one by one, all eyes fall on her. She has no choice but to run away, forced to roam the perilous Snowlands all on her own ...

    Until she meets Usha, a fiercely independent leopard, and Batu, a bumbling wildcat, each with their own secrets and reasons for wandering the Snowlands. Together, they form an unlikely trio, bound by fate. As these uneasy allies cross the frosty wilderness, they'll uncover a widespread danger in the mountains that threatens to destroy everything.

    Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime in A Blood Moon, the epic first book in the Snowlands series!

  • A vibrant debut and powerful meditation on family, motherhood, and the cost of holding on to your dreams, reminiscent of Ann Napolitano.

    In New England, Susan Bliss is a young mother married to a professor.

    In LA, Susan Byrne stars in a soap opera beloved coast to coast.

    Decades after she's gone, her twins have no idea of their mother's fame. But the past can't stay hidden forever.

    It's 1997, and snow is blanketing a New England beach. Two befuddled seven-year-olds watch as their mother's body is tipped overboard a crumbling boat. A Viking funeral, followed by a raucous wake. A send-off fit for soap opera star: Susan Bliss.

    Fifteen years earlier, Susan is a blazing, beautiful young woman, passionate about her art. It's impossible not to fall in love with her, and so Alcott, a practical professor, does--hopelessly. And so begins the love story of Susan's two-paneled life: an unconventional, jetlag-filled arrangement that takes her back and forth between her life in New England as a wife and mother to young twins to the bright lights of Los Angeles, where she becomes the beloved star of a daytime soap.

    In the present, Susan's twins grow up in the shadow of her all-consuming absence. Sebastian, a sensitive artist, cleaves to her memory, fascinated with the artifacts of her starry past. Viola, resentful of her mother's torn allegiances, distances herself from the memories of her. But when Viola runs into her mother's old costar Orson Grey--now a renowned Hollywood star--she finds herself falling deeply in love with him and begins to put together the pieces of a mother she never really knew.

    Sharp, assured, and beautifully written, Family Drama is a story told in double-helix, with intertwined timelines that explore the different versions of ourselves we share with the world and with each other.

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New Releases | December 9th, 2025

December 7, 2025 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • The Time Hop Coffee Shop (Original) - Patrick, Phaedra (Author)

    • The Birdwatcher (Original) - Mitchard, Jacquelyn (Author)

    Adult Reference

    • The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2026 - Janssen, Sarah (Author)

    Biography

    • A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature - Morgan, Adam (Author)

    Body, Mind & Spirit

    • Llewellyn's Complete Book of the Moon: Lunar Wisdom for Magic, Healing & Inspiration - Angelica, Jesamyn (Author)

    Children’s Science & Nature

    • Eyewitness Dog (DK Eyewitness)

    Cookbooks

    • The Science of Fermentation (The Science of Food) - DK (Author) , Sherriff, Robin (Author)

    • The Complete Slow Cooker Cookbook: 75 Tasty, Time-Saving, Slow-Cooked Recipes

    History

    • The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the World - Mazzeo, Tilar J (Author)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1: Get Back Up (Amazing Spider-Man (Hardcover)) - Kelly, Joe (Author), Larraz, Pepe (Illustrator), Cafu (Illustrator), Romita, John (Illustrator), Larraz, Pepe (Not Available)

    • Absolute Green Lantern Vol. 1: Without Fear (Absolute Universe) - Ewing, Al (Author), Lindsay, Jahnoy (Illustrator)

    • Aquaman Vol. 1: The Dark Tide - Adams, Jeremy (Author), Timms, John (Illustrator)

    • Spider-Man: Kizuna, Vol. 2 - Kobayashi, Setta (Author), Mizuno, Hachi (Artist)

    • Love Bullet, Vol. 1 - Inee (Author), Nagamine, Aila (Letterer), Fukushima, Masaaki (Translator)

    My First Readers

    • Time for Kids: Planets - Jospitre, Sarah (Author)

    Personal Growth

    • The Atomic Habits Workbook: Official Companion to the #1 Worldwide Bestseller - Clear, James (Author)

    Romance

    • Seeing Other People - Wibberley, Emily (Author), Siegemund-Broka, Austin (Author)

    • Children of Fallen Gods (The War of Lost Hearts #2) - Broadbent, Carissa (Author)

    • My Blade, Your Back (Deluxe Edition) (Dark Forces #2) - Moronova, K M (Author)

    • Phantasma (Deluxe Limited Edition) (Wicked Games) - Smith, Kaylie (Author)

    Science Fiction& Fantasy

    • Tailored Realities -Sanderson, Brandon (Author)

    Young Adult

    • An Archive of Romance Deluxe Illustrated Edition: A Study in Drowning Novella - Reid, Ava (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson―creator of the Stormlight Archive, the Mistborn saga, and numerous smash-hit works of science fiction and fantasy―comes Tailored Realities, a new short fiction collection including the never-before-published novella "Moment Zero."

    Spanning the genres of fantasy and science fiction, Tailored Realities includes ten works of short fiction from the ingenious mind of one of the genre's most beloved bestselling authors.

