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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FICTION
MYSTERY/THRILLER
SCIENCE FICTION
NONFICTION
HOME & GARDEN
BABY BOOKS
GIFTS FOR HIM
RECREATION
READ TO ME, PLEASE!
PICTURE BOOKS
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
MIDDLE READER
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
FICTION
Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead
Hardcover
An unforgeable story of
a daredevil female aviator
determined to chart her
own course in life, at any
cost—Great Circle spans
Prohibion-era Montana, the
Pacic Northwest, Alaska, New
Zealand, warme London, and
modern-day Los Angeles.
An Unlikely Spy
Rebecca Starford
Hardcover
A twisng, sophiscated
World War II novel following
a spy who goes undercover
as a part of MI5—in chasing
the secrets of others,
how much will she lose of
herself?
Our Woman In
Moscow
Beatriz Williams
Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling
author of Her Last Flight returns with
a gripping and profoundly human
story of Cold War espionage and
family devoon.
Golden Girl
Elin Hilderbrand
Hardcover
In this sasfying page-turner
from “the queen of beach
reads” (New York Magazine),
a Nantucket novelist has one
nal summer to protect her
secrets while her loved ones on
earth learn to live without their
golden girl.
Ariadne
Jennifer Saint
Hardcover
Hypnoc, propulsive, and uerly
transporng, Jennifer Saint’s
Ariadne forges a new epic, one
that puts the forgoen women
of Greek mythology back at the
heart of the story, as they strive
for a beer world.
The Siren
Katherine St. John
Hardcover
From Katherine St. John, author
of The Lion’s Den, comes another
sublimely escapist thriller:
When Hollywood hearhrob
Cole Power hires his ex-wife,
Stella Rivers, to act in his son’s
lm, he sparks a restorm on an
isolated island that will unearth
long-buried secrets—and unravel
years of lies.
FICTION
Unsettled Ground
Claire Fuller
Hardcover
From the award-winning author
of Our Endless Numbered Days,
Swimming Lessons, and Bier
Orange comes a brilliant novel
about an unusual family held
together by a string of lies, a small
town with too many quesons,
and a sudden death that
threatens to undo them all.
Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Hardcover
From the New York Times
bestselling author of Daisy Jones
& The Six . . . Four famous siblings
throw an epic party to celebrate the
end of the summer. But over the
course of twenty-four hours, their
lives will change forever.
Ridgeline
Michael Punke
Hardcover
The thrilling, long-awaited
return of the #1 New York
Times bestselling author of
The Revenant
Olympus, Texas
Stacey Swann
Hardcover
A bighearted debut with
technicolor characters, plenty
of Texas swagger, and a
powder keg of a plot in which
marriages struggle, rivalries
are, and secrets explode,
all with a clever wink toward
classical mythology.
The Eagle’s Claw
Jeff Shaara
Hardcover
In a riveng tale that picks up
where To Wake the Giant le
o, New York Times bestselling
author Je Shaara transports
us to the Bale of Midway
in another masterpiece of
military historical con.
China: A Novel
Edward Rutherfurd
Hardcover
The internaonally bestselling
author of Paris and New York
takes on an exhilarang new
world with his trademark epic
style in China: The Novel
Light Perpetual
Francis Spufford
Hardcover
From the crically acclaimed and
award-winning author of Golden
Hill, a mesmerizing and boldly
invenve novel tracing the innite
possibilies of ve lives in the
bustling neighborhoods of 20th-
century London.
The Newcomer
Mary Kay Andrews
Hardcover
Mary Kay Andrews, the New
York Times bestselling author
and Queen of the Beach Reads
delivers her next page-turner
for the summer with The
Newcomer.
FICTION
That Summer
Jennifer Weiner
Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times
bestselling author of Big
Summer comes another mely
and deliciously twisty novel
of intrigue, secrets, and the
transformave power of female
friendship.
Where The Grass Is
Green And The Girls
Are Pretty
Lauren Weisberger
Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times
bestselling author of The Devil
Wears Prada and When Life
Gives You Lululemons comes
a highly entertaining, sharply
observed novel about sisters,
their perfect lives . . . and their
perfect lies.
The Vanishing Point
Elizabeth Brundage
Hardcover
At Rye Adler’s funeral, they
didn’t bury his body – or the
rivalry of his closest enemy. A
gripping literary thriller by the
author of the “wrenching and
exhilarang” All Things Cease to
Appear (Wall Street Journal).
