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New Releases | December 30th, 2025

December 28, 2025 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Art

    • Book Lover's Embroidery: Stitch 50+ Iron-On Designs - Ray, Aimee (Author)

    Adult Fiction

    • The Rest of Our Lives - Markovits, Ben (Author)

    Biography

    • Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton - Ackmann, Martha (Author)

    Chapter Books

    • Vortex of the Chaos Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #30) - West, Tracey (Author), Howells, Graham (Illustrator)

    Graphic Novels

    • Talons of Power: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel #9) (Wings of Fire Graphix) - Sutherland, Tui T (Author), Holmes, Mike (Illustrator)

    • A Waffle Lot of Love! (a Narwhal and Jelly Book #10) - Clanton, Ben (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • The Amazing Generation: Your Guide to Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World - Haidt, Jonathan (Author), Price, Catherine (Author), Cheng, Cynthia Yuan (Illustrator)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale: Captain America (Captain America: White) - Loeb, Jeph (Author), Sale, Tim (Illustrator), Sale, Tim

    Mystery & Thriller

    • Beautiful Ugly - Feeney, Alice (Author)

    • Run Away - Coben, Harlan (Author)

    Personal Growth

    • Eight Million Ways to Happiness: Wisdom for Inspiration and Healing from the Heart of Japan - Yoda, Hiroko (Author)

    • Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time - Beattie, Melody (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Valentines Are the Worst! - Willan, Alex (Author), Willan, Alex (Illustrator)

    Romance

    • To Bleed a Crystal Bloom (Crystal Bloom #1) - Parker, Sarah A (Author)

    • An Arcane Inheritance (Deluxe Edition) - Cole, Kamilah (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl 1) - Dinniman, Matt (Author)

    Young Adult

    • Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy 1) - Roberts, Lauren (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The apocalypse will be televised! Welcome to the first book in the wildly popular and addictive Dungeon Crawler Carl series--now with bonus material exclusive to this print edition.

    You know what's worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what's worse than that? An alien invasion, the destruction of all man-made structures on Earth, and the systematic exploitation of all the survivors for a sadistic intergalactic game show. That's what.

    Join Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend's cat, Princess Donut, as they try to survive the end of the world--or just get to the next level--in a video game-like, trap-filled fantasy dungeon. A dungeon that's actually the set of a reality television show with countless viewers across the galaxy. Exploding goblins. Magical potions. Deadly, drug-dealing llamas. This ain't your ordinary game show.

    Welcome, Crawler. Welcome to the Dungeon. Survival is optional. Keeping the viewers entertained is not.

    Includes part one of the exclusive bonus story "Backstage at the Pineapple Cabaret."

  • The graphic novel adaptations of the #1 New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series continue to set the world on fire!

    For every villain, there is a hero ...

    Turtle isn't one of the heroes he reads about in stories. If he were, he'd use his animus powers to help Pyrrhia -- instead of keeping his abilities a secret, even from his own sister. Now that Darkstalker, the sinister and impossibly old dragon from Pyrrhia's most notorious legends, has returned, Turtle knows his own role is simple: hide. And stay hidden.

    The more he watches Darkstalker from the shadows, the more Turtle knows that someone needs to stop the powerful dragon. A real hero. But Turtle is running out of time to find one, which means ... he might have to try to save the day himself.

    The #1 New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series soars to new heights in the ninth graphic novel adaptation, with art by Mike Holmes.

  • INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    "Her best book yet." -- Harlan Coben

    The million-copy bestselling Queen of Twists Alice Feeney returns with a gripping and deliciously dark thriller about marriage. . .

    . . . and revenge.

    Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.

    Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared.

    A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can't sleep, and he can't write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible - a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.

    Wives think their husbands will change but they don't.

    Husbands think their wives won't change but they do.

    "Magnetic and jaw-dropping." --Mary Kubica, bestselling author

    "Unforgettable." --Chris Whitaker, bestselling author

  • "The most lovable duo since Frog and Toad." --Dav Pilkey, bestselling creator of Dog Man and Captain Underpants

    The funny and adorable New York Times bestselling kids graphic novel series starring happy-go-lucky, waffle-loving Narwhal and somewhat cynical sidekick, Jelly.

