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Recommended by Kelly, Administrative Services
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These Summer Storms
by Sarah MacLean
Unlike her power-hungry siblings, Alice Storm traded her family’s billions for independence. But her eccentric father’s death lures her back to their private island for one final, twisted game. To claim their inheritance, the dysfunctional Storms must survive a week of humiliating challenges designed to unmask their darkest secrets. Trapped with her chaotic kin and her father’s enigmatic right-hand man, Alice must endure the storm of a lifetime to escape unscathed.
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Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
by Hwang Bo-Reum
Every Day I Read provides many quiet moments for introspection and reflection, encouraging book-lovers to explore what reading means to each of us. While this is a book about books, at its heart is an attitude to life, one outside capitalism and climbing the corporate ladder. Lifelong and new readers will take away something from it, including a treasure trove of book recommendations blended seamlessly within.
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New Erotica for Feminists: Satirical Tales of Love, Lust, and Equal Pay
by Caitlin Kunkel
Imagine a world where erotica was written by feminists: Their daydreams include equal pay, a gender-balanced Congress, and Tom Hardy arriving at their doorstep to deliver a fresh case of LaCroix every week. Both light-hearted and empowering, New Erotica for Feminists is a sly, satirical take on all the things that turn feminists on. From a retelling of Adam and Eve to tales of respectful Tinder dates, New Erotica for Feminists answers the question of “What do women really want?” with stories of power, equality, and an immortal Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman
by Joan Anderson
After years of prioritizing her family over her own dreams, Joan Anderson realized her marriage had stalled and her sense of self had vanished. When her husband’s career threatened yet another move, Joan did the unthinkable: she stayed behind. Retreating to a family cottage on Cape Cod, she spent a transformative year rediscovering the "unfinished woman" within. A Year by the Sea is the moving record of that journey—a treasury of wisdom for any woman looking to reclaim her own potential.
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Recommended by Kristine, Community Engagement
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How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
by Mia Birdsong
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong is a book that challenges traditional family structures and advocates for building authentic, chosen communities through vulnerability, generosity, and mutual support, drawing on stories from diverse groups like people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, and working-class families to offer a blueprint for connection in a fractured world. Published in 2020, it argues that true fulfillment comes from interdependence, not isolation, and provides a guide for creating strong, supportive networks outside of conventional norms.
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Recommended by Emily, Materials Collection
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Fate's Bane
by C. L. Clark
Warring clans. Burning hearts. Deadly fate. The clans of the fens enjoy a tenuous peace, and it is all thanks to Agnir, ward and hostage. For as long as she can remember she has lived among the enemy, learning their ways, growing strong alongside their children. When a burgeoning love for the chieftain's daughter lures them both to a hidden spring, a magic awakens in them that could bind the clans under one banner at last--or destroy any hope of peace. By working their intentions into leather, they can weave misfortune for their enemies... just like the Fate's Bane that haunts the legends of the clans. Ambitions grow in their fathers' hearts, grudges threaten a return to violence, and greedy enemies wait outside the borders, seeking a foothold to claim the fens for themselves. And though their Makings may save their families, the legend that gave them this power always exacts its price.
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The Sapling Cage
by Margaret Killjoy
Lorel has always dreamed of joining the all-female covens of Cekon to fight the magical blight rotting the kingdom. There’s just one problem: Lorel was born a boy. When the coven comes to claim her best friend, Lorel seizes her chance, donning a disguise and taking her friend's place. But as she navigates the treachery of a power-mad Duchess and masters her new craft, a deadlier threat looms—the fear that her new sisters will discover her secret and cast her out into a world that already hates her kind.
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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1
by Beth Brower
The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighborhood of St. Crispian’s. But Emma’s plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian’s. Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however self-incriminating they may be, which comprise a series of novella-length volumes. Armed with wit and a sideways amusement, Emma documents the curious realities of her life at Lapis Lazuli House.
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She Made Herself a Monster
by Anna Kovatcheva
In nineteenth-century Bulgaria, Yana is a con artist posing as a vampire slayer, staging grisly "hauntings" to sell the cure. When she arrives in a village plagued by real misfortune, she meets Anka, a headstrong orphan blamed for the town’s curse and forced into a looming marriage. Together, they hatch a desperate plan: conjure a monster vile enough to mask Anka’s escape. But in a world of superstition and heresy, their creation soon takes on a horrifying, uncontrollable life of its own.
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Recommended by Shannan, Marketing & Communications
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Just Friends
by Haley Pham
One shattered moment turned childhood best friends Blair and Declan into strangers. Now, four years after their romance ended in heartbreak, Blair is back in Seabrook. When she discovers her new boss is the boy who still makes her heart race, old wounds and buried secrets resurface. Told through past and present timelines, Just Friends is a moving story of second chances and the long road back to the person who feels like home.
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Grace, Not Perfection
by Emily Ley
Have you been told you can have it all, only to end up exhausted and out of sorts with the people you love? Are you ready for a new way of seeing yourself---and your chaotic, beautiful life? Learn to live simply. Hold yourself to a more life-giving standard in Grace, Not Perfection, and allow that grace to seep into every part of your life.
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When Less Becomes More: Making Space for Slow, Simple, and Good
by Emily Ley
In her newest book, bestselling author and founder of Simplified Emily Ley brings a revolutionary exploration of how to live a life of more in a world that often overwhelms to the point of burnout. Emily empathizes with readers in the throes of exhaustion and provides tools for nourishing their spirits and achieving a life where less becomes more.
