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Staff Picks for March 2026 |
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Is It Spring?
by Kevin Henkes
Fickle weather makes for an uncertain yet hopeful changing of the seasons.
Picture Book
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Leo's Lobo
by Melissa Cristina Márquez
Leo is thrilled when he and his family enter a shelter so he can adopt a new pet, but after searching for a while, Leo doesn't feel the connection he had hoped for and leaves feeling disappointed. On the way home, he and his family see a busy marketplace and find another shelter hidden inside: one for magical creatures! There Leo connects with an alebrije, their bond forming before they can even leave the shelter. But he quickly learns just how much responsibility comes with raising a pet.
Picture Book |
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You're a Winner, Gracie Wei
by Kristen Mei Chase
Fourth grader Gracie Wei is determined to win a spelling bee competition.
Children's Fiction |
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Change Is in the Air: The Hidden Discoveries of Eunice Newton Foote, the First Climate Scientist
by Rebecca Donnelly
This fascinating picture book biography tells the story of the trailblazing woman who first discovered our climate was changing. In an era when few women practiced science, Eunice Newton Foote dared to search for answers to a mystery that no one else had solved. A visionary scientist, suffragist, and mother, Eunice conducted a groundbreaking experiment that uncovered the first clues about global warming. Defying the limitations society placed on her, she boldly pursued her hypothesis, paving the way for our modern understanding of climate change.
Children's Nonfiction
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Glass: Looking In, Looking Out
by Larissa Theule
Meteoric collisions, volcanic eruptions, lightning strikes. Three catastrophes, all capable of producing glass, the stuff we use to protect us from the elements, send images, store energy, aid with everyday tasks, and make medical and scientific progress possible. With the help of human ingenuity, glass has evolved from its lumpy natural origins to a refined wonder that helps humankind see into the farthest reaches of outer space or the smallest particles of life on Earth. Glass is all around us and is one of the most versatile wonders of the material world, still changing the way we build, the way we think, the way we see.
Children's Nonfiction |
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The Lionharts
by Mike Lawrence
Adventuring isn't just in the Lionhart family's blood, it's the family business. Grammy and Baba Lionhart were once a famous questing duo, slaying dragons and fighting monsters, they were legends throughout the land. Now, their daughter, Lenna, has taken over the business, questing under the famous Lionhart name with her husband, Gerard, and their young sons, Alder and Flynt, are desperate to be included! When their parents go missing after accepting an unusually high-paying job from a mysterious woman, the boys set out to find them, eager to prove they're ready to carry on the family legacy. Nothing can shake a Lionhart, right? But Grammy and Baba know better and swiftly catch up with the boys, who have already gotten themselves in heap of trouble.
Children's Graphic Novel |
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Hamnet Original Motion Picture Score
Max Richter's ethereal score for the film, Hamnet, the untold love story that inspired Shakespeare's greatest masterpiece. Hamnet tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless classic, Hamlet and is based on the bestselling novel by Maggie O'Farrell. The score has been nominated for both an Academy Award and a BAFTA.
Adult Music CD
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One Battle After Another Original Motion Picture Score
The album features eighteen new compositions performed by Jonny Greenwood on piano, guitar, bass, percussion, and Ondes Martenot joined by the London Contemporary Orchestra. The score has been nominated for both an Academy Award and a BAFTA.
Adult Music CD
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Sinners Original Motion Picture Score
The genre-blending soundtrack fuses blues, gospel, soul, country, and horror elements. Sinners stars Michael B. Jordan. The score has been nominated for both an Academy Award and a BAFTA.
Adult Music CD
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Red Star Rebels
by Amie Kaufman
Hunter and Cleo have both found themselves stranded at the suddenly-abandoned United Nations Mars Base – Cleo because she arrived illegally as a stowaway, running from violent debt collectors, and Hunter because he traveled there in secret, hoping the element of surprise would help him convince his mother to let him take his rightful place as one of the heirs of the powerful GravesUP Industries empire. Left behind during an emergency evacuation, they find that they have much more than a potential life support contamination event to deal with: the base has been invaded by a crew of criminals whose motives are unclear, but whose intention to destroy the base will have fatal consequences for Hunter and Cleo. Forced to work together, Hunter and Cleo will have to contend with ruthless mercenaries, an alarmingly short countdown clock, and their own mistrust of each other to survive. Featuring an appealing blend of futuristic technology and suspenseful action – as Booklist Reviews describes it, “Andy Weir meets Die Hard,” – Red Star Rebels is a fun, fast-paced read for teen sci fi, action, and romance fans.
