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July 26, 2024

7/26/2024

ADULT FICTION
The Building That Wasn't (Abigail Miles)
In the Belly of the Whale (Michael Flynn)
The Sky on Fire (Jenn Lyons)
The Next Best Fling (Gabriella Gamez)
Long Island Compromise (Taffy Brodesser-Akner)
These Deathless Shores (P.H. Low)
Not You Again: A Novel (Ingrid Pierce)
The Traitor: A Novel (Ava Glass)
Sugar on the Bones (Joe R. Lansdale)
Bright Objects: A Novel (Ruby Todd)
The God of the Woods (Liz Moore)
The Wrong Hands (Mark Billingham)
The Spice Gate: A Fantasy (Prashanth Srivatsa)
Cabaret Macabre (Tom Mead)
The Dissonance (Shaun Hamill)

CHILDREN'S FICTION
The Puppets of Spelhorst (Kate DiCamillo)

PICTURE BOOK
How to Eat a Mango (Paola Santos)
Just What to Do (Kyle Lukoff)
Sinclair, the Velociraptor Who Thought He Was a Chicken (Douglas Rees)
The Museum of Very Bad Smells: A Dare to Scratch 'n Sniff Mystery (Monica Arnaldo)

July 19, 2024

7/19/2024

LARGE PRINT FICTION
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books (Kirsten Miller)

ADULT FICTION
The Downloaded (Robert J. Sawyer)
The Undermining of Twyla and Frank (Megan Bannen)
Come to the Window: A Novel (Howard Norman)
Confessions of the Dead (James Patterson)

PICTURE BOOK
The First Week of School (Drew Breckmeyer)
Keyana Loves School (Natasha Anastasia Tarpley)
Ladybugs Do Not Go to Preschool (Ali Rutstein)
Monsters at School (Laura Baker)

BOARD BOOKS
Why Do I Have to Go to School? (Katie Daynes)
The Nervous Dragon: A Story About Overcoming Back-to-School Worries

July 12, 2024

7/12/2024

LARGE PRINT
A Talent for Murder (Peter Swanson)
Chasing Endless Summer: A Novel (V.C. Andrews)
Our Little Secret (Lisa Jackson)

ADULT FICTION
Death in the Air: A Novel (Ram Murali
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books (Kirsten Miller)
The Outside (Gianna Marino)
You'll Never Find Me (Allison Brennan)
Our Little Secret (Lisa Jackson)
Proof (Fern Michaels)
the Burning (Linda Castillo)
Flashpoint: An FBI Thriller (Catherine Coulter)
Dog Day Afternoon (David Rosenfelt)
A Death in Cornwall (Daniel Silva)
Market for Murder (Heather Graham)
Flashback (Iris Johansen)
Shanghai: A Novel (Joseph Kanon)
Some Murders in Berlin (Karen Robards)
Resurrection: A Novel (Danielle Steel)
Zero Option {W.E.B. Griffin} (Peter N. Kirsanow)
One Deadly Eye (Randy Wayne White)
The Briar Club: A Novel (Kate Quinn)
Navola: A Novel (Paolo Bacigalupi)
Our Kind of Game: A Movel (Johanna Copeland)
Joe Hustle: A Novel (Richard Lange)
Grown Women: A Novel (Sarai Johnson)
The Next Mrs. Parrish: A Novel (Liv Constantine)
Midnight Rooms: A Novel (Donyae Coles)
Storm Child (Michal Robotham)

PICTURE BOOK
A Boy, His Dog, and the Sea (Anthony Browne)
Not-a-Box City (Antoinette Portis)
Pajamarama! (Julie Gonzalez)

July 3, 2024

7/3/2024

ADULT FICTION
Mirrored Heavens (Rebecca Roanhorse)
Bear: A Novel (Julia Phillips)
Lady Eve's Last Con (Rebecca Fraimow)
The Witchstone (Henry H. Neff)
Same As It Ever Was (Claire Lombardo)
Moonbound: The Last Book of the Anth (Robin Sloan)
A Talen for Murder: A Novel (Peter Swanson)
One of Our Kind: A Novel (Nicola Yoon)
The Stars Too Fondly: A Novel (Emily Hamilton)
The Stardust Grail (Yume Kitasei)
Tidal Creatures (Seanan McGuire)
Middle of the Night: A Novel (Riley Sager)]
The Daughters' War (Christopher Buehlman)
How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive (Craig DeLouie)
Under Your Spell: A Novel (Laura Wood)

