Monthly Staff Picks | March, 2026

March is here! Spring is… thinking about it. And a new batch of Monthly Staff Picks are here at Little Village Toy & Book Shop!

Our Adult selection this month is a real treat for those looking for a Spring-time read, as Chloe Dalton’s acclaimed ‘Raising Hare’ is now in paperback. This nature memoir follows the author as she takes in a newborn hare she finds in the English countryside and is both a heartwarming tale of their relationship and how hares have been viewed across the history of art, literature, and folklore.

The sun shines. The temperature falls. Snowfall is in the forecast once again. And beloved author Kevin Henkes is asking ‘Is It Spring?’; this month’s Picture Book pick, full of colorful illustrations, is perfect for little ones looking to explore the signs as Spring slowly begins to show itself but Winter seems to want to stay.

For Middle Readers, and fans of all ages, our selection is ‘Wings of Fire: A Guide to the Dragon World ’- just in time to prepare for this month’s latest entry. From the world of the bestselling Wings of Fire series by Tui T. Sutherland comes this collection that sees the dragons of Pyrrhia and Pantala join forces to tell the histories of their tribes through all-new short stories, letters, songs, recipes and so much more. Featuring full-color maps and new illustrations throughout, this is a delightful expansion of the much loved fantasy series.

There be dragons in store for our YA readers this month, too. ‘A Language of Dragons’ by S.F. Williamson is our YA Pick this March; a thrilling alternate history fantasy set in 1920s London sees one young woman’s efforts to free a dragon ignite a civil war.

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New Releases | February 24th, 2026

• New Release List (Click to Expand)

  Adult Fiction

  • Playworld (Vintage Contemporaries) - Ross, Adam (Author)

  • Kin - Jones, Tayari (Author)

  • Brawler: Stories - Groff, Lauren (Author)

  • More Than Enough - Quindlen, Anna (Author)

  • A Good Animal - Maurer, Sara (Author)

  • Saoirse - Hurtubise, Charleen (Author)

  • One of Us - Day, Elizabeth (Author)

  Adult Science

  • A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness - Pollan, Michael (Author)

  Animals

  • Raising Hare: A Memoir - Dalton, Chloe (Author)

  Biography

  • The Pit Bull King: Building Dark Dynasty with the World's Most Legendary Dogs - Grennan, Marlon (Author), Alexander, Jamie (With)

  Children’s Science & Nature

  • The Weedy Garden: A Happy Habitat for Wild Friends - Renkl, Margaret (Author), Renkl, Billy (Illustrator)

  • Bog Buddies (Tiny Habitats) - Hevron, Amy (Author), Hevron, Amy (Illustrator)

  • An Anthology of Flowers: A Collection of Flowers from Gardens, Mountains and More, with Fascinating Secrets (DK Little Anthologies)

  Cookbooks

  • Obsessed with the Best: 100+ Methodically Perfected Recipes Based on 20+ Head-To-Head Tests - Quittner, Ella (Author)

  Graphic Novels

  • Cat & Cat Adventures: The Lair of the Owl King: A Graphic Novel (Cat & Cat Adventures #6) - Yi, Susie (Author), Yi, Susie (Illustrator)

  • Mr. Terrific: Year One - Letson, Al (Author), Galmon, Edwin (Illustrator)

  History

  • We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America - O'Donnell, Norah (Author), Andersen Brower, Kate (Author)

  Horror

  • Night of the Mannequins - Jones, Stephen Graham (Author)

  • Hungerstone - Dunn, Kat (Author)

  Just the Facts

  • Talking Books: Audiobook Inventor Dr. Robert B. Irwin and a New Way to Read - Lacika, Jenny (Author), Fortson, Ashanti (Illustrator)

  Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

  • Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell - Soule, Charles (Author), McNiven, Steve (Illustrator), McNiven, Steve

  • Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Madness Volume 1 - Sztybor, Bartosz (Author), Asano (Illustrator)

  Mystery & Thriller

  • Curtain: Poirot's Last Case: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition (Hercule Poirot Mysteries #37) - Christie, Agatha (Author)

  • Trust No One: A Thriller - Rollins, James (Author)

  • The Crossroads (Joe Pickett Novel) - Box, C J (Author)

  Personal Growth

  • How to Stop Trying: An Overachiever's Guide to Self-Acceptance, Letting Go, and Other Impossible Things - Williams, Kate (Author)

  Picture Books

  • Is It Spring? - Henkes, Kevin (Author), Henkes, Kevin (Illustrator)

  • Forty the Fortune Teller - Daywalt, Drew (Author), Cornell, Kevin (Illustrator)

  • Disney Frozen Ever After (Little Golden Book)

  • The Rare Bird - Cooper, Elisha (Author), Cooper, Elisha (Illustrator)

  • Kitty Caterpillar - Bondor-Stone, Annabeth (Author), White, Connor (Author), Barrager, Brigette (Illustrator)

  • The Monster and Puppet Show!-Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!) - Micucci, Kate (Author), Willems, Mo (Author)

  Political Sciences

  • Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery - Newsom, Gavin (Author)

  Romance

  • And Now, Back to You (Heartstrings) - Borison, B K (Author)

  Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • The Red Winter - Sullivan, Cameron (Author)

  • After the Fall - Ashton, Edward (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

• Is It Spring?

