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Beanstack April Reading Challenge

April 1, 2025405 Views Beanstack, Peachwave, Prizes, Reading, Reading Challenge, Robeks, Super Sandwich, Urban Greek

April Library Love Reading Challenge On April 1st, the Shelton Library System is starting our first system wide reading challenge!This Read More

Free Sunday Admission to the Discovery Museum in 2025

March 6, 2025748 Views Shelton, Sacred Heart University Discovery Science Center & Planetarium, Edgewell Personal Care, Free Admission, Discovery Museum

Shelton-based company Edgewell Personal Care has generously provided funding so that Shelton residents can enjoy FREE admission on the first Read More

Wowbrary Service

Sign up for the Wowbrary Service, which allows you to see which materials are purchased for each library via a weekly email. You will have to sign up separately for each library.

You can see this week’s listings below:

New Items at the
Plumb Memorial Library

Anora

Coup!

When Calls the Heart Season 12

The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road

Uptown Girl

Insectopolis: A Natural History

Four Mothers: An Intimate Journey through the First Year of Parenthood in Four Countries

Moral Ambition: How to Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference

My Friends

Magnolia Bakery Handbook of Icebox Desserts

Smile: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Brian Wilson

33 Place Brugmann

Awake in the Floating City

Run for the Hills

Spent: A Comic Novel

The Dark Maestro

The Red House

The World's Fair Quilt

Where the Rivers Merge

10 Marchfield Square

Anora

DVDs

Contemporary cinema’s foremost chronicler of American dreamers and schemers hustling on the margins of capitalist promise, Sean Baker, reaches new heights of mastery with this audacious anti–Cinderella story—a whirlwind neorealist screwball comedy with an aching heart. In an electric, star-is-born performance,

Coup!

DVDs

A mysterious grifter appears on an isolated seaside estate claiming to be a wealthy family’s new chef. When a plague descends on the island, the mischievous cook rouses his fellow staff to rebel and take over the mansion. The servant becomes the master in this outrageous eat-the-rich comedy starring

When Calls the Heart Season 12

DVDs

When Calls the Heart Season 12

The When Calls the Heart Season 12 Episode Edition contains every episode of the DVD as seen on the Hallmark Channel. Inspired by the award winning author Janette Oke (the Love Comes Softly series) comes more heartwarming and romantic adventures in the When Calls the Heart Season 12 Episode Edition.

The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road

Biographies & Memoirs

The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road

By E.A. Hanks. From Vanity Fair and The New York Times contributor comes a beautifully written, deeply felt memoir recounting the solo, cross-country journey she made along the Ten across the American southwest: a mission to uncover both what harrowing violence may or may not have happened to her late

Uptown Girl

Biographies & Memoirs

By Christie Brinkley. In 1974, a twenty-year-old Christie Brinkley was “discovered” outside a Paris phone booth, which set off a meteoric modeling career that would land her on the covers of hundreds of magazines and cement her legacy as an All-American icon. Although she's lived more than fifty years

Insectopolis: A Natural History

Science

Insectopolis: A Natural History

By Peter Kuper. Award-winning cartoonist Peter Kuper transports readers through the 400-million-year history of insects and the remarkable entomologists who have studied them.This visually immersive work of graphic nonfiction dives into a world where ants, cicadas, bees, and butterflies visit a library

Four Mothers: An Intimate Journey through the First Year of Parenthood in Four Countries

Society

Four Mothers: An Intimate Journey through the First Year of Parenthood in Four Countries

By Abigail Leonard. In the tradition of Lisa Taddeo's Three Women and Robert Kolker's Hidden Valley Road, Abigail Leonard's immersive, page-turning narrative follows four women from around the world as they embark on the transformative first year of motherhood.Tsukasa in Japan grapples with memories

Moral Ambition: How to Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference

Society

Moral Ambition: How to Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference

By Rutger Bregman. From the author of the New York Times bestsellers Humankind and Utopia for Realists—“a more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell” (The New York Times)—comes a bold manifesto daring us to harness our talents and transform our idealism into action, all with the goal of making the world

