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New Releases | September 23rd, 2025

September 21, 2025 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Art

    • Dollar Origami Kit: 7 Easy Models, 60 Practice Dollar Bills - Kirschenbaum, Marc (Author)

    Adult Fiction

    • The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story - Tokarczuk, Olga (Author), Lloyd-Jones, Antonia (Translator)

    • Will There Ever Be Another You - Lockwood, Patricia (Author)

    • We Love You, Bunny - Awad, Mona(Author)

    • What We Can Know - McEwan, Ian (Author)

    • Intermezzo - Rooney, Sally (Author)

    • Circle of Days - Follett, Ken (Author)

    • The Handmaid's Tale (Deluxe Edition): 40th Anniversary Edition -Atwood, Margaret (Author)

    • The Phoebe Variations - Hamilton, Jane (Author)

    Arts & Entertainment

    • The Book of Bill Limited Collector's Edition - Hirsch, Alex (Author)

    Award Winners

    • Popcorn - Harrell, Rob (Author)

    Board Books

    • Frog and Toad: Two Together: Original Board Book - Lobel, Arnold (Author) , Lobel, Arnold (Illustrator)

    • Construction Site Hanukkah Lights: A Hanukkah Lift-The-Flap Book - Rinker, Sherri Duskey (Author) , Tenney, Shawna J C (Illustrator)

    Body, Mind & Spirit

    • The Comfy Cozy Witch Oracle - Blonde, Jennie (Author)

    Children’s Poetry

    • The Raven: The Classic Poem - Bristol, Chloe (Illustrator), Poe, Edgar Allan (Author)

    • A Poem for Every Day of Christmas - Esiri, Allie (Author)

    Children’s Science & Nature

    • What Goes on Inside a Wolf Pack: Follow the Adventures of a Wolf Family in Yellowstone National Park - Yale, Kathleen (Author) , Shryock, Carrie (Illustrator) , International Wolf Center (With)

    Fun & Game Books

    • Where's Waldo? the Magnificent Movie Spotlight Search - Handford, Martin(Author) , Handford, Martin (Illustrator)

    Graphic Novels

    • Scarlet Morning, Book 1: Scarlet Morning - Stevenson, ND (Author) , Stevenson, ND (Illustrator)

    • Folk Remedy: Book 1 - Yoshioka, Jem (Author)

    History

    • McNamara at War: A New History - Taubman, William (Author), Taubman, Philip (Author)

    • The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 - Lloyd, Nick (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • Outside in and the Inside Out: A Story about Arnold Lobel - Kastner, Emmy (Author) , Kastner, Emmy (Illustrator)

    • Everything But Typical: Influential Neurodivergent People Who Have Shaped the World - Weston, Margeaux (Author), Cruickshank, Jessica (Illustrator)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale: Hulk - Loeb, Jeph (Author) , Sale, Tim (Illustrator) , Sale, Tim (Not Available)

    • Dur-An-KI - Miura, Kentaro (Producer) , Studio Gaga (Illustrator) , Miura, Kentaro (Created by)

    • Beasts of the Four Nations: Creatures from Avatar: The Last Airbender and the Legend of Korra - Koneitzko, Bryan (Created by) , DiMartino, Michael Dante (Created by) , Nickelodeon (Producer) , O'Bryan, John (Author) , Various (Illustrator)

    • Supergirl: Universe Ends - Tamaki, Mariko (Author), Patridge, Skylar (Illustrator)

    • Metamorpho: The Element Man -Ewing, Al (Author), Lieber, Steve (Illustrator)

    Middle Readers

    • Rocket Arm - Green, Tim (Author)

    • From the World of Percy Jackson: The Court of the Dead: A Nico Di Angelo Adventure 2 - Riordan, Rick (Author), Oshiro, Mark (Author)

    My First Readers

    • Frog and Toad: 4 Classic Stories of Friendship - Lobel, Arnold (Author) , Lobel, Arnold (Illustrator)

    Personal Growth

    • Still Bobbi: A Master Class in Leading an Authentic Life - Brown, Bobbi (Author)

    • Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit (A Dare to Lead Book) - Brown, Brené (Author)

    Picture Books

    • If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone - Sterer, Gideon (Author), Hughes, Emily (Illustrator)

    • Curious George Storybook Favorites - Rey, H A (Author), Rey, Margret (Author)

    • Happy Friendsgiving: A Thanksgiving Celebration of Found Families - Colleen, Marcie (Author), Herrera, Laura Sandoval (Illustrator)

    • Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Hanukkah Party! - Kimmelman, Leslie (Author) , Brannon, Tom (Illustrator)

    • Calico Critters: A Treasury of Tales: 15 Stories of Family and Friendship

    • Holly Jolly Kitty-Corn: A Picture Book - Hale, Shannon (Author), Pham, Leuyen (Illustrator)

    • Body Beautiful: A Picture Book - Verde, Susan (Author) , Littlebird, Steph (Illustrator)

    Political Sciences

    • Equality Is a Struggle: Bulletins from the Front Line, 2021-2025 - Piketty, Thomas (Author)

    • U.S. Government and Politics Simplified: A Comprehensive Guide to the American Political System - Scardino, Franco (Author)

    • 107 Days - Harris, Kamala (Author)

    Romance

    • Two Twisted Crowns (Deluxe Limited Hardcover Edition) - Gillig, Rachel (Author)

    • One Dark Window (Deluxe Limited Hardcover Edition) - Gillig, Rachel (Author)

    • I'll Be Home for Christmas - Bayliss, Jenny (Author)

    • Road Trip with a Vampire - Levine, Jenna (Author)

    • Alchemised - SenLinYu (Author)

    • Swordcrossed - Marske, Freya (Author)

    • Anathema (Deluxe Edition) (The Eating Woods #1) - Lake, Keri (Author)

    • Tourist Season: The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy - Weaver, Brynne (Author)

    • Regretting You - Hoover, Colleen (Author)

    • The Primal of Blood and Bone: A Blood and Ash 6 - Armentrout, Jennifer L (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • Cat Dragon - Birch, Samantha (Author)

    • The Narrow Road Between Desires (Kingkiller Chronicle) - Rothfuss, Patrick (Author)

    • The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles #1) - Klune, Tj (Author)

    • Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles #2) - Klune, Tj (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse - Kemp, Luke (Author)

    • When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life - Pinker, Steven (Author)

    Young Adult

    • When the World Tips Over - Nelson, Jandy (Author)

    • A Steeping of Blood (Blood and Tea #2) - Faizal, Hafsah (Author)

    • The Guardians of Dreamdark: Windwitch Collector's Edition - Taylor, Laini (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A National Indie Bestseller
    Short-listed for the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year
    Finalist for the Barnes and Noble Book of the Year
    Named a Best Book of the Year and a Critics' Pick by The New York Times

    Named an Essential Read by The New Yorker
    Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, Financial Times, Vogue, The Guardian, Harper's Bazaar, Vox, The Times (UK), Apple Books, and more

    A USA Today, People, and Associated Press Top 10 Book of the Year
    One of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2024

    One of Chicago Public Library's Favorite Books of the Year

    An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family--but especially love--from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

    Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

    Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties--successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women--his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

    Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

    For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude--a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.

  • For the first time, and with surprising and revealing insights, former Vice President Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wildest and most consequential presidential campaigns in American history.

    Your Secret Service code name is Pioneer.
    You are the first woman in history to be elected vice president of the United States.
    On July 21, 2024, your running mate, Joe Biden, announces that he will not be seeking reelection.
    The presidential election will occur on November 5, 2024.
    You have 107 days.

    From the chaos of campaign strategy sessions to the intensity of debate prep under relentless scrutiny and the private moments that rarely make headlines, Kamala Harris offers an unfiltered look at the pressures, triumphs, and heartbreaks of a history-defining race. With behind-the-scenes details and a voice that is both intimate and urgent, this is more than a political memoir--it's a chronicle of resilience, leadership, and the high stakes of democracy in action.

    Written with candor, a unique perspective, and the pace of a page-turning novel, 107 Days takes you inside the race for the presidency as no one has ever done before.

  • A stunning deluxe edition for the fortieth anniversary of an unparalleled cornerstone of feminist literature, featuring the original cover art and a short, unpublished essay penned in 1986 by Margaret Atwood, "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" (The New York Times).

