New for Children
This is Not My Hat
by Jon Klassen
From the creator of the New York Times best-selling and award-winning “I Want My Hat Back” comes a second wry tale.
When a tiny fish shoots into view wearing a round blue topper, trouble could be following close behind. It’s a good thing that the enormous fish won’t wake up. And even if he does, it’s not like he’ll ever know what happened…Visual humor swims to the fore as Jon Klassen follows his breakout debut with another deadpan-funny tale. Winner of the 2013 Randolph Caldecott medal.
New for Young Adults
Dodger
by Terry Pratchett
Surviving by his wits in an alternative-universe London ruled by a young Queen Victoria, the intrepid young Dodger inadvertently foils murderous Sweeney Todd’s operation and encounters numerous fictional and historical characters, including Darwin, Disraeli, and Dickens. Pratchett is the award-winning author of “A Hat Full of Sky.”
The Other Normals
by Ned Vizzini
Sent by his concerned parents to an outdoor summer camp, 15-year-old Perry, a role-playing enthusiast, stumbles into the World of the Other Normals, where he befriends game creator Mortin Enaw and the beautiful Ada Ember, before embarking on a shared quest to save an imperiled princess.
New for Adults
A Death in the Small Hours
by Charles Finch
From the critically acclaimed author of “A Beautiful Blue Death” and “A Burial at Sea” comes an intriguing new mystery in what The New York Times calls “a beguiling series.” Charles Lenox is at the pinnacle of his political career and is a delighted new father, with his days of investigating the crimes of Victorian London some years behind him. He plans a trip to his uncle’s estate, in the expectation of a few calm weeks, but what greets him is a series of strange vandalisms. Only when a far more serious crime is committed does he begin to understand the great stakes of those events, and the complex and sinister mind that is wreaking fear and suspicion. With his protege, John Dallington, Lenox must find the culprit before he strikes again.
Habits of the House
by Fay Weldon
From the award-winning novelist and writer of “Upstairs Downstairs,” comes a brilliant new trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton Abbey.
As the Season of 1899 comes to an end, the world is poised on the brink of profound, irrevocable change. The Earl of Dilberne is facing serious financial concerns. The ripple effects spread to everyone in the household: Lord Robert, who has gambled unwisely on the stock market and seeks a place in the Cabinet; his unmarried children, Arthur, who keeps a courtesan, and Rosina, who keeps a parrot in her bedroom; Lord Robert’s wife Isobel, who orders the affairs of the household in Belgrave Square; and Grace, the lady’s maid who orders the life of her mistress.
Lord Robert can see no financial relief to an already mortgaged estate, and his thoughts turn to securing a suitable wife—and dowry—for his son. The arrival on the London scene of Minnie, a beautiful Chicago heiress with a reputation to mend, seems the answer to all their prayers.
Fay Weldon brings a deserved reputation for magnificent storytelling. With wit and sympathy—and no small measure of mischief—Habits of the House plots the interplay of restraint and desire, manners and morals, reason and instinct.
