Curbside Check-out continues to be available from both the Latham and Peabody Libraries. Requests may be made via email and/or phone or through our online catalog, OPALS, with pickup and return in the boxes on the back porch of Latham Library. If we do not have what you are looking for, you can submit an interlibrary loan request.
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New Books for Adults – April 2024
Fiction Family Family, by Laurie Frankel / Help Wanted, by Adelle Waldman / Table for Two, by Amor Towles / Wellness, by Nathan Hill / Historical Fiction James, by Percival Everett / The Frozen River, by Ariel Lawhon / Science … Continue reading →
New Books for Adults – Feb/Mar 2024
Fiction The Collected Regrets of Clover, by Mikki Brammer/ The Curse of Pietro Houdini, by Derek B. Miller/ Evil Eye, by Etaf Rum/ Fourteen Days, a collaborative novel edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston/ The General and Julia, by … Continue reading →
New Books for Children & Teens, January and February 2024
Picture Books Can Bears Ski? / Raymond Antrobus The Walk / Winsome Bingham Puppy Bus / Drew Brockington Nana in the Country / Lauren Castillo Kindness is Cooler, Mrs. Ruler / Margery Cuyler The Baddies / Julia Donaldson Night in … Continue reading →
New Books for Adults, January 2024
Fiction Legends & Lattes / Travis Baldree The Wonder of it All / Barbara Taylor Bradford (large print) The Waters / Bonnie Jo Campbell The Running Grave / Robert Galbraith Roman Stories / Jhumpa Lahiri The Wildest Sun / Asha … Continue reading →
New Books for Kids and Teens, December 2023
Picture Books How to Write a Poem / Kwame Alexander Lila Greer, teacher of the year / Andrea Beaty Stranded!: a mostly true story from Iceland / Ævar Þór Benediktsson We are starlings: inside the mesmerizing magic of a murmuration … Continue reading →
New Books for Adults, December 2023
Fiction The Little Liar / Mitch Albom The First Ladies / Marie Benedict The New Naturals / Gabriel Bump Command and Control (a Jack Ryan novel) / Marc Cameron Monica / Daniel Clowes (graphic novel) Resurrection Walk / Michael Connelly … Continue reading →
New Books for Children & Teens, October / November 2023
Picture Books What a Map Can Do / Gabrielle Balkan How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? / Mac Barnett If I was a Horse / Sophie Blackall Serengeti: plains of grass / Leslie Bulion Lawrence & Sophia / Doreen … Continue reading →
New Books for Adults – November 2023
Fiction America Fantastica, by Tim O’Brien / The Bee Sting, by Paul Murray / Brooklyn Crime Novel, by Jonathan Lethem / Blackouts, by Justin Torres / The End of Drum-Time, by Hanna Pylvainen / The Maniac, by Benjamin Labatut / … Continue reading →
New Books for Adults – September-October 2023
Fiction The Five-Star Weekend, by Elin Hilderbrand / Happy Place, by Emily Henry / The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBridge / The Wren, The Wren, by Anne Enright / Historical Fiction Act of Oblivion, by Robert Harris … Continue reading →
New Books for Children & Teens, September 2023
Picture Books You Go First / Ariel Bernstein The Red Tin Box / Matthew Burgess The Name Jar / Yangsook Choi Welcome to the World / Julia Donaldson Tiny Barbarian Conquers the Kraken! / Ame Dyckman Penny & Pip / … Continue reading →