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 ...
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"...
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...
The book of lost hours
Gelfuso, Hayley
Paper Book
For fans of The Ministry of Time and The Midnight Library, a sweeping, unforgettable novel following two remarkable women moving between postwar and Cold War-era America and the mysterious time space, a library filled with books containing the memories of those who bore witness to...
The Break-in
Faulkner, Katherine
Paper Book
After killing an intruder in self-defense, a wealthy London mother must unravel a terrifying mystery filled with twists and turns, from the author of the "deliciously twisted thriller" (People) The Other Mothers. Alice, a professional mother of one, is hosting a...
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...
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...
Emma on Fire
Patterson, James/ Raymond, Emily
Paper Book
An urgent, emotional thriller: "Dramatic...explores the power of grief...that through loss there can be hope for the future" (Library Journal).   Everyone at Ridgemont Academy knows what to expect from Emma Caroline Blake.  Perfect...
The End of the World As We Know It : New Tales of Stephen King's the Stand
Golden, Christopher (EDT)/ Keene, Brian (EDT)/ King, Stephen (INT)
Paper Book
An original short story anthology based on master storyteller Stephen King's #1 New York Times bestselling classic The Stand! Since its initial publication in 1978, The Stand has been considered Stephen King's seminal masterpiece of apocalyptic...
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...
Forget me not : a novel
Willingham, Stacy
Paper Book
A pulse-pounding new Southern thriller from the author of the runaway bestseller A Flicker in the Dark. Twenty-two years ago, Claire Campbell's older sister, Natalie, disappeared shortly after her eighteenth birthday. Days later, her blood was found in a car, a man was...
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...
Halloween Night Murder
Meier, Leslie/ Hollis, Lee/ Ireland, Liz
Paper Book
There's usually a chill in the air when Halloween arrives--but in these three novellas by beloved cozy mystery authors Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis, and Liz Ireland, the crimes are even colder than the haunted climate . . . HALLOWEEN NIGHT MURDER by LESLIE MEIER ...
Hatchet Girls
Lansdale, Joe R.
Paper Book
Your next dose of pitch-black comedy, mystery, and mayhem has arrived as Hap and Leonard find themselves in a vicious and ridiculous situation--just as the best friends may finally be calling it quits. When Hap and Leonard are called in on a strange request...
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...
Hemlock & silver
Kingfisher, T.
Paper Book
DELUXE EDITION--a gorgeous hardcover edition featuring bright green sprayed edges, a foil stamp on the casing, and custom endpapers illustrated by the author. From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes Hemlock & Silver, a...
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...
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...
Katabasis
Kuang, R. F.
Dante's Inferno meets Susanna Clarke's Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save...
Katabasis
Kuang, R. F.
Dante's Inferno meets Susanna Clarke's Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save...
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...
I Know How This Ends
Smale, Holly
Paper Book
If you knew how your life would turn out, what would you change now? The second brilliantly uplifting and page-turning novel from the multi-million bestselling author of Geek Girl and Reese's Book Club Pick Cassandra in Reverse. ...
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...
The Magician of Tiger Castle
Sachar, Louis
Paper Book
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 France) lies the kingdom of Esquaveta. There, Princess Tullia...
The Marigold Cottages murder collective : a mystery
Nichols, Jo
Paper Book
The perfect summer read, full of charm and heart, written in the vein of The Thursday Murder Club or Only Murders in the Building but with a southern California twist. Mrs. B, the landlady of The Marigold Cottages is a stubborn idealist who only rents to people...
Mrs. Christie at the mystery guild library
Chapman, Amanda
Paper Book
Book conservator Tory Van Dyne and a woman claiming to be Agatha Christie on holiday from the Great Beyond join forces to catch a killer in this spirited mystery from Amanda Chapman. Tory Van Dyne is the most down-to-earth member of a decidedly eccentric old-money New York family...
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...
A New New Me
Oyeyemi, Helen
Paper Book
From the award-winning, bestselling "literary pied piper" (The New York Times) who brought us Boy, Snow, Bird comes a masterful story that asks: What if the different sides of your personality had trust issues with each other? New Day, New You! ...
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
One of USA Today's 15 Books You Should Read This Summer One of Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Hot New Summer Reads One of People's Most Anticipated Summer Books One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 The riveting new novel by the...
Smuggler's Cove
Michaels, Fern
Book 1 in the brand-new Twin Lights series from the beloved author of The Sisterhood! In a fresh, new series for fans of Nora Roberts, Danielle Steel, and Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels introduces siblings Madison and Lincoln Taylor, whose...
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....
Something to look forward to : fictions
Flagg, Fannie
A tapestry of joyful and startling interconnected stories that celebrate how people from all across America cope with adversity and unexpected changes in a confusing world--from the beloved New York Times bestselling author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe ...
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...
The Surrogate Mother
Mcfadden, Freida
Paper Book
"One of the best thrillers I've ever read!" --Amazon customer Abby wants a baby more than anything. But after years of failed infertility treatments and adoptions that have fallen through, it seems like motherhood is not in her future. That is, until her personal...
The Japanese tsunami, 2011
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...
Tomlinson's Wake
White, Randy Wayne
From New York Times bestselling author Randy Wayne White, the latest thriller following Doc Ford and his perilous journey into Mesoamerica after a world-shattering earthquake threatens his squad's safety--and all of their lives In the wake of a killer...
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 epic of the American West became a tale of progress, redemption, and glorious conquest that came to shape...
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...

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