New Releases - May '25

Here are some of the titles hitting the shelves at the Sussex County Library System in April 2025.

Updated April 19, 2025
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We All Want to Change the World: My Journey Through Social Justice Movements from the 1960s to Today
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem
Paper Book
A sweeping look back at the protest movements that changed America from activist and NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, with personal and historical insights into lessons they can teach us today "A compelling case for standing up for justice at a time when everything, it seems,...
The Devils
Abercrombie, Joe
Paper Book
A brand-new epic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie, featuring a notorious band of anti-heroes on a delightfully bloody and raucous journey Holy work sometimes requires unholy deeds. Brother Diaz has been summoned to the...
J vs. K
Alexander, Kwame
Paper Book
Created by real-life rivals and #1 New York Times bestselling authors Kwame Alexander and Jerry Craft this hilarious illustrated story features two talented fifth graders going head-to-head in a competition for the ages. J and K are the most creative...
My Name Is Emilia Del Valle
Allende, Isabel/ Riddle, Frances (TRN)
Paper Book
In this spellbinding historical novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and The Wind Knows My Name, a young writer journeys to South America to uncover the truth about her father--and herself. In San Francisco in 1866, an...
Death at a Highland wedding
Armstrong, Kelley
Paper Book
Death at a Highland Wedding is the fourth installment in New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's gripping Rip Through Time Novels. After slipping 150 years into the past, modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson has embraced her new life in...
Ocean: Earth's Last Wilderness
Attenborough, David
Paper Book
Award-winning broadcaster and natural historian David Attenborough and longtime collaborator Colin Butfield present a powerful call to action focused on our planet's oceans, exploring how critical this habitat is for the survival of humanity and the earth's future. ...
My friends : a novel
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, who "captures the messy essence of being human" (The Washington Post), returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a stranger's life twenty...
Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up
Barry, Dave
Paper Book
America's most beloved wiseass finally tells his life story with all the humor you'd expect from a man who made a career out of making fun of pretty much everything. How does the son of a Presbyterian minister wind up winning a Pulitzer Prize for writing a wildly inaccurate...
The Last Ferry Out
Bartz, Andrea
Paper Book
On a trip to the tropical paradise where her fiancée died, a young woman begins to suspect the death was no accident--and the killer's still on the island--in this twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Reese's Book Club pick We Were Never Here.
Spent: A Comic Novel
Bechdel, Alison
Paper Book
The celebrated and beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents a laugh-out-loud, brilliant, and passionately political work of autofiction. In Alison Bechdel's hilariously skewering and gloriously cast new comic novel confection, a cartoonist named...
Pokemon Big Book of Facts
Beecroft, Simon
Paper Book
Discover more than 1,500 facts about all things Pokémon in this must-have guide Become a Pokémon expert with this fact-packed book full of need-to-know info from the Pokédex. Covering the different Pokémon types, regions, habitats, and more, the Pokémon Big Book of Facts...
Rick Riordan Presents: Serwa Boateng's Guide to Saving the World
Brown, Roseanne A.
Paper Book
Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents the thrilling conclusion to Roseanne A. Brown's middle grade trilogy about a pre-teen girl who, as half-Slayer and half-vampire, is caught between two worlds. Serwa Boateng has gone head-to-head with vampires, witches, and even a death...
Mark Twain
Chernow, Ron
Paper Book
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain Before he was Mark Twain, he was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Born in 1835, the man who would...
Detoxify : The Everyday Toxins Harming Your Immune System and How to Defend Against Them
Cohen, Aly
Paper Book
Help relieve chronic illness and holistically bolster your immune system by minimizing exposure to immune-disrupting chemicals, with this approachable, revolutionary book and 21-day program from integrative rheumatologist Dr. Aly Cohen. Immune conditions and autoimmune diseases...
FDR Drive
Comey, James
Paper Book
After a stint in the private sector, working at the largest hedge fund in the world, Nora Carleton has returned to her former role as a New York City federal prosecutor. And she's arrived just in time to face one of the most dangerous domestic terror attacks in the history of the city. ...
Nightshade
Connelly, Michael
Paper Book
Introducing Detective Stilwell: a cop relentlessly following his mission in the seemingly idyllic setting of Catalina Island.   Los Angeles County Sheriff's Detective Stilwell has been "exiled" to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department...
The Children of Eve
Connolly, John
Paper Book
The "consistently high-quality" (Booklist) Charlie Parker series continues with a white-knuckled new thriller from New York Times bestselling author John Connolly. Wyatt Riggins, the boyfriend of rising Maine artist Zetta Nadeau, has gone missing, leaving...