    In Margaret Atwood's dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead's commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive. At once a scathing satire, an ominous warning, and a tour de force of narrative suspense, The Handmaid's Tale is a modern classic.

  • In this riveting dark fantasy debut, a woman with missing memories fights to survive a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy--and the man tasked with unearthing the deepest secrets of her past.

    This stunning hardcover edition features a deluxe jacket with gold foil on the front and a full-color illustration on the reverse, gorgeous designed endpapers, a gold foil case stamp, and, from acclaimed artist Avendell, a black-and-white interior illustration.

    " What is it you think you're protecting in that brain of yours? The war is over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame extinguished. There's no one left for you to save."

    Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner--of war and of her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutally murdered, her abilities suppressed, and the world she knew destroyed.

    In the aftermath of a long war, Paladia's new ruling class of corrupt guild families and depraved necromancers, whose vile undead creatures helped bring about their victory, holds Helena captive.

    According to Resistance records, she was a healer of little importance within their ranks. But Helena has inexplicable memory loss of the months leading up to her capture, making her enemies wonder: Is she truly as insignificant as she appears, or are her lost memories hiding some vital piece of the Resistance's final gambit?

    To uncover the memories buried deep within her mind, Helena is sent to the High Reeve, one of the most powerful and ruthless necromancers in this new world. Trapped on his crumbling estate, Helena's fight--to protect her lost history and to preserve the last remaining shreds of her former self--is just beginning. For her prison and captor have secrets of their own . . . secrets Helena must unearth, whatever the cost.

  • "The undisputed queen of dark rom-coms is back with a new swoony, one-of-a-kind banger, and the book world better get ready for it!" --Ali Hazelwood, #1 New York Times bestselling author

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brynne Weaver comes a wickedly delicious new series where dark romantic comedy meets thrilling suspense--and where falling in love can be a killer.

    Welcome to Cape Carnage! Visit Once, Stay Forever.

    You can hide in the farthest reaches of the deepest hell, and I will still drag you out. Even the devil can't save you from me.

    Cape Carnage is a seaside town of colorful houses, quirky shops, and an unusually high body count. With tourists comes trouble, and Harper Starling won't let anyone ruin her picture-perfect home. A skilled gardener with killer instincts, Harper protects her sanctuary--and her aging mentor with a fading memory--at any cost. Troublesome tourists don't check out of Carnage. They compost beneath Harper's award-winning flowerbeds.

    But Nolan Rhodes isn't your average tourist. Devilishly handsome, disarmingly charming, and skilled with a blade, Nolan is relentless in the pursuit of revenge. On every anniversary of the hit-and-run accident that fractured his life, Nolan slays another target. And he's saved the best for last: the undeniably beautiful Harper Starling. The problem? Harper isn't the monster he expected. And she won't go down without a fight.

    When an amateur true crime investigator comes to Cape Carnage on the trail of a long-lost serial killer, Harper and Nolan strike an uneasy truce. If Nolan helps Harper protect her town, she'll keep quiet about his hunting habits . . . for now. But their alliance soon spirals into obsession, one that threatens to shatter every secret in Carnage--including their fragile love.

    Tourist Season is a darkly funny, slow burn, enemies-to-lovers romance where destruction and desire are balanced on the edge of a blade-- and where love is the most dangerous battleground of all.

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New Releases | September 16, 2025

September 14, 2025 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Art

    • Crochet Snails and Mushroom Sprites - Lapp, Megan (Author)

    Adult Fiction

    • The Wilderness - Flournoy, Angela (Author)

    • Boy from the North Country - Sussman, Sam (Author)

    Adult Science

    • Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy - Roach, Mary (Author)

    Biography

    • Wild Forest Lands: Finding History and Meaning in the Adirondacks (New York State) - Terrie, Philip G (Author)

    Board Books

    • Hanukkah 1-2-3!: A First Counting Book - Wieder, Joy Nelkin (Author) , Lewis, Aura (Illustrator)

    Chapter Books

    • Wolf Girl #2: The Great Escape - Do, Anh (Author)

    • Jingle, All the Way Home: An Advent Countdown Story -Hapka, Catherine (Author), Selbert, Kathryn (Illustrator)

    Children’s Poetry

    • Dragons: Meet the Legendary Monsters of Mythology - Stevenson, Cait (Author) , Neon Squid (Author) , Alvarez, Cinthya (Illustrator)

    Cookbooks

    • Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love - Nosrat, Samin (Author), Brackett, Aya (Photographer)

    D&D TCG

    • Dungeons & Dragons RPG: Starter Set - Heroes of the Borderlands

    Family Issues

    • American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era - Lang, Nico (Author)

    Fun & Games

    • Minecraft Atlas of the World

    • Star Wars Encyclopedia of Starfighters and Other Vehicles - Wainerdi, Brandon (Author)

    Graphic Novels

    • Box Tales: Grow, Strawberries, Grow! -Burks, James (Author)

    • Ilustra: Daybreaker: Book 1 - Tadiar, Tori (Author)

    • Shadow Warrior (Spider-Man: Original Manga) - Aoki, Shogo (Author) , Aoki, Shogo (Illustrator)

    Great Outdoors

    • Pocketguide to Eastern Hatches - Ames Jr, Thomas (Author)

    History

    • We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution -Lepore, Jill (Author)

    • History Matters - McCullough, David (Author) , McCullough Lawson, Dorie (Contribution by) , Hill, Michael (Contribution by)

    Horror

    • Fiend - Katsu, Alma (Author)

    • The Whistler - Medina, Nick (Author)

    • Exiles - Coile, Mason (Author)

    • October Shadows: Classic Ghost Stories for Halloween - Rice, John A (Illustrator) , Rice, John A (Selected by)

    Humor Book

    • I'm So F*cking Bored: A Sweary Activity Book for Adults - Peterson, Caitlin (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • Tales of Pirates: Adventures on the Seven Seas - Nelson, Katie (Author), Meikle, Olivia (Author) , Neon Squid (Author), Ermos, George (Illustrator)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Thor & Loki: Epic Tales from Marvel Mythology - Dawson, Delilah S (Author), Walta, Gabriel Hernández (Illustrator)

    • Harley Quinn: Wild at Heart: DC Compact Comics Edition - Conner, Amanda (Author) , Palmiotti, Jimmy (Author)

    • Disney Twisted-Wonderland: The Manga - Book of Heartslabyul Complete Box Set (Disney Twisted-Wonderland: The Manga - Book of Heartslabyul #1) - Hazuki, Wakana (Author), Kowono, Sumire (Illustrator)

    Mystery & Thriller

    • Murder on the Orient Express Deluxe Collector's Edition: A Hercule Poirot Mystery - Christie, Agatha (Author)

    • No Rest for the Wicked - Adams, Rachel Louise

    • The Wasp Trap - Edwards, Mark (Author)

    Personal Growth

    • The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People with Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss - Mace, Nancy L (Author), Rabins, Peter V (Author)

    Picture Books

    • The Book of Candles: Eight Poems for Hanukkah -Snyder, Laurel (Author), Hatch, Leanne (Illustrator)

    • The Elf on the Shelf: How Old Is Santa Claus? - Bell, Chanda A (Author), Innocente, Agnese (Illustrator) , Loog, Lera (Illustrator)

    • Seven Ways Through the Woods - Reese, Jenn (Author), Kurtz, Devin Elle (Illustrator)

    • The Polar Express: Christmas Countdown Deluxe Gift Set - Van Allsburg, Chris (Author) , Van Allsburg, Chris (Illustrator)

    • Fancy Nancy: Besties for Eternity - O'Connor, Jane (Author), Glasser, Robin Preiss (Illustrator)

    • The Digger and the Christmas Tree - Kuefler, Joseph (Author) , Kuefler, Joseph (Illustrator)

    • Wally Mammoth: The Sled Race - Tabor, Corey R (Author) , Webb, Dalton (Illustrator)

    • The Big Cheese Presents: Have Yourself a Cheesy Little Christmas - John, Jory (Author), Oswald, Pete (Illustrator)

    • If We Were Dogs - Blackall, Sophie (Author)

    • Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?: A Hard-Boiled Mystery - Sayres, Brianna Caplan (Author) , Fearing, Mark (Illustrator)

    • Gather Grateful - Litwin, Megan (Author), Finkeldey, Alexandra (Illustrator)

    • Hogbert - Smith, Briony May (Author) , Smith, Briony May (Illustrator)

    • Peppa Pig: Our New Baby Sister - Spinner, Cala (Text by (Art/Photo Books))

    • Snow Kid - Sima, Jessie (Author) , Sima, Jessie (Illustrator)

    Poetry

    • Poems & Prayers - McConaughey, Matthew (Author)

    Political Sciences

    • When You Come at the King: Inside Doj's Pursuit of the President, from Nixon to Trump - Honig, Elie (Author)

    • Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine - Agha, Hussein (Author) , Malley, Robert (Author)

    • Dead Center: In Defense of Common Sense -Manchin, Joe (Author), Saban, Nick (Contribution by)

    • Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy - Weingarten, Randi (Author)

    Romance

    • The Gingerbread Bakery (Dream Harbor #5) - Gilmore, Laurie (Author)

    • The Academy - Hilderbrand, Elin (Author), Cunningham, Shelby (Author)

    • Uncharmed - Wood, Lucy Jane (Author)

    • We Met Like This - West, Kasie (Author)

    • The Last Letter (Signed) - Yarros, Rebecca (Author)

    • Assistant to the Villain (Special Edition Hardcover) - Maehrer, Hannah Nicole (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • The Hobbit: A Graphic Novel (Revised and Expanded) - Tolkien, J R R (Author) , Wenzel, David (Illustrator)

    • Among the Burning Flowers (Roots of Chaos) - Shannon, Samantha (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All - Yudkowsky, Eliezer (Author), Soares, Nate (Author)

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

    True Crime

    • 50 States of Murder: An Atlas of American Crime - Schechter, Harold (Author)

    Workbooks

    • The Big Fat High School Algebra 2 Workbook

    Young Adult

    • Hekate (Deluxe Limited Edition) - Gill, Nikita (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • From #1 bestselling author of The Perfect Couple Elin Hilderbrand, and her daughter, Shelby Cunningham: the irresistible, deliciously scandalous story of one drama-filled year at a New England boarding school.

    It's move-in day at Tiffin Academy and amidst the happy chaos of friends reuniting, selfies uploading, and cars unloading, shocking news arrives: America Today just ranked Tiffin the number two boarding school in the country. It's a seventeen-spot jump - was there a typo? The dorms need to be renovated, their sports teams always come in last place, and let's just say Tiffin students are known for being more social than academic. On the other hand, the campus is exquisite, class sizes are small, and the dining hall is run by an acclaimed New York chef. And they do have fun--lots of parties and school dances, and a piano man plays in the student lounge every Monday night.

    But just as the rarefied air of Tiffin is suffused with self-congratulation, the wheels begin to turn - and then they fall off the bus. One by one, scandalous blind items begin to appear on phones across Tiffin's campus, thanks to a new app called ZipZap, and nobody is safe. From Davi Banerjee, international influencer and resident queen bee, to Simone Bergeron, the new and surprisingly young history teacher, to Charley Hicks, a transfer student who seems determined not to fit in, to Cordelia Spooner, Admissions Director with a somewhat idiosyncratic methodology - everyone has something to hide.

    As if high school wasn't dramatic enough...As the year unfolds, bonds are forged and broken, secrets are shared and exposed, and the lives of Tiffin's students and staff are changed forever. The Academy is Elin Hilderbrand's fresh, buzzy take on boarding school life, and a thrilling new direction from one of America's most satisfying and popular storytellers.

  • In this posthumous collection of thought-provoking essays--many never published before--Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and bestselling author David McCullough affirms the value of history, how we can be guided by its lessons, and the enduring legacy of American ideals.

    History Matters brings together selected essays by beloved historian David McCullough, some published here for the first time, written at different points over the course of his long career but all focused on the subject of his lifelong passion: the importance of history in understanding our present and future. Edited by McCullough's daughter, Dorie McCullough Lawson, and his longtime researcher, Michael Hill, History Matters is a tribute to a master historian and offers fresh insights into McCullough's enduring interests and writing life. The book also features a foreword by Jon Meacham.

    McCullough highlights the importance of character in political leaders, with Harry Truman and George Washington serving as exemplars of American values like optimism and determination. He shares his early influences, from the books he cherished in his youth to the people who mentored him. He also pays homage to those who inspired him, such as writer Paul Horgan and painter Thomas Eakins, illustrating the diverse influences on his writing as well as the influence of art.

    Rich with McCullough's signature grace, curiosity, and narrative gifts, these essays offer vital lessons in viewing history through the eyes of its participants, a perspective that McCullough believed was crucial to understanding the present as well as the past. History Matters is testament to McCullough's legacy as one of the great storytellers of this nation's history and of the lasting promise of American ideals.

  • The U.S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world but also one of the most difficult to amend. Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of history and law, explains why in We the People, the most original history of the Constitution in decades--and an essential companion to her landmark history of the United States, These Truths.

    Published on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding--the anniversary, too, of the first state constitutions-- We the People offers a wholly new history of the Constitution. "One of the Constitution's founding purposes was to prevent change," Lepore writes. "Another was to allow for change without violence." Relying on the extraordinary database she has assembled at the Amendments Project, Lepore recounts centuries of attempts, mostly by ordinary Americans, to realize the promise of the Constitution. Yet nearly all those efforts have failed. Although nearly twelve thousand amendments have been introduced in Congress since 1789, and thousands more have been proposed outside its doors, only twenty-seven have ever been ratified. More troubling, the Constitution has not been meaningfully amended since 1971. Without recourse to amendment, she argues, the risk of political violence rises. So does the risk of constitutional change by presidential or judicial fiat.

    Challenging both the Supreme Court's monopoly on constitutional interpretation and the flawed theory of "originalism," Lepore contends in this "gripping and unfamiliar story of our own past" that the philosophy of amendment is foundational to American constitutionalism. The framers never intended for the Constitution to be preserved, like a butterfly, under glass, Lepore argues, but expected that future generations would be forever tinkering with it, hoping to mend America by amending its Constitution through an orderly deliberative and democratic process.

    Lepore's remarkable history seeks, too, to rekindle a sense of constitutional possibility. Congressman Jamie Raskin writes that Lepore "has thrown us a lifeline, a way of seeing the Constitution neither as an authoritarian straitjacket nor a foolproof magic amulet but as the arena of fierce, logical, passionate, and often deadly struggle for a more perfect union." At a time when the Constitution's vulnerability is all too evident, and the risk of political violence all too real, We the People, with its shimmering prose and pioneering research, hints at the prospects for a better constitutional future, an amended America.

  • With the awakening of fire-breathing dragons, Among the Burning Flowers sees the first sparks of danger that threaten to consume the world in The Priory of the Orange Tree.

    Take your first steps into the epic.

    Yscalin, land of sunshine and lavender, will soon be ablaze.

    It has been centuries since the Draconic Army took wing, almost extinguishing humankind.

    Marosa Vetalda is a prisoner in her own home, controlled by her cold father, King Sigoso. Over the mountains, her betrothed, Aubrecht Lievelyn, rules Mentendon in all but name. Together, they intend to usher in a better world.

    A better world seems impossibly distant to Estina Melaugo, who hunts the Draconic beasts that have slept across the world for centuries.

    And now the great wyrm Fýredel is stirring, and Yscalin will be the first to fall . . .

    A story of human resilience in the face of dire circumstances, Among the Burning Flowers leads readers through the gripping and tragic events that pave the way for the opening of the million-copy bestseller The Priory of The Orange Tree.

    Richly illustrated with magical artwork by Rovina Cai (@rovinacai).

  • The body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries, medicine has reached for what's available--sculpting noses from brass, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs, crafting eye parts from jet canopies and breasts from petroleum by-products. Today we're attempting to grow body parts from scratch using stem cells and 3D printers. How are we doing? Are we there yet?

    In Replaceable You, Mary Roach explores the remarkable advances and difficult questions prompted by the human body's failings. When and how does a person decide they'd be better off with a prosthetic than their existing limb? Can a donated heart be made to beat forever? Can an intestine provide a workable substitute for a vagina?

