2023-08-02 15:00
What the Dead Know: learning about life as a New York City Death investigatorBy Barbara ButcherSimon & Schuster, 2023. 270 pages. NonfictionBarbara Butcher knew what dark places were lik… Read More
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2023-08-01 22:55
Happy PlaceBy Emily HenryBerkley, 2023. 388 pages. RomanceHarriet and Wyn have
been the perfect couple since they met in college. Except, now, for reasons
they're still not discussing, they… Read More
2023-08-01 16:44
Practice Makes Perfect By Sarah Adams Dell Books, 2023. 335 pages. Romance Annie Walker is on a quest to find her perfect match; someone who nicely compliments her happy, quie… Read More
2023-08-01 02:57
The Witch’s Heartby Genevieve Gornichec
Ace, 2023. 368 pages. Fiction. Angrboda's story begins where most witch's tales end: with a burning. A punishment from Odin for refusing to… Read More
2023-07-31 21:11
How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and OrganizingBy KC DavisSimon Element, 2022. 151 pgs. NonfictionKC Davis is a therapist and has found popularity on TikTok an… Read More
2023-07-29 20:45
Every Day: The Graphic NovelBy David Levithan, Illustrated by Dion MBDAlfred A. Knopf, 2023. 198 pages. Young Adult Graphic NovelA graphic novel adaptation of the groundbreaking, beloved New… Read More
2023-07-27 20:45
In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on TrialBy Mona CholletSt. Martin's Press, 2022. 304 pages. NonfictionMona Chollet celebrates the witch as a symb… Read More
2023-07-21 23:21
Under the Henfluenceby Tove DanovichAgate Publishing, 2023. 223 pages. NonfictionWhen Danovich picked up her first flock of chicks, she didn't expect the birds to change her life. She began… Read More
2023-07-21 19:33
Hot Dutch Daydreamby Kristy BoyceHarper Teen, 2023. 290 pages. Young Adult FictionNo one has ever accused Sage Cunningham of being easily
distracted. She has a plan, and she won't be swayed… Read More
2023-07-21 16:59
When Crack Was King: a people's history of a misunderstood eraBy Donovan X. RamseyNew York: One World, 2023. 427 pages. NonfictionThis fascinating book caught my eye with its bright, orange… Read More
2023-07-17 19:51
Women of Power: the influence of mother & daughterBy Susan Evans McCloudCedar Fort, 2022. 136 pages. Nonfiction Lucy was seventeen when she married Brigham, who forthwith left for the Va… Read More
2023-07-15 20:32
El Invencible Verano de Lilianapor Cristina Rivera GarzaVintage Espanol, 2023. 302 páginas. Memoria El 16 de julio de 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, mi hermana, fue víctima… Read More
2023-07-12 22:20
Yours Trulyby Abby JimenezForever, 2023. 398 pages. RomanceDr. Briana Ortiz's life is seriously flatlining. Her divorce is just about finalized, her brother's running out of time to find a k… Read More
2023-07-12 16:09
Family
Style: Memories of an American from VietnamBy Thien PhamFirst Second, 2023. 234 pages YA Comics Biography/Memoir
Told through the lens of meaningful food and meals, this
graphic nove… Read More
2023-07-07 02:05
All Good People HereBy Ashley Flowers New York: Bantam, 2022. 312 Pages. Mystery Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana remembers the infamous case of January Jacobs, who was discovered i… Read More
2023-07-06 00:36
Your Plantation Prom Is Not OkayBy Kelly McWilliamsLittle, Brown and Company, 2023. 312 pages. Young AdultHigh school senior Harriet Douglass lives on a former plantation called Westwood in… Read More
2023-07-01 22:02
As You Walk On By By Julian Winters Viking, 2023. 328 pages. Young Adult When 17-year-old Theo Wright is dared to ask his crush, Christian, to their junior prom, Theo ac… Read More
2023-07-01 00:23
Ana María and the Fox
by Liana De la Rosa
Berkley, 2023. 352 pages. Romance When Ana María Luna Valdes is secretly sent to London with her sisters to seek refuge during th… Read More
2023-06-29 16:41
Iron Gold: Red Rising Saga #4By Pierce BrownDel Rey, 2018. 624 pages. Science FictionA decade ago, Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society. Bu… Read More
2023-06-28 15:43
The Last UnicornBy Peter S. BeaglePenguin Books 1968 (2022). 212 pages. Science FictionThis book, whimsical, evocative, tantalizing, darts from low comedy to high fantasy quicker than a humm… Read More
