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New Releases | March 17th, 2026

March 13, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • Life: A Love Story - Berg, Elizabeth (Author)

    • Sisters in Yellow - Kawakami, Mieko (Author), Taylor, Laurel (Translator), Yoshio, Hitomi (Translator)

    • The Antidote - Russell, Karen (Author)

    • The Paris Express - Donoghue, Emma (Author)

    Biography

    • Lucky Girl: A Coming of Spirit Memoir - Vieira, Diane (Author), Vieira, Robert (Author)

    Board Books

    • Good Night, Little Blue Truck (Little Blue Truck #38) - Schertle, Alice (Author), McElmurry, Jill (Illustrator)

    • Baby Loves Robotics! (Baby Loves Science) - Spiro, Ruth (Author), Uno, Kat (Illustrator)

    • Touch a Truck Day: A Lift-The-Flap Book - Finison, Carrie (Author), Wang, Viola (Illustrator)

    Body, Mind & Spirit

    • The Lore Olympus Oracle Deck: A 54-Card Deck and Guidebook (Lore Olympus) - Smythe, Rachel (Author), Holden, H (Illustrator), Byars, Faith (Text by (Art/Photo Books))

    • Wisdom Untethered: The Time for Questions - Singer, Michael A (Author)

    Coloring Books

    • Creative Haven Otterly Adorable Coloring Book (Adult Coloring Books: Animals) - Goodridge, Teresa (Author)

    • Bluey and Friends: Outdoor Fun: A Coloring Book

    Cookbooks

    • One Plate at a Time: Recipes for Finding Freedom with Food - Lovato, Demi (Author)

    Family Issues Books

    • The Parent's Guide to Divorce: How to Protect Your Child's Mental and Emotional Health Through a Breakup or Separation - Komisar, Erica (Author)

    Graphic Novels

    • The Big Mousetake (The Great Puptective #3) - Tysoe, Alina (Author), Tysoe, Alina (Illustrator)

    Great Outdoors

    • The Allure and Peril of the Appalachian Trail - Carpenter, Steve (Author)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Ultimates by Deniz Camp Vol. 3: Rescue Mission (Ultimates) - Camp, Deniz (Author), Taboo (Author), Frigeri, Juan (Illustrator), Randal, Von (Illustrator), Ruan, Dike (Not Available)

    • The Lost Daughter of Sparta - Day, Felicia (Author), MacColl, Rowan (Illustrator)

    • The Flash: Rebirth: DC Compact Comics Edition - Johns, Geoff (Author), Van Sciver, Ethan (Illustrator)

    Middle Readers

    • Sir Edmund of the Wild West: Mystery in the Grand Canyon - Bowling, Dusti (Author), Hughes, Beth (Illustrator)

    • Bravepaw and the Heartstone of Alluria (Bravepaw #1) - Wilkinson, L M (Author), Naidu, Lavanya (Illustrator)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • Bloodlust - Brown, Sandra (Author)

    Nature

    • The Feather Wars: And the Great Crusade to Save America's Birds - McCommons, James H (Author)

    Personal Growth

    • The Prosperous Heart: Creating a Life of Enough - Cameron, Julia (Author)

    Picture Books

    • The Littlest Elephant: A One and Only Ruby Story - Applegate, Katherine (Author), Judge, Lita (Illustrator)

    • Iguana Miss You! - Boynton, Sandra (Author)

    • The Mother Tree - Rosen, Sybil (Author), Carpenter, Nancy (Illustrator)

    • Tiny Hiker - Zimmers, Natasha (Author), Macgibbon, Jaimie (Illustrator)

    • Little Passenger - Sullivan, Deirdre (Author), Love, Jessica (Illustrator)

    • Ruthie - Shapiro, Esmé (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • Innamorata (The House of Teeth Duology) - Reid, Ava (Author)

    • The Tomb of Dragons (Chronicles of Osreth #3) - Addison, Katherine (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age - Kendi, Ibram X (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • Say good night with Little Blue Truck and friends as they prepare for bed in this board book edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller!

    Beep! Beep! Beep! It's time for sleep!

    A storm is brewing and Little Blue Truck and his good friend Toad are hurrying home for bed. But who can sleep with all that racket? It's not long before other friends show up seeking safety from the storm. Thunder and lightning sure can be scary, but it's easy to be brave together. When the clouds roll on and the sky is clear, it's all aboard for a bedtime ride! Beep! Beep! Shhh . . .

    This perfect bedtime read-aloud is now available in a sturdy board book edition.

  • NATIONAL BESTSELLER - FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town

    "Achingly gorgeous. . . . Karen Russell is one of our most humane and generous writers; this book is as profound as it is wonderfully strange." --Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds

    The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing--not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a "Prairie Witch," whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples' memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns how quickly a hoarded blessing can become a curse; his orphan niece, a basketball star and witch's apprentice in furious flight from her grief; a voluble scarecrow; and a New Deal photographer whose time-traveling camera threatens to reveal both the town's secrets and its fate.

    Russell's novel is above all a reckoning with a nation's forgetting--enacting the settler amnesia and willful omissions passed down from generation to generation, and unearthing not only horrors but shimmering possibilities. The Antidote echoes with urgent warnings for our own climate emergency, challenging readers with a vision of what might have been--and what still could be.

  • From Mieko Kawakami, award-winning author of Breasts and Eggs, comes a bold novel of sacrifice and the tumultuous bonds of sisterhood, set in the gritty Tokyo of the 1990s.

    "I can never forget the sense of pure astonishment I felt when I first read Mieko Kawakami." --Haruki Murakami

    Hana has nothing - she's fifteen years old and living in a tiny apartment in a suburb of Tokyo with her young mother, a hostess at a local dive bar. They have no money, no security. Then Kimiko appears.

    Kimiko is older, a bright light in Hana's dark world. Together they set up Lemon, a bar that, despite its shabby setting and seedy clientele, becomes a haven for Hana. Suddenly Hana has a job she loves, friends to share her days with, and the glittering promise of money. She feels like a normal girl. She feels invincible.

    But in the narrow alleys of Sangenjaya, nothing is as it seems. Soon all of Hana's hope, her optimism, and her drive will be pushed to the limit . . .

    A story of enduring friendship and deep betrayal, Sisters in Yellow is a masterpiece of teenage dreams and adult cruelties that confirms Mieko Kawakami as one of the great writers of her generation.

  • The National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning charts how "great replacement theory" has become a dominant political idea of our time and ushered in an antidemocratic age.

