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2026 Reading Challenge: A Book Set in the Southern Hemisphere

July 5, 2026. Library Adminno Comments

Are you participating in the 2026 Reading Challenge? We have 12 challenges to complete throughout the year. Listed below are just a few books that fit the prompt “A Book Set in the Southern Hemisphere”, but there are plenty of other books you can pick up!

Antarctica

Africa

South Africa

Oceania

Indonesia

Stories of the islands

Papua New Guinea

The white Mary

Australia

Words in deep blue

New Zealand

Better the blood

Solomon Islands

The solomon curse / #7

Vanuatu

When in Vanuatu : a novel

Fiji

Pieces of happiness : a novel of friendship, hope and chocolate

New Caledonia

Miss Benson’s beetle : a novel

Timor-Leste

Anonymous male : a life among spies

Polynesia and other islands

Tonga

The Wayfinder

French Polynesia

Playground

Samoa

Tala learns to siva

July 2026 Newsletter

June 27, 2026. Library Adminno Comments

Check out what’s happening at APL this July!

New Digital Items-June 2026

June 27, 2026. Library Adminno Comments

Bone of My Bone	Johanna van Veen, Amy Noble	Audiobook
Changing Gender	Susan Stryker, Susan Stryker	Audiobook
Chase Me If You Can	Heather Frances, Brooke Bloomingdale	Audiobook
The Devil and Mrs. Gooch: A Novel (unabridged)	Oliver Darkshire, Kymberley Cochrane	Audiobook
Enter the Nightmare	Jayne Castle, Barbara Rosenblat	Audiobook
Exit Party: A Novel (unabridged)	Emily St. John Mandel	Audiobook
It Came from Neverland: A Novel (unabridged)	Cynthia Pelayo, Ella Lynch, Rory Barnett	Audiobook
Love Galaxy	Sierra Branham, Jessica Threet	Audiobook
The Shark: A Novel (unabridged)	Emma Styles, Nicolette Chin	Audiobook
So, I Met This Guy: A Novel (unabridged)	Alexandra Potter, Shelley Conn	Audiobook
A Stranger in Corfu: A Novel (unabridged)	Alex Preston, Helen Lloyd	Audiobook
Bone of My Bone	Johanna van Veen	eBook
Conversations with an Executioner: 255 Days Imprisoned with the Nazi who Destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto	Kazimierz Moczarski, Sean Gasper Bye	eBook
A Resistance History of the United States	Tad Stoermer	eBook
So, I Met This Guy: A Novel	Alexandra Potter	eBook
Witch Hunt	Richard O’Rawe, Bernadette O’Rawe	eBook

New YA – June 2026

June 22, 2026. Library Adminno Comments

An expanse of blue	YA ADAMS, KAUAKANILEHUA
Rani Deshpande takes the wheel	YA AVACHAT, ARUSHI
May the dead keep you	YA BAGUCHINSKY, JILL
Game, set, matched	YA BAILEY, IVY
The game of oaths	YA BANDREDDI, S.C.
The reel life of Zara Kegg	YA BARKLEY, BRAD
How to lose yourself completely	YA BOGNANNI, PETER
Lying, stealing, and other ways to save the planet	YA CAMPBELL, CURTIS
The lustrous dark	YA CHEFCHAOUNI, LORETTA
Gods & comics	YA CHO, KAT
Medicine wheels	YA GRAVES, BYRON
Such a lucky girl	YA HEARD, WENDY
Behind five willows	YA HUR, JUNE
The ocean would paint me blue	YA KATOUH, ZOULFA
One word, six letters	YA KHORRAM, ADIB
Her sharp embrace	YA KOENIG, KATE
Amoura Awakened:	YA KRAMER, MEG
Goldenborn	YA LIEB, AMA
The last best quest ever	YA LUKENS, F.T.
Shadow reaper	YA NONI, LYNETTE
In young in between:	YA OH, ELLEN
The Hyacinth labyrinth	YA PACTON, JAMIE
Blue Beach	YA PARSONS, KARYN
Shapes of love	YA PENALBA, L.V.
The secret world of Briar Rose	YA PHAM, CINDY
Last to leave	YA RICHARDS, TERESA
Meet me at the picket line	YA SANCHEZ, JASPER
Louder than hunger	YA SCHU, JOHN
Where you’ll find us	YA ST. JUDE, JEN
Every exquisite thing.	YA STEVEN, LAURA
In case I go missing	YA SWANN, R.N.
Devils like us	YA THOMPSON, L.T.
The spiritualists	YA TUBB, KRISTIN
Lying about last summer	YA WALLMAN, SUE
Plain Jane and the mermaid	YGN BROSGOL, VERA
Encore!	YGN BURKS, MILES
Forgive-me-not	YGN COSTA, MARI
Skating wilder	YGN DUMAIS, BRANDON
Landing in place	YGN HAMDY, SHERINE
Our aimless nights	YGN KOUMORI
The princess and the grilled cheese sandwich	YGN MUNIZ, DEYA
SideQuested	YGN PRESSER, ALE
Until we meet again	YGN QIAN, LILY
Red stones	YGN SAADE, ERNESTO
Buuza!!	YGN SHAZLEEN, KHAN
A smile like yours	YGN THOMAS, EMILY
Diseases without borders :	YNF 500 ZIMMER, MARC
The real Rosalind : the truth about Rosalind Franklin’s DNA discovery and how it was erased	YNF 92 FRANKLIN, ROSALIND
Honor	YNF 940.53 MARIICHYN, NATALIIA