Featured Staff Pick

Tiffany

The lost apothecary

In the depths of 18th-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientèle. Women whisper of a mysterious figure who sells well-disguised poisons.

Historical Fiction

Staff Picks

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

Sarah

History and humor ….. blend together like sugar and spice. The prose is filled with marvelous texture and intricate narrative sensations. I really enjoyed this historical contemporary stylized novel.

Sarah

Katie M. Kitamura

A woman's coolly impassioned views on power, love, and violence, are tested. It is her drive towards truth, and love, that throws into stark relief what she wants from her life.

Sarah and Alice

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Breathtakingly suspenseful, this a propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it.

- Sarah and Alice

Alice

The Solace of Open Spaces: Essays

A collection of essays in which the author discusses her personal relationship with the natural beauty and harshness of Wyoming.

Laura

A Gentleman in Moscow

This novel relates the story of the count’s endeavour to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose as he is is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel.

Alison

What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

It's a subtle but profound shift in our approach to trauma, and it's one that allows us to understand our pasts in order to clear a path to our future—opening the door to resilience and healing.

Dawn

Into The Abyss: An Extraordinary True Story

An account of a deadly commuter plane crash that took place in northern Canada in 1984 involving a pilot, a politician, a cop and the criminal he was escorting.

Dawn

A haunting, suspenseful literary debut that combines a classic coming of age story with a portrait of a fractured American family dealing with the fallout of one summer evening gone terribly wrong.

Dawn

Taylor Jenkins Reid

This depicts the range of emotions that come from familial and intimate relationships, the joys and heartaches of the beautiful people as they struggle with life similar to the rest of us.

Dawn

Milk, Blood, Heat: Stories

Dantiel W Moniz

This book of short stories focuses on women of color, but the themes are subtle and you get to join a variety of relationships in disparate locations.

Jill

Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans

Michaeleen Doucleff

The author challenges the misleading child-rearing practices commonly recommended to parents, outlining alternatives grounded in international ancestral traditions that are now being used effectively

Rachael

In a dystopian future Japan, forty-two junior high school students are outfitted with weapons and bid to kill one another until there is only one left standing.

Rachael

An Anonymous Girl

Greer Hendricks

A wonderfully dark and suspenseful novel about love, anger, betrayal, morality, and obsession.

Rachael

The Song of Achilles: A Novel

Madeline Miller

Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the gods' wrath.

Jeanne

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

Michael Lewis's nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19

Jeanne

Beauty in Breaking

A memoir from an ER doctor that explores how we are all broken--physically, emotionally, and psychically--and what we can do to heal ourselves as we try to heal others.

Jeanne

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovery of the Wisdom of the Forest

From the forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery

Andy

Shape : The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

Jordan Ellenberg

This reveals the geometry underneath some of the most important scientific, political, and philosophical problems we face. It doesn't just measure the world-it explains it. Shape shows us how.

Andy

In this mystery Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small towns shelter dangerous secrets.

Andy

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side

The fight to keep schools open in Black communities is yet another front in the ongoing struggle of black people in America to build successful lives and achieve true self-determination.

Joanna

Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

Momaday reflects on his native ground and its influence on his people. The earth is a sacred place and must be protected before it's too late. We must all be keepers of the Earth.

Joanna

Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch

O'Brien combines a novelist's eye for detail with a naturalist's understanding to create an enriching, entertaining narrative.

Joanna

Wordslut: a Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

A perfectly innocuous word devolving into a female insult is the case for many terms. Montell effortlessly moves between history, science, and popular culture to explore why this came to be.

Tiffany

The lost apothecary

In the depths of 18th-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientèle. Women whisper of a mysterious figure who sells well-disguised poisons.

Historical Fiction

Amy

Emily St. John Mandel

A terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded and Jeevan and his brother barricade themselves inside an apartment, watching out the window as life disintegrates around them.

Alison

A novel about the secrets we keep buried and the cost of unearthing them. A terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong.

Alice

Honeymoon in Purdah: an Iranian Journey

With humor and compassion, Wearing gives Iranians the chance to wander beyond headlines and stereotypes, and in doing so, reveals the poetry of their lives.

Maggie

Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

N. Scott Momaday

In glittering prose, this book reminds us that the Earth is a sacred place of wonder and beauty; a source of strength and healing that must be protected before it's too late.

Maggie

How To Be An Antiracist

This an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a truly just and equitable society.

Maggie

The Blue Bear: a True Story of Friendship and Discovery in the Alaskan Wild

Set amid the wild archipelagoes, deep glittering fjords, and dense primordial forests of Alaska's Glacier Coast, it is rich with the lyric sensibility and stunning prose of nature classics.