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Adult Reading Recommendations

Mystery

Cover of book called Black Betty by Walter Mosley
ISBN: 9780393036442
Title: Black Betty / Walter Mosley: For most Black Americans, the 1960s were times of hope. For former P.I. Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles's mean streets were never meaner—or more deadly.
Author: Mosley, Walter.
Cover of book called A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
ISBN: 9781250145291
Title: A world of curiosities / Louise Penny: As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators' lives...
Author: Penny, Louise, author.
Cover of book called Now You See Us: a Novel by Balli Kaur Jaswal
ISBN: 9780063161603
Title: Now you see us : a novel / Balli Kaur Jaswal: Crazy Rich Asians meets The Help! ...story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore's elite, and band together to solve a murder mystery involving one of their own
Author: Jaswal, Balli Kaur, author.
Cover of book called Dead Man's Wake by Paul Doiron
ISBN: 9781250864390
Title: Dead man's wake / Paul Doiron: On the evening of their engagement party, Maine Game Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch and Stacey Stevens witness what seems to be a hit-and-run speedboat crash on a darkened lake.
Author: Doiron, Paul, author.
Cover of book called The Drowned by John Banville
ISBN: 9781335000590
Title: The drowned : a novel / John Banville: 1950s, rural Ireland. A loner comes across a mysteriously empty car in a field. Knowing he shouldn't approach but unable to hold back, he soon finds himself embroiled in a troubling missing person case...
Author: Banville, John, author.
Cover of book called The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
ISBN: 9781984880987
Title: The Thursday murder club / Richard Osman: In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club.
Author: Osman, Richard, 1970- author.
Cover of book called A Test of Wills by Charles Todd
ISBN: 9780312144319
Title: A test of wills / Charles Todd: Here the shell-shocked Rutledge struggles to retain his fragile grip on sanity while investigating the death of a popular army colonel, murdered, it appears, by a decorated war hero with ties to the Royal Family.
Author: Todd, Charles.

Fiction

Cover of book called The Secret Hours by Mick Herron
ISBN: 9781641295215
Title: The secret hours / Mick Herron: "Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, an auditing of the British Secret Service "to investigate historical over-reaching."
Author: Herron, Mick, author.
Cover of book called All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby
ISBN: 9781250831910
Title: All the sinners bleed / S. A. Cosby: After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle.
Author: Cosby, S. A., author.
Cover of book called Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
ISBN: 9781501153228
Title: Bright young women / Jessica Knoll: The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978, hours before a soon-to-be-infamous murderer descends upon a Florida sorority house with deadly results.
Author: Knoll, Jessica, author.
Cover of book called Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
ISBN: 9780062941206
Title: Get a life, Chloe Brown : a novel / Talia Hibbert: Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. She's come up with seven directives to help her "Get a Life"...
Author: Hibbert, Talia, author.
Cover of book called Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
ISBN: 9780062129482
Title: Small mercies : a novel / Dennis Lehane: In the summer of 1974, a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors.
Author: Lehane, Dennis, author.
Cover of book called Holly by Stephen King
ISBN: 9781668016138
Title: Holly : a novel / Stephen King: When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her own mother has just died, and Holly is supposed to be taking time off.
Author: King, Stephen, 1947- author.
Cover of book called Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
ISBN: 9781250174727
Title: Just like home / Sarah Gailey: "Come home." Vera's mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories - she's come back to the home of a serial killer.
Author: Gailey, Sarah, author.
Cover of book called Shock Wave by John Sandford
ISBN: 9780399157691
Title: Shock wave / John Sandford: When protests about a superstore chain's plans to build a location in a Minnesota river town escalate into bombing attacks at the construction site and the company's headquarters, Virgil Flowers races against time to find...
Author: Sandford, John, 1944 February 23-
Cover of graphic novel called Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser
ISBN: 9781797205458
Title: Wash day diaries / Jamila Rowser: In expanding the story of Kim and her friends, the authors pay tribute to Black sisterhood through portraits of shared, yet deeply personal experiences of Black hair care.
Author: Rowser, Jamila, author.

