Could your bookshelf use a little glam or pizzazz? We have some new D.I.Y. book nooks that can do just that! Not only is it a fun li'l craft perfect for a rainy afternoon but also a nice little talking point for your guests. Our fav is the new Owl Bookstore. Sip some espresso in your P.J.'s while perusing your book collection and staring into the void of the Owl bookstore. It's like a home away from home.... but in your home? You get the gist.
New Releases | April 15th, 2025
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Adult Fiction
Honey - Lodato, Victor (Author)
The One That Got Away - Rixon, Charlotte (Author)
Arts & Entertainment
Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See - Bosker, Bianca (Author)
Chapter Books
Rosey Stink Badger (Willow's Woods #2) - Selfors, Suzanne (Author) , Kaulitzki, Ramona (Illustrator)
Cookbooks
By Heart: Recipes to Hold Near and Dear - Catalano, Hailee (Author)
Graphic Novels
K Is in Trouble Again (a Graphic Novel) (K Is in Trouble #2) - Clement, Gary (Author)
Outsider Kids: A Parachute Kids Graphic Novel (Parachute Kids #2) - Tang, Betty C (Author) , Tang, Betty C (Illustrator)
Great Outdoors
Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery - Synnott, Mark (Author)
Homestead
Axe in Hand: A Woodchopper's Guide to Blades, Wood, and Fire - Coenen, Nicole (Author)
No New Things: A Radically Simple 30-Day Guide to Saving Money, the Planet, and Your Sanity - Piper, Ashlee (Author)
Local Interest
A Little Wildness: Some Notes on Rambling - Lea, Sydney (Author)
Maps
2026 Rand McNally Road Atlas
2026 Rand McNally Large Scale Road Atlas
2026 Rand McNally Easy to Read Midsize Road Atlas
2026 Rand McNally Road Atlas & National Park Guide
My First Readers
Time for Kids: Insects - Bolden, Jevon (Author)
Time for Kids: Weather - Jospitre, Sarah (Author)
Mystery & Thriller
Murder by Cheesecake: A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery - Courage, Rachel Ekstrom (Author)
Strangers in Time: A World War II Novel - Baldacci, David (Author)
The Perfect Divorce - Rose, Jeneva (Author)
Personal Growth
The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward - French Gates, Melinda (Author)
Picture Books
Little Bird Laila - Yang, Kelly (Author) , Yan, Xindi (Illustrator)
Just a Banana - Saltzberg, Barney (Author)
Lily the Pond Mermaid - Fleming, Lucy (Author) , Fleming, Lucy (Illustrator)
Warm and Fuzzy - Rothman, Scott (Author) , Won, Brian (Illustrator)
Caitlin Clark: A Little Golden Book Biography - Dinovis, Marisa (Author) , Stone, Joanie (Illustrator)
A Home for Steamboat: The History of a Famous Rodeo Horse - Pullen, Zachary (Illustrator) , Rislov, Casey (Author)
Romance
A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic (Deluxe Edition) (Adenashire #1) - Penner, J (Author)
Science & Nature
Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Animals
Wonder Wings: Guess Who's Flying (the Nature Riddles and Rhymes Series) - Hirsch, Rebecca E (Author) , Han, Sally Soweol (Illustrator)
Science Fiction & Fantasy
The Book of Doors - Brown, Gareth (Author)
Young Adult
Watch Me Deluxe Limited Edition (Shatter Me Series: The New Republic #1) - Mafi, Tahereh (Author)
My Return to the Walter Boys - Novak, Ali (Author)
Our Top 5 Picks
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The first novel in the all-new Golden Girls Cozy Mystery Series!
When Dorothy's obnoxious date is found dead in a hotel freezer, it not only ruins a gorgeous cheesecake but threatens the elaborate St. Olaf-themed wedding Rose is hosting.
Things are heating up, and not just because of Blanche's hot flashes. Rose's cousin is eloping to Miami, and Rose is playing host. If she can't balance the groom's family's snobbery against the traditional St. Olaf wedding week guidelines, her hometown may never accept her cousin again!
Dorothy quickly realizes she needs a date with whom she can exchange wedding-related wisecracks. Turning to a newfangled VHS dating service, she believes she's found the ideal conversationalist. Unfortunately, what looks good on TV can actually be a total jerk in real life. It seems she'll just have to enjoy the company of Sophia, Blanche, and whomever Blanche has targeted for a hookup.