    "[Kendi] has a gift for tracing how historical ideas metastasize into present, real-world damage. . . . Kendi reveals the mechanics behind the myth, and why confronting it is now a democratic necessity."--Oprah Daily

    NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2026 BY: The New York Times, Oprah Daily, LitHub, Foreign Policy, The Millions

    Recall the words chanted in Charlottesville, Virginia: "You will not replace us!" Recall the string of mass shooters across the globe--in Oslo, Christchurch, Buffalo, El Paso, and Pittsburgh--who claimed their crimes were a defense against "White genocide." Recall business and media figures cultivating anxiety and furor over demographic change. These incidents only scratch the surface: Popular and ruling politicians in every region of the world have expressed some version of great replacement theory, eroding democratic norms in the name of preventing demographic change.

    The term was coined in 2011 by a French novelist who argued that Black and Brown immigrants were "invading" Europe, brought by shadowy elites to "replace" the White population. From there, politicians and theorists in the United States and elsewhere repackaged it as a story of "globalists" welcoming "migrant criminals" and promoting diversity to take away the jobs, cultures, electoral power, and very lives of White people. Over time, great replacement theory has expanded those under threat to include citizens, men, Jews, Christians, heterosexuals, and ethnic majorities in countries as distinct as Russia, El Salvador, Brazil, Italy, and India, all targeted with the message that they are facing an existential attack that only a strongman can prevent.

    In Chain of Ideas, internationally bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi offers an unsettling but indispensable global history of how great replacement theory brought humanity into this authoritarian age--and how we can free ourselves from it.

  • A warm, intimate novel that reminds us of the richness that can be found all throughout our lives--by the New York Times bestselling author of The Story of Arthur Truluv and Open House

    As ninety-two-year-old Florence "Flo" Greene nears the end of her life, she writes a letter to Ruthie, the woman who grew up next door to her, describing the items Flo is leaving Ruthie in her will. But as it goes on, telling surprising stories about those "little" things Flo will leave behind (What could possibly be the worth of a rubber band kept in a matchbox tied up in red ribbon?), an unforgettable portrait of the life she has lived emerges.

    The letter starts off as an autobiography in things , but it turns out to do much more than that: ultimately, it will transform Flo and those around her. In the time she has left, Flo decides to take herself up on tiny dares. She encourages Ruthie to reconsider her impending divorce by sharing a startling, long-buried secret about her own perfect-seeming marriage. Flo has never had a pedicure before now, and as long as she's going to a beauty parlor, she arranges to have a blue streak put in her hair, too. And as these adventures lead her to make new friends, Flo helps them, too, find the fulfillment that living a full life has led her to understand.

    Full of Elizabeth Berg's characteristic mix of warmth, humor, and poignancy, Life: A Love Story is a reminder that whatever your circumstances, as long as you're alive, you can keep on investing in life. The joy will inevitably follow.

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New Releases | March 10th, 2026

March 6, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Art

    • Bookish Crafts: 40 Fun, Easy Projects for Book Lovers - Butler, Kanlin (Author)

    Adult Fiction

    • It Girl - Pataki, Allison (Author)

    • Westward Women - Martin, Alice (Author)

    • Once and Again - Serle, Rebecca (Author)

    • The Natural Way of Things - Wood, Charlotte (Author)

    Animals

    • The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love - Hoffman, Alice (Author)

    Biography

    • Judy Blume: A Life - Oppenheimer, Mark (Author)

    • William and Catherine: The Monarchy's New Era: The Inside Story - Myers, Russell (Author)

    Board Books

    • ABCD . . . Earth!: An Alphabet Book with Spinning Earth Cover (Our Little Universe) - McAnulty, Stacy (Author), Chou, Joey (Illustrator)

    • See, Touch, Feel Busy Book: The Ultimate Sensory Book for Kids! (See, Touch, Feel) - Priddy Books (Author)

    • Little Cottage Frog: Finger Puppet Book - Huang, Yu-Hsuan (Illustrator)

    Body, Mind & Spirit

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

    • Shadow Magick Spellbook: Spells, Charms & Rituals for Positive Change - Digitalis, Raven (Author)

    • Nero and Paul: How the Gospel of Grace Defeated the Ruler of Rome - Gifford, Kathie Lee (Author), Litfin, Bryan M (With)

    Children’s Science & Nature

    • Shapes of Nature: A Kaleidoscope of the Natural World - Hoare, Ben (Author)

    Great Outdoors

    • Out There: An Uncomplicated Field Guide to Outdoor Photography - Burkard, Chris (Author)

    History

    • The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War - Larson, Erik (Author)

    • Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus - Pagels, Elaine (Author)

    • The History Book (DK Big Ideas)

    Just the Facts

    • Blast Off!: Look Inside Spectacular Spacecraft - Elcomb, Ben (Author), D'Hipolito, Romolo (Illustrator)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Punisher: Welcome Back, Frank [Marvel Premier Collection] (Marvel Premier Collection) - Ennis, Garth (Author), Dillon, Steve (Illustrator), Dillon, Steve (Not Available), Bernthal, Jon (Foreword by), Ennis, Garth (Introduction by)

    • One Piece, Vol. 111 (One Piece #111) - Oda, Eiichiro (Author)

    Middle Readers

    • Big Nate: Code Red!: Volume 34 - Peirce, Lincoln (Author)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • Judge Stone - Patterson, James (Author), Davis, Viola (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Wake Up, Grouchy Bear! - Stein, David Ezra (Author), Stein, David Ezra (Illustrator)

    Romance

    • The Wings That Bind (Deluxe Edition) (Bloodwing Academy #3) - Boleyn, Briar (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

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

    • Voidverse - Ober, Damien (Author)

    Young Adult

    • They All Had a Fear (They All Had a Reason #3) - Leathers, Michele (Author)

    • Armaveni: A Graphic Novel of the Armenian Genocide - Takvorian, Nadine (Author)

    • Erase Me - Silver, Josh (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • Bursting with color and charm, this adorable frog finger puppet book lets babies and inquisitive toddlers touch, feel, and explore their growing world.

    Newborns and toddlers will love snuggling up with Little Cottage Frog! A tad reminiscent of Frog and Toad, this cottagecore frog lives in a little cottage log, and he is the perfect friend to help children experience woodland magic and wonder. In these pages, Little Cottage Frog hops, skips, and jumps through a mushroom forest to get to a frog party on the pond!

    Featuring a plush finger puppet that peeks into each lovingly illustrated page, this addition to the bestselling Finger Puppet board book series offers parents and children a fun, interactive way to play and read together as little ones build a lifelong love of books (and nature!).

    MORE THAN 9 MILLION COPIES SOLD IN THE SERIES: The Finger Puppet books are a trusted, go-to series for new parents and gift-givers.

    LEARNING PLUS PLAYTIME: A simple storyline celebrates pond life, while a bright and colorful cloth finger puppet offers a chance for little hands to play and build motor skills.

