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Adult Services Staff Picks September 2023 |
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Black River Orchard
by Chuck Wendig
Recommended by: Brandee
Dark magic transforms a small town when strange trees bearing magical apples begin making residents happier, more confident, more powerful and only wanting to eat more apples in the new novel by the best-selling author of The Book of Accidents.
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Prom Mom
by Laura Lippman
Recommended by: Claire
Drawn back to Baltimore where she's known as "Prom Mom," the girl who allegedly killed her baby on the night of the prom after her date, Joe Simpson, abandoned her, Amber Glass is unable to stay away from Joe and vice versa until he asks her to help him do the unthinkable.
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This Thing Between Us
by Gus Moreno
Recommended by: Sarah L.
A widower battles his grief, rage, and the mysterious evil inhabiting his home smart speaker, in this mesmerizing horror thriller from newcomer Gus Moreno.
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Tom Lake
by Ann Patchett
Recommended by: Sarah V.
In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
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The Quickening : Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
by Elizabeth A. Rush
Recommended by: Sarah R.
In 2019, fifty-seven scientists and crew set out onboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer. Their destination: Thwaites Glacier. Their goal: to learn as much as possible about this mysterious place, never before visited by humans, and believed to be both rapidly deteriorating and capable of making a catastrophic impact on global sea-level rise. An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
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Travels with George : In Search of Washington and His Legacy
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Recommended by: Joanna
Written at a moment when America's founding figures are under increasing scrutiny, the author, retracing George Washington's journey as a new president through all thirteen former colonies, paints a picture of eighteenth-century America as divided and fraught as it is today.
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The Wager : A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
by David Grann
Recommended by: Anna Jayne
In this tale of shipwreck, survival and savagery, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon recounts the events on His Majesty's Ship The Wager, a British vessel that left England in 1740 on a secret mission, resulting in a court martial that revealed a shocking truth.
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