2022-04-26 01:51
The MaidBy Nita ProseBallantine Press, 2022. 304 pages. MysteryMolly has her daily routine. She wakes up, eats her breakfast, dresses in her uniform, and heads to work as a maid at The Regen… Read More
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2022-04-25 19:46
The Turning Pointe by Vanessa L. Torres Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.425 pages. Young Adult Fiction When sixteen-year-old Rosa Dominguez pirouettes, she is poetry in pointe shoes. And as the daught… Read More
2022-04-23 16:38
She Who Rides the Storm By Caitlin Sangster Simon & Schuster, 2021. 595 pages. YA Fantasy Deep in the past of the Commonwealth there was a time when shapeshifters ruled t… Read More
2022-04-19 16:30
Dustborn By Erin Bowman Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. 422 pages. Young Adult Fiction When raiders sent by a man known as the General attack her village, Delta suspects he is sea… Read More
2022-04-16 21:16
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections By Eva Jurczyk Poisoned Pen Press, 2022. 323 pages. Mystery Liesl Weiss has been happy working behind the scenes in the ra… Read More
2022-04-11 19:03
Fugitive Telemetryby Martha WellsTordotcom, 2021. 168 pages, Science FictionMurderbot is a Security construct (a robot with some organic parts), tasked to keep humans safe when they head out… Read More
2022-04-09 16:14
Seaside Harmony by Evangeline Kelley Guideposts, 2013. 336 pages. FictionAfter the passing of their mother, sisters Caroline, Gracie, and Sam reunite for the summer in Nantucket, the se… Read More
2022-04-06 23:26
Proof: The Science of Boozeby Adam RogersHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. NonfictionHumans have been perfecting alcohol production for ten thousand years, but scientists are just starting to… Read More
2022-04-01 16:00
Houseplants for All: How to Fill Any Home with Happy Plantsby Danae HorstHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. 195 pages. NonfictionTurn over a new leaf with Houseplants for All and keep all your… Read More
2022-03-30 20:56
Notable Native PeopleBy Adrienne KeeneTen Speed Press, 2021. 143 pages. Young Adult NonfictionAn accessible and educational illustrated book profiling 50 notable American Indian, Alaska Nati… Read More
2022-03-30 20:49
This is Your Mind on PlantsBy Michael PollanPenguin Press, 2021. 352 pages. NonfictionBestselling author Michael Pollan discusses three mind-altering natural substances found in plants: opiu… Read More
2022-03-26 00:30
The True History of Chocolateby Sophie D. CoeThames & Hudson, 2013. 280 p. NonfictionThe story begins some 3,000 years ago in the jungles of Mexico and Central America with the chocolate… Read More
2022-03-15 22:36
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires By Grady Hendrix Quirk Books, 2020. 404 pages. Horror A supernatural thriller set in South Carolina in the '90s about… Read More
2022-03-14 20:40
Heartstopper Volume 4 by Alice Oseman Graphix, 2021. 350 pages. Young Adult Comics Charlie and Nick's relationship has been going really well, and Charlie thinks he's ready to say those thre… Read More
2022-03-13 00:37
WillBy Will Smith, Mark MansonPenguin Press, 2021. MemoirOne of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully in this memoir about his life. … Read More
2022-03-09 22:38
Crushing By Sophie Burrows Algonquin, 2022. 156 pages. Graphic Novel A young woman, pale and rosy-cheeked with a straight black bob, lives alone in London--except for her cat… Read More
2022-03-04 19:36
The Lincoln Highwayby Amor TowlesViking, 2021. 576 pages. Historical FictionIn June, 1954, 18-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where… Read More
2022-03-01 17:00
Me (Moth)By Amber McBrideFeiwel and Friends, 2021. 248 pages. Young Adult FictionMoth, who lost her family in an accident, and Sani, who is fleeing abuse, take a road trip that has them chas… Read More
2022-02-24 19:59
Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your MindBy Judson BrewerAvery, 2021. 287 pgs. NonfictionWe don't often think of anxiety as a habit, bu… Read More
2022-02-24 18:45
Charming ArtemisBy Sarah M. EdenCovenant Communications, 2021. 275 pgs. Romance Charlie Jonquil is a brilliant mathematician and generally a mild-mannered person except when it comes to… Read More
