New for Children
Renegade Magic
by Stephanie Burgis
The spirited Kat Stephenson is back in the second installment of the Regency-era, magical trilogy that Kirkus Reviews calls “enjoyable Mayhem.”
Nowhere in England is safe from the mischief and magic of Kat Stephenson: Her eldest sister has finally wed, but when a scandalous accusation threatens the marriage prospects of Kat’s second sister, Angeline. Stepmama whisks the family away to Bath in an attempt to outrun the gossip and betroth Angeline to a respectable suitor. Meanwhile, Kat’s lack of ladylike propriety has prompted the powerful Lord Ravenscroft to expel her from the magical Order of Guardians before her training has even begun.
LEGO Play Book: Ideas to Bring Your Bricks to Life
by Daniel Lipkowitz
LEGO Play Book has all-new ways to encourage kids to think, build, and play creatively. Featuring more than 200 different LEGO building plans, this fun guide of simple, medium, and complex models encourages readers to use their imaginations and play in new ways, creating amazing LEGO models of their very own. The book features “10-minute builds” for quick play sessions, a “cool brick” feature with ideas for using key LEGO bricks, and a “handful of bricks” section exploring what can be done with a limited collection of LEGO bricks.
New for Young Adults
The Bitter Kingdom
by Rae Carson
The final book in Rae Carson’s award-winning “The Girl of Fire and Thorns” fantasy trilogy, this book features Elisa, the 17-year-old sorcerer-queen, who will travel into an enemy realm to win back her true love, save her kingdom, and uncover the final secrets of her destiny.
Perfect for fans of Tamora Pierce and George R. R. Martin’s style of sweeping and deeply satisfying epic fantasy, the final book in the trilogy takes young Queen Elisa on a journey more dangerous than any she has faced before. She must rise up as champion—even to those who have hated her—or her kingdom will fall.
New for Adults
Loss of Innocence
by Richard North Patterson
The New York Times best-selling author of more than 20 novels returns with a family drama of secrets and individual awakenings. America is in a state of turbulence, engulfed in civil unrest and uncertainty. Yet for Whitney Dane—spending the summer of her 22nd year on Martha’s Vineyard—life could not be safer, nor the future more certain. Educated at Wheaton College and soon to be married, Whitney has everything she has ever wanted, and is everything her powerful and doting father wants her to be. But the Vineyard’s still waters are disturbed by the appearance of Benjamin Blaine, an underprivileged but ambitious and charismatic figure. As Ben’s presence awakens Whitney’s independence, it also brings family tensions to a head.
An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist
by Richard Dawkins
The world’s most famous atheist and evolutionary biologist, whose work has transformed the way we think about genes, evolution, and religion, offers profound insight into his own evolution as a man and as a thinker, from his beginnings in Kenya to his intellectual awakening at Oxford.
