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Children’s Picture Books (ages 4-8 yrs)

The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse
by Eric Carle
A child paints the world just as he saw it in his imagination. There's a red crocodile, an orange elephant, a purple fox and a polka-dotted donkey. More than anything, there's imagination. 

The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories
by Dr. Seuss, Charles D Cohen
This book collects seven joyous Seuss stories first published in magazines between 1950 and 1951, with an introduction and commentary on each by Charles D Cohen, who hunted the stories down.

Blackout
by John Rocco
One hot summer night in the city, when all the power goes out, a busy family stops their usual activities and enjoys being not so busy for once.  

Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site
by Sherri Duskey Rinker, Tom Lichtenheld (ILT)
As the sun sets behind the big construction site, all the hardworking trucks get ready to say goodnight, so they'll be ready for another day of rough and tough construction play.

I Want My Hat Back
by Jon Klassen
A bear asks different animals whether they have see his lost hat.  Each animal says no, some more elaborately than others. The bear almost gives up his search until he remembers the color of his hat. 

Press Here
by Herve Tullet
Press the dots, shake the pages, tilt the book…follow the interactive instructions to see the dots multiply, change direction, and grow in size!

Adelaide
by Tomi Ungerer
Adelaide, a kangaroo with wings, discovers that her unique anatomy and abilities bring her fame and fortune in Paris.

Where's Walrus?
by Stephen Savage
2011“Follows Walrus on a journey through the city, as he tries on different hats to disguise himself from the chasing zookeeper.”

Children’s Easy Readers

I Broke My Trunk
by Mo Willems
Gerald the elephant tells his best friend Piggie a long, crazy story about how he broke his trunk.

Mouse and Mole, a Perfect Halloween
by Wong Herbert Yee
Mouse is busy preparing for Halloween, but Mole is dreading the scary holiday, so Mouse decides to show her best friend there is no reason to be scared.

Children's Fiction

Darth Paper Strikes Back: An Origami Yoda Book
by Tom Angleberger
Angleberger delivers the hilarious, clever, and much-anticipated follow-up to his breakout bestseller, "The Strange Case of Origami Yoda."

The flint heart : a fairy story
by Katherine Paterson
A magical amulet brings power and despair to those who touch it.

Squish: Super Amoeba
by Jennifer L. Holm
The young amoeba Squish, inspired by his favorite comic book hero, Super Amoeba, tries to navigate his way through school and save his friends and the world from the evils that lurk in the halls.

Hound Dog True
by Linda Urban
Mattie, a shy fifth-grader, wants to hide out at her new school by acting as apprentice to her Uncle Potluck, the custodian, but her plan falls apart when she summons the courage to speak about what matters most and finds a true friend.

Junonia
by Kevin Henkes
The week of her 10th birthday, Alice and her parents go to Sanibel Island, Florida, just as they do every year. But this time some of the people who are always there are missing and some new people have come, which unsettles Alice, who wants things to be exactly the same as they always are.

The Lemonade Crime
by Jacqueline Davies
Following the laws of our legal system, Evan and Jessie's fourth grade class concocts a courtroom on the playground, putting Scott Spencer, alleged thief, on trial, in this sequel to "The Lemonade War."

Liesl & Po
by Lauren Oliver
A magical mix-up has tremendous consequences for Liesl, an orphan who has been locked in an attic; Will, an alchemist's runaway apprentice; and Po, a ghost, as they are pursued by friend and foe while making an important journey.

Never Forgotten
by Patricia C. McKissack
In eighteenth-century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements--Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth--is captured and taken to America as a slave.

The Wikkeling
by Steven Arnston
In the restrictive city of Addition, a group of friends at a highly competitive school suffer from mysterious headaches before sharing several odd experiences, including the arrival of a strange, threatening creature called the Wikkeling.

Wildwood
by Colin Meloy
After her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader PrueMcKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness--a dangerous and magical forest in the middle of Portland, Oregon--and soon finds herself involved in a war among the various inhabitants.

Wonderstruck
by Brian Selznick
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life.

The Last Council, Amulet. Book 4
by Kazu Kibuishi
When Trellis and Luger are taken prisoner in Cielis, Emily must fight for her life in a series of tests that determine who among the new generation of Stonekeepers will join the Guardian Council--the powerful group that governs Alledia.

The Emerald Atlas
by John Stephens
Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the 10 years since their parents disappeared to protect them, but now they learn that they have special powers, a prophesied quest to find a magical book, and a fearsome enemy. 

