Shelf Space: What's New at the Harvard Public Library, 4/11/25

A Slice of Mallow  
by Adam Foreman

Meet Mallow ... an excitable yet pessimistic marshmallow in a big world ... and dive into his world, where he and his friends meet a ghost, visit space, and use a time machine. In this laugh-out-loud funny graphic novel, Mallow goes on three fun, slice-of-life adventures with his friends Pizza, Ghost, Potato, and Doughnut.

A Wolf Called Fire
by Roseanne Parry

Warm is the smallest pup, the one his father calls the heart of the pack. But all Warm sees is his bigger brothers, and even his sisters, winning all the wrestling matches. Just as Warm is finding his place, enemy wolves destroy and scatter the pack. Warm helps lead the pups away from the fight, only to find himself alone with four pups to defend and feed. 

How To Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich in 17 Easy Steps  
by Bambi Edlund

It’s lunchtime, and all the animals are hungry. In fact, you’re feeling hungry too, and you know exactly what to make—delicious peanut butter sandwiches for everyone! The recipe is surprisingly complicated, but you’re not worried. You gather the critters and a few necessary items (the peanuts and bread, of course, and don’t forget the accordion and wooden clogs!), and then you get started!

Ida in Love and in Trouble
by Veronica Chambers

Before she became a civil rights crusader, Ida B. Wells was an incomparable flirt with a quick wit and a dream of becoming a renowned writer. The eldest child of newly freed parents who thrived in a community that pulsated with hope and possibility after the Civil War, Ida had a big heart and big ambitions. 

Ahead of her time by decades, Ida pioneered the field of investigative journalism with her powerful reporting on violence against African Americans. Her name became synonymous with courage and an unflinching demand for racial and gender equality. But there were so many facets to Ida Bell as she comes of age in the rapidly changing South.

Medici Heist
by Caitlin Schneiderhant

Welcome to 1517 Florence, a world of intrigue and opulence, murder and betrayal. Seventeen-year-old conwoman Rosa Cellini arrives in the city the same day that the Medici Pope, Leo X, returns to take up the reins of power. This is not a coincidence. The new Pope is extorting a mountain of indulgence money from the people of Florence to bolster his power and standing, and Rosa has a plan to take it back. To pull off the Renaissance’s greatest robbery, she’ll recruit a team of specially chosen, highly skilled misfits: Sarra the tinkerer, Khalid the fighter, and Giacomo the master of disguise. To top it all off, and to smooth their entrance into the fortress-like Palazzo Medici, Rosa even enlists the reluctant help of the famed artist Michelangelo.

We All Live Here
by Jojo Moyes

Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in free fall, and her love life is complicated. So when her real dad—a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago—suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you about love and what it actually means to be family.

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Bonded in Death
by J.D. Robb

His passport read Giovanni Rossi. But decades ago he was part of a secret organization called The Twelve. Responding to an urgent summons from an old compatriot, he landed in New York ... and died within minutes.

Lieutenant Eve Dallas finds the Rossi case frustrating. She’s got an elderly victim who’d just arrived from Rome; a widow who knows nothing about why he’d left; an as-yet unidentifiable weapon; and zero results on facial recognition. But when she finds a connection to the victim, she thinks Summerset—the fiercely loyal, man who’d rescued her husband from the Dublin streets—may know something from his stint as a medic in Europe. 

When Summerset learns of the crime, his shock and grief are clear—because, as he eventually reveals, he himself was one of The Twelve. It’s not a part of his past he likes to revisit. But now he must—not only to assist Eve’s investigation, but because a cryptic message from the killer has boasted that others of The Twelve have also died. Summerset is one of those who remain—and the murderous mission is yet to be fully accomplished.