How is it that we are already at the end of March?! Here are some of the new books out this week:
Books for Kids
Your Nose! – The latest board book from Sandra Boynton.
Hound Won’t Go (April 1) – In the middle of a walk, in the middle of an intersection, Hound decides he’s done.
Peanut Goes for the Gold – Picture book from Jonathan Van Ness (Queer Eye) about a gender nonbinary guinea pig with flair.
The Princess and the Petri Dish (April 1) – A princess who prefers petri dishes to curtsies gets a bright idea.
Rover Throws a Party: Inspired by NASA’s Curiosity on Mars – A lonely Mars rover plans a birthday party.
Pete the Cat’s Family Road Trip – Pete’s family explores America in this early reader.
Prance Like No One’s Watching: A Guided Journal for Exploding Unicorns – A funny activity book for kids from humor writer James Breakwell.
Books for Older Kids/Teens/Young Adults
Dog Diaries: Mission ImPAWsible – Book 3 in the Dog Diaries series from James Patterson. Junior’s family goes on vacation and leaves him behind where he has his own adventure.
Fins (Sharks Inc.) – Book 1 in the Sharks Incorporated series. Three kids help Doc Ford protect sharks from poachers by tagging them for research. But their work puts them in danger where they will have to learn to work together.
The Great Upending (Older Middle Grade) – A struggling family plays host to a famous writer. While the kids are supposed to leave “The Mister” alone, Sara figures if they steal the ending of his series finale, maybe his publisher will pay them the money she needs for a life saving surgery. I’ve already requested this one at the library!
How to Make Friends with the Sea – A boy living in the Philippines with his zoologist mother has collected a slew of fears and anxieties as they have moved around over the years. When his mother takes in an orphan with a cleft lip, the boy finds that his fears fade when he focuses on helping the girl. I have requested this one, too.
Twilight Hauntings – First in the new Enchanter’s Child series by the author of the Septimus Heap series (Magyk, etc,) A girl with magic powers is betrayed by her foster sister because magic is forbidden. While the girl is able to escape the city, she finds that she is the target of creatures hunting for Enchanters and their children.
What Stars Are Made Of (Older Middle Grade) – A girl makes a bargain with the universe – she will enter a contest and if she wins and gives the money to her pregnant sister and her husband, that means their baby will be born healthy.
Wink – A boy with cancer longs to blend in, but that is no longer an option that is going to work out for him. Illustrated novel based on the author’s life.
We Are the Wildcats – The girls on a field hockey team on the evening before their first game host their usual initiation ceremony, but their coach takes things in a new direction.
Books for Adults
Before I Called You Mine (Trade Paperback) – A first grade teacher committed to international adoption has agreed to stay single through the whole adoption process. But as her match with a child becomes a real possibility, a new man drops unexpectedly into her life and could make her commitment to staying single waver.
Daughter of Cana (Trade Paperback) – Book 1 in the Jerusalem Road series by Angela Hunt. Twins working a wedding in Cana are amazed when a wedding guest turns rainwater into wine. When the brother decides to follow the teacher, his sister teams up with Jesus’ younger brother to trail the group until she can bring her brother home.
Dead in the Doorway (Mass Market Paperback) – Book 2 in the House-Flipper Mystery series. A Nashville house-flipper finds the perfect property for her next project. Too bad there’s that dead body blocking the entrance.
A Fatal Yarn (Mass Market Paperback) – Book 5 in the Knit and Nibble Mystery series. I love these just for the darling covers. I really need to read them soon. Someone is covering trees with yarn to hide the fact that the mayor has marked them for removal. When the mayor is murdered, one of the Knit and Nibble knitters is the prime suspect.
Gone With the Whisker (Mass Market Paperback) – Book 8 in the Bookmobile CAT Mystery series by Laurie Cass, not to be confused with the Bookmobile Mystery series by Nora Page. When Minnie’s visiting niece discovers a body at the Fourth of July fireworks, Minnie realizes it is a bookmobile regular. She and her cat Eddie are on the case!
Lily Barlow: The Mystery in the Mangroves (Trade Paperback) – Book 2 in the Lily Barlow series. Back in Virginia to help her dad after a heart attack (and solve a murder), Lily is wrestling with whether she should stay there when she is drawn into another mystery. After reading the full description of this book, it seems best if readers start with the first book (The Mystery of Jane Dough) to get a handle on all the goings on here!
The Sunday Potluck Club (Trade Paperback) – Book 1 in a new series. A pair of grieving women who connected at an Anchorage hospital cancer ward start meeting on Sundays for a pitch in and inviting other grieving women to join them.
The Traitor’s Pawn (Trade Paperback) – An FBI agent tracking down a person selling government secrets is drawn into a kidnapping case when he realizes he knows the victim.
Colossians: A Biblical Study (Hardcover) – A Bible study by Joyce Meyer.
Midnight Mom Devotional: 365 Prayers to Put Your Momma Heart to Rest (Hardcover) – A devotional for moms. Great gift idea for Mother’s Day.