AUBURN — The following are recent acquisitions at the Auburn Public Library.

Movies

“Turbo.” This animated film’s premise sounds far fetched but actually works well; it’s about a garden snail, Turbo, with a dream of racing in the Indy 500. After an accident that transforms Turbo into the world’s fastest snail and being found by a guy who races snails as a sideline, Turbo is on his way to living his dream. A movie that can be enjoyed by the whole family.

“Man of Steel.” You won’t be disappointed if you are looking for an action film with great CGI effects. This Superman has a gritty, realistic feel for a comic book film.

“Kon Tiki.” Watch this dramatization of the famed Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl’s quest to prove South Americans could have settled on Polynesian islands. This film tells of Heyerdahl’s life prior to his 1947 trip on a balsawood raft, the preparations for his expedition and the 101-day-long trip with five men on a raft across miles of open ocean. The filming is beautifully shot and has seamless visual effects.

Audiobooks

“The Goldfinch,” by Donna Tartt. Young Theo, abandoned by his father, miraculously survives an explosion that takes his mother’s life. As he grows from troubled teen to damaged adult, he is pulled into the art underworld. The conversational style is well suited to narration, and reader David Pittu brings Theo to life, creating an excellent listening experience.

“The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism,” by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The story of two very different presidents, and the muckraking journalists who came to play an important role in the politics of the time. Edward Herrman’s excellent narration won an Audiofile Earphones Award. The library copy consists of four MP3 discs, and requires an MP3 CD player.

“I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban,” by Malala Yousafzai. Malala is a Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban for advocating for education for girls. An Earphones Award winner for the sensitive narration by Archie Panjabi.

Fiction

“The Gods Of Guilt,” by Michael Connelly. Mickey Haller gets a text message about a murder and the victim turns out to be a former client, a prostitute, whom he thought he had rescued. As he investigates he soon finds out that she had been back in LA plying her trade and in fact he may have been indirectly the cause of her death.

“Forget Me Not,” by Fern Michaels. Putting her past behind her has been difficult for Lucy even though she has a popular comic strip, card line and a children’s cartoon in her name. She has had little contact with her parents for years after their move south, when suddenly she is called to Florida upon their deaths in a car accident. While settling their estate she discovers a safe in their bedroom full of cash, weapons and false passports. What are they hiding? The answer will shatter her world.

“Cross My Heart,” by James Patterson. Alex Cross is a family man and it is the anchor that gives him his strength. But an evil genius, intent on proving that his is the greatest mind in the history of crime, uses Alex’s strength as a weapon against him. This is the most powerful Cross novel yet.

“No Man’s Nightingale: an Inspector Wexford Novel,” by Ruth Rendell. Sarah Hussain, a female vicar, is found strangled in her Kingmarkham vicarage. Reginald Wexford is called out of retirement and he leaps at the chance to solve the case. He soon learns that there is much more to Sarah Hussain’s past than meets the eye.

Nonfiction

“American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell,” by Deborah Solomon. In this spirited biography of the iconic illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post, Solomon reveals a man whose wholesome vision of America sprang from a turbulent emotional life fraught with anxiety and self-doubt. Well-paced and filled with lots of new information.

“The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight,” by Winston Groom. The book tells the incredible and intertwined stories of three of the greatest heroes of early aviation history. You will read about incredible feats and the remarkable missions all three fought in both World Wars.

“Legendary Locals of Androscoggin County,” by Maxwell Mogensen. Mogensen, a reporter for the Sun Journal, digs deep into the rich, colorful history of Androscoggin County to uncover the lives of some of its most famous residents.

“Live from Mongolia: From Wall Street Banker to Mongolian News Anchor,” by Patricia Sexton. Sexton turned her back on a lucrative career at an investment bank to pursue her dream job. Her improbable rise from intern to anchor at Mongolia’s national TV station, and the often bizarre and hilarious stories she has since reported, are the subject of this fascinating memoir.

“Tigers Forever: Saving the World’s Most Endangered Big Cats,” by Steve Winter with Sharon Guynup. This beautiful book tells the moving story of the tiger’s fight for survival alongside Winter’s stunning photography.

Young adult

“Batman: Noel,” by Lee Bermejo. This graphic novel has Batman exploring the hero that he is today by taking him through his past, present and future. It follows the story of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.”

“Steelheart,” by Brandon Sanderson. This is the first book of the Reckoners series by the co-author of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series.

“Let It Snow,” by John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle. These popular authors come together with three funny and sweet stories of love and romance. The backdrop is a Christmas Eve snowstorm and each story is somehow interconnected to the other.

“Foul Trouble,” by John Feinstein. Terrell is the top basketball prospect in the country and being recruited by colleges and NBA teams alike. But Terrell needs to be careful, as some of what they are offering may get him disqualified from playing the game that he loves.

“Cold Spell,” by Jackson Pearce. In the Fairy Tale Retelling series, this is an adapted version of Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Snow Queen.”

Children’s

“Step into Reading: Hooray for Hair,” by Tish Rabe. Join the Cat in the Hat as he spirits along a furry escapade in this leveled reader aimed at independent readers or those just learning to read. Sport your craziest hair-do along with Sally and Nick on Crazy Hair Day at their school for spirit week. Be prepared for the entrance of the Cat in the Hat and his Wig-o-lator. Appropriate for ages 6-9.

“G-Man: Coming Home,” by Chris Giarrusso. Put on your superhero cape and join the ranks of superheroes that battle for justice between these bold comic-styled pages. G-Man and his brother Great Man continue their adventure with their fellow kid superheroes, The Color Guardians and the Demon Hunters, and their adult allies, the Thunderfriends, to save a city from a nuclear explosion. Grade 3 and up.

“Call of the Klondike,” by David Meissner and Kim Richardson. Retrace the steps taken by thousands of men as they experienced the challenges and hardships in their harrowing exploits to seek gold. Reminiscent to Jack London’s “Call of the Wild,” this tween-appropriate story is complemented with Alaskan Gold Rush’s timeworn prints, personal diary entries and inspirational letters as they illustrate Stanley Pearce and Marshall Bond’s journey to the Klondike Mountains in search of riches and fame. Age 9 and up.

“Roller Coasters: From Concept to Consumer,” by Kevin Cunningham. Dip and twist through the pages as they coil and propel through the history, the physics and constructional design behind the kids’ celebrated roller coasters all over the world. Grade four and up.

“Unicorns,” by Kathryn Hinds. Marvelous nonfiction title highlighting the mythical and historical backgrounds of unicorns, the Pegasus, the karkadan of India and many other mystical creatures. Age 10 and up.