New Adult Fiction

The Wild Season

Dashka Slater

The true story of a community coming together to rescue rabbits that were abandoned in a city park.

Tomato, Tomato, Tomato!

Sarah Finan

How many ways can you eat a tomato? Little ones will love the peek-through pages and fun rhyming text in this tasty first food book.

That You Are Here is No Small Thing

Traci N. Todd

Young descendants of enslaved Africans are guided through the history that led them to exist and thrive today.

Snake & Bat: What Will We Find in This Box?

Mo Willems

 Snake and Bat discover a box that is full of surprises.

Shook

Julian Randall

Malik Page–though unless you’re his mama, call him “Shake”–dreams of making the Marshall Grove varsity basketball squad as an eighth grader. Then he’ll be on his way to joining the ranks of Chicago legends like his pops and late Uncle Kenny. But when Shake fractures his ankle in a championship…

A Riddle of Eels

Nicholas Day

You’d think a book about eels would tell you everything you need to know about eels: where they’re born, how they grow, where they live, where they die. But the truth is far stranger: the more we think we know about eels, the more the mysterious creature wriggles away, leaving…

Reading the Bones

Marc Aronson & John S. Mead

“‘Are you brave enough?’ That’s what anthropologist Keneiloe Molopyane texted one of her graduate students, inviting her to join a dangerous underground search for a mysterious new human ancestor, Homo naledi. Would she dare to slide through the tight spaces and sheer drops of the Rising Star cave in South…

Raven, Rising

Christine Hartman Derr

Raven Miller just moved to Bear Creek Falls, but she already hates it. There’s a clique that has it out for her, a vice principal who keeps targeting her for dress code violations, and a cruel rumor going around that Raven is a witch who killed her parents. If it…

A Party of Colors

Aya Khalil and Bayan Lahham

“Salem sees a party of colors when he goes to the car wash for the first time with Baba. Follows the sequence of events in a car wash using ordinal numbers

Owl by Myself

Pete Oswald

Owl wakes up with a mission for the day: to do everything owl by himself. Like clean his room. (Don’t look in that corner. Or that corner…) Brush his teeth. (Just step over that small mountain of toothpaste on the floor.) And pack his backpack for school. (You can never…

Little Blue Truck Lost and Found

Alice Schertle

Toad helps prepare for a hayride by loading piles of hay into Little Blue’s truck bed. But when they’re ready for a ride, Toad is nowhere to be found! Can Blue and his farm animal friends find Toad in time for him to join the fun?

Fall Day, All Day

Kari Percival

As the leaves change colors and the air starts to crisp, the natural world begins to shift, and so do we. Through vibrant digital woodcut illustrations and lyrical text, award-winning author-illustrator Kari Percival (How to Say Hello to a Worm) captures the magic of fall, inspiring young children to see…

The True Meaning of Love

Danielle Steel

February 24 is the eighteenth birthday of a Ukrainian ballet school student named Vlad. It also happens to be the day that the first bombs of the 2022 Russian attack land on his homeland. Vlad is immediately called up to serve in the military. But as much as he wants…

Secrets We Hide

Karin Slaughter

 1601 Iris Drive looks like any other house. But rumors are rampant about the Vickery family and what goes on behind closed doors. When gunshots ring out, Sheriff Emmy Clifton and her sister, ex-federal agent Jude Archer, discover a devastating crime scene. Allison Vickery has been murdered, and her teenage…

The Romance Revival

Christina Lauren

Three years ago, Emery Finch did something completely out of character: she got married. To Luca – the impossibly charming landscaper she met on one blistering night in Vegas who made her laugh, made her dance, made her feel. But now, Emery is consumed by her top-secret job, missing dinners,…

Ransom

Daniel Silva

 Alice Winter, one of Britain’s most dazzling socialites, seemingly has the perfect life. But when she disappears without a trace while on holiday, her desperate husband, the real estate baron Edward Knight, turns to Gabriel Allon to find her. He soon discovers that Alice Winter is not the woman she…

Patience

Patience Evans has always been a bit different. She views the world in a unique way because she has a special gift, she is autistic. But her life is about to change forever. Patience works in the Police Criminal Records Office, and Detective Inspector Bea Metcalf notices that Patience makes…

Project Hail Mary

 Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light-years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: to solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must…

Marshals

Kayce Dutton trades Yellowstone Ranch life for a badge, joining an elite U.S. Marshals unit in Montana. Armed with his cowboy grit and Navy SEAL training, Kayce faces cartels, gangs, and violent extremists while balancing family and duty.

Disclosure Day

 If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are coming close to … Disclosure Day.

The Devil Wears Prada 2

As Miranda Priestly nears retirement, she reunites with Andy Sachs and faces off against her former assistant-turned-rival, Emily Charlton.

Delusional

James Patterson

 Detective Michael Bennett and officer Rob Trilling investigate linked crimes spanning New York, a military base, and Montana. As they follow the trail of a group claiming to ‘improve’ society, rising attacks and hidden motives force law enforcement to uncover who’s preparing for violence.

Such Great Heights

Rajani LaRocca

Siya Kumar is done with liars. Part of the reason Siya joins her school’s mock trial team is to honor the memory of her mother, a lawyer who was killed in a car accident when Siya was just ten years old. Her mom always told her that the truth is…

Soulmates

David Wilson

Kit is the golden boy of his small town. Captain of the football team, perfect grades, perfect relationship, perfect everything. But when his childhood best friend, Emma, mysteriously returns to town, Kit’s life is thrown into turmoil. She’s the only one who knows what happened that day he fell at…

See It to Be It : Eleven champions leading women’s sports today

Billie Jean King

Billie Jean King made history in a 1973 tennis match against Bobby Riggs, proving that a woman athlete was as capable, determined, and worth watching as a man. In this book, she highlights trailblazing athletes in women’s sports today who are proving the same thing every time they play.

