New on the shelf this month

A day without laughter and learning is a day wasted! Have fun reading and telling these jokes. What's as big as a bear and weighs nothing? Read this book to find the answer. 

It all started at the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). Someone found a “Top Secret” document. We couldn’t make sense of what it said. Maybe you could help us figure it out. Some think it’s j...

A preview and review of the events that lead up to and include the American Revolution from 1775 to 1781. A timeline is also included.

What do mermaids use for money? Sand dollars! Note to parents, grandparents, and other adults: Children do not have to get or understand every joke. Say, “You’ll get the joke later or when you are...

The Art of Dad JokesMasterpieces of Maximum Groan – 750+ Legendary Dad Jokes2026 Father’s Day EditionThere is a special kind of humor that lives at the heart of family life—simple, predictable, ...

A part of science is asking questions, then guessing the answers and checking your answers. It’s okay to guess wrong. You can learn even from a wrong guess. Guess how many water drops fit on a penny...

"Why did the chicken cross the road?”"To get to the other side."I loved that joke and retold it for years, as did millions of children who recall it as their first and archetypal riddle. We were per...

Zila Katz remembers the moment she first saw him—blue jeans, black boots, confident stride, the kind of presence that makes the world tilt. She remembers the spark. The certainty. The feeling that h...

Lockdown. Murder. And a biodome that shouldn’t connect to anything—except it does.Trouble follows Marcy Mayhem everywhere. On the Fresh Start, it arrives as fear when passengers swear they’ve se...

Matthew 28:18-20 reads: "Then Jesus came to them and said, 'All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the...

The Fens – flat and boring for some, magical and irresistible for others.Fenlands is a work in two parts. Fenlanders is a collection of ten short stories set in the Fens from the 1950s to the 1990s....

As the plague spreads further throughout the northern realm of Raylinette, guards pile corpses ever higher under the burning flames and citizens rage through the streets willing to do almost anything ...