Mar 3

Mar 3 33 Books Publishing This Week

The morning at the beginning of March feels different the moment you open your eyes. The light is softer, but brighter somehow—less wintry, less restrained. It slips through the curtains earlier now, stretching pale gold fingers across the floor. The air still carries a chill, but it isn’t as sharp as it once was. There’s a looseness to it. A promise.

You move slowly, aware that something subtle has shifted. February’s heaviness has lifted just enough to make room for anticipation. The calendar has turned, and even if spring hasn’t fully arrived, you can feel it waiting in the wings.

You make your way to the kitchen, the floor cool beneath your feet. Coffee brews or tea steeps, and the scent fills the quiet space. The house feels awake but unhurried. Outside the window, the sky is a washed blue, streaked with high, thin clouds. The trees are still bare, but you swear they look different—like they’re holding their breath.

The book you’ve been meaning to start rests on the table. You’ve been saving it, perhaps without even realizing it, for a morning like this. A beginning at the beginning. You wrap your hands around your mug and carry both it and the book to your favorite seat near the window, where the light is just right.

You settle in, pulling your sweater sleeves over your hands, more out of comfort than necessity. The warmth of your drink seeps into your palms. You open the book slowly, feeling that familiar resistance of a spine untouched. The pages are crisp, expectant. So are you.

The first line greets you with quiet confidence. You begin to read, and the world narrows gently around you. Outside, a bird calls—sharp and bright against the morning stillness. You pause, listening. It feels like the first true birdsong in weeks.

You turn another page.

The story unfolds carefully, without rushing. There’s something about early March that encourages patience. The season doesn’t burst open overnight; it inches forward. Snow melts slowly. Days lengthen by minutes. You find yourself reading the same way—measured, attentive, allowing the story to bloom in its own time.

Sunlight shifts across the room, warming the edge of the rug, catching the rim of your mug. You take a sip, noticing how the heat feels welcome but not necessary in the way it was midwinter. The air inside feels lighter. So do you.

A breeze moves outside, stirring branches that will soon bud. You imagine tiny green tips waiting just beneath the surface. You think about how stories begin the same way—quietly, invisibly, before anything dramatic happens. Before the plot thickens. Before the turning point.

You read on.

The characters begin to take shape. A setting sharpens. A question lingers just beneath the surface of the narrative. You feel that small, electric flicker of curiosity—of possibility. It mirrors the morning outside: the sense that something new is coming, even if you can’t yet name it.

Time stretches. The house remains quiet. Somewhere in the distance, a door closes. A car starts. Life resumes its ordinary rhythms, but you remain here, anchored in this chair, in this story, in this soft beginning of a new month.

When you finally pause and close the book—just for now—you slide a bookmark into place with care. The morning has brightened fully. The sky is clearer. The day waits.

You sit for a moment longer, holding the book in your lap. March has arrived not with drama, but with subtle light and quiet promise. And you have begun something too—not with urgency, but with intention.

A new month. A new story. A morning that feels gently, unmistakably like the start of something unfolding.

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Books Publishing March 1 - 7

I Came Back for You by Kate White

A mother begins to challenge everything she’s been told about her daughter’s murder in a shocking novel of suspense by a New York Times bestselling author.

Ten years after her daughter, Melanie, was murdered, Bree Winter is finally moving on with a new love, a new home, and a new beginning. Then a deathbed confession from the convicted killer throws Bree’s life into a tailspin all over again. He readily confesses to murdering four girls. But not Melanie.

At first, Bree and her ex-husband don’t buy a word of it. Until inconsistencies about the crime emerge. So does the dreadful feeling that the monster who shattered Bree’s family isn’t lying. The only way she can get to the truth is to power through the trauma and return to the town in upstate New York where Melanie’s life came to a brutal end.

Bree will do anything to find justice for her daughter and finish this nightmare forever. Instead, it’s just beginning. Not only could the real killer still be in their midst, but as Bree begins to dig through Melanie’s past, what she discovers calls into question everything she has believed—about the crime and about Melanie herself.

A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert

She's hard to hold onto, but he's good with his hands...

Prickly, autistic, and shadowed by a scandalous past, Ruth Kabbah will always be Ravenswood's black sheep. It's a lonely life, but at least it's safe… until Evan Miller comes to town.

Calm, confident, and instantly accepted by their small English town, Evan is Ruth's opposite in every way—yet he meets her suspicion with a smile, handles her awkwardness with ease, and watches her with a hunger that threatens to tear down her all her defenses.

The gossips want to know how she's bewitched him. Ruth just wants to know when he'll get bored and leave. Because if there's one thing she's learned, it's that girls like her don't get happily ever afters.

But when a monster from Ruth's past comes back to haunt her, she's forced to make a choice: should she trust Evan completely? Or is her heart safest alone?

Ramin Abbas Has MAJOR Questions by Ahmad Saber

An intensely brave, gorgeously written story about a gay Muslim teen who has to choose between being true to himself or his faith—and his realization that maybe they aren’t as separate as he thought.

