Flatiron 6/27/2023. New paperback. On sale 6/27/23. Pre-order today! Store pick: Violet Volk was a world-renowned magician -- until she disappeared in the middle of her act 10 years ago. No one knows whether she died or is just missing, voluntarily or otherwise. Now her sister Sasha is still dealing with the fallout and all of the implications Violet's life and disappearance has had on her and her husband and daughter, and it's not made any easier by all of the Violet-obsessed fans making a big deal of the 10-year anniversary, including a podcast exploring the circumstances behind Violet's di... View More...
Wednesday Books 2/14/2023. New hardcover. in Brand New jacket. Store pick: Miles' life has changed a lot recently. His boyfriend broke up with him after he came out as trans. And his longtime piano teacher foisted him off on a different (very intense, kinda scary) teacher. Now Miles has two goals: win back his ex, and beat his arch-rival in this year's piano competition. Things are made more complicated, though, when Miles meets new boy Eric -- someone who asks Miles' pronouns without prompting and accepts him for exactly who he says he is and wants to be. Now Miles has to figure out what he ... View More...
Balzer & Bray 1/4/2022. New paperback. Store pick: Amari's brother Quinton has been missing for a while, but she refuses to believe he's dead. Imagine her surprise when she gets a delivery from Quinton that includes an invitation to join a secret supernatural society (think Men in Black). Amari accepts just so she can have an opportunity to find her brother, but she doesn't count on the prejudice she experiences as a Black girl in the regular world to follow her to her new life. Add to that a rare supernatural talent that marks her immediately as someone to be feared and hated and a competiti... View More...
Henry Holt and Company 2/1/2022. New paperback. Store pick: This powerful novel is about the journey of one woman, Lydia, and her young son as they try to escape to the US from their home in Mexico. Their treacherous journey to get away from an angry drug lord mirrors the stories of other migrants they meet along the way. Jeanine Cummins has written an excellent novel on the difficult paths of the migrants and their reasons for heading north. A real page-turner! -Linda H., store volunteer (seconded by Melissa O., store employee) View More...
Balzer & Bray 3/8/2022. New paperback. Signed bookplate laid in. Store pick: Cerys has grown up safe in Aloriya, running around with her best friend, the princess, and the annoying fox who follows her around. She knows better than most what the cursed wood bordering the village is capable of; she's the only one who made it out alive as a child when it claimed the lives of her mother and two friends. So Cerys helps her father tend the palace garden, occasionally using her small wood curse magic to make flowers grow, and she's content with that lot in life. Or so she tells herself. When the pri... View More...
Berkley 1/3/2023. New paperback. Store pick: Nina is the down-to-earth one of her witchy family, which is saying a lot considering her appreciation for the finer things in life. But after a disastrous breakup, she's ready for something different, so she lets her best friend pick out someone on a dating app who isn't anything NIna would normally go for on her own. The date is...awkward, to say the least, especially when it comes out that Nina's family has been trying to buy Morty's family's bar out from under them. But then something happens, and Nina's power gets a huge surge -- accompanied b... View More...
Union Square & Co. 4/4/2023. New hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. in Brand New jacket. Store pick: A must-have gift book for every adult fan of Mo Willems' Pigeon (with a short foreword by none other than the Bus Driver himself!). This is exactly the kind of advice you would expect from Pigeon, and it is delightful. You will laugh, and then you will immediately want to find a friend (or someone nearby who's sure to know who Pigeon is) to show them, too. In fact, you should probably buy two -- one for yourself and one to give as a gift! -Melissa O., store employee Signed by author. View More...
Berkley 5/19/2020. New paperback. Store pick: January is a bestselling romance novelist who is questioning whether romance and happily-ever-afters are even real after having her world turned upside down by her father's death. Gus is a literary writer (and January's college nemesis) who can't seem to get out of a massive case of writer's block. When they end up as neighbors in a small lakeside town, they make a bet: Gus will write a book with a happy ending for a change, and January will write one without. As they get to know each other, secrets and feelings emerge and both have to come to ter... View More...
Wednesday Books 1/24/2023. New hardcover. in Brand New jacket. Store pick: Andie has a plan for her life: she's going to go to the same college her mom went to, become a major player in the self-help field, and then writer her memoir, and her boyfriend Connor will be with her every step of the way as he has been since they were kids. But her plan goes off the rails as soon as she gets to campus and finds out that Connor transferred back to the community college to be with her, so now they're stuck apart for another semester. But that's fine, because her new roommate needs some series fix-it h... View More...
Emily Bestler Books 6/25/2013. New paperback. Co-written by Smantha Van Leer. Store pick: Delilah prefers books to any other activity -- or person. She feels at home in books, especially her favorite fairy tale, Between the Lines, with prince Oliver. Little does she know that when the books closes, the characters in the story lead lives of their own. Then one day, she notices something different in her beloved book -- and then Oliver starts talking to her -- and Delilah discovers a kindred spirit in a most unexpected place. Not your typical Jodi Picoult book, but will appeal to anyone who lo... View More...
