Monthly Staff Pick | October, 2025

Thrills & Chills for all ages are in store with our spooky selection of Monthly Staff Picks this October at Little Village Toy & Book Shop!

‘Model Home’ is our pick for Adults this month. From acclaimed author Rivers Solomon, comes a stunning twist on the haunted house novel as three siblings return to their Dallas suburb childhood home, following the passing of their parents, where horrors past and present await.

Our YA title needs little introduction, celebrate the 20th Anniversary(!) of ‘Twilight’ with this special edition paperback featuring sprayed edges and full color interior cover art. There’s never been a better time to rediscover this favorite or introduce it to the next generation of YA Romance fans.

For the middle grade reader, we have James Preller’s ‘Scary Tales: 3 Spooky Stories in 1’. These three spine-tingling tales, featuring “One-Eyed Doll”, “Swamp Monster”, & “Nightmareland”, are perfect for the long dark Fall evenings and sure to delight those thrilled by things that go bump in the night.

And last, but certainly not least, this month’s Picture Book selection is ‘Millie Fleur’s Poison Garden’ by Christy Mandin. Join Millie as she protects her beloved garden by helping the residents of Garden Glen embrace the strange, weird, and wonderful in the world around us and within.

Visit us to pick up a copy of this October’s Monthly Staff Picks, all available for 20% off, while supplies last.

Contact Us

New Releases | September 30th, 2025

• New Releases List (Click to Expand)

  Adult Fiction

  • The Song of Achilles Deluxe Edition - Miller, Madeline (Author)

  • The Irish Goodbye - O'Neill, Heather Aimee (Author)

  • Playground - Powers, Richard (Author)

  • Pictures of Him - Hall, Clare Leslie (Author)

  Arts & Entertainment

  • Rocky Horror: A Behind-The-Scenes Look at the Cult Classic - Rock, Mick (Author) , Mohr, Tim (Author) , O'Brien, Richard (Foreword by) , Rock, Pati (Afterword by)

  Award Winners

  • The Hotel Balzaar - DiCamillo, Kate (Author), Sardà, Júlia (Illustrator)

  • Because of Winn-Dixie Deluxe 25th Anniversary Edition - DiCamillo, Kate (Author)

  Biography

  • Truly - Richie, Lionel (Author)

  • The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker - Reading, Amy (Author)

  Board Books

  • Dr. Seuss's Oh, the Places You'll Go! with 12 Silly Sounds! - Dr Seuss (Author)

  • Twinkle, Twinkle, Hanukkah - Benamy, Talia (Author)

  • Penny Penguin (Raffi Songs to Read) - Raffi (Author), Tavis, Dan (Illustrator)

  • Get Ready for School! (Ms. Rachel/Sesame Street) - MS Rachel (Author), Random House (Illustrator)

  Body, Mind & Spirit

  • Tarot of the Woodland Wardens - Roux, Jessica (Author)

  Chapter Books

  • The Forbidden Room (The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents 2) - Pau Preto, Nicki (Author)

  Children’s Science & Nature

  • The Secret World of Spiderwebs (Secret World #1) - Niumim, Namasri (Illustrator), Beccaloni, Jan (Editor)

  • Maptastic!: Reimagine the World, One Map at a Time

  Coloring Books

  • Bluey: Super Mega Coloring Book

  Cookbooks

  • Both Sides of the Glass: Paired Cocktails and Mocktails to Toast Any Taste - Harris, Neil Patrick (Author), Burtka, David (Author)

  • Celebrate: Joyful Baking All Year Round - Hollywood, Paul (Author)

  • Six Seasons of Pasta: A New Way with Everyone's Favorite Food - McFadden, Joshua (Author), Holmberg, Martha (With)

  Fun & Game Books

  • Sweet & Salty!: King Arthur Baking Company's Cookbook for Young Bakers - King Arthur Baking Company (Author)