Now a senior at the top-ranked high school for Muslim teenagers, Pakistani Canadian Ramin can’t wait for the fresh start of college. He’s spent his whole life following the word of Allah, his parents, and his imam. His parents immigrated from Pakistan, sacrificing everything for him and his little brother, and expect Ramin to be halal in all things, meet a nice Muslim girl, and settle into devout family life. However, Ramin’s heart wishes for something—or someone—else: the strong, athletic captain of the soccer team. But at school, being gay is definitely haram, not allowed, so Ramin limits himself to dreams of moving away to New York City.

Then Ramin learns his graduation is in jeopardy, and the only chance he’s given to get the needed physical education credits quickly is to join the school’s soccer team…and train one-on-one with Fahad, a.k.a. Captain Handsome. It’s a nightmare of temptation and resistance, compounded by threats from a longtime bully who is blackmailing Ramin, threatening to reveal a secret that could ruin him. Ramin’s only ray of light is Omar, a sweet and caring new friend whose family believes in a different, kinder Allah. He gently prods Ramin to consider his faith more deeply, challenging Ramin’s long held belief of Allah as merciless and unforgiving by introducing him to one who is instead merciful and loving.

With graduation, a championship soccer match, and the blackmail looming, the pressure on Ramin is too much to keep buried. He must decide between the consequences of speaking his truth and living a lie. He must decide which Allah lives in the little mosque in his heart.

Anderson in Bloom by Jennifer Dugan

From the author of Love at First Set, a hilariously sexy enemies-to-lovers, second-chance rom-com about a reclusive former child star turned florist whose quiet life is turned upside down when her annoyingly hot ex (and former costar) shows up in town, with plans to write a tell-all memoir.

Former child star Anderson “Andy” Ducharme is hiding—has been for a long time, if she’s honest with herself, which she isn’t.

When she suddenly cut off all ties and left LA six years earlier to work in a flower shop in coastal New England, she wasn’t just running away from toxic relationships, embezzling agents, and all the rest of her Hollywood life; she was running to something… sort of, if you squinted, and if you accepted that what she was running toward was little more than a vacation daydream she had made up with her (in)famous ex, and former costar, Nicole “Nikki” Price.

Then Nikki announces her plan to write a tell-all book about growing up in Hollywood and their tumultuous time on the Nik and Andy show, and Andy’s feelings of hurt and betrayal come rushing back. Emboldened by anger (and maybe one too many drinks), Andy does something very stupid: she texts her ex for the first time in years. No one’s more shocked than Andy when Nikki actually shows up to her small florist shop, looking for answers.

Andy is fully prepared to send Nikki away, but it seems Nikki has some unfinished business as well. Now that she finally knows where Andy’s been hiding, she’s not letting her go so easy. And with each passing encounter, Andy can’t deny the simmering physical attraction that threatens to boil over every time they get close.

But can the two of them really reunite without wrecking Andy’s carefully rebuilt life? Or is she setting herself up for a fresh heartbreak?

To Cage a Wild Bird by Brooke Fast

Enter the brutal world of Endlock, a prison where the wealthy hunt the inmates for sport. The first novel in an electrifying dystopian romance series, this high-octane debut about forbidden love, found family, and a fight for survival will leave you breathless.

In the city of Dividium, the law is simple: commit a crime, and your punishment is a life sentence in Endlock.

Raven Thorne is Dividium’s most notorious bounty hunter, living on the edge of society. But when her younger brother, Jed, is sentenced to Endlock, Raven will do anything to save him—even if it means getting herself arrested.

Now trapped in a prison where danger lurks around every corner, Raven must use all her cunning and strength to protect Jed—and herself if she is to complete her perilous mission. But there’s one obstacle she never expected: the prison guard who stirs something deep inside her. The man she should hate. The man whose true motives seem impossible to pin down.

In a world where trust is a weapon and love is a liability, Raven must decide if she will risk everything to tear down a vicious system.

The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives by Elizabeth Arnott

A remarkable trio whose lives have been cracked wide open by their husbands’ crimes unite to catch a serial killer in this dazzlingly captivating novel.

Beverley, Elsie, and Margot are not your average housewives. They are all wives of convicted killers. During the sun-drenched summer of 1966, the three women form an unlikely friendship after the discoveries of their husbands’ brutal crimes. With their exes—some of California’s most infamous murderers—dead or behind bars, they are attempting to forge a new future for themselves.

Headstrong Beverley tries compulsively to maintain control of everything around her, all while raising two children. Bookish Elsie fights to make a name for herself in the newsroom, working among men who sneer at her career goals. Glamorous Margot prefers partying to homemaking and devotes all her energy to upholding the appearance that everything is fine—anything to quell the shame from her husband’s deceit.

They know people look at them and think only one thing: How could they not have known what their husbands were doing? How much are they to blame? And yet when a string of local killings hits the news, the three women—underestimated, overlooked, shrewd—decide to get to work. After all, who better to catch a killer than those who have shared their lives and homes with one?

