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The Virtual Book Nook

February 15, 20242953 Views Books, Reading, Virtual Book Nook, Friends of the Shelton Libraries

Presented by The Friends of the Shelton Libraries What Exactly is the Virtual Book Nook? Purchase books published within the Read More

Book Nook Holiday Sale

November 14, 20231029 Views Softcover, Paperbacks, Books, Puzzles, Book Sale, Board Games, CDs, DVDs, Hardcover

Friends of the Shelton Libraries Book Nook Holiday Sale Sale starts Monday, November 13th and ends Saturday, December 30th 50% Read More

Winter Reading Challenge 2023

January 30, 2023922 Views Reading, Prizes, Books, Winter Reading Challenge

Monday, February 6th through Friday, March 17th Children: 0 years old through 12th grade Registration begins in person, on Monday, Read More

Huntington Branch Library Book Bingo

December 23, 20222511 Views Bingo, Books

Book Bingo for Adults! Starting this January 2023! Read a book, cross off a space, make one bingo or complete 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

A Brief History of the Future

A Brief History of the Future

Raising Hare: A Memoir

Raising Hare: A Memoir

Celebrating Around the Table: Learning the Stories of Black Christians Through Readings, Fellowship, Food, and Faith (Electronic Format)

Celebrating Around the Table: Learning the Stories of Black Christians Through Readings, Fellowship, Food, and Faith (Electronic Format)

Confronting the Thief: Take Back What the Enemy Stole and Declare Divine Recovery over Your Heart, Family, and Life (Electronic Format)

Confronting the Thief: Take Back What the Enemy Stole and Declare Divine Recovery over Your Heart, Family, and Life (Electronic Format)

Reclaiming Quiet: Cultivating a Life of Holy Attention (Electronic Format)

Reclaiming Quiet: Cultivating a Life of Holy Attention (Electronic Format)

When the Church Harms God's People: Becoming Faith Communities That Resist Abuse, Pursue Truth, and Care for the Wounded (Electronic Format)

When the Church Harms God's People: Becoming Faith Communities That Resist Abuse, Pursue Truth, and Care for the Wounded (Electronic Format)

Deep Cuts

Dream Count

One Good Thing

Stone Yard Devotional

Stone Yard Devotional

Tartufo

The Dream Hotel

The Dream Hotel

The Lost Passenger

The Lost Passenger

The Persians

The Talent

Bonded in Death

Bonded in Death

Broken Fields

Death in the Dressing Room

Death in the Dressing Room

Glory Daze

Haunting and Homicide

Haunting and Homicide

A Brief History of the Future

DVDs

A Brief History of the Future

By Andrew Morgan. A unique documentary series about our futures and how we can reimagine them. Hosted by renowned futurist Ari Wallach, the show invites viewers on a journey around the world filled with discovery, hope, and possibility about where we find ourselves today and what could come next.

Raising Hare: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Raising Hare: A Memoir

By Chloe Dalton. A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman’s unlikely friendship with a wild hare.Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped

Celebrating Around the Table: Learning the Stories of Black Christians Through Readings, Fellowship, Food, and Faith (Electronic Format)

Religion & Spirituality

Celebrating Around the Table: Learning the Stories of Black Christians Through Readings, Fellowship, Food, and Faith (Electronic Format)

By Trillia J. Newbell. In Electronic Format Explore the Stories, Food, and Faith of Black AmericansYour family is invited to learn more about the accomplishments and adversities of twelve noteworthy African American believers, including Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Freeman, Harriet Tubman, and some

Confronting the Thief: Take Back What the Enemy Stole and Declare Divine Recovery over Your Heart, Family, and Life (Electronic Format)

Religion & Spirituality

Confronting the Thief: Take Back What the Enemy Stole and Declare Divine Recovery over Your Heart, Family, and Life (Electronic Format)

By Jane Hamon. In Electronic Format Recover All the Enemy Has StolenWe've all felt the gut-wrenching helplessness of loss when the enemy has stolen something from us: finances, health, peace, a promise or opportunity, even family and friends. Yet even in the most hopeless of situations, you can go from

Reclaiming Quiet: Cultivating a Life of Holy Attention (Electronic Format)

Religion & Spirituality

Reclaiming Quiet: Cultivating a Life of Holy Attention (Electronic Format)

By Sarah Clarkson. In Electronic Format In a noisy world, the cultivation of quiet may feel like a luxury you do not have. But it is also vital to your spiritual life. When we spend our days distracted by social media, news, entertainment, and jam-packed schedules, we make it nearly impossible to experience

When the Church Harms God's People: Becoming Faith Communities That Resist Abuse, Pursue Truth, and Care for the Wounded (Electronic Format)

Religion & Spirituality

When the Church Harms God's People: Becoming Faith Communities That Resist Abuse, Pursue Truth, and Care for the Wounded (Electronic Format)

