Featured Staff Pick

Alice

West with Giraffes

An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America.

Historical Fiction

Staff Picks

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

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

Dennis

Demon Copperhead: a Novel

Barbara Kingslover

The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses

Dennis

Broken Horses: A Memoir

This is at once an examination of faith through the eyes of a person rejected by the church’s basic tenets and a meditation on the moments and lyrics that have shaped the life of a creative mind.

Melissa

Burn the Place is a galvanizing memoir that chronicles Iliana Regan's journey from foraging on the family farm to running her Michelin-starred restaurant.

Melissa

This a is fast-paced, gossipy, dramatic thriller, whose five main narrators are all clearly hiding something. There is a quirky cast of unlikable characters that keep the reader guessing.

Melissa

The Butcher and the Wren

Alaina Urquhart

This is a fast paced, thrilling novel written from the point of view of a medical examiner and the point of view of a serial killer.

Laura

The Candy House

This is a testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for real connection, love, family, privacy, and redemption. It riffs on memory, authenticity and the allure of new technology.

Sarah

The Thursday Murder Club: The Bullet That Missed

This is fun a mystery with a quirky cast of characters.

Sarah

Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America

The untold story of the exhibition that made America the center of the art world -- and Picasso the most famous artist alive -- in the shadow of World WarII.

Inner Engineering: a Yogi's Guide to Joy

Sadhguru Vasudev, Jaggi

An awesome book on looking within, that also offers practical ways to incorporate yogic techniques into our everyday lives. The author is full of joy and he brings us back to the true meaning of Yoga.

Crisanne

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

This is a gentle approach on encouraging and a new perspective and relationship with land and the people who were here first.

Crisanne

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Dragged to a magical kingdom, Feyre discovers that her captor is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest.

Joanna

We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation

This explores how autistic people wrestle with systems that were not built with them in mind. The author explains that autism is a part of their identity; they don't need to be fixed.

Joanna

The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman

Nancy Marie Brown

Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed past the edge of the known world. This reconstructs a life that spanned--and expanded--the bounds of the then-known world.

JOANNA

The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday

A compilation of meditations and exercises to inspire us to find joy and expand the ways we engage with the people and places, the objects and tasks we encounter in our everyday lives.

Alison

A vivid, emotionally complex novel that raises profound questions about motherhood, loss, identity, and forgiveness. It speaks to women everywhere about the things that matter most.

Dawn

Heavy: An American Memoir

In this powerful, provocative, and universally lauded memoir provocatively meditates on his trauma growing up as a black man, and in turn crafts an essential polemic against American moral rot”

Dawn

The Last Green Valley

Mark T. Sullivan

A compelling and inspiring story of heroism and courage in the dark days at the end of World War II.

Historical Fiction

Dawn

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver

The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses

Jeanne

Homesickness: Stories

An emotionally resonant and wonderfully wry collection that follows the lives of outcasts, misfits, and malcontents from County Mayo to Canada.

Jeanne

William Kent Krueger

A genuinely thrilling and atmospheric novel” (The New York Times Book Review) as Cork races against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthirsty mercenaries.

Jeanne

Diary of a Void

Surreal wryly humorous cultural critique awoman fakes pregnancy to avoid the unpaid office tasks often foisted on women. The simple lie turns into an absurdist exploration of motherhood and loneliness

Jeanne

The Children's Book

This is a story that spans the Victorian era through World War I about a children’s author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the lives of her family and loved ones.

Historical Fiction

Jeanne

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

Dazzling, intricately imagined novel that examines the many natures of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love.

Carli

In a horse-drawn cart that arrives at night, short-order cook Owl prepares delicious meals for his nocturnal patrons, including a fox, a badger, some possums, and a poor mouse who sweeps the streets.

Carli

Making decisions, even choosing something to do, is a great source of hesitation for young Clover. But, when her goat wanders away she quickly make a decision to search for it.

Alice

West with Giraffes

An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America.

Historical Fiction

Tracy

Those Magnificent Flying Sheep

Tired of standing still on their old hill, several sheep board an airplane for a round-the-world adventure.

Tracy

Four students who do not fit in at their small-town middle school decide to create a third party for the student council elections to represent all students who have ever been called names.

Tracy

This dusts off the myth of the old West and reignites the glimmering promise of the frontier with an entirely new set of feminist stakes.