This Month's Staff Pick Sale is Remarkably Bright ;)

As you may have seen in our New Releases post this week, this May’s Monthly Staff Pick is Shelby Van Pelt’s ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’. 

This bestselling debut novel finally hits stands in paperback with an initial printing featuring fun sprayed edges. This story of loss and finding friendships in unexpected places is full of humor and charm, making a perfect feel-good read to end your Spring or kick-off your Summer (or simply a beloved addition to your TBR stack).

Visit us this May for 20% off ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’, while supplies last! 

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Monthly Staff Pick Sale | May 2025

New Releases | April 29th, 2025

• New Release List (Click to Expand)

  Adult Fiction

  • Remarkably Bright Creatures - Van Pelt, Shelby (Author)

  • Crow Talk - Garvin, Eileen (Author)

  • The Correspondent - Evans, Virginia (Author)

  • The Amalfi Curse: A Bewitching Tale of Sunken Treasure, Forbidden Love, and Ancient Magic on the Amalfi Coast (Original) - Penner, Sarah (Author)

  • The Lilac People - Todd, Milo (Author)

  Adult Science

  • The Story of Astrophysics in Five Revolutions - Vaudo, Ersilia (Author) , Di Stefano, Vanessa (Translator)

  Arts & Entertainment

  • Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend - Bailey, Jason (Author)

  Biography

  • Uptown Girl: A Memoir - Brinkley, Christie (Author)

  • My Next Breath: A Memoir - Renner, Jeremy (Author)

  • Dianaworld: An Obsession - White, Edward (Author)

  Board Books

  • Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus: The Graphic Novel (Junie B. Jones Graphic Novels) - Park, Barbara (Author), Venable, Colleen Af (Adapted by), Beam, Honie (Illustrator)

  Children’s Poetry

  • For a Girl Becoming - Harjo, Joy (Author), Garcia, Adriana M (Illustrator)

  Coloring Books

  • Brambly Hedge: Nature Coloring Book - Barklem, Jill (Author) , Barklem, Jill (Illustrator)

  Cookbooks

  • Salsa Daddy: A Cookbook: Dip Your Way Into Mexican Cooking - Martínez, Rick (Author)

  • Life-Changing Salads: 100 Plant-Based Salads and Dressings Beyond Your Wildest Greens (Healthygirl Kitchen) - Brown, Danielle (Author)

  • Today Loves Food: Recipes from America's Favorite Kitchen - Boscamp, Emi (Author), Stilo, Katie (Author), Kosofsky, Debbie Cohen (Author) , The Today Show Family and Friends (Author), Garten, Ina (Foreword by)

  Graphic Novels

  • The Lemonade War - Davies, Jacqueline (Author), de la Vega, Karen (Illustrator)

  • The Last Comics on Earth: A Song of Swords and Stuffies: From the Creators of the Last Kids on Earth (Last Comics on Earth) - Brallier, Max (Author), Pruett, Joshua (Author), Cooper, Jay (Illustrator), Holgate, Douglas (Illustrator)

  Hiking

  • 50 Hikes in Vermont: Walks, Hikes, and Overnights in the Green Mountain State - Green Mountain Club (Author)

  History

  • The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective - Johnson, Steven (Author)

  • The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 - Atkinson, Rick (Author)

  • The Book: A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time - Houston, Keith (Author)

  • The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World - Dalrymple, William (Author)

  Horror

  • The Staircase in the Woods - Wendig, Chuck (Author)

  • Youthjuice - Sathue, E.K. (Author)

  • Polybius - Armstrong, Collin (Author)

  • Roadwork - King, Stephen (Author)

  Humor

  • Snafu: The Definitive Guide to History’s Greatest Screwups - Helms, Ed (Author)

  Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

  • Fantastic Four vs. Galactus - Lee, Stan (Author), Byrne, John (Author), Kirby, Jack (Illustrator), Byrne, John (Illustrator), Ross, Alex (Not Available)

  • All in Saga - Waid, Mark (Author), Mora, Dan (Illustrator), Zdarsky, Chip (Author), Jiminez, Jorge (Illustrator)

  • Idol X Idol Story! Vol. 1 - Tokuno, Shotaro (Author)

  Middle Readers

  • Dreamslinger (Slinger) - Kim, Graci (Author)

  • The Trouble With Heroes - Messner, Kate (Author)

  Mystery & Thriller

  • 25 Alive: A Women's Murder Club Thriller (A Women's Murder Club Thriller #25) - Patterson, James (Author), Paetro, Maxine (Author)

