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Books Audiobooks Picture Books 6 Non-Fiction ...... 34 Children ...... 8 Fiction 36 Young Adults ...... 10 Books with Audio: Kids 38 Fiction 12 Young Adults ...... 39 Romance 14 Religious Fiction/Non-Fiction . . . . . 16 Videos (DVD) Mystery 18 Award Winners ...... 40 Western ...... 20 Kids & Family 41 Science Fiction/Fantasy 22 Graphic Novels 24 Libros en Español Large Print 26 Niños ...... 42 Go Have Fun! ...... 28 Adultos Jovenes ...... 43 Non-Fiction ...... 30 Adultos: No-Ficción ...... 44 Memoir & Biography ...... 32 Adultos: Ficción ...... 45

Music (CD) 33 NCW Virtual Reads 46 Most Popular Items 47

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ncwlibraries.org/mol 5 Picture Books

Blanket Bunheads Change Starts with Us by Loryn Brantz by Misty Copeland by Sophie Beer Order #523817 Order #519632 Order #523896

If Dominican Were Federico and the Wolf If You Come to Earth a Color by Rebecca J. Gomez by Sophie Blackall by Sili Recio Order #521366 Order # 519644 Order #521221

Lift The Little Kitten The Little Mermaid by Minh Lê by Nicola Killen by Jerry Pinkney Order #517891 Order #517892 Order #519646

6 1-800-426-READ Milo Imagines the World 'Ohana Means Family When We are Kind by Matt de la Peña by Ilima Loomis by Monique Gray Smith Order #526686 Order #524231 Order #520146

Uncle Bobby's Wedding Unstoppable ¡Vamos! Let's Go Eat by Sarah S. Brannen by Adam Rex by Raúl the Third Order #521237 Order #521398 Order #522702

We Are Water Welcome to the Party When Aidan Became Protectors by Gabrielle Union a Brother by Carole Lindstrom Order #517933 by Kyle Lukoff Order #520145 Order #505960 ncwlibraries.org/mol Digital Format Available on Hoopla Part of a Series 7 Children

Blended Efrén Divided by Sharon M. Draper by Ernesto Cisneros An eleven-year-old girl feels torn While his father works two jobs, between two worlds after her parents seventh-grader Efrén Nava must split up in this thoughtful story about take care of his twin siblings, divorce and racial identity. kindergartners Max and Mia, after Order #518470 their mother is deported to Mexico. Order #518957

The Canyon's Edge A Girl Named Rosita by Dusti Bowling by Anika Denise A year after the death of her mother The life story of Puerto Rican in a restaurant shooting, Nora is actor Rita Moreno, who overcame left struggling to stay alive when a significant obstacles to land her climbing trip with her father goes iconic role in West Side Story and terribly wrong. who became the first Latinx person Order #519604 to win Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards. Order #530193

Cattywampus Gold Rush Girl by Ash Van Otterloo by Avi In a town where magic is strictly A young girl stows away on a ship forbidden, two young would-be bound for the California coast after witches from rival magical families her father and brother embark to quarrel over an ancient book of spells, seek their fortune in the gold fields. accidentally unleashing a graveyard She finds herself in a dangerous full of zombies. predicament after kidnappers seize Order #521546 her brother. Order #516461

Class Act Kenny & the Book by Jerry Craft of Beasts A young student of color struggles by Tony DiTerlizzi to keep his friendships intact after Kenny Rabbit's jealousy leads to realizing that his privileged white trouble after Dante the Manticore classmates and friends at the escapes from an evil witch's magical Riverdale Academy Day School are book and reunites with his old friend, given more opportunities than he is. Grahame the Dragon. Order #520227 Order #519607

8 1-800-426-READ The List of Things That Three Keys Will Not Change by Kelly Yang by Rebecca Stead Mia Tang juggles the challenges of Ten-year-old Bea navigates the sixth grade while she finds her voice challenges brought on by her parents’ as a writer and works the front desk divorce, her father's coming out as of her family's struggling hotel. gay, and his upcoming remarriage— Can she and her family survive the and is reassured that her parents’ love looming changes in immigration law is unconditional. that threaten them? Order #515200 Order #519620

What Lane? Gargantis by Torrey Maldonado by Thomas Taylor A biracial sixth-grader at a A giant sea monster with the power prestigious private school struggles to unleash devastating storms is to find belonging when he is treated awakened when a treasure is stolen differently than his white friends. from her lair deep beneath the waters Order #517843 near Eerie-on-Sea. Can Herbert and Violet find the thief and recover the stolen goods before it is too late? Order #523317

Paola Santiago and the When Stars are Scattered River of Tears by Victoria Jamieson by Tehlor Kay Mejia A young boy must make a difficult Her mother's stories of the decision to leave his non-verbal monstrous La Llorona are thrilling brother behind after he is offered but unbelievable to science-loving the opportunity to escape life in the Paola until she and her best friends Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya to Dante and Emma take a walk through attend school. a cactus field near the Gila River. Order #515203 Order #518967

Race to the Sun A Wish in the Dark by Rebecca Roanhorse by Christina Soontornvat After her father disappears, a young In this fantasy twist on Victor Hugo’s Navajo girl discovers that she is a Les Miserables, a young boy escapes monster slayer who must rely on help from prison into a world illuminated from the Diné Holy People and pass by magical lights and is pursued by a series of tests in order to reach the the warden’s daughter. Both find that House of the Sun where she will find the outside world is just as unjust as what she needs to rescue her father. the prison they left behind. Order #505995 Order #530192 ncwlibraries.org/mol Digital Format Available on Hoopla Part of a Series 9 Young Adults

Aurora Burning Felix Ever After by Amie Kaufman by Kacen Callender When the long lost colony ship Felix Love, a transgender seventeen- Hadfield is found, a squad of misfits year-old, seeks revenge on an rallies around Auri—the ship’s only anonymous bully, but lands in a survivor—who is struggling to quasi-love triangle with a former master her powers as a Trigger before enemy and his best friend. an ancient evil consumes everything Order #517370 in the galaxy. Order #517366

Burn Grown by Patrick Ness by Tiffany D. Jackson A poor outcast farmer hires a dragon A young woman watches her dream named Kazimir to help work his of becoming a famous singer turn struggling farm, but the unusual into a nightmare after her mentor animal holds a secret involving ends up dead and she wakes up with a prophecy, a cult of dragon the R&B star's blood on her hands— worshipers, the FBI, and the farmer’s with no memory of what happened. daughter Sarah. Order #519300 Order #517361

Cemetery Boys I Love You So Mochi by Aiden Thomas by Sarah Kuhn Yadriel, a trans boy determined to Kimi dreams of becoming a fashion prove his true gender to his traditional designer while her mother insists Latinx family, accidentally summons that she become a serious artist the murdered spirit of Julian Diaz, instead. After a major fight, Kimi the high school bad boy, who agrees escapes to Japan to visit her estranged to help Yadriel if he promises to find grandparents, learning more about those responsible for Julian's death. her mother and her heritage. Order #526573 Order #516474

Clap When You Land Pet by Elizabeth Acevedo by Akwaeke Emezi The lives of two young women— In a city where monsters are said sisters previously unknown to one to have been eradicated, a young another—are changed forever when woman is shocked when a hunter they discover that their father has emerges from one of her mother’s died in a plane crash and that he had paintings, claiming that a dangerous been leading a double life. creature threatens her loved ones. Order #517373 Order #501328

10 1-800-426-READ Sanctuary We Are Not from Here by Paola Mendoza by Jenny Torres Sanchez In 2032, when sixteen-year-old Three teens flee their beloved home, Vali's mother is detained by the embarking on the perilous journey Deportation Forces, Vali must flee from Guatemala through Mexico Vermont with her little brother, to the U.S. border after life in their hoping to reach their Tía Luna in the hometown becomes too dangerous. sanctuary state of California. Order #521473 Order #518939

A Sky Beyond the Storm Winterkeep by Sabaa Tahir by Kristin Cashore In this conclusion to the Ember in the In this latest installment of the Ashes series, Laia joins forces with Graceling Realm series, the Queen the Blood Shrike against the vengeful of Monsea travels to the land of Nightbringer while the Soul Catcher Winterkeep—a nation full of forgets his oath to protect the human telepathic foxes and other wonders— world from the supernatural in his after her diplomatic envoys drown in grief over the life he left behind. suspicious circumstances. Order #518940 Order #527071