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Recommended by John, IT Services
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Thief of Night
by Holly Black
There'd always been something wrong with Charlie Hall. Crooked from the day she was born. Never met a bad decision she wasn't willing to double down on. She may be good enough to steal a shadow from a tower, but will she be good enough to steal back a heart?--
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
by John Green
In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year. In Everything is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry's story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.
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A Taste for Monsters
by Matthew J. Kirby
It’s London 1888, and Jack the Ripper is terrorizing the people of the city. Evelyn, a young woman disfigured by her dangerous work in a matchstick factory, who has nowhere to go, does not know what to make of her new position as a maid to the Elephant Man in the London Hospital. Evelyn wants to be locked away from the world, like he is, shut in from the filth and dangers of the streets. But in Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, she finds a gentle kindred who does not recoil from her and who understands her pain. When the murders begin, however, Joseph and Evelyn are haunted nightly by the ghosts of the Ripper’s dead, setting Evelyn on a path to facing her fears and uncovering humanity’s worst nightmares.
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Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear
by Seanan McGuire
Nadya has always had three mothers: the one who bore her, the country that poisoned her, and the one who adopted her. But she never felt "less than whole" until her parents forced a prosthetic arm on her to "fix" what wasn't broken. Frustrated and misunderstood, Nadya wanders until she falls through a door into Belyyreka, the Land Beneath the Lake. In this world of giant turtles and underwater ships, she is finally accepted as a "Drowned Girl." But even in her true home, Nadya must fight to protect the life and identity she has finally claimed for herself.
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Recommended by Kori, Marketing & Communications
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Anatomy of an Alibi
by Ashley Elston
Camille Bayliss has the perfect life, a wealthy family, and a hotshot lawyer husband—who she’s convinced is hiding deadly secrets. Aubrey Price is haunted by a tragedy from a decade ago, and she’s certain Camille’s husband, Ben, holds the key. Together, the two women hatch a desperate plan: for twelve hours, Aubrey will impersonate Camille while Camille spies on Ben. It’s the perfect swap—until Ben is found murdered the next morning. Now, both women need an alibi, but only one of them has it.
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Love Letters to a Serial Killer
by Tasha Coryell
Thirty-something Hannah is aimless, lonely, and increasingly obsessed with a true-crime forum dedicated to a string of brutal murders in Atlanta. When handsome lawyer William is arrested for the crimes, Hannah begins writing him letters as a vent for her own pent-up rage. But the exercise turns dangerous when William writes back. After his acquittal follows a fifth murder, Hannah is the first person he calls. Now, she’s living with him in Georgia, playing the role of the doting partner by day while secretly investigating him for serial murder by night.
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Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
by Elle Cosimano
Finlay Donovan is killing it...except, she’s really not. She’s a stressed-out single-mom of two and struggling novelist, Finlay’s life is in chaos: the new book she promised her literary agent isn’t written, her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her, and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head after an incident with scissors. When Finlay is overheard discussing the plot of her new suspense novel with her agent over lunch, she’s mistaken for a contract killer, and inadvertently accepts an offer to dispose of a problem husband in order to make ends meet...Soon, Finlay discovers that crime in real life is a lot more difficult than its fictional counterpart, as she becomes tangled in a real-life murder investigation.
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The Locked Ward
by Sarah Pekkanen
Was it...bitter, all-consuming jealousy? Pathological sibling rivalry? Pure insanity? Whatever the cause-and everyone has a theory-it's the Crime of the Decade when glamorous Georgia Cartwright, who was adopted as a newborn, is accused of killing the biological daughter of her wealthy, Southern family. Georgia is locked in a psychiatric institution where the most violent offenders are held while she awaits trial. The only words she whispers when her estranged twin sister Amanda visits are, 'I didn't do it. You've got to get me out of here.' Amanda doesn't trust Georgia, but she can't abandon her in a place so eerie and menacing that it seems to exist in another dimension. Is Georgia the victim of a powerful family that's so depraved murder is the least of their crimes? Or is Amanda being led down a path of madness into the web of a master manipulator?
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Recommended by Pat K., Library Volunteer
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The Secret Book Society
by Madeline Martin
In 1895 London, three women trapped by oppressive marriages receive a mysterious invitation to tea at the home of the reclusive Lady Duxbury. Beneath the genteel facade lies the Secret Book Society—a sanctuary of forbidden literature and sisterhood. Among them are Eleanor, a mother stifled by a tyrannical husband; Rose, an American "dollar princess" struggling to fit into the aristocracy; and Lavinia, a young artist haunted by a family secret. Guided by their enigmatic, thrice-widowed hostess, the women find the courage to rewrite their stories—but in a world where secrets are deadly, their newfound freedom could cost them everything.
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The stolen life of Colette Marceau
by Kristin Harmel
For decades, jewel thief Colette Marceau has lived by her family's code: steal from the cruel to give to the needy. But her life as a modern-day Robin Hood began with tragedy in 1942 Paris, when her mother was executed and her young sister, Liliane, vanished along with a priceless diamond bracelet. Seventy years later, the long-lost bracelet surfaces in a Boston museum, forcing Colette to confront the ghosts of the past and a childhood acquaintance to finally learn the truth about her sister's disappearance and death.
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Recommended by Emma, Public Services
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The Silence Between Us
by Alison Gervais
Deaf teen Maya Harris must navigate a new life---and love---in this own-voices novel from award-winning author Alison Gervais. When Maya is forced to attended a hearing school, she sets out to prove that her lack of hearing won't stop her from chasing her dreams.
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