Teen Fiction |
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Carnival Fantástico
by Angela Montoya
Having fled from betrayal by the boy she loved – and imprisonment by his cruel comandante father – Esmeralda took refuge at the Carnival Fantástico, a mysterious and magical traveling show. But her 1-year contract as fortune teller Paloma Blanca is about to expire, and when it does, she’ll be cast out of the carnival… unless she can win first place in The Running, the competition to become the next lead role in the Big Top Show. Ignacio has defected from the army and infiltrated the Carnival Fantástico. While seeking his father Comandante Olivera’s secret collaborator at the circus – someone who will have proof of his father’s crimes – Ignacio is shocked to find Esmeralda, the girl who broke his heart, instead. Now enemies instead of lovers, Esmeralda and Ignacio nevertheless strike a bargain: she will help him expose his father if he will help her win The Running. While working together they find themselves wrestling with the resurgence of both old wounds and old feelings, all while uncovering the deadly secrets of the circus. Carnival Fantástico will appeal to teen fans of dark romantasy, as well as any reader who wants to get lost in the whimsical world of the magical circus.
Teen Fiction |
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I Give You My Silence
by Mario Vargas Llosa
Toño Azpilcueta, writer of sundry articles, aspirant to the now defunct professorship of Peruvian studies, is an expert in the vals, a genre of music descended from the European waltz but rooted in New World Creole culture. When he hears a performance by the solitary and elusive guitarist Lalo Molfino, he is convinced not only that he is in the presence of the country's finest musician, but that his own love for Peruvian music, as he has long suspected, has a profound social function. If he could just write the biography of the man before him and tell the story of both the vals and its attendant inspiring ethos, huachafería (Peru's most important contribution to world culture, according to Toño), he might capture his country's soul and inspire his fellow citizens to remember the ties that bind them. Both a send-up of parochial idealism and a love song to the culture of his homeland, Mario Vargas Llosa's I Give You My Silence is the final novel of the Peruvian Nobel Prize winner, whose enduring works captured a changing Latin America. Kirkus Reviews describes I Give You My Silence as “A graceful, pensive farewell by a master storyteller.”
Adult Fiction |
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Cleopatra
by Saara El-Arifi
Taking a break from her usual fantasy and sci fi writing, El-Arifi examines the life of Cleopatra from her adolescence to her death, with an eye towards subverting the standard views of this empress of Egypt as an ill-fated lover or a poor military strategist. Instead, El-Arifi portrays Cleopatra as a healer, a loving mother, a compassionate ruler – albeit one still prepared to ruthlessly sacrifice others to protect her legacy – and a master of statecraft. As El-Arifi follows the timeline of Cleopatra’s life, she marks the eras by the names given Cleopatra by her critics -- "The Witch," "The Whore," and "The Villain,” – but successfully presents a portrait of a woman and a ruler whose life, gifts, and actions went far beyond these reductive labels. Library Journal recommends this fictionalized historical tale to readers of Marie Benedict; fans of Pat Barker’s work will also appreciate El-Arifi’s reclamation of Cleopatra’s story.
Adult Fiction |
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I'll Bring the Apps: Bites, Bowls, Boards & Beverages
by Marissa Mullen
Appetizers are low lift, high reward, and always a crowd pleaser. So why not make them the whole party? In I'll Bring the Apps , Marissa Mullen does exactly that, proving she knows much more than just cheese. Each of these 75 recipes takes into consideration her next great entertaining mantra, the APPS method: Ambiance, Presentation, Pairing, and Space.
Adult Nonfiction |
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Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane
by Andy Beta
The first full-length biography of Alice Coltrane, the jazz musician and spiritual leader whose forward-thinking music was overshadowed by her more famous husband, even as she brilliantly laid the groundwork for the new age, ambient, and electronic music that would follow.