Non-Fiction

The method
ISBN: 9781635574777
Title: The method : how the twentieth century learned to act / Isaac Butler: The critically acclaimed cultural history of Method acting―an ebullient account of creative discovery and the birth of classic Hollywood.
Author: Butler, Isaac, author.
Under the eye of power
ISBN: 9780593299456
Title: Under the eye of power : how fear of secret societies shapes American democracy / Colin Dickey: A history of America's obsession with secret societies and the conspiracies of hidden power The United States was born in paranoia.
Author: Dickey, Colin, author.
Under the henfluence
ISBN: 9781572843219
Title: Under the henfluence : inside the world of backyard chickens and the people who love them / Tove Danovich: An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and animal welfare reporting by a journalist who accidentally became obsessed with her flock.
Author: Danovich, Tove, author.
Walk the walk
ISBN: 9781250777522
Title: Walk the walk : how three police chiefs defied the odds and changed cop culture / Neil Gross: The story of three departments and their struggle to change aggressive police culture and achieve what Americans want: fair, humane, and effective policing.
Author: Gross, Neil, 1971- author.
I'm so effing hungry
ISBN: 9780358716914
Title: I'm so effing hungry : why we crave what we crave--and what to do about it / Amy Shah, MD.: I'm So Effing Hungry is a complete guide to help you reframe decades-old dieting patterns and stop fighting the scale.
Author: Shah, Amy, author.
Forager
ISBN: 9781643751856
Title: Forager : field notes for surviving a family cult / Michelle Dowd: A memoir of the author's experience growing up in an apocalyptic cult, with an emphasis on how understanding the natural world was her key to escape and survival.
Author: Dowd, Michelle, 1968- author.
What an owl knows
ISBN: 9780593298886
Title: What an owl knows : the new science of the world's most enigmatic birds / Jennifer Ackerman: A brilliant scientific exploration of owls, and an investigation into why these remarkable and yet mysterious animals exert such a hold on human imagination.
Author: Ackerman, Jennifer, 1959- author.
How we eat
ISBN: 9781982127091
Title: How we eat : the brave new world of food and drink / Paco Underhill: An exploration of how our food is in the midst of a transformation, showing how this is our chance to do better, for us, for our children, and for our planet.
Author: Underhill, Paco, author.
The vaccine
ISBN: 9781250280367
Title: The vaccine : inside the race to conquer the COVID-19 pandemic / Joe Miller, with Dr. Özlem Türeci and Dr. Uğur Şahin: The Vaccine draws back the curtain on one of the most important medical breakthroughs of our age.
Author: Miller, Joe (Correspondent), author.
Happy-go-lucky
ISBN: 9780316392457
Title: Happy-go-lucky / David Sedaris: A new collection of humorous essays that chronical David Sedaris' own life and ordinary moments that run beautifully absurd.
Author: Sedaris, David, author.
Otherlands
ISBN: 9780593132883
Title: Otherlands : a journey through Earth's extinct worlds / Thomas Halliday: Mining the most recent paleontological advances, a paleobiologist recreates sixteen extinct worlds, rendered with a novelist's eye for detail and drama.
Author: Halliday, Thomas (Paleobiologist), author.
Life on the rocks
ISBN: 9780593087305
Title: Life on the rocks : building a future for coral reefs / Juli Berwald: A meditative ode to the reefs and the undaunted scientists working to save them against almost impossible odds.
Author: Berwald, Juli, author.

