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Close out spooky season with ’s A New Lease on Death, a darkly funny supernatural mystery that introduces an unlikely crime-solving duo: Ruby, an obnoxious, perky twenty-year-old and Cordelia, the (dead) former tenant of her apartment and amateur sleuth. Grab a copy today!

Happy pub day to ! Set on an isolated Scottish isle and told through multiple timelines and POVs, The Blue Hour is as page-turning as it is unsettling, recalling the sophisticated suspense of Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith and cementing Hawkins’s place among the very best of our most nuanced and stylish storytellers. Grab a signed copy today!

Need a last-minute read for ? Try one of these spooky classics:

🧪Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
⚡️Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
🦇Bram Stoker’s Dracula
🎃Ray Bradbury’s The Halloween Tree
🍎Agatha Christie’s Hallowe’en Party
👻Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House

It's almost Día de los Mu***os, and these books are a great way to get an early start on teaching your kiddos about this special holiday!

💀Day of the Dead Little Golden Book by .oro and
💀Baby's First Bilingual Day of the Dead/Día de Mu***os by

From the ferocious sea monster Ichthyosaurus and the lumbering plated Stegosaurus to Velociratpor, the stealthy two-legged hunter, and Quetzalcoatlus, the God of the skies, Tom Jackson and
goodwivesandwarriors’s Dinopedia is a guide to prehistoric beasts any dino-loving kid will enjoy.

Discover how experts figured out chickens are actually dinosaurs, and explore the answers to the big questions we all want to know about dinosaurs: What did dinosaurs sound like? How did dinosaurs move? What color were dinosaurs?

In Lee and Andrew Child’s newest Jack Reacher thriller, Reacher wakes up alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there.

The last thing Reacher can recall is the car he hitched a ride in getting run off the road. The driver was killed. His captors assume Reacher was the driver’s accomplice and patch up his wounds as they plan to make him talk.

A plan that will backfire spectacularly…

Grab a copy of In Too Deep today!

One week until and , the co-authors of Dr. Ruth’s final book before her passing earlier this year, join us for a signing.

In The Joy of Connections, Dr. Ruth, alongside Emmy Award–winning journalist Allison Gilbert and longtime collaborator Pierre Lehu, tackles the subject with compassion and her trademark no-nonsense approach. She provides practical and creative strategies for finding friends, community, and intimacy. And it’s anchored by Dr. Ruth’s own story, from the horrific loneliness of losing her family in the Holocaust to living in an orphanage to rebuilding her life in America and eventually becoming a world-renowned s*x therapist.

Diwali, the five-day Hindu festival of lights, is starting in just a few days! Teach your little ones about it with the help of these informative and entertaining books:

🪔Diwali by and
🪔 Baby's First Diwali by

In ’s new novel The Secret Pianist, the occupation has taken much from the Cotillard sisters, and as the Germans increase their forces in the seaside town of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Gabriella, Martine and Simone can’t escape the feeling that the walls are closing in.

Yet, just as they should be trying to stay under the radar, Martine’s discovery of a British messenger pigeon leads them down a new and dangerous path. Gaby would do anything to protect her sisters but when the pianist is forced to teach the step-daughter of a German Commandant, and the town accuses the Cotillards of becoming ‘Bad French’ and in allegiance with the enemy, she realizes they have to take the opportunity to fight back that has been handed to them.

Now, as the sisters’ secrets wing their way to an unknown contact in London, Gaby, Martine and Simone have to wonder—have they opened a lifeline, or sealed their fate?

One week until joins us at the Shoppe for a signing of her book Democracy: A Love Letter!

In this funny and accessible guide to political activism, Kelly tackles the most vexing question of our time: what kind of world do we want to live in, and how can we make it happen? Based on hundreds of interviews with activists and organizers, as well as Kelly’s personal experience teaching political science and raising politically savvy kids, this book provides insights into what makes change happen, here and around the world.

Part memoir and part handbook, Democracy: A Love Letter is written for busy people with complicated lives. It will inspire you to change your corner of the world-and then give you the tools you need to do it.