The Cave Dwellers
Christina McDowell
Hardcover
A compulsively readable
novel in the vein of The
Bonre of the Vanies—by
way of The Nest—about
what Washington, DC’s
high society members do
away from the Capitol
building and behind the
closed doors of their
stately homes.
Hamnet: A Novel
of the Plague
Maggie O’Farrell
Paperback
“Of all the stories that argue and
speculate about Shakespeare’s life .
. . here is a novel . . . so gorgeously
wrien that it transports you.” —The
Boston Globe
The Guest List
Lucey Foley
Paperback
A wedding celebraon
turns dark and deadly in
this deliciously wicked and
atmospheric thriller reminiscent
of Agatha Chrise from the New
York Times bestselling author of
The Hunng Party.
FICTION
The Heart Remembers
Jan-Philipp Sendker
Paperback
The highly ancipated nal book
in the internaonally bestselling
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
trilogy, a moving story about
love’s power to transcend
distances and heal seemingly
irreparable wounds.
The Paris Hours
Alex George
Paperback
One day in the City of Light. One
night in search of lost me. Paris
between the wars teems with arsts,
writers, and musicians, a gliering
crucible of genius. But amidst the
dazzling creavity of the city’s most
famous cizens, four regular people
are each searching for something
they’ve lost.
The Lions of
Fifth Avenue
Fiona Davis
Paperback
In New York Times bestselling
author Fiona Davis’s latest historical
novel, a series of book thes roils
the iconic New York Public Library,
leaving two generaons of strong-
willed women to pick up the pieces.
The House of
Trelawney
Hannah Rothschild
From the author of The
Improbability of Love comes
a dazzling novel both sarical
and moving, about an
eccentric, dysfunconal family
of English aristocrats and
their crumbling stately home,
demonstrang how the lives
and hopes of women can be
shaped by the es of family
and love.
Paperback
MYSTERY/THRILLER
The Devil May Dance
Jake Tapper
Hardcover
Charlie and Margaret discover
the dark side of Hollywood in
Jake Tapper’s follow-up to New
York Times bestseller The Hellre
Club—an “excellent” cocktail of
corrupon and ambion
The Coldest Case
Martin Walker
Hardcover
An anonymous skull, an unsolved
murder, sinister rumors from the
Cold War era of espionage--Bruno’s
invesgaon into a long-standing
cold case nds him caught between
an enigmac winegrower and a
menacing Communist organizaon
from the past.
Girl In The Walls
A.J. Gnuse
Hardcover
A mesmerizing and
suspenseful coming-of-age
novel about an orphan
hiding within the walls of
her former family home—
and about what it means
to be truly seen aer
becoming lost in life
The Last Thing He
Told Me
Laura Dave
Hardcover
A gripping mystery about a woman
who thinks she’s found the love of
her life—unl he disappears.
MYSTERY/THRILLER
Basil’s War
Stephen Hunter
Hardcover
A swashbuckling Brish agent
goes behind enemy lines to
search for a religious text that
might hold the key to ending the
second World War
A Study In Crimson
Robert J. Harris
Hardcover
Bringing Sherlock Holmes from the
Victorian Era into the dark days
of World War II, this imaginave
new thriller confronts the world’s
greatest detecve with a killer
emulang the murders of Jack the
Ripper.
The Photographer
Mary Dixie Carter
Hardcover
Mary Dixie Carter’s The
Photographer is a slyly observed,
suspenseful story of envy
and obsession, told in the
mesmerizing, irresisble voice
of a character who will make
you doubt that seeing is ever
believing.
Hardcover
Palace of The
Drowned
Christine Mangan
From the bestselling author
of Tangerine, a “taut and
mesmerizing follow up...
voluptuously atmospheric and
surefooted at every turn.
The Plot
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Hardcover
Hailed as “breathtakingly
suspenseful,” Jean Han
Korelitz’s The Plot is a propulsive
read about a story too good
not to steal, and the writer who
steals it..
Phase Six
Jim Shepard
Hardcover
A spare and gripping novel
about the next pandemic--
completed by the award-winning
Jim Shepard before COVID-19
even emerged--that reads like
a conal sequel to our current
crisis.
The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides
Paperback
A shocking psychological thriller of
a woman’s act of violence against
her husband—and of the therapist
obsessed with uncovering her
move.
The Holdout
Graham Moore
Paperback
One juror changed the verdict.
