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May 23, 2025

5/23/2025

LARGE PRINT
Nightshade (Michael Connelly)

ADULT FICTION
The Love Haters (Katherine Center)
Line of Demarcation (CLANCY M.P. Woodward)
My Name is Emilia del Valle: A Novel (Isabel Allende)
Nightshade: A Novel (Michael Connelly)
The Children of Eve (John Connolly)
Fever Beach (Carl Hiaasen)
Going Home in the Dark (Dean R. Koontz)
The Mystery of the Crooked Man (Tom Spencer)
Murder Runs in the Family (Tamara Berry)
Down in the Sea of Angels (Khan Wong)

YOUNG ADULT GRAPHIC NOVEL
AMULET:
Amulet. Book Nine, Waverider (Kazu Kibuishi)
BIG NATE:
Lincoln Pierce's Big Nate: The Nate Files (Lincoln Pierce)
I SURVIVED:
I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 (Georgia Bell)
LIBRARY OF DOOM:
Pop-Up Peril (Daniel Maulcon)
Possessive Spirit: A Graphic Novel (Steven Brezenoff)
The Sinister Study: A Graphic Novel (Steven Brezenoff)
SOPHIE:
Sophie. Frankenstein's Hound (Brian Anderson)
Sophie. Jurassic Bark (Brian Anderson)
STAR WARS:
Star Wars, The Mandalorian, Chapter 1, The Mandalorian (Rodney Barnes)
Star Wars, The Mandalorian, Chapter 2, The Child (Rodney Barnes)
Star Wars, The Mandalorian, Chapter 3, The Sin (Rodney Barnes)
SUPER DWEEB:
Super Dweeb and the Time Trumpet (Jess Bradley)
Super Dweeb v. the Evil Doodler (Jeses Bradley)

YOUNG ADULT (TEEN) FICTION
This Thing of Ours (Frederick Joseph)
Wake the Wild Creatures (Nova Ren Suma)

CHILDREN'S FICTION
Return to Sender (Vera Brosgol)
Moose and Violet Knock Things Down [Superpower Puppies] (Corey Powell)

PICTURE BOOK
20 Elves at Bedtime HOLIDAY (Mark Sperring)
Falling Leaves (PADDINGTON Rebecca Gerlings)
Hatching Chicks (PADDINGTON Lauren Holowaty)
Lola Meets the Bees (Anna McQuinn)
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rainbow! (Lucille Colandra)
You Are Not a Cat! (Sharon Flake)
Everything's Wrong!: A Bear, A Hare, and Trouble Everywhere (Jory John)
Bob and Dob: A Tale of Tattling (Sean Avery)

May 16, 2025

5/16/2025

ADULT NON-FICTION
The Microsoft Office 365 Bible: The Most Updated and Complete Guide to Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, OneDrive, Teams, Access, and Publisher from Beginners to Advanced
(005.5 James Holler)
Good Dad Guide: Be the Best Dad You Can Be -- In 1 Hour [The #1 Dad Book] (306 James Pattesron)
Autism [for Dummies] (616.858 John Marble)

GRAPHIC NOVEL
Firelight [Amulet #7] (AMULET Kazu Kibuishi)
Supernova [Amulet #8] (AMULET Kazu Kibuishi)

PICTURE BOOK
The Crayon Stub (Marcus Cutler)

May 9, 2025

5/9/2025

LARGE PRINT
The Family Inside: A Novel (Katie Garner)
The Summer Guests: A Thriller (Tess Gerritsen)
Fever Beach (Carl Hiaasen)
The Missing Half (Ashley Flowers)

ADULT NON-FICTION
Make Your Living Trust (346.7305 MAK)
The How Not to Age Cookbook (641.5 Michael Greger)
More Grandma's Favorites (641.5 Taste of Home)
Mostly Meatless: Green Up Your Plate Without Totally Ditching the Meat (641.6 MOS)