Star Daughter Woven in Moonlight by Shveta Thakrar by Isabel Ibañez Sheetal Mistry, a rising high school After Atoc usurps the Illustrian junior who is half-star, half-human, throne and demands the former must win a competition in the starry ruler's hand in marriage, a young court to save her human father after woman who can spin thread from the accidental flare of her starfire moonlight poses as the rightful lands him in the hospital. Condesa in order to avenge the Order #522854 murder of her family. Order #511337

Elatsoe You Should See Me in by Darcie Little Badger a Crown In an alternate contemporary America by Leah Johnson full of indigenous supernatural After losing an important forces, a young Apache teen with the scholarship, Liz Lighty reluctantly power to raise the spirits of deceased enters a competetiton for prom animals tries to solve the mystery of queen. While enduring humiliating her cousin’s murder. events and social media trolls she Order #526628 falls for one of her competitors. Order #526581 ncwlibraries.org/mol Digital Format Available on Hoopla Part of a Series 11 Fiction

Afterlife His Only Wife by Julia Alvarez by Peace Adzo Medie After suffering several personal A young seamstress from a small tragedies, a writer and retired town in Ghana agrees to an professor of literature must summon arranged marriage with a wealthy all of her strenghth and courage to businessman in order to provide for help the pregnant, undocumented her mother, but when she begins her teen who turns up at her door alone new life in the capital city, she has and in crisis. second thoughts. Order #512249 Order #519357

Black Buck Hitting a Straight Lick by Mateo Askaripour with a Crooked Stick After a chance encounter, Darren by Zora Neale Hurston Vender becomes the only black A collection of poweful short stories person on the sales team of an elite from Zora Neale Hurston, one of New York startup. When tragedy the central figures of the Harlem strikes at home, he hatches a daring Renaissance. Includes eight of plan to help more young people of the author’s lost Harlem works, color break into America’s sales force. discovered after her death. Order #526894 Order #510419

Dear Edward Homeland Elegies by Ann Napolitano by Ayad Akhtar The only survivor of a high profile The son of Muslim immigrants plane crash, twelve-year-old Edward and an award winning playwright copes with the devastating loss of his wrestles with belonging, identity, family and feels an overwhelming and dispossession in post 9/11 connection to the fellow passengers America in this novel/memoir by who died on that fateful day. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Order #510460 Ayad Akhtar. Order #519242

Deep River Hurricane Season by Karl Marlantes by Fernanda Melchor In the early 20th century, three A series of unreliable narrators Finnish siblings flee the oppression tells the story of a Mexican village of Russian imperialism and emigrate grappling with the fallout of a violent to a southern Washington logging murder after a local witch turns up town, a place where labor unions dead. Reminiscent of Bolano and are just emerging from the rapidly Faulkner. changing frontier. Order #518914 Order #495587

12 1-800-426-READ If I Had Your Face The Secret Lives of by Frances Cha Church Ladies Four young Korean women face by Deesha Philyaw the challenges of life, love, career, This collection of stories explores and family in contemporary Seoul, the lives of four women of color and navigating their way through a world the tension between their hidden of impossible standards and social passions, their freedom, and their hierarchies. indivuality alongside the repressive Order #521598 double standards of their church. Order #518780

Interior Chinatown The Year of the Witching by Charles Yu by Alexis Henderson Willis Wu is an actor who dreams After stumbling into a forest haunted of breaking out of the bit parts and by four ancient witches killed by the stereotypical roles he usually plays, founder of her puritanical society, when he is suddenly thrust into the a young woman discovers the diary spotlight and must reckon with the of her dead mother and learns the secret history of Chinatown and his dark history of the church that has a own family's legacy. stranglehold on the land. Order #512607 Order #520207

A Long Petal of the Sea Klara and the Sun by Isabel Allende by Kazuo Ishiguro After Franco’s fascists overthrow In this futuristic fable from the the Spanish government, a young author of The Remains of the Day, an pregnant widow and her brother- AI programmed to be an empathetic in-law enter into a marriage of companion is brought into a troubled convenience as they escape to exile in family who are grieving the loss of Chile on a ship chartered by the poet one daughter while watching the Pablo Neruda. health of their other child fail. Order #509555 Order #526874

The Removed Raft of Stars by Brandon Hobson by Andrew J. Graff A fractured family faces lingering When an altercation with an grief years after their son is killed in abusive father turns violent, two a police shooting. An approaching boys flee to the wilderness of the Cherokee holiday provides a chance Wisconsin Northwoods, believing for them to reconnect and draws they are murderers. The adventure them all into contact with the transforms both boys, along with the supernatural. four adults who pursue them. Order #526876 Order #530500 ncwlibraries.org/mol Digital Format Available on Hoopla Part of a Series 13 Romance

500 Miles from You How to Fail at Flirting by Jenny Colgan by Denise Williams An inner-city London nurse suffering A frumpy professor agrees to let loose from PTSD trades places with an and have a night on the town after army veteran who is the only medical she learns that her department’s professional in remote Kirrinfief, future is threatened by university Scotland. The two soon fall for one budget cuts. When a casual fling another over communications becomes serious, can she go back to regarding their patients. her old life? Order #522419 Order #529665

Boyfriend Material Mr. Malcolm's List by Alexis Hall by Suzanne Allain The son of a rockstar trying to A highly eligible bachelor with clean up his public image turns to unattainable standards for highly respectable barrister Oliver prospective brides meets his match Blackwood for help when he needs to in a young vicar’s daughter who is find a date to an upcoming wedding. recruited by an enemy to win his Soon the fake boyfriends discover heart in a secret revenge plot. that they both want something more. Order #527521 Order #527563

A Duke, the Lady, and Must Love Silence a Baby by Lucy Bexley by Vanessa Riley A reclusive audio book recorder with When she is unjustly imprisoned financial problems and a struggling after the death of her English author desperate for a comeback husband, a West Indian heiress clash over a high stakes project, but becomes the nanny of her own infant soon romantic sparks begin to fly son and finds herself drawn to her between the two women. child’s new guardian. Order #527981 Order #527688

How to Catch a Queen One to Watch by Alyssa Cole by Kate Stayman-London After marrying the newly crowned A plus-size fashion blogger King Sanyu of Njaza, Shanti Mohapi recovering from a breakup agrees to discovers that royal life is not what she star in a reality dating show in order expected and goes on the run when to build her brand and promote body turmoil erupts in their kingdom and positivity. Determined not to fall in their marriage. love, she is surprised to find her heart Order #527520 opening up again. Order #517299

14 1-800-426-READ Party of Two Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Jasmine Guillory by Talia Hibbert An ambitious young lawyer A PhD student interested in only unexpectedly falls for a sexy casual, no-strings-attached flings junior senator and the two begin a and a security guard with a sports clandestine relationship. Can their charity for kids are drawn into a love survive the pressures of media string of romantic complications scrutiny after their affair goes public? after a viral video launches them into Order #527522 a fake relationship. Order #522784

A Lady's Formula Tiny Imperfections for Love by Alli Frank & Asha Youmans by Elizabeth Everett A former fashion-model-turned- A Victorian noblewoman and private-school-principal balances founder of a secret society for the challenges of demanding parents female scientists is attracted to the while raising a seventeen-year-old protection officer assigned to keep daughter of her own. Can her best her safe after she takes on a secret friend convince her to take a chance mission from the Crown. and get back onto the dating scene? Order #530513 Order #527914

Real Men Knit Written in the Stars by Kwana Jackson by Alexandria Bellefleur Over the objections of his brothers, In order to placate their meddling Jessie Strong is determined to keep families, Darcy and Elle agree to his mother’s Harlem knitting shop pretend that their disastrous first afloat after she suddenly passes away. date was a success. Soon their The young man finds himself falling fictional relationship gets real after hard for a part-time shop employee the two very different women develop who agrees to help. feelings for one another. Order #517302 Order #527993

A Rogue of One's Own You Had Me at Hola by Evie Dunmore by Alexis Daria A suffragist becomes half-owner in After a bad first impression squashes a publishing firm in order to print their on-screen chemistry, two an article opposing the Married romantic leads in a new comedy Women’s Property Act, but the other agree to rehearse in private. When shareholder in the business refuses things heat up behind the scenes, to agree to her plan unless she grants their careers are threatened by their him one night in her bed. own private drama. Order #518079 Order #526563 ncwlibraries.org/mol Digital Format Available on Hoopla Part of a Series 15 Religious Fiction

The Bad Muslim Discount Secrets of My Heart by Syed M. Masood by Tracie Peterson This comic novel about Muslim In 1879 Portland, a young widow immigrants in modern America turns to an old childhood friend follows two families from Pakistan for comfort and legal advice, after and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco learning that her late, estranged in 2016, grappling with issues of husband was involved in illegal identity, faith, and belonging. activity that likely caused his death. Order #528997 Order #515894

A Blessing to Cherish The Heart Asks by Lauraine Snelling Pleasure First A frontier widow who has finally by Karuna Ezara Parikh settled into single life contemplates In 2001, an aspiring dancer and a an exciting new life change and Muslim lawyer fall in love after a watches her widowed step son as he chance meeting, but the two struggle struggles to raise his children on his with their forbidden feelings in a own and slowly opens his heart to the world fractured by Islamophobia new school teacher in town. and the aftermath of a terror attack. Order #522041 Order #530739

City of a Thousand Gates The Orphan's Daughter by Rebecca Sacks by Jan Cherubin This series of interlocking stories of Joanna Aronson returns home to hope, love, hatred, terror, and blood care for her estranged father, a center around life in contemporary high school teacher and womanizer Israel and Palestine, a place where whose childhood spent in a Jewish, violence and fear are part of the Depression-era orphanage has left everday fabric of life. him with deep emotional scars. Order #530735 Order #530206

Destined for You Under the Tulip Tree by Tracie Peterson by Michelle Shocklee Gloriana is desperately trying to hold A young writer and a 101-year-old the remnants of her family together former slave form a unique bond after the death of her mother and when the two work together on siblings when another tragedy the Federal Writers’ Project, an brings Luke Carson into her life, initiative to tell the tragic stories of who has just arrived to spearhead slavery in the U.S. Will an unexpected the construction of a new railroad. revelation destroy their friendship? Order #530736 Order #528124

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How to Fight Racism Sensing God by Jemar Tisby by Joel Clarkson This book offers practical tools for An invitation to experience God Christians to use in their fight against with all of the senses, as well as a racism and provides advice on how call to embrace the holy beauty of to reject passivity and embrace a everyday life as an expression of life of active anti-racism, using the God’s goodness, truth, and joy. principles of the faith. Order #530738 Order #527785

A Noble Knight We Will Not be Silenced by Scott Brown by Erwin W. Lutzer A true story of courage, faith, and A guide for conservative American determination that follows the Christians on how to live out journey of a twenty-three-year old their faith boldly in a world that is West Point graduate on the cusp of becoming increasingly hostile to a brilliant career whose life is forever biblical truth, Christian values, and changed after he is involved in a the core principles of liberty. tragic automobile accident. Order #530242 Order #530429

One Less God Than You Winning the War in by John DeRosa Your Mind A breakdown of twenty of the most by Craig Groeschel common challenges that skeptics Drawing from both scripture and and atheists raise against religion, the latest advances in brain science, providing practical responses based the pastor of Life.Church outlines in logic, Christian faith, tradition, his strategies for building a positive and practice. mindset in order to lead a life of joy Order #530634 and peace. Order #530552

Reading While Black The Women of the by Esau McCaulley Bible Speak New Testament scholar Esau by Shannon Bream McCaulley invites Christians to Fox News’ Shannon Bream tells the read the Bible in the light of collective stories of 16 women of the Bible and black experience in order to uncover examines how lessons of wisdom fresh insights and a greater vantage gained from their lives can inform point from which to understand modern-day struggles. contemporary social justice issues. Order #530244 Order #530737 ncwlibraries.org/mol Digital Format Available on Hoopla Part of a Series 17 Mystery

Blacktop Wasteland Girl A by S.A. Cosby by Abigail Dean A hard working black mechanic When Lex Gracie’s mother dies and business owner who has built in prison, leaving her the family a new life for himself and his family home, she and her younger siblings faces a tough choice when a former must grapple with the trauma of a associate draws him back into his childhood spent imprisoned by their previous life as the best getaway abusive parents. driver on the East Coast. Order #528301 Order #522040

Blood Grove The Last Flight by Walter Mosley by Julie Clark In 1969, a black private detective just The wife of a prominent politician starting out in Southern California hatches a plan to escape her reluctantly agrees to take the case of controlling and abusive husband by a troubled, young Vietnam veteran swapping plane tickets with another who fears that he may have killed desperate woman. When the other a man after he and his lover were woman's plane crashes, she assumes allegedly attacked in a citrus grove. her counterpart's identity as her own. Order #526912 Order #524513

Crooked River Lightseekers by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child by Femi Kayode Dozens of identical blue shoes are A powerful politician recruits an discovered in the ocean off the investigative psychologist to look coast of Florida, each with a severed into the torture and murder of three human foot inside. Pendergast college students in a remote Nigerian arrives on Captiva Island and is community, but powerful people quickly drawn into the mystery. hinder his inquiry at every turn. Order #510139 Order #529239

The Devil and the The Missing American Dark Water by Kwei Quartey by Stuart Turton After a recently widowed American While voyaging to Amsterdam in travels to Ghana to meet a woman he 1634 to face execution for murder, met online and disappears without a a brilliant detective must rely on his trace, his son journeys to Accra and bodyguard to prove his innocence and hires private investigator Emma investigate a series of supernatural Djan to locate his father. manifestations on board their ship. Order #510430 Order #519867

18 1-800-426-READ Moonflower Murders A Spy in the Struggle by Anthony Horowitz by Aya De León A retired publisher wades into a After her corporate law firm is raided murder investigation after she by the FBI, a young lawyer of color learns that one of her authors’ books is forced to go undercover for the may hold the key to exhonerating bureau in an African American a Romanian gardener unjustly activist group. A suspicious death convicted of murdering an ad soon reveals that the group may not executive at Farlingaye Hall. be as “extreme” as she thought. Order #518919 Order #527276

Quiet in Her Bones The Survivors by Nalini Singh by Jane Harper Ten years after a New Zealand Still struggling with residual guilt socialite vanished along with a from a devastating childhood quarter million in cash from an mistake, Kieran Elliot returns with exclusive, privileged neighborhood, his young family to his hometown her body turns up in the woods on the Australian coast, but when nearby. Her son is determined to a body washes up on the beach, his uncover the truth of what happened. past threatens to unravel his future. Order #529003 Order #526949

The Sanatorium When No One is Watching by Sarah Pearse by Alyssa Cole A detective investigates the A Brooklyn native troubled by the disappearance of her estranged gentrification of her neighborhood brother’s fiancée at a remote luxury launches a walking tour with one of hotel in the Swiss Alps that was once a her new neighbors, but the two soon sanatorium. The secrets she uncovers learn that something more sinister threaten all the guests now trapped is behind the disappearance of the at the hotel by an approaching storm. area’s longtime residents. Order #529004 Order #518863

The Searcher Winter Counts by Tana French by David Heska Wanbli Weiden A retired Chicago police officer A Native American vigilante is caught attempts to build a new life for in a web of drug cartels, corruption, himself in a picturesque Irish village, and danger when a recent influx only to find himself drawn into a of heroin into his South Dakota missing persons investigation when reservation threatens his nephew. a local child asks him to investigate Order #528025 his brother’s disappearance. Order #518080 ncwlibraries.org/mol Digital Format Available on Hoopla Part of a Series 19 Western

The Glovemaker Founding Sheriff by Ann Weisgarber by Edward Massey When a fugitive turns up on her A barrel maker who serves as the doorstep begging for help, a woman only law enforcement officer in a living in a remote Mormon settlement remote Utah Territory settlement in 1888 Utah Terriotory reluctantly just after the Civil War investigates agrees to help the man—who is on the gruesome murder of a pregnant the run from the U.S. government woman and finds himself frustrated for practicing polygamy. by the frontier justice system. Order #483655 Order #529745

Black Sun Rising / La How Much of These Hills Corazonada is Gold by Barry Gifford by C. Pam Zhang As the Seminole tribe establishes During the American gold rush, two a settlement on the Mexico/Texas siblings—the orphans of Chinese border with a group of fugitive slaves, immigrants—are driven from their the daughter of a former slave hunter Western mining town following the falls in love with the son of the great death of their father. The two struggle Seminole chief Osceola. to survive in a hostile land. Order #529742 Order #525212

Book of the Little Axe The King of Taos by Lauren Francis-Sharma by Max Evans The black wife of a Crow chief living A wounded WWII vet waiting for in 1830 Bighorn, Montana tells her a government payout, a struggling son the story of her coming-of-age artist, and an undertaker obsessed by in 1796 Trinidad, when the island fell death—all with a passion for drink— into British hands, threatening the encounter a cast of richly drawn futures of free black property owners characters against the backdrop of a like herself and her family. 1950s bar in Taos, New Mexico. Order #529743 Order #529746

Branded The Last Sovereigns by Eric Red by Robert M. Utley A serial killer terrorizes the frontier, The story of Sitting Bull’s last four slaughtering his victims for pleasure, years of freedom, when the Sioux then branding them with a “Q.” chief led his people into Canada, Recognizing the scar from his own fleeing retribution for his alleged role childhood trauma, Joe Noose enlists in the defeat of General Custer and the help of two U.S. Marshalls to his men at Little Bighorn. track down the brutal sadist for good. Order #530490 Order #529744

20 1-800-426-READ Never Let Go Ride the Devil's Herd by Pamela Nowak by John Boessenecker After starving Sioux tribes attack The story of Wyatt Earp’s two year their remote Minnesota settlement, struggle to bring down the West’s five women and their children most notorious gang of outlaws, the struggle to survive in the face of Cowboys, a group famous for their overwhelming odds, in this fictional bloody trail of murder, robbery, account of the 1862 Dakota Conflict. rustling, and smuggling across Order #530491 Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Order #530492

Next to Last Stand A Thousand Texas by Craig Johnson Longhorns Longmire investigates after a scrap by Johnny D. Boggs of canvas from Custer’s Last Fight Following the Civil War, Union Army (a valuable painting supposedly veteran Nelson Story heads North destroyed by fire in 1946) turns up in with a herd of Texas Longhorns and an old shoebox among the belongings a cantankerous former Confederate of a recently deceased veteran— to make his fortune, despite the along with a million dollars. overwhelming dangers in his way. Order #519897 Order #529748

Outlawed Wounded by Anna North by Percival Everett When a young newlywed is unable A black rancher and horse trainer to conceive a child after a year of living in Wyoming with his uncle marriage, she flees her frontier after the death of his wife tries to town to escape execution as a witch, hold his world together amid a joining a dangerous gang of outlaws firestorm of racist and homophobic who have pledged to create a safe attacks culminating in the brutal haven for outcasts such as herself. murder of an old friend's gay son. Order #526936 Order #529749

Preacher's Carnage Yellow Back Radio by William W. Johnstone Broke-Down A mountain man is hired to locate by Ishmael Reed a cache of stolen gold following a In this darkly humorous twist on the bloody wagon train ambush. Can he genre, a private eye looks into the also rescue the fiancée of the prime murder of a gumbo joint owner and suspect, who has escaped in order to an outlaw arrives in a remote town prove her love's innocence? to find that the children have driven Order #529747 the adults out of town. Order #529750 ncwlibraries.org/mol Digital Format Available on Hoopla Part of a Series 21 Science Fiction/Fantasy

The Black Coast The City We Became by Mike Brooks by N.K. Jemisin Two warring nations must become A magical force called the Woman allies after a daemonic despot in White threatens New York City as prophesying the end of the world five ordinary people become avatars threatens the entire continent of tasked with guiding the awakening Narida and drives the clanspeople of of each of the five boroughs. Can the Tjakorsha from their lands. five find each other and join together Order #529158 in time to thwart the coming danger? Order #514915

Black Sun The Conductors by Rebecca Roanhorse by Nicole Glover In a mystical indigenous world, Following the American Civil War, an outcast sea captain with latent two former underground railroad powers, a mysterious passenger conductors with magical powers use destined for greatness, and their unique gifts to solve crimes that an embattled high priest find the white authorities ignore. When themselves on a collision course with an old friend is murdered, they face a portentious solar eclipse. their greatest challenge yet. Order #524199 Order #527969

The Burning God The Empire of Gold by R.F. Kuang by S.A. Chakraborty With millions of the common people After the fall of Daevabad to Banu and a shaky coalition of allies behind Manizheh and the loss of the city's her, Fang Runin faces off against the magic, Nahri and Ali flee to Cairo, Dragon Republic and the colonizing seeking refuge with Ali’s mother, a Hesperians—in this epic fantasy brutal dictator who is ruling the city retelling of twentieth century with an iron fist, in this conclusion Chinese history. to the Daevabad trilogy. Order #518486 Order #519884

The Charmed Wife House of Earth by Olga Grushin and Blood Disgruntled after thirteen years by Sarah J. Maas of marriage and two children, A half-fae, half-human woman, Cinderella visits a witch and asks whose career selling magical artifacts for a potion to kill her husband— is on the rocks, must join forces with Prince Charming—in this modern a fallen angel to investigate a murder and inventive reinterpretation of the that stirs up their troubled pasts and iconic fairy tale. destabilizes Crescent City. Order #526870 Order #514157

22 1-800-426-READ The Invisible Life of Ring Shout Addie LaRue by P. Djèlí Clark by V.E. Schwab A Klan leader and sorcerer summons 300 years after making a Faustian demons called Ku Kluxers to possess bargain to live forever—in exchange his willing followers, unleashing for a life in which no one she meets a campaign of bloodshed while a will ever remember her name—Addi bootlegger armed with a mystical LaRue walks into a bookshop and African sword, a WWI veteran, and encounters a man who knows her. a daring sharpshooter fight back. Order #518442 Order #526552

The Last Emperox The Sand Sea by John Scalzi by Michael McClellan As the imminent collapse of a vital While an imperialist and a usurping interstellar gateway between worlds grand vizier threaten her kingdom approaches and as greedy profiteers and her life, the dispossessed heir deny the danger, Emperox Grayland to the Sand Sea realm must rally struggles to save her people and all her people and embrace her destiny of humanity in this conclusion to the before the grand vizier seizes a Interdependecy series. mystical staff of unlimited power. Order #512244 Order #527820

The Midnight Bargain The Unbroken by C.L. Polk by C.L. Clark A young sorceress’ dream of becoming A woman kidnapped as a child and a full-fledged Magus is threatened by conscripted into service as a soldier her family’s need for her to make an is sent with her company to her advantageous marriage and rescue childhood home to put down an their failing fortunes. To marry uprising, but the ghosts from her would mean sacrificing her powers, past haunt her as she struggles to her identity, and her very freedom. keep her fellow warriors together. Order #524640 Order #529161

Network Effect Winter's Orbit by Martha Wells by Everina Maxwell Murderbot, an AI programmed as a The unpopular grandson of an killing machine, must overcome his Emperor is sent to a vassal planet reclusive desire to do nothing but to marry Count Janian, the ruler stay home and binge-watch TV in his of the rebellious world, whose first head when some human associates husband was murdered. In the midst are captured and desperately need of galactic politics and intrigue, the his help to escape. two men find themselves falling in Order #517301 love despite some initial reluctance. Order #527972 ncwlibraries.org/mol Digital Format Available on Hoopla Part of a Series 23 Graphic Novels ADULTS COVID Chronicles: a Comics Slaughterhouse-Five: Anthology The Graphic Novel by Kendra Boileau by Ryan North & Kurt Vonnegut A set of 60 comics by writers and Vonnegut’s classic anti war novel in artists from around the world who graphic novel form tells the story of are using their art to make sense of Billy Pilgrim, who endures the fire the Covid-19 pandemic and all of the bombing of Dresden during WWII. turmoil and hardship it ushered into Order #530685 the world. Order #530683

Nineteen A Cat Story by Angkko by Ursula Murray Husted These coming-of-age stories blend Two cats, who struggle to survive fiction with autobiography and in the harsh city where they live, paint a picture of youth giving way embark on an adventure to find out to adulthood: from a boy living with whether or not the welcoming and HIV to a toxic mother-daughter plentiful garden land that they heard relationship that drives both into about as kittens really exists. alcoholism, and more. Order #519926 Order #530686

Redbone Measuring Up by Christian Staebler by Lily LaMotte The true story of the hugely popular After moving to Seattle from and influential 1960s band Redbone, Taiwan and struggling to fit in at that was founded by the Vegas her new school, twelve-year-old brothers, who sacrificed commercial Cici enters a cooking contest to success in order to remain true to win the money she needs to fly her their Native American heritage. grandmother from Taiwan to visit Order #525366 for her seventieth birthday. Order #520407

Sapiens: A Graphic Monster Mayhem History by Chris Eliopoulos by Yuval Noah Harari A young, solitary girl with a passion The graphic novel adaptation of for science and monster movies finds historian Yuval Noah Harari’s a magic ring that brings monsters bestselling work that explores the from her favorite movies to life, saga of homo sapiens: its history, setting them loose in her town. biology, and evolution. Order #465737 Order #530684

