Welcome to the new books list!
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April 2026

Adult

Non-Fiction

• Bacon, John U: The gales of November: the untold story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
• Barber, Aja: Consumed: the need for collective change: colonialism, climate change, and consumerism
• Burden, Belle: Strangers: a memoir of marriage
• Crowe, Cameron: The uncool: a memoir
• Curry, Stephen: Shot ready
• El Akkad, Omar: One day, everyone will have always been against this
• Emanuel, Ezekiel J: Eat your ice cream: six simple rules for a long and healthy life
• Erivo, Cynthia: Simply more: a book for anyone who has been told they’re too much
• Meyers, Darrell: They called me chief they called me coach: musings of a sage laborer in the vineyard
• Morrison, Toni: Language as liberation: reflections on the American canon
• Morton, Mary: Stitch it, don’t ditch it: simple hand-sewn repairs to help you love your clothes for longer
• Pelicot, Gisèle: A hymn to life: shame has to change sides
• Popova, Maria: Traversal
• Prinzing, Debra: The flower farmers: inspiration & advice from expert growers
• Roberts, Dorothy: Killing the black body: race, reproduction, and the meaning of liberty

Fiction

• Arnott, Elizabeth: The secret lives of murderers’ wives
• Borison, B. K: And now, back to you
• Box, C. J.: The crossroads
• Charles, KJ: All of us murderers
• Day, Elizabeth: One of us
• Dinniman, Matt: Operation bounce house
• Evans, Virginia: The correspondent
• Fallon, Rebecca: Family drama
• Ginder, Grant: So old, so young
• Godfrey, Jennie: The list of suspicious things
• Goodman, Allegra: This is not about us
• Groff, Lauren: Brawler
• Hawkins, Rachel: The storm
• Hilje, Lidija: Slanting towards the sea
• Huang, Justinian: Lucky seed
• Johnson, Sadeqa: Keeper of lost children
• Kubica, Mary: It’s not her
• McConaghy, Charlotte: Wild dark shore
• McFadden, Freida: Dear Debbie
• Preston, Natasha: The obsession
• Quindlen, Anna: More than enough
• Rouda, Kaira Sturdivant: We were never friends
• Sabit, Patmeena: Good people
• Shelton Harris, Terah: Where the wildflowers grow
• Townsend, Peggy: The botanist’s assistant
• Walz, Marisa: Good intentions

Large Print Fiction

• Cohen, Nancy J.: Murder pays a call
• Finch, Charles: The hidden city
• Hallett, Janice: The killer question
• Johnson, Sadeqa: Keeper of lost children
• Quinn, Meghan: Just for the cameras
• Rose, Karen: Knife in the back
• Score, Lucy: The body in the backyard
• Sloan, Susan Pope: Rescuing rose
• Sweeney, Cynthia D’Aprix: Lake effect

Non-Print Media

• DVD
  • Hamnet
  • Now you see me, now you don’t
  • One battle after another
  • Song sung blue
  • Wicked. For good

New Adult Fiction

• Douglass, Ryan: The great disillusionment of Nick and Jay
• Quinn, Katherine: Stolen Midnights

Young Adult Fiction

• Davidhizar, Megan: Gaslit
• Griffin, Rachel: The sun and the starmaker
• Johnson, Leah: There’s always next year
• Lee, Stacey: Heiress of nowhere
• Mora, Maria: A wild radiance Ingrande

Children’s

Blue Dot

• Aikens-Nuñez, Talia: Wonder in the garden
• Allman, John Robert: B is for Broadway
• Aparico, Naja Lund: Seasons by the lake
• Awan, Jashar: Loops
• Barnett, Mac: The future book
• Bauer, Marion Dane: Our home, our only home
• Berenstain, Stan: The big book of Berenstain Bears
• Brown-Wood, Janay: This hair belongs
• Burgess, Matthew: Mungo on his own
• Chirif, Micaela: The children of the sun
• Evans, Katie: Broccoli is trying to kill me
• Giang, Kristen Mai: Action Jasmine
• Henkes, Kevin: Is it spring?
• Kousky, Vern: Love finds a way
• Kurpiel, Sarah: More than a tree
• Leung, Julie: Navigating night
• Newman, Lesléa: Something sweet
• Phelan, Matt: Bartleby
• Short, Jackie: What do you do when your dog grows old
• Thompkins-Bigelow, Jamilah: Ramadan Rain
• Wadhwani, Zenia: Fly in the chai
• Wheeler, Lisa: It takes a family to serve

Wonderbooks

• Berger, Samantha: G is for gratitude
• Wallace, Adam: How to catch a unicorn

Orange Dot – Earliest Chapter

• Larson, Kirby: Shermy & Shake, the not-so-bossy best friend

Red Dot- 3rd-5th grade

• Gorman, David: Ferris wheel fright
• Johnson, Aaron: National Park Mystery Series
  • Adventure in Grand Canyon National Park
  • Danger in Zion National Park
  • Quest in Yosemite National Park
• Lindstrom, Carole: Red River Rose