Old School Indian
Curtis, Aaron John
Paper Book
A Kirkus Editor's Pick * A Most Anticipated Book of 2025: Cowboys & Indians | Brit + Co | Debutiful "With amazing dexterity, Aaron John Curtis's moving debut novel combines raucous humor with respect for ancestral...
South of nowhere
Deaver, Jeffery
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling master of suspense returns to his beloved series, adapted for TV (CBS's Tracker, starring Justin Hartley) as reward seeker Colter Shaw races against the clock to save a flooding town from a full-fledged disaster, where the culprit lurks in the plain...
We Can Do Hard Things : Answers to Life's 20 Questions
Doyle, Glennon/ Wambach, Abby/ Doyle, Amanda
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times bestselling authors and award-winning podcasters Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, and Amanda Doyle created We Can Do Hard Things--the guidebook for being alive--to help fellow travelers find their way through life. When you travel through a new...
A Dead Draw
Dugoni, Robert
Paper Book
An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling series. A killer fueled by revenge. A detective haunted by the past. They are headed for a high-stakes showdown in this bone-chilling new Tracy Crosswhite novel by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.<...
Thunder game
Feehan, Christine
Paper Book
Two broken souls find a love worth fighting for in this captivating GhostWalker novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan. Diego Campos has come home to die. The GhostWalker is tired of walking a dark path shaped by countless losses. There has never...
Parents Weekend
Finlay, Alex
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of If Something Happens to Me, comes one of the year's most anticipated thrillers. In the glow of their children's exciting first year of college at a small private school in Northern California, five families plan on a night of dinner and...
The Missing Half
Flowers, Ashley/ Kiester, Alex (CON)
Paper Book
Two women haunted by their sisters' unsolved disappearances band together in this captivating mystery from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All Good People Here and host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie. "Sharp, slick, and chilling,...
One Golden Summer
Fortune, Carley
Paper Book
A radiant, new escape to the lake from #1 New York Times bestselling author Carley Fortune I never anticipated Charlie Florek. Good things happen at the lake. That's what Alice's grandmother says, and it's true. Alice spent just one summer there at...
All ears
Gibbs, Stuart
Paper Book
In the ninth novel in New York Times bestselling author Stuart Gibbs's FunJungle series, resident sleuth Teddy Fitzroy is on the case to find a missing elephant and clear his friend of vandalism. When a herd of elephants interrupts the big Friday night football game, the...
The Knight and the Moth
Gillig, Rachel
Paper Book
From NYT bestselling author Rachel Gillig comes the next big romantasy sensation, a gothic, mist-cloaked tale of a young prophetess forced on an impossible quest with the one knight whose future is beyond her sight. Perfect for fans of Jennifer L. Armentrout and Leigh Bardugo.
Karen : A Brother Remembers
Grammer, Kelsey
Paper Book
"Grammer's tender portrait of his sister as a sensitive, intelligent soul goes a long way toward correcting the record, and his vacillation between rawness and composure on the page is enormously affecting." - Publishers Weekly One of Oprah Daily's Most Anticipated Books of...
The Summer of the Fortune Tellers
Greenwald, Lisa
Bestselling author Lisa Greenwald's charming middle grade novel with summertime fun, crushes, and babysitting--and a dash of magic--is a sequel perfect for fans of Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and That's So Raven. Is the magic really back When Mille, Nora,...
Fever beach : a novel
Hiaasen, Carl
Paper Book
Another instant classic from Carl Hiaasen--laugh-out-loud funny, tackling the current chaotic and polarized American culture (following in the path of Squeeze Me), with two wonderful Hiaasen heroes "The afternoon of September first, dishwater-gray and rainy, a man named...
Gertrude Gish on a dish on a fish
Hwang, Sarah
Paper Book
Meet Gertrude Gish, who can stack just about anything! Part of the new Seuss Studios line of Beginner Books inspired by never-before-seen sketches by Dr. Seuss, this playful story by Sarah Hwang celebrates individuality and using our unique talents for the greater good. ...
His Face Is the Sun
Jabes Corpora, Michelle
Paper Book
A new reign is coming...Romance, magic, adventure, and horror collide in the start to this lush, epic, Ancient Egyptian inspired trilogy perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Sarah J. Maas. Princess. Priestess. Rebel. Thief. Tensions run as hot as the Khamsin winds in the great...
A Curse Carved in Bone: Book Two of the Saga of the Unfated
Jensen, Danielle L.
Paper Book
A shield maiden fights to break the shackles of prophecy--and to overcome the betrayal of the man who broke her heart--in this searing conclusion to the Norse-inspired fantasy romance duology that began with the bestselling A Fate Inked in Blood. The stunning first...
