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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
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
The Lumbering Giants of Windy Pines
11-year old Jerry and her mother have moved around a lot in the year since her father died. When Mama says they will be staying for good at the Slumbering...
Posted by Kristi M. on October 10, 2024
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi is the first book in a new trilogy by Shannon Chakraborty. It’s a tale of the high seas featuring pirates and sorcerers, ancient mysteries, magical...
Posted by Natalie D. on January 1, 2024
Barb The Last Berzerker
An endless war has been waged between humans and monsters, and only the bravest among them—The Berzerkers—can defeat the monsters and save the world of Bailiwick once and for all!...
Posted by Sarah A. on May 11, 2023
The Only Survivors
Megan Miranda's writing is tense and atmospheric, creating a sense of unease that permeates the entire book. The pacing is excellent, with just enough suspense to keep the reader guessing...
Posted by Alex C. on May 1, 2023
The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza
This book is just the perfect mix of fun, ridiculous, and adorable. There is a cat who has been bioengineered to to be a hero, a toe-nail clipping robot looking...
Posted by Heidi E. on January 26, 2023
The Passenger
Bobby Western, son of a nuclear physicist who worked with Robert Oppenheimer on the atomic bomb, is a salvage diver based in New Orleans tasked with investigating a private plane...
Posted by Alex C. on November 7, 2022
Indigenous Voices & Experiences: A Reading List for Teens
We hope these selections serve to educate, celebrate, and encourage dialogue on the diverse nations, cultures, and experiences of Native peoples throughout North America. Celebrate Native American Heritage Month—and continue...
Posted by Book Rex on November 4, 2022
Kaiju Preservation Society
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end food delivery driver. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom. Tom...
Posted by Natalie D. on August 1, 2022
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team
Twelve Thai boys and their soccer coach bike out to a cave to explore. What they couldn’t have planned on was the rain that would flood the cave in the...
Posted by Heidi E. on June 16, 2022
2021 Best Suspense Novels
Below are a few of the top selling 2021 suspense novels. The Survivors by Jane Harper Kieran Elliott’s life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating...
Posted by Adult Services on November 25, 2021
Fake Blood
Its tough feeling ordinary, especially when your friends are all out having epic summer adventures. From bungee jumps to volcano hikes, AJ can’t help but feel that his summer spent...
Posted by Book Rex on October 29, 2021
A Slow Fire Burning
When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the...
Posted by Alex C. on September 28, 2021
Manga Essentials
Enjoy this selection of essential manga by Westmont Public Library Librarian, Gil!
Posted by Adult Services on September 23, 2021
The Unbroken
Touraine was kidnapped as a child by the Balladaire Empire and forced to become a soldier. Now, years later, she and her company are returning to her homeland Qazal to...
Posted by Natalie D. on September 21, 2021
Throne of Glass
Celaena Sardothien is Adarlan’s greatest assassin. After being enslaved and imprisoned, she accepts the Crown Prince’s offer to compete with other assassins and thieves for a chance to serve as...
Posted by Book Rex on August 12, 2021
Acclaimed Foreign Language TV Series
Babylon Berlin Police commissioner Gereon Rath is transferred from Cologne to Berlin, the epicenter of political and social change in the Golden Twenties. Shellshocked from his service during World War...
Posted by Adult Services on August 4, 2021
Vampirates: Demons of the ocean
After their father’s death, twins Grace and Connor set sail on the open sea in hopes of finding a better life. When caught in the eye of a storm they...
Posted by Book Rex on July 29, 2021
Redline
In the anime movie Redline, a giant whale monster that is biologically fused with a space army general fights an enormous glowing uncontrollable biological weapon named Funky Boy. That’s not...
Posted by Adult Services on July 13, 2021
A Century of Reading: The 1920s
Enjoy this selection of titles to highlight the breadth of work produced in the Roaring Twenties!