  • Cards on the Table: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition (Hercule Poirot Mysteries #14) - Christie, Agatha (Author)

  • Code Red: A Mitch Rapp Novel by Kyle Mills (Mitch Rapp Novel #22) - Flynn, Vince (Author), Mills, Kyle (Author)

  Picture Books

  • Bored Panda - Bender, Mike (Author, Dillon, Chuck (Illustrator)

  • The Girl Who Was Too Big for the Page - Davis, Geena (Author), Davis, Geena (Illustrator)

  • Bluey: The Big Blue Guy's Book of Dad Goals

  • Bluey: Perfect: With a Wipe-Clean Card for Drawing

  • Bluey and Bingo's Book of Bugs: A Push-And-Pull Book

  • Odder: An Otter's Story - Applegate, Katherine (Author), Santoso, Charles (Illustrator)

  • How to Spot a Mermaid - Yolen, Jane (Author), Deng, Sally (Illustrator)

  • Far, Far Away - Griffin, Molly (Author), Luu Bao (Illustrator)

  • Anything - Stead, Rebecca (Author), Zhang, Gracey (Illustrator)

  Political Sciences

  • Say More: Communicating at Work, at Home, and in the World - Psaki, Jen (Author)

  Romance

  • Enigma: A Dark Academia Romance - RuNyx (Author)

  • King of Envy (Kings of Sin #5) - Huang, Ana (Author)

  Science & Nature

  • Wait Like a Seed - Alladin, Erin (Author), Anderson, Tara (Illustrator)

  Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Someone You Can Build a Nest in - Wiswell, John (Author)

  Workbooks

  • My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things (My Very Important Encyclopedias) - DK (Author)

Our Top 5 Picks

• Remarkably Bright Creatures

  This deluxe edition features sprayed and stenciled edges, silver foil, and a reading group guide.

  A New York Times Bestseller * A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick

  Soon to be a Netflix Film

  "Remarkably Bright Creatures [is] an ultimately feel-good but deceptively sensitive debut. . . . Memorable and tender." --Washington Post

  A charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus

  After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.

  Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors--until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.

  Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late.

  Shelby Van Pelt's debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.

• 25 Alive: A Women's Murder Club Thriller (A Women's Murder Club Thriller #25)

  "Those who haven't read any of the novels in the Women's Murder Club series are cheating themselves" (BookReporter). Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, medical examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano, and crime reporter Cindy Thomas investigate the shocking murder of a former SFPD chief in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

  SFPD homicide detective Lindsay Boxer knows her way around a crime scene.

  But nothing can prepare her for the shock of recognition: the victim is Warren Jacobi, Lindsay's onetime partner who rose to chief of police.

  A top investigator until the end, Jacobi managed to leave Lindsay a clue.

  Following a trail of evidence along the west coast, the Women's Murder Club pledges to avenge Jacobi's death before the killer can take another one of their own.

• King of Envy (Kings of Sin #5)

  The fifth book in the deliciously steamy Kings of Sin series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ana Huang, where bad boy billionaires must atone for their sins in order to earn their love stories.

  He had everything he could've wanted...except her.

  Dangerous. Powerful. Reclusive.

  Vuk Markovic is notorious for shunning human interactions. The scarred billionaire rarely talks, and he has no interest in relationships outside his small but trusted circle.

  His only exception? Her. The beauty to his beast, the object of his obsession.

  He saw her first. He wanted her first. But now, she's engaged to his oldest friend--and the closer the wedding looms, the more he's torn between loyalty and desire.

  She should be his...and he might just risk it all to have her.

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  Beautiful. Successful. Glamorous.

  To the world, supermodel Ayana Kidane leads the perfect life. Her career has skyrocketed, and she's engaged to one of New York's most eligible bachelors.

  What people don't know is that the engagement is only a business arrangement. He gets his inheritance when they marry; she gets the money she needs to leave her abusive agency.

  Pretending to be in love should be easy--until she finds herself increasingly drawn to her fiancé's enigmatic best man.

  Vuk thrills and terrifies her in equal measure. She knows she should stay away, but when her wedding is thrown into chaos, he's the only person who makes her feel safe...

  Until his past catches up with them and threatens everything they love.

• The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780

  In the second volume of the landmark American Revolution trilogy by the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The British Are Coming, George Washington's army fights on the knife edge between victory and defeat.

  The first twenty-one months of the American Revolution--which began at Lexington and ended at Princeton--was the story of a ragged group of militiamen and soldiers fighting to forge a new nation. By the winter of 1777, the exhausted Continental Army could claim only that it had barely escaped annihilation by the world's most formidable fighting force.

