New Releases - August '25

Some of the titles hitting the shelves at SCLS in August.

Updated July 19, 2025
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Accomplice to the Villain
Maehrer, Hannah Nicole
Paper Book
Don't miss out on the stunning DELUXE LIMITED EDITION while supplies last. This breathtaking collectible is only available on a limited first print run in the U.S. and Canada, a must-have for any book lover. THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES ...
Anatomy of a Con Artist: The 14 Red Flags to Spot Scammers, Grifters, and Thieves
Walton, Johnathan
Paper Book
These are the 14 red flags to identify the scammer in your life before they con you--from a victim-turned-vigilante and host of the hit podcast Queen of the Con. "Johnathan Walton has written a master class on how to spot scammers, con artists, grifters, and...
Are You Mad at Me?: How to Stop Focusing on What Others Think and Start Living for You
Josephson, Meg
Paper Book
From psychotherapist and social media star Meg Josephson, a groundbreaking "cure for chronic people-pleasing" (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that explores the common survival instinct called fawning and offers "explanations, comfort, and best of all, solutions"...
The art of a lie
Shepherd-Robinson, Laura
Paper Book
In 18th-century England, a widowed confectioner is drawn into a web of love, betrayal, and intrigue and a battle of wits in this masterful historical novel from the author of the "delicious puzzle-box of a novel" (The New York Times) and USA TODAY bestseller The Square of...
Automatic noodle
Newitz, Annalee
Paper Book
A cozy near-future novella about a crew of leftover robots opening their very own noodle shop, from acclaimed sci-fi author Annalee Newitz. You don't have to eat food to know the way to a city's heart is through its stomach. So when a group of deactivated robots come back...
The Blonde Who Came in from the Cold
Carter, Ally
Paper Book
An action-packed, second-chance rom-com about two rival spies who must join forces in order to stay alive, from New York Times bestselling author Ally Carter. Ten years ago, they joined the CIA.  Six years ago, he left the game.  Five years ago, they fell...
Cleaning House : The Fight to Rid Our Homes of Toxic Chemicals
Dahl, Lindsay
From the front lines of the movement for safer products, environmental health expert Lindsay Dahl takes us on her journey from skeptic to activist, exposing the secret forces that keep toxic chemicals in our homes, bodies, and environment--showing us how to fight back and keep our families safe.<...
The Colonel and the King : Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the Partnership That Rocked the World
Guralnick, Peter
Paper Book
From the award-winning biographer of Elvis Presley, a groundbreaking dual portrait of the relationship between the iconic artist and his legendary manager--drawing on a wealth of the Colonel's never-before-seen correspondence to reveal that this oft-reviled figure was in fact a confidant,...
The Dead Come to Stay
Schillace, Brandy
A delightful new cozy crime novel from the award-winning author of the "twisty, engaging, and thoroughly unexpected" (Deanna Raybourne) The Framed Women of Ardemore House An amateur autistic sleuth. A wry English detective. A murder case that thrusts them...
The dead husband cookbook
Valentine, Danielle
Paper Book
A deliciously wicked new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Danielle Valentine. One husband, well done. When infamous chef, restaurateur, and television personality Maria Capello's husband died, the media circus was intense...and quick to cast the blame....
Dear Miss Lake
Pearce, A. J.
Paper Book
"It's hard to accept that this is the end of the Emmy Lake series, but if there has to be an end, let it be this one: Dear Miss Lake. Sheer joy!" --Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry Plucky wartime advice columnist Emmy Lake discovers that...
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky : An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
Graff, Garrett M.
Paper Book
"Magisterial...A stunning account that brings to the fore the nuclear saga''s surreal combination of ingenuity, fate, and terror." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) * "If you are an intelligent person, or at the very least think you are, you have to read The Devil Reached Toward the...
Disney Adults : Exploring and Falling in Love With a Magical Subculture
Wolfe, A. J.
Paper Book
A fascinating and enlightening deep dive into the infamous Disney Adult community from the woman behind the popular website The Disney Food Blog. Disney Adults are grown-ups who derive singular, almost obsessive, joy from all things Disney. They devote countless hours and...
A Dog in Georgia
Grodstein, Lauren
Paper Book
In this beautiful story of connection and self-reflection, a missing dog in Georgia sets Amy Webb on an adventure away from her tumultuous marriage and lack-luster personal life and towards a journey of self-discovery and joy. Amy Webb is a chef. Or rather, she was...
The fallen & the kiss of duskThe Shadowborn Duet, Book Two
Broadbent, Carissa
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author and BookTok sensation Carissa Broadbent returns with a brand new novel in the Crowns of Nyaxia series, The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk. Mische made the ultimate sacrifice to save those she loves - and plunged the world into an...
For duck's sake
Andrews, Donna
Paper Book
Donna Andrews returns with her latest charming addition to the bestselling Meg Langslow mystery series. Meg is in the backyard of the house her brother Rob, Delaney, and their new baby have moved into, supervising some workmen who are using a bulldozer to start digging out a...