    In this hilarious 10th book, Narwhal's PALentine's Day celebrations for Jelly go a little overboard! Includes bonus fun facts!

    Dive into three new stories with best buds Narwhal and Jelly! It's PALentine's Day and Jelly gives Narwhal a whaley nice card -- but now Narwhal has no idea what to give him! One card isn't nearly enough, and soon Narwhal is flooding Jelly with gifts galore: waffles, a book about Jelly, more waffles, a song about Jelly . . . MORE waffles!

    Jelly is grateful, but would prefer the present of Narwhal's presence more than all of Narwhal's over-the-top displays of friendship. Can Narwhal realize what true friendship means before they go off the deep end trying to please their pal?w heights in the ninth graphic novel adaptation, with art by Mike Holmes.

  • FINALIST FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE

    "Feels less like reading a novel and more like sitting in a car beside a dear friend as he navigates the road up ahead. A profoundly moving experience." --Ann Patchett

    "Deeply human...a beautifully quiet and devastating book." --Sarah Jessica Parker

    A triumphantly life-affirming road trip novel about marriage, middle-age, and a man at a crossroads in his life.

    When Tom Layward's wife had an affair twelve years ago, he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest child left the nest. Now, while driving his college-bound daughter to Pittsburgh, he remembers his promise to himself. He is also on the run from his own health issues and a forced leave from work.

    So, rather than returning to his wife in Westchester, Tom keeps driving west, with the vague plan of visiting people from his past--an old college friend, his ex-girlfriend, his brother, his son--en route, maybe, to California. He's moving towards a future he hasn't even envisioned yet while he considers his past and the choices he's made that have brought him to this particular present. Pitch-perfect, tender, and keenly observed, The Rest of Our Lives is a story about what to do when the rest of your life is only just the beginning of your story.

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New Releases | December 23rd, 2025

December 19, 2025 Clare Brooks
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  • Watch a tiny seed grow into a leafy apple tree in this interactive pop-up book. Hands-on, tactile elements and delightful imagery will encourage the development of motor skills and early learning.

    Bold, brightly colored pictures, lift-the-flap pages, and entertaining rhymes bring Pop-Up Peekaboo! Tree to life, and provide lots of opportunities for parent-and-child interaction and hours of nature-themed fun. Learn all about trees and their lifecycles here!

    Babies and toddlers will love lifting the big flaps to find five peekaboo surprises pop up from the pages: a single shoot emerging from a tiny seed, a sapling growing roots under the ground where worms and beetles burrow, bugs and birds making homes in the leafy tree, flower buds bursting into bloom, and fuzzy fruit buds growing into crisp and juicy apples.

    Find out how trees grow and where apples come from in this board book that teaches your little ones about nature and wildlife.

    Inside the pages of this adventure pop-up book, you'll find:

    Hands-on play elements that build a wide range of learning skills.

    Look-and-find peekaboo games that reward curiosity.

    Rhythmic, read-aloud text that aids language development.

    Rounded edges and chunky board book pages, protecting babies and their growing teeth!

    This pop-up book has been designed as an all-round activity learning experience to get the most out of story time. Read aloud the lively rhymes that create the amusing story for your kids to follow, and play a guessing game of who is behind the flap! The rhymes and the easy-to-read text help little ones remember the new words they are learning for early language development.

    This interactive book for 2-year-olds helps teach young children object permanence, which is an important step in childhood development. Turning the pages and moving the pop-ups helps toddlers learn motor control for improved dexterity.

  • From the modern horror master Gou Tanabe, comes the manga adaptation of H.P Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time. First published in 1936 in the legendary pulp magazine Astounding Stories, this is the complete story in one volume with tip-in title page in metallic gold ink and eight pages in color!

    Professor Peaslee of Miskatonic University has been acting very strange--could he be out of his mind? No...his mind is out of him!

    Just because one lives in Arkham--just because one teaches there at Miskatonic University--it doesn't mean one has any interest in the occult--in the abnormal. That was always the view of Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, a respectable professor of political economy. Until that one Thursday in 1908, when Professor Peaslee suddenly began to see in front of him not his students in their lecture hall, but strange shapes inhabiting a grotesque chamber. He collapsed unconscious, and when he awoke, he was strange...very strange.