    Roach dives in with her characteristic verve and infectious wit. Her travels take her to the OR at a legendary burn unit in Boston, a "superclean" xeno-pigsty in China, and a stem cell "hair nursery" in the San Diego tech hub. She talks with researchers and surgeons, amputees and ostomates, printers of kidneys and designers of wearable organs. She spends time in a working iron lung from the 1950s, stays up all night with recovery techs as they disassemble and reassemble a tissue donor, and travels across Mongolia with the cataract surgeons of Orbis International.

    Irrepressible and accessible, Replaceable You immerses readers in the wondrous, improbable, and surreal quest to build a new you.

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New Releases | September 9th, 2025

September 7, 2025 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • To Kill a Mockingbird Collector's Edition - Lee, Harper (Author)

    • Mansfield Park: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Austen, Jane (Author) , Wells, Juliette (Editor) , Wells, Juliette (Introduction by)

    • Northanger Abbey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Austen, Jane (Author) , Matthew, Patricia A (Editor) , Matthew, Patricia A (Introduction by)

    • Pride and Prejudice: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Austen, Jane (Author) , Matthew, Patricia A (Editor) , Matthew, Patricia A (Introduction by)

    • The City and Its Uncertain Walls (Vintage International) - Murakami, Haruki (Author) , Gabriel, Philip (Translator)

    • The Elements - Boyne, John (Author)

    • Hot Wax - Rio, M L (Author)

    Adult Science

    • Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth - Enander, Jonas (Author) , Smalley, Nichola (Translator) , Wilczek, Frank (Foreword by)

    Biography

    • The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and the Rise of the Silicon Valley Oligarchs - Chafkin, Max (Author)

    Board Books

    • Mrs. Peanuckle's Mushroom Alphabet - Mrs Peanuckle (Author), Ford, Jessie (Illustrator)

    • My Little Deer - Eliot, Hannah (Author), Bell, Jennifer A (Illustrator)

    • Baby Turkey: Finger Puppet Book (Little Finger Puppet) - Huang, Yu-Hsuan (Illustrator)

    Body, Mind & Spirit

    • Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds - Fugelsang, John (Author)

    • The Witch's Cat Tarot: Secrets, Guidance and Spells from Our Feline Familiars - Carr, Tree (Author) , Pröhl, Sonja (Illustrator)

    Business

    • Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away - Gelles, David (Author)

    Children’s Poetry

    • I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day: An Illustrated Keepsake Book - Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry (Author) , Steagall, Janna (Illustrator)

    Children’s Classics

    • Mouse and His Dog: A Dogtown Book (Dogtown Book #2) - Applegate, Katherine (Author) , Choldenko, Gennifer (Author) , West, Wallace (Illustrator)

    Coloring Books

    • Fourth Wing: The Official Coloring Book

    Cookbooks

    • The Art of Jacques Pépin: Favorite Recipes and Paintings from My Life in the Kitchen - Pépin, Jacques (Author) , Hopkins, Tom (Photographer)

    • The Whiskey Bible: A Complete Guide to the World's Greatest Spirit (the History, Secrets, and Lore Behind the Best Scotch, Bourbon, Irish, Rye, Canadian - Rothbaum, Noah (Author)

    • Instant Ramen Kitchen: 40+ Delicious Recipes That Go Beyond the Packet - Kim, Peter J (Author) , Lin, Bobbi (Photographer)

    • Brew This Book: Make Coffee Shop Lattes, Cold Brews, Frappes and More at Home for a Fraction of the Price - Chapa, Asia Lui (Author)

    Graphic Novels

    • Investigators: Case Files - Green, John Patrick (Author) , Behling, Steve (Author) , Fenoglio, Chris (Illustrator)

    • Bones and Berserkers (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #13): 13 True Tales of Terror from American History - Hale, Nathan (Author)

    • Dear Jackie - Bagley, Jessixa (Author) , Bagley, Aaron (Illustrator)

    • Detective Beans: Adventures in Cat Town - Chen, Li (Author)

    History

    • Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival - Greenblatt, Stephen (Author)

    • The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi - Thompson, Wright (Author)

    • Confronting Evil: Assessing the Worst of the Worst - O'Reilly, Bill (Author) , Hammer, Josh (Author)

    Homestead

    • What Grows Together: Fail-Safe Plant Combinations for Every Garden - Butterworth, Jamie (Author)

    Horror

    • The Macabre (Deluxe Limited Edition) - Jackson, Kosoko (Author)

    • Play Nice - Harrison, Rachel (Author)

    • A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories - Enriquez, Mariana (Author) , McDowell, Megan (Translator)

    • You Weren't Meant to Be Human - White, Andrew Joseph (Author)

    • Van Helsing's Guide to Monsters and Dating - Crew, Ben (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • Vanished: Seven Women Magicians Who Simply Disappeared - Hays, Anna (Author), McDevitt, Mary Kate (Illustrator)

    Literary Collections

    • Reacher: The Stories Behind the Stories - Child, Lee (Author)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Deadpool: Samurai, Vol. 3 - Kasama, Sanshiro (Author) , Uesugi, Hikaru (Artist)

    Middle Readers

    • Howl's Moving Castle Deluxe Limited Edition - Jones, Diana Wynne (Author)

    • Pocket Bear - Applegate, Katherine (Author)

    My First Readers

    • Trash Truck: Trash Day (My First I Can Read) - Keane, Max (Author) , Keane, Max (Illustrator)

    • Jed Greenleaf - Larwood, Kieran (Author), Wyatt, David (Illustrator)

    Mystery & Thriller

    • The Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon) - Brown, Dan (Author)

    Personal Growth

    • All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation - Golbert, Elizabeth (Author)

    • Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves--And How to Find Our Way Back - Clayton, Ingrid (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Just Shine!: How to Be a Better You - Sotomayor, Sonia (Author) , Alcántara, Jacqueline (Illustrator)

    • There's No Place Like Gnome's - Magoon, Scott (Author) , Magoon, Scott (Illustrator)

    • Whodonut?: A Holiday Mystery (Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast #7) - Funk, Josh (Author) , Kearney, Brendan (Author)

    • A Fall Day for Bear (Bear and Mouse) - Becker, Bonny (Author) , Denton, Kady MacDonald (Illustrator)

    • No Bad Parts! - Schwartz, Richard (Author) , Hegedus, Bethany (Author) , Fedos, Kate (Illustrator)

    • Make New Friends: A Picture Book - Stein, Joshua David (Author) , Di Giorgio, Mariachiara (Illustrator)

    Poetry

    • Little Alleluias: Collected Poetry and Prose - Oliver, Mary (Author), Diaz, Natalie (Foreword By)

    Romance

    • People Watching - Bonam-Young, Hannah (Author)

    • A Fellowship of Games & Fables (Deluxe Edition) (Adenashire #3) - Penner, J. (Author)

    Science & Nature

    • The True and Lucky Life of a Turtle - Montgomery, Sy (Author), Patterson, Matt (Illustrator)

    • An Anthology of Remarkable Bugs (DK Children's Anthologies) - French, Jess (Author)

    • Eyewonder Dinosaurs: Open Your Eyes to a World of Discovery (Eye Wonder)

    • The Forest Revealed: An Illustrated Year - Fitch, Jada (Author), Kosek, Kateri (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • Jade City (Green Bone Saga #1) - Lee, Fonda (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny - Bates, Laura (Author)

    • The People's Project: Poems, Essays, and Art for Looking Forward - Jones, Saeed (Author), Smith, Maggie (Author)

    Young Adult

    • Elsewhere: Deluxe Edition - Zevin, Gabrielle (Author)

    • Blood Moon - Lewis, Britney S. (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • Harper Lee's beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, now available as a beautifully designed collector's edition with sprayed and stenciled edges and gold foil. And look for The Land of Sweet Forever, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces by Lee, coming October 21, 2025.

    Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird

    One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its publi-cation in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, was named the best novel of the twentieth century by librarians across the nation, and was voted by readers as America's "most beloved novel" on PBS's The Great American Read. It remains a staple of many high school reading lists across the coun-try and has been translated into more than forty languages, selling more than forty million copies worldwide. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, Scout Finch, and her brother, Jem, as their father, Atticus--a crusading local lawyer--risks everything to defend a Black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.

    Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice--but the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

  • DELUXE LIMITED EDITION features red sprayed edges, a reversible jacket that readers can color in and make their own, and endpapers featuring two more paintings from the book! Available for a limited time while supplies last.

    From award-winning and USA Today bestselling author Kosoko Jackson comes his adult speculative debut, a stand-alone novel blending time travel and globe-hopping adventure, art history, and dark fantasy about magical paintings and the lengths people will go to collect them, destroy them...or be destroyed.

    A picture is worth a thousand nightmares.

    Art has always been an escape for struggling painter Lewis Dixon. But other than his mom, who has recently passed away, no one has ever praised his work. If he is being honest, there's really no one in his life. So he is shocked when the British Museum shows an unusual interest in his art. This is his chance to show the world what he's capable of...he just has no idea that he might also be saving the world at the same time.

    As Lewis soon learns, he has not been invited to participate in a curated show, but rather a test: to see if the fugue-like exhilaration he experiences when painting is actually magic, a power that allows him to enter nine very special paintings--paintings made by his great-grandfather. Spread across the globe, these paintings have unbelievable eldritch abilities...and not necessarily beneficial ones. In terms of power, these are the most valuable works of art in the world, and there are those out there who would do anything to possess just one.

    And Lewis, upon passing the test, has been asked to destroy them all.

    Partnered with an alluring agent in museum's employ, Noah Rao, Lewis must travel to Japan, Australia, Nigeria--and the past--plunging himself into a world of black markets, gothic magic, ancient history, and cursed objects to save those unlucky enough to call any of the paintings their own--or to free the world from those who would misuse the power of the paintings. In doing so, he will need to discover if he has what it takes to truly be an artist, the confidence to finally open himself up to someone who could give his lonely life meaning, and the strength to enter and navigate a reality where magic is everywhere.

  • The world's most celebrated thriller writer and author of The Da Vinci Code returns with his most stunning novel yet--a propulsive, twisty, thought-provoking masterpiece that will entertain readers as only Dan Brown can do.

    Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon--a prominent noetic scientist with whom he has recently begun a relationship. Katherine is on the verge of publishing an explosive book that contains startling discoveries about the nature of human consciousness and threatens to disrupt centuries of established belief. But a brutal murder catapults the trip into chaos, and Katherine suddenly disappears along with her manuscript. Langdon finds himself targeted by a powerful organization and hunted by a chilling assailant sprung from Prague's most ancient mythology. As the plot expands into London and New York, Langdon desperately searches for Katherine . . . and for answers. In a thrilling race through the dual worlds of futuristic science and mystical lore, he uncovers a shocking truth about a secret project that will forever change the way we think about the human mind.

  • FROM THE MEGA BESTSELLING GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES

    Tackle tricky cases in this solve-along Investigators adventure, along with everyone's favorite sleuths Mango and Brash!

    Special agents Mango and Brash are back again, and this time they'll be asking their readers for help in cracking the case! The gators have been given a brand new add-on for their V.E.S.T.s to help with gathering evidence and making sense of clues - the G.R.I.D. (Gator Reasoning, Inquiry, Deduction) - and with that powerful tool in hand, kids can follow along as they solve six brand-new mysteries! Featuring plenty of familiar faces from investigations past, as well as a few brand new suspects, Mango and Brash and YOU (the reader) will get to the bottom of cases big and small!

  • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A REAL SIMPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - From the author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our peculiar times.

    "Haruki Murakami invented 21st-century fiction." --The New York Times - "More than any author since Kafka, Murakami appreciates the genuine strangeness of our real world." --San Francisco Chronicle - "Murakami is masterful." --Los Angeles Times

    When a young man's girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he is heartbroken - and determined to find the imaginary town where he suspects she has taken up residence. Thus begins a lifelong search that takes the man into middle age, to a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own, and on a journey between the real world and this otherworld: a shadowless city where unicorns roam and willow trees grow.

    There he finds his beloved working in a different library - a dream library. But she has no memory of their life together and, as the seasons pass and the man grows more uncertain about the porous boundaries between these two worlds, he must decide what he is willing to lose.

    A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a parable for these strange times- and singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature's most important writers.

    "Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change/movement. Isn't this the quintessential core of what stories are all about?" --Haruki Murakami, from the afterword

Monthly Staff Pick | September, 2025

September 7, 2025 Clare Brooks

Romance is back on the Monthly Staff Pick menu with our selection for Adults this month, Mazey Eddings’s ‘Well, Actually’. Filled with favorite tropes like second chances, enemies to lovers, and black cat & golden retriever energy all while tackling toxic masculinity, trauma, and forgiveness; this recent release from the fan-favorite author features all of the witty dialogue, strong characters, and a dash of spice that make it a perfect pick for Romance readers of all types.

Middle-grade readers, it’s time to journey to the Archipelago! Katherine Rundell’s ‘Impossible Creatures’ is now available in paperback in a special Griffin Edition featuring sprayed edges, while supplies last. This launch of a new fantasy series was an immediate favorite, and with the next entry ‘The Poisoned King’ just a few short weeks away, there’s no better time to pick up a copy.

‘Sync’, the latest novel in verse from Ellen Hopkins, is our Young Adult selection this month. Using her trademark voice and deft handling of topics that have resonated with readers for decades, ‘Sync’ follows twins separated in the foster care system on their own journeys as told through their unsent letters to each other.

Our picture book selection needs little introduction, the all-ages Classic ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ by Maurice Sendak is our pick this September in celebration of this month’s release of ‘Hansel and Gretel’, the collaboration between the late Sendak and horror icon Stephen King (available tomorrow, September 2nd).

All four of our Monthly Staff Picks this September are available for 20% off, while supplies last!

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New Releases | September 2nd, 2025

August 31, 2025 Clare Brooks
  • Activity Books

    • Mo Willems Workshop and Crayola Present: Make Your Mark!: A Superfun Mo Willems and You Creativity Book!

    • Paint by Sticker Kids: Trucks, Trains & More: Create 10 Pictures One Sticker at a Time!

    • Skeleton Quest (Lego Minecraft): A Seek & Find Sticker Activity Book

    Adult Fiction

    • This Motherless Land - May, Nikki (Author)

    • Amity - Harris, Nathan (Author)

    • Tehrangeles - Khakpour, Porochista (Author)

    • The Life Impossible - Haig, Matt (Author)

    • Buckeye - Ryan, Patrick (Author)

    Award Winners

    • The Last Resort - Kelly, Erin Entrada (Author)

    Board Books

    • Charlotte's Web Board Book - White, E.B. (Author), Semirdzhyan, Anait (Illustrator)

    • Bundle Up, Penelope Rex! (A Penelope Rex Book) - Higgins, Ryan T. (Author)

    • The Pigeon Won't Count to 10! - Willems, Mo (Author)

    • Indestructibles: Baby Loves Fall

    • I Love You, Little Moose! - Magsamen, Sandra (Author), Magsamen, Sandra (Illustrator)

    • When Fall Comes: Connecting with Nature as the Days Grow Shorter - Bissonette, Aimee M. (Author), Hourigan, Erin (Illustrator)

    • A Day on the Farm (Ms. Rachel): An Interactive Book with 12 Sounds! [With Battery] (Books by Ms. Rachel) - Mr. Aron (Author), Ms. Rachel (Author)

    Body, Mind & Spirit

    • The Literary Oracle Deck: A Guide to the Hidden Lore of Classic Literature

    • The Book of Witchcraft: The Complete Guide - Haksever, Semra (Author)

    Business

    • Penguin Select Classics: Think and Grow Rich: (Original, Unabridged Classic, Premium Hardbound Collector's Edition, Ideal for Gifting) - Hill, Napoleon (Author)

    • Penguin Select Classics: The Richest Man in Babylon: (Original, Unabridged Classic, Premium Hardbound Collector's Edition, Ideal for Gifting) - Clason, George S. (Author)

    Calendars

    • The Appalachian Trail 2026 Wall Calendar

    • Mary Engelbreit's Your Voice Matters 2026 Wall Calendar

    Chapter Books

    • Heartwood Hotel: Family Forever (Heartwood Hotel #5) - George, Kallie (Author), Graegin, Stephanie (Illustrator)

