New Releases | September 10th, 2024

• New Release List (Click to Expand)

  Adult Art

  • Stranger Things Crochet (Crochet Kits) - Editors of Thunder Bay Press (Author)

  • The Granny Square Card Deck: 50 Mix and Match Designs - Montgomerie, Claire (Author)

  Adult Fiction

  • Idlewild - Thomas, James Frankie (Author)

  • Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein - Eekhout, Anne (Author)

  • Tell Me Everything - Strout, Elizabeth (Author)

  • We Need No Wings - Dávila Cardinal, Ann (Author)

  • Here One Moment - Moriarty, Liane (Author)

  • In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology - Kane, Paul (Editor), O'Regan, Marie (Editor), Rio, M L (Author), Blake, Olivie (Author), Yang, Susie (Author), Ellison, J T (Author), Fargo, Layne (Author), Tate Hill, James (Author), Bovalino, Tori (Author), Andrew, Kelly (Author), Wynne, Phoebe (Author), Weinberg, Kate (Author), Grant, Helen (Author), Bell, David (Author)

  Adult Reference

  • Everybody Needs an Editor: The Essential Guide to Clear and Effective Writing - Harris, Melissa (Author), Base, Jenn (Author), Jacob, Mark (Author)

  Biography

  • Reagan: His Life and Legend - Boot, Max (Author)

  • Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir - Trump, Mary L. (Author)

  Board Books

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

  Body, Mind & Spirit

  • A History of Ghosts, Spirits and the Supernatural - DK

  Chapter Books

  • Emerald and the Lost Treasure: Volume 3 - Muncaster, Harriet (Author)

  Children's Classics

  • Oliver Twist: Classic Starts - Dickens, Charles (Author), Olmstead, Kathleen (Abridged By), Mountford, Karl James (Illustrator)

  Cookbooks

  • Zahav Home: Cooking for Friends & Family - Solomonov, Michael (Author), Cook Steven (Author)

  • The Elf on the Shelf Family Cookbook: 50 Elftastic Recipes Plus Playful Elf Ideas, Games, Activities, and More! - Bell, Chanda A. (Author)

  Current Events & Politics

  • Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia - Graeber, David (Author)

  • Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right - Hochschild, Arlie Russell (Author)

  Fun & Games

  • Backpack Explorer: Night Walk: What Will You Find? - Editors of Storey Publishing (Author)

  • Gifts from the Garbage Truck: A True Story about the Things We (Don't) Throw Away - Larsen, Andrew (Author), Vidal, Oriol (Illustrator)

  Graphic Novels

  • Nancy Spector, Monster Detective 1: The Case of the Missing Spot - Martin, Stephen W (Author), Pham, Linh (Illustrator)

  • Animal Rescue Friends: Finding Home Volume 4 - Tropper, Jana (Author), Longua, Katie (Author), Trousdale, Chelsea (Illustrator), Abraham, Anju (Illustrator), Cogar, Whitney (Illustrator)

  History

  • Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden - O'Reilly, Bill (Author), Dugard, Martin (Author)

  • The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency - Rubenstein, David M. (Author)

  • Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses - Sheftall, M.G. (Author)

  Horror

  • Hemlock Island - Armstrong, Kelley (Author)

  Just the Facts

  • The Leadership Journey: How Four Kids Became President - Goodwin, Doris Kearns (Author), Bates, Amy June (Illustrator)

  • Guinness World Records 2025

  Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

  • I'm the Grim Reaper, Vol. 1 - Graveweaver

  • Disney Twisted-Wonderland: The Manga - Anthology, Vol. 1 - Various Artists

  Middle Readers

  • Rougarou Magic - Marsh, Rachel M Author)

  • Clutch Time: A Shot Clock Novel (Shot Clock #2) - Butler, Caron (Author), Reynolds, Justin A. (Author)

  Mystery & Thriller

  • The Examiner - Hallet, Janice (Author)

  • The Edge (6:20 Man #2) - Baldacci, David (Author)

  Nature

  • How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World - Tapper, Ethan (Author)

  • A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery - Boyd, Diane K. (Author), Chadwick, Douglas H. (Foreword By)

  Picture Books

  • Sharing the Bread: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Story - Miller, Pat Zietlow (Author), McElmurry, Jill (Illustrator)

  • Santa Mouse Finds a Furry Friend - Brown, Michael (Author), McPhillips, Robert (Illustrator)

  • Pigs Dig a Road - Finison, Carrie (Author) Biggs, Brian (Illustrator)

  • A Pinecone! - Yoon, Helen (Author & Illustrator)

  • Oak: The Littlest Leaf Girl - Fleming, Lucy (Author & Illustrator)

  • The Crayons Give Thanks - Daywalt, Drew (Illustrator), Jeffers, Oliver (Illustrator)

  Romance

  • A River of Golden Bones: Book One of the Golden Court (Golden Court #1) - Mulford, A.K. (Author)

  • Does It Hurt? - Carlton, H.D. (Author)

  • Fall Into Temptation (Blue Moon #2) - Score, Lucy (Author)

  • Wrecked (Deluxe Edition) (Special) (Dirty Air #3) - Asher, Lauren (Author)

  Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles #2) - Klune, T.J. (Author)

  • The House in the Cerulean Sea: Special Edition (Cerulean Chronicles #1) - Klune, T.J. (Author)

  Social Sciences

  • Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World - Klein, Naomi (Author)

  • You Must Stand Up: The Fight for Abortion Rights in Post-Dobbs America - Becker, Amanda (Author)

  • By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land - Nagle, Rebecca (Author)

  • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI - Harari, Yuval Noah (Author)

  • Why Are You So Sensitive?: Navigating Everyday, Unintended Microaggressions - Lee, Billie (Author), Torino, Gina (Contribution By)

  Spinner Rack Books

  • The Elf on the Shelf: Don't Touch That Elf! - Bell, Chanda A. (Author)

  • Bluey: Unicorse

  Travel

  • Travels of Terror: Strange and Spooky Spots Across America - Florence, Kelly (Author), Hafdahl, Meg (Author)

  Young Adult

  • Old Wounds - Kisner, Logan-Ashley (Author)

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Overview (Our Top 5 Picks)

• Guinness World Records 2025

  Welcome to Guinness World Records 2025

  Join us in celebrating the platinum anniversary of the world's biggest-selling annual book!

  Guinness World Records 2025

  marks the 70th anniversary of the publishing phenomena that has sold more than 150 million copies in over 100 countries. The new edition - fully revised and updated with over 1,000 images - continues the annual tradition of delivering thousands of awe-inspiring facts, eye-watering feats and mind-blowing figures in a book that's designed for the whole family to enjoy. Whether you're a committed bookworm or a casual browser, you're sure to get a buzz from the bite-sized facts and never-before-seen photography, all wrapped up in an exciting new cover design by 3D digital artist Chris Labrooy.

• Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles #2) | T.J. Klune

  Hope is the thing with feathers. And hope is the thing with fire.
  
  Featuring gorgeous golden yellow sprayed edges! Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the hugely anticipated sequel to TJ Klune's The House in the Cerulean Sea, one of the best-loved and best-selling fantasy novels of the past decade.

  A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything.

  Arthur Parnassus lives a good life, built on the ashes of a bad one. He's the headmaster of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six magical and so-called dangerous children who live there.

  Arthur works hard and loves with his whole heart so none of the children ever feel the neglect and pain that he once felt as an orphan on that very same island so long ago. And he is not alone: joining him is the love of his life, Linus Baker, a former caseworker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth; Zoe Chapelwhite, the island's sprite; and her girlfriend, Mayor Helen Webb. Together, they will do anything to protect the children.

  But when Arthur is summoned to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself at the helm of a fight for the future that his family, and all magical people, deserve.

  And when a new magical child hopes to join them on their island home--one who finds power in calling himself monster, a name Arthur worked so hard to protect his children from--Arthur knows they're at a breaking point: their family will either grow stronger than ever or fall apart.

  Welcome back to Marsyas Island. This is Arthur's story.

  Somewhere Beyond the Sea is a story of resistance, lovingly told, about the daunting experience of fighting for the life you want to live and doing the work to keep it.

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  Goodreads, Paste, Polygon , BookBub, and more.

• Travels of Terror: Strange and Spooky Spots Across America | Florence Kelly, Meg Hafdahl

  Grab your flashlight, garlic, and ghost hunting equipment. We're taking you on the ultimate road trip of the spookiest places around the U.S.

  Horror lovers, lifelong best friends, and co-hosts of the Horror Rewind podcast, Kelly Florence and Meg Hafdahl, have traveled around the U.S. to bring you the most thrill-inducing spots for horror, history, and true crime. They've compiled a list of what to do, where to stay, where to eat and drink, and where to shop to make your vacation-planning a breeze.

  They've also delved into the history and pop culture of each spot, revealing hidden gems, most notorious true crimes, women you should know, horror books and movies set in the state, and other strange facts about some of the scariest places around the nation.

  Here's a small sampling of what you can expect to find in Travels of Terror:

  • St. Augustine, Florida: Take an open air trolley on the Ghosts & Gravestones Tour to the Old St Augustine Cemetery, Potter's Wax Museum, Old Jail Museum, and a bevy of churches with their own macabre past.

  • Los Angeles, California: Stay at the haunted Hotel Roosevelt, where you may be visited by the ghosts of actors Errol Flynn and Montgomery Clift.

  • Portland, Oregon: Grab a cocktail at Raven's Manor, a horror-themed bar with drinks like the Black Widow, Lilith, and Draught of Asphyxiation.

  • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Learn about the most famous true crime to happen there, when the wife of the Allegheny County Jail warden fell in love with a convicted murderer.