  Two years into the war, George III is as determined as ever to bring his rebellious colonies to heel. But the king's task is now far more complicated: fighting a determined enemy on the other side of the Atlantic has become ruinously expensive, and spies tell him that the French and Spanish are threatening to join forces with the Americans.

  Prize-winning historian Rick Atkinson provides a riveting narrative covering the middle years of the Revolution. Stationed in Paris, Benjamin Franklin woos the French; in Pennsylvania, George Washington pleads with Congress to deliver the money, men, and materiel he needs to continue the fight. In New York, General William Howe, the commander of the greatest army the British have ever sent overseas, plans a new campaign against the Americans--even as he is no longer certain that he can win this searing, bloody war. The months and years that follow bring epic battles at Brandywine, Saratoga, Monmouth, and Charleston, a winter of misery at Valley Forge, and yet more appeals for sacrifice by every American committed to the struggle for freedom.

  Timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the Revolution, Atkinson's brilliant account of the lethal conflict between the Americans and the British offers not only deeply researched and spectacularly dramatic history, but also a new perspective on the demands that a democracy makes on its citizens.

• My Next Breath: A Memoir

  The gripping and inspiring story of acclaimed actor Jeremy Renner's near-fatal accident, and what he learned about inner strength, endurance and hope as he overcame insurmountable odds to recover, one breath at a time.

  Two-time Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner was the second most googled person in 2023... and not for his impressive filmography. His searing portrayals on film ranged from an Iraq-based army bomb technician in The Hurt Locker and a Boston bank robber in The Town to a crooked Camden mayor in American Hustle before he became heir to the Jason Bourne franchise ( The Bourne Legacy). Amongst other iconic roles, he also captured hearts as fan-favorite comic book marksman Hawkeye in seven Marvel films.

  Yet, his otherworldly success on-screen faded to the periphery when a fourteen-thousand-pound snowplow crushed him on New Year's Day 2023. Somehow able to keep breathing for more than half an hour, he was subsequently rushed to the ICU, after which he would face multiple surgeries and months of painful rehabilitation.

  In this debut memoir, Jeremy writes in blistering detail about his accident and the aftermath. This retelling is not merely a gruesome account of what happened to him; it's a call to action and a forged companionship between reader and author as Jeremy recounts his recovery journey and reflects on the impact of his suffering. Ultimately, Jeremy's memoir is a testament to the human spirit and its capacity to endure, evolve, and find purpose in the face of unimaginable adversity. His writing captures the essence of profound transformation, exploring the delicate interplay between vulnerability and strength, despair and hope, redemption and renewal.

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New Releases | April 29th, 2025

New Releases | April 8th, 2025

• New Release List (Click to Expand)

  Adult Fiction

  • The Little Liar - Albom, Mitch (Author)

  • The Float Test - Strong, Lynn Steger (Author)

  • Table for Two: Fictions - Towles, Amor (Author)

  • Audition - Kitamura, Katie (Author)

  • Worry - Tanner, Alexandra (Author)

  Animals

  • Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show - Tomlinson, Tommy (Author)

  Arts & Entertainment

  • John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs - Leslie, Ian (Author)

  Biography

  • Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder - Rushdie, Salman (Author)

  • The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road - Hanks, E a (Author)

  Board Books

  • Old Blue Is My Home: A Picture Book - Judge, Lita (Author)

  Body, Mind & Spirit

  • Llewellyn's Little Book of Numerology - Webster, Richard (Author)

  Cookbooks

  • So Easy So Good: Delicious Recipes and Expert Tips for Balanced Eating -  Sakaida, Kylie (Author)

  Field Guides

  • Tree Finder: Identifying Trees by Their Leaves in Eastern North America (Revised) (Nature Study Guides) - Watts, May Theilgaard (Author)

  Graphic Novels

  • Carousel Summer - Gros, Kathleen (Author) , Gros, Kathleen (Illustrator)

  • Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #2 - Hunter, Erin (Author) , Riess, Natalie (Illustrator) , Goetter, Sara (Illustrator)

  • Fart Boy and Reeky Dog - Holub, Joan (Author) , Rosado, Rafael (Illustrator)

  History

  • Alexandria: The City That Changed the World - Issa, Islam (Author)

  Homestead

  • Homegrown Handgathered: The Complete Guide to Living Off Your Garden - Goddin, Silvan (Author) , Tony, Jordan (Author)

