New Releases | December 17th, 2024

• New Release List ( Click to Expand)

  Adult Art

  • Ink and Watercolor: Learn to Create Quick, Stylized Sketch Paintings in 30 Days - Kozlova, Anastasia (Author)

  • Watercolor in the Woods: Paint a Whimsical World of Forest Animals, Botanicals, Toadstools and More - Carkill, Jane (Author)

  Body, Mind & Spirit

  • Crystals & Love: Find You Soul Mate and Unlock the Power of Love - Hall, Judy (Author)

  Business

  • The Psychology of Wealth: The Practical Guide to Prosperity and Success (GPS Guides to Life) - Hill, Napoleon (Author) , Fotinos, Joel (Editor)

  History

  • Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World - Beard, Mary (Author)

  Local Interest

  • New Hampshire Trivia - Rule, Rebecca (Author)

  Mystery & Thriller

  • By the Pricking of My Thumbs: A Tommy and Tuppence Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries #4) - Christie, Agatha (Author)

  Romance

  • A False Start (Special) (Gold Rush Ranch #4) - Silver, Elsie (Author)

  • God of Wrath (Deluxe Edition) (Special) (Legacy of Gods #3) - Kent, Rina (Author)

  • Kingmakers: Year Three (Deluxe Edition) (Special) (Kingmakers #3) - Lark, Sophie (Author)

  • North Is the Night: Deluxe Limited Edition (Tuonela Duet) - Rath, Emily (Author)

  Sticker Books

  • Cute Fantasy Creatures Stickers (Dover Little Activity Books: Fantasy) - Murphy, Jemaica (Author)

  • Little First Stickers Love and Kindness - Bathie, Holly (Author) , Selbert, Kathryn (Illustrator)

  True Crime

  • The Anatomy of Motive: The Fbi's Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals - Douglas, John E (Author) , Olshaker, Mark (Author)

Our Top 5 Picks

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New Releases | December 17th, 2024

WMUR Viewers' Choice 2024 | Best Toy Store

We are so incredibly honored to have received recognition as New Hampshire's best toy store this year! Thank you to everyone that has supported us through the years and helped us grow into what we are today. Congrats to all of the amazing toy shops throughout NH that made the list as well. We look forward to being your local hub for playing, laughing, and learning, for many years to come. 🥰

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Viewers' Choice 2024

Holiday Gifting Made Easy | The Dog Man Series!

In need of some gift ideas for the holidays? Have no fear... Dog Man is here! Do you have a Dog Man fan in the family? Fantastic! Volume 13 is hot off the press . If they aren't a fan yet, there's plenty to catch up on. And now, a word from the publisher:

From worldwide bestselling author and artist Dav Pilkey comes Dog Man, the canine cop who's part dog, part man, and ALL HERO!

George and Harold have created a new breed of justice. With the head of a dog and the body of a human, this heroic hound digs into deception, claws after crooks, rolls over robbers, and scampers after squirrels. Will he be able to resist the call of the wild to answer the call of duty?

Dav Pilkey's wildly popular Dog Man series appeals to readers of all ages and explores universally positive themes, including empathy, kindness, persistence, and the importance of being true to one's self.

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New Releases | December 10th, 2024

• New Release List (Click to Expand)

  Adult Fiction

  • The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories - Fulton, Bruce (Translator) , Fulton, Bruce (Editor) , Fulton, Bruce (Notes by) , Youngmin, Kwon (Introduction by)

  • Clay Walls - Kim Ronyoung (Author) , Cho, David S (Introduction by)

  • Alice Sadie Celine - Blakley-Cartwright, Sarah (Author)

  • The Door-To-Door Bookstore - Henn, Carsten (Author)

  • The Hop - Clarke, Diana (Author)

  Adult Reference

  • The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2025 - Janssen, Sarah (Author)

  • I Love You So Mush! - Elys, Dori (Author) , Stilwell, Steph (Illustrator)

  • Little Chick - Horacek, Petr (Author) , Horacek, Petr (Illustrator)

  • Little Bunny - Horacek, Petr (Author) , Horacek, Petr (Illustrator)

  Current Events & Politics

  • The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism - Alberta, Tim (Author)

  History

  • Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe - Gabriele, Matthew (Author) , Perry, David M (Author)

  Just the Facts

  • Knight (DK Eyewitness)

  Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

  • Weapon X-Men by Christos Gage - Gage, Christos (Author) , Land, Greg (Illustrator) , Cinar, Yildiray (Illustrator) , Ruan, Dike (Not Available)

  My First Readers

  • Trio of Terrans!: Ready-To-Read Level 2 (Transformers: Earthspark) - Le, Maria (Author)