2022-02-23 16:39
Violetaby Isabel AllendeBallantine Books, 2022. 322 pages.FictionThis sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del… Read More
2022-02-12 02:39
Home is Not a Countryby Safia ElhilloMake Me A World, 2021. 215 pages. YA FictionNima wishes she were someone else. She doesn't feel understood by her mother, who grew up in a different land… Read More
2022-02-09 16:17
Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horrorwith Lincoln Michel, editorCatapult, 2020. 289 pages. Short StoriesTiny Nightmares brings to life broken-hearted vampires, Uber-taking serial kille… Read More
2022-02-08 23:53
Cabin Trippingby JJ EggersArtisan. 2021. 351 p. Nonfiction.A mountain lodge 5,000 feet up in Washington State's Cascades mountains, accessible only by skis-or an SUV tricked out with bulldoz… Read More
2022-02-05 18:35
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir Razorbill, 2015. 446 pages. Young Adult Fiction. Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free. Under the Martial Empire, defiance… Read More
2022-02-04 18:55
Pretty Girlsby Karin SlaughterWilliam Morrow, 2015. 396 pagesFiction MysteryTeenage Julia disappeared 20 years ago, and her family has never been the same. Julia’s body was never found… Read More
2022-02-01 23:39
Graceling: The Graphic Novel By Kristin Cashore and Gareth Hinds Etch, 2021. 257 pages. YA Comics Katsa is a Graceling, one of the rare people born with an extreme skill. As n… Read More
2022-01-28 17:56
The Personal LibrarianBy Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher MurrayBerkley, 2021. 336 pgs. Historical FictionIn 1906, J.P. Morgan hired Belle da Costa Greene to run the Pierpont Morgan L… Read More
2022-01-27 19:06
56 Daysby Catherine Ryan HowardBlackstone Publishing, 2021. Fiction No one even knew they were together. Now one of them is dead. 56 days ago, Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket que… Read More
2022-01-24 20:27
Hooked: How crafting saved my life by Sutton Foster Grand Central Publishing, 2021. 235 pages. Nonfiction In these intimate stories and reflections about how crafting has kept her sane… Read More
2022-01-24 18:26
Miracle Creek Christmasby Krista Lynne Jensen Shadow Mountain, 2020. 363 pages. Romance. Riley Madigan escapes to the sleepy mountain town of Miracle Creek after her relationship w… Read More
2022-01-22 21:04
You Feel it Just Below the Ribsby Jeffrey CranorHarper Collins, 2021. 352 pages. FictionA haunting, provocative novel, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs is a fictional autobiography in an alte… Read More
2022-01-19 17:27
The Silver Blonde By Elizabeth Ross Delacorte Press, 2021. 388 pages. Young Adult Fiction In 1946 Hollywood, 18-year-old Clara Berg dreams of becoming a film editor and going on a… Read More
2022-01-18 19:10
When No One is Watchingby Alyssa ColeWilliam Morrow Paperback, 2020. 352 pagesFictionSydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she bli… Read More
2022-01-12 03:25
How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for our Universe, from the Origins of Atoms to the Big Bang by Harry CliffDoubleday, 2021. 385 pages. NonfictionCarl Sagan… Read More
2022-01-12 01:10
Allergy-Friendly Food for Familiesby Kiwi MagazineAndrews McMEel, 2012. Nonfiction. Cookbook.Feeding a family with food allergies doesn't have to be boring or tasteless. Kiwi, the premier ma… Read More
2022-01-06 20:19
Taste: My Life Through FoodBy Stanley TucciGallery Books 2021. 320 pages. Biography/MemoirThe food-obsessed, award-winning actor reflects on the intersection of food, life, and loved ones an… Read More
2022-01-05 19:13
Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessonsby Julia Gilliard and Ngozi Okonjo-IwealaMIT Press, 2021. eBook. NonfictionWomen make up fewer than ten per cent of national leaders worldwide… Read More
2022-01-05 02:55
Firekeeper's Daughterby Angeline BoulleyHenry Holt and Co, 2021. 494 pages. YA Mystery FictionIn the wake of a family tragedy, Daunis is debating whether to attend the University of Michigan… Read More
2021-12-31 18:12