  If one day buds bloom and birds chirp, and the next day a late snow falls from the sky, is it spring? Will it ever be spring? An evergreen, child-friendly picture book that explores themes of patience, hope, the seasons, and nature by the New York Times bestseller and Caldecott Medalist Kevin Henkes.

  A flower in the garden down the street. Birds in the sky. Buds on the branches in the park. It must be spring.

  But wait! What is this icy gust of wind? Why are snowflakes falling from heavy gray clouds? Will it ever be spring? Yes, says the sun. Just be patient.

  Kevin Henkes, the #1 New York Times bestseller who has been awarded the Caldecott Medal, two Caldecott Honors, two Newbery Honors, two Geisel Honors, the Children's Literature Lecture Award, and Children's Literature Legacy Award, among numerous other honors, has created a masterful and classic picture book that combines an evocative call-and-response text with delicate and lovely illustrations. Readers will be left assured that the sun--and spring--will always come again.

• Raising Hare: A Memoir

  NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - FINALIST FOR THE 2025 WOMEN'S PRIZE - A fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman's unlikely friendship with a wild hare.

  A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, TIME, The Boston Globe, The Economist, Scientific American, Slate

  "Moving. . . . Impart[s] valuable lessons about slowing down and the beauty in the unexpected."--USA Today

  "A perfect testimony to the transformative power of love."--Margaret Renkl, author of The Comfort of Crows

  Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and bounded around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, more than two years later, it still ran in from the fields when you called it and slept in your house for hours on end. For political advisor and speechwriter Chloe Dalton, who spent lockdown deep in the English countryside, far away from her usual busy London life, this became her unexpected reality.

  In February 2021, Dalton stumbles upon a newborn hare--a leveret--that had been chased by a dog. Fearing for its life, she brings it home, only to discover how difficult it is to rear a wild hare, most of whom perish in captivity from either shock or starvation. Through trial and error, she learns to feed and care for the leveret with every intention of returning it to the wilderness. Instead, it becomes her constant companion, wandering the fields and woods at night and returning to Dalton's house by day. Though Dalton feared that the hare would be preyed upon by foxes, weasels, feral cats, raptors, or even people, she never tried to restrict it to the house. Each time the hare leaves, Chloe knows she may never see it again. Yet she also understands that to confine it would be its own kind of death.

  Raising Hare chronicles their journey together while also taking a deep dive into the lives and nature of hares, and the way they have been viewed historically in art, literature, and folklore. We witness firsthand the joy at this extraordinary relationship between human and animal, which serves as a reminder that the best things, and most beautiful experiences, arise when we least expect them.

• Saoirse

  For readers of Colm Tóibín and Claire Keegan, Saoirse is a powerful novel set between the United States and Ireland about a woman who runs from her traumatic past and the secrets she carries to survive.

  In Michigan, Sarah's childhood was defined by fear and silence. As a teenager, she saw a chance to escape and took it. Now, in 1999, she is an artist living on the rugged coast of Donegal, Ireland, where she is known as Saoirse (pronounced Sear-sha)--a name that sounds like the sea and means freedom in the language of her adopted country. And free is precisely how she is finally beginning to feel. Her partner and two beloved daughters are regular subjects of her paintings, and together they have made the safe home she always longed for. But Saoirse's secrets haunt her. No one must learn of the identity she has stolen in order to survive; they cannot know of the dangers that she crossed an ocean to escape.

  When her artwork wins unexpected acclaim at a Dublin exhibition, the spotlight of fame threatens to unravel the careful lies that hold her world together. Journalists and admirers begin to ask questions about the mysterious artist from Donegal, and she fears the unwanted publicity will expose all that she has done.

  Saoirse is an evocative, suspenseful exploration of the intimate relationship between art and life and the lies we tell ourselves in the name of reinvention.

• We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America

  A vivid portrait of the unsung American women from 1776 to today who changed the course of history in their fight for freedom and helped shape a more perfect union

  "This terrific book reveals the central, though often hidden role that women have played at every stage of our country's history."--Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Over a decades-long, distinguished career, award-winning journalist Norah O'Donnell has made it her mission to shed light on untold wom­en's stories. Now, in honor of America's 250th birthday, O'Donnell focuses that passion on the American heroines who helped change the course of history.

  We the Women presents a fresh look at American his­tory through the eyes of women, introducing us to inspiring patriots who demanded that the country live up to the prom­ises made 250 years ago in the Declaration of Independence: "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Since the signing of that document, the pressing question from women has been: Why don't those unalienable rights apply to us?

  Through extensive research and interviews, as well as historical documents and old photos, O'Donnell curates a compelling portrait of these fierce fighters for freedom. From Mary Katherine Goddard, who printed the first signed Declaration of Independence, to the Forten family women, who were active in the abolition and suffrage movements and were considered the "Black Founders" of Philadelphia, to the first women who served in the armed forces even before they had the right to vote, O'Donnell brings these extraordinary women together for the first time, and in doing so writes the American story anew.

• Trust No One: A Thriller

  From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of international intrigue comes a shocking new stand-alone thriller that thrusts a group of university students, falsely accused of murder, into a treacherous hunt across Europe, all to unlock the secrets buried within a centuries-old book that could change humankind forever.

