Featured Staff Pick

Amy

Sea of Tranquility: A Novel

Emily St. John Mandel

From Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

Staff Picks

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

Matt

Psalm for the Wild Built

This book asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?

Laura

Social Justice Parenting: How to Raise Compassionate, Anti-Racist, Justice-Minded Kids in an Unjust World

This book helps readers take inventory of their actions and beliefs, develop self-awareness and accountability, and become role models for their children.

Alice

Hamnet: A Novel of The Plague

Maggie O'Farrell

A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a hypnotic recreation of the story that inspired one of the greatest masterpieces of all time.

Historical Fiction

Claudia

Olga Dies Dreaming

Xochitl Gonzalez

This intricately presents its flawed characters working through the meaning of cultural identity, family secrets, grief, and self-preservation

Claudia

You Sound Like a White Girl: the Case for Rejecting Assimilation

This calls for a celebration of our uniqueness, our origins, our heritage, and the beauty of the differences that make us Americans. This tears apart the lie that assimilation leads to belonging.

Claudia

Quincy Carpenter struggles to ignore traumatic memories and move on as one of a group of other survivors who look to her for answers when one of them is found dead in a suspicious suicide.

Sarah

The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel

These friends might be septuagenarians, but they are cleverer than most. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before its too late?

Rachael

Lore Olympus.: Volume One

Persephone must navigate the confusing politics and relationships that rule Olympus, while also figuring out her own place--and her own power.

Rachael

Howl's Moving Castle: Howl's Castle Series, Book 1

Diana Wynne Jones

Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared Wizard Howl.

Dennis

The Trivia Lover's Guide to the World: Geography for the Lost and Found

Both enjoyable and enlightening, this book challenges today's global generation to truly get to know their world.

Alison

Gwendy's Button Box

A story of choices and mystery. Questions about what a person might do with almost God-like power. will he choose good or evil?

Amy

Sea of Tranquility: A Novel

Emily St. John Mandel

From Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

Joanna

The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood

Julian Rubinstein

A multigenerational saga of race and politics that runs from the civil rights movement to Black Lives Matte

Joanna

Portrait of a Thief

A lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums, about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity.

Joanna

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

This book fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society."-

Jill and Dawn

The Anomaly: A Novel

Hervé Le Tellier

This novel deals with relationships, mortality and a twist. It will keep you thinking about it for days. This dizzying literary page- turner ingeniously blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller

- Jill and Dawn

Gloria

Lao- tzu both clarifies and deepens those central religious mysteries around which our life on earth revolves.

Chris

These scenes from Steinbeck Country seen so intimately from within are full of humor, family drama, and a sweet frankness about serious matters - who belongs to America and how are they treated?

Domi

Consumed: the Need for Collective Change : Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism

This book calls for change within an industry that regularly overreaches with abandon, creating real imbalances in the environment and the lives of those who do the work.

Andy

The White Album

This records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. This memoir examines key events, figures, and trends of the era.

Andy

A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores.

Tracy

The Sanatorium: A Novel

Creepy, deeply claustrophobic, mind-numbing, teasing, twists and turns galore, this book is a towering example of a masterful hand at work.

Tracy

A swank celebrity wedding on a remote island with spotty cell service? What could go wrong? Lap up the luxe details, then hold your breath for dark twists as a guest turns up dead.

Jeanne

Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call. It's a metaphor for the ways women are tamed from birth by patriarchy.

Jeanne

On Girlhood: 15 Stories From the Well-Read Black Girl Library

Glory Edim editor

This anthology celebrates stories by prominent authors, a canonical work centering around the voices of young Black characters as they contend with innocence, belonging, love, and self-discovery.

Jeanne

The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings

With tenderness and patience, she rescues abandoned hummingbirds and nurses them back to health until they can fly away and live in the wild. It shows us just how truly amazing hummingbirds are.

Sarah

The Secret Stealers

A young widow and brilliant French teacher Anna Cavanaugh risks everything to help liberate France from the shadows of occupation and free herself from the shadows of her former life.

Historical Fiction

Sarah

This explores what it means to be the same as everyone else and yet entirely different--and reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart.

Alice

The Lincoln Highway

A journey of the heart with these characters, looking for “fresh starts “, each of them discovering who they are, how they fit into this world, each one having been abandoned in one way or another.

Claudio

Olga Dies Dreaming

Xochitl Gonzalez

This a story that examines political corruption, familial strife and the very notion of the American dream-all while asking what it really means to weather a storm.