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Adult Services Staff Picks June 2022 |
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The Latecomer
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Recommended by: Laura
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a layered and immersive literary novel about three siblings, desperate to escape one another, and the upending of their family by the late arrival of a fourth.
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Greenwich Park
by Katherine Faulkner
Recommended by: Claire
A woman's life starts to unravel as a result of her friendship with an unpredictable single mother.
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
by Shelby Van Pelt
Recommended by: Sarah V.
For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago.
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Dead Silence
by S. A. Barnes
Recommended by: Brandee
Investigating a strange distress signal, Claire Kovalik and her crew discover a luxury space-liner that vanished 20 years prior and board the vessel to find words scrawled in blood, strange movements and whispers in the dark.
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I'll Show Myself Out : Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
by Jessi Klein
Recommended by: Sarah R.
In New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Jessi Klein's second collection, she hilariously explodes the cultural myths and impossible expectations around motherhood and explores the humiliations, poignancies, and possibilities of midlife.
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84, Charing Cross Road
by Helene Hanff
Recommended by: Cathy
This short and charming classic begins in 1949 and brings together twenty years of correspondence between the author, a writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London. Through the years, they never meet but share a winsome, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Their relationship, captured perfectly in these letters, is one that will grab at your heart.
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Bill Cunningham Was There : Spring Flings + Summer Soirées
by John Kurdewan
Recommended by: Lori
Bill Cunningham embraced the colors, carefree beauty, and escapism of spring outings and summer parties as both a photographer and an astute fashion documentarian. His camera captured the showstopping hats and dresses worn by society ladies at the annual Central Park Conservancy luncheons, the gorgeous gowns sweeping the dance floors of tented galas in Newport and the Hamptons, and the authentic vintage outfits sported by young attendees at summertime jazz and swing-dance festivals.
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Empire of Pain : The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
by Patrick Radden Keefe
Recommended by: Sarah L.
The award-winning author of Say Nothing presents a narrative account of how a prominent wealthy family sponsored the creation and marketing of one of the most commonly prescribed and addictive painkillers of the opioid crisis.
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