What if she was wrong? From
the Academy Award–winning
screenwriter of The Imitaon
Game and bestselling author
of The Last Days of Night.
MYSTERY/THRILLER
Providence
Max Barry
Paperback
From the ingenious author of
Jennifer Government and Lexicon:
a brilliant work of science con
that tells the inmate tale of
four people facing their most
desperate hour--alone, together,
at the edge of the universe.
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Hardcover
A lone astronaut must save
the earth from disaster in this
incredible new science-based
thriller from the #1 New York
Times bestselling author of
The Maran.
Hardcover
The Blacktongue
Thief
Christopher Buehlman
Set in a world of goblin wars, stag-sized
bale ravens, and assassins who kill with
deadly taoos, Christopher Buehlman’s
The Blacktongue Thief begins a dazzling
fantasy adventure unlike any other.
Scorpion
Christian Cantrell
Hardcover
An exceponal, fast-paced
thriller featuring a tech-
empowered assassin whose
paern and objecve you’ve
never seen before, chased by a
heroine with tenacious grit.
Joanne M. Harris
Hardcover
A lushly illustrated set of dark,
capvang fairy tales from the
bestselling author of The Gospel
of Loki with illustrator Charles
Vess (Stardust).
Honeycomb The Kingdoms
Natasha Pulley
Hardcover
For fans of The 7 ½ Deaths of
Evelyn Hardcastle and David
Mitchell, a genre bending, me
twisng alternave history
that asks whether it’s worth
changing the past to save the
future, even if it costs you
everyone you’ve ever loved.
SCIENCE FICTION
The Secret To
Superhuman Strength
Alison Bechdel
Hardcover
From the author of Fun Home,
a profoundly aecng graphic
memoir of Bechdel’s lifelong love
aair with exercise, set against a
hilarious chronicle of tness fads
in our mes
The Double Life
of Bob Dylan
Clinton Heylin
Hardcover
“So, you want to know more
about Bob Dylan? Read
Clinton Heylin’s new book.
You’ll get all you need.” —
Graham Nash, of Crosby,
Slls, Nash & Young
Brat: An 80’s
Story
Andrew McCarthy
Hardcover
Fans of Pa Smith’s Just
Kids and Rob Lowe’s StoriesI
Only Tell My Friends will
love this beaufully wrien,
entertaining, and emoonally
honest memoir by an actor,
director, and author who
found his start as an 80s Brat
pack member.
Films of
Endearment: A
Mother, a Son and
the ‘80s Films That
Defined Us
Michael Koresky
Hardcover
A poignant memoir of family,
grief and resilience about
a young man, his dynamic
mother and the ‘80s movies
they shared together
Things I Learned
From Falling
Claire Nelson
Hardcover
The gripping rst-person
account of one woman’s
survival in Joshua Tree Naonal
Park against the odds.
Finding The
Mother Tree
Suzanne Simard
Hardcover
From the world’s leading
forest ecologist who forever
changed how people view
trees and their connecons
to one another and to other
living things in the forest--a
moving, deeply personal
journey of discovery
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish
Hardcover
Legendary recording arst Billie Eilish
shares an inmate inside look at her
life—both on and o the stage—in
this stunning, photo-lled book.
American Marriage:
The Untold Story of
Abraham Lincoln and
Mary Todd
Michael Burlingame
Hardcover
An enlightening narrave exploring
an o-overlooked aspect of the
sixteenth president’s life, An
American Marriage reveals the
tragic story of Abraham Lincoln’s
marriage to Mary Todd.
Notes on Grief
Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie
Paperback
From the globally acclaimed,
best-selling novelist and author
of We Should All Be Feminists,
a mely and deeply personal
account of the loss of her father.
Christie Tate
Paperback
Group: How One
Therapist and a
Circle of Strangers
Saved My Life
The refreshingly original and
“startlingly hopeful” (Lisa
Taddeo) debut memoir of an
over-achieving young lawyer
who reluctantly agrees to group
therapy and gets psychologically
and emoonally naked in a room
of six complete strangers—and
nds human connecon, and
herself.
Punch Me Up
To The Gods: A
Memoir
Brian Broome
Hardcover
A poec and raw coming-of-
age memoir about Blackness,
masculinity, and addicon
My Remarkable
Journey: A Memoir
Katherine Johnson
Hardcover
The remarkable woman at heart
of the smash New York Times
bestseller and Oscar-winning lm
Hidden Figures tells the full story
of her life, including what it took
to work at NASA, help land the
rst man on the moon, and live
through a century of turmoil and
change.
