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New Releases | January 13th, 2026

January 11, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • Lost Lambs - Cash, Madeline (Author)

    • The Jackal's Mistress - Bohjalian, Chris (Author)

    • The Last of Earth - Anappara, Deepa (Author)

    • The School of Night - Knausgaard, Karl Ove (Author), Aitken, Martin (Translator)

    • Tartufo - Buxton, Kira Jane (Author)

    • John - Williams, Niall (Author)

    Adult Science

    • 99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them - Alker, Ashely (Author)

    Biography

    • Nothing Random: Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built - Feldman, Gayle (Author)

    Board Books

    • Tiny T. Rex and the Itty-Bitty Bun-Bun: An Easter and Springtime Story - Stutzman, Jonathan (Author), Fleck, Jay (Illustrator)

    Body, Mind & Spirit

    • Glimmerings: Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a Theologian - Volf, Miroslav (Author), Wiman, Christian (Author)

    • Enough: Your Health, Your Weight, and What It's Like to Be Free - Jastreboff, Ania M (Author), Winfrey, Oprah (Author)

    Children’s Classics

    • Wuthering Heights (Puffin in Bloom) - Brontë, Emily (Author), Bond, Anna (Illustrator)

    Children’s Poetry

    • Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance - Grimes, Nikki (Author)

    Children’s Science & Nature

    • How to Hatch: A Gosling's Guide to Breaking Free - Ackerman, Sara Holly (Author), Bernstein, Galia (Illustrator)

    Cookbooks

    • Eat Yourself Healthy: Food to Change Your Life [American Measurements] - Oliver, Jamie (Author)

    Fun & Games

    • Basket Ball: The Story of the All-American Game (American Sports Histories #2) - Nelson, Kadir (Author), Nelson, Kadir (Illustrator)

    History

    • Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great - Kousser, Rachel (Author)

    • Carthage: A New History - MacDonald, Eve (Author)

    • Being Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History - Burstein, Andrew (Author)

    Homestead

    • Clean in 15: Create a Clean & Happy Home in Minutes - Carrington, Iwan (Author)

    Horror

    • Witchcraft for Wayward Girls - Hendrix, Grady (Author)

    • I Was a Teenage Slasher - Jones, Stephen Graham (Author)

    Humor Books

    • Still Smitten: Short-Form Comics about Long-Term Love - Chetwynd, Catana (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • Foote Was First!: How One Curious Woman Connected Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change - Bryant, Jen (Author), Bates, Amy June (Illustrator)

    • The Gift of Freedom: How Harriet Tubman Rescued Her Brothers - Turner, Glennette Tilley (Author), Freeman, Laura (Illustrator)

    Local Fiction

    • Why Did God Make the Tree?: A Patrick Denny Novel - Gregg, Tammy (Author)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Batman R.I.P. (New Edition) - Morrison, Grant (Author), Garbett, Lee (Illustrator), Daniel, Tony (Illustrator)

    • Parasyte Paperback Collection 2 (Parasyte Paperback Collection) - Iwaaki, Hitoshi (Author)

    My First Readers

    • The Wild Stallion: Ready-To-Read Level 2 - Farley, Terri (Author), Fagan, Kirbi (Illustrator)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • Darkrooms - Hannigan, Rebecca (Author)

    • Anatomy of an Alibi - Elston, Ashley (Author)

    • Private Rome: A Private Novel (Private Novel) - Patterson, James (Author), Hamdy, Adam (Author)

    Personal Growth

    • The Other Side of Change: Who We Become When Life Makes Other Plans - Shankar, Maya (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Bath Time for the Crayons (The Crayons Celebrate) -Daywalt, Drew (Author), Jeffers, Oliver (Illustrator)

    • Tiny Worlds: A Story about Appreciating the Small Things (a Gentle Picture Book That Celebrates Imagination and Grandparent Bonds - For Kids Ages 3-7) - Cicchese, Brittany (Author), Cicchese, Brittany (Illustrator)

    Poetry

    • Love Poems - Kaur, Rupi (Author)

    Romance

    • Graceless Heart - Ibañez, Isabel (Author)

    • Woman Down - Hoover, Colleen (Author)

    • A Vow in Vengeance (Immortal Desires) - Rodriguez, Jaclyn (Author)

    • From Blood and Ash Special Edition (Blood and Ash #1) - Armentrout, Jennifer L (Author)

    • A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire Special Edition (Blood and Ash #2) - Armentrout, Jennifer L (Author)

    • The Crown of Gilded Bones Special Edition (Blood and Ash #3) - Armentrout, Jennifer L (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • The Bones Beneath My Skin - Klune, Tj (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous - Anderson, Gillian (Author)

    • The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way - Ahmed, Sara (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • In this twisty thriller from New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, a frustrated author looks for her muse in a remote hideaway, but what she finds defies all expectations...and reality.

    Her words used to set the page on fire. But a viral backlash over her latest film adaptation forced Petra Rose to take a hiatus, resulting in missed deadlines and an overdue mortgage. Branded a fraud and fame-hungry opportunist, she learned the hard way what happens when the internet turns on you. And she's been uninspired to write ever since.

