August 2020 New Items
After class
2019
A dysfunctionally functional family attempts to work together to support their grandmother during her final days.
Agent Moose
O'Hara, Mo, author
2020
Agent Moose, the best (worst) secret agent in the Big Forest, and his slightly-more-intelligent sidekick Owlfred are on the case.
Beetle & the Hollowbones
Layne, Aliza, author
2020
Twelve-year-old goblin and witch-in-training Beetle enlists her former best friend, Kat Hollowbones, to help stop Kat's sorceress aunt from demolishing the mall where Beetle's friend Blob Ghost is trapped.
Blood in the water : a true story of revenge in the Maritimes
Cameron, Silver Donald, 1937-2020, author
2020
In June 2013, three upstanding citizens of a small Cape Breton town cold-bloodedly murdered their neighbour, Phillip Boudreau, at sea. Boudreau was funny and frightening, loathed, loved, and feared. Boudreau seemed invincible, a miscreant who would plague the village forever. Silver Donald Cameron, a resident of the area since 1971, argues that the Boudreau killing was a direct reaction to credible and dire threats that the authorities were powerless to neutralize. As many local people have said, if those fellows hadn't killed him, someone else would have.
Displacement
Hughes, Kiku, author, artist
2020
Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself "stuck" back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She witnesses the lives of Japanese-Americans who were denied their civil liberties and suffered greatly, but managed to cultivate community and commit acts of resistance in order to survive. Kiku Hughes weaves a riveting, bittersweet tale that highlights the intergenerational impact and power of memory.
Geronimo Stilton, reporter. 5, Barry the moustache
Stilton, Geronimo, author
2020
"Sally Ratmousen, Editor-i-Chief of The Daily Rat and Geronimo Stilton's biggest journalistic rival, mysteriously disappears one afternoon on the way to her car after work. Her ace reporter, Simon Squealer, shows up at Geronimo's door with the troubling news... and reveals that notorious mobster Barry the Moustache is behind her disappearance. Is he telling Geronimo the truth or is this fake news? If it's a hoax just to generate headlines, Geronimo and Sally might be in over their whiskers as they have upset the wrong mobster."--Amazon.
The hollow ones
Toro, Guillermo del, 1964-, author
2020
Young FBI agent Odessa Hardwicke’s life is derailed when she’s forced to turn her gun on her partner, Walt Leppo, who turns suddenly, inexplicably violent while apprehending a rampaging murderer. What troubled Odessa isn’t the tragedy itself - it’s the shadowy presence she thought she saw fleeing the deceased agent’s body after his death. Hardwicke accepts a low-level assignment that puts her on the trail of a mysterious figure named John Silence, a man of enormous means who claims to have been alive for centuries.
The lost and found bookshop : a novel
Wiggs, Susan, author
2020
In the wake of a shocking tragedy, Natalie Harper inherits her mother's charming but financially strapped bookshop. She also becomes caretaker for her ailing grandfather Andrew. But the gruff, deeply kind Andrew has begun displaying signs of decline. To Natalie's surprise, her time of mourning becomes an unexpected journey of discoveries and revelations, from unearthing artifacts hidden in the bookshop's walls, to discovering the truth about her family, her future, and her own heart.
Luster : a novel
Leilani, Raven, author
2020
Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties--sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She's also, secretly, haltingly, figuring her way into life as an artist. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage--with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics weren't hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and falling into Eric's family life, his home. She becomes a hesitant friend to his wife and a de facto role model to his adopted daughter. Edie is the only black woman who young Akila knows.
Migrations
McConaghy, Charlotte, author
2020
Franny Stone has always been a wanderer. By following the ocean’s tides and the birds that soar above, she can forget the losses that have haunted her life. On a remote Greenland, Franny finds the world’s last flock of Arctic terns and follow them on their final migration. She convinces Ennis Malone, captain of the Saghani, to take her onboard with promises that the birds she is tracking will lead them to fish. Franny is full of dark secrets, so when the story of her past begins to unspool, Ennis and his crew must ask themselves what Franny is really running toward - and running from.
The night swim
Goldin, Megan, author
2020
After the first season of her true crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name--and the last hope for thousands of people seeking justice. But she's used to being recognized for her voice, not her face--which makes it all the more unsettling when she finds a note on her car windshield, addressed to her, begging for help.
The safe place : a novel
Downes, Anna, author
2020
Emily Proudman's life is in chaos. Scott Denny is at a breaking point. Until he meets Emily. Scott offers Emily what seems the perfect summer job as a housekeeper and nanny on his remote French estate. But before long, Emily realizes that Scott and his wife are hiding dangerous secrets. And if Emily doesn't play along, the beautiful place they call home might turn out to be a prison from which none of them will ever escape.