November 2025
Picture Books
Chŏng-yun Hŏ: Late Today
Easy Readers
A.A. Milne: Pooh Goes Visiting
Youth Graphic Novels
Scott Campbell: Cabin Head and Tree Head
Sarah Mensinga: Kindred Dragons (Book 1)
George O’Connor: Asgardians: Thor
Junior Fiction
Katherine Rundell: The Poisoned King
David Soren: Invisible: The (Sort of) True Story of Me and My Hidden Disease
Junior Nonfiction
Rebecca Bond & Salley Mavor: My Bed: Enchanting Ways to Fall Asleep Around the World
Perry E. Metzger: Computers: How Digital Hardware Works (Science Comics)
Tim Stout: The Great Depression: From Hard Times to the New Deal (History Comics)
Adult Fiction
James Comey: FDR Drive
Michael Connelly: The Proving Ground: A Lincoln Lawyer Novel
John Grisham: The Widow
Catherine Newman: Wreck: A Novel
Louise Penny: The Black Wolf
Sally Smith: A Case of Mice and Murder
Adult Nonfiction
Charlie Macksey: Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse, and the Storm
Games
Bill of Rights: A Top Ten Series Game
Life Liberty, and the Pursuit of Victory (3-8 players, ages 8+)
Gobblet! Junior
Gobble up, line up, and win! (2 players, ages 5+)
OuiSi Cards
OuiSi Photo Cards “Visually Connect” based on shared patterns, shapes and colors. An accessible yet fun and challenging for game kids (4+) and adults alike. OuiSi cards are used in the fields of education, mindfulness, therapy, and dementia care, and are great for inter-generational/family game play!
Story Time Chess
Teach chess to young children (3+) using silly stories, vibrant illustrations, custom chess pieces, and a unique double-sided chessboard.
October 2025
Feel free to place a hold in the online catalog, or email the library, and we’ll do it for you.
Board Books
Ryan T. Higgins: Bundle Up. Penelope Rex!
Picture Books
Bea Birdsong: How to Grow a Family Tree
X. Fang: Broken
Catherine Rayner: Victor the Wolf with Worries
Richard Scarry: Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever
Joshua David Stein: Make New Friends
Junior Fiction
Jeff Kinney: Partypooper (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #20)
Youth Graphic Novels
Remy Lai: Ghost Book
Brittan y Long Olsen: The Happy Shop
Scout Underhill: DnDoggos: Get the Party Started
Junior Nonfiction
Claude Delafosse: Portraits (A First Discovery Art Book)
Felipe Galindo Feggo: Ellis Island: Immigration and the American Dream (History Comics)
Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld: What Is the World Made Of?: All About Solids, Liquids, and Gases
Adult Fiction
Kiran Desai: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Lily King: Heart the Lover
Alexander McCall Smith: The Winds from Further West
Allen Levi: Theo of Golden
Lisa Ridzén: When the Cranes Fly South
Sam Sussman: Boy from the North Country
Adult Nonfiction
Elizabeth Gilbert: All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation
Jill Lepore: We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Games
Berrymandering: A Strategy Game (2 players, ages 8+, 15 minutes)
Outfoxed: A Cooperative Whodunit Game (2-4 players, ages 5+)
September 2025
Feel free to place a hold in the online catalog, or email the library, and we’ll do it for you.
Picture Books
Lane Smith: Recess
Easy Readers
Andy Griffiths: The Big Fat Cow Goes Kapow
Junior Fiction
Meg Medina: Graciela in the Abyss
Junior Nonfiction
Rachel Brian: (Be Smart About) Screen Time: Stay Grounded, Set Boundaries, and Keep Safe Online
James Buckley Jr: A Kids’ Guide to the National Baseball Hall of Fame: The Greatest Players from Hank Aaron to Derek Jeter to Cy Young
James Buckley Jr: Out of the Park!: True Stories of the Greatest Players Who Changed the Game
Sean Taylor: You’re a Poet: Ways to Start Writing Poems
Youth Graphic Novels
Shannon Hale & Marcela Cespedes: Dream On
Maple Lam: Monkey King and the World of Myths: The Battle of the Beasts
Young Adult Fiction
Ebony LaDell: This Could Be Forever
Liselle Sambury: A Mastery of Monsters
Brian Selznick: Run Away with Me
Adult Fiction
Rhys Bowen: Mrs. Endicott’s Splendid Adventure
Joy Fielding: Jenny Cooper Has a Secret
Hayley Gelfuso: The Book of Lost Hours
Sierra Greer: Annie Bot
Walter Mosley: Gray Dawn: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
Patrick Ryan: Buckeye
Adult Nonfiction
Meg Josephson, LCSW: Are You Mad at Me?: How to Stop Focusing on What Others Think and Start Living for You
Games
Apples to Apples Junior (4-10 players, ages 7+)
Camp: The Game that Grows with You (up to 8 players, ages 4-adult)
Green Market Puzzle Spinner Game (2-4 players, preschool)
Spanish Flash Cards
You’ve Been Sentenced (3-10 players, ages 8+)
August 2025
Feel free to place a hold in the online catalog, or email the library, and we’ll do it for you.