My Friends

Audiobooks & Courses

By Fredrik Backman. #1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger’s life twenty-five years later.Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny

Magnolia Bakery Handbook of Icebox Desserts

Cooking, Food & Wine

Magnolia Bakery Handbook of Icebox Desserts

By Bobbie Lloyd. Indulge in 100 delightful no-bake desserts from the iconic New York bakery. Explore classic treats like banana pudding; icebox cakes, pies, and cheesecakes; as well as all-new icebox sweets from Magnolia Bakery’s Chief Baking Officer Bobbie Lloyd.Magnolia Bakery, once a small corner

Smile: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Brian Wilson

Entertainment

Smile: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Brian Wilson

By David Leaf. On February 20, 2004, Brian Wilson walked onstage at London's Royal Festival Hall to unveil his long-delayed masterpiece – the Holy Grail of Rock – Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE. It was a night that that exceeded all expectations.SMiLE: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Brian Wilson is

33 Place Brugmann

Literature & Fiction

33 Place Brugmann

By Alice Austen. “Wonderful reading.”—Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed InnocentAn extraordinarily accomplished debut novel—a love story, mystery, and philosophical puzzle, told in the singular voices of the residents of a Beaux Arts apartment house in Belgium during World

Awake in the Floating City

Literature & Fiction

Awake in the Floating City

By Susanna Kwan. An utterly transporting debut novel about the unexpected relationship between an artist and the 130-year-old woman she cares for—two of the last people living in a flooded San Francisco of the future, the home neither is ready to leave."An astonishing work of art... This is the kind

Run for the Hills

Literature & Fiction

Run for the Hills

By Kevin Wilson. An unexpected road trip across America brings a family together, in this raucous and moving new novel from the bestselling author of Nothing to See Here.Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it’s just been Madeline Hill and her mom on their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee. While

Spent: A Comic Novel

Literature & Fiction

Spent: A Comic Novel

By Alison Bechdel. The celebrated and beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents a laugh-out-loud, brilliant, and passionately political work of autofiction.In Alison Bechdel’s hilariously skewering and gloriously cast new comic novel confection, a cartoonist named

The Dark Maestro

Literature & Fiction

The Dark Maestro

By Brendan Slocumb. From the author of The Violin Conspiracy and Symphony of Secrets comes a mesmerizing page-turner about a musical virtuoso who’s forced into hiding when his family runs afoul of a ruthless criminal organization—and how he uses music to bring his enemies to justiceCurtis Wilson is a

The Red House

Literature & Fiction

By Mary Morris. Award-winning novelist Mary Morris weaves together an unsolved family mystery, a poignant coming-of-age story, and a little-known corner of World War II history in this lyrical novel of family, loss and, ultimately, love.Thirty years ago, Laura’s mother, Viola, went missing. She left

The World's Fair Quilt

Literature & Fiction

The World's Fair Quilt

By Jennifer Chiaverini. A timely celebration of quilting, family, community, and history in this latest novel in the perennially popular Elm Creek Quilts series from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini.As fall paints the Pennsylvania countryside in flaming colors, Sylvia Bergstrom Compson

Where the Rivers Merge

Literature & Fiction

Where the Rivers Merge

By Mary Alice Monroe. From New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe, comes her highly anticipated epic and triumphant new novel—a celebration of the land and spirit of the early twentieth-century Lowcountry.1908: The Lowcountry of South Carolina is at the cusp of change. Mayfield, the grand

10 Marchfield Square

Mysteries & Thrillers

10 Marchfield Square

By Nicola Whyte. When a minor criminal is murdered in the smallest residential square in London, elderly heiress and landlady Celeste van Duren recruits two of her tenants to investigate. Her cleaner, Audrey, knows everyone and is liked by all, while failed writer Lewis is known by no one. He hates his

New Items at the
Huntington Branch Library

The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward

Biographies & Memoirs

The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward

By Melinda French Gates. In a rare window into some of her life’s pivotal moments, Melinda French Gates draws from previously untold stories to offer a new perspective on encountering transitions.“You don’t get to be my age without navigating all kinds of transitions. Some you embraced and some you never

Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America

History

Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America

By Russell Shorto. The thrilling narrative of how New York came to be, by the author of the beloved classic The Island at the Center of the World.In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams

Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age

Society

Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age

By Vauhini Vara. From the author of The Immortal King Rao, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize,a personal exploration of how technology companies have both fulfilled and exploited the human desire for understanding and connectionWhen it was released to the public in November 2022, ChatGPT awakened the world

Fat + Flour: The Art of a Simple Bake

Cooking, Food & Wine

Fat + Flour: The Art of a Simple Bake

By Nicole Rucker. A fuss-free, downright delicious collection of recipes for pies, cookies, brownies, cakes, and more—from “pastry queen” (Bon Appétit) Nicole Rucker, chef/owner of Los Angeles’s Fat + FlourFat + Flour is a celebration of the delights that abound when these two simple ingredients come

The Manor of Dreams

Literature & Fiction

The Manor of Dreams

By Christina Li. “A true modern classic. The Manor of Dreams is beautiful, eerie, and woven with enough intrigue to hold all who enter captive. Christina Li remains unmatched in breathing characters to life—and the hauntings thereafter.”—Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of Immortal LongingsMexican

Parents Weekend

Mysteries & Thrillers

Parents Weekend

By Alex Finlay. From the bestselling author of If Something Happens to Me, comes one of the year’s most anticipated thrillers.In the glow of their children’s exciting first year of college at a small private school in Northern California, five families plan on a night of dinner and cocktails for the

South of Nowhere

Mysteries & Thrillers

South of Nowhere

By Jeffery Deaver. The New York Times bestselling master of suspense returns to his beloved series, adapted for TV and featuring Justin Hartley, as reward seeker Colter Shaw races against the clock to save a flooding town from a full-fledged disaster, where the culprit lurks in the plain sight.A small

The Children of Eve

Mysteries & Thrillers

The Children of Eve

By John Connolly. Wyatt Riggins, the boyfriend of rising Maine artist Zetta Nadeau, has gone missing, leaving behind a cell phone containing a single-word message: RUN. Private investigator Charlie Parker is hired to find out why Riggins has fled, and from whom.Parker discovers that Riggins, an ex-soldier,

The Missing Half

Mysteries & Thrillers

The Missing Half

By Ashley Flowers. Two women haunted by their sisters’ unsolved disappearances band together in this captivating mystery from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All Good People Here and host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie.Nicole “Nic” Monroe is in a rut. At twenty-four, she lives

One Golden Summer

Romance

One Golden Summer

By Carley Fortune. A radiant, new escape to the lake from #1 New York Times bestselling author Carley FortuneI never anticipated Charlie Florek.Good things happen at the lake. That’s what Alice’s grandmother says, and it’s true. Alice spent just one summer at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeen—it’s

Thunder Game

Romance

By Christine Feehan. Two broken souls find a love worth fighting for in this captivating GhostWalker novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan.Diego Campos has come home to die. The GhostWalker is tired of walking a dark path shaped by countless losses. There has never been a moment

Faithbreaker

Science Fiction & Fantasy

By Hannah Kaner. In the epic finale to the #1 internationally bestselling Fallen Gods trilogy that started with Godkiller, the fate of Middren hangs in the balance as mighty gods and mortal heroes clash in a final battle for supremacy.War has come. The fire god Hseth is leading an unstoppable army south,

Overkill

Large Print

By J. A. Jance. Chuck Brewster, the former business partner of Ali Reynolds’s husband B. Simpson, once carried on an affair with Clarice, B.’s first wife. So when he’s found murdered with Clarice standing nearby covered in blood, it seems an open and shut case.But Clarice swears she’s innocent and begs

South of Nowhere

Large Print

South of Nowhere

By Jeffery Deaver. The New York Times bestselling master of suspense returns to his beloved series, adapted for TV featuring Justin Hartley, as reward seeker Colter Shaw races against the clock to save a flooding town from a full-fledged disaster, where the culprit lurks in the plain sight.A small town

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