Summer Reading Special Feature
Owing to the American Libraries/NEH/ARPA grant we received to help support our summer programs, we've been able to purchase a lot of additional materials.
We've added books tied to the Humanities and/or the Summer Theme of Oceans of Possibilities to our collection. We have subjects and reading levels that we hope will interest all ages. You aren't required to read these titles to participate, but we hope they'll spark your interest. Quite a few of the titles deal with the oceans of possibilities that exist right here in New Mexico (and not just because we were once an inland sea!).
We have books on oceans, but we also have them on road trips (because travel is part of the oceans of possibility), on NM because we’re here (and we were once an inland sea) and birds and films and ghosts because that all ties to our summer programs in other ways. So, tons of…. possibilities
IF you do participate in the program, we also have MANY books to give away! All the titles we have as give-aways are in the catalog, but you can also win your very own copy by participating in the program.
A full list of the titles appears below and will be updated as more are added to our collection.
*Items mean we have at least one copy to give away as a prize. Maybe more.
Adult Fiction
*The Ghost Pirates, by William Hope Hodgson
*Flowers for the Sea, by Zin E Rocklyn
*Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
*Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St. John Mandel
*Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue, edited by Sheree Ren Thomas
Adult Non-Fiction
China by Peggy Kames
*Monsters of the Deep by Nicholas Redfern
Home/land: a memoir of departure and return by Rebecca Mead
*Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural by Marc Hartzman
Haunted New Mexico: Ghosts & Strange Phenomena of the Land of Enchantment by Christine Rogel
Haunted Hotels and Ghostly Getaways of New Mexico by Donna Blake Birchell
Requiem for America's Best Idea: National Parks in the Era of Climate Change, by Michael J Yochim
Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs, by Juli Berwald,
National Geographic Ocean: A Global Odyssey, by Sylvia A Earle
Octopus, Seahorse, Jellyfish, by David Liittschwager
Sea Turtles to Sidewinders: A Guide to The Most Fascinating Reptiles & Amphibians of the West, by Charles Hood
An Eye for Birds, by Bruce Kendrick
Birds of New Mexico: Field Guide, by Stan Tekiela
Holding Back the River: The Struggle Against Nature on America's Waterways, by Tyler J Kelley
*Around the World in 80 Books, by David Damrosch
*The Best American Travel Writing 2021
Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age, by Robert D. Kaplan
Scary Monsters and Super Creeps: In Search of the World's Most Hideous Beasts, by Dom Joly
Lonely Planet's Armchair Explorer
100 Countries, 5,000 Ideas: Where to Go, When to Go, What to see, What to Do
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan, by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Atlas of the Invisible: Maps & Graphics That Will Change How You See the World, by James Cheshire
North American Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the Continent, Matthew Bucklan
Amsterdam, Brussels, and Bruges, by Karen Turner
The Netherlands — 2022
Great American Road Trips: Hidden Gems
A Guide to New Mexico Film Locations: From Billy the Kid to Breaking Bad and Beyond, by Jason Strykowski
Fodor's Essential Southwest — 2022
First Impressions: A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest, by David J Weber
*Persians: The Age of the Great Kings, by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Stunning Iceland, by Bertrand Jouanne
New Mexico Ghost Towns, by Donna Blake Birchell
Tucumcari Tonite!: A Story of Railroads, Route 66, and The Waning of a Western Town, by David Hodges Stratton
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific, by Brandon Presser
Youth Non-fiction
Frightful Ghost Ships, by James Roland
Haunted at Sea, by Jaime Winters
Earth, Sea & Stars: Inspiring Tales of the Natural World, by Isabel Otter
Coral Reefs: Cities of the Ocean, by Maris Wicks
Oceanarium, by Loveday Trinick
One Well: The Story of Water on Earth, by Rochelle Strauss
Dart and Dive Across the Reef: Life in the world's Busiest Reefs, by Vassiliki Tzomaka
Can You Protect the Coral Reefs?: An Interactive Eco Adventure, by Michael Burgan
Tales of Ancient Worlds: Adventures in Archaeology, by Stefan Milosavljevich
Young Adult
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, by Axie Oh
Easy Reader
I Am the Shark, by Joan Holub
Over and Under the Canyon, by Kate Messner
Oceans, by Andrea Mills
The Global Ocean, by Rochelle Strauss
Show Us Where You Live, Humpback, by Beryl Young
Early Reader
I wish I was a Sea Turtle, by Jennifer Bové
Coral Reefs in Danger, by Samantha Brooke
Captain Cat and the Pirate Lunch, by Emma J Virján
Chapter Books
Magic Tree House - A Merlin Mission: Shadow of the Shark, by Mary Pope Osborne
Dolphins and Sharks: A Nonfiction Companion to Dolphins at Daybreak, by Mary Pope Osborne
Graphic Novels
The Aquanaut, by Dan Santat
Juvenile
Hawai'i Sea Turtle Rescue, by James O Fraioli,
Crocs, by Randy Wayne White
Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan

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Find more information about all our kid programs and many for adults in the most recent Bookworms, our newsletter for children and families.

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