Picture Books
Zoey Abbot: This Year, a Witch
Heidi Aubrey: Ada and the Goat
James Dean & Eric Litwin: Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes
Andrea Zuill: Bob the Vampire Snail
Easy Readers
Mo Willems Listen to My Trumpet!
Mo Willems: There Is a Bird on Your Head!
Early Chapter Books
Asia Citro: Gnomes and Sneezes (A Zoey & Sassafras book)
Kimberly Gallagher: Herb Fairies series (13 books)
Tracey West: Magic of the Wizard Dragon (Dragon Masters #29)
Junior Fiction
Jeanne Birdsall: The Library of Unruly Treasures
Adam Gidwitz: Max in the Land of Lies
Brandon Hale: Prince Martin series (7 books – great for struggling readers)
SF Said: Tyger
Youth Graphic Novels
Veronica Agarwal & Lee Durfey-Lavoie: Just Roll with It
Cynthia Yuan Cheng: The Baby Sitters Club: Mary Anne’s Bad Luck Mystery
Gabriela Epstein: The Baby Sitters Club: Good-bye Stacey, Good-bye
Katy Farina: Baby Sitters Little Sister: Karen’s Roller Skates
Gale Galligan: The Baby Sitters Club: Logan Likes Mary Anne!
Lucy Knisley: Sugar Shack (Peapod Farm Series)
Maple Lam: Monkey King and the World of Myths: The Monster and the Maze
Kayla Miller: Crunch
Jaimal Yogis: City of Dragons 3: Quest for the True Dragon
Young Adult Graphic Novels
Sophia Glock: Passport
Adult Fiction
Lisa Gardner: Kiss Her Goodbye
Louise Hegarty: Fair Play
Emma Pattee: Tilt
Louis Sachar: The Magician of Tiger Castle
Karin Slaughter: We Are All Guilty Here
Sarah Stewart Taylor: Hunter’s Heart Ridge
Jess Walter: So Far Gone
Adult Nonfiction
Sophie Elmhirst: A Marraige at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Alizabeth Greenwood: Everyday Intuition: What Psychology, Science, and Psychics Can Teach Us about Finding and Trustin Our Inner Voice
NOLO: Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions: Get the Most Out of Your Retirement and Medical Benefits, 30th ed.
Abby Wambach: We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life’s 20 Questions
July 2025
Feel free to place a hold in the online catalog, or email the library, and we’ll do it for you.
Board Books
Michael Elsohn Ross: Mama’s Milk
Picture Books
Sascha Alper: The Littlest Drop
Peter Brown: The Wild Robot on the Island
Keith Calabrese: Lena’s Shoes Are Nervous: A Fist-Day-of-School Dilemma
Noah Grigni: Mama Moon: A Story About Love and Mental Health
Early Chapter Books
Rebecca Elliott: Eva and the New Teacher (Owl Diaries #21)
Junior Fiction
Pablo Cartaya: A Hero’s Guide to Summer Vacation
Grace Lin: The Gate, the Girl, and the Dragon
Junior Nonfiction
Martha Brockenbrough: A Gift of Dust: How Saharan Plumes Feed the Planet
Rajani LaRocca: Some of Us: A Story of Citizenship and the United States
Adult Fiction
Fredrik Backman: My Friends
Penn Cole: Spark of the Everflame
Michael Connelly: Nightshade
Daniel Kehlmann: The Director
Laurie R. King: Knave of Diamonds: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
Laura Lippman: Murder Takes a Vacation
Roisín O’Donnell: Nesting
Gary Shteyngart: Vera, or Faith
Adriana Trigiani: The View from Lake Como
Martin Walker: An Enemy in the Village: A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel
Ruth Ware: The Woman in Suite 11
Adult Nonfiction
David A. Graham: The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America
Sydney Lea: A Little Wildness: Some Notes on Rambling
Mel Robbins: The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool that Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About
Molly Worthen: Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump
Games
Older Kids, Teens & Adults
Darwin Castle’s Cthulhu Realms
Hero versus Guardian: A Game of Dungeon Craft
Most Glorious Comrade
Neil Gaiman’s A Study in Emerald
Node
Story War Deluxe
Undergrove
Unreal Estate
Younger Kids
Boggle Jr.