    IRRESISTIBLE ANIMAL: Frogs are wildly popular for their silliness and sliminess! This board book is perfect for lovers of this adorable amphibian.

    NEW BABY GIFT: Just the thing for baby showers, birthdays, and stocking stuffers! Pair with a cute frog plush toy or set of frog stickers to create an adorably memorable gift.

    STURDY AND SECURE: Never worry about losing this soft plush finger puppet, which is permanently attached to the back cover of the book.

    Perfect for:

    Parents and caregivers looking for an interactive and educational way to entertain little ones

    Gift-givers searching for cute, distinctive presents for birthday parties, baby showers, or holidays

    Fans of frogs, newts, salamanders, axolotls, and other amphibians

    Nature lovers of all ages

    Fans of finger puppet books for babies and toddlers

    Fans of the Frog and Toad and Froggy series

  • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From a renowned National Book Award-winning scholar, an extraordinary new account of the life of Jesus that explores the mystery of how a poor young man inspired a religion that reshaped the world.

    "This is a brilliant and necessary book. Sober, wise, respectful, and fearless." --Jon Meacham, author of The Soul of America

    "Pagels's story is for believers and non-believers alike." --Tara Westover, author of Educated

    "The depth of spirituality she uncovers is profound." --The New York Times Book Review

    Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In Miracles and Wonder she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.

    The book reads like a historical mystery, with each chapter addressing a fascinating question and answering it based on the gospels Jesus's followers left behind. Why is Jesus said to have had a virgin birth? Why do we say he rose from the dead? Did his miracles really happen and what did they mean?

    The story Pagels tells is thrilling and tense. Not just does Jesus comes to life but his desperate, hunted followers do as well. We realize that some of the most compelling details of Jesus's life are the explanations his disciples created to paper over inconvenient facts. So Jesus wasn't illegitimate, his mother conceived by God; Jesus's body wasn't humiliatingly left to rot and tossed into a common grave--no, he rose from the dead and was seen whole by his followers; Jesus isn't a failed messiah, his kingdom is a metaphor: he lives in us. These necessary fabrications were the very details and promises that electrified their listeners and helped his followers' numbers grow.

    In Miracles and Wonder, Pagels does more than solve a historical mystery. She sheds light on Jesus's enduring power to inspire and attract.

  • Academy Award winning actress Viola Davis and the world's #1 bestselling author James Patterson's Judge Stone " delivers first-class courtroom drama, small-town excitement, and strong characters all wrapped in a moral dilemma. Tense, readable, and relevant." ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review)

    "Talk about a power combo! ... With Davis's razor-sharp emotional insight and Patterson's mastery of rocket-fuel pacing, this is the dream team to deliver an up-all-night read that will keep the group chat buzzing." --Oprah Daily

    "Wonderfully satisfying ... This legal thriller from [a] superstar duo ... demands attention from its opening pages and never lets go." --Booklist, starred review

    All rise ... for Judge Stone.

    The most respected citizen in Union Springs, Alabama (population 3,314), is Judge Mary Stone. She holds two responsibilities sacred: running her family farm and presiding over her courtroom. It's there she draws the most controversial case in the history of the South.

    Criminally, it's open-and-shut.

    Ethically, there is no middle ground. Essentially, it's a choice between life and death.

    No judge can satisfy everyone. It would be dangerous to try. But Judge Stone is willing to fight to bring justice to the people and place she loves.

  • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this "riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult" (Los Angeles Times).

    "A feast of historical insight and narrative verve . . . This is Erik Larson at his best, enlivening even a thrice-told tale into an irresistible thriller."--The Wall Street Journal

    A PARADE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

    On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter.

    Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln's election and the Confederacy's shelling of Sumter--a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of these five months were "so great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them."

    At the heart of this suspense-filled narrative are Major Robert Anderson, Sumter's commander and a former slave owner sympathetic to the South but loyal to the Union; Edmund Ruffin, a vain and bloodthirsty radical who stirs secessionist ardor at every opportunity; and Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of a prominent planter, conflicted over both marriage and slavery and seeing parallels between them. In the middle of it all is the overwhelmed Lincoln, battling with his duplicitous secretary of state, William Seward, as he tries desperately to avert a war that he fears is inevitable--one that will eventually kill 750,000 Americans.

    Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, Larson gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led America to the brink--a dark reminder that we often don't see a cataclysm coming until it's too late.

  • A sweeping, sensational novel of America's first "It Girl," whose dramatic journey to center stage echoes through the decades--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

    "As stunning as the incomparable leading lady who inspired it . . . unputdownable, with a twist that will leave you breathless."--Emily Giffin

    At the dawn of the twentieth century, New York's streets teem with change: electricity, automobiles, the brash young President Teddy Roosevelt--and the It Girls. As artists' muses and working models, these independent young women soar to stardom not because of their pedigrees or inherited wealth, but because of their talent, charisma, and irresistible beauty. Pop culture is born, and in a world alight with Mr. Edison's new bulbs, no one shines brighter than America's sweetheart, Evelyn Talbot.

    But the journey to stardom is not simple or straight. While working as a shopgirl, the young Evelyn is recruited as a studio model and soon catches the eye of the preeminent artists of the age. When Broadway comes calling, Evelyn solidifies her status as the first self-made American female celebrity: the iconic Gibson Girl, the most sought-after figure and face of her time. Enter a parade of powerful and power-hungry men, from world-famous architect Stanley Pierce, the visionary behind Manhattan's mansions and iconic landmarks, to Hal Thorne, the shockingly wealthy railroad heir and premier "playboy" of high society. Each man promises comfort, glamour, security--even love. But fame and fortune are cruel teachers, and Evelyn learns that the only person she can rely on is herself.

    When Evelyn finds herself at the center of a murder of passion declared "the Crime of the Century," she is blamed for the acts of the men in her life. In the media frenzy that spirals around her, Evelyn realizes that to survive, she will have to write her own ending. But can this artists' muse turned showgirl pull off the greatest act of her life?

    It Girl is a breathtaking ride inspired by a singular artist and icon who captured the collective imagination of American society. Allison Pataki has crafted yet another unforgettable leading lady, a heroine who must find the power to change not only the world around her but her own destiny.