PICTURE BOOK
Goodnight School (Catherine Bailey)

BOARD BOOK
Hello, Crayons!: and Other School Friends (Hannah Eliot)

June 28, 2024

6/28/2024

ADULT FICTION
All the Colors of the Dark: A Novel (Chris Whitaker)
Sandwich: A Novel (Catherine Newman)
Moral Injuries: A Novel (Christie Watson)
I Will Ruin You: A Novel (Linwood Barclay)
The Instruments of Darkness: A Novel (John Connolly)
Evergreen Christmas (Janet Dailey)
Camino Ghosts (John Grisham)
The Stellar Debut of Galactica MacFee (Alexander McCall Smith)
The 24th Hour (James Patterson)
Stuart Woods' Smolder (WOODS Brett Battles)
Red Star Falling (Steve Berry)
Clete (James Lee Burke)
Eruption (Michael Crichton & James Patterson)
Swan Song (Elin Hilderbrand)
Forget Me Never (Susan Wittig Albert)
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Shadow (LUDLUM Brian Freeman)

June 21, 2024

6/21/2024

LARGE PRINT FICTION
Murder on the Poet's Walk (Ellery Adams)
Middle of the Night (Riley Sager)

ADULT FICTION
Devil's Kitchen (Candice Fox)
How to Age Disgracefully (Clare Pooley)
The Midnight Feast (Lucy Foley)
We Used to Live Here (Marcus Kliewer)

CHILDREN'S READER
Grumpy Monkey: Too Many Bugs (Suzanne Lang)

PICTURE BOOK
Bubble Gum Bison Needs a Bath (Scott Rothman)
A Crocodile Should Never Skip Breakfast (Colleen Larmour)
Itty Bitty Betty Blob (Constance Lombardo)
Shake It Off! (Vanessa Brantley-Newton)

BOARD BOOK
Hello Hello Shapes (Brendan Wenzel)
Silly Lullaby (Sandra Boynton)

June 14, 2024

6/14/2024

LARGE PRINT
The Deepest Kill (Lisa Black)
The Instruments of Darkness: A Novel (John Connolly)
Dry Road to Nowhere (William Johnstone)
Dead Against Her (Melinda Leigh)
Murder by Lamplight: A Novel (Patrice McDonough)
The Promise of Tomorrow (May Ellen Taylor)
The Summer We Started Over: A Novel (Nancy Thayer)
Long Island: A Novel (Colm Toibin)
The Wives (Lisa Black) *BIOGRAPHY

ADULT FICTION
Evocation [Book 1 in The Summoner's Circle] (S.T. Gibson)
The Switch (Lily Samson)
Whale Fall (Elizabeth O'Connor)
Pardon My Frenchie (Farrah Rochon)
Fiasco (Constance Fay)
Early Sobrieties: A Novel (Michael Deagler)
Spitting Gold: A Novel (Carmella Lowkis)
Blood in the Cut (Alejandro Nodarse)
I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons (Peter S. Beagle)
The House That Horror Built (Christina Henry)
Road to Ruin (Hana Lee)
Oye: A Novel (Melissa Mogollon)
Lost Ark Dreaming (Suyi Davies Okungbowa)
Dreadful (Caitlin Roakis)
Summer Romance (Annabel Monaghan)
Daughter of the Merciful Deep (L. Penelope)
Youthjuice (E.K. Sathue)
Service Model (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
Burn It All: A Novel (Maggie Auffarth)
Love Letters to a Serial Killer (Tasha Coryell)
Such a Bad Influence (Olivia Muenter)
Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories (Colombe Schneck)
Shelterwood: A Novel (Lisa Wingate)
A Lonesome Place for Dying: A Novel (Nolan Chase)
The Last Murder at the End of the World: A Novel (Stuart Turton)
The North Wind (Alexandria Warwick)
How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Django Wexler)
On Her Watch (Melinda Leigh)
Assassins Anonymous (Rob Hart)

CHILDREN'S FICTION
Little Shrew (Akiko Miyakoshi)

