Here are some of the new books releasing this week!
Books for Kids
Rock-a-Bye, Dino (Board Book) – Rock-a-Bye, Baby with a dinosaur theme.
A Valentine for Uni the Unicorn (Board Book) – Part of the Uni the Unicorn line of stories.
The Galaxy Needs You – A celebration of the reader with art and characters from the Star Wars universe.
Hamster Holmes, A Big-Time Puzzle – Book 6 in the Hamster Holmes series of leveled readers. This time, Hamster Holmes and Dr. Watt participate in a scavenger hunt-like contest with clues to solve.
A Place for Everything (Habit 3) Reader – Part of a line of leveled readers that celebrate the Habits of Happy Kids (Sean Covey).
Books for Older Kids/Teens/Young Adults
The Adventurers Guild: Night of Dangers – Book 3 in the Adventurers Guild series. The Adventurers are their world’s last line of defense against the monsters who would try to destroy everything. And this time, the Dangers are gaining ground. The first book in this series, The Adventurers Guild, is available through the Kindle FreeTime Unlimited subscription. (It’s like Kindle Unlimited, but for books for kids.)
Black Panther: Stormy Weather (Comics Collection/Graphic Novel) – Black Panther and Shuri team up to deal with deadly weather issues in Wakanda.
Disney-Pixar Toy Story 1-4 : The Story of the Movies in Comics – 200 pages of movie adaptations in graphic novel format.
The Art of Spies in Disguise – An Art of book for the movie releasing on Christmas day.
Star Wars: The Galactic Explorers Guide (December 20) – Book plus app gives readers an interactive Star Wars experience.
Books for Adults
Make Your Move (Trade Paperback) – Book 3 in the Gamer Girls series. A game designer struggling to find her next idea lets her friend move in, even though she knows he has a serious crush on her. The roommate situation actually works out fine, but she’s puzzled by her feelings when the guy starts to fall for someone else. This sounds great! Book 1 in the series, She’s Got Game, is available for free to Kindle Unlimited subscribers at the time of this writing.
The Spia Family Avoids the Pits (e-book – December 19) – Book 3 in the Mobsters Anonymous Mystery series. For some reason, this book has disappeared from my research sites, but the author’s site says it is still on schedule, so you may have to do some searching for this one. For sure, you can read the first two books, The Spia Family Presses On AND The Spia Family Branches Out for free if you are a subscriber to Kindle Unlimited. Mia Spia and her mom are trying to keep their former-mob family on the straight and narrow while Mia also works to stay sober, but the mob life tends to throw a wrench into their quest to break free. I have this whole series on my reading wish list.
Star Trek Discovery: Dead Endless (Trade Paperback) – The latest Star Trek Discovery novel focuses on engineer Lieutenant Stamets who is grieving the loss of his partner, Doctor Culber. The description of the book sounds EXACTLY like a plot thread from the last season of the show, but someone on Goodreads assured me that this is original content, not a novelization of the episodes. I guess I’ll find out this week when I read the book. You can read my review of one of the previous novels here.
The Art of Rise of Skywalker (Hardcover – December 20) – Art from the new movie releasing at the end of this week.
The Grace of Les Misérables (Trade Paperback) – A six-week study of the themes from Les Misérables. There’s also a DVD, a leader’s guide and a youth study.
Schooled: A Love Letter to the Exhausting, Infuriating, Occasionally Excruciating Yet Somehow Completely Wonderful Profession of Teaching (Trade Paperback) – A collection of essays from a high school English teacher about the profession of teaching.