  Mystery & Thriller

  • Holmes, Marple & Poe: The Greatest Crime-Solving Team of the Twenty-First Century (Holmes, Margaret & Poe #1) - Patterson, James (Author) , Sitts, Brian (Author)

  • Death in the Dark Woods (A Monster Hunter Mystery) - Ryan, Annelise (Author)

  Personal Growth

  • Mindful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Simple Path to Healing, Hope, and Peace - Gillihan, Seth J (Author)

  • I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself - Rallo, Eli (Author)

  Picture Books

  • Happy Valentine's Day, Curious George! - Rey, H A (Author)

  • How to Catch a Groundhog - Walstead, Alice (Author) , Gillette, Emma (Illustrator) , Elkerton, Andy (Illustrator)

  • Love from Snoopy (Peanuts) - Schulz, Charles M (Author) , Testa, Maggie (Adapted by) , Jeralds, Scott (Illustrator)

  Romance

  • A Monsoon Rising (Hurricane Wars #2) - Guanzon, Thea (Author)

  • The Playboy (Spade Hotel #1) - Mann, Marni (Author)

  • To Charm a Dark Prince (The Iron Crystal #1) - Kingsley, Kathryn Ann (Author)

  • Vipers and Virtuosos (Deluxe Edition) (Special) (Monsters & Muses #2) - Miller, Sav R (Author)

  • The Inadequate Heir (The Bridge Kingdom) - Jensen, Danielle L (Author)

  • Corrupting the Innocent (Mafia Academy #2) - Rayne, P (Author)

  • How to Get a Life in Ten Dates - Howe, Jenny L (Author)

  Social Sciences

  • Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive - Stein, Eliot (Author)

Our Top 5 Picks

• Love from Snoopy (Peanuts)

  Say I heart you with the world's most loveable dog--the one-and-only Snoopy--in this uplifting and heartwarming picture book perfect for Valentine's Day or any day of the year!

  You are cooler than cool. I love you more than the grandest adventure...

  Snoopy is a beagle with a heart of gold. Even when he's soaring through the sky or having fun with other escapades, he has so much love for the rest of the Peanuts gang. Show your loved ones how much they're adored with help from Charlie Brown's best friend!

• Alice Sadie Celine

  "Obsessed!" --Chloë Sevigny
  "I am literally obsessed." --Busy Philipps

  Hailed as "richly intimate" and "wickedly delightful" (The New York Times Book Review), this steamy and incisive debut adult novel follows one woman's affair with her daughter's best friend, testing the limits of love and ambition.

  It's the opening night, but Alice's performance in the local Bay Area production of The Winter's Tale is far from glamourous. She doesn't have dreams of stardom, but the basement theater in a wildfire-choked town isn't exactly what she envisioned for her career back home in Los Angeles. To make matters worse, her best friend Sadie is not even coming.

  Pragmatic, serious Sadie and flighty, creative Alice have been best friends since high school--really one another's only friend--but now that they are through with college (which they attended together) and living on opposite ends of California, Alice would at least expect her friend's support. Sadie, determined not to cancel her plans with her boyfriend, ends up enlisting the help of her mother, Celine.

  A professor of women's and gender studies at UC Berkeley, Celine's landmark treatise on sex and identity made her notorious, but she's struggling to write her new book in a post-second-wave feminist world. So, when Sadie begs her to attend Alice's play, she relents, if only to escape writer's block. But in a turn of perplexing events, Celine becomes entranced by Alice's performance and realizes that her daughter's once lanky, slightly annoying best friend is now an irresistible young woman.

  Set over the course of decades--from Alice and Sadie's early friendship days and Celine's decision to leave her husband to the radical movements of the 1990s Berkeley and navigating contemporary Hollywood--Alice and Celine's love affair will test the limits of their love for Sadie and their own beliefs of power, agency, and feminism. Witty and relatable, sexy and surprising, Sarah Blakely-Cartwright's adult debut is a "heartfelt, smart, and keenly observed take on friendship" ( Town & Country) and a mesmerizing portrait of the inner lives of three very different women.

• A Monsoon Rising (Hurricane Wars #2)

  "Thea Guanzon needs to be on every fantasy reader's TBR list!" -- Danielle L. Jensen, New York Times bestselling author of A Fate Inked in Blood

  "Thea Guanzon's talent is limitless . . . Mark my words: lives will be changed by The Hurricane Wars trilogy." -- Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis

  Two hearts circle each other in the eye of the storm in this highly-anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller, The Hurricane Wars--prepare for more enemies-to-lovers romance, magical adventures, and political schemes in this Southeast Asian-inspired world.

