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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War More Info Borrow
By Erik Larson. From Crown.
 (131 reviews)
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a slow-burning crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two.
On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. |
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Only the Brave More Info Borrow
By Danielle Steel. From Delacorte Press.
 (144 reviews)
A powerful new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels have made her one of America’s favorite storytellers. |
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A Calamity of Souls More Info Borrow
By David Baldacci. From Grand Central Publishing.
(520 reviews)
The #1 New York Times bestselling author with 150 million copies sold worldwide returns with his next blockbuster thriller. |
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Real Americans More Info Borrow
By Rachel Khong. From Knopf.
(495 reviews)
From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?
Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster, and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. |
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Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI More Info Borrow
By Ethan Mollick. From Portfolio.
(101 reviews)
From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI
Something new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general purpose AI that could pass for a human and do the kinds of creative, innovative work that only humans could do previously. Wharton professor Ethan Mollick immediately understood what ChatGPT meant: after millions of years on our own, humans had developed a kind of co-intelligence that could augment, or even replace, human thinking. |
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The Promised Land More Info Borrow
From Magnolia Home Ent.
Seeking wealth and respect, a proud war hero sets out to tame a vast, uninhabitable land. A vicious nobleman is determined to stop him, and the confrontation between the two men promises to be as violent and intense as the land itself. |
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The Murder Inn More Info Borrow
By James Patterson and Candice Fox. From Grand Central Publishing.
(53 reviews)
From #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson, Bill Robinson returns to the rocky shores of Massachusetts where he must solve a string of murders if he wants to save his inn.
The doors of the Inn at Gloucester are always open to anyone running from trouble or hiding from life. Its owner, former Boston police detective Bill Robinson, welcomes them with no questions asked.
Until two strangers arrive for a temporary stay and a longtime resident starts looking over his shoulders. There’s another newcomer in town who puts the Inn under surveillance. |
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The Museum of Lost Quilts More Info Borrow
By Jennifer Chiaverini. From William Morrow.
(65 reviews)
Jennifer Chiaverini’s beloved and bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series returns with the first Elm Creek Quilts novel since 2019’s The Christmas Boutique.
Summer Sullivan, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, has spent the last two years pursuing a master’s degree in history at the University of Chicago. Her unexpected return home to the celebrated quilter’s retreat is met with delight but also concern from her mother, Gwen; her best friend, Sarah; master quilter Sylvia; and her other colleagues—and rightly so. Stymied by writer’s block, Summer hasn’t finished her thesis, and she can’t graduate until she does. |
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PAWS: Priya Puts Herself First More Info Borrow
By Nathan Fairbairn. From Razorbill.
(23 reviews)
The best dog-walkers in town are back in the third book of this heartwarming graphic novel series that is the Baby-Sitters Club for pets! Perfect for fans of Real Friends and Allergic!
The holidays have arrived for the PAWS team! And the girls are about to discover that not all surprises are necessarily good ones…. Gabby’s parents finally get her a cell phone for Christmas, but instead of only using it for emergencies, she soon gets swept up in posting about PAWS online. |
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The Assassin's Blade More Info Borrow
By Sarah J. Maas. From Bloomsbury Publishing.
(55,669 reviews)
The twist of a knife. The birth of a legend.
Step into the world of the #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas with this collection of prequel novellas.
Celaena Sardothien is her kingdom's most feared assassin. Though she works for the powerful Assassin's Guild and its scheming master, Arobynn Hamel, she yields to no one and trusts only her fellow killer-for-hire, Sam. But when Arobynn dispatches her on missions that take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, Celaena finds herself acting independently of his wishes and questioning her own allegiance. |
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Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years More Info Borrow
By Stacy McAnulty. From Henry Holt and Co. (BYR).
(335 reviews)
"Hi, I’m Earth! But you can call me Planet Awesome."
Prepare to learn all about Earth from the point-of-view of Earth herself! In this funny yet informative book, filled to the brim with kid-friendly facts, readers will discover key moments in Earth’s life, from her childhood more than four billion years ago all the way up to present day. Beloved children's book author Stacy McAnulty helps Earth tell her story, and award-winning illustrator David Litchfield brings the words to life. The book includes back matter with even more interesting tidbits. |
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Mars! Earthlings Welcome (Our Universe) More Info Borrow
By Stacy McAnulty. From Henry Holt and Co. (BYR).
