Hello readers!
We’re quickly approaching March Break, which means it’s time to come by the library and check out something to read as you sit on a beach or your couch or anywhere that is not here. May I suggest one of the new books listed below? You can click on the cover to go to that books record in our catalog. Happy reading!
We’ve added a bunch of great new books to the Calarco Library fiction (and graphic novels!) sections in December. Completely new titles, sequels to popular stories, mythology mashups, podcast spin-offs – there’s a little bit of everything. You can browse many of them below, or take a look through the Calarco Library Catalog. Clicking on a cover will take you to the record for that book.
Hello readers!
We went on a bit of a tear, adding over 50 new books to our fiction collection in the past month. You can browse many of them below, or take a look through the Calarco Library Catalog. Clicking on a cover will take you to the record for that book.
Keep an eye out for these new and noteworthy books.
Fiction
Fates and Furies -Lauren Groff
A Window Opens -Elisabeth Egan
The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories -Anthony Marra
Everybody Rise -Stephanie Clifford
Undermajordomo Minor -Patrick deWitt
Girl with a Pearl Earring -Tracy Chevalier
Animal Dreams -Barbara Kingsolver
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena -Anthony Marra
The Sportswriter -Richard Ford
YA Fiction
The Invasion of the Tearling -Erika Johansen (sequel to The Queen of the Tearling)
All the Bright Places -Jennifer Niven
The Rose Society -Marie Lu (sequel to The Young Elites)
The Rest of Us Just Live Here -Patrick Ness
The Sleeper and the Spindle -Neil Gaiman
Another Day -David Levithan (companion to Every Day)
Darius & Twig -Walter Dean Myers
Fairest: Levana’s Story -Marissa Meyer (a Lunar Chronicles book)
More Happy Than Not -Adam Silvera
Everything, Everything -Nicola Yoon
Non-Fiction
Ordinary Light: A Memoir -Tracy K. Smith
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsburg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War -Steve Sheinkin
The Billion Dollar Spy -David E. Hoffman
I’m Fine -Emily Wang (stories by one of Hopkins’ very own!)
Fire Shut Up in My Bones -Charles M. Blow (memoir)
Kafka: The Decisive Years -Reiner Stach
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir -Bill Bryson
Graphic Novels
The Calarco Library has kept busy this spring finding new books for the Hopkins community. Check out the list of recent editions below or visit the library catalog to find a specific title.
*A friendly reminder: Calarco Library rents Kindles to staff, faculty and students alike with full access to our 600+ e-book collection. If you would like to check out a Kindle, stop by the library at any time!
Keep an eye out for these new and noteworthy books.
Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future -by A.S. King
Alan Turing: The Enigma -by Andrew Hodges
(the book that inspired the upcoming film The Imitation Game)
Midwinter Blood -by Marcus Sedgwick
The Eye of Minds -by James Dashner
The Rithmatist -by Brandon Sanderson
The Children Act -by Ian McEwan
The Strange Library -by Haruki Murakami
Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite -by Suki Kim
My Life as a Foreign Country -by Brian Turner
The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books -by Azar Nafisi
Welcome to New Books News, a semi-regular column featuring new additions to the Calarco Library. This fall, we are highlighting some popular new items as well as books that should be popular, but aren’t getting very much play.
For a full list of new books, please visit Calarco’s What’s New LibGuide.
Fiction
The Goblin Emperor -Katherine Addison
Need convincing? Read Mr. Gette’s book review.
The Magician’s Land -Lev Grossman
EVERYONE thinks this book is the best installment in Grossman’s trilogy. Need convincing? Read the NYT review.
A sequel to Ancillary Justice (which won all the awards).
John Green gave Lockhart’s newest book his stamp of approval. Last time Green did that, it was Eleanor & Park. The guys is usually right.
Station Eleven -Emily St. John Mandel
A National Book Award finalist
The Winter People -Jennifer McMahon
Ghosts + Vermont farmhouses + creepiness = a promising story
Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen -Garth Nix
Fans of the Old Kingdom series will be quick to read this prequel. Interested in starting the series? Check out the Nix’s other installments.
Check out Mr. Gette’s book review. The short version is, “This book is awesome.”
This guy is such a heavyweight that it is always worth checking out his latest book.
The Paying Guests -Sarah Waters
After reading The Little Stranger, I’m ready to read anything by Waters.
If you loved Room, you should give Donoghue’s new (and very different) book a try.
Graphic Novels
Follow Raina’s story in this graphic novel series.
Greetings Hopkins! The new year brings new things to the Calarco Library Blog. The newest of the new things is New Books News, a quasi-regular column that will highlight recent additions to the library.
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. (Tyrion Lannister)
The Calarco Library has long had George R.R. Martin’s incomplete A Song of Ice and Fire series on Kindle; however, we came to realize three things:
So without further ado, we present Martin’s current installments in A Song of Ice and Fire! If you are interested in checking out a copy, simply pay a visit to the upper level of the library or search the library catalog for availability.
Greetings fellow in-between vacationers!
(let’s face it, we all feel that way)
Your neighborhood Calarco Librarians have recently decided to post bi-weekly highlights of new books added to our collection. Besides increasing our already high level of awesomeness, we are ensuring that you (yes, YOU) will be kept up to date with the finest or our fiction and non-fiction.
For a full listing of the library’s fabulous new books, please visit our What’s New LibGuide (curated by Debbie Dubois).
You can also follow Calarco on Goodreads – check in with what we are reading, want to read, love and hate.
Now, without further adieu, some featured December newbies.
Fiction
Tell the Wolves I’m Home -Fiction Brunt
Crossed -Fiction Condie
A Hologram for the King -Fiction Eggers
The Round House -Fiction Erdrich
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making -Fiction Valente
Non-Fiction
Lincoln’s Code -343.7301 W783
Head Off & Split -811.54 F497
Farther Away -814.54 F858f
-Signing off, Jenny Barrows (who must read ALL the books)
p.s. Yes, the blog is snowing. No, that does not mean a snow day for Hopkins.
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