Galax-Carroll Regional Library

Carroll County Public Library New Items

APRIL 2023

ADULT FICTION

New Books Shelf at the Carroll County Public Library

  • “Murder in the Storybook Cottage,” by Ellery Adams
  • “The War Librarian,” by Addison Armstrong
  • “When We Were Birds,” by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
  • “Jackie & Me,” by Louis Bayard
  • “Earth’s the Right Place for Love,” by Elizabeth Berg
  • “Don’t Cry for Me,” by Daniel Black
  • “Light to the Hills,” by Bonnie Blaylock
  • “All That is Hidden,” by Rhys Bowen
  • “Hiss & Tell,” by Rita Mae Brown
  • “The Friendship Breakup,” by Annie Cathryn
  • “Don’t Let Go,” by Harlan Coben
  • “I Will Find You,” by Harlan Coben
  • “Dawn on a Distant Shore,” by Sara Donati
  • “Sourdough Creek,” by Caroline Fyffe
  • “Red Queen,” by Juan Gómez-Jurado
  • “Once Upon a Buggy,” by Shelley Shepard Gray
  • “Mercy Street,” by Jennifer Haigh
  • “Smolder,” by Laurell K. Hamilton
  • “A Separate Country,” by Robert Hicks
  • “Starry Montana Sky,” by Debra Holland
  • “Stormy Montana Sky,” by Debra Holland
  • “Wild Montana Sky,” by Debra Holland
  • “Nothing But the Truth,” by Holly James
  • “The Chosen: Book One: I Have Called You by Name,” by Jerry B. Jenkins
  • “Desolation Creek,” by William W. Johnstone
  • “Age of Vice, by Deepti Kapoor
  • “The Stillwater Girls,” by Minka Kent
  • “Death Walk at Acoma,” by Gregory D. Kincaid
  • “Notes on an Execution,” by Danya Kukafka
  • “So Shall You Reap,” by Donna Leon
  • “The Wish List,” by Michelle Major
  • “Daphne,” by Josh Malerman
  • “Shadow Sister,” by Lindsay Marcott
  • “The Passengers,” by John Marrs
  • “The Librarian Spy,” by Madeline Martin
  • “Irish Coffee Murder,” by Leslie Meier
  • “On the Line,” by Fern Michaels
  • “What We Found in Hallelujah,” by Vanessa Miller
  • “Homecoming,” by Kate Morton
  • “Abiding Conviction,” by Stephen M. Murphy
  • “Wolves of Eden,” by Kevin McCarthy
  • “48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister,” by Joyce Carol Oates
  • “Countdown,” by James Patterson
  • “Santa’s Little Yelpers,” by David Rosenfelt
  • “Appalachian Daughter,” by Mary Jane Salyers
  • “Loyalty,” by Lisa Scottolini
  • “Fields of Bounty,” by Lauraine Snelling
  • “In the Upper Country,” by Kai Thomas
  • “The White Lady,” by Jacqueline Winspear
  • “Murphy’s Revenge,” by Ethan J. Wolfe
  • “The Bark of Zorro,” by Kathleen Y’Barbo

LARGE PRINT FICTION

  • “Storm Watch,” by C. J. Box
  • “Maggie’s Fire,” by Elizabeth Clubb
  • “My Darkest Prayer,” by S. A. Cosby
  • “Critical Threat,” by Lynette Eason
  • “To the Color: A Novel of the Battalion of St. Patrick Book 2,” by Ray Herbeck, Jr.
  • “Engaging Deception,” by Regina Jennings
  • “Bad Cree,” by Jessica Johns
  • “The Matchmaker’s Gift,” by Lynda Cohen Loigman
  • “The Sister Effect,” by Susan Mallery
  • “The Librarian Spy: A Novel of World War II,” by Madeline Martin
  • “Marmee,” by Sarah Miller
  • “In a House of Lies,” by Ian Rankin
  • “Calypso, Corpses, and Cooking,” by Raquel V. Reyes
  • “The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks,” by Shauna Robinson
  • “Never Name the Dead: A Mud Sawpole Mystery,” by Donna M. Rowell
  • “The Bookshop of Secrets,” by Mollie Rushmeyer
  • “Defending Alice: A Novel of Love and Race in the Roaring Twenties,” by Richard Stratton
  • “The Penitent Gun,” by Rod Timanus
  • “A Match in the Making,” by Jen Turano