Adult Nonfiction |
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The Feather Wars: And the Great Crusade to Save America's Birds
by James H. McCommons
From the time the country was founded, early Americans assumed that the land's natural resources were infinite, including its birds, which were zealously hunted for food, game, and fashion. With the rapid extinction of the passenger pigeon--a bird once so numerous that its flocks darkened the sky in flight--many realized actions needed to be taken if other birds were to be saved. What followed was both a spiritual awakening and a great crusade to save birds and their habitat. The campaign took place on many battlefields: society teas in Boston, hunt clubs on the East Coast, the mangroves in the Everglades, and in the editorial pages of newspapers and periodicals. From many corners of the country the bird protection movement was born and brought together a remarkable coalition of people and organizations to save America's birds.
Adult Nonfiction |
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The Girl Who Draws on Whales
by Ariela Kristantina
The Girl Who Draws on Whales is set in a fantasy world, several centuries after "The Great Flood." Sister Wangi and younger brother Banyu live in a sea-village. Wangi has a special bond with the Great Whales that visit their sea-village and they allow Wangi to draw on their backs. Sometimes they return with new drawings on them. Wangi believes that there are other sea-villages or island settlements scattered around and that they are sending her messages but, none of the elders listen to her. One day, a new whale arrives in the village alone, wounded, and dying-this whale has a new drawing on her back that doesn't look like the previous drawings. Inspired by this mystery, Wangi vows to investigate. Although forbidden by her parents and the village elders, Wangi-along with a stowaway, who happens to be her brother Banyu-embark on a wondrous journey to investigate where the drawings are coming from only to find much more than they were expecting.
Teen Graphic Novel |
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Superman Unlimited Vol. 1: Kryptonite Kingdom
by Dan Slott
All-star creative team Dan Slott and Raphael Albuquerque take on the Man of Steel! When a city-sized asteroid hurtles toward Earth, Superman is sent in to save the day--but the reality of the crisis may be more than even he can handle! Superman has long since considered Earth to be his home after surviving the destruction of his birth planet, Krypton, as an infant. Now, thanks to a crisis of global proportions, the Man of Steel is confronted with a dangerous new status quo--Earth may no longer be safe for him, and yet he is still tasked with saving it. Featuring the writing talents of Dan Slott, making his DC Comics ongoing series debut, and the art of Raphael Albuquerque, Superman Unlimited is a brand-new cornerstone series of the DC Universe, paving the way for every Superman fan! Collects Superman Unlimited #1-6.
Adult Graphic Novel |
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Los errores de Monchito
by Cristina Expósito Escalona
Monchito does things differently from everyone else, and because of this, he thinks he makes mistakes. One day he decides to leave the jungle in search of a place where he can fit in. Will he manage to find this place? Monchito hace las cosas de manera diferente a todos los demás, y por eso, cree que comete errores. Un día decide marcharse de la jungla en busca de un lugar donde pueda encajar. ¿Conseguirá encontrar este lugar?
Spanish Picture Book
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La novia de la paz
by Rosario Raro
This is a powerful story about second chances with captivating protagonist- one anonymous, the other famous-who dare to risk their freedom by challenging the established order. Both will undergo a transformation and discover that, after betrayal, there is not better revenge than happiness. Esta es una poderosa historia sobre segundas oportunidades con unas protagonistas cautivadoras―una anónima, la otra célebre― que se atreven a poner en riesgo su libertad desafiando el orden establecido. Ambas experimentarán una transformación y descubrirán que, tras una traición, no hay mejor venganza que la felicidad.
Spanish Adult Fiction
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León XIV
by Mario Escobar
Mario Escobar analyzes Francis’ legacy and the challenge facing his successor; leading a Church shaken by scandals, internal divisions, and the urgent need for renewal. An essay on power, faith, and the future of the papacy in the 21st century. Mario Escobar analiza el legado de Francisco y el desafío que enfrenta su sucesor; liderar una Iglesia sacudida por escándalos, divisiones internas y la necesidad urgente de renovación. Un ensayo sobre el poder, la fe y el futuro del papado en el siglo XXI.
Spanish Adult Nonfiction
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