Winter Reads
December New Arrivals
Find the perfect festive tales to bring you cheer this holiday season!
Adult Books
- “2025 Old Farmer’s Almanac” – Old Farmer’s Almanac
- “Blacksad” – Juan Diaz Canales
- “Book of George” – Kate Greathead
- “Lilly Wave” – Brian Blomerth
- “Bridge Kingdom” – Danielle Jenson
- “Canterbury Tales” – Geoffrey Chaucer
- “Champagne Letters” – Kate Macintoch
- “The Economics Book” – DK
- “El Libro de la Biblia” – DK
- “The Feminism Book” – DK
- “Great Expectations” – Charles Dickens
- “H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu” – H.P. Lovecraft
- “Heart of Darkness” – Joseph Conrad
- “The Islam Book” – DK
- “Jane Eyre” – Charlotte Bronte
- “Long Live” – Nicole Pomarico
- “Madame Bovary” – Gustave Flaubert
- “Metalhead Next Door” – Mamita
- “Moby-Dick” – Herman Melville
- “Money for Couples” – Ramit Sethi
- “Official Raspberry Pi Handbook” – Magpi Magazine
- “The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt” – Chelsea Iverson
- “The Philosophy Book” – DK
- “The Poetry Book” – DK
- “The Politics Book” – DK
- “Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn” – Penny Simkin
- “The Psychology Book” – DK
- “The Rental House” – Weike Wang
- “The Resurrectionist” – A. Rae Dunlap
- “The Rivals” – Jane Pek
- “The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation” – Cormac McCarthy
- “The Secret of Three Fates” – Jess Armstrong
- “Self Help” – Gabrielle Bernstein
- “Trial” – Franz Kafka
- “Under Loch and Key” – Lana Ferguson
- “The Verifiers” – Jane Pek
- “What the Wife Knew” – Darby Kane
- “Wind and Truth” – Brandon Sanderson
- “The Winter Wish” – Emily Stone
- “Woo Woo” – Ella Baxter
Young Adult Books
- “Better Than the Movies” – Lynn Painter
- “Chasing Eternity” – Alyson Noel
- “Cruel Thirst” – Angela Montoya
- “Dating and Dragons” – Kristy Boyce
- “Dawnrunner” – Ram V.
- “Dead Below Dead” – Jan Gangsei
- “Don’t Let the Forest In” – C.G. Drews
- “Dust” – Alison Stine
- “Ex Marks the Spot” – Gloria Chao
- “Five Survive” – Holly Jackson
- “Heavenly Tyran” – Xiran Jay Zhao
- “Illustrated History of Ghosts” – Allan Allsuch Boardman
- “Illustrated History of U.F.O.s” – Allan Allsuch Boardman
- “Iron Widow” – Xiran Jay Zhao
- “Lightlark” – Alex Aster
- “My Fairy God Somebody” – Charlene Allen
- “Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship” – John Hendrix
- “Nightbane” – Alex Aster
- “Nothing Like the Movies” – Lynn Painter
- “Rules of Royalty” – Cale Dietrich
- “Solo Leveling #3” – Chugong
- “Solo Leveling #4” – Chugong
- “Spell of the Sinister” – Danielle Paige
- “Thirteenth Child” – Erin Craig
- “We Are the Beasts” – Gigi Griffis
- “We Called them Giants” – Kieron Gillen
- “What the Woods Took” – Courtney Gould
- “You’re Dead to Me” – Amy Christine Parker
Children Books
- “Answers to Dog” – Pete Hautman
- “Bert, the Bowerbird: The Small Bird with a Big Heart” – Julia Donaldson
- “Between You and Me” – Rob Sanders
- “Bigfoot’s Big Heart” – Sarah Glenn Marsh
- “Blake Laser” – Keith Marantz
- “Bog Myrtle” – Sid Sharp
- “Bunny Hop” – Sarah Hwang
- “Chef’s Kiss” – Jeffrey Burton
- “Chicka Chicka Ho-Ho-Ho” – William Boniface
- “Chip Plays Grown Up” – Maddie Frost
- “Do You Believe in Magic?” – Laura Frantz
- “Dog Man: Big Jim Begins” – Dav Pilkey
