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New Releases | March 25th, 2025

March 24, 2025 Clare Brooks
  • 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

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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.

  • 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.

  • "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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

New Releases | March 25th, 2025
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New Releases | March 4th, 2025

March 3, 2025 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • Broken Country - Hall, Clare Leslie (Author)

    • The Unworthy - Bazterrica, Agustina (Author) , Moses, Sarah (Translator)

    • Piglet - Hazell, Lottie (Author)

    • One Good Thing - Hunter, Georgia (Author)

    • Wild Dark Shore - McConaghy, Charlotte (Author)

    • Clear - Davies, Carys (Author)

    • Dream Count - Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi (Author)

    • Steppenwolf - Hesse, Hermann (Author) , Horrocks, David (Translator) , Horrocks, David (Afterword by)

    • The Tokyo Suite - Madalosso, Giovana (Author) , Dantas Lobato, Bruna (Translator)

    • Stone Angels - Rho, Helena (Author)

    Adult Science

    • How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Food - Smil, Vaclav (Author)

    Award Winners

    • City of Wishes (Legends of Lotus Island #3) - Soontornvat, Christina (Author)

    Biography

    • Burn Book: A Tech Love Story - Swisher, Kara (Author)

    • The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir - Rupaul (Author)

    Board Books

    • Indestructibles: Mommy and Me - Workman Publishing (Author)

    • Where's the Tractor? - Arrhenius, Ingela P (Illustrator)

    • Where's the Bee? - Arrhenius, Ingela P (Illustrator)

    • My First Story Orchestra: The Four Seasons in One Day: Press the Buttons to Hear 6 Sounds - Courtney-Tickle, Jessica (Illustrator) , Quarto (Author)

    • Where's Mommy Donkey? - Smith, Craig (Author) , Cowley, Katz (Illustrator)

    • You're My Busy Little Spider - Carle, Eric (Author) , Carle, Eric (Illustrator)

    Children’s Poetry

    • Magical Nature Tales: Stories from Around the World - Casey, Dawn (Author) , Susanj, Anja (Illustrator)

    Cookbooks

    • Sweet Farm!: More Than 100 Cookies, Cakes, Salads (!), and Other Delights from My Kitchen on a Sugar Beet Farm - Yeh, Molly (Author)

    Field Guides

    • Birdwatching Guide: Turn Yourself Into a Birdwatching Expert (DK North American Bird Guides) - DK (Author)

    Fun & Games

    • Is It Real? the Loch Ness Monster - Fleming, Candace (Author)

    Graphic Novels

    • A Song for You and I - O'Neill, K (Author)

    • Mallory and the Trouble with Twins: A Graphic Novel (the Baby-Sitters Club #17) - Nopra, Arley (Adapted by) , Nopra, Arley (Illustrator) , Martin, Ann M (Author)

    • Nat a Chance: A Graphic Novel (Nat Enough #6) - Scrivan, Maria (Author) , Scrivan, Maria (Illustrator)

    • Spy Ski School the Graphic Novel - Gibbs, Stuart (Author) , Sarkar, Anjan (Illustrator)

    • The Calvin and Hobbes Portable Compendium Set 4: Volume 4 - Watterson, Bill (Author)

    • Game On! (Cloud Puppy #2) - Miller, Kelly Leigh (Author) , Miller, Kelly Leigh (Illustrator)

    • Besties: Prank War (The World of Click) - Miller, Kayla (Author) , Turner, Sarah K (Illustrator) , Canino, Jeffrey (Author)

    • Speechless: A Graphic Novel - Steinke, Aron Nels (Author) , Steinke, Aron Nels (Illustrator)

    Great Outdoors

    • Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali - Randall, Cassidy (Author)

    History

    • Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America - Shorto, Russell (Author)

    Humor

    • Medieval Cats: Claws, Paws, and Kitties of Yore - Nappington, Catherine (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • My Language Rights: A Child's Right to Their Language - Thompson, Judy (Author) , Garcia, Tete (Illustrator)