ADULT NON-FICTION

  • “Haunted in America: True Ghost Stories from the Best of Leslie Rule Collection,” by Leslie Rule
  • “The New Smart: How Nurturing Creativity Will Help Children Thrive,” by Terry Roberts
  • “Emotionally Resilient Tweens and Teens: Empowering Your Kids to Navigate Bullying, Teasing, and Social Exclusion,” by Kim John Payne
  • “Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders,” by Kathryn Miles
  • “A Tangled Web: A Cyberstalker, a Deadly Obsession, and the Twisting Path to Justice,” by Leslie Rule
  • “The Call of the Wild + Free: Reclaiming Wonder in Your Child’s Education,” by Ainsley Arment
  • “Electrify Everything: Ten Years in the Climate Fight,” by Julian Bell
  • “Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction is Hijacking Our Kids-and How to Break the Trance,” by Nicholas Kardaras
  • “Go for No! Yes is the Destination, No is How You Get There,” by Richard Fenton
  • “1000 Hours Outside: Activities to Match Screen Time with Green Time,” by Ginny Yurich
  • “Beyond Winning: Smart Parenting in a Toxic Sports Environment,” by Kim John Payne
  • “Microadventures: Local Discoveries for Great Escapes,” by Alastair Humphreys

LARGE PRINT NON-FICTION

  • “Spare,” by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
  • “The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill,” by Brad Meltzer

REFERENCE

  • “Digital Literacy: Skills & Strategies”

ADULT BIOGRAPHIES

  • “In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss,” by Amy Bloom
  • “A Woman’s Story,” by Annie Ernaux
  • “Spare,” by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
  • “The Lives of Brian: A Memoir,” by Brian Johnson
  • “Inventing Joy,” by Joy Mangano
  • “Dirt: Growing Strong Roots in What Makes the Broken Beautiful,” by Mary Marantz
  • “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir,” by Matthew Perry
  • “Fear Gone Wild: A Story of Mental Illness, Suicide, and Hope Through Loss,” by Kayla Stoecklein

BOOKS ON CD

  • “Worthy Opponents,” by Danielle Steel

DVDS

  • “3:10 to Yuma”
  • “All About Steve”
  • “Autumn in New York”
  • “Black Swan”
  • “The Blair Witch Project: Blair Witch: Double Feature”
  • “The Carol Burnett Show: The Lost Episodes”
  • “The Carol Burnett Show: Exclusive Bonus Features: The Lost Episodes”
  • “The Carol Burnett Show: Treasures from the Vault: The Lost Episodes”
  • “Bride of Chucky”
  • “Curse of Chucky”
  • “Seed of Chucky”
  • “Collateral”
  • “The Day After Tomorrow”
  • “Death at a Funeral”
  • “The Deer Hunter”
  • “Derailed”
  • “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”
  • “Don’t Worry Darling”
  • “Edge of Darkness”
  • “Eight Below”
  • “Empire of the Sun”
  • “Enemy at the Gates”
  • “Fallen”
  • “Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer”
  • “2 Fast 2 Furious”
  • “The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift”
  • “Fast & Furious”
  • “Fast Five”
  • “Fast & Furious 6”
  • “Fast & Furious 7”
  • “Finding Forrester”
  • “Firewall”
  • “Fracture”
  • “Friday Night Lights”
  • “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past”
  • “Gone in Sixty Seconds”
  • “Hollywoodland”
  • “I Love You Phillip Morris”
  • “In the Bedroom”
  • “Intolerable Cruelty”
  • “Invictus”
  • “Just Cause”
  • “K-19: The Widowmaker”
  • “The Last Castle”
  • “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”
  • “Little Miss Sunshine”
  • “Magnolia”
  • “A Man Called Otto”
  • “Minority Report”
  • “Mission Impossible II”
  • “My Friend Dahmer”
  • “National Treasure”
  • “No Country for Old Men”
  • “Out of the Shadows”
  • “The Pledge”
  • “Public Enemies”
  • “The Reader”
  • “Righteous Kill”
  • “The Ring”
  • “Robin Hood”
  • “Scream”
  • “Seven Pounds”
  • “The Skeleton Key”
  • “Somethings Gotta Give”
  • “Space Cowboys”
  • “Spirit Rider”
  • “Spy Game”
  • “There Will Be Blood”
  • “Thirteen Days”
  • “Time Bandits”
  • “Transit 17”
  • “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent”
  • “We Own the Night”

KIDS DVDS

  • “The Angel Doll”
  • “Big Ideas”
  • “Brother Future”
  • “Doc McStuffins Mobile Clinic”
  • “Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Butterfly Ball”
  • “Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Easter Adventures”
  • “Dora the Explorer: Dora’s Halloween”
  • “Oliver!”