    Seemingly unable to recall his identity, the mind inside the body of Nathaniel Peaslee was oddly uninterested in the person he had been. The psychologists were baffled as he sought not to recover his old memory, but to obsessively study the world around him, travelling to distant lands, reading occult books, disturbing others with his odd perspectives on time and existence. He alienated and frightened people--his friends, his wife, even most of his children, except for his youngest son, who believed that one day Nathaniel Peaslee would come back.

    And then, in 1913, Professor Peaslee did come back, with no memory of his strange sabbatical, but deeply disturbed by the dreams and visions it left him with. His search for the past five years gone missing from his life will lead Peaslee to other cases of lost identity resembling his...and eventually to an ancient city in the Australian desert--from where a long-vanished race still casts their shadow out of time.

  • Without the mentor, without the family, without the Speed Force, he's still the Absolute Scarlet Speedster! Superstar creators Jeff Lemire and Nick Robles are taking the Flash into the Absolute Universe with a top-to-bottom reinvention, perfect for new readers and longtime fans alike!

    An astonishing new version of DC's iconic characters is here! In the Absolute Universe, familiar heroes have been reinvented from the ground up with origin stories that completely reshape both their abilities and their circumstances but maintain the core characteristics that fans have known and loved for decades!

    Wally West's world has been turned upside down. Now quite literally on the run from the people he once trusted, he must navigate an impossible world full of dangers he never knew existed - and he must do so without the help and guidance of his former mentor.

    The Flash joins the Absolute Universe in a bold new take on the DC Universe's Scarlet Speedster, written by award-winning author Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth), and illustrated by Nick Robles.

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New Releases | December 16th, 2025

December 14, 2025 Clare Brooks
  • Coloring Book

    • Where's Waldo? the Official Coloring Book (Where's Waldo?) - Handford, Martin (Author), Handford, Martin (Illustrator)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Batman and Robin: Year One - Waid, Mark (Author), Samnee, Chris (Illustrator)

    • Parasyte Paperback Collection 1 - Iwaaki, Hitoshi (Author)

    Mystery & Thriller

    • The #1 Lawyer: A Thriller - Patterson, James (Author), Allen, Nancy (Author)

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  • Put your eagle eye to a new challenge in this official coloring book featuring iconic scenes from the globally best-selling Where's Waldo? adventures!

    Bring busy Where's Waldo? scenes to life by coloring them in and search as you go. What colors will you choose? Can you find Waldo and his lost pencils in every scene? (The hunt is even trickier in black and white!) When you reach the end of the book, read the checklists for even more things to find! Wow! With quality art paper, this book can be enjoyed by young and old artists alike! And it features over sixty pages to color that will take you on an adventure from the saloons of the Wild West to the bright lights of a Broadway stage.

  • Biloxi's best criminal defense attorney has never lost a case -- then his client's beautiful wife is murdered, and America's #1 lawyer suddenly becomes its #1 suspect in this thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author.

    Stafford Lee Penney is a small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation for winning every case he tries. In his sharp suits and polished Oxford shoes, Penney is Biloxi, Mississippi's #1 Lawyer and top local celebrity. Just as Penney notches his latest courtroom victory, his wife is scandalously killed. He spirals into a legal and personal losing streak, damaging his reputation and ruining his career.

    That's when Penney makes a bold decision. He stops trading on his power-lawyer identity and creates a new one: lawyer lifeguard. Moonlighting at the beach, showing up to court in flip-flops, mentoring a law student, the new Penney is at first unrecognizable.

    It's said that a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client. But when Penney is accused of murder, the #1 Lawyer will find a way to triumph.

  • Billionaire Bruce Wayne is grappling with his new role as guardian to orphaned Dick Grayson, while Batman faces the challenge of unleashing Robin on Gotham's ruthless underworld!

    Join superstars Mark Waid and Chris Samnee as they explore the earliest days of the Dynamic Duo!

