Shelf Space: What's New at the Harvard Public Library, 10/25/24

Mister Kitty Is Lost! 
by Greg Pizzoli

Mister Kitty is missing somewhere inside this book! Join the hunt for five yellow spots, four orange paws, three purple bells, and more, exploring numbers and colors along the way. Cutouts interacting with vivid artwork reveal a surprise on each page, all leading up to the biggest twist of all at the end!

A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall
by Jasmine Warga

When Rami sees a floating girl in the museum, he knows he has seen her somewhere before. Then he realizes she looks just like the girl in a painting that has gone missing. But how does her appearance connect to the theft? Will Rami, with the help of his classmate, Veda, be able to solve the mystery? The clues are all around them, but Rami and Veda will have to be brave enough to really look.

Spying on Spies 
by Marissa Moss

This is the gripping story of America’s first female cryptanalyst, Elizebeth Smith Friedman, who busted Nazi spy rings. One of the founders of U.S. cryptology who would eventually become one of the world’s greatest code breakers, Friedman was a brilliant mind behind many important battles throughout the 20th century, saving lives through her intelligence and heroism.

Snowglobe
by Soyoung Park

Enclosed under a vast dome, Snowglobe is the last place on Earth that’s warm. Outside Snowglobe is a frozen wasteland, where citizens face the icy world to get to their jobs at the power plant, where they produce the energy Snowglobe needs. Their only solace comes in the form of twenty-four-hour television programming streamed directly from the domed city. The residents of Snowglobe are actors who have fame, fortune, and safety from the desolation outside their walls. In exchange, their lives are broadcast to the less fortunate outside, who watch eagerly, hoping for the chance to one day become actors themselves.

Such Charming Liars
by Karen M. McManus

For all of Kat’s life, it’s just been her and her mother, Jamie —except when Jamie was married and Kat had a stepbrother, Liam. Now Jamie is a jewel thief trying to go straight, but she has one last job—at a billionaire’s birthday party—and Kat is tagging along. What Kat doesn’t know is that the last two people she wants to see, Liam and his father, a serial scammer, are also at the party. Kat and Liam are on a collision course to disaster, and when they realize they might actually be in a killer’s crosshairs, they can’t trust anyone—except each other. Or can they?

Tell Me Everything
by Elizabeth Strout

It’s autumn in Maine, and town lawyer Bob Burgess is enmeshed in a murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton, who lives in a house by the sea with her ex-husband. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears, their regrets, and what might have been. 

Lucy, meanwhile, is introduced to the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community nearby. They spend afternoons together telling each other stories about people they have known—“unrecorded lives” Olive calls them—reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning.

Somewhere Beyond the Sea
by TJ Klune

Arthur Parnassus lives a good life, built on the ashes of a bad one. He’s the headmaster of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six magical children who live there. Arthur works hard and loves with his whole heart so none of the children ever feel the neglect and pain he once felt as an orphan on that very same island long ago. And he is not alone: joining him is the love of his life, Linus Baker, a former caseworker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth; Zoe Chapelwhite, the island’s sprite; and Zoe’s girlfriend, Mayor Helen Webb. Together, they will do anything to protect the children.