Legendborn By Tracy Deonn Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2020. 501 pages. Young Adult FictionAfter her mother dies in an accident, 16-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her p… Read More
2021-12-31 03:02
Huda F Are You? By Huda Fahmy Dial Books for Young Readers, 2021. 184 pages. Young Adult Graphic Novel Huda and her family just moved to Dearborn, Michigan, a small town with… Read More
2021-12-23 17:46
GreenlightsBy Matthew McConaughey Crown, 2020. 289 pgs. Biography/MemoirFrom the Academy Award winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and le… Read More
2021-12-23 01:00
Tartine BreadBy Chad RobertsonChronicle Books, 2010. 304 pages. NonfictionThe bread at San Francisco's legendary Tartine Bakery was developed by renowned baker Chad Robertson over a decade o… Read More
2021-12-17 22:58
The Good DaughterBy Karin Slaughter William Morrow, 2017. 515 pages. Mystery.Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terr… Read More
2021-12-15 03:19
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynastyby Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe Harper, 2021. 317 pages. Nonfiction/BiographyWhen eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to… Read More
2021-12-10 21:06
Witchlight by Jessi Zabarsky RH Graphic, 2020. 200 pages. Graphic Novel. Meeting in the marketplace amid community fears about witchcraft, Sanja and Lelek begin uncovering difficult magical… Read More
2021-12-08 21:34
Against Silenceby Frank BidartFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. 63 pages.PoetryWords—there is a gap, nonetheless alwaysand forever, between words and the world—In Against Silence… Read More
2021-12-08 21:33
Gastro Obscura : A Food Adventurer’s Guideby Cecily WongWorkman Publishing, 2021. 438 pages.NonfictionThe ever-curious minds behind Atlas Obscura are back, and this time they are showc… Read More
2021-12-04 19:04
Otherwise EngagedBy Joanna BarkerCovenant Communications, 2020. 254 pgs. RomanceRebecca Rowley feels stifled by society and finds ways to quietly and not so quietly rebel. Riding bareback is… Read More
2021-12-04 17:56
Avatar the last Airbender, the official cookbook: recipes from the Four Nationsby Jenny Dorsey Insight Editions, 2021. 127 pages. Nonfiction From the shores of Kyoshi Island to the crow… Read More
2021-12-03 01:40
That Cheese Plate Will Change Your Lifeby Marissa MullenNew York: The Dial Press (2020). 285 pages. NonfictionCreator of the Instagram sensation @ThatCheesePlate Marissa Mullen takes cheese… Read More
2021-12-02 01:00
En un rincón del alma Por Antonia J. Corrales Ediciones B, 2014. 205 páginas. Ficción Cuando goza de lo que para muchas personas sería una situación… Read More
2021-12-01 16:37
This One Wild And Precious Life: The Path Back to Connection in a Fractured WorldBy Sarah WilsonDey St., 2020. 344 pages. NonfictionMany of us are living with the sense that things are not r… Read More
2021-12-01 01:05
Poet WarriorBy Joy HarjoW.W. Norton & Company, 2021. 226 pages. BiographyIn the second memoir from the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, Joy Harjo invites us to travel… Read More
2021-11-22 17:30
Teen Titans: Beast Boy Loves Raven By Kami Garcia DC Comics, 2021. 190 pages. Young Adult Graphic Novel While Raven Roth is finding a way to get rid of her demon father Trigon… Read More
2021-11-19 19:00
Fade OutBy Nova Ren SumaSimon & Schuster, 2009. 272 pages. YA Fiction. Imaginative thirteen-year-old Dani feels trapped in her small mountain town with only film noir at the lo… Read More
2021-11-18 02:06
Creepy Cat Volume 1 By Cotton Valent Seven Seas Entertainment, 2021. 180 pages. Young Adult Graphic Novel Flora moves into a mysterious mansion and finds it inhabited by a str… Read More
2021-11-18 01:01
The Body: A Guide for OccupantsBy Bill BrysonDoubleday Book, 2019. 450 pages. NonfictionThis book walks the reader through each system in the human body, noting how it functions and recounti… Read More
2021-11-15 22:02
Beyond the Mapped Stars By Rosalyn Eves Alfred A Knopf, 2021. 371 pages. Young Adult Fiction Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Bertelsen dreams of becoming an astronomer, but those dre… Read More
2021-11-12 22:01
