You might have noticed the new 'NEW' category in our online catalog. If something has been released within the past four months, we consider it NEW and catalog it as such in Koha. In addition, we sometimes catalog items as NEW even if they were published more than four months ago. The NEW status lasts two months.

  If we categorize an item as NEW in Koha, it doesn't show up as "available" to patrons from other libraries; only our NCL patrons are able to put it on hold. After it "un-news" itself, patrons from other libraries are able to request it.

We keep the yellow NEW tape on items' spines for four months from when we catalog them, and keep them shelved on our NEW shelves.  

The Foundation has had to vacate their space in the Community Center due to Fire Code issues and cannot receive donations of books at this time. Watch for an announcement of their new home.
 

By George Saunders
A psychopomp ghost helps a dying oil company executive reckon with all that he hath wrought. Not for the first time, Jill "Doll" Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge, yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife, but the powerful K ne will not be consoled, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big, bold, epic life, and the world is better for it. Isn't it?
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By Deepa Anappara
In 19th-century Tibet, two outsiders venture into a forbidden kingdom. Balram, an Indian surveyor-spy, searches for his missing friend, and Katherine sets out to become the first European woman to reach Lhasa. As Balram and Katherine make their way into Tibet, they face storms and bandits, snow leopards and soldiers, fevers and frostbite. What's more, they have to battle their own doubts, ambitions, grief, and pasts in order to survive the treacherous landscape.
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By A.D. Bell
Every book tells a story. This one tells a secret. In 1901, Lily serves as a bookbinder’s apprentice in Oxford. But when she’d given a burned book, she uncovers a story of forbidden love, fortune, and murder.
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By Craig Johnson
When Pepper McKay, one of the most hated men in Absaroka County, is found murdered on his ranch in Crazy Woman Canyon, suspects aren’t in short supply. As Sheriff Walt Longmire investigates what happened that night at the O-Kay Lodge, he’s pulled into a tangle of old grudges and long-buried secrets. Then the case takes a sharp turn: a second body surfaces, and a wildfire tears through the canyon, trapping Walt and forcing him into a fight for his life as both the killer and the elements close in. In this, the twenty-second novel in the Longmire series, author Craig Johnson pays sly homage to Dostoevsky’s classic.
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By Jacqueline Harpman
Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl--the fortieth prisoner--sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. Back in print for the first time since 1997, Harpman's modern classic is an important addition to the growing canon of feminist speculative literature and has attained a huge popularity on Booktok.
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By Callie Hart
Also popular on BookTok...The first of her kind to tread the frozen mountains of Yvelia in over a thousand years, Saeris mistakenly binds herself to Kingfisher, a handsome Fae warrior, who has secrets and nefarious agendas of his own. He will use her Alchemist’s magic to protect his people, no matter what it costs him… or her. Death has a name. It is Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate. His past is murky. His attitude stinks. And he’s the only way Saeris is going to make it home. Be careful of the deals you make, dear child. The devil is in the details…
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By Frode Grytten
Nils Vik wakes up on November the 18th and knows it will be the day he dies. He follows his morning routine as voices from his past echo in his mind, and looks around the empty house one last time, before stepping onto his beloved boat. His dog, dead these many years, leaps aboard with him, and then the other dead begin to emerge - from the woods along the fjord, from each of the ferry stops along the route, from his logbook full of memories and quotations and jotted-down notes about the weather conditions. The people from the past accompany him now, prodding him, showing him what he might have missed before, as he waits for his Marta, his late, remarkable wife, to finally join him on the boat again.
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By Kathleen West
It feels like kismet when Sarah Jones, newly relocated to Minneapolis after abruptly calling off her engagement, is invited to join a group of women who share her same very common name. For years Sarah has received all types of correspondence intended for different Sarah Joneses, but now it seems that this mistake has given her the opportunity for an instant community. But what starts as a low-stakes meet-up called 'The Sarah Jones Project' soon turns far more sinister when another local Sarah Jones is found dead under suspicious circumstances at the base of the downtown Minneapolis bridge. After fielding numerous calls from concerned loved ones ruling out their Sarah as the victim, the surviving Sarahs decide to take matters into their own hands.
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By Victor M. Sweeney
Now Departing explores the science, craft, and mindfulness behind Victor M. Sweeney's very peculiar skill set. Working in the funeral business since he was eighteen years old, Sweeney shares the powerful and moving lessons of how we can exist and be remembered with intention and meaning. With grace and understanding, each page is filled with reflective observations and true stories from the lives and deaths that Sweeney has come to know through his work in a small Minnesota town. 
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By Elizabeth R. Hyman
A Holocaust historian, archivist, and history blogger adds a new dimension to the story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during World War II, shining a long overdue spotlight on five young, Polish Jewish women—champions who helped lead the resistance, sabotage the Nazis, and aid Jews in hiding across occupied Poland and Eastern Europe. “A superb addition to World War II and Holocaust history.” —Library Journal
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By Trent Preszler
A sweeping natural history of the humble trees that built nations, sparked wars, and became the world’s most cherished holiday tradition. In Evergreen, Cornell University professor Trent Preszler weaves together a captivating story of humanity’s deeply rooted relationship with evergreens, revealing how the trees shaped economies, launched cultural movements, and propelled America’s rise to global prominence. 
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By Kierstie Payge Dolezal
Feel better, move easier, and boost your energy—in just five minutes a day—with the power of chair yoga for seniors.
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“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It’s like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can’t stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.”
                                                                          —Anne Lamott