TEEN NON-FICTION

  • “Spy x Family 1,” by Tatsuya Endo
  • “The Croaking Volume 1: At First Flight,” by Megan Grey
  • “Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection Volume 1”
  • “Lore Olympus Volume 1,” by Rachel Smythe
  • “Lore Olympus Volume 2,” by Rachel Smythe
  • “Lore Olympus Volume 3,” by Rachel Smythe

TEEN FICTION

  • “Taste,” by Cheryl Kahn
  • “Stars and Smoke,” by Marie Lu
  • “The Island,” by Natasha Preston
  • “The Cartographers,” by Amy Zhang

KIDS NON-FICTION

  • “Guide to Sea Monsters,” by Carrie Gleason
  • “Guide to Vampires,” by Carrie Gleason
  • “Guide to Werewolves,” by Carrie Gleason
  • “Guide to Zombies,” by Carrie Gleason
  • “Programmers: With STEM Projects for Kids,” by Karen Bush Gibson
  • “Artificial Intelligence,” by Dinah Williams
  • “Weird but True! World 2023: Incredible Facts, Awesome Photos, and Weird Wonders-For This Year and Beyond!”
  • “Lab Analysis,” by Valerie Bodden
  • “Medical Examination,” by Valerie Bodden
  • “Mind of a Criminal,” by Valerie Bodden
  • “Disasters by the Numbers: A Book of Infographics,” by Steve Jenkins
  • “Natural Disasters,” by Claire Watts
  • “Recycle and Play: Awesome DIY Zero-Waste Projects to Make for Kids: 30+ Fun Learning Activities for Ages 3-6,” by Agnes Hsu
  • “Climate Change,” by John Woodward
  • “Timelines of Science,” by Leo Ball
  • “The Stuff Between the Stars: How Vera Rubin Discovered Most of the Universe,” by Sandra Nickel
  • “The Skies Above My Eyes,” by Charlotte Guillain
  • “The Elements,” by Adrian Dingle
  • “The Street Beneath My Feet,” by Charlotte Guillain
  • “Ocean,” by Miranda MacQuitty
  • “Volcano & Earthquake,” by Susanna Van Rose
  • “Eyewitness Weather”
  • “Dinosaur,” by David Lambert
  • “Summertime Sleepers: Animals That Estivate,” by Melissa Stewart
  • “Secrets of the Sea: The Story of Jeanne Power, Revolutionary Marine Scientist,” by Evan Griffith
  • “Weird But True! Animals: 300 Outrageous Facts About Wacky Wildlife”
  • “What If You Could Spy Like a Narwhal!? Explore the Superpowers of Amazing Animals,” by Sandra Markle
  • “What If You Could Sniff Like a Shark? Explore the Superpowers of Ocean Animals,” by Sandra Markle
  • “Evelyn the Adventurous Entomologist: The True Story of a World-Traveling Bug Hunter,” by Christine Evans
  • “Ultimate Bugopedia,” by Darlyne Murawski
  • “Shark,” by Miranda MacQuitty
  • “Tracking Tortoises: The Mission to Save a Galápagos Giant,” by Kate Messner
  • “On the Hunt with Crocodiles,” by Sandra Markle
  • “On the Hunt with Eagles,” by Sandra Markle
  • “On the Hunt with Great White Sharks,” by Sandra Markle
  • “On the Hunt with Grizzly Bears,” by Sandra Markle
  • “On the Hunt with Lions,” by Sandra Markle
  • “On the Hunt with Owls,” by Sandra Markle
  • “On the Hunt with Polar Bears,” by Sandra Markle
  • “On the Hunt with Wolves,” by Sandra Markle
  • “Cat,” by Juliet Clutton-Brock
  • “Mimic Makers: Biomimicry Inventors Inspired by Nature,” by Kristen Nordstrom
  • “Human Body Learning Lab: Take an Inside Tour How Your Anatomy Works,” by Betty Choi
  • “Pandemic Planet: How Diseases Impact Our World,” by Anna Claybourne
  • “A Life Electric: The Story of Nikola Tesla,” by Azadeh Westergaard
  • “The Big, Fun Kids Baking Book”
  • “Code Breaker, Spy Hunter: How Elizebeth Friedman Changed the Course of Two World Wars,” by Laurie Wallmark
  • “How to Build LEGO Dinosaurs,” by Hannah Dolan
  • “The LEGO Ideas Book,” by Hannah Dolan
  • “LEGO Holiday Ideas,” by Elizabeth Dowsett
  • “LEGO Awesome Ideas,” by Daniel Lipkowitz
  • “How to Build LEGO Cars,” by Hannah Dolan
  • “LEGO Star Wars Ideas Book,” by Hannah Dolan
  • “LEGO Play Book: Ideas to Bring Your Bricks to Life,” by Daniel Lipkowitz
  • “Wonders of the World,” by Tom Jackson
  • “The Great Chicago Fire: Rising from the Ashes,” by Kate Hannigan
  • “The Drawing Book for Kids: 365 Daily Things to Draw: Step by Step”
  • “Molly and the Mathematical Mysteries: Ten Interactive Adventures in Mathematical Wonderland,” by Eugenia Cheng
  • “A Backyard Birding Adventure: What’s in Your Yard?” by Kermit Cummings
  • “The World Around Me,” by Charlotte Guillain
  • “Nellie vs. Elizabeth: Two Daredevil Journalists’ Breakneck Race Around the World,” by Kate Hannigan
  • “Abraham Lincoln Comes Home,” by Robert Burleigh
  • “Odd Boy Out,” by Don Brown

