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Try these book suggestions by the Library Staff June 2026 |
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A Darker Shade of Magic
by V. E. Schwab
Enter #1 New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab's beloved Shades of Magic trilogy--a dazzling world of parallel Londons where magic thrives, starves, or lies forgotten, and where power can destroy just as quickly as it can create. Kell is one of the last Antari--magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons; Red,
Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black. Kell was raised in Arnes--
Red London--and officially serves the Maresh Empire as an ambassador, traveling between the frequent bloody regime changes in White London and the court of George III in the dullest of Londons, the one without any magic left to see. Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a world they'll never see. It's a defiant hobby with dangerous consequences, which Kell is now seeing firsthand. After an exchange goes awry, Kell escapes to Grey London and runs into Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations. She first robs him, then saves him from a deadly enemy, and finally forces Kell to spirit her to another world for a proper adventure. Now perilous magic is afoot, and treachery lurks at every turn. To save all of the worlds, they'll first need to stay alive.
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I See You've Called in Dead
by John Kenney
Obituary writer Bud Stanley isn't really living his best life. He's fallen
into a funk after a divorce. (She left him for another man, who, in fairness, was far more interesting.) He's not doing his job well. He's
given up on dating. And he's about to be fired for accidentally publishing his own obituary one mildly drunken night (though technically the company can't legally fire a dead person). As Bud awaits his fate at
work, he does the only logical thing: He goes to the wakes and funerals of total strangers to learn how to live again.
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Margo's Got Money Troubles
by Rufi Thorpe
As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo
Millet's always known she'd have to make it on her own. So she
enrolls at her local junior college, even though she can't imagine how she'll ever make a living. She's still figuring things out and never
planned to have an affair with her English professor--and while the
affair is brief, it isn't brief enough to keep her from getting pregnant. Despite everyone's advice, she decides to keep the baby, mostly out
of naiveté and a yearning for something bigger. Now, at twenty, Margo
is alone with an infant, unemployed, and on the verge of eviction. She needs a cash infusion--fast. When her estranged father, Jinx, shows up on her doorstep and asks to move in with her, she agrees in exchange for help with childcare. Then Margo begins to form a plan: she'll start an OnlyFans as an experiment, and soon finds herself adapting some of Jinx's advice from the world of wrestling. Before she knows it, she's turned it into a runaway success. Could this be the answer to all of Margo's problems, or does internet fame come with too high a price?
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Martyr!
by Kaveh Akbar
Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of
violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies
of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory
farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his
past--toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed.
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