  Knowledge can be magic--until it falls into the wrong hands.

  The ritualistic murder of a British professor at the University of Exeter points to a startling cast of suspects: his own students. All are enrolled in a postgraduate program covering the history of witchcraft, folklore, and spiritualism.

  All evidence points to Sharyn Karr--an American student. Prior to the professor's death, he had thrust a centuries-old book upon her. It appears to be the handwritten and encrypted diary of an eighteenth-century mystic and occultist, the Comte de Saint-Germain. The professor begged her to keep the text safe, ending with a warning: Trust no one.

  Such a responsibility forces her into cooperation with Duncan Maxwell, a fellow postgrad and the sixteenth in line to the British Crown. Already, Duncan has proven himself a savant with encryptions. Unfortunately, the pair clash at every level, but they both need one another. Especially when they discover the book's opening words: Herein lies the secret to my immortality. Come find me, if you dare.

  As dark forces close upon the pair, she and her friends are forced to flee, pursued by law enforcement and hunted by a powerful cabal. In an explosive chase across Europe--from the Tower of London to Parisian chateaus to a fortress in the Italian Alps--Sharyn must learn the true secret hidden in Saint-Germain's text. It will send her and the others across history and deep into the heart of one of the world's greatest mysteries, a secret buried at the roots of Western Civilization, a discovery that could topple empires and change humanity forever.

  For what lies at the end of Saint-Germain's diary is as shocking as its opening words.

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New Releases | February 10th, 2026

• New Releases List (Click to Expand)

  Adult Fiction

  • This Is Not about Us: Fiction - Goodman, Allegra (Author)

  • Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories - Peters, Amanda (Author)

  • We All Live Here - Moyes, Jojo (Author)

  • Stone Yard Devotional - Wood, Charlotte (Author)

  Adult Science

  • The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind - Griffiths, Tom (Author)

  • Time's Second Arrow: Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature - Hazen, Robert M (Author), Wong, Michael L (Author)

  Arts & Entertainment

  • The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg--And the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema - Fischer, Paul (Author)

  Board Books

  • Indestructibles Baby Loves the Library

  Body, Mind & Spirit

  • Nature Speak: Signs, Omens and Messages in Nature - Andrews, Ted (Author)

  • Psychic Protection: Balance & Protection for Body, Mind & Spirit - Andrews, Ted (Author)

  • Animal Wise: Understanding the Language of Animal Messengers & Companions - Andrews, Ted (Author)

  Children’s Art Books

  • Bluey: How to Draw

  Children’s Science & Nature

  • Why? Animals: Brilliant Answers to Baffling Questions

  • Forest: Walk Through the Fascinating World of the Wild (Earth's Incredible Habitats) - Harvey, Derek (Author)

  Graphic Novels

  • Oh Brother: (A Graphic Memoir) - Chadderton, Georgina (Author)

  • Serendipity - Benda, Gabbie (Author), Benda, Gabbie (Illustrator)

  • Unicorn Secrets: Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure Volume 23 (Phoebe and Her Unicorn) - Simpson, Dana (Author)

  History

  • Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln - Pinsker, Matthew (Author)

  Homestead

  • The Contemporary Cottage Garden: Climate-Friendly, Mindful Methods for Growing Flowers and Food - Hubbard, Pamela (Author), Cardillo, Rob (Photographer)

  Just the Facts

  • Marie's Magic Eggs: How Marie Procai Kept the Ukrainian Art of Pysanky Alive - Wallace, Sandra Neil (Author), Turk, Evan (Illustrator)

  Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

  • One World Under Doom (One World Under Doom) - North, Ryan (Author), Silva, R B (Illustrator), Harvey, Ben (Not Available)

  • Deadpool/Wolverine: A Time of Stryfe (Deadpool/Wolverine) - Percy, Benjamin (Author), Cassara, Joshua (Illustrator), Gill, Robert (Illustrator), Cassara, Joshua (Not Available)

  • Daredevil: Back in Black - Soule, Charles (Author), McKenzie, Roger (Author), Garney, Ron (Illustrator), Sudzuka, Goran (Illustrator), Buffagni, Matteo (Illustrator)

  • Daredevil: The Dark Art - Soule, Charles (Author), McKenzie, Roger (Author), Garney, Ron (Illustrator), Sudzuka, Goran (Illustrator), Kudranski, Szymon (Illustrator)

  • Daredevil: Death of Daredevil - Soule, Charles (Author), Gage, Christos (Author), Landini, Stefano (Illustrator), Garney, Ron (Illustrator), Shalvey, Declan (Not Available)

  • Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton - North, Ryan (Author), Norton, Mike (Illustrator)

  • Please Look After the Dragon, Vol. 1: Volume 1 - Makise, Shoun (Based on a Book by), Higashiura, Yuki (Author), Burch, Sarah (Translator), Pizarro Lanzas, Elena (Letterer)

  Mystery & Thriller

  • Cross and Sampson: An Alex Cross and John Sampson Thriller (An Alex Cross and John Sampson Thriller #2) - Patterson, James (Author), Sitts, Brian (Author)