As the Girls all pitch in, Rose is thrilled that the tea-and-fish-themed kickoff event is perfect, not a herring out of place. That is until Dorothy's date is found dead--face-planted in an otherwise scrumptious-looking cheesecake. With every guest a suspect (especially Dorothy) and a marriage on the line, the four besties must ID the real killer, get the should-be-happy couple down the aisle, and make sure nobody from St. Olaf gets lost in the wilds of Miami. It's up to the Golden Girls to sleuth out a way for friendship and love to win the day!
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Calamity of Souls comes David Baldacci's newest novel, set in London in 1944, about a bereaved bookshop owner and two teenagers scarred by the Second World War, and the healing and hope they find in one another.
Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he's old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the Blitz, Charlie knows there's no telling when a falling bomb might end his life.
Fifteen-year-old Molly Wakefield has just returned to a nearly unrecognizable London. One of millions of children to have been evacuated to the countryside Molly has been away from her home for nearly five years. Her return, however, is not the homecoming she'd hoped for as she's confronted by a devastating reality: neither of her parents are there.
Without guardians and stability, Charlie and Molly find an unexpected ally and protector in Ignatius Oliver, and solace at his bookshop, The Book Keep. Mourning the recent loss of his wife, Ignatius forms a kinship with both children, and in each other they rediscover the spirit of family each has lost.
But Charlie's escapades in the city have not gone unnoticed, and someone's been following Molly since she returned to London. And Ignatius is harboring his own secrets, which could have terrible consequences for all of them.
As bombs continue to bear down on the city, Charlie, Molly, and Ignatius learn that while the perils of war rage on, their coming together and trusting one another may be the only way for them to survive.
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Rich bonus features for the deluxe edition include:
Gorgeous full-color interior art
Beautiful sprayed edges
Additional scenes
She doesn't need to have magic in order to be magic...
In the heart of Adenashire, where elvish enchantments and dwarven delights rule, human baker Arleta Starstone works twice as hard at perfecting her unique blend of baking with apothecary herbs. So, when her orc neighbor (and biggest fan) secretly enters her creations into the prestigious Langheim Baking Battle, Arleta faces a dilemma. Being magicless, her participation in the competition could draw more scowls than smiles. And if Arleta wants to prove her talent and establish her culinary reputation, she'll need more than just her pastry craft to sweeten the odds.
Though Arleta may not yet believe in herself, she makes her way to Langheim--with the help of a very attractive woodland elf--and competes. While on a journey of mouthwatering pastries, self-discovery, heartwarming friendships, and potential romance, Arleta will have to decide whether winning the Baking Battle is the true prize after all. But win or lose, her adventure is only beginning...
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Lose yourself in this exhilarating return to the #1 global bestselling Shatter Me universe, the first book in a new series set ten years after the fall of The Reestablishment. This breathtaking custom deluxe edition features:
Shimmery jacket with holographic foil Gorgeous designed endpapers Foil case design with a quote from the novel Stunning holographic edges
Quantities are limited for this deluxe edition so be sure to preorder now!
James Anderson had a plan. Or half of one. All that matters is that he managed to do what his older brother, the famous Aaron Warner Anderson, never did: infiltrate Ark Island, the last refuge of The Reestablishment. In the past decade no outsider has breached the stronghold of the authoritarian regime, but James is in. In a prison cell, sure, but as far as James is concerned, a win is a win.
It's been ten years since the fall of The Reestablishment. Ten years since the notorious duo--Juliette Ferrars and Aaron Warner Anderson--led a worldwide rebellion and established the New Republic of the West. But after a decade of unsettling quiet, The Reestablishment is ready to make a devastating move, and they have the perfect person for the job.
Rosabelle Wolff had a plan. She always has a plan. On Ark Island, where constant surveillance is packaged as security, even emotions must be experienced with caution. A trained assassin, her every movement is monitored by synthetic intelligence--and when she's given an order to kill, she never hesitates.
Brimming with pulse-pounding action and torturous romance, Watch Me is an explosive journey through a dystopian landscape where enemies-to-lovers has never felt more impossible. Step into a beloved and breathtaking world that demands an answer to a desperate question--
Who are we when no one is watching?