Graphic Novel

• Allen, Rachael: Professor Thomas Cat’s guide to understanding the human brain: the dyslexia files
• Tarshis, Lauren: I survived the California wildfires, 2018

Wonderbook

• DiCamillo, Kate: Flora & Ulysses

Yellow Dot – 6th & 7th grade

• Acevedo, Chantel: No way never sisters
• Burch, Ciera: Olivia Gray will not fade away
• Gratz, Alan: War games
• Miller, Chanel: The moon without stars
• Souders, Taryn: Secrets of the broken house
• Stevenson, ND: Scarlet morning
• Tash, Sarvenaz: The treasure of Ocean Parkway

Graphic Novel

• Brill, Calista: Creaky acres
• Mills, Emma: The Greenies

Children’s Non-Fiction

• Ackerman, Sara Holly: How to hatch
• Grider, Clayton Tobias: How do you make your own luck?: a math book about probability
• Hillenbrand, Will: Light as a feather
• Hull, Sarah: Lots of things to know about bugs
• Karim-Cooper, Farah: All the world’s your stage Shakespeare for today
• LaNier, Carlotta Walls: Carlotta’s special dress
• Monks, Lydia: Six queens
• Nickum, Nora: Twelve daring grays
• Pipe, Vicki: All aboard!
• Rosenstock, Barb: Houdini’s library

Children’s Non-Print Media

Book on CD

• Ponti, James: Hurricane heist

DVD

• Zootopia 2

May Books ‘n Banter

May New Books

Adult Non-Fiction

• Ackmann, Martha: Ain’t nobody’s fool: the life and times of Dolly Parton
• Block, Stefan Merrill: Homeschooled: a memoir
• Brundage, W. Fitzhugh: A fate worse than Hell: American prisoners of the Civil War
• Kerr, Cayce (David Anothony): Walking with greatness: my caddie life on the tour with Fred, Fuzzy, Vijay, Tiger, and more
• Luthra, Shefali: Undue burden: life-and-death decisions in post-Roe America
• Nezhukumatathil, Aimee: Night owl: poems
• Russell, Gareth: The six loves of James I
• Snyder, Timothy: On tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century (graphic novel)

Children’s Non-Fiction

• America as it happened: a moment-by-moment journey through time, from prehistory to the present day
• Atkins, Marcie Flinchum: When twilight comes: the animals and plants that bring dawn and dusk to life
• Berne, Emma Carlson: Hanukkah
• Gibbons, Gail: Bald eagles
• Murphy, Ben: How do you become president?: a book about world leaders & government
• Skowronska, Anna: Fire

Adult Fiction

• Adams, Taylor: Her last breath
• Akinola, Tolani: Leave your mess at home: a novel
• Baldacci, David: Hope rises
• Clark, Mary Higgins: Cry in the night
• Crum, Tiffany: This story might save your life: a novel
• Fawcett, Heather M.: Agnes Aubert’s mystical cat shelter
• French, Tana: The keeper
• Gray, Ayana: I, Medusa: a novel
• Hazelwood, Ali: Two can play
• Klehforth, Elizabeth: The lost heiress: a novel
• Madden, T Kira: Whidbey: a novel
• Rothery, Lauren: Television
• Serle, Rebecca: Once and again
• Taylor, Brandon: Minor black figures
• Tyler, Anne: Three days in June

Adult Large Print Fiction

• Delany, Vicki: The devil in the details
• Everhart, Donna: Women of a promiscuous nature: a novel
• Griffin, Laura: Innocence road
• Sanders, Angela M.: A whiff of murder
• Todd, Charles: A day of judgment

Adult Non-Print Media

• DVDs
  • All Creatures great and small (seasons 1-6)
  • The Forsytes. season 1

Children’s Non-Print Media

Young Adult

• Chokshi, Roshani: The swan’s daughter: a possibly doomed love story
• Reid, Ava: An archive of romance
• Sloan, Sasha: The ruins beneath us

Blue Dot

• Capucilli, Alyssa: My sister, Goose
• Cheng, Charlotte: A name for sister
• Dewdney, Anna: Llama Llama 5-minute stories
• Iverson, Haven: Into the wilderness
• Kim, Alison: The art of how dogs sleep
• Shaw, Jessica: The great cookie kerfuffle
• Thorne, Chantelle: Finley: a moose in Chartreuse
• Ward, Chloe Ito: Chopsticks are
• Willems, Mo: It’s my bird-day!
• Yamasaki, Katie: Ripples

Yellow Dot

• Brown, Roseanne A: Serwa Boateng’s guide to saving the world
• Brown, Roseanne A: Serwa Boateng’s guide to vampire hunting
• Brown, Roseanne A: Serwa Boateng’s guide to witchcraft and mayhem
• Layton, T.Z.: The academy V: cup of nations
• Jenkins, Jerry B: Second chance

Yellow Dot Graphic Novel

• Meroz, Morr: A blood moon (snowlands #1)