New Releases October '25

Some of the titles hitting our shelves in October.

Updated September 13, 2025
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Ms. Rachel and Bean's goodnight book : encouraging a calm and comforting good night
Accurso, Rachel
Ms. Rachel makes bedtime the best time! Full of songs and tips, this calming and gentle story helps littles and their grown-ups create and follow a nighttime routine that everyone will love. Includes a tear-out poster with Ms. Rachel's special bedtime-routine checklist! Bean...
Twice
Albom, Mitch
Paper Book
What if you got to do everything in your life --twice? The heart of Mitch Albom's newest novel is a stunning love story that dares to explore how our unchecked desires might mean losing what we've had all along. When he is eight years old, Alfie Logan discovers the magical ability to get a...
Five Golden Wings
Andrews, Donna.
Readers will flock to NYT bestselling author Donna Andrews' latest installment in the award-winning Meg Langslow series. Two of Meg's cousins, members of Mother's vast Hollingsworth clan, are getting married, and both have chosen Caerphilly for their Christmas destination...
Venetian Vespers
Banville, John
Paper Book
A masterful, enthralling new novel from the Booker Prize winner Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me. . . . 1899. As the new century approaches, struggling English writer Evelyn Dolman--a hack, by his own description--marries...
Sugar and spite
Beaton, M. C.
Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin--the star of her own hit T.V. series--is back on the case again. When a series of deaths within the small Cotswolds birdwatching community begins to unravel her village, Agatha and her...
Girl Dinner
Blake, Olivie
Paper Book
DELUXE EDITION--a gorgeous hardcover edition featuring hot pink sprayed edges! From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Girl Dinner is a darkly fun novel about power, lust, and eating your fill, as wealthy...
The Anthony Bourdain Reader : New Classic, and Rediscovered Writing
Bourdain, Anthony/ Keefe, Patrick Radden (INT)/ Witherspoon, Kimberly (EDT)
Paper Book
The definitive, career-spanning collection of writing from Anthony Bourdain, assembled for the first time in book form Anthony Bourdain represented many things to many people--and he had many sides. But no part of his identity was more important to him, and more long-lasting, than that of...
Fox and Furious
Brown, Rita Mae
Paper Book
Two brothers fight over the inheritance of five acres and a hunting beagle kennel--until one of them is murdered. It's up to "Sister" Jane Arnold to hunt down the truth, with a little help from her four-legged friends, in this delightful new mystery from New York Times bestselling author...
Cry Havoc
Carr, Jack
Paper Book
From the "hottest author on the thriller scene today" (The Real Book Spy), #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr brings the worlds of special operations and CIA paramilitary units into direct collision in the jungles of Vietnam with his explosive new thriller introducing...
The Secret Christmas Library
Colgan, Jenny
Paper Book
A new holiday story set in the Scottish Highlands to warm booklovers' hearts by Jenny Colgan, New York Times bestselling author of Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop. Mirren Sutherland stumbled into a career as an antiquarian book hunter after finding a priceless antique...
The Proving Ground
Connelly, Michael
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, the Lincoln Lawyer is back with a case against an AI company whose product may have been responsible for the murder of a young girl. Following his "resurrection walk" and need for a new direction,...
Sharp force
Cornwell, Patricia Daniels
From a New York Times bestselling author, a serial killer wreaks havoc on Northern Virginia, appearing as a ghostly apparition before striking--and Kay Scarpetta must avoid becoming their next victim, with SCARPETTA soon to be a streaming series starring Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis....
Tom's crossing : a western
Danielewski, Mark Z.
Paper Book
While folks still like to focus on the crimes that shocked the small city of Orvop, Utah, back in the fall of 1982, not to mention the trials that followed, far more remember the adventure that took place beyond municipal lines. For sure no one expected the dead to rise, but they did....
The tin men : a novel
DeMille, Nelson
Paper Book
At a top-secret Army training facility in the Mojave Desert, Special Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor plunge into a deadly web of military intrigue, AI technology, and robot soldiers as they unravel the shocking murder of a senior scientist in this gripping thriller from New York Times<...
The Pioneer Woman Cooks--The Essential Recipes: 120 Greatest Hits, New Twists, and Perfected Classics
Drummond, Ree
The ninth blockbuster cookbook by #1 New York Times bestselling author Ree Drummond, featuring tested, perfected versions of her all-time favorite, most crowd-pleasing, and timelessly popular recipes--the classics that families turn to every day and year after year. ...
The great contradiction : the tragic side of the American founding
Ellis, Joseph J.
A major new history from our most trusted voice on the Revolutionary era, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winner American Sphinx, and featured in THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt,...
Future boy : Back to the Future and my journey through the space-time continuum
Fox, Michael J.