Heads Talk, Tails Walk
Richard Scarry’s Busytown Eye Found It!
June 2025
Feel free to place a hold in the online catalog, or email the library, and we’ll do it for you.
Board Books
Julie Massey & Pascale Bonenfant: Oops!
Picture Books
Tomie dePaola & Barbara McClintock: Where Are You, Brontë?
Lourdes Heuer & Maxwell Eaton III: A Book of Maps for You
Beth Ferry & Tom Lichtenheld: The Peddler of Puddles
Early Chapter Books
Lynn Reid Banks: The Fairy Rebel
Daisy Meadows: Rainbow Magic Fairies (27 new to us books)
Young Adult Fiction
Suzanne Collins: Sunrise on the Reaping
Adult Fiction
James Lee Burke: Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie
Colleen Cambridge: A Fashionably French Murder: An American in Paris Mystery
Stephen King: Never Flinch
Florence Knapp: The Names
Mary Alice Monroe: Where the Rivers Merge
Jemimah Wei: The Original Daughter
Adult Nonfiction
Robert Macfarlane: Is a River Alive?
May 2025
Feel free to place a hold in the online catalog, or email the library, and we’ll do it for you.
Picture Books
Lita Judge: Old Blue Is My Home
Thao Lam: Everybelly
Easy Readers
Kate DiCamillo: Orris and Timble: Lost and Found
Bobby Lynn Maslen: Bob Books Set 4: Complex Words
Early Chapter Books
Adam Rex: The Story of Gumluck and the Heroes
Youth Graphic Novels
Kwame Alexander & Jerry Craft: J vs. K
Junior Fiction
Wesley King: Benny on the Case
Heidi E.Y. Stemple: The Poetry of Car Mechanics
Junior Nonfiction
Lesley Tierra: A Kid’s Herb Book (for Children of All Ages)
Young Adult Fiction
Sasha Peyton Smith: The Rose Bargain
Adult Fiction
Isabel Allende: My Name Is Emilia del Valle
Paul Doiran: Skin and Bones: And Other Mike Bowditch Short Stories
Emily Henry: Great Big Beautiful Life
Anthony Horowitz: Marble Hall Murders
Saou Ichikawa: Hunchback
Annika Norlin: The Colony
Lynn Steger Strong: The Float Test
Mark Thielman: The Devil’s Kitchen: A Murder in Yellowstone
Ocean Vuong: The Emperor of Gladness
Adult Nonfiction
Chloe Dalton: Raising Hare: A Memoir
April 2025
Feel free to place a hold in the online catalog, or email the library, and we’ll do it for you.