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

    • Chasing a Legend (Pokémon Chapter Book) - Barbo, Maria S. (Author)

    Children’s Poetry

    • A Visit to Brambly Hedge: Imagining the World Within the Hedgerow - Barklem, Jill (Author & Illustrator), Fior, Jane (Author)

    • Hansel and Gretel - King, Stephen, Sendak, Maurice (Illustrator)

    • She Speaks: The Women of Norse Myths in Their Own Words - Cargill-Martin, Honor (Author), Hannuniemi, Paulina (Illustrator)

    Cookbooks

    • Sally's Baking 101: Foolproof Recipes from Easy to Advanced - McKenney, Sally (Author)

    Family Issues

    • Raising Your Spirited Child, Fourth Edition: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic - Kurcinka, Mary Sheedy (Author)

    Fun & Games

    • Rescuing Titanic: A True Story of Quiet Bravery in the North Atlantic (Hidden Histories) - Delargy, Flora (Author)

    Graphic Novels

    • Flat Stanley: The Graphic Novel: His Original Adventure! - Brown, Jeff (Author), Egbert, Corey (Illustrator), Wilson, Sb (Author)

    • Millie of the Manor: A Graphic Novel - Evans, Karina (Author), Bell, Andrea (Author)

    • Tuck Everlasting: The Graphic Novel - Babbitt, Natalie (Author), Woodman-Maynard, K. (Illustrator & Adapted By)

    • Midnight on the Moon Graphic Novel (Magic Tree House Graphic Novels) - Osborne, Mary Pope (Author), Laird, Jenny (Adapted By), Matthews, Kelly (Illustrator), Matthews, Nichole (Illustrator)

    Hiking

    • Beer Hiking New England: The Tastiest Way to Discover Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island (Beer Hiking) (2ND ed.) - Kish, Carey (Author)

    History

    • Our Fragile Freedoms: Essays - Foner, Eric (Author)

    • Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History's Greatest Civilizations - Norberg, Johan (Author)

    Horror

    • William - Coile, Mason (Author)

    • Psycho (Deluxe Edition) - Bloch, Robert (Author)

    • Breathe In, Bleed Out - McAuley, Brian (Author)

    • You Like It Darker: Stories - King Stephen (Author)

    • Night & Day: Dreadful Dark: Tales of Nighttime Horror/Merciless Sun: Tales of Daylight Horror (Saga Doubles) - Datlow, Ellen (Author)

    Humor

    • The Little Frog's Guide to Life: Love, Advice and Inspiration for Every Day from the Internet's Beloved Mushroom Frog - Eequay, Maybell (Author)

    • Hi, It's Me Again: A Cartoon Collection from the New Yorker's Asher Perlman - Perlman, Asher (Author)

    Journals

    • Must-Read Classics: A Book Club Journal for Bibliophiles (Classics Gift)

    Just the Facts

    • Did You Hear What Happened in Salem?: The Witch Trials of 1692 (Did You Hear What Happened #1) - Kennedy, Katie (Author), Thornburrow, Nick (Illustrator)

    • Britannica All New Kids' Encyclopedia: Updated Edition - What We Know & What We Don't - Lloyd, Christopher (Editor), Britannica Group (Author), Ruffle, Mark (Illustrator), Tite, Jack (Illustrator)

    Local Interest

    • Here in New England: Unforgettable Stories of People, Places, and Memories That Connect Us All. - Allen, Mel (Author)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Iron Man: Demon in a Bottle [New Printing 2]

    • Ultimate Wolverine Vol. 1: The Winter Soldier (Ultimate Wolverine)

    • Adventure Time Oni Compact Comics Edition Vol. 1: Down Memory Lane

    • Jsa Vol. 1: Infinity, Inc vs. the Justice Society

    • Batman: Arkham Asylum: DC Compact Comics

    Middle Readers

    • The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science (The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science #1) - McKinnon, Kate (Author)

    • The Winter of the Dollhouse - Schlitz, Laura Amy (Author)

    • The Ickabog - Rowling, J.K. (Author)

    • The Bad Guys in the Furball Strikes Back (Color Edition) (Bad Guys) - Blabey, Aaron (Author & Illustrator)

    • Forever Ripley - Hoyle, McCall (Author)

    • The Last Dragon on Mars (Reprint) (The Dragonships #1) - Reintgen, Scott (Author)

    • Big Nate: No Harm Done!: Volume 33 (Big Nate) - Pierce, Lincoln (Author)

    My First Readers

    • A Kiss for Little Bear (I Can Read Level 1) - Minarik, Else Holmelund (Author), Sendak, Maurice (Illustrator)

    Mystery & Thriller

    • The Girl with Ice in Her Veins: A Lisbeth Salander Novel (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) - Sminoff, Karin (Author)

    • Framed in Death (In Death #61) - Robb, J.D. (Author)

    • Billion-Dollar Ransom: A Thriller - Patterson, James (Author), Swierczynski, Duane (Author)

    Personal Growth

    • Penguin Select Classics: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: (Original, Unabridged Classic, Premium Hardbound Collector's Edition, Ideal for Gifting) (1ST ed.) - Murphy, Joseph (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Bud Finds Her Gift - Kimmerer, Robin Wall (Author), Stoop, Naoko (Illustrator)

    • Pete the Cat's Cool New Ride - Dean, James (Author & Illustrator), Dean, Kimberly (Author)

    • Archibald and the Furry Dinosaurs - Lang, Suzanne (Author), Lang, Max (Illustrator)

    • Christmas Together with Polar Bear and Friends (World of Eric Carle) - Carle, Eric (Author & Illustrator), Odd Dot (Author)

    • Santa Claws - Heos, Bridget (Author), Bernstein, Galia (Illustrator)

    • Clifford Treasury - Bridwell, Norman (Author & Illustrator)

    • Yumi and Monster - Redlawsk, Kam (Author)

    • Oh Dear, Look What I Got! - Rose, Michael (Author), Oxenbury, Helen (Illustrator)

    • A Very Merry Holiday (Pokémon)

    • Sharing - Wells, Rosemary (Author & Illustrator)

    • The Prince and the Bot! (Iron Man and His Awesome Friends) (Little Golden Book) - Behling, Steve (Author), Tomatofarm Studio (Illustrator)

    • Tuck Me In! - Pyle, Nathan W. (Author)

    • Minecraft 5-Minute Stories - Webster, Christy (Author), Batson, Alan (Illustrator)

    • Magic Xylophone (Bluey) (Little Golden Book)

    • Sesame Street: Monsterpiece Theater (Funko Pop!) (Little Golden Book)

    Poetry

    • The New Book: Poems, Letters, Blurbs, and Things - Giovanni, Nikki (Author)

    Political Sciences

    • We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza's Youth - Alnaouq, Ahmed (Editor), Bailey, Pam (Editor)

    Puzzle Books

    • Simon & Schuster Mega Crossword Puzzle Book #25

    Romance

    • By the Horns (Royal Artifactual Guild) - Dixon, Ruby (Author)

    • Crazy Spooky Love: A Melody Bittersweet Novel - Silver, Josie (Author)

    • The Stars Are Dying (Nytefall Trilogy #1) - Penaranda, Chloe C. (Author)

    • Wild Reverence - Ross, Rebecca (Author)

    • Leave Me Behind (Deluxe Edition) - Moronova, K.M. (Author)

    • If It Makes You Happy - Olivia, Julie (Author)

    Science & Nature

    • Our Solar System! a Stellar Neighborhood (Our Universe #8) - McAnulty, Stacy (Author), Lewis, Stevie (Illustrator)

    • The Pine Cone's Secret: A Life Cycle Poem (Starting Small) - Barnaby, Hannah (Author), Abt, Cedric (illustrator)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • A Land So Wide - Craig, Erin A. (Author)

    • Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection - Sanderson, Brandon (Author)

    • Making History - Parker, K.J. (Author)

    • William Shakespeare's the Clone Army Attacketh: Star Wars Part the Second - Doescher, Ian (Author)

    • William Shakespeare's the Phantom of Menace: Star Wars Part the First - Doescher, Ian (Author)

