New for Children
Oh No! Not Again! (Or How I Built a Time Machine to Save My History Grade)
by Mac Barnett
Some kids are too smart for their own good…and maybe for everyone else’s good. The overly ambitious little girl from “Oh No!” is back for more. But this time, she doesn’t have a humongous problem; she has an epic crisis on her hands: a mere A on her history test! There’s only one solution: travel back in time to 33,000 B.C. to make her wrong answer right!
New for Young Adults
Between the Lines
by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer
New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult and her teenage daughter present their first-ever novel for teens, filled with romance, adventure, and humor.
What happens when happily ever after isn’t? Delilah is a bit of a loner who prefers spending her time in the school library with her head in a book—one book in particular. “Between the Lines” may be a fairy tale, but it feels real. Prince Oliver is brave, adventurous, and loving. He really speaks to Delilah. And then one day Oliver actually speaks to her. It turns out, Oliver is more than a one-dimensional storybook prince. He’s a restless teen who feels trapped by his literary existence and hates that his entire life is predetermined. He’s sure there’s more for him out there in the real world, and Delilah might just be his key to freedom.
New for Adults
The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 14 year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family.
Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London
by Nigel Jones
A dazzling history of the Tower of London, one of the world’s busiest tourist attractions, and the people who populated it.
Castle, royal palace, prison, torture chamber, execution site, zoo, mint, home to the crown jewels, armory, record office, observatory, and the most visited tourist attraction in the United Kingdom, the Tower of London has been all these things and more. No building in Britain has been more intimately involved in the island’s story than this mighty, brooding stronghold in the very heart of the capital, a place that has stood at the epicenter of dramatic, bloody, and frequently cruel events for almost a thousand years. Historian Nigel Jones sets this dramatic story firmly in the context of national—and international—events in a gripping account drawn from primary sources and lavishly illustrated with 16 pages of photographs.
