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Nonfiction Releases

Book cover titled “Becoming a U.S. Citizen” with an image of a U.S. passport on a white background. The book offers guidance on the law, exam, and interview.
Book cover titled “IRAs, 401(k)s & Other Retirement Plans” with a nest egg image and bullet points about calculating distributions, minimizing taxes, and avoiding penalties.
Book cover for “Disrupt Everything and Win” by James Patterson and Patrick Leddin, PhD, featuring a yellow background with bold black and white text.
Book cover of “Replaceable You” by Mary Roach, featuring a stylized human face made of circles on a blue background, with yellow and white text.
Book cover shows “It Doesn’t Have to Hurt” by Sanjay Gupta, MD, with a photo of the author smiling and subtitle “Your Smart Guide to a Pain-Free Life.”.
Cover of “The Blue Zones Kitchen: One Pot Meals” featuring a pot of vegetable stew, a spoon, a glass of wine, and herbs, with text promoting 100 recipes to live to 100 by Dan Buettner.
Book cover of “Six Seasons of Pasta” by Joshua McFadden, featuring pasta illustrations above and a bowl of pasta below, with beige and brown background.
A cookbook titled “Sally’s Baking 101” by Sally McKenney, featuring a slice of layered meringue pie and a glass bottle of milk with a straw on the cover.
A woman in a blue dress stands in a kitchen, preparing food. The book cover reads, “Hungry Happens Mediterranean” by Stella Drivas.
Book cover of “Good Things” by Samin Nosrat, featuring colorful, large text and the subtitle “recipes and rituals to share with people you love.”.
Book cover for “The Unexpected Journey” by Emma Heming Willis features a black and white photo of a man and woman smiling at each other on a light blue background.
Priscilla Presley stands in front of a large white house on the cover of her book “Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis.”.
A woman with long blonde hair wearing a red blazer poses with her chin resting on her hand. The book cover reads, “Sister Wife: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Finding Freedom.”.
A person in a sports jersey is captured mid-basketball shot in black and white, with the text “STEPHEN CURRY” and “GET READY” overlaid on the image.
Book cover for “Reacher: The Stories Behind the Stories” by Lee Child, featuring a black silhouette against a green background with large yellow and white text.
Book cover for “Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist” by Danille Puley-Meenr, featuring a portrait of Lin-Manuel Miranda with colorful collage elements.
Book cover of “Chasing Evil” by John Edward and Robert Hilland, featuring bold black and red text on a white and red background.
Book cover for “Confronting Evil” by Bill O’Reilly and Josh Hammer, featuring portraits of four historical figures on a dark background with red and white text.
Book cover for “Awake: A Memoir” by Jen Hatmaker, featuring bold blue and orange text over a pink and purple flower illustration.
Book cover of “All the Way to the River” by Elizabeth Gilbert, featuring colorful, abstract vertical and wavy lines, with the subtitle “Love, Loss, and Liberation” at the bottom.
Blue book cover with large yellow text “107 DAYS” and smaller white text “KAMALA HARRIS” below it.
Book cover of “Disney Adults” by AJ Wolfe, featuring a castle and colorful balloons against a blue sky, with the subtitle “Exploring (and Falling in Love with) a Magical Subculture.”.
Book cover of “The Happiness Files: Insights on Work and Life” by Arthur C. Brooks, featuring black text on a yellow background with white horizontal blinds pattern.
Cover of the book “Mayo Clinic on Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias,” featuring soft abstract pink and blue shapes in the background.
A woman serves food at a dining table set with plates and bowls; the cover text reads “IN FOR DINNER ROSIE KELLY.”.
Black and white book cover for “Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run” by Peter Ames Carlin, featuring a man in a leather jacket holding an electric guitar.
Book cover for “The Fairbanks Four” with a mountain landscape and four figures; subtitle reads “Murder, Injustice, and the Birth of a Movement” by Brian Patrick O’Donoghue.
Book cover of “Semi-Well-Adjusted” by Alyson Stoner, featuring a close-up of a woman’s face against a blue background with yellow and white text.
Black and white photo of a book with a close-up portrait of a man on the cover and “BALDWIN” printed vertically along the spine.
Book cover for “The Unofficial Guide: Walt Disney World 2026,” featuring Cinderella Castle at night with fireworks, and promotional text about saving time and money.
Cover of The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2026 featuring ornate illustrations, title text, and weather forecasts for 2026.
Book cover for “The Martians” by David Baron, featuring a red background with vintage newspaper clippings and bold white title text.
The Princeton Review 2026 book cover titled “The Best 391 Colleges,” featuring a red brick clock tower against a blue sky.
