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Jumpstart Your Spring Reads: Discover 2025’s Must-Read Titles
Get ahead of the curve with 2025’s most anticipated books and audiobooks!
Grab a Galley is back, bringing you an exclusive preview of spring season’s standout books and audiobooks. Set the stage for 2025’s next big reads and handpick the books that are sure to shape reading lists and captivate your patrons.
Our publishing partners have curated an exciting range of books and audio for every kind of reader and listener. From gripping mysteries and heartfelt romances to thought-provoking nonfiction and imaginative children's stories, this collection has something for everyone. Add any title to your virtual Swag Bag, with no limits on the number you can choose! Supply is limited, so act fast to explore the full collection and get early access to the books that will be at the top of everyone’s list.
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Fiction
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1 of 13 titles
Ambush
HarperCollins Focus
The first book in the riveting Sanctuary Series from bestselling author Colleen Coble and published by Thomas Nelson, Ambush, is an edge-of-your-seat suspense perfectly balanced with closed-door romance. A young woman will do anything to uncover the truth of her parents' murder, even work alongside the man who once broke her heart. Perfect for fans of Allison Brennan and Dani Pettrey.
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2 of 13 titles
Aunt Tigress
DAW Books
From debut author Emily Yu-Xuan Qin comes a snarky urban fantasy novel inspired by Chinese and First Nation mythology and bursting with wit, compelling characters, and LGBTQIA+ representation. Readers of Seanan McGuire, Ilona Andrews, and Ben Aaronovitch will devour this gory story—and the sweet-as-Canadian-maple-syrup sapphic romance at its monstrous heart.
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3 of 13 titles
Boy With Wings
Köehler Books
What does it mean to be different? Johnny C is born with strange appendages on his back. Is he an angel? A devil? Placed in a freak show in 1930s America, he is exhibited, gawked at and mocked — but all he seeks his place in the world and tries to avoid the strange man who pursues him.
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4 of 13 titles
Bug Hollow: A Novel
Penguin Random House Library
Three-time finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and James Beard Award winner Michelle Huneven’s Bug Hollow, a family novel that follows the Samuelson clan over four decades as they hurt and heal one another.
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5 of 13 titles
The Devil Three Times: A Novel
Little, Brown and Company
“A debut of enormous ambition that succeeds on every level,” raves bestselling author Nathan Harris. “The Devil Three Times is a page-turning, rollicking novel that is both an intimate family saga and an elegy for the American experience. From the first page, I was spellbound and was left devastated by the novel’s end. This is what literature is all about.”
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6 of 13 titles
Don’t Tell Me How to Die
Blackstone Publishing
A DYING WOMAN’S DESPERATE PLAN TO FIND HER HUSBAND’S NEXT WIFE. “Karp levels up with this captivating slow burn. What begins as a mystery-tinted character study transforms into a full-bore thriller, with a spate of jaw-dropping twists that recast the entire narrative. Readers should be prepared to stay up all night.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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7 of 13 titles
Friends to Lovers
Canary Street Press
Best friends Joni and Ren’s wedding tradition keeps them connected, until heartbreak pulls them apart. Back at their summer home for her sister’s wedding, Joni must fake a friendship with Ren while grappling with unresolved feelings. As shared memories resurface, Joni faces a choice—letting Ren go or fighting for the love she never expected.
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8 of 13 titles
Harmattan Season
Tor Books
Veteran and private eye Boubacar doesn’t need much—least of all trouble—but trouble always seems to find him. From the visionary author of Riot Baby and Goliath, Harmattan Season is a gripping hard-boiled fantasy noir in the tradition of Chandler, Hammond, and Christie set in a postcolonial West Africa that will have you by the throat—both dryly funny and unforgettably evocative.
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9 of 13 titles
Heart of the Sun
Canary Street Press
Former childhood friends Emily, a pop star, and Tuck, an ex-con, reunite when she hires him as her bodyguard. But when a solar flare destroys the world’s grid, they must band together to survive. Amid danger and loss, old sparks ignite, forcing them to confront their past and discover if love can rebuild what’s been shattered.
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10 of 13 titles
The Maid’s Secret: A Maid Novel
Penguin Random House Library
When a daring art heist takes place at the Regency Grand, Molly’s life is threatened. The question is who’s out to get her, and why? Long-buried secrets will be revealed in this intriguing and heartwarming novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid and The Mystery Guest.
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11 of 13 titles
Murder By Cheesecake: A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery
Hyperion Avenue / Disney Publishing Worldwide
The first novel in the all-new Golden Girls Cozy Mystery series! When Dorothy’s obnoxious date is found dead in a hotel freezer, it not only ruins a gorgeous cheesecake but threatens the elaborate St. Olaf-themed wedding Rose is hosting. With Dorothy a prime suspect, the four besties must ID the real killer and get the should-be-happy couple down the aisle.
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12 of 13 titles
Nine Fine Deaths
E & R Publishers
Homicide detective Madeline Bradley is obnoxious, bourbon-fueled, and foul-mouthed but fiercely lovable as she hunts a killer so skilled at his evil machinations that even when you know who the killer is, you won’t know who the killer is. It is a deeply intricatemurder mystery that takes you on a sweeping worldwide journey to rich and exotic locations where murder is art and police work is a whole new game.
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13 of 13 titles
Speak to Me of Home
Henry Holt and Co.
The latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeanine Cummins chronicles the lives of three generations of women in one family–Rafaela, Ruth and Daisy–as they grapple with the consequences of a family secret. It’s a poignant tale of family, mothers and daughters, love and loss, as well as all the spoken and unspoken stories that can shape a family’s sense of home and each person’s sense of belonging.
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