ADULT FICTION
Eat the Ones You Love (Sarah Maria Griffin)
Eleven Percent: A Novel (Maren Uthaug)
The Missing Half (Ashley Flowers)
Sealed with a Hiss (Rita Mae Brown)
The Murder Machine (Heather Graham)
25 Alive: The Most Emotional Women's Murder Club Ever (James Patterson)
2 Sisters Murder Investigations (James Patterson)
Summer Light on Nantucket: A Novel (Nancy Thayer)
Polybius (Collin Armstrong)
The Death of Us; A Novel (Abigail Dean)
A Dagger of Lightning (Meredith R. Lyons)
Awakened (A.E. Osworth)
Hard Town (Adam Plantinga)
When the Tides Held the Moon (Venessa Vida Kelley)
Notes from a Regicide (Isaac R. Fellman)
When We Were Real: A Novel (Daryl Gregory)
Great Big Beautiful Life (Emily Henry)
The Raven Scholar (Antonia Hodgson)

CHILDREN'S FICTION
The Trouble with Heroes (Kate Messner)

CHILDREN'S SERIES
I Escaped:
I Escaped the California Camp Fire: American's Deadliest Fire (S.D. Brown)
I Escaped the Donner Party: Pioneers on the Oregon Trail, 1846 (Ellie Crowe)
I Escaped the Gold Rush Fever: A Gold Rush Survival Story (S.D. Brown)
I Escaped the Haunted Winchester House (Ellie Crowe)
I Escaped the Salem Witch Trials (Juliet Fry)
I Escaped World War II: Pearl Harbor (Ellie Crowe)

CHILDREN'S EASY READER
Biscuit's Puppy Sleepover (Alyssa Capucilli)

PICTURE BOOK
Bored Panda (Mike Bender)
It Started with a P (Brittany Pomales)
Odder: An Otter's Story (Katherine Applegate)
Sadie Mouse Wrecks the House (Elliott Kalan)
Don't Trust Fish (Neil Sharpson)
Cats in Construction Hats (Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen)
Foster's Leash (Sarah Sommer)
The Bear Out There (Jess Hannigan)
Mistaco: A Tale of Tragedy y Tortillas (Eliza Kinkz)
Otto and the Story Tree (Vivien Mildenberger)
Bella and Bean (Sandra Bradley)
Elvis & Romeo (David Soman)

BOARD BOOK
You're My Little Sweet Pea (Nicola Edwards)

April 25, 2025

4/25/2025

LARGE PRINT
Bad River (Marc Cameron)
Breakneck (Marc Cameron)

ADULT NON-FICTION (new to our collection)
PCs and Laptops for Dummies (004.16 Dan Gookin)
Troubleshooting and Maintaining PCs All-in-One [for Dummies] (004.16 Dan Gookin)
iPhone for Dummies (004.167 Guy Hart-Davis)
Building DIY Websites [for Dummies] (006.7 Jennifer DeRosa)
Diabetes for Dummies (616.462 Simon Poole)
Arthritis for Dummies (616.722 Barry Fox)
Do I Have Dementia!: A Realistic Guide for Worriers (616.83 Joshua Johnson)
Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for You and Your Loved Ones (616.895 Francis Mark Mondimore)
Breast Cancer Survival Manual: A Step-by-Step Guide for Women with Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer (616.994 John Link)

ADULT FICTION
Strangers in Time (David Baldacci)
The World's Fair Quilt: A Novel (Jennifer Chiaverini)
The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits: A Novel (Jennifer Weiner)
South of Nowhere (Jeffery Deaver)
Say You'll Remember Me (Abby Jimenez)
Summer in the City: A Novel (Alex Aster)

PARENTING SHELF
That's My Truck! A Good Inside Story About Hitting (MANNERS Dr. Becky Kennedy)

CHILDREN'S FICTION
The Double Trouble Puzzle [MK's Detective Club] (James Patterson)

PICTURE BOOK
Hedgehogs Don't Wear Underwear (Marissa Valdez)
Runaway Cone (Morag Hood)
This is Happy! (Anna Ross)
Anything (Rebecca Stead)
Chalk the Walk (Chelsea Tornetto)