  • New York, New York: Celebrate Nia DaCosta, the first Black female director to have a film debut at the top of the box office, with the supernatural horror-slasher film Candyman in 2021.

  • Austin, Texas: Pick up souvenirs for friends and family at The Glass Coffin, a vampire parlor and horror shop.

  • Duluth, Minnesota: Visit Glensheen Mansion on the shores of Lake Superior, where Duluth's most notorious murders occurred in 1977.

  From big cities to small towns, get inspired to plan your own ghoulish getaway.

• Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden | Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard

  Every American president, from Washington to Biden: Their lives, policies, foibles, and legacies, assessed with clear-eyed authority and wit.

  Authors of the acclaimed Killing books, the #1 bestselling narrative history series in the world, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard begin a new direction with

  Confronting the Presidents.
  

  From Washington to Jefferson, Lincoln to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Kennedy to Nixon, Reagan to Obama and Biden, the 45 United States presidents have left lasting impacts on our nation. Some of their legacies continue today, some are justly forgotten, and some have changed as America has changed. Whether famous, infamous, or obscure, all the presidents shaped our nation in unexpected ways.

  The authors' extensive research has uncovered never before seen historical facts based on private correspondence and newly discovered documentation, such as George Washington's troubled relationship with his mother.

  In Confronting the Presidents, O'Reilly and Dugard present 45 wonderfully entertaining and insightful portraits of each president, with no-spin commentary on their achievements--or lack thereof. Who best served America, and who undermined the founding ideals? Who were the first ladies, and what were their surprising roles in making history? Which presidents were the best, which the worst, and which didn't have much impact? How do decisions made in one era, under the pressure of particular circumstances, still resonate today? And what do presidents like to eat, drink, and do when they aren't working--or even sometimes when they are?

  These and many more questions are answered in each fascinating chapter of Confronting the Presidents. Written with O'Reilly and Dugard's signature style, authority, and eye for telling detail, Confronting the Presidents will delight all readers of history, politics, and current affairs, especially during the 2024 election season.

• Tell Me Everything | Elizabeth Strout

  From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.

  With her "extraordinary capacity for radical empathy" (The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters--Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more--as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, "What does anyone's life mean?"

  It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, is finally introduced to the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive's apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known--"unrecorded lives," Olive calls them--reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning.

  Brimming with empathy and pathos,Tell Me Everything is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, "Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love."

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New Releases | September 10th, 2024

Penny Jar Proceeds | September 2024

The September 2024 in-store penny jar donations will benefit the Littleton Little Free Pantry. As of the writing of this post, the shelves could use a little love. Every penny donated this month will be dedicated to filling these shelves and helping those in need!

"This is storytelling at its best. The voice rings true and so do the incidents." -- Stephen King

The Pulitzer Prize winning 'Demon Copperhead' is now available in paperback!

And, to celebrate this long awaited arrival, it's our Monthly Staff Pick for September here at Little Village Toy & Book shop... starting today!

Barbara Kingsolver's retelling of 'David Copperfield' moves the story from the streets of London to the mountains of Appalachia and what remains often instantly recognizable as the Dickens classic also becomes something distinctly American. This sprawling novel manages to touch on heavy topics while maintaining a lighter, and at times even humorous, literary tone and has quickly become a well-loved modern classic. Perfect for fans of Percival Everett’s ‘James’ from earlier this year and those that love retellings of the classics.

Don't forget out August Pick, Claire Daverly's 'Talking at Night' is still available for 20% off through 8/31. Visit us this week to save on both of these incredible titles and all September for 20% of 'Demon Copperhead', while supplies last.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

New York Times Readers' Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century - An Oprah's Book Club Selection - An Instant New York Times Bestseller - An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller - A #1 Washington Post Bestseller - A New York Times "Ten Best Books of the Year"

"Demon is a voice for the ages--akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield--only even more resilient." --Beth Macy, author of Dopesick

"May be the best novel of [the year]. . . . Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love." --Ron Charles, Washington Post

From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity

Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.

Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.

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Monthly Staff Pick | Demon Copperhead PBK

New Releases | September 3rd, 2024

• New Release List (Click to Expand)

  Adult Fiction

  • The Life Impossible - Matt Haig

  • Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner

  • The Bee Sting - Paul Murray

  • Blue Sisters - Coco Mellors

  • The Fraud - Zadie Smith

  • Madwoman - Chelsea Bieker

  • Under the Eye of the Big Bird - Hiromi Kawakami, Asa Yoneda (Translator)

  Adult Science

  • Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World - Peter Godfrey-Smith

  Award Winners

  • Simon Sort of Says: Newbery Honor Award Winner - Erin Bow

  Biography

  • Lovely One: A Memoir - Ketanji Brown Jackson

  • While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence - Meg Kissinger

  Board Books

  • 100 First Words for Little Bookworms (100 First Words) - Stephanie Campisi, Kyle Kershner

