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.

Carli

How To Be Cooler Than Cool

Follows a savvy little chick who shows all the other animal poseurs on the playground that being cool means just having fun.

Carli

Matthew Forsythe

Mina the mouse is very upset when her father brings home a pet "squirrel" that she is certain is a cat.

Carli

Both Leo and his father are angry and sad when their landlord says their old house will be torn down, but soon they find a way to make their new house feel like home.

Carli

Tough Guys (Have Feelings too)

Explains through simple text and colorful illustrations that tough guys have the same feelings as you and I.

Carli

Bear Wants to Sing

When Bear finds a ukulele in the woods, he is inspired to write his own song, but only his best friend Mouse appreciates his endeavor, in this delightful picture book companion to King Mouse.

Jill

Wish You Were Here

Diana finds herself examining her relationships, her choices, and herself-and wondering if when she goes home, she too will have evolved into someone completely different

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?

Dennis

A wild ride through the underbelly of America following three characters who are running for their lives and running into trouble. A deeply felt introspection and cathartic moments rendered here

Dennis

Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers

This pays tribute to inspiring mischief makers, from George Washington to Willie Nelson, while expounding on such topics as religion, handcrafting and meat.

Laura

Leave the World Behind

A suspenseful and provocative novel keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class.

Joanna

All The Names Given

Raymond Antrobus

A timely, tender book full of humanity and remembrance from one of the most important young poets of our generation.

Sarah

Lessons in Chemistry

The hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home.

Amy

End of the World House

This delivers an apocalyptic mindset without sinking too deeply into despair. It’s a book that offers a deep look into coping with loss, endings, and change.

Jeanne

Life Without Children: Stories

These ten beautifully moving short stories paint a collective portrait of our strange times.

Jeanne

American Birds: A Literary Companion

Andrew Rubenfeld and Terry Tempest Williams

This landmark anthology is a one-of-a-kind field guide to the American literary imagination. Americans have always been fascinated by birds and have captured them in this landmark anthology.

Jeanne

Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?

By tackling etiquette questions of our age, he presents a seriously entertaining book about grace, civility, and how we can simply treat each other better.

Jeanne

The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World

This book describes his daring expeditions and investigation of wild environments around the world and his discoveries of similarities between climate and vegetation zones on different continents.

Matt

Wonder: the Art and Practice of Beatrice Blue

This is the perfect book to carry with you on all your exciting adventures, providing you with a portal to a colorful and deeply magical world.

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.