LibraryAware September 2025

Digital

The book of alchemy : a creative practice for an inspired life
by Suleika Jaouad

Explores the transformative power of journaling, blending the author's insights with essays and prompts from 100 writers, artists, and thinkers, offering guidance to navigate life's challenges, embrace creativity, and uncover deeper self-awareness through themes of beginnings, love, loss, and renewal. Illustrations.

The doorman : a novel
by Chris Pavone

As protests erupt outside the elite Bohemia Apartments, longtime doorman Chicky Diaz tucks a gun into his waistband for the first time, while a trapped socialite, a struggling businessman, and the building's staff navigate tensions, secrets and a night that will end in murder

The Phoenix Pencil Company : a novel
by Allison King

A hidden and nearly forgotten magic—of Reforging pencils, bringing the memories they contain back to life—holds the power to transform a young woman's relationship with her grandmother, and to mend long-lost connections across time and space. A first novel.

So happy together : a novel
by Olivia Worley

When Jane's budding romance with Colin ends and he's soon dating the seemingly perfect Zoe, her obsession with winning him back spirals into dangerous territory, triggering a series of discoveries that entangle all three in a chilling, tangled mystery of deception and murder.

My next breath : a memoir
by Jeremy Renner

"The gripping and inspiring story of acclaimed actor Jeremy Renner's near-fatal accident, and what he learned about inner strength, endurance and hope as he overcame insurmountable odds to recover, one breath at a time"

Beautiful children : a novel
by Charles Bock

The disappearance of twelve-year-old Newell Ewing and the resulting mystery bring together the lives of a group of seemingly unrelated strangers in Las Vegas--including his parents, an illustrator, a stripper, a teenage anarchist, and a group of street runaways. A first novel. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Party of liars : a novel
by Kelsey Cox

Sophie's sixteenth birthday party in Texas Hill Country is at her dad's cliffside mansion, once thought to be haunted, but before the candles on the cake are blown out, a body falls from the balcony onto the dance floor below.

Death at the White Hart
by Chris Chibnall

When a pub owner is found gruesomely murdered, Detective Nicola Bridge returns to her quaint coastal hometown to uncover dark secrets hidden beneath its picturesque façade, risking the destruction of everything she thought she knew.

Digital & CD

The mission : the CIA in the 21st century
by Tim Weiner

Tracing the CIA's post–Cold War decline, its transformation after 9/11, and its efforts to reclaim core espionage functions, this investigative account draws on unprecedented interviews to reveal the agency's internal struggles, strategic missteps and renewed focus on adversaries like Russia, China and Iran. Illustrations.

Robert B. Parker's buried secrets
by Christopher Farnsworth

Police Chief Jesse Stone investigates the mystery behind a dead body found with photos of murder victims strewn around it and placed on top of $2 million in cash, before a mob of hit men converge on Paradise.

Class clown : the memoirs of a professional wiseass : how I went 77 years without growing up
by Dave Barry

America's most beloved wiseass finally tells his life story with all the humor you'd expect from a man who made a career out of making fun of pretty much everything

Abundance
by Ezra Klein

A compelling exploration of how systemic scarcity in areas like housing, healthcare and climate action stems from outdated solutions emphasizes the need for a mindset shift toward abundance and proactive systems to drive transformative progress.

Uptown girl : a memoir
by Christie Brinkley

Although the popular model and actress has lived more than 50 years in the public eye, the full story of her roller-coaster life has never been told—until now. Illustrations.

CD Only

Don't forget me, little Bessie : a novel
by James Lee Burke

At the dawn of the twentieth century, Bessie Holland finds strength in a suffragette mentor, battles forces threatening her Texas home and flees to New York, where she is drawn into a violent underworld that tests her unbreakable spirit.

Reset : how to change what's not working
by Dan Heath

The #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Made to Stick, Switch, and The Power of Moments presents a revolutionary guide to fixing what's not working?—?in systems and processes, organizations and companies, and even in our daily lives?—?by identifying leverage points and concentrating resources to achieve our goals.