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Adult Fiction
Lady Tan’s CIrcle of Women - Lisa See
Familiaris - David Wroblewski
Margo’s Got Money Troubles - Rufi Thorpe
The Knockout Artist - Harry Crews
Arts& Entertainment
Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell - Ann Powers
Hip-Hop is History - Questlove
Biography
My Friend Anne Frank - Hannah Pick-Goslar
Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir - Griffin Dunne
Body, Mind & Spirit
Loving Life as It Is: A Buddhist Guide to Ultimate Happiness - Chakung Jigme Wangdrak
Board Book
Good Night Great Outdoors - Adam Gamble, Mark Jasper
Baby Loves Paleontology - Ruth Spiro
Calendars
Cartoons from the New Yorker 2025 Day-To-Day Calendar - Conde Nast
ohanna Basford 12-Month 2025 Weekly Coloring Calendar - Johanna Basford
Children’s Poetry
Enchanted Tales - Laura Sampson, Quang and Lien
Cookbooks
The Salad Lab - Darlene Schrijver
Current Events & Politics
What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? - Raja Shehadeh
Family Issues
The Magical Science of Feelings - Jen Daily
History
The Western Front - Nick Lloyd
Horror
Cuckoo - Gretchen Felker-Martin
Fever House - Keith Rosson
Just the Facts
Erno Rubik and His Magic Cube - Kerry Aradhya, Kara Kramer
Taylor Swift - Maria Isabel Vegara Sanchez, Borghild Fallberg
Manga & Adult Graphic Novels
Naruto: Sasuke's Story--The Uchiha and the Heavenly Stardust: The Manga, Vol. 1 - Shingo Kimura
Middle Readers
The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman - Gennifer Choldenko
How to Catch a Polar Bear - Stacy Dekeyser
My First Readers
History of Hawai'ii - DK
Mystery & Thriller
The Night in the Library - Eva Jurczyk
The Housemaid is Watching - Freida McFadden
Horror Movie - Paul Tremblay
Obsessed - James Patterson, James O. Born
The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby - Ellery Lloyd
Middletide - Sarah Crouch
One of Our Kind - Nicola Yoon
Picture Books
Bubble Gum Bison Needs a Bath - Scott Rothman
Romance
Swan Song - Elin Hilderbarnd
Not in Love - Ali Hazelwood
Science
Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin - Howard Markel
Science & Nature
There’s a Mountain in This Book - Rachel Elliot
Social Sciences
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew It - Greg Marshall
Young Adult
The Shadows Between Us - Tricia Levenseller
Be Glad!
We hope everyone had an awesome First Friday yesterday! The rain lifted long enough to enjoy the arts, music, and tasty food. So many things to be glad about! Speaking of, today is Be Glad Day here in our cozy little town!
Here's a schedule of the happenings in Littleton straight from the GoLittleton website.
11am-2pm: Strawberry Shortcake and Plant Sale at Community Center
1am: Glad Day Hat Decorating Party on Library Lawn
11:30am - 1pm: Celebrate with Lollipop the Clown and watch her balloon artistry
Noon: Group Photo at the Sculpture!
12:15pm: Pollyanna Scavenger Hunt around the Library Lawn area & downtown
1pm - 3pm: Karaoke with Phil Rivera on the Library Lawn - get your glad song ready!
3pm-4pm: Cupcake Eating Contest at Jack & Fin's, 42 Main Street
We'll be here today until 6pm. Come say hey!
Little Village celebrates 10 years with new, commemorative merch!
Little Village is officially hitting the 10-year mark next week! To celebrate our little book shop turning 10 we'll be sharing several announcements over the coming weeks & we have our first announcement right now!
We now have official Little Village 10-year commemorative bookmarks, which are absolutely FREE, as well as cotton & gusseted tote bags available for purchase in-store at our registers for a limited time.
Shout-out to Foto Factory for providing us with a new hanging sign and window cling celebrating our 10 years here in Littleton. Thank you!
