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New Releases | June 30th, 2026

June 26, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Art

    • Watercolor the Easy Way Paint-Your-Own Watercolor Cards Garden: Notecard Paint Kit with Paint and Brush Included (Watercolor the Easy Way #5) - Wenger, Lori (Author)

    • Watercolor the Easy Way Paint-Your-Own Watercolor Cards Friends: Notecard Paint Kit with Paint and Brush Included (Watercolor the Easy Way #6) - Wenger, Lori (Author)

    Adult Fiction

    • The Dream Hotel: A Read with Jenna Pick - Lalami, Laila (Author)

    • Vera, or Faith - Shteyngart, Gary (Author)

    • The Ascended (The Aesymarean Duet) - Grenwich, Bree (Author), Lennox, Parker (Author)

    • The Top of the World - Joella, Ethan (Author)

    • The Shampoo Effect: A Read with Jenna Pick - Jackson, Jenny (Author)

    Biography

    • A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck - Elmhirst, Sophie (Author)

    Board Books

    • Bizzy Bear: Swimming Fun (Bizzy Bear) - Davies, Benji (Illustrator)

    • Touch and Feel Fire Engine: With Tactiles for Toddlers to Explore (Touch and Feel)

    • How Monster Trucks Work - Detner, Malgorzata (Illustrator), Redwing, Jack (Author), Cottage Door Press (Editor)

    Chapter Books

    • Forest Field Day (Adventures of Sophie Mouse #23) - Green, Poppy (Author), Jaskina, Valentina (Illustrator)

    Children's Classics

    • A Little House Chapter Book Collection: Stories of Family: Pioneer Sisters, Christmas Stories, School Days (Little House Chapter Book) - Wilder, Laura Ingalls (Author), Kim, Ji-Hyuk (Illustrator)

    • A Little House Chapter Book Collection: Stories of Adventure: Adventures of Laura & Jack, Animal Adventures, Laura & Nellie (Little House Chapter Book) - Wilder, Laura Ingalls (Author), Kim, Ji-Hyuk (Illustrator)

    Graphic Novels

    • Warriors Graphic Novel: The New Prophecy, Part One of Three (Warriors Graphic Novel #4) - Hunter, Erin (Author), Twist, Gibson (Author), Savos, Sammy (Illustrator)

    • The Princess Diaries: The Graphic Novel (Princess Diaries #1) - Cabot, Meg (Author), Crandall, Bethany (Illustrator)

    • Katie the Catsitter 5: Villain Con: (A Graphic Novel) - Venable, Colleen Af (Author), Yue, Stephanie (Illustrator)

    • Through the Black Gate - Cáceres, Alfredo (Author), Cáceres, Alfredo (Illustrator)

    • Rainbow Magic Rainbow Fairies #1: Ruby the Red Fairy Graphic Novel (Rainbow Magic) - Meadows, Daisy (Author), Giuliani, Claudia (Illustrator), Turner, Erika (Author)

    History

    • The World: A Family History of Humanity - Montefiore, Simon Sebag (Author)

    • The Road That Made America: A Modern Pilgrim's Journey on the Great Wagon Road - Dodson, James (Author)

    Horror

    • Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep - Tremblay, Paul (Author)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Captain America Vol. 1: Our Secret Wars (Captain America) - Zdarsky, Chip (Author), Schiti, Valerio (Illustrator), Harvey, Ben (Not Available)

    • Robin: Year One (New Edition) - Dixon, Chuck (Author), Beatty, Scott (Author), Pulido, Javier (Illustrator), Martin, Marcos (Illustrator)

    Middle Readers

    • Minecraft: Battle of the Block (Minecraft) - Thompkins-Bigelow, Jamilah (Author)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • Storm Tide (Mike Bowditch Mysteries #16) - Doiron, Paul (Author)

    • Guilty by Definition (Guilty by Definition #1) - Dent, Susie (Author)

    • Gray After Dark: Deluxe Stenciled Edges - Ihli, Noelle West (Author)

    • The King's Ransom (The Recovery Agent #2) - Evanovich, Janet (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Bear Hair - Mack, Jeff (Author), Mack, Jeff (Illustrator)

    • Incredibly Fast and Not at All Fun - Bentley, Tadgh (Author), Bentley, Tadgh (Illustrator)

    • Whale, That Was Unexpected - Lyall, Casey (Author), Durst, Kathryn (Illustrator)

    • Who Loves Blueberries? - Rule, Rebecca (Author), Choudhury, Arpita (Illustrator)

    • Today We'll Be Eaten - Barillaro, Alan (Author), Barillaro, Alan (Illustrator)

    Political Sciences

    • On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear - Angwin, Julia (Author), Fields-Meyer, Ami (Author)

    Romance

    • Tempting Venom (Deluxe Edition) (The Vipers #3) - Kent, Rina (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • Six of Crows: A Darker Shore, Letters from Ketterdam - Bardugo, Leigh (Author)

    Young Adult

    • Wings of Starlight (Wings of Pixie Hollow) - Saft, Allison (Author)

    • Thornbird - Kennedy, E (Author)

    • 13 Little Love Stories: An Anthology Inspired by Taylor Swift Songs - Bryant, Elise (Author), Dugan, Jennifer (Author), Elle, J (Author), Goodman, Jessica (Author), Harlow, Sloan (Author), Maldonado, Crystal (Author), Marquis, Krystal (Author), McGee, Katharine (Author), Murphy, Julie (Author), Painter, Lynn (Author), Sebastian, Laura (Author), Shepard, Sara (Author), Sutanto, Jesse Q (Author)

    • School Bus Graveyard, Volume 1 (School Bus Graveyard) - Red (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • Game Warden Mike Bowditch investigates a series of brutal killings during a life-changing year in Storm Tide, the harrowing new thriller from Edgar Award-nominated author Paul Doiron.

    When the magnificent home of entrepreneur Brian Malloy mysteriously goes up in flames, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch tries to pull Malloy's burning body from the fire but is too late. Malloy was suspected of murdering his young, illegitimate son. Now it looks like someone else has delivered a verdict.

    Miles away, on a lonely stretch of icy railroad track, the body of Axl Deming, once accused of a brutal rape, is found literally cut in half. Though the two murders seem unrelated, a cryptic text from an unknown number draws Bowditch to the scene--and hints at a chilling connection. He believes someone is orchestrating the executions of criminals who escaped justice, and for reasons he can't explain, his own name is on the list, but the state police aren't convinced. His search for the truth takes him through frozen harbors, trackless forests, and remote islands, far from rescue.

    Meanwhile, Bowditch is facing a disciplinary hearing that could end his career. His wife Stacey, just weeks from giving birth, is being stalked by a stranger in a white van. And when he realizes someone has also been watching their home, the case turns increasingly personal.

    To protect his family, Bowditch must work alone to uncover who's behind the killings--and stop them before he becomes their next victim.

  • The next graphic novel adaptation of the blockbuster, New York Times bestselling Warriors series covers the first two novels of the second arc, The New Prophecy (Midnight and Moonrise).

    The wild cats of the forest have lived in peace for many moons--but when Brambleclaw, a warrior of ThunderClan, receives an ominous prophecy from StarClan that speaks of a mysterious danger, he must rally the fiercest warriors from all the Clans to seek answers in the mountains.