At once a riveting portrayal of shattered trust and a story of gripping suspense, The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives is a testament to the intricacies of women’s lives and how the deep bonds of female friendship can empower, uplift, and lead us to endure

The Story of Marceau Miller by Marceau Miller

A riveting, layered exploration of memory, betrayal, and the fluid nature of truth, The Story of Marceau Miller is a masterpiece of psychological suspense.

In the beautiful and dangerous landscape of Lake Geneva, in the shadow of the Swiss Alps, renowned writer Marceau Miller is found dead. In the wake of the tragedy, his wife, Sarah, discovers a manuscript he’s left behind, entitled The Story of Marceau Miller.

With the support of close friends, Sarah struggles to hold herself together while caring for her two children and coping with the mounting questions surrounding her famous husband’s death. Was it an accident or part of some darker game?

Compelled to find the truth, Sarah unravels secrets that make her question everything—and everyone—around her. Who can she possibly trust? Her journey from grief to revelation captures the nuance of marriage to a man who remains an enigma. Who is Marceau Miller, really?

One of the year’s most addictive thrillers, The Story of Marceau Miller marks the debut of a gifted new author—Marceau Miller—who may or may not be the man at the center of the novel itself.

The Sisters of Book Row by Shelley Noble

A thrilling and timely historical novel of books, banning, and the women who helped save New York’s famed Book Row, from bestselling author Shelley Noble.

1915: Manhattan’s Book Row, an eclectic jumble of forty bookshops along Fourth Avenue, is the mecca for rare book buyers from around the world, and the haunt of locals looking for a bargain. It is also the target of the most vicious censor in American history—Anthony Comstock.

And home to three sisters who vow to stop him.

For the three Applebaum sisters, the narrow, four-storied Arcadia Rare Bookshop is the only home they’ve ever known. Olivia, the oldest, is an expert in restoring rare manuscripts. Daphne, the outgoing middle sister, oversees the retail shop and is a favorite with their customers. Celia, the youngest, is left to dust and catalogue, but often sneaks out to do heaven knows what. Little do her sisters know, Celia has joined a group of young people who secretly print and distribute articles on women’s health by hiding them within the pages of ordinary cookbooks, household hints, and sewing patterns, despite the personal risk.

Meanwhile, the Comstock Laws threaten anybody who owns or circulates “obscene, lewd, or lascivious” publications. Even classic literature or fine art could send a person to jail. In the face of such oppression, Celia and the booksellers of Book Row band together. But secrets and a mysterious stranger mean the fate of the famed Book Row is anything but secure.

Estela, Undrowning by René Peña-Govea

Estela Morales is one of the only Latinas who tested into San Francisco’s most exclusive public high school. In her senior year, Estela just wants to keep her head down, eke out a passing grade from her racist Spanish teacher, and get into her dream college.

But after placing second in the Latiné Heritage Poetry Contest behind a non-Latino student, Estela is thrust into citywide debates about merit, identity, and diversity.

Things only get messier when her family is threatened with eviction. As Estela’s friends organize against bigotry and her landlady increases the pressure, Estela is suffocating and finds release only in poetry and in a breathless new romance. When tensions finally reach their breaking point, Estela must find a way to undrown the community she loves—and herself.

How Simi Got Her Groom Back by Sonali Dev

Two sisters face the real consequences of a fake marriage scheme in an emotional yet hilarious novel about immigration, healing, and family from USA Today bestselling author Sonali Dev.

Two sisters. One fake marriage. Zero chance of keeping the truth hidden.

The Naik sisters escaped their traumatic past in Mumbai to come to the States, but their journeys have been vastly different. Simi is working toward a bright future as a pediatric nurse in a small town in Kentucky when Rupi shows up at her door in distress, on the run, and as always, dragging trouble in her wake.

With Rupi’s safety in jeopardy, the sisters hatch a desperate plan to keep her in the country: Rupi must get married—and fast—even if it means Simi recruiting the man she’s been secretly dating as her sister’s groom. A perfect plan? Not quite. But there aren’t many alternatives.

As the big day inches closer, Simi and Rupi face a storm of wedding shenanigans and romantic surprises, not to mention sisterly jealousies. As the stakes and tensions rise, will their secrets tear them apart or will they find a way to risk everything for love?

No Matter What by Cara Bastone

Sometimes love sends you back to the drawing board

After a traumatic accident threatens the foundations of their happy marriage, a couple tries to rebuild and find their way back to each other - and themselves - in this tender, slow-burn romance by the bestselling author of Ready or Not and Promise Me Sunshine.

Roz and Vin can’t look each other in the eyes anymore, let alone share a bed. It’s been a year since they survived a life-altering accident and their marriage hasn’t been the same. But Roz has held out hope they can fix things…until she discovers Vin signed a new lease. So she does what any soon-to-be-divorced Manhattanite would do: sign up for figure drawing class.

