New for Children
Nacho’s Nachos
by Sandra Nickel and Oliver Dominguez
This is a picture book biography of Ignacio (Nacho) Anaya, a waiter in Coahuila, Mexico, and the events surrounding the creation, in 1940, of the globally popular tortilla chip, cheese, and jalapeño pepper snack that bears his name—nachos.
A Bowl Full of Peace
by Caren Stelson
Sachiko’s family home was about half a mile from where the atomic bomb fell on August 9, 1945. Her family experienced devastating loss. When they returned to the rubble where their home once stood, her father miraculously found their serving bowl fully intact. This delicate, green, leaf-shaped bowl, which once held their daily meals, now holds memories of the past and serves as a vessel of hope, peace, and new traditions for Sachiko and the surviving members of her family.
New for Teens
Chain of Gold
by Cassandra Clare
Cordelia Carstairs is a Shadowhunter, a warrior trained since childhood to battle demons. When her father is accused of a terrible crime, she and her brother travel to London in hopes of preventing the family’s ruin. Her mother wants to marry her off, but Cordelia is determined to be a heroine rather than a bride. Soon she encounters childhood friends James and Lucie Herondale and is drawn into their world of glittering ballrooms, secret assignations, and supernatural salons, where vampires and warlocks mingle with mermaids and magicians. All the while, she must hide her love for James, who is sworn to marry someone else.
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Rule of Wolves
by Leigh Bardugo
As Fjerda’s massive army prepares to invade, Nikolai Lantsov will summon every bit of his ingenuity and charm to win this fight, and Zoya Nazyalensky must embrace her powers to become the weapon her country needs. Meanwhile, Nina Zenik risks discovery and death as she wages war on Fjerda from inside its capital.
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New for Adults
Great Circle
by Maggie Shipstead
After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There, Marian starts her lifelong love affair with flight. At 15, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny of circumnavigating the globe and piloting her plane over the Arctic Circle.
A century later, actress Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian’s disappearance over the South Pacific. Disgusted with Hollywood, Hadley is eager to redefine herself after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity. Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds, thrillingly, alongside Marian’s own story, as the two women’s fates, and their hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and times, collide.
Sooley
by John Grisham
After 17-year-old Samuel “Sooley” Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America. He works tirelessly on his game until he dominates everyone in practice, and when Sooley is called off the bench, the legend begins.
