March 2026 Book Picks
Spring is almost here! Hip HIP Hurray!! Okay, so maybe we still have a bit over a month to go… but I love spring! Minus the allergies that tend to come with it. Spring is just so full of possibilities! And flowers. Along with books, flowers are among my top favorite things. It’s time to get out that picnic blanket or favorite lounge chair, pick a great read from below and enjoy the sunshine and heavenly scents of flowers wafting through the air. Or curl up with one of our great reads inside with the air purifier going full blast.
Enough from me. Here are the March New Release Book Picks for the Books & More boxes. And now also for our Just Books Deluxe boxes.
This is a newly released trade paperback. This is also a Book of the Month special early release book pick for February 2026- so you know it’s good. ;)
Average advanced reading ratings: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ & 1/2 ⭐
Perfect for you if you like: Romance - Workplace Romance
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Two competing meteorologists are forced to find common ground in this opposites attract, When Harry Met Sally inspired romance, from New York Times bestselling author B.K. Borison.
Jackson Clark and Delilah Stewart have had their fair share of run-ins over the years, often ending in disaster. While Jackson thrives on routine and organization from the comfort of his radio booth, Delilah loves the spontaneity and adventure out in the field. When they're partnered against their will to cover a historic snowstorm, they find themselves scrambling to figure out how to work together.
Eager to be taken seriously as a journalist, Delilah offers Jackson a deal: If he can help her ace this assignment, she'll help him rediscover his long-lost fun side. With unexplored chemistry burning beneath their clashes, the unlikely partnership quickly tumbles into an easy and surprising friendship.
But when other feelings start to enter the equation, can Jackson and Delilah withstand the storm? Or does what happens in the mountains stay in the mountains?
This is a newly released trade paperback.
Average advanced reading ratings: ⭐⭐⭐and 3/4⭐
Perfect for you if you like: Witchy RomCom - Contemporary Fantasy - Romantic Comedy
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In this cozy, witchy romcom, a young woman works to turn a run-down small-town video store into the bookshop of her dreams, only to discover a powerful magic that's been lying dormant--and a forbidden love she can't resist.
"There's a welcoming, Gilmore Girls-esque feel to Arcadia Falls, enhanced with just enough fantastical elements. . . . [Books & Bewitchment] is a sweet treat for a cold winter night."--Publishers Weekly
Dutiful and hard-working, Rhea Wolfe lives a simple, if mundane, life with her pet parrot in small-town Alabama. Sure, she may not love her desk job working for an insurance agency. And her on-again-off-again relationship with the local mechanic may not have the fiery passion she's read about in her favorite books. Still, things are stable, which is more than she can say about the two hopelessly immature younger sisters who rely on her.
But when Rhea's estranged grandmother dies, leaving her everything--including a magical heritage Rhea never knew she carried--she finds herself in Arcadia Falls, the quaint mountain town her mother made her swear to avoid at all costs. While the defunct video store she's also inherited needs a serious upgrade, Rhea's lucky that resident handyman Hunter Blakely is more than happy to help--and more than easy on the eyes. If only he wasn't the grandson of her grandmother's sworn enemy in witchcraft.
Yet as Rhea makes plans for the bookstore of her dreams, she learns that her grandmother made a terrible choice, one that could ruin her own chance at happiness. As she gets ever closer to solving the mystery of what exactly is happening, each clue points to Arcadia Falls's magic hanging in the balance. To keep her new home safe, Rhea must step into her enchanted birthright and harness her newfound powers . . . before it's too late.
This is a newly released trade paperback. It was also a 13th hour addition to March’s Book Picks. It’s getting a lot of buzz on social media and keeps catching my eye since reading We Who Will Die (highly recommend, if you haven’t read it yet.)
Average advanced reading ratings: ⭐⭐⭐⭐and 1/2⭐
Perfect for you if you like: Romantasy
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This deluxe, first-edition trade paperback of Half City will feature beautifully stenciled edges and captivating interior cover art!
Welcome to Harker Academy for Deviant Defense. Keep your daggers sharp, and your wits even sharper.
Viv Abbot is an average twenty-one-year-old girl. She lives in an expensive city where the rent is too high, works long hours at a thankless job, and is dating a guy she doesn't even like in the hopes of winning her prickly mother's approval.
She also happens to be a demon hunter.
Ever since her father's murder, she's been forced to hunt deviants alone, meaning everyone, including her family, sees her as an outsider . . . until the day she crosses paths with a dangerously alluring demon, Reid Graveheart. The reformed deviant tells her of a school for people just like her: Harker Academy for Deviant Defense. If she enrolls, she'll learn to hone her craft, work with other hunters, and never be alone again.
But Viv has a deadly secret. One that not even her new friends at Harker can know about, not if the school might hold the answers to untangling the mystery surrounding Viv's father's death. When strange occurrences begin to plague the students, Viv will have to figure out who she can trust, all while trying to ace her classes, avoid falling for a demon, and make it through her first year at Harker in one piece. How hard could that be?