Picture Books
Shawn Harris: Let’s Be Bees
Hye-Eun Kim: Pencil
Bob Shea: Bearsuit Turtle Makes a Friend
Marcelo Tolentino: Sunday
Easy Readers
Mac Barnett & George Pizzoli: Jack at Bat
Kallie George: Flare
Early Chapter Books
Thomas Flintham: Super Rabbit Boy vs. Gigabot! (Press Start #16)
Poppy Green: Forget-Me-Not Lake (The Adventures of Sophie Mouse #3)
Poppy Green: The Mouse House (The Adventures of Sophie Mouse #11)
Poppy Green: Silverlake Art Show (The Adventures of Sophie Mouse #13)
Poppy Green: The Great Bake Off (The Adventures of Sophie Mouse #14)
Tracey West: Night of the Dream Dragon (Dragon Masters #28)
Youth Graphic Novels
Mariah Marsden: Heidi: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier & Scott McCloud: The Cartoonists Club
Junior Fiction
Saadia Faruqi: The Strongest Heart
Rosanne Parry: A Wolf Called Fire
Linda Joan Smith: The Peach Thief
Junior Nonfiction
Joe Archer & Caroline Craig: Plant, Cook, Eat!: A Children’s Cookbook
Mike Lawrence: Deep-Sea Creatures: Adapting to the Abyss (Science Comics)
Young Adult Fiction
Emily J. Taylor: The Otherwhere Post
Adult Fiction
David Baldacci: Strangers in Time
Karissa Chen: Homeseeking
Jennifer Chiaverini: The World’s Fair Quilt
Ron Currie: The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne
Tess Gerritsen: The Summer Guests
Jennifer Haigh: Rabbit Moon
Patti Callahan Henry: The Story She Left Behind
Eowyn Ivey: Black Woods Blue Sky
Collum McCann: Twist
Amanda Peters: Waiting for the Long Night Moon
Nita Prose: The Maid’s Secret (A Maid Novel #3)
Deanna Raybourn: Killers of a Certain Age
Karen Russell: The Antidote
Jennifer Weiner: The Griffin Sisters’ Greated Hits
Charlotte Wood: Stone Yard Devotional
Adult Nonfiction
Judith Durant (editor): Sock Yarn One-Skein Wonders: 101 Patterns that Go Way Beyond Socks!
Michael Finkel: The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Jane Fraser: If Your Child Stutters: A Guide for Parents (Revised 8th Edition)
Malcolm Fraser: Self-Therapy for the Stutterer (11th Edition)
Anne Lamott: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Peter A. Levine & Maggie Kline: Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents’ Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience
Linda Ligon: Homespun, Handknit: Caps, Socks, Mittens & Gloves
Maggie Righetti: Knitting in Plain English
Lynn Twist: The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
The following nonfiction books for adults were purchased with a grant from the Vermont Community Foundation.
Sarah Rose Cavanagh: Mind Over Monsters: Supporting Youth Mental Health with Compassionate Challenge
Michael Easter: Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset & Rewire You Habits to Thrive with Enough
Patricia Gagne: Sociopath: A Memoir
Karen Bloom Gevirtz: The Apothecary’s Wife: The Hidden Hoistory of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity
Catherine Nixey: Heretic: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God
Zoe Schlanger: The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Games & Puzzles
We’ve got LOTS of games and puzzles at the library! I haven’t been adding them to the New Arrivals, but I will be from here on out!
Color Cube Sudoku: Flip the Cubes, Solve the Puzzle (Ages 8+, single player)
Crazy 8ths: Musical Card Game (Ages 6+, 1-9 players)
Exploding Kittens: A Card Game for People Who Are Into Kittens and Explosions (Ages 7+, 2-5 players)
Hiss: The Colorful Snake-Making Tile Game (Agest 4+, 2-5 players)
Karma: What Goes Around… Comes Around (Ages 8+, 2-6 players)
Wordspiel: Where the End… Is Just the Beginning (Ages 8+, 2-6 players)
March 2025
Feel free to place a hold in the online catalog, or email the library, and we’ll do it for you.
Board Books
Chris Ferrie: ABCs of Science for Babies
Chris Ferrie: General Relativity for Babies
Chris Ferrie: Newtonian Physics for Babies
Chris Ferrie: Quantum Physics for Babies
Chris Ferrie: Rocket Science for Babies
Nastja Holtfreter: Colorful World: Construction Site (Find What’s Different!)
Jon Klassen: Your Forest
Jon Klassen: Your Farm
Jane Yolen & Mark Teague: How Do Dinosaurs Count to Ten?
The following board books were purchased with a Winnie Belle Learned Fund grant made possible by the Vermont Public Library Foundation.
Rosalind Beardshaw: Walk and See 123
Kevin Henkes: When Spring Comes
Todd Parr: The Joyful Book
Todd Parr: The Thankful Book
Hope Vestergaard: Digger, Dozer, Dumper
Indestructible Books: The Itsy Bitsy Spider; Let’s Be Kind; My Neighborhood; Rhyme with Me!; Big and Little: A Book of Opposites; All Year Round: A Book of Seasons; Happy and You Know It!; Baby, Find the Shapes!
