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Get the Picture, Jenny Archer?
Get the Picture, Jenny Archer? Ellen Conford Ages 8-12 When Jenny Archer is given a used camera by her grandparents, she can think of many…
Babe the Gallant Pig
Babe the Gallant Pig Dick King-Smith When Babe arrives at Hogget Farm, Mrs. Hogget’s thoughts turn to sizzling bacon and juicy pork chops. But before…
The Young Reader’s Shakespeare
The Young Reader’s Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet Adam McKeown Ages 10-12 This wonderfully contemporary retelling features enticing art on nearly every page and provides an…
Poetry for Young People
Poetry for Young People Emily Dickinson Ages 8+ See the beauty and magic of the everyday world through the eyes of Emily Dickinson, one of…
Poetry for Young People
Poetry for Young People Rudyard Kipling Ages 10-12 “Twenty-eight poems (or parts of poems) reverberate with Kipling’s compassion for his fellow humans….introduction details the events…
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, is a classic ghost story that has mystery, horror and…
Stargirl (Books 1-2)
Stargirl (Books 1-2) Jerry Spinelli Ages 10-13 Stargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the…
Disney’s Twisted Tales Series
Disney’s Twisted Tales Series (Books 1-22) Liz Braswell Ages 12-18 When Belle touches the Beast’s enchanted rose, memories flood through Belle’s mind—memories of a mother…
The Lunar Chronicles (Books 1-4)
The Lunar Chronicles (Books 1-4) Marissa Meyer Ages 11+ Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population….
Alina Butt Series
Alina Butt Series Ambreen Butt-Hussain Ages 9-12 Eleven-year-old Alina Butt has changed schools four times already since her family moved to England from Pakistan. Even…
The Birchbark House Series (books 1-5)
The Birchbark House Series (books 1-5) Ages 7-10 She was named Omakakiins, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop. Omakakiins and her…
Julie of the Wolves Series
Julie of the Wolves Series Jean Craighead George Ages 8-12 In this thrilling adventure about the wolf pack that saved the life of a young girl…
Heartless
Heartless Marissa Meyer Ages 12-18 Long before she was the terror of Wonderland, she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love. Catherine…
Girl in the Blue Coat
Girl in the Blue Coat Monica Hesse Ages 12+ Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering black market goods to paying customers, her…
The Future of Us
The Future of Us Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler Ages 10-13 It’s 1996, and Josh and Emma have been neighbors their whole lives. They’ve been…
No Place
No Place Todd Strasser Ages 12+ It seems like Dan has it all. He’s a baseball star who is part of the popular crowd and…
Love Among the Walnuts
Love Among the Walnuts Jean Ferris Ages 10-12 Sandy Huntington-Ackerman’s life becomes increasingly complicated when his bungling, moneygrubbing uncles try to shanghai the family fortune…
Inexcusable
Inexcusable Chris Lynch I am a good guy. Keir Sarafian may not know much, but he knows himself. And the one thing he knows about…
Farmer Boy
Farmer Boy Laura Ingalls Wilder Classics While Laura Ingalls grows up on the prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York…
Little House In The Big Woods
Little House In The Big Woods Laura Ingalls Wilder Classics Little House in the Big Woods takes place in 1871 and introduces us to four-year-old Laura,…
The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild Jack London Historical Fiction The domesticated life of a powerful St. Bernard-Shepherd mix named Buck is quickly turned on end…
Sounder
Sounder William H. Armstrong The boy knows that times are tough for his family. Every night, his father goes out hunting with their great coon…
Summer of the Monkeys
Summer of the Monkeys Wilson Rawls Historical Fiction The last thing fourteen-year-old Jay Berry Lee expects to find while trekking through the Ozark Mountains…
Where The Red Fern Grows
Where The Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Historical Fiction Billy has long dreamt of owning not one, but two, dogs. So when he’s finally able…
You’re Going to Make it Through Junior High
You’re Going to Make it Through Junior High John Bytheway If you’ve ever been left out, teased, or ignored; if you’ve ever felt intimidated, lonely,…
The Gift of the Magi
The Gift of the Magi O. Henry “The Gift of the Magi” is a short story, written by O. Henry (a pen name for William…
Of Peace and Pardon
Of Peace and Pardon Rebecca Grass Wilhelm Jaeger, a World War II veteran, long refused to speak of his past—the memories were too traumatic and…
If Only
If Only Richards Paul Evans Eric is having a hard time adjusting to his family’s move from California to Utah. Then he meets Grace—his classmate…
The Silence of God
The Silence of God Gale Sears At the turn of the century, St. Petersburg offered the best of Imperial Russia. Few realized that the glitz…
On the Hippie Trail
On the Hippie Trail Rick Steves In the 1970s, the ultimate trip for any backpacker was the storied “Hippie Trail” from Istanbul to Kathmandu. A…
The Reason I Jump
The Reason I Jump Naoki Higashida You’ve never read a book like The Reason I Jump. Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware,…
Humans of New York Stories
