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Adult Services Staff Picks April 2023 |
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Family of Liars
by E. Lockhart
Recommended by: Lori
This prequel to We Were Liars takes readers back to the story of another summer, another generation, where a fiery, addicted heiress and an irresistible, unpredictable boy are plunged into a world of unforgivable betrayal, shocking secrets and terrible mistakes.
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The Golden Spoon
by Jessa Maxwell
Recommended by: Sarah V.
During her annual televised baking competition on her Vermont estate, celebrated baker Betsy Martin, hailed as "America's Grandmother," finds murder in the mix when a body is discovered, and everyone is a suspect.
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I Have Some Questions for You
by Rebecca Makkai
Recommended by: Claire, Laura, and Sarah
A successful film professor returns to teach at her alma mater and becomes determined to investigate a closed murder case, in the new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers.
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Vintage Contemporaries
by Dan Kois
Recommended by: Laura
Pulled back into her past when a posthumous work needs a publisher, successful book editor and new mom Emily is forced to reckon with her decisions, her failures and what kind of creative life she wants to lead.
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When the Night Bells Ring
by Jo Kaplan
Recommended by: Brandee
In a future ravaged by fire and drought, two climate refugees ride their motorcycles across the wasteland of the western US, and stumble upon an old silver mine. Descending into the cool darkness of the caved-in tunnels in desperate search of water, the two women find Lavinia Cain's diary, a settler in search of prosperity who brought her family to Nevada in the late 1860s. But Lavinia and the settlers of the Western town discovered something monstrous that dwells in the depths of the mine, something that does not want greedy prospectors disturbing the earth. Whispers of curses and phantom figures haunt the diary, and now, over 150 years later, trapped and injured in the abandoned mine, the women discover they're not alone... with no easy way out. The monsters are still here--and they're thirsty.
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The Great Displacement : Climate Change and the Next American Migration
by Jake Bittle
Recommended by: Sarah R.
A human-centered narrative with national scope, this first book to report on climate migration in the U.S. tells the stories of those already experiencing life on the move, while detailing just how radically climate change will transform our lives.
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We Were Once a Family
by Roxanna Asgarian
Recommended by: Claire
This shocking exposé of the foster care and adoption systems that continue to fail America's most vulnerable children recounts the murder-suicide of a white married couple and their six Black children, revealing a pattern of abuse and neglect that went ignored with fateful consequences.
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