Shelf Space: What's New at the Harvard Public Library, 8/23/24

The Last Bookwanderer 
by Anna James

When Milo, Tilly, Oskar, and Alessia venture into Arthurian legend to find the first bookwanderer, the wizard Merlin, they discover that the magic of bookwandering is not at all what they thought. Together, they must journey into Greek and Roman mythology to bargain with the trickster Loki and find a way to untangle the Alchemist’s grip on the world’s imagination. The friends will have to learn the true power of imagination, all while an unexpected enemy stands in their way.

The Official Wings of Fire, How To Draw
by Tui T. Sutherland

Want to become a Wings of Fire drawing expert? This official How to Draw book includes simple, step-by-step instructions on how to sketch and color the simplest dragonets all the way to the most powerful, full-grown dragons. Over 40 dragons are inside and ready for you to make them soar to life!.

A Fragile Enchantment
by Allison Saft

The magic in eighteen-year-old Niamh’s blood that lets her stitch emotions and memories into fabric is the same magic that will eventually kill her. Determined to spend the little time she has left guaranteeing a better life for her family, Niamh jumps at the chance to design the wardrobe for a royal wedding in the kingdom of Avaland. But Avaland is far from the fairytale that she imagined. While young nobles attend candlelit balls and elegant garden parties, unrest brews amid the working class. The groom himself, Kit Carmine, is prickly, abrasive, and begrudgingly being dragged to the altar as a political pawn. But when Niamh and Kit grow closer, an unlikely friendship blossoms into something more until an anonymous gossip columnist starts buzzing about their chemistry, promising to leave them alone only if Niamh helps to uncover the royal family’s secrets.

The Moth Keeper
by K. O’Neill

Anya is finally a Moth Keeper, the protector of the lunar moths that allow the Night-Lily flower to bloom once a year. Her village needs the flower to continue thriving, and Anya is excited to prove her worth and show her thanks to her friends with her actions, but what happens when being a Moth Keeper isn’t exactly what Anya thought it would be?

Night after night, it’s lonely in the desert, with only one lantern for light. Something isn’t right. When Anya glimpses the thing that could destroy what she’s meant to protect, her village and the lunar moths are left to deal with the consequences.

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For the Love of Summer
by Susan Mallery

Erica is terrified that she’s losing her teen daughter, Summer, to her “other” family, especially to Summer’s stepmom, Allison.

All it takes to blow up Allison’s happy life is one collect call. From prison. Her husband Peter has been arrested, leaving Allison pregnant, broke, scared, and alone with a toddler. But when her stepdaughter Summer ferrets out the truth, the teen rushes to the last person Allison wants to ask for help … her husband’s battle-ax ex.

Erica would do anything for Summer, even take in the woman her daughter loves like a second mom. Allison feels intimidated by Erica, a woman who would never let herself become so dependent on a man. But the more time they spend together, the more Allison realizes what Erica truly needs is a friend. Can two women who married the same man move beyond their complicated past and rethink what it means to be family?

Godwin
by Joseph O’Neill

Mark Wolfe, a brilliant if self-thwarting technical writer, lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and daughter. His half-brother Geoff, born and raised in the United Kingdom, is a young soccer agent who pulls Mark into a scheme to track down an elusive prospect known only as “Godwin,” an African teenager Geoff believes could be the next Lionel Messi.

Narrated in turn by Mark and his colleague Lakesha Williams, “Godwin” is a tale of family and migration as well as an international adventure story that implicates the brothers in the beauty and ugliness of soccer, the perils and promises of international business, and the dark history of transatlantic money-making.