A young friend pointed out to me last week that we have a shocking hole in our collection. The Star Wars DVD series is incomplete. He felt it was nearly unforgivable and I cannot disagree. I am please to report that I have taken immediate action in the matter.
In December we asked our dedicated volunteers to choose a book for or from our collection to carry a book plate thanking them for their services. Those are noted below.
A number of you have also expressed a desire for books with larger print. I’ve been buying them when they are not outrageously more expensive. I’ll note those in the list underneath too.
- New in Fiction
- Long road to mercy by David Baldacci. Large print! Find it at F BAL.
- The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash. Find it at F BAR.
- November road by Louis Berney. Find it at F BER.
- The lost family by Jenna Blum. Find it at F BLU.
- A ladder to the sky by John Boyne. Find it at F BOY.
- My sister, the serial killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. Find it at F BRA.
- Milkman by Anna Burns. Winner of the Man Booker prize for fiction. Find it at F BUR.
- Past tense by Lee Child. Find it at F CHI.
- Hippie by Paulo Coelho. Large print! Find it at F COE.
- An extraordinary union and A hope divided by Alyssa Cole. The first two of a new series. Find it at F COL.
- North of dawn by Nuruddin Farah. Fantastic reviews: “A Somalian couple’s tranquil life abroad in Oslo is irrevocably transformed by the arrival of their jihadist son’s widow and children, who respectively retreat into strict religion and hunger for freedoms in a new homeland.” Find it at F FAR.
- The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye. Find it at F FAY.
- The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley. We get a sneak peak of this book before it’s released next month. Find it at F FOL.
- Lethal white by Robert Galbraith. Large print! Find it at F GAL Co.4.
- The library at the edge of the world and Summer at the Garden Cafe by Felicity Hayes-McCoy. Volunteer pick. Find it at F HAY.
- An anonymous girl by Greer Hendricks. Find it at F HEN.
- In the Dark by Cara Hunter. Find it at F HUN.
- All of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy by Kevin Kwan.
- The next two Timber Creek K-9 Mysteries by Margaret Mizushima.
- Nine perfect strangers by Liane Moriarty. Find it at F MOR.
- Crossing the horizon by Laurie Notaro. Large print. Find it at F NOT.
- The friend by Sigrid Nunez. Find it at F NUN.
- Hazards of time travel by Joyce Carol Oates. Large print! Find it at F OAT.
- A spark of light by Jodi Picoult. Find it at F PIC.
- In a house of lies by Ian Rankin. Find it at F RAN.
- Trail of lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse. Find it at F ROA.
- The Devil Aspect by Craig Russell. Find it at F RUS.
- Once upon a river by Diane Setterfield. Find it at F SET.
- Looker by Laura Sims. Find it at F SIM.
- Tony’s wife by Adriana Trigiani. Find it at F TRI.
- The songbird by Marcia Willett. Find it at F WIL.
- Godsend by John Wray. Find it at F WRA.
- New New-Fiction
- The new childhood: raising kids to thrive in a connected world by Jordan, Shapiro. As parents of little kids, screen time is a daily conversation in our house so I was riveted to an NPR interview about this book. He takes a much less sky-is-falling view of screens that I am interested in. Find it at 004.67 SHA.
- Almost everything: notes on hope by Anne, Lamott. Large print! Find it at 170 LAM.
- Why religion? by Elaine H. Pagels. Find it at 270 PAG.
- Earning the Rockies: how geography shapes America’s role in the world by Robert D. Kaplan. Volunteer pick! Find it at 306.0973 KAP.
- The fifth risk by Michael Lewis. Find it at 320.973 LEW.
- The deadly deep: the definitive history of submarine warfare by Iain Ballantyne. Find it at 359.9 BAL.
- Babel: around the world in twenty languages by Gaston Dorren. Find it at 409 DOR.
- Identifying trees of the East by Michael D. Williams. Volunteer pick! Find it at 582.16 WIL.
- The dragon behind the glass: a true story of power, obsession, and the world’s most coveted fish by Emily Voigt. Find it at 597 VOI.
- Life is good by Bert Jacobs. Find it at 650.1 JAC.
- Aran knitting by Alice. Starmore. Volunteer pick! Find it at 746.43 STA.
- Yankee rock & ice: a history of climbing in the Northeastern United States by Laura Waterman. Find it at 796.52 WAT.
- Lands of lost borders: a journey on the Silk Road by Kate Harris. Cycling adventure. Find it at 915.804 HAR.
- Kings of the Yukon by Adam Weymouth. Find it at 971.9 WEY.
- These truths: a history of the United States by Jill Lepore. Find it at 973 LEP.
- Promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell’s perilous journey and his vision for the American West by John F. Ross. Volunteer pick! Find it at 978.02 ROS.
- Churchill: walking with destiny by Andrew Roberts. Find it at BIO CHU.
- Glorious Mountain Days by Allison W; Goodwin Bell. Find it at NH 796.5 BEL.
- Cruising New Hampshire History by Michael A Bruno. Find it at NH 974.2 BRU.
- The white mountain by Dan Szczesny. Find it at NH 974.2 SZC.
- New YA
- The grand escape by Neal Bascomb. Find it at YA 940.4 BAS.
