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Click to see this item in the library catalog Eruption More Info  Borrow
By Michael Crichton and James Patterson. From Little, Brown and Company.
Click to see 54,517 GoodReads ratings, which gave this 3.8 out of 5 stars
 
 
Two of the bestselling storytellers of all time have created an unforgettable thriller.

A history-making volcanic eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii.

But a secret held for decades by the military is more terrifying than the volcano....
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Click to see this item in the library catalog Just for the Summer More Info  Borrow
By Abby Jimenez. From Forever.
Click to see 775,409 GoodReads ratings, which gave this 4.4 out of 5 stars
 
 
A sharp and scintillating summer novel that will make readers laugh out loud and cry happy tears from the New York Times bestselling author of Yours Truly.

Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They'll date each other and break up.
Click to see this item in the library catalog When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day More Info  Borrow
By Garrett M. Graff. From Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster.
Click to see 2,401 GoodReads ratings, which gave this 4.5 out of 5 stars
 
 
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist for Watergate comes the most up-to-date and complete account of D-Day—the largest seaborne invasion in history and the moment that secured the Allied victory in World War II.

D-Day is one of history’s greatest and most unbelievable military and human triumphs.
Click to see this item in the library catalog This Summer Will Be Different More Info  Borrow
By Carley Fortune. From Berkley.
Click to see 274,795 GoodReads ratings, which gave this 4 out of 5 stars
 
 
A glorious and tantalizing new escape from #1 New York Times bestselling author Carley Fortune.

This summer they’ll keep their promise. This summer they won't give into temptation. This summer will be different.

Lucy is the tourist vacationing at a beach house on Prince Edward Island. Felix is the local who shows her a very good time. The only problem: Lucy doesn’t know he’s her best friend’s younger brother.
Click to see this item in the library catalog The Comfort of Ghosts More Info  Borrow
By Jacqueline Winspear. From Soho Crime.
Click to see 14,000 GoodReads ratings, which gave this 4.4 out of 5 stars
 
 
A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow!

The Comfort of Ghosts completes Jacqueline Winspear’s ground-breaking and internationally bestselling series.

“An outstanding historical series.”
—The New York Times

“Winspear is a brilliant writer, mixing the history and the mystery with the psychology of criminals and victims.”
—The Historical Novel Society

Psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs unravels a profound mystery from her past in a war-torn nation grappling with its future.
Click to see this item in the library catalog You Are Here More Info  Borrow
By David Nicholls. From Harper.
Click to see 54,053 GoodReads ratings, which gave this 4 out of 5 stars
 
 
From the internationally bestselling and Booker Prize-longlisted author of One Day, one of the most enduring love stories of its generation, comes an uplifting and unputdownable love story about second chances.

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . .

Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his wife's departure, he has begun taking himself on long, solitary walks across the English countryside. Becoming ever more reclusive, he’ll do anything to avoid his empty house.

Marnie, on the other hand, is stuck.
Click to see this item in the library catalog Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk More Info  Borrow
By Kathleen Hanna. From Ecco.
Click to see 9,974 GoodReads ratings, which gave this 4.4 out of 5 stars
 
 
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre.

Kathleen Hanna’s rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the ‘90s and beyond. Her band Bikini Kill embodies this iconic time, and today her personal yet feminist lyrics on anthems like “Rebel Girl” and “Double Dare Ya” are more powerful than ever. But where did this transformative voice come from?
Click to see this item in the library catalog Sweet Valley Twins: The Haunted House More Info  Borrow
By Francine Pascal. From Random House Graphic.
Click to see 668 GoodReads ratings, which gave this 4 out of 5 stars
 
 
There's a new girl in Sweet Valley...and she's a witch?! Join twin sisters Jessica and Elizabeth as they discover if the rumors match reality in this all new graphic novel from the The New York Times bestselling world of Sweet Valley Twins.

The buzz at Sweet Valley Middle School is all about Nora Mercandy, the new girl living in the town's infamous haunted house. Jessica is convinced there's something witchy about her, but Elizabeth thinks there's more to the story.
Click to see this item in the library catalog My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two More Info  Borrow
By Emil Ferris. From Fantagraphics.
Click to see 3,312 GoodReads ratings, which gave this 4.2 out of 5 stars
 
 
The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most inspiring “monster” in contemporary fiction.

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two is the eagerly awaited conclusion to one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of the past decade. Presented as the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes as she tries to solve the murder of her beloved and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold.
Click to see this item in the library catalog The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America More Info  Borrow
By Larry Tye. From Mariner Books.
Click to see 205 GoodReads ratings, which gave this 4.1 out of 5 stars
 
 
From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers on the planet.

This is the story of three revolutionary American musicians, the maestro jazzmen who orchestrated the chords that throb at the soul of twentieth-century America.
Click to see this item in the library catalog A Is for Awesome! 23 Iconic Women Who Changed the World More Info  Borrow
By Eva Chen. From Feiwel & Friends.
Click to see 860 GoodReads ratings, which gave this 4.3 out of 5 stars
 
 
Why stick with plain old A, B, C when you can have Amelia (Earhart), Malala, Tina (Turner), Ruth (Bader Ginsburg), all the way to eXtraordinary You―and the Zillion of adventures you will go on?

