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Adult Services Staff Picks September 2025 |
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The Correspondent
by Virginia Evans
Recommended by: Joanna
At 73, retired lawyer and devoted letter writer Sybil Van Antwerp navigates her daily life and reflects on her past, but when unexpected letters open old wounds, she must confront a painful chapter that reshapes her understanding of herself and her world.
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Everyone is Lying to You
by Jo Piazza
Recommended by: Grace
Lizzie and Bex were best friends in college—until Bex vanished. Fifteen years later, she’s reinvented as Rebecca Sommers, a glamorous influencer with a perfect life. When Bex invites Lizzie to an exclusive conference and then disappears again—this time leaving a dead husband behind—Lizzie is pulled into a web of lies, jealousy, and secrets in the ruthless world of social media.
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How Can I Help You
by Laura Sims
Recommended by: Lori
Accepting a position at a small-town public library, a recent graduate student and failed novelist discovers a patron dead in the library bathroom and begins to dig up her co-worker's past as a nurse with a trail of premature deaths.
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Loved One
by Aisha Muharrar
Recommended by: Laura
Julia's first-love-turned-close-friend, Gabe, dies unexpectedly at twenty-nine, and after beginning an intercontinental quest to recover his possessions, she collides with Elizabeth, the last woman he loved, who insists on withholding Gabe's beloved guitar—both women, it turns out, have something to hide.
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North Woods
by Daniel Mason
Recommended by: Sarah V.
Exploring the many ways we're connected to our environment and to one another across time, language and space, this sweeping collection of stories about a single house in the woods of New England is told through the lives of an extraordinary succession of inhabitants.
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The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society
by C. M. Waggoner
Recommended by: Brandee
A librarian with a knack for solving murders soon realizes there is something supernatural afoot in her little town, in a cozy mystery by the author of The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry.
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The Wilderness
by Angela Flournoy
Recommended by: Sarah R.
Five young Black women—Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique, and Nakia—navigate strained family ties, motherhood, ambition, and identity as they support and challenge each other while forging their adulthoods in New York and Los Angeles across two turbulent decades.
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The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better
by Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop
Recommended by: Anna Jayne
Explores the disengagement of adolescents from school, identifying four learning modes—Resister, Passenger, Achiever, and Explorer—that shape teens' relationships with learning, while offering evidence-backed strategies for parents to foster curiosity and self-awareness to help their children thrive academically and emotionally.
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