  Personal Growth

  • Intimacy: A Field Guide to Finding Connection and Feeling Your Deep Desires - O'Brien, Ita (Author)

  Picture Books

  • The Sweater: A Story of Community - Theule, Larissa (Author), White, Teagan (Illustrator)

  • Beatrix and the Unicorn - Judge, Lita (Author), Judge, Lita (Illustrator)

  • The Unluckiest Leprechaun - Heim, Alastair (Author), Pino, Pablo (Illustrator)

  • There's a Bunny in Your Book (Who's in Your Book?) - Fletcher, Tom (Author)

  • Bingo: A Bluey Storybook (Bluey)

  Poetry

  • She Outgrew the Wound - Sin, R H (Author)

  Romance

  • Throne of Nightmares (Prince of Sin #3) - Maniscalco, Kerri (Author)

  • Wretched (Collector's Edition) (Never After #3) - McIntire, Emily (Author)

  • Two Can Play - Hazelwood, Ali (Author)

  Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Operation Bounce House - Dinniman, Matt (Author)

  • When the Moon Hits Your Eye - Scalzi, John (Author)

  Young Adult

  • Happyhead - Silver, Josh (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

• We All Live Here

  The #1 New York Times bestselling author, whose books so many love, brings us a fresh, contemporary story of a woman and her unruly blended family

  "Nobody writes women the way Jojo Moyes does." --Jodi Picoult

  Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall and her love life is . . . complicated. So when her real dad--a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago--suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you: about love, and what it actually means to be family.

• Operation Bounce House

  A man must fight for his planet against impossible odds when gamers from Earth attempt to remotely annihilate it in this epic, fast-paced novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the smash-hit Dungeon Crawler Carl.

  All colonist Oliver Lewis ever wanted to do was run the family ranch with his sister, maybe play a gig or two with his band, and keep his family's aging fleet of intelligent agriculture bots ticking as long as possible. He figures it will be a good thing when the transfer gate finally opens all the way and restores instant travel and full communication between Earth and his planet, New Sonora. But there's a complication.

  Even though the settlers were promised they'd be left in peace, Earth's government now has other plans. The colossal Apex Industries is hired to commence an "eviction action." But maximizing profits will always be Apex's number one priority. Why spend money printing and deploying AI soldiers when they can turn it into a game? Why not charge bored Earthers for the opportunity to design their own war machines and remotely pilot them from the comfort of their homes?

  The game is called Operation Bounce House.

  Oliver and his friends soon find themselves fighting for their lives against machines piloted by gamers who've paid a premium for the privilege. With the help of an old book from his grandfather and a bucket of rusty parts, Oliver is determined to defend the only home he's ever known.

• Cross and Sampson: An Alex Cross and John Sampson Thriller

  In latest thriller from the world's most popular storyteller, detective partners Alex Cross and John Sampson are called to separate locations to investigate a pair of serious crimes.

  Stream Season 2 of the #1-rated Cross in February 2026!

  In Washington, DC ...

  Metro PD detective John Sampson stands in a crater in the middle of a DC street, calling in the bomb squad. "Dispatch, this is Sampson. Contact the FBI and the ATF. We've got a suspected terrorist attack here."

  In Chapel Hill, NC ...

  Alex Cross searches the apartment of a missing psychology grad student--his own son Damon. Has following in his famous father's footsteps made Damon a target?

  From FBI headquarters, in police stations, on airplanes, and at murder scenes, the detectives track crimes committed hundreds of miles apart. It will take more than distance to weaken the partnership of Sampson & Cross.

• Stone Yard Devotional

  A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR

  A WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR

  A LOS ANGELES TIMES TOP FIFTEEN BOOK OF THE YEAR

  Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, a novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be good, from the award-winning author of The Weekend.

  "Stone Yard Devotional is as extraordinary as you've heard." --The Washington Post

  "An exquisite, wrenching novel of leaving your life behind." --New York Times Book Review

  "Meditative (but by no means uneventful)." --New York Times

  "Riveting prose about how humans beat back despair."--Los Angeles Times

  Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of rural Australia. She doesn't believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident.

  But disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signaling a new battle against the rising infestation. Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who disappeared decades before, presumed murdered. And finally, a troubling visitor plunges the narrator further back into her past.

  Meditative, moving, and finely observed, Stone Yard Devotional is a seminal novel from a writer of rare power, exploring what it means to retreat from the world, the true nature of forgiveness, and the sustained effect of grief on the human soul.

• Two Can Play

  An enemies-to-lovers spicy novella set in the world of video gaming from the New York Times bestselling author of Problematic Summer Romance--now in print and ebook!

  Viola Bowen has the chance of a lifetime: to design a video game based on her all-time favorite book series. The only problem? Her co-lead is Jesse F-ing Andrews, aka her archnemesis. Jesse has made it abundantly clear over the years that he wants nothing to do with her--and Viola has no idea why.

  When their bosses insist a wintery retreat is the perfect team-building exercise, Viola can't think of anything worse. Being freezing cold in a remote mountain lodge knowing Jesse is right next door? No, thank you.

  But as the snow piles on, Viola discovers there's more to Jesse than she knew, and heat builds in more ways than one.

