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Beanstack April Reading Challenge

April 1, 2025195 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

The Virtual Book Nook

February 15, 20243185 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

Join Our Adult Winter Reading Club at Plumb!

December 29, 2023960 Views Prizes, Reading, Winter Reading, Plumb Memorial Library

Read for a chance to win a prize! Visit the Plumb Memorial Library Circulation Desk, fill out a drawing slip Read More

Winter Reading Challenge 2023

January 30, 2023943 Views Prizes, Books, Winter Reading Challenge, Reading

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

The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (Downloadable Audio)

The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (Downloadable Audio)

Fortune and Glory: The Musical (Electronic Format)

Fortune and Glory: The Musical (Electronic Format)

The Bright Years

The Bright Years

The California Dreamers

The California Dreamers

Shadow of the Solstice

Shadow of the Solstice

Great Big Beautiful Life

Great Big Beautiful Life

A Chest Full of Words

A Chest Full of Words

A Fairy Finds Her Song

A Fairy Finds Her Song

Amy Looks Before She Leaps

Amy Looks Before She Leaps

Author vs. Illustrator

Author vs. Illustrator

Baby Animals (Baby Touch and Feel)

Baby Animals (Baby Touch and Feel)

Beansprout

Becoming a Ballerina: The Story of Michaela Mabinty DePrince

Becoming a Ballerina: The Story of Michaela Mabinty DePrince

Birdlore: The Iridescent Life of Florence Merriam Bailey

Birdlore: The Iridescent Life of Florence Merriam Bailey

Cats in Construction Hats

Cats in Construction Hats

Chicka Chicka I Love Mom

Chicka Chicka I Love Mom

Concealed (Electronic Format)

Concealed (Electronic Format)

Darwin's Super-Pooping Worm Spectacular (Electronic Format)

Darwin's Super-Pooping Worm Spectacular (Electronic Format)

Don't Trust Fish

Don't Trust Fish

Dragons Can't Eat Snow Cones

Dragons Can't Eat Snow Cones

The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (Downloadable Audio)

Audiobooks & Courses

The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (Downloadable Audio)

By Katherine Marsh. Downloadable Audio A middle-grade survival story that traces a family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine that devastated Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s.Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his

Fortune and Glory: The Musical (Electronic Format)

Entertainment

Fortune and Glory: The Musical (Electronic Format)

By Brian Michael Bendis. In Electronic Format A comedic life lesson about how to break a leg on Broadway—literally—by Brian Michael Bendis, the New York Times bestselling, award-winning co-creator of Miles Morales, Naomi, Jessica Jones, and POWERS.In the midst of the unprecedented success of Brian Michael

The Bright Years

Literature & Fiction

The Bright Years

By Sarah Damoff. One family. Four generations. A secret son. A devastating addiction. A Texas family is met with losses and surprises of inheritance, but they’re unable to shake the pull back toward each other in this big-hearted family saga perfect for readers of Mary Beth Keane and Claire Lombardo.Ryan

The California Dreamers

Literature & Fiction

The California Dreamers

By Amy Mason Doan. A group of siblings captured in an iconic beach photo reunite on a sunny California island, where they're forced to face the fallout of their unconventional upbringing—and the golden secret that has been simmering ever since...“A love story to an era of sun, salt air, and freedom.

Shadow of the Solstice

Mysteries & Thrillers

Shadow of the Solstice

By Anne Hillerman. “Anne Hillerman deserves recognition as one of the finest mystery authors currently working in the genre.”—New York Journal of BooksIn this gripping chapter in New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman’s Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series, the detectives must sort out a save-the-planet

Great Big Beautiful Life

Romance

Great Big Beautiful Life

By Emily Henry. A dazzling and sweeping new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry!

A Chest Full of Words

Children's Books

A Chest Full of Words

By Rebecca Gugger and Simon Röthlisberger. In this picture book packed with playful vocabulary, a young boy finds new words and discovers how to use them to change the world around him.Oscar discovers a magnificent treasure chest. When he opens it, he is disappointed at what’s inside: nothing but words.

A Fairy Finds Her Song

Children's Books

A Fairy Finds Her Song

By Bea Jackson. A fairy searches for her special skill in this enchanting Level 1 Ready-to-Read in the Fairies Welcome series from New York Times bestselling illustrator Bea Jackson.Every fairy has a talent except Lily…or so she thinks. Her human friend, Willow, knows how special Lily truly is. Can she

Amy Looks Before She Leaps

Children's Books

Amy Looks Before She Leaps

By Callie Barkley. In the twenty-ninth book of the Critter Club series, Amy meets a blind stray cat!When Amy finds a stray cat who’s blind, she throws all her time and effort into caring for her. She even wants to skip sleepovers with the Critter Club! But eventually, Amy discovers that the cat can do

Author vs. Illustrator

Children's Books

Author vs. Illustrator

By Donald Lemke. At the far reaches of Earth, high upon a mountaintop, a bustling city is under attack by a . . . cute little furball? Wait--what?! That's not right. The author wrote this book about a "ferocious beast," not a cuddly critter. Turns out, the book's illustrator has other plans. Page by