  • Construction Site: A Thankful Night: A Thanksgiving Lift-The-Flap Book - Sherri Duskey Rinker, Morgan Helen (Illustrator)

  • Bedtime Blitz! - Matthew Van Fleet (Author & Illustrator)

  • Pop-Up Peekaboo! Winter: Pop-Up Surprise Under Every Flap! - DK (Author), Amy Grimes (Illustrator)

  • Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale - Mo Willems

  • Jump in the Leaf Pile - Kelly Green (Author), Kasia Nowowiejska (Illustrator)

  • Giraffes Can't Dance: Jingle Bells - Giles Andraea (Author), Guy Parker-Rees (Illustrator)

  Body, Mind & Spirit

  • The Comfy Cozy Witch's Guide to Making Magic in Your Everyday Life - Jennie Blonde

  Chapter Books

  • Anne Dares: Inspired by Anne of Green Gables - Kallie George (Author), Abigail Halpin (Illustrator)

  • Time of the Turtle King (Magic Tree House) - Mary Pope Osborne (Author), Ag Ford (Illustrator)

  • The Princess in Black and the Kitty Catastrophe - Shannow Hale (Author), Dean Hale (Author), Leuyen Pham (Illustrator)

  Children's Art Books

  • Draw with Art for Kids Hub Christmas - Art for Kids Hub (Author), Rob Jensen (Author)

  Children's Poetry

  • Chang'e on the Moon (Everlasting Tales) - Katrina Moore (Author), Cornelia Li (Illustrator), Jaime Chu (Translator)

  • Tis the Season: A Lift-The-Flap Advent Calendar Full of Christmas Poems - Richard Jones

  Children's Classics

  • The Wind in the Willows (Children's Signature Editions - Kenneth Grahame

  Cookbooks

  • Zoë Bakes Cookies: Everything You Need to Know to Make Your Favorite Cookies and Bars [A Baking Book] - Zoe Francois

  • Big Vegan Flavor: Techniques and 150 Recipes to Master Vegan Cooking - Nisha Vora

  • Spend with Pennies Everyday Comfort: Family Dinner Recipes from Fresh to Cozy: A Cookbook - Holly Nilsson

  Current Events & Politics

  • Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life - Richard Beck

  Dungeons & Dragons

  • Dungeons & Dragons RPG: Players Handbook Alternate Hard Cover (2024)

  Family Issues

  • Sexism & Sensibility: Raising Empowered, Resilient Girls in the Modern World - Jo-Ann Finkelstein

  Fun & Games

  • I Spy Christmas Treats - Jean Marzollo (Author), Walter Wick (Photographer)

  • What Is the Story of Smokey Bear? - Steve Korte (Author), Hq Who (Author), Robert Squier (Illustrator)

  • Become a Chess Champion: Learn the Basics from a Pro - James Canty III (Author), Brian Lambert (Illustrator), Neon Squid (Author)

  Graphic Novels

  • The First Cat in Space and the Soup of Doom (First Cat in Space #2) - Mac Barnett (Author), Shawn Harris (Illustrator)

  • Sunset of the Sabertooth Graphic Novel (Magic Tree House) - Mary Pope Osborne (Author), Jenny Laird (Adapted By), Kelly Matthews (Illustrator), Nichole Matthews (Illustrator)

  • I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79 (I Survived Graphic Novel #10) - Tarshis, Lauren (Author) , Shephard, Dave (Illustrator)

  Hiking

  • Hiking Maine's Baxter State Park: A Guide to the Park's Greatest Hiking Adventures Including Mount Katahdin (2ND ed.) - Greg Westrich

  Horror

  • All Hallows - Christopher Golden

  • Vampires of El Norte - Isabel Canas

  • Pet Sematary - Stephen King

  • The September House - Carissa Orlando

  • Holly - Stephen King

  • Cujo - Stephen King

  Humor

  • Cat People to Judge in Art and Life - Nicole Tersigni

  Just the Facts

  • Scholastic Book of World Records 2025 - Scholastic

  Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

  • Harley Quinn & the Gotham City Sirens: DC Compact Comics Edition - Paul Dini (Author), Guillem March (Illustrator)

  • Joker: DC Compact Comics Edition - Brian Azzarello (Author), Lee Bermejo (Illustrator)

  • Agatha Harkness: The Saga of the Salem Witch - Stan Lee (Author), Jack Kirby (Illustrator)

  Middle Readers

  • Big Nate: Remain Calm!: Volume 31 - Lincoln Peirce

  • Wonka - Dahl, Roald (Author) , Pounder, Sibéal (Adapted by) , Farnaby, Simon (Created by) , King, Paul (Created by)

  • Max and the Midknights: The Tower of Time - Peirce, Lincoln (Author)

  • Dogtown (Dogtown Book #1) - Applegate, Katherine (Author) , Choldenko, Gennifer (Author) , West, Wallace (Illustrator)