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Monthly Staff Pick | February, 2026

February has arrived and with it a new selection of Monthly Staff Picks here at Little Village Toy & Book Shop!

For adults this month, we have ‘Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space’. This riveting history follows decades of spaceflight all leading to a moment-to-moment account of the 1986 tragedy that forever changed America.

‘Learning to Ski with Mr. Magee’ is our Picture Book selection this month and is a seasonal New England favorite. Author and Illustrator Chris Van Dusen’s Mr. Magee returns, with his pet dog Dee in tow, as he heads out to ski and slapstick hi-jinks ensue in this fun read aloud tale for all ages.

Our Young Adult pick this month is ‘Alanna: The First Adventure’, the first book in the Song of the Lioness Quartet, by beloved fantasy author Tamora Pierce. This fantasy adventure classic follows Alanna as she finds a way to switch places with her brother and disguise herself in order to train as a page, all in the hopes of fulfilling her dream and setting her off on the road to knighthood.

And, releasing this Tuesday 2/3, for Middle Readers we have ‘The Lions’ Run’ from the award-winning Sara Pennypacker as our pick this month which is a thrilling historical WWII adventure of animals, friendship, and resistance!

Visit us this February for 20% off all of this month’s selections, while supplies last, and for so much more!

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New Releases | February 3rd, 2026

• New Release List (Click to Expand)

  Adult Fiction

  • Infinite Jest (30th Anniversary Edition) (Special) - Wallace, David Foster (Author), Zauner, Michelle (Foreword by)

  • The End of Romance - Meyer, Lily (Author)

  • Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming - Krasznahorkai, László (Author), Mulzet, Ottilie (Translator)

  • The Sirens - Hart, Emilia (Author)

  • Family Drama - Fallon, Rebecca (Author)

  Arts & Entertainment

  • Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play - MacDonald, Keza (Author)

  Award Winners

  • The Lions' Run - Pennypacker, Sara (Author), Klassen, Jon (Illustrator)

  Biography

  • Patriot: A Memoir - Navalny, Alexei (Author), Navalnaya, Yulia (Foreword by)

  Board Books

  • Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct (Board Book) - Willems, Mo (Author)

  • The Pigeon Needs a Bath! (Pigeon) - Willems, Mo (Author)

  • Leaf Thief: 1, 2, 3, Can You Count Along? - Hemming, Alice (Author), Slater, Nicola (Illustrator)

  • Merlin, Are You Near or Far? (Merlin First Concept Board Books) - Rasano, Eva (Author), Rasano, Eva (Illustrator)

  • Merlin, Are You Small or Big? (Merlin First Concept Board Books) - Rasano, Eva (Author), Rasano, Eva (Illustrator)

  • Just Because - Barnett, Mac (Author), Arsenault, Isabelle (Illustrator)

  • Make Way for Ducklings - McCloskey, Robert (Author), McCloskey, Robert (Illustrator)

  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Easter Day - Carle, Eric (Author), Carle, Eric (Illustrator)

  • This Little Dinosaur: A Touch and Feel Book (This Little) - Arrhenius, Ingela P (Illustrator), Nosy Crow Ltd (Author)

  Chapter Books

  • Leader of the Pack (Scrapper #1) - Higgins, Cam (Author), Landy, Ariel (Illustrator)

  • Pup vs. Squirrel (Scrapper #2) - Higgins, Cam (Author), Landy, Ariel (Illustrator)

  Children’s Poetry

  • Rumpelstiltskin - Barnett, Mac (Author), Ellis, Carson (Illustrator)

  Children’s Science & Nature

  • Klutz Steam Lab Shark-Tastic Teeth!

  Coloring Books

  • Magical Nature: Coloring Pages for Relaxation and Happiness - Bastin, Marjolein (Author)

  Cookbooks

  • Dinner Tonight: 200 Quick Recipes for Inspired Weeknight Cooking - America's Test Kitchen (Author)

  Fun & Games Books

  • I Spy Treasure Hunt: A Book of Picture Riddles - Marzollo, Jean (Author), Wick, Walter (Illustrator)

  • Wings of Fire Folded Flyers [With Paper]

  Graphic Novels

  • A Kid Like Me: A Graphic Novel - Feuti, Norm (Author), Feuti, Norm (Illustrator)

  • Hilo Presents: The Mighty: (A Graphic Novel) - Winick, Judd (Author)

  • Space Chasers: To the Moon (Space Chasers by Leland Melvin #2) - Melvin, Leland (Author), Caramagna, Joe (Author) , Acton, Alison (Illustrator)

  • I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018 (I Survived Graphic Novel #13)(I Survived Graphix) - Tarshis, Lauren (Author), Ball, Georgia (Adapted by), Anderson, Cassie (Illustrator)

  • A Blood Moon (Snowlands #1) - Meroz, Morr (Author), Fogel, Collin (Illustrator)

  • Camp Monster - Messner, Kate (Author), Koch, Falynn (Illustrator)

  • Fantastic Frog and the Amazing Tad Lad (Fantastic Frog and the Amazing Tad Lad) - Reese, Brandon (Author)

  Hiking

  • Appalachian Trail Thru-Hikers' Companion 2026 - Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association (Author)