April 11, 2025

4/11/2025

LARGE PRINT
Liar's Point (Laura Griffin)
You'll Find Out (Lisa Jackson)

ADULT NON-FICTION
Antisemitism in America: A Warning (305.892 Chuck Schumer)
Takaya: Lone Wolf (599.773 Cheryl Alexander)

ADULT FICTION
The Story She Left Behind: A Novel (Patti Callahan Henry)
The Book That Held Her Heart (Mark Lawrence)
the Maid's Secret: A Maid Novel (Nita Prose)
Murder at Gulls Nest (Jess Kidd)
The Perfect Divorce (Jeneva Rose)
Victorian Psycho: A Novel (Virginia Feito)

PICTURE BOOK
Grumpy Monkey Mom for a Day (Suzanne Lang)
Nellie's Big Splash (Cori Doerrfeld)

April 4, 2025

4/7/2025

ADULT FICTION
Saltwater: A novel (Katy Hays)
Overkill (Judith A. Jance)
Nobody's Fool (Harlan Coben)
Fight of Flight (Fern Michaels)
A Drop of Corruption: An Ana and Din Mystery (Robert Jackson Bennett)
Tilt: A Novel (Emma Pattee)
Twist: A Novel (Colum McCann)
The Paris Express: A Novel (Emma Donoghue)
The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne (Ron Currie)
Nowhere: A Novel (Allison Gunn)
Audition (Katie Kitamura)
Cat's People: A Novel (Tanya Guerrero)
Heartwood (A Read with Jenna Pick) (Amity Gaige)
I See You've Called in Dead (John Kenney

CHILDREN'S FICTION
The Unfortunate Wishes of Nelly Young (Beth Garrod)

PICTURE BOOK
The Littlest Drop (Sascha Alper)
Blake the Snake Bakes a Cake (Amy Young)
Bearsuit Turtle Makes a Friend (Bob Shea)
The Bad Idea and Other Stories (Greg Pizzoli)
Bluey: Fairytale (Joe Brumm)
What Would Bluey's Mum Do? (Bluey)
What Coco Can Do (Maribeth Boelts)
On the Last Day of School (Magige Rudd)

March 28, 2025

3/28/2025

ADULT FICTION
Fake It Like You Mean It: A Novel (Megan Murphy)
Twice as Dead (Harry Turtledove)
The Third Rule of Time Travel (Philip Fracassi)
The Martian Contingency: A Lady Astronaut Novel (Mary Robinette Kowal)
Elphie: A Wicked Childhood (Gregory Maguire)
The Hanging Man & Other Western Stories (Bill Pronzini)
Sweet Stubborn Love (Nora Roberts)
Ghastly and Ghoulish Tales from the ER: A Saga in Sixteen Parts (Mitch Goldman)
Imber (Deborah Mistina)
Brain Storm (Cat Gilbert)
You Deserve to Know (Aggie Blum Thompson)
Hot Air: A Novel (Marcy Dermansky)

CHILDREN'S NON-FICTION
The Happiest Kids Crafts in the World!: 75 Colorful Art Projects to Inspire Kindness,
Build Confidence and Encourage Positivity (J745.5 Timm Sevitz)

March 21, 2025

3/21/2025

ADULT FICTION
Rooms for Vanishing: A Novel (Stuart Nadler)
Ultramarine (Mariette Navarro)
Our Beautiful Boys: A Novel (Sameer Pandya)
Story of My Life (Lucy Score)
Sunbringer: A Fallen Gods Novel (Hannah Kaner)
The Trouble Up North (Travis Mulhauser)
Homegrown Magic (Jamie Pacton)
The Hymn to Dionysus: A Novel (Natasha Pulley)
When the Moon Hits Your Eye (John Scalzi)
Murder by Memory (Olivia Waite)
The Summer Guests (Tess Gerritsen)
The Writer (James Patterson)
Lethal Prey (John Sandford)
Far From Home: A Novel (Danielle Steel)
Broken Country: A Novel (Clare Leslie Hall)