  • TIG - Smith, Heather (Author)

  • Misty of Chincoteague: Special Edition (Anniversary) - Henry, Marguerite (Author) , Dennis, Wesley (Illustrator)

  • Cool Cat: A Wish Novel - Taylor, Jazz (Author)

  • The Witching Wind - Lloyd, Natalie (Author)

  • Out of My Dreams (Out of My Mind) - Draper, Sharon M (Author)

  • The Sherlock Society (The Sherlock Society #1) - Ponti, James (Author)

  • Attack of the Black Rectangles (Scholastic Gold) - King, A S (Author

  My First Readers

  • Big Dog and Little Dog Going for a Walk (My First I Can Read) - Pilkey, Dav (Author) , Pilkey, Dav (Illustrator)

  • Big Dog and Little Dog (My First I Can Read) - Pilkey, Dav (Author) , Pilkey, Dav (Illustrator)

  • Pinkalicious: Lost in Paris (I Can Read Level 1) - Kann, Victoria (Author) , Kann, Victoria (Illustrator)

  Mystery & Thriller

  • Capture or Kill: A Mitch Rapp Novel by Don Bentley (Mitch Rapp Novel #23) - Flynn, Vince (Author) , Bentley, Don (Author)

  • Death at the Sign of the Rook: A Jackson Brodie Book (Jackson Brodie) - Atkinson, Kate (Author)

  • Safe Enough: Crime Stories by the Author of Jack Reacher - Child, Lee (Author)

  • The Red House Mystery - Milne, A A (Author)

  Personal Growth

  • What I Know for Sure: Tenth Anniversary Edition - Winfrey, Oprah (Author)

  Picture Books

  • Little Dreidel Learns to Spin - Levington, Rebecca Gardyn (Author) , Johnson, Taryn (Illustrator)

  • The Strangest Fish - Arden, Katherine (Author) , Marwan, Zahra (Illustrator)

  • Little Red, Autumn on the Farm (Little Red #2) - Hillenbrand, Will (Author)

  • A Dragon for Hanukkah - Mlynowski, Sarah (Author) , Landy, Ariel (Illustrator)

  • My Hive: A Girl, Her Grandfather, and Their Honeybee Family - May, Meredith (Author) , Dwyer, Jasmin (Illustrator)

  • The Treasure: A Story about Finding Joy in Unexpected Places - Ferreira, Marcela (Author) , Lambert, Brian (Illustrator)

  • Towed by Toad - Awan, Jashar (Author)

  • Barnaby Unboxed! - Fan, Terry (Author) , Fan, Eric (Author) , Fan, Devin (Author)

  • Roar for Reading - Ferry, Beth (Author) , Joyner, Andrew (Illustrator)

  • Cookie Time - Sima, Jessie (Author) , Sima, Jessie (Illustrator)

  • No More Señora Mimí - Medina, Meg (Author) , Cicchese, Brittany (Illustrator)

  • 'Twas the Night Before Christmas - Chapman, Jane (Illustrator) , Moore, Clement (Author)

  • The Snow Thief (A Squirrel & Bird Book) - Hemming, Alice (Author) , Slater, Nicola (Illustrator)

  Poetry

  • Mythos: The Illustrated Edition (Stephen Fry's Greek Myths) - Fry, Stephen (Author) , Sotés, Jesús (Illustrator)

  Romance

  • The Games Gods Play (Deluxe Limited Edition) - Owen, Abigail (Author)

  • Wild Eyes (Deluxe Edition) (Special) (Rose Hill #2) - Silver, Elsie (Author)

  • The Cursed: Special Edition (Coven of Bones #2) - Woods, Harper L (Author)

  • Fall for Him - Burke, Andie (Author)

  • Hot Hex Boyfriend - Bloom, Carly (Author)

  • Phantasma - Smith, Kaylie (Author)

  • An Education in Malice - Gibson, S T (Author)

  • Prime Time Romance - Robb, Kate (Author)

  • Sanctuary - Roberts, Nora (Author)

  Science & Nature

  • Fly: A Family Guide to Birds and How to Spot Them (In Our Nature) - Lindo, David (Author) , Meadows, Sara Boccaccini (Illustrator)

  • Are Wolves Afraid of the Dark? (Go Wild #3) - Lewis Jones, Huw (Author) , Caldwell, Sam (Illustrator)

  • Who Lives Here? - Milton, Alexandra (Author)

  Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • The Lost Cause - Doctorow, Cory (Author)

  Spinner Rack Books

  • Rescue Wheels (Paw Patrol) - Random House (Author) , Random House (Illustrator)

  • Bluey: Daddy Robot - Penguin Young Readers Licenses (Author)

  Workbooks

  • Bob Books - Beginning Phonics Flashcards Phonics, Ages 4 and Up, Kindergarten (Stage 1: Starting to Read) - Scholastic (Author)

