FICTION
Night, Neon by Joyce Carol Oates
From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life―from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger’s house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America’s ideals of beauty and womanhood.
The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry
Young real estate agent Madison May is shocked when a client at an open house says these words to her. The man, a stranger, seems to know far too much about her, and professes his love — shortly before he murders her. Felicity Staples hates reporting on murders. As a journalist for a midsize New York City paper, she knows she must take on the assignment to research Madison May’s shocking murder, but the crime seems random and the suspect is in the wind.
The Chaos Kind by Barry Eisler
Assistant U.S. Attorney Alondra Diaz hates traffickers. And she’s determined to put one of America’s most powerful financiers, Andrew Schrader, in prison forever for his crimes against children. But Schrader has videos implicating some of the most powerful members of the U.S. national security state. To eliminate Diaz, the powers that be bring in a contractor: Marvin Manus, an implacable assassin whose skills have been forged in intelligence, the military, and the hardest prisons.
Monster in the Middle by Tiphanie Yanique
When Fly and Stela meet in 21st century New York City, it seems like fate. He’s a Black American musician from a mixed-religious background who knows all about heartbreak. She’s a Catholic science teacher from the Caribbean, looking for lasting love. But are they meant to be? The answer goes back decades—all the way to their parents’ earliest loves.
NONFICTION
The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II by Judith Mackrell
On the front lines of the Second World War, a contingent of female journalists were bravely waging their own battle. Barred from combat zones and faced with entrenched prejudice and bureaucratic restrictions, these women were forced to fight for the right to work on equal terms with men.
Librarian Tales: Funny, Strange, and Inspiring Dispatches from the Stacks by William Ottens
Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly of librarian William Ottens’s experience working behind service desks and in the stacks of public libraries, most recently at the Lawrence Public Library in Kansas. In Librarian Tales, published in cooperation with the American Library Association, readers will learn about strange things librarians have found in book drops, and weird and obscure reference questions.
App Kid: How a Child of Immigrants Grabbed a Piece of the American Dream by Michael Sayman
As his parents watched their restaurant business collapse in the wake of the Great Recession, Michael Sayman was Googling “how to code.” Within a year, he had launched an iPhone app that was raking in thousands of dollars a month, enough to keep his family afloat — and in America.
Entirely self-taught, Sayman headed from high school straight into the professional world, and by the time he was seventeen, he was Facebook’s youngest employee ever.
Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson
As a Deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness—much to the confusion of the world around her. While she cannot see well enough to operate without a guide dog or cane, she can see enough to know when someone is reacting to the visible signs of her blindness and can hear when they’re whispering behind her back. And she certainly knows how wrong our one-size-fits-all definitions of disability can be.
CHILDREN’S
Killer Style: How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed & Murdered Though History by Serah-Marie McMahon
The clothes we wear every day keep us comfortable, protect us from the elements, and help us follow trends and express our unique style ― but could fashion also be fatal? As it turns out, history is full of fashion trends that have harmed or even killed people. From crushing corsets and exploding hair combs to lethal hair dyes and kids’ pajamas that burst into flames, this nonfiction book looks back at the times people have suffered pain, injury, and even death, all in the name of style. Historical examples like the tragic “Radium Girl” watchmakers and mercury-poisoned “Mad Hatters,” along with more recent factory accidents, explore the history of the often perilous pursuit of style―where those who make the clothes are often fashion’s first victims.
Ages: 10 – 14
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