Dreaming of Home: How We Turn Fear Into Pride, Power, and Real Change
Jimenez, Cristina
Paper Book
A MacArthur "Genius" shares her inspiring story, from undocumented newcomer to leader in a powerful immigrant youth movement. Dreaming of Home is a coming-of-age story both for a young woman finding her true self and for a social movement of immigrant youth trailblazers...
Everything's Wrong! : A Bear, a Hare, and Trouble Everywhere
John, Jory/ Kraan, Erin (ILT)
Paper Book
From #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Bad Seed, Jory John, and the #1 New York Times-bestselling illustrator of Buffalo Fluffalo, Erin Kraan, comes a meaningful yet utterly hilarious tale--a companion to the popular picture books,...
Return to sender
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
Walt Longmire is back after the escapades of First Frost and encounters one of his most baffling cases in Wyoming's brutal and unforgiving Red Desert. When Blair McGowan, the mail person with the longest postal route in the country of over three hundred mile a day, goes...
Little big man
Johnson, Varian
Paper Book
An excellent choice for Father's Day gifting! From literary powerhouse and Coretta Scott King Honor- and Boston Globe / Horn Book Honor-winning author of The Parker Inheritance Varian Johnson and New York Times bestselling illustrator Reggie Brown comes a heartwarming father-son...
Written on the Dark
Kay, Guy Gavriel
Paper Book
From the internationally bestselling author of Tigana, All the Seas of the World, and A Brightness Long Ago comes a majestic new novel of love and war that brilliantly evokes the drama and turbulence of medieval France. Thierry Villar is a well-known--even...
Never flinch : a novel
King, Stephen
Paper Book
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by Vulture, Men's Health, Book Riot, The New York Post, Goodreads, AARP, Paste, and more! From master storyteller Stephen King comes an extraordinary new novel with intertwining storylines--one about a...
Going Home in the Dark
Koontz, Dean
Paper Book
When hometown horrors come back to haunt, friendship is salvation in a novel about childhood fears and buried secrets by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz. As kids, outcasts Rebecca, Bobby, Spencer, and Ernie were inseparable friends in the idyllic...
Home of the American Circus
Larkin, Allison
Paper Book
The acclaimed author of the "lyrical coming-of-age novel" (Good Morning America) The People We Keep returns with a luminous new story of redemption, breaking generational curses, and the power of family in its truest form. After an emergency leaves her...
Warhol's muses : the artists, misfits, and superstars destroyed by the Factory fame machine
Leamer, Laurence
Paper Book
'Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil,' Andy Warhol confessed, 'of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them.' Obsessed with celebrity, the silver-wigged artistic icon Andy Warhol created an ever-evolving entourage of stunning women he dubbed his...
Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the Cia, and the Tragedy of Mkultra
Lisle, John
Paper Book
The inside story of the CIA's secret mind control project, MKULTRA, using never-before-seen testimony from the perpetrators themselves. Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's most cunning chemist. As head of the infamous MKULTRA project, he oversaw an assortment of dangerous--even...
Is a River Alive?
Macfarlane, Robert
Paper Book
From the celebrated writer, observer and naturalist Robert Macfarlane comes a brilliant, perspective-shifting new book, which answers a resounding "yes" to the question of its title. At the heart of Is a River Alive? is a single, transformative idea: that rivers...
The Tenant
McFadden, Freida
Paper Book
A new, jaw-dropping thriller from the instant #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boyfriend and The Housemaid! There's no place like home... Blake Porter is riding high, until he's not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments...
The Courage to Change: Saying Goodbye to Good Enough and Embracing the Promise of What Can Be
Meyer, Joyce
Change is inevitable. And sometimes it's confusing and difficult, even when it's good. We can't keep change from coming, but we can allow it to transform us rather than derail us by facing it and embracing it through the lens of God's unchanging promises to us. We...
Where the rivers merge : a novel
Monroe, Mary Alice
Paper Book
"This is book club fiction at its finest!" --Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author From New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe comes her highly anticipated Where the Rivers Merge, the first of two epic and triumphant novels celebrating one intrepid woman...
Anima Rising
Moore, Christopher
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore comes a hilariously deranged tale of a mad scientist, a famous painter, and an undead woman's electrifying journey of self-discovery. Vienna, 1911. Gustav Klimt, the most famous painter in the Austrian Empire,...
Mansion beach : a novel
Moore, Meg Mitchell
Paper Book
From Summer Stage national bestselling author Meg Mitchell Moore comes a sparkling novel following a young woman entwined in the opulent lives of her neighbors on Block Island, set against a backdrop of scandal, secrets, and a not-so-subtle love triangle, perfect for...
The man made of smoke : a novel
North, Alex
Paper Book
"Fans of Thomas Harris will be creeped out by North's hair-raising antagonist... This is a winner." --Publishers Weekly The latest gripping serial killer thriller from the New York Times bestselling author Alex North. Dan...