  • A Kids Book about Change - Kim, David (Author)

  • The Big Fat Middle School English Language Arts Workbook: 100+ Ela Practice Exercises - Workman Publishing (Author)

  • Big Fat High School Geometry Workbook: 400+ Geometry Practice Exercises - Workman Publishing (Author)

  Young Adult

  • When Haru Was Here - Thao, Dustin (Author)

  • Compound Fracture - White, Andrew Joseph (Author)

  • Celestial Monsters (Sunbearer Duology #2) - Thomas, Aiden (Author)

  • Repeat After Me (Deluxe Limited Edition) - Warman, Jessica (Author)

  • Gather - Cadow, Kenneth M (Author)

  • Immortal Dark (Deluxe Limited Edition) - Girma, Tigest (Author)

  • Night of the Witch (Witch and Hunter) - Raasch, Sara (Author) , Revis, Beth (Author)

  • I Loved You in Another Life - Arnold, David (Author)

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Overview (Our Top 5 Picks)

• The Life Impossible | Matt Haig

  "In Haig's sure hands, magic comes to breathtaking life." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

  "A wry and tender love-letter to the best of being human." --Benedict Cumberbatch

  The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, with more than nine million copies sold worldwide

  "What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet..."

  When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan.

  Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend's life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.

  Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.

• Holly | Stephen King

  #1 New York Times Bestseller New York Times Notable Book NPR Best Book of the Year

  Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King's most compelling and resourceful characters, returns in this chilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.

  "Sometimes the universe throws you a rope." -- BILL HODGES

  Stephen King's Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges's partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King's new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries.

  When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl's desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down.

  Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harboring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie's disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless.

  Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmaneuver the shockingly twisted professors in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King.

  "I could never let Holly Gibney go. She was supposed to be a walk-on character in Mr. Mercedes and she just kind of stole the book and stole my heart. Holly is all her." -- STEPHEN KING

• The Games Gods Play (Deluxe Limited Edition) | Abigail Owen

  The gods love to play with us mere mortals. And every hundred years, we let them...

  I have never been favored by the gods. Far from it, thanks to Zeus.

  Living as a cursed office clerk for the Order of Thieves, I just keep my head down and hope the capricious beings who rule from Olympus won't notice me. Not an easy feat, given San Francisco is Zeus' patron city, but I make do. I survive. Until the night I tangle with a different god.

  The worst god. Hades.

  For the first time ever, the ruthless, mercurial King of the Underworld has entered the Crucible--the deadly contest the gods hold to determine a new ruler to sit on the throne of Olympus. But instead of fighting their own battles, the gods name mortals to compete in their stead.

  So why in the Underworld did Hades choose me--a sarcastic nobody with a curse on her shoulders--as his champion? And why does my heart trip every time he says I'm his?

  I don't know if I'm a pawn, bait, or something else entirely to this dangerously tempting god. How can I, when he has more secrets than stars in the sky?

  Because Hades is playing by his own rules...and Death will win at any cost.

• The Bee Sting | Pul Murray

  One of The New York Times Top 10 Books of the Year
  Winner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year, the Nero Gold Prize, and the Nero Book Award for Fiction
  Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Writers' Prize for Fiction
  Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction

  One of The New Yorker's Essential Reads of 2023. One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2023. One of TIME's 10 Best Fiction Books of the Year. Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Guardian, The Economist, New York Public Library, BBC, and more.

  From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and thought-provoking tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart.

  The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under--but Dickie is spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife, Imelda, is selling off her jewelry on eBay and half-heartedly dodging the attention of fast-talking cattle farmer Big Mike, while their teenage daughter, Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge drink her way through her final exams. As for twelve-year-old PJ, he's on the brink of running away.

  If you wanted to change this story, how far back would you have to go? To the infamous bee sting that ruined Imelda's wedding day? To the car crash one year before Cass was born? All the way back to Dickie at ten years old, standing in the summer garden with his father, learning how to be a real man?

  The Bee Sting, Paul Murray's exuberantly entertaining new novel, is a tour de force: a portrait of postcrash Ireland, a tragicomic family saga, and a dazzling story about the struggle to be good at the end of the world.

• The Fraud | Zadie Smith

  The New York Times bestseller - One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year - One of NPR's Best Books of the Year - Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and BookPage - One of Oprah Daily's Best Novels of 2023

  "[A] brilliant new entry in Smith's catalog . . . The Fraud is not a change for Smith, but a demonstration of how expansive her talents are." --Los Angeles Times

  From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story--and who gets to be believed
  
  It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years.

  Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully and a moralist; and England of being a land of facades, in which nothing is quite what it seems.

  Andrew Bogle, meanwhile, grew up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica. He knows every lump of sugar comes at a human cost. That the rich deceive the poor. And that people are more easily manipulated than they realize. When Bogle finds himself in London, star witness in a celebrated case of imposture, he knows his future depends on telling the right story.

