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“I cannot live without books.”

—Thomas Jefferson


New Books in April

Adult Fiction
As the World Churns : Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery with Recipes – Tamar Myers
Curse of the Spellman’s – Lisa Lutz
Fear & Yoga in New Jersey – Debra Galant
First Patient – Michael Palmer
Gathering – Annie Enright
Hell’s Bay – James W. Hall
Hollywood Crows – Joseph Wambaugh
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen – Susan Gregg Gilmore
Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout
Ten–Year Nap – Meg Wolitzer
World Made by Hand – James Howard Kunstle
Third Angel – Alice Hoffman
Buckingham Palace Gardens – Anne Perry
Water’s Lovely – Ruth Rendell
Winter Study – Nevada Barr
Degrees of Separation: A Jessie Arnold Mystery – Sue Henry
Miracle at Speedy Motors – Alexander McCall Smith
Cheating at Solitaire: A Gregor Demarkian Novel – Jane Haddam
Compulsion: An Alex Delaware Novel – Jonathan Kellerman
Ginseng Hunter – Jeff Talarigo
Girl With No Shadow – Joanne Harris
People of the Weeping Eye – Michael Gear
Remember Me? – Sophie Kinsella
Ancient – R. A. Salvatore
Belong to Me – Marisa De Los Santos
Guilty – Karen Robards


Adult Nonfiction

Built by Animals : The Natural History of Animal Architecture – Michael H. Hansell
Fidelity – Grace Paley
Gotcha Capitalism : How Hidden Fees Rip You Off Every Day –
And What You Can Do About It
– Bob Sullivan
Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human – Elizabeth Hess
Reconcialition : Islam, Democracy, and the West – Benazir Bhutto
Unaccustomed : Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri

Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: and Other Small Acts of Liberation – Elizabeth Berg
Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life – Bill McKibben
Italy’s Sorrow: A Year of War: 1944-1945 – James Holland
Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James,
and Hemingway
– Joyce Carol Oates
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel – Michio Kaku

Juvenile Fiction
Book of a Thousand Days – Shannon Hale
Crooked Kind of Perfect – Linda Urban
Elephant Run – Roland Smith
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat – Lynne Jonell
Glitch in Sleep – John Hulme
Goose and Duck – Jean Craighea George
Home of the Brave – Katherine Applegate
Little Blue Truck – Alice Schertle
Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf: A Year Told Through Stuff – Jennifer L. Holm
Minnie and Moo and the Haunted Sweater – Denys Cazet
Old House – Pamela Dune Edwards
Robot Dreams – Sarah Varon
Schooled – Gordon Korman
True Meaning of Smekday – Adam Rex
Wednesday Wars – Gary D. Schmidt
When Dinosaurs Came With Everything – Elise Broach

Juvenile Non-Fiction
Beowulf: A Hero’s Tale Retold – James Rumford
Brook Book: Exploring the Smallest Streams – Jim Arnosky
Down-To-Earth Guide to Global Warming – Laurie David
Heroes for Civil Rights – David A. Adler
Many Rides of Paul Revere – James Giblin
May I Pet Your Dog?: The How-To Guide For Kids Meetings Dogs (And Dogs Meeting Kids) – Stephanie Calmenson
Owen & Mzee: The Language of Friendship – Isabella Hatkoff
Remember Valley Forge: Patriots, Tories, and Spies Tell Their Stories – Thomas B. Allen
Skyscraper – Lynn Curlee
Who Was First?: Discovering the Americas – Russell Freedman
Woe is I Jr. : A Younger Grammarphobes Guide to Better English in Plain English
Patricia T. O’Conner

Juvenile Biography
Down the Colorado: The Story of John Wesley Powell, The One-Armed Explorer
Deborah Kogan Ray
House of a Million Pets – Ann Hodgman

Young Adult Fiction
Extras – Scott Westerfeld


Young Adult Biography
Real Benedict Arnold – Jim Murphy
Up Close: Elvis Presley: A Twentieth Century Life – Wilborn Hampton