YOUNG ADULT (TEEN) FICTION
Sunrise on the Reaping (Suzanne Collins)

PICTURE BOOK
I Spy Love (I Spy Dan Marzollo)
The Little Green Swing (Brenda Maier)

BOARD BOOK
Hello, Daisy! (Melanie Grenier)

March 14, 2025

3/14/2025

LARGE PRINT
The Party Line (Carolyn Brown)
My Three Dogs: A Novel (W. Bruce Cameron)
Nobody's Hero: A Novel (M.W. Craven)
Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Robert Dugoni)
The Bones Beneath My Skin (T.J. Klune)
The President's Lawyer: A Novel (Lawrence Robbins)

ADULT FICTION
The Other Side of Nothing: A Novel (Anastasia Zadeik)
Dissolution (Nicholas Binge)
Don't Tell Me How to Die: A Novel (Marshall Karp)

CHILDREN'S BIOGRAPHY
The Sunflowers: Vincent Van Gogh's Search for Beauty (Zahra Marwan)

GRAPHIC NOVEL
Botticelli's Apprentice (Ursula M. Husted)
How to Catch Graphic Novels: How to Catch the Easter Bunny (Adam Wallace)

PICTURE BOOK
Joan of Art (Lesa Engelthaler)
A New Day for Umwell the Gray (Nathaniel Jenks)
Red Is Not Angry, Blue Is Not Sad (Alicia Acosta)
Papilio (Ben Clanton)
The Baby Who Stayed Awake Forever (Sandra Salsbury)
How to Catch a Groundhog (Alice Walstead)
If Animals Celebrated Easter (Ann W. Paul)
Crack Goes the Cascaron: An Eggcellent Not-Just-for-Easter Shellebration! (Sara Andrea Fajardo)_
Easter (Nancy Dickman)
The Easter Bunny Hop (Toni D'Alia)
Hap-Pea Easter (Keith Baker)
Happy Father's Day from the Crayons (Drew Daywalt)
Happy Mother's Day from the Crayons (Drew Daywalt)
Hatch and Match (Ruth Paul)
Spring's Miracles (Kaitlin B. Curtice)
Where is Claris at Easter! (Megan Hess)
Will the Pigeon Graduate? (Mo Willems)

BOARD BOOK
I Love You a Little, I Love You a Lot (Alexandra Garibel)

March 6, 2025

3/7/2025

ADULT BIOGRAPHY
Source Code: My Beginnings (Bill Gates)

ADULT NON-FICTION
The Toddler Survival Guide: Child Behaviour Secrets from a Professional Nanny (649.1 Laura Amies)

ADULT FICTION
The River Has Roots (Amal El-Mohtar)
The Fourth Consort: A Novel (Edward Ashton)
A Rebel Without Claws (Juliette Cross)
Level: Unknown (David Dalglish)
Three Days in June: A Novel (Anne Tyler)
Battle Mountain (C.J. Box)
Blood Moon ( Sandra Brown)
Mr. Whisper: A Thriller (Andrew Mayne)
The Pharisee's Wife (Janette Oke)

CHILDREN'S NON-FICTION
The Magnificent Book of Endangered Animals (J591.68 Genevieve Morgan)

CHILDREN'S FICTION
The Final Draw (Ridley Pearson)

PICTURE BOOK
I'm Always Loving You (Kathy Wolff)
Little Freddie Two Pants: (The Dog with Too Many Pants) (Drew Daywalt)
Bruce Saves the Planet (Ryan T. Higgins)
If You Find a Fawn: A What-to-do for Wild Wanderers (Kellie DuBay Gillis)
It's Not Easy Being a Leprechaun (Marilyn Sadler)

BOARD BOOK
The ABCs of Spring (Jill Howarth)
Ten Little Leprechauns: A Counting Storybook (Amanda Sobotka)
Spring is Here (Will Hillenbrand)