  The "Tichborne Trial"--wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claimed he was in fact the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title --captivates Mrs. Touchet and all of England. Is Sir Roger Tichborne really who he says he is? Or is he a fraud? Mrs. Touchet is a woman of the world. Mr. Bogle is no fool. But in a world of hypocrisy and self-deception, deciding what is real proves a complicated task. . . .

  Based on real historical events, The Fraud is a dazzling novel about truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, fraudulence and authenticity and the mystery of "other people."

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New Releases | September 3rd, 2024

New Releases | August 27th, 2024

• New Release List (Click to Expand)

  Adult Art

  • The New Artist's Guide to Drawing: Learn How to Draw People, Animals, Landscapes and More the Easy Way - Mark Liam Smith

  Adult Fiction

  • The Wren, the Wren - Anne Enright

  • A Grandmother Begins the Story - Michelle Porter

  • Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver

  Adult Reference

  • The 2025 Old Farmer's Almanac Trade Edition - Old Farmer's Almanac

  Arts & Entertainment

  • I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine - Daniel J. Levitin

  Board Books

  • Little Witch Cat: Finger Puppet Book - Emily Dove

  • You're the Pumpkin in My Pie - Laura Gehl

  • Meet Bluey's Family: A Tabbed Board Book - Penguin Young Readers

  Business

  • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon - Michael Lewis

  Cookbooks

  • The Weekday Vegetarians Get Simple: Strategies and So-Good Recipes to Suit Every Craving and Mood: A Cookbook - Jenny Rosenstrach

  Current Events & Politics

  • Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the Fbi, and the War on Democracy - David Rohde

  • At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House - H.R. McMaster

  Graphic Novels

  • Garfield Donut Disturb: His 76th Book - Jim Davis

  History

  • The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History - Serhii Plokhy

  • Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor - Mark Harmon

  Horror

  • The Edge of Sleep - Jake Emanuel, Willie Block, Jason Gurley

  Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

  • My Neighbor Totoro Film Comic: All-In-One Edition (My Neighbor Totoro: All-In-One Edition - Hayao Miyazaki

  • Dark Souls: Redemption, Vol. 1 (Manga): Humanity Lost - Julien Blondel

  • Avengers: Twilight - Chip Zdarsky, Daniel Acuna, Alex Ross

  • Batman Vol. 1: I Am Gotham (2024 Edition) - Tom King, Ivan Reis, David Finch, Mikel Janin

  Middle Readers

  • A Horse Named Sky - Rosanne Parry

  My First Readers

  • Biscuit Visits the Firehouse (My First I Can Read) - Alyssa Satin Capucilli, Pat Schories

  • Nothing Scares a Dinosaur: Ready-To-Read Level 1 (Ready-To-Read) - Jonathan Fenske

  Mystery & Thriller

  • 12 Months to Live: Jane Smith Has a Year to Live, Unless They Kill Her First (A Jane Smith Thriller #1) - James Patterson, Mike Lupica

  Picture Books

  • Little Fir Tree: Finger Puppet Book - Yu-Hsuan Huang

  • The Next Scientist: The Unexpected Beginnings and Unwritten Future of the World's Great Scientists - Kate Messner, Julia Kuo

  • Gingerbread Dreidels - Jane Breskin Zalben, Thai Phuong

  Romance

  • Daydream - Hannah Grace

  • Truly Madly Magically - Hazel Beck

  • Long Live Evil - Sarah Rees Brennan

  • Confounding Oaths - Alexis Hall

  • Hers for the Weekend - Helena Greer

  • Haunting Adeline - H.D. Carlton

  Science & Nature

  • Our World in Numbers Dinosaurs & Other Prehistoric Life: An Encyclopedia of Fantastic Facts - DK

  Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • After the Forest - Kell Woods

  Social Sciences

  • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe, Geoff Dyer

  • That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America - Amanda Jones

  Young Adult

  • Sync - Ellen Hopkins

  • Sunderworld, Vol. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry - Ransom Riggs

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Overview (Our Top 5 Picks)

• The 2025 Old Farmer's Almanac

  The Old Farmer's Almanac has been making every day special since 1792, and, with the 2025 edition, it continues this tradition in its inimitable fashion. Trusted by generations from all walks of life for its honesty and accuracy, the Almanac delivers fun facts, predictions, feature articles, and advice across many interest areas to readers who actually live--or aspire to live--the country lifestyle, with the intent of helping them to make better decisions. As a calendar of the heavens, it provides detailed daily astronomical data (Sun/Moon rise/set times, length of day), tide times, and planet/star sightings for every sky watcher, from novice to expert. As a calendar of the year, it presents annual and seasonal events, holidays, anniversaries, and timely trivia; astrological "Best Days" and cycles; and much more for the curious and the conscientious. As a time capsule of the year, it contains cultural trends; weather forecasts and conditions; articles on interesting topics such as gardening, home arts and remedies, amusements and contests, history, husbandry, nature, cooking and recipes, folklore, pets, and sports; and more--all in a way that is "useful, with a pleasant degree of humor."