Easy Air Fryer : Big & Bold Delicious Food [American Measurements]
Oliver, Jamie
Paper Book
Get ready for Jamie's next cookbook, coming Spring 2025! Now available for preorder. TRANSFORM YOUR AIR FRYER COOKING WITH JAMIE OLIVER'S EASY, VERSATILE, AND DELICIOUS RECIPES--PRE-ORDER TODAY! Whether you're new to air frying or an expert, Jamie's here to help you...
The wish switch
Painter, Lynn
Paper Book
Magic and mayhem collide in beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Lynn Painter's hilarious children's book debut, perfect for fans of Sarah Mlynowski and Wendy Mass. Emma Rockford knows it will take bonafide magic to make middle school everything...
We Live Here Now
Pinborough, Sarah
Paper Book
Award-winning author of New York Times bestselling breakout novel (and hit Netflix show) Behind Her Eyes returns with a haunting Gothic novel about a house--and a marriage--gone terribly wrong. After an accident that nearly kills her, Emily and her husband,...
Hidden Nature
Roberts, Nora
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author presents a novel about an injured cop who must fight to bring down a pair of twisted killers... Natural Resources police officer, Sloan Cooper, and her partner had just taken down three men preying on hikers in the Western...
Next to me
Salmieri, Daniel
This joyful and soothing read-aloud, about noticing all the wonderful things around you, is a bedtime gem that's illustrated in gorgeous cut-paper collages by husband-and-wife team Sophia Haas and New York Times Best Illustrated winner Daniel Salmieri. A walk home...
Last second chance
Score, Lucy
From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Things We Never Got Over "You were made for me." "Shut up, Jax." There are two things Joey Greer is great at: Raising horses and holding grudges. Eight years ago, her high school sweetheart abandoned her, skipped out...
The Survivor Wants to Die at the End
Silvera, Adam
Paper Book
In this third book of the USA Today and #1 New York Times mega-bestselling They Both Die at the End series, two strangers--each with their own complicated relationship to Death-Cast--help each other learn to live. Paz Dario stays up every night, waiting for the Death-Cast call that would...
Cranky, crabby crow (saves the world)
Tabor, Corey R.
"Storytelling at its most brilliant--and whimsical." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Everything is on the line for crabby, cranky Crow. But why, exactly, is Crow so moody The reason will delight readers in three-time Geisel Medal and Caldecott Honor winner Corey R....
Let Them Stare
Van Ness, Jonathan/ Murphy, Julie
Paper Book
From Emmy Award winner Jonathan Van Ness of Queer Eye and #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Murphy comes a bighearted story about friendship, love--and discovering the secrets and beauty of your own hometown.  Sully is ready to get out of Hearst, Pennsylvania....
The Emperor of Gladness
Vuong, Ocean
Paper Book
"The Emperor of Gladness is a poetic, dramatic and vivid story. Epic in its sweep, the novel also handles intimacy and love with delicacy and deep originality. Hai and Grazina are taken from the margins of American life by Ocean Vuong and, by dint of great sympathy and imaginative genius,...
The Original Daughter
Wei, Jemimah
Paper Book
In this dazzling debut, Stegner Fellow Jemimah Wei explores the formation and dissolution of family bonds in a story of ambition and sisterhood in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore. Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living with her parents and grandmother in a single...
Flower Girls: A Story of Sisters
Weitzman, Jacqueline Preis
From magnetic sister duo New York Times bestselling Fancy Nancy illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser and author Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman comes an endearing picture book about sisters, the gardens they nurture, and the people they'll grow into. Everything blooms in its own time. ...
Beach House Rules
Woodson Harvey, Kristy
Paper Book
"Southern bestselling sensation" (Katie Couric Media) Kristy Woodson Harvey returns with a delightfully moving new novel about a mother-daughter duo learning to lean on their community of women--and each other--after their world is turned upside down. When Charlotte Sitterly's...
Tom Clancy Line of Demarcation
Woodward, M. P.
Paper Book
The discovery of an oil field off the coast of Guyana plunges Jack Ryan, Jr into a cauldron of lies in the latest entry in this New York Times bestselling series. It starts with the destruction of a US Coast Guard cutter and the loss of her entire crew. But the USCG...
The Crucial Years: The Essential Guide to Mental Health and Modern Puberty in Middle Childhood (Ages 6-12)
Ziegler Sheryl Gonzalez
Paper Book
An essential guide for parents and caregivers, this book offers insights, strategies, and understanding to navigate middle childhood (ages 6-12). Dr. Sheryl Gonzalez Ziegler, a seasoned clinical psychologist and mother, highlights ways to foster resilience, encourage open communication, and build...

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