by Joe Ide
Raymond Chandler’s iconic detective, Philip Marlowe, gets a dramatic and colorful reinvention at the hands of award-winning novelist Joe Ide.
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The Goodbye Coast
by Joe Ide
“First Tuesday” Book Club: March 2022 Selection
Meets in the upper level of the libray on Tuesday, March 1 at 6PM . Members will discuss The Invisible Life of addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab. New members are always welcome.
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Amos McGee Misses The Bus
by Philip C. Stead
Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, is very considerate and always on time. But after a late night planning a surprise for all his friends, Amos is tired. So tired that he falls asleep during breakfast and misses his bus to the zoo! Now he knows he won’t have time for the surprise he planned for his friends. Unless..maybe his friends can step in and help him out.
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Ear Worm
by Jo Knowles
One summer day, as Little Worm heads out to play, he discovers he has a song stuck in his head. “What’s that you’re singing? Owl asks, but little Worm can’t say. He wriggles past, determined to learn who filled his head with “Shimmy shimmy, no-sashay.” Owl flaps along with a song of his own, and before long Chipmunk, Bunny, and Fox fall in line, each contributing an ear worm to the joyful cacophony. Amid all the singing and dancing, Little Worm forgets his musical mystery until later when–surprise!–Papa Worm Tucks him in.
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My Words Flew Away Like Birds
by Debora Pearson
A little girl learns some words in a new language to prepare for her move to a new country. But when she, her mother and her father arrive, “all her words fly away like birds.” The girl waits, and watches, and listens, trying to figure things out. Only, it’s hard. Then one day the girl meets someone who needs her help. And as she makes a new friend, she finds that the new words start to come easier–becoming her words, at last.
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Susan B. Won’t Back Down
by Margaret Finnegan
Susie B. has a lot to say. Like how it’s not fair that she has to be called Susie B. instead of plain Susie. Or about how polar bears are endangered. Or how the Usual Geniuses are always getting picked for cool stuff over the kids like her with butterflies in their brain. And it’s because Susie B. has a lot to say about these very important things that she’s running for student council president! If she’s president, she can advocate for the underdogs just like her hero and fellow Susie B., Susan B. Anthony. But when the most usual of Usual Geniuses also enters the student council race, Susie realizes this may be a harder won fight than she thought. Soon, Susie has her own tough decisions to make. But one thing is for sure–no matter what, Susie B. won’t back down.
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Fergus and Zeke and the 100th Day of School
by Kate Messner
In their fourth adventure, classroom mice Fergus and Zeke–after a few false starts–jump into a creative project to help the kids mark the one hundreth day of school.
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The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
by Jonathan Stroud
Scarlett McCain is a shoot-first ask-questions-later kind of outlaw. She scrapes by on bank heists, her wits–and never looking back. She’s on the run from her latest crime when she comes across Albert Browne. He is the sole survivor of a horrific accident, and against her better judgement, Scarlett agrees to guide him to safety. This is a mistake. Soon there are men with dogs and guns and explosives hot on their heels. Scarlett’s used to being chased by the law, but this is extreme. It was only a little bank she’d robbed…As they flee together across the wilds, fighting off monstrous beasts, and dodging their pursurers, Scarlett comes to realize that Albert Browne is hiding a terrible secret. And that he may be the most dangerous threat of all.
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Picturing a Nation: the Great Depression’s Finest Photographers Introduce America to Itself
by Martin W. Sandler
In an exquisitely curated volume of 140 full-color and black-and-white photographs, Martin W. Sandler unpacks the U.S. Farm Security Administration’s sweeping visual record of the Great Depression.
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Her Hidden Genius
by Marie Benedict
Marie Benedict’s powerful new novel shines a light on a woman who sacrificed her life to discover the nature of our very DNA, a woman whose world-changing contributions were hidden by the men around her but whose relentless drive advanced our understanding of humankind.
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