    The early years of Batman and Robin were anything but smooth sailing. Join fan-favorite creative duo Mark Waid and Chris Samnee as they explore the first year of Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson's partnership, both as a newly minted father and son in the eyes of the public and as the crime-fighting Batman and Robin to the criminal underworld of Gotham City! Dick may be capable and enthusiastic, but does he have what it takes to stand up against the deadliest costumed villains the city has to offer? And Batman may be prepared for anything--but is he prepared to be responsible for the life and safety of a teenage sidekick?

  • Experience the immortal horror manga as it was originally meant to be read! For the first time in more than a decade, the Parasyte Paperback Collection pairs Hitoshi Iwaaki's original, black-and-white art with a revised translation and updated interior and cover design.

    Teenager Shinichi wakes up one night to discover a creature crawling under the skin of his right arm. This is a Parasite, a creature that takes control of a person's body and turns it into a shapeshifting monstrosity hungry for human flesh. Shinichi has managed to stop his parasite with a tourniquet, and as a result, it takes over only his arm, leaving two consciousnesses sharing one body and dependent on each other to survive. As parasites take control of more and more people, rumors spread of brutal murders committed by terrible abominations--heads splitting open to reveal mouths of sharp teeth, batlike wings erupting from backs, blades tearing through soft bellies. Only Shinichi knows for sure that these rumors are all true. But can he find a way to live without destroying everyone he cares about, much less save the rest of humanity?

    Complete in eight volumes, Parasyte Paperback Collection features the translation, lettering, and size of the recent, acclaimed hardcover Parasyte Full Color Collection. This timeless manga inspired the global smash hit anime Parasyte -the maxim- and the live-action TV drama from the director of Train to Busan, Parasyte: The Grey.

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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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New Releases | June 24th, 2025

June 22, 2025 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Art

    • Beetlejuice Crochet (Crochet Kits)

    Adult Fiction

    • Room on the Sea: Three Novellas - Aciman, Andre (Author)

    • Bear - Phillips, Julia (Author)

    • The Girls Who Grew Big - Mottley, Leila (Author)

    • Among Friends - Ebbott, Hal (Author)

    • The Compound - Rawle, Aisling (Author)

    • The Accidental Favorite - Littlewood, Fran (Author)

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

    Arts & Entertainment

    • All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words: Unpublished, Unvarnished, and Told by the Beatles and Their Inner Circle - Brown, Peter (Author), Gaines, Steven (Author)

    • Super Visible: The Story of the Women of Marvel Comics - Stohl, Margaret (Author), Schaefer, Jeanine (With), Stephens, Judith (With)

    Board Books

    • I'm Your School Bus - Eliot, Hannah (Author), Chen, Belinda (Illustrator)

    • Hello Hello Numbers - Wenzel, Brendan (Illustrator)

    Body, Mind & Spirit

    • Everything I Know about Hormones: Six Steps to Optimal Health and Happiness - Alderson, Hannah (Author)

    Calendars

    • Peanuts(r) 2026 Day-To-Day Calendar

    • Cartoons from the New Yorker 2026 Day-To-Day Calendar

    Children’s Classics

    • The Little Mermaid & Other Tales (Children's Signature Editions) - Andersen, Hans Christian (Author)

    • Peter Pan (Children's Signature Editions) - Barrie, J.M. (Author)

    History

    • The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States - Meacham, Jon (Introduction By)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Iron Man Vol. 1: The Stark-Roxxon War - Ackerman, Spencer (Author), Ohta, Julius (Illustrator), Pina, Javier (Illustrator), Reis, Rod (Illustrator), Putri, Yasmine (NA)

    • Superman: Birthright: DC Compact Comics Edition - Waid, Mark (Author), Alanguilan, Gerry (Illustrator)

    My First Readers

    • Pete the Cat's Mars Mission (I Can Read Level 1) - Dean, James (Author), Dean, James (Illustrator), Dean, Kimberly (Author)

    Mystery & Thriller

    • Don't Let Him in - Jewell, Lisa (Author)

    Picture Books

    • The Wild Robot on the Island - Brown, Peter (Author)

    • Tenacious Won't Give Up - Vaughan, Pam (Author), Hatch, Leanne (Illustrator)