By Diane Langberg. In Electronic Format Internationally recognized psychologist Diane Langberg has come face to face with the crushing trauma of sexual abuse, trafficking, domestic abuse, and rape--and its cover-up.Even more tragic, she has encountered it all within Christian communities and the church.As

Deep Cuts

Literature & Fiction

By Holly Brickley. The incredibly buzzy debut that everyone is talking about -- a love story about two people pulled apart by the same force that draws them together: music.It’s a Friday night in a campus bar in Berkeley, fall of 2000, and Percy Marks is pontificating about music again. Hall and Oates

Dream Count

Literature & Fiction

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. A publishing event ten years in the making—a searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desiresChiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in

One Good Thing

Literature & Fiction

By Georgia Hunter. From the New York Times–bestselling author of We Were the Lucky Ones, an unforgettable story of hardship and hope, courage and resilience, that follows one young woman’s journey through war-torn Italy1941, Emilia Romagna. Lili and Esti have been best friends since meeting at the University

Stone Yard Devotional

Literature & Fiction

Stone Yard Devotional

By Charlotte Wood. Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, a novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be good, from the award-winning author of The Weekend.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

Tartufo

Literature & Fiction

By Kira Jane Buxton. Thurber Prize finalist and author of the beloved Hollow Kingdom returns with another fantastical and endlessly funny story featuring a cast of colorful characters in a dying Italian village and a giant truffle that changes their fate forever.After nearly losing the election to a

The Dream Hotel

Literature & Fiction

The Dream Hotel

By Laila Lalami. From Laila Lalami—the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a “maestra of literary fiction” (NPR)—comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman’s fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance.Sara has just landed at LAX,

The Lost Passenger

Literature & Fiction

The Lost Passenger

By Frances Quinn. An immersive historical drama about a young mother who starts a new life with her son in New York after faking their deaths on the Titanic—the U. S. debut of acclaimed British novelist Frances Quinn.Sometimes it takes a disaster to change your life.Marrying above your social class can

The Persians

Literature & Fiction

By Sanam Mahloudji. An irreverent and deeply-felt debut novel about a family confronting a past that is both keeping them together and preventing them from breaking free.Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they’re nobodies.First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with

The Talent

Literature & Fiction

By Daniel D'Addario. As Hollywood prepares for its most glamorous evening, five actresses compete to see who will claim the top prize.Adria, a dignified and highly regarded grand dame of the movie industry, is intent on cementing her legacy as one of the greatest thespians of all time, even as the younger

Bonded in Death

Mysteries & Thrillers

Bonded in Death

By J. D. Robb. The #1 New York Times bestselling author spins an epic tale of loyalty, treachery, murder, and the long shadow of war…His passport read Giovanni Rossi. But decades ago, during the Urban Wars, he was part of a small, secret organization called The Twelve. Responding to an urgent summons

Broken Fields

Mysteries & Thrillers

By Marcie R. Rendon. Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman and occasional sleuth, is back on the case after a man is found dead on a rural Minnesota farm in the next installment of the acclaimed Native crime series.1970s: It’s spring in the Red River Valley and Cash Blackbear is doing field work for a

Death in the Dressing Room

Mysteries & Thrillers

Death in the Dressing Room

By Simon Brett. Carole Seddon, a very respectable retired woman living in the English seaside village of Fethering, doesn’t care for the theatre. But her neighbour Jude counts the job of actress among her many and varied past careers. So when Jude attends the closing night of a new play based on a classic

Glory Daze

Mysteries & Thrillers

By Danielle Arceneaux. In the highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning Glory Be, Glory Broussard finds herself enmeshed in the mystery of her ex-husband's death . . . with an unlikely ally at her side.After her life was turned upside down by solving the murder of her best friend, Sister Amity

Haunting and Homicide

Mysteries & Thrillers

Haunting and Homicide

By Ava Burke. Lou Thatcher is haunted by ghosts–friendly ghosts–but when she finds herself involved in a murder investigation, she’s in for the fright of a lifetime in this new cozy mystery, perfect for fans of Amanda Flower and Ellen Byron.Tallulah “Lou” Thatcher has a gift: she can see dead people.

