Featured Staff Pick

Rachael

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

The book touches on vital questions, including: How do we stay hopeful when everything seems hopeless? How do we cultivate hope in our children? What is the relationship between hope and action?

Staff Picks

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

Carli

Acid For the Children

The co-founder of the Red Hot Chili Peppers chronicles his life from his birth in Australia and upbringing on the streets of Los Angeles through his rise to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.

Carli

Wild Pork and Watercress

Aunt Bella dies and Social Welfare threatens to put him into care, the overweight Maori boy and Uncle Hector flee into the remote and rugged Ureweras. A bond of trust and love blossoms between them.

Joanna

Poet Warrior: a Memoir

This is a luminous journey of becoming that sings with all the jazz, blues, tenderness, and bravery

Joanna

The Dawn of Everything

David Graeber and David Wengrow

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."--

Dennis

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bryson attempts to understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. A sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure

Dennis

Strange Beasts of China

An amateur cryptozoologist is tasked with uncovering the stories of its fabled beasts, which draws her deep within a mystery that threatens her very sense of self.

Jill

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

A young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents.

Laura and Carli

Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns and the Future of Chasing Snow

"Veteran ski journalist and former ski bum takes readers on an exhilarating journey into the hidden history of American skiing, offering a glimpse into an underexplored subculture.

- Laura and Carli

Alice

The Sweetness of Water: A Novel

The touching story of the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever.

Historical Fiction

Gloria

One Summer up North

A wordless picture-book journey through the Boundary Waters, canoeing and camping with a family as they encounter the northwoods wilderness in all its spectacular beauty

Alison

How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age

In today's world, where more and more of our communication takes place across wires and screens, Carnegie's lessons have not only lasted but become all the more critical

Laura

Exhalation: Stories

These stories each in its own way, prove that complex and thoughtful science fiction can rise to new heights of beauty, meaning, and compassion. They asks, what is the nature of the universe?

Matt

Once Upon a Wardrobe

Patti Callahan Henry

This is a delightful story, about the love between siblings and you find wonder in the natural world, castles and in between the pages of a book.

Matt

Hell Of a Book: A Novel

An examination of art, fame, family and being Black in America this is playful, insightful and deeply moving, all at the same time. A highly original, inspired work that breaks new ground.

Jeanne

The neurogenesis diet and lifestyle: upgrade your brain, upgrade your life

Brant Cortright

Recent discoveries in the emerging field of neurogenesis reveal the secrets to radically improve your brain's health. You can operate at a higher level than you ever dreamed possible--at any age!"

Jeanne

Kitchens of the great Midwest: A novel

J. Ryan Stradal,

This is an unexpected mother-daughter story about the bittersweet nature of life--its missed opportunities and its joyful surprises.

Jeanne

This presents the story of two people bound to each other through time and space, memory and dreams. It is a mystery about the nature of grief and love which will look different to each reader.

Jill

Where the deer and the antelope play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside

This takes us on a literary journey to America's frontier to celebrate the people and landscape that have made it great.

Domi

Pollution is Colonialism

This presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism.

Domi

Pretty boys: legendary icons who redefined beauty and how to glow up, too

This teaches us that self-care, wellness, and feeling beautiful transcends time, boundaries, and binaries--and that pretty boys can change the world

Alison

The Book of Magic

A spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters.

Gloria and Domi

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

Erika L Sánchez

Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents’ house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family.

- Gloria and Domi

Laura

Exhalation: Stories

These are stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories that tackle some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only Chiang could imagine.

Dennis

Island of the Sequined Love Nun

Christopher Moore

Here is a brazen, ingenious, irreverent, and wickedly funny novel from a modern master of the outrageous.

Dennis

This hilarious new novel explores what it means to be human, to communicate with another, and to truly know another person—or animal…

Sarah

Hervé Le Tellier

This dizzying literary page-turner ingeniously blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight.

Joanna

Required Reading: Climate Justice, Adaptation, and Investing in Indigenous Power

This is a roadmap that hones in on why Indigenous peoples must lead through the heart of the climate crisis.

Joanna

All Things Left Wild

This is a coming-of-age for one man, a midlife odyssey for the other, and an illustration of the violence and corruption prevalent in our fast-expanding country.

Rachael

In The Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

The author's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse.

Rachael

There is an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds.