
I’m a Dumbo Octopus! A Graphic Guide to Cephalopods
Grimpy, a dumbo octopus, guides us through the depths of the ocean to meet several varieties of cephalopods. Cephalopods include Octopuses (or octopodes as some prefer), squids, cuttlefish and nautiluses. ...
Posted by Heidi E. on June 5, 2025

Level Up! Board Game Recommendations
In honor of our 2025 Adult Summer Reading theme, Level Up!, we're going to highlight some of the great games from WPL's board game collection!
Posted by Natalie D. on June 1, 2025


The Purple One: A Story of Prince
The Purple One tells the story of Prince, from his days as a shy, small kid with a larger than life passion for music through his legendary path to fame...
Posted by Sarah A. on May 22, 2025

Greenwild: the world behind the door
11-year old Daisy Thistledown has spent her life traveling around the world with her investigative journalist mother. When her mother disappears while reporting on environmental politics in the Amazon rainforest,...
Posted by Kristi M. on May 15, 2025

Sadie Mouse Wrecks The House
Sadie mouse was always good, always did as she was asked, until the day she decided she would be BAD! Tired of being the “good mouse” always cleaning up after...
Posted by Sarah A. on May 8, 2025

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
To flee her homeland and everything she’s ever known for the chance of safety, or to stay behind and do her duty to a country under fire. That is the...
Posted by Areeg J. on May 1, 2025

Baby Loves Structural Engineering!
Ruth Spiro’s Baby Loves Science board books introduce complex STEM topics to babies and toddlers in a simplistic yet accurate manner appropriate for the very young. In Baby Loves Structural...
Posted by Adrian L. on April 3, 2025

The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource
We’ve been conditioned to embrace these goods and services to enhance our lives, that they’re a positive force in society. Instead, it might be time to consider them as adversaries.
Posted by Alex C. on April 1, 2025

Our Infinite Fates
For a thousand lifetimes, Evelyn and Arden have been destined–for love and for death. With every reincarnation, Evelyn knows her fate no matter how much she tries to escape it:...
Posted by Zoe N. on March 19, 2025

The Lost Library
What would you do if you found a secret in the pages of a book? Fifth grader Evan McClelland gets more than he expects when he borrows books from a...
Posted by Sarah Jane N. on March 12, 2025

The Sicilian Inheritance
A free trip to Sicily, inheriting a whole plot of land, and uncovering bombshell family secrets were not on Sara Marsala’s bingo card for the year,...
Posted by Kimberly M. on March 1, 2025

What Does It Feel Like
“Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Her husband, never far from her side, explains...
Posted by Stephanie L. on February 1, 2025

The Thirteenth Child
As the thirteenth child, Hazel Trépas is promised to one of the gods before she’s even born. But not just any god: Death himself. For years, Hazel waits for her...
Posted by Zoe N. on January 2, 2025

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
In P. Djèlí Clark’s book, The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, those sworn to the Matron of Assassins are resurrected from the dead, are absolutely deadly, and are completely devoid of...
Posted by Natalie D. on January 1, 2025