  After a lifetime of war, Alaric and Talasyn were thrust into an alliance between their homelands that was supposed to end the fighting; however, being married to their sworn foe feels far from peaceful. Now Talasyn must play the part of Alaric's willing empress while her allies secretly plot to overthrow his reign. But the longer the couple are forced together, the harder it becomes to deny the feelings crackling like lightning between them. When the time comes to act, can she trust him, or must she ignore her heart for the sake of so many others?

  As the master of the Shadowforged Legion, Alaric has trained for battle all his life, but marrying a Lightweaver might be his most dangerous challenge yet. With tensions between nations churning, he needs to focus on the greater threat--the Moonless Dark, a cataclysmic magical event that could devour everything. Only he and Talasyn can stop it, with a powerful merging of light and shadow that they alone can create together. But saving their world from this disaster is a mere preface to his father's more sinister schemes, and his wife is a burning flame in the darkness, tempting both his loyalties and his desires.

  The Hurricane Wars aren't over. It's time to choose what--and who--to fight for. The world holds its breath amidst a whirlwind of new magic and old secrets that could change everything.

• The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2025

  #1 New York Times Bestseller! Get thousands of facts at your fingertips with this essential resource: sports, pop culture, science and technology, U.S. history and government, world geography, business, and so much more.

  The World Almanac(R)is America's bestselling reference book of all time, with more than 83 million copies sold. For more than 150 years, this compendium of information has been the authoritative source for school, library, business, and home. The 2025 edition ofThe World Almanacreviews the biggest events of 2024 and will be your go-to source for questions on any topic in the upcoming year. Praised as a "treasure trove of political, economic, scientific and educational statistics and information" byThe Wall Street Journal,The World Almanac and Book of Factswill answer all of your trivia needs effortlessly.

  Features include:

  • Special Feature: Election 2024: The World Almanac provides a comprehensive look at the entire 2024 election process, from the roller coaster of the early primaries to Vice Pres. Harris's unprecedented late candidacy to state and county presidential voting results and coverage of House, Senate, and gubernatorial races.

  • 2024--Top 10 News Topics: The editors of The World Almanac list the top stories that held the world's attention in 2024, from Gaza and Ukraine to the U.S. southern border.

  • 2024--Year in Sports: Hundreds of pages of trivia and statistics that are essential for any sports fan, featuring complete coverage of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris and the 2024 World Series.

  • 2024--Year in Pictures: Striking full-color images from around the world in 2024, covering news, entertainment, science, and sports.

  • 2024--Offbeat News Stories: The World Almanac editors found some of the strangest news stories of the year, from a contest for competitive mermaids to a library-sponsored "March Meowness."

  • World Almanac Editors' Picks: Time Capsule: The World Almanac lists the items that most came to symbolize the year 2024.

  • The World at a Glance: This annual feature of The World Almanac provides a quick look at the surprising stats and curious facts that define the changing world.

  • Other Highlights: More new data to help understand the world, including housing costs, immigration statistics, public schools and test scores, streaming TV and movie ratings, and much more.

• The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

  Instant New York Times Bestseller

  One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Year

  An Economist and Air Mail Best Book of the Year

  "Brave and absorbing." -- New York Times

  "Alberta is not just a thorough and responsible reporter but a vibrant writer, capable of rendering a farcical scene in vivid hues." -- Washington Post

  "An astonishingly clear-eyed look at a murky movement." -- Los Angeles Times

  Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing--and least understood--people living in America today. In his seminal new book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, journalist Tim Alberta, himself a practicing Christian and the son of an evangelical pastor, paints an expansive and profoundly troubling portrait of the American evangelical movement. Through the eyes of televangelists and small-town preachers, celebrity revivalists and everyday churchgoers, Alberta tells the story of a faith cheapened by ephemeral fear, a promise corrupted by partisan subterfuge, and a reputation stained by perpetual scandal.

  For millions of conservative Christians, America is their kingdom--a land set apart, a nation uniquely blessed, a people in special covenant with God. This love of country, however, has given way to right-wing nationalist fervor, a reckless blood-and-soil idolatry that trivializes the kingdom of Jesus Christ. Alberta retraces the arc of the modern evangelical movement, placing political and cultural inflection points in the context of church teachings and traditions, explaining how Donald Trump's presidency and the COVID-19 pandemic only accelerated historical trends that long pointed toward disaster. Reporting from half-empty sanctuaries and standing-room-only convention halls across the country, the author documents a growing fracture inside American Christianity and journeys with readers through this strange new environment in which loving your enemies is "woke" and owning the libs is the answer to WWJD.

