Gwendy’s Magic Featherby Richard Chizmar; foreword by Stephen King. Sequel to Gwendy’s Button Box. Prepare to return to Stephen King’s Castle Rock, the sleepy little town built on a bedrock of deep, dark secrets, as it’s about to awaken from its quiet slumber once more.
Obsidianby Thomas King. A Dreadful Waters mystery. Thumps Dreadful Water’s world is turned upside down when Nina Maslow, the producer of a true-crime reality TV show, turns up dead after working on a cold case that Thumps has spent years trying to forget.
When You See Meby Lisa Gardner. Perfect town. Perfect crime. Perfect nightmare. When female remains are discovered in the hills of Georgia, FBI agent Kimberly Quincy recruits D.D. Warren and survivor-turned-avenger Flora Dane to join her federal taskforce.
Adult non-fiction
A Grain of Salt by Dr. Joe Schwarcz; the science and pseudoscience of what we eat. Dr. Joe separates fact from fiction with an assortment of new and updated articles about what to eat, what not to eat, and how to recognize the scientific basis of food chemistry.
Warrior Rising: how four men helped a boy on his journey to manhood by MaryAnne Howland. An eye-opening look at one mother’s determination to provide positive male role modals for her son, and the power of great mentoring to change lives.
The First Breath: how modern medicine saves the most fragile lives by Olivia Gordan. From the dawn of fetal medicine to neonatal surgery and the exploding field of perinatal genetics, this is the first popular science book to unveil the story of how doctors save the sickest babies.
Young Adult
A Curse So Dark and Lonelyby Brigid Kemmerer. Fall in love, break the curse. Cursed to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year, Prince Rhen of Emberfall thought he could be saved easily if a girl fell for him. But that was before he turned into a viscious beast and destroyed his castle, his family and every last shred of hope.
Highfireby Eoin Colfer. He is the last of his kind, the last dragon. In the days if yore, he flew the skies and scorched angry mobs – now he hides from swamp tour boats and is reduced to lighting cigarettes with nose sparks. Then he meets Squib.
Adult audiobooks
Seriously … I’m Kiddingby Ellen Degeneres; read by the author.
A Long Petal of the Seaby Isabel Allende; read by Edoardo Ballerini.
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