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Adult Services Staff Picks February 2023 |
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Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
Recommended by: Laura
The son of an Appalachian teenager uses his good looks, wit and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves and crushing losses, in the new novel from the best-selling author of Unsheltered.
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The Echo Wife
by Sarah Gailey
Recommended by: Brandee
A precarious arrangement between a man, his wife and his wife's clone explodes in a violent confrontation that forces the two women to figure out a creative way to stay out of prison.
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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
by Heather Fawcett
Recommended by: Rachel
A Cambridge professor, scholar and researcher on the study of faeries visits the hardscrabble village of Hransvik where she gets closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones and resists her insufferably handsome academic rival.
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Kaleidoscope
by Cecily Wong
Recommended by: Sarah R.
Riley Brighton, always eclipsed by her older sister, leaves her biracial Chinese American family after a calamity rocks their world and sets off across the globe in search of answers about the people she thought she knew best.
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Ms. Demeanor
by Elinor Lipman
Recommended by: Joanna
Under house arrest after an intimate encounter on the roof of her NYC apartment building goes public, Jane Morgan, with her legal license suspended, strikes up a friendship with a fellow white-collar felon while trying to figure out the truth about her mysterious accuser.
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Our Wives Under the Sea
by Julia Armfield
Recommended by: Sarah L.
When her wife, a marine biologist, returns home after a disastrous deep-sea mission, Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below water and why the woman she loves is drifting away.
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Small World
by Laura Zigman
Recommended by: Sarah V.
After inviting her older sister Lydia to live with her until she finds a place of her own, Joyce finds their relationship fraying as new revelations from their family's history come to light, forcing them to finally reckon with their childhood.
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True Biz
by Sara Nović
Recommended by: Claire
Follows a year of seismic romantic, political, and familial shifts for a teacher and her students at a boarding school for the deaf.
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