Set off on an adventure to new worlds this week! This selection of new science fiction and fantasy books will surely please! Science Fiction fans should be excited about the latest from bestselling authors Joseph Keithson, Q.K. Petty, T. Kingfisher, and more. If Fantasy is what your library needs, you’ll be able to pick up the latest from Jennifer Estep, Alex Rose Decker, Vanessa Nelson, and more. Enjoy your new science fiction and fantasy books. Happy reading!
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New Young Adult Books to Read | August 26
Are you an avid reader of Young Adult books? This week you are in luck! With all of these new novels, you’re bound to find a new favorite book to add to your reading list. This week includes new novels from bestselling authors Terra Nova, Michael Felty, Nicole Muller, and more. Enjoy your new young adult books. Happy reading!
New Biography and Memoir Books to Read | August 26
Looking for some new biography and memoir books for your library? There are so many new releases this week that you’re bound to find a new favorite. You can pick up new books from Sandra Tow, Ken Young, Mary Alice Stephens, and more. Enjoy your new biography and memoir books. Happy reading!
New Business and Finance Books to Read | August 26
Looking for some new business and finance books for your library? There are so many new releases this week that you’re bound to find a new favorite. You can pick up new books from Alex Sterling, Alex Hormozi, Amit Chitre, and more. Enjoy your new business and finance books. Happy reading!
Portals & Paradoxes: Must-Read Fantasy and Sci-Fi Books
Portals & Paradoxes: Must-Read Fantasy and Sci-Fi Books
Step through doors you never knew existed. Some of these books take you to parallel universes, others to magical realms or futures where reality itself bends under the weight of invention. Packed with mystery, danger, and the exhilaration of discovery, these are the kinds of stories that leave you wondering what’s waiting just beyond the edge of the known.
A Tiny Tremor (Tales Of Reverba: The Story of Earth Book 1)
by Jordan Spicer
Release Date: August 12, 2025
Survive. Find Ana. Nothing else matters. The Train that froze Tonga ripped the last evacuation plane from the sky, hurling Kuipi Reverba to the ground. She’s alone and injured, but alive. As long as she can move, and as long as she has earth magic, neither civil war nor a god will stop her. She will split the very earth if that’s what it takes. Join the search.
The Traveling Cane & The Art of Gratitude
by Lala Corriere
Release Date: July 22, 2025
In my final chapters, I help four souls face their physical pain, fears, and truths: Piper’s inner anger, Alex’s dangerous past threatening his family, a grateful man’s final mission, and Oscar’s fight for peace in a hostile new town—I offer healing and hope. As I say goodbye, keep me close. I’ll live on in your heart. I’ll be right there!
Neural Bounty (Wild Frontier Chronicles Book 2)
by Daniel P. Douglas
Release Date: August 11, 2025
Bounty hunter Kassidy Reyez tracks stolen neural tech across the wild frontier. Each step stirs buried memories of white rooms and screaming subjects. Now trapped between a Stygian Duster who knows her identity and the monsters who made her forget, Kassidy must decide: stay hidden in the shadows or confront why her mother’s last words were, “Run!”
The Nightmare Queen (The King and The Assassin Book 3)
by Anastasis Blythe
Release Date: August 18, 2025
I will become an assassin, queen, and monster to reclaim what is mine. In the wake of the Neverseen King’s capture and my escape from the Wolf’s clutches, I venture into the depths of the Fae realm, armed with little but my own gritty determination to take back my husband and throne. The clock is ticking, the destruction of Lulythinar drawing ever nearer, threatening to take what little I have left in this world. Enemies surround me on every side, but I will not let them win. Even if it costs me my very life.
Touch of Oblivion (Woven in Time Book 1)
by R.L. Caulder
Release Date: July 31, 2025
I wasn’t created to love, only to destroy…but fate doesn’t ask permission. I wake to a world in chaos, the taste of stardust on my tongue, and fragments of galaxies burning behind my eyes. No name. No past. No idea how I came to be here. In the ruins of a shattered battlefield, four kings of this new world find me abandoned and alone. Each of them is desperate to decipher who I am and why I’ve been thrust into their war. They claim they have the power to protect me and help me discover who I am.
Crown of the Dunes (The Ballan Desert Book 2)
by S.C. Grayson
Release Date: August 19, 2025
War brought them together. Forging peace could tear them apart. Back in Kelvadan after narrowly escaping death, former exile Keera is now hailed as a hero for protecting the Great City against the lord of the clans. Forced to lie low as her injuries heal, she discovers the city’s position is more precarious than ever. Now, she faces an impossible choice: betray the city that offered her a home, or be the Champion Kelvadan needs. Worst of all, the enemy forces are led by the man to whom she has given her heart.