    • Who Is Tony Hawk? - Kort, Steve (Author) , Who Hq (Author) , Thomson, Andrew (Illustrator)

    • What Was the Renaissance? - Edwards, Roberta (Author) , Who Hq (Author) , Copeland, Gregory (Illustrator)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale: Daredevil - Loeb, Jeph (Author) , Sale, Tim (Illustrator) , Sale, Tim (Not Available)

    Middle Readers

    • Resist: A Story of D-Day - Gratz, Alan (Author)

    • 15 Secrets to Survival - Richards, Natalie D (Author)

    Mystery & Thriller

    • Ward D - McFadden, Freida (Author)

    • The Fury - Michaelides, Alex (Author)

    Picture Books

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

    • Will the Pigeon Graduate? - Willems, Mo (Author)

    • Downpour: Splish! Splash! Ker-Splash! - Ohnari, Yuko (Author) , Hata, Koshiro (Illustrator) , Balistrieri, Emily (Translator)

    • Our Lake - Kang, Angie (Author) , Kang, Angie (Illustrator)

    • Papilio - Clanton, Ben (Author) , Tabor, Corey R (Author) , Musser, Andy Chou (Author) , Clanton, Ben (Illustrator) , Tabor, Corey R (Illustrator) , Musser, Andy Chou (Illustrator)

    • Wind Watchers - Archer, Micha (Author) , Archer, Micha (Illustrator)

    • Robinson's New Thing - Mills, Julia (Author) , Mills, Julia (Illustrator)

    • Together, a Forest: Drawing Connections Between Nature's Diversity and Our Own - MacLean, Roz (Author)

    • The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn's Great Big Wish - Harris, Shawn (Author)

    • The Flower Thief (The Leaf Thief) - Hemming, Alice (Author) , Slater, Nicola (Illustrator)

    • Shannon, David (Author) , Shannon, David (Illustrator)

    • Uproar in Midport Village (a Minecraft Movie) (Little Golden Book) - Golden Books (Author) , Golden Books (Illustrator)

    • My Little Golden Book about Pride - Lukoff, Kyle (Author) , Chan, Michelle Jing (Illustrator)

    • Passover: A Celebration of Freedom - Bader, Bonnie (Author) , Stone, Joanie (Illustrator)

    Political Sciences

    • Bloodbath Nation - Auster, Paul (Author)

    Romance

    • The King's Messenger (Deluxe Edition) - Kearsley, Susanna (Author)

    • Wild Side (Deluxe Edition) (Special) (Rose Hill #3) - Silver, Elsie (Author)

    • The Trouble with Anna - Griffiths, Rachel (Author)

    • Far from Home - Steel, Danielle (Author)

    • Tea You at the Altar (Tomes & Tea #3) - Thorne, Rebecca (Author)

    Science & Nature

    • Families of a Feather: A Celebration of Family Diversity - Wexler, Fern (Author) , Buzzell, Kelsey (Illustrator)

    • Meet the Mini-Mammals: A Night at the Natural History Museum - Stewart, Melissa (Author) , Lies, Brian (Illustrator)

    • An Anthology of Butterflies and Moths: A Collection of Butterflies and Moths from Around the World - Jones, Richard (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • The Sunlit Man: A Cosmere Novel (Secret Projects) - Sanderson, Brandon (Author)

    • The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy) - Lawrence, Mark (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women's Dead-End Work - Babcock, Linda (Author) , Peyser, Brenda (Author) , Vesterlund, Lise (Author) , Weingart, Laurie (Author)

    • Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law - Rothstein, Leah (Author) , Rothstein, Richard (Author)

    • Same River, Twice: Putin's War on Women - Oksanen, Sofi (Author)

    Spinner Rack

    • George's Digger (Peppa Pig 8x8 Storybook #40) - Scholastic (Author)

