@ Your Library
New books are such a treat. It is so much fun to see what is new and handle the books or even read them before anyone else. You too can stop by the library and find new books that no one (except maybe library staff) has read. Enjoy being the first in the community to read a new book. You can have the privilege of sharing what you are reading with friends and family and know that they haven’t read it yet.
Here are some new books sitting on our shelves as I write the column that haven’t gone out yet. Let us know if you want us to save any of these titles for you. Then share what you are reading with your reading friends.
Let’s start with five non-fiction titles. There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib explores what success is through basketball. Still Life at Eighty a memoir by Abigail Thomas exploring aging. Cotton Grass by Bart Sutter is selected poems about Northern Minnesota. The Indian Card by Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz asks ‘who gets to be native in America.” Reagan: his life and legend by Max Boot.
Fiction titles are often harder to be the first, but here are five. The Starlets by Lee Kelly and Jennifer Thorne is set in the Summer of 1958 on the Italian island of Tavalli where a movie is being shot. Perfect Storm by Paige Shelton continues the series set in the Alaskan village of Benedict. When We Fell Apart by Soon Wiley is a moving, suspenseful coming of age drama. The Greatest Lie of All by Jillian Cantor pairs a well-known romance author with a fledgling actress hired to play her in the movie of her life. An Insignificant Case is the latest thriller by Phillip Margolin in which the unremarkable Charlie Webb is in over his head in legal troubles and he’s the lawyer.
Pick the Lock by A. S. King is told from the point of view of a teenager trying to figure out her toxic family. Giddy Barber Explodes in 11 by Dina Havranek is about an overachieving high school determined to become a mechanical engineer but first she has to figure out how to deal with her family. If You Can Hear This by Faith Gardner is about a high school student who wants to be a journalist but moves to a new school and is trying to fit in someplace. Jupiter Rising by Gary D. Schmidt deals with loss and finding oneself through running. Everything is Poison by Joy McCullough is set in seventeenth century Rome about a young woman wanting to work in her mother’s apothecary shop.
Kids might be interested in these new titles that haven’t gone out yet. The Perilous Performance at Milkweed Meadow by Elaine Dimopoulos, We Do Not Welcome Our Ten Year-Old Overlord by Garth Nix, The Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody by Patrick Ness, When Wishes Were Horses by Cynthia Voigt or Greenwild by Pari Thomson.