  Graphic Novels

  • Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #3 - Hunter, Erin (Author) , Riess, Natalie (Illustrator) , Goetter, Sara (Illustrator)

  • Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business: The Graphic Novel - Park, Barbara (Author) , Venable, Colleen Af (Adapted by) , Beam, Honie (Illustrator)

  • Cabin Head and Tree Head - Campbell, Scott (Author)

  Horror

  • The October Film Haunt - Wehunt, Michael (Author)

  • What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier #3) - Kingfisher, T (Author)

  • Model Home - Solomon, Rivers (Author)

  • What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier #2) - Kingfisher, T (Author)

  Just the Facts

  • How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers): Remembering Slavery and How It Shaped America - Smith, Clint (Author), Cherry-Paul, Sonja (Adapted by)

  • A Compendium of Curious Contraptions: A Guessing Game about History's Most Unusual Artifacts - Goldfield, Anna (Author) , Zamudio, Paula (Illustrator) , Neon Squid (Author)

  Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

  • Spider-Man Noir: Hard-Boiled Origins - Hine, David (Author) , Marvel Various (Author) , Di Giandomenico, Carmine (Illustrator) , Marvel Various (Illustrator) , Zircher, Patch (Not Available)

  • Two-Face: Trial Separation - Ward, Christian (Author), Veras, Fabio (Illustrator)

  Middle Readers

  • Secrets of the Purple Pearl (The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science #2) - McKinnon, Kate (Author)

  • The Bookshop at the Back of Beyond (The House at the Edge of Magic #3) -Sparkes, Amy (Author)

  Mystery & Thriller

  • The Blue Hour - Hawkins, Paula (Author)

  • The Impossible Fortune: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery - Osman, Richard (Author)

  • The Killing Stones: A Detective Jimmy Perez Novel (Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves #1) -Cleeves, Ann (Author)

  • Still Life Deluxe Edition: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel - Penny, Louise (Author)

  • The Sequel - Korelitz, Jean Hanff (Author)

  • Guilty by Definition - Dent, Susie (Author)

  • Denied Access: A Mitch Rapp Novel by Don Bentley (Mitch Rapp Novel #24) - Flynn, Vince (Author), Bentley, Don (Author)

  Personal Growth

  • Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering - Gladwell, Malcolm (Author)

  • Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection - Duhigg, Charles (Author)

  Picture Books

  • Cat Nap - Lies, Brian(Author) , Lies, Brian (Illustrator)

  • Bluey: A Big Pop-Up Book

  • The House with the Little Red Door - Easton, Grace (Author)

  • If I Built a Town - Van Dusen, Chris (Author) , Van Dusen, Chris (Illustrator)

  • Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo - Kalb, Bess (Author), Kraan, Erin (Illustrator)

  • The Winding Willow - Hillenbrand, Will (Author)

  • A Snow Day for Amos McGee - Stead, Philip C (Author), Stead, Erin E (Illustrator)

  • The Night Before Christmas Recordable Edition: A Recordable Storybook - Moore, Clement (Author), Santore, Charles (Illustrator)

  • Billie Jean Peet, Athlete: A Picture Book - Beaty, Andrea (Author), Roberts, David (Illustrator)

  • Dasher and the Polar Bear - Tavares, Matt (Author) , Tavares, Matt (Illustrator)

  • Bluey: More 5-Minute Stories: 6 Stories in 1 Book

  Poetry

  • Startlement: New and Selected Poems - Limón, Ada (Author)

  • Poyums Annaw - Pennie, Len (Author)

  Political Sciences

  • The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resilience - Alaqad, Plestia (Author)

  Puzzle Books

  • Murder Most Puzzling Peril at Quandary Park - Von Reiswitz, Stephanie (Author)

  Romance

  • The Portrait - Steel, Danielle (Author)

  • Soul Searching: A Sweetwater Peak Novel - Sage, Lyla (Author)

  • Christmas People - Palmer, Iva-Marie (Author)