Stars and Shadows: 6 Young Adult Stories That Shine Bright
Stars and Shadows: 6 Young Adult Stories That Shine Bright
In galaxies far away and in hallways close to home, these YA novels balance dreams with struggles, showing the brilliance of youth in every setting.
Multiverse Mayhem (Magic Mystery and the Multiverse Book 3)
by Aurora M. Winter
Release Date: August 7, 2025
New YA Fantasy. "A fast-paced thrill ride of surprising twists, vivid world-building, and a strong female protagonist—a gripping multiverse adventure." – Readers' Choice Winner. "Wild, witty, and wisdom-packed whirlwind of an adventure that bends time, space, and the heart. Aurora Winter masterfully weaves metaphysics with mischief." – K. Walden.
High-Gold Girl
by Dachota Thebo
Release Date: August 9, 2025
High-Gold Girl is a powerful, fictionalized story inspired by true events - a mother-daughter journey through the glittering world of competitive dance, where favoritism, exclusion, and silent battles simmer beneath rhinestones and perfect pirouettes. Corrin just wanted a place where her daughter Sophie could shine. But when talent isn’t enough to break through a toxic system, how far will one mother go to reclaim her child’s joy?
A Heavy Hammer (Battle for Leiria Book 3)
by Jill M. Beene
Release Date: August 1, 2025
A healer surrounded by enemies… Reva never imagined she’d find herself in such a deadly position. In the King’s war camp, every set of eyes she meets belongs to an enemy. But as the war begins, keeping her identity hidden becomes the least of her worries…
A Hard Landing (The System Integration Chronicles Book 2)
by Drew McGunn
Release Date: August 21, 2025
Caden Taylor turned a wrecked neighborhood into a thriving settlement. Unlocked powerful classes. Even dropped a world boss that should've killed them all. Peace lasted exactly fifteen days. Now the Black Baron is coming—and he doesn't just conquer territories. He breaks them. Village by village, he's building an army from the ashes of resistance, twisting the System's own rules to forge broken refugees into loyal soldiers through pure, calculated terror.
Variant (The Restoration Project Book 2)
by Clive Stephens
Release Date: July 29, 2025
How far would you go to undo a mistake? Jason and Sally have pressed through unexpected worlds to seek respite back in their own. But they soon discover that home is farther away than they imagined. With a sinister new player having joined the board, in control of an organisation that has changed the rules, Jason and Sally realise that the only way to save their friend is to undo the past.
Revert (The Royal Chronicles Book 4)
by Camille Peters
Release Date: August 9, 2025
After her important mission goes terribly wrong, Princess Bernice finds herself killed. Yet rather than die as she expected, she somehow wakes up several months in the past, retaining all her memories of the events leading to her demise. As she carefully navigates her second chance and the secrets filling the formidable Thorndale court, she finds herself forced to get closer to the one man she despises—her fiancé, Crown Prince Castiel of Thorndale…the very man who murdered her.
The Long Road Home: Biographies & Memoirs That Tell the Whole Story
The Long Road Home: Biographies & Memoirs That Tell the Whole Story
More than accomplishments, these biographies uncover the desires, doubts, and defining choices of their subjects, showing history through flesh as much as fact.
Suck Less, Laugh More
by Brian Gray
Release Date: June 3, 2025
Written by a father, for fathers, Suck Less, Laugh More is a playbook for unlocking your full potential as a father, a man, and a leader in your own life. Because fatherhood isn’t just about your kids. It’s about the man you’re becoming.
Impressionable
by Hellary Nicole and Helary Escobar
Release Date: August 6, 2025
Helen always thought love meant sacrifice. That being “good” meant being quiet. That enduring pain was just part of belonging. But after years of bending herself into someone else’s idea of worthiness, she’s left asking the question she was never allowed to voice: Who am I, when I’m no longer trying to be who they need?
Back When Consequences Weren't Optional
by Matt Harr
Release Date: August 1, 2025
From dusty backyards to championship sidelines, Matt Harr spent 35 years coaching, teaching, and parenting across four generations of kids—watching toughness, grit, and resilience slowly give way to comfort, convenience, and complaint emails. This brutally honest and often hilarious memoir takes readers on a journey through the good, the bad, and the unprintable moments of youth sports and growing up in a time when kids solved problems with scraped knees and pickup games, not participation trophies.