    But the journey is long and hard, and tensions rise back in the forest as Firestar and Leafpaw watch ThunderClan's world crumbling around them. As the questing cats struggle to uncover the meaning of the prophecy, turmoil threatens to overtake the Clans.

    Ever since the first Warriors book hit shelves, readers have devoured these epic adventures. This stunning adaptation, adapted by Gibson Twist and illustrated by Sammy Savos, retells the first two books in the second arc of the Warriors series as a full-color graphic novel.

  • THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025

    A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025

    ALSO NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY NPR, VOGUE, TIME MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, AND MORE

    "This is nonfiction that reads like fiction - the best kind. Elmhirst's retelling is a triumph, second only to the seemingly impossible feat of Maurice and Maralyn themselves. You won't be able to put it down." - USA Today

    "Remarkable... I found myself, alternately, holding my breath as I read at top speed, wandering rooms in search of someone to read aloud to, and placing the book facedown, arrested by quiet statements that left me reeling with their depth." - The New York Times

    "Such an emotionally vivid portrait of a couple in isolation that I was shocked it wasn't fiction. How could a writer get so deeply into the minds of two real people in such extraordinary circumstances? ... So brilliantly depicted." - Elle

    "A beautiful meditation on endurance, codependence, and the power of love. A dazzling book." - Patrick Radden Keefe

    "An enthralling, engrossing story of survival and the resilience of the human spirit." --Bill Bryson

    An instant New York Times bestseller, this is the electrifying true story of a young couple shipwrecked at sea: a mind-blowing tale of obsession, survival, and partnership stretched to its limits.

    Maurice and Maralyn make an odd couple. He's a loner, awkward and obsessive; she's charismatic and ambitious. But they share a horror of wasting their lives. And they dream - as we all dream - of running away from it all. What if they quit their jobs, sold their house, bought a boat, and sailed away?

    Most of us begin and end with the daydream. But in June 1972, Maurice and Maralyn set sail. For nearly a year all went well, until deep in the Pacific, a breaching whale knocked a hole in their boat and it sank beneath the waves.

    What ensues is a jaw-dropping fight to survive in the wild ocean, with little hope of rescue. Alone together for months in a tiny rubber raft, starving and exhausted, Maurice and Maralyn have to find not only ways to stay alive but ways to get along, as their inner demons emerge and their marriage is put to the greatest of tests. Although they could run away from the world, they can't run away from themselves.

    Taut, propulsive, and dazzling, A Marriage at Sea pairs an adrenaline-fueled high seas adventure with a gutting love story that asks why we love difficult people, and who we become under the most extreme conditions imaginable.

  • "Will enthrall crime aficionados, puzzle solvers, Anglophiles and logophiles...fiendishly clever and marvelously entertaining debut--the perfect tonic for any philobiblist's mubble-fubbles." --The Washington Post

    She knew there'd be ghosts in Oxford, she just didn't think they'd make their way to the dictionary.

    Oxford, England. After a decade abroad, Martha Thornhill has returned home to the city whose ancient institutions have long defined her family. But the ghosts she had thought to be at rest seem to have been waiting for her to return. When an anonymous letter is delivered to the Clarendon English Dictionary, where Martha is a newly hired senior editor, it's rapidly clear that this is not the usual lexicographical enquiry. Instead, the coded letter hints at secrets and lies linked to a particular year.

    The date can mean only one thing: the summer Martha's brilliant older sister Charlie went missing.

    When more letters arrive, Martha and her team pull apart the complex clues within them, and soon, the mystery becomes ever more insistent and troubling. Because it seems Charlie had been keeping a powerful secret, and someone may be trying to lead the lexicographers towards the truth that will unravel the mystery of her disappearance. But other forces are no less desperate to keep their secrets well and truly buried, and Martha and her team must crack the codes before it's too late.

    From resident lexicographer Susie Dent comes a linguistic mystery that will both delight and shock readers.

  • From bestselling YA authors comes thirteen dazzling contemporary romantic stories inspired by the songs of Taylor Swift! Includes stories by Lynn Painter, Katharine McGee, and Jesse Q. Sutanto!

    If you could live inside one Taylor Swift song for a day, which would you pick? In this shimmering anthology, thirteen acclaimed, bestselling authors do just that, reimagining some of Taylor's most iconic songs as love stories.

    Whether you're in an era of fairy lights and folktales or diss tracks and dance floors, here's a playlist that features all the hits: The soaring high note of first love. The minor key of heartbreak. And the steady rhythm of true friendship and self-discovery.

    As clever and unforgettable as the songs that inspired them, these stories are sure to play on repeat in your head and your heart.

    Stories by:

    Elise Bryant

    Jennifer Dugan

    J. Elle

    Jessica Goodman

    Sloan Harlow

    Crystal Maldonado

    Krystal Marquis

    Katharine McGee

    Julie Murphy

    Lynn Painter

    Laura Sebastian

    Sara Shepard

    Jesse Q. Sutanto

Tags Shop Local, little village toy & Book Shop, Taylor Swift, Blueberries, Princess Diaries, Minecraft, Rebecca Rule, Warriors, Firetrucks, Jenna Picks, E. Kennedy, Mike Bowditch Mysteries

New Releases | June 23rd, 2026

June 19, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • Among Friends - Ebbott, Hal (Author)

    • Birds of Prey - Coben, Harlan (Editor), Box, C J (Editor)

    • I'll Be Right Here - Bloom, Amy (Author)

    • When You Loved Me - Williams, Beatriz (Author)

    • Tata - Perrin, Valérie (Author), Serle, Hildegarde (Translator)

    Animals

    • A Horse's World: A Neuroscientist's Journey Into the Equine Mind - SJones, Janet L (Author)

    Board Books

    • The Digger and the Dark (Digger #4) - Kuefler, Joseph (Author), Kuefler, Joseph (Illustrator)

    • The Pigeon Won't Play with Shapes!

    Business & Technology

    • The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think about Artificial Intelligence--Before It's Too Late - Doctorow, Cory (Author)

    Children's Art Book

    • ‍ A Million Dragons (Million Creatures to Color) - Mayo, Lulu (Author)

    Children's Poetry

    • A Treasury of Ballet Stories: Four Captivating Retellings - Hart, Caryl (Author), Smith, Briony May (Illustrator)

    Graphic Novels

    • Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Graphic Novel: Titanic - Osborne, Mary Pope (Author), Hashimoto, Meika (Adapted by), Tejido, Jomike (Illustrator)

    History

    • The Housewives Underground: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK Assassination Our Most Enduring Mystery - Tiffany, Kaitlyn (Author)

    Horror

    • Slasher Summer - Chen, E L (Author)

    Literary Collections

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

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Escape Volume 1 - Remender, Rick (Author), Acuña, Daniel (Artist)

    • Absolute Flash Vol. 2: Still Point (Absolute Universe) - Lemire, Jeff (Author), Robles, Nick (Illustrator)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • Hunter's Heart Ridge: A Mystery (Franklin Warren and Alice Bellows Mystery #2) - Taylor, Sarah Stewart (Author)

    • The Housemaid's Wedding - McFadden, Freida (Author)

    • It Could Have Been Her - Jewell, Lisa (Author)