  • Burning Daylight (Deluxe Edition) (Defying the Stars #1) - McIntire, Emily (Author)

  • Guardian Demon: Deluxe Limited Edition (Hell Bent) - Ascher, Aurora (Author)

  • House of Rayne: Deluxe Limited Edition - Laroux, Harley (Author)

  • Fourth Wing (Wing and Claw Collection) (Empyrean #1) - Yarros, Rebecca (Author)

  • Iron Flame (Wing and Claw Collection) (Empyrean #2) - Yarros, Rebecca (Author)

  • Holiday Ever After - Grace, Hannah (Author)

  Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Crossroads of Ravens (Witcher) - Sapkowski, Andrzej (Author)

  • Crooked Kingdom: The Dregs Edition: (Six of Crows #2) - Bardugo, Leigh (Author)

  • Six of Crows: The Dregs Edition (Six of Crows #1) - Bardugo, Leigh (Author)

  • William Shakespeare's Jedi the Last: Star Wars Part the Eighth - Doescher, Ian (Author)

  • William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh - Doescher, Ian (Author)

  • William Shakespeare's the Merry Rise of Skywalker: Star Wars Part the Ninth - Doescher, Ian (Author)

  Social Sciences

  • Every Screen on the Planet: The War Over Tiktok - Baker-White, Emily (Author)

  • That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America - Jones, Amanda (Author)

  Travel

  • Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys - Enriquez, Mariana (Author), McDowell, Megan (Translator)

  Workbooks

  • The Math Adventurers: Go Looking for Bugs: Building Multiplication Skills - Gorasia Chapman, Sital (Author)

  Young Adult

  • Bitten (Deluxe Limited Edition) - Gray, Jordan Stephanie (Author)

  • Twilight: Deluxe Collector's Edition (Special) (Twilight Saga) - Meyer, Stephenie (Author)

  • Twilight (20th Anniversary Edition) (Special) (Twilight Saga #1) - Meyer, Stephenie (Author)

  • The Glass Girl - Glasgow, Kathleen (Author)

  • The Thirteenth Child - Craig, Erin A (Author)

  • Grim and Oro: Dueling Crowns Edition (a Lightlark Saga Deluxe Companion Book) - Aster, Alex (Author)

  • Fake Skating - Painter, Lynn (Author)

  • Hollow - Grothe, Taylor (Author)

This week’s Top 6 Picks

• Playground

  Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world's first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane's work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.

  They meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped to feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity's next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island's residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away.

  Set in the world's largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.

• Twilight (20th Anniversary Edition)

  The book that inspired the global film phenomenon, starring Kristin Stewart and Robert Pattinson.

  Fall in love with the addictive, suspenseful love story between and teenage girl and a vampire that redefined romance for a generation, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephenie Meyer.

  In honor of the 20th anniversary of the genre-defining tale, this deluxe paperback edition features:

  • Stunning, full-color inside cover art

  • Dazzling sprayed edge design featuring an iconic quote from the book

  
  Isabella Swan's move to Forks--a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington--could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Bella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn.

  So far, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Bella--the person Edward now holds most dear.

  Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.

  A must-have collector's edition for any die-hard or newly minted Twilight fan.

• Twilight: Deluxe Collector's Edition

  The book that inspired the global film phenomenon, starring Kristin Stewart and Robert Pattinson.

  Fall in love with the addictive, suspenseful love story between and teenage girl and a vampire that redefined romance for a generation, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephenie Meyer.

  In honor of the 20th anniversary of the genre-defining tale, this vintage-inspired collector's edition features:

  • Foil-stamped slipcase

  • Stunning new cover with lush, romantic artwork

  • New interior art and beautifully illustrated endpapers

  • Elegant ribbon marker

  • One-of-a-kind, interactive, gilded-edge design

  
  Isabella Swan's move to Forks--a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington--could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Bella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn.

  So far, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Bella--the person Edward now holds most dear.

  Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.