PICTURE BOOK
Desert Song (Laekan Zea Kemp)

June 7, 2024

6/6/2024

Biography
Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me (Whoopi Goldberg)

Adult Fiction
The Paradise Problem (Christina Lauren)
Swiped (L.M. Chilton)
The Witches of Bellinas: A Novel
The Z Word (Lindsay King-Miller)
Escape Velocity (Victor Manibo)
Long Island: A Novel (Colm Toibin)
Summer Fridays: A Novel (Suzanne Rindell)
The Sky Was Ours (Joe Fassler)
Southern Man: A Novel (Greg Iles)
If Something Happens to Me: a Novel (Alex Finlay)
From the Belly: Being an Epic of Sea--Faring Adventure, Intrigue, & Horror from the Deep & Beyond (Emmett Nahil)

Young Adult (Teen) Fiction
The Lamplighter (Crystal J. Bell)
Beastly Beauty (Jennifer Donnelly)
The Worst Perfect Moment (Shivaun Plozza)
Stay Dead (April Henry)
This Book Won't Burn (Samira Ahmed)
It Waits in the Forest (Sarah Dass)

Graphic Novel
Gnome and Rat (Luaren Stohler)

Children's Non-Fiction
What If You Had an Animal Home!? (J591.564 Sandra Markle)

Children's Fiction
Detective Duck: The Case of the Strange Splash (Henry Winkler)
J.D. and the Great Barber Battle (J. Dillard)
Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All (Chanel Miller)

Picture Book
There Are No Dragons in This Book (Donna Lambo-Weidner)
I'm Afraid, Said the Leaf (Danielle Daniel)
There Was a Shadow (Bruce Handy)
When Rosie Walks George (Amy Hest)
Big Bear and Little Bear Go Fishing (Amy Hest)
On a Summer Night (Deborah Hopkinson)

May 24, 2024

5/24/2024

Large Print
The Last Time She Saw Him (Kate White)

Adult Non-Fiction
The Full-Body Fat Fix: The Science-Based 7-Day Plan to Cool Inflammation, Heal Your Gut, and Build a
Healthier, Leaner You (613.25 Stephen Perrine)

Adult Fiction
Knife River: A Novel (Justine Champine)
The Last Time She Saw Him (Kate White)
The Museum of Lost Quilts (Jennifer Chiaverini)
An Unfinished Murder (Jude Deveraux)
Only the Brave: A Novel (Danielle Steel)
Summers at the Saint (Mary Kay Andrews)
The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Jeff Shaara)
Tom Clancy Act of Defiance (CLA Brian Andrews)
Think Twice (Harlan Coben)
Death Behind Every Door (Heather Graham)
You Like It Darker: Stories (Stephen King)
Mind Games (Nora Roberts)

Picture Book
The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn (Shawn Harris)
Finding Things (Kevin Henkes)

May 10, 2024

5/10/2024

Large Print
The Philadelphia Heiress: A Novel (Anita Abriel)
Cape Rage (Ron Corbett)
I've Got My Mind Set on Brew: A Novel (Stephanie Jayne)
Summer Reading: A Novel (Jenn McKinlay)
Northwoods: A Novel (Amy Pease)

Adult Biography
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder (Salman Rushdie)

Adult Non-Fiction
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (305.23 Jonathan Haidt)

Adult Fiction
James: A Novel (Percival Everett)
Funny Story (Emily Henry)
Daughters of Shandong (Eve J. Chung)
Reunion: A Novel (Elise Juska)
Five Broken Blades (Mai Corland)
The Boy Who Cried Bear (Kelly Armstrong)
The Heist (CUSSLER Jack B. Du Brul)
Women and Children First: A Novel (Alina Grabowski)
A Killing on the Hill: A Thriller (Robert Dugoni)
The British Booksellers: A Novel of the Forgotten Blitz (Kristy Cambron)

Children's Fiction
The Things We Miss (Leah Stecher)

Picture Book
The Elephant and the Sea (Ed Vere)
Summer is Here (Renee Watson)

May 3, 2024

5/3/2024

Adult Non-Fiction
The Demon of Unrest [A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Down of the Civil War] (973.711 Erik Larson)

