'cozy mystery'

11/27/2023

All-ages are welcome to drop in Tuesday, December 5 from 5:00 - 7:00 pm for License to Chill! Take a break from the hubbub of winter with an evening of fun indoor activities at the Campbell Library!

All the Gold Stars

Reimagining ambition and the ways we strive
by Rainesford Stauffer

Call Number: 302.54 STAUFFER

This book looks at how the cultural, personal, and societal expectations around ambition are driving the burnout epidemic by funneling our worth into productivity, limiting our imaginations, and pushing us further apart.

Hot Pot Murder

L.A. night market mysteries
by Jennifer J. Chow

Call Number: Mystery CHOW L.A. Large Print

Yale and Celine Yee’s food stall business is going so well that they’ve been invited to join an exclusive dinner with the local restaurant owner's association. The members gather together for a relaxing hot pot feast…until Jeffery Vue, president of the group, receives a literal shock to his system and dies.

Pageboy

A Memoir
by Elliot Page

Call Number: 791.4302 PAGE

Full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, this book is a love letter to the power of being seen.

A Stranger in the Citadel

by Tobias S. Buckell

Call Number: Fantasy BUCKELL

The life of the youngest musketress of Ninetha has been one of hard training. But Lilith’s days have also contained many pleasures, the royal privileges of her family’s guardianship of the Cornucopia, a mystical source of limitless bounty. Lilith has never seen a book, and she never expects to encounter one within the safety of the citadel. When Ishmael, an outcast librarian, shows up outside the Afriq Gate, Lilith saves him from immediate execution by her father’s second-in-command, the zealot Kira. As Lilith’s curiosity draws her to Ishmael, she lets slip her family’s most dangerous secret, sparking a deadly rebellion and an unexpected journey full of stunning revelations.

If you need help accessing any of these titles or using front door pickup, email or call us and we will be happy to assist you!

11/28/2022

Join us for Music & Movement, Wednesdays @ 10am! For children ages 0-5 (and their grown-ups too!) More information...

Papyrus by Irene Vallejo

The Invention of Books in the Ancient World // In this sweeping tour of the history of books, the wonder of the ancient world comes alive and, along the way, we discover the singular power of the written word.

002.09 VALLEJO MOREU

Passenger by Alexandra Bracken

In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled not just miles but years from home. And she’s inherited a legacy she knows nothing about from a family whose existence she’s never heard of. Until now.

Young Adult BRACKEN Passenger v.1

The Escape Artist edited by Jonathan Freedland

The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World // This is the story of a brilliant yet troubled man--a gifted "escape artist" who even as a teenager understand that the difference between truth and lies can be the difference between life and death, a man who deserves to take his place alongside Anne Frank, Oskar Schindler and Primo Levi as one of the handful of individuals whose stories define our understanding of the Holocaust.

MH 940.531 FREEDLAND

Gone with the Whisker by Laurie Cass

A Bookmobile Cat Mystery // Minnie Hamilton and her rescue cat, Eddie, have spent a busy day on the bookmobile, delivering good cheer and great reads to even the library's most far-flung patrons. But Minnie is still up for the nighttime festivities, eager to show off her little town to her visiting niece, Katrina. But then, during the grand finale of the fireworks display, Katrina discovers a body.

Mystery CASS Bookmobile v.8 LP

If you need help accessing any of these titles or using front door pickup, email or call us and we will be happy to assist you!