Category Archives: New on the Shelves

New Adult Books for October 2014

Here are some of the new titles we’ve ordered: FICTION Assassination of Margaret Thatcher Hilary Mantel The author, a two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, delivers a collection of contemporary short stories about modern England including monster tales, near-memoir pieces and mini-sagas of family and social fracture, writing about gender, marriage, class, family, and […]

New Large Print Titles–October

Here’s a list of the new large print books that have arrived at the library (listed in alphabetical order by author’s last name). FICTION   Faceoff An unprecedented collective features pairings by 23 best-selling and critically acclaimed suspense writers, including John Sandford, F. Paul Wilson and R. L. Stine, who in short high-action stories pit […]

New Teen Books for September

Six Feet Over It by Jennifer Longo Leigh sells graves for her family-owned cemetery because her father is too lazy to look farther than the dinner table when searching for employees. Working the literal graveyard shift, she meets two kinds of customers: Pre-Need: They know what’s up. They bought their graves a long time ago, […]

More Teen Books for September

Blackbird by Anna CareyFrom the author of the Eve trilogy comes the breathless story of a girl racing to figure out who she is–and how to stay alive. When a nameless girl wakes up on the subway tracks, she knows only one thing for sure: people want her dead. Can she find them before they […]

New Young Adult Books for October

All Those Broken Angels by Peter Adam SalomonComforted by a shadow. Haunted by the truth. Richard Anderson was the last person to see his friend Melanie alive. She vanished when they were six, and while the police never found Melanie, a part of her remained–a living shadow that is now Richard’s closest friend. For ten […]

New Large Print Books–September 2014

If you enjoy reading large print, here’s a list of the new books we received this month. Click on a title to see if it’s on our shelf. FICTION When the lakeside getaway where Detective Harry Jordan escapes his stressful job is rocked by an explosion targeting an enigmatic newcomer’s house, Harry discovers that a […]

New Adult Books for September 2014

Here are some of the new titles we’ve ordered: FICTION Angels Walking Karen Kingsbury When the career that cost him his relationships with loved ones is ended by an injury, former national baseball star Tyler Ames finds a maintenance job at a retirement home where he meets Virginia Hutcheson, a patient with Alzheimer’s who seems […]

New Young Adult Books – Week of August 25

We Were Liars by E. LockheartSpending the summers on her family’s private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer. Scan by Walter JuryTate and his father don’t exactly get along. As Tate sees it, his father […]

New Adult Books for August 2014

Here are some of the new titles we’ve ordered: FICTION 6th Extinction James Rollins When a remote military research station is decimated, Commander Gray Pierce and the Sigma Force must solve a mystery from Antarctica’s distant past using an ancient map that leads them to a new form of death, buried under miles of ice, […]

New Large Print Books–August 2014

FICTION The Forsaken by Ace Atkins Thirty-six years ago, a nameless black man wandered into Jericho, Mississippi, with nothing but the clothes on his back and a pair of paratrooper boots. Less than two days later, he was accused of rape and murder, hunted down by a self-appointed posse, and lynched. Now evidence has surfaced […]