Biographies

I was better last night Cover
ISBN: 9780593320525
Title: I was better last night / Harvey Fierstein: A revealing, poignant, and hilarious memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Award winner; Harvey Fierstein.
Author: Fierstein, Harvey, 1952- author.
Left on Tenth Cover
ISBN: 9780316267656
Title: Left on Tenth : a second chance at life / Delia Ephron: The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-life love story in her "resplendent memoir," complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution.
Author: Ephron, Delia, author.
Comedy comedy comedy drama Cover
ISBN: 9780399180514
Title: Comedy comedy comedy drama / Bob Odenkirk: Bob Odenkirk's career is inexplicable. And yet he will try like hell to explain it here, because that is what memoirs are for.
Author: Odenkirk, Bob, 1962- author.
I'm glad my mom died Cover
ISBN: 9781982185824
Title: I'm glad my mom died / Jennette McCurdy: A memoir by Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life.
Author: McCurdy, Jennette, 1992- author.
The facemaker Cover
ISBN: 9780374282301
Title: The facemaker: a visionary surgeon's battle to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War I / Lindsey Fitzharris: The pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to reconstructing the burned and broken faces of the injured soldiers.
Author: Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982- author.
Go back to where you came from
ISBN: 9780393867978
Title: Go back to where you came from: and other helpful recommendations on how to become American / Wajahat Ali: In this refreshingly bold, hopeful, and uproarious memoir, Ali offers indispensable lessons for cultivating a more compassionate, inclusive America.
Author: Ali, Wajahat, author.
The master Cover
ISBN: 9781538719268
Title: The master : the long run and beautiful game of Roger Federer / Christopher Clarey: The Master tells the story of Federer's life and career on both an intimate and grand scale, in a way no one else could possibly do.
Author: Clarey, Christopher, author.
The stories we tell Cover
ISBN: 9781400333875
Title: The stories we tell / Joanna Gaines: In her first solo memoir, Joanna Gaines invites us on an authentic and deeply vulnerable journey into her story--and helps shine a light on the beauty of our own--guiding us to release the weights that hold us back.
Author: Gaines, Joanna, 1978- author.
Three girls from Bronzeville Cover
ISBN: 9781982107703
Title: Three girls from Bronzeville : a uniquely American memoir of race, fate, and sisterhood / Dawn Turner: memoir about three Black girls from Chicago that offers a penetrating exploration of race, opportunity, friendship, and sisterhood.
Author: Turner, Dawn, author.
Maybe you should talk to someone Cover
ISBN: 9781328662057
Title: Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed / Lori Gottlieb: A hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world--where her patients are looking for answers.
Author: Gottlieb, Lori, author.
Solitary Cover
ISBN: 9780802129086
Title: Solitary : unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement / Albert Woodfox: Solitary is the life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours a day, all for a crime he did not commit.
Author: Woodfox, Albert, author.
Orwell's roses Cover
ISBN: 9780593083369
Title: Orwell's roses / Rebecca Solnit: A biography and literary criticism that explores the relation between George Orwell's interest in gardening and his other authorial and political commitments.
Author: Solnit, Rebecca, author.

Book Club Picks

Cover of book called The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
ISBN: 9780385546874
Title: The frozen river : a novel / Ariel Lawhon: A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history.
Author: Lawhon, Ariel, author.
Cover of book called The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
ISBN: 9781984880987
Title: The Thursday murder club / Richard Osman: In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club.
Author: Osman, Richard, 1970- author.
Cover of book called Foster by Claire Keegan
ISBN: 9780802160140
Title: Foster / Claire Keegan: It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again.
Author: Keegan, Claire, author
Cover of book called The Collected Regrets of Clover
ISBN: 9781250870247
Title: The collected regrets of Clover / Mikki Brammer: Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover is a big-hearted and life-affirming debut about a death doula who, in caring for others at the end of their life, has forgotten how to live her own...
Author: Brammer, Mikki, author.
Cover of book called The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
ISBN: 9781646222384
Title: The berry pickers : a novel / Amanda Peters: A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years.
Author: Peters, Amanda, author.
Cover of book called Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
ISBN: 9780593546178
Title: Vera Wong's unsolicited advice for murderers / Jesse Q. Sutanto: Knives Out meets Kim's Convenience in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady-ah...
Author: Sutanto, Jesse Q., author.
Cover of book called The Tobacco Wives by Adele Myers
ISBN: 9780063082946
Title: The tobacco wives : a novel / Adele Myers: In 1946 North Carolina, seamstress Maddie Sykes, a dressmaker for Bright Leaf's most influential women--the wives of powerful tobacco executives--uncovers dangerous truths about this lucrative industry...
Author: Myers, Adele, author.
Cover of book called Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford
ISBN: 9780593656419
Title: Mrs. Quinn's rise to fame / Olivia Ford: ...after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard's health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren... Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself.
Author: Ford, Olivia, author.
Cover of book called Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See
ISBN: 9781982117092
Title: Lady Tan's circle of women : a novel / Lisa See: Sent into an arranged marriage, Tan Yunxian, forbidden to continue her work as a midwife-in-training as well as see her forever friend Meiling, is ordered to act like proper wife...
Author: See, Lisa, author.
Cover of book called Fast girls : a Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team by Elise Hooper
ISBN: 9780062937995
Title: Fast girls : a novel of the 1936 women's Olympic team / Elise Hooper: In the 1928 Olympics, Chicago's Betty Robinson competed as a member of the first-ever women's delegation in track and field, and was feted as America's Golden Girl-- until...
Author: Hooper, Elise, author.
Cover of book called Hello Beautiful : a Novel by Ann Napolitano
ISBN: 9780593243732
Title: Hello beautiful : a novel / Ann Napolitano: William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship...
Author: Napolitano, Ann, author
Cover of book called Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
ISBN: 9780063204157
Title: Remarkably bright creatures : a novel / Shelby Van Pelt: For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers..
Author: Van Pelt, Shelby, author.