Book cover for “Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History” by Houthi Al-Rashid, featuring stylized waves and a dark blue and gold color scheme.
Book cover for “I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays” by Maris Kreizman, featuring a red background and a photo of lipsticks on notecards.
Book cover of “The Relaxed Woman” by Nicola Jane Hobbs, featuring a pastel pink and orange gradient background with white and gold text.
A woman holds a basketball on the cover of a book titled “The Can-Do Mindset” by Candace Parker. The subtitle reads: How to Cultivate Resilience, Follow Your Heart, and Fight for Your Passions.
Book cover for “Autism, Sensory & Behavior: The Way I See It” by Dr. Temple Grandin, featuring bold white text on a brown background with a colorful brain illustration at the center.
Cover of “The Ultimate Scholarship Book 2026” by Gen and Kelly Tanabe, featuring tips and statistics about scholarships, grants, and prizes for students.
Cover of “QuickBooks 2025 All-in-One For Dummies” showing a smiling woman with curly hair and glasses, and text highlighting “8 Books in One!” by Stephen L. Nelson.
Book cover of “Boustany: A Celebration of Vegetables from My Palestine” by Sami Tamimi, featuring green and orange abstract vegetable illustrations.
Book cover of “The Hiroshima Men” by Iain MacGregor, featuring black and white portraits of four men, an airplane, and red bold title text.
Book cover for “The CIA Book Club” by Charlie English, with stacked books, red and white text, and a silhouette of a person against a city skyline.
Book cover of “The Boys in the Light” by Nina Willner, featuring a misty forest background and subtitle about World War II survival, faith, and brotherhood.
Book cover of “The Beast in the Clouds” featuring a giant panda in a tree, misty mountains, and portraits of the Roosevelt brothers at the bottom.
Book cover for “Monopoly” by Philip E. Orbanes featuring black and white WWII images, Monopoly game elements, and red accents.
Book cover of “Midnight on the Potomac” by Scott Ellsworth, showing the U.S. Capitol at night with a full moon reflected on the Potomac River.
Book cover of “Dinner with King Tut” by Sam Kean, showing King Tut’s mask surrounded by illustrated hands holding various utensils and tools on a yellow background.
Book cover of “The Aviator and the Showman” by Laurie Gwen Shapiro, featuring black-and-white photos of Amelia Earhart and George Putnam with a small airplane image between them.
Book cover showing basketball player Caitlin Clark preparing to shoot, with the title “On Her Game” and author Christine Brennan’s name displayed.
Book cover of “JFK: Public, Private, Secret” by J. Randy Taraborrelli, featuring a black and white photo of JFK sitting and looking pensive.
Book cover for “Angelica” by Molly Beer featuring a large yellow star with the text “For love and country in a time of revolution” over an image of a woman in historical dress.
Book cover of “A Marriage at Sea” by Sophie Elmhirst, featuring an illustration of a small boat with two people and a sail, on a blue background.
Book cover of “The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy” by James Patterson and Vicky Ward, featuring four young people posing together and text describing it as an investigative true crime account.
A wooden building decorated with colorful fishing buoys, with a weathervane shaped like a plane on the roof. The image is the cover of a Fodor’s Travel guide.
Cover of “Fodor’s Essential Japan” travel guide featuring a traditional Japanese castle with trees and blue sky.
Cover of a Fodor’s Travel guidebook for Colorado, featuring a winter scene of a mountain town with snow-covered buildings and mountains in the background.
Book cover of “100 Places to See After You Die” by Ken Jennings, featuring historical and fantastical afterlife scenes with people, animals, and surreal backgrounds.
Book cover for “Rich Girl Nation” by Katie Gatti Tassin, featuring a woman in a pink outfit sitting against an orange background, with handwritten white text.
Book cover of “1001 Ways to Pay for College” by Gen and Kelly Tanabe, featuring a graduation cap and text about financial aid, scholarships, and grants.
Book cover of “The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück” by Lynne Olson, featuring women walking toward a gate in black and white, with the title and subtitle about resistance in a Nazi concentration camp.
Book cover for “Murderland” by Caroline Fraser, featuring a man’s face blended with an industrial landscape under a cloudy sky.
Book cover of “Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster” by Gerri Willis, showing a woman in a long blue dress with gold text overlaid.
Book cover for “The Story of ABBA: Melancholy Undercover” by Jan Gradvall, featuring a black-and-white photo of four people and colorful text.
Book cover featuring a painted portrait of John Hancock with the title “John Hancock: First to Sign, First to Invest in America’s Independence” by Willard Sterne Randall.
