What’s on the Librarian’s Desk? New Books!

Here at the Nesconset Branch we get so excited when the Children’s Department Clerk, Karen walks into the Children’s room with an armload of books, because this means new additions to the library arrived!

Today, Karen brought in these eye catching titles:

Small Person with Wings by Ellen Booraem: When Mellie Turpin's grandfather dies and leaves her family his run-down inn and bar, she learns that for generations her family members have been fairy guardians, and now that the fairies want an important ring returned, the Turpins become involved in a series of magical adventures as they try to locate the missing ring.

Your Friend in Fashion Abby Sapiro by Amy Axelrod: Beginning in 1959, Abby, nearly eleven, writes a series of letters to Jackie Kennedy, each with sketches of outfits she has designed, as she faces family problems, concerns about neighbors, and her own desperate desire for both her first bra and a Barbie doll.

The Trouble with Chickens by Doreen Cronin: A hard-bitten former search-and-rescue dog helps solve a complicated missing chicken case. This is a new book by the author of Click, Clack, Moo Cows that Type, Diary of a Fly, Diary of a Spider and Diary of a Worm!

Justin Bieber by Kathleen Tracy: Baby, baby, baby – a biography that will make your heart melt – the story of Justin Bieber’s rise to fame! Tons of color photos to make those Biebermaniacs swoon!

Ghoulish Ghost Stories by Joan Axelrod-Contrada: Looking for a book that goes bump in the night? This book discusses scary stories including The Bell Witch and The Amityville Horror

Ripley’s Believe it or Not! Enter if You Dare! By Geoff Tibballs: 254 pages of curiosities, oddities, facts, each story accompanied by incredible pictures!

What’s on the Librarian’s Desk!? NEW BOOKS

Check out some of our new fiction titles – just added to the library’s collection

I, Emma Freke by Elizabeth Atkinson

When a mysteries letter comes inviting Emma to the Freke Family Reunion, to be held at a campground in the wilds of Wisconsin, Emma things she may just find out why she is the way she is. But once she meets the other Frekes, things aren’t at all what she expected.

Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce

12-year old Liam looks like he's thirty. Sometimes it's not bad; for example on the first day of school the principal mistakes Liam for a teacher or when he convinces a car dealer to let him test drive a Porsche. So feeling like he's stuck between two worlds, Liam cons his way into being the adult chaperone on the first space ship to take civilians into space. But when the ship is stuck 230,000 miles from home, being mistaken for an adult is not good.

A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz

Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering such wicked creatures as witches, along with kindly strangers and other helpful folk. Based in part on the Grimms' fairy tales Faithful Johannes, Hansel and Gretel, The seven ravens, Brother and sister, The robber bridegroom, and The devil and his three golden hairs.

Philippa Fisher and the Fairy’s Promise by Liz Kessler

Philippa and her fairy godsister, Daisy, are asked by the High Counsel to go on a fantastic journey together to find a missing fairy and preserve the portals that connect the fairy and human realms.

Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder: Bubble in the Bathtub by Jo Nesbo

A mysterious postcard leads Lisa and Nilly from Oslo to Paris in search of Doctor Proctor but, once there, all they find of their missing friend is a time-traveling bathtub powered by a special soap and several sinister individuals determined to do all they can to locate the eccentric inventor.