Picture Books
Cathy Stefanec Ogren: The Little Red Chair
Elizabeth Verdick: Small Walt
Easy Readers
Various authors: The Adventures of Daniel Tiger
Early Chapter Books
Rebecca Elliott: Unicorn Diaries: The Secret of the Lost Gold
Youth Graphic Novels
Hope Larson: Very Bad at Math
Mariah Marsden: Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel
Junior Fiction
Scott Reintgen: The Last Dragon on Mars
Junior Nonfiction
Susan B. Anderson: Susan B. Anderson’s Kids’ Knitting Workshop
Andy Hirsch: Human Spaceflight: Rockets and Rivalry (Science Comics)
Mellody Hobson: Priceless Facts about Money: From the Beginning of Time to the Coins in Your Couch
Kevin McCloskey: Ants Don’t Wear Pants!
Rosemary Mosco: Birding Is My Favorite Video Game: Cartoons about the Natural World from Bird and Moon
The following nonfiction books were purchased with a Winnie Belle Learned Fund grant made possible by the Vermont Public Library Foundation.
Leslie Barnard Booth: One Day This Tree Will Fall
Bethany Barton: I’m Trying to Love Germs
Fred Bowen & James E. Ransome: Hardcourt: Stories from 75 Years of the National Basketball Association
Loree Griffin Burns: Honeybee Rescue: A Backyard Drama
Brenna Maloney: Buzzkill: A Wild Wander through the Weird and Threatened World of Bugs
Deborah Noyes: Tooth & Claw: The Dinosaur Wars: Two Paleontologists’ Epic Rivalry to Discover the Prehistoric World
Rex Ogle: Free Lunch (a memoir)
Tyler Page: Button Pusher (graphic memoir)
Nick Seluk: The Ocean Is Kind of a Big Deal
Sandy Tolan: The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
Jason Viola: The Prohibition Era: America’s War on Alcohol (History Comics)
Frieda Wishinsky: A Flower Is a Friend
Young Adult Fiction
Shannon Lee & Fonda Lee: Breath of the Dragon
Adult Fiction
Chris Bohjalian: The Jackal’s Mistress
C.J. Box: Battle Mountain
Allison Epstein: Fagin the Thief
Allegra Goodman: Isola
Rebecca Kauffman: I’ll Come to You
TJ Klune: The Bones Beneath My Skin
Susan Mallery: Beach Vibes
Stuart Murdoch: Nobody’s Empire
Adult Nonfiction
These nonfiction books for adults were purchased with a grant from the Vermont Community Foundation.
Sarah Allen Benton: Parents in Recovery: Navigating a Sober Family Lifestyle
Stephen Harrod Buhner: Herbal Antibiotics: Natural Alternatives for Treating Drug-Resistant Bacteria
Stephen Harrod Buhner: Herbal Antivirals: Natural Remedies for Emerging & Resistant Viral Infections
Margaret Eby: You Gotta Eat: Real-Life Strategies for Feeding Yourself when Cooking Feels Impossible
Teresa Ghilarducci: Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy
Attorney Liza W. Hanks: Nolo’s Guide to Estate Planning
Devorah Heitner, PhD: Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World
Douglas R. Hofstadter: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Christi Johnson: The Art of Embroidery Design: A Workshop for Developing Your Own Original Stitching
Sebastian Junger: In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face-to-Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
Bryana Kappadakunnel, LMFT: Parent Yourself First: Raise Confident, Compassionate Kids by Becomming the Parent You Wish You’d Had
Aaron Karmin, LPPC: Instant Anger Management
Daniel J. Levitin: I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music and Medicine
Phylicia Masonheimer: Every Home a Foundation: Experiencing God through Your Everyday Routines
Shunmyo Masuno: How to Let Things Go: 99 Tips from a Zen Buddhist Monk to Relinquish Control and Free Yourself Up for What Matters
Liz Neves: Northeast Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 111 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness
Mary Randolph, J.D: 8 Ways to Avoid Probate (a Nolo Guide)
Robin Reames: The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times
Jen Smith: Buy What You Love Without Going Broke
Rick Steves: On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
February 2025
Feel free to place a hold in the online catalog, or email the library, and we’ll do it for you.