Tags shop local, Little Village Toy and Book, indiebookshop, Judy Blume, Dark Academia, One Piece, Dogs, James Patterson, Frogs, Viola Davis, Civil War

New Releases | March 3rd, 2026

February 27, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • Lake Effect - Sweeney, Cynthia D'Aprix (Author)

    • The Inheritors - Golding, William (Author), Okri, Ben (Foreword by), Greenwald Smith, Rachel (Contribution by)

    • Free Fall - Golding, William (Author), Gray, John (Foreword by), Greenwald Smith, Rachel (Contribution by)

    • Black Woods, Blue Sky - Ivey, Eowyn (Author), Hulbert, Ruth (Illustrator)

    • A Sea of Unspoken Things - Young, Adrienne (Author)

    • Death Takes Me - Rivera Garza, Cristina (Author), Myers, Robin (Translator), Booker, Sarah (Translator)

    • Lady Tremaine - Hochhauser, Rachel (Author)

    • The Queens of Crime - Benedict, Marie (Author)

    • The Story She Left Behind - Callahan Henry, Patti (Author)

    • A Far-Flung Life - Stedman, M L (Author)

    • The Last Poem - Peppernell, Courtney (Author)

    Arts & Entertainment

    • Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism - Smee, Sebastian (Author)

    Award Winners

    • The First State of Being - Kelly, Erin Entrada (Author)

    • Phoenix (Ride on) - Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker (Author)

    Biography

    • You with the Sad Eyes: A Memoir - Applegate, Christina (Author)

    • Delusions: Of Grandeur, of Romance, of Progress - David, Cazzie (Author)

    • Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist - Munson, Richard (Author)

    • A Different Person: A Memoir - Merrill, James (Author), Als, Hilton (Author)

    Board Books

    • Bloom Into Spring - Diesen, Deborah (Author), Lundquist, Mary (Illustrator)

    • Odd Bugs (a Curious Critters Board Book): Meet Nature's Weirdest Insects - Gehl, Laura (Author), Lucas, Gareth (Illustrator)

    • Spring! (Leslie Patricelli Board Books) - Patricelli, Leslie (Author), Patricelli, Leslie (Illustrator)

    • How Do Dinosaurs Go from A to Z? - Yolen, Jane (Author), Teague, Mark (Illustrator)

    • Rabbit's Nap (a Lift-The-Flap Book) (Tales from Acorn Wood) - Donaldson, Julia (Author), Scheffler, Axel (Illustrator)

    • Monster Jam: Thunderroarus Unleashed! a Board Book with Wheels - Aveling, Marisa (Author), Vandenberg, Neil (Illustrator)

    Body, Mind & Spirit

    • A Grief Observed (Deluxe Edition) - Lewis, C S (Author)

    • The Screwtape Letters (Deluxe Edition) - Lewis, C S (Author)

    Chapter Books

    • Daisy Dolittle: The Rabbit Rescue (Daisy Dolittle) - Lockhart, Melody (Author), Lopez, Anuki (Illustrator)

    • Daisy Dolittle: Otter Chaos! (Daisy Dolittle) - Lockhart, Melody (Author), Lopez, Anuki (Illustrator)

    • Gus the Mushroom Dragon: An Acorn Book (Dragon Hill #2) - West, Tracey (Author), Vázquez, Carolina (Illustrator)

    • How to Save a Tortoise (Wildlife Rescue 3) - Messner, Kate (Author)

    Children's Poetry

    • Goldfinches - Oliver, Mary (Author), Sweet, Melissa (Illustrator)

    • Time for Haiku: Four Seasons of Poems - Santaeulàlia, Josep (Author), Lozano, Luciano (Illustrator), Schimel, Lawrence (Translator)

    Children's Science & Nature

    • Light as a Feather: Fifteen Phenomenal North American Birds - Hillenbrand, Will (Author), Hillenbrand, Will (Illustrator)

    Coloring Books

    • Inklings: A Pocket-Sized Inky Coloring Book - Basford, Johanna (Author)

    Graphic Novels

    • Paws: The Trouble with Leo: A Graphic Novel (Paws) - Fairbairn, Nathan (Author), Assarasakorn, Michele (Illustrator)

    • The Greenies (Greenies #1) - Mills, Emma (Author), Kennedy, Sarah Nicole (Illustrator)

    • The Calvin and Hobbes Portable Compendium Set 6: Volume 6 - Watterson, Bill (Author)

    • Lego Ninjago: Strike of the Serpentine (Graphic Novel) (Lego Ninjago) - Chittock, Cameron (Author), Morris, Will (Illustrator), Antonellini, Sara (Illustrator)

    History

    • Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America - Risen, Clay (Author)

    Homestead

    • Victory Gardens for Bees: A DIY Guide to Saving the Bees, Revised Edition - Weidenhammer, Lori (Author)

    • Floraphile's Almanac: An Illustrated Miscellany - Evans, Jessi (Author), Work, Lauren (Author)

    Horror

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

    Humor Books

    • This Is the Only Book of Dad Jokes You'll Ever Need: 302 of the Best and Most Cringeworthy Dad Jokes - Nowak, Thomas (Author), Miranda, Alberto (Illustrator)

    Just the Facts

    • What Do We Know about Dragons? (What Do We Know About?) - Hubbard, Ben (Author), Who Hq (Author), Thomson, Andrew (Illustrator)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Absolute Superman Vol. 2: Son of the Demon (Absolute Universe) - Aaron, Jason (Author), Sandoval, Rafa (Illustrator)

    • Nightwing: Leaping Into the Light: DC Compact Comics Edition (DC Compact Comics) - Taylor, Tom (Author), Redondo, Bruno (Illustrator), Edwards, Neil (Illustrator)

    • Nana 25th Anniversary Edition, Vol. 3 (Nana 25th Anniversary Edition #17) - Yazawa, Ai (Author)

    • Chainsaw Man, Vol. 20 - Fujimoto, Tatsuki (Author)

    • DC Encyclopedia New Edition - Beatty, Scott (Author), Brooks, Dan (Author)

    • Shugo Chara! 20th Anniversary Edition 1 - Peach-Pit (Author)

    Middle Readers

    • Minecraft: Adventure School (Minecraft) - Sanz, Monica (Author)

    • Aku: Journey to Ibra (Aku 1) - Johnson, Micah (Author), Van Der Meer, Durk (Illustrator)

    • Firebred: (Storm Dragons, Book 2) - Kagawa, Julie (Author)

    • Dragon Girl and the Awakened Flames (Deluxe Edition) (Dragon Girl #1) - Moore, Jenny (Author)

    • The Academy V: Cup of Nations (Academy #5) - Layton, T Z (Author)

    • The Beautiful Game - Méndez, Yamile Saied (Author)

    • The Hybrid Prince (Wings of Fire, Book 16) - Sutherland, Tui T (Author)

    • One Night at Camp Bigfoot (Goosebumps House of Shivers #6) - Stine, R L (Author)

    My First Readers

    • Jane Goodall (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 1) - Kramer, Barbara (Author), National Geographic Kids (Author)

    Mystery & Thriller

    • Want to Know a Secret? - McFadden, Freida (Author)

    Nature

    • The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary - Tempest Williams, Terry (Author)