Paper Book
A poignant, heartfelt, and funny memoir about how, in 1985, Michael J. Fox brought to life two iconic roles simultaneously--Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties and Marty McFly in Back to the Future. An amazing true story as only Michael J. Fox can tell it In early 1985...
Spy school blackout
Gibbs, Stuart
Paper Book
In the thirteenth book in Stuart Gibbs's New York Times bestselling Spy School series, superspy middle schooler Ben Ripley goes off the grid to eliminate a cybersecurity threat. After a devious computer hacker pulls off the CIA's worst-case scenario, shutting down power...
War games
Gratz, Alan
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Refugee and Heroes comes this heart-pounding, high-stakes take on the 1936 Berlin Olympics, also known as the "Nazi Olympics." In 1936 Berlin, nothing is what it seems... Evie Harris can't...
Dorie's anytime cakes
Greenspan, Dorie
Paper Book
From beloved James Beard Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Dorie Greenspan--a vibrantly illustrated collection of recipes for simple yet most-memorable cakes Over the years, Dorie has created thousands of excellent recipes. And out of all of them, the ones she...
Boleyn Traitor
Gregory, Philippa
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling author and "queen of royal fiction" (USA Today) Philippa Gregory returns with a dazzling historical novel of ambition, betrayal, and survival in the court of Henry VIII. Jane Boleyn watches from the shadows of the Tudor court, where secrets are currency, every...
The Widow
Grisham, John
#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham is the acclaimed master of the legal thriller. Now, he's back with his first-ever whodunit, even more suspenseful than his courtroom dramas, as a small-time lawyer accused of murder races to find the real killer to clear his name.
Center of the universe
Hanlon, Abby
Paper Book
It's soccer season and-here comes Dory! The wildly popular rascal is back in a story about confidence, competition, and . . . the cosmos. Dory is on her first soccer team with her best friends, Rosabelle and George. Dory is pumped and ready to score a billion goals, but Rosabelle...
The Last Death of the Year
Hannah, Sophie/ Christie, Agatha (CRT)
Paper Book
The brilliant Belgian detective rings in the New Year with a chilling murder investigation on a Greek island in this all-new holiday mystery from Sophie Hannah, author of Hercule Poirot's Silent Night. New Year's Eve, 1932. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool arrive on the...
Girl Warrior : On Coming of Age
Harjo, Joy
"To know ourselves is the most profound and difficult endeavor. Though we are all made of the same questions, we have individual routes to the answers, or to reframing the questions. Why is there evil in the world? Why do people suffer, and some more than others? Why are we here? What are we...
The Everlasting
Harrow, Alix E.
Paper Book
DELUXE EDITION--a beautiful hardcover edition featuring dark teal sprayed edges, a foil stamp on the casing, and full-page illustrations! From Alix E. Harrow, the New York Times bestselling author of Starling House, comes a moving and genre-defying quest about...
Mate
Hazelwood, Ali
A Human hybrid and an Alpha Were claw against the bonds of fate in the highly anticipated companion novel to the New York Times bestselling Bride. Serena Paris is orphaned, pack-less, and one of a kind. Coming forward as the first Human-Were hybrid was supposed to...
King Sorrow
Hill, Joe
Paper Book
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill, a chilling tale of modern-world dangers, dark academia, and the unexpected consequences of revenge as six friends dabble in the occult and are tragically, horrifyingly successful... calling forth an evil entity that demands regular human...
Outside
Holm, Jennifer L.
From three-time Newbery Honor winner Jennifer L. Holm, a chilling but heartfelt story of a girl being raised in a compound who doesn't understand how isolated and unusual her life is... until she must encounter the outside world. Whatever you do, don't leave home. ...
Bluey's Night Before Christmas
Holowaty, Lauren
Experience the magic of Christmas Eve with Bluey and the Heeler family in this picture book that's perfect for fans of the hit animated series Bluey, as seen on Disney+! 'Twas the night before Chrissie, when inside their home, not a Heeler was stirring, not even a gnome...
The Defender
Huang, Ana
Paper Book
*The limited deluxe edition includes foil and spot gloss* Book two in the Gods of the Game series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Ana Huang for fans of sports romances, sizzling heat, and all the delicious tension you could ask for. He has to play by the rules...but for her,...
I'm Very Busy : A Nearly Forgotten Birthday Book
Jeffers, Oliver/ Jeffers, Oliver (ILT)
A poignant--and laugh-out-loud funny--story about our busy lives and how we can fix our mistakes to show our friends how much we care by world-renowned artist and picture book creator Oliver Jeffers. It's Bridget's birthday, and she thinks it would be fun to spend the day with...
Bad bad girl : a novel
Jen, Gish
The award-winning author of The Resisters returns with an engrossing, blisteringly funny-sad autobiographical novel tracing a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship. My mother had died, but still I heard her voice. . . Gish's mother, Loo Shu-hsin, is...
