New for Children
Atlantis Lost
by T.A. Barron
The veil between the Spirit Realm and the mortal world has fallen, and the evil lord Narkazan is primed to claim the magical Starstone for himself once and for all. But when tragedy befalls Promi’s newly reunited family, he knows that he can’t let Narkazan ruin everything his parents held dear. With his friends beside him, Promi battles Narkazan to ensure that the Starstone remains safe from Narkazan’s mortal followers. But how far will Promi have to go to keep the world and the people he loves safe? This action-packed conclusion to the Atlantis trilogy will have readers railing against fate as they say goodbye to their beloved magical island.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down
by Jeff Kinney
The pressure’s really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his creative side. As if that’s not scary enough, Halloween’s just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle. When Greg discovers a bag of gummy worms, it sparks an idea. Can he get his mom off his back by making a movie . . . and will he become rich and famous in the process? Or will doubling down on this plan just double Greg’s troubles?
New for Young Adults
The Singing Bones: Inspired by Grimms’ Fairy Tales
by Shaun Tan
Wicked stepmothers, traitorous brothers, cunning foxes, lonely princesses—there is no mistaking the world of the Brothers Grimm and the fairy tales that have captured generations of readers. Now artist Shaun Tan shows us the beautiful, terrifying, amusing, and peculiar heart of these tales as never before seen. With a foreword by Neil Gaiman and an introduction by fairy-tale expert Jack Zipes, “The Singing Bones” will delight art lovers and fairy-tale aficionados alike.
Quarantine: The Giant
by Lex Thomas
In the violent early days of the quarantine, Gonzalo joined a gang of thieves who lived in the ductwork of McKinley High School. He fell in love with Sasha but was forced to leave without her. A year later he scours the infected zone for her.
New for Adults
Born To Run
by Bruce Springsteen
Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as “The Big Bang”: seeing Elvis Presley’s debut on the Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. He also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song “Born to Run” reveals more than we previously realized.
This book is much more than a legendary rock star’s memoir. Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force and sweep. Like many of his songs, Springsteen’s autobiography is written with the lyricism of a singular songwriter and the wisdom of a man who has thought deeply about his experiences.
Monticello: A Daughter and Her Father
by Sally Cabot Gunning
From the author of “The Widow’s War” comes a work of historical fiction that explores the tenuous relationship between a brilliant and complex father and his devoted daughter.
After the death of her mother, Martha Jefferson spent five years abroad with her father, Thomas Jefferson, on his first diplomatic mission to France. Now, at 17, Martha is returning to the family’s Virginia plantation, Monticello. While the estate is the same as she remembers, Martha has changed. She is now a young woman with a heart made heavy by a first love gone wrong.
The world around her has also become more complicated. Her father has moved back into political life and has become distracted by the tumultuous fight for power and troubling new attachments. Monticello depends on slavery, a practice Martha abhors, and the estate is burdened by debt. The distant cousin she is drawn to has dangerous passions and dark desires that will eventually compromise her.
As her life becomes constrained by the demands of marriage, motherhood, politics, scandal, and her family’s increasing impoverishment, Martha yearns to find her way back to the quiet happiness of the world she once knew.