Baby Animals (Baby Touch and Feel)

Children's Books

Baby Animals (Baby Touch and Feel)

By Roger Priddy. Babies will love meeting the adorable animals and exploring the touch-and-feel pages in Baby Animals, the next title in the successful Baby Touch & Feel series by Priddy Books.Filled with cute baby animals, from kittens and puppies, to bunnies and more, this multi-sensory shaped board

Beansprout

Children's Books

By Sarah Lynne Reul. What happens when you do everything right, but it doesn’t work out? When classmates start having success with their seeds, one student's just won't sprout.A picture book about planting and growing, where grown-ups and kids can talk about disappointment, emotions, and second chances.It's

Becoming a Ballerina: The Story of Michaela Mabinty DePrince

Children's Books

Becoming a Ballerina: The Story of Michaela Mabinty DePrince

By Laura Obuobi. From Laura Obuobi, acclaimed author of NAACP Image Award nominee Black Gold and What Love Looks Like, comes a triumphant nonfiction picture book about ballet star Michaela Mabinty DePrince, one of the most celebrated ballerinas of our generation. This lyrical true tale follows her childhood,

Birdlore: The Iridescent Life of Florence Merriam Bailey

Children's Books

Birdlore: The Iridescent Life of Florence Merriam Bailey

By Jess Keating. From the author of Shark Lady comes the true story of Florence Merriam Bailey, the groundbreaking scientist who inspired a nation to take up bird-watching and worked tirelessly to protect our feathered friends.Before Florence, there was no such thing as "bird-watching". Bright plumes

Cats in Construction Hats

Children's Books

Cats in Construction Hats

By Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen. Colorful cats in construction hats are on the job to build a house in this adorable, bouncy, rhyming picture book! Kids will delight in learning about colors while giggling at the hilarious antics of these forklift driving kitties.Yellow cat. Green hat.Dig this. Clear that.Green

Chicka Chicka I Love Mom

Children's Books

Chicka Chicka I Love Mom

By Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault. In this companion to the beloved and bestselling classic Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, rollicking rhyme revels in everything that makes moms great in this gifty paper over board book complete with a to/from page!I told mom,and mom told me,“It’s best to say I love youwith

Concealed (Electronic Format)

Children's Books

Concealed (Electronic Format)

By Christina Diaz Gonzalez. In Electronic Format What if you had no name, no past, and no home?Award-winning author Christina Diaz Gonzalez has created a twisty, action-packed story about a life on the run.Ivette. Joanna. And now: KatrinaWhatever her name is, it won’t last long. Katrina doesn’t know

Darwin's Super-Pooping Worm Spectacular (Electronic Format)

Children's Books

Darwin's Super-Pooping Worm Spectacular (Electronic Format)

By Polly Owen. In Electronic Format Learn the funny and fascinating story of Charles Darwin and the groundbreaking discoveries his love of the humble worms led to in this hilarious illustrated book.Charles Darwin is widely known for his "Origin of Species" book, yet Darwin had another great love, and

Don't Trust Fish

Children's Books

Don't Trust Fish

By Neil Sharpson. An absurdly laugh-out-loud funny picture book about the villainy of fish, illustrated by National Book Award-winning creator Dan SantatWhy, dear reader, must you NEVER EVER trust fish?1) They spend all their time in the water where we can’t see them.2) Some are as big as a bus—that

Dragons Can't Eat Snow Cones

Children's Books

Dragons Can't Eat Snow Cones

By Amanda Sobotka. If a dragon wants a snow cone, it must proceed with great care,In case a fireball melts it all until there’s nothing there!This dragon has a peculiar problem: he loves snow cones, but his fiery breath keeps melting them! Follow along in this fun-filled adventure as the dragon tries

New Items at the
Huntington Branch Library

A Complete Unknown

A Complete Unknown

Babygirl [Blu-ray]

Babygirl [Blu-ray]

Companion

Flight Risk

Gunner

09-05-2025

Severance: Season 1

Severance: Season 1

Star Trek: Lower Decks - The Final Season

Star Trek: Lower Decks - The Final Season

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly

Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly

The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom

The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom

Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali

Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali

Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families

Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families

The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution

The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution

Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping's China

Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping's China

Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left

Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left

Overkill

The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (Downloadable Audio)

The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (Downloadable Audio)

America, Let Me In: A Choose Your Immigration Story

America, Let Me In: A Choose Your Immigration Story

Fortune and Glory: The Musical (Electronic Format)

Fortune and Glory: The Musical (Electronic Format)

A Complete Unknown

DVDs

A Complete Unknown

New York, 1961. A young Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) arrives with his guitar and revolutionary talent, forging relationships with music icons on his meteoric rise which culminates in a groundbreaking and controversial performance that reverberates worldwide. Warning: Some flashing-lights scenes in this

Babygirl [Blu-ray]

DVDs

Babygirl [Blu-ray]

A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.