    Young Adult

    • Fable for the End of the World Deluxe Limited Edition - Reid, Ava (Author)

    • Fable for the End of the World - Reid, Ava (Author)

    • Our Infinite Fates: Deluxe Limited Edition - Steven, Laura (Author)

    • Sisters of Sword and Song - Ross, Rebecca (Author)

    • Dreams Lie Beneath - Ross, Rebecca (Author)

    • The Queen's Rising (Queen's Rising #1) - Ross, Rebecca (Author)

    • The Queen's Resistance (Queen's Rising #2) - Ross, Rebecca (Author)

    • Kiss Now, Lie Later - Farnsworth, C W (Author)

    • They Bloom at Night - Tran, Trang Thanh (Author)

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  • An ENTHRALLING new novel from the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves

    "A WILDLY TALENTED writer." ―Emily St. John Mandel

    "RIVETING." ―Booklist (starred review)
    "[A] TERRIFIC thriller." ―Kirkus (starred review)
    "As lush as it is TAUT WITH TENSION." ―Library Journal (starred review)

    A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.

    Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world's largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore.

    Isolation has taken its toll on the Salts, but as they nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, it begins to feel like she might just be what they need. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting herself, starts imagining a future where she could belong to someone again.

    But Rowan isn't telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, they all must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious seeds in their care before it's too late--and if they can finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together.

    A novel of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty, and ferocious love,Wild Dark Shoreis about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us disappears

  • THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    "Alex Michaelides hits the trifecta with his third novel,The Fury. The highly original story presents the reader with the king of all unreliable narrators, enough twists and turns to power two novels, and a host of characters that bleed right on the page. " --David Baldacci

    A masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex-movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneous trip to a private Greek island is upended by a murder -- from the #1New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Silent Patient

    This is a tale of murder.

    Or maybe that's not quite true. At its heart, it's a love story, isn't it?

    Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to escape the English weather and spend Easter on her idyllic private Greek island.

    I tell you this because you may think you know this story. You probably read about it at the time ― it caused a real stir in the tabloids, if you remember. It had all the necessary ingredients for a press sensation: a celebrity; a private island cut off by the wind...and a murder.

    We found ourselves trapped there overnight. Our old friendships concealed hatred and a desire for revenge. What followed was a game of cat and mouse ― a battle of wits, full of twists and turns, building to an unforgettable climax. The night ended in violence and death, as one of us was found murdered.

    But who am I?

    My name is Elliot Chase, and I'm going to tell you a story unlike any you've ever heard.

  • "I've loved every one of Susanna's books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly's delicate touch with characters--sure recipe for historical fiction that sucks you in and won't let go!"--Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlander

    New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling author Susanna Kearsley explores romance, court alliances, and the limits of one's duty in this rich story of an honorable man in service to a treacherous king, and the mission that brings him to love and his true calling.

    It is the year 1613, and King James is sending his messenger Andrew Logan into Scotland with secret orders to arrest Sir David Moray, close friend and advisor of the late Prince Henry. Secrets are second nature to Andrew, who must hide his Second Sight to stay alive. Joined by a court scrivener and the scrivener's spirited daughter Phoebe, Andrew slowly untangles the true purpose of his mission--to frame Sir David for Prince Henry's murder. But Andrew is unwilling to betray an innocent man.

    Phoebe Westaway dislikes Andrew, and their history makes it hard for her to trust him. But as their journey draws them deeper into the dark web of court intrigue, Phoebe begins to suspect that she might have more need of the King's Messenger and his unusual gifts than she could ever have foreseen.