24 Digital Format Available on Hoopla 1-800-426-READ YA Almost American Girl Be Gay, Do Comics by Robin Ha by Matt Bors While on vacation in Huntsville, An anthology of stories celebrating Alabama, a young teen from Seoul is LGBTQ+ experiences along with devastated to learn that her mother historical sketches from the American is getting married—and that she will Revolution to Stonewall and on to never see her home in Korea again. today’s struggle for equality. Order #511831 Order #530682

Donut Feed the Squirrels The Fire Never Goes Out by Mika Song by Noelle Stevenson Two squirrels attempt to hoodwink The author and illustrator of the the owner of a food truck in order to celebrated graphic novel Nimona get their hands on a donut, after the tells her personal story in this critters taste the delectable delight exploration of creativity and the for the first time. highs and lows of living as an artist Order #519592 in this illustrated memoir. Order #514635

The Weirn Books: Long Way Down Be Wary of the Silent by Jason Reynolds Woods The award-winning story of the sixty by Svetlana Chmakova second elevator ride that decides After her brother disappears, a young whether or not a fifteen-year-old witch and her cousin must uncover will shoot the man who killed his the secret history of a forbidden brother—now in graphic novel form. mansion in the middle of a forest full Order #520469 of vampires and shifters. Order #517794

Twins We Hereby Refuse: by Varian Johnson Japanese American Acts of As she and her sister approach Resistance During WWII middle school, Maureen struggles by Frank Abe with change as her twin Francine Three courageous Japanese reinvents herself as the stylish and Americans fight back when the popular Fran, driving a wedge U.S. government forces them from between the two sisters. their homes and into World War II Order #524555 internment camps. Order #530687 ncwlibraries.org/mol Part of a Series 25 Large Print

All the Devils are Here Dear Justyce by Louise Penny by Nic Stone While on a family vacation to Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes Paris, Chief Inspector Gamache’s letters to Justyce McCallister—with godfather, the billionaire Stephen whom he bonded years before Horowitz, is attacked. As Gamache over family issues—about his investigates, he and his family are experiences in the American juvenile caught up in a dangerous slough of justice system. secrets stretching back decades. Order #518081 Order #518071

Code Name Hélène The Exiles by Ariel Lawhon by Christina Baker Kline An Australian expat journalist- Sent to an Australian penal colony turned-socialite joins the French after conceiving her employer’s resistance and becomes one of the grandchild, a young governess most successful and notorious allied befriends a talented midwife and the spies of World War II—as well as orphaned daughter of an Aboriginal one of the most decorated women chief while confronting the harsh of the war. realities of British colonialism. Order #515510 Order #517615

The Cold Millions How Beautiful We Were by Jess Walter by Imbolo Mbue Two brothers struggle as day laborers A young girl and her community and find themselves caught up in the fight back after a bargain between class struggles of the early twentieth an American Oil Company and the century when one of them falls for regime of a dictator devastates her a feminist union activist and the African village with pipeline spills, other falls for a vaudeville star who’s broken promises, and corruption. entangled with a mining magnate. Order #529009 Order #518072

The Consequences The Kindest Lie of Fear by Nancy Johnson by Jacqueline Winspear White attempting to reconnect with Urged by an unreliable witness the baby she gave up for adoption to investigate a murder, Maisie years earlier, an Ivy League-educated Dobbs uncovers a conspiracy with Black engineer uncovers devastating devastating implications for Britain's family secrets while her friendship war effort during the Nazi occupation with a young white misfit scandalizes of Europe. her racially torn community. Order #528667 Order #529010

26 1-800-426-READ Klara and the Sun The Night Watchman by Kazuo Ishiguro by Louise Erdrich In this futuristic fable from the A night watchman carries the fight author of The Remains of the Day, an against Native dispossession from AI programmed to be an empathetic rural North Dakota all the way to companion is brought into a troubled Washington, D.C., in this powerful family who are grieving the loss of novel that explores themes of love one daughter while watching the and death with lightness and gravity. health of their other child fail. Order #510917 Order #529693

The Last Story of Mina Lee The Rose Code by Nancy Jooyoun Kim by Kate Quinn Following the suspicious death of her Three estranged friends and former mother in a Koreatown apartment, members of the WWII Bletchley Margot Lee uncovers the story of Park codebreaking team uncover the woman's first year of struggle in a dangerous plot that threatens America as a Korean War orphan and the approaching royal wedding of undocumented immigrant. Princess Elizabeth. Order #518445 Order #529011

Libertie The Splendid and the Vile by Kaitlyn Greenidge by Erik Larson A young black woman struggles The #1 New York Times bestselling to become fully herself in author of The Devil in the White City Reconstruction era Brooklyn, as her and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and mother pressures her to follow in her compelling portrait of Winston footsteps and become a doctor while Churchill and London during the a young man promises her a life of Blitz of World War II. equality with him in Haiti. Order #524543 Order #529667

Memorial Drive Transcendent Kingdom by Natasha Trethewey by Yaa Gyasi Former U.S. poet laureate Natasha A neuroscientist and the daughter Trethewey recollects the brutal of Ghanaian immigrants studies the murder of her mother at the hands origins of depression and addiction, of her former stepfather, and how hoping to find a scientific explanation this profound loss shaped her as an for the trauma and suffering she sees adult and as an artist. around her after her brother’s death Order #522832 by a heroin overdose. Order #518073 ncwlibraries.org/mol Digital Format Available on Hoopla Part of a Series 27 Go Have Fun!

The Autopilot Garden Hike by Luke Marion by Pete Oswald YouTube gardening sensations Luke The illustrator of Jory John's The Bad and Sindy Marion explain how to Seed and The Good Egg makes his solo work smarter (not harder) and make picture book debut as both author your garden self-sufficient using and illustrator in this story about techniques that save time, hassle, a father and child who head out on weeding, water, and space. a hike, keeping a cherished family Order #530716 tradition alive. Order #513373

The Beginner's Guide to Mountain Biking for Kids Growing Great Vegetables by Christopher Keller by Lorene Edwards Forkner This fun roadmap for kids helps This beginner friendly guide outlines develop physical discipline and everything a new gardener needs to practical biking techniques, while know to plant a successful garden: also exploring the importance of from planting charts to soil health, mindset in sports and in life. fertilizer, water, and mulch to Order #532547 everything in between. Order #528751

The Complete Fishing Rail-Trails Manual Washington & Oregon by Henry Gilbey by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy A comprehensive guide to fishing in Explore 42 former railroads both fresh and saltwater, with advice across Washington and Oregon on everything from kit, tackle, and with this comprehensive guide— clothing to information on species from the breathtaking John and habitats, as well as the best Wayne Pioneer Trail to Portland’s seasons and hotspots. Springwater Corridor. Order #183650 Order #463919

Day Hike! Day Hike! Central Cascades North Cascades by Mike McQuide by Mike McQuide 69 of the best trails in Washington's 59 of the best trails in Washington’s Central Cascades, from Snoqualmie North Cascades, from Mount Baker Pass to the Alpine Lakes Wilderness to to Washington Pass and the Methow, Stevens Pass, with difficulty ratings with difficulty ratings as well as as well as maps, trail descriptions, maps, trail descriptions, and more. and more. Order #531121 Order #284833

28 1-800-426-READ Rodney Scott's World Trejo's Tacos: Recipes and of BBQ Stories from L.A. by Rodney Scott & Lolis Eric Elie by Danny Trejo The renowned pitmaster and owner Legendary actor and Los Angeles of the wildly popular Rodney Scott’s restaurateur Danny Trejo shares his Whole Hog BBQ in Charleston shares favorite badass recipes for bold, fun his favorite recipes and BBQ tips and versatile Mexican dishes along along with the story of his success. with stories about his lifelong love Order #530585 of food. Order #531127

San Juan Islands Wildcrafted Fermentation by Don Pitcher by Pascal Baudar Plan your island getaway with this Learn how to create wild krauts, guide to the most romantic bed-and- kimchis, savory pastes, hot breakfasts, the best restauarants, and sauces and more using lacto- the perfect outdoor spots. Includes fermentation and the wild edibles advice for families, suggested of your local environment. itineraries, and much more. Order #531128 Order #531122

Stand-up World Travel: An Paddleboarding 2.0 Irreverent Guide by Kayla Anderson by Anthony Bourdain & Laurie Woolever Lake Tahoe based paddle board racer Chef, bestselling author, and TV Kayla Anderson shares her advice personality Anthony Bourdain on the increasingly popular sport of collects his many adventures around stand-up paddleboarding, including the world into a fun, practical, and techniques, safety, equipment, and irreverent guide to his favorite places even her personal racing diary. and the best way to experience them. Order #531126 Order #530485

