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Adult Services Staff Picks July 2026 |
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The Au Pair
by Teddy Wayne
Recommended by: Sarah L.
Award-winning author Teddy Wayne follows the tremendous critical success of his breakout sensation The Winner-a New York Times Top Ten Thriller of the Year-with another seductively twisty page-turner about the explosive impact of a beautiful Norwegian au pair on a celebrated novelist and his wife.
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Drayton and MacKenzie
by Alexander Starritt
Recommended by: Sarah R.
A sprawling novel that covers the decades of friendship and business partnership between James and Roland, an unlikely pair who grow up together during the beginning of the 21st century. I loved the well-drawn characters and smart, poignant observations about ambition, adulthood, and friendship.
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It Came from Neverland
by Cynthia Pelayo
Recommended by: Brandee
Peter Pan meets Stephen King's It in this twisted horror retelling of a classic childhood fairy tale set during WWI.
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John of John
by Douglas Stuart
Recommended by: Anna Jayne
Set in the Isle of Harris, John of John is a tender and devastating story of love and religion, of a father and son, art and landscape, and the corrosive effects of living a secret life.
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Palaces of the Crow
by Ray Nayler
Recommended by: Grace
In Ray Nayler’s speculative novel of the recent past, four young teens caught between Nazis and the Red Army survive winter in the woods with the help of a flock of highly intelligent crows with a magnificent secret of their own to protect.
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The Wasp Trap
by Mark Edwards
Recommended by: Sarah V.
A dinner party in a beautiful Notting Hill townhouse turns into a sinister game as six old friends are forced to spill their darkest secrets…or else.
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Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers
Recommended by: Lori
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, longtime New Orleans residents Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun are cast into an unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water. In the days after the storm, Abdulrahman traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared -- arrested and accused of being an agent of al Qaeda.
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