Patrons can put a hold on books which are “on-order.” When they arrive on our door-step the Southwest Harbor Public Library patrons with holds will be the ones reading these books before they go out to other libraries on inter-library loan. If you need help putting books on hold using the digital catalog please stop by the library or give us a call (244-7065) and one of the circulation desk staff will be happy to walk you through the process.
By: Gumbiner, Daniel
At 28 years old, Eli “Berg” Koenigsberg has never encountered a challenge he couldn’t push through, until a head injury leaves him with lingering headaches and a weakness for opiates. Addled by addiction and chronic pain, Berg meets Alejandro, a reclusive, master boatbuilder, and begins to see a path forward.
Author: Morris, Heather
An international best-seller based on the true story of an Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor traces the experiences of a Jewish Slovakian who uses his position as a concentration-camp tattooist to secure food for his fellow prisoners.
So far so good: poems
Author:Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018
Redolent of myths, history, nursery rhymes, and the natural world, LeGuin bookends a long, daring, and prolific career.
Author:Child, Lee
Series:Jack Reacher novels, 23
Detouring to his father’s childhood hometown at the beginning of a cross-country hitchhiking tour, Jack uncovers disturbing family revelations at the same time he becomes entangled in a dangerous high-ticket sale.
Author:Moriarty, Liane
Gathering at a remote health resort for a 10-day fitness program, nine strangers and their enigmatic host become subjects of interest to a brokenhearted novelist who develops uncomfortable doubts about the resort’s real agenda.
Author:Obama, Michelle, 1964-
An intimate memoir by the former First Lady chronicles the experiences that have shaped her remarkable life, from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago through her setbacks and achievements in the White House.
Author:Evanovich, Janet
Series:Stephanie Plum mysteries, 25
When three consecutive managers from a famous deli go missing, leaving no clues behind but a single shoe each, latest manager Stephanie Plum navigates Lula’s theories about alien abductions to avoid becoming the next victim.
By: Abdulali, Sohaila
The acclaimed viral Mumbai journalist draws on personal experiences, inspiring survivor testimonies and meticulous research in an urgent call to action that illuminates the socio-economics and cultural realities of rape from the perspectives of survivors, counselors and activists.
By: Baldacci, David
Devoting her life to bringing criminals to justice after her twin is murdered in childhood, FBI agent Atlee Pine investigates a missing-persons case in the Grand Canyon that may be tied to a string of disappearances.
By: Bernhard, Emilia
A charming series debut featuring two American sleuths in Paris, Death in Paris is a perfect traditional mystery for fans of M. L. Longworth and Juliet Blackwell.
By: Clark, Mary Higgins
Television producer Laurie Moran sets aside her wedding plans to solve the murder of a celebrity doctor, placing herself in the path of a mysterious stalker.
By: Cussler, Clive
As the world’s oil supply is vanishing and the stock market is plummeting, the NUMA team must solve a baffling historical mystery in order to save the future.
The end of the end of the earth: essays
By: Franzen, Jonathan
A provocative new essay collection by the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections includes an exploration of his complex relationship with his uncle, an assessment of the global seabird crisis and his young adulthood in New York.
By: Lepore, Jill, 1966-
In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American history.
By: Lethem, Jonathan
Convincing an enigmatic loner to help her search for a friend’s missing daughter, Phoebe traverses the outskirts of California’s stunning Inland Empire, where she discovers her companion’s complicated relationship with warring tribes of outcasts.
By: Martin, George R. R.
The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in this masterly work by the author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the inspiration for HBO’s Game of Thrones.
By: Penny, Louise
The six-time Agatha Award-winning author of such best-sellers as Still Life and The Cruelest Month presents a latest entry in the popular Chief Inspector Gamache series.
Series: Inspector Armand Gamache mysteries, 14