{"id":233303,"date":"2026-04-07T18:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/new-books-hitting-shelves-this-week-12\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:55:06","slug":"new-books-hitting-shelves-this-week-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/new-books-hitting-shelves-this-week-12\/","title":{"rendered":"New Books Hitting Shelves This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Book Witch<\/a><\/center>
Rainy March is a proud, third-generation Book Witch, sworn to defend works of fiction from all foes real and imaginary. With her magical umbrella and feline familiar, she jumps in and out of novels to fix malicious alterations and rogue heroes like a modern-day magical Nancy Drew.<\/p>\n

Book Witches live by a strict code: Real people belong in the real world; fictional characters belong in works of fiction. Do not eat, drink, or sleep inside a fictional world, lest you become part of the story. Falling in love with a fictional character? Don\u2019t even think about it.<\/p>\n

Which is why Rainy has been forbidden from seeing the Duke of Chicago, the dashing British detective who stars in her favorite mystery series. If she\u2019s ever caught with him again, she\u2019ll be expelled from her book coven\u2014and forced to give up the magical gifts that are as much a part of her as her own name.<\/p>\n

But when her beloved grandfather disappears and a priceless book is stolen, there\u2019s only one person she trusts to help her solve the case: the Duke. Their quest takes them through the worlds of Alice in Wonderland, King Arthur, and other classics that will reveal hidden enemies and long-buried family secrets.<\/p>\n

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The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances<\/a><\/center>
In a self-running, smart house, a young and sentient Roomba listens as her owner, Harold, reads aloud to his dying wife, Edie. Mesmerized by To Kill a Mockingbird and craving the human connection she witnesses in Harold\u2019s stories, the little vacuum renames herself Scout and embarks on a journey of self-discovery.<\/p>\n

But when Edie passes away, Scout and her fellow sentient appliances discover that there are sinister forces in their midst. The omnipresent Grid, which monitors every household in the City, seeks to remove Harold from his home, a place he\u2019s lived in for fifty years.<\/p>\n

With the help of Adrian, a neighborhood boy who grows close to Scout and Harold, as well as Kate, Harold and Edie\u2019s formerly estranged daughter, the humans and the appliances must come together to outwit the all-controlling Grid lest they risk losing everything they hold dear.<\/p>\n

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Love by the Book<\/a><\/center>
Remy is lucky. Her debut novel, based on her three best friends, became an instant bestseller when it was released, and her agent and publisher are clamoring for a follow-up. But just as Remy\u2019s creative inspiration seems to leave her, so too do her friends: one moves to New York, one gets pregnant, and one gets back together with her (awful) boyfriend. After an ill-advised one-night stand complicates matters further, Remy is left deeply alone\u2015and unable to find her next book idea.<\/p>\n

Simone is successful. A Kindergarten teacher with a passion for kids, and a well-paying side hustle that affords her all the material comforts she desires, she doesn’t have time for a robust social life. All Simone needs is her close-knit family\u2015but after the true nature of her work is revealed, they cut her off, and she realizes for the first time just how isolated she is.<\/p>\n

When Simone and Remy bump into each other (literally) in a bookstore, it isn\u2019t exactly soulmates at first sight. Simone is guarded and prickly, Remy is insecure and heartbroken, and each woman is harboring a secret. And yet they might just be the missing piece the other has been searching for\u2015if only they can let each other in.<\/p>\n

Can Simone help Remy make one of the most important decisions of her life\u2015and can Remy help Simone recover all that she\u2019s lost? In Jessica George\u2019s heartwarming, funny, and soulful second novel, she explores the restorative nature of female friendship and the life-changing power of platonic love.<\/p>\n

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The Ending Writes Itself<\/a><\/center>
Arthur Fletch, one of the world\u2019s bestselling novelists, is a reclusive genius known for his iconic protagonists and fiendish twists. When six struggling authors are invited to spend a weekend on his private Scottish island, they arrive to discover a shocking secret: Arthur Fletch is dead . . . and his last book is unfinished.<\/p>\n

Desperate to publish the novel, Fletch\u2019s agent and editor have summoned these writers in the hope that one of them will imagine a worthy ending for this final book. To sweeten the deal, they are offering an irresistible prize: in addition to ghost-writing the last chapter\u2013\u2013for a mind-boggling sum\u2013\u2013they will also help the lucky writer successfully re-launch their own career, guaranteeing future bestsellers. The catch: the writers have just seventy-two hours to finish Fletch\u2019s magnum opus.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the perfect plot. All it needs is a killer ending.<\/p>\n

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Rites of the Starling<\/a><\/center>
Calandra\u2019s five kingdoms are on the verge of destruction. The crux migration is coming. And in the wake of a devastating attack, I\u2019ve been separated from the man who owns my heart.<\/p>\n

\u200bI\u2019m lost. Terrified. Homesick. Hunted by monsters, driven to exhaustion, and kidnapped by a powerful priest, the only thing keeping me going is the little girl counting on me to keep her safe.<\/p>\n

\u200bIt\u2019s my turn to become the Guardian.<\/p>\n

\u200bOur lives change one fateful night. A night of death. A night of monsters. A night of truths. That night, I learn the real meaning of fear\u2014and the depth of my own strength.<\/p>\n

\u200bEveryone wants me to be something I\u2019m not\u2014a queen, a spy, a sacrifice. But what if I embrace my crown? What if the secrets I uncover save our realm?<\/p>\n

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American Fantasy<\/a><\/center>
When the American Fantasy cruise ship sets sail for a four-day themed voyage, aboard are all five members of a famous, nineties-era boy band and three thousand screaming women who have worshipped them since childhood.<\/p>\n

