The Girls with No Names by Serena Burdick

A beautiful tale of hope, courage, and sisterhood—inspired by the real House of Mercy and the girls confined there for daring to break the rules.Growing up in New York City in the 1910s, Luella and Effie Tildon realize that even as wealthy young...

The Mutations: a novel by Jorge Comensal

Ramón Martinez is a militant atheist, successful lawyer, and conventional family man. But all of that changes when cancer of the tongue deprives him of the source of his power and livelihood: speech.

The Mutations, by Jorge Comensal, is a comedy...

Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano

One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected p...

A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen

Six years after a global pandemic wiped out most of the planet’s population, the survivors are rebuilding the country, split between self-governing cities, hippie communes and wasteland gangs.In post apocalyptic San Francisco, former pop star Mo...

Qualityland by Marc Uwe Kling

Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated matchmaking service knows the best partners for everyone and helps with ...

Arroyo

Set against two distinct epochs in the history of Pasadena, California, Arroyo tells the parallel stories of a young inventor and his clairvoyant dog in 1913 and 1993. In both lives, they are drawn to the landmark Colorado Street Bridge, or "Suicide ...

The Afterlives

Jim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart attack at age thirty. Revived with no memory of any tunnels, lights, or angels, Jim wonders what--if anything--awaits us on the other side.Then a ghost shows up. Maybe. Jim and his new wi...

Long Petal of the Sea

In the late 1930s, civil war grips Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregna...

36 Righteous Men

When James Manning and Covina “Dewey” Duwai are called in to investigate a string of murders, their investigations take them from the headquarters of the Russian mafia in Brighton Beach to a sweltering maze of shops in Little Hong Kong...

Vanishing Girls

When Isabelle Coleman, a blonde, beautiful young girl goes missing, everyone from the small town of Denton joins the search. They can find no trace of the town’s darling, but Detective Josie Quinn finds another girl they didn’t even kn...

The Wonderful

It’s hard to be an American girl in 1957. Especially when your dad’s job means you have to move four thousand miles from home. Especially if you’d rather play baseball than wear a dress. Especially if you see your mom fraying...

The German House

For twenty-four-year-old Eva Bruhns, World War II is a foggy childhood memory. At the war’s end, Frankfurt was a smoldering ruin, severely damaged by the Allied bombings. But that was two decades ago. Now it is 1963, and the city’s str...

Nietzsche and the Burbs

When a new student transfers in from a posh private school, he falls in with a group of like-minded suburban stoners, artists, and outcasts—too smart and creative for their own good. His classmates nickname their new friend Nietzsche (for his br...

The Second Sleep

A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artifacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obse...

On Swift Horses

Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus, but the limits of her new life seem to be closing in: She misses her freethinking...

In West Mills

For readers of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie and The Turner House , an intimately told story about a woman living by her own rules and the rural community that struggles to understand her. Azalea "Knot" Centre is determined to live life as she ple...

Gods of Jade and Shadow

The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town in southern Mexico. A life she can c...

The Testaments

In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling...

NNPL seeks photos and artifacts for documentary

Newport News Public Library (NNPL) is looking for people with photos and other artifacts related to the historic Whittaker Memorial Hospital. NNPL wants to borrow the aforementioned materials for a documentary in development about Whittaker Memorial, whic...

Four NNPL branches now offer free notary services

At the beginning of the New Year, Newport News Public Library (NNPL) expanded its notary public services because of an increasing need in our community.  In addition to the Law library, NNPL now offers free notary services at Grissom, Main, and P...

NNPL now offering scholarships to earn an accredited high school diploma, 100% online

The New Year is a great time for people to focus on advancing their education and career opportunities. Newport News Public Library, NNPL, is excited to launch Career Online High School beginning Monday, January 13, 2020. The program is designed ...

NNPL and NNPS unite to provide students with their own own library cards

Newport News Public Library and Newport News Public Schools are excited to partner in a pilot program designed to provide more opportunities to students through a new library card, Student Connect Card, created just for them.

The program kicked off in Nove...

Patrons may stream movies, concerts, and Great Courses lectures

Newport News Public Library (NNPL) is thrilled to announce the launch of streaming video services through our RBdigital platform starting on Monday, December 16! RBdigital delivers all your favorite types of content that’s easy to stream on-dema...

NNPL Pop-up Pumpkin Patch Gives Kids Engaging Learning Experience

Squishy, mushy, stringy goo. Those were the sensations little fingers discovered recently when they explored the insides of pumpkins. 

Kids squealed with delight after sticking their hands inside the gourds to feel their gloppy guts and slippery s...

Help Beautify Our Communities

Looking for a way to pitch in? NNPL can help with that!

The Library's "Let's Can It" campaign provides litter clean-up kits for checkout to patrons. Organize your own "litter walk" with one of these kits that include a bucket, safety ve...

Check Out Our Book Clubs

NNPL is proud of our wide variety of book clubs for adults. There are clubs hosted at each of the library's branches, and some off-site as well. Check our events calendar for upcoming meetings of:

Books and Beers

Join the Books and Beers club at Traditions ...

More Fun Now Available

We've got games! NNPL has added video games for the Playstation 4 and XboxOne to our collection.

Games are available on a first-come, first-served basis and check out for 14 days. We have titles for adults, teens, and all ages. Click the image to see title...