    From futuristic detective thrillers to inventive space opera, superhero action, high-tech fantasy, and beyond, these gripping standalone reads have never before been gathered into one volume, with many available here in print for the first time.

    Along with the thrilling new science fiction novella "Moment Zero," this collection includes:

    - "Snapshot"

    - "Perfect State"

    - "Defending Elysium" (from the world of Skyward)

    - "Firstborn"

    - "Mitosis" (from the world of the Reckoners)

    - and four other stories

    Also including author's notes and stunning interior illustrations for each story, this visionary collection is a must-read whether you're new to Sanderson or a longtime fan.

  • Learn all about the planets in this leveled reader! TIME for Kids helps young readers develop critical reading skills at any age and understand how to engage with the world around them.

    Have you ever wondered if there is life on Mars? Or why Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet? Or if water exists anywhere else but on Earth? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this photo-filled early reader perfect for young astronomers.

  • "Wholly transportive and spellbinding. I was beguiled." --Ling Ma, bestselling author of Severance and Bliss Montage

    "A fascinating account of a remarkable woman dangerously ahead of her time." --Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians

    "Exquisitely researched, deeply felt, and poignant. This one belongs on your shelf." --Sarah Rose Etter, author of Ripe and The Book of

    The life and times of literary pioneer and queer icon Margaret C. Anderson, who risked everything to be the first to publish James Joyce's Ulysses in America. Perfect for fans of The Editor, Flapper, and Nasty Women.

    Already under fire for publishing the literary avant-garde into a world not ready for it, Margaret C. Anderson's cutting-edge magazine The Little Review was a bastion of progressive politics and boundary-pushing writing from then-unknowns like T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, and Djuna Barnes. And as its publisher, Anderson was a target. From Chicago to New York and Paris, this fearless agitator helmed a woman-led publication that pushed American culture forward and challenged the sensibilities of early 20th century Americans dismayed by its salacious writing and advocacy for supposed extremism like women's suffrage, access to birth control, and LBGTQ rights.

    But then it went too far. In 1921, Anderson found herself on trial and labeled "a danger to the minds of young girls" by a government seeking to shut her down. Guilty of having serialized James Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses in her magazine, Anderson was now not just a publisher but also a scapegoat for regressives seeking to impose their will on a world on the brink of modernization.

    Author, journalist, and literary critic Adam Morgan brings Anderson and her journal to life anew in A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls, capturing a moment of cultural acceleration and backlash all too familiar today while shining light on an unsung heroine of American arts and letters. Bringing a fresh eye to a woman and a movement misunderstood in their time, this biography highlights a feminist counterculture that audaciously pushed for more during a time of extreme social conservatism and changed the face of American literature and culture forever.

  • "A delightful tale, full of heart." -Evie Woods, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop

    Welcome to the Time Hop Coffee Shop, where wishes can come true...

    Greta Perks was once the shining star of the iconic Maple Gold coffee commercials, the quintessential TV wife and mom. Now fame has faded, her marriage is on the rocks, her teenage daughter has become distant and Greta's once-glittering career feels like a distant memory.

    When Greta stumbles upon a mysterious coffee shop serving a magical brew, she wishes for the perfect life in those past Maple Gold commercials. Next thing she knows, Greta wakes in the idyllic make-believe town of Mapleville, where the sun always shines and the aroma of freshly brewed coffee and second chances fill the air. Given the opportunity to live the life she dreamed, Greta is determined to rewrite her own script. But can life ever be like a coffee commercial? And what will happen when Greta has to choose between perfection and real life, with no turning back?

  • Item descriptionThe true story of the first female captain of a merchant ship and her treacherous navigation of Antarctica's deadly waters, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot

    Summer, 1856

    Nineteen-year-old Mary Ann Patten and her husband, Joshua, were young and ambitious. Both from New England seafaring families, they had already completed their first clipper-ship voyage around the world with Joshua as captain. If they could win the race to San Francisco that year, their dream of building a farm and a family might be within reach. It would mean freedom. And the price of that freedom was one last dangerous transit--into the most treacherous waters in the world.

    As their ship, Neptune's Car, left New York Harbor and sailed down the jagged coast of South America, Joshua fell deathly ill and was confined to his bunk, delirious. The treacherous first mate, confined to the brig for insubordination, was agitating for mutiny. With no obvious option for a new captain and heartbroken about her husband, Mary Ann stepped into the breach and convinced the crew to support her, just as they slammed into a gale that would last 18 days. Determined to save the ship, the crew, and their future, she faces down the deadly waters of Drake's Passage.

    Set against the backdrop of the California Gold Rush and taking us to the brink of Antarctica, The Sea Captain's Wife finally gives Mary Ann Patten--the first woman to command a merchant vessel as captain -- her due. Mazzeo draws on new archival research from nineteenth-century women's maritime journals and on her own expedition to the Southern Ocean and Antarctica in search of Mary Ann's route. Thrilling, harrowing, and heroic, The Sea Captain's Wife is the story of one woman who, for love, would do what was necessary to survive.

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