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Adult Services Staff Picks February 2025 |
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Beautiful Ugly
by Alice Feeney
Recommended by: Anna Jayne
A year after his wife Abby mysteriously disappeared, author Grady Green, still consumed by grief, retreats to a remote Scottish island only to encounter a woman who looks exactly like the wife he lost.
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Deadly Animals
by Marie Tierney
Recommended by: Brandee
Finding a dead body is not normal, but then again Ava Bonney is not a normal teenager.
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Dungeon Crawler Carl
by Matt Dinniman
Recommended by: Rachel
Join Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend's cat, Princess Donut, as they try to survive the end of the world—or just get to the next level—in a video game-like, trap-filled fantasy dungeon.
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Romantic Comedy
by Curtis Sittenfeld
Recommended by: Lori
As a sketch writer for a late-night comedy show, Sally Milz pokes fun at the phenomenon of talented but average men who've gotten romantically involved with beautiful women and how the reverse never happens until she meets a pop music sensation who flips the script on all her assumptions.
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The Strange Case of Jane O.
by Karen Thompson Walker
Recommended by: Sarah V.
After giving birth, Jane experiences amnesia, hallucinations, and premonitions, leading to her sudden disappearance and a subsequent episode of dissociative fugue. Her psychiatrist investigates the links between her struggles and a traumatic past and grapples with questions of memory and reality, while a ghostly figure warns of impending disaster.
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Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
by Natalie Dykstra
Recommended by: Joanna
Chronicles the life of the creator of one of America's most stunning museums—an American original whose own life was remade by art; includes archival photos of her world, museum and the art she collected.
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From Here to the Great Unknown
by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough
Audiobook recommended by: Kelly
Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Elvis's daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, tells her whole story for the first time in a memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough, after Lisa Marie's death.
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