New for Children
Mexikid
by Pedro Martin
Newbery Honor Award Winner. Pedro Martin has created an unforgettable graphic memoir about a Mexican-American boy and his family. The story describes an adventure-filled road trip, filled with laughs and heartache, to bring Pedro’s legendary, crime-fighting grandfather back from Mexico to live with them.
Big
by Vashti Harrison
Winner of the Caldecott Medal. This deeply moving story shares valuable lessons about fitting in, standing out, and the beauty of joyful acceptance.
With spare text and exquisite illustrations, this emotional exploration of being big in a world that prizes small is a tender portrayal of how you can stand out and feel invisible at the same time.
New for Teens
Threads That Bind
by Kika Hatzopoulou
In a world where the children of the gods inherit their powers, Io, a descendant of the Greek Fates, must solve a series of impossible murders to save her sisters, her soulmate, and her city. Someone is abducting women, maiming them, and setting wraiths loose in the city to kill. Io follows clues through the city’s darkest corners and unearths a conspiracy that involves some of the city’s most powerful players before destruction comes to her own doorstep.
Beholder
by Ryan La Sala
No one survived the party at the penthouse. Except Athan.
Athanasios “Athan” Bakirtzis has made it far in life relying on his charm and good looks, even securing an invitation to a mysterious penthouse soiree for New York City’s artsy elite. But when he sneaks off to the bathroom, he hears a slam, followed by a scream. Athan peers outside, only to be pushed back in by a boy his age. The boy gravely tells him not to open the door, then closes Athan in.
When Ahtan finally emerges, he discovers a massacre where the corpses appear to have arranged themselves into a disturbingly elegant sculpture—and Athan’s mysterious savior is nowhere to be found. Athan—the only known survivor—is now the primary suspect.
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New for Adults
The Great Divide
by Cristina Henriquez
It was said that the Panama Canal would be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it had to be built. “The Great Divide” explores the intersecting lives of activists, fishmongers, laborers, journalists, neighbors, doctors, and soothsayers duing that period-.
There was Francisco, a fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring for a slice of his country, and his son Omar, who works in the excavation zone. Ada Bunting is a bold teen who arrives in Panama as a stowaway with thousands of other West Indians seeking work. And John Oswald is a scientific researcher and has journeyed to Panama in single-minded pursuit of eliminating malaria.
James
by Percival Everett
This is an action-packed reimagining of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view.
When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he hides until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father. Thus begins the journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
