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Author
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When tens of thousands of owls descend on her hometown library, rending and tearing at anyone foolish enough to step outside, Madigan Purdy, tasked with keeping her students safe, seeks inspiration from her favorite childhood book, The Silent Queen, to find a solution to their dilemma.
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
132 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a villain unleashes chaos at the library, the Teen Titans get scattered into the library books and must first figure out what happened, then find each other, then find the real Jump City--all while punching, posing and reading.
Author
Series
A Library Lover's mystery volume 14
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Briar Creek Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a popular library conference in Chicago to hear book restoration specialist Brooklyn Wainwright give a keynote address. After the lecture, Lindsey looks under her seat and finds a tote bag containing a first edition of Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock. Brooklyn determines the novel is one of a kind and quite valuable, so Lindsey and...
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
248 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Lula Dean, trying to rid public libraries of "pornographic" books, starts her own lending library in front of her home, Lindsay, the daughter of Lula's arch nemesis, sneaks in nightly, secretly filling it with banned books wrapped in "wholesome" dust jackets, changing the lives of those who borrow them in unexpected ways.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen-children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains...
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Children's Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 Wonderbook (1 volume (unpaged)) : digital, color illustrations ; 29 cm ; 1 attached digital audio player.
Language
English
Description
Stacey’s favorite day of the week is Thursday, when the whole class goes to the library and she gets to lose herself in her beloved books.
On one of these special days, Stacey discovers that a new student named Julie has trouble reading in English, so they begin sharing books and stories to practice. Soon more students start to join them.
Books take the group on magical adventures and reveal other worlds and cultures—but best of all, they bring...
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First graphic novel edition.
Physical Desc
248 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"--