New Releases | June 4th, 2024
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Arts & Entertainment
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood - Maureen Ryan
The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage - Nick De Semlyen
Biography
You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir - Maggie Smith
Paris: The Memoir - Paris Hilton
Board Books
Diggers Love to Go to School - Brianna Caplan Sayres
Potty Time! (Little Loves) - Caroline Jayne Church
David Goes to School - David Shannon
The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Birthday Party: With a Special Foldout Surprise - Eric Carle
The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Nature Walk: A Search-And-Find Book - Eric Carle
Calendars
Disney Dreams Collection by Thomas Kinkade Studios: 2025 Wall Calendar - Thomas Kinkade
Thomas Kinkade Studios 2025 Deluxe Wall Calendar - Thomas Kinkade
Chapter Books
Fairy-Tale Puppy Picnic : [The Party Diaries 4] - Mitali Banerjee Ruths
Cookbooks
The Young Forever Cookbook: More Than 100 Delicious Recipes for Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life - Mark Hyman
Amrikan: 125 Recipes from the Indian American Diaspora - Khushbu Shah
Current Events & Politics
Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind - Annalee Newitz
Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation - Tom McGrath
The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free - Pete Hegseth
The Death of Truth - Steven Brill
Fiction
Banyan Moon: A Read with Jenna Pick - Thao Thai
Fire Exit - Morgan Talty
My Husband - Maud Ventura
Maybe Next Time: A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick - Cesca Major
Enlightenment - Sarah Perry
Swift River - Essie Chambers
Brat - Gabriel Smith
Good Night, Irene - Luis Alberto Urrea
Service - Sarah Gilmartin
The Coast Road - Alan Murrin
Shelterwood - Lisa WIngate
A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories
Crook Manifesto - Colson Whitehead
The First Ladies - Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher
Lucky Red - Claudia Cravens
Fun & Games
Outdoor Skills for Kids: The Essential Survival Guide to Increasing Confidence, Safety, and Enjoyment - Buck Tilton, Christine Conners
Graphic Novels
Super Pancake and the Mini Muffin Mayhem: (A Graphic Novel) - Megan Wagner Lloyd
The New Girl: A Graphic Novel (the New Girl #1) - Cassandra Calin
History
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions - Amanda Bellows
The Hidden History of the White House: Power Struggles, Scandals, and Defining Moments - Corey Mead
When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day - Garrett M. Graff
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped - Timothy Egan
Why War? - Richard Overy
Horror
Youthjuice - E.K. Sathue
The Beast You Are: Stories - Paul Tremblay
Manga & Adult Graphic Novels
My Hero Academia, Vol. 38 - Kohei Horikoshi
Sakamoto Days, Vol. 12 - Yuto Suzuki
Batman: The Court of Owls Saga: DC Compact Comics Edition - Scott Snyder
Watchmen: DC Compact Comics Edition - Alan Moore
Spider-Man: Reign [New Printing] - Kaare Andrews
Kaiju No. 8, Vol. 10 - Naoya Matsumoto
Middle Readers
The City Beyond the Sea : [Greenwild 2] - Pari Thomson
Blackberry Fox - KathrinTordasi
Ruby's Tools for Making Friends - Apryl Stott
My First Readers
Pupstruction: Meet the Pups Level Pre K - Sheila Sweeny Higginson
Mystery & Thriller
Dead Man's Wake - Paul Doiron
How Can I Help You - Laura Sims
The 6:20 Man: A Thriller - David Baldacci
The Unwedding - Ally Condie
Eruption: The Big One Is Coming--Michael Crichton and James Patterson--The Thriller of the Year - Michael Crichton, James Patterson
Nature
This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder - Alan Townsend
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds - Jennifer Ackerman
Picture Books
The Outside - Gianna Marino
Little Shrew - Akiko Miyakoshi
Pete the Cat Screams for Ice Cream! - James Dean, Kimberly Dean
Are You Small? - Mo Willems
Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall - Lynn Brunelle
Romance
The Wren in the Holly Library (Deluxe Limited Edition) - K. A. Linde
The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King: Book 2 of the Nightborn Duet - Carissa Broadbent
Off to the Races - Elsie Silver
Leather & Lark: The Ruinous Love Trilogy - Brynne Weaver
Out on a Limb - Hannah Bonam-Young
Summer Romance - Annabel Monaghan
Experienced - Kate Young
Fate of the Sun King - Nisha J. Tuli
Science & Nature
1,000 Facts about Sharks - Sarah Wassner Flynn
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Wolfsong: A Green Creek Novel - T. J. Klune
Mirrored Heavens [Between Earth and Sky 3] - Rebecca Roanhorse
Social Sciences
Dear Cis(gender) People: A Guide to Allyship and Empathy - Kenny Ethan Jones
The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America - Elizabeth Dias, Lisa Lerer
Birds Aren't Real: The True Story of Mass Avian Murder and the Largest Surveillance Campaign in Us History - Peter McIndoe, Connor Gaydos
Spinner Rack Books
Getting Ready for Preschool - Vera Ahiyya
Getting Ready for Kindergarten - Vera Ahiyya
Young Adult
The Deep Dark: A Graphic Novel - Molly Knox Ostertag
Past Present Future - Rachel Lynn Solomon
The First to Die at the End - Adam Silvera
Looking for Smoke - K. A. Cobell
Heiress Takes All - Emily Wibberley, Austin Siegemund-Broka
I Kissed Shara Wheeler - Casey McQuiston
Penny Jar Proceeds June 2024
June Penny Jar Proceeds will be going to North Country Pride - Littleton, NH !
