New and Featured Titles for Libraries | January 2025

Meet the 2025 Honorees!  


The 2025 Modern Library Awards (MLAs) is proud to announce its review scores from participating companies in this special supplement to Library Products & Services News. The MLAs are an unbiased program recognizing the elite products and services that serve the library industry. Companies provided concise write-ups of their products/services and submitted them for review. Judging forms were then sent out to the LibraryWorks readership – librarians in public, academic, K-12, and special libraries – who then submitted their reviews on a 1-10 scoring system. Each judge had to have had experience with the product/service, and each participating company also had to provide at least four references of library placements to submit their forms. The LibraryWorks staff had no influence on the scoring.

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT

 

Queer Rites: A Magickal Grimoire to Honor Your Milestones with Pride 
Enfys J. Book 


Embrace Your Personal Power with 20 Queer-Specific Rituals 

 

" Queer Rites is as magic and special as they come."
Cassandra Snow, author of  Queering the Tarot

 

Unique milestones and rites of passage should be honored and celebrated. This book will help you do that in ways that are both thoughtful and spiritual. Regardless of your skill level or spiritual tradition,  Queer Rites makes it simple to connect your lived experiences to your magickal practice and commemorate occasions in a way that resonates with your unique and wonderful self.

 

Includes a foreword by Ariana Serpentine, author of Sacred Gender, and rituals by guest writers Storm Faerywolf, Misha Magdalene, Brandon Weston, and Rev. Ron Padrón

 

"Enfys has taken the elements of Queer life that for so many have gone unnoticed and uncelebrated and offered a cohesive, powerful, and magical way to ritualize them. This is a handbook for individuals, groups, and communities alike."
Kristoffer Hughes, author of  The Book of Druidry

 

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT

 

Chinese Astrology: Life, Love, and Luck in Twelve Animal Signs
Donna Stellhorn 

 

Are You a Dragon, a Rabbit, an Ox, a Rooster?

Find out your animal sign in this Beginner Friendly Guide to Chinese Astrology

 

In Chinese Astrology, 2025 represents the year of the Snake, and more specifically, the Wood Snake. In this engaging guide, Donna Stellhorn unveils the secrets of the twelve animal signs (rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, pig) and the five elements (fire, earth, metal, water, wood), offering insights into your character, relationships, and more.

 

Each animal is given its own chapter, in which the reader will learn how each sign navigates love, family, money, and career. Readers will also explore the unique energies of the Four Pillar (Bazi) chart and use monthly and yearly forecasts by sign to seize upcoming opportunities. This concise, yet comprehensive resource provides practical advice, compatibility information, and ancient knowledge to help you live better. Here is a book that is ideal for both beginners and seasoned astrologers.

 

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT

 

The Dream Cure: How Recalling Your Dreams Can Heal Your Life 
Theresa Cheung 

 

Dream expert, Theresa Cheung, who Women's Health magazine called "the British Grande Dame of psychic and spiritual studies," shows you how to unravel the mysteries of your unconscious mind in this exciting new book.

 

The Dream Cure provides a map for your path to self-discovery and healing. Theresa Cheung reveals the meanings of common dream symbols and themes, helping you harness their power to resolve anxieties, overcome obstacles, and ignite positive transformation. She teaches you how to use dreams to improve creativity, glimpse the future, and understand yourself more than ever before. Improve both your waking and dreaming lives with the tools Theresa provides to make the best of your dreams.

 

“The essential book to fix your life from the inside."
Richard Moriarty, North West District Editor for  The Sun

 

"Theresa is an astonishing night poet."
Nicky Campbell, broadcaster on BBC Radio

 

YOUTH FICTION

 

The Dragon’s Brain 
Dr. Gerold Yonas 


Cheap green energy may have just doomed humanity. Dr. Alek Spray’s scientific breakthrough for clean energy is revolutionary and will change the world for the better. But soon a mysterious neurological disease begins to affect people near the new power plants and Alek and his team must scramble to find a cure. But the cure may be more dangerous than the disease. When a Chinese crime syndicate turns the cure into a new weapon for world domination Alek and his team must find a way to stop them before his inventions forever alter the course of humanity. 

SPECIAL WEBINAR

Libraries Transform Lives: Creating Intentional, Life-Changing Moments

 

 "Libraries Transform Lives," but how are we doing it and can we be more systematic in this regard?

 

Every day, library staff are engaging with people and empowering them. During the webinar, attendees will gain insights into how everyday library interactions
can turn into life-changing moments for patrons. The session will provide practical strategies and helpful models that can shift library service from transactional to transformational. Participants will have opportunities to share their own stories and examples. 

 

Webinar Details:

  • Date / Time: April 3, 2025; 2:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern
  • Registration Fee: $49 per person. Register here.
  • Group Rates: Groups of four or more are just $25 per person. Register your group here.
  • Presenter: Sharon Morris
  • 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the Parkinson’s Foundation!

 

Thursday, January 30, 2025​2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern
 
​Wednesday, February 5, 2025​2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern​
 
​Thursday, February 20, 2025​2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern
 
Thursday, February 27, 2025​2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern​
 
​Thursday, March 6, 2025​2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern​
YOUTH FICTION

The Famished Country

Jennifer Bohnhoff

 

They survived the battles. Can they survive the road home? As the defeated Confederate Army retreats, Jemmy Martin must survive the final fighting, disease, and starvation to return home. Cian Loclann only wants to leave the Union Army and return to Colorado to start a new life but is swept up by the charismatic Maj. John Chivington. And Raul Atencio must protect his family from both Armies without getting entangled in either. The battles may be over but hate and death still threaten in this thrilling conclusion to the Rebels Along the Rio Grande trilogy.

 

YOUTH FICTION

 

My Bonney Lies Under

Susan Cummins Miller

 

In August 1885, aboard the steamship Oceanic, scientific prodigy Keridec Rees, orphaned daughter of a Welsh geologist father and a French botanist mother, is returning to San Francisco from the Orient when her companion, Anne Bonney, disappears. After Keri’s attacked, she and her guardians must unite to discover who wants her dead—and why. To this quest she brings analytical problem-solving skills, artistic proficiency, an aptitude for shooting targets, tenacity, and the support of a motley crew of allies. She will need them all if she’s to reach America alive and lay the foundations of a new life.

 

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