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GIFTS FOR KIDS Marshmallow & Jordan FOR THE READER WHO carefully arranges their stuffed animals every morning--and calls them each by name Jordan is a talented basketball player who lives [...]

YOUR FAVORITE THING ABOUT SUMMER: Basking alone in your private pool (even if it's just an inflatable pool in your sunny backyard), sipping kombucha and laughing loud enough to scare [...]

* The Unkindness of Ravens Greer Hogan left her life in New York City behind after her husband's murder. Starting over as a librarian in the village of Raven Hill [...]

* Last Night at the Telegraph Club By Malinda Lo Historical Fiction San Francisco's Chinatown in the mid-1950s contains two worlds folded into one another: Its tightknit community looks out [...]

* Mango, Mambo, and Murder Miriam Quinones-Smith has just relocated from New York City to tony Coral Shores in Miami. A former food anthropologist, she lands a gig teaching Caribbean [...]

Good company, beautiful scenery, false pretenses and uninvited guests make for nerve-rattling, riveting armchair travel in these two thrillers. At the beginning of Kimberly McCreight's Friends Like These (Harper, $27.99, [...]

You'd be forgiven for feeling a bit tired of the unreliable narrator, a character that is practically inescapable in the mystery and suspense genre. But even if you think you're [...]

Three young adult novels put inclusive queer representation in the spotlight and capture how contemporary teens connect both in person and online. Although the storytelling styles vary, the emotions in [...]

Scavenge the Stars By Tara Sim Identities shift and glittering surfaces reveal decay at the root in Scavenge the Stars (Hyperion, $18.99, 9781368051415), a ferocious fantasy from Timekeeper trilogy author [...]

Chasing Starlight By Teri Bailey Black Mystery The victim of a childhood kidnapping that made international headlines, Kate Hildebrand was already famous when she came to stay with her grandfather, [...]

Good dogs never bite--but these two mysteries have plenty of snap. All Andy Carpenter wants is to put his law practice in his rearview mirror and enjoy retirement; his dog [...]

A freak storm hits Chagrin Falls, Ohio, but Bronwyn 'Win' Crewse is committed to making handmade scoops of her grandmother's finest recipes for her family's ice cream shop. Then she [...]

Charlotte Reed is starting life over. The young widow left her teaching career to take over her great-aunt's North Carolina bed-and-breakfast, and she's keeping its literary theme and events afloat, [...]

Juliet Blackwell's refreshing The Last Curtain Call (Berkley, $7.99, 9780593097939) continues her Haunted Home Renovation series with a twist: Mel Turner is dealing with a ghost in the attic of [...]

In their second adventure, Iris Sparks and Gwendolyn Bainbridge would like nothing more than to get back to running their business, The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. But in Allison Montclair's [...]

LGBTQ+ characters are more visible than ever in young adult literature. The protagonists of these books navigate intersectionality, injustice and romance, and their stories are welcome additions to the growing [...]

The Body in the Garden Lily Adler is a widow in mourning. Fortunately, dipping a toe back into the social whirl at Lady Walter's ball should be a doddle; they [...]

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder By Holly Jackson Mystery Pippa Fitz-Amobi's senior project is ambitious and risky. She wants to research the crime that rocked her small town five [...]

* Dead in Dublin Catie Murphy kicks off the Dublin Driver Mystery series with Dead in Dublin (Kensington, $7.99, 9781496724182). Ex-military combat medic Megan Malone has started life over as [...]

The League of Extraordinarily Funny Women: 50 Trailblazers of Comedy (Running Press, $20, 9780762466641) is a small coffee table book that's a treat to explore. Sheila Moeschen provides thumbnail biographies [...]

Fiction Rico Danger has a name straight out of an explosive action movie, but her life is hurtling off a cliff in ways that are all too ordinary. Overstretched at [...]

Three new mysteries gain extra depth from their settings in decadent Gilded Age New York, interwar London and rural World War II-era Britain. Dowager countess Philomena Amesbury left England behind [...]