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 4/18/2023. New paperback. Store pick: Blaine is all set to say yes when his boyfriend of a year asks him to vacation with his family, which he's sure is going to happen tonight, on their anniversary. Except instead, Blaine gets dumped. Because his (now ex) boyfriend -- class president, Northwestern-bound, future president of America -- thinks he should be with someone more 'serious'. So Blaine decides to become a Serious Guy by running for senior class president to win his ex back. What Blaine doesn't count on is actually wanting to be class president ... View More...
Avon 8/8/2023. New hardcover. in Brand New jacket. On sale 8/8/23. Pre-order today! Store pick: When a woman wakes up in Paris with no memory of who she is, a hot (grumpy) guy telling her she's in trouble and needs to run, people from various international spy agencies shooting at her, and her face on TV, she comes to the obvious conclusion that she's a spy. Except the spy is actually her twin sister (which explains her lack of muscle memory when it comes to fighting people). Now she and Mr. Hot Guy (she loves descriptive nicknames) are running from the bad guys and the supposed good guys who... View More...
St. Martin's Press 7/19/2022. New hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. in Brand New jacket. Store pick: Hannah's job as an executive protection agent (aka, a bodyguard) means she spends a lot of time blending into the background. Which is fine, that's how she likes it, and it's what she wants, especially after her mom's death and her boyfriend breaking up with her (the day after the funeral!) have left her feeling adrift. What she absolutely does not want is to pretend to be sexiest-man-alive actor Jack Stapleton's girlfriend. But she's not given a choice, so she does it...and Jack's act... View More...
St. Martin's Griffin 6/13/2023. New paperback. On sale 6/13/23. Pre-order today! Store pick: Hannah's job as an executive protection agent (aka, a bodyguard) means she spends a lot of time blending into the background. Which is fine, that's how she likes it, and it's what she wants, especially after her mom's death and her boyfriend breaking up with her (the day after the funeral!) have left her feeling adrift. What she absolutely does not want is to pretend to be sexiest-man-alive actor Jack Stapleton's girlfriend. But she's not given a choice, so she does it...and Jack's acting abilities mu... View More...
Berkley 5/3/2022. New paperback. Store pick: Literary agent Nora's life is embodied by the small-town romance trope; you know the one, where the man leaves the city to complete a business deal in a small town but ends up falling in love with a baker or something and dumping his city girlfriend to settle down in the small town. Except Nora is the city girlfriend. Who's been dumped. Multiple times. But Nora loves her life in New York and isn't about to change it for anything. So she's surprised when her sister books a getaway for the two of them to visit the small-town setting of Nora's biggest... View More...
Graydon House 5/9/2023. New paperback. Store pick: A fake-dating politics rom-com that is as much about the characters, shy elementary school librarian Alexis and foul-mouthed gubernatorial candidate Logan, learning to love themselves as it is about them figuring out they're right for each other. A great follow-up to Winstead's previous romance, Fool Me Once. -Melissa O., store employee View More...
Scholastic Press 9/7/2021. New paperback. Signed bookplate laid in. Store pick: This book needs to be shared. It's about two teens who both (separately) go to the George Washington Bridge with the intention of jumping. Once they're both there and notice each other, there are four possible outcomes: Tillie jumps and Aaron doesn't; Aaron jumps and Tillie doesn't; they both jump; or neither jumps. This book covers all four scenarios, and it destroyed me all four times. Konigsberg's intention is to show what could happen: If you feel like jumping but don't, these are the things that might happen ... View More...
Berkley 7/4/2023. New paperback. On sale 7/4/23. Pre-order today! Store pick: Chandler is feeling at a career low when she's hired to ghostwrite a memoir for a fairly famous actor...who also happens to be the guy she just had a less-than-stellar one-night stand with. But Finn seems earnest and better than her last ghostwriting gig, so she takes the job. And when it comes up that Chandler didn't feel as awe-inspired about their night together as Finn did, they strike another deal -- she'll teach him about sex on the side. Except then real feelings get involved and their relationship becomes mu... View More...
Crown Books for Young Readers 2/28/2023. New hardcover. in Brand New jacket. Store pick: Shelbi has resisted making friends at her new school since she's had bad experiences in the past. But when she witnesses Andy at a low point, she can't help but reach out to let him know she knows what it's like. And like that, despite Shelbi's best efforts, a friendship is born. But both Shelbi and Andy have demons, Shelbi's in the form of bipolar disorder that has impacted relationships in her past, and Andy's in the form of alcoholism that started after his sister died. This is a moving story of two te... View More...
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers 11/7/2023. New paperback. On sale 11/7/23. Pre-order today! Store pick: Ali Hazelwood makes a move to chess for her first YA novel, and it is just as amazing as her adult novels. After staying away from chess for years because of her complicated feelings about her dad, Mallory plays in a charity tournament at the request of her best friend and ends up beating the current world champion, Nolan. Afterwards, she's approached to join a chess club on a fellowship that would allow her to not have to worry about a job to support her family, and after an int... View More...