Companion

DVDs

A weekend getaway turns bloody and violent when a subservient android that's built for human companionship goes haywire.

Flight Risk

DVDs

A pilot, an Air Marshal, and her fugitive clash in this high-stakes suspense thriller directed by Mel Gibson and starring Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Dockery, and Topher Grace.

Gunner

DVDs

A highly decorated ex-soldier, Lee Gunner, tries to save his sons Luke and Travis who were kidnapped by a dangerous drug gang in the Appalachian Mountains.

09-05-2025

DVDs

SEPTEMBER 5 unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today. Set during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, the film follows an American Sports broadcasting team that quickly adapted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken

Severance: Season 1

DVDs

Severance: Season 1

SEVERANCE centers on Mark Scout (Adam Scott), leading a team of office workers whose memories are surgically split between work and personal lives. This ‘work-life balance’ experiment is questioned as Mark faces a mystery forcing him to confront the true nature of his work and himself.

Star Trek: Lower Decks - The Final Season

DVDs

Star Trek: Lower Decks - The Final Season

IN THE FIFTH AND FINAL SEASON, the crew of the U. S. S. Cerritos is tasked with closing space potholes subspace rifts which are causing chaos in the Alpha Quadrant. Pothole duty would be easy for Jr. Ofcers Mariner, Boimler, Tendi and Rutherford...if they didn't also have to deal with an Orion war, furious

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

DVDs

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

Set 183 years before the events chronicled in the original trilogy of films, “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” tells the fate of the House of Helm Hammerhand, the legendary King of Rohan. A sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and ruthless Dunlending lord seeking vengeance for the death of

Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly

Biographies & Memoirs

Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly

By Hannah Selinger. What happens when a career you love doesn’t love you back?As Hannah Selinger will tell you, to be a good restaurant employee is to be invisible. At the height of her career as a server and then sommelier at some of New York’s most famed dining institutions, Selinger was the hand that

The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom

Biographies & Memoirs

The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom

By Shari Franke. From eldest daughter Shari Franke, the shocking true story behind the viral 8 Passengers family vlog and the hidden abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother, and how, in the face of unimaginable pain, she found freedom and healing.Shari Franke’s childhood was a constant battle for

Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali

Biographies & Memoirs

Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali

By Cassidy Randall. The gripping story of a group of female adventurers and their treacherous pioneering ascent of Denali in 1970Cassidy Randall draws on extensive archival research and original interviews to tell an engrossing, edge-of-the-seat adventure story about a forgotten group of climbers who

Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families

History

Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families

By Judith Giesberg. Drawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements, the riveting, dramatic story of formerly enslaved people who spent years searching for family members stolen away during slavery.Of all the many horrors of slavery, the cruelest was the separation of families

The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution

History

The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution

By Joyce E. Chaplin. The surprising story of Benjamin Franklin’s most famous invention―and a new take on the Founding Father we thought we knew.The biggest revolution in Benjamin Franklin’s lifetime was made to fit in a fireplace. Assembled from iron plates like a piece of flatpack furniture, the Franklin

Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping's China

Society

Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping's China

By Emily Feng. An intimate, deeply reported investigation into the battle over identity in China, chronicling the state oppression of those who fail to conform to Xi Jinping's definition of who is "Chinese," from an award-winning NPR correspondent.The rise of China and its great power competition with

Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left

Society

Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left

By Eoin Higgins. A cabal of tech-billionaires is colluding with once-idealistic journalists to create an entirely new media landscape.Owned is the story of the underreported and growing collusion between new wealth and new journalism. In recent years, right-wing billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel,

Overkill

Audiobooks & Courses

By J.A. Jance. From J. A. Jance, a writer whose thrillers are “hot and getting hotter” (Booklist), the latest in her New York Times bestselling and heart-pounding Ali Reynolds series.Chuck Brewster, the former business partner of Ali Reynolds’s husband B. Simpson, once carried on an affair with Clarice,

The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (Downloadable Audio)

Audiobooks & Courses

The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (Downloadable Audio)

By Katherine Marsh. Downloadable Audio A middle-grade survival story that traces a family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine that devastated Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s.Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his

America, Let Me In: A Choose Your Immigration Story

Entertainment

America, Let Me In: A Choose Your Immigration Story

By Felipe Torres Medina. A hilarious and satirically accurate introduction to the United States immigration system from comedian and writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Felipe Torres MedinaBorn in Colombia, Felipe Torres Medina moved to the US at the age of 21 and has spent over ten years of

Fortune and Glory: The Musical (Electronic Format)

Entertainment

Fortune and Glory: The Musical (Electronic Format)

By Brian Michael Bendis. In Electronic Format A comedic life lesson about how to break a leg on Broadway—literally—by Brian Michael Bendis, the New York Times bestselling, award-winning co-creator of Miles Morales, Naomi, Jessica Jones, and POWERS.In the midst of the unprecedented success of Brian Michael

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