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From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling thriller The Perfect Marriage
Till death do us part. Yours. Not Mine.
It's been eleven years since high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam, against the charge of murdering his mistress. Sarah has long since moved on, starting a family with her new husband, Bob Miller, and changing careers. Her life is back to being exactly how she always wanted ... or is it?
After discovering Bob engaged in a one-night stand, Sarah wastes no time filing for divorce. However, amid their ugly separation, new DNA evidence is uncovered in the case against Adam, forcing the police to reopen the investigation and putting Sarah right back in the spotlight. Everyone wants to know what really happened, most of all former deputy Marcus Hudson, who is hell-bent on finding the truth.
But when the woman Bob slept with is reported missing, he and Sarah start to fight dirty, and a high-stakes game of cat and mouse ensues. Filled with page-turning suspense and Jeneva Rose's signature twists and turns, this book will have readers wondering, Can Bob and Sarah achieve the perfect divorce? Or will it be "till death do us part"?
Mark Your Calendars For Independent Bookstore Day!!!
Independent Bookstore Day is coming here at Little Village Toy & Bookshop! Mark your calendars to celebrate with us in store on Saturday, April 26, 2025. Keep your eyes on our social media channels throughout April for more information on all the fun we’ve been planning!
The harmful practice of deceptive marketing in today's online world
Are you a fan of Smiski, Pokemon or Jellycat? If so, you've likely noticed it's getting more difficult to track 'em down. Why is that? There are many factors such as increasing demand, resellers and distributors cracking down and limiting supply to shops not to mention the looming tariffs and how those may or may not affect the market.
As a small biz, we feel you. We're doing what we can to keep these items well stocked and at or below MSRP. We refuse to boost our prices to make a quick buck. Other companies (we won't name names) lure you in with buzzwords and "sales", but are you truly getting a good deal? We'll use Smiski as an example here. MSRP is $11.99. Another retailer has them "on sale" for $15.99 from $17-$20. They were never $20. It's a marketing tactic but really it's just pure deception. We will not raise our prices unless absolutely necessary, which sometimes means we make a little less on the back end but your trust is worth more than $$$.
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New Releases | March 25th, 2025
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Adult Fiction
Twist - McCann, Colum
Beautyland - Bertino, Marie-Helene
Mother Doll - Apekina, Katya
Tilt - Pattee, Emma
Paradise Logic - Kemp, Sophie
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert - Bob the Drag Queen
Adult Science
Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea - Ridley, Matt
Biography
Free: My Search for Meaning - Knox, Amanda
Board Books
The Going to Bed Book (Sound Book) - Boynton, Sandra
My Mama Bear and Me - Beer, Sophie
Cookbooks
Pizza from the Heart: 100 Recipes for Pies, Pasta, Salads, and More - Giannone, Paulie
You Got This!: Recipes Anyone Can Make and Everyone Will Love (a Cookbook) - Morrisey, Diane
Graphic Novels
Bad Kitty Takes the Test (Full-Color Edition) - Bruel, Nick
Great Outdoors
The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map - Hutchinson, Alex
History
The Britannias: An Archipelago's Tale - Albinia, Alice
Homestead
Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand - Chu, Jeff
Grow Your Groceries: 40 Hacks for Growing Plants from Supermarket Foods - Akeroyd, Simon
Herbs in Every Season: 48 Edible and Medicinal Herbs for the Kitchen, Garden, and Apothecary - Cohen, Bevin
Horror
Blood on Her Tongue (Deluxe Edition) (Special) - Van Veen, Johanna
Manga & Adult Graphic Novels
Captain America: The Winter Soldier [Marvel Premier Collection] (Marvel Premier Collection) - Brubaker, Ed
Middle Readers
River of Spirits (The Underwild #1) - Targosz, Shana
Isle of Ever (Isle of Ever #1) - Calonita, Jen
Mystery & Thriller
One Perfect Couple - Ware, Ruth
Close to Death (A Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery #5) - Horowitz, Anthony
Nobody’s Fool - Coben, Harlan
This Book Will Bury Me - Winstead, Ashley
Home is Where the Bodies Are - Rose, Jeneva
Picture Books
Little Blue Truck and Racer Red - Schertle, Alice
This Is a Moment - Player, Micah
Nellie's Big Splash - Doerrfeld, Cori