Humans of New York Stories Brandon Stanton Humans of New York: Stories is the culmination of five years of innovative storytelling on the streets of…
A Year In the World
A Year In the World Frances Mayes A Year in the World is vintage Frances Mayes—a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures…
A Piece of Cake
A Piece of Cake Cupcake Brown Orphaned by the death of her mother and left in the hands of a sadistic foster parent, young Cupcake…
Born Lucky
Born Lucky Leland Vittert If you’re channel surfing and happen upon Leland Vittert during his nightly national cable show on NewsNation, he comes off as…
The Extraordinary Life of Sam He’ll
The Extraordinary Life of Sam He’ll Robert Dugoni Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil…
The Lies They Told
The Lies They Told Ellen Marie Wiseman When Lena Conti—a young, unwed mother—sees immigrant families being forcibly separated on Ellis Island, she vows not to…
The Nickel Boys
The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the…
Small Things Like These
Small Things Like These Claire Keegan It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal…
From Here to Eternity
From Here to Eternity James Jones At the Pearl Harbor army base in 1941, Robert E. Lee Prewitt is Uncle Sam’s finest bugler. A career…
Pachinko
Pachinko Min Jin Lee Historical Fiction In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger. When…
The Witches: Salem 1962
The Witches: Salem 1962 Stacy Schiff It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister’s daughter began to scream and convulse….
Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History
Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History John Julius Norwich “Sicily,” said Goethe, “is the key to everything.” It is the largest island in…
Lone Survivor
Lone Survivor Marcus Luttrell On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous…
SPQR
SPQR Mary Beard In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome “with passion and without technical jargon” and demonstrates how “a…
The Woman They Could Not Silence
The Woman They Could Not Silence Kate Moore Discover the powerful and untold true story of resilience, advocacy, and the fight for women’s rights in…
A Woman of No Importance
A Woman of No Importance Sonia Purnell In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: “She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies….
Talking to Strangers
Talking to Strangers Malcolm Gladwell How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler?…
Glow Kids
Glow Kids Nicholas Kardaras, Ph.D. In Glow Kids, Dr. Nicholas Kardaras will examine how technology―more specifically, age-inappropriate screen tech, with all of its glowing ubiquity―has…
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Lori Gottlieb One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next,…
Good to Great
Good to Great Jim Collins The Challenge:Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how…
Blink
Blink Malcolm Gladwell Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant–in the blink…
The Dance of Connection
The Dance of Connection Harriet Lerner, Ph.D The key problem in relationships, particularly over time, is that people begin to lose their voice. Despite decades…
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend Katarina Bivald Fiction Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara: Sara traveled all the way from Sweden…
The Personal Librarian
The Personal Librarian Victoria Christopher Murray Historical Fiction In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection…
The Librarian of Auschwitz
The Librarian of Auschwitz Antonio Iturbe World War II As a young girl, Dita is imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken from her home…
The Christmas Bookshop
The Christmas Bookshop Jenny Colgan Fiction Laid off from her department store job, Carmen has perilously little cash and few options. The prospect of spending…
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek Kim Michelle Richardson Historical Fiction The bestselling historical fiction novel from Kim Michele Richardson, this is a novel following…
The Book Thief
The Book Thief Markus Zusak World War II When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is…
Only the Beautiful
Only the Beautiful Susan Meissner World War II California, 1938—When she loses her parents in an accident, sixteen-year-old Rosanne is taken in by the owners of the vineyard where she…
Real Americans
Real Americans Rachel Khong Historical Fiction New York City, 1999. Lily Chen is an unpaid intern, pursuing the American Dream, when she falls for a young financier – and the…
The Great Divide
The Great Divide Cristina Henriquez Historical Fiction It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco,…
The Island of Missing Trees
The Island of Missing Trees Elif Shafak Historical Fiction Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In…
The Marriage Portrait
The Marriage Portrait Maggie O’Farrell Historical Fiction Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at…
The Paper Palace
The Paper Palace Miranda Cowley Heller Fiction It is a perfect August morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at “The Paper Palace”—the family summer place…
Dictionary of Lost Words
Dictionary of Lost Words Pip Williams Historical Fiction Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in…