For Richer for Poorer
Steel, Danielle
Paper Book
A loving mother and successful fashion designer struggles to keep her family together and her business afloat in this gripping novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel. After working as head designer for Oscar de la Renta, Eugenia Ward started her own...
Full Bloom
Serritella, Francesca
The power to be seen. The power to be heard. The power to be adored. . . A woman's life is forever changed by a mysterious perfume in this stunning novel about ambition and untapped desire from the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosts of Harvard. ...
Gone in the night
Schaffhausen, Joanna
Paper Book
The fifth installment of the beloved Annalisa Vega series Detective Annalisa Vega hasn't forgiven her brother for his role in a murder, and he hasn't forgiven her for turning him in, so she's surprised when he asks her to visit him in prison. Turns out, he has a possible case...
The Grand Paloma Resort
Natera, Cleyvis
Paper Book
The Grand Paloma Resort is a lush paradise in the Dominican Republic where the guests enjoy incredible luxury, and the staff is always eager to please--that is, until they are pushed to the brink. Laura is a local Dominican woman who, through sheer hard work, has risen...
The Harvey Girls
Fay, Juliette
Paper Book
Juliette Fay--known for her "well-drawn characters and vibrant historical backdrops" (Library Journal)--transports us to 1920s America with this big-hearted tale of two very different women who must learn to trust each other as one tries save her family and the other to save herself....
He Falls First
Shalvis, Jill
Paper Book
"The perfect escape! You'll fall for He Falls First!" --Lucy Score, #1 New York Times bestselling author No one is going to convince her to fall in love again... Penny Rose has learned her lesson and now she's paying the price. That's why she's sharing a dilapidated house in a tiny...
High Season
Bishop, Katie
Paper Book
Never speak of that summer. "Propulsive, escapist, and sharp." --Emily Layden, author of Once More from the Top On a beautiful summer's night twenty years ago, troubled seventeen-year-old Tamara Drayton was found floating face...
Hunter's Heart Ridge : a mystery
Taylor, Sarah Stewart
Paper Book
In this sequel to Taylor's lyrical series debut, Agony Hill, Detective Frank Warren and his formerly CIA-connected neighbor Alice Bellows return to investigate the death of a diplomat. It's November of 1965 and the second weekend of Vermont's regular deer season when...
The Incredible Kindness of Paper
Skye, Evelyn
Paper Book
For fans of Matt Haig and Clare Pooley, an enchanting novel about a pair of long-lost childhood friends who find themselves magically linked through origami flowers as adults--from the New York Times bestselling author of the "tug-at-your-heartstrings winner" (Sarah Addison...
Jenny Cooper Has a Secret
Fielding, Joy
Paper Book
In this riveting psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of All the Wrong Places, a dementia patient reveals a deadly secret--and one woman must decide whether to believe her. Reeling from her husband's death and best friend's...
King of kings : the Iranian revolution : a story of hubris, delusion and catastrophic miscalculation
Anderson, Scott
Paper Book
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Lawrence in Arabia comes a stunningly revelatory narrative history of the Iranian Revolution, one of the most momentous events in modern times. This groundbreaking work exposes the jaw-dropping stupidity of the American government and...
Kiss Her Goodbye
Gardner, Lisa
Paper Book
A New York Times bestselling author returns with the latest installment in the addictive Frankie Elkin series, in which Frankie is called to Tucson, Arizona, to find a missing Afghan refugee, whose friend suspects she is in grave danger--before it is too late. "Timely and...
L.a. Women
Berman, Ella
Paper Book
An electrifying novel about the complicated friendship between two ambitious writers and the ultimate artistic betrayal: one writes a book based upon the other's life, revealing everything...from the author of Reese's Book Club Pick Before We Were Innocent. After a steady...
The locked ward : a novel
Pekkanen, Sarah
Paper Book
Was it... Bitter, all-consuming jealousy? Pathological sibling rivalry? Pure insanity? Whatever the cause--and everyone has a theory--it's the Crime of the Decade when glamorous Georgia Cartwright, who was adopted as a newborn, is accused...
Loved one : a novel
Muharrar, Aisha
Most Anticipated Book of the Summer: New York Times Book Review, W Magazine, Real Simple, Oprah Daily, Hollywood Reporter, the Boston Globe, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and The Millions "[Loved One] is special . . . full of wildly astute,...
Lucky day
Tingle, Chuck
Paper Book
"An existential masterwork that, like life, is equal parts atrocity and delights."--Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of Masters of Death Lucky Day is the latest from Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Camp Damascus<...
The Magician of Tiger Castle
Sachar, Louis
Paper Book
*AN INDIE NEXT LIST PICK * A LIBRARY READS PICK * The beloved author of Holes presents his first adult novel, a modern fantasy classic of forbidden love, a crumbling kingdom, and the unexpected magic all around us. Long ago and far away (and somewhere south of...