    Nature

    • In Deep Water: A True Story of Sharks, Survival, and Courage - Tougias, Michael J (Author)

    • Noticing: Intimate Encounters with the Natural World - Louv, Richard (Author)

    Picture Books

    • The Wise Pickle - Howden, Sarah (Author), Hahn, Sabina (Illustrator)

    • Bluey: Queens and Other Stories: 4 Stories in 1 Book. Hooray! (Bluey)

    Poetry

    • The Aeneid - Virgil (Author), McGill, Scott (Translator), Wright, Susannah (Translator), Wilson, Emily (Introduction by)

    Political Sciences

    • Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump - Haberman, Maggie (Author), Swan, Jonathan (Author)

    Puzzle Books

    • New York Times Games Easiest Crosswords Volume 5: 100 Easy Crossword Puzzles - New York Times (Author), Shortz, Will (Editor)

    Romance

    • Weddings - Steel, Danielle (Author)

    • Night Witch: A Spicy Magical Dark Academia Forbidden Romantasy (Original) (Weatherstone College #2) - Eve, Jaymin (Author)

    • The Very Definition of Love (The Bancroft Sisters) - Benoit, Sophia (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • A Magical Girl Retires - Seolyeon, Park (Author), Hur, Anton (Translator)

    • The Sixth Nik - Kraus, Daniel (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • A riveting, intimate, and revelatory account of the most radical and consequential presidency of our time.

    From the two reporters who have covered him more closely than perhaps anyone else over the past decade comes this definitive portrait of Donald Trump in the White House. Regime Change covers the first year of Trump's second presidency--a term liberated from every constraint that defined his first. The generals who once told him "no" are gone, and the lawyers who remain have learned to pick their battles. His administration has flouted court orders and he has claimed powers that Congress once checked. What remains is a President willing to take enormous risks that have upended global markets and toppled heads of state; an imperial President operating almost entirely on instinct alone.

    Based on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented reporting from deep within the administration's most closely guarded rooms, Regime Change takes the reader inside the Situation Room and into the secret Oval Office deliberations that have launched a new war in the Middle East and seen Trump seal the border, surge National Guard troops into cities, and send immigration agents into deadly clashes with protestors. Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan bring us behind the scenes of a presidency that has transformed the culture, turned the Justice Department into an agent of retribution against the President's enemies and the office itself into a brazen vehicle for profit. They reveal a second term propelled by a historical irony that Trump himself has come to understand: that the indictments, the convictions, the assassination attempts, and four years of exile made him not weaker but far more powerful, more vengeful, and more willing to gamble than any President in modern history.

    This is the story of how Trump has used that power, who has tried to stop him, and why nearly all of them have failed. It is also the story of something American journalists are more accustomed to chronicling in distant capitals than in their own: a President who has fundamentally altered the nature of the office he holds--and, with it, how the rest of the world understands American power. It is an account of Regime Change right here in America--a landmark real-time history of a modern presidency like no other.

  • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone Lisa Jewell, two women's lives converge in a house containing devastating secrets that refuse to stay buried in this "deliciously dark, devilishly addictive" (Alice Feeney, bestselling author of My Husband's Wife) novel.

    Jane Trevally is walking her dogs on her country estate when a small white terrier appears, alone and with no sign of the teenaged girl he'd been staying with nearby. When the teenager is reported missing, Jane offers to return the dog to his registered owner, hours away in London. Arriving at a run-down house called Thornwood in the deepest backwaters of Hampstead, she is immediately on alert--because Jane has a dark history with this house.

    The man who answers the door is not the man that Jane remembers from her past. He is cagey, and claims to know nothing about the missing teenage girl. Then, through the window of the house, Jane catches a glimpse of a haunted-looking woman.

    Conjuring her memories from twenty-five years ago, Jane knows this unsettling house holds the key--to the missing teenager, to her own traumatic story, and to the dark secrets of the past.

  • A shapes adventure you WON'T want to miss from Mo Willems Workshop.

    The Pigeon won't play with shapes, and here's why:

    Circles. They're pointless.

    Triangles. Too pointy.

    Squares? Boring.

    Rectangle? Long and boring.

    Do YOU think The Pigeon will play with shapes?

    From Mo Willems Workshop comes this funny and engaging early-learning concept board book all about shapes, with touch-and-trace features throughout. The Pigeon WON'T Play With Shapes! is part of a collection of original board books featuring The Pigeon, ideal for babies, toddlers, and fans of the picture book series.

  • Wedding bells chime in this thrilling addition to The Housemaid series - a short story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden...

    This edition features exclusive content from Freida McFadden's upcoming, not yet announced hardcover release!

    Today is supposed to be the happiest day of my life.

    I'm engaged to the man of my dreams, and in a few short hours, I'm going to stand before a judge, who will declare us husband and wife, till death does us part. Despite some bumps in the road, this day is everything I dreamed it would be.

    There's only one problem:

    Someone out there doesn't want me to live long enough to say my vows.

    And if I'm not careful, they may very well get their wish....

  • A short, provocative guide to what's good, bad, and stupid about AI and the discourse around AI, by the author of Enshittification.

    In modern tech parlance, a centaur is a person who is able to use technology to be a better, more productive version of themself. A reverse centaur is a person who is forced by technology to work at an inhuman pace--a driver made to deliver all day long, nonstop; a warehouse worker made to work without food or bathroom breaks; a programmer made to crank out impossible amounts of code.

    The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI is not another anti-AI screed. Cory Doctorow uses AI in his work every day. As a creative person, he has no moral or dogmatic issue with AI--he thinks the technology is useful, even exciting, and full of potential. And yet.

    AI has arrived surrounded by unprecedented hype driven by a tech industry desperate to maintain its unprecedented valuation based on its own promises of endless financial growth. Despite the fact that almost all of AI's real-world implementations have proved underwhelming, AI is projected to be worth more than $16 trillion--a number that only makes sense if AI replaces vast swathes of the wage-earning human workforce. To justify that level of "value," every story about AI must be presented as inevitable, world-changing disruption. Even the tales of the robot apocalypse are a calculated attempt to bolster the fearsome power of AI.

    For Doctorow, it is imperative to see through that hype to the real story, to understand the technology not just for what it does, but for who it does it to and who it does it for. From that point of view, the story of AI is indeed dramatic and unprecedented, having generated an investment bubble so big that it endangers the entire world economy. In The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI--as he so successfully did in Enshittification--Doctorow recounts both how we found ourselves in this dire situation and how we can get through it, to a life "after" AI in which the tools work for us, not the other way around.