February 28, 2025

2/28/2025

ADULT FICTION
Coming in Hot (Deany Ray)
Tree of Ages (Sara C. Roethle)
Close Your Eyes and Count to 10 (Original) (Lisa Unger)
Rogue Community College (David R. Slayton)
The Nightingale (Kristin Hannah)
The Last Hamilton: A Novel (Jenn Bregman)
The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey: A Novel (Astrid Dahl)
Grave Empire (Richard Swan)

GRAPHIC NOVEL
Cat Out of Water (Art Baltazar)
Cat Kid Comic Club.5, Influencers (Dav Pilkey)

CHILDREN'S BIOGRAPHY
Caitlin Clark: Basketball Phenom (Matt Chandler)

CHILDREN'S NON-FICTION
How to Make a Picture Book (J808.06 Elys Dolan)

CHILDREN'S FICTION
The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest (Aubrey Hartman)
Penny Draws a Best Friend (Sara Shepard)
Haunting of the Ghost Dragon [Dragon Masters] (Tracey West)
Eloise the Flame Dragon (Maddy Mara)
Learning to Fly [Unicornia] (Ana Punset)

CHILDREN'S READER
I Want to Be an Artist (Laura Driscoll)
Forever Friends [Drag and Rex] (Susan Lubner)
The Gold Bowl [Rainbow Days] (Valerie Bolling)
The Gray Day [Rainbow Days] (Valerie Bolling)
Paddington's Jungle Quest (Rebecca Gerlings)
Welcome to the Woofmore (Donna Gephart)

PICTURE BOOK
Animals [Can You Spot?] (Kirsteen Robson)
Dinosaurs [Can You Spot?] (Kirsteen Robson)
The Ice Disco [The Adventures of Paddington] (Lauren Holowaty)
My Blue Is Happy (Jessica Young)
Something Good (Kenneth Kraegel)
I Worked Hard on That! (Robyn Wall)
It's a Great, Big Colorful World (Tom Schamp)
Izzy Paints (Tim Miller)
Aisha's Colors (Nabila Adani)
ARTificial Intelligence (David Biedrzycki)
The Usborne Big Book of Colors (Felicity Brooks)
The Color of Love (Poppy Harlow)

BOARD BOOK
The Color Monster: A Story About Emotions (Anna Llenas)
Cows Are Pink!: A Farm Colors Book with Cutouts (Becky Davies)
Flora and Friends Colors (Molly Idle)
I Know Colors (Margarita Kuthtina)

February 21, 2025

2/21/2025

ADULT FICTION
The Moonlight Healers: A Novel (Elizabeth Becker)
All the Missing Pieces (Catherine Cowles)
The Business Trip (Jessie Garcia)
Into the Woods (Jenny Holiday)
Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear (Seanan McGuire)
Blood Ties: A Novel (Jo Nesbo)
A Curse for the Homesick (Original) (Laura Brooke Robson)
The Queen of Fives: A Novel (Alex Hay)
Upon a Starlit Tide (Kell Woods)
Victorian Psycho: A Novel (Virginia Feito)
The Capital of Dreams: A Novel (Heather O'Neill)
Beast of the North Woods (Annelise Ryan)
Death of a Smuggler ( M.C. Beaton)
The Medici Return (Steve Berry)
Nemesis: An Orphan X Novel (Gregg Hurwitz)
Open Season: An Alex Delaware Novel Bk. 40 (Jonathan Kellerman)
Looking For You (Alexander McCall Smith)
Paranoia (James Pattersoon)
Bonded in Death (J.D. Robb)
A Dragon of Black Glass (James Rollin)

YOUNG ADULT (TEEN) FICTION
The Rose Bargain (Sasha Peyton Smith)

CHILDREN'S FICTION
Jojo vs. Middle School (Joy McCullough)

PICTURE BOOK
Me and Other Bunnies (Mo Willems)
Let's Be Bees (Shawn Harris)
Caboose: A Picture Book (Travis Jonker)

