89 new books coming out Feb 11 – 23, 2025

By Kobo • February 11, 2025New eBooks and Audiobooks

The books we're most excited about this week...

🧰 Help and How-to

Stop Bullsh*tting Yourself: A Proven System to Help You by Drew Hanlen

One Pot One Portion: 100 Simple Recipes Just for You by Eleanor Wilkinson

Love to Learn: The Transformative Power of Care and Connection in Early Education by Isabelle C. Hau – A hope-filled book about the importance of the relationships children make early in life, as families grow smaller and playtime with other children becomes less spontaneous

The Wanderlust Kitchen: A spiritual guide to healing recipes from around the world by Samantha Dormehl

Company Men: A Wellness Guide for Black Men in Corporate America by Justin Grant

Gentle: Rest More, Stress Less, and Live the Life You Actually Want by Courtney Carver – 30 practices for overcoming chronic overwhelm while cultivating compassion for yourself

The Minimalist-ish Journal: Buy Less, Live Better, and Find Joy in What You Already Have by Christina Mychas

The No-Pressure Book Journal: A No-Guilt, No-Shame, No-Stress Journal to Help You Read Better and Enjoy Books Again by Mallory O'Meara

Dinner at Our Place: Recipes for Gathering by Our Place

💡 Big Ideas

You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip by Kelsey McKinney – The podcaster behind Normal Gossip asks, what are we talking about when we talk about other people?

Single: Living a Complete Life on Your Own Terms by Nicola Slawson

Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd

The World After Gaza: A History by Pankaj Mishra – Renowned Indian novelist and essayist examines the polarized positions on the conflict in the Middle East through their historical roots against the backdrop of competing 20^th century narratives

The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West by Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska – A scathing indictment of a “culture of complacency” and low ambition that’s taken hold of Silicon Valley and the rest of the western business world

Angels Are with You Now by Kyle Gray

The Science of Racism: Everything You Need to Know but Probably Don't—Yet by Keon West – A frank and funny book by a leading social scientist on what racism actually is and why it persists as a social force

🗣 True Stories

Mavericks: Life stories and lessons of history's most extraordinary misfits by Jenny Draper

Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman by Mallory O'Meara

Stealing Horses to Great Applause: The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered by Paul W. Schroeder

Eternal Flame: The Authorized Biography of The Bangles by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike – The authorized biography of the band behind 80s hits such as “Manic Monday” and “Eternal Flame”

The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy by Jeffrey Toobin – Legal commentator Jeffrey Toobin on the history of the president’s power to issue pardons, including an examination of some of the most controversial pardons

Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy by Katherine Stewart

Windfall: Viola MacMillan and Her Notorious Mining Scandal by Tim Falconer

Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History by Rich Benjamin

Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays by Edgar Gomez – A darkly comic collection of essays about barely scraping by in Florida

💘 Romance

I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming – A woman is abducted by aliens on the verge of completing field research for her doctorate, and finds herself in a love triangle on a planet far from Earth

Pieces of Me by Carrie Ann Ryan

Playing Mr. Perfect by Melissa Foster

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett

Collect the Pieces by Autumn Jones Lake

Blade by Sybil Bartel

Guilliam by Dale Mayer

Scythe & Sparrow by Brynne Weaver

Thief of Hearts by Bec McMaster

Yvonne by Dale Mayer

Cursebound by Saara El-Arifi

But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo – The Shape of Water meets Mexican Gothic in this sapphic monster romance novella

🗡️ Crime, Mystery, and Action

Midnight Black by Mark Greaney

Nemesis by Gregg Hurwitz

Cold as Hell by Kelley Armstrong – Detective Casey Duncan hunts down a serial killer during a deadly blizzard

The Medici Return by Steve Berry – Cotton Malone is hunting for evidence of a debt taken out by Pope Julius II from the Medici of Florence, which over five centuries has grown to trillions—and might be coming due if an heir to the Medicis can be found

Only Murders in the Abbey by Beth Cowan-Erskine

The Antique Hunter's Death on the Red Sea by C.L. Miller

Agricola: Warrior by Simon Turney

Death of a Smuggler by M. C. Beaton

The Case of the Christie Conspiracy by Kelly Oliver

Nothing Breaks Like A Heart (A riveting psychological thriller!) by Barbara Freethy

The Gwendy Trilogy (Boxed Set) by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar

Blood Ties by Jo Nesbo – A pair of brothers is driven to dirty deeds when a new highway threatens to leave their small town stranded and undo the businesses they’ve spent all their lives building

🖊️ Literary & Contemporary Fiction

Three Days in June by Anne Tyler – Taking place over, you guessed it—three days in June—this is the story of a mother of the bride who never feels like she fits in during a time when she’s navigating new and soon-to-be-forged family connections

Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

The Riveter by Jack Wang

We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes – A woman caring for her elderly stepfather is suddenly visited by her biological father who he hasn’t seen in years, throwing her already chaotic life into further disorder

People of Means by Nancy Johnson

Nesting by Roisín O'Donnell

The Echoes by Evie Wyld

Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser

Snowy Day and Other Stories by Lee Chang-dong

Yours, Eventually by Nura Maznavi

Every Tom, Dick & Harry by Elinor Lipman – Emma Lewis wonders whether the big beautiful house where a supposed B & B operates more as a brothel is the kind of client she wants for her estate sale business

The Cobbler's Apprentice by Lynette Rees

🩸 Horror

Scuttler's Cove by David Barnett – As the English seaside town of Scuttler’s Cove finds itself a site of gentrification, the wealthy newcomers seem to be the target of dark forces that the town’s residents may have known about for a long, long time

The Vengeful Dead by Darcy Coates

Short Not Sweet by Keith M. Leonard

✨ Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Speculative Fiction

Rebel Witch by Kristen Ciccarelli

A Dragon of Black Glass by James Rollins

House of Embers by K.A. Linde

The Drowning Sea by David Hair

Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf - A League of Legends: Arcane Novel by C. L. Clark – The story of Ambessa, a character from Netflix’ hit animated series Arcane

Sanctum of the Soul by Kel Kade

The House at Black Tooth Pond by Stephen Mark Rainey

Of Shadows, Stars, and Sabers by Jendia Gammon

The Wrong Side of Sundown by Gene Doucette

Roma Eterna by Robert Silverberg

Combat Monsters: Untold Tales of World War II by Henry Herz

Picks and Shovels by Cory Doctorow – It’s 1986 and Martin Hench is looking for work in Silicon Valley, getting swept up in the startup wave washing out the old guard—but the establishment won’t go without a fight

Halo: Empty Throne by Jeremy Patenaude

The Universe Within by G. S. Jennsen