Salvage

Renée Nault

 In a flooded future where sea levels have risen and the poor survive by scavenging sunken skyscrapers, Paolo scavenges designer clothes and risks everything for a taste of life in the privileged Uplands, igniting a secret romance and double life that force him to confront identity, belonging, and honesty.

The Harrow Home for Wayward Girls

Jessica Spotswood

The Harrow Home for wayward girls has long stood as a place of secrets. The estate has housed hundreds of young women hidden away during their pregnancies, their homesick cries echoing through the halls, providing a haunting score to Grace Harrow’s childhood. Now, in the summer of 1947, the Home…

Frostbite

Ian Boothby

Teen influencers Jen and Dante post wild videos of themselves doing extreme sports. But when they jump out of a helicopter to ski down a mountain, the stunt goes way wrong. Dante’s ankle gets slashed, and the helicopter crew—who were supposed to be waiting at the bottom of the mountain—are…

Death Card

Jasmine Smith

“When eighteen-year-old witch Mikaela pulls the Death card during a tarot reading, she decides to spend more time with her soon-to-be murderer to uncover her motives, only to discover that dark magic is spreading as witches around her begin to lose their powers.

Cursed by the Dawn

Logan Karlie

: After being anointed as Weavers of the Dream Realm, Esmer and Erebus return to the waking world to end the curse plaguing the kingdom once and for all.

Bite Me

Jennifer Dugan

Poe never imagined that during her senior year of high school she would be attacked by a pair of vampires and turned into one herself. And she never dreamed her longtime crush, Jolie — who seemed to maybe actually like Poe back — would turn out to be a slayer.…

The Wild Beneath

Kelly Anderson

Annie MacLeod always knew she was different, growing up on a sailboat in the Pacific Northwest, navigating by stars and swimming with sea creatures alongside her parents and best friend Evan. But when a tsunami shatters her world, Annie is stranded on land and forced to confront how eccentric she…

Under Story

Chloe Benjamin

At an isolated research station in Antarctica, biologist Laurel Salter washes dishes for a living ten hours a day, six days a week. She tells no one why she left her career or why her marriage ended. But even in this remote outpost, Laurel cannot outrun her past. When a…

Time Travel for Beginners

Jaclyn Moriarty

 On a bustling road in Sydney, Australia, lies a nondescript storefront known simply as the Time Travel Agency. At once a confounding mystery and a beacon of hope, the Agency attracts those at a crossroads in their life. Single mother Anna is in desperate need of change, and the Agency…

Taipei Story

R. F. Kuang

College freshman Lily Chen is off to spend the summer in Taipei at an intensive language program, like so many Chinese American students before her, hoping to connect with the culture she inherited but never fully understood. But a promising start quickly unravels. Her classes are grueling, her roommate is…

Sunrise

Téa Obreht

In 2024, Nina’s small-engine plane crashes into a lake in the Wyoming mountains. Her boyfriend Ben, who was flying it, is nowhere to be found. Lost and freezing on the shore, Nina is armed with only a few old protein bars, a phone with no service, and a vague hope…

The Opposite of Murder

Sophie Hannah

The perfect alibi. The perfect motive. The perfect lie? Jemma Stelling walks into a police station and confesses-not to a murder she’s committed but to the one she’s terrified she might. Jemma can’t stop herself from thinking about murdering her stepmother, Marianne Upton. The only way stop herself might be…

The Ladies’ Hall

Vanessa Miller

1880s, Ohio. When Mary and Anna enter the Bachelor of Arts program, also known as the “gentlemen’s course” of study, at Oberlin College, they have little in common other than the color of their skin and their passion for education. While Mary was raised in luxury, attending presidential inaugurations with…

Exhumed : unearthing the history of the American vampire

Aaron Mahnke

From critically acclaimed podcaster and bestselling author Aaron Mahnke comes this engrossing and macabre exploration of the folklore and early medical practices that led to the New England Vampire Panic in the 1890s. What would drive a man to exhume the body of his daughter and remove her heart? That…

Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

Ben Reeves

A short, exquisitely moving novel about finding beauty, hope, and meaning in the brevity of life, as narrated by the one who knows it best: Death. Travis is Death in the modern world. He wears jeans and a T-shirt and lives in a small, grey town. His job is to…

The Disappearers

Marlon James

In 1988, eight men in Kingston, Jamaica, begin rehearsals for a play. Though strangers to one another, they share an inescapable truth: All of them are gay. And they live in a world that refuses to accept them. One night the men are savagely beaten, and one of them is…

The Cure at Walden Pond: a guide to recovering our humanity

Thomas Moore

From the bestselling author of Care of the Soul comes a reflective guide to healing, renewal, and recovering our humanity through the writings and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau. Drawing upon Walden and Thoreau’s journals, Moore explores themes of mindfulness, spirituality, simplicity, nature, memory, and community, encouraging readers to cultivate…

Brimstone Hollow

Archer Sullivan

Following her powerful debut in The Witch’s Orchard, private investigator Annie Gore returns in Brimstone Hollow, bringing readers back to the mountains that author Archer Sullivan, a ninth-generation Appalachian, knows so well. There isn’t much that happens in the Appalachian Mountains that Private Investigator Annie Gore hasn’t seen. Before she…