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