    • Grizzled: Love Letters to 50 of North America's Least Understood Animals - Bittel, Jason (Author)

    Personal Growth

    • The Supreme Gift: Love Is the Greatest Thing in the World - Coelho, Paulo (Author), Costa, Margaret Jull (Translator)

    Picture Books

    • Bartleby - Phelan, Matt (Author), Phelan, Matt (Illustrator)

    • Thank You, School - Borden, Louise (Author), Keiser, Paige (Illustrator)

    • When You Dream Big! - Reynolds, Peter H (Author), Reynolds, Peter H (Illustrator)

    • Goodnight, Bruce (Mother Bruce) - Higgins, Ryan (Author)

    • Bothered by Bugs - Gravett, Emily (Author)

    • Is This . . . Spring? (Helen Yoon's Is This . . .?) - Yoon, Helen (Author), Yoon, Helen (Illustrator)

    • The Dark Is for - Kohuth, Jane (Author), Derby, Cindy (Illustrator)

    • Loops - Awan, Jashar (Author), Awan, Jashar (Illustrator)

    • Welcome to the Rabbit Residence: A Seek-And-Find Story - Nohana, Haluka (Author)

    • The Future Book - Barnett, Mac (Author), Harris, Shawn (Illustrator)

    Poetry

    • The Witch Doesn't Drown in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic) - Lovelace, Amanda (Author)

    Political Science

    • The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and Warnings from History - Westad, Odd Arne (Author)

    • Truth and Consequence: Reflections on Catastrophe, Civil Resistance, and Hope - Ellsberg, Daniel (Author), Ellsberg, Michael (Volume Editor), Thomas, Jan R (Volume Editor)

    Romance

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

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

    • Verity - Hoover, Colleen (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • Elphie: A Wicked Childhood - Maguire, Gregory (Author)

    Sidelines

    • This Classic Belongs to . . .: 60 Bookplates for Collections Big and Small (Classics Gift)

    Social Sciences

    • The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change - Solnit, Rebecca (Author)

    Stickers

    • Wings of Fire: The Official Stickerpedia - Sutherland, Tui T (Author), Walsh, Brianna C (Illustrator)

    Travel

    • Belonging to the World: A Journey from Grief to Connection in Every Country on Earth - Hoffner, Barry (Author)

    Workbooks

    • Awe! - Stiefel, Chana (Author), Gal, Susan (Illustrator)

    Young Adult

    • A Thousand Perfect Lies - Murphy, Monica (Author)

    • Her Hidden Fire (Her Hidden Fire) - O'Sullivan, Cliodhna (Author)

    • The Squad: Perfect Cover (Squad 1) - Barnes, Jennifer Lynn (Author)

    • The Squad: Killer Spirit (Squad 2) - Barnes, Jennifer Lynn (Author)

    • Burn the Water - Ray, Billy (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • From #1 internationally bestselling author Freida McFadden!

    Everyone has secrets. Some are worse than others.

    Influencer and baking sensation April Masterson knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies. Or how to make key lime squares that will melt in your mouth. But if you keep watching her offline, you may find out some other secrets about April. Secrets she'd rather you didn't know.

    Like... Where did her son go when he snuck out late at night? What was she doing with the local soccer coach behind fogged windows?

    And what's buried in her backyard?

    April's secrets are enough to destroy her.

    I'll make sure of that.

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden peels back the layers of a seemingly flawless life to expose a picture of obsession, deception, and the quiet menace that waits just beyond the frame.

  • Mother Bruce's family of mice and geese will do ANYTHING to get out of going to sleep in this hilarious and all-too-relatable bedtime story.

    It's bedtime in Soggy Hollow.

    But Bruce's family of mice and geese would rather watch late-night monster movies than go to sleep.

    There are so many more fun things to do like . . .

    build model airplanes

    and eat ice cream.

    and keep up their correspondence.

    Will Bruce ever get them to sleep? What's a tired old bear to do?

    Kids and caretakers alike will relate wholeheartedly to this laugh-out-loud story of pre-bedtime hijinx.

  • The #1 New York Times bestselling series is back with a brand new tale! Discover what happens next in this thrilling addition to the Wings of Fire saga.

    Umber was never supposed to be a hero . . . .

    As the youngest sibling of his MudWing hatching, Umber doesn't have the responsibilities of his bigwings, Reed, nor the heroic destiny prophesied for his brother, Clay. He's always been content with his role as the cheerful, goofy, little brother. But when his sister, Sora, causes a tragedy at Jade Mountain Academy, Umber finds himself on the run and thrown into a whole new role--that of protector.

    Umber and Sora fly south in search of a place where they can live far away from other dragons . . . until a kind, hybrid dragon named Mulberry saves him from a kraken attack, and Umber realizes they don't have to survive alone after all. In fact, there's an entire community living on a forgotten island, full of dragons hiding from their own dark pasts.

    As the two MudWings settle into the Court of Refuge, they start to realize that nothing in this place is quite what it seems, and the protection it offers comes with a price. Even as Umber falls for Prince Mulberry, he learns he must find a way to unlock the past of this mysterious island to ensure he and Sora have a future. And when the dragons in power try to stop him, he'll have to decide what he cares about most . . . and whether he can be the hero these dragons need after all.

  • Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet gorgeously illustrates the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver for the first time in picture book form.

    Have you heard them singing in the wind, above the final fields?

    Have you ever been so happy in your life?

    Mary Oliver, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, is one of America's most beloved poets. Introducing her unforgettable words to children for the very first time, her poem "Goldfinches" joyfully observes the power of the natural world as only Mary Oliver can.

    Illuminated by the exquisite mixed-media artwork of Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet, Goldfinches fills the reader with wonder for the beauty around them and gratitude for the ability to bear witness to it.

  • NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Snow Child returns to the mythical landscapes of Alaska with an unforgettable dark fairy tale that asks the question: Can love save us from ourselves?

    "No one writes like Eowyn Ivey."--Geraldine Brooks

    "You will find yourself in places you have never been."--Louise Erdrich

    "Ivey is an enthralling storyteller."--The New York Times Book Review

    AN NPR AND SEATTLE TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

    Birdie's keeping it together; of course she is. So she's a little hungover, sometimes, and she has to bring her daughter, Emaleen, to her job waiting tables at an Alaskan roadside lodge, but she's getting by as a single mother in a tough town. Still, Birdie can remember happier times from her youth, when she was free in the wilds of nature.

    Arthur Neilsen, a soft-spoken and scarred recluse who appears in town only at the change of seasons, brings Emaleen back to safety when she gets lost in the woods. Most people avoid him, but to Birdie, he represents everything she's ever longed for. She finds herself falling for Arthur and the land he knows so well.