    • William Shakespeare's Tragedy of the Sith's Revenge: Star Wars Part the Third - Doescher, Ian (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters - Webb, Christine (Author)

    Spinner Rack Books

    • Monster Jam: The Legend of Thunderroarus (Media Tie-In) - Aveling, Marisa (Author), Vandenberg, Neil (Illustrator)

    Stickers

    • Biome Adventures Sticker Book (Minecraft)

    • Wednesday the Official Sticker Book

    Travel

    • Wicked Strange: Your Guide to Ghosts, Monsters, Oddities, and Urban Legends from New England - Belanger, Jeff (Author), Grace, Frank C. (Photographer)

    Young Adult

    • The Wee Free Men: A Novel of Discworld (Tiffany Aching #1) - Pratchett, Terry (Author)

    • Season of Fear - Cooper, Emily (Author)

    • Sisters in the Wind - Boulley, Angeline (Author)

    • When We Were Monsters - Niven, Jennifer (Author)

    • The Ruling Class (Fixer #1) - Barnes, Jennifer Lynn (Author)

    • Lessons in Power (Fixer #2) - Barnes, Jennifer Lynn (Author)

    • Nothing Like the Movies (Reprint) (Better Than the Movies) - Painter, Lynn (Author)

    • Fearful: A Powerless Story (The Powerless Trilogy) - Roberts, Lauren (Author)

    • The Outsiders: Official Broadway Edition - Hinton, S.E. (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • From #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson, six kidnappers pursue a whopping ten-figure payout in this thrilling novel featuring "breakneck pacing and loop-the-loop plotting" (Publishers Weekly).

    Five members of a billionaire's family. In different locations. All kidnapped at the same moment.
    Two children taken from a private-school bus. A film producer and a movie star grabbed at a hideaway resort. A beautiful wife whisked off the streets of Beverly Hills.
    A patriarch wants his family back. The cash, gold, jewels, and crypto are all ready.
    There's only one problem: a brilliant, very stubborn FBI agent. Special Agent Nicky Gordon doesn't want to pay the kidnappers.
    Not a dime.

  • A strikingly designed, deluxe hardcover edition of Psycho, one of the most iconic horror novels of the 20th century, featuring a translucent jacket, debossed case, special endpapers, and edge-staining.

    Psycho is the original thrilling novel from multi-award-winning author Robert Bloch--and the basis for the classic film from Alfred Hitchcock.

    "Icily terrifying!" -- New York Times

    Norman Bates loves his mother. She has been dead for the past 20 years, or so people think. Norman knows better, though.

    Ever since leaving the hospital, he has lived with Mother in the old house up on the hill above the Bates Motel. One night, after a beautiful woman checks into the motel, Norman spies on her as she undresses. Norman can't help but spy on her.

    Mother is there, though. She is there to protect Norman from his filthy thoughts. She is there to protect him with her butcher knife.

    This beautifully produced collector's edition is a great way to experience this horror classic and perfect for displaying and gifting.

  • The haunting tale of two brave children lost in a dark and dangerous forest is reimagined by literary legends Stephen King and Maurice Sendak in an all-new picture book.

    Let Stephen King, global bestselling and award-winning author, and Maurice Sendak, beloved creator of the Caldecott Medal-winning Where the Wild Things Are, guide you into the most deliciously daring rendition of the classic Grimm fairy tale yet. But will you find your way back out?

    With a personal introduction from Stephen King, the beautiful book has been created in close collaboration with The Maurice Sendak Foundation. This stunning storybook makes the perfect gift for fans of King, Sendak, and the Brothers Grimm.

  • Sixth grade renaissance man Nate Wright is bombastic, enthusiastic, and larger than life--it's why his friends call him "Big Nate." But behind the bravado, Nate is a faithful friend whose antics crack up his classmates, impart life lessons to readers, and bring a smile to comics fans everywhere.

    It's back-to-school time for sixth-grader Nate Wright, and this just might be the best year ever! Rumors are flying that the villainous Mrs. Godfrey is now teaching EIGHTH grade. Chad is on the verge of destroying Gina in the race for class president. And could Nate finally realize his dream of changing the school mascot to . . . a sea cucumber? Hey, why not? He's a can-do kind of guy. So when the Weekly Bugle needs a story, Nate's happy to make headlines--by (allegedly) starting an epic food fight in the cafetorium! In this latest collection of gut-busting Big Nate comics, Nate's always stirring things up, but at the end of every day, P.S. 38 is still standing. In other words: NO HARM DONE!

  • NAMED A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP 10 HORROR BOOK OF 2024
    WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR HORROR
    FINALIST FOR THE 2025 LOCUS AWARDS

    "Stephen King knows You Like It Darker and obliges with sensational new tales" (USA TODAY): From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King, an extraordinary collection of stories that are "a master class in tension and full of King's dark humor" (The New York Times Book Review)-- now with a bonus story, "The Music Room."

    "You like it darker? Fine, so do I," writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life--both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel "the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind," and in You Like It Darker, readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again.

    "Two Talented Bastids" explores the long-hidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In "Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream," a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny's most catastrophically. In "Rattlesnakes," a sequel to Cujo, a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance--with major strings attached. In "The Dreamers," a taciturn Vietnam vet answers a job ad and learns that there are some corners of the universe best left unexplored. "The Answer Man" asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful.

    "King's skills as a storyteller remain undimmed" ( The Minnesota Star Tribune) and his ability to surprise, amaze, and bring us both terror and solace is unsurpassed. "The titular darkness promised is as riveting and all-consuming as ever" ( New York magazine). You like it darker? You got it.

Tags stephen king, horror, spookyseason, new books September 2025

New Releases | August 26th, 2025

August 25, 2025 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Art

    • Crewel Embroidery Handy Pocket Guide - Avery, Jo (Author)

    Adult Fiction

    • Banal Nightmare - Butler, Halle (Author)

    • If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You - Stein, Leigh (Author)

    • Doll Parts - Zang, Penny (Author)

    • The Book of Lost Hours - Gelfuso, Hayley (Author)

    • Days You Were Mine - Hall, Clare Leslie (Author)

    • Mona's Eyes - Schlesser, Thomas (Author) , Serle, Hildegarde (Translator)

    Adult Reference

    • The 2026 Old Farmer's Almanac Trade Edition

    Adult Science

    • The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World - Brannen, Peter (Author)

    • The Call of the Honeyguide: What Science Tells Us about How to Live Well with the Rest of Life - Dunn, Rob (Author)

    Arts & Entertainment

    • I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine - Levitin, Daniel J (Author)

    Board Books

    • If Animals Kissed Good Night: A Padded Board Book - Paul, Ann Whitford (Author) , Walker, David (Illustrator)

    • Fantastic Feelings - Dahl, Roald (Author) , Blake, Quentin (Illustrator)

    • Peekaboo: Dinosaur: (An Interactive Board Book for Babies & Toddlers with Mirror & Sliders to Push, Pull, or Turn. Cute Artwork Includes Friendly Dino -  Reid, Camilla (Author) , Arrhenius, Ingela P (Illustrator)

    • When Pigs Fly!: A Song for Dreamers (Boynton on Board) - Boynton, Sandra (Author) , Boynton, Sandra (Illustrator)

    • Count Pet - Van Fleet, Matthew (Author) , Stanton, Brian (Photographer)

    • Shape Pet - Van Fleet, Matthew (Author) , Stanton, Brian (Photographer)

    • You're My Little Star: A Touch-And-Feel Book (World of Eric Carle) - Carle, Eric (Author) , Carle, Eric (Illustrator)

    Body, Mind & Spirit

    • How to Dream (Mindfulness Essentials) - Nhat Hanh, Thich (Author)

    Calendars

    • The Argyle Sweater 2026 Day-To-Day Calendar

    Children’s Poetry

    • Celtic Myths: Meet the God, Creatures, and Heroes of Celtic Legend (Ancient Myths) - Macintyre, Martin (Author) , Ponder, Katie (Illustrator)

    • Greek Mythology (Reissue) (Ken Jennings' Junior Genius Guides) - Jennings, Ken (Author) , Lowery, Mike (Illustrator)