Posted by Alex C. on June 1, 2021
Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: Donner Dinner Party
Nathan Hales’ Hazardous Tales: Donner Dinner Party breaks down this squeamish story from history in a way that’s both historically accurate and child friendly. This graphic novel tells the story...
Posted by Book Rex on April 29, 2021
One of Us Is Lying
If you like solving mysteries, this book is for you! Five unsuspecting students are given after-school detention because of a weird misunderstanding. During detention, the most horrible thing happens –...
Posted by Book Rex on March 11, 2021
The Art of Inventing Hope: Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel
Howard Reich, the son of two Holocaust survivors and a journalist for the Chicago Tribune, was assigned by the paper in 2012 to interview one of the world’s most well-known...
Posted by Adult Services on January 21, 2021
Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds
Stephen Leeds is not insane. How do you know that? Well, he tells you that repeatedly. It’s his hallucinations that are crazy. Stephen Leeds is a genius, but his genius...
Posted by Adult Services on November 24, 2020
Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict
As a beautiful debutante in British society, 19 year old Clementine Hozier was reserved in the company of others. Often disliked due to the notoriety of her aristocratic parents, she...
Posted by Adult Services on November 17, 2020
The Dragonet Prophecy
If you have ever wanted to be a dragon, this series is for you! Different dragon clans of Pyrrhia have been at war for centuries with no end in sight....
Posted by Book Rex on October 15, 2020
Gotham High
What if Bruce Wayne made his way back to Gotham a little sooner than everyone thought? What if he and the Joker were actually school mates? Maybe even friends? Long...
Posted by Book Rex on September 3, 2020
Bear Came Along
A curious bear embarks on a fast-moving adventure when he steps onto a log leaning over a river. Along the way he meets a diverse cast of friends, all with...
Posted by Adrian L. on August 20, 2020
The Girl from Widow Hills
Waking up – from the middle of a dream – you wonder, what just happened? Where am I? Are you in a dream state or sleepwalking? Your thoughts freeze you...
Posted by Adult Services on June 8, 2020
Feathers for Lunch
Favorite picture book author / illustrator Lois Ehlert introduces 12 backyard birds to young children through their adventure with a sneaky cat.
Posted by Kristi M. on April 2, 2020
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles)
If you like fairytale retellings, this book is the one for you! This Cinderella story set in a futuristic Earth with cyborgs and Lunar beings is the perfect start to...
Posted by Book Rex on January 2, 2020
March of the Mini Beasts
The DATA Set is a group of three Latino second graders known for their interest in science and engineering. This first book in the series finds the friends going house...
Posted by Adrian L. on December 5, 2019
The World That We Knew
This novel begins in Berlin in 1941 and follows the life of a young Jewish girl, Lea, whose mother, Hanni, will do anything to keep her safe. She consults a...
Posted by Adult Services on November 5, 2019
Spider-man: Homecoming
In this superhero action/adventure movie, we join Peter Parker (Spider-man) after his big debut with the Avengers. The famous Tony Stark (Iron Man) has made Peter his protegee, equipping him...
Posted by Book Rex on January 31, 2019
Mac B., Kid Spy: Mac Undercover
Mac B. may be a kid, but he’s also the Queen of England’s newest secret agent. This wacky, almost-autobiographical adventure follows young, international best-selling author Mac Barnett on his search...
Posted by Book Rex on November 25, 2018
Six of Crows
Think Ocean’s Eleven, if the Ocean’s Eleven crew contained six teenage misfits living in medieval, high-fantasy Amsterdam. Presented with the opportunity of a lifetime (read: more money than he could’ve...
Posted by Book Rex on November 20, 2018
The Sea Queen
Fans of A Song of Ice and Fire and those interested in Norse history and culture will all find this historical fiction highly enjoyable, though liberal in its characterizations of...
Posted by Book Rex on November 13, 2018
The Woman Left Behind
It was sheer madness for Jina Modell, who shouldered her pack and used her compass to “find” her team leader Levi in the wilderness. She kept telling herself that the...