2023-06-27 02:39
Recipe for Persuasionby Sonali DevHarper Collins Publishers, 2020. 443 pages. RomanceChef Ashna Raje desperately needs a new strategy. How else can she save her beloved restaurant and prove… Read More
2023-06-26 22:53
This Woven KingdomBy Tahereh Mafi Harper, 2022. 495 pages. Young Adult Fiction The long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide in plain sight, servant girl Alizeh wait… Read More
2023-06-15 00:53
A Heart Worth StealingBy Joanna BarkerShadow Mountain, 2023. 288 pgs. RomanceThe daughter of a magistrate and independent heiress, Genevieve Wilde, hires a flirtatious, handsome and unpredic… Read More
2023-06-13 20:37
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for MurderersBy Jesse Q. SutantoBerkley, 2023. 338 pgs. MysteryWhen she discovers a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, Vera Wong, a suspicious C… Read More
2023-06-10 19:35
I’m not Charlotte Lucas
by Kasey Stockton
Covenant Communications, 2023. 224 pages. Romance
Northern California girl Charlotte "Charlie" Lucas
has two great loves: Diet Coke a… Read More
2023-06-02 01:53
Meet Me at the LakeBy Carly FortuneBerkley, 2023. 322 pages. RomanceFern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent just 24 hours in her early… Read More
2023-06-01 23:27
Bilingual Short Stories Based in Reality and Dreams: Historias Cortas Inspiradas en Sueños y Realidadpor Mayela Acuña Rojas-HessXlibris, 2019. ESLA veces vivimos momentos dif&i&hell…Read More
2023-06-01 21:27
What's Gotten Into You?: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang through Last Night's Dinnerby Dan LevittHarper, 2023. 385 pages. Nonfiction From the Big Bang to the creation… Read More
2023-05-27 21:33
Nerdcrush
by Alisha Emrich
Running Press Teens, 2023. 262 pages. Young Adult Fiction
Shy sixteen-year-old Ramona uses cosplay as a way to escape
her shyness and feel seen, but when… Read More
2023-05-26 22:47
Cinder & Glass By Melissa De La Cruz G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2022. 316 pages. Young Adult1682. The king sends out an invitation to all the maidens in France: their presence is requ… Read More
2023-05-26 01:57
The Sunbearer Trials By Aiden Thomas Feiwel and Friends, 2022. 405 pages. Young Adult Chosen to participate in The Sunbearer Trials, where the loser is sacrificed to refuel th… Read More
2023-05-25 00:39
How to Be a Happier Parentby KJ Dell'Antonia2018. NonfictionAn encouraging guide to helping parents find more happiness in their day-to-day family life, from the former lead editor of the Ne… Read More
2023-05-20 23:22
Mad HoneyBy Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney BoylanBallantine Books, 2022. 452 pages. FictionOlivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. She never imagined she would end up back… Read More
2023-05-16 01:59
Dominicanapor Angie CruzBrilliance Audio, 2021. 11 hr. 43 min. FicciónAna Canción, de quince años, nunca soñó con mudarse a Estados Unidos, como lo hiciero… Read More
2023-05-10 02:39
A Curse So Dark and LonelyBy Brigid KemmererBloomsbury YA, 2019. 484 pages. FantasyCursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year, Prince Rhen, the heir of Embe… Read More
2023-05-08 15:54
Finding Water: the art of perseverance By Julia Cameron Jeremy P. Tarcher 2006. 286 pages. NonfictionOutlines a twelve-week program for overcoming a creative block or otherwise wor… Read More
2023-05-06 21:17
Papá, ¡Tú Puedes!por Javier Serrano PalaciosBrilliance Audio, 2019. 5 hr. 6 min. No FicciónSer padre es algo importantísimo. Y a la primera pregunta que sur… Read More
2023-05-04 20:21
Love from Mecca to Medina By S.K. Ali Salaam Reads, 2022. 344 pages. Fiction Adam and Zayneb embark on the Umrah, a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, in Saudi Arabia, but as one… Read More
2023-05-04 00:09
Gwendy's Final TaskBy Stephen King & Richard ChizmarCemetery Dance Publications, 2022. 412 pages. FictionWhen Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave… Read More
2023-05-03 23:36
I'm Glad My Mom DiedBy Jennette McCurdySimon & Schuster, 2022. 304 pages. Biography/Memoir
The iCarly and Sam & Cat star, after her controlling mother dies, gets the help she needs… Read More
