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* Where They Last Saw Her. By Marcie R. Rendon. Sept. 2024. 336p. Bantam, $28 (9780593496527); e-book (9780593496510). Rendon, a citizen of the White Earth Nation of the Minnesota Chippewa [...]

Shake It Off! By Vanessa Brantley-Newton. Illus. by the author. June 2024. 32p. Penguin/Nancy Paulsen, $18.99 (9780525517115). PreS-Gr. 2. In this scary yet encouraging story--whose title and plot echo Taylor [...]

* Else B. in the Sea: The Woman Who Painted the Wonders of the Deep. By Jeanne Walker Harvey. Illus. by Melodie Stacey. June 2024. 32p. Cameron Kids, $19.99 (9781949480283). [...]

Pizza for Pia. By Betsy Groban. Illus. by Allison Steinfeld. May 2024. 32p. Simon & Schuster/Simon Spotlight, $17.99 (9781665947015). PreS-Gr. 1. A panoply of plosive letter P's, a panorama of [...]

The Weedflower. By Elizabeth Davaze. Illus. by Marianne Ferrer. Aug. 2024. 32p. Owlkids, $18.95 (9781771475884). PreS-Gr. 2. This charming eco-fable, with some comic nods to Jack and the Beanstalk and [...]

The Sunflowers: Vincent van Gogh's Search for Beauty. By Zahra Marwan. Illus. by the author. Sept. 2024. 40p. Feiwel and Friends, $19.99 (9781250859631). PreS-Gr. 3. 759.9492. This inspiring, age-appropriate biography [...]

The Phantom Patrol. By James R. Benn. Sept. 2024. 352p. Soho, $27.95 (9781641295437); e-book (9781641295444). The ninteenth book in the Billy Boyle WWII Mystery series finds Captain Boyle, formerly a [...]

Death at the Sign of the Rook. By Kate Atkinson. Sept. 2024. 320p. Doubleday, $30 (9780385547994); e-book (9780385548007). The sixth in this popular series starring excop and current Yorkshire private [...]

* Nobody Lives Forever/Tomorrow's Another Day. By W. R. Burnett. Mar. 2024. 284p. Stark House, paper, $19.95 (9798886010770). Fans of hardboiled detective stories and old-time gangster movies should love this [...]

The Only Lonely Fairy. By Lana Button. Illus. by Peggy Collins. Feb. 2024. 32p. Pajama, $18.95 (9781772783025). PreS-Gr. 2. Making friends in the early grades, even getting someone to play [...]

* Wild at Heart: The Story of Olaus and Mardy Murie, Defenders of Nature. By Evan Griffith. Illus. by Anna Bron. Aug. 2024. 40p. Sleeping Bear, $18.99 (9781534112919). Gr. 1-4. [...]

* House of Glass. By Sarah Pekkanen. Aug. 2024. 352p. St. Martin's, $29 (9781250283993); e-book (9781250284006). Pekkanen, who has coauthored a shiver of psychological suspense novels with Greer Hendricks (including [...]

* The Queen City Detective Agency. By Snowden Wright. Aug. 2024. 272p. Morrow, $30 (9780062963581); e-book (9780062963604). This scalding, shocking history-inspired mystery pits a young Black woman private eye against [...]

* The Painter and the President: Gilbert Stuart's Brush with George Washington. By Sarah Albee. Illus. by Stacy Innerst. Aug. 2024. 40p. Astra/Calkins Creek, $18.99 (9781662680007). Gr. 2-5. 757. The [...]

They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy's Story. By Peter James. July 2024. 400p. IPG/Pan Macmillan, $27.99 (9781529031430). Since Peter James' wildly popular Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series started with the [...]

* Seraphim. By Joshua Perry. July 2024. 272p. Melville, paper, $18.99 (9781685891138); e-book (9781685891145). Unlike many legal procedurals written by outsiders that are imaginative but thin on expertise, this insider's [...]

