Staff Picks
Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature
National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpré Illustrator Award winner Rafael López have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even when you feel scared and alone.
Calling all daredevils! It's time to play CRASH, SPLASH, OR MOO! in this boisterous picture book with all the excitement of a game show.
Before Mac Barnett was an author, he was a kid.
And while he was a kid, he was a spy.
Not just any spy.
But a spy...for the Queen of England.
$17.99ISBN: 9780399252525Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Nancy Paulsen Books - August 28th, 2018Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature
Jacqueline Woodson's first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming celebrates the healing that can occur when a group of students share their stories.$18.99ISBN: 9780451478801Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Razorbill - August 28th, 2018"One of the year's most anticipated new fantasies." --Entertainment Weekly
"A fast-paced, thrilling tale." --BuzzFeed
"The best kind of fantasy. . . . impossible to put down." --Paste
"[Seafire] will leave readers craving more." --School Library Connection, starred review$26.00ISBN: 9780735213890Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Riverhead Books - July 31st, 2018Now a National Bestseller
"Religion, politics, and love collide in this slim but powerful novel reminiscent of Donna Tartt's The Secret History, with menace and mystery lurking in every corner." --People Magazine$27.99ISBN: 9781250193162Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: St. Martin's Press - September 4th, 2018"You'll be swept away by the passion and power of this remarkable, trailblazing woman who risked everything to follow her own heart." – Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"An epic page-turner." – Christina Baker Kline$26.00ISBN: 9780735220447Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Viking - August 21st, 2018Named a Best Book by Entertainment Weekly, O Magazine, Goodreads, Southern Living, Outside Magazine, Oprah.com, HelloGiggles, Parade, Fodor’s Travel, Sioux City Journal, Read it Forward, Medium.com, and NPR’s All Things Considered.
$26.00ISBN: 9780525534198Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Riverhead Books - August 14th, 20182018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
AS FEATURED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx)
"A magnificent writer." --Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time$27.00ISBN: 9780399574221Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: G.P. Putnam's Sons - August 14th, 2018From critically acclaimed author David Joy comes a remarkable novel about the cover-up of an accidental death, and the dark consequences that reverberate through the lives of four people who will never be the same again.
$26.99ISBN: 9780062450524Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Ecco - August 7th, 2018In Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine, Kevin Wilson’s first story collection in nearly a decade, Wilson combines his signature quirkiness with his keen eye for emotional complexity to explore the fraught relationship between parents and children.
$26.00ISBN: 9781501133091Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Scribner - September 18th, 2018Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction
An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest.
During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country’s changing economic policies solidified her family’s place among the working poor.