2023-05-02 22:55
The Good Lie By A.R. Torre Thomas & Mercer, 2021. 244 pages. FictionPsychiatrist Dr. Gwen Moore is an expert on killers. She treats California’s most depraved predators l… Read More
2023-05-02 20:21
The Twyford Codeby Janice HallettAtria Books, 2023. 326 pages. MysteryForty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins fu… Read More
2023-05-02 01:21
Home is Where the Eggs Areby Molly YehWilliam Morrow, 2022. 337 pages. Nonfiction. Cookbook.Home Is Where the Eggs Are is a beautiful, intimate book full of food that's best enjoyed in the c… Read More
2023-05-01 23:16
The Prison HealerBy Lynette NoniClarion Books, 2021. 416 pages. FantasySeventeen-year-old Kiva Meridan has spent the last ten years fighting for survival in the notorious death prison, Zalin… Read More
2023-04-29 20:51
My Queendom For a HorseBy Bridget E. BakerPurple Puppy Publishing, 2022. 310 pages. RomanceKristiana Liepa was supposed to use the money to save her family farm. She was NOT supposed to spen… Read More
2023-04-28 18:41
The White Ladyby Jacqueline Winspear
Harper, 2023. 336 pages. FictionElinor White lives a white life in a rural English village in the aftermath of World War II, and to her fellow villagers… Read More
2023-04-18 16:52
Twin CrownsBy Catherine DoyleBalzer + Bray, 2022. 466 pages. Young Adult Fiction
Twin princesses separated at birth--Wren, raised to avenge her parents' murder and take the throne, pr… Read More
2023-04-17 23:15
The Renaissance of Gwen Hathaway
by Ashley Schumacher
Wednesday Books, 2023. 310 pages. Young Adult Fiction
Raised in the ren faire circuit, seventeen-year-old Madeline
is grieving the lo… Read More
2023-04-13 20:31
Wyoming WildBy Sarah M. EdenShadow Mountain Publishing, 2023. 249 pgs. Historical RomanceHearts collide when a sheriff’s daughter asks a hardened US Marshal to join her fight for justi… Read More
2023-04-05 02:50
The Other Dr. Gilmer: two men, a murder, and an unlikely fight for justiceBy Benjamin GilmerBallantine Books, 2022. 292 pages. True Crime Biography A rural physician learns that a… Read More
2023-04-04 16:37
The Only Survivors By Megan MirandaScribner, 2023. 352 pages. Fiction A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school trip crashed into a Tennessee ravine claimi… Read More
2023-04-03 16:19
The Bronte Cabinet: three lives in nine objectsBy Deborah LutzW.W. Norton & Company, 2015. 310 pages. Nonfiction The story of the Bront's is told through the things they wore, stitc… Read More
2023-03-31 20:20
Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make – and Keep – Friendsby Marisa G. Franco, Ph.D.
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2022. 336 pages. Nonfiction You’ve p… Read More
2023-03-25 18:05
Night of the Raven, Dawn of the DoveBy Rafi MehrotraWednesday Books, 2022. 338 pages. Young Adult FantasyBound to the queen of Chandela by a forbidden soul bond that saved her when she was a… Read More
2023-03-25 02:34
Club de Brujas: Una Guia de Inicio al Tarot y la Astrologia Por Mel Knarik y Ayelen RomanoLectorum Pubns, 2022. 205 páginas. No FicciónEste libro no es uno más. Es… Read More
2023-03-25 01:30
Malala Yousafzai: Mi historia es la historia de muchas chicasPor Malala YousafzaiAkiara Books, 2019. 76 páginas. No FicciónCuando Malala Yousafzai tenía quince añ… Read More
2023-03-24 00:36
Dark Room Etiquette By Robin Roe HarperTeen, 2022. 505 pages. Young Adult Sixteen-year-old Sayers Wayte has everything: popularity, good looks, perfect grades--there's nothing… Read More
2023-03-20 17:40
The 9:09 Project By Mark H. Parsons Delacorte Press, 2022. 386 pages. Young Adult It has been two years since his mom’s death, and Jamison, his dad, and his younger sist… Read More
2023-03-11 19:25
ASpindle Splintered by Alix Harrow Tordotcom, 2021. 119 pages. Science Fiction. It's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it's the last birthday she'll e… Read More
2023-03-10 22:03
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolutionby R.F. KuangHarper Voyager, 2022. 544 pages. Fantasy1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Can… Read More
2023-03-06 19:19
All My RageBy Sabaa TahirRazorbill, 2022. 374 pages Young Adult FictionA family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness. Sal… Read More