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Hardcover
Facing the Mountain:
A True Story of
Japanese American
Heroes in World
War II
Daniel James Brown
From the #1 New York Times
bestselling author of The Boys in
the Boat, a gripping World War
II saga of patriosm, highlighng
the contribuons and sacrices
that Japanese immigrants and
their American-born children
made for the sake of the naon.
The Secret Life of
the Savoy: Glamour
and Intrigue at
the World’s Most
Famous Hotel
Olivia Williams
Hardcover
The capvang story of the
famed Savoy Hotel’s founders,
told through three generaons—
and one hundred years—of
glamour and high society.
The Memory Thief:
And the Secrets
Behind How We
Remember
Lauren Aguirre
Hardcover
The remarkable true story of a team
of doctors who – through years of
scienc sleuthing and observant
care—discover a surprising connecon
between opioids and memory, one
that holds promise and peril for any
one of us..
The Secret History of
Home Economics
Danielle Dreilinger
Hardcover
The surprising, oen ercely
feminist, always fascinang, yet
barely known, history of home
economics.
Running Out: In Search
of Water on the High
Plains Frontier
Lucas Bessire
Hardcover
The imminent depleon of the
Ogallala and other aquifers around
the world is a dening planetary
crisis of our mes. Running Out
oers a uniquely personal account
of aquifer depleon and the deeper
layers through which it gains
meaning and force.
On Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed
Hardcover
The essenal, sweeping story of
Juneteenth’s integral importance
to American history, as told by a
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian
and Texas nave.
NONFICTION
NONFICTION
Madhouse at the End
of the Earth: The
Belgica’s Journey Into
the Dark Antarctic
Julian Sancton
Hardcover
The harrowing true survival story of
an early polar expedion that went
terribly awry—with the ship frozen in
ice and the crew trapped inside for the
enre sunless, Antarcc winter
Confidence Men:
How Two Prisoners
of War Engineered
the Most
Remarkable Escape
in History
Margalit Fox
Hardcover
The astonishing true story of
two World War I prisoners
who pulled o one of the most
ingenious escapes of all me.
War on the Border
Jeff Guinn
Hardcover
A dramac account of the “Punive
Expedion” of 1916 that brought
Pancho Villa and Gen. John J.
Pershing into conict, and whose
reverberaons connue in the
Southwestern US to this day.
We Need New
Stories: The Myths
That Subvert Freedom
Neshine Malik
Hardcover
A rigorous examinaon of six polical
myths used to deect and discredit
demands for social jusce.
Freedom
Sebastian Junger
Hardcover
A profound ruminaon on the
concept of freedom from the
New York Times bestselling
author of Tribe.
Mercury Rising
Jeff Shesol
Hardcover
A riveng history of the epic
orbital ight that put America
back into the space race.
Everyone’s Table:
Global Recipes for
Modern Health
Gregory Gourdet
Hardcover
The beloved Top Chef star
revoluonizes healthy eang in this
groundbreaking cookbook—the
ulmate guide to cooking globally
inspired dishes free of gluten, dairy,
soy, legumes, and grains that are
so delicious you won’t noce the
dierence.
We Are What We
Eat: A Slow Food
Manifesto
Alice Waters
Hardcover
From chef and food acvist Alice
Waters, an impassioned plea for a
radical reconsideraon of the way
each and every one of us cooks
and eats
Ripe Figs: Recipes and
Stories from Turkey,
Greece, and Cyprus
Yasmin Khan
Hardcover
The acclaimed author of Zaitoun returns
with vibrant recipes and powerful
stories from the islands that bridge the
Mediterranean and the Middle East.
Crave
Ed Smith
Hardcover
“Once again, Ed Smith has done
something really smart. Cooking the
avors we are craving in any given
moment, the resulng book feels
so novel and fresh. Ed’s wring is
thoughul and conversaonal; his
recipes condent and delicious.” —
Yotam Oolenghi
Hugh Johnson
Hardcover
A charming, eclecc, beaufully
wrien diary, focusing on
gardening and the natural world.
Sitting in the Shade England’s Magnificent
Gardens
Roderick Floud
Hardcover
An altogether dierent kind of
book on English gardens—the
rst of its kind—a look at the
history of England’s magnicent
gardens as a history of Britain
itself, from the seventeenth-
century gardens of Charles II to
those of Prince Charles today.