    • Kitty vs. Kindergarten - Freeman, Martha (Author), Kaban, Eda (Illustrator)

    • Trusty Bus - Verdick, Elizabeth Weiss (Author), Harter, Jeff (Illustrator)

    Romance

    • As You Wish - Cross-Smith, Leesa (Author)

    • A Mother's Love - Steel, Danielle (Author)

    • The Calhoun Way (Reissue) (Calhoun Women) - Roberts, Nora (Author)

    • Psycho Shifters (Original) (Cruel Shifterverse #1) - Mas, Jasmine (Author)

    • Here and Now (Deluxe Edition) (Ember Falls #2) - Michaels, Corinne (Author)

    Science & Nature

    • Wild: A Family Guide to the Animal Kingdom (In Our Nature) - Ashby, Jack (Author), Meadows, Sara Boccaccini (Illustrator)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • The Dragon Republic Deluxe Collector's Edition (Poppy War #2) - Kuang, R.F. (Author), Jungshan (Illustrator)

    Social Sciences

    • Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom - Grant, Rebecca (Author)

    Spinner Rack Books

    • Hammerbarn: A Bluey Storybook

    Young Adult

    • The Naturals Deluxe Edition (Naturals) - Barnes, Jennifer Lynn (Author)

    • That Kind of Girl - Anderson, Natalie C. (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • #1 bestselling author Jennifer Lynn Barnes's fast-paced, full-throttle mystery with to-die-for romance is now available in a stunning deluxe hardcover edition! Featuring:

    • An updated, shining foiled cover

    • Stenciled sprayed edge design

    • Lush endpapers

    • A ribbon book marker

    • A brand new introduction and behind-the-scenes Q&A from the author

    Cold Cases heat up in the Naturals, a Tiktok favorite, unputdownable series with over 1 million copies sold!

    Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people, piecing together the tiniest details to know who a person is, and what they want. But it's not a skill she takes seriously until the FBI come knocking--they've begun a classified program that uses exceptional teens to crack infamous cold cases, and they want her to join.

    What Cassie doesn't realize is that there's more at risk than a few unsolved homicides. Sent to live with a group of teens whose gifts are as unusual as her own, she quickly realizes no one in the Naturals program is what they seem. Emotion-reader Michael is a wild card--and far too perceptive for Cassie's good. The resident deception-detector is a pathological liar, and the program's perky, blonde statistician is far better with numbers than with people. And then there's Dean--a profiler like Cassie but with a much darker gift.

    When a new killer strikes, danger looms close. Caught in a lethal game of cat and mouse with a killer, the Naturals are going to have to use all of their gifts just to survive.

    Perfect for fans of Criminal Minds and Holly Jackson, Jennifer Lynn Barnes delivers a suspense-ridden psychological thriller with killer appeal, a love triangle to die for, and a gorgeous new design that will stand out on any shelf.

    **Don't miss the other books in this series: Killer Instinct, All In, and Bad Blood, and the novella, Twelve

  • This gorgeously illustrated picture book brings to full color the adventures of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel The Wild Robot.

    Roz is not where she's supposed to be.

    You see, the robot wasn't designed to live in the wilderness. But when she washes up on an island, she must learn from the animal inhabitants and adapt to her new, natural surroundings, and before long, the island begins to feel like home.

    Filled with bestselling creator and award-winning artist Peter Brown's stunning artwork, this moving picture book is the perfect gift for readers new to The Wild Robot or for longtime fans of the middle-grade book series that sparked a global phenomenon.

  • In this gripping YA thriller perfect for fans of Jessica Goodman and Amber Smith, two girls from opposite worlds play a dangerous game of cat and mouse when a rich classmate is murdered and they become prime suspects. The race is on to find out which one is a killer.

    Sixteen-year-old amateur sleuth Roxie is shrewd, nimble, cunning, and only a little bit damaged. She also has a real knack for finding things, making her the perfect go-to detective for her rich classmates at St. Margaret when they're looking to retrieve the things they've "lost"-- no questions asked. So when queen bee Kirsten Montgomery-Wiggins pays Roxie a hefty sum to track down a mysterious blonde who "stole" her phone, Roxie accepts. Although Kirsten and Roxie have bad blood between them, Roxie could really use the cash. But that same night, Roxie finds Kirsten murdered in her mansion, and police zero in on her as a prime suspect.

