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Happy New Year!!
Get your fuzzy blanket and your mug of cocoa ready for a great month of reading! You'll find lots of information in this email about author events, spring book club selections, and titles releasing this month.
I hope each of you had a safe and restful holiday. Thank you for your support in making 2025 a great year! Let me know how I can help you make 2026 your best reading year yet!
Mary
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TLB Spring 2026 Book Club
It's the best book club in town -- come join us!!
All participants must purchase the book from TLB in order to confirm your sign-up. You can pay for the book in-store or by phone. 804-464-1244. You will receive an email from the store when the books are available for pick-up.
Questions? Call or send an email to:
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FEBRUARY
The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy
Hardback, $30
Day Group meets:
Monday
Feb. 16th 1pm
Evening Group meets:
Tuesday
Feb. 24th 6:30pm
Fiction
3 starred reviews
An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife. (publisher mkting)
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MARCH
A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar
Hardback, $29
Day Group meets:
Monday
March 16th 1pm
Evening Group meets:
Tuesday
March 24th 6:30pm
Fiction
6 starred reviews
This is the story of two families set over the course of one week in a near-future Kolkata. Ma, her young daughter, and her elderly father have finally procured visas to escape the collapsing city but then the documents are stolen. We learn the story of Boomba, the thief who stole the documents and Ma's frantic search to get them back as both families discover how far they will go to protect their children and give them a future. (publisher mkting)
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APRIL
Evensong by Steward O'Nan
Hardback, $28
Day Group meets:
Monday
April 13th 1pm
Evening Group meets:
Tuesday
April 28th 6:30pm
Fiction
3 starred reviews
An intimate, moving novel that follows The Humpty Dumpty Club, a group of women of a certain age who band together to help one another and their circle of friends in Pittsburgh as they face the challenges of their golden years. (publisher mkting)
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UPCOMING AUTHOR EVENTS
TLB is partnering with the Chesterfield County Public Library
to bring you great events this spring!
Mark your calendars -- you don't want to miss these wonderful authors!
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Donna Everhart
TUESDAY, APRIL 21st at 6:30pm
Midlothian Branch Library
Women of a Promiscuous Nature
by Donna Everhart
Girl, Interrupted meets The Handmaid’s Tale in 1940s North Carolina, as a young woman is accused of “promiscuity” and unjustly incarcerated at The State Industrial Farm Colony for Women. Based on the long-buried history of the American Plan, this powerful and shockingly timely story of resistance and resilience exposes the real government program designed to regulate women’s bodies and sexuality throughout the first half of the 20th century. (publisher mkting)
This title releases on Jan. 27th.
Paperback $18.95
Copies will be available for purchase at the store prior to the event and at the event.
Location of event:
Midlothian Branch Library
100 Millworks Crossing
Midlothian, VA 23114
Registration for this event will be handled through the Chesterfield County Public Library.
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Leah Weiss
MONDAY, MAY 4th at 6:00pm
North Courthouse Road Branch Library
The Creek, the Crone, and the Crow
by Virginia author Leah Weiss
An outsider to the Carolina hills inherits a gift that could change everything for her beloved creek town on the verge of dying out, from an author of whom NPR said writes "with a deep knowledge of the enduring myths of Appalachia...vividly portraying real people and sorrows." (publisher mkting)
This title releases on March 24th.
Paperback $17.99
Copies will be available for purchase at the store prior to the event and at the event.
Location of event:
North Courthouse Road Branch Library
325 Courthouse Road
Richmond, VA 23236
Registration for this event will be handled through the Chesterfield County Public Library.