Science Fiction

Project Hail Mary
ISBN: 9780593135204
Title: Project Hail Mary / Andy Weir: The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
Author: Weir, Andy, author.
I, robot
ISBN: 0553803700
Title: I, robot / Isaac Asimov: The development of robot technology to a state of perfection by future civilizations is explored in nine science fiction stories.
Author: Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992.
Cover of book called Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
ISBN: 9780593820247
Title: Dungeon crawler carl / Matt Dinniman: The apocalypse will be televised! A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible
Author: Dinniman, Matt, author.
Cover of book called All Systems Red by Martha Wells
ISBN: 9781250214713
Title: All systems red / Martha Wells: On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied 'droid -- a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself... as "Murderbot."
Author: Wells, Martha, author.
Cover of book called Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
ISBN: 9781250290281
Title: Service model / Adrian Tchaikovsky: To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service.
Author: Tchaikovsky, Adrian, 1972- author.
Cover of book called Translation State by Ann Leckie
ISBN: 9780356517919
Title: Translation state / Ann Leckie: When Enae's grandmaman passes away, Enae inherits something entirely unexpected: a diplomatic assignment to track down a fugitive who has been missing for over 200 years.
Author: Leckie, Ann, author.
Cover of book called The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
ISBN: 9781668045145
Title: The ministry of time / Kaliane Bradley: A recently established government ministry is gathering "expats" from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible... She is tasked with working as a "bridge": living with, assisting, and monitoring..
Author: Bradley, Kaliane, author.
Cover of book called Artificial Wisdom: a Novel by Thomas R. Weaver
ISBN: 9780593984734
Title: Artificial wisdom : a novel / Thomas R. Weaver: In a climate-ravaged landscape where AI and humans vie for political power, a journalist must unravel a murderous plot that will either upend the world or save it.
Author: Weaver, Thomas R. (Novelist) author http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2024090063
Cover of book called Exiles by Mason Coile
ISBN: 9780593851630
Title: Exiles : a novel / Mason Coile: The human crew sent to prepare the first colony on Mars arrives to find the new base half-destroyed and the three robots sent to set it up in disarray--the machines have formed alliances, chosen their own names, and...
Author: Coile, Mason, 1968- author.
Cover of book called Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis
ISBN: 9780756419462
Title: Full speed to a crash landing / Beth Revis: Ada Lamarr has a problem. Several, actually, but the most pressing problem at the moment is that the oxygen in her spacesuit is at less than ten percent, and her ship's hull has been breached.
Author: Revis, Beth, author.