  Accessing the highest echelons of the American evangelical movement, Alberta investigates the ways in which conservative Christians have pursued, exercised, and often abused power in the name of securing this earthly kingdom. He highlights the battles evangelicals are fighting--and the weapons of their warfare--to demonstrate the disconnect from scripture: Contra the dictates of the New Testament, today's believers are struggling mightily against flesh and blood, eyes fixed on the here and now, desperate for a power that is frivolous and fleeting. Lingering at the intersection of real cultural displacement and perceived religious persecution, Alberta portrays a rapidly secularizing America that has come to distrust the evangelical church, and weaves together present-day narratives of individual pastors and their churches as they confront the twin challenges of lost status and diminished standing.

  Sifting through the wreckage--pastors broken, congregations battered, believers losing their religion because of sex scandals and political schemes--Alberta asks: If the American evangelical movement has ceased to glorify God, what is its purpose?

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New Releases | December 10th, 2024

Meet The Artists, Julia & Eric!

We'd like you to meet our new friends! Julia and Eric are the two incredible artists behind our new shop bookmarks. They did such a stellar job and it was an absolute pleasure to meet them. We told Julia how many people would eventually own one of her bookmarks and she was SHOCKED.

How cool would it be for them to see their artwork out in the wild? Do you have one of their bookmarks? Is it already wedged in between the pages of your current read? Send us a pic on Facebook and we’ll make sure they see it!

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Bookmark Contest | Meet the Artists

Our December Monthly Staff Pick(s) Have Arrived!

The holiday shopping season is here, albeit a little delayed this year! Slow things down and give yourself a moment amid the rush with our, not one but, two Monthly Staff Picks this December. Our Selections both feature smaller sized pieces that provide the perfect spot of reading respite.

‘Life’s Short, Talk Fast’ is a collection of essays, edited by Ann Hood, that has writers celebrating, reminiscing, and dissecting their relationships with the beloved and binged television classic ‘Gilmore Girls’.

And ‘Christmas and Other Horrors’ brings together favorite authors like Garth Nix, Cassandra Khaw, and Stephen Graham Jones for a collection of short horror stories that center around just about any winter holiday you can think of.

These final picks of the year also make great gifts for, perhaps, slightly harder to shop for gift recipients and are available for 20% off through the month of December, while supplies last.

We hope to see you for more Monthly Staff Pick fun in the New Year!

• Life's Short, Talk Fast: Fifteen Writers on Why We Can't Stop Watching Gilmore Girls (An Unauthorized)

  Fast-talking, warm-hearted, and endlessly rewatchable, Gilmore Girls has bonded real-life mothers and daughters since 2000, when its iconic pilot introduced us to Lorelai, Rory, and their idyllic Connecticut town of Stars Hollow. More than twenty years later, it has become one of the most-streamed TV shows, ever.

  In an anthology as intimate and quick-witted as Gilmore Girls itself, best-selling author Ann Hood invites fifteen writers to investigate their personal relationships to the show. ("It's a show? It's a lifestyle. It's a religion.") Joanna Rakoff considers how Emily Gilmore helped her understand her own mother; Sanjena Sathian sees herself--and Asian American defiance--in Lane Kim; Freya North connects with her son through the show; Francesco Sedita discovers an antidote to pandemic loneliness; Nina de Gramont offers a comic ode to the unreality of Stars Hollow. For anyone who identifies as Team Logan, Team Jess, or even Team Dean, Life's Short, Talk Fast reveals what Gilmore Girls tells us about ourselves--and why it matters.

  This publication has not been prepared, approved, or licensed by Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.; Warner Bros Television; or any other entity or individual associated with the creation or production of Gilmore Girls.

• Christmas and Other Horrors: A Winter Solstice Anthology

  Hugo Award winning editor, and horror legend, Ellen Datlow presents this chilling horror anthology of 18 original short stories exploring the endless terrors of winter solstice traditions across the globe, featuring chillers by Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, Alma Katsu and many more.

  The winter solstice is celebrated as a time of joy around the world--yet the long nights also conjure a darker tradition of ghouls, hauntings, and visitations. This anthology of all-new stories invites you to huddle around the fire and revel in the unholy, the dangerous, the horrific aspects of a
  time when families and friends come
  together--for better and for worse.

  From the eerie Austrian Schnabelperchten to the skeletal Welsh Mari Lwyd, by way of ravenous golems, uncanny neighbors, and unwelcome visitors, Christmas and Other Horrors captures the heart and horror of the festive season.

  Because the weather outside is frightful, but the fire inside is hungry...

  Featuring stories from:

  Nadia Bulkin
  Terry Dowling
  Tananarive Due
  Jeffrey Ford
  Christopher Golden
  Stephen Graham Jones
  Glen Hirshberg
  Richard Kadrey
  Alma Katsu
  Cassandra Khaw
  John Langan
  Josh Malerman
  Nick Mamatas
  Garth Nix
  Benjamin Percy
  M. Rickert
  Kaaron Warren

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Monthly Staff Picks | December 2024