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Historical Fiction
3 starred reviews
A young bookbinder begins a hunt for the truth when a confession hidden beneath the binding of a burned book reveals a story of forbidden love, lost fortune, and murder. (publishers mkting)
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Fiction
4 starred reviews
An electric novel, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world into the next from the author of A Gentleman in Moscow. (publisher mkting)
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Historical Fiction
2 starred reviews
The New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife weaves a mesmerizing tale of Paris above and below -- where a woman's quest for artistic freedom in 1664 intertwines with a doctor's dangerous mission during the German occupation in the 1940s, revealing a story of courage and resistance that transcends time. (publisher mkting)
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Fiction
1 starred review
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Niven, a novel about America's favorite TV family, whose perfect facade cracks, for fans of Lessons in Chemistry and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. (publisher mkting)
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Thriller
1 starred review
My Husband's Wife is a tangled web of deception, obsession, and mystery that will keep you guessing until the last page. Prepare yourself for the ultimate mind-bending marriage thriller and step inside Spyglass - if you dare - to experience a story where nothing is as it seems. (publisher mkting)
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Science Fiction / Mystery
A space shuttle flight crew discovers that the Earth they've returned to is not the home they left behind in the first book of this emotional, mind-bending thriller series. (publisher mkting)
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Mystery / Humor
2 starred reviews
Knives Out meets Downton Abbey! Secrets, murder, and mayhem collide as this unlikely sleuthing duo -- an under-butler and a foul-mouthed octogenarian -- hunt a killer in a manor sealed against the end of the world, in this locked-room mystery. (publisher mkting)
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Fiction / Adventure / Nature
2 starred reviews
In this story of intense friendship and grit, two down-and-out teens escape the hopelessness of their lives and chase a different future through rock-climbing. (publisher mkting)
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Fantasy / Romance / Cozy
3 starred reviews
You can't buy a ticket for the Elsewhere Express. Appearing only to those whose lives are adrift, it's a magical train seeming to carry very rare and special cargo: a sense of purpose, peace, and belonging. Raya and Q meet on the train and explore it's wonders together. Over the course of their long, strange night on the train, they also discover that it harbors secrets--and danger: A mysterious stranger has stowed away and brought with him a dark, malignant magic that threatens to destroy the train. (publisher mkting)
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History / Social Science
1 starred review
Virginia author
From alchemy to wellness culture, from antisemitism to disposable plastic, a gripping account of how getting sick has shaped humanity. (publisher mkting)
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Memoir / Essays
A hygge-filled journey through winter nights, McDermid reminds us that it is a time of rest, retreat and creativity, for scribbling in notebooks and settling in beside the fire. A treat for the hunkering-down, post-holiday reading season, Winter is a charming and cozy celebration of the year’s idle months from one of Scotland’s best-loved writers. (publisher mkting)
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13+ / Fantasy / Romance / Fairy Tale
3 starred reviews
Two outsiders share a forged desire to become something more to themselves, and to each other. (publisher mkting)
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Ages 8+ / Fantasy and Magic
2 starred reviews
Signed copies!!
England, 1919. Alyce–with a Y–is sent to live with her grandmother, the original Alice, after having lost her father in the war. When a mysterious invitation to a tea party hits her square in the face, Alyce realizes her grandmother’s strange stories of a place called Wonderland might have some truth to them after all. (publisher mkting)
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Nonfiction ages 9+
Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation, this new book for tweens is a handbook for living a happy and exciting life that isn't hijacked by a smartphone. (publisher mkting)
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Historical Fiction ages 8+
1 starred review
From master storyteller and Newbery medalist Avi, The Road from Nowhere is a tightly plotted adventure in the old west, a tale of boyhood and two rivaling brothers stranded in a small mining town, and a deep dive into the history of one of America’s most desperate periods of economic crisis. (publisher mkting)
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Fiction ages 3-7
1 starred reviews
Beautiful illustrations!
The New York Times bestselling author illustrator of The Wonderful Things You Will Be creates an enchanting picture book about a child finding their "wild" self. (publisher mkting)
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Fiction, ages 3-6
3 starred reviews
Adorable illustrations!
What does a small cat need? Two little eyes, two little ears, big whiskers, and a tail, to start. What else does a small cat need? Maybe a walk in the flowers, a sip of milk, or a warm spot to laze around in the sun.
But above all else, what a small cat needs is... someone big or little—maybe someone just like you! (publisher mkting)
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Fiction, ages 4-8
An endearing and fun celebration of imagination and curiosity as a young girl imagines a world where everyone has a home, animals have tea parties instead of fights, and tree-house ice cream shops will be a thing.
If you could redraw the world, where would you start? (publisher mkting)
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Nonfiction, ages 4-7
2 starred reviews
As yaks yak to one another and ducks duck rams who ram, Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park presents a sprightly and comic introduction to a fun form of wordplay, homographs, as engaging animal characters enact verbs made from their names. “Young readers will love this hilarious, informative book.”—Booklist
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Fiction, ages 4-8
1 starred review
Beautiful illustrations!
A beautiful story about the power of nature and the regeneration of the natural world. (publisher mkting)
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Fiction, ages 3-7
1 starred review
From the creators of Dozens of Doughnuts comes a lively take on friendship, springtime, and counting by fives. (publisher mkting)
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