Join us Thursday, December 5th at 7PM with authors Frank DiMatteo and Michael Benson for a signing of their upcoming book Red Hook: Brooklyn Mafia, Ground Zero, out November 26th!

Packed with jaw-dropping stories of public violence and personal vengeance, vivid insights into the Mafia’s way of life, and shocking portraits of America’s most wanted crime families, Red Hook is a must-read for anyone fascinated by the history of organized crime in America. Reserve your copy today!

Written with powerful honesty and dark humor, One Tree Hill star ’s new memoir Dinner for Vampires is an inspiring story about her decade in a cult and her quest to break free. Grab a copy online or at the Shoppe today.

Happy pub day to ! Her intriguing new series debut, Murder on the Page, features a caterer who crafts literary-themed dinner parties—and must ensure that a killer gets their just desserts… Grab a copy today!

Some spooky recent releases to get in the mood for Halloween!

🧛🏻‍♀️So Thirsty by
🐦‍⬛The Hitchcock Hotel by
🪓Heads Will Role by
🧛🏻‍♀️Lucy Undying by

’s Dorothy Parker in Hollywood is an expansive and illuminating study of the legendary writer’s life and legacy in Hollywood. Just as she did with her dual biography of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath, Crowther brings Parker back to life on the page in all her wit, grit, and brilliance. Grab a copy today!

In ’s witty and charming love story, a buttoned-up math professor is forced to rely on her carefree doorman when her identity mysteriously vanishes. As Catherine unravels the truth behind her identity’s disappearance, she may discover that the real Catherine has been missing for a lot longer than she realized. Grab a copy of Wish I Were Here today!

All right, let's settle this—which holiday do you like more? Drop a 🎃 or 🎄 in the comments.

From Neal Stephenson, author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, comes the first installment in his new Bomb Light series—an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age. Grab a copy today!

All-new Skandar and Dork Diaries this week!

Skandar and the Skeleton Curse: As Skandar and his friends begin their fourth year at the Eyrie, the Island’s unicorns are struck by a terrible curse that threatens to change everything. Between a Commodore determined to eliminate the spirit element for good and a sister hellbent on revenge, nowhere is safe for Skandar. Can they stop the curse in its tracks before the Island is lost forever?

Dork Diaries 16: Tales from a Not-So-Bratty Little Sister: It’s almost time for school to start again, and Nikki is a little worried—but, as always, she has her BFFS to help. Only, it turns out her friends need Nikki’s help. Nikki quickly gets overwhelmed and even starts feeling sick...which is when her little sister, Brianna, takes her chance to steal Nikki’s diary! How much damage can Brianna do before Nikki is back on her feet?

Whether you’re a fan of , a foodie, or both, What I Ate in One Year has something for you. This funny, poignant, heartfelt, and deeply satisfying serving of memories and meals over the “course” of a year is an irresistible celebration of the profound role that food plays in all our lives. Grab a copy today!

The cover art for the upcoming Hunger Games novel Sunrise on the Reaping has finally been revealed, and ICYMI we’re giving 20% off to anyone who preorders with us! You can place your order in-person at the Shoppe, over the phone at 718 833 5115, or online at bookmarkshoppe.com. You can also shoot us a DM for more info.

Sunrise on the Reaping revisits the world of Panem twenty-four years before the events of the first book, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Fiftieth Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell. Who else is excited to meet a young Haymitch?!

Happy pub day to and ! The first installment in their brand-new spinoff series of the Zodiac Academy books hits shelves today—grab a copy online or at the Shoppe!

This enemies-to-lovers romantasy series is set in the same world as Zodiac Academy, but it’s a dark and villainous tale of its own. You haven’t met tainted souls like these before or enemies that hate each other as deeply as these characters do. Never Keep will leave your heart raw and bloody. You’ll be left gasping for breath and aching for more of the twisted Fae who lurk between the pages—and who might just be irredeemable.

One month until joins us for Book Club to discuss The Sequel, her follow-up to The Plot! Join us Thursday, November 17th at 7PM.

With her signature wit and sardonic humor, Jean Hanff Korelitz gives readers an antihero to root for while illuminating and satirizing the world of publishing in this deliciously fun and suspenseful read. Grab a copy today!