  Horror

  • Their Monstrous Hearts: A Gothic Horror Novel with a Dual Timeline and a Suspenseful Mystery (Original) - Turhan, Yigit (Author)

  Humor

  • Poems of Parenting - Brantz, Loryn (Author)

  • The Jane Austen Insult Guide for Well-Bred Women: Serving Tea with a Side of Scorn - Reed, Emily (Author)

  Just the Facts

  • The Daughter of Auschwitz: The Girl Who Lived to Tell Her Story - Friedman, Tova (Author)

  • Ancient Egypt (DK Ancient Histories)

  Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

  • Destroy All Humans. They Can't Be Regenerated. a Magic: The Gathering Manga, Vol. 3: Limited Edition Magic: The Gathering Card Included in First Print - Ise, Katsura (Author) , Yokota, Takuma (Illustrator)

  Middle Readers

  • Survive This Safari - Richards, Natalie D (Author)

  • A Minecraft Movie the Junior Novelization - Lewman, David (Adapted by)

  • Minecraft: House of Horrors: An Official Minecraft Novel - Colón, Angel Luis (Author)

  • Ollie in Between - Callans, Jess (Author)

  Mystery & Thriller

  • The Waiting: A Ballard and Bosch Novel (Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch Novel #6) - Connelly, Michael (Author)

  Nature

  • How Can I Help?: Saving Nature with Your Yard - Tallamy, Douglas W (Author)

  Picture Books

  • The Peddler of Puddles - Ferry, Beth (Author) , Lichtenheld, Tom (Illustrator)

  • Don't Trust Fish - Sharpson, Neil (Author) , Santat, Dan (Illustrator)

  • It Started with A P - Pomales, Brittany (Author) , Joyner, Andrew (Illustrator)

  • Bluey: Fairytale - Brumm, Joe (Author)

  • The Great Dinosaur Sleepover - Bailey, Linda (Author) , Bluhm, Joe (Illustrator)

  • A Book of Maps for You - Heuer, Lourdes (Author) , Eaton, Maxwell (Illustrator)

  • When I Became Your Mommy (When I Became Your... #3) - Teckentrup, Britta (Illustrator) , Shane, Susannah (Author)

  Romance

  • House of Blight (Threadmender Chronicles #1) - Martineau, Maxym M (Author)

  • Passion Project - Sperry, London (Author)

  • Den of Vipers: A Dark Romance - Knight, K a (Author)

  • Firebird (Fire That Binds #1) - Cross, Juliette (Author)

  • Blood of Hercules Collector's Edition (Original) (Villains of Lore #1) - Mas, Jasmine (Author)

  • Enchantra (Wicked Games #2) - Smith, Kaylie (Author)

  Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • The Book That Held Her Heart (The Library Trilogy) - Lawrence, Mark (Author)

  Social Sciences

  • Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change - Garbes, Angela (Author)

  • Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet - Lorenz, Taylor (Author)

  Young Adult

  • Fearless (The Powerless Trilogy #3) - Roberts, Lauren (Author)

Our Top 5 Picks

• A Minecraft Movie the Junior Novelization

  Read this exciting junior novelization based on A Minecraft Movie, in theaters April 4, 2025!

  Based on the bestselling video game of all time, AMinecraft Moviebrings the action to life as stars Jason Momoa, Jack Black, and Emma Myers are transported inside the world of Minecraft, where they will have to avoid exploding creepers, battle dangerous piglins, and learn the arts of building, crafting, and creating to survive. This junior novelization retells the whole exciting story and features a full-color eight-page insert of images from the movie!

• Worry

  NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, NPR, Vogue, the Washington Post, Electric Lit, and more!

  A "dryly witty" (The New Yorker) and "fabulously revealing" (The New York Times Book Review) debut that follows two sisters-turned-roommates navigating an absurd world on the verge of calamity--a Seinfeldian novel for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sally Rooney.

  It's March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold--anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed--has been living alone in the apartment she once shared with the man she thought she'd marry when her younger sister Poppy comes to crash. Indefinitely. Poppy, a year and a half out from a suicide attempt only Jules knows about, searches for work and meaning in Brooklyn while Jules spends her days hate-scrolling the feeds of Mormon mommy bloggers and waiting for life to happen.

  Then the hives that've plagued Poppy since childhood flare up. Jules's uterus turns against her. Poppy brings home a maladjusted rescue dog named Amy Klobuchar. The girls' mother, a newly devout Messianic Jew, starts falling for the same deep-state conspiracy theories as Jules's online mommies. Jules, halfheartedly struggling to scrape her way to the source of her ennui, slowly and cruelly comes to blame Poppy for her own insufficiencies as a friend, a writer, and a sister. And Amy Klobuchar might have rabies. As the year shambles on and a new decade looms near, a disastrous trip home to Florida forces Jules and Poppy--comrades, competitors, constant fixtures in each other's lives--to ask themselves what they want their futures to look like, and whether they'll spend them together or apart.

