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New May Releases

Post Published: May 8, 2026

Spring cleaning?

We prefer spring reading. Luckily for us, May is bursting with great new releases just waiting to be added to your to-be-read pile.

Place your holds on our new monthly book releases in the library catalog.

Enormous Wings by Laurie Frankel examines bodily autonomy, motherhood and aging when 77-year-old Pepper Mills moves into a retirement home, finds new love and shockingly gets pregnant.

When best friends Juniper and Mo end up on an unexpected dragon hunt, they learn the fearsome beast is actually a scared child and they must change tracks to find the real monster while battling their growing attraction in Máire Roche’s cozy Bromantasy.

Author and translator Sara Nović's new memoir, Mother Tongue, details her journey with deafness after gradually losing her hearing as a child and hiding her disability until college. She uses her own story to explore identity, discrimination, eugenics, education, adoption and more.

In The Lost Voices of Pompeii, historian and archaeologist Jess Venner draws on deep archaeological evidence to speculatively reconstruct the lives of seven people in Pompeii as they go about their day in the hours before Mount Vesuvius erupts.

When the Wisest of the Wise Witches proclaims Tessa to be the chosen one destined to save her people, Tessa is pretty sure they have the wrong person. She and her best friend are off to an adventure to find someone else for the job in Amy Sparkes’ humorous middle grade series opener, The Unchosen One.

Looking for her missing twin, Lehua travels to an ultra-exclusive resort where Ohia supposedly had an internship. When she’s stranded there by an incoming storm, Lehua discovers the resort is hiding a dark history and much darker secrets than she imagined in Keala Kendall’s teen horror novel, That Which Feeds Us.

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Got research? Start with Explora.

Access the new research tool Explora in the library catalog.

Whether you are conducting research for a school project or just looking to satisfy your curiosity about a topic of interest, Explora can help you achieve your goals.

Available for free through the Library, Explora offers reliable information on thousands of topics covering a wide range of subjects including art and music, literature, geography, history, science, technology, world cultures and more.

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