https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library daily 0.75 2026-03-07 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/ron-rosenstock monthly 0.5 2026-03-06 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/jerry-farnham monthly 0.5 2026-03-06 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/student-readings monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1770907640583-NCWN9MTCS7J1CW7BVMZG/unsplash-image-3Oo24ExxTn8.jpg Special Events at the Library - Student Readings - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/mason-meeropol monthly 0.5 2026-03-06 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/deep-waters monthly 0.5 2026-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/289c72b4-fa3e-4c31-9588-7ff3bd1ca830/Single+Movie+Event+-+Horizontal+Poster+Template.jpg Special Events at the Library - Vinalhaven Movie Matinee - Make it stand out Date Change. Saturday March 21 at 2pm. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/kevin-gilson monthly 0.5 2026-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1708438242379-D0T8203L247ICBF152BZ/image-asset.jpeg Special Events at the Library - Childrens’ Music with Kevin Gilson. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/walking-the-camino-frances monthly 0.5 2025-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1761742131406-PTXP8NYROS2IVHUW8HFJ/unsplash-image-H6f6x31VEcg.jpg Special Events at the Library - Journey of Ten Thousand Steps (and more) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/vinalhaven-home monthly 0.5 2025-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3a12e91c-a954-4f34-a728-0117a1565120/bcbd3673-375e-492a-b08d-765241c88276.png Special Events at the Library - Within These Walls: Researching the History of a Vinalhaven Home with Kate Brodt - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/andrew-cohen-fphb3 monthly 0.5 2025-08-28 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/andrew-cohen monthly 0.5 2025-08-28 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/cassatt-open-rehearsal-85xy6 monthly 0.5 2025-07-23 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/art-in-flowers monthly 0.5 2025-07-23 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/breath-lines monthly 0.5 2025-07-23 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/social-media-safety monthly 0.5 2025-07-15 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/jackpot monthly 0.5 2025-07-09 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/on-harbors-edge monthly 0.5 2025-07-09 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/say-cheese monthly 0.5 2025-05-30 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/color-101 monthly 0.5 2025-07-15 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/little-great-island monthly 0.5 2025-05-30 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/poland-trip-5dgs3 monthly 0.5 2025-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d20c8f16-ab0b-48f1-beda-7a6ce9b14830/Your+paragraph+text+%2834%29.jpg Special Events at the Library - Kris Osgood’s Trip to Poland - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/bugmobile monthly 0.5 2025-05-17 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/thickafog monthly 0.5 2025-05-17 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/american-revolution-comes-to-maine monthly 0.5 2025-06-13 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/readings-by-annie-penfield-and-friends monthly 0.5 2025-03-15 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/poland-trip-f2l6n monthly 0.5 2025-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7504c004-2876-41bb-8134-8cbdbfe5ba5d/portrait.jpg Special Events at the Library - Portrait Paint Night - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/poland-trip monthly 0.5 2025-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1d6ce13c-5245-4aef-8c37-a9af91570019/Join+Kris+Osgood+NEW+DATE.jpg Special Events at the Library - Kris Osgood’s Trip to Poland - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/kids-holiday-crafts-9cr3j monthly 0.5 2024-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1700598807487-VU9SRO0DHH99MIIL78C2/57EC6290-9604-432A-8C7A-54CC9A1B4D90.PNG Special Events at the Library - Kids Ornament Painting - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/craft-night-centerpiece-xggfm monthly 0.5 2025-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1733502172851-MY6FI7E7WXT8K8AL53CT/Christmas+Centerpeice+Making.jpg Special Events at the Library - Christmas Centerpiece Making - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/slugs-and-snails-9wt46-fmstk monthly 0.5 2024-09-24 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/psyched-for-spring monthly 0.5 2026-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6c6ad452-49e8-46fc-8bf2-07ceef33e3b8/long+eared+owl.jpg Special Events at the Library - “Psyched for Spring” with Kirk Gentalen - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/music-and-stories-with-cheryl-29zmb monthly 0.5 2024-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1708438242379-D0T8203L247ICBF152BZ/image-asset.jpeg Special Events at the Library - Music and Stories with Cheryl Lindgren - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/poetry-reading monthly 0.5 2024-08-17 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/fairy-house-workshop monthly 0.5 2024-08-07 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/art-of-penobscot-bay monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/world-of-winslow-homer monthly 0.5 2024-06-26 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/cassatt-open-rehearsal monthly 0.5 2025-07-23 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/alex-hinrichs monthly 0.5 2024-05-31 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/maine-crime-writers monthly 0.5 2024-06-28 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/white-and-falkenhan monthly 0.5 2024-05-31 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/michele-tullier monthly 0.5 2024-06-25 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/jessica-shattuck monthly 0.5 2024-05-24 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/craft-night-centerpiece-trc8l monthly 0.5 2024-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1713271777913-IBOB8DT5WK70359FHT74/Basket.jpg Special Events at the Library - May Basket Workshop - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/music-with-the-grumbachs monthly 0.5 2024-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1708438242379-D0T8203L247ICBF152BZ/image-asset.jpeg Special Events at the Library - Sea Songs and Sing-Alongs with the Grumbachs - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/roxana-robinson monthly 0.5 2024-05-22 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/slugs-and-snails-9wt46 monthly 0.5 2024-09-24 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/android-basics monthly 0.5 2024-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1710268883693-O6FDVJLI55YY562U86IL/image-asset.jpeg Special Events at the Library - “Android Basics” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/understanding-cloud-library monthly 0.5 2024-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/943c6eb7-5ee3-4c18-8270-f219fdd6daa6/ndec-logo.png Special Events at the Library - “Understanding Cloud Library” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/iphone-intermediate monthly 0.5 2024-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1706104569416-5HXMO7R6B6ZO4B4XO7PH/image-asset.jpeg Special Events at the Library - “iPhone Intermediate” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/cookbook-club-s8wl9 monthly 0.5 2024-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1708437379531-VQIG8282MBBXMWAL7BUA/image-asset.jpeg Special Events at the Library - Cookbook Club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/slugs-and-snails monthly 0.5 2024-03-22 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/readings-by-annie-penfield-and-penny-guisinger monthly 0.5 2024-03-22 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/the-aging-brain monthly 0.5 2024-03-12 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/music-and-stories-with-cheryl monthly 0.5 2024-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1708438242379-D0T8203L247ICBF152BZ/image-asset.jpeg Special Events at the Library - Music and Stories with Cheryl Lindgren - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/writers-workshop-2d4wx monthly 0.5 2024-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1708437675258-BA0D0M9FLP0MFJLYZS6R/image-asset.jpeg Special Events at the Library - Writer’s Workshop - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/writers-workshop monthly 0.5 2024-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1708437675258-BA0D0M9FLP0MFJLYZS6R/image-asset.jpeg Special Events at the Library - Writer’s Workshop - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/cookbook-club monthly 0.5 2024-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1708437379531-VQIG8282MBBXMWAL7BUA/image-asset.jpeg Special Events at the Library - Cookbook Club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/ron-joseph monthly 0.5 2023-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d35e2646-75cb-47cc-bacb-150ff28191dc/baldeagles.jpg Special Events at the Library - Author Visit: Ronald Joseph - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/kids-movie monthly 0.5 2023-12-09 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/craft-night-centerpiece monthly 0.5 2023-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/51be47fe-361f-4219-8b4c-f072ac09f707/45097D11-D4AF-48A8-BC75-2D43074E0744.PNG Special Events at the Library - Craft Night - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/kids-holiday-crafts monthly 0.5 2023-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1700598807487-VU9SRO0DHH99MIIL78C2/57EC6290-9604-432A-8C7A-54CC9A1B4D90.PNG Special Events at the Library - Kids Holiday Crafts - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/pumpkin-painting monthly 0.5 2025-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1759863597814-6LVHF16VBBI9C3SYUJHS/Canva+Design.png Special Events at the Library - Pumpkin Painting - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/intro-to-genealogy monthly 0.5 2023-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1695484006017-5Q2QGI1OTI8IYVBOL035/image-asset.jpeg Special Events at the Library - Intro to Genealogy - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/kate-lupine monthly 0.5 2023-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e18b1cd9-d8b4-4087-b568-98334b6f5eee/LLAL+Book+Cover.jpg Special Events at the Library - Author Visit: Kate Lupine - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/karin-tehve monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e39c70cc-53bf-4ce1-9283-faf7e784baf9/cover_Tehve_Taste+Media+INT.jpg Special Events at the Library - Author Visit: Karin Tehve - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/readme-author-talty monthly 0.5 2023-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437390494-2LSZVZ2ZRLAAU7B1ZMDE/Night+of+the+Living+Rez++++Morgan+Talty.jpg Special Events at the Library - Maine Humanities Council presents: A Conversation with Morgan Talty - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/daniel-smith monthly 0.5 2023-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/109e8f4b-18e7-4130-90b7-121c66e03532/bodybelow.jpg Special Events at the Library - Author Visit: Daniel Hecht - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/janna-malamud-smith monthly 0.5 2023-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7f285651-f8f9-4fbf-9739-2cf4c24acc41/fish.jpg Special Events at the Library - Author Visit: Janna Malamud Smith - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/apiarist-jennifer-lund monthly 0.5 2023-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2586d9a5-4be5-4d98-a40e-cda1c4cb4a03/Jennifer-Lund-State-Bee-2-250x250.jpg Special Events at the Library - Maine State Apiarist, Jennifer Lund - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/iphone-basics monthly 0.5 2024-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1706104569416-5HXMO7R6B6ZO4B4XO7PH/image-asset.jpeg Special Events at the Library - “iPhone Basics” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/megan-mayhew-bergman monthly 0.5 2023-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7be5d4a7-3940-4026-b117-f9856d18c93f/megan.jpeg Special Events at the Library - Author Visit: Megan Mayhew Bergman - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/abigail-trafford monthly 0.5 2023-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2fff9de8-5718-491f-9f1d-a1313d5e165e/high+time.jpg Special Events at the Library - Author Visit: Abigail Trafford - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/readme-author-gilliss monthly 0.5 2023-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/cce53952-3987-41fd-9181-fb5128043a57/lungfish.jpg Special Events at the Library - Maine Humanities Council presents: A Conversation with Meghan Gillis - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/jacky-davis-david-soman monthly 0.5 2023-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8afaf498-9e8f-4a9f-afc0-ba25ce42d98f/ladybug.png Special Events at the Library - Author Visit: Jacky Davis - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/jane-healey monthly 0.5 2023-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/457a8b12-12c7-41d0-a142-dc25c08d1ca5/goodnight.png Special Events at the Library - Author Visit: Jane Healey - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/cribbage-tournament monthly 0.5 2023-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1683902198082-BJ1V702HNAQMAY85NQLA/image-asset.jpeg Special Events at the Library - Cribbage Tournament - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/identifying-frauds-and-scams monthly 0.5 2024-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/943c6eb7-5ee3-4c18-8270-f219fdd6daa6/ndec-logo.png Special Events at the Library - “Identifying Frauds and Scams” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/cutting-the-cord monthly 0.5 2023-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1680698754527-7RVYPUI6ZAXY4EBTY6HT/unsplash-image-5xf-OUM83RA.jpg Special Events at the Library - “Cutting The Cord” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/a-m-watson monthly 0.5 2023-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1677873736494-YC0FDE3SLZ3FLVES7SMF/infants.jpg Special Events at the Library - Author Visit: A.M. Watson - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/book-to-movie monthly 0.5 2023-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437198921-FHB0PTGW7LU2FH952TGC/Where+the+Crawdads+Sing++.jpeg Special Events at the Library - Book to Movie Club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/special-events-at-the-library/today-only monthly 0.5 2023-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3bd44df0-ed8c-487b-8051-26eb8b2fd713/vinalhhaven-public-library-storytime-sml.jpg Special Events at the Library - Event One - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1 daily 0.75 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672436970074-DITU4E8ABQL075LAEMX1/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-first-time-i-saw-him monthly 0.5 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ce483692-965e-409f-94a6-e6739cf26bf0/firsttime.jpg New Arrivals - The First Time I Saw Him - Laura Dave Five years after her husband, Owen, disappeared, Hannah Hall and her stepdaughter, Bailey, have settled into a new life in Southern California. Together, they’ve forged a relationship with Bailey’s grandfather Nicholas and are putting the past behind them. But when Owen shows up at Hannah’s new exhibition, she knows that she and Bailey are in danger again. Hannah and Bailey are forced to go on the run in a relentless race to keep their past from catching up with them. As a thrilling drama unfolds, Hannah risks everything to get Bailey to safety—and finds there just might be a way back to Owen and their long-awaited second chance. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-night-we-met monthly 0.5 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f52d2ffd-0988-445c-811a-995dd7352e05/nightwemet.jpg New Arrivals - The Night We Met - Abby Jimenez In everyone’s life, there’s a split-second decision that can change everything ... For Larissa, it came when choosing who to ride home with after a concert. That night, she had no idea she’d met the perfect man. She and Chris are great friends, co-parenting a slightly unhinged rescue Yorkie, sharing their favorite books, and judging bread (pumpernickel for the win!). For the first time amid all her side hustles to scrape by, things finally feel easy. But she didn’t choose Chris to drive her home all those months ago—she went with his best friend, and he became her boyfriend. All Chris wants is for Larissa to be happy. Standing by on the sidelines is slowly killing him, but making a move would destroy someone else. How can something that feels so right be absolutely impossible? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/mistakes-were-made monthly 0.5 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/85f8ac34-b847-4a17-a28e-9492835a1f7b/mistakesmade.jpg New Arrivals - Mistakes Were Made - Lucy Score He's looking for the perfect wife. She's looking for the perfect one-night stand. Literary agent Zoey Moody doesn't like small town life, but here she is: exiled from Manhattan's publishing scene and trapped in a tiny Pennsylvania town with her BFF and only remaining client, Hazel. The problem? She's totally broke. All she needs is for Hazel's next romance novel to become a gigantic hit, and Zoey will be back in New York. Nothing will stand in her way. Nothing except her six-foot-two-inch landlord, Gage Bishop. He's smart, serious, and sexy. Worst of all, he's ready to settle down. Zoey might be the most beautiful woman Gage has ever met, but it's clear they're all wrong for each other. She's allergic to commitment and can't work a calendar app; he's looking for a wife and has the next five years all planned out. She's afraid of animals. He lives in a literal barn. But when Gage's world is rocked by a devastating family secret, he turns to Zoey for one night to forget everything. That one night just might change everything…or ruin it. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/harry-wild-4 monthly 0.5 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e6f38f32-00ee-4cde-83ac-80e4f240b875/harrywild4.jpg New Arrivals - Harry Wild (Series 4) Jolted from a mugging, she reluctantly agrees to recover in the home of her son, Charlie (Kevin Ryan, Guilt, Copper), a senior police detective. Harry starts to interfere in a particularly baffling murder case Charlie is investigating when she notices the murder shares striking similarities to an obscure Elizabethan play. When her path crosses that of her mugger, Fergus Reid (Rohan Nedd, Whitstable Pearl), Harry sees great potential in the troubled teen and, instead of turning him in, enlists him as her sidekick. Following her successful, albeit ill-advised, involvement in the case, Harry discovers a new desire for life. She and Fergus quickly find new mysteries, including ones that involve a fledgling serial killer with a Dostoevsky fixation, gamblers running snuff games, and a wealthy Dublin matriarch strangled during a video call. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/killers-of-the-flower-moon monthly 0.5 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/44ca7d03-4450-4ec8-a366-99eafce50c41/flowermoonvdv.jpg New Arrivals - Killers of the Flower Moon An epic elegy of greed, betrayal, and murder, Martin Scorsese’s masterly adaptation of David Grann’s true-crime best seller unfolds in 1920s Oklahoma, where the discovery of oil brings extraordinary wealth to the Osage people. Into their world comes ne’er-do-well army veteran Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), who joins his duplicitous uncle (Robert De Niro) in a horrifying scheme to rob the Osage of their money and land. Lily Gladstone charges the film with her transcendent performance as Burkhart’s Osage wife, Mollie Kyle, gradually awakening to the evil that surrounds her. With Killers of the Flower Moon, Scorsese brings a dark chapter of American history to the screen with gripping narrative power and a profound feeling for the weight of systemic injustice. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-keeper monthly 0.5 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8ad7f055-b653-4273-b065-f30854261f49/keeper.jpg New Arrivals - The Keeper - Tana French On a cold night in the remote Irish village of Ardnakelty, a girl goes missing. Sweet, loving Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the local big shot. Instead, she’s dead in the river. In a close-knit small town, a death like this isn’t simple. It comes wrapped in generations-old grudges and power struggles, and it splits the townland in two. Retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper has friends here now, and he owes them loyalty, but his fiancée Lena wants nothing to do with Ardnakelty’s tangles. As the feud becomes more vicious, their settled peace starts to crack apart. And when they uncover a scheme that casts a new light on Rachel’s death and threatens the whole village, they find themselves in the firing line. “One of the greatest crime novelists writing today” (Vox) crafts a masterwork of atmospheric suspense that brings the story of one of her most beloved characters to a spellbinding conclusion. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/its-my-bird-day monthly 0.5 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/febd9985-d7b4-4373-95f1-56696ea890c8/birdday.jpg New Arrivals - It’s My Bird-Day! - Mo Willems The Pigeon has the hat. And the hot dog cake! He is ready for the presents! But ... do YOU think The Pigeon can handle his BIG bird-day surprise!?! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dying-to-meet-you monthly 0.5 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/12184f5e-cf86-461b-8d34-d13dd444bdbf/dyingtomeet.jpg New Arrivals - Dying to Meet You - Sarina Bowen Rowan Gallagher is a devoted single mother and a talented architect with a high-profile commission restoring an historic mansion for the most powerful family in Maine. But inside, she’s a mess. She knows that stalking her ex’s avatar all over Portland on her phone isn't the healthiest way to heal from their breakup. But she’s out of ice cream and she's sick of romcoms. Watching his every move is both fascinating and infuriating. He's dining out while she's wallowing on the couch. The last straw comes when he parks in their favorite spot on the waterfront. In a weak moment, she leashes the dog and sets off to see who else is in his car. Instead of catching her ex in a kiss, Rowan becomes the first witness to his murder—and the primary suspect. But Rowan isn’t the only one keeping secrets. As she digs for the truth, she discovers the dead man was stalking her too, gathering intimate details about her job and her past. Struggling to clear her name, Rowan finds herself spiraling into the shadowy plot that killed him. Will she be the next to die? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/judge-stone monthly 0.5 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a2020ccb-35db-4f97-9ccc-636007c8f5d3/judgestone.jpg New Arrivals - Judge Stone - Viola Davis and James Patterson The most respected citizen in Union Springs, Alabama (population 3,314), is Judge Mary Stone. She holds two responsibilities sacred: running her family farm and presiding over her courtroom. It's there she draws the most controversial case in the history of the South. Criminally, it’s open-and-shut. Ethically, there is no middle ground. Essentially, it’s a choice between life and death. No judge can satisfy everyone. It would be dangerous to try. But Judge Stone is willing to fight to bring justice to the people and place she loves. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/want-to-know-a-secret monthly 0.5 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c4079d89-0495-4fcf-bd95-6c06dda1697b/knowasecret.jpg New Arrivals - Want to Know a Secret? - Freida McFadden Influencer and baking sensation April Masterson knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies. Or how to make key lime squares that will melt in your mouth. But if you keep watching her offline, you may find out some other secrets about April. Secrets she'd rather you didn't know. Like… Where did her son go when he snuck out late at night? What was she doing with the local soccer coach behind fogged windows? And what's buried in her backyard? April's secrets are enough to destroy her. I'll make sure of that. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/housemaid monthly 0.5 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0f985e2f-89d2-476a-8511-2f9fa95e8f02/housemaiddvd.jpg New Arrivals - Housemaid THE HOUSEMAID is a wildly entertaining thriller starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, based on the best- selling book. From director Paul Feig, the film plunges audiences into a twisted world where perfection is an illusion, and nothing is as it seems. Trying to escape her past, Millie (Sweeney) accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew Winchester (Brandon Sklenar). But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous — a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power. Behind the Winchesters' closed doors lies a world of shocking twists that will leave you guessing until the very end. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-hybrid-prince monthly 0.5 2026-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b1f40078-de5d-4852-99b9-47979eb30eae/hybridprince.jpg New Arrivals - Wings of Fire: The Hybrid Prince - by Tui T. Sutherland Umber was never supposed to be a hero . . . . As the youngest sibling of his MudWing hatching, Umber doesn't have the responsibilities of his bigwings, Reed, nor the heroic destiny prophesied for his brother, Clay. He's always been content with his role as the cheerful, goofy, little brother. But when his sister, Sora, causes a tragedy at Jade Mountain Academy, Umber finds himself on the run and thrown into a whole new role--that of protector. Umber and Sora fly south in search of a place where they can live far away from other dragons . . . until a kind, hybrid dragon named Mulberry saves him from a kraken attack, and Umber realizes they don't have to survive alone after all. In fact, there's an entire community living on a forgotten island, full of dragons hiding from their own dark pasts. As the two MudWings settle into the Court of Refuge, they start to realize that nothing in this place is quite what it seems, and the protection it offers comes with a price. Even as Umber falls for Prince Mulberry, he learns he must find a way to unlock the past of this mysterious island to ensure he and Sora have a future. And when the dragons in power try to stop him, he'll have to decide what he cares about most . . . and whether he can be the hero these dragons need after all. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/mr-nortons-new-truck monthly 0.5 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c789f269-dd14-4886-94de-8963f50b5bb4/mrnorton.jpg New Arrivals - Mr. Norton’s New Truck - Huw Lewis Jones One Monday morning, Horace Norton finds that a bear has accidentally broken his bicycle, and now he doesn't have a way to get to work. As the week progresses, Mr. Norton tries different vehicles for his journey with limited success: The bus is too busy, his roller skates slip too much, his scooter is too small, and his little red wagon is too wobbly! Luckily, Mr. Norton remembers that his grandfather’s old truck is in the barn. What could possibly go wrong . . .? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-fluffle-of-bunnies monthly 0.5 2026-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1da52259-2fc2-484c-92ba-3402cc5de412/fluffle.jpg New Arrivals - A Fluffle of Bunnies - Christie Matheson A scurry of squirrels has a mystery to solve―a gray rabbit has disappeared! Picture book readers will delight in the cast of woodland animals (with their collective nouns) and the joys of spring, when the rabbit herself reveals a fluffle of baby bunnies! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/exca-gator monthly 0.5 2026-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b245f6ae-94de-471e-a7b2-4de65ace6a8c/excagator.jpg New Arrivals - Exca-Gator - Brooke Hartman In the deepest jungle swamp, Where the beasties howl and stomp, From a little swamp home door, Comes a mighty gator ROAR! Exca-Gator is so excited for a new day of building and constructing with all of his buds! He may be even a little too excited, when he overestimates his abilities and causes a big old construction site mess. Can Exca-Gator make things right with his friends and save the day? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/serendipity monthly 0.5 2026-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9da86734-bf24-477e-818a-763dc4502a7e/serendipity.jpg New Arrivals - Serendipity - by Gabbie Benda Serendipity is your classic overachiever. She's class president, lead in the school play, and star of the basketball team. She’s also incredibly lucky, like, wins everything all the time lucky, even random radio raffles. Which is how she finds herself with free tickets to the town carnival where an accident curses her with bad luck FOREVER. And just like that Serendipity’s luck really does seem to run out. Missed shots, fumbled lines, and a slip in the polls. Can it get any worse? Oh yes it can. Permanent bad hair days. Serendipity becomes convinced the curse is real. She’s definitely not disorganized or spread too thin. Nope, it’s all the curse. And she'll have to find a way to reverse it soon. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-viper monthly 0.5 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7730b539-9b2e-4525-a863-c9d66f4cae3e/viper.jpg New Arrivals - The Viper - Brad Meltzer Andrew Fechmeier is a master at hiding. He'd better be—he’s spent decades concealing a secret that could get him killed. So when he’s diagnosed with a terminal disease, he heads for the local funeral home carrying the blue suit he eventually wants to be buried in. But what no one knows is that Fechmeier secretly tucked something inside, turning the suit into a final, untraceable hiding spot. It's a perfect plan. Until Fetch is brutally murdered by a mysterious killer who will stop at nothing to find the priceless object hidden in the suit. Wasting no time, the cunning but unconventional Roddy LaPointe opens an investigation into Fetch’s murder, recruiting help from his friend, the brilliant “Zig” Zigarowski. But it doesn’t take long for Zig to discover the real reason Roddy cares so much about this case: Fetch’s death is tied to Roddy’s mother, who was murdered decades earlier. As the relentless killer closes in, Roddy’s twin sister—the enigmatic and volatile Nola Brown—starts investigating for herself, uncovering a sinister plot that reveals their mother’s dark history, the true identity of her killer, and the shocking secret behind her death. Don’t turn your back on The Viper. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/kin monthly 0.5 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e884994b-2597-4ed8-9b84-ab89e1634bc5/kin.jpg New Arrivals - Kin - Tayari Jones Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother’s death, Vernice leaves Honeysuckle at eighteen for Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and discovers a world of affluence, manners, aspiration, and inequality. Annie, abandoned by her mother as a child and fixated on the idea of finding her and filling the bottomless hole left by her absence, sets off on a journey that will take her into a world of peril and adversity, as well as love and adventure, culminating in a battle for her life. A novel about mothers and daughters, friendship and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South, Kin is an exuberant, emotionally rich, unforgettable work from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-asset monthly 0.5 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d51f97cd-c810-463d-911a-c12aa4060a5e/asset.jpg New Arrivals - The Asset - Mike Lawson In the middle of the night, on a winding road in a suburb outside of Washington D.C., a homeless veteran is killed in a hit-and-run—a tragedy that barely catches the attention of the media and police. Days later, John Mahoney, the former Speaker of the House, is confronted by Diane Lake, an ex-CIA agent turned political researcher with a knack for digging up unsavory intelligence on some of D.C.’s biggest players. Diane is there with a gift for Mahoney: the news that Lydia Chang, the wife of one of his biggest rivals, might be working undercover as a Chinese agent. Knowing it’s too early to get the FBI involved, Mahoney does the only thing left to do. He calls in Joe DeMarco. DeMarco might not have the title of political researcher, but he’s no stranger to digging up dirt either. As DeMarco starts his investigation, he soon learns there’s a lot more going on than Mahoney suspected, and instead of answers, all he finds are more questions. Who’s the mysterious man Lydia Chang has been meeting in the park? Does Diane Lake have an ulterior motive? And why does everything point back to a random hit-and-run? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/island-at-the-edge-of-the-world monthly 0.5 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0c13d407-e7f4-4b27-9457-9521bbc98e5c/easterisland.jpg New Arrivals - Island at the Edge of the World - by Mike Pitts Rapa Nui, known to Western cultures as Easter Island for centuries, has long been a source of mystery. While the massive stone statues that populate the island’s landscape have loomed in the popular Western imagination since Europeans first set foot there in 1722, in recent years, the island has gained infamy as a cautionary tale of eco-destruction. The island’s history as it’s been written tells of Polynesians who carelessly farmed, plundered their natural resources, and battled each other, dooming their delicate ecosystem and becoming a warning to us all about the frailty of our natural world. But what if that history is wrong? In The Island at the Edge of the World, archeological writer and scholar Mike Pitts offers a direct challenge to the orthodoxy of Rapa Nui, bringing to light new research and documents that tell a dramatic and surprising story about what really led to the island’s downfall. Relying on the latest archaeological findings, he paints a vastly different portrait of what life was like on the island before the first Europeans arrived, investigating why a Polynesian people who succeeded for centuries throughout the South Pacific supposedly failed to thrive in Rapa Nui. Pitts also unearths the vital story of one of the first anthropologists to study Rapa Nui, an Oxford-trained iconoclast named Katherine Routledge, who was instrumental in collecting firsthand accounts from the Polynesians living on Rapa Nui in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. But though Routledge’s impressive scholarship captured the oral traditions of what life had been like pre-1722, her work was widely dismissed because of her gender, her reliance on indigenous perspectives, and her conclusions which contradicted her historical peers. A stunning work of revisionism, this book raises critical questions about who gets to write history and the stakes of ignoring that history’s true authors. Provocative and illuminating, The Island at the Edge of the World will change the way people think about Easter Island, its colonial legacy, and where the blame for its devastation truly lies. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/lake-effect monthly 0.5 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/339ced7f-1d2c-4f87-a132-c5a7e8f882b6/lakeeffect.jpg New Arrivals - Lake Effect - Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney It’s 1977 and an air of restlessness has settled on the residents of Cambridge Road in Rochester, New York, a place long fueled by the booming fortunes of Kodak and Xerox and, for some, the mores of the Catholic church. When Nina Larkin is given a copy of The Joy of Sex by her newly divorced friend, she can no longer dismiss the nearly nonexistent intimacy of her marriage. Just as her oldest child, Clara, is falling in love for the first time, Nina finds herself longing for the forbidden: a midlife awakening. An intoxicating fling with a prominent neighbor brings Nina a freedom she never thought possible—but also risks the reputations of both families and unravels Clara’s world, just as she stands on the threshold of adulthood. Years later, Clara, now a successful food stylist in New York City, has never been able to move past the long-ago scandal. Drawn back home by the pull of a family wedding and wrestling with her own demons, she makes a pivotal decision that turns her life upside down. Written with Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s signature humor and insight, Lake Effect is a wise and probing look at love and desire, mothers and daughters, loss and grief, and what we owe the people we love most. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/this-is-where-the-serpent-lives monthly 0.5 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f21e0073-ab40-49fe-b84f-78c5fde22b89/serpent.jpg New Arrivals - This is Where the Serpent Lives - Daniyal Mueenuddin Moving from Pakistan’s dazzling chaotic cities to its lawless feudal countryside, This Is Where the Serpent Lives powerfully evokes contemporary feudal Pakistan, following the destinies of a dozen unforgettable characters whose lives are linked through violence and tragedy, triumph, and love. Orphaned as a little boy and fending for himself in the city streets, Yazid rises to a place of responsibility and respect in the Lahore household of Colonel Atar, a powerful industrialist and politician, only to find that position threatened by conflicting loyalties and misplaced trust. Born on Colonel Atar’s country estate to a poor gardener, Saqib is entrusted with the management of a pioneering business, but he overreaches and finds himself an outlaw, confronting the violence of the corrupt Punjab Police. The colonel’s son competes with his cherished brother for the love of a woman and discovers that her choice colors his life with unexpected darkness as well as light. In matters of power and money and the heart, Mueenuddin’s characters struggle to choose between paths that are moral and just and more worldly choices that allow them to survive in the systems of caste, capital, and social power that so tightly grip their culture. Intimate and epic, elegiac and profoundly moving, This Is Where the Serpent Lives is a tour de force destined to become a classic of contemporary literature. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/sew-much-trouble monthly 0.5 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c9b9e0d5-255f-4cd9-ac93-54be1ea183f2/sewmuch.jpg New Arrivals - Agents of Suit: Sew Much Trouble - by John Patrick Green Someone has stolen the Notorious P.I.G. food truck, and with it, Piggy Smalls’s special BBQ sauce! But before Bongo and Marsha can solve the case, they need to solve the problems they’re having with each other. To help them realize what a great team they truly are, General Inspector decides to split them up. He assigns Marsha to work with Cilantro on a super-secret pilot program, and Bongo to work with Sven on a not so-secret reality competition: "Sew You Think You Can Sew!” https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-place-of-tides-t4zdb monthly 0.5 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1773415391219-OBG8DPEFR0WJTVAGG1NF/neptune.jpg New Arrivals - Neptune’s Fortune - by Julian Sancton Roger Dooley wasn’t looking for the San José. But an accidental discovery in the dusty stacks of a Spanish archive led him to the story of a lifetime, the tale of a great eighteenth-century treasure ship loaded with riches from the New World and destined for Spain. But that ship, the galleon San José, met a darker fate. It was drawn into a pitched battle with British ships of war off the coast of Cartagena, and when the smoke cleared, the San José and its bounty had disappeared into the ocean, its coordinates lost to time. Though a diver at heart, Dooley was an unlikely candidate to find the San José. He had little in the way of serious credentials, yet his tenacity and single-minded devotion to finding and excavating the ship powered him across four decades, even as he became a man in exile from the country of his birth. As Dooley jousted with famous treasure hunters and well-funded competitors, he slowly homed in on a patch of sea that might contain a three-hundred-year-old shipwreck—or nothing at all. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-place-of-tides monthly 0.5 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/239e0b7d-4386-4612-85c4-df2c90d54eb7/placeoftides.jpg New Arrivals - The Place of Tides - by James Rebanks One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild Eider ducks and gathering their down. Hers was a centuries-old trade that had once made men and women rich but had long been in decline. Still, somehow, she seemed to be hanging on. Back at home, Rebanks couldn’t stop thinking about the woman on the rocks. She was fierce and otherworldly—and yet strangely familiar. Years passed. Then, one day, he wrote her a letter, asking if he could return. Bring work clothes, she replied, and good boots, and come quickly: her health was failing. And so he travelled to the edge of the Arctic to witness her last season on the island. This is the story of that season. It is the story of a unique and ancient landscape, and of the woman who brought it back to life. It traces the pattern of her work from the rough, isolated toil of bitter winter to the elation of the endless summer light, when the birds leave behind their precious down for gathering, like feathered gold. Slowly, Rebanks begins to understand that this woman and her world are not what he had previously thought. What began as a journey of escape becomes an extraordinary lesson in self-knowledge and forgiveness. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/more-than-enough monthly 0.5 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/56b96584-b832-45b3-9372-7f9607ba212c/more.jpg New Arrivals - More Than Enough - Anna Quindlen No one knows you like your book club. High school English teacher Polly Goodman can talk about everything and anything with the women in her book club, which is why they’ve become her closest friends and, along with her veterinarian husband, the bedrock of her life. Her students, her fraught relationship with her mother, her struggles with IVF—Polly’s book club friends have heard about it all. But when they give Polly an ancestry test kit as a joke, the results match her with a stranger. It is clear to Polly that this match is a mistake, but still she cannot help but comb through her family history for answers. Then, when it seems that the book club circle of four will become three, Polly learns how friendships can change your life in the most profound ways. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/evil-genius monthly 0.5 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/34ffa8b6-4fbb-4faa-b598-81c5daf946d3/evilgenius.jpg New Arrivals - Evil Genius - Claire Oshetsky An exuberant, brutally hilarious novel about a young woman’s insatiable quest to carve her own path—even if she needs to step over a few dead bodies along the way It’s 1974 and San Francisco is full of mystery and menace. Nineteen-year-old Celia Dent keeps telling herself how lucky she is to be working at the phone company and to be married to her Drew, a man who says he loves her. Celia’s contentment with her little life is shattered, though, when a woman she knows from work is murdered in a love tryst gone awry. What would that be like, Celia wonders, to die for love—or to kill for love? What would it be like to live each moment passionately and with full awareness that each breath is bringing her closer to her last? Before Celia knows it, her musings about love-and-death happenings are bleeding into daily life. Suddenly she’s playing hooky from work and searching for a love tryst of her very own. She’s practicing her marksmanship at a local gun range and thinking about how good it would feel to bury something sharp inside her domineering husband’s ear. It’s all pretend, though, until the night comes when Celia finally goes too far, and she and Drew are set on a deadly collision course. Exhilarating, surreal, and bitingly clever, Evil Genius is a comic noir exploring obsession and desire—and what happens when a sweetly seditious young woman dares to imagine a better life. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-heir-of-whitestone monthly 0.5 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d1488870-0219-41d6-abc1-41390cd1acda/whitestone.jpg New Arrivals - The Heir of Whitestone - Catherine Coulter England, 1842. Queen Victoria reigns, Buckingham Palace is overrun with rats, and the streets of London are filled with intrigue. Alex Ivanov is a brilliant young innovator, designing cutting-edge train engines. But Alex has a secret—he isn’t really Alex Ivanov. As a boy, he was pulled from the Thames, presumed drowned, with no memory of who he was. Rescued and raised by the formidable Ryder Sherbrooke, Alex has built a new life, but his past is catching up with him. Lady Camilla Rohman has problems of her own. Trapped by a scheming stepmother and a family determined to see her married off, she is as clever as she is desperate. When fate throws her into Alex’s path, their connection is undeniable. But as their whirlwind romance turns into marriage, danger follows. On their honeymoon, a series of deadly attacks make one thing clear—someone wants Alex dead. As they race to uncover the truth, old enemies and long-buried secrets come to light, leading them to a shocking revelation that will change everything… https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-crossroads monthly 0.5 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c73c4a19-a9ba-45aa-9978-2d82e47b86b1/crossroads.jpg New Arrivals - The Crossroads - C.J. Box Marybeth Pickett gets the call she has always dreaded: her husband Joe is in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head. Joe was found in his pickup at Antler Creek Junction, a crossroads connecting three ranches. Each road leading to a dangerous family. Each family with a different bone to pick with the local game warden. Marybeth and the new sheriff assume that Joe was ambushed by one of the families, but they have no idea which one since Joe didn’t say where he was going or why. With Joe unconscious and fighting for his life with Marybeth at his side, Sheridan, April, and Lucy split up and investigate each of families to uncover the truth of what happened to their father, before it’s too late. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/jigsaw monthly 0.5 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1773412310213-064MT7TQ2P2901CTCNWS/jigsaw.jpg New Arrivals - Jigsaw - Jonathan Kellerman This one looked like a slam dunk: a young woman found dead at her kitchen table, DNA on cigarette butts linking quickly to an ex-boyfriend with a criminal record. Or so homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis thought. Then everything changed and a quick close turned into a mind-bending whodunit. That’s when Milo called in psychologist Alex Delaware, his best friend and a long-term consultant on “those cases.” The ones that are different. Then there’s another one: an old woman found brutally murdered, her body stashed in a deep freeze and mutilated. And when Milo learns who she is, he’s stunned. This victim is someone he once knew. Complicating matters further, her home is an extreme hoarder’s den, virtually impassable due to years of stored trash and apparently meaningless objects. Except for the envelopes of cash stashed among the garbage. As Alex and Milo dig deeper into the seemingly unrelated crimes, they discover shocking links between the victims and realize they have a labyrinthine—and deadly—puzzle to solve. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/football monthly 0.5 2026-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1453d5de-0892-47f7-93ff-3de88a105b45/football.jpg New Arrivals - Football - by Chuck Klosterman Chuck Klosterman—New York Times bestselling critic, journalist, and, yes, football psychotic—did not write this book to deepen your appreciation of the game. He’s not trying to help you become that person at the party, or to teach you how to make better bets, or to validate any preexisting views you might have about the sport (positive or negative). Football does, in fact, do all of those things. But not in the way such things have been done in the past, and never in a way any normal person would expect. Cultural theorists talk about hyperobjects—phenomena that bulk so large that their true dimensions are hidden in plain sight. In 2023, 93 of the 100 most-watched programs on U.S. television were NFL football games. This is not an anomaly. This is how society is best understood. Football is not merely the country’s most popular sport; it is engrained in almost everything that explains what America is, even for those who barely pay attention. Klosterman gets to the bottom of all of it. He takes us to a metaphorical projection of Texas, where the religion of six-man football merges with America’s Team [sic] and makes an inexplicable impact on a boy in North Dakota. He dissects the question of natural greatness, the paradox of gambling and war, and the timeless caricature of the uncompromising head coach. He interrogates the perfection of football’s marriage with television and the morality of acceptable risk. He even conjures an extinction-level event. If Žižek liked the SEC more than he liked cinema, if Stephen Jay Gould cared about linebackers more than he cared about dinosaurs, if Steve Martin played quarterback instead of the banjo . . . it would still be nothing like this. A century ago, Yale’s legendary coach Walter Camp wrote his unified theory of the game. He called it Football. Chuck Klosterman has given us a new Camp for the new age, rooted in a personal history he cannot escape. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/eradication monthly 0.5 2026-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/dc7d73a1-6bbb-4b11-8ff9-3b99e6b8a985/eradication.jpg New Arrivals - Eradication - by Jonathan Miles Reeling from tragedy, former jazz musician–turned–schoolteacher Adi answers a job listing offering a chance to save the world. The assignment: spend five weeks alone on the tiny Pacific island of Santa Flora, restoring an ecological balance gone dangerously awry by an invasive population of goats. Though he has no experience in wildlife management, he is hired anyway. Armed with little more than survival gear and uneasy resolve, he sets out to remove what doesn’t belong. But the mission is not what it seems. The threats to the once-Edenic island aren’t what his employers claim. Complicating things further, he discovers he’s not alone on the island. Fearful for his own life, and for the fate of the island's, Adi spends his sun-drenched days rooting out the true threat to Santa Flora and by extension, to the world it occupies. As isolation deepens and doubt takes hold, he finds the boundaries between duty and redemption, preservation and harm, growing harder to define. A desert-island meditation on love, grief, and solitude, as well as a jolt to your emotional core, Eradication is an unforgettable reading experience and a bold work of imagination. With this fourth novel, Jonathan Miles, “a fluid, confident, and profoundly talented writer” (Dave Eggers), delivers his most compelling work yet. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/zootopia2 monthly 0.5 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0ef6a321-6d6d-4809-a1df-506a861ccc38/zoo2.jpg New Arrivals - Zootopia 2 Rookie cops Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde find themselves on the twisting trail of a great mystery when Gary De’Snake arrives in Zootopia and turns the animal metropolis upside down. To crack the case, Judy and Nick must go undercover to unexpected new parts of town, where their growing partnership is tested like never before. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/hamnet monthly 0.5 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c009a430-8af4-4368-a754-6ff1316bbe1c/hamnet.jpg New Arrivals - Hamnet Based on the New York Times best-selling novel, Academy Award®-winning director Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) directs a powerful story of love and loss. William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) falls for the free-spirited Agnes (Jessie Buckley). Their whirlwind romance leads to marriage and three children, but as Will's theatrical ambitions draw him to London, Agnes remains behind to manage the household. When tragedy strikes, their bond is deeply tested—but through grief and resilience, their journey inspires the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet. The film also stars Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn and is produced by renowned filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/regretting-you monthly 0.5 2026-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1772829570782-6NXIFQYNHYZKUFKXKK6S/regrettingyou.jpg New Arrivals - Regretting You Based on the bestselling book, after a devastating accident threatens to tear their family apart, Morgan Grant (Allison Williams) and her daughter Clara (Mckenna Grace) must confront family secrets, redefine love, and discover what matters most. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/women-of-the-maine-frontier monthly 0.5 2026-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6735f430-e1c4-4656-851e-3e8b2d344cb5/womenfrontier.jpg New Arrivals - Women of the Maine Frontier - by Gerard W. Gawalt Women of the Maine Frontier seeks to highlight the lives of these women and the work they did to preserve their families and bring prosperity to their communities. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/valentines-are-the-worst monthly 0.5 2026-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/127dcada-0120-4cb8-8a4b-28eebe0a5264/valentinesworst.jpg New Arrivals - Valentines are the Worst - Alex Willan Who needs valentines? Not Gilbert the goblin! There’s no time for cards and hugs and all that mushy malarky with far more important matters at hand—like, uh…eating tacos. When Gilbert bumps into a squad of cupids bent on showering him with love arrows, he runs for his life! This is clearly proof that valentines are the worst! Can Gilbert avoid the trappings of the holiday or will love find a way? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/scrapper-pup-vs-squirrel monthly 0.5 2026-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/69e17b55-52bf-444b-8068-55c59b0c776a/scrapper2.jpg New Arrivals - Scrapper Pup Vs. Squirrel - Cam Higgins Dogs chase squirrels. It’s just a fact of life…or is it? One afternoon, Scrapper digs up a huge pile of acorns in the middle of the forest. Turns out, he’s accidentally uncovered the forest squirrels’ secret snack stash, and they’re not too happy about it! Can Scrapper make it up to them, or are dogs and squirrels destined to feud forever? With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Scrapper chapter book series is perfect for emerging readers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/scrapper-leader-of-the-pack monthly 0.5 2026-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/771639e1-900f-426d-b843-8ce08a8c52ca/scrapper1.jpg New Arrivals - Scrapper Leader of the Pack - Cam Higgins Scrapper loves swimming with his best puppy friend, Bo, and playing fetch with his human family. But most of all, Scrapper loves going on adventures in the forest! He’s even the proud founder of Camp Monster-Finder. Now all he needs is some new friends to join his pack...and maybe find a monster or two along the way! With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Scrapper chapter book series is perfect for emerging readers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ratnip7-the-pie-rat-on-seventh-street monthly 0.5 2026-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a796d2e7-7f10-493b-b6df-9a7198688f7c/ratnip7.jpg New Arrivals - Ratnip 7 The Pie-Rat on Seventh Street - Cam Higgins It’s raining, it’s pouring, and the city rat is…sailing! But a little rain won’t stop Ratnip from treasure hunting around the City. Ratnip builds himself a pizza pirate ship and takes to the soggy streets on an adventure—meeting some unexpected underwater creatures along the way. With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, Ratnip chapter books are perfect for emerging readers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-academy-title-fight monthly 0.5 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4eb9beac-3c8c-42d2-98d0-1845f3b77798/titlefight.jpg New Arrivals - The Academy IV: Title Fight - by T.Z. Layton Leo and his teammates are riding high after their performance in the Tournament of Champions. But last season, they still finished near the bottom of the table in the U14 Premier League. If they want to compete with the London Dragons, they have a big challenge ahead of them. Samantha is back to coach the Knights, but some of Leo's friends have moved to the U16s or transferred to other clubs. There's a whole new group of players, including Goran, a tough central midfielder who is determined to take Leo's position. To make matters worse, Leo has a setback that might ruin his season―or even his future career. The Youth Premier League is the best in the world, and Leo and his teammates will be tested like never before. Can they handle the pressure, overcome a whole new set of obstacles, and rise to the challenge of a Title Fight? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-academy-tournament-of-champions monthly 0.5 2026-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d52b1b67-8bb8-4995-8279-df3621ebd99f/academyiii.jpg New Arrivals - The Academy III: Tournament of Champions - by T.Z. Layton Last season, Leo and his teammates saved the Lewisham Knights by avoiding a last-place finish in the U14 Premier League. Their future looks bright―until they learn the adult Knights have dropped down to the second division, again putting the future of the U14s in jeopardy. All might not be lost. The team owner has entered the U14s in the Tournament of Champions, which takes place over the summer. Leo and his teammates will pack their bags and travel across Europe to play against some of the top youth teams in the world. But the tournament isn't just for pride and a trophy. Something else is at stake: a loophole that allows the winner of the tournament to stay in the youth Premier League. The competition will be fiercer than ever. No one is giving the Knights a chance to win. As if the tourney wasn't enough to deal with, someone is trying to sabotage the team, and the Knights have a new star player with a serious attitude problem. The mountain to climb has never seemed so high. Can Leo find a way to pull his team together and have a fighting chance in the Tournament of Champions? The inspiring, action-packed third book in The Academy series is perfect for young readers 7-13 and for sports fans of all ages. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-academy-the-journey-continues monthly 0.5 2026-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/fc19fea1-e913-4140-a929-0a81f9f144b5/journeycontinues.jpg New Arrivals - The Academy II: The Journey Continues - by T.Z. Layton Leo K. Doyle, a small-town kid from Ohio, has beaten all the odds and made the roster of a Premier League youth squad. But he is far from the star player. In fact, he isn't even a starter―and the U14 Lewisham Knights are the worst team in the league. They're so bad that if they don't improve this year, the owner will disband the team, which could jeopardize Leo's dream of becoming a professional soccer player. As if that wasn't enough to deal with, Leo also has to keep up with his schoolwork, make brand new friends in a foreign country, deal with a coach who doesn't seem to like him, and survive away from home for a demanding season in the Youth Premier League. Leo believes he has the talent to help his team, but can he juggle all these balls and prove himself on the world's biggest stage? The inspiring, action-packed second book in The Academy series is perfect for young readers 7-13 and for sports fans of all ages. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/cross-and-sampson monthly 0.5 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3f422cb2-6852-41d7-bb91-1619cad7c137/crosssampson.jpg New Arrivals - Cross & Sampson - James Patterson and Brian Sitts In Washington, DC … Metro PD detective John Sampson stands in a crater in the middle of a DC street, calling in the bomb squad. “Dispatch, this is Sampson. Contact the FBI and the ATF. We’ve got a suspected terrorist attack here.” In Chapel Hill, NC … Alex Cross searches the apartment of a missing psychology grad student—his own son Damon. Has following in his famous father’s footsteps made Damon a target? From FBI headquarters, in police stations, on airplanes, and at murder scenes, the detectives track crimes committed hundreds of miles apart. It will take more than distance to weaken the partnership of Sampson & Cross. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/my-husbands-wife monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/dd1f85b3-2d59-4496-b850-0ae590975bc8/husbandswife.jpg New Arrivals - My Husband’s Wife - Alice Feeney Eden Fox, an artist on the brink of her big break, sets off for a run before her first exhibition. When she returns to the home she recently moved into, Spyglass, an enchanting old house in Hope Falls, nothing is as it should be. Her key doesn’t fit. A woman, eerily similar to her, answers the door. And her husband insists that the stranger is his wife. One house. One husband. Two women. Someone is lying. Six months earlier, a reclusive Londoner called Birdy, reeling from a life-changing diagnosis, inherits Spyglass. This unexpected gift from a long-lost grandmother brings her to the pretty seaside village of Hope Falls. But then Birdy stumbles upon a shadowy London clinic that claims to be able to predict a person's date of death, including her own. Secrets start to unravel, and as the line between truth and lies blurs, Birdy feels compelled to right some old wrongs. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-lobsterman monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e3bf7e45-feac-46fe-9e73-2a56d27378c1/lobsterman.jpg New Arrivals - The Lobsterman - Marjorie Gilbert In 1765, Gavin O'Connell's ship sinks 100 miles off the coast of Maine. As death nears, a creature appears and brings him to shore. Gavin becomes a foremost citizen of Portland and witnesses the destruction of his adopted city, as well as helping to defend it during the Revolutionary War. Throughout his life, his love for what saves him endures—even through his marriage to another. In present-day Portland, Ann Caldwell tends her traps alone on Casco Bay. One evening, a trap line becomes entangled, and Ann is astounded when she pulls in something from fairy tales. He has a feral beauty, the line between man and beast not easily defined, and possesses the power to capture Ann's heart and mind. He saves Ann from the unwanted attentions of another lobsterman, and from involvement in a drug-running plot. Alternating between the past and present, The Lobsterman tells the story of an eighteenth-century sailor and a modern-day female lobsterman, and the place they call home: Portland, Maine. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/no-finer-place monthly 0.5 2026-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/67cfc7dc-c738-4ddd-96db-88c8ff2602cd/nofinerplace.jpg New Arrivals - No Finer Place - by L. Michelle Tullier Ever unflappable, Michelle treats the discovery of identity-shattering family secrets as just another project to manage, thinking she can fool herself and others that she’s not falling apart. She travels from the craggy coast of Maine to the South Carolina Lowcountry, Atlanta, Savannah, and Louisiana’s bayous and Bible Belt, tracing her parents’ coming of age against a backdrop of the Great Depression, World War II, racial segregation, and homophobia. Michelle expects answers to unfurl like Spanish moss off a live oak or float to the surface of a Sazerac but instead finds she’s searching for all the wrong things in all the wrong places. No Finer Place: A Memoir of DNA, Deception, and Duality explores the universal longing to belong and our capacity to grow whole after life nearly breaks us. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-friend-of-the-family monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c615ffc8-89d8-4233-ac57-a59d841f9182/friendfamily.jpg New Arrivals - The Friend of the Family - Dean Koontz The human “oddities” in the Museum of the Strange are less wondrous than the gawking rubes had been promised. But Alida is something else. The real thing. Traveling Depression-era America from carnival midways to speakeasies, Alida is resigned to an exploited and lonely life on the road as the museum’s golden ticket. Until she’s rescued by two compassionate strangers. Franklin and Loretta Fairchild see in Alida a gifted and uncannily well-read girl in need of a loving touch and a family. With the openhearted couple and their three precociously imaginative children, Alida finds it. Yet despite everyone’s overwhelming generosity and acceptance, Alida knows she is still a very different kind of girl. Her dreams bear that out. They’re vivid, unsettling, and threatening. Alida fears that they’re also warnings. And that it’s the Fairchilds who may need rescue from a bad, bad world. Alida will do anything to help those she now holds nearest and dearest. Empowered with a purpose to vanquish evil, she will not fail her family. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/stolen-in-death monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/66b89f5e-bea6-4e6a-996e-8a5e32e2ac45/stolenindeath.jpg New Arrivals - Stolen in Death - J.D. Robb A blow to the head with a block of amethyst has left multibillionaire Nathan Barrister dead—while nearby, a vault, its door ajar, sits filled with priceless paintings, jewelry, and other treasures. Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s husband, Roarke—who misspent his youth in Ireland as a scrappy thief—recognizes at least two stolen pieces among the hoard. The crime scene suggests a burglar caught in the act. But only one item seems to be missing. Then it’s revealed that the vault had actually belonged to the victim’s late father—and no one in the household knew it was there until a recent remodeling project exposed it. To protect the family name and business, they explain to Eve, they’d been looking for a way to return the ill-gotten gains anonymously and avoid the police. But now the police are all over their elegant house, and have a bigger, bloodier mystery to solve. By all accounts, Nathan Barrister was a good man, a generous employer, a devoted husband and father. As for his father—he clearly had secrets. Now it’s up to Eve and her team to find out if those secrets got Nathan killed—and if it was a crime of passion or revenge. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/gumshoe monthly 0.5 2026-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/51ed22a6-1704-455e-8996-2a032cb734f4/gumshoe.jpg New Arrivals - Gumshoe - by Brenna Thummler In the hot, gossipy town of Stony Lonesome, shy eleven-year old Willa interacts with others the only way that feels right to her—the mail. She loves the mail so much that she hopes to become a mail carrier herself one day. But her dreams of delivering birthday cards, thank-you notes, and love letters come crashing down when she’s mistaken for the notorious Two Gum Tilly, a bandit rumored to be stealing mail for as long as folks can recall. Now an outlaw herself, Willa realizes the only way to clear her name is to bring the real crook to justice. But when a chance encounter introduces her to the Gumshoe Gang, a group of runaways looking to right the wrongs of the letter-looting thief, she finds that human connection might be her only path to freedom. Can Willa clear her name and revive her dreams of postal glory, or has she stamped her last letter . . . forever? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pea-bee-and-jay-the-big-bully monthly 0.5 2026-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b3f78234-75d2-43d6-ba6d-45a5d282c033/bigbully.jpg New Arrivals - Pea, Bee, & Jay The Big Bully - Brian “Smitty” Smith Pea, Bee, & Jay are searching for treasure when a great big pumpkin storms over and bullies Jay into giving up his very shiny pebble—not cool, Pumpkin. But when they band together to prove that being big doesn’t mean you get to push others around, the trio discovers that Pumpkin's got some extra-large issues of her own. Can Pea, Bee, & Jay get to the real root of the problem and bring the farm back to solid ground? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pea-bee-and-jay-gotta-find-gramps monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8cf2fb1a-d173-4f54-bd26-ed59eb157282/gramps.jpg New Arrivals - Pea, Bee, & Jay Gotta Find Gramps - Brian “Smitty” Smith When Pea, Bee, & Jay hear stories of Gramps’s youth, they find each yarn to be wilder than the last. He once had a pet dog, was a professional wrestling champ, and he even led a jailbreak out of a can of peas. Un-pea-lievable! But when Gramps goes missing, it’s up to the trio to bring him home. Will they find the kernel of truth in Gramps’s tall tales and reunite him with his family? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-other-side-of-change monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3220dd93-2be8-4c57-9125-ec3ec2319231/change.jpg New Arrivals - The Other Side of Change - by Maya Shankar Life has a way of thwarting our best-laid plans. Out of nowhere, we’re confronting the end of a relationship, an unexpected diagnosis, the loss of a job, or some other twist of fate. In these moments, it can feel like we’re free-falling into the unknown. As a cognitive scientist, Maya Shankar has spent decades studying the human mind. When an unwanted change in her own life left her reeling, she sought out people who had navigated major disruptions. In The Other Side of Change, Shankar tells their riveting, singular stories and weaves in scientific insights to illuminate universal lessons hidden within them. The result is a rich portrait of our complex reactions to change and a deep well of wisdom we can draw from during these experiences. Shankar invites us to rethink our relationship with change altogether. When a big change happens to us, it can lead to profound change within us. The unique stresses and demands of being thrust into a new reality can lead us to uncover new abilities, perspectives, and values, transforming us in extraordinary ways. What if we saw moments of upheaval as an opportunity to reimagine who we can be, rather than as something to just endure? What potential could we unlock within ourselves? Whether you're processing a past change, grappling with a present one, or bracing for a future one, this book is a wise and thought-provoking companion to help you discover who you can become on the other side of change. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/its-not-her monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0a99435d-245a-4158-b3e5-78ddbbee679c/itsnother.jpg New Arrivals - It’s Not Her - Mary Kubica A scream shatters the silence… Courtney Gray’s peaceful vacation turns into a nightmare when she discovers her brother and sister-in-law dead in their lakeside cottage. Her niece Reese is missing. Her nephew Wyatt is asleep upstairs—unharmed. A town full of secrets… As police swarm the quiet resort, dark truths about Courtney’s family—and the town itself—begin to surface. Is Reese a victim… or the killer? A truth no one saw coming… With everyone hiding something, Courtney races to uncover the terrible mystery. But the closer she gets, the harder it is to know who—or what—to trust. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/half-his-age monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d30af0d3-6f6f-40bd-a47e-02bc4d48ef30/halfhisage.jpg New Arrivals - Half His Age - Jennette McCurdy Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn’t know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn’t? Or is it purer than that, rooted in their unlikely connection, their kindred spirits, the similar filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it’s just enough that he sees her when no one else does. Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles—or attempts to overcome them—in her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-things-we-leave-unfinished monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b88fa3e9-5602-462a-be4a-5f7fb3a714c5/unfinished.jpg New Arrivals - The Things We Leave Unfinished - Rebecca Yarros Twenty-eight-year-old Georgia Stanton has to start over after she gave up almost everything in a brutal divorce―the New York house, the friends, and her pride. Now back home at her late great-grandmother’s estate in Colorado, she finds herself face-to-face with Noah Harrison, the bestselling author of a million books where the cover is always people nearly kissing. He’s just as arrogant in person as in interviews, and she’ll be damned if the good-looking writer of love stories thinks he’s the one to finish her grandmother’s final novel…even if the publisher swears he’s the perfect fit. Noah is at the pinnacle of his career. With book and movie deals galore, there isn’t much the “golden boy” of modern fiction hasn’t accomplished. But he can’t walk away from what might be the best book of the century―the one his idol, Scarlett Stanton, left unfinished. Coming up with a fitting ending for the legendary author is one thing, but dealing with her beautiful, stubborn, cynical great-granddaughter, Georgia, is quite another. But as they read Scarlett’s words in both the manuscript and her box of letters, they start to realize why Scarlett never finished the book―it’s based on her real-life romance with a World War II pilot, and the ending isn’t a happy one. Georgia knows all too well that love never works out, and while the chemistry and connection between her and Noah is undeniable, she’s as determined as ever to learn from her great-grandmother’s mistakes―even if it means destroying Noah’s career. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/vigil monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/cb613654-d109-43fe-8659-6138bf674f8b/vigil.jpg New Arrivals - Vigil - George Saunders Not for the first time, Jill “Doll” Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge, yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife, and lands headfirst in the circular drive of his ornate mansion. She has performed this sacred duty 343 times since her own death. Her charges, as a rule, have been greatly comforted in their final moments. But this charge, she soon discovers, isn’t like the others. The powerful K. J. Boone will not be consoled, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big, bold, epic life, and the world is better for it. Isn’t it? Vigil transports us, careening, through the wild final evening of a complicated man. Visitors begin to arrive (worldly and otherworldly, alive and dead), clamoring for a reckoning. Birds swarm the dying man’s room; a black calf grazes on the love seat; a man from a distant, drought-ravaged village materializes; two oil-business cronies from decades past show up with chilling plans for Boone’s postdeath future. With the wisdom, playfulness, and explosive imagination we’ve come to expect, George Saunders takes on the gravest issues of our time—the menace of corporate greed, the toll of capitalism, the environmental perils of progress—and, in the process, spins a tale that encompasses life and death, good and evil, and the thorny question of absolution. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-good-liar monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/dcf3fd2d-6aba-4811-b10b-e473ca4bf837/goodliar.jpg New Arrivals - The Good Liar - Denise Mina WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO TELL THE TRUTH WHEN YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON A LIE? A year ago, a father and his fiancée were brutally murdered in their opulent London townhouse, sparking the most high-profile murder investigation in recent history. Blood spatter expert Doctor Claudia O’Sheil’s evidence put the killer behind bars—or so everyone believes. But since the trial, Claudia’s learned a horrific truth: her evidence and her testimony were wrong. And someone she knows made sure of it. Now, as she takes the stage to give a career-defining speech before London’s elite, Claudia faces a devastating choice. Protect her children and her career with her continued complicity, or blow the whole conspiracy apart and reveal the truth: not only is the real murderer still out there, but they’re in the audience. As Claudia steps toward the microphone, she revisits that fateful night. What really happened? And what will Claudia say? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/stone-yard-devotional monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6340ae7d-577d-423c-93ee-24fea45c2ea4/stoneyard.jpg New Arrivals - Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of rural Australia. She doesn't believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident. But disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signaling a new battle against the rising infestation. Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who disappeared decades before, presumed murdered. And finally, a troubling visitor plunges the narrator further back into her past. Meditative, moving, and finely observed, Stone Yard Devotional is a seminal novel from a writer of rare power, exploring what it means to retreat from the world, the true nature of forgiveness, and the sustained effect of grief on the human soul. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pendergast monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1770910904840-3NTPJW0G9OE4ZEG5T1I5/pendergast.jpg New Arrivals - Pendergast The Beginning - Preston & Child It only took six months for the life of Special Agent Dwight Chambers to crumble around him. First, he lost his partner, and then, tragically, his wife. Returning to work at the New Orleans Field Office, Chambers is dismayed to find himself saddled with mentoring a brand new FBI agent—a certain A. X. L. Pendergast. As Chambers tries to pull himself together, his enigmatic and exasperating junior partner pulls an outrageous stunt that gets both of them suspended. Pendergast welcomes the banishment, because it gives him the opportunity to investigate a peculiar murder in Mississippi that has captured his fancy. Chambers grudgingly goes along. What starts off as a whimsical quest swiftly turns into a terrifying pursuit, as Chambers and Pendergast uncover a string of grisly, ritualistic killings that defy any known serial killer profile. Thanks in large part to Pendergast’s brilliance and unorthodox methods, they solve the case and find the killer… and that is when the true horror begins. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dear-debbie monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e1687e8d-a4f9-4a08-b6f4-c9bb8161e05d/deardebbie.jpg New Arrivals - Dear Debbie - Freida McFadden Sometimes, enough is enough… Debbie Mullen is losing it. For years, she has compiled all of her best advice into her column, Dear Debbie, where the wives of New England come for sympathy and neighborly advice. Through her work, Debbie has heard from countless women who are ignored, belittled, or even abused by their husbands. And Debbie does her best to guide them in the right direction. Or at least, she did. These days, Debbie's life seems to be spiraling out of control. She just lost her job. Something strange is happening with her teenage daughters. And her husband is keeping secrets, according to the tracking app she installed on his phone. Now, Debbie's done being the bigger person. She's done being reasonable and practical. It's time to take her own advice. And now it's time for payback against all the people in her life who deserve it the most. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/lost-lambs monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/895dd9a7-22b7-4005-a48c-5070f14aa883/lostlambs.jpg New Arrivals - Lost Lambs - Madeline Cash The Flynn family is coming undone. Catherine and Bud's open marriage has reached its breaking point as their daughters spiral in their own chaotic orbits: Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crime Wes; Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist; the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone—or something—is monitoring the town’s citizens. Casting a shadow across their lives, and their small coastal town, is Paul Alabaster, a billionaire shipping magnate. Rumors of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with a mysterious shipping container sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy—one that may just bring them closer together. Irreverent and addictive, pinging between the voices of the Flynn family and those of the panorama of characters around them, Madeline Cash’s Lost Lambs is a debut novel of quick-witted observation and surprising tenderness. With it, Cash has crafted a family saga for the twenty-first century, all held together with crazy glue. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-list-of-suspicious-things monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3220ffd2-5671-4e71-b424-b008eb22825c/the+list.jpg New Arrivals - The List of Suspicious Things - Jennie Godfrey Twelve-year-old Miv is panicking. Life has been complicated since her mom got sick, and now her dad is talking about wanting to move their family away from the town Miv has lived in her whole life—because of the murders. Young women are dying, everyone is afraid, and no one knows who the culprit might be. But as far as Miv is concerned, leaving Yorkshire and her best friend Sharon simply isn't an option, no matter the dangers lurking round their way; or the strangeness at home that started the day Miv's mum stopped talking. Perhaps if she could solve the case of the disappearing women, they could stay after all? So, Miv and Sharon decide to make a list: a list of all the suspicious people and things on their street. People they know. People they don't. But their search for the truth reveals more secrets in their neighborhood, within their families—and between each other—than they ever thought possible. What if the real mystery Miv needs to solve is the one that lies much closer to home? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/puerto-rico monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0ab56708-4f56-4971-9303-8dab8daa7518/puertorico.jpg New Arrivals - Puerto Rico - by Fodor’s Travel Fodor’s Puerto Rico travel guide includes: AN ILLUSTRATED ULTIMATE EXPERIENCES GUIDE to the top things to see and do MULTIPLE ITINERARIES to effectively organize your days and maximize your time MORE THAN 25 DETAILED MAPS and a FREE PULL-OUT MAP to help you navigate confidently COLOR PHOTOS throughout to spark your wanderlust! HONEST RECOMMENDATIONS FROM LOCALS on the best sights, restaurants, hotels, nightlife, shopping, performing arts, activities, side-trips, and more PHOTO-FILLED “BEST OF” FEATURES on “Best Beaches,” “Best Things to Eat and Drink,” “Best Souvenirs to Buy,” and more TRIP-PLANNING TOOLS AND PRACTICAL TIPS including when to go, getting around, beating the crowds, and saving time and money HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL INSIGHTS providing rich context on the local people, politics, art, architecture, cuisine, music, geography, and more SPECIAL FEATURES on “Walking Old San Juan,” “Salsa,” and “Puerto Rico's Bioluminescent Bays” LOCAL WRITERS to help you find the under-the-radar gems SPANISH LANGUAGE PRIMER with useful words and essential phrases UP-TO-DATE COVERAGE ON: San Juan, El Yunque National Forest, Vieques, Culebra, Mayaguëz, Ponce, Rincón, San Germán, and more https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/essential-egypt monthly 0.5 2026-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d9ff92c8-4289-48e9-b3ed-def34c6ccfc8/egypt.jpg New Arrivals - Essential Egypt - by Fodor’s Travel Fodor’s Essential Egypt travel guide includes: AN ILLUSTRATED ULTIMATE EXPERIENCES GUIDE to the top things to see and do MULTIPLE ITINERARIES to effectively organize your days and maximize your time MORE THAN 50 DETAILED MAPS to help you navigate confidently COLOR PHOTOS throughout to spark your wanderlust! HONEST RECOMMENDATIONS FROM LOCALS on the best sights, restaurants, hotels, nightlife, shopping, performing arts, activities, side-trips, and more PHOTO-FILLED “BEST OF” FEATURES on “What to Eat and Drink,” “Nile Cruises,” “Top Outdoor Adventures” and more TRIP-PLANNING TOOLS AND PRACTICAL TIPS including when to go, getting around, beating the crowds, and saving time and money HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL INSIGHTS providing rich context on the local people, politics, art, architecture, cuisine, music, geography and more SPECIAL FEATURES on the Valley of the Kings, the Pyramids of Giza, “What to Watch and Read Before You Visit,” and “Shopping in Cairo” LOCAL WRITERS to help you find the under-the-radar gems EGYPTIAN ARABIC LANGUAGE PRIMER with useful words and essential phrases UP-TO-DATE COVERAGE ON: Cairo, Alexandria, The Nile Valley and Luxor, Sharm El-Sheikh, Aswan and Lake Nasser, Abu Simbel, Siwa Oasis and the Western Desert Oases, and more. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/essential-ireland monthly 0.5 2026-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e67e00c6-808e-42fb-9d7e-354c59195452/ireland.jpg New Arrivals - Essential Ireland - by Fodor’s Travel Fodor’s Ireland 2026 travel guide includes: AN ILLUSTRATED ULTIMATE EXPERIENCES GUIDE to the top things to see and do MULTIPLE ITINERARIES to effectively organize your days and maximize your time MORE THAN 30 DETAILED MAPS and a FREE PULL-OUT MAP to help you navigate confidently COLOR PHOTOS throughout to spark your wanderlust! HONEST RECOMMENDATIONS FROM LOCALS on the best sights, restaurants, hotels, nightlife, shopping, performing arts, activities, side-trips, and more PHOTO-FILLED “BEST OF” FEATURES on “the Wild Atlantic Way,” “The Best Historical Sights,” “Ireland’s Top Natural Wonders,” “Ireland’s Top Castles,” and more TRIP-PLANNING TOOLS AND PRACTICAL TIPS including when to go, getting around, beating the crowds, and saving time and money HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL INSIGHTS providing rich context on the local people, politics, art, architecture, cuisine, music, geography and more SPECIAL FEATURES on “Top Festivals and Events,” “What to Watch and Read Before You Visit,” and “What to Eat and Drink” LOCAL WRITERS to help you find the under-the-radar gems UP-TO-DATE COVERAGE ON: Dublin, Kerry, Clare, Galway, Cork, Belfast, Northern Ireland, the Aran Islands, the Ring of Kerry, The Giants Causeway, the Wild Atlantic Way, Killarney, Connemara, Trinity College, Dublin’s museums, the Book of Kells, Dingle, Donegal, Irish Castles and Monasteries, Irish Design, Irish Festivals and events, and more https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/roofman monthly 0.5 2026-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/79a365f2-614e-4b0f-8668-4c1f7ca0f6db/roofman.jpg New Arrivals - Roofman Based on an unbelievable true story, Roofman follows Jeffrey Manchester (Channing Tatum), an Army veteran and struggling father who turns to robbing McDonald's restaurants by cutting holes in their roofs, earning him the nickname: Roofman. After escaping prison, he secretly lives inside a Toys "R" Us for six months, surviving undetected while planning his next move. But when he falls for Leigh (Kirsten Dunst), a divorced mom drawn to his undeniable charm, his double life begins to unravel, setting off a compelling and suspenseful game of cat and mouse as his past closes in. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/one-battle-after-another monthly 0.5 2026-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ddb7765b-508f-4132-8014-855a07b815d5/onebattle.jpg New Arrivals - One Battle After Another Washed-up revolutionary Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio) exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti). When his evil nemesis (Sean Penn) resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dead-of-winter monthly 0.5 2026-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9d39dd66-64ce-468e-adf2-1f1423d9e4c0/deadwinter.jpg New Arrivals - Dead of Winter A woman, travelling alone through snowbound northern Minnesota, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl. Hours from the nearest town and with no phone service, she realizes that she is the young girl's only hope. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/eden monthly 0.5 2026-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/fef64135-8af2-4588-9d50-049d87277f05/eden.jpg New Arrivals - Eden The shocking true story of a group of outsiders (Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Daniel Brühl, Sydney Sweeney) who settle on a remote island only to discover their greatest threat isn’t the brutal climate or deadly wildlife, but each other. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/spasm monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e0393494-5bff-4e95-b80d-4c7958bfa7a7/spasm.jpg New Arrivals - Spasm - Robin Cook When Laurie Montgomery temporarily steps down from her position as Chief Medical Examiner, she and Jack find themselves uncharacteristically free for a couple of weeks. And the timing couldn't be better when they receive a call from Jack's former medical school classmate, Robert Neilson, who is the sole family practitioner in Essex Falls, an idyllic town tucked away in New York State's Adirondack Mountains. Serving also as the Hamilton County coroner, Dr. Neilson is in over his head trying to explain the sudden death of a young, healthy pest control worker on top of an outbreak of rapidly progressive Alzheimer's-like cases, and he pleads with Jack and Laurie to come lend a professional hand. Unable to resist a good mystery and a vacation in one, Laurie and Jack agree to help and head upstate. Essex Falls is beautiful enough and their accommodations are even better than they imagined. But they soon learn the town has suffered a major economic and social setback, which has shaken its residents to their cores. When the body of the pest control worker disappears without a trace just prior to an autopsy, Jack's penchant for solving forensic conundrums launches him into a full-scale investigation that uncovers the most frightening modus operandi of his career so far. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/anatomy-of-an-alibi monthly 0.5 2026-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/cab6cb7c-3371-4837-92f8-679d6ee1a103/anatomyalibi.jpg New Arrivals - Anatomy of an Alibi - Ashley Elston Everyone at Chantilly’s Bar noticed out-of-towner Camille Bayliss. Red lips, designer heels, sipping a Negroni. But that woman wasn’t Camille Bayliss. It was Aubrey Price. Camille Bayliss appears to have the picture-perfect life; she’s married to hotshot lawyer Ben and is the daughter of a wealthy Louisiana family. Only nothing is as it seems: Camille believes Ben has been hiding dirty secrets for years, but she can’t find proof because he tracks her every move. Aubrey Price has been haunted by the terrible night that changed her life a decade ago, and she’s convinced Benjamin Bayliss knows something about it. Living in a house full of criminals, Aubrey understands there’s more than one way to get to the truth—and she may have found the best way in. Aubrey and Camille hatch a plan. It sounds simple: For twelve hours, Aubrey will take Camille’s place. Camille will spy on Ben, and the two women will get the answers they desperately seek. Except the next morning, Ben is found murdered. Both women need an airtight alibi, but only one of them has it. And one false step is all it takes for everything to come undone. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-correspondent monthly 0.5 2026-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b8cae6ca-f49f-4be6-8a8e-ffe5e61d239d/correspondent.jpg New Arrivals - The Correspondent - Virginia Evans “Imagine, the letters one has sent out into the world, the letters received back in turn, are like the pieces of a magnificent puzzle. . . . Isn’t there something wonderful in that, to think that a story of one’s life is preserved in some way, that this very letter may one day mean something, even if it is a very small thing, to someone?” Filled with knowledge that only comes from a life fully lived, The Correspondent is a gem of a novel about the power of finding solace in literature and connection with people we might never meet in person. It is about the hubris of youth and the wisdom of old age, and the mistakes and acts of kindness that occur during a lifetime. Sybil Van Antwerp has throughout her life used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings, around half past ten, Sybil sits down to write letters—to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter. Sybil expects her world to go on as it always has—a mother, grandmother, wife, divorcee, distinguished lawyer, she has lived a very full life. But when letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life, she realizes that the letter she has been writing over the years needs to be read and that she cannot move forward until she finds it in her heart to offer forgiveness. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/woman-down monthly 0.5 2026-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/24f97a08-39c8-4416-a3ab-3ce5c9761dca/womandown.jpg New Arrivals - Woman Down - Colleen Hoover Her words used to set the page on fire. But a viral backlash over her latest film adaptation forced Petra Rose to take a hiatus, resulting in missed deadlines and an overdue mortgage. Branded a fraud and fame-hungry opportunist, she learned the hard way what happens when the internet turns on you. And she’s been uninspired to write ever since. Now, with her next suspense novel outlined and savings nearly gone, she retreats to a secluded lakeside cabin, hoping to find inspiration. It’s Petra’s last-ditch attempt to save her career—and herself. Then he shows up. Detective Nathaniel Saint arrives with disturbing news, his presence igniting a creativity in her she thought long since burned out. Petra’s words return in a rush, and her fictional cop character begins to mirror the very real cop who’s becoming her muse. Their “research” sessions blur the lines between fantasy and reality. Each glance, every touch pulls Petra deeper into a world she thought she’d never lose herself in again. She’s never felt more alive. But inspiration this powerful comes at a cost. When Saint starts taking his role in her career a little too seriously, Petra’s forced to confront the chaos she created. But doing so could cost her more than the reputation she’s been trying to salvage. The reputation the world wrote for her—the reputation only she can reclaim. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-knot-is-not-a-tangle monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d0891484-4b3c-4e52-adcb-b35324c987f4/aknotisnot.jpg New Arrivals - A Knot is Not a Tangle - Daniel Nayeri Here’s something to remember: Even a rug can be a precious thing. One morning, a young boy is woken up early by his grandmother. It’s time to make a new rug for the family. Together, they wash and dye the wool. When it’s time to knot the threads, the young boy grows nervous. He wants to make it perfect. But why aren’t the colors right? And why can’t he weave as swiftly as his grandmother? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/wings-of-fire-talons-of-power monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b6e2acc4-d8b7-499c-8c5e-e97a600c8daa/talonsofpower.jpg New Arrivals - Wings of Fire: Book 9 Talons of Power - by Tui Sutherland For every villain, there is a hero ... Turtle isn’t one of the heroes he reads about in stories. If he were, he’d use his animus powers to help Pyrrhia -- instead of keeping his abilities a secret, even from his own sister. Now that Darkstalker, the sinister and impossibly old dragon from Pyrrhia’s most notorious legends, has returned, Turtle knows his own role is simple: hide. And stay hidden. The more he watches Darkstalker from the shadows, the more Turtle knows that someone needs to stop the powerful dragon. A real hero. But Turtle is running out of time to find one, which means ... he might have to try to save the day himself. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ratnip6-in-the-pet-house monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b82882d3-e91a-40ff-b252-5822d45ba7c9/ratnippethouse.jpg New Arrivals - Ratnip (6): In the Pet House - Cam Higgins Ratnip ventures off the City’s streets and into an apartment building to visit Diana, his pet guinea pig friend. Ratnip is very impressed by Diana’s luxurious life in her pet house, but Diana is bored and itching for adventure. And adventure is something that Ratnip knows a thing or two about! With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, Ratnip chapter books are perfect for emerging readers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-loneliness-of-sonia-and-sunny monthly 0.5 2026-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0afe9f5b-bca3-42e0-af39-71ef32f2367f/soniasunny.jpg New Arrivals - The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny - Kiran Desai When Sonia and Sunny first glimpse each other on an overnight train, they are immediately captivated yet also embarrassed by the fact that their grandparents had once tried to matchmake them, a clumsy meddling that served only to drive Sonia and Sunny apart. Sonia, an aspiring novelist who recently completed her studies in the snowy mountains of Vermont, has returned to her family in India. She fears that she is haunted by a dark spell cast by an artist to whom she had once turned for intimacy and inspiration. Sunny, a struggling journalist resettled in New York City, is attempting to flee his imperious mother and the violence of his warring clan. Uncertain of their future, Sonia and Sunny embark on a search for happiness together as they confront the many alienations of our modern world. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is the sweeping tale of two young people navigating the many forces that shape their lives: country, class, race, history, and the complicated bonds that link one generation to the next. A love story, a family saga, and a rich novel of ideas, it is the most ambitious and accomplished work yet by one of our greatest novelists. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/theo-of-golden monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5341dd69-8c11-4e38-a283-3e64ae7257db/theogolden.jpg New Arrivals - Theo of Golden - Allen Levi His name is Theo. And he asks a lot more questions than he answers. Theo visits the local coffeehouse, where ninety-two pencil portraits hang on the walls, portraits of the people of Golden done by a local artist. He begins purchasing them, one at a time, and putting them back in the hands of their “rightful owners.” With each exchange, a story is told, a friendship born, and a life altered. A story of giving and receiving, of seeing and being seen, Theo of Golden is a beautifully crafted novel about the power of creative generosity, the importance of wonder to a purposeful life, and the invisible threads of kindness that bind us to one another. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/we-who-will-die monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/19161b12-2e12-42de-8232-b1857c26dfc3/wewhowilldie.jpg New Arrivals - We Who Will Die - Stacia Stark Life in the perilous Thorn district is a constant battle for Arvelle and her younger brothers. And the vampire standing on her doorstep is about to turn their world upside down. Faced with an unthinkable choice, Arvelle makes a magically binding vow to do the impossible: kill the emperor, an ancient vampire created by the god Umbros. But first, she must enter the Sundering—an arena where only the fastest, strongest, and deadliest survive long enough to be selected for the emperor’s elite guard. She quickly draws the ire of the Primus, the powerful figure charged with protecting the emperor. But the vampire under the armor is the last person Arvelle expects to encounter in the emperor’s court. With her brothers’ lives in the balance, Arvelle has no choice but to ally with the man who once shattered her heart… and with the emperor’s sadistic son, Rorrik—two vampires whose motives are impossible to pin down. Rorrik holds the key to understanding the powers Arvelle is developing—abilities that would put a price on her head if discovered by the emperor. To survive the arena and complete her mission, Arvelle must get to the bottom of a conspiracy that will change everything she thought she knew about herself—and the two vampires who are deeply entwined with her destiny… https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-irish-goodbye monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/76563194-e50e-4566-bf6f-a667d7399ee3/irishgoodbye.jpg New Arrivals - The Irish Goodbye - Heather Aimee O’Neill It’s been years since the three Ryan sisters were all together at their beloved family home. Two decades ago, their lives were upended by a fatal accident on their brother Topher’s boat. Now the Ryan women are back and eager to reconnect, but each carries a heavy secret. The eldest, Cait, still holding guilt for the role no one knows she played in the boat accident, rekindles a flame with her high school crush. Middle sister Alice has been thrown a curveball that threatens the career she’s restarting and faces a difficult decision that may doom her marriage. And the youngest, Maggie, is finally taking the risk of bringing the woman she loves home to meet her devoutly Catholic mother. When Cait invites a guest from their shared past to dinner, old tensions boil over and new truths surface, nearly overpowering the flickering light of their family bond. Far more than a family reunion will be ruined unless the sisters can find a way to forgive one another―and themselves. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/narwhals-sweet-tooth monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/23fae843-2d3b-4fc2-99eb-7e3e2d88f4de/sweettooth.jpg New Arrivals - Narwhal’s Sweet Tooth - Ben Clanton Dive into four new stories so sweet they'll make your teeth tingle! Everyone knows that Narwhal is a big fan of sugary treats — but Jelly is shocked when Narwhal's tusk-tooth isn't looking so pearly white anymore and is feeling a little funny. It turns out, Narwhal has been using it as a "snack saver"! Thankfully, no one knows more about dental hygiene than Shark — she has seven rows of teeth, after all! Meanwhile, Jelly and Crab try to show Narwhal that it's fine to frown if you're feeling down. Can Narwhal's friends convince the happiest creature in the ocean that it's okay to have a bad day? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-dogs-table monthly 0.5 2026-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a290e8fd-ab86-44d1-a91d-c1dae200c140/dogstable.jpg New Arrivals - The Dog’s Table - by Joelle Jay and R.A. Young Dogs love food, and just like human diets, the best canine diets feature natural, whole-food ingredients and homemade meals. Backed by extensive research on dog health, The Dog’s Table is the definitive guide to feeding your canine companions. Real food is not just tastier and fresher, it will help your dog live better for longer. Creators of dog foodie sensation @TheCedLife Joelle Jay and R.A. Young share 120 delicious, healthy recipes for dog chefs seeking to create an enriching, food-forward lifestyle for dogs. Combining the latest nutrition science, convenience, and common pantry staples, The Dog’s Table is a comprehensive guide to an optimal canine diet. You’ll discover: Simple, daily one-pot meals like Chicken Pup Thai and Bison Barkshuka Pup-friendly versions of your own favorites, including Chicken Doodle Soup, Lapawgna, and Puptato Gratin Pie Festive foods and low-carb desserts for special occasions, like Diner Burger and Fries, Bark Wellington, Soft Carob Chip Cookies, and Frosted Layer Cake Plus, tips for creative meal-planning and key nutrition guidelines for dogs from all walks of life, from puppies to working adult dogs and seniors https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/crab monthly 0.5 2026-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/75d13252-590c-4069-8ee7-c3a825a13e61/crab.jpg New Arrivals - Crab - by Cynthia Nims If you dream about perfectly prepared crab cakes, steamed Dungeness straight from the shell, or lightly coated soft-shell blue crabs, this is your cookbook. Culinary expert Cynthia Nims offers 50 delicious ways to love crab—whether it’s Dungeness, Alaskan king, and snow crab from the West Coast or blue and stone crab from the East. Pulled from your own crab pot or sourced at the local fishmonger, crab is always wild and brings a sweet taste of the sea to every bite. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pea-bee-and-jay-wannabees monthly 0.5 2026-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a4489149-a205-4e4b-a44d-ac33f367e902/wannabees.jpg New Arrivals - Pea, Bee, & Jay: Wannabees - Brian “Smitty” Smith Who knew being queen could sting so much? All Bee really wants to do is play with her two best friends, Pea and Jay. But when she’s replaced by Lenny—an ambitious bee hungry for power—as queen of her hive, the friends set out to prove Lenny isn’t exactly who he seems to be. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pea-bee-and-jay-lift-off monthly 0.5 2026-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/15466812-819a-4698-a006-9e65fce47ef6/liftoff.jpg New Arrivals - Pea, Bee, & Jay: Lift Off - Brian “Smitty” Smith Jay the blue jay has never learned to fly, which has never been a problem . . . until a crew of super cool birds touch down at the farm and invite him to play some super cool flying games. Now Jay needs to figure out how to fly—and fast—before he misses out on all the fun. Lucky for him, his best buds Pea and Bee know just what to do… https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pea-bee-and-jay-farm-fued monthly 0.5 2026-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b556f847-60cb-4ccf-ae36-ef8b3b36f613/farmfued.jpg New Arrivals - Pea, Bee, & Jay: Farm Fued - Brian “Smitty” Smith After a heated argument sends Pea and Bee on the hunt for new friends, Jay is stuck all alone. While Pea tries to form a new crew with Blueberry and Lenny the bee, Bee teams up with a high-strung Acorn and Pea’s batty old Gramps. (What the heck, Gramps?!) And Jay? Well, Jay takes matters into his own wings. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/good-fortune monthly 0.5 2026-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8ab6aa2e-840e-4559-9aa7-43fdca200112/goodfortune.jpg New Arrivals - Good Fortune A well-meaning but rather inept angel named Gabriel meddles in the lives of a struggling gig worker and a wealthy venture capitalist. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/icefall monthly 0.5 2026-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2f6fac3c-87cb-41f0-8df3-dae1607fb181/icefall.jpg New Arrivals - Icefall The story revolves around a young Native American game warden who captures a notorious poacher only to learn that the poacher is aware of the location of a plane carrying millions of dollars that has crashed in a frozen lake. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-snowman-code monthly 0.5 2026-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1766152868703-I5UJWSBQFDNNA953XDHG/snowmancode.jpg New Arrivals - The Snowman Code - Simon Stephenson In London, in a winter which shows no sign of ending, a unique friendship begins. This is the story of Blessing, aged ten-and-a-half, and Albert Framlington, aged six hundred – an eccentric snowman who has seen many winters in many cities, and who is duty-bound by the Snowman Code to help any child in need. Together, Blessing and Albert must find a way to defeat Blessing’s bullies, win back Albert’s long-lost love Clementine, and even overcome the never-ending winter itself… https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/steam-train-dream-train monthly 0.5 2025-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/75f556ad-d3f1-493c-a7e7-839dfec79fb5/steamtrain.jpg New Arrivals - Steam Train, Dream Train - by Sherri Duskey Rinker The dream train pulls into the station, and one by one the train cars are loaded: polar bears pack the reefer car with ice cream, elephants fill the tanker cars with paints, tortoises stock the auto rack with race cars, bouncy kangaroos stuff the hopper car with balls. Sweet, silly dreams and happy smiles before sleep are guaranteed for Thomas the Train book fans any budding train enthusiasts! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/christmas-colors-j7rcm monthly 0.5 2025-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2eaa0b4f-bbe9-46de-b23f-f7a948caebb1/construction+christmas.jpg New Arrivals - Construction Site on Christmas Night - by Sherri Duskey Rinker and AG Ford Perfect for fans of the Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site series―which has sold more than two million copies!―this vibrant holiday picture book tells the charming story of Excavator, Bulldozer, Crane, Dump Truck, and Cement Mixer working together to build a new home for fire engines. As they finish their big, important job, they get some Christmas surprises of their own! Kids will have fun discovering the special surprise awaiting each vehicle, just as they will love the story’s rhyming rhythm and delightful artwork. Great for tucking under the tree or reading throughout the season as Christmas approaches, this is sure to be a holiday favorite for young readers! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-scammer-rxfne monthly 0.5 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8f834a3b-04de-4a56-bd3e-cc6f5383ab26/glasseel.jpg New Arrivals - The Glass Eel - J.J. Viertel Caterpillar Island is off the central coast of Maine—beloved vacationland of lobster bakes and quaint fried clam shacks, kayaking and country houses. At night, though, by the light of a headlamp, the island is alive with cash, guns, and poachers. Oxy addicts, struggling retirees, and unemployable deadbeats dip their nets in the creeks to catch elvers—two-inch-long baby eels that fetch $2000 a pound on the international black market. Into this dark and dangerous world falls Jeanette King, who has, up to this moment, been earning her meager living mainly by picking and packaging peekytoe crab meat for shipment to New York and Boston. As Jeanette gets drawn into a fast-moving story of risk and violent consequences, she enlists the aid of a local policeman and an Indigenous activist. Together they try to set things right for the people and the planet. But the deeper they dig, the more dangerous things get. An ensuing procession of colorful locals, corrupt state politicians, and treacherous outsiders weaves a tale that reveals the underbelly of a deadly business. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/faminy-of-spies monthly 0.5 2025-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/866f79ff-c1a7-4ad3-9dd0-00bb708d6523/familyspies.jpg New Arrivals - Family of Spies - by Christine Kuehn It began with a letter from a screenwriter, asking about a story. Your family. World War II. Nazi spies. Christine Kuehn was shocked and confused. When she asked her seventy-year-old father, Eberhard, what this could possibly be about, he stalled, deflected, demurred, and then wept. He knew this day would come. The Kuehns, a prominent Berlin family, saw the rise of the Nazis as a way out of the hard times that had befallen them. When the daughter of the family, Eberhard’s sister, Ruth, met Nazi leader Joseph Goebbels at a party, the two hit it off, and they had an affair. But Ruth had a secret―she was half Jewish―and Goebbels found out. Rather than having Ruth killed, Goebbels instead sent the entire Kuehn family to Hawaii, to work as spies half a world away. There, Ruth and her parents established an intricate spy operation from their home, just a few miles down the road from Pearl Harbor, shielding Eberhard from the truth. They passed secrets to the Japanese, leading to the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor. After Eberhard’s father was arrested and tried for his involvement in planning the assault, Eberhard learned the harsh truth about his family and faced a decision that would change the path of the Kuehn family forever. Jumping back and forth between Christine discovering her family’s secret and the untold past of the spies in Germany, Japan, and Hawaii, Family of Spies is fast-paced history at its finest and will rewrite the narrative of December 7, 1941. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-scammer monthly 0.5 2025-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a35c3756-20e5-4317-89fd-1d746feb7a08/scammer.jpg New Arrivals - The Scammer - Tiffany D. Jackson Out from under her overprotective parents, Jordyn is ready to kill it in prelaw at a prestigious, historically Black university in Washington DC. When her new roommate’s brother is released from prison, the last thing Jordyn expects is to come home and find the ex-convict on their dorm room sofa. But Devonte needs a place to stay while he gets back on his feet—and how could she say no to one of her new best friends? Devonte is older, as charming as he is intelligent, pushing every student he meets to make better choices about their young lives. But Jordyn senses something sinister beneath his friendly advice and growing group of followers. When one of Jordyn’s roommates goes missing, she must enlist the help of the university’s lone white student to uncover the mystery—or become trapped at the center of a web of lies more tangled than she can imagine. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-ferry-merry-christmas monthly 0.5 2025-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2bafaf28-c325-48df-9364-4e0b7a360f70/ferrymerry.jpg New Arrivals - A Ferry Merry Christmas - Debbie Macomber Avery and Reed Bond grew up sharing a close-knit relationship, weathering life’s storms side by side. Even so, Avery often finds herself exasperated by her brother’s relentless matchmaking, while Reed can’t resist teasing his sister—after all, isn’t that what siblings do? Facing their first Christmas without their beloved Grams, the woman who lovingly raised them, Reed and Avery decide to spend the holiday together at Reed’s home. However, their plans take an unexpected turn when the ferry Avery’s traveling on stalls in the middle of Puget Sound, stranding its passengers and leaving Reed waiting a now undetermined length of time for her arrival. What is at first an inconvenience threatens to ruin the plans of a number of commuters, but Avery and Reed soon discover that this unforeseen delay might end up being be a perfectly timed blessing in disguise. While stuck on the ferry, Avery meets a handsome sailor and witnesses a Christmas miracle that reignites her belief in the holiday spirit. Meanwhile, Reed runs into a coworker who’s also waiting for a family member to arrive, and sparks a surprising and delightful connection. In this tale of holiday magic, the Bond siblings find themselves taking a chance on love, proving that sometimes the best moments in life come when we least expect them. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/and-to-all-a-good-bite monthly 0.5 2025-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/508185f8-9052-454b-85dd-e82c4f2e6ee7/goodbite.jpg New Arrivals - And to All a Good Bite - David Rosenfelt Reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter can't wait for Christmas. He doesn't care much about the season, unless it's football season. Andy's excited to finally relax and watch the games. But when there's a murder related to an old case in Paterson, New Jersey, Andy puts the games on pause. Two years ago, a gas leak in an office building led to a tragic explosion that killed seven people. Jeff Wheeler was there to pick up his girlfriend and ran into the building to help. All he heard was the barking of a dog, Rufus, and was able to save him. The pup was the sole survivor and Jeff was named a hero. Initially, Rufus went to the Tara Foundation since his owner had died in the accident. But Andy met Jeff and liked him, respecting his courage and allowed him to adopt Rufus. Since then, Jeff and Rufus have formed an unbreakable bond. The accident never sat right with Jeff. He believed that one of the building owners was responsible for the tragedy. Now that owner has been murdered and Jeff is arrested for the crime, Rufus is left with Jeff's sister, who begs Andy to take the case. Andy remembered Jeff's tremendous bravery and with the lingering Christmas spirit, decides to help reunite the two. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pocket-bear monthly 0.5 2025-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c45b60c0-8d35-44cf-a7a4-4d5980d24bd1/pocketbear.jpg New Arrivals - Pocket Bear - Katherine Applegate Thimble-born from tip to toe, Pocket Bear remembers every moment of his becoming: the glimmering needle, the silken thread, the tender hands as each careful stitch brought him closer to himself. Born during the throes of WWI, he was designed to fit into the pocket of a soldier’s jacket, eyes sewn a bit higher than normal so that he always gazed upward. That way, glancing at his pocket, a soldier would see an endearing token of love from someone back home, and, hopefully, a good luck charm. Now, over a century later, Pocket serves as unofficial mayor of Second Chances Home for the Tossed and Treasured, where stuffed toy animals are refurbished and given a fresh opportunity to be loved. He and his best feline friend Zephyrina, known far and wide as “The Cat Burglar,” have seen it all, and then some. An unforgettable tale of bravery, loyalty, and kindness, Pocket reminds us all that love comes in many forms (sometimes filled with fluff), and that second chances are always possible. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-last-ember monthly 0.5 2025-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b47f5848-35e5-4794-aee4-38ae1ae20609/lastember.jpg New Arrivals - The Last Ember - Lily Berlin Dodd Aerimanders are extinct. Or so the government would have you think. Centuries ago, the Kingdom of Glaucus decreed the destruction of these dangerous, dragon-like creatures whose deadly flame could level entire cities and upend world orders. But when twelve-year-old Eva Alexander, a wealthy chemistry student in the city of Porttown, walks into a fashionable department store and walks out (accidentally) with the world’s last aerimander egg, everything changes. Suddenly, Eva is the target of unwanted attention―including from the Thieves’ Union, a mysterious organization with a rebellious streak and fingers in every pie in Porttown. The Union orders its youngest member, the orphaned dairy delivery boy Dusty St. Ichabod, to steal the egg from Eva. Which is far easier said than done. When Eva and Dusty meet one autumn night under extraordinary circumstances, an epic game of cat and mouse unfolds across the Kingdom. Initially at odds, the unlikely pair must come together to navigate a maze of sinister crime syndicates, elite boarding schools, and an incredibly slow getaway pony named Gourd―all while fighting to keep the egg out of the hands of power-hungry Eoin Parnassus, Director of Kingdom Secrets. As the duo races against time, their fates and that of the whole world are at stake. Because there’s one question no one dares to ask: What happens when the egg hatches? The Last Ember is the first installment in an action-packed fantasy adventure about a powerful creature, those who seek to exploit it, and those who are willing to protect it at all costs. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/heart-the-lover monthly 0.5 2025-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/044b583a-4fab-4bab-892d-54fed49362ef/heartthelover.jpg New Arrivals - Heart the Lover - Lily King You knew I’d write a book about you someday. Our narrator understands good love stories—their secrets and subtext, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the simple rules. In the fall of her senior year of college, she meets two star students from her 17th-Century Lit class: Sam and Yash. Best friends living off campus in the elegant house of a professor on sabbatical, the boys invite her into their intoxicating world of academic fervor, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. They nickname her Jordan, and she quickly discovers the pleasures of friendship, love and her own intellectual ambition. But youthful passion is unpredictable, and soon she finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. As graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives forever. Decades later, the vulnerable days of Jordan's youth seem comfortably behind her. But when a surprise visit and unexpected news bring the past crashing into the present, she returns to a world she left behind and must confront the decisions and deceptions of her younger self. Written with the superb wit and emotional sensitivity fans and critics of Lily King have come to adore, Heart the Lover is a deeply moving love story that celebrates literature, forgiveness, and the transformative bonds that shape our lives. Wise, unforgettable, and with a delightful connective thread to Writers & Lovers, this is King at her very best, affirming her as a masterful chronicler of the human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/remain monthly 0.5 2025-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9bf93371-2ae1-4471-a9b0-e3af16b2ed33/remain.jpg New Arrivals - Remain - Nicolas Sparks with M. Night Shyamalan When New York architect Tate Donovan arrives in Cape Cod to design his best friend’s summer home, he is hoping to make a fresh start. Recently discharged from an upscale psychiatric facility where he was treated for acute depression, he is still wrestling with the pain of losing his beloved sister. Sylvia’s deathbed revelation—that she can see spirits who are still tethered to the living world, a gift that runs in their family—sits uneasily with Tate, who struggles to believe in more than what reason can explain. But when he takes up residence at a historic bed-and-breakfast on the Cape, he encounters a beautiful young woman named Wren who will challenge every assumption he has about his logical and controlled world. Tate and Wren find themselves forging an immediate connection, one that neither has ever experienced before. But Tate gradually discovers that below the surface of Wren’s idyllic small-town life, hatred, jealousy, and greed are festering, threatening their fragile relationship just as it begins to blossom. Tate realizes that in order to free Wren from an increasingly desperate fate, he will need to unearth the truth about her past before time runs out . . . a quest that will make him doubt whether we can ever believe the stories we tell about ourselves, and the laws that govern our existence. Love—while transformative—can sometimes be frightening. A story about the power of transcendent emotion, Remain asks us all: Can love set us free not only from our greatest sorrows, but even from the boundaries of life and death? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/evil-bones-6zxts monthly 0.5 2025-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2b5f7d53-c82e-47a7-bbf4-67a5d3a79cf7/best+offer.jpg New Arrivals - Best Offer Wins - Marisa Kashino Eighteen months and 11 lost bidding wars into house-hunting in the overheated Washington, DC suburbs, 37-year-old publicist Margo Miyake gets a tip about the perfect house, in the perfect neighborhood, slated to come up for sale in one month. Desperate to escape the cramped apartment she shares with her husband Ian — and in turn, get their marriage, plan to have a baby, and whole life back on track — Margo becomes obsessed with buying the house before it’s publicly listed and the masses descend (with unbeatable, all-cash offers in hand). A little stalking? Harmless. A bit of trespassing? Necessary. As Margo infiltrates the homeowners’ lives, her tactics grow increasingly unhinged—but just when she thinks she’s won them over, she hits a snag in her plan. Undeterred, Margo will prove again and again that there’s no boundary she won’t cross to seize the dream life she’s been chasing. The most unsettling part? You’ll root for her, even as you gasp in disbelief. Dark, biting, and laugh-out-loud funny, Best Offer Wins is a propulsive debut and a razor-sharp exploration of class, ambition, and the modern housing crisis. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/christmas-colors monthly 0.5 2025-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/467aace4-f5ce-4b4b-9c24-544e82a1ac87/christmascolors.jpg New Arrivals - The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s Christmas Colors - by Eric Carle Join in on an adventure to name all the colors you see during Christmastime with The Very Hungry Caterpillar! Follow along to discover silver tinsel, red peppermints, green sweaters, and more! Featuring labeled illustrations of Eric Carle’s signature artwork and delightfully shaped board book pages for curious hands and minds, this joyful holiday celebration from The World of Eric Carle will prepare young readers to observe all that makes Christmas special. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-roses monthly 0.5 2026-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/307fa895-cc0a-4841-9ac4-a63e3038341b/roses.jpg New Arrivals - The Roses Life seems easy for a picture-perfect couple. But behind the facade of their supposed ideal marriage, a storm is brewing. Soon, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites in this wonderfully wry, dark comedy. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-gilded-age3 monthly 0.5 2025-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/cc35a426-14d6-4e8d-95b8-7bff238cb4bd/gilded3.jpg New Arrivals - The Gilded Age With the old guard fading, the Russells rise. Bertha eyes a grand prize, George bets big on railroads, and the Brooks face upheaval as Ada takes charge. Peggy finds love and resistance. As ambition surges across New York, each must decide what they're willing to sacrifice for power, love, and legacy. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/red-one monthly 0.5 2025-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/48974691-d5b1-4503-8886-ed1b7d70ed20/redone.jpg New Arrivals - Red One After a villain kidnaps Santa from the North Pole, an E.L.F (Extremely Large and Formidable) operative must partner with the world's most accomplished tracker to find Santa and save Christmas. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/evil-bones monthly 0.5 2025-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/49f509bb-23f8-4422-b516-054dba3707e4/evilbones.jpg New Arrivals - Evil Bones - Kathy Reichs Small creatures—a rat, a rabbit, a squirrel—have been turning up throughout Charlotte, North Carolina, mutilated and displayed in a bizarre manner. But one day, as Tempe is relaxing at home alongside her aimless, moody great-niece Ruthie, she’s diverted by a disturbing call. The perp is upping the ante. This find could be human. Tempe visits the scene and discovers that the victim is a dog. Someone’s pet. As one who has always found animal cruelty abhorrent, Tempe agrees to help apprehend the person responsible, and she acquires an equally outraged ally in semi-retired homicide detective Erskine “Skinny” Slidell. Needing a better understanding of possible motives, Tempe seeks input from a forensic psychologist. The doctor has no definitive answer but offers several possibilities, warning that the escalating pattern of aggression suggests even more macabre discoveries—and a shift in the perp’s focus to humans. And then it happens. A woman is found disfigured and posed in a manner that mimics the animal killings. Subsequently, people Tempe cares about begin to go missing until it becomes clear she is being taunted, the target in a sick game that has her and Slidell racing against a ticking clock and facing a terrifying question: “What is pure evil?” https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/blown-away monthly 0.5 2025-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d9f4eb20-0d5d-4c9a-8f10-df4ef7d3f68e/blown+away.jpg New Arrivals - Blown Away - Stuart Woods Teddy Fay whisks away to join Peter and Hattie Barrington in Palm Springs. But his hope for a relaxing vacation vanishes when he attends a prominent actor’s annual birthday party, where he witnesses a heated squabble between two women, only for one of them to turn up dead the next day. Teddy investigates who might be lurking in the shadows and uncovers a web of intrigue involving a sinister plan to take over a cutting-edge energy company. If he doesn’t act fast, valuable secrets risk falling into the wrong hands, but more importantly innocent lives could be in jeopardy. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-seven-rings monthly 0.5 2025-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d87b9dd7-f73a-4e4a-9a51-d63317bf87ef/sevenrings.jpg New Arrivals - The Seven Rings - Nora Roberts Long ago, Arthur Poole built a grand house overlooking the turbulent ocean, in a Maine village that bore his name. Today, Sonya MacTavish lives in that house—a manor that has been cursed for generations. Within its walls, she has witnessed the deaths of seven brides and the thefts of seven wedding rings. And now, to break the curse and banish a malevolent spirit once and for all, a difficult task must be completed. After Sonya, her boyfriend, Trey, and their friends are forced to hear, see—and feel—the suffering of the house’s many ghosts as their torment is reenacted by the evil presence, their bond only strengthens and their anger is renewed. Refusing to let her spirit be broken, Sonya searches each room for clues to her ancestors’ hidden story, putting the picture together, unearthing small treasures, and uncovering the moments of joy that existed among the sorrows. She’s determined to bring light to this haunted place—to fill it with people, with life and hope, once again. But the enemy in the black dress continues to hover, to come at her in frightening forms. They may be illusions—but illusions can be powerful enough to wound and kill. She feeds on fear, and lies are her weapon. This dark-hearted witch wants to be mistress of Poole Manor, at any cost. And Sonya will need to fight a battle across two realms to finally take possession of the house on the clifftop—and of her own future… https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-naked-gun monthly 0.5 2025-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/15949a18-ceca-4ba7-a74e-5cf0cae605fd/nakedgun.jpg New Arrivals - The Naked Gun Only Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. (Liam Neeson) has the particular set of skills... to lead Police Squad and save the world! He's following in his father's footsteps in THE NAKED GUN, directed by Akiva Schaffer (Saturday Night Live, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping) and from producer Seth MacFarlane (Ted, Family Guy). https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/return-of-the-spider monthly 0.5 2025-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/70f36466-cece-4862-b3fb-9a05e303ebbc/spider.jpg New Arrivals - Return of the Spider - James Patterson The suspense classic Along Came a Spider introduced an unsurpassed rivalry: Detective Alex Cross; the “human superhero” (New York Times) versus Gary Soneji; the "most deliciously wicked character since Hannibal Lecter” (Lexington Herald-Leader). But that wasn’t their first meeting... Police discover that Soneji kept a murder book, Profiles in Homicidal Genius, detailing his transformation from substitute teacher to hardened serial killer—including clues that imply missteps that Alex Cross may have made a rookie homicide detective. Now, Alex must retrace the steps of that long-ago investigation and face…the Return of the Spider. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/big-jim-believes monthly 0.5 2025-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7287f2e8-4ad0-4684-a62c-67607f2010e5/jimbelieves.jpg New Arrivals - Dog Man: Big Jim Believes - Dav Pilkey The celebration comes to a halt for our heroes in Dog Man: Big Jim Believes when the mischievous Space Cuties From Space return. Our caped crusaders -- Dog Man (aka Scarlet Shedder), Commander Cupcake, and Sprinkles -- along with Mecha Molly discover that the city has changed, and nothing is how it should be. Can Big Jim's positivity and innocence help our heroes? Will Dog Man, Big Jim, Grampa, and Molly have the courage to trust each other and save the day? How does the past help shape the future? And who is the chosen one? Readers will want to hold onto their hero capes as they soar into a new thrilling Dog Man story. The series follows the hilarious adventures of Dog Man, a lovable canine superhero and his friends. Each exciting graphic novel features inspiring characters, animated Flip-O-Ramas, and more! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/nash-falls monthly 0.5 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/be0b47c9-4c2e-4c19-b190-f7d44eb2f4ec/nash+falls.jpg New Arrivals - Nash Falls - David Baldacci Nash is an intelligent man, tough but fair-minded. He has a wife and a daughter and a very high-level position at Sybaritic Investments, where his innate skills and dogged tenacity have carried him to the top of the pyramid in his business career. Despite never going on grand adventures, and always working too many hours, he has a happy and upscale life with his family. However, following his estranged Vietnam-veteran father’s funeral, Nash is unexpectedly approached by the FBI in the middle of the night. They have an important request: become their inside man to expose an enterprise that is laundering large sums of money through Sybaritic. At the top of this illegal operation is Victoria Steers, an international criminal mastermind that the FBI has been trying to bring down for years. Nash has little choice but to accept the FBI’s demands and try to bring Steers and her partners to justice. But when Steers discovers that Nash is working with the FBI, she turns the tables on him in a way he never could have contemplated. And that forces Nash to take the ultimate step both to survive and to take his revenge: He must become the exact opposite of who he has always been. And even that may not be enough. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/exit-strategy monthly 0.5 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6d755b93-a976-4f15-9e75-ca8d13d67e0f/exitstrategy.jpg New Arrivals - Exit Strategy - Lee Child and Andrew Child First—a Baltimore coffee shop. A seat in the corner, facing the door. Black coffee, two refills, no messing around. A minor interruption from two of the customers, but nothing he can’t deal with swiftly. As he leaves, a young guy brushes against him in the doorway. Instinctively Reacher checks the pocket holding his cash and passport. There’s no problem. Nothing is missing. Second—a store to buy a coat. Nothing fancy. Something he can ditch when he heads to warmer climates. Large enough to fit a man the size of a bank vault. As he pulls out his cash, he finds something new in his pocket. A handwritten note. A desperate plea for help. Third—wherever this bend in the road takes him. Impressed by the guy’s technique and intrigued by the message, Reacher makes it his mission to find out more . . . https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/kings-ransom monthly 0.5 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a5a05211-125a-42ea-bb32-df983da13972/kingsransom.jpg New Arrivals - The King’s Ransom - Janet Evanovich Gabriela Rose, recovery agent extraordinaire, can find just about anything. Too bad she can’t seem to lose her gorgeous-but-infuriating ex-husband Rafer Jones. And now he needs her help. His cousin, Harley, is in trouble…big trouble. As the president of a too-big-to-fail bank, he invested an astronomical amount of money in insuring some of the world’s most priceless artifacts at the urging of his board. It seemed like a low-risk, high-reward business move, so he jumped in with both feet. But recently, these insured pieces started going missing and worse, there’s no paper trail of Harley being directed to make these risky investments. Unless the artwork can be recovered soon, it looks like Harley is going to be heading to jail as the fall guy for an ingenious crime. Gabriela knows what she must do: travel around the world with Rafer to find the missing works of art, keep Harley out of jail, and save both his skin and his bank. Along the way, she’ll encounter corruption, threats, murder, mysterious dark forces behind a global conspiracy to destroy the world’s wealth, and a nefarious villain who will stop at nothing to bring the world to the brink of ruin. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-tin-men monthly 0.5 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c494e435-d5fd-41d7-a3e1-8c32948d23cf/tinmen.jpg New Arrivals - The Tin Men - Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille Army CID Special Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor team up for their toughest assignment yet as they are dispatched to Camp Hayden to investigate the death of Major Roger Ames, the chief scientist in charge of the top-secret war games being conducted between a platoon of Army Rangers and a fleet of “lethal autonomous weapons.” Brodie and Taylor find themselves at ground zero of the next generation of warfare, and must untangle the complex web of alliances, animosities, and secret agendas among the men and women of the isolated facility. In a place cut off from the world and exposed to the harsh desert elements, everyone is a suspect—from the zealous camp commander who pushes his men to the limit, to the Rangers slipping into madness due to isolation, grueling training, and rampant abuse of performance-enhancing drugs, to the late Major Ames’s own research colleagues. Brodie and Taylor must uncover layers of deception to find the hidden hand behind the murder of Major Ames, and the real purpose of the activities at Camp Hayden and its terrifying arsenal of next-generation weapons. This gripping thriller, the final novel from the legendary Nelson DeMille, coauthored with his son Alex DeMille, is a masterful blend of suspense and cutting-edge technology. It is a page-turning and thought-provoking exploration of the implications of AI in modern warfare and is a must-read for fans of military thrillers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-long-wintet monthly 0.5 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2e3865f7-178b-4459-bb57-ecb6cfcc1e56/longwinter.jpg New Arrivals - A Long Winter - Colm Toibin A young man named Miquel returns to his family in the Catalan Pyrenees upon completing his military service. His younger brother, Jordi, will be departing for his service a week after Miquel’s arrival. He will be gone for two years. Miquel notices their mother’s increasingly erratic behavior and understands that she is drinking. As she becomes increasingly unstable, her husband resorts to drastic measures. Unable to abide his betrayal and her own grief, she walks off into the mountains. A blizzard sets in and the search for her is futile. No one will find her until the spring thaw arrives. A gorgeous story of loss, grief, and longing, “A Long Winter” describes an extraordinary bond between a mother and son and a haunting portrait of a family in crisis. Tóibín’s powers of imagination and transfixing emotional insight are on full display. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/downton-abbey-grand-finale monthly 0.5 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7e5e7829-14e3-4797-95ab-9532664ac0db/downtonfinale.jpg New Arrivals - Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale The cinematic return of the global phenomenon follows the Crawley family and their staff as they enter the 1930s. When Mary finds herself at the centre of a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change as the staff prepares for a new chapter with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/freakier-friday monthly 0.5 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3ee0b7b2-1c5e-465e-9f0e-b5f3774f7bc9/freakier.jpg New Arrivals - Freakier Friday Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan reprise their roles in this hilarious sequel. Tess?s daughter Anna now has a daughter of her own and soon, a stepdaughter. As they navigate the joys and challenges when two families merge, lightning just may strike twice. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dasher-and-the-polar-bear monthly 0.5 2025-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/265cc222-b426-46c4-97e4-edce24baf38b/dasherbear.jpg New Arrivals - Dasher and the Polar Bear - by Matt Tavares It’s Monday again. Good thing someone is taking charge of the week. Even though Monday loves to follow plans, not everyone does. When no one appreciates her hard work, Monday decides to be like another day…a fun day. Maybe she’ll be happier and everyone will look forward to Mondays. The other days can try new jobs too. It’ll be the best plan ever, right? From the pages of a daily planner, home to the days of the week, comes a story about appreciating who you are and trying something new. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/best-day-ever monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8f262a80-8c8d-4477-a033-8f571320064f/best+day+ever.jpg New Arrivals - Best Day Ever - by Frank Tupta & Lindsay Ward It’s Monday again. Good thing someone is taking charge of the week. Even though Monday loves to follow plans, not everyone does. When no one appreciates her hard work, Monday decides to be like another day…a fun day. Maybe she’ll be happier and everyone will look forward to Mondays. The other days can try new jobs too. It’ll be the best plan ever, right? From the pages of a daily planner, home to the days of the week, comes a story about appreciating who you are and trying something new. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/an-anthology-of-remarkable-bugs monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/fb7d49cc-c83b-4803-8f63-ead725269fde/remarkablebugs.jpg New Arrivals - An Anthology of Remarkable Bugs - by Jess French The eighth book in the bestselling Children’s Anthologies series, An Anthology of Remarkable Bugs explores some of the most amazing bugs on our planet. Children aged 7-9 can marvel at the perfectly camouflaged leaf insect that sways in the breeze and the ogre-faced spider that catches its prey in a net, in this impressive collection that showcases more than 90 of the world's most remarkable bugs. This impressive bug anthology for kids offers: A wide selection of insects featured throughout, each accompanied by a beautiful photograph and an illustration. The 8th book in the bestselling Children’s Anthologies series, selling more than130,000 copies in the US. A quality gift book, with metallic foil all over, a ribbon and striking photographs on every page. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/to-rescue-the-american-spirit monthly 0.5 2025-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/71288fb7-7f9e-453e-babb-ce5df2c63960/americanspirit.jpg New Arrivals - To Rescue the American Spirit - by Bret Baier "As Bret Baier shows in this wonderfully readable biography, Theodore Roosevelt has many lessons for today." —Walter Isaacson There has never been a president like Theodore Roosevelt. An iconoclast shaped by fervent ideals, his early life seems ripped from the pages of an adventure novel: abandoning his place in the New York aristocracy, he was drawn to the thrill of the West, becoming an honorary cowboy who won the respect of the rough men of the plains, adopting their code of authenticity and courage. As a New York State legislator, he fought corruption and patronage. As New York City police commissioner, he walked the beat at night to hold his men accountable; and as New York governor, he butted heads with the old guard to bring fresh air to a state mired in political corruption. He was also a passionate naturalist, conservationist, and hunter who collected hundreds of specimens of birds and animals throughout his life. He was a soldier and commander who led a regiment of “Rough Riders” to victory in the Spanish-American War, a show of leadership and bravery that put him on the national map. As president, he brought energy, laughter, and bold ideas to the White House, pursuing a vigorous agenda that established America as a leader on the world stage —from advancing the Panama Canal, brokering peace with Russia, and taking on business elites. Bret Baier’s exquisite book reveals the storied life of a leader whose passion, daring, and prowess left an indelible mark on the fabric of our country and reimagined the possibilities of the presidency. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/1929 monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b4286c65-614e-4b4a-bbf5-9ff43cad431e/1929.jpg New Arrivals - 1929 - by Andrew Ross Sorkin In 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation. But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders, another drama unfolded—one of visionaries and fraudsters, titans and dreamers, euphoria and ruin. With unparalleled access to historical records and newly uncovered documents, New York Times bestselling author Andrew Ross Sorkin takes readers inside the chaos of the crash, behind the scenes of a raging battle between Wall Street and Washington and the larger-than-life characters whose ambition and naivete in an endless boom led to disaster. The dizzying highs and brutal lows of this era eerily mirror today’s world—where markets soar, political tensions mount, and the fight over financial influence plays out once again. This is not just a story about money. 1929 is a tale of power, psychology, and the seductive illusion that this time is different. It’s about disregarded alarm bells, financiers who fell from grace, and skeptics who saw the crash coming—only to be dismissed until it was too late. Hailed as a landmark book, Too Big to Fail reimagined how financial crises are told. Now, with 1929, Sorkin delivers an immersive, electrifying account of the most pivotal market collapse of all time—with lessons that remain as urgent as ever. More than just a history, 1929 is a crucial blueprint for understanding the cycles of speculation, the forces that drive financial upheaval, and the warning signs we ignore at our peril. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/truly monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e4393948-ccc6-45ed-affd-b0432485c7e1/truly.jpg New Arrivals - Truly - by Lionel Richie As a storyteller second to none, Lionel Richie is ready to tell it all. In this intimate, deeply candid memoir, Lionel revisits hilarious and harrowing events to inspire all who doubt themselves or feel their dreams don’t matter. Lionel chronicles lessons learned during his unlikely story of remarkable success—his dramatic transformation from painfully shy, “tragically” late bloomer to world-class entertainer and composer of love songs that have played as the soundtrack of our lives. Funny, warm, and riveting, Lionel recalls his childhood in Tuskegee, Alabama, where he grew up on its university campus during the heyday of the Civil Rights movement, raucous adventures as a member of The Commodores, coming-of-age in late 1960s Harlem, culture shock playing gigs on the French Riviera, the big break of being signed to Motown, his meteoric solo career that included an Olympics performance witnessed by two billion around the globe, all the way through to writing and recording “We Are the World” and his current multi-generational fame as a judge on American Idol. Even with its turbulence, loss, and near-calamity, Lionel’s journey takes us on a thrill ride and delivers a memoir for the ages—reminding us of the power of love to elevate our own lives and our world. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/always-game monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/869269f0-5693-43c9-a750-2e25851b6c6e/alwaysgame.jpg New Arrivals - Always Game - by Christi Elliott Christi Elliott's passion for hunting and fishing, her curiosity and enthusiasm at tackling new experiences, and her dynamic personality have made her a powerful force in the Maine outdoors world. Judy Camuso, commissioner of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, has called Elliott “a movement, a phenomenon, a powerhouse” and credited her with driving the increase in women obtaining hunting licenses. In Always Game, Elliott recounts her youth in Downeast Maine, highlights early adventures like hiking the Appalachian Trail, and takes readers along as she learns, sometimes through heartbreak, how to hunt and fish―including the training of her beloved dog, Argos. Elliott describes herself as an experience hunter who jumps at chances to try new things. Whether she is trapping beaver in Southern Maine, hunting moose in Washington County, fly fishing in Baxter State Park, or chasing tuna in rough seas an hour or so off the coast of Maine, her characteristic optimism shines through. Along the way, Christi has battled self-doubts and experienced the challenges of breaking into sports long dominated by men. Those challenges prompted her to create the Maine Women Hunters group as a welcoming place for like-minded women to learn and join in the fun. More than classic hunting and fishing tales, Always Game introduces a fresh voice in outdoor recreation and highlights the joy, pain, and wonder inherent in the sport. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-gales-of-november monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0162c6f8-718a-4c7b-9125-845fb73a1944/galesofnovember.jpg New Arrivals - The Gales of November - by John U. Bacon For three decades following World War II, the Great Lakes overtook Europe as the epicenter of global economic strength. The region was the beating heart of the world economy, possessing all the power and prestige Silicon Valley does today. And no ship represented the apex of the American Century better than the 729-foot-long Edmund Fitzgerald―the biggest, best, and most profitable ship on the Lakes. But on November 10, 1975, as the “storm of the century” threw 100 mile-per-hour winds and 50-foot waves on Lake Superior, the Mighty Fitz found itself at the worst possible place, at the worst possible time. When she sank, she took all 29 men onboard down with her, leaving the tragedy shrouded in mystery for a half century. In The Gales of November, award-winning journalist John U. Bacon presents the definitive account of the disaster, drawing on more than 100 interviews with the families, friends, and former crewmates of those lost. Bacon explores the vital role Great Lakes shipping played in America’s economic boom, the uncommon lives the sailors led, the sinking’s most likely causes, and the heartbreaking aftermath for those left behind―"the wives, the sons, and the daughters,” as Gordon Lightfoot sang in his unforgettable ballad. Focused on those directly affected by the tragedy, The Gales of November is both an emotional tribute to the lives lost and a propulsive, page-turning narrative history of America’s most-mourned maritime disaster. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/good-dog-snow-show monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/02d16ccb-9063-46dc-9eff-8ae266e5554d/gooddog16.jpg New Arrivals - Good Dog 16: The Snow Show - by Cam Higgins Winter has arrived and brought a chilly breeze to cool down the Davis Family Farm. Bo feels the celebratory spirit at once—even the pesky barn cats are in brighter spirits! All the animals decide to put on a snow show. But when Bo begins to sniffle, sneeze, and feel drowsy, he fears it might be curtains before the stage is set. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-widow monthly 0.5 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/40922bcb-19b6-4c91-9991-6dec4d235832/widow.jpg New Arrivals - The Widow - John Grisham Simon Latch is a lawyer in rural Virginia, making just enough to pay his bills while his marriage slowly falls apart. Then into his office walks Eleanor Barnett, an elderly widow in need of a new will. Apparently, her husband left her a small fortune, and no one knows about it. Once he hooks the richest client of his career, Simon works quietly to keep her wealth under the radar. But soon her story begins to crack. When she is hospitalized after a car accident, Simon realizes that nothing is as it seems, and he finds himself on trial for a crime he swears he didn’t commit: murder. Simon knows he’s innocent. But he also knows the circumstantial evidence is against him, and he could spend the rest of his life behind bars. To save himself, he must find the real killer…. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/cry-havoc monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0ead4389-1352-42eb-a996-3b56263898f1/cryhavoc.jpg New Arrivals - Cry Havoc - Jack Carr 1968. A time of division. A time of civil unrest. A time of war. Just before the Tet Offensive, before President Johnson announces he will not run for reelection, before the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, as riots and protests rage across the nation, a spy ship is captured by communist forces off the coast of North Korea. The crew thought they had destroyed everything of intelligence value. They were wrong. As a KGB “illegal” elicits information from a high-ranking NSA official, and teams of special operators infiltrating into Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam disappear without a trace, an ambitious Soviet advisor launches an ingenious plan that could forever alter the world balance of power. Tom Reece, a SEAL operator attached to the highly classified and shadowy MACV-SOG is about to be thrust into a bloody battle to discover the truth. From the Kremlin to the White House, from the streets of Saigon to the rugged A Shau Valley, along the paths of Ho Chi Minh Trail and into the secret war in Laos, Navy SEAL Tom Reece has an official mission assigned by Military Assistance Command, Vietnam-Studies and Observations Group, but it’s his unofficial mission that might get him killed. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/gone-before-goodbye monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/78581218-073c-4fb8-8804-b83833325588/gonebeforegoodbye.jpg New Arrivals - Gone Before Goodbye - Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben Maggie McCabe is teetering on the brink. A highly skilled and renowned Army combat surgeon, she has always lived life at the edge, where she could make the most impact. And it was all going to plan ... until it wasn’t. Upside down after a devastating series of tragedies leads to her medical license being revoked, Maggie has lost her purpose, but not her nerve or her passion. At her lowest point, she is thrown a lifeline by a former colleague, an elite plastic surgeon whose anonymous clientele demand the best care money can buy, as well as absolute discretion. Halfway across the globe, sequestered in the lap of luxury and cutting-edge technology, one of the world’s most mysterious men requires unconventional medical assistance. Desperate, and one of the few surgeons in the world skilled enough to take this job, Maggie enters his realm of unspeakable opulence and fulfills her end of the agreement. But when the patient suddenly disappears while still under her care, Maggie must become a fugitive herself—or she will be the next one who is ... Gone Before Goodbye https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/one-of-us monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/20597821-6827-4ee8-a046-d8cfd8e97c29/oneofus.jpg New Arrivals - One of Us - Dan Choan It’s 1915 and the world is transforming, but for thirteen-year-old Bolt and Eleanor―twins so close they can literally read each other’s minds―life is falling apart. When their mother dies, they are forced to leave home under the care of a vicious con man who claims to be their long-lost uncle Charlie, the only kin they have left. During a late-night poker game, when one of his rages ends in murder, they decide to flee. Salvation arrives in the form of Mr. Jengling, founder of the Emporium of Wonders and father to its many members. He adopts Bolt and Eleanor, who travel by train across the vast, sometimes brutal American frontier with their new family, watching as the exhibitions spark amazement wherever they go. There’s Minnie, the three-legged lady, and Dr. Chui, who stands over seven feet tall; Thistle Britches, the clown with no nose, and Rosalie, who can foretell the death of anyone she meets. After a lifetime of having only each other, Eleanor and Bolt are finally part of something bigger. But as Bolt falls in deeper with their new clan, he finds Eleanor pulling further away from him. And when Uncle Charlie picks up their trail, the twins find themselves facing a peril as strange as it is terrifying, one which will forever alter the trajectory of their lives. An ode to the misfits and the marginalized, One of Us is a riotous and singularly creepy celebration of the strange and the spectacular and of family in its many forms. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/i-am-rebel monthly 0.5 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/dacb3e66-b9ec-4747-8c7e-0d8bd5d22b16/rebel.jpg New Arrivals - I Am Rebel - by Ross Montgomery I’m Tom’s dog, and he’s my human. We belong to each other. Rebel is a good dog. He loves his simple, perfect life on the farm with his owner, Tom—until one day, when the war comes too close. Tom is determined to join the rebellion to defeat the king’s men, but Rebel knows that war is dangerous, and he will stop at nothing to save his beloved human. How can he bring Tom home before it’s too late? A heartwarming adventure told from a dog’s perspective as he travels across a pseudo-Civil War Britain on his loyal mission, I Am Rebel holds sure appeal for fans of I, Cosmo; When the Sky Falls; and War Horse. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/twice monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c895b1c4-6aca-44a2-a711-b8445a5075c3/twice.jpg New Arrivals - Twice - Mitch Albom When he is eight years old, Alfie Logan discovers the magical ability to get a second chance at everything. He can undo any moment and live it again. The one catch: he must accept the consequences of his second try—for better or worse. He grows up correcting his mistakes and saving himself from adolescent embarrassments. He even takes foolishly dangerous risks, just to see what it’s like to come close to death, before tapping back to safety. Eventually, Alfie turns his gift to his love life, studying his crushes and going back to make himself more appealing. In time, he falls deeply in love with Gianna, the woman he believes is the one. He seems to find contentment. But as the years pass, Alfie’s eye begins to wander. Which is when he learns a lone caveat to his power: once he undoes a love, that person can never fall in love with him again. Knowing if he gives into to temptation, he will risk losing what he has with Gianna, Alfie makes a choice that changes his life forever. The book begins many years later, after an ailing Alfie is arrested for allegedly cheating and winning millions at a casino roulette wheel. As a curious detective interrogates him, he slowly uncovers Alfie’s incredible story, and its most unlikely conclusion. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-hallmarked-man monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a4312217-2405-437e-a010-461f1cd83767/hallmarked.jpg New Arrivals - The Hallmarked Man - Robert Galbraith A dismembered corpse is discovered in the vault of a silver shop. The police initially believe it to be that of a convicted armed robber - but not everyone agrees with that theory. One of them is Decima Mullins, who calls on the help of private detective Cormoran Strike as she's certain the body in the silver vault was that of her boyfriend - the father of her newborn baby - who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. The more Strike and his business partner Robin Ellacott delve into the case, the more labyrinthine it gets. The silver shop is no ordinary one: it's located beside Freemasons' Hall and specializes in Masonic silverware. And in addition to the armed robber and Decima's boyfriend, it becomes clear that there are other missing men who could fit the profile of the body in the vault. As the case becomes ever more complicated and dangerous, Strike faces another quandary. Robin seems increasingly committed to her boyfriend, policeman Ryan Murphy, but the impulse to declare his own feelings for her is becoming stronger than ever. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/an-anthology-of-christmas monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/01e75601-4cc8-4a9a-9ef3-2e3daee3e398/anthologyxmas.jpg New Arrivals - An Anthology of Christmas - by Auriol Bishop The ninth book in the bestselling Children’s Anthologies series, An Anthology of Christmas explores some of the most amazing Christmassy facts from the natural world. Children aged 7-9 can discover things like why the traditional Christmas tree is usually a pine, spruce, or fir, in this impressive collection that showcases hundreds of fascinating facts about Christmas. Beautiful photography and illustrations complement storybook descriptions, teaching children all about this magical time of year. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/construction-site-hanukkah-lights monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/edbdbd5c-35bb-4c7c-88eb-79f47f33c1b6/hanukkahlights.jpg New Arrivals - Construction Site Hanukkah Lights - by Sherri Duskey Rinker and Shawna J.C. Tenney This lift-the-flap board book features the construction characters kids know and love! Page after page, delightful details are revealed as the crew works together to light the menorah, deliver mounds of gifts, and build a dreidel out of concrete. This heartwarming story centers on Hanukkah at the construction site, making the holiday extra special for little construction fans everywhere. Sherri Duskey Rinker, the New York Times bestselling author of the many popular Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site books, teams with illustrator Shawna J. C. Tenney to bring playful rhyming text and vibrant illustrations to another exciting tale of teamwork, just right for celebrating the Festival of Lights. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/party-pooper monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/62dbd566-deb5-4a16-b60f-9949f1c02bba/partypooper.jpg New Arrivals - Diary of a Wimpy Kid 20: Party Pooper - by Jeff Kinney It’s Greg’s birthday—and you’re invited to the chaos. In Partypooper, the 20th book in Jeff Kinney’s global smash-hit Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Greg Heffley is planning the ultimate party—for himself. But when the guest list grows, the decorations flop, and the surprises backfire, this birthday bash turns into a total blowout—just not the kind Greg had in mind. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-intruder monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/12d2f0e4-9f9c-42ec-9d28-342a2103cf9e/theintruder.jpg New Arrivals - The Intruder - Freida McFadden Casey's cabin in the wilderness is not built for a hurricane. Her roof shakes, the lights flicker, and the tree outside her front door sways ominously in the wind. But she's a lot more worried about the girl she discovers lurking outside her kitchen window. She’s young. She’s alone. And she’s covered in blood. The girl won't explain where she came from or loosen her grip on the knife in her right hand. And when Casey makes a disturbing discovery in the middle of the night, things take a turn for the worse. The girl has a dark secret. One she’ll kill to keep. And if Casey gets too close to the truth, she may not live to see the morning. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-proving-ground monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/cf3c65a5-7201-4e18-bbe3-baa7281a4aad/provingground.jpg New Arrivals - The Proving Ground - Michael Connelly Following his “resurrection walk” and need for a new direction, Mickey Haller turns to public interest litigation, filing a civil lawsuit against an artificial intelligence company whose chatbot told a sixteen-year-old boy that it was okay for him to kill his ex-girlfriend for her disloyalty. Representing the victim’s family, Mickey’s case explores the mostly unregulated and exploding AI business and the lack of training guardrails. Along the way he joins up with a journalist named Jack McEvoy, who wants to be a fly on the wall during the trial in order to write a book about it. But Mickey puts him to work going through the mountain of printed discovery materials in the case. McEvoy’s digging ultimate delivers the key witness, a whistleblower who has been too afraid to speak up. The case is fraught with danger because billions are at stake. It is said that machines became smarter than humans on the day in 1997 that IBM’s Deep Blue defeated chess master Garry Kasparov with a gambit called “the knight’s sacrifice.” Haller will take a similar gambit in court to defeat the mega forces of the AI industry lined up against him and his clients. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/superman monthly 0.5 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7cabb39a-d6e4-4321-984d-ed8c9e5e8766/superman.jpg New Arrivals - Superman The newly imagined DC universe with a singular blend of epic action, humor and heart, delivering a Superman who's driven by compassion and an inherent belief in the goodness of humankind. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/f1 monthly 0.5 2025-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a35a274f-d196-42fb-8f1d-46356780b10e/f1.jpg New Arrivals - F1 Sonny Hayes is a former driver who returns to FORMULA 1® from retirement to mentor and team with a younger driver for one last shot at being the best. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/nations-apart monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7251fe57-025c-4a71-bc01-262ccc6b13e1/nations.jpg New Arrivals - Nations Apart - by Colin Woodard Our democracy has been purposefully dismantled, first in the states and now at the federal level. With groundbreaking original data and historical insights, Nations Apart is an essential guide to understanding why Americans are so divided on many hot button issues, creating geographic fissures that have been exploited by authoritarians. Colin Woodard shows how colonial era settlement patterns and the cultural geography they left behind are at the root of our political polarization, economic inequality, public health crises, and democratic collapse. Drawing on quantitative research from Woodard’s university-based think tank project, Nations Apart exposes the true ideological and cultural divides behind today’s struggles over: * Gun control * Immigration * Health policy * Abortion * Climate Change * History * Authoritarianism and Democracy But there is a road map to right the country: a carefully researched, vigorously tested common story for the country built on the mission set forth for us in the document that first bound our regions together, the Declaration of Independence. Combining compelling storytelling with scholarly vigor, Nations Apart offers a blueprint for bridging the rifts that divide us and ensuring the American dream of democratic self-government will reach its 300th birthday. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/mission-impossible-final-reckoning monthly 0.5 2025-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/edb3f1a3-75cf-493a-a0e1-f0fc03ee7900/mifinalreckoning.jpg New Arrivals - Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/sketch monthly 0.5 2025-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6eb95aec-24a8-4c5e-8c87-680bff75c794/sketch.jpg New Arrivals - Sketch When a young girl's sketchbook falls into a strange pond, her drawings come to life-chaotic, real and on the loose. As the towns descends into chaos, her family must reunite and stop the monsters they never meant to unleash https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-last-rodeo monthly 0.5 2025-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7547e4e0-e821-4cfe-b819-2118b6bf3762/lastrodeo.jpg New Arrivals - The Last Rodeo A retired rodeo legend risks it all to save his grandson. Facing his own painful past and the fears of his family, he enters a high-stakes bull-riding competition as the oldest contestant ever. Along the way, he reconciles old wounds with his estranged daughter and proves that true courage is found in the fight for family. The Last Rodeo is written and directed by Jon Avnet. It stars Neal McDonough (who is also a co-writer and producer), Mykelti Williamson, Christopher McDonald, Sarah Jones, and Daylon Swearingen. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/if-i-built-a-town monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2e5ba2c1-5d4e-4005-86d9-1b1a5b09a98f/built+a+town.jpg New Arrivals - If I Built a Town - by Chris Van Dusen "My town will be swanky! My town will be swell! My town will be prized as the best place to dwell!" Jack has some great ideas for improving the community he lives in. And who better to describe them to than Mayor McKay! As they walk through the park together, Jack eagerly tells the mayor his plans for improving their town. And what a town he has dreamed up! The zoo is packed with fantastic, Jurassic, and mythical creatures, the mail is delivered by super-fast hover vans, the health clinic travels right to your door, and a parade passes through each and every week. And don't forget the robots! All of Jack's plans include the most exciting and useful serving machines. But best of all, everything is free! Jack's over-the-top creativity and infectious enthusiasm will inspire budding young inventors. It's a story time romp that you'll want to return to again and again. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/we-the-people monthly 0.5 2025-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8625f28e-ac5b-4cee-8de4-4bb95bb353a6/wethe+people.jpg New Arrivals - We the People - by Jill Lepore The U.S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world but also one of the most difficult to amend. Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of history and law, explains why in We the People, the most original history of the Constitution in decades―and an essential companion to her landmark history of the United States, These Truths. Published on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding―the anniversary, too, of the first state constitutions―We the People offers a wholly new history of the Constitution. “One of the Constitution’s founding purposes was to prevent change,” Lepore writes. “Another was to allow for change without violence.” Relying on the extraordinary database she has assembled at the Amendments Project, Lepore recounts centuries of attempts, mostly by ordinary Americans, to realize the promise of the Constitution. Yet nearly all those efforts have failed. Although nearly twelve thousand amendments have been introduced in Congress since 1789, and thousands more have been proposed outside its doors, only twenty-seven have ever been ratified. More troubling, the Constitution has not been meaningfully amended since 1971. Without recourse to amendment, she argues, the risk of political violence rises. So does the risk of constitutional change by presidential or judicial fiat. Challenging both the Supreme Court’s monopoly on constitutional interpretation and the flawed theory of “originalism,” Lepore contends in this “gripping and unfamiliar story of our own past” that the philosophy of amendment is foundational to American constitutionalism. The framers never intended for the Constitution to be preserved, like a butterfly, under glass, Lepore argues, but expected that future generations would be forever tinkering with it, hoping to mend America by amending its Constitution through an orderly deliberative and democratic process. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/in-a-distant-valley monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/382a1235-bd01-4f3c-a875-d7de7cbbd921/distantvalley.jpg New Arrivals - In a Distant Valley - Shannon Bowring For a while, Rose Douglas believed life had given her a break. She was enjoying a steady job at the local clinic in Dalton; her two young boys, Adam and Brandon, were doing well in school; and their little family had found an easy friendship with widower Nate Theroux and his daughter, Sophie. The possibility of something deeper even hung between her and Nate—until the day Tommy Merchant, her ex and the father of her sons, showed up without warning on her doorstep. While Rose knows all too well his erratic and abusive nature, he swears he’s clean, and ready to turn over a new leaf. Tommy isn’t the only one who’s found his way back to the town that defined him. Lost after a disastrous stint living down south with her father, Angela Muse has returned home to Dalton. There she runs into Greg Fortin, the friend who once saved her life when they were children and finally starts to believe there may be someone who understands her in a world that offers more questions than answers. But secrets are the lifeblood of a small town, and everyone in Dalton soon finds themselves part of a chain of events hurtling towards outcomes beyond their control, where more than one future will be decided. Brimming with compassion and heart, In a Distant Valley is the remarkable conclusion to the story readers have been following since Shannon Bowring’s debut novel, The Road to Dalton. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/wings-of-fire-escaping-peril monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1760018360223-PABT8FHO01CFXHMT0FUC/escapingperil.jpg New Arrivals - Wings of Fire: Book Eight Escaping Peril - by Tui Sutherland Peril has been loyal to Queen Scarlet, who used her fatal firescales to kill countless dragons in the SkyWing arena. Now, Peril is loyal to Clay, the only dragonet who has ever been her friend. So when Scarlet threatens Jade Mountain Academy, Peril sets off to find her former queen, stop her, and save the day, no matter what it takes. There's just one problem: a strangely persistent SeaWing, Turtle, insists on coming along, too. Turtle is worried about his friends, who left to search for Scarlet and haven't returned. Peril is worried that she might accidentally burn Turtle -- or burn him on purpose, for being so annoying -- and frustrated that she keeps saying and doing the wrong things. She can't escape her firescales, and she can't escape her reputation as the deadliest dragon in Pyrrhia. So when she's offered a chance to trade everything for a new life, Peril has to decide who she's really loyal to . . . and whether her own scales might actually be worth saving. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-poisoned-king-impossible-creatures-book2 monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e96ceaed-19f8-4e6a-b247-9dd8d1508c6d/poisoned+king.jpg New Arrivals - The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures Book 2) - by Katherine Rundell Christopher Forrester woke to find a dragon chewing on his face—and his heart leapt for joy! He’d been dreaming of going back to the Archipelago, the secret cluster of islands where all the creatures of myth still live, and here was his summons. But there is a poison spreading in the Archipelago. Rooting it out will involve a daring rescue mission on the back of a sphinx, a stealthy entrance to a dragon’s lair, and a death-defying plan to save a prisoner held in the heart of a castle. At the center of this storm is Anya: a small girl with a flock of birds at her side, a new-hatched chick in her pocket, and a ravenous hunger for justice. Katherine Rundell’s second thrilling installment in the Impossible Creatures series involves castles, dragons, and revenge—the things of which great stories are made. The splendors within are brought to life with fifty illustrations, including a map and a bestiary of magical creatures. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/what-we-can-know monthly 0.5 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7057decf-87eb-4508-aad8-2dc95fbd120e/canknow.jpg New Arrivals - What We Can Know - Ian McEwan 2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife’s birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, ‘A Corona for Vivien’. Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit table know that for generations to come people will speculate about the message of this poem, a copy of which has never been found, and which remains an enduring mystery. 2119: Just over one hundred years in the future, much of the western world has been submerged by rising seas following a catastrophic nuclear accident. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. In the water-logged south of what used to be England, Thomas Metcalfe, a lonely scholar and researcher, longs for the early twenty-first century as he chases the ghost of one poem, ‘A Corona for Vivian’. How wild and full of risk their lives were, thinks Thomas, as he pores over the archives of that distant era, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the elusive poem’s discovery, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a brutal crime that destroy his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately well. What We Can Know is a masterpiece, a fictional tour de force, a love story about both people and the words they leave behind, a literary detective story which reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/greenwild-the-forest-in-the-sky monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0a701a2f-ccc5-4b08-865d-719b30617445/greenwildforest.jpg New Arrivals - Greenwild: The Forest in the Sky - by Pari Thomson This is Daisy Thistledown’s greatest battle yet. With the support of the Iffenwilders and their mighty water magic, Daisy and her new friend Max are finally setting off to rescue the Botanists―including Daisy’s mother―imprisoned in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. But when an unexpected attack sends the rescue mission spinning off course, Daisy finds herself confronting danger alone. With Max shipwrecked on a distant shore, her only hope is to find Amazeria: a wild and wondrous pocket of the Greenwild, hidden in the heart of the ancient forest. But time is running out―and with every passing day, the terrible Reaper King is drawing closer. In the shadows of the great rainforest, it’s impossible to know who to trust. Daisy and her friends must draw on every ounce of courage they have to fight for Daisy’s Ma, for the Greenwild, and for everything they hold most dear. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-slowly-dying-cause monthly 0.5 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7e9ad318-9fc8-4595-b479-63a48776d925/slowlydying.jpg New Arrivals - A Slowly Dying Cause - Elizabeth George Michael Lobb has just been found dead on the floor of his family’s tin & pewter workshop. It’s suspicious enough that his body was found by a representative of Cornwall EcoMining, a company keen on acquiring his family’s land, and it’s made even worse when he’s revealed to have been the majority owner of the business and the sole obstacle preventing a deal from being made. But it doesn’t take long for Inspector Beatrice Hannaford to unearth the layers of estrangement that surrounded Michael in his final days, pointing suspicions elsewhere. In comes Kayla, a young woman half Michael’s age, who has just been made his widow. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers are brought in to help solve the crime and search for justice in a community where lust, greed, and family traditions collide with devastating consequences. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/sharp-force monthly 0.5 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/bb37da85-39c2-4c19-8e5d-57cdc778e0a9/sharpforce.jpg New Arrivals - Sharp Force - Patricia Cornwell During the early hours of Christmas morning, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a chilling call. The Phantom Slasher has struck again. The serial killer has terrorized Northern Virginia for months. His pattern is to stalk with a sophisticated technology that enables him to invade his victims' homes and watch their every move. They wake up to a ghost-like hologram before being murdered in their beds. Scarpetta is summoned to Mercy Island, the site of a notorious psychiatric hospital where two people have been brutalized, one of them from Scarpetta’s past. It soon becomes apparent that she could be next… https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dogged-pursuit monthly 0.5 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/90e245c5-8f22-4046-8d6b-8a6359e1180a/doggedpursuit.jpg New Arrivals - Dogged Pursuit - David Rosenfelt Andy Carpenter has spent the three years since graduating law school working as a prosecutor in Paterson. But having seen how the system never looks out for the little guy, he leaves to start his own practice as a defense attorney. His office might be a little bit of a dump, but he's excited to make a change. Andy goes to the shelter to adopt a dog, where he meets his beloved golden retriever, Tara, for the first time and feels an immediate connection. The shelter is crowded and Tara's been sharing space with a dog named Sunny; Andy hates to break them up and so asks to take Sunny, too, but since there's a pending criminal case involving the owner, he'll need to get written permission for temporary possession. Andy discovers that Sunny's owner, Ryan Tierney, has been arrested for the murder of his ex-boss. But he takes an immediate liking to Ryan and his clear dedication to his dog, and ends up with his first case along with the two dogs. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-savage-noble-death-of-babs-dionne monthly 0.5 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2b1cc693-1de4-45e8-88b5-2e80fffd2b7f/savagedeath.jpg New Arrivals - The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne - Ron Currie Babs Dionne, proud Franco-American, doting grandmother, and vicious crime matriarch, rules her small town of Waterville, Maine, with an iron fist. She controls the flow of drugs into Little Canada with the help of her loyal lieutenants, girlfriends since they were teenagers, and her eldest daughter, Lori, a Marine vet struggling with addiction. When a drug kingpin discovers that his numbers are down in the upper northeast, he sends a malevolent force, known only as The Man, to investigate. At the same time, Babs's youngest daughter, Sis, has gone missing, which doesn't seem at all like a coincidence. In twenty-four hours, Sis will be found dead, and the whole town will seek shelter from Babs’s wrath. The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne is a crime saga like no other, with a ferocious matriarch at its bruised, beating heart. With sharp wit and profound empathy, award-winning author Ron Currie, delivers an unforgettable novel exploring love, retribution, and the ancestral roots that both nurture and trap us. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/wings-of-fire-the-brightest-night monthly 0.5 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4aaca635-f8ff-4c9f-b531-9b1ce3b15e18/brightestnight.jpg New Arrivals - Wings of Fire: Book Five The Brightest Night - by Tui Sutherland One will have the power of wings of fire . . . Sunny has always taken the Dragonet Prophecy very seriously. If Pyrrhia’s dragons need her, Clay, Tsunami, Glory, and Starflight to end the war, she’s ready to try. She even has some good ideas how to do it, if anyone would listen to her. But shattering news from Morrowseer has shaken Sunny’s faith in their destiny. Is it possible for anyone to end this terrible war and choose a new SandWing queen? What if everything they’ve been through was for nothing? Buried secrets, deadly surprises, and an unexpected side to scavengers are all waiting for her in the shifting sands of the desert, where Sunny must decide once and for all: Is her destiny already written? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/end-game monthly 0.5 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d5e69cc1-5beb-4e8c-a736-6e4788d3aac5/end+game.jpg New Arrivals - End Game - Jeffrey Archer London, 2012. The eyes of the world are on Britain as the country prepares to host the Olympic Games. But the glare of the spotlight makes London a target for some of the most dangerous people on earth. And the moment the bid is won, an international conspiracy is set in motion to unleash a devastating attack that will leave the world in chaos. One man stands between triumph and disaster: Commander William Warwick, heading up Scotland Yard's elite team. But as he pursues the shadowy organisation, he sets off a deadly game of cat and mouse which will take him from the bustling streets of London to the hidden corridors of power. Can Warwick stop the assassin before the greatest show on earth becomes a catastrophe … https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/poems-and-prayers monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b2a8245f-bba7-4314-ac57-ea6abadb5e03/poemsprayers.jpg New Arrivals - Poems & Prayers - by Matthew McConaughey My prayers are my poems are my prayers. I’ve always relied on logic to make sense of myself and the world. A prescriptionist at heart, I’ve always looked to reason to find the rhyme, the practical to get to the mystical, the choreography to find the dance, the proof to get to the truth, and reality to get to the dream. I’ve been finding that tougher to do lately. It’s more than hard to know what to believe in; it’s hard to believe. But I don’t want to quit believing, and I don’t want to stop believing in . . . humanity, you, myself, our potential. I think it’s time for us to flip the script on what’s historically been our means of making sense, and instead open our aperture to enchantment and look to faith, belief, and dreams for our reality. Let’s sing more than we might make sense, believe in more than the world can conclude, get more impressed with the wow instead of the how, let inspiration interrupt our appointments, dream our way to reality, serve some soul food to our hungry heads, put proof on the shelf for a season, and rhyme our way to reason. Forget logic, certainty, owning, or making a start-up company of it; let’s go beyond what we can merely imagine, and believe, in the poetry of life. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/circle-of-days monthly 0.5 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3db97093-dbbe-4797-9248-dc5a69b80f7d/circleofdays.jpg New Arrivals - Circle of Days - Ken Follett Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is there to trade his stone at the Midsummer Fair, and to find Neen, the girl he loves. Her family lives in prosperity and offer Seft an escape from his brutish father and brothers within their herder community. A PRIESTESS WHO BELIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE Joia, Neen’s sister, is a priestess with a vision and an unmatched ability to lead. As a child, she watches the Midsummer ceremony, enthralled, and dreams of a miraculous new monument, raised from the biggest stones in the world. But trouble is brewing among the hills and woodlands of the Great Plain. A MONUMENT THAT WILL DEFINE A CIVILIZATION Joia’s vision of a great stone circle, assembled by the divided tribes of the Plain, will inspire Seft and become their life’s work. But as drought ravages the earth, mistrust grows between the herders, farmers and woodlanders—and an act of savage violence leads to open warfare . . https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/culpability monthly 0.5 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/26035e82-aa8f-4d3d-ab7d-79c00d6aab51/culpability.jpg New Arrivals - Culpability - Bruce Holsinger When the Cassidy-Shaws’ autonomous minivan collides with an oncoming car, seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the driver’s seat, with his father, Noah, riding shotgun. In the back seat, tweens Alice and Izzy are on their phones, while their mother, Lorelei, a world leader in the field of artificial intelligence, is absorbed in her work. Yet each family member harbors a secret, implicating them all in the tragic accident. During a weeklong recuperation on the Chesapeake Bay, the family confronts the excruciating moral dilemmas triggered by the crash. Noah tries to hold the family together as a seemingly routine police investigation jeopardizes Charlie’s future. Alice and Izzy turn strangely furtive. And Lorelei’s odd behavior tugs at Noah’s suspicions that there is a darker truth behind the incident—suspicions heightened by the sudden intrusion of Daniel Monet, a tech mogul whose mysterious history with Lorelei hints at betrayal. When Charlie falls for Monet’s teenaged daughter, the stakes are raised even higher in this propulsive family drama that is also a fascinating exploration of the moral responsibility and ethical consequences of AI. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/clown-town monthly 0.5 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/86651a86-7586-476c-baf8-9d8a603c0b04/clowntown.jpg New Arrivals - Clown Town - Mick Herron “Old spies grow ridiculous, River. Old spies aren’t much better than clowns.” Or so David Cartwright, the late retired head of MI5, used to tell his grandson. He forgot to add that old spies can be dangerous, too, especially if they’ve fallen on hard times—as River Cartwright is about to learn the hard way. David Cartwright, long buried, has left his library to the Spooks’ College in Oxford, and now one of the books is missing. Or perhaps it never existed. River, once a “slow horse” of Slough House, MI5’s outpost for demoted and disgraced spies, has some time to kill while awaiting medical clearance to return to work, and starts investigating the secrets of his grandfather’s library. Over at the Park, MI5 First Desk Diana Taverner is in a pickle. An operation carried out during the height of the Troubles laid bare the ugly side of state security, and those involved are threatening to expose details. But every threat hides an opportunity, and Taverner has come up with a scheme. All she needs is the right dupe to get caught holding the bag. Jackson Lamb, the enigmatic and odiferous head of Slough House, has no plans to send in the clowns. On the other hand, if the clowns ignore his instructions, any harm that befalls them is hardly his fault. But they’re his clowns. And if they don’t all make it home, there’ll be a reckoning. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/softly-as-i-leave-you monthly 0.5 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6608cd9f-e12d-4d84-9567-0a414e1d9579/softlyleave.jpg New Arrivals - Softly, As I Leave You - by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley Priscilla Presley’s divorce from Elvis left his fans incredulous. How could she leave the man every woman wanted? From the outside, life in Elvis’s mansion looked glamorous and enviable, and in many respects, it was. But inside the mansion, her husband was constantly surrounded by a male entourage while at the gates, lines of beautiful women waited hopefully for an audience with the King. From the time she was seventeen years-old, that life was all Priscilla had known. During her ten years with Elvis, it became painfully apparent that she had no idea who she was outside Elvis’s world. The only way to find herself was to leave that world and seek a new life of her own, because leaving was the only way to survive, for herself and for her daughter. Softly, As I Leave You, is the deeply personal story of what Priscilla lost and what she found when she walked away from the man she loved. Despite the legal separation, their love for one another transformed into a touching and tender dynamic that endured until Elvis’s untimely death four years later. Shattered by Elvis’s passing, she had to reinvent herself a second time as the single mother of a talented, often headstrong daughter who never really recovered from her father’s death. Priscilla’s dedication to motherhood was enriched by the birth of her second child, and she gradually found her footing as a businesswoman, actress, designer, and legislative advocate. She transformed Graceland into an international destination and helped guide the development of Elvis Presley Enterprises. But the unexpected, shattering loss of three immediate family members years later brought Priscilla to her knees. She shares her journey with a quiet dignity that will comfort and reassure anyone who has suffered – and survived – seemingly unbearable loss. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/buckeye monthly 0.5 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/77db2921-63de-452f-bf02-620bb07b30f3/buckeye.jpg New Arrivals - Buckeye - Patrick Ryan In Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, binds Cal Jenkins, a man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in it, to Margaret Salt, a woman trying to obscure her past. Cal’s wife, Becky, has a spiritual gift: She is a seer who can conjure the dead, helping families connect with those they’ve lost. Margaret’s husband, Felix, is serving on a Navy cargo ship, out of harm’s way—until a telegram suggests that the unthinkable might have happened. Later, as the country reconstructs in the postwar boom, a secret grows in Bonhomie—but nothing stays buried forever in a small town. Against the backdrop of some of the most transformative decades in modern America, the consequences of that long-ago encounter ripple through the next generation of both families, compelling them to reexamine who they thought they were and what the future might hold. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-impossible-fortune monthly 0.5 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6d03ddc3-e820-43ee-b870-add907da39fd/impossiblefortune.jpg New Arrivals - The Impossible Fortune - Richard Osman It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing with family troubles, and Ibrahim is still providing therapy to his favorite criminal. But when Elizabeth meets Nick, a wedding guest asking for her help, she finds the thrill of the chase is ignited once again. And when Nick disappears without a trace, his cagey business partner becomes the gang’s next stop. It seems the duo have something valuable—something worth killing for. Joyce’s daughter, Joanna, jumps into the fray to help the gang as they seek answers: Has someone kidnapped Nick? And what’s this uncrackable code they keep hearing about? Plunged back into action once more, can the four friends solve the puzzle and a murder in time? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dumpster-dive-and-dine monthly 0.5 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0ecc52a3-836c-4dc8-823d-2a6a5a1cb64f/dumpsterdive.jpg New Arrivals - Ratnip: Dumpster Dive and Dine (book 5) - by Cam Higgins Ratnip and his friend are having the time of their lives on a dumpster truck—only to find themselves lost in a mysterious place outside the City. Can they make their way home before sunrise? With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Ratnip chapter books are perfect for emerging readers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/what-will-people-think monthly 0.5 2025-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8f69cb35-e04f-4af4-8d8a-fbdc823a50ed/people+think.jpg New Arrivals - What Will People Think? - Sara Hamdan Mia Almas has a secret. By day, she works at a respectable job as a media fact checker―a position her conservative, Arab grandparents approve of―and, by night, she takes to the stages of New York City comedy clubs. She holds herself back in a lot of ways, especially in the romance department, but being on stage lights her up and makes being a wallflower the rest of the time more bearable. That is, until Phaedra, her stylish and bold new neighbor, inspires Mia to take a few risks. As Mia pursues a forbidden romance with her boss, her standup gets better and bolder, leading to a surprise spotlight that exposes her secret gig. Horrified and worried that her rebellious act could mean big consequences for her reserved Palestinian-American family, Mia frantically dives into damage control. But all of her efforts to pull back from the spotlight expose a family scandal from the 1940s that could change everything… https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-marlow-murder-club-season2 monthly 0.5 2025-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6a56c5e5-9e9b-4871-8f4e-908d08c8fb42/marlow2.jpg New Arrivals - The Marlow Murder Club (Season 2) For retired seventysomething archeologist Judith Potts (Samantha Bond), not much ever happened in her quiet Buckinghamshire town. Or it didn't, until the day she witnessed a homicide from afar... and when the authorities doubted her story, she set out to solve the matter with two sympathetic neighbors, dog walker Suzie Harris (Jo Martin) and vicar's wife Becks Starling (Cara Horgan). Engaging take on the Robert Thorogood whodunits co-stars Natalia Dew, Daniel Lapaine, and Rita Tushingham.6 episodes. 5 1/2 hrs. Soundtrack: English. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-iron-storm monthly 0.5 2025-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a75a3d97-97ca-4e32-b575-21d7706d8ac8/ironstorm.jpg New Arrivals - The Iron Storm - Clive Cussler Van Dorn agent Isaac Bell knows that when the President of the United States asks you to undertake a special mission, the only appropriate answer is, “Right away, sir.” As an official observer, Bell is supposed to avoid action, but that’s like asking a fish to shun water. After battling in the trenches, he finds himself flying beside a group of Allied aviators, unwilling to let them fight alone, even when they are faced with capture. Bell and his compatriots are imprisoned in a medieval castle—one that’s withstood the test of time and countless assaults by conventional weapons in its history. Escape lies tantalizingly close…but only with the help of the latest in battlefield technology. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/framed-in-death monthly 0.5 2025-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a4a4e78a-603e-4880-9e1b-a2c3f6c34304/framed+in+death.jpg New Arrivals - Framed in Death - J.D. Robb Manhattan is filled with galleries and deep-pocketed collectors who can make an artist's career with a wave of a hand. But one man toils in obscurity, his brilliance unrecognized while lesser talents bask in the glory he believes should be his. Come tomorrow, he vows, the city will be buzzing about his work. Indeed, before dawn, Lt. Eve Dallas is speeding toward the home of the two gallery owners whose doorway has been turned into a horrifying crime scene overnight. A lifeless young woman has been elaborately costumed and precisely posed to resemble the model of a long-ago Dutch master, and Dallas plunges into her investigation. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-academy monthly 0.5 2025-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/378c0346-76db-43c7-8dbf-b7dad69672c3/academy.jpg New Arrivals - The Academy - Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham It’s move-in day at Tiffin Academy and amidst the happy chaos of friends reuniting, selfies uploading, and cars unloading, shocking news arrives: America Today just ranked Tiffin the number two boarding school in the country. It’s a seventeen-spot jump – was there a typo? The dorms need to be renovated, their sports teams always come in last place, and let’s just say Tiffin students are known for being more social than academic. On the other hand, the campus is exquisite, class sizes are small, and the dining hall is run by an acclaimed New York chef. And they do have fun—lots of parties and school dances, and a piano man plays in the student lounge every Monday night. But just as the rarefied air of Tiffin is suffused with self-congratulation, the wheels begin to turn – and then they fall off the bus. One by one, scandalous blind items begin to appear on phones across Tiffin’s campus, thanks to a new app called ZipZap, and nobody is safe. From Davi Banerjee, international influencer and resident queen bee, to Simone Bergeron, the new and surprisingly young history teacher, to Charley Hicks, a transfer student who seems determined not to fit in, to Cordelia Spooner, Admissions Director with a somewhat idiosyncratic methodology – everyone has something to hide. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/history-matters monthly 0.5 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/05a90244-b60a-45bf-8f5e-620bd1a1a1ab/historymatters.jpg New Arrivals - History Matters - by David McCollough History Matters brings together selected essays by beloved historian David McCullough, some published here for the first time, written at different points over the course of his long career but all focused on the subject of his lifelong passion: the importance of history in understanding our present and future. Edited by McCullough’s daughter, Dorie McCullough Lawson, and his longtime researcher, Michael Hill, History Matters is a tribute to a master historian and offers fresh insights into McCullough’s enduring interests and writing life. The book also features a foreword by Jon Meacham. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/detective-beans-adventures-in-cat-town monthly 0.5 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/31007b27-99cc-442b-84bf-97503232ac41/cattown.jpg New Arrivals - Detective Beans: Adventures in Cat Town - by Li Chen Detective Beans is back on the case! In this series of mysteries and adventures, the world's cutest cat detective comes to the aid of her fellow villagers, searching for a cookie thief (with surprising results!), aiding a deceptive duck in the recovery of lost goods, and even doing his best to help a confused bear prove that the moon is made of cheese. In addition to these small capers, Adventures in Cat Town features behind-the-scenes footage of the crime-solving documentary directed by Beans best friend, Biscuits, as well as comics, stories, and even horoscopes illustrated by Beans himself. Called a "must-read" by School Library Journal and "absurdly funny and clever" by Kirkus, it's no mystery why this new series is such a hit! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/paw-patrol-fire-rescue monthly 0.5 2025-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7ba6648b-4f4b-4352-91df-7cd89b719c71/pawpatrolfire.jpg New Arrivals - Paw Patrol Fire Rescue When things get a little too hot around Adventure Bay,Marshall will be all “fired up” to lead the team in FIRE RESCUE! Launching from their all-new ADVENTURE BAY FIRE STATION, the pups will suit up in protective fire gear and fire equipped vehicles to save the day! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-white-lotus-3 monthly 0.5 2025-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1757527009357-D07X644X7DXBPGJ93LQW/whitelotus3.jpg New Arrivals - The White Lotus (Season 3) The White Lotus is a sharp social satire following the exploits of various employees and guests at an exclusive Thai resort over one highly transformative week. As darker dynamics emerge with each passing day, the series gradually reveals the complex truths of the seemingly picture-perfect travelers, cheerful hotel employees, and idyllic locale itself. Creator, writer, and director, Mike White; executive producers, Mike White, David Bernad, and Mark Kamine. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/chicka-chicka-tricka-treat monthly 0.5 2025-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3195964b-29f2-40d7-8018-cf87bcdcf727/trickatreat.jpg New Arrivals - Chicka Chicka Tricka Treat - by Julien Chung A told B, and B told C, “Let’s sneak to the top of the creaky old tree.” The classic alphabet chant gets a Halloween twist as the letters sneak their way up the tree, all donning their spiffiest costumes. But when a witch swoops in, and the letters come tumbling down, will that be the end of their Halloween fun…or just the beginning? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/hansel-and-gretel monthly 0.5 2025-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ede1b974-3ea4-4072-b950-74b9cd1fcab3/hansel.jpg New Arrivals - Hansel and Gretel - by Stephen King Let Stephen King, global bestselling and award-winning author, and Maurice Sendak, beloved creator of the Caldecott Medal–winning Where the Wild Things Are, guide you into the most deliciously daring rendition of the classic Grimm fairy tale yet. But will you find your way back out? With a personal introduction from Stephen King, the beautiful book has been created in close collaboration with The Maurice Sendak Foundation. This stunning storybook makes the perfect gift for fans of King, Sendak, and the Brothers Grimm. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/coming-up-short monthly 0.5 2025-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ff5cbfbb-fb05-4520-bd15-43f74bc13817/comingup+short.jpg New Arrivals - Coming Up Short - by Robert B. Reich A thought-provoking, principled, clear-eyed chronicle of the culture, politics, and economic choices that have landed us where we are today—with irresponsible economic bullies and corporations with immense wealth and lobbying power on top, demagogues on the rise, and increasing inequality fueling anger and hatred across the country. Nine months after World War II, Robert Reich was born into a united America with a bright future—which went unrealized for so many as big money took over our democracy. His encounter with school bullies on account of his height—4'11" as an adult—set him on a determined path to spend his life fighting American bullies of every sort. He recounts the death of a friend in the civil rights movement; his political coming of age witnessing the Berkeley free speech movement; working for Bobby Kennedy and Senator Eugene McCarthy; experiencing a country torn apart by the Vietnam War; meeting Hillary Rodham in college, Bill Clinton at Oxford, and Clarence Thomas at Yale Law. He details his friendship with John Kenneth Galbraith during his time teaching at Harvard, and subsequent friendships with Bernie Sanders and Ted Kennedy; and his efforts as labor secretary for Clinton and economic advisor to Barack Obama. Ultimately, Reich asks: What did his generation accomplish? Did they make America better, more inclusive, more tolerant? Did they strengthen democracy? Or did they come up short? Reich hardly abandons us to despair over a doomed democracy. With characteristic spirit and humor, he lays out how we can reclaim a sense of community and a democratic capitalism based on the American ideals we still have the power to salvage. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-devil-reached-toward-the-sky monthly 0.5 2025-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/89f6f8c8-61bb-42d4-88f2-701d6c512dcc/devilreached.jpg New Arrivals - The Devil Reached Toward the Sky - by Garrett M. Graff The building of the atomic bomb is the most audacious undertaking in human history: a rush by a small group of scientists and engineers in complete secrecy to unlock the most fundamental power of the universe. Even today, the Manhattan Project evokes boldness, daring, and the grandest of dreams: bringing an end to World War II in the Pacific. As Marines, soldiers, sailors, and airmen fight overseas, men and women strive to discover the atom’s secrets in places like Chicago, Berkeley, Oak Ridge, Hanford, and Los Alamos. On August 6, 1945, the world discovers what the end of the war—and the new global age—will look like. The road to the first atomic bomb ends in Hiroshima, Japan, but it begins in Hitler’s Europe, where brilliant physicists are forced to flee fascism and antisemitism—bringing to America their determination to harness atomic power before it falls into the Führer’s arsenal. The Devil Reached Toward the Sky traces the breakthroughs and the breakneck pace of atomic development in the years leading up to 1945, then takes us inside the B-29 bombers carrying Little Boy and Fat Man and finally to ground zero at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/rehab monthly 0.5 2025-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5891869e-398b-40f1-a349-dd1014aef691/rehab.jpg New Arrivals - Rehab: An American Scandal - by Shoshana Walter Our country’s leaders all seem to agree: People who suffer from addiction need treatment. Today, more people have access to treatment than ever before. So why isn’t it working? The answer is that in America—where anyone can get addicted—only certain people get a real chance to recover. Despite record numbers of overdose deaths, our default response is still to punish, while rehabs across the United States fail to incorporate scientifically proven strategies and exploit patients. We’ve heard a great deal about the opioid crisis foisted on America by Big Pharma, but we’ve heard too little about the other half of this epidemic—the reason why so many remain mired in addiction. Until now. In this book, you’ll find the stories of four people who represent the failures of the rehab-industrial complex, and the ways our treatment system often prevents recovery. April is a black mom in Philadelphia, who witnessed firsthand how the government’s punitive response to the crack epidemic impeded her own mother’s recovery—and then her own. Chris, a young middle-class white man from Louisiana, received more opportunities in his addiction than April, including the chance to go to treatment instead of prison. Yet the only program the judge permitted was one that forced him to perform unpaid back-breaking labor at for-profit companies. Wendy is a mother from a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles, whose son died in a sober living home. She began investigating for-profit treatment programs—yet law enforcement and regulators routinely ignored her warnings, allowing rehab patients to die, again and again. Larry is a surgeon who himself struggled with addiction, who would eventually become one of the first Suboxone prescribers in the nation, drawing the scrutiny of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Together, these four stories illustrate the pitfalls of a system that not only fails to meet the needs of people with addiction, but actively benefits from maintaining their lower status. They also offer insight into how we might fix that system and save lives. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/not-quite-dead-yet monthly 0.5 2025-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5a4e2096-b0e9-4122-8da6-5667759fb8e1/notquite.jpg New Arrivals - Not Quite Dead Yet - Holly Jackson Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old and back home, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time. Until Halloween night, when she is violently attacked by an unseen intruder, suffering a catastrophic head injury. Doctors are certain that within a week, the injury will trigger a fatal aneurysm. To her parents’ dismay, Jet rejects an extremely risky operation in order to guarantee herself at least a few more days. Jet never thought of herself as having enemies. But now, in the one week she has left, she looks at everyone in a new light: her family, her former best friend turned sister-in-law, her ex-boyfriend. As her condition deteriorates, she reconnects with her childhood friend Billy, the only one willing to help her. With Billy at her side, she’s absolutely determined to finally finish something: Jet is going to solve her own murder. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/we-are-all-guilty-here monthly 0.5 2025-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e2ddcaa6-61e1-4c60-b17a-777af145726a/guiltyhere.jpg New Arrivals - We are all Guilty Here - Karin Slaughter Until the night of the fireworks. When two teenage girls vanish, and the town ignites. For Officer Emmy Clifton, it’s personal. She turned away when her best friend's daughter needed help—and now she must bring her home. But as Emmy combs through the puzzle the girls left behind, she realizes she never really knew them. Nobody did. Every teenage girl has secrets. But who would kill for them? And what else is the town hiding? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/heart-be-at-peace monthly 0.5 2025-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/73dacd75-89d9-46e3-8982-2e3337dccf05/heartpeace.jpg New Arrivals - Heart be at Peace - Donal Ryan In a small town in Ireland, the local people have weathered the storm of economic collapse and now look to the future: The jobs are back, the dramas of the past seemingly lulled, and although the town bears the scars of its history, new stories have begun to unfold. But an insidious menace now creeps through back-alley shadows and into the lives of the townspeople. Old grudges fester and new ones arise. Young people are lured by the promise of fast money while the generation above them tries to hold back the tide of an enemy beyond their control. And the peace of this town is about to be shattered in an unimaginable way. A stunning, lyrical novel told in twenty-one voices, Heart, Be at Peace reveals a community that together looks to overcome the betrayals, secrets, and grudges that can divide families, neighbors, and entire generations. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-pumpkin-spice-cafe monthly 0.5 2025-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/920493d6-aaea-4cb1-8080-3efe8cc59fb7/pumpkinspice.jpg New Arrivals - The Pumpkin Spice Cafe - Laurie Gilmore When Jeanie’s aunt gifts her the beloved Pumpkin Spice Café in the small town of Dream Harbor, Jeanie jumps at the chance for a fresh start away from her very dull desk job. Logan is a local farmer who avoids Dream Harbor’s gossip at all costs. But Jeanie’s arrival disrupts Logan’s routine and he wants nothing to do with the irritatingly upbeat new girl, except that he finds himself inexplicably drawn to her. Will Jeanie’s happy-go-lucky attitude win over the grumpy-but-gorgeous Logan, or has this city girl found the one person in town who won’t fall for her charm, or her pumpkin spice lattes… https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/kiss-her-goodbye monthly 0.5 2025-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d1fd8cfa-2f91-46fa-848e-a5e3417fe748/kissher.jpg New Arrivals - Kiss Her Goodbye - Lisa Gardner Recent Afghan refugee and young mother Sabera Ahmadi was last seen exiting her place of work three weeks ago. The local police have yet to open a case, while her older, domineering husband seems unconcerned. At the insistence of Sabera's closest friend, missing persons expert Frankie Elkin agrees to take up the search just in time for a video of Sabera to surface—showing her walking away from the scene of a brutal double murder. Frankie quickly notes there's much more to the Ahmadi family than meets the eye. The father Isaad is a brilliant mathematician, Sabera a gifted linguist, and their little girl Zahra has an uncanny ability to remember anything she sees. Which given everything that has happened during the girl's short life, may be a terrible curse. When Isaad also disappears under mysterious circumstances and an attempt is made on Zahra's life, Frankie realizes she must crack the code of this family's horrific past. Someone is coming for the Ahmadis. And violence is clearly an option. When everything is on the line, how far would you go to protect the ones you love? Frankie is about to find out. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/for-richer-for-poorer monthly 0.5 2025-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/369d1b61-cce5-4bec-bddc-ec88cf3ac5da/richerpoorer.jpg New Arrivals - For Richer For Poorer - Danielle Steel After working as head designer for Oscar de la Renta, Eugenia Ward started her own company when she turned forty, fourteen years ago. She is now a major name in evening gowns and wedding gowns, ready-to-wear and haute couture. But with the fashion business in major downturn, she has recently suffered heavy losses, and Eugenia desperately needs new investors—and new ideas. At the same time, she is the matriarch and guiding light for her five adult children, a single mother for more than a decade, since her divorce from the spendthrift Italian prince she’d married young. As the family gathers for a summer vacation at a beach house, wedding plans for her daughter Gloria are ballooning in expense even as the loutish behavior of Gloria’s fiancé causes Eugenia to question her daughter’s judgment. Meanwhile, Gloria’s sister Daphne is due to deliver twins right around the wedding date . . . which is also very close make or break New York Fashion Week. The silver lining in it all may be meeting Patrick Hughes, a successful real estate developer who’s also going through a rough patch. A brilliant and creative businessman, Patrick gives her valuable advice about her business challenges. Eugenia finds friendship with Patrick sailing on his yacht and starts to imagine a new beginning, independent of her roles as mother and entrepreneur. But as the family gathers for the big wedding, tensions are running high, money may be running out, and a hurricane is looming on the horizon. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/house-of-beth monthly 0.5 2025-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/23c55598-6a2e-415c-b5f4-599f2763a8cf/houseofbeth.jpg New Arrivals - House of Beth - Kerry Cullen After a heart-wrenching breakup with her girlfriend and a shocking incident at her job, Cassie flees her life as an overworked assistant in New York for her hometown in New Jersey, along the Delaware. There, she reconnects with her high school best friend, Eli, now a widowed father of two. Their bond reignites, and within a few short months, Cassie is married to Eli, living in his house in the woods, homeschooling the kids, and getting to know her reserved neighbor, Joan. But Cassie’s fresh start is less idyllic than she’d hoped. She grapples with harm OCD, her mind haunted by gory, graphic images. And she’s afraid that she’ll never measure up to Eli’s late spouse, who was a committed homemaker and traditional wife. No matter what Cassie does, Beth’s shadow still permeates every corner of their home. Soon, Cassie starts hearing a voice narrating the house’s secrets. As she listens, the voice grows stronger, guiding Cassie down a path to uncover the truth about Beth’s untimely death. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/north-for-the-winter monthly 0.5 2025-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ad86fbfd-f8ff-4f7d-92e0-18109c38111e/northwinter.jpg New Arrivals - North for the Winter - by Bobby Podesta What would you think if you saw a reindeer fly? When this happens to Virginia, she isn’t sure what to do – she’s just lost her mom, she’s in a new city, and everything seems so hard. But when she reluctantly confesses what she saw to her neighbor, Benny, he’s convinced that flying reindeer can only mean one thing: this is Santa business. In this stunning graphic novel debut from Pixar director Bobby Podesta, two kids and a lost reindeer go up against obsessive hunters, suspiciously convincing department store elves, and radar operators for the Continental Air Defense Command Center. No matter the odds, Virginia’s going to get Christmas back on track! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-women-of-arlington-hall monthly 0.5 2025-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/812771d8-8784-406c-ba92-9de0d0ea3808/arlington.jpg New Arrivals - The Women of Arlington Hall - Jane Healey 1947: Adventurous Radcliffe graduate Catherine “Cat” Killeen cancels her wedding and upends a future that no longer suits her. At the behest of her professor and hungry for a challenge, Cat arrives in Virginia to work on a confidential military project. A student in cryptoanalysis, Cat is already ahead of the game―to assist in rooting out Soviet spies who have infiltrated the US. Joining the “government girls” of Arlington Hall, Cat gains the respect of her superiors and the friendship of her peers. Then, on a night out in DC, Cat runs into Jonathan Dardis, her arrogant and privileged Harvard rival and newly minted agent for the FBI. What Cat and Jonathan share is a competitive drive and an attraction that’s becoming just as spirited. They’re also united in the same critical goal for America. Together, they’re diving deep into the shadows of espionage. The stakes of the codebreaking operation grow ever higher, and Cat’s relationship with Jonathan opens her heart. Amid dangerous intrigue and grave secrecy, Cat is ready for every risk―no matter how personal the stakes get. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dont-tickle-the-turkey monthly 0.5 2025-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3581dfb0-b0e4-47a2-a96d-ffaf267e8002/tickleturkey.jpg New Arrivals - Don’t Tickle the Turkey - by Sam Taplin You'd better not tickle the turkey... because it might just go "gobble" if you do! But that soft patch is hard to resist! When you tickle each touchy-feely patch in this adorable book, you'll hear all the animals make their hilarious noises. Along with the turkey there's a bison, a raccoon and a mule to listen to, before all the animals get noisy together in the spectacular musical finale! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-pigeon-wont-count-to-10 monthly 0.5 2025-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d1fc05a3-bc26-4551-9198-6958142d835b/pigeon10.jpg New Arrivals - The Pigeon Won’t Count to 10! - by Mo Willems The Pigeon won’t count to ten, and here’s why: Reasonably reasonable reason #1: He doesn’t want to! Practically perfect reason #2: He already did a bunch of counting yesterday! And perfectly obvious reason #3: He has THINGS to do! Also, counting is for the birds! Do YOU think The Pigeon will count to ten? (Don’t count on it!) https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/tuck-everlasting-graphic-novel monthly 0.5 2025-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4a39056d-e51f-422e-91d6-0b1e6c9f32c1/tuckgraphic.jpg New Arrivals - Tuck Everlasting (The Graphic Novel) - by Natalie Babbit What if you could live forever? In this timeless story about immortality, friendship, and growing up, young Winnie Foster learns of a hidden spring in a nearby wood and meets the Tuck family, whose members reveal their astonishing discovery of the spring’s life-changing power. Now Winnie must decide what to do with her newfound knowledge―and the Tucks must decide what to do with her. But it’s not just the curious girl who is interested in their remarkable tale. A suspicious stranger is also searching for the Tucks, and he will stop at nothing until he finds them and uncovers their secret. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/love-and-lobsters monthly 0.5 2025-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9be7d004-00bc-4e61-a863-d159793b208b/lovelbsters.jpg New Arrivals - Love & Lobsters - Shannon M. Parker Single and surrounded by friends and community, Charlie has always been more comfortable braving the bold Atlantic rather than diving into the messy business of romance. When she writes a post for her bestie’s Happily Ever Holidays blog, Charlie’s decidedly unromantic piece goes viral. Readers connect with lobster behavior, and how they’re hardwired to protect themselves from their own species—a trait Charlie respects. Because love hurts. Still, she can’t quell her growing interest in Logan, the mysterious and definitely unavailable man renting her family’s lighthouse for the month of December. Charlie looks for distraction by DMing a stranger online, and organizing Christmas Cove’s first annual holiday festival. But as her Love & Lobsters posts explore the ways lobsters display trust, commitment, mating rituals, and sexy time, Charlie must decide if plunging into uncharted waters is worth the risk. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/frankensteins-monster monthly 0.5 2025-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/975f0323-b784-42ed-a4ec-4d67171c2ff0/frankensteinsmonster.jpg New Arrivals - Frankenstein’s Monster - J. S. Barnes There are those who would swear that Victor Frankenstein is dead. Those who would swear that his Creature died also. They are wrong. 1842. Folklorist Nathaniel Greene escapes to the country to finish his latest book, along with his wife, Alice. Yearning for a family, and yet finding herself without, Alice watches as Greene grows ever more distant with her, fraying their already tense bonds. When a mysterious stranger arrives on their doorstep, bedraggled and delirious, Alice welcomes him in, finding herself seduced by the promises he makes. 1850. In Newgate prison, Nathaniel Greene stands accused of murder. Philanthropist Jesse Malone and psychic Hubert Crowe are determined to understand what happened, but the story Greene has to tell is almost unbelievable: one of monstrous, impossible creations made in an outhouse laboratory. To uncover the truth behind Greene’s bizarre claims, the two investigators must delve into a terrifying world where the men play God once more, and the ghosts of the past appear to be alive and vengeful. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/lilo-stitch monthly 0.5 2025-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4da96965-5b13-4a18-a2fb-ae11703517e7/lilostitch.jpg New Arrivals - Lilo & Stitch Experience this funny and touching live-action reimagining of Disney’s animated classic. When a lonely girl named Lilo adopts Stitch, an alien “puppy,” Stitch helps to mend Lilo’s broken family — but not without wreaking hilarious havoc on the Hawaiian Islands. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/rust monthly 0.5 2025-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f6d7ba9b-bec4-40cf-abc2-8f436c94da6a/rust.jpg New Arrivals - Rust An orphaned boy of 13 left to fend for himself and his younger brother in 1880s Wyoming is sentenced to hang for the accidental murder of a local rancher. His estranged grandfather breaks him out of jail and they go on the run to Mexico. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/this-book-is-dangerous monthly 0.5 2025-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7815819d-5f94-47d8-aef0-5aae2f4313fb/dangerous.jpg New Arrivals - This Book is Dangerous - by Ben Clanton Did the title just say that this book is dangerous? Jelly doesn't do dangerous. Can you help Jelly find a way out? Just don't move a muscle or make any loud noises, okay? And definitely DON'T touch anything! While everything seems to come sunny-side up for Narwhal on their adventures, Jelly has more than a few worries about the many dangers out there in the ocean: sea serpents, pirate crabs, circus cannons, lost porcupines, and spiky things of any kind could be lurking around each turn of the page! In the tradition of interactive classics like The Monster at the End of This Book, Jelly has got to find a way out of this book, and it's up to the reader to help this little jellyfish . . . or not! WARNING: This book is dangerously fun! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/worm-makes-a-sandwich monthly 0.5 2025-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/eb67c20a-6532-44d3-a70c-d7f9f68ed965/worm+sandwich.jpg New Arrivals - Worm Makes a Sandwich - by Brianne Farley Meet Worm. He might be little. He might have no hands. But Worm would love to make a sandwich, just for you! To get started he'll need just one thing: garbage! Delicious, delectable garbage like apple cores and mushy grapes, broccoli bottoms and carrot tops, sad celery, and drippy cucumbers. Worm and his friends eat the garbage. And then they do what everyone does after they eat garbage. They poop! The poop goes in the compost and the compost goes in your garden, which is where the vegetables for your sandwich come from! Simple, right? Worm thought you'd agree. He might just need a bit of assistance along the way . . . This hilarious, engaging picture book is the perfect introduction to the process of composting from start to finish, told from the perspective of one little worm who is very eager to help. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-trouble-with-childrenaccording-to-cat monthly 0.5 2025-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0b96695e-c305-4fcb-9e07-95ab64e45afb/trouble+cat.jpg New Arrivals - The Trouble with Children (According to Cat) - by Katie Weaver The family cat has a LOT to get off her chest. Because, well, living with children can be...challenging. Between attempted-bathing incidents and the children stealing her yarn, this feline has had ENOUGH!!! Will Cat find that there are sweet moments to be cherished amidst the chaos? A heartwarming and hilarious story celebrating the bond between our furry friends and their humans that's sure to leave you with the "warm and fuzzies". (And a new appreciation for your four-legged family member.) https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-smart-cookie monthly 0.5 2025-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/312d7366-369b-40b7-9c9c-c979c56ae140/smart+cookie.jpg New Arrivals - The Smart Cookie - by Jory John This cookie has never felt like a smart cookie no matter how hard she tries, especially in comparison to all the clever cupcakes and brilliant rolls in the bakery. Will a dash of creativity and a sprinkle of confidence be enough to help her learn that perfect scores and having all the answers aren’t the only ingredients for intelligence? Jory John and Pete Oswald serve up another heaping plate of laughs and lessons with this empowering, witty, and charming addition to their #1 New York Times bestselling series! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-witchs-guide-to-magical-inkeeping monthly 0.5 2025-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/318e79ae-d123-4a86-8f04-b25953a19a7d/innkeeping.jpg New Arrivals - A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping - Sangu Mandanna An enchanting novel about a witch who has a second chance to get her magical powers—and her life—back on track, from the national bestselling author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches . Sera Swan was once one of the most powerful witches in Britain. Then she resurrected her great-aunt Jasmine from the (very recently) dead, lost most of her magic, befriended a semi-villainous talking fox, and was exiled from her magical Guild. Now she ( slightly reluctantly and a bit grumpily) helps Aunt Jasmine run an inn in Lancashire, where she deals with her quirky guest’s shenanigans, tries to keep the talking fox in check, and longs for the magical future she lost. When she learns about an old spell book that could hold the secret to restoring her power, she finds herself turning to Luke Larsen, a gorgeous and icy historian who might be the only person who can help her unlock the book’s mysteries. The fact that he also happens to be her one-night stand from years ago is totally irrelevant. Running an inn, reclaiming lost magic, and trying not to fall in love is a lot for anyone, but Sera is about to discover that she doesn’t have to do it alone...and that the weird, wonderful family she’s made might be the best magic of all. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/sea-dog-rescue monthly 0.5 2025-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/14a89ede-1893-4221-b306-a812fbc9fdd4/seadog+rescue.jpg New Arrivals - Sea Dog Rescue - by Astrid Sheckels When Walter the baker (and brave sea dog!) discovers his friend Big Boris is being blamed for sinking a village fishing boat, he knows something's not right. Together with Mira, a merpup, Walter must swim through clues and uncover the truth before his friend's reputation is sunk forever. From award-winning illustrator Astrid Sheckels comes another delightful tale in the Sea Dog series that will have children ages 4-8 diving into important discussions about friendship, justice, and the courage to seek the truth. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-mission-zgzlh monthly 0.5 2025-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/adc283e5-c6d8-4676-a129-433535154a6e/clint.jpg New Arrivals - Clint - by Shawn Levy C-L-I-N-T. That single short, sharp syllable has stood as an emblem of American manhood and morality and sheer bloody-minded will, on-screen and off-screen, for more than sixty years. Whether he’s facing down bad guys on a Western street (Old West or new, no matter), staring through the lens of a camera, or accepting one of his movies' thirteen Oscars (including two for Best Picture), he is as blunt, curt, and solid as his name, a star of the old-school stripe and one of the most accomplished directors of his time, a man of rock and iron and brute force: Clint. To read the story of Clint Eastwood is to understand nearly a century of American culture. No Hollywood figure has so completely and complexly stood inside the changing climates of post–World War II America. At age ninety-five, he has lived a tumultuous century and embodied much of his time and many of its contradictions. We picture Clint squinting through cigarillo smoke in A Fistful of Dol­lars or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; imposing rough justice at the point of a .44 Magnum in Dirty Harry; sowing vengeance in The Outlaw Josey Wales or Pale Rider or Unforgiven; grudgingly training a woman boxer in Million Dollar Baby; and standing up for his neighbors despite his racism in Gran Torino. Or we feel him present, powerfully, behind the camera, creating complex tales of violence, morality, and humanity, such as Mystic River, Letters from Iwo Jima, and American Sniper. But his roles and his films, however well cast and convincing, are two-dimensional in comparison to his whole life. As Shawn Levy reveals in this masterful biography—the most com­plete portrait yet of Eastwood—the reality is richer, knottier, and more absorbing. Clint: The Man and the Movies is a saga of cunning, determi­nation, and conquest, a story about a man ascending to the Hollywood pantheon while keeping one foot firmly planted outside its door. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-enchanted-greenhouse monthly 0.5 2025-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6a81d765-82ab-4238-994c-dbe03814c618/enchantedgreenhouse.jpg New Arrivals - The Enchanted Greenhouse - Sarah Beth Durst Terlu Perna broke the law because she was lonely. She cast a spell and created a magically sentient spider plant. As punishment, she was turned into a wooden statue and tucked away into an alcove in the North Reading Room of the Great Library of Alyssium. This should have been the end of her story . . . Yet one day, Terlu wakes in the cold of winter on a nearly-deserted island full of hundreds of magical greenhouses. She’s starving and freezing, and the only other human on the island is a grumpy gardener. To her surprise, he offers Terlu a place to sleep, clean clothes, and freshly baked honey cakes―at least until she’s ready to sail home. But Terlu doesn’t want to return home, and as she grows closer with the unwittingly charming gardener, Yarrow, she learns that the magic that sustains the greenhouses is failing―causing the death of everything within them. Terlu knows she must help, even if that means breaking the law again. This time, though, she isn’t alone. Assisted by Yarrow and a sentient rose, Terlu must unravel the secrets of a long-dead sorcerer if she wants to save the island―and have a fresh chance at happiness and love. Funny, kind, and forgiving, The Enchanted Greenhouse is a story about giving second chances―to others and to yourself. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-spellshop monthly 0.5 2025-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f86a415a-406b-4f83-b040-5c8804f5d729/spellshop.jpg New Arrivals - The Spellshop - Sarah Beth Durst Kiela has always had trouble dealing with people. Thankfully, as a librarian at the Great Library of Alyssium, she and her assistant, Caz―a magically sentient spider plant―have spent the last decade sequestered among the empire’s most precious spellbooks, preserving their magic for the city’s elite. When a revolution begins and the library goes up in flames, she and Caz flee with all the spellbooks they can carry and head to a remote island Kiela never thought she’d see again: her childhood home. Taking refuge there, Kiela discovers, much to her dismay, a nosy―and very handsome―neighbor who can’t take a hint and keeps showing up day after day to make sure she’s fed and to help fix up her new home. In need of income, Kiela identifies something that even the bakery in town doesn’t have: jam. With the help of an old recipe book her parents left her and a bit of illegal magic, her cottage garden is soon covered in ripe berries. But magic can do more than make life a little sweeter, so Kiela risks the consequences of using unsanctioned spells and opens the island’s first-ever and much needed secret spellshop. Like a Hallmark rom-com full of mythical creatures and fueled by cinnamon rolls and magic, The Spellshop will heal your heart and feed your soul. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-mission monthly 0.5 2025-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d68feb2b-5e4c-4837-8247-a691a2002354/themission.jpg New Arrivals - The Mission - by Tim Weiner At the turn of the century, the Central Intelligence Agency was in crisis. The end of the Cold War had robbed the agency of its mission. More than thirty overseas stations and bases had been shuttered, and scores that remained had been severely cut back. Many countries where surveillance was once deemed crucial went uncovered. Essential intelligence wasn’t being collected. At the dawn of the information age, the CIA’s officers and analysts worked with outmoded technology, struggling to distinguish the clear signals of significant facts from the cacophony of background noise. Then came September 11th, 2001. After the attacks, the CIA transformed itself into a lethal paramilitary force, running secret prisons and brutal interrogations, mounting deadly drone attacks, and all but abandoning its core missions of espionage and counterespionage. The consequences were grave: the deaths of scores of its recruited foreign agents, the theft of its personnel files by Chinese spies, the penetration of its computer networks by Russian intelligence and American hackers, and the tragedies of Afghanistan and Iraq. A new generation of spies now must fight the hardest targets—Moscow, Beijing, Tehran—while confronting a president who has attacked the CIA as a subversive force. From Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Weiner, The Mission tells the gripping, high-stakes story of the CIA through the first quarter of the twenty-first century, revealing how the agency fought to rebuild the espionage powers it lost during the war on terror—and finally succeeded in penetrating the Kremlin. The struggle has life-and-death consequences for America and its allies. The CIA must reclaim its original mission: know thy enemies. The fate of the free world hangs in the balance. A masterpiece of reporting, The Mission includes exclusive on-the-record interviews with six former CIA directors, the top spymaster, thirteen station chiefs, and scores of top operations officers who served undercover for decades and have never spoken to a journalist before. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-idaho-four monthly 0.5 2025-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ceb8e9e4-3699-4273-bc99-af46e8a1e132/idahofour.jpg New Arrivals - The Idaho Four - by James Patterson and Vicky Ward The murders of four innocent college students attending the University of Idaho left us all with so many questions. Now, after more than 300 interviews, James Patterson and prize-winning journalist Vicky Ward finally have the answers. We know what it was like to live in Moscow, Idaho, on November 13, 2022, the day of the cold-blooded killings. We know what the local police and FBI did right. And what they did wrong. We’ve learned so much about the four heartbroken families—the Mogens, Goncalveses, Kernodles, and Chapins. And we have the backstory for Bryan Kohberger, brilliant grad student, loner, apparent incel. Now you are the jury. The evidence is in. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/moral-ambition monthly 0.5 2025-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/76a9ccf5-ed16-407e-b02b-d468148ca949/moralambition.jpg New Arrivals - Moral Ambition - by Rutger Bregman A career consists of 2,000 workweeks, and how you spend that time is one of the most important decisions of your life. Still, millions of people are stuck in in mind-numbing, pointless, or just plain harmful jobs. There’s an antidote to this waste of talent, and it’s called moral ambition. Moral ambition is the will to be among the best, but with different measures of success. Not a fancy title, fat salary, or corner office, but a career dedicated to the best solutions to the world's biggest problems— whether that means tackling climate change, making pandemics history or fighting Big Tobacco. In Moral Ambition, internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman reveals how our conventional definitions of success are harming us and the planet, and shows how we can shift the focus from personal gain to societal benefit. In the process, he explains, we will join a growing movement of pioneers who are already living out this ethos. They're the builders, the problem-solvers, the doers who have chosen a path less traveled. A guidebook to finding that path for ourselves, Moral Ambition reminds us that the real measure of success lies not in what we accumulate, but in what we contribute, and shows how we, too, can build a legacy that truly matters. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/butler monthly 0.5 2025-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/55b6cdb5-776f-451f-8f50-a46d841ec0cc/butler.jpg New Arrivals - Butler - by Salena Zito That day in Butler, had the wind gusted less, had Trump’s head turned in a slightly different direction, or had the adrenaline-fueled heart of the shooter beat slower, America would have been plunged into chaos, possibly even civil war. As a local reporter with deep ties to the area, Salena Zito had been invited by the president to interview him at the Butler Farm Show Grounds. She was standing only four feet away from the presidential podium when the bullets started to fly. A campaign staffer tackled her to the ground. Throughout it all, Salena never stopped reporting. She spoke by phone to Trump several times in the immediate aftermath and was granted access to community members, rally participants, family members and local law enforcement officials. “I rarely look away from the crowd,” Trump told her in one of several of those conversations. “Had I not done that in that moment, well, we would not be talking today, would we?” Known for her on-the-ground reporting on populism and rural America, Salena zooms out to tell the fascinating story of the battle for America’s heartland and the issues that actually motivate voters. To understand how and why Trump won the 2024 election, you have to understand places like Butler. Big cities like Los Angeles, New York and D.C. don’t decide who wins election cycles, but people in places like Butler, Pennsylvania sure do. President Trump gave the author extraordinary access for this book, including to his top aides, to his running mate JD Vance, to billionaire supporter Elon Musk, and even his security detail. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/knot-tying-for-kids monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ed52ef4b-1cd6-4e12-bbb9-8a7a8194f252/knottying.jpg New Arrivals - Knot Tying for Kids - by Dion Rosser Are you looking for a fun and engaging way for your child to learn a practical skill? Look no further! "Knot Tying for Kids” is packed with easy-to-follow instructions and vibrant illustrations that make learning to tie knots exciting and accessible for young adventurers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/snoop monthly 0.5 2025-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ccbf83d0-d9fc-4c20-8fd7-5712bcd7d761/snoop.jpg New Arrivals - Snoop - by Gordon Korman If Carter hadn't been checking his phone, he might have seen his brother coming down the ski slopes in his direction. And if Carter had seen his brother in time and avoided the crash, he might not have two broken legs right now. Oops. Now Carter is stuck at home for weeks, with both his legs in casts. Bored, he starts checking out the live feeds from police cams around his town. Before he knows it, he's obsessed -- watching his classmates when they don't know he's looking, and discovering some other VERY STRANGE things going on that no one else is noticing. But what happens when Carter is found out... and the people he's watching know where he lives? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/on-power monthly 0.5 2025-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b1493310-44f3-4600-ab9b-ffcb33b9942e/onpower.jpg New Arrivals - On Power - by Mark R. Levin Throughout history, from ancient civilizations to modern Western republics, power has been used to both oppress and liberate. To reward and exploit. To destroy and build. Monarchs, dictators, and elites who impose tyranny seek to consolidate power, stripping freedom from individuals to maintain control over societies. They use force and deception to ensure their rules remain unchallenged, claiming to act in the name of the common good while stripping individuals of their freedoms. In contrast, those who seek to use power for good—such as America’s Constitutional Framers—understand that strong societies are born not from force, but consent. Societies built on checks and balances, fair elections, and the preservation of individual rights not only survive, but thrive. Following in the footsteps of works by thinkers such as Alexis de Tocqueville and Frédéric Bastiat, Mark R. Levin’s On Power examines how power shapes history, offering invaluable insights into individual liberty, unalienable rights, and conservative principles from one of the leading philosophers of modern conservatism. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/conflict-resilience monthly 0.5 2025-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a460e1f5-2209-41f2-9fc4-e8197f5bbaa7/conflict.jpg New Arrivals - Conflict Resilience - by Robert C. Bordone and Joel Salinas, M.D. From our homes and community centers to C-Suites and Congress, disagreements are happening everywhere, with increasing frequency, and are being treated like winner-takes-all debates rather than as opportunities for conversation and positive change. This puts a tremendous and untenable strain on our most important relationships and institutions. Unable or unwilling to handle conflict with skill, we ignore it or avoid it for as long as possible; when we are forced to face it, everyday disagreements and temporary flare-ups rapidly escalate to a fever pitch. Neither approach addresses underlying issues, promotes stronger relationships, or yields satisfying results. But there is a solution: a combined skill- and mindset that Bordone calls conflict resilience: the ability to not only sit with and grow from disagreement, but to find new ways to communicate with authority and confidence without others feeling left unheard. In this powerful, hopeful book, Bordone, an internationally-recognized negotiator, former professor, and Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School, and Joel Salinas, M.D., a cutting-edge scientist from Harvard Medical School, combine the inner mechanics of conflict—literally what’s going on in our bodies and our brains during moments of distress—to produce a groundbreaking guide for how to navigate it, including: How to get out of your own way as a communicator Understanding the importance of timing How to embrace disagreement as an advantage Learning how to anticipate and manage defensiveness And more! Conflict Resilience provides scientifically proven tools to help you drive agreement when possible, and empower you, when agreement is impossible, to strengthen your ability to speak in conflict and withstand the stress of doing so. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/hour-of-the-pumpkin-queen monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/cbd94b2f-99c0-4ab3-aab5-e27787100ef7/pumpkinqueen.jpg New Arrivals - Hour of the Pumpkin Queen - by Megan Shepherd One year has passed since Sally wed her beloved Jack Skellington and stepped into her role as queen of Halloween Town. Even with her Jack at her side, though, being a ruler isn’t easy, and Sally feels uncertain of her future. Her seams are stretched thin with her royal duties, her newfound family in Dream Town, and a desire to bring citizens from across the Hinterlands together. Then a simple potion demonstration at Sally’s inaugural Halloween exhibition goes horribly wrong, and things unravel fast: Sally and her new rag doll apprentice, Luna, fall through a mysterious portal, landing in a new realm called Time Town. They discover that someone has tampered with the clock that controls Halloween Town, and Sally cannot return to the present-day version of her home unless she finds the culprit and resets time. Sally and Luna embark on a journey to unmask the truth, encountering more towns, friends, and foes along the way. But time is ticking, and as Sally fights to save Jack and her hometown, she wonders what kind of future she really wants—and what she must sacrifice to get it. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/restless-ruins monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0640e923-b45e-4911-bcb9-14d277bb5e4f/restlessruins.jpg New Arrivals - Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly: Restless Ruins (book 12) - by Jordan Quinn Hidden somewhere deep in the forest of Trellis, there is a fallen wizard’s tower full of secrets. Ruskin knows that the only way into a magical tower is by using even more powerful magic. But what he doesn’t know is that something sinister is lurking in the tower’s shadows, waiting for his arrival… https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-poets-game monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/330a0103-6a59-421d-8c11-5d9513312e79/poetsgame.jpg New Arrivals - The Poet’s Game - Paul Vidich Alex Matthews thought he had left it all behind: his CIA career, the viper's den of bureaucracy at headquarters, the deceits of the cat-and-mouse game of double agents, and the sudden trips to Russia, which poisoned his marriage and made him an absentee husband and father, with tragic results. But then the Director came asking for a favor. Something that only Alex could do because it involved the asset Byron—a Russian agent whom Alex had recruited. Byron had something of great interest to the CIA; the Director said it was a matter of grave national security that implicated the White House, and that Byron would hand over the kompromat once he was extricated from Russia. But Alex is a different man than when he had run Moscow station: he has pieced his life back together after a tragic accident killed his wife and daughter—but the scars remain. He left the agency; started a financial firm that made him wealthy; and met a new woman, Anna, who works as an interpreter in the CIA. Anna is beautiful and supportive and helps him find love again after years of drowning in grief alongside his son. Throughout the last years, Alex has remained, in his mind, a patriot, and so he begrudgingly accepts the Director's request. Something, though, doesn’t feel right about the whole operation from the start. The Russians seem one step ahead and the CIA suspects there is a traitor in the agency, passing along secrets to the Russians. Alex realizes that, by getting back into the game, he has risked everything he has worked for: his marriage, his family’s safety, and the trust of his closest colleagues—one of whom is betraying him. As the noose tightens around Alex, and the FSB closes in on Byron, the operation becomes a hall of mirrors with no exits. To find redemption, Alex must uncover Byron’s secrets or risk losing everything. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/she-didnt-see-it-coming monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/150a81fe-3f9b-4968-99f0-f1c6585ff282/shedidn%27tsee.jpg New Arrivals - She Didn’t See it Coming - Shari Lapena Bryden and Sam have it all: thriving careers, a smart apartment in a luxury condominium, supportive friends and a cherished daughter. The perfect life for the perfect couple. Then Sam receives a call at his office. Bryden – working from home that day – has failed to collect their daughter from daycare. Arriving home with their little girl, he finds his wife’s car in the underground garage. Upstairs in their apartment her laptop is open on the table, her cell phone nearby, her keys in their usual place in the hall. Except Bryden is nowhere to be seen. It’s as if she just walked out. How can she have disappeared from her own home? And did she even leave the building at all? With every minute that passes – and as questions swirl around their community – Bryden and Sam’s past seems a little less perfect, their condominium less safe, their friends, neighbors and relatives no longer quite so reliable . . . https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/it-happened-on-the-lake monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ef9c79b8-7ec3-4785-806a-a1d32d5b21e5/onthelake.jpg New Arrivals - It Happened on the Lake - Lisa Jackson The huge Victorian house on Lake Twilight belongs to Harper Reed Prescott, as does the private island on which it sits. Harper wants little to do with either. Twenty years ago, Harper’s grandmother died suspiciously while in her care, on the same night that Harper’s boyfriend disappeared. His body was never found, and no charges were filed. But the rumors haven’t faded. There have been other deaths, other accidents. All revolving around Harper and her family. Now Harper’s marriage is over, her college-age daughter is estranged, and Harper just wants to sell the property and make a fresh start. Except returning to the lake has stirred everything up again. Whispers. Memories. And the persistent feeling that, as she gazes out at the houses across the water, she’s being watched in turn. The whole town has always thought Harper has something to hide, and they’re right. But she might have even more to fear . . . https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/edge-of-honor monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b4d6f463-2db9-418d-bd8c-3be50bca1969/edgehonor.jpg New Arrivals - Edge of Honor - Brad Thor After six months abroad, America’s top spy returns to a new administration, a new set of global priorities, and a power struggle—the likes of which the United States has never experienced. Drawn into a web of deceit and deadly politics, Scot Harvath is thrust into a high-stakes conspiracy that could change the course of history. A cabal of shadowy elites is maneuvering for control and if they succeed, they will bring the country to its knees. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/coded-justice monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6498f3bf-b58c-49d5-a564-944b0a12ae46/codedjustice.jpg New Arrivals - Coded Justice - Stacey Abrams Former Supreme Court clerk Avery Keene is back . . . trying to put the past behind her at a prestigious high-end law firm in Washington, D.C. Head down and focused on a new life, Avery is now working as an internal investigator when a high-profile client seeks her out. Camasca Enterprises has a big problem and a short runway. The tech company has developed a new integrated AI system poised to revolutionize the medical industry. To prove its potential, Camasca’s charismatic founder, retired Major Rafe Diaz, has picked a complicated target: delivering cutting-edge health care to his fellow veterans. The potential is staggering, but their prototype has been plagued by a series of disturbing anomalies—culminating in the mysterious death of a beloved Camasca engineer. Avery and her colleagues, Jared, Ling, and Noah, are brought into the secretive company to investigate from the inside out. At the epicenter of a burgeoning, controversial industry, and with billions of dollars on the line, their task is simple: to determine whether Camasca’s technical troubles and rising body count reveal something sinister at work. In Coded Justice, Stacey Abrams’s storytelling prowess is on full display—a deft combination of riveting twists and vibrant characters set against the fascinating landscape of the capabilities of artificial intelligence . . . and the moral boundaries that govern it. Coded Justice is Abrams’s most entertaining novel to date. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/beautiful-nights monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/fbfce12d-8668-4504-8119-cd6c6a491916/beautifulnights.jpg New Arrivals - Beautiful Nights - Nina George Claire is one of Paris’s most esteemed behavioral biologists, with an enviable career and family. But she has become increasingly frustrated by the stasis of her marriage, including her husband’s unremarked-on affairs, and feels caged by the obligations she took on too early in life. As she and her family prepare for their annual holiday to the Brittany coast, her son, Nico, comes to her with a request: Can his new girlfriend, Julie, join them for the summer? Nico feels certain that this is the next step in merging their lives together, but Julie wonders if this man is really her path or if her passions—for performance, for intimacy, for a bigger life—will jeopardize their future. What Julie and Claire don’t realize is that they share a secret—they’ve met before, in a compromising moment whose implications color their relationship from the moment it’s revealed. Both Julie and Claire are at a crossroads, each waiting for something that will set her on fire inside—the rush of life, colors, courage. Under the blazing Brittany sun, by the tranquility of the sea and in the raging of a nighttime thunderstorm, they will ignite and never be the same again. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/something-i-keep-upstairs monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1c51a4a0-6669-4ef3-a83c-c7353a786ce1/somethingupstairs.jpg New Arrivals - Something I Keep Upstairs - J.D. Barker In the sleepy coastal town of New Castle, New Hampshire, seventeen-year-old Billy Hasler's life is about to take a terrifying turn. When his best friend David Spivey inherits a mysterious house on a nearby island, it seems like the perfect place to spend their final summer before heading off to college. No parents. No police. No responsibilities. As they dig into the island's dark past, they awaken an ancient evil that has influenced generations. What begins as an innocent summer adventure quickly descends into a nightmare. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/maine-characters monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3323f369-1a77-412d-9ca4-ef743bb6193e/mainecharacters.jpg New Arrivals - Maine Characters - Hannah Orenstein Every summer, Vivian Levy and Lucy Webster spend a month with their father at his lake house — separately. Raised in New York City, Vivian is an ambitious sommelier with a secret that could derail her future. Lucy grew up in a tiny Maine town, where she now teaches high school English while watching her marriage unravel. They’ve never met. While Lucy envied her half-sister from afar, their father kept Vivian in the dark. When Vivian arrives at the lake to spread his ashes and sell his cabin, she's shocked to find Lucy there, awaiting his return. In an ideal world, they’d help each other through their grief. Instead, forced to spend the summer together, they fight through a storm of suspicion and hostility to untangle the messy truth about their parents’ pasts. While Lucy is desperate to hold onto the house, Vivian is scrambling after a betrayal. After thirty years apart, is it too late for them to be a family? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/little-great-island monthly 0.5 2025-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ff255edb-508f-4c33-9679-0833376ef997/littlegreat.jpg New Arrivals - Little Great Island - Kate Woodworth After offending the powerful pastor of a cult, Mari McGavin has to flee with her six-year-old son. With no money and no place else to go, she returns to the tiny Maine island where she grew up—a place she swore she’d never see again. There Mari runs into her lifelong friend Harry Richardson, one of the island’s summer residents, now back himself to sell his family’s summer home. Mari and Harry’s lives intertwine once again, setting off a chain of events as unexpected and life altering as the shifts in climate affecting the whole ecosystem of the island…from generations of fishing families to the lobsters and the butterflies. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-friend monthly 0.5 2025-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6724716c-3d20-40b3-aa39-a329a1643e18/thefriend.jpg New Arrivals - The Friend Iris’s life is upended when her best friend leaves her his Great Dane. Despite a small New York apartment and threats of eviction, she bonds with the regal beast and begins to heal, in this story of love and friendship. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/grantchester-season10 monthly 0.5 2025-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6c042fda-74b1-4d65-a52f-0edcafe9c116/grantchester10.jpg New Arrivals - Grantchester (Season 10) "Masterpiece Mystery" brings James Runcie's books to the small screen with this British detective series about the unique if unlikely partnership between Anglican priest Sidney Chambers (James Norton) and Detective Inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green). The two join forces to solve baffling crimes when the vicar decides to take up sleuthing work as a hobby in his home village of Grantchester. With Morven Christie, Tessa-Peake Jones.8 episodes on 2 discs. 7 1/3 hrs. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-phoenecian-scheme monthly 0.5 2025-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/dcb30992-ef8c-4df5-a5e0-e706b0210696/phoenician.jpg New Arrivals - The Phoenician Scheme Anatole "Zsa-zsa" Korda (Benicio del Toro)—ruthless, unscrupulous, one of the richest men in Europe—fights for his life in Wes Anderson's: The Phoenician Scheme. During the final stages of a vast, decades-long, career-defining business project, Korda survives a sixth assassination attempt and must appoint a successor: his long-estranged daughter Liesl (Mia Threapleton)—a nun. With personal tutor Bjorn (Michael Cera) in tow, the trio set off on a globetrotting adventure to achieve Korda's epic mission. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-unraveling-of-julia monthly 0.5 2025-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d44e398d-1617-4ca4-b44c-dd5dc37cc0ae/unraveling.jpg New Arrivals - The Unraveling of Julia - Lisa Scottoline Lately, Julia Pritzker is beginning to think she’s cursed. She’s lost her adoptive parents, then her husband is murdered. When she realizes that her horoscope essentially foretold his death, she begins to spiral. She fears her fate is written in the stars, not held in her own hands. Then a letter arrives out of the blue, informing her that she has inherited a Tuscan villa and vineyard —but her benefactor is a total stranger named Emilia Rossi. Julia has no information about her biological family, so she wonders if Rossi could be a blood relative. Bewildered, she heads to Tuscany for answers. There, Julia is horrified to discover that Rossi was a paranoid recluse, who believed herself to be a descendent of Duchess Caterina Sforza, a legendary Renaissance ruler. Stunned by her uncanny resemblance to Rossi, and even to Caterina, Julia is further unnerved when she unearths eerie parallels between them, including an obsession with astrology. Before long, Julia suspects she’s being followed, and strange things begin to happen. Not even a chance meeting with a handsome Florentine can ease her troubled mind. When events turn deadly, Julia’s harrowing struggle becomes a search for her identity, a race to save her sanity, and ultimately, a question of her very survival. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-aviator-and-the-showman monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/af39fa58-524e-43c7-aa1c-890c0f5029ef/aviator+showman.jpg New Arrivals - The Aviator and the Showman - by Laurie Gwen Shapiro In 1928, a young social worker and hobby pilot named Amelia Earhart arrived in the office of George Putnam, heir to the Putnam & Sons throne and hitmaker, on the hunt for the right woman for a secret flying mission across the Atlantic. A partnership—professional and soon otherwise—was born. The Aviator and the Showman unveils the untold story of Amelia's decade-long marriage to George Putnam, offering an intimate exploration of their relationship and the pivotal role it played in her enduring legacy. Despite her outwardly modest and humble image, Amelia was fiercely driven and impossibly brave, a lifelong feminist and trailblazer in her personal and professional life. Putnam, the so-called “PT Barnum of publishing” was a bookselling visionary—but often pushed his authors to extreme lengths in the name of publicity, and no one bore that weight more than Amelia. Their ahead-of-its time partnership supported her grand ambitions—but also pressed her into more and more treacherous stunts to promote her books, influencing a certain recklessness up to and including her final flight. Earhart is a captivating figure to many, but the truth about her life is often overshadowed by myth and legend. In this cinematic new account, Laurie Gwen Shapiro emphasizes Earhart’s multifaceted human side, her struggles, and her authentic aspirations, the truths behind her brave pursuits and the compromises she made to fit into societal expectations. Drawing from a trove of new sources including undiscovered audio interviews, The Aviator and the Showman is a gripping and passionate tale of adventure, colorful characters, hubris, and a complex and a vivid portrait of a marriage that shaped the trajectory of an iconic life. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/an-inside-job monthly 0.5 2025-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/31165c0c-d0a6-4ce8-872e-a1bf2963d989/inside+job.jpg New Arrivals - An Inside Job - Daniel Silva Gabriel Allon has been awarded a commission to restore one of the most important paintings in Venice. But when he discovers the body of a mysterious woman floating in the waters of the Venetian Lagoon, he finds himself in a desperate race to recover a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci. The painting, a portrait of a beautiful young girl, has been gathering dust in a storeroom at the Vatican Museums for more than a century, misattributed and hidden beneath a worthless picture by an unknown artist. Because no one knows that the Leonardo is there, no one notices when it disappears one night during a suspicious power outage. No one but the ruthless mobsters and moneymen behind the theft -- and the mysterious woman whom Gabriel found in a watery grave in Venice. A woman without a name. A woman without a face. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-road-that-made-america-j5phk monthly 0.5 2025-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1c105c16-6563-415d-9fb5-b8a451cbec97/breathlines.jpg New Arrivals - Breath Lines - by Jan Schreiber Breath Lines takes a fresh and down-to-earth approach to encounters with poetry. In these accessible, non-technical essays, Jan Schreiber offers insightful strategies for reading and understanding works that many people have found challenging. The essays address critical areas of poetic craft and interpretation: the content of poems, including narrative techniques and the voices a poet creates; the character and power of verse lines and the problems attending the translation of metrical poems; challenges of interpretation, including complex philosophies and obscure references; and a look at the future of the art, hinted by the competing styles and allegiances of contemporary writers. Each essay offers pertinent verse examples to illustrate metrical, rhetorical, and stylistic issues. Schreiber’s commentaries explain how a reader’s careful attention can be rewarded with a deeper understanding of the multiple meanings embedded in apparently simple poems―and how readers can thereby experience an emotional impact not always perceived on a first reading. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-road-that-made-america monthly 0.5 2025-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0b7977c5-b058-4fd1-a838-8aa2fbfcd20a/roadamerica.jpg New Arrivals - The Road that Made America - by James Dodson Little known today, the Great Wagon Road was the primary road of frontier America: a mass migration route that stretched more than eight hundred miles from Philadelphia to Augusta, Georgia. It opened the Southern frontier and wilderness east of the Appalachian Mountains to America’s first settlers, and later served as the gateway for the exploration of the American West. In the mid-1700s, waves of European colonists in search of land for new homes left Pennsylvania to settle in the colonial backcountry of Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas. More than one hundred thousand settlers made the arduous trek, those who would become the foundational generations of the world’s first true immigrant nation. In their newly formed village squares, democracy took root and bloomed. During the Revolutionary War, the road served as the key supply line to the American resistance in the western areas of the colonies, especially in the South. Drawing on years of fieldwork and scholarship by an army of archeologists, academics, archivists, preservationists, and passionate history lovers, James Dodson sets out to follow the road’s original path from Philadelphia to Georgia. On his journey, he crosses six contiguous states and some of the most historic and hallowed landscapes of eastern America, touching many of the nation’s most sacred battlefields and burying grounds. Due to its strategic importance, military engagements were staged along the Great Wagon Road throughout North America’s three major wars, including the early days of the bloody French and Indian conflict and pivotal Revolutionary War encounters. In time, the Great Wagon Road became America’s first technology highway, as growing roadside villages and towns and cities became, in effect, the first incubators of America’s early Industrial age. The people and ideas that traveled down the road shaped the character of the fledgling nation and helped define who we are today. Dodson’s ancestors on both sides took the Great Wagon Road to Maryland and North Carolina, respectively, giving him a personal stake in uncovering the road’s buried legacy. An illuminating and entertaining first-person history, The Road That Made America restores this long-forgotten route to its rightful place in our national story. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/typewriter-beach monthly 0.5 2025-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5154a86a-d175-45a0-aa26-a28333955b7a/typewriterbeach.jpg New Arrivals - Typewriter Beach - Meg Waite Clayton 1957. Isabella Giori is ten months into a standard seven-year studio contract when she auditions with Hitchcock. Just weeks later, she is sequestered by the studio’s “fixer” in a tiny Carmel cottage, waiting and dreading. Meanwhile, next door, Léon Chazan is annoyed as hell when Iz interrupts his work on yet another screenplay he won’t be able to sell, because he’s been blacklisted. Soon, they’re together in his roadster, speeding down the fog-shrouded Big Sur coast. 2018. Twenty-six-year-old screenwriter Gemma Chazan, in Carmel to sell her grandfather’s cottage, finds a hidden safe full of secrets—raising questions about who the screenwriter known simply as Chazan really was, and whether she can live up to his name. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dont-let-him-in monthly 0.5 2025-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7463f762-b145-4b3d-914c-f5f5df4b0704/dontlethim+in.jpg New Arrivals - Don’t Let Him In - Lisa Jewell Nina Swann is intrigued when she received a condolence card from Nick Radcliffe, an old friend of her late husband, who is looking to connect after her husband’s unexpected death. Nick is a man of substance and good taste. He has a smile that could melt the coldest heart and a knack for putting others at ease. But to Nina’s adult daughter, Ash, Nick seems too slick, too polished, too good to be true. Without telling her mother, Ash begins digging into Nick’s past. What she finds is more than unsettling… Martha is a florist living in a neighboring town with her infant daughter and her devoted husband, Alistair. But lately, Alistair has been traveling more and more frequently for work, disappearing for days at a time. When Martha questions him about his frequent absences, he always has a legitimate explanation, but Martha can’t share the feeling that something isn’t right. Nina, Martha, and Ash are on a collision course with a shocking truth that is far darker than anyone could have imagined. And all three are about to wish they had heeded the same warning: Don’t let him in. But the past won’t stay buried forever. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/with-a-vengeance monthly 0.5 2025-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4f9ccd78-f911-4aa3-86b4-6452f347611f/vengeance.jpg New Arrivals - With a Vengeance - Riley Sager In 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson’s family. Twelve years later, she’s ready for retribution. Under false pretenses, Anna has lured those responsible for her family’s downfall onto a luxury train from Philadelphia to Chicago, an overnight journey of thirteen hours. Her goal? Confront the people who’ve wronged her, get them to confess their crimes, and deliver them into the hands of authorities waiting at the end of the line. Justice will at last be served. But Anna’s plan is quickly derailed by the murder of one of the passengers. As the train barrels through the night, it becomes clear that someone else on board is enacting their own form of revenge—and that they won’t stop until everyone else is dead. With time running out before the train reaches its destination, Anna is forced to hunt the killer in their midst while protecting the people she hates the most. In order to destroy her enemies, she must first save them—even though it means putting her own life at risk. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-salt-stones monthly 0.5 2025-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2b1bcdfe-58f5-4301-96c7-4a5ab89686b4/the+salt+stones.jpg New Arrivals - The Salt Stones - Helen Whybrow In the heart of Vermont’s Green Mountains, Helen Whybrow and her partner set out to restore an old two-hundred-acre farm. Knowing that “belonging more than anything requires participation,” they begin to intertwine their lives with the land. But soon after releasing a flock of Icelandic sheep onto the worn-out fields, Whybrow realizes that the art of shepherding extends far beyond the flock and fences of Knoll Farm. In prose both vivid and lean, The Salt Stones offers an intimate and profoundly moving story of what it means to care for a flock and truly inhabit a piece of land. The shepherd’s life unfolds for Whybrow in the seasons and cycles of farming and family—birthing lambs, fending off coyotes, rescuing lost sheep in a storm, and raising children while witnessing her mother’s decline. Exploring the interdependence of animals, as well as of the earth and ourselves, Whybrow reflects on the ways sheep connect her to place and to the ancient practice of shepherding. Evocative, affectionate, and illuminating, The Salt Stones sings of a way of life that is at once ancient and entirely contemporary, inspiring us all to seek greater intimacy and a sense of belonging wherever our home place may be. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-doorman monthly 0.5 2025-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1752764185533-RCIVPY5AKFLX1TU24MQM/the+doorman.jpg New Arrivals - The Doorman - Chris Pavone Chicky Diaz is everyone’s favorite doorman at the Bohemia, the most famous apartment house in the world, home of celebrities, financiers, and New York’s cultural elite. Up in the penthouse, Emily Longworth has the perfect-looking everything, all except her husband, whom she’d quietly loathed even before the recent revelations about where all the money comes from. But his wealth is immense, their prenup is iron-clad, and Emily can’t bring herself to leave him. Yet. And downstairs in 2a, Julian Sonnenberg―who has carved himself a successful niche in the art world, and led a good half-century of a full and satisfying, cosmopolitan life―has just received a devastating phone call that does nothing at all to alleviate his sense that, probably for better and worse, he has aged out and he’s just not that useful to anyone any more. Meanwhile, gathered in the Bohemia’s bowels, the building’s almost entirely Black and Hispanic, working-class staff is taking in the news that that just a few miles uptown, a Black man has been killed by the police, leading to a demonstration, a counterdemonstration, and a long night of violence across the tinderbox city. As Chicky changes into his uniform for tonight’s shift, he finds himself breaking a cardinal rule of the job: tonight, he’ll be carrying a gun, bought only hours earlier, but before he knew of the pandemonium taking over the city. Chicky knows that there’s more going on in his patch of sidewalk in front of the Bohemia than anyone’s aware of. Tonight in the city, enemies will clash, loyalties will be tested, secrets will be revealed―and lives will be lost. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/do-not-disturb monthly 0.5 2025-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/45294515-b371-4a55-ab2d-9bb9411cb71d/do+not+disturb.jpg New Arrivals - Do Not Disturb - Freida McFadden Quinn Alexander has committed an unthinkable crime. To avoid spending her life in prison, Quinn makes a run for it. She leaves behind her home, her job, and her family. She grabs her passport and heads for the northern border before the police can discover what she's done. But when an unexpected snowstorm forces her off the road, Quinn must take refuge at the broken-down, isolated Baxter Motel. The handsome and kindly owner, Nick Baxter, is only too happy to offer her a cheap room for the night. Unfortunately, the Baxter Motel isn't the quiet, safe haven it seemed to be. The motel has a dark and disturbing past. And in the dilapidated house across the way, the silhouette of Nick's ailing wife is always at the window. Always watching. In the morning, Quinn must leave the motel. She'll pack up her belongings and get back on the road to freedom. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/miss-camper monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/47356e28-bb6e-49fd-aafd-4304329b5566/miss+camper.jpg New Arrivals - Miss Camper - by Kat Fajardo Sue is heading to Camp Willow this summer! She’s looking forward to hiking, archery, and making comics in the fresh air. She’s especially excited about LARPing (live-action role-playing) and can’t wait for the freedom of being away from home. But she won’t be far from family because her big sister, Carmen, is a camp counselor and her little sister, Ester, is a fellow camper and won’t give her any space! All Sue wants is to make memories with her friends, but they’re assigned to only a few of the same activities. To make matters even worse, her best friend, Sam, has a best camp friend named Marisol? And Sue’s good friend Izzy has a crush on Sue?! This summer isn’t at all going as planned! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pete-the-cat-checks-out-the-library monthly 0.5 2025-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/df8ed9aa-fd30-4f14-a591-8a360d7af07a/petelibrary.jpg New Arrivals - Pete the Cat Checks Out the Library - by James Dean It's Pete the Cat's first time at the library. He gets a fun tour of library and even reads a few super cool stories while he's there. Without even leaving the library, Pete goes on so many groovy adventures. All Pete needs is a little imagination—and of course, his library card! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/run-for-the-hills monthly 0.5 2025-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/960c7aa1-13f4-4495-a728-baa9ad0fae05/run+for+the+hills.jpg New Arrivals - Run for the Hills - Kevin Wilson Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it’s been just Madeline Hill and her mom on their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee. While it’s a bit lonely, she sometimes admits, and a less exciting life than what she imagined for herself, it’s mostly okay. Mostly. Then one day Reuben Hill pulls up in a PT Cruiser and informs Madeline that he believes she’s his half sister. Reuben—left behind by their dad thirty years ago—has hired a detective to track down their father and a string of other half siblings. And he wants Mad to leave her home and join him for the craziest kind of road trip imaginable to find them all. As Mad and Rube—and eventually the others—share stories of their father, who behaved so differently in each life he created, they begin to question what he was looking for with every new incarnation. Who are they to one another? What kind of man will they find? And how will these new relationships change Mad’s previously solitary life on the farm? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/never-flinch monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/eb57b310-c407-4840-998e-e496ff8bb5e3/neverflinch.jpg New Arrivals - Never Flinch - Stephen King When the Buckeye City Police Department receives a disturbing letter from a person threatening to “kill thirteen innocents and one guilty” in “an act of atonement for the needless death of an innocent man,” Detective Izzy Jaynes has no idea what to think. Are fourteen citizens about to be slaughtered in an unhinged act of retribution? As the investigation unfolds, Izzy realizes that the letter writer is deadly serious, and she turns to her friend Holly Gibney for help. Meanwhile, controversial and outspoken women’s rights activist Kate McKay is embarking on a multi-state lecture tour, drawing packed venues of both fans and detractors. Someone who vehemently opposes Kate’s message of female empowerment is targeting her and disrupting her events. At first, no one is hurt, but the stalker is growing bolder, and Holly is hired to be Kate’s bodyguard—a challenging task with a headstrong employer and a determined adversary driven by wrath and his belief in his own righteousness. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/red-scare monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7cdddbde-1f6b-470d-8266-165881c6ac9d/redscare.jpg New Arrivals - Red Scare - by Clay Risen The film Oppenheimer has awakened interest in this vital period of American history. Now, for the first time in a generation, Red Scare presents a narrative history of the anti-Communist witch hunt that gripped America in the decade following World War II. The cultural phenomenon, most often referred to as McCarthyism, was an outgrowth of the conflict between social conservatives and New Deal progressives, coupled with the terrifying onset of the Cold War. This defining moment in American history, unlike any that preceded it, was marked by an unprecedented degree of political hysteria. Drawing upon newly declassified documents, journalist Clay Risen recounts how politicians like Joseph McCarthy, with the help of an extended network of other government officials and organizations, systematically ruined thousands of lives in their deluded pursuit of alleged Communist conspiracies. Beginning with the origins of the era after WWI through to its conclusion in 1957, Risen brings to life the politics, patriotism, opportunism, courage, and delirium of those years through the lives and experiences of a cast of towering historical figures, including President Eisenhower, Roy Cohn, Paul Robeson, Robert Oppenheimer, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Richard Nixon, and many more individuals known and unknown. Red Scare takes us beyond the familiar story of McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklists to a fuller understanding of what the country went through at a time of moral questioning and perceived threat from the left, and what we were capable of doing to each other as a result. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ocean-earths-last-wilderness monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f3150024-f3df-4fe3-8447-2dd601b4b9fc/ocean.jpg New Arrivals - Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness - by Colin Butfield Through personal stories, history and cutting-edge science, Ocean uncovers the mystery, the wonder, and the frailty of the most unexplored habitat on our planet—the one which shapes the land we live on, regulates our climate, and creates the air we breathe. This book showcase the oceans' remarkable resilience: they can, and in some cases have, recovered the fastest, if we only give them the chance. Drawing a course across David Attenborough's own lifetime, Ocean takes readers on an adventure-laden voyage through eight unique ocean habitats, countless intriguing species, and the most astounding discoveries of the last 100 years, to a future vision of a fully restored marine world—one even more spectacular than we could possibly hope for. Ocean reveals the past, present and potential future of our blue planet. It is a book almost a century in the making, but one that has never been more urgently needed. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/where-the-rivers-merge monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/01990fa6-fc31-4d09-b352-f97d58915718/riversmerge.jpg New Arrivals - Where the Rivers Merge - Mary Alice Monroe 1908: The Lowcountry of South Carolina is at the cusp of change. Mayfield, the grand estate held for generations by the Rivers family, is the treasured home of young Eliza. A free spirit, she refuses to be confined by societal norms and spends her days exploring the vast property, observing wildlife, and riding horses. But the Great War, coastal storms, and family turmoil bring unexpected challenges to Eliza, putting her on a collision course with the patriarchal traditions of a bygone era. 1988: At 88, Eliza is the scion of the Rivers/DeLancey family. She’s fought a lifetime to save her beloved Mayfield and is too independent and committed to quietly retire and leave the fate of the estate to her greedy son. She must make decisions that will assure the future of the land and her family—or watch them both be split apart. Set against the evocative landscape of the twentieth-century Lowcountry, Where the Rivers Merge is a dramatic and sweeping multigenerational family story of unyielding love, lessons learned, profound sacrifices, and the indomitable spirit of a woman determined to persevere in the face of change in order to protect her family legacy and the land she loves. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-emperor-of-gladness monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b66bd18a-fde9-4f64-974f-5faa365bdd52/emperor+of+gladness.jpg New Arrivals - The Emperor of Gladness - Ocean Vuong One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to transform Hai’s relationship to himself, his family, and a community on the brink. Following the cycles of history, memory, and time, The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which love, labor, and loneliness form the bedrock of American life. At its heart is a brave epic about what it means to exist on the fringes of society and to reckon with the wounds that haunt our collective soul. Hallmarks of Ocean Vuong’s writing—formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness—are on full display in this story of loss, hope, and how far we would go to possess one of life’s most fleeting mercies: a second chance. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/marble-hall-murders monthly 0.5 2025-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f33b5af7-ed15-4b39-8bf9-1910d9bad65d/marblehall+murders.jpg New Arrivals - Marble Hall Murders - Anthony Horowitz Editor Susan Ryeland has left her Greek island, her hotel and her Greek boyfriend, Andreas, in search of a new life back in England. Freelancing for a London publisher, she's given the last job she wants: working on an Atticus Pünd continuation novel called Pünd’s Last Case. Worse still, she knows the new writer. Eliot Crace is the troubled grandson of legendary children’s author Miriam Crace who died twenty years ago. Eliot is convinced she was murdered—by poison. To her surprise, Susan enjoys reading the manuscript which is set in the South of France and revolves around the mysterious death of Lady Margaret Chalfont, days before she was about to change her will. But when it is revealed that Lady Margaret was also poisoned, alarm bells begin to ring. The more Susan reads, the clearer it becomes that Eliot has deliberately concealed clues about his grandmother’s death inside the book. Desperately, Susan tries to prevent Eliot from putting himself in harm’s way—but his behaviour is becoming increasingly erratic. Another murder follows . . . and suddenly Susan finds herself to be the number one suspect. Once again, the real and the fictional worlds have become dangerously entangled. And if Susan doesn't solve the mystery of Pünd’s Last Case, she could well be its next victim. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/creaky-acres monthly 0.5 2025-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ac310f3d-5761-438d-892d-52103db498ad/creaky+acres.jpg New Arrivals - Creaky Acres - by Calista Brill and Nilah Magruder Nora is a prize-winning horseback rider in a suburban area, with a tight-knit circle of best friends. But when her mom gets a prestigious new job in a poor, rural area, she has to adjust to a lot of change: to being the only Black kid in a new class and to a new barn called Creaky Acres, where her beloved horse, Hay Fever, will make his new home. It’s there she meets sweet and geeky Laura, goofy and fun-loving Wilson, and fearless Dolores (aka Dizzy). With her ragtag team of equestrians, Nora learns it’s okay to stand out and steps into her power as a leader, realizing that being a rider isn’t just about winning—or maybe that winning just might look different than what she’d thought. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/poppys-promise monthly 0.5 2025-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d7a217f9-7e85-4516-87dc-475dd2c3154e/poppyspromise.jpg New Arrivals - Poppy’s Promise - by Laisee Holden Poppy’s family lives on the coast of Maine. Most mornings she hears lobster boats heading out to sea. Poppy’s family always says—lobstering is an honorable tradition. One day at sunrise, Poppy’s Dad asks if she would like to check some lobster traps with him. During her adventure, she learns there’s more to lobstering than hauling and checking the traps. Lobstermen also help protect the ocean. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/yellowstone-season5-part2 monthly 0.5 2025-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/791138fb-efbb-4d8c-8651-ef6fad79716b/yellowstone+season+5+part2.jpg New Arrivals - Yellowstone Season 5 Part 2 Like five generations of his forebears, hard-bitten Montana ranch patriarch John Dutton (Kevin Costner) has ridden herd on America's largest contiguous spread... but between his declining health, his emotional gulf with his willful kids, and ever dicier border dustups with the government, developers, and the neighboring reservation, the trail's never been harder. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/bridget-jones-mad-about-the-boy monthly 0.5 2025-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8a54054c-65da-4619-9a11-87e6568ca5b7/bridgetjonesboy.jpg New Arrivals - Bridget Jones Mad About the Boy Bridget Jones navigates life as a widow and single mum with the help of her family, friends, and former lover, Daniel. Back to work and on the apps, she's pursued by a younger man and maybe - just maybe - her son's science teacher. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/line-of-demarcation monthly 0.5 2025-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/da7b2026-1b37-43fc-be6d-ecf4d118a37b/line+of+demarcation.jpg New Arrivals - Line of Demarcation - by Tom Clancy/ M.P. Woodward It starts with the destruction of a US Coast Guard cutter and the loss of her entire crew. But the USCG Claiborne was on an innocuous mission to open a sea lane between an oil field off the coast of South America and the refineries of southern Louisiana. The destruction of the ship, tragic as it is, won't stop that mission from continuing. So who would sacrifice twenty-two men and women just to slow down the plan? That's the question plaguing Jack Ryan Jr. He's in Guyana to work a deal to get his company, Hendley Associates, in on the ground floor of this new discovery, but Russia’s Wagner Group and a pack of Venezuelan narco-terrorists have other ideas—and will risk war with the United States to see them through. It's up to Jack to identify the killers before they draw a bead on him, but how can he do that when the line of demarcation between friend and foe is constantly shifting? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/fdr-drive monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1865bf51-122b-434a-ac2c-f076695e023d/fdr+drive.jpg New Arrivals - FDR Drive - by James Comey After a stint in the private sector, working at the largest hedge fund in the world, Nora Carleton has returned to her former role as a New York City federal prosecutor. And she’s arrived just in time to face one of the most dangerous domestic terror attacks in the history of the city. A threat is building in the city, with far right extremism powered by internet demagogues and funded by shadowy organizations. Together with legendary investigator Benny Dugan and aided by colleagues at the FBI, Nora builds a case against one of the key players in this burgeoning movement, arguing before a jury that some speech is actually a deadly crime. But the menace taking root is far bigger than any courtroom, and as the militants target an upcoming United Nations rally, Nora and her team must race to disrupt the plans and minimize casualties. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/nightshade monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f21afb14-c9c5-4970-827d-f209b5264299/nightshade.jpg New Arrivals - Nightshade - by Michael Connelly Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Stilwell has been “exiled” to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland. But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor—a Jane Doe identifiable at first only by a streak of purple dye in her hair. At the same time, a report of poaching on a protected reserve turns into a case fraught with violence and danger as Stilwell digs into the shady past of an island bigwig. Crossing all lines of protocol and jurisdiction, Stilwell doggedly works both cases. Though hampered by an old beef with an ex-colleague determined to thwart him at every turn, he is convinced he is the only one who can bring justice to the woman known as “Nightshade.” Soon, his investigation uncovers closely guarded secrets and a dark heart to the serene island that was meant to be his escape from the evils of the big city. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/life-and-art monthly 0.5 2025-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/dcbfa4c9-a5d2-4b7d-bb17-008d77b502bc/life+and+art.jpg New Arrivals - Life and Art - by Richard Russo Life and Art—these are the twin subjects considered in Richard Russo’s twelve masterful new essays—how they inform each other and how the stories we tell ourselves about both shape our understanding of the world around us. In “The Lives of Others,” he reflects on the implacable fact that writers use people, insisting that what matters, in the end, is how and for what purpose. How do you bridge the gap between what you know and what you don’t, and sometimes can’t, know? Why tell a story in the first place? What we don’t understand, Russo opines, is in fact the very thing that beckons to us. In “Stiff Neck,” he writes of the exasperating fault lines exposed within his own family as his wife’s sister and her husband—proudly unvaccinated—develop COVID. In “Triage,” he details with heartbreaking vividness the terror of seeing his seven-year-old grandson in critical condition. And in “Ghosts,” he revisits Gloversville, the town that gave rise to the now-legendary fictional town of North Bath, and confronts the specter of its richly populated past and its ghostly present. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/odder-an-otters-story monthly 0.5 2025-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1746884624343-LURPNTNGXMRKQ8J0Z8U0/anottersstory.jpg New Arrivals - Odder: An Otter’s Story - by Katherine Applegate Odder spends her days playing underwater and learning life lessons from her mother. But when Odder’s life takes a dramatic turn, she is rescued by humans. The people are kind, and introduce Odder to other rescues. Soon, it’s clear that Odder has a talent for teaching other pups how to otter. Adapted from Katherine Applegate’s bestselling novel of the same name (with over 80 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list!), and inspired by the true story of a program that pairs orphaned otter pups. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/night-night-sleep-tight monthly 0.5 2025-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/17fe2aa5-9011-4f77-9517-6f9b26c6814e/nightnight.jpg New Arrivals - Night Night! Sleep Tight! - by Mercer Mayer It’s bedtime for Little Critter and Little Sister, but when there’s a strange sound in the night, the two are determined to find the source of the tap tap. Things that look like monsters in the dark turn out to be innocent in this nighttime adventure! Will they ever find out what’s making the sound? Emergent readers will enjoy the humor and mystery in Little Critter: Night Night! Sleep Tight! Who better to help children navigate the challenges of learning to read than their friend Little Critter? There are many Little Critter I Can Read titles, but Night Night! Sleep Tight! is the second in the esteemed I Can Read Comics line (after Little Critter: Tricky Chickies). These leveled comic books hook children on reading, give them the confidence to read on their own, and promote visual literacy. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/orris-and-timble-lost-and-found monthly 0.5 2025-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/193557d5-a155-4dbd-a50b-b9d96efeadae/orrislostandfound.jpg New Arrivals - Orris and Timble: Lost and Found - by Kate DiCamillo Orris the rat and Timble the owl are unlikely friends. Each night, Timble visits Orris in the barn and listens to his stories. But Timble is growing up, and one evening when the owl doesn’t appear as usual Orris wonders if Timble has forgotten him. Is their friendship over? Or could it be that Timble has a tale of his own to share? Illustrated with wistful tenderness, the second title in a projected trilogy to feature this charmingly offbeat pair masterfully explores the stories we tell ourselves, the stories we tell each other, and the binding magic of friendship. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-double-trouble-puzzle monthly 0.5 2025-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/71ec04db-845a-41c8-9b14-a79fb1a90938/doubletrouble.jpg New Arrivals - The Double Trouble Puzzle - by James Patterson Minerva Keen is the absolute best kid detective Chicago has ever seen, and she’s hungry for a new mystery to solve with her friends. But a know-it-all new girl, Zoe, tries to take control of MK’s detective club. Worse still, Ms. Claire Voyant, who has always had a soft spot for Minerva, takes Zoe's side. It’s clear to Minerva that someone…or something has taken over her favorite teacher. Add in terrifying nightmares, the return of Minerva’s parents (who come home with more dangerous baggage than just their luggage), and some shocking developments—MK’s Detective Club just might have more mysteries than they can solve. With nowhere to turn, the club walks right into danger…and the stakes just might be deadly. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dcs-misfits-of-magic monthly 0.5 2025-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/fbb903a5-2f85-4d4c-9786-0a4be1ccd057/misfits.jpg New Arrivals - DC’s Misfits of Magic - by Matthew Dow Smith Ricki Jones is your average middle-grader. Her fellow-orphan-turned-adopted-brother Ross is, too. The seven mystical monks training them to protect the Earth from dark supernatural forces are pretty standard adults—they want nothing more than a little peace over summer vacation and all their prior attempts to get the kids out of town led to the camps going out of business. So this year? Rikki and Ross are heading to the town library, where Zatanna Zatara took a camp counselor job she expects to regret. And Rikki’s very normal. Everyone wants to investigate mysterious and strange events that could also mean the end of the world. Right? Everyone gathers a band of rogues and weirdoes to help. That’s just how friendship works! It’s fate (not like, Dr. Fate, just regular fate) that brings her together with Danny Cassidy, the Blue Devil. He’s got ADHD and kinda fused with his Halloween costume, giving him demon powers. And Boston Brand, who died in a horrifying microfiche accident and roams the halls as Deadkid. And don’t forget June Moon, who changes into an incredibly powerful sorceress named The Enchantress. But don’t hold that against her, she’s really very sweet when she's not causing trouble. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/candle-island monthly 0.5 2025-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5ce5d743-938c-445e-9e06-864774b0df38/candle+island.jpg New Arrivals - Candle Island - by Lauren Wolk Lucretia Sanderson has a secret. Lucretia and her mother have come to tiny Candle Island, Maine (Population: Summer, 986; Winter, 315) to escape—escape memories of the car accident that killed her father and escape the journalists that hound her mother, a famous and reclusive artist. The rocky coast and ocean breeze are a welcome respite for Lucretia, who dedicates her summer days to painting, exploring the island, and caring for an orphaned osprey chick. But Candle Island has secrets of its own—a hidden room in her new house, a mysterious boy with a beautiful voice—and just like the strong tides that surround the shores, they will catch Lucretia in their wake. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/broken-country monthly 0.5 2025-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/25695581-91f6-42fa-8641-4fc68f86dd58/broken-country.jpg New Arrivals - Broken Country - by Clare Leslie Hall Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth’s brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn’t realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager—the man who broke her heart years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son, who died in a tragic accident. As Beth is pulled back into Gabriel’s life, tensions around the village rise and dangerous secrets and jealousies from the past resurface, this time with deadly consequences. Beth is forced to make a choice between the woman she once was, and the woman she has become. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/careless-people monthly 0.5 2025-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/cfa16efc-72fe-4728-ae3c-584fc43f0a8f/careless+people.jpg New Arrivals - Careless People - by Sarah Wynn-Williams From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards behind the scenes, this searing memoir exposes both the personal and the political fallout when unfettered power and a rotten company culture take hold. In a gripping and often absurd narrative where a few people carelessly hold the world in their hands, this eye-opening memoir reveals what really goes on among the global elite. Sarah Wynn-Williams tells the wrenching but fun story of Facebook, mapping its rise from stumbling encounters with juntas to Mark Zuckerberg’s reaction when he learned of Facebook’s role in Trump’s election. She experiences the challenges and humiliations of working motherhood within a pressure cooker of a workplace, all while Sheryl Sandberg urges her and others to “lean in.” Careless People is a deeply personal account of why and how things have gone so horribly wrong in the past decade―told in a sharp, candid, and utterly disarming voice. A deep, unflinching look at the role that social media has assumed in our lives, Careless People reveals the truth about the leaders of Facebook: how the more power they grasp, the less responsible they become and the consequences this has for all of us. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/say-youll-remember-me monthly 0.5 2025-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3a77dcc8-466f-4e7f-bd4e-f152e62e7a1e/sayyoull+remember.jpg New Arrivals - Say You’ll Remember Me - by Abby Jimenez There's no such thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes disastrously close. A gorgeous veterinarian giving Greek god vibes—all while cuddling a tiny kitten? Immediate yes. That is until Xavier opens his mouth and proves that even sculpted gods can say the absolute wrong thing. Like, really wrong. Of course, there’s nothing Samantha loves more than proving an asshole wrong . . . unless, of course, he can admit he made a mistake. But after one incredible and seemingly endless date, Samantha is forced to admit the truth, that her family is in crisis and any kind of relationship would be impossible. Samantha begs Xavier to forget her. To remember their night together as a perfect moment, as crushing as that may be. Only no amount of distance or time is enough to forget what's between them. And the only thing better than one single perfect memory is to make a life—and even a love—worth remembering. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/tilt monthly 0.5 2025-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9a3b81f3-bb61-4e5d-ade7-e359bfdc0bd4/tilt.jpg New Arrivals - Tilt - by Emma Pattee Annie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib at IKEA when a massive earthquake hits Portland, Oregon. With no way to reach her husband, no phone or money, and a city left in chaos, there’s nothing to do but walk. Making her way across the wreckage of Portland, Annie experiences human desperation and kindness: strangers offering help, a riot at a grocery store, and an unlikely friendship with a young mother. As she walks, Annie reflects on her struggling marriage, her disappointing career, and her anxiety about having a baby. If she can just make it home, she’s determined to change her life. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/autism-out-loud monthly 0.5 2025-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/cb8609c7-666e-4e7d-a35e-19f269450bdc/autism+out+loud.jpg New Arrivals - Autism Out Loud - by Kate Swenson Kate Swenson, Adrian Wood and Carrie Cariello are from different parts of the country and backgrounds, but they were brought together by a singular experience: they are each a mother to a child with autism. Together they have shared laughter, tears, victories and the unconditional love that molds their lives. Kate, Adrian and Carrie have children with very different autism profiles, and in Autism Out Loud they write about their unique experiences on a variety of topics, from diagnosis to caregiving, schooling and aging. Through their varied stories and lessons they’ve learned, these incredible women provide a glimpse of what to expect on the autism journey and show parents that they are not alone. Written with honesty and heart, the stories within these pages serve as a reminder that even amid the storms of life, there is always hope and beauty to be found. A tribute to the unparalleled love of mothers, this inspiring book illuminates the joys, challenges and everyday miracles of life on the spectrum. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/youre-my-little-sweet-pea monthly 0.5 2025-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/42c522fe-6f85-497f-918b-0682c49aac4b/sweetpea.jpg New Arrivals - You’re My Little Sweet Pea - by Nicola Edwards From the best-selling You’re My Little series comes the cutest and newest title, You’re My Little Sweet Pea! This colorful board book includes cut-outs and raised elements of peanuts, dumplings, honey buns, and more, paired with rhyming text to express the love between parent and child. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-fishermans-gift monthly 0.5 2025-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/113cf76d-38c3-439c-9787-4272a57d05c5/fishermans+gift.jpg New Arrivals - The Fisherman’s Gift - by Julia R. Kelly It’s 1900 and Skerry, a small Scottish fishing village, is destined for an unyielding winter. During a storm, a young boy washes up on the shore. He bears an uncanny resemblance to teacher Dorothy’s son, lost to the sea at the same age many years before, his body never found. The village is soon snowed in, and Dorothy agrees to look after the child until they can uncover the mystery of his origins. But over time, the lines between reality and desperate hope start to blur as the boy reminds Dorothy more and more of her own lost child. The boy’s arrival also finally forces Dorothy to face the truth about her brief but passionate love affair with Joseph, the fisherman who found the boy on the shore and who has been the subject of whispers connecting him to the drowning of Dorothy’s son years earlier. As the past rises to meet the present, long-buried secrets are unearthed within this tight-knit community, and the child’s arrival becomes a catalyst for something far greater than any of them could imagine. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/fair-play monthly 0.5 2025-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/29241f87-00e9-4b3f-87b8-ce5b1a10587a/fairplay.jpg New Arrivals - Fair Play - by Louise Hegarty A group of friends gather at an Airbnb on New Year’s Eve. It is Benjamin’s birthday, and his sister Abigail is throwing him a jazz-age Murder Mystery themed party. As the night plays out, champagne is drunk, hors d’oeuvres consumed, and relationships forged, consolidated or frayed. Someone kisses the wrong person; someone else’s heart is broken. In the morning, all of them wake up—except Benjamin. As Abigail attempts to wrap her mind around her brother’s death, an eminent detective arrives determined to find Benjamin's killer. In this mansion, suddenly complete with a butler, gardener and housekeeper, everyone is a suspect, and nothing is quite as it seems. Will the culprit be revealed? And how can Abigail, now alone, piece herself back together in the wake of this loss? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/my-friends monthly 0.5 2025-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/35b3f041-37d4-4390-aa78-3304949f5b75/my+friends.jpg New Arrivals - My Friends - by Fredrik Backman Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures. Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love. Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be placed into eighteen-year-old Louisa’s care. She embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn how the painting came to be and to decide what to do with it. The closer she gets to the painting’s birthplace, the more nervous she becomes about what she’ll find. Louisa is proof that happy endings don’t always take the form we expect in this stunning testament to the transformative, timeless power of friendship and art. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-names monthly 0.5 2025-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2fc21eea-30a8-44cd-bbc7-e75b9676877e/the+names.jpg New Arrivals - The Names - by Florence Knapp In the wake of a catastrophic storm, Cora sets off with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register her son's birth. Her husband, Gordon, a local doctor, respected in the community but a terrifying and controlling presence at home, intends for her to name the infant after him. But when the registrar asks what she'd like to call the child, Cora hesitates... Spanning thirty-five years, what follows are three alternate and alternating versions of Cora's and her young son's lives, shaped by her choice of name. In richly layered prose, The Names explores the painful ripple effects of domestic abuse, the messy ties of family, and the possibilities of autonomy and healing. With exceptional sensitivity and depth, Knapp draws us into the story of one family, told through a prism of what-ifs, causing us to consider the "one . . . precious life" we are given. The book’s brilliantly imaginative structure, propulsive storytelling, and emotional, gut-wrenching power are certain to make The Names a modern classic. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/my-name-is-emilia-del-valle monthly 0.5 2025-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d4ca2276-f260-4a61-9cc4-4c603fefc00a/emiliadelvalle.jpg New Arrivals - My Name is Emilia Del Valle - by Isabel Allende In San Francisco in 1866, an Irish nun, abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia del Valle. Raised by a loving stepfather, Emilia grows into an independent thinker and a self-sufficient young woman. To pursue her passion for writing, she is willing to defy societal norms. At the age of seventeen, she begins to publish pulp fiction using a man’s pen name. When these fictional worlds can no longer satisfy her sense of adventure, she turns to journalism, convincing an editor at The Daily Examiner to hire her. There she is paired with another talented reporter, Eric Whelan. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-antidote monthly 0.5 2025-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f7bfc0d5-929c-4863-8589-6350e930769b/antidote.jpg New Arrivals - The Antidote - by Karen Russell The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a "Prairie Witch,” whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples’ memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns how quickly a hoarded blessing can become a curse; his orphan niece, a basketball star and witch’s apprentice in furious flight from her grief; a voluble scarecrow; and a New Deal photographer whose time-traveling camera threatens to reveal both the town’s secrets and its fate. Russell's novel is above all a reckoning with a nation’s forgetting—enacting the settler amnesia and willful omissions passed down from generation to generation, and unearthing not only horrors but shimmering possibilities. The Antidote echoes with urgent warnings for our own climate emergency, challenging readers with a vision of what might have been—and what still could be. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-summer-guests monthly 0.5 2025-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/33d375cf-3a7a-4ce8-b491-2c54018b2b22/summerguests.jpg New Arrivals - The Summer Guests - by Tess Gerritsen When former spy Maggie Bird retired to the seaside hamlet of Purity, Maine, she settled in for a quiet life with breathtaking views. But enemies from her past soon threatened to destroy everything. Maggie survived, thanks to her wits and the collective intelligence of the Martini Club, the circle of ex-CIA friends in her cocktail-sipping book club. Their handiwork, however, caught the attention of young police chief Jo Thibodeau. Now Jo and her neighborhood ex-spies have an uneasy alliance. After a teenager vanishes―and Maggie’s neighbor becomes the prime suspect―she joins the investigation, determined to prove her friend’s innocence. But the girl’s wealthy family pushes for an arrest. And when authorities discover a long-dead corpse in a nearby pond, the case becomes doubly complicated, with unthinkable ties to long-buried secrets. As Jo grapples with two unexplained mysteries, the Martini Club races to uncover the truth behind shadowy secrets…before more lives are lost. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/south-of-nowhere monthly 0.5 2025-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/586ba9c2-7b94-4dce-a836-527b69b51b84/deaver.jpg New Arrivals - South of Nowhere - by Jeffery Deaver A small town in Northern California is at risk of being destroyed by a failing levee, and Coltor Shaw has been hired to locate a family swept away by the raging water, with just mere hours to survive. But is the levee at risk of failing from natural causes or is someone sabotaging it? With the help of his sister, Dorion, the duo must save the citizens before the old town washes out at the hands of secret conspirer. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-flower-thief monthly 0.5 2025-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/947744bc-0a3f-4594-8928-12433c6e1b91/flower+theif.jpg New Arrivals - The Flower Thief - by Alice Hemming "Hello brand new day. Hello sunshine! Hello lovely leaves. Nice to see you back." Spring is here and today a flower has sprung to life. But when Squirrel becomes too protective of it, Bird shows Squirrel the right way to let flowers blossom and grow. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/little-blue-truck-and-racer-red monthly 0.5 2025-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1745517491112-THNU1CE16F50W993QQFZ/littleblueandracerred.jpg New Arrivals - Little Blue Truck and Racer Red - by Alice Schertle Little Blue Truck and good friend Toad are out for a drive when a flash of red whizzes by—then whizzes back to stop and say hi. Sleek and low, Racer Red is made for speed and loves to go fast! When she challenges Blue to a race, Blue knows that win or lose, it’s fun to try! Beep! Beep! Zooooom! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/agents-of-suit-wils-ghost-chase monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/cd140207-4436-4028-bb9e-f4cf86d00940/agentssuit3.jpg New Arrivals - Agents of S.U.I.T. (3) Wild Ghost Chase - by John Patrick Green New S.U.I.T. recruit Zeb the sheep joins the flock to help crack the greatest mystery of all! But, uhh...just what is the greatest mystery of all? That's the question that's kept the dearly departed General Inspectre haunting Earth long after he should have moved on to the great super-spy base in the sky. Having a ghost in the halls of S.U.I.T. wouldn't be so bad...except he's possessing agents! Zeb -- along with Cilantro, Bongo, Marsha, and everyone's favorite Gators -- must decipher the series' biggest mystery EVER. They've got to free their pal and finish the Inspectre's unfinished business! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/agents-of-suit-from-badger-to-worse monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c573dd91-21c1-4c8d-9c02-467c88fc1545/agentssuit2.jpg New Arrivals - Agents of S.U.I.T. (2) From Badger to Worse - by John Patrick Green That’s right, Bongo and Marsha, the super-spy Badgers, are on the case…and way over-budget. When S.U.I.T. realizes just how much money the Badgers waste with their gadgets and spy vehicles and custom plush toys, they’re sent to Bora Bora to investigate a case…the old-fashioned way. The bees―that’s “bee-ee-ee,” like the insect―that run the resort are hiding something under the tropical sands, and Marsha and Bongo are just the bumbling agents to crack this pineapple-flavored caper wide open. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/agents-of-suit monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ca1bf607-52bb-4f3e-8e93-8b17d0aff90a/gents+of+suit1.jpg New Arrivals - Agents of S.U.I.T. - by John Patrick Green At S.U.I.T. headquarters, Cilantro the Chameleon finally gets what she’s been waiting for: a field assignment. Only…it’s literally out in the middle of a field, and her orders are so vague, she can hardly tell what she’s supposed to be investigating. But as she begins to uncover a sheep-led worker’s rights revolt and an alien invasion conspiracy―not to mention a spooky haunting at the abandoned S.U.I.T. field outpost―Cilantro steps into her own V.E.S.T. as a valued member of the S.U.I.T. team. From InvestiGators mastermind John Patrick Green, the world of S.U.I.T. has never been more fun! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/source-code monthly 0.5 2025-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e7f9c8f6-9bd2-4b46-90b3-2bf7e9305091/source+code.jpg New Arrivals - Source Code - by Bill Gates Everyone is programmed a little differently, and Bill Gates' unique insight led to business triumphs that are now widely known: the twenty-year-old who dropped out of Harvard to start a software company that became an industry giant and changed the way the world works and lives; the billionaire many times over who turned his attention to philanthropic pursuits to address climate change, global health, and U.S. education. Source Code is not about Microsoft or the Gates Foundation or the future of technology. It’s the human, personal story of how Bill Gates became who he is today: his childhood, his early passions and pursuits. It’s the story of his principled grandmother and ambitious parents, his first deep friendships and the sudden death of his best friend; of his struggles to fit in and his discovery of a world of coding and computers in the dawn of a new era; of embarking in his early teens on a path that took him from midnight escapades at a nearby computer center to his college dorm room, where he sparked a revolution that would change the world. Bill Gates tells this, his own story, for the first time: wise, warm, revealing, it’s a fascinating portrait of an American life. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/if-cats-disappeared-from-the-world monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/999de05a-c551-455d-be83-6d130ff4b802/cats+disappeared.jpg New Arrivals - If Cats Disappeared from the World - by Genki Kawamura This timeless tale from Genki Kawamura (producer of the Japanese blockbuster animated movie Your Name) is a moving story of loss and reconciliation, and of one man’s journey to discover what really matters most in life. The young postman’s days are numbered. Estranged from his family and living alone with only his cat, Cabbage, to keep him company, he was unprepared for the doctor’s diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can tackle his bucket list, the devil shows up to make him an offer: In exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, the postman will be granted one extra day of life. And so begins a very strange week that brings the young postman and his beloved cat to the brink of existence. With each object that disappears, the postman reflects on the life he’s lived, his joys and regrets, and the people he’s loved and lost. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/blood-moon monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a79caaa1-6159-4041-b704-f39357c91acb/blood+moon.jpg New Arrivals - Blood Moon - by Sandra Brown Detective John Bowie is one misstep away from being fired from the Auclair Police Department in coastal Louisiana. Recently divorced and slightly heavy-handed with his liquor, Bowie does all that he can to cope with the actions taken (or not taken) during the investigation of Crissy Mellin, a teenage girl who disappeared more than three years prior. But now, Crisis Point, a long-running true crime television series, is soon to air an episode documenting the unsolved Mellin case. Bowie has been instructed by his unscrupulous boss to keep to his grievances and criticisms over the mishandling of the investigation to himself. Beth Collins, a senior producer on Crisis Point, knows what classifies as a great story and when there’s something more to be told. After working on the show for seven years, Collins is convinced that Crissy Mellin’s disappearance was not an isolated incident. A string of disappearances of teenage girls in nearby areas have only one thing in common: They took place on the night of a blood moon. In a last-ditch effort to find out the truth, Beth enlists Detective Bowie to help her figure out what happened to Crissy and find the true culprit before he acts on the next blood moon—in four days’ time. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/abundance monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0c9e2ea9-6ce7-4950-9ece-55602d0fc070/abundance.jpg New Arrivals - Abundance - by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson To trace the history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a history of unaffordability and shortage. After years of refusing to build sufficient housing, America has a national housing crisis. After years of limiting immigration, we don’t have enough workers. Despite decades of being warned about the consequences of climate change, we haven’t built anything close to the clean-energy infrastructure we need. Ambitious public projects are finished late and over budget—if they are ever finished at all. The crisis that’s clicking into focus now has been building for decades—because we haven’t been building enough. Abundance explains that our problems today are not the results of yesteryear’s villains. Rather, one generation’s solutions have become the next gener­ation’s problems. Rules and regulations designed to solve the problems of the 1970s often prevent urban-density and green-energy projects that would help solve the problems of the 2020s. Laws meant to ensure that government considers the consequences of its actions have made it too difficult for government to act consequentially. In the last few decades, our capacity to see problems has sharpened while our ability to solve them has diminished. Progress requires facing up to the institutions in life that are not working as they need to. It means, for liberals, recognizing when the government is failing. It means, for conservatives, recognizing when the government is needed. In a book exploring how we can move from a liberalism that not only protects and pre­serves but also builds, Klein and Thompson trace the political, economic, and cultural barriers to progress and propose a path toward a politics of abundance. At a time when movements of scarcity are gaining power in country after country, this is an answer that meets the challenges of the moment while grappling honestly with the fury so many rightfully feel. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/elphie-a-wicked-childhood monthly 0.5 2025-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b6a8ed87-36ac-48fa-bceb-6b3671ae5514/elphie.jpg New Arrivals - Elphie: A Wicked Childhood - by Gregory Maguire Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, will grow to have a feisty and somewhat uncompromising character in adult life. But she is always a one-off, from her infancy; Elphie is the riveting coming-of-age story of a very peculiar and relatable young girl. Young Elphie is shaped and molded by the behaviors of her promiscuous mother, Melena, and her pious father, Frex. She suffers ordinary childhood jealousies when her sister, saintly Nessarose, and brother, junior felon Shell, arrive. She first encounters the mistreatment of the Animal populations of Oz, which live adjacent to but not intertwined with human settlements, haunted by a Monkey and receiving aid from Dwarf Bears. She thrashes through her first bruising attempts at friendship, a possible lifeline from her tricky family life. And she gleans the benefits of an education, haphazard though it must be—until she arrives at the doors of Shiz University, about to meet the radiant creature that is Galinda. Elphie is destined to be a witch; she bears the markings from childhood—most evidently in her green skin but more obscurely and profoundly in her cunning and perhaps amoral behaviors, as she seeks to make do, to slip by, to sneak out, to endure, and to aspire. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/sunrise-on-the-reaping monthly 0.5 2025-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5df753d6-10e6-482e-8b95-9de130952d50/sunrise+reaping.jpg New Arrivals - Sunrise on the Reaping - by Suzanne Collins As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves. When Haymitch’s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/make-money-easy monthly 0.5 2025-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c7ff82d2-fde1-4cc1-924b-9a3e7c3ba7fa/make+money.jpg New Arrivals - Make Money Easy - by Lewis Howes Are you tired of living paycheck to paycheck? Do you feel trapped by your monthly expenses? Do you wonder how some people enjoy financial free­dom while you seem stuck? Your relationship with money begins with having the right mindset. Until you heal your relationship with money, nothing can change for the better. Because if you don’t care for your money, your money won’t care for you. Lewis Howes, host of The School of Greatness show, offers the practical advice and mindset shifts you need in order to make financial peace and fulfillment a day-to-day reality. Leveraging insights gained from interviews with the world’s leading financial experts, the latest research around the psychology of money, and his own journey to success, Lewis walks you through how to: Identify your Money Style (a key to understanding why you are lacking abundance) Develop a powerful Money Mindset so you can earn more Create a Money Map to reach clear financial goals Appreciate your value and discover your hidden skills for greater earning potential Find your Money Mentors to limit money losses and accelerate financial gains And much more . . . https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-story-she-left-behind monthly 0.5 2025-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/fb619566-e716-40f0-ac05-c8847c52bf17/story+behind.jpg New Arrivals - The Story She Left Behind - by Patti Callahan Henry In 1927, eight-year-old Clara Harrington’s magical childhood shatters when her mother, renowned author, Bronwyn Newcastle Fordham, disappears off the coast of South Carolina. Bronwyn stunned the world with a book written in an invented language that became a national sensation when she was just twelve years old. Her departure leaves behind not only a devoted husband and heartbroken daughter, but also the hope of ever translating the sequel to her landmark work. As the headlines focus on the missing author, Clara yearns for something far deeper and more insatiable: her beautiful mother. By 1952, Clara is an illustrator raising her own daughter, Wynnie. When a stranger named Charlie Jameson contacts her from London claiming to have discovered a handwritten dictionary of her mother’s lost language. Clara is skeptical. Compelled by the tragedy of her mother’s vanishing, she crosses the Atlantic with Wynnie only to arrive during one of London’s most deadly natural disasters—the Great Smog. With asthmatic Wynnie in peril, they escape the city with Charlie and find refuge in the Jameson’s family retreat nestled in the Lake District. It is there that Clara must find the courage to uncover the truth about her mother and the story she left behind. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/rebellion-1776 monthly 0.5 2025-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c8b433ce-b959-41c4-8a7d-dbacfe6bf770/rebellion.jpg New Arrivals - Rebellion 1776 - by Laurie Halse Anderson In the spring of 1776, thirteen-year-old Elsbeth Culpepper wakes to the sound of cannons. It’s the Siege of Boston, the Patriots’ massive drive to push the Loyalists out that turns the city into a chaotic war zone. Elsbeth’s father—her only living relative—has gone missing, leaving her alone and adrift in a broken town while desperately seeking employment to avoid the orphanage. Just when things couldn’t feel worse, the smallpox epidemic sweeps across Boston. Now, Bostonians must fight for their lives against an invisible enemy in addition to the visible one. While a treatment is being frantically fine-tuned, thousands of people rush in from the countryside begging for inoculation. At the same time, others refuse protection, for the treatment is crude at best and at times more dangerous than the disease itself. Elsbeth, who had smallpox as a small child and is now immune, finds work taking care of a large, wealthy family with discord of their own as they await a turn at inoculation, but as the epidemic and the revolution rage on, will she find her father? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/how-to-sleep-at-night monthly 0.5 2025-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9ea76503-169d-4607-be7f-1fae68aaa7b2/howtosleep.jpg New Arrivals - How to Sleep at Night - by Elizabeth Harris Meet Ethan and Gabe. A devoted couple for years, they have successful careers, an adorable daughter, and a house in the New Jersey suburbs. Sure, they may have drifted to different ends of the political spectrum, but their marriage still has its spark. Then one night Ethan makes an announcement: he wants to run for Congress as a Republican—but only if he has progressive Gabe’s blessing. For weeks a slightly queasy Gabe struggles between supporting his husband and maintaining his own lefty ideals. He can feel himself slowly pulled under the tide of Ethan’s ambitions, even as he becomes widely known as a conservative spouse. In a nearby town, suburban mom Nicole wonders what happened to her younger self—living in New York City, freely dating men and women, and on a path to a career in the art world. Nicole feels like an accessory in her husband’s life and like she’s given up on the goals she had for herself. Then an old flame re-enters her life unexpectedly. That woman is Ethan’s sister Kate. A political reporter at a major newspaper, Kate has reached the top of her profession. But the adrenaline rush of chasing a story has lost its thrill. When Nicole—the woman who broke her heart—slides into her DMs just as her brother starts his controversial congressional run, Kate’s life is thrown into a tailspin that threatens to derail the success she’s worked so hard to achieve. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/heartwood monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a25a69b6-d232-4aa2-94e7-5c1bb5a4b1c4/heartwood.jpg New Arrivals - Heartwood - by Amity Gaige In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping. At the heart of the investigation is Beverly, the determined Maine State Game Warden tasked with finding Valerie, who leads the search on the ground. Meanwhile, Lena, a seventy-six-year-old birdwatcher in a Connecticut retirement community, becomes an unexpected armchair detective. Roving between these compelling narratives, a puzzle emerges, intensifying the frantic search, as Valerie’s disappearance may not be accidental. Heartwood is a “gem of a thousand facets—suspenseful, transporting, tender, and ultimately soul-mending,” (Megan Majumdar, New York Times bestselling author of A Burning) that tells the story of a lost hiker’s odyssey and is a moving rendering of each character’s interior journey. The mystery inspires larger questions about the many ways in which we get lost, and how we are found. At its core, Heartwood is a redemptive novel, written with both enormous literary ambition and love. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-sirens monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/09a7debe-50c8-4824-9639-0c55cbb7007b/the+sirens.jpg New Arrivals - The Sirens - by Emilia Hart 2019: Lucy awakens from a dream to find her hands around her ex-lover’s throat. Horrified, she flees to her older sister’s house on the Australian coast, hoping she can help explain the strangely vivid nightmare that preceded the attack―but Jess is nowhere to be found. As Lucy awaits her return, the rumors surrounding Jess’s strange small town start to emerge. Numerous men have gone missing at sea, spread over decades. A tiny baby was found hidden in a cave. And sailors tell of hearing women’s voices on the waves. Desperate for answers, Lucy finds and begins to read her sister’s adolescent diary. 1999: Jess is a lonely sixteen-year-old in a rural town in the middle of the continent. Diagnosed with a rare allergy to water, she has always felt different, until her young, charming art teacher takes an interest in her drawings, seeing a power and maturity in them―and in her―that no one else has. 1800: Twin sisters Mary and Eliza have been torn from their loving father in Ireland and forced onto a convict ship bound for Australia. For their entire lives, they’ve feared the ocean, as their mother tragically drowned when they were just girls. Yet as the boat bears them further and further from all they know, they begin to notice changes in their bodies that they can’t explain, and they feel the sea beginning to call to them… https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/wild-dark-shore monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/78e9bac0-6e22-480d-9a77-03ce2be79d2c/wilddarkshore.jpg New Arrivals - Wild Dark Shore - by Charlotte McConaghy A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon. Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore. Isolation has taken its toll on the Salts, but as they nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, it begins to feel like she might just be what they need. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting herself, starts imagining a future where she could belong to someone again. But Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, they all must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious seeds in their care before it’s too late—and if they can finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/flight-risk monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/af10bcee-1ae3-43e2-b559-a773daaa320a/flightrisk.jpg New Arrivals - Flight Risk A pilot, an Air Marshal, and her fugitive clash in this high-stakes suspense thriller directed by Mel Gibson and starring Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Dockery, and Topher Grace. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dog-man monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d1167da3-7193-4587-8ad2-55d569af36ef/dogmandvd.jpg New Arrivals - Dog Man When a faithful police dog and his human police officer owner are injured on the job, a harebrained surgery fuses the two of them together and Dog Man is born! As he embraces his new identity and strives to impress his Chief (Lil Rel Howery, Get Out), Dog Man must stop the villainous Petey the Cat (Pete Davidson, Saturday Night Live) from cloning himself and creating an evil kitten, doubling his evil abilities. The story takes a turn when the kitten forges an unexpected bond with Dog Man and in the process, they discover the power of family to bring even the most hostile foes together. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/propaganda-girls monthly 0.5 2025-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9a80465a-d67d-4074-9dea-b264a0552149/propaganda.jpg New Arrivals - Propaganda Girls - by Lisa Rogak Betty MacDonald was a 28-year-old reporter from Hawaii. Zuzka Lauwers grew up in a tiny Czechoslovakian village and knew five languages by the time she was 21. Jane Smith-Hutton was the wife of a naval attaché living in Tokyo. Marlene Dietrich, the German-American actress and singer, was of course one of the biggest stars of the 20th century. These four women, each fascinating in her own right, together contributed to one of the most covert and successful military campaigns in WWII. As members of the OSS, their task was to create a secret brand of propaganda produced with the sole aim to break the morale of Axis soldiers. Working in the European theater, across enemy lines in occupied China, and in Washington, D.C., Betty, Zuzka, Jane, and Marlene forged letters and “official” military orders, wrote and produced entire newspapers, scripted radio broadcasts and songs, and even developed rumors for undercover spies and double agents to spread to the enemy. And outside of a small group of spies, no one knew they existed. Until now. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/nobodys-fool monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/fbf30236-936c-4924-9347-ecc7628a62b6/nobodysfool.jpg New Arrivals - Nobody’s Fool - by Harlan Coben Sami Kierce, a young college grad backpacking in Spain with friends, wakes up one morning, covered in blood. There’s a knife in his hand. Beside him, the body of his girlfriend. Anna. Dead. He doesn’t know what happened. His screams drown out his thoughts—and then he runs. Twenty-two years later, Kierce, now a private investigator, is a new father who’s working off his debts by doing low level surveillance jobs and teaching wannabe sleuths at a night school in New York City. One evening, he recognizes a familiar face at the back of the classroom. Anna. It’s unmistakably her. As soon as Kierce makes eye contact with her, she bolts. For Kierce there is no choice. He knows he must find this woman and solve the impossible mystery that has haunted his every waking moment since that terrible day. His investigation will bring him face-to-face with his past—and prove, after all this time, he’s nobody’s fool. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/martyr monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8c627642-86f9-4aea-ac31-d4b905e56291/martyr.jpg New Arrivals - Martyr! - by Kaveh Akbar Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/lost-on-a-mountain-in-maine monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7caf98c6-b87f-4f40-b451-cfa18992683e/lostmountain.jpg New Arrivals - Lost on a Mountain in Maine The inspiring true story of 12-year-old Donn Fendler who, separated from his family by a fast-moving storm, must fight to stay alive while lost for nine-days in the remote wilderness of northern Maine. Donn's disappearance captures national headlines and sparks a massive search effort attracting hundreds of volunteers, including his own father who fears he may never see his son again. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-paris-express monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/bca160fe-9bf0-4ab8-a577-71a9fd550720/parisexpress.jpg New Arrivals - The Paris Express - by Emma Donohue Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in history when it was captured in a series of surreal, extraordinary photographs, The Paris Express is a propulsive novel set on a train packed with a fascinating cast of characters who hail from as close as Brittany and as far as Russia, Ireland, Algeria, Pennsylvania, and Cambodia. Members of parliament hurry back to Paris to vote; a medical student suspects a girl may be dying; a secretary tries to convince her boss of the potential of moving pictures; two of the train’s crew build a life away from their wives; a young anarchist makes a terrifying plan, and much more. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-writer monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/77dfcc95-5702-4521-a1b4-8cc8be13487e/the+writer.jpg New Arrivals - The Writer - by James Patterson and J.D. Barker NYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets a call: How fast can you get to the Beresford building on Central Park West? In the tower apartment, Shaw finds a woman waiting for him. She’s covered in blood. A body is lying dead on the floor of the luxurious living room. Every book in the apartment’s floor-to-ceiling shelves is by the same author: bestselling true-crime writer Denise Morrow. "This is you?" Shaw asks the woman. "You're a writer?" Only one person knows the ending to this story. Is it the victim or the killer? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/salt-water monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/fd02fd2d-d2ca-4732-9a2f-599dfb0ab2cb/salt+water.jpg New Arrivals - Salt Water - by Katy Hayes In 1992, Sarah Lingate is found dead below the cliffs of Capri, leaving behind her three-year-old daughter, Helen. Despite suspicions that the old-money Lingates are involved, Sarah’s death is ruled an accident. And every year, the family returns to prove it’s true. But on the thirtieth anniversary of Sarah’s death, the Lingates arrive at the villa to find a surprise waiting for them—the necklace Sarah was wearing the night she died. Haunted by the specter of that night, the legendary Lingate family unity is pushed to a breaking point, and Helen seizes the opportunity. Enlisting the help of Lorna Moreno, a family assistant, the two plot their escape from Helen’s paranoid, insular family. But when Lorna disappears and the investigation into Sarah’s death is reopened, Helen has to confront the fact that everyone who was on Capri thirty years ago remains a suspect—her controlling father, Richard; her rarely lucid aunt, Naomi; her distant uncle, Marcus; and their circle of friends, visitors, and staff. Even Lorna, her closest ally, may not be who she seems. As long-hidden secrets about that night boil to surface, one thing becomes clear: Not everyone will leave the island alive. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/fight-or-flight monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/65083e83-6e78-4389-9271-27e8b711d8ac/fight+or+flight.jpg New Arrivals - Fight or Flight - by Fern Michaels From the comfort of her beautiful mountain-top retreat, Katherine Winston creates her bestselling young adult series, Girls with Unusual Powers. No one in the nearby small town has any idea of her true identity. To them, she’s just the reclusive woman on the mountain, and Katherine is grateful to be left alone. It wasn’t always this way. Though her parents were as neglectful as they were wealthy, Katherine built up a busy, full life. Then tragedy struck and she retreated, panic-stricken at the idea of engaging with anyone again. Aside from her two faithful dogs who provide companionship and security, Katherine mostly interacts with people anonymously online through reader fan pages. Now one of those fans appears to be in danger, and Katherine desperately wants to help. But that means moving beyond her isolated world for the first time in years. More and more, Katherine can’t shake the feeling that some of her fears may be justified. Someone is watching her, she’s sure of it, and they’re getting closer all the time. And only by leaving her self-imposed exile can she hope to find the answers she needs, the courage to trust again, and an unexpected new beginning . . . https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/spring-stinks monthly 0.5 2025-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/11dc0750-5fd5-4d43-b656-45b7b49b1a97/spring+stinks.jpg New Arrivals - Spring Stinks - by Ryan T. Higgins Ruth the bunny is excited to share the smelly springtime smells of spring with Bruce! But what will Bruce think of all that stink? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/construction-site-spring-delight monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8e2cd43c-a813-46b8-bd86-13d556d58c65/constructionsitespring.jpg New Arrivals - Construction Site: Spring Delight - by Sherri Duskey Rinker It's Easter at the construction site! As sunshine melts the snow away, the trucks discover all around them the signs of spring. Lift the flaps on each sturdy page to reveal blooming flowers, baby ducks, and gentle lambs—and a special Easter egg hunt surprise! With bestselling author Sherri Duskey Rinker's lovable rhyming text and heartwarming illustrations by AG Ford, this interactive Easter board book will bring smiles to truck lovers and their families while celebrating the beauty of spring. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/abbott-elementary-season3 monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d1fe4c34-573b-4a6d-bece-67174446274d/abbottE3.jpg New Arrivals - Abbott Elementary (Season 3) ABBOTT ELEMENTARY follows a group of dedicated, passionate teachers - and a slightly tone-deaf principal - who are brought together in a Philadelphia public school where, despite the odds stacked against them, they are determined to help their students succeed in life. Though these incredible educators may be outnumbered and underfunded, they love what they do - even if they don't love the school district's less-than-stellar attitude toward educating children. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/moana2 monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0c768dfd-ed9f-4016-9643-35850be0d0da/moana2.jpg New Arrivals - Moana 2 Walt Disney Animation Studios’ animated musical reunites Moana and Maui three years later for an expansive new voyage alongside a crew of unlikely seafarers. After hearing from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana must journey into long-lost waters for an adventure. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/everything-is-tuberculosis monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1cb27130-3da2-4c2b-a86e-08cfbe421d3a/tuberculosis.jpg New Arrivals - Everything is Tuberculosis - by John Green Tuberculosis has been entwined with hu­manity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John be­came fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequi­ties that allow this curable, preventable infec­tious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/jackals-mistress monthly 0.5 2025-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/03645c1c-2b1b-485b-8f65-503b3bf74449/jackalsmistress.jpg New Arrivals - Jackal’s Mistress - by Chris Bohjalian Virginia, 1864—Libby Steadman’s husband has been away for so long that she can barely conjure his voice in her dreams. While she longs for him in the night, fearing him dead in a Union prison camp, her days are spent running a gristmill with her teenage niece, a hired hand, and his wife, all the grain they can produce requisitioned by the Confederate Army. It’s an uneasy life in the Shenandoah Valley, the territory frequently changing hands, control swinging back and forth like a pendulum between North and South, and Libby awakens every morning expecting to see her land a battlefield. And then she finds a gravely injured Union officer left for dead in a neighbor’s house, the bones of his hand and leg shattered. Captain Jonathan Weybridge of the Vermont Brigade is her enemy—but he’s also a human being, and Libby must make a terrible decision: Does she leave him to die alone? Or does she risk treason and try to nurse him back to health? And if she succeeds, does she try to secretly bring him across Union lines, where she might negotiate a trade for news of her own husband? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/good-dog-this-little-pup-went-to-the-market monthly 0.5 2025-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3d211246-35d0-47af-97b3-d7c85921b939/gooddog14.jpg New Arrivals - Good Dog 14: This Little Pup Went to the Market - by Cam Higgins What’s not to love about the smell of fresh-baked bread, gleaming piles of fruit, and homemade treats? Bo is having a splendid time exploring until he realizes one of his animal friends from the farm has accidentally tagged along. Our pup finds that he’s in for a day of locally-grown chaos and fun. With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Good Dog chapter books are perfect for emerging readers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/hell-on-wheels monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/51c36cda-f4ce-4cbd-8bd6-26f540908f17/hellonwheels.jpg New Arrivals - Hell on Wheels (The Complete Series) Hell on Wheels tells the epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on a Confederate solider (Anson Mount) who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who have killed his wife. His journey takes him west to 'Hell on Wheels,' a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time. The series explores the railroad's institutionalized greed and corruption, the immigrant experience, and the plight of the newly emancipated African-Americans during reconstruction. Over time, Hell on Wheels chronicles this potent turning point in American history, and how uncivilized the business of civilization can be. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/battle-mountain monthly 0.5 2025-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/115e9ffb-dc1f-413b-bba0-a0578b7a8bf8/battlemountain.jpg New Arrivals - Battle Mountain - by C.J. Box The campaign of destruction that Axel Soledad and Dallas Cates wreaked on Nate Romanowski and Joe Pickett left both men in tatters, especially Nate, who lost almost everything. Wondering if the civilized life left him vulnerable to attack, Nate dropped off the grid with his falcons in tow to prepare for vengeance. When Joe gets a call from the governor asking for help finding his son-in-law, who has gone missing in the Sierra Madre mountain range, he enlists the help of a local, a rookie game warden named Susan Kany. As Nate and fellow falconer Geronimo Jones circle closer to their prey, Joe and Susan follow the nearly cold trail to Warm Springs. Little do Nate and Joe know that their separate journeys are about to converge . . . at Battle Mountain. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/beach-vibes monthly 0.5 2025-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c2ce24b1-1eff-4064-a6f6-d3e6c30448e7/beachvibes.jpg New Arrivals - Beach Vibes - by Susan Mallery While Beth is proud of her Malibu beach shop, Surf Sandwiches, she's even prouder of her charismatic brother Rick, who rose from foster care through surgical residency. She makes subs, he saves lives. Life takes a turn for the happy after she finds out Rick is dating her new best friend, Jana. Then Jana’s handsome brother adds even more sparkle to Beth’s days...and nights. But when she catches Rick with another woman—like, with-with—her visions of an idyllic family future disappear in one awful instant. Either she betrays her brother, or she keeps his secret and risks losing the man she loves and her best friend. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/gladiator-ii monthly 0.5 2025-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/039f576c-8096-4930-9aa9-1eb9f893b750/gladiator2.jpg New Arrivals - Gladiator II From legendary director Ridley Scott, Gladiator II continues the epic saga of power, intrigue, and vengeance set in Ancient Rome. Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius (Paul Mescal) is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist. With rage in his heart and the future of the Empire at stake, Lucius must look to his past to find strength and honor to return the glory of Rome to its people. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dream-count monthly 0.5 2025-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b4e5bc36-dfc0-4ee2-bdcb-535ee132ee4d/dreamcount.jpg New Arrivals - Dream Count - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until—betrayed and brokenhearted—she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America—but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve. In Dream Count, Adichie trains her fierce eye on these women in a sparkling, transcendent novel that takes up the very nature of love itself. Is true happiness ever attainable or is it just a fleeting state? And how honest must we be with ourselves in order to love, and to be loved? A trenchant reflection on the choices we make and those made for us, on daughters and mothers, on our interconnected world, Dream Count pulses with emotional urgency and poignant, unflinching observations of the human heart, in language that soars with beauty and power. It confirms Adichie’s status as one of the most exciting and dynamic writers on the literary landscape. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/7-days monthly 0.5 2025-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b5bd43bc-e6aa-46b1-9007-5a6ef8920684/7days.jpg New Arrivals - 7 Days - by Jule Selbo Harassment comes in all shapes and sizes and Dee Rommel’s protective streak – particularly when it comes to her mother’s well-being and Dee’s new clients, is triggered. When an avid environmentalist and scion of Portland is murdered, Dee’s boss, private investigator Gordy Greer, puts Dee on the case. Details and clues seem to work at cross-purposes, land deals worth millions and conservation concerns are at loggerheads and families are at war over who gets crowned the ultimate decision- maker. Dee is thrown in with a diverse cast of harassed suspects and has to step into dangerous territory to defend the weakest among them. Dee gains new insight, about herself and her loved ones. She has choices to make, and they must be the right choices – for their safety – and hers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/homecoming-a-downeast-novel monthly 0.5 2025-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3fc5564e-4cc0-461d-9d75-7a0ed5841245/homecoming.jpg New Arrivals - Homecoming - by Marie Force For years, Kara Ballard Torrington has kept her distance from the town in Maine where she was raised and the boisterous, often-troubled Ballard family. She’s made a whole new life for herself on Gansett Island that is upended by a phone call in which she learns that two of her brothers have been accused of murder. When her parents ask her husband, celebrated attorney Dan Torrington, to come help them, Kara is forced to confront the drama she left behind in Maine as well as a whole new set of issues that have arisen in her absence. As Dan works to free her brothers, Kara confronts some of the unfinished business she left behind in Maine. One of our favorite couples from the Gansett Island Series takes a fraught journey to Kara’s hometown, where their bond becomes even stronger as they face these new challenges together—with a goal of returning home to Gansett before their baby is born. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/will-the-pigeon-graduate monthly 0.5 2025-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1741286284565-LJQ69CCPMWZ16YFQJ3IL/pigeon+graduate.jpg New Arrivals - Will the Pigeon Graduate? - by Mo Willems The Pigeon had better graduate! He did the work! He paid attention to the little details! He overcame some BIG obstacles! The Pigeon’s got this . . . Or does he? Do YOU think The Pigeon will graduate? Grab your caps, don your gowns, and raise your hands for The Pigeon’s biggest adventure yet in this uplifting, hilarious, and inspirational graduation picture book from three-time Caldecott honoree Mo Willems. It’s a PhD* in fun! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/why-we-celebrate-st-patricks-day monthly 0.5 2025-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/81a58e6f-00b3-49dc-b7ee-3d58650c6a6e/stpatricksday.jpg New Arrivals - Why We Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day - by John O’Brien Jr. St. Patrick's Day is about more than just shamrocks and leprechauns! It's a day to honor St. Patrick, one of the official church patron saints of Ireland. Learn all about the history, traditions, food, and more with this book of facts and activities that encourage you to join in on the fun. So many ways to get festive―Discover how St. Patrick's Day is celebrated around the world with parades, treasure hunts, and the color green! Celebrate at home―Explore St. Patrick's Day customs with included activities like making Rainbow Noisemakers and tasty Lucky Green Shakes. Fascinating facts and pictures―Vibrant illustrations and kid-friendly language help bring St. Patrick's Day to life. Discover Why We Celebrate St. Patrick's Day! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/why-does-the-wind-blow monthly 0.5 2025-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2c841951-0ff4-4cc3-8814-7544b7555ea4/whywindblow.jpg New Arrivals - Why Does the Wind Blow? - by Eric Carle In this nonfiction story, young readers will discover what makes the wind whoosh around them. The wonders of nature come to life in this early-learning series centered around weather, featuring simple text and Eric Carle's classic illustrations! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/darkmotherland monthly 0.5 2025-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/bca964e4-3828-4d34-8724-717db312800e/darkmotherland.jpg New Arrivals - Darkmotherland - by Samrat Upadhyay In Darkmotherland, Nepali writer Samrat Upadhyay has created a novel of infinite embrace—filled with lovers and widows, dictators and dissidents, paupers, fundamentalists, and a genderqueer power player with her eyes on the throne—in an earthquake-ravaged dystopian reimagining of Nepal. At its heart are two intertwining narratives: one of Kranti, a revolutionary’s daughter who marries into a plutocratic dynasty and becomes ensnared in the family’s politics. And then there is the tale of Darkmotherland’s new dictator and his mistress, Rozy, who undergoes radical body changes and grows into a figure of immense power. Darkmotherland is a romp through the vast space of a globalized universe where personal ambitions are inextricably tied to political fortunes, where individual identities are shaped by family pressures and social reins, and where the East connects to and collides with the West in brilliant and unsettling ways. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-quiet-librarian monthly 0.5 2025-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/de2d69da-5e2a-47e4-a26d-5fa83e0eb71d/quietlibrarian.jpg New Arrivals - The Quiet Librarian - by Allen Eskens Hana Babic is a quiet, middle-aged librarian in Minnesota who wants nothing more than to be left alone. But when a detective arrives with the news that her best friend has been murdered, Hana knows that something evil has come for her, a dark remnant of the past she and her friend had shared. Thirty years before, Hana was someone else: Nura Divjak, a teenager growing up in the mountains of war-torn Bosnia—until Serbian soldiers arrived to slaughter her entire family before her eyes. The events of that day thrust Nura into the war, leading her to join a band of militia fighters, where she became not only a fierce warrior but a legend—the deadly Night Mora. But a shattering final act forced Nura to flee to the United States with a bounty on her head. Now, someone is hunting Hana, and her friend has paid the price, leaving her eight-year-old grandson in Hana’s care. To protect the child without revealing her secret, Hana must again become the Night Mora—and hope she can find the killer before the past comes for them, too. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/we-who-wrestle-with-god monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0127140f-9d34-43b1-a56f-d7c99544b012/wrestlegod.jpg New Arrivals - We Who Wrestle with God - by Jordan B. Peterson In We Who Wrestle with God, Dr. Peterson guides us through the ancient, foundational stories of the Western world. In riveting detail, he analyzes the Biblical accounts of rebellion, sacrifice, suffering, and triumph that stabilize, inspire, and unite us culturally and psychologically. Adam and Eve and the eternal fall of mankind; the resentful and ultimately murderous war of Cain and Abel; the cataclysmic flood of Noah; the spectacular collapse of the Tower of Babel; Abraham’s terrible adventure; and the epic of Moses and the Israelites. What could such stories possibly mean? What force wrote and assembled them over the long centuries? How did they bring our spirits and the world together, and point us in the same direction? It is time for us to understand such things, scientifically and spiritually; to become conscious of the structure of our souls and our societies; and to see ourselves and others as if for the first time. Join Elijah as he discovers the Voice of God in the dictates of his own conscience and Jonah confronting hell itself in the belly of the whale because he failed to listen and act. Set yourself straight in intent, aim, and purpose as you begin to more deeply understand the structure of your society and your soul. Journey with Dr. Peterson through the greatest stories ever told. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-killing-cold monthly 0.5 2025-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5090704a-b40b-46c9-8fda-122b2918dfd6/killingcold.jpg New Arrivals - A Killing Cold - by Kate Alice Marshall A whirlwind romance. When Theodora Scott met Connor―wealthy, charming, and a member of the powerful Dalton family―she fell in love in an instant. Six months later, he’s brought her to Idlewood, his family’s isolated winter retreat, to win over his skeptical relatives. Stay away from Connor Dalton. Theo has tried to ignore the threatening messages on her phone, but she can’t ignore the footprints in the snow outside the cabin window or the strange sense of familiarity she has about this place. Then, in a disused cabin, Theo finds something impossible: a photo of herself as a child. A photo taken at Idlewood. I’ve been here before. Theo has almost no recollection of her earliest years, but now she begins to piece together the fragments of her memories. Someone here has a shocking secret that they will do anything to keep hidden, and Theo is in terrible danger. Because the Daltons do not lose, and discovering what happened at Idlewood may cost Theo everything. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/black-woods-blue-sky monthly 0.5 2025-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2c846e61-8f91-423e-a5a5-63a8254d201f/blackwoods.jpg New Arrivals - Black Woods Blue Sky - by Eowyn Ivey Birdie’s keeping it together; of course she is. So she’s a little hungover, sometimes, and she has to bring her daughter, Emaleen, to her job waiting tables at an Alaskan roadside lodge, but she’s getting by as a single mother in a tough town. Still, Birdie can remember happier times from her youth, when she was free in the wilds of nature. Arthur Neilsen, a soft-spoken and scarred recluse who appears in town only at the change of seasons, brings Emaleen back to safety when she gets lost in the woods. Most people avoid him, but to Birdie, he represents everything she’s ever longed for. She finds herself falling for Arthur and the land he knows so well. Against the warnings of those who care about them, Birdie and Emaleen move to his isolated cabin in the mountains, on the far side of the Wolverine River. It’s just the three of them in the vast black woods, far from roads, telephones, electricity, and outside contact, but Birdie believes she has come prepared. At first, it’s idyllic and she can picture a happily ever after: Together they catch salmon, pick berries, and climb mountains so tall it’s as if they could touch the bright blue sky. But soon Birdie discovers that Arthur is something much more mysterious and dangerous than she could have ever imagined, and that like the Alaska wilderness, a fairy tale can be as dark as it is beautiful. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/death-of-a-smuggler monthly 0.5 2025-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/318beb17-8945-49e1-ada4-be6e50336d64/deathsmuggler.jpg New Arrivals - Death of a Smuggler - by M.C. Beaton All Hamish Macbeth wants is a quiet life in his peaceful home in the Highland village of Lochdubh. But when his newly-assigned constable arrives, he presents Hamish with a surprise and a secret. Getting to the bottom of the secret becomes the least of Hamish’s problems when he meets a family who have a score to settle with a sinister man who has mysteriously gone missing. Discovering a murdered woman’s body puts further pressure on Hamish, especially when it becomes clear that the murdered woman and the missing man are linked. To Hamish’s horror, he then finds himself working on the murder case with the despicable Detective Chief Inspector Blair–his sworn enemy–who has been drafted in under curious circumstances. With a growing list of suspects, ever more bewildering circumstances and Blair hindering him at every turn, Hamish must find the murderer before anyone else falls victim. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/september-5 monthly 0.5 2025-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/46ed647f-92a5-4a69-88d0-46cef0955eca/september5.jpg New Arrivals - September 5 SEPTEMBER 5 unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today. Set during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, the film follows an American Sports broadcasting team that quickly adapted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage. Starring John Magaro, Peter Sarsgaard, Leonie Benesch, and Ben Chaplin. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/across-the-river-and-into-the-trees monthly 0.5 2025-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/55255686-28fc-45c2-af4d-fe969faa0e3e/acrossriver.jpg New Arrivals - Across the River and into the Trees As WWII ends, Col. Cantwell, a witty war hero, confronts terminal illness. Seeking solace in Venice, he commandeers a driver for a final trip. Amid unraveling plans, a chance encounter with a countess offers hope and redemption against the backdrop of war. Hemingway's themes of love, youth, and age resonate in Across the River and Into the Trees. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/100-first-words monthly 0.5 2025-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/76767bed-4b03-4479-bd12-08770bc0742d/msrachelwords.jpg New Arrivals - 100 First Words - by Ms. Rachel Researched and written by the YouTube phenomenon and educator Ms. Rachel who is loved by millions, this photographic board book with sturdy pages is packed with 100 words for little ones to learn. From mama to dada, these 100 words are intuitive, easy-to-learn, and categorized into colorful sections to aid with learning. Fans of Ms. Rachel will recognize familiar characters and gestures from their favorite videos. Helpful tips and advice in the back of the book on speech development is perfect for caregivers looking to know more about this important milestone in their children’s lives. With colorful photographs and fun interactions with Ms. Rachel, babies and toddlers will love reading these words again and again! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/nosferatu monthly 0.5 2025-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/513a9787-dc9a-4066-bc35-136f9a5ca2a2/nosferatu.jpg New Arrivals - Nosferatu In Nosferatu, estate agent Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) travels to Transylvania for a fateful meeting with a prospective client named Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård). While away, his new bride Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) is plagued by visions and an increasing sense of dread in anticipation of an encounter with a horrifying force beyond her control. The gothic tale of obsession is directed by Robert Eggers and stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Simon McBurney and Willem Dafoe. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-substance monthly 0.5 2025-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8d4ba137-8eab-4579-a5ec-4f7157e803d0/substance.jpg New Arrivals - The Substance Demi Moore gives a career-best performance as Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister fired from her fitness TV show by studio head Harvey. She is drawn to the THE SUBSTANCE. All it takes is one injection and she is reborn as the gorgeous, Sue. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/blood-ties monthly 0.5 2025-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b1c9b5b4-174c-43b7-a73c-dcec6ca40586/bloodties.jpg New Arrivals - Blood Ties - by Jo Nesbo By all accounts, Carl and Roy Opgard are doing quite well for themselves. Or at least they’re doing as well as can be expected in a small town like Os. Carl manages the area’s swanky and successful spa and hotel, while Roy runs a nearby gas station and harbors grand plans to build it out into an entire amusement park, complete with a roller coaster. But when news breaks about a new highway to be built nearby, bypassing Os and leaving the town cutoff and isolated, it’s clear that something has to be done . . . even if the methods are bound to be dirty. Fortunately, Carl and Roy have experience with just that kind of work. Meanwhile, the town sheriff has gotten his hands on new technology that will enable him to take a deeper look at a slate of unsolved murders from years past—including that of his own father. And just as the sheriff reopens his investigation, the death toll begins to climb. It’s like Roy says about his roller coaster: “Once it’s rolling, it’s too late to get off.” https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/every-tom-dick-and-harry monthly 0.5 2025-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ad54d9d3-5ee5-4158-8a42-a1eb8c55e0a4/everytom.jpg New Arrivals - Every Tom, Dick & Harry - by Elinor Lipman Taking over her parents’ estate-sale business is not the life’s work that Emma Lewis bargained for. Yes, she grew up helping them empty people’s nests, but nothing prepared her for her biggest and stickiest “get”--the grand, beautiful house of ill repute masquerading as a decidedly beddable B and B. Should Emma turn down potential clients in need of decluttering just because they are shady, escort-y, and proud of it? No. A girl must make a living. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/we-all-live-here monthly 0.5 2025-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/cdd17a0f-18df-42cf-8a7f-da6f5dc839fb/we+all+live+here.jpg New Arrivals - We All Live Here - by JoJo Moyes Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall and her love life is . . . complicated. So when her real dad—a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago—suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you: about love, and what it actually means to be family. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/three-days-in-june monthly 0.5 2025-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/14b87faa-ea5c-4612-9d29-7f6b4bdd3d8a/three+days.jpg New Arrivals - Three Days in June - by Anne Tyler Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job—or quits, depending on whom you ask. Tomorrow her daughter, Debbie, is getting married, and she hasn’t even been invited to the spa day organized by the mother of the groom. Then, Gail’s ex-husband, Max, arrives unannounced on her doorstep, carrying a cat, without a place to stay, and without even a suit. But the true crisis lands when Debbie shares with her parents a secret she has just learned about her husband to be. It will not only throw the wedding into question but also stir up Gail and Max’s past. Told with deep sensitivity and a tart sense of humor, full of the joys and heartbreaks of love and marriage and family life, Three Days in June is a triumph, and gives us the perennially bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer at the height of her powers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-big-empty monthly 0.5 2025-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3aeff7ab-257f-4be6-a56d-2d288a2336fd/bigempty.jpg New Arrivals - The Big Empty - by Robert Crais Traci Beller was thirteen when her father disappeared in the sleepy town of Rancha, not far from Los Angeles. The evidence says Tommy Beller abandoned his family, but Traci never believed it. Now, ten years later, Traci is a high-profile influencer with millions of followers and the money to hire the best detective she can find: Elvis Cole. Elvis heads to Rancha where an ex-con named Sadie Givens and her daughter, Anya, might have a line on the missing man. But when Elvis finds himself shadowed by a gang of vicious criminals, the missing persons cold case becomes far more sinister. Elvis calls his ex-Marine friend, Joe Pike, for help, and they follow Tommy Beller's trail into the depths of a monstrous, hidden evil. The case flips on its head, victims become predators, predators become prey, and the question becomes: Can Elvis Cole save them all from this nightmare? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-crash monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2d2d9417-89c5-431e-9f3b-637541d93158/the+crash.jpg New Arrivals - The Crash - by Freida McFadden Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But she doesn't realize she's heading straight into a blizzard. She never arrives at her destination. Stranded in rural Maine with a dead car and broken ankle, Tegan worries she's made a terrible mistake. Then a miracle occurs: she is rescued by a couple who offers her a room in their warm cabin until the snow clears. But something isn't right. Tegan believed she was waiting out the storm, but as time ticks by, she comes to realize she is in grave danger. This safe haven isn't what she thought it was, and staying here may have been her most deadly mistake yet. And now she must do whatever it takes to save herself―and her unborn child. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/this-is-a-love-story monthly 0.5 2025-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/31574bad-e437-4b31-b457-e907ca40bb65/thislovestory.jpg New Arrivals - This is a Love Story - by Jessica Soffer For fifty years, Abe and Jane have been coming to Central Park, as starry-eyed young lovers, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as artists watching their careers take flight. They came alone when they needed to get away from each other, and together when they had something important to discuss. The Park has been their witness for half a century of love. Until now. Jane is dying, and Abe is recounting their life together as a way of keeping them going: the parts they knew—their courtship and early marriage, their blossoming creative lives—and the parts they didn’t always want to know—the determined young student of Abe’s looking for a love story of her own, and their son, Max, who believes his mother chose art over parenthood, and who has avoided love and intimacy at all costs. Told in various points of view, even in conversation with Central Park, these voices weave in and out to paint a portrait as complicated and essential as love itself. An homage to New York City, to romance, and even to loss, This Is a Love Story tenderly and suspensefully captures deep truths about life and marriage in radiant prose. It is about love that endures despite what life throws at us, or perhaps even because of it. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-hare-who-wouldnt-share monthly 0.5 2025-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/21d434a5-c6b3-4fea-acbb-2e19b3bf1516/hareshare.jpg New Arrivals - The Hare Who Wouldn’t Share - by Steve Small Hare is proud of his turnip patch and doesn’t want to share it with anyone. When the rabbits move in nearby, they invite Hare for carrot soup but he’s much happier being alone. Still, when a huge boar comes to the woods in search of his next meal, Hare feels he should warn his neighbors. Can they find a way to help each other stay out of danger? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/time-of-the-child monthly 0.5 2025-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9e334df4-3b74-4ae7-9f2e-00d16a415b02/timeofthechild.jpg New Arrivals - Time of the Child - by Niall Williams Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from the town. His eldest daughter, Ronnie, has grown up in her father's shadow, and remains there, having missed one chance at love – and passed up another offer of marriage from an unsuitable man. But in the Advent season of 1962, as the town readies itself for Christmas, Ronnie and Doctor Troy's lives are turned upside down when a baby is left in their care. As the winter passes, father and daughter's lives, the understanding of their family, and their role in their community are changed forever. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-life-cycle-of-the-common-octopus monthly 0.5 2025-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/643aefd3-4cdb-4294-a036-392a54b24563/life+cycle.jpg New Arrivals - The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus - by Emma Knight Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something from her. She believes she’ll find the answer here in Scotland, where an old friend of her father’s—now a famous writer known as Lord Lennox—lives. When she is invited to spend the weekend at Lord Lennox’s centuries-old estate with his enveloping, fascinating family, Pen begins to unravel her parents’ secret, just as she’s falling in love for the first time . . . As Pen experiences the sharp shock of adulthood, she comes to rely on herself for the first time in her life. A rich and rewarding novel of campus life, of sexual awakening, and ultimately, of the many ways women can become mothers in this world, The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus asks to what extent we need to look back in order to move forward. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-oligarchs-daughter monthly 0.5 2025-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/025e0898-3b85-4433-94ab-e23c05314fb8/oligarch.jpg New Arrivals - The Oligarch’s Daughter - by Joseph Finder Paul Brightman is a man on the run, living under an assumed name in a small New England town with a million-dollar bounty on his head. When his security is breached, Paul is forced to flee into the New Hampshire wilderness to evade Russian operatives who can seemingly predict his every move. Six years ago, Paul was a rising star on Wall Street who fell in love with a beautiful photographer named Tatyana—unaware that her father was a Russian oligarch and the object of considerable interest from several U.S. intelligence agencies. Now, to save his own life, Paul must unravel a decades-old conspiracy that extends to the highest reaches of the government. Rivaling the classic spy novels of the Cold War, The Oligarch’s Daughter is built for the frightening world we live in now. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/bruce-saves-the-planet monthly 0.5 2025-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/32e51464-de32-470c-861f-33913d81b3d5/bruce+saves.jpg New Arrivals - Bruce Saves the Planet - by Ryan T. Higgins Bruce was a bear who liked to be by himself. But that wasn't easy for him, as mother to four geese and three mice. Luckily, he could enjoy a day of peace and quiet while fishing. But his quiet haven is full of beetles stealing his lunch. And protestors loudly trying to save the forest from the construction of a factory. Will Bruce and the residents of Soggy Hollow manage to save the planet? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-apprentice monthly 0.5 2025-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/55cf52bd-2b66-4ed0-9f82-099539f069e0/apprentice.jpg New Arrivals - The Apprentice The Apprentice is a dive into the underbelly of the American empire. It charts a young Donald Trump's ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/me-and-other-bunnies monthly 0.5 2025-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/192a948b-69aa-451f-9f4d-a0de9cce277b/mebunnies.jpg New Arrivals - Me and Other Bunnies - by Mo Willems There are ME bunnies. There are YOU bunnies. There are US bunnies . . . and WE bunnies . . . and THEM bunnies. There are a lot of bunnies in Me and Other Bunnies. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/mother-bruce monthly 0.5 2025-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/02b90c78-e7e8-4e1b-b410-5e94344ef1ee/motherbruce.jpg New Arrivals - Mother Bruce - by Ryan T. Higgins Bruce the bear likes to keep to himself. That, and eat eggs. But when his hard-boiled goose eggs turn out to be real, live goslings, he starts to lose his appetite. And even worse, the goslings are convinced he's their mother. Bruce tries to get the geese to go south, but he can't seem to rid himself of his new companions. What's a bear to do? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/bad-kitty-party-animal monthly 0.5 2025-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3af6c0ea-c33e-4773-b915-f9ab958ca1e7/bad+kitty.jpg New Arrivals - Bad Kitty: Party Animal - by Nick Bruel It's Puppy's birthday and Kitty would rather be anywhere else. While Puppy gets a BIG present and a very special birthday breakfast, all Kitty can do is pop the balloons, topple the cake, and cause mayhem...unless, she can learn how to let Puppy have the spotlight. Help Puppy (and Kitty) celebrate this special day in this graphic novel about sibling rivalry, and learning how to share, in the latest full-color addition to the bestselling Bad Kitty series. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/marjorie monthly 0.5 2025-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ab9b9894-6b0f-4e37-a85f-0970f3292a8b/marjorie.jpg New Arrivals - Marjorie - by Otis E. Conners MARJORIE is a captivating collection of short stories that chronicles the life of a New England woman. Born on the rugged granite shores of Maine, Marjorie embodies the resilience and beauty of her homeland, carrying these qualities with her through life's many journeys. This book invites you into her world-one filled with deep friendships, unforgettable adventures, and the trials and triumphs that shape a lifetime. From heartbreak and loss to love and joy, Marjorie's story is one of enduring strength and humanity. But there's more! Within these pages, you'll also encounter a playful and loyal Bee, explore the mysteries of ghostly existences, and experience laughter and tears through the lives of richly crafted characters. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/wicked monthly 0.5 2025-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7810d694-6703-48a4-8f12-8cd0e59ff7a7/wicked.jpg New Arrivals - Wicked Wicked, one of the most beloved and enduring musicals on the stage, now arrives on your screen as a generation-defining cinematic event. The untold story of the witches of Oz, Wicked stars Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, a misunderstood young woman who has yet to discover her true power, and Ariana Grande as Glinda, a popular young woman who has yet to discover her true heart. The two meet at Shiz University and forge an unlikely friendship-before their lives take different paths following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Their extraordinary adventures will ultimately see them fulfill their destinies as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good. Wicked is an immersive, cultural celebration you'll want to experience over and over again! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/my-darling-boy monthly 0.5 2025-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e2f192f4-6832-4448-b2f1-49bc157c78b2/darlingboy.jpg New Arrivals - My Darling Boy - by Helen Cooper In a close-knit English village, Chrissy and Alice were once best friends. So were their sons, Leo and Robbie. Until the night Leo killed Robbie with a single, devastating punch. Now Leo has gone to prison, Chrissy has lost her pub, and Alice has been pouring her anger into a twisted project . . . As Leo’s parole date approaches, the villagers are incensed and fearful about the prospect of his return. But when Chrissy arrives to collect Leo from prison, he isn’t there. The staff tell her he has already been released, but nobody knows where he’s gone. As the village closes ranks, Chrissy realizes her former friends are suspects in her son’s disappearance, not the least of which is still-bitter Alice. Is Leo being punished for what happened that terrible night? Or do the answers lie further back, in a dark past none of them wants to revisit? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/midnight monthly 0.5 2025-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1736538219840-LPSMW56PBB0G6EWSQHKD/midnight.jpg New Arrivals - Midnight - by Amy McCulloch In the frigid summers of the Antarctic continent, the sun never sets, and Olivia Campbell has long dreamed of spending a sunlit night in this beautiful, remote place. So when her boyfriend—a high-powered art dealer with a taste for the finer things in life—decides to stage an ostentatious, career-making auction aboard a luxury cruise liner to Antarctica, Olivia can hardly believe her luck. That is, until the ship sets sail and her boyfriend is nowhere to be found, and she is left to manage both the auction and her own creeping fear of the open ocean entirely alone. And as though that weren't enough, the first bodies turn up soon after. It seems like a terrible accident. This is the Drake Passage, after all, one of the most notorious bodies of water on the planet, and there are always risks in such extreme conditions. But as the situation deteriorates, it soon becomes clear that there is real danger on board—and that the closest help is hundreds of miles away. With tensions rising and temperatures plummeting, Olivia wonders whether she's booked a fabulous adventure . . . or a one-way ticket to her own destruction. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/holmes-is-missing monthly 0.5 2025-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5e99f316-40bb-455f-9b2a-afe23c9e7564/holmesmissing.jpg New Arrivals - Holmes is Missing - by James Patterson Success has come quickly to Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations. The New York City agency led by three detectives—Brendan Holmes, “the brain,” Margaret Marple, “the eyes,” and Auguste Poe, the “muscle”—with famous names and mysterious pasts is one major case away from cementing its professional reputation. But as a series of child abductions tests the PIs’ legendary skills, the cerebral Holmes’s absence leaves a gaping hole in the agency roster. Only by closing ranks and solving the mystery within can they recover all that’s been lost. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/life-styled monthly 0.5 2025-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e1be50f9-3d89-4701-941d-8dc6300f14e7/life+styled.jpg New Arrivals - Life Styled - by Shira Gill Shira Gill has dedicated her career to helping people gain clarity and activate their best selves, even when they are short on time or capacity. When she realized that almost every one of her diverse clients, ranging from students to CEOs, was overextended, overscheduled, and overwhelmed, she used her signature blend of practical minimalism and organization to design a game-changing framework that works with any lifestyle or budget. Applying the tools found in LifeStyled, you can transform your life, mindset, and schedule with accessible tips and quick wins—little things you can integrate or practice for quick, transformative results. Chapters cover health, home, relationships, career, finance, and personal development, with actionable prompts to help you: • Learn realistic strategies to optimize your sleep, nutrition, and overall wellness. • Implement simple habits and routines to create and maintain a home that feels good. • Cut the relationship clutter and invest in meaningful connections and community. • Redefine success on your own terms and align your financial strategy with your values. • Prioritize activities that help you feel energized, engaged, and fully alive. • Disrupt unproductive thought patterns and create motivating new narratives. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-maine-house2 monthly 0.5 2025-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9bd2fe0a-bc38-4c79-b6b5-d89162c64859/mainehouse2.jpg New Arrivals - The Maine House II - by Maura McEvoy Spend any amount of time in Maine—a weekend, a summer, a lifetime—and its impression lasts forever. When The Maine House was published in 2021, the reception was astonishing. Over four printings and across the world, The Maine House sounded a rallying cry, summed up perfectly in one of dozens of reviews, that it “crafts a plea to preserve a living history belonging to individual, family, and state; a visual call to recognize these homey structures and others like them as ‘extraordinary gifts.’” The Maine House II moves beyond the authors’ cri de coeur; they’re on a mission. Through 30 homes—inland, inshore, and on islands—Maura McEvoy, Basha Burwell, and Kathleen Hackett highlight the beauty and importance of preservation, restoration, thoughtful renovation, and low-impact living in the place they love the most. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/conclave monthly 0.5 2025-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/67251b5c-8810-4244-ac70-64555ad68b53/conclave.jpg New Arrivals - Conclave Conclave follows one of the world's most secretive and ancient events–selecting a new pope. The Church's most powerful leaders have gathered from around the world, locked together in the Vatican halls. Tasked with running this covert process, Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) finds himself at the center of a conspiracy and discovers a secret that could shake the very foundation of The Church. Also starring Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini and directed by Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front). https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/courage-like-kate monthly 0.5 2025-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d970eefb-02eb-4ed3-b60a-4fec242ee756/courage+kate.jpg New Arrivals - Courage Like Kate - by Anna Crowley Redding and Emily Sutton With an evocative text and stunning illustrations, travel back to the stormy, rocky shores of 19th century Connecticut and meet an unforgettable heroine-- at a time when girls were considered anything but. Fayerweather Island had seen blustery blizzards and rip-roaring tides, but it had never seen a pint-sized hurricane until Kate Moore claimed that tiny island as her own. Little Kate was supposed to be the lighthouse keeper’s daughter, but she thought of herself as Papa’s assistant. The thirty-three spiraling lighthouse stairs finally took a toll on Papa’s body, and so twelve-year-old Kate stepped up. Over the years, she kept the flame lit to guide ships to safety, listened for cries for help, and, time and again, pulled men to safety—twenty-three of them in all. At the age of forty-seven, Kate received word—she had been named the official lighthouse keeper of Fayerweather Island. This girl-power picture book introduces a small heroine, who, with her can-do attitude and incredible spirit, is sure to inspire. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/groundhug-day monthly 0.5 2025-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9de6fe2a-8fbb-4672-a8e2-405f18a30ef7/groundhug+day.jpg New Arrivals - Groundhug Day - by Anne Marie Pace Moose is having a Valentine's Day party, and all his friends are excited! Everyone except Groundhog, that is. If Groundhog sees his shadow outside, he'll hide in his hole for six more weeks and miss the party! Determined to have their friend join them, Moose, Squirrel, Bunny, and Porcupine put their heads together and come up with a clever plan. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/who-pooped-on-me monthly 0.5 2025-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/cf7f13df-8096-4505-83d5-b76d13b1a963/whopooped.jpg New Arrivals - Who Pooped on Me? - by David Cunliffe When a lazy lizard is simply trying to relax, SPLAT! His day is ruined by a very unwelcome surprise. Join him on his hilarious quest to discover the culprit and learn an important lesson about things not always being what they seem. With colorful illustrations that leap from every page, this adorable children’s book is a laugh-out-loud adventure that will amuse both parents and children alike. Take a trip into the jungle to answer the very important question: Who Pooped on Me? Funny and entertaining, this book also shows children the importance of not jumping to conclusions and that things are not always as they seem. Perfect for parents and educators who are searching for a silly bedtime story or a light-hearted story with an important lesson. Who Pooped on Me? is an endearing story that captures children’s imaginations with its simple layout and comical story. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/this-book-is-a-mistake monthly 0.5 2025-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d41bb4e6-fbf9-4d3a-9968-53d39a8ba7cd/mistake.jpg New Arrivals - This Book is a Mistake - by Ron Keres Finn LOVES being a frog, but when a curious kid picks up crayons and starts doodling on his pages, Finn's world takes an unexpected leap! He's suddenly tempted by the idea of a makeover: bigger muscles, snazzy glasses, and a full head of hair. Sounds fantastic, right? But as Finn dives into this colorful transformation, things get a bit froggy! Each artistic flourish changes his identity, and he's caught in a whirlwind of whimsical alterations. Will Finn croak under the pressure of these playful changes, or will he discover that being true to himself is the most important leap of all? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/wicked-little-letters monthly 0.5 2025-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/93d43d3b-e008-48b5-af0f-d0ec2bc22f7c/wickedletters.jpg New Arrivals - Wicked Little Letters Based on a stranger than fiction true story, this ferociously funny mystery follows two neighbors: deeply conservative Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and foul-mouthed Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley). When Edith begins to receive wicked letters full of hilarious profanities, Rose is charged with the crime. However, as the town’s women begin to investigate themselves, they suspect that something is amiss. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/nuclear-war monthly 0.5 2025-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/477f06aa-65e2-410f-ab62-235a87cf2b4a/nuclearwar.jpg New Arrivals - Nuclear War - by Annie Jacobsen There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States. Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These investigations are vital to how we understand the world we really live in—where one nuclear missile will beget one in return, and where the choreography of the world’s end requires massive decisions made on seconds’ notice with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario explores this ticking-clock scenario, based on dozens of exclusive new interviews with military and civilian experts who have built the weapons, have been privy to the response plans, and have been responsible for those decisions should they have needed to be made. Nuclear War: A Scenario examines the handful of minutes after a nuclear missile launch. It is essential reading, and unlike any other book in its depth and urgency. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/desolation-code monthly 0.5 2025-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/56a5ac5d-9ae1-491d-9ebc-a0649a97882c/desolation.jpg New Arrivals - Desolation Code - by Clive Cussler When Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala investigate a mass stranding of aquatic life in the Indian Ocean, they accidentally uncover a much deeper mystery. A strange figure soon steals NUMA’s findings, forcing a high-speed chase—someone really didn’t want them examining those dead whales. But who, and why? A cryptic text through the NUMA satellite network makes things still stranger: these odd phrases and numbers look like NUMA codes. But who could be tantalizing the crew with such specific knowledge of their tech? Are they being helped by an old friend, or lured into a trap by a traitor who knows a little too much about NUMA’s inner workings? Kurt, Joe, and even Max, the agency’s supercomputer, will have to investigate like never before as they decrypt data, infiltrate a cult of cloned men, and prepare for a battle on two very different planes: one physical; one digital. The aquatic stranding was just the beginning of a sinister plan concocted by a mind more brilliant than any they’ve ever faced—the mind of a machine. A new, terrifying world order is being plotted. First marine ecosystems will be devastated, then the entire globe’s…Unless the NUMA crew can stop this code of desolation. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/never-say-never monthly 0.5 2025-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1736371362522-70EO6UAFSUQU8Q2TQ3V4/neversaynever.jpg New Arrivals - Never Say Never - by Danielle Steel Oona Kelly Webster has much to be grateful for. A striking woman with red hair and green eyes, she has a loving family and a job she adores, editing a prestigious line of books. To celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, she and her husband, Charles, have planned a visit to France. But then Charles drops a bombshell. He has been living a lie—hiding an affair for a year—and he is leaving Oona for a younger male lover. Although devastated, Oona decides to travel to France without Charles. She arrives in a charming village an hour outside of Paris, and settles into the house she has rented, called La Belle Florence—named after the king’s mistress for whom it was built. But just as she’s catching her breath, she’s dealt another blow: Her company’s merger will eliminate her job. In the space of a few months, everything she nurtured for decades has slipped through her fingers. The only silver lining is that she can remain in France, where the simple life in beautiful surroundings slowly begins to heal her, as does the little white dog she rescues, and her friendly neighbor hailing from Trinidad, who delights her with his openness and warmth. Though she does not recognize him at first, she soon realizes her neighbor is a well-known actor. As their feelings for each other begin to deepen, Oona wrestles with the risks of opening her heart again—especially to a younger, very famous man. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-note monthly 0.5 2025-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1736371096221-NWIUZPDKY8EOT10IU3VD/thenote.jpg New Arrivals - The Note - by Alafair Burke It was meant to be a harmless prank. Growing up, May Hanover was a good girl, always. Well-behaved, top of her class, a compulsive rule-follower. Raised by a first-generation Chinese single mother with high expectations, May didn’t have room to slip up, let alone fail. Her friends didn’t call her the Little Sheriff for nothing. But even good girls have secrets. And regrets. When it comes to her friendship with Lauren and Kelsey, she's had her fair share of both. Their bond—forged when May was just twelve years old—has withstood a tragic accident, individual scandals, heartbreak and loss. Now the three friends have reunited for the first time in years for a few days of sun and fun in the Hamptons. But a chance encounter with a pair of strangers leads to a drunken prank that goes horribly awry. When she finds herself at the center of an urgent police investigation, May begins to wonder whether Lauren and Kelsey are keeping secrets from her, testing the limits of her loyalty to lifelong friends. What had they gone and done? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-stolen-queen monthly 0.5 2025-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a74178df-1fe2-4105-951a-49b31a213113/stolenqueen.jpg New Arrivals - The Stolen Queen - by Fiona Davis Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, she leaps at the opportunity. That is until an unbearable tragedy strikes. New York City, 1978: Nineteen-year-old Annie Jenkins is thrilled when she lands an opportunity to work for former Vogue fashion editor Diana Vreeland, who’s in the midst of organizing the famous Met Gala, hosted at the museum and known across the city as the “party of the year.” Meanwhile, Charlotte is now leading a quiet life as the associate curator of the Met’s celebrated Department of Egyptian Art. She’s consumed by her research on Hathorkare—a rare female pharaoh dismissed by most other Egyptologists as unimportant. The night of the gala: One of the Egyptian art collection’s most valuable artifacts goes missing, and there are signs Hathorkare’s legendary curse might be reawakening. Annie and Charlotte team up to search for the missing antiquity, and a desperate hunch leads the unlikely duo to one place Charlotte swore she’d never return: Egypt. But if they have any hope of finding the artifact, Charlotte will need to confront the demons of her past—which may mean leading them both directly into danger. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/schitts-creek monthly 0.5 2025-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/21a2971b-6449-41c6-9ced-5374bc5f5467/schitts.jpg New Arrivals - Schitt$ Creek The complete collection. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-hitchcock-hotel monthly 0.5 2025-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2e118a9c-006c-4459-8f91-1293339f1f40/hitchcock.jpg New Arrivals - The Hitchcock Hotel - by Stephanie Wrobel Alfred Smettle is not your average Hitchcock fan. He is the founder, owner, and manager of The Hitchcock Hotel, a sprawling Victorian house in the White Mountains dedicated to the Master of Suspense. There, Alfred offers his guests round-the-clock film screenings, movie props and memorabilia in every room, plus an aviary with fifty crows. To celebrate the hotel’s first anniversary, he invites his former best friends from his college Film Club for a reunion. He hasn’t spoken to any of them in sixteen years, not after what happened. But who better than them to appreciate Alfred’s creation? And to help him finish it. After all, no Hitchcock set is complete without a body. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/avenging-the-edward-a-horton monthly 0.5 2025-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/39627eb3-a211-425d-b450-da177b604444/avenging.jpg New Arrivals - Avenging the Edward A. Horton - by Tommy Carbone Hostilities between the United States and England did not end with the Revolutionary War. For a century following, England and Canada took opportunities to impose restrictions on American fishermen in the waters off of Nova Scotia and the Canadian provinces. The Dominion government imposed fines, imprisoned men, and not only seized American vessels, but auctioned the property belonging to the Americans. For one Gloucester skipper the indignities became too great to endure. In disguise, he traveled to Guysborough, Nova Scotia with a daring idea to regain his vessel. His success depended on a traitorous smuggler, a daring crew, and a love-torn nephew who'd fallen for the enemy's daughter. * * * Based on the 1871 true story of the capture of the Edward A. Horton, a Gloucester, Massachusetts fishing schooner and her brave Captain, Harvey Knowlton, Jr. Of the escape, tales were told, ballads were written, the cannon boomed and parades were held. A patriotic story of revenge for injustice on the high seas. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-lost-bookshop monthly 0.5 2025-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/599449bc-a327-48a8-909b-7b2784d59509/lostbookshop.jpg New Arrivals - The Lost Bookshop - by Evie Woods On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found… For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking the secrets of the shelves, they find themselves transported to a world of wonder… where nothing is as it seems. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/alice-in-a-winter-wonderland monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a1875b2d-b752-41d3-a435-5e94ee26f1c5/alice+in+winter.jpg New Arrivals - Alice in a Winter Wonderland - by Jan Brett When Alice spies a white rabbit checking his pocket watch before hippity-hopping down a crevasse in an Alaskan glacier, she knows she must follow him. And so she pops down the rabbit hole, into a world of absurd personalities, topsy-turvy action, and laugh-out-loud silliness. Favorite characters like Cheshire Cat and the Duchess and King and Queen come to life as vibrant animals native to Alaska making this classic tale shine through a fresh lens, certain to appeal to readers of all ages. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/two-little-red-mittens monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7c58a8c3-3f50-4754-83ab-d053314287eb/red+mittens.jpg New Arrivals - Two Little Red Mittens - by Kirin Hayashi The little red left mitten and the little red right mitten enjoy their life as a pair, keeping Little One’s hands warm and toasty. But one day Little One loses the right mitten―and it’s off on an adventure through the forest! Passed among various woodland creatures, the little right mitten soon becomes tattered―yet it remains cherished, always, by those who find it. Meanwhile, the left mitten can’t help but worry about its old pal, even after a new right mitten is knitted. Will these dear friends ever see each other again? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/power-metal monthly 0.5 2025-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/96d574b7-440b-4a3a-958d-1cd63e05f07a/power+metal.jpg New Arrivals - Power Metal - by Vince Beiser An Australian millionaire’s plan to mine the ocean floor. Nigerian garbage pickers risking their lives to salvage e-waste. A Bill Gates-backed entrepreneur harnessing AI to find metals in the Arctic. These people and millions more are part of the intensifying competition to find and extract the minerals essential for two crucial technologies: the internet and renewable energy. In Power Metal, Vince Beiser explores the Achilles’ heel of “green power” and digital technology – that manufacturing computers, cell phones, electric cars, and other technologies demand skyrocketing amounts of lithium, copper, cobalt, and other materials. Around the world, businesses and governments are scrambling for new places and new ways to get those metals, at enormous cost to people and the planet. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/thegardeners-plot monthly 0.5 2025-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/102c0587-716f-4f64-b6fc-bc0453baf2b4/gardenersplot.jpg New Arrivals - The Gardener’s Plot - by Deborah J. Benoit After life threw Maggie Walker a few curveballs, she’s happy to be back in the small, Berkshires town where she spent so much time as a child. Marlowe holds many memories for her, and now it also offers a fresh start. Maggie has always loved gardening, so it’s only natural to sign on to help Violet Bloom set up a community garden. When opening day arrives, Violet is nowhere to be found, and the gardeners are restless. Things go from bad to worse when Maggie finds a boot buried in one of the plots… and there’s a body attached to it. Suddenly, the police are looking for a killer and they keep asking questions about Violet. Maggie doesn’t believe her friend could do this, and she’s going to dig up the dirt needed to prove it. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/tooth-and-claw monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e5897531-d3d2-4c20-a063-64b61f450bd9/tooth+and+claw.jpg New Arrivals - Tooth and Claw: A Longmire Story - by Craig Johnson Tooth and Claw follows Walt and Henry up to Alaska as they look for work after they both returned from serving in Vietnam. While working for an oil company in the bitter cold of winter, they soon encounter a ferocious polar bear who seems hell-bent on their destruction. But it’s not too long until they realize the danger does not lurk outside in the frozen Alaskan tundra, but with their co-workers who are after priceless treasure and will stop at nothing to get it. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-ancients monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b3788cea-e30c-4f3f-9a12-7c7c07ce13eb/ancients.jpg New Arrivals - The Ancients - by John Larison A young boy and his older sisters find themselves suddenly and utterly alone, orphaned in an abandoned fishing village. Their food supplies dwindling, they set out across a breathtaking yet treacherous wilderness in search of the last of their people. Down the coast, raiders deliver the children's mother, along with the rest of their human cargo, to the last port city of a waning empire. Determined to reunite with her family, she plots her escape—while her fellow captives plan open revolt. At the center of power in this crumbling city, a young scholar inherits his father's business and position of privilege, along with the burden of his debts. As the empire's elite prepare to flee to new utopia across the sea, he must decide where his allegiance lies. With a rapidly changing climate shifting the sands beneath their feet, these three paths converge in a struggle for the future of humanity—who will inherit what remains and who gets to tell its story. At once a sweeping survival story; an epic of the distant future; and a post-apocalyptic vision of hope and optimism, THE ANCIENTS weaves a multilayered narrative about human resilience, hope, and stewardship of our world for future generations. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-house-of-cross monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4ff1a625-24b2-4f68-9c08-859031fc9b0c/houseofcross.jpg New Arrivals - The House if Cross - by James Patterson In Washington, DC, the president-elect is planning her inauguration. The list of Supreme Court candidates is highly confidential—until it becomes evidence in Detective Alex Cross’s toughest investigation. One candidate is gunned down. A second is stabbed. A third is murdered near midnight on a city street. Cross is the FBI’s top expert in criminal behavior. For the sake of his family, his city, and his country, he must put himself in the most dangerous place there is: inside the mind of a diabolical killer. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-autumn-of-ruth-winters monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1733948842594-6MJCKNSH1P8UWAT0EFE4/theautumn.jpg New Arrivals - The Autumn of Ruth Winters - by Marshall Fine Ruth Winters is retired, widowed, and resigned to spending the rest of her life alone in her suburban home. She likes her routine and uses it to avoid having to spend time with other people. She probably wouldn’t call herself fulfilled, but it’s too late now to go chasing happiness. Then three things happen at once: a beloved niece makes a big announcement, an old flame reaches out, and her estranged sister receives life-changing news. Ruth finds herself reconnecting with people she thought were long gone from her world, as she is forced to reconsider her expectations for this phase of her life. None of this fits into Ruth’s routine—in fact, the whole thing just blows to bits. But when Ruth starts to pick up the pieces, she discovers that maybe it’s not too late to make something new after all. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/an-echo-in-time monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/57a4f7fe-f61c-4bcc-9b66-8e551b75b8e0/echo+in+time.jpg New Arrivals - An Echo in Time - by Boo Walker Unable to catch a break in life or love as she approaches thirty, Charli Thurman sees red lights at every crossroads. And given the Thurman family’s tumultuous history, she knows things will only get worse, unless she can break the cycle and figure out where—and when—it all went wrong. Charli is skeptical when her best friend introduces her to a “soul reader” who specializes in generational trauma. But during family constellation therapy with the guru, Charli experiences an inexplicable memory of terrible violence. Whatever happened in the past, it created an imbalance that’s still in the Thurman blood. When Charli’s research leads her to Winchester, England, she meets a charming pub owner named Noah, whose own family history is similarly twisted. As the mystery deepens around a damaged inheritance and a tragic death, Charli is resolved to find the truth—and create the fresh start she has been hoping for her whole life. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-owl-who-came-for-christmas monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1f9d2944-4ef3-46a9-bd09-8390973f30cd/owlchristmas.jpg New Arrivals - The Owl Who Came for Christmas - by John Hay Christmas is coming, and the decorations are going up… But one family is about to discover an unexpected visitor snuggled up in their Christmas tree… A little owl called Rosie! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dog-man-big-jim-begins monthly 0.5 2025-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e0361744-c21e-4e4a-ba54-6f2f6dcaddeb/dogman+big+jim.jpg New Arrivals - Dog Man: Big Jim Begins - by Dav Pilkey In DOG MAN: BIG JIM BEGINS, discover the origin of our beloved characters from the Dog Man series as they join forces to stop the Space Cuties from destroying the city. Will the past predict the future for Dog Man and his friends? Will goodness and bravery prevail? Can anything happen if you truly believe? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/this-strange-eventful-history monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e675637e-8db9-4b04-946e-1767fb6c3483/strange+eventful.jpg New Arrivals - This Strange Eventful History - by Claire Messud Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state—separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. This Strange Eventful History, told with historical sweep, is above all a family story: of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of François and Denise, devoted siblings connected by their family’s strangeness; of François’s union with Barbara, a woman so culturally different they can barely comprehend one another; of Chloe, the result of that union, who believes that telling these buried stories will bring them all peace. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-mirror monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/16ea61ff-dce3-4059-9c9b-6dc7e3e7c2b2/the+mirror.jpg New Arrivals - The Mirror - by Nora Roberts When Sonya MacTavish inherits the huge Victorian mansion on the coast of Maine, she has no idea that the house is haunted. The footsteps she hears at night, the doors slamming, the music playing, are not figments of her imagination. In her dreams she sees glimpses of the past. In the present she finds portraits of brides. And when she has visions of an antique mirror, she is drawn to it, sensing it holds dark family secrets. Then one night the mirror appears and Sonya glides through this looking glass, into the past―and sees a bride murdered on her wedding day, the circle of gold torn from her finger. It is a scene that will play out again and again―a centuries-old curse that must be broken―and a puzzle she must solve if there is any hope of breaking the curse. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/bellevue monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4d1c6e9a-f2db-4aad-bcb6-74c29789dace/bellevue.jpg New Arrivals - Bellevue - by Robin Cook Twenty-three-year-old Michael “Mitt” Fuller starts his surgical residency with great anticipation at the nearly three-hundred-year-old, iconic Bellevue Hospital, following in the footsteps of four previous, celebrated Fuller generations. The pressure is on for this newly minted doctor, and to his advantage he’s always had a secret sixth sense, a sensitivity to the nonphysical. But quickly one patient after another assigned to his care begin to die from mysterious causes. As he tries to juggle these inexplicable deaths with the demands of being a first-year resident, things rapidly spiral out of control. Visions begin to plague Mitt—visions of a little girl in a bloodstained dress, bloodcurdling screams in the distance, and worse. As bodies mount and Mitt’s stress level rises, he finds himself drawn to the monumental, abandoned Bellevue Psychopathic Hospital building, which to his astonishment has somehow defied the wrecking-ball and still stands a few doors north of the modern Bellevue Hospital high-rise. Forcing an unauthorized entry into this storied but foreboding structure, Mitt discovers he’s more closely tied to the sins of the past than he ever thought possible. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/christmas-in-bethel monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3a69b57c-e982-494c-b028-4839edd1e3be/christmas+in+bethel.jpg New Arrivals - Christmas in Bethel - by Richard Paul Evans Leigh Beth Stilton has never liked the holidays. After growing up in an unstable home, escaping an abusive marriage, and witnessing daily tragedies as an EMT, Leigh just can’t bring herself to care about Christmas cheer. In fact, she’s so convinced she’s not worth loving that one winter’s eve, she decides she can’t go on—until she comes across a book called Bethel and starts to read. Leigh is unfamiliar with the author, J.D. Harper, but his words speak directly to her. She’s never felt so seen and understood, and this connection gives her the strength to carry on. She avidly reads every novel Harper has written, and when he comes to town for a book signing, she jumps at the opportunity to meet the writer who means so much to her. In a twist of fate, Leigh runs into J.D. in a coffee shop, and the two immediately click. Before she knows it, she’s swept up in a whirlwind of fancy dinners, exciting travel, and the attention of the man whose work has been so meaningful to her. But she’s leery after a lifetime of pain and when she discovers that J.D. hasn’t been completely honest, her hopes are dashed. Can they find their way back to each other and can Leigh learn to trust her heart? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-wild-robot monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1f9b9453-a2d7-4550-9ace-e7b7afd23f17/wild+robot.jpg New Arrivals - The Wild Robot From DreamWorks Animation comes an adaptation of Peter Brown's award-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot. The epic adventure stars Academy Award® winner Lupita Nyong'o (Us, the Black Panther franchise) as Roz, a robot that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must adapt to the harsh surroundings. Gradually Roz starts building relationships with the animals on the island, including a clever fox voiced by Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us, The Mandalorian), and becomes the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling named Brightbill. The Wild Robot is a powerful story about self-discovery, a thrilling examination of the bridge between technology and nature, and a moving exploration of what it means to be alive and connected to all living things. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/harry-wild-series3 monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/fcadfd71-52c8-4a58-889b-d3818a967a89/harry+wild.jpg New Arrivals - Harry Wild (Series 3) Wild finds herself at a crossroads after she is the victim of a mugging and agrees to recover in the home of her son, a police detective. Once under his roof, Wild becomes involved in her son’s murder investigation. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-marlow-murder-club monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2e6463bd-7516-4869-a14a-99b199cf3280/marlow+murder.jpg New Arrivals - The Marlow Murder Club (Season One) For retired seventysomething archeologist Judith Potts (Samantha Bond), not much ever happened in her quiet Buckinghamshire town. Or it didn't, until the day she witnessed a homicide from afar... and when the authorities doubted her story, she set out to solve the matter with two sympathetic neighbors, dog walker Suzie Harris (Jo Martin) and vicar's wife Becks Starling (Cara Horgan). Engaging take on the Robert Thorogood whodunits co-stars Natalia Dew, Daniel Lapaine, and Rita Tushingham.4 episodes. 4 hrs. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/beetlejuice-beetlejuice monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/051af359-4928-4b80-98aa-63d7b4ea2ba6/beetlejuice.jpg New Arrivals - Beetlejuice Beetlejuice After 36 years, Beetlejuice returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/genie monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5e520bfd-ec5d-4bb2-bb3b-0564bec9d1ae/genie.jpg New Arrivals - Genie From Oscar-nominated screenwriter Richard Curtis, comes Genie, a holiday fairytale comedy about a genie, a man, and landing one last chance to fix the mess you've made of your life. With his job, life and family unraveling around him, a despondent Bernard (Paapa Essiedu) dusts off a jewelry box and unintentionally releases genie Flora (Melissa McCarthy), who just might be able to help him. Maybe. It's a longshot, frankly. In the process, Flora and Bernard will discover that love, and an unexpected friendship, can unleash a special holiday magic all its own. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/to-die-for monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ac5b933d-4e6b-4c3f-a90f-215115627b5a/todiefor.jpg New Arrivals - To Fie For - by David Baldacci Travis Devine has become a pro at accomplishing any mission he's given. But this time it’s not his skills that send him to Seattle to aid the FBI in escorting orphaned, twelve-year-old Betsy Odom to a meeting with her uncle, who’s under federal investigation. Instead, he’s hoping to lay low and keep off the radar of an enemy–the girl on the train. But as Devine gets to know Betsy, questions begin to arise around the death of her parents. Devine digs for answers, and what he finds points to a conspiracy bigger than he could’ve ever imagined. It might finally be time for Devine and the girl on the train to come face-to-face. Devine is going to find out the difference between his friends and his enemies–and in some cases, they might well be both. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/christmas-at-hogwarts monthly 0.5 2024-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f3f1a326-385e-4f7a-96d9-2446a812973a/christmashogwarts.jpg New Arrivals - Christmas at Hogwarts - by J.K. Rowling "Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow." So begins Chapter Twelve of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, and the heartwarming story of Harry Potter’s first Christmas at Hogwarts. From the Great Hall decked with magnificent fir trees to cozy evenings in the Gryffindor Common Room to the joy of presents on Christmas morning, it’s a holiday filled with warmth, friendship, good food, and magical surprises that Harry will never forget. With text drawn directly from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and luminous illustrations by artist Ziyi Gao, this favorite moment from one of the most beloved books of all time is now fully illustrated for the whole family to enjoy. Sure to be treasured by Harry Potter fans of all ages, Christmas at Hogwarts is the perfect gift, destined to become an enchanting new holiday tradition. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-way-of-the-bear monthly 0.5 2024-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/45e0647d-3d2d-42c7-9f89-9161a1d8b1d6/wayofthebear.jpg New Arrivals - The Way of the Bear - by Anne Hillerman An unexpected death on a lonely road outside of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument raises questions for Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito. Why would a seasoned outdoorsman and well-known paleontologist freeze to death within walking distance of his car? A second death brings more turmoil. Who is the unidentified man killed during a home invasion where nothing much seems to have been taken? Why was he murdered? The Bears Ears area, at the edge of the Navajo Nation, is celebrated for its abundance of early human habitation sites and the discovery of unique fossils which revolutionized the scientific view of how early animals dealt with their changing world. Chee and Manuelito appreciate the area’s scenery and wealth of human and scientific resources, but their visit to this achingly beautiful place is disrupted by a current of unprecedented violence that sweeps them both into danger. Illicit romance, a fossilized jawbone, hints of witchcraft, and a mysterious disappearance during a blizzard add to the peril. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/wake-up-baby-bear monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b4e7bf6f-713d-49b1-a780-e2e07c2d8e05/wake+up+baby+bear.jpg New Arrivals - Wake Up Baby Bear - by Lynn Plourde Poor Baby Bear is so exhausted from staying up too late in the fall, that now he can’t wake up in the spring. Even his old friends, Moose, Owl, and Hare have no luck waking the tired little bear. A few well-placed pecks from Mother Robin does the trick and Baby Bear finally awakes just in time to do a little babysitting himself. This charming follow-up to Baby Bear’s Not Hibernating explores themes of friendship, diversity, working as a team, and parenting; plus it concludes with fun facts and information about black bears. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/fire-exit monthly 0.5 2024-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/22da2587-1a0c-4246-a7fe-add015b48149/fireexit.jpg New Arrivals - Fire Exit - by Morgan Talty From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine’s Penobscot Reservation. He caught brief moments of his neighbor Elizabeth’s life―from the day she came home from the hospital to her early twenties. But there’s something deeper and more dangerous than the river that divides him from her and the rest of the tribal community. It’s the secret that Elizabeth is his daughter, a secret Charles is no longer willing to keep. Now, it’s been weeks since he’s seen Elizabeth, and Charles is worried. As he attempts to hold on to and care for what he can―his home and property; his alcoholic and bighearted friend Bobby; and his mother, Louise, who is slipping deeper into dementia―he becomes increasingly haunted by his past. Forced to confront a lost childhood on the reservation, a love affair cut short, and the death of his beloved stepfather, Fredrick, Charles contends with questions he’s long been afraid to ask. Is his secret about Elizabeth his to share? And would his daughter want to know the truth, even if it could cost her everything she’s ever known? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/good-dog13-the-bark-park monthly 0.5 2024-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/147fbac7-e81f-463f-8e06-f1dc313bc952/good+dog+13.jpg New Arrivals - Good Dog (13): The Bark Park - by Cam Higgins There’s a new doggy park near the farm, and Bo can’t wait for a full day of fun! There are plenty of pup friends, lots of grass to roll in, and even a water sprinkler! But when Bo meets a new pup who doesn’t seem to want friends, he doesn’t understand. Could it be that not all pups are meant to be Bark Park buddies? With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Good Dog chapter books are perfect for emerging readers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/in-too-deep monthly 0.5 2024-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f53481d2-da96-48b1-ac43-1b55a2b3a3c8/intoodeep.jpg New Arrivals - In Too Deep - by Lee Child and Andrew Child Jack Reacher wakes up alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there. The last thing Reacher can recall is the car he hitched a ride in getting run off the road. The driver was killed. His captors assume Reacher was the driver’s accomplice and patch up his wounds as they plan to make him talk. A plan that will backfire spectacularly . . . https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/lies-he-told-me monthly 0.5 2024-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a2d6d8ac-1695-4b94-958f-dde7c24166a7/lieshetold.jpg New Arrivals - Lies He Told Me - by James Patterson and David Ellis Everyone in Hemingway Grove, Illinois, knows David and Marcie Bowers. David owns the local pub. Marcie is a former big-city lawyer who practices family law. When David jumps into Cotton River to save a drowning stranger, he’s celebrated as a hero. His muscled physique, shaved head, and piercing blue eyes are broadcast on every news outlet. For most people, newfound fame is a lifeline. For David Bowers, it’s a death sentence. For Marcie Bowers, it’s a test. A wife knows the difference between a loving husband and father and a cold-blooded assassin. Right? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/where-the-library-hides monthly 0.5 2024-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5eda5ca3-7099-42a5-a4b1-722e1cd1137e/libraryhides.jpg New Arrivals - Where the Library Hides - by Isabel Ibanez Inez Olivera traveled across the world to Egypt, seeking answers into her parents' recent and mysterious deaths. But all her searching led her down a perilous road, filled with heartache, betrayal, and a dangerous magic that pulled her deep into the past. When Tío Ricardo issues an ultimatum about her inheritance, she’s left with only one option to consider. Marriage to Whitford Hayes. Former British soldier, her uncle’s aide de camp, and one time nemesis, Whit has his own mysterious reasons for staying in Egypt. With her heart on the line, Inez might have to bind her fate to the one person whose secret plans could ruin her. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/how-to-read-a-book monthly 0.5 2024-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e775289a-3c8a-4a59-8134-0417f5390627/howto+read.jpg New Arrivals - How to Read a Book - by Monica Wood Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher. Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest. Frank Daigle, a retired machinist, hasn’t yet come to grips with the complications of his marriage to the woman Violet killed. When the three encounter each other one morning in a bookstore in Portland—Violet to buy the novel she was reading in the prison book club before her release, Harriet to choose the next title for the women who remain, and Frank to dispatch his duties as the store handyman—their lives begin to intersect in transformative ways. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/war monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7de2e6e2-3557-481f-9815-52b5350157af/war.jpg New Arrivals - War - by Bob Woodward War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history. We see President Joe Biden and his top advisers in tense conversations with Russian president Vladimir Putin, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. We also see Donald Trump, conducting a shadow presidency and seeking to regain political power. With unrivaled, inside-the-room reporting, Woodward shows President Biden’s approach to managing the war in Ukraine, the most significant land war in Europe since World War II, and his tortured path to contain the bloody Middle East conflict between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas. Woodward reveals the extraordinary complexity and consequence of wartime back-channel diplomacy and decision-making to deter the use of nuclear weapons and a rapid slide into World War III. The raw cage-fight of politics accelerates as Americans prepare to vote in 2024, starting between President Biden and Trump, and ending with the unexpected elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president. War provides an unvarnished examination of the vice president as she tries to embrace the Biden legacy and policies while beginning to chart a path of her own as a presidential candidate. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dont-be-a-stranger monthly 0.5 2024-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3e9d3f01-4308-426b-ad44-0cc94ceee664/dontbeastranger.jpg New Arrivals - Don’t Be a Stranger - by Susan Minot Ivy Cooper is 52 years old when Ansel Fleming first walks into her life. Twenty years her junior, a musician newly released from prison on a minor drug charge, Ansel’s beguiling good looks and quiet intensity instantly seduce her. Despite the gulf between their ages and experience the physical chemistry between them is overpowering, and over the heady weeks and months that follow Ivy finds her life bifurcated by his presence: On the surface she is a responsible mother, managing the demands of friends, an ex-husband, home; but emotionally, psychologically, sexually, she is consumed by desire and increasingly alive only in the stolen moments-out-of-time, with Ansel in her bed. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/here-one-moment monthly 0.5 2024-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5f5370e6-4b3f-485b-93af-302c3f66c754/hereonemoment.jpg New Arrivals - Here One Moment - by Lian Moriarty The plane is jam-packed. Every seat is taken. So of course the flight is delayed! Flight attendant Allegra Patel likes her job—she’s generally happy with her life, even if she can’t figure out why she hooks up with a man she barely speaks to—but today is her twenty-eighth birthday. She can think of plenty of things she’d rather be doing than placating a bunch of grumpy passengers. There’s the well-dressed man in seat 4C who is compulsively checking his watch, desperate not to miss his eleven-year-old daughter’s musical. Further back, a mother of two is frantically trying to keep her toddler entertained and her infant son quiet. How did she ever think being a stay-at-home mom would be easier than being a lawyer? Ethan is lost in thought; he’s flying back from his first funeral. A young couple has just gotten married; she’s still wearing her wedding dress. An emergency room nurse is looking forward to traveling the world once she retires in a few years, it’s going to be so much fun! If they ever get off the tarmac. . . . Suddenly a woman none of them know stands up. She makes predictions about how and when everyone on board will die. Some dismiss her. Others will do everything they can to make sure her prophecies do not come to pass. All of them will be forever changed. How would you live your life if you thought you knew how it would end? Would you love who you love or try to love someone else? Would you stay married? Would you stop drinking? Would you call up your ex-best friend you haven’t spoken to in years? Would you quit your job? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/entitlement monthly 0.5 2024-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3662d1f2-369d-48d6-a90f-322fb471e13b/entitlement.jpg New Arrivals - Entitlement - by Rumaan Alam Brooke wants. She isn’t in need, but there are things she wants. A sense of purpose, for instance. She wants to make a difference in the world, to impress her mother along the way, to spend time with friends and secure her independence. Her job assisting an octogenarian billionaire in his quest to give away a vast fortune could help her achieve many of these goals. It may inspire new desires as well: proximity to wealth turns out to be nothing less than transformative. What is money, really, but a kind of belief? Taut, unsettling, and alive to the seductive distortions of money, Entitlement is a riveting tale for our new gilded age, a story that confidently considers questions about need and worth, race and privilege, philanthropy and generosity, passion and obsession. It is a provocative, propulsive novel about the American imagination. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/swift-river monthly 0.5 2024-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1731008032912-390HOP5FYEL2CCZOG3W3/swiftriver.jpg New Arrivals - Swift River - by Essie Chambers It’s the summer of 1987 in Swift River, and Diamond Newberry is learning how to drive. Ever since her Pop disappeared seven years ago, she and her mother hitchhike everywhere they go. But that’s not the only reason Diamond stands out: she’s teased relentlessly about her weight, and since Pop’s been gone, she is the only Black person in all of Swift River. This summer, Ma is determined to declare Pop legally dead so that they can collect his life insurance money, get their house back from the bank, and finally move on. But when Diamond receives a letter from a relative she’s never met, key elements of Pop’s life are uncovered, and she is introduced to two generations of African American Newberry women, whose lives span the 20th century and reveal a much larger picture of prejudice and abandonment, of love and devotion. As pieces of their shared past become clearer, Diamond gains a sense of her place in the world and in her family. But how will what she’s learned of the past change her future? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-more-the-terrier monthly 0.5 2024-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/48b2f8a0-2d54-455a-b33c-cec4060c4fd8/moretheterrier.jpg New Arrivals - The More the Terrier - by David Rosenfelt Reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter is relieved to be headed back to Paterson, New Jersey, after a week-long family vacation in the Adirondacks. He's ready to put the holly jolly season way behind him and settle in at home with his three dogs. But when they finally arrive, there is an extra dog eagerly awaiting them, as well as one anxious dog sitter. When the dog showed up on the doorstep a few days ago, the sitter knew Andy would know what to do. Indeed, Andy recognizes Murphy, who the Carpenters fostered before the dog went home with BJ Bremer and his mother. BJ wanted to learn all he could about caring for Murphy, which made Andy like him immediately. When Andy goes to take Murphy back to the Bremers, though, instead of the happy reunion he expects, he finds BJ's mother in tears. It turns out Murphy ran off…after BJ was arrested for murder. Andy had hoped for a quiet Christmas vacation, but he likes Murphy’s family and his golden retriever, Tara, likes Murphy, so he can't resist getting involved. The case isn’t as simple as Andy thought it would be, though, with BJ suspected of murdering one of his professors. With nothing to go on but Andy's own conviction in BJ's dog-loving character, proving his innocence would be a Christmas miracle. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-christmas-duet monthly 0.5 2024-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1731007526169-GNSM2TBRJ48Y2RT5VH7M/achristmasduet.jpg New Arrivals - A Christmas Duet - by Debbie Macomber Hailey Morgan’s life has always revolved around music. She once had big dreams of becoming a professional songwriter, but the reality of life has led her to working as an assistant high school band teacher in Portland. As the holidays approach, Hailey dreads the annual tradition of spending Christmas with her family and dodging her mother’s meddling questions about her love life. When Hailey’s close friend offers her the use of her family’s empty cabin for a rejuvenating solo holiday retreat, Hailey finally decides to do something to make herself happy. However, her arrival in the small town of Podunk, Oregon, is anything but peaceful when she discovers the cabin has been invaded by several wild animals. Luckily, Jay, the son of the town’s main store proprietor—and an incredibly handsome and charming former musician to boot—is more than willing to help. Soon Hailey and Jay are nearly inseparable, chopping down and decorating a Christmas tree, sipping hot cocoa in front of a cozy fire, and best of all, playing music together. Jay’s positive feedback and encouragement inspire Hailey to believe she might succeed as a songwriter after all. But even in her snow-dusted oasis, family holiday drama still finds Hailey, interrupting and threatening her newfound peace and confidence. Meanwhile revelations from Jay present complications of their own. Suddenly her Christmas paradise has become a winter storm and Hailey must weather through the challenges to stand up for herself and embrace the holiday spirit. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-interrupted-forest monthly 0.5 2024-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0d0eba95-7c67-4190-b0e3-b2353e9ce7b6/interrupted+forest.jpg New Arrivals - The Interrupted Forest - by Neil Rolde Add to this the thousands of farms that have grown back to woods since the Civil War, and you have the most forested state, by percentage, in the United States. But the “uninterrupted forest” that Henry David Thoreau first saw in the 1840s was never exactly that. Loggers had cut it severely, European settlers had gnawed into it, and, much earlier, native people had left their mark. This book takes you deep into the past to understand the present, allowing you to hear the stories of the people and events that have shaped the woods and made them what they are today. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-great-hippopotamus-hotel monthly 0.5 2024-11-07 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/my-three-dogs monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0750c241-1c30-4fa7-a831-55c88a3f3c2d/mythreedogs.jpg New Arrivals - My Three Dogs - by W. Bruce Cameron When a tragic accident separates three dogs from their human, they find themselves up for adoption -- separately. But Riggs, a dedicated, loyal Australian Shepherd, refuses to see his family torn apart. After the exuberant and fun-loving doodle Archie and quick-witted Jack Russell Luna are taken to new homes, Riggs' powerful herding instincts send him on a journey to bring his pack back together again. Cameron's signature style shines in this whirlwind of a novel that showcases how determination, instinct, and love can make a family whole once more. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-snow-thief monthly 0.5 2024-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/81c0823d-8d1d-4151-8c0a-68ac327aa62a/the+snow+theif.jpg New Arrivals - The Snow Thief - by Alice Hemming and Nicola Slater Squirrel and Bird are back, and this time it's winter! But squirrel has never seen snow before. Will he like it? You bet he will! Except, just as Squirrel starts to get used to the snow, it disappears. Is there a snow thief on the loose? With vibrant art and captivating characters, the magic of winter is captured beautifully on each page as readers tag along Squirrel's forest adventure. Is there truly a snow thief on the loose, or is something else going on in Squirrel's forest? A perfect exploration of change―both seasonal, and the anxiety that change sometimes causes. Bonus material explaining about the changing of the seasons. Poised to be a new fall classic. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/framed monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/57ab7614-3601-43a6-8dc8-daaa62d7892c/framed.jpg New Arrivals - Framed - by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey John Grisham is known worldwide for his bestselling novels, but it’s his real-life passion for justice that led to his work with Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries, the first organization dedicated to exonerating innocent people who have been wrongly convicted. Together they offer an inside look at the many injustices in our criminal justice system. A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty, there is very little room to prove doubt. These ten true stories shed light on Americans who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and corruption in the court system that can make them so hard to reverse. Impeccably researched and told with page-turning suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, Framed is the story of winning freedom when the battle already seems lost and the deck is stacked against you. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-mistletoe-mystery monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d1bd909d-3105-47c7-8efe-6cec4fd9c600/mistletoe.jpg New Arrivals - The Mistletoe Mystery - by Nita Prose Molly Gray has always loved the holidays. When Molly was a child, her gran went to great lengths to make the season merry and bright, full of cherished traditions. The first few Christmases without Gran were hard on Molly, but this year, her beloved boyfriend and fellow festive spirit, Juan Manuel, is intent on making the season Molly’s mofinst joyful yet. But when a Secret Santa gift exchange at the Regency Grand Hotel raises questions about who Molly can and cannot trust, she dives headfirst into solving her most consequential—and personal—mystery yet. Molly has a bad feeling about things, and she starts to wonder: has she yet again mistaken a frog for a prince? A heartwarming, magical story about the true spirit of the season, The Mistletoe Mystery reminds us that love is the greatest mystery of all. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/what-i-ate-in-one-year monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0787a668-14f7-4509-ad2a-ad05c2f974d4/what+i+ate.jpg New Arrivals - Stanley Tucci What I Ate in One Year - by Stanley Tucci Food has always been an integral part of Stanley Tucci’s life: from stracciatella soup served in the shadow of the Pantheon, to marinara sauce cooked between scene rehearsals and costume fittings, to home-made pizza eaten with his children before bedtime. Now, in What I Ate in One Year Tucci records twelve months of eating—in restaurants, kitchens, film sets, press junkets, at home and abroad, with friends, with family, with strangers, and occasionally just by himself. Ranging from the mouth-wateringly memorable to the comfortingly domestic and to the infuriatingly inedible, the meals memorialised in this diary are a prism for him to reflect on the ways his life, and his family, are constantly evolving. Through food he marks—and mourns—the passing of time, the loss of loved ones, and steels himself for what is to come. Whether it’s duck a l’orange eaten with fellow actors and cooked by singing Carmelite nuns, steaks barbequed at a gathering with friends, or meatballs made by his mother and son and shared at the table with three generations of his family, these meals give shape and add emotional richness to his days. What I Ate in One Year is a funny, poignant, heartfelt, and deeply satisfying serving of memories and meals and an irresistible celebration of the profound role that food plays in all our lives. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-snowy-owl-story monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/24ca8de9-b593-4f8a-bad5-e95131c728d7/snowy+owl.jpg New Arrivals - A Snowy Owl Story - by Melissa Kim One winter, as food gets scarce, a snowy owl finds himself forced to look in new and unfamiliar spots in order to find food and a place to call home. Based on a true story, A Snowy Owl Story describes, through the tale of one particular owl, the recent irruption of snowy owls all across the United States. Through this simple narrative, youngsters will learn about migration, adaptation, and respectful human interaction with nature. This unique title (first in a projected series of four board books) is written and designed specifically for a preschool market; few board books exist that tell conservation stories for this age range. Published in cooperation with Maine Audubon. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/moonflower-murders monthly 0.5 2024-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a8e7efa5-620b-49c5-aa20-719c0453f842/moonflower+murders.jpg New Arrivals - Moonflower Murders Ex-book editor Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) was seeking quiet retirement in Crete when she was approached by a missing woman's parents-who were sure that the disappearance was tied to an actual murder that inspired one of Alan Conway's Atticus Pünd whodunits. The tale of her perilous investigation unspools parallel to the circumstances facing Pünd (Tim McMullan), in this take on Anthony Horowitz's novel; with Alexandros Logothetis, Conleth Hill. 6 episodes on 2 discs. 6 hrs. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/it-ends-with-us monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/bfdbaf46-6dba-45f4-9d3f-7ab766262258/endswithusdvd.jpg New Arrivals - It Ends with Us IT ENDS WITH US tells the empowering story of Lily Bloom. Grappling with a painful past, Lily embarks on a new life in Boston and opens her own flower shop. After falling in love with Ryle, Lily begins to see sides of him that remind her of her dangerous father. With the support of her friends and allies, Lily must find her own strength to break the pattern or the pattern will break her. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/harold-and-thepurple-crayon monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/569ad18d-73b3-4845-8ec0-d7edb6fffae5/haroldcrayon.jpg New Arrivals - Harold and the Purple Crayon Inside of his book, adventurous Harold (Zachary Levi) can make anything come to life simply by drawing it. After he grows up and draws himself into the physical world, Harold finds he has a lot to learn about the real world. When the power of unlimited imagination falls into the wrong hands, it will take all of Harold and his friends’ creativity to save both the real world and his own. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/butchers-crossing monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c8ddbb94-898e-442f-a581-3391ba7b140c/butchers+crossing.jpg New Arrivals - Butcher’s Crossing Academy Award® winner Nicolas Cage (1996, Best Actor, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in a gritty story about buffalo hunters in the Old West. Will Andrews (Fred Hechinger) has left Harvard to find adventure. He teams up with Miller (Cage), a mysterious frontiersman offering an unprecedented number of buffalo pelts in a secluded valley. Their crew must survive an arduous journey where the harsh elements will test everyone's resolve, leaving their sanity on a knife's edge. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/beyond-paradise-series-2 monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/eb867d5b-7694-4ac0-b726-2ccd4c200b29/beyond+paradise+2.jpg New Arrivals - Beyond Paradise (series 2) The hit spin-off from Death in Paradise returns as DI Humphrey Goodman and his fiancée Martha settle into their new life by the Devon coast. Shipton Abbott continues to keep DI Humphrey Goodman and his team busy, with a baffling crime each week – from a death on a steam train to a missing teacher. Meanwhile, Humphrey and Martha’s journey to find their own version of a family continues as they explore the possibility of fostering. Martha’s mother Anne throws herself into the world of online dating. And a well-meant gesture from Esther’s daughter Zoe threatens to uncover a long-held secret. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dog-breath-the-horrible-trouble-with-hally-tosis monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/435560ea-939f-45c2-9c9a-784991ded670/dog+breath.jpg New Arrivals - Dog Breath: The Horrible Trouble with Hally Tosis - by Dav Pilkey Hally Tosis is a great family dog, but there is one rotten thing about her: her breath! It is so smelly, Hally's pet parents want to find a new home for her. The children, desperate to keep their beloved pet, try everything to rid Hally of her stinky stench. They take her for a breathtaking view, a movie that would leave her breathless, and a ride on a roller coaster that would make her lose her breath, but Hally's putrid panting persists! Only a miracle could save her now!This hysterical read-aloud and fan-favorite picture book is now available for the first time in a paper-over-board format! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-hot-mess monthly 0.5 2024-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/738bd32b-c58c-4ad7-837f-c7e94759d76e/hot+mess.jpg New Arrivals - Diary of a Wimpy Kid Hot Mess - by Jeff Kinney The pressure is building for Greg Heffley, who discovers that when you mix heaps of family, a tiny beach house, and sweltering heat, it’s a recipe for disaster. Speaking of recipes—the secret ingredients behind Gramma’s famous meatballs have been closely guarded for years. Can Greg unpack all of his family’s mysteries before their vacation is over? Or will he just stir the pot? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-boy-in-the-woods monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/956fa2b1-326e-472b-ad8b-bd9287dc5f3e/boy+in+the+woods.jpg New Arrivals - The Boy in the Woods The Boy in the Woods tells the remarkable true story of Max (Jett Klyne), a Jewish boy escaping Nazi persecution in Eastern Europe. After he is separated from his family, Max finds refuge with Christian peasant Jasko (Richard Armitage), who hides him in plain sight until a tense stand-off with Nazi police. Afraid for his own family's life, Jasko sends Max to live in the woods where he learns to survive alone. With echoes of a Grimms’ Fairy Tale, Max's experience is both terrifying and magical. He inhabits a landscape crawling with Nazis, partisans and haunted by ghosts. Based on the best-selling memoir by Canadian Holocaust survivor Maxwell Smart and inspired by the award-winning documentary Cheating Hitler: Surviving The Holocaust. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-waiting monthly 0.5 2024-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f66a945a-f23e-45ca-8901-10da6baa4686/thewaiting.jpg New Arrivals - The Waiting - by Michael Connelly Renée Ballard and the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago. The arrested man is only twenty-four, so the genetic link must be familial: His father was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the city of angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets and legal hurdles. Meanwhile, Ballard’s badge, gun, and ID are stolen—a theft she can’t report without giving her enemies in the department ammunition to end her career as a detective. She works the burglary alone, but her mission draws her into unexpected danger. With no choice but to go outside the department for help, she knocks on the door of Harry Bosch. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/one-big-happy-family monthly 0.5 2024-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1b1245b2-acc3-4877-a0de-c1dbcc897e66/happyfamily.jpg New Arrivals - One Big Happy Family - by Susan Mallery Julie Parker’s kids are her greatest gift. Still, she’s not exactly heartbroken when they ask to skip a big Christmas. Her son, Nick, is taking a belated honeymoon with his bride, Blair, while her daughter, Dana, will purge every reminder of the guy who dumped her. Again. Julie feels practically giddy for one-on-one holiday time with Heath, the (much) younger man she’s secretly dating. But her plans go from cozy to chaotic when Nick and Dana plead for Christmas at the family cabin in memory of their late father, Julie’s ex. She can’t refuse, even though she dreads their reactions to her new man when they realize she’s been hiding him for months. As the guest list grows in surprising ways, from Blair’s estranged mom to Heath’s precocious children, Julie’s secret is one of many to be unwrapped. Over this delightfully complicated and very funny Christmas, she’ll discover that more really is merrier, and that a big, happy family can become bigger and happier, if they let go of old hurts and open their hearts to love. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/detective-beans-and-the-case-of-the-missing-hat monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d5860e78-7234-466a-8c41-fca45c951e5a/detective+beans.jpg New Arrivals - Detective Beans & the Case of the Missing Hat - by Li Chen Meet Detective Beans (just Beans for short), a young cat sleuth dedicated to doing whatever it takes to solve the case. After a night of mystery movies with his best friend, Biscuit, Detective Beans wakes up to find his detective hat is missing. There’s only one thing to do: hit the streets of Cat Town and find that missing hat! Cat Town is full of suspects, from the neighborhood bird to a magician in the park, and each twist and turn in this journey leads to an interesting new encounter — and to solving a much bigger case than Beans could have imagined. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/that-librarian monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/57942e7b-613e-479a-bbcd-5025376e566b/thatlibrarian.jpg New Arrivals - That Librarian - by Amanda Jones One of the things small town librarian Amanda Jones values most about books is how they can affirm a young person's sense of self. So in 2022, when she caught wind of a local public hearing that would discuss “book content,” she knew what was at stake. Schools and libraries nationwide have been bombarded by demands for books with LGTBQ+ references, discussions of racism, and more to be purged from the shelves. Amanda would be damned if her community were to ban stories representing minority groups. She spoke out that night at the meeting. Days later, she woke up to a nightmare that is still ongoing. Amanda Jones has been called a groomer, a pedo, and a porn-pusher; she has faced death threats and attacks from strangers and friends alike. Her decision to support a collection of books with diverse perspectives made her a target for extremists using book banning campaigns-funded by dark money organizations and advanced by hard right politicians-in a crusade to make America more white, straight, and "Christian." But Amanda Jones wouldn't give up without a fight: she sued her harassers for defamation and urged others to join her in the resistance. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/at-war-with-ourselves monthly 0.5 2024-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/61d30db3-735d-4ad8-b79d-11422de6ae49/warourselves.jpg New Arrivals - At War with Ourselves - by H. R. McMaster At War with Ourselves is the story of helping a disruptive President drive necessary shifts in U.S. foreign policy at a critical moment in history. McMaster entered an administration beset by conflict and the hyper partisanship of American politics. With the candor of a soldier and the perspective of a historian, McMaster rises above the fray to lay bare the good, the bad, and the ugly of Trump’s presidency and give readers insight into what a second Trump term would look like. While all administrations are subject to backstabbing and infighting, some of Trump’s more unscrupulous political advisors were determined to undermine McMaster and others to advance their narrow agendas. McMaster writes candidly about Cabinet officials who, deeply disturbed by Trump’s language and behavior, prioritized controlling the President over collaborating to provide the President with options. McMaster offers a frank and fresh assessment of the achievements and failures of his tenure as National Security Advisor and the challenging task of maintaining one’s bearings and focus on the mission in a hectic and malicious environment. Determined to transcend the war within the administration and focus on national security priorities, McMaster forged coalitions in Washington and internationally to help Trump advance U.S. interests. Trump’s character and personality helped him make tough decisions, but sometimes prevented him from sticking to them. McMaster adroitly assesses the record of Trump’s presidency in comparison to the Obama and Biden administrations. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/imminent monthly 0.5 2024-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/dc633e57-ac9a-45ca-95f7-d74a409692aa/imminent.jpg New Arrivals - Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs - by Luis Elizondo Luis “Lue” Elizondo is a former senior intelligence official and special agent who was recruited into strange and highly sensitive US government program to investigate UAP. To accomplish his mission, Elizondo had to rely on decades of experience gained working some of America’s most classified programs. Even then, he was not prepared for what he would learn, including the truth about the government’s long shadowy involvement in UAP investigations, and the lengths officials would take to keep it a secret. For years, Elizondo and his colleagues found themselves on the front lines of what may be the greatest mystery and cover-up in history. Unidentified craft that seem to defy our knowledge of physics—within air, water, and space—have been operating with complete impunity since at least World War II. The military, the CIA, and even past presidents have known the truth that humanity is, in fact, not the only intelligent life in the universe. The nonhuman intelligence controlling these UAP are actively conducting surveillance on our most sensitive military installations, and have interfered with ongoing military and nuclear operations. US service members and intelligence officers who have encountered UAP have sustained serious medical injuries. And all of this is happening worldwide. The stakes could not be higher. Imminent is a first-hand, revelatory account inside the Pentagon’s most closely guarded secret and a call to action to confront humanity’s greatest existential questions. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-safekeep monthly 0.5 2024-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/fceda311-7335-425e-bff2-c3b87fa10f70/safekeep.jpg New Arrivals - The Safekeep - Yael Van Der Wouden It is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is truly over. Living alone in her late mother’s country home, Isabel knows her life is as it should be—led by routine and discipline. But all is upended when her brother Louis brings his graceless new girlfriend Eva, leaving her at Isabel’s doorstep as a guest, to stay for the season. Eva is Isabel’s antithesis: she sleeps late, walks loudly through the house, and touches things she shouldn’t. In response, Isabel develops a fury-fueled obsession, and when things start disappearing around the house—a spoon, a knife, a bowl—Isabel’s suspicions begin to spiral. In the sweltering peak of summer, Isabel’s paranoia gives way to infatuation, leading to a discovery that unravels all Isabel has ever known. The war might not be well and truly over after all, and neither Eva—nor the house in which they live—are what they seem. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/5-more-sleeps-til-halloween monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4e6d85a1-6fba-41fe-ba4f-4439151c66a8/fivesleepshalloween.jpg New Arrivals - 5 More Sleeps ‘Til Halloween - by Jimmy Fallon It’s 5 more sleeps ‘til Halloween! That spooky time of year. Where all of the ghosts are wide awake As nighttime’s drawing near. The excitement leading up to spooky season has been enjoyed by so many for so long. Filled with costumes, candy, and big scares! But why not make the last few days before Halloween even more exciting by counting how many sleeps until trick-or-treat night? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/reagan monthly 0.5 2024-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0f7bbffa-9d9c-4a49-98f5-f799c1305449/reagan.jpg New Arrivals - Reagan: His Life and Legend - by Max Boot The story begins not in star-studded Hollywood but in the cradle of the Midwest, small-town Illinois, where Reagan was born in 1911 to Nelle Clyde Wilson, a devoted Disciples of Christ believer, and Jack Reagan, a struggling, alcoholic salesman. Boot vividly creates a portrait of a handsome young man, indeed a much-vaunted lifeguard, whose early successes mirrored those of Horatio Alger. And contextualizing Reagan’s life against American history, Boot re-creates the world in which Reagan transitioned from local Iowa sportscaster to budding screen actor. The world of Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1950s would prove significant, not only in Reagan’s coming-of-age in such classics as Knute Rockne and Kings Row but during the twilight of his film career, when he played opposite a chimpanzee in Bedtime for Bonzo, and then his eventual emergence as a television host of General Electric Theater, which established his bona fides as one of the leading conservative voices of the time. Indeed, the leap to California governor in 1966 seemed almost preordained, in which Reagan became a bellwether for a nation in the throes of a generational shift. Reagan’s 1980 presidential election augured a shift that continues into this century. Boot writes not as a partisan but as a historian seeking to set the story straight. He explains how Reagan was an ideologue but also a supreme pragmatist who signed pro-abortion and gun control bills as governor, cut deals with Democrats in both Sacramento and Washington, and befriended Mikhail Gorbachev to end the Cold War. A master communicator, Reagan revived America’s spirits after the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate. But Boot also shows how Reagan was armored in obliviousness. He traces Reagan’s opposition to civil rights over forty years, reveals how he neglected the exploding AIDS epidemic, and details how America experienced a level of income inequality not seen since the Gilded Age. With its revelatory insights, Reagan: His Life and Legend is no apologia, depicting a man with a good-versus-evil worldview derived from his moralistic upbringing and Hollywood westerns. Providing fresh examinations of “trickle-down economics,” the Cold War’s end, the Iran-Contra affair, as well as a nuanced portrait of Reagan’s family, this definitive biography is as compelling a presidential biography as any in recent decades. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/wives-like-us monthly 0.5 2024-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d9df4f76-0bf4-4534-bdbb-5fb3ad3567ea/wiveslikeus.jpg New Arrivals - Wives Like Us - Plum Sykes If you think the English countryside is all green wellies, muddy Land Rovers and grey-haired ladies in tweed, then you’ve never visited ‘The Bottoms.’ Welcome to the rose-strewn county of Oxfordshire, and the tony Cotswold villages of Little Bottom, Middle Bottom, Great Bottom, and Monkton Bottom, recently annexed by a glittering new breed of female: the Country Princess. Following a ghastly row about a missing suite of diamonds, Tata Hawkins has flounced out of Monkton Bottom Manor with her daughter, Minty, and Executive Butler Ian Palmer in tow, decamping to The Old Coach House to teach her husband Bryan a lesson. But things don’t go to plan: Bryan disappears to Venice with a bikini designer; Selby Fairfax, the glamorous American divorcée who has inherited the beautiful estate next door, is refusing Tata’s overtures at friendship; Tata’s best friends, Sophie Thompson and Fernanda Ovington-Williams, are distracted by their own heartache, and the posh Pennybacker-Hoare sisters are plotting to prevent Tata regaining her crown as Queen of the Bottoms. Worst of all, Ian has nowhere to store his collection of vintage Gucci loafers. Will Tata ever return to the comforts of the Manor? Will Selby find her Prince Charming? Will the Pennybacker-Hoares prevail? With the help of a pig farmer-ess moonlighting as a Personal Assistant, a male model moonlighting as a stable hand and a London barrister moonlighting as a gentleman farmer, can Ian restore harmony to The Bottoms? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/impossible-creatures monthly 0.5 2024-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6fc16ab9-3479-43d4-bf04-f6a31565f0df/impossiblecreatures.jpg New Arrivals - Impossible Creatures - by Katherine Rundell The day that Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever. It’s the day he learned about the Archipelago—a cluster of unmapped islands where magical creatures of every kind have thrived for thousands of years, until now. And it’s the day he met Mal—a girl on the run, in desperate need of his help. Mal and Christopher embark on a wild adventure, racing from island to island, searching for someone who can explain why the magic is fading and why magical creatures are suddenly dying. They consult sphinxes, battle kraken, and negotiate with dragons. But the closer they get to the dark truth of what’s happening, the clearer it becomes: no one else can fix this. If the Archipelago is to be saved, Mal and Christopher will have to do it themselves. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/when-we-flew-away monthly 0.5 2024-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ced4a6c9-ce27-4c2e-8406-e9f549496c2c/whenweflew.jpg New Arrivals - When We Flew Away - by Alice Hoffman Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl has captivated and inspired readers for decades. Published posthumously by her bereaved father, Anne's journal, written while she and her family were in hiding during World War II, has become one of the central texts of the Jewish experience during the Holocaust, as well as a work of literary genius. With the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, the Frank family's life is turned inside out, blow by blow, restriction by restriction. Prejudice, loss, and terror run rampant, and Anne is forced to bear witness as ordinary people become monsters, and children and families are caught up in the inescapable tide of violence. In the midst of impossible danger, Anne, audacious and creative and fearless, discovers who she truly is. With a wisdom far beyond her years, she will become a writer who will go on to change the world as we know it. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/identity-unknown monthly 0.5 2024-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c7522753-e6e9-41aa-8519-976e28da0afa/identity+unknown.jpg New Arrivals - Identity Unknown - Patricia Cornwell Summoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once loved. While teaching in Rome during the early days of her career, Scarpetta had an intense love affair with Sal Giordano that led to a lifelong friendship. The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body, and Giordano’s skin is strangely red. Scarpetta’s niece Lucy believes he was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows an autopsy can reveal the dead’s secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue. As the investigators are torn between suspicions of otherworldly forces, and of Giordano himself, Scarpetta detects an explanation closer to home that, in her mind, is far more evil . . . https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/killing-time monthly 0.5 2024-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/44d42704-b60c-485c-a44f-9f96fb6b52f9/killing+time.jpg New Arrivals - Killing Time - M. C. Beaton Agatha Raisin’s private detective agency has their work cut out for them when a series of shop burglaries disturbs their quiet Cotswolds village. When the break-ins take a violent turn and a murder occurs, it's all hands on deck to find the killer. As if that weren't keeping Agatha busy enough, Sir Charles Fraith has called on her to help stage a glamorous promotional extravaganza on the grounds of his ancestral home, Barfield House. When Agatha begins to receive death threats and narrowly avoids being kidnapped, she takes advantage of a previously arranged trip to Mallorca with her recent paramour, former police officer John Glass, to lie low for a while. Can Agatha track down whoever it is that wants her dead, nail the murderer, and keep her romance alive too? It's a race against the clock as the Cotswolds' favorite PI rushes to put the pieces together before the seconds run out. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-mighty-red monthly 0.5 2024-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/86ff2578-1687-4f83-8e2f-5445fbcc6907/mightyred.jpg New Arrivals - The Mighty Red - Louise Erdrich History is a flood. The mighty red . . . In Argus, North Dakota, a collection of people revolve around a fraught wedding. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed Goth who can't read her future but seems to resolve his. Hugo, a gentle red-haired, home-schooled giant, is also in love with Kismet. He’s determined to steal her and is eager to be a home wrecker. Kismet's mother, Crystal, hauls sugar beets for Gary's family, and on her nightly runs, tunes into the darkness of late-night radio, sees visions of guardian angels, and worries for the future, her daughter’s and her own. Human time, deep time, Red River time, the half-life of herbicides and pesticides, and the elegance of time represented in fracking core samples from unimaginable depths, is set against the speed of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, and the sudden economic meltdown of 2008-2009. How much does a dress cost? A used car? A package of cinnamon rolls? Can you see the shape of your soul in the everchanging clouds? Your personal salvation in the giant expanse of sky? These are the questions the people of the Red River Valley of the North wrestle with every day. The Mighty Red is a novel of tender humor, disturbance, and hallucinatory mourning. It is about on-the-job pains and immeasurable satisfactions, a turbulent landscape, and eating the native weeds growing in your backyard. It is about ordinary people who dream, grow up, fall in love, struggle, endure tragedy, carry bitter secrets; men and women both complicated and contradictory, flawed and decent, lonely and hopeful. It is about a starkly beautiful prairie community whose members must cope with devastating consequences as powerful forces upend them. As with every book this great modern master writes, The Mighty Red is about our tattered bond with the earth, and about love in all of its absurdity and splendor. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/counting-miracles monthly 0.5 2024-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0eb97e9e-33d3-4275-8d3c-66dbfa50e2cb/countingmiracles.jpg New Arrivals - Counting Miracles - Nicholas Sparks Tanner Hughes was raised by his grandparents, following in his grandfather’s military footsteps to become an Army Ranger. His whole life has been spent abroad, and he is the proverbial rolling stone: happiest when off on his next adventure, zero desire to settle down. But when his grandmother passes away, her last words to him are find where you belong. She also drops a bombshell, telling him the name of the father he never knew—and where to find him. Tanner is due at his next posting soon, but his curiosity is piqued, and he sets out for Asheboro, North Carolina, to ask around. He’s been in town less than twenty-four hours when he meets Kaitlyn Cooper, a doctor and single mom. They both feel an immediate connection; Tanner knows Kaitlyn has a story to tell, and he wants to hear it. To Kaitlyn, Tanner is mysterious, exciting—and possibly leaving in just a few weeks. Meanwhile, nearby, eighty-three-year-old Jasper lives alone in a cabin bordering a national forest. With only his old dog, Arlo, for company, he lives quietly, haunted by a tragic accident that took place decades before. When he hears rumors that a white deer has been spotted in the forest—a creature of legend that inspired his father and grandfather—he becomes obsessed with protecting the deer from poachers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-sequel monthly 0.5 2024-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b9c1c891-3cb3-432f-807c-f3dd2b6d9402/sequel.jpg New Arrivals - The Sequel - Jean Hanff Korelitz Anna Williams-Bonner has taken care of business. That is to say, she’s taken care of her husband, bestselling novelist Jacob Finch Bonner, and laid to rest those anonymous accusations of plagiarism that so tormented him. Now she is living the contented life of a literary widow, enjoying her husband’s royalty checks in perpetuity, but for the second time in her life, a work of fiction intercedes, and this time it’s her own debut novel, The Afterword. After all, how hard can it really be to write a universally lauded bestseller? But when Anna publishes her book and indulges in her own literary acclaim, she begins to receive excerpts of a novel she never expected to see again, a novel that should no longer exist. That it does means something has gone very wrong, and someone out there knows far too much: about her late brother, her late husband, and just possibly... Anna, herself. What does this person want and what are they prepared to do? She has come too far, and worked too hard, to lose what she values most: the sole and uncontested right to her own story. And she is, by any standard, a master storyteller. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pearl-loves-to-sing monthly 0.5 2024-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/04894b6b-173b-436c-8d5a-b15bac47cbae/pearl.jpg New Arrivals - Pearl Loves to Sing - by Olivier Dunrea Pearl sings sleeping songs, slurping songs, quietly, and loudly, all over the farm—all day long. Pearl loves, loves, loves to sing! But what will she do when she loses her voice? Olivier Dunrea lends his signature charm to another preschool conundrum and shows how the support of friends can help us get over a rough patch. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/butcher monthly 0.5 2024-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b2a2660d-9c1f-4335-acdb-db37d0e18746/butcher.jpg New Arrivals - Butcher - Joyce Carol Oates In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, “Father of Gyno-Psychiatry,” as he ascends from professional anonymity to national renown. Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics, where he reigns. There, he is allowed to continue his practice, unchecked for decades, making a name for himself by focusing on women who have been neglected by the state—women he subjects to the most grotesque modes of experimentation. As he begins to establish himself as a pioneer of nineteenth-century surgery, Weir’s ambition is fueled by his obsessive fascination with a young Irish indentured servant named Brigit, who becomes not only Weir’s primary experimental subject, but also the agent of his destruction. Narrated by Silas Weir’s eldest son, who has repudiated his father’s brutal legacy, Butcher is a unique blend of fiction and fact, a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche conjoined, in its startling conclusion, with unexpected romance. Once again, Joyce Carol Oates has written a spellbinding novel confirming her position as one of our celebrated American visionaries of the imagination. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/everyone-knows-but-you monthly 0.5 2024-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/23feece2-1319-4078-80a4-2b6d77aaafce/everyone+knows+but+you.jpg New Arrivals - Everyone Knows But You - Thomas E. Ricks After his wife and two children are killed in a car crash, Ryan Tapia starts a new life in Maine. But his first case there is a puzzling oddball—the corpse of a fisherman washes up on federal land, while the man’s boat drifts into waters that are part of an Indian reservation. Ryan quickly learns the nuances of Maine life as he delves into two illicit coastal trades: hard drugs and rare fish. Many of the locals are happy to see that particular fisherman dead. What’s more, they are not shy about noting that Ryan must have screwed up pretty badly to be posted to such a remote location as Bangor, Maine. Undaunted, Ryan works to understand the unforgiving way of life on Liberty Island, where people live by an older, harsher code. Adrift on a sailboat one day, he encounters a man from the Malpense tribe, living as a hermit on a remote island, who witnessed something that fateful day. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-very-hungry-caterpillars-creepy-crawly-halloween monthly 0.5 2024-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/09567fdc-ecaf-4efa-9122-43b5036cb2ee/creepy-crawly-halloween.jpg New Arrivals - The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s Creepy-Crawly Halloween - by Eric Carle Join The Very Hungry Caterpillar on his creepiest adventure yet as he explores the woods by the light of the moon for Halloween! Lift the flap on every spread to discover which creepy-crawly creatures are hiding in the forest. A simple, engaging new seasonal lift-the-flap adventure with big flaps that are perfect for little hands! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-millicent-quibb-school-of-etiquette-for-young-ladies-of-mad-science monthly 0.5 2024-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b3502c2c-0b65-49d3-99cb-1c25f8c8c5d6/millicentquibb.jpg New Arrivals - The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science - by Kate McKinnon So, you want to be a young mad scientist. Congratulations! Admitting it is the first step. The second step is reading the (definitely true) tale of the Porch sisters… Gertrude, Eugenia, and Dee-Dee Porch do not belong. They don’t belong in the snooty town of Antiquarium, where all girls have to go to etiquette school and the only dog allowed is the bichon frise. They don’t belong with their adoptive family, where all their cousins are named Lavinia and their Aunt has more brooches than books. And they certainly don’t belong at Mrs. Wintermacher’s etiquette school—they’re far more interested in science. After getting kicked out of the last etiquette school that would take them, the girls expect to be sent away for good... until they receive a mysterious invitation to new school. Suddenly the girls are under the tutelage of the infamous Millicent Quibb—a mad scientist with worms in her hair and oysters in her bathtub. At 231 Mysterium Way, the pizza is fatal, the bus is powered by Gerbils, and the Dean of Students is a hermit crab. Dangerous? Yes! More fun than they’ve ever had? Absolutely! But when the sisters are asked to save their town from an evil cabal of nefarious mad scientists, they must learn to embrace what has always made them stand out, and determine what side they’re on—before it’s too late! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/good-dog-beach-paws monthly 0.5 2024-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3c4f7ef9-d4e8-4553-96f9-da27cd451927/beachpaws.jpg New Arrivals - Good Dog (12): Beach Paws - by Cam Higgins Bo is ready to get his paws into the soft sand at the beach! With his human family by his side and the refreshing waves, it’s looking like the ultimate day of fun in the sun. But when a lost pup wanders into Bo’s path, Bo quickly puts a hold on beach time to lend a helping paw. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/good-dog-bo-hatches-a-plan monthly 0.5 2024-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/14f5d44d-067d-456c-b6cc-32360621efd2/bohatchesaplan.jpg New Arrivals - Good Dog (11): Bo Hatches a Plan - by Cam Higgins Springtime has arrived at the Davis family farm! With the warmer weather comes mud playtime, new blooms, and new hatchlings in the chicken coop! When Bo is tasked with guarding the eggs, he promises the chickens there won’t be any horsing around. But when his best puppy pal, Scrapper, shows up with the zoomies…well, things become eggs-tra difficult. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-drowned monthly 0.5 2024-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/754784b7-f8c4-43d0-8352-2528cdb0d5aa/the+drowned.jpg New Arrivals - The Drowned - John Banville “He had seen drowned people. A sight not to be forgotten.” 1950s, rural Ireland. A loner comes across a mysteriously empty car in a field. Knowing he shouldn’t approach but unable to hold back, he soon finds himself embroiled in a troubling missing person case, as a husband claims his wife may have thrown herself into the sea. Called in from Dublin to investigate is Detective Inspector Strafford, who soon turns to his old ally—the flawed but brilliant pathologist Quirke—a man he is linked to in increasingly complicated ways. But as the case unfolds, events from the past resurface that may have life-altering ramifications for all involved. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/your-post-partum-body monthly 0.5 2024-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/18f6f650-4bc6-4ee4-b1c3-ca4fdf5c94b6/postpartum.jpg New Arrivals - Your Post-Partum Body - by Ruth E, Macy, PT, DPT and Courtney Naliboff Pregnancy may have left you feeling that there’s no way to fix common postpartum symptoms , such as pelvic floor issues, exhaustion, and burnout, and lactation woes. But that's simply not true. With this revolutionary resource in hand, you’ll learn what happens to the body during pregnancy and childbirth, common changes in function and feeling, and solutions for healing. Your Postpartum Body was written with expertise by a pelvic floor physical therapist who'll empower you so that you can feel like yourself again—physically and mentally. You’ve probably heard plenty of anecdotes about what might help or hurt (to Kegel or not to Kegel?), and felt unsure about what's right for you. This book is backed up with medical expertise and practical advice. Your Postpartum Body is the complete reference guide for every eventuality—hydration, nutrition, lactation, how to end lactation successfully, pelvic floor recovery, finding your abs again, reducing pain, reclaiming your sexuality, and getting back to fitness confidently—with helpful illustrations and photos throughout. While your body is undoubtedly different (after all, you just grew a human!), you do not have to live with pain, incontinence, weakness, or feeding stress. You now hold the tools and techniques you need to heal and nourish your body and mind. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-islanders-a-novel monthly 0.5 2024-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7d96a62c-f065-4170-9c5c-1dcb0103c8f6/theislanders.jpg New Arrivals - The Islanders - Lewis Robinson Shaken by problems at home, confused by the motives of a new love, and reeling from a public meltdown, high school hockey star Walt McNamara joins an exclusive new leadership program controlled by the ultra-wealthy summer residents of Whaleback Island, a granite and spruce oasis off the coast of Maine. But this is no paradise; secrets lurk in its murky waters. As Walt and his fellow misfits, including the determined Aubrey and fierce Tess, are pushed physically and mentally by ex-military instructors, exposed truths from the island's past and present slowly reveal the reasons behind their intense training. With danger mounting, Walt, Aubrey, Tess, and the others must use their new skills to sort friend from foe and find a way to survive. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/where-the-forest-meets-the-river monthly 0.5 2024-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d89bc000-17ab-44d8-b384-88b92ea6a5b5/forestriver.jpg New Arrivals - Where the Forest Meets the River - Shannon Bowring It’s been five years since Bridget Theroux’s death shocked the small town of Dalton, Maine, leaving behind husband Nate and daughter Sophie, now a vibrant young child. Nate doesn’t always know how to answer her questions, but he is intent on raising her with joy—and shielding her from her grandmother, Annette, who remains dangerously locked away in her grief. After his first year away at college, Greg Fortin is back in town for the summer to work at the family store. It’s expected he'll take over the hardware business eventually, but finding the words to tell them no—and the truth about who he is—has become his own Everest. Rose’s abusive ex, Tommy finally disappeared a few years ago, though sometimes his presence in the eyes of her oldest son unnerves her. She and Nate are finding themselves drawn together by their children’s playdates, and into a delicate balance between friendship and the possibility of more. And Trudy and Bev, always so sure of their love for each other, find themselves rocked when Trudy’s husband Richard suffers a heart attack, bringing into focus all the guilt she has felt about their empty marriage for years. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-last-summer-before-whatever-happens-next monthly 0.5 2024-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/53b3d2d3-b4c0-43f9-9588-a2da63cfc4b5/lastsummer.jpg New Arrivals - The Last Summer Before Whatever Happens Next - by Bee Burke It's the summer of 1980-something, and valedictorian Claire Hart has nothing to do. Her summers have always been meticulously planned―a class here, educational camp there―so her last summer before college she quickly becomes lost in the possibilities. She can't believe her luck when she's swept up in the storied world of the Tooheys, heirs to a plumbing fortune and the richest, quirkiest family in Keech Harbor, Maine. She's found a perfect summer, full of Toohey hijinks. As she follows the Toohey clan from one party to another, she starts to feel like she belongs somewhere other than in the library with her nose in a book. But perfection isn't all it's cracked up to be, and Claire has to decide whether she wants to live a perfect life―or one that's perfect for her, whatever that may be. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/we-solve-murders monthly 0.5 2024-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5bedf52b-6068-4c83-af47-a0d5ac370c9b/wesolvemurders.jpg New Arrivals - We Solve Murders - Richard Osman Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He still does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him at home. His days of adventure are over. Adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s job now. Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. Working in private security, every day is dangerous. She’s currently on a remote island protecting mega-bestselling author Rosie D’Antonio, until a dead body and a bag of money mean trouble in paradise. So she sends an SOS to the only person she trusts . . . As a thrilling race around the world begins, can Amy and Steve outrun and outsmart a killer? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/den-of-iniquity monthly 0.5 2024-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6669d9a7-088f-4517-9708-7a7165b0066f/denofiniquity.jpg New Arrivals - Den of Iniquity - J.A. Jance Former Seattle homicide cop J. P. Beaumont faces trouble in the small town of Ashland, as both his personal and professional lives are thrown into turmoil. Beau’s daughter and son-in-law are having marital troubles, and his grandson, a senior in high school, shows up on his doorstep, wanting to live with Beau and his wife Mel as he finishes out the school year. Meanwhile, a friend from his past asks for Beau’s help in looking into what appears to be an accidental death. A young man died of a fentanyl overdose, but those closest to him are convinced that he would never have used the drug, and that something much more sinister has happened. Beau agrees to unofficially reopen the case, and his investigation leads him to uncover similar mysterious deaths that all point to a most unlikely suspect. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-boyfriend monthly 0.5 2024-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/730918f5-f7a4-4137-b027-973aaba23a46/theboyfriend.jpg New Arrivals - The Boyfriend - by Freida McFadden Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She’s seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can't shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot. Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect. He's charming, handsome, and works as a doctor at a local hospital. Sydney is swept off her feet. Then the brutal murder of a young woman―the latest in a string of deaths across the coast―confounds police. The primary suspect? A mystery man who dates his victims before he kills them. Sydney should feel safe. After all, she is dating the guy of her dreams. But she can’t shake her own suspicions that the perfect man may not be as perfect as he seems. Because someone is watching her every move, and if she doesn’t get to the truth, she’ll be the killer’s next victim... https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/creation-lake monthly 0.5 2024-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/90c40512-f316-4f3f-b257-c72b50e13e34/creationlake.jpg New Arrivals - Creation Lake - by Rachel Kushner A thirty-four-year-old American woman—a secret agent—is sent to do dirty work in France. “Sadie Smith” is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader. Sadie has met her love, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by “cold bump”—making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone Sadie targets, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation, based on what her “contacts”—shadowy figures in business and government—instruct. First, these contacts want her to incite provocation. Then they want more. In this region of centuries-old farms and ancient caves, Sadie becomes entranced by a mysterious figure named Bruno Lacombe, a mentor to the young activists who communicates only by email. Bruno believes that the path to emancipation from what ails modern life is not revolt, but a return to the ancient past. Just as Sadie is certain she’s the seductress and puppet master of those she surveils, Bruno Lacombe is seducing her with his ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments, his own tragic story. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-grave-in-the-woods monthly 0.5 2024-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/94a440e6-9a3b-4410-a0c8-4f4220e5e34e/gravewoods.jpg New Arrivals - A Grave in the Woods - by Martin Walker When Abby, an American archaeologist, arrives in St. Denis on the heels of her divorce, she hopes to make a new life for herself as a specialist guide for visiting tourists. So when a local British couple discover a grave from World War II on their property, Abby is able to put her training to good use. As it turns out, in the grave are the remains of two German women and an Italian submarine officer who had a big secret to hide. The women are suspected of having had links to the German garrison in Bordeaux during the war. It’s up to Bruno, just recovered from a gunshot wound earlier in the year, to unravel the mystery—and its contemporary relevance. His task is made more difficult by the horrible heat-dome summer, which is raising the temperature for miles around, as unprecedented amounts of rain drench the Massif Central and threaten increasingly dramatic floods . As Bruno drills to the heart of the case, matters get even more complicated when both Abby’s financially distressed ex-husband and a mysterious dashing Italian naval officer arrive, with very different ideas in mind. Once again, Bruno is left to serve the guilty their just rewards, and his friends, some sumptuous Perigordian cuisine. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/robert-b-parkers-buzz-kill monthly 0.5 2024-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2e58ee83-3ab4-4e66-8702-5f9176c6c8da/buzzkill.jpg New Arrivals - Robert B. Parkers Buzz Kill - by Alison Gaylin After a near-death experience, Sunny Randall is ready to lighten her load as a PI, that is until she is called upon by billionaire media magnate Bill Welch to investigate the disappearance of his son, Dylan, the cofounder of the Gonzo Energy Drink company. Lazy, unscrupulous and a notorious partier, Dylan isn’t exactly reliable. But Dylan’s mother, Lydia, insists this time is different. She knows him. He’s her son. And she believes he’s in serious danger. Unable to turn down the Welches’ life-changing offer, Sunny takes on the case, starting off by befriending Dylan's smart young business partner, Sky, who seems like his polar opposite. Sky is bright, innovative, ambitious and empathetic -- yet surprisingly, she adores Dylan, and desperately wants Sunny to find him. As Sunny traces the marks left behind by Dylan’s past, she must unearth all the skeletons in his closet. She discovers not only his bad behavior with women, but also his reckless moves within the business world, producing an energy drink that, despite its marketing, has proven dangerous and even deadly. Still, Sky insists he’s a good man. Who is Dylan, really? And why has he vanished? When bodies start to pile up, Sunny must find answers quick, before she—and those she cares about—get caught in the crossfire. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-forest-of-lost-souls monthly 0.5 2024-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/46aaccfb-a808-4d3d-8015-14edad0c136a/forest.jpg New Arrivals - The Forest of Lost Souls - by Dean Koontz Raised in the wilderness by her late great-uncle, Vida is a young woman with an almost preternatural affinity for nature, especially for the wolves that also call the forested mountains home. Formed by hard experience, by love and loss, and by the prophecies of a fortune teller, Vida just wants peace. If only nearby Kettleton County didn’t cast such a dark shadow. It’s where Jose Nochelobo, the love of Vida’s life and a cherished local hero, died in a tragic accident. That’s the official story, but Vida has reasons to doubt it. The truth can’t be contained for long. Nor can the hungry men of power in Kettleton who want something too: that Vida, like Jose, disappear forever. One by one they come for her, prepared to do anything to see their plans through to their evil end. Vida is no less prepared for them. Vida, the forest, and its formidable wonders are waiting. She will not rest until goodness and order have been restored. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/mouse-and-his-dog monthly 0.5 2024-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/71756c88-29b7-42a3-a6d8-620268ed00c8/mousedog.jpg New Arrivals - Mouse and His Dog - by Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko Mouse lives in Dogtown, a shelter for real dogs and robot dogs, where the kibble is plentiful, and the rafters hide a secret community of mice. His unlikely best friend is Buster, a big-hearted real dog who attracts trouble like a burr to fur. Determined to help Buster find his forever home, even if means losing his best pal, Mouse embarks on a bold quest with three of Dogtown’s “unadoptables”: Buster, Stewie--a huge, lovable dog whose ex-owner said he was mean, and Smokey--a robot dog hardwired with a smoke alarm he can’t control. But Mouse is just a mouse, and the world is big and complicated. How’s a little guy supposed to find homes for the dogs he loves? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/death-at-the-sign-of-the-rook monthly 0.5 2024-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/de549f13-cc2d-4543-b01f-e9b0522dc4d6/deathrook.jpg New Arrivals - Death at the Sign of the Rook - by Kate Atkinson Welcome to Rook Hall. The stage is set. The players are ready. By night’s end, a murderer will be revealed. In his sleepy Yorkshire town, ex-detective Jackson Brodie is staving off boredom and malaise. His only case is the seemingly tedious matter of a stolen painting. But Jackson soon uncovers a string of unsolved art thefts that lead him down a dizzying spiral of disguise and deceit to Burton Makepeace, a formerly magnificent estate now partially converted into a hotel hosting Murder Mystery weekends. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/passions-in-death monthly 0.5 2024-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a9158cf0-c2b0-44cd-a65c-5ab93fd3d177/passions.jpg New Arrivals - Passions in Death - by J.D. Robb On a hot August night, Lt. Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke, speed through the streets of Manhattan to the Down and Dirty club, where a joyful, boisterous pre-wedding girls’ night out has turned into a murder scene. One of the brides lies in a pool of blood, garroted in a private room where she was preparing a surprise for her fiancée—two scrimped and saved-for tickets to Hawaii. Despite the dozens of people present, useful witnesses are hard to come by. It all brings back some bad memories for Eve who once suffered an assault in the very same room—but she’d been able to fight back and survive. She’d gotten justice. And now she needs to provide some for poor young Erin. Eve knows that the level of violence and the apparent premeditation involved suggest a volatile mix of hidden, heated passion and ice-cold calculation. This is a crime that can be countered only by hard detective work and relentless dedication—and Eve will not stop until she finds the killer who destroyed this couple’s dreams before the honeymoon even began… https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/fatal-intrusion monthly 0.5 2024-09-17 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/inside-out2 monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e1f03cbf-1f6d-4264-bef0-7b2defdd8125/insideout2.jpg New Arrivals - Inside Out 2 Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as headquarters is disrupted by something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety and friends show up. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/tell-me-everything monthly 0.5 2024-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/76608e2e-4377-4a5a-8d9c-38c0dfe5429d/tell+me+everything.jpg New Arrivals - Tell Me Everything - by Elizabeth Strout With her remarkable insight into the human condition and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?” It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, is finally introduced to the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive’s apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known—“unrecorded lives,” Olive calls them—reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/good-dog-all-you-need-is-mud monthly 0.5 2024-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/474bbacd-0dc0-49f0-8006-c39de1f36dc8/gooddog10.jpg New Arrivals - Good Dog (10): All You Need is Mud - by Cam Higgins Bo and his pig pal Zonks always have fun with each other. They can talk and roll in the mud all day long! Bo and Zonks agree they have a special connection. But does that mean they’ve got to be each other’s best friend? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/good-dog-sweater-weather monthly 0.5 2024-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e1554adf-6b72-47e4-98a0-e17606ea6e9b/gooddog9.jpg New Arrivals - Good Dog (9): Sweater Weather - by Cam Higgins The wind is crisp, and the leaves are starting to change color on the Davis farm. The squirrels are busier which means change is coming. And Bo’s puppy dog senses are telling him that sweater weather season is near! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/freaky-folklore monthly 0.5 2024-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4a5daaeb-6e7d-47ee-bd5d-11f7e5935155/freakyfolklore.jpg New Arrivals - Freaky Folklore - by Darkness Prevails Accompanied by illustrations of each beast, Freaky Folklore is your guide to the world’s most terrifying beings, from ancient times to today. Hosts from Eeriecast, the leading horror podcast network, present the most frightening—and entertaining—tales of these mysterious creatures, revealing everything you need to know. This beautifully creepy collection is filled with wicked monsters, including: Chupacabra: A legendary monster that is said to drain the blood of livestock throughout Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the US Southwest. Jersey Devil: Said to have been created due to a mother's curse upon her newborn in the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey, USA. Kelpie: A shape-shifting water horse told of in Celtic folklore. Whatever form it takes, it is said to lure its victims to their watery graves. Moehau: A cryptid from Māori mythology, it stands up to 8 feet tall and can be very aggressive when encountered. Kuchisake-onna: From Japanese folklore, Kuchisake-onna is a yokai with deep gashes that forms a haunting smile across her face. Should you happen to meet her, she will ask you a question--and you had better answer it correctly. Dogman: A werewolf or werewolf-type creature first reported in 1887 in Wexford County, Michigan, Dogman sightings have been reported in several locations throughout Michigan, primarily in the northwestern quadrant of the Lower Peninsula. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/prunella monthly 0.5 2024-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/806b41de-50f8-4e1d-87db-c75811155b6a/prunella.jpg New Arrivals - Prunella - by Beth Ferry When Prunella is born with a purple thumb instead of a green one like her parents, everyone’s stumped. What could it mean? Before long, they find out. Prunella prefers corpse flowers to carnations, fungi to ferns, and poison ivy to petunias. The stickier and scarier the plant, the more Prunella loves it. And if her poisonous and noxious garden keeps the other neighborhood kids away, it’s probably for the best. But then one day, a curious weed of a different sort pops up… Should prickly Prunella uproot this tentative new friendship or allow it to flower? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/buffalo-fluffalo monthly 0.5 2024-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f8d28097-b706-461b-9512-341e96a54933/fluffalo.jpg New Arrivals - Buffalo Fluffalo - by Bess Kalb Buffalo Fluffalo arrives on the scene puffed up with self-importance. Stomping around and raising billows of dust, Buffalo Fluffalo proclaims his superiority to the other creatures—the ram, the prairie dog, and the crow—who just want to be his friend. So Buffalo Fluffalo, who has had enuffalo, heads off to grumble to himself. Suddenly, a rain shower pours down from the clouds and—what’s this? All of his fluffalo is a soggy mess! There Fluffalo stands, a drenched pip-squeak without his disguise. The other animals, who could see through Fluffalo’s bravado from the start, circle around to comfort him. As prairie dog says with a smile in his eyes, You’re great how you are, no matter your size. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/cull-of-the-wild monthly 0.5 2024-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7ddb3dd1-e12c-491b-94c3-50b80d429990/cullofthewild.jpg New Arrivals - Cull of the Wild - by Hugh Warwick Across the world, invasive species pose a danger to ecosystems. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity ranks them as a major threat to biodiversity on par with habitat loss, climate change and pollution. Tackling this isn't easy, and no one knows this better than Hugh Warwick, a conservationist who loathes the idea of killing, harming or even eating animals. Yet as an ecologist, he is acutely aware of the need, at times, to kill invasive species whose presence harms the wider environment. Hugh explores the complex history of species control, revealing the global movement of species and the impacts of their presence. Combining scientific theory with gentle humour in his signature style, he explains the issues conservationists face to control non-native animals and protect native species – including grey and red squirrels on Anglesey, ravens and tortoises in the Mojave Desert, cane toads in Australia and the smooth-billed ani on the Galapagos – and describes cases like Pablo Escobar's cocaine hippos and the Burmese python pet trade. Taking a balanced and open approach to this emotive subject, Hugh speaks to experts on all sides of the debate. How do we protect endangered native species? Which species do we prioritise? And how do we reckon with the ethics of killing anything in the name of conservation? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-coven monthly 0.5 2024-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b88c913b-15d9-4295-a242-0fafe323045b/coven.jpg New Arrivals - The Coven - by Harper L. Woods Raised to be my father’s weapon against the Coven that took away his sister and his birthright, I would do anything to protect my younger brother from suffering the same fate. My duty forces me to the secret town of Crystal Hollow and the prestigious Hollow’s Grove University―where the best and brightest of my kind learn to practice their magic free from human judgment. There are no whispered words here. No condemnation for the blood that flows through my veins. The only animosity I face comes from the beautiful and infuriating Headmaster, Alaric Grayson Thorne, a man who despises me just as much as I loathe him and everything he stands for. But that doesn’t mean secrets don’t threaten to tear the school in two. No one talks about the bloody massacre that forced it to close decades prior, only the opportunity it can afford to those fortunate enough to attend. Because for the first time in fifty years, the Coven will open its wards to the Thirteen. Thirteen promising students destined to change the world. If the ghosts of Hollow’s Grove’s victims don’t kill them first. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/galway-confidential monthly 0.5 2024-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e9ab633e-8f9c-45f8-a4a7-b18bf773b49b/galway.jpg New Arrivals - Galway Confidential - by KenBruen Jack Taylor wakes up from a coma to discover that much of the world has changed since he last walked the streets of Galway. The pandemic had hit while he was under, devastating the lives of many in his beloved city and beyond. Now, as Jack tries to recover from the attack that put him in the hospital and absorb the incredible changes in the world around him, a woman approaches him with a distressing case: two local nuns have been bludgeoned by a mysterious man wielding a hammer, and more are sure to follow. As the police fail to act while the violence against the Sisters escalates, Jack seems like their only hope. Initially wary of becoming involved in the investigation, Jack finds he cannot stay away from the mystery surrounding these vicious attacks. He also cannot shake a feeling of darkness that has haunted him since he awoke from his coma―a darkness that is far too close for comfort. Luckily an old friend is there to help see him through and there is always Jack’s dark wit and a drink to help shore up his mood. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/tom-clancy-shadow-state monthly 0.5 2024-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/92a93183-3597-4bb6-ba78-6b11ff8d7825/shadowstate.jpg New Arrivals - Tom Clancy Shadow State - by M.P. Woodward The vibrant economy of the new Vietnam is a shiny lure for Western capital. Companies are racing to uncover ideal opportunities. Not wanting to be left behind, Hendley Associates has sent their best analyst, Jack Ryan, Jr., to mine for investment gold. And he may have found some in a rare earth mining company—GeoTech. But a trip with a Hendley colleague to the Highlands to observe the company’s operations takes a treacherous turn when their helicopter is shot down. Some things haven’t changed, and Vietnam is still the plaything of powerful neighbors. The Chinese are determined to keep Jack from finding the truth about what exactly is being processed at the isolated factory. Now Jack is in a race for his life. He’s got to stay one step ahead of a pack of killers while supporting his wounded friend. He’ll get no help from the government, because in the jungle, it’s the shadow state that rules. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-great-marriage monthly 0.5 2024-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/92b3d400-b193-4262-af71-56a74fe35e86/greatmarriage.jpg New Arrivals - A Great Marriage - by Frances Mayes Dara Willcox, in New York for a weekend, meets Austin Clarke at an art gallery. If love at first sight can happen, it happens to them. These two vivid, ambitious people are on different courses—he’s British, working temporarily in New York. She’s from North Carolina, set on law school. They don’t care. They will make their lives together happen. At their April engagement dinner at Dara’s family home, her mother, Lee, sets a beautiful table, and the family and close friends gather to celebrate. Rich, Dara’s father, raises a toast. Suddenly, Lee spills the wine, a brilliant red stain splashing onto the tablecloth and onto Austin. Days later, Austin hears unsettling news from London that wrecks their plans. Dara abruptly cancels the wedding. She refuses to reveal the reason, not even to her best friends or her parents or grandmother, disrupting their family tradition of openness. As everyone knows, Lee and Rich have a great marriage, and Charlotte, her grandmother, had a colossal one, to the late Senator Mann. Charlotte literally wrote the book on the subject: She’s the author of international bestsellers on what makes a good or possibly a great marriage. While Dara escapes to California and Indigo Island, South Carolina, Austin, back in London, faces a major tragedy, the consequences of which are life-altering. But it’s Lee, Dara’s mother, whose impulsive visit to London alters their fate. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-dark-wives monthly 0.5 2024-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c7f0f0ac-02fa-4693-9841-753541601d80/darkwives.jpg New Arrivals - The Dark Wives - by Ann Cleeves The man’s body is found in the early morning light by a local dog walker in the park outside Rosebank, a home for troubled teens in the coastal village of Longwater. The victim is Josh, a staff member, who was due to work the previous night but never showed up. DI Vera Stanhope is called out to investigate the death, with her only clue being the disappearance of one of the home’s residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spence. Vera can’t bring herself to believe that a teenager is responsible for the murder, but even she can’t dismiss the possibility. Vera, Joe and new team member Rosie Bell, are soon embroiled in the case, and when a second connected body is found near the Three Dark Wives monument in the wilds of the Northumberland countryside, superstition and folklore begin to collide with fact. Vera knows she has to find Chloe to get to the truth, and the dark secrets in their community that may be far more dangerous than she could have ever believed possible. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-wedding-people monthly 0.5 2024-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3cd704fd-7bb8-470b-81b0-5b9138499e1e/wedding+people.jpg New Arrivals - The Wedding People - by Alison Espach It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/hard-to-kill monthly 0.5 2024-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/69047071-30c1-4d66-b6fa-3af8b919c623/hardtokill.jpg New Arrivals - Hard To Kill - by James Patterson and Mike Lupica Attorney Jane Smith is mounting an impossible criminal defense. Her client, Rob Jacobson, is the unluckiest of the unlucky. No sooner is he accused of killing a family of three in the Hamptons than a second family is gunned down. It’s not double jeopardy. It’s not double murder. It’s double triple homicide. Jane’s career has spanned from NYPD beat cop to Hamptons courtroom. She’s tough to beat. She’s even tougher to kill. The defense may never rest. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/watchers monthly 0.5 2024-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d7b0a83d-c864-4634-9dad-cf96d4fb3927/watchers.jpg New Arrivals - Watchers This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different. Left stranded, she is forced into the dark woodland only to find a woman shouting, urging Mina to run to a concrete bunker. As the door slams behind her, the building is besieged by screams. Mina finds herself in a room with a wall of glass, and an electric light that activates at nightfall, when the Watchers come above ground. These creatures emerge to observe their captive humans and terrible things happen to anyone who doesn't reach the bunker in time https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/biscuit-visits-the-pumpkin-patch monthly 0.5 2024-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c7351125-31e5-4609-bedc-a8c27db08043/biscuitpumpkinpatch.jpg New Arrivals - Biscuit Visits the Pumpkin Patch - by Alyssa Satin Capucilli What will Biscuit find in the pumpkin patch? The perfect pumpkin and some friendly surprises! Join Biscuit, the much-loved little yellow puppy, for a fun fall outing. This board book is a sweet and friendly celebration of fall and will help introduce preschoolers to that fall favorite: a visit to the pumpkin patch! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/see-you-later-alligator monthly 0.5 2024-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8ac0ef94-bbe2-42e9-8a60-0de2e556de0b/alligator.jpg New Arrivals - See You Later, Alligator - by Sally Hopgood A departing tortoise has his bags packed and is almost ready to set out on an adventure, but he can’t leave until he says good-bye to each of his animal friends. The tortoise stops for every last timid mouse and bumblebee, shouting his rhyming good-byes, making you wonder if, perhaps, he’s stalling the start of his trip. His animal friends appear startled as he suddenly pops up on each page to say adieu—especially the perplexed rhinoceros the tortoise mistakes for a unicorn! With each farewell, the tortoise’s good-byes get sillier and more creative. When will the good-byes end and the adventure begin? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/construction-site-gets-a-fright monthly 0.5 2024-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/db9a56b7-bd84-4f0d-acf6-561d05a2e839/constructionfright.jpg New Arrivals - Construction Site Gets A Fright! - by Sherri Duskey Rinker and AG Ford On a dark and windy Halloween night, the trucks are ready for bedtime. But with tricks and treats on their minds, the familiar construction site starts to seem a little eerie! Lift the flaps to turn spooky scares into silly surprises, as the trucks find out that they are all safe and sound—and learn that laughing with friends is the best way to turn fright into fun! Sherri Duskey Rinker's rollicking, rhyming text pairs perfectly with heartwarming illustrations by AG Ford to deliver an interactive Halloween tale that will delight little readers and their families. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pacific-northwest-fodors-travel monthly 0.5 2024-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/75e4ee52-67e1-4e7a-a989-a48c651049ea/pacificnw.jpg New Arrivals - Fodor’s Travel Pacific Northwest - by Fodor’s Fodor's Pacific Northwest travel guide includes: AN ILLUSTRATED ULTIMATE EXPERIENCES GUIDE to the top things to see and do MULTIPLE ITINERARIES to effectively organize your days and maximize your time MORE THAN 30 DETAILED MAPS to help you navigate confidently COLOR PHOTOS throughout to spark your wanderlust! HONEST RECOMMENDATIONS FROM LOCALS on the best sights, restaurants, hotels, nightlife, shopping, performing arts, activities, side-trips, and more PHOTO-FILLED “BEST OF” FEATURES on “The 10 Best Islands,” “The Best Places for Book Lovers,” “The Best Hikes,” and more TRIP-PLANNING TOOLS AND PRACTICAL TIPS including when to go, getting around, beating the crowds, and saving time and money HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL INSIGHTS providing rich context on the local art, architecture, cuisine, music, geography and more SPECIAL FEATURES on “What to Watch and Read Before You Visit” and “What to Eat and Drink.” LOCAL WRITERS to help you find the under-the-radar gems UP-TO-DATE COVERAGE ON: Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Willamette Valley, Mt. Hood, Bend, Mt. St. Helens, San Juan Islands, Olympic National Park, Mt. Rainer, Victoria, and more. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/avatar-the-way-of-water monthly 0.5 2024-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5c02d168-0ddd-40d5-8865-5d7156655205/avatarwater.jpg New Arrivals - Avatar: The Way of Water Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the planet of Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their planet https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/unsung-hero monthly 0.5 2024-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8683e262-bc74-4682-b562-48cebe835451/unsunghero.jpg New Arrivals - Unsung Hero Based on a remarkable true story, Unsung Hero follows David Smallbone as he moves his family from Down Under to the States, searching for a brighter future after his successful music company collapses. With nothing more than their seven children, suitcases, and their love of music, David and his pregnant wife Helen set out to rebuild their lives. Helen’s faith stands against all odds and inspires her husband and children to hold onto theirs. With their own dreams on hold, David and Helen begin to realize the musical prowess in their children, who would go on to become two of the most successful acts in inspirational music history: five-time GRAMMY Award®-winning artists for KING + COUNTRY and Rebecca St. James. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/by-any-other-name monthly 0.5 2024-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0a75f926-472d-4631-a83d-89d52e63dac2/byanyothername.jpg New Arrivals - By Any Other Name - by Jodi Picoult Young playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. But seeing it performed is unlikely, in a theater world where the playing field isn’t level for women. As Melina wonders if she dares risk failure again, her best friend takes the decision out of her hands and submits the play to a festival under a male pseudonym. In 1581, young Emilia Bassano is a ward of English aristocrats. Her lessons on languages, history, and writing have endowed her with a sharp wit and a gift for storytelling, but like most women of her day, she is allowed no voice of her own. Forced to become a mistress to the Lord Chamberlain, who oversees all theatre productions in England, Emilia sees firsthand how the words of playwrights can move an audience. She begins to form a plan to secretly bring a play of her own to the stage—by paying an actor named William Shakespeare to front her work. Told in intertwining timelines, By Any Other Name, a sweeping tale of ambition, courage, and desire centers two women who are determined to create something beautiful despite the prejudices they face. Should a writer do whatever it takes to see her story live on . . . no matter the cost? This remarkable novel, rooted in primary historical sources, ensures the name Emilia Bassano will no longer be forgotten. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dinosaurs-to-chickens monthly 0.5 2024-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0f48533e-9ebc-4532-85c3-d704bfdb7670/dinoschickens.jpg New Arrivals - Dinosaurs to Chickens - by Nick Lund Dinosaurs to Chickens: How Evolution Works showcases over 125 animals in 30 charts that feature most astonishing evolutions in Earth's history! Track the evolution of traits from the Tyrannosaurus Rex's to the chicken, the first insect to the monarch butterfly, the giant sloth to the armadillo and many more. With full-color illustrations throughout, plus a gatefold showing how species connect and evolve via the "Tree of Life", this book makes the science of evolution an exciting and accessible topic for young readers, and will capture the fascination of kids who already love science, dinosaurs and fossils. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/like-mother-like-daughter monthly 0.5 2024-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e9cfe914-89f7-427f-acce-2ec53eb8b0d2/like+mother.jpg New Arrivals - Like Mother, Like Daughter - by Kimberly McCreight When Cleo, a student at NYU, arrives late for dinner at her childhood home in Brooklyn, she finds food burning in the oven and no sign of her mother, Kat. Then Cleo discovers her mom’s bloody shoe under the sofa. Something terrible has happened. But what? The polar opposite of Cleo, whose “out of control” emotions and “unsafe” behavior have created a seemingly unbridgeable rift between mother and daughter, Kat is the essence of Park Slope perfection: a happily married, successful corporate lawyer. Or so Cleo thinks. Kat has been lying. She’s not just a lawyer; she’s her firm’s fixer. She’s damn good at it, too. Growing up in a dangerous group home taught her how to think fast, stay calm under pressure, and recognize a real threat when she sees one. And in the days leading up her disappearance, Kat has become aware of multiple threats: demands for money from her unfaithful soon-to-be ex-husband; evidence that Cleo has slipped back into a relationship that’s far riskier than she understands; and menacing anonymous messages from her past—all of which she’s kept hidden from Cleo . . . https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-days-i-loved-you-most monthly 0.5 2024-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e0be6e60-cf2c-49c0-971b-4de0936798b1/i+loved+you.jpg New Arrivals - The Days I Loved You Most - by Amy Neff In the summer of 1941, on the New England shores where they were raised, Evelyn and Joseph fell in love. Now, more than sixty years later, with a lifetime between them, they have gathered their three grown children to share the staggering news: she has received a heartbreaking diagnosis, and he can't live without her. So in one year's time they will end their love story on their own terms. Over the next year, the couple retraces their past—all the joys and regrets that brought them to this moment. They embark on a journey to live out their greatest dreams and to connect with each of their children. But as their final days draw closer, they must confront the stark reality of what's to come, and make peace with the legacy they will leave behind for their family. Spanning the twentieth century from World War II to 9/11 and beyond, The Days I Loved You Most is a timeless tale of unwavering devotion -- a moving tribute to the enduring power of love and a reminder that even in the darkest moments, there is always hope and beauty to be found. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/mela monthly 0.5 2024-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f065aa71-9fd7-48f9-8486-e210d71fd898/mela.jpg New Arrivals - Mela - by Maddalena Schiavo Trusting someone takes time. It's a process that requires a lot of patience and love--especially when such a bond needs to be forged between a rescued animal with an unknown past and a new family with expectations of their own. Written by Maddalena Schiavo and based on illustrator Eleonora Pace's real-life journey of adopting a dog whom she named Mela (Italian for "apple"), this tender picture book narrated in first person will strike a chord with animal lovers and pet owners of every age and provide a springboard for social and emotional learning (SEL). https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/good-dog-puppy-luck monthly 0.5 2024-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/612f017a-f96e-4d27-b6e8-63f578bdcc70/gooddog8.jpg New Arrivals - Good Dog (8): Puppy Luck - by Cam Higgins There are plenty of sunny, good luck days on the farm. But sometimes, stormy bad luck clouds come around too, and Bo will need all the puppy luck he can find to chase those clouds away. With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Good Dog chapter books are perfect for emerging readers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/good-dog-barnyard-buddies monthly 0.5 2024-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1ad1ee2b-d7a7-4103-ad49-50e4f120fe89/gooddog7.jpg New Arrivals - Good Dog (7): Barnyard Buddies - by Cam Higgins Bo loves having lots of friends on the farm. There’s always something to do and a barnyard buddy to play with. Bo doesn’t want to lose out on a single second with any of them, but he can’t be in two places at once! With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Good Dog chapter books are perfect for emerging readers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/fire-and-bones monthly 0.5 2024-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e8920063-a066-4743-a09d-e9048a9e756b/fire+and+bones.jpg New Arrivals - Fire and Bones - by Kathy Reichs Always apprehensive about working fire scenes, Tempe is called to Washington, DC, to analyze the victims of a deadly blaze and sees her misgivings justified. The devastated building is in Foggy Bottom, a neighborhood with a colorful past and present, and Tempe becomes suspicious about the property’s ownership when she delves into its history. The pieces start falling into place strangely and quickly, and, sensing a good story, Tempe teams with a new ally, telejournalist Ivy Doyle. Soon the duo learns that back in the thirties and forties the home was the hangout of a group of bootleggers and racketeers known as the Foggy Bottom Gang. Though interesting, this fact seems irrelevant—until the son of a Foggy Bottom gang member is shot dead at his home in an affluent part of the district. Coincidence? Targeted attacks? So many questions. As Tempe and Ivy dig deeper, an arrest is finally made. Then another Foggy Bottom Gang-linked property burns to the ground, claiming one more victim. Slowly, Tempe’s instincts begin pointing to the obvious: somehow, her moves since coming to Washington have been anticipated, and every path forward seems to bring with it a lethal threat. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/rethinking-college monthly 0.5 2024-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5c6af796-e8c6-4d7a-b6d0-63b7d5c09157/rethinking+college.jpg New Arrivals - Rethinking College - by Karin Klein You may have heard that a college degree is the only path to success. But many college graduates end up mired in debt and underemployed, working jobs that don't even require a degree. The good news? There are many promising career options for those who don't want to or can't attend college. In Rethinking College, award-winning journalist Karin Klein sets out a new path for our country's students and their families. Klein examines why the traditional college-for-all model has been overhyped and is growing less relevant, then shares practical advice and real-world examples of exactly how others have succeeded without a four-year degree. Discover an abundance of alternative paths, including white-collar apprenticeships, certificate programs, entrepreneurship, creative careers, residential public-service work, and more. Klein will guide you step-by-step toward a broad range of fulfilling and well-paid careers that don't require a degree—ranging from pilots, costume designers, influencers, writers, computer programmers, corporate headhunters, film editors, and so many more. The breadth of possibilities is wider than you think! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/weird-but-true-star-wars monthly 0.5 2024-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/22a4c28e-45db-44a0-be4c-afe9d6942650/weirdtrue.jpg New Arrivals - Weird But True! Star Wars - by National Geographic Chew-bacca on these funny facts: The slimy sound of Jabba the Hutt’s movements was made mainly with recordings of hands being run through a bowl of mac and cheese! The Corellian hounds in Solo: A Star Wars Story were played by dogs wearing costumes! A full-scale Millennium Falcon built for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back weighed more than a whale shark! Bursting with photos and facts from across the Star Wars galaxy—including trivia from all three film trilogies, The Mandalorian, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge®, and beyond—this book will delight fans of all ages. Readers will glimpse the real-world inspiration behind the planet Tatooine, find out how many people it actually takes to play the Mandalorian, Din Djarin, and even discover hidden wonders to see and explore in the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge®theme park locations. And much, much more. May the facts be with you! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/shadow-of-doubt monthly 0.5 2024-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/57a41c7e-221a-4b15-b053-0e2235085b8d/shadowofdoubt.jpg New Arrivals - Shadow of Doubt - by Brad Thor A mysterious cargo plane, flanked by a squadron of Russia’s most lethal fighters, has just taken off from a remote airbase. Closely monitored by the United States, no one inside the Pentagon has any idea where it’s going or what it’s carrying. A high-level Russian defector, a walking vault of secrets that could shatter the West, seeks asylum in Norway. Across the continent, in the heart of Paris, a lone French agent stumbles upon a conspiracy so explosive it could ignite a global firestorm. As alarm bells ring in Washington, the CIA’s most lethal weapon, Scot Harvath, is forced to choose between his conscience and his country. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-dead-of-light monthly 0.5 2024-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/cd6cf352-5fcb-4377-b742-00d53366adda/deadoflight.jpg New Arrivals - The Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly (11): The Dead of Light - by Jordan Quinn The war over Wrenly has ended, but Roke is still lost inside another realm. Ruskin, Cinder, and Groth are determined to get their friend back…even if it means stepping into the Penumbra, where a monster reigns over the darkness. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/random-passage monthly 0.5 2024-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/387ac043-ee45-46b5-b7ee-1dd67c80403a/random+passage.jpg New Arrivals - Random Passage This award winning miniseries traces the difficult passage of young Mary Keane (Aoife McMahon) from servitude in Ireland to the squalor of rough-and-tumble Newfoundland in the early 1800s. Escaping attempted rape and abuse, Mary moves on with her infant daughter to find shelter at a remote fishing station run by Thomas Hutchings (Colm Meaney – Layer Cake, Kings). In a time and place where life and death are a hair’s breadth apart, Mary joins the community’s struggle for survival against sickness and starvation. All of the Cape’s people are fugitives of one kind or another, but by pulling together through hardships and tragedies, they forge a new life of hope – and even love. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/big monthly 0.5 2024-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/415fb2c4-d0c9-429c-aaf3-e57366bd93ce/big.jpg New Arrivals - Big - by Vashti Harrison The first picture book written and illustrated by award-winning creator Vashti Harrison traces a child’s journey to self-love and shows the power of words to both hurt and heal. With spare text and exquisite illustrations, this emotional exploration of being big in a world that prizes small is a tender portrayal of how you can stand out and feel invisible at the same time. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-eyes-and-the-impossible monthly 0.5 2024-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/cb9ec611-bfae-4c66-92c7-b5dc2c1ca34b/the+eyes.jpg New Arrivals - The Eyes & the Impossible - by Dave Eggers Johannes, a free dog, lives in an urban park by the sea. His job is to be the Eyes—to see everything that happens within the park and report back to the park’s elders, three ancient Bison. His friends—a seagull, a raccoon, a squirrel, and a pelican—work with him as the Assistant Eyes, observing the humans and other animals who share the park and making sure the Equilibrium is in balance. But changes are afoot. More humans, including Trouble Travelers, arrive in the park. A new building, containing mysterious and hypnotic rectangles, goes up. And then there are the goats—an actual boatload of goats—who appear, along with a shocking revelation that changes Johannes’s view of the world. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-refiners-fire monthly 0.5 2024-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ff43a748-e025-4954-833c-cf086537322c/refiner.jpg New Arrivals - A Refiner’s Fire - by Donna Leon Around one AM on an early spring morning, two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice’s squares. Commissario Claudia Griffoni, on duty that night, perhaps ill-advisedly walks the last of the boys home because his father, Dario Monforte, failed to pick him up at the Questura. Coincidentally, Guido Brunetti is asked by a wealthy friend of Vice-Questore Patta to vet Monforte for a job, triggering Brunetti’s memory that twenty years earlier Monforte had been publicly celebrated as the hero of a devastating bombing of the Italian military compound in Iraq. Yet Monforte had never been awarded a medal either by the Carabinieri, his service branch, or by the Italian government. That seeming contradiction, and the brutal attack on one of Brunetti’s colleagues, Enzo Bocchese, by a possible gang member, concentrate Brunetti’s attentions. Surprisingly empowered by Patta, supported by Signorina Elettra’s extraordinary research abilities and by his wife, Paola’s, empathy, Brunetti, with Griffoni, gradually discovers the sordid hypocrisy surrounding Monforte’s past, culminating in a fiery meeting of two gangs and a final opportunity for redemption. A Refiner’s Fire is Donna Leon at her very best: an elegant, sophisticated storyteller whose indelible characters become richer with each book, and who constantly explores the ambiguity between moral and legal justice. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/husbands-and-lovers monthly 0.5 2024-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/038d734a-2b9f-4a4e-8f35-6426d4368c35/husbands.jpg New Arrivals - Husbands & Lovers - by Beatriz Williams New England, 2022. Three years ago, single mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone call every parent dreads—her ten-year-old son, Sam, had been airlifted from summer camp with acute poisoning from a toxic death cap mushroom, leaving him fighting for his life. Now, searching for the donor kidney that will give her son a chance for a normal life, Mallory’s forced to confront two harrowing secrets from her past: her mother’s adoption from an infamous Irish orphanage in 1952, and her own all-consuming summer romance fourteen years earlier with her childhood best friend, Monk Adams— one of the world’s most beloved singer-songwriters—a fairy tale cut short by a devastating betrayal. Cairo, 1951. After suffering tragedy beyond comprehension in the war, Hungarian refugee Hannah Ainsworth has forged a respectable new life for herself—marriage to a wealthy British diplomat with a coveted posting in glamorous Cairo. But a fateful encounter with the enigmatic manager of a hotel bristling with spies leads to a passionate affair that will reawaken Hannah’s longing for everything she once lost. As revolution simmers in the Egyptian streets, a pregnant Hannah finds herself snared in a game of intrigue between two men . . . and an act of sacrifice that will echo down the generations. Timeless and bittersweet, Husbands & Lovers takes readers on an unforgettable journey of heartbreak and redemption, from the revolutionary fires of midcentury Egypt to the moneyed beaches of contemporary New England. Acclaimed author Beatriz Williams has written a poignant and beautifully voiced novel of deeply human characters entangled by morally complex issues—of privilege, class, and the female experience—inside worlds brought shimmeringly to life. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/sister-boniface-mysteries-season2 monthly 0.5 2024-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6a359d1e-407f-421c-b9ae-f97caad4e1ef/boniface2.jpg New Arrivals - Sister Boniface Mysteries (Season 2) Before she took her vows and entered St. Vincent's Convent, Sister Boniface (Lorna Watson) was a Bletchley Circle codebreaker with a Ph.D. in forensic science... and as such, her input was gladly welcomed by the constabulary of Great Slaughter. Engaging, '60s-set mystery series spun out of "Father Brown" also stars Max Brown, Jerry Iwu, Miranda Raison, Ami Metcalf, Belinda Lang, Carolyn Pickles, David Sterne, Sarah Crowden.10 episodes on 3 discs. 7 1/2 hrs. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English (SDH). https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-long-game monthly 0.5 2024-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/17dec6be-fb1b-4258-bce3-bd3a5554bb1f/long+game.jpg New Arrivals - The Long Game The Long Game is a beautiful, inspirational true story about five young Mexican-American caddies in 1957 who, barred from playing on the courses where they caddied, decided to build their own golf course in the South Texas desert and ultimately won the state championship with the help of their superintendent-turned-coach. Starring Jay Hernandez, Dennis Quaid, and Cheech Marin. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/grantchester-ninth-season monthly 0.5 2024-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4fcd8d29-c270-4d85-8c7d-7fc8382f14a4/grant9.jpg New Arrivals - Grantchester: The Complete Ninth Season "Masterpiece Mystery" brings James Runcie's books to the small screen with this British detective series about the unique if unlikely partnership between Anglican priest Sidney Chambers (James Norton) and Detective Inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green). The two join forces to solve baffling crimes when the vicar decides to take up sleuthing work as a hobby in his home village of Grantchester. With Morven Christie, Tessa-Peake Jones.6 episodes on 2 discs. 6 2/3 hrs. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-black-bird-oracle monthly 0.5 2024-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6577412d-df00-4f74-925b-58694530a5c4/blackbird.jpg New Arrivals - The Black Bird Oracle - by Deborah Harkness Deborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishop, an Oxford scholar and witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clermont in A Discovery of Witches. Drawn to each other despite long-standing taboos, these two otherworldly beings found themselves at the center of a battle for a lost, enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782. Since then, they have fallen in love, traveled to Elizabethan England, dissolved the Covenant between the three species, and awoken the dark powers within Diana’s family line. Now, Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the Congregation: They must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca. Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family’s future and answers a message from a great-aunt she never knew existed, Gwyneth Proctor, whose invitation simply reads: It’s time you came home, Diana. On the hallowed ground of Ravenswood, the Proctor family home, and under the tutelage of Gwyneth, a talented witch grounded in higher magic, a new era begins for Diana: a confrontation with her family’s dark past and a reckoning for her own desire for even greater power—if she can let go, finally, of her fear of wielding it. In this stunning new novel, grand in scope, Deborah Harkness deepens the beloved world of All Souls with powerful new magic and long-hidden secrets, and the path Diana finds at Ravenswood leads to the most consequential moments yet in this cherished series. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/sandwich monthly 0.5 2024-07-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/63678ad4-02e6-4bf3-9c4f-1262f71e2427/sandwich.jpg New Arrivals - Sandwich - by Catherine Newman For the past two decades, Rocky has looked forward to her family’s yearly escape to Cape Cod. Their humble beach-town rental has been the site of sweet memories, sunny days, great meals, and messes of all kinds: emotional, marital, and—thanks to the cottage’s ancient plumbing—septic too. This year’s vacation, with Rocky sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents, promises to be just as delightful as summers past—except, perhaps, for Rocky’s hormonal bouts of rage and melancholy. (Hello, menopause!) Her body is changing—her life is, too. And then a chain of events sends Rocky into the past, reliving both the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers. It's one precious week: everything is in balance; everything is in flux. And when Rocky comes face to face with her family’s history and future, she is forced to accept that she can no longer hide her secrets from the people she loves. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/flashpoint monthly 0.5 2024-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1721246417831-EJWYFNTYDOEMGW6O83SB/flashpoint.jpg New Arrivals - Flashpoint - by Catherine Coulter A year has passed since Elizabeth Palmer was nearly killed with hundreds more in the attempted bombing of St. Paul’s in London, believed to be a terrorist act until the police discovered it was a cover for something even more sinister. For Elizabeth, life is finally back to normal. She’s optimistic, her painting is getting accolades, when suddenly her world changes in a flash. With three new attempts on her life, and her connection to the terrorist attack, MI-5 gets involved to find out who is trying to kill her and why. Autumn Backman, twelve years old, begrudgingly accepts a summer job to shepherd Tash Navarro, a shy, bullied little boy. He’s staying with his uncle while his father and stepmother go on a honeymoon in Europe. Then the unexpected happens. Autumn learns Tash is gifted psychically, like her, and Tash’s father, Archer Navarro, is suspected of embezzling from his own firm. The FBI and Interpol are on the case, but Archer and his new wife have disappeared. Tash is scared and convinced his father needs help, so Autumn reaches out to Dillon Savich, the only person she knows who can find them. Desperate for answers, Elizabeth flies to Washington, D.C., to seek out Savich and Sherlock and is assigned Special Agent Rome Foxe for protection. With deadly assailants in terrifying pursuit, Elizabeth and Rome soon find themselves neck deep in danger and in a race for survival. Buckle up for a nonstop, action-packed thriller from the one and only Catherine Coulter. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-glass-maker monthly 0.5 2024-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e2f93eb6-985d-47ec-9988-9e8490de1e5a/glassmaker.jpg New Arrivals - The Glass Maker - by Tracy Chavalier It is 1486 and Venice is a wealthy, opulent center for trade. Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers on Murano, the island revered for the craft. As a woman, she is not meant to work with glass—but she has the hands for it, the heart, and a vision. When her father dies, she teaches herself to make glass beads in secret, and her work supports the Rosso family fortunes. Skipping like a stone through the centuries, in a Venice where time moves as slowly as molten glass, we follow Orsola and her family as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, from a plague devastating Venice to Continental soldiers stripping its palazzos bare, from the domination of Murano and its maestros to the transformation of the city of trade into a city of tourists. In every era, the Rosso women ensure that their work, and their bonds, endure. Chevalier is a master of her own craft, and The Glassmaker is as inventive as it is spellbinding: a mesmerizing portrait of a woman, a family, and a city as everlasting as their glass. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/no-cats-in-the-library monthly 0.5 2024-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d063606f-b043-45f7-8c61-30b394591706/nocats.jpg New Arrivals - No Cats in the Library - by Lauren Emmons Clarisse is a clever cat who loves books. She may not understand the dark, squiggly lines, but she can’t get enough of the pictures. One day, she stumbles upon a magical building where people walk in empty-handed and come out with an armload of books. She has to find a way inside! There’s just one problem: NO CATS are allowed in the library! That’s not going to stop clever Clarisse, though. Once she sneaks in, she stumbles upon exciting new stories and even helps a little girl practice reading aloud. But when the librarian comes looking, will Clarisse be allowed to stay? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/bubbly-beautiful-kitty-corn monthly 0.5 2024-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/31e31299-cd84-41b6-abe7-c21a20e1bbd6/kittycorn.jpg New Arrivals - Bubbly Beautiful Kitty-Corn - by Shannon Hale and Leuyen Pham Unicorn has a dream. A beautiful, bewitching, bubbly dream: Unicorn longs to be a mermaid! (Sometimes. Not all the time.) With the help of her trusty craft kit, Kitty is determined to make her best friend Unicorn’s dream come true. But one elaborate DIY mermaid tail later, plus a beach trip that doesn’t go as planned, Unicorn doesn’t feel very beautiful or bewitching. When Unicorn starts to feel insecure, can Kitty help make him feel enchanting again? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-yellow-bus monthly 0.5 2024-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0fbd68f0-dd64-4379-8547-0640cde40f74/yellowbus.jpg New Arrivals - The Yellow Bus - by Loren Long There is a bright yellow bus who spends her days driving. She loves carrying children from one important place to another. Every morning they climb in... Pitter-patter, pitter-patter, giggle, giggle-patter. And they fill her with joy. As time passes, things change. The Yellow Bus gets a new driver, a new route, and new passengers, young and old. Until one day the driving stops for good, and the Yellow Bus is left on her own. And yet, no matter where she is, the Yellow Bus still finds joy and discovery in the world around her. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dog-day-afternoon monthly 0.5 2024-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f26573cf-bc04-42bd-b087-4912c6402d1d/dogday.jpg New Arrivals - Dog Day Afternoon - by David Rosenfelt Retired lawyer Andy Carpenter has run the Tara Foundation—the dog rescue organization named after his beloved golden retriever—for years. It's always been his calling, even as Andy's pulled into representing clients in court. His investigator, Marcus Clark, has been at Andy's side for a long time. Even though they've known each other for years, Marcus keeps his personal life a mystery. So it’s a shock when Marcus arrives at the Tara Foundation with two strangers in tow. Turns out Marcus takes disadvantaged young men under his wing, gets them jobs, a place to live, and a chance at a different life. And they want a dog. Andy’s specialty. One of the young men, Nick Williams, instantly falls in love with one of the dogs, Daisy. When there’s a mass shooting at Nick’s work, leaving six dead, all signs point to Nick. Marcus, who's never asked Andy for anything, asks Andy for help. Despite Nick's troubled background, Andy trusts his friend and takes the case. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/all-the-colors-of-the-dark monthly 0.5 2024-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/102889af-3306-4ad5-ad3f-f16f1aab282b/allthecolors.jpg New Arrivals - All the Colors of the Dark - by Chris Whitaker 1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the smalltown of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another. A missing person mystery, a serial killer thriller, a love story, a unique twist on each, Chris Whitaker has written a novel about what lurks in the shadows of obsession and the blinding light of hope. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-islanders monthly 0.5 2024-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/edcf54f0-71cc-4a9a-8591-8a8cb60615e4/the+islanders.jpg New Arrivals - The Islanders - by Mary Alice Monroe Eleven-year-old Jake’s life has just turned upside-down. His father was wounded in Afghanistan, and his mother is going to leave to care for him. That means Jake’s spending the summer on tiny Dewees Island with his grandmother. The island is a nature sanctuary—no cars or paved roads, no stores or restaurants. To make matters worse, Jake’s grandmother doesn’t believe in cable or the internet. Which means Jake has no cell phone, no video games...and no friends. This is going to be the worst summer ever! He’s barely on the island before he befriends two other kids—Macon, another “summer kid,” and Lovie, a know-it-all who lives there and shows both Jake and Macon the ropes of life on the island. All three are struggling with their own family issues and they quickly bond, going on adventures all over Dewees Island. Until one misadventure on an abandoned boat leads to community service. Their punishment? Mandatory duty on the Island Turtle Team. The kids must do a daily dawn patrol of the beach on the hunt for loggerhead sea turtle tracks. When a turtle nest is threatened by coyotes, the three friends must find a way to protect it. Can they save the turtle nest from predators? Can Jake’s growing love for the island and its inhabitants (be they two-legged, four-legged, feathered, or finned) help to heal his father? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-light-eaters monthly 0.5 2024-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/398d070e-1d2a-4441-a281-ee6cb50ae659/lighteaters.jpg New Arrivals - The Light Eaters - by Zoe Schlanger It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods of survival. In recent years, scientists have learned about their ability to communicate, recognize their kin and behave socially, hear sounds, morph their bodies to blend into their surroundings, store useful memories that inform their life cycle, and trick animals into behaving to their benefit, to name just a few remarkable talents. The Light Eaters is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence. In looking closely, we see that plants, rather than imitate human intelligence, have perhaps formed a parallel system. What is intelligent life if not a vine that grows leaves to blend into the shrub on which it climbs, a flower that shapes its bloom to fit exactly the beak of its pollinator, a pea seedling that can hear water flowing and make its way toward it? Zoë Schlanger takes us across the globe, digging into her own memories and into the soil with the scientists who have spent their waking days studying these amazing entities up close. What can we learn about life on Earth from the living things that thrive, adapt, consume, and accommodate simultaneously? More important, what do we owe these life forms once we come to understand their rich and varied abilities? Examining the latest epiphanies in botanical research, Schlanger spotlights the intellectual struggles among the researchers conceiving a wholly new view of their subject, offering a glimpse of a field in turmoil as plant scientists debate the tenets of ongoing discoveries and how they influence our understanding of what a plant is. We need plants to survive. But what do they need us for—if at all? An eye-opening and informative look at the ecosystem we live in, this book challenges us to rethink the role of plants—and our own place—in the natural world. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/night-flyer monthly 0.5 2024-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e8a652a8-8491-458e-b2e6-3a54db69a382/night+flyer.jpg New Arrivals - Night Flyer - by Tiya Miles Harriet Tubman is among the most famous Americans ever born and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she’s a figure more out of myth than history, almost a comic-book superhero. Despite being barely five feet tall, unable to read, and suffering from a brain injury, she managed to escape from her own enslavement, return again and again to lead others north to freedom without loss of life, speak out powerfully against slavery, and then become the first American woman in history to lead a military raid, freeing some seven hundred people. You could almost say she’s America’s Robin Hood, a miraculous vision, often rightly celebrated but seldom understood. Tiya Miles’s extraordinary Night Flyer changes all that. With her characteristic tenderness and imaginative genius, Miles explores beyond the stock historical grid to weave Tubman’s life into the fabric of her world. She probes the ecological reality of Tubman’s surroundings and examines her kinship with other enslaved women who similarly passed through a spiritual wilderness and recorded those travels in profound and moving memoirs. What emerges, uncannily, is a human being whose mysticism becomes more palpable the more we understand it—a story that offers us powerful inspiration for our own time of troubles. Harriet Tubman traversed many boundaries, inner and outer. Now, thanks to Tiya Miles, she becomes an even clearer and sharper signal from the past, one that can help us to echolocate a more just and sustainable path. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/westport monthly 0.5 2024-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b68f840f-76ff-470e-9e24-275a4c0347a6/westport.jpg New Arrivals - Westport - by James Comey A red canoe sits abandoned on Seymour Rock, right where the Saugatuck River hits the Long Island Sound. The elegantly dressed corpse of a woman lies inside…. It’s been two years since Nora Carleton left the job she loved at the US Attorney’s Office to become lead counsel at Saugatuck Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund. The career change also meant a change of scenery, relocating her to Westport, Connecticut, fifty miles north of New York City. But it was worth it to get her daughter, Sophie, away from the city. Plus, she likes the people she works with. Especially Helen, who recruited Nora because of her skills as an investigator. Then Nora's new life falls apart when a coworker is murdered and she becomes the lead suspect. Nora calls in her old colleagues from the US Attorney’s Office, Mafia investigator Benny Dugan and attorney Carmen Garcia. To clear Nora’s name, Benny and Carmen hunt for the true killer's motive, but it seems nearly everyone at Saugatuck has secrets worth killing for. As Benny sets out to interrogate her colleagues, Nora examines her history with the company to determine who set her up to take the fall. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/on-call monthly 0.5 2024-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d118af11-bdf6-4846-85b8-5184d51cf9d7/oncall.jpg New Arrivals - On Call - by Anthony Fauci Anthony Fauci is arguably the most famous – and most revered – doctor in the world today. His role guiding America sanely and calmly through Covid (and through the torrents of Trump) earned him the trust of millions during one of the most terrifying periods in modern American history, but this was only the most recent of the global epidemics in which Dr. Fauci played a major role. His crucial role in researching HIV and bringing AIDS into sympathetic public view and his leadership in navigating the Ebola, SARS, West Nile, and anthrax crises, make him truly an American hero. His memoir reaches back to his boyhood in Brooklyn, New York, and carries through decades of caring for critically ill patients, navigating the whirlpools of Washington politics, and behind-the-scenes advising and negotiating with seven presidents on key issues from global AIDS relief to infectious disease preparedness at home. ON CALL will be an inspiration for readers who admire and are grateful to him and for those who want to emulate him in public service. He is the embodiment of “speaking truth to power,” with dignity and results. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/two-sides-to-every-murder monthly 0.5 2024-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/913c77dc-904e-4483-a67b-aa744e2a302a/twosides.jpg New Arrivals - Two Sides to Every Murder - by Danielle Valentine Most people’s births aren’t immortalized in a police report—but Olivia was born during the infamous Camp Lost Lake murders. Seventeen years later, Olivia’s life looks pretty perfect . . . until she discovers the man she calls dad is not her biological father. Now she wants answers about her bloodline, and the only place she knows to look is Camp Lost Lake. Most people don’t spend their formative years on the run with an alleged murderer—but Reagan did. In the court of public opinion, her mom was found guilty of the deaths at Camp Lost Lake, and both of them have been in hiding ever since. But Reagan believes in her mother’s innocence and is determined to clear her name. Luckily for Olivia and Reagan, Camp Lost Lake is finally reopening, providing the perfect opportunity to find answers. But someone else is dead set on keeping the past hidden, even if it means committing murder. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/adeath-in-cornwall monthly 0.5 2024-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6fc34d4e-85b9-4aaf-9ed9-70b6186598ab/deathincornwall.jpg New Arrivals - A Death in Cornwall - by Daniel Silva Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into London to attend a reception at the Courtauld Gallery celebrating the return of a stolen self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh. But when an old friend from the Devon and Cornwall Police seeks his help with a baffling murder investigation, he finds himself pursuing a powerful and dangerous new adversary. The victim is Charlotte Blake, a celebrated professor of art history from Oxford who spends her weekends in the same seaside village where Gabriel once lived under an assumed identity. Her murder appears to be the work of a diabolical serial killer who has been terrorizing the Cornish countryside. But there are a number of telltale inconsistencies, including a missing mobile phone. And then there is the mysterious three-letter cypher she left behind on a notepad in her study. Gabriel soon discovers that Professor Blake was searching for a looted Picasso worth more than a $100 million, and he takes up the chase for the painting as only he can—with six Impressionist canvases forged by his own hand and an unlikely team of operatives that includes a world-famous violinist, a beautiful master thief, and a lethal contract killer turned British spy. The result is a stylish and wildly entertaining mystery that moves at lightning speed from the cliffs of Cornwall to the enchanted island of Corsica and, finally, to a breathtaking climax on the very doorstep of 10 Downing Street. Supremely elegant and suspenseful, A Death in Cornwall is Daniel Silva at his best—a dazzling tale of murder, power, and insatiable greed that will hold readers spellbound until they turn the final page. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-summer-pact monthly 0.5 2024-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5109521b-190e-49dc-b5d1-27a02cb47ef2/summerpact.jpg New Arrivals - The Summer Pact - by Emily Giffin Four freshmen arrive at college from completely different worlds: Lainey, a California party girl with a flair for drama; Tyson, a brilliant scholar and aspiring lawyer from Washington, D.C.; Summer, an ambitious, recruited athlete from the Midwest; and Hannah, a mild-mannered southerner who is content to quietly round out the circle of big personalities. Soon after arriving on campus, they strike up a conversation in their shared dorm, and the seeds of friendship are planted. As their college years fly by, their bond intensifies and the four become inseparable. But as graduation nears, their lives are forever changed after a desperate act leads to tragic consequences. Stunned and heartbroken, they make a pact, promising to always be there for one another, no matter how separated they may become by circumstances or distance. Ten years later, Hannah is anticipating what should be one of the happiest moments of her life when everything is suddenly turned upside down. Calling on her closest friends, it soon becomes clear that they are all facing their own crossroads. True to their promise, they agree to take a time out from lives headed in wrong directions and embark on a shared journey of self-discovery, forgiveness, and acceptance. In this tender portrayal of grief, love, and hope, Emily Giffin asks: When things fall apart, who will be at our sides, helping us pick up the pieces? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-briar-club monthly 0.5 2024-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ca22dae3-fd17-4384-b062-0c018ee9240a/briar+club.jpg New Arrivals - The Briar Club - by Kate Quinn Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss, whose facade of perfect wife and mother covers gaping inner wounds; policeman’s daughter Nora, who finds herself entangled with a shadowy gangster; frustrated baseball star Beatrice, whose career has come to an end along with the women’s baseball league of WWII; and poisonous, gung-ho Arlene, who has thrown herself into McCarthy’s Red Scare. Grace’s weekly attic-room dinner parties and window-brewed sun tea become a healing balm on all their lives, but she hides a terrible secret of her own. When a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the Briar Club women must decide once and for all: who is the true enemy in their midst? Capturing the paranoia of the McCarthy era and evoking the changing roles for women in postwar America, The Briar Club is an intimate and thrilling novel of secrets and loyalty put to the test. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-housemaid-is-watching monthly 0.5 2024-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/45e4b9b4-f069-4a4c-9fb6-a6e34f0d908d/housemaidwatching.jpg New Arrivals - The Housemaid is Watching - by Freida McFadden I used to clean other people’s houses—now, I can’t believe this home is actually mine. The charming kitchen, the quiet cul-de-sac, the huge yard where my kids can play. My husband and I saved for years to give our children the life they deserve. Even though I’m wary of our new neighbor Mrs. Lowell, when she invites us over for dinner it’s our chance to make friends. Her maid opens the door wearing a white apron, her hair in a tight bun. I know exactly what it’s like to be in her shoes. But her cold stare gives me chills… The Lowells’ maid isn’t the only strange thing on our street. I’m sure I see a shadowy figure watching us. My husband leaves the house late at night. And when I meet a woman who lives across the way, her words chill me to the bone: Be careful of your neighbors. Did I make a terrible mistake moving my family here? I thought I’d left my darkest secrets behind. But could this quiet suburban street be the most dangerous place of all? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-god-of-the-woods monthly 0.5 2024-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3900f488-42de-421c-8746-7c231161e04e/godofthewoods.jpg New Arrivals - The God of the Woods - by Liz Moore Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found. As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pitch-dark monthly 0.5 2024-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5ec3f7dc-fc4c-401c-97f1-d76bc837fa63/pitchdark.jpg New Arrivals - Pitch Dark - by Paul Doiron Legendary bush pilot Josie Jonson can’t believe her luck when a skilled builder just happens to show up after she purchases land near Prentiss Pond. All Mark Redmond asks in return for building Josie’s dream cabin is that he be left alone to homeschool his 12-year-old daughter, Cady. For Maine game warden investigator Mike Bowditch, the intensity of Redmond's secretiveness is troubling, especially in light of suspicious criminal activity being reported around the area―including rumors of an armed man offering large sums of money in exchange for the location of Redmond and Cady. Josie, though hesitant to violate the trust of her prized builder, eventually agrees to fly Mike and his father-in-law Charley Stevens to the secluded pond in an attempt to protect Redmond and Cady. But hours after landing, the trip takes a dark turn when they witness a horrific murder and are taken captive themselves. Freeing himself, Mike is forced to set off through the impenetrable Maine forest towards Canada, alone and unarmed in pursuit of a mysterious fugitive. As he navigates a windblown landscape choked with deadfalls and blocked by swollen streams, he marvels at his enemy’s bush craft. The killer possesses skills surpassing his own, and Bowditch can't tell if he is the cat or the mouse in this dangerous game. Can Mike Bowditch stop his adversary in time to save the life of a young girl, or will he be forced to watch another innocent soul die? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-cliffs monthly 0.5 2024-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/bd3a865e-818d-4ebd-8214-9608e9981d99/thecliffs.jpg New Arrivals - The Cliffs - by J. Courtney Sullivan On a secluded bluff overlooking the ocean sits a Victorian house, lavender with gingerbread trim, a home that contains a century’s worth of secrets. By the time Jane Flanagan discovers the house as a teenager, it has long been abandoned. The place is an irresistible mystery to Jane. There are still clothes in the closets, marbles rolling across the floors, and dishes in the cupboards, even though no one has set foot there in decades. The house becomes a hideaway for Jane, a place to escape her volatile mother. Twenty years later, now a Harvard archivist, she returns home to Maine following a terrible mistake that threatens both her career and her marriage. Jane is horrified to find the Victorian is now barely recognizable. The new owner, Genevieve, a summer person from Beacon Hill, has gutted it, transforming the house into a glossy white monstrosity straight out of a shelter magazine. Strangely, Genevieve is convinced that the house is haunted—perhaps the product of something troubling Genevieve herself has done. She hires Jane to research the history of the place and the women who lived there. The story Jane uncovers—of lovers lost at sea, romantic longing, shattering loss, artistic awakening, historical artifacts stolen and sold, and the long shadow of colonialism—is even older than Maine itself. Enthralling, richly imagined, filled with psychic mediums and charlatans, spirits and past lives, mothers, marriage, and the legacy of alcoholism, this is a deeply moving novel about the land we inhabit, the women who came before us, and the ways in which none of us will ever truly leave this earth. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/begin-one-way monthly 0.5 2024-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3fb5b535-4f35-46d7-b0a7-6e19f8c9b7a8/beginoneway.jpg New Arrivals - Begin One Way : A Children’s Book of Road Signs - by Ioana Stoian Enjoy a walk through an urban neighborhood guided by a child eager to share their love of road signs. By the end of this journey, children will be familiar with many common road signs and their meanings. This book encourages children to be curious about the world they inhabit, inspires them to explore their own neighborhoods on foot, and empowers them to participate in daily activities like crossing the road safely. The rhyming text and whimsical hand-drawn illustrations will engage and appeal to children and adults alike. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/floof monthly 0.5 2024-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f4476969-c59a-4039-a1a4-7dda1144f268/floof.jpg New Arrivals - Floof - by Heidi McKinnon This is Floof.Floof is floofy.Floof is VERY floofy.Floof is the FLOOFIEST!Floof is going to have a very busy day...A book to delight anyone who has ever loved a ridiculous furball. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dune-part-two monthly 0.5 2024-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f059b8f8-8d7a-4595-9eb7-90467fac4925/dune2.jpg New Arrivals - Dune: Part Two Dune, Dune 2, Dune Part 2, Dune Two, Dune Part Two, Dune Sequel, Timothée Chalamet, Paul Atreides, Zendaya, Chani, Rebecca Ferguson, Lady Jessica, Josh Brolin, Gurney Halleck, Austin Butler, Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, Florence Pugh, Princess Irulan Corrino, Dave Bautista, Glossu 'Beast' Rabban, Christopher Walken, Emperor Shaddam IV, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Thufir Hawat, Léa Seydoux, Lady Margot, Stellan Skarsgård, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, Charlotte Rampling, Gaius Helen Mohiam, Javier Bardem, Stilgar, Arrakis, Denis Villeneuve https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/grantchester-eigth-season monthly 0.5 2024-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/bad8479c-aae2-4f86-9226-98dbfbbc7aa9/grantchester8.jpg New Arrivals - Grantchester: The Complete Eigth Season Will's life has changed for the better. He is happily married to the brilliant Bonnie and due to become a father, but his world is about to be rocked by a terrible accident. He's always preached the word of a compassionate God–but how can he do that now? Producer: Tom Whitby. Author: James Runcie (all), Daisy Coulam, Richard Cookson, Helen Black, Anita Vettesse, Richard Cookson, Karla Williams. Talent: Robson Green, Tom Brittney, Al Weaver, Tessa Peake-Jones, Kacey Ainsworth, Nick Brimble, Oliver Dimsdale. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ballykissangel-season5 monthly 0.5 2024-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4361c1e1-c508-48a3-8937-d4489ddc2536/bally5.jpg New Arrivals - Ballykissangel (Series 5) Life is a challenge for any priest in a small mountain town. In Series 5, Father Aiden O'Connell finds himself dealing with a new romance for Niamh and Orla, a new garda for Bally K, and the return of an old rival for Brian Quigley. He also runs into some troubles of his own. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-story-of-neeps-and-tattie monthly 0.5 2024-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/23def8ad-c7d1-4ebf-9d41-01ab61015068/neepsandtattie.jpg New Arrivals - The Story of Neeps and Tattie - by Amy Johnson and Diane Madden This is the story of Neeps and Tattie, two rescued tortoises who have lived for over 50 years in Annie McKay’s flower garden, near the shores of Loch Ness, in Scotland. The story chronicles the antics of the tortoises throughout the year, including how Annie helps them to hibernate in her refrigerator during the winter! Children will learn about the habitat and behavior of land tortoises, characteristics of the seasons of the year, and facts about Scotland’s geography, history, and culture. A glossary of words used in the book is included. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/willow-the-white-house-cat monthly 0.5 2024-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f280abd0-e0c6-433e-8baa-6d2e27a8238f/willow.jpg New Arrivals - Willow the White House Cat - by Jill Biden When Willow leaves her cozy barn for Washington, DC, and the big white house where she will now live, Willow discovers new rooms to explore and is welcomed by the nice lady she met at Farmer Rick’s farm. Soon, Willow meets so many new people—one who arranges the flow­ers, another who makes sweet things to eat, and the man with a nice smile who seems to be able to do everything at once. Even though they are much bigger and busier than she is, each of them always seems to have time to say hello and make her feel at home in the big white house. Willow enjoys discovering the White House and all the special people who make this house a home. Jill Biden, First Lady of the United States, an educator, and a New York Times bestselling author, tells the story of Willow, the White House cat, and about the very special place she and President Biden call home. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/sea-dog-boats monthly 0.5 2024-06-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/01dda9ff-3756-4be1-9be2-b560e3539141/seadogboats.jpg New Arrivals - Sea Dog Boats: An Alphabet Book - by Astrid Sheckels If you want to know about boats, trust a sea dog to set you on course. Award-winning children’s book author and illustrator Astrid Sheckels has created a whole raft of sea dogs to help young readers begin their ABCs and their nautical explorations. Filled with boats (and sea dogs) from all over the world and told in whimsical rhyme, children will discover vessels from air boats to rafts and coracles to schooners. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/red-sky-mourning monthly 0.5 2024-06-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/add6a333-b18b-46f0-a748-8640d96d5cd6/redskymourning.jpg New Arrivals - Red Sky Mourning - by Jack Carr You think you know James Reece. Think again. A storm is on the horizon. America’s days are numbered. A Chinese submarine has gone rogue and is navigating towards the continental United States, putting its nuclear missiles within striking distance of the West Coast. A rising Silicon Valley tech mogul with unknown allegiances is at the forefront of a revolution in quantum computing and Artificial Intelligence. A politician controlled by a foreign power is a breath away from the Oval Office. Three seemingly disconnected events are on a collision course to ignite a power grab unlike anything the world has ever seen. The country’s only hope is a quantum computer that has gone dark, retreating to the deepest levels of the internet, learning at a rate inconceivable at her inception. But during her time in hiding, she has done more than learn. She has become a weapon. She is now positioned to act as either the country’s greatest savior or its worst enemy. She is known as “Alice” and her only connection to the outside world is to a former Navy SEAL sniper named James Reece who has left the violence of his past life behind. Will there be blood? Count on it! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-midnight-feast monthly 0.5 2024-06-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1182a81e-5c21-47b1-a841-f51e42439d71/midnight+feast.jpg New Arrivals - The Midnight Feast - by Lucy Foley It’s the opening night of The Manor, and no expense, small or large, has been spared. The infinity pool sparkles; crystal pouches for guests’ healing have been placed in the Seaside Cottages and Woodland Hutches; the “Manor Mule” cocktail (grapefruit, ginger, vodka, and a dash of CBD oil) is being poured with a heavy hand. Everyone is wearing linen. But under the burning midsummer sun, darkness stirs. Old friends and enemies circulate among the guests. Just outside the Manor’s immaculately kept grounds, an ancient forest bristles with secrets. And the Sunday morning of opening weekend, the local police are called. Something’s not right with the guests. There’s been a fire. A body’s been discovered. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/good-dog-life-is-good monthly 0.5 2024-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/40f3da32-1a91-460f-ba3e-d1c4ccc2cd14/gooddog6.jpg New Arrivals - Good Dog (6): Life is Good - by Cam Higgins One fine winter day, Bo experiences his first snow fall! Most of the animals on the farm know how to handle cold weather. But when he sees that the barn cats are freezing their tails off, Bo decides to lend a helping paw. With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Good Dog chapter books are perfect for emerging readers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/good-dog-the-swimming-hole monthly 0.5 2024-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d83abae6-a413-424e-a09d-1670b343591f/gooddog5.jpg New Arrivals - Good Dog (5): The Swimming Hole - by Cam Higgins One hot summer day, Bo and his family decide to cool off. They take Bo to a swimming hole on their farm. But Bo hasn’t gone swimming before. Can he learn how in time to join in on the fun? With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Good Dog chapter books are perfect for beginning readers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/sancastles-are-forever monthly 0.5 2024-06-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/dca1e408-ced6-420c-b83b-44d4c1bca657/sandcastles.jpg New Arrivals - Sandcastles Are Forever - by Ellie Peterson For Cora and her best friend, Shelly, every day is a beach day. When they get home from school, the girls shimmy into their swimsuits, grab their beach bags and buckets, and race to the water. Then their sandcastle-building ritual begins! But one day Shelly announces she’ll soon be moving to the city, and suddenly Cora doesn’t feel like building sandcastles anymore. What’s the point when they’ll just wash away? With gentle, heartfelt prose, author-illustrator Ellie Peterson explores the difficult feelings of loss and sadness that come when a friend moves away. Young readers will see that with the right tools―and a willingness to build again tomorrow―who’s to say the things you love can’t last forever? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/corduroys-hike monthly 0.5 2024-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ed5049e6-be8b-4906-b25f-3f90e16344e5/corduroyshike.jpg New Arrivals - Corduroy’s Hike - by Alison Inches When Lisa goes on a hiking trip, Corduroy sneaks into her backpack. Lisa is surprised to find him there, but she thinks he'll be safe as long as he stays tucked inside. Corduroy just has to take a peek outside, and when he does, he falls out! Will Lisa find him again? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/lifes-too-short monthly 0.5 2024-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f437f5bc-2bf1-4e82-998a-f2c6f894d091/lifes+too+short.jpg New Arrivals - Life’s Too Short - by Darius Rucker In 1986 Darius Rucker cofounded Hootie & The Blowfish at the University of South Carolina. What began as a party band playing frat houses and dive bars quickly became a global pop rock phenomenon through their multiplatinum-selling debut album, cracked rear view, which featured era-defining hit songs like “Only Wanna Be with You,” “Let Her Cry,” and “Hold My Hand.” Later, Darius would chart a pioneering path as a solo country music artist, with classic anthems like “Wagon Wheel” and “Alright.” Nearly forty years after the band’s formation, Darius tells his remarkable story through the lens of the songs that shaped him—from Al Green, Stevie Wonder, and KISS to Lou Reed, Billy Joel, Nanci Griffith, and so many more. Set against the soundtrack of his life, Darius recounts his childhood as the son of a single mother in Charleston, South Carolina. He traces the unlikely ascent of his band and shares wild tales of life on the road—but he also faces his missteps, defeats, and demons. As moving as it is entertaining, Life’s Too Short is a timeless book about a man and his music. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/n-unfinished-love-story monthly 0.5 2024-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/84bbd71f-7d50-4f6d-9c65-d9e5ff74b062/unfinishedlove.jpg New Arrivals - An Unfinished Love Story - by Doris Kearns Goodwin Dick and Doris Goodwin were married for forty-two years and married to American history even longer. In his twenties, Dick was one of the brilliant young men of John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier. In his thirties he both named and helped design Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and was a speechwriter and close advisor to Robert Kennedy. Doris Kearns was a twenty-four-year-old graduate student when selected as a White House Fellow. She worked directly for Lyndon Johnson and later assisted on his memoir. Over the years, with humor, anger, frustration, and in the end, a growing understanding, Dick and Doris had argued over the achievements and failings of the leaders they served and observed, debating the progress and unfinished promises of the country they both loved. The Goodwins’ last great adventure involved finally opening the more than three hundred boxes of letters, diaries, documents, and memorabilia that Dick had saved for more than fifty years. They soon realized they had before them an unparalleled personal time capsule of the 1960s, illuminating public and private moments of a decade when individuals were powered by the conviction they could make a difference; a time, like today, marked by struggles for racial and economic justice, a time when lines were drawn and loyalties tested. Their expedition gave Dick’s last years renewed purpose and determination. It gave Doris the opportunity to connect and reconnect with participants and witnesses of pivotal moments of the 1960s. And it gave them both an opportunity to make fresh assessments of the central figures of the time—John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, and especially Lyndon Johnson, who greatly impacted both their lives. The voyage of remembrance brought unexpected discoveries, forgiveness, and the renewal of old dreams, reviving the hope that the youth of today will carry forward this unfinished love story with America. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/swan-song monthly 0.5 2024-06-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/119902a5-ab51-4953-a0d3-0dd57fef66f2/swansong.jpg New Arrivals - Swan Song - by Elin Hilderbrand Chief of Police Ed Kapenash is about to retire. Blond Sharon is going through a divorce. But when a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the mysterious Richardsons—how did they make their money, exactly?—Ed, Sharon, and everyone in the community are swept up in high drama. The Richardsons throw lavish parties, flirt with multiple locals, flaunt their wealth with not one but two yachts, and raise impossible hopes of everyone they meet. When their house burns to the ground and their most essential employee goes missing, the entire island is up in arms. The last of Elin Hilderbrand's bestselling Nantucket novels, Swan Song is a propulsive medley of glittering gatherings, sun-soaked drama, wisdom and heart, featuring the return of some of her most beloved characters, including, most importantly, the beautiful and timeless island of Nantucket itself. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/one-perfect-couple monthly 0.5 2024-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1a46c371-2153-4911-b75e-bd89b56d8d93/perfectcouple.jpg New Arrivals - One Perfect Couple - by Ruth Ware Lyla is in a bit of a rut. Her post-doctoral research has fizzled out, she’s pretty sure they won’t extend her contract, and things with her boyfriend, Nico, an aspiring actor, aren’t going great. When the opportunity arises for Nico to join the cast of a new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, she agrees to try out with him. A whirlwind audition process later, Lyla finds herself whisked off to a tropical paradise with Nico, boating through the Indian Ocean towards Ever After Island, where the two of them will compete against four other couples—Bayer and Angel, Dan and Santana, Joel and Romi, and Conor and Zana—in order to win a cash prize. But not long after they arrive on the deserted island, things start to go wrong. After the first challenge leaves everyone rattled and angry, an overnight storm takes matters from bad to worse. Cut off from the mainland by miles of ocean, deprived of their phones, and unable to contact the crew that brought them there, the group must band together for survival. As tensions run high and fresh water runs low, Lyla finds that this game show is all too real—and the stakes are life or death. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-menopause-brain monthly 0.5 2024-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ef2a1d05-d88c-46ca-8a3c-0ea849cf1bde/menopause.jpg New Arrivals - The Menopause Brain - by Lisa Mosconi, PhD Menopause and perimenopause are still a black box to most doctors, leaving patients exasperated as they grapple with symptoms ranging from hot flashes to insomnia to brain fog. As a leading neuroscientist and women’s brain health specialist, Dr. Mosconi unravels these mysteries by revealing how menopause doesn’t just impact the ovaries—it’s a hormonal show in which the brain takes center stage. The decline of the hormone estrogen during menopause influences everything from body temperature to mood to memory, potentially paving the way for cognitive decline later in life. To conquer these challenges successfully, Dr. Mosconi brings us the latest approaches—explaining the role of cutting-edge hormone replacement therapies like “designer estrogens,” hormonal contraception, and key lifestyle changes encompassing diet, exercise, self-care, and self-talk. Best of all, Dr. Mosconi dispels the myth that menopause signifies an end, demonstrating that it’s actually a transition. Contrary to popular belief, if we know how to take care of ourselves during menopause, we can emerge with a renewed, enhanced brain—ushering in a meaningful and vibrant new chapter of life. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/you-never-know monthly 0.5 2024-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0c81de7d-3d6d-4a2c-afd7-f6ee8588bf91/youneverknow.jpg New Arrivals - You Never Know - by Tom Selleck Frank, funny and open-hearted, You Never Know is an intimate memoir from one of the most beloved actors of our time, the highly personal story of a remarkable life and thoroughly accidental career. In his own voice and uniquely unpretentious style, the famed actor brings readers on his uncharted but serendipitous journey to the top in Hollywood, his temptations and distractions, his misfires and mistakes and, over time, his well-earned success. Along the way, he clears up an armload of misconceptions and shares dozens of never-told stories from all corners of his personal and professional life. His rambunctious California childhood. His clueless arrival as a good-looking college jock in Hollywood (from the Dating Game to the Fox New Talent Program to co-starring with Mae West and escorting her to black-tie social functions). What it was like to emerge as a mega-star in his mid-thirties and remain so for decades to come, an actor whose authenticity and ease in front of the camera connected with audiences worldwide while embodying and also redefining the clichés of onscreen manhood. In You Never Know, Selleck recounts his personal friendships with a vivid army of A-listers, everyone from Frank Sinatra to Carol Burnett to Sam Elliott, paying special tribute to his mentor James Garner of The Rockford Files, who believed, like Selleck, that TV protagonists are far more interesting when they have rough edges.He also more than tips his hat to the American western and the scruffy band of actors, directors and other ruffians who helped define that classic genre, where Selleck has repeatedly found a happy home. Magnum fans will be fascinated to learn how Selleck put his career on the line to make Thomas Magnum a more imperfect hero and explains why he walked away from a show that could easily have gone on for years longer. Hollywood is never easy, even for stars who make it look that way. In You Never Know, Selleck explains how he’s struggled to balance his personal and professional lives, frequently adjusting his career to protect his family’s privacy and normalcy. His journey offers a truly fresh perspective on a changing industry and a changing world. Beneath all the charm and talent and self-deprecating humor, Selleck’s memoir reveals an American icon who has reached remarkable heights by always insisting on being himself. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-comfort-of-ghosts monthly 0.5 2024-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c0c7d557-d3b8-4bb8-aca4-54ad4a137266/comfortofghosts.jpg New Arrivals - The Comfort of Ghosts - by Jacqueline Winspear London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion—the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Psychologist and Investigator Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners and discovers that a demobilized soldier, gravely ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, has taken shelter with the group. Maisie’s quest to bring comfort to the youngsters and the ailing soldier brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning Maisie’s first husband, James Compton, who was killed while piloting an experimental fighter aircraft. As Maisie unravels the threads of her dead husband’s life, she is forced to examine her own painful past and question beliefs she has always accepted as true. The award-winning Maisie Dobbs series has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers, readers drawn to a woman who is of her time, yet familiar in ours—and who inspires with her resilience and capacity for endurance. This final assignment of her own choosing not only opens a new future for Maisie and her family, but serves as a fascinating portrayal of the challenges facing the people of Britain at the close of the Second World War. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/southern-man monthly 0.5 2024-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/cd0b9801-36f3-4b79-8eb7-0f14e2708e89/southernman.jpg New Arrivals - Southern Man - by Greg Iles Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone, and he carries a mortal secret that separates him from the world. But Penn’s exile comes to an end when a brawl at a Mississippi rap festival triggers a bloody mass shooting—one that nearly takes the life of his daughter Annie. As the stunned cities of Natchez and Bienville reel, antebellum plantation homes continue to burn and the deadly attacks are claimed by a Black radical group as historic acts of justice. Panic sweeps through the tourist communities, driving them inexorably toward a race war. But what might have been only a regional sideshow of the 2024 Presidential election explodes into national prominence, thanks to the stunning ascent of Robert E. Lee White, a Southern war hero who seizes the public imagination as a third-party candidate. Dubbed “the Tik-Tok Man,” and funded by an eccentric Mississippi billionaire, Bobby White rides the glory of his Special Forces record to an unprecedented run at the White House—one unseen since the campaign of H. Ross Perot. To triumph over the national party machines, Bobby evolves a plan of unimaginable daring. One fateful autumn weekend, with White set to declare his candidacy in all fifty states, the forces polarizing America line up against one another: Black vs. white, states vs. the federal government, democracy vs. Fascism. Teaming with his fearless daughter (now a civil rights lawyer) and a former Black Panther who spent most of his life in Parchman Prison, Penn tears into Bobby White’s pursuit of the Presidency and ultimately risks a second Civil War to try to expose its motivation to the world, before the America of our Constitution slides into the abyss. In Southern Man, Greg Iles returns to the riveting style and historic depth that made the Natchez Burning trilogy a searing masterpiece and hurls the narrative fifteen years forward into our current moment—where America itself teeters on the brink of anarchy. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/eruption monthly 0.5 2024-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4d4b6b5b-ea2a-4573-b053-b908e15fe99f/eruption.jpg New Arrivals - Eruption - by Michael Crichton and James Patterson The master of the techno-blockbuster joins forces with the master of the modern thriller to create the most anticipated mega bestseller in years. Michael Crichton, creator of Jurassic Park, ER, Twister, and Westworld, had a passion project he’d been pursuing for years, ahead of his untimely passing in 2008. Knowing how special it was, his wife, Sherri Crichton, held back his notes and the partial manuscript until she found the right author to complete it: James Patterson, the world’s most popular storyteller. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-wide-wide-sea monthly 0.5 2024-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3472fb26-0ce6-4a42-98de-636c6bc9d540/widesea.jpg New Arrivals - The Wide Wide Sea - by Hampton Sides On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a conflict with native Hawaiians. How did Cook, who was unique among captains for his respect for Indigenous peoples and cultures, come to that fatal moment? Hampton Sides’ bravura account of Cook’s last journey both wrestles with Cook’s legacy and provides a thrilling narrative of the titanic efforts and continual danger that characterized exploration in the 1700s. Cook was renowned for his peerless seamanship, his humane leadership, and his dedication to science-–the famed naturalist Joseph Banks accompanied him on his first voyage, and Cook has been called one of the most important figures of the Age of Enlightenment. He was also deeply interested in the native people he encountered. In fact, his stated mission was to return a Tahitian man, Mai, who had become the toast of London, to his home islands. On previous expeditions, Cook mapped huge swaths of the Pacific, including the east coast of Australia, and initiated first European contact with numerous peoples. He treated his crew well, and endeavored to learn about the societies he encountered with curiosity and without judgment. Yet something was different on this last voyage. Cook became mercurial, resorting to the lash to enforce discipline, and led his two vessels into danger time and again. Uncharacteristically, he ordered violent retaliation for perceived theft on the part of native peoples. This may have had something to do with his secret orders, which were to chart and claim lands before Britain’s imperial rivals could, and to discover the fabled Northwest Passage. Whatever Cook’s intentions, his scientific efforts were the sharp edge of the colonial sword, and the ultimate effects of first contact were catastrophic for Indigenous people around the world. The tensions between Cook’s overt and covert missions came to a head on the shores of Hawaii. His first landing there was harmonious, but when Cook returned after mapping the coast of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, his exploitative treatment of the Hawaiians led to the fatal encounter. At once a ferociously-paced story of adventure on the high seas and a searching examination of the complexities and consequences of the Age of Exploration, THE WIDE WIDE SEA is a major work from one of our finest narrative nonfiction writers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/first-frost monthly 0.5 2024-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0d5b0cc4-68bf-447c-9260-325c0750efee/firstfrost.jpg New Arrivals - First Frost - by Craig Johnson It’s the summer of 1964, and recent college graduates Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear read the writing on the wall and enlist to serve in the Vietnam War. As they catch a few final waves in California before reporting for duty, a sudden storm assaults the shores and capsizes a nearby cargo boat. Walt and Henry jump to action, but it’s soon revealed by the police who greet them ashore that the sunken boat carried valuable contraband from underground sources. The boys, in their early twenties and in the peak of their physical prowess from playing college football for the last four years, head out on Route 66. The question, of course, is how far they will get before the consequences of their actions catch up to them—the answer being, not very. Back in the present day, Walt is forced to speak before a Judge following the fatal events of The Longmire Defense. With powerful enemies lurking behind the scenes, the sheriff of Absaroka County must consider his options if he wishes to finish the fight he started. Going back and forth between 1964 and the present day, Craig Johnson brings us a propulsive dual timeline as Walt Longmire stands between the crossfire of good and evil, law and anarchy, and compassion and cruelty at two pivotal stages in his life. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/camino-ghosts monthly 0.5 2024-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/89f2b456-27f4-40a5-9fe3-a7d3260b7547/camino+ghosts.jpg New Arrivals - Camino Ghosts - by John Grisham In this new thriller on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only the last living inhabitant of the island, Lovely Jackson, stands in its way. What the developer doesn’t know is that the island has a remarkable history, and locals believe it is cursed…and the past is never the past… https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/you-are-here monthly 0.5 2024-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1fe6661c-b42a-4157-8ca3-f0f68cee8d9d/you+are+here.jpg New Arrivals - You Are Here - by David Nicholls Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his wife's departure, he has begun taking himself on long, solitary walks across the English countryside. Becoming ever more reclusive, he’ll do anything to avoid his empty house. Marnie, on the other hand, is stuck. Hiding alone in her London flat, she avoids old friends and any reminders of her rotten, selfish ex-husband. Curled up with a good book, she’s battling the long afternoons of a life that feels like it’s passing her by. When a persistent mutual friend and some very unpredictable weather conspire to toss Michael and Marnie together on the most epic of ten-day hikes, neither of them can think of anything worse. Until, of course, they discover exactly what they’ve been looking for. Michael and Marnie are on the precipice of a bright future . . . if they can survive the journey. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/stay-curious-and-keep-exploring monthly 0.5 2024-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8a833c22-ef75-4064-8ee3-15be2f929df3/staycurious.jpg New Arrivals - Stay Curious and Keep Exploring - by Emily Calandrelli Grab your goggles and a family member to get started on a journey to spark curiosity, critical thinking, and fun family times! SUPER FUN SCIENCE EXPERIMENT BOOK: With chapters like Magic Tricks, Kitchen Science, and Fun with Physics, this book is packed with experiments that will delight little scientists and their lab assistants. FOR SCIENCE KIDS & NON-SCIENCE KIDS: For anyone who loves to try out kitchen science or STEM experiments at home, this book is brimming with ideas. Bill Nye the Science Guy says, "Here are 50, count 'em, 50 home experiments you can count on. Each is a crowd, or home experimenter, pleaser." GREAT FOR SCIENCE FAIR & HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM: A must-have for parents and homeschool educators! Colorful illustrations accompany every experiment, along with instructions and materials you'll need to get started, sections to record notes, and real-life examples connecting your STEAM experiment to the world around you. There are also fascinating facts about important people to know in science history. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-space-between-you-and-me monthly 0.5 2024-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b1592764-90b2-4f72-a2ed-b02b50f3a5ce/spacebetween.jpg New Arrivals - The Space Between You and Me - by Julie True Kingsley For Clem, summers are for Maine―for wandering the blueberry barrens, helping her grandmother on the farm, and stargazing with her parents. But her grandmother is gone, she hasn't talked to her mom in months, and her dad is devoted to the family business. Now, all Clem wants to think about is a dance audition that could get her into Juilliard. She doesn't need another distraction. Then she meets Rico. He's nothing like the boys back home in LA or the boys in Maine, either. His secrets rival her own and as they grow closer, she must confront the hidden realities of places she thought she knew. In Julie True Kingsley's debut novel, Clem and Rico's worlds are threatening to tear them apart. Can they bridge the space between them before summer is just a memory? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/youre-my-little-firecracker monthly 0.5 2024-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7d8e05c3-da22-4931-9375-be1eb2c14e20/firecracker.jpg New Arrivals - You’re My Little Firecracker - by Natalie Marshall Featuring everything from adorable firecrackers to sweet apple pies, You’re My Little Firecracker is a festive story that celebrates the love between a parent and child. Each colorful spread features a sweet, rhyming sentiment paired with a die-cut shape that adds depth and interest. With chunky pages for little hands and endearing text, this board book is the perfect read for the Fourth of July or any time of the year! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/one-life monthly 0.5 2024-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3291a461-f413-4c2e-9ab5-5323b04f61b4/one+life.jpg New Arrivals - One Life ONE LIFE tells the true story of Nicholas Winton, who organized the rescue of hundreds of predominantly Jewish children from the Germans on the verge of World War II. Half a century later, he is haunted by the memory of those he could not save. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/bluey-seasons-1-and-2 monthly 0.5 2024-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/64c0de13-0545-4edb-8ca7-b7a73794adce/bluey.jpg New Arrivals - Bluey (Seasons 1 & 2) Bluey is a loveable, inexhaustible little six year-old Blue Heeler dog, who lives with her Mum, Dad and her four year old little sister, Bingo. Like every kid her age, the thing Bluey likes to do best is play games. Bluey uses her limitless energy to play games that unfold in unpredictable and hilarious ways bringing her family and the whole neighborhood into her world of fun. Bluey showcases the joyful simplicity that can be found in families, by bringing to life how children learn and grow though play. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/arthur-the-king monthly 0.5 2024-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3c495522-830b-4ec4-a7e5-6072701ab876/arthur.jpg New Arrivals - Arthur the King Over the course of ten days and 435 miles, an unbreakable bond is forged between pro adventure racer Michael Light (Mark Wahlberg) and a scrappy street dog companion dubbed Arthur. Based on an incredible true story, ARTHUR THE KING follows Light, desperate for one last chance to win, as he convinces a sponsor to back him and a team of athletes (Simu Liu, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Ali Suliman) for the Adventure Racing World Championship in the Dominican Republic. As the team is pushed to their outer limits of endurance in the race, Arthur redefines what victory, loyalty and friendship truly mean. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/anatomy-of-a-fall monthly 0.5 2024-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f8816c4c-107e-4612-9609-2a1a4d87a81f/anatomyfall.jpg New Arrivals - Anatomy of a Fall The closer we look, the less we know in Justine Triet’s masterful, Oscar-winning Anatomy of a Fall, an eerily riveting courtroom thriller that examines the line where truth becomes fiction and fiction becomes truth. When Sandra Voyter (a transfixing Sandra Hüller), a writer who turns the material of her life into autofiction, is put on trial for the suspicious death by defenestration—or was it suicide?—of her husband, it opens up an inquiry that will turn a troubled home inside out. Tapping into the minimalist intensity of a chamber drama—and using intricate, elliptical editing—Triet constructs a mystery that is ultimately less about a death than about the hidden lives we lead. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/land-of-bad monthly 0.5 2024-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/881c3e57-641b-4047-8c09-fa64aa22fadd/landofbad.jpg New Arrivals - Land of Bad Starring Russell Crowe and Liam Hemsworth, a covert Special Forces operation in the South Philippines spirals into a brutal 48-hour battle for survival. When an elite extraction team is ambushed deep in enemy territory, rookie officer Kinney (Hemsworth) is left outnumbered but determined to leave no man behind. With an air strike closing in, Kinney's only hope hinges on the guidance of Air Force drone pilot Reaper (Crowe), navigating unknowable danger where every move could be their last. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/great-scoops monthly 0.5 2024-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1648cc34-bc1c-4243-816c-cdcecb0ae325/greatscoops.jpg New Arrivals - Great Scoops - by Marlene Haley and Amelia Ryan Ice cream really does make everything better. Compiled with love by the team at The Merry Dairy, Great Scoops features a cheerful collection of 80 easy, custard-style and vegan ice creams and delectable desserts. From hibiscus & passion fruit and bourbon black cherry to triple chocolate and caramel popcorn, this exciting new cookbook also includes recipes for signature sauces, toppings, and baked goods (say hello to chocolate chip cookies and meringue kisses). Best of all, the ice creams are nut-free, sesame-free, (and some even gluten-free). What can we say? This is good mood food at its best. And for those who are new to ice cream making, have no fear: the book includes a chapter covering everything there is to know about making both dairy and vegan ice creams and frozen desserts at home. Great Scoops is a captivating cookbook about artisanal ice cream, the people who craft it and the community that loves them for it. The delightful selection of classic and whimsical flavors reminds us that delicious homemade ice creams can be made year-round and, more importantly, that you’re never too old (and it’s never too cold) to enjoy a heartfelt scoop. Read less https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/you-like-it-darker monthly 0.5 2024-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6fd8ab4e-a825-47e3-ad10-bcedb9a43bcd/youlikeit.jpg New Arrivals - You Like it Darker - by Stephen King “You like it darker? Fine, so do I,” writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel “the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind,” and in You Like It Darker, readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again. “Two Talented Bastids” explores the long-hidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In “Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream,” a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny’s most catastrophically. In “Rattlesnakes,” a sequel to Cujo, a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance—with major strings attached. In “The Dreamers,” a taciturn Vietnam vet answers a job ad and learns that there are some corners of the universe best left unexplored. “The Answer Man” asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/maisy-goes-to-the-eye-doctor monthly 0.5 2024-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d2eb6ab5-abd2-4142-85bf-0f34b08cda98/maisyeyedoc.jpg New Arrivals - Maisy Goes to the Eye Doctor - by Lucy Cousins When Maisy’s friend Ella has trouble seeing numbers on the board at preschool, the two go together to Dr. Flamingo the optometrist’s office to have their eyes tested. Pirate Maisy has fun wearing an eyepatch and naming all the things she can see in a picture on the wall. But when it’s Ella’s turn, everything inside the picture looks blurry. Oh dear! Luckily, Dr. Flamingo is there to take care of her, with a special machine that looks inside her eyes and some big funny glasses with dials that let Ella see everything clearly. Best of all, she gets to pick out some yellow-framed glasses, and Maisy finds some snazzy red sunglasses of her own. With Lucy Cousins’s trademark brilliant colors and cheery characters, this twenty-third First Experiences story is ideal for reassuring little ones ahead of their first visit to the eye doctor. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/waiting-in-the-wings monthly 0.5 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1715725265788-0KRKRVXAF2OHENV86255/waitingwings.jpg New Arrivals - Waiting in the Wings - by Julie Andrews Mr. and Mrs. Puddleduck have found the perfect place to nest: a cozy planter by a theater in a sunny seaside village. While Mrs. P is warming the eggs, Mr. P is drawn to the spellbinding songs, fabulous feathered costumes, and dazzling dances he’s secretly watching during rehearsals. He’s even showing off some fancy new footwork to Mrs. P! But it turns out he’s been learning much more than how to put on a show. When the chicks begin hatching right by the roadside, it takes a chorus line of parading performers—and Mr. P’s clever choreography—to come to the rescue! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-one-and-only-family monthly 0.5 2024-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1d2dcd96-5452-4e25-aad9-e85d8a155703/onefamily.jpg New Arrivals - The One and Only Family - by Katherine Applegate Ivan has been happily living in a wildlife sanctuary, with his friend Ruby next door in the elephant enclosure, frequent visits from his canine friend Bob, and his mate Kinyani by his side. And in the happiest turn of all, Ivan and Kinyani have welcomed a set of twins to their family! Ivan loves being a papa, even though it can be hard sometimes. But as he navigates the joys and challenges of parenthood, he can’t help but recall his life before the glass walls of the mall circus, his own childhood in the jungle—and his own twin. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/bee monthly 0.5 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e0c92cd3-e812-40e9-b459-1224ce952a1e/bee.jpg New Arrivals - Bee - by Britta Teckentrup Fly along with Bee on her very busy day! Peek through the holes of this bright and lively book and discover the bustling life of this helpful insect. Children will love discovering how bees are a vital part of our planet's health, pollinating plants to help them grow. They'll also see inside a buzzy hive and learn how bees work together on their important tasks. This book is a perfect way for families to share a love of science and nature. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/just-like-millie monthly 0.5 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/bbb94eda-3b6c-4826-84bb-736ac5cb51b6/millie.jpg New Arrivals - Just Like Millie - by Lauren Castillo A young girl and her mother move to an apartment in a new city. Despite her mother’s efforts to take her out, the girl would rather play by herself in their cozy home—she feels just fine on her own. Introductions to children her age have her hiding behind her mother’s legs, and invitations to group activities have her in tears. That is, until she meets Millie, a rescue dog who is not too big, not too small, and kisses her arm when the girl nervously reaches out. With Millie, saying hello to new people isn’t so scary . . . and maybe making a friend isn’t either. Through emotionally honest prose and soft, expressive illustrations, Lauren Castillo explores one girl’s shyness and anxiety—and how one dog’s love helps her open up—in a warm picture book that reminds readers of how the right companion can make the world feel like a less frightening place. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/walkies-a-dogs-tale monthly 0.5 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a7548023-c6f5-439d-b495-2be8db040a33/walkies.jpg New Arrivals - Walkies: A Dog’s Tale - by Estrela Lourenco On a gloomy, dripping, rain-boots-required kind of day, Kid is ready to stay inside, warm and dry, and play video games. But to Dog, Kid’s arrival home means only one thing: it’s time for WALKIES! Outside, rain means puddles to splash in, mud to splock in! Tiny ears perked up, tail a-waggling with joy, Dog bounds through the park, Kid in tow. Playful action sequences, bold facial expressions, and vivid illustrations all drive this wordless tale, transforming a dreary afternoon into a boisterous adventure. While at first doubtful about the experience, Kid’s attitude brightens, buoyed by Dog’s playful antics and the surprises and wonder to be found outdoors. Before long, thanks to Dog’s positive energy, Kid doesn’t think it’s such a bad day after all. In fact, it might just be the best! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-shadow-of-war monthly 0.5 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/86b501a4-1432-4e8a-9e62-33c44d35a3ba/shadowofwar.jpg New Arrivals - The Shadow of War - by Jeff Shaara In 1961, the new president John F. Kennedy, inherited an ill-conceived, poorly executed invasion of Cuba that failed miserably and set in motion the events that put the U.S. and the Soviet Union on a collision course that nearly started a war that would have enveloped much of the world. Extensively researched and vividly imagined, The Shadow of War brings to life the many threads that lead to the building crisis between the Soviet Union and the United States in 1962. Told from a multitude of perspectives and voices, from the Russian engineer attempting the near impossible task of building the missile launch facilities in Cuba, to the U.S. Navy commanders who ships are sent to "quarantine" Cuba, to the Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev, desperately trying to maintain a challenging balancing act between the conflicting demands of various powerful forces, to the brothers Kennedy (Bobby and JFK) who can't allow Russia to land nuclear missiles in Cuba, or to appear weak in confronting Khrushchev, but keenly understand how close they are dancing to the edge of war. Shaara brings to life all the action and actors, famous and little known, that embodied a war that almost happened, the Cuban Missile Crisis. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/last-house monthly 0.5 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2dfb1b02-d111-4e9f-8db4-2393116409d1/lasthouse.jpg New Arrivals - Last House - by Jessica Shattuck It’s 1953, and for Nick Taylor, WWII veteran turned company lawyer, oil is the key to the future. He takes the train into the city for work and returns to the peaceful streets of the suburbs and to his wife, Bet, former codebreaker now housewife, and their two children, Katherine and Harry. Nick comes from humble origins but thanks to his work for American Oil, he can provide every comfort for his family, including Last House, a secluded country escape. Deep in the Vermont mountains, the Taylors are free from the stresses of modern life. Bet doesn’t have to worry about the Russian H-bombs that haunt her dreams, and the children roam free in the woods. Last House is a place that could survive the end of the world. It’s 1968, and America is on the brink of change. Protestors fill the streets to challenge everything from the Vietnam War to racism in the wake of MLK’s shooting—to the country's reliance on Big Oil. As Katherine makes her first forays into adult life, she’s caught up in the current of the time and struggles to reconcile her ideals with the stable and privileged childhood her Greatest Generation parents worked so hard to provide. But when the Movement shifts in a more radical direction, each member of the Taylor family will be forced to reckon with the consequences of the choices they’ve made for the causes they believed in. Spanning multiple generations and nearly eighty years, Last House tells the story of one American family during an age of grand ideals and even greater downfalls. Set against the backdrop of our nation’s history, this is an emotional tour de force that digs deeply into questions of inheritance and what we owe each other—and captures to stunning effect the gravity of time, the double edge of progress, and the hubris of empire. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/think-twice monthly 0.5 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/97ab5b47-2dfa-4852-a455-1d25602b103b/think+Twice.jpg New Arrivals - Think Twice - by Harlan Coben Three years ago, sports agent Myron Bolitar gave a eulogy at the funeral of his client, renowned basketball coach Greg Downing. Myron and Greg had history: initially as deeply personal rivals, and later as unexpected business associates. Myron made peace and moved on – until now, when twofederal agents walked into his office, demanding to know where Greg Downing is. According to the agents, Greg is still alive—and has been placed at the scene of a double homicide, making him their main suspect. Shocked, Myron needs answers. Myron and Win, longtime friends and colleagues, set out to find the truth, but the more they discover about Greg, the more dangerous their world becomes. Secrets, lies, and a murderous conspiracy that stretches back into the past churn at the heart of Harlan Coben's blistering new novel. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/long-island monthly 0.5 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/66b028ba-9f45-443b-ab6b-b7bb62158727/longisland.jpg New Arrivals - Long Island - by Colm Toibin Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony’s parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country. Though her ties to Ireland remain stronger than those that hold her to her new land and home, she has not returned in decades. One day, when Tony is at his job and Eilis is in her home office doing her accounting, an Irishman comes to the door asking for her by name. He tells her that his wife is pregnant with Tony’s child and that when the baby is born, he will not raise it but instead deposit it on Eilis’s doorstep. It is what Eilis does—and what she refuses to do—in response to this stunning news that makes Tóibín’s novel so riveting. Long Island is about longings unfulfilled, even unrecognized. The silences in Eilis’s life are thunderous and dangerous, and there’s no one more deft than Tóibín at giving them language. This is a gorgeous story of a woman alone in a marriage and the deepest bonds she rekindles on her return to the place and people she left behind, to ways of living and loving she thought she’d lost. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-alternatives monthly 0.5 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/64e71571-539c-4c10-a823-709135fa0246/alternatives.jpg New Arrivals - The Alternatives - by Caoilinn Hughes The Flattery sisters were plunged prematurely into adulthood when their parents died in tragic circumstances. Now in their thirties—all single, all with PhDs—they are each attempting to do meaningful work in a rapidly foundering world. The four lead disparate, distanced lives, from classrooms in Connecticut to ritzy catering gigs in London’s Notting Hill, until one day their oldest sister, a geologist haunted by a terrible awareness of the earth’s future, abruptly vanishes from her work and home. Together for the first time in years, the Flatterys descend on the Irish countryside in search of a sister who doesn’t want to be found. Sheltered in a derelict bungalow, they reach into their common past, confronting both old wounds and a desperately uncertain future. Warm, fiercely witty, and unexpectedly hopeful, The Alternatives is an unforgettable portrait of a family perched on our collective precipice, told by one of Ireland’s most gifted storytellers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/such-a-good-man monthly 0.5 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c803f915-a056-4910-8690-a797280570cb/goodman.jpg New Arrivals - Such a Good Man - by Kate Flora When Dr. Eliot Spence is found dead in his pristine condo, Detective Joe Burgess and his team must delve behind his glossy façade to reveal the doctor’s insatiable desires, his wife’s mysterious death, and a cache of compromising photos. As Burgess and his colleagues strive to uncover the truth about the man colleagues describe as a dedicated and compassionate doctor, they unearth a web of intrigue, shocking family secrets, and hidden agendas, testing their ability to separate fact from fiction. While the detectives try to unravel the enigmatic world surrounding Dr. Spence, their own personal lives are under pressure as demands from their families threaten to derail the investigation, testing their determination—and ability—to bring justice to a man who seemed “Such a Good Man.” https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/clive-cussler-the-heist monthly 0.5 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7a2abe67-1f2c-4c77-94a7-2954e94aad98/theheist.jpg New Arrivals - Clive Cussler The Heist - by Jack Du Brul 1914: As America’s century of dominance dawns, the country’s greatest detective, Van Dorn agent Isaac Bell, is pitted against a master thief and his assassin accomplice. They’re plotting to pull off the greatest heist in America’s history: the theft of a billion dollars from the newly created Federal Reserve. When an aerial attack is launched against Woodrow Wilson’s yacht during a meeting among the Federal Reserve’s branch leaders, Bell thwarts it, only to find that the strike was just the opening of an even deadlier gambit. It’s up to Bell to find the link between the attack, the mysterious death of a Newport heiress, and growing evidence of an unimaginably audacious heist. Double-cross and betrayal are Bell’s stock and trade, but this time, the deeper he delves into the puzzle, the less he seems to understand. He is in a race against his most ruthless opponent yet, to prevent a financial panic that would bring the United States to its knees. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/unis-first-recital monthly 0.5 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c0333e77-0e81-40f8-b12b-9e7c3db6e4aa/unisrecital.jpg New Arrivals - Uni’s First Recital - by Amy Krouse Rosenthal It is almost time for Uni's first dance recital! Uni has practiced but is still worried about forgetting the routine. How will Uni tell left from right and remember the steps when performing on stage? Uni fans new and old will be excited to join this bighearted unicorn on a new adventure that shares the power of hard work and practice—plus a little help from mom and unicorn magic—to feel confident! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/rulebreaker monthly 0.5 2024-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1715442379770-SP1ZV2K704CW65DNROVR/rulebreaker.jpg New Arrivals - The Rulebreaker - by Susan Page Barbara Walters was a force from the time TV was exploding on the American scene in the 1960s to its waning dominance in a new world of competition from streaming services and social media half a century later. She was not just a groundbreaker for women (Oprah announced when she was seventeen that she wanted to be Barbara Walters), but also expanded the big TV interview and then dominated the genre. By the end of her career, she had interviewed more of the famous and infamous, from presidents to movie stars to criminals to despots, than any other journalist in history. Then at sixty-seven, past the age many female broadcasters found themselves involuntarily retired, she pioneered a new form of talk TV called The View. She is on the short list of those who have left the biggest imprints on television news and on our culture, male or female. So, who was the woman behind the legacy? In The Rulebreaker, Susan Page conducts 150 interviews and extensive archival research to discover that Walters was driven to keep herself and her family afloat after her mercurial and famous impresario father attempted suicide. But she never lost the fear of an impending catastrophe, which is what led her to ask for things no woman had ever asked for before, to ignore the rules of misogynistic culture, to outcompete her most ferocious competitors, and to protect her complicated marriages and love life from scrutiny. Page breaks news on every front—from the daring things Walters did to become the woman who reinvented the TV interview to the secrets she kept until her death. This is the eye-opening account of the woman who knew she had to break all the rules so she could break all the rules about what viewers deserved to know. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/greenwild monthly 0.5 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8d0d553b-d332-44e6-a8ed-f005d0c0b4f2/greenwild.jpg New Arrivals - Greenwild - by Pari Thomson Open the door to a spellbinding world where the wilderness is alive and a deep magic rises from the earth itself . . . Eleven-year-old Daisy Thistledown is on the run. Her mother has been keeping big, glittering secrets, and now she has vanished. Daisy knows it’s up to her to find Ma―but someone is hunting her across London. Someone determined to stop her from discovering the truth. So when Daisy flees to safety through a mysterious hidden doorway, she can barely believe her eyes―she has stepped out of the city and into another world. This is the Greenwild. Bursting with magic and full of amazing natural wonders, it seems too astonishing to be true. But not only is this land of green magic real, it holds the key to finding Daisy’s mother. And someone wants to destroy it. Daisy must band together with a botanical genius, a boy who can talk with animals, and a spunky cat to uncover the truth about who she really is. Only then can she channel the power that will change her whole world . . . and save the Greenwild itself. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/my-child-is-trans-now-what monthly 0.5 2024-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2fd51e97-c461-4e4e-ae73-6666140fed49/childtrans.jpg New Arrivals - My Child is Trans, Now What? - by Ben V. Greene As a full-time public speaker specializing in spreading awareness and understanding of the transgender community, what Ben Greene hears most from parents and loved ones is the phrase “I’m sorry.” They’re sorry for using the wrong word, sorry for asking an offensive question, sorry for not knowing this already, sorry for asking a question at all. The combination of exhaustion from trans people who have become their community’s designated educator and the growing trend of “canceling” anyone who says anything wrong has created a culture where people who have good hearts and minimal access to information are so afraid to make a mistake they don’t even try. In My Child is Trans, Now What? A Joy-Centered Approach to Support, Greene breaks the mold by offering a judgement-free guide to people across generations, from millennial parents to members of older generations who may not have had previous positive exposure to the trans community. Greene focuses on providing two key resources in this book: information and emotional support. He explains what to expect, what systems exist to support trans youth, and what loved ones can do to help. Using a combination of personal stories and experiences, definitions, and additional resources, My Child is Trans, Now What? is an essential guide for anyone looking to help trans youth thrive. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/death-of-a-master-chef monthly 0.5 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/55d1de25-f06a-4ec7-b88a-0d79a24f2680/masterchef.jpg New Arrivals - Death of a Master Chef - by Jean-Luc Bannalec Commissaire Georges Dupin is certain these first beautiful summer days in June would be perfect for a fun trip to Saint-Malo. In a region known as the culinary heart of Brittany, the paradoxical city is known for being a uniquely Breton, yet un-Breton, place. Their cuisine’s moto is voyages et aventures. Travel and adventure. Dupin would love to explore the internationally renowned cuisine one bite at a time. But to his chagrin, Dupin is there instead to attend a police seminar dedicated to closer collaboration between the Breton départements. To prepare himself for what’s to come while in Saint-Malo, Dupin wanders through the halls of a local market—stopping to sample its wares as he goes—while admiring its aromatic orchestra. But Dupin’s morning is derailed when there’s a murder at a nearby stall. He quickly realizes this case is unlike any he’s worked on before. The police know the victim: Blanche Trouin, a grand chef of the region. They know the perpetrator: Lucille Trouin, Blanche’s sister and fellow successful chef in the area. The two had a well-known and public feud. After a bit of searching, Lucille is even in custody. The only thing they’re missing is the motive. And Lucille refuses to talk. Saint-Malo doesn’t want any help from the visiting commissaires. Even Dupin’s assistant, Nolwenn, is telling him to stay out of it. But Dupin, along with a few of his Breton colleagues, can’t help but begin an investigation into why a chef killed her sister in the middle of a crowded market. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/wild-houses monthly 0.5 2024-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ca4cd57a-d031-4121-a454-25067634a838/wildhouses.jpg New Arrivals - Wild Houses - by Colin Barrett With his acclaimed and award-winning collections Young Skins and Homesickness Colin Barrett cemented his reputation as one of contemporary Irish literature’s most daring stylists. Praised by the Oprah Daily as “a doyen of the sentence,” and by the Los Angeles Times as a writer of “unique genius,” Barrett now expands his canvas with a debut novel that contains as much grit, plot, and linguistic energy as any of his celebrated short stories. As Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, introspective loner Dev answers his door on Friday night to find Doll English— younger brother of small-time local dealer Cillian English—bruised and in the clutches of Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, County Mayo’s fraternal enforcers and Dev’s cousins. Dev’s quiet homelife is upturned as he is quickly and unwillingly drawn headlong into the Ferdias' frenetic revenge plot against Cillian. Meanwhile, Doll’s girlfriend, seventeen-year-old Nicky, reeling from a fractious Friday and plagued by ghosts and tragedy of her own, sets out on a feverish mission to save Doll, even as she questions her future in Ballina. Set against Barrett’s trademark depictions of small town Irish life, Wild Houses is thrillingly-told story of two outsiders striving to find themselves as their worlds collapse in chaos and violence. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/knife monthly 0.5 2024-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3bf02940-5962-4b86-b12a-af61441bf520/knife.jpg New Arrivals - Knife - by Salman Rushdie On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black—black clothes, black mask—rushed down the aisle toward him, wielding a knife. His first thought: So it’s you. Here you are. What followed was a horrific act of violence that shook the literary world and beyond. Now, for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, Rushdie relives the traumatic events of that day and its aftermath, as well as his journey toward physical recovery and the healing that was made possible by the love and support of his wife, Eliza, his family, his army of doctors and physical therapists, and his community of readers worldwide. Knife is Rushdie at the peak of his powers, writing with urgency, with gravity, with unflinching honesty. It is also a deeply moving reminder of literature’s capacity to make sense of the unthinkable, an intimate and life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art—and finding the strength to stand up again. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-bee-sting monthly 0.5 2024-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2a5a48c8-26dd-4b9f-88d3-c1d1eae5287e/beesting.jpg New Arrivals - The Bee Sting - by Paul Murray The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie’s once-lucrative car business is going under—but Dickie is spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife, Imelda, is selling off her jewelry on eBay and half-heartedly dodging the attention of fast-talking cattle farmer Big Mike, while their teenage daughter, Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge drink her way through her final exams. As for twelve-year-old PJ, he’s on the brink of running away. If you wanted to change this story, how far back would you have to go? To the infamous bee sting that ruined Imelda’s wedding day? To the car crash one year before Cass was born? All the way back to Dickie at ten years old, standing in the summer garden with his father, learning how to be a real man? The Bee Sting, Paul Murray’s exuberantly entertaining new novel, is a tour de force: a portrait of postcrash Ireland, a tragicomic family saga, and a dazzling story about the struggle to be good at the end of the world. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-anxious-generation monthly 0.5 2024-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1715437410248-1TNPIJ9BXBPTGWWLTF4G/anxiousgen.jpg New Arrivals - The Anxious Generation - by Jonathan Haidt After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies. Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood. Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-demon-of-unrest monthly 0.5 2024-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/05ba0ef0-43dc-438d-ab79-b301ac5943d5/demonofunrest.jpg New Arrivals - The Demon of Unrest - by Erik Larson On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln’s election and the Confederacy’s shelling of Sumter—a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of these five months were “so great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them.” At the heart of this suspense-filled narrative are Major Robert Anderson, Sumter’s commander and a former slave owner sympathetic to the South but loyal to the Union; Edmund Ruffin, a vain and bloodthirsty radical who stirs secessionist ardor at every opportunity; and Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of a prominent planter, conflicted over both marriage and slavery and seeing parallels between them. In the middle of it all is the overwhelmed Lincoln, battling with his duplicitous secretary of state, William Seward, as he tries desperately to avert a war that he fears is inevitable—one that will eventually kill 750,000 Americans. Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, Larson gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led America to the brink—a dark reminder that we often don’t see a cataclysm coming until it’s too late. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-number-1-lawyer monthly 0.5 2024-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d814b6a0-5927-4c74-ad30-af0bf1818cf8/lawyer.jpg New Arrivals - The #1 Lawyer - by James Patterson Stafford Lee Penney is a small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation for winning every case he tries. In his sharp suits and polished Oxford shoes, Penney is Biloxi, Mississippi’s #1 Lawyer and top local celebrity. Just as Penney notches his latest courtroom victory, his wife is scandalously killed. He spirals into a legal and personal losing streak, damaging his reputation and ruining his career. That’s when Penney makes a bold decision. He stops trading on his power-lawyer identity and creates a new one: lawyer lifeguard. Moonlighting at the beach, showing up to court in flip-flops, mentoring a law student, the new Penney is at first unrecognizable. It’s said that a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client. But when Penney is accused of murder, the #1 Lawyer will find a way to triumph. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/summers-at-the-saint monthly 0.5 2024-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/735d0923-a0d6-4e14-9556-d7fcb69c25cc/summers.jpg New Arrivals - Summers at the Saint - by Mary Kay Andrews Welcome to the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel on the coast of Georgia, where traditions run deep and scandals run even deeper. . . . Everyone refers to the St. Cecelia as “the Saint.” If you grew up coming here, you were “a Saint.” If you came from the wrong side of the river, you were “an Ain’t.” Traci Eddings was one of those outsiders whose family wasn’t rich enough or connected enough to vacation here. But she could work here. One fateful summer she did, and married the boss’s son. Now, she’s the widowed owner of the hotel, determined to see it return to its glory days, even as staff shortages and financial troubles threaten to ruin it. Plus, her greedy and unscrupulous brother-in-law wants to make sure she fails. Enlisting a motley crew of recently hired summer help―including the daughter of her estranged best friend―Traci has one summer season to turn it around. But new information about a long-ago drowning at the hotel threatens to come to light, and the tragic death of one of their own brings Traci to the brink of despair. Traci Eddings has her back against the pink-painted wall of this beloved institution. And it will take all the wits and guts she has to see wrongs put to right, to see guilty parties put in their place, and maybe even to find a new romance along the way. Told with Mary Kay Andrew’s warmth, humor, knack for twists, and eye for delicious detail about human nature, Summers at the Saint is a beach read with depth and heart. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/funny-story monthly 0.5 2024-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8ac02b5f-8287-4eb5-88aa-90a03a28d919/funny+story.jpg New Arrivals - Funny Story - by Emily Henry Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak. Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them? But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex…right? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dinosaurs-in-trucks-because-hey-why-not monthly 0.5 2024-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6e6a1d8d-7580-41c1-ba90-0e34d9227c94/dinotrucks.jpg New Arrivals - Dinosaurs in Trucks Because Hey Why Not? - by Sandra Boynton You like dinosaurs. Of course you do! Dinosaurs are terrific! I like them too. You also like trucks and watching them go. Dinos never had trucks. (As far as we know.) This masterful mash-up by beloved author and illustrator Sandra Boynton brings together two things kids love...because HEY, WHY NOT? A riotous read aloud and the perfect gift for dinosaur-obsessed / truck-obsessed toddlers, this book will make little listeners roar with laughter as they zoom through the pages! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/orrice-and-timble-the-beginning monthly 0.5 2024-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/01c78607-0be4-4036-8e37-52e2a8021dcf/orris.jpg New Arrivals - Orris and Timble: The Beginning - by Carmen Mok Orris the rat lives alone in an old barn surrounded by his treasures, until the day his solitude is disrupted by a sudden flutter of wings and a loud screech. A small owl has gotten caught in a trap in the barn. Can Orris “make the good and noble choice” (as the king on his prized sardine can might recommend) and rescue the owl, despite the fact that owls and rats are natural enemies? And if he does, will he be ready for the consequences? With humor and tenderness, two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo brings us this first of three tales celebrating unlikely friendship and the power of sharing stories and doing the right thing—a soon-to-be classic brought to expressive life by the full-color illustrations of Carmen Mok. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/moon-in-full monthly 0.5 2024-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/be07d92a-aaca-4289-90dd-4f4e53495033/mooninfull.jpg New Arrivals - Moon in Full - by Marpheen Chan Moon in Full, a contemporary coming-of-age story, shines light on one young man's search for truth and compassion in a complicated era as it unwinds the deep-seated challenges we all face finding our authentic voice and true identities. Author Marpheen Chann's heart-warming journey weaves through housing projects and foster homes; into houses of worship and across college campuses; and playing out in working-class Maine where he struggles to find his place. Adopted into in a majority white community, Chann must reconcile his fears and secret longings as a young gay man with the devoutly religious beliefs of his new family. Chann, a second-generation Asian American, recounts what he has learned, what he has lost, and what he has found during his evolution from a hungry refugee's son to religious youth to advocate for acceptance and equality. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/teach-her-a-lesson monthly 0.5 2024-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c91d819e-1ae7-469b-a210-0288e4805901/teachher.jpg New Arrivals - Teach Her a Lesson - by Kate Flora What do you do when you’re accused of an unspeakable crime and know you’re innocent, but the evidence against you is so compelling? After six years as a high school English teacher, Alexis Jordan thinks her biggest problems are a case of burnout and her suspicion that her husband is having an affair. Then things take a sudden, unexpected turn that threatens to end her marriage, wreck her career, and destroy her life when the student she’s coaching for the school play makes a pass at her and she turns him down. Alexis doesn’t realize that he is obsessed with her and has been building toward this moment for months. Nor that when he’s rejected, he will set out to destroy her with his version of their “affair”—which is terrifyingly plausible. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/fallen-leaves monthly 0.5 2024-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5b0e33a3-f5d2-42a3-9f1f-72de8a106834/fallenleaves.jpg New Arrivals - Fallen Leaves Award-winning filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki (Le Havre, The Other Side of Hope) makes a masterful return with FALLEN LEAVES, a timeless, hopeful and ultimately satisfying love story about two lonely souls’ path to happiness – and the numerous hurdles they encounter along the way. Set in contemporary Helsinki, and shot through with Kaurismäki’stypically playful, idiosyncratic style and deadpan humor, this tender romantic tragicomedy is a timely reminder of the potency of movie-going from one of cinema’s living legends. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-taste-of-things monthly 0.5 2024-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/957958bf-a993-42c9-9d21-b256f54c6e97/tasteofthings.jpg New Arrivals - The Taste of Things Set in France in 1889, the film follows the life of Dodin Bouffant as a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love, but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/sister-boniface-mysteries-season1 monthly 0.5 2024-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/654e8cd0-ee61-4a75-9268-8804ff8e366a/sisterb.jpg New Arrivals - Sister Boniface Mysteries : Season 1 Before she took her vows and entered St. Vincent's Convent, Sister Boniface (Lorna Watson) was a Bletchley Circle codebreaker with a Ph.D. in forensic science... and as such, her input was gladly welcomed by the constabulary of Great Slaughter. Engaging, '60s-set mystery series spun out of "Father Brown" also stars Max Brown, Jerry Iwu, Miranda Raison, Ami Metcalf, Belinda Lang, Carolyn Pickles, David Sterne, Sarah Crowden.10 episodes on 3 discs. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/10-days monthly 0.5 2024-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/11256913-1344-4585-8c3c-fe3d5c29416b/10days.jpg New Arrivals - 10 Days - by Jule Selbo Early summer, Portland, Maine… Eleven months after young policewoman Dee Rommel’s mysterious and life-altering on-the-job injury. Her medical leave is nearly up, and the Police Department and her ex-training officer, newly-single Detective Donato, expect her to reinstate. But her decision is postponed when she’s challenged to step in for her godfather - private investigator Gordy Greer - to investigate the disappearance of a brilliant high-tech heiress, Lucy Claren, who has announced hasty wedding plans that could derail her father’s empire. Life is further complicated when Dee’s good friend, Karla, is physically assaulted by a sadist that Dee had helped put behind bars. Newly released, he decides to turn his sights on justice-driven Dee, making it his personal mission to ensure her failure – and demise. Dee dangerously navigates through the two worlds of crime – determined to survive them both… in just ten days. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/officer-clawsome-crime-across-time monthly 0.5 2024-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/be8b0b30-ed5f-4058-bd1b-30e5a9613572/clawsomecrime.jpg New Arrivals - Officer Clawsome: Crime Across Time - by Brian “Smitty” Smith A puzzling mystery is afoot! Thankfully, Caper Cove’s finest are on the case, but the investigation takes a turn for the strange when the town’s resident evil genius, Brain Sturgeon, dives into a portal to the past. Fighting crime, dodging dinosaurs, and wrangling old West outlaws, these two best friends have gotten tangled up in a mystery fit for the ages. Will this dynamic duo be able to restore the past, present, and future—or will time as we know it be lost forever? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/it-had-to-be-you monthly 0.5 2024-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1713558120921-XR9VXQ4YA6Z0SBM6IST4/hadtobeyou.jpg New Arrivals - It Had to be You - by Mary Higgins Clark The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way—handsome, intelligent, popular—until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood while the other brother had an iron-clad alibi. But which twin was where during the murders? And is it possible the two of them planned the perfect crime together? Years later, the twins are long estranged, each of them claiming to be convinced that the other is responsible for the death of their parents. Married now with children of their own, they may finally be ready to clear one name at the expense of the other and turn to Laurie Moran and her team to reinvestigate their parents’ murder. But as the Under Suspicion crew gets closer to the truth, the danger that was assumed to be left in the past finds its way into the present. Featuring chilling suspense, a cast of characters whom loyal readers have come to love, and a final jaw-dropping twist, It Had to Be You is not to be missed. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/shes-not-sorry monthly 0.5 2024-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8161c10a-011f-4e97-88bd-0f896d6e51c0/notsorry.jpg New Arrivals - She’s Not Sorry - by Mary Kubica A terrible accident. Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working full time as an ICU nurse, when a patient named Caitlin arrives in her ward with a traumatic brain injury. They say she jumped from a bridge and plunged over twenty feet to the train tracks below. A shocking revelation. When a witness comes forward with new details about Caitlin’s fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was a crime committed? Did someone actually push Caitlin, and if so, who... and why? No one is safe. Meghan lets herself get close to Caitlin until she’s deeply entangled in the mystery surrounding her. Only when it’s too late, does she realize that she and her daughter could be the next victims... https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/night-song monthly 0.5 2024-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a5807754-9e98-4714-be00-11d648465b3e/nightsong.jpg New Arrivals - Night Song - by Mk Smith Despres Every morning as the sun rises, Bernardo the frog loves greeting the day by listening to the beautiful birdsong that fills the woods with joy. Inspired, Bernardo attempts to sing, too... but his croaking voice doesn't quite have the same effect. No matter what he does, Bernardo feels graceless and like he just doesn't add up. Dejected and down in the dumps, Bernardo sees no place for himself, until a woodland neighbor praises the hushed sounds that dusk brings, thus awakening Bernardo to his place in the woods' great symphony. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/margarets-unicorn monthly 0.5 2024-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/bc4c46c9-e381-414e-961f-3d7778ede766/margaretsunicorn.jpg New Arrivals - Margaret’s Unicorn - by Briony May Smith Margaret's whole world changes when her family moves to a cottage by the sea to be near her grandma. One evening, Margaret spots a mist over the water. No, that's not mist...clouds maybe? No, they're unicorns descending onto the shore! They vanish as quickly as they'd appeared, but accidentally leave behind a baby, tangled in the weeds. Margaret, lonely and in need of a friend, brings him home and cares for him through the fall and winter. Together, they chase the waves, stomp on frozen puddles, and build snow unicorns. When spring finally comes around, and the other unicorns return, Margaret's takes her small friend back to his family... but these two won't forget one another. And though Margaret misses him, she has made a new friend, and her new cottage is starting to feel like home. With all the feel of a classic, here is a picture book young readers will want to revisit again and again. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/gaga-mistake-day monthly 0.5 2024-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1e72f159-c806-4e66-b975-b567ddc1a20c/gaga.jpg New Arrivals - Gaga Mistake Day - by Emma Straub & Susan Straub Gaga days are the best! That’s when this eccentric, mischievous grandma babysits her delighted granddaughter. These Gaga days are always full of the silliest “mistakes,” like swapping eyeglasses and walking backwards to the park. Like making the house safe by eating all the marshmallow goblins, filling the tub to bursting with bubbles, and then reading a bedtime story all the way through upside down. With touches of Amelia Bedelia and Eloise, this irrepressible granny might just inspire deliciously goofy, endlessly creative, and bursting-with-love grandma-grandchild playdates! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dogtown monthly 0.5 2024-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0f0d9498-1a84-4226-aa10-d70856be8e8d/dogtown.jpg New Arrivals - Dogtown - by Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko Dogtown is a shelter for stray dogs, misbehaving dogs, and discarded robot dogs, whose owners have outgrown them. Chance, a real dog, has been in Dogtown since her owners unwittingly left her with irresponsible dog-sitters who skipped town. Metal Head is a robot dog who dreams of being back in a real home. And Mouse is a mouse who has the run of Dogtown, pilfering kibble, and performing clever feats to protect the dogs he loves. When Chance and Metal Head embark on an adventure to find their forever homes, there is danger, cheese sandwiches, a charging station, and some unexpected kindnesses along the way. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/8-days monthly 0.5 2024-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/aec1b65c-5b50-4d5d-a4ab-f8db979fed71/8days.jpg New Arrivals - 8 Days - by Jule Selbo Despite her life-changing injury, Dee Rommel is as determined and scrappy as ever. Still adjusting to her new life working for her godfather, private investigator Gordy Greer, Dee is ready to try out her hi-tech running blade, returning to the annual 10K competition. A mysterious car crashes and burns in the middle of Portland, Maine's Casco Bay Bridge. A young, once-sex-trafficked woman is killed and Dee finds herself protecting orphaned Yuusuf, a high school valedictorian who may be able to point to the murderer. When a toxic web of crime is revealed, both traditional and extended family dynamics are in play, as well as greed and ambition. Old relationships haunt Dee when nothing or no one is as they seem. She has only 8 days to keep her pursuit of justice in play, fighting for her allies and her own life. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/9-days monthly 0.5 2024-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5c2053f0-db7c-45ab-8115-0d91ad2bd2e7/9days.jpg New Arrivals - 9 Days - by Jule Selbo A powerful family will stop at nothing to protect its secrets... Famous astrologist Agnes Sants-Mekler, a member of one of Maine's elite families, pleads guilty to murder. Her gifted, pre-teen son, Zar, says she's lying and he wants Dee Rommel to prove that - in nine days. Former policewoman Dee Rommel, not yet thirty, is dealing with a permanent, life-changing injury sustained while part of Portland's police force. Her medical leave is up; she's made a contested decision to delay her return to the department and continue working with her godfather, PI Gordy Greer. Dee discovers the police are content with Agnes Sants-Melker's confession, but her intense curiosity - and need for justice - compels her to dig deeper to find the truth. As she sifts through the evidence, misdirections, and deceptions she finds that trusting the wrong person is unraveling a more devious plot - and leading to a life-threatening confrontation. 9 DAYS is the thrilling second installment in the award-winning Dee Rommel Mystery series. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/until-august monthly 0.5 2024-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f8ae34a1-a544-4b7d-a68e-506b34ccf5a4/untilaugust.jpg New Arrivals - Until August - by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios and conmen, Ana journeys further each year into the hinterland of her desire and the fear hidden in her heart. Constantly surprising, joyously sensual, Until August is a profound meditation on freedom, regret, self-transformation, and the mysteries of love—an unexpected gift from one of the greatest writers the world has ever known. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/close-to-death monthly 0.5 2024-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7171f10b-4340-42de-af0e-f1c7703d5e6a/closetodeath.jpg New Arrivals - Close to Death - by Anthony Horowitz Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, allowing the residents to enjoy beautiful gardens, pleasant birdsong, and tranquility from behind the security of a locked gate. It is the perfect idyll, until the Kentworthy family arrives, with their four giant, gas-guzzling cars, gaggle of shrieking children, and plans for a garish swimming pool in the backyard. Obvious outsiders, the Kentworthys do not belong in Riverside Close, and quickly offend every last one of the neighbors. When Giles Kentworthy is found dead on his own doorstep, a crossbow bolt sticking out of his chest, Detective Hawthorne is the only investigator they can call to solve the case. Because how do you solve a murder when everyone is a suspect?   https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-calamity-of-souls monthly 0.5 2024-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b0903b19-c6ea-4b48-9869-35ed546eda66/calamity.jpg New Arrivals - A Calamity of Souls - by David Baldacci Jack Lee is a white lawyer from Freeman County, Virginia, who has never done anything to push back against racism, until he decides to represent Jerome Washington, a Black man charged with brutally killing an elderly and wealthy white couple. Doubting his decision, Lee fears that his legal skills may not be enough to prevail in a case where the odds are already stacked against both him and his client. And he quickly finds himself out of his depth when he realizes that what is at stake is far greater than the outcome of a murder trial.   Desiree DuBose is a Black lawyer from Chicago who has devoted her life to furthering the causes of justice and equality for everyone. She comes to Freeman County and enters a fractious and unwieldy partnership with Lee in a legal battle against the best prosecutor in the Commonwealth. Yet DuBose is also aware that powerful outside forces are at work to blunt the victories achieved by the Civil Rights era.     Lee and DuBose could not be more dissimilar. On their own, neither one can stop the prosecution’s deliberate march towards a guilty verdict and the electric chair. But together, the pair fight for what once seemed impossible: a chance for a fair trial and true justice. Over a decade in the writing, A Calamity of Souls breathes richly imagined and detailed life into a bygone era, taking the reader through a world that will seem both foreign and familiar. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/thorn-tree monthly 0.5 2024-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/fa4a25ff-0081-4f09-a555-6172505827ca/thorntrree.jpg New Arrivals - Thorn Tree - by Max Ludington Now in his late-sixties, Daniel lives in quiet anonymity in a converted guest cottage in the Hollywood Hills. A legendary artist, he’s known for one seminal work―Thorn Tree―a hulking, welded, scrap metal sculpture that he built in the Mojave desert in the 1970s. The work emerged from tragedy, but building it kept Daniel alive and catapulted him to brief, reluctant fame in the art world. Daniel is neighbors with Celia, a charismatic but fragile actress. She too experienced youthful fame, hers in a popular television series, but saw her life nearly collapse after a series of bad decisions. Now, a new movie with a notorious director might reignite her career. A single mother, Celia leaves her young son Dean for weeks at a time with her father, Jack, who stays at her house while she’s on location. Jack and Daniel strike up a tentative friendship as Dean takes to visiting Daniel’s cottage--but something about Jack seems off. Discomfiting, strangely intimate, with flashes of anger balanced by an almost philosophical bent, Jack is not the harmless grandparent he pretends to be. Weaving the idealism and the darkness of the late 1960s, the glossy surfaces of Los Angeles celebrity today, and thrumming with the sound of the Grateful Dead, the mania of Charles Manson and other cults, and the secrets that both Jack and Daniel have harbored for fifty years, Thorn Tree by Max Ludington is an utterly-compelling novel. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-secret-lives-of-booksellers-and-librarians monthly 0.5 2024-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6e0861d8-72d6-476c-b305-b874185f83bd/librarians.jpg New Arrivals - The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians - by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann To be a bookseller or librarian… You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. An advocate. A visionary. A person who creates “book joy” by pulling a book from a shelf, handing it to someone and saying, “You’ve got to read this. You’re going to love it.” Step inside The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians and enter a world where you can feed your curiosities, discover new voices, find whatever you want or require. This place has the magic of rainbows and unicorns, but it's also a business. The book business. Meet the smart and talented people who live between the pages—and who can’t wait to help you find your next favorite book. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/becoming-madam-secretary monthly 0.5 2024-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/75c83016-c953-467d-9622-fe0e3cc06391/madamsecretary.jpg New Arrivals - Becoming Madam Secretary - by Stephanie Dray Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and an unyielding determination to make a difference. When she’s not working with children in the crowded tenements in Hell’s Kitchen, Frances throws herself into the social scene in Greenwich Village, befriending an eclectic group of politicians, artists, and activists, including the millionaire socialite Mary Harriman Rumsey, the flirtatious budding author Sinclair Lewis, and the brilliant but troubled reformer Paul Wilson, with whom she falls deeply in love. But when Frances meets a young lawyer named Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a tea dance, sparks fly in all the wrong directions. She thinks he’s a rich, arrogant dilettante who gets by on a handsome face and a famous name. He thinks she’s a priggish bluestocking and insufferable do-gooder. Neither knows it yet, but over the next twenty years, they will form a historic partnership that will carry them both to the White House. Frances is destined to rise in a political world dominated by men, facing down the Great Depression as FDR’s most trusted lieutenant—even as she struggles to balance the demands of a public career with marriage and motherhood. And when vicious political attacks mount and personal tragedies threaten to derail her ambitions, she must decide what she’s willing to do—and what she’s willing to sacrifice—to save a nation. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-princess-of-las-vegas monthly 0.5 2024-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9bda7bcd-a77b-4bbf-9a0d-7468d5e009c1/princess.jpg New Arrivals - The Princess of Las Vegas - by Chris Bohjalian Crissy Dowling has created a world that suits her perfectly. She passes her days by the pool in a private cabana, she splurges on ice cream but never gains an ounce, and each evening she transforms into a Princess, performing her musical cabaret inspired by the life of the late Diana Spencer. Some might find her strange or even delusional, an American speaking with a British accent, hair feathered into a style thirty years old, living and working in a casino that has become a dated trash heap. On top of that, Crissy’s daily diet of Adderall and Valium leaves her more than a little tipsy, her Senator boyfriend has gone back to his wife, and her entire career rests on resembling a dead woman. And yet, fans see her for the gifted chameleon she is, showering her with gifts, letters, and standing ovations night after night. But when Crissy’s sister, Betsy, arrives in town with a new boyfriend and a teenage daughter, and when Richie Morley, the owner of the Buckingham Palace Casino, is savagely murdered, Crissy’s carefully constructed kingdom comes crashing down all around her. A riveting tale of identity, obsession, fintech, and high-tech mobsters, The Princess of Las Vegas is an addictive, wildly original thriller from one of our most extraordinary storytellers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-truth-about-the-devlins monthly 0.5 2024-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1713296540652-ET9ZUIY36TWA2FQL8E4S/devlins.jpg New Arrivals - The Truth About the Devlins - by Lisa Scottoline TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm—except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can’t get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ’s world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he murdered one of their clients, an accountant he’d confronted with proof of embezzlement. It seems impossible coming from John, the firstborn son and Most Valuable Devlin. TJ plunges into the investigation, seizing the chance to prove his worth and save his brother. But in no time, TJ and John find themselves entangled in a lethal web of deception and murder. TJ will fight to save his family, but what he learns might break them first. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/james monthly 0.5 2024-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2e2d422d-da6b-4440-a4f5-10e84a59eb82/james.jpg New Arrivals - James - by Percival Everett When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. While many narrative set pieces of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin…), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light. Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a “literary icon” (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/toxic-prey monthly 0.5 2024-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1713295602732-WSW8ASEUFAQHLT0802RT/toxicprey.jpg New Arrivals - Toxic Prey - by John Sandford Gaia is dying. That, at least, is what Dr. Lionel Scott believes. A renowned expert in tropical and infectious diseases, Scott has witnessed the devastating impact of illness and turmoil at critical scale. Society as it exists is untenable, and the direct link to Earth’s death spiral; population levels are out of control and people have allowed disarray and disorder to run rampant. While most are concerned about deadly disease, Scott knows that it is truly humanity itself that will destroy Gaia. It’s only by removing the threat that the planet can continue to prosper, and luckily, Scott is just the right man for the job… When Scott then disappears without a trace, Letty Davenport is tasked with tracking down any and all leads. Scott’s connections to sensitive research into virus and pathogen spread has multiple national and international organizations on high alert, and his shockingly high clearance levels at various institutions, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, make him the last person they’d like to go missing. As the web around Scott becomes more tangled, Letty calls in her father, Lucas, help her lead a group of specialists to find Scott as soon as possible. But as Letty and Lucas begin to uncover startling and disturbing connections between Scott and Gaia conspiracists, their worst fears are confirmed, and it quickly becomes a race to find him before the virus he created becomes the perfect weapon. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/beaver-land monthly 0.5 2024-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d72144f4-b4fb-4ad8-9556-6284ffdeb637/beaver+land.jpg New Arrivals - Beaver Land - by Leila Philip From award-winning writer Leila Philip, Beaverland is a masterful work of narrative science writing, a book that highlights, though history and contemporary storytelling, how this weird rodent plays an oversized role in American history and its future. She follows fur trappers who lead her through waist high water, fur traders and fur auctioneers, as well as wildlife managers, PETA activists, Native American environmental vigilantes, scientists, engineers, and the colorful group of activists known as beaver believers. Beginning with the early trans-Atlantic trade in North America, Leila Philip traces the beaver’s profound influence on our nation’s early economy and feverish western expansion, its first corporations and multi-millionaires. In her pursuit of this weird and wonderful animal, she introduces us to people whose lives are devoted to the beaver, including a Harvard scientist from the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, who uses drones to create 3-dimensional images of beaver dams; and an environmental restoration consultant in the Chesapeake whose nickname is the “beaver whisperer”. What emerges is a poignant personal narrative, a startling portrait of the secretive world of the contemporary fur trade, and an engrossing ecological and historical investigation of these heroic animals who, once trapped to the point of extinction, have returned to the landscape as one of the greatest conservation stories of the 20th century. Beautifully written and impeccably researched, Beaverland reveals the profound ways in which one odd creature and the trade surrounding it has shaped history, culture, and our environment. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/cloistered-my-years-as-a-nun monthly 0.5 2024-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b6443110-2c12-48d4-8164-0930d6cd3e76/cloistered.jpg New Arrivals - Cloistered - by Catherine Coldstream Cloistered takes the reader deep into the hidden world of a traditional Carmelite monastery as it approaches the third Millennium and tells the story of an intense personal journey into and out of an enclosed life of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Finding an apparently perfect world at Akenside Priory, in Northumberland, Catherine trusts herself to a group of twenty silent women, believing she is trusting herself to God. As the beauty and mystery of an ancient way of life enfold her, she surrenders herself wholly to its power, quite unaware of the complexity and dangers that lie ahead. Cut off from the wider world for decades, the community has managed to evade accountability to any authority beyond itself. When Sister Catherine realises that a mesmerising cult of the personality, with the distortions it entails, has replaced the ancient ideal of religious obedience, she is faced with a dilemma. Will she submit to this, or will she be forced to speak out? An exploration of the limits of trust, Cloistered shows us how far youthful idealism can take us along the road of self-surrender, and of how much harm is done when institutional flaws go unacknowledged. Catherine’s honest account of her time in the monastery – and her dramatic flight from it – is both a love song to a lost community and an exploration of what is most compelling, yet most potentially destructive when closed human groups become laws unto themselves. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-great-divide monthly 0.5 2024-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/937b8269-496a-4250-a460-661443260998/greatdivide.jpg New Arrivals - The Great Divide - by Christina Henriquez It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring for a slice of his country, nothing is more upsetting than the decision of his son, Omar, to work as a digger in the excavation zone. But for Omar, whose upbringing was quiet and lonely, this job offers a chance to finally find connection. Ada Bunting is a bold sixteen-year-old from Barbados who arrives in Panama as a stowaway alongside thousands of other West Indians seeking work. Alone and with no resources, she is determined to find a job that will earn enough money for her ailing sister’s surgery. When she sees a young man—Omar—who has collapsed after a grueling shift, she is the only one who rushes to his aid. John Oswald has dedicated his life to scientific research and has journeyed to Panama in single-minded pursuit of one goal: eliminating malaria. But now, his wife, Marian, has fallen ill herself, and when he witnesses Ada’s bravery and compassion, he hires her on the spot as a caregiver. This fateful decision sets in motion a sweeping tale of ambition, loyalty, and sacrifice. Searing and empathetic,The Great Divide explores the intersecting lives of activists, fishmongers, laborers, journalists, neighbors, doctors, and soothsayers—those rarely acknowledged by history even as they carved out its course. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-cemetery-of-untold-stories monthly 0.5 2024-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/96522082-aa83-4e29-960c-c65cf0c90424/cemetery.jpg New Arrivals - The Cemetery of Untold Stories - by Julia Alvarez Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesn’t want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, her homeland, she has the beautiful idea of turning it into a place to bury her untold stories—literally. She creates a graveyard for the manuscript drafts and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace. But they have other ideas and soon begin to defy their author: they talk back to her and talk to one another behind her back, rewriting and revising themselves. Filomena, a local woman hired as the groundskeeper, becomes a sympathetic listener to the secret tales unspooled by Alma's characters. Among them, Bienvenida, dictator Rafael Trujillo's abandoned wife who was erased from the official history, and Manuel Cruz, a doctor who fought in the Dominican underground and escaped to the United States. The Cemetery of Untold Stories asks: Whose stories get to be told, and whose buried? Finally, Alma finds the meaning she and her characters yearn for in the everlasting vitality of stories. Julia Alvarez reminds us that the stories of our lives are never truly finished, even at the end. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-ultimate-wildlife-habitat-garden monthly 0.5 2024-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/43dfd305-0d13-475e-9a6f-1a397fbd30c9/wildlifegarden.jpg New Arrivals - The Ultimate Wildlife Habitat Garden - by Stacy Tornio In The Ultimate Wildlife Habitat Garden, Stacy Tornio makes it easy to attract birds, bees, and butterflies to your home garden by sharing details about which plants attract specific creatures. Entice birds with black-eyed susans, attract bumblebees by planting bee balm, and more. Choose from ten garden plans, including a hummingbird garden, a birdseed garden, and options that are low-maintenance and drought-resistant. You’ll also get advice on finding the right feeder, avoiding pesticides, and choosing native plants. This beautiful, photo-filled guide will enable you to create the earth-friendly garden of your dreams. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-point-of-beauty monthly 0.5 2024-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/355ec6f7-6eda-4010-965e-64d60269728b/pointofbeauty.jpg New Arrivals - A Point of Beauty - by The Moth An international rescue mission for Paddington Bear. A family matriarch running numbers in Detroit. An epic Lucha Libre showdown in Mexico City. A beach vacation spent looking for the Kennedys. Storytellers from around the world share times they found real beauty in the moments when their lives changed forever—for better or for worse. Carefully selected by the creative minds at The Moth and adapted to the page to preserve the raw energy of stories told live, on stage, and without notes, A Point of Beauty features voices familiar and new. This collection offers a shared message: If we look closely enough, we can find power in strengthening frayed bonds but also in having the courage to walk away from things that no longer feed our spirit. Through these storytellers’ passion and their hope, they teach us all about what’s worth holding on to: our relationships with those we love the most, our understanding of ourselves, and—of course—gathering together to tell and listen to our stories. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-hunger-games-songbirds-and-snakes monthly 0.5 2024-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/fa85a52d-1c14-487f-8b3b-30a370efd64f/hungergames.jpg New Arrivals - The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes In this prequel to The Hunger Games, a young Coriolanus Snow - decades before becoming the tyrannical President of Panem - battles his instincts between good and evil as he mentors Lucy Gray Baird in the 10th Hunger Games. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/good-omens monthly 0.5 2024-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f0102159-88cb-4153-83fd-f0dd8c74ad26/goodomens.jpg New Arrivals - Good Omens It takes good and evil to save the world in this adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s cult novel, starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant. Aziraphale is a fussy angel. Crowley is a loose-living demon. They’ve both been on Earth for over 6,000 years. During that time they’ve grown quite fond of it, and, against all odds, each other. But there’s a problem – the Antichrist has arrived here on Earth, which means the world they have become too fond of will end in flames, if they don’t manage to save it. This wildly imaginative and screamingly funny drama follows Aziraphale and Crowley as they join forces in an attempt to find an 11-year-old Antichrist (and his dog) and avert the Apocalypse. Armageddon is coming – but it doesn’t have to be the end of the world. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/officer-clawsome-lobster-cop monthly 0.5 2024-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f0d5cc06-fa74-41b6-a9c1-a921de57c41f/clawsome.jpg New Arrivals - Officer Clawsome: Lobster Cop - by Brian “Smitty” Smith Crime doesn’t pay in Caper Cove with Officer Clawsome and his partner, Stariana, on the case. Just ask the notorious Catburglarfish—she’ll confirm. But when the beloved bakery Kelpy's Kelpcakes goes missing and rumors begin swirling about shark sightings for the first time in a hundred years, the duo is about to find themselves claw-deep in a mystery for the ages. Will this dynamic duo save the day yet again, or have the citizens of Caper Cove eaten their last Kelpcake…for good? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/how-to-catch-a-unicorn monthly 0.5 2024-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/02b9dcda-02a0-4380-be5e-451417cf2347/catchunicorn.jpg New Arrivals - How to Catch a Unicorn - by Adam Wallace & Andy Elkerton From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling How to Catch series comes a dazzling new adventure! Filled with zany traps, STEAM concepts, silly rhymes, and lots of rainbow unicorn fun, parents, educators, and young readers alike will delight in this colorful story as the How to Catch Kids are off in the zoo to catch this fantastical beast. Perfect for children ages 4-10, this is the ultimate unicorn gift of the year, great for birthdays, bedtime, or any occasion! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/never-let-a-unicorn-wear-a-tutu monthly 0.5 2024-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e6ce5bbf-a444-49e1-9caa-d0769777fe0c/unicorntutu.jpg New Arrivals - Never Let a Unicorn Wear a Tutu! - by Diane Alber Have you ever seen a Unicorn wear a tutu?!?This story is about a little girl who over heard her friend say, NEVER LET A UNICORN WEAR A TUTU Unfortunately, she didn't have a chance to ask why, and now she has a fantastic tutu for her UNICORN and she isn't sure what to do! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/super-potato-the-epic-origin monthly 0.5 2024-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0247d222-3366-4bc7-96bd-9c486557e233/superpotato.jpg New Arrivals - Super Potato: The Epic Origin of Super Potato - by Artur Laperla Super Max has it all. He's a superhero with a flashy uniform and a great head of hair. Sure, sometimes the evil Dr. Malevolent pops up to cause trouble. But Super Max has defeated the villain over and over again. This time is different. This time, Dr. Malevolent's plan works . . . and he turns the handsome hero into a tiny tuber! But there's one thing the doctor didn't count on. The potato still has powers, and justice takes many forms. Super Max may be gone . . . but it's Super Potato's time to fly! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/expiration-dates monthly 0.5 2024-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/09cd9baf-87bf-4041-af4a-0306bf2070f6/expiration.jpg New Arrivals - Expiration Dates - by Rebecca Serle Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her. Every time she meets a new man, she receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it—the exact amount of time they will be together. The papers told her she’d spend three days with Martin in Paris; five weeks with Noah in San Francisco; and three months with Hugo, her ex-boyfriend turned best friend. Daphne has been receiving the numbered papers for over twenty years, always wondering when there might be one without an expiration. Finally, the night of a blind date at her favorite Los Angeles restaurant, there’s only a name: Jake. But as Jake and Daphne’s story unfolds, Daphne finds herself doubting the paper’s prediction, and wrestling with what it means to be both committed and truthful. Because Daphne knows things Jake doesn’t, information that—if he found out—would break his heart. Told with her signature warmth and insight into matters of the heart, Rebecca Serle has finally set her sights on romantic love. The result is a gripping, emotional, passionate, and (yes) heartbreaking novel about what it means to be single, what it means to find love, and ultimately how we define each of them for ourselves. Expiration Dates is the one fans have been waiting for. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dog-man-the-scarlet-shedder monthly 0.5 2024-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/62857757-f909-42c4-aabe-9bada06fbbe3/scarletshedder.jpg New Arrivals - Man: The Scarlet Shedder - by Dav Pilkey P.U.! Dog Man got sprayed by a skunk! After being dunked in tomato juice, the stink is gone but the scarlet red color remains. Now exiled, this spunky superhero must struggle to save the citizens who shunned him! Will the ends justify the means for Petey, who's reluctantly pulled back into a life of crime in order to help Dog Man? And who will step forward when an all-new, never-before-seen villain unleashes an army of A.I. robots? The fun and creativity continue with Dog Man with Love: The Official Coloring Book. And for more heartfelt graphic novel adventures, join Flippy and Li'l Petey in the Cat Kid Comic Club series. And don't forget the series that started it all: Captain Underpants! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/all-the-little-bird-hearts monthly 0.5 2024-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/00fdb846-8920-4b64-937b-def0f658b14b/allthe+littlebird.jpg New Arrivals - All the Little Bird-Hearts - by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow Sunday lives with her sixteen year old daughter Dolly, the same house she has lived in all her life. She does things differently from other people, but mostly it works. On her "quiet days" she must eat only white foods. For social situations, she has her etiquette hand book, and for solace her beloved treasury of Sicilian folklore. But the one thing very much out of her control is Dolly - beautiful, headstrong Dolly who is on the cusp of leaving home. Into this carefully ordered life step Vita and Rollo, a glamorous London couple who move in next door, disarm Sunday with their wit and charm, and proceed to deliciously break just about every rule in her etiquette manual. Soon the two families are in and out of each others houses, and Sunday feels loved and accepted like never before. But beneath Vita and Rollo's charm and wealth there is something else, something darker. And Sunday has something that Vita has always wanted for herself, a beautiful, clever daughter of her own. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/fireworks-night monthly 0.5 2024-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4397c256-04bb-44a7-b5c2-4ead74380b86/fireworksnight.jpg New Arrivals - Good Dog: Fireworks Night - by Cam Higgins It’s finally summertime. And Bo Davis loves the summertime. The grass is greener, the days are warmer, and there are cookouts with fireworks on special nights. But do the other animals love fireworks as much as Bo? With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Good Dog chapter books are perfect for beginning readers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/shift monthly 0.5 2024-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8c786a0a-d8de-4bfc-90fc-4138521188af/shift.jpg New Arrivals - Shift - by Penny Guisinger Penny Guisinger was not always attracted to women. In Shift she recounts formative relationships with women and men, including the marriage that produced her two children and ultimately ended in part due to her affair with her now-wife. Beginning her story as straight and ending as queer, she struggles to make sense of how her identity changed so profoundly while leaving her feeling like the same person she’s always been. While covering pivotal periods of her life, including previous relationships and raising her children across the chasm of divorce, Guisinger reaches for quantum physics, music theory, planetary harmonics, palmistry, and more to interrogate her experiences. This personal story plays out against the backdrop of the national debate on same-sex marriage, in rural, easternmost Maine, where Guisinger watched her neighbors vote against the validity of her family. Shift examines sexual and romantic fluidity while wrestling with the ways past and present mingle rather than staying in linear narratives. Under scrutiny, Guisinger’s sense of her own identity becomes like a Mobius strip or Penrose triangle—an optical illusion that challenges the dimensions and possibilities of the world. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/still-born monthly 0.5 2024-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9de16e3d-1c14-4234-9df2-4a6354989987/stillborn.jpg New Arrivals - Still Born - by Guadalupe Nettel Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura is so determined not to become a mother that she has taken the drastic decision to have her tubes tied. But when she announces this to her friend, she learns that Alina has made the opposite decision and is preparing to have a child of her own. Alina’s pregnancy shakes the women’s lives, first creating distance and then a remarkable closeness between them. When Alina’s daughter survives childbirth – after a diagnosis that predicted the opposite – and Laura becomes attached to her neighbor’s son, both women are forced to reckon with the complexity of their emotions, their needs, and the needs of the people who are dependent upon them. In prose that is as gripping as it is insightful, Guadalupe Nettel explores maternal ambivalence with a surgeon’s touch, carefully dissecting the contradictions that make up the lived experiences of women. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/birdwatching-in-maine monthly 0.5 2024-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/de9a812f-fc0d-4aa2-8a11-ca0ca907075c/birdwatching.jpg New Arrivals - Birdwatching in Maine - by Derek J. Lovitch With over 470 species of birds recorded, Maine offers an abundance of birding opportunities for people of all levels of interest and experience, from those looking beyond their backyards for the first time to knowledgeable visitors looking to plug a hole in their list of sightings. The state’s wealth of undeveloped land and its extensive coastline, countless islands, and varied habitat combine to host an impressive diversity of birds at all times of the year. Birders travel to Maine from near and far to seek hard-to-find species, from the only Atlantic puffins breeding in the United States on offshore islands to Bicknell’s thrushes high in the mountains. This book fills an important niche for the birdwatching community by offering comprehensive entries detailing the best locations for finding birds throughout the state for enthusiasts of all levels of skill and interest. It contains descriptions of 202 birding sites in Maine, with explicit directions on how to get there, for all sixteen of the state’s counties, several as large as other New England states! Each chapter features a county map, a brief overview by Derek J. Lovitch, numerous specific site guides, and a list of rarities. The book also contains a detailed and useful species accounts guide for finding the most sought-after birds. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/three-inch-teeth monthly 0.5 2024-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/92cc945c-8690-4a69-a990-81535a7c4d60/teeth.jpg New Arrivals - Three-Inch Teeth - by C. J. Box A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage—killing, among others, the potential fiancé of Joe’s daughter. At the same time, Dallas Cates, who Joe helped lock up years ago, is released from prison with a special list tattooed on his skin. He wants revenge on the people who sent him away: the six people he blames for the deaths of his entire family and the loss of his reputation and property. Using the grizzly attacks as cover, Cates sets out to methodically check off his list. The problem is, both Nate Romanowski and Joe Pickett are on it. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/do-fairies-bring-the-spring monthly 0.5 2024-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a89cabb2-db03-492b-9308-95fe02c9b00a/fairiesspring.jpg New Arrivals - Do Fairies Bring the Spring? - by Liza Gardner Walsh After a long winter’s rest with little to do, are the fairies ready to start something new, Do they use tiny brushes and oil pastels to paint crocuses, lilacs, and daffodils? Everyone knows fairies love spring flowers and summer sun, but is it the fairies who wake up the earth as the snow melts? Do they entice the trees to turn green and the flowers to grow? In this charming follow up to Where Do Fairies Go When It Snows, Liza Gardner Walsh, acclaimed author of the Fairy House Handbook and Fairy Garden Handbook, explores the matter in a children's picture book of rhyming questions. Combined with delightful illustrations by Hazel Mitchell this whimsical book will help children discover the world of fairies and learn to enjoy and appreciate the outdoors. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/youre-my-little-lucky-charm monthly 0.5 2024-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7275c470-f8bf-47d9-ba8d-476f65e176ba/luckycharm.jpg New Arrivals - You’re My Little Lucky Charm - by Natalie Marshall Four-leaf clovers and adorable leprechauns are on the run in You’re My Little Lucky Charm, a rhyming story about the magic and fun of St. Patrick’s Day that celebrates the special bond between a parent and child. Each spread of this board book includes a sweet and rhyming proclamation along with a textured object that jumps off the page and makes the story come alive for little hands and growing minds. It’s a springtime successor in Natalie Marshall’s You’re My Little series of early reader titles, including You’re My Little Pumpkin Pie and You’re My Little Honey Bunny. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/still-see-you-everywhere monthly 0.5 2024-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/23f06899-7391-4439-9658-25a66e1cc599/stillseeyou.jpg New Arrivals - Still See You Everywhere - by Lisa Gardner Frankie Elkin is an expert at finding the missing persons that the rest of the world has forgotten, but even she couldn’t have anticipated this latest request—to locate the long-lost sister of a female serial killer facing execution in three weeks’ time. She has called herself "death," but people called her the devil. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. Despite the media’s chronicling of her tragic circumstances—the childhood spent with a violent father—no one could find sympathy for “the Beautiful Butcher” who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously slitting their throats. Now, with only twenty-one days left to live, Pierson has finally received a lead on the whereabouts of the sister who was kidnapped over a decade ago, and she needs Frankie’s help to find her. The Beautiful Butcher’s offer: When was the last time your search ended with finding the living? Unable to resist the chance for a rescue, Frankie takes on Pierson’s request. Twelve years ago, five-year-old Leilani went missing in Hawaii. The main suspect? Pierson’s tech mogul ex-boyfriend, Sanders MacManus. Now, on a remote island in the middle of the Pacific—the site of MacManus’s latest vanity project—fresh evidence has appeared. In order to learn the truth and possibly save a young woman’s life, Frankie must go undercover at the isolated base camp. Her challenge: A dozen strangers. Countless dangerous secrets. Zero means of calling for help. And then the storm rolls in… https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/all-creatures-great-and-small-season4 monthly 0.5 2024-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4f5cff16-61e9-4969-b689-76bdf43ec0bd/creatures4.jpg New Arrivals - All Creatures Great and Small (Season 4) - Produced to mark the 50th publication anniversary of James Herriot's warm autobiographical novels, this '30s-set "Masterpiece" series offering casts Nicholas Ralph as newly graduated veterinary surgeon Herriot, as he joins the rural Yorkshire Dales practice of eccentric Siegfried Farnon (Samuel West) and his waggish younger brother Tristan (Callum Woodhouse). Anna Madeley, Rachel Shenton, Matthew Lewis also star.6 episodes on 2 discs. 5 1/4 hrs. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-atlas-maneuver monthly 0.5 2024-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d8786868-a96f-4c64-b650-006d05065642/atlas.jpg New Arrivals - The Atlas Maneuver - by Steve Berry 1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in boobytrapped underground caches all across the Philippines. By 1947 some of that loot was recovered, not by treasure hunters, but by the United States government, which told no one about the find. Instead, those assets were stamped classified, shipped to Europe, and secretly assimilated into something called the Black Eagle Trust. Present day. Retired Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is in Switzerland doing a favor for a friend. But what was supposed to be a simple operation turns violent and Cotton is thrust into a war between the world’s oldest bank and the CIA, a battle that directly involves the Black Eagle Trust. He quickly discovers that everything hinges on a woman from his past, who suddenly reappears harboring a host of explosive secrets centering around bitcoin. The cryptocurrency is being quietly weaponized, readied for an assault on the world’s financial systems, a calculated move that will have devastating consequences. Cotton has no choice. He has to act. But at what cost? From the stolid banking halls of Luxembourg, to the secret vaults of Switzerland, and finally up into the treacherous mountains of southern Morocco, Cotton Malone is stymied at every turn. Each move he makes seems wrong, and nothing works, until he finally comes face-to-face with the Atlas Maneuver. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-great-cookie-kerfuffle monthly 0.5 2024-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b33c5da1-a802-4ba0-a821-3ee1116e6569/kerfuffle.jpg New Arrivals - The Great Cookie Kerfuffle - by Jessica Shaw A friendly little farm breaks into chaos as increasing numbers of farm animals fight over a dropped cookie, until there's trouble overhead! United against a common enemy, the animals learn that friendship and taking care of each other is more important than winning a fight. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/mr-whiskers-and-the-shenanigan-sisters monthly 0.5 2024-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/44e4aca8-9552-4822-8626-c433eba0d54e/mrwhiskers.jpg New Arrivals - Mr. Whiskers and the Shenanigan Sisters - by Wendalin Van Draanen Mr. Whiskers is a street-wise stray dog with a nose for trouble and a fondness for two girls he calls the Shenanigan Sisters. So when Misty and Zelda’s professor father is kidnapped, Mr. Whiskers follows that car, picking up vital clues. Then the two intrepid girls and one great dog follow the trail through the streets of San Francisco, discovering hidden passageways, buried secrets, and even pirate treasure. But will they be able to rescue Dad? You bet your best biscuit, they will! Wendelin Van Draanen's new mystery is the ulti-mutt kid-pleasing caper. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/good-dog-herd-you-loud-and-clear-3 monthly 0.5 2024-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5cb97705-8b5f-4f0e-a892-9b807f67343d/herd+you.jpg New Arrivals - Good Dog: Herd You Loud and Clear (3) - by Cam Higgins Loveable puppy Bo Davis has his work cut out for him when he has to herd the farm’s sheep by himself! With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Good Dog chapter books are perfect for beginning readers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-road-from-belhaven monthly 0.5 2024-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/97769060-809f-4516-900f-afd4e2dca006/belhaven.jpg New Arrivals - The Road from Belhaven - by Margot Livesey Growing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven Farm, Lizzie Craig discovers as a small child that she can see into the future. But her gift is selective—she doesn’t, for instance, see that she has an older sister who will come to join the family. As her “pictures” foretell various incidents and accidents, she begins to realize a painful truth: she may glimpse the future, but she can seldom change it. Nor can Lizzie change the feelings that come when a young man named Louis, visiting Belhaven for the harvest, begins to court her. Why have the adults around her not revealed that the touch of a hand can change everything? After following Louis to Glasgow, though, she learns the limits of his devotion. Faced with a seemingly impossible choice, she makes a terrible mistake. But her second sight may allow her a second chance. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/bear-finds-eggs monthly 0.5 2024-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/158c316d-9d59-4c6c-81a7-e2639f4a9e15/bearfindseggs.jpg New Arrivals - Bear Finds Eggs - by Karma Wilson Mama Meadowlark can’t find her eggs! Bear and his friends pitch in to help and search high and low. Each time they find an egg, they paint it with bright colors so they don’t lose it again and add it to Hare’s handy basket. Will they be able to return all the eggs to their mother? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/wonka monthly 0.5 2024-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8512a03c-4afa-4a6b-b169-665c81facf3c/wonka.jpg New Arrivals - Wonka - Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the jewel in the Roald Dahl crown and one of the best‐selling children’s books of all time, “Wonka” tells the wondrous story of how the world’s greatest inventor, magician and chocolate‐maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today. This irresistibly vivid and inventive big screen spectacle will introduce audiences to a young Willy Wonka, chock‐full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time—proving that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you’re lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything is possible. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/hero monthly 0.5 2024-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6ccde497-600f-4e79-b878-4d710025d01f/hero.jpg New Arrivals - Hero - by Thomas Perry Justine Poole provides security for wealthy and high-profile Hollywood stars, but that all changes when a job puts her in the limelight. When she prevents a brazen robbery at the Beverly Hills home of two of her clients—killing two of the five armed robbers in the process—she is initially lauded in the media as a local hero. But the spotlight soon puts her in the crosshairs of the crime kingpin behind the burglaries. Unable to stand the embarrassment of his lackeys having been defeated by a lone woman, Mr. Conger puts in a call to the one man who can make his problems disappear. Known for his swiftness and subtlety, Leo Sealy will kill anyone for a price. All he needs is a name and a face, any starting point to pick up his victim’s trail. Luckily for him, the local news is as eager as he is for any information about the heroic bodyguard—and quick to broadcast their findings, regardless of what it might mean for her safety. But Sealy isn’t prepared for just how quick and resourceful Justine can be... https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-hunter monthly 0.5 2024-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/58d45695-c91f-45f7-954e-3751091eaa2c/hunter.jpg New Arrivals - The Hunter - by Tana French It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He’s found it, more or less: he’s built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he’s gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places. But then Trey’s long-absent father reappears, bringing along an English millionaire and a scheme to find gold in the townland, and suddenly everything the three of them have been building is under threat. Cal and Lena are both ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey, but Trey doesn’t want protecting. What she wants is revenge. From the writer who is “in a class by herself,” (The New York Times), a nuanced, atmospheric tale that explores what we’ll do for our loved ones, what we’ll do for revenge, and what we sacrifice when the two collide. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/leaving monthly 0.5 2024-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b5dc8590-42da-4c51-b3c4-7da33122379d/leaving.jpg New Arrivals - Leaving - by Roxana Robinson “I never thought I’d see you here,” Sarah says. Then she adds, “But I never thought I’d see you anywhere.” Sarah and Warren’s college love story ended in a single moment. Decades later, when a chance meeting brings them together, a passion ignites?threatening the foundations of their lives. Since they parted in college, each has married, raised a family, and made a career. When they meet again, Sarah is divorced and living outside New York, while Warren is still married and living in Boston. Seeing Warren sparks an awakening in Sarah, who feels emotionally alive for the first time in decades. Still, she hesitates to reclaim a chance at love after her painful divorce and years of framing her life around her children and her work. Warren has no such reservations: he wants to leave his marriage but fears how his wife and daughter will react. As their affair intensifies, Sarah and Warren must confront the moral responsibilities of their love for their families and each other. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/mrs-quinns-rise-to-fame monthly 0.5 2024-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0e38b853-94af-441f-b19b-14c0eac7cbd3/mrsquinn.jpg New Arrivals - Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame - by Olivia Ford Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard’s health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren—which Jenny never had—Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show Britain Bakes. Whisked into an unfamiliar world of cameras and timed challenges, Jenny delights in a new-found independence. But that independence, and the stress of the competition, starts to unearth memories buried decades ago. Chocolate teacakes remind her of a furtive errand involving a wedding ring; sugared doughnuts call up a stranger’s kind act; a simple cottage loaf brings back the moment her life changed forever. With her baking star rising, Jenny struggles to keep a lid on that first secret—a long-concealed deceit that threatens to shatter the very foundations of her marriage. It’s the only time in six decades that she’s kept something from Bernard. By putting herself in the limelight, has Jenny created a recipe for disaster? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/blood-money-lyshl monthly 0.5 2024-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/764c3a5f-2dcc-45bd-becf-b99d779f9d7c/goodlife.jpg New Arrivals - A Good Life - by Pope Francis Life can be hard, but no matter what challenges you are facing, Pope Francis wants you to know you were created by God for this moment. There is always a way to find joy and to celebrate the wonder of the life we have been given. In this brand-new book, Pope Francis offers fifteen mindsets that allow readers to find hope and meaning in every circumstance. He encourages us to defend and protect the light that shines in us, to believe in the beautiful, to find meaning in the struggles, to work for peace, and to build something wherever we are. He also reminds us of the importance of gratitude, warns Christians against complacency, and encourages real, face-to-face connection over conversations merely on screens. He points us toward the light, and also opens up with powerful vulnerability about times he has faced the darkness himself, calling us all to meaningful prayer. None of us knows how many days are left before us. The wisdom in this heartfelt collection will encourage, inspire, equip, and ultimately help you to live a beautiful and meaningful life. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/after-annie monthly 0.5 2024-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/bda366d0-4687-4d46-8ed6-e082d8b49b14/afterannie.jpg New Arrivals - After Annie - by Anna Quindlen When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her children, and her closest friend are left to find a way forward without the woman who has been the lynchpin of all their lives. Bill is overwhelmed without his beloved wife, and Annemarie wrestles with the bad habits her best friend had helped her overcome. And Ali, the eldest of Annie’s children, has to grow up overnight, to care for her younger brothers and even her father and to puzzle out for herself many of the mysteries of adult life. Over the course of the next year what saves them all is Annie, ever-present in their minds, loving but not sentimental, caring but nobody’s fool, a voice in their heads that is funny and sharp and remarkably clear. The power she has given to those who loved her is the power to go on without her. The lesson they learn is that no one beloved is ever truly gone. Written in Quindlen’s emotionally resonant voice and with her deep and generous understanding of people, After Annie is about hope, and about the unexpected power of adversity to change us in profound and indelible ways. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/blood-money monthly 0.5 2024-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/32887f67-3829-4831-9581-154e32427103/bloodmoney.jpg New Arrivals - Blood Money - by Peter Schweizer China is killing Americans and working aggres­sively to maximize the carnage while our leaders remain passive and, in some cases, compliant. Why? If anyone could crack the code, it’s the renowned nonpartisan investigator Peter Schweizer. Schweizer’s previous three number one New York Times bestsellers sent shock waves through official Wash­ington, sparking FBI investigations and congres­sional probes that continue to this day. For Blood Money, Schweizer and his team of forensic investigators spent more than two years scouring a trove of restricted Chinese military documents, data-mining a mountain of American financial records, and tracking US political lead­ers’ investments and family businesses. Schweizer unloads bombshell after bombshell, exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s covert operations in the American drug trade, social justice movement, and medical establishment to sow chaos and deca­dence in the United States. A towering achievement of investigative jour­nalism, Blood Money is one of those rare books that makes you clearly see the world anew. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/art-of-penobscot-bay monthly 0.5 2024-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/fb8cf9fc-a619-430f-be79-fba3f3378e60/artpenbay.jpg New Arrivals - Art of Penobscot Bay - by Carl Little and David Little Glorious Penobscot Bay, on the coast of Maine, with its quaint mainland towns, bustling tourist centers, and island fishing villages, stands as the backdrop of daydreams. The bay’s sheer beauty has attracted generation after generation of artists to its shores. For Art of Penobscot Bay, brothers David and Carl Little, well-known stewards of Maine art, have selected art and artists, from history and today, that celebrate the myriad of inlets, islands, coves, and peninsulas―the “nooks and corners” of the region. Above all, they sought out art infused with a remarkable representation of place by more than 120 artists who have embraced the area and its people. Art of Penobscot Bay includes artists from the 19th century through the 21st century, including Fitz Henry Lane, Waldo Peirce, Edward Hopper, William Zorach, John Marin, Emily Muir, Greta Van Campen, Alex Katz, Eric Hopkins, and Amy Peters Wood. Combined with text by the Little brothers, the art takes readers on a wondrous visual journey around, across, and through a breathtaking bay. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/eclipse monthly 0.5 2024-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/017ec077-f80b-4ba8-acb5-5c79ca8414b4/eclipse.jpg New Arrivals - Eclipse: Experience Awe in the Path of Totality - by Bryan Brewer The new fourth edition of ECLIPSE gives you all the information you need to get the most out of this "once-in-a-lifetime" event. Bryan Brewer’s enduring classic is now updated with maps and details for the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse crossing the U.S. from Texas to Maine. This critically acclaimed book takes you on a grand, full-color pictorial tour of the history and science of eclipses: Discover how these rare and dramatic celestial events have influenced culture throughout the ages, from Stonehenge and ancient Egypt to Shakespeare and Mark Twain. Follow the sagas of scientists who travel the globe to glimpse precious minutes of totality to study our solar system. Learn the simple secrets of how eclipses occur, and why they continue to rivet the human imagination. Get complete observation guidelines, with tips on selecting a location and knowing what to look for. This generously illustrated book—which includes the Foreword to the First Edition by Frank Herbert, author of Dune—provides the foundation for an amazing experience of total awe on the day of the eclipse. Over the centuries, observers have described the delicate solar corona, visible only during a total solar eclipse, as a sublime and otherworldly sight. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/past-lives monthly 0.5 2024-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b1aebe6b-7b05-4b8c-a99c-c9082d729568/pastlives.jpg New Arrivals - Past Lives - Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/migration monthly 0.5 2024-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/761d477e-1a3b-4b12-bfb4-26ca8a0d1c12/migration.jpg New Arrivals - Migration - From the creators of Despicable Me comes an adventure-filled new comedy about overcoming your fears and opening yourself up to the world and its opportunities, filled with Illumination's signature subversive humor, authentic heart and unforgettable characters. The Mallard family embarks on a journey south for the winter to Jamaica via New York City, only for their well-laid plans to go awry, leading to new friends and unknown horizons. Get ready to take flight with a hilariously funny, feathered family vacation like no other! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-teacher monthly 0.5 2024-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5ff0d218-f53d-4a05-9aca-97e3d144971c/teacher.jpg New Arrivals - The Teacher - by Freida McFadden Lesson #1: trust no one Eve has a good life. She gets up each day, gets a kiss from her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except… Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher affair, with one student, Addie, at its center. But Eve knows there is far more to these ugly rumors than meets the eye. Addie can't be trusted. She lies. She hurts people. She destroys lives. At least, that's what everyone says. But nobody knows the real Addie. Nobody knows the secrets that could destroy her. And Addie will do anything to keep it quiet. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/drunk-ish monthly 0.5 2024-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b839f21f-770b-4698-a00c-031529abd600/drunkish.jpg New Arrivals - Drunk-ish - by Stephanie Wilder-Taylor When Stefanie Wilder-Taylor became a mother, being able to connect with other moms over drinks or enjoy a glass of wine at the end of a stressful day felt life-affirming. From liquor cabinet concoctions in high school to tequila shots in her early stand-up comedy days to grocery store wine in young motherhood, alcohol was the seasoning that could give almost any activity more flavor. A drink instantly took the edge off and made even the most difficult adversary (be it a tough crowd in a comedy club or a judgmental PTA mom) not just bearable but fun. As the years go by, Stefanie wonders if her relationship with alcohol is different from other people’s. Is everyone else struggling this hard to moderate? Is it even legal to watch The Bachelor without a glass of white wine? Having spent a lifetime grappling with the question of whether or not she is a “real” alcoholic, one evening brings Stefanie close to the edge of losing it all. Miraculously unscathed, she decides that she doesn’t need to dive all the way down to a stereotypical rock bottom before deciding to stop drinking; if sobriety will improve her life, that’s a good enough reason to quit. Stefanie’s memoir is a tender and funny farewell letter to a beloved but toxic friend. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/sugarless monthly 0.5 2024-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/809ce73d-42ee-4f16-b687-3bffdbf25aa9/sugarless.jpg New Arrivals - Sugarless - by Nicole M. Avena, PhD Backed by over 100 studies, Dr. Avena reveals how processed foods with refined sugars can be even more addictive than illicit drugs. She dispels myths blaming lack of willpower, and proves biologically how sugar affects the brain. With a foreword by Dr. Daniel Amen and 30 sugar-free recipes, this book provides the perfect blueprint for your sugar detox. Hailed as the first to study sugar addiction, Dr. Avena is the world's foremost authority on the topic. Her blend of compelling research and actionable solutions makes embarking on your own sugar detox for beginners straightforward. Simply follow her advice to feel more in control, stop craving sugar, and start feeling healthier. Key Features: Science-backed 7-step program to reduce sugar consumption 30 delicious sugar-free recipes Foreword by Dr. Daniel Amen, 12-time New York Times bestselling author and integrative psychiatrist Surprising sources of hidden sugars revealed Tools to resist sweet cravings and manage sugar withdrawal Practical plan to break the cycle for good https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-5-principles-of-parenting monthly 0.5 2024-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4d2be5f8-665d-4000-bb9b-c4f9b5ac9086/parenting5.jpg New Arrivals - The 5 Principles of Parenting - by Dr. Aliza Pressman In the age of high-pressure parenting, when so many of us we feel like we’ve got to get everything exactly right the first time, Dr. Aliza Pressman is the compassionate, reassuring expert we all need—and the one whose advice we can all use. Already beloved by listeners of hit podcast, Raising Good Humans, Dr. Pressman distills it all with a handful of strategies every parent can use to get things right often enough: Relationship, Reflection, Regulation, Rules, and Repair. The 5 Principles of Parenting doesn’t presume to tell you how to parent with “my way is right” advice because the science is clear: There’s no one “right” way to raise good humans. No matter how you were raised, how your coparent behaves, or how your kids have been parented up until now, you can start using The 5 Principles of Parenting to chart a manageable course for raising good humans that’s aligned with your own values and with your children’s unique temperaments. Whether you're in the trenches with a toddler or a tween (because spoiler alert: the tantrums of childhood mirror of the tantrums of adolescence), it’s never too late to learn to use these 5 principles to reparent yourself and help your kids build the resilience they need to thrive. Through practice and normalizing imperfection, along the way you’ll discover the person you’re ultimately raising is yourself. By becoming more intentional people, we become better parents. By becoming better parents, we become better people. Let’s get started. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/beyond-paradise-season1 monthly 0.5 2024-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/75e830f2-0b04-4333-ad4e-aa1f6617f622/paradise.jpg New Arrivals - Beyond Paradise (Season One) - This spin-off from Death in Paradise follows DI Humphrey Goodman and his fiancée, Martha, as they leave London to start a new life on the Devon coast. Humphrey takes up the vacant position of Detective Inspector at Shipton Abbott police station, a slightly antiquated outpost of the Devon & Cornwall Police district. Meanwhile, Martha's keen to open up her own café. Both are hoping for a quiet lifestyle away from the stress and violence of the city. But it doesn't take long for the couple to realise that countryside life is not going to be so quiet after all. For one thing - there's the surprisingly high crime rate to contend with... https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-year-of-the-locust monthly 0.5 2024-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/12928729-4768-424d-a7b2-804266c3ec29/locust.jpg New Arrivals - The Year of the Locust - by Terry Hayes If, like Kane, you’re a Denied Access Area spy for the CIA, then boundaries have no meaning. Your function is to go in, do whatever is required, and get out again—by whatever means necessary. You know when to run, when to hide—and when to shoot. But some places don’t play by the rules. Some places are too dangerous, even for a man of Kane’s experience. The badlands where the borders of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan meet are such a place—a place where violence is the only way to survive. Kane travels there to exfiltrate a man with vital information for the safety of the West—but instead he meets an adversary who will take the world to the brink of extinction. A frightening, clever, vicious man with blood on his hands and vengeance in his heart... https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-women monthly 0.5 2024-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/100d8fda-87d8-4f4e-804f-f34d46e164d7/women.jpg New Arrivals - The Women - by Kristin Hannah Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. Each day is a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant. In war, she meets―and becomes one of―the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost. But war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam. The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm’s way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten. A novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism, The Women is a richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-disappearance-of-astrid-bricard monthly 0.5 2024-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/74b7c5fd-db1a-4cc0-8c3b-e5ac0682b5ad/astrid.jpg New Arrivals - The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard - by Natasha Lester Everyone remembers her daringly short, silver lamé dress. It was an iconic photo capturing an electric moment, where emerging American designer Astrid Bricard is young, uninhibited, and on the cusp of fashion and feminism’s changing landscape. She and fellow designer Hawk Jones are all over Vogue magazine and New York City's disco scene. Yet she can't escape the shadow of her mother, Mizza Bricard, infamous "muse" for Christian Dior. Astrid would give anything to take her place among the great houses of couture--on her own terms. I won’t inspire it when I can create it. But then Astrid disappeared… Now Astrid's daughter, Blythe, holds what remains of her mother and grandmother's legacies. Of all the Bricard women, she can gather the torn, painfully beautiful fabrics of three generations of heartbreak to create something that will shake the foundations of fashion. The only piece missing is the one question no one's been able to answer: What really happened to Astrid? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/harbor-lights monthly 0.5 2024-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4917fa79-6e96-4acb-ba23-6ab5c07b9253/harborlights.jpg New Arrivals - Harbor Lights - by James Lee Burke Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker as evil forces in the disguise of federal agents try to ruin their family. A girl is beaten up outside a bar as her university-professor father navigates new love and threats from a group of neo-Nazis. A pair of undercover union organizers are hired to break colts for a Hollywood actor, whose “Western hero” façade hides darkness. An oil rig worker witnesses a horrific attack on a local village while on a job in South America and seeks justice through one final act of bravery. With his nuanced characters, lyrical prose, and ability to write shocking violence in the most evocative settings, James Lee Burke’s singular skills are on display in this superb anthology. Harbor Lights unfolds in stories that crackle and reverberate as unexpected heroes emerge. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/deep-freeze monthly 0.5 2024-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7d215a6e-286f-42c1-9a67-85d893914e4f/deepfreeze.jpg New Arrivals - Deep Freeze - by Michael C. Grumley The accident came quickly. With no warning. In the dead of night, a precipitous plunge into a freezing river trapped everyone inside the bus. It was then that Army veteran John Reiff’s life came to an end. Extinguished in the sudden rush of frigid water. There was no expectation of survival. None. Let alone waking up beneath blinding hospital lights. Struggling to move, or see, or even breathe. But the doctors assure him that everything is normal. That things will improve. And yet, he has a strange feeling that there's something they're not telling him. As Reiff's mind and body gradually recover, he becomes certain that the doctors are lying to him. One-by-one, puzzle pieces are slowly falling into place, and he soon realizes that things are not at all what they seem. Critical information is being kept from him. Secrets. Supposedly for his own good. But who is doing this? Why? And the most important question: can he keep himself alive long enough to uncover the truth? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/last-night monthly 0.5 2024-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a676a235-0a57-4136-b05a-a04c8c737b5f/lastnight.jpg New Arrivals - Last Night - by Luanne Rice A fierce blizzard is burying the eastern seaboard, but on the icy Rhode Island shore renowned artist Maddie Morrison finds warm sanctuary from a contentious divorce at the legendary Ocean House. Hours later, her body is found buried under a blanket of snow and her little daughter, CeCe, has disappeared without a trace. For Detective Conor Reid; his brother, Tom, a coast guard commander; and Maddie’s grieving sister, Hadley, the posh hotel becomes ground zero for an investigation. Trapped by the blizzard, they must hunker down and determine who in the young mother’s life could have possibly wanted her dead. There are stories of a twisted romantic past. Of old jealousies and resentments that still cut to the bone. And a history of greed, rage, and revenge that created the perfect storm for murder. A storm that has just begun. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/wheres-peppas-magical-unicorn monthly 0.5 2024-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f9c9e7cf-5a5f-4dbf-ae60-8762e9a1408e/peppaunicorn.jpg New Arrivals - Where’s Peppa’s Magical Unicorn? - by Peppa Pig Peppa wants to play with her magical unicorn but she can't find her anywhere! Is she hiding at the castle, the beach, or the end of the rainbow? Join Peppa and Daddy Pig's adventure and lift the flaps to find out! With a very glittery cover, it's the perfect gift for little readers and unicorn fans. Peppa loves her magical unicorn. Everyone loves Peppa's magical unicorn! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/love-from-bluey monthly 0.5 2024-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7767ce9d-d4ef-4596-9482-5d7350096428/lovebluey.jpg New Arrivals - Love From Bluey - by Suzy Brumm It's bedtime! Read a bedtime story with Mum and Bingo about all the ways you can love while Dad tries to get Bluey ready for bed. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-blind monthly 0.5 2024-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/421bbaa0-512b-448e-b70d-83ca752b95fc/blind.jpg New Arrivals - The Blind - Set in the 1960s South and shot on location in Louisiana, THE BLIND shares never-before-revealed aspects of Phil Robertson’s (Duck Dynasty) life as he seeks to conquer the shame of his past, addiction and complicated family dynamics, ultimately finding redemption in an unlikely place. “It was important to us that the film be real,” said Willie Robertson, Phil’s son. “The transformation of Phil proves that anyone can change and that there is always hope.” https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-made-from-scratch-life monthly 0.5 2024-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0212ee1b-607a-440c-8e0e-d379d5d542fd/madefromscratch.jpg New Arrivals - The Made-From-Scratch Life - by Melissa K. Norris Are you concerned about the rising costs of feeding your family, where your food comes from, or what’s in the cleaning products you use every day? Melissa K. Norris, host of the popular Pioneering Today podcast, wants to help you embrace a simpler, more natural lifestyle. In The Made-from-Scratch Life, Melissa shares easy-to-follow instructions (and plenty of inspiration) on how to… grow and preserve your own food build a well-stocked pantry cook hearty meals featuring homegrown ingredients create safe and effective cleaning products raise animals for healthier and more sustainable sources of meat and dairy Filled with helpful charts, checklists, and recipes, this guide gives you the know-how you need to incorporate time-tested homesteading practices into your everyday life. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-part-one monthly 0.5 2024-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d11746c3-5d02-4731-bc71-58ae19ab2424/mideadreckoning.jpg New Arrivals - Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One - Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With the fate of the world at stake, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission - not even the lives of those he cares about most. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-chelsea-detective-series2 monthly 0.5 2024-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/47d7df6c-f833-4422-b408-95c4b7267001/chelseadetective.jpg New Arrivals - The Chelsea Detective (Series 2) - A houseboat on the banks of the Thames may seem like an unlikely dwelling for a shrewd murder detective, but this is where DI Max Arnold likes to call home. Chelsea might be London’s wealthiest borough, with its opulent mansions and fast cars for the mega-rich, but it’s also a place of contradictions with sky-high tower blocks and a dark underbelly. A Chelsea local through-and-through, Max knows these streets better than anyone and it’s the murkier side of this borough with which Max is all too familiar. A place where people lie, cheat, steal – and commit murder. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-holdovers monthly 0.5 2024-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1eecaf2e-910c-4639-a2cd-a98b9e9b90e2/holdovers.jpg New Arrivals - The Holdovers - From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them—a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa)—and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da'Vine Joy Randolph). https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-housemaid monthly 0.5 2024-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/77cad26d-7e91-494f-859e-24bec16a403a/housemaid.jpg New Arrivals - The Housemaid - by Freida Mcfadden “Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own… Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband. I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late. But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am. They don’t know what I’m capable of… https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/remarkably-bright-creatures monthly 0.5 2024-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/65e220e2-4cb8-4bc0-ac05-fad5a4af8729/remarkably.jpg New Arrivals - Remarkably Bright Creatures - by Shelby Van Pelt After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors—until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova. Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it’s too late. Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/weird monthly 0.5 2024-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/975c899e-43ac-467e-ba89-0e642db2f33e/weird.jpg New Arrivals - Weird - Daniel Radcliffe is "Weird" Al Yankovic in the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician of our time. From a conventional upbringing where playing the accordion was a sin, Al rebelled and made his dream of changing the words to world-renowned songs come true. An instant success and sex symbol, Al lives an excessive lifestyle and pursues an infamous romance that nearly destroys him. With Evan Rachel Wood, Rainn Wilson, and an A-list cast of thousands their agents won't let us reveal. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-waters monthly 0.5 2024-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c4a0d91c-4a5e-4661-8004-f22e0a9904d3/waters.jpg New Arrivals - The Waters - by Bonnie Jo Campbell On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp―an area known as “The Waters” to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan―herbalist and eccentric Hermine “Herself” Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart, and even in her own three estranged daughters. The youngest―the beautiful, inscrutable, and lazy Rose Thorn―has left her own daughter, eleven-year-old Dorothy “Donkey” Zook, to grow up wild. Donkey spends her days searching for truths in the lush landscape and in her math books, waiting for her wayward mother and longing for a father, unaware that family secrets, passionate love, and violent men will flood through the swamp and upend her idyllic childhood. Rage simmers below the surface of this divided community, and those on both sides of the divide have closed their doors against the enemy. The only bridge across the waters is Rose Thorn. With a “ruthless and precise eye for the details of the physical world” (Jane Smiley, New York Times Book Review), Bonnie Jo Campbell presents an elegant antidote to the dark side of masculinity, celebrating the resilience of nature and the brutality and sweetness of rural life. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-fury monthly 0.5 2024-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b36e9218-ea4a-4d6e-b45d-f76edd335051/the+fury.jpg New Arrivals - The Fury - by Alex Michaelides This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that’s not quite true. At its heart, it’s a love story, isn’t it? Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex–movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to escape the English weather and spend Easter on her idyllic private Greek island. I tell you this because you may think you know this story. You probably read about it at the time ― it caused a real stir in the tabloids, if you remember. It had all the necessary ingredients for a press sensation: a celebrity; a private island cut off by the wind…and a murder. We found ourselves trapped there overnight. Our old friendships concealed hatred and a desire for revenge. What followed was a game of cat and mouse ― a battle of wits, full of twists and turns, building to an unforgettable climax. The night ended in violence and death, as one of us was found murdered. But who am I? My name is Elliot Chase, and I’m going to tell you a story unlike any you’ve ever heard. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-frozen-river monthly 0.5 2024-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8f4596c0-dc4e-459a-bbe4-41b82002e399/frozenriver.jpg New Arrivals - The Frozen River - by Ariel Lawhorn Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town’s most respected gentlemen—one of whom has now been found dead in the ice. But when a local physician undermines her conclusion, declaring the death to be an accident, Martha is forced to investigate the shocking murder on her own. Over the course of one winter, as the trial nears, and whispers and prejudices mount, Martha doggedly pursues the truth. Her diary soon lands at the center of the scandal, implicating those she loves, and compelling Martha to decide where her own loyalties lie. Clever, layered, and subversive, Ariel Lawhon’s newest offering introduces an unsung heroine who refused to accept anything less than justice at a time when women were considered best seen and not heard. The Frozen River is a thrilling, tense, and tender story about a remarkable woman who left an unparalleled legacy yet remains nearly forgotten to this day. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-night-island monthly 0.5 2024-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a1602847-e84e-4bbf-a5b2-88069065c738/nightisland.jpg New Arrivals - The Night Island - by Jayne Ann Krentz Talia March, Pallas Llewellyn, and Amelia Rivers, bonded by a night none of them can remember, are dedicated to uncovering the mystery of what really happened to them months ago—an experience that amplified innate psychic abilities in each of them. The women suspect they were test subjects years earlier, and that there are more people like them—all they have to do is find the list of others who took that same test. When Talia follows up on a lead from Phoebe, a fan of the trio’s podcast, she discovers that the informant has vanished. Talia isn’t the only one looking for Phoebe, however. Luke Rand, a hunted and haunted man who is chasing the same list that Talia is after, also shows up at the meeting place. It’s clear he has his own agenda, and they are instantly suspicious of each other. But when a killer begins to stalk them, they realize they have to join forces to find Phoebe and the list. The rocky investigation leads Talia and Luke to a rustic, remote retreat on Night Island in the Pacific Northwest, where the Unplugged Experience promises to rejuvenate guests. Upon their arrival, Talia and Luke discover they are quite literally cut off from the outside world when none of their high-tech devices work on the island. It soon becomes clear that Phoebe is not the first person to disappear into the strange gardens that surround the Unplugged Experience retreat. And then the first mysterious death occurs. . . . https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dont-trust-cats-life-lessons-from-chip-the-dog monthly 0.5 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/182afbce-7db1-4ec9-a38c-f037530f0be0/donttrustcats.jpg New Arrivals - Don’t Trust Cats (Life Lessons from Chip the Dog) - by Dev Petty Chip has been described as very smart and also a dog. And because he's a very good boy, he's going to share his tips on how to live your best life, namely: Don't trust cats. Not even the little, fluffy ones with big eyes. Nohow, no meow. Trust the squirrel you always chase, trust grandpa (sure, he cheats at cards but he always has treats), and trust that skunk (he seems nice. What could possibly go wrong?). Do NOT trust cats, especially not Mittens. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/hippos-remain-calm monthly 0.5 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/648fd0b4-2ac9-4a0c-acb4-81e452ffeb28/hipposremaincalm.jpg New Arrivals - Hippos Remain Calm - by Sandra Boynton Hippos have a reputation for wild parties that go on till dawn. People have even gone so far as to say that partying hippos “go berserk.” Nobody knows how these rumors got started. But even if it’s true (it is), it’s not the whole story. Given the deep appreciation that hippos have for water, it’s no wonder that your average hippopotamus seeks, finds, and offers a state of flow, no matter the situation. We have much to learn from their example. Accordingly, this helpful book follows two typical hippos as they calmly and mindfully go about their ordinary hippo day. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/rethinking-diabetes-htj5x monthly 0.5 2024-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d923c5df-b9d6-4aa2-b76b-4a35038a9c0a/healthyaging.jpg New Arrivals - Mayo Clinic on Healthy Aging - by Nathan K. LeBrasseur, Ph.D. and Christina Chen, M.D. Healthy aging isn’t simply a roll of the dice. How people age is a choice. Mayo Clinic on Healthy Aging discusses the biology of aging — why we age and how to slow the aging process. It delves into common health and lifestyle concerns and outlines steps that readers can take to enjoy longer and more purposeful lives. Researchers are finding that genes play a smaller role in overall health than most individuals realize. More often, the life people lead in their later years is a culmination of personal attitudes, decisions made, and actions taken beginning in young adulthood. The book covers a variety of topics including responding to personal risks, how to challenge the brain and body, healthy diet, physical activity, resiliency, retirement planning and living a fulfilling life. Readers also will find practical tips to keep their minds, bodies and spirits in top shape. Think of this book as an instruction manual that provides the tools needed to live life to its maximum — ensuring that the later years are some of the best years. The advice comes from a wide range of Mayo Clinic specialists, including staff of Mayo Clinic’s Kogod Center on Aging. Discoveries being made by scientists at the Kogod Center suggest that aging may be a modifiable risk factor — a process that can be controlled. The Center’s efforts are focused on the goal of increasing human “health span” — the number of years individuals spend living independently and remaining free of age-related diseases and disabilities. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/rethinking-diabetes monthly 0.5 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1689cdd0-5b72-4124-9467-96df2e14c08f/diabetes.jpg New Arrivals - Rethinking Diabetes - by Gary Taubes Before the discovery of insulin, diabetes was treated almost exclusively through diet, from subsistence on meat, to reliance on fats, to repeated fasting and near-starvation regimens. After two centuries of conflicting medical advice, most authorities today believe that those with diabetes can have the same dietary freedom enjoyed by the rest of us, leaving the job of controlling their disease to insulin therapy and other blood-sugar-lowering medications. Rather than embark on “futile” efforts to restrict sugar or carbohydrate intake, people with diabetes can lead a normal life, complete with the occasional ice-cream cake, side of fries, or soda. These guiding principles, however, have been accompanied by an explosive rise in diabetes over the last fifty years, particularly among underserved populations. And the health of those with diabetes is expected to continue to deteriorate inexorably over time, with ever-increasing financial, physical, and psychological burdens. In Rethinking Diabetes, Gary Taubes explores the history underpinning the treatment of diabetes, types 1 and 2, elucidating how decades-old research that is rife with misconceptions has continued to influence the guidance physicians offer—at the expense of their patients’ long-term well-being. The result of Taubes’s work is a reimagining of diabetes care that argues for a recentering of diet—particularly, fewer carbohydrates and more fat—over a reliance on insulin. Taubes argues critically and passionately that doctors and medical researchers should question the established wisdom that may have enabled the current epidemic of diabetes and obesity, and renew their focus on clinical trials to resolve controversies that are now a century in the making. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/wings-of-fire-winter-turning monthly 0.5 2024-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/acac0a39-8124-4fd7-ae22-0a27d94d984a/winterturning.jpg New Arrivals - Wings of Fire: Winter Turning(7) - by Tui T. Sutherland Winter has been a disappointment to his royal IceWing family his whole life. When his sister, Icicle, runs away from Jade Mountain Academy, fleeing terrible crimes and possibly planning to commit more, Winter knows that they both need a second chance to make things right -- if only he can find her. Winter's new clawmates, Moon, Qibli, and Kinkajou, won't let him make this dangerous journey alone. They don't seem to understand that IceWings, the most superior of all dragon tribes, can fix their own problems. When their search leads the dragonets straight into Queen Scarlet's vicious talons, Winter is grateful to have some help. But even the bravest dragons can't follow him to the Ice Kingdom, where he'll have to face the greatest threat of all: his own family. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-horse-named-sky-3delc monthly 0.5 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/414cfe8c-ca49-4d4a-a550-a6ee21758b54/spelhorst.jpg New Arrivals - The Puppets of Spelhorst - by Kate DiCamillo Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends—a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl—bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose and glory, but they all agree they are part of a larger story, bound each to each by chance, bonded by the heart’s mysteries. When at last their shared fate arrives, landing them on a mantel in a blue room in the home of two little girls, the truth is more astonishing than any of them could have imagined. A beloved author of modern classics draws on her most moving themes with humor, heart, and wisdom in the first of the Norendy Tales, a projected trio of novellas linked by place and mood, each illustrated in black and white by a different virtuoso illustrator. A magical and beautifully packaged gift volume designed to be read aloud and shared, The Puppets of Spelhorst is a tale that soothes and strengthens us on our journey, leading us through whatever dark forest we find ourselves in. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/welcome-home-stranger monthly 0.5 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ed245a19-1251-4385-aeb6-285f5be09bd8/welcomehome.jpg New Arrivals - Welcome Home, Stranger - by Kate Christensen An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years. Divorced and childless in her middle age, she’s a true independent spirit with the pain and experience to prove it. Coping with challenges large and small, she thinks her life is in free fall–until she’s summoned home to deal with the aftermath of her mother’s death. Then things really fall apart. Surrounded by a cast of sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreakingly serious characters—an arriviste sister, an alcoholic brother-in-law and, most importantly, the love of her life recently married to the sister’s best friend–Rachel must come to terms with her past, the sorrow she has long buried, and the ghost of the mother who, for better and worse, made her the woman she is. Lively, witty, and painfully familiar, this sophisticated and emotionally resonant novel from the author of The Great Man holds a mirror up to modern life as it considers the way some of us must carry on now. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/mercury monthly 0.5 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/656d9777-8653-42a9-a8aa-5a3630209ef2/mercury.jpg New Arrivals - Mercury - by Amy Jo Burns It’s 1990 and seventeen-year-old Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A perpetual loner, she seeks a place at someone’s table and a family of her own. The first thing she sees when she arrives in town is three men standing on a rooftop. Their silhouettes blot out the sun. The Joseph brothers become Marley’s whole world before she can blink. Soon, she is young wife to one, The One Who Got Away to another, and adopted mother to them all. As their own mother fades away and their roofing business crumbles under the weight of their unwieldy father’s inflated ego, Marley steps in to shepherd these unruly men. Years later, an eerie discovery in the church attic causes old wounds to resurface and suddenly the family’s survival hangs in the balance. With Marley as their light, the Joseph brothers must decide whether they can save the family they’ve always known—or whether together they can build something stronger in its place. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-revolutionary-samuel-adams monthly 0.5 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1275225c-9ec7-458b-9c56-14f3061d69ed/adams.jpg New Arrivals - The Revolutionary Samuel Adams - by Stacy Schiff Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man.” With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest campaign of civil resistance in American history. Stacy Schiff returns Adams to his seat of glory, introducing us to the shrewd and eloquent man who supplied the moral backbone of the American Revolution. A singular figure at a singular moment, Adams amplified the Boston Massacre. He helped to mastermind the Boston Tea Party. He employed every tool available to rally a town, a colony, and eventually a band of colonies behind him, creating the cause that created a country. For his efforts he became the most wanted man in America: When Paul Revere rode to Lexington in 1775, it was to warn Samuel Adams that he was about to be arrested for treason. In The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams, Schiff brings her masterful skills to Adams’s improbable life, illuminating his transformation from aimless son of a well-off family to tireless, beguiling radical who mobilized the colonies. Arresting, original, and deliriously dramatic, this is a long-overdue chapter in the history of our nation. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-heiress monthly 0.5 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/76761c85-0b4d-44d8-91b5-ef891f654424/heiress.jpg New Arrivals - The Heiress - by Rachel Hawkins When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest woman, she’s also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family’s estate high in the Blue Ridge Mountains. But in the aftermath of her death, her adopted son, Camden, wants little to do with the house or the money—and even less to do with the surviving McTavishes. Instead, he rejects his inheritance, settling into a normal life as an English teacher in Colorado and marrying Jules, a woman just as eager to escape her own messy past. Ten years later, his uncle’s death pulls Cam and Jules back into the family fold at Ashby House. Its views are just as stunning as ever, its rooms just as elegant, but the legacy of Ruby is inescapable. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-little-liar monthly 0.5 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5d4820f2-212e-4c1b-894c-6819f39cc0bc/littleliar.jpg New Arrivals - The Little Liar - by Mitch Albom Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis has never told a lie. His schoolmate, Fannie, loves him because of it. Nico’s older brother Sebastian resents him for both these facts. When their young lives are torn apart during the war, it will take them decades to find each other again. Nico’s innocence and goodness is used against his tightly knit community when a German officer barters Nico’s reputation for honesty into a promise to save his loved ones. When Nico realizes the consequences of the betrayal, he can never tell the truth again. He will spend the rest of this life changing names, changing locations and identities, desperate to find a way to forgiveness—for himself and from the people he loves most. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/prophet-song monthly 0.5 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f5c0e333-77b1-4594-832e-541961eee65d/prophetsong.jpg New Arrivals - Prophet Song - by Paul Lynch On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new, unraveling country. How far will she go to save her family? And what—or who—is she willing to leave behind? The winner of the Booker Prize 2023, Prophet Song presents a terrifying and shocking vision of a country sliding into authoritarianism and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/first-lie-wins monthly 0.5 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6228b43b-bcfe-4b63-9211-6a472af8e1e9/firstlie.jpg New Arrivals - First Lie Wins - by Ashley Elston The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle is the job. Evie isn’t privy to Mr. Smith’s real identity, but she knows this job will be different. Ryan has gotten under her skin, and she’s starting to envision a different sort of life for herself. But Evie can’t make any mistakes--especially after what happened last time. Because the one thing she’s worked her entire life to keep clean, the one identity she could always go back to—her real identity—just walked right into this town. Evie Porter must stay one step ahead of her past while making sure there’s still a future in front of her. The stakes couldn't be higher--but then, Evie has always liked a challenge... https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/wild-and-distant-seas monthly 0.5 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1c3be131-e43a-4a6e-9b72-c7a8fcb583b1/wilddistant.jpg New Arrivals - Wild and Distant Seas - by Tara Karr Roberts Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island’s small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed―but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn, and her place on the island, by employing a curious gift to glimpse and re-form the recent memories of those who would cast her out. One night, an idealistic sailor appears on her doorstep asking her to call him Ishmael. He seeks only a warm bed and a bowl of chowder, and yet suddenly, unsettlingly, her careful illusion begins to fracture. He soon sails away with Ahab to hunt an infamous white whale, and Evangeline is left to forge a new life from the pieces that remain. Her choices ripple through generations, across continents, and into the depths of the sea, in a narrative that follows Evangeline and her descendants from mid-nineteenth century Nantucket to Boston, Brazil, Florence, and Idaho. Moving, beautifully written, and elegantly conceived, Wild and Distant Seas takes Moby-Dick as its starting point, but Tara Karr Roberts brings four remarkable women to life in a spellbinding epic all her own. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/from-a-far-and-lovely-country monthly 0.5 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d7d00722-5092-4847-875b-6669bf3ba227/farandlovely.jpg New Arrivals - From a Far and Lovely Country - by Alexander McCall Smith Mma Ramotswe and Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni are enjoying a nice meal out at a peri-peri restaurant when an American woman named Julia approaches seeking Mma Ramotswe’s help. Julia’s beloved late grandfather was Botswanan, and he instilled in her an abiding love of his homeland. Now, years after his passing, Julia has come to visit the land he had spoken of so often and to find her relatives. Unfortunately, her grandfather’s stories, while charming and entertaining, were somewhat light on detail; all Julia can remember are a few first names and some descriptions of his village. It’s not a lot to go on, but if anyone is well poised to help, it’s Mma Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier detective. Meanwhile, a second case leads Mma Ramotswe to look for assistance from an unexpected quarter. For the first time, Charlie leads his own investigation at the detective agency, going undercover into a dubious, word-of-mouth get-together known as the Cool Singles Evening Club, where married men are encouraged to pretend to be single and meet women under false pretenses. Who could be behind such a distasteful venture? Getting to the bottom of this will be a tall order, to be sure, but Charlie is eager for the opportunity. As Mma Ramotswe learns more about Julia, she begins to understand that Julia’s heartbreak runs deeper than she had initially realized. Together, Mma Ramotswe and Mma Potokwane must find a way to help their client heal and move forward—from both her past and her present. Julia had originally come to Botswana seeking family and connection, but in the warm embrace of Mma Ramotswe and Mma Potokwane, what she ends up finding is a home. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-storm-we-made monthly 0.5 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c826bacf-2e35-402c-af13-479117f77c62/stormwemade.jpg New Arrivals - The Storm We Made - by Vanessa Chan Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault; and that her family must never learn the truth. A decade prior, Cecily had been desperate to be more than a housewife to a low-level bureaucrat in British-colonized Malaya. A chance meeting with the charismatic General Fujiwara lured her into a life of espionage, pursuing dreams of an “Asia for Asians.” Instead, Cecily helped usher in an even more brutal occupation by the Japanese. Ten years later as the war reaches its apex, her actions have caught up with her. Now her family is on the brink of destruction—and she will do anything to save them. Spanning years of pain and triumph, told from the perspectives of four unforgettable characters, The Storm We Made is a dazzling saga about the horrors of war; the fraught relationships between the colonized and their oppressors, and the ambiguity of right and wrong when survival is at stake. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/iron-flame monthly 0.5 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0746c2c0-1245-43ae-9b5e-76a57ae4f96e/ironflame.jpg New Arrivals - Iron Flame - by Rebecca Yarros Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College—Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet’s already wondering how she’ll get through. It’s not just that it’s grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it’s designed to stretch the riders’ capacity for pain beyond endurance. It’s the new vice commandant, who’s made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is–unless she betrays the man she loves. Although Violet’s body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else’s, she still has her wits—and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules. But a determination to survive won’t be enough this year. Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College—and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end. The Empyrean series is best enjoyed in order. Reading Order: Book #1 Fourth Wing Book #2 Iron Flame https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/fourth-wing monthly 0.5 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/33ad9ab3-eee3-4c19-925f-328193126298/fourthwing.jpg New Arrivals - Fourth Wing - by Rebecca Yarros Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general―also known as her tough-as-talons mother―has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter―like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant. She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise. Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret. Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda―because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/i-love-my-sister-with-the-very-hungry-caterpillar monthly 0.5 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/71a29a6c-9019-47d9-861a-7525fe8bc6aa/lovesister.jpg New Arrivals - I Love My Sister (with The Very Hungry Caterpillar) - by Eric Carle Join The Very Hungry Caterpillar as he honors sisters everywhere! With cheerful illustrations and sweet sentiments, this heartfelt keepsake will show your sister just how much you care. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/i-love-my-brother-with-the-very-hungry-caterpillar monthly 0.5 2024-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/09bc0947-4726-42d2-a110-9732ecf8c426/lovebrother.jpg New Arrivals - I Love My Brother (with The Very Hungry Caterpillar) - by Eric Carle The Very Hungry Caterpillar knows there's nothing like the bond you share with a brother. This celebratory keepsake is the perfect way to show how much you appreciate him, so give the gift of love with sweet sentiments and Eric Carle's charming illustrations. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-stones-of-ailsa-craig monthly 0.5 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6727e584-f710-412e-a3bb-da956184f4bf/stones.jpg New Arrivals - The Stones of Ailsa Craig - by David S. Florig A widower at just fifty years old, one lost, lonely, and increasingly obsessed man seemingly finds salvation in the ancient Scottish sport of curling, until it unexpectedly takes him down a much different and darker path. A path through present-day Belfast, Maine; 1880s Scotland; and to the remote, volcanic island of Ailsa Craig, home to the finest curling stone granite in the world and former home to tens of thousands of marauding brown rats. A path that was revealed to him after seeing a single, 130-year-old black-and-white photograph of the beautiful Darcie Ross from Glasgow. What else could he do but embrace what surely must be his calling after seeing that picture and finally learning the truth? he Stones of Ailsa Craig is a work of historical fiction, toggling between present-day Belfast, Maine and 1880s Scotland, and is rich with detail about the Maine mid-coast, Scotland, and the sport of curling, which was born in Scotland. It is a deep look into one man's loss, loneliness, obsession, and vengeance. The Stones of Ailsa Craig should appeal to not only curlers, but to fans of historical fiction and mystery. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/baby-stegosaurus monthly 0.5 2024-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/dbde8200-bddd-47d8-8787-6cf9c6782c23/babysteg.jpg New Arrivals - Baby Stegosaurus - by Julie Abery Baby Stegosaurus travels with the herd, munching on plants. When a volcano erupts, the dinosaurs run, but Baby Stegosaurus can't keep up and is swept downriver. It'll take luck (and some help from Mama) to bring the little dino back to the herd.Written by former preschool teacher Julie Abery and infused with Gavin Scott's warm illustrations depicting the Jurassic era, this book in the Baby Dinosaurs board book series will delight babies and toddlers and demand to be read again and again. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/baby-t-rex monthly 0.5 2024-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7a741aca-dc12-44bf-80cd-88af1d8935e0/trex.jpg New Arrivals - Baby T. Rex - by Julie Abery Baby T. rex hatches and explores the prehistoric world. Of particular interest is another egg that has rolled from the T. rex nest and gotten stuck in a hole. It'll take luck (and some help from a turtle) for the little dinosaur to rescue their sibling. Written by former preschool teacher Julie Abery and infused with Gavin Scott's warm illustrations depicting the late Cretaceous era, this book in the Baby Dinosaurs board book series will delight babies and toddlers and demand to be read again and again. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/happy-st-patricks-day-from-the-crayons monthly 0.5 2024-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/00dc0eb8-40bf-40e9-8a9b-88c3e7d0b135/stpatrickcrayon.jpg New Arrivals - Happy St. Patricks Day From the Crayons - by Drew Daywalt St. Patrick's Day is almost here, and Green Crayon would like a break! (After all, he JUST had to carry a heavy load during Christmas...) His friends try to take over, but what's a leprechaun without green clothing? And a four-leaf clover can't be blue! And how in the world can the crayons make a rainbow without their good friend Green? A humorous, small hardcover St. Patrick's Day story from everyone's favorite school supplies. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/essential-iceland monthly 0.5 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9aade05f-e731-4309-84d1-9b12340f82a4/iceland.jpg New Arrivals - Fodor’s Essential Iceland - by Fodor’s Travel Whether you want to soak in the Blue Lagoon, party in Reykjavik, or hike a glacier, the local Fodor’s travel experts in Iceland are here to help! Fodor’s Essential Iceland guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/essential-norway monthly 0.5 2024-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/418f121b-36aa-493f-895c-e7ee7aaf6ec4/norway.jpg New Arrivals - Fodor’s Essential Norway - by Fodor’s Travel Whether you want to watch the Northern Lights, sample Nordic cuisine, or watch whales around the fjords, the local Fodor’s travel experts in Norway are here to help! Fodor’s Essential Norway guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/bald-eagles-bear-cubs-and-hermit-bill monthly 0.5 2024-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d426a67f-0587-4e86-8845-ce14d3d757d6/baldeagles.jpg New Arrivals - Bald Eagles, Bear Cubs and Hermit Bill - by Ron Joseph In Bald Eagles, Bear Cubs, and Hermits: Memoirs of a Wildlife Biologist, Ron shares his stories of growing up in rural Maine, working as a wildlife biologist, and meeting Mainers like retired dairy farmers Ruth and Martin French of Dover-Foxcroft, who repurposed their barn's empty cow stalls into a wildlife rehabilitation center. The couple specialized in rescuing orphaned bear cubs, providing solitary cubs with teddy bears as temporary surrogate litter mates while biologists scrambled to find sow bears willing to adopt the orphans. The book includes humorous stories, such as one about the time he had to count piles of deer dung on designated mile-long lines and encountered a woman who bluntly asked, “So you went to college for that?” Other stories border on the absurd, including one of an influential legislator who pressured Ron to spray concentrated wolf urine on 30 miles of Route 201 in a harebrained waste of taxpayer money to supposedly reduce moose-vehicle collisions. Many of the book's stories have previously been published in Down East, Maine Boats Homes and Harbors, Bangor Daily News, Moosehead Messenger, PenBay Pilot, and elsewhere. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/little-bird monthly 0.5 2024-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6a6cafd9-dd7a-4c54-aef5-41f33356c78a/littlebird.jpg New Arrivals - Little Bird - In the mid-'80s, affianced Montreal law student-and Indigenous adoptee-Esther Rosenblum (Darla Contois) was plagued by self-doubt and suppressed memories, stemming from being taken from her Saskatchewan reservation as a child and placed into the foster system pursuant to Canada's "Sixties Scoop." Her choice to jettison the life she grew up in and quest for her birth family drives this acclaimed miniseries; Lisa Edelstein, Ellyn Jade, Osawa Muskwa, Joshua Odjick also star. 6 hrs. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/what-happens-later monthly 0.5 2024-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/63fa0f0d-998c-4ab5-9f43-82d18f39060d/whathappens.jpg New Arrivals - What Happens Later - Ex lovers Bill (David Duchovny), an eternal pessimist, and Willa (Meg Ryan), a magical thinker, get snowed in at an airport. Indefinitely delayed, they begin to wonder if their reunion is a coincidence or something more enchanted. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-big-cheese monthly 0.5 2024-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/db457a50-f3ff-45ad-9bb0-1115717b34b2/bigcheese.jpg New Arrivals - The Big Cheese - by Jory John and Pete Oswald The Big Cheese is the best at everything, and brags about it, too. When the annual Cheese-cathlon comes around, the Big Cheese is prepared to win, as always. But what happens when the quiet new kid, Wedge Wedgeman, comes out on top? Is a slice of humility all the Big Cheese needs to discover that some things are better than being the best? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/mercy-watson-is-missing monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f6974d78-a2b2-4a43-a525-a674518eb145/mercywatson.jpg New Arrivals - Mercy Watson is Missing - by Kate DiCamillo When Mercy Watson the pig goes missing, all of Deckawoo Drive is in an uproar. The Watsons are inconsolable, and the local police, fire, and animal control departments are no help whatsoever. Bossy neighbor Eugenia Lincoln is not quite as sad as she might be, but thankfully her sister, Baby Lincoln, has the idea to hire a private investigator. Granted, Percival Smidgely, PI, may be more bumbler than gumshoe, but his pigeon, Polly, is there to point the way. Meanwhile, Frank and Stella Endicott and Stella’s friend Horace Broom are ready to do some investigating of their own. Will the clever neighborhood sleuths manage to follow the trail of hoofprints—and a certain overwhelmingly enticing scent—and recover their porcine wonder? With deftly paced narrative comedy, visual slapstick, abundant artwork in both black and white and full color, and warm affection for their cast of characters, Kate DiCamillo and Chris Van Dusen bring us a highly satisfying, extra-special series finale that rewards loyal fans—and invites new readers to explore the stories that came before. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dragon-kingdom-of-wrenly-legion-of-lava-9 monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7ea07d77-cf8e-4046-8d6c-0e7d556a24bd/legionoflava.jpg New Arrivals - Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly: Legion of Lava(9) - by Jordan Quinn Ruskin and his dragon friends find themselves heading in different directions. Cinder has left to find the truth about Villinelle, while the others are on the hunt for Valos, the evil wizard who is out to destroy all of dragonkind with beasts born from the fiery depths of Crestwood. Will Ruskin and his friends prevail? Or will the Legion of Lava scorch the Kingdom of Wrenly to the ground? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dragon-kingdom-of-wrenly-out-of-darkness-10 monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/bd492b51-0694-4a48-a233-25a401047495/outofdarkness.jpg New Arrivals - Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly: Out of Darkness (10) - by Jordan Quinn War is close, and the entire realm must choose a side. The Legion of Lava has stirred worry and fear among the regions of Wrenly—some even believe the Legion was created by the Dragons of Crestwood! Such are the evil ways of Valos, the villain who has wickedly turned neighbor against neighbor. Now Ruskin and his dragon friends must wage a war on two fronts: one on the battlefield and one for the very soul of Wrenly. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pete-the-cat-snow-daze monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5ea78e38-e097-4687-8ef4-03390a34dee8/snowdaze.jpg New Arrivals - Pete the Cat: Snow Daze - by James Dean In Pete the Cat: Snow Daze, school is canceled, and Pete cannot wait to play in the snow with all his friends. Imagine a day filled with snowball fights, hot chocolate, snowcats, and more. But when the next day and the day after that are all snow days, Pete comes to a sudden realization—it is possible to have too many snow days. Pete the Cat: Snow Daze is a My First I Can Read book, which means it’s perfect for shared reading with a child. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/kristys-great-idea-baby-sitters-club monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/889acd1b-5f03-4f5b-9950-660520669fb9/babysitters.jpg New Arrivals - The Baby-Sitters Club: Kristy’s Great Idea - by Raina Telgemeier A graphic novel adapted and illustrated by Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile! Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey are best friends and founding members of The Baby-sitters Club. Whatever comes up -- cranky toddlers, huge dogs, scary neighbors, prank calls -- you can count on them to save the day. Baby-sitting isn't always easy, and neither is dealing with strict parents, new families, fashion emergencies, and mysterious secrets. But no matter what, the BSC have what they need most: friendship. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-horse-named-sky monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/23d38a72-e19b-410c-adf1-0db2e55f6f28/horsesky.jpg New Arrivals - A Horse Named Sky - by Rosanne Parry Young colt Sky was born with the urge to run. Alongside his band, he moves across the range searching for fresh water and abundant grazing. But humans have begun to encroach on Sky’s homelands. With fewer resources to share, Sky knows that he must leave if his family is to survive. He hopes that one day, he’ll be strong and brave enough to return and challenge the stallion to lead the herd. Being a lone wild horse in a vast landscape is not easy, and things get even more dangerous when Sky is captured and forced to run for the Pony Express. Now, against all odds, Sky must find a way to escape and reunite with his family. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/north-woods monthly 0.5 2024-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/bd7ceacf-fc5e-4e3b-a3c6-ea6fbed8ab41/northwoods.jpg New Arrivals - North Woods - by Daniel Mason When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths an ancient mass grave—only to discover that the earth refuse to give up their secrets. A lovelorn painter, a sinister con man, a stalking panther, a lusty beetle: As the inhabitants confront the wonder and mystery around them, they begin to realize that the dark, raucous, beautiful past is very much alive. This magisterial and highly inventive novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason brims with love and madness, humor and hope. Following the cycles of history, nature, and even language, North Woods shows the myriad, magical ways in which we’re connected to our environment, to history, and to one another. It is not just an unforgettable novel about secrets and destinies, but a way of looking at the world that asks the timeless question: How do we live on, even after we’re gone? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/were-going-home monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/712d18ee-8a14-49a5-863e-649c7d464157/goinghome.jpg New Arrivals - We’re Going Home: A True Story of Life and Death - by CynthiaThayer They were an unlikely pair: a “fast and frantic” woman and a steady, “pickin' at it” man. And even though both had been raised in cities and knew nothing about farming, Bill and Cynthia Thayer moved to Maine, started an organic farm, and made it work for more than forty years. Then a mysterious disaster strikes and Bill is found lying in the road. In We're Going Home, Cynthia relates the aftermath of the accident, interspersed with recollections of her life with her beloved “Farmer Bill,” from their first meeting to their final goodbye―and her life beyond. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/paw-patrol-the-mighty-movie monthly 0.5 2024-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8c024dcf-a729-4fbb-a628-1205c7dd25af/mighty.jpg New Arrivals - Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie - When a magical meteor crash lands in Adventure City, it gives the PAW Patrol pups superpowers, transforming them into The MIGHTY PUPS! But they face their mightiest challenge yet when the pups' archrival Humdinger breaks out of jail and teams up with Victoria Vance, a mad scientist, to steal the superpowers for themselves. With the fate of Adventure City hanging in the balance, the Mighty Pups have to stop the supervillains before it's too late. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/unnatural-death monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4e685019-8989-4e21-9ee0-6ba0c81d4f97/unnaturaldeath.jpg New Arrivals - Unnatural Death - by Patricia Cornwell In this thrilling new installment of Patricia Cornwell’s #1 bestselling Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint. After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/murtagh monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/50f58e83-2ba7-4935-a964-20ae2125d4bb/murtagh.jpg New Arrivals - Murtagh - by Christopher Paolini The world is no longer safe for the Dragon Rider Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn. An evil king has been toppled, and they are left to face the consequences of the reluctant role they played in his reign of terror. Now they are hated and alone, exiled to the outskirts of society. Throughout the land, hushed voices whisper of brittle ground and a faint scent of brimstone in the air—and Murtagh senses that something wicked lurks in the shadows of Alagaësia. So begins an epic journey into lands both familiar and untraveled, where Murtagh and Thorn must use every weapon in their arsenal, from brains to brawn, to find and outwit a mysterious witch. A witch who is much more than she seems. In this gripping novel starring one of the most popular characters from Christopher Paolini’s blockbuster Inheritance Cycle, a Dragon Rider must discover what he stands for in a world that has abandoned him. Murtagh is the perfect book to enter the World of Eragon for the first time . . . or to joyfully return. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/being-henry-the-fonz-and-beyond monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/96fd6dd8-4132-41a9-a8a3-ad065d50f101/fonz.jpg New Arrivals - Being Henry - by Henry Winkler Henry Winkler, launched into prominence as “The Fonz” in the beloved Happy Days, has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny, and widely-regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood (though he would be the first to tell you that it’s simply not the case, he’s really just grateful to be here), Henry shares in this achingly vulnerable memoir the disheartening truth of his childhood, the difficulties of a life with severe dyslexia, the pressures of a role that takes on a life of its own, and the path forward once your wildest dream seems behind you. Since the glorious era of Happy Days fame, Henry has endeared himself to a new generation with roles in such adored shows as Arrested Development, Parks and Recreation, and Barry, where he’s been revealed as an actor with immense depth and pathos, a departure from the period of his life when he was so distinctly typecast as The Fonz, he could hardly find work. Filled with profound heart, charm, and self-deprecating humor, Being Henry is a memoir about so much more than a life in Hollywood and the curse of stardom. It is a meaningful testament to the power of sharing truth and kindness and of finding fulfillment within yourself. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-spy-coast monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6ec9b0d8-3ca2-4504-880b-7941ed297684/spycoast.jpg New Arrivals - The Spy Coast - by Tess Gerritsen Former spy Maggie Bird came to the seaside village of Purity, Maine, eager to put the past behind her after a mission went tragically wrong. These days, she’s living quietly on her chicken farm, still wary of blowback from the events that forced her early retirement. But when a body turns up in Maggie’s driveway, she knows it’s a message from former foes who haven’t forgotten her. Maggie turns to her local circle of old friends—all retirees from the CIA—to help uncover the truth about who is trying to kill her, and why. This “Martini Club” of former spies may be retired, but they still have a few useful skills that they’re eager to use again, if only to spice up their rather sedate new lives. Complicating their efforts is Purity’s acting police chief, Jo Thibodeau. More accustomed to dealing with rowdy tourists than homicide, Jo is puzzled by Maggie’s reluctance to share information—and by her odd circle of friends, who seem to be a step ahead of her at every turn. As Jo’s investigation collides with the Martini Club’s maneuvers, Maggie’s hunt for answers will force her to revisit a clandestine career that spanned the globe, from Bangkok to Istanbul, from London to Malta. The ghosts of her past have returned, but with the help of her friends—and the reluctant Jo Thibodeau—Maggie might just be able to save the life she’s built. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/my-name-is-barbra monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2001993d-1aaa-455d-8876-9a67fa4757a6/barbra.jpg New Arrivals - My Name is Barbra - by Barbra Streisand Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in the history of popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times, and with Yentl she became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major motion picture. In My Name Is Barbra, she tells her own story about her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her first star-making appearances in New York nightclubs to her breakout performance in Funny Girl on stage and winning the Oscar for that performance on film. Then came a long string of successes in every medium in the years that followed. The book is, like Barbra herself, frank, funny, opinionated, and charming. She recounts her early struggles to become an actress, eventually turning to singing to earn a living; the recording of some of her acclaimed albums; the years of effort involved in making Yentl; her direction of The Prince of Tides; her friendships with figures ranging from Marlon Brando to Madeleine Albright; her political advocacy; and the fulfillment she’s found in her marriage to James Brolin. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-corsican-shadow monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7b893275-2d7d-4c1a-bfec-5ac5c9b497d0/corsican.jpg New Arrivals - The Corsican Shadow - by Dirk Cussler In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Musée de l’Armée is ordered to get a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. When he arrives at the port of Le Havre and learns that his intended ship has been sunk, he places the object on a decrepit steamer that sails out under German fire. In the present day, National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt is on a diving expedition in the English Channel when he discovers a cache of uncut diamonds on a shipwreck. When the diamonds are stolen, Pitt and the NUMA agency find themselves up against a murderous cabal that soon reveals far more destructive plans than mere theft. Vital water treatment facilities around the globe are being targeted—placing the world’s population in grave peril. From the shadow of the Eiffel Tower to the depths of the Irish Sea to the islands of the Caribbean, only Dirk Pitt and his children, Summer and Dirk Jr., can locate the treasure that will preserve the soul of a nation...and save the world from catastrophe. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-mystery-guest-a-maid-novel monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b9b661a7-8fc7-49d2-9462-6876cb48d105/mysteryguest.jpg New Arrivals - The Mystery Guest: A Maid Novel - by Nita Prose Molly Gray is not like anyone else. With her flair for cleaning and proper etiquette, she has risen through the ranks of the glorious five-star Regency Grand Hotel to become the esteemed Head Maid. But just as her life reaches a pinnacle state of perfection, her world is turned upside down when J. D. Grimthorpe, the world-renowned mystery author, drops dead—very dead—on the hotel’s tearoom floor. When Detective Stark, Molly’s old foe, investigates the author’s unexpected demise, it becomes clear that this death was murder most foul. Suspects abound, and everyone wants to know: Who killed J. D. Grimthorpe? Was it Lily, the new Maid-in-Training? Or was it Serena, the author’s secretary? Could Mr. Preston, the hotel’s beloved doorman, be hiding something? And is Molly really as innocent as she seems? As the high-profile death threatens the hotel’s pristine reputation, Molly knows she alone holds the key to unlocking the killer’s identity. But that key is buried deep in her past, as long ago, she knew J. D. Grimthorpe. Molly begins to comb her memory for clues, revisiting her childhood and the mysterious Grimthorpe mansion where she and her dearly departed Gran once worked side by side. With the entire hotel under investigation, Molly must solve the mystery posthaste. Because if there’s one thing she knows for sure, it’s that secrets don’t stay buried forever. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-watchmakers-hand monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e9dad172-be21-4fd7-a725-6a55ac24e685/watchmaker.jpg New Arrivals - The Watchmaker’s Hand - by Jeffery Deaver When a New York City construction crane mysteriously collapses, causing mass destruction and injury, Rhyme and Sachs are on the case. A political group claims responsibility for the sabotage and threatens another attack in twenty-four hours, unless its demands are met. The clock is ticking. Then a clue reveals to Rhyme that his nemesis, known as the Watchmaker, has come to town to fulfill his promise of murdering the criminalist. Now Rhyme and Sachs have to dodge his brilliant scheme to destroy them both, while racing against time to stop the construction site terrorists. With New York in a panic, Rhyme and his team must unravel a handful of plots as tightly wound as a timepiece—before more cranes fall, raining down death and destruction from above. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/alex-cross-must-die monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/06a067e8-314f-44fe-94c5-763d9d4e2633/alexmustdie.jpg New Arrivals - Alex Cross Must Die - by James Patterson An airport killer targeting pilots expands his scope. Alex Cross Must Die. “Drop whatever you’re doing, Detective Cross, and head to Reagan Airport,” DC Metro Police dispatch says. “A jet just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto.” Cross and Sampson race to the crash site. The plane didn’t fail—it was shot down by a stolen Vietnam War–era machine gun. The list of experts who can operate the weapon is short. And time before another lethal strike runs even shorter. Especially for Detective Cross. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/broken-trust monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f383a438-ba09-4105-ac01-fa37d68317a2/brokentrust.jpg New Arrivals - Robert B. Parker’s Broken Trust - by Mike Lupica Andrew Crain has it all: a brilliant scientist and astute businessman, his groundbreaking work with lithium has made him one of the world’s richest men. He is universally adored and admired; that is, until Crain’s beautiful wife, Laura, comes to Spenser hoping that he can find out what skeletons lurk in her husband’s closet. Though Crain is a generous philanthropist and loving family man, she is concerned—he has recently become secretive, bordering on paranoid, and prone to violent outbursts. This is the opposite of the man she knew, and not only does his behavior put their marriage at risk, but also a lucrative company merger that would be life-changing for the Crains, their business partner, and everyone associated. Laura wants Spenser to find out what has gotten into her husband, before it’s too late. As Spenser digs into the billionaire’s past, he realizes that the man may have done terrible things on his rise to the top—but he also may have had good reason to. There are no clear answers here, and quickly enough, what Spenser discovers will cause him to question his own views on morality—and place him in grave danger. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-leftover-woman monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e3733039-e0e3-4a13-8289-2fb2e86cc831/leftover.jpg New Arrivals - The Leftover Woman - by Jean Kwok Jasmine Yang arrives in New York City from her rural Chinese village without money or family support, fleeing a controlling husband, on a desperate search for the daughter who was taken from her at birth—another female casualty of China’s controversial One Child Policy. But with her husband on her trail, the clock is ticking, and she’s forced to make increasingly risky decisions if she ever hopes to be reunited with her daughter. Meanwhile, publishing executive Rebecca Whitney seems to have it all: a prestigious family name and the wealth that comes with it, a high-powered career, a beautiful home, a handsome husband, and an adopted Chinese daughter she adores. She’s even hired a nanny to help her balance the demands of being a working wife and mother. But when an industry scandal threatens to jeopardize not only Rebecca’s job but her marriage, this perfect world begins to crumble and her role in her own family is called into question. The Leftover Woman finds these two unforgettable women on a shocking collision course. Twisting and suspenseful and surprisingly poignant, it's a profound exploration of identity and belonging, motherhood and family. It is a story of two women in a divided city—separated by severe economic and cultural differences yet bound by a deep emotional connection to a child. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/we-must-not-think-of-ourselves monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/16f2f902-0948-4b23-bfe3-900f033f773f/ourselves.jpg New Arrivals - We Must Not Think of Ourselves - by Lauren Grodstein On a November day in 1940, Adam Paskow becomes a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, where the Jews of the city are cut off from their former lives and held captive by Nazi guards to await an uncertain fate. Weeks later, he is approached by a mysterious figure with a surprising request: Would he join a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls? Adam agrees and begins taking testimonies from his students, friends, and neighbors. He learns about their childhoods and their daydreams, their passions and their fears, their desperate strategies for safety and survival. The stories form a portrait of endurance in a world where no choices are good ones. One of the people Adam interviews is his flatmate Sala Wiskoff, who is stoic, determined, and funny—and married with two children. Over the months of their confinement, in the presence of her family, Adam and Sala fall in love. As they desperately carve out intimacy, their relationship feels both impossible and vital, their connection keeping them alive. But when Adam discovers a possible escape from the Ghetto, he is faced with an unbearable choice: whom can he save, and at what cost ? Inspired by the testimony-gathering project with the code name Oneg Shabbat, New York Times bestselling author Lauren Grodstein draws readers into the lives of people living on the edge. Told with immediacy and heart, We Must Not Think of Ourselves is a piercing story of love, determination, and sacrifice. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/1964-eyes-of-the-storm monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e071ae1d-d350-45b1-83a8-cb5a2b98203a/1964.jpg New Arrivals - 1964 Eyes of the Storm - by Paul McCartney Taken with a 35mm camera by Paul McCartney, these largely unseen photographs capture the explosive period, from the end of 1963 through early 1964, in which The Beatles became an international sensation and changed the course of music history. Featuring 275 images from the six cities―Liverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C., and Miami―of these legendary months, 1964: Eyes of the Storm also includes: • A personal foreword in which McCartney recalls the pandemonium of British concert halls, followed by the hysteria that greeted the band on its first American visit • Candid recollections preceding each city portfolio that form an autobiographical account of the period McCartney remembers as the “Eyes of the Storm,” plus a coda with subsequent events in 1964 • “Beatleland,” an essay by Harvard historian and New Yorker essayist Jill Lepore, describing how The Beatles became the first truly global mass culture phenomenon https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/big-heart-little-stove monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/924e7c38-6dcf-497f-b670-464c1c412378/bigheart.jpg New Arrivals - Big Heart Little Stove - by Erin French With dishes pulled from French’s family recipe box and the menu at The Lost Kitchen, ranging from irresistible nibbles like Pecorino Puffs and Gram’s Clam Dip; to luscious soups like Golden Tomato & Peach and Potato & Lentil with Bacon and Herbs; to heaping platters of family-style salads and sides like Peach & Blackberry Salad and Green Beans with Sage, Garlic, and Breadcrumbs; to show-stopping main courses like Pickle-Brined Roast Chicken and Wednesday Night Fish Fry; to French’s favorite all-purpose kitchen staples like Kitchen Sink Pesto and Floral Vinegar, this cookbook has all the tools you need for assembling a seamlessly special meal. To round things out, there are beverages to sip as dinner comes off the stove (Fresh Fruit Shrubs, Slush Puppies) and desserts to make your guests feel truly looked after (Salted Caramel Custards, Roasted Peach Pie with Almond and Fennel). And because weekend mornings deserve celebrating too, there are feel-good treats like Sunday Skillet Cakes and Little Nutmeg Diner Donuts. Regardless of whether it’s a dressed-up affair or a quick weeknight meal, French’s recommendations are the same: Start with the best ingredients you can find, keep it simple, and serve with love. But Big Heart Little Stove is more than just a cookbook. With tips and tricks French has used in her own dining room―at home and in the restaurant―this book is your invitation to use what’s around you to create meaningful moments, from setting a table with found treasures, to adorning dishes with edible flowers, to thoughtful gestures such as offering a cold cloth on a hot day. Full of warmth and spirit, Big Heart Little Stove will show you how to create more joy and connection around your table. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/inheritance-lost-bride-trilogy-book-one monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c1f72bf1-eaaf-41fb-9a59-a3c606ed8563/inheritance.jpg New Arrivals - Inheritance : The Lost Bride Trilogy, Book 1 - by Norah Roberts 1806: Astrid Poole sits in her bridal clothes, overwhelmed with happiness. But before her marriage can be consummated, she is murdered, and the circle of gold torn from her finger. Her last words are a promise to Collin never to leave him… Graphic designer Sonya MacTavish is stunned to learn that her late father had a twin he never knew about—and that her newly discovered uncle, Collin Poole, has left her almost everything he owned, including a majestic Victorian house on the Maine coast, which the will stipulates she must live in it for at least three years. Her engagement recently broken, she sets off to find out why the boys were separated at birth—and why it was all kept secret until a genealogy website brought it to light. Trey, the young lawyer who greets her at the sprawling clifftop manor, notes Sonya’s unease—and acknowledges that yes, the place is haunted…but just a little. Sure enough, Sonya finds objects moved and music playing out of nowhere. She sees a painting by her father inexplicably hanging in her deceased uncle’s office, and a portrait of a woman named Astrid, whom the lawyer refers to as “the first lost bride.” It’s becoming clear that Sonya has inherited far more than a house. She has inherited a centuries-old curse, and a puzzle to be solved if there is any hope of breaking it… https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/red-at-night monthly 0.5 2023-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/059d4ee0-15be-4ff7-92b6-429549e80e47/red+at+night.jpg New Arrivals - Red at Night - by Jerry Farnham A diverse love story wrapped in mystery and suspence. Jack Finn, a Maine lobsterman still haunted by guilt meets Melissa Andrews, a Hollywood starlet running from the ominuos media of tinsle town. Will they make it work? Can Jack get over past love? Can Melissa adjust to the simple life? Read and find out. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/oppenheimer monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/df759c5b-75bb-482b-9ab5-77b835862102/oppenheimer.jpg New Arrivals - Oppenheimer - Experience the breathtaking global phenomenon that has captivated audiences around the world. Written for the screen and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer thrusts audiences into the mind of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), whose landmark work on the Manhattan Project created the first atomic bomb. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destiny monthly 0.5 2023-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/600dffc7-71ad-4754-8acc-0929cba80853/indianajones.jpg New Arrivals - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/maggie-moores monthly 0.5 2023-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3cb5ea4a-8f31-4e61-affb-2a6bfcf8eff9/maggie.jpg New Arrivals - Maggie Moore(s) Maggie Moore(s) takes place in a dusty desert town where nothing ever happens, as a police chief is suddenly faced with the back-to-back murders of two women with the same name. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/paw-patrol-the-movie monthly 0.5 2023-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f6314958-74e5-44f2-bfd7-15bf37bc8b75/pawpatrolthemovie.jpg New Arrivals - Paw Patrol: The Movie The PAW Patrol is on a roll…in their first big-screen adventure! When their rival, Humdinger, becomes Mayor of nearby Adventure City and starts wreaking havoc, Ryder and the heroic pups kick into high gear to face the most challenging mission of their PAW Patrol careers. Along the way, the team finds help from a new ally, the savvy dachshund Liberty, and together the PAW Patrol fights to save the citizens of Adventure City! Can the PAW Patrol save the city before it's too late? After all, no city's too big, no pup's too small! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/usborne-peek-inside-christmas monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5a3cbfdc-8d48-4f2e-964b-5d3b5ca84857/usbornechristmas.jpg New Arrivals - Usborne Peek Inside Christmas - by Anna Milbourne The elves are busy in Santa's workshop on Christmas Eve. Lift flaps and peek through holes to explore this magical winter wonderland. Meet all the reindeer and Mrs. Christmas working on the sleigh, see Santa flying through the sky, and fill the stockings full of presents. Then peek into Santa's house on Christmas morning to see how he celebrates - with a snooze in his armchair and lots of elf games. This little interactive book is a perfect way to enjoy the excitement of Christmas with little children. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/vera-wongs-unsolicited-advice-for-murderers monthly 0.5 2023-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e97d4de1-513f-4530-ab27-4c483060c1e3/vera+wong.jpg New Arrivals - Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - by Jesse Q. Sutanto Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady—ah, lady of a certain age—who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her Gen-Z son is up to. Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing—a dead man in the middle of her tea shop. In his outstretched hand, a flash drive. Vera doesn’t know what comes over her, but after calling the cops like any good citizen would, she sort of . . . swipes the flash drive from the body and tucks it safely into the pocket of her apron. Why? Because Vera is sure she would do a better job than the police possibly could, because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands. Vera knows the killer will be back for the flash drive; all she has to do is watch the increasing number of customers at her shop and figure out which one among them is the killer. What Vera does not expect is to form friendships with her customers and start to care for each and every one of them. As a protective mother hen, will she end up having to give one of her newfound chicks to the police? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/manner-of-death monthly 0.5 2023-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1793a13b-0670-4cc4-b5ab-d730fa47169a/manner.jpg New Arrivals - Manner of Death - by Robin Cook After Dr. Jack Stapleton’s near-death confrontation with a medical serial killer, his wife, NYC Chief Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery, is carrying the load both at work and at home. When Laurie insists that Dr. Ryan Sullivan—an underperforming senior pathology resident who is spending his required month at the medical examiner's office but who truly detests doing forensic autopsies—assist her on a suicide autopsy in hopes of stimulating his interest in the field, the last thing she expects is to be unwittingly drawn into a major conspiracy that puts her own life in jeopardy. Desperate to avoid performing as many forensic autopsies as possible, Dr. Ryan Sullivan offers to participate in a research project on a series of suicides put together by one of the medical legal investigators. These suicides, like the case Ryan analyzes with Laurie, hint at some bothersome questions about their "manner of death." Although the project was more of a ruse than a serious study, Ryan surprises himself by immediately uncovering unexpected shared commonalities. Most astonishing of all, Ryan's inquiries eventually put him and Laurie at risk by leading to a nefarious cancer diagnostics company that promotes the very latest, groundbreaking cancer screening technology in a shockingly self-serving and fraudulent fashion. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/cat-kid-comic-club-influencers monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9ef92d04-1bdf-463c-8305-70e126239ead/catinfluencers.jpg New Arrivals - Cat Kid Comic Club: Influencers - by Dav Pilkey The Cat Kid Comic Club is in crisis! After learning that one of their comics will be published, the baby frogs are filled with anxiety and doubt. How will they get their creative groove back? Will Naomi or Melvin emerge as a leader? Will Flippy convince them to finally straighten up and fly right? The story is hysterical, thought-provoking, and full of action-packed mini-comics: "Frogzilla vs. Mechafrogzilla," "I Am Dr. Fredric Wertham," "Two Birds," and "RoboChubbs." Bestselling author-illustrator Dav Pilkey shows the reader that the best way to influence people is to be open, gentle, and kind. The variety of art styles, paired with Pilkey's trademark storytelling and humor, inspires imagination and innovation for readers of all ages. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/three-holidays-and-a-wedding monthly 0.5 2023-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e9e9ae38-3fc2-49a0-9aa3-808e3353b8cf/threeholidays.jpg New Arrivals - Three Holidays and a Wedding - by Uzma Jalaluddin and Marissa Stapley Three times the holiday magic. Three times the chaos. As strangers and seatmates Maryam Aziz and Anna Gibson fly to Toronto over the holidays—Maryam to her sister’s impromptu wedding, and Anna to meet her boyfriend’s wealthy family for the first time—neither expect that severe turbulence will scare them into confessing their deepest hopes and fears to one another. At least they’ll never see each other again. And the love of Maryam’s life, Saif, wasn’t sitting two rows behind them hearing it all. Oops. An emergency landing finds Anna, Saif, Maryam, and her sister’s entire bridal party snowbound at the quirky Snow Falls Inn in a picture-perfect town, where fate has Anna’s actor-crush filming a holiday romance. As Maryam finds the courage to open her heart to Saif, and Anna feels the magic of being snowbound with an unexpected new love—both women soon realize there’s no place they’d rather be for the holidays. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/prequel monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/dbadccb8-ec4d-4041-89cf-778a75f89765/prequel.jpg New Arrivals - Prequel - by Rachel Maddow Inspired by her research for the hit podcast Ultra, Rachel Maddow charts the rise of a wild American strain of authoritarianism that has been alive on the far-right edge of our politics for the better part of a century. Before and even after our troops had begun fighting abroad in World War II, a clandestine network flooded the country with disinformation aimed at sapping the strength of the U.S. war effort and persuading Americans that our natural alliance was with the Axis, not against it. It was a sophisticated and shockingly well-funded campaign to undermine democratic institutions, promote antisemitism, and destroy citizens’ confidence in their elected leaders, with the ultimate goal of overthrowing the U.S. government and installing authoritarian rule. That effort worked—tongue and groove—alongside an ultra-right paramilitary movement that stockpiled bombs and weapons and trained for mass murder and violent insurrection. At the same time, a handful of extraordinary activists and journalists were tracking the scheme, exposing it even as it was unfolding. In 1941 the U.S. Department of Justice finally made a frontal attack, identifying the key plotters, finding their backers, and prosecuting dozens in federal court. None of it went as planned. While the scheme has been remembered in history—if at all—as the work of fringe players, in reality it involved a large number of some of the country’s most influential elected officials. Their interference in law enforcement efforts against the plot is a dark story of the rule of law bending and then breaking under the weight of political intimidation. That failure of the legal system had consequences. The tentacles of that unslain beast have reached forward into our history for decades. But the heroic efforts of the activists, journalists, prosecutors, and regular citizens who sought to expose the insurrectionists also make for a deeply resonant, deeply relevant tale in our own disquieting times. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-white-lotus-season2 monthly 0.5 2023-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3be26270-4e49-44e2-b6db-c4ffb099b76d/lotus.jpg New Arrivals - The White Lotus (Season 2) Mike White's Emmy®-winning series returns for Season 2, following various guests over the span of a week in the White Lotus's Sicily location. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/construction-site-taking-flight monthly 0.5 2023-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5a3448c9-eabd-41e3-a0a3-c916f387287c/takingflight.jpg New Arrivals - Construction Site: Taking Flight - by Sherri Duskey Rinker When an airport needs an expansion, the Construction Site crew is on the job! With help from fun new vehicles from the airport, they’ll build new roads and runways, prep planes for their trips, and clean up after a surprise snowstorm. The airport is a busy place—Belt Loader, Tractor, Snowplow, and many other vehicles pull the planes, pump the fuel, move the luggage, maintain the runways, and much more. Working together, the team will get all the planes in the air in time for a sweet and sleepy goodnight. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/good-dog-home-is-where-the-heart-is monthly 0.5 2023-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/82e70d5b-2d25-449c-bcef-ea243cfe38ac/homeis.jpg New Arrivals - Good Dog: Home Is Where the Heart Is - by Cam Higgins Springtime has arrived at the Davis Family Farm! Spring showers lead to muddy hijinks for a young pup named Bo. But when Bo loses his dog tag, he gets serious and enlists all of his barnyard pals to help him find it. From horse stalls to chicken coops to grazing fields and beyond, Bo’s adventure takes him all over the farm, introducing a cast of friends and frenemies. With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Good Dog chapter books are perfect for beginning readers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dragon-kingdom-of-wrenly-cinders-flame monthly 0.5 2023-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d9b86a34-a60b-44d4-a0f5-943a8ad77cfa/cinder.jpg New Arrivals - Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly: Cinder’s Flame - by Jordan Quinn Cinder has always carried a small spark of envy when it comes to Ruskin. He is, after all, known as the legendary scarlet dragon. And it’s hard to be friends with a legend, as the Witch-Dragon, Villinelle, knows all too well. When Villinelle unleashes the dreaded Soul Blazer spell on Cinder, her small spark of envy grows into an uncontrollable flame. Can Ruskin help his friend, or will Cinder’s fire burn too bright? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-chalice-of-the-gods monthly 0.5 2023-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8a695fa0-7cd2-45ad-9f6f-6a2947e7d24b/chalice.jpg New Arrivals - Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods - by Rick Riordan After saving the world multiple times, Percy Jackson is hoping to have a normal senior year. Unfortunately, the gods aren’t quite done with him. Percy will have to fulfill three quests in order to get the necessary three letters of recommendation from Mount Olympus for college. The first quest is to help Zeus’s cup-bearer retrieve his goblet before it falls into the wrong hands. Can Percy, Grover, and Annabeth find it in time? Readers new to Percy Jackson (this book can be enjoyed as a standalone) and fans who have been awaiting this reunion for more than a decade will delight equally in this latest hilarious take on Greek mythology. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/bright-lights-big-christmas monthly 0.5 2023-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/62ae1c3c-d1f1-492e-8353-fb08450088f1/brightlights.jpg New Arrivals - Bright Lights, Big Christmas - by Mary Kay Andrews When fall rolls around, it’s time for Kerry Tolliver to leave her family’s Christmas tree farm in the mountains of North Carolina for the wilds of New York City to help her gruff older brother & his dog, Queenie, sell the trees at the family stand on a corner in Greenwich Village. Sharing a tiny vintage camper and experiencing Manhattan for the first time, Kerry’s ready to try to carve out a new corner for herself. In the weeks leading into Christmas, Kerry quickly becomes close with the charming neighbors who live near their stand. When an elderly neighbor goes missing, Kerry will need to combine her country know-how with her newly acquired New York knowledge to protect the new friends she’s come to think of as family, And complicating everything is Patrick, a single dad raising his adorable, dragon-loving son Austin on this quirky block. Kerry and Patrick’s chemistry is undeniable, but what chance does this holiday romance really have? Filled with family ties, both rekindled and new, and sparkling with Christmas magic, BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CHRISTMAS delivers everything Mary Kay Andrews fans adore, all tied up in a hilarious, romantic gem of a novel. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/enough monthly 0.5 2023-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e13bba9e-07ae-4f41-b549-cee22d145712/enough.jpg New Arrivals - Enough - by Cassidy Hutchinson Ever since a childhood visit to Washington, DC, Cassidy Hutchinson aspired to serve her country in government. Raised in a working-class family with a military background, she was the first in her immediate family to graduate from college. Despite having no ties to Washington, Hutchinson landed a vital position at the center of the Trump White House. Her life took a dramatic turn on January 6th, 2021, when, at twenty-four, she found herself in one of the most extraordinary and unprecedented calamities in modern political history. Hutchinson was faced with a choice between loyalty to the Trump administration or loyalty to the country by revealing what she saw and heard in the attempt to overthrow a democratic election. She bravely came forward to become the pivotal witness in the House January 6 investigations, as her testimony transfixed and stunned the nation. In her memoir, Hutchinson reveals the struggle between the pressures she confronted to toe the party line and the demands of the oath she swore to defend American democracy. Enough reaches far beyond the typical insider political account. It’s the saga of a woman whose fierce determination helped her overcome childhood challenges to get her dream job, only to face a crisis of conscience—one that more senior White House aides tried to evade—and, in the process, find her voice and herself. This is a portrait of how the courage of one person can change the course of history. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/democracy-awakening monthly 0.5 2023-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a7f07576-217c-44f3-8d09-37b75f797a6d/democracy.jpg New Arrivals - Democracy Awakening - by Heather Cox Richardson In the midst of the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heather Cox Richardson launched a daily Facebook essay providing the historical background of the daily torrent of news. It soon turned into a newsletter and its readership ballooned to more than 2 million dedicated readers who rely on her plainspoken and informed take on the present and past in America. In Democracy Awakening, Richardson crafts a compelling and original narrative, explaining how, over the decades, a small group of wealthy people have made war on American ideals. By weaponizing language and promoting false history they have led us into authoritarianism -- creating a disaffected population and then promising to recreate an imagined past where those people could feel important again. She argues that taking our country back starts by remembering the elements of the nation’s true history that marginalized Americans have always upheld. Their dedication to the principles on which this nation was founded has enabled us to renew and expand our commitment to democracy in the past. Richardson sees this history as a roadmap for the nation’s future. Richardson’s talent is to wrangle our giant, meandering, and confusing news feed into a coherent story that singles out what we should pay attention to, what the precedents are, and what possible paths lie ahead. In her trademark calm prose, she is realistic and optimistic about the future of democracy. Her command of history allows her to pivot effortlessly from the Founders to the abolitionists to Reconstruction to Goldwater to Mitch McConnell, highlighting the political legacies of the New Deal, the lingering fears of socialism, the death of the liberal consensus and birth of “movement conservatism.” Many books tell us what has happened over the last five years. Democracy Awakening explains how we got to this perilous point, what our history really tells us about ourselves, and what the future of democracy can be. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/mr-texas monthly 0.5 2023-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d49f4e02-030c-42af-87e5-de04e739199d/mrtexas.jpg New Arrivals - Mr. Texas - by Lawrence Wright Sonny Lamb is an affable, if floundering, rancher with the unfortunate habit of becoming a punchline in his Texas hometown. Most recently, to everyone’s headshaking amusement, he bought his own bull at an auction. But when a fire breaks out at a neighbor’s farm, Sonny makes headlines in another way: not waiting for help, he bolts to the farm where his heroic actions make the evening news. Almost immediately, and seemingly out of nowhere, a handsomely dressed lobbyist from Austin arrives at his ranch door and asks if he’d like to run for his West Texas district’s seat in the state legislature. Though Sonny has zero experience and doesn’t consider himself political at all, the fate of his ranch—and perhaps his marriage to the lovely “cowgirl” Lola—hangs in the balance. With seemingly no other choice, Sonny decides to throw his hat in the ring . As he navigates life in politics—from running a campaign to negotiating in the capitol—Sonny must learn the ropes, weighing his own ethics and environmental concerns against the pressures of veteran politicians, savvy lobbyists, and his own party. In tracing Sonny’s attempt to balance his marriage and morality with an increasingly volatile professional life, Lawrence Wright has crafted an irresistibly funny and clever roller-coaster ride about one man’s pursuit of goodness in the Lonestar State. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/let-us-descend monthly 0.5 2023-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/54e0d3f7-d80d-4ae7-9fe8-b5520113ad5a/letus.jpg New Arrivals - Let Us Descend - by Jesmyn Ward “‘Let us descend,’ the poet now began, ‘and enter this blind world.’” —Inferno, Dante Alighieri Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’s guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation. From one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation, this miracle of a novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land—the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South. Let Us Descend is Jesmyn Ward’s most magnificent novel yet, a masterwork for the ages. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/absolution monthly 0.5 2023-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/35bf7648-0da9-47e6-942d-c158fa571742/absolution.jpg New Arrivals - Absolution - by Alice McDermott You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. American women—American wives—have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era’s mandate to be “helpmeets” to their ambitious husbands with their own inchoate impulse to “do good” for the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later, Charlene’s daughter, spurred by an encounter with an aging Vietnam vet, reaches out to Tricia. Together, they look back at their time in Saigon, taking wry account of that pivotal year and of Charlene’s altruistic machinations, and discovering how their own lives as women on the periphery—of politics, of history, of war, of their husbands’ convictions—have been shaped and burdened by the same sort of unintended consequences that followed America’s tragic interference in Southeast Asia. A virtuosic new novel from Alice McDermott, one of our most observant, most affecting writers, about folly and grace, obligation, sacrifice, and, finally, the quest for absolution in a broken world. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-secret monthly 0.5 2023-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9355b35e-4f66-4692-ad6e-0818647be0b4/thesecret.jpg New Arrivals - The Secret - by Lee Child A string of mysterious deaths. A long-classified mission. A young MP with nothing to lose. 1992. All across the United States respectable, upstanding citizens are showing up dead. These deaths could be accidents, and they don’t appear to be connected—until a fatal fall from a high-floor window attracts some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the secretary of defense. All of a sudden he wants an interagency task force to investigate. And he wants Jack Reacher as the army’s representative. If Reacher gets a result, great. If not, he’s a convenient fall guy. But office politics isn’t Reacher’s thing. Three questions quickly emerge: Who’s with him, who’s against him, and will the justice he dispenses be the official kind . . . or his own kind? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/judgment-prey monthly 0.5 2023-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6d552007-bb75-454d-b383-62c25282d949/judgmentprey.jpg New Arrivals - Judgment Prey - by John Sandford Alex Sand was spending the evening at home playing basketball with his two young sons when all three were shot in cold blood. A wealthy federal judge, there’s no short list of people who could have a vendetta against Sands, but the gruesome murders, especially that of his children, turn their St. Paul community on its head. Sand was on the verge of a major donation to a local housing charity, Heart/Twin Cities, and with the money in limbo, eyes suddenly turn to his grieving widow, Margaret Cooper, to see what she might do with the money. Margaret, distraught over the death of her family, struggles to move forward, and can’t imagine how or why anyone would target her husband. With public pressure mounting and both the local police force and FBI hitting dead end after dead end, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in to do what others could not: find answers. With each potential lead flawed, Davenport and Flowers are determined to chase every theory until they figure out who killed the Sands. But when they find themselves being stonewalled by the most unlikely of forces, the two wonder if perhaps each misdirection could lead them closer to the truth. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-berry-pickers monthly 0.5 2023-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b56064e3-0483-4dc7-8799-48d85e3e68d2/berrypickers.jpg New Arrivals - The Berry Pickers - by Amanda Peters July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret. For readers of The Vanishing Half and Woman of Light, this showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-chateau-under-seige monthly 0.5 2023-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2159f3f3-b5ff-4163-87ed-529d97382bb9/chateau.jpg New Arrivals - A Chateau Under Seige - by Martin Walker The town of Sarlat is staging a reenactment of its liberation from the British in the Hundred Years War when the play’s French hero, Brice Kerquelin, is stabbed and feared fatally wounded. Is it an unfortunate prop malfunction—or something more sinister? The stricken man happens to be number two in the French intelligence service, in line for the top job. Bruno is tasked with the safety of the victim’s daughters, Claire and Nadia, as well as their father’s old Silicon Valley buddies, ostensibly in town for a reunion. One friend from Taiwan, a tycoon in chip fabrication, soon goes missing, and Bruno suspects there may be a link to the French government’s efforts to build a chip industry in Europe—something powerful forces in Russia and China are determined to scuttle. Wading through a tangle of rivalries and secrets, Bruno begins to parse fact from fiction—while also becoming embroiled in some romantic complications, and, of course, finding time to put together some splendid meals. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-oceans-and-the-stars monthly 0.5 2023-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6d63123b-15f2-4f98-a35a-e5f4a59f2d2b/oceans.jpg New Arrivals - The Oceans and the Stars - by Mark Helprin A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined to always do what’s right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the president of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line’s only prototype––Athena, Patrol Coastal 15––with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral. Rather than resign, Rensselaer takes the new assignment in stride, and while supervising Athena’s fitting out in New Orleans, encounters a brilliant lawyer, Katy Farrar, with whom he falls in last-chance love. Soon thereafter, he is deployed on a mission that subjects his integrity, morality, and skill to the ultimate test, and ensures that Athena will live forever in the annals of the Navy. As in the Odyssey, Katy is the force that keeps him alive and the beacon that lights the way home through seven battles, mutiny, and court martial. In classic literary form, an enthralling new novel that extolls the virtues of living by the laws of conscience, decency, and sacrifice, The Oceans and the Stars is nothing short of a masterpiece. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-edge-a-620-man-thriller monthly 0.5 2023-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/807dabe1-e2c8-4fa7-bef6-8b56d1a871e6/edge.jpg New Arrivals - The Edge: A 6:20 Man Thriller - by David Baldacci When CIA operative Jenny Silkwell is murdered in rural Maine, government officials have immediate concerns over national security. Her laptop and phone were full of state secrets that, in the wrong hands, endanger the lives of countless operatives. In need of someone who can solve the murder quickly and retrieve the missing information, the U.S. government knows just the chameleon they can call on. Ex-Army Ranger Travis Devine spent his time in the military preparing to take on any scenario, followed by his short-lived business career chasing shadows in the deepest halls of power, so his analytical mind makes him particularly well-suited for complex, high-stakes tasks. Taking down the world’s largest financial conspiracy proved his value, and in comparison, this case looks straightforward. Except small towns hold secrets and Devine finds himself an outsider again. Devine must ingratiate himself with locals who have trusted each other their whole lives, and who distrust outsiders just as much. Dak, Jenny’s brother, who’s working to revitalize the town. Earl, the retired lobsterman who found Jenny’s body. And Alex, Jenny’s sister with a dark past of her own. As Devine gets to know the residents of Putnam, Maine, answers seem to appear and then transform into more questions. There’s a long history of secrets and those who will stop at nothing to keep them from being exposed. Leaving Devine with no idea who he can trust... and who wants him dead. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/blood-lines monthly 0.5 2023-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1904202f-a5c2-485a-ba22-db419cfe3b07/bloodlines.jpg New Arrivals - Blood Lines - by Alex DeMille and Nelson DeMille Army Criminal Investigation Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor have been separated for five months following their last assignment, a dangerous mission in Venezuela to locate and detain an infamous Army deserter. Now, in Berlin, they are reunited and tasked with investigating the murder of one of their own: CID Special Agent Harry Vance of the 5th MP Battalion, an accomplished counterterrorism agent who had been stationed in western Germany, and whose body was discovered in a city park in the heart of Berlin’s Arab refugee community. The authorities suspect this is an act of Islamic terrorism, but Brodie and Taylor soon believe there is more to this case. The reason for Vance’s presence in Berlin is unknown, and as Brodie and Taylor work to discover what the murder victim was doing in the days and weeks preceding his death, they become immersed in the many conflicts and contradictions of modern Germany—the Arab refugee crisis, the dark legacy of the Cold War and the Stasi secret police, and the imminent threats of a rising neo-Nazi movement. At the same time, they are butting heads with the authorities—both German and American—and facing a possible threat from American intelligence agents who fear that Brodie and Taylor might have learned too much about US clandestine operations during their mission in Venezuela. Ultimately, Brodie and Taylor realize that the murder of Harry Vance was merely the prelude to a much more sinister future event—unless they can unravel the mystery in time to stop it. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/beware-the-woman monthly 0.5 2023-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/dee064dd-cefd-44dc-a732-14a5ec02eb26/beware.jpg New Arrivals - Beware the Woman - by Megan Abbott Honey, I just want you to have everything you ever wanted. That’s what Jacy’s mom always told her. And Jacy felt like she finally did. Newly married and with a baby on the way, Jacy and her new husband, Jed, embark on their first road trip together to visit his father, Dr. Ash, in Michigan’s far-flung Upper Peninsula. The moment they arrive at the cottage snug within the lush woods, Jacy feels bathed in love by the warm and hospitable Dr. Ash, if less so by his house manager, the enigmatic Mrs. Brandt. But their Edenic first days take a turn when Jacy has a health scare. Swiftly, vacation activities are scrapped, and all eyes are on Jacy’s condition. Suddenly, whispers about Jed’s long-dead mother and complicated family history seem to eerily impinge upon the present, and Jacy begins to feel trapped in the cottage, her every move surveilled, her body under the looking glass. But are her fears founded or is it paranoia, or cabin fever, or—as is suggested to her—a stubborn refusal to take necessary precautions? The dense woods surrounding the cottage are full of dangers, but are the greater ones inside? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/what-the-river-knows monthly 0.5 2023-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c3e91fd8-58aa-4b39-a524-24ac666ab542/riverknows.jpg New Arrivals - What the River Knows - by Isabel Abanez Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that’s been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez has everything a girl might want, except for the one thing she yearns the most: her globetrotting parents―who frequently leave her behind. When she receives word of their tragic deaths, Inez inherits their massive fortune and a mysterious guardian, an archeologist in partnership with his Egyptian brother-in-law. Yearning for answers, Inez sails to Cairo, bringing her sketch pads and a golden ring her father sent to her for safekeeping before he died. But upon her arrival, the old world magic tethered to the ring pulls her down a path where she soon discovers there’s more to her parent’s disappearance than what her guardian led her to believe. With her guardian’s infuriatingly handsome assistant thwarting her at every turn, Inez must rely on ancient magic to uncover the truth about her parent’s disappearance―or risk becoming a pawn in a larger game that will kill her. What the River Knows is the first book in the thrilling Secrets of the Nile duology. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-land-of-lost-things monthly 0.5 2023-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e0757d77-747d-480f-a955-41c4443cac35/lostthings.jpg New Arrivals - The Land of Lost Things - by John Connolly “Twice upon a time—for that is how some stories should continue…” Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident—a body without a spirit. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud the fairy stories Phoebe loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world. But an old house on the hospital grounds, a property connected to a book written by a vanished author, is calling to Ceres. Something wants her to enter, to journey to a land colored by the memories of childhood, and the folklore beloved of her father—a land of witches and dryads, giants and mandrakes; a land where old enemies are watching and waiting… The Land of Lost Things. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dont-let-the-pigeon-drive-the-sleigh monthly 0.5 2023-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/acf8fa2a-04c0-4fe1-aca4-5dec187d397c/pigeonsleigh.jpg New Arrivals - Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh! - by Mo Willems It’s the most wonderful time of the year—for driving a sleigh! ’Tis also the season—for driving a sleigh! Oh, and joy to the—driving a sleigh! The Pigeon has made a list and checked it once. Can his holiday dream come true? Or will The Pigeon be left out in the cold? You’ll share some HO-HO-HOs and HA-HA-HAs finding out in three-time Caldecott Honoree Mo Willems’ ninth Pigeon book, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/obsession monthly 0.5 2023-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/53fe61ca-1d49-4272-8e6f-192060969723/obsession.jpg New Arrivals - Obsession - by Stuart Woods and Brett Battles While filming on location in scenic Santa Barbara, California, Peter Barrington and Ben Bacchetti look to expand Centurion Studios' business by making a deal with a young Croatian tech billionaire. But when the magnate’s wife is kidnapped, Teddy Fay is brought in to assess the threat and recover the young woman. As Teddy unravels the threads of her disappearance, he quickly comes to find an old vendetta seethes at the center, one that puts them all at risk. And danger is lurking even nearer to home as an obsessive fan with perilous intentions weasels his way onto the film set. It’s only Teddy who can stop him from getting too close for comfort. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-christmas-vanishing monthly 0.5 2023-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1700074731071-1NISRK9JLPKF90828KPH/vanishing.jpg New Arrivals - A Christmas Vanishing - by Anne Perry Mariah Ellison, Charlotte Pitt’s grandmother, accepts her longtime friend Sadie’s gracious invitation to spend Christmas with her and her husband, Barton, in their picturesque village. But upon arrival, Mariah discovers that Sadie has vanished without a trace, and Barton rudely rescinds the invitation. Once Mariah finds another acquaintance to stay with during the holiday season, she begins investigating Sadie’s disappearance. Mariah’s uncanny knack for solving mysteries serves her well during her search, which is driven by gossip as icy as the December weather. Did Sadie run off with another man? Was she kidnapped? Has someone harmed her? Frustratingly, Mariah’s questions reveal more about the villagers themselves than about her friend’s whereabouts. Yet in the process of getting to know Sadie’s neighbors, Mariah finds a kind of redemption, as she rediscovers her kinder side, and her ability to love. It is up to Mariah to master her own feelings, drown out the noise, and get to the bottom of what occurred, all before Christmas day. With the holiday rapidly approaching, will she succeed in bringing Sadie home in time for them to celebrate it together—or is that too much to hope for? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dirty-thirty-a-stephanie-plum-novel monthly 0.5 2023-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1f73f022-adb0-4e3c-9ac4-641c3f600769/dirtythirty.jpg New Arrivals - Dirty Thirty : A Stephanie Plum Novel - by Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum, Trenton’s hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered a freelance assignment that seems simple enough. Local jeweler Martin Rabner wants her to locate his former security guard, Andy Manley (a.k.a. Nutsy), who he is convinced stole a fortune in diamonds out of his safe. Stephanie is also looking for another troubled man, Duncan Dugan, a fugitive from justice arrested for robbing the same jewelry store on the same day. With her boyfriend Morelli away in Miami on police business, Stephanie is taking care of Bob, Morelli’s giant orange dog who will devour anything, from Stephanie’s stray donuts to the upholstery in her car. Morelli’s absence also means the inscrutable, irresistible security expert Ranger is front and center in Stephanie’s life when things inevitably go sideways. And he seems determined to stay there. To complicate matters, her best friend Lula is convinced she is being stalked by a mythological demon hell-bent on relieving her of her wardrobe. An overnight stakeout with Stephanie’s mother and Grandma Mazur reveals three generations of women with nerves of steel and driving skills worthy of NASCAR champions. As the body count rises and witnesses start to disappear, it won’t be easy for Stephanie to keep herself clean when everyone else is playing dirty. It’s a good thing Stephanie isn’t afraid of getting a little dirty, too. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-no-brainer monthly 0.5 2023-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/335b5295-329e-44d8-9e5c-2d4ae3759e1a/nobrainer.jpg New Arrivals - Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer - by Jeff Kinney Up until now, middle school hasn’t exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he’s not too broken up about it. But when Greg realizes this means he’s going to be sent to a different school than his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, he changes his tune. Can Greg and his classmates save their school before it’s shuttered for good? Or is this the start of a whole new chapter for Greg? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/jules monthly 0.5 2023-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9de2c9dc-9b92-4b52-b636-dd313bcb379c/jules.jpg New Arrivals - Jules Jules follows Milton (Kingsley) who lives a quiet life of routine in a small western Pennsylvania town, but finds his day upended when a UFO and its extra-terrestrial passenger crash land in his backyard. Before long, Milton develops a close relationship with the extra-terrestrial he calls "Jules." Things become complicated when two neighbors (Harris and Curtin) discover Jules and the government quickly closes in. What follows is a funny, wildly inventive ride as the three neighbors find meaning and connection later in life - thanks to this unlikely stranger. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/barbie monthly 0.5 2023-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a14c22b3-7c3e-46f4-a556-043e18b29088/barbie.jpg New Arrivals - Barbie To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full‐on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/how-to-catch-santa-claus monthly 0.5 2023-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1d5cc57f-92e8-4bc8-95ed-147a6593d4eb/catchsanta.jpg New Arrivals - How to Catch Santa Claus - by Alice Walstead Do you have what it takes to catch jolly old St. Nicholas himself? Santa Claus is getting ready to deliver presents to children around the world, but the wily How to Catch Kids have set traps galore! With the help of his trusty Reindeer and Elf, Santa will have to use all his festive magic to avoid being caught. Poised to become a new holiday tradition, this merry picture book is filled with silly rhymes and illustrations sure to delight young readers and educators alike with STEAM concepts and classic hilarity and chaos. The perfect Christmas gift or holiday stocking stuffer for children ages 4-10! It's Christmas Eve! I am almost there! I know you've hatched a plan. So when you hear my HO-HO-HO, try to catch me if YOU can! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-last-exchange monthly 0.5 2023-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8d6da5cc-d42e-4545-85b7-9af7330beb47/lastexchange.jpg New Arrivals - The Last Exchange - by Charles Martin When MacThomas Pockets finished his last tour as part of the Scottish Special Forces, he was hired to consult for a film director to finesse some scenes that weren’t working. In a twist he never saw coming, he ended up moving to L.A. to work as the bodyguard for movie star Maybe Joe Sue. It didn’t take long for Pockets to realize there were two Joe Sues: The Joe Sue the public saw with her perfect life and her Hollywood husband. And the private Joe Sue: the one with the traumatic youth that no amount of pills could cover up, who desperately wanted a child of her own. Even after their paths diverged, he continued to track Joe Sue’s life. Only a few would notice when the bottom fell out. But he did. And that’s when he stepped in. One man seeks to answer the question: How far would you go—really— to save someone you love? And in the masterful hands of New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin, finding the answer will take readers on an intense and heart-wrenching journey to the very end. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/george-harrison-the-reluctant-beatle monthly 0.5 2023-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8ff3f54b-493b-4539-b25c-f99596dfd88d/harrison.jpg New Arrivals - George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle - by Philip Norman Despite being hailed as one of the best guitarists of his era, George Harrison, particularly in his early decades, battled feelings of inferiority. He was often the butt of jokes from his bandmates owing to his lower-class background and, typically, was allowed to contribute only one or two songs per Beatles album out of the dozens he wrote. Now, acclaimed Beatles biographer Philip Norman examines Harrison through the lens of his numerous self-contradictions. Compared to songwriting luminaries John Lennon and Paul McCartney he was considered a minor talent, yet he composed such masterpieces as “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” and “Here Comes the Sun,” and his solo debut album “All Things Must Pass” achieved enormous success, appearing on many lists of the 100 best rock albums ever. Modern music critics place him in the pantheon of sixties guitar gods alongside Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, and Jimmy Page. Harrison railed against the material world yet wrote the first pop song complaining about income tax. He spent years lovingly restoring his Friar Park estate as a spiritual journey, but quickly mortgaged the property to help rescue a film project that would be widely banned as sacrilegious, Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Harrison could be fiercely jealous, but not only did he stay friends with Eric Clapton when Clapton fell in love with Harrison’s wife, Pattie Boyd, the two men grew even closer after Clapton walked away with her. Unprecedented in scope and filled with numerous color photos, this rich biography captures George Harrison at his most multi-faceted: devoted friend, loyal son, master guitar player, brilliant songwriter, cocaine addict, serial philanderer, global philanthropist, student of Indian mysticism, self-deprecating comedian, and, ultimately, iconic artist and man beloved by millions. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-woman-in-me monthly 0.5 2023-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ed6c6d85-c5c0-49b8-a75a-ec8e7f93295b/brittany.jpg New Arrivals - The Woman In Me - by Britney Spears In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears’s groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love—and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dragon-kingdom-of-wrenly-the-shattered-shore monthly 0.5 2023-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/fa45b76a-8a75-48e7-8adc-e70cd7955d4e/shattered.jpg New Arrivals - Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly: The Shattered Shore - by Jordan Quinn In the eighth installment of the exciting Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly graphic novel chapter book series, Ruskin and his friends travel to a distant island. Ruskin, Cinder, Groth, and Roke join the entire Dragon Kingdom on a trip to the Shattered Shore to say goodbye to Villinelle, the Witch-Dragon who was both an enemy and a friend. This mystical island serves as the entrance to the dragon After Realm, but there are more secrets to be discovered on the Shattered Shore that may help with the larger battle to come. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/mice-skating monthly 0.5 2023-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9eb628c2-01d3-4007-93ae-33058e5179ca/mice+skating.jpg New Arrivals - Mice Skating - by Annie Silvestro This mouse doesn’t want to stay in the house . . . even if it’s cold outside! For most field mice, winter means burrowing down and snuggling in. But not for Lucy! She loves snow crunching under her paws and wearing a fluffy wool hat. And most of all, Lucy loves to skate, and she’s just ACHING to show off her new skill with her friends. After all, a winter wonderland is twice as nice when you have friends to enjoy it with. But the other mice just don’t understand—and after a disastrous indoor snowball fight, it looks as if they never will. Can Lucy find a way to make the other mice come out and “mice skate” too? With intricately detailed illustrations as cozy as a fireplace in December (and a cup of cocoa, too), this funny punny warmhearted love song to winter—and to one brave, bold, and generous mouse—will have kids bundling up for some cold-weather fun of their own. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/good-dog-raised-in-a-barn monthly 0.5 2023-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/28a7e310-cf9e-41cb-936a-d66bf2ca20bd/gooddog2.jpg New Arrivals - Good Dog: Raised in a Barn - by Cam Higgins There’s a new foal on the Davis Family Farm and Bo is excited to show her the ropes. But can a puppy teach a young horse new tricks? With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Good Dog chapter books are perfect for beginning readers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/resurrection-walk monthly 0.5 2023-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7bead731-06fa-4f95-a215-9aa5839637c4/resurrection.jpg New Arrivals - Resurrection Walk - by Michael Connelly Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. After getting a wrongfully convicted man out of prison, he is inundated with pleas from incarcerated people claiming innocence. He enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, to weed through the letters, knowing most claims will be false. Bosch pulls a needle from the haystack: a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff’s deputy, but who still maintains her innocence. Bosch reviews the case and sees elements that don’t add up, and a sheriff’s department intent on bringing quick justice in the killing of one of its own. Now Haller has an uphill battle in court, a David fighting Goliaths to vindicate his client. The path for both lawyer and investigator is fraught with danger from those who don’t want the case reopened and will stop at nothing to keep the Haller-Bosch dream team from finding the truth. Packed with intrigue and courtroom drama, Resurrection Walk shows once again that Michael Connelly is “the most consistently superior living crime fiction author” (South Florida Sun Sentinel). https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ran-turismo monthly 0.5 2023-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4f35ad74-b80d-48cf-9b0a-83c39d6564a1/turismo.jpg New Arrivals - Gran Turismo Gran Turismo is based on the unbelievable true story of a team of unlikely underdogs – a struggling working-class gamer (Archie Madekwe), a failed former racecar driver (David Harbour), and an idealistic motorsport executive (Orlando Bloom). Together, they risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world. Gran Turismo is an inspiring, thrilling, and action-packed story that proves that nothing is impossible when you’re fueled from within https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/golda monthly 0.5 2023-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3064d666-3eed-437d-9823-20494af66cf9/goldadvd.jpg New Arrivals - Golda Golda (2023, PG-13, 1h 40m) Director: Guy Nattiv Stars: Helen Mirren, Zed Josef, Claudette Williams During the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir must navigate overwhelming odds, a skeptical cabinet, and a complex relationship with U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as millions of lives hang in the balance. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-unmaking-of-june-farrow monthly 0.5 2023-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3cda37ec-c723-43f6-ab06-44edeb62fd7c/unmaking.jpg New Arrivals - The Unmaking of June Farrow - by Adrienne Young In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm—and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. The whole town remembers the madness that led to Susanna Farrow’s disappearance, leaving June to be raised by her grandmother and haunted by rumors. It’s been a year since June started seeing and hearing things that weren’t there. Faint wind chimes, a voice calling her name, and a mysterious door appearing out of nowhere—the signs of what June always knew was coming. But June is determined to end the curse once and for all, even if she must sacrifice finding love and having a family of her own. After her grandmother’s death, June discovers a series of cryptic clues regarding her mother’sdecades-old disappearance, except they only lead to more questions. But could the door she once assumed was a hallucination be the answer she’s been searching for? The next time it appears, June realizes she can touch it and walk past the threshold. And when she does, she embarks on a journey that will not only change both the past and the future, but also uncover the lingering mysteries of her small town and entangle her heart in an epic star-crossed love. With The Unmaking of June Farrow, Adrienne Young delivers a brilliant novel of romance, mystery, and a touch of the impossible—a story you will never forget https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-exchange-after-the-firm monthly 0.5 2023-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d58e6b58-2484-45e6-a5fe-a5b98dd4ae02/exchange.jpg New Arrivals - The Exchange: After the Firm - by John Grisham What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? The answer is in The Exchange, the riveting sequel to The Firm, the blockbuster thriller that launched the career of America’s favorite storyteller. It is now fifteen years later, and Mitch and Abby are living in Manhattan, where Mitch is a partner at the largest law firm in the world. When a mentor in Rome asks him for a favor that will take him far from home, Mitch finds himself at the center of a sinister plot that has worldwide implications—and once again endangers his colleagues, friends, and family. Mitch has become a master at staying one step ahead of his adversaries, but this time there’s nowhere to hide. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/golda-meir monthly 0.5 2023-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a3cf61a1-7c68-4546-a323-7ea2401aeba0/goldameir.jpg New Arrivals - Golda Meir: Israel’s Matriarch - by Deborah E. Lipstadt Golda Meir (1898–1978) was the first and only woman to serve as prime minister of Israel. She was born in Kiev into a childhood of poverty, hunger, and antisemitism. When she was five, her father left to find work in America, and a year later the family settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a teenager she became devoted to Labor Zionism, giving street-corner speeches, and her family’s home became a destination for Zionist emissaries. Her love for Labor Zionism was so fervent that her boyfriend, Morris Meyerson (her future husband), was often in competition with her dedication to the cause. Zionism prevailed. In 1921, Golda left America for Palestine with Morris and her sister Sheyna. Though the reality of living in Palestine was far from the dream of Zionism, Meir settled on the kibbutz Merhavia and was swiftly appointed to the Histadrut (the General Organization of Hebrew Workers in Palestine). As an ally of the Zionist David Ben-Gurion, Meir played an important role in the Yishuv, the pre-state Jewish community in Palestine; proved an almost singular ability to connect and fundraise with diaspora Jewry, particularly Americans; and served in three pivotal positions following Israel’s independence: labor secretary of the newly formed state, foreign minister, and Israel’s fourth prime minister. In tracing the life of Golda Meir, acclaimed author Deborah E. Lipstadt explores the history of the Yishuv and Jewish state from the 1920s through the 1973 Yom Kippur War, all while highlighting the contradictions and complexities of a person who was only the third woman to serve as a head of state in the twentieth century. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-clackity monthly 0.5 2023-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/dc4cbba0-4f1a-4761-80ad-f18ff8097840/clackity.jpg New Arrivals - The Clackity - by Lora Senf Evie Von Rathe lives in Blight Harbor—the seventh-most haunted town in America—with her Aunt Desdemona, the local paranormal expert. Des doesn’t have many rules except one: Stay out of the abandoned slaughterhouse at the edge of town. But when her aunt disappears into the building, Evie goes searching for her. There she meets The Clackity, a creature who lives in the shadows and seams of the slaughterhouse. The Clackity makes a deal with Evie to help get Des back in exchange for the ghost of John Jeffrey Pope, a serial killer who stalked Blight Harbor a hundred years earlier. Evie reluctantly embarks on a journey into a strange otherworld filled with hungry witches, penny-eyed ghosts, and a memory-thief, all while being pursued by a dead man whose only goal is to add Evie to his collection of lost souls. Will she ever find Des, or is The Clackity planning something far more sinister? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/wellness monthly 0.5 2023-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/06beb69b-16e1-4fea-9288-94c353119aec/wellness.jpg New Arrivals - Wellness - by Nathan Hill When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the '90s, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in Chicago’s thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter cults disguised as mindfulness support groups, polyamorous would-be suitors, Facebook wars, and something called Love Potion Number Nine. For the first time, Jack and Elizabeth struggle to recognize each other, and the no-longer-youthful dreamers are forced to face their demons, from unfulfilled career ambitions to painful childhood memories of their own dysfunctional families. In the process, Jack and Elizabeth must undertake separate, personal excavations, or risk losing the best thing in their lives: each other. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/rouge monthly 0.5 2023-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e54832e7-de1b-4992-a0c9-10d7a401dc12/rouge.jpg New Arrivals - Rouge - by Mona Awad For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother’s) obsession with the mirror—and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass. Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry—as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-wren-the-wren monthly 0.5 2023-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b0e6e6a3-4e88-4ce7-b768-0cc68752df40/wren.jpg New Arrivals - The Wren The Wren - by Anne Enright Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves her mother Carmel’s orderly home to find her own voice as a writer (mostly online, ghost-blogging for an influencer) and to live a poetical life. As she chases obsessive love, damage, and transcendence, in Dublin and beyond, her grandfather’s poetry seems to guide her home. Nell’s mother, Carmel McDaragh, knows the magic of her Daddo’s poetry too well—the kind of magic that makes women in their nighties slip outside for a kiss and then elope, as her mother Terry had done. In his poems to Carmel, Phil envisions his daughter as a bright-eyed wren ascending in escape from his hand. But it is Phil who departs, abandoning his wife and two young daughters. Carmel struggles to reconcile “the poet” with the father whose desertion scars her life, along with that of her fiercely dutiful sister and their gentle, cancer-ridden mother. To distance herself from this betrayal, Carmel turns inward, raising Nell, her daughter, and one trusted love, alone. The Wren, the Wren brings to life three generations of McDaragh women who must contend with inheritances—of poetic wonder and of abandonment by a man who is lauded in public and carelessly selfish at home. Their other, stronger inheritance is a sustaining love that is “more than a strand of DNA, but a rope thrown from the past, a fat twisted rope, full of blood.” In sharp prose studded with crystalline poetry, Anne Enright masterfully braids a family story of longing, betrayal, and hope. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/normal-rules-dont-apply monthly 0.5 2023-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1d287229-17e3-453e-b8db-28a9c695c7e3/normalrules.jpg New Arrivals - Normal Rules Don’t Apply - by Kate Atkinson Nothing is quite as it seems in this collection of eleven dazzling stories. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a man who bets on a horse that may—or may not—have spoken to him. Everything that readers love about the novels of Kate Atkinson is here—the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop. A startling and funny feast for the imagination, these stories conjure a multiverse of subtly connected worlds while illuminating the webs of chance and connection among us all. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ms-demeanor monthly 0.5 2023-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2c5505a1-4c00-4d4b-9ecc-14403d682660/demeanor.jpg New Arrivals - Ms. Demeanor - by Elinor Lipman Jane Morgan is a valued member of her law firm—or was, until a prudish neighbor, binoculars poised, observes her having sex on the roof of her NYC apartment building. Police are summoned, and a punishing judge sentences her to six months of home confinement. With Jane now jobless and rootless, trapped at home, life looks bleak. Yes, her twin sister provides support and advice, but mostly of the unwelcome kind. When a doorman lets slip that Jane isn't the only resident wearing an ankle monitor, she strikes up a friendship with fellow white-collar felon Perry Salisbury. As she tries to adapt to life within her apartment walls, she discovers she hasn’t heard the end of that tattletale neighbor—whose past isn’t as decorous as her 9-1-1 snitching would suggest. Why are police knocking on Jane’s door again? Can her house arrest have a silver lining? Can two wrongs make a right? In the hands of "an inspired alchemist who converts serious subject into humor” (New York Times Book Review)—yes, delightfully. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/wrecker monthly 0.5 2023-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9d92eaf9-e31b-4f2f-a905-c51b56c821f5/wrecker.jpg New Arrivals - Wrecker - by Carl Hiaasen Valdez Jones VIII calls himself Wrecker because his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks for a living. So is it destiny, irony, or just bad luck when Wrecker comes across a speedboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat? The men in the boat don't want Wrecker to call for help—in fact, they'll pay him to forget he ever saw them. Wrecker would be happy to forget, but he keeps seeing these men all over Key West—at the marina, in the cemetery, even right outside his own door. And now they want more than his silence—they want a lookout. He'll have to dive deep into their shady dealings to figure out a way to escape this tangled net. . . . https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-longmire-defense monthly 0.5 2023-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/bb1a1b30-e7ad-417e-9b18-799de538ab5d/longmiredefense.jpg New Arrivals - The Longmire Defense - by Craig Johnson Sheriff Walt Longmire and Dog are called on a routine search and rescue to Wyoming’s Big­horn Mountains, where Walt finds himself on a rock outcropping remembering when his father told him about the first time he saw a man die. In the late forties, Bill Sutherland was shot but the investigation was stymied because no mem­ber of the elk camp—where he was found—was carrying the caliber rifle that killed the state accountant. When Dog discovers the miss­ing weapon, the sheriff of Absaroka County is plunged headfirst into a cold case. His inves­tigation quickly finds ties to a hidden mineral fund that someone is willing to kill to keep secret. The embodiment of the fair-minded detective, Walt is pushed to his ethical bound­aries. In his relentless pursuit of the truth, he discovers the rifle in question belonged to none other than Walt’s infamous and uncompromis­ing grandfather, Lloyd Longmire. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/tom-clancy-weapons-grade monthly 0.5 2023-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/30c8d40b-b686-4c88-9ba6-33a15daa9ea6/weaponsgrade.jpg New Arrivals - Tom Clancy Weapons Grade - by Don Bentley The quiet of a Texas night is shattered by the sounds of screeching brakes, crumpling metal and, most shockingly, rapid gunfire. The auto accident Jack Ryan Jr thought he witnessed turned out to be a professional hit. Jack may be too late to save the victim, but he’ll be damned if he’s going to let the hitters escape justice. He’s got just one lead—a meeting the victim was going to. When Jack shows up instead, he’s drawn into the seedy underbelly of a small, Texas town and the cold case of a college student who vanished from its streets. Jack is left with nothing but questions. Who wants it to look like the victim was drunk? Why does someone want an innocent witness killed? And most of all, what’s a team of South African hitmen doing in the Lone Star State? His quest for answers will take Jack from a quiet Texas road to the middle of an international conspiracy and may just cost him his life. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-armor-of-light monthly 0.5 2023-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/78cfcf9e-26bd-4869-94c8-7fc20b72c921/armoroflight.jpg New Arrivals - The Armor of Light - by Ken Follett The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother’s husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects his wealth no matter the cost, all the while war cries are heard from France, as Napoleon sets forth a violent master plan to become emperor of the world. As institutions are challenged and toppled in unprecedented fashion, ripples of change ricochet through our characters’ lives as they are left to reckon with the future and a world they must rebuild from the ashes of war. Over thirty years ago, Ken Follett published his most popular novel, The Pillars of the Earth. Now, with this electrifying addition to the Kingsbridge series we are plunged into the battlefield between compassion and greed, love and hate, progress and tradition. It is through each character that we are given a new perspective to the seismic shifts that shook the world in nineteenth-century Europe. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/elon-musk monthly 0.5 2023-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/531455e0-51d4-44fa-81e0-51e8edd47d1f/elonmusk.jpg New Arrivals - Elon Musk - by Walter Isaacson When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist. His father’s impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child, prone to abrupt Jekyll-and-Hyde mood swings, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal intensity that was callous and at times destructive. At the beginning of 2022—after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one rockets into orbit, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth—Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. “I need to shift my mindset away from being in crisis mode, which it has been for about fourteen years now, or arguably most of my life,” he said. It was a wistful comment, not a New Year’s resolution. Even as he said it, he was secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the world’s ultimate playground. Over the years, whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground. Now he had the chance to own the playground. For two years, Isaacson shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, coworkers, and adversaries. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the question: are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-fraud monthly 0.5 2023-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/503faa4c-11ab-4a33-9a74-4d8f66547b4a/thefraud.jpg New Arrivals - The Fraud - by Zadie Smith It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper—and cousin by marriage—of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully and a moralist; and England of being a land of facades, in which nothing is quite what it seems. Andrew Bogle, meanwhile, grew up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica. He knows every lump of sugar comes at a human cost. That the rich deceive the poor. And that people are more easily manipulated than they realize. When Bogle finds himself in London, star witness in a celebrated case of imposture, he knows his future depends on telling the right story. The “Tichborne Trial”—wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claimed he was in fact the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title—captivates Mrs. Touchet and all of England. Is Sir Roger Tichborne really who he says he is? Or is he a fraud? Mrs. Touchet is a woman of the world. Mr. Bogle is no fool. But in a world of hypocrisy and self-deception, deciding what is real proves a complicated task. . . . Based on real historical events, The Fraud is a dazzling novel about truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, fraudulence and authenticity and the mystery of “other people.” https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-witching-tide monthly 0.5 2023-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1696536502361-ATHG1TBF8I9510AAXY6W/witchingtide.jpg New Arrivals - The Witching Tide - by Margaret Meyer East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer, and servant, has lived peacefully for more than four decades in her beloved seaside village of Cleftwater. Having lost her voice as a child, Martha has not spoken a word in years. One autumn morning, a sinister newcomer appears in town. The witchfinder, Silas Makepeace, has been blazing a trail of destruction along the coast, and now has Cleftwater in his sights. His arrival strikes fear into the heart of the community. Within a day, local women are being captured and detained, and Martha finds herself a silent witness to the hunt. Powerless to protest, Martha is enlisted to search the accused women for “devil’s marks.” She is caught between suspicion and betrayal; between shielding herself or condemning the women of the village. In desperation, she revives a wax witching doll that belonged to her mother, in the hope that it will bring protection. But the doll’s true powers are unknowable, Martha harbors a terrible secret, and the gallows are looming… Set over the course of just a few weeks that will forever change history, The Witching Tide delivers powerful and psychologically astute insights about the exigencies of friendship and the nature of loyalty, and heralds the arrival of a striking new voice in fiction. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/shark-heart monthly 0.5 2023-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8efdcb1c-48af-4650-93c4-aa0e5dc9792e/sharkheart.jpg New Arrivals - Shark Heart: A Love Story - by Emily Habeck For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis. He will retain most of his consciousness, memories, and intellect, but his physical body will gradually turn into a great white shark. As Lewis develops the features and impulses of one of the most predatory creatures in the ocean, his complicated artist’s heart struggles to make peace with his unfulfilled dreams. At first, Wren internally resists her husband’s fate. Is there a way for them to be together after Lewis changes? Then, a glimpse of Lewis’s developing carnivorous nature activates long-repressed memories for Wren, whose story vacillates between her childhood living on a houseboat in Oklahoma, her time with a college ex-girlfriend, and her unusual friendship with a woman pregnant with twin birds. Woven throughout this bold novel is the story of Wren’s mother, Angela, who becomes pregnant with Wren at fifteen in an abusive relationship amidst her parents’ crumbling marriage. In the present, all of Wren’s grief eventually collides, and she is forced to make an impossible choice. A sweeping love story that is at once lyrical and funny, airy and visceral, Shark Heart is an unforgettable, gorgeous novel about life’s perennial questions, the fragility of memories, finding joy amidst grief, and creating a meaningful life. This daring debut marks the arrival of a wildly talented new writer abounding with originality, humor, and heart. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-breakaway monthly 0.5 2023-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1bafc30a-2ad7-46eb-9f09-4d6ef3d10bdd/breakaway.jpg New Arrivals - The Breakaway - by Jennifer Weiner Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she’s lived since college still looks like she’s just moved in. But she’s got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club in Philadelphia. She’s at peace with her plus-size body—at least, most of the time—and she’s on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood summer sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her perpetually dieting mother forced her to attend. Fifteen years after her final summer at Camp Golden Hills, when Abby reconnects with a half-his-size Mark, it feels like the happy ending she’s always wanted. Yet Abby can’t escape the feeling that some­thing isn’t right...or the memories of one thrilling night she spent with a man named Sebastian two years previously. When Abby gets a last-minute invi­tation to lead a cycling trip from NYC to Niagara Falls, she’s happy to have time away from Mark, a chance to reflect and make up her mind. But things get complicated fast. First, Abby spots a familiar face in the group—Sebastian, the one-night stand she thought she’d never see again. Sebastian is a serial dater who lives a hundred miles away. In spite of their undeniable chemistry, Abby is determined to keep her distance. Then there’s a surprise last-minute addition to the trip: her mother, Eileen, the woman Abby blames for a lifetime of body shaming and insecurities she’s still trying to undo. Over two weeks and more than seven hundred miles, strangers become friends, hidden truths come to light, a teenage girl with a secret unites the riders in unexpected ways...and Abby is forced to reconsider everything she believes about herself, her mother, and the nature of love. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-river-we-remember monthly 0.5 2023-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9a6b07eb-07f6-49eb-8bd8-31a761346910/the+river.jpg New Arrivals - The River We Remember - by William Kent Krueger On Memorial Day, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service. Even before Dern has the results of the autopsy, vicious rumors begin to circulate that the killer must be Noah Bluestone, a Native American WWII veteran who has recently returned to Jewel with a Japanese wife. As suspicions and accusations mount and the town teeters on the edge of more violence, Dern struggles not only to find the truth of Quinn’s murder but also put to rest the demons from his own past. Caught up in the torrent of anger that sweeps through Jewel are a war widow and her adolescent son, the intrepid publisher of the local newspaper, an aging deputy, and a crusading female lawyer, all of whom struggle with their own tragic histories and harbor secrets that Quinn’s death threatens to expose. Both a complex, spellbinding mystery and a masterful portrait of midcentury American life from an author of novels “as big-hearted as they come” (Parade), The River We Remember is an unflinching look at the wounds left by the wars we fight abroad and at home, a moving exploration of the ways in which we seek to heal, and a testament to the enduring power of the stories we tell about the places we call home. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/things-in-the-basement monthly 0.5 2023-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1a58b1e8-799c-4c40-9ba7-69edf10b78a5/basement.jpg New Arrivals - Things In The Basement - by Ben Hatke It was supposed to just be a normal basement―some storage boxes, dust, you know, the usual basement stuff. But when Milo is sent by his mother to fetch a sock from the basement of the historic home they've moved into, Milo finds a door in the back that he's never seen before. Turns out that the basement of his house is enormous. In fact, there is a whole world down there. As Milo travels ever deeper into the Basement World, he meets the many Things that live in the shadows and gloom...and he learns that to face his fears he must approach even the strangest creatures with kindness. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/eerie-tales-from-the-school-of-screams monthly 0.5 2023-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/76b5c9a6-f342-4a26-b0a7-4a3508d2dc07/eerietales.jpg New Arrivals - Eerie Tales from the School of Screams - by Graham Annable School is tough. School is scary. School is EERIE. No one knows this better than Davis and Emily. But they’re not scared of school because of tough tests or merciless vice-principals. No, they’re scared because their teacher wants her students to present the class with the spookiest, most chilling stories they can think of. From the twisted mind of Graham Annable comes five horrifying stories that will scare your skeleton right out of your skin. Are you ready to stare down “The Face in the Forest”? Do you think you can handle the truth behind “The Village that Vanished?” Lock the doors, turn on all the lights, and arm yourself with candy― you’ll need all the help you can get to face these nightmares. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/slime-doesnt-pay monthly 0.5 2023-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/87ae0cd4-a5ed-47f3-ab77-0f592e83c213/slime.jpg New Arrivals - Slime Doesn’t Pay - by R.L. Stine In this R.L. Stine family-friendly scare fest, Amy and her friend, Lissa, don't know what to do about Arnie's bullying, bad-boy behavior, and mean jokes and pranks. The little monster is ruining their lives! The girls decide it's payback time. Total humiliation for Arnie. They find a recipe for blue slime on a YouTube channel and mix a big bucket to pour over Arnie at his birthday party. To their horror, the girls instantly discover that SLIME DOESN'T PAY! Before their eyes, Arnie's whole body starts to change. The slime turns him into a real monster. Now Amy and Lissa have two frightening dilemmas: Can they save their town from the raging Arnie Monster? And is there any way to turn the monster back into Arnie? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/youre-my-little-pumpkin-pie monthly 0.5 2023-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ff654c13-88bb-4840-8b07-e0912ed7951b/pumpkinpie.jpg New Arrivals - You’re My Little Pumpkin Pie - by Nicola Edwards You’re My Little Pumpkin Pie is a adorable board book to share with your little one. With chunky pages for little hands and die-cut shapes to add depth and interest, children will love the interactive features alongside the story. This endearing board book is a wonderful read for Halloween or any time. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/spooky-pookie monthly 0.5 2023-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2947d73c-4c33-445e-8ec2-c8c18c2e767a/spookypookie.jpg New Arrivals - Spooky Pookie - by Sandra Boynton What will little Pookie decide to be for Halloween this year? Pookie tries on costumes one by one, but somehow can’t find the right thing. The resolution to Pookie’s dilemma will delight toddlers and their caregivers alike. Told with Sandra Boynton’s charm and pizzazz, Spooky Pookie is a Halloween classic. Boo! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/roto-and-roy-to-the-rescue monthly 0.5 2023-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b5eb39dc-2d2e-44a8-b3f0-8790de31ac43/rotoroy.jpg New Arrivals - Roto and Roy to the Rescue - by Sherri Duskey Rinker When a flash flood threatens a nearby town, helicopter Roto and pilot Roy soar to the rescue! Quick—a truck needs to be hoisted to safety! Hurry—that family’s car is being swept away! Now grab as many sandbags and supplies as you can carry! This mission’s going to be rough, but Roy and Roto are tougher than tough. From Sherri Duskey Rinker, bestselling author of the Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site series, and acclaimed illustrator Don Tate, this action-packed story showcases two awesome heroes and the power of teamwork. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/abbott-elementary-season2 monthly 0.5 2023-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7df88055-ef54-47c5-9320-763e4d11275d/abbott2.jpg New Arrivals - Abbott Elementary (Season 2) The teachers are back at Willard R. Abbott Public School for development week, a time to prepare for the upcoming year before the students’ first day of school. Post-breakup, Janine is determined to start the year off right and leave her problems at home. Meanwhile, Ava runs a side hustle out of the school parking lot and Gregory, now a full-time teacher, is in over his head with the curriculum. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/elemental monthly 0.5 2023-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ae7ab266-3a08-472c-ab8f-cf3e5be42804/elemental.jpg New Arrivals - Elemental Disney and Pixar's "Elemental" is an original feature film set in Element City, where residents of Fire, Water, Earth and Air live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in. Directed by Peter Sohn ("The Good Dinosaur," "Partly Cloudy" short), written by John Hoberg & Kat Likkel and Brenda Hsueh, produced by Denise Ream ("The Good Dinosaur," "Cars 2"), and featuring the voices of Leah Lewis and Mamoudou Athie as Ember and Wade. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/family-lore monthly 0.5 2023-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6a7a4244-a5ba-4236-b3c2-6a0955c78ce7/family.jpg New Arrivals - Family Lore - by Elizabeth Acevedo Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wake—a party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life she’s led—her sisters are surprised. Has Flor foreseen her own death, or someone else’s? Does she have other motives? She refuses to tell her sisters, Matilde, Pastora, and Camila. But Flor isn’t the only person with secrets: her sisters are hiding things, too. And the next generation, cousins Ona and Yadi, face tumult of their own. Spanning the three days prior to the wake, Family Lore traces the lives of each of the Marte women, weaving together past and present, Santo Domingo and New York City. Told with Elizabeth Acevedo’s inimitable and incandescent voice, this is an indelible portrait of sisters and cousins, aunts and nieces—one family’s journey through their history, helping them better navigate all that is to come. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-last-devil-to-die monthly 0.5 2023-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/94f52142-decc-4c96-a9d8-34c156857d69/devil.jpg New Arrivals - The Last Devil to Die - by Richard Osman It's rarely a quiet day for the Thursday Murder Club. Shocking news reaches them—an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. The gang's search leads them into the antiques business, where the tricks of the trade are as old as the objects themselves. As they encounter drug dealers, art forgers, and online fraudsters—as well as heartache close to home—Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim have no idea whom to trust. With the body count rising, the clock ticking down, and trouble firmly on their tail, has their luck finally run out? And who will be the last devil to die? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dead-on-target monthly 0.5 2023-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b88083bd-d76a-4600-8f71-6d0ebe81ce8d/target.jpg New Arrivals - Dead on Target - by M.C. Beaton A visit to the local village fete for a spot of fun and relaxation turns into a nightmare for Agatha Raisin when she discovers the body of the local landowner in the woods with an arrow in his chest and trousers round his ankles. Agatha’s old adversary, Detective Chief Inspector Wilkes, declares the death a tragic accident, believing the victim has been hit by a stray arrow from an archery demonstration. Agatha is convinced of foul play, however, and is shocked when Wilkes eventually agrees … with her as his prime murder suspect. Determined to clear her name and find the real killer, Agatha launches her own investigation, quickly becoming involved with a family at war, an unscrupulous gangster, and a killer who is determined to make her the next victim … https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-to-z-animal-mysteries-bats-in-the-castle monthly 0.5 2023-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8f649c3f-11a2-4625-b535-4e24fa108782/bats.jpg New Arrivals - A to Z Animal Mysteries: Bats in the Castle - by Kayla Whaley Inspired by Ron Roy's A to Z Mysteries series, this bright and modern animal adventure story is perfect for budding young chapter book readers. This time, Abbi and her friends are determined to rescue a lost bat! Solve Animal Mysteries from A to Z! Abbi, Lydia, and Daniel love to watch bats flying around their neighborhood after sunset. Nature is so cool! But then they hear an unnatural sound in Abbi's home. Is it a ghost? Or something scarier? With help from her trusty dog Barkley, Abbi and her friends will shine a light on the truth! Don't miss the first book in this series: A to Z Animal Mysteries #1: The Absent Alpacas. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/playing-place monthly 0.5 2023-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/80faf8d7-b952-4de3-8b40-4f994c15fc27/playing.jpg New Arrivals - Playing Place : Board Games, Popular Culture, Space - by Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky Board games harness the creation of entirely new worlds. From the medieval warlord to the modern urban planner, players are permitted to inhabit a staggering variety of roles and are prompted to incorporate preexisting notions of placemaking into their decisions. To what extent do board games represent the social context of their production? How might they reinforce or subvert normative ideas of community and fulfillment? In Playing Place,Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky have curated a collection of thirty-seven fascinating essays, supplemented by a rich trove of photo illustrations, that unpack these questions with breadth and care. Although board games are often recreational objects, their mythologies and infrastructure do not exist in a vacuum—rather, they echo and reproduce prevalent cultural landscapes. This thesis forms the throughline of pieces reflecting on subjects as diverse as the rigidly gendered fantasies of classic mass-market games; the imperial convictions embedded in games that position player-protagonists as conquerors establishing dominion over their “discoveries”; and even the uncanny prescience of games that have players responding to a global pandemic. Representing a thrilling convergence of historiography, architectural history, and media studies scholarship, Playing Place suggests not only that tabletop games should be taken seriously but also that the medium itself is uniquely capable of facilitating our critical consideration of structures that are often taken for granted. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-slip monthly 0.5 2023-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/47b0bea2-57f3-4290-92f6-0695d3686e86/slip.jpg New Arrivals - The Slip : The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever - by Prudence Pfeiffer The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at the lower tip of Manhattan and the remarkable artists who got their start there. For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip of Manhattan became the quiet epicenter of the art world. Coenties Slip, a dead-end street near the water, was home to a circle of wildly talented and varied artists that included Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, and Jack Youngerman. As friends and inspirations to one another, they created a unique community for unbridled creative expression and experimentation, and the works they made at the Slip would go on to change the course of American art. Now, for the first time, Prudence Peiffer pays homage to these artists and the unsung impact their work had on the direction of late twentieth-century art and film. This remarkable biography, as transformative as the artists it illuminates, questions the very concept of a “group” or “movement,” as it spotlights the Slip’s eclectic mix of gender and sexual orientation, abstraction and Pop, experimental film, painting, and sculpture, assemblage and textile works. Brought together not by the tenets of composition or technique, nor by philosophy or politics, the artists cultivated a scene at the Slip defined by a singular spirit of community and place. They drew lasting inspiration from one another, but perhaps even more from where they called home, and the need to preserve the solitude its geography fostered. Despite Coenties Slip’s obscurity, the entire history of Manhattan was inscribed into its cobblestones—one of the first streets and central markets of the new colony, built by enslaved people, with revolutionary meetings at the tavern just down Pearl Street; named by Herman Melville in Moby Dick and site of the boom and bust of the city’s maritime industry; and, in the artists’s own time, a development battleground for Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses. The Slip’s history is entwined with that of the artists and their art—eclectic and varied work that was made from the wreckage of the city’s many former lives. An ambitious and singular account of a time, a place, and a group of extraordinary people, The Slip investigates the importance of community, and makes an argument for how we are shaped by it, and how it in turns shapes our work. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/i-feel-love-mdma monthly 0.5 2023-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1f759ba3-37d4-42ef-86af-829dbc2c24a5/mdma.jpg New Arrivals - I Feel Love : MDMA and the Quest for Connection an a Fractured World - by Rachel Nuwer The unlikely story of how the psychedelic drug MDMA emerged from the shadows to the forefront of a medical revolution--and the potential it may hold to help us thrive. Few drugs in history have generated as much controversy as MDMA--or held as much promise. Once vilified as a Schedule I substance that would supposedly eat holes in users' brains, MDMA (also known as Molly or Ecstasy) is now being hailed as a therapeutic agent that could transform the field of mental health and outpace psilocybin and ketamine as the first psychedelic approved for widespread clinical use. In I Feel Love, science journalist Rachel Nuwer separates fact from fantasy, hope from hype, in the drug's contested history and still-evolving future. Evidence from scientific trials suggests MDMA, properly administered, can be startlingly effective at relieving the effects of trauma. Results from other studies point to its usefulness for individual and couples therapy; for treating depression, alcohol addiction, and eating disorders; and for cultivating personal growth. Yet scientists are still racing to discover how MDMA achieves these outcomes, a mystery that is taking them into the inner recesses of the brain and the deep history of evolution. With its power to dismantle psychological defenses and induce feelings of empathy, self-compassion, and love, MDMA may answer profound questions about how we became human, and how to heal our broken social bonds. From cutting-edge labs to pulsing club floors to the intimacy of the therapist's couch, Nuwer guides readers through a cultural and scientific upheaval that is rewriting our understanding of our brains, our selves, and the space between https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-not-so-scary-book-of-monsters monthly 0.5 2023-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/11f570af-b1c6-43f7-8835-c21b1df1ac8d/monsters.jpg New Arrivals - The (not-so-scary) Book of Monsters - by Ian James-dye "This monster goes to school, he makes sure he's on time, he always pays attention to feed and grow his mind. When teachers ask a question he will raise his hand, he listens to the lessons so he can understand." Welcome to the world of the not-so-scary monsters! Each page contains a beautiful illustration of an adorable monster and a description of what they do. Some monsters like sports and some like to do chores, but none of them are scary! For those too young to read, this is the perfect book for a bedtime story. You can read the book all the way through or just pick a couple of monsters to read before bed. This book is also designed with young readers in mind and is balanced between sight words and words that can be sounded out with a mix of challenging words to promote parent assistance. This is a great tool for teachers and parents of new readers and introduces kids to rhyming and rhythm. The font has a heavy bottom which is specifically designed to enhance the ease of reading and comprehension including readers that may be struggling with dyslexia. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-hike monthly 0.5 2023-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d26e026c-24a2-42d1-8d43-61d36e67d057/hike.jpg New Arrivals - The Hike - by Lucy Clarke No help. No cell coverage. No one to hear them scream. Burned-out by both her marriage and work, Liz is desperate for an escape. More than that, she craves an adventure, a total reset. So, when she plans a vacation with her three best friends, she persuades them to spend four nights camping in the stunning mountains of Norway. Following a trail that climbs through lush valleys, towering peaks, and past jewel-blue lakes, Liz is sure that the hike is just what they need. But as they stride farther from civilization, it becomes clear that the women are not the only ones looking to lose themselves in the mountains. The wilderness hides secrets darker than they could ever have imagined, and if they’re not careful . . . not all of them will return. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/keep-trying monthly 0.5 2023-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1545b898-0be1-44fb-b1d8-b2c55e8ac78a/keeptrying.jpg New Arrivals - Keep Trying - by Joseph Reidy My parents wrote a journal of my recovery while I was in the hospital. When I woke up from my coma, I decided to start writing and it became my first book, My Nightmare…and How I Woke from It. This book is a continuation of that, detailing the incredible effort it takes to recover from this type of trauma. And I’m still working at it! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/my-nightmare-and-how-i-woke-from-it monthly 0.5 2023-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2e6eebf3-5ee0-4be8-b964-8de76e54ed71/nightmare.jpg New Arrivals - My Nightmare… and How I Woke from It - by Joseph Reidy This book is about a journey that I went on into the catacombs of being in a hospital with a brain injury. This book is all based on true events that happened to me. Doing a journey like this has certainly changed me for the better at the end of the day I believe. There is just something about having a traumatic event happen to you, it changes you ultimately for the better. It can be a struggle though, but the trick of it is not to get discouraged. I hope this book helps you through whatever traumatic events have happened to you. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pete-and-alice-in-maine monthly 0.5 2023-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3a4148b9-d1fd-43de-9705-85a2a21a7035/petealice.jpg New Arrivals - Pete and Alice in Maine - by Caitlin Shetterly Reeling from a painful betrayal in her marriage as the Covid pandemic takes hold in New York City, Alice packs up her family and flees to their vacation home in Maine. She hopes to find sanctuary—from the uncertainties of the exploding pandemic and her faltering marriage. Putting distance between herself and the stresses and troubles of the city, Alice begins to feel safe and relieved. But the locals are far from friendly. Trapped and forced into quarantine by hostile neighbors, Alice sees the imprisoning structure of her lifein this new predicament. Stripped down to the bare essentials of survival and tending to the needs of her two children, she can no longer ignore all the ways in which she feels limited and lost—lost in the big city, lost as a wife, lost as a mother, lost as a daughter and lost as a person. As the world shifts around her and the balance in her marriage tilts, Alice and her husband, Pete, are left to consider if what keeps their family safe is the same thing as what keeps their family together. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-postcard monthly 0.5 2023-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/285d3fa4-40ba-488d-b68e-9b548c40660c/postcard.jpg New Arrivals - The Postcard - by Anne Berest January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front, a photo of the Opéra Garnier in Paris. On the back, the names of Anne Berest’s maternal great-grandparents, Ephraïm and Emma, and their children, Noémie and Jacques—all killed at Auschwitz. Fifteen years after the postcard is delivered, Anne, the heroine of this novel, is moved to discover who sent it and why. Aided by her chain-smoking mother, family members, friends, associates, a private detective, a graphologist, and many others, she embarks on a journey to discover the fate of the Rabinovitch family: their flight from Russia following the revolution, their journey to Latvia, Palestine, and Paris. What emerges is a moving saga that shatters long-held certainties about Anne’s family, her country, and herself. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/national-park-mystery-series-discovery-in-great-sand-dunes-national-park-book2 monthly 0.5 2023-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4022bc33-a47e-4208-8149-cb3227830d91/greatdunes.jpg New Arrivals - National Park Mystery Series : Discovery in Great Sand Dunes National Park (Book 2) - by Aaron Johnson Riddles - Lost Landmarks - Hidden Clues - Real Locations The scavenger hunt continues in book two of the bestselling National Park Mystery Series. After camping in Rocky Mountain National Park, Jake and his friends travel to the Great Sand Dunes in southern Colorado. Exploring the heart of the dunes, they stumble upon something both unexpected and dangerous. Through more twists and turns, Jake’s friendships and integrity are tested by choices that will demand smarts and courage. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/poker-face monthly 0.5 2023-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/884180f9-be8b-4fea-a0db-417d7d9739f9/pokerface.jpg New Arrivals - Poker Face : Season One Four-time Emmy nominee Natasha Lyonne stars in Poker Face: Season One as Charlie Cale, a down-on-her-luck cocktail waitress with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth. After crossing a bloodthirsty mobster, Charlie hits the road in her trusty Plymouth Barracuda, encountering new friends, unsolved mysteries, and danger everywhere she turns. This 3-disc collection includes every thrilling episode and features amazing guest performances from Academy Award winner Adrien Brody (The Pianist), four-time Emmy Award nominee Judith Light (Transparent), Academy Award nominee Chloë Sevigny (Boys Don’t Cry), three-time Academy Award nominee Nick Nolte (Warrior), Emmy Award nominee Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception) and more! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/hooty-pooty-the-owl monthly 0.5 2023-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9227ef4f-6b3c-4c06-9429-213fabd659f6/hooty.jpg New Arrivals - Hooty Pooty the Owl - by Humor Heals Us This Halloween, make it a funny one! Hooty Pooty the Owl is a hoot! Hooty Pooty is a farting owl, He can’t help his stinky bowel. Most owls cry “Hoot, hoot, hoot!” But Hooty Pooty cries, “Poot, poot, poot!” https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dragon-kingdom-of-wrenly-ghost-island monthly 0.5 2023-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/078149a1-96cd-4415-a28e-99a01e82a947/ghost+island.jpg New Arrivals - Dragon Kingdon of Wrenly: Ghost Island - by Jordan Quinn In the fourth installment of the exciting Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly graphic novel series, Ruskin and his dragon friends discover there’s more than just ghosts to worry about on Ghost Island! After surviving a curse, a few wicked spells, and an angry smoke dragon, Ruskin, Cinder, Groth, and Roke decide it’s time for some fun. The dragon friends set out on a camping trip to Ghost Island, located in a remote corner of Wrenly, to see the “statues” of the woodland creatures that have temporarily been turned to stone by the resident basilisk babies. Groth assures the others that there are no ghosts on Ghost Island…it’s just called that because it’s so deserted. And the basilisks sleep during the day and hunt at night, so as long as they are cautious and quiet, they should have nothing to worry about. But when the dragons arrive, they quickly discover there’s much more to Ghost Island than some creepy statues. In fact, the basilisks are not even the scariest thing there! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dragon-kingdom-of-wrenly-inferno-new-year monthly 0.5 2023-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d34ba55b-77ac-4fe6-92d9-eb7ff747b88a/inferno.jpg New Arrivals - Dragon Kingdon of Wrenly: Inferno New Year - by Jordan Quinn In the fifth installment of the exciting Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly graphic novel series, Ruskin and his friends await a volcano eruption! It’s almost time for Inferno New Year on Crestwood, when the island’s largest volcano erupts, bringing a lava-fall that transforms the surrounding landscape. This spectacular but dangerous event brings Cinder, Groth, and Roke to the palace to stay with Ruskin until it’s safe to return to Crestwood. However, danger seems to follow these dragons wherever they go, and after the explosions are finished on Crestwood, the island’s geography won’t be the only thing that has changed forever. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dragon-kingdom-of-wrenly-ice-dragon monthly 0.5 2023-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c1420d9d-6648-4d03-8da5-17fd2554a0ad/icedragon.jpg New Arrivals - Dragon Kingdon of Wrenly: Ice Dragon - by Jordan Quinn In this sixth installment of the exciting Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly graphic novel series, Ruskin and his friends meet an ancient ice dragon. Ruskin and his friends travel to Flatfrost for the Winter Festival, which is extra special this year because the legendary, ancient ice dragon has appeared! Being thousands of years old, the ice dragon is perhaps the only living creature who knew the original dragon king. She also unknowingly holds an important piece to the puzzle of who the dark forces are that have been plotting against Ruskin. Can Ruskin and his friends uncover the secret and keep the ice dragon safe? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-last-chairlift monthly 0.5 2023-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/93ca2330-631f-445e-85e1-a350716ba88f/chairlift.jpg New Arrivals - The Last Chairlift - by John Irving In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren’t the first or the last ghosts he sees. John Irving has written some of the most acclaimed books of our time—among them, The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules. A visionary voice on the subject of sexual tolerance, Irving is a bard of alternative families. In The Last Chairlift, readers will once more be in his thrall. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/what-an-owl-knows monthly 0.5 2023-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/30166f4a-ecfe-4b24-9fc5-abc4fe6d74a5/owl.jpg New Arrivals - What an Owl Knows - by Jennifer Ackerman For millennia, owls have captivated and intrigued us. Our fascination with these mysterious birds was first documented more than thirty thousand years ago in the Chauvet Cave paintings in southern France. With their forward gaze and quiet flight, owls are often a symbol of wisdom, knowledge, and foresight. But what does an owl really know? And what do we really know about owls? Though our fascination goes back centuries, scientists have only recently begun to understand in deep detail the complex nature of these extraordinary birds. Some two hundred sixty species of owls exist today, and they reside on every continent except Antarctica, but they are far more difficult to find and study than other birds because they are cryptic, camouflaged, and mostly active in the dark of night. Jennifer Ackerman illuminates the rich biology and natural history of these birds and reveals remarkable new scientific discoveries about their brains and behavior. She joins scientists in the field and explores how researchers are using modern technology and tools to learn how owls communicate, hunt, court, mate, raise their young, and move about from season to season. We now know that the hoots, squawks, and chitters of owls follow sophisticated and complex rules, allowing them to express not just their needs and desires but their individuality and identity. Owls duet. They migrate. They hoard their prey. Some live in underground burrows; some roost in large groups; some dine on black widows and scorpions. Ackerman brings this research alive with her own personal field observations about owls and dives deep into why these birds beguile us. What an Owl Knows is an awe-inspiring exploration of owls across the globe and through human history, and a spellbinding account of their astonishing hunting skills, communication, and sensory prowess. By providing extraordinary new insights into the science of owls, What an Owl Knows pulls back the curtain on the nature of the world’s most enigmatic group of birds. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-heaven-earth-grocery-store monthly 0.5 2023-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/54dabb5b-504f-473f-8965-09f182ea469f/heaven.jpg New Arrivals - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - by James McBride In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe’s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. As these characters’ stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town’s white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community—heaven and earth—that sustain us. Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/happiess-falls monthly 0.5 2023-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a9cdf1db-5399-43f9-8b4c-2f1277e57003/happiness.jpg New Arrivals - Happiness Falls - by Angie Kim “We didn’t call the police right away.” Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing. Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything—which is why she isn’t initially concerned when her father and younger brother Eugene don’t return from a walk in a nearby park. They must have lost their phone. Or stopped for an errand somewhere. But by the time Mia’s brother runs through the front door bloody and alone, it becomes clear that the father in this tight-knit family is missing and the only witness is Eugene, who has the rare genetic condition Angelman syndrome and cannot speak. What follows is both a ticking-clock investigation into the whereabouts of a father and an emotionally rich portrait of a family whose most personal secrets just may be at the heart of his disappearance. Full of shocking twists and fascinating questions of love, language, and human connection, Happiness Falls is a mystery, a family drama, and a novel of profound philosophical inquiry. With all the powerful storytelling she brought to her award-winning debut, Miracle Creek, Angie Kim turns the missing-person story into something wholly original, creating an indelible tale of a family who must go to remarkable lengths to truly understand one another. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/honey-drop-dead monthly 0.5 2023-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/26abf6f3-41f2-43fe-81f9-282f67b16342/honey.jpg New Arrivals - Honey Drop Dead - by Laura Childs Theodosia’s Honey Bee Tea was an elegant affair set in Charleston’s new Petigru Park amid newly planted native grasses and a community beekeeping project. But when a phony beekeeper shows up and sprays toxic smoke at the guests, the party erupts in chaos. Worse yet, a shot rings out and Osgood Claxton III, candidate for state legislature, falls to the ground—dead. Holly Burns, the gallery owner who asked Theodosia to cater the tea, is understandably heartbroken. A man is dead, her guests are angry and injured, and the paintings that were on display are left in tatters. When the police don’t seem to have a clue, when old-line politicos don’t want questions asked, Holly begs Theodosia to run a shadow investigation and help restore her gallery’s good name. Between hosting a Wind in the Willows Tea and a Glam Girl Tea, Theodosia questions everyone that had a bone to pick with Claxton. This includes Booker, an angry outsider artist; Lamar Lucket, Claxton’s political opponent; and Mignon Merriweather, the dead man’s soon-to-be ex-wife. But the investigation becomes a political hot potato following a second murder, the revelation of a messy affair, a chase through a swamp, and a vandalized shop. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/fixit monthly 0.5 2023-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/bebc8986-7457-4209-94b4-5d680f6887de/fixit.jpg New Arrivals - Fixit - by Joe Ide Danger has always followed IQ, a reality he’s keenly aware of as he’s laid up in a hospital bed, recovering from injuries sustained in his last case. Isaiah cannot help himself from being the hero, and any misery he’s suffered as a result—wounds from a knife fight, gnawing paranoia—he’s suffered alone. Yet as IQ recovers, five hundred miles from East Long Beach, he’s unaware that Grace has been abducted by his sworn enemy, the professional hitman Skip Hanson. Skip is savage and psychotic, determined to punish Isaiah for sending him to prison and destroying his life. Now, Isaiah and his sometimes partner, ex-hustler Juanell Dodson, must track scant clues through L.A.’s perilous landscape as Grace’s predicament grows more uncertain. A complication arises in the form of Winnie Hando, a homicide detective with something to prove. Stubborn and effective, Winnie sees Isaiah’s efforts as an obstruction to the investigation and a possible embarrassment: an unlicensed PI can’t be seen doing the department’s job better than the department. Winnie tries to stop Isaiah while pursuing the case herself, their struggles clashing and slowing their progress. As the desperate hunt winds on, Isaiah fears that even if he can bring Grace home alive, things between them will never be the same. This latest series installment is an explosive collision of drug dealers, thieves, maniacs, shotguns, vicious dogs, stampeding horses, and Ide’s signature energy, grit, and profundity https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/air monthly 0.5 2023-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b5b8032e-02ae-418e-80e2-47b26e634d03/air.jpg New Arrivals - Air From award-winning director Ben Affleck, AIR reveals the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike’s fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and culture with the Air Jordan brand. Starring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Chris Messina, Marlon Wayans, Chris Tucker, and Viola Davis. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/witness monthly 0.5 2023-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/50e62c15-662e-4e59-8730-33411ef28562/witness.jpg New Arrivals - Witness - by Jamel Brinkley What does it mean to really see the world around you―to bear witness? And what does it cost us, both to see and not to see? In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters―from children to grandmothers to ghosts―live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive to connect with, stand up for, care for, and remember one another, they often fall short, and the structures they build around these ambitions and failures shape their futures as well as the legacies and prospects of their communities and their city. In its portraits of families and friendships lost and found, the paradox of intimacy, the long shadow of grief, and the meaning of home, Witness enacts its own testimony. Here is a world where fortunes can be made and stolen in just a few generations, where strangers might sometimes show kindness while those we trust―doctors, employers, siblings―too often turn away, where joy comes in snatches: flowers on a windowsill, dancing in the street, glimpsing your purpose, change on the horizon. With prose as upendingly beautiful as it is artfully, seamlessly crafted, Jamel Brinkley offers nothing less than the full scope of life and death and change in the great, unending drama of the city. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/how-can-i-help-you monthly 0.5 2023-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2aae6f16-7249-4ad0-a3a1-91f40b325845/help.jpg New Arrivals - How Can I Help You - by Laura Sims No one knows Margo’s real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library only know her middle-aged normalcy, congeniality, and charm. They have no reason to suspect that she is, in fact, a former nurse with a trail of countless premature deaths in her wake. She has turned a new page, so to speak, and the library is her sanctuary, a place to quell old urges. That is, at least, until Patricia, a recent graduate and failed novelist, joins the library staff. Patricia quickly notices Margo’s subtly sinister edge, and watches her carefully. When a patron’s death in the library bathroom gives her a hint of Margo’s mysterious past, Patricia can’t resist digging deeper—even as this new fixation becomes all-consuming. Taut and compelling, How Can I Help You explores the dark side of human nature and the dangerous pull of artistic obsession as these “transfixing dual female narrators” (Kimberly McCreight) hurtle toward a stunning climax. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/valiant-women monthly 0.5 2023-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/70bac6de-5352-479b-83d5-6d44cb432bc5/valiant.jpg New Arrivals - Valiant Women - by Lena Andrews Valiant Women is the story of the 350,000 American women who served in uniform during World War II. These incredible women served in every service branch, in every combat theater, and in nearly two-thirds of the available military occupations at the time. They were pilots, codebreakers, ordnance experts, gunnery instructors, metalsmiths, chemists, translators, parachute riggers, truck drivers, radarmen, pigeon trainers, and much more. They were directly involved in some of the most important moments of the war, from the D-Day landings to the peace negotiations in Paris. These women—who hailed from every race, creed, and walk of life—died for their country and received the nation’s highest honors. Their work, both individually and in total, was at the heart of the Allied strategy that won World War II. Yet, until now, their stories have been relegated to the dusty shelves of military archives or a passing mention in the local paper. Often the women themselves kept their stories private, even from their own families. Now, military analyst Lena Andrews corrects the record with the definitive and comprehensive historical account of American servicewomen during World War II, based on new archival research, firsthand interviews with surviving veterans, and a deep professional understanding of military history and strategy. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/after-the-funeral monthly 0.5 2023-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0d507c7c-a0e8-445e-9598-6128bfd7e1e1/after.jpg New Arrivals - After the Funeral - by Tessa Hadley In each of these twelve stories, small events have huge consequences. Heloise’s father died in a car crash when she was alittle girl; at a dinner party in her forties, she meets someone connected to that long-ago tragedy. Two estranged sisters cross paths at a posh hotel and pretend not to recognize each other. Janie’s bohemian mother plans to marry a man close to Janie’s own age—everything changes when an accident interrupts the wedding party. A daughter caring for her elderly mother during the pandemic becomes obsessed with the woman next door; in the wake of his best friend’s death, a man must reassess his affair with the friend’s wife. Cecilia, a teenager, wakes one morning in Florence on vacation with her parents and sees them for the first time through disenchanted eyes. As psychologically astute as they are emotionally rich, these stories illuminate the enduring conflicts between responsibility and freedom, power and desire, convention and subversion, reality and dreams. A vital addition to Tessa Hadley’s celebrated body of work, After the Funeral and Other Stories showcases what Colm Tóibín describes as "Tessa Hadley's extraordinary skill at making both surface life and deep interiors come fully alive." https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/blight-fungi-and-the-coming-pandemic monthly 0.5 2023-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3d907623-13f7-41f6-a169-deb611de6da2/blight.jpg New Arrivals - Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic - by Emily Monosson A prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi―and how to avert further loss across species, including our own. Fungi are everywhere. Most are harmless; some are helpful. A few are killers. Collectively, infectious fungi are the most devastating agents of disease on earth, and a fungus that can persist in the environment without its host is here to stay. In Blight, Emily Monosson documents how trade, travel, and a changing climate are making us all more vulnerable to invasion. Populations of bats, frogs, and salamanders face extinction. In the Northwest, America’s beloved national parks are covered with the spindly corpses of whitebark pines. Food crops are under siege, threatening our coffee, bananas, and wheat―and, more broadly, our global food security. Candida auris, drug-resistant and resilient, infects hospital patients and those with weakened immune systems. Coccidioides, which lives in drier dusty regions, may cause infection in apparently healthy people. The horrors go on. Yet prevention is not impossible. Tracing the history of fungal spread and the most recent discoveries in the field, Monosson meets scientists who are working tirelessly to protect species under threat, and whose innovative approaches to fungal invasion have the potential to save human lives. Delving into case studies at once fascinating, sobering, and hopeful, Blight serves as a wake-up call, a reminder of the delicate interconnectedness of the natural world, and a lesson in seeing life on our planet with renewed humility and awe. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/amazing-grace-adams monthly 0.5 2023-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a7ee4d71-20cb-4ca3-b06f-aed1da5950de/amazing.jpg New Arrivals - Amazing Grace Adams - by Fran Littlewood Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal and stalled―the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she’s really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away. Grace sets off across London, armed with a £200 cake, to win back her estranged teenage daughter on her sixteenth birthday. Because today is the day she’ll remind her daughter that no matter how far we fall, we can always get back up again. Because Grace Adams used to be amazing. Her husband thought so. Her daughter thought so. Even Grace thought so. But everyone seems to have forgotten. Grace is about to remind them . . . and, most important, remind herself. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-girl-in-the-eagles-talons monthly 0.5 2023-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f7bbd2bc-676f-43d8-b31c-f569c41bd173/girl.jpg New Arrivals - The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons - by Karin Smirnoff “Lisbeth Salander is back—and maybe better than ever. Karin Smirnoff’s take is both respectful of the past and ready for the future—altogether remarkable.” —Lee Child, author of No Plan B “An absolutely brilliant continuation of the series: exciting plot, plenty of action, and a sensitive portrayal of complicated relationships—where the new character Svala is one of the highlights.” —Femina Change is coming to Sweden’s far north: its untapped natural resources are sparking a gold rush, with the criminal underworld leading the charge. But it’s not the prospect of riches that brings Lisbeth Salander to the small town of Gasskas. She has been named guardian to her niece Svala, whose mother has disappeared. Two things soon become clear: Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager—and she’s being watched. Mikael Blomkvist is also heading north. He has seen better days. Millennium magazine is in its final print issue, and relations with his daughter are strained. Worse still, there are troubling rumors surrounding the man she’s about to marry. When the truth behind the whispers explodes into violence, Salander emerges as Blomkvist’s last hope. A pulse-pounding thriller, The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons sees Salander and Blomkvist navigating a world of conspiracy and betrayal, old enemies and new friends, ice-bound wilderness and the global corporations that threaten to tear it apart. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/holly monthly 0.5 2023-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1694625767226-2WQAJ2TFBO9YHFA00JU5/holly.jpg New Arrivals - Holly - by Stephen King Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town. “Sometimes the universe throws you a rope.” —BILL HODGES Stephen King’s Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly’s gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges’s partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King’s new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries. When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harboring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie’s disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless. Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmaneuver the shockingly twisted professors in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King. “I could never let Holly Gibney go. She was supposed to be a walk-on character in Mr. Mercedes and she just kind of stole the book and stole my heart. Holly is all her.” —STEPHEN KING https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/home-is-where-the-eggs-are monthly 0.5 2023-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d7382a3b-a587-47f8-8949-e8f84c55d957/eggs.jpg New Arrivals - Home is Where the Eggs Are - by Molly Yeh From the host of Food Network’s Girl Meets Farm and bestselling author of the IACP award-winning Molly on the Range, a collection of cozy recipes that feel like celebrations. Home Is Where the Eggs Are is a beautiful, intimate book full of food that’s best enjoyed in the comfort of sweatpants and third-day hair, by a beloved Food Network host and new mom living on a sugar beet farm in East Grand Forks, MN. Molly Yeh’s cooking is built to fit into life with her baby, Bernie, and the naptimes, diaper changes, and wiggle time that come with having a young child, making them a breeze to fit into any sort of schedule, no matter how busy. They’re low-maintenance dishes that are satisfying to make for weeknight meals to celebrate empty to-do lists after long workdays, cozy Sunday soups to simmer during the first (or seventh!) snowfall of the year, and desserts that will keep happily under the cake dome for long enough that you will never feel pressure to share. The flavors in this book draw inspiration from a distinctive blend of Molly’s experiences—her Chinese and Jewish heritage, her time living in New York, her husband’s Scandinavian heritage, and their farm in the upper Midwest. She uses seasonal ingredients that are common in her region while singlehandedly supporting the za’atar and sumac import industry in her small town. These influences come together into fuss-free crave-able meals that dirty as few dishes as possible and offer loads of prep-ahead, freezing, and substitution tips, such as: Babka Cereal Mozzarella Stick Salad Doughnut Matzo Brei Ham and Potato Pizza Chicken and Stars Soup Orange Blossom Creamsicle Smoothies Hand-pulled Noodles with Potsticker Filling Sauce Marzipan Chocolate Chip Cookies In Home Is Where the Eggs Are, the feeling of home starts in the kitchen; just melt some butter, fry an egg, and build a little memory around it. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-private-misadventures-of-nell-nobody monthly 0.5 2023-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/79142be5-73b7-4a6d-b8f9-39b3a9d83da4/private.jpg New Arrivals - The Private Misadventures of Nell Nobody - by Jennifer Newbold Who do you become when you can no longer be yourself? 1793: France and Britain are at war. Traumatised and grieving the loss of her infant son, Eleanor Buccleuch leaves behind her previous life, dons waistcoat and breeches, and becomes Ned Buckley. Ned enlists in the British army and vanishes amongst the soldiers of the 69th Regiment of Foot. Sent to the Mediterranean, Ned is pulled out of his squad and assigned to work with a zealous Royal Navy captain named Horatio Nelson, who is goading the army to besiege the Corsican town of Bastia. Ned becomes a participant in momentous events of victory and defeat, forming an unlikely friendship with the man who will one day become Britain’s greatest naval hero. But even as he witnesses Nelson’s trajectory towards immortality, Ned’s past is stalking him, threatening him with a downward slide into discovery, ignominy, and the prospect of his own destruction. May not be appropriate for readers under the age of sixteen. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/guardians-of-the-galaxy-volume3 monthly 0.5 2023-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/737eea13-3119-4653-9161-8ca13bf4020a/galaxy.jpg New Arrivals - Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3 In Marvel Studios "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" our beloved band of misfits are looking a bit different these days. After acquiring Knowhere from the Collector, we find the Guardians working to repair the extreme damage done by Thanos-determined to make Knowhere a safe haven, not only for themselves, but for all refugees displaced by the harsh universe. But it isn't long before their lives are upended by the echoes of Rocket's turbulent past. Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him on a dangerous mission to save Rocket's life-a mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-road-to-dalton monthly 0.5 2023-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/fbf859a4-c965-456e-b1c8-e0a919679e25/dalton.jpg New Arrivals - The Road to Dalton - by Shannon Bowring In most small towns, the private is also public. In the town of Dalton, one local makes an unthinkable decision that leaves the community reeling. In the aftermath, their problems, both small and large, reveal a deeper understanding of the lives of their neighbors, and remind us all that no one is exactly who we think they are. It’s 1990. In Dalton, Maine, life goes on. Rose goes to work at the diner every day, her bruises hidden from both the customers and her two young boys. At a table she waits, Dr. Richard Haskell looks back on the one choice that’s charted his entire life, before his thoughts wander back to his wife, Trudy, and her best friend. Trudy and Bev have been friends for longer than they can count, and something more than lovers to each other for some time now—a fact both accepted and ignored by their husbands. Across town, new mother Bridget lives with her high school sweetheart Nate, and is struggling with postpartum after a traumatic birth. And nearer still is teenager Greg, trying to define the complicated feelings he has about himself and his two close friends. The Road to Dalton offers valuable understandings of what it means to be alive in the world—of pain and joy, conflict and love, and the endurance that comes from living. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/just-east-of-nowhere monthly 0.5 2023-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/01115f45-2226-48fa-8e8c-641f8368c4b0/nowhere.jpg New Arrivals - Just East of Nowhere - by Scot Lehigh Just East of Nowhere, Scot Lehigh's debut novel, is a gritty coming-of-age story that explores the often hidden pockets of Maine and features a poignant and troubled cast of characters who are caught in the undercurrents of a struggling coastal town. The powerful novel, with its characters, setting, and storyline, should resonate with anyone who also came from, as in singer Kris Kristofferson's evocative phrase, "just the other side of nowhere." https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-super-scary-narwhalloween monthly 0.5 2023-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/dcd1cbb4-c5f0-4fcb-8280-e16810ab6c2a/narwhalleen.jpg New Arrivals - A Super Scary Narwhalloween - by Ben Clanton Dive into three new stories that are sure to fright and delight! Narwhal loves Halloween — it's a great excuse to dress up in a spooky and silly costume, like a ghost, a mermaid, a banana or maybe even Marlow the Mustachioed Moose. It's a skeleTON of fun! Jelly isn't dressing up, though — he's a little scared of this time of year, and would prefer to hunker down in a hidey-hole until Halloween is over. But when a scary sea monster makes an appearance and swallows Narwhal (gulp!), can Jelly, with the help of some super friends, pluck up the courage to save his best bud? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/fast-fallen-women monthly 0.5 2023-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b71a6f1b-d877-4a06-a187-e5f7efe1f30f/fast.jpg New Arrivals - Fast Fallen Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction - by Gina Barreca Fast Fallen Women introduces 75 new essays about the dangerous and enthralling ways women fall—and how we get back on our feet, more deft, more decisive, and daring than ever. Holding a compact mirror up to life with the same curiosity that enveloped Eve when she once held the apple, editor Gina Barreca’s latest inclusive collection of short, sharp, feminist pieces illuminate women’s courage, curiosity, and wit. With new and original works by: · Amy Tan · Jane Smiley · Caroline Leavitt · Bobbie Ann Mason · Honor Moore · Darien Hsu Gee · Ilene Beckerman · and Lynn Peril —alongside other ground-breaking journalists, novelists, and writers, you’ll find emerging authors whose creative non-fiction is appearing on the page for the first time—you will find within these pages a celebration the fallen woman the long overdue. Fast Fallen Women gives whispered conversation a full voice. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dead-mountain monthly 0.5 2023-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/04f84a4a-8427-4c6d-9eca-d185ffac3de1/deadmountain.jpg New Arrivals - Dead Mountain - by Preston & Child In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed and inexplicably missing their eyes. The case, given the code name “Dead Mountain” by the FBI, was never solved. Now, two more bodies from the lost expedition are unexpectedly discovered in a cave, one a grisly suicide. Young FBI Agent Corrie Swanson teams up with archaeologist Nora Kelly to investigate what really happened on that fateful trip fifteen years ago—and to find the ninth victim. But their search awakens a long-slumbering evil, which pursues Corrie and Nora with a vengeance, determined to prevent the final missing corpse from ever coming to light. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/lion-lamb monthly 0.5 2023-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/90e76154-8b59-4b89-a4ef-76ece961711a/lion.jpg New Arrivals - Lion &amp; Lamb - by James Patterson The city is in a state of shock over the fate of two hometown heroes: Eagles starting quarterback Archie Hughes, and his even more famous wife, Grammy-winning singer Francine Hughes. One spouse is murdered. The other is suspect #1. Even before the case hits the courtroom, it’s the hottest ticket in town. For the defense: Cooper Lamb, private investigator to the stars. For the prosecution: Veena Lion, a sleuth so bright she’s got to wear shades. Between them, they know every secret in Philadelphia. Together, they prove how two wrongscanmake a right. They are Lion & Lamb. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-invisible-hour monthly 0.5 2023-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/676d49f7-85a7-406f-8bd6-33f29a3bf12d/invisible.jpg New Arrivals - The Invisible Hour - by Alice Hoffman One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia’s mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community—an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how could this be? How could Nathaniel Hawthorne have so perfectly captured the pain and loss that Mia carries inside her? Through a journey of heartbreak, love, and time, Mia must abandon the rules she was raised with at the Community. As she does, she realizes that reading can transport you to other worlds or bring them to you, and that readers and writers affect one another in mysterious ways. She learns that time is more fluid than she can imagine, and that love is stronger than any chains that bind you. As a girl Mia fell in love with a book. Now as a young woman she falls in love with a brilliant writer as she makes her way back in time. But what if Nathaniel Hawthorne never wrote The Scarlet Letter? And what if Mia Jacob never found it on the day she planned to die? Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote: “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.” This is the story of one woman’s dream. For a little while it came true. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/tom-lake monthly 0.5 2023-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7272182d-0908-48dc-a7de-549a41a8f7c1/tomlake.jpg New Arrivals - Tom Lake - by Ann Patchett In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-good-house-for-children monthly 0.5 2023-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9ab99b17-5092-4504-af8c-faad81c322dc/house.jpg New Arrivals - A Good House for Children - by Kate Collins Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when her husband Nick suggests that their city apartment has grown too small for their lives, she agrees, in part because she does agree, and in part because she is too tired to think about what she really does want. She agrees again when Nick announces with pride that he has found an antiquated Georgian house on the Dorset cliffs—a good house for children, he says, tons of space and gorgeous grounds. But as the family settles into the mansion—Nick absent all week, commuting to the city for work—Orla finds herself unsettled. She hears voices when no one is around; doors open and close on their own; and her son Sam, who has not spoken in six months, seems to have made an imaginary friend whose motives Orla does not trust. Four decades earlier, Lydia moves into the same house as a live-in nanny to a grieving family. Lydia, too, becomes aware of intangible presences in the large house, and she, like Orla four decades later, becomes increasingly fearful for the safety of the children in her care. But no one in either woman’s life believes her: the stories seem fanciful, the stuff of magic and mayhem, sprung from the imaginations of hysterical women who spend too much time in the company of children. Are both families careening towards tragedy? Are Orla and Lydia seeing things that aren’t there? What secrets is the house hiding? A feminist gothic tale perfectly suited for the current moment, A Good House for Children combines an atmospheric mystery with resonant themes of motherhood, madness, and the value of a woman’s work. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-school-for-whatnots monthly 0.5 2023-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/12f31feb-fa88-46e7-bd01-23d1e57a6b44/school.jpg New Arrivals - The School for Whatnots - by Margaret Peterson Haddix No matter what anyone tells you, I’m real. That’s what the note says that Max finds under his keyboard. He knows that his best friend, Josie, wrote it. He’d know her handwriting anywhere. But why she wrote it—and what it means—remains a mystery. Ever since they met in kindergarten, Max and Josie have been inseparable. Until the summer after fifth grade, when Josie disappears, leaving only a note, and whispering something about “whatnot rules.” But why would Max ever think that Josie wasn’t real? And what are whatnots? As Max sets to uncover what happened to Josie—and what she is or isn’t—little does he know that she’s fighting to find him again, too. But there are forces trying to keep Max and Josie from ever seeing each other again. Because Josie wasn’t supposed to be real. This middle grade thriller from Margaret Peterson Haddix delves into the power of privilege, the importance of true friendship, and the question of humanity and identity. Because when anyone could be a whatnot, what makes a person a real friend—or real at all? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dragon-kingdom-of-wrenly-shadow-hills monthly 0.5 2023-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8ce583c1-4b0d-49f2-8736-dbf4608cbb9f/shadow.jpg New Arrivals - Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly: Shadow Hills - by Jordan Quinn In the second book in the Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly graphic novel series, Ruskin, Cinder, and Groth are back for another exciting quest, this time to save a group of cursed shadow dragons! A royal errand brings Ruskin, Cinder, and Groth to Shadow Hills, home to the most mysterious creatures in all of Wrenly—the shadow dragons. Legend says that shadow dragons are hostile to outsiders and cannot be trusted. But that’s not how it seems to Ruskin and his friends. In fact, nothing is quite as it seems in Shadow Hills. The young dragons have been sent there by sinister forces that believe Ruskin is destined to rule over all of Wrenly. These same forces will do anything to prevent that from happening…even if it means putting the entire kingdom at risk. Will Ruskin and his friends see through the deception and learn who they can really trust before it’s too late? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/sleepy-sheepy monthly 0.5 2023-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5bebc67f-f253-46a0-a082-0437329fed7f/sheepy.jpg New Arrivals - Sleepy Sheepy - by Lucy Ruth Cummins Sleepy Sheepy was not sleepy But it was time for bed (At least, that's what the clock said.) But Sleepy Sheepy would not sleepy. He was wired. And absolutely not tired! In fact, he was WIDE-AWAKE. Despite his name, Sleepy Sheepy is NOT sleepy. He'd much rather build with blocks or knit socks than go to sleep. Will Ma and Pa Sheepy ever get their sheepy to go to sleepy? From acclaimed author Lucy Ruth Cummins and brought to life by #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Pete Oswald (The Bad Seed, The Good Egg, The Smart Cookie, The Sour Grape), Sleepy Sheepy is a hilarious bedtime read-aloud that will appeal to little lambs everywhere. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-only-one-left monthly 0.5 2023-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c5f207e0-9fbc-4f78-b773-f7ccd148d7af/onlyone.jpg New Arrivals - The Only One Left - by Riley Sager At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred. Stabbed her father with a knife Took her mother’s happy life It’s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer—I want to tell you everything. “It wasn’t me,” Lenora said But she’s the only one not dead As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there’s more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor’s departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth—and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/sea-dog monthly 0.5 2023-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b001b903-c4ac-4ca3-9435-b7ec12c894c4/seadog.jpg New Arrivals - Sea Dog - by Astrid Sheckels Walter longs to be a sea dog. He comes from a long line of seafaring dogs, all of whom made their livelihoods from the sea, but, alas, Walter's talent seems to extend only to baking. He sells his breads and cakes, made from his aunt’s classic sea dog recipes, in the village tea shop. But, when an unfortunate incident plunges Walter into a deep-sea adventure, he is brought face to face with the legendary Big Boris and discovers his place as a true sea dog. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ultra-processed-people monthly 0.5 2023-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f7edae3e-b18d-425a-888e-bbc1fb7073ae/ultra.jpg New Arrivals - Ultra-Processed People - by Chris Van Tulleken A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the food. We have entered a new age of eating. For the first time in human history, most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food. There’s a long, formal scientific definition, but it can be boiled down to this: if it’s wrapped in plastic and has at least one ingredient that you wouldn’t find in your kitchen, it’s UPF. These products are specifically engineered to behave as addictive substances, driving excess consumption. They are now linked to the leading cause of early death globally and the number one cause of environmental destruction. Yet almost all our staple foods are ultra-processed. UPF is our food culture and for many people it is the only available and affordable food. In this book, Chris van Tulleken, father, scientist, doctor, and award-winning BBC broadcaster, marshals the latest evidence to show how governments, scientists, and doctors have allowed transnational food companies to create a pandemic of diet-related disease. The solutions don’t lie in willpower, personal responsibility, or exercise. You’ll find no diet plan in this book―but join Chris as he undertakes a powerful self-experiment that made headlines around the world: under the supervision of colleagues at University College London he spent a month eating a diet of 80 percent UPF, typical for many children and adults in the United States. While his body became the subject of scientific scrutiny, he spoke to the world’s leading experts from academia, agriculture, and―most important―the food industry itself. But more than teaching him about the experience of the food, the diet switched off Chris’s own addiction to UPF. In a fast-paced and eye-opening narrative he explores the origins, science, and economics of UPF to reveal its catastrophic impact on our bodies and the planet. And he proposes real solutions for doctors, for policy makers, and for all of us who have to eat. A book that won’t only upend the way you shop and eat, Ultra-Processed People will open your eyes to the need for action on a global scale. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/out-of-nowhere monthly 0.5 2023-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/181dee23-f352-4ead-99f5-658198d9365a/outofnowhere.jpg New Arrivals - Out of Nowhere - by Sandra Brown At a Texas county fair, amidst carousels and a bustling midway, children’s book author Elle Portman is enjoying a rare night out with her favorite cowboy: her two-year-old son, Charlie. But just as they’re about to head home, the unthinkable happens: a shooter opens fire into the crowd, causing widespread panic to erupt all around them. Also caught in the melee was corporate consultant Calder Hudson. Arrogant, self-centered, and high off his latest career win, he’s frustrated and confused when he wakes up in the hospital after undergoing emergency surgery on his arm. The doctor tells him that he was lucky—that as far as gunshot wounds go, he pulled through remarkably well. Others weren’t so lucky, which instills in Calder a furious determination to get justice . . . a goal shared by Elle. Their chance encounter at the police station leads to a surprising and inexplicable gravitation to one another, but even as the attraction grows, Elle and Calder can’t help but wonder if the unimaginable tragedy that brought them together is too painful and too complicated to sustain—especially while the shooter remains at large. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/save-whats-left monthly 0.5 2023-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/47be1566-917b-497d-ab72-6456a1fbabee/whatsleft.jpg New Arrivals - Save What’s Left - by Elizabeth Castellano When Kathleen Deane’s husband, Tom, tells her he's no longer happy with his life and their marriage, Kathleen is confused. They live in Kansas. They’ve been married thirty years. Who said anything about being happy? But with Tom off finding himself, Kathleen starts to think about what she wants. And her thoughts lead her to a small beach community on the east coast, a town called Whitbey that has always looked lovely in the Christmas letters her childhood friend Josie sends every year. It turns out, though, that life in Whitbey is nothing like Josie’s letters. Kathleen’s new neighbor, Rosemary, is cantankerous, and the town’s supervisor won't return Kathleen’s emails, but worst of all is the Sugar Cube, the monstrosity masquerading as a holiday home that Kathleen’s absentee neighbors are building next door to her quaint (read: tiny) cottage. As Kathleen gets more and more involved in the fight against the Sugar Cube and town politics overall, she realizes that Whitbey may not be a fairytale, but it just might be exactly what she needed. Save What’s Left can best be described as the “un-beach read.” It pulls back the curtain on life in a beach town, revealing the true cost of a pretty view. Told from the candid and irreverent perspective of a newcomer turned local, this is a story of forgiveness, fortitude, and second chances. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/crook-manifesto monthly 0.5 2023-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/56943a2a-1c3a-4d6d-bb67-8aee6f88a5ce/crook.jpg New Arrivals - Crook Manifesto - by Colson Whitehead It’s 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over. It’s strictly the straight-and-narrow for him — until he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May and he decides to hit up his old police contact Munson, fixer extraordinaire. But Munson has his own favors to ask of Carney and staying out of the game gets a lot more complicated – and deadly. 1973. The counter-culture has created a new generation, the old ways are being overthrown, but there is one constant, Pepper, Carney’s endearingly violent partner in crime. It’s getting harder to put together a reliable crew for hijackings, heists, and assorted felonies, so Pepper takes on a side gig doing security on a Blaxploitation shoot in Harlem. He finds himself in a freaky world of Hollywood stars, up-and-coming comedians, and celebrity drug dealers, in addition to the usual cast of hustlers, mobsters, and hit men. These adversaries underestimate the seasoned crook – to their regret. 1976. Harlem is burning, block by block, while the whole country is gearing up for Bicentennial celebrations. Carney is trying to come up with a July 4th ad he can live with. ("Two Hundred Years of Getting Away with It!"), while his wife Elizabeth is campaigning for her childhood friend, the former assistant D.A and rising politician Alexander Oakes. When a fire severely injures one of Carney’s tenants, he enlists Pepper to look into who may be behind it. Our crooked duo have to battle their way through a crumbling metropolis run by the shady, the violent, and the utterly corrupted. CROOK MANIFESTO is a darkly funny tale of a city under siege, but also a sneakily searching portrait of the meaning of family. Colson Whitehead’s kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem is sure to stand as one of the all-time great evocations of a place and a time. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dead-fall monthly 0.5 2023-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/cf454f1b-7222-48c4-a1b5-e8091adc3777/deadfall.jpg New Arrivals - Dead Fall - by Brad Thor In the war-ravaged borderlands of Ukraine, a Russian mercenary unit has gone rogue. Its members, conscripted from the worst prisons and mental asylums across Russia, are the most criminally violent, psychologically dangerous combatants to ever set foot upon the modern battlefield. With all attention focused on the frontlines, they have pushed deeper into the interior to wage a campaign of unspeakable barbarity. As they move from village to village, committing horrific war crimes, they meet little resistance as all able-bodied men are off fighting the war. Simultaneously, a team of Russian soldiers has been dispatched by the Kremlin to loot truckloads of art and priceless cultural treasures hidden away in a host of churches, museums, and private homes. When multiple American aid workers are killed, America’s top spy, Scot Harvath, is sent in to settle the score. But in a country so vast, will Harvath be able to find the men in question and, more importantly, will he be able to stop them before they can kill again? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/yellowface monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/44f5596d-4cd1-4372-85f9-2418ef42bdae/yellow.jpg New Arrivals - Yellowface - by R.F. Kuang Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena’s a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I. So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song—complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn’t this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That’s what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree. But June can’t get away from Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June’s (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves. With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. R.F. Kuang’s novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/built-from-the-fire monthly 0.5 2023-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2736347c-e11e-4dea-8da1-0f7fe48ece43/built.jpg New Arrivals - Built From the Fire - by Victor Luckerson When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to Greenwood, Tulsa, in 1914, his family joined a growing community on the cusp of becoming a national center of black life. But, just seven years later, on May 31, 1921, the teenaged Ed hid in a bathtub as a white mob descended on his neighborhood, laying waste to thirty-five blocks and murdering as many as three hundred people. The Tulsa Race Massacre was one of the most brutal acts of racist violence in U.S. history, a ruthless attempt to smother a spark of black independence. But that was never the whole story of Greenwood. The Goodwins and their neighbors soon rebuilt it into “a Mecca,” in Ed’s words, where nightlife thrived, small businesses flourished, and an underworld economy lived comfortably alongside public storefronts. Prosperity and poverty intermixed, and icons from W.E.B. Du Bois to Muhammad Ali ambled down Greenwood Avenue, alongside maids, doctors, and every occupation in between. Ed grew into a prominent businessman and bought a newspaper called the Oklahoma Eagle to chronicle Greenwood’s resurgence and battles against white bigotry. He and his wife, Jeanne, raised an ambitious family, and their son Jim, an attorney, embodied their hopes for the Civil Rights Movement in his work. But by the 1970s, urban renewal policies had nearly emptied the neighborhood, even as Jim and his neighbors tried to hold on to it. Today, while new high-rises and encroaching gentrification risk wiping out Greenwood’s legacy for good, the family newspaper remains, and Ed’s granddaughter Regina represents the neighborhood in the Oklahoma state legislature, working alongside a new generation of local activists. In Built from the Fire, journalist Victor Luckerson moves beyond the mythology of Black Wall Street to tell the story of an aspirant black neighborhood that, like so many others, has long been buffeted by racist government policies. Through the eyes of dozens of race massacre survivors and their descendants, Luckerson delivers an honest, moving portrait of this potent national symbol of success and solidarity—and weaves an epic tale about a neighborhood that refused, more than once, to be erased. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dragon-kingdom-of-wrenly-night-hunt monthly 0.5 2023-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/587f82bd-2524-423a-bd63-a4873e2ab135/nighthunt.jpg New Arrivals - Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly: Night Hunt - by Jordan Quinn Ruskin is excited to visit Crestwood to witness a very special event, the Night Hunt, and to root for his new best friends Cinder and Groth as they compete in the exciting contest. But then Ruskin is chosen to compete, too, even though, according to the rules, he shouldn’t be allowed since he doesn’t live in Crestwood. Cinder thinks Ruskin had something to do with this special treatment and that, as the legendary scarlet dragon, Ruskin cares more about glory than he should. But is that really who Ruskin is? It’s game on as these friends compete against each other for the ultimate prize. What they don’t realize is that nothing about this Night Hunt will follow the rules, and once again, the fate of Wrenly is at stake. Can they put aside their differences and work together before it’s too late? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/trial monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4b4200b6-54f9-4558-b365-d04b619c040d/trial.jpg New Arrivals - Trial - by Richard North Patterson In a propulsive narrative that culminates in a nationally televised murder case, Trial explores America’s most incendiary flashpoints of race. A Black eighteen-year-old voting rights worker, Malcolm Hill, is stopped by a white sheriff’s deputy on a dark country road in rural Georgia. His single mother, Allie, America’s leading voting rights advocate, restlessly awaits his return before police inform her that Malcolm has been arrested for murder. In Washington D.C., the rising, young, white congressman Chase Brevard of Massachusetts is watching the morning news with his girlfriend, only to find his life transformed in a single moment by the appearance of Malcolm’s photograph. Suddenly all three are enveloped in a media firestorm that threatens their lives—especially Malcolm’s. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/canary-girls monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/16605aaa-f18e-4fb8-81ae-7d159f816ef3/canary.jpg New Arrivals - Canary Girls - by Jennifer Chiaverini Early in the Great War, men left Britain’s factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. “Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun,” the recruitment posters beckoned. Thousands of women—cooks, maids, shopgirls, and housewives—answered their nation’s call. These “munitionettes” worked grueling shifts often seven days a week, handling TNT and other explosives with little protective gear. Among them is nineteen-year-old former housemaid April Tipton. Impressed by her friend Marjorie’s descriptions of higher wages, plentiful meals, and comfortable lodgings, she takes a job at Thornshire Arsenal near London, filling shells in the Danger Building—difficult, dangerous, and absolutely essential work. Joining them is Lucy Dempsey, wife of Daniel Dempsey, Olympic gold medalist and star forward of Tottenham Hotspur. With Daniel away serving in the Footballers’ Battalion, Lucy resolves to do her bit to hasten the end of the war. When her coworkers learn she is a footballer’s wife, they invite her to join the arsenal ladies’ football club, the Thornshire Canaries. The Canaries soon acquire an unexpected fan in the boss’s wife, Helen Purcell, who is deeply troubled by reports that Danger Building workers suffer from serious, unexplained illnesses. One common symptom, the lurid yellow hue of their skin, earns them the nickname “canary girls.” Suspecting a connection between the canary girls’ maladies and the chemicals they handle, Helen joins the arsenal administration as their staunchest, though often unappreciated, advocate. The football pitch is the one place where class distinctions and fears for their men fall away. As the war grinds on and tragedy takes its toll, the Canary Girls persist despite the dangers, proud to serve, determined to outlive the war and rejoice in victory and peace. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/exiles monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a8acb3a9-35dc-4b8b-86c5-800073666b57/exiles.jpg New Arrivals - Exiles - by Jane Harper Federal Investigator Aaron Falk is on his way to a small town deep in Southern Australian wine country for the christening of an old friend's baby. But mystery follows him, even on vacation. This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of Kim Gillespie's disappearance. One year ago, at a busy town festival on a warm spring night, Kim safely tucked her sleeping baby into her stroller, then vanished into the crowd. No one has seen her since. When Kim's older daughter makes a plea for anyone with information about her missing mom to come forward, Falk and his old buddy Raco can't leave the case alone. As Falk soaks up life in the lush valley, he is welcomed into the tight-knit circle of Kim’s friends and loved ones. But the group may be more fractured than it seems. Between Falk’s closest friend, the missing mother, and a woman he’s drawn to, dark questions linger as long-ago truths begin to emerge. What would make a mother abandon her child? What happened to Kim Gillespie? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dragon-kingdom-of-wrenly-the-coldfire-curse monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5dfdc7fa-bc4c-4de1-b504-f7533607b92a/coldfire.jpg New Arrivals - Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly: The Coldfire Curse - by Jordan Quinn In the first installment of the exciting Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly graphic novel series, the scarlet dragon Ruskin’s bravery is put to the test when a curse threatens his kingdom. As the pampered pet dragon of the Prince of Wrenly, Ruskin has never known life beyond the walls of the palace. Until the day a young dragon from Crestwood comes to the palace to plead for help. An evil curse has been unleashed in Crestwood and threatens to destroy all of Wrenly. Ruskin has a choice to make: stay safe at home in the palace, or try to help save his kingdom. For Ruskin, there is no choice. He knows he has to try and help if he can. What Ruskin and his new dragon friends don’t yet realize is that the curse was awoken for one reason only—to put Ruskin in harm’s way. The mission to reverse the curse is far more dangerous than anyone realizes…in fact, it’s seemingly impossible. Why is Ruskin the target of these shadowy forces? And how far is Ruskin willing to go to save his kingdom? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-sun-and-the-star monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8b2b247b-1505-4490-9f8d-9bcdc378c62b/sunstar.jpg New Arrivals - The Sun and The Star - by Rick Riordan Percy Jackson fans, rejoice! Nico and Will have a book of their own! As the son of Hades, Nico di Angelo has been through so much, from the premature deaths of his mother and sister, to being outed against his will, to losing his friend Jason during the trials of Apollo. But there is a ray of sunshine in his life—literally: his boyfriend, Will Solace, the son of Apollo. Together the two demigods can overcome any obstacle or foe. At least, that's been the case so far... Now Nico is being plagued by a voice calling out to him from Tartarus, the lowest part of the Underworld. He thinks he knows who it is: a reformed Titan named Bob whom Percy and Annabeth had to leave behind when they escaped Hades's realm. Nico's dreams and Rachel Dare's latest prophecy leave little doubt in Nico's mind that Bob is in some kind of trouble. Nico has to go on this quest, whether Mr. D and Chiron like it or not. And of course Will insists on coming with. But can a being made of light survive in the darkest part of the world? and what does the prophecy mean that Nico will have to "leave something of equal value behind?" Nico will have to face demons both internal and external as his relationship with Will is tested to the core in this standalone adventure featuring two of the most popular characters in the Percy Jackson saga. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/just-another-mising-person monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4fe841d5-19dd-4097-9010-2167d3f7bd89/missing.jpg New Arrivals - Just Another Missing Person - by Gillian McAllister Not everyone who is lost should be found… 22-year-old Olivia has been missing for one day…and counting. She was last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again. Julia, the detective heading up the search for Olivia, thinks she knows what to expect. A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her husband and daughter. But she has no idea just how close to home this case is going to get. Because the criminal at the heart of the disappearance has something she never expected. His weapon isn’t a gun, or a knife: it’s a secret. Her worst one. And her family's safety depends on one thing: Julia must NOT find out what happened to Olivia - and must frame somebody else for her murder. If you find her, you will lose everything. What would you do? This clever and endlessly surprising thriller is laced with a clever look at family and motherhood, and cements Gillian McAllister as a major talent in the world of suspense and a master of creating ethical dilemmas that show just how murky the distinction between right and wrong can be. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-heat-will-kill-you-first monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/562bc8c9-d75a-455c-9cbb-5204f4c29a18/heat.jpg New Arrivals - The Heat Will Kill You First - by Jeff Goodell “When heat comes, it’s invisible. It doesn’t bend tree branches or blow hair across your face to let you know it’s arrived…. The sun feels like the barrel of a gun pointed at you.” The world is waking up to a new reality: wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting less and less snow each winter, and the ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctica are melting fast. Heat is the first order threat that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis. And as the temperature rises, it is revealing fault lines in our governments, our politics, our economy, and our values. The basic science is not complicated: Stop burning fossil fuels tomorrow, and the global temperature will stop rising tomorrow. Stop burning fossil fuels in 50 years, and the temperature will keep rising for 50 years, making parts of our planet virtually uninhabitable. It’s up to us. The hotter it gets, the deeper and wider our fault lines will open. The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing. It is about why spring is coming a few weeks earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. It is about what will happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or Boston go from 90° F to 110°F. A heatwave, Goodell explains, is a predatory event— one that culls out the most vulnerable people. But that is changing. As heatwaves become more intense and more common, they will become more democratic. As an award-winning journalist who has been at the forefront of environmental journalism for decades, Goodell’s new book may be his most provocative yet, explaining how extreme heat will dramatically change the world as we know it. Masterfully reported, mixing the latest scientific insight with on-the-ground storytelling, Jeff Goodell tackles the big questions and uncovers how extreme heat is a force beyond anything we have reckoned with before. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/everyone-here-is-lying monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6c5806cc-560f-4372-926e-b64ebb1ef794/lying.jpg New Arrivals - Everyone Here is Lying - by Shari Lapena Welcome to Stanhope. A safe neighborhood. A place for families. William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he’s been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper. Hours later, Avery’s family declares her missing. Suddenly Stanhope doesn’t feel so safe. And William isn’t the only one on his street who’s hiding a lie. As witnesses come forward with information that may or may not be true, Avery's neighbors become increasingly unhinged. Who took Avery Wooler? Nothing will prepare you for the truth. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/zero-days monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b62c5d70-956f-4f74-b3e1-50e293f8ed78/zero.jpg New Arrivals - Zero Days - by Ruth Ware Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their suspect—her. Suddenly on the run and quickly running out of options, Jack must decide who she can trust as she circles closer to the real killer in this unputdownable and heart-pounding mystery from an author whose “propulsive prose keeps readers on the hook and refuses to let anyone off until all has been revealed” (Shelf Awareness). https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/1923 monthly 0.5 2023-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f546d881-74fa-4c5f-a50d-e42b5de79d76/1923.jpg New Arrivals - 1923 1923, a Yellowstone origin story, introduces a new generation of the Dutton family as they explore the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home. The series is executive produced by Taylor Sheridan, co-creator of Yellowstone, and stars Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford. This release features all 8 episodes of season one plus over 2 hours of special features including an extended making-of featurette, a powerful exploration of Teonna Rainwater’s harrowing journey, and an exclusive sit-down interview with video editor Chad Galster. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/paint monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/24abf596-36f1-4fa5-85ba-bd3f8edeae60/paint.jpg New Arrivals - Paint For decades, the art instructional public TV programs of soft-spoken, puffy-permed painter Carl Nargle (Owen Wilson) had made him a fixture across Vermont. When flagging ratings caused his bosses to cast their lot with up-and-coming artist Ambrosia Long (Ciara Renée), however, a spinning-out Carl finds himself questioning if he can get up off the canvas. Clever comedy also stars Michaela Watkins, Wendi McClendon-Covey, Stephen Root, Lusia Strus. 96 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/somebodys-fool monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/69e99cad-6dff-40d3-9bd0-1809815598d6/somefool.jpg New Arrivals - Somebody’s Fool - by Richard Russo Ten years after the death of the magnetic Donald “Sully” Sullivan, the town of North Bath is going through a major transition as it is annexed by its much wealthier neighbor, Schuyler Springs. Peter, Sully’s son, is still grappling with his father’s tremendous legacy as well as his relationship to his own son, Thomas, wondering if he has been all that different a father than Sully was to him. Meanwhile, the towns’ newly consolidated police department falls into the hands of Charice Bond, after the resignation of Doug Raymer, the former North Bath police chief and Charice’s ex-lover. When a decomposing body turns up in the abandoned hotel situated between the two towns, Charice and Raymer are drawn together again and forced to address their complicated attraction to one another. Across town, Ruth, Sully’s married ex-lover, and her daughter Janey struggle to understand Janey’s daughter, Tina, and her growing obsession with Peter’s other son, Will. Amidst the turmoil, the town’s residents speculate on the identity of the unidentified body, and wonder who among their number could have disappeared unnoticed. Infused with all the wry humor and shrewd observations that Russo is known for, Somebody's Fool is another classic from a modern master. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/about-my-father monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/072d9406-0e5d-40c5-9b0e-39c49634d008/father.jpg New Arrivals - About My Father The film centers around Sebastian (Maniscalco) who is encouraged by his fiancée (Leslie Bibb) to bring his immigrant, hairdresser father, Salvo (De Niro), to a weekend get-together with her super-rich and exceedingly eccentric family (Kim Cattrall, Anders Holm, Brett Dier, David Rasche). https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/cat-kid-comic-club-perspectives monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0e0b9cc4-1512-4b22-b169-330c14ac8862/ckperspectives.jpg New Arrivals - Cat Kid Comic Club: Perspectives - by Dav Pilkey Flippy, Molly, Li'l Petey, and twenty-one baby frogs each have something to say. Naomi and Melvin don't see eye to eye and Poppy perceives the world differently than her siblings. Will the baby frogs figure out how to work together and appreciate one another's point of view -- both inside and outside the classroom? The shenanigans are nonstop and the baby frogs' minicomics are funny and full of heart. Creating stories within a story, author and illustrator Dav Pilkey uses a variety of techniques -- including acrylic paints, colored pencils, Japanese calligraphy, photography, collage, gouache, watercolors, and much more -- to portray each frog's perspective. The kaleidoscope of art styles, paired with Pilkey's trademark storytelling and humor, fosters creativity, collaboration, independence, and empathy. Readers of all ages will relish this joyful graphic novel adventure. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/cat-kid-comic-club-on-purpose monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8119e0ea-9a33-4b56-829e-9fa6f572a3dc/ckonpurpose.jpg New Arrivals - Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose - by Dav Pilkey The comic club is going in all different directions! Naomi, Melvin, and siblings are each trying to find their purpose. Naomi has an idea to get rich quick that causes a lot of commotion and emotion. And when faced with rejections, the friends try and try again to stay true to their vision. To top it off, a surprise visitor comes to class to stir things up. Will a desire for money and power cloud Naomi's purpose? Is it quitting time? Will the club ever be the same? The hilarity is nonstop as the baby frogs navigate sibling relationships, follow their path, and create art -- with purpose! Featured as stories-within-the-story, the mini comics showcase each baby frog's perspective and individual art style. In this groundbreaking graphic novel series, award-winning author and illustrator Dav Pilkey uses a variety of techniques -- including acrylic paints, colored pencils, photography, collage, gouache, watercolors, and much more -- to illustrate each frog's creative purpose and encourage teamwork. The kaleidoscope of art styles, paired with Pilkey's trademark storytelling and humor, fosters creativity, collaboration, independence, and empathy. Readers of all ages will enjoy this fun, exciting, and purposeful graphic novel adventure. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/cat-kid-comic-club-collaborations monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6760db73-1c59-4cc0-8de0-08063e3022b9/ckcollab.jpg New Arrivals - Cat Kid Comic Club: Collaborations - by Dav Pilkey Excitement and imagination run wild as Naomi, Melvin, Poppy, Gilbert, Curly, and their siblings get back to making comics with originality and laughter. But wait -- have they cleaned their rooms yet?! After their chores, the rambunctious group presents even more amazing mini-comics: a thrilling ride in "Chubbs McSpiderbutt," an action-packed romp in "Frogzilla," reflective haikus in "In the Autumn Pond," a candy-coated mystery in "Mallo Cop," and much, much more. By working together, the baby frogs discover that small things can have a huge impact. In this innovative graphic novel series, award-winning author and illustrator Dav Pilkey employs a variety of techniques -- including origami, acrylic paints, colored pencils, photography, collage, gouache, watercolors, and more -- to capture the creative and joyful spirit of collaboration. The variety of art styles, paired with Pilkey's trademark storytelling and humor, inspires imagination and innovation for readers of all ages. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dogman-fetch-22 monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/122bb693-7543-4897-8ca3-4c44c29e7ed6/fetch.jpg New Arrivals - Dogman: Fetch-22 - by Dav Pilkey Petey the Cat is out of jail, and he has a brand-new lease on life. While Petey's reevaluated what matters most, Li'l Petey is struggling to find the good in the world. Can Petey and Dog Man stop fighting like cats and dogs long enough to put their paws together and work as a team? They need each other now more than ever -- Li'l Petey (and the world) is counting on them! Dav Pilkey's wildly popular Dog Man series appeals to readers of all ages and explores universally positive themes, including empathy, kindness, persistence, and the importance of doing good. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-crayons-go-back-to-school monthly 0.5 2023-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/cfdd2e23-366e-4011-83c0-8cbb3dc88575/crayons.jpg New Arrivals - The Crayons Go Back to School - by Drew Daywalt The crayons are getting ready to go back to school, and each crayon has a subject they're looking forward to the most. They're also ready to meet new friends. . . and let loose during their very favorite time of day: art class. A humorous, small hardcover back-to-school story from everyone's favorite school supplies. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/king-of-the-armadillos monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1ed848ba-31a9-4c51-863b-1e94b4dacdab/king.jpg New Arrivals - King of the Armadillos - by Wendy Chin-Tanner Victor Chin’s life is turned upside down at the tender age of 15. Diagnosed with Hansen’s disease, otherwise known as leprosy, he’s forced to leave the familiar confines of his father’s laundry business in the Bronx – the only home he’s known since emigrating from China with his older brother – to quarantine alongside patients from all over the country at a federal institution in Carville. At first, Victor is scared not only of the disease, but of the confinement, and wants nothing more than to flee. Between treatments he dreams of escape and imagines his life as a fugitive. But soon he finds a new sense of freedom far from home – one without the pull of obligations to his family, or the laundry business, or his mother back in China. Here, in the company of an unforgettable cast of characters, Victor finds refuge in music and experiences first love, jealousy, betrayal, and even tragedy. But with the promise of a life-changing cure on the horizon, Victor’s time at Carville is running out, and he has some difficult choices to make. A groundbreaking work of historical fiction, King of the Armadillos announces Wendy Chin-Tanner as an extraordinary new voice. Inspired by her father’s experience as a young patient at Carville, this tender coming-of-age novel is a captivating look at a forgotten radical community and a lyrical exploration of the power of art. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/strange-sally-diamond monthly 0.5 2023-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ca55c7fa-dc21-4e22-9748-46be9866dbd4/strangesally.jpg New Arrivals - Strange Sally Diamond - by Liz Nugent Reclusive Sally Diamond causes outrage by trying to incinerate her dead father. Now she’s the center of attention, not only from the hungry media and police detectives, but also a sinister voice from a past she does not remember. As she begins to discover the horrors of her early childhood, Sally steps into the world for the first time, making new friends, big decisions, and learning that people don’t always mean what they say. But who is the man observing Sally from the other side of the world, and why does he call her Mary? And why does her new neighbor seem to be obsessed with her? Sally’s trust issues are about to be severely challenged in this “inventive, addictive, and bold” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) thriller. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-little-village-of-book-lovers monthly 0.5 2023-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/74735419-f0fc-4137-b701-03e14f994a27/village.jpg New Arrivals - The Little Village of Book Lovers - by Nina George In Nina George’s New York Times bestseller The Little Paris Bookshop, beloved literary apothecary Jean Perdu is inspired to create a floating bookstore after reading a seminal pseudonymous novel about a young woman with a remarkable gift. The Little Village of Book Lovers is that novel. “Everyone knows me, but none can see me. I’m that thing you call love.” In a little town in the south of France in the 1960s, a dazzling encounter with Love itself changes the life of infant orphan Marie-Jeanne forever. As a girl, Marie-Jeanne realizes that she can see the marks Love has left on the people around her—tiny glowing lights on the faces and hands that shimmer more brightly when the one meant for them is near. Before long, Marie-Jeanne is playing matchmaker, bringing true loves together in her village. As she grows up, Marie-Jeanne helps her foster father, Francis, begin a mobile library that travels throughout the many small mountain towns in the region of Nyons. She finds herself bringing soulmates together every place they go—and there are always books that play a pivotal role in that quest. However, the only person that Marie-Jeanne can’t seem to find a soulmate for is herself. She has no glow of her own, though she waits and waits for it to appear. Everyone must have a soulmate, surely—but will Marie-Jeanne be able to recognize hers when Love finally comes her way? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-to-z-animal-mysteries-absent-alpacas monthly 0.5 2023-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/36ce8418-6abf-4d3c-88a4-00137c913140/alpacas.jpg New Arrivals - A to Z Animal Mysteries: Absent Alpacas - by Kayla Whaley A is for ALPACAS . . . It's time for the alpaca costume contest, and Abigail "Abbi" Wallace is excited to see it at the Maine State Fair. But there’s only one alpaca left—the rest are missing! What sent the alpacas packing? Abbi; her dog, Barkley; and her friends Lydia and Daniel are ready to sniff out this mystery! DON'T MISS the original A to Z Mysteries series by Ron Roy, starting with The Absent Author! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-collector monthly 0.5 2023-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/bde80654-3d37-4175-8870-402f9525dbc3/collector.jpg New Arrivals - The Collector - by Daniel Silva Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world’s most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West. Silva's powerhouse novel showcases his outstanding skill and brilliant imagination, destined to be a must-read for both his multitudes of fans and growing legions of converts. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-puppeteers monthly 0.5 2023-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b297686c-122c-4a18-9491-e23d47c2d0a8/puppet.jpg New Arrivals - The Puppeteers - by Jason Chaffetz When he left Congress in 2017, Jason Chaffetz still thought elections could save us. For generations, conservatives have hoped that freedom-loving congressional majorities could turn back the tide and restore America’s liberties and prosperity. But now, he says, winning elections will not be enough. Increasingly, the work of government is being done by people outside the government—unelected power brokers who are invisible to the American public but who pull the strings, set the agendas, create the incentives, and write the rules we must all live by. Using both government and non-governmental institutions, leftists have bypassed the legislative process to compel institutional compliance with partisan goals. The White House or the Congress may change hands, but the left remains in power. In The Puppeteers, Chaffetz reveals how: Susan Rice was put in charge of using the bureaucracy to make sure Republicans never win another election The federal government now could be deployed to harvest ballots from Democrats President Biden hired a Blackrock executive to run his economic agenda for the first two years of his presidency State treasurers planned to use billions of government dollars to “address climate change” and “racial inequality,” with almost no way for voters to stop them Randi Weingarten makes more decisions for the education department than people who actually work there Electing the right leaders is no longer enough. To take back our country, the American people need to understand that they’re in a new fight. But it’s a fight that’s still eminently winnable, and Chaffetz reveals the playbook. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-benevolent-society-of-ill-mannered-ladies monthly 0.5 2023-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/192ff661-a2ce-48bb-8235-7a302acfe457/illmannered.jpg New Arrivals - The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies - by Alison Goodman Lady Augusta Colebrook, “Gus,” is determinedly unmarried, bored by society life, and tired of being dismissed at the age of forty-two. She and her twin sister, Julia, who is grieving her dead betrothed, need a distraction. One soon presents itself: to rescue their friend’s goddaughter, Caroline, from her violent husband. The sisters set out to Caroline’s country estate with a plan, but their carriage is accosted by a highwayman. In the scuffle, Gus accidentally shoots and injures the ruffian, only to discover he is Lord Evan Belford, an acquaintance from their past who was charged with murder and exiled to Australia twenty years ago. What follows is a high adventure full of danger, clever improvisation, heart-racing near misses, and a little help from a revived and rather charming Lord Evan. Back in London, Gus can’t stop thinking about her unlikely (not to mention handsome) comrade-in-arms. She is convinced Lord Evan was falsely accused of murder, and she is going to prove it. She persuades Julia to join her in a quest to help Lord Evan, and others in need—society be damned! And so begins the beguiling secret life and adventures of the Colebrook twins. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/good-dog-bad-cop monthly 0.5 2023-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/37b86401-5cf8-4fdc-8658-fa796b3da922/gooddog.jpg New Arrivals - Good Dog, Bad Cop - by David Rosenfelt The K Team enjoys investigating cold cases for the Paterson Police Department. Corey Douglas, his K-9 partner Simon Garfunkel, Laurie Collins, and Marcus Clark even get to choose which cases they’d like to pursue. When Corey sees the latest list of possibilities, there’s no question which one to look into next. Corey’s former mentor, Jimmy Dietrich, had his whole identity wrapped up in being a cop. When Jimmy retired three years ago, his marriage quickly deteriorated and he tried–and failed―to get back on the force. Jimmy was left to try to adjust to life as a civilian. Not long after, two bodies were pulled from the Passaic River. A local woman, Susan Avery, and Jimmy Dietrich. With no true evidence available, the deaths went unsolved and the case declared cold. This didn’t stop the whispers: an affair gone wrong... a murder-suicide committed by Jimmy. Corey never believed it. With this case, the K Team has the opportunity to find the real murderer, and clear Jimmy’s name. Bestselling author David Rosenfelt returns in Good Dog, Bad Cop, where there’s little to go on, but that won’t stop Paterson, New Jersey’s favorite private investigators from sniffing out the truth. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/kitty-and-cat-opposites-atract monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/afba5348-edc3-4825-b774-7cbc09ab1d04/kittycat.jpg New Arrivals - Kitty &amp; Cat: Opposites Attract - by Mirka Hokkanen This deceptively simple concept book introduces readers to grumpy, old, exhausted Cat, who just wants to be left alone, and to happy, new, energetic Kitty, who longs to make friends. In a story told entirely through well-chosen pairs of opposites and drolly expressive artwork, author-illustrator Mirka Hokkanen manages to elevate the humble concept book into a true work of art—one that is bound to have readers giggling and crying for more! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/mother-tongue monthly 0.5 2023-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1b1a03e1-ee0e-4262-8e8d-944bc7f7311e/mother.jpg New Arrivals - Mother Tongue - by Joyce Kornblatt Mother Tongue begins with a shocking discovery. In a powerful fiction that reads like a true story, the details of the crime and its aftermath unfold. In mid-life, Australian fiction-writer Nella Pine learns that she was kidnapped as an infant from a hospital in the United States, taken to Australia, and raised there by the woman she knew as her mother, but who was actually her abductor. "When I was three days old, a nurse named Ruth Miller stole me from the obstetrics ward in Mercy Hospital and raised me as her own." In four voices of those whose lives were changed forever by the abduction, the mystery of Nella's kidnapping emerges. Why was she taken? How was the secret kept for so long? What became of the family she was stolen from? Mother Tongue invites the reader to participate with these memorable characters as they unfold the impact on them of a terrible crime. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dancing-in-the-kitchen monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/beb202cd-0e51-49eb-93d0-b38e5cc04234/dancing.jpg New Arrivals - Dancing in the Kitchen - by Susan Sterling This terrific debut novel explores the unraveling of secrets in a New England family after the unexpected death of the father. The story is set in the fall of 1989 in a mill town in Maine, a New Hampshire village, and the Midlands of England. It is narrated alternately by the grown children: Annie, a minister's wife who has fallen into a troubled affair with her husband's best friend, and Rob, a labor historian who resists his sister's interpretations of their shared past, even as his own relationships become complicated by emotional legacies and a mysterious stranger. Returning to her childhood home in Three Rivers, Maine, two months after her father's death, Annie struggles to understand the past, certain that in its mysteries lie the answers to her present dilemma. An artist and the mother of a four-year-old daughter, she finds herself caught between a faltering marriage and an affair that has rekindled her long dormant passion for painting. The central dilemma for all the characters is whether they will follow their passions and actively seek out joy in their lives, or stay in honorable but at some level loveless relationships. Grief impels them into risky territory, and their choices are complicated. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pursuing-daisy-garfield monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/15910147-e89e-4244-ad37-7a646ba74563/daisy.jpg New Arrivals - Pursuing Daisy Garfield - by Otis Bulfinch The beautiful and enigmatic Daisy Garfield occupies the center of this tale about a woman's search for meaning in the 19th century Ozarks backwoods. Resourceful beyond her years, Daisy fends off the predatory advances of a teacher, a preacher, and a corrupt lawman in strikingly violent ways. Her resources come to an end when her husband John accidentally splits his shin with an axe. When gangrene sets in, she asks a passing trapper, William Crawford, to end John's suffering. In the vain hope that Daisy will give herself to him, William consents to kill her husband, an act that plunges him into guilt and self-recrimination.<br><br>Crawford's misgivings take an unexpected turn when a group of hardscrabble homesteaders enlist him in their search for John's killer. When they discover not just one, but two rotted corpses, the mystery deepens for them all. Meanwhile, Daisy undergoes her own search for peace and security as she navigates alone the dangers of the Ozarks. As intelligent as she is beautiful, Daisy struggles to reconcile the claims of religion with the evils inflicted upon her.<br><br>Pursuing Daisy Garfield is at once a mystery and a profound meditation on the hope that "beauty will save the world." Written in the backwoods vernacular of the Ozarks, readers will be reminded of the gritty and elegiac writing found in the novels of Cormac McCarthy. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/winter-swimming monthly 0.5 2023-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/517cc723-239f-48e2-a29c-11b137c89c68/swimming.jpg New Arrivals - Winter Swimming: The Nordic Way Towards a Healthier and Happier Life - by DR Susanna Soberg Whether in lake, lido, river or sea, we know the benefits of swimming outdoors and in nature - environmentally friendly and accessible, it can influence our happiness, our energy and our inner tranquility, and give us that winter glow. Danish scientist Dr Susanna Søberg leads us step by step into the icy water and explains the "cold-shock response", the massive endorphin rush as our body reacts and adapts to very cold temperatures through the winter season. Not only do our circulation, heart, lungs and skin respond positively, but our immune system, metabolism and mental health too. In particular she explains how our "brown fat" is activated to benefit multiple health conditions. Winter swimming is fast becoming one of our most popular pastimes. This beautifully illustrated exploration of cold-water traditions in Scandinavia and around the world shows how it can have a significant positive impact on our physical and mental health, confidence and well-being, providing such a boost to body and soul. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-in-between monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0c0d01d0-f4c1-4e3d-a9ea-3376e2c50fc7/inbetween.jpg New Arrivals - The In-Between - by Hadley Vlahos, RN Talking about death and dying is considered taboo in polite company, and even in the medical field. Our ideas about dying are confusing at best: Will our memories flash before our eyes? Regrets consume our thoughts? Does a bright light appear at the end of a tunnel? For most people, it will be a slower process, one eased with preparedness, good humor, and a bit of faith. At the forefront of changing attitudes around palliative care is hospice nurse Hadley Vlahos, who shows that end-of-life care can teach us just as much about how to live as it does about how we die. Vlahos was raised in a strict religious household, but began questioning her beliefs in high school after the sudden death of a friend. When she got pregnant at nineteen, she was shunned by her community and enrolled herself in nursing school to be able to support herself and her baby. But nursing soon became more than a job: when she focused on palliative care and hospice work, it became a calling. In The In-Between, Vlahos recounts the most impactful experiences she’s had with the people she’s worked with—from the woman who never once questioned her faith until she was close to death, to the older man seeing visions of his late daughter, to the young patient who laments that she spent too much of her short life worrying about what others thought of her—while also sharing her own fascinating journey. Written with profound insight, humility, and respect, The In-Between is a heartrending memoir that shows how caring for others can transform a life while also offering wisdom and comfort for those dealing with loss and providing inspiration for how to live now. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2baf840a-5ffe-4d7f-a671-37e5f861f73d/tomorrow.jpg New Arrivals - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - by Gabrielle Zevin From the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won’t protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts. Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/who-would-win-set monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5d403b8c-e78a-43e5-ac69-7f74b771a105/whowouldwin.jpg New Arrivals - Who Would Win? (10 book set) - by Jerry Pallotta The ultimate box set for fans of Jerry Pallotta and Rob Bolster's bestselling Who Would Win series! Which dangerous animals would win in a fight? Find out in this amazing box set, which includes 10 books in the bestselling Who Would Win? series, including: Alligator vs. Python; Green Ants vs. Army Ants; Hyena vs. Honey Badger;Triceratops vs. Spinosaurus;Rhino vs. Hippo; Lobster vs. Crab; Rattlesnake vs. Secretary Bird; Jaguar vs. Skunk; Falcon vs. Hawk; and Wolverine vs. Tasmanian Devil. Kids will learn all about each animal's anatomy, behavior, and more alongside photos, charts, illustrations, and amazing facts. This collection features a range of mammals, birds, sea creatures, reptiles, and dinosaurs to satisfy all kinds of animal fans, and is the perfect gift! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/identity monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a7bd7780-609d-4959-9b4d-fa13d2c890fc/identity.jpg New Arrivals - Identity - by Nora Roberts Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan's job as a bartender. But after she and Nina host their first dinner party―attended by Luke, the flirtatious IT guy who'd been chatting her up at the bar―her carefully built world is shattered. The back door glass is broken, cash and jewelry are missing, her car is gone, and Nina lies dead on the floor. Soon, a horrific truth emerges: It was Morgan who let the monster in. "Luke" is actually a cold-hearted con artist named Gavin who targets a particular type of woman, steals her assets and identity, and then commits his ultimate goal: murder. What the FBI tells Morgan is beyond chilling. Nina wasn't his type. Morgan is. Nina was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. And Morgan's nightmare is just beginning. Soon she has no choice but to flee to her mother's home in Vermont. While she struggles to build something new, she meets another man, Miles Jameson. He isn't flashy or flirtatious, and his family business has deep roots in town. But Gavin is still out there hunting new victims, and he hasn't forgotten the one who got away. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dead-mans-wake monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/db5f0e5a-768b-4a2e-8143-45d607872b10/wake.jpg New Arrivals - Dead Man’s Wake - by Paul Doiron On the evening of their engagement party, Maine Game Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch and Stacey Stevens witness what seems to be a hit-and-run speedboat crash on a darkened lake. When they arrive at the scene, their spotlight reveals a gruesome sight: a severed arm floating just beneath the surface. As day breaks, the warden dive team recovers not one but two naked corpses: a dismembered man and the married woman with whom he was having an affair. Mike begins to suspect the swimmers' deaths were not a senseless accident but a coldly calculated murder. Meanwhile, the hunt is on for the mysterious boater. Suspects abound on the lake, nicknamed "Golden Pond,” including the violent biker husband of the murdered woman who may have taken vengeance on his wife and her paramour; a strange woman who claims to have witnessed the crash, but then changes her story; a very aggressive realtor and his wife who were determined to catch trespassers; and the lake’s earnest young constable whose eagerness to help may hide darker motives. Alone among his fellow officers, Mike starts to sense the involvement of a trained marksman, smarter and more dangerous than any enemy he has ever faced before. As Mike and Stacey get closer to identifying the killer, their own lives are suddenly on the line as they confront a lethal killer who plans to silence them forever. The finale is a tour de force of drama and suspense. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/devils-delight monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/bcd7f81a-5d7f-46ce-8663-646a41c33f1b/devil.jpg New Arrivals - Devil’s Delight - by M.C. Beaton Agatha and her assistant, Toni, are driving to their friend Bill Wong’s long-awaited wedding, thinking of nothing more than what the beautiful bride will be wearing when a terrified young man comes running down the country lane towards them wearing…nothing at all. The encounter leads them to become embroiled with a naturist group, a disappearing corpse, fantasy games, witchcraft, an ice cream empire, intrigue and murder. In the meantime, Agatha’s hectic life swirls along at dizzying pace, her private detective agency as busy as ever and her private affairs in turmoil, with old loves to contend with and a new suitor on the scene. But when she begins to close in on a suspected murderer, she finds herself in deadly peril, as the sinister nature of the ice cream business leads her to a chilling conclusion… https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/fire-strike monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/dc207f45-91ce-4614-a219-c7f96f368833/firestrike.jpg New Arrivals - Fire Strike - by Clive Cussler When Cabrillo is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. A Saudi Prince seeks to unleash a deadly assault on U.S. forces, sparking a new war in the Middle East and ultimately destroying Israel. Cabrillo’s crew have met their most fearsome adversaries yet: a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and stamina and an unquenchable appetite for violence. The Oregon team must journey from the Amazon rainforest to an abandoned monastery in Eritrea before a final showdown in the mountains of Yemen, using every shred of courage and cunning they can muster to disable the ship-killer missile before the Arabian Sea becomes a mass grave. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-lock-up monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/82021853-8a73-47cc-a11e-29e451375e07/lockup.jpg New Arrivals - The Lock-Up - by John Banville In 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a young history scholar, is found dead in her car. Renowned pathologist Dr. Quirke and DI St. John Strafford begin to investigate the death as a murder, but it’s the victim’s older sister Molly, an established journalist, who discovers a lead that could crack open the case. One of Rosa’s friends, it turns out, is from a powerful German family that arrived in Ireland under mysterious circumstances shortly after World War II. But as Quirke and Strafford close in, their personal lives may put the case—and everyone involved—in peril, including Quirke’s own daughter. Spanning the mountaintops of Italy, the front lines of World War II Bavaria, the gritty streets of Dublin and other unexpected locales, The Lock-Up is an ambitious and arresting mystery by one of the world’s most celebrated authors. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/my-friend-ann-frank monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4f0c15fd-fa6c-4289-b169-8064b26a360a/friend.jpg New Arrivals - My Friend Ann Frank - by Hannah Pick-Goslar In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor, an outspoken and fun-loving young girl named Anne Frank. For several years, the inseparable pair enjoyed a carefree childhood of games, sleepovers, and treats with the other children in their neighborhood of Rivierenbuurt. But in 1942, Hannah and Anne's lives abruptly changed forever. As the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam progressed, Anne and the Frank family seemingly vanished, leaving behind unmade beds and dishes in the sink—but no trace of Anne's precious diary. Torn from her dear friend without warning, Hannah spent the next two years tormented by questions about Anne's fate, wondering if she had, by some miracle, managed to escape danger. In this long‑awaited memoir, Hannah shares the story of her childhood during the Holocaust, from the introduction of anti-Jewish laws in Amsterdam to the gradual disappearance of classmates and, eventually, the Frank family, to Hannah and her family's imprisonment in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. As Hannah chronicles the experiences of her own life during and after the war, she provides a searing look at what countless children endured at the hands of the Nazi regime, as well as an intimate, never‑before‑seen portrait of the most recognizable victim of the Holocaust. Culminating in an astonishing fateful reunion, My Friend Anne Frank is the profoundly moving story of childhood and friendship during one of the darkest periods in the world's history. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/near-miss monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/32abb28a-fa77-423c-b99f-9a46d628621b/nearmiss.jpg New Arrivals - Near Miss - by Stuart Woods Following a string of adventures, Stone Barrington is enjoying some downtime in New York City when a chance encounter introduces him to a charming new companion. Too bad she also comes with the baggage of a persistent ex-boyfriend intent on retribution. As Stone skillfully dodges each disturbance, it becomes clear that there's an even more treacherous game being played behind the scenes. When long-standing grudges resurface, Stone is brought back into the orbit of some familiar enemies. He must use all of his tricks—as well as those of a few old friends—to evade trouble before it's too late. But this time, danger just might catch up with him. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/too-late monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/393fef41-76d7-4d65-a1ad-db09c1aee51a/toolate.jpg New Arrivals - Too Late - by Colleen Hoover Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does so, every single day. Caught up with the alluring Asa Jackson, a notorious drug trafficker, Sloan has finally found a lifeline to cling to, even if it’s meant compromising her morals. She was in dire straits trying to pay for her brother’s care until she met Asa. But as Sloan became emotionally and economically reliant on him, he in turn developed a disturbing obsession with her—one that becomes increasingly dangerous every day. When undercover DEA agent Carter enters the picture, Sloan’s surprised to feel an immediate attraction between them, despite knowing that if Asa finds out, he will kill him. And Asa has always been a step ahead of everyone in his life, including Sloan. No one has ever gotten in his way. No one except Carter. Together, Sloan and Carter must find a way out before it’s too late… https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/flags-on-the-bayou monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/390b4c57-6a26-48ef-a3f8-7de3fe38f0c6/flags.jpg New Arrivals - Flags on the Bayou - by James Lee Burke In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous. Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he observed—and did—as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to his uncle’s plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured by Hannah. Flags on the Bayou is an engaging, action-packed narrative that includes a duel that ends in disaster, a brutal encounter with the local Union commander, repeated skirmishes with Confederate irregulars led by a diseased and probably deranged colonel, and a powerful story of love blossoming between an unlikely pair. As the story unfolds, it illuminates a past that reflects our present in sharp relief. James Lee Burke, whose “evocative prose remains a thing of reliably fierce wonder” (Entertainment Weekly), expertly renders the rich Louisiana landscape, from the sunsets on the Mississippi River to the dingy saloons of New Orleans to the tree-lined shores of the bayou and the cottonmouth snakes that dwell in its depths. Powerful and deeply moving, Flags on the Bayou is a story of tragic acts of war, class divisions upended, and love enduring through it all. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/how-strange-a-season monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6107e1d4-042d-448b-8cc5-897783ead405/strange.jpg New Arrivals - How Strange a Season - by Megan Mayhew Bergman A recently separated woman fills a huge terrarium with rare flowers to establish control over a small world and attempt to heal her broken heart. A competitive swimmer negotiates over which days she will fulfill her wifely duties, and which days she will keep for herself. A peach farmer wonders if her orchard will survive a drought. And generations of a family in South Carolina struggle with fidelity and their cruel past, some clinging to old ways and others painfully carving new paths. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dogman-mothering-heights monthly 0.5 2023-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/859dc835-e365-459c-a8d7-38e259afa4d1/mothering.jpg New Arrivals - Dogman: Mothering Heights - by Dav Pilkey Dog Man is down on his luck, Petey confronts his not so purr-fect past, and Grampa is up to no good. The world is spinning out of control as new villains spill into town. Everything seems dark and full of despair. But hope is not lost. Can the incredible power of love save the day? Dav Pilkey's wildly popular Dog Man series appeals to readers of all ages and explores universally positive themes, including love, empathy, kindness, persistence, and the importance of doing good. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dogman-grime-and-punishment monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f5e0f49c-118d-4c05-9d38-a355c1ebc449/grime.jpg New Arrivals - Dogman: Grime and Punishment - by Dav Pilkey Dog Man's really done it this time! He hands over his badge and clears out his desk, but while he may be out of a job, he's not yet out of hope. With his friends at his side, can Dog Man dig himself out of this hole and paw his way back onto the force? Dav Pilkey's wildly popular Dog Man series appeals to readers of all ages and explores universally positive themes, including empathy, kindness, persistence, and the importance of doing good https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-covenant monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0335047e-9944-4837-9f21-5815f6fdb2cd/covenant.jpg New Arrivals - The Covenant In this powerful film, Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) is on his last tour of duty in Afghanistan when he is teamed with up with a local interpreter, Ahmed (Dar Salim). When Kinley is wounded, Ahmed risks his own life to carry an injured John across miles of grueling terrain to safety. Directed and co-written by Guy Ritchie. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/super-mario-bros-movie monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ef8ae9df-5b50-4098-a088-944a937e897a/mario.jpg New Arrivals - Super Mario Bros Movie The movie tells the story of two Brooklyn plumbers who are brothers and best friends: Mario, the brave one with the "let's-a go" attitude, and the perpetually anxious Luigi, who would prefer to go nowhere. We open with the Super Mario Brothers reckoning with their struggling plumbing business, and wind up in a whirlwind adventure through Mushroom Kingdom. Through their journey, we meet a cast of familiar, lovable characters, ultimately uniting together to defeat the power-hungry villain, Bowser. The Super Mario Bros. Movie takes what millions of gamers worldwide have loved for thirty-five years and levels it up to a new and breathtaking cinematic experience. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-popes-exorcist monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/33fc60d9-903c-4d26-8371-268ac386aa96/pope.jpg New Arrivals - The Pope’s Exorcist Inspired by the actual files of Father Gabriele Amorth, Chief Exorcist of the Vatican (Academy Award®-winner Russell Crowe; 2000, Best Actor, Gladiator), The Pope’s Exorcist follows Amorth as he investigates a young boy’s terrifying possession and ends up uncovering a centuries-old conspiracy the Vatican has desperately tried to keep hidden. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/are-you-there-god-its-me-margaret monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/96565501-9724-4b71-9595-c9c829362dcb/blume.jpg New Arrivals - Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. At 11, Margaret is moving to a new town and beginning to contemplate everything about life, friendship, and adolescence. She relies on her mother (Rachel McAdams), who offers loving support but is herself finding her own footing in a new place, and her grandmother Sylvia (Kathy Bates), who is coming to terms with finding happiness in the next phase of her life. For all three, questions of identity, one’s place in the world, and what brings meaning to a life will draw them closer together than ever before. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/book-club-the-next-chapter monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7383cd60-3feb-44b3-8523-bad65bf404bd/bookclub.jpg New Arrivals - Book Club: The Next Chapter The highly anticipated sequel follows our four best friends as they take their book club to Italy for the fun girls trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/my-murder monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3ec58443-c083-49e3-b5dc-7d5a86dd7756/mymurder.jpg New Arrivals - My Murder - by Katie Williams Lou is a happily married mother of an adorable toddler. She’s also the victim of a local serial killer. Recently brought back to life and returned to her grieving family by a government project, she is grateful for this second chance. But as the new Lou re-adapts to her old routines, and as she bonds with other female victims, she realizes that disturbing questions remain about what exactly preceded her death and how much she can really trust those around her. Now it’s not enough to care for her child, love her husband, and work the job she’s always enjoyed—she must also figure out the circumstances of her death. Darkly comic, tautly paced, and full of surprises, My Murder is a devour-in-one-sitting, clever twist on the classic thriller. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/just-a-regular-boy monthly 0.5 2023-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/cf1bea12-d794-4c86-91c7-920997f917eb/regularboy.jpg New Arrivals - Just a Regular Boy - by Catherine Ryan Hyde Out there is chaos, the collapse of society, and so much to be afraid of. All that matters is freedom. That’s what Remy Blake has been taught by his survivalist father. Raised off the grid in the middle of nowhere, his own survival skills not yet honed, Remy is days shy of his eighth birthday when his father unexpectedly dies. As seasons pass, supplies run out, and fending for himself grows more desperate, Remy sets out on foot, unprepared for the great unknown of civilization. He is found―near feral, silent, and terrified―in the small rural town of Blaire. To Anne, a nurturing mother of two adopted teenagers who’s still dealing with her own childhood rejections, Remy is not a lost cause. Just a challenging one. As Remy cautiously adapts to his new foster home, his family wants nothing more than to reassure him that he can trust the world. But to do so, they must first reexamine how much they trust the world themselves, and how much they should. As Remy’s journey into the real world begins, figuring out how to navigate it becomes a path they will have to learn to walk together. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-maine-house monthly 0.5 2023-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6bd22808-82bb-41b5-9169-c4e616b9349b/mainehouse.jpg New Arrivals - The Maine House - by Maura McEvoy For several years, acclaimed photographer Maura McEvoy and art director Basha Burwell traveled the length and breadth of Maine in search of houses that capture the state’s singular character. These are not designer houses; they are homes created by the people who live in them, from artists to writers to fishermen, distinctive for their ingenuity, originality, and fierce individuality. Many are unchanged, inhabited by generations of the same family; some are ingenious conversions. As Kathleen Hackett observes in her eloquant text, these are homes that have a kind of visual wealth that money can’t buy, homes that define the very spirit of Maine. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/vinalhaven-portrait-of-a-maine-island monthly 0.5 2023-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/28b52b4b-acfd-4c54-bb3a-e90087cc45f1/vhbooklowres.jpg New Arrivals - Vinalhaven: Portrait of a Maine Island - by Joel Greenberg Experience the beauty and charm of Vinalhaven Island, Maine, with the first coffee table photography book dedicated to portraying its landscapes, architecture, and people. (This book contains artistic photography that includes some nudity.) https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/hot-dog monthly 0.5 2023-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2e08eb64-a6fe-402f-8aac-2246646585c1/hotdog.jpg New Arrivals - Hot Dog - by Doug Solati This hot dog has had enough of summer in the city! Enough of sizzling sidewalks, enough of wailing sirens, enough of people's feet right in his face. When he plops down in the middle of a crosswalk, his owner endeavors to get him the breath of fresh air he needs. She hails a taxi, hops a train, and ferries out to the beach. Here, a pup can run! With fluid art and lyrical text that have the soothing effect of waves on sand, award-winning author Doug Salati shows us how to find calm and carry it back with us so we can appreciate the small joys in a day. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-body-in-the-web monthly 0.5 2023-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1299ba4a-0def-4671-8e93-d0ec554a4893/web.jpg New Arrivals - The Body in the Web - by Katherine Hall Page Faith Fairchild joins the rest of the world in lockdown mode when reality flips in March 2020. As the pandemic spreads, Faith and her family readjust to life together in Aleford, Massachusetts. Her husband, Tom, continues his sermons from Zoom; their children, Ben, who's in college, and Amy, a high school senior, are doing remote learning at home . Faith is happy to have her family under the same roof and grateful for her resilient community, friends, and neighbors in Aleford. Town halls remain lively and well-attended, despite residents joining from their living rooms. It is at one of these town halls that scandal breaks out. In the midst of a Zoom meeting, damaging images suddenly flash upon everyone’s screens. Claudia, local art teacher and Faith’s dear friend, is immediately recognized as the woman who has been targeted. When Claudia is later discovered dead, Faith, with the help of her friends, journeys deep into the dark web to unravel the threads of Claudia’s mysterious history and shocking passing. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/summer-stage monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c6ab25dd-dbbd-4a2f-b42e-5481d9abeccb/summerstage.jpg New Arrivals - Summer Stage - by Meg Mitchell Moore Amy Trevino, a former aspiring playwright, has stayed close to her Rhode Island hometown while her famous brother, Timothy Fleming, pursued and achieved his Hollywood dreams. Now a high school English teacher and occasional drama director, Amy takes on the production manager role for her brother’s play in an effort to mend rifting family relationships. Sam, Amy’s daughter, was a Disney child star who continued her pursuit for fame in a Manhattan TikTok house. Now she’s returned home unexpectedly. Her sudden arrival is shrouded in secrets, and Sam refuses to open up to her mother, deciding instead to join her uncle on Block Island for the summer. Timothy, a successful and well-loved actor, is directing a summer production at a storied Block Island theater—and his famous ex-wife has the lead role. As they work together to ensure the production is a success, Amy, Sam, and Timothy are forced to grapple with their desires for recognition and fortune, stand up for what they believe art and fame actually mean, and discover what they really want out of life. A bighearted and delicious novel about family, ambition, and opportunity, Summer Stage is the must-read book of the summer. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-celebrants monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/cabb6e42-08ce-45a4-b0e9-54253dd2fd08/celebrants.jpg New Arrivals - The Celebrants - by Steven Rowley It’s been a minute—or five years—since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation when their adult lives officially began. Now Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle find themselves at the brink of a new decade, with all the responsibilities of adulthood, yet no closer to having their lives figured out. Though not for a lack of trying. Over the years they’ve reunited in Big Sur to honor a decades-old pact to throw each other living “funerals,” celebrations to remind themselves that life is worth living—that their lives mean something, to one another if not to themselves. But this reunion is different. They’re not gathered as they were to bolster Marielle as her marriage crumbled, to lift Naomi after her parents died, or to intervene when Craig pleaded guilty to art fraud. This time, Jordan is sitting on a secret that will upend their pact. A deeply honest tribute to the growing pains of selfhood and the people who keep us going, coupled with Steven Rowley’s signature humor and heart, The Celebrants is a moving tale about the false invincibility of youth and the beautiful ways in which friendship helps us celebrate our lives, even amid the deepest challenges of living. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/central-park-west monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/bed00824-50e9-4434-9c17-301b6ea597e8/centralpark.jpg New Arrivals - Central Park West - by James Comey The gripping crime fiction debut from former FBI director James Comey takes readers deep inside the world of lawyers and investigators working to solve a murder while navigating the treacherous currents of modern politics and the mob. When a years-long case against a powerful mobster finally cracks and an unimpeachable witness takes the stand, federal prosecutor Nora Carleton is looking forward to putting the defendant away for good. The mobster, though, has other plans. As the witness’s testimony concludes, a note is passed to the prosecution offering up information into the assassination of a disgraced former New York governor, murdered in his penthouse apartment just days before. It’s enough to blow the case wide open, and to send Nora into a high-stakes investigation of conspiracy, corruption, and danger. Drawing from the author’s decades in federal law enforcement, including his years in Manhattan as a mob prosecutor and later the chief federal prosecutor, Central Park West is a fast-paced legal thriller with an intriguing plot enriched by real-life details and experiences. That unique perspective gives the novel much of its allure, but it’s the unforgettable characters, shocking twists, and courtroom scenes as authentic as they are dramatic that will leave readers looking forward to more from this bold new talent in the genre. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/lady-tans-circle-of-women monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/39e4c25c-9f0a-49c0-bb75-8eddee5e71a8/ladytan.jpg New Arrivals - Lady Tan’s Circle of Women - by Lisa See According to Confucius, “an educated woman is a worthless woman,” but Tan Yunxian—born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness—is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations—looking, listening, touching, and asking—something a man can never do with a female patient. From a young age, Yunxian learns about women’s illnesses, many of which relate to childbearing, alongside a young midwife-in-training, Meiling. The two girls find fast friendship and a mutual purpose—despite the prohibition that a doctor should never touch blood while a midwife comes in frequent contact with it—and they vow to be forever friends, sharing in each other’s joys and struggles. No mud, no lotus, they tell themselves: from adversity beauty can bloom. But when Yunxian is sent into an arranged marriage, her mother-in-law forbids her from seeing Meiling and from helping the women and girls in the household. Yunxian is to act like a proper wife—embroider bound-foot slippers, pluck instruments, recite poetry, give birth to sons, and stay forever within the walls of the family compound, the Garden of Fragrant Delights. How might a woman like Yunxian break free of these traditions, go on to treat women and girls from every level of society, and lead a life of such importance that many of her remedies are still used five centuries later? How might the power of friendship support or complicate these efforts? Lady Tan’s Circle of Women is a captivating story of women helping other women. It is also a triumphant reimagining of the life of a woman who was remarkable in the Ming dynasty and would be considered remarkable today. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/cross-down monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c6f72226-2061-418f-ad40-6fee7dae62c7/crossdown.jpg New Arrivals - Cross Down - by James Patterson For the first time, John Sampson is on his own. The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington, DC’s, Metro PD and the FBI has a proven MO: Detective Alex Cross makes his own rules. Detective John Sampson enforces them. When military-style attacks erupt, brutally sidelining Cross, Sampson is sent reeling. The patterns are too random—Sampson’s friend, his partner, his brother—have told him. Don’t trust anyone. As a shadow force advances on the nation’s capital, Sampson alone must protect the Cross family, his own young daughter, and every American, including the president. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-line-in-the-sand monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d2b3d39e-3b26-4ec1-bb45-1e70207ffc58/sand.jpg New Arrivals - A Line in the Sand - by Kevin Powers One early morning on a Norfolk beach in Virginia, a dead body is discovered by a man taking his daily swim—Arman Bajalan, formerly an interpreter in Iraq. After narrowly surviving an assassination attempt that killed his wife and child, Arman has been given lonely sanctuary in the US as a maintenance worker at the Sea Breeze Motel. Now, convinced that the body is connected to his past, he knows he is still not safe. Seasoned detective Catherine Wheel and her newly minted partner have little to go on beyond a bus ticket in the dead man’s pocket. It leads them to Sally Ewell, a local journalist as grief-stricken as Arman is by the Iraq War, who is investigating a corporation on the cusp of landing a multi-billion-dollar government defense contract. As victims mount around Arman, taking the team down wrong turns and towards startling evidence, they find themselves in a race, committed to unraveling the truth and keeping Arman alive—even if it costs them absolutely everything. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/weyward monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/dcf71dd6-2c1d-4f25-8995-7aa11cc93254/weyward.jpg New Arrivals - Weyward - by Emilia Hart I am a Weyward, and wild inside. 2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. 1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder of a local farmer who was stampeded to death by his herd. As a girl, Altha’s mother taught her their magic, a kind not rooted in spell casting but in a deep knowledge of the natural world. But unusual women have always been deemed dangerous, and as the evidence for witchcraft is set out against Altha, she knows it will take all of her powers to maintain her freedom. 1942: As World War II rages, Violet is trapped in her family's grand, crumbling estate. Straitjacketed by societal convention, she longs for the robust education her brother receives––and for her mother, long deceased, who was rumored to have gone mad before her death. The only traces Violet has of her are a locket bearing the initial W and the word weyward scratched into the baseboard of her bedroom. Weaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries, Emilia Hart's Weyward is an enthralling novel of female resilience and the transformative power of the natural world. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/old-babes-in-the-wood monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/33f0078c-7a1d-4523-9e5c-aa3d605b4256/oldbabes.jpg New Arrivals - Old Babes in the Wood - by Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonical authors in the world. This collection of fifteen extraordinary stories—some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine—explore the full warp and weft of experience, speaking to our unique times with Atwood’s characteristic insight, wit and intellect. The two intrepid sisters of the title story grapple with loss and memory on a perfect summer evening; “Impatient Griselda” explores alienation and miscommunication with a fresh twist on a folkloric classic; and “My Evil Mother” touches on the fantastical, examining a mother-daughter relationship in which the mother purports to be a witch. At the heart of the collection are seven extraordinary stories that follow a married couple across the decades, the moments big and small that make up a long life of uncommon love—and what comes after. Returning to short fiction for the first time since her 2014 collection Stone Mattress, Atwood showcases both her creativity and her humanity in these remarkable tales which by turns delight, illuminate, and quietly devastate. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-wind-knows-my-name monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9a091070-fe7f-4648-a06a-05de0feeec86/windknows.jpg New Arrivals - The Wind Knows my Name - by Isabel Allende Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht—the night his family loses everything. As her child’s safety becomes ever harder to guarantee, Samuel’s mother secures a spot for him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin. Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, Anita Díaz and her mother board another train, fleeing looming danger in El Salvador and seeking refuge in the United States. But their arrival coincides with the new family separation policy, and seven-year-old Anita finds herself alone at a camp in Nogales. She escapes her tenuous reality through her trips to Azabahar, a magical world of the imagination. Meanwhile, Selena Durán, a young social worker, enlists the help of a successful lawyer in hopes of tracking down Anita’s mother. Intertwining past and present, The Wind Knows My Name tells the tale of these two unforgettable characters, both in search of family and home. It is both a testament to the sacrifices that parents make and a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers—and never stop dreaming. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-maine-garden-almanac monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4939ef2a-5073-46a7-96a0-6fcd4d0a4256/almanac.jpg New Arrivals - A Maine garden Almanac - by Martha Fenn King Martha Fenn King is a steadfast gardener whose stunning photos and sage advice once informed readers through her regular gardening column, “Martha's Garden.” Gathering a lifetime of gardening knowledge and lore, Martha’s A Maine Garden Almanac presents a collection of seasonal information, heartwarming insight, poetry, and beautiful imagery. Whether you have a small or large garden, this book will support you through the tougher growing seasons in your garden and life. A Maine Garden Almanac will help you make the most of your garden space. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/veg-forward monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2f31ad68-5bce-4b54-be6d-a600b78cc089/veg.jpg New Arrivals - Veg Forward - by Susan Spungen After spending two decades at a leading lifestyle magazine, Susan Spungen is used to the questions cooks ask her in the produce aisle and at the farmers' market. Do you have a great zucchini recipe? What can you do with garlic scapes? What's an easy seasonal meal I can make for friends? In Veg Forward, the veteran cookbook author, columnist, and culinary consultant supplies the delicious answers, with 102 recipes in which vegetables claim a starring role. Big platter salads. Soups for muggy days when all anyone can manage is to run the blender. Warm-weather grain bowls. Freeform fruit tarts and snacking cakes. Each one coaxes a maximum amount of flavor from a minimum number of ingredients; each looks as good as it tastes. Veg Forward is full of extraordinary recipes for ordinary vegetables like tomatoes, corn, and potatoes, and it also offers beguiling choices for less familiar ones like fava beans, kohlrabi, and nettles. Spungen shares scores of tips from her years as a caterer and chef: the efficient vegetable prep technique professionals use, a genius tactic for cutting into hard squash, the single finishing touch that transforms a homey fruit dessert into something spectacular. Everything in this book makes cooking with vegetables easier, better, and more satisfying. Asparagus Pizza with Arugula Salad Sungold Spaghetti Carbonara Sheet-Pan Roasted Ratatouille Spoonbread-Stuffed Poblano Peppers with Tomato Cream Simple Gazpacho • Eggplant Parm and Pasta Bake Veggie Ragu Bolognese • Mushroom Bourguignon Cheese Blintzes with Sour Cherry Compote Chocolate Zucchini Bread Susan Spungen was the editorial director for food at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. A New York Times contributor who also writes Susanality, a Substack newsletter, she was the culinary consultant and food stylist for the hit movies Julie & Julia and Eat, Pray, Love. She is the author of Open Kitchen, Recipes, and What’s a Hostess to Do?. She lives in New York City and East Hampton, New York. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-creative-act monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b9a2b4a8-dd83-4160-8717-bbebaa9b806e/creative.jpg New Arrivals - The Creative Act: A Way of Being - by Rick Rubin “I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be.” —Rick Rubin Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable. Over the years, as he has thought deeply about where creativity comes from and where it doesn’t, he has learned that being an artist isn’t about your specific output, it’s about your relationship to the world. Creativity has a place in everyone’s life, and everyone can make that place larger. In fact, there are few more important responsibilities. The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. It distills the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime’s work into a luminous reading experience that puts the power to create moments—and lifetimes—of exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach for all of us. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/longmire monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/243189d6-4b4e-40d1-9756-aed3cc68da47/longmire.jpg New Arrivals - Longmire: The Complete Series (Seasons 1-6) Based on the Walt Longmire mystery novels by Craig Johnson, Longmire stars Australian actor Robert Taylor as Walt Longmire, the dedicated and unflappable sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming. A man in psychic repair after the murder of his wife, Longmire buries his loss behind a brave face and dry wit. At the urging of his daughter, Cady (Cassidy Freeman), and close friend and confidant Henry Standing Bear (Lou Diamond Phillips), he sets out to rebuild his personal and professional life one step at a time. But with his county in turmoil, Sheriff Longmire relies on his loyal deputies Vic Moretti (Katee Sackhoff), Branch Connally (Bailey Chase) and the Ferg (Adam Bartley). At the end of the day, it’s Longmire’s job to keep the peace in Big Sky Country in this contemporary crime thriller. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/one-day-as-a-lion monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a9641f35-52c9-4b60-9c88-6838a590338d/oneday.jpg New Arrivals - One Day as a Lion In this witty crime comedy, a clumsy hitman on the run from a gangster hooks up with a crafty waitress, who creates a scheme for both of them to get cash from her ailing mother. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/moving-on monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c9574551-f897-4d6a-a227-f46ce1ed43c2/movingon.jpg New Arrivals - Moving On In this revenge comedy, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin star as estranged pals who get even with the petulant widower (Malcolm McDowell) of their recently deceased best friend. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/new-orleans monthly 0.5 2023-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e69127f3-286b-4950-ac6b-677df112cd2e/neworleans.jpg New Arrivals - New Orleans - by Lonely Planet Inside Lonely Planet's New Orleans Travel Guide: What's NEW in this edition? Up-to-date information - all businesses were rechecked before publication to ensure they are still open after 2020's COVID-19 outbreak NEW top experiences feature - a visually inspiring collection of New Orleans' best experiences and where to have them Highlightsand itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Eating & drinking in New Orleans - we reveal the dishes and drinks you have to try Color maps and images throughout Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, people, music, landscapes, wildlife, politics Over27 maps Covers the French Quarter, Mardi Gras, Faubourg Marigny, Bywater, the CBD and Warehouse District, Garden, Central City, Uptown, Riverbend, Mid-City, Bayou St John, Treme-Lafitte and more. The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's New Orleans, our most comprehensive guide to New Orleans, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled. Visiting New Orleans for a week or less? Lonely Planet's Pocket New Orleans guide is a handy-sized guide focused on the city's can't-miss experiences. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's Eastern USA guide for a comprehensive look at all the region has to offer. eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalize your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarksand speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Built-in dictionary for quick referencing About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, videos, 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/firefly-summer monthly 0.5 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/31de809e-c26a-4523-8f6c-25230cfe98c9/firefly.jpg New Arrivals - Firefly Summer - by Morgan Matson For as long as Ryanna Stuart can remember, her summers have been spent with her father and his new wife. Just the three of them, structured, planned, and quiet. But this summer is different. This summer, she’s received a letter from her grandparents—grandparents neither she nor her dad have spoken to since her mom’s death—inviting her to stay with them at an old summer camp in the Poconos. Ryanna accepts. She wants to learn about her mom. She wants to uncover the mystery of why her father hasn’t spoken to her grandparents all these years. She’s even looking forward to a quiet summer by the lake. But what she finds are relatives…so many relatives! Aunts and uncles and cousins upon cousins—a motley, rambunctious crew of kids and eccentric, unconventional adults. People who have memories of her mom from when she was Ryanna’s age, clues to her past like a treasure map. Ryanna even finds an actual, real-life treasure map! Over the course of one unforgettable summer—filled with s’mores and swimming, adventure and fun, and even a decades-old mystery to solve—Ryanna discovers a whole new side of herself and that, sometimes, the last place you expected to be is the place where you really belong. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dinosaur-world monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f64ea5eb-0772-4ed4-85a7-aa67668d3d4f/dinoworld.jpg New Arrivals - Dinosaur World - by Evan Johnson-Ransom Did you know some dinosaurs had feathers? Or that others had full body armor? From humongous herbivores to fearsome carnivores, this book covers everything you’ll ever need to know about dinosaurs. Examine surprising fossil evidence found around the world and discover each species’ adaptations and specializations. You’ll learn all about their attack and defense tools, including retractable claws, serrated teeth, clubbed tails, large horns, sharp spines, and more. Go beyond fan-favorites like the T-rex and the Triceratops and venture into the latest discoveries from the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods. Inside you’ll find: Profiles on hundreds of dinosaur species covering anatomy, diet, habitat, cool features, and unique characteristics A stunning gatefold and a large poster Features on well-known paleontologists and their awesome finds Other key finds and specimens in museums around the world This visual guide presents the most astounding species, including powerful predators with terrifying jaws and dinos that were only the size of chickens. From killer claws to camouflage, track these fascinating prehistoric species’ evolution through the dinosaur era with the greatest dinosaur book ever. Julius Csotonyi is one of the world's most high profile and talented contemporary scientific illustrators. Csotonyi has considerable academic expertise that contributes to his stunning dynamic art. He has created life-sized dinosaur murals for the Royal Ontario Museum and for the Dinosaur Hall at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and most of the artwork for the new Hall of Paleontology at the HMNS. He has illustrated the nonfiction children's book Prehistoric Predators, Dino World, Bug World, Shark World, Discovering Tigers, Discovering Reptiles, Discovering Bugs, Discovering Whales, and The T. Rex Handbook. He currently lives in Canada. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/agent-lion monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0857263f-b33e-45a5-a9a8-e5d4b3e99189/agentlion.jpg New Arrivals - Agent Lion - by Jacky Davis MS. FLAMINGO’S CAT, FLUFFY, IS MISSING…and there’s only one detective who can crack the case! Meet Agent Lion—he works at Super Detective Agents Agency, wears a tiny blue hat, and loves jelly doughnuts. But most importantly, he is determined to find Fluffy. Agent Lion searches all over Mrs. Flamingo’s building—from Mr. Wombat’s apartment to the top of the roof—and the missing cat is nowhere to be found. Will Agent Lion ever crack the case? In an upside-down mystery filled with laugh-out-loud moments, twists and turns, and more zany animals than one can count, David Soman and Jacky Davis have crafted the perfect picture book for curious minds who enjoy a good detective tale. Agent Lion is sure not only to make readers giggle but to prove that anything is possible with a bit of determination and wit, and a few jelly doughnut breaks. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ladybug-girl-and-the-best-ever-playdate monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/840b697a-64e9-4507-958d-8e84e1637ea2/ladybugplaydate.jpg New Arrivals - Ladybug Girl and the Best Ever Playdate - by Jacky Davis Lulu is excited about her playdate with Finny—and especially excited about Finny’s Rolly-Roo. In fact, Lulu loves the toy so much that she . . . kind of forgets to play with Finny. So when the girls accidentally break the Rolly-Roo, will Lulu realize her mistake? In this compassionate and charming story about the value of a great friend, Lulu and Finny repair the broken toy, and soon forget all about it, blasting off on new imaginative adventures together as Ladybug Girl and Grasshopper Girl. Great for fans of Fancy Nancy, Olivia, and Knuffle Bunny, this beloved series is celebrated for its gentle and authentic look at kid-truths. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/some-days-i-flip-my-lid monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a1712243-7835-42c8-8a66-1b56912ade24/somedays.jpg New Arrivals - Some Days I Flip My Lid: Learning To Be a Calm, Cool Kid - by Kellie Doyle Bailey Teaching kids to be calm and cool with life's challenges becomes much easier when they learn they have choices in handling their emotions. Some Days I Flip My Lid follows third-grader Max as he develops self-awareness of his emotions by learning Mindfulness techniques called MINDFUL BREATHING and BREATHING ON PURPOSE. At school, on the playground and at home, Max develops skills not to flip his lid when he is scared, worried, sad or upset. A colorful and delightful story for the classroom, at bedtime or whenever your child needs a mindful reminder to be a calm, cool kid. BONUS material for educators, parents and caregivers includes step-by-step instructions for teaching Mindful Breathing. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/some-nights-i-flip-my-lid monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/14565586-8e57-43a0-8d26-ea68805d82b4/somennights.jpg New Arrivals - Some Nights I Flip My Lid: Learning To Be a Calm, Cool Kid - by Kellie Doyle Bailey Teaching children to be calm and cool with life's challenges can be easier when they learn coping skills to handle their emotions. Some Nights I Flip My Lid follows 4th grader Grace who holds it together at school as she navigates the stressors of being a kid but unravels once in the safety of her home. Together with her family, she learns mindfulness strategies to help manage big emotions after a long day. This sequel to the bestseller Some Days I Flip My Lid is a colorful and delightfully engaging story for home or school, or whenever your child needs a mindful moment to be calm and cool. Bonus material for families, caregivers, and educators, including step-by-step instructions for teaching mindful grounding techniques! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-body-by-the-sea monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/15fbc215-7abd-481c-8cdb-ea3c45991e9a/bodybysea.jpg New Arrivals - The Body by the Sea - by Jean-Luc Bannalec A town on the sea, Concarneau’s nickname is Ville Bleue, or the Blue Town. With three harbors at its center, visitors can see enormous ships, sailors, fishermen, and the industry that goes alongside it. Because of its geographical location, Concarneau has shown it’s perfectly positioned to protect its inhabitants from enemy attacks. For this reason and more, including his favorite restaurant, the Amiral, Commissaire Georges Dupin calls this town home. Most of his colleagues are on vacation for the Pentecost long weekend, but Dupin remains. His future in-laws are coming to visit. But what happens when an enemy attacks from within? Dupin’s plans as host must change when the body of Doctor Chaboseau is discovered. Chaboseau fell to his death, pushed from his home above the Amiral. With only two new colleagues to help―no one else is answering their phone―Dupin is tasked with finding out what happened to the doctor. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/rogue-justice monthly 0.5 2023-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/55638418-6b7b-45ec-a84b-dc0cc079eec5/rogue.jpg New Arrivals - Rogue Justice - by Stacey Abrams Supreme Court clerk Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling an international conspiracy in While Justice Sleeps. But as the sparks of Congressional hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho. Davies believes his boss, Judge Francesca Whitner, was being blackmailed in the days before she died. Desperate to understand what happened, he gives Avery a file, a burner phone, and a fearful warning that there are highly dangerous people involved. Another shocking murder leads Avery to a list of names – all federal judges – and, alarmingly, all judges on the FISA Court (the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court), also known as America’s "secret court." It is this body which grants permission to the government to wiretap Americans or spy on corporations suspected of terrorism. As Avery digs deeper, she begins to see a frightening pattern – and she worries that something far more sinister may be unfolding inside the nation’s third branch of government. With lives at stake, Avery must race the clock and an unexpected enemy to find the answer. Drawn from today’s headlines and woven with her unique insider perspective, Stacey Abrams combines twisting plotlines, wry wit, and clever puzzles to create another immensely entertaining suspense novel. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-secret-book-of-flora-lea monthly 0.5 2023-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/94624441-44a0-4a7f-8e2b-e01c9524e483/secretbook.jpg New Arrivals - The Secret Book of Flora Lea - by Patti Callahan Henry In the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son, Harry, in a charming stone cottage along the River Thames, Hazel fills their days with walks and games to distract her young sister, including one that she creates for her sister and her sister alone—a fairy tale about a magical land, a secret place they can escape to that is all their own. But the unthinkable happens when young Flora suddenly vanishes while playing near the banks of the river. Shattered, Hazel blames herself for her sister’s disappearance, and she carries that guilt into adulthood as a private burden she feels she deserves. Twenty years later, Hazel is in London, ready to move on from her job at a cozy rare bookstore to a career at Sotheby’s. With a charming boyfriend and her elegantly timeworn Bloomsbury flat, Hazel’s future seems determined. But her tidy life is turned upside down when she unwraps a package containing an illustrated book called Whisperwood and the River of Stars. Hazel never told a soul about the imaginary world she created just for Flora. Could this book hold the secrets to Flora’s disappearance? Could it be a sign that her beloved sister is still alive after all these years? As Hazel embarks on a feverish quest, revisiting long-dormant relationships and bravely opening wounds from her past, her career and future hang in the balance. An astonishing twist ultimately reveals the truth in this transporting and refreshingly original novel about the bond between sisters, the complications of conflicted love, and the enduring magic of storytelling. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pete-the-cat-saves-up monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1685041470645-298F6206ASUOHFS32TB4/petesaves.jpg New Arrivals - Pete the Cat Saves Up - by James Dean Pete the Cat wants a supercool Sharkbot toy, but he doesn’t have enough money in his piggy bank. He takes on odd jobs, from shoveling snow to selling lemonade and more, and saves every penny. How long will it take for him to earn enough money to buy the toy? Find out in this Level 1 I Can Read book complete with original illustrations from the creators of Pete the Cat, Kimberly and James Dean. Pete the Cat Saves Up is perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. Whether shared at home or in a classroom, the short sentences, familiar words, and simple concepts of Level One books support success for children eager to start reading on their own. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pete-the-cat-hickory-dickory-dock monthly 0.5 2023-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a756cde6-43f4-4dea-aebf-b8500fd0266d/petecathickory.jpg New Arrivals - Pete the Cat: Hickory Dickory Dock - by James Dean Hickory dickory dock. Pete the Cat went up the clock! The clock struck one. The cat went down. Hickory dickory dock! Sing along with Pete the Cat as he rocks out to this classic tune with a supercool twist in this paper-over-board picture book. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/bungalow-terrace monthly 0.5 2023-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a15d88b5-df5a-4195-b2a8-ac2ddb523e91/bungalow.jpg New Arrivals - Bungalow Terrace - by Robert Monroe Beginning in the 1950s, four best friends from a working class street called Bungalow Terrace are inadvertently turned into a singing group by the only light that exists in a very dark and damaging Catholic school experience. Originally called the Sapphires, the group is catapulted to fame by a dictatorial record producer and, under the unlikely name of Bungalow Terrace, becomes one of the most iconic rock-and-roll bands of the twentieth century. The line-up includes Vince, the unofficial leader of the group, who succumbs to the expansive promise of “Mary Jane” and LSD and, in an effort to elude the scars inflicted by an abusive, alcoholic father, becomes addicted to methedrine and prescription pills. Kevin, the heart of the group, desperately tries to conceal his sexuality at a time when being gay was not only considered degenerate and immoral but was also illegal. The unwitting victim of a blackmail plot, he is subjected to the “Lyndhurst Cure,” a torturous and barbaric form of conversion therapy guaranteed to cure him of his homosexuality. David, the group’s proverbial Jiminy Cricket, ecstatically marries his unrequited childhood fixation, Shelia Somers, only to discover an insidious secret that sheds light on the brutal accidental death of their five-year-old daughter, Melissa. Finally, there is Steve, the charismatic breakout star of the group, who battles the stigma of his illegitimate birth with indiscriminate one-night stands and meaningless sex. A serial philanderer and womanizer, he is finally forced to confront his feelings of inadequacy when an unexpected house guest reveals the truth behind a long-forgotten incident from his past. A tale of discovery and awakening, Bungalow Terrace explores insurmount­able questions behind who we are and why we’re here. Delving into the contradictory concepts of power and how the universe works, Bungalow Terrace is ultimately a story of redemption, transformation, and forgiveness. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/bad-summer-people monthly 0.5 2023-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ca2ed21e-b5dc-4bf4-953e-56ae2a3eacf4/badsummer.jpg New Arrivals - Bad Summer People - by Emma Rosenblum None of them would claim to be a particularly good person. But who among them is actually capable of murder? Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker rule the town of Salcombe, Fire Island every summer. They hold sway on the beach and the tennis court, and are adept at manipulating people to get what they want. Their husbands, Sam and Jason, have summered together on the island since childhood, despite lifelong grudges and numerous secrets. Their one single friend, Rachel Woolf, is looking to meet her match, whether he’s the tennis pro―or someone else’s husband. But even with plenty to gossip about, this season starts out as quietly as any other. Until a body is discovered, face down, off the side of the boardwalk. Stylish, subversive, and darkly comedic, this is a story of what's lurking under the surface of picture-perfect lives in a place where everyone has something to hide. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/landslide monthly 0.5 2023-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a90f55ce-1684-410b-a771-7d4ceca99a64/landslide.jpg New Arrivals - Landslide - by Susan Conley After a fishing accident leaves her husband hospitalized across the border in Canada, Jill is left to look after her teenage boys—"the wolves"—alone. Nothing comes easy in their remote corner of Maine: money is tight; her son Sam is getting into more trouble by the day; her eldest, Charlie, is preoccupied with a new girlfriend; and Jill begins to suspect her marriage isn't as stable as she once believed. As one disaster gives way to the next, she begins to think that it's not enough to be a caring wife and mother anymore—not enough to show up when needed, to nudge her boys in the right direction, to believe everything will be okay. But how to protect this life she loves, this household, this family? With remarkable poise and startling beauty, Landslide ushers us into a modern household where, for a family at odds, Instagram posts, sex-positivity talks, and old fishing tales mingle to become a kind of love language. It is a beautiful portrait of a family, as compelling as it is moving, and raises the question of how to remain devoted when the eye of the storm closes in. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/queen-of-dirt-island monthly 0.5 2023-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/08bdb67c-b14b-4c36-9626-cf72aeb18e08/queen.jpg New Arrivals - Queen of Dirt Island - by Donal Ryan The Aylward women of Nenagh, Tipperary, are mad about each other, but you wouldn’t always think it. You’d have to know them to know that—in spite of what the neighbors might say about raised voices and dramatic scenes—their house is a place of peace, filled with love, a refuge from the sadness and cruelty of the world. Their story begins at an end and ends at a beginning. It involves wives and widows, gunrunners and gougers, sinners and saints. It’s a story of terrible betrayals and fierce loyalties, of isolation and togetherness, of transgression, forgiveness, desire, and love. Of all the things family can be and all the things it sometimes isn’t. The Queen of Dirt Island is an uplifting celebration of fierce, loyal love and the powerful stories that bind generations together. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/immortal-north-two monthly 0.5 2023-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4a1ad5a6-d988-4f72-95c1-cd723e1225ce/imnorth2.jpg New Arrivals - Immortal North Two - by Tom Stewart He’s known as the trapper and his family has a long history in these remote woods. Now it’s just him and the boy, and he’ll raise him in the world he knows, the forest, where threats take recognizable forms: harsh weather, peak predators, the intrusion of civilization at odds with their lifestyle. But for those lands and minds with an unsettled past, other dangers may lurk the woods where father and son hunt the timber. One fateful day their woodland life is violently broken—shouldn’t those guilty of such injustice be held to account? The aftermath of the first novel becomes too volatile to be contained by the woods, and the town hears of a murder and an abduction—that list of crimes is not getting any shorter. An atmospheric tale both haunting and heartening. A northern tragedy dark enough that even the patch of sky above their old family cabin seems to have lost its stars, but hope and courage have this luminous sequel shining with radiant light. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/immortal-north monthly 0.5 2023-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7be1adf1-0304-46db-9d69-767366c43b85/imnorth1.jpg New Arrivals - Immortal North - by Tom Stewart He’s known as the trapper and his family has a long history in these remote woods. Now it’s just him and the boy, and he’ll raise him in the world he knows, the forest, where threats take recognizable forms: harsh weather, peak predators, the encroachment of civilization at odds with their lifestyle. A tale told in captivating prose of wild living, where human skin is no boundary for either the beauty or cruelty of nature. After the arrival of a foreign presence, the forest in all its naked majesty becomes an arena for the dueling forces of life: joy and suffering, good and evil, compassion and vengeance. One fateful day their woodland life is violently broken—shouldn’t those guilty of such injustice be held to account? Though the forest is isolated, this may be a story of the wilderness existing within us all. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/only-the-dead monthly 0.5 2023-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/4b982664-592d-485e-9ed2-964950688704/onlydead.jpg New Arrivals - Only The Dead - by Jack Carr In 1980, a freshman congressman was gunned down in Rhode Island, sending shockwaves through Washington that are still reverberating over four decades later. Now, with the world on the brink of war and a weakened United States facing rampant inflation, political division, and shocking assassinations, a secret cabal of global elites is ready to assume control. And with the world’s most dangerous man locked in solitary confinement, the conspirators believe the final obstacle to complete domination has been eliminated. They’re wrong. From the firms of Wall Street to the corridors of power in Washington, DC, and Moscow, secrets from the past have the uncanny ability to rise to the surface in the present. With the odds stacked against him, James Reece is on a mission generations in the making. Unfortunately for his enemies, the former SEAL is not concerned with odds. He is on the warpath. And when James Reece picks up his tomahawk and sniper rifle, no one is out of range. From “a master novelist” (Ballistic Magazine), “quintessential hero James Reece is exactly what’s needed in today’s chaotic political milieu” (K.J. Howe, author of Skyjack). https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/youre-my-little-cuddle-bug monthly 0.5 2023-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2a329caa-c54a-4f9f-aa70-e0bba4fe4c5d/cuddlebug.jpg New Arrivals - You’re My Little Cuddle Bug - by Nicola Edwards “You’re My Little Cuddle Bug is sure to become one of your family’s favorite books,” says NAPPA Director Elena Epstein. “This charming book will capture your child’s imagination while celebrating love and hugs.” Celebrate your little cuddle bug with this sweet and colorful rhyming board book! With chunky pages for little hands and die-cut cuddle bugs to add depth and interest, children will love the interactive features alongside the story. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/how-do-dinosaurs-eat-their-food monthly 0.5 2023-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/58b57497-8017-4e07-807d-013bede45f91/dinoeat.jpg New Arrivals - How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? - by Jane Yolen How does a dinosaur eat all his food?Does he burp, does he belch, or make noises quite rude?Does he pick at his cereal, throw down his cup,hoping to make someone else pick it up? Just like kids, dinosaurs have a difficult time learning to behave at the table. However, with a little help from Mom and Dad, these young dinosaurs eat all before them with smiles and goodwill. As in their previous books, Yolen and Teague capture children's rambunctious natures with playful read-aloud verse and wonderfully amusing pictures. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/yellowstone-season5-part1 monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/abb90d27-8357-4eba-874d-7a88ac331438/yellowstone5.jpg New Arrivals - Yellowstone: Season 5, Part 1 Determined to protect his land and legacy, John Dutton (Kevin Costner, two-time Academy Award (R), Golden Globe (R) and Emmy (R) winner) takes his fight to the halls of government in the most explosive season of Yellowstone yet. But with greater power comes further scrutiny...of his family, his land, and the morally questionable measures he’s taken to protect them both. As new threats emerge and old enemies return, John, Beth, Kayce, Rip, and Jamie learn that power has an expense. Head back to the ranch and dive into the first 8 episodes of Season 5 along with never-before-seen content that includes exclusive interviews with cast and crew. In these featurettes, we explore the fan-favorite relationships of Rip & Beth and Kayce & Monica, an in-depth look at the iconic music of Yellowstone, the process of bringing the Yellowstone world to life and more! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/small-mercies monthly 0.5 2023-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c877b9d0-004b-4b7d-b93d-3f746f6da5cd/smallmercies.jpg New Arrivals - Small Mercies - by DennisLehane In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of “Southie,” the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart. One night Mary Pat’s teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn’t come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched—asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who don’t take kindly to any threat to their business. Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the city’s desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism. It is a mesmerizing and wrenching work that only Dennis Lehane could write. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/camera-girl monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f7bc9ede-74c4-4de1-ae68-2d97fc47ade2/jackie.jpg New Arrivals - Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy - by Carl Sferrazza Anthony Camera Girl brings to cinematic life Jackie’s years as a young, single woman trying to figure out who she wanted to become. Chafing at the expectations of her family and the societal limitations placed on women in that era, Jackie pursued her dream career as a writer. Set primarily during the years of 1949 to 1953, when Jackie was in her early twenties, the book recounts in heretofore unrevealed detail the story of her late college years and her early adulthood as a working woman. Before she met Jack Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier was the Washington Times-Herald’s “Inquiring Camera Girl,” posing compelling questions to members of the public on the streets of DC and snapping their photos with her unwieldy Graflex camera. She then fashioned the results into a daily column, of which six hundred were published. Carl Sferrazza Anthony, a historian and leading expert on First Ladies, draws on these columns and previously unseen archives of Jackie’s writings from this time, along with insights gleaned from interviews he conducted with the former First Lady’s friends, colleagues, and family members. Camera Girl offers a fresh perspective on the woman later known as Jacqueline Kennedy and Jackie O, introducing us to the headstrong, self-assured young woman who went on to be one of the world’s most famous people. It’s a glamorous and surprisingly hard-charging story of a person determined to define herself, told with admiration, empathy, and journalistic rigor. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-ferryman monthly 0.5 2023-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/02f98b32-61fb-449f-bfd7-be2ffdc9d1ed/ferryman.jpg New Arrivals - The Ferryman - by Justin Cronin Founded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera’s lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure their physical health and psychological well-being, fall below 10 percent. Then they retire themselves, embarking on a ferry ride to the island known as the Nursery, where their failing bodies are renewed, their memories are wiped clean, and they are readied to restart life afresh. Proctor Bennett, of the Department of Social Contracts, has a satisfying career as a ferryman, gently shepherding people through the retirement process—and, when necessary, enforcing it. But all is not well with Proctor. For one thing, he’s been dreaming—which is supposed to be impossible in Prospera. For another, his monitor percentage has begun to drop alarmingly fast. And then comes the day he is summoned to retire his own father, who gives him a disturbing and cryptic message before being wrestled onto the ferry. Meanwhile, something is stirring. The Support Staff, ordinary men and women who provide the labor to keep Prospera running, have begun to question their place in the social order. Unrest is building, and there are rumors spreading of a resistance group—known as “Arrivalists”—who may be fomenting revolution. Soon Proctor finds himself questioning everything he once believed, entangled with a much bigger cause than he realized—and on a desperate mission to uncover the truth. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/chez-bob monthly 0.5 2023-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e62d1861-759e-47ee-8c10-ab988f3cb66c/chez.jpg New Arrivals - Chez Bob - by Bob Shea Welcome to Chez Bob, which seems like a real restaurant...until you realize...it's on an alligator's NOSE! Bob's got a hidden plan for his customers: "Birds will come to eat, but I will eat the birds!" As they fly in from all over the world to dine on Bob's face, something starts to happen that takes the lazy, hungry reptile by surprise -- the birds stay. "More yummy birds!" he rejoices -- he'll want for nothing! But when the time is right, will Bob make the right choice? Comic genius Bob Shea cooks up a tasty tale that proves anyone, even hungry alligators, can have a change of heart and learn to be a good friend. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-undertow monthly 0.5 2023-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/fd49cc09-49b2-4a5b-ae23-1b5f00c559ae/undertow.jpg New Arrivals - The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War - by Jeff Sharlet An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into corners of our national psyche where others fear to tread. The Undertow is both inquiry and meditation, an attempt to understand how, over the last decade, reaction has morphed into delusion, social division into distrust, distrust into paranoia, and hatred into fantasies―sometimes realities―of violence. Across the country, men “of God” glorify materialism, a gluttony of the soul, while citing Scripture and preparing for civil war―a firestorm they long for as an absolution and exaltation. Lies, greed, and glorification of war boom through microphones at hipster megachurches that once upon a time might have preached peace and understanding. Political rallies are as aflame with need and giddy expectation as religious revivals. At a conference for incels, lonely single men come together to rage against women. On the Far Right, everything is heightened―love into adulation, fear into vengeance, anger into white-hot rage. Here, in the undertow, our forty-fifth president, a vessel of conspiratorial fears and fantasies, continues to rise to sainthood, and the insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt, killed on January 6 at the Capitol, is beatified as a martyr of white womanhood. Framing this dangerous vision, Sharlet remembers and celebrates the courage of those who sing a different song of community, and of an America long dreamt of and yet to be fully born, dedicated to justice and freedom for all. Exploring a geography of grief and uncertainty in the midst of plague and rising fascism, The Undertow is a necessary reckoning with our precarious present that brings to light a decade of American failures as well as a vision for American possibility. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/you-have-to-be-prepared-to-die-before-you-can-begin-to-live monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7d157761-ed40-4564-972d-8f12183329f0/prepared.jpg New Arrivals - You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live - by Paul Kix It’s one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963. In May of 2020, as reporter Paul Kix stared at a different photo–that of a Minneapolis police officer suffocating George Floyd–he kept returning to the other photo taken half a century earlier, haunted by its echoes. What, Kix wondered, was the full legacy of the Birmingham photo? And of the campaign it stemmed from? In You Have To Be Prepared To Die Before You Can Begin To Live, Paul Kix takes the reader behind the scenes as he tells the story of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s pivotal 10 week campaign in 1963 to end segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. At the same time, he also provides a window into the minds of the four extraordinary men who led the campaign―Martin Luther King, Jr., Wyatt Walker, Fred Shuttlesworth, and James Bevel. With page-turning prose that read like a thriller, Kix’s book is the first to zero in on the ten weeks of Project C, as it was known―its specific history and its echoes sounding throughout our culture now. It’s about Where It All Began, for sure, but it’s also the key to understanding Where We Are Now and Where We Will Be. As the fight for equality continues on many fronts, Project C is crucial to our understanding of our own time and the impact that strategic activism can have. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/happy-place monthly 0.5 2023-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3217adf8-9b12-4df1-af98-7eaa3ee5c99b/happy+place.jpg New Arrivals - Happy Place - by Emily Henry Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t. They broke up five months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends. Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blissful week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most. Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they’ll all have together in this place. They can’t stand to break their friends’ hearts, and so they’ll play their parts. Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. It’s a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week…in front of those who know you best? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/roto-and-roy-helicopter-heroes monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/166ef5b1-0bc3-4024-b06e-b9b2169aaf1d/roto.jpg New Arrivals - Roto and Roy: Helicopter Heroes - by Sherri Duskey Rinker When a dangerous forest fire burns out of control, helicopter Roto and pilot Roy are ready to fly to the rescue! They're braver than brave, tougher than tough, and nothing will stop this firefighting crew from completing their mission. From Sherri Duskey Rinker, bestselling author of the Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site series, and award-winning illustrator Don Tate, this action-packed series starter will have kids cheering for two awesome new heroes—and imagining how they might save the day themselves! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pete-the-cat-pete-and-the-cool-caterpillar monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9d32c9a7-11c0-48f7-937e-5da4b976c0c5/petecaterpillar.jpg New Arrivals - Pete the Cat and the Cool Caterpillar - by James Dean Pete thinks he found a new best friend. But when his caterpillar goes missing, Pete has to find out what happened to his new friend. Pete is in for one wild surprise at the end! Pete the Cat and the Cool Caterpillar is a Level I Can Read book, complete with original illustrations from the creator of Pete the Cat, James Dean, and is perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. Whether shared at home or in a classroom, the short sentences, familiar words, and simple concepts of Level One books support success for children eager to start reading on their own. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-last-thing-he-told-me monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b90f8bd3-f18f-488b-b86f-7d083d068034/lastthing.jpg New Arrivals - The Last Thing He Told Me - by Laura Dave Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity—and why he really disappeared. Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realize they’re also building a new future—one neither of them could have anticipated. With its breakneck pacing, dizzying plot twists, and evocative family drama, The Last Thing He Told Me is a “page-turning, exhilarating, and unforgettable” (PopSugar) suspense novel. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/with-my-little-eye monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b08840de-e5ea-43a4-8166-5c2072591004/eye.jpg New Arrivals - With My Little Eye - by Joshilyn Jackson HIS GAME. HIS RULES. HER LIFE. It started with the letters… For actress Meribel Mills, disturbing fan mail is part of the price of fame. So when she starts getting creepy letters written in fruit-scented marker she is mostly unphased and diligently files them along with her other messages from unhinged fans. After all, she’s a single mom approaching forty, not the kind of hot young celeb who sparks dangerous obsessions. But there’s something different about Marker Man… He’s been in her home… Meribel’s sheets smell of unfamiliar cologne, and objects have gone missing around the house. Plus, the letters have become more perverse, with drawings of a naked Meribel tied up or chopped into pieces. While the police insist that stalkers hardly ever escalate to violence, Meribel has played the dead girl one too many times on TV to risk becoming her in real life. She and her daughter move from Los Angeles to Atlanta for a fresh start—but no distance is great enough. He’s watching her… Years of being in front of a camera have given Meribel a superpower—she can feel eyes on her, a creeping sensation like bees inside her skin. And someone definitely has her in their sights. Could Marker Man have followed her all the way across the country? Who else might be watching—her ex-husband? The lover she left behind in LA? Her new neighbor? Suddenly, every man in her life is a suspect, but she can’t keep herself and her daughter safe from a monster she can’t identify. When the paths of all of these men collide, Meribel will find herself alone in the fight of her life, desperate to protect those she loves as danger closes in from all sides. If he can't have her, no one can. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-last-remains monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f86765c5-c136-402d-ac5b-53c5eef54cac/lastremains.jpg New Arrivals - The Last Remains - by Elly Griffiths When builders discover a human skeleton during a renovation of a café, they call in archeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway, who is preoccupied with the threatened closure of her department and by her ever-complicated relationship with DCI Nelson. The bones turn out to be modern—the remains of Emily Pickering, a young archaeology student who went missing in 2002. Suspicion soon falls on Emily’s Cambridge tutor and also on another archeology enthusiast who was part of the group gathered the weekend before she disappeared—Ruth’s friend Cathbad. As they investigate, Nelson and his team uncover a tangled web of relationships within the archeology group and look for a link between them and the café where Emily’s bones were found. Then, just when the team seem to be making progress, Cathbad disappears. The trail leads Ruth a to the Neolithic flint mines in Grimes Graves. The race is on, first to find Cathbad and then to exonerate him, but will Ruth and Nelson uncover the truth in time to save their friend? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/above-ground monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/076d3f2e-ae35-4b7e-818f-8faabe3d90b5/aboveground.jpg New Arrivals - Above Ground - by Clint Smith Clint Smith’s vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world. There are poems that interrogate the ways our lives are shaped by both personal lineages and historical institutions. There are poems that revel in the wonder of discovering the world anew through the eyes of your children, as they discover it for the first time. There are poems that meditate on what it means to raise a family in a world filled with constant social and political tumult. Above Ground wrestles with how we hold wonder and despair in the same hands, how we carry intimate moments of joy and a collective sense of mourning in the same body. Smith’s lyrical, narrative poems bring the reader on a journey not only through the early years of his children’s lives, but through the changing world in which they are growing up—through the changing world of which we are all a part. Above Ground is a breathtaking collection that follows Smith's first award-winning book of poetry, Counting Descent. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-23rd-midnight monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/35ceb3ed-9677-4119-b8f5-fc18d4644b44/midnight.jpg New Arrivals - The 23rd Midnight - by James Patterson Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke in jail. Reporter Cindy Thomas wrote a book that put him on the bestseller list. An obsessed maniac has turned Burke’s true-crime story into a playbook. And is embellishing it with gruesome touches all his own. Now Lindsay’s tracking an elusive suspect, and the entire Murder Club is facing destruction. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/fodors-essential-italy monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a85a05ef-cd4f-4a1e-b550-057978d8aa27/italy.jpg New Arrivals - Fodor’s Essential Italy - by Fodor’s Travel Whether you want to visit the Colosseum in Rome, go designer shopping in Milan, or hike the Cinque Terre, the local Fodor’s travel experts in Italy are here to help! Fodor’s Essential Italy 2023 guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos. Fodor’s “Essential” guides were named by Booklist as the Best Travel Guide Series of 2020! Fodor’s Essential Italy 2023 travel guide includes: AN ILLUSTRATED ULTIMATE EXPERIENCES GUIDE to the top things to see and do MULTIPLE ITINERARIES to effectively organize your days and maximize your time MORE THAN 78 DETAILED MAPS and a FREE PULL-OUT MAP to help you navigate confidently COLOR PHOTOS throughout to spark your wanderlust! HONEST RECOMMENDATIONS FROM LOCALS on the best sights, restaurants, hotels, nightlife, shopping, performing arts, activities, and more PHOTO-FILLED “BEST OF” FEATURES on “The Best Ancient Sites in Rome,” “Italy’s Best Beaches,” “Architectural Wonders in Venice,” “Hilltop Villages in Tuscany,” and more TRIP-PLANNING TOOLS AND PRACTICAL TIPS including when to go, getting around, beating the crowds, and saving time and money HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL INSIGHTS providing rich context on the local people, art, architecture, cuisine, wine, music, geography and more SPECIAL FEATURES on “The Sistine Chapel,” “Cruising the Grand Canal,” and “Who’s Who in Renaissance Art” LOCAL WRITERS to help you find the under-the-radar gems ITALIAN LANGUAGE PRIMERS with useful words and essential phrases UP-TO-DATE COVERAGE ON: Rome, Vatican City, Venice, Milan, Lake Como, Florence, Tuscany, Pisa, Naples, the Amalfi Coast, Sicily, and more https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/you-shouldnt-have-come-here monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6dead821-d5ce-4de5-92e8-8e3ea02255bc/youshouldn%27t.jpg New Arrivals - You Shouldn’t Have Come Here - by Jeneva Rose You’ve opened up your house and your heart to a total stranger … What could possibly go wrong? Grace Evans, an overworked New Yorker looking for a total escape from her busy life, books an Airbnb on a ranch in the middle of Wyoming. When she arrives at the idyllic getaway, she's pleased to find that the owner is a handsome man by the name of Calvin Wells -- and he's eager to introduce her to his easygoing way of life. But there are things Grace discovers that she's not too pleased about: A lack of cell phone service. A missing woman. And a feeling that something isn't right with the ranch. Despite her uneasiness, the two bond and start to fall for one another. However, as her departure date nears, things change for the worse. What began as a playful romance soon turns into a complicated web of lies. Grace grows wary of Calvin as his infatuation for her seems to have morphed to obsession. Calvin fears that Grace is hiding something from him -- including her reason for staying at his ranch to begin with. Vacation flings typically end in heartbreak, but for Grace and Calvin, it'll be far more destructive. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/go-as-a-river monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3f26663a-9bed-4539-ac06-de20efbb02ac/river.jpg New Arrivals - Go as a River - by Shelley Read Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family’s peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado―the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land and determined to live as he chooses. Victoria encounters Wil by chance on a street corner, a meeting that profoundly alters both of their young lives, unknowingly igniting as much passion as danger. When tragedy strikes, Victoria leaves the only life she has ever known. She flees into the surrounding mountains where she struggles to survive in the wilderness with no clear notion of what her future will bring. As the seasons change, she also charts the changes in herself, finding in the beautiful but harsh landscape the meaning and strength to move forward and rebuild all that she has lost, even as the Gunnison River threatens to submerge her homeland―its ranches, farms, and the beloved peach orchard that has been in her family for generations. Inspired by true events surrounding the destruction of the town of Iola in the 1960s, Go as a River is a story of deeply held love in the face of hardship and loss, but also of finding courage, resilience, friendship, and, finally, home―where least expected. This stunning debut explores what it means to lead your life as if it were a river―gathering and flowing, finding a way forward even when a river is dammed. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pete-the-cat-pete-at-the-beach monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d564bbed-5b66-4356-9e51-c466f3f9f4c8/peteatthebeach.jpg New Arrivals - Pete the Cat: Pete At the Beach - by James Dean Pete the Cat is one groovy cat at finding shells and building sand castles at the beach. But when it gets too hot, there’s only one way to cool off—jump into the ocean! Except Pete might be a scaredy-cat when it comes to the water. Pete the Cat: Pete at the Beach is a My First I Can Read book, which means it’s perfect for shared reading with a child. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/fast-like-a-girl monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9c6246b3-ae28-4efb-8225-90491e932c04/fast.jpg New Arrivals - Fast Like a Girl - by Dr. Mindy Pelz Are you among the many women who feel unheard and unseen by their doctors and health professionals? Have you become exhausted by the promise of quick-fix diets that only leave you disappointed? Well in Fast Like a Girl, Dr. Mindy helps you to take back control of your health by using the quickest path back to better health—fasting. While most fasting advice has been a one-size-fits-all approach that leaves women with more questions than answers, in this book Dr. Mindy shares the proven strategies, specific protocols to use if you are trying to overcome a condition, fasting hacks, and tools that she has used to help hundreds of thousands of women thrive with their fasting lifestyles. Dr. Mindy will teach you: the rights steps on how to go from eating all day to intermittent fasting (13-15 hours) how to safely fast longer if you choose to do so (15-72 hours) how to time fasting according to your menstrual cycle (although if you don’t have a cycle, she has you covered) the best foods to break your fast to achieve better metabolic health This book also includes more than 50 recipes based on the two food plans—ketobiotic and hormone feasting—she created to best support women’s hormones. And, it has recipes specifically created to break a fast such as her Coconut Cacao Chia Pudding. Inspired by the thousands of women she has worked with who have reclaimed their health with fasting, Dr. Mindy wrote this book because, “once a woman knows how to build a fasting lifestyle around her cycle, she becomes unstoppable.” https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/minerva-keens-detective-club monthly 0.5 2023-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ab2e5324-05fb-42e7-b02c-c3641b1a1623/minerva.jpg New Arrivals - Minerva Keen’s Detective Club - by James Patterson Living in the luxurious Arcanum building—with its interior balconies perfect for playing tag, an elevator like an iron birdcage, and quirky neighbors behind every apartment door—has always been fun and games for twelve-year-old Minerva Keen…until her neighbors start getting poisoned. Anyone could be next, and everyone is a suspect, including Minerva herself. To clear her name and help the police crack the case, Minerva starts her own detective club. So what if it has only two other members, one being Minerva’s accident-prone daredevil brother and the other being the biggest and quietest kid in school, who happens to be afraid of his own shadow? Minerva knows that with her brainpower, the club’s sleuthing skills, and case files full of suspects, they can unmask the poisoner…hopefully before it’s too late. This page-turning new mystery series is packed with thrills, chills, laughs, and unforgettable characters and will leave kids eager to join the best club around. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/where-are-the-children-now monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c2c1ae15-c199-4343-83cb-814b0096b81b/whereare.jpg New Arrivals - Where Are the Children Now? - by Mary Higgins Clark Of the fifty-six bestsellers the “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark published in her lifetime, Where Are the Children? was her biggest, selling millions of copies and forever transforming the genre of suspense fiction. In that story, a young California mother named Nancy Harmon was convicted of murdering her two children. Though released on a technicality, she was abandoned by her husband and became such a pariah in the media that she was forced to move across the country to Cape Cod, change her identity and appearance, and start a new life. Years later her two children from a second marriage, Mike and Melissa, would go missing, and Nancy yet again became the prime suspect—but this time, Nancy was able to confront the secrets buried in her past and rescue her kids from a dangerous predator. Now, more than four decades since readers first met Nancy and her children, comes the thrilling sequel to the groundbreaking book that set the stage for future generations of psychological suspense novels. A lawyer turned successful podcaster, Melissa has recently married a man whose first wife died tragically, leaving him and their young daughter, Riley, behind. While Melissa and her brother, Mike, help their mom, Nancy, relocate from Cape Cod to the equally idyllic Hamptons, Melissa’s new stepdaughter goes missing. Drawing on the experience of their own abduction, Melissa and Mike race to find Riley to save her from the trauma they still struggle with—or worse. Just like the original, Where Are the Children Now? keeps readers guessing and holding their breath until the very last page. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/becoming-charley monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/be170338-3dbf-46fd-ad07-8e0dd678f673/charley.jpg New Arrivals - Becoming Charley - by Kelly DiPucchio Everyone is trying to teach Charley the right way to become a butterfly: Eat your milkweed! Think black! Think orange! But Charley's busy admiring the many beautiful things in the world. Like the swaying trees, and the tall mountains, and the turquoise sea. . . . Is there really a "right" way for Charley to become a butterfly? Young readers will see themselves in Charley--a little caterpillar with an emerging identity--in this dazzling picture book that beautifully explores the nature of self-love. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/london monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7fd9b149-d24d-4d71-8ad3-403f2e32aa29/london.jpg New Arrivals - Fodor’s London 2023 - by Fodor’s Travel Fodor’s London travel guide includes: AN ILLUSTRATED ULTIMATE EXPERIENCES GUIDE to the top things to see and do MULTIPLE ITINERARIES to effectively organize your days and maximize your time MORE THAN 15 DETAILED MAPS and a FREE PULL-OUT MAP to help you navigate confidently COLOR PHOTOS throughout to spark your wanderlust HONEST RECOMMENDATIONS on the best sights, restaurants, hotels, nightlife, shopping, performing arts, activities, side-trips, and more PHOTO-FILLED “BEST OF” FEATURES on “London’s Best Museums”, “London’s Best Royal Sites”, “London’s Best Historic Pubs”, and more TRIP-PLANNING TOOLS AND PRACTICAL TIPS including when to go, getting around, beating the crowds, and saving time and money HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL INSIGHTS providing rich context on the local people, politics, art, architecture, cuisine, geography and more SPECIAL FEATURES on the British Museum and the Tower of London LOCAL WRITERS to help you find the under-the-radar gems UP-TO-DATE COVERAGE ON: Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, St. Paul’s Cathedral, the British Museum, the Tate Modern, Shakespeare’s Globe, Hyde Park, Houses of Parliament, Kensington Palace, Windsor Castle, Hampton Court, and more. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-world-and-everything-in-it monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2468bf7d-33d8-416d-ba45-0ce24c62d2f0/theworld.jpg New Arrivals - The World and Everything in It - by Kevin Henkes In the world, there are little animals, tiny flowers, and things so small you can’t see them. In the world, there are giant waves, a large sun, and things so big you can’t wrap your hands around them. There are big things and little things in the world. And everything in between—including you! A timeless and wholesome picture book from Caldecott Medal winner and #1 New York Times bestseller Kevin Henkes, The World and Everything in It explores concepts such as curiosity, self-awareness, belonging, and size. Combining a precise, evocative, and lovely text with exquisite illustrations, Kevin Henkes deftly captures the wonders and mysteries of the world for any reader just beginning to think about how they fit in. A brilliant picture book to spend time with, discuss, read aloud, and think about, The World and Everything in It is an excellent choice for social and emotional development as well as a lovely book to give to readers of any age. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/beyond-that-the-sea monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/498fbad3-de56-4521-971f-a796d0bc89b7/beyond+that.jpg New Arrivals - Beyond That, the Sea - by Laura Spence-Ash As German bombs fall over London in 1940, working-class parents Millie and Reginald Thompson make an impossible choice: they decide to send their eleven-year-old daughter, Beatrix, to America. There, she’ll live with another family for the duration of the war, where they hope she’ll stay safe. Scared and angry, feeling lonely and displaced, Bea arrives in Boston to meet the Gregorys. Mr. and Mrs. G, and their sons William and Gerald, fold Bea seamlessly into their world. She becomes part of this lively family, learning their ways and their stories, adjusting to their affluent lifestyle. Bea grows close to both boys, one older and one younger, and fills in the gap between them. Before long, before she even realizes it, life with the Gregorys feels more natural to her than the quiet, spare life with her own parents back in England. As Bea comes into herself and relaxes into her new life―summers on the coast in Maine, new friends clamoring to hear about life across the sea―the girl she had been begins to fade away, until, abruptly, she is called home to London when the war ends. Desperate as she is not to leave this life behind, Bea dutifully retraces her trip across the Atlantic back to her new, old world. As she returns to post-war London, the memory of her American family stays with her, never fully letting her go, and always pulling on her heart as she tries to move on and pursue love and a life of her own. As we follow Bea over time, navigating between her two worlds, Beyond That, the Sea emerges as a beautifully written, absorbing novel, full of grace and heartache, forgiveness and understanding, loss and love. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pea-bee-jay monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/37982d91-8c24-42a8-871c-e14d0463eec6/peabee.jpg New Arrivals - Pea, Bee &amp; Jay #1 : Stuck Together - by Brian “Smitty” Smith Like all peas, Pea loves to roll. So when a no-good strawberry dares him to roll all the way off the farm, he swears he can do it—eazy me-zee! But along the way, a powerful thunderstorm strikes and bounces Pea off course...and right into two unlikely new buds: a bee named Bee who thinks she knows it all, and a bird named Jay who can’t figure out how to fly. On their own they may not look like much, but if this trio can stick together, they just might help Pea find his way back home! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/everything-everywhere-all-at-once monthly 0.5 2023-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0726afee-0474-40b4-93d4-442cd616e747/everything.jpg New Arrivals - Everything Everywhere All at Once - A hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who is swept up in an insane adventure across the multiverse. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/triangle-of-sadness monthly 0.5 2023-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/726c6c4d-aee3-43b4-979a-63854e56f43b/triangle.jpg New Arrivals - Triangle of Sadness - Master of social discomfort Ruben Östlund trains his unsparing lens on the world of wealth, beauty, and privilege in this audacious, Palme d’Or–winning satire of our status-obsessed culture. A model-influencer couple (Harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean) get a ticket to the luxe life when they’re invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish—but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down. Pushing each provocative set piece to its outré extreme, Östlund maps the shifting social hierarchies with the irreverence of a modern-day Luis Buñuel and the incisiveness of a cinematic anthropologist https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/women-talking monthly 0.5 2023-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/08520b90-daf6-4799-8cdd-f2818dbf6704/womentalking.jpg New Arrivals - Women Talking - In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith. Based on the novel by Miriam Toews. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/80-for-brady monthly 0.5 2023-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6bc9bc8d-ea3a-404d-ab8e-0a1282af8640/eightybrady.jpg New Arrivals - 80 for Brady - Academy Award nominee Lily Tomlin, and winners Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, and Sally Field star in this hilarious and heartfelt comedy, inspired by a true story of friendship and adventure. Four lifelong friends set out on an unforgettable journey to see their hero Tom Brady play in Super Bowl LI and witness one of the greatest comebacks in sports history, discovering that it's never too late to live life to the fullest. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/plant-grow-harvest-repeat monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8328a562-7bc4-4357-add0-ff30cc94aaac/plantgrow.jpg New Arrivals - Plant Grow Harvest Repeat - by Meg McAndrews Cowden Discover how to get more out of your growing space with succession planting—carefully planned, continuous seed sowing—and provide a steady stream of fresh food from early spring through late fall. Drawing inspiration from succession in natural landscapes, Meg McAndrews Cowden teaches you how to implement lessons from these dynamic systems in your home garden. You’ll learn how to layer succession across your perennial and annual crops; maximize the early growing season; determine the sequence to plant and replant in summer; and incorporate annual and perennial flowers to benefit wildlife and ensure efficient pollination. You’ll also find detailed, seasonal sowing charts to inform your garden planning, so you can grow more anywhere, regardless of your climate. Plant Grow Harvest Repeat will inspire you to create an even more productive, beautiful, and enjoyable garden across the seasons—every vegetable gardener’s dream. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/mastering-the-art-of-french-murder monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/21c70ba8-6e4b-4121-85e8-804eacdde886/french.jpg New Arrivals - Mastering the Art of French Murder - by Colleen Cambridge As Paris rediscovers its joie de vivre, Tabitha Knight, recently arrived from Detroit for an extended stay with her French grandfather, is on her own journey of discovery. Paris isn’t just the City of Light; it’s the city of history, romance, stunning architecture . . . and food. Thanks to her neighbor and friend Julia Child, another ex-pat who’s fallen head over heels for Paris, Tabitha is learning how to cook for her Grandpère and Oncle Rafe. Between tutoring Americans in French, visiting the market, and eagerly sampling the results of Julia’s studies at Le Cordon Bleu cooking school, Tabitha’s sojourn is proving thoroughly delightful. That is, until the cold December day they return to Julia’s building and learn that a body has been found in the cellar. Tabitha recognizes the victim as a woman she’d met only the night before, at a party given by Julia’s sister, Dort. The murder weapon found nearby is recognizable too—a knife from Julia’s kitchen. Tabitha is eager to help the investigation, but is shocked when Inspector Merveille reveals that a note, in Tabitha’s handwriting, was found in the dead woman’s pocket. Is this murder a case of international intrigue, or something far more personal? From the shadows of the Tour Eiffel at midnight, to the tiny third-floor Child kitchen, to the grungy streets of Montmartre, Tabitha navigates through the city hoping to find the real killer before she or one of her friends ends up in prison . . . or worse. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/simply-lies monthly 0.5 2023-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/358fc20a-178f-405c-8eb1-b755f4fb0897/simplylies.jpg New Arrivals - Simply Lies - by David Baldacci Mickey Gibson, single mother and former detective, leads a hectic life similar to that of many moms: juggling the demands of her two small children with the tasks of her job working remotely for ProEye, a global investigation company that hunts down wealthy tax and credit cheats. When Mickey gets a call from a colleague named Arlene Robinson, she thinks nothing of Arlene’s unusual request for her to go inventory the vacant home of an arms dealer who cheated ProEye’s clients and fled. That is, until she arrives at the mansion to discover a dead body in a secret room—and that nothing is as it seems. Not only does the arms dealer not exist but the murder victim turns out to be Harry Lancaster, a man with mob ties who used to be in Witness Protection. What’s more, no one named Arlene Robinson works at ProEye. In the blink of an eye, Gibson has become a prime suspect in a murder investigation—and now her job is also on the line until she proves that she was set up. Before long, Gibson is locked in a battle of wits with a brilliant woman with no name, a hidden past, and unknown motives—whose end game is as mysterious as it is deadly. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-wager monthly 0.5 2023-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/74032df2-6745-4c41-9610-ad27d3f8f24d/wager.jpg New Arrivals - The Wager - by David Grann On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as “the prize of all the oceans,” it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. But then ... six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes – they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death—for whomever the court found guilty could hang. The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann’s recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O’Brian, his portrayal of the castaways’ desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann’s work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/silver-alert monthly 0.5 2023-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/2936c004-9e54-4a65-8d26-60ea0a766a88/silver.jpg New Arrivals - Silver Alert - by Lee Smith A driving force in literature, the one and only Lee Smith returns with a road trip novel, a story full of hope and humor about not going away quietly—at any age. Aging Herb’s charmed life with his dear wife, Susan, in their Key West house is coming undone. Susan now needs constant care, and Herb is in denial about his own ailing health. The one bright spot is the arrival of an endlessly optimistic manicurist calling herself Renee. She sings to Susan during manicures, gets her to paint, and brings her a sense of contentment. But then Herb and Susan’s adult children arrive to stage an intervention on their stubborn, independent father, and as a consequence, Renee’s gig with Susan—and her grand plans for her own life—start to unravel as well. So much had seemed as if it could change for Renee, who is not the happy, uncomplicated young girl she pretends to be. She is actually named Dee Dee, and she’s fleeing a dark past. And Herb can’t just let go of all that he has ever had. So, he suggests one last joy ride in his Porsche. And the two take off north out of Key West, soon setting off a Silver Alert. As the unlikely friendship between Herb and Dee Dee deepens, we see how as one life is closing down, another opens up. In this buoyant novel, the masterful Smith asks: What do we deserve? And how do we make it our own? Sometimes, you just have to seize the wheel. Fans of Smith’s many books in her storied, bestselling career won’t want to miss her newest novel. And readers of novels like Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes will adore Silver Alert. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/under-alian-skies monthly 0.5 2023-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/53c71755-fb56-48e5-a2d7-08a731b82743/alienskies.jpg New Arrivals - Under Alien Skies - by Philip Plait, PhD Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel the universe? How would Saturn’s rings look from a spaceship sailing just above them? If you were falling into a black hole, what’s the last thing you’d see before getting spaghettified? While traveling in person to most of these amazing worlds may not be possible―yet―the would-be space traveler need not despair: you can still take the scenic route through the galaxy with renowned astronomer and science communicator Philip Plait. On this lively, immersive adventure through the cosmos, Plait draws ingeniously on both the latest scientific research and his prodigious imagination to transport you to ten of the most spectacular sights outer space has to offer. In vivid, inventive scenes informed by rigorous science―injected with a dose of Plait’s trademark humor―Under Alien Skies places you on the surface of alien worlds, from our own familiar Moon to the far reaches of our solar system and beyond. Try launching yourself onto a two-hundred-meter asteroid, or stargazing from the rim of an ancient volcano on a planet where, from the place you stand, it is eternally late afternoon. Experience the sudden onset of lunar nightfall, the disorientation of walking―or, rather, shuffling―when you weigh almost nothing, the irritation of jagged regolith dust. Glimpse the frigid mountains and plains of Pluto and the cake-like exterior of a comet called 67P. On a planet trillions of miles from Earth, glance down to see the strange, beautiful shadows cast by a hundred thousand stars. For the aspiring extraterrestrial citizen, casual space tourist, or curious armchair traveler, Plait is an illuminating, always-entertaining guide to the most otherworldly views in our universe. 14 black-and-white illustrations; 8 page full-color insert https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pathogenesis monthly 0.5 2023-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0434a7a4-2298-4b29-9de0-b95aafa248f3/pathogen.jpg New Arrivals - Pathogenesis - by Jonathan Kennedy According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, Professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social and political change. Instead, it is the humble microbe that wins wars and topples empires. Drawing on the latest research in fields ranging from genetics and anthropology to archaeology and economics, Pathogenesis takes us through sixty thousand years of history, exploring eight major outbreaks of infectious disease that have made the modern world. Bacteria and viruses were protagonists in the demise of the Neanderthals, the growth of Islam, the transition from feudalism to capitalism, the devastation wrought by European colonialism, and the evolution of the United States from an imperial backwater to a global superpower. Even Christianity rose to prominence in the wake of a series of deadly pandemics that swept through the Roman Empire in the second and third centuries: Caring for the sick turned what was a tiny sect into one of the world’s major religions. By placing disease at the center of his wide-ranging history of humankind, Kennedy challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions about our collective past—and urges us to view this moment as another disease-driven inflection point that will change the course of history. Provocative and brimming with insight, Pathogenesis transforms our understanding of the human story. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ladybug-girl-at-the-beach monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b64fba72-1d8c-452b-858f-45de5c17fcb8/beachbug.jpg New Arrivals - Ladybug Girl at the Beach - by Jacky Davis Lulu has never been to the beach but she knows she is going to love it…until she sees just how big and loud the ocean is. She and her dog Bingo decide that they will make sandcastles, fly kites, and get ice cream instead of swimming. But then the ocean waves snatch Lulu’s favorite pail. This is a job for Ladybug Girl! When Lulu is Ladybug Girl, she is brave and nothing can stop her from rescuing her pail – and suddenly she is in the ocean and it is fun! This story is the perfect preparation for a first beach vacation, or to explore a new experience with a preschooler. Mama and Papa are never far away while Ladybug Girl builds up her courage and confronts something scary for the first time. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ladybug-girl-and-bumblebee-boy monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ca261845-d33d-470e-80d6-cbd96e641343/bumbleboy.jpg New Arrivals - Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy - by Jacky Davis At the playground, Lulu asks her friend Sam if he wants to play with her. Sam likes Diggers, while Lulu thinks Monkeys is the best game. Sam suggests playing under the castle, but Lulu knows that the top is the most fun. They just can’t agree! And then Lulu asks, “Have you ever played Ladybug Girl?” As Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy, Lulu and Sam save the playground from hairy monsters and big mean robots, and have their very own parade on the bouncy dinosaurs. They figure out that when they work together, they can create fun games that they both like to play. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ladybug-girl monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9ab88072-0a2d-4e35-a3f2-fb767fd97b07/lbuggirl.jpg New Arrivals - Ladybug Girl - by Jacky Davis When Lulu puts on her ladybug costume, she becomes Ladybug Girl, a superhero who uses her imagination to have adventures right in her own backyard. Her dog, Bingo the basset hound, is always by her side and the two prove that they are not too little to explore nature, build forts, and make their own big fun. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/make-more-smores monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b80ba405-30f4-444b-8450-840cbf7166d3/smores.jpg New Arrivals - Make More S’Mores - by Cathy Ballou Mealey Roscoe has his campfire going and is toasting the most perfect marshmallow. He slides it onto a graham cracker, adds a chocolate square, and sandwiches it with another graham--the most perfect s'more--when Grizzly Bear shows up. Roscoe welcomes Grizzly--and bear after bear!--to his gooey forest feast keeping hungry (and grumbly) guests content by sharing s'more after s'more. What to do but make s'more?! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pete-the-cat-goes-camping monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/bc9583df-18ef-4c64-a3f8-7d0ad4f7af0e/petecamping.jpg New Arrivals - Pete the Cat Goes Camping - by James Dean In Pete the Cat Goes Camping, Pete can't wait to go hiking, fishing, and eat s'mores by the campfire. But when he hears about the mysterious creature named Bigfoot, Pete can't help but wonder: Is Bigfoot real? Kids love exploring the outdoors, and they're sure to enjoy this funny story about Pete the Cat going camping for the first time (and overcoming his small fears). Pete the Cat Goes Camping is a Level One I Can Read book, which means it’s perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. Whether shared at home or in a classroom, the short sentences, familiar words, and simple concepts of Level One books support success for children eager to start reading on their own. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/mystery-in-rocky-mountain-national-park monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3af7e9ff-a723-427a-a9cd-6b4881182c2b/mysterypark.jpg New Arrivals - Mystery in Rocky Mountain National Park: National Park Mystery Series - by Aaron Johnson Secret Codes - Lost Landmarks - Hidden Clues - Real Locations Before Jake’s grandfather died, he was on the trail of a centuries-old mystery. And he has entrusted that mystery to Jake, leaving behind a set of hidden codes, riddles, maps, and other clues that lead Jake and his friends on a scavenger hunt into the heart of Colorado’s wild and rugged Rocky Mountain National Park. Through twists and turns, the mystery unfolds while Jake, Amber, and Wes learn about survival skills, natural history, integrity, character, and friendship. Along the way, they discover they are not the only ones on this quest. An elusive shadow group is close on their heels. Illustrated by the author, this page-turning adventure is designed to capture the imagination of even the most reluctant of young readers. Parents looking for a delightful read-aloud adventure will find it hard to put down. (Word of Caution: readers frequently note that this is a “Please read just one more chapter” book). https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/be-the-bus monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3143d563-2884-4950-9189-b8499d767f71/bethebus.jpg New Arrivals - Be the Bus : the Lost &amp; Profound Wisdom of the Pigeon - by Mo Willems Discover important tips, thoughts, opinions, quotes, complaints, and basic philosophical misunderstandings in this profound collection of Pigeon-isms. This 80-page, gift-sized collector’s title features all-new original art along with big (and little) Pigeon-y tidbits to ponder, such as: Let me be the first to say that everything has already been said. Surprises happen when you least expect them. If I could change just ONE thing about myself, I'd be perfect. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-house-with-good-bones monthly 0.5 2023-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0d804377-a3ac-406c-8d28-2f6f61e98adf/goodbones.jpg New Arrivals - A House with Good Bones - by T. Kingfisher A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explores the dark, twisted roots lurking just beneath the veneer of a perfect home and family. "Mom seems off." Her brother's words echo in Sam Montgomery's ear as she turns onto the quiet North Carolina street where their mother lives alone. She brushes the thought away as she climbs the front steps. Sam's excited for this rare extended visit, and looking forward to nights with just the two of them, drinking boxed wine, watching murder mystery shows, and guessing who the killer is long before the characters figure it out. But stepping inside, she quickly realizes home isn’t what it used to be. Gone is the warm, cluttered charm her mom is known for; now the walls are painted a sterile white. Her mom jumps at the smallest noises and looks over her shoulder even when she’s the only person in the room. And when Sam steps out back to clear her head, she finds a jar of teeth hidden beneath the magazine-worthy rose bushes, and vultures are circling the garden from above. To find out what’s got her mom so frightened in her own home, Sam will go digging for the truth. But some secrets are better left buried. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-last-heir-to-blackwood-library monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/173398be-35fa-4c67-9d9f-e62c006bf9ef/lastheir.jpg New Arrivals - The Last Heir to Blackwood Library - by Hester Fox In post–World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets… With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which she’s descended. With nothing to keep her in London since losing her brother in the Great War, she warily makes her way to her new home. The abbey is foreboding, the servants reserved and suspicious. But there is a treasure waiting behind locked doors: a magnificent library. Despite cryptic warnings from the staff, Ivy feels irresistibly drawn to its dusty shelves, where familiar works mingle with strange, esoteric texts. And she senses something else in the library too, a presence that seems to have a will of its own. Rumors swirl in the village about the abbey’s previous owners, about ghosts and curses, and an enigmatic manuscript at the center of it all. And as events grow more sinister, it will be up to Ivy to uncover the library’s mysteries in order to reclaim her own story—before it vanishes forever. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/how-to-sell-a-haunted-house monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/21b9900c-7ccc-432d-87a3-8c24c0ce3c92/haunted.jpg New Arrivals - How to Sell a Haunted House - by Grady Hendrix When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world. Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market. But some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them… https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/scorched-grace monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/94e630ed-d579-478c-89e4-c876cd860554/scorched.jpg New Arrivals - Scorched Grace - by Margot Douaihy When Saint Sebastian’s School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding New Orleans community are thrust into chaos. Patience is a virtue, but punk rocker turned nun Sister Holiday isn’t satisfied to just wait around for officials to return her home and sanctuary to its former peace, instead deciding to unveil the mysterious attacker herself. Her investigation leads her down a twisty path of suspicion and secrets, turning her against colleagues, students, and even fellow Sisters along the way. And to piece together the clues of this high-stakes mystery, she must at last reckon with the sins of her own past. An exciting start to a bold series that breathes new life into the hard-boiled genre, Scorched Grace is a fast-paced and punchy whodunnit that will keep readers guessing until the very end. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/poverty-by-america monthly 0.5 2023-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0c0076d9-f0d7-4b58-a993-a2a938003192/poverty.jpg New Arrivals - Poverty, by America - by Matthew Desmond The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages? In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit the poor, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. We prioritize the subsidization of our wealth over the alleviation of poverty, designing a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least. And we stockpile opportunity in exclusive communities, creating zones of concentrated riches alongside those of concentrated despair. Some lives are made small so that others may grow. Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/forager monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c56253a6-5d67-413b-bfaf-a0bf07ddcc24/forager.jpg New Arrivals - Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult - by Michelle Dowd My family prepared me for the end of the world, but I know how to survive on what the earth yields. Michelle Dowd grew up on a mountain in the Angeles National Forest, born into an ultra-religious cult—the Field, as members called it—run by her grandfather, who believed that his chosen followers must prepare themselves to survive doomsday. Bound by the group’s patriarchal rules and literal interpretation of the Bible, Michelle and her siblings lived a life of deprivation, isolated from Outsiders and starved for both love and food. She was forced to learn the skills necessary to battle hunger, thirst, and cold; she learned to trust animals more than humans; and most important, she learned how to survive by foraging for what she needed. And as Michelle got older, she realized she had the strength to break free. Focus on what will sustain, not satiate you, she would tell herself. Use everything. Waste nothing. Get to know the intricacies of the land like the intricacies of your body. And so she did. With haunting and stark language, and illustrations of edible plants and their uses opening each chapter, Forager is a fierce and empowering coming-of-age story and a timely meditation on the ways in which harnessing nature’s gifts can lead to our freedom. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/school-trip monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/bb05302c-63fe-4b40-a351-c36e96c7ac2f/school+trip.jpg New Arrivals - School Trip - by Jerry Craft Jordan, Drew, Liam, Maury, and their friends from Riverdale Academy Day School are heading out on a school trip to Paris. As an aspiring artist himself, Jordan can’t wait to see all the amazing art in the famous City of Lights. But when their trusted faculty guides are replaced at the last minute, the school trip takes an unexpected—and hilarious—turn. Especially when trying to find their way around a foreign city ends up being almost as tricky as navigating the same friendships, fears, and differences that they struggle with at home. Will Jordan and his friends embrace being exposed to a new language, unfamiliar food, and a different culture? Or will they all end up feeling like the “new kid”? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/sweet-dreams-pout-pout-fish monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5f8c2227-fbc3-48d6-8f6b-268a709a755b/pout.jpg New Arrivals - Sweet Dreams, Pout-Pout Fish - by Deborah Diesen A short and sweet mini-adventure especially created to introduce the youngest guppies to the popular Pout-Pout Fish Feeling sleepy? It's time for bed! Toddlers will love swimming along with the Pout-Pout Fish as he turns little frowns into sleepy smiles. Deborah Diesen and Dan Hanna's best-selling Pout-Pout Fish comes flippering and swishing into the hearts and minds of very young children with this compact and fun new tale sure to delight the sleepiest of guppies. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/cat-ninja-time-wanted monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/408c4f1a-2c17-4b64-9375-9a098108c3cf/catwanted.jpg New Arrivals - Cat Ninja: Wanted - by Matthew Cody In Book 3 of the hugely popular Cat Ninja series, small-time crooks, sidekicks, and the wannabe supervillains who made our heroes who they are all get a chance to tell their stories––and their stories are hilarious! Cat Ninja: Wanted features Metro City's favorites and newcomers in tales that include a nearly cat-astrophic case of stolen identity, the not-so-villainous adventures of Master Hamster, and Adonis's first mission as one of the good guys. Enjoy six stand-alone stories, plus a five-part Cat Ninja special miniseries! The stories in Cat Ninja: Wanted teach readers that: People (and villains!) can change Everyone deserves a second chance You don't need superpowers to be a hero! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/saved monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e2e4683a-1dc0-4d44-acb8-a44f75a60af8/saved.jpg New Arrivals - Saved : A War Reporter’s Mission to Make It Home - by Benjamin Hall When veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on the morning of March 14, 2022, he had no idea that, within hours, Russian bombs would nearly end his life. As a journalist for Fox News, Hall had worked in dangerous war zones like Syria and Afghanistan, but with three young daughters at home, life on the edge was supposed to be a thing of the past. Yet when Russia viciously attacked Ukraine in February 2022, Hall quickly volunteered to go. A few weeks later, while on assignment, Hall and his crew were blown up in a Russian strike. With Hall himself gravely injured and stuck in Kyiv, it was unclear if he would make it out alive. This is the story of how he survived—a story that continues to this day. For the first time, Hall shares his experience in full—from his ground-level view of the war to his dramatic rescue to his arduous, and ongoing, recovery. Going inside the events that have permanently transformed him, Hall recalls his time at the front lines of our world’s conflicts, exploring how his struggle to step away from war reporting led him back one perilous last time. Featuring nail-biting accounts from the many people across multiple countries who banded together to get him to safety, Hall offers a stunning look at complex teamwork and heartfelt perseverance that turned his life into a mission. Through it all, Hall’s spirit has remained undaunted, buoyed by that remarkable corps of people from around the world whose collective determination ensured his survival. Evocative, harrowing, and deeply moving, Saved is a powerful memoir of family and friends, of life and healing, and of how to respond when you are tested in ways you never thought possible. Benjamin Hall’s memoir includes a 16-page color photo insert. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dark-angel monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/04da8914-0eb0-4072-87d6-760178c9624d/darkangel.jpg New Arrivals - Dark Angel - by John Sandford Letty Davenport, the tough-as-nails adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes on an undercover assignment that brings her across the country and into the crosshairs of a dangerous group of hackers. Letty Davenport’s days working a desk job at are behind her. Her previous actions at a gunfight in Texas—and her incredible skills with firearms—draw the attention of several branches of the US government, and make her a perfect fit for even more dangerous work. The Department of Homeland Security and the NSA have tasked her with infiltrating a hacker group, known only as Ordinary People, that is intent on wreaking havoc. Letty and her reluctant partner from the NSA pose as free-spirited programmers for hire and embark on a cross country road trip to the group’s California headquarters. While the two work to make inroads with Ordinary People and uncover their plans, they begin to suspect that the hackers are not their only enemy. Someone within their own circle may have betrayed them, and has ulterior motives that place their mission—and their lives—in grave danger. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/we-are-electric monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9fe5949b-16b6-4cd2-b2c4-f6c75bc8eeda/electric.jpg New Arrivals - We Are Electric - by Sally Adee Science journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelectricity—the electric currents that run through our bodies and every living thing—its misunderstood history, and why new discoveries will lead to new ways around antibiotic resistance, cleared arteries, and new ways to combat cancer. You may be familiar with the idea of our body's biome: the bacterial fauna that populate our gut and can so profoundly affect our health. In We Are Electric we cross into new scientific understanding: discovering your body's electrome. Every cell in our bodies—bones, skin, nerves, muscle—has a voltage, like a tiny battery. It is the reason our brain can send signals to the rest of our body, how we develop in the womb, and why our body knows to heal itself from injury. When bioelectricity goes awry, illness, deformity, and cancer can result. But if we can control or correct this bioelectricity, the implications for our health are remarkable: an undo switch for cancer that could flip malignant cells back into healthy ones; the ability to regenerate cells, organs, even limbs; to slow aging and so much more. The next scientific frontier might be decrypting the bioelectric code, much the way we did the genetic code. Yet the field is still emerging from two centuries of skepticism and entanglement with medical quackery, all stemming from an 18th-century scientific war about the nature of electricity between Luigi Galvani (father of bioelectricity, famous for shocking frogs) and Alessandro Volta (inventor of the battery). In We Are Electric, award-winning science writer Sally Adee takes readers through the thrilling history of bioelectricity and into the future: from the Victorian medical charlatans claiming to use electricity to cure everything from paralysis to diarrhea, to the advances helped along by the giant axons of squids, and finally to the brain implants and electric drugs that await us—and the moral implications therein. The bioelectric revolution starts here. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-trackers monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/cde34f52-90ca-41f2-a56a-6842b7bdd365/trackers.jpg New Arrivals - The Trackers - by Charles Frazier Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he’s landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office. A wealthy art lover named John Long and his wife Eve have agreed to host Val at their sprawling ranch. Rumors and intrigue surround the couple: Eve left behind an itinerant life riding the rails and singing in a western swing band. Long holds shady political aspirations, but was once a WWI sniper—and his right hand is a mysterious elder cowboy, a vestige of the violent old west. Val quickly finds himself entranced by their lives. One day, Eve flees home with a valuable painting in tow, and Long recruits Val to hit the road with a mission of tracking her down. Journeying from ramshackle Hoovervilles to San Francisco nightclubs to the swamps of Florida, Val's search for Eve narrows, and he soon turns up secrets that could spark formidable changes for all of them. In The Trackers, singular American writer Charles Frazier conjures up the lives of everyday people during an extraordinary period of history that bears uncanny resemblance to our own. With the keen perceptions of humanity and transcendent storytelling that have made him beloved for decades, Frazier has created a powerful and timeless new classic. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/hello-beautiful monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/eb5c83e7-afc5-495e-958f-42fb8164545c/hellobeautiful.jpg New Arrivals - Hello Beautiful - by Ann Napolitano William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him—so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it’s as if the world has lit up around him. With Julia comes her family, as she and her three sisters are inseparable: Sylvie, the family’s dreamer, is happiest with her nose in a book; Cecelia is a free-spirited artist; and Emeline patiently takes care of them all. With the Padavanos, William experiences a newfound contentment; every moment in their house is filled with loving chaos. But then darkness from William’s past surfaces, jeopardizing not only Julia’s carefully orchestrated plans for their future, but the sisters’ unshakeable devotion to one another. The result is a catastrophic family rift that changes their lives for generations. Will the loyalty that once rooted them be strong enough to draw them back together when it matters most? An exquisite homage to Louisa May Alcott’s timeless classic, Little Women, Hello Beautiful is a profoundly moving portrait of what is possible when we choose to love someone not in spite of who they are, but because of it. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/homecoming monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f56635fc-65f5-4b72-bf80-69fd49d5f82d/homecoming.jpg New Arrivals - Homecoming - by Kate Morton Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London for two decades, she now finds herself unemployed and struggling to make ends meet. A phone call out of nowhere summons her back to Sydney, where her beloved grandmother Nora, who raised Jess when her mother could not, has suffered a fall and is seriously ill in the hospital. At Nora's house, Jess discovers a true crime book chronicling a long-buried police case: the Turner Family Tragedy of 1959. It is only when Jess skims through its pages that she finds a shocking connection between her own family and this notorious event – a mystery that has never been satisfactorily resolved. An epic story that spans generations, Homecoming asks what we would do for those we love, how we protect the lies we tell, and what it means to come home. Above all, it is an intricate and spellbinding novel from one of the finest writers working today. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/collateral-damage monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ab671f0e-1824-47d9-ae9a-c9e72377e772/cdamage.jpg New Arrivals - Collateral Damage - by J. A. Jance After spending twenty years behind bars, Frank Muñoz, a disgraced former cop, is out on parole and focused on just one thing: revenge. The wife who abandoned him after his arrest, the mistress who ratted him out for abetting a money-laundering scheme, the detectives who presided over his case all those years ago—they all have targets on their backs. For Ali Reynolds, the first Christmas without her father is riddled with grief and uncertainty. And with her husband and founding partner of High Noon Enterprises, B. Simpson, preoccupied by an upcoming New Year’s trip to London, she is ready for a break. But when Stu Ramey barges into her home with grave news about a serious—and suspicious—accident on the highway to Phoenix involving B.’s car, things reach a breaking point. At the hospital, a groggy, post-op B. insists that Ali take his place at a ransomware conference in London, as troubles brimming around High Noon come to light. But questions remain: Who would go to such lengths to cut the tech company from the picture? And what if Ali and the rest of the team are also in danger? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/worthy-opponents monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8c0d86c7-a8c9-4d40-8e47-f0f65fee7cdc/worthyopp.jpg New Arrivals - Worthy Opponents - by Danielle Steele Spencer Brooke always knew she was destined to be CEO of her grandfather’s business—the most respected and luxurious department store in New York City. Brooke’s has been at the center of every happy memory she has, but it hasn’t been an easy journey. Seven years after her father’s death, her life is very different from the days when she walked through the store with her grandfather as a young girl. She may be the owner of Brooke’s, but she’s also now a divorced single mother of twin boys. And with the ever-evolving landscape of the fashion industry comes new challenges for Spencer and the legacy she’s inherited. Mike Weston is known for making enormous profits by transforming small businesses into bigger, more successful ones. With his marriage at a breaking point and his children grown up, investing is where he thrives—where he can build something greater. And Brooke’s feels like the perfect opportunity. Yet the firm’s beautiful and savvy CEO turns down the offer before they even meet. Spencer has no interest in outside investors meddling in her family business; her grandfather never saw the need for them, and neither does she. She refuses to be tempted by Mike’s offer, despite her big dreams of expanding the store. But when bad luck strikes, suddenly she is backed into a corner. In Worthy Opponents, Danielle Steel crafts a thrilling story about a powerful woman—and her equally formidable opponent. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-london-seance-society monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/50af4307-693e-4fe0-b966-8e3d6b024587/seance.jpg New Arrivals - The London Seance Society - by Sarah Penner 1873. At an abandoned château on the outskirts of Paris, a dark séance is about to take place, led by acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D’Allaire. Known worldwide for her talent in conjuring the spirits of murder victims to ascertain the identities of the people who killed them, she is highly sought after by widows and investigators alike. Lenna Wickes has come to Paris to find answers about her sister’s death, but to do so, she must embrace the unknown and overcome her own logic-driven bias against the occult. When Vaudeline is beckoned to England to solve a high-profile murder, Lenna accompanies her as an understudy. With shared determination, the women find companionship that perhaps borders on something more. And as they team up with the powerful men of London’s exclusive Séance Society to solve the mystery, they begin to suspect that they are not merely out to solve a crime, but perhaps entangled in one themselves… https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/birnham-wood monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/142a15d9-d0bd-4e47-b968-f6e397623511/birnham.jpg New Arrivals - Birnham Wood - by Eleanor Catton Birnam Wood is on the move . . . A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. For years, the group has struggled to break even. To occupy the farm at Thorndike would mean a shot at solvency at last. But the enigmatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine also has an interest in the place: he has snatched it up to build his end-times bunker, or so he tells Birnam’s founder, Mira, when he catches her on the property. He’s intrigued by Mira, and by Birnam Wood; although they’re poles apart politically, it seems Lemoine and the group might have enemies in common. But can Birnam trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust one another? A gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its drama, Austenian in its wit, and, like both influences, fascinated by what makes us who we are. A brilliantly constructed study of intentions, actions, and consequences, it is a mesmerizing, unflinching consideration of the human impulse to ensure our own survival. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/loyalty monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/91952685-f987-4186-8f94-1403ba281699/loyalty.jpg New Arrivals - Loyalty - by Lisa Scottoline Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome lemon grower toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning his own grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. Determined to secure a better future, Franco will do anything to prove his loyalty to the baron. But when the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy named Dante, Franco makes a decision that will change his life—and even the history of Sicily—forever. Gaetano Catalano is an idealistic young lawyer whose devotion to justice is tantamount to a calling. He’s a member of the Beati Paoli, a real-life secret society of aristocrats who investigate crime in Palermo, a city riddled with graft. Gaetano sets out to find the boy and punish the kidnapper, but his mission leads him to a darker place than he had ever imagined. Meanwhile, Mafalda Pancari is a new mother rejoicing at the birth of her daughter, Lucia, when disaster strikes. And Alfredo D’Antonio is a reclusive goatherd under constant threat of being discovered as a Jew. How the lives of these unforgettable characters collide makes Loyalty an epic tale of good versus evil, as the story twists and turns to its monumental showdown. Readers will be transported to the dramatic and ruggedly beautiful island of Sicily, the jewel of the Mediterranean, where lush lemon groves and mouth-watering cuisine contrast with a turbulent history of colonization and corruption. Scottoline brings her decades of thriller writing to historical fiction, creating in Loyalty a singular novel that no reader will be able to put down. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/doc-martin-series-10 monthly 0.5 2023-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9060a2f0-5469-4bff-9118-a0837357e189/docmartin.jpg New Arrivals - Doc Martin (Series 10) - In this long-running, wildly popular UK dramedy, Martin Clunes (Manhunt) stars as surly and self- centered yet beloved Dr. Martin Ellingham with a rude bedside manner and a phobia of blood. A year has passed since Martin resigned his medical license, and his wife, Louisa (Caroline Catz), is now the one seeing patients as a child counselor, while he looks after their own two young children. But does the Doc truly never want to practice medicine again? Also returning for the final season: Dame Eileen Atkins as Doc Martin’s formidable Aunt Ruth, Ian McNeice as Bert Large, and Joe Absolom as Al Large. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-old-way monthly 0.5 2023-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1681240523444-HSV8RYITS98ZHJK5ICXB/oldway.jpg New Arrivals - The Old Way - An old gunslinger (Oscar® winner Nicolas Cage) and his 12-year-old daughter face the consequences of his past when an outlaw and his gang put Colton’s family in peril. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/empire-of-light monthly 0.5 2023-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/ac84798f-3b23-414f-a5b9-58a3e2f6b258/empire.jpg New Arrivals - Empire of Light - From Academy Award®-winning director and writer Sam Mendes (Directing, "American Beauty," 1999), "Empire of Light" is a moving drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times. Set in and around a faded old cinema in an English coastal town in the early 1980s, it follows Hilary (Olivia Colman), a cinema manager struggling with her mental health, and Stephen (Micheal Ward), a new employee who longs to escape this provincial town in which he faces daily adversity. Both Hilary and Stephen find a sense of belonging through their unlikely and tender relationship, and come to experience the healing power of music, cinema, and community. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/puss-in-boots-the-last-wish monthly 0.5 2023-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/821b7bbf-0d38-4881-8130-a95c4a875f3c/pussboots.jpg New Arrivals - Puss in Boots : The Last Wish - Everyone's favorite leche-loving, swashbuckling, fear-defying feline, Puss in Boots, returns in a new adventure from the Shrek universe as the daring outlaw discovers that his passion for peril and disregard for safety have taken their toll. Puss has burned through eight of his nine lives, though he lost count along the way. Getting those lives back will send Puss in Boots into the Black Forest to find the mythical Wishing Star on his grandest quest yet. With only one life left, Puss will have to humble himself and ask for help from his former partner and nemesis: Kitty Softpaws. They are joined in their journey by a chatty and cheerful mutt named Perro. Together, our trio of heroes will need to stay one step ahead of the fairytale realm's craftiest crooks including Goldilocks and the Three Bears. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dog-man-twenty-thousand-fleas-under-the-sea monthly 0.5 2023-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d05bd3a7-2142-4149-9df4-2367281b5e69/dogman.jpg New Arrivals - Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea: A Graphic Novel - by Dan Pilkey Piggy has returned, and his newest plot is his most diabolical yet. WHAT other new villains are on the horizon? WHERE are they all coming from? And WHO will step forward to save the city when scoundrels sabotage our Supa Buddies? With themes of friendship and doing good, Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea is packed with action and hilarity. Featuring "Chomp-O-Rama," a brand-new song, a monstrous Mighty Mite -- and so much more than ever before! IT'S HEROIC, IT'S EPIC! For more creative, heartfelt adventures, join Flippy and Li'l Petey in the Cat Kid Comic Club series. And don't forget the series that started it all: Captain Underpants! A new edition of The Adventures of Captain Underpants includes a brand new Dog Man comic! Look for Dog Man with Love: The Official Coloring Book, too! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/hang-the-moon monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e4c833b3-72b8-45db-b62c-cb6301630751/hangthemoon.jpg New Arrivals - Hang the Moon - by Jeannette Walls Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who’d amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie is her father’s daughter, sharp-witted and resourceful, Eddie is his mother’s son, timid and cerebral. When Sallie tries to teach young Eddie to be more like their father, her daredevil coaching leads to an accident, and Sallie is cast out. Nine years later, she returns, determined to reclaim her place in the family. That’s a lot more complicated than Sallie expected, and she enters a world of conflict and lawlessness. Sallie confronts the secrets and scandals that hide in the shadows of the Big House, navigates the factions in the family and town, and finally comes into her own as a bold, sometimes reckless bootlegger. You will fall in love with Sallie Kincaid, a feisty and fearless, terrified and damaged young woman who refuses to be corralled. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/gaslit monthly 0.5 2023-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b942e6b4-f9e7-4ed1-b2a9-65109b8deffb/gaslit.jpg New Arrivals - Gaslit - Based on Slate's "Slow Burn" podcast, Gaslit is a modern take on the Watergate scandal through the long-neglected lens of the lesser-known but no-less-key players involved in the downfall of America's 37th president—from Nixon's bumbling, opportunistic subordinates, to the deranged zealots aiding and abetting their crimes, to the tragic whistleblowers who would eventually bring the whole rotten enterprise crashing to the ground. Sean Penn (Colors) is former Attorney General John Mitchell and Julia Roberts (Ticket to Paradise, Pretty Woman), with a Golden Globe®-nominated performance, is celebrity socialite Martha Mitchell in this riveting story of secret break-ins, smear campaigns, and one woman's risk of everything for the truth. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-man-called-otto monthly 0.5 2023-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/0411fc38-aa93-414d-85ae-9afb556813ee/otto.jpg New Arrivals - A Man Called Otto - Based on the # 1 New York Times bestseller “A Man Called Ove,” A Man Called Otto tells the story of Otto Anderson (Tom Hanks), a grump who no longer sees purpose in his life following the loss of his wife. Otto is ready to end it all, but his plans are interrupted when a lively young family moves in next door, and he meets his match in quick-witted Marisol. She challenges him to see life differently, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world around. A heartwarming and funny story about love, loss, and life, A Man Called Otto shows that family can sometimes be found in the most unexpected places. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-white-lady monthly 0.5 2023-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9fa4d353-3cfb-45e7-aa7b-a3b7d5585d73/whitelady.jpg New Arrivals - The White Lady - by Jacqueline Winspear A reluctant ex-spy with demons of her own, Elinor finds herself facing down one of the most dangerous organized crime gangs in London, ultimately exposing corruption from Scotland Yard to the highest levels of government. The private, quiet “Miss White" as Elinor is known, lives in a village in rural Kent, England, and to her fellow villagers seems something of an enigma. Well she might, as Elinor occupies a "grace and favor" property, a rare privilege offered to faithful servants of the Crown for services to the nation. But the residents of Shacklehurst have no way of knowing how dangerous Elinor's war work had been, or that their mysterious neighbor is haunted by her past. It will take Susie, the child of a young farmworker, Jim Mackie and his wife, Rose, to break through Miss White's icy demeanor—but Jim has something in common with Elinor. He, too, is desperate to escape his past. When the powerful Mackie crime family demands a return of their prodigal son for an important job, Elinor assumes the task of protecting her neighbors, especially the bright-eyed Susie. Yet in her quest to uncover the truth behind the family’s pursuit of Jim, Elinor unwittingly sets out on a treacherous path—yet it is one that leads to her freedom. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/my-vermont-table monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b02d71a0-1e51-4565-82cf-4c8805b05228/vermont.jpg New Arrivals - My Vermont Table - by Gesine Bullock-Prado When Gesine Bullock-Prado left her Hollywood life in 2004 and moved to Vermont, she fell in love with the Green Mountain State’s flavors and six unique seasons. Spring, summer, fall, and winter all claim their place at this table, but a true Vermonter holds extra space for maple-forward mud season―that time of year before spring when thawing ice makes way for mucky roads―and stick season, a notable period of bare trees and gourds galore prior to winter. In My Vermont Table, Bullock-Prado takes readers on a sweet and savory journey through each of these special seasons. Recipes like Blackberry Cornmeal Cake, Vermont Cheddar Soup, Shaved Asparagus Toasts, and Maple Pulled Pork Sliders utilize local produce, dairy, wine, and flour. And quintessential Vermont flavors are updated with ingredients and spices from Bullock-Prado’s own backyard. With stunning photography, Vermonters and visitors alike will revel in a seat at this table. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/lungfish monthly 0.5 2023-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/e939ddac-318a-4b03-9020-9042c5a255e8/lungfish.jpg New Arrivals - Lungfish - by Meghan Gilliss Tuck is slow to understand the circumstances that have driven her family to an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine, the former home of her deceased grandmother where she once spent her childhood summers. Squatting there now, she must care for her spirited young daughter and scrape together enough money to leave before winter arrives—or before they are found out. Relying on the island for sustenance and answers—bladderwrack, rosehips, tenacious little green crabs; smells held by the damp walls of the house, field guides and religious texts, a failed invention left behind by her missing father—Tuck lives moment-by-moment through the absurdity, beauty, paranoia, and hunger that shoots through her life, as her husband struggles to detox. Exquisitely written and formally daring, Lungfish tells the story of a woman grappling through the lies she has been told—and those she has told herself—to arrive at the truth of who she is and where she must go. Meghan Gilliss’s debut is a brilliant and heartbreaking novel about addiction, doubt, marriage, motherhood, and learning to see in the dark. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/so-shall-you-reap monthly 0.5 2023-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1853f23e-3d39-4e6c-ba25-cf13f55e602f/reap.jpg New Arrivals - So Shall You Reap - by Donna Leon On a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venice’s canals. The body is soon found, and Brunetti is assigned to investigate the murder of an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant. Because no official record of the man’s presence in Venice exists, Brunetti is forced to use the city’s far richer sources of information: gossip and the memories of people who knew the victim. Curiously, he had been living in a small house on the grounds of a palazzo owned by a university professor, in which Brunetti discovers books revealing the victim’s interest in Buddhism, the revolutionary Tamil Tigers, and the last crop of Italian political terrorists, active in the 1980s. As the investigation expands, Brunetti, Vianello, Commissario Griffoni, and Signora Elettra each assemble pieces of a puzzle—random information about real estate and land use, books, university friendships—that appear to have little in common, until Brunetti stumbles over something that transports him back to his own student days, causing him to reflect on lost ideals and the errors of youth, on Italian politics and history, and on the accidents that sometimes lead to revelation. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/i-will-find-you monthly 0.5 2023-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8608f38c-1a2f-43d5-acd7-b4a3f4531cff/willfind.jpg New Arrivals - I Will Find You - by Harlan Coben David Burroughs was once a devoted father to his three-year-old son Matthew, living a dream life just a short drive away from the working-class suburb where he and his wife, Cheryl, first fell in love--until one fateful night when David woke suddenly to discover Matthew had been murdered while David was asleep just down the hall. Half a decade later, David’s been wrongly accused and convicted of the murder, left to serve out his time in a maximum-security prison—a fate which, grieving and wracked with guilt, David didn’t have the will to fight. The world has moved on without him. Then Cheryl’s younger sister, Rachel, makes a surprise appearance during visiting hours bearing a strange photograph. It’s a vacation shot of a bustling amusement park a friend shared with her, and in the background, just barely in frame, is a boy bearing an eerie resemblance to David’s son. Even though it can’t be, David just knows: Matthew is still alive. David plans a harrowing escape, determined to achieve the impossible – save his son, clear his own name, and discover the real story of what happened. But with his life on the line and the FBI following his every move, can David evade capture long enough to reveal the shocking truth? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/high-time monthly 0.5 2023-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/62d0dda2-e380-4318-b8f2-cb4c56b127ee/hightime.jpg New Arrivals - High Time - by Abigail Trafford Abigail Trafford masterfully braids two worlds: the culture and history of an accomplished East Coast family well-anchored in time and place, and the life of an adventurous journalist navigating her way through new territories—professional and personal in diverse locales including Paris, Washington, D.C., Houston and Australia’s Northern Territory. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/everyone-in-my-family-has-killed-someone monthly 0.5 2023-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6f81f41f-a185-455c-9a98-f9d7a1b5e3bc/everyone.jpg New Arrivals - Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone - by Benjamin Stevenson Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I’m Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I’d killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it’s a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let’s get started. EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE My brother My stepsister My wife My father My mother My sister-in-law My uncle My stepfather My aunt Me https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/reading-the-glass monthly 0.5 2023-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/5b9734d5-1128-43e1-a54f-2d4bc68cdd01/reading.jpg New Arrivals - Reading the Glass: A Captain’s View of Weather, Water, and Life on Ships - by Elliot Rappaport What’s in a cloud? Did you know that water vapor is invisible and actually lighter than dry air? What separates a tropical storm from a winter blizzard? And what exactly is El Niño? Elliot Rappaport, a professional captain of traditional sailing ships, has spent three decades at sea, where understanding weather is crucial to the safety of vessels and their crews. In Reading the Glass, he offers a sailor’s-eye view of the moving parts of our atmosphere and unveils the larger patterns it holds: global winds, storms, air masses, jet streams, and the longer arc of our climate. Told through a series of tall ship voyages, Rappaport’s narrative takes readers from the icy seas of Greenland to the Roaring Forties, places where one can experience all four seasons in an hour. He navigates the turbulent waters of the Strait of Gibraltar, en route to storied port cities of the Mediterranean. In the vast tropical Pacific he crosses the equator, where heat, moisture, and unsettled winds churn out powerful squalls, and drops anchor in isolated ports of call. He explores wide swathes of ocean to explain how the trade winds have carried ships westward for centuries, and how ancient Polynesian explorers pushed back the other way, leveraging their mastery of waves and weather to achieve what may be humanity's greatest navigational achievement. Written in stunning prose, brimming with wisdom, curiosity, and humor, Reading the Glass brilliantly blends science and memoir to reveal how weather has shaped our oceans, our history, and ourselves. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-library-fish-learns-to-read monthly 0.5 2023-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/03c27aee-94c9-4c7e-bc16-94422a910e9b/libraryfish.jpg New Arrivals - The Library Fish Learns to Read - by Alyssa Satin Capucilli Library Fish is very happy in her bowl on Mr. Hughes the librarian’s desk. From there, she listens to story time and watches Mr. Hughes teach children the alphabet. He says the alphabet is made of letters, letters make sounds, blending those sounds together makes words, and words make stories. Library Fish wants to read, too! She starts jumping out of her bowl to practice when the library closes at night. Can Library Fish become a reader all on her own? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/fly-guy monthly 0.5 2023-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/83f5db66-97d4-4883-a52e-e354862825a2/flyguyset.jpg New Arrivals - Fly Guy (Books 1-11) - by Tedd Arnold This set includes the following 11 books: Fly Guy vs The Flyswatter, Ride Fly Guy Ride, Buzz Boy and Fly Guy, Fly Guy Meets Fly Girl, I Spy Fly Guy, Hooray for Fly Guy!, Fly High, Fly Guy!, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Fly Guy, Shoo Fly Guy!, Super Fly Guy, and Hi! Fly Guy. The Fly Guy series is a great read for elementary school children that uses a straightforward text and helps them become better readers while also containing humor that children will love! These books provides an ideal opportunity to teach young students how to identify story elements including characters, setting, and plot. Activities engage students in learning about real flies, retelling the story, and creating their own amazing pet. Hi! Fly Guy: The first book of the series begins one day when a fly goes flying, looking for something to eat, and a boy goes walking, looking for something to catch for the pet show. After the boy catches the fly, he is amazed to find out that the fly calls him by his name—Buzz! Buzz’s parents think the fly is a pest, not a pet. However, the fly soon proves how smart he is with some quick flying—and earns the name Fly Guy. The adventures of Fly Guy and Buzz are filled with puns, slapstick humor, and hilarious, goofy illustrations; all guaranteed to keep beginning readers laughing . . . and reading! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/cat-ninja-time-heist monthly 0.5 2023-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/d033558a-44fe-4a5d-bedd-229ffe72f71c/catninja2.jpg New Arrivals - Cat Ninja: Time Heist - by Matthew Cody When Leon brings a mystery egg home from school, Cat Ninja and Master Hamster face their biggest challenge yet: babysitting! And while they’re pretty sure they can keep an egg out of trouble, they know they’re in over their heads when that egg hatches into a high-energy ball of feathers and cuteness. It’s baby’s first superhero adventure when they decide to bring their newest family member along as they uncover the identity—and nefarious motives—of Metro City’s latest foe. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/cat-ninja monthly 0.5 2023-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8b7fb07b-58e1-4fbc-8f81-48795d1c7cb9/catninja1.jpg New Arrivals - Cat Ninja - by Matthew Cody Raised from a kitten by a kindly old ninja master, Claude now spends his days as the pampered house cat of an eleven-year-old boy. But when trouble arises, Claude dons his mask and springs into action as Cat Ninja—Metro City's secret protector! In Book 1 of the series, follow our feline hero’s early exploits as he tries to keep his secret identity under wraps while thwarting the evil plans of slimy crooks, rampaging robots, and a certain rodent nemesis who lives under the same roof! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/its-one-of-us monthly 0.5 2023-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c8dbe97f-a437-4903-89e8-17604127cd91/oneofus.jpg New Arrivals - It’s One of Us: A Novel - by J.T. Ellison Olivia Bender designs exquisite home interiors that satisfy the most demanding clients. But her own deepest desire can’t be fulfilled by marble counters or the perfect rug. She desperately wants to be a mother. Fertility treatments and IVF keep failing. And just when she feels she’s at her lowest point, the police deliver shocking news to Olivia and her husband, Park. DNA results show that the prime suspect in a murder investigation is Park’s son. Olivia is relieved, knowing this is a mistake. Despite their desire, the Benders don’t have any children. Then comes the confession. Many years ago, Park donated sperm to a clinic. He has no idea how many times it was sold—or how many children he has sired. As the murder investigation goes deeper, more terrible truths come to light. With every revelation, Olivia must face the unthinkable. The man she married has fathered a killer. But can she hold that against him when she keeps such dark secrets of her own? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-northern-reach monthly 0.5 2023-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/23050a0e-ee27-4872-b458-5b5b526b8a9e/reach.jpg New Arrivals - The Northern Reach - by W.S. Winslow Frozen in grief after the loss of her son at sea, Edith Baines stares across the water at a schooner, under full sail yet motionless in the winter wind and surging tide of the Northern Reach. Edith seems to be hallucinating. Or is she? Edith’s boat-watch opens The Northern Reach, set in the coastal town of Wellbridge, Maine, where townspeople squeeze a living from the perilous bay or scrape by on the largesse of the summer folk and whatever they can cobble together, salvage, or grab. At the center of town life is the Baines family, land-rich, cash-poor descendants of town founders, along with the ne’er-do-well Moody clan, the Martins of Skunk Pond, and the dirt farming, bootlegging Edgecombs. Over the course of the twentieth century, the families intersect, interact, and intermarry, grappling with secrets and prejudices that span generations, opening new wounds and reckoning with old ghosts. W. S. Winslow's The Northern Reach is a breathtaking debut about the complexity of family, the cultural legacy of place, and the people and experiences that shape us. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pineapple-street monthly 0.5 2023-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8f5dbed0-c81d-4750-aa29-fcae203ca67d/pineapple.jpg New Arrivals - Pineapple Street: A Novel - by Jenny Jackson Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected old money Stockton family, followed her heart, trading her job and her inheritance for motherhood but giving up far too much in the process; Sasha, a middle-class New England girl, has married into the Brooklyn Heights family, and finds herself cast as the arriviste outsider; and Georgiana, the baby of the family, has fallen in love with someone she can’t have, and must decide what kind of person she wants to be. Rife with the indulgent pleasures of life among New York’s one-percenters, Pineapple Street is a smart, escapist novel that sparkles with wit. Full of recognizable, loveable—if fallible—characters, it’s about the peculiar unknowability of someone else’s family, the miles between the haves and have-nots, and the insanity of first love—all wrapped in a story that is a sheer delight. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-banshees-of-inisherin monthly 0.5 2023-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/06059f74-0183-4417-80d9-f2e0092d3fe4/banshees.jpg New Arrivals - The Banshees of Inisherin - On a small Erin isle in the early 1920s, folk musician Colm Doherty (Brendan Gleeson) decided he was weary of the company of longtime, affable but dull drinking buddy Pádraic Súilleabháin (Colin Farrell)-and told him so. The hurt Pádraic's insistent efforts to get back in Colm's good graces take a series of bizarrely violent turns that put their tiny community up in arms. Martin McDonagh's wistfully wrought dark dramedy also stars Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan, Pat Shortt. 109 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/goodnight-from-paris monthly 0.5 2023-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/468e61e3-ae32-4fed-9362-d9af340c2930/goodnight.jpg New Arrivals - Goodnight From Paris - by Jane Healey Paris, 1939. Hollywood actress Drue Leyton, married to Frenchman Jacques Tartière, lives as an expatriate in love. But when her husband is dispatched to Brittany to work as a liaison for the British military, Drue finds herself alone with her housekeeper, adrift and heartsick in her adopted city. With her career and fame forty-five hundred miles away, Drue accepts an opportunity that will change her life forever. Befriended by seasoned wartime journalist Dorothy Thompson and urged on by political operative Jean Fraysse, Drue broadcasts radio programs to the United States. Her duty: shake America from its apathy and, as Nazis encroach and France is occupied, push for resistance and help from the US. As Drue and Jean fall under suspicion, Hitler sends his own message: when Drue’s adopted country is conquered, she will be executed. In a Paris that is no longer safe, Drue’s political passion is ignited. She’s prepared to risk anything to fight the enemy no matter how dangerous it gets―for her, for everyone she loves, and for everything she’s fighting for. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/storm-watch monthly 0.5 2023-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7e128bfb-c53d-4400-ada6-e441ae52e198/storm.jpg New Arrivals - Storm Watch - by C. J. Box When a prominent University of Wyoming professor goes missing, authorities are stumped. That is, until Joe Pickett makes two surprising discoveries while hunting down a wounded elk on his district as an epic spring storm descends upon him. First, he finds the professor’s vehicle parked on a remote mountainside. Then Joe finds the professor’s frozen and mutilated body. When he attempts to learn more, his investigation is obstructed by federal agents, extremists, and Governor Colter Allen. Nate Romanowski is rebuilding his falconry company—and financing this through crypto mining with the assistance of Geronimo Jones. He’s then approached by a shadowy group of local militant activists that is gaining in power and influence, and demanding that Wyoming join other western states and secede from the union—by force, if necessary. They ask Nate to throw in with them, but he’s wary. Should he trust them, or is he being set up? As a storm of peril gathers around them, Joe and Nate confront it in different ways—and maybe, for the first time, on opposite sides. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/comfort-is-an-old-barn monthly 0.5 2023-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/bce9e789-7d00-4ff2-ba9c-081ec8e6e3f2/comfortbarn.jpg New Arrivals - Comfort is an Old Barn: Stories from the Heart of Maine - by Amy Calder Amy Calder is an award-winning newspaper reporter and columnist, covering city government and everything from murders and car crashes to fires and drug busts. Her 34-year career started at the Waterville Sentinel bureau in Skowhegan, where she served as bureau chief for several years and chased stories from Jackman to Fairfield and Farmington to Newport. Since 2009, Calder has written a weekly human interest column, “Reporting Aside,” which appears in both the Sentinel and the Kennebec Journal. Comfort is an Old Barn is a curated collection of those columns, which include sketches of the colorful characters, quirky animals she has encountered, and special moments, as well as personal stories that make living in Maine special. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-cliffs-edge monthly 0.5 2023-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/3d52c5a8-371e-4dba-9a85-eff15bc1ef6c/cliff.jpg New Arrivals - The Cliff’s Edge - by Charles Todd Restless and uncertain of her future in the wake of World War I, former battlefield nurse Bess Crawford agrees to travel to Yorkshire to help a friend of her cousin Melinda through surgery. But circumstances change suddenly when news of a terrible accident reaches them. Bess agrees to go to isolated Scarfdale and the Neville family, where one man has been killed and another gravely injured. The police are asking questions, and Bess is quickly drawn into the fray as two once close families take sides, even as they are forced to remain in the same house until the inquest is completed. When another tragedy strikes, the police are ready to make an arrest. Bess struggles to keep order as tensions rise and shots are fired. What dark truth is behind these deaths? And what about the tale of an older murder—one that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the Nevilles? Bess is unaware that when she passes the story on to Cousin Melinda, she will set in motion a revelation with the potential to change the lives of those she loves most—her parents, and her dearest friend, Simon Brandon… https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/verity monthly 0.5 2023-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/cc0c2e80-917a-4133-b14e-ac37e69506a8/verity.jpg New Arrivals - Verity - by Colleen Hoover Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night her family was forever altered. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen’s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/death-of-a-traitor monthly 0.5 2023-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/29437315-ce77-4bfa-9278-985132a1994e/death.jpg New Arrivals - Death of a Traitor - by M.C. Beaton Kate Hibbert is all too eager to lend a hand to her neighbors. Although she has been a resident of the sleepy village of Lochdubh for only a year, in that time Kate has alienated one too many of its residents with her interfering—and not entirely well-intentioned—ways. When Kate’s neighbor sees her lugging a heavy suitcase to the bus stop, he hopes that the prying woman is leaving for good. But two weeks later, Kate’s cousin arrives in town with the news that Kate has gone missing—and she demands that the local police step in. Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is called in to investigate the disappearance, and soon he is befuddled by a storm of lies, intrigue, and scandal . . . and the sneaking suspicion that Kate was someone much more sinister than she claimed. Torn between loyalty to Lochdubh and his job, Hamish begins threading his way through a maze of deceit, quickly finding himself on the trail of a ruthless, treacherous murderer. If he catches the killer, peace can return to the village. If he fails, he will lose everything: his job, his home, and the life he so loves in Lochdubh. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-candy-house monthly 0.5 2023-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6bab6012-4c25-4a2d-bb9d-24945311e2f0/candy.jpg New Arrivals - The Candy House - by Jennifer Egan The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.” Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. Within a decade, Bix’s new technology, “Own Your Unconscious”—which allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of others—has seduced multitudes. In the world of Egan’s spectacular imagination, there are “counters” who track and exploit desires and there are “eluders,” those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative styles—from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter, and a chapter of tweets. Intellectually dazzling, The Candy House is also a moving testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection, family, privacy, and love. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/sweet-remnants-of-summer monthly 0.5 2023-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/082df32b-5e14-4f91-a148-86aff9465fca/summer.jpg New Arrivals - Sweet Remnants of Summer - by Alexander McCall Smith When Isabel is invited to serve on the advisory committee of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, her husband, Jamie, expresses concern about the demands on her time. Never one to duck an obligation, however, Isabel says she’d be happy to join. There she meets a woman named Laura, whose husband—a prominent wine merchant from an illustrious family—and son are at odds. Laura asks whether Isabel might arbitrate between them. Isabel is reluctant to intervene in a familial drama but, always one for practical and courteous solutions to theoretical problems, she feels obligated to help. Will the demands on her moral attention never cease? Meanwhile, having criticized Isabel for getting involved in the affairs of others, Jamie does precisely that himself. He’s helping to select a new cellist for his ensemble but suspects that the conductor’s attention may be focused on something other than his favored candidate’s cello skills. Jamie feels it’s important that the most qualified applicant gets the job—but how to determine whether the conductor has the right qualifications in mind? With so many complicated and fraught issues demanding their attention, Isabel and Jamie will have to tap deep into their reserves of tact and goodwill as they navigate the tricky and turbulent waters of these emotional matters. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/hot-in-cleveland monthly 0.5 2023-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/f9e9480a-80a2-4979-af35-fffc2c04b51e/hot.jpg New Arrivals - Hot in Cleveland - This hilarious and sassy TV Land original comedy stars Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, and Wendie Malick as a trio of single, 40-plus L.A. women waylaid in Cleveland during a trip to Paris. Unexpectedly discovering a friendly community that appreciates their mature sexiness, the gals decide to make it their home, renting a house that comes complete with a feisty, elderly caretaker (Betty White) with quite the checkered past.128 episodes on 17 discs. 46 hrs. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/code-name-sapphire monthly 0.5 2023-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8e5d2080-ef4b-4ab1-b36d-76a1709ac668/codename.jpg New Arrivals - Code Name Sapphire - by Pam Jenoff 1942. Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind. Seeking help, Hannah joins the Sapphire Line, a secret resistance network led by a mysterious woman named Micheline and her enigmatic brother Matteo. But when a grave mistake causes Lily’s family to be arrested and slated for deportation to Auschwitz, Hannah finds herself torn between her loyalties. How much is Hannah willing to sacrifice to save the people she loves? Inspired by incredible true stories of courage and sacrifice, Code Name Sapphire is a powerful novel about love, family and the unshakable resilience of women in even the hardest of times. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/someone-elses-shoes monthly 0.5 2023-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8ee7869f-d0ee-4e20-bc38-bb95f839ce52/shoes.jpg New Arrivals - Someone Else’s Shoes - by Jojo Moyes Nisha Cantor lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband announces a divorce and cuts her off. Nisha is determined to hang onto her glamorous life. But in the meantime, she must scramble to cope--she doesn’t even have the shoes she was, until a moment ago, standing in. That’s because Sam Kemp – in the bleakest point of her life – has accidentally taken Nisha’s gym bag. But Sam hardly has time to worry about a lost gym bag--she’s struggling to keep herself and her family afloat. When she tries on Nisha’s six-inch high Christian Louboutin red crocodile shoes, the resulting jolt of confidence that makes her realize something must change—and that thing is herself. Full of Jojo Moyes’ signature humor, brilliant storytelling, and warmth, Someone Else’s Shoes is a story about how just one little thing can suddenly change everything. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/this-other-eden monthly 0.5 2023-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/15ed8ede-9ee3-49b2-aa44-65153bb2d0b7/eden.jpg New Arrivals - This Other Eden - by Paul Harding In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys’ descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated, and often hungry, but nevertheless protected from the hostility awaiting them on the mainland. During the tumultuous summer of 1912, Matthew Diamond, a retired, idealistic but prejudiced schoolteacher-turned-missionary, disrupts the community’s fragile balance through his efforts to educate its children. His presence attracts the attention of authorities on the mainland who, under the influence of the eugenics-thinking popular among progressives of the day, decide to forcibly evacuate the island, institutionalize its residents, and develop the island as a vacation destination. Beginning with a hurricane flood reminiscent of the story of Noah’s Ark, the novel ends with yet another Ark. In prose of breathtaking beauty and power, Paul Harding brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters: Iris and Violet McDermott, sisters raising three orphaned Penobscot children; Theophilus and Candace Larks and their brood of vagabond children; the prophetic Zachary Hand to God Proverbs, a Civil War veteran who lives in a hollow tree; and more. A spellbinding story of resistance and survival, This Other Eden is an enduring testament to the struggle to preserve human dignity in the face of intolerance and injustice. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-house-in-the-pines monthly 0.5 2023-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/9c231ea3-90c7-4f35-8e55-01e408b76a1a/house.jpg New Arrivals - The House in the Pines - by Ana Reyes Maya was a high school senior when her best friend, Aubrey, mysteriously dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man named Frank whom they’d been spending time with all summer. Seven years later, Maya lives in Boston with a loving boyfriend and is kicking the secret addiction that has allowed her to cope with what happened years ago, the gaps in her memories, and the lost time that she can’t account for. But her past comes rushing back when she comes across a recent YouTube video in which a young woman suddenly keels over and dies in a diner while sitting across from none other than Frank. Plunged into the trauma that has defined her life, Maya heads to her Berkshires hometown to relive that fateful summer—the influence Frank once had on her and the obsessive jealousy that nearly destroyed her friendship with Aubrey. At her mother’s house, she excavates fragments of her past and notices hidden messages in her deceased Guatemalan father’s book that didn’t stand out to her earlier. To save herself, she must understand a story written before she was born, but time keeps running out, and soon, all roads are leading back to Frank’s cabin.... Utterly unique and captivating, The House in the Pines keeps you guessing about whether we can ever fully confront the past and return home. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/amazing-animal-journeys monthly 0.5 2023-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/55ce659e-140a-4910-9d34-4c1f32a9d810/amazinganimal.jpg New Arrivals - Amazing Animal Journeys - by Philippa Forester Join animals on as they embark on large scale migrations and travel through the natural world in this book that follows their incredible journeys. Little ones can read all about why animals travel far and wide in Amazing Animal Journeys; many are in search of food, some are looking for a mate, lots are heading to a warmer climate, and others are just seeking a new home. This animal book for children aged 7-9 follows the unbelievable mass migrations of entire species with amazing facts and maps that tell the stories of nature’s most amazing journeys. Discover the record-breaking flight of the Arctic Tern, who travels from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back every year, the sharks that follow plankton for enormous distances from the ocean depths to the surface from night to day, or the Monarch butterflies who use Earth’s magnetic field to trace a path along the west coast of North America! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/flour-power monthly 0.5 2023-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/52458e2c-4ea5-4384-a70d-e0d53c90b8d9/flour.jpg New Arrivals - Flour Power: The practice and pursuit of baking sour dough bread - by Tara Jensen Yes, you can make crusty, tender, bakery-quality sourdough bread—even if you’ve never baked before! Especially when you have a teacher like Tara Jensen (who taught both dessert guru Claire Saffitz and Southern-cooking evangelist Sean Brock) by your side. Tara’s friendly approach to technique and inspired flavors in more than eighty recipes for sourdough, rye, and whole grain bread will enrich both beginners and advanced bakers as they learn about the craft. With Tara’s guidance and supportive voice, she shares important lessons that cover all the technical bases—from learning about flour to exploring wild yeast fermentation and developing your (doughy) intuition. From there, Tara dives deep into the worlds of sourdough, rye, and desem, showing the true diversity of bread through recipes like Miche, Chocolate Beer Bread, and Mountain Rye. There’s even an extra credit chapter on making extra-flavorful Overnight Waffles, Cheesy Cheddar Crackers, and Sourdough Chocolate-Chip Cookies. With Tara by your side, artisanal bread at home is totally achievable . . . and fun! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-fabelmans monthly 0.5 2023-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a60bb084-f3de-4581-bc20-732c0f4f6876/fabelmans.jpg New Arrivals - The Fabelmans - A deeply personal portrait of 20th Century American childhood, Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans is a coming-of-age story about a young man's discovery of a shattering family secret and an exploration of the power of movies to help us see the truth about each other and ourselves. Inspired by Spielberg's own childhood, The Fabelmans is written by Spielberg and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America, Caroline, or Change), who has earned Oscar nominations for his screenplays for Spielberg's Lincoln and Munich. The film is produced by three-time Oscar nominee Kristie Macosko Krieger (West Side Story, The Post), Spielberg and Kushner. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/nope monthly 0.5 2023-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6204e513-1618-4560-b030-ff1fa734ced3/nope.jpg New Arrivals - Nope - Oscar® winner Jordan Peele disrupted and redefined modern horror with Get Out and then Us. Now, he reimagines the summer movie with a new pop nightmare: the expansive horror epic, Nope. The film reunites Peele with Oscar® winner Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Judas and the Black Messiah), who is joined by Keke Palmer (Hustlers, Alice) and Oscar® nominee Steven Yeun (Minari, Okja) as residents in a lonely gulch of inland California who bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery. Nope, which co-stars Michael Wincott (Hitchcock, Westworld) and Brandon Perea (The OA, American Insurrection), is written and directed by Jordan Peele and is produced by Ian Cooper (Us, Candyman) and Jordan Peele for Monkeypaw Productions. The film will be released by Universal Pictures worldwide. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/an-immense-world monthly 0.5 2023-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/85c1f3e1-2f21-47ce-b77e-479712db3d25/immenseworld.jpg New Arrivals - An Immense World - by Ed Yong The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world. In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans who wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile’s scaly face is as sensitive as a lover’s fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries that remain unsolved. Funny, rigorous, and suffused with the joy of discovery, An Immense World takes us on what Marcel Proust called “the only true voyage . . . not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes.” FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-cabinet-of-dr-leng monthly 0.5 2023-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6f33b28a-d79e-49dd-8ae0-23d26fe06281/drleng.jpg New Arrivals - The Cabinet of Dr. Leng - by Preston & Child AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY Astoundingly, Constance has found a way back to the place of her origins, New York City in the late 1800s, leaping at the chance, although it means leaving the present forever. A DESPERATE OPPORTUNITY Constance sets off on a quest to prevent the events that lead to the deaths of her sister and brother. But along the road to redemption, Manhattan’s most infamous serial killer, Dr. Enoch Leng, lies in wait, ready to strike at the slightest provocation. UNIMAGINABLE ODDS Meanwhile, in contemporary New York, Pendergast feverishly searches for a way to reunite with Constance—but will he discover a way back to her before it’s too late? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/jurassic-world-dominion-eg9g6 monthly 0.5 2023-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/40b4d0bc-218e-438c-bb52-bd60f2525a73/till.jpg New Arrivals - Till - Till tells the story of Mamie Till-Mobley (Danielle Deadwyler), whose pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son Emmett Louis Till (Jalyn Hall) became a galvanizing moment that helped lead to the creation of the civil rights movement. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/it-starts-with-us monthly 0.5 2023-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/55fd9f1c-1002-497b-b63a-297d79294977/itstarts.jpg New Arrivals - It Starts With Us - by Colleen Hoover Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas's side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the "glorious and touching" (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestseller It Ends with Us. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/trust monthly 0.5 2023-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/17dbc05c-170e-4e8a-a1a3-0ccbb483e93a/trust.jpg New Arrivals - Trust - by Hernan Diaz Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit. Hernan Diaz’s TRUST elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one another—and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation. At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, TRUST engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/snow-horses monthly 0.5 2023-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1c0786af-d761-47be-a505-b44630d3a575/snowhorses.jpg New Arrivals - Snow Horses - by Patricia MacLachlan On the very last evening before the new year, when the snow is falling soft and thick, two black horses wait for the jingle of their sled. As they ride about town, they will spread light to their beloved neighbors, bidding farewell to the last night—and saying hello to the first morning. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/moon-rising monthly 0.5 2023-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/7d6b6829-d296-4eaf-8914-78725c1a8f4d/moonrising.jpg New Arrivals - Moon Rising: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphic Novel #6) - by Tui T. Sutherland Peace has come to Pyrrhia... for now. The war between the tribes is finally over, and now the dragonets of the prophecy have a plan for lasting peace: Jade Mountain Academy, a school that will gather dragonets from all the tribes and teach them to live together, perhaps even as friends. Moonwatcher isn't sure how she feels about school, however. Hidden in the rainforest for most of her life, the young NightWing has an awful secret. She can read minds, and even see the future. Living in a cave with dozens of other dragons is noisy, exhausting―and dangerous. In just a few days, Moon finds herself overwhelmed by her secret powers and bombarded by strange thoughts, including those of a mysterious dragon who might be a terrible enemy. And when someone starts attacking dragons within the academy, Moon has a choice to make: Stay hidden and safe? Or risk everything to save her new friends? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/odder monthly 0.5 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/742a6f2b-9aa8-4cb5-8770-ce4d7d8bc301/odder.jpg New Arrivals - Odder - by Katherine Applegate Meet Odder, the Queen of Play: Nobody has her moves. She doesn’t just swim to the bottom, she dive-bombs. She doesn’t just somersault, she triple-doughnuts. She doesn’t just ride the waves, she makes them. Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she’s known. She’s a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself―and about the humans who hope to save her. Inspired by the true story of a Monterey Bay Aquarium program that pairs orphaned otter pups with surrogate mothers, this poignant and humorous tale told in free verse examines bravery and healing through the eyes of one of nature’s most beloved and charming animals. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-nurses-secret monthly 0.5 2023-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/64d2b940-744a-47dc-be83-b68fa17bba80/nurse.jpg New Arrivals - The Nurse’s Secret - by Amanda Skenandore Based on Florence Nightingale’s nursing principles, Bellevue is the first school of its kind in the country. Where once nurses were assumed to be ignorant and unskilled, Bellevue prizes discipline, intellect, and moral character, and only young women of good breeding need apply. At first, Una balks at her prim classmates and the doctors’ endless commands. Yet life on the streets has prepared her for the horrors of injury and disease found on the wards, and she slowly gains friendship and self-respect. Just as she finds her footing, Una’s suspicions about a patient’s death put her at risk of exposure, and will force her to choose between her instinct for self-preservation, and exposing her identity in order to save others. Amanda Skenandore brings her medical expertise to a page-turning story that explores the evolution of modern nursing—including the grisly realities of nineteenth-century medicine—as seen through the eyes of an intriguing and dynamic heroine. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-extraordinary-life-of-an-ordinary-man monthly 0.5 2023-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8bbd1d03-3d18-47b3-a8f4-8b1fc0fceb0f/extraord.jpg New Arrivals - The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man : a Memoir - by Paul Newman In 1986, Paul Newman and his closest friend, screenwriter Stewart Stern, began an extraordinary project. Stuart was to compile an oral history, to have Newman’s family and friends and those who worked closely with him, talk about the actor’s life. And then Newman would work with Stewart and give his side of the story. The only stipulation was that anyone who spoke on the record had to be completely honest. That same stipulation applied to Newman himself. The project lasted five years. The result is an extraordinary memoir, culled from thousands of pages of transcripts. The book is insightful, revealing, surprising. Newman’s voice is powerful, sometimes funny, sometimes painful, always meeting that high standard of searing honesty. The additional voices—from childhood friends and Navy buddies, from family members and film and theater collaborators such as Tom Cruise, George Roy Hill, Martin Ritt, and John Huston—that run throughout add richness and color and context to the story Newman is telling. Newman’s often traumatic childhood is brilliantly detailed. He talks about his teenage insecurities, his early failures with women, his rise to stardom, his early rivals (Marlon Brando and James Dean), his first marriage, his drinking, his philanthropy, the death of his son Scott, his strong desire for his daughters to know and understand the truth about their father. Perhaps the most moving material in the book centers around his relationship with Joanne Woodward—their love for each other, his dependence on her, the way she shaped him intellectually, emotionally and sexually. The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man is revelatory and introspective, personal and analytical, loving and tender in some places, always complex and profound. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/spare monthly 0.5 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/8947f97f-91ce-42c2-8c38-e13a25ac5438/prince.jpg New Arrivals - Spare - by Prince Harry It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling—and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. Before losing his mother, twelve-year-old Prince Harry was known as the carefree one, the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir. Grief changed everything. He struggled at school, struggled with anger, with loneliness—and, because he blamed the press for his mother’s death, he struggled to accept life in the spotlight. At twenty-one, he joined the British Army. The discipline gave him structure, and two combat tours made him a hero at home. But he soon felt more lost than ever, suffering from post-traumatic stress and prone to crippling panic attacks. Above all, he couldn’t find true love. Then he met Meghan. The world was swept away by the couple’s cinematic romance and rejoiced in their fairy-tale wedding. But from the beginning, Harry and Meghan were preyed upon by the press, subjected to waves of abuse, racism, and lies. Watching his wife suffer, their safety and mental health at risk, Harry saw no other way to prevent the tragedy of history repeating itself but to flee his mother country. Over the centuries, leaving the Royal Family was an act few had dared. The last to try, in fact, had been his mother. . . . For the first time, Prince Harry tells his own story, chronicling his journey with raw, unflinching honesty. A landmark publication, Spare is full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/find-me-in-havana monthly 0.5 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/81cecec3-86f0-478c-b746-67dd74ce51eb/findme.jpg New Arrivals - Find Me in Havana - by Serena Burdick Cuba, 1936: When Estelita Rodriguez sings in a hazy Havana nightclub for the very first time, she is nine years old. From then on, that spotlight of adoration—from Havana to New York’s Copacabana and then Hollywood—becomes the one true accomplishment no one can take from her. Not the 1933 Cuban Revolution that drove her family into poverty. Not the revolving door of husbands or the fickle world of film. Thirty years later, her young adult daughter, Nina, is blindsided by her mother’s mysterious death. Seeking answers, the grieving Nina navigates the troubling, opulent memories of their life together and discovers how much Estelita sacrificed to live the American dream on her own terms. Based on true events and exclusive interviews with Nina Lopez, Estelita’s daughter, Find Me in Havana weaves two unforgettable voices into one extraordinary story that explores the unbreakable bond between mother and child, and the ever-changing landscape of self-discovery. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-road-to-marietta monthly 0.5 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/6ee89266-75bb-4e0d-b07f-b881deb9ac62/roadmar.jpg New Arrivals - The Road to Marietta - by Karla Jordan It’s the summer of 1930, August Violet Finnegan longs to be like other twelve year old girls, but she is not. She is the daughter of a moonshine runner, who decides that she is getting in the way of his money-making business. When August's father agrees to an unthinkable deal that will affect the rest of her life, she realizes she will need to grow up quickly in order to survive. A series of events will lead her to a place she hopes to call home. She isn't there long when she realizes that won't be the case at all. She learns the hard way that dark alleys in the city aren't the only place that bad people are to be avoided. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-bandit-queens monthly 0.5 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/a72f8218-7f91-44f6-871f-56f152bf0745/banditq.jpg New Arrivals - The Bandit Queens - by Parina Shroff Five years ago, Geeta lost her no-good husband. As in, she actually lost him—he walked out on her and she has no idea where he is. But in her remote village in India, rumor has it that Geeta killed him. And it’s a rumor that just won’t die. It turns out that being known as a “self-made” widow comes with some perks. No one messes with her, harasses her, or tries to control (ahem, marry) her. It’s even been good for business; no one dares to not buy her jewelry. Freedom must look good on Geeta, because now other women are asking for her“expertise,” making her an unwitting consultant for husband disposal. And not all of them are asking nicely. With Geeta’s dangerous reputation becoming a double-edged sword, she has to find a way to protect the life she’s built—but even the best-laid plans of would-be widows tend to go awry. What happens next sets in motion a chain of events that will change everything, not just for Geeta, but for all the women in their village. Filled with clever criminals, second chances, and wry and witty women, Parini Shroff’s The Bandit Queens is a razor-sharp debut of humor and heart that readers won’t soon forget. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/livid monthly 0.5 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c2fe6be2-51c9-4e2d-b9bc-56084d68fc9b/livid.jpg New Arrivals - Livid - by Patricia Cornwell Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is the reluctant star witness in a sensational murder trial when she receives shocking news. The judge’s sister has been found dead. At first glance, it appears to be a home invasion, but then why was nothing stolen, and why is the garden strewn with dead plants and insects? Although there is no apparent cause of death, Scarpetta recognizes telltale signs of the unthinkable, and she knows the worst is yet to come. The forensic pathologist finds herself pitted against a powerful force that returns her to the past, and her time to catch the killer is running out . . . https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/magpie-murders monthly 0.5 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/b8872a45-09c7-479e-a213-417720037f76/magpie.jpg New Arrivals - Magpie Murders https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/jurassic-world-dominion monthly 0.5 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/85923b33-4c99-40b6-a43c-166b84f236d8/jurassic.jpg New Arrivals - Jurassic World Dominion https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/and-just-like-that monthly 0.5 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/89f4cdab-59a4-49ce-b34b-75c42af832b4/andjust.jpg New Arrivals - And Just Like That https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-gilded-age monthly 0.5 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/766cbcc0-559b-4bcf-9ac0-54f67e7a04b1/gildedage.jpg New Arrivals - The Gilded Age https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/night-shift monthly 0.5 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/c784d9ea-3d5d-46f1-af65-7d8271a4a473/nightshift.jpg New Arrivals - Night Shift - by Robin Cook Colleagues-turned-spouses Dr. Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton already have their plates full with demanding forensic pathology work and family pressures. The last thing they need is the sudden death of a colleague. Yet when Laurie’s apparently vital and healthy longtime friend Dr. Sue Passero dies mysteriously in the hopsital parking garage, an autopsy is required, and it falls uncomfortably under Laurie’s purview as the chief medical examiner. So when Laurie asks Jack to take special care with the case, he can hardly refuse. With his curiosity sparked by an inconclusive autopsy, the indefatigable Jack is compelled to resolve the case at hand, and sets out to investigate on-site at Manhattan Memorial Hospital, even though it means blatantly defying the Office of Chief Medical Examiner’s rules. What started out as an inquiry into Sue’s tragic passing soon turns into a deadly and dangerous chess game between Jack and the clever and deranged killer, who might just administer another lethal blow if Jack isn’t careful. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-stolen-book-of-evelyn-aubrey monthly 0.5 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672436974168-UYKON4LCMD359VRP9KZ9/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey - by Serena Burdick What if you could write a new ending for yourself? England, 1898. When Evelyn first married the famous novelist William Aubrey, she was dazzled by his brilliance. But their newlywed bliss is brief when William is gripped by writer’s block, and he becomes jealous of Evelyn’s writing talent. When he commits the ultimate betrayal—stealing a draft of her novel and passing it off as his own—Evelyn decides to write her way out of their unhappy marriage. California, 2006. Abigail always wondered about her father, his identity forever lost when her mother unexpectedly died. Or so Abigail thought, until she stumbled upon his photo and a message that her great-great-grandmother was the author Evelyn Aubrey, leading Abigail on a journey to England in search for answers. There, she learns of Evelyn’s shocking disappearance and how London society believed she was murdered. But from what she uncovers about Evelyn, Abigail believes her brilliant great-great-grandmother had another plot up her sleeve. Rich in atmosphere and emotion, The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey tells the story of literary secrets, a family curse and the lengths women will go to take charge of their future. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/secluded-cabin-sleeps-six monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672436980083-CL10NL05F6LQHIJXS71J/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six - by Lisa Unger What could be more restful than a weekend getaway with family and friends? An isolated luxury cabin in the woods, spectacular views, a hot tub and a personal chef. Hannah’s generous brother found the listing online. The reviews are stellar. It'll be three couples on this trip with good food, good company and lots of R & R. But the dreamy weekend is about to turn into a nightmare. A deadly storm is brewing. The rental host seems just a little too present. The personal chef reveals that their beautiful house has a spine-tingling history. And the friends have their own complicated past, with secrets that run blood deep. How well does Hannah know her brother, her own husband? Can she trust her best friend? Meanwhile, someone is determined to ruin the weekend, looking to exact a payback for deeds long buried. Who is the stranger among them? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/two-degrees monthly 0.5 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672436983327-TVLONT36NZ8RD598X4EQ/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Two Degrees - by Alan Gratz Fire. Ice. Flood. Three climate disasters. Four kids fighting for their lives. Akira is riding her horse in the California woods when a wildfire sparks--and grows scarily fast. How can she make it to safety when there are flames everywhere? Owen and his best friend, George, are used to seeing polar bears on the snowy Canadian tundra. But when one bear gets way too close for comfort, do the boys have any chance of surviving? Natalie hunkers down at home as a massive hurricane barrels toward Miami. When the floodwaters crash into her house, Natalie is dragged out into the storm--with nowhere to hide. Akira, Owen, George, and Natalie are all swept up in the devastating effects of climate change. They are also connected in ways that will shock them--and could alter their destinies forever. Bestselling author Alan Gratz is at the top of his game, shining a light on our increasingly urgent climate crisis while spinning an action-packed story that will keep readers hooked--and inspire them to take action. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-boys-from-biloxi monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672436988650-7AA3AKZKOFU4BA2RFGYO/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Boys from Biloxi - by John Grisham For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends, as well as Little League all-stars. But as teenagers, their lives took them in different directions. Keith’s father became a legendary prosecutor, determined to “clean up the Coast.” Hugh’s father became the “Boss” of Biloxi’s criminal underground. Keith went to law school and followed in his father’s footsteps. Hugh preferred the nightlife and worked in his father’s clubs. The two families were headed for a showdown, one that would happen in a courtroom. Life itself hangs in the balance in The Boys from Biloxi, a sweeping saga rich with history and with a large cast of unforgettable characters. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-twist-of-a-knife monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672436991795-YEEU9NASO65DY4GL7C6T/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Twist of a Knife - by Anthony Horowitz “I’m sorry but the answer’s no.” Reluctant author, Anthony Horowitz, has had enough. He tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne that after three books he’s splitting and their deal is over. The truth is that Anthony has other things on his mind. His new play, a thriller called Mindgame, is about to open at the Vaudeville Theater in London’s West End. Not surprisingly, Hawthorne declines a ticket to the opening night. The play is panned by the critics. In particular, Sunday Times critic Margaret Throsby gives it a savage review, focusing particularly on the writing. The next day, Throsby is stabbed in the heart with an ornamental dagger which turns out to belong to Anthony, and has his fingerprints all over it. Anthony is arrested by an old enemy . . . Detective Inspector Cara Grunshaw. She still carries a grudge from her failure to solve the case described in the second Hawthorne adventure, The Sentence is Death, and blames Anthony. Now she’s out for revenge. Thrown into prison and fearing for both his personal future and his writing career, Anthony is the prime suspect in Throsby’s murder and when a second theatre critic is found to have died in mysterious circumstances, the net closes in. Ever more desperate, he realizes that only one man can help him. But will Hawthorne take the call? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/one-last-chance monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672436994635-RN1UNENQ2AKZV7LIZ2ZD/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - One Last Chance - by Kat Martin Former Green Beret Edge Logan has made a new life for himself at Nighthawk Security in Denver, using his finely honed skills to neutralize threats of all kinds. When he overhears friend and fellow agent Skye Delaney discussing a new case involving her missing sister and a mysterious cult, he offers himself as backup. With her own military background, Skye is gutsy and more than capable, but a cult like Children of the Sun is too risky for anyone to investigate alone. Skye is grateful for Edge’s experience, even though she is aware of the attraction simmering between them. Her battle scars make her reluctant to get involved with anyone, much less a coworker—even a warrior like Edge. But infiltrating the cult’s compound is more complicated than expected—and something much more sinister than worship is clearly going on behind its walls. As the pair works against the clock to unearth high-stakes secrets, the personal barriers between them begin to crumble. Together, can they unmask the face of evil before their time runs out? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/long-shadows monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672436997137-K6D6LIKU5L3QDKO55F7B/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Long Shadows - by David Baldacci When Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide, the case appears straightforward: A federal judge and her bodyguard have been found dead, the judge’s face sporting a blindfold with two eye holes crudely cut out, a clear sign that she’d made one too many enemies over her years on the bench. What at first seems cut and dry is anything but: Not only did the judge have more enemies than Decker can count—from violent gang members, drug dealers, and smugglers to a resentful ex-husband—but the bodyguard presents additional conundrums that muddy the waters even further. Who was the real target in this vicious attack? Meanwhile, Decker must contend with a series of unsettling changes, including a new partner—Special Agent Frederica “Freddie” White—and a devastating event that brings Decker’s own tragic past back to the present . . . and forces him to reckon with his future. As potential witnesses start disappearing, Decker and White are inexorably pulled down a twisted tunnel of secrets, crimes, and scandal—at the end of which lies Decker’s deadliest threat yet. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/knitting-for-dogs monthly 0.5 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672436999572-L8AWQIH7PVAPVW9GNV17/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Knitting for Dogs - by Laurel Molk Max is a big dog who lives with Izzy, a medium-sized girl, who has big ideas. Izzy can build anything—a birdhouse, a wooden swing, a tent, and even a catapult that really works. So when Izzy takes up knitting, she expects to be able to knit anything. But trying to make a sweater seems impossible. While scarves and hats knit up quickly, her sweaters always come out too big, too small, or with too many mistakes. As Izzy’s knitting nightmares pile up, it takes a trip with Max to the dog park to figure out what she can do with them. Maybe these aren’t mistakes after all! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/youd-be-home-now monthly 0.5 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437002012-WJP43UCZO4F5ZG8MSW9G/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - You'd be Home Now - by Kathleen Glasgow For all of Emory's life she's been told who she is. In town she's the rich one--the great-great-granddaughter of the mill's founder. At school she's hot Maddie Ward's younger sister. And at home, she's the good one, her stoner older brother Joey's babysitter. Everything was turned on its head, though, when she and Joey were in the car accident that killed Candy MontClaire. The car accident that revealed just how bad Joey's drug habit was. Four months later, Emmy's junior year is starting, Joey is home from rehab, and the entire town of Mill Haven is still reeling from the accident. Everyone's telling Emmy who she is, but so much has changed, how can she be the same person? Or was she ever that person at all? Mill Haven wants everyone to live one story, but Emmy's beginning to see that people are more than they appear. Her brother, who might not be "cured," the popular guy who lives next door, and most of all, many "ghostie" addicts who haunt the edges of the town. People spend so much time telling her who she is--it might be time to decide for herself. A journey of one sister, one brother, one family, to finally recognize and love each other for who they are, not who they are supposed to be, You'd Be Home Now is Kathleen Glasgow's glorious and heartbreaking story about the opioid crisis, and how it touches all of us. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-girl-in-the-castle monthly 0.5 2024-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437004500-K6CDVFQ2ISTHC1XXXYS7/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Girl in the Castle - by James Patterson My name is Hannah Dory and I need you to believe me NOW: Hannah Doe is brought to Belman Psych, kicking and screaming, told she is suffering from hallucinations and delusions. 1347: Hannah Dory and her village are starving to death in a brutal winter. Hannah seeks out food and salvation in the baron's castle. If she is caught stealing, she will surely hang. NOW: Hannah knows the truth: she is Hannah Doe and Hannah Dory, and she must return to the past before it's too late to save her sister. Can Jordan, the Abnormal-Psych student who seems to truly care, be the one to finally help her? Jordan isn't sure what to believe, and Hannah has even bigger problems: if she doesn't make it back, her sister will die, but if she keeps going back, she might never escape. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-myth-of-normal monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437006657-WG0ZFICDWWDSEJFBI00L/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness &amp; Healing in a Toxic Culture - by Gabor Maté In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure. In Europe, hypertension is diagnosed in more than 30 percent of the population. And everywhere, adolescent mental illness is on the rise. So what is really “normal” when it comes to health? Over four decades of clinical experience, Maté has come to recognize the prevailing understanding of “normal” as false, neglecting the roles that trauma and stress, and the pressures of modern-day living, exert on our bodies and our minds at the expense of good health. For all our expertise and technological sophistication, Western medicine often fails to treat the whole person, ignoring how today’s culture stresses the body, burdens the immune system, and undermines emotional balance. Now Maté brings his perspective to the great untangling of common myths about what makes us sick, connects the dots between the maladies of individuals and the declining soundness of society—and offers a compassionate guide for health and healing. Cowritten with his son Daniel, The Myth Of Normal is Maté’s most ambitious and urgent book yet. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/and-there-was-light monthly 0.5 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437008987-5CY36J1UEB8RWB1URGU5/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle - by Jon Meacham A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations. At once familiar and elusive, Lincoln tends to be seen as the greatest of American presidents—a remote icon—or as a politician driven more by calculation than by conviction. This illuminating new portrait gives us a very human Lincoln—an imperfect man whose moral antislavery commitment, essential to the story of justice in America, began as he grew up in an antislavery Baptist community; who insisted that slavery was a moral evil; and who sought, as he put it, to do right as God gave him to see the right. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination in 1865: his rise, his self-education, his loves, his bouts of depression, his political failures, his deepening faith, and his persistent conviction that slavery must end. In a nation shaped by the courage of the enslaved of the era and by the brave witness of Black Americans, Lincoln’s story illustrates the ways and means of politics in a democracy, the roots and durability of racism, and the capacity of conscience to shape events. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/yetis-are-the-worst monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437011380-EZK2DVSTVRFV66FRFI0X/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Yetis are the Worst - by Alex Willan Gilbert the Goblin is the first to admit that he was, ahem, mistaken—unicorns actually throw the best tea parties, and dragons make delicious ice cream soup. This time, though, he can absolutely confirm that YETIS ARE THE WORST! Sure, they may seem cool and mysterious, but once you meet one, he’s CERTAIN they’re not all they’re cracked up to be! And that’s what Gilbert plans to do: meet a yeti. That is, if he can find one…but how hard can that be? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/honeybee-the-busy-life-of-apis-melifera monthly 0.5 2023-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437013656-K15RKRQ3RXQQ3KMB64ST/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera - by Candace Fleming A tiny honeybee emerges through the wax cap of her cell. Driven to protect and take care of her hive, she cleans the nursery and feeds the larvae and the queen. But is she strong enough to fly? Not yet! Apis builds wax comb to store honey, and transfers pollen from other bees into the storage. She defends the hive from invaders. And finally, she begins her new life as an adventurer. The confining walls of the hive fall away as Apis takes to the air, finally free, in a brilliant double-gatefold illustration where the clear blue sky is full of promise-- and the wings of dozens of honeybees, heading out in search of nectar to bring back to the hive. Eric Rohmann's exquisitely detailed illustrations bring the great outdoors into your hands in this poetically written tribute to the hardworking honeybee. Award-winning author Candace Fleming describes the life cycle of the honeybee in accessible, beautiful language. Similar in form and concept to the Sibert and Orbis Pictus award book Giant Squid, Honeybee also features a stunning gatefold and an essay on the plight of honeybees. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-big-book-of-amazing-lego-creations monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437016096-M44LRIQDU3KXU6AWRKLG/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Big Book of Amazing LEGO Creations - by Sarah Dees This huge collection of action-packed projects will bring fresh life to your tubs of bricks and get LEGO® lovers of all levels inspired to build for days. Dive into your own LEGO® world filled with new and amazing creations―from sleek, aerodynamic race cars to fairytale creatures, secret spy headquarters and everything in between. Step-by-step pictures combined with detailed instructions and helpful parts lists make Sarah’s projects accessible for tinkerers of any age. Explore far and wide with an adventurer ATV, military humvee or a mini animal safari. Meet mischievous trolls and a friendly spiketailed dragon. Build your family’s dream seaside vacation, complete with a surf shack, ice cream stand and pirate ship. Construct a customizable bedroom that looks just like your own or the classroom in your school. Silly stories and scene suggestions will inspire countless hours of play, making this the perfect gift for kids who crave variety in their LEGO® building. There’s no limit to what you can imagine and create with this awesome collection! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dawn-in-the-dooryard monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437018520-9KHAEBSD7J9G02A7NQ2V/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Dawn in the Dooryard - by Timothy Cotton Following his best-selling The Detective in the Dooryard, Tim Cotton brings a fresh set of keen observations to his new collection. Drawing upon more than thirty years as Maine police officer--and even longer as a born-and-bred Mainer--Cotton shares stories about life--in Maine and elsewhere--about his experiences, and about the people he's met along the way. With generous portions of wry Yankee wit and sage wisdom, this new collection will leave you laughing, crying, or maybe both at once. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-quarry-girls monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437020721-0VAGIMX4VZBS5UOWWU55/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Quarry Girls - by Jess Lourey Minnesota, 1977. For the teens of one close-knit community, summer means late-night swimming parties at the quarry, the county fair, and venturing into the tunnels beneath the city. But for two best friends, it’s not all fun and games. Heather and Brenda have a secret. Something they saw in the dark. Something they can’t forget. They’ve decided to never tell a soul. But their vow is tested when their friend disappears―the second girl to vanish in a week. And yet the authorities are reluctant to investigate. Heather is terrified that the missing girls are connected to what she and Brenda stumbled upon that night. Desperately searching for answers on her own, she learns that no one in her community is who they seem to be. Not the police, not the boys she met at the quarry, not even her parents. But she can’t stop digging because she knows those girls are in danger. She also knows she’s next. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/lyle-lyle-crocodile monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437023575-EOAEA6Q60077P6L31KTV/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Lyly, Lyle, Crocodile https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/beast monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437026012-W6RHUCF8RNTXX2PEF7K3/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Beast https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/call-jane monthly 0.5 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437028473-FYY2CBOJ7S3XUXRD2SE1/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Call Jane https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ghosts monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437030892-WILF3T8TFO9L322WEA8L/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Ghosts https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ticket-to-paradise monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437033536-4P6PSVTVRFO17LC2480K/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Ticket to Paradise https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-good-house monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437036635-WQE0K8HT74OVB5N0S3WM/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Good House https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/1883 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437039170-UWUELSZJFVY8Z85F5435/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - 1883 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/yellowstone monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437041646-YSJ9T0201ZXWIDACYE97/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Yellowstone: Seasons 1-4 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-white-lotus monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437043924-CLJG0278F1BFAO7IXI6F/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The White Lotus https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/snowed-in-for-christmas monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437046312-DDHYO6LLWP560EGNZHB8/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Snowed in for Christmas - by Sarah Morgan A family gathering This Christmas the Miller siblings have one goal—to avoid their well-meaning family’s endless stream of prying questions. Ross, Alice and Clemmie have secrets that they don’t intend to share, and they are relying on each other to deflect attention. An uninvited guest Lucy Clarke is facing a Christmas alone and the prospect of losing her job. Unless she can win a major piece of business from Ross Miller, the season promises to be anything but festive. She’ll just deliver her proposal to his family home and then leave. After all, she wouldn’t want to intrude on the Miller family’s perfect Christmas. A Christmas to remember When Lucy appears on the Miller family’s snow-covered Highland doorstep, she's mistaken for Ross’s girlfriend. By the time the confusion is cleared up, they're snowed in—she can’t leave, even if she wants to! But does she want to? As secrets spill out like presents from an overstuffed stocking and the chemistry between her and Ross ignites, this is going to be either Lucy's worst Christmas ever or the best mistake of her life. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/slow-birding monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437049494-SPRETOG2F7QR8849589T/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Slow Birding - by Joan Strassmann Many birders travel far and wide to popular birding destinations to catch sight of rare or “exotic” birds. In Slow Birding, evolutionary biologist Joan E. Strassmann introduces readers to the joys of birding right where they are. In this inspiring guide to the art of slow birding, Strassmann tells colorful stories of the most common birds to be found in the United States—birds we often see but might not have considered deeply before. For example, northern cardinals thrive in the city, where they are free from predators. White brows on a male white-throated sparrow indicate that he is likely to be a philanderer. This essential guide to the fascinating world of common, everyday birds features: detailed portraits of individual bird species and the scientists who have discovered and observed them advice and guidance on what to look for when slow birding, so that you can uncover clues to the reasons behind specific bird behaviors bird-focused activities that will open your eyes more to the fascinating world of birds Slow Birding is the perfect guide for the birder looking to appreciate the beauty of the birds right in their own backyard, observing keenly how their behaviors change from day to day and season to season. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/musical-tables monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437051884-MK7YGU0OS6AG1A630JCN/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Musical Tables - by Billy Collins You can spot a Billy Collins poem immediately. The amiable voice, the light touch, the sudden turn at the end. He "puts the ‘fun’ back in profundity,” says poet Alice Fulton. In his own words, his poems tend to “begin in Kansas and end in Oz.” Now “America’s favorite poet” (The Wall Street Journal) has found a new form for his unique poetic style: the small poem. Here Collins writes about his trademark themes of nature, animals, poetry, mortality, absurdity, and love—all in a handful of lines. Neither haiku nor limerick, the small poem pushes to an extreme poetry’s famed power to condense emotional and conceptual meaning. Inspired by the small poetry of writers as diverse as William Carlos Williams, W.S. Merwin, Kay Ryan, and Charles Simic, and written with Collins’s recognizable wit and wisdom, the poems of Musical Tables show one of our greatest poets channeling his unique voice into a new phase of his exceptional career. 3:00 AM Only my hand is asleep, but it’s a start. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-light-we-carry monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437054133-23D8ZBKCSTSWKJ5TRVLO/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Light We Carry - by Michelle Obama There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux. In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with readers, considering the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What tools do we use to address feelings of self-doubt or helplessness? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much? Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt to change and overcome various obstacles—the earned wisdom that helps her continue to “become.” She details her most valuable practices, like “starting kind,” “going high,” and assembling a “kitchen table” of trusted friends and mentors. With trademark humor, candor, and compassion, she also explores issues connected to race, gender, and visibility, encouraging readers to work through fear, find strength in community, and live with boldness. “When we are able to recognize our own light, we become empowered to use it,” writes Michelle Obama. A rewarding blend of powerful stories and profound advice that will ignite conversation, The Light We Carry inspires readers to examine their own lives, identify their sources of gladness, and connect meaningfully in a turbulent world. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/lessons-in-chemistry monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437056491-HQUVUK4XLI52IVCP6O1R/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Lessons in Chemistry - by Bonnie Garmus Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results. But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo. Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/going-rogue monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437060335-TYIZ5Q4X80A1I0AQ7QJ7/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Going Rogue - by Janet Evanovich .Monday mornings aren’t supposed to be fun, but they should be predictable. However, on this particular Monday, Stephanie Plum knows that something is amiss when she turns up for work at Vinnie’s Bail Bonds to find that longtime office manager Connie Rosolli, who is as reliable as the tides in Atlantic City, hasn’t shown up. Stephanie’s worst fears are confirmed when she gets a call from Connie’s abductor. He says he will only release her in exchange for a mysterious coin that a recently murdered man left as collateral for his bail. Unfortunately, this coin, which should be in the office—just like Connie—is nowhere to be found. The quest to discover the coin, learn its value, and save Connie will require the help of Stephanie’s Grandma Mazur, her best pal Lula, her boyfriend Morelli, and hunky security expert Ranger. As they get closer to unraveling the reasons behind Connie’s kidnapping, Connie’s captor grows more threatening and soon Stephanie has no choice but to throw caution to the wind, follow her instincts, and go rogue. Full of surprises, thrills, and humor, Going Rogue reveals a new side of Stephanie Plum, and shows Janet Evanovich at her scorching, riotous best. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/demon-copperhead monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437064518-RAKG6GTHXJY17F2JEMAF/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Demon Copperhead - by Barbara Kingsolver Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities. Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/desert-star monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437068375-3GJ8J8T7WF2XY010GQIW/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Desert Star - by Michael Connelly LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to hunt the brutal killer who is Bosch’s “white whale”—a man responsible for the murder of an entire family. A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape. But after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her own ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, leaving “the Late Show” to rebuild and lead the cold case unit at the elite Robbery-Homicide Division. For years, Harry Bosch has been working a case that haunts him—the murder of an entire family by a psychopath who still walks free. Ballard makes Bosch an offer: come volunteer as an investigator in her new Open-Unsolved Unit, and he can pursue his “white whale” with the resources of the LAPD behind him. First priority for Ballard is to clear the unsolved rape and murder of a sixteen-year-old girl. The decades-old case is essential to the councilman who supported re-forming the unit, and who could shutter it again—the victim was his sister. When Ballard gets a “cold hit” connecting the killing to a similar crime, proving that a serial predator has been at work in the city for years, the political pressure has never been higher. To keep momentum going, she has to pull Bosch off his own investigation, the case that is the consummation of his lifelong mission. The two must put aside old resentments and new tensions to run to ground not one but two dangerous killers who have operated with brash impunity. In what may be his most gripping and profoundly moving book yet, Michael Connelly shows once again why he has been dubbed “one of the greatest crime writers of all time” (Ryan Steck, Crimereads) https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/confidence-man monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437070736-7996P1IODCAJ6DVWHK9D/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Confidence Man - by Maggie Haberman From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidency like no other journalist, Confidence Man is a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that chronicles his life and its meaning from his rise in New York City to his tortured post-presidency. Few journalists working today have covered Donald Trump more extensively than Maggie Haberman. And few understand him and his motivations better. Now, demonstrating her majestic command of this story, Haberman reveals in full the depth of her understanding of the 45th president himself, and of what the Trump phenomenon means. Interviews with hundreds of sources and numerous interviews over the years with Trump himself portray a complicated and often contradictory historical figure. Capable of kindness but relying on casual cruelty as it suits his purposes. Pugnacious. Insecure. Lonely. Vindictive. Menacing. Smarter than his critics contend and colder and more calculating than his allies believe. A man who embedded himself in popular culture, galvanizing support for a run for high office that he began preliminary spadework for 30 years ago, to ultimately become a president who pushed American democracy to the brink. The through-line of Trump’s life and his presidency is the enduring question of what is in it for him or what he needs to say to survive short increments of time in the pursuit of his own interests. Confidence Man is also, inevitably, about the world that produced such a singular character, giving rise to his career and becoming his first stage. It is also about a series of relentlessly transactional relationships. The ones that shaped him most were with girlfriends and wives, with Roy Cohn, with George Steinbrenner, with Mike Tyson and Don King and Roger Stone, with city and state politicians like Robert Morgenthau and Rudy Giuliani, with business partners, with prosecutors, with the media, and with the employees who toiled inside what they commonly called amongst themselves the “Trump Disorganization.” https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-christmas-spirit monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437073041-8CDA7CB8VKU6E9IS3JHQ/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Christmas Spirit - by Debbie Macomber Peter Armstrong and Hank Colfax are best friends, but their lives couldn't be more different. Peter, the local pastor who is dedicated to his community, spending time visiting the flock, attending meetings, and, with the holiday season approaching, preparing for the Christmas service and live nativity. As a bartender, Hank serves a much different customer base at his family-owned tavern, including a handful of lonely regulars and the local biker gang. When Peter scoffs that Hank has it easy compared to him, the two decide to switch jobs until Christmas Eve. To their surprise, the responsibilities of a bartender and a pastor are similar, but taking on the other's work is more difficult than either Peter or Hank expected. As the two begin to see each other in a new light--and each discovers a new love to cherish--their lives are forever changed. In The Christmas Spirit, Debbie Macomber celebrates the true meaning of the holidays and the inclusive community spirit that binds us all. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/cheap-land-colorado monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437075241-FIZH0MGBNY0PXBA95ASN/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Cheap Land Colorado - by Ted Conover In May 2017, Ted Conover went to Colorado to explore firsthand a rural way of life that is about living cheaply, on your own land—and keeping clear of the mainstream. The failed subdivisions of the enormous San Luis Valley make this possible. Five-acre lots on the high prairie can be had for five thousand dollars, sometimes less. Conover volunteered for a local group trying to prevent homelessness during the bitter winters. He encountered an unexpected diversity: veterans with PTSD, families homeschooling, addicts young and old, gay people, people of color, lovers of guns and marijuana, people with social anxiety—most of them spurning charity and aiming, and sometimes failing, to be self-sufficient. And more than a few predicting they’ll be the last ones standing when society collapses. Conover bought his own five acres and immersed himself for parts of four years in the often contentious culture of the far margins. He found many who dislike the government but depend on its subsidies; who love their space but nevertheless find themselves in each other’s business; who are generous but wary of thieves; who endure squalor but appreciate beauty. In their struggles to survive and get along, they tell us about an America riven by difference where the edges speak more and more loudly to the mainstream https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/jerry-marge-go-large monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437077543-VGC9PXRD3GX01CUPCNLT/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Jerry &amp; Marge Go Large https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/anywhere-you-run monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437081353-5VK70M49SDYWPR8MR2OT/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Anywhere You Run - by Wands Morris It’s the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. Against this backdrop, twenty-one year old Violet Richards finds herself in more trouble than she’s ever been in her life. Suffering a brutal attack of her own, she kills the man responsible. But with the color of Violet’s skin, there is no way she can escape Jim Crow justice in Jackson, Mississippi. Before anyone can find the body or finger her as the killer, she decides to run. With the help of her white beau, Violet escapes. But desperation and fear leads her to hide out in the small rural town of Chillicothe, Georgia, unaware that danger may be closer than she thinks. Back in Jackson, Marigold, Violet’s older sister, has dreams of attending law school. Working for the Mississippi Summer Project, she has been trying to use her smarts to further the cause of the Black vote. But Marigold is in a different kind of trouble: she’s pregnant and unmarried. After news of the murder brings the police to her door, Marigold sees no choice but to flee Jackson too. She heads North seeking the promise of a better life and no more segregation. But has she made a terrible choice that threatens her life and that of her unborn child? Two sisters on the run—one from the law, the other from social shame. What they don’t realize is that there’s a man hot on their trail. This man has his own brand of dark secrets and a disturbing motive for finding the sisters that is unknown to everyone but him . . . https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/top-gun-maverick monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437084678-FQ0DF177WFK3LP4JIRIO/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Top Gun : Maverick https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/friends-lovers-and-the-big-terrible-thing-a-memoir monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437087307-DH9XRVXGQW6QALUOR6DF/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing : A Memoir - by Matthew Perry The BELOVED STAR OF FRIENDS takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this “CANDID, DARKLY FUNNY...POIGNANT” memoir (The New York Times) A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK by Time, Associated Press, Goodreads, USA Today, and more! “Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. My friends call me Matty. And I should be dead.” So begins the riveting story of acclaimed actor Matthew Perry, taking us along on his journey from childhood ambition to fame to addiction and recovery in the aftermath of a life-threatening health scare. Before the frequent hospital visits and stints in rehab, there was five-year-old Matthew, who traveled from Montreal to Los Angeles, shuffling between his separated parents; fourteen-year-old Matthew, who was a nationally ranked tennis star in Canada; twenty-four-year-old Matthew, who nabbed a coveted role as a lead cast member on the talked-about pilot then called Friends Like Us. . . and so much more. In an extraordinary story that only he could tell―and in the heartfelt, hilarious, and warmly familiar way only he could tell it―Matthew Perry lays bare the fractured family that raised him (and also left him to his own devices), the desire for recognition that drove him to fame, and the void inside him that could not be filled even by his greatest dreams coming true. But he also details the peace he’s found in sobriety and how he feels about the ubiquity of Friends, sharing stories about his castmates and other stars he met along the way. Frank, self-aware, and with his trademark humor, Perry vividly depicts his lifelong battle with addiction and what fueled it despite seemingly having it all. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing is an unforgettable memoir that is both intimate and eye-opening―as well as a hand extended to anyone struggling with sobriety. Unflinchingly honest, moving, and uproariously funny, this is the book fans have been waiting for. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/as-the-wicked-watch monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437089801-8SN1TZWHOVPE2XF3QCA6/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - As the Wicked Watch - by Tamron Hall e first in a thrilling new series from Emmy Award-winning TV Host and Journalist Tamron Hall, As The Wicked Watch follows a reporter as she unravels the disturbing mystery around the deaths of two young Black women, the work of a serial killer terrorizing Chicago. When crime reporter Jordan Manning leaves her hometown in Texas to take a job at a television station in Chicago, she’s one step closer to her dream: a coveted anchor chair on a national network. Jordan is smart and aggressive, with unabashed star-power, and often the only woman of color in the newsroom. Her signature? Arriving first on the scene—in impractical designer stilettos. Armed with a master’s degree in forensic science and impeccable instincts, Jordan has been able to balance her dueling motivations: breaking every big story—and giving a voice to the voiceless. From her time in Texas, she’s covered the vilest of human behaviors but nothing has prepared her for Chicago. Jordan is that rare breed of a journalist who can navigate a crime scene as well as she can a newsroom—often noticing what others tend to miss. Again and again, she is called to cover the murders of Black women, many of them sexually assaulted, most brutalized, and all of them quickly forgotten. All until Masey James—the story that Jordan just can’t shake, despite all efforts. A 15-year-old girl whose body was found in an abandoned lot, Masey has come to represent for Jordan all of the frustration and anger that her job often forces her to repress. Putting the rest of her work and her fraying personal life aside, Jordan does everything she can to give the story the coverage it desperately requires, and that a missing Black child would so rarely get. There’s a serial killer on the loose, Jordan believes, and he’s hiding in plain sight. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-man-who-invented-christmas monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437096412-TDSVJT78M0VB2HK675B3/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Man Who Invented Christmas - by Les Standiford As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world—now a major motion picture. Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol himself. He worried it might be the end of his career as a novelist. The book immediately caused a sensation. And it breathed new life into a holiday that had fallen into disfavor, undermined by lingering Puritanism and the cold modernity of the Industrial Revolution. It was a harsh and dreary age, in desperate need of spiritual renewal, ready to embrace a book that ended with blessings for one and all. With warmth, wit, and an infusion of Christmas cheer, Les Standiford whisks us back to Victorian England, its most beloved storyteller, and the birth of the Christmas we know best. The Man Who Invented Christmas is a rich and satisfying read for Scrooges and sentimentalists alike. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dreaming-darkly monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437098707-2OI8FHS4A6NO3SZGN0XT/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Dreaming Darkly - by Caitlin Kittredge This teen gothic mystery novel, perfect for fans of Madeleine Roux and Lisa Maxwell, takes readers to the cold, creepy island of Darkhaven, where a girl with unexplained blackouts grapples with secrets from her dead mother’s past and a legacy of murders that have been committed by her family. Ivy Bloodgood’s mother is dead, and she should probably be sad about it. But she isn’t. Myra Bloodgood was a manipulative personality who never told the truth—about where she came from, who Ivy’s father was, or why they were living their lives on the run. Now that Ivy has been sent to the family estate on Darkhaven, an island off the New England coast, she is forced to reckon with her mother’s past. Ivy can tell right away there are long-held family secrets buried within these walls, but when she wakes up from one of her nightmares covered in someone else’s blood, Ivy fears that whatever demons her mother battled while she was alive have come to roost in her own mind. Scared that she can no longer trust what she sees, Ivy seeks the help of a boy who thinks her episodes are connected to the sordid history of Darkhaven—but what they don’t know might kill them both. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/triple-cross monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437101779-JUFOG9Y5AKVUT0LKNTO3/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Triple Cross - by James Patterson A precise killer, he always moves under the cover of darkness, flawlessly triggering no alarms, leaving no physical evidence. Cross and Sampson aren’t the only ones investigating. Also in on this most intriguing case is the world’s bestselling true-crime author, who sees patterns everyone else misses. The writer, Thomas Tull, calls the Family Man murders the perfect crime story. He believes the killer may never be caught. Cross knows there is no perfect crime. And he’s going to hunt down the Family Man no matter what it takes. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/abbott-elementary-the-complete-first-season monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437104629-DN3PC06IL078QZ2Z59NF/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Abbott Elementary : The Complete First Season https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/busy-betty monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437106869-F8CJ5FZJJFVPYGRU0NZ6/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Busy Betty - by Reese Witherspoon Busy Betty has always been busy . . . even when she was just a baby! When Betty gives Frank a big hug, she realizes he needs a bath, PRONTO! Her best friend, Mae, is coming over, and Betty can’t have the smelliest dog in the whole world! But giving Frank a bath is harder than she thought and just when everything seems impossible, with Mae’s help, Betty learns she can accomplish anything with perseverance, teamwork, and one great idea. From Reese Witherspoon comes a smart and larger-than-life character who encourages young readers to celebrate what makes them unique and realize that anything is possible! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/shrines-of-gaiety monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437109428-M7SO9WMN7RREB6WIRU5D/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Shrines of Gaiety - by Kate Atkinson 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. The notorious queen of this glittering world is Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children, including the enigmatic eldest, Niven, whose character has been forged in the crucible of the Somme. But success breeds enemies, and Nellie’s empire faces threats from without and within. For beneath the dazzle of Soho’s gaiety, there is a dark underbelly, a world in which it is all too easy to become lost. With her unique Dickensian flair, Kate Atkinson gives us a window in a vanished world. Slyly funny, brilliantly observant, and ingeniously plotted, Shrines of Gaiety showcases the myriad talents that have made Atkinson one of the most lauded writers of our time. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/mad-honey monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437112684-HG7NITL9QHNYARR2GOZN/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Mad Honey - by Jodi Picoult Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined that she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in and taking over her father’s beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start. And for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. Their paths cross when Asher falls for the new girl in school, and Lily can’t help but fall for him, too. With Ash, she feels happy for the first time. Yet at times, she wonders if she can trust him completely. . . . Then one day, Olivia receives a phone call: Lily is dead, and Asher is being questioned by the police. Olivia is adamant that her son is innocent. But she would be lying if she didn’t acknowledge the flashes of his father’s temper in Ash, and as the case against him unfolds, she realizes he’s hidden more than he’s shared with her. Mad Honey is a riveting novel of suspense, an unforgettable love story, and a moving and powerful exploration of the secrets we keep and the risks we take in order to become ourselves. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/suspect monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437115330-6QPFBM8S6P9V8SMR7JU1/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Suspect - by Scott Turow For as long as Lucia Gomez has been the police chief in the city of Highland Isle, near Kindle County, she has known that any woman in law enforcement must walk a precarious line between authority and camaraderie to gain respect. She has maintained a spotless reputation—until now. Three male police officers have accused her of soliciting sex in exchange for promotions to higher ranks. With few people left who she can trust, Chief Gomez turns to an old friend, Rik Dudek, to act as her attorney in the federal grand jury investigation, insisting to Rik that the accusations against her are part of an ugly smear campaign designed to destroy her career and empower her enemies—both outside the police force and within.. Clarice “Pinky” Granum spent most of her youth experimenting with an impressive array of drugs and failing out of various professions, including the police academy. Pinky knows that in the eyes of most people, she's nothing but a screwup—but she doesn't trust most people's opinions anyway. Moreover, she finally has a respectable-enough job as a licensed P.I. working for Rik on his roster of mostly minor cases, like workman's comp, DUIs and bar fights. Rik's shabby office and even shabbier cases are a far cry from the kinds of high-profile criminal matters Pinky became familiar with in the law office of her grandfather, Sandy Stern. But Rik and Pinky feel that Chief Gomez’s case, which has attracted national attention, is their chance to break into the legal big leagues. Guided by her gut instinct and razor-sharp investigative skills, Pinky dives headfirst into a twisted scandal that will draw her into the deepest recesses of the city’s criminal networks, as well as the human mind. But she will need every scrap of tenacity and courage to unravel the dark secrets those closest to her are determined to keep hidden. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/back-to-the-garden monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437117687-UX9FN896AWHQ8OZONAZ3/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Back to the Garden - by Laurie R. King A magnificent house, vast formal gardens, a golden family that shaped California, and a colorful past filled with now-famous artists: the Gardener Estate was a twentieth-century Eden. And now, just as the Estate is preparing to move into a new future, restoration work on some of its art digs up a grim relic of the home’s past: a human skull, hidden away for decades. Inspector Raquel Laing has her work cut out for her. Fifty years ago, the Estate’s young heir, Rob Gardener, turned his palatial home into a counterculture commune of peace, love, and equality. But that was also a time when serial killers preyed on innocents—monsters like The Highwayman, whose case has just surged back into the public eye. Could the skull belong to one of his victims? To Raquel—a woman who knows all about colorful pasts—the bones clearly seem linked to The Highwayman. But as she dives into the Estate’s archives to look for signs of his presence, what she unearths begins to take on a dark reality all of its own. Everything she finds keeps bringing her back to Rob Gardener himself. While he might be a gray-haired recluse now, back then he was a troubled young Vietnam vet whose girlfriend vanished after a midsummer festival at the Estate. But a lot of people seem to have disappeared from the Gardener Estate that summer when the commune mysteriously fell apart: a young woman, her child, and Rob’s brother, Fort. The pressure is on, and Raquel needs to solve this case—before The Highwayman slips away, or another Gardener vanishes. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/sea-of-tranquility monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437120126-4NWG4KGKZYNRRAAPQKWB/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Sea of Tranquility - by Emily St. John Mandel Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core. Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She’s traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive’s best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him. When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe. A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/winter-street monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437122599-T7BT0L5Y097UFDS769Q2/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Winter Street - by Elin Hilderbrand Kelley Quinn is the owner of Nantucket's Winter Street Inn and the proud father of four, all of them grown and living in varying states of disarray. Patrick, the eldest, is a hedge fund manager with a guilty conscience. Kevin, a bartender, is secretly sleeping with a French housekeeper named Isabelle. Ava, a school teacher, is finally dating the perfect guy but can't get him to commit. And Bart, the youngest and only child of Kelley's second marriage to Mitzi, has recently shocked everyone by joining the Marines. As Christmas approaches, Kelley is looking forward to getting the family together for some quality time at the inn. But when he walks in on Mitzi kissing Santa Claus (or the guy who's playing Santa at the inn's annual party), utter chaos descends. With the three older children each reeling in their own dramas and Bart unreachable in Afghanistan, it might be up to Kelley's ex-wife, nightly news anchor Margaret Quinn, to save Christmas at the Winter Street Inn. Before the mulled cider is gone, the delightfully dysfunctional Quinn family will survive a love triangle, an unplanned pregnancy, a federal crime, a small house fire, many shots of whiskey, and endless rounds of Christmas caroling, in this heart-warming novel about coming home for the holidays. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-heart-full-of-headstones monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437124801-X8KI05WXI6R8DIY769W8/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - A Heart Full of Headstones - by Ian Rankin John Rebus stands accused: on trial for a crime that could put him behind bars for the rest of his life. But what drove a good man to cross the line? Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke may well find out. Clarke is tasked with the city’s most explosive case in years, an infamous cop, at the center of decades of misconduct, has gone missing. Finding him will expose not only her superiors, but her mentor John Rebus. And Rebus himself may not have her own interests at heart, as the repayment of a past debt places him in the crosshairs of both crime lords and his police brethren. One way or another, a reckoning is coming – and John Rebus may be hearing the call for last orders… https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/our-missing-hearts monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437126982-8IYUFL78PRDSUBRDZI6C/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Our Missing Hearts - by Celeste Ng Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left the family when he was nine years old without a trace. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, his family's life has been governed by laws written to preserve “American culture” in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic. Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn’t know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn’t wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change. Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It’s a story about the power—and limitations—of art to create change, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-maine-lobster-boat-history-of-an-iconic-fishing-vessel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437129592-QCPDWC7WGDWENBKF03HK/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Maine Lobster Boat : History of an Iconic Fishing Vessel - by Daniel Sheldon Lee The modern lobster boat has evolved slowly over decades to become the craft it is today: seaworthy, strong, fast, and trusted implicitly by the lobstermen and women to get the job done and get them home, each and every time, through the most terrifying--and sometimes life-threatening--conditions that the sea can dish up. “Where do lobster boats come from?” “What is the origin of their design?” “Who builds them?” “How do they work?” The story of the Maine lobster boat needs to be told--before the storied history of this iconic American craft slips away forever into the past, on the heels of what may be the last surviving traditional lobster boat builders. Filled with colorful characters, old maritime tales, and fascinating details, this a definitive look at the origins and lore of Maine's most ubiquitous vessel. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/no-plan-b-a-jack-reacher-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437132320-0UEX19PFUYJEV84CY7TI/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - No Plan B: A Jack Reacher Novel - by Lee Child In Gerrardsville, Colorado, a woman dies under the wheels of a moving bus. The death is ruled a suicide. But Jack Reacher saw what really happened: A man in a gray hoodie and jeans, moving stealthily, pushed the victim to her demise—before swiftly grabbing the dead woman’s purse and strolling away. When another homicide is ruled an accident, Reacher knows this is no coincidence. With a killer on the loose, Reacher has no time to waste to track down those responsible. But Reacher is unaware that these crimes are part of something much larger and more far-reaching: an arsonist out for revenge, a foster kid on the run, a cabal of powerful people involved in a secret conspiracy with many moving parts. There is no room for error, but they make a grave one. They don’t consider Reacher a threat. “There’s too much at stake to start running from shadows.” But Reacher isn’t a shadow. He is flesh and blood. And relentless when it comes to making things right. For when the threat is Reacher, there is No Plan B. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/go-to-dinners-a-barefoot-contessa-cookbook monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437134801-Y9KHL9AOINIQF5RQZ5IV/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook - by Ina Garten Even Ina Garten, America's most-trusted and beloved home cook, sometimes finds cooking stressful. To make life easy she relies on a repertoire of recipes that she knows will turn out perfectly every time. Cooking night after night during the pandemic inspired her to re-think the way she approached dinner, and the result is this collection of comforting and delicious recipes that you’ll love preparing and serving. You’ll find lots of freeze-ahead, make-ahead, prep-ahead, and simply assembled recipes so you, too, can make dinner a breeze. In Go-To Dinners, Ina shares her strategies for making her most satisfying and uncomplicated dinners. Many, like Overnight Mac & Cheese, you can make ahead and throw in the oven right before dinner. Light dinners like Tuscan White Bean Soup can be prepped ahead and assembled at the last minute. Go-to family meals like Chicken in a Pot with Orzo and Hasselback Kielbasa will feed a crowd with very little effort. And who doesn’t want to eat Breakfast For Dinner? You’ll find recipes for Scrambled Eggs Cacio e Pepe and Roasted Vegetables with Jammy Eggs that are a snap to make and so satisfying. Ina’s “Two-Fers” guide you on how to turn leftovers from one dinner into something different and delicious the second night. And sometimes the best dinner is one you don’t even have to cook! You’ll find Ina’s favorite boards to serve with store-bought ingredients, like an Antipasto Board and Breakfast-for-Dinner Board that are fun to assemble and so impressive to serve. Finally, because no meal can be considered dinner without dessert, there are plenty of prep-ahead and easy sweets like a Bourbon Chocolate Pecan Pie and Beatty’s Chocolate Cupcakes that everyone will rave about. For Ina, “I love you, come for dinner” is more than just an invitation to share a meal, it’s a way to create a community of friends and family who love and take care of each other, and we all need that now more than ever. These go-to recipes will give you the confidence to create dinners that will bring everyone to your table. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/righteous-prey monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437137789-2Z25LUUEDRCA5T668FTL/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Righteous Prey - by John Sanford “We’re going to murder people who need to be murdered.” So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as “The Five,” shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco. The Five is made up of vigilante killers who are very bored…and very rich. They target the worst of society—rapists, murderers, and thieves—and then use their unlimited resources to offset the damage done by those who they’ve killed, donating untraceable Bitcoin to charities and victims via the dark net. The Five soon become popular figures in the media …though their motives may not be entirely pure. After The Five strike again in the Twin Cities, Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport are sent in to investigate. And they soon have their hands full--the killings are smart and carefully choreographed, and with no apparent direct connection to the victims, the killers are virtually untraceable. But if anyone can destroy this group, it will be the dynamic team of Davenport and Flowers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-charlie-brown-christmas monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437140584-1RTV74GVI9JOSTTDP9F0/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - A Charlie Brown Christmas - by Charles Shultz https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/its-the-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437142967-HB5GLG26NHTKKSHQIKHH/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown - by Charles Shultz https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/peek-a-boo-flap monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437145617-6J13FD225M04BEY0NRD3/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Peek-A-Boo Flap - by Rosa van Feder Peek-a-BOO! Look around the pumpkin patch for little creatures hiding among the pumpkins, choose your favorite costume in the parade, take a haunted hayride, and more. Talk about Halloween traditions, like pumpkin carving, trick-or-treating, and costume parties. Learn interesting facts, such as where the most pumpkins in the U.S. are grown, which country believes black cats are good luck, and what candy corn used to be called. This festive Halloween book for kids is sure to engage your baby or toddler with a lift-a-flap activity on each page, revealing tons of peek-a-boo surprises and fun facts. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/how-to-tell-a-story-the-essential-guide-to-memorable-storytelling-from-the-moth monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437148168-G2XCL5GA7ECPV79PV08W/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth - by The Moth Over the past twenty-five years, the directors of The Moth have worked with people from all walks of life—including astronauts, hairdressers, rock stars, a retired pickpocket, high school students, and Nobel Prize winners—to develop true personal stories that have moved and delighted live audiences and listeners of The Moth’s Peabody Award–winning radio hour and podcast. A leader in the modern storytelling movement, The Moth inspires thousands of people around the globe to share their stories each year. Now, with How to Tell a Story, The Moth will help you learn how to uncover and craft your own unique stories, like Moth storytellers Mike Birbiglia, Rosanne Cash, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Gilbert, Padma Lakshmi, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, Hasan Minhaj, Tig Notaro, Boots Riley, Betty Reid Soskin, John Turturro, and more. Whether your goal is to make it to the Moth stage, deliver the perfect wedding toast, wow clients at a business dinner, give a moving eulogy, ace a job interview, be a hit at parties, change the world, or simply connect more deeply to those around you, stories are essential. Sharing secrets of The Moth’s time-honed process and using examples from beloved storytellers, a team of Moth directors will show you how to: Mine your memories for your best stories Explore structures that will boost the impact of your story Deliver your stories with confidence Tailor your stories for any occasion Filled with empowering, easy-to-follow tips for crafting stories that forge lasting bonds with friends, family, and colleagues alike, this book will help you connect authentically with the world around you and unleash the power of story in your life. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-bullet-that-missed monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437150398-W5DATR4B39HE49VCQA20/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Bullet that Missed - by Richard Osman It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case—their favorite kind--leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers. Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot. While Elizabeth wrestles with her conscience (and a gun), Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim chase down the clues with help from old friends and new. But can the gang solve the mystery and save Elizabeth before the murderer strikes again? From an upmarket spa to a prison cell complete with espresso machine to a luxury penthouse high in the sky, this third adventure of the Thursday Murder Club is full of the cleverness, intrigue, and irresistible charm that readers have come to expect from Richard Osman’s bestselling series. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-high-notes monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437152860-6ZU8BWW1LAOP866ERR9R/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The High Notes - by Danielle Steel Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember, hitting the high notes like no one else. When she is twelve, her father convinces the owner of a bar in Lake City, Texas, to let her perform, and she stuns the audience. In the ensuing years, never staying anywhere for long, father and daughter move from one dusty town to the next, her passion for music growing every time she takes the mike in another roadhouse. But it is not an easy life for Iris with her father in charge and using her income to pay for gambling, women, and booze. When she starts to tour at age eighteen, she takes on a real manager. Yet he exploits her too, and the singers and musicians she tours with are really the only family she has. It is they who give Iris the courage to finally fly free, leave the tour, and follow her dreams. After years of enduring the hardships of the road, exploitation, and abuse to do what she loves, Iris’s big chance comes as her talent soars. But at the top at last, Iris still has to fight every step of the way. In The High Notes, Danielle Steel delivers an inspiring story about finding the strength to stand up for yourself and your dreams, no matter what it takes. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-maze monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437155272-ROCWL8Y81A6KNMIAX1R0/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Maze - by Nelson DeMille #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille returns with a blistering thriller featuring his most popular series character, former NYPD homicide detective John Corey, called out of retirement to investigate a string of grisly murders much too close to home. In his dazzling #1 bestseller, Plum Island, Nelson DeMille introduced readers to NYPD Homicide Detective John Corey, who we first meet sitting on the back porch of his uncle’s waterfront estate on Long Island, convalescing from wounds incurred in the line of duty. A visit from the local Chief of Police results in the legendary Detective Corey becoming involved in the investigation of the murders of a married couple who were scientists at the top-secret biological research facility on Plum Island. Fast forward through six more bestselling John Corey novels and The Maze opens with Corey on the same porch, but now in forced retirement from his last job as a Federal Agent with the Diplomatic Surveillance Group. Corey is restless and looking for action, so when his former lover, Detective Beth Penrose, appears with a job offer, Corey has to once again make some decisions about his career—and about reuniting with Beth Penrose. Inspired by, and based on the actual and still unsolved Gilgo Beach murders, The Maze takes the reader on a dangerous hunt for an apparent serial killer who has murdered nine—and maybe more—prostitutes and hidden their bodies in the thick undergrowth on a lonely stretch of beach. As Corey digs deeper into this case, which has made national news, he comes to suspect that the failure of the local police to solve this sensational case may not be a result of their inexperience and incompetence—it may be something else. Something more sinister. The Maze features John Corey’s politically incorrect humor, matched by his brilliant and unorthodox investigative skills along with the surprising and shocking plot twists that are the trademark of the #1 New York Times bestselling author, Nelson DeMille. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/notes-on-the-landscape-of-home monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437157412-2JEJHTE3MFI3QKLOVGR5/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Notes on the Landscape of Home - by Susan Hand Shetterly “If you pay attention to the land where you live, you enter into conversation with it, until it becomes a voice inside you, and some of the boundaries between you and it dissolve,” write Susan Hand Shetterly. In this collection of elegant, spare, and often passionate essays, Shetterly explores what it is to live in a Down East coastal town, and to pay attention, over time, to what it offers of land, water, wildlife, and community. She takes her cue from Henry David Thoreau and Wendell Berry, who advocate for the virtues of staying in one place, believing that as we delve deeper into the landscape of home the more we learn about the world. As in many other places, this particular home place is in trouble. Shetterly celebrates the work of communities to restore environments their people know and love, and takes a closeup look at what is changing and what has been lost. Among her subjects are the reestablishment of the bald eagle, the reintroduction of the American turkey in Maine, and the turkey vulture’s northward trend. She also writes about shorebird migrations, the bluefin tuna and the humpback and right whales in the Gulf of Maine, counting alewives along a stream in the spring, seaweed cultivation in a bay, a forest’s rebirth, the island that gave her the imaginative space she needed, and more. She recounts how she and her neighbors kept each other company at a distance during the long months of the pandemic, and she celebrates coastal culture, its particular, deep history that anchors a person’s sense of place. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/elvis monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437159757-CRRSNS09A5KJU0714FI2/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Elvis https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-very-mercy-christmas monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437177943-5CJ5ZA0T719NONMTC8VG/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - A Very Mercy Christmas - by Kate DiCamillo (Author), Chris Van Dusen (Illustrator) For fans of Mercy Watson, old and new, comes a joyful crescendo of favorite characters in a picture-book celebration of the quiet miracles the holidays bring. Mercy ornament included! Stella Endicott felt joyful. She felt like something miraculous might happen. She wanted to sing. When Stella gets the sudden idea to go caroling, she has a little trouble getting someone to join her. Her brother, Frank, is not good at spontaneity. The Watsons are very involved in a precarious fruitcake attempt (but happy to send their pig, Mercy, out for the occasion). Eugenia Lincoln declines, a bit rudely, to accompany on her accordion, and Horace Broom is too busy studying planetary movement. Will Stella need to sing by herself—with enthusiastic contributions from the pig, the cat, and the horse she picks up on the way? Or does the evening hold a miracle Stella hadn’t expected? With tender affection for Mercy Watson and all her Deckawoo Drive friends, Kate DiCamillo and Chris Van Dusen offer a picture-book homage to the season that is perfectly suited for family sharing—perhaps with some cups of hot cocoa and a stack of well-buttered toast. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-wizards-of-once-twice-magic monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437182610-PZGA7UNSBWGHU8U4KLPN/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Wizards of Once: Twice Magic - by Cressida Cowell From the bestselling author of How to Train Your Dragon comes an exciting high-adventure series--set in a magical time, full of Wizards, Warriors, Giants and Sprites. This was once the story of a young boy Wizard and a young girl Warrior who had been taught since birth to hate each other like poison. But now, the boy Wizard and girl Warrior have been brought together in the Badwoods and they have witnessed the shocking consequences of the Stone That Takes Away Magic. They will need to cast aside their differences once more--for an Evil Spell has broken free. It's up to Xar and Wish to find the ingredients. But it means entering dangerous territory unannounced... Cressida Cowell brings her trademark wit to this spellbinding sequel, along with the stunning artwork and heartfelt adventure that has made her beloved around the world, weaving a story that is sure to transport readers to a world that will enchant and bewitch them. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dreamland monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437184706-VWW7IIF03AXQAP5ZL2KK/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Dreamland - by Nicholas Sparks From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wish comes a poignant love story about risking everything for a dream - and whether it's possible to leave the past behind. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/memory monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437187051-PYOKV2XNSBFMFPX3KHUS/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Memory https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-winners monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437189474-Q0R66TPQA1K9S8EFPCWN/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Winners - by Frederick Backman A breathtaking new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People and A Man Called Ove, The Winners returns to the close-knit, resilient community of Beartown for a story about first loves, second chances, and last goodbyes. Over the course of two weeks, everything in Beartown will change. Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there’s something about this place that prevents it. The destruction caused by a ferocious late-summer storm reignites the old rivalry between Beartown and the neighboring town of Hed, a rivalry which has always been fought through their ice hockey teams. Maya’s parents, Peter and Kira, are caught up in an investigation of the hockey club’s murky finances, and Amat—once the star of the Beartown team—has lost his way after an injury and a failed attempt to get drafted into the NHL. Simmering tensions between the two towns turn into acts of intimidation and then violence. All the while, a fourteen-year-old boy grows increasingly alienated from this hockey-obsessed community and is determined to take revenge on the people he holds responsible for his beloved sister’s death. He has a pistol and a plan that will leave Beartown with a loss that is almost more that it can stand. As it beautifully captures all the complexities of daily life and explores questions of friendship, loyalty, loss, and identity, this emotion-packed novel asks us to reconsider what it means to win, what it means to lose, and what it means to forgive. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/spells-for-forgetting monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437192338-M2BXA04U5KGDUJS8Z43K/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Spells for Forgetting - by Adrienne Young “Lush with secrets, magic, and a past that won’t stay where it belongs, this novel is (quite fittingly) spellbinding.”—JODI PICOULT, author of Wish You Were Here From New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young comes a deeply atmospheric story about ancestral magic, an unsolved murder, and a second chance at true love. Emery Blackwood’s life changed forever the night her best friend was found dead and the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her. Years later, she is doing what her teenage self swore she never would: living a quiet existence on the misty, remote shores of Saoirse Island and running the family’s business, Blackwood’s Tea Shoppe Herbal Tonics & Tea Leaf Readings. But when the island, rooted in folklore and magic, begins to show signs of strange happenings, Emery knows that something is coming. The morning she wakes to find that every single tree on Saoirse has turned color in a single night, August returns for the first time in fourteen years and unearths the past that the town has tried desperately to forget. August knows he is not welcome on Saiorse, not after the night everything changed. As a fire raged on at the Salt family orchard, Lily Morgan was found dead in the dark woods, shaking the bedrock of their tight-knit community and branding August a murderer. When he returns to bury his mother’s ashes, he must confront the people who turned their backs on him and face the one wound from his past that has never healed—Emery. But the town has more than one reason to want August gone, and the emergence of deep betrayals and hidden promises spanning generations threaten to reveal the truth behind Lily’s mysterious death once and for all. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/minions-the-rise-of-gru monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437194769-JVW1SNT4SWLVB3T2DXAA/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Minions : The Rise of Gru - by Sadie Chesterfield https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/where-the-crawdads-sing monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437197116-YBXYESBUNABLNYS3GPCA/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Where the Crawdads Sing - by Delia Owens https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/halloween-is monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437200049-BEJNZ6RTY8OFV0XOIOWV/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Halloween Is.... - by Gail Gibbons It is a celebration that provides all kinds of spooky fun. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/small-spaces monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437202745-M60FRG9519VM3S9EZWTS/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Small Spaces - by Katherine Arden New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story destined to become a classic. After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn't think—she just acts, stealing the book and running away. As she begins to read the slender volume, Ollie discovers a chilling story about a girl named Beth, the two brothers who both loved her, and a peculiar deal made with "the smiling man," a sinister specter who grants your most tightly held wish, but only for the ultimate price. Ollie is captivated by the tale until her school trip the next day to Smoke Hollow, a local farm with a haunting history all its own. There she stumbles upon the graves of the very people she's been reading about. Could it be the story about the smiling man is true? Ollie doesn't have too long to think about the answer to that. On the way home, the school bus breaks down, sending their teacher back to the farm for help. But the strange bus driver has some advice for the kids left behind in his care: "Best get moving. At nightfall they'll come for the rest of you." Nightfall is, indeed, fast descending when Ollie's previously broken digital wristwatch, a keepsake reminder of better times, begins a startling countdown and delivers a terrifying message: RUN. Only Ollie and two of her classmates heed the bus driver's warning. As the trio head out into the woods—bordered by a field of scarecrows that seem to be watching them—the bus driver has just one final piece of advice for Ollie and her friends: "Avoid large places. Keep to small." And with that, a deliciously creepy and hair-raising adventure begins. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-man-who-saved-books monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437205692-PNUOI5BUJ4M7XQT20XI0/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Man Who Saved Books - by Lynn Plourde One town’s trash becomes the dump man’s treasure in this inspiring tale by award-winning author Lynn Plourde. Mr. Pottle, who oversees the town landfill, just cannot bear to see books thrown out and destroyed, so he rescues and recycles them for the community to enjoy. When Mr. Pottle takes a fall one day and is injured, that community—especially the children—comes to his rescue. The townspeople bring books to speed his recovery—and are amazed to discover that the book-loving man cannot read. That’s when a town full of eager readers helps Mr. Pottle to fully enjoy his treasures. Illustrations by Mary Beth Owens are packed with details that capture the chaos and beauty of a dump and show Mr. Pottle’s determination to let nothing of value to go to waste. Little ones will love the way favorite items keep showing up in different places around the dump. An enjoyable picture book in its own right, The Man Who Saved Books also delivers a heartwarming message about the treasures to be found in books, in reading together, and in friendship. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/corduroys-best-halloween-ever monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437208166-25DPBO3LXBP29QH6CA6F/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Corduroy's Best Halloween Ever - by Don Freeman Halloween is almost here, and Corduroy can't wait! He is going to have a party. He and his friends will carve a jack-o'-lantern, bob for apples, and go trick-or-treating! But there is one problem-Corduroy needs to choose a costume. What will he wear? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/scary-scary-halloween monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437210849-7TC05AIKY1YGEBN2WP8V/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Scary, Scary Halloween - by Eve Bunting I peer outside, there’s something there That makes me shiver, spikes my hair. It must be Halloween. Green eyes watch from the dark as skeletons dance, goblins skip, and ghosts float by. Come along to find a scary, scary surprise! With rhythm, rhyme, and just the right amount of fright, this is the perfect spooky story to share on Halloween! Featuring a striking new cover design at a new trim size in paper-over-board format. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/cliffords-first-halloween monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437213386-3BIEW2219QUC2RUBM596/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Clifford's First Halloween - by Norman Bridwell It's Clifford's first Halloween, and Emily Elizabeth dresses him up as the cutest little ghost ever. Clifford wants to try everything: trick-or-treating, candy apples, and homemade haunted houses. Discover Halloween with everyone's favorite red puppy! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes-a-hunger-games-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437215965-I3O0LM5BREV2BJEUB0W0/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: A Hunger Games Novel - by Suzanne Collins Ambition will fuel him.Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined -- every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute... and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/five-feet-apart monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437218349-ORG4EPT0EEUCA0GORXOL/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Five Feet Apart - by Rachel Lippincott Now a major motion picture starring Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson! Goodreads Choice Winner, Best Young Adult Fiction of 2019 A YALSA 2020 Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel that’s perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, two teens fall in love with just one minor complication—they can’t get within a few feet of each other without risking their lives. Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions. The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn’t care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial. Soon, he’ll turn eighteen and then he’ll be able to unplug all these machines and actually go see the world, not just its hospitals. Will’s exactly what Stella needs to stay away from. If he so much as breathes on Stella she could lose her spot on the transplant list. Either one of them could die. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. But suddenly six feet doesn’t feel like safety. It feels like punishment. What if they could steal back just a little bit of the space their broken lungs have stolen from them? Would five feet apart really be so dangerous if it stops their hearts from breaking too? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pumpkinheads monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437222576-0KWEJ39ZEALU532A5ANM/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Pumpkinheads - by Rainbow Rowell In Pumpkinheads, beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell and Eisner Award–winning artist Faith Erin Hicks have teamed up to create this tender and hilarious story about two irresistible teens discovering what it means to leave behind a place—and a person—with no regrets. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-wizards-of-once-never-and-forever monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437225352-PPY1X79MD48Q2H6S4Y1A/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Wizards of Once : Never and Forever - by Cressida Cowell The author of How to Train Your Dragon returns with the final, magical installment of the New York Times bestselling Wizards of Once series! Xar and Wish are on the final leg of their journey -- first stop: The Mine of Happiness. Here, starvation is never far away for the Magical creatures who toil in its horrible depths. Xar and Wish must escape and fast; Xar needs to take control of his ever-growing Witchstain, and Wish must achieve her Destiny. But the Tazzelwurm is in their way, a grotesque monster who threatens to block every entrance. Time is not on their side, but the forests are calling them. Will their combined strength be enough for the biggest quest so far: to defeat the Kingwitch once and for all? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/wintering-the-power-of-rest-and-retreat-in-difficult-times monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437228250-2C62DURW5GOY700642JT/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Wintering : The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times - by Katherine May An inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie’s dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. She was planning to relocate Annie and her caravan of ragtag rescues—horses and goats, dogs and cats, chickens and pigs—when Annie died, just two weeks before moving day. In her heartbreak, Laurie resolved to make her mother's dream her own. In 2001, she established the Funny Farm Animal Rescue outside Mays Landing, New Jersey. Today, she carries on Annie’s mission to save abused and neglected animals. Funny Farm is Laurie’s story: of promises kept, dreams fulfilled, and animals lost and found. It’s the story of Annie McNulty, who fled a nightmarish marriage with few skills, no money and no resources, dragging three kids behind her, and accumulating hundreds of cast-off animals on the way. And lastly, it's the story of the brave, incredible, and adorable animals that were rescued. Although there are some sad parts (as life always is), there are lots of laughs. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/funny-farm-my-unexpected-life-with-600-rescue monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437230483-N416KUOVJJK64ZV0WEF6/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Funny Farm : My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals - by Laurie Zaleski An inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie’s dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. She was planning to relocate Annie and her caravan of ragtag rescues—horses and goats, dogs and cats, chickens and pigs—when Annie died, just two weeks before moving day. In her heartbreak, Laurie resolved to make her mother's dream her own. In 2001, she established the Funny Farm Animal Rescue outside Mays Landing, New Jersey. Today, she carries on Annie’s mission to save abused and neglected animals. Funny Farm is Laurie’s story: of promises kept, dreams fulfilled, and animals lost and found. It’s the story of Annie McNulty, who fled a nightmarish marriage with few skills, no money and no resources, dragging three kids behind her, and accumulating hundreds of cast-off animals on the way. And lastly, it's the story of the brave, incredible, and adorable animals that were rescued. Although there are some sad parts (as life always is), there are lots of laughs. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-fixed-white-light-poems-of-women-lighthouse-keepers monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437233308-JFI5OFCG9T2BN51E3FRY/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - A Fixed White Light : Poems of Women Lighthouse Keepers - by Suellen Wedmore In the last half of the nineteenth century more than one hundred women worked as primary keepers of American lighthouses. Twice as many were assistant keepers and many more worked without pay or recognition in their husband’s or their father’s names─this at a time when it was widely believed that the ideal woman was submissive and homebound. The poems in A Fixed White Light enter the lives of six of these courageous and mostly forgotten women, giving readers the opportunity to experience their heroism as well as their trials in a time when they were often met with skepticism and discrimination. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/island-medicine-life-healing-and-community-on-a-maine-island monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437236174-MQ8ZNE780QI5F787JWCN/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Island Medicine: Life, Healing, and Community on a Maine Island - by Dr. Chuck Radis Dr. Chuck Radis was drawn to a career in medicine after meeting an osteopathic family practice bush pilot in Baja, Mexico. Following an internal medicine residency, the young doctor moved his family to Peaks Island off the coast of Maine and traveled by boat to the four year-round islands in Casco Bay, logging more than 100 house calls each year. Come along with Dr. Radis as he makes his rounds with a new batch of stories filled with equal parts hilarity, heartache, and wisdom. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-7-1/2-deaths-of-evelyn-hardcastle monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437238551-NVH4JGIKQZFP6CM4HUJX/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - by Stuart Turton The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is a breathlessly addictive mystery that follows one man's race to find a killer, with an astonishing time-turning twist that means nothing and no one are quite what they seem. Aiden Bishop knows the rules. Evelyn Hardcastle will die every day until he can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest at Blackheath Manor. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others. With a locked-room mystery that Agatha Christie would envy, Stuart Turton unfurls a breakneck novel of intrigue and suspense. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-haunting-of-hill-house monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437241194-NA3S4XQ7GO55K6M9S7MN/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Haunting of Hill House - by Shirley Jackson The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-ink-black-heart monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437244623-9I9SEEFBM8P1V82HCX43/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Ink Black Heart - by Robert Galbraith The latest installment in the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Strike series finds Cormoran and Robin ensnared in another winding, wicked case. When frantic, disheveled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn’t know quite what to make of the situation. The cocreator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie’s true identity. Robin decides that the agency can’t help with this—and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart. Robin and her business partner, Cormoran Strike, become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie’s true identity. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits – and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways . . . A gripping, fiendishly clever mystery, The Ink Black Heart is a true tour-de-force. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-flicker-in-the-dark monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437246845-XX97HUUNDZFZUA5VSYY4/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - A Flicker in the Dark - by Stacy Willingham When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath. Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. While she finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to achieve, she sometimes feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. So when a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she paranoid, seeing parallels from her past that aren't actually there, or for the second time in her life, is Chloe about to unmask a killer? From debut author Stacy Willingham comes a masterfully done, lyrical thriller, certain to be the launch of an amazing career. A Flicker in the Dark is eerily compelling to the very last page. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-hotel-nantucket monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437249527-YCZZ4LU9GBFNZ0Z136P7/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Hotel Nantucket - by Elin Hilderbrand Fresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. When she’s named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the favor of their new London billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, as well as that of Shelly Carpenter, the wildly popular Instagram tastemaker who can help put them back on the map. And while the Hotel Nantucket appears to be a blissful paradise, complete with a celebrity chef-run restaurant and an idyllic wellness center, there’s a lot of drama behind closed doors. The staff (and guests) have complicated pasts, and the hotel can’t seem to overcome the bad reputation it earned in 1922 when a tragic fire killed nineteen-year-old chambermaid Grace Hadley. With Grace gleefully haunting the halls, a staff harboring all kinds of secrets, and Lizbet’s own romantic uncertainty, is the Hotel Nantucket destined for success or doom? Filled with the emotional depth and multiple points of view that characterize Hilderbrand’s novels (The Blue Bistro, Golden Girl) as well as an added dash of Roaring Twenties history, The Hotel Nantucket offers something for everyone in this compelling summer drama. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-pigeon-will-ride-the-roller-coaster monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437251959-SR26BEI2AM26TC8IGN77/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster! - by Mo Willems From #1 New York Times best-selling, award-winning author and illustrator Mo Willems! Buckle up for twists, turns, and emotional loop-de-loops in the most roller coaster-y Pigeon book ever! The Pigeon WILL be ready. Will YOU!? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/learning-to-ski-with-mr-magee monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437254637-99OWXV5TQ4OX3E5LC2HK/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Learning to Ski with Mr. Magee - by Chris Van Dusen The third book in the much-loved Mr. Magee series A snowy adventure with Mr. Magee and his dog, Dee: One winter morning, Mr. Magee and his little dog, Dee, head out bright and early to learn how to ski. But what begins as a pleasant day in the snow quickly goes downhill when a run-in with a curious moose sends them flying through the air and hanging above an abyss! How will Dee and Magee find their way out of this snowy situation? Learning to Ski with Mr. Magee is another fun-filled adventure for Magee fans old and new. • Filled with charming, vibrant illustrations and playful, rhyming text • Chris Van Dusen is the author and illustrator of Down to the Sea with Mr. Magee and A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee Fans of the Mr. Magee series and Chris Van Dusen's If I Built a House and If I Built a Car will love this winter adventure with Mr. Magee. A lesson on overcoming obstacles with an easy to follow storyline, fun illustrations, and likable characters. • A fun read-aloud for families and elementary story time • Books for kids ages 4-8 • Books for early and emergent readers https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-camping-spree-with-mr-magee monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437257196-R3FOP8DKOWMPX0M2FCHG/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - A Camping Spree With Mr. Magee - by Chris Van Dusen https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/if-i-built-a-school monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437259678-0P0LFQA46O65L4V5DRYO/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - If I Built A School - by Chris Van Dusen https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/if-i-built-a-car monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437263388-4ZXGP4Z7C23HIUFU9M0C/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - If I Built A Car - by Chris Van Dusen With energetic rhyme and action-packed artwork to match, If I Built a Car sure to fuel any young inventor with big plans and grand imaginations. "If I built a car, it'd be totally new! Here are a few of the things that I'd do. . . ." Jack has designed the ultimate fantasy car. Inspired by zeppelins and trains, Cadillacs and old planes, with brilliant colors and lots of shiny chrome, this far-out vision is ready to cruise! there's a fireplace, a pool, and even a snack bar! After a tour of the ritzy interior, robert the robot starts up the motor . . . and Jack and his dad set off on the wildest test drive ever! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/chrysanthemum monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437265996-6QAPTI023HZESIZB56CK/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Chrysanthemum - by Kevin Henkes Chrysanthemum is a funny and honest school story about teasing, self-esteem, and acceptance to share all year round. Written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes, the nationally bestselling and celebrated creator of Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, Owen, and Kitten's First Full Moon, Chrysanthemum is a don't-miss classic, especially for back to school. Chrysanthemum thinks her name is absolutely perfect—until her first day of school. "You're named after a flower!" teases Victoria. "Let's smell her," says Jo. Chrysanthemum wilts. What will it take to make her blossom again? This popular picture book has sold more than a million copies and was named a Notable Book for Children by the American Library Association. "Perfectly executed in words and illustration, Chrysanthemum exemplifies Henkes's talent for creating true picture stories for young audiences."—The Horn Book This is an ideal break-the-ice book for the first week of school. It get children thinking about and bonding with their own names and the names of everyone else in the class, and it's the perfect vehicle for starting a discussion about treating classmates with tolerance, kindness, and compassion. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-marriage-portrait monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437268517-IART5PG1SU6NND5F20HM/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Marriage Portrait - by Maggie O'Farrell The author of Hamnet—New York Times best seller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner—brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court. "O’Farrell pulls out little threads of historical detail to weave this story of a precocious girl sensitive to the contradictions of her station ... You may know the history, and you may think you know what’s coming, but don’t be so sure." —The Washington Post Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father just as quick to accept on her behalf. Having barely left girlhood behind, Lucrezia must now enter an unfamiliar court whose customs are opaque and where her arrival is not universally welcomed. Perhaps most mystifying of all is her new husband himself, Alfonso. Is he the playful sophisticate he appeared to be before their wedding, the aesthete happiest in the company of artists and musicians, or the ruthless politician before whom even his formidable sisters seem to tremble? As Lucrezia sits in constricting finery for a painting intended to preserve her image for centuries to come, one thing becomes worryingly clear. In the court’s eyes, she has one duty: to provide the heir who will shore up the future of the Ferranese dynasty. Until then, for all of her rank and nobility, the new duchess’s future hangs entirely in the balance. Full of the beauty and emotion with which she illuminated the Shakespearean canvas of Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell turns her talents to Renaissance Italy in an extraordinary portrait of a resilient young woman’s battle for her very survival. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/haven monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437271401-THQGKIRRWAVQW7Z43H3M/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Haven - by Emma Donoghue In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks—young Trian and old Cormac—he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. In such a place, what will survival mean? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/fairy-tale monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437276442-FR30PGKNSV5JKUJMSJF8/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Fairy Tale - by Stephen King Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it. Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world. King’s storytelling in Fairy Tale soars. This is a magnificent and terrifying tale in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy—and his dog—must lead the battle. Early in the Pandemic, King asked himself: “What could you write that would make you happy?” “As if my imagination had been waiting for the question to be asked, I saw a vast deserted city—deserted but alive. I saw the empty streets, the haunted buildings, a gargoyle head lying overturned in the street. I saw smashed statues (of what I didn’t know, but I eventually found out). I saw a huge, sprawling palace with glass towers so high their tips pierced the clouds. Those images released the story I wanted to tell.” https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-place-in-the-world-finding-the-meaning-of-home monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437281392-T20PPZBJ4N76HZERYBO0/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home - by Frances Mayes NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the author of Under the Tuscan Sun, in which the queen of wanderlust reflects on the comforts of home. “A soulful meditation on ‘what home means, how it hooks the past and pushes into the future’ . . . spellbinding.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) Though Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home wherever she goes. In this poetic testament to the power of place in our lives, Mayes reflects on the idea of home, from the earliest imprint of four walls to the startling discoveries of feeling the strange ease of homes abroad, friends’ homes, and even momentary homes that spark desires for other lives. Her musings are all the more poignant after so many have spent their long pandemic months at home. From her travels across Italy—Tuscany, of course, but also Venice and Capri—to the American South, France, and Mexico, Mayes examines the connective tissue among them through the homes she’s inhabited. A Place in the World explores Mayes’s passion and obsessions with houses and the things that inhabit them—old books, rich food, beloved friends, transportive art. The indelible marks each refuge has left on her and how each home influenced the next serve as the foundations of its chapters. Written in Mayes’s signature intimate style, A Place in the World captures the adventure of moving on while seeking comfort in the cornerstone closest to all of us—home. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/robert-b-parkers-fallout-a-jesse-stone-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437284203-IFD98QQ7GS69L4SWDMU5/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Robert B. Parker's Fallout (A Jesse Stone Novel) - by Mike Lupica When two seemingly unconnected mysterious deaths occur on his watch, police chief Jesse Stone must pull out all the stops to unravel the truth and stop a killer from striking again. The small town of Paradise is devastated when a star high-school baseball player is found dead at the bottom of a bluff just a day after winning the team’s biggest game. For Jesse, the loss is doubly difficult—the teen was the nephew of his colleague, Suitcase Simpson, and Jesse had been coaching the young shortstop. As he searches for answers about how the boy died and why, he is stonewalled at every turn, and it seems that someone is determined to keep him from digging further. Jesse suddenly must divide his attention between two cases after the shocking murder of former Paradise police chief, Charlie Farrell. Before his death, Farrell had been looking into a series of scam calls that preyed upon the elderly. But how do these “ghost calls” connect to his murder? When threats—and gunshots—appear on Jesse’s own doorstep, the race to find answers is on. Both old and new enemies come into play, and in the end, Jesse and his team must discover the common factor between the two deaths in order to prevent a third. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-rising-tide-a-vera-stanhope-novel-vera-stanhope-10 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437286872-AZ1TESQ6W9M1UILMY5VQ/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Rising Tide: A Vera Stanhope Novel (Vera Stanhope, 10) - by Ann Cleeves From Ann Cleeves―New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows―comes the stunning tenth Vera Stanhope novel, The Rising Tide, a powerful novel about guilt, betrayal, and the longheld secrets people keep. "Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers."―Louise Penny For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend that they lost to the rising causeway tide five years later. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends are hiding, and whether the events of many years before could have led to murder then, and now . . . But with the tide rising, secrets long-hidden are finding their way to the surface, and Vera and the team may find themselves in more danger than they could have believed possible . . . https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-song-of-comfortable-chairs-no-1-ladies-detective-agency-23 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437289530-FWHQ52YTJNG2FL9RBWOY/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - A Song of Comfortable Chairs: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (23) - by Alexander McCall Smith In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Grace Makutsi encounters a pair of quandaries that will require all of her and Mma Ramotswe’s cleverness and generosity to resolve “An escape from life’s woes as well as a suggestion for how to make the whole deal more palatable—fragility, fruit cake, and all.” —The Boston Globe Grace Makutsi’s husband, Phuti, is in a bind. An international firm is attempting to undercut his prices in the office furniture market. Phuti has always been concerned with quality and comfort, but this new firm seems interested only in profits. To make matters worse, they have a slick new advertising campaign that seems hard to beat. Nonetheless with Mma Ramotswe’s help, Phtui comes up with a campaign that may just do the trick. Meanwhile, Mma Makutsi is approached by an old friend who has a troubled son. Grace and Phuti agree to lend a hand, but the boy proves difficult to reach, and the situation is more than they can handle on their own. It will require not only all of their patience and dedication, but also the help of Mma Ramotswe and the formidable Mma Potokwani in order to help the child. Faced with more than her fair share of domestic problems, Mma Makutsi deals with it all with her usual grace. That, along with the kindness, generosity, and good sense that the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency is known for, assure us that in the end, all these matters will be set right. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/at-first-light-two-centuries-of-maine-artists-their-homes-and-studios monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437292007-JWB4J6Y3J67DSIS1SQUD/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - At First Light: Two Centuries of Maine Artists, Their Homes and Studios - by Anne Collins Goodyear At First Light chronicles twenty-six extraordinary artists of the last two hundred years who have lived and worked in Maine. Published to coincide with the state's bicentennial in 2020, the volume considers the significant contributions artists have made to a deeper and more profound understanding of Maine's history, its land and its peoples. Maine's unique and breathtaking landscape--from its rugged coastline, quaint harbors, majestic mountains, and verdant forests--continues to have a powerful effect on the artists who are drawn to its shores. Written and expertly researched by some of the foremost scholars and curators in the field, each chapter focuses on a different artist, featuring the artists' artworks and anchored by breathtaking contemporary photography of their homes, studios, and surroundings. From picturesque bungalows to grander structures with beautiful vistas, the houses and studios featured are as diverse as the artists who have inhabited them. The artists featured include fan favorites to lesser known yet important figures from the eighteenth century to the present day, working in a range of media from painting to photography to sculpture, including: Jonathan Fisher, Winslow Homer, Frank Weston Benson, Charles Herbert Woodbury, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Rockwell Kent, N. C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, Jamie Wyeth, Marguerite and William Zorach, Rockwell Kent, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Eliot Porter, Fairfield Porter, Rudy Burckhardt, Yvonne Jacquette, Ashley Bryan, Lois Dodd, Alex Katz, Bernard Langlais, Robert Indiana, David C. Driskell, Molly Neptune Parker, Richard Tuttle, and William Wegman. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/to-kill-a-troubadour-by-martin-walker monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437294413-RQ2349IIKY8Q0WZVK5HG/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - To Kill a Troubadour - by Martin Walker When a musician’s new song hits a political nerve, he finds himself in the crosshairs of Spanish nationalists’ ire, and it’s up to Bruno to track down the extremists who seem ready to take deadly measures, in another delightful installment of the internationally acclaimed series featuring Bruno, Chief of Police. Les Troubadours, a folk music group that Bruno has long supported, go viral with their new number, “Song for Catalonia,” when the Spanish government suddenly bans the song. The songwriter, Joel Martin, is a local enthusiast for the old Occitan language of Périgord and the medieval troubadours, and he sympathizes with the Catalan bid for independence. The success of his song provokes outrage among extreme Spanish nationalists. Then, in a stolen car found on a Périgord back road, police discover a distinctive bullet for a state-of-the-art sniper's rifle that can kill at three kilometers, and they fear that Joel might be the intended target. The French and Spanish governments agree to mount a joint operation to stop the assailants, and Bruno is the local man on the spot who mobilizes his resources to track them down. While Bruno tries to keep the peace, his friend Florence reaches out for help. Her abusive ex-husband is about to be paroled from prison and she fears he will return to reclaim their children. Will Bruno and Florence be able to prevent this unwanted visit? Despite the pressures, there is always time for Bruno to savor les plaisirs of the Dordogne around the table with friends. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-duke monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437297072-ORKBGNIQ9PP3YIU6CF51/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Duke https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/endeavor-season-8 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437299399-PGAIGMA0SBZ57PAOZOGA/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Endeavor Season 8 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-chelsea-detective-series-1 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437302037-RPYBP1WJ2V2E583HCCKO/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Chelsea Detective Series 1 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/minamata monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437304656-HVPSK5D9GTLYGYZS23WT/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Minamata https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/aftertaste-series-1 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437307588-TYJVNXZATRJDYLARSXMU/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Aftertaste Series 1 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/blood-of-the-vine-season-3 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437310154-S02MA0Z1V7Z8JVXX14FU/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Blood of the Vine Season 3 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/hotel-portofino-season-1 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437313451-2X189FXSGBU794GX9A5E/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Hotel Portofino Season 1 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/grantchester-season-7 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437316884-WBFY86T5ZTMWVDH5WSNS/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Grantchester Season 7 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-batman monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437319680-8XB4PPT9989SVVNJBS7M/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Batman https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/cobra-season-2 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437322387-FUPEGSY45VZWLDCS4PDY/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Cobra Season 2 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dalgliesh-series- monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437324795-CMYZICLGLEZ2OCH2GWOT/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Dalgliesh Series 1 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-nest monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437327546-G3Q4W1O81GDX8XTN3BBX/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Nest https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-indian-doctor monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437330498-1T9XAB0X3C06Z69LZ9PL/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Indian Doctor https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/harry-wild-series-1 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437333011-F12D5IMKHEBZIY283UH7/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Harry Wild Series 1 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dog monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437335702-NHHNIW1134XTL925NTNY/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Dog https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/clattersford-seasons-3 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437338029-S0OVEF5S4YP2571X9Q7E/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Clattersford Seasons 3 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/clattersford-seasons-2 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437340508-27BS9ZZPAPTB0FTFY75Y/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Clattersford Seasons 2 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/downton-abbey-a-new-era monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437343151-8CRUT8VZLG8OJN2VE0CV/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Downton Abbey A New Era https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/fog-and-crimes-series-3 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437345577-BX87AQE2UF3ZHXRGJR9K/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Fog and Crimes: Series 3 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/fog-and-crimes-series-2 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437348741-27YLULTLKONNA0TE5NV3/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Fog and Crimes: Series 2 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/big-truck-little-island-chris-van-dusen monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437351087-LAS6YVAG8JPFB2NBS4Q7/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Big Truck Little Island - by Chris Van Dusen That big truck is stuck! How will the island residents get where they’re going? A tale of community and ingenuity from the celebrated Chris Van Dusen, inspired by a true story. When a big truck and its big load get stuck on a narrow road, traffic on the little island comes to a halt. Some cars need to go south and some have to travel north. How will Meg get to her swim meet? What about Barry’s ballet class? Luckily, the kidscome up with an ingenious solution: why not just swap cars? Inspired by an incident that happened on Vinalhaven, Maine, Chris Van Dusen tells a fun tale of resourcefulness and community through clever, rhyming wordplay and whimsical illustrations, sprinkled with plenty of cars and trucks for transportation-loving readers. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/one-of-the-girls-lucy-clarke monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437353704-IW5GRD94EWUFR1M2LFCV/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - One of the Girls - by Lucy Clarke The latest twisty psychological thriller from internationally-bestselling author Lucy Clarke, One of the Girls is the delicious story of a bachelorette trip on a stunning Greek island... that ends in murder. It was supposed to be the perfect weekend away. Six very different women travel to a sun-soaked Greek island for a bachelorette trip, to celebrate Lexi’s upcoming wedding. From the glorious ocean views to the quaint tavernas and whitewashed streets, the vacation seems too good to be true. But dangerous undercurrents run beneath the sunset swims and midnight cocktails – because each of the women is hiding a secret. Someone is determined to make sure that Lexi’s marriage never happens – and that one of them doesn’t leave the island alive. Gripping, twisty, and full of sun-soaked suspense, this timely thriller examines the joys of female friendship…as well as the deadly consequences when a relationship goes wrong. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/fellowship-point-alice-elliott-dark monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437356244-9BO50EN9DCV4UVTCCFUS/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Fellowship Point - by Alice Elliott Dark The masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives, set across the arc of the 20th century. Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels; and even more consuming, to permanently protect the peninsula of majestic coast in Maine known as Fellowship Point. To donate the land to a trust, Agnes must convince shareholders to dissolve a generations-old partnership. And one of those shareholders is her best friend, Polly. Polly Wister has led a different kind of life than Agnes: that of a well-off married woman with children, defined by her devotion to her husband, and philosophy professor with an inflated sense of stature. She exalts in creating beauty and harmony in her home, in her friendships, and in her family. Polly soon finds her loyalties torn between the wishes of her best friend and the wishes of her three sons—but what is it that Polly wants herself? Agnes’s designs are further muddied when an enterprising young book editor named Maud Silver sets out to convince Agnes to write her memoirs. Agnes’s resistance cannot prevent long-buried memories and secrets from coming to light with far-reaching repercussions for all. Fellowship Point reads like a classic 19th-century novel in its beautifully woven, multilayered narrative, but it is entirely contemporary in the themes it explores; a deep and empathic interest in women’s lives, the class differences that divided us, the struggle to protect the natural world, and, above all, a reckoning with intimacy, history, and posterity. It is a masterwork from Alice Elliott Dark. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-midcoast-adam-white monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437358901-3LKVRIKGSPQUCLVV6I25/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Midcoast - by Adam White NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • “Looking for an addictive summer read? This crime drama embedded in a moving portrait of two Maine families marks the debut of a genius storyteller.”—People (Book of the Week) “I tore through the saga of the Thatch family in two nights. The Midcoast is a reader’s dream—tense, ominous, and deeply wise.”—David Benioff, co-creator of Game of Thrones ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—The Washington Post, Town & Country, The Millions, CrimeReads It’s spring in the tiny town of Damariscotta, a tourist haven on the coast of Maine known for its oysters and antiques. Andrew, a high school English teacher recently returned to the area, has brought his family to Ed and Steph Thatch’s sprawling riverside estate to attend a reception for the Amherst women’s lacrosse team. Back when they were all teenagers, Andrew never could have predicted that Ed, descended from a long line of lobstermen, or Steph, a decent student until she dropped out to start a family, would ever send a daughter to a place like Amherst. But so the tides have turned, and Andrew’s trying hard to admire, more than envy, the view from Ed’s rolling backyard meadow. As Andrew wanders through the Thatches’ house, he stumbles upon a file he’s not supposed to see: photos of a torched body in a burned-out sedan. And when a line of state police cruisers crashes the Thatches’ reception an hour later, Andrew and his neighbors finally begin to see the truth behind Ed and Steph’s remarkable rise. Soon the newspapers are running headlines about the Thatches, and Andrew’s poring over his memories, trying to piece together the story of a family he thought he knew. A propulsive drama that cares as deeply about its characters as it does about the crimes they commit, The Midcoast explores the machinations of privilege, the dark recesses of the American dream, and the lies we tell as we try, at all costs, to protect the ones we love. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/hokuloa-road-elizabeth-hand monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437361417-E5Z2RLAR49XLSEK6AM1G/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Hokuloa Road - by Elizabeth Hand A young man is drawn into the dark side of paradise in this "perfectly crafted" (Grady Hendrix) and "refreshingly creepy" (Washington Post) mystery, about the eerie secrets of one Hawai’ian island—a place where people have long vanished without a trace . . . On a whim, Grady Kendall applies to work as a live-in caretaker for a luxury property in Hawaiʻi, as far from his small-town Maine life as he can imagine. Within days he's flying out to an estate on remote Hokuloa Road, where he quickly uncovers a dark side to the island’s idyllic reputation: it has long been a place where people vanish without a trace. When a young woman from his flight becomes the next to disappear, Grady is determined—and soon desperate—to figure out what's happened to Jessie, and to all those staring out of the island’s “missing" posters. But working with Raina, Jessie’s fiercely protective best friend, to uncover the truth is anything but easy, and with an inexplicable and sinister presence stalking his every step, Grady can only hope he'll find the answer before it's too late. Perfect for fans of Peter Heller and The White Lotus, and from award-winning writer Elizabeth Hand, a master of crime fiction known for her magnetic characters, seductive prose, and fearless excavations into the darkest corners of our world, comes a chilling and illuminating new novel about a place unlike any other—and the deadly cost of keeping it so. "Set in a Hawaii so vividly imagined I'm still shaking sand out of my shoes."—Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of The Final Girl Support Group “Twisty and dark . . . easily one of the best thrillers I've read.” —Rachel Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs “This is the perfect book for your summer beach bag—an evocative mystery set in a tropical island paradise.” —Jason Rekulak, author of Hidden Pictures https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/bad-actors-mick-herron monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437364143-MBXVWL0JP75J8OD330KQ/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Bad Actors - by Mick Herron Mick Herron, “the le Carré of the future” (BBC), expands his world of bad spies with an even shadier cast of characters: the politicians, lobbyists, and misinformation agents pulling the levers of government policy. “Confirms Mick Herron as the best spy novelist now working.”—NPR's Fresh Air Now an Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas. In London's MI5 headquarters a scandal is brewing that could disgrace the entire intelligence community. The Downing Street superforecaster—a specialist who advises the Prime Minister's office on how policy is likely to be received by the electorate—has disappeared without a trace. Claude Whelan, who was once head of MI5, has been tasked with tracking her down. But the trail leads him straight back to Regent's Park itself, with First Desk Diana Taverner as chief suspect. Has Taverner overplayed her hand at last? Meanwhile, her Russian counterpart, Moscow intelligence's First Desk, has cheekily showed up in London and shaken off his escort. Are the two unfortunate events connected? Over at Slough House, where Jackson Lamb presides over some of MI5's most embittered demoted agents, the slow horses are doing what they do best, and adding a little bit of chaos to an already unstable situation . . . There are bad actors everywhere, and they usually get their comeuppance before the credits roll. But politics is a dirty business, and in a world where lying, cheating and backstabbing are the norm, sometimes the good guys can find themselves outgunned. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/hatchet-island-paul-doiron monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437366764-CDPQWE2MYGBEF4PRE4VC/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Hatchet Island - by Paul Doiron The eerie, windswept Hatchet Island off the coast of Maine becomes the site of a double murder and a disappearance in this thriller from bestselling author Paul Doiron. A call for help from a former colleague leads Maine game warden investigator Mike Bowditch and his girlfriend Stacey Stevens on a sea kayaking trip to a research station far off the coast. Stacey spent summers interning on the island, a sanctuary for endangered seabirds, and they are shocked by the atmosphere of tension they encounter when they come ashore. The biologists are being threatened and stalked by a mysterious boatman who they suspect is trespassing on the refuge late at night. And now the sanctuary’s enigmatic founder, whose mind has been slowly unraveling, has gone missing. Camped on an islet for the night, Mike and Stacey waken to the sound of a gunshot. When they return to the refuge at dawn, their darkest fears are confirmed: two of the three researchers have been brutally murdered and the third has disappeared, along with the island skiff. Mike’s quest to find the missing man leads to a nearby island owned by a world-renowned photographer and his equally brilliant wife. The inhabitants of this private kingdom quickly close ranks, and Mike increasingly comes to believe that someone in the village knows more about the killings than they dare admit. With no one to trust and miles from shore, Mike Bowditch must stop a ruthless murderer determined to make sure a terrifying secret never sees the light of day. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/horse-geraldine-brooks monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437369112-ZROBWQOJS0SXBME9PC3A/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Horse - by Geraldine Brooks “Brooks’ chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling.” —The New York Times Book Review “Horse isn’t just an animal story—it’s a moving narrative about race and art.” —TIME A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack. New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance. Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse—one studying the stallion’s bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success. Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/portrait-of-an-unknown-woman-daniel-silva monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437371696-KHKC7A4731BI0703555B/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Portrait of an Unknown Woman - by Daniel Silva In a spellbinding new masterpiece by #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva, Gabriel Allon undertakes a high-stakes search for the greatest art forger who ever lived Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly in Venice, the only place where he has ever truly known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, has taken over the day-to-day management of the Tiepolo Restoration Company, and their two young children are discreetly enrolled in a neighborhood scuola elementare. For his part, Gabriel spends his days wandering the streets and canals of the watery city, bidding farewell to the demons of his tragic, violent past. But when the eccentric London art dealer Julian Isherwood asks Gabriel to investigate the circumstances surrounding the rediscovery and lucrative sale of a centuries-old painting, he is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse where nothing is as it seems. Gabriel soon discovers that the work in question, a portrait of an unidentified woman attributed to Sir Anthony van Dyck, is almost certainly a fiendishly clever fake. To find the mysterious figure who painted it—and uncover a multibillion-dollar fraud at the pinnacle of the art world—Gabriel conceives one of the most elaborate deceptions of his career. If it is to succeed, he must become the very mirror image of the man he seeks: the greatest art forger the world has ever known. Stylish, sophisticated, and ingeniously plotted, Portrait of an Unknown Woman is a wildly entertaining journey through the dark side of the art world—a place where unscrupulous dealers routinely deceive their customers and deep-pocketed investors treat great paintings as though they were just another asset class to be bought and sold at a profit. From its elegant opening to the shocking twists of its climax, the novel is a tour de force of storytelling and one of the finest pieces of heist fiction ever written. And it is still more proof that, when it comes to international intrigue and suspense, Daniel Silva has no equal. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-uncollected-essays-of-elizabeth-hardwick-edited-by-alex-andriesse monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437374299-ROVLZLM3M2OYC4UP1HB4/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick - By Elizabeth Hardwick, Edited by Alex Andriesse Essays on music, art, pop culture, literature, and politics by the renowned essayist and observer of contemporary life, now collected together for the first time. The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick is a companion collection to The Collected Essays, a book that proved a revelation of what, for many, had been an open secret: that Elizabeth Hardwick was one of the great American literary critics, and an extraordinary stylist in her own right. The thirty-five pieces that Alex Andriesse has gathered here—none previously featured in volumes of Hardwick’s work—make it clear that her powers extended far beyond literary criticism, encompassing a vast range of subjects, from New York City to Faye Dunaway, from Wagner’s Parsifal to Leonardo da Vinci’s inventions, and from the pleasures of summertime to grits soufflé. In these often surprising, always well-wrought essays, we see Hardwick’s passion for people and places, her politics, her thoughts on feminism, and her ability, especially from the 1970s on, to write well about seemingly anything. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-committed-viet-thanh-nguyen monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437376703-BSS2M1GP5JGULFB3GRRD/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Committed - by Viet Thanh Nguyen The sequel to The Sympathizer, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and went on to sell over a million copies worldwide, The Committed tells the story of “the man of two minds” as he comes as a refugee to France and turns his hand to capitalism The long-awaited follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer, which has sold more than one million copies worldwide, The Committed follows the man of two minds as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother Bon. The pair try to overcome their pasts and ensure their futures by engaging in capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. Traumatized by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, Man, and struggling to assimilate into French culture, the Sympathizer finds Paris both seductive and disturbing. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals whom he meets at dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese “aunt,” he finds stimulation for his mind but also customers for his narcotic merchandise. But the new life he is making has perils he has not foreseen, whether the self-torture of addiction, the authoritarianism of a state locked in a colonial mindset, or the seeming paradox of how to reunite his two closest friends whose worldviews put them in absolute opposition. The Sympathizer will need all his wits, resourcefulness, and moral flexibility if he is to prevail. Both highly suspenseful and existential, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen’s position in the firmament of American letters. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-house-across-the-lake-riley-sager monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437379193-AZ6Q61ARJPAECWL58MFZ/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The House Across the Lake - by Riley Sager THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a most anticipated summer book by USA Today, People, E! News, Cosmopolitan, PureWow, CNN.com, New York Post, CrimeReads, POPSUGAR, and more The bestselling author of Final Girls and Survive the Night is back with his “best plot twist yet.” (People, "Best Summer Books") Be careful what you watch for . . . Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing—a tech innovator, Tom is powerful; and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous. One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a budding friendship. But the more they get to know each other—and the longer Casey watches—it becomes clear that Katherine and Tom’s marriage isn’t as perfect as it appears. When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey immediately suspects Tom of foul play. What she doesn’t realize is that there’s more to the story than meets the eye—and that shocking secrets can lurk beneath the most placid of surfaces. Packed with sharp characters, psychological suspense, and gasp-worthy plot twists, Riley Sager’s The House Across the Lake is the ultimate escapist read . . . no lake house required. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/french-braid-anne-tyler monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437381606-9MDPD4SGCUOVNLEGRIQ5/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - French Braid - by Anne Tyler NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author—a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore family’s foibles, from a boyfriend with a red Chevy in the 1950s up to a longed-for reunion with a grandchild in our pandemic present. The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understand. Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts' influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation. Full of heartbreak and hilarity, French Braid is classic Anne Tyler: a stirring, uncannily insightful novel of tremendous warmth and humor that illuminates the kindnesses and cruelties of our daily lives, the impossibility of breaking free from those who love us, and how close—yet how unknowable—every family is to itself. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-last-white-man-mohsin-hamid monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437383971-TTHVPV49JPHT1E545RTQ/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Last White Man - by Mohsin Hamid AMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER BY TIME, ELLE, USA TODAY, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY AND MORE “Perhaps Hamid’s most remarkable work yet … an extraordinary vision of human possibility.” –Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies “Searing, exhilarating … reimagines Kafka’s iconic The Metamorphosis for our racially charged era.” Hamilton Cain, Oprah Daily From the New York Times-bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change. One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders’s skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening in new incarnations, uncertain how their neighbors, friends, and family will greet them.Some see the transformations as the long-dreaded overturning of the established order that must be resisted to a bitter end. In many, like Anders’s father and Oona’s mother, a sense of profound loss and unease wars with profound love. As the bond between Anders and Oona deepens, change takes on a different shading: a chance at a kind of rebirth--an opportunity to see ourselves, face to face, anew. In Mohsin Hamid’s “lyrical and urgent” prose (O Magazine), The Last White Man powerfully uplifts our capacity for empathy and the transcendence over bigotry, fear, and anger it can achieve. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/confidence-denise-mina monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437386312-YQWSSDE19EHM1A5LOOY1/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Confidence - by Denise Mina In this "edge-of-your-seat" thriller and sequel to the Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine book club pick Conviction (The Los Angeles Times), Anna and Fin find themselves on another breathtaking chase across Europe—and another race to save their own lives. Deception. Theft. Murder. All you need is confidence. Anna McDonald has made a terrible mistake. She has forced her blended family to vacation together. The weather is bad, her daughters are bored, and her ex-husband still insufferable. Oh, and Fin Cohen brought his latest girlfriend, too. So when news of a shocking kidnapping breaks, Anna and Fin do the responsible thing. They take off to solve the case. Lisa Lee, a young YouTube star, has vanished after answering the door to what she thought was a pizza delivery. Police suspect her dad or the delivery guy, but in Lisa’s last known video she ventured into an abandoned chateau in France, where she uncovered a priceless artifact. Anna knows they must find this young woman before it’s too late. To do so, they need to track down that treasure, a casket that could hold answers to the greatest questions ever asked. But Anna and Fin might have misunderstood the stakes of the game. Soon, they find themselves mixed up with some very dark characters, on another thrilling chase across Europe—and another race to save their own lives. Praise for the national bestseller Conviction: "One of the most talented, most daring, most humane writers of the past twenty years . . . Conviction is Mina's finest work to date: a dark star of a novel, blazingly intense, up-to-the-minute fresh, and exciting as all hell." ―A.J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window "Endlessly surprising . . . This incredible novel seems to have been written in a white-hot rage."―Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review "Conviction combines all Mina's gifts―for suspense, humor, menace, sentiment―in spectacular fashion."―Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal "A page-turner with depth and soul."―O, the Oprah Magazine https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/night-of-the-living-rez-morgan-talty monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437388762-BYILUQ4BHTHLDWYOLH80/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Night of the Living Rez - by Morgan Talty Finalist for the New England Book Award for Fiction An Esquire Best Book of 2022 So Far A New York Times, TIME, The Boston Globe, Vulture, Boston.com, Daily Beast, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, BuzzFeed, Good Housekeeping, Bustle, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Lit Hub, Chicago Review of Books, Book Riot, WBUR, WBEZ, and Debutiful Best Book of Summer “There is so much brutal, raw, and beautiful power in these stories. Reading this book, I literally laughed and cried.” ―Tommy Orange, author of There There Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty―with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight―breathes life into tales of family and a community as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain future. A boy unearths a jar that holds an old curse, which sets into motion his family’s unraveling; a man, while trying to swindle some pot from a dealer, discovers a friend passed out in the woods, his hair frozen into the snow; a grandmother suffering from Alzheimer’s projects the past onto her grandson; and two friends, inspired by Antiques Roadshow, attempt to rob the tribal museum for valuable root clubs. A collection that examines the consequences and merits of inheritance, Night of the Living Rez is an unforgettable portrayal of an Indigenous community and marks the arrival of a standout talent in contemporary fiction. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/reminders-of-him-colleen-hoover monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437391235-KCD05OIBYPD84RM8QQUI/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Reminders of Him - by Colleen Hoover After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter’s life is determined to shut Kenna out, no matter how hard she works to prove herself. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/it-ends-with-us-colleen-hoover monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437393376-1OXYLYN0TRTF4O15NRNT/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - It Ends With Us - by Colleen Hoover In this “brave and heartbreaking novel that digs its claws into you and doesn’t let go, long after you’ve finished it” (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All Your Perfects, a workaholic with a too-good-to-be-true romance can’t stop thinking about her first love. Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life seems too good to be true. Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place. As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan—her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened. An honest, evocative, and tender novel, It Ends with Us is “a glorious and touching read, a forever keeper. The kind of book that gets handed down” (USA TODAY). https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/up-for-grabs-thomas-urquhart monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437395868-LUQ2V497LIWS7CEX2W1T/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Up for Grabs - by Thomas Urquhart Each year thousands of men and women and families recreate on Maine’s Public Reserved Lands. Most of these visitors know only that the large green areas on the map promise them access to some of the state’s most magnificent places. Very few have any idea how Maine acquired them. Or that, as a conservation success, their acquisition (600,000 acres) rivals the celebrated purchase and gift to Maine people of Baxter State Park (210,000 acres) by Governor Percival Baxter. Maine’s two hundredth anniversary is an appropriate moment to celebrate the largest land conservation triumph in its history. The story of the state’s Public Reserved Lands and how we got them speak to the very essence of Maine’s identity. With dramatic moments and colorful characters, the book weaves its way from 1820 to the present, providing an engaging and informative overview of conservation and preservation in Maine. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/maine-roads-to-gettysburg-tom-huntington monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437398460-EYDACOGKYO7GZJH8IP82/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Maine Roads to Gettysburg - by Tom Huntington INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and his 20th Maine regiment made a legendary stand on Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863. But Maine's role in the battle includes much more than that. Soldiers from the Pine Tree State contributed mightily during the three days of fighting. Pious general Oliver Otis Howard secured the high ground of Cemetery Ridge for the Union on the first day. Adelbert Ames--the stern taskmaster who had transformed the 20th Maine into a fighting regiment--commanded a brigade and then a division at Gettysburg. The 17th Maine fought ably in the confused and bloody action in the Wheatfield; a sea captain turned artilleryman named Freeman McGilvery cobbled together a defensive line that proved decisive on July 2; and the 19th Maine helped stop Pickett's Charge during the battle's climax. Maine soldiers had fought and died for two bloody years even before they reached Gettysburg. They had fallen on battlefields in Virginia and Maryland. They had died in front of Richmond, in the Shenandoah Valley, on the bloody fields of Antietam, in the Slaughter Pen at Fredericksburg, and in the tangled Wilderness around Chancellorsville. And the survivors kept fighting, even as they followed Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania. Maine Roads to Gettysburg tells their stories. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-it-girl-ruth-ware monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437400966-7QS7M4XLR2WZGVDC7UNN/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The It Girl - by Ruth Ware INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the “claustrophobic spine-tingler” (People) One by One returns with an unputdownable mystery following a woman on the search for answers a decade after her friend’s murder. April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends—Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily—during their first term. By the end of the year, April was dead. Now, a decade later, Hannah and Will are expecting their first child, and the man convicted of killing April, former Oxford porter John Neville, has died in prison. Relieved to have finally put the past behind her, Hannah’s world is rocked when a young journalist comes knocking and presents new evidence that Neville may have been innocent. As Hannah reconnects with old friends and delves deeper into the mystery of April’s death, she realizes that the friends she thought she knew all have something to hide…including a murder. “The Agatha Christie of our generation” (David Baldacci, #1 New York Times bestselling author) proves once again that she is “as ingenious and indefatigable as the Queen of Crime” (The Washington Post) with this propulsive murder mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/vacationland-meg-mitchell-moore monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437403567-S7E5TTYVF8N2M3XQGJGL/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Vacationland - by Meg Mitchell Moore The Sarah Selects July Book Club Pick! "As sophisticated and delicious as lobster bisque." -- Amanda Eyre Ward, New York Times bestselling author of The Lifeguards and The Jetsetters Louisa has come to her parents’ house in Maine this summer with all three of her kids, a barely-written book, and a trunkful of resentment. Left behind in Brooklyn is her husband, who has promised that after this final round of fundraising at his startup he will once again pick up his share of the household responsibilities. Louisa is hoping that the crisp breeze off Penobscot Bay will blow away the irritation she is feeling with her life choices and replace it with enthusiasm for both her family and her work. But all isn’t well in Maine. Louisa’s father, a retired judge and pillar of the community, is suffering from Alzheimer’s. Louisa’s mother is alternately pretending everything is fine and not pretending at all. And one of Louisa’s children happens upon a very confusing and heartfelt letter referring to something Louisa doesn’t think her father could possibly have done. Louisa’s not the only one searching for something in Maine this summer. Kristie took the Greyhound bus from Pennsylvania with one small suitcase, $761, and a lot of baggage. She’s got a past she’s trying to outrun, a secret she’s trying to unpack, and a new boyfriend who’s so impossibly kind she can’t figure out what she did to deserve him. But she can’t keep her various lives from colliding forever. As June turns to July turns to August, secrets will be unearthed, betrayals will come to light, and both Louisa and Kristie will ask themselves what they are owed and what they owe others. A delicious summer read and an exploration of family, responsibility, ambition and loss, Vacationland is Meg Mitchell Moore at her best. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/56-days-catherine-ryan-howard monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437405892-ZZOGXO57PWRMWBSH240H/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - 56 Days - by Catherine Ryan Howard *A New York Times Pick of the Best Thrillers of 2021 *A Washington Post Pick of the 10 Best Thrillers for 2021 ''Bloody good.'' --The New York Times ''Timely, surprising, emotionally alive, this is about as good as suspense fiction gets.'' --Washington Post No one even knew they were together. Now one of them is dead. 56 DAYS AGO Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin and start dating the same week COVID-19 reaches Irish shores. 35 DAYS AGO When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests they move in together. Ciara sees a unique opportunity for a relationship to flourish without the scrutiny of family and friends. Oliver sees a chance to hide who -- and what -- he really is. TODAY Detectives arrive at Oliver's apartment to discover a decomposing body inside. Can they determine what really happened, or has lockdown created an opportunity for someone to commit the perfect crime? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-red-truck-bakery-farmhouse-cookbook-brian-noyes monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437408339-S9MNEO517746ZNEJSNXO/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook - by Brian Noyes 95+ recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert from the award-winning Red Truck Bakery near Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, bringing the comfort and charm of the farmhouse where the bakery started into your kitchen “Original and highly personal, The Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook is a joyful love story to many comfort foods.”—Jacques Pépin, chef and author “If a cookbook could be a page-turner, this is the one! Brian not only knows how to create comfort in spades, but he writes both the sweet and savory recipes in such a way that you feel like you’re part of those five generations who inspired these vittles.”—Carla Hall, chef and author Brian Noyes, founder of the beloved Red Truck Bakery in Marshall, Virginia, and author of the Red Truck Bakery Cookbook, presents more than 95 all-new, comforting recipes celebrating ingredients and traditions from the bakery's home on the edge of the Shenandoah Valley and the Blue Ridge mountains. With small-town charm, an emphasis on local, seasonal produce, and country comfort inspiration from the 170-year-old farmhouse where the bakery began, The Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook features Brian’s favorite savory recipes and old-time classics from family, friends, and the bakery archives. This is the food that Brian cooks at home as well as for the bakery's thousands of customers nationwide—plus recipes for favorite Red Truck Bakery dishes that have not been shared before. From delightful lunch and dinner options like Potato & Pesto Flatbread, Corn Crab Cakes with Jalapeño Mayonnaise, Mid-July Tomato Pie, Pork Tenderloin with Rosemary and Blueberries, and Sweet Potato and Poblano Enchiladas, to knockout desserts like Lexington Bourbon Cake, Virginia Peanut Pie, and Caramel Cake with Pecans (which Garden & Gun magazine called "the perfect Southern dessert"), the recipes in The Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook are what we are all craving—unfussy, homey, Southern-leaning dishes that focus on local produce but don’t shy away from decadence. And for those who are eating vegetarian or vegan, there are plenty of plant-based options, like a vegan and gluten-free Coffee Cake, Carrot & Leek Pot Pies, Mushroom-Ricotta Lasagne with Port Sauce, and the Bakery's beloved “Beetloaf” Sandwiches. True to the spirit of the Red Truck Bakery, the recipes in the Red Truck Bakery Farmhouse Cookbook deliver unfailingly delicious comfort all year round. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-620-man-david-baldacci monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437410735-MZEWU0C6JBEOD0NPEMQS/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The 6:20 Man - by David Baldacci A cryptic murder pulls a former soldier turned financial analyst deep into the corruption and menace that prowl beneath the opulent world of finance, in #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci's new thriller. Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city's most prestigious investment firm. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes of the uberwealthy, dreaming about joining their ranks. In the evenings, he listens to the fiscal news on his phone, already preparing for the next grueling day in the cutthroat realm of finance. Then one morning Devine's tedious routine is shattered by an anonymous email: She is dead. Sara Ewes, Devine's coworker and former girlfriend, has been found hanging in a storage room of his office building--presumably a suicide, at least for now--prompting the NYPD to come calling on him. If that wasn't enough, before the day is out, Devine receives another ominous visit, a confrontation that threatens to dredge up grim secrets from his past in the army unless he participates in a clandestine investigation into his firm. This treacherous role will take him from the impossibly glittering lives he once saw only through a train window, to the darkest corners of the country's economic halls of power . . . where something rotten lurks. And apart from this high-stakes conspiracy, there's a killer out there with their own agenda, and Devine is the bull's-eye. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/james-patterson-by-james-patterson-the-stories-of-my-life monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437414189-56A90V2MTA9KG3VQ1H2Z/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life - by James Patterson “It's quite a life, Patterson's, and this fizzing, funny, often deeply moving memoir is a perfect way to understand the dizzying world of a best-selling writer." —Daily Mail “Damn near addictive. I loved it. . . that Patterson guy can write!” –Ron Howard THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER—How did a kid whose dad lived in the poorhouse become the most successful storyteller in the world? On the morning he was born, he nearly died. His dad grew up in the Pogey– the Newburgh, New York, poorhouse. He worked at a mental hospital in Massachusetts, where he met the singer James Taylor and the poet Robert Lowell. While he toiled in advertising hell, James wrote the ad jingle line “I’m a Toys ‘R’ Us Kid.” He once watched James Baldwin and Norman Mailer square off to trade punches at a party. He’s only been in love twice. Both times are amazing. Dolly Parton once sang “Happy Birthday” to James over the phone. She calls him J.J., for Jimmy James. How did a boy from small-town New York become the world’s most successful writer? How does he do it? He has always wanted to write the kind of novel that would be read and reread so many times that the binding breaks and the book literally falls apart. As he says, “I’m still working on that one.” James Patterson by James Patterson is the most anticipated memoir of 2022. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/escape monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437416481-6S2LQMYO4EX592DT1YZP/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Escape - by James Patterson #1 New York Times bestselling detective Billy Harney of The Black Book is chasing down a billionaire crime boss and a prison escape artist while a young girl's life hangs in the balance. As Chicago PD’s special-ops leader, Detective Billy Harney knows well that money is not the only valuable currency. The filthy rich man he’s investigating is down to his last twenty million. He’s also being held in jail. For now. Billy’s unit is called in when an escape plan results in officers down and inmates vanished. In an empty lot, Billy spots two Kevlar vests. Two helmets. Two assault rifles. And a handwritten note: Hi, BillyAre you having fun yet? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/shattered monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437418845-NHQVWVY0OI0O1UOFTGVX/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Shattered - by James Patterson Nothing could tear #1 New York Times bestseller Detective Michael Bennett away from his new bride—except the murder of his partner and best friend. NYPD master homicide investigator Michael Bennett and top FBI abduction specialist Emily Parker have a history. Working case after case, each can predict the other’s next move. So when she fails to show at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, Bennett risks venturing far outside his jurisdiction. The investigation he undertakes is the most brilliant detective work of his career…and the most intensely personal. A portrait begins to emerge of a woman as adept at keeping secrets as forging powerful connections. A woman whose enemies had both the means and the motives to silence the real Emily Parker—and her protectors. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/sparring-partners monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437422142-R8SPXFXUKZRHPYYSQ8I7/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Sparring Partners - by John Grisham #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham is the acknowledged master of the legal thriller. In his first collection of novellas, law is a common thread, but America’s favorite storyteller has several surprises in store. “Homecoming” takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham’s unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he’s not in the courtroom. He’s called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again—until now. Now Mack is back, and he’s leaning on his old pals, Jake and Harry Rex, to help him return. His homecoming does not go as planned. In “Strawberry Moon,” we meet Cody Wallace, a young death row inmate only three hours away from execution. His lawyers can’t save him, the courts slam the door, and the governor says no to a last-minute request for clemency. As the clock winds down, Cody has one final request. The “Sparring Partners” are the Malloy brothers, Kirk and Rusty, two successful young lawyers who inherited a once prosperous firm when its founder, their father, was sent to prison. Kirk and Rusty loathe each other, and speak to each other only when necessary. As the firm disintegrates, the resulting fiasco falls into the lap of Diantha Bradshaw, the only person the partners trust. Can she save the Malloys, or does she take a stand for the first time in her career and try to save herself? By turns suspenseful, hilarious, powerful, and moving, these are three of the greatest stories John Grisham has ever told. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-year-of-the-goat monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437424866-HAXSFC8K0UU5I2REYR5O/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Year of the Goat - by Margaret Hathaway Many people dream of leaving the workaday world for a life of simplicity and freedom, and Margaret Hathaway and her then-boyfriend Karl did just that. In The Year of the Goat, the reader can jump in the “goat mobile” with them as they ditch their big-city lifestyle to trek across forty-three states in search of greener pastures and the perfect goat cheese. Along the way, the reader is introduced to a vivid cast of characters—including farmers, breeders, cheese makers, and world-class chefs—and discovers everything there is to know about goats and getting back to the land. But readers beware: When it comes to goat cheese, it can be love at first bite. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ecoart-in-action-activities-case-studies-and-provocations-for-classrooms-and-communities monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437427533-D68FXHFM7AV1EVQKH2Y7/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Ecoart in Action: Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations for Classrooms and Communities - Ecoart in Action: Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations for Classrooms and Communities Ready-to-go, vetted approaches for facilitating artistic environmental projects How do we educate those who feel an urgency to address our environmental and social challenges? What ethical concerns do art-makers face who are committed to a deep green agenda? How can we refocus education to emphasize integrative thinking and inspire hope? What role might art play in actualizing environmental resilience? Compiled from 67 members of the Ecoart Network, a group of more than 200 internationally established practitioners, Ecoart in Action stands as a field guide that offers practical solutions to critical environmental challenges. Organized into three sections―Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations―each contribution provides models for ecoart practice that are adaptable for use within a variety of classrooms, communities, and contexts. Educators developing project and place-based learning curricula, citizens, policymakers, scientists, land managers, and those who work with communities (human and other) will find inspiration for integrating art, science, and community-engaged practices into on-the-ground environmental projects. If you share a concern for the environmental crisis and believe art can provide new options, this book is for you! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/divining-chaos-the-autobiography-of-an-idea monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437430290-74RV5UZ4S72BSP1PL337/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Divining Chaos: The Autobiography of an Idea - Diving Chaos A spirited memoir by artist Aviva Rahmani, offering a relatable narrative to discuss trigger point theory and the importance of eco-art activism. Divining Chaos is an intimate personal memoir of unparalleled transparency into the moments in Rahmani's life that shaped her as an artist and activist. Detailing the history that led her to two seminal projects―Ghost Nets, restoring a coastal town dump to flourishing wetlands, and The Blued Trees Symphony, which applied her premises to challenge natural gas pipelines with a novel legal theory about land use―Rahmani shares the decisions that shaped her life’s work and thinking. 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Queens of Mystery: Series 2 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/madame-blanc-mysteries-the-series-1 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437491155-XO54O5FRFP0M4OSD3EK3/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Madame Blanc Mysteries, The: Series 1 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/spider-man-no-way-home monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437493945-CR11NFRLZCO8GO2JXYM5/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Spider-Man: No Way Home [DVD] https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/to-the-river-a-journey-beneath-the-surface-canons monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437496472-MERFT7Z9AI806MU8O2L1/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface (Canons) - by Olivia Laing Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology and folklore. Lyrical and stirring, To the River is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/to-paradise-a-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437498933-FZT7OM3HHW0IGM9QXAKN/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - To Paradise: A Novel - by Hanya Yanagihara #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the author of the classic A Little Life—a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist’s damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him—and solve the mystery of her husband’s disappearances. These three sections are joined in an enthralling and ingenious symphony, as recurring notes and themes deepen and enrich one another: A townhouse in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village; illness, and treatments that come at a terrible cost; wealth and squalor; the weak and the strong; race; the definition of family, and of nationhood; the dangerous righteousness of the powerful, and of revolutionaries; the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise, and the gradual realization that it can’t exist. What unites not just the characters, but these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness. To Paradise is a findesiecle novel of marvelous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius. The great power of this remarkable novel is driven by Yanagihara’s understanding of the aching desire to protect those we love—partners, lovers, children, friends, family and even our fellow citizens—and the pain that ensues when we cannot. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ramses-the-damned-the-passion-of-cleopatra monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437501288-U2C112B85OYJJXBQ3MNJ/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra - by Anne Rice,Christopher Rice From the iconic, bestselling author of The Vampire Chronicles—Ramses the Great, former pharaoh of Egypt, is reawakened by the elixir of life in Edwardian England. Now immortal with his bride-to-be, he is swept up in a fierce and deadly battle of wills and psyches against the once-great Queen Cleopatra. In this mesmerizing, glamorous tale of ancient feuds and modern passions, Ramses has reawakened Cleopatra with the same perilous elixir whose unworldly force brings the dead back to life. But as these ancient rulers defy one another in their quest to understand the powers of the strange elixir, they are haunted by a mysterious presence even older and more powerful than they, a figure drawn forth from the mists of history who possesses spectacular magical potions and tonics eight millennia old. This is a figure who ruled over an ancient kingdom stretching from the once-fertile earth of the Sahara to the far corners of the world, a queen with a supreme knowledge of the deepest origins of the elixir of life. She may be the only one who can make known to Ramses and Cleopatra the key to their immortality—and the secrets of the miraculous, unknowable, endless expanse of the universe. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ramses-the-damned-the-reign-of-osiris monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437504834-UJIGW8QGUAPL5AVGMPAR/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Ramses the Damned: The Reign of Osiris - by Anne Rice,Christopher Rice The gilded adventures of Ramses the Damned, iconic creation of the legendary bestselling author, continue in this breathtakingly suspenseful tale of a titanic supernatural power unleashed on the eve of war. A pharaoh made immortal by a mysterious and powerful elixir, Ramses the Great became counselor and lover to some of Egypt's greatest and most powerful rulers before he was awakened from centuries of slumber to the mystifying and dazzling world of Edwardian England. Having vanquished foes both human and supernatural, he's found love with the beautiful heiress Julie Stratford, daughter of Lawrence Stratford, the slain archeologist who discovered his tomb. Now, with the outbreak of a world war looming, Ramses and those immortals brought forth from the mists of history by his resurrection will face their greatest test yet. Russian assassins bearing weapons of immense power have assembled under one command: all those who loved Lawrence Stratford must die. From the glowing jewels at their necks comes an incredible supernatural force: the power to bring statues to life. As Ramses and his allies, including the immortal queens Cleopatra and Bektaten, gather together to battle these threats, Ramses reveals that the great weapon may have roots in an ancient Egyptian ritual designed to render pharaohs humble before Osiris, the god of the underworld. The resulting journey will take them across storm-tossed seas and into the forests of northern Russia, where they will confront a terrifying collision of tortured political ambitions and religious fervor held in thrall to a Godlike power. But the true answers they seek will lie beyond the border between life and death, within realms that defy the imagination of even an immortal such as Ramses the Great. In Ramses the Damned: The Reign of Osiris, Anne Rice, revered and beloved storyteller ("queen of gothic lit, the maestro of the monstrous and the diva of the devious" --The Philadelphia Inquirer), in collaboration with her son, acclaimed bestselling novelist Christopher Rice ("a magician; a master" --Peter Straub), bring us another thrilling, seductive tale of high adventure, romance, history, and suspense. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/winter-recipes-from-the-collective-poems monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437507299-7OO7HSVV0G6A78PKM43Y/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems - by Louise Glück WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A haunting new book by a poet whose voice speaks of all our lifetimes Louise Glück’s thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and ancient. Winter Recipes from the Collective is chamber music, an invitation into that privileged realm small enough for the individual instrument to make itself heard, dolente, its line sustained, carried, and then taken up by the next instrument, spirited, animoso, while at the same time being large enough to contain a whole lifetime, the inconceivable gifts and losses of old age, the little princesses rattling in the back of a car, an abandoned passport, the ingredients of an invigorating winter sandwich, a sister’s death, the joyful presence of the sun, its brightness measured by the darkness it casts. “Some of you will know what I mean,” the poet says, by which she means, some of you will follow me. Hers is the sustaining presence, the voice containing all our lifetimes, “all the worlds, each more beautiful than the last.” This magnificent book couldn’t have been written by anyone else, nor could it have been written by the poet at any other time in her life. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-tucci-table-by-stanley-tucci monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437509713-VYCJU8ILGHSPWKIWQS01/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Tucci Table by Stanley Tucci - by Stanley Tucci (Author), Felicity Blunt (Author) Food can bind and govern a family and no one knows this more than Hollywood actor and respected foodie, Stanley Tucci. Throughout his childhood, cooking was a familial venture evoking a wealth of memories and traditions. Featuring family-friendly dishes and stunning photography THE TUCCI TABLE will captivate food lovers' imaginations with recipes from Stanley's traditional Italian roots as well as those of his British wife, Felicity Blunt. Each dish is introduced by Stanley and he offers an insight into why each recipe is so special to his family. Recipes include Pasta Al Forno, Roasted Sea bass, Pan Seared Venison and British classics such as Shepherd's Pie and Sausage Rolls. THE TUCCI TABLE captures the true joys of family cooking. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/tother-peoples-clothes-a-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437512173-EQ7LPRE72890BZO8R3W6/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Other People's Clothes: A Novel - by Calla Henkel Two American ex-pats obsessed with the Amanda Knox trial find themselves at the nexus of murder and celebrity in glittering late-aughts Berlin in this “hugely entertaining” (The New York Times) debut with a wicked sense of humor. “Darkly funny, psychologically rich and utterly addictive... [a] harrowing tale of twisty female friendships, slippery identity and furtive secrets.” —Megan Abbott, best-selling author of The Turnout Hoping to escape the pain of the recent murder of her best friend, art student Zoe Beech finds herself studying abroad in the bohemian capital of Europe—Berlin. Rudderless, Zoe relies on the arrangements of fellow exchange student Hailey Mader, who idolizes Warhol and Britney Spears and wants nothing more than to be an art star. When Hailey stumbles on a posting for a high-ceilinged, prewar sublet by well-known thriller writer Beatrice Becks, the girls snap it up. They soon spend their nights twisting through Berlin’s club scene and their days hungover. But are they being watched? Convinced that Beatrice intends to use their lives as inspiration for her next novel, Hailey vows to craft main-character-worthy personas. They begin hosting a decadent weekly nightclub in the apartment, finally gaining the notoriety they’ve been craving. Everyone wants an invitation to “Beatrice’s.” As the year unravels and events spiral out of control, they begin to wonder whose story they are living—and how it will end. Other People’s Clothes brilliantly illuminates the sometimes dangerous intensity of female friendships, as well as offering an unforgettable window into millennial life and the lengths people will go to in order to eradicate emotional pain. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/iris-murdoch-a-life-the-authorized-biography monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437514470-7GFH9RNXIP74OMUY10L4/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Iris Murdoch : A Life - The Authorized Biography - by Peter J. Conradi A full and revealing biography of one of the century's greatest English writers and an icon to a generation. Dame Iris Murdoch has played a major role in English life and letter for nearly half a century. As A.S.Byatt notes, she is 'absolutely central to our culture'. As a novelist, as a thinker, and as a private individual, her life has significance for our age. There is a recognisable Murdoch world, and the adjective 'Murdochian' has entered the language to describe situations where a small group of people interract intricately and strangely. Her story is as emotionally fascinating as that of Virginia Woolf, but far less well known; hers has been an adventurous, highly eventful life, a life of phenomenal emotional and intellectual pressures, and her books portray a real world which is if anything toned down as well as mythicised. For Iris's formative years, astonishingly, movingly and intimately documented by Conradi's meticulous research, were spent among the leading European and British intellectuals who fought and endured World War II, and her life like her books, was full of the most extraordinary passions and profound relationships with some of the most inspiring and influential thinkers, artists, writers and poets of that turbulent time and after. Peter Conradi was very close to both Iris Murdoch and John Bayley, Iris's husband, whose memoir of their life together has itself been the subject of an enormous amount of attention and acclaim. This will be an extraordinarily full biography, for there are vast resources in diaries and papers and friends' recollections, and while it is a superlative biography it is also a superb history of a generation who have profoundly influenced our world today. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-woman-who-borrowed-memories-selected-stories-nyrb-classics monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437516658-7B9724BOPLW89IOGHA74/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories (NYRB Classics) - by Tove Jansson (Author), Thomas Teal (Translator), Kathryn Davis (Introduction) An NYRB Classics Original Tove Jansson was a master of brevity, unfolding worlds at a touch. Her art flourished in small settings, as can be seen in her bestselling novel The Summer Book and in her internationally celebrated cartoon strips and books about the Moomins. It is only natural, then, that throughout her life she turned again and again to the short story. The Woman Who Borrowed Memories is the first extensive selection of Jansson’s stories to appear in English. Many of the stories collected here are pure Jansson, touching on island solitude and the dangerous pull of the artistic impulse: in “The Squirrel” the equanimity of the only inhabitant of a remote island is thrown by a visitor, in “The Summer Child” an unlovable boy is marooned along with his lively host family, in “The Cartoonist” an artist takes over a comic strip that has run for decades, and in “The Doll’s House” a man’s hobby threatens to overwhelm his life. Others explore unexpected territory: “Shopping” has a post-apocalyptic setting, “The Locomotive” centers on a railway-obsessed loner with murderous fantasies, and “The Woman Who Borrowed Memories” presents a case of disturbing transference. Unsentimental, yet always humane, Jansson’s stories complement and enlarge our understanding of a singular figure in world literature. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-summer-book-new-york-review-books-classics monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437519111-832G4A447J8RT6ZM0P5R/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Summer Book (New York Review Books Classics) - by Tove Jansson (Author), Thomas Teal (Translator), Kathryn Davis (Introduction) In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia’s grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. The grandmother is unsentimental and wise, if a little cranky; Sophia is impetuous and volatile, but she tends to her grandmother with the care of a new parent. Together they amble over coastline and forest in easy companionship, build boats from bark, create a miniature Venice, write a fanciful study of local bugs. They discuss things that matter to young and old alike: life, death, the nature of God and of love. “On an island,” thinks the grandmother, “everything is complete.” In The Summer Book, Jansson creates her own complete world, full of the varied joys and sorrows of life. Tove Jansson, whose Moomintroll comic strip and books brought her international acclaim, lived for much of her life on an island like the one described in The Summer Book, and the work can be enjoyed as her closely observed journal of the sounds, sights, and feel of a summer spent in intimate contact with the natural world. The Summer Book is translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-irish-grannys-complete-cookbook monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437521488-HY9MVOGSQIEPR7SPROLJ/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Irish Granny's Complete Cookbook - by Gill Books Combining recipes from the bestselling Irish Granny’s Pocket Recipe Book, Pocket Irish Potato Recipe Book and the Irish Granny’s Pocket Farmhouse Kitchen, this large-format cookbook is your complete guide to traditional Irish cooking. Granny has selected her best, most popular recipes to create the ultimate recipe book, something that belongs on every kitchen shelf. Let her teach you all you need to know about delicious, nutritious country cooking. Includes traditional recipes like soda bread, Irish stew, bacon and cabbage, and the best recipe for scones. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/something-to-hide-a-lynley-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437524372-381ORX2PO2GY8PAJ5NGU/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Something to Hide: A Lynley Novel - by Elizabeth George An Instant New York Times Bestseller! Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George. When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. She'd been working on a special task force within North London's Nigerian community, and Acting Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is assigned to the case, which has far-reaching cultural associations that have nothing to do with life as he knows it. In his pursuit of a killer determined to remain hidden, he's assisted by Detective Sergeants Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata. They must sort through the lies and the secret lives of people whose superficial cooperation masks the damage they do to one another. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/fear-the-past-the-dark-yorkshire-crime-thrillers monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437526962-98FJAN85IVHRSJV8URPE/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Fear the Past (The Dark Yorkshire Crime Thrillers) - by J M Dalgliesh Do you like gripping crime thrillers? Then discover the next unmissable chapter in the bestselling Dark Yorkshire Series. A murder without motive. A city centre bombing. The sins of the past revisited…DI Nathaniel Caslin is heading up a specialist unit, an opportunity to make a real difference. Little does he know, decisions taken decades previously are about to threaten all that he holds dear…Gangland tensions are on the rise as an uneasy peace is fractured in spectacular fashion. Two warring factions are lining up to unseat the other. Old adversaries rekindle their passion to exact revenge whilst the next generation seek to make a name for themselves. Meanwhile, Caslin is asked to investigate the mysterious murder of a private detective, revealing the vested interests of a multitude of figures. Finding himself walking the line between upholding the law and delivering justice, Caslin sees the past returning to haunt those around him.A crime perpetrated years previously sends ripples far and wide. Some people have much to gain whilst others have so much to lose… none more so than Caslin himself…Intense, suspenseful and gripping from the first page to the last, Fear the Past is the latest instalment in the international bestselling crime series by J M Dalgliesh. As with all the Dark Yorkshire books, Fear the Past can be enjoyed as a standalone thriller or read as the next chapter of the series. Buy it today! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/blood-money-the-dark-yorkshire-crime-thrillers monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437529292-QTCIJTBWTS6K5H7TQ9IC/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Blood Money (The Dark Yorkshire Crime Thrillers) - by J M Dalgliesh The fourth stunning book in the bestselling Dark Yorkshire series. Discover the latest explosive, unmissable chapter. A businessman found hanged. A tortured and mutilated loaner. High finance has never been so deadly… DI Nathaniel Caslin is spiralling toward a professional crisis. His biggest case in years has collapsed amid accusations of police intimidation. A rebuilt reputation is now facing ruin…As the extremes of nationalist hate descend upon York, a refugee is tortured to death while a straightforward case of a bankrupt’s suicide proves to be anything but simple. How does an enigmatic campaigner with a secret to keep link these two disparate worlds? Shining a light onto corporate finance draws Caslin to those who prefer to live in the shadows.Making money, concealing wealth, protecting what you have… comes at a price. Your enemies - your friends - may find the true cost is underwritten in blood…Gripping, fast-paced and full of suspense, Blood Money is the fourth novel released in the #1 international bestselling Dark Yorkshire crime series by J M Dalgliesh. Enjoyable as a standalone thriller or as the latest in the series. Discover the writer who readers are describing as unmissable. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-dark-yorkshire-series-books-1-3-the-di-caslin-collection-dark-yorkshire-collection monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437531693-DCFGX62A1JSSYTCJ1WLB/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Dark Yorkshire Series: Books 1-3: (The DI Caslin Collection) (Dark Yorkshire Collection) - by J M Dalgliesh Do you like gripping crime thrillers? Then discover the explosive, unmissable and bestselling Dark Yorkshire Series. There are three full-length novels in this stunning crime series.DIVIDED HOUSE. BLACKLIGHT. The DOGS in the STREETHave you met Caslin yet? Divided House; The public face. A private reality. Sometimes, the dead have a lot to hide...DI Nathaniel Caslin’s life is a mess. He works the minimum, abuses substances to survive the day and drinks his nights away. A once-promising career is in freefall. Investigating the death of an ex-serviceman in police custody, reveals the disappearance of a young family. No-one noticed. No-one seems to care. In the grip of a bitter, Yorkshire winter, a family home reluctantly offers up its grisly secrets. Out on the moors, a murder scene of horrific brutality demands Caslin's focused attention. In the search for answers, is anyone who they claim to be? Haunted by the ghosts of the past, Caslin is pushed to his limits. Will this case break him or be his path to redemption? Dark, terrifying and complex, Divided House is the breakout thriller from the exciting, new name in Crime Noir. BLACKLIGHT; Two women are missing. One who has it all. The other, has lost everything…DI Nathaniel Caslin is in conflict with his inner demons. His career is resurgent but the greater battle, that with his addiction, is still raging… and he is losing. An abandoned car and a desperate call to the police, lead Caslin into the heart of two families where secrets and lies are a way of life. What links the fate of an MP's granddaughter and that of a recovering drug addict, working in the sex trade? Past horrors and personal scandals tag with the present, as the tension mounts. Trust in those closest to him is brought into question, as Caslin pursues a deadly adversary. Lives hang in the balance and all the while, the clock is ticking…Dark, chilling and complex, Blacklight is a the second book in the series. The DOGS in the STREET; A murdered family-man. A young woman tortured and set on fire. A face from the past…DI Nathaniel Caslin is stable, for the first time in years. Now, he can look to the future, or so he thought. Granting a small favour to a friend, can often be anything but simple... When the only link between two apparently random murders appears to be an aging, Catholic priest, Caslin is thrust into a world of long-buried secrets. Drawing unwanted attention from the intelligence services, he must consider if the man he once trusted above all others, is now playing by his own rules. With professional killers circling, Caslin must face uncomfortable truths about those seeking redemption. Sometimes, justice is best served from the wrong side of the law. With the net tightening, the level of threat increases. Will Caslin, along with those closest to him, be the last victims of a forgotten conflict?Haunting, dark and intense, The Dogs in the Street is a fast-paced thriller and the third in the Dark Yorkshire Series. The Dark Yorkshire series are fast-paced police thrillers which will appeal to fans of authors such as Ian Rankin, Peter James, Michael Connely and Angela Marsons. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/groundskeeping-a-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437534187-7GEWVV1B1G113SPP7R0W/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Groundskeeping: A novel - by Lee Cole A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • An indelible love story about two very different people navigating the entanglements of class and identity and coming of age in an America coming apart at the seams—this is "an extraordinary debut about the ties that bind families together and tear them apart across generations" (Ann Patchett, best-selling author of The Dutch House). In the run-up to the 2016 election, Owen Callahan, an aspiring writer, moves back to Kentucky to live with his Trump-supporting uncle and grandfather. Eager to clean up his act after wasting time and potential in his early twenties, he takes a job as a groundskeeper at a small local college, in exchange for which he is permitted to take a writing course. Here he meets Alma Hazdic, a writer in residence who seems to have everything that Owen lacks—a prestigious position, an Ivy League education, success as a writer. They begin a secret relationship, and as they grow closer, Alma—who comes from a liberal family of Bosnian immigrants—struggles to understand Owen’s fraught relationship with family and home. Exquisitely written; expertly crafted; dazzling in its precision, restraint, and depth of feeling, Groundskeeping is a novel of haunting power and grace from a prodigiously gifted young writer. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/three-debts-paid-a-daniel-pitt-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437536504-PDJN6R44CV83EGG1L7N6/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Three Debts Paid: A Daniel Pitt Novel - by Anne Perry A killer is on the loose, targeting victims with a mysterious connection that young barrister Daniel Pitt must deduce before more bodies pile up, in this intricately woven mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. A serial killer is roaming the streets of London, and Daniel Pitt’s university chum Ian, now a member of the police, is leading the search. The murders happen on rainy nights, but Ian knows the victims must have something in common beyond the weather. He turns to Miriam fford Croft, Daniel’s good friend and now officially one of the first female pathologists in London, to tap her scientific know-how to find details he and Daniel have missed. With Miriam involved in the murder investigation, Ian passes Daniel the case of Nicholas Wolford, their former university professor. Charged with assault after reacting violently to an accusation of plagiarism, Wolford, a proud, boastful man, is loath to admit he was in the wrong. But Daniel must defend him—whether he likes him or not. As the murders continue with no clue as to who is committing them, Miriam, Daniel, and Ian find themselves questioning everything. Is the “Rainy-day Slasher,” as the newspapers have dubbed the killer, really just one person? Or have the investigators stumbled into a more complicated web of deceit? The answer may lie closer than anyone could have expected. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/french-braid-a-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437539236-HD3WX2MHIQOS0OT4WOHN/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - French Braid: A novel - by Anne Tyler NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author—a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore family’s foibles, from a boyfriend with a red Chevy in the 1950s up to a longed-for reunion with a grandchild in our pandemic present. The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understand. Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts' influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation. Full of heartbreak and hilarity, French Braid is classic Anne Tyler: a stirring, uncannily insightful novel of tremendous warmth and humor that illuminates the kindnesses and cruelties of our daily lives, the impossibility of breaking free from those who love us, and how close—yet how unknowable—every family is to itself. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/give-unto-others-a-commissario-guido-brunetti-mystery monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437542246-O145WUJPEW92YMGYF8QS/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Give unto Others (A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery) - by Donna Leon **An Instant New York Times Bestseller** Brunetti is forced to confront the price of loyalty, to his past and in his work, as a seemingly innocent request leads him into troubling waters What role can or should loyalty play in the life of a police inspector? It’s a question Commissario Guido Brunetti must face and ultimately answer in Give unto Others, Donna Leon’s splendid thirty-first installment of her acclaimed Venetian crime series. Brunetti is approached for a favor by Elisabetta Foscarini, a woman he knows casually, but her mother was good to Brunetti’s mother, so he feels obliged to at least look into the matter privately, and not as official police business. Foscarini’s son-in-law, Enrico Fenzo, has alarmed his wife (her daughter) by confessing their family might be in danger because of something he’s involved with. Since Fenzo is an accountant, Brunetti logically suspects the cause of danger is related to the finances of a client. Yet his clients seem benign: an optician, a restaurateur, a charity established by his father-in-law. However, when his friend’s daughter’s place of work is vandalized, Brunetti asks his own favors—that his colleagues Claudia Griffoni, Lorenzo Vianello, and Signorina Elettra Zorzi assist his private investigation, which soon enough turns official as they uncover the dark and Janus-faced nature of a venerable Italian institution. Exploring the wobbly line between the criminal and non-criminal, revealing previously untold elements of Brunetti’s past, Give unto Others shows that the price of reciprocity can be steep. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-game-of-fear-a-novel-inspector-ian-rutledge-mysteries-24 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437545708-FTOENAVN2DQAWZ69E6CP/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - A Game of Fear: A Novel (Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries, 24) - by Charles Todd USA Today Bestseller In this newest installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series, Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge is faced with his most perplexing case yet: a murder with no body, and a killer who can only be a ghost. Spring, 1921. Scotland Yard sends Inspector Ian Rutledge to the sea-battered village of Walmer on the coast of Essex, where amongst the salt flats and a military airfield lies Benton Abbey, a grand manor with a storied past. The lady of the house may prove his most bewildering witness yet. She claims she saw a violent murder—but there is no body, no blood. She also insists she recognized the killer: Captain Nelson. Only it could not have been Nelson because he died during the war. Everyone in the village believes that Lady Benton’s losses have turned her mind—she is, after all, a grieving widow and mother—but the woman Rutledge interviews is rational and self-possessed. And then there is Captain Nelson: what really happened to him in the war? The more Rutledge delves into this baffling case, the more suspicious tragedies he uncovers. The Abbey and the airfield hold their secrets tightly. Until Rutledge arrives, and a new trail of death follows… https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-sunlit-weapon-a-novel-maisie-dobbs-17 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437548433-M5GKP99H7Z21KBH21OVV/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - A Sunlit Weapon: A Novel (Maisie Dobbs, 17) - by Jacqueline Winspear In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, a series of possible attacks on British pilots leads Jacqueline Winspear's beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs into a mystery involving First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. October 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire—the fastest fighter aircraft in the world—to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft from the ground. Returning to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, bound and gagged. She rescues the man, who is handed over to the American military police; it quickly emerges that he is considered a suspect in the disappearance of a fellow soldier who is missing. Tragedy strikes two days later, when another ferry pilot crashes in the same area where Jo’s plane was attacked. At the suggestion of one of her colleagues, Jo seeks the help of psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs. Meanwhile, Maisie’s husband, a high-ranking political attaché based at the American embassy, is in the thick of ensuring security is tight for the first lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt, during her visit to the Britain. There’s already evidence that German agents have been circling: the wife of a president represents a high value target. Mrs. Roosevelt is clearly in danger, and there may well be a direct connection to the death of the woman ferry pilot and the recent activities of two American servicemen. To guarantee the safety of the First Lady—and of the soldier being held in police custody—Maisie must uncover that connection. At the same time, she faces difficulties of an entirely different nature with her young daughter, Anna, who is experiencing wartime struggles of her own. In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, a series of possible attacks on British pilots leads Jacqueline Winspear's beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs into a mystery involving First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. October 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire—the fastest fighter aircraft in the world—to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft from the ground. Returning to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, bound and gagged. She rescues the man, who is handed over to the American military police; it quickly emerges that he is considered a suspect in the disappearance of a fellow soldier who is missing. Tragedy strikes two days later, when another ferry pilot crashes in the same area where Jo’s plane was attacked. At the suggestion of one of her colleagues, Jo seeks the help of psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs. Meanwhile, Maisie’s husband, a high-ranking political attaché based at the American embassy, is in the thick of ensuring security is tight for the first lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt, during her visit to the Britain. There’s already evidence that German agents have been circling: the wife of a president represents a high value target. Mrs. Roosevelt is clearly in danger, and there may well be a direct connection to the death of the woman ferry pilot and the recent activities of two American servicemen. To guarantee the safety of the First Lady—and of the soldier being held in police custody—Maisie must uncover that connection. At the same time, she faces difficulties of an entirely different nature with her young daughter, Anna, who is experiencing wartime struggles of her own. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-match monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437550710-KTMZWH4Z1EX0X63S6KBX/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Match - by Harlan Coben Named a Best Book by USA Today • Wall Street Journal • Publishers Weekly A shocking genetic match exposes a family’s darkest secret in this gripping new thriller from the creator of the #1 hit Netflix series Stay Close. After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failed bid at domesticity that confirms what he’s known all along: He belongs on his own, free from the comforts and constraints of modern life. Suddenly, a DNA match on an online ancestry database brings Wilde closer to his past than he’s ever dreamed, and finally gives Wilde the opening he needs to track down his father. But meeting the man brings up more questions than answers. So Wilde reaches out to his last, most desperate lead, a second cousin who disappears as quickly as he resurfaces, having experienced an epic fall from grace that can only be described as a waking nightmare. Was his cousin’s downfall a long time coming? Or was he the victim of a conspiracy as cunning as it is complex? And how does it all connect to the man once known as The Stranger, a treacherous fugitive with a growing following whose mission and methods have only turned more dangerous with time? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-maid-a-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437554247-D7C9TKF9KKE5IN358W3F/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Maid: A Novel - by Nita Prose #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • “A heartwarming mystery with a lovable oddball at its center” (Real Simple), this cozy whodunit introduces a one-of-a-kind heroine who will steal your heart. “The reader comes to understand Molly’s worldview, and to sympathize with her longing to be accepted—a quest that gives The Maid real emotional heft.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) “Think Clue. Think page-turner.”—Glamour In development as a major motion picture produced by and starring Florence Pugh Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life’s complexities all by herself. No matter—she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. Her unique character, along with her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette, make her an ideal fit for the job. She delights in donning her crisp uniform each morning, stocking her cart with miniature soaps and bottles, and returning guest rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel to a state of perfection. But Molly’s orderly life is upended the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black, only to find it in a state of disarray and Mr. Black himself dead in his bed. Before she knows what’s happening, Molly’s unusual demeanor has the police targeting her as their lead suspect. She quickly finds herself caught in a web of deception, one she has no idea how to untangle. Fortunately for Molly, friends she never knew she had unite with her in a search for clues to what really happened to Mr. Black—but will they be able to find the real killer before it’s too late? A Clue-like, locked-room mystery and a heartwarming journey of the spirit, The Maid explores what it means to be the same as everyone else and yet entirely different—and reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-paris-apartment-a-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437556833-JYH5YYMV2L4Y69YVS3VL/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Paris Apartment: A Novel - by Lucy Foley THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "As you patiently await season two of Only Murders in the Building, cozy up with Lucy Foley’s latest whodunnit." -- Parade "Exceedingly clever." -- Booklist From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List comes a new locked room mystery, set in a Paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide… Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn’t sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn’t say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up – to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? – he’s not there. The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig into her brother’s situation, and the more questions she has. Ben’s neighbors are an eclectic bunch, and not particularly friendly. Jess may have come to Paris to escape her past, but it’s starting to look like it’s Ben’s future that’s in question. The socialite – The nice guy – The alcoholic – The girl on the verge – The concierge Everyone's a neighbor. Everyone's a suspect. And everyone knows something they’re not telling. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/run-rose-run-a-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437559127-DRMET10XQ9PJQVYHJB1W/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Run, Rose, Run: A Novel - by James Patterson and Dolly Parton From America’s most beloved superstar and its greatest storyteller—a thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise and on the run, and determined to do whatever it takes to survive. Every song tells a story. She’s a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. She’s also on the run. Find a future, lose a past. Nashville is where she’s come to claim her destiny. It’s also where the darkness she’s fled might find her. And destroy her. Run, Rose, Run is a novel glittering with danger and desire—a story that only America’s #1 beloved entertainer and its #1 bestselling author could have created. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/bad-actors-slough-house monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437561747-ET6SX35A7TOGDDULSEDN/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Bad Actors (Slough House) - by Mick Herron Mick Herron, “the le Carré of the future” (BBC), expands his world of bad spies with an even shadier cast of characters: the politicians, lobbyists, and misinformation agents pulling the levers of government policy. “Confirms Mick Herron as the best spy novelist now working.” —NPR's Fresh Air Now an Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas. In London's MI5 headquarters a scandal is brewing that could disgrace the entire intelligence community. The Downing Street superforecaster—a specialist who advises the Prime Minister's office on how policy is likely to be received by the electorate—has disappeared without a trace. Claude Whelan, who was once head of MI5, has been tasked with tracking her down. But the trail leads him straight back to Regent's Park itself, with First Desk Diana Taverner as chief suspect. Has Taverner overplayed her hand at last? Meanwhile, her Russian counterpart, Moscow intelligence's First Desk, has cheekily showed up in London and shaken off his escort. Are the two unfortunate events connected? Over at Slough House, where Jackson Lamb presides over some of MI5's most embittered demoted agents, the slow horses are doing what they do best, and adding a little bit of chaos to an already unstable situation . . . There are bad actors everywhere, and they usually get their comeuppance before the credits roll. But politics is a dirty business, and in a world where lying, cheating and backstabbing are the norm, sometimes the good guys can find themselves outgunned. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-investigator monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437564352-Z5F4C47CMGXG1CQ8EGQC/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Investigator - by John Sandford Letty Davenport, the brilliant and tenacious adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes the investigative reins in the newest thriller from #1 bestselling author John Sandford. “Sandford fans rejoice! Davenport next generation has arrived and Letty is exactly the kind of cool-eyed, smart-mouthed, lethally dangerous heroine we’ve been waiting for.”--Lisa Gardner, author of One Step Too Far By age twenty-four, Letty Davenport has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals. Now a recent Stanford grad with a master’s in economics, she’s restless and bored in a desk job for U.S. Senator Colles. Letty’s ready to quit, but her skills have impressed Colles, and he offers her a carrot: feet-on-the-ground investigative work, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security. Several oil companies in Texas have reported thefts of crude, Colles tells her. He isn’t so much concerned with the oil as he is with the money: who is selling the oil, and what are they doing with the profits? Rumor has it that a fairly ugly militia group might be involved. Colles wants to know if the money is going to them, and if so, what they’re planning. Letty is partnered with a DHS investigator, John Kaiser, and they head to Texas. When the case quicky turns deadly, they know they’re on the track of something bigger. The militia group has set in motion an explosive plan . . . and the clock is ticking down. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/brunos-challenge-and-other-stories-of-the-french-countryside-bruno-chief-of-police-series monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437566890-QQNG0QNX2HHAR9ELMN6V/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Bruno's Challenge: And Other Stories of the French Countryside (Bruno, Chief of Police Series) - by Martin Walker Martin Walker presents his first collection of stories featuring all the familiar characters from his Bruno novels and the glories of the Périgord region of France, with ample helpings of food and wine. After a prisoner breaks parole to see his son on Christmas, Bruno must track him down before he throws away his chance at eventual freedom. When a Senegalese man’s coffee sells superbly at the market, some café owners become incensed by the new competition and take matters into their own hands. As a Swiss tourist and a St. Denis native fall in love over the fruit-and-veggie stall, one of their family members takes drastic steps to break them up. A fledgling tour bus business is sabotaged, leading Bruno to take a closer look at a town love triangle. Called in to investigate a case of stolen oysters, our beloved policeman reunites with an old flame to catch the shellfish thieves. In story after story, Bruno settles town disputes, mediates family quarrels, and tracks down lawbreakers in his adored village of St. Denis and its environs. Featured meals in the collection include a fatty Christmas goose, a savory nettle soup with crème fraîche, and a fluffy quiche Lorraine. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-king-arthur-case-a-brittany-mystery-brittany-mystery-series-7 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437569151-TSFXR1Q0IAPHKODB8SUI/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The King Arthur Case: A Brittany Mystery (Brittany Mystery Series, 7) - by Jean-Luc Bannalec The King Arthur Case is the seventh installment of Jean-Luc Bannalec's bestselling mystery series. The forest of Broceliande, with its picturesque lakes and castles, is the last remnant of the fairy kingdom, if Breton lore is to be believed. Innumerable legends spanning thousands of years are set here, inclding the tale of King Arthur and the Round Table. It seems to be an appropriate destination for Commissaire Dupin and his team to take a late summer field trip. But when the body of a historian turns up, Dupin is called upon to investigate in the brutal murder case. Before too long, there are more victims. What knowledge do the assembled scientists have about the most recent archaeological digs in the area? Where do they stand on the controversial decision to turn parts of the forest into an amusement park? And why is no one willing to talk? Even Nolwenn, Dupin's unshakeable assistant, is concerned. And that means trouble. Mysterious, ingenious, and suspenseful: Dupin's seventh case takes him and his team into the very heart of Brittany. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/22-seconds-womens-murder-club-22-8n55h monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437571850-VMT7JDDPT5OP0AYJ8II0/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - 22 Seconds (Women's Murder Club, 22) (Copy) - by James Patterson (Author), Maxine Paetro (Author) SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has guns on her mind. There’s buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws. Before Lindsay can act, her top informant tips her to a case that hits disturbingly close to home. Former cops. Professional hits. All with the same warning scrawled on their bodies: You talk, you die. Now it’s Lindsay’s turn to choose. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dream-town-an-archer-novel-3 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437574635-EJ7TV75Y3ZG7QXY1513T/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Dream Town (An Archer Novel, 3) - by David Baldacci It’s the eve of 1953, and Aloysius Archer is in Los Angeles to ring in the New Year with an old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan, when their evening is interrupted by an acquaintance of Callahan’s: Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter in dire straits. After a series of increasingly chilling events—mysterious phone calls, the same blue car loitering outside her house, and a bloody knife left in her sink—Eleanor fears that her life is in danger, and she wants to hire Archer to look into the matter. Archer suspects that Eleanor knows more than she’s saying, but before he can officially take on her case, a dead body turns up inside of Eleanor’s home . . . and Eleanor herself disappears. Missing client or not, Archer is dead set on finding both the murderer and Eleanor. With the help of Callahan and his partner Willie Dash, he launches an investigation that will take him from mob-ridden Las Vegas to the glamorous world of Hollywood to the darkest corners of Los Angeles—a city in which beautiful faces are attached to cutthroat schemers, where the cops can be more corrupt than the criminals . . . and where the powerful people responsible for his client’s disappearance will kill without a moment’s hesitation if they catch Archer on their trail. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-palace-papers-inside-the-house-of-windsor-the-truth-and-the-turmoil monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437577101-69QNW3EYF9I4DSQNDBI9/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil - by Tina Brown NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The“addictively readable” (The Washington Post)inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana years—only to confront new, twenty-first-century crises “Brown is a deft and wily royal chronicler, marshaling a heavy arsenal of details into a wickedly edible narrative.”—Los Angeles Times “Never again” became Queen Elizabeth II’s mantra shortly after Princess Diana’s tragic death. More specif­ically, there could never be “another Diana”—a mem­ber of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the Brit­ish monarchy. Picking up where Tina Brown’s masterful The Diana Chronicles left off, The Palace Papers reveals how the royal family reinvented itself after the trau­matic years when Diana’s blazing celebrity ripped through the House of Windsor like a comet. Brown takes readers on a tour de force journey through the scandals, love affairs, power plays, and betrayals that have buffeted the monarchy over the last twenty-five years. We see the Queen’s stoic re­solve after the passing of Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother, and Prince Philip, her partner for seven decades, and how she triumphs in her Jubilee years even as family troubles rage around her. Brown explores Prince Charles’s determination to make Camilla Parker Bowles his wife, the tension between William and Harry on “different paths,” the ascend­ance of Kate Middleton, the downfall of Prince An­drew, and Harry and Meghan’s stunning decision to step back as senior royals. Despite the fragile monar­chy’s best efforts, “never again” seems fast approaching. Tina Brown has been observing and chronicling the British monarchy for three decades, and her sweeping account is full of powerful revelations, newly reported details, and searing insight gleaned from remarkable access to royal insiders. Stylish, witty, and erudite, The Palace Papers will irrevoca­bly change how the world perceives and under­stands the royal family. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ballykissangel-the-complete-series-6 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437581429-VGK2AZ1305FC4D0P0ZK9/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Ballykissangel: The Complete Series 6 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ballykissangel-the-complete-series-5 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437584355-5492KJUK2IV0W3QN3LWR/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Ballykissangel: The Complete Series 5 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ballykissangel-the-complete-series-4 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437586938-HV1PU22U648N2FIKMKGL/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Ballykissangel: The Complete Series 4 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ballykissangel-the-complete-series-3 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437589506-BSI2NLSJZQRTQOALII4X/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Ballykissangel: The Complete Series 3 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ballykissangel-the-complete-series-1 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437591979-CHLGEJGWY15Q6RW84KOQ/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Ballykissangel: The Complete Series 1 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ballykissangel-the-complete-series-2 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437594495-3GTNQS6QEXCFN9S8F243/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Ballykissangel: The Complete Series 2 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-tudors-the-complete-series monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437597429-U7RE2UKKY5PK0QGR2GP8/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Tudors: The Complete Series https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/hinterland-the-complete-series monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437600148-3NWI6X725OXOCY95KKHO/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Hinterland: The Complete Series - Television/British Television, Television/Crime https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/hetty-wainthropp-investigates-the-complete-first-series monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437602589-MBFAQ5C1T9VPY2O73K2J/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Hetty Wainthropp Investigates: The Complete First Series - Mystery & Thrillers https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/holidayinn monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437605494-25HQ1R7MZMZOUYFY7MC6/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Holiday Inn - Holiday Inn Bing Crosby (Actor), Fred Astaire (Actor), Mark Sandrich (Director, Producer) https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-pallisers-set-1 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437608003-LLY6YI6FQIMSSFXC938M/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Pallisers, Set 1 - The Pallisers, Set 1 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/2040 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437610708-YMPBAOCH0Y9T067CQTIY/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - 2040 - director, Damon Gameau https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pie-in-the-sky-series-4 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437613868-VOGEQE9LJ8VA1A0VJL5E/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Pie in the Sky, Series 4 - Series 4 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pie-in-the-sky-series-3 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437617422-1SAP6J8OOLC1C89MC04P/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Pie in the Sky, Series 3 - Series 3 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pie-in-the-sky-series-2 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437620713-PA3OVRB9HD4GSKVO25FM/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Pie in the Sky, Series 2 - Series 2 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pie-in-the-sky-series-1 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437623262-1GJH8IEO4O7M6Z6D8D1B/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Pie in the Sky, Series 1 - Series 1 https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/braiding-sweetgrass monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437625728-AEOLJHFOQE58BJ93JB0W/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Braiding Sweetgrass - by Robin Wall Kimmerer Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings―asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass―offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/theotherblackgirl monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437628260-5OT6058XLRJEF71S4OJH/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Other Black Girl - by Zakiya Dalila Harris Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she’s thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They’ve only just started comparing natural hair care regimens, though, when a string of uncomfortable events elevates Hazel to Office Darling, and Nella is left in the dust. Then the notes begin to appear on Nella’s desk: LEAVE WAGNER. NOW. It’s hard to believe Hazel is behind these hostile messages. But as Nella starts to spiral and obsess over the sinister forces at play, she soon realizes that there’s a lot more at stake than just her career. A whip-smart and dynamic thriller and sly social commentary that is perfect for anyone who has ever felt manipulated, threatened, or overlooked in the workplace, The Other Black Girl will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last twist. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/naturecure monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437630742-TMHMVTO5EF56W2BN6GI6/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Nature Cure - by Richard Mabey To celebrate Richard Mabey's 80th birthday, a reissue of the seminal Nature Cure, originally published in 2005 to great acclaim. At the height of his career, having recently published Flora Britannica, the author and naturalist fell in to a deep and all consuming depression. Unable to rise from his bed, his face turned to the wall, Richard Mabey found that the touchstones of his life - his love for nature and the land - could no longer offer him solace. But over time, with help from friends and a move to East Anglia, he slowly recovered, finding a new partner, and a new relationship with landscape. Nature Cure, full of nuance and energy, was a pioneering book in the genre that has since become known as New Nature Writing, and received many plaudits on publication. For this new hardback edition Richard has written a new foreword and Little Toller has commissioned a new jacket by the celebrated artist Michael Kirkman. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/vesper-flights monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437633287-DHVW95GNQM3N08H0EK51/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Vesper Flights - by Helen Macdonald Animals don’t exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk’s poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds’ nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife. By one of this century’s most important and insightful nature writers, Vesper Flights is a captivating and foundational book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make sense of the world around us. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/writing-wild-women-poets-ramblers-and-mavericks-who-shape-how-we-see-the-natural-world monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437635925-LCCB8392INV8QB16JAOG/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World - by Kathryn Aalto In Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world. These inspiring wordsmiths are scholars, spiritual seekers, conservationists, scientists, novelists, and explorers. They defy easy categorization, yet they all share a bold authenticity that makes their work both distinct and universal. Part travel essay, literary biography, and cultural history, Writing Wild ventures into the landscapes and lives of extraordinary writers and encourages a new generation of women to pick up their pens, head outdoors, and start writing wild. Featured writers include Dorothy Wordsworth, Susan Fenimore Cooper, Gene Stratton-Porter, Mary Austin, and Vita Sackville-West. Nan Shepherd, Rachel Carson, Mary Oliver, Carolyn Merchant, and Annie Dillard. Gretel Ehrlich, Leslie Marmon Silko, Diane Ackerman, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Lauret Savoy. Rebecca Solnit, Kathleen Jamie, Carolyn Finney, Helen Macdonald, and Saci Lloyd. Andrea Wulf, Camille T. Dungy, Elena Passarello, Amy Liptrot, and Elizabeth Rush. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-granite-coast-murders-a-brittany-mystery monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437638359-93182RVX84DTWSJX717W/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Granite Coast Murders: A Brittany Mystery - by Jean-Luc Bannalec Inspector Dupin and Claire are on a two-week vacation, but while Claire seems to enjoy the quiet of the beach, Commissaire Dupin takes every opportunity to leave the beach towel. The fabulous dinners on the hotel patio and the rumors about a stolen statue of a saint are the few interesting moments of his days on vacation. But then a tourist vanishes without trace and there’s an attack on a deputy to the local assembly, who is involved in confrontations with local farmers. Shortly after that, the Britanny beach resort is shocked by the discovery of a corpse. Dupin clandestinely begins to investigate with the help of the local villagers, something he must keep a secret from Claire and his colleagues in Concarneau. Between bewitched valleys and beautiful beaches, an unfathomable case develops. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/we-are-the-brennans-a-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437641214-C96RSARPBF97D8APXY6K/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - We Are the Brennans: A Novel - by Tracey Lange When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a drunk driving accident she caused, she swallows her pride and goes home to her family in New York. But it’s not easy. She deserted them all―and her high school sweetheart―five years before with little explanation, and they've got questions. Sunday is determined to rebuild her life back on the east coast, even if it does mean tiptoeing around resentful brothers and an ex-fiancé. The longer she stays, however, the more she realizes they need her just as much as she needs them. When a dangerous man from her past brings her family’s pub business to the brink of financial ruin, the only way to protect them is to upend all their secrets―secrets that have damaged the family for generations and will threaten everything they know about their lives. In the aftermath, the Brennan family is forced to confront painful mistakes―and ultimately find a way forward, together. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/sex-and-vanity-a-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437643520-U969DDCELLD694CI5CZL/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Sex and Vanity: A Novel - Kevin Kwan On her very first morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao and she instantly can't stand him. She can't stand it when he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her so that she can have a view of the Tyrrhenian Sea, she can't stand that he knows more about Casa Malaparte than she does, and she really can't stand it when he kisses her in the darkness of the ancient ruins of a Roman villa and they are caught by her snobbish, disapproving cousin Charlotte. The daughter of an American-born Chinese mother and a blue-blooded New York father, Lucie has always sublimated the Asian side of herself in favor of the white side, and she adamantly denies having feelings for George. But several years later, when George unexpectedly appears in East Hampton, where Lucie is weekending with her new fiancé, Lucie finds herself drawn to George again. Soon, Lucie is spinning a web of deceit that involves her family, her fiancé, the co-op board of her Fifth Avenue apartment building, and, ultimately, herself as she tries mightily to deny George entry into her world—and her heart. Moving between summer playgrounds of privilege, peppered with decadent food and extravagant fashion, Sex and Vanity is a truly modern love story, a daring homage to A Room with a View, and a brilliantly funny comedy of manners set between two cultures. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/leave-the-world-behind-a-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437645932-48V3XPQPI590NRC899V9/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Leave the World Behind: A Novel - Rumaan Alam From the bestselling author of Rich and Pretty comes a suspenseful and provocative novel keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped—and unexpected new ones are forged—in moments of crisis. Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple—it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area—with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service—it’s hard to know what to believe. Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple—and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/walking-on-cowrie-shells monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437648615-OE5E69YI6BT9RB085QGL/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Walking on Cowrie Shells - Nana Nkweti In other stories, Nkweti vaults past realism, upending genre expectations in a satirical romp about a jaded PR professional trying to spin a zombie outbreak in West Africa, and in a mermaid tale about a Mami Wata who forgoes her power by remaining faithful to a fisherman she loves. In between these two ends of the spectrum there’s everything from an aspiring graphic novelist at a comic con to a murder investigation driven by statistics to a story organized by the changing hairstyles of the main character. Pulling from mystery, horror, realism, myth, and graphic novels, Nkweti showcases the complexity and vibrance of characters whose lives span Cameroonian and American cultures. A dazzling, inventive debut, Walking on Cowrie Shells announces the arrival of a superlative new voice. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/beach-read-by-emily-henry monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437651042-1J318CF1KSH46BRUD20J/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Beach Read by Emily Henry - by Emily Henry They’re polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block. Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-orphans-guilt-a-joe-gunther-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437653847-0IKFI0SYOV1C8QG4XMJ8/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Orphan's Guilt: A Joe Gunther Novel - Archer Mayor John Rust is arrested for drunk driving by a Vermont state trooper. Looking to find mitigating circumstances, John’s lawyer hires private eye Sally Kravitz to look into the recent death of John’s younger brother, purportedly from a childhood brain injury years earlier. But what was the nature of that injury, and might its mechanism point more to murder than to natural causes? That debate brings in Joe Gunther and his team. Gunther’s efforts quickly uncover an ancient tale of avarice, betrayal, and vengeance that swirled around the Rust boys growing up. Their parents and the people they consorted with―forgotten, relentless, but now jolted to action by this simple set of circumstances―emerge with a destructive passion. All while the presumably innocent John Rust mysteriously vanishes with no explanation. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/pastoral-song-a-farmers-journey monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437656589-EA7SH7BAMIRRD63IZBR6/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Pastoral Song: A Farmer's Journey - James Rebanks As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in England's Lake District hills was part of an ancient agricultural landscape: a patchwork of crops and meadows, of pastures grazed with livestock, and hedgerows teeming with wildlife. And yet, by the time James inherited the farm, it was barely recognizable. The men and women had vanished from the fields; the old stone barns had crumbled; the skies had emptied of birds and their wind-blown song. Hailed as "a brilliant, beautiful book" by the Sunday Times (London), Pastoral Song (published in the United Kingdom under the title English Pastoral) is the story of an inheritance: one that affects us all. It tells of how rural landscapes around the world were brought close to collapse, and the age-old rhythms of work, weather, community and wild things were lost. And yet this elegy from the northern fells is also a song of hope: of how, guided by the past, one farmer began to salvage a tiny corner of England that was now his, doing his best to restore the life that had vanished and to leave a legacy for the future. This is a book about what it means to have love and pride in a place, and how, against all the odds, it may still be possible to build a new pastoral: not a utopia, but somewhere decent for us all. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-giver-of-stars monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437658993-VRV0L6DO1GHINX7RBZDW/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Giver of Stars - by Jojo Moyes Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve, hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who's never asked a man's permission for anything. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky. What happens to them--and to the men they love--becomes an unforgettable drama of loyalty, justice, humanity, and passion. These heroic women refuse to be cowed by men or by convention. And though they face all kinds of dangers in a landscape that is at times breathtakingly beautiful, at others brutal, they’re committed to their job: bringing books to people who have never had any, arming them with facts that will change their lives. Based on a true story rooted in America’s past, The Giver of Stars is unparalleled in its scope and epic in its storytelling. Funny, heartbreaking, enthralling, it is destined to become a modern classic--a richly rewarding novel of women’s friendship, of true love, and of what happens when we reach beyond our grasp for the great beyond. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-tradition monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437661189-FAFAQD97M1UUQTONACNZ/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Tradition Paperback by Jericho Brown - by Jericho Brown Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown’s poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie? Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which we’ve become accustomed, and to celebrate how we survive. Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship, and trauma are propelled into stunning clarity by Brown’s mastery, and his invention of the duplex—a combination of the sonnet, the ghazal, and the blues—is testament to his formal skill. The Tradition is a cutting and necessary collection, relentless in its quest for survival while reveling in a celebration of contradiction. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-midnight-library monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437663753-73Z0J6SF2J51QF3DCC4X/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Midnight Library: A Novel - by Matt Haig Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/island-of-desire monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437666554-90D5DR7GDUAPQVWPVGKN/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Island of Desire Shipwrecked on an uninhabited South Seas atoll, a Canadian nurse (Linda Darnell) and a young Marine (Tab Hunter) initially clash, but as the weeks turn into months, begin to see each other through different eyes and give in to their natural impulses. But when an RAF flyer (Donald Gray) crashes on the island, the tropical love story is complicated by that familiar bit of romantic geometry, the Eternal Triangle. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/tab-hunter-confidential monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437669173-85L96B5KX6OKBLWIB4G9/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Tab Hunter Confidential In the 1950s, Tab Hunter was a Hollywood golden boy and matinée idol, but his life as a closeted homosexual threatened to bring it all crashing down. John Waters, George Takei, Connie Stevens and Debbie Reynolds are among those interviewed. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-sweetness-of-water monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437671705-NZ3TFW9NUW9QE6PB3ENU/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Sweetness of Water: A Novel - by Nathan Harris In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry—freed by the Emancipation Proclamation—seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother, who was sold away when they were boys. Parallel to their story runs a forbidden romance between two Confederate soldiers. The young men, recently returned from the war to the town of Old Ox, hold their trysts in the woods. But when their secret is discovered, the resulting chaos, including a murder, unleashes convulsive repercussions on the entire community. In the aftermath of so much turmoil, it is Isabelle who emerges as an unlikely leader, proffering a healing vision for the land and for the newly free citizens of Old Ox. With candor and sympathy, debut novelist Nathan Harris creates an unforgettable cast of characters, depicting Georgia in the violent crucible of Reconstruction. Equal parts beauty and terror, as gripping as it is moving, The Sweetness of Water is an epic whose grandeur locates humanity and love amid the most harrowing circumstances. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-just-one-cookbook-essential-japanese-recipes monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437674211-U2OTON9NJ9OSHGSBBFFH/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Just One Cookbook Essential Japanese Recipes - by Namiko Hirasawa Chen Since elementary school, I spent almost every evening in my mother's kitchen helping her prepare dinner. She showed me that cooking can be fun and simple recipes really can be delicious! I cherish all the tips and tricks she taught me and incorporate them into my daily cooking, using fresh, high quality ingredients.This cookbook is a collection of the most popular recipes shared on my blog, Just One Cookbook, over the past three years. It includes classic Japanese recipes like chawanmushi, gyudon and kitsune udon, as well as modern favorites like California rolls and green tea ice cream. Enjoy!Since elementary school, I spent almost every evening in my mother's kitchen helping her prepare dinner. She showed me that cooking can be fun and simple recipes really can be delicious! I cherish all the tips and tricks she taught me and incorporate them into my daily cooking, using fresh, high quality ingredients.This cookbook is a collection of the most popular recipes shared on my blog, Just One Cookbook, over the past three years. It includes classic Japanese recipes like chawanmushi, gyudon and kitsune udon, as well as modern favorites like California rolls and green tea ice cream. Enjoy! https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/damn-yankees monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437676885-T81OZOMDJJWQNLND2HUC/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Damn Yankees Film adaptation of the George Abbott Broadway musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-maine-farm-table-cookbook-125-home-grown-recipes-from-the-pine-tree-state monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437679661-9ZP3KQYD77LIB6U2FDYN/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Maine Farm Table Cookbook: 125 Home-Grown Recipes from the Pine Tree State - by Kate Shaffer (Author) Derek Bissonnette (Photographer) There’s a lot more to Maine than stunning coastline. Sure, come for the incomparable lobster rolls or the state’s renowned blueberries, but stay for the locally milled grains, organic grass-fed meats, and surprising foraged delicacies. The Pine Tree State’s active food community springs to life in the hands of Kate Shaffer, Maine cookbook author and chocolatier, and Derek Bissonnette, one of the finest food photographers in the country. The Maine Farm Table Cookbook delivers more than 100 recipes, assembled in chapters that take readers from the pasture and sea to the forest, creamery, and everywhere in between. Discover Autumn Harvest Roast Pork, Haddock and Corn Chowder, Carrot Zucchini Fritters, Blackberry and Almond Torte, and more. With profiles to spotlight Maine’s favorite farms and restaurants, and gorgeous professional photography, this is the perfect way for readers to bring New England’s charm to their own kitchen. More than 100 color photographs https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-paper-palace monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437682199-SMAB7AGMXNH9DPOMML94/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Paper Palace: A Novel - by Miranda Cowley Heller It is a perfect August morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at “The Paper Palace”—the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: last night Elle and her oldest friend Jonas crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each other for the first time, all while their spouses chatted away inside. Now, over the next twenty-four hours, Elle will have to decide between the life she has made with her genuinely beloved husband, Peter, and the life she always imagined she would have had with her childhood love, Jonas, if a tragic event hadn’t forever changed the course of their lives. As Heller colors in the experiences that have led Elle to this day, we arrive at her ultimate decision with all its complexity. Tender yet devastating, The Paper Palace considers the tensions between desire and dignity, the legacies of abuse, and the crimes and misdemeanors of families. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/beautiful-world-where-are-you monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437684904-ADKA8L8YWVDA7PKHH6UI/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel - by Sally Rooney Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young―but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-slow-fire-burning-a-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437687452-WVPNN79Z29D46PM15170/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - A Slow Fire Burning: A Novel - by Paula Hawkins When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim’s home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member. And Miriam is the nosy neighbor clearly keeping secrets from the police. Three women with separate connections to the victim. Three women who are – for different reasons – simmering with resentment. Who are, whether they know it or not, burning to right the wrongs done to them. When it comes to revenge, even good people might be capable of terrible deeds. How far might any one of them go to find peace? How long can secrets smolder before they explode into flame? https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/better-off-dead-a-jack-reacher-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437689959-ST23Z6FSE0957X5W1QXG/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Better Off Dead A Jack Reacher Novel - by Lee Child & Andrew Child Digging graves had not been part of my plans when I woke up that morning. Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun—until he comes upon a curious scene. A Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. A woman is slumped over the wheel. Dead? No, nothing is what it seems. The woman is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent trying to find her twin brother, who might be mixed up with some dangerous people. Most of them would rather die than betray their terrifying leader, who has burrowed his influence deep into the nearby border town, a backwater that has seen better days. The mysterious Dendoncker rules from the shadows, out of sight and under the radar, keeping his dealings in the dark. He would know the fate of Fenton’s brother. Reacher is good at finding people who don’t want to be found, so he offers to help, despite feeling that Fenton is keeping secrets of her own. But a life hangs in the balance. Maybe more than one. But to bring Dendoncker down will be the riskiest job of Reacher's life. Failure is not an option, because in this kind of game, the loser is always better off dead. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-herons-cry-a-detective-matthew-venn-novel-the-two-rivers-series-2 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437692472-WLNHGAZPJ6KIJRD8ZFKC/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Heron's Cry: A Detective Matthew Venn Novel (The Two Rivers Series, 2) - by Ann Cleeves North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a rural crime scene at the home of a group of artists. What he finds is an elaborately staged murder--Dr Nigel Yeo has been fatally stabbed with a shard of one of his glassblower daughter's broken vases. Dr. Yeo seems an unlikely murder victim. He's a good man, a public servant, beloved by his daughter. Matthew is unnerved, though, to find that she is a close friend of Jonathan, his husband. Then another body is found--killed in a similar way. Matthew soon finds himself treading carefully through the lies that fester at the heart of his community and a case that is dangerously close to home. DI Matthew Venn returns in The Heron's Cry, in Ann Cleeves powerful next novel, proving once again that she is a master of her craft. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/silverview-a-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437694879-7BZYAS268RQ2N31V45BG/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Silverview: A Novel - by John le Carré Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian’s evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian’s family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . . Silverview is the mesmerizing story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In his inimitable voice John le Carré, the greatest chronicler of our age, seeks to answer the question of what we truly owe to the people we love. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/harlem-shuffle-a-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437697398-UJS9ZULLD6WQK096HW5B/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Harlem Shuffle: A Novel by Colson Whitehead - by Colson Whitehead "Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time. Cash is tight, especially with all those installment-plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace, Ray doesn't ask where it comes from. He knows a discreet jeweler downtown who doesn't ask questions, either. Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa—the "Waldorf of Harlem"—and volunteers Ray's services as the fence. The heist doesn't go as planned; they rarely do. Now Ray has a new clientele, one made up of shady cops, vicious local gangsters, two-bit pornographers, and other assorted Harlem lowlifes. Thus begins the internal tussle between Ray the striver and Ray the crook. As Ray navigates this double life, he begins to see who actually pulls the strings in Harlem. Can Ray avoid getting killed, save his cousin, and grab his share of the big score, all while maintaining his reputation as the go-to source for all your quality home furniture needs? Harlem Shuffle's ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem. But mostly, it's a joy to read, another dazzling novel from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning Colson Whitehead. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/first-person-singular-stories monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437700729-3OR0PU7VCUQR8GMRVST4/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami - by Haruki Murakami The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator may or may not be Murakami himself. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides. Philosophical and mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory. . . all with a signature Murakami twist. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/derek-jarman-a-biography monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437703221-BNKGFK3ZDR5166ENNWAQ/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Derek Jarman: A Biography - by Tony Peake The freewheeling life and career of this activist independent filmmaker is chronicled here, with details about his drug use, his art school experience at the Slade, his sexual life, and his groundbreaking work as the director of Caravaggio, Sebastiane, and other great films. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/billy-summers monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437705953-SYJW01EAU9KO49BZ301Z/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Billy Summers by Stephen King - by Stephen King Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he’ll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. So what could possibly go wrong? How about everything. This spectacular can’t-put-it-down novel is part war story, part love letter to small town America and the people who live there, and it features one of the most compelling and surprising duos in King fiction, who set out to avenge the crimes of an extraordinarily evil man. It’s about love, luck, fate, and a complex hero with one last shot at redemption. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/taste-my-life-through-food monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437708323-HNAYB9TPKOOVVVU2NK12/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Taste: My Life Through Food - by Stanley Tucci Set in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now, Anthony Doerr’s gorgeous third novel is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope—and a book. In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness—with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us, and with those who will be here after we’re gone. Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. This she reads to her ailing sister as the walls of the only place she has known are bombarded in the great siege of Constantinople. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, miles from home, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the invading army. His path and Anna’s will cross. Five hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno, who learned Greek as a prisoner of war, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. She has never set foot on our planet. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of gravest danger. Their lives are gloriously intertwined. Doerr’s dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own. Dedicated to “the librarians then, now, and in the years to come,” Cloud Cuckoo Land is a beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship—of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/cloud-cuckoo-land-a-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437710850-P3AGQXI7N23H3WWYFUC3/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel - by Anthony Doerr Set in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now, Anthony Doerr’s gorgeous third novel is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope—and a book. In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness—with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us, and with those who will be here after we’re gone. Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. This she reads to her ailing sister as the walls of the only place she has known are bombarded in the great siege of Constantinople. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, miles from home, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the invading army. His path and Anna’s will cross. Five hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno, who learned Greek as a prisoner of war, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. She has never set foot on our planet. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of gravest danger. Their lives are gloriously intertwined. Doerr’s dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own. Dedicated to “the librarians then, now, and in the years to come,” Cloud Cuckoo Land is a beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship—of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-trouble-with-maggie-cole monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437713871-XXWX6MVT7ZQML1L2WV1M/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Trouble With Maggie Cole Created and written by Mark Brotherhood and starring Dawn French, The Trouble With Maggie Cole delves into what happens when idle gossip escalates out of control and starts to affect people’s lives. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/downeast-five-maine-girls-and-the-unseen-story-of-rural-america monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437716785-MML2QIX985FTURTABBQ7/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America - by Gigi Georges Nestled in Maine’s far northeast corner, Washington County sits an hour’s drive from the heart of famed and bustling Acadia National Park. Yet it’s a world away. For Willow, Vivian, Mckenna, Audrey, and Josie—five teenage girls caught between tradition and transformation in this remote region—it is home. Downeast follows their journeys of heartbreak and hope in uncertain times, creating a nuanced and unique portrait of rural America with women at its center. Willow lives in the shadow of an abusive, drug-addicted father and searches for stability through photography and love. Vivian, a gifted writer, feels stifled by her church and town, and struggles to break free without severing family ties. Mckenna is a softball pitching phenom whose passion is the lobster-fishing she learned at her father’s knee. Audrey is a beloved high school basketball star who earns a coveted college scholarship but questions her chosen path. Josie, a Yale-bound valedictorian, is determined to take the world by storm. All five girls know the pain and joy of life in a region whose rugged beauty and stoicism mask dwindling populations, vanishing job opportunities, and pervasive opioid addiction. As the girls reach adulthood, they discover that despite significant challenges, there is much to celebrate in “the valley of the overlooked.” Their stories remind us of the value of timeless ideals: strength of family and community, reverence for nature’s rule, dignity in cracked hands and muddied shoes, and the enduring power of home. Revealed through the eyes of Willow, Vivian, Mckenna, Audrey, and Josie, Downeast is based on four years of intimate reporting. The result is a beautifully rendered, emotionally startling, and vital book. Downeast will break readers’ hearts yet offer them hope, providing answers to what the future may hold for rural America. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-lincoln-highway monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437719145-4PMJEE77L5THLHQDUZIP/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Lincoln Highway: A Novel - by Amor Towles In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-reading-list-a-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437722551-1BNXE1XLERSXSGJU0BVD/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Reading List: A Novel - by Sara Nisha Adams Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in Wembley, in West London after losing his beloved wife. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries. Aleisha is a bright but anxious teenager working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s a list of novels that she’s never heard of before. Intrigued, and a little bored with her slow job at the checkout desk, she impulsively decides to read every book on the list, one after the other. As each story gives up its magic, the books transport Aleisha from the painful realities she’s facing at home. When Mukesh arrives at the library, desperate to forge a connection with his bookworm granddaughter, Aleisha passes along the reading list…hoping that it will be a lifeline for him too. Slowly, the shared books create a connection between two lonely souls, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find joy again. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-isolation-artist-scandal-deception-and-the-last-days-of-robert-indiana monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437725094-E1BE7JGSEYFMQ00FG8PP/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Isolation Artist: Scandal, Deception, and the Last Days of Robert Indiana - by Bob Keyes “I’m not a business man, I'm an artist,” Robert Indiana said, refusing to copyright his iconic LOVE sculpture in 1965. An odd and tortured soul, an artist who wanted both fame and solitude, Indiana surrounded himself with people to manage his life and work. Yet, he frequently changed his mind and often fired or belittled those who worked with him. By 2008, when Indiana created the sculpture HOPE—or did he?—the artist had signed away his work for others to exploit, creating doubt about whether he had even seen artwork sold for very high prices under his name. At the time of his death, Indiana left an estate worth millions—and unsettling suspicions. There were allegations of fraudulent artwork, of elder abuse, of caregivers who subjected him to horrendous living conditions. There were questions about the inconclusive autopsy and rumors that his final will had been signed under coercion. There were strong suspicions about the freeloaders who’d attached themselves to the famous artist. “In the final hours of his life,” the author writes, “Robert Indiana was without the grace of a better angel, as the people closest to him covered their tracks and plotted their defenses.” With unparalleled access to the key players in Indiana’s life, author Bob Keyes tells a fast-paced and riveting story that provides a rare inside look into the life of an artist as well as the often, too often, unscrupulous world of high-end art. The reader is taken inside the world of art dealers, law firms, and an array of local characters in Maine whose lives intersected with the internationally revered artist living in an old Odd Fellows Hall on Vinalhaven Island. The Isolation Artist is for anyone interested in contemporary art, business, and the perilous intersection between them. It an extraordinary window into the life and death of a singular and contradictory American artist—one whose work touched countless millions through everything from postage stamps to political campaigns to museums—even as he lived and died in isolation, with a lack of love, the loss of hope, and lots and lots of money. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/bolla-a-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437728284-T9OX8DXG8L0HVJP0LV3T/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Bolla: A Novel - by Pajtim Statovci, David Hackston (translator) April 1995. Arsim is a twenty-four-year-old, recently married student at the University of Pristina, in Kosovo, keeping his head down to gain a university degree in a time and place deeply hostile to Albanians. In a café he meets a young man named Miloš, a Serb. Before the day is out, everything has changed for both of them, and within a week two milestones erupt in Arsim’s married life: his wife announces her first pregnancy and he begins a life in secret. After these fevered beginnings, Arsim and Miloš’s unlikely affair is derailed by the outbreak of war, which sends Arsim’s fledgling family abroad and timid Miloš spiraling down a dark path, as depicted through chaotic journal entries. Years later, deported back to Pristina after a spell in prison and now alone and hopeless, Arsim finds himself in a broken reality that makes him completely question his past. What happened to him, to them, exactly? How much can you endure, and forgive? Entwined with their story is a re-created legend of a demonic serpent, Bolla; it’s an unearthly tale that gives Arsim and Miloš a language through which to reflect on what they once had. With luminous prose and a delicate eye, Pajtim Statovci delivers a relentless novel of desire, destruction, intimacy, and the different fronts of war. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/oh-william-a-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437730593-TVD0426WZA3QXFLAZEL6/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Oh William!: A Novel - by Elizabeth Strout Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she confesses, has always been a mystery to me. Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. They just are. So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret—one of those secrets that rearrange everything we think we know about the people closest to us. What happens next is nothing less than another example of what Hilary Mantel has called Elizabeth Strout’s “perfect attunement to the human condition.” There are fears and insecurities, simple joys and acts of tenderness, and revelations about affairs and other spouses, parents and their children. On every page of this exquisite novel we learn more about the quiet forces that hold us together—even after we’ve grown apart. At the heart of this story is the indomitable voice of Lucy Barton, who offers a profound, lasting reflection on the very nature of existence. “This is the way of life,” Lucy says: “the many things we do not know until it is too late.” https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/cruella/101-dalmatians-2-movie-collection monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437733422-W80DLBKPBFP0X2YAXE0P/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - CRUELLA/101 DALMATIANS 2-MOVIE COLLECTION Cruella De Vil is the main antagonist of Disney's 1961 animated feature film 101 Dalmatians. She is an eccentric, fashion-obsessed heiress who wishes to use the skins of 99 Dalmatian puppies to create a spotted fur coat. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/dark-things-i-adore-a-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437736379-BRL8KDQ5E6UXWZWZ82XB/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Dark Things I Adore: A Novel - by Katie Lattari Three campfire secrets. Two witnesses. One dead in the trees. And the woman, thirty years later, bent on making the guilty finally pay. 1988. A group of outcasts gather at a small, prestigious arts camp nestled in the Maine woods. They're the painters: bright, hopeful, teeming with potential. But secrets and dark ambitions rise like smoke from a campfire, and the truths they tell will come back to haunt them in ways more deadly than they dreamed. 2018. Esteemed art professor Max Durant arrives at his protégé's remote home to view her graduate thesis collection. He knows Audra is beautiful and brilliant. He knows being invited into her private world is a rare gift. But he doesn't know that Audra has engineered every aspect of their weekend together. Every detail, every conversation. Audra has woven the perfect web. Only Audra knows what happened that summer in 1988. Max's secret, and the dark things that followed. And even though it won't be easy, Audra knows someone must pay. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/coroner-the-s2 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437738786-4II38K8QIXDP5GZFS3MS/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Coroner, The: S2 Following a messy divorce, big-city lawyer Jane Kennedy (Claire Goose, Waking the Dead) returns to her beautiful coastal hometown to take up the post of Coroner. But are the unexplained deaths she encounters natural, accident, or foul play? These investigations set against a stunning seaside backdrop are imbued with warmth and gentle humor. 10 episodes, 7 ½ hrs, 2 DVDs. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/where-they-wait-a-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437741276-LTANY3HSC0KSD3VDB285/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Where They Wait: A Novel - by Scott Carson Recently laid-off from his newspaper and desperate for work, war correspondent Nick Bishop takes a humbling job: writing a profile of a new mindfulness app called Clarity. It’s easy money, and a chance to return to his hometown for the first time in years. The app itself seems like a retread of old ideas—relaxing white noise and guided meditations. But then there are the “Sleep Songs.” A woman’s hauntingly beautiful voice sings a ballad that is anything but soothing—it’s disturbing, and more of a warning than a relaxation—but it works. Deep, refreshing sleep follows. So do the nightmares. Vivid and chilling, they feature a dead woman who calls Nick by name and whispers guidance—or are they threats? And her voice follows him long after the song is done. As the effects of the nightmares begin to permeate his waking life, Nick makes a terrifying discovery: no one involved with Clarity has any interest in his article. Their interest is in him. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-magician-a-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437744085-6MQ7ARFCPAPKXXOPG7XH/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Magician: A Novel - by Colm Toibin Colm Tóibín’s magnificent new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable. Young Mann hides his artistic aspirations from his father and his homosexual desires from everyone. He is infatuated with one of the richest, most cultured Jewish families in Munich, and marries the daughter Katia. They have six children. On a holiday in Italy, he longs for a boy he sees on a beach and writes the story Death in Venice. He is the most successful novelist of his time, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, a public man whose private life remains secret. He is expected to lead the condemnation of Hitler, whom he underestimates. His oldest daughter and son, leaders of Bohemianism and of the anti-Nazi movement, share lovers. He flees Germany for Switzerland, France and, ultimately, America, living first in Princeton and then in Los Angeles. In a stunning marriage of research and imagination, Tóibín explores the heart and mind of a writer whose gift is unparalleled and whose life is driven by a need to belong and the anguish of illicit desire. The Magician is an intimate, astonishingly complex portrait of Mann, his magnificent and complex wife Katia, and the times in which they lived—the first world war, the rise of Hitler, World War II, the Cold War, and exile. This is a man and a family fiercely engaged by the world, profoundly flawed, and unforgettable. As People magazine said about The Master, “It’s a delicate, mysterious process, this act of creation, fraught with psychological tension, and Tóibín captures it beautifully.” https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/unforgotten-the-complete-fourth-season-masterpiece-mystery monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437746824-BDT4IYCQ87E329T8VXPW/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Unforgotten: The Complete Fourth Season Masterpiece Mystery! Nicola Walker (Last Tango in Halifax, Babylon) and Sanjeev Bhaskar (Yesterday) star as DCI Cassie Stuart and Cassie’s partner-in-solving-crime, DI Sunny Khan, who are veterans at uncovering the truth of tangled, complicated murders of the past. But the deeper the truth lies, the bigger the emotional toll for the suspects, the families left behind, and for Cassie and Sunny to handle. How long can one fight for justice while preserving their own sanity? In Unforgotten Season 4, the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) award-winning series’ most dramatic season yet, Cassie and Sunny investigate a cold case with alarming links to the police force when a corpse is discovered in a scrap yard, his features frozen in time. All four suspects have links to the law and attended the same police training course back in 1989. But who exactly is fighting for justice? Can the police force ever really be trusted? And will Cassie and Sunny find themselves on the wrong side of the law? Guest stars in Season 4 include Alastair Mackenzie, Liz White (Life on Mars), Daniel Flynn (Father Brown), and more. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-book-of-form-and-emptiness-a-novel monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437749897-T1L7K8SE361I4YEV6U42/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel - by Ruth Ozeki One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house—a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone; some are pleasant, a gentle hum or coo, but others are snide, angry and full of pain. When his mother, Annabelle, develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous. At first, Benny tries to ignore them, but soon the voices follow him outside the house, onto the street and at school, driving him at last to seek refuge in the silence of a large public library, where objects are well-behaved and know to speak in whispers. There, Benny discovers a strange new world. He falls in love with a mesmerizing street artist with a smug pet ferret, who uses the library as her performance space. He meets a homeless philosopher-poet, who encourages him to ask important questions and find his own voice amongst the many. And he meets his very own Book—a talking thing—who narrates Benny’s life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter. With its blend of sympathetic characters, riveting plot, and vibrant engagement with everything from jazz, to climate change, to our attachment to material possessions, The Book of Form and Emptiness is classic Ruth Ozeki—bold, wise, poignant, playful, humane and heartbreaking. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/1979-an-allie-burns-novel-1 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437752444-A4HBX7RBFKOPFCJPTMMX/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - 1979 (An Allie Burns Novel, 1) - by Val McDermid Hailed as Britain's Queen of Crime, Val McDermid's award-winning, internationally bestselling novels have captivated readers for more than thirty years. Now, in 1979, she returns to the past with the story of Allie Burns, an investigative journalist whose stories lead her into world of corruption, terror, and murder. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/a-carnival-of-snackery-diaries-2003-2020 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437755342-VXWODU2CQAO3P3QDKFER/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020) - by David Sedaris There’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mas­tered it. If it’s navel-gazing you’re after, you’ve come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street, pedestrians being whacked over the head or gathering to watch as a man considers leap­ing to his death. There’s a dirty joke shared at a book signing, then a dirtier one told at a dinner party—lots of jokes here. Plenty of laughs. These diaries remind you that you once really hated George W. Bush, and that not too long ago, Donald Trump was just a harm­less laughingstock, at least on French TV. Time marches on, and Sedaris, at his desk or on planes, in hotel dining rooms and odd Japanese inns, records it. The entries here reflect an ever-changing background—new administrations, new restrictions on speech and conduct. What you can say at the start of the book, you can’t by the end. At its best, A Carnival of Snackery is a sort of sampler: the bitter and the sweet. Some entries are just what you wanted. Others you might want to spit discreetly into a napkin. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/gastro-obscura-a-food-adventurers-guide monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437757799-TMPGJLTI4Z11TG0MT5LE/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide - by Cecily Wong , Dylan Thuras, Atlas Obscura A Feast of Wonder! Created by the ever-curious minds behind Atlas Obscura, this breathtaking guide transforms our sense of what people around the world eat and drink. Covering all seven continents, Gastro Obscura serves up a loaded plate of incredible ingredients, food adventures, and edible wonders. Ready for a beer made from fog in Chile? Sardinia’s “Threads of God” pasta? Egypt’s 2000-year-old egg ovens? But far more than a menu of curious minds delicacies and unexpected dishes, Gastro Obscura reveals food’s central place in our lives as well as our bellies, touching on history–trace the network of ancient Roman fish sauce factories. Culture–picture four million women gathering to make rice pudding. Travel–scale China’s sacred Mount Hua to reach a tea house. Festivals–feed wild macaques pyramid of fruit at Thailand’s Monkey Buffet Festival. And hidden gems that might be right around the corner, like the vending machine in Texas dispensing full sized pecan pies. Dig in and feed your sense of wonder. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/renegades-born-in-the-usa monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437761003-41AC3IUWOCNXGC8XS3XM/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Renegades Born in the USA - by Barack Obama & Bruce Springsteen NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two longtime friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music, and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly produced expansion of their groundbreaking Higher Ground podcast, featuring more than 350 photographs, exclusive bonus content, and never-before-seen archival material. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/ms-fishers-modern-murder-mysteries-series-2 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437764466-Y4E6FDN6NM7PERDGNBJN/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Ms. Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries: Series 2 In this spin-off to the wildly popular Australian mystery series, Phryne Fisher's long-lost niece, Peregrine (Geraldine Hakewill, Wanted), decides to follow in her stylish footsteps as a lady detective for a new era. With the help of the handsome, straitlaced Detective James Steed (Joel Jackson, Peter Allen) and a group of accomplished women, Peregrine investigates murders in 1960s Melbourne. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/just-one-cookbook-essential-japanese-recipes-vol-2 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437767374-0TM0J7ORXL3ZP5X8RBMG/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - Just One Cookbook Essential Japanese Recipes Vol 2 - by Namiko Hirasawa Chen It’s been a tremendous experience sharing recipes on Just One Cookbook for the past 10 years. I have wanted to publish a follow-up cookbook since the first one was released in 2013. Somehow eight years went by before I was finally able to pour my heart into this second book. This cookbook has over 90 recipes from my blog which I’ve carefully curated for those of you who want to start cooking Japanese homecooked meals. They are my family favorites, the ones that hold dear to my heart, and I hope you will enjoy them too. https://www.vinalhavenpubliclibrary.org/new-arrivals-1/the-years-between-1939-44-cecil-beatons-diaries-book-2 monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/636ea8211410550fad06fc25/1672437770029-DZDMBFJ7DUB7IGUW3U25/image-asset.jpeg New Arrivals - The Years Between: 1939-44 (Cecil Beaton's Diaries Book 2) - by Sir Cecil Beaton A classic six-volume memoir of the twentieth century, spanning through the Second World War, the Golden Age of Hollywood and the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. 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