(63 reviews)
From writer Stacy McAnulty and illustrator Stevie Lewis, Mars! Earthlings Welcome is a light-hearted nonfiction picture book about the red planet―told from the perspective of Mars himself...
Meet Mars! The red planet. Planet Marvelous. Favorite sibling of Earth (or so he claims). Sometimes they're close (just 34.5 million miles apart). Sometimes they need space (250 million miles apart)! Earth and Mars have a lot in common―clouds, mountains, polar icecaps. And while Earth has Earthlings, Mars makes a persuasive case for why people should make the journey to spend time with him. |
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The Stones and Brian Jones More Info Borrow
From Magnolia Home Ent.
Candid interviews and never-before-seen footage reveal how Brian Jones, the founder of the Rolling Stones, was left behind in the shadows of history. |
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The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts More Info Borrow
By Christopher de Hamel. From Penguin Press.
(31 reviews)
The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history
The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. However, we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made, collected and preserved them through the centuries, and to whom they owe their existence. |
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Emmie & Friends 8: Always Anthony More Info Borrow
By Terri Libenson. From Balzer + Bray.
(1 review)
The eighth book in the New York Times bestselling Emmie & Friends series, told from the alternating POVs of popular Anthony and timid Leah as they grapple with a bullying incident at school.
Friends. Bullies.
MIDDLE SCHOOL
Anthony is TPFW (Too Popular For Words), loves science, hates writing.
Leah is a super-shy nerd who’s finally making friends of her own.
What could they have in common?
A lot more than they thought, as it turns out!
But then one day they witness Anthony’s teammates bullying a sixth grader. |
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Diario de un Unicornio #2: Iris y el cachorro de dragón (Bo and the Dragon-Pup): Un libro de la serie Branches (2) (Unicorn Diaries) (Spanish Edition) More Info Borrow
By Rebecca Elliott. From Scholastic en español.
(36 reviews)
The unicorns of Sparklegrove Forest have a mystery to solve, in this magical series from the creator of the bestselling Owl Diaries series!
Iris Colarradiante vive en el Bosque Destellos junto a montones de otras criaturas mágicas. Iris y los otros unicornios estudian a los dragones en la escuela, pero nunca han visto uno. Es decir, ¡hasta ahora! En la escuela se pierden una manta y un par de gafas, ¡y las pistas los llevan a las cuevas de los dragones! |
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Diario de un Unicornio #4: La princesa de los duendes (The Goblin Princess): Un libro de la serie Branches (Spanish Edition) More Info Borrow
By Rebecca Elliott. From Scholastic Inc..
(38 reviews)
Bo grants the goblin princess a wish in this magical early chapter book from the USA Today bestselling author of Owl Diaries!
Elige un libro. ¡Hazte Lector!En el cuarto libro de la serie Unicorn Diaries de la exitosa autora Rebecca Elliott, los mejores amigos Iris y Jocoso intentan animar a Greta, una princesa aburrida. Pero Greta quiere hacer algo más que jugar: ¡quiere volar! Entonces Iris le concede el deseo y le da los poderes mágicos de la reina de los duendes. |
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The Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton More Info Borrow
By Sophfronia Scott. From Broadleaf Books.
(48 reviews)
What if we truly belong to each other? What if we are all walking around shining like the sun?
Mystic, monk, and activist Thomas Merton asked those questions in the twentieth century. Writer Sophfronia Scott is asking them today.
In The Seeker and the Monk, Scott mines the extensive private journals of one of the most influential contemplative thinkers of the past for guidance on how to live in these fraught times. |
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The Modern Lovers' The Modern Lovers (33 1/3) More Info Borrow
By Sean L. Maloney. From Bloomsbury Academic.
 (26 reviews)
From the "War on Hippies" to the Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, the story of Modern Lovers is a high octane tale of Brutalist architecture, rock 'n' roll ambition and the struggle for identity in a changing world. One of punk rock's foundational documents, the archetype for indie obsession and all but disowned by its author, The Modern Lovers was an album doomed by its own coolness from day one. |
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Card Magic More Info Borrow
By Nicholas Einhorn. From Anness.
(1 review)
This fantastic book of card tricks and illusions by a leading magician covers classical trickery and original techniques to amaze and amuse. Showing both the performer's and the audience's perspectives, the book is ideal for anyone who wants to entertain friends and family. |
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