New for Children
Panda-Monium
edited by Stuart Gibbs
FunJungle is frenzied, awaiting the arrival of Li Ping, a rare and very expensive giant panda. But when the truck transporting Li Ping shows up, its precious cargo has vanished. The FBI steps in to investigate, and Teddy Fitzroy, FunJungle’s resident sleuth, is happy to leave the job in their supposedly capable hands. After all, FunJungle has never encountered a crime this serious. But when someone threatens to blackmail Teddy’s girlfriend if he doesn’t solve the crime, his involvement in this mystery is no longer black and white.
Cleo Edison Oliver in Persuasion Power
by Sundee T. Frazier
Cleopatra Edison Oliver has a brand new business: Passion Clips. She and her best friend Caylee are going to take the world by storm with their personalized barrettes. All they need is their big break. So when successful businesswoman Fortune A. Davies announces a new website where “kidpreneurs” can upload ads for their businesses, Cleo invites all of her customers to film an ad.
But making a commercial is different from running a business, and when Cleo’s customers get fed up with her direction, she might lose her friends and her chance to shine. Meanwhile, Cleo is more and more certain that she wants to meet her birth parents. Can she win back her friends, take her business to the next level, and find the family she’s been looking for?
New for Young Adults
Crazy House
by James Patterson with Gabrielle Charbonnet
There were no charges. There was no trial. There will be no escape. Seventeen-year-old Becca Greenfield was snatched from her small hometown, thrown into a maximum-security prison, and put on death row with other kids her age. Until her execution, Becca is told to fit in and keep quiet, but Becca’s never been very good at either. Her sister, Cassie, was always the perfect twin.
Becca’s only hope is that her twin sister will find her, that the perfect little priss Cassie will stop following the rules and start breaking them, before it’s too late … because her jailers made a mistake that could get them both killed. They took the wrong twin.
Always and Forever, Lara Jean
by Jenny Han
Lara Jean is having the best senior year a girl could ever hope for. She is head over heels in love with her boyfriend, Peter; her dad’s finally getting remarried to their next door neighbor, Ms. Rothschild; and her sister Margot is coming home for the summer just in time for the wedding.
But change is looming on the horizon. And while Lara Jean is having fun and keeping busy helping plan her father’s wedding, she can’t ignore the big life decisions she has to make. Most pressingly, where she wants to go to college and what that means for her relationship with Peter. She watched her sister go through these growing pains. Now Lara Jean’s the one who’ll be graduating from high school and leaving for college and leaving her family—and possibly the boy she loves—behind.
New for Adults
Women in Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win
written and illustrated by Rachel Ignotofsky
A charmingly illustrated and inspiring book, “Women in Sports” highlights the achievements and stories of 50 notable women athletes—from well-known figures like tennis player Billie Jean King and gymnast Simone Biles, to lesser-known athletes like skateboarding pioneer Patti McGee and Toni Stone, the first woman to play baseball in a men’s professional league. Covering more than 40 sports, this fascinating collection also contains infographics about notable women’s teams throughout history, pay and media statistics for female athletes, and muscle anatomy. “Women in Sports” celebrates the success of the tough, bold, and fearless women who paved the way for the next generation of athletes.
Glass Houses
by Louise Penny
When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious, then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead. From the moment the creature’s shadow falls over the village, Gamache, now Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec, suspects it has deep roots and a dark purpose. Yet he does nothing. What can he do? Only watch and wait and hope his mounting fears are not realized. But when the figure vanishes overnight and a body is discovered, it falls to Gamache to discover if a debt has been paid or levied. Months later, as the trial for the accused begins in Montréal, Gamache continues to struggle with actions he set in motion in November, from which there is no going back. More than the accused is on trial. Gamache’s own conscience is standing in judgment.