This is a newly released trade paperback.
Average advanced reading ratings: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Perfect for you if you like: Cozy Mysteries - Women Sleuths
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Kate Buckley returns to her Irish-themed hometown for the summer, but when her ex becomes the prime suspect in his fiancée's murder, she must clear his name for the sake of their daughters, perfect for fans of Elle Cosimano and Carlene O'Connor.
Kate and her daughters, Maeve and Bliz, are back in Shamrock, Massachusetts, and Kate faces a big decision: Should they move back to their hometown for good? As she contemplates the idea, all the businesses in town, including her family's B&B, the Buckley House, are busy preparing for the annual Great Shamrock Fair in hopes of luring back tourists after a murder during St. Patrick's Week.
But when Kate's ex, Ian, arrives in town from Ireland to perform with his band at the festival and his new fiancée, Fallon, is found dead at the fairgrounds, any chance of a fun and peaceful family summer goes up in green smoke.
Much as she wants nothing to do with her ex, Kate knows Ian is innocent. Amid the swirl of activity in town and her sister Colleen's determination to keep the annual Miss Shamrock contests alive, Kate enlists her devastated eldest daughter and her father, the former Shamrock police chief, to help her unwind the trail of evidence.
With clues--and danger--piling up, can Kate find Fallon's true killer and save her ex, before the Great Shamrock Fair and the town's chances for a summer full of green go bust?
This is a newly released trade paperback.
Average advanced reading ratings: ⭐⭐⭐⭐and 1/2 ⭐
Perfect for you if you like: Magical Realism - 20th C Historical Fiction - Romance - Multiple Timelines
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The brand new book from the international bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop!
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On any given day, there are thousands of items slowly gathering dust in the Lost and Found of Heathrow Airport. Unknown to anyone, hidden among the clutter, is a very special object that can change the fortunes of those who possess it - a violin of rare beauty and power.
Now, as if by chance, it has fallen into the hands of three strangers...
Baggage claim agent Devlin, retired teacher Walter, and appraiser Gabrielle have nothing in common, but can these three unlikely guardians unlock the secrets of the violin?
With heartfelt moments, unexpected connections, and a mystery that lingers long after the final page, this is Evie Woods at her very best.
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This is a newly released trade paperback.
Average advanced reading ratings: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Perfect for you if you like: Historical Fiction - Banned Books
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From bestselling author Shelley Noble comes a gripping and timely historical novel of books, banning, and the women who helped save New York's famed Book Row.
1915: Manhattan's Book Row, an eclectic jumble of forty bookshops along Fourth Avenue, is the mecca for rare book buyers from around the world, and the haunt of locals looking for a bargain. It is also the target of the most vicious censor in American history--Anthony Comstock.
And home to three sisters who vow to stop him.
For the three Applebaum sisters, the narrow, four-storied Arcadia Rare Bookshop is the only home they've ever known. Olivia, the oldest, is an expert in restoring rare manuscripts. Daphne, the outgoing middle sister, oversees the retail shop and is a favorite with their customers. Celia, the youngest, is left to dust and catalogue, but often sneaks out to do heaven knows what. Little do her sisters know, Celia has joined a group of young people who secretly print and distribute articles on women's health by hiding them within the pages of ordinary cookbooks, household hints, and sewing patterns, despite the personal risk.
Meanwhile, the Comstock Laws threaten anybody who owns or circulates "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" publications. Even classic literature or fine art could send a person to jail. In the face of such oppression, Celia and the booksellers of Book Row band together. But secrets and a mysterious stranger mean the fate of the famed Book Row is anything but secure.
This is a newly released trade paperback.
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Perfect for you if you like: Thrillers - Medical Suspense
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A jaded doctor for the ultrarich becomes entangled in this fast-paced medical thriller for fans of Robin Cook and HBO's The Pitt.
Brilliant diagnostician and renowned physician Dr. Sanjay Patel once dreamed of being a doctor at a free clinic, serving those in need. Now he treats billionaires by private jet and gets paid in Gucci totes packed with cash.
But when his estranged mentor, Dr. Tom Carpenter, scribbles "Page Dr. Sanjay" on a blank prescription moments before collapsing from a fatal stroke, Sanjay is pulled back to the hospital that nearly ended his medical career, Boston's Mount Beacon Hospital.
There, he reunites with cancer researcher Emma Carpenter-Flores, Tom's daughter--and the woman whose heart Sanjay broke a decade prior. Forced to team up, their search unearths a trail of disturbing cases, and as they dig deeper, they find themselves the target of a powerful medical-industrial complex that will stop at nothing to protect its secrets.
With patients' lives at stake, Sanjay and Emma must risk everything to find the truth and expose it before the very foundation of medicine is destroyed in this timely medical thriller, perfect for fans of The Lincoln Lawyer and House.
So there’s our March line up! Please let me know which title(s) you’d be overjoyed to see in your March book box. And please please please let me know by February 25th! Submissions after that are NOT disregarded, but if your March shipment has already been packed, the request will be moved to your April shipment.
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