Mississippi blue 42
Cranor, Eli
Paper Book
Former quarterback turned Edgar-winning author Eli Cranor throws a glorious game winner in this series debut starring a rookie FBI agent who finds herself caught in the tangled web of a college football empire--and the bloody greed that fuels it. "Former college quarterback Eli...
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
Bowen, Rhys
Blindsided by betrayal in pre-WWII England, a woman charts a daring new course in this captivating tale of resilience, friendship, and new love by the bestselling author of The Rose Arbor and The Venice Sketchbook. Surrey, England, 1938. After thirty devoted years of...
My other heart
Strenner, Emma Nanami
Paper Book
A missing child, two girls in search of their true identities--a stunning novel of mothers, daughters and best friends In June 1998, Mimi Truang is on her way home to Vietnam when her toddler daughter vanishes in the Philadelphia airport. Seventeen years later, two...
People like us : or The other continent, or Johnny Wordcount stumbles into a high-end croissant bar on the Sienne in search of The Kid & orders the big dream
Mott, Jason
The riveting new novel by the author of the 2021 National Book Award winner and bestseller, Hell of a Book PEOPLE LIKE US is Jason Mott's electric new novel. It is not memoir, yet it has deeply personal connections to Jason's life. And while rooted in reality, it explodes with dream-like experiences...
The Society of Unknowable Objects
Brown, Gareth
Paper Book
From the author of the internationally bestselling The Book of Doors, another fantastical, stand-alone novel in which a trio of seemingly everyday people are members of a secret society tasked with finding and protecting hidden magical objects--ordinary items with extraordinary properties....
Songs for Other People's Weddings
Levithan, David/ Lekman, Jens
Paper Book
"Witty, romantic, and deeply satisfying." --Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow  From award-winning, bestselling author David Levithan and beloved, acclaimed singer-songwriter Jens Lekman comes a...
I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 (I Survived Graphic Novel #12)
Tarshis, Lauren
Paper Book
The disaster felt around the world . . .Visiting his dad's hometown in Japan four months after his father's death would be hard enough for Ben. But one morning the pain turns to fear: first, a massive earthquake rocks the quiet coastal village, nearly toppling his uncle's house. Then the ocean...
This Here Is Love
Perry, Princess Joy L.
As the seventeenth century burns to a close in Tidewater, Virginia, America's character is wrought in the fires of wealth, race, and freedom. Young Bless, the only child left to her enslaved mother, stubbornly crafts the terms of her vital existence. She stands as the lone bulwark between...
Tonight in Jungleland : the making of Born to Run
Carlin, Peter Ames
Paper Book
A fascinating behind-the-scenes account of the making of Bruce Springsteen's ground-breaking album, Born to Run - one of the most iconic records in rock history - Tonight in Jungleland combines lush music writing with unprecedented inside access to Springsteen, his bandmates, and...
Too Old for This
Downing, Samantha
Paper Book
A retired serial killer's quiet life is upended by an unexpected visitor. To protect her secret, there's only one option left--what's another murder? From bestselling author Samantha Downing. Lottie Jones thought her crimes were behind her. Decades earlier, she...
The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West
Hutton, Paul Andrew
From the author of The Apache Wars, the true story of the American West, revealing how American ambition clashed with the realities of violence and exploitation. The story of the American West as we know it is a national myth of progress, redemption, and glorious conquest that became part of a new...
The Violet Hour : A Lowcountry Tale
Benton Frank, Victoria
Paper Book
A heartwarming and empowering novel about thriving after tragedy, from the author of the "enchanting, hilarious, and insightful" (Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times author) My Magnolia Summer. Violet Adams is the perfect, youngest child in a family of loud,...
We Are All Guilty Here
Slaughter, Karin
Paper Book
The first thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and the Will Trent Series. Welcome to North Falls--a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think. Until the night of the...
What Hunger
Dang, Catherine
Paper Book
A haunting coming-of-age tale following the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, Ronny Nguyen, as she grapples with the weight of generational trauma while navigating the violent power of teenage girlhood, for fans of Jennifer's Body and Little Fires Everywhere.
The witch's orchard : a novel
Sullivan, Archer
Paper Book
A ninth generation Appalachian herself, Archer Sullivan brings the mountains of North Carolina to life in The Witch's Orchard, a wonderfully atmospheric novel that introduces private investigator Annie Gore. Former Air Force Special Investigator Annie Gore joined the...
The Wrong Sister
Douglas, Claire
In this sensational thriller from the number-one internationally bestselling author, two sisters discover that the secrets they keep from each other prove to be deadly. You've known her all your life. Or have you? Tasha and her older sister Alice may look alike, but they couldn't be...
Zomromcom
Dade, Olivia
Paper Book
Teaming up with your neighbor during a zombie outbreak is a no-brainer, but if it turns out he's a vampire . . . the stakes couldn't be higher, in this infectious new paranormal romance from the USA Today bestselling author of Spoiler Alert. When Edie Brandstrup...

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