HOME & GARDEN
Home Waters: A
Chronicle of Family
and a River
John MacLean
Hardcover
In the spirit of his father’s beloved
classic, A River Runs through It,
comes John N. Maclean’s true
chronicle of his family and their
bond with Montana’s Blackfoot
River, where four generaons of
Macleans have shed, gathered,
and drawn meless lessons from its
storied waters
In Praise of Walking:
A New Scientific
Exploration
Shane O’Mara
Hardcover
Illuminates the joys, health
benets, and mechanics of
walking, and reminds us to get
out of our chairs and discover a
happier, healthier, more creave
self.
David Coggins
Hardcover
A modern tribute to an ageless
pasme, and a praccal guide to
the art, philosophy, and rituals of y
shing, by an expert, lifelong angler.
The Optimist: A Case
for the Fly Fishing Life
Tom Coyne
Hardcover
Aer playing hundreds of
courses overseas in the
birthplace of golf, Tom Coyne,
the New York Times bestselling
author of A Course Called
Ireland and A Course Called
Scotland, returns to his own
birthplace and delivers a
rollicking love leer to golf in
the United States.
A Course Called
America
John Branch
Hardcover
New York Times reporter John
Branch’s riveng, humane pieces
about ordinary people doing
extraordinary things at the edges
of the sporng world have won
nearly every major journalism
prize. Sidecountry gathers the best
of Branch’s work for the rst me,
featuring 20 of his favorites from
the more than 2,000 pieces he has
published in the paper.
Sidecountry Waterlog: A
Swimmers Journey
Through Britain
Roger Deakin
Hardcover
With enchanng descripons of
natural landscapes, and a deep well
of humanity, boundless humor,
and unbridled joy, Deakin beckons
us to wilder waters and inspires us
to connect to the larger world in
a most unexpected way. Thrilling,
vivid, and lyrical, Waterlog is a fully
immersive adventure—a remarkable
personal quest, a bold asseron of
the swimmer’s right to roam, and an
unforgeable celebraon of the magic
of water.
RECREATION
Year Book
Seth Rogen
Hardcover
A collecon of funny personal essays
from one of the writers of Superbad
and Pineapple Express and one of
the producers of The Disaster Arst,
Neighbors, and The Boys.
Nine Nasty Words:
English in the Gutter:
Then, Now, and
Forever
John McWhorter
Hardcover
One of the preeminent linguists
of our me examines the realms
of language that are considered
shocking and taboo in order to
understand what imbues curse
words with such power--and why
we love them so much.
The Anthropocene
Reviewed
John Green
Hardcover
A deeply moving and
insighul collecon of
personal essays from #1
bestselling author John
Green.
The Penguin Book of
the Modern American
Short Story
John Freeman
Hardcover
A selecon of the best and most
representave contemporary
American short con from 1970
to 2020, including such authors
as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade
Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra
Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-
selected by celebrated editor and
anthologist John Freema
Jonathan Slaght
Paperback
A terrically excing account of
Slaght’s me in the Russian Far
East studying Blakiston’s sh
owls, huge, shaggy-feathered,
yellow-eyed, and elusive birds
that hunt sh by wading in icy
water . . . Even on the hoest
summer days this book will
transport you.
Owls of the
Eastern Ice
Other People’s
Words: Wisdom
for an Inspired and
Productive Life
Seth Siegel
Hardcover
When we are confused or sad,
lonely or angry, or simply in need
of a boost in a relaonship or in our
life goals, each of us can be uplied
by the wisdom of others.
GIFTS FOR HIM
Nature’s Palette: A
Color Reference System
from the Natural World
Patrick Baty
Hardcover
Featuring contribuons by leading
natural history experts along with more
than 1,000 color illustraons and eight
gatefolds, a reference volume for visual
arsts, naturalists, and anyone who is
capvated by color.
Plunder: Napoleon’s
Theft of Veronese’s
Feast
Cynthia Saltzman
Hardcover
A capvang study of Napoleon’s
plundering of Europe’s art for the
Louvre, told through the story of
a Renaissance masterpiece seized
from Venice.