    Against the warnings of those who care about them, Birdie and Emaleen move to his isolated cabin in the mountains, on the far side of the Wolverine River.

    It's just the three of them in the vast black woods, far from roads, telephones, electricity, and outside contact, but Birdie believes she has come prepared. At first, it's idyllic and she can picture a happily ever after: Together they catch salmon, pick berries, and climb mountains so tall it's as if they could touch the bright blue sky. But soon Birdie discovers that Arthur is something much more mysterious and dangerous than she could have ever imagined, and that like the Alaska wilderness, a fairy tale can be as dark as it is beautiful.

    Black Woods, Blue Sky is a novel with life-and-death stakes, about the love between a mother and daughter, and the allure of a wild life--about what we gain and what it might cost us.

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New Releases | January 13th, 2026

January 11, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • Lost Lambs - Cash, Madeline (Author)

    • The Jackal's Mistress - Bohjalian, Chris (Author)

    • The Last of Earth - Anappara, Deepa (Author)

    • The School of Night - Knausgaard, Karl Ove (Author), Aitken, Martin (Translator)

    • Tartufo - Buxton, Kira Jane (Author)

    • John - Williams, Niall (Author)

    Adult Science

    • 99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them - Alker, Ashely (Author)

    Biography

    • Nothing Random: Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built - Feldman, Gayle (Author)

    Board Books

    • Tiny T. Rex and the Itty-Bitty Bun-Bun: An Easter and Springtime Story - Stutzman, Jonathan (Author), Fleck, Jay (Illustrator)

    Body, Mind & Spirit

    • Glimmerings: Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a Theologian - Volf, Miroslav (Author), Wiman, Christian (Author)

    • Enough: Your Health, Your Weight, and What It's Like to Be Free - Jastreboff, Ania M (Author), Winfrey, Oprah (Author)

    Children’s Classics

    • Wuthering Heights (Puffin in Bloom) - Brontë, Emily (Author), Bond, Anna (Illustrator)

    Children’s Poetry

    • Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance - Grimes, Nikki (Author)

    Children’s Science & Nature

    • How to Hatch: A Gosling's Guide to Breaking Free - Ackerman, Sara Holly (Author), Bernstein, Galia (Illustrator)

    Cookbooks

    • Eat Yourself Healthy: Food to Change Your Life [American Measurements] - Oliver, Jamie (Author)

    Fun & Games

    • Basket Ball: The Story of the All-American Game (American Sports Histories #2) - Nelson, Kadir (Author), Nelson, Kadir (Illustrator)

    History

    • Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great - Kousser, Rachel (Author)

    • Carthage: A New History - MacDonald, Eve (Author)

    • Being Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History - Burstein, Andrew (Author)

    Homestead

    • Clean in 15: Create a Clean & Happy Home in Minutes - Carrington, Iwan (Author)

    Horror

    • Witchcraft for Wayward Girls - Hendrix, Grady (Author)

    • I Was a Teenage Slasher - Jones, Stephen Graham (Author)

    Humor Books

    • Still Smitten: Short-Form Comics about Long-Term Love - Chetwynd, Catana (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • Foote Was First!: How One Curious Woman Connected Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change - Bryant, Jen (Author), Bates, Amy June (Illustrator)

    • The Gift of Freedom: How Harriet Tubman Rescued Her Brothers - Turner, Glennette Tilley (Author), Freeman, Laura (Illustrator)

    Local Fiction

    • Why Did God Make the Tree?: A Patrick Denny Novel - Gregg, Tammy (Author)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Batman R.I.P. (New Edition) - Morrison, Grant (Author), Garbett, Lee (Illustrator), Daniel, Tony (Illustrator)

    • Parasyte Paperback Collection 2 (Parasyte Paperback Collection) - Iwaaki, Hitoshi (Author)

    My First Readers

    • The Wild Stallion: Ready-To-Read Level 2 - Farley, Terri (Author), Fagan, Kirbi (Illustrator)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • Darkrooms - Hannigan, Rebecca (Author)

    • Anatomy of an Alibi - Elston, Ashley (Author)

    • Private Rome: A Private Novel (Private Novel) - Patterson, James (Author), Hamdy, Adam (Author)

    Personal Growth

    • The Other Side of Change: Who We Become When Life Makes Other Plans - Shankar, Maya (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Bath Time for the Crayons (The Crayons Celebrate) -Daywalt, Drew (Author), Jeffers, Oliver (Illustrator)

    • Tiny Worlds: A Story about Appreciating the Small Things (a Gentle Picture Book That Celebrates Imagination and Grandparent Bonds - For Kids Ages 3-7) - Cicchese, Brittany (Author), Cicchese, Brittany (Illustrator)

    Poetry

    • Love Poems - Kaur, Rupi (Author)

    Romance

    • Graceless Heart - Ibañez, Isabel (Author)

    • Woman Down - Hoover, Colleen (Author)

    • A Vow in Vengeance (Immortal Desires) - Rodriguez, Jaclyn (Author)

    • From Blood and Ash Special Edition (Blood and Ash #1) - Armentrout, Jennifer L (Author)

    • A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire Special Edition (Blood and Ash #2) - Armentrout, Jennifer L (Author)

    • The Crown of Gilded Bones Special Edition (Blood and Ash #3) - Armentrout, Jennifer L (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • The Bones Beneath My Skin - Klune, Tj (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous - Anderson, Gillian (Author)

    • The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way - Ahmed, Sara (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • In this twisty thriller from New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, a frustrated author looks for her muse in a remote hideaway, but what she finds defies all expectations...and reality.

    Her words used to set the page on fire. But a viral backlash over her latest film adaptation forced Petra Rose to take a hiatus, resulting in missed deadlines and an overdue mortgage. Branded a fraud and fame-hungry opportunist, she learned the hard way what happens when the internet turns on you. And she's been uninspired to write ever since.

    Now, with her next suspense novel outlined and savings nearly gone, she retreats to a secluded lakeside cabin, hoping to find inspiration. It's Petra's last-ditch attempt to save her career--and herself.

    Then he shows up.

    Detective Nathaniel Saint arrives with disturbing news, his presence igniting a creativity in her she thought long since burned out. Petra's words return in a rush, and her fictional cop character begins to mirror the very real cop who's becoming her muse.

    Their "research" sessions blur the lines between fantasy and reality. Each glance, every touch pulls Petra deeper into a world she thought she'd never lose herself in again. She's never felt more alive. But inspiration this powerful comes at a cost.

    When Saint starts taking his role in her career a little too seriously, Petra's forced to confront the chaos she created. But doing so could cost her more than the reputation she's been trying to salvage. The reputation the world wrote for her--the reputation only she can reclaim.