    On the outskirts of town in a trailer park, Inez, a part-time maid and part-time sex-worker, keeps finding blood everywhere. Crusted in her earring, threaded into her shoelace. She should really toss her shoes so there's nothing to tie her to the body. How could the night have gone so wrong? She really thought she was working her way to a better life, but now she could be headed to jail if the wrong someone puts two and two together.

    Roxie doesn't know who she's looking for and Inez doesn't know who she's hiding from. But all roads seem to lead to Montgomery House, as Roxie works to clear her own name and Inez attempts to stay one step ahead of the law and the men who hurt her.

  • This deluxe edition will come with designed edges

    From New York Times bestselling author Corinne Michaels comes the next book in the Ember Falls series.

    I've crafted my new life in Ember Falls with two simple rules: maintain superficial relationships and always be ready to run.

    But when my son's incredibly hot hockey coach Miles Anderson walks in, things get very, very complicated.

    With his charming smile and our accidental dates, he's the exact opposite of any man I've ever dated. That should make saying yes to being with him simple, but nothing in my life is easy.

    In fact, it's a mess.

    Miles makes me smile and treats my son like his own. When we're together, I forget about my troubles and dream of a life that I will never be able to have with him.

    It's only a matter of time until the past comes knocking and I'll have to leave, breaking us both in the process.

  • #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham introduces America's essential founding documents in an elegant, readable, and timeless volume.

    In the winter of 1860-1861, facing the prospect of secession and civil war, President Abraham Lincoln held fast to the founding promise of the now-imperiled United States of America. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution had forged the nation, and Lincoln intended to defend them. But even more importantly, Lincoln saw "something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something is the principle of 'Liberty to all.'"

    That principle remains as vital today as it has been throughout the first 250 years of our nation's history. Presented here with an introduction by bestselling American historian and biographer Jon Meacham, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America are both timeless and timely, offering a window into the complex poltical world of the nation's founders--and important lessons for our own. As Meacham writes, "If America is to be America, the foundational documents reprinted here must be not theoretical but tactile, not quaint but vivid, not dead but alive."

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Reefer Wellness Event Update!!!

June 15, 2025 Clare Brooks
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Friday's book signing event was a huge hit! Thank you to everyone that took the time to come down and to everyone who made the event possible. A huge thank you to the author, Dr. Riley Kirk, it was an absolute pleasure!!!

If you'd like to snag a copy of Reefer Wellness for yourself we currently have a few copies in-store and if you're more of a homebody you can snag a copy on Bookshop.org!

Are you canna-curious? Put aside the stigma and discover the powerful potential of weed.

For centuries, the marijuana plant has been revered for its healing properties, but it's also been criminalized, abused, and misunderstood. Although cannabis is now legal in much of the United States, many people are still confused about how to access it and unsure about how to use it safely and effectively. Enter Reefer Wellness, an all-encompassing guide to cannabis from scientist and researcher, Dr. Riley Kirk.

With colorful illustrations and everyday language, Reefer Wellness challenges the stereotypes about pot use and breaks down the complexities of cannabis for anyone who's ever wondered if weed could help them relax or relieve chronic ailments. Whether you're an everyday user or just starting out on your healing journey with cannabis, you'll find answers to your questions and science-backed evidence to support your use. In it, you'll get:

  • An introduction to the endocannabinoid system (ECS), the powerful regulatory system in the human body that controls everything from hunger signals to pain

  • A clear, visual explanation of how the molecular components of cannabis interact with the ECS, making it a uniquely powerful tool for healing

  • Guidance on how to consume cannabis, including the pros and cons of different delivery systems and how to customize your dosage

  • An overview of ailments that can be addressed with cannabis, such as chronic pain, sleep disorders, and insomnia

  • Tips for minimizing the side effects of marijuana use, like munchies, bloodshot eyes, and cottonmouth


Let Reefer Wellness jumpstart your deep and meaningful journey into the wonderful and nuanced world of modern cannabis and get ready to unlock its incredible healing potential.

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