Tags Shop Local, little village toy & Book Shop, Ballet, Mysteries, Weddings, Donald Trump, Freida McFadden, The Pigeon, AI, Summer, Bluey, New York TImes

New Releases | June 16th, 2026

June 12, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Art

    • Creepy Critters Glow-In-The-Dark Crochet (Crochet Kits) - Rull, Anne Margaux (Author)

    • How to Look, Draw & Paint - Rice, Matthew (Author)

    • Care Bears Cross-Stitch Kit: Includes 4 Patterns (Rp Minis) - Caetano, Sosae (Author

    Adult Fiction

    • The Lowe Job - Alexander, Grace (Author)

    • The Frenzy: Stories - Oates, Joyce Carol (Author)

    • The Emilys - Abel, Heather (Author)

    • A Year of Marvelous Ways - Winman, Sarah (Author)

    Adult Science

    • In Defense of Sunlight: The Surprising Science of Sun Exposure - Jacobsen, Rowan (Author)

    Award Winners

    • Buffalo Dreamer - Duncan, Violet (Author)

    Biography

    • Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith - Vance, J D (Author)

    Board Books

    • I'll Love You Till the Sloths Start School (I'll Love You Till #4) - Cristaldi, Kathryn (Author), Litten, Kristyna (Illustrator)

    Children's Classics

    • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Deluxe Collector's Edition (Chronicles of Narnia #2) - Lewis, C S (Author), Baynes, Pauline (Illustrator)

    Graphic Novels

    • Boss of the Underworld (Underworld #1) - Freeman, Tor (Author), Freeman, Tor (Illustrator)

    • Haven and the Fallen Giants - Xu, Jen (Author), Rhodes, Kate (Author), Xu, Jen (Illustrator), Rhodes, Kate (Illustrator)

    Homestead

    • How to Grow Medicinal Herbs: An Illustrated Beginner's Guide to Growing, Harvesting, and Making Herbal Remedies at Home - Minton, Vanessa (Author)

    Horror

    • The Summer Fun Massacre (Slasher Season #1) - Dilouie, Craig (Author)

    • The Library at Hellebore - Khaw, Cassandra (Author)

    Humor Book

    • Renaissance Dogs: A Litter of Hilarious Pups, Mutts, and Hounds - Wagmore, Taylor (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • The Big Book of Birthdays: How Birthdays Are Celebrated Around the World - Feunekes, Anna Lena (Author)

    • The Long Hike: The True Story of the First Appalachian Thru-Hike - McCarthy, Meghan (Author), McCarthy, Meghan (Illustrator)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • The Superior Foes of Spider-Man - Spencer, Nick (Author), Asmus, James (Author), Lieber, Steve (Illustrator), Ellis, Rich (Illustrator), Martin, Marcos (Not Available)

    • Spider-Man: The Other - David, Peter (Author), Hudlin, Reginald (Author), Lee, Pat (Illustrator), Wieringo, Mike (Illustrator), Quesada, Joe (Not Available)

    • Superman: Action Comics Vol. 1: Boy of Steel - Waid, Mark (Author)

    • Batman: Under the Red Hood: DC Compact Comics Edition (DC Compact Comics) - Winick, Judd (Author), Starlin, James (Author), Aparo, Jim (Illustrator), Davis, Shane (Illustrator)

    • Assassin's Creed Shadows: Tales of Iga, Vol. 1 (Assassin's Creed Shadows: Tales of IGA #1) - Regujie (Author)

    • Cocoon (Cocoon #1) - Kyo, Machiko (Author)

    Middle Readers

    • The Last Kids on Earth and the Zombie Parade (Last Kids on Earth) - Brallier, Max (Author), Holgate, Douglas (Illustrator)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • She Didn't See It Coming - Lapena, Shari (Author)

    • Strangers in Time: A World War II Novel - Baldacci, David (Author)

    • Choke Point: A Thriller (Scot Harvath #25) - Thor, Brad (Author)

    Picture Books

    • Turtle with a Toolbox (Turtle with a Toolbox) - Ferry, Beth (Author), Dudolf (Illustrator)

    • Cats in Conductor Hats: A Train Adventure (Cats in Hats) - Bardhan-Quallen, Sudipta (Author), Hernandez, Leeza (Illustrator)

    • Toad on the Go (Towed by Toad) - Awan, Jashar (Author)

    • Welcome to Our Classroom! (an All Are Welcome Book) (All Are Welcome) - Penfold, Alexandra (Author), Kaufman, Suzanne (Illustrator)

    • Nighty Night, Dinos: A Bedtime Picture Book about Dinosaurs - Holt Williams, Deborah (Author), Doherty, Anna (Illustrator)

    Political Sciences

    • The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy - Webber, Jonathan (Editor), Webber, Jonathan (Introduction by)

    Romance

    • Tropesick - Okie, Lauren (Author)

    • Romantic Hero - Greenwood, Kirsty (Author)

    • The Someday Garden - Poston, Ashley (Author)

    • Credence: Deluxe Edition (Special) - Douglas, Penelope (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • Hemlock & Silver - Kingfisher, T (Author)

    • Songs of the Dead (Strata Wars #1) - Sanderson, Brandon (Author), Orullian, Peter (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • The Cruelty of Nice Folks: Why Minneapolis Is the Story of America - Ellis, Justin (Author)

    Stickers

    • Don't Let the Pigeon Sticker This Book! - Mo Willems Workshop (Author)

    True Crime

    • Filthy Rich: The Jeffrey Epstein Story: Ten Years Later (James Patterson True Crime #1) - Patterson, James (Author), Connolly, John (Author), Malloy, Tim (With)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Calamity of Souls comes a novel set in 1940s London about a bereaved bookshop owner and two teenagers scarred by the Second World War, and the healing and hope they find in one another.

    "A masterpiece of a historical thriller." --Lisa Scottoline, New York Times bestselling author of Eternal

    Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he's old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the Blitz, Charlie knows there's no telling when a falling bomb might end his life.

    Fifteen-year-old Molly Wakefield has just returned to a nearly unrecognizable London. One of millions of children to have been evacuated to the countryside Molly has been away from her home for nearly five years. Her return, however, is not the homecoming she'd hoped for as she's confronted by a devastating reality: neither of her parents are there.

    Without guardians and stability, Charlie and Molly find an unexpected ally and protector in Ignatius Oliver, and solace at his bookshop, The Book Keep. Mourning the recent loss of his wife, Ignatius forms a kinship with both children, and in each other they rediscover the spirit of family each has lost.

    But Charlie's escapades in the city have not gone unnoticed, and someone's been following Molly since she returned to London. And Ignatius is harboring his own secrets, which could have terrible consequences for all of them. As bombs continue to bear down on the city, Charlie, Molly, and Ignatius learn that while the perils of war rage on, their coming together and trusting one another may be the only way for them to survive.

    "Oliver Twist meets the Blitz. A beautiful read." --Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network

  • The Pigeon REALLY wants to sticker this book! He will sticker when required! He will sticker when optional! He will sticker responsibly! So, what is the sticking point!?!

    This fun-filled sticker-scene activity books features The Pigeon, Duckling, The Bus Driver, and more special guests. Decorate the bus with bumper stickers, sneak a peek at The Pigeon's baby album, and make loop-de-loops on the roller coaster! Includes over 250 stickers to puzzle and play with!

    Do YOU think The Pigeon should sticker this book?

  • The new head gardener at the enchanting Lilymoor House stumbles upon a secret garden . . . with a mysterious man trapped inside, in the next magical novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Sounds Like Love and The Seven Year Slip.

    When Sophie Drear plans her escape to coastal Maine for the summer--for a temporary job revitalizing the storied grounds at Lilymoor House--she doesn't expect to fall in love.

    But she does: With the beguiling land, the fragrant flowers, and the towering hedge maze. With the quirky staff and the enigmatic woman who owns the place.

    And then, the door appears. Never in the same place twice, it leads her to a secret, and unfinished, garden with a frustrated thundercloud of a man trapped inside.

