Category Archives: New on the Shelves

New DVDs – March 2014

New DVDs available at both branches of the Irondequoit Public Library: The Americans: Season 1 Baggage Claim Blue is the Warmest Color Blue Jasmine Bonnie & Clyde (2013) Downton Abbey: Season 4 Ender’s Game Escape Plan The Fifth Estate Game of Thrones: Season 3 Last Vegas Romeo and Juliet Sherlock: Season 3 Thor: The Dark […]

New Large Print Books–March 2014

FICTION Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen Suley, Georgia, is home to Lost Lake Cottages and not much else. Which is why it’s the perfect place for newly-widowed Kate and her eccentric eight-year-old daughter Devin to heal. Kate spent one memorable childhood summer at Lost Lake, had her first almost-kiss at Lost Lake, and met […]

New Adult Books for February 2014

Here are some of the new titles we’ve ordered: FICTION After I’m Gone Laura Lippman Working a 26-year-old cold case involving the murder of a convicted felon’s mistress, retired Baltimore detective Roberto Sanchez becomes tangled up in a web of bitterness, jealousy, and greed that connects five women whose lives will never be the same […]

New Large Print Books — February 2014

FICTION Levels of Life by Julian Barnes Presents meditations on the author’s life from the nineteenth-century events that shaped his world to his transformative experiences with ballooning, photography, love, and loss.  

New Teen Books – Week of February 3, 2014

Some of the new teen books now available at the Irondequoit Public Library… Fake ID by Lamar Giles Nick Pearson is hiding in plain sight. In fact, his name isn’t really Nick Pearson. He shouldn’t tell you his real name, his real hometown, or why his family just moved to Stepton, Georgia. And he definitely […]

New Teen Titles for the Week of January 27

Here are a few new Teen books the Irondequoit Library has recently purchased: Hollow City by Ransom Riggs This sequel to Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children begins in 1940, immediately after the first book ended. Having escaped Miss Peregrine’s island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to […]

New Adult Books for January 2014

Here are some of the new titles we’ve ordered: FICTION Andrew’s Brain E. L. Doctorow A deeply psychological tale by an award-winning author recounts the experiences of Andrew, who confesses to an unknown recipient the memory- and truth-challenging events, loves and tragedies that have led him to a mysterious act. Ascendant Drew Chapman A numbers […]

New Large Print Titles for January

FICTION The Lost Ones by Ace Atkins Newly-elected Tibbehah County sheriff Quinn Colson investigates an old friend’s gun sales when stolen military rifles are found in the possession of a Mexican drug gang, a case that is complicated by his discovery of a black market baby adoption ring.  

New Young Adult Books- Week of December 23

Cy in Chains by David Dudley Cy Williams, thirteen, has always known that he and the other black folks on Strong’s plantation have to obey white men, no question. Sure, he’s free, as black people have been since his grandfather’s day, but in rural Georgia, that means they’re free to be whipped, abused, even killed. […]

New Adult Books for December 2013

Here are some of the new titles we’ve ordered: FICTION Absence of Mercy John Burley A peaceful existence is shattered for a small-town medical examiner who investigates an increasingly disturbing series of animal-like attacks that forces him to choose between hunting down a killer and safeguarding his family. Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of […]