My Beloved
Karon, Jan
#1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon gives her beloved fans what they want for Christmas: a new Mitford novel. When Father Tim's wife, Cynthia, asks what he wants for Christmas, he pens the answer in a love letter that bares his most private feelings. Then the...
Coyote Hills
Kellerman, Jonathan/ Kellerman, Jesse
The electric new Clay Edison thriller from the New York Times bestselling, acclaimed father-son duo who write "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King) Clay Edison has left behind the Alameda County coroner's office to strike out on his own as a private investigator...
Writing creativity and soul
Kidd, Sue Monk
From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings: an intimate work on the mysteries, frustrations, and triumphs of being a writer, and an instructive guide to awakening the soul. When Sue Monk Kidd was in high school, a home economics...
The Christmas ring
Kingsbury, Karen
See the movie in theaters beginning November 6--staring Kelsey Grammer, Benjamin Hollingsworth, Jana Kramer, and Jessie James Decker! Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. While searching for her family's long-lost heirloom ring, military widow Vanessa Mayfield...
Partypooper
Kinney, Jeff
Paper Book
It's Greg's birthday--and you're invited to the chaos. In Partypooper, the 20th book in Jeff Kinney's global smash-hit Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Greg Heffley is planning the ultimate party--for himself. But when the guest list grows, the decorations...
The Bakery Dragon and the Fairy Cake
Kurtz, Devin Elle/ Kurtz, Devin Elle (ILT)
Running a bakery is no cakewalk for a tiny dragon with a big sweet tooth! Tummy rumbles turn to belly laughs in this feel-good picture book from the bestselling author and illustrator of The Bakery Dragon. Batter up! Ember is in charge while the baker...
The Land of Sweet Forever : Stories and Essays
Lee, Harper/ Cep, Casey (INT)
From one of America's most beloved authors, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces, offering a fresh perspective on the remarkable literary mind of Harper Lee. Harper Lee remains a landmark figure in the American canon...
Red city
Lu, Marie
Paper Book
DELUXE EDITION--a stunning hardcover edition featuring dark crimson sprayed edges The Godfather meets The Magicians in the sweeping adult debut from #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu. Perfect for fans of V.E. Schwab,...
A ferry merry Christmas : a novel
Macomber, Debbie
A delayed ferryboat brings people together in the best of ways during the holiday season in this enchanting Christmas novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Avery and Reed Bond grew up sharing a close-knit relationship, weathering life's storms...
The Planet, the Portal, and a Pizza
Mass, Wendy
Mystery and adventure collide in this humorous and heartfelt multiverse adventure from beloved, award-winning authors Wendy Mass and Nora Raleigh Baskin.  Twelve-year-old Piper's life has always been unusual: her parents are clockmakers whose inventions are anything but...
I hear the snow, I feel the sea
Milusich, Janice
In this lyrical picture book illustrated by a two-time Caldecott Medalist, share in a blind child's joyful experience of the changing seasons. Where I live, seasons change. I know because my fingers and toes, my ears, my mouth and nose, all tell me so. Neveah...
Winston and the Windsors : How Churchill Shaped a Royal Dynasty
Morton, Andrew
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Queen and Diana, a groundbreaking story of the riveting hot-and-cold relationship between the House of Windsor and Winston Churchill. From an early age, Winston Churchill was convinced that he was a man of destiny....
John Candy : A Life in Comedy
Myers, Paul/ Aykroyd, Dan (FRW)
From the bestselling author of Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy, the definitive biography of John Candy--a heartwarming portrait of one of comedy's most beloved and enduring stars. From his humble beginnings in sketch comedy with the Toronto branch of Second City, to his rise to fame in SCTV...
Wreck ; a novel
Newman, Catherine
"Wreck is a delight. What an absolute joy to be reunited with Rocky and her family, the characters we all fell in love with in Sandwich. Newman's prose is laugh-out-loud funny. It's also profound.  I couldn't stop reading, even though I didn't want it to end."--J. Courtney...
Bog Queen
North, Anna
Paper Book
"Bog Queen sparkles like unearthed treasure." -Kaliane Bradley The latest from New York Times bestselling novelist Anna North-a monumental discovery sets off a clash of worlds, past and present, over the fate of the land that holds us. ...
Joyride : A Memoir
Orlean, Susan
Paper Book
From the beloved New Yorker writer Susan Orlean, New York Times bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book and hailed as "a national treasure" by The Washington Post, Joyride is a masterful memoir of finding her creative calling and...
Last Rites
Osbourne, Ozzy
"People say to me, if you could do it all again, knowing what you know now, would you change anything? I'm like, f*** no. If I'd been clean and sober, I wouldn't be Ozzy. If I'd done normal, sensible things, I wouldn't be Ozzy." Husband. Father. Grandfather. Icon...
