Allen County Public Library News – December 14, 2022

The library building is open to the public on Monday through Thursday, 9:00 am – 7:00 pm, and Friday and Saturday from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm.

Due to the busy holiday schedule, no children’s programs are scheduled for the last two weeks of the month. Regular children’s programs will resume on January 3, 2023.

New books for children include:  The Wise Men Who Found Christmas by Ramond Arroyo, The Christmas Princess by Mariah Carey, What’s UP, Pup? by Kersten Hamilton, Love, Escargot by Pashka Slater, The Justice League Saves Christmas! by Steve Foxe and Pernille Orum, Thomas and Friends Meet the Engines: An Encyclopedia of the Thomas and Friends Characters by Julie March, The Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher, The Sour Grape by Jory John and Pete Oswald, A Spark in the Dark by Pam Fong, The Lost Library by Jess McGeachin, My Little Bento Box: Colors, Shapes, Numbers by Insight Kids, Scooby-Doo! Scooby’s Scary Christmas! by Random House, The Lights That Dance in the Night by Yuval Zommer, and The Little Toymaker by Cat Min.

Older children will enjoy: The Bridge Battle by Jacqueline Davies, How I Met My Monster (Goosebumps Most Wanted #3) by R.L. Stine, Outside Where by Adam Borba, Paws: Mindy Makes Some Space by Michele Assarasakorn and Nathan Fairbairn, Minecraft: Epic Inventions by Mojan AB and The Official Minecraft Team, Africana: An Encyclopedia of an Amazing Continent by Kim Chakanetsam, and Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adam’s Photographs Reveal about the Japanese American incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge and Lauren Tamaki.

New books on CD include: Beasts of the Earth by James Wade, The Perfect Assassin by James Patterson, Livid by Patricia Cornwell, Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng, The Do-Over by Lynn Painter, No Plan B by Lee and Andrew Child, Santa’s Little Yelpers by David Rosenfelt, Beyond the Wand by Tom Felton, and The Seven Circles by Chelsey Luger & Thosh Collins.

New books on the adult fiction shelf include: My Policeman by Bethan Roberts, Maybe Now by Colleen Hoover, Flight by Lynn Steger Strong, The Family Game by Catherine Steadman, Cradles of the Reich by Jennifer Coburn, The Couple at the Table by Sophie Hannah, Circle of Vengeance by Ramona Richards, The Call of the Wrens by Jennifer Walsh, The Break by Katie Sise, Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover, Godmersham Park by Gill Hornby, To Win a Prince by Toni Shiloh, Sundown by Susan May Warren, Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan, All the Broken Places by John Boyne, A Wish for Winter by Viola Shipman, Peril in Paris by Rhys Bowen, and Please Join Us by Catherine McKenzie.

New books on the adult non-fiction shelf include: Faith Still Moves Mountains by Harris Faulkner, Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America by Cody Deenan, The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves by Alexandra Horowitz, The Way Home by Kardea Brown, Toil & Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult by Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson, The Stone Age: 60 Years of the Rolling Stones by Lesley-Ann Jones, The Last Hill: The Epic Story of A Ranger Battalion and the Battle that Defined WWII by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, The Ashland Tragedy: Murder, a Mob & a Militia in Kentucky by H.E.” Joe” Castle & J.M. Huff, and The Great British Baking Show Favorite Flavors by Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith & The Bakers.

To get a free library card, call 270-237-3861 or stop by the library with a photo I.D. and a recently postmarked piece of mail. Then you’ll be able to check out or download library materials. Also, if there’s a particular book, movie, or music artist you would like added to the collection, please let us know. We’ll do our best to fulfill your requests.

2022-12-14T15:42:21+00:00