    This mysterious garden is not the only sign that the future of Lilymoor is unstable: the foliage resists Sophie's careful nurturing, vines threaten to strangle the hedges, and the manor's owner has wild ideas about who will take over when she retires--including her inconveniently attractive nephew who is also there just for the summer.

    Despite herself, Sophie has come to care for the residents of Lilymoor just as much as she cares for its grounds. With the help of one man on the outside of the secret garden, and one man on the inside, she might be the only person who can figure out exactly what Lilymoor needs to bloom once more.

  • An instant New York Times bestseller!

    "Stunning. Fiendishly plotted with whiplash twists and turns -- Shari Lapena is at the very top of her game here. [She Didn't See It Coming] might be my favorite yet!" --Lucy Foley

    The new gripping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door

    When a beloved wife and mother disappears, a luxurious condo building transforms into a potential crime scene, and the investigation begins: can the detectives find her before it's too late?

    Bryden and Sam have it all: thriving careers, a smart apartment in a luxury condominium, supportive friends and a cherished daughter. The perfect life for the perfect couple.

    Then Sam receives a call at his office. Bryden - working from home that day - has failed to collect their daughter from daycare. Arriving home with their little girl, he finds his wife's car in the underground garage. Upstairs in their apartment her laptop is open on the table, her cell phone nearby, her keys in their usual place in the hall.

    Except Bryden is nowhere to be seen. It's as if she just walked out.

    How can she have disappeared from her own home? And did she even leave the building at all?

    With every minute that passes - and as questions swirl around their community - Bryden and Sam's past seems a little less perfect, their condominium less safe, their friends, neighbors and relatives no longer quite so reliable . . .

  • An Instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller

    DELUXE EDITION--a gorgeous paperback edition featuring bright green sprayed edges.

    Now in paperback, a dark reimagining of "Snow White" steeped in poison, intrigue, and treason of the most magical kind, from New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher

    Healer Anja regularly drinks poison.

    Not to die, but to save--seeking cures for those everyone else has given up on.

    But a summons from the King interrupts her quiet, herb-obsessed life. His daughter, Snow, is dying, and he hopes Anja's unorthodox methods can save her.

    Aided by a taciturn guard, a narcissistic cat, and a passion for the scientific method, Anja rushes to treat Snow, but nothing seems to work. That is, until she finds a secret world, hidden inside a magic mirror. This dark realm may hold the key to what is making Snow sick.

    Or it might be the thing that kills them all.

Tags shop local, little village toy & Book Shop, James Patterson, Dinosaurs, T Kingfisher, Minneapolis, Chronicles of Narnia, Brandon Sanderson, Hiking, David Baldacci, Spiderman, assassins creed, Crochet

New Releases | June 9th, 2026

June 4, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Fiction

    • The Poppy Fields - Erlick, Nikki (Author)

    • Children of the Wild - Powers, Kevin (Author)

    • Villa Coco - Greer, Andrew Sean (Author)

    • Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Love Story - Reid, Taylor Jenkins (Author)

    • Cat Love - Morín, Tomás Q (Author)

    • Contrapposto - Eggers, Dave (Author)

    • Pool House - Choi, Mary H K (Author)

    • The Girl I Was (Reissue) - Rose, Jeneva (Author)

    • Daughters of the Sun and Moon - See, Lisa (Author)

    Biography

    • A Voice Like Mine: A Memoir - Haaland, Deb (Author)

    • Transcendent: A Memoir - Cox, Laverne (Author)

    • Jane Austen: The Biography - Elizabeth (Author)

    Board Books

    • Little Owl's Opposites (Little Owl) - Srinivasan, Divya (Author), Srinivasan, Divya (Illustrator)

    • I'm a Digger (I'm A... Shaped Board Book) - Symons, Ruth (Author), Scott, Matthew (Illustrator)

    Body, Mind & Spirit

    • Faery Wheel Tarot - Robertson, Leeza (Author), Fiegenschuh, Emily (Author)

    • Disney Fairies Tarot Deck and Guidebook - Silverman, Linzi (Author), Visirin, Lia (Illustrator)

    Children's Science & Nature

    • 5-Minute Dinosaur Stories (5-Minute Discovery Stories) - Dawnay, Gabby (Author), K, Mona (Illustrator)

    Cookbook

    • Soph's 30 in 30 Plant Kitchen: Delicious Plant-Based Recipes with 30g of Protein in 30 Minutes or Less from the Sunday Times Bestselling Author - Macfie, Sophie (Author)

    • What I Made for Dinner: A Memoir - Belc, Krys Malcolm (Author)

    Fun & Game Books

    • Where's Waldo? the Mighty Magical Mix-Up (Where's Waldo?) - Handford, Martin (Author), Handford, Martin (Illustrator)

    Graphic Novels

    • 100 Cupboards: The Graphic Novel - Wilson, N D (Author), Dickison, Forrest (Illustrator)

    History

    • Two Ships: Jamestown 1619, Plymouth 1620, and the Struggle for the Soul of America - Reynolds, David S (Author)

    • The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler's All-Female Concentration Camp - Olson, Lynne (Author)

    • Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America's Future - Bordewich, Fergus M (Author)

    • Kuleana: A Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai'i - Goo, Sara Kehaulani (Author)

    • Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours - Onuf, Peter S (Author), Cogliano, Francis D (Author), Gordon-Reed, Annette (Foreword by)

    • Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence - Parkinson, Robert G (Author)

    • 1,000 Days in America: An Illustrated History of the Moments That Defined a Nation - National Geographic (Author), Rubenstein, David M (Foreword by), Treuer, David (Prologue by), Beschloss, Michael (Contribution by), Brinkley, Douglas (Contribution by), Gordon-Reed, Annette (Contribution by), Isaacson, Walter (Contribution by)

    Horror

    • The Way It Haunted Him - Samotin, Laura R (Author)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Punisher: Red Band - Brain Bleed (Punisher: Red Band) - Percy, Benjamin (Author), Ohta, Julius (Illustrator), Checchetto, Marco (Not Available)

    • Absolute Green Lantern Vol. 2: Sojourner (Absolute Universe) - Ewing, Al (Author), Lindsay, Jahnoy (Illustrator)

    • Kamudo, Vol. 2 (Kamudo #2) - Himekawa, Akira (Author)

    Middle Readers

    • Youngest Faircrest and the Search for a Sorcerer (Youngest Faircrest) - Clark, Ollie George (Author), Knight, Tom (Illustrator)

    Mystery & Thriller

    • Rocket's Red Glare: A Thriller - Patterson, James (Author), Eversmann, Matthew (Author)

    • Red Sheet - Ellroy, James (Author)

    • Heather - Mullen, Caitlin (Author)

    • Gone Before Goodbye - Coben, Harlan (Author), Witherspoon, Reese (Author)

    Nature

    • The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss - MacFarlane, Robert (Author), Morris, Jackie (Author)

    • Is a River Alive? - MacFarlane, Robert (Author)

    Picture Books

    • I Used to Be a Dinosaur - Lyall, Casey (Author), Keller, Laurie (Illustrator)

    • Searching for Wocks - Knisley, Lucy (Author), Knisley, Lucy (Illustrator)