Thriller

You Will Never Be Found
ISBN: 9780063115118
Title: You will never be found / Tove Alsterdal: While investigating the disappearance of a man reported missing by his wife, police officer Eira Sjödin, knowing the pain of loss, loses herself in an affair with her boss until he, too, disappears.
Author: Alsterdal, Tove, 1960- author.
Just The Nicest Couple
ISBN: 9780778333111
Title: Just the nicest couple / Mary Kubica: When her husband Jack vanishes without a trace, Nina Hayes will stop at nothing to uncover the truth, which, unbeknownst to her, is inextricably linked to their close friends, who may have been the last to see Jake.
Author: Kubica, Mary, author.
Nora Roberts
ISBN: 9781250284112
Title: Identity / Nora Roberts: Morgan Albright is determined to get her life back after a con artist steals her identity, her nest egg and murders her roommate. Yet, she was the one that got away from the conman, and he is determined to make her pay for it.
Author: Roberts, Nora, author.
The Villa
ISBN: 9781250280015
Title: The Villa / Rachel Hawkins: Emily and Chess have been best friends since they were kids. They spend a few weeks in a villa in Italy. While they were there, Emily finds hints of the earlier murder in the Villa and searches for more clues.
Author: Hawkins, Rachel, 1979- author.
I Have Some questions For You
ISBN: 9780593490143
Title: I have some questions for you / Rebecca Makkai: A woman must reckon with her past when new details surface about a tragedy at her elite New England boarding school.
Author: Makkai, Rebecca, author.
What Have We Done
ISBN: 9781250863720
Title: What have we done / Alex Finlay: A tale about the lives we leave behind and the secrets we carry with us forever.
Author: Finlay, Alex, author.
Good Bad Girl
ISBN: 9781250843968
Title: Good bad girl / Alice Feeney: Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth.
Author: Feeney, Alice, author.
Fine Me
ISBN: 9780062853363
Title: Find me / Alafair Burke: She calls herself Hope Miller, but she has no idea who she actually is. Fourteen years ago, she was found in a small New Jersey town thrown from an overturned vehicle, with no clue to her identity. And now, she disappears again.
Author: Burke, Alafair, author.
Cartographers
ISBN: 9780062910691
Title: The cartographers / Peng Shepherd: A young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father's belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret--one that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to the truth about her family's dark history
Author: Shepherd, Peng, author.
Blood Sugar
ISBN: 9780593331545
Title: Blood sugar / Sascha Rothchild: People keep dying around Ruby Simon, but she insists that doesn't mean she's always guilty. Should we take a confessed killer at her word?
Author: Rothchild, Sascha, author.
Tell Me An ending
ISBN: 9781982164324
Title: Tell me an ending / Jo Harkin: What if you once had a painful memory removed and you were offered the chance to get it back? The story follows four characters grappling with the question of what to remember-and what they hoped to forget forever.
Author: Harkin, Jo, author.
Sisters Of The Lost Nation
ISBN: 9780593546857
Title: Sisters of the lost nation / Nick Medina: A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's reservation leads her to delve into the myths and stories of her people, all while being haunted herself.
Author: Medina, Nick, author.

Romance

People We Meet on Vacation
ISBN: 9781984806758
Title: People We Meet on Vacation / Emily Henry: Two best friends, Alex and Poppy, who always take an annual summer vacation together. After a mysterious incident two years ago the two have drifted apart but Poppy proposes one last trip to save their friendship.
Author: Henry, Emily, author.
Anatomy of a meet cute
ISBN: 9781662504570
Title: Anatomy of a meet cute / Addie Woolridge: Sparks fly when an ob-gyn butts heads with a doctor at her new hospital in this delightfully charming romance about bad timing, good friends, and fresh starts.
Author: Woolridge, Addie, author.
You made a fool of death with your beauty
ISBN: 9781982188702
Title: You made a fool of death with your beauty / Akwaeke Emezi: It's been five years since the accident that killed the love of Feyi Adekola's life and she's almost a new person now. Her best friend, Joy insists it's time for Feyi to ease back into dating.
Author: Emezi, Akwaeke, author.
The wife upstairs
ISBN: 9781250245496
Title: The wife upstairs / Rachel Hawkins: Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates--a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. Her luck changes when she meets Eddie Rochester.
Author: Hawkins, Rachel, 1979- author.
Seven days in June
ISBN: 9781538719107
Title: Seven days in June / Tia Williams:Eva and Shane spent seven days together as teenagers in June.15 years later when they are both writers who have been secretly writing to each other in their novels. They come together for 7 days in June.
Author: Williams, Tia, 1975- author.
In five years
ISBN: 9781982137441
Title: In five years / Rebecca Serle: After nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend's marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep. But when she wakes up, she's in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man.
Author: Serle, Rebecca, author.
Trust exercise
ISBN: 9781250309884
Title: Trust exercise / Susan Choi: Sarah and David are performing art students coming from different socio-economic backgrounds. The two fall in love despite their contrasting circumstances, but their relationship ends in a bitter breakup.
Author: Choi, Susan, 1969- author.
Someone else's shoes
ISBN: 9781984879295
Title: Someone else's shoes / Jojo Moyes: Nisha Cantor and Sam Kemp are two very different women. Sam accidentally takes Nisha's gym bag and her shoes. Sam's walking tall with Nisha's shoes, but Nisha wants her shoes and life back.
Author: Moyes, Jojo, 1969- author.
Every summer after
ISBN: 9780593438534
Title: Every summer after / Carley Fortune: Five summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.
Author: Fortune, Carley, author
Dreamland
ISBN: 9780593449554
Title: Dreamland / Nicholas Sparks: Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, until tragedy grounded his aspirations and he became the head of a small family farm. when he meets Morgan Lee, his world is turned upside-down.
Author: Sparks, Nicholas, author.
No words
ISBN: 9780063082250
Title: No words / Meg Cabot: Jo Wright swore she'd never step foot on Little Bridge Island, not as long as her nemesis, bestselling author Will Price, is living there. Then Jo's given an offer she can't refuse: an all-expense paid trip to island's book festival.
Author: Cabot, Meg, author.
Heart bones
ISBN: 9781668021910
Title: Heart bones / Colleen Hoover: Beyah comes from a life of poverty and neglect. Samson comes from a family of wealth and privilege. But what they have in common is they're both drawn to sad things, and consequently each other.
Author: Hoover, Colleen, author.