Between Roz's determined attempts to improve her artistic skills and her adventures with her best friend Raffi, she can almost ignore Vin’s impending move-out date and his footsteps in their previously unoccupied guest room. But it would all be a lot easier if Vin wasn’t Raffi’s older brother, and if she didn’t still find him incredibly, debilitatingly attractive and kind.

So kind, in fact, that Vin offers to let Roz draw him. What is she supposed to say? It’s probably better than her original plan of finding some random male model online, and she needs all the practice she can get. Plus, that’s sure to make a separation easier, right? Focus on every detail of your estranged spouse’s body while drawing them in the nude? But after the year they've spent avoiding each other, it feels good to see and be seen by one another again.

As Roz works to capture the wholeness of the person she fell in love with, will they both be able to draw upon the feelings they buried deep inside to finally heal together?

A Ghastly Catastrophe by Deanna Raybourn

The epic 10th installment in New York Times bestseller Deanna Raybourn’s fan-favorite, award-winning Veronica Speedwell series features a story for new readers and long-time Raybourn fans alike. Butterfly enthusiast, amateur sleuth, and kickass feminist Veronica Speedwell and her handsome beau, Stoker, discover a link between two seemingly unrelated deaths: both victims were members of a secret society. It soon becomes clear the secret society is actually a dangerous sect looking to entice immortality seekers—and our crime-solving duo has gone from being the hunters to the hunted.

Caput Mundi: The Head of the World: Book 1: Enarii by B.R. Kang

When Niil Terra sets off to find his missing parents, he ends up in Caput Mundi, a dazzling world filled with flourishing innovation and alchemic wonders. It is also the home of enarii, a shape-shifting metal that can be willed into any form, whether it be swords, forks, or fly swatters. There, Niil’s talent for enarii shaping emerges, and for the first time, he feels like he truly belongs.

But when he discovers that his mother is the leader of the Doubleyes, who is out to eliminate enarii, he is faced with an impossible choice: to stop her or watch hundreds suffer at the hands of someone he'd do anything to reunite.

A richly imagined world coupled with fast-paced action, mystery, and a bit of butt-kicking. Caput Mundi will enthrall young readers with a powerful central message about finding your voice, taking your power back, and holding onto who you are.

No matter what the world throws at you.

Turn Off the Light by Jacquie Walters

On the isolated Eastern Shore of Virginia, a house has stood for centuries. The weathered floorboards creak and shadows seem to shift in every corner... We have all read great novels that build to reveal such a house is haunted – but what if that’s exactly where the story begins? In Jacquie Walters’ tense and terrifying new novel, TURN OFF THE LIGHT (Mulholland Books / Little, Brown / March 3, 2026 / ISBN 9780316580328) she turns the haunted house on its head, delivering a spinetingling and wholly original novel that is sure to be one of the most anticipated thrillers this winter - Galleys and PDFs are available upon request or check out the netgalley here!
Already an Emmy-nominated screenwriter with over 100 episodes of television under her belt, Jacquie delivered one of the most original and frightening novels in her debut novel, Dearest. A fearless examination of postpartum psychosis, the weight of motherhood, and intergenerational trauma with a demonic twist, Dearest drew praise from acclaimed horror authors such as Daniel Kraus, Sarah Langan, and Rachel Harrison, and was named a B&N Best Horror of 2024 and A Book of the Month Club pick, solidifying Jacquie’s place in the contemporary horror canon and branding her a “talent to watch.” (Sarah Langan, author of Good Neighbors)
Now, she is set to raise the bar even higher with her latest domestic horror, TURN OFF THE LIGHT. Set on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, two women share one home, though they are separated by nearly 400 years. In 1630, Edith is a healer, a woman of knowledge – a woman watched. Suddenly shadows seem to move where they shouldn’t and whispers creep through the dark. She fears she’s let something into the house… In the present day, Claire returns home with her young daughter to care for her dying father, only to find her childhood home seems to be listening. Is it grief and unresolved guilt driving her mad? Both women face sleepless nights and mysterious bruises, growing distressed that something is stirring beneath the floorboards. What is lurking in the dark?

Puzzles & Perils: The Crystal Quest: A Novel in 100 Fantastical Puzzles by Dr. Gareth Moore and Laura Jayne Ayres

A fabulously clever and creative puzzle book for all fans of fantasy fiction, with one hundred puzzles to challenge and entertain you.

Join Miralda and Orien, two ordinary orphans from the village of Humblewick, as they embark upon a perilous quest: a mysterious stranger, the wizard Morgoriam, has enlisted them to reclaim the Crystal of Divinair from the ancient sorcerer Nefaron and save their kingdom from eternal darkness.

As you journey with our heroes, you'll solve 100 fantastical puzzles that are woven directly into the narrative. You'll decipher hidden symbols, uncover secret routes, and crack intricate logic puzzles, all while helping Miralda and Orien navigate treacherous landscapes, outsmart cunning foes, and confront their destiny.