New Items at the
Huntington Branch Library

Lead Bigger: The Transformative Power of Inclusion

Lead Bigger: The Transformative Power of Inclusion

You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon's Fight for Free Speech

You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon's Fight for Free Speech

Celebrating Around the Table: Learning the Stories of Black Christians Through Readings, Fellowship, Food, and Faith (Electronic Format)

Celebrating Around the Table: Learning the Stories of Black Christians Through Readings, Fellowship, Food, and Faith (Electronic Format)

Confronting the Thief: Take Back What the Enemy Stole and Declare Divine Recovery over Your Heart, Family, and Life (Electronic Format)

Confronting the Thief: Take Back What the Enemy Stole and Declare Divine Recovery over Your Heart, Family, and Life (Electronic Format)

Reclaiming Quiet: Cultivating a Life of Holy Attention (Electronic Format)

Reclaiming Quiet: Cultivating a Life of Holy Attention (Electronic Format)

When the Church Harms God's People: Becoming Faith Communities That Resist Abuse, Pursue Truth, and Care for the Wounded (Electronic Format)

When the Church Harms God's People: Becoming Faith Communities That Resist Abuse, Pursue Truth, and Care for the Wounded (Electronic Format)

Theory & Practice

Theory & Practice

Time of the Child

Time of the Child

Close Your Eyes and Count to 10

Close Your Eyes and Count to 10

Do I Belong Here?/ ¿Es este mi lugar?

Do I Belong Here?/ ¿Es este mi lugar?

Heartfelt

Lolo and Birdie: I Want More! / ¡Quiero Más!

Lolo and Birdie: I Want More! / ¡Quiero Más!

Making Books

Mis días con Papá / Spending Time with Dad

Mis días con Papá / Spending Time with Dad

Space for Everyone

Space for Everyone

The Universe: Discover What Lies Beyond Our Skies (Space Explorers)

The Universe: Discover What Lies Beyond Our Skies (Space Explorers)

There's a Ghost in the Garden

There's a Ghost in the Garden

Tierra, Tierrita / Earth, Little Earth (Madre Tierra / Mother Earth)

Tierra, Tierrita / Earth, Little Earth (Madre Tierra / Mother Earth)

Work: Interviews with People Doing Jobs They Love

Work: Interviews with People Doing Jobs They Love

You Should Meet Misty Copeland, Katherine Johnson, and Mae Jemison!

You Should Meet Misty Copeland, Katherine Johnson, and Mae Jemison!

Lead Bigger: The Transformative Power of Inclusion

Business & Investing

Lead Bigger: The Transformative Power of Inclusion

By Anne Chow. Drawing from over three decades of experience, former CEO of AT&T Business Anne Chow shares how to lead bigger by leveraging inclusion beyond DEI, to elevate your work, workforce, and workplace.For generations, when we’ve needed to innovate and grow, we’ve been told to “think bigger”—it’s

You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon's Fight for Free Speech

History

You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon's Fight for Free Speech

By Brad Snyder. The story of a young, Black Communist Party organizer wrongly convicted of attempting to incite insurrection and the landmark case that made him a civil rights hero.Decades before the impeachment of an American president for a similar offense, Angelo Herndon was charged under Georgia

Celebrating Around the Table: Learning the Stories of Black Christians Through Readings, Fellowship, Food, and Faith (Electronic Format)

Religion & Spirituality

Celebrating Around the Table: Learning the Stories of Black Christians Through Readings, Fellowship, Food, and Faith (Electronic Format)

By Trillia J. Newbell. In Electronic Format Explore the Stories, Food, and Faith of Black AmericansYour family is invited to learn more about the accomplishments and adversities of twelve noteworthy African American believers, including Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Freeman, Harriet Tubman, and some

Confronting the Thief: Take Back What the Enemy Stole and Declare Divine Recovery over Your Heart, Family, and Life (Electronic Format)

Religion & Spirituality

Confronting the Thief: Take Back What the Enemy Stole and Declare Divine Recovery over Your Heart, Family, and Life (Electronic Format)

By Jane Hamon. In Electronic Format Recover All the Enemy Has StolenWe've all felt the gut-wrenching helplessness of loss when the enemy has stolen something from us: finances, health, peace, a promise or opportunity, even family and friends. Yet even in the most hopeless of situations, you can go from

Reclaiming Quiet: Cultivating a Life of Holy Attention (Electronic Format)

Religion & Spirituality

Reclaiming Quiet: Cultivating a Life of Holy Attention (Electronic Format)

By Sarah Clarkson. In Electronic Format In a noisy world, the cultivation of quiet may feel like a luxury you do not have. But it is also vital to your spiritual life. When we spend our days distracted by social media, news, entertainment, and jam-packed schedules, we make it nearly impossible to experience

When the Church Harms God's People: Becoming Faith Communities That Resist Abuse, Pursue Truth, and Care for the Wounded (Electronic Format)

Religion & Spirituality

When the Church Harms God's People: Becoming Faith Communities That Resist Abuse, Pursue Truth, and Care for the Wounded (Electronic Format)

By Diane Langberg. In Electronic Format Internationally recognized psychologist Diane Langberg has come face to face with the crushing trauma of sexual abuse, trafficking, domestic abuse, and rape--and its cover-up.Even more tragic, she has encountered it all within Christian communities and the church.As