    More praise for Susanna Kearsley:

    "I loved the story. Couldn't put it down. It was thoroughly researched and told with brilliantly compelling authenticity." --Barbara Erskine for The King's Messenger

    "Susanna Kearsley just keeps getting better and better!" --Lauren Willig

  • The fourth set of books collecting Bill Watterson's timeless Calvin and Hobbes comics in a new portable format designed to introduce the timeless adventures of a boy and his stuffed tiger to a new generation of readers. Featuring nearly 500 comics presented chronologically from December 1989 to April 1991.

    This compact, portable collection of Calvin and Hobbes comics will fit easily into backpacks, bookshelves--and make for a perfect stocking stuffer. Featuring archival slipcase and cover art selected by the author, The Calvin and Hobbes Portable Compendium pays tribute to the strip's origin in newspapers while appealing to both new and existing fans of Calvin and Hobbes. This is the fourth set in a series of seven.

    Calvin and Hobbes is one of the most popular comic strips of all time. The imaginative world of a boy and his real-only-to-him tiger first appeared in 1985 and could be read in more than 2,400 newspapers when Bill Watterson retired on January 1, 1996.

  • From #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author and illustrator Mo Willems comes this class-ic graduation book.

    The Pigeon had better graduate! He did the work! He paid attention to the little details! He overcame some BIG obstacles! The Pigeon's got this . . . Or does he?

    Do YOU think The Pigeon will graduate?

    Grab your caps, don your gowns, and raise your hands for The Pigeon's biggest adventure yet in this uplifting, hilarious, and inspirational graduation picture book from three-time Caldecott honoree Mo Willems. It's a PhD* in fun!

    (*Pigeon-y hilarious Diatribe)

New Releases | March 4th, 2025
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A Western classic. A Pulitzer Prize-winning epic. A Bookstagram favorite…?

March 1, 2025 Clare Brooks

Our next selection has taken the bookish side of the internet by storm recently; spurred by a number of articles, new and resurfaced, reveling in this “experience” of a novel, its depiction of America, and the characters and dialogue that fill its pages.

This March our Monthly Staff Pick is Larry McMurtry’s ‘Lonesome Dove’, the unforgettable tale following a team of Texas Rangers as the sun sets on the days of the Old West.

Visit us in store for 20% off of ‘Lonesome Dove’ this month, while supplies last.

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New Releases | February 18th, 2025

February 17, 2025 Clare Brooks
  • Activity Books

    • Sticker Jigsaw: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Baum, L Frank (Author) , Odd Dot (Author) , Mirtalipova, Dinara (Illustrator)

    Adult Fiction

    • The Turtle House - Churchill, Amanda (Author)

    • The Dressmakers of London - Kelly, Julia (Author)

    • The Nightingale Deluxe Edition - Hannah, Kristin (Author)

    • King Nyx - Bakis, Kirsten (Author)

    Adult Science

    • Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them - Kang, Lydia (Author) , Pedersen, Nate (Author)

    Arts & Entertainment

    • Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live - Morrison, Susan (Author)

    Biography

    • Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe - Guy, John (Author) , Fox, Julia (Author)

    • Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend - Romney, Rebecca (Author)

    Board Books

    • Spring Blooms - Elys, Dori (Author) , Dulieu, Fiona (Illustrator)

    Coloring Books

    • Creative Haven the Four Elements Coloring Book - Adatto, Miryam (Author)

    • Picture the Past(tm) Western Pioneers: Historical Coloring Book - Copeland, Peter F (Author)

    Current Events & Politics

    • The Future of Geography: How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World (Politics of Place #5) - Marshall, Tim (Author)

    Family Issues

    • The 5 Principles of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans - Pressman, Aliza (Author)

    Graphic Novels

    • Halfway to Somewhere - Pimienta, Jose (Author)

    • Investigators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: Wild Ghost Chase - Green, John Patrick (Author) , Hastings, Christopher (Author) , Lewis, Pat (Illustrator)

    • Cassi and the House of Memories - Stuart, Dean (Author) , Stuart, Dean (Illustrator)

    • Almost Sunset - Algarmi, Wahab (Author) , Algarmi, Wahab (Illustrator)

