2022-08-06 18:37
Solving SophroniaBy Jennifer MooreCovenant Communications, 2020; 210 pgs. RomanceLady Sophronia Bremerton isn't the usual debutante, but she gets lots of attention because she is a society c… Read More
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2022-08-06 17:24
Blade of Secrets by Tricia Levenseller Feiwel and Friends, 2021. 324 pages. Young Adult Ziva prefers metal to people. She spends her days tucked away in her forge, safe from s… Read More
2022-08-05 02:11
The Sun Down Motel By Simone St. James Berkley, 2020. 327 pages. Mystery Upstate NY, 1982. Every small town like Fell, New York, has a place like the Sun Down Motel. Some cust… Read More
2022-08-02 01:35
The Intersectional Environmentalistby Leah ThomasVoracious, Little, Brown and Company, 2022. 192 p. NonfictionThe Intersectional Environmentalist examines the inextricable link between envir… Read More
2022-07-31 06:00
Antes que Isla es un VolcánPor Salas Rivera, RaquelBeacon Press, 2022. 70 páginas. No FicciónRaquel Salas Rivera ha ascendido rápidamente en el mundo de la poes&i&hell…Read More
2022-07-29 21:00
52 Ways to Walk: The New Science and Timeless Joy of How, When, Where, and WhyBy Annabel StreetsG.P. Putnam's Sons, 2022. 272 pgs. NonfictionAre you stuck in a rut with your walking routine?… Read More
2022-07-29 20:00
The Atlas Sixby Olivie BlakeTor Books, 2022. 384 pages. FantasyEvery ten years, six adults with uniquely powerful magical abilities receive a mysterious offer to join an exclusive, secretive… Read More
2022-07-23 23:20
The Agathas By Kathleen Glasgow & Liz LawsonDelacorte Press, 2022. 405 pages. Young Adult Mystery Alice Ogilvie's disappearance last summer is the biggest scandal at Castle Cov… Read More
2022-07-23 16:33
People We Meet on VacationBy Emily Henry Jove, 2021. 364 pages. Romance Poppy Wright met Alex Nilsen 12 years ago on the first day of college orientation, and they never got along… Read More
2022-07-19 23:50
Lessons in Chemistryby Bonnie GarmusDoubleday, 2022. 390 pages. Historical FictionIt's the 1960s and despite the fact that she is a scientist, Elizabeth Zott's peers are very unscientific wh… Read More
2022-07-16 19:05
Debating Darcyby Sayantani Dasgupta Scholastic Inc., 2022. 336 pages. Young Adult Fiction It is a truth universally acknowledged that there are two types of people in the hypercompetitive wo… Read More
2022-07-12 22:50
Isn’t It Bromantic? By Lyssa Kay Adams Jove/Berkley, 2021. 342 pages. Romance As the daughter of a Russian journalist who mysteriously disappeared, Elena Konnikova escap… Read More
2022-07-09 22:50
The SwitchBy Beth O'LearyFlatiron Books, 2020. 330 pgs. FictionWhen overachiever Leena Cotton is ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big project at work, she escapes to he… Read More
2022-07-08 23:44
The House Across the Lake By Riley Sager Dutton, 2022. 368 pages. Mystery Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to t… Read More
2022-07-07 23:12
Charlie Vega Tiene un Problema GordoPor Maldonado, CrystalHoliday House, 2022. 368 páginas. FicciónAlcanzar la mayoría de edad siendo una chica gorda y morena en un s… Read More
2022-07-07 01:57
The Year I Stopped TryingBy Katie Heaney Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2021. 256 pages. Young Adult Fiction Mary is having an existential crisis. She's a good student, she never g… Read More
2022-07-07 00:58
Mr. Malcolm’s List by Suzanne Allain Jove, 2020. 244 pages. Fiction Move over, Mr. Darcy, there's a new man in town . . . It is a truth universally acknowledged that an arrogant bachel… Read More
2022-07-02 02:19
We Were Dreamersby Simu LiuHarper Collins Publishers, 2022. 289 p. BiographyWe Were Dreamers is the superhero origin story of Simu Liu, Marvel Cinematic Universe's first leading Asian superh… Read More
2022-06-28 02:46
Iona Iverson's Rules for Commutingby Clare PooleyPamela Dorman Books, 2022. 352 pages. FictionEach morning, most London Underground commuters from Hampton Court to Waterloo Station observe a… Read More
2022-06-25 18:43
How Not To Fall In Love by Jacqueline Firkins Clarion Books, 2021. 329 pages. Young Adult Fiction Harper works in her mom's wedding shop, altering dresses for petulant and picky brides… Read More
2022-06-23 02:41
The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's UnderdogBy Rick McIntyreGreystone Books, 2019. 304 pages. NonfictionIn the 1920s, park rangers in Yellowstone killed the last of t… Read More
2022-06-22 18:57
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea By Axie Oh New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2022. 325 pages. Young Adult Fantasy In this retelling of the Korean legend the tale of Shim Cheon… Read More
2022-06-14 18:51
Inheritance: A Visual PoemBy Elizabeth AcevedoQuill Tree Books, 2022. 48 pages. Young Adult NonfictionInterweaving a powerful message of self-love, award-winning author and poet Elizabeth Ac… Read More
2022-06-10 22:05