Daniel Kahneman
Hardcover
From the Nobel Prize-winning
author of Thinking, Fast and
Slow and the coauthor of Nudge, a
revoluonary exploraon of why
people make bad judgments and
how to make beer ones
Noise: A Flaw in
Human Judgment
Thomas Moore
Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling
author of the classic The Care
of the Soul addresses the
needs of those providing soul
care to others—therapists,
psychiatrists, ministers, spiritual
directors, teachers, and even
friends—sharing his insights
for incorporang a spiritual or
soulful dimension into their
work and pracces.
Soul Therapy: The Art
and Craft of Caring
Conversations
Geoff Dyer
Hardcover
Celebrated writer Geo Dyer oers
a series of moving, wiy, prescient,
surprising, and inmate encounters
with images.
See/Saw: Looking at
Photographs
Road Trip USA
Jamie Jensen
Hardcover
Criss-cross the country on America’s
two-lane highways with the 25th
anniversary edion of the ulmate
guide to the classic road trip.
GIFTS FOR HIM
BABY BOOKS
Board Book
Papasaurus
Stephan Lomp
Are you My Mother?
meets dinosaurs in this
colorful and reassuring
board book celebrang
the father-child bond.
Pete the Cat: The
Wheels on the Bus
Sound Book
James Dean
Board Book
Hop on board with Pete and
his friends as they sing the
classic school bus tune in this
groovy sound book—perfect for
lile hands and for singing along.
This sturdy board book features one
easy buon for turning on and o
the music.
ABC Cats
Leslea Newman
Board Book
A beguiling array of
felines from A to Z makes
learning the alphabet the
cat’s pajamas.
Where Are
Swimmy’s
Friends?
Leo Lionni
Board Book
For the very rst me--a Leo
Lionni’s Friends li-the-ap
book! This new board book,
about a lile sh named
Swimmy and his underwater
friends, is inspired by
Swimmy, one of Leo Lionni’s
bestselling books!
Glow
Ruth Forman
Board Book
A joyfully poec board
book that delivers an ode
to the beauful light of
African American boys.
Daddy Hugs
Nancy Tapuri
Board Book
From furry bears to silky hares,
Caldeco Honoree Nancy Tafuri
celebrates the extra special
bond between daddies and
their babies in this perfect gi
for Father’s Day.
READ TO ME, PLEASE!
Dinosaurs
Before Dark
Graphic Novel
Paperback
Jenny Laird
The #1 bestselling chapter book
is now a graphic novel! Magic.
Mystery. Time-travel. Get whisked
back in me in the magic tree
house with Jack and Annie!
Mia Mayhem
Rides the Waves
Paperback
Kara West
Mia goes on a super
surng family vacaon in
this eleventh adventure
of the Mia Mayhem
chapter book series!
Fox & Chick: The
Quiet Boat Ride
Sergio Ruzzier
Paperback
In the tradion of Frog and Toad,
this crically acclaimed early reader
series features Fox and Chick – two
unlikely friends who despite their
dierences always manage to nd
a way to get along. In this second
book in the series, Fox and Chick go
on three adventures involving a boat
ride, a mysterious box, and an early
morning trip to see the sunrise.
Bedtime for
Bad Kitty
Nick Bruehl
Paperback
It’s bedme in the Bad Kiy
household but Kiy does not
want to go to bed!
Heidi Heckelbeck and
the Lost Library Book
Wanda Coven
Paperback
Heidi has an overdue adventure
when she loses a library book
in this thirty-second Heidi
Heckelbeck adventure!
Crack in the
Code! (Minecraft
Stonesword Saga #1)
Nick Eliopulos
Paperback
Get ready for the next great
adventure in the only ocial
Minecra chapter book series!
STAFF PICK
PICTURE BOOKS
Hardcover
What Will
You Be?
Yamile Saied Mendez,
Illus. by Kate
Alizaden
From Yamile Saied Méndez,
acclaimed author of Where
Are You From?, comes a
stunning lyrical picture book
that tells the story of one girl
who is always asked a simple
queson: What will you be
when you grow up?
Strange Planet
Nathan W. Pyle
Hardcover
When the nearest star rises,
Lifegiver has an excing quest
planned for Ospring! Follow along
as they observe a strange creature
that sneaks, hides, and vibrates
around their house. Hilarity ensues
as the blue beings try to mimic this
talented creature.
On the Day the
Horse Got Out
Audrey Helen Weber
Hardcover
Perfect for fans of They
All Saw a Cat or Du Iz
Tak?, here is a standout
picture book debut about
curiosity, cause-and-eect,
and connectedness, which
blends child-appealing
rhyme with playful,
disncve artwork.