2023-03-04 17:57
Let's Learn Hiraganaby Yasuko Kosaka MitamuraKodansha International, 195. 71 pages. NonfictionThis text teaches hiragana, the basic Japanese written alphabet in well-tested, step-by-step les… Read More
2023-03-03 21:51
Wrong Place Wrong Timeby Gillian McAllisterWilliam Morrow, 2022. 402 pages. FictionCan you stop a murder after it's already happened? It's late October. After midnight. Jen is waiting up for… Read More
2023-03-03 03:08
The Writing RetreatBy Julia BartzEmily Bestler Books/Atria, 2023. 313 pages. FictionWhile attending a month-long writing retreat at the estate of a feminist horror writer who issues a life-c… Read More
2023-03-01 21:02
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of FaeriesBy Heather FawcettDel Ray, 2023. 317 pages. FictionIn the early 1900s, a curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town to study faerie folklore, where… Read More
2023-03-01 19:52
Edward and AmeliaBy Karen ThornellCovenant Communications, 2022. 309 pgs. Historical RomanceAmelia Kennington does not want to participate in the London Season, but as the daughter of a duke… Read More
2023-02-28 22:26
Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid Ballantine Books, 2022. 384 pages. Fiction By the time Carrie Soto retired from professional tennis at the age of thirty-one… Read More
2023-02-28 19:00
Forging Silver Into StarsBy Brigid KemmererBloomsbury, 2022. 545 pages. Young Adult FictionWhen the King's Courier, Lord Tycho, stops in the small town of Briarlock he is quick to befriend J… Read More
2023-02-23 03:14
The Harper's QuineBy Pat McIntoshSoho Constable, 2008. 300 pages. MysteryMcIntosh's mystery is a meticulously researched and convincing whodunit set in 15th-century Glasgow. Lawyer Gilbert C… Read More
2023-02-22 17:32
Live, Laugh, KidnapBy Gabby NooneRazorbill, 2022. 330 pages. Young Adult FictionThree teen girls get caught up in a real estate battle between a commune and an exploitative megachurch in the… Read More
2023-02-21 16:37
A Flicker in the DarkBy Stacy WillinghamMinotaur Books, 2022. 357 pages. Fiction.When Chloe Davis was 12, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer… Read More
2023-02-14 17:27
Bad MormonBy Heather GayFirst Gallery Books, 2023. 287 pages. Biography Born and bred to be devout, Heather Gay based her life around her faith. She attended Brigham Young University, served… Read More
2023-02-08 23:38
The Lost Ticketby Freya SampsonBerkley, 2022. 368 pages. FictionArriving in London after a breakup, brokenhearted Libby Nichols meets elderly Frank, who has been riding the 88 bus for 60 yea… Read More
2023-02-08 23:10
Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to BeBy Becky KennedyHarper Wave, 2022. 315 pgs. NonfictionDr. Becky Kennedy provides a groundbreaking guide for parents that offers a ne… Read More
2023-02-07 20:44
You, Me, and Our Heartstrings by Melissa See Scholastic Press, 2022. 303 pages. Young Adult Fiction Seventeen-year-olds Daisy, a talented violinist with cerebral palsy, and Noah, a great cel… Read More
2023-02-03 02:37
Americanaby Luke HealyNobrow, 2019. 332 pages. Graphic NovelThe Pacific Crest Trail runs 2660 miles, from California's border with Mexico to Washington's border with Canada. To walk it is to… Read More
2023-02-02 00:30
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early HollywoodBy Cari Beauchamp University of California Press, 1998. 475 pages. Nonfiction Cari Beauchamp master… Read More
2023-02-01 17:58
Movements and MomentsEdited by Sonja EismannDrawn & Quarterly, 2022. 261 pages. Graphic NovelIndigenous Peoples all over the world have always had to stand their ground in the face of co… Read More
2023-02-01 01:53
Orgullo PrietoPor Tenoch Huerta MejíaGrijalbo, 2022. 220 páginas. No Ficción«Espero que este libro contribuya a ensalzar el orgullo de ser lo que somos, para que n… Read More
2023-01-24 03:01
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter By Sue Monk Kidd HarperOne, 2016. 289 pages. BiographyFor years, Sue Monk Kidd was a conventionally religious woman. Then, in the late 1980s, she experien… Read More
2023-01-23 21:15