- “Dot! Scribble! Go!” – Herve Tullet
- “El Dia de Un Dinosaurio” – DK
- “El Mundo en Numeros” – DK
- “Escaping Peril” – Tui T. Sutherland
- “Explore: A Collection of Maps and Diagrams” – DK
- “Follow Your Heart” – Emma Dodd
- “Good Night, Zodiac Animals” – Jiemei Lin
- “Grown with Love” – Valeria Wicker
- “Haunting of the Ghost Dragon” – Tracey West
- “How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney” – Mac Barnett
- “I Love You, Baby” – Little Bee Books
- “I Spy Love” – Walter Wick
- “I Survived: The Black Death, 1348” Lauren Tarshis
- “I Want to Be an Artist” – Laura Driscoll
- “Laugh-Out-Loud Punchlines” – Elliot Rob
- “Let’s Celebrate Korean New Year!” – Michelle W. Park
- “Life in the Wild: Observing the Mysterious Lives of 10 Real Animals” – Lizzie Daly
- “Life is Beautiful” – Winsome Bingham
- “Mrs. Peanuckle’s Love Alphabet” – Mrs. Peanuckle
- “On the Book: Stories of Home” – Ellen Oh
- “Paint with Ploof” – Ben Clanton
- “Sabrina Sue Loves the Mountains” – Prscilla Burris
- “Sonrie (Smile) – Raina Telgemeier
- “Spring Storks: A Migration Love Story” – Carol Joy Munro
- “Still Sal” – Kevin Henkes
- “Super Magic Boy: I Am a Dinosaur” – Jarod Rosello
- “Super Magic Boy: I Am a Space Tiger” – Jarod Rosello
- “Sylvia Doe and the 100-Year Flood” – Robert Beatty
- “Ten-Word Tiny Tales of Love” – Joseph Coelho
- “Goodnight Train Valentine” – June Sobel
- “Hotel Balzaar” – Kate DiCamillo
- “Little Puppy” – Nicola Killen
- “Troll Trouble” – Joe McGee
- “When Love is More Than Words” – Jocelyn Chung
- “Wilder Child” – Nicolette Sowder
- “Work: Interviews with People Doing Jobs They Love” – Shaina Feinberg
- “Yo Amo a Mama” – Eric Carle
- “Yo Amo a Papa” – Eric Carle
- “Zoom! Zoom!” – Lola M. Schaefer
Winter Reads
Adult
- “Bear and the Nightingale” – Katherine Arden
- “Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance” – Ruth Emma Lang
- “Brightly Shining” – Ingvild Rishoi
- “Cabin” – Patrick Hutchinson
- “Custodians of Wonder” – Eliot Stein
- “Death Comes at Christmas” – Anthology
- “Everest, Inc.” – Will Cockrell
- “Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret” – Benjamin Stevenson
- “Exposure” – Wim Hof
- “Great Alone” – Kristin Hannah
- “How to Winter” – Kari Leibowitz
- “Jane Eyre” – Charlotte Bronte
- “Make the Season Bright” – Ashley Herring Blake
- “Mistletoe Mystery” – Nita Prose
- “Snow Child” – Eowyn Ivey
- “The Christmas Orphan” – Becca Freeman
- “Unlikely Animals” – Annie Hartnett
- “Wood at Midwinter” – Susanna Clarke
Children
- “A Dragon for Hanukkah” – Sara Mlynowski
- “A Stickler Christmas” – Lane Smith
- “Bluey: Jingle Bells” – Penguin Young Readers
- “Cold” – Tim McCanna
- “Counting Winter” – Nancy Carlstrom
- “Frostfire” – Elly MacKay
- “It’s Winter!” – Renee Kurilla
- “One Foggy Christmas Eve” – Kerilynn Wilson
- “One Wise Sheep” – Ulrich Hub
- “Puzzleheart” – Jenn Reese
- “Tamales for Christmas” – Mac Barnett
- “Tameles Para Navidad” – Mac Barnett
- “The Gingerbread House Jack’s Family Ate” – Kelly Dipucchio
- “The House Without Lights” – Reem Faruqi
- “The Snow Thief” – Alice Hemming
- “Winter Light” – Aaron Becker
- “Wonder and Awe” – Annie Herzig
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November New Arrivals
Perfect reads to cozy up with as you gather around the table!
