New Releases | April 8th, 2025

• New Release List (Click to Expand)

  Adult Fiction

  • The Little Liar - Albom, Mitch (Author)

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

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

  • Audition - Kitamura, Katie (Author)

  • Worry - Tanner, Alexandra (Author)

  Animals

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

  Arts & Entertainment

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

  Biography

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

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

  Board Books

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

  Body, Mind & Spirit

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

  Cookbooks

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

  Field Guides

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

  Graphic Novels

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

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

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

  History

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

  Homestead

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

  Horror

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

  Humor

  • Poems of Parenting - Brantz, Loryn (Author)

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

  Just the Facts

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

  • Ancient Egypt (DK Ancient Histories)

  Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

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

  Middle Readers

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

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

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

  • Ollie in Between - Callans, Jess (Author)

  Mystery & Thriller

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

  Nature

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

  Picture Books

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

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

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

  • Bluey: Fairytale - Brumm, Joe (Author)

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

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

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

  Romance

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

  • Passion Project - Sperry, London (Author)

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

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

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

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

  Science Fiction & Fantasy

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

  Social Sciences

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

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

  Young Adult

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

Our Top 5 Picks

• A Minecraft Movie the Junior Novelization

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

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

• Worry

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

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

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

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

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

• The Little Liar

  An Instant New York Times Bestseller

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • "Who did this to you?"

  • Extreme Enemies to Lovers

  • Strong Heroine

  • Morally Gray Alpha Heroes

  • Zodiac Academy, Quicksilver and When the Moon Hatched

• Firebird (Fire That Binds #1)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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New Releases | April 8th, 2025

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Two recent favorites are now in paperback… and 20% off for the month of April!

Two recent favorites are now in paperback… and if that wasn’t enough to celebrate, they’re BOTH this April’s Monthly Staff Pick because how could we choose just one!

Our first selection this month comes from one of America’s most treasured living writers, who, after 2019’s Pulitzer Prize finalist ‘The Dutch House’, returns to fiction with ‘Tom Lake’. Perhaps Ann Patchett at the culmination of her literary powers, this thoughtfully quiet novel explores family, love, and life in ways only Patchett can set amidst the backdrop of the unraveling of the Spring of 2020.

• Tom Lake - Ann Patchet

  #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

  In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers.

  "Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature." --The Guardian

  In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

  Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.

The second selection this month comes after three long years in hardcover (a small eternity in the world of books) as Bonnie Garmus’s debut ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ has finally arrived in paperback! This zippy, fish out of water, 1960s Southern California story that follows Elizabeth Zott as she traverses the worlds of chemistry labs and television cooking sets is a feminist tale of the past with a message that echoes strongly in the present.

• Lessons In Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus

  #1 GLOBAL BESTSELLER WITH MORE THAN 8 MILLION COPIES SOLD - Meet Elizabeth Zott: "a gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention" (The Washington Post) in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show. - STREAM ON APPLE TV+

  This novel is "irresistible, satisfying and full of fuel" (The New York Times Book Review) and "witty, sometimes hilarious...the Catch-22 of early feminism" (Stephen King, via Twitter).
  
  A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Oprah Daily, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek

  Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with--of all things--her mind. True chemistry results.

  But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth's unusual approach to cooking ("combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride") proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn't just teaching women to cook. She's daring them to change the status quo.

  Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.

