- New Fiction
- The Real Justine by Stephen Amidon. Find it at F AMI.
- The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow. Find it at YA F BOW.
- Career of evil by Robert Galbraith. Find it at F GAL Co.3. The third installment of JK Rowling’s Cormoran Strike series.
- Slade house by David Mitchell. Find it at F MIT. Still on the shelf! Got super reviews.
- Golden age by Jane Smiley. Find it at F SMI La.3. The last book in Jane Smiley’s Last Hundred Years Trilogy. We have all three and reports are good.
- The secret chord by Geraldine Brooks. Find it at F BRO.
- A window opens by Elisabeth Egan. Find it at F EGA.
- Fates and furies by Lauren Groff. Find it at F GRO.
- City on fire by Garth Risk. Hallberg. Find it at F HAL. So much buzz about this one. I’ve heard about it everywhere from The New Yorker to Entertainment Weekly.
- Twain & Stanley enter paradise by Oscar Hijuelos. Find it at F HIJ.
- Avenue of mysteries by John Irving. Find it at F IRV.
- A brief history of seven killings by Marlon James. Winner of the Man Booker Prize for 2015. Find it at F JAM.
- Mrs. Roosevelt’s confidante by Susan Elia MacNeal. The next installment in this popular series. Find it at F MAC Ma.5.
- Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy. “With starry Texas nights, red candy suckers, Dolly Parton songs, and a wildly unforgettable heroine… ” Find it at YA F MUR.
- The muralist by Barbara A. Shapiro. I loved The Art Forger and the reviews say the newest by the same author is just as good. Find it at F SHA.
- All the stars in the heavens by Adriana Trigiani. Find it at F TRI.
- Medicine walk by Richard. Wagamese. Find it at F WAG.
- The gold eaters by Ronald Wright. Find it at F WRI.
- New Nonfiction You really came through for me when I asked for Non-Fiction suggestions. We have some excellent new titles.
- Stocks for the long run by Jeremy J Siegel. Find it at 332.6 SIE.
- An arrow through the heart by Deborah Daw Heffernan. Find it at 616.1 HEF.
- Reclaiming conversation by Sherry Turkle. Find it at 302.2 TUR.
- Unfinished business by Anne-Marie Slaughter. I was touchy to add this – I find myself sensitive to the ‘down with social media’ drumbeat. Meredith assures me that the interview on NPR actually messaged the opposite. That there is a time and a place for everything. *That* I can get behind. Find it at 305.42 SLA.
- Plunder and deceit by Mark R. Levin. Find it at 320.52 LEV.
- Exceptional by Richard B. Cheney. Find it at 327.73 CHE.
- The witches by Stacy Schiff. Another one that NPR made seem irresistible. Find it at 345.744 SCH.
- Greenhouses & garden sheds by Pat Price. Find it at 690 PRI.
- The art of papercutting by Jessica Palmer. Find it at 736 PAL.
- The modern natural dyer by Kristine Vejar. Find it at 746.6 VEJ.
- Pirate hunters by Robert Kurson. Last month the Book Group read Kurson’s first book and liked it. Thought his new one might be worth a try. Find it at 910.916 KUR.
- The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip M. Hoose. Find it at YA 940 HOO.
- The new tsar by Steven Lee Myers. New biography of Vladimir Putin. Find it at 947 MYE.
- The last of the president’s men by Bob Woodward. Find it at 973.924 WOO.
- Jacksonland by Steve Inskeep. This one is an audiobook. The reviews were super. Find it at CD 973.5 INS.
- New in the Children’s Room
- Waiting by Kevin Henkes. Find it at E HEN.
- Potty palooza by Rachel Gordon. Find it at E GOR.
- The Great Wave by Veronique Massenot. Find it at E MAS.
- Baby loves spring! by Karen Katz. Find it at BB KAT.
- Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley. Find it at jF BEA.
- Diary of a wimpy kid by Jeff Kinney. Find it at jF KIN Di.10.
- The Nest by Kenneth Oppel. Find it at jF OPP.
- Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone by J. K. Rowling. This is the new edition with incredible illustrations. It’s a heavy one, though, not for reading in bed! Find it at jF ROW Ha.1.
- The Marvels by Brian Selznick. Find it at jF SEL.
- Immortal guardians by Eliot Schrefer. The first in a new Spirit Animals series: Fall of the Beasts. Find it at jF SPI Fa.1.
- New Movies
- Outlander. The second part of the series is finally here! Find it at DVD OUT S1V2.
- Pitch perfect 2 Find it at DVD PIT 2.
- 5 to 7. Find it at DVD 5TO.
- Run granny run Those who attended the play Granny D: The Power of One at the Library this month may remember that Dixie mentioned this movie. I ran right out and bought it. Find it at DVD BIO HAD.
- Mr. Holmes Starring Ian McKellan, one of my favorite actors. Find it at DVD MRH.
– Lichen