Staff Picks

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

Alice

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

Hidden Valley Road is a riveting true story of an American family that reads like a medical detective journey and sheds light on a topic so many of us face: mental illness.

Teresa

The Buddha Walks Into a Bar: a Guide to Life for a New Generation

It's entertaining, chatty, and often funny, but also very serious. It's for anyone who wants to use the Buddha's teachings to awaken like he did.

Laura

Marilynne Robinson

This Pulizer Prize winner is an intimate tale of three generations, from the Civil War to the 20th century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart.

Historical Fiction

Gloria

Reid constructs a plot so beautifully intricate and real and fascinating that readers will forget it’s also full of tough questions about race, class and identity.

Amy

Fates and Furies

A deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity, and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. and emotionally riveting, it stirs both the mind and the heart.

Joanna

Crazy Brave: A Memoir

Harjo's tale of a hardscrabble youth, young adulthood, and transformation into an award-winning poet and musician is haunting, unique, and visionary.

Joanna

American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

Moving and downright funny. . .Rinella easily renders an enormous amount of historical and scientific information into a thoroughly engaging narrative.

Maggie

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction this novel is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world.

Environmentalist

Maggie and Gloria

Hood Feminism: Notes From The Women That a Movement Forgot

This book is "a searing indictment of mainstream feminism, it is also an invitation. For every case in which Kendall highlights problematic practices, she offers guidance for how we can all do better.

- Maggie and Gloria

Andy

Slaves in the Family

Ball tells the story of black and white families who lived side by side for five generations--and a tale of everyday Americans confronting their vexed inheritance together.

Andy

This is a vivid and charming portrait of Southern life set in 1923.

Historical Fiction

Dennis

The Colorado 14ers: The Best Routes

The Colorado Mountain Club Foundation

This revised edition provides descriptions and maps provide the information you need for the best route to each summit.

Dennis

The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination With the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World

Patrik Svensson

Blending memoir and nature writing this journey to understand the eel becomes an exploration of the human condition that delves into overarching issues about our roots and destiny.

Rachael

On the Nature of Things

Titus Lucretius Carus

The primary source for contemporary knowledge of Epicurean thought theorizes that natural causes are the forces behind earthly phenomena and dismisses the concept of divine intervention.

Rachael

Follow Me to Ground

Rainsford has created an utterly bewitching heroine, one who challenges conventional ideas of womanhood and the secrets of the body.

Jill

The Starless Sea

Erin Morgenstern

A richly imaginative ode to books and storytelling...this fantasy-filled novel entwines a mysterious underground world with the story of a grad student on a quest to understand his past.

Alison

Church of the Dog

CHURCH OF THE DOG is a radiant novel that honors the broken among us, tenderly healing with its love, humor, and understanding. Kaya McLaren is a deeply wonderful writer" Luanne Rice

Amy

A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America.

Erin

If you could live your life again, what would you do differently?

Erin

Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, Washington, are forced to hire a dragon to work their farm, something only the poorest of the poor ever have to resort to.

Tracy

Serafina and the Black Cloak

"Never go into the deep parts of the forest, for there are many dangers there, and they will ensnare your soul."

Amy

Torben Kuhlmann

One small step for a mouse; one giant leap for aviation.

Jill

"Moments of human intimacy jostle with scenes that inspire cosmic awe." ---Publisher's Weekly (starred review)

Jill

The monster at the end of this book

Lovable, furry old Grover is distressed to learn that there's a monster at the end of this book! He begs readers not to turn the pages, but of course kids feel they just have to see this monster.

Jill

Where the mountain meets the moon

Minli sets off on an extraordinary journey to find the Old Man on the Moon to ask him how she can change her family's fortune. She meets an assorted cast of characters and magical creatures.

Amy

Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea

Narwhal and Jellyfish love waffles, adventures and parties.

Alice

A Long Petal of the Sea

In this work of historical fictions we have an”intimate look at the relationship between one man and one woman and an epic story of love, war, family, and the search for home, this gorgeous novel, lik

Fiction, Historical Fiction

Gloria

The Book of Longings

This is an inspiring, unforgettable account of one woman’s bold struggle to realize the passion and potential inside her, while living in a time, place and culture devised to silence her.

Fiction, Historical Fiction

Dennis

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Suzanne Collins

This is a prequel to the Hunger Games series. It is a dystopian action-adventure.

Action, Fiction