  • The hilarious Crayons from the #1 New York Times bestseller The Day the Crayons Quit are ready to make a splash in the bath in this mini hardcover book perfect for bath time, bedtime, or any time!

    Bath time is an adventure for the Crayons! Red likes to relax in the bath. Esteban likes to pretend to be a pirate. And Beige actually prefers a shower! Make bath time the best part of the day with this laugh-out-loud mini hardcover book from the bestselling team behind the international Crayons sensation.

    Featuring Drew Daywalt's giggle-inducing characters and bold, bright illustrations from Oliver Jeffers, Bath Time for the Crayons is squeaky-clean fun that's sure to keep children--and grown-ups--laughing.

  • Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Vulture, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, The Times (UK), Our Culture, and Harper's Bazaar

    "I can't remember the last time a novel made me laugh so hard or feel so much tenderness for its characters." --Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters

    "Madeline Cash is a voice like no other." --Lena Dunham

    "I've read entire books that contain less wit and inventiveness than a single one of Cash's sentences." --Eric Puchner, New York Times-bestselling author of Dream State

    "With a big surge of energy, Lost Lambs splits the nucleus of the American family." --Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection

    Rippling with humor, warmth, and style, Lost Lambs is a new vision of the charms and pitfalls of family dysfunction.

    The Flynn family is coming undone. Catherine and Bud's open marriage has reached its breaking point as their daughters spiral in their own chaotic orbits: Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crime Wes; Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist; the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone--or something--is monitoring the town's citizens.

    Casting a shadow across their lives, and their small coastal town, is Paul Alabaster, a billionaire shipping magnate. Rumors of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with a mysterious shipping container sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy--one that may just bring them closer together.

    Irreverent and addictive, pinging between the voices of the Flynn family and those of the panorama of characters around them, Madeline Cash's Lost Lambs is a debut novel of quick-witted observation and surprising tenderness. With it, Cash has crafted a family saga for the twenty-first century, all held together with crazy glue.

  • USA TODAY Bestseller Alex Award Winner *

    From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a "viciously clever" (The New York Times Book Review) classic slasher story with a twist--perfect for fans of Adam Cesare and Grady Hendrix.

    1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small town driven by oil and cotton--and a place where everyone knows everyone else's business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, and shared sense of unfairness of being on the outside through the slasher horror Jones loves, but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this "playful, self-aware, and remarkably gory horror novel" ( The New York Times).

  • The story of the legendary Random House founder, whose seemingly charmed life at the apogee of the American Century afforded him a front-row seat to literary and cultural history in the making

    "A stunning achievement . . . a sweeping intellectual history with a stunning cast of characters that reveals the inner struggles of a great publishing house."--Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

    At midcentury, everyone knew Bennett Cerf: witty, beloved, middle-aged panelist on What's My Line? whom TV brought into America's homes each week. But they didn't know that the handsome, driven, paradoxical young man of the 1920s had vowed to become a great publisher and, a decade later, was. By then, he'd signed Eugene O'Neill, Gertrude Stein, and William Faulkner, and had fought the landmark censorship case that gave Americans the freedom to read James Joyce's Ulysses.

    With his best friend and lifelong business partner Donald Klopfer, and other young Jewish entrepreneurs like the Knopfs and Simon & Schuster, Cerf remade the book business: what was published, and how. In 1925, he and Klopfer bought the Modern Library and turned it into an institution, then founded Random House, which eventually became a home to Truman Capote, Ralph Ellison, Ayn Rand, Dr. Seuss, Toni Morrison, James Michener, and many more.

    Even before TV, Cerf was a bestselling author and columnist as well as publisher; the show super-charged his celebrity, bringing fame--but also criticism. A brilliant social networker and major influencer before such terms existed, he connected books to Broadway, TV, Hollywood, and politics. A fervent democratizer, he published "high," "low," and wide, and from the Roaring Twenties to the Swinging Sixties collected an incredible array of friends, from George Gershwin to Frank Sinatra, having a fabulous time along the way.

    Using interviews with more than two hundred individuals, deeply researched archival material, and letters from private collections not previously available, this book brings Bennett Cerf to vibrant life, drawing book lovers into his world, finally laying open the page on a quintessential American original.

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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 | December 2nd, 2025

November 30, 2025 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • Television - Rothery, Lauren (Author)

    • The Award - Pearl, Matthew (Author)

    • Homeseeking: A GMA Book Club Pick - Chen, Karissa (Author)

    • House of Day, House of Night - Tokarczuk, Olga (Author), Lloyd-Jones, Antonia (Translator)

    • Isola: Reese's Book Club - Goodman, Allegra (Author)

    • The Idiot (Penguin Clothbound Classics) - Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Author), McDuff, David (Translator), Mills Todd, William (Introduction by), McDuff, David (Notes by), Bickford-Smith, Coralie (Not Available)

    • Before I Forget - Hoen, Tory Henwood (Author)

    • Private Rites - Armfield, Julia (Author)

    • The Orchard (Vintage Contemporaries) - Heller, Peter (Author)

    Adult Science

    • Cells: The Illustrated Story of Life - Sardet, Christian (Author), Karsenti, Eric (Foreword by)

    Biography

    • The Woman in Me - Spears, Britney (Author)

    • In the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt in War, Peace, and Revolution - Brown, David S (Author)

    Board Books

    • Lunar New Year with the Very Hungry Caterpillar: A Tabbed Board Book - Carle, Eric (Author), Carle, Eric (Illustrator)

    Chapter Books

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

    Coloring Books

    • A Million Hugs & Kisses (Co-Edition) (Million Creatures to Color) - Mayo, Lulu (Author)

    History

    • American Canto - Nuzzi, Olivia (Author)

    Homestead

    • The Preserver's Garden: How to Grow a Garden for Fermenting, Canning, Pickling, Dehydrating, Freeze Drying, and More - Hill, Staci And Jeremy (Author)

    Humor Books

    • The Peanuts Guide to Love (Peanuts Guide to Life) - Schulz, Charles M (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • What Was the Industrial Revolution? (What Was?) - Gigliotti, Jim E (Author), Who Hq (Author), Malan, David (Illustrator)

    • We Are Palestinian: A Celebration of Culture and Tradition - Kassis, Reem (Author), Eilouti, Noha (Illustrator)

    Literary Collections

    • Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear: A. A. Milne and the Creation of Winnie-The-Pooh - Brandreth, Gyles (Author)

    • The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation - Drout, Michael DC (Author)

    • Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books - Bo-Reum, Hwang (Author), Tan, Shanna (Translator)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe One Last Time - Bunn, Cullen (Author), Talajic, Dalibor (Illustrator), Paratore, Davide (Not Available)

    • Kaiju No. 8: Relax, Vol. 1 - Watanabe, Kizuku (Author)