Picture Books
Byron Barton: Machines at Work
Mary Lyn Ray: Mud
Easy Readers
These easy reader books were purchased with a Winnie Belle Learned Fund grant made possible by the Vermont Public Library Foundation.
David A. Adler: Pass the Ball, Mo!
Vicky Fang: FriendBots: Blink and Block Make a Wish
Jonathan Fenske: The Bug in the Bog
Jonathan Fenske: Try a Bite, Trilobite!
Bruce Hale: Clark the Shark: Friends Forever
Steve Henry: Happy Cat
Melissa Iwai: Gigi and Ojiji: What’s in a Name?
Ethan Long: Big Cat
Ethan Long: Pug
Laura Marsh: National Geographic Kids: Ponies
Paul Meisel: I See a Cat
Sergio Ruzzier: Fish and Sun
Eric Seltzer: Space Cows
Corey R. Tabor: Fox Is Late
Corey R. Tabor: Fox Has a Problem
Corey R. Tabor: Fox versus Winter
Stephen Waldo: Tiny Tales: Shell Quest
Easy Readers (Phonics)
Baxter Memorial Library now has a small collection of phonics books, and we’ve just added books from Bright Owl and All About Reading. You can see a list of all our phonics books on our blog.
Bright Owl Books by Molly Coxe:
Cubs in the Tub
Wet Hen
Hop, Frog!
Princess Pig
Rat Attack
Blues for Unicorn
Go Home, Goat
Save the Cake!
Greedy Beetle
Lion Spies a Tiger
All About Reading books by Marie Rippel
Run, Bug, Run!: A Collection of Short Stories
Cobweb the Cat: A Collection of Short Stories
Youth Graphic Novels
Ben Clanton: Narwhalicorn and Jelly: A Narwhal and Jelly Book
Ben Clanton: Narwhal’s Sweet Tooth: A Narwhal and Jelly Book
Nathan Hale: The Mighty Bite
Nathan Hale: The Mighty Bite: Walrus Brawl at the Mall!
Junior Nonfiction
Candace Fleming: Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera
Mary Pope Osborne: One World, Many Religions: The Ways We Worship
The following nonfiction books were purchased with a Winnie Belle Learned Fund grant made possible by the Vermont Public Library Foundation.
Lena Anlauf & Vitali Konstantinov: Genius Noses: A Curious Animal Compendium
Idan Ben-Barak & Julian Frost: There’s a Skeleton Inside You !
William Grill Bandoola: The Great Elephant Rescue
Rachel Ignotofsky: What’s Inside a Flower?: And Other Questions about Science and Nature
Isabelle Simler: Home
Loveday Trinick: Oceanarium
Adult Fiction
Marie Benedict: The Queens of Crime
Joseph Finder: The Oligarch’s Daughter
Alex Hay: The Queen of Fives
Han Kang: We Do Not Part
Walter Mosley: Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right
JoJo Moyes: We All Live Here
Anne Tyler: Three Days in June
Adult Nonfiction
Ina Anderson: Sky Furniture: Poems
Sigfried Engelmann: Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
Amanda Jones: That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
Dr. Becky Kennedy: Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
Zoe Weil: Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times
January 2025
Feel free to place a hold in the online catalog, or email the library, and we’ll do it for you.
Easy Readers
Bob Books: First Stories
Junior Nonfiction
These nonfiction books were purchased with a Winnie Belle Learned Fund grant made possible by the Vermont Public Library Foundation.
Dr. John Bradshaw: A First Guide to Cats: Understanding Your Whiskered Friend
Kersten Hamilton: First Friend: How Dogs Evolved from Wolves to Become Our Best Friends
Rachel Ignotofsky: What’s Inside a Bird’s Nest? And Other Questions about Nature & Life Cycles
Rashin Kheiriyeh: Rumi: Poet of Joy and Love
Mike Lowery: Everything Awesome about Space and Other Galactic Facts!
Christine McDonnell: Sanctuary: Kip Tiernan and Rosie’s Place, the Nation’s First Shelter for Women
Meghan McCarthy: Action!: How Movies Began
National Geographic Kids: Deadliest Animals on the Planet
National Geographic Kids: Ultimate Ocean-pedia: The Most Complete Ocean Reference Ever
Jessica Lanan: Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider
Miranda Paul: Water Is Water: A Book about the Water Cycle
Lisa Varchol Perron & Taylor Perron: All the Rocks We Love
Lynn Truss: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really DO Make a Difference!