Book cover for “How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir” by Molly Jong-Fast, featuring a black-and-white photo of a woman and child on a gray background with yellow and white text.
Book cover for “Careless People” by Sarah Wynn-Williams, featuring a blue square with a gray shark fin and subtitle, “A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism.”.
Cover of “The Ultimate Spanish 101” premium second edition book, featuring icons related to Spanish culture and language learning, and text describing it as a first-year course.
Cover of “Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Conversation, Premium Fourth Edition” by Jean Yates, featuring study program highlights and a city scene illustration on the left side.
Book cover of “Practice Makes Perfect: Basic English, Fourth Edition” by Julie Lachance, featuring the Golden Gate Bridge and study program features listed on the front.
Cover of the book “Polish For Dummies” featuring decorated Polish Easter eggs and a yellow section with learning highlights.
Book cover of “Korean For Dummies” 2nd edition, featuring a traditional Korean pavilion by a lake with mountains in the background.
Cover of “Gujarati Student Dictionary” showing title, key features, and a geometric patterned background in red, blue, and gold.
Book cover of “Complete English All-in-One for ESL Learners” featuring the Washington Monument and text about English study resources for ESL learners.
Book cover of “Write Through It: An Insider’s Guide to Publishing and the Creative Life” by Kate McKean, with a geometric patterned background.
Book cover with colorful dog silhouette and large text: “This Dog Will Change Your Life.” Author: Elias Weiss Friedman, also known as The Dogist.
Book cover for “The Everyday Naturalist” by Brenda Jern, featuring illustrated plants, fungi, and animals against a dark background.
Cover of the book “Rick Steves Italy” featuring colorful buildings on a cliff above the sea in an Italian coastal village.
Cover of “The Princeton Review Digital SAT Prep 2026” book, featuring a pencil eraser on a keyboard and a list of study features.
Book cover for “Martha Stewart’s Gardening Handbook” with green garden design background and white title text.
Book cover for “Cloud Warriors” by Thomas E. Weber, featuring satellite imagery of swirling storms over the ocean with title and subtitle text overlayed.
Kaplan ACT Premium Prep 2026 book cover, featuring text about 5 practice tests, proven strategies, and a guarantee of a higher score.
Book cover for “Who Deserves Your Love” by KC Davis, featuring a person holding a large blue heart on a dark blue background.
Book cover of “We Can Do Hard Things” by Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, and Amanda Doyle, with an abstract orange background and white text.
Book cover of “The Mama Natural Week-by-Week Guide to Pregnancy & Childbirth” by Genevieve Howland, with illustrated items related to pregnancy and two women on a turquoise background.
Book cover of “The Courage to Change” by Joyce Meyer, featuring brushstroke designs in blue and green on a white background.
Book cover of “The #1 Dad Book” by James Patterson, featuring bold blue text on a light background and a quote review at the bottom.
Book cover of “How to Sleep Like a Caveman” by Dr. Merijn van de Laar, featuring a blue stone shape on a black background with white text.
Book cover for “Original Sin” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, featuring a person covering their eyes with both hands and white title text over a grayscale background.
The cover of “The Condiment Book” by Claire Dinhut shows a woman sitting at a table with food and a jar of sauce, against a white wooden background.
Book cover of “Easy Air Fryer” by Jamie Oliver, featuring food photos and a man in a yellow shirt sitting at a table with a burger.
A smiling person sits in a car holding a plate with a slice of red cake. The book title reads “Baking Across America: A Vintage Recipe Road Trip” by B. Dylan Hollis.
Book cover of “Selling Online for Dummies” featuring a man taking a photo of a shoe with his phone, plus text bubbles about selling online.
Book cover titled “Retirement 101: A Crash Course in Retirement Planning” by Michele Cagan, featuring illustrations of books, a nest egg, and a graduation cap on a white background.
Book cover for “Building a Parenting Agreement That Works” by Nolo, featuring colorful alphabet blocks and text about step-by-step child custody agreements.
Book cover of “Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder” featuring a graphic of an axe over bold red and black text on a red background.
Book cover for “Phantom Fleet” by Alexander Rose, showing a naval battle at sea with an explosion and two ships at night.
Book cover of “Hollywood High” by Bruce Handy, featuring photos of various teen movie characters arranged around the title on a blue background.
Book cover of “Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin” by Sue Prideaux, featuring an illustrated portrait of Paul Gauguin with artistic background elements.
Book cover for “Mark Twain” by Ron Chernow, featuring an illustrated portrait of Mark Twain with a suit, bow tie, and white mustache.

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