Adult Fiction
Happy Medium (Sarah Adler)
All Fours (Miranda July)
Safe and Sound: A Novel (Laura McHugh)

Young Adult (Teen) Fiction
Your Blood, My Bones (Kelly Andrew)
Not Like Other Girls (Meredith Adamo)

Graphic Novel
I Survived the American Revolution,1776 (Georgia Ball

Children's Fiction
Finding Bear (Hannah Gold)
Monster Match (Caryn Dahlstrand Rivadeneira)

Picture Book
Bear Came Along (Richard T. Morris)
Let's Go Puddling! (Emma Perry)
Partly Cloudy (Deborah Freedman)
The Door That Had Never Been Opened Before (Mr. & Mrs. MacLeod)
Turtle-Turtle and the Wide, Wide River (Jane Hillenbrand)
Two Together (Brendan Wenzel)
Dog vs. Strawberry (Nelly Buchet)
The Truth About the Couch (Adam Rubin)

Board Book
Hey! What's That? (Sandra Boynton)
Being Brave (Cindy Jin)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Ocean Hide & Seek: A Finger Trail Life-the-Flap (Eric Carle)

April 26, 2024

4/26/2024

Adult Fiction
A Calamity of Souls (David Baldacci)
Feline Fatale (Rita Mae Brown)
It Had To Be You (Mary Higgins Clark)
Circle in the Water (Marcia Muller)
Pay Dirt (Sara Paretsky)
The Murder Inn (James Patterson)
Extinction: A Novel (Douglas J. Preston)
Toxic Prey (John Sandford)
The Summer We Started Over: A Novel (Nancy Thayer)
Bluebird Winter (Linda Howard)
Kill for Me Kill for You (Stave Cavanagh)
In a Not So Perfect World: A Novel (Neely Tubati Alexander)
The Tainted Cup (Robert Jackson Bennett)
Fruit of the Dead: A Novel ((Rachel Lyon)
Mona of the Manor: A novel (Armistead Maupin)
Listen for the Lie: A Novel (Amy Tintera)
The Titanic Survivors Book Club: A Novel (Timothy Schaffert)
I Cheerfully Refuse: A Novel (Leif Enger)
The Night in Question (Susan Fletcher)
Just for the Summer/Abby Jimenez (Abby Jimenez)
The Angel of Indian Lake (Stephen Graham Jones)
The Rule Book: A Novel (Sarah Adams)
Lost Man's Lane: A Novel (Scott Carson)
Nothing Without Me: A Novel (Helen Monks Takhar)
Monsters We Have Made (Lindsay Starck)

Young Adult (Teen) Fiction
Where Sleeping Girls Lie (Faridah Abike-Iyimide)

Children's Non-Fiction
You and the Universe (J523.1 Stephen Hawking)

Children's Fiction
Ultraviolet (Aida Salazar)
Maya Plays the Part (Calyssa Erb)
The Happy and Heinous Halloween of Classroom 13 (Honest Lee)

Picture Book
Ahoy! (Sophie Blackall)
Everyone Gets a Turn (Marianne Dubuc)
Solar Bear (Beth Ferry)
Keep Up, Duck! (Ivan Bates)

April 19, 2024

4/19/2024

Large Print
What Harms You (Lisa Black)
The Silence in Her Eyes: A Novel (Armando Correa)
Secret Remains: A Mystery (Jennifer Dornbush)
Before I'm Gone (Heidi McLaughlin)
The Grave Singer (Victor Methos)
How to Kiss Your Grumpy Boss: A Sweet Romantic Comedy (Jenny Proctor)
Where Butterflies Wander: A Novel (Suzanne Redfearn)
Nightwatching (Tracy Sierra)
A Calamity of Souls (David Baldacci)

Adult Non-Fiction
Mary Makes It Easy: The New Ultimate Stress-Free Cookbook (641.555 Mary Berry)

Adult Fiction
Darling Girls (Sally Hepworth)
The Reaper Follows (Heather Graham)
Still See You Everywhere (Lisa Gardner)
The Wild Side (Fern Michaels)
The #1 Lawyer (James Patterson)
The Truth About the Devlins (Lisa Scottoline)
Never Too Late: A Novel (Danielle Steel)
How to End a Love Story: A Novel (Yulin Kuang)
Table for Two: Fictions (Amor Towles)
One of Us Knows: A Thriller (Alyssa Cole)
Daughter of Mine: A Novel (Megan Miranda)