Historical Fiction

All the ways we said goodbye
ISBN: 9780062931092
Title: All the ways we said goodbye / Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White. This novel connects three extraordinary women across the First World War, the Second World War, and the 1960s, as each finds refuge at the legendary Ritz Paris.
Author: Williams, Beatriz, author.
All the light we cannot see
ISBN: 9781476746586
Title: All the light we cannot see / Anthony Doerr: The paths of a blind French girl and a German boy collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
Author: Doerr, Anthony, 1973-
Go as a river
ISBN: 9781954118232
Title: Go as a river / Shelley Read: Inspired by true events surrounding the destruction of the town of Iola in the 1960s, it is a story of deeply held love in the face of hardship and loss, but also of finding courage, resilience, friendship, and, finally, home
Author: Read, Shelley, author.
Under the golden sun
ISBN: 9781250274762
Title: Under the golden sun / Jenny Ashcroft: The mother who has lost her child and the child who has lost his family; women forging deep, meaningful friendships that are treated with the same importance as the romantic entanglements; and perhaps even better.
Author: Ashcroft, Jenny, 1980- author.
The dictionary of lost words
ISBN: 9780593160190
Title: The dictionary of lost words / Pip Williams: Esme, who is motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in a garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford Dictionary.
Author: Williams, Pip, 1969- author.
A gentleman in Moscow
ISBN: 9780670026197
Title: A gentleman in Moscow / Amor Towles: The story of a Russian aristocrat living under house arrest in a luxury hotel for more than thirty years.
Author: Towles, Amor, author.
The Mitford affair
ISBN: 9781728229362
Title: The Mitford affair / Marie Benedict: As the Nazis rise in power, novelist Nancy Mitford grows suspicious of her sisters' constant visits to Germany and the high-ranking fascist company they keep.
Author: Benedict, Marie, author.
Woman on fire
ISBN: 9780063211261
Title: Woman on fire / Lisa Barr: The story of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international art scandal centered around a Nazi-looted masterpiece—forcing the ultimate showdown between passion and possession, lovers and liars, history and truth.
Author: Barr, Lisa, author.
The invisible life of Addie LaRue
ISBN: 9780765387561
Title: The invisible life of Addie LaRue / V.E. Schwab: France, 1714. In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-- and cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.
Author: Schwab, Victoria, author.
When we had wings
ISBN: 9780785253341
Title: When we had wings / Ariel Lawhon, Kristina McMorris, and Susan Meissner: Three women shift in and out of each other's lives through the darkest days of the war, buoyed by their unwavering friendship and distant dreams of liberation.
Author: Lawhon, Ariel, author.
Ariadne
ISBN: 9781250773586
Title: Ariadne / Jennifer Saint: A shimmering tapestry of two sisters bound by deceit and the shadows of family history. One marries a hero, the other a god. And the secrets that their husbands keep become a monstrous backdrop to their relationship.
Author: Saint, Jennifer, author.
Beyond that, the sea
ISBN: 9781250854377
Title: Beyond that, the sea / Laura Spence-Ash: the story of a British girl taken in by a prosperous New England family in the Second World War, and of the legacy of the intimate relationships that ensue.
Author: Spence-Ash, Laura, author.

