Here are some of the new books releasing this week! [Due to supply chain issues, release dates are subject to change. It’s happening so much right now, I don’t have time to reset all the books to their new dates. I’ll note the change when I see them. The bottom line is, order your holiday books early!]
Books for Kids
Planting Friendship: Peace, Salaam, Shalom – Three girls from different faith traditions learn about one another during a class planting project. This looks lovely.
I Am Oprah Winfrey – The latest picture book biography in the Ordinary People Change the World series.
Good Dog: Life Is Good – Book 6 in the series sees Bo experiencing his first snowfall.
Sophie Mouse: The Hidden Cottage – Book 18 in the sweet Adventures of Sophie Mouse early chapter book series. Sophie and her friends find a darling cottage that seems to be abandoned.
Books for Older Kids/Teens/Young Adults
A Batch Made in Heaven – Mina is supposed to be starting a mentorship at the local bakery, but the son of the owner won’t let her in the kitchen.
Dust & Grim – Orphaned siblings raised apart try to figure out how to manage the family business – a monster mortuary.
Keeping It Real (Older Middle Grade) – A girl in a special fashion training program discovers some family secrets when she looks for the reason for another participant’s hostility toward her.
A Kind of Spark – A neuro-divergent girl looks for ways to honor the other “different” women her town used to burn as witches.
The Shattered Castle – Book 5 in the Ascendance series by Jennifer A. Nielsen that started with the stellar The False Prince. The king keeps a secret he hopes will help him hold his kingdom, but nothing for him has ever gone easily.
The Unfinished Corner (Graphic Novel) – A girl preparing for her Bat Mitzvah while questioning if she even wants to be Jewish is whisked away to the Unfinished Corner, a place in Jewish mythology where monsters dwell.
Bad Girls Never Say Die – A new novel from Jennifer Mathieu, the author of the outstanding Moxie – this one a gender-flipped version of The Outsiders. I am intrigued by this!
City of Shattered Light – An heiress and an outlaw will have to decide if they are better off teaming up or going their own way when the things most precious to them are threatened. I love the sci-fi angle of this one.
Little Thieves – A maid who magically takes the place of a palace princess is cursed for her greed and left to scrape together a solution in two weeks time before she loses everything. Yes, please!
Out of the Fire – A girl taunted by the man who once kidnapped her teams up with other girls searching for vengeance, but she unearths some unexpected secrets along the way.
Books for Adults
Best in Snow (Hardcover) – Book 24 in the fun Andy Carpenter mystery series. You can read my full review of this one here.
A Christmas Courtship (Trade Paperback) – Book 3 in the Berlin Bookmobile series. The bookmobile librarian recommends reading romance novels to a man looking for advice for wooing his long-time crush.
Dear Santa (Hardcover) – A young woman trying to recover from a devastating betrayal tries writing a letter to Santa to lift her holiday spirits.
Jackets, Jack-O-Lantern & Justice (e-book, October 21) – Book 22 in the Camper & Criminals mystery series.
Mulled to Death (Mass Market Paperback) – Book 3 in the Colorado Wine Mystery series. A romantic getaway turns dangerous when a resort owner is killed and Parker experiences some mysterious “accidents.”
The Night of Many Endings (Trade Paperback) – An eclectic group takes shelter in the local library during a snowstorm and discovers more about themselves, and each other, than any of them expected.
The Twelve Jays of Christmas (Hardcover) – Book 30 in one of my favorite mystery series! Meg has her hands full when an artist working in their home is killed in the midst of a blizzard and her brother’s wedding preparations.
Well Matched (Trade Paperback) – Book 3 in this Renaissance Faire series. April agrees to be Mitch’s fake girlfriend for a family dinner, but their fake relationship will have to continue when his family later comes to the Faire. Between the fact that I love these two characters and I am a sucker for a fake relationship story, this one is definitely on my list for this week!
Forty Days on Being an Eight (Hardcover, nonfiction) – The latest in this devotional series edited by Suzanne Stabile. Looks like the print version of this has been pushed back to November 23rd.