From the bustling streets of Tarrimor to the sparkling elf city of Nirian, every step of their quest depends on your puzzle-solving prowess. But be warned: the path ahead is fraught with danger, from menacing goblins and fearsome dragons to power-hungry sorcerers and tricky illusions. Will you help them succeed, or will the world be plunged into darkness forever? The fate of Ellamir rests in your hands!

The Encore by Juliet Izon

In 2003, at the prestigious Brookfield Conservatory in Boston, a chance encounter sparks an inimitable friendship between driven pianist and singer Anna Buckley and composer wunderkind Will Pendleton. As they strive toward careers as professional musicians, their bond deepens both from shared skill and the inexplicable sense that they’re kindred souls. But soon after graduation, one night forever alters the trajectory of their lives, destroying their relationship in the process.
Twenty years later in New York, sixteen-year-old piano virtuoso Lottie Thomas is grappling with the rigors of her elite prep school and the confounding disappearance of the woman who gave her up at birth. When Lottie suddenly discovers the startling truth of her identity, the revelation catalyzes a chain of events that not only reunites Lottie with her birth parents, but forces them together on a rock tour-bus for a careening cross-country journey. It is there, trapped in these tight confines, that the three must finally reconcile with irrevocable choices from the past.

The Debtor's Game by Isabelle Mongeau

In a world where faeries are born with tattoos of debt to the High Fae, one servant must navigate a game of dangerous, sensual court politics between her mistress and the king—the first installment in a dark fantasy series.

As a palace faerie, Avery is busy preparing Lady Kassandra, a High Fae of the House of Illusion, for the upcoming coronation. Both of their freedoms rely on it: Kassandra, to escape her violent brother, and Avery, to pay off rings of debt tattoos she has inherited from her family, which force her to serve the High Fae.

After a series of tragic events, Avery is forced to split her loyalties between Lady Kassandra and the newly crowned King Maxian, an alluring High Fae of staggering power. Avery agrees to spy on the King in exchange for liberating her family from debt, forming a triangle that proves more dangerous by the minute—further complicated by Avery’s warring desire and resentment for both Maxian and Kassandra.

But freedom from her debt grows further out of reach when she’s forced to test her loyalties, leading her to uncover secrets about the High Fae with earth-shattering implications. Soon, Avery must find out whether the faeries—and herself—are really as powerless against the High Fae as they seem...or whether she just might hold the key to freeing them all.

Konfidenz by Ariel Dorfman

The political and the personal become blurred in a series of tense, tantalizing conversations about resistance.

A pared-back yet gripping psychological novel from the acclaimed author of Death and the Maiden and Allegro.

A woman travels to Paris to meet her lover. When she arrives at her hotel, however, she receives a call from a mysterious stranger claiming to be his friend, who somehow possesses intimate knowledge of their lives and why she fled her homeland. Over the course of nine hours, this man will draw her in, revealing details about her lover’s work, which could put him in grave danger, and the growing conflict that has ensnared them all.

A brilliant, mind-bending story told almost entirely through dialogue, Konfidenz upends what we think we know, painting an insightful portrait of manipulation and divided loyalties. Taking inspiration from his own experiences of political turmoil and exile after the 1973 coup that overthrew Chilean president Salvador Allende, Ariel Dorfman infuses this novel with a remarkable urgency and authenticity.

Aubrey Wants to Die by Pip Knight

Love is hard. Being undead is harder ... Dolly Alderton meets True Blood in this dark, funny hell of a story

Aubrey is not what she seems. She's young, beautiful, romantic, obsessive and ... a vampire. All she wants is to be human again, and failing that, she wants to die. But the problem is, she can't. Not by stake through the heart or holy water or crucifix or garlic or fire. And she'd know, she's tried every method ... Twice.

So she's stuck here on this earth, all alone. Even the vampire who made her this way - an aristocratic douchebag called Oscar - has abandoned her.

But everything changes when one fateful night, she meets Jonathan. He's everything Aubrey's ever dreamed of, and what's more, he's her soulmate. Her Bella-Edward story. For the first time in 150 years, she has a reason to hope - eternal life might be bearable after all. So when Jonathan unexpectedly breaks up with her, she'll do anything to get him back.

But that's the exact moment Oscar swoops back into her life. And he has other plans for her. Soon, she's thrown into a world of glamour, glitter, blood and hedonism, a world that has her questioning everything she knows to be true-about life, but also about herself. A world where nothing is simple ... And no-one is safe, either.

The Violet Hour by James Cahill

After a six-year vanishing act, Haller is returning with an exhibition of paintings in a color unlike any his avid collectors have ever seen—a soft purple, pulsing and incandescent, with a touch of silver. The show comes as a surprise to not only those obsessed with his work—including ultra-rich New York real estate mogul Leo Goffman—but also to Lorna Bedford, the gallery owner who has represented Thomas for decades, starting with his luminous Pink Paintings. Instead, Haller is making his comeback in London, at the newest gallery owned by a ruthless global dealer, Claude Berlins. At Goffman’s urging—and for personal reasons—Lorna decides to fly out for the opening. Beyond their long-term business relationship, Thomas is one of Lorna’s oldest and dearest friends, despite their complex, painful history.