Lynn Truss: The Girl’s Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can’t Manage without Apostrophes!
Bonnie Worth: One Vote, Two Votes, I Vote, You Vote: All About Voting
History Comics: The American Bison: The Buffalo’s Survival Tale
History Comics: The National Parks: Preserving America’s Wild Places
History Comics: The Roanoke Colony: America’s First Mystery
History Comics: Rosa Parks & Claudette Colvin: Civil Rights Heroes
History Comics: The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights
Hstory Comics: The Transcontinental Railroad: Crossing the Divide
History Comics: The Wild Mustang: Horses of the American West
History Comics: World War II: Fight on the Home Front
Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: Above the Trenches: A WWI Flying Ace Tale
Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: Blades of Freedom: A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase
Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: Cold War Correspondent: A Korean War Tale
Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood: A World War I Tale
Adult Fiction
Adam Haslett: Mothers and Sons
Elizabeth Heider: May the Wolf Die
Chelsea Iversen: The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt
Jakob Kerr: Dead Money
Kevin Wade: Johnny Careless
Adult Nonfiction
Geraldine Brooks: Memorial Days: A Memoir
Nicola Lamb: Sift: The Elements of Great Baking
December 2024
Feel free to place a hold in the online catalog, or email the library, and we’ll do it for you.
Picture Books
Aaron Becker: The Tree and the River
Amy Hest: On the Night of the Shooting Star
Kerascoët: I Walk with Vanessa
Richard T. Morris: Stopping by Jungle on a Snowy Evening
Aisha Saeed: The Together Tree
Mo Willems: Lefty
Early Chapter Books
Tracey West: Dragon Masters: Haunting of the Ghost Dragon
Junior Fiction
Eoin Colfer: Juniper’s Christmas
Gia Gordon: My So-Called Family
Youth Graphic Novels
Dav Pilkey: Dog Man: Big Jim Begins
Young Adult Fiction
Kathleen Glasgow: The Glass Girl
Young Adult Nonfiction
Cara Bean: Here I Am, I Am Me: An Illustrated Guide to Mental Health
Adult Fiction
David Baldacci: To Die For
Lee Child: Safe Enough: Crime Stories by the Author of Jack Reacher
Sophie Cousens: Is She Really Going Out with Him?
Adam Hamdy: Deadbeat
Samantha Harvey: Orbital
Lee Kelly: The Starlets
Juhea Kim: City of Night Birds
Richard Price: Lazarus Man
Nora Roberts: The Mirror
Neal Stephenson: Polostan
Jessica Strawser: Catch You Later
Weike Wang: Rental House
Niall Williams: Time of the Child
Adult Nonfiction
Robin Wall Kimmerer: The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Alan Lightman: The Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the Wonders of Nature
Sarah Moss: My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir
November 2024
Feel free to place a hold in the online catalog, or email the library, and we’ll do it for you.
Board Books
Baby Beats: Let’s Learn 4/4 Time!
Baby Beats: Let’s Learn 3/4 Time!
Baby Beats: Let’s Learn 2/4 Time!
Picture Books
Bee Johnson: What Can a Mess Make?
Youth Graphic Novels
Mac Barnett: The First Cat in Space and the Wrath of the Paperclip
Li Chen: Detective Beans and the Case of the Missing Hat
Svetlana Chmakova: The Weirn Books (book 2): The Ghost and the Stolen Dragon
Jonathan Garnier: Shepherdess Warriors Vol. 1
Hayao Miyazaki: My Neighbor Totoro Film Comic
Young Adult Fiction
Jason Reynolds: Twenty-Four Seconds from Now: A Love Story
Adult Fiction
Emma Cook: You Can’t Hurt Me
Jean Hanff Korelitz: The Sequel
Louise Penny: The Grey Wolf
Sally Rooney: Intermezzo
Madeleine Roux: Much Ado About Margaret
Destiny Soria: The Cottage Around the Corner
Adult Nonfiction
Sam Brakeley: Skiing with Henry Knox : A Personal Journey Along Vermont’s Catamount Trail
Sy Montgomery: What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World’s Most Famous Bird
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