    Now, with her next suspense novel outlined and savings nearly gone, she retreats to a secluded lakeside cabin, hoping to find inspiration. It's Petra's last-ditch attempt to save her career--and herself.

    Then he shows up.

    Detective Nathaniel Saint arrives with disturbing news, his presence igniting a creativity in her she thought long since burned out. Petra's words return in a rush, and her fictional cop character begins to mirror the very real cop who's becoming her muse.

    Their "research" sessions blur the lines between fantasy and reality. Each glance, every touch pulls Petra deeper into a world she thought she'd never lose herself in again. She's never felt more alive. But inspiration this powerful comes at a cost.

    When Saint starts taking his role in her career a little too seriously, Petra's forced to confront the chaos she created. But doing so could cost her more than the reputation she's been trying to salvage. The reputation the world wrote for her--the reputation only she can reclaim.

  • The hilarious Crayons from the #1 New York Times bestseller The Day the Crayons Quit are ready to make a splash in the bath in this mini hardcover book perfect for bath time, bedtime, or any time!

    Bath time is an adventure for the Crayons! Red likes to relax in the bath. Esteban likes to pretend to be a pirate. And Beige actually prefers a shower! Make bath time the best part of the day with this laugh-out-loud mini hardcover book from the bestselling team behind the international Crayons sensation.

    Featuring Drew Daywalt's giggle-inducing characters and bold, bright illustrations from Oliver Jeffers, Bath Time for the Crayons is squeaky-clean fun that's sure to keep children--and grown-ups--laughing.

  • Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Vulture, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, The Times (UK), Our Culture, and Harper's Bazaar

    "I can't remember the last time a novel made me laugh so hard or feel so much tenderness for its characters." --Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters

    "Madeline Cash is a voice like no other." --Lena Dunham

    "I've read entire books that contain less wit and inventiveness than a single one of Cash's sentences." --Eric Puchner, New York Times-bestselling author of Dream State

    "With a big surge of energy, Lost Lambs splits the nucleus of the American family." --Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection

    Rippling with humor, warmth, and style, Lost Lambs is a new vision of the charms and pitfalls of family dysfunction.

    The Flynn family is coming undone. Catherine and Bud's open marriage has reached its breaking point as their daughters spiral in their own chaotic orbits: Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crime Wes; Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist; the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone--or something--is monitoring the town's citizens.

    Casting a shadow across their lives, and their small coastal town, is Paul Alabaster, a billionaire shipping magnate. Rumors of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with a mysterious shipping container sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy--one that may just bring them closer together.

    Irreverent and addictive, pinging between the voices of the Flynn family and those of the panorama of characters around them, Madeline Cash's Lost Lambs is a debut novel of quick-witted observation and surprising tenderness. With it, Cash has crafted a family saga for the twenty-first century, all held together with crazy glue.

  • USA TODAY Bestseller Alex Award Winner *

    From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a "viciously clever" (The New York Times Book Review) classic slasher story with a twist--perfect for fans of Adam Cesare and Grady Hendrix.

    1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small town driven by oil and cotton--and a place where everyone knows everyone else's business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, and shared sense of unfairness of being on the outside through the slasher horror Jones loves, but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this "playful, self-aware, and remarkably gory horror novel" ( The New York Times).

  • The story of the legendary Random House founder, whose seemingly charmed life at the apogee of the American Century afforded him a front-row seat to literary and cultural history in the making

    "A stunning achievement . . . a sweeping intellectual history with a stunning cast of characters that reveals the inner struggles of a great publishing house."--Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

    At midcentury, everyone knew Bennett Cerf: witty, beloved, middle-aged panelist on What's My Line? whom TV brought into America's homes each week. But they didn't know that the handsome, driven, paradoxical young man of the 1920s had vowed to become a great publisher and, a decade later, was. By then, he'd signed Eugene O'Neill, Gertrude Stein, and William Faulkner, and had fought the landmark censorship case that gave Americans the freedom to read James Joyce's Ulysses.

    With his best friend and lifelong business partner Donald Klopfer, and other young Jewish entrepreneurs like the Knopfs and Simon & Schuster, Cerf remade the book business: what was published, and how. In 1925, he and Klopfer bought the Modern Library and turned it into an institution, then founded Random House, which eventually became a home to Truman Capote, Ralph Ellison, Ayn Rand, Dr. Seuss, Toni Morrison, James Michener, and many more.

    Even before TV, Cerf was a bestselling author and columnist as well as publisher; the show super-charged his celebrity, bringing fame--but also criticism. A brilliant social networker and major influencer before such terms existed, he connected books to Broadway, TV, Hollywood, and politics. A fervent democratizer, he published "high," "low," and wide, and from the Roaring Twenties to the Swinging Sixties collected an incredible array of friends, from George Gershwin to Frank Sinatra, having a fabulous time along the way.

    Using interviews with more than two hundred individuals, deeply researched archival material, and letters from private collections not previously available, this book brings Bennett Cerf to vibrant life, drawing book lovers into his world, finally laying open the page on a quintessential American original.

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