Featured Staff Pick

Maggie

Fight Night is told in the unforgettable voice of Swiv, a nine-year-old living in Toronto with her pregnant mother, who is raising Swiv while caring for her own elderly, frail mother.

Staff Picks

Find your new favorite reads with this collection of top titles curated by our expert librarians.

Maggie

Fight Night is told in the unforgettable voice of Swiv, a nine-year-old living in Toronto with her pregnant mother, who is raising Swiv while caring for her own elderly, frail mother.

Maggie

Maggie Shipstead

Marian's sprawling life story forms the bulk of this rolling, roiling epic, from the improbability of her survival as an infant rescued from a sinking ocean liner to her tempestuous marriage...

Running Dry

Jonathan Waterman

Waterman takes an unprecedented journey down the Colorado River, paddling in his kayak and hiking on foot, all 1,450 miles from the Rocky Mountains to its Mexican delta.

Lisa

Cilka's Journey The Tattooist of Auschwitz #2

Cilka's journey illuminates the resilience of the human spirit -- and the will we have to survive.

Historical Fiction

Lisa

Three Sisters (third in the The Tattooist of Auschwitz trilogy)

This true story will break your heart, but leave you amazed and uplifted by the courage and fierce love of three sisters, whose promise to each other kept them alive.

Historical Fiction

Tracy

The Interestings

Six teenagers meet at a summer camp. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents become and the shape their lives take.

Andy

The Last Thing He Told Me

A fast-moving, heartfelt thriller about the sacrifices we make for the people we love most.

Laura

Ducks: Two Years in the Oils Sands

This is an untold story of Canada: a country that prides itself on its egalitarian ethos and natural beauty while simultaneously exploiting both the riches of its land and the humanity of its people.

Crisanne

Clay McLeod Chapman

Erin and her friends from college are shaken by the death of Silas. They are plunged into a waking nightmare when they take a pill Silas learned of that allows them to see-and interact with-ghosts.

Crisanne

How We Live Is How We Die

Understand the many changes in our lives to find more freedom and less fear. We might try to resist, but endings happen in every moment: the end of a relationship, the end of a day, the end of life.

Crisanne

A Deadly Education: a Novel

At the Scholomance, monsters are everywhere and the breakfast might kill you, but the wonderful cast of characters will grab ahold of your heart and you’ll never want to leave this deadly school.

Alice

Part satire, part soap opera, Election is an uncommon look at an ordinary American high school, and the extraordinary people who inhabit it.

Theresa

A Famine of Horses: a Sir Robert Carey Mystery

The first in an engaging series, this briskly paced debut rich in spiky characters, eccentric accents, and, above all, a charismatic hero with a sense of honor and a sense of humor.

Jeanne

The Lady and the Octopus: How Jeanne Villepreux-Power Invented Aquariums and Revolutionized Marine Biology

Jeanne Villepreux-Power, to keep sea creatures alive for her studies, had to invent a contraption to hold them―the aquarium

Jeanne

The Lost Apothecary

A subversive and intoxicating debut novel of secrets, vengeance and the remarkable ways women can save each other despite the barrier of time.

Jeanne and Alice

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver

This speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.

- Jeanne and Alice

Carli

What's Hidden in the Sky: Animal Constellations Around the World

Let this enchanting book take you into the homes of children all over the world, and guess the answer to eight riddles about the stars overhead.

Carli

A is for Bee: An Alphabet Book In Translation

A guide for the aspirant bike rider all the way from choosing a first bike to techniques for wheelies and bunny hops

Carli

The Young Cyclist's Companion

This is a guide for the aspirant bike rider all the way from choosing a first bike to techniques for wheelies and bunny hops.

Carli

The Stars Did Wander Darkling

An ancient, long-buried evil has been unleashed upon the community, and it's up to the kids to stop it before it's too late!

Carli

The Unwritten Book: An Investigation

This book revels in the randomness, connectivity, and magic of everyday existence. And at its heart is the immense weight of love.

Dennis

Cherie Dimaline

This book has tremendous emotional depth and tenderness, connecting readers with the complexity and compassion of Indigenous people A dystopian world that is all too real today.

Dennis

Robert Macfarlane

An epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. At once ancient and urgent, this is a book that will change the way you see the world.

Gloria

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel Van der Kolk

This book transforms our understanding of traumatic stress and offers proven alternatives to drugs and talk therapy—and a way to reclaim lives.

Joanna

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Silvia Federici

This explores women and the costs to women (the violence against women) inherent in shifts to capitalism.

Joanna

A new collection of essays exploring the nature of time and place in a shrinking world

Joanna

Velvet was the Night

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

This is historical fiction with a noir feel that keeps you guessing. Darkness and brutality are balanced with hope and possibility.

Alison

A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle

A strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons them on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure—one that will threaten their lives and our universe.

Alison

Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan

A riveting novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behind.

Alice

As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes.

Historical Fiction