New books, DVDs available and memorial given to area libraries

In need of something new to read? Odell Library received new booksDVDs in August.

In Adult Fiction, the library has: Bad Girl Reputation — Elle Kennedy; Bodies from the Library 5 — Tony Medawar; The Dark Between the Trees — Fiona Barnett; Endless Summer — Elin Hildenbrand; The Gift — Alan Titchmarsh; The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband — Julia Quinn; Heat 2 — Michael Mann; A Heart Full of Headstones — Ian Rankin; Holidays in Virgin River — Robyn Carr; Home Sweet Christmas — Susan Mallery; The Honeymoon Cottage — Lori Foster; An Island Wedding — Jenny Colgan; It Starts With Us — Colleen Hoover; The Last Chairlift — John Irving; The Locked Room — Elly Griffiths; Long Shadows — David Baldacci; Mad Honey — Jodi Picoult; The Night Ship — Jess Kidd; No Plan B — Lee Child; Our Missing Hearts — Celeste Ng; Reckoning — Catherine Coulter; Righteous Prey — John Sandford; Signal Fires — Dan Shapiro; Sugar and Salt — Susan Wiggs; Suspect — Scott Turow; Switchboard Soldiers — Jennifer Chiaverini; Treasure State — C.J. Box; The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas — James Patterson; The Viper — J.R. Ward; The Winners — Fredrik Backman.

On DVD, the library has added: Baby Shark’s Big Show! The Seaweed Sway; Better Call Saul, Seasons 1, 3, 4, and 5; The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family; Bullet Train; Dead for a Dollar; Elvis; The Forgiven; Freddie Mercury: The Final Act; The Mayor of Kingstown, Season 1; Outlander, Season 6; Paradise Highway; Paws of Fury; The Phantom of the Open; Pokemon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle; The Pursuit of Love; A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon; Star Trek: Picard, Season 2; Thor: Love and Thunder; The Time Traveler’s Wife; Ultimate Space Telescope; The U.S. and the Holocaust; Where the Crawdads Sing.

New to the Young Adult is: Greywaren — Maggie Steifvater.

In Adult Nonfiction, the library now has: And There Was Light — John Meacham; Dave Ramsey’s Complete Guide to Money — Dave Ramsey; The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man — Paul Newman; A Gift of Joy and Hope — Pope Francis; Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America — Cody Keenan; How Are You, Really? — Jenna KutcherIn Search of the Dark Ages — Michael Wood.

In the Easy/Juvenile section, the library added: Animorphus: The Encounter — K.A. Applegate; The Arnold Lobel Book of Mother Goose — Arnold Lobel; Empty Smiles — Katherine Arden; The End — John Bray; Harry’s Squirrel Trouble — Gene Zion; How Everything Works — DK; If Dinosaurs Had Hair — Dan Marvin; The Last Beekeeper — Pablo Cartaya; Lou — Breanna Carzoo; Monsters Love Cupcakes — Mike Austin; The Moonlight Zoo — Maudie Powell-Tuck; No! Said Custard the Squirrel — Sergio Ruzzier; On the Trail — Paige Braddock; Pete the Cat Plays Hide-and-Seek — Kimberly & James Dean; The Secret World of Plants — Ben Hoare; The Three Billy Goats Gruff — Mac Barnett.

Pontiac Public Library Memorials

The following is a listing of gifts given to Pontiac Public Library in September and October.

Items given in memory of:

Brown, Hallie — “The Bullet that Missed” by Richard Osman in large print; “Hey, Bruce!” by Ryan Higgins; and “National Geographic Kids Dinosaur Atlas” by the National Geographic Society, all given by Phyllis K. McKinney.

Brown, Hallie Ann (Grimes) — “Blood on the Plains” by Erin Hunter; “Sky” by Erin Hunter; “Narwhalicorn & Jelly” by Ben Clanton; and “The First to Die at the End” by Adam Silvera, all given by Liz Fredrickson.

Comens, Robert & Charlene — “My Dirty California” by Jason Mosberg; “The Final Gambit” by Jennifer Barnes; “Boldly Go” by William Shatner; “Anne of Greenville” by Mariko Tamaki; and “Sweet & Sour” by Debbi Florence, all given by Myrtle Richmond.

Hinshaw, Jim — “My Grandpa is the Best!” by D.J. Steinberg; and “If You Laugh, I’m Starting this Book Over” by Chris Harris, given by Kenny & Karen Robinson.

Hoerner, Richard — “Murray Christmas” by E.G. Keller; and “Meet Me Under the Mistletoe” by Jenny Bayliss, given by Mary Lynn Schopp & Joan Curry.

Pierce, Jamie — “Baseball Dreams, Fishing Magic” by Mike Reuther, given by Mom & Dad, and Nate.

Smith, Jeffery — “Clive Cussler’s Hellburner” by Mike Maden; “The Marriage Portrait” by Maggie O’Farrell; and “Righteous Prey” by John Sandford, in large print, all given by Mary Haack and Linda Dionne.

Hoerner, Richard “Dick” — “How to Catch a Reindeer” by Alice Walstead; and “Ty’s Travels: Winter Wonderland” by Kelly Starling Lyons, given by the Alpha Mu Chapter of Alpha Delta Kappa.

Schmidt, Dan — “The Big East” by Dana O’Neil; and “Miracles on the Hardwood” by John Garaway, given by Pontiac Junior Woman’s Club for Michelle Schultz.

Smith, Jeff — “Golf Courses: Fairways of the World,” by David Cannon; “Golf for Dummies” on DVD; and “The Better Golf Academy” on DVD, all given by Nancy Myers, Diane Engel, and Dennis Schultz.

Swedlund, Blanche — “Clarice Bean: Think like an Elf” by Lauren Child, given by Del & Cathy Robinson.

Items given in honor of: Mund, William — “The Puzzler” by A.J. Jacobs, given by Faith Mund.

Items given by: Mund, Faith — “If You Believe in Me” by Rosemary Wells; and “Loud Mouse” by Cara Mentzel & Idina Menzel.

Gifts to the operating fund in memory of: Brown, Hallie — given by Brian & Lisbeth Jensen.

Gifts to the operating fund by: Cindy Munch; Kevin & Michele Pierce; Karen Gourley; The Hansen Family.

Gifts to the Summer reading Program given by: Gem’s Carpet Cleaning Plus, LLC.

Gifts for library wish-list projects given by: joanE & Ed Lipinski.

Gifts to the Living Bookshelf in memory of: Dan Schmidt — given by Pontiac Junior Woman’s Club for Michelle Schultz.

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