February 2024

In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time. Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. But time travel isn’t so simple, and there are rules that must be followed. Most important, the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold. The first in a compelling series.

San Francisco, 1952. Detective Evander “Andy” Mills has started a new life for himself as a private detective – but his business hasn’t exactly taken off. It turns out that word spreads fast when you have a bad reputation, and no one trusts him enough to ask an ex-cop for help. The second entry in Rosen’s Evander Mills series, this dazzling historical mystery asks, “Once you have finally found a family, how far would you go to prove yourself to them?”

Spikes knows what’s it like to be an outsider. He certainly knew he didn’t fit the mold of a successful future tech entrepreneur. But he marshaled his resilience and ultimately set out to shatter that mold – along with the glass ceiling that came with it. Finding his footing in the tech world was an education in the complexities of being an outsider – but as Spikes came to see, rather than a hindrance, it afforded him a unique position of power.

Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the the seventh installment in the Murderbot Diaries. These books are wildly popular with teens.

Black Mirror meets Get Out in this gripping story collection, which deftly blends science fiction, horror and fantasy to examine issues of race, class and prejudice.

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial artists who haunt the region. On the road to Betony Docks, they fall in with a pair of young women far from home, and an older couple who are more than they seem. As Chih runs headlong into an ancient feud, they find themself far more entangled in the history of the riverlands than they ever expected to be. Accompanied by Almost Brilliant, a talking bird with an indelible memory, Chih confronts old legends and new dangers alike as they learn that every story – beautiful, ugly, kind or cruel – bears more than one face. The third entry in the enormously popular, Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle.

Twelve year-old Maizy discovers her family’s Chinese restaurant is full of secrets in this irresistible Newbery Honor novel that celebrates food, fortune and family.

Caldecott Honor winner Stein returns to the world of Beaky Barnes with this follow-up graphic novel featuring his signature humor and unmistakable art style. Great fun!

Mia likes many of the things other people like--going to the beach, the color blue, drawing. But she doesn't like when strangers stare at her because she looks different from them. In this sparkling picture book, Mia offers a glimpse into the life of a child with Down syndrome, helping some readers see themselves in a book and helping others understand those friends, classmates and family members who are neurodivergent.