Young Adult (Teen) Fiction
The One That Got Away With Murder (Trish Lundy)
The Kill Factor (Ben Oliver)

Graphic Novel
Crabgrass Comic Adventures (Tauhid Bondia)
Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library: The Graphic Novel (Chris Grabenstein)

Children's Non-Fiction
Atlantic Ocean Shipwrecks (J910.916 Michelle Parkin)

Children's Fiction
The Other Side of Perfect (Melanie Florence)
This Again? (Adam Borba)
The Campground Kids (C.R. Fulton):
Grand Canyon Rescue
Rocky Mountain Challenge
Classroom 13 (Honest Lee)
The Unlucky Lotter Winners of Classroom 13
The Disastrous Magical Wishes of Classroom 13
The Terrible and Fantastic Fame of Classroom 13
The Super Awful Superheroes of Classroom 13
Epic Zero (R.L Ullman)
Tales of a Not-So-Super 6th Grader
Tales of a Pathetic Power Failure
Tales of a Super Lame Last Hope
Tales of a Total Waste of Time
Tales of an Unlikely Kid Outlaw
Tales of a Major Meta Disaster

Children's Reader
Lost Dog [The Adventure Friends] (Brandon Todd)
Save the Duck! [Best Buddies] (Vicky Fang)

Picture Book
Hugless Douglas Goes Camping (David Melling)
Hugless Douglas and the Nature Walk (David Melling)
Monster Needs to Go to School (Paul Czajak)
Monster Needs His Sleep (Paul Czajak)
Monster Needs a Party (Paul Czajak)
Farley Farts (Birte Muller)
Juneteenth Is (Natasha Tripplett)
Just Like Millie (Lauren Castillo)

Board Book
Animals in Underwear (Todd Parr)

April 5, 2024

4/5/2024

Adult Non-Fiction
Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up (618.92 Abigail Shrier)

Biography
One Way Back: A Memoir (Christine Blasey Ford)
Rebel Rising: A Memoir (Rebel Wilson)

Adult Fiction
What Happened to Nina (Dervla McTiernan)
The Hunter: A Novel (Tana French)
She's Not Sorry (Mary Kubica)
The Husbands: A Novel (Holly Gramazio)
Day Tripper (Original) (James Goodhand)

Teen Graphic Novel
The Egg Incident (Ziggy Hanaor)
Lies My Teacher Told ME: A Graphic Adaptation (James Loewen)
The Scarlet Shedder [Dog Man] (Dav Pilkey)

Children's Fiction
Ferris (Kate DeCamillo)

Picture Book
Moo Hoo (Audrey Parrott)

March 29, 2024

3/29/2024

Adult Non-Fiction
Generative AI: Navigating the Course to the Artificial General Intelligence Future (006.3 Martin Musiol)
Disproven: My Unbiased Search for Voter Fraud for the Trump Campaign, The Data that Shows Why He Lost, and
How We Can Improve Our Elections (324.973 Ken Block)

Adult Fiction
By, Baby: A Novel (Carola Lovering)
Good Half Gove (Tarryn Fisher)
How to Solve Your Own Murder: A Novel (Kristen Perrin)
Murder Road (Simone St. James)
At the River (Kendra Elliot)
In A Not So Perfect World: A Novel (Neely Tubati Alexander)
Blur Ridge (Peter Malone Elliott)
Expiration Dates: A Novel (Rebecca Serle)

Children's Fiction
The Cat Who Solved Three Murders (L.T. Shearer)

Picture Book
Albert's ABCs: A Sibling Story (Henry Cole)
Cece Bell Presents Animal Albums From A to Z (Cece Bell)
The Book That Almost Rhymed (Omar Abed)
Bros (Carol Boston Weatherford)
Bunny Should Be Sleeping (Amy Hest)
The Cat Who Couldn't Be Bothered (Jack Kurland)
Hen in the Bed (Katrina Charman)
Keep Up, Duck! (Rachel Bates)
No Cats in the Library (Lauren Emmons)
You're Going to Love This Book! (Jory John)

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