  Long recognized as North America's most beloved and best-selling annual, this handy "little yellow book" is often imitated but never equaled. It is an American icon that instills in readers a feeling of being connected to the history of North America and its people.

  This paperback classic edition of the 2025 Almanac is distinguished by the hole in the upper left corner so that it can be conveniently hung on a hook or nail in the kitchen, greenhouse, barn--or wherever this indispensable guide will be needed!

• That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America | Amanda Jones

  "Amanda Jones started getting death threats, all for standing up for our right to read . . . but she's not stopped fighting against book bans, or stopped advocating for access to diverse stories."-Oprah Winfrey, in a speech at the 2023 National Book Awards

  "Amanda Jones clearly outlines how we got here, who's leading this false charge against qualified educators, media specialists, and authors-and most importantly, explores the steps we all must take to make the voice of truth and reason louder than their caterwauling."-Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author

  Part memoir, part manifesto, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivity on the front lines of our vicious culture wars.

  One of the things small town librarian Amanda Jones values most about books is how they can affirm a young person's sense of self. So in 2022, when she caught wind of a local public hearing that would discuss "book content," she knew what was at stake. Schools and libraries nationwide have been bombarded by demands for books with LGTBQ+ references, discussions of racism, and more to be purged from the shelves. Amanda would be damned if her community were to ban stories representing minority groups. She spoke out that night at the meeting. Days later, she woke up to a nightmare that is still ongoing.

  Amanda Jones has been called a groomer, a pedo, and a porn-pusher; she has faced death threats and attacks from strangers and friends alike. Her decision to support a collection of books with diverse perspectives made her a target for extremists using book banning campaigns-funded by dark money organizations and advanced by hard right politicians-in a crusade to make America more white, straight, and "Christian." But Amanda Jones wouldn't give up without a fight: she sued her harassers for defamation and urged others to join her in the resistance.

  Mapping the book banning crisis occurring all across the nation, That Librarian draws the battle lines in the war against equity and inclusion, calling book lovers everywhere to rise in defense of our readers.

• Haunting Adeline | H.D. Carlton

  VIRAL BOOKTOK SENSATION AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR!

  The Manipulator

  I can manipulate the emotions of anyone who lets me.
  I will make you hurt, make you cry, make you laugh and sigh.
  But my words don't affect him. Especially not when I plead for him to leave.
  He's always there, watching and waiting.
  And I can never look away.
  Not when I want him to come closer.

  The Shadow

  I didn't mean to fall in love.
  But now that I have, I can't stay away.
  I'm mesmerized by her smile, by her eyes, and the way she moves.
  The way she undresses...
  I'll keep watching and waiting. Until I can make her mine.
  And once she is, I'll never let her go.
  Not even when she begs me to.

  While not required, it is highly suggested to read the novella, Satan's Affair, first.

• Demon Copperhead | Barbara Kingsolver

  WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

  New York Times Readers' Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century - An Oprah's Book Club Selection - An Instant New York Times Bestseller - An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller - A #1 Washington Post Bestseller - A New York Times "Ten Best Books of the Year"

  "Demon is a voice for the ages--akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield--only even more resilient." --Beth Macy, author of Dopesick

  "May be the best novel of [the year]. . . . Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love." --Ron Charles, Washington Post

  From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity

  Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.

  Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.

• 12 Months to Live: Jane Smith Has a Year to Live, Unless They Kill Her First (A Jane Smith Thriller #1) | James Patterson, Mike Lupica

  "Patterson and Lupica make a great team" (Carl Hiaasen) who get "deep into the lives of strong women" (Louise Penny) and Jane Smith is their greatest creation--a badass lawyer with a year to live.

  "Jane Smith is the best character we've ever created. Bar none."
  --James Patterson and Mike Lupica

  Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century.

  Actually, her charmless client might've committed several murders.

  She's also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt.

  But Jane doesn't have much time. She's just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months.

  Unless she's murdered before her expiration date.

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New Releases | August 27th, 2024

It Ends With Us... Now on the big screen!

We are so thrilled to have our local movie theater back! You can see the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover's hit novel at Jax Jr Cinemas now until August 28th. (Yes, we made sure to include the good boy in the photo)

And now... a word from the publisher:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and All Your Perfects, a "brave and heartbreaking novel that digs its claws into you and doesn't let go, long after you've finished it" (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author) about a workaholic with a too-good-to-be-true romance who can't stop thinking about her first love.

Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town where she grew up--she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily's life seems too good to be true.

Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He's also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn't hurt. Lily can't get him out of her head. But Ryle's complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his "no dating" rule, she can't help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.

As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan--her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.

An honest, evocative, and tender novel, It Ends with Us is "a glorious and touching read, a forever keeper. The kind of book that gets handed down" ( USA TODAY).