The Picasso Heist
Patterson, James/ Roughan, Howard
Paper Book
A $100 million painting.  A previously unknown Picasso is discovered in the attic of a French villa.   Everyone wants to possess it.  Filthy-rich Manhattan art people. Organized crime bosses. Power-hungry government...
Granny Mobile
Penguin Young Readers Licenses (COR)
Play Granny Mobile with Bluey, Bingo, and Muffin in this fun storybook based on the wildly successful animated series Bluey, as seen on Disney+! Bluey and Bingo's neighbor Doreen is having a garage sale, and they decide to play Granny Mobile with Muffin. When a real...
The black wolf
Penny, Louise
Paper Book
The 20th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Somewhere out there, in the darkness, a black wolf is feeding. Several weeks ago, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team uncovered and stopped a...
This Is Orange: A Field Trip Through Color
Poliquin, Rachel.
"A tour de force through world history, the natural world, and cultural studies." --School Library Journal (starred review) Prepare your senses for a delicious shock of orange in all its glory and variety--in a playful color tribute destined to wow art and design...
Shadow Ticket
Pynchon, Thomas
The new novel from Thomas Pynchon Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks...
Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal (Deluxe Edition) (Special)
Quinn, Meghan
Paper Book
*The limited deluxe edition comes with printed edges* From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Meghan Quinn comes a brand new holiday rom-com with all the humor and heat her fans adore. Nothing says I love you like trespassing, public humiliation, and a town-wide...
And to all a good bite
Rosenfelt, David
Reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter investigates a murder that left a dog stranded in And to All a Good Bite, the latest Christmas mystery in David Rosenfelt's bestselling series. Reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter can't wait for Christmas. He doesn't care much about the season...
Finding lost
Sloan, Holly Goldberg
Paper Book
A stray dog leads to major change for Cordy and her grieving family in this heartwarming new novel by the beloved author of Counting by 7s. "It's impossible to read a book by Holly Goldberg Sloan without coming away wiser, kinder, and happier. She is a singular talent indeed."...
Remain
Sparks, Nicholas/ Shyamalan, M. Night
A one-of-a-kind novel that grapples with the supernatural mysteries of life, death, and human connection--an unprecedented collaboration between the globally bestselling author of love stories like The Notebook and the renowned writer and director of blockbuster thrillers like The Sixth...
The hitchhikers
Stevens, Chevy
Paper Book
The open road beckons. A chance for them to reconnect. Then they make a fatal mistake. It's the summer of 1976 and Alice and Tom set out on the remote Canadian highways in their new RV, hoping to heal their broken hearts after a devastating tragedy....
Boom Town
Stone, Nic
Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl meets P-Valley in Nic Stone's adult thriller debut about two missing erotic dancers from Atlanta's most notorious gentlemen's club and the woman committed to finding them. When Damaris "Charm" Wilburn, a new daytime dancer, is missing for...
Facing Feelings : Inside the World of Raina Telgemeier
Telgemeier, Raina
Paper Book
Spend an afternoon with Raina as she shares her artwork and tells stories about a range of topics spanning from her childhood to the creation of her graphic novels Smile, Sisters, Guts, Drama, and Ghosts! Raina Telgemeier is the #1 New York...
A Christmas Witness
Todd, Charles
December 1921: Being single and a new Chief, Inspector Rutledge of Scotland Yard gets the short straw at Christmastime and is called upon by Chief Superintendent Markum to go to the Kentish home of a lord recovering from an attempt on his life. In bed with a concussion, the man is convinced someone...
EMBER THE FIRE DRAGON: AN ACORN BOOK
West, Tracey 1965-
Paper Book
Best friends Ember the Fire Dragon and Gus the Mushroom Dragon search for a magic jewel in the first installment of this full-color, fantasy adventure series perfect for beginning readers! Pick a book. Grow a Reader! This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line,...
Gone Before Goodbye
Witherspoon, Reese/ Coben, Harlan
Paper Book
An unforgettable suspense novel that combines the storytelling talents of Academy Award-winning actor Reese Witherspoon and internationally bestselling author Harlan Coben. Gone Before Goodbye is the story of a woman trapped in a deadly conspiracy--where uncovering the truth could cost her...
Ruby Maps Her World
Yolen, Jane/ Phumiruk, Dow (ILT)
A STEM-focused picture book about Ruby, a curious child who is eager to map the world around her, by beloved children's book author Jane Yolen. It's Ruby's first time drawing a map all by herself. She eagerly grabs her journal and markers and...
Finding My Way : A Memoir
Yousafzai, Malala
How do you rebuild yourself when your whole world changes overnight? Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after the Taliban's brutal attack on her life, Malala Yousafzai quickly became an international icon known for bravery and resilience. But away from the cameras...

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