  • A Fabulous Thru-Hike: 3,100 Miles on the Continental Divide Trail - Lugo, Derick (Author)

  History

  • The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution - O'Malley, Gregory E (Author)

  Homestead

  • The Continuous Vegetable Garden: Create a Perpetual Food Garden That Sows and Grows Itself - Nardozzi, Charlie (Author)

  • Make Things. from Wood: Easy Woodworking Skills and Designs for the Modern Maker - Buckland, Annabelle June (Author)

  Literary Collections

  • Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon - Morrison, Toni (Author), Brodsky, Claudia (Introduction by), Brodsky, Claudia (Notes by)

  • Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out (First Time Trade) - Reed, Shannon (Author)

  Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

  • Fantastic Four Fanfare - Davis, Alan (Author), Waid, Mark (Author), Davis, Alan (Illustrator), Pichelli, Sara (Illustrator), Stott, Rachael (Not Available)

  • Batman: White Knight: DC Compact Comics Edition - Murphy, Sean (Author), Murphy, Sean (Illustrator)

  • Absolute Batman Vol. 2: Abomination - Snyder, Scott (Author), Martin, Marcos (Illustrator), Dragotta, Nick (Illustrator)

  • Absolute Power - Waid, Mark (Author), Mora, Dan (Illustrator)

  Middle Readers

  • Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey? (Choose Your Own Adventure Retro Editions) - Packard, Edward (Author)

  My First Readers

  • DK Super Readers Level 1 Pokémon Meet the Crew

  Mystery & Thrillers

  • Wolf Hour - Nesbo, Jo (Author), Ferguson, Robert (Translator)

  • It's Not Her (Original) - Kubica, Mary (Author)

  Personal Growth

  • Smitten: Romantic Obsession, the Neuroscience of Limerence, and How to Make Love Last - Bellamy, Tom (Author)

  Picture Books

  • Under One Roof - Paul, Miranda (Author), Paul, Baptiste (Author), Neal, Christopher Silas (Illustrator)

  • Because of a Shoe - Fogliano, Julie (Author), Frazee, Marla (Illustrator)

  • Start Your Engines! - Duffield, Katy S (Author), Galletti, Chiara (Illustrator)

  • Cat's New Book - Belhassen, Nathalie (Author)

  • A Fluffle of Bunnies - Matheson, Christie (Author)

  • Our Little Adventure at Easter: An Easter Book for Babies and Toddlers Featuring Lessons on Sacrifice, Love, and Forgiveness (Tabitha Paige Children's Book) - Paige, Tabitha (Author), Paige Tate & Co (Producer)

  • I'm So Happy You're Here: A Celebration of Library Joy - Threets, Mychal (Author), Nam, Lorraine (Illustrator)

  Political Science

  • To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right - Mathias, Christopher (Author)

  Romance

  • Get Over It, April Evans (A Clover Lake Novel) - Herring Blake, Ashley (Author)

  • Say You'll Remember Me - Jimenez, Abby (Author)

  • Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die - Stothers, Greer (Author)

  • One & Only: A Read with Jenna Pick - Goo, Maurene (Author)

  Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Isles of the Emberdark: A Cosmere Novel (Secret Projects) - Sanderson, Brandon (Author)

  Young Adult

  • Stolen Midnights (Stolen Midnights 1) - Quinn, Katherine (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

• The Lions' Run

  "Lucas DuBois is proof that a mere kitten can be the bravest of lions by always standing up for what's right." --Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of Refugee

  The acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Pax delivers an historical novel about an orphan during WWII who discovers unexpected courage within himself when he becomes involved with the Resistance.

  Petit éclair. That's what the other boys at the orphanage call Lucas DuBois. Lucas is tired of his cowardly reputation, just as he's tired of the war and the Nazi occupation of his French village. He longs to show how brave he can be.

  He gets the chance when he saves a litter of kittens from cruel boys and brings them to an abandoned stable to care for them. There he comes upon a stranger who is none too happy to see him: Alice, the daughter of a horse trainer, who is hiding her filly from German soldiers.

  Soon Lucas begins to realize they are not the only ones in the village with secrets. The housekeeper at the German maternity home and a priest at the orphanage pass coded messages; a young mother at the home makes dangerous plans to keep her baby from forced adoption; and a neighbor in town may be harboring a Jewish family.

  Emboldened by the unlikely heroes all around him, Lucas is forced to decide how much he is willing to risk to make the most courageous rescue of all.

  Perfect for fans of Alan Gratz, Ruta Sepetys, and Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, this accessible novel, told in short chapters, illuminates a little-known aspect of World War II history.

• Say You'll Remember Me

  This instant #1 New York Times bestseller now features gorgeous step-back art and a preview of Abby's highly anticipated The Night We Met.

  "No one does funny, emotional, life-affirming love stories quite like Abby Jimenez. She just keeps outdoing herself." ―Emily Henry

  There's no such thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes disastrously close. A gorgeous veterinarian giving Greek god vibes--all while cuddling a tiny kitten? Immediate yes. That is until Xavier opens his mouth and proves that even sculpted gods can say the absolute wrong thing. Like, really wrong. Of course, there's nothing Samantha loves more than proving an asshole wrong ... unless, of course, he can admit he made a mistake.