Posted by Adult Services on November 10, 2018
Rat Attack
Gram is making jam for Ann, Fran, and Stan, but she better beware. Nat the Rat likes jam too! Nat, Pat, and Matt appear in various disguises in an attempt...
Posted by Adrian L. on October 31, 2018
The Butterfly Garden
Everyone has a fascination with something, be it mechanisms, cars, animals, food; the Butterfly Garden is the story about a man’s fascination with butterflies. As normal of a concept as...
A Quiet Place
The concept of an angry invading alien force has always been a terrifying concept, I mean hello, War of the Worlds? But an angry invading alien force that kills everything...
The Great Wall
Viewers who want period accuracy and believable tales can skip this one. For the rest, the story is entertaining, but not particularly surprising.
Posted by Book Rex on July 11, 2018
Shadow Woman
Readers should be prepared to suspend their disbelief as Lizette deals with the ramifications of some shady science, which is no longer performing as planned.
Jessica Jones Season 1
Jessica Jones sometimes recalls the gritty glamour of film noir from the ‘40s and ‘50s, but with less glamour and more grit. Lots more grit.
Dream Jumper: Nightmare Escape
Ben spends a lot of time in other people’s dreams. Literally. When Ben falls asleep, he gains the ability to “jump” into people’s heads, navigating the dream world and more-than-occasionally...
Posted by Book Rex on June 20, 2018
The Right Side
Army Sergeant LeAnne Hogan knows that there is something important that she must remember about her last mission in Afghanistan, called “Operation Midnight Special” but finds past events too elusive...
Posted by Adult Services on June 12, 2018
Fire Truck to the Rescue!
Fire Truck to the Rescue! is an interactive board book written for the active toddler. Open it up, grab hold of the handles built into the sides and you’re all...
Posted by Adrian L. on May 10, 2018
The Rooster Bar
Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school for the same reasons as many people. The work will be hard and the hours long but when you’re through you’ll be...
Posted by Alex C. on April 3, 2018
York: The Shadow Cipher
New York has always been a city shrouded in mystery but there is no mystery greater than the York Cipher, a puzzle consisting of a series of clues left by...
Posted by Book Rex on March 8, 2018
One Trick Pony
It’s Earth, and it’s the future: aliens are hunting humans to harvest electricity, and destroying civilization in the process. At the accidental center of the conflict is Strata, a girl...
Posted by Book Rex on January 25, 2018
Recess Warriors: Hero is a Four-Letter Word
When an outbreak of cooties threatens to turn the student body into a herd of zombies, Scrap and his friend Yoshi must act fast to save everyone. This action-packed adventure...
Posted by Book Rex on January 6, 2018
Hot Books December 2017!
Fiction Year One by Nora Roberts A mysterious ailment has decimated the globe. Half of the world’s population, gone in a matter of weeks. Government, law, order, all gone as...
Posted by Alex C. on December 13, 2017
Assassin’s Creed: Origins (PS4 and Xbox One)
Longtime-fans and those new to the series are once again dazzled by the new Assassin’s Creed:Origins. Blending historical fiction with a sci-fi twist in the present time, players travel back...
Posted by Book Rex on December 13, 2017
Mother Panic, Vol. 1: A Work in Progress
Batman isn’t the only hero in Gotham, anymore. Violet Page is on the scene now and she’s not happy. A celebrity of every gossip magazine in Gotham, there’s something boiling...
Posted by Book Rex on November 9, 2017
The Bad Guys
Mr. Wolf is tired of being a bad guy. With the help of his friends Mr. Snake, Mr. Shark, and Mr. Piranha, Mr. Wolf has come up with a plan...
Posted by Book Rex on November 4, 2017
The Switch
The security line was in a tangle at the Los Angeles airport, so Michael Tanner was relieved when a TSA agent handed him his MacBook Air – or what he...
Posted by Adult Services on October 14, 2017
Hot Books for October 2017!
Fiction Origin by Dan Brown Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology and frequent saver of the world, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to hear a major...