    History

    • Golden State: The Making of California - Hiltzik, Michael (Author)

    • Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK Through Reagan and Bush - Gillon, Steven M (Author)

    • Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts - O'Reilly, Bill (Author) , Dugard, Martin (Author)

    Horror

    • The Gwendy Trilogy (Bind-Up): Gwendy's Button Box, Gwendy's Magic Feather, Gwendy's Final Task (Bind-Up) (Gwendy's Button Box Trilogy) - King, Stephen (Author) , Chizmar, Richard (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • Revolutionary Mary: The True Story of One Woman, the Declaration of Independence, and America's Fight for Freedom - Blumenthal, Karen (Author) , McCartney, Jen (Author) , Baddeley, Elizabeth (Illustrator)

    Literary Collections

    • Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry - Plunkett, Adam (Author)

    • Treenotes: A Year in the Company of Trees - Nadkarni, Nalini (Author)

    Mystery & Thriller

    • A Death in Cornwall (Gabriel Allon #24) - Silva, Daniel (Author)

    • The 24th Hour: A Women's Murder Club Thriller (A Women's Murder Club Thriller #24) - Patterson, James (Author) , Paetro, Maxine (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Good Golden Sun - Wenzel, Brendan (Author)

    • Night Walk - Cockcroft, Jason (Author) , Cockcroft, Jason (Illustrator)

    • Worm Makes a Sandwich - Farley, Brianne (Author)

    Puzzle Books

    • Sudoku Rush: Test Your Skills and Beat the Clock with 175+ Easy to Hard Challenges - Timmerman, Charles (Author)

    Romance

    • The Fox and the Falcon (Deluxe Edition) (Special) (No Other Gods #2) - Cj, Piper (Author)

    • I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com - Lemming, Kimberly (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • Latinoland: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority - Arana, Marie (Author)

    • Who's Afraid of Gender? - Butler, Judith (Author)

    • Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass - Jones, Sarah (Author)

    True Crime

    • The Serial Killer's Apprentice - Ramsland, Katherine (Author) , Ullman, Tracy (Author)

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  • The definitive biography of Lorne Michaels, the man behind America's most beloved comedy show

    Over the fifty years that Lorne Michaels has been at the helm of Saturday Night Live, he has become a revered and inimitable presence in the entertainment world. He's a tastemaker, a mogul, a withholding father figure, a genius spotter of talent, a shrewd businessman, a name-dropper, a raconteur, the inspiration for Dr. Evil, the winner of more than a hundred Emmys--and, essentially, a mystery. Generations of writers and performers have spent their lives trying to figure him out, by turns demonizing and lionizing him. He's "Obi-Wan Kenobi" (Tracy Morgan), the "great and powerful Oz" (Kate McKinnon), "some kind of very distant, strange comedy god" (Bob Odenkirk).

    Lorne will introduce you to him, in full, for the first time. With unprecedented access to Michaels and the entire SNL apparatus, Susan Morrison takes readers behind the curtain for the lively, up-and-down, definitive story of how Michaels created and maintained the institution that changed comedy forever.

    Drawn from hundreds of interviews--with Michaels, his friends, and SNL's iconic stars and writers, from Will Ferrell to Tina Fey to John Mulaney to Chris Rock to Dan Aykroyd-- Lorne is a deeply reported, wildly entertaining account of a man singularly obsessed with the show that would define his life and have a profound impact on American culture.

  • National Bestseller. Named a Best Book of 2024 by NPR, Harper's Bazaar, W, and Esquire.

    "A profoundly urgent intervention." --Naomi Klein

    "A timely must-read for anyone actively invested in reimagining collective futurity." --Claudia Rankine

    From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world.

    Judith Butler, the groundbreaking thinker whose iconic bookGender Troubleredefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on "gender" that have become central to right-wing movements today. Global networks have formed "anti-gender ideology movements" that are dedicated to circulating a fantasy that gender is a dangerous, perhaps diabolical, threat to families, local cultures, civilization--and even "man" himself. Inflamed by the rhetoric of public figures, this movement has sought to nullify reproductive justice, undermine protections against sexual and gender violence, and strip trans and queer people of their rights to pursue a life without fear of violence.

    The aim ofWho's Afraid of Gender?is not to offer a new theory of gender but to examine how "gender" has become a phantasm for emerging authoritarian regimes, fascist formations, and trans-exclusionary feminists. In their vital, courageous new book, Butler illuminates the concrete ways that this phantasm of "gender" collects and displaces anxieties and fears of destruction. Operating in tandem with deceptive accounts of "critical race theory" and xenophobic panics about migration, the anti-gender movement demonizes struggles for equality, fuels aggressive nationalism, and leaves millions of people vulnerable to subjugation.

    An essential intervention into one of the most fraught issues of our moment,Who's Afraid of Gender?is a bold call to refuse the alliance with authoritarian movements and to make a broad coalition with all those whose struggle for equality is linked with fighting injustice. Imagining new possibilities for both freedom and solidarity, Butler offers us a hopeful work of social and political analysis that is both timely and timeless--a book whose verve and rigor only they could deliver.

  • A FEBRUARY LIBRARYREADS PICK!

    A hilarious and sexy romance about a woman who gets dropped on a strange planet only to fall for not one, but two, aliens, from the author of I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf.

    Dorothy Valentine is close to getting her PhD in wildlife biology when she's attacked by a lion. On the bright side, she's saved! On the not-so-bright side, it's because they're abducted by aliens. In her scramble to escape, Dory and the lion commandeer an escape pod and crash-land on an alien planet that has...dinosaurs?

    Dory and her new lion bestie, Toto, are saved in the nick of time by a mysterious and sexy alien, Sol. On their new adventure, they team up with the equally hot, equally dangerous Lok, who may or may not be a war criminal. Whether it be trauma, fate, or intrigue, Dory can't resist the attraction that's developing in their trio....

    As this ragtag group of misfits explore their new planet, Dory learns more about how and why they've all ended up together, battles more prehistoric creatures than she imagined (she imagined...zero), and questions if she even wants to go back home to Earth in this hilarious and steamy alien romance adventure comedy romp.

  • The complete omnibus collection of the New York Times bestselling trilogy from Stephen King and Richard Chizmar!

    In Gwendy's Button Box, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson's life is forever changed when she is given a mysterious wooden box by a stranger for safekeeping. It offers enticing treats and vintage coins, but he warns her that if she presses any of the box's beautifully colored buttons, death and destruction will follow.

    Years later, in Gwendy's Magic Feather, she's a successful novelist with a promising future in politics. But when the button box suddenly reappears in her life, she must decide if she is willing to risk everything for its temptations.

    And in the thrilling conclusion Gwendy's Final Task, evil forces seek to possess the button box and it is up to Senator Gwendy Peterson to keep it from them at all costs. But where can one hide something so destructive from such powerful entities?

  • THE MEGA-BESTSELLING GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES CONTINUES!

    More than three million copies in print!

    InvestiGators fans, get ready to dive into the third volume of Agents of S.U.I.T. with the weirdest mystery yet!

    New S.U.I.T. recruit Zeb the sheep joins the flock to help crack the greatest mystery of all! But, uhh...just what is the greatest mystery of all?

    That's the question that's kept the dearly departed General Inspectre haunting Earth long after he should have moved on to the great super-spy base in the sky. Having a ghost in the halls of S.U.I.T. wouldn't be so bad...except he's possessing agents! Zeb -- along with Cilantro, Bongo, Marsha, and everyone's favorite Gators -- must decipher the series' biggest mystery EVER. They've got to free their pal and finish the Inspectre's unfinished business!

New Releases | February 18th, 2025
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