New for Children
Lionheart
by Richard Collingridge
Richard hears something in his room before bedtime. Is it a monster? He doesn’t wait to find out and sets off running through the streets, over the hills, and into the fields until he finds himself in a magical jungle. With the help of his stuffed lion, Richard finds the courage he needs to face his fears.
Booked
by Kwame Alexander
Twelve-year-old Nick is a soccer-loving boy who absolutely hates books. In this follow-up to the Newbery-winning novel “The Crossover,” soccer, family, love, and friendship take center stage as Nick tries to figure out how to navigate his parents’ divorce, stand up to a bully, and impress a girl. These challenges—which seem even harder than scoring a game-winning goal—change his life, as well as his best friend’s. This energetic novel-in-verse by the poet Kwame Alexander captures all the action and emotion of a World Cup match.
New for Young Adults
The Rose & The Dagger
by Renee Ahdieh
In a land on the brink of war, Shahrzad has been torn from the love of her husband Khalid, the Caliph of Khorasan, a man tormented by guilt and a powerful curse—one that might keep them apart forever. Reunited with her family, who have taken refuge with enemies of Khalid, and Tariq, her childhood sweetheart, she should be happy. But Tariq now commands forces set on destroying Khalid’s empire. Shahrzad is almost a prisoner caught between loyalties to people she loves. But she refuses to be a pawn and devises a plan.
Calamity
by Brandon Sanderson
When Calamity lit up the sky, the Epics were born. David’s fate has been tied to their villainy ever since that historic night. Steelheart killed his father, Firefight stole his heart, and now Regalia has turned his closest ally into a dangerous enemy.
David knew Prof’s secret, and kept it even when Prof struggled to control the effects of his Epic powers. But facing Obliteration in Babilar was too much. Once the Reckoners’ leader, Prof has now embraced his Epic destiny. He’s disappeared into those murky shadows of menace Epics are infamous for, and everyone knows there’s no turning back. But redemption is possible for Epics. They’re not lost. Not completely. And David is just about crazy enough to face down the most powerful High Epic of all. Or die trying.
New for Adults
The Gene: An Intimate History
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Siddhartha Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.
Throughout the narrative, the story of Mukherjee’s own family, with its history of mental illness, reminds us of the many questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. Mukherjee describes the centuries of research and experimentation, from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Thomas Morgan to Crick, Watson, and Rosa Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary 21st-century innovators who mapped the human genome.
Journey to Munich
by Jacqueline Winspear
It’s early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. One chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square—a place of many memories—she is intercepted by the Secret Service. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. Because the man’s wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret Service wants Maisie—who bears a striking resemblance to the daughter—to retrieve the man from Dachau, on the outskirts of Munich.
