Firstly – please note that last week you received an old events announcement. Henry Barber has come and gone. There is no talk about climbing this month. There is a program about Air Navigation on January 20th at 5pm, but more on that later.
If you are a regular reader- and who isn’t? – you noticed that I have been dreadfully lazy about new books posts over the late fall. I have suffered appropriate punishment (withheld cookies) and I am back with a list of selected new items from December and those that will be arriving in January.
- New Fiction
- Carnegie’s maid by Marie Benedict. Find it at F BEN.
- The girls in the picture by Melanie Benjamin. A novel based on the friendship between Mary Pickford and Frances Marion by the author of Swan’s of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator’s Wife. Find it at F BEN.
- Alive in shape and color by Lawrence Block. I’m not going to lie. This book has been sitting on the shelf for almost a month and I’m starting to take it personally. This is a collection of stories, each inspired by a piece of famous art. They are written by your favorite authors. Find it at F BLO.
- The Wife by Alafair Burke. Find it at F BUR.
- The city of brass by S. A. Chakraborty. I know there are at least a few science fiction readers out there! This has terrific reviews from NY Times, Washington Post, Library Journal… Find it at F CHA.
- Enchantress of numbers by Jennifer Chiaverini. Find it at F CHI.
- The midnight line by Lee Child. Find it at F CHI.
- Tom Clancy power and empire by Marc Cameron. Find it at F CLA.
- The wanted by Robert Crais. Find it at F CRA.
- A Distant Heart by Sonali Dev. A bollywood style romance. Find it at F DEV.
- Future home of the living god by Louise Erdrich. Find it at F ERD.
- The Road to Bittersweet by Donna Everhart. Find it at F EVE.
- The woman in the window by A. J. Finn. “A twisty, powerful Hitchcockian thriller about an agoraphobic woman who believes she witnessed a crime in a neighboring house.” Find it at F FIN.
- The revolution of Marina M by Janet Fitch. Early reports from local readers are that this is a really good one. Find it at F FIT.
- Green by Sam Graham-Felsen. The debut novel written by a former Obama campaign staffer. That’s enough for me to be curious. Find it at F GRA.
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. This one isn’t even released until February, but we got lucky! Everyone who has returned it so far has said it is up to par with Hannah’s last release, The Nightingale. Find it at F HAN.
- Munich by Robert Harris. Find it at F HAR.
- Eternal life by Dara Horn. The modern day experiences of a woman who has lived for 2,000 years. Find it at F HOR.
- The quantum spy by David Ignatius. Find it at F IGN.
- The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce. Find it at F JOY.
- The house of unexpected sisters by Alexander McCall Smith. Find it at F MCC.
- The last suppers by Mandy Mikulencak. Find it at F MIK.
- Still me by Jojo Moyes. Find it at F MOY.
- The bomb maker by Thomas Perry. Find it at F PER.
- The Pearl Sister by Lucinda Riley. The next installment! One of my favorite series’. If you haven’t tried it, start with the first. Find it at F RIL.
- Year one by Nora Roberts. The first in a new trilogy from Roberts. Find it at F ROB.
- Sing, unburied, sing by Jesmyn Ward. Winner of the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction. Find it at F WAR.
- Heather, the totality by Matthew Weiner. Find it at F WEI.
- Artemis by Andy Weir, author of the Martian. Find it at F WEI.
- The life she was given by Ellen Marie Wiseman. Find it at F WIS.
- Grist Mill Road by Christopher J. Yates. Find it at F YAT.
- New Nonfiction
- Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life by Lea Berman. Find it at 177 BER.
- The monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers. Find it at 338.7 EGG.
- The only girl in the world by Maude Julien. Find it at 362.7 JUL.
- The Girl on the Velvet Swing by Simon Baatz. Find it at 364.152 BAA.
- Birding without borders by Noah K. Strycker. Find it at 598.07 STR.
- What I found in a thousand towns by Dar Williams. Find it at 782.42 WIL.
- Year of yes by Shonda Rhimes. Find it at 808 RHI.
- India. Travel guide! Find it at 915.404 BLA 2017.
- Obama: An Intimate Portrait by Pete Souza. Find it at 973.9 SOU.
- Bobby Kennedy by Christopher Matthews. Find it at 973.92 MAT.