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New Releases | April 1st, 2025

• New Release List (Click to Expand)

  Adult Art

  • Colourful Modern Calligraphy - Withers, Milly (Author)

  Adult Fiction

  • Tom Lake - Patchett, Ann (Author)

  • Rabbit Moon - Haigh, Jennifer (Author)

  • Lessons in Chemistry - Garmus, Bonnie (Author)

  • All That Life Can Afford - Everett, Emily (Author)

  • The Sirens - Hart, Emilia (Author)

  • The Cemetery of Untold Stories - Alvarez, Julia (Author)

  • The Ministry of Time - Bradley, Kaliane (Author)

  • The Most Beautiful Book in the World: 8 Novellas - Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel (Author) , Anderson, Alison (Translator)

  • The Distant Marvels - Acevedo, Chantel (Author)

  • Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio - Lakhous, Amara (Author) , Goldstein, Ann (Translator)

  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Barbery, Muriel (Author) , Anderson, Alison (Translator)

  • A Novel Bookstore - Cossé, Laurence (Author) , Anderson, Alison (Translator)

  • I Loved You for Your Voice - Nassib, Sélim (Author) , Anderson, Alison (Translator)

  Award Winners

  • The Eyes and the Impossible: (Newbery Medal Winner) - Eggers, Dave (Author) , Harris, Shawn (Illustrator)

  • Ferris - DiCamillo, Kate (Author)

  Board Books

  • Little Excavator - Dewdney, Anna (Author) , Dewdney, Anna (Illustrator)

  • Diggers Love Their Daddies! (Where Do...Series) - Sayres, Brianna Caplan (Author) , Slade, Christian (Illustrator)

  • Mommies Are Amazing - Scholastic (Author) , Eone (Illustrator)

  Body, Mind & Spirit

  • Mere Christianity Deluxe Edition - Lewis, C S (Author)

  Chapter Books

  • Night of the Dream Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #28) - West, Tracey (Author) , Loveridge, Matt (Illustrator)

  • Fuecoco, I Choose You! (Pokémon Chapter Book) - Barbo, Maria S (Author)

  • Night Night, Sweet Screams (Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol #24) - Miedoso, Andres (Author) , Rivas, Victor (Illustrator)

  Children’s Poetry

  • How to Spot a Magical Woodland Creature: A Field Guide to Enchanted Forest Animals - Marsh, Sarah Glenn (Author) , Bolecz, Lilla (Illustrator)

  Cookbooks

  • Dessert Course: Lessons in the Whys and Hows of Baking - Delwiche, Benjamin (Author)

  • Dinner: 120 Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes for the Most Important Meal of the Day - Sodha, Meera (Author)

  • Your Pasta Sucks: A Cookbook - Lane, Matteo (Author) , Goode, J J (Author) , Achilleos, Antonis (Photographer)

  Family Issues

  • Autism Out Loud: Life with a Child on the Spectrum, from Diagnosis to Young Adulthood - Swenson, Kate (Author) , Cariello, Carrie (Author) , Wood, Adrian (Author)

  • Making the Best of What's Left: When We're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered - Viorst, Judith (Author)

  Fun & Games

  • Legendary and Mythical Guidebook: Deluxe Updated Edition (Pokémon) - Scholastic (Author)

  Graphic Novels

  • Coven - Chainani, Soman (Author) , Gennari, Joel (Illustrator)

  • Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Graphic Novel: Dinosaurs - Osborne, Mary Pope (Author) , Laird, Jenny (Adapted by) , Tejido, Jomike (Illustrator)

  • Nightmare Hunter #1: A Graphic Novel (Maxwell Dark) - Smith, Brady (Author) , Smith, Brady (Illustrator)

  • The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel - Telgemeier, Raina (Author) , McCloud, Scott (Author)

  • Karen's Prize: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #10) - Grant, Shauna J (Adapted by) , Grant, Shauna J (Illustrator) , Martin, Ann M (Author)

  • Around the Spider-Verse (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel Anthology) - Leon, Pablo (Author) , Reynolds, Justin A (Author) , Brown, Roseanne A (Author) , Gaylord, Penelope Rivera (Illustrator) , Gil, Maca (Illustrator)

  • How to Talk to Your Succulent - Persico, Zoe (Author)

  Great Outdoors

  • Enough: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest - Arnot Reid, Melissa (Author)

  • The Zen of Flyfishing - Kaminsky, Peter (Author)