Adult Books
- “An Author’s Guide to Murder” – Beatriz Williams
- “Autism and Adolescence” – Temple Grandin
- “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” – Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- “Caring for Your Baby and Young Child” – American Academy of Pediatrics
- “Cher: The Memoir” – Cher
- “Christmas with the Queen” – Hazel Gaynor
- “City and Its Uncertain Walls” – Haruki Murakami
- “City of Night Birds” – Juhea Kim
- “English for Everyone”
- “Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense” – Joyce Carol Oates
- “Guilt and Ginataan” – Mia P Manansala
- “Holly Jolly Ever After” – Julie Murphey
- “House of Cross” – James Patterson
- “How to Let Things Go” – Shunmyo Masuno
- “I Decided to Live as Me” – Kim Suhyun
- “Is She Really Going Out With Him?” – Sophie Cousens
- “Lazarus Man” – Richard Price
- “Life’s Short, Talk Fast” – Ann Hood
- “Merry Little Meet Cute” – Julie Murphy
- “My Picture Day” – Fujiwara Maki
- “Now or Never” – Janet Evanovich
- “Oklahoma’s Most Notorious Cases” – Kent Frates
- “Oklahoma’s Most Notorious Cases: Vol. 2” – Kent Frates
- “Pony Confidential” – Christina Lynch
- “Queer as Folklore” – Sacha Coward
- “Serviceberry” – Robin Wall Kimmerer
- “Songbird & the Heart of Stone” – Carissa Broadbent
- “Teller of Small Fortunes” – Julie Leong
- “This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” – Naomi Wood
- “Time of the Child” – Niall Williams
- “Transformers Vol. 1: Robots in Disguise” – Daniel Warren Johnson
- “Transformers Vol. 2:” – Daniel Warren Johnson
- “Treasure Hunters Club” -Tom Ryan
- “Un Lugar Feliz” – Emily Henry
- “Watership Down: The Graphic Novel” – Richard Adams
- “Wedding Witch” – Erin Sterling
- “What If” – Randall Munroe
Young Adult Books
- “The Ancient’s Game” – Loni Cirttenden
- “Bane of Asgard” – Cinda Williams Chima
- “Big Jim and the White Boy” – David Walker
- “Castle Swimmer: Vol. 1” – Wendy Martin
- “Concerning Wings” – Katie Cook
- “Cooking with Monsters #2” – Jordan Alsaqa
- “Darkly” – Krystal Marquis
- “Dead Girls Don’t Dream” – Nino Cipri
- “Daventports: More Than This” – Krystal Marquis
- “Flopping in a Winter Wonderland” – Jason June
- “For She is Wraith” – Emily Varga
- “How to be a Manga Artist” – Balthazaar Pagani
- “How to Survive Your Parents” – Shawn Goodman
- “I Am the Dark That Answers When You Call” – Jamison Shea
- “I’m Here: Peer Counseling Guide for Teens” – James J Crist
- “Illustrated History of Urban Legends” – Adams Allsuch Boardman
- “Legend of the White Snake” – Sher Lee
- “The Love Interest” – Helen Comerford
- “Mark of Athena” – Rick Riordan
- “Midnights with You” – Clare Osongco
- “Not for the Fair of Heart” – Lex Croucher
- “Our Deadly Designs” – Kalyn Josephson
- “The Shadow Rule All” – Abigail Owen
- “Six of Crows” – Leigh Bardugo
- “Under the Heron’s Light” – Randi Pink
- “Visitations” – Corey Egbert
- “Where the Library Hides” – Isabel Ibanez
Children Books
- “Beware the Dragon and the Nozzlewock” – Vikram Madan
- “Biscuit Visits the Firehouse” – Alyssa Satin
- “Chooch Helped” – Andrew L Rogers
- “Drag and Rex 1: Forever Friends” – Susan Lubner
- “Drag and Rex 2: Sweet and Silly” – Sudan Lubner
- “Emilio Sloth’s Modern Manners” – Renee Ahdieh
- “En Los Naranjales” – Andrew Cruz Floren
- “Feel Calm” – Andy J. Pizza
- “Ghost of the Woods” – Elisabetta Dami
- “Gilmore Girls: At Home in Star Hollow” – Mical Ostow
- “Go! Go! Dino!” – Kaz Windness
- “Good Night World–I Love You So” – Olivia Herrick
