New Books | Waban Library Center

We have a lot of popular best sellers at the Waban Library Center – books that typically have long waiting lists at other libraries. We are also happy to take recommendations for books from our patrons. Come in and check out these and many more hot titles! We also have a new collection of Playaways – all in one devices for you to listen to a favorite book.

Find Me by Andre Aciman
Watership Down by Richard Adams
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict
The Secret Guests by Benjamin Black
A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier
Blue Moon by Lee Child
The Water Dancer by Ta Nehisi Coates
Domincana by Angie Cruz
American dirt by Jeanine Cummins
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
Akin by Emma Donoghue
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
A Particular Kind of Black Man by Tope Folarin
The Guardians by John Grisham
The Second Sleep by Robert Harris
The World We Knew by Alice Hoffman
The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz
The Resisters by Gish Jen
little gods by Meng Jen
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
The Institute by Stephen King
The Institute by Stephen King
The Ditch by Herman Koch
Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok
Agent Running in the Field by Jean Le Carre
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippan
Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke
The Kennedy Debutante by Kerri Maher
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
The Chain by Adrian McKinty
Long, Bright River by Liz Moore
Starless Sea by Erin Morganstern
Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
Inland by Tea Obreht
Weather by Jenny Offill
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
A Better Man by Louise Penny
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Chances Are by Richard Russo
The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
The Grammarians by Cathleen Shine
Grand Union by Zadie Smith
Mr. Nobody by Catherine Steadman
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
Carnegie Hill by Jonathan Vatner
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
A Door in the Earth by Amy Waldman
The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes by Kathleen West
Nothing To See Here by Kevin Wilson
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

The Yellow House by Sarah Broom
The Body by Bill Bryson
Pastry Love by Joanne Chang
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister by Jung Chang
The Conscious Closet by Elizabeth Cline
No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History by Gail Collins
Finding Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic by Lisa Congdon
Fashion Climbing by Bill Cunningham
The Club: Johnson, Boswell and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
We Are The Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer
Tiny Habits by B. J. Fogg
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
In Hoffa's Shadow by Jack Goldsmith
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram Kendi
Milk Street: The New Rules: Recipes that will change the way you cook by Christopher Kimball
Tightrope: Americans Reaching For Hope by Nicholas Kristof
How to Raise a Reader by Pamela Paul and Maria Russo
The Pioneers by David McCullough
She Said: Breakingthe Sexual Harassment Story by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
Nothing Fancy by Alison Roman
Joy of Cooking 2019 by Irma Rombauer
Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have by tatiana Schlossberg
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
Sababa: Fresh, Sunny Flavors from my Israeli Kitchen by Adeena Sussman
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
The Complete Baby and Toddler Cookbook by America's Test Kitchen
Uncanny Valley by Anaa Weiner

Board Books

Peek-a-Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins

Picture Books

How To Read a Book by kwane Alexander
Square by Mac Barnett
The Great Santa Stakeout by Betsy Bird
I Will Be Fierce by Bea Birdsong
Max and Maria by Alexandra Boiger
Good Morning, Snowplow by Deborah Bruss
The Scarecrow by Beth Ferry
Kokko and the Drum by Matthew Forsythe
My Winter City by James Gladstone
P is for Pterodactyl by Raj Haldar
Field Trip to the Moon by John Hare
Bruce's Big Storm by Ryan T. Higgins
All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah by Emily Jenkins
Roar Like a Dandelion by Ruth Krauss
What kind of a Car Does a T-Rex Drive? by Mark Lee
A Big Bed for Little Snow by Grace Lin
Vroom! by Barbara McClintock
Listen by Holly McGhee
What is Given From the Heart by Patricia McKissack
Camilla Cartographer by Julie Millemuth
Saturday by Oga More
Inkling by Kenneth Oppel
Nine Months by Miranda Paul
My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero
The Bell Rang by James Ransome
Don't Blink by Amy Rosenthal
Why? by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Dr. Seuss's Horse Museum by Dr. Seuss
The Wonkey Donkey by Craig Smith
We are Grateful: Otsalihiga by Traci Sorrel
Tiny T. Rex and the Impossible Hug by Jonathan Stutzman
A Stone Sat Still by Brendan Wenzel
The Pigeon Needs to go to School by Mo Willems

Easy Readers/Beginning Chapter

Pug Pals: Two's A Crowd #1 by flora Ahn
A Piglet Named Mercy by Kate DiCamillo
Mae and June and the Wonder Wheel by Charise Mericle Harper
Penny and her Sled by Kevin Henkes
Juana & Lucas by Juana Medina
See Otto (The Adventures of Otto) by David Milgrim
Waylon! Even More Awesome by Sara Pennypacker
Harold & Hog Pretend for Real! by Dan Santat
Fox the Tiger by Cory R. Tabor
I Survived the Children’s Blizzard, 1988 by Lauren Tarshis
I Survived the Battle of D-Day, 1944 by Lauren Tarshis

Junior Fiction

Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier
Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns by Chris Colfer
Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
Sweeping Up the Heart by Kevin Henkes
Shouting at the Rain by Lynda Hunt
Lalani of the Distant Sea by Erin Estrada Kelly
Where the Heart is by Jo Knowles
Pie in the Sky by Remi Lai
Season of Styx Malone by Kemal Magoon
Up for Air by Laura Morrison
Dear Sweet Pea by Julie Murphy
Strange Birds: A Field Guide to Ruffling Feathers by Celia Perez
Max and the Midknights by Lincoln Pierce
The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust (Book Two) by Philip Pullman
Lu by Jason Reynolds
Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo) by Rick Riordan
The Tyrant's Tomb: Trials of Apollo (book four) by Rick Riordan
Pay Attention Carter Jones by Gary Schmidt
I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 by Lauran Tarshis
The Unsung Hero of Birdson, USA by Brenda Woods

Non-Fiction

Liberty Arrives: How America's Greatest Statue Found Her Home by Robert Byrd
Untangled: Guiding Teen-age Girls the 7 Transitions into Adulthood by Lisa Damour
Torpedoed: The True Story of WWII Sinking of "The Children's Ship" by Deborah Heiligman
My Body's Superpower by Maryann Jacobsen
Homes in the Wild: Where Baby Animals and their Parents Live by Lita Judge
The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets by Sarah Miller
Born to Fly: The First Women's Air Race by Steve Sheinkin
The Roots of Rap by Carole Boston Weatheford
Hector by Adrienne Wright

Junior Graphic Novels

The Unwanted: Stories of Syrian Refugees by Don Brown
New Kid by Jerry Craft
Best Friends by Shannon Hale
Queen of the Sea by Dylan Medonis
Pumpkin Heads by Rainbow Rollins
Odd Gods by David Slavin
Guts by Raina Telgemeier
Spinning by Tillie Walden
Stargazing by Jen Wang

Teens

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Gilbert
We Are OK by Nina LaCour
Butterfly Yellow by Thanhha Lai
The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
Frankly in Love by David Yoon