Oh Look, a Cake!
J.C. McKee
Hardcover
A subversively hilarious picture
book about a sloth, a lemur, a
giant cake, and what happens
when you don’t share, for fans
of Jon Klassen and Mo Willems.
Pout-Pout Fish and
the Mad, Mad Day
Deborah Diesen,
Illus. by Dan Hanna
Hardcover
The Pout-Pout Fish’s morning
has been maddening and
rough. Disappointments and
frustraons—Mr. Fish has had
enough! It’s been one thing, then
another, then another stacked on
top. He’s mad and geng madder.
Is there any way to stop?
The Bruce Swap
Ryan T. Higgins
Hardcover
Bruce is a bear who struggles
with fun. One day, Bruce goes
shing and his cousin Kevin
appears instead. Kevin LOVES
fun. Is it possible that too
much fun is no fun at all?
PICTURE BOOKS
Memory Jars
Vera Brosgol
Hardcover
A young girl nds a clever
way to keep her favorite
things--and people--close to
her forever in Memory Jars,
from Caldeco Honoree
Vera Brosgol.
I Love My Fur!
Kelly Leigh Miller
Hardcover
In this delighul follow-up
to I Love My Fangs!, a lile
Bigfoot learns that while it’s
important to love yourself,
sharing that love is what
truly maers.
Fred Gets
Dressed
Peter Brown
Hardcover
From a New York Times
bestselling author and
Caldeco-honor winning arst
comes an exuberant illustrated
story about playing dress up,
having fun, and feeling free.
This Is A Dog!
Judith Henderson
Hardcover
In a rib-ckling display of
duplicity and diversion, a bunny
tries to show he has what it takes
to be included in this dog book.
Nia and the New
Free Library
Ian Lendler, Illus. by
Mark Pett
Hardcover
This picture book tells
the story of one girl who
reminds an enre town of
the joy of books.
Have You
Ever Seen A
Flower?
Shawn Harris
Hardcover
In this simple yet profound
story, one child experiences
a ower with all ve
senses—from its color to
its fragrance to the enre
universe it evokes—revealing
how a single ower can
expand one’s perspecve in
incredible ways.
MIDDLE READER
Ophie’s Ghosts
Justina Ireland
Hardcover
The New York
Times bestselling author
of Dread Naon makes
her middle grade debut
with a sweeping tale of
the ghosts of our past that
won’t stay buried, starring
an unforgeable girl named
Ophie.
The Shape of Thunder
Jasmine Warga
Hardcover
An extraordinary new novel
from Jasmine Warga, Newbery
Honor–winning author of Other
Words for Home, about loss and
healing—and how friendship can
be magical.
Turtle In Paradise
Jennifer Holm, illus by
Savanna Danucheau
Hardcover
Inspired by family stories, three-
me Newbery Honor winner
Jennifer L. Holm blends family lore
with America’s past in this charming
gem of a novel, now adapted into
graphic novel form by rising star
Savanna Ganucheau.
Narwhal I’m Around
Aaron Reynolds
Hardcover
This wet, wild, and hilariously
illustrated story from a New York
Times bestselling author takes
readers on a wacky adventure that
spirals out of control as soon as our
pet hero discovers a narwhal hanging
out in his bedroom.
A Ceiling Made of
Eggshells
Gail Carson Levine
Hardcover
In A Ceiling Made of Eggshells,
Newbery Honor-winning author
Gail Carson Levine tells a moving
and ambious story set during the
expulsion of Jews from Spain, about
a young Jewish girl full of heart who
must play her own role in her people’s
epic history—no maer the sacrice.
Rule of Threes
Marcy Campbell
Hardcover
Part family drama, part contemporary
thriller, Rule of Threes is a middle
grade story about what happens
when “perfect” is out of your control.
MIDDLE READER
Bear Bottom
Stuart Gibbs
Hardcover
In the seventh novel in New
York Times bestselling Stuart
Gibbs’s FunJungle series, Teddy
Fitzroy returns as FunJungle’s
resident sleuth to solve the
disappearances of endangered
bison and an irreplaceable
necklace.
DaVinci’s Cat
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Hardcover
Two unlikely friends—Federico, in
sixteenth-century Rome, and Bee, in
present-day New Jersey—are linked
through an amiable cat, Leonardo Da
Vinci’s mysterious wardrobe, and an
eerily perfect sketch of Bee.
