If I was at Trick-or-Treating age, I think I would skip the candy and ask for books! Here are some treats that might interest you this week:
Books for Kids
Curious George Curious About Winter (Bd Book) – A tabbed board book celebrating winter
Horse Meets Dog – A book about perspective from one of the writers of The Daily Show. I can’t wait to read this one!
Teach Your Giraffe to Ski (November 1) – The giraffe wants to learn to ski, but not on the Bunny Hill. A book about courage. This looks fun!
Mount Rushmore’s Hidden Room and Other Monumental Secrets (Secrets of American History) – I adore this fascinating history series of Early Readers.
Unikitty’s Guide to Being Happy – Princess Unikitty from The LEGO Movie has her own show and toy line now, so it’s also time for her to share her tips for overcoming negativity and the forces of evil!
Escape from Egypt – Book 2 in the Time Jumpers series from Branches. This series has a Magic Tree House feel to it.
Louie – Puppy Place Book 51
Books for Older Kids/Teens/Young Adults
Blended – A girl feels pulled between two worlds as she negotiates life with divorced parents and their new families. There’s a racial piece to this as well as one parent is Black and the other is White. I have this one on my list – it sounds like a great exploration of identity which is a theme I love.
Let Sleeping Dragons Lie – Have Sword Will Travel Book 2 . Two knights and their talking swords are off on another epic adventure. I have book one on my library list.
The Meltdown – Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 13
Seeing Red – Whatever After Book 12
What Goes Up – Robyn’s roof seems to be a magnet for anything and everything – paper airplanes, lost socks, a skydiver. And now a NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky, and Robyn is convinced it will land on her house. She’s afraid that people will then read about her and find out she shares the name of a fairy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. So Robyn decides what she needs is her absent father to come home, change her name and save her from the satellite. This sounds complicated and intriguing.
The Darkest Star – First in a new romantic YA science fiction series about a girl caught up in a world at war with aliens. I’ll be giving this one a try!
OtherEarth – Book 2 in the Last Reality series after OtherWorld about a deadly virtual reality system and two kids trying to save the world. I haven’t tried the first one yet, but fans of Ready Player One might enjoy this one.
You Are the Everything – A girl and her crush are the sole survivors of a plane crash on the side of a mountain.
Lego Micro Cities: Build Your Own Mini Metropolis – Another LEGO building book with instructions for creating the models pictured throughout the book.
Books for Adults
The Corner of Holly and Ivy (Mass Market Paperback) – A woman who has lost her dream comes face to face with her old flame. But instead of love, he’s in town to run for mayor – against her. This is on my Christmas book reading list.
Deadly News (Trade paperback) – In her new job at a small town news paper a woman stumbles across the body of a co-worker. First in the new Britton Bay Mystery series. I’ll be reviewing this one here next week.
Killed on Blueberry Hill (Mass Market Paperback) – Book 3 in the Berry Basket Mystery series. This time the main character’s fiancé is accused of murder. I have the first book in this series on my TBR shelves.
Murder by the Book (Mass Market Paperback) – First in the new Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery series. A woman haunted by the unsolved murder of her fiancé and the death of her father starts a new life thanks to an inheritance. But her new community is suddenly a hotbed of crime. This sounds like a great new series. I’ll be picking this one up!
Murder in Her Stocking (Hardcover) – First in the new Granny Reid Mystery series, a spin off of G. A. McKevett’s Savannah Reid/Moonlight Magnolia series. This one goes back to when Savannah was a kid and Granny looked into a murder at Christmas time. I adore the Moonlight Magnolia series – the characters are fantastic. I’ve already requested this one from the library!
Overkilt (Hardcover) – Book 12 in the Liss MacCrimmon Mystery series. When a struggling hotel decides to host a Thanksgiving holiday getaway for childless couples looking to avoid family entanglements, some of the locals take issue with this “affront to family values.” And someone winds up dead. This is not a series I have read, but this particular story sounds really interesting! I’ll have to check this one out.
Purls and Poison (Hardcover) – Book 2 in the Black Sheep and Co. Mystery series. This time the Black Sheep Knitters start sleuthing when one of their own is suspected of murder. I have book one of this series on my wish list.
Thread Herrings (Mass Market Paperback) – Book 7 in the Mainely Needlepoint Mystery series. An old embroidery of a coat of arms picked up at an auction is at the center of a 250+ year old mystery and a contemporary murder. This sounds terrific! I would read this one even without having read the other books in the series.
Yule Log Murder (Hardcover) – A collection of three holiday mysteries.
Star Wars Women of the Galaxy (Hardcover) – Profiles of 75 female characters from the Star Wars universe (film, fiction, comics, etc.). Includes art by Karen Hallion, one of our favorite artists.
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (Hardcover) – Essay collection about Black women finding themselves through literature.