  History

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

  • Resolute: John Franklin's Lost Expedition and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship (Revised) - Sandler, Martin W (Author)

  • The Trial of the Century - Jarrett, Gregg (Author) , Yaeger, Don (With)

  Horror

  • This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances - Larocca, Eric (Author)

  Just the Facts

  • What Do We Know About the Lost Colony of Roanoke? - Berne, Emma Carlson (Author) , Who Hq (Author) , Marchesi, Stephen (Illustrator)

  • Who Is Shohei Ohtani? - Buckley, James (Author) , Who Hq (Author) , Copeland, Gregory (Illustrator)

  • Woods & Words: The Story of Poet Mary Oliver - Ackerman, Sara Holly (Author) , Stoop, Naoko (Illustrator)

  • Politics (My World) - Altarriba, Eduard (Author)

  • Frida Kahlo's Flower Crown: A Picture Book - Armendia-Sánchez, Nydia (Author) , Lora, Loris (Illustrator)

  • Who Is Caitlin Clark? - Borzilleri, Meri-Jo (Author) , Copeland, Gregory (Illustrator) , Who Hq (Author)

  Literary Collections

  • Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life - Smith, Maggie (Author)

  Middle Readers

  • The Dragon's Apprentice - Riley, James (Author)

  • The Green Kingdom - Funke, Cornelia (Author) , Hartung, Tammi (Author) , Castrillon, Melissa (Illustrator)

  • The Playmakers - Morris, Chad (Author) , Brown, Shelly (Author)

  My First Readers

  • DK Super Readers Level 1 a Day in the Life of a Pilot

  • DK Super Readers Level 1 Deadly Dinosaurs

  Mystery & Thriller

  • Local Woman Missing Collector's Edition (Reissue) - Kubica, Mary (Author)

  • The Cabinet of Curiosities - Preston, Douglas (Author) , Child, Lincoln (Author)

  • Heartwood (a Read with Jenna Pick) - Gaige, Amity (Author)

  Nature

  • Birding to Change the World: A Memoir - O'Kane, Trish (Author)

  Personal Growth

  • Secrets of Adulthood: Simple Truths for Our Complex Lives - Rubin, Gretchen (Author)

  Picture Books

  • Big Enough - Linke, Regina (Author)

  • The Littlest Drop - Alper, Sascha (Author) , Pinkney, Jerry (Illustrator) , Pinkney, Brian (Illustrator)

  • Mommy Love: A Mindfulness Exercise for Mothers and Babies - Verde, Susan (Author) , Stoop, Naoko (Illustrator)

  • Mistaco: A Tale of Tragedy Y Tortillas - Kinkz, Eliza (Author) , Kinkz, Eliza (Illustrator)

  • Grumpy Monkey Mom for a Day: Includes Fun Stickers - Lang, Suzanne (Author) , Lang, Max (Illustrator)

  • We Leap Together - Neal, Christopher Silas (Author)

  • That's My Truck!: A Good Inside Story about Hitting - Kennedy, Becky (Author) , Stone, Joanie (Illustrator)

  • Fairy Walk - Cornwall, Gaia (Author) , Cornwall, Gaia (Illustrator)

  • Tabby McTat, the Musical Cat - Donaldson, Julia (Author) , Scheffler, Axel (Illustrator)

  • 5-Minute Stories (Pokémon) - Webster, Christy (Author)

  Poetry

  • Resurrection - Steel, Danielle (Author)

  Romance

  • Swept Away - O'Leary, Beth (Author)

  • Identity - Roberts, Nora (Author)

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

  • Wildfire: Deluxe Edition Hardcover (The Maple Hills) - Grace, Hannah (Author)

  • Sweet Obsession (Dark Olympus #8) - Robert, Katee (Author)

  Science & Nature

  • I Know Dino!: Amazing Breakthroughs, Mega Mistakes, and Unsolved Mysteries in Dinosaur Science - Ricci, Sabrina (Author) , Kruger, Garret (Author)

  Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Gifted & Talented - Blake, Olivie (Author)

  Spinner Rack

  • Maisy Goes on a Bike Ride (Maisy First Experiences) - Cousins, Lucy (Author) , Cousins, Lucy (Illustrator)

  • The A-Meow-Zing Race (Gabby's Dollhouse 8 X 8 #11) - Bobowicz, Pamela (Author)

  Sports

  • The Golf 100: A Spirited Ranking of the Greatest Players of All Time - Arkush, Michael (Author)

  True Crime

  • Deviant - Schechter, Harold (Author)

  Workbooks

  • National Geographic Kids Explore! Workbook Kindergarten

  • National Geographic Kids Explore! Workbook Pre-K

  • Brain Quest Workbook: Learn Spanish

  • Mega Math Maze: A Multiplication Adventure - Poskitt, Kjartan (Author)

  Young Adult

  • Murtagh: The World of Eragon (Inheritance Cycle) - Paolini, Christopher (Author)

  • Run Away with Me - Selznick, Brian (Author)

Our Top 5 Picks

• The Dragon's Apprentice

  In this hilarious fantasy adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of the Story Thieves series, a girl strikes a deal with the ancient, cranky dragon she accidentally summoned to teach her the forbidden magic she needs to save her mother.

  STOP. Don't read any further. There are magic spells in this book, and the Emperor has forbidden anyone from learning magic, because it's way too dangerous! If you try one of the spells, any number of terrible things might happen (or so the Emperor says).

  Don't be like Ciara, a twelve-year-old girl living in the tiny village of Skael. When she used a spell from within this book, she ended up summoning a dragon. A DRAGON! Those things breathe fire! From their mouths! She's obviously doomed.

  And don't listen if Ciara tells you that dragons won't hurt humans, and that they even once taught us magic, a thousand years ago. Definitely don't pay any attention to the fact that the dragon she summoned, Scorch, might be willing to help rescue Ciara's mother and free her village from the Emperor and his Warden, because it's all obviously a big lie. So put this book down, and forget about it. Magic is just way too dangerous. After all, you wouldn't want to summon your own dragon, would you?

• Wildfire: Deluxe Edition Hardcover (The Maple Hills)

  Hannah Grace's #1 New York Times bestselling Wildfire in a spectacular deluxe hardcover edition featuring:

  Stunning sprayed edges
  Designed endpapers
  Foil stampedcover boards

  The latest in the TikTok sensation and deliciously "swoonworthy" (Elena Armas,New York Timesbestselling author) Maple Hills series follows two summer camp counselors who reconnect after a sizzling one-night stand.

  Maple Hills students Russ Callaghan and Aurora Roberts cross paths at a party celebrating the end of the academic year, where a drinking game results in them having a passionate one-night stand. Never one to overstay her welcome (or expect much from a man), Aurora slips away before Russ even has the chance to ask for her full name.

  Imagine their surprise when they bump into each other on the first day of the summer camp where they are both counselors, hoping to escape their complicated home lives by spending the summer working. Russ hopes if he gets far enough away from Maple Hills, he can avoid dealing with the repercussions of his father's gambling addiction, while Aurora is tired of craving attention from everyone around her, and wants to go back to the last place she truly felt at home.

  Russ knows breaking the camp's strict "no staff fraternizing" rule will have him heading back to Maple Hills before the summer is over, but unfortunately for him, Aurora has never been very good at caring about the rules. Will the two learn to peacefully coexist? Or did their one night together start a fire they can't put out?

• Murtagh: The World of Eragon (Inheritance Cycle)

  INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Master storyteller and internationally bestselling author Christopher Paolini returns to the World of Eragon in this stunning epic fantasy set a year after the events of the Inheritance Cycle. Join Dragon Rider--and fan favorite--Murtagh and his dragon as they confront a perilous new enemy!