The excitement for Haller’s new exhibit is shadowed by a tragedy. The night before the show, one of Galerie Claude Berlins’s associate directors, a young man named Luca Holden, fell to his death from his apartment window. What seems on the surface like an unfortunate accident—or perhaps, suicide—opens up a chapter in Lorna’s past that she has tried to forget.And Lorna is far from the only one in the art world affected by this shattering event.

The Student’s Guide to Financial Freedom: A Real-World Money Guide to Help Young People Build Wealth, Avoid Traps, and Plan for Freedom by Paris Woods

The Student’s Guide to Financial Freedom is a practical, empowering, and jargon-free guide designed to help young people make smart financial choices early in life. Building on the success of her bestselling book for adults, Dr. Paris Woods translates her proven framework into clear, actionable steps tailored for high school and college students.

This book demystifies critical financial concepts—such as credit, debt, saving, investing, and long-term wealth-building—through real-world stories, accessible language, and culturally grounded examples. Unlike traditional personal finance books, it centers the lived realities of students who may be first-generation, low-income, or navigating systemic barriers.

Structured around Woods’s Make, Manage, Multiply framework, the book helps students:
*Make more money by leveraging their skills and strengths
*Manage their finances through simple, automated systems
*Multiply their wealth through smart, accessible investing
*Avoid common financial traps that can derail long-term goals
*Build a life plan rooted in freedom and possibility

The Student’s Guide to Financial Freedom fills a critical gap in financial education. While many resources offer fragmented or overly technical advice, this book provides a cohesive, values-driven framework that speaks directly to young people’s aspirations and challenges. Its voice is peer-to-peer, practical, and inspiring—designed to meet students where they are and equip them with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to thrive.

Lola Gillette and the Summer of Second Chances by Kimberly Behre Kenna

On a mission to honor her perfect twin sister who died in an accident she feels responsible for, thirteen-year-old Lola is desperate to complete their treasured Perfect Pairs Collection, but gets caught stealing in the process. She’s sent to spend August with agoraphobic Uncle Milo in his ramshackle mansion on the Connecticut River. Here she becomes even more obsessed with her collection—a lucky baker’s dozen of pairs would provide the magic she needs to keep her out of Bad Girls Boarding School. But mishaps in a Zen Garden, a glitchy projector that spits out holographic messages from her dead aunt, a beached houseboat, and a displaced wolf upend everything and force her to rethink her mission. Who needs the magic most, her quirky uncle or herself?

Sing Down the Moon by Robert Gwaltney

Sixteen-year-old Leontyne Skye yearns to escape Good Hope, the remote Georgia coastal barrier island where she resides. Leontyne's heritage is bleak. Tasked with tending Damascus, an ancient fig tree beguiling haints across the river with its wind chime song, Leontyne's mother, Eulalee, disintegrates into tufts of hair, teeth, and memory. This affliction befalls all Skye women, a fatal consequence of distilling Redemption, an addictive drug made from the figs of Damascus imbued with the essence of haints. Leontyne also tumbles apart, her memories and hand lost in a life-altering accident suffered two years back during an event known as Tribulation Day. Through unreliable recollections of her trusted friends the Longwood twins, Leontyne stitches a dubious understanding of who she was before she fell "the long-long ways." In the aftermath of Eulalee's death, Leontyne is pressured by the Longwoods to render Redemption, continuing the legacy upon which Good Hope depends.

In the Wake of Golgotha by Daniel Grace

There is no crime to fit this sentence; there is no sentence to fit this crime. Roman Prefect Pontius Pilate's words are echoed by the zealot Judas Iscariot only hours before history takes a bloody turn on a cross atop Golgotha on Calvary Hill. Two thousand years later, these words are found scrawled in blood in New York next to three crucified men hanging on a basement wall.

Judas, now Jude Issachar, an enigmatic social worker and part-time professor, and Pontius, now Peter Pheiffer, an unsettled defense attorney at a ravenous global law firm, have lived many lifetimes since their original encounter. However, Jude is aware of his past and is cursed by the fateful lure of the noose and the tree. Peter is damned by a recurring ignorance, a cruel cyclical awakening that creeps up on him as he is compelled to defend a sociopath who crucified three men.

Condemned for their role in humankind's darkest betrayal, they must reckon with their pasts-and their futures-after a fateful, bloody collision of violence and addiction two millennia after their sentence began brings these lost souls together once more.

Medium Rare by A. Natasha Joukovsky

myth of Icarus into a blazing romp through bureaucracy, B-list fame, and college basketball…

Phil is ordinary. A mid-level Washington lobbyist for a decidedly unsexy organization, unhappy in the way all mildly successful, minimally influential men are. That is until the spring of 2019, when Phil’s picks for the NCAA March Madness Tournament start panning out, and heads begin to turn his way. He really may do it: predict a perfect bracket, for a billion-dollar prize.

