New for Children
Here Be Monsters! An Adventure Involving Magic, Trolls, and Other Creatures
by Alan Snow
Entertaining antics and skullduggery abound in the book that inspired the animated film “The Boxtrolls.” Welcome to Ratbridge. But beware, for there is skullduggery afoot. Young Arthur has fallen foul of the appalling outlaw Snatcher and is trapped alone in the town with every way home sealed. Meanwhile, Snatcher and his men are working tirelessly in secret on a fiendish and dastardly plan to destroy the entire town.
Circle Square Moose
by Kelly Bingham
In another triumph from the award-winning team of Kelly Bingham and Paul O. Zelinsky, this hilarious book manages to illustrate a fact or two about shapes while providing a three-dimensional stomping ground for best friends Moose and Zebra. What will happen? Who will save the day? It’s all up in the air until the final page, where Moose, Zebra, and Cat, create a perfect—and perfectly heartwarming—ending. This stand-alone companion to “Z Is for Moose” features themes of friendship, exploration, and conflict resolution—and of course the concept of shapes.
New for Young Adults
Egg & Spoon
by Gregory Maguire
In this tour-de-force, master storyteller Gregory Maguire offers a dazzling novel for fantasy lovers of all ages. Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father is dead, one of her brothers has been conscripted into the tsar’s army, the other is a servant for the local landowner, her mother is dying in their tiny cabin, and there is no food. But then a train arrives carrying untold wealth, a cornucopia of food, and a noble family that includes Ekaterina, a girl of Elena’s age. When the two girls’ lives collide, an adventure is set in motion, an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and—in a starring role only Gregory Maguire could have conjured—Baba Yaga, witch of Russian folklore
Skink – No Surrender
by Carl Hiaasen
Bestselling author Carl Hiaasen serves up his unique brand of swamp-justice in “Skink – No Surrender.” Classic Malley, to avoid being shipped off to boarding school, takes off with some guy she met online. Her cousin Richard knows she’s in trouble before she does, and Skink, a ragged, one-eyed ex-governor of Florida, thinks he can track Malley down. With Richard riding shotgun, the unlikely pair scour the state, undaunted by blinding storms, crazed pigs, flying bullets, and giant ’gators.
Carl Hiaasen first introduced readers to Skink more than 25 years ago in “Double Whammy,” and he quickly became Hiaasen’s most iconic and beloved character, appearing in six novels to date. With Skink at the wheel, the search for a missing girl is both nail-bitingly tense and laugh-out-loud funny.
New for Adults
Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime – From Global Epidemic to Your Front Door
by Brian Krebs
There is a threat lurking online with the power to destroy your finances, steal your personal data, and endanger your life.
In “Spam Nation,” investigative journalist and cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs unmasks the criminal masterminds driving some of the biggest spam and hacker operations targeting Americans and their bank accounts. Tracing the rise, fall, and alarming resurrection of the digital mafia behind the two largest spam pharmacies—and countless viruses, phishing, and spyware attacks—he delivers the first definitive narrative of the global spam problem and its threat to consumers everywhere. Blending cutting-edge research, investigative reporting, and firsthand interviews, this true story reveals how we unwittingly invite these digital thieves into our lives every day.
Not only are hundreds of thousands of Americans exposing themselves to fraud and dangerously toxic products from rogue online pharmacies, but even those who never open junk messages are at risk. As Krebs notes, spammers can hack into accounts through these emails, harvest personal information, and sell it on the digital black market. The fallout from this global epidemic doesn’t just cost consumers and companies billions, it costs lives too. Fast-paced and utterly gripping, “Spam Nation” ultimately proposes concrete solutions for protecting ourselves online and stemming this tidal wave of cybercrime.