All of us here at Little Village are truly elated to help support their mission and promote equality and diversity.
If you would like to learn more, stay up to date with, or get involved with this wonderful organization, visit their website and social media accounts below:
➜ NCP Website: https://www.northcountrypridenh.org
➜ NCP on Instagram: North Country Pride - Littleton, NH
Pride picks @ Little Village!
Happy Pride!
We’ve curated a handful of fantastic pride themed items such as LGBTQ+ titles, dice for your next campaign, stickers, button badges, and more!
“Before Can’t Resist Her, romance was the only genre I didn’t read. This second chance romance featuring rivals to lovers was my turning point for the genre. If you’re looking for a queer, contemporary romance with characters forced to examine their own moral convictions in a chance for love, look no further.” - Andi
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue - “Pirates, adventure, and a secret crush set in the eighteenth century makes for a modernized version of a classic style story. Mackenzi Lee writes a fast paced adventure story with good LGBTQ+ representation. Monty is the typical spoiled heir trying to differentiate himself from his father, but through his friendship and the quest for a cure for his friend's epilepsy he learns who he is and who he wants to be.” - Katherine
Want a sneak peek? Click a title in the drop-down below for a peek at the back of the book!
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A stunning "portrait of the enduring grace of friendship" (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.
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After years away from home, Summer Graves is back in Austin, Texas, to accept a new teaching position. Of all the changes to the old neighborhood, the most dispiriting one is the slated demolition of the high school her grandmother founded. There's no way she can let developers destroy her memories and her family legacy. But the challenge stirs memories of another kind.
On the architectural team revitalizing the neighborhood, hometown girl Aiko Holt is all about progress. Then she sees Summer again. Some things never change.
Neither can forget the kiss they shared at their senior-year dance. Neither can back down from her unwavering beliefs about what's right for the neighborhood.
For now, the only thing Summer and Aiko are willing to give in to is a heat that still burns. But can two women with so much passion--for what once was and what could be--agree to disagree long enough to fall in love? -
KIRKUS PRIZE NOMINEE
ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK FOR TEENS
NEIBA NEW ENGLAND YOUNG ADULT BOOK AWARD WINNER
Witty, romantic, and irresistible from the first line to the last, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue is the unforgettable escapade of Lord Henry "Monty" Montague, a charming young scoundrel who fully expects to carouse his way through his Grand Tour. However, Monty's plan for one last hedonistic hurrah with his best friend and secret crush, Percy, quickly turns into a harrowing manhunt across eighteenth-century Europe. Truly a novel that's meant to be savored and not to be missed. -
In the past, the universe is a glitterball I hold in the palm of my hand.
In the past, I am brilliant and I am happy and my every tomorrow is madness.
In the past, I am soaring, and falling, and breaking, and lost.
And now, there is only this.
Once the golden boy of the English literary scene, now a clinically depressed writer of pulp crime fiction, Ash Winters has given up on hope, happiness, and--most of all--himself. He lives his life between the cycles of his illness, haunted by the ghosts of other people's expectations.
Then a chance encounter throws him into the path of Essex-born Darian Taylor. Flashy and loud, radiant and full of life, Darian couldn't be more different...and yet he makes Ash laugh, reminding him of what it's like to step beyond the boundaries of his anxiety. But Ash has been living in his own shadow for so long that he can no longer see a way out. Can a man who doesn't trust himself ever trust in happiness? And how can someone who doesn't believe in happiness ever fight for his own? -
"A moving chronicle of trans resilience and joy" (Vogue) from one of Out100's Most Impactful and Influential LGBTQ+ Storytellers
"Groundbreaking . . . [Rocero] quite literally models what triumph can look like."--Glamour (Women of the Year) -
A NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER!
A 2021 Alex Award winner!
The 2021 RUSA Reading List: Fantasy Winner!
An Indie Next Pick!
One of Publishers Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2020"
One of Book Riot's "20 Must-Read Feel-Good Fantasies"
Lambda Literary Award-winning author TJ Klune's bestselling, breakout contemporary fantasy that's "1984 meets The Umbrella Academy with a pinch of Douglas Adams thrown in." (Gail Carriger)
A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret.
Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages.
When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children reside: a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, a were-Pomeranian, and the Antichrist. Linus must set aside his fears and determine whether or not they're likely to bring about the end of days.
But the children aren't the only secret the island keeps. Their caretaker is the charming and enigmatic Arthur Parnassus, who will do anything to keep his wards safe. As Arthur and Linus grow closer, long-held secrets are exposed, and Linus must make a choice: destroy a home or watch the world burn.
An enchanting story, masterfully told, The House in the Cerulean Sea is about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place--and realizing that family is yours. -
***An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!***
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date--a deeply intimate memoir of discovery, found family, and self-acceptance. The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame and changing the way the world thinks about drag.
Central to RuPaul's success has been his chameleonic adaptability. From drag icon to powerhouse producer of one of the world's largest television franchises, RuPaul's ever-shifting nature has always been part of his brand as both supermodel and supermogul. Yet that adaptability has made him enigmatic to the public. In this memoir, his most intimate and detailed book yet, RuPaul makes himself truly known.
In The House of Hidden Meanings, RuPaul strips away all artifice and recounts the story of his life with breathtaking clarity and tenderness, bringing his signature wisdom and wit to his own biography. From his early years growing up as a queer Black kid in San Diego navigating complex relationships with his absent father and temperamental mother, to forging an identity in the punk and drag scenes of Atlanta and New York, to finding enduring love with his husband Georges LeBar and self-acceptance in sobriety, RuPaul excavates his own biography life-story, uncovering new truths and insights in his personal history.
Here in RuPaul's singular and extraordinary story is a manual for living--a personal philosophy that testifies to the value of chosen family, the importance of harnessing what makes you different, and the transformational power of facing yourself fearlessly.
A profound introspection of his life, relationships, and identity, The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame and changing the way the world thinks about drag. "I've always loved to view the world with analytical eyes, examining what lies beneath the surface. Here, the focus is on my own life--as RuPaul Andre Charles," says RuPaul.
If we're all born naked and the rest is drag, then this is RuPaul totally out of drag. This is RuPaul stripped bare. -
Little Village Toy & Book Shop Monthly Staff Pick - April 2024
2023GMA BUZZ PICK - INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER AND AWARD WINNER - A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I - "Will live in your mind long after you've closed the final pages." --Maggie O'Farrell, best-selling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait
A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR
"In Memoriam is the story of a great tragedy, but it is also a moving portrait of young love, and there is often a lightness to the book."--The New York Times
It's 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. News of the heroic deaths of their friends only makes the war more exciting.
Gaunt, half German, is busy fighting his own private battle--an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, the glamorous, charming Ellwood--without a clue that Ellwood is pining for him in return. When Gaunt's family asks him to enlist to forestall the anti-German sentiment they face, Gaunt does so immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings for Ellwood. To Gaunt's horror, Ellwood rushes to join him at the front, and the rest of their classmates soon follow. Now death surrounds them in all its grim reality, often inches away, and no one knows who will be next.
An epic tale of both the devastating tragedies of war and the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip, In Memoriam is a breathtaking debut. -
Little Village Toy & Book Shop Monthly Staff Pick - June 2023
* HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA *
"[An] exquisitely crafted tale...Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of meaning as it plays with cause and effect, wildly imaginative technologies, and increasingly intricate wordplay...This short novel warrants multiple readings to fully unlock its complexities." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
From award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone comes an enthralling, romantic novel spanning time and space about two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future.
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading.
Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.
Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That's how war works, right?
Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space. -
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - This essay collection from the "bitches gotta eat" blogger, writer on Hulu's Shrill and HBO's And Just Like That, and "one of our country's most fierce and foulmouthed authors" (Amber Tamblyn, Vulture) is sure to make you alternately cackle with glee and cry real tears.
"A sidesplitting polemicist for the most awful situations."--The New York Times
Whether Samantha Irby is talking about how her difficult childhood has led to a problem in making "adult" budgets; explaining why she should be the new Bachelorette (she's "35-ish, but could easily pass for 60-something"); detailing a disastrous pilgrimage-slash-romantic-vacation to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes; sharing awkward sexual encounters; or dispensing advice on how to navigate friendships with former drinking buddies who are now suburban moms (hang in there for the Costco loot!); she's as deft at poking fun at the ghosts of her past self as she is at capturing powerful emotional truths.
Don't miss Samantha Irby's bestselling new book, Quietly Hostile!