    Cookbooks

    • Cookies Every Day: 60 Amazing Recipes for Irresistible Treats You'll Bake Again and Again - Benson, Livia (Author) , Benson, Maya (Author)

    Graphic Novels

    • Dream on - Hale, Shannon (Author) , Cespedes, Marcela (Illustrator)

    • Alexis Cool as a Cupcake the Graphic Novel (Cupcake Diaries: The Graphic Novel #8) - Simon, Coco (Author) , Glass House Graphics (Illustrator)

    History

    • Metamaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus (Pantheon Graphic Library) - Spiegelman, Art (Author)

    • November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of World War II - Englund, Peter (Author)

    Homestead

    • Home-Grown Mushrooms from Scratch: A Practical Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms Outside and Indoors - Wurth, Magdalena (Author) , Wurth, Herbert (Author)

    Horror

    • Sacrificial Animals - Pedersen, Kailee (Author)

    • Skeleton Crew: Stories - King, Stephen (Author)

    • How Bad Things Can Get - Coates, Darcy (Author)

    • Night Shift - King, Stephen (Author)

    • The Stand - King, Stephen (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • Guinness World Records 2026

    Literary Collections

    • A Truce That Is Not Peace - Toews, Miriam (Author)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Batman: Year 100 (2025 Edition) - Pope, Paul (Author) , Pope, Paul (Illustrator)

    • V, Ram (Author) , Fornes, Jorge (Illustrator) , Cagle, Evan (Illustrator)

    • Farewell, Daisy: Jun Mayuzuki Short Story Collection - Mayuzuki, Jun (Author) , Haley, Amanda (Translator)

    Middle Readers

    • Impossible Creatures - Rundell, Katherine (Author) , MacKenzie, Ashley (Illustrator)

    My First Readers

    • The Witches: The Mouse and the Mouse-Maker (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) - Dahl, Roald (Author) , Blake, Quentin (Illustrator)

    Mystery & Thriller

    • The Grey Wolf (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel #19) - Penny, Louise (Author)

    • Confessions of the Dead: A Thriller - Patterson, James (Author) , Barker, J D (Author)

    Picture Books

    • The Invisible Parade - Bardugo, Leigh (Author) , Picacio, John (Artist)

    • The Mushroom of Doom! (Co-Edition) (Mushroom of Doom) - Davies, Becky (Author) , Elliott, Thomas (Illustrator)

    • Unicorn Post (Emma Yarlett's Post Pals) - Yarlett, Emma (Author) , Yarlett, Emma (Illustrator)

    • The Everything Trail - Fleming, Meg(Author) , Groenink, Chuck(Illustrator)

    • The Little Ghost Quilt's Winter Surprise (A Little Ghost Quilt Book) - Nason, Riel (Author) , Eggenschwiler, Byron (Illustrator)

    Poetry

    • The Poetry of Flowers - Carr, Samuel (Author)

    Political Sciences

    • Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World - Applebaum, Anne (Author)

    Romance

    • Trial by Fire - Steel, Danielle (Author)

    • The Next Flame: Includes the Fall Away Novellas Aflame and Next to Never (Fall Away) - Douglas, Penelope (Author)

    • Bewitched (Deluxe Edition) (Bewitched #1) - Thalassa, Laura (Author)

    • Bespelled (Deluxe Edition) (Bewitched #2) - Thalassa, Laura (Author)

    • Kiss the Villain (Deluxe Edition) (Kiss the Villain #1) - Kent, Rina (Author)

    • Love's a Witch: A Cozy Fantasy Romance (The Scottish Charms #1) - O'Malley, Tricia (Author)

    • A Dark and Secret Magic - Kinney, Wallis (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition) - Kuang, R F (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • On Our Best Behavior: The Price Women Pay to Be Good - Loehnen, Elise (Author)

    True Crime

    • Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions - Grisham, John (Author)

    Young Adult

    • Sync - Hopkins, Ellen (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • The Old Farmer's Almanac has been making every day "useful, with a pleasant degree of humor" since 1792, and, with the 2026 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 live--or aspire to live--close to the earth, with the intent of helping them to make informed decisions based on time-honored wisdom. 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, as well as astrological "Best Days" and cycles. 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 much more for the curious and the clever.

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

    This paperback classic edition of the 2026 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 to living well every day will be handiest!

  • BE PART OF IT

    Discover the incredible achievements and inspiring stories of record breakers from around the world... and how you can become one of them.

    With all new content - from high-end hotels to deserted ghost towns and talented pets to global sports superstars - the new edition of Guinness World Records once again shows how record breaking is for everyone, everywhere.

    - Find a hidden talent within theFantastic Featschapter, including crazy collections, super strength and even pickleball
    - Get inspired by 8 newICONS- who embody the very best of record breaking - from music legend Dolly Parton, blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer to powerhouse swimmer Katie Ledecky
    - Marvel at the possibilities of the cutting-edge tech behind modern cities, robots and space exploration in a dedicatedScience & Engineeringchapter
    - Celebrate the differences of the most incredibleHuman Beingsfrom height extremes to superlative seniors and awesome anatomy
    - Take on the grown-ups with records just for under 16s and the Young Achievers proving age is no barrier in theKids Zone
    - Cheer on American sporting heroes - including Caitlin Clark, Lamar Jackson, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and more - as we run through the latest year inSports

  • Dante's Inferno meets Susanna Clarke's Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor's soul--perhaps at the cost of their own.

    Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek:

    The story of a hero's descent to the underworld

    Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world.

    That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.

    Grimes is now in Hell, and she's going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams....

    Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion.

    With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don't even like.

    But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn't always the answer, and there's something in Alice and Peter's past that could forge them into the perfect allies...or lead to their doom.

  • From #1 NYT bestselling author Ellen Hopkins comes a new heartbreaking young adult novel in verse about twins separated in the foster care system and the different paths their lives take.

    Seventeen-year-old twins Storm and Lake have always been in perfect sync. They faced the worst a parent could do and survived it together. In the wake of their mother's rejection, they've spent the last five years moving from foster home to foster home--sometimes placed together, sometimes apart.

    After being separated from his sister once again, Storm is devastated. He's the older brother and promised to always take care of Lake. But after a stint in juvie, his newest placement has him feeling almost hopeful. His foster dad is kind, and his girlfriend, Jaidyn, is the first person other than Lake he feels he can trust. But when Jaidyn is sexually assaulted by a violent ex, it pushes Storm over the edge. He retaliates and lands back in lockup--and he fears this time it will be for good. He wishes he could talk to Lake, but he doesn't know where she is, and he' s now feeling more alone and out of sync than ever before.

    Lake, like Storm, has found her own happiness in a relationship with someone new--her fellow foster, Parker. Life with Parker is never boring, but Parker has her own scars. She can be withdrawn and unpredictable, and that can be dangerous, especially after Parker convinces Lake to run away from their Bible-thumping fosters after they are caught in a compromising position. With no money, shelter, or ID, they're living on the streets. Lake thinks of Storm and his promise to take care of her, and wonders where he could be now.

    Told in dual perspectives through unsent letters, at turns heartbreaking and always honest, this latest novel in verse from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins is a searing and unforgettable account of two teens caught in the teeth of the foster care system, fighting their way out and back to each other.

  • The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series.

    Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with increasing unease as her husband refuses to pick up, though he clearly knows who is on the other end. When he finally answers, his rage shatters the calm of their quiet Sunday morning.

    That's only the first in a sequence of strange events that beginThe Grey Wolf, the nineteenth novel in Louise Penny's #1 New York Times-bestselling series. A missing coat, an intruder alarm, a note for Gamache reading "this might interest you", a puzzling scrap of paper with a mysterious list--and then a murder. All propel Chief Inspector Gamache and his team toward a terrible realization. Something much more sinister than any one murder or any one case is fast approaching.

    Armand Gamache, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, his son-in-law and second in command, and Inspector Isabelle Lacoste can only trust each other, as old friends begin to act like enemies, and long-time enemies appear to be friends. Determined to track down the threat before it becomes a reality, their pursuit takes them across Québec and across borders. Their hunt grows increasingly desperate, even frantic, as the enormity of the creature they're chasing becomes clear. If they fail the devastating consequences would reach into the largest of cities and the smallest of villages.

    Including Three Pines.

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