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Aug 25

What’s New at the Campbell Library?

Posted to Book Notes on August 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM by Genesis Gaule

Blog Book Notes

What’s New at the Campbell Library?  

Come stop in to check out some of the new books that just hit our shelves! 


So Far Gone

by Jess Walter  

WALTER 
also in Large Print

A few weeks after the 2016 election, at Thanksgiving with his daughter’s family, Rhys Kinnick snapped. After an escalating fight about politics, he hauled off and punched his conspiracy theorist son-in-law. Horrified by what he'd done, by the state of the country and by his own spiraling mental health, Rhys chucked his smartphone out a car window and fled for a cabin in the woods, off the grid and with no one around, except a pack of hungry raccoons. Now, seven years later, Kinnick’s old life is about to land right back on his crumbling doorstep. Can this failed husband and father, a man with no phone, no computer, and a car that barely runs, reemerge into a broken world to track down his missing daughter and save his sweet, precocious grandchildren from the members of a dangerous militia?


Run For the Hills

by Kevin Wilson 

WILSON 

Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it’s been just Madeline Hill and her mom on their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee. Then one day Reuben Hill pulls up in a PT Cruiser and informs Madeline that he believes she’s his half sister. Reuben, left behind by their dad thirty years ago, has hired a detective to track down their father and a string of other half siblings.  


Great Big Beautiful Life

by Emily Henry 

HENRY 

Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: to write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years, or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the twentieth century. 


Kill Your Darlings

by Peter Swanson 

Mystery SWANSON 

Thom and Wendy Graves have been married for over twenty-five years. They live in a beautiful Victorian on the north shore of Massachusetts. Wendy is a published poet, and Thom teaches English literature at a nearby university. Their son, Jason, is all grown up. All is well… except that Wendy wants to murder her husband. 


All New Arrivals

Adult: Fiction Nonfiction | YA: Fiction Junior: Fiction Nonfiction | Easy: Fiction Nonfiction | Multimedia | Kits | on Libby


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!

Jul 28

What’s New at the Campbell Library?

Posted to Book Notes on July 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM by Genesis Gaule

Blog Book Notes

What’s New at the Campbell Library?  

Come stop in to check out some of the new books that just hit our shelves! 


The Dream Hotel

by Laila Lalami  

Science Fiction LALAMI
also available in Large Printe-book, and e-audio

Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams, the RAA’s algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming the person she loves most: her husband. For his safety, she must be kept under observation for twenty-one days. 

* September 2025 Campbell Book Club Pick *


All That Life Can Afford

by Emily Everett 

Large Print EVERETT 

Anna first fell in love with London at her hometown library, its Jane Austen balls a far cry from her life of food stamps and hand-me-downs. But when she finally arrives after college, the real London is a moldy flat and the same paycheck-to-paycheck grind, that fairy-tale life still out of reach. Then Anna meets the Wilders, who fly her to Saint-Tropez to tutor their teenage daughter. Swept up by the sphinxlike elder sister, Anna soon finds herself plunged into a heady whirlpool of parties and excess, a place where confidence is a birthright. There she meets two handsome young men, one who wants to whisk her into his world in a chauffeured car, the other who sees through Anna’s struggle to outrun her past. It’s like she’s stepped into the pages of a glittering new novel, but what will it cost her to play the part? 


A murder for Miss Hortense

by Mel Pennant

Mystery PENNANT LP

Miss Hortense once used her skills to benefit the Pardner network, a local group of Black investors that she helped found. Until, that is, she was unceremoniously ousted from its ranks, severing her ties to the majority of her friends and community. That was thirty years ago. Now, as a new millennium dawns, an unidentified man has been found dead in the home of one of the Pardner members, a Bible quote written on a note beside his body. Suddenly, Miss Hortense finds her long-buried past rushing back, bringing memories of the worst moment of her life, and secrets behind an unsolved crime that has haunted her for decades. 


The Listeners

by Maggie Stiefvater 

STIEFVATER 

January 1942. The Avallon Hotel & Spa has always offered elegant luxury in the wilds of West Virginia, its mountain sweet water washing away all of high society’s troubles. Local girl-turned-general manager June Porter Hudson has guided the Avallon skillfully through the first pangs of war. The Gilfoyle's, the hotel’s aristocratic owners, have trained her well. But when the family heir makes a secret deal with the State Department to fill the hotel with captured Axis diplomats, June must persuade her staff, many of whom have sons and husbands heading to the front lines, to offer luxury to Nazis. With a smile. 


All New Arrivals

Adult: Fiction Nonfiction | YA: Fiction Junior: Fiction Nonfiction | Easy: Fiction Nonfiction | Multimedia | Kits | on Libby


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!

Jul 07

What’s New at the Campbell Library?

Posted to Book Notes on July 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM by Genesis Gaule

Blog Book Notes

What’s New at the Campbell Library?  

Come stop in to check out some of the new books that just hit our shelves! 


Atmosphere

by Taylor Jenkins Reid 

REID 
also in Large Print

Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space. 


Murder Takes a Vacation

by Laura Lippman  

Mystery LIPPMAN LP
Large Print only

Mrs. Blossom has a knack for blending into the background, which was an asset during her days assisting private investigator Tess Monaghan. But when she finds a winning lottery ticket in a parking lot, everything changes. She is determined to see the world that she sometimes feels is passing her by. 


Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)

by Jesse Q. Sutanto 

Mystery SUTANTO Vera Wong v.2

Ever since a man was found dead in Vera's teahouse, life has been good. For Vera that is. She’s surrounded by loved ones, her shop is bustling, and best of all, her son, Tilly, has a girlfriend! All thanks to Vera, because Tilly's girlfriend is none other than Officer Selena Gray. The very same Officer Gray that she had harassed while investigating the teahouse murder. Still, Vera wishes more dead bodies would pop up in her shop, but one mustn't be ungrateful, even if one is slightly...bored. 


25 Alive

by James Patterson 

Mystery PATTERSON Women's v.25

SFPD homicide detective Lindsay Boxer knows her way around a crime scene. But nothing can prepare her for the shock of recognition: the victim is Warren Jacobi, Lindsay’s onetime partner who rose to chief of police.  A top investigator until the end, Jacobi managed to leave Lindsay a clue.  Following a trail of evidence along the west coast, the Women’s Murder Club pledges to avenge Jacobi’s death before the killer can take another one of their own. 


All New Arrivals

Adult: Fiction Nonfiction | YA: Fiction Junior: Fiction Nonfiction | Easy: Fiction Nonfiction | Multimedia | Kits | on Libby


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!