Posted by Alex C. on October 10, 2017
Hot Books for September 2017!
Haunted by James Patterson & James O. Born Michael Bennett is ready for a break. A New York City detective by trade, he and his family escape to an idyllic...
Posted by Alex C. on September 25, 2017
Wired
Beautiful Allison Trent loves searching for the puzzles in her computer hacking. It’s all for the good, she rationalizes, as she finds the money trail of missing funds at a...
Posted by Adult Services on September 7, 2017
Dark Matter
Jason is a college physics professor with a wife, and a 15 year old son. "Are you happy with your life" are the last words he hears before he wakes up...
Posted by Adult Services on August 23, 2017
The Mesmerist
13 year old Jessamine can see people’s thoughts and speak to the dead. To learn about her newfound powers she is shipped off the live with a family friend, in...
Posted by Book Rex on August 11, 2017
The Last Kids on Earth
The monster apocalypse has begun in 13-year old Jack Sullivan’s town, and he is holed up in his tricked-out treehouse, protected by a moat and catapults. He’s resourceful and has...
Posted by Adrian L. on July 13, 2017
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol. 1)
Wilhelmina Murray has been tasked with an intriguing adventure. She is to find and recruit gentlemen of certain talents for espionage work for the British Empire, as per her superior,...
Spirited Away
Little Chihiro is moving to a new city with her parents. On the way the family takes a detour, and happens upon what appears to be a run-down, out-of-business amusement...
Posted by on May 29, 2017
Rise of the Earth Dragon
Rise of the Earth Dragon has a fast-paced plot with plenty of adventure to keep a newly independent reader interested.
Posted by Adrian L. on May 25, 2017
An Ember in the Ashes
Laia, a member of a prominent Scholar family, helps her grandparents earn a meager living until her brother Darin is caught and arrested as a traitor of the Empire. Not...
Posted by Book Rex on May 18, 2017
Flashback Four #1: The Lincoln Project
Part history lesson, and part time-travel adventure story, this book could appeal to Dan Gutman fans and also to children who loved the Magic Tree House books, but are ready...
Posted by Adrian L. on April 27, 2017
The Passenger
When I found my husband at the bottom of the stairs, I tried to resuscitate him before I ever considered disposing of the body…I pretended to be weighing my options....
Posted by Adult Services on March 22, 2017
Dark Matter
Dark matter is a fast-paced scifi thriller that riffs on the idea of multiple universes, exploring the unknown territory of choices not made and roads not taken. In this world,...
Posted by Kerry B. on March 20, 2017
Dishonored 2
In the first Dishonored the queen is assassinated and her heir princess Emily is kidnapped. It is up to her right hand man Corvo a cunning and stealthy fighter to rescue...
The Bunker Diary
Though it is not for the faint of heart, [this story] is for readers who enjoy twisted characters, heaping spoonfuls of symbolism, and self reflection.
Posted by Book Rex on February 9, 2017
Batman: Return of the Caped Crusader
Do you miss a Batman that had a sense of humor, a Batman who does not growl when he talks, or a Batman who knew how to obey traffic laws?...
Cross Kill
Gary Soneji is dead. Or, at least, that’s what everyone thought. Alex Cross would know best, he was there when Soneji died. So when Soneji appears and shoots both Cross...
Posted by Alex C. on November 14, 2016
Behind Closed Doors
I often like to try new authors to see how their stories come to life from the brief summary given in a book release or promotion. When I read Behind Closed...
Posted by Adult Services on November 1, 2016
The Story Of Owen : Dragon Slayer Of Trondheim
This is a truly original story with elements of adventure and fantasy, yet it is also so real. The relationships between the characters are authentic and deep. People are the...
Posted by Adrian L. on October 27, 2016
Cursed Pirate Girl
Cursed Pirate Girl is Jeremy Bastian’s one-man show—theatrical, meticulous, and more than a little intense. Every page is itself a work of art, together the wonderfully baroque product of a...
Posted by Kerry B. on July 21, 2013