The Conditions of Unconditional Love. By Alexander McCall Smith. July 2024. 256p. Pantheon, $28 (9780593701720); e-book (9780593701737). The Isabel Dalhousie novels, starring a woman who edits a philosophy journal and [...]

* Gray. By Laura Dockrill. Illus. by Lauren Child. May 2024. 40p. Candlewick, $18.99 (9781536235463). PreS-Gr. 2. A child is in the throes of feeling down, blah, or--to use their […]

Once upon a Friend. By Dan Gemeinhart. Illus. by ShinYeon Moon. June 2024. 44p. Holt, $18.99 (9781250892263). PreS-Gr. 2. "Once upon a time, I met my reader," begins this story [...]

Nothing Can Erase You. By Michel Bussi. Tr. by Sam Taylor. June 2024. 463P. Amazon Crossing, paper, $16.99 (9781662509049); e-book (9781662509056). This searing psychological thriller, translated from the original French [...]

* One Deadly Eye. By Randy Wayne White. June 2024. 352p. Hanover Square, $28.99 (9781335013606); e-book (9780369747655). The twenty-seventh in White's Doc Ford series, following Salt River (2020), is an [...]

How Like a God. By Rex Stout. June 2024. 320p. Hard Case Crime, paper, $16.99 (9781803364865); e-book (9781803364872). This noir novel was Rex Stout's very first, published in 1929, five […]

* The Black Spectacles. By John Dickson Carr. June 2024. 272p. Poisoned Pen, paper, $15.99 (9781464216329); e-book (9781464216336). Everything you could ever want in a Golden Age of Detective Fiction [...]

Pockets for Two: A Collection for Girlhood. By Lindsay Ward. Illus. by Brizida Magro. Jan. 2024. 32p. Harper, $19.99 (9780063247765). K-Gr. 2. This thought-provoking friendship story is in praise of [...]

The Drama Llama. By Rachel Morrisroe. Illus. by Ella Okstad. Jan. 2024. 40p. Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky, $18.99 (9781728283135). K-Gr. 2. It's hard to have anxiety It would be even harder if a [...]

The Heavy Bag: One Girl's Journey through Grief. By Sarah Surgey. Illus. by Larisa Ivankovic. Apr. 2024. 32p. Cardinal Rule, $17.95 (9781945369414). K-Gr. 2. A yellow backpack, reaching from a [...]

* Death of an Author. By E. C. R. Lorac. Apr. 2024. 272p. Poisoned Pen, paper, $15.99 (9781464216268). This mystery first published in 1935 and resurrected by the British Library [...]

Lola and the Troll. By Connie Schultz. Illus. by Sandy Rodriguez. Feb. 2024. 40p. Razorbill, $18.99 (9780593527634). K-Gr. 2. Author Schultz won the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary in 2005 for [...]

* The Owl Who Dared. By Stephanie Stansbie. Illus. by Frances Ives. Oct. 2023. 32p. Tiger Tales, $18.99 (9781664300330). PreS-Gr. 2. Here a baby snowy white owl who keeps plunging [...]

The Perfect Passion Company. By Alexander McCall Smith. Feb. 2024. 384p. Vintage, paper, $17 (9780593688328); e-book (9780593688816). McCall Smith, author of the acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, [...]

Plus One. By John Hare. Illus. by the author. Jan. 2024. 40p. Holiday/Margaret Ferguson, $18.99 (9780823450435). PreS-Gr. 2. Notes of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs [...]

* Seed on the Wind. By Rex Stout. Dec. 2023. 304p. Hard Case Crime, paper, $15.95 (9781803364841); e-book (9781803364858). A long-lost novel by Rex Stout, creator of reclusive gourmand-detective Nero [...]

My Favorite Scar. By Nicolas Ferraro. Tr. by Mallory CraigKuhn. Jan. 2024.312p. Soho, $27.95 (9781641295154); e-book (9781641295161). Paper Moon meets Kill Bill in this unnerving story about how a father's [...]

