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.

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.

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

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

Dawn

Infinite Country

The richness of the story is in the telling of native stories and descriptions of life and love in Colombia.

Dawn

Clap When you Land

ElizabethAcevedo

This story follows a man with roots in America and the Dominican Republic and the choices that are made around this charismatic character.

Dawn

A Spindle Splintered

A modern Sleeping Beauty determined to rewrite her story finds purpose in her life’s curse.

Dawn

Local Woman Missing

This smart and chilling thriller takes domestic secrets to a whole new level, showing that some people will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried.

Jeanne, Alice and Matt

A wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors. A bookstore is haunted by an annoying customer during the first year of the pandemic.

- Jeanne, Alice and Matt

Amy

Emily St.John Mandel

Set in the days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors risking everything for art and humanity.

Alice

The Last Green Valley

This story is a brutal, complex, and ultimately triumphant tale that illuminates the extraordinary power of love, faith, and one family’s incredible will to survive a war to see their dreams realized.

Historical Fiction

Joanna

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry

A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today.

Joanna

Postcolonial Love Poem

Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness.

Joanna

All This Change

Her poems are like entries in an intimate journal; expression of her heart's passions and sorrows.

Joanna

Colson Whitehead

This is a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem. But mostly, it's a joy to read.

Tracy

The Soul of an Octopus

This explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus-- a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature --and the remarkable connections it makes with humans.

Matt

A Tale For The Time Being

This is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home. It is narrated by a Japanese American teenager and a novelist living in British Columbia.

Jeanne

Spooky Classics for Children

Suspense, laughter and plenty of plot twists in tales from Wilde, Hawthorne and Kipling.