This Month's Staff Pick Sale & A Special Announcement...

Last month’s selection, ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’, was our most successful Monthly Staff Pick so far (even surpassing favorite titles like ‘Once There Were Wolves’ and ‘Demon Copperhead’), which makes it the perfect time for a little announcement…

Monthly Staff Picks for All Ages are finally here at Little Village Toy & Book Shop! After over two years of success with our Monthly Staff Picks, we are thrilled to launch Young Adult, Early & Middle Grade, and Picture Book selections this June. All of our selections each month are 20% off, while supplies last, so keep reading to learn more about our picks for June, and visit us soon to pick up a copy of one (or all!) of our picks this month.

To kick things off, our next Adult selection is last year’s bestselling ‘Sandwich’ by Catherine Newman, which is now available in paperback. This Cape Cod-set family ensemble makes a perfect beach or travel read, full of humor and sure to move you. Read it before this favorite family returns in ‘Wreck’ this Fall.

For kids of all ages, our first Picture Book Pick is, the Caldecott Honor Book, ‘Bear Came Along’ by Richard T. Morris with illustrations by LeUyen Pham which follows Bear on a river adventure as he makes new friends and, together, they discover how life connects us all.

Our new picks will also include either a middle reader, chapter book, or kids graphic novel each month. This June we’ve selected ‘Lost on a Mountain in Maine’ by Donn Fendler. A true story of adventure and survival that follows twelve-year-old Donn in 1939 after he gets separated from his companions on the summit of Maine’s highest peak. This New England tale is a favorite of both locals and visitors alike!

And finally, for YA readers, of all ages, our inaugural Young Adult Monthly Staff Pick is Adam Silvera’s ‘They Both Die at the End’. The beloved novel that launched the series (which just saw its third entry released last month) and introduced readers to Death-Cast, alternates between two young men as they choose to live their last day as fully as possible.

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Monthly Staff Pick Sale | June 2025

Two recent favorites are now in paperback… and 20% off for the month of April!

Two recent favorites are now in paperback… and if that wasn’t enough to celebrate, they’re BOTH this April’s Monthly Staff Pick because how could we choose just one!

Our first selection this month comes from one of America’s most treasured living writers, who, after 2019’s Pulitzer Prize finalist ‘The Dutch House’, returns to fiction with ‘Tom Lake’. Perhaps Ann Patchett at the culmination of her literary powers, this thoughtfully quiet novel explores family, love, and life in ways only Patchett can set amidst the backdrop of the unraveling of the Spring of 2020.

• Tom Lake - Ann Patchet

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

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

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

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

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

The second selection this month comes after three long years in hardcover (a small eternity in the world of books) as Bonnie Garmus’s debut ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ has finally arrived in paperback! This zippy, fish out of water, 1960s Southern California story that follows Elizabeth Zott as she traverses the worlds of chemistry labs and television cooking sets is a feminist tale of the past with a message that echoes strongly in the present.

• Lessons In Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus

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

  This novel is "irresistible, satisfying and full of fuel" (The New York Times Book Review) and "witty, sometimes hilarious...the Catch-22 of early feminism" (Stephen King, via Twitter).
  
  A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Oprah Daily, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek

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

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

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

Visit us this month for 20% off of both ‘Tom Lake’ & ‘Lessons in Chemistry’, while supplies last!

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April 2025 Monthly Staff Pick

"A tale of books, birthdays, and burn-out that follows bookseller (and witch) Belladonna Blackthorn as she spends October facing the ultimate trial to prove herself to her coven..."

This October’s Monthly Staff Pick is the perfect cozy fantasy romance to settle down with during these early fall evenings. ‘Rewitched’, the debut novel from Lucy Jane Wood, is a tale of books, birthdays, and burn-out that follows bookseller (and witch) Belladonna Blackthorn as she spends October facing the ultimate trial to prove herself to her coven… or risk losing her magic permanently. The delightful tale of female friendship and power, with a little bit of romance thrown into the mix, is just the thing to warm you up from the chill lingering in the air.

‘Rewitched’ is available for 20% off through October, while supplies last. Visit us for this and plenty of other seasonal romances to add to your TBR pile this month!

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In this spellbinding warm and cozy debut novel, a burned-out witch will need to turn to her friends and trust in herself to find the magic in her own life again.

Belladonna Blackthorn hasn't lost her magical spark, precisely . . . but she hasn't seen it in a while either.

With her witchcraft under wraps and a toxic boss making her days miserable, Belle is struggling to keep her beloved Lunar Books afloat and just make it through the day. The last thing she has time for is perfecting her magic.

So when her thirtieth birthday brings a summons from her coven and a trial that tests her worthiness as a witch, Belle fears the worst. With only the month of October left to prove herself or risk losing her magic forever, Belle will need all the help she can get--from the women in her life, from an unlikely mentor figure and even from an infuriating coven watchman who's sworn to protect her...

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October Monthly Staff Pick

"Last Chance at Love"

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

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

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Blind Date With a Book "Last Chance at Love"

Little Village celebrates 10 years with new, commemorative merch!

Little Village is officially hitting the 10-year mark next week! To celebrate our little book shop turning 10 we'll be sharing several announcements over the coming weeks & we have our first announcement right now!

We now have official Little Village 10-year commemorative bookmarks, which are absolutely FREE, as well as cotton & gusseted tote bags available for purchase in-store at our registers for a limited time.

Shout-out to Foto Factory for providing us with a new hanging sign and window cling celebrating our 10 years here in Littleton. Thank you!

New Titles Tuesday for July 20

New Titles Available as of Tuesday, July 20

New in Adult Fiction:

• The Man with the Silver Saab by Alexander McCall Smith—now available in hardcover.

• The Book of Accidents by Check Wendig—now available in hardcover.

• Intimacies by Kate Kitamura—now available in hardcover.

• Radar Girls by Sara Ackerman—now available in paperback.

New in Adult Non-Fiction:

• New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story by Winifred Gallagher—now available in hardcover.

• The Howe Dynasty: The Untold Story of a Military Family and the Women Behind Britain’s Wars for America by Julie Flavell—now available in hardcover.

• Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley—now available in hardcover.

• The Tiny Bee That Hovers at The Center of The World by David Searcy—now available in paperback.

• The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained by Colin Dickey—now available in paperback.

• Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story by Julie K. Brown—now available in hardcover.

• I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker—now available in hardcover.

New in Adult Graphic Novels:

• The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem by Gerard Way—now available in paperback.

• Solo Leveling, Vol. 2 by Chugong—now available in paperback.

New in Young Adult:

• Untethered by Kaylynn Flanders—now available in hardcover.

New in Juvenile Graphic Novels:

• Clash by Kayla Miller—now available in paperback.

• Baby-Sitters Little Sister: Karen’s Kittycat Club by Katy Farina—now available in paperback.

• Avatar: The Last Airbender—Suki, Alone by Faith Erin Hicks—now available in paperback.

New in Juvenile Non-Fiction:

• Horses & Ponies: Everything You need to Know, From Bridles and Breeds to Jodhpurs and Jumping by DK—now available in hardcover.

• The Official Harry Potter Baking Book: 40+ Recipes Inspired by the Films by Scholastic—now available in hardcover.

New in Children’s Board Books:

• Five Little Monkeys: Trick or Treat by Eileen Christelow

• Flip Flap Snap! Farm by Carmen Saldana