The Flower Sisters
The Flower Sisters Michelle Collins Anderson Historical Fiction Daisy Flowers is fifteen in 1978 when her free-spirited mother dumps her in Possum Flats, Missouri. It’s…
The Most Fun We Ever Had
The Most Fun We Ever Had Claire Lombardo Fiction Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, blithely ignorant of all that…
The Saints of Swallow Hill
The Saints of Swallow Hill Donna Everhart Historical Fiction It takes courage to save yourself… In the dense pine forests of North Carolina, turpentiners labor,…
Orphan Train
Orphan Train Christina Baker Kline Historical Fiction Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the…
Atmosphere
Atmosphere Taylor Jenkins Reid Historical Fiction Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan…
Mad Mabel
Mad Mabel Sally Hepworth Meet Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick: eighty-one years old, gloriously grumpy, fiercely independent, and never without a hot cup of tea―or a cutting…
Gone Girl
Gone Girl Gillian Flynn On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being…
The Chemist
The Chemist Stephanie Meyer She used to work for the U.S. government, but very few people ever knew that. An expert in her field, she…
Dog On It: Chet and Bernie Mysteries (Books 1-17)
Dog On It: Chet and Bernie Mysteries (Books 1-17) Spencer Quinn Chet, the wise and lovable canine narrator of Dog on It, and Bernie, a…
Heartwood
Heartwood Amity Gaige In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished…
Mad Mabel
Mad Mabel Sally Hepworth Meet Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick: eighty-one years old, gloriously grumpy, fiercely independent, and never without a hot cup of tea―or a cutting…
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman Mental Health Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s…
Nineteen Minutes
Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult Realistic Fiction Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens–until the day its complacency is shattered by a…
Still Alice
Still Alice Lisa Genova Mental Health Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor…
Where’d You Go Bernadette
Where’d You Go Bernadette Maria Semple Fiction Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she’s a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in…
Where The Heart Is
Where The Heart Is Billie Letts Romance Talk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation was heading for California with…
The Lager Queen Of Minnesota
The Lager Queen Of Minnesota J. Ryan Stradal Fiction Two sisters, one farm. A family is split when their father leaves their shared inheritance entirely…
Two by Two
Two by Two Nicholas Sparks At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an…
A Walk to Remember
A Walk to Remember Nicholas Sparks There was a time when the world was sweeter….when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the…
Three Days in June
Three Days in June Anne Tyler Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job—or quits, depending on whom you ask….
The Shampoo Effect
The Shampoo Effect Jenny Jackson When Caroline Lash arrives in Greenhead, Massachusetts, she falls head-over-heels for Van Whittaker, a fleece-wearing, litter-collecting kayak enthusiast with long,…
The Bodyguard
The Bodyguard Katherine Center She’s got his back. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine…
The Lucky One
The Lucky One Nicholas Sparks After U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a smiling young woman buried in the dirt during his tour…
Game of Thrones (Books 1-5)
Game of Thrones (Books 1-5) George R.R. Martin Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that…
Stardust
Stardust Neil Gaiman One of Neil Gaiman’s most beautiful and enchanting tales, Stardust is the story of Tristran Thorn, a young man who promises the woman he…
Eight Tales of Terror
Eight Tales of Terror Edgar Allen Poe A collection of horror stories includes depictions of a man haunted by the spirit of his dead wife,…
The Oresteia
The Oresteia Aeschylus In the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from…
The Iliad
The Iliad Homer The Iliad roars with the clamor of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors, the fury and grief of loss, and the anguished…
The Children
The Children Melissa Albert Guinevere Sharpe has two childhoods. In one, she and her brother, Ennis, live in the wooded shadow of their family’s isolated…
The Road
The Road Cormac McCarthy Dystopia America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out…
Catching Fire
Catching Fire Suzanne Collins Dystopia My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead. Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has…
Catching Fire
Catching Fire Suzanne Collins Dystopia Against all odds, Katniss has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still…
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Dystopia In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol…
The Immortalists
The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin Fantasy It’s 1969 in New York City’s Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman,…
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood Dystopia In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The…