  But after one incredible and seemingly endless date, Samantha is forced to admit the truth, that her family is in crisis and any kind of relationship would be impossible. Samantha begs Xavier to forget her. To remember their night together as a perfect moment, as crushing as that may be. Only no amount of distance or time is enough to forget what's between them. And the only thing better than one single perfect memory is to make a life--and even a love--worth remembering.

• Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

  Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was living in exile, he longs to be reunited with his high-school sweetheart Marika. Confusions abound, and what follows is an endless storm of gossip, con men, and local politicians, vividly evoking the small town's alternately drab and absurd existence. All along, the Professor--a world-famous natural scientist who studies mosses and inhabits a bizarre Zen-like shack in a desolate area outside of town?offers long rants and disquisitions on his attempts to immunize himself from thought. Spectacular actions are staged as death and the abyss loom over the unsuspecting townfolk.

• A Blood Moon (Snowlands #1)

  In the heart of the Snowlands, prey and predator alike mysteriously disappear as three outcasts join forces for the adventure of a lifetime in the first book of the heart-stopping Snowlands series -- perfect for fans of Wings of Fire and Warriors!

  Feba, an orphaned wolf cub, is believed to be cursed. Her rare white fur is said to be a bad omen. When a mysterious creature starts killing members of Feba's pack one by one, all eyes fall on her. She has no choice but to run away, forced to roam the perilous Snowlands all on her own ...

  Until she meets Usha, a fiercely independent leopard, and Batu, a bumbling wildcat, each with their own secrets and reasons for wandering the Snowlands. Together, they form an unlikely trio, bound by fate. As these uneasy allies cross the frosty wilderness, they'll uncover a widespread danger in the mountains that threatens to destroy everything.

  Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime in A Blood Moon, the epic first book in the Snowlands series!

• Family Drama

  A vibrant debut and powerful meditation on family, motherhood, and the cost of holding on to your dreams, reminiscent of Ann Napolitano.

  In New England, Susan Bliss is a young mother married to a professor.

  In LA, Susan Byrne stars in a soap opera beloved coast to coast.

  Decades after she's gone, her twins have no idea of their mother's fame. But the past can't stay hidden forever.

  It's 1997, and snow is blanketing a New England beach. Two befuddled seven-year-olds watch as their mother's body is tipped overboard a crumbling boat. A Viking funeral, followed by a raucous wake. A send-off fit for soap opera star: Susan Bliss.

  Fifteen years earlier, Susan is a blazing, beautiful young woman, passionate about her art. It's impossible not to fall in love with her, and so Alcott, a practical professor, does--hopelessly. And so begins the love story of Susan's two-paneled life: an unconventional, jetlag-filled arrangement that takes her back and forth between her life in New England as a wife and mother to young twins to the bright lights of Los Angeles, where she becomes the beloved star of a daytime soap.

  In the present, Susan's twins grow up in the shadow of her all-consuming absence. Sebastian, a sensitive artist, cleaves to her memory, fascinated with the artifacts of her starry past. Viola, resentful of her mother's torn allegiances, distances herself from the memories of her. But when Viola runs into her mother's old costar Orson Grey--now a renowned Hollywood star--she finds herself falling deeply in love with him and begins to put together the pieces of a mother she never really knew.

  Sharp, assured, and beautifully written, Family Drama is a story told in double-helix, with intertwined timelines that explore the different versions of ourselves we share with the world and with each other.

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New Releases | January 20th, 2026

• New Release List (Click to Expand)

  Adult Fiction

  • Crux - Tallent, Gabriel (Author)

  • Half His Age - McCurdy, Jennette (Author)

  • Discipline - Pham, Larissa (Author)

  • Evelyn in Transit - Guterson, David (Author)

  • The Infamous Gilberts - Tomaski, Angela (Author)

  Board Books

  • My Little Chick (My Little) - Eliot, Hannah (Author), Bircham, Jess (Illustrator)

  • My Heart Knows Love - Yav, Yuli (Author), Hanson, Sydney (Illustrator)

  Graphic Novels

  • Wrong Friend - Harper, Charise Mericle (Author), Lucey, Rory (Illustrator)

  Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

  • Batman: Gotham by Gaslight: DC Compact Comics Edition (DC Compact Comics) - Augustyn, Brian (Author), Mignola, Mike (Illustrator)

  Mystery & Thriller

  • My Husband's Wife - Feeney, Alice (Author)

  Picture Books

  • Welcome, Spring! - Stott, Apryl (Author), Stott, Apryl (Illustrator)

  • Chicka Chicka Peep Peep (Chicka Chicka Book) - Chung, Julien (Author), Chung, Julien (Illustrator)

  Romance

  • The Elsewhere Express - Sotto Yambao, Samantha (Author)

  • Blood & Roses Volume 1 - Hart, Callie (Author)

  • The Things We Leave Unfinished (Signed) - Yarros, Rebecca (Author)

  Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Nine Goblins: A Tale of Low Fantasy and High Mischief - Kingfisher, T (Author)

  Sports

  • Football - Klosterman, Chuck (Author)

  Workbooks

  • Brain Quest Phonics Readers: Set 1: 12 Decodable Readers: Short and Long Vowels (Brain Quest Phonics Readers #1)

  Young Adult

  • On the Fence - West, Kasie (Author)

This Weeks’ Top 5 Picks

• Half His Age

  From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom Died comes a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths we'll go to in order to get what we want.