Dog Squad
Chris Grabenstein
Hardcover
Introducing DOG SQUAD, the crime-
ghng, tail-wagging, hilarious
new series from the #1 New York
Times bestselling author of Escape
from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library and
coauthor of Max Einstein!
Willa of Dark Hollow
Robert Beatty
Hardcover
This enchanng companion to
Robert Beay’s instant #1 New
York Times bestseller Willa of
the Wood is perfect for any
reader who cares deeply about
the natural world.
Maybe Maybe
Marisol Rainey
Erin Entrada-Kelly
Hardcover
An illustrated novel about summer,
friendship, and overcoming
fears, told with warm humor
and undeniable appeal. Fans
of Clemenne, The Year of Billy
Miller, and Ramona the Pest will
be thrilled to meet Marisol.
Finding Junie Kim
Ellen Oh
Hardcover
For fans of Inside Out and Back
Again and Amina’s Voice comes
a breathtaking own voices story
of family, hope, and survival from
Ellen Oh, cofounder of We Need
Diverse Books. When Junie Kim is
faced with middle school racism,
she learns of her grandparents’
extraordinary strength and nds
her voice.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
The Betrothed
Kiera Cass
Paperback
Kiera Cass is back with a
gliering royal romance sure
to capvate her legion of
loyal readers and lovers of
courtly intrigue alike.
Realm Breaker
Victoria Aveyard
Hardcover
Irresisbly acon-packed and
full of lethal surprises, this
stunning new fantasy series from
Victoria Aveyard, #1 New York
Times bestselling author of the
Red Queen series, begins where
hope is lost and asks: When the
heroes have fallen, who will take
up the sword?
Better Together
Christine Riccio
Hardcover
Freaky Friday meets The Parent Trap
in New York Times bestselling author
Chrisne Riccio’s Beer Together, a
sparkling and hearelt story about
sisters, second chances, nding
romance, and nding yourself.
A Chorus Rises
Bethany Murrow
Hardcover
Meet Naema Bradshaw: a
beauful Eloko, once Portland-
famous, now infamous, as she
navigates a personal and public
reckoning where confronng
the limits of her privilege will
show Naema what her magic
really is, and who it makes her.
The Lucky List
Rachael Lippencott
Hardcover
Rachael Lippinco, coauthor of
#1 New York Times bestseller
Five Feet Apart, weaves a
capvang, hearelt love story
about learning who you are, and
who you love, when the person
you’ve always shared yourself
with is gone.
An Emotion of
Great Delight
Taheri Mafi
From bestselling and Naonal
Book Award–nominated author
Tahereh Ma comes a stunning
novel about love and loneliness,
navigang the hyphen of dual
identy, and reclaiming your
right to joy—even when you’re
trapped in the amber of sorrow.
Hardcover
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Sixteen Scandals
Sophie Jordan
Hardcover
In this irreverent regency
romp by New York Times best-
selling author Sophie Jordan,
newly minted sixteen-year-
old Primrose Ainsworth nds
herself on a wayward birthday
adventure through London with a
mysterious hero—perfect for fans
of My Lady Jane.
Song Below Water
Bethany Morrow
Paperback
Bethany C. Morrow’s A Song
Below Water is the story for
today’s readers — a capvang
modern fantasy about Black sirens,
friendship, and self-discovery set
against the challenges of today’s
racism and sexism.
When the World
Was Ours
Liz Kessler
Hardcover
From the New York Times
bestselling author of the Emily
Windsnap series, Liz Kessler,
comes a poignant and harrowing
story of three young friends whose
fates are intertwined during the
devastaon of the Holocaust—
based on a true story.
Take Me Home
Tonight
Morgan Matson
Hardcover
Ferris Bueller’s Day O meets Nick
and Nora’s Innite Playlist in this
romp through the city that never
sleeps from the New York Times
bestselling author of Since You’ve
Been Gone.
Last Chance Books
Kelsey Rodkey
Hardcover
You’ve Got Mail meets Morgan
Matson in this smart, banter-lled
romcom with a bookish twist.
When You Get
the Chance
Tom Ryan, Robin
Stevenson
Hardcover
Follow cousins on a road trip to
Pride as they dive into family
secrets and friendships in this
contemporary novel—perfect for
fans of David Levithan and Becky
Albertalli.
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