By MILFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY STAFF

MILFORD — Milford Public Library news and events this week:

SRP Thank You!

Wow, summer sure went fast. Saturday, Aug. 1 was the final day in our superhero reading program. There were a total of 208 students registered and 5690 hours read in the last eight weeks. The Grand Finale picnic had super attendance of 102 super readers.

Ronald McDonald entertained us with magic and laughter after we all enjoyed a lunch of orange drink, hot dogs, chips, Subway cookies, and blue moon ice cream. Everyone who came to the picnic went home with a prize. We are looking forward to next year’s summer reading program already and hope you all come back and read with us! Thank you to our generous sponsors for providing financial support.

Author Spotlight: C.J. Box

Author of 20 novels, C.J. Box, is a New York Times Bestselling author. His most recent release is “Badlands,” which is one of the new releases available this month. C.J. Box is the winner of the Edgar Alan Poe Award for Best Novel, the Anthony Award, the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, the 2010 Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Award for fiction, and the Barry Award.

Many of his novels have now been translated into 27 different languages and sold over four million copies. Box has written the Joe Pickett Series that contains 16 books, the Cody Hoyt Series that contains two books, and the Cassie Dewell Series that contains two books.

“Badlands,“ his newest release, is the second book of the Cassie Dewell Series, which is now in our adult fiction as well as the first book in the series, “The Highway.” Visit the Library and check out our selection of C.J. Box’s thrilling mysteries.

 New Releases

The library adds new items to its collection each month. This month we have a great variety of new adult, teens and children material.

In our children’s department we are adding: “The Tea Party in the Woods” by Akiko Miyakoshi, “The Day the Crayons Came Home” by Drew Daywalt, “Buddy and Earl” by Maureen Fergus, “Where’s Walrus? And Penguin?” by Stephen Savage, “Sunny Side Up” by Jennifer Holm, “My First Superman Book” and “My First Batman Book” by David Bar Katz.

In addition to a lot of kids books, our kids media collection is growing with more DVDs and CDs such as “Paw Patrol,” “Maya the Bee Movie,” “Descendants,” “Tom and Jerry Spy Quest,” “Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle,” “Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts,” “Inside Out: Original Soundtrack,” “Disney Descendants Soundtrack,” “Disney Junior DJ Shuffle 2,” and “Barbie: My Fab Playlist.”

Adults and teens have not been left out. There are a lot of new items being added to the upstairs section of our library. Teens now get the chance to check out “The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall” by Katie Alender, “The Accident Season” by Moira Fowley-Doyle, “After the Rain” by Barry Lyga, “Field” by Gary Paulsen, and “Another Day” by David Levithan.

Books being added to adult fiction and large print areas are “Badlands” by C.J. Box, “Speaking in Bones” by Kathy Reichs, “The Melody Lingers On” by Mary Higgins Clark, “Nemesis” by Catherin Coulter, “Silent Creed” by Alex Kava, “Kitchens of the Great Midwest” by J. Ryan Stradal, “The Guest Cottage” by Nancy Thayer, and “The Snow Queen” by Michael Cunningham.

Don’t forget to check out our new monthly magazines as well as these new DVDS and CDS: “Man in the Moon,” “No Way Out,” “Do You Believe,” “Insurgent,” “Hot Pursuit,” “The Walking Dead Season 5,” “Now That’s What I Call Music 55,” “Girl” by Pharrell Williams, and “Magazines and Novels” by Andy Grammer. Come in and check out some new materials at Milford Public Library.