Instagram superstar Eva Chen, author of Juno Valentine and the Magical Shoes, is back with an alphabet board book depicting feminist icons in A Is for Awesome: 23 Iconic Women Who Changed the World, featuring spirited illustrations by Derek Desierto.
Click to see this item in the library catalog Women and Children First More Info  Borrow
By Alina Grabowski. From SJP Lit.
Click to see 5,633 GoodReads ratings, which gave this 3.3 out of 5 stars
 
 
A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in a small Massachusetts town.

Nashquitten, MA, is a decaying coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town’s industries for generations. When a young woman dies at a house party, the circumstances around her death suspiciously unclear, the tight-knit community is shaken. As a mother grieves her daughter, a teacher her student, a best friend her confidante, the events around the tragedy become a lightning rod: blame is cast, secrets are buried deeper.
Click to see this item in the library catalog Service Model More Info  Borrow
By Adrian Tchaikovsky. From Tordotcom.
Click to see 11,316 GoodReads ratings, which gave this 4 out of 5 stars
 
 
Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the Hugo-nominated author of Elder Race and Children of Time.

To fix the world they must first break it, further.

Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service.

When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also do something else they never did before: They can run away.
Click to see this item in the library catalog Mirrored Heavens More Info  Borrow
By Rebecca Roanhorse. From S&S/Saga Press.
Click to see 7,165 GoodReads ratings, which gave this 4.2 out of 5 stars
 
 
The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Roanhorse’s Between Earth and Sky trilogy.

Even the sea cannot stay calm before the storm. —Teek saying

Serapio, avatar of the Crow God Reborn and the newly crowned Carrion King, rules Tova. But his enemies gather both on distant shores and within his own city as the matrons of the clans scheme to destroy him.
Click to see this item in the library catalog Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics More Info  Borrow
By Ernesto Londoño. From Celadon Books.
Click to see 676 GoodReads ratings, which gave this 4.2 out of 5 stars
 
 
A riveting look at the tremendous promise and inherent risks of the use of psychedelics in mental health treatment through the lens of a New York Times reporter whose journalistic exploration of this emerging field began with a personal crisis.

When he signed up for a psychedelic retreat run by a mysterious Argentine woman deep in Brazil’s rainforest in early 2018, Ernesto Londoño, a veteran New York Times journalist, was so depressed he had come close to jumping off his terrace weeks earlier.
Click to see this item in the library catalog What Happened to Nina? More Info  Borrow
By Dervla McTiernan. From William Morrow.
Click to see 32,298 GoodReads ratings, which gave this 4.1 out of 5 stars
 
 
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families pitted against each other—one seeking justice in the disappearance of their daughter, the other desperate to clear their son’s name.

Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family’s cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home.

WHAT HAPPENED TO NINA?

Nobody knows. Simon’s explanation about what happened in their last hours together doesn’t add up.
Click to see this item in the library catalog Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the Discovery of the Modern Mind More Info  Borrow
By Frank Tallis. From St. Martin's Press.
Click to see 201 GoodReads ratings, which gave this 4 out of 5 stars
 
 
A chronicle of Vienna's Golden Age and the influence of Sigmund Freud on the modern world by a clinical psychologist whose mystery novels form the basis of PBS's Vienna Blood series.

Some cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite, and burn with such fierce intensity that they outshine every other city on the planet. Vienna was one such city and, at the beginning of the twentieth century, was the birthplace of the modern mind and the way we live today. Long coffee menus and celebrity interviews are Viennese inventions.
Click to see this item in the library catalog The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) More Info  Borrow
By Rick Riordan. From Miramax.
Click to see 3,290,048 GoodReads ratings, which gave this 4.3 out of 5 stars
 
 
There is no such twelve-year-old boy as Perseus 'Percy' Jackson. The Greek gods are nothing more than old myths. They certainly never have children with mortals in the 21st century, nor is there any such place as Half Blood Hill, a summer camp for demigods on eastern Long Island. Percy never met a satyr or a daughter of Athena. They most emphatically did not take a quest together across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.
Click to see this item in the library catalog The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives More Info  Borrow
By Adam Smyth. From Basic Books.
Click to see 311 GoodReads ratings, which gave this 3.8 out of 5 stars
 
 
The five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them

Books tell all kinds of stories—romances, tragedies, comedies—but if we learn to read the signs correctly, they can tell us the story of their own making too. The Book-Makers offers a new way into the story of Western culture’s most important object, the book, through dynamic portraits of eighteen individuals who helped to define it.

Books have transformed humankind by enabling authors to create, document, and entertain.
Click to see this item in the library catalog Camino Ghosts More Info  Borrow
By John Grisham. From Random House Audio.
Click to see 51,529 GoodReads ratings, which gave this 4.2 out of 5 stars
 
 
John Grisham, #1 bestselling author and master of the legal thriller, takes us back to paradise. Bookstore owner Bruce Cable is reunited once again with Mercer Mann for another thrilling mystery packed with sun, sand, and mayhem. Filled with unpredictable twists, the return to Camino Island is guaranteed to be this summer’s perfect escape.
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