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife By Ashley Winstead Sourcebooks Landmark, 2021. 345 pages. Mystery Jessica Miller plans to triumphantly return to Duquette University for her ten-ye… Read More
2022-06-10 21:33
The Cartographersby Peng ShepherdWilliam Morrow, 2022. 391 pages. FictionNell Young's whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her father, Dr. Daniel Young, is a legend in the field… Read More
2022-06-10 00:12
The Rise and Fall of the DinosaursBy Steve BrusatteWilliam Morrow, 2018. 400 pgs. Nonfiction."The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs" is a sweeping narrative scientific history that tells the ep… Read More
2022-06-04 00:21
El Oficio de Narrar Sin MiedoPor Whitbeck, Harris Two Rivers Distribution. 2021. 264 páginas. No Ficción En sus 30 años como periodista, Harris Whitbeck ha viajado a los… Read More
2022-06-02 00:07
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse :The Art of the Movieby Ramin ZahenTitan Books, 2018. 192 p. NonfictionDiscover the world of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in this stunning collection o… Read More
2022-05-31 23:53
All Boys Aren't Blue By George M. JohnsonFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. BiographyIn a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores… Read More
2022-05-28 21:02
Dungeon Master's Guide/ Guía del Dungeon MasterPor Wizards of the Coast LLC (COR)Wizards of the Coast, 2022. 320 páginas. No FicciónNarra historias legendarias en el jue… Read More
2022-05-25 20:34
Book LoversBy Emily HenryBerkley, 2022. Fiction. 384 pgsWe all know the Hallmark movie formula: man leaves the big city to go back home to try to save his family's struggling bookstore/bed a… Read More
2022-05-21 02:25
The Diamond Eyeby Kate QuinnWilliam Morrow, 2022. 448 pages. Historical Fiction.In 1937, Mila Pavlichenko, a young mother and studious, aspiring historian, impulsively joins a sharp-shooting… Read More
2022-05-16 19:20
Love, Decoded by Jennifer Yen Razorbill, 2022. 303 pages. Young Adult Fiction High school junior Gigi Wong is determined to be picked for a contest that could lead to an exclusive tech… Read More
2022-05-13 02:24
Transcendent Kingdomby Yaa GyasiAlfred A. Knopf, 2020. 261 pages. FictionBy the time Gifty leaves Alabama for Harvard, she's resolved to build a new self from scratch by shedding the de… Read More
2022-05-13 01:25
The Complete Guide to Saving Seedsby Robert E. GoughStorey Pub, 2011. 311 p. NonfictionA full-color resource explains how to gather, clean, and store seeds for three hundred different kinds… Read More
2022-05-11 01:30
Sea of Tranquilityby Emily St. John MandelAlfred A. Knopf, 2022. 255 pages. Science FictionAlthough they live centuries apart, three people record having the same transformative experience… Read More
2022-05-05 21:59
Daughter of the Moon Goddess By Sue Lynn Tan Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2022. 503 pages. Fantasy A debut fantasy inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon… Read More
2022-05-05 16:38
Arsenic and AdoboBy Mia P. Manansala Berkley Prime Crime, 2021. 316 pgs. MysteryWhen Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following al… Read More
2022-05-05 16:36
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connections and the Language of Human ExperienceBy Brene BrownRandom House, 2021. 296pgs. NonfictionIn Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey… Read More
2022-05-04 15:50
Arden Grey By Ray Stoeve Amulet Books, 2022. 278 pages. Young Adult Fiction Sixteen-year-old Arden Grey is struggling. Her mother has left their family, her father and her you… Read More
2022-05-03 00:46
Harry Potter: Feasts and Festivities By Jennifer Carroll Insight Editions, 2021. 191 pages. Nonfiction Every event is magical when it’s inspired by Harry Potter. With lo… Read More
2022-05-03 00:46
Girl on Fire By Alicia Keys HarperAlley, 2022. 224 pages. Young Adult Graphic Novel Lolo Wright always thought she was just a regular fourteen-year-old dealing with regular fa… Read More
2022-05-02 19:49
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Musicby Dave GrohlDey Street Books, 2021. Biography/MemoirIn this colorful autobiography, David Grohl talks about his life, from growing up in Springfield… Read More
2022-05-02 19:11
You’ll Be the Death of Me By Karen M. McManus Delacorte Press, 2021. 326 pages. Young Adult Fiction Estranged friends Ivy, Mateo, and Cal witness a murder while skipping… Read More
2022-05-02 16:00
The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life DecisionsBy Emily P. FreemanBaker Publishing Group, 2019. 250 pages. ReligionNothing gets our attention like an unmade decisi… Read More
2022-04-27 18:43
Once Upon a Broken Heart By Stephanie Garber Flatiron Books, 2021. 408 pages. Young Adult Fiction Desperate to stop her beloved from marrying another, 16-year-old Evangeline F… Read More
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
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
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