Mound City Library #4, Mary Sommerville Library

06/01/2026

Fireworks is a sparkling picture book from the award-winning team of Matthew Burgess and Cátia Chien, highlighting the simple delights of a steamy July day in the city as two siblings eagerly anticipate a spectacular fireworks display.

POP!

06/01/2026

05/30/2026

A Parade of Horribles is the eighth book in Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl series, released on May 12, 2026, featuring Carl and Donut on the dungeon's tenth floor, which involves dangerous races and ignoring glitches as they face new challenges and whispers about the mysterious eleventh floor.

05/29/2026

SFPD’s Sergeant Lindsay Boxer's best friend, Claire Washburn, is named medical examiner of the year. But an uninvited guest crashes the Women’s Murder Club's party: a concerned father seeking investigative reporter Cindy Thomas’s help in locating his missing daughter. And she’s not the only one. Lindsay’s been investigating the deaths of a Jane Doe washed up on a nearby beach, and a young woman found in Golden Gate Park.

What if all these cases are connected?

The answers lie with the 26 Beauties on the run and in the wind.

05/28/2026

Dinosaurology: The Search for a Lost World, a 2013 installment in the Ology series from Candlewick Press, follows adventurer Raleigh Rimes and Colonel Percy Fawcett on a 1907 expedition to find living dinosaurs in South America. The interactive, 30-page book mimics a vintage field journal featuring, maps, booklets, and, a, mock, skin, sample, to, blend, fictional, adventure, with, real, paleontological, facts.

05/28/2026

Between their busy lives and their far-flung residences, the Mother-Daughter Book Club—four longtime college friends and their five daughters—more often discuss the books on their nightstands via 2 a.m. texts than in-person meetings. And maybe it’s just as well, after what happened at their last get-together ...

So it’s an emotional reunion when they finally gather again, this time on the spectacular shores of Italy’s Lake Como. Sightseeing excursions, reminiscing fueled by “Como-politans,” and a hint of vacation romance all build toward the book club’s trademark “Night of Secrets.”

These friends, and sometime rivals, are close readers—of novels, memoirs, and of each other. But as the years and the distance cast shadows and doubt, confidences and sympathies turn into surprising revelations.

05/27/2026

Here is a book to celebrate firsts. That first magical day of spring, when it seems the whole world is bursting with life. That first time bursting out of your house after being cooped up for SO long. Your first time on the swingset. Your first time seeing a butterfly. Your first time exploring the world with someone you love.

From Henrique Coser Moreira comes a wordless ode to joy and discovery that will stir readers young and old.

05/27/2026

In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit following The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, and A Line to Kill, Horowitz becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation—and only one man can prove his innocence: his newly estranged partner in solving crime, Detective Hawthorne.