Everybody Wants to Rule the World
A Novel
by Ace Atkins
October 20, 2025
ReserveElmore Leonard meets Robert Ludlum in a rollicking comedic thriller set in 1985 from acclaimed author Ace Atkins, in which a suburban teen suspects his mom's new boyfriend is the ultimate bad guy--a KGB agent.
It's 1985, what will soon become known as "The Year of the Spy," and fourteen-year-old Peter Bennett is convinced his mom's new boyfriend is a Russian agent. "Gary" isn't in the phone book, has an unidentifiable European accent, and keeps a gun in the glove box of his convertible Porsche. Peter thinks Gary only wants to get close to his mom because she works at...
Best Offer Wins
A Novel
by Marisa Kashino
September 26, 2025
ReserveAn insanely competitive housing market. A desperate buyer on the edge. In Marisa Kashino’s darkly humorous debut novel, Best Offer Wins, the white picket fence becomes the ultimate symbol of success—and obsession. How far would you go for the house of your dreams?
Eighteen months and 11 lost bidding wars into house-hunting in the overheated Washington, DC suburbs, 37-year-old publicist Margo Miyake gets a tip about the perfect house, in the perfect neighborhood, slated to come up for sale in one month. Desperate to escape the cramped apartment she shares with her husband Ian — and in turn, get their...
Wolf Hour
A Novel
by Jo Nesbo
November 11, 2025
ReserveFrom “one of today’s most interesting thriller writers” (Lee Child) comes an immersive, propulsive novel in which a detective and a crime writer conduct parallel investigations, six years apart, into a series of puzzling murders.
“[Nesbo] can heighten suspense with a single word and wrong-foot the most attentive customer.” —Wall Street Journal
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2016. When a small-time criminal and gun dealer is shot down in the street, all signs point to Tomas Gomez, a quiet man with a mysterious past—and deep connections to a notorious gang—who has seemingly vanished into thin air. Other murders soon follow, and it appears Gomez...
Sisters in Death
The Black Dahlia, the Prairie Heiress, and Their Hunter
by Eli Frankel
September 08, 2025
ReserveWho killed the Black Dahlia? In this eye-opening shocker, an award-winning producer, true-crime researcher, and Hollywood insider finally solves the greatest - and most gruesome - murder mystery of the twentieth century just before its 80th anniversary.
In January 1947, the bisected body of Elizabeth Short, completely drained of blood, was discovered in an undeveloped lot in Los Angeles. Its gruesome mutilations led to a firestorm of publicity, city-wide panic, and an unprecedented number of investigative paths led by the LAPD—all dead ends. The Black Dahlia murder remained an unsolved mystery for over seventy years.
Six years earlier and sixteen hundred miles...
The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2025
by John Grisham
April 02, 2025
ReserveFrom over 3,000 considered stories published in the past year, this anthology contains the twenty best, selected by #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham under the auspices of New York City's legendary crime fiction specialty store The Mysterious Bookshop.
Included are tales of suspense, detection, and puzzlement that illuminate the diversity of styles contained under the "mystery" umbrella and highlight some of the greatest practitioners of the short form working today, with a blend of household names and lesser known writers no less worthy of your attention.
There's something for everyone in...
A Time to Kill
Jack Brigance #1
by John Grisham
June 25, 2020
ReserveThe life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father acquires an assault rifle--and takes justice into his own outraged hands. For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life...and then his own...
The Goldfinch
A Novel
by Donna Tartt
June 25, 2020
ReserveTheo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by a longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into a wealthy and insular art community.
As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and...
Lessons in Chemistry
A Novel
by Bonnie Garmus
January 11, 2023
ReserveChemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.
But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of...
Killers of a Certain Age
by Deanna Raybourn
January 11, 2023
ReserveOlder women often feel invisible, but sometimes that’s their secret weapon.
They’ve spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four women friends can’t just retire – it’s kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller by New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn.
Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. Now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates what they have to offer in an age that relies more...
Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
June 25, 2020
ReserveAn unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined
All the Noise at Once
by DeAndra Davis
May 07, 2025
ReserveTwo starred reviews!
In this compelling, moving story that “beautifully tackles race, social justice, and disability” (School Library Journal, starred review), a Black, autistic teen tries to figure out what happened the night his older brother was unjustly arrested.
All Aiden has ever wanted to do was play football just like his star quarterback brother, Brandon. An overstimulation meltdown gets in the way of Aiden making the team during summer tryouts, but when the school year starts and a spot unexpectedly needs to be filled, he finally gets a chance to play the game he loves.
However,...
Cope Field
by T. L. Simpson
May 07, 2025
ReserveCrawford "Craw" Cope has anger issues. Or so they say. When Craw is sentenced to community service for hitting his father in the head with a baseball bat, he accepts his punishment without objection, knowing he's actually lucky. If he weren't the son of a famous former baseball player, he'd probably have gotten it a lot worse. So, Craw keeps his mouth shut and takes what life gives him. Like always. But when he arrives at community service, which frustratingly turns out to be repairing a dilapidated ball field to be named after his father, he meets Hannah Flores, a...