The Novel of Maralyn and Maurice Bailey
by Donna E. Teller
Release Date: August 11, 2025
The ocean can be breathtaking… but it can also be merciless. For Maralyn and Maurice Bailey, what began as a dream voyage turned into an extraordinary fight for survival — a true story that will leave you breathless and inspired. They set sail across the vast Pacific, expecting days filled with freedom and wonder. Instead, an unexpected disaster left them stranded in the middle of nowhere, far from any hope of rescue. With only a small liferaft, scarce supplies, and each other, they faced the unthinkable: days turning into weeks, surrounded only by endless water and the will to live.
After The Flame
by Abbey Alexander
Release Date: August 14, 2025
At just eighteen years old, Abbey was riding a moped with her best friend through the streets of Cambodia when the world exploded. In an instant, she was on fire. Burned over 30 percent of her body and stranded thousands of miles from home, she was thrown into a medical nightmare: makeshift clinics, language barriers, embassy red tape, and the long, excruciating wait for a medevac team to get her out alive.
Walked with Empty Pockets, Returned with a Full Soul
by Dr Ashish Alok
Release Date: August 7, 2025
Walked with Empty Pockets, Returned with a Full Soul is not a travelogue—it is a journey of the soul wrapped in the realities of everyday life. It speaks to all those in the working years of their lives who are juggling careers, families, failures, pressures, and silent prayers. For everyone who is trying to move forward but keeps feeling stuck, this book is a quiet companion and a spiritual mirror.
Threads of Truth: Literary Fiction Must-Reads
Threads of Truth: Literary Fiction Must-Reads
Every life is woven from hidden truths. These books unravel love, betrayal, and redemption in prose that lingers. A journey into the beauty and pain of being human.
The Gray Between Us
by L. Nora
Release Date: July 20, 2025
When Jade's baby is born with unexpected features, secrets buried deep within her family's past come to light. As her world unravels, she must confront love, identity, and truth to protect the future. A moving tale of legacy, self-discovery, and generational healing.
The Echo Chamber (Blackwell Book 2)
by Livia Huntingdon-Jones
Release Date: July 23, 2025
An echo trapped in silicon.
One Last Verse
by Ashley Broussard
Release Date: July 31, 2025
Some songs haunt you. This one rewrites you. Harper Guidry doesn’t chase chaos—but she’s drawn to it, especially when it sings in Southern chords and wears a crooked smile. A food stylist trying to hold her life together, Harper crosses paths with Mason Rudd, an almost-famous musician with a rust-washed voice and a thousand quiet detonations buried in his past.
The Old Man by the Sea
by Domenico Starnone
Release Date: August 19, 2025
Domenico Starnone’s The Old Man by the Sea is a slim masterpiece of a novel about an 82-year-old Neapolitan man, Nicola, who has spent his entire life telling stories, becoming very, very good at it. In words, with his pen, in the notebook he carries with him everywhere, he records life’s minutiae, its ephemera, those vibrating essences and almost imperceptible atoms of existence that most of us barely notice but that constitute the very stuff of life.
Atomic Hearts
by Megan Cummins
Release Date: August 5, 2025
Sixteen and living in a small Michigan town, Gertie is harboring a secret heavy enough to fracture her closest friendship. She and Cindy have been bonded since birth by the fact that their fathers are addicts, and their unsteady home lives are a little easier when they’re together, sprawled on a trampoline with pilfered vodka and dreams of moving to New York.
Everyone Deserves a Home
by Baer Charlton
Release Date: August 1, 2025
1905, New Orleans. Dr. Walter Humphrey, a man of mixed race, must keep the dangerous secret of passing for white to survive. Alongside his lifelong companion Leatha and a young woman named Betsy, they form an unconventional household, where they raise their brilliant daughter, Hannah Maria Rose Murphy.
Love Off Script: 6 Romances That Surprise the Heart
Love Off Script: 6 Romances That Surprise the Heart
Forget clichés, these stories rewrite the rules of love. With unexpected heroes, bold heroines, and twists you won’t see coming, each book proves romance thrives in the unpredictable. Love, after all, is the best plot twist.
Trapped with the Billionaire Grump (Billionaire Bosses Book 2)
by Anita Shaw
Release Date: August 19, 2025
She’s the PR genius from Queens who fights for everything. Her empire is under attack. To save it, she must trust the one man she can’t afford to want: her billionaire grump of a boss. He’s determined to control her. She’s determined to win. But in a game of secrets and sabotage, falling for the enemy is the one risk she can't calculate.
Shaman
by Tam DeRudder Jackson
Release Date: August 12, 2025
Two people are brought together by a force they never saw coming. A celestial storm is brewing, one that will require a druid and a rogue warrior to decide what truly matters—their beliefs about each other or the truth that will set their love free.