Bird in a Box
by Pinkney, Andrea Davis
In 1936, three children meet at the Mercy Home for Negro Orphans in New York State, and while not all three are orphans, they are all dealing with grief and loss which together, along with the help of a sympathetic staff member and the boxing matches of Joe Louis, they manage to overcome

The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale
by Carmen Agra Deedy
Skilley, an alley cat with an embarrassing secret, longs to escape his hard life and trade his damp alley for the warmth of the Cheshire Cheese Inn. When he learns that the innkeeper is looking for a new mouser, Skilley comes up with an audacious scheme to install himself in the famous tavern.

Children's Non-Fiction

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
Kadir Nelson, one of this generation’s most accomplished, award-winning artists, has created an epic yet intimate introduction to the history of America and African Americans, from colonial days through the civil rights movement.

Can We Save the Tiger?
by Martin Jenkins. Illus. by Vicky White
Jenkins highlights the ways human behavior can either threaten or conserve the amazing animals that share our planet. White’s stunning portraits of rare creatures offer a glimpse of nature’s grace and beauty — and give us a powerful reason to preserve it.

A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis
by Matt De La Pena. Illus. by Kadir Nelson
An evocative portrait of the boxing icon centers around his historic match against Germany's Max Schmeling on the eve of World War II, a fight that reflected international tensions and a triumph against racial barriers.

Me... Jane
by Patrick McDonnell
McDonnell tells the story of the young Jane Goodall and her special childhood toy chimpanzee named Jubilee. As the young Jane observes the natural world around her with wonder, she dreams of "a life living with and helping all animals," until one day she finds that her dream has come true.

Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade
by Melissa Sweet
Presents a tribute to the creator of the giant balloons that fill the sky during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, tracing the work of artist Tony Sarg, whose innovative "upside-down puppet" creations have become the parade's trademark.

Teen Fiction

Beauty Queens
by Libba Bray
Take 50 stranded beauty pageant contestants, add a few reality-television pirates and a intergovernmental Corporation bent on world domination and you get a dark comedy that challenges our commercial celebrity culture even as it pokes fun at it.

The Girl is Murder
by Kathryn Miller Haines
15-year-old Iris’s world turns upside down when her father loses a leg at Pearl Harbor and her mother commits suicide.  Money woes make things worse, forcing her to leave her posh private school and attend a tough, Lower East Side public school.  When a classmate goes missing, Iris sees a chance to help her father with his struggling PI business, but war-time New York is a dangerous and sometimes deadly place.

Everybody Sees the Ants
by A.S. King
If fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman had realized that his social-studies survey on suicide would prompt so much attention from the adults in his life, he might have chosen a different topic.  Despite their sudden concern, they do nothing to stop the bully who has tortured Lucky for years. He retreats into his dreams where he plans daring rescue missions for his POW-MIA grandfather until a change of location and a friendship with a teenage hair model begin to change Lucky’s view on life. 

This Dark Endeavor
by Kenneth Oppel
15-year-old Victor Frankenstein will not accept that his twin brother is dying.  When he discovers a recipe for the “Elixir of Life” in a secret library, he believes he may have found a cure for the mysterious illness, but assembling the rare ingredients may prove a deadly endeavor.

Across the Universe
by Beth Revis
Seventeen-year-old Amy is thawed from her cryogenic sleep 50 years too soon- the spaceship carrying her family to their new home has not yet reached its destination. Life on the Godspeed is ruled by Eldest, who shares few of his secrets with the other passengers. Even Elder, his teenaged successor, doesn’t know everything. When more colonists are thawed too early- with fatal consequences- Amy and Elder must discover the truth behind the Godspeed’s mission.

Blood Red Road
by Moira Young
Eighteen-year-old Sabra travels across a post-apocalyptic wasteland to find her kidnapped twin brother. When she is captured herself, she must fight as an arena slave and plan for the day when she can rescue her family.

The Watch that Ends the Night
by Allen Wolf
As each “watch” of the Titanic’s voyage and sinking ticks by, socialites, immigrants, crew, rescuers and even the ice berg tell their story in this haunting novel in verse.

Teen Non-fiction and Graphic Novels

Bootleg: murder, moonshine and the lawless years of Prohibition
by Karen Blumenthal
For thirteen years, ten months and nineteen days the great social experiment of Prohibition made the drinking of alcohol illegal in the United States. Discover its lurid history, virtuous roots and lasting legacies.

How They Croaked: the awful ends of the awfully famous
by Georgia Bragg
The subtitle says it all! From lead poisoning to rabies, from angry mobs to malaria, many famous folk have had infamous deaths.