    • I Am the Mountain - Weinberg, Steven (Author), Weinberg, Steven (Illustrator)

    • What Do We Do in Preschool? - Wanless, Kathryn (Author)

    • The Greatest Bedtime Story Ever - Sima, Jessie (Author), Sima, Jessie (Illustrator)

    Political Sciences

    • The Fourth Branch: How State Government Can Save Our Union - Squadron, Daniel (Author)

    Romance

    • You Won't Forget Me - Eddings, Mazey (Author)

    • The Kings of Kearny - Allen, Navessa (Author)

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

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones - Croucher, Lex (Author)

    • The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (Reissue) - Le Guin, Ursula K (Author)

    Social Sciences

    • A Pox on Fools: The True Believers, Grifters, and Cynics Who Convinced Us to Reject Vaccines - Levenson, Thomas (Author)

    Stickers

    • Disney Pixar Toy Story 5 Ultimate Sticker Book (Ultimate Sticker Book)

    Travel

    • Fodor's Montreal & Quebec City (Full-Color Travel Guide) (33RD ed.) - Fodor's Travel Guides (Author)

    True Crime

    • Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers - Fraser, Caroline (Author)

    Young Adult BK

    • Skyshade: Collector's Edition (the Lightlark Saga Book 3) - Aster, Alex (Author)

    • Honor - McClelland, Susan (Author), Mariichyn, Nataliia (Author), Buchwald, Leon (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK - From the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.

    The first edition paperback of Atmosphere features stenciled edges with a ​sunset cloud pattern!

    "Thrilling . . . heartbreaking . . . uplifting . . . the fast-paced, emotionally charged story of one ambitious young woman, finding both her voice and her passion."--Kristin Hannah, author of The Women

    "NASA? Space missions? The '80s? This is a collection of all the things I love."--Andy Weir, author of Project Hail Mary and The Martian

    Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA's space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.

    Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston's Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easygoing even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane.

    As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.

    Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant.

    Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, creating complex protagonists, and telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love--this time among the stars.

  • From the New York Times bestselling author of the smash-hit The Measure--a runaway bestseller and a Read with Jenna TODAY Show pick--a stunning new speculative story of healing, self-discovery, forgiveness, and found friendship.

    "A masterful, tender exploration of love, loss, and the poignant echoes of memory... A profoundly moving read." --Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author

    What if there were a cure for grief?

    Welcome to the Poppy Fields, where there's hope for even the most battered hearts to heal.

    Here, in a remote stretch of the California desert, lies an experimental and controversial treatment center that allows those suffering from the heartache of loss to sleep through their pain...and keep on sleeping. After patients awaken from this prolonged state of slumber, they will finally be healed. But only if they're willing to accept the potential shadowy side effects.

    On a journey to this mystical destination are four very different strangers and one little dog: Ava, a book illustrator; Ray, a fireman; Sasha, an occupational therapist; Sky, a free spirit; and a friendly pup named PJ. As they attempt to make their way from the Midwest all the way to the Poppy Fields--where they hope to find Ellis, its brilliant, enigmatic founder--each of their past secrets and mysterious motivations threaten to derail their voyage.

    A high-concept speculative novel about heartache, hope, and human resilience, The Poppy Fields poses the question: How far are we willing to go in order to be healed?

  • An Edgar Award winner for True Crime - A National Bestseller - A Washington Post Notable Book - Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Forbes, NPR, Vulture, Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Slate, Newsweek, New York Post, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews, and The Nerve - A finalist for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction

    "Scorching, seductive . . . A superb and disturbing vivisection of our darkest urges." --Los Angeles Times

    "This is about as highbrow as true crime gets." --Vulture

    "Fraser has outdone herself, and just about everyone else in the true-crime genre, with Murderland." --Esquire

    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond

    Caroline Fraser grew up in the shadow of Ted Bundy, the most notorious serial murderer of women in American history, surrounded by his hunting grounds and mountain body dumps, in the brooding landscape of the Pacific Northwest. But in the 1970s and '80s, Bundy was just one perpetrator amid an uncanny explosion of serial rape and murder across the region. Why so many? Why so weirdly and nightmarishly gruesome? Why the senseless rise and then sudden fall of an epidemic of serial killing?

    As Murderland indelibly maps the lives and careers of Bundy and his infamous peers in mayhem--the Green River Killer, the I-5 Killer, the Night Stalker, the Hillside Strangler, even Charles Manson--Fraser's Northwestern death trip begins to uncover a deeper mystery and an overlapping pattern of environmental destruction. At ground zero in Ted Bundy's Tacoma stood one of the most poisonous lead, copper, and arsenic smelters in the world, but it was hardly unique in the West. As Fraser's investigation inexorably proceeds, evidence mounts that the plumes of these smelters not only sickened and blighted millions of lives but also warped

    young minds, including some who grew up to become serial killers.

    A propulsive nonfiction thriller, Murderland transcends true-crime voyeurism and noir mythology, taking readers on a profound quest into the dark heart of the real American berserk.

  • AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    In this unforgettable suspense novel that combines the storytelling talents of Academy Award-winning actor Reese Witherspoon and internationally bestselling author Harlan Coben, a woman is trapped in a deadly conspiracy--where uncovering the truth could cost her everything.

    "Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben have delivered a winner. Gone Before Goodbye is a dynamic, riveting and twisty thriller--complete with a heroine that you'll absolutely love." --Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me

    Maggie McCabe is teetering on the brink. A highly skilled and renowned Army combat surgeon, she has always lived life at the edge, where she could make the most impact. And it was all going to plan ... until it wasn't. Upside down after a devastating series of tragedies leads to her medical license being revoked, Maggie has lost her purpose, but not her nerve or her passion. At her lowest point, she is thrown a lifeline by a former colleague, an elite plastic surgeon whose anonymous clientele demand the best care money can buy, as well as absolute discretion.

    Halfway across the globe, sequestered in the lap of luxury and cutting-edge technology, one of the world's most mysterious men requires unconventional medical assistance. Desperate, and one of the few surgeons in the world skilled enough to take this job, Maggie enters his realm of unspeakable opulence and fulfills her end of the agreement. But when the patient suddenly disappears while still under her care, Maggie must become a fugitive herself--or she will be the next one who is ... Gone Before Goodbye.

    "A tour de force thriller that delivers a killer premise and thundering plot with serious emotional punch. Maggie is flawed, compelling and utterly real. Coben and Witherspoon are a dream team! " --Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List

  • "Displays Handford's knack for layering his cacophonous crowd scenes with humor." --The New York Times Book Review

    Wizard Whitebeard has lost his magic staff, and it's stirring up mischief everywhere. Dragons are making a spectacle at the seaside, robots have crash-landed in the Stone Age, dinosaurs are wandering in the Wild West, there's a sticky situation at a castle made of cake . . . The magical mayhem seems unstoppable! Follow Waldo and his friends on a quest to find the sneaky staff and unravel this mighty mess. With twelve marvelously mixed-up scenes and hundreds more things to look for, Where's Waldo? The Mighty Magical Mix-Up is a truly mesmerizing search adventure.

Tags ShopLocal, little village toy & Book Shop, GMA Book Club, Reese's book club, New York Times Bestseller, History, Hawaii, James Patterson, Dinosaurs, Disney, Montreal, Fairies, Laverne Cox, Toy Story 5

Monthly Staff Picks | June, 2026

June 2, 2026 Clare Brooks

Little Village Toy & Book Shop’s Monthly Staff Picks for June are here!

