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New Book Releases: Adult Fiction & Nonfiction

Check out these new titles released on February 4, 2025 at the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library. The list is sorted alphabetically by author's last name.

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  • Hot Date!

    Sweet & Savory Recipes Celebrating the Date, From Party Food to Everyday Feasts

    Alkhatib, Rawaan,
    "The first comprehensive cookbook on an ancient superfood and the cultures that revere it. Mesmerizing and art-packed, Hot Date! features 99 mouthwatering, date-centered recipes that are the perfect mix of traditional favorites and inspired new…
    Book, 2025San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2025] — 641.6462 AL49h
  • "December 1981, Ethiopia. Tsegaye Hailemaryam, a well-known journalist for the state-run media, has just landed in Asmara. He is on assignment as the head of propaganda for the Red Star campaign, a massive effort by the Ethiopian government to end…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Soho, 2025. — FICTION BAALU GERMA
  • After stealing the spotlight as a teenaged Broadway performer during the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Josephine then took Paris by storm, dazzling audiences across the Roaring Twenties. In her famous banana skirt, she enraptured royalty and…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Tiny Reparations Books, 2025. — 921 Baker, Josephine
  • "In Ibadan, Nigeria, a mother receives a divination that foretells danger for her daughter in America. In spite of this warning, she allows her to forge her own path, and Amina arrives in New Orleans filled with hope. But just as Amina begins to…
    Book, 2025Portland, Oregon : Tin House, 2025. — FICTION BANKOLE Olufunke Grace
  • The 5 Types of Wealth

    a Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

    Bloom, Sahil,
    "Reject the default path, define your priorities, and achieve lasting happiness with this transformative guide to your dream life-a life centered around the five types of wealth"--Provided by publisher.
    Book, 2025New York : Ballantine Books, [2025] — 158.1 BLO
  • "An R&B singer and a PR executive find love that hits the right notes in this romance by Kristina Forest, USA Today bestselling author of The Partner Plot. Iris Greene used to be a woman with a plan. But all of that changed after she met the love of…
    Book, 2025New York : Berkley Romance, 2025. — FICTION Forest, Kristina
  • From Ted to Tom

    the Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey

    Gorey, Edward, 1925-2000,
    Making Pottery Without a Kiln: Happy Little Projects to Make for Your Home is the perfect companion for anyone who wants to work pottery with their hands from home! Inside, author Daniela Schmidt-Kohl, owner of the KlickerKram shop, will help "mold"…
    Book, 2025New York : New York Review Books, [2025] — 741.68 G669f
  • "An eye-opening, atmospheric novel set in the South and Midwest during the time of Jim Crow that reveals a little-known part of American pre-civil rights history of Black intrigue and power. In the South, justice is swift and absolute. Jordan Sable,…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group, 2025. — FICTION GRANT Gail Milissa
  • The Uncanny Muse

    Music, Art, and Machines From Automata to AI

    Hajdu, David,
    An acclaimed critic, journalist, and songwriter-musician tells the story of art's relation to machines, from the Baroque period to the age of AI.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : W W, [2025] — 700.285 HAJ
  • Owned

    How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left

    Higgins, Eoin,
    "Matt Taibbi used to take on the rich and powerful, but today, his reporting is crafted to please grievance-addicted American conservatives. Glenn Greenwald, whose reporting on the Snowden leaks arguably changed the course of history, has similarly…
    Book, 2025New York, N.Y. : Bold Type Books, 2025. — 071.3 H535o
  • "A tightly bound Nigerian family living in Florida navigate wounds passed down from generation to generation"--Provided by publisher.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2025. — F IROMUANYA, Julie
  • The object was a black orb, roughly two meters in diameter. Despite its large size, it made no sound as it moved. Although it wasn't chasing Jeong-su fast enough to catch him, it was unrelenting and persistent in its pursuit... One evening in…
    Book, 2025Toronto, Ontario : Mira, [2025] — FICTION KIM I-hwan
  • Shift

    Managing Your Emotions-- So They Don't Manage You

    Kross, Ethan,
    "A myth-busting, science-based guide that addresses the timeless question of how to manage your emotional life using tools you already possess-from the bestselling author of Chatter"--Provided by publisher.
    Book, 2025New York : Crown Publishing, [2025] — 152.4 KROSS
  • How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying

    Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko's Fight for Ukraine

    Marlowe, Lara,
    Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko, a commander in the Ukrainian army serving on the front line of battle, embodies her country's resistance to the Russian invasion. When her father self-immolated on Maidan Square in central Kyiv in an act of protest, she…
    Book, 2024Brooklyn : Melville House, 2024. — 921 MYK
  • "Devoted wife, White House maid, reluctant activist... A stirring novel inspired by the life of an unsung heroine, and real-life crusader, Lizzie McDuffie, who, as a maid in FDR's White House, spearheaded the Civil Rights movement of her…
    Book, 2025New York : William Morrow, [2025] — FIC MOON, Shara
  • "A stripper's madcap search for her missing ex-boyfriend takes her over the edge in this whip-smart, wildly funny novel about love, sex, work, and sex work"--Provided by publisher.
    Book, 2025New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025. — FICTION NEWELL Brittany
  • "A dystopian cyberpunk coming-of-age novel about a mutant mosquito-kid set in 2272 Argentina when all the ice caps have melted and mega-conglomerates rule the world with their virofinance"--Provided by publisher.
    Book, 2025New York : Astra House, 2025. — FICTION NIEVA Michel
  • The Escape Line's collapse would leave thousands stranded. Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, its architect and the acknowledged leader of The Choir, broods inside the Vatican, paralyzed by the perils of keeping his Roman underground railroad functioning.…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2025. — FICTION O'Connor, Joseph REL#2
  • "From an incendiary new talent, a contemporary folktale in which a mother and daughter take in passersby and eat them, exploring queerness, first loves, and tense mother-daughter relationships. Margot and Mama have lived by the forest ever since…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Harper, 2025. — F ROSE, Lucy
  • Captive Queen

    the Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots

    Scott, Jade, 1989-
    For almost two decades before her execution at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was a prisoner. From her chambers, she wrote countless letters, many encrypted using complex ciphers to prevent her communications from being…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2025. — 921 Sco