New for Children
One Year in Coal Harbor
by Polly Horvath
Readers rejoice—Primrose Squarp is back! The wise and curious heroine of the Newbery Honor Book “Everything on a Waffle” is facing another adventure-filled year in Coal Harbor. Even though her parents, once lost at sea, are home, there’s a whole slew of problems and mysteries to keep Primrose—and eager fans-—busy. There’s Uncle Jack and Kate Bowzer, who may (or may not) be in love. There’s Ked, a foster child who becomes Primrose’s friend. And there’s the new development on the outskirts of town that threatens the Coal Harbor that Primrose knows and treasures. Prolific and brilliant, Horvath has delivered a masterful sequel to a beloved novel, sure to please old fans and gain new ones.
New for Young Adults
Planesrunner
by Ian McDonald
When 14-year-old Everett Singh’s scientist father is kidnapped from the streets of London, he leaves a mysterious app on Everett’s computer giving him access to the Infundibulum—a map of parallel earths—which is being sought by technologically advanced dark powers that Everett must somehow elude while he tries to rescue his father.
New for Adults
The Last Runaway
by Tracy Chevalier
New York Times bestselling author of “Girl With a Pearl Earring,” Tracy Chevalier makes her first fictional foray into the American past in “The Last Runaway,” bringing to life the Underground Railroad and illuminating the principles, passions, and realities that fueled this extraordinary freedom movement.
Chevalier introduces Honor Bright, a modest English Quaker who moves to Ohio in 1850, only to find herself alienated and alone in a strange land. Sick from the moment she leaves England, and fleeing personal disappointment, she is forced by family tragedy to rely on strangers in a harsh, unfamiliar landscape.
In her new home, Honor discovers that principles count for little, even within a religious community meant to be committed to human equality. However, drawn into the clandestine activities of the Underground Railroad, a network helping runaway slaves escape to freedom, Honor befriends two surprising women who embody the remarkable power of defiance. Eventually she must decide if she too can act on what she believes in, whatever the personal costs.
