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Adult Services Staff Picks October 2022 |
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Black Cake
by Charmaine Wilkerson
Recommended by: Claire
Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. Can Byron and Benny reclaim their once-close relationship, piece together Eleanor's true history, and fulfill her final request to 'share the black cake when the time is right'?
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The Cartographers
by Peng Shepherd
Recommended by: Cathy
When her estranged father is found dead with a seemingly worthless map hidden in his desk, cartographer Nell Young soon discovers the map is extremely valuable and that a mysterious collector will stop at nothing to destroy it and anyone who gets in the way.
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The Honeys
by Ryan La Sala
Recommended by: Brandee
After his twin sister Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars takes her place at the elite Aspen Conservancy Summer Academy where he finds himself hunted by something toying with his mind that leads him to the Honeys, a group of beautiful and terrifying girls.
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Mad About You
by Mhairi McFarlane
Recommended by: Laura
After turning down a proposal from her long-time partner, in-demand wedding photographer Harriet Hatley moves in with a new roommate, a hopeless romantic who makes her question everything about her life and her past when her heavily guarded secret comes to light.
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Moonrise Over New Jessup
by Jamila Minnicks
Recommended by: Sarah V.
Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and enchanting debut about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves at the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama.
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Nettle & Bone
by T. Kingfisher
Recommended by: Rachel
To save her sister and topple a throne, Marra is offered the tools she needs if she completes three seemingly impossible tasks with the help of a disgraced ex-knight, a reluctant fairy godmother and an enigmatic gravewitch and her fowl familiar.
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The Orchard
by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry
Recommended by: Anna Jayne
Loosely based on Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, this novel follows four teenagers who grow inseparable as the Soviet Empire collapses, resulting in a tragedy still felt years later by Anna, who returns to Russia from America to finally face her past.
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Ducks : Two Years in the Oil Sands
by Kate Beaton
Recommended by: Sarah L.
Beaton’s natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime Albertan backdrop of wildlife, Northern Lights, and Rocky Mountains. Her first full-length graphic narrative, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is an untold story of Canada: a country that prides itself on its egalitarian ethos and natural beauty while simultaneously exploiting both the riches of its land and the humanity of its people.
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Is This Anything?
by Jerry Seinfeld
Audiobook recommended by: Lori
Collecting material from half a century in comedy, a chronologically arranged selection of favorite skits and memories by the iconic funnyman includes selections from his original "Catch a Rising Star" performance.
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Knocking Myself Up : A Memoir of My (In)fertility
by Michelle Tea
Recommended by: Sarah R.
The PEN/America Award winner, 2021 Guggenheim fellow and beloved literary and tarot icon presents this raucous, powerful, and taboo-breaking journey to motherhood as a 40-year-old, queer, uninsured woman who gets help from her ride-or-die friends, a generous drag queen and a can-do attitude.
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