That Sounds Fun : The Joys You Are an Artist of Being an Amateur, the by Sarah Urist Green Power of Falling in Love, A collection of more than 50 creative and Why You Need a Hobby prompts gathered from top artists by Annie F. Downs around the world, designed to spark Popular Christian author Annie F. your creativity and inspire your own Downs explains why it's important to art practice, using materials you make room for fun in our busy lives already have on hand. in order to find joy and fulfillment. Order #530862 Order #530640 ncwlibraries.org/mol Digital Format Available on Hoopla Part of a Series 29 Non-Fiction

Caste: the Origins of Our Had I Known Discontents by Barbara Ehrenreich by Isabel Wilkerson A thought-provoking compilation The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the best works of Barbara of The Warmth of Other Suns examines Ehrenreich, a celebrated journalist the unspoken caste system that and political activist who has called has influenced America and how herself a professional “myth buster” a hierarchy of human divisions throughout her forty year career. continues to shape lives. Order #523510 Order #518043

Conditional Citizens How to Avoid a Climate by Laila Lalami Disaster A Pulitzer Prize finalist weaves her by Bill Gates own personal story of becoming After a decade long study of climate a U.S. citizen into a discussion of change and its effects, Bill Gates the nature and history of American offers a path forward, utilizing his citizenship and how non-whites are unique expertise in the areas of still kept on the margins of society. technology and innovation in his Order #522828 plan to achieve net-zero emissions. Order #528587

The Doctors Blackwell Just Us by Janice P. Nimura by Claudia Rankine The true story of two sisters and A collection of essays, poems, and pioneers in the history of medicine, more from poet, essayist, and who became America’s first female playwright Claudia Rankine on how doctors and who founded the first to engage in conversation during hospital for women, staffed entirely this divisive time in order to “breach by women. the silence, guilt, and violence that Order #528102 sorround whiteness.” Order #520449

Eat the Buddha Mediocre : The Dangerous by Barbara Demick Legacy of White Male An award-winning journalist America examines the history of Chinese/ by Ijeoma Oluo Tibetan relations in the 20th century This history of American white through the eyes of ordinary people male identity from the author of So living in Ngaba, a small town that You Want to Talk About Race exposes became a center of Tibeten resistance the consequences of white male to Chinese rule. supremacy and offers bold solutions. Order #520171 Order #518050

30 Part of a Series Digital Format Available on Hoopla 1-800-426-READ A Most Beautiful Thing Owls of the Eastern Ice by Arshay Cooper by Jonathan C. Slaght This true story of the nation’s first A field scientist and conservationist all black high school rowing team describes how a chance encounter follows a group of young men from with a rare owl while birdwatching Chicago’s Westside who balance in Russia launched him on a lifelong the challenges of growing up in the quest to find and save the endangered inner city while entering a sport Blakiston’s fish owl, a massive dominated by upperclass whites. creature with a 6-foot wingspan. Order #520381 Order #523298

Nature's Best Hope The Undocumented by Douglas W. Tallamy Americans A professor of wildlife ecology from by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio the University of Delaware proposes A journalist, who was among the first a grassroots solution to the problem undocumented students admitted to of vanishing wildlife habitat, urging Harvard, tells her story alongside the private homeowners to plant more experiences of other undocumented native species to create conservation Amercans living in fear. corridors in their own backyards. Order #518721 Order #513535

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All Blood Runs Red Once I Was You by Phil Keith by Maria Hinojosa The incredible life story of Eugene An award-winning journalist Bullard, the first African American chronicles her childhood experiences military pilot in WWI, who went on to growing up as a Mexican American on become a self-taught jazz musician, the South Side of Chicago, providing a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy an illuminating perspective on the in the French Resistance, and an broken U.S. immigration system. American civil rights pioneer. Order #517331 Order #518645

Between Two Kingdoms Places I've Taken My Body by Suleika Jaouad by Molly McCully Brown After surviving a harrowing battle Poet and essayist Molly McCully with leukemia in her early twenties, Brown tells the story of a life a young woman tells the story of her shaped by cerebral palsy and her 100 day, 15,000 mile cross-country determination to live life to the fullest journey of healing. in this travelogue/memoir about Order #529321 her experiences from the American South to Bologna, Italy. Order #525218

The Death and Life of Sigh, Gone Aida Hernandez by Phuc Tran by Aaron Bobrow-Strain Phuc Tran came of age in a small The story of the militarization of the Pennsylvania town after emigrating U.S. border told through the eyes of with his family following the fall an undocumented child who was of Saigon in 1975. This is the story later deported as an adult, separated of how he found solace in classic from her young son and trapped in a literature and punk rock while facing country that was no longer her own. racism, abuse, and tragedy. Order #510851 Order #520445

Dog Flowers Sitting Pretty by Danielle Geller by Rebekah Taussig Following her mother's death from Popular Instagrammer and disability alcoholism, an archivist discovers advocate Rebekah Taussig shares a suitcase full of her late mother’s her experience growing up in a letters, diaries, and photos, launching wheelchair during the 90s in this her on a journey through her family’s collection of poignant essays that past that ends at her mother’s home highlight the need for more stories on the Navajo reservation. that transcend stereotypes. Order #527783 Order #521283

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After Hours Letter to You by The Weeknd by Bruce Springsteen Two time Grammy-winner The Bruce Springsteen’s latest studio Weeknd is back with his latest album, album features the E Street Band. showcasing his R&B, pop, and hip- Inspired by the death of a former hop style with global hits such as band mate, it includes tracks such “Heartless” and “Blinding Lights.” as “Ghosts,” “If I Was the Priest,” and Order #520863 “Last Man Standing." Order #524347

B7 Medicine at Midnight by Brandy by Foo Fighters R&B/pop singer-songwriter and The alternative rock band Foo actress Brandy presents her long Fighters’ tenth album presents the awaited album that includes her popular single “Shame Shame” as single “Baby Mama” as well as guest well as “No Son of Mine” and “Waiting collaborations with Chance the on War” and adds elements of pop- Rapper and Ty Dolla $ign. rock to their usual grunge sound. Order #531116 Order #530155

Fetch the Bolt Cutters Fully Loaded: God's by Fiona Apple Country Singer-songwriter Fiona Apple’s by Blake Shelton fifth studio album defies the bounds Two years after releasing Texoma of conventional musical genres Shore, Blake Shelton returns with in its highly inventive, percussive a new album. Features recent hits exploration of themes of oppression as well four new tracks, including and confinement. the CMA Award-nominated single Order #530813 "God's Country." Order #512055

Harlem Blues Positions by Satan & Adam by Ariana Grande The 1990s debut album of the blues R&B/pop star Ariana Grande’s latest duo Satan & Adam features the album highlights the Top 40 hit group’s unique sound, full of guitar, “Positions” as well as the popular harmonica, vocals, and percussion. “34+35” and features collaborations Includes popular hits such as “I Want with Doja Cat, The Weeknd, and Ty You” and “Groovy People.” Dolla $ign. Order #531117 Order #524755

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Aftershocks Fighting for Space by Nadia Owusu by Amy Shira Teitel A nomadic childhood spent Spaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel moving across Europe and Africa, tells the riveting story of two female abandonment, grief, and family pilots who each dreamed of being secrets left Nadia Owusu struggling the first American woman in space: to make sense of her identity as the Jackie Cochran and Jerrie Cobb. Each daughter of an Armenian American battled egos, expectations, and a and a Ghanaian U.N. official. patriarchal society. Order #531069 Order #527870

Maniac Gotta Get Theroux This by Harold Schechter by Louis Theroux The disturbing true-crime story of A journalist and master the first school massacre in U.S. documentarian describes his colorful history. In 1927, a disgruntled and career covering off-beat characters distubed farmer planted explosives and groups from militias, pro- at a new primary school in Bath, wrestlers, and apocalyptic religious Michigan, killing 38 children and sects to celebrities and more with six adults. humor and insight. Order #531233 Order #531130

The Code Breaker Homo Deus by Walter Isaacson by Yuval Noah Harari The story of Jennifer Doudna, a The author of Sapiens explores what Nobel Prize-winner who was part might be the next step for the human of the team that created CRISPR, race, with staggering scientific a revolutionary tool that opened breakthroughs turning formerly human DNA to editing and launched uncontrollable and unavoidable the world into a new era of scientific crises such as war, famine, and breakthroughs and moral dilemmas. plague into solvable problems. Order #531070 Order #478439

