New Books & Bookpacks

At the Kennebecasis Public Library, we're always getting new books. So don't forget to bookmark this page so that you can return and see what's been added to the shelves!

Check out the online library catalogue.


Adult Fiction Adult Non-Fiction Biography CDs & DVDs
Young Adult Fiction Junior Fiction Junior Non-Fiction Junior Fiction Picture
  Graphic Novels Audio Books  

What Are Bookpacks?

The Bookpack is a small backpack containing several children's books that help to demystify some of the important stages in a child's life.

The themes currently developed into Bookpacks are

In English: In French:
Dentist
Hospital
New Baby
Doctor
Potty Training
Separation
Moving Day
First Day of School
Optometrist
Dentist
Hospital
New Baby
Doctor
Potty Training
Separation
Moving Day
First Day of School

The Kennebecasis Public Library currently has backpacks only in English, but holds can be placed on those in the French language if needed.

The Bookpack can be borrowed for a three-week period with the possibility of renewal. Just like a regular book!

Adult Fiction

January 2012

Adler-Olsen, Jussi
The keeper of lost causes
New York: Dutton, c2011

Gabaldon, Diana
The scottish prisoner

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, c2011

Edugyan, Esi
Half-blood blues
Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers, c2011

Colfer, Eoin
Plugged
New York: The Overlook Press, 2011

Connelly, Michael
The drop
New York: Little Brown and Company, 2011

Cornwell, Patricia Daniels
Red Mist
Penguin Group (USA), 2011

Coady, Lynn
The antagonist
Toronto: House of Anansi Press, c2011

December 2011

Alexandar, Tasha
A crimson warning
New York: Minotaur Books, 2011

Benison, C.C.
Twelve drummers drumming
[Toronto]*: Doubleday Canada, c2011

Blackwood, David
Black ice
Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, c2011

Brewer, Heather
First kill
New York: Dial Books, c2011

Coulter, Catherine
The prince of Ravenscar
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2011

Cussler, Clive
Devil's gate
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2011

Dailey, Janet
Bannon brothers: trust
New York: Kensington Books, c2011

De la Cruz, Melissa
Lost in time
New York: Hyperion, 2011

Dixon, Heather
Entwined
New York: Greenwillow Books, c2011

Ferguson, Will
Canadian pie
Toronto: Viking Canada, 2011

Grafton, Sue
V is for vengeance
Penguin Group (USA), 2011

Grisham, John
The litigators
New York: Doubleday, c2011

*Hakk*akiy*an, Rut*a
Assassins of the turquoise
New Yor: Grove Press, c2011

Holder, Nancy
Damned
New York: Simon Ppulse, 2011

Horowitz, Anthony
The house of silk
New York: Mulholland Books

Kaaberbol, Lene
The boy in the suitcase
New York: Soho Press, c2011

Karpyshyn, Drew
Revan
New York: Del Rey/Ballantine Books, c2011

King, Stephen
11/22/63
New York: Scribner, 2011

Maguire, Gregory
Out of Oz
New York: William Morrow, c2011

Maillet, G.M.
Wicked autumn
New York: Minotaur Books, 2011

McKay, Ami
The virgin cure
Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2011

Mills, Kyle
Robert Ludlum's The Ares decision
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2011

Patterson, James
Kill Alex Cross
New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2011

Penny, Louise
A trick of the light
New York: Minotaur Books, 2011

Perry, Anne
A Christmas homecoming
New York: Ballantine Books, c2011

Pratchett, Terry
Snuff
Transworld Publishers Limited, 2011

Schulze, Ingo
Adam and Evelyn; translated from the German by John E. Woods
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011

Shepard, Sara
Everything we ever wanted
New York: Harper, c2011

Sparks, Nicholas
The best of me
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2011

Steel, Danielle
Hotel Vendome
New York: Delacorte Press, c2011

Starsnick, Lauren
Her and me and you
New York: Simon Pulse, 2011

Vincenzi, Penny
The decision
London: Headline, 2011

Virge, Vernor
The children of the sky
New York: Tor, 2011

Alexandar, Tasha
A crimson warning
New York: Minotaur Books, 2011

Dubois, Amelie
La consouerie qui boit le champagne
Montreal: Edition du Club Quebec loisirs, 2011
 

Adult Non-Fiction

January 2012

Glain, Stephen
State vs. Defense: the battle to define America's empire
New York: Crown Publishers, 2011

Chilton, David Barr
The wealthy barber returns
Kitchener, ON: Finacnail Awareness Corp., c2011

Englund, Peter
The beauty and the sorrow: an intimate history of the First World War 
New York: Alfred Knopf, c2011

Coates, Kenneth
Campus confidential: 100 startling things you don't know about Canadian universities
Toronto: Lorimer, c2011

December 2011

Kissinger, Henry
Does the 21st century belong to China?: the munk debate on China
Berkeley, CA: House of Anansi Press, 2011

Lethem, Jonathan
The ecstasy of influence
New York: Doubleday, c2011

Macdougall, J.D.
Why geology matters: decoding the past, anticipating the future
Berkeley: University of California Press, c2011

Pinker, Steven
The better angels of our nature: why violence has decline
New York: Viking, 2011

Proteau, Adam
Fighting the good fight: why on-ice violence is killing hockey
Mississauge, ON: Wiley, c2011

Prouty, Nada
Uncompromised: the rise and fall of an Arab-American patriot in the CIA
New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011

Rayworth, Colin B.
The settlement of Long Island in hte Kennebecasis River, Parish of Kingston, County of Kings, Province of New Brunswick, 1785-1960
Fredericton, N.B.: Colin B. Rayworth

Roberts, James A.
Shiny objects: why we spend money we don't have in search of happiness we can't buy
New York: HarperOne, c2011


Diplomacy in the digital age: essays in honour of Ambassador Allan Gotlieb
Toronto: Signal, c2011
 

Trump, Donald
Midas touch: why some entrepreneurs get rich- and why most don't
Scottsdale, AZ: Plata Publishing, 2011

Junior Fiction

January 2012

Gold, Maya
Swan Fake
New York: Scholastic, c2011

Fagan, Cary
Ella May and the wishing stone
Toronto: Tundra Books, c2011

DeMeulemeester, Linda
Grim Hill: forest of secrets

Montreal: Lobster Press, c2011

Eliopoulas, Chris
Okie Dokie Donuts: "Open for business!"