  A must-have collector's edition for any die-hard or newly minted Twilight fan.

• The Irish Goodbye

  A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick

  In this debut, for fans of J. Courtney Sullivan and Mary Beth Keane, three adult sisters grapple with a shared tragedy over a Thanksgiving weekend as they try to heal strained family bonds through the passage of time.

  It's been years since the three Ryan sisters were all together at their beloved family home on the eastern shore of Long Island. Two decades ago, their lives were upended by an accident on their brother Topher's boat: A friend's brother was killed, the resulting lawsuit nearly bankrupted their parents, and Topher spiraled into depression, eventually taking his life. Now the Ryan women are back for Thanksgiving, eager to reconnect, but each carrying a heavy secret. The eldest, Cait, still holding guilt for the role no one knows she played in the boat accident, rekindles a flame with her high school crush: Topher's best friend and the brother of the boy who died. Middle sister, Alice, has been thrown a curveball that threatens the career she's restarting and faces a difficult decision that may doom her marriage. And the youngest, Maggie, is finally taking the risk of bringing the woman she loves home to meet her devoutly Catholic mother. Infusing everything is the grief for Topher that none of the Ryans have figured out how to carry together.

  When Cait invites a guest from their shared past to Thanksgiving dinner, old tensions boil over and new truths surface, nearly overpowering the flickering light of their family bond. Far more than a family holiday will be ruined unless the sisters can find a way to forgive themselves--and one another.

• The Impossible Fortune

  Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron return in the brilliant new book by #1 bestseller Richard Osman in his record-breaking series The Thursday Murder Club

• Buffalo Fluffalo and Puffalo

  Fluffalo has had enuffalo when his quiet prairie life is turned upside down by the arrival of his new sibling, Puffalo, in this sweet and funny follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestselling Buffalo Fluffalo!

  Every day, Buffalo Fluffalo goes about his usual routine. He munches all the grass he can eat, frolics and rollicks with his friends, and at noontime, lies down for a nap in the shade. But one morning, Fluffalo wakes up to a loud wailing cry and, to his surprise, finds a little buffalo named Puffalo with the tiniest, shiniest eyes!

  At first, Fluffalo does not like Puffalo. "What does it need?" he huffs in alarm. But Crow wisely explains that Puffalo doesn't need much--just time to learn and grow. Slowly, Fluffalo watches as Puffalo learns to trip, slip, gallop, and trot. He teaches Puffalo to eat plants and to keep away from red ants. Together, the two take long strolls and snuggle for naps. And even though Puffalo sometimes slows him down, Fluffalo realizes that life is much better with Puffalo by his side.

  From national bestseller and Emmy-nominated comedy writer Bess Kalb comes this hilarious tale featuring the surly Buffalo Fluffalo and introducing his new sibling, Puffalo. Illustrated by the talented Erin Kraan, readers will delight in the loving message about the joy of discovering that the yelly, smelly, squiggly, and short new sibling might be a tiny bit cute.

Contact Us

New Releases | September 23rd, 2025

• New Releases List (Click to Expand)

  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

• Intermezzo

  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.

• 107 Days

  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.

• The Handmaid's Tale (Deluxe Edition)

  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.

• Alchemised

  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.
  

• Tourist Season: The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy

  "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.

Contact Us

New Releases | September 16, 2025

• New Releases List (Click to Expand)

  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

• The Academy

  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.

• History Matters

  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.

• We the People

  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.
  

• Among the Burning Flowers

  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).

• Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy

  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.

Contact Us

New Releases | September 9th, 2025

• New Release List (Click to Expand)

  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

• To Kill a Mockingbird Collector's Edition

  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.

• The Macabre (Deluxe Limited Edition)

  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 Secret of Secrets (Robert Langdon)

  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.

• Investigators: Case Files (Investigators)

  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!

• The City and Its Uncertain Walls (Vintage International)

  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

Contact Us

Monthly Staff Pick | September, 2025

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!

Contact Us