    • Nana 25th Anniversary Edition, Vol. 2 - Yazawa, Ai (Author)

    Middle Readers

    • The Hidden Sea (Wildsmith 3) - Flanagan, Liz (Author), Todd-Stanton, Joe (Illustrator)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe: A True Crime Thriller - Patterson, James (Author), Edwards-Jones, Imogen (Author)

    Nature

    • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic - Shea, Neil (Author

    • Evergreen: The Trees That Shaped America - Preszler, Trent (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Meet the Smushkins (The Smushkins) - Rueda, Claudia (Author), Rueda, Claudia (Illustrator)

    • A Stickler Valentine (A Stickler Story) - Smith, Lane (Author)

    • Lunar New Year (My Little Golden Book About...) - Man-Kong, Mary (Author), Chan, Michelle Jing (Illustrator)

    Romance

    • Something Wicked (Idle Reputations) - Ballard, Falon (Author)

    • The Mating Game - Ferguson, Lana (Author)

    • The Night Is Defying: A Nytefall Novel (Nytefall Trilogy #2) - Peñaranda, Chloe C (Author)

    • The Dark Is Descending: A Nytefall Novel (Nytefall Trilogy #3) - Peñaranda, Chloe C (Author)

    • Sweet Venom (Deluxe Edition) (The Vipers #2) - Kent, Rina (Author)

    • Nocticadia (Deluxe Edition) - Lake, Keri (Author)

    • Fallen Gods - Van Dyken, Rachel (Author)

    • Tender Cruelty (Dark Olympus #9) - Robert, Katee (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • The City of Brass Deluxe Collector's Edition (Daevabad Trilogy 1) - Chakraborty, S A (Author)

    • Snake-Eater - Kingfisher, T (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It - McDonald, Samuel Miller (Author)

    Young Adult

    • Crowntide (the Lightlark Saga Book 4) - Aster, Alex (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • DELUXE PAPERBACK WITH GORGEOUS PINK SPRAYED EDGES

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD! - GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR BEST MEMOIR - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY PEOPLE

    Named a Best Book of the Year by Elle, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, NPR, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, and more!

    "In Britney Spears's memoir, she's stronger than ever." --The New York Times

    Critically acclaimed as "a miracle" (The Guardian), "powerful" (Los Angeles Times), "radiant" (The New York Times), and "poignant" (Vogue), The Woman in Me reveals for the first time Britney Spears's incredible story.

    "A genuine page-turner" ( Financial Times), it's "presented so cleanly and candidly, The Woman in Me seems designed to be read in one sitting" ( The New York Times). A "heartbreaking, jaw-dropping, but ultimately empowering story" ( New York Post), this unforgettable memoir is "a testament to Spears's essential fortitude of spirit--something that burns off these pages" ( The Telegraph).

  • Available in paperback at last, Peter Heller's masterful coming-of-age tale, the story of a mother and daughter living on a Vermont apple orchard, escaping ghosts of the past.

    Hayley and her seven-year-old daughter, Frith, live in a rustic cabin with no electricity in the foothills of Vermont's Green Mountains. A renowned translator of Tang dynasty poetry, Hayley walked away from her career and her addict husband to raise Frith alone in a land populated not by ambition-fueled academics but by hawks, beavers, and other wild things--including their exuberant Bernese Mountain dog, Bear. They get by on what little they earn from their overgrown apple orchard and the syrup they make from their maple trees. Frith-- precocious, homeschooled, and a voracious reader--considers herself queen of this backwoods paradise. She is too young to understand the pain and regret that have followed her mother here.

    Season after season, it is the three of them--mother, daughter, and dog--until the spring day when Rose Lattimore appears at their door and upends Hayley and Frith's solitary existence. When tragedy unexpectedly strikes, Frith must come to terms with heartbreak for the very first time. By turns joyful and searing, The Orchard reminds us that, even during the hardest of times, the enduring power of nature, love, and friendship will prevail.

  • Love is in the air! The Peanuts gang shares their musings on love in this beautifully packaged gift book for fans of Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the rest of Charles M. Schulz's beloved characters.

    Celebrate all types of love Peanuts style, with the help of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Sally, Lucy, and more. From what to write to the Little Red-Haired Girl to waiting for Valentine's Day letters, this sweet little package is brimming with heartwarming musings. You'll be calling your loved one "Sweet Baboo" or telling your friends to make their move, just like when Sally tells Charlie Brown to "Kiss her you blockhead!" before you know it.

  • REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A shocking story, made all the more stunning by the fact that it has its roots in true history."--Jodi Picoult, author of By Any Other Name

    "A new generation of survival story . . . an extraordinary book that reads like a thriller, written with the care of the most delicate psychological and historical fiction."--Vogue (Best of 2025 Preview)

    A young woman and her lover are marooned on an island in this "lushly painted" (People) historical epic of love, faith, and defiance from the bestselling author of Sam.

    A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, KIRKUS REVIEWS - FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE - LONGLISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS BOOK AWARD

    Heir to a fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility. Then she is orphaned, and her guardian--an enigmatic and volatile man--spends her inheritance and insists she accompany him on an expedition to New France. That journey takes a unexpected turn when Marguerite, accused of betrayal, is brutally punished and abandoned on a small island.

    Once a child of privilege who dressed in gowns and laced pearls in her hair, Marguerite finds herself at the mercy of nature. As the weather turns, blanketing the island in ice, she discovers a faith she'd never before needed.

    Inspired by the real life of a sixteenth-century heroine, Isola is the timeless story of a woman fighting for survival.

  • From the world's #1 bestselling author, The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe is a true crime thriller about a woman who changed Hollywood history, and whose indelible image captures our imagination to this day.

    "Electrifying ... A spellbinding new account of the star's final days by the world's greatest thriller writer." -- Daily Mail

    In life, Marilyn Monroe's superstardom defies classification. In death, she remains shrouded in mystery.

    In the months before her death, Marilyn polishes the script for her ultimately unfinished film, Something's Got to Give.

    In the weeks before her death, she drinks champagne on Santa Monica Beach with the last photographer to take her picture.

    In the days before her death, she's a guest of Frank Sinatra in the Celebrity Room at the Cal Neva Lodge.

    In the hours before her death, she argues with US Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and his brother-in-law Peter Lawford.

    In an emergency session with her psychiatrist, she confesses: "Here I am, the most beautiful woman in the world, and I do not have a date for Saturday night."

    On June 1, 2026, the world celebrates Marilyn Monroe's one hundredth birthday ... without her.

    "Entertaining ... bursting with anecdotes ... zippy pacing and novelistic detail ... Readers with a soft spot for Hollywood's perennial muse will find plenty to enjoy."-- Publishers Weekly

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