Marietta, GA: Top Shelf Productions, c2011

Bergen, Lara
Sophie the snoop
New York: Scholastic, c2011

Carman, Patrick
Things that go bump in the night
New York: Scholastic, c2011

Chabon, Michael
The astonishing secret of awesome man
New York: Balzer & Bray, c2011

December 2011

Osborne, Mary Pope
A crazy day with cobras
New York: Random House, c2011

Pyron, Bobbie
A dog's way home
New York: Katherine Tegen Books, c2011

Riordan, Rick
The son of Neptune
New York: Disney/Hyperion Books, c2011

Junior Non-Fiction

January 2012

Gilbert, Sara
The story of Apple
Collingwood, ON: Saunders Book Company, c2012

Gilbert, Sara
The story of eBay
Collingwood, ON: Saunders Book Company, c2012

Gilbert, Sara
The story of NFL
Collingwood, ON: Saunders Book Company, c2012

Diemer, Lauren
Igloo
Calgary: Weigl, c2011

Baldwin, Douglas
The Bloc québécois
Calgary: Weigl Educational Publishers, c2012

Baldwin, Douglas
The Conservative Party
Calgary: Weigl Educational Publishers, c2012

Baldwin, Douglas
The Liberal Party
Calgary: Weigl Educational Publishers, c2012

Bekkering, Annalise
Mounties
Calgary: Weigl, c2011

December 2011

Williams, Anne-Marie
Learn to speak dance: a guide to creating, performing, and promoting your moves
Toronto: Owlkids Books, c2011

Junior Fiction Picture

January 2012

Cronin, Doreen
The trouble with chickens
New York: Balzer + Bray, c2011

November 2011

Blackford, Andy
The hungry little monkey
New York: Crabtree, 2011

Biography

January 2011

Arden, Jann
Falling backwards
Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, c2011

December 2011

DeGeneres, Ellen
Seriously, I'm kidding
New York: Grand Central Pub., 2011

Naifeh, Steven W.
Van Gogh: the life
New York: Random House, c2011

Rogak, Lisa
And nothing but the truthiness. the rise (and further) of Stephen Colbert
St. Martin's Press, 2011

Spenh, Michael
The color of rain: how two families found faith, hope & love in the midst of tragedy
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, c2011

Unger, Miles
Machiavelli
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011

CDs & DVDs

December 2011

Dr. Seuss's holidays on the loose! (DVD)
[United States]: Kaboom! Kids, 2011

Franklin's Christmas gift (DVD)
[United States]: Kaboom! Kids, 2011

Blink 182- Neighbourhoods (CD)
[United States]: Dgc, 2011

Kanye West- Watch the throne (CD)
[United States]: Def Jam, 2011

Cars 2 (DVD)
Widescreen
Calif.: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, c2011

Lonely Island- Turtleneck & Chain
[United States]: Universal Republic, 2011

Lenny Kravitz- Black and white America (CD)
[United States]: Road Runner Records, 2011

Joss Stone- Lp1 (CD)
[United States]: Surfdog Records, 2011

X-Men (DVD)
Widescreen
Beverly Hills, Calif: Twentieth Century

Young Adult Fiction

January 2012

D'Lacey, Chris
Fire World
New York: Orchard Books, 2011

Bray, Libba
Beauty queens
New York: Scholastic Press, c2011

Clare, Cassandra
Clockwork prince
New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2011

Cabot, Meg
Abandon
New York: Point, 2011

December 2011

Cast, P.C.
Dragon's Oath
New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2011

Hand, Cynthia
Unearthly
New York: HarperTeen, c2011

edited by Megan Kelley Hall and Carrie Jones
Dear bully: 70 authors tell their stories
New York: Harperteen, [2011]

Nelson, Blake
Recovery Road
New York: Scholastic Press, 2011

Paolini, Christopher
Inheritance, or, the vault of souls
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011

Patterson, James
Demons and druids
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011, c2010

Smith, L.J, (Lisa J.)
Midnight
New York: Harperteen, 2011

Summers, Courtney
Fall for anything
New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2011, c2010

Graphic Novels

January 2012

Croall, Marie P.
Under his spell: or Elf possessed, or Love and dust, or My boyfriend is a faerie
Minneapolis: Graphic Universe, c2011

Bannister
The parting
Minneapolis, Minn: Graphic Universe, 2011

Chantler, Scott
The sign of the black rock
Toronto: Kids Can Press, c2011

December 2011

Card, Orson Scott
Laddertop
illustrated by Honoel A. Ibardolaza

Card, Orson Scott
Pathfinder
New York: Simon Pulse, 2011, c2010

Audio Books

December 2011

King, Stephen
11/23/63
Unabridged
[United States]: Simon and Schuster Audio, 2011

Chenoweth, Kristin
Some lessons learned (CD)
[United States]: Masterworks, 2011