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New Books, DVDs & More August 2019 |
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What's Coming Your Way? Want to know what's headed to your branch or going to be in the system? Our selectors have come up with lists of the books, movies, and music that they are most excited about this month! For a list of what has been ordered for your branch in the last month, click the link to the Koha report here or in any list, and then select your branch. |
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One Budget Adult Selector Teams Nonfiction: Patsy Ducote, Amanda Campbell Fiction (Mystery, Western, Romance, Christian, large print): Annie Phillips, Sarah Sledge, Michelle Brightwell Graphics: Jon Schafle, Michaela McKinnon Science Fiction: Courtney Braggs, Suzanne Flynn Urban Fiction: Lillie Cawthorn, Blanche Orr Audiobooks (Book CD, MP3): Michelle Brightwell, Patsy Ducote, Amanda Campbell DVD: Adrienne Bone, Courtney Braggs IMC Print/DVD: Brian Bess, Andrew Swallom Music: Jared Hayden Quick Pick Book/ DVD: Loly Borda One Budget Youth Services Selector Teams Juvenile Nonfiction: Melissa Shuman, Laura Noble Juvenile Fiction/Series: Betty Pate, Mandy Pinyan Juvenile Book CD: Lorie Hubscher Juvenile DVD/Music: Autumn Helton, Michaela McKinnon YA Fiction/Nonfiction/Book CD: Lorie Hubscher, Eileen Drummond Easy/Board book/Readers: Haley Whaley, Lisa Blackmon Graphics: Jon Schafle, Michaela McKinnon |
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The Oysterville Sewing Circle : a novel
by Susan Wiggs
Forced by scandal to return to her Pacific coast childhood home, a Manhattan fashionista assumes guardianship over two orphans and bonds with a circle of fellow seamstresses before an unexpected challenge tests her courage and heart. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Map of the Heart.150,000 first printing
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The escape room
by Megan Goldin
Ordered to participate in a corporate team-building exercise that requires them to escape from a locked elevator, four ruthless Wall Street high-flyers struggle to put aside rivalries shaped by workplace intimidation, deception and sexual harassment.
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Things you save in a fire
by Katherine Center
When a family emergency compels her move from Texas to Boston, a skilled firefighter becomes the only woman in her new firehouse and navigates discrimination, low funding and her private edicts about falling in love with another firefighter. By the New York Times best-selling author of How to Walk Away
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The last widow : a novel
by Karen Slaughter
An electrifying latest entry in the best-selling series finds Will and Sara pitted against a mysterious group that would unleash a deadly epidemic. By the Edgar-nominated author of Cop Town.250,000 first printing
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A better man : a Chief Inspector Gamache novel
by Louise Penny
Searching for a missing woman amid a catastrophic flood and blistering social media attacks, a demoted Armand Gamache bonds with the victim's distraught father, who contemplates a murder of his own. By the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Kingdom of the Blind
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Travel light, move fast
by Alexandra Fuller
The best-selling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight explores how her late father's service during the Rhodesian War, work as a banana farmer in Zambia and preference of unpredictability over security inspired her life
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How to be an antiracist
by Ibram X Kendi
A best-selling author, National Book Award-winner and professor combines ethics, history, law and science with a personal narrative to describe how to move beyond the awareness of racism and contribute to making society just and equitable.
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New Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy
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The return of the drama queen
by La Jill Hunt
After her cousin gives her control of a franchise salon, Bianca finds her loyalty to her incarcerated boyfriend tested when she meets a sexy delivery driver named Tyler whose flirtation might cause her to lose everything
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Black Panther 7 : The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
In a Black Panther compilation collecting issues #7-12, a threat against Wakanda by dissident Erik Killraven forces the disgraced prince to make an impossible choice, before the Black Panther's return to the dormant Maroons launches a perilous rebellion. Original.
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Snow, glass, apples
by Neil Gaiman
A graphic-novel rendering of Gaiman's dark reimagining of the Snow White story depicts a not-so-evil queen who resolves to save her realm from a monstrous stepdaughter. By the award-winning author of the Sandman comics series.
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The Walking Dead 32
by Robert Kirkman
"The Commonwealth and Alexandria have joined forces but at what cost to Rick? Collects ""The Walking Dead"" #187-192. Original."
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Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life and work
by Victoria Ortiz
Interweaves dramatically narrated case histories from Justice Ginsburg's iconic career with stories about her childhood, education, marriage and remarkable legal career, sharing insights into her fierce principles and passionate concerns about gender equality, fairness and constitutional rights. 35,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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The lonely dead
by April Henry
Discovering that her estranged friend has been murdered, Adele, a teen with the ability to speak with ghosts, risks her life to help stop the killer and clear her own name of suspicion. By the Edgar Award-nominated author of The Girl I Used to Be. Simultaneous eBook
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The rule of many
by Ashley Saunders
Fleeing a death sentence into the relative safety of Canada, fugitive twins Ava and Mira join a gifted young programmer and an abused labor-camp escapee in a growing rebellion against the power-grabbing Governor Roth. Simultaneous.
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Bright burning stars
by A. K. Small
Sharing a bond forged by respective tragedies and a fierce love for dance, two lifelong ballet students question what they would do for their careers, and the affections of a popular dancer boy, when the body of a fellow student is found in the dorms just before the start of their final year. Simultaneous eBook.
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Pinkalicious dragon to the rescue
by Victoria Kann
When Pinkalicious and her friends try to roast marshmallows at a backyard camping party, it is too windy to keep the campfire lit, but luckily, Gertie the dragon steps in to help out
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Llama Llama mess mess mess
by Anna Dewdney
When Mama Llama says it is time to clean up, Llama ignores her since he is more interested in playing than cleaning, but Mama finds an imaginative way to teach Llama a lesson about cleanliness
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Froggy picks a pumpkin
by Jonathan London
Joining his friends during a visit to the pumpkin patch, Froggy exuberantly picks a pumpkin in hopes of carving a jack-o'-lantern and making a pumpkin pie, before a pumpkin-smashing tumble causes him to receive a prize for the ugliest pumpkin. Simultaneous eBook.
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New Juvenile Fiction & Series
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Double cross
by Beth McMullen
While participating in The Challenge at Briar Academy, Abby and friends learn that their nemesis is using Briar as headquarters for planning an attack, and that The Ghost has inside help
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The bad guys in The big bad wolf
by Aaron Blabey
The Bad Guys test the limits of their newly honed superpowers when Mr. Wolf is blown up to Godzilla proportions at the same time an alien invasion threatens the world with total destruction. By the award-winning author of The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon. Original
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Serafina and the Seven Stars
by Robert Beatty
Invited by Mr. Vanderbilt to move into one of the Biltmore Estate's grandest rooms, a suspicious Serafina begins questioning her connection to Braeden after encountering the mansion's dangerous night terrors. 200,000 first printing.
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The poison jungle
by Tui Sutherland
Teaming up with her LeafWing friends in a plot to destroy the genocidal HiveWings, Sundew the dragon uncovers an ancient secret with the power to destroy all of Pantala. By the best-selling author of the Pet Trouble series.
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Dinosaur!
by Inc. Dorling Kindersley
Book Annotation
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Huntsville-Madison County Public Library
P.O. Box 443
Huntsville, Alabama 35804
256-532-5940hmcpl.org |
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