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Adult Services Staff Picks June 2023 |
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Aurora
by David Koepp
Recommended by: Brandee
When a solar storm knocks out the power across the globe, Aubrey Wheeler, in Aurora, Illinois, becomes the fierce protector of her suburban neighborhood, while across the country, her brother, a Silicon Valley CEO, hunkers down in his gilded desert bunker, leading to a long-overdue reckoning between siblings.
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Fourth Wing
by Rebecca Yarros
Recommended by: Grace
Despite hoping to enter the Scribe Quadrant, the bookish Violet Sorrengail is forced to become one of the hundreds of candidates risking their lives to be a dragon rider in the first novel of a new series.
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The Guncle
by Steven Rowley
Recommended by: Lori
When Patrick takes on the role of primary guardian for his young niece and nephew, he soon learns that parenting isn’t solved with treats or jokes as his eyes are opened to a new sense of responsibility.
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Pineapple Street
by Jenny Jackson
Recommended by: Claire and Sarah V.
A novel of family, love, and class follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn clan.
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Small Mercies
by Dennis Lehane
Recommended by: Anna Jayne
In 1974 Boston, as a heatwave blankets the city, Mary Pat Fennessey, in a desperate search for her missing daughter, asks questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, who doesn't take kindly to anyone who threatens his business.
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Poverty, by America
by Matthew Desmond
Recommended by: Sarah R.
Drawing on history, research and original reporting, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, revealing there is so much poverty in America not in spite of our wealth but because of it, and builds an original case for eliminating poverty in our country.
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Women We Buried, Women We Burned
by Rachel Louise Snyder
Recommended by: Laura
An award-winning journalist, in this necessary story of family struggle, female survival and the passionate drive to bear witness, relates her personal journey from teenage runaway to reporter on the global epidemic of violence against women.
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