November 24, 2025 - New Arrivals

Adult Fiction

I Died for Beauty by Amanda Flower.

Amherst, 1857. The Dickinson family braves one of the worst winters in New England's history. Trains are snowbound and boats are frozen in the harbor. Emily Dickinson and her maid, Willa Noble, have never witnessed anything like it. As Amherst families attempt to keep their homes warm, fears of fire abound. These worries prove not to be unfounded as a blaze breaks out just down the street from the Dickinson in Kelley Square, the Irish community in Amherst, and a young couple is killed, leaving behind their young child. Their deaths appear to be a tragic accident, but Emily finds herself harboring suspicions there may be more to the fire than meets the eye. Emily and Willa must withstand the frigid temperatures and discover a killer lurking among the deadly frost.

Dark Mafia Vows by Kayla Mason.

Ginevra Bianchi is nothing like the spoiled billionaire princess and politician's fiancée I thought she'd be. She doesn't bow, doesn't break, and that smart mouth of hers is going to get her into serious trouble--my kind of trouble. Her family owes me, and I always collect. An arranged marriage to the woman I can't stop thinking about? I'll take that deal. The more she fights, the more I want to break her, make her bend to my will. I see the fear in her gaze when I get too close, but I see the fire too. Now, I don't just want her submission. I want all of her. She doesn't understand--I always win. And when it comes to her, I won't stop until she's mine in every way that matters. She thinks she can escape me, but what she doesn't realize is, I'd burn the whole world down to keep her--and protect our unborn child at any cost.

His Perfect Prey by Lee Savino.

The rules of the Hunt: The prey will have a ten-minute head start to run and hide. At the signal, the hunter will enter the woods. The Hunt has begun. If the prey isn't captured before midnight, she gets $10,000. If she makes it until dawn, she gets $100,000. But if the hunter catches her, she's his for the night. There's one final, secret rule only the hunter knows: what the hunter catches, he keeps. His prey will become his elita, his chosen. She will be his. Forever. Let the hunt begin.

Adult Non-Fiction

Something Beautiful Happened by Yvette Manessis Corporon.

Yvette Manessis Corporon grew up listening to her grandmother's stories about how the people of the small Greek island Erikousa hid a Jewish family--a tailor named Savvas and his daughters--from the Nazis during World War II. Nearly 2,000 Jews from that area died in the concentration camps, but even though everyone on Erikousa knew Savvas and his family were hiding on the island, no one ever gave them up, and the family survived the war. Years later, Yvette couldn't get the story of the Jewish tailor out of her head. She decided to track down the man's descendants--and eventually found them in Israel. Their tearful reunion was proof to her that evil doesn't always win. But just days after she made the connection, her cousin's child was gunned down in a parking lot in Kansas, a victim of a Neo-Nazi out to inflict as much harm as he could. Despite her best hopes, she was forced to confront the fact that seventy years after the Nazis were defeated, remainders of their hateful legacy still linger today. As Yvette and her family wrestled with the tragedy in their own lives, the lessons she learned from the survivors of the Holocaust helped her confront and make sense of the present.

Source Code by Bill Gates.

Everyone is programmed a little differently, and Bill Gates' unique insight led to business triumphs that are now widely known: the twenty-year-old who dropped out of Harvard to start a software company that became an industry giant and changed the way the world works and lives; the billionaire many times over who turned his attention to philanthropic pursuits to address climate change, global health, and U.S. education. Source Code is not about Microsoft or the Gates Foundation or the future of technology. It's the human, personal story of how Bill Gates became who he is today: his childhood, his early passions and pursuits. It's the story of his principled grandmother and ambitious parents, his first deep friendships and the sudden death of his best friend; of his struggles to fit in and his discovery of a world of coding and computers in the dawn of a new era; of embarking in his early teens on a path that took him from midnight escapades at a nearby computer center to his college dorm room, where he sparked a revolution that would change the world.

Easy/Juvenile/Young Adult/Graphic Novel

Llama Llama Gives Thanks by Anna Dewdney.  E

It's Thanksgiving time for Llama Llama and his family! That means yummy foods and autumn leaves and being thankful for everything from pumpkin pies to blue skies. Thanksgiving may only come once year, but in Llama's family, giving thanks is always here!

The Great Thanksgiving Escape by Mark Fearing.  E

It's another Thanksgiving at Grandma's. Gavin is ready for a day of boredom, but his cousin Rhonda has a different idea: escape from the kids' room and head for the swing set in the backyard! Gavin isn't so sure, especially when they encounter vicious guard dogs, a hallway full of aunts, and worse yet, the great wall of butts! Will they manage to avoid the obstacles and find some fun before turkey time, or will they be captured before they've had a taste of freedom?

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