  "A tragicomic portrait of urban millennial life" ( Shelf Awareness), Worry is a "riotously funny and wryly existential" ( Harper's Bazaar) novel of sisterhood from a nervy new voice in contemporary fiction.

• The Little Liar

  An Instant New York Times Bestseller

  Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with his most important novel to date, an unforgettable story of truth and lies set during the Holocaust.

  Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis has never told a lie. When the Nazis invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is persuade his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading "north," where new jobs and safety await. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy reassures passengers on the station platform every day.

  But when the final train is loaded, Nico sees his family being herded into a boxcar. Only then does he discover that he has helped send them--and everyone he knows and loves--to their doom at Auschwitz.

  Nico escapes--but he never tells the truth again.

  In The Little Liar, Mitch Albom examines the human repercussions of deception by interweaving the stories of Nico, who yearns for forgiveness; his older brother, Sebastian, who vows revenge against him; Fannie, the girl who must choose between them; and Udo Graf, the Nazi officer who forever changed their lives with his lies.

  Through the war years, the concentration camps, and the decades that follow, Albom reveals the consequences of each person's honesty and dishonesty, bringing them back to where it all started in a staggering climax worthy of the best of Albom's internationally embraced stories.

• Blood of Hercules Collector's Edition (Original) (Villains of Lore #1)

  The INSTANT New York Times bestseller!
  
  Don't miss the overnight viral sensation everyone is talking about! The gorgeous collector's hardcover edition of Blood of Hercules features gold foil sprayed edges, foil casing, and metallic cover treatment and an exclusive teaser of the next book, Bonds of Hercules.
  
  I'm just a girl. And it turns out, I'm Hercules.
  
  I'm struggling to survive in a Titan infested world where Spartans, immortals from twelve royal families who have god-like powers and obscene wealth, rule over all. A shy-stammering foster child with nothing, I keep my head down, cover my scars, and focus on excelling in school. At least, I try to. Then it happens.
  
  My blood test reveals I'm part of the powerful elite. I'm one of them. A Spartan.
  
  Forced to attend the Spartan War Academy, I undergo the most harrowing test of all time to see if I have what it takes to be an immortal. There's just a few problems. Achilles and Patro are my scary mentors. Kharon, the ferryman of death, and Augustus, the son of war, are my terrifying professors. Also, I'm pretty sure either someone's stalking me everywhere I go, or my sanity's slipping--I have a bad feeling both are true.
  
  I'm surrounded by Villains and they're smothering me with their hate, obsession, and dark possessiveness. Too bad for them, they have no clue just who they're messing with.
  
  A Dark Romantasy for readers who love:
  

  • "Who did this to you?"

  • Extreme Enemies to Lovers

  • Strong Heroine

  • Morally Gray Alpha Heroes

  • Zodiac Academy, Quicksilver and When the Moon Hatched

• Firebird (Fire That Binds #1)

  DELUXE EDITION--featuring beautiful original illustrated stenciled edges with a foil case stamp, and designed endpapers!
  
  House of the Dragon meets From Blood and Ash in this epic, scorching dark romantasy.

  A conqueror captivated...
  A witch prophesied to save them all...
  A world where dragons rule Rome.

  From the moment Roman general and nephew to the emperor Julianus Dakkia laid eyes on Malina, he was enthralled by the Dacian dancer. Years later, the fierce beauty stands before him on a scarred battlefield, her life in danger. He instinctively shifts into his fierce dragon form to save her, an action that may mean his head on the imperial gate. But he and his dragon know one thing: she belongs to them.

  Malina can't believe that the centurion who had once bestowed a secret talisman on her is the Roman general of legendary brutality. His prowess as a warrior cannot be denied, yet they don't reveal the secret he hides. All Malina knows is his protection and gentle touch. And she cannot deny how her soul has always seemed to answer his.

  As they navigate a world where flying deathriders conquer and burn, their love will ignite a firestorm that can only end in heartbreak or death. Or both.

  Firebird is a fantasy with some dark themes, including elements of master/slave relationship, attempted sexual assault (not between MCs), and dubious consent (not between MCs). Readers who may be sensitive to these elements, please take note.

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New Releases | April 8th, 2025