* Hero. By Thomas Perry. Jan. 2024. 336p. Mysterious, $27.95 (9781613164778); e-book (9781613164785). In this thriller so suspenseful it should be required reading for thrill seekers, Perry splices together two [...]

Kevin Goes First. By Hala Tahboub. Illus. by the author. Nov. 2023. 48p. Clarion, $19.99 (9780063254190). PreS-Gr. 2. The concept of organizing numbers into a sequence is cleverly embedded in [...]

Lights Out. By Elise Hart Kipness. Nov. 2023. 284p. Amazon/Thomas 8c Mercer, paper, $16.99 (9781662512667); e-book (9781662512650). Characters in mysteries sometimes have amateur sleuthing thrust upon them. Kate Green, the [...]

The Problem of the Wire Cage. By John Dickson Carr. Jan. 2024. 276p. Penzler/American Mystery Classics, $25.95 (9781613164860); e-book (9781613164877). Readers are in for a double treat in this latest [...]

Crook o' Lune. By E. C. R. Lorac. July 2023.288p. Poisoned Pen, paper, $14.99 (9781728278537). A well-appointed country home in rural Lancashire dating from the 1600s, complete with stone gables, [...]

* A Disappearance in Fiji. By Nilima Rao. June 2023.288p. Soho, $25.95 (9781641294294); e-book (9781641294300). This debut novel by a Fijian Indian Australian delivers both an absorbing mystery and a [...]

The Hollow Tree. By Philip Miller. Apr. 2024. 384p. Soho, $27.95 (9781641295581); e-book (9781641295598). On the eve of a wedding at a baronial hotel in Argyll, Scotland, a male wedding [...]

Daughter of Mine. By Megan Miranda. Apr. 2024. 368p. Marysue Rued, $28.99 (9781668010440); e-book (9781668010464). Wills have a way of bringing out the worst in surviving relatives. Miranda, known for [...]

* The Wishing Machine. By Jonathan Hillman. Illus. by Nadia Alam. Oct. 2023. 40p. Simon 8c Schuster, $18.99 (9781665922302). PreS-Gr. 2. A little boy, facing the wrenching reality of moving [...]

The Kitten Story: A Mostly True Tale. By Emily Jenkins. Illus. by Brittany Cicchese. Oct. 2023. 48p. Astra/Minerva, $18.99 (9781662651151). PreS-Gr. 2. For a family, getting a pet can be [...]

A Compliment with Wings. By Pimm van Hest. Illus. by Nynke Mare Talsma. Oct. 2023. 32p. Clavis, $18.95 (9781605379470). PreS-Gr. 1. This engaging picture book shows how a single compliment [...]

* The Spy Coast. By Tess Gerritsen. Nov. 2023.340p. Amazon/Thomas & Mercer, $28.99 (9781662515125); e-book (9781662515118). Gerritsen, a former physician best known for her medical thriller series, Rizzoli and Isles, [...]

* Resurrection Walk. By Michael Connelly. Nov. 2023.416p. Little, Brown, $30 (9780316563765); e-book (9780316563789). Nothing is more soul satisfying for defense attorney Mickey Haller than to be inside a prison [...]

Later, When I'm Big. By Bette Westera, Illus. by Mattias De Leeuw. Tr. by Laura Watkinson. Sept. 2023.40p. Eerdmans, $17.99 (9780802856104). PreS-Gr. 2. A little girl's imagination transforms an indoor [...]

* Mrs Pargeter's Patio. By Simon Brett. Oct. 2023. 192p. Severn, $31.99 (9781448311286); e-book (9781448311293). The ninth in the Mrs. Pargeter series, starring a well-off widow who seems blithely unaware [...]

* From a Far and Lovely Country. By Alexander McCall Smith. Oct. 2023. 256p. Pantheon, $28 (9780593316993); e-book (9780593317006). McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is one of the [...]

A Spider Named Itsy. By Steve Light. Illus. by the author. Sept. 2023. 32p. Candlewick, $18.99 (9781536225297). PreS-Gr. 2. This jubilant rhyming picture book expands the famous nursery rhyme into [...]