By Dorothy Ethridge
Guest Writer
Moss Memorial Library in Hayesville offers a diverse range of new arrivals each week. The library is open 9 a.m. - 8 p.m. on Tuesday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday.
The latest fiction for young adults:
• Wendy Xu’s “Mooncakes” transports you to a gorgeous magical realm with lovable characters, a joyful graphic fantasy.
• Shamin Sarif’s “The Shadow Mission” features a feminist Jason Bourne or James Bond with female spies, arch enemies and quick pacing. The sequel to The Athena Protocol.
• Jennifer Donnelly’s “Poisoned.” A fairytale retelling of Snow White with a pro-feminist twist that questions negative comments and the doubts they create.
• Tom Ryan’s “I Hope You’re Listening.” A small town erupts when a child goes missing from the neighborhood in which a still-unsolved kidnapping occurred years earlier.
• Sarah Goodman’s “Eventide.” When her father descends into madness Verity and her sister find themselves uprooted from New York, on an orphan train to rural Arkansas. A debut historical fantasy thriller.
• Maggie Stiefvater’s “Swamp Thing-Twin Branches” unearths the primal power of memory and how it twists the bind between two brothers. A graphic novel.
• Jason Reynolds’ “Long Way Down.” A graphic novel told in free verse.
• Samantha Cohoe’s “Golden Fury.” A debut novel that is psychologically unsettling, darkly magical and patriarchy-smashing.
• Marissa Meyer’s “Instant Karma.” An irresistible hate-to-love romance about a girl who suddenly has the power to cast karma on the people around her.
Non-fiction for young adults:
• Ruth Gruener’s “Out of Hiding.” A Holocaust survivor’s journey to America.
• Brian Kilmeade’s “Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.” The war that changed American history.
• Brian Kilmeade’s “George Washington’s Secret Six.” The spies who saved America.
• Sophia Thaker’s “Somebody Give This Heart A Pen.” Poetry that explores the emotions and experiences of growing up as a mixed race woman.
• Luke Reynolds’ “Fantastic Failures” and “Even More Fantastic Failures.” True stories of people who changed the world by falling down first including profiles on Obama, Socrates, Greta Thunberg, Einstein, Van Gogh, Julia Child, Spielberg and J.K. Rowling.
• Uri Shulevitz’s “Chance--Escape from the Holocaust,” an enthralling memoir of a displaced childhood.
•Michael Tougias’ “Attacked At Sea.” A true WWII story of a family’s fight for survival.
• Josh Swiller’s “Bright Shining World.” Coming of age in a time of accelerating chaos and finding hope, courage and community in a darkening world.
• Helen Skelton’s “Wild Girl.” How to have incredible outdoor adventures.
Moss Memorial Library also offers books on CD as well as DVD movies.
For details on events at the library call 389-8401.
If you or someone you know for any reason are unable to get to the library and would like bookmobile service, call the Nantahala Regional Library at (828) 837-2025.