  A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, USA Today, Bustle, Town & Country

  Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn't know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn't? Or is it purer than that, rooted in their unlikely connection, their kindred spirits, the similar filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it's just enough that he sees her when no one else does.

  Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles--or attempts to overcome them--in her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.

• My Husband's Wife

  Description text goes hereThe New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists is back with a psychological masterpiece that will leave you questioning everything you know about love, identity, and revenge.

  "Nonstop thrills! The best Feeney book yet!" --FREIDA MCFADDEN

  "Propulsive, compulsive, addictive." --LISA JEWELL

  Eden Fox, an artist on the brink of her big break, sets off for a run before her first exhibition. When she returns to the home she recently moved into, Spyglass, an enchanting old house in Hope Falls, nothing is as it should be. Her key doesn't fit. A woman, eerily similar to her, answers the door. And her husband insists that the stranger is his wife.

  One house. One husband. Two women. Someone is lying.

  Six months earlier, a reclusive Londoner called Birdy, reeling from a life-changing diagnosis, inherits Spyglass. This unexpected gift from a long-lost grandmother brings her to the pretty seaside village of Hope Falls. But then Birdy stumbles upon a shadowy London clinic that claims to be able to predict a person's date of death, including her own. Secrets start to unravel, and as the line between truth and lies blurs, Birdy feels compelled to right some old wrongs.

  My Husband's Wife is a tangled web of deception, obsession, and mystery that will keep you guessing until the last page. Prepare yourself for the ultimate mind-bending marriage thriller and step inside Spyglass - if you dare - to experience a story where nothing is as it seems.

• The Elsewhere Express

  When you lose your way in life, the Elsewhere Express just might find you. Step on board the train that may take you to your life's purpose in this wistful, Ghibli-esque fantasy from the bestselling author of Water Moon.

  This deluxe first edition hardcover includes:

  - Intricately designed sprayed edges

  - Interactive endpapers with a scene you can color in

  - A full-color illustrated book case beneath the jacket

  "A delicately layered dream of a book that glimmers with the promise of hope after grief, The Elsewhere Express will carry you to the stars."--Molly O'Neill, author of Greenteeth

  You can't buy a ticket for the Elsewhere Express. Appearing only to those whose lives are adrift, it's a magical train seeming to carry very rare and special cargo: a sense of purpose, peace, and belonging.

  Raya is one of those lost souls. She had dreamed of being a songwriter, but when her brother died, she gave up on her dream and started living his instead.

  One day on the subway, as her thoughts wander, she's swept off to the Elsewhere Express. There she meets Q, an intriguing artist who, like her, has lost his place in the world.

  Together they find a train full of wonders, from a boarding car that's also a meadow to a dining car where passengers can picnic on lily pads to a bar where jellyfish and whales swim through pink clouds.

  Over the course of their long, strange night on the train, they also discover that it harbors secrets--and danger: A mysterious stranger has stowed away and brought with him a dark, malignant magic that threatens to destroy the train.

  But in investigating the stowaway's identity, Raya also finds herself drawing closer to the ultimate question: What is her life's true purpose--and is it a destination the Elsewhere Express can take her to?

  ★ "A stunning, visual fever dream of a story akin to both the game Spiritfarer and Erin Morgenstern's The Starless Sea--a character-driven tale wrapped in a sparklingly creative spectacle of a world that inhabits a Studio Ghibli-like chaos even as it comes with a well-organized passenger rulebook."--Booklist (starred review)

• Welcome, Spring!

  Adorable animal friends share their favorite ways to welcome spring in this sweet picture book from the New York Times bestselling creator of the Coco and Bear series, Ruby's Tools for Making Friends, and Almost Always Best, Best Friends.

  On the first beautiful morning of spring, Bunny goes on a walk. She encounters Little Cow and Little Pig and asks, "How do you welcome spring?" Her friends share that they welcome spring by making flower crowns and ask her to join them.

  As Bunny continues on, she meets new friends and joins in their different activities like dancing in puddles, eating strawberries, and making sailboats. Her friends finally ask, "How do you welcome spring, Bunny?" And she answers her favorite way to welcome spring is by playing with all her friends!

• Nine Goblins: A Tale of Low Fantasy and High Mischief

  From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes Nine Goblins, a tale of low fantasy and high mischief.

  DELUXE EDITION--a gorgeous hardcover with endpapers illustrated by the author and a foil case stamp

  No one knows exactly how the Goblin War began, but folks will tell you that goblins are stinking, slinking, filthy, sheep-stealing, henhouse-raiding, obnoxious, rude, and violent. Goblins would actually agree with all this, and might throw in "cowardly" and "lazy" too for good measure.

  But goblins don't go around killing people for fun, no matter what the propaganda posters say. And when a confrontation with an evil wizard lands a troop of nine goblins deep behind enemy lines, goblin sergeant Nessilka must figure out how to keep her hapless band together and get them home in one piece.

  Unfortunately, between them and safety lies a forest full of elves, trolls, monsters, and that most terrifying of creatures...a human being.

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