EXPLORATION BACKPACKS

  • “Bugs and Blooms Backpack”

KIDS FICTION

  • “Follow Me & Haunt Me,” by K. R. Alexander
  • “The Little Grey Men,” by B B
  • “Los tipos malos en misión improbable,” by Aaron Blabey
  • “Clover the Bunny,” by Jane Clarke
  • “Daisy the Kitten,” by Jane Clarke
  • “Peanut the Mouse,” by Jane Clarke
  • “Posy the Puppy,” by Jane Clarke
  • “Pumpkin the Hamster,” by Jane Clarke
  • “Nutmeg the Guinea Pig,” by Jane Clarke
  • “Danger on the Dig,” by Lauren Magaziner
  • “The Great Bear,” by David Robertson
  • “The Barren Grounds,” by David Robertson
  • “Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Secret Pitch,” by Donald J. Sobol
  • “Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Dead Eagles,” by Donald J. Sobol
  • “Encyclopedia Brown Boy Detective,” by Donald J. Sobol
  • “Encyclopedia Brown Finds the Clues,” by Donald J. Sobol
  • “Encyclopedia Brown Gets His Man,” by Donald J. Sobol
  • “Encyclopedia Brown Keeps the Peace,” by Donald J. Sobol
  • “Encyclopedia Brown Lends a Hand,” by Donald J. Sobol
  • “Encyclopedia Brown Shows the Way,” by Donald J. Sobol
  • “Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All,” by Donald J. Sobol
  • “Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,” by Donald J. Sobol
  • “Encyclopedia Brown Saves the Day,” by Donald J. Sobol
  • “Liar, Liar, Head on Fire,” by Vera Strange
  • “Part of Your Nightmare,” by Very Strange

PICTURE BOOKS

  • “The Sandwich Swap,” by Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah with Kelly DiPucchio
  • “The Wolf, the Duck & the Mouse,” by Mac Barnett
  • “Noisy Night,” by Mac Barnett
  • “Caves,” by Nell Cross Beckerman
  • “Growing Up,” by Mike Berenstain
  • “Farmhouse,” by Sophie Blackall
  • “La oruga muy impaciente,” by Ross Burach
  • “The Library Fish Learns to Read,” by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
  • “Eric Loves Animals: (Just Like You!)” by Eric Carle
  • “I (Heart) Grandma with The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” by Gabriella DeGennaro
  • “I (Heart) Grandpa with The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” by Gabriella DeGennaro
  • “Never Forget Eleanor,” by Jason June
  • “Three Hens, a Peacock, and the Enormous Egg,” by Lester L. Laminack
  • “Uma Wimple Charts Her House,” by Reif Larsen
  • “Paper Mice,” by Megan Wagner Lloyd
  • “Chester Van Chime Who Forgot How to Rhyme,” by Avery Monsen
  • “Palace of Books,” by Patricia Polacco
  • “Octopuses Have Zero Bones,” by Anne Richardson
  • “Luna’s Yum Yum Dim Sum,” by Natasha Yim
  • “What to Do with a Stick,” by Jane Yolen
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