Amelia Lost: the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart
by Candace Fleming
Alternating between a history of Amelia’s life and an account of her final flight, this narrative explores the reality and myth of the famous aviatrix.

Laddertop Volume 1
by Orson Scott Card, Emily Janice Card, Zina Card and Honoel A. Ibardolaza
Azure wants to work on Laddertop more than anything.  Her best friend, Robbi, is more reluctant, but when they get the chance, both girls ascend the great ladder to the space station.  Built for Earth by mysterious aliens called “Givers”, their new home holds unexpected mysteries. Perhaps their prestigious positions and the alien gifts are not all they seem.

A Bride’s Story 1
by Kaoru Mori
Life in 19th century Central Asia is uncertain for twenty-year-old Amir. Married to a boy eight years her junior, she is just learning to live with his family when her own nomadic clan, hoping to secure a more advantageous marriage, asks her to return.

Wandering Son Volume 1
by Shimura Takako
As Shuichi Nitori starts a new school year, he begins to realize that he wants to dress as a girl, an urge that becomes all the more tempting when he meets Yoshino Takasuki, a boyish girl, who is much more confident. An interfering classmate and a cross-dressing school play give Nitori a chance to explore these urges, but leave him more confused than ever. 

Level Up
by Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham
The unexpected death of his father turns Dennis Ouyang, a video-game obsessed slacker, into a studious medical student, but his decisions haunt him.  Will he become the successful doctor his parents longed for or the cool gamer guy he always wanted to be?

Adult Fiction

Last man in tower : a novel
by Aravind Adiga
Refusing to leave his home when a real-estate developer offers to buy out residents of a crumbling apartment complex near the infamous Dharavi slums, a retired schoolteacher becomes the target of violence by the developer and his own neighbors.

Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline
This page turner merges reality and the cyber world in a way readers will find believable enough to care about the protagonist, his avatar, and his online allies as they navigate a complex game with the most compelling reason yet to Level Up. Nasty enemies, fast action, and potential real-world relationships make the story work. 

The Last Werewolf
by Glen Duncan
Jacob Marlowe has lost the will to live. For two hundred years he has wandered the world, enslaved by his lunatic appetites and tormented by the memory of his first and most monstrous crime. Now, the last of his kind, he contemplates suicide -- until a violent murder and an extraordinary meeting plunge him straight back into the desperate pursuit of life -- and love.

The Marriage Plot
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Madeleine Hanna breaks out of her straight-and-narrow mold when she falls in love with charismatic loner Leonard Bankhead, while at the same time an old friend of hers resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is his destiny.

West of Here
by Jonathan Evison
Set in the fictional town of Port Bonita, on Washington State's rugged Pacific coast, this is a story that both re-creates and celebrates the American experience. Harkening back to the work of such masters of Americana as Bret Harte, Edna Ferber, and Larry McMurtry, it is a bold novel by a writer destined to become a major force in American literature.

The Art of Fielding
by Chad Harbaugh
At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big-league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended.

Ten Thousand Saints
by Eleanor Henderson
A sweeping, multigenerational drama that reveals the tangled emotional stitching--and tearing--of births, deaths, loves and losses that shape these families.

The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.

1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s—1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet: . . .a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.

The Snowman
by Jo Nesbø translated by Don Bartlett
Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose scarf is found on a mysteriously built snowman, a case that is complicated by subsequent abductions and a menacing letter.

The Tiger's Wife : a novel
by Téa Obreht
Young physician Natalia becomes convinced that her grandfather spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why this deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.

Saints and Sinners: Stories
by Edna O’Brien
Edna O'Brien introduces us to a vivid new cast of restless, searching people who-whether in the Irish countryside or London or New York-remind us of our own humanity.

Emily, Alone
by Stewart O’Nan
A sequel to the bestselling, much-beloved "Wish You Were Here," this intimate novel follows Emily Maxwell, a widow whose grown children have long departed. A bittersweet tale of love and longing; a moving vision of love and family.

The Cat’s Table
by Michael Ondaatje
Boarding a 1950s ship and sequestered to an out-of-sight dining table with other marginalized children, an 11-year-old boy shares rollicking adventures while traveling to various world regions, learning about jazz, women and a shackled prisoner along the way.

The Buddha in the Attic
by Julie Otsuka
Six Japanese mail-order brides started their new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco.  Their lives are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.

State of Wonder
by Ann Patchett
A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh journeys into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years--a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past.

The Leftovers
by Tom Perotta
What if the Rapture happens, leaving behind a few? Or what if it wasn't the Rapture at all, but something murkier, a burst of mysterious, apparently random disappearances that shattered the world in a single moment, dividing history into Before and After, leaving no one unscathed? A startling, thought-provoking novel about love, connection, and loss.