Dolly Parton, Songteller Keep Sharp by Dolly Parton by Sanjay Gupta Covering over sixty years of Neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta songwriting, Dolly Parton highlights presents work from the world’s top her music and brings listeners behind scientists on cognitive function, the lyrics by exploring the songs that debunking common myths and have defined her journey. exploring strategies to keep your Order #523585 mind sharp. Includes recent research on Alzheimer's. Order #524271

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The New One Vesper Flights by Mike Birbiglia by Helen MacDonald An amusing and heartwarming A collection of nature writer Helen memoir of one man's transformation MacDonald’s best essays, these from reluctant would-be-father into meditative reflections on life and head-over-heels Dad. human nature are gleaned from Order #531075 years observing wildlife across the globe and from the rhythms of everyday life. Order #531078

Shoe Dog You'll Never Believe What by Phil Knight Happened to Lacey In this candid and riveting memoir, by Amber Ruffin Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight New York writer and performer shares the inside story of the Amber Ruffin and her sister Lacey company's early days as an intrepid Lamar share anecdotes about startup and its evolution into one everyday experiences of racism with of the world's most iconic, game- humor and heart. changing, and profitable brands. Order #531081 Order #531136

World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of non-fiction: a collection of essays about the natural world and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire. OverDrive Order #531234 Check out our collection of e-books and e-audiobooks for Just as I am your smartphone, tablet, kindle, by Cicely Tyson or e-reader! Legendary actor Cicely Tyson shares the unvarnished story of New fiction and non-fiction titles her life, from quiet church girl for kids, teens, and adults are added and daughter of immigrants to every week. fashion model, award-winning actor, lecturer, and activist. LEARN MORE: Order #533400 ncwlibraries.org/ebooks BORROW NOW: ncwlibraries.overdrive.com ncwlibraries.org/mol 35 Audio Books: Fiction

Any Other Name Deadly Cross by Craig Johnson by James Patterson Sheriff Walt Longmire investigates Investigating a double homicide the suicide of Detective Gerald involving the vice president's ex-wife, Holman. He soon discovers that Detective Alex Cross and FBI Special the man may have had ties to three Agent Ned Mahoney travel to missing women, as well as another Alabama to uncover clues from the secret that could cost even more lives. woman's early life. Order #530474 Order #523344

The Awakening The Four Winds by Nora Roberts by Kristin Hannah An anxious twenty-something In 1934, a woman faces a tough mired in student debt and working decision as the droughts of the Dust a job she hates stumbles upon a Bowl era threaten her Texas farm shocking discovery: Her mother has and her family’s future: Fight for the been hiding a four million dollar dying land or move west to California investment account in her name, and start over? funded by her long-lost father. Order #528307 Order #524067

Because of Miss Girl Gone Missing Bridgerton by Marcie R. Rendon by Julia Quinn Renee “Cash” Blackbear is now a Billie Bridgerton detests George college freshman investigating the Rokesby, the arrogant and annoying disappearance of a fellow student heir to an earldom. When the two with the help of her mentor, Sheriff are thrown together, they are both Wheaton. When she herself is taken, surprised to find themselves falling she’ll need all of her characteristic for one another. grit and determination to survive. Order #530475 Order #531071

The Children's Blizzard How the One-Armed Sister by Melanie Benjamin Sweeps Her House Based on oral histories, this work by Cherie Jones of historical fiction tells the story of After her husband is interrupted two sisters, school teachers in 1888 in his attempt to rob one of the Dakota Territory, who face life and mansions in their "paradise" home death decisions when a fast moving of Baxter Beach, Barbados, Lala blizzard strikes their community as encounters a chain of events with school is letting out for the day. terrible consequences. Order #524689 Order #531072

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The Midnight Library The Vanishing Half by Matt Haig by Brit Bennett Nora Seed finds herself in a strange Two twin sisters' lives and identities library that is suspended between life radically diverge years after they and death and that houses shelves of run away from their Southern black books with alternate versions of her community: One is back in their life story. Which will she choose? hometown, while the other passes Order #531074 as white and is married to a white man who knows nothing of her past. Order #527878

A Minute to Midnight What's Mine and Yours by David Baldacci by Naima Coster FBI agent Atlee Pine returns to her A black teen and a half-Latinx, half- Georgia hometown to reopen the white young woman find themselves investigation of her twin sister's and their families at the center abduction, only to encounter a serial of life-altering tensions when his killer beginning a reign of terror. predominantly black high school Order #507508 and her mostly white high school are integrated in North Carolina. Order #531079

The Power of the Dog Yellow Wife by Thomas Savage by Sadeqa Johnson In 1920s Montana, the relationship Born on a plantation but set apart of the Burbank brothers reaches its from the other slaves by her mother's breaking point when George brings position as a medicine woman, home a woman and her young son to a young slave is forced to leave live with them on the ranch they have home at eighteen and ends up in an owned together for twenty five years. infamously cruel jail. Order #531076 Order #531080

Under Almond Blossoms Midnight Sun by Anja Saskia Beyer by Stephenie Meyer Milla—the only child of a distant This is the story of the Twilight saga mother—is on the brink of a loveless told from Edward’s perspective, marriage when she gets the chance revealing new details about his to lead a very different life after she former life and how his relationship learns that she has inherited a shop in with Bella is the defining struggle of Mallorca, Spain from a grandmother his life. she never knew. Order #523349 Order #531077

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Not Quite Snow White Ghost by Ashley Franklin by Jason Reynolds Tameika wants to audition for the A young teen with a remarkable school's Snow White musical, but talent for track is recruited for an when she overhears classmates say elite middle school team, but past that she is too tall, chubby, and brown trauma threatens his future. to play Snow White, she hesitates. Order #394891 Order #521078

I Want a Dog Magic Tree House by Jon Agee Books 1-8 Seeking to adopt a dog, a young girl by Mary Pope Osborne goes to an unusual animal shelter— Eight-year-old Jack and his younger full of aardvarks, lizards, geese, sister Annie find a magic tree house weasels, and more. Can she find the that transports them to far off places perfect pet? and times, both past and future. Order #521562 Order #68858

I Promise Other Words for Home by LeBron James by Jasmine Warga An inspiring book from NBA Sent to the safety of a relative's superstar LeBron James on how home in Cincinnati when her Syrian future success depends on the hometown is overshadowed by everyday commitments we make to violence, Jude worries about the ourselves and to our communities. family members she left behind. Order #521053 Order #518409

Come Home Already! Clean Getaway by Jory John by Nic Stone An excited Duck wants to hang out A biracial middle schooler takes a with Bear, but Bear's gone fishing for mysterious road trip through the a whole week and is relieved to have South with his white grandma, some time alone at last. recreating a journey from the 1960s Order #470961 using the Travelers’ Green Book. Order #518401

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Felix Ever After The Inheritance Games by Kacen Callender by Jennifer Lynn Barnes Felix Love, a transgender seventeen- When a Connecticut teenager year-old, seeks revenge on an inherits a fortune from the richest anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi man in Texas, she must live with his love triangle with a former enemy surviving family and solve a series and a best friend. of puzzles to discover why the man Order #531129 chose her as his heir. Order #531134

Grown Like a Love Story by Tiffany D. Jackson by Abdi Nazemian A young woman watches her dream In 1989 New York, Reza is a secretly of becoming a famous singer turn gay teen who begins dating Judy, into a nightmare after her mentor an aspiring fashion designer, only ends up dead and she wakes up with to fall for her out-and-proud friend the R&B star's blood on her hands— Art. How can Reza be true to himself with no memory of what happened. without breaking Judy’s heart? Order #531131 Order #533885

The Hand on the Wall Today Tonight Tomorrow by Maureen Johnson by Rachel Lynn Solomon In this conclusion to the Truly Devious The Hating Game meets Nick and series, young detective Stevie Bell is Norah's Infinite Playlist by way of on the verge of solving a 75-year-old Morgan Matson in this unforgettable disappearance case when a series romantic comedy about two rival of suspicious deaths rocks her elite overachievers whose relationship private school. completely transforms over the Order #531132 course of twenty four hours. Order #531137

Hey, Kiddo Yes No Maybe So by Jarrett J. Krosoczka by Becky Albertalli & Aisha Saeed In this National Book Award finalist Two teens from very different memoir, author/illustrator Jarrett backgrounds find themselves falling Krosoczka grapples with childhood for one another after Jamie agrees to heartache , revealing how art became canvas the neighborhood with Maya a powerful coping mechanism in the as an election approaches. midst of his mother’s addiction and Order #531138 his father’s abandonment. Order #531133 ncwlibraries.org/mol Digital Format Available on Hoopla Part of a Series 39 VIDEOS (DVD): Award Winners VIDEOS (DVD): Kids & Family