- New in the Children’s Room
- Pup and bear by Kate Banks. Find it at E BAN.
- Traveling Tom and the leprechaun by Teresa Bateman. Donated in memory of James Monahan. Find it at E BAT.
- Shelter by Celine Claire. Find it at E CLA.
- We’re all wonders by R. J. Palacio. Find it at E PAL.
- Accident by Andrea Tsurumi. Find it at E TSU.
- Thank you bees by Toni Yuly. Find it at E YUL.
- It’s shoe time! by Mo Willems. Find it at ER COL.
- Raid of no return by Nathan Hale. Find it at GN HAL.
- The adventures of John Blake by Philip Pullman. Find it at GN PUL.
- Hilo 4 by Judd Winick. Find it at GN WIN.
- Greetings from witness protection! by Jake Burt. Find it at jF BUR.
- The getaway by Jeff Kinney. Find it at jF KIN Bk.12.
- Snow & Rose by Emily Winfield Martin. Find it at jF MAR.
- Mistakes were made by Stephan Pastis. Find it at jF PAS.
- Abraham Lincoln, Pro Wrestler by Steve Sheinkin. Find it at jF SHE.
- Step right up: how Doc and Jim Key taught the world about kindness by Donna Janell Bowman. Find it at ANIMALS j179 BOW.
- Prehistoric Sea Beasts by Matthew Rake. Find it at ANIMALS j567 RAK.
- Guinness world records 2018. Find it at FACTS j031 GUI.
- Bet you didn’t know. Find it at FACTS j031.02 BET.
- Great Lakes Shipwrecks by Melissa Rae Shofner. Find it at MACHINES j917.7 SHO.
- Dive! by Deborah Hopkinson. Find it at MACHINES j940.54 HOP.
- Picture this! by Joyce Raimondo. Find it at MAKE j959 RAI.
- Ultimate oceanpedia by Christina Wilsdon. Find it at MARINE j551.46 WIL.
- History’s mysteries by Kitson Jazynka. Find it at MYSTERIOUS j904 JAZ.
- Ada’s violin by Susan Hood. Find it at PLACE j784 HOO.
- Where fairies dance. Find it at POETRY j811 HAG.
- Space!. Find it at SPACE j520 SPA.
- Earth! by Stacy McAnulty. Find it at SPACE j550 MCA.
- Miss Mary reporting by Sue Macy. Find it at SPORTS j070.4 MAC.
- Becoming Kareem by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Find it at SPORTS j796.323 ABD.
- Fallingwater by Marc Harshman. Find it at USA j728 HAR.
- Her right foot by Dave Eggers. Find it at USA j973 EGG.
- Sinking the Sultana by Sally M. Walker. Find it at USA j973.7 WAL.
- Equality & Diversity by Charlie Ogden. Find it at WORLD j305 OGD.
- Why’d they wear that? by Sarah Albee. Find it at WORLD j391 ALB.
- New for Young Adults
- The 57 bus by Dashka Slater. Find it at YA 364 SLA.
- Most dangerous by Steve Sheinkin. Find it at YA 959.7 SHE.
- Girls made of snow and glass by Melissa Bashardoust. Find it at YA F BAS.
- Meant to be by Julie Halpern. Find it at YA F HAL.
- Batman Nightwalker by Marie Lu. Find it at YA F LU.
- Very, Very, Very Dreadful by Albert Marrin. Find it at YA F MAR.
- Spliced by Jon McGoran. Find it at YA F MCG.
- The Nowhere Girls by Amy Lynn Reed. Find it at YA F REE.
- Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman. Find it at YA F SHU.
- New Movies
- The big sick. Find it at DVD BIG.
- Delicious. Find it at DVD DEL S.1.
- Dunkirk. Find it at DVD DUN.
- Game of thrones. Find it at DVD GAM.
- Game of thrones. Find it at DVD GAM S.7.
- Loch Ness. Find it at DVD LOC S.1.
- Stronger. Find it at DVD STR.
- Viceroy’s house. Find it at DVD VIC.
- Victoria & Abdul. Find it at DVD VIC.
- Wonder Woman. Find it at DVD WON.
- Battle of the Sexes. Find it at DVD BAT.
- Mountain Between Us. Find it at DVD MOU.