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Jul 28

What’s New at the Campbell Library?

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

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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!

May 28

Get in the (Video) Game

Posted to Book Notes on May 28, 2024 at 11:48 AM by Genesis Gaule

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Gamer Night // Last Tuesday of each month @ 5pm 
It's time to level-up!  Stop by on the library to your favorite game on our Nintendo Switch or bring your favorite portable device to play with others. 


Game Over, Super Rabbit Boy!

by Thomas Flintham  

Junior FLINTHAM Start! v.1

There is only one person who can save the day, Super Rabbit Boy! Super Rabbit Boy is super fast and super brave, but he's also a video game character living in a video game world. What will happen when Sunny, the boy playing the game, loses each level? Will it be game over for Super Rabbit Boy and all his friends?


Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Deserted Island Diary

by Kokonasu Runba

Junior Manga KOKONASU Animal

The Deserted Island Diary series follows the main characters Coroyuki, Benben, Himepoyo, and Guchan trying to get used to living on a deserted island. Read the gag-filled adventures of the four goofy residents while finding tips and tricks for the game. 


Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

Science Fiction CLINE

In the year 2045 when the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune and control of the OASIS itself. Wade Watts cracks the first clue and suddenly he’s beset by rivals who’ll kill to take this prize. 


But Games Can Never Hurt Me and Sleep Over

by Sholly Fisch 

Junior Graphic Novel DC Teen Titans

What Happens when Cyborg and Beast Boy plug their sweet new game console into the Tower’s mainframe computer? It’s mayhem! It’s madness! It’s... TOTALLY AWESOME! Then what happens when the girls have a slumber party and don’t invite any of the boys? Mayhem! Madness! Truth or Dare!


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!

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Mar 25

Book Notes 3/25/2024

Posted to Book Notes on March 25, 2024 at 12:41 PM by Genesis Gaule

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3/25/2024

Let's play BINGO! If you win a game, you get a free book of your choice! Join us Tuesday, April 2nd @ 6:00 pm for Bingo for Books!


What Are the Risks of Vaping?

by Bev Crawford

Call Number: 362.296 CRAWFORD

"This book tackles where vaping came from, the effects it has on our bodies and the mental health risks that teens face from vaping"-- Publisher


Big Time

by Ben H. Winters

Call Number: Science Fiction WINTERS

Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat in the Food and Drug Administration, a woman who once brimmed with purpose but somehow turned into a middle-aged single mom with a dull government job and a melancholy sense that life has passed her by. Until the night a strange photo comes across her desk, of a young woman in a hospital bed who has been subjected to a mysterious procedure. Against orders and against common sense, Grace sets out to bring the girl to safety, and finds herself risking her job, her future, and her life on whether she can find the missing girl before an obsessive and violent mercenary who’s also looking.


The Meth Lunches

Food and longing in an American cityby Kim Foster

Call Number: 363.8 FOSTER

Food is a conduit for connection; we envision smiling families gathered around a table?eating, happy, content. But what happens when poverty, mental illness, homelessness, and addiction claim a seat at that table? In this book, Kim Foster peers behind the polished visions of perfectly curated dinners and charming families to reveal the complex reality when poverty and food intersect.


The Encanto's Daughter

by Melissa de la Cruz

Call Number: Young Adult DE LA CRUZ

MJ Rodriguez has spent her life hiding in the human world, keeping a heavy secret: She’s half-encanto. As the only child of King Vivencio of the Sirena Court, she’s also next in line for the throne. And now, upon her estranged father’s sudden death, MJ must claim her place as rightful heir.


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!