At first, Cassandra is just along for Phil’s soaring rise—she had foreseen it happening, after all. Despite moving in different circles since their shared university days and Cassandra never much liking him, she recognizes in Phil the making of a legend worthy of the highest art. What Cassandra fails to predict, though, is just how much she’d grow to care about Phil’s wife, Raleigh—and that the grandest narrative arcs sometimes unfold at the steepest of personal costs.

Dazzling in its absurd comedy, Medium Rare is not only a gambol through the upper echelon, but also a shrewd examination of madness, desire, and credibility—why don’t we listen when prophetic women speak? A. Natasha Joukovsk

AlphaPussy by Gina Gershon

Actress/musician/author Gina Gershon shares a collection of cautionary and hilarious true stories that explore the themes of experience, survival, and the art of figuring it out as you go along in her new book, AlphaPussy: How I Survived the Valley and Learned to Love My Boobs (March 3/Akashic). The book includes encounters with celebrities and film directors such as Tom Cruise, Paul Verhoeven, Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, David Mamet, Bob Fosse, and many more.

From a wayward California girl growing up in the heart of the porn-born San Fernando Valley, Gina found herself on a journey that has been anything but traditional. Along the way she had to learn how to spot the toxic types in both her personal life and her career and figure out how to dodge, outsmart, or hustle her way through. From the Valley to the slums of Beverly Hills to New York City she was confronted with shady characters and sketchy situations, all the while fighting to protect her autonomy as a woman and as an actress with a decidedly unconventional path. Ultimately, Gina learned how trust her gut and became an AlphaPussy, a woman who navigates through this perilous jungle of a world with personal agency and responsibility.

When Justice Comes by Colleen Coble and Rick Acker

USA TODAY bestselling romantic suspense author Colleen Coble and Rick Acker deliver the final book in their beloved Tupelo Grove series: Hez and Savannah Webster have survived storms that would bury others without a love as strong as theirs--but can they withstand the final battle in the deadly Legare-Willard feud that threatens to sweep away everything they've fought for?

Hezekiah "Hez" Webster and his fiancé, Savannah, stand on the brink of a new life, but their dreams are haunted by specters of the past. Just as they're getting ready to adopt her nephew, two other petitioners also file for custody--both of whom only want Simon for their own gains.

Between the financial company that Hez outmaneuvered to save the university from ruin and the bad blood from the head of the Willard family, it's hard to say who wants them out of the way more. Hez and Savannah's quest for justice leads them through a labyrinth of family law, where loyalties are tested and trust is a dangerous luxury when every decision could be their last.

With the clock ticking, Hez and Savannah must confront the ghosts of their past and their deepest fears to secure a future for Simon. But with every secret revealed, the stakes grow higher. Can they build the family they've always dreamed of, or will their enemies succeed in tearing them apart forever?

The Tupelo Grove series reaches its breathtaking conclusion as an enemy's agenda for revenge runs darker than swamp water and justice remains as precarious as quicksand in this heart-pounding narrative that underscores the power of redemption and forgiveness.

The Book Tour by Emily Ohanjanians

Sparks fly between a lively debut author and her grumpy publicist on book tour in this sizzling rom-com from a fresh new voice in contemporary romance.

Despite her popular podcast and sold-out speaking events, Ana Movilian still feels like she has to prove herself. To her family, who can’t believe she quit med school to build an influencer career, and to literary snobs, who decry her buzzy self-help book. Happily, her upcoming book tour is the perfect chance to show the world just how bright her star can shine.

That is, until her beloved publicist resigns the night before their plane is set to take off, announcing that her replacement is none other than Ryan bleeping Grant.

Ryan specializes in highbrow, “important” books, and his perma-scowl in every interaction with Ana makes one thing clear: he does not get her book. Or her. He’s the last person who should be promoting her work, the last person she should be stuck with for two weeks . . . and the last person who should look that damn good in business casual.

As they travel from city to city, however, Ana’s assumptions about Ryan take new shape. A decidedly more appealing shape. Soon, their growing attraction starts to feel like a ticking time bomb. But crossing that line could derail each of their careers faster than you can say “conflict of interest,” and they both have bigger dreams at stake than the bestseller list.

Ava by Victoria Dillon

For fans of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Farm,” and “Red Clocks,” Victoria Dillon’s provocative new novel “Ava” (She Writes Press, March 3, 2026) asks: What if the only way to reclaim reproductive freedom was to rewrite the very nature of birth itself?

22-year-old biologist Larkin finds herself unexpectedly pregnant. Trapped by strict abortion laws, she is forced to carry her baby to term, only to endure the heartbreak of losing her child hours after birth. She joins a radical scientific movement that aims to replace gestation with incubation, allowing women true control over their reproduction by egg laying. When she uses it to bring her second daughter, Ava, into the world, she believes she has finally reclaimed her autonomy. But as Ava grows and begins to question the very choice that created her, Larkin is challenged in ways she never imagined.