Tokyo Ever After By Emiko Jean Flatiron Books, 2021. 322 pages. Young Adult Fiction After learning that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izumi travels to Tokyo, where she d… Read More
2021-11-12 18:35
Aetherbound by E.K. Johnston Dutton Books, 2021. 244 pages. Young Adult Fiction. After escaping her abusive family's interstellar merchant ship, seventeen-year-old Pendt lands on a rem… Read More
2021-11-10 16:49
Cloud Cuckoo Landby Anthony DoerrScribner, 2021. 626 pages. FictionFrom 1453 Constantinople to present-day Lakeport, Idaho, to a spaceship bound for a distant exoplanet sometime in the futur… Read More
2021-11-08 19:38
The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld By Jamie BartlettMelville House, 2015. 320 pages. NonfictionBeyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit — a world of Google, Fa… Read More
2021-11-05 00:09
Rakes and Roses by Josi S. Kilpack Shadow Mountain, 2020. 303 pages. Romance When Harry Stillman finds himself deep in debt after a losing streak at the gambling tables, he tu… Read More
2021-11-02 15:37
Hunt, Gather, Parent : What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humansby Michaeleen DoucleffAvid Reader Press, 2021. 341 pages. NonfictionThe ol… Read More
2021-11-02 00:30
K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitchesby Tyler KepnerNew York; Doubleday 2019. 302 pages. NonfictionThe baseball is an amazing plaything. We can grip it and hold it so many different ways… Read More
2021-11-01 23:00
Más allá del invierno Por Isabel Allende Vintage Español, 2017. 749 páginas. FicciónIsabel Allende parte de la célebre cita de Albert Camus -"… Read More
2021-10-26 19:01
Kiki Strike : Inside the Shadow City (Kiki Strike Series #1) By Kirsten Miller Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006. 387 pages. YA Fiction. Ananka Fishbein was just like most othe… Read More
2021-10-26 16:35
Starfish By Lisa Fipps Nancy Paulsen Books, 2021. 244 pages. Young Adult Fiction Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for… Read More
2021-10-21 19:21
Dark One, Volume 1 by Jackson LanzingVault, 2021. 224 pages. Young Adult Graphic Novel Some worlds are made to be broken. Paul Tanasin is a young man haunted by visions of a d… Read More
2021-10-11 21:17
The Thursday Murder Clubby Richard OsmanPamela Dorman Books, 2020. 355 pages. MysteryIn a peaceful retirement village in England, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to disc… Read More
2021-10-11 20:29
Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan AmBy Julia CookeHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. 266 pages. NonfictionRequired to have a college education, speak two la… Read More
2021-10-07 01:41
Conventionally YoursBy Annabeth AlbertSourcebooks Casablanca, 2020. 389 pages. FictionConrad Stewart and Alden Parks are enemies, and that's the way it's always been. But when they're stuck… Read More
2021-10-06 15:48
The Kitchen Without Borders: Recipes and Stories from Refugee and Immigrant Chefsby Eat OffbeatWorkman Publishing, 2021. 212 pages. Nonfiction The Kitchen without Borders brings the culinary… Read More
2021-10-06 02:22
Field Notes on Loveby Jennifer E. Smith Delacorte Press 2019: 274 pages. Young Adult Fiction.Two teens, Hugo and Mae, are strangers until they share a cross-country train trip tha… Read More
2021-10-04 18:00
Lakeshire Parkby Megan Walker Shadow Mountain, 2020. 312 pages. Romance Amelia Moore needs to secure her sister's engagement to Sir Ronald or else the two sisters will be left dest… Read More
2021-10-02 23:39
The Ivies By Alexa Donne Crown Books for Young Readers, 2021. 312 pages. Young Adult Mystery/Thriller A ruthless band of prep-school elites, or the Ivies, competing for admiss… Read More
2021-10-02 00:00
Hijos de sangre y hueso (Orisha, #1)Por Tomi Adeyemi RBA Molino, 2018. 621 páginas. FantasíaZélie Adebola recuerda cuando la tierra de Orïsha desprendía magi… Read More
2021-09-30 17:37
To Steal a Heart By Jen TuranoBethany House, 2020. 361 pgs. RomanceGabriella Goodhue had put her past as a thief behind her, until a woman in her boardinghouse is unjustly accused and s… Read More
2021-09-28 21:44
The Inspired Houseplant: Transform Your Home With Indoor PlantsBy Jen StearnsSasquatch Books, 2019. 192 pages. NonfictionThe ultimate go-to guide for aspiring indoor gardeners, this book off… Read More