Fantasy

Cover of book called The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
ISBN: 9781984820709
Title: The tainted cup / Robert Jackson Bennett: An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murder in fantasy reimagining of the classic crime novel
Author: Bennett, Robert Jackson, 1984- author.
Cover of book called Legends & lattes : a novel of high fantasy and low stakes by Travis Baldree
ISBN: 9781250886088
Title: Legends & lattes : a novel of high fantasy and low stakes / Travis Baldree: Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv, the orc barbarian, cashes out of the warrior's life with one final score.
Author: Baldree, Travis, 1977- author.
Cover of book called The Will of the Many by James Islington
ISBN: 9781982141172
Title: The will of the many / James Islington: At the elite Catenan Academy, where students are prepared as the future leaders of the Hierarchy empire, the curriculum reveals a layered set of mysteries which turn murderous...
Author: Islington, James, 1981- author.
Cover of book called Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
ISBN: 9780063446243
Title: Katabasis : a novel / R. F. (Rebecca F.) Kuang: Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and...
Author: Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.), author.
Cover of book called Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff
ISBN: 9781250245281
Title: Empire of the vampire / Jay Kristoff: It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity; building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own.
Author: Kristoff, Jay, author.
Cover of book called Water Moon by Samantha Sotto
ISBN: 9780593724996
Title: Water moon : a novel / Samantha Sotto: A woman inherits a pawnshop where you can sell your regrets--and then embarks on a magical journey when a charming young physicist wanders into the shop in this dream-like and enchanting fantasy novel
Author: Sotto, Samantha, author.
Cover of book called Alchemy of Secrets by Stephanie Garber
ISBN: 9781250789150
Title: Alchemy of secrets : a novel / Stephanie Garber: It starts with a class in an old movie theater. Folklore 517: Local Legends and Urban Myths, taught by a woman called the Professor.
Author: Garber, Stephanie author
Cover of book called Red City by Marie Lu
ISBN: 9781250885678
Title: Red city / Marie Lu: Alchemy is the hidden art of transformation. An exclusive power wielded by crime syndicates that market it to the world's elites in the form of Sand, a drug that enhances those who take it into a more perfect version of themselves...
Author: Lu, Marie, 1984- author
Cover of book called Keeper of Enchanted Rooms by Charlie N. Holmberg
ISBN: 9781662500343
Title: Keeper of enchanted rooms / Charlie N. Holmberg: Rhode Island, 1846. Estranged from his family, writer Merritt Fernsby is surprised when he inherits a remote estate in the Narragansett Bay.
Author: Holmberg, Charlie N., 1988- author.
Cover of book called The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
ISBN: 9781250217288
Title: The house in the cerulean sea / TJ Klune: The House in the Cerulean Sea is about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place-and realizing that family is yours.
Author: Klune, TJ, author.

Dystopian

The school for good mothers Cover
ISBN: 9781982156121
Title: The school for good mothers / by Jessamine Chan: Set in near-future America, The School for Good Mothers introduces readers to a government-run reform program where bad mothers are retrained using robot doll children with artificial intelligence.
Author: Chan, Jessamine, author.
Vox Cover
ISBN: 9780440000785
Title: Vox / Christina Dalcher: Half the population of the United States has been silenced. This is the story of one woman and what she will do to protect her daughter and herself.
Author: Dalcher, Christina, author.
The deluge cover
ISBN: 9781982123093
Title: The deluge / Stephen Markley: In 2013 California, environmental scientist Tony Pietrus, after receiving a death threat, is linked to colorful characters, including a young activist who begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come.
Author: Markley, Stephen, author.
Elsewhere Cover
ISBN: 9781250219633
Title: Elsewhere / Alexis Schaitkin: Elsewhere conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear.
Author: Schaitkin, Alexis, 1985- author.
Our missing hearts Cover
ISBN: 9780593492543
Title: Our missing hearts / Celeste Ng: A story about a 12 year old boy named Noah "Bird" Gardner whose mother, a revolutionary poet is on the run after lines from her poetry are used to oppose a government policy called PACT.
Author: Ng, Celeste, author.
The women could fly Cover
ISBN: 0063116995
Title: The women could fly / Megan Giddings: A story about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely monitored.
Author: Giddings, Megan, author.
Blue ticket Cover
ISBN: 9780385545631
Title: Blue ticket / Sophie Mackintosh: A mesmerizing, refracted vision of our society: In a world where women can't have it all, but are selected as either mothers or workers at the beginning of their adult lives. Is choice the biggest burden of all?
Author: Mackintosh, Sophie, author.
Find me Cover
ISBN: 9780374154714
Title: Find me / Laura van den Berg: When a sickness that begins with memory loss and ends with death sweeps the country, Joy, for the first time in her life, seems to have an advantage: she is immune.
Author: Van den Berg, Laura.
The memory police Cover
ISBN: 9781101870600
Title: The memory police / Yoko Ogawa: When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards.
Author: Ogawa, Yōko, 1962- author.
Bannerless Cover
ISBN: 9780544947306
Title: Bannerless / Carrie Vaughn: A murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she's learned about the foundation of her population-controlled society.
Author: Vaughn, Carrie, author.
A boy and his dog at the end of the world
ISBN: 9780316449458
Title: A boy and his dog at the end of the world / C.A. Fletcher: The story follows Griz as he takes on a journey to save his stolen dog. It's a post-apocalyptic story on survival, courage, hope, humanity, family, and the importance of being grateful.
Author: Fletcher, Charlie, 1960- author.
Borne Cover
ISBN: 9780374115241
Title: Borne / Jeff VanderMeer: In Borne, a young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined city half destroyed by drought and conflict.
Author: VanderMeer, Jeff, author.

