What’s New in 2020 for Kids

Start off the new year with a new book! Take a look at these fun and engaging picks for children.

Boxitects
By Kim Smith

A STEAM-centered, adorably illustrated picture book about Meg, a brilliant and creative boxitect who creates extraordinary things out of ordinary cardboard boxes!

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Dream Flights on Arctic Nights
By Brooke Hartman

With singsong rhymes and colorful illustrations, families are sure to enjoy this beautiful bedtime story to explore the Arctic before drifting off to sleep.

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Also new this month:

Bedtime for Sweet Creatures
By Nikki Grimes

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Chirp
By Kate Messner

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The Forgotten Girl
By India Hill Brown

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All about Graphic Novels

Have you ever read a graphic novel? If not, you are missing out on intriguing stories and bold artwork. The Pratt has a diverse group of titles for young adults and graphic novel enthusiasts. Take a look at what’s new!


Cosmoknights
By Hannah Templer

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Hotel Dare
By Terry Blas

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Komi Can’t Communicate, Volume 1
By Tomohito Oda

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LaGuardia
By Nnedi Okorafor

Book | eBook

Monstress, Volume 4
By Marjorie Liu

Book | eBook
Neil Gaiman’s Snow, Glass, Apples
By Neil Gaiman

Book | eBook
Space Boy, Volume 5
By Stephen McCranie

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Super Sons 2: The Foxglove Mission
By Ridley Pearson

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The Black Mage
By Daniel Barnes

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Hex Vet: The Flying Surgery
By Sam Davies

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The Umbrella Academy 3: Hotel Oblivion
By Gerald Way
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Wings of Fire: The Hidden Kingdom
By Tui T. Sutherland

Book | eBook

Let’s Focus on Fantasy Books!

Are you ready to escape from this cold weather? Open up one of these new novels and travel to a whole new world. Take a look at some of the new fantasy books available to check out at the Pratt.


The Deep
By Rivers Soloman

In this brilliantly imaginative novella, the water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society—and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future.

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Queen of the Conquered
By Kacen Callender

Sigourney Rose, an ambitious young woman with the power to control minds seeks vengeance against the royals who murdered her family, in a Caribbean-inspired fantasy world embattled by colonial oppression.

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The Ruin of Kings
By Jenn Lyons

Kihrin grew up in the slums of Quur, a thief and a minstrel’s son raised on tales of long-lost princes and magnificent quests. When he is claimed as the missing son of a treasonous prince, Kihrin finds himself at the mercy of his new family’s ruthless power plays and political ambitions.

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Also new in Fiction this month:

A Minute to Midnight
By David Baldacci

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Dead Astronauts
By Jeff Vandermeer

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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
By Zora Neale Hurston

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On Swift Horses
By Shannon Pufahl

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The Peppermint Tea Chronicles
By Alexander McCall
Smith

Book | eBook
The Wicked Redhead
By Beatrix Williams
Book | eBook

Fight the Chill with these Thrillers

We don’t want to keep you waiting in suspense. Here’s a list of the latest mysteries, crime dramas, and thrillers new to the Pratt. Check them out!

A Longer Fall
By Charlaine Harris

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All That’s Bright and Gone
By Eliza Nellums

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Blue Moon
By Lee Child

Book | eBook | eAudio
First Cut
By Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell

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The Chestnut Man
By Soren Sveistrup

Book | eBook
The Last Affair
By Margot Hunt

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The Lying Room
By Nicci French

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The Vanishing
By Jayne Ann Krentz

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Verity
By Colleen Hoover

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This December in Nonfiction

Are you a fan of nonfiction books? If so take a look of these thought-provoking and intriguing novels new to the Pratt’s shelves.

All Blood Runs Red
By Phil Keith
Felon: Poems
By Reginald Dwayne Betts
Finding Chika
By Mitch Albom
Haben
By Haben Girma
In the Dream House
By Carmen Maria Machado
Life Undercover
By Amaeyllis Fox
On the Plain of Snakes
By Paul Theroux
Self-Portrait in Black and White
By Thomas Chatterton Williams
The Way I Heard It
By Mike Rowe

The Yellow House
By Sarah M. Broom
Walking to Jerusalem
By Justin Butcher
Wild Game
By Adrienne Brodeur

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
By Caitlin Doughty