Theory & Practice

Literature & Fiction

Theory & Practice

By Michelle de Kretser. "Theory & Practice is a thrillingly original hybrid work that seeks truthful answers to the most difficult questions of the day—questions about the nature of love, art, and desire, about the thorny cultural legacy of colonialism and the unappeasable human yearning for connection."—Sigrid

Time of the Child

Literature & Fiction

Time of the Child

By Niall Williams. From the author of This Is Happiness, a compassionate, life-affirming novel about the Christmas season that transforms the small Irish town of Faha.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

Close Your Eyes and Count to 10

Mysteries & Thrillers

Close Your Eyes and Count to 10

By Lisa Unger. When the real game begins, who will make it to the count of 10?Charismatic daredevil and extreme adventurer Maverick Dillan invites you to the ultimate game of hide-and-seek. But as the players gather on Falcao Island, the event quickly spirals into a chilling test of survival. A storm

Do I Belong Here?/ ¿Es este mi lugar?

Children's Books

Do I Belong Here?/ ¿Es este mi lugar?

By Colato Laínez and René. Award-winning children’s book author René Colato Laínez teams up again with illustrator Fabricio Vanden Broeck to explore the experiences of newcomers in U. S. schools and affirm that yes! They do belong here.

Heartfelt

Children's Books

By Elaine Vickers. From the creators of the “wonderfully evocative” (BookPage) Thankful comes a cozy picture book about a child who finds that small acts of kindness can change the world.A child makes paper hearts to give to her teacher, to a friend, at the library, and more. As she spreads kindness

Lolo and Birdie: I Want More! / ¡Quiero Más!

Children's Books

Lolo and Birdie: I Want More! / ¡Quiero Más!

By Angela Dominguez. Lolo and Birdie are back for more! Join the adorable bird and dinosaur duo as they continue to navigate the hazards of childhood, in English and Spanish, in the next installment of this sweet and funny bilingual picture book series.When Birdie gives Lolo a flower from the garden,

Making Books

Children's Books

By Alexis Burling. Books are a popular form of media, and today it is easier than ever for people to write their own. This title explores the history of printing and publishing, as well as the equipment, skills, challenges, and marketing strategies involved in writing and releasing books. It also looks

Mis días con Papá / Spending Time with Dad

Children's Books

Mis días con Papá / Spending Time with Dad

By David and Elías. This sweet bilingual picture book follows a boy and his stay-at-home father, who takes cares of him everyday while his mom goes to work.

Space for Everyone

Children's Books

Space for Everyone

By Seina Wedlick. This lyrical and heartwarming picture book follows a Nigerian girl who worries about her family's upcoming move. But she soon realizes that no matter where they go, there will always be room at their kitchen table for her community to gather around.When Zainab runs down the stairs in

The Universe: Discover What Lies Beyond Our Skies (Space Explorers)

Children's Books

The Universe: Discover What Lies Beyond Our Skies (Space Explorers)

By Abigail Beall. Take a journey through the solar system and on toward distant clusters of stars with this visually stunning guide to the universe.Beginning with the Big Bang and looking forward to the future of space travel, this book is a fascinating introduction to space for budding stargazers and

There's a Ghost in the Garden

Children's Books

There's a Ghost in the Garden

By Kyo Maclear. A gentle, probing picture book from award-winning author Kyo Maclear and celebrated illustrator Katty Maurey about the special relationship between a grandfather and his grandson, and the many traces, memories, and even ghosts with which we liveThere’s a ghost in Grandpa’s garden. It

Tierra, Tierrita / Earth, Little Earth (Madre Tierra / Mother Earth)

Children's Books

Tierra, Tierrita / Earth, Little Earth (Madre Tierra / Mother Earth)

By Argueta and Jorge. Renowned poet and children’s book author Jorge Argueta and illustrator Felipe Ugalde Alcántara collaborate again on the beautiful fourth book in the trilingual Mother Earth / Madre Tierra series of picture books that combine poetry, the environment and the interconnectedness of

Work: Interviews with People Doing Jobs They Love

Children's Books

Work: Interviews with People Doing Jobs They Love

By Shaina Feinberg. What do a playwright, a vegan butcher, and an alpaca farmer all have in common? Two popular columnists take us behind the scenes in interviews with twenty-eight workers doing something they love.With care and delight, New York Times columnists Shaina Feinberg and Julia Rothman take

You Should Meet Misty Copeland, Katherine Johnson, and Mae Jemison!

Children's Books

You Should Meet Misty Copeland, Katherine Johnson, and Mae Jemison!

By Laurie Calkhoven and Thea Feldman. Get to know three groundbreaking Black women—a principal ballerina, a NASA mathematician, and an astronaut—in these fascinating nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Reads now available together in one hardcover bind-up!Misty Copeland was the first African American woman to

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