  "Christopher Paolini is a true rarity." --The Washington Post

  The world is no longer safe for the Dragon Rider Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn. An evil king has been toppled, and they are left to face the consequences of the reluctant role they played in his reign of terror . Now they are hated and alone, exiled to the outskirts of society.

  Throughout the land, hushed voices whisper of brittle ground and a faint scent of brimstone in the air--and Murtagh senses that something wicked lurks in the shadows of Alagaësia. So begins an epic journey into lands both familiar and untraveled, where Murtagh and Thorn must use every weapon in their arsenal, from brains to brawn, to find and outwit a mysterious witch. A witch who is much more than she seems.

  In this gripping novel starring one of the most popular characters from Christopher Paolini's blockbuster Inheritance Cycle, a Dragon Rider must discover what he stands for in a world that has abandoned him. Murtagh is the perfect book to enter the World of Eragon for the first time . . . or to joyfully return.

  Praise for Christopher Paolini:
  "[A] spellbinding fantasy writer." --The Boston Globe
  "A breathtaking and unheard-of success." --USA Today
  "Make[s] literary magic." --People

• Lessons in Chemistry

  #1 GLOBAL BESTSELLER WITH MORE THAN 8 MILLION COPIES SOLD - Meet Elizabeth Zott: "a gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention" (The Washington Post) in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show. - STREAM ON APPLE TV+

  This novel is "irresistible, satisfying and full of fuel" (The New York Times Book Review) and "witty, sometimes hilarious...the Catch-22 of early feminism" (Stephen King, via Twitter).
  
  A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Oprah Daily, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek

  Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with--of all things--her mind. True chemistry results.

  But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth's unusual approach to cooking ("combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride") proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn't just teaching women to cook. She's daring them to change the status quo.

  Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.

• Tom Lake

  #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

  In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers.

  "Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature." --The Guardian

  In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

  Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.

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New Releases | April 1st, 2025

Trainers Join Their Partner Pokemon in the Latest Pokemon TCG set, Journey Together!

Trainer’s Pokémon

Trainer's Pokémon first debuted as part of the Gym Heroes expansion over 20 years ago and haven't appeared in the Pokémon TCG since the Double Crisis expansion in 2015. They're back and more exciting than ever, with a wide variety of Trainers from different regions reuniting with some of their most iconic Pokémon.

Illustration Rare & Special Illustration Rare Cards

Illustration rare and special illustration rare cards often feature a wide range of Pokémon and their everyday experiences—and that often includes their relationship with Trainers! Scarlet & Violet—Journey Together continues that trend but with an additional emphasis on the iconic Pokémon and Trainer relationships that we’ve grown to admire.

Journey Around the World

You won’t find every Pokémon in the Paldea region, but you can find Pokémon from all over the Pokémon world in this new expansion. You’ve got the adorable Cubone and Pancham, the seaside-dwelling Octillery, and even the Legendary Tapu Koko to look forward to in booster packs.

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Pokemon Journey Together Release

The harmful practice of deceptive marketing in today's online world

Are you a fan of Smiski, Pokemon or Jellycat? If so, you've likely noticed it's getting more difficult to track 'em down. Why is that? There are many factors such as increasing demand, resellers and distributors cracking down and limiting supply to shops not to mention the looming tariffs and how those may or may not affect the market.

As a small biz, we feel you. We're doing what we can to keep these items well stocked and at or below MSRP. We refuse to boost our prices to make a quick buck. Other companies (we won't name names) lure you in with buzzwords and "sales", but are you truly getting a good deal? We'll use Smiski as an example here. MSRP is $11.99. Another retailer has them "on sale" for $15.99 from $17-$20. They were never $20. It's a marketing tactic but really it's just pure deception. We will not raise our prices unless absolutely necessary, which sometimes means we make a little less on the back end but your trust is worth more than $$$.

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Smiski Highlight March 2025

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