Doc
by Mary Doria Russell
Authentic, moving, and witty, Russell’s fifth novel redefines Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday and brings to life an extraordinary cast of historical characters, including Holliday’s unforgettable companion, Kate. Doc is John Henry Holliday’s story, written with compassion, humor, and respect by one of our greatest contemporary storytellers.

Reamde
by Neal Stephenson
Having fled to British Columbia decades ago to avoid the draft, Richard Forthrast then amassed a fortune transporting marijuana over the border to Idaho. Now he spends his time playing a power-wielding online fantasy game and his money buying viral gold and other necessaries from Chinese gold farmers and, finally, launching his own techie start-up. Alas, one of the gold farmers sets off a virtual war for dominance that could be the end of Richard.

The Terror of Living
by Urban Waite
Phil Hunt supports his family by guiding an occasional illicit delivery through mountain passes he's known since birth. Bobby Drake is a sheriff who is living down the legacy of his father. The two men's paths cross in the mountains north of Seattle, when Drake ends up disrupting a shipment.

Before I Go to Sleep : a novel
by S.J. Watson.
Without her husband's knowledge, Christine, whose memory is damaged by a long-ago accident, is treated by a neurologist who helps her to remember her former self through journal entries until inconsistencies begin to emerge, raising disturbing questions.

Adult Non-Fiction

The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the American West and the Yukon Gold Rush
by Howard Blum
Traces the experiences of 1890s prospector-turned-tycoon George Carmack, cowboy detective Charlie Siringo, and con man Soapy Smith to reveal how the opening of the "last frontier" in Alaska shaped America's national character.

Bossypants
by Tina Fey
Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've all suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy.

Just my type:  A book about Fonts
by Simon Garfield
Documents the history of typefaces from the early days of Gutenberg to the modern applications of digital fonts, tracing the impact of font usage in business and pop culture while explaining what favorite fonts reveal about personality.

The Information:  A History, a Theory, A flood
by James Gleick
Analyzes how information has become a defining quality of the modern era, tracing the evolution of pivotal information technologies while profiling key contributors from Charles Babbage and Ada Byron to Samuel Morse and Claude Shannon.

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
by Stephen Greenblatt
A humanities professor describes the impact had by the translation of the last remaining manuscript of "On the Nature of Things" by Roman philosopher Lucretius, which fueled the Renaissance and inspired artists, great thinkers, and scientists.

In the garden of beasts : love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin
by Erik Larson
Documents the efforts of the first American ambassador to Hitler's Germany, William E. Dodd, to acclimate to a residence in an increasingly violent city where he is forced to associate with the Nazis while his daughter pursues a relationship with Gestapo chief Rudolf Diels.

Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India
by Joseph Lelyveld
An analysis of the visionary leader's less-understood accomplishments as a politician and civil rights advocate reveals Gandhi's conflicted ideologies and feelings about his place in history, offering insight into his philosophies, social campaigns and private disappointments.

History of the World in 100 Objects
by Neil MacGregor
From the hand axe to the credit card. MacGregor tells us a lot, but the things themselves tell us more, and he lets them speak. Based on the BBC series that has been downloaded 12 million (!) times.

Driving Home:  An American Journey
by Jonathan Raban
Frank, witty, and provocative, Driving Home is part essay collection, part diary—and irresistibly insightful about America’s character, contradictions, and idiosyncrasies.

Alex Steinweiss: The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover
by Kevin Reagan
Time was, music came in plain brown wrappers. Unimaginable? Thank Steinweiss, who singlehandedly created a new field in graphic arts and was a key player in making mid-century modern what it was.

Onward:  How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing its soul
by Howard Schultz
Describes how the CEO of Starbucks gained new insights into leadership upon resuming his position eight years after stepping down, a comeback he accepted to restore the company's performance and sustainability values.

Unfamiliar Fishes
by Sarah Vowell
An examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn. With her trademark smart-alecky insights and reporting, Vowell lights out to discover the emblematic and exceptional history of the 50th state, and in so doing finds America, warts and all.

Atlantic
by Simon Winchester
Epic look at the Atlantic Ocean--its history, geography, importance, and wealth of stories.

Lost in Shangri-la : [a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II]
by Mitchell Zuckoff 
Describes the 1945 odyssey of three plane crash survivors in New Guinea who endured a harrowing journey through the jungle to seek help, their encounter with a primitive tribe who had never seen white people, and their eventual rescue by a band of paratroopers.