As you may have seen last month, the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Angel Down’ kicked things off a little earlier in May than expected but will continue as one of our Adult picks throughout June, too.

We’ve added an additional Adult title this month with ‘Ducks, Newburyport’ by Lucy Ellmann; another title that plays with form and function, like ‘Angel Down’, but in an entirely different setting. This Booker Prize shortlisted tome of a novel follows an American housewife’s stream of consciousness in a not-too-distant Ohio; it’s an ambitious but worthwhile effort for the author and readers alike.

Our Middle Reader and Picture Book Picks this month are a delightful pair with Katherine Applegate’s ‘Odder’ & ‘Odder: An Otter's Story’. ‘Odder’, for middle readers, is the bestselling novel told in verse that follows a remarkable otter off the coast of central California. ‘Odder: An Otter’s Story’ is a picture book adaptation of the novel sure to delight readers young and old. Both versions of this heartwarming tale inspired by the true story of a Monterey Bay Aquarium Program feature gorgeous illustrations from Charles Santoso.

And last but certainly not least, our YA selection this month is ‘Encore!’ (available 6/2). This queer graphic novel rom-com sees two former best friends reunite in high school after drifting apart during childhood.

Visit us this month for 20% off of our Monthly Staff Picks for June, while supplies last!

Tags bookshop, bookstagram, indiebookstore, indiebookshop, staffpicks, booktok, shoplocal, littlevillagetoyandbookshop, little village

New Releases | June 2nd, 2026

May 29, 2026 Clare Brooks
  • Adult Art

    • Fairygami

    • The Ugly Sketchbook: Lose the Fear and Find More Freedom in Your Art - Terry, Tawnie Jeanne (Author)

    Adult Fiction

    • Whistler - Patchett, Ann (Author)

    • The Sun Also Rises: And Stories from in Our Time and Men Without Women (Centennial Edition) - Hemingway, Ernest (Author), Towles, Amor (Introduction by), Tangedal, Ross K (Editor), Tangedal, Ross K (Notes by)

    • Land - O'Farrell, Maggie (Author)

    • The Stolen Queen - Davis, Fiona (Author)

    • A Pair of Aces - Benedict, Marie (Author), Murray, Victoria Christopher (Author)

    • The Listeners - Stiefvater, Maggie (Author)

    • Universality - Brown, Natasha (Author)

    • The Book of Records - Thien, Madeleine (Author)

    • Grafting - Hynes, Rylan (Author)

    Adult Science

    • The Beasts of the East: The Fall and Rise of America's Eastern Wilderness - Moore, Andrew (Author)

    Arts & Entertainment

    • The Dog's Gaze: A Visual History - Laqueur, Thomas W (Author)

    Biography

    • Mark Twain - Chernow, Ron (Author)

    • The Kennedys and the Windsors: The Story of Two Dynasties, One Born, One Made - Hallemann, Caroline (Author)

    • View from the East Wing: A Memoir - Biden, Jill (Author)

    • The Wilder Way: A Memoir of Adventure, Freedom, and an Uncharted Life - Zu Beck, Eva (Author)

    Board Books

    • Find Spot in the Garden: A Lift-The-Flap Book (Spot) - Hill, Eric (Author), Hill, Eric (Illustrator)

    Business & Technology

    • 1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World - Ahamed, Liaquat (Author)

    Cookbooks

    • Grill: Easy Grilling, Big Flavor - Oliver, Jamie (Author)

    Fun & Game Books

    • Stars of World Soccer: Fifth Edition (Abbeville Sports) (5TH ed.) - Jökulsson, Illugi (Author)

    • Where's Waldo? at the Airport: A Spot and Find Field Guide (Where's Waldo? Spot and Find Field Guides)

    • Where's Waldo? in the Car: A Spot and Find Field Guide (Where's Waldo? Spot and Find Field Guides)

    Graphic Novels

    • Investigators: Weather or Not (Investigators #9) - Green, John Patrick (Author)

    History

    • The Capitol: The Surprising Biography of an American Building - Jones, Brian Jay (Author)

    • Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America - Tanenhaus, Sam (Author)

    • The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail - Dolin, Eric Jay (Author)

    • A Resistance History of the United States - Stoermer, Tad (Author)

    • The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild - Burrough, Bryan (Author)

    • The Secret History of the Universe: How Ancient Wisdom Made the Modern World - Booth, Mark (Author)

    Horror

    • Marion - Rowan, Leah (Author)

    Just the Facts

    • Where Is Massachusetts? (Who Hq: The 50 States) - Calkhoven, Laurie (Author), Who Hq (Author), Hammond, Ted (Illustrator)

    Literary Collections

    • How to Defend Books and Why: Book Bans and How We Fight Them - Caine, Danny (Author)

    Manga & Adult Graphic Novels

    • Lore Olympus: Volume Ten (Lore Olympus) - Smythe, Rachel (Author)

    • The Visions [Marvel Premier Collection] (Marvel Premier Collection) - King, Tom (Author), Walta, Gabriel Hernandez (Illustrator), Walsh, Michael (Illustrator), Del Mundo, Mike (Not Available)

    • Spider-Man Noir: The Gwen Stacy Affair (Spider-Man Noir) - Larsen, Erik (Author), Broccardo, Andrea (Illustrator), Cresta, Marika (Illustrator), Di Meo, Simone (Not Available)

    • Spider-Man: Brand New Day - Wells, Zeb (Author), Waid, Mark (Author), Slott, Dan (Author), Bachalo, Chris (Illustrator), McKone, Mike (Illustrator)

    • Billy Bat Volume 1: Volume 1 (Billy Bat) - Urasawa, Naoki (Author), Nagasaki, Takashi (Author), Iwashiro, Kristi (Translator)

    • Transformers Vol. 5: Generation One (Transformers) - Kirkman, Robert (Author), Mora, Dan (Illustrator), Corona, Jorge (Illustrator), Spicer, Mike (Illustrator)

    • Batman Vol. 1: Daylight - Fraction, Matt (Author), Jimenez, Jorge (Illustrator)

    • Superman: Red Son: DC Compact Comics Edition (DC Compact Comics) - Millar, Mark (Author), Johnson, Dave (Illustrator), Plunkett, Kilian (Illustrator)

    • DC vs. Vampires: World War V Vol. 1 - Rosenberg, Matthew (Author), Schmidt, Otto (Illustrator)

    • Chainsaw Man, Vol. 21 (Chainsaw Man #21) - Fujimoto, Tatsuki (Author)

    • Shinobi Undercover, Vol. 1 (Shinobi Undercover #1) - Takegushi, Ippon (Author), Mitarashi, Santa (Illustrator)

    • I'm No Angel, Vol. 1 (I'm No Angel #1) - Yazawa, Ai (Author)

    • Shugo Chara! 20th Anniversary Edition 2 - Peach-Pit (Author)

    • The Beast King: Master of Medicines Vol. 2 (The Beast King and His Apprentice) - Konda, Tatsukazu (Author), Sakano, Asahi (Illustrator), Momochichi (Contribution by)