1917 Minari Blake and Schofield—two young A Korean American family moves British soldiers serving in WWI— to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of must complete a seemingly their own American Dream in this impossible mission: Cross enemy tender and sweeping story about the territory and deliver a message that undeniable resilience of family and will stop a deadly attack on hundreds what really makes a home. of soldiers, Blake’s own brother Rated PG-13, 115 minutes. among them. Rated R, 118 minutes. Order #531916 Order #516993

First Cow Little Women A frontier cook and a Chinese Writer-director Greta Gerwig's immigrant hatch a plan to make their interpretation of Louisa May Alcott’s fortunes selling baked goods in 1820s classic story of the March sisters, four Oregon Territory, but their venture young women determined to live depends on stealing milk from the life on their own terms in 1860s New only cow in the territory, owned by England. Rated PG, 135 minutes. a wealthy and powerful landowner. Order #516860 Rated PG-13, 121 minutes. Order #524288

Promising Young Woman Parasite Cassie is wickedly smart, Class discrimination and greed tantalizingly cunning, and she's collide when Kim Ki-teak’s son is living a secret double life by night. hired as a tutor in the lavish home of Now, an unexpected encounter is the wealthy Park family, changing the about to give Cassie a chance to right fortunes of his entire family. Rated R, the wrongs of the past. Rated R, 113 132 minutes. minutes. Order #511460 Order #533010

Jojo Rabbit Us This World War II satire follows Haunted by past trauma and a string a lonely German boy named Jojo, of eerie coincidences, Adelaide and whose worldview is turned upside her family return to their vacation down when he discovers that his home after spending a day at the single mother is hiding a young beach to find four doppelgangers of Jewish girl in their attic. Rated PG-13, themselves standing in the driveway. 108 minutes. Rated R, 117 minutes. Order #513470 Order #493211

40 1-800-426-READ VIDEOS (DVD): Award Winners VIDEOS (DVD): Kids & Family

Adventures of Rufus: The Queen's Corgi the fantastic pet The Queen of England's corgi Friends Scott and Emily must team Rex learns what life outside of up with an eccentric wizard and an Buckingham Palace is really like after adorable talking creature named the spoiled pooch finds himself in a Rufus in order to defeat an evil London animal shelter. Not rated, sorceress and save Rufus' magical 85 minutes. home world. Rated PG, 82 minutes. Order #526445 Order #526433

Dolittle Scoob! Grieving the death of his wife in Scooby and the gang face their solitude with only his menagerie of biggest, most challenging mystery exotic animals for company, Dr. John yet: Discovering that Scooby has a Dolittle is forced to set sail on an secret legacy and an epic destiny, adventure to a mythical island to seek Shaggy remembers how he met the a cure for the young Queen Victoria puppy and how Mystery, Inc. was after she becomes gravely ill. Rated formed. Rated PG, 93 minutes. PG, 101 minutes. Order #520883 Order #516864

Molly of Denali, Season 1 Trolls World Tour Adventure through the epic beauty After learning that the Trolls are of Alaska with feisty and resourceful divided into tribes, each devoted to ten-year-old Alaska Native girl a different kind of music, Poppy and Molly Mabray, her dog Suki, and Branch set out to unify the factions friends Tooey and Trini. Rated G, in harmony against the hard-rock 390 minutes. Queen Barb, who wants to destroy Order #524299 the other kinds of music, making rock supreme. Rated PG, 90 minutes. Order #522400

Overcomer Upside-Down Magic After the shutdown of a local Thirteen-year-old Nory enters the manufacturing plant devastates his Sage Academy for Magical Studies, town, a high school basketball coach where her unusual brand of magic struggling with the loss of his team lands her in a class for those who finds inspiration from a new student practice "Upside-Down Magic," dealing with her own challenges. a branch of the art that some say Rated PG, 119 minutes. exposes the students to dark and evil Order #508629 forces. Rated PG, 96 minutes. Order #523962

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42 1-800-426-READ Español: Adultos Jovenes NIÑOS JÓVENES ADULTOS El épico fracaso de Con una estrella en Arturo Zamora la mano by Pablo Cartaya by Margarita Engle Cuando el restaurante de su familia La historia de Rubén Darío, el y el barrio cubanoamericano en poeta nicaragüense que lanzó el Miami se ven amenazados por un movimiento literario modernista urbanizador codicioso, Arturo, de con la publicación de su primer libro, trece años, se defiende. Azul, una mezcla única de prosa y Order #517495 poesía. Order #509198

La travesía de Santiago Gabi, fragmentos de by Alexandra Diaz una adolescente Huyendo de familiares abusivos y la by Isabel Quintero pobreza extrema en México, el joven Gabi, de dieciséis años, forja su Santiago soporta ser detenido por identidad a través de la poesía ICE mientras cruza la frontera hacia mientras enfrenta los desafíos de su Estados Unidos. último año en la escuela secundaria. Order #527170 Order #525047

Me dicen gero: poemas de Juliet respira profundo un chavo de la frontera by Gabby Rivera by David Bowles Una joven puertorriqueña se acerca a Con la ayuda de sus amigos, un su familia con resultados desastrosos estudiante mexicoamericano de y se muda a Portland para hacer una doce años se enfrenta a la vida en la pasantía con su ícono feminista frontera y los desafíos del séptimo favorito, solo para descubrir que su grado. héroe es un racista. Order #524857 Order #525048

Merci Suárez se pone La cosecha de samhein las pilas by José Antonio Cotrina by Meg Medina Doce adolescentes de todo el mundo Una estudiante becada de sexto caen bajo el hechizo de un semidiós grado se preocupa por la salud de y viajan a un reino místico de su amado abuelo mientras se siente devastación y crueldad. como una forastera en su exclusiva Order #511599 escuela privada de Florida. Order #517508

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Cómo ser una bruja El precio del racismo moderna by Eduardo Porter by Gabriela Herstik Una discusión sobre el racismo que Gabriela Herstik, escritora, ha atrofiado el desarrollo de Estados alquimista de la moda y bruja Unidos en el trabajo organizado, moderna, da nueva vida al antiguo la educación pública y la red de arte de la brujería y ofrece consejos seguridad social. Ofrece un camino sobre cómo encontrar una marca de hacia la esperanza, el cambio y un magia que funcione para usted. futuro mejor. Order #527184 Order #524882

Latinx Una tierra prometida by Paola Ramos by Barack Obama El diario de viaje de la periodista En el primer volumen de sus y activista Paola Ramos por el memorias, el presidente Barack país descubre diversas voces y Obama cuenta la historia de su comunidades nuevas que están transformación de un joven que redefiniendo lo que significa buscaba su identidad en el primer ser latino y lo que significa ser presidente afroamericano en la estadounidense. historia de Estados Unidos. Order #524887 Order #524894

Una vez fui tú 21 lecciones para el by Maria Hinojosa siglo XXI Una periodista galardonada narra by Yuval N. Harari las experiencias de su infancia al El célebre historiador y autor crecer como mexicoamericana en de Sapiens dirige su atención al el lado sur de Chicago, ofreciendo presente, ayudando a dar sentido una perspectiva esclarecedora sobre a los problemas más urgentes la crisis de inmigración de Estados que enfrenta la humanidad en la Unidos. actualidad. Order #520767 Order #528941

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Los falcón Más allá by Melissa Rivero by Julia Alvarez Un inmigrante indocumentado Después de sufrir varias tragedias lucha con un trabajo brutal en una personales, una escritora y profesora fábrica, una deuda abrumadora con de literatura jubilada debe reunir un usurero y las insinuaciones no toda su fuerza y coraje para ayudar deseadas de un hombre casado en la a la adolescente embarazada e ciudad de Nueva York de los noventa. indocumentada que llega a su puerta Order #521015 sola y en crisis. Order #521018

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The Alice Spirit Run Network by Noé Álvarez by Kate Quinn The story of one man’s In 1947, an epic, four-month unconventional marathon from American socialite Canada to Guatemala seeks the help of a with a group of Dené, former WWI spy to Secwépemc, Gitxsan, find a beloved cousin, Dakelh, Apache, who disappeared in Tohono O'odham, Seri, Nazi-occupied France. Purépecha, and Maya Order #427014 runners. Order #514302

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