Falling for the Grumpy Orc (Monsters of Saltford Bay Book 1)
by Mary Auclair
Release Date: August 17, 2025
Cassidy’s fresh start comes with a rundown lodge, a tight budget, and a six-foot-five grumpy orc contractor. Gerralt Banesman doesn’t do city girls—or distractions. They’re opposites in every way, but the more they butt heads, the harder it is to ignore the heat crackling between them.
The Moments You Were Mine
by LJ Evans
Release Date: August 13, 2025
When the woman I have spent my entire life protecting is threatened, I’ll do anything to keep her safe, even break the vows I made to never make her mine. She’s the only promise that matters now. A Hatley Family spin-off.
Offside and Off-Limits
by Kate O'Keeffe
Release Date: August 20, 2025
Working as the social media manager for a pro hockey team is all fun and games—until you trip into the arms of their biggest flirt during a livestream. Now the fans are shipping us, my boss is thrilled with the engagement, and I’m stuck dodging feelings for Cade Lennox, aka the certified charmer. The problem? My contract says he’s off-limits. My heart, unfortunately, didn’t get the memo.
Where Are You Now
by Jenny Hale
Release Date: August 5, 2025
Ava St. John is on her way to a client meeting when her car is hit from behind, landing her in the hospital. While she’s unconscious, a booming voice offers her two options: “Find Lucas Phillips and live out the rest of your life, or pass on peacefully—which will it be?”
Shadows in the Frame: 6 Mysteries and Thrillers Hitchcock Would Approve
Shadows in the Frame: 6 Mysteries and Thrillers Hitchcock Would Approve
Step into stories where the ordinary tilts into the terrifying. These thrillers echo genius—hidden motives, sharp suspense, and a slow burn that snaps into shock. You’ll find yourself holding your breath at every turn.
Deadly Village (Deadly Series Book 13)
by Kate Parker
Release Date: August 19, 2025
Olivia Redmond fled bombed-out London with her baby, seeking safety in a Cotswold village. But when a middle-aged gossip is found murdered, she is pressed into assisting the police. As an outsider, no one trusts her with their secrets.
Five Found Dead
by Sulari Gentill
Release Date: August 19, 2025
Crime fiction author Joe Penvale has won the most brutal battle of his life. Now that he has finished his intense medical treatment, he and his twin sister, Meredith, are boarding the glorious Orient Express in Paris, hoping for some much-needed rest and rejuvenation. Meredith also hopes that the literary ghosts on the train will nudge Joe's muse awake, and he'll be inspired to write again. And he is; after their first evening spent getting to know some of their fellow travelers, Joe pulls out his laptop and opens a new document. Seems like this trip is just what the doctor ordered…
The Man Who Died Seven Times
by Yasuhiko Nishizawa
Release Date: July 29, 2025
Contemporary Japanese legend Yasuhiko Nishizawa makes his English-language debut with this slick, funny murder mystery, which adds a sci-fi twist to an age-old setup: a murder in a wealthy family with an inheritance at stake. Hisataro, a young member of the wealthy Fuchigami family, has a mysterious ability. Every now and then, against his will, he falls into a time loop in which he is obliged to re-live the same day a total of 9 times. Little does he know how useful this ability will be, until one day, his grandfather mysteriously dies...
The Tesla Formula (A Tom Wagner Adventure Book 12)
by M.C. Roberts and R.F. Maclay
Release Date: August 17, 2025
An ancient secret. An old enemy. The end of humanity. When clues emerge that a devastating tsunami off the coast of Cuba was artificially triggered, and rumors intensify that an invention by Nikola Tesla might be connected to it, Tom, Hellen, and Cloutard are called upon for help by Dr. Phoebe Cross, President of the Tesla Institute.
The Assignment
by Craig Mueller
Release Date: August 16, 2025
Gus Meier came to Atlanta for a normal life—to study engineering at Georgia Tech, then return to Switzerland. But on the morning after his graduation, his grandfather revealed "The Assignment"—a clandestine family project rooted in research stolen from Nazi Germany, kept in Atlanta. For eight years now, Gus has worked in secret at the Atlanta Technology and Research Institute, where America's brightest minds conduct research the government can't officially acknowledge, decoding cryptic notes about electrical frequencies and cancer-fighting enzymes. He's done the impossible: created a device that can stop cancer without drugs, surgery, or radiation.
Wounds
by Sara Blaedel & Mads Peder Nordbo
Release Date: August 12, 2025
When a body is discovered in an abandoned building, Denmark police investigators Liam Stark and Dea Torp are called to the scene to investigate. They learn that the victim has several shallow wounds all over his body that were inflicted over the span of several weeks.
























