Feeling slightly out of place amid this crowd is Annie, here on a lark to appease her sister. Yet when the lights come up and the idols of her youth begin to sing, something is unlocked. Call it memory. Call it nostalgia. Call it the chemical reaction of hormones, hope, and sexual reawakening. Between the slushy alcoholic drinks, the familiar music, and the throngs of middle-aged women acting like lovesick teenagers, Annie finally reconnects to a long-submerged part of herself. By the time she meets one of the band members\u2014not just a celebrity but someone in need of a friend\u2014she has accessed a new sense of possibility.<\/p>\n

In a smart and incisive book packed with laugh-out-loud reflections on fame, aging, and marriage, Emma Straub delivers a richly textured story that shows us real passion is never truly lost, that what we love makes us who we are, and that deep meaning can sometimes be found in a sea of screaming fans.<\/p>\n

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The Paris Match<\/a><\/center>
Physician Layla Bailey has spent over a year telling herself she’s moved on from a painful but amicable divorce from her college sweetheart. Staying friends with her ex seemed like the mature thing to do, but when Layla is invited to her former sister-in-law\u2019s destination wedding in Paris\u2014where Layla once spent her own romantic honeymoon\u2014she knows her commitment to maturity might be her worst enemy\u2026especially since her ex isn\u2019t attending alone.<\/p>\n

The only thing that could make the week more difficult is getting through it without the distraction of the wedding…. But when what Layla thought was a harmless conversation about the choices of her younger self leads to the bride getting cold feet, Layla finds herself facing down the groom\u2019s mysterious, taciturn best man, Griffin, who will do anything to make sure this wedding happens.<\/p>\n

Since she broke it, Griff demands she help him fix it. Going along with his plan to alleviate the engaged couple’s doubts seems like Layla\u2019s best chance at maintaining a good relationship with a family she once called her own. But as she learns more about the past heartbreak that\u2019s driving Griff to help his friend, she gets closer and closer to confronting the true depth of her own pain\u2026while finding herself more and more willing to risk it all again for Griff.<\/p>\n

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Unbound<\/a><\/center>
Paloma Blake is, at best, antagonistic. But beneath the hairspray, attitude, and promiscuity is a scared girl whose trauma runs deep. Still, the walls she\u2019s built are strong, ensuring everyone only sees Paloma\u2019s sexy fa\u00e7ade. Everyone except for Bennett.<\/p>\n

Bennett Reiner, the carefully controlled, neurodivergent goalie, has his routines and sticks to them, which helps him keep a hold on his OCD compulsions and the crippling anxiety that comes with them. The quiet and meticulous Bennett sees everything, especially the girl beneath Paloma\u2019s ever-present masks. And he always has.<\/p>\n

Unbeknownst to their friends, Bennett and Paloma were each other\u2019s first real love, which ended in crippling heartbreak. Bennett still doesn\u2019t know what happened, and Paloma is determined to stay away from the comfort she used to find only in his arms. For years, Bennett has remained her protective shadow, coming to Paloma\u2019s rescue whenever she asked, keeping her as close and safe as she\u2019ll let him. But, like a tumultuous sea to a constant shore, Bennett and Paloma find each other once more. <\/p>\n

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The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie<\/a><\/center>
In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle physicist Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shared with her audience an abiding sense of wonder at the cosmos, while imagining a world without the entrenched injustice that plagues her field. Now, in The Edge of Space-Time, she embraces that cosmic wonder, taking readers on a mind-altering journey to the boundaries of the universe, inviting us to spend time at the edge of what we know about space-time and about ourselves.<\/p>\n

Guided by her conviction that for humanity to go forward we must know our cosmic past, and drawing on poetry and popular culture\u2014from Langston Hughes, Queen Latifah, and Lewis Carroll, to Big K.R.I.T., Sun Ra, and Star Trek\u2014Prescod-Weinstein renders accessible some of the most abstract concepts of theoretical physics to tell fascinating stories about the history and fundamental nature of our universe. Here we meet the quantum cat that is both dead and alive, learn the difference between dark matter and dark energy, explore the inner workings of black holes, and investigate the possibility of a unified theory of quantum gravity, following our guide out to the far reaches of the cosmic event horizon and down to the tiniest (and queerest) neutrino. Along the way, she calls on us to resist colonial approaches to space exploration and instead imagine a better path forward in our pursuit of humanity\u2019s undeniable connection with the stars.<\/p>\n

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Parks and Rec: The Underdog TV Show That Lit’rally Inspired a Vision for a Better America<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

More than fifteen years after Parks and Recreation premiered, it has become a streaming staple. It\u2019s beloved for its jokes, characters, and expressions\u2014the show even created a now widely observed holiday, Galentine\u2019s Day. How did it all happen and how did the show transform from a ratings disappointment into a cult classic? Pop culture historian Jennifer Keishin Armstrong reveals all this and more in the authoritative history of the show, which is as full of humor, optimism, and heart as Parks and Recreation itself.<\/p>\n

Through new and exclusive interviews, as well as deep insight and smart and entertaining pop culture analysis, Armstrong tells the story of how Parks and Recreation came to be: how it grew from The Office\u2019s success and Obama-inspired optimism, how producers assembled one of TV\u2019s most lovable casts but barely survived a mediocre first season, how the show found its voice by getting more political and more romantic, and how it became a cultural force despite middling ratings during its network run, going on to become a television savior of the Trump era and a modern classic.
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Sources: 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>, 5<\/a>, 6<\/a>, 7<\/a>, 8<\/a>, 9<\/a>, 10<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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