New to Our Shelves
Looking for something new that has just been added to our collection?
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Ask not : the Kennedys and the women they destroyed
Callahan, Maureen (Journalist), author
2024
For decades, the Kennedy name has been synonymous with wealth, power, glamor, and - above all else - integrity. But this carefully constructed veneer hides a dark truth: the legacy of Kennedy men physically and psychologically abusing women and girls, ruining and even ending untold lives. Journalist Maureen Callahan reveals the Kennedys' hidden history of violence and exploitation, laying bare their unrepentant sexism and rampant depravity, while also restoring these women and girls to their rightful centre of the dynasty's story.
A darker mischief
Milman, Derek, author.
2024
At the elite Essex Academy Cal Ware, a poor, queer kid from Mississippi, is an outsider, but when he learns about a secret society on campus, he thinks that he may have found a way to reinvent himself--but as the initiation rituals grow riskier he must decide who to trust and how far he is willing to go to belong.
Dune. House Harkonnen, Volume three
Herbert, Brian, author.
2024
Atomic threats and prophetic visions, deadly villains of destiny, schemes of destruction and death... all coexist with marriage proposals and political tension. But when a terrorist attack threatens the procession, Leto and other legendary characters are in grave danger, and not all will make it out alive!
Loose threads
Isol, author, illustrator.
2024
Leilah is constantly losing things, and when her mother demands an explanation, Leilah decides that her lost possessions must be falling down into the Other Side, a place in her dreams filled with mysterious inhabitants, so she decides to fix things by mending the holes between her world and the Other Side.
Lost birds
Hillerman, Anne, 1949-, author
2024
Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilagáana family but believes she is Diné based on one solid clue, an old photograph with a classic Navajo child's blanket. Leaphorn discovers that his client's adoption was questionable, and her adoptive family not what they seem. His quest for answers takes him to an old trading post and leads him to a deadly cache of long-buried family secrets.
Once upon a fever
Walker, Angharad, 1991- author
2024
"Since the world fell sick with fantastical illnesses, sisters Payton and Ani have grown up in the hospital of King Jude's. Payton wants to be a methic like her father, working on a cure for her mother's sleeping fever. Ani, however, thinks the remedy for all illness might be found in the green wilderness beyond the hospital walls. When Ani stumbles upon an imprisoned boy who turns everything he touches to gold, her world is turned upside-down. The girls find themselves outside the hospital for the first time, a dark mystery unravelling"-- Publisher's description.
The Paris novel
Reichl, Ruth, author
2024
When her estranged mother dies, Stella is left with an unusual inheritance: a one-way plane ticket and a note reading "Go to Paris." Alone in a foreign city, Stella stumbles across a vintage store where she tries on a fabulous Dior dress. For the first time in her life, Stella does something impulsive. She buys the dress and together they embark on an adventure. Stella ends up living as a "tumbleweed" at famed bookstore Shakespeare & Company, uncovers a hundred-year-old mystery in a Manet painting, and discovers a passion for food that may be connected to her past
Red Bird danced
Quigley, Dawn, author
2024
"Ariel and Tomah have lived in the city's intertribal housing complex all their lives. But for both of them, this Dagwaagin (Autumn) season is different than any before. From his bench outside the front door of his building, Tomah watches his community move around him. He is better at making people laugh than he is at schoolwork, but often it feels like his neighbor Ariel is the only one who really sees him, even in her sadness. Ariel has always danced ballet because of her Auntie Bineshiinh and loves the way dance makes her feet hover above the ground like a bird. But ever since Auntie went missing, Ariel's dancing doesn't feel like flying. As the seasons change and the cold of winter gives way to spring's promise, Ariel and Tomah begin to change too as they learn to share the rhythms and stories they carry within themselves"-- Provided by publisher.
Swamp Ranger School
Katzenberger, Lisa, author.
2024
No-nonsense Croc and goofball Gator train as junior rangers in their hometown swamp.