The ScapegoatBy Daphne Du MaurierUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1957. 348 pages. Fiction Two men--one English, the other French--meet by chance in a provincial railway station… Read More
2023-01-21 22:05
Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer Bloomsbury, 2021. 448 pages. Young Adult Fiction The kingdom of Kandala is recovering from a devastating plague but the cure is rare and expensive. The pati… Read More
2023-01-20 19:38
The Boysby Katie HafnerSpiegel & Grau, 2022. 256 pages. FictionWhen introverted, eccentric Ethan Fawcett falls in love with the vivacious Barb, he has every reason to believe he will no… Read More
2023-01-19 21:31
Only A MonsterBy Vanessa LenHarperTeen, 2022. 403 pages. Young Adult FictionWhen she discovers that her family are monsters with terrifying, hidden powers, Joan must embrace her own monstrou… Read More
2023-01-19 20:27
Hotel Magnifique By Emily J. Taylor Razorbill, 2022. 391 pages. Young Adult FantasySeventeen-year-old Jani and her little sister Zosa secure jobs at a glamorous magical hotel, but… Read More
2023-01-18 21:47
A Wilderness of StarsShea ErnshawSimon & Schuster BFYR, 2022An illness cursing the land forces seventeen-year-old Vega, the Last Astronomer, to venture across the wilderness to discover… Read More
2023-01-14 22:18
Financial Feministby Tori Dunlap Dey Street Books, 2022. 320 pages. Nonfiction In Financial Feminist, Tori Dunlap distills the principles of her shame-free approach to paying off d… Read More
2023-01-13 19:06
Love Prescription: Seven Days to More Intimacy, Connection, and JoyBy John Gottman and Julie Schwartz GottmanPenguin Books, 2022. 178 pgs. NonfictionThe authors have dedicated decades of res… Read More
2023-01-05 17:55
To Capture His HeartBy Nancy Campbell AllenShadow Mountain Publishing, 2022. 282 pgs. RomanceEva Caldwell is an accomplished photographer who often works with the local law enforcement to do… Read More
2023-01-04 01:39
Dog is Loveby Clive D.L. WynneHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. 262 pages. NonfictionA pioneering canine behaviorist draws on cutting-edge research to show that a single, simple trait--the ca… Read More
2023-01-03 20:52
The Call of the SeaBy Sian Ann BesseyCovenant Communications, 2022. 252 pages. RomanceOn the eve of her betrothal to a nobleman she's never met, Rhiannon seeks comfort on the shores of the s… Read More
2022-12-30 21:34
Whiteout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon Quill Tree Books, 2022. 291 pages. Young Adult Fiction Atlanta is blanketed with sno… Read More
2022-12-30 18:42
Court of Swans (Dericott, #1) By Melanie Dickerson Thomas Nelson, 2020. 328 pages. Young Adult Romance England, 1381. Delia's quiet life as the daughter of an earl is shattere… Read More
2022-12-30 03:01
Reader, I Murdered HimBy Betsy CornwellClarion Books, 2022. 291 pages. Young Adult FictionAdele grew up in the shadows--first watching from backstage at her mother's Parisian dance halls, th… Read More
2022-12-28 22:36
Would You Ratherby Allison Ashley MIRA, 2022. 320 pages. RomanceNoah and Mia have always been best friends, and their friendship is the most important thing to them. Life is going great for… Read More
2022-12-28 20:44
I Kissed Shara Wheeler By Casey McQuiston Wednesday Books, 2022. 355 pages. Young Adult Fiction After 17-year-olds Chloe and Shara, Chloe's rival for valedictorian, kiss, Shar… Read More
2022-12-23 04:05
Este Corazón VenenosoPor Kalynn BayronFandom Books, 2022. 358 páginas. Ficción JuvenilBriseis tiene un don: con un solo toque puede hacer crecer las plantas a partir de… Read More
2022-12-22 17:54
A Court of Thorns and RosesBy Sarah J. MaasBloomsbury, 2015. 419 pages. FantasyWhen nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retrib… Read More
2022-12-14 21:53
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrowby Gabrielle ZevinAlfred A. Knopf, 2022. 401 pages. FictionAs children, Sam and Sadie bonded over their love of video games, but they lost contact after a… Read More
2022-12-10 03:25
A Morbid Taste for BonesBy Ellis PetersWarner Books, 1994. 197 pages. MysteryA Welsh Benedictine monk living at Shrewsbury Abbey in western England, Brother Cadfael spends much of his… Read More
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