Horror

The only good Indians
ISBN: 9781982136451
Title: The only good Indians / Stephen Graham Jones: The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives.
Author: Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972- author.
The children on the hill
ISBN: 9781982153953
Title: The children on the hill / Jennifer McMahon: Inspired by Mary Shelley’s masterpiece Frankenstein, which brilliantly explores the eerie mysteries of childhood and the evils perpetrated by the monsters among us.
Author: McMahon, Jennifer, 1968- author.
Home before dark
ISBN: 9781524745172
Title: Home before dark / Riley Sager: The story of a house with long-buried secrets and a woman's quest to uncover them - even if the truth is far more terrifying than any haunting.
Author: Sager, Riley, author.
A house with good bones
ISBN: 9781250829795
Title: A house with good bones / T. Kingfisher: A contemporary Southern Gothic from a master of modern horror that explores the deep, dark roots of family and in which grandma's ghost haunting your house may be the least of your worries.
Author: Kingfisher, T., author.
Just like mother
ISBN: 9781250787514
Title: Just like mother / Anne Heltzel: A young woman reunites with her cousin after escaping a cult.
Author: Heltzel, Anne, author.
Creatures of passage
ISBN: 1617758760
Title: Creatures of passage / Morowa Yejidé: An unseen Washington filled with otherworldly landscapes, flawed super-humans, and reluctant ghosts, and brings together a community intent on saving one young boy in order to reclaim itself.
Author: Yejide, Morowa, author.
Sorrowland
ISBN: 9780374266776
Title: Sorrowland / Rivers Solomon: The story of a pregnant woman who flees to the woods in a desperate attempt to escape the religious compound that was once her home.
Author: Solomon, Rivers, author.
Devoted
ISBN: 9781542019507
Title: Devoted / Dean Koontz: An epic thriller about a terrifying killer and the singular compassion it will take to defeat him.
Author: Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945- author.
The girl from Widow Hills
ISBN: 9781501165429
Title: The girl from Widow Hills / Megan Miranda: The story about a girl who was swept away while sleepwalking during a terrifying rainstorm and found alive after 3 days. As an adult, she wants to leave it behind, but the the past just won't stay in the past.
Author: Miranda, Megan, author.
Firestarter
ISBN: 1668009927
Title: Firestarter / Stephen King: The story of Charlie and Andy, a father and daughter on the run from a government agency known as The Shop, who wants to apprehend Andy's unexpected genetic anomaly for their own diabolical ends by any means necessary
Author: King, Stephen, 1947- author.
A dowry of blood
ISBN: 9780316501071
Title: A dowry of blood / S. T. Gibson: A lyrical and dreamy reimagining of Dracula's brides, A Dowry of Blood is a story of desire, obsession, and emancipation.
Author: Gibson, S. T., author.
A history of fear
ISBN: 1982199024
Title: A history of fear / Luke Dumas: An eerie literary suspense debut following the harrowing downfall of a tortured graduate student who’s been nicknamed the Devil’s Advocate for his sensational crime.
Author: Dumas, Luke, author.

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