- The unwanted by Don Brown. Find it at YA 956.91 BRO.
- Five feet apart by Rachael Lippincott. Find it at YA F LIP.
- The dark descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White. Find it at YA F WHI.
- New in the Children’s Room
- The house with chicken legs by Sophie Anderson. Find it at E AND.
- The patchwork bike by Maxine Beneba Clarke. Find it at E CLA.
- Petra by Marianna Coppo. Find it at E COP.
- Run wild by David Covell. Find it at E COV.
- All around us by Xelena Gonzalez. Find it at E GON.
- Wolves by Emily Gravett. Find it at E GRA.
- Night job by Karen Hesse. I may have cried when I read this. You decide. Find it at E HES.
- The funeral by Matt James. Find it at E JAM.
- Sweetest Kulu by Celina Kalluk. Find it at E KAL.
- A Coyote solstice tale by Thomas King. Find it at E KIN.
- Dreamers by Yuyi Morales. Find it at E MOR.
- Me and my fear by Francesca Sanna. Find it at E SAN.
- I Had trouble in getting to solla sollew by Dr Suess. Find it at E SEU.
- Not quite narwhal by Jessie Sima. This year’s Ladybug Award Winner. Find it at E SIM.
- Interrupting chicken and the elephant of surprise by David Ezra Stein. Find it at E STE.
- Hattie & Hudson by Chris Van Dusen. Find it at E VAN.
- Whoo’s there? by Heather Zschock. Shine the flashlight through the translucent pages to project the pictures on your wall or ceiling. Accept magical parent award. Find it at E ZSC.
- Over the river & through the wood by Linda Ashman. Find it at HOL E ASH.
- All-of-a-kind family Hanukkah by Emily Jenkins. Find it at HOL E JEN.
- Santa, please bring me a gnome by An Swerts. Find it at HOL E SWE.
- Bear stays up for Christmas by Karma Wilson. Find it at HOL E WIL.
- Celebrate Hanukkah by Deborah Heiligman. Find it at HOL j296.4 HEI.
- Celebrate Kwanzaa by Carolyn Otto. Find it at HOL j394.261 OTT.
- Older than dirt by Don Brown. Find it at GN 551.7 BRO.
- The far side of the moon by Alexander Irvine. Find it at GN 629.45 IRV.
- The bad guys by Aaron Blabey. Find it at GN BLA.
- The phantom bully by Jeffrey Brown. Find it at GN BRO.
- Making friends by Kristen Gudsnuk. Find it at GN GUD.
- Lafayette! by Nathan Hale. Find it at GN HAL.
- Geeky f@b five. by Lucy Lareau. Find it at GN LAR.
- Positively Izzy by Terri Libenson. Find it at GN LIB.
- Hocus & Pocus by Manuro. Find it at GN MAN.
- The Baby-sitters Club. by Ann M Martin. Find it at GN MAR.
- Howl’s moving castle by Hayao Miyazaki. Find it at GN MIY.
- Hilda and the stone forest by Luke Pearson. Find it at GN PEA.
- Hilda and the troll by Luke Pearson. Find it at GN PEA.
- Big Nate out loud by Lincoln Peirce. Find it at GN PEI.
- Wings of fire by Tui Sutherland. Find it at GN SUT.
- Sweep by Jonathan Auxier. Find it at jF AUX.
- The wild robot and The wild robot escapes by Peter Brown. Find it at jF BRO.
- Wicked Nix by Lena Coakley. Find it at jF COA.
- The 78-story treehouse by Andy Griffiths. Find it at jF GRI Tr.6.
- Lu by Jason Reynolds. Find it at jF REY.
- City of ghosts by Victoria Schwab. Find it at jF SCH.
- A hundred billion trillion stars by Seth Fishman. Find it at FACTS j510.2 FIS.
- Otis and Will discover the deep by Barb Rosenstock. Find it at MARINE j551.4 ROS.
- Shark lady by Jess Keating. Find it at MARINE j597.3KEA.
- Once upon a star by James Carter. Find it at POETRY 811 CAR.
- Friends and foes by Douglas Florian. Find it at POETRY 811 FLO.
- Curiosity by Markus Motum. Find it at SPACE j520 MOT.
- Seven wonders of the solar system by David A Aguilar. Find it at SPACE j523.2 AGU.
- Countdown by Suzanne Slade. Find it at SPACE j629.45.
- The Water Walker by Joanne Robertson. Find it at USA 304 ROB.
- We are grateful by Traci Sorell. Find it at USA j975 SOR.
- Buffalo Bird Girl by S D Nelson. Find it at USA j978.4 NEL.
- Celebrate Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur by Deborah Heiligman. Find it at WORLD 296.4 HEI.
- On the news by Jillian Roberts. Find it at WORLD j303 ROB.
- The Atlas Obscura explorer’s guide for the world’s most adventurous kid by Dylan Thuras. Find it at WORLD j910.4 THU.
- New Audiobooks (on CD)
- Life expectancy by Dean R Koontz. Find it at CD F KOO.
- Mirror mirror by Gregory Maguire. Find it at CD F MAG.
- Eggnog Murder by Leslie Meier. Find it at CD F MEI.
- Christmas carol murder by Leslie Meier. Find it at CD F MEI.