- “Habia Una Vez…El Fuego del Dragon” – Beatrice Blue
- “Hat for House” – Aubrey Perrott
- “Hot Mess – Diary of a Wimpy Kid 19” – Jeff Kinney
- “Hugs for Pugs” – Ethan Long
- “I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011” – Lauren Tarshis
- “If I Had a Dragon” – Gabby Dawnay
- “Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faces Statue” – Jerzy Drozd
- “Last Kids on Earth and the Cosmic Beyond” – Max Brailler
- “Let’s Get Festival: Celebrations Around the World” – Joanna Konczak
- “Los Animales de la Granja” – DK
- “Los Ciclos de la Naturaleza” – DK
- “Lost in the Empire City” – Avi
- “Mars: Explore the Mysteries of the Red Planet” – DK
- “Minecraft” – Heart of Cobblestone Vol. 1″ – Andrew Clemson
- “Mishka” – Edward Van de Vendel
- “Mountain: Go On a Grand Tour of the Highest Places on Earth” – DK
- “Mouse and His Dog” – Katherine Applegate
- “My So-Called Family” – Gia Gordon
- “Og Finds the Cog” – Ame Dyckman
- “Other Side of Tomorrow” – Tina Cho
- “Outdoor Time” – Elizabeth Verdick
- “Pinkalicous: Lost in Paris” – Victoria Kann
- “Play Games with Me” – Kat Chen
- “Power to the Parasites!” – Chelsea L Wood
- “Rema, Reema, Rema, Tu Bote” – Annie Kubler
- “Ribbon Skirt” – Cameron Mukwa
- “Robots: Explore the World of Robotics and AI” – Henny Admoni
- “Shape of Lost Things” – Sarah Everett
- “Spooky Lakes” – Geo Rutherford
- “Team Unihorn and Woolly #2: Revenge of the Unicorn” – Alexis Frederick-Frost
- “Truth About 5th Grade” – Mark Parisi
- “Umami” – Jacob Grant
- “Uni’s First Recital” – Amy Krouse Rosenthal
- “Voice in the Storm” – Karl James Mountford
- “We Are Up a Tree!” – Jeff Mack
- “Whalesong: The True Story of the Musician Who Talked to Orcas” – Zachariah Ohora
- “When Grandma’s Cook” – Margot Mustich
- “Where is Yellowstone?” – Sarah Fabiny
- “White House: A Meet the Capital Book” – Lindsay Ward
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December Newsletter
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December Events
Winter Reads BINGO Challenge
El Reno Carnegie Library’s Winter Reading Program for 2022 has a fun new twist: BINGO! Library goers can participate using the paper BINGO card or use our online reading challenge platform, Beanstack, to log reading and keep track of completed activities. All ages are able to participate, though the prizes are different for each. Because Winter Reading is geared more towards teens and adults, the activities and prizes reflect that. Want more information? See below or head over to the Winter Reads page on our website.
Prizes:
Children who hit BINGO in any direction are entered to win a winter Squishmallow.
Teen and Adults who hit BINGO in any direction will win one classic Carnegie Public Library mug.
Teen and Adults who earn a BLACKOUT by completing every activity and reading milestone will be entered to win an Iron Tree gift card.
Beanstack BINGO Card:
By participating on Beanstack, readers can hit Reading Streaks, compete with friends and family, earn fun colorful digital badges, and log everything from their smart phone. Their BINGO card will look like this, each square filling in with a colorful corresponding badge as the item is completed. Check out our Beanstack FAQ to get started.
Paper BINGO Card:
Use the BINGO card below to participate offline. But be sure to let a staff member know that you are participating by calling, emailing, or stopping by! We will keep track of all participation for statistics and so that you are able to redeem your card for prizes!