Acts of Resistance: A Novel
by CARRILLO DOMINIC.
February 21, 2025
ReserveBetween 1943 and 1944, nearly 50,000 Bulgarian Jews were rescued from the Holocaust, including thousands who had already been rounded up and put on trains bound for death camps in Poland. Dominic Carrillo's suspenseful novel Acts of Resistance is based on the true story of this incredibly heroic effort by the citizens of Bulgaria. In Carrillo's powerful account, he skillfully weaves together a thrilling tale told by three alternating teenage narrators: Misho, Peter, and Lily.
Misho, an 18-year-old Jewish boy, is a prominent archbishop's driver, hiding his identity while helping his boss directly challenge the Bulgarian government's pro-Nazi policies.
Peter, 17, is...
The Library of Lost Girls
by Kristen Pipps
October 21, 2025
ReserveWhen her sister returns from finishing school a total stranger, a teen seeks out the cause and discovers that the cost of becoming a perfect lady is much higher—and more sinister—than ever expected. A lush, gothic tale that will haunt readers long after they turn the last page.
Gwen Donavan adores her beautiful and rebellious older sister, Izzy. But the Izzy who returns from the Delphi School for Girls is not the sister who left. Now she is Isolde: dull and complacent and—most shocking—eager to marry.
Gwen is determined to discover what happened to Izzy at Delphi, and the only solution she...
The Shadow Bride
by Shelby Mahurin
December 31, 2024
ReserveIn the thrilling conclusion of the duology set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Serpent & Dove series by Shelby Mahurin, a vampire and the woman who tried to kill him prove that true love can conquer anything, even Death. Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas.
Célie's life is over. She took her final breath trying to save the people she loves--including the powerful and enigmatic vampire king, Michal, who refused to let her go. When Célie wakes, she cannot walk in the sun; she can hear her friends' heartbeats and she craves their blood. Michal has...
Pete the Cat's Cool New Ride
by James Dean,Kimberly Dean
June 13, 2025
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Ride along with Pete and his friends in this STEM-themed picture book from the #1 New York Times bestselling classic series Pete the Cat!
"UGH! It's snug in the bug!"
Pete the Cat just got some new wheels. Beep, beep! And as he's grooving down the street, he bumps into 1 friend, 2 friends, 3!
When they pile up in the car, Pete can't keep count and wonders if there is room for everyone.
In his fifteenth hardcover picture book, Pete the Cat learns that there's always room for friends.
From the authors of the #1 New York...
Troubling Tonsils!
by Aaron Reynolds
July 22, 2025
Reserve“Beautiful to the eye and sure to delight younger horror enthusiasts” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
From the team behind the New York Times bestselling and Caldecott Medal–winning Creepy Carrots! and its sequels comes the first entry in a spin-off chapter book series in which Jasper Rabbit tells the story of a young marmot whose tonsils get the better of him.
Jasper the Rabbit is back! A little older and wiser, he collects creepy stories to share as cautionary tales. If you’re ready for some chills and chuckles alike, tune in as Jasper weaves the yarn of Charlie Marmot and the particular...
I Truck
A Big Rig's Epic Trip
by Kelly Rice Schmitt
October 16, 2025
ReservePacked with horsepower, towering, tough, / I truck from coast to coast, bringing goods to neighborhoods.
Climb on up into the cab of a semitruck and take a cross-country journey with a driver and her trusty pup! The truck rumbles to the warehouse to pick up a load of toys and encounters many other trucks along the way. It makes multiple stops for deliveries, encounters a snowstorm, and navigates steep mountain roads.
From the creators of I Ship and I Fuel comes an adventure that will keep readers' imaginations vrooming!
The Bestest Big Brother, Ever
by Ben Mantle
August 25, 2025
ReserveYou love your big brother so much! He's the best. So why doesn't he want you around? Ben Mantle draws from experience in a quintessential sibling story full of warmth and wit.
Nano and his older brother, Felix, are best friends who read each other's minds and have super-secret phrases, like "totally grape." They do everything together! Like playing dino smash monster truckers ("Hey! That's MY car!") or being a pair of totally amazing artistes--until somebody's squiggly line crosses straight through Felix's perfect picture ("Moooom! Look what Nano has done!"). Nano can't wait to join Felix, the bestest big...
5-Minute Pixar Stories
12 Friendship Stories!
by DISNEY BOOK GROUP
July 30, 2025
ReserveJoin your favorite Pixar pals in this colorful collection of 12 adventure-packed, friendship-filled 5-minute stories! This sturdy hardcover book includes a brand-new Toy Story tale along with stories from recent and beloved Pixar films such as Inside Out 2, Elemental, Turning Red, Coco, Cars, and more!
Get ready for playtime with Jessie, Buzz, and Woody; explore Headquarters with Joy, Anxiety, and the rest of Riley's Emotions; speed down the track with Lightning McQueen; travel to Element City with Ember and Wade; and much more! Each story in this sturdy hardcover collection features beautiful, vibrant illustrations and is ideal for reading aloud...