March / April 2015 — Additions to the collection
Adult Section
Non-Fiction
- Alexander, Eben, Proof of heaven : a neurosurgeon’s journey into the afterlife
- Blanchard, Duncan C., The snowflake man : a biography of Wilson A. Bentley
- Borman, Tracy, Thomas Cromwell : the untold story of Henry VIII’s most faithful servant
- Butler, Susan, Roosevelt and Stalin : portrait of a partnership
- Feldman, Alan, Immortality
- Kondåo, Marie, The life-changing magic of tidying up : the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing
- Larson, Erik, Dead wake : the last crossing of the Lusitania
- Lieber, Ron, The opposite of spoiled : raising kids who are grounded, generous, and smart about money
- Nicholls, Henry, The Galapagos : a natural history
- Pepys, Samuel, Passages from the diary of Samuel Pepys
- Rusbridger, Alan, Play it again : an amateur against the impossible
- Smith, John Chabot, Alger Hiss, the true story
- Thubten Yeshe, Becoming your own therapist : an introduction to the Buddhist way of thought ; and, Make your mind an ocean : aspects of Buddhist psychology
- Thubten Yeshe, Ego, attachment and liberation : overcoming your mental bureaucracy : a five-day meditation course
Fiction
- Archer, Jeffrey, Mightier than the sword
- Backman, Fredrik, A man called Ove
- Callahan, Michael, Searching for Grace Kelly
- Cheever, John, Thirteen uncollected stories by John Cheever
- Connelly, Michael, The burning room
- Conroy, Pat, South of Broad
- Diamant, Anita, The Boston girl
- Gregory, Philippa, The kingmaker’s daughter
- Hannah, Kristin, The nightingale
- Hornby, Nick, Funny girl
- Ishiguro, Kazuo, The buried giant
- Krentz, Jayne Ann, Trust no one
- Lasdun, James, It’s beginning to hurt
- Lord, Karen, The best of all possible worlds
- Lovett, Charlie, First impressions of old books, unexpected love, and Jane Austen
- Nahai, Gina Barkhordar, The luminous heart of Jonah S.
- Reilly, Matthew, The great zoo of China
- Tolkien, J. R. R., The legend of Sigurd and Gudrun
- Winspear, Jacqueline, A dangerous place
- Zander, Joakim, The swimmer
Large Print
- Clark, Mary Higgins, Mount Vernon love story a novel of George and Martha Washington
- Cussler, Clive, The striker
- Tyler, Anne, A spool of blue thread
Movies
- Angels & demons
- Arsenic and old lace
- Draft day
- The hunt for Red October
- The imitation game
- Interstellar
- Into the woods
- It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world
- The Lemon drop kid
- Meet the Fockers
- Nature Propelled
- Road to Bali Road to Rio
- The Hobbit : the battle of the five armies
- The rookie
- The theory of everything
- Unbroken The unbelievable true story
Juvenile Section
Non-Fiction
- Pascal, Janet B., Who was Dr. Seuss?
- Romero, Jordan, No summit out of sight : the true story of the youngest person to climb the seven summits
- Sheinkin, Steve, The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights
- Wolpert, Tom, Whitetails for kids
Board Books
- Brown, Margaret Wise, A child’s good night book
- Gamble, Adam, Good night New York City
- Kubler, Annie, Ten little fingers
- Watt, Fiona, That’s not my car
- Watt, Fiona, That’s not my lion
Picture Books
- Berger, Carin, Finding spring
- Book, Lauren, Lauren’s kingdom
- de la Peäna, Matt, Last stop on Market Street
- Gay, Marie-Louise, Roslyn Rutabaga and the biggest hole on earth
- Hale, Dean, Scapegoat : the story of a goat named Oat and a chewed-up coat
- Isaacs, Anne, Pancakes for supper!
- Messner, Kate, Over and under the snow
- Muller, Birte, Felipa and the Day of the Dead
- Rawlinson, Julia, Fletcher and the springtime blossoms
- Rylant, Cynthia, Dog Heaven
- Santat, Dan, The adventures of Beekle : the unimaginary friend
- Sayre, April Pulley, Raindrops roll
- Silverstein, Shel, Who wants a cheap rhinoceros?
- Underwood, Deborah, Here comes the Easter Cat!
- Willems, Mo, Hooray for Amanda & her alligator!
Fiction Books
- Acampora, Paul, I kill the mockingbird
- Bell, Cece, El deafo
- Berry, Julie, The scandalous sisterhood of Prickwillow Place
- Curtis, Christopher Paul, The madman of Piney Woods
- Erskine, Kathryn, The badger knight
- Fitzgerald, Laura Marx, Under the egg
- Gebhart, Ryan, There will be bears
- Graff, Lisa, Absolutely almost
- Hagen, George, Gabriel Finley & the raven’s riddle
- Herrera, Robin, Hope is a Ferris wheel
- Johnson, Jaleigh, The mark of the dragonfly
- Johnson, Terry Lynn, Ice dogs
- Klise, James, The art of secrets
- Lawson, Jessica, The actual & truthful adventures of Becky Thatcher
- Levy, Dana Alison, The misadventures of the family Fletcher
- Lovejoy, Sharon, Running out of night
- Milford, Kate, Greenglass House
- Nye, Naomi Shihab, The turtle of Oman
- Perkins, Lynne Rae, Nuts to you
- Snyder, Laurel, Seven stories up
- Sovern, Megan Jean, The meaning of Maggie
- Vail, Rachel, Unfriended
Young Adult Fiction Books
- Alexander, Kwame, The crossover
- Auxier, Jonathan, The Night Gardener
- Baldacci, David, The finisher
- Card, Orson Scott, Visitors
- Unsworth, Tania, The one safe place
Movies
- Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
- Big hero 6
- The Boxtrolls
- The hunger games. Mockingjay, Vol. Part 1
- Maleficent
- My dog Skip
- The tale of the Princess Kaguya
- Thomas and the magic railroad