2021-09-25 15:44
Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon Delacorte Press, 2021. 285 pages. Young Adult Fiction After picking up a book, Instructions for Dancing, from a local little libr… Read More
2021-09-23 19:54
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones Saga Press, 2020. 310 pages. Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselve… Read More
2021-09-23 02:34
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mossesby Robin Wall KimmererOregon State University Press: 2002. 168 pages. Nonfiction Living at the limits of our ordinary perception… Read More
2021-09-15 15:23
Second First Impressions: a Novelby Sally ThorneWilliam Morrow, 2021. 336 pages. RomanceYoung and beautiful Ruthie, the retirement villa’s manager, is an old soul looking for a man who… Read More
2021-09-04 17:52
The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of KindnessBy Kelli Harding Simon & Schuster Audio, 2019. 288 pages. Nonfiction In 1978, a see… Read More
2021-09-03 16:28
When the Stars Go Darkby Paula McLainBallantine Books, 2021. 370 pages. Mystery/ThrillerAnna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in 1990s San Francisco with far too much knowledge o… Read More
2021-09-03 00:00
Ciudad negraPor Fernando Gamboa Ediciones B, 2013. 565 páginas. FantasíaEl profesor Castillo cita con urgencia a Cassandra y a Ulises y les explica, angustiado, que su hij… Read More
2021-09-01 15:37
Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore Sourcebooks, 2021. 540 pages. Biography 1860: As the… Read More
2021-08-31 22:21
Sensational: The Hidden History of America's "Girl Stunt Reporters"By Kim ToddHarper, 2021. 400 pages. NonfictionIn the waning years of the nineteenth century, women journalists across the U… Read More
2021-08-31 20:14
Cultish: The Language of FanaticismBy Amanda MontellHarper Wave, 2021. 309 pages. NonfictionWhat makes "cults" so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many… Read More
2021-08-27 23:32
In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers: the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years after the 9/11 attacks By Don Brown Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. 121 pages. Young Adult Gr… Read More
2021-08-24 18:29
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontentsby Isabel WilkersonRandom House, 2020. 476 pages. NonfictionBeyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people… Read More
2021-08-14 20:20
Broken: (In the Best Possible Way)By Jenny LawsonHenry Holt & Company, 2021. 285 pgs. Biography/MemoirThe award-winning humorist and author of Let's Pretend This Never Happened shares ca… Read More
2021-08-11 18:27
The Path of the Witch: Rituals & Practices for Discovering Which Witch You Are by Lidia Pradas Fair Winds Press, 2021. 176 pages. Interested in becoming a witch, but you d… Read More
2021-08-11 16:30
The Rose Codeby Kate QuinnWilliam Morrow, 2021, 624 pages. Historical Fiction1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to Bletchley Park, where… Read More
2021-08-09 20:43
Juliet respira profundoPor Gabby Rivera Vintage Español, 2020. 380 páginas. Ficción JuvenilJuliet Milagros Palante es una adolescente lesbiana puertorriqueña, nac… Read More
2021-08-07 00:11
Our Towns: A 100,000 Mile Journey Into the Heart of Americaby James Fallows and Deborah FallowsPantheon Books 2018: 413 pages. Nonfiction.For the last five years, James and Deborah Fal… Read More
2021-08-06 23:07
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists : A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rightsby Mikki KendallTen Speed Press, 2019. 208 pages. NonfictionAugust 26, 2020, marked the 100th anniv… Read More
2021-08-02 18:16
Any Way the Wind Blows (Simon Snow #3) by Rainbow Rowell Wednesday Books, 2021. 579 pages. Fiction. New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell's epic fantasy, the Simon Snow trilogy… Read More
2021-08-02 18:11
The Inheritance GamesBy Jennifer Lynn Barnes Little, Brown, and Company, 2020. 376 pages. Young Adult Mystery Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a sch… Read More
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