Disney Snow White (Little Golden Book) - Martinez, Susana Illera
Llama Llama Loves His Teacher - Dewdney, Anna
Bearsuit Turtle Makes a Friend: A Picture Book - Shea, Bob
Signs of Friendship - Silvestro, Annie
Political Science
Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals about America Today - Tinline, Phil
Puzzle Books
Armchair Puzzlers: Large Print Crosswords - Games, University
Romance
Summer in the City (Deluxe Limited Edition) - Aster, Alex
Slaying the Vampire Conqueror: A Crowns of Nyaxia Novel (The Crowns of Nyaxia) - Broadbent, Carissa
The Fine Print (Collector's Edition) (Special) (Dreamland Billionaires #1) - Asher, Lauren
My Demon Hunter: Deluxe Limited Edition (Hell Bent) - Ascher, Aurora
Exquisite Ruin (Labyrinth #1) - May, Adrianne
Science & Nature
Magic in a Drop of Water: How Ruth Patrick Taught the World about Water Pollution - Winterbottom, Julie
When Tree Became a Tree - Hodgson, Rob
Turn This Book Into a Bird Feeder!: And 19 Other Activities to Explore the Amazing World of Birds - Brunelle, Lynn
Growing Green: A First Book of Gardening - Candlewick Press
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Elphie (Deluxe Limited Edition): A Wicked Childhood - Maguire, Gregory
When the Moon Hits Your Eye - Scalzi, John
The Familiar - Bardugo, Leigh
Social Sciences
The Portable Feminist Reader - Gay, Roxane
Our Top 5 Picks
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The collector's hardcover features stenciled edges and a color illustrated map of Oz.
What happened to young Elphaba before her witchy powers took hold in Wicked? Almost 30 years after the publication of the original novel, for the first time Gregory Maguire reveals the story of prickly young Elphie, the future Wicked Witch of the West--setting the stage for the blockbuster international phenomenon that is Wicked: The Musical.
Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, will grow to have a feisty and somewhat uncompromising character in adult life. But she is always a one-off, from her infancy; Elphie is the riveting coming-of-age story of a very peculiar and relatable young girl.
Young Elphie is shaped and molded by the behaviors of her promiscuous mother, Melena, and her pious father, Frex. She suffers ordinary childhood jealousies when her sister, saintly Nessarose, and brother, junior felon Shell, arrive. She first encounters the mistreatment of the Animal populations of Oz, which live adjacent to but not intertwined with human settlements, haunted by a Monkey and receiving aid from Dwarf Bears. She thrashes through her first bruising attempts at friendship, a possible lifeline from her tricky family life. And she gleans the benefits of an education, haphazard though it must be--until she arrives at the doors of Shiz University, about to meet the radiant creature that is Galinda.
Elphie is destined to be a witch; she bears the markings from childhood--most evidently in her green skin but more obscurely and profoundly in her cunning and perhaps amoral behaviors, as she seeks to make do, to slip by, to sneak out, to endure, and to aspire.
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This collector's hardcover features gorgeous sprayed edges with stenciled artwork, illustrated color endpapers, and special design features on the case.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Alex Aster comes her adult debut novel Summer in the City--a swoony, fast-paced rom-com set in New York City in which a screenwriter and a sexy tech CEO go from lovers to enemies and back to lovers again...
Twenty-seven-year-old screenwriter Elle has the chance of a lifetime to write a big-budget movie set in New York City. The only problem? She's had writer's block for months, and her screenplay is due at the end of the summer.
In a desperate attempt at inspiration, Elle ends up back in the city she swore she would never return to, in an apartment she could never afford (floor-to-ceiling windows, skyline views, and a new coffee shop to haunt included). It's the perfect place to write her screenplay...until she realizes her new neighbor is tech "Billionaire Bachelor" Parker Warren, her stairwell hookup from two years ago. It's been a lovers-to-enemies situation ever since.
When seeing him again turns into a full night of hate-fueled writing, Elle realizes her enemy/twisted muse might just be the key to finishing her screenplay... if she can stand being around her polar opposite. She writes anonymously, and he's on the cover of every business magazine. He frequents fancy red carpeted events, and she doesn't like leaving her emotional support five block radius.