    Middle Readers

    • Really Rubie (Really Rubie #1) - Frost, Maddie (Author), Frost, Maddie (Illustrator)

    My First Readers

    • I Want to Be a Farmer: A My Community I Can Read (I Can Read Level 1) - Driscoll, Laura (Author), Echeverri, Catalina (Illustrator)

    Mystery & Thrillers

    • Death on the Lanai: A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery (A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery) - Courage, Rachel Ekstrom (Author)

    • Stuart Woods' Deep Water (Stone Barrington Novel) - Battles, Brett (Author)

    • Clive Cussler Cold Fire (NUMA Files) - Brown, Graham (Author)

    Nature

    • Insect Safari: Exploring the Wondrous World of Everyday Bugs - Patlak, Margie (Author)

    Personal Growth

    • The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex - Febos, Melissa (Author)

    Picture Books

    • The Deepest Blue - Grant, Shauntay (Author), Minter, Daniel (Illustrator)

    • Lucky & Norman: Saying Goodbye Is Bittersweet - Cain, Susan (Author), The Cain Family (Author), Lim, Stella (Illustrator)

    • Tales of Adventure! (Disney Moana)

    • Better Pets - Bardugo, Leigh (Author), Climo, Liz (Illustrator)

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

    • Ruby's Tools for Fixing Mistakes (Ruby's Tools) - Stott, Apryl (Author), Stott, Apryl (Illustrator)

    • Sing the 50 United States! (Classic Seuss) - Dr Seuss (Author)

    Poetry

    • Earthly Virtues (Penguin Poets) - Dennis, Carl (Author)

    Political Sciences

    • What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience - Pence, Mike (Author)

    • The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government - McQuade, Barbara (Author)

    Romance

    • The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy: Book 1 of the Dearly Beloathed Duology (Dearly Beloathed) - Knightley, Brigitte (Author)

    • Puck - Allen, Samantha (Author)

    • Samantha Spük: Paranormal Wedding Planner - Lin, Aleese (Author)

    • Nobody's Quest (Nobody Chronicles #1) - Day, Alyssa (Author)

    Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • Katabasis - Kuang, R F (Author)

    • The Children - Albert, Melissa (Author)

    • The Unicorn Hunters - Arden, Katherine (Author)

    • Sublimation - Kim, Isabel J (Author)

    • Dark Matter (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) - Crouch, Blake (Author)

    Sports

    • The Hardest, Longest Race: Henry Ford and the Cross-Country Contest That Changed America - Moskowitz, Eric (Author)

    • The Magical Game: The Spirit and History of Baseball's Superstitions, Rituals, and Curses - Baird, Addy (Author)

    Workbooks

    • Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy Activity Deck: 52 Fun Ideas for Connecting with Your World and Nature - Scarry, Richard (Author)

    Young Adult BK

    • Medicine Wheels - Graves, Byron (Author)

    • Breakout - Clayton, Dhonielle (Author), Jackson, Tiffany D (Author), Stone, Nic (Author), Thomas, Angie (Author), Woodfolk, Ashley (Author), Yoon, Nicola (Author)

    • Encore!: A Graphic Novel - Burks, Miles Toriko (Author), Burks, Miles Toriko (Illustrator)

    • Time After Time - Daughtry, Mikki (Author)

    • The Secret World of Briar Rose - Pham, Cindy (Author)

This Week’s Top 5 Picks

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  • The acclaimed, prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling writer returns with a moving, luminous novel that reminds us of the sweetness and impermanence of life and the power of connection to defy time.

    When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn't seen Eddie for many years, not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. Meeting again, time falls away; while their relationship was brief, it had a profound impact on them both, and now that they are reunited, they have no intention of ever being separated again.

    Whistler is a story about two adults looking back over the choices they made, and the choices that were made for them. It's a story about bravery, memory, the often small yet consequential moments that define our lives, and the endless stream of loss that in time comes for us all. Beautiful in its simplicity, it is ultimately about how love endures, and how the feeling of being known by one other person, even for a short period of time, can change everything.

  • Multiple-time New York Times-bestselling sewer-surfing super-sleuths Mango and Brash are back in the ninth volume of the mega-smash-hit InvestiGators series!

    The InvestiGators' latest case is a dairy disaster! The city's water supply has been replaced with milk and the newest feline agents, the InvestiGatos, don't seem to be complaining. What's with the simian scientists and why is the rain green?! All will be revealed in this sticky volume of InvestiGators!

  • With this newly discovered and never-before-seen picture book by Dr. Seuss himself, celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States of America! From Alabama to Wyoming, learn the names of all 50 states with a little help from the Cat in the Hat.

    To sing the 50 United States

    you have to use your brain.

    Massachusetts.

    Minnesota.

    Missouri and Montana.

    M-i-s-s-Mississippi.

    Maryland!

    Michigan and Maine!

    In this never-before-seen picture book featuring Dr. Seuss's signature rhyming style, readers will delight in naming the 50 states alongside the beloved Cat in the Hat! Funny, engaging, and educational, this book is ideal for Seuss fans and collectors of all ages. Sing the 50 United States! features original, previously unpublished text by Dr. Seuss and brand-new illustrations inspired by his sketches.

    At the end of the book you'll find a Publisher's Note about how this project came to be, including archival images of the original text and sketches by Ted Geisel--a.k.a. Dr. Seuss!

    Remove the book's jacket to reveal a complete map of the United States on the back, perfect for readers to test their own state-naming skills.

  • A New York Times Bestseller From New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis, an utterly addictive new novel that will transport you from New York City's most glamorous party to the labyrinth streets of Cairo and back.Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, she leaps at the opportunity. That is until an unbearable tragedy strikes. New York City, 1978: Nineteen-year-old Annie Jenkins is thrilled when she lands an opportunity to work for former Vogue fashion editor Diana Vreeland, who's in the midst of organizing the famous Met Gala, hosted at the museum and known across the city as the "party of the year." Meanwhile, Charlotte is now leading a quiet life as the associate curator of the Met's celebrated Department of Egyptian Art. She's consumed by her research on Hathorkare--a rare female pharaoh dismissed by most other Egyptologists as unimportant. The night of the gala: One of the Egyptian art collection's most valuable artifacts goes missing, and there are signs Hathorkare's legendary curse might be reawakening. Annie and Charlotte team up to search for the missing antiquity, and a desperate hunch leads the unlikely duo to one place Charlotte swore she'd never return: Egypt. But if they have any hope of finding the artifact, Charlotte will need to confront the demons of her past--which may mean leading them both directly into danger.

  • The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger. "A breathtaking hymn to the sanctity of natural spaces, operating on timescales both intimate and geological. I finished Land moved not only by the vivid lives of its human characters, but the thrumming, gorgeous presence of its mosses, waters, winds, and skies." --Daniel Mason, author of North Woods On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. Tomás, however, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster. The British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tomás is unexpectedly sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse. His life, and the lives of those of his family, will never be the same again. Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his taciturn father. What was it that caused such cracks to open in Tomás, and how is Liam, aged only ten, going to finish the mapping and get them both home? Land is a novel about separation and reunion, tragedy and recovery, colonization and rebellion. It is a story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away. As spellbinding and varied as the landscape that inspired it, Land is, above all, a story of survival, for our times and for all time.

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