New for Children
Unicorn is Maybe Not So Great After All
by Greg Pizzoli
On the first day of school, Unicorn expects to make his usual big splash. But no one pays him much attention. Unicorn comes up with a plan to get his mojo back, but his efforts turn out to be more annoying than impressive. Can Goat help him recover his magic, or is Unicorn destined to a life of mediocrity?
When Wishes Were Horses
by Cynthia Voigt
Casey, Zoe, Billy, and Bug live in the same town. They don’t know one another yet, but mysteriously, they are connected by magic. They’ve each been given two wishes. What would you wish for? Casey yearns for a dog. Zoe wants her parents to stop fighting. Billy has always wanted a unicorn. Bug would love a Lego kit, a really complicated one. And do their wishes come true?
Uprising
by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Lidia’s life is turned upside down when the German army invades Poland in 1939. She and her family return to Warsaw, where they endure harsh restrictions and watch their world crumble. Twelve-year-old Lidia becomes inspired by the resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto and joins the underground resistance. She smuggles food and weapons, and eventually joins the Polish nationalists in the Warsaw city uprising.
New for Teens
Money Out Loud
by Berna Anat
illustrated, deeply unserious guide to money, Berna Anat freaks out her immigrant parents by doing the unthinkable: talking about money.
It’s time to finally learn about all the financial stuff that always felt too confusing:
- How to budget, save, and invest
- How our traumas shape our most toxic money habits, and how to create new patterns
- How to build wealth in a system designed to keep us broke
- How to use money to fund our biggest dreams.
Break to You
by Neal Shusterman
Adriana knows that if she can manage to keep her head down for the next seven months, she might be able to get through her sentence in the juvenile detention center. Thankfully, she’s allowed to keep her journal, where she writes down her most private thoughts.
But one day she opens her journal and discovers that her thoughts are no longer so private. A boy who lives on the other side of the gender-divided detention center has read her writings—and has written back. A boy who sparks a fire in her to respond.
This fast-paced, highly compelling novel exposes what life is like in detention—and reveals the hearts of two teens who are forced to live in desperate circumstances.
New for Adults
The Second Fifty: Answers to the 7 Big Questions of Midlife and Beyond
by Deb Whitman
Americans are now living decades longer than previous generations. These added years offer exciting possibilities but also raise crucial questions. Author Whitman provides a roadmap for navigating … and celebrating … the second half of life. Drawing on stories from her own family and people across the country, interviews with experts, and cutting-edge research, she shares insights on brain health, contributions and concerns of an older workforce, caregiving, financing retirement, and more.
Here are practical steps to help create a better second fifty for ourselves. She also calls for urgently needed changes that would make it easier for every American to enjoy a vital and meaningful second half of life.
The Life Impossible
by Matt Haig
When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook, and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed.