February 14, 2024

2/14/2025

LARGE PRINT
The Vanishing of Josephine Reynolds (Jennifer Moorman)
You're Safe Here: A Novel (Leslie Stephens)

ADULT FICTION
Last Twilight in Paris (Pam Jenoff)
This Is a Love Story: A Novel (Jessica Soffer)
The Book That Broke the World (Mark Lawrence)
Beautiful Ugly (Alice Feeney)
We All Live Here: A Novel (Jojo Moyes)
Sweet Fury (Sash Bischoff)
Motheater (Linda H Codega)
Something Rotten: A Novel (Andrew Lipstein)
Give Me Butterflies: A Novel (Jillian Meadows)
The Legend of Meneka (Kritika H. Rao)
We Lived on the Horizon: A Novel (Erika Swyler)
Johnny Careless: A Novel (Kevin Wade)
The Outcast Mage (Annabel Campbell)
Red Clay (Charles B. Fancher)
Immortal (Sue Lynn Tan)
A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage: A Novel (Asia Mackay)

YOUNG ADULT (TEEN) FICTION
Everything Is Poison (Joy McCullough)

PICTURE BOOK
How to Make a Bedtime (Megan McKinlay)

February 7, 2025

2/7/2025

LARGE PRINT
We Are Watching (Alison Gaylin)

ADULT NON-FICTION
Mind Over Menopause: Lose Weight, Love Your Body, and Embrace Life After 50 With a Powerful New Mindset (618.175 Pahla Bowers)

ADULT FICTION
Onyx Storm (Rebecca Yarros)
Penitence: A Novel (Kristin Koval)
We Are Watching: A Novel (Alison Gaylin)

CHILDREN'S BIOGRAPHY
Ruby Bridges: A Talk With My Teacher (Ruby Bridges)

PICTURE BOOK
Dragons Can't Eat Snow Cones (Amanda Sobotka)

January 31, 2025

1/31/2025

LARGE PRINT
The Note (Alafair Burke)

ADULT NON-FICTION
Chocolate Lover: A Baking Book (641.673 Michelle Song)

ADULT FICTION
Clever Little Thing (Helena Echlin)
Boardwalk (Dianna Wilkes)
Ritter Park (Dianna Wilkes)
Seasons (Dianna Wilkes)
Order of Swans [Original] (Jude Deveraux)
In Need of a Cowboy (Linda Lael Miller)
Hold Strong: A Novel (Robert Dugoni)
Track Her Down (Melinda Leigh)
The Last Room on the Left (Leah Konen)
What Happened to the McCrays?: A Novel (Tracey Lange)
The Aurora Revelations: A Paranormal Mystery Novel (Michael Walker)

CHILDREN'S FICTION
Gryphon Chronicles (E.G. Foley):
Lost Heir: Alliance
Dark Portal: Legacy
Dark Portal: Labyrinth

CHILDREN'S READER
Let's Go to the Library (May Nakamura)
Stop That Mop! (Jonathan Fenske)
Nat the Cat Has a Hat: Ready-to-Read Pre-Level 1 (Jarrett Lerner)

PICTURE BOOK
A Cat Like That (Lester Laminack)
Eat Like a Bear (April Pulley Sayre)
10 Things I Love About You (Sophie Aggett)
Bigfoot's Big Heart (Sara Glenn Marsh)
Books Make Good Friends (Jane Mount)
Getting Ready for Valentine's Day (Vera Ahiyya)
Hap-Pea Valentine's Day! (Keith Baker)
I Want to Read All the Books (Debbie Ridpath Ohi)
The Little Puppy (Nicola Killen)
Love From Snoopy (Charles M. Schulz)
Sharing is Caring, Dragon (Bianca Schulze)
Ten-Word Tiny Tales of Love (Joseph Coelho)
Classic Cartoon Character Bios (Grace Hansen):
Garfield
Mickey Mouse
Pickachu
Scooby-Doo
Winnie the Pooh

BOARD BOOK
Little Love Songs (Sandra Boynton)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Peekaboo Valentine (Eric Carle)

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