One summer. One wall apart. He needs to fake a buzzy relationship during his company's precarious acquisition. She needs to write a movie around a list of NYC locations. Both need a break from their unrelenting schedules, and a chance to rediscover the skyscraper glimmering, pizza crusted, sunlit charms of the city.
Summers always end, and so will this agreement. It's all pretend. Promise.
Until it isn't.
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"Gothic horror for the ages...Combining shiver-inducing horror with sharp-fanged social commentary, this more that merits comparison to Dracula and other genre titans."-- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"I'm in your blood, and you are in mine..."
The Netherlands, 1887. Lucy's twin sister Sarah is unwell. She refuses to eat, mumbles nonsensically, and is increasingly obsessed with a centuries-old corpse recently discovered on her husband's grand estate. The doctor has diagnosed her with temporary insanity caused by a fever of the brain. To protect her twin from a terrible fate in a lunatic asylum, Lucy must unravel the mystery surrounding her sister's condition, but it's clear her twin is hiding something. Then again, Lucy is harboring secrets of her own, too.
Then, the worst happens. Sarah's behavior takes a turn for the strange. She becomes angry... and hungry.
Lucy soon comes to suspect that something is trying to possess her beloved sister. Or is it madness? As Sarah changes before her very eyes, Lucy must reckon with the dark, monstrous truth, or risk losing her forever.
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LIMITED EDITION FIRST PRINTING featuring sprayed edges, designed chapter headers, full color inside covers, and front cover foil with spot gloss--while supplies last!
For fans of Jenna Levine, Hannah Nicole Maehrer, and K.F. Breene, the steamy, laugh-out-loud paranormal romance about learning how to love--including the darkest parts of ourselves--complete with HEA, clothes-ripping-hot love scenes, and a crew of devilish demon brothers who are supposed to be the bad guys . . .
From the instant New York Times bestselling author of SANCTUARY OF THE SHADOW and MY FUNNY DEMON VALENTINE!
The hunter shall become the hunted . . . And the timid shall become the fierce.
Enslaved to an evil demon queen for millennia, Mishetsumephtai has only ever served one purpose. He is the Hunter, the one who drags the guilty back to Hell. But finally tasting freedom on Earth has changed him, and for the first time, Mist questions his duty. The human female who smiles at him with no idea what a monster he is, draws him in, and he'll do anything to possess her.
Lily Donovan thought the most dangerous thing about running to the corner store at night would be the aisles of junk food. She didn't bargain on encountering chaos in the form of a man with unusual tattoos and beguiling amber eyes, stalking her through the ice cream section. Since the death of her parents, Lily has tried to forget what she is. But denial is not an option when she's confronted with everything she's been running from.
Neither Mist nor Lily can ignore the burning magnetism between them. But Mist's reprieve from Hell was always temporary, and the punishment for disobedience will be worse than death. Yet he can't relinquish the woman whose scent calls to him like nothing he's hunted before.
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The TikTok sensation from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Asher. This collector's edition hardcover will feature a specially designed case, beautiful printed edges, exclusive full-color art, and foiled endsheets.
Rowan
I'm in the business of creating fairy tales.
Theme parks. Production companies. Five-star hotels.
Everything could be all mine if I renovated Dreamland.
My initial idea of hiring Zahra was good in theory, but then I kissed her.
Things spiraled out of control once I texted her using an alias.
By the time I realized where I went wrong, it was too late.
People like me don't get happy endings.
Not when we're destined to ruin them.
Zahra
After submitting a drunk proposal criticizing Dreamland's most expensive ride, I should have been fired.
Instead, Rowan Kane offered me a dream job.
The catch? I had to work for the most difficult boss I'd ever met.
Rowan was rude and completely off-limits, but my heart didn't care.
At least not until I discovered his secret.
It was time to teach the billionaire that money couldn't fix everything.
Especially not us.
Who or What is WhoHQ?
You may have noticed this tall drink o' water at the shop. Who? What? When? Why? How? These are just a few questions that Who HQ aims to answer. Gaze upon our newest edition to the shop, the Who HQ tower! This educational series covers everything from Ferdinand Magellan to Taylor Swift.
