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Adult Services Staff Picks June 2025 |
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The Amalfi Curse
by Sarah Penner
Recommended by: Grace
Haven Ambrose, a trailblazing nautical archaeologist, has come to the sun-soaked village of Positano to investigate the mysterious shipwrecks along the Amalfi Coast. But Haven is hoping to find more than old artifacts beneath the azure waters; she is secretly on a quest to locate a trove of priceless gemstones her late father spotted on his final dive. Upon Haven’s arrival, strange maelstroms and misfortunes start plaguing the town. Is it nature or something more sinister at work?
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Deep Cuts
by Holly Brickley
Recommended by: Sarah R.
In a Berkley, California bar in 2000, opinionated Percy meets songwriter Joe and sparks a creative partnership that propels him toward indie-rock stardom and challenges her to reconcile her own ambitions with their complex, all-consuming collaboration.
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The Guncle Abroad
by Steven Rowley
Recommended by: Lori
With his brother getting remarried in Italy, Patrick takes his niece and nephew back under his wing, and as they travel through Europe, he tries his best to help them understand love, while dealing with a groom with cold feet, his over-flirtatious sister and other disasters.
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Heartwood
by Amity Gaige
Recommended by: Anna Jayne
Heartwood takes you on a gripping journey as a search and rescue team race against time when an experienced hiker mysteriously disappears on the Appalachian Trail in Maine.
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The Murder Show
by Matt Goldman
Recommended by: Laura S.
Showrunner Ethan Harris had a hit with The Murder Show, a television crime drama that features a private detective who solves cases the police can’t. But after his pitch for the fourth season is rejected by the network, he returns home to Minnesota looking for inspiration. His timing is fortunate—his former classmate Ro Greeman is now a local police officer, and she's uncovered new information about the devastating hit and run that killed their mutual friend Ricky the summer after high school. She thinks that if he portrays the killing on The Murder Show, the publicity may bring Ricky's killer to justice. It doesn't take long for them to realize they've dug up more than they bargained for.
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My Friends
by Fredrik Backman
Recommended by: Sarah V.
Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. But eighteen-year-old Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures. Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing small acts of rebellion. Louisa embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn how the painting came to be and to decide what to do with it.
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The Names
by Florence Knapp
Recommended by: Joanna
Cora's hesitation to name her son triggers three alternate paths over thirty-five years, revealing the lasting impact of domestic abuse and the complexities of family in her search for autonomy and healing.
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Insectopolis: A Natural History
by Peter Kuper
Recommended by: Brandee
Award-winning cartoonist Peter Kuper transports readers through the 400-million-year history of insects and the remarkable entomologists who have studied them.
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Tastes Like War
by Grace M. Cho
Recommended by: Laura M.
Grace M. Cho grew up in a small, rural American town as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. When Grace was fifteen, her Korean mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue for the rest of her life. Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, TASTES LIKE WAR is a hybrid text about a daughter's search through intimate and global history to understand herself and the cultural roots of her mother's condition.
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