* Word to the Wise A mystery set in a library just feels right. Jenn McKinlay's newest Library Lover's Mystery Word to the Wise (Berkley $26, 9780593100035), lets the comfort [...]

These new novels can be challenging and even downright harrowing, but their authors imbue them with warmth and humor. When Hang arrives in Texas, she has lost everything except a [...]

Teen Titans: Raven By Kami Garcia Illustrated by Gabriel Picolo At just 17, Raven Roth's life takes a hard turn when a car crash kills the foster mom who was [...]

A Lady's Guide to Gossip and Murder If practiced well, the oft-maligned art of gossip can unearth as much evidence as a CSI team. Just ask the Countess of Harleigh, [...]

Peach Clobbered Anna Gerard's Peach Clobbered (Crooked Lane, $26.99, 9781643850061, eBook available) introduces Nina Fleet, new to Cymbeline, Georgia, and tentatively converting her gorgeous home into a B&B. Harry Westcott [...]

* Aunt Dimity and the Heart of Gold The English village of Finch has been beset by an ice storm instead of the usual picture-perfect Christmas snow, but Lori Shepherd [...]

By Abdi Nazemian Balzer + Bray, $17.99, 432 pages 9780062839367, audio, eBook available Historical Fiction Author Abdi Nazemian brings emotional depth and a dreamy soundtrack to the story of a [...]

You Must Not Miss By Katrina Leno Little, Brown $17.99, 304 pages 9780316449779 eBook available Thriller Katrina Leno's You Must Not Miss is a YA thriller with teeth. Sixteen-year-old Magpie [...]

* Top Pick: We Contain Multitudes By Sarah Henstra Little, Brown, $17.99, 384 pages 9780316524650, audio, eBook available Romance In Sarah Henstra's We Contain Multitudes, an unlikely duo are paired [...]

* Top Pick: Dig By A.S. King Dutton, $17.99, 400 pages 9781101994917, audio, eBook available Printz Honor-winning author A.S. King's novels (Please Ignore Vera Dietz, Still Life With Tornado) are [...]

S.C. Perkins taps into the current obsession with researching one's ancestry with her terrific series debut. Murder Once Removed (Minotaur, $26.99, 336 pages, 9781250189035) finds genealogist Lucy Lancaster researching a [...]

By Robin Talley Harlequin Teen $18.99, 416 pages ISBN 9781335012906 Audio, eBook available Ages 12 and up High school senior Abby's home life in Washington, D.C., is a mess best [...]

E.J. Copperman's second entry in the Agent to the Paws series, Bird, Bath, and Beyond (Minotaur, $26.99, 304 pages, ISBN 9781250084293), finds animal talent agent Kay Powell on the set [...]

YOU IN FIVE ACTS By Una LaMarche Razorbill $17.99, 352 pages ISBN 9781101998939 eBook available Ages 12 and up FICTION It's the second semester of senior year at Janus Academy, [...]

CLICK HERE TO START By Denis Markell Delacorte $16.99, 320 pages ISBN 9781101931875 Audio, eBook available Ages 8 to 12 MIDDLE GRADE Ted Gerson has honed his skills at online [...]

SEVEN BRIEF LESSONS ON PHYSICS By Carlo Rovelli Riverhead $18, 96 pages ISBN 9780399184413 Audio, eBook available SCIENCE Is it truly possible to explain the most compelling theories in modern [...]

FURIOUSLY HAPPY By Jenny Lawson Flatiron $26.99, 352 pages ISBN 9781250077004 Audio, eBook available MEMOIR Readers familiar with Jenny Lawson, as either The Bloggess or the author of the 2012 [...]

STEPDOG By Mireya Navarro Putnam $26.95, 256 pages ISBN 9780399167799 eBook available MEMOIR [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] So-called 'blended' families are a complex ecosystem, where kids can play adults against one another [...]

THE NEW OLD ME By Meredith Maran Blue Rider $27, 304 pages ISBN 9780399574139 Audio, eBook available MEMOIR Meredith Maran had been married to the woman of her dreams, living [...]