Missing Sister by Joshilyn Jackson

From the New York Times bestselling author of Never Have I Ever comes a chilling story of sisters and revenge.

Revenge...It's all relative.

Born three minutes apart, Penny and Nix Albright grew up doing everything together, close as only twins can be. But when Nix dies in a tragic accident soon after college, she leaves behind a cryptic voicemail that has Penny guilt-ridden and desperate for justice.

Five Years Later

Penny has found new purpose as a rookie cop. She’s working to fulfill Nix’s dream of making the world a safer place, but following that dream becomes a nightmare when she’s called to her first murder scene. When she sees the victim, she knows him instantly. It’s Danny Bowery—one of three men she’s long blamed for Nix’s death—splayed in a pool of blood outside a posh Atlanta shopping center, almost as if she’d wished it so.

Stunned, Penny steps away to catch her breath and discovers a blonde in blood-drenched clothes gripping a box cutter. Before Penny can arrest her, the woman reveals that Bowery’s murder is part of a larger story that is far from over. A story about sisters. And with that, the killer disappears.

Now, Penny will stop at nothing to pursue this dangerous woman and learn why she’s avenging Nix’s death. The deeper she dives into the mystery, the less clear it becomes who is hunting whom in this captivating page-turner of hidden motives and deadly consequences.

Across the Vanishing Sky by Catherine Cowles

A heart-stopping small town romance from USA Today bestselling author Catherine Cowles, the first in a brand-new series. Braedyn never expected to return to the town that took everything from her, but with a past that won’t stay buried, she’s determined to uncover the truth. Only someone isn’t happy that Brae has been digging, and they’ll do anything to stop her. But Dex? He’ll do anything to save her, even slip back into the dark…

A Thousand Perfect Lies by Monica Murphy

Secrets don’t die. They just transfer schools.

New York native Billie Vale arrives at Wickham Academy, England’s most elite boarding school, with a forged identity as Belinda Winters and one mission: clear her sister’s name. Isla lies in a coma, accused of killing her best friend. Billie has one shot to uncover the truth in a school built on privilege and deception. Succeed, and her estranged father will finally help her mother. Fail, and it will tear what’s left of her family apart.

But Wickham’s secrets run deep, and not everyone wants them exposed. The school’s golden prince and its brooding outcast both seem to know more than they’ll admit—and both have reasons to keep Billie close. As she digs into the lies that built Wickham’s empire, she discovers that loyalty is just another currency, every hallway hides a motive, and everyone here protects their own at any cost.

But someone at Wickham knows what really happened…
And they’ll bury Billie before they let her find out.

Perfect for readers who loved the dark social hierarchies of Gossip Girl and the twisty, secret-laden tension of One of Us Is Lying, A Thousand Perfect Lies delivers prep-school glamour, sisterly redemption, and a mystery that turns privilege into peril.

Star Shipped by Cat Sebastian

Cat Sebastian’s long-awaited foray into contemporary romance! A witty, emotional, and deliciously slow burn enemies-to-lovers romance between two costars on a popular sci-fi television series.

Simon and Charlie, actors on a long-running sci-fi show, can’t stand one another. Charlie is impetuous, outgoing, and basically feral, and Simon thinks he should have stayed in reality television where he belongs. They’ve spent the better part of a decade quarreling over the spotlight and pretty much everything else, and everybody in the industry knows it. Now that Simon’s contract is finally done, he can move to New York, start fresh with work he actually likes, and get away from Charlie.

Simon’s only problem is that people might assume he’s been pushed off the show due to being impossible to work with. And he is kind of difficult to work with. He doesn’t get along with people—unlike Charlie, who somehow tricked everyone on the show into adoring him despite some outrageously bad on-set behavior during the show’s first season. Simon would rather never have to see Charlie again, but reluctantly agrees to stage a very public friendship during the short time before he moves. When Charlie has to leave town to deal with a family emergency, this means Simon comes along. Their road trip brings Simon to places he would never have willingly chosen to visit—and he finds he’s actually not having a terrible time.

The more he gets to know Charlie, the more Simon suspects he’s underestimated his former coworker. Simon also realizes that after seven years, Charlie might know him better than anyone ever has. Even stranger, Charlie seems to be starting to actually like him, despite knowing him so well. Still, Simon is about to move three thousand miles away, so whatever’s starting between him and Charlie can’t really amount to anything... right?

Inklings by Johanna Basford

From the bestselling “Queen of Coloring,” a charming, pocket-sized, inky coloring book that invites you to create satisfying and simple masterpieces

From floral motifs to fairy houses and delicious cakes to dainty butterflies, this little book is a celebration of everything we love about coloring! There are dozens of joyful small illustrations and single-page designs for you to color when you need a quick coloring fix—all designed to charm and delight!

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