There is still time to participate in this year's winter reading challenge!
The Winter Reading Challenge 2025: Be a Reading Machine runs until Jan. 31. Register now on our Beanstack site or the Beanstack mobile app. The more you read, the more chances you have to win a prize.
Need some inspiration? Check out our new fiction for adults, teens, and children, or check out some new non-fiction.
Enjoy trivia? Discover fascinating facts with our new almanacs.
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The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2025 by Sarah Janssen
Get thousands of facts at your fingertips: sports, pop culture, science and technology, U.S. history and government, world geography, business. This compendium of facts and statistics also provides a quick look at the surprising stats and curious facts that define the changing world.
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Guinness World Records 2025 by Guinness World Records Limited
Guinness World Records 2025 marks its 70th anniversary. This new edition, fully revised and updated with over 1,000 images, delivers thousands of awe-inspiring facts, eye-watering feats and mind-blowing figures in a book that's designed for the whole family.
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5,000 Awesome Facts (About Everything!) : Updated and Expanded by National Geographic Society (U.S.)
5,000 Cool Facts About Everything treats kids to brain candy and eye candy all rolled into one treasure trove of high-interest fascinating facts.
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2025 Book of World Records by Michael Bright
Provides detailed descriptions of hundreds of world records in pop culture, sports, science, and other categories, each with a photograph.
Enjoy cooking? Explore new recipes from our latest cookbooks.
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Joyfull: Cook Effortlessly, Eat Freely, Live Radiantly by Radhi Devlukia-Shetty
A clinical dietician with a holistic approach to well-being presents 125 plant-based recipes to balance health with taste and meal satisfaction including French Toast Casserole, One Pot Lemony Spaghetti, Creamy Red Lentil Daal and Chocolate Mud Pie.
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Seriously, So Good: Simple Recipes for a Balanced Life by Carissa Stanton
Through 100 flavor-bomb dishes that are good for your health, heart and mind, the creator of Brocc Your Body wants to remove the anxiety around food by helping us all feel more confident in and out of the kitchen and live life to the fullest.
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The League of Kitchens Cookbook: Brilliant Tips, Secret Methods & Favorite Family Recipes from Around the World by Lisa Kyung Gross
Delicious, simple, family recipes from around the world from the instructors of League of Kitchens, the innovative and widely acclaimed cooking school in New York City.
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The Complete Cook's Country TV Show Cookbook: Every Recipe and Every Review from all Seventeen Seasons by America's Test Kitchen
Discover a year's worth of new homegrown recipes from across the U.S., small-town America to the big city, along with their backstories and the chefs who inspired them. The Season 15 Anniversary Edition now has more than 550 recipes.
Are you a sports enthusiast? Dive into our new books about sports.
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Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments by Joe Posnanski
A celebration of the history of American football from the New York Times bestselling author. A rousing tale of the 100 greatest moments in football lore.
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Go Multisport: Add Fun, Challenge, & Exploration to Your World by Jennifer Strong McConachie
Beyond traditional 5Ks and 10Ks and single sport extreme and endurance events, is the newly evolving field of multisport. Multisport events are usually self-designed and determined. These extreme athletes most often create their own events because they are the first to do these human-powered endurance challenges. Perfect for those who are seeking to do more–more challenge, more fun–this book provides a history, background, and empowering how-to. You will learn how to walk the edge of a radical new discipline. Also includes gear lists, sample race challenges, training secrets and more.
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In a League of Her Own: Celebrating Female Firsts in Sports by Bonnie-Jill Laflin
Shares the inspiring stories of nineteen groundbreaking women in the world of sports. Using exclusive interviews and her own unique lens, former NBA scout and NFL cheerleader Bonnie-Jill Laflin captures the remarkable life journeys of these iconic women whose bravery and hard work have changed the face of sports.
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Athletes Who Changed the Game by James Buckley
While these athletes came from different backgrounds and overcame unique struggles, they had one thing in common: they would not take "You can't" for an answer. With a don't-give-up attitude, these fearless firsts fought for what they believed in and created a better sports world. In this book, you'll read about very famous athletes, like Jackie Robinson and Simone Biles.
Descriptions adapted from the publisher.
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