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The Moonlight Man

The Moonlight Man Betty Ren Wright Ages 9-12 When their father moves them for the seventh time in the five years since their mother’s death,…

The Moffats

The Moffats Eleanor Estes Ages 8-12 Meet the Moffats. There is Sylvie, the oldest, the cleverest, and—most days at least—the responsible one; Joey, who despite…

The Misadventures of Maude March

The Misadventures of Maude March Audrey Couloumbis Ages 8-12 Eleven-year-old Sallie March is a whip-smart tomboy and voracious reader of Western adventure novels. When she…

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O’Dell Ages 8-11 Newbery Medal winner Island of the Blue Dolphins is considered one of the greatest children’s books…

The Mighty Miss Malone

The Mighty Miss Malone Christopher Paul Curtis Ages 9-12 “We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful.” This is the motto…

The Maldonado Miracle

The Maldonado Miracle Theodore Taylor Ages 8-12 Twelve-year-old Jose Maldonado used to dream of becoming a fine artist. But this son of a poor Mexican…

One Of Us Is Lying

One Of Us Is Lying Karen M. McManus Mystery Thriller Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview…

Hollow City

Hollow City The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children Ages 12+ Having escaped Miss Peregrine’s island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and…

Genius The Game

Genius The Game Leopoldo Gout Ages 12-18 In Genius: The Game, an action-packed young adult novel by Leopoldo Gout, three brilliant teens from around the…

Frankenstein

Frankenstein Mary Shelly Ages 15+ Mary Shelley’s classic tale adapted for children with illustrations

Fahrenheit 451 

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Dystopia Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with…

Eleanor & Park

Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell Coming of Age Ages 14+ Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of…

Dry

Dry Neal & Jarrod Shusterman Dystopia The drought—or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it—has been going on for a while now. Everyone’s lives have become…

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Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi 

Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi Robert Bruce Flanders LDS Non Fiction A history of what became a romantic       legend about a martyred prophet, a…

Mormons and Masons

Mormons and Masons Matthew B. Brown Why did Joseph Smith become a Freemason? Who introduced Freemasonry into Nauvoo, Illinois, in the early 1840’s? Do the…

Mormon Polygamous Families

Mormon Polygamous Families Life in the Principle Jessie L. Embry Mormons and non-Mormons all have their views about how polygamy was practiced in the Church…

Massacre at Mountain Meadows

Massacre at Mountain Meadows Ronald W. Walker & Richard E. Turley Jr.  LDS Non Fiction On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under…

Lectures on Faith

Lectures on Faith Joseph Smith Jr.  LDS Non Fiction Embark on a spiritual journey with “Lectures on Faith,” a pivotal work by Joseph Smith, the…

Last Days

Last Days Sean Kikkert  LDS Teens As a Latter-day Saint teen or young adult living in the last days, do you find yourself asking questions…

Katy

Katy Carol Adams Non Fiction Settlers coming to the Katy area in the mid-1800s found a cane-filled creek on the vast coastal prairie. The area…

Greenlights 

Greenlights Matthew McConaughey Memoir I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries…

Going Infinite

Going Infinite Michael Lewis Business Non Fiction When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world’s youngest billionaire and crypto’s Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities,…

Furiously Happy

Furiously Happy Jenny Lawson Mental Health “I’ve often thought that people with severe depression have developed such a well for experiencing extreme emotion that they…

Freakonomics

Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner Business Economics Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo…

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The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas Classics “A piece of perfect storytelling.” — Robert Louis Stevenson. First published in 1844, The Count of Monte…

Janet Eyre

Janet Eyre Charlotte Brontë  Historical Fiction “Jane Eyre” is a classic novel by Charlotte Brontë that follows the life of its orphaned protagonist, Jane Eyre….

The Red Tent

The Red Tent Anita Diamant Historical Fiction In the Bible, Dinah’s life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more…

The Color Purple

The Color Purple Alice Walker Historical Fiction A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purpledepicts the lives of African American women in…

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Kim Edwards  Historical Fiction As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest…

The Power of One

The Power of One Bryce Courtenay  Historical Fiction In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take…

Armenian Identity In a Changing World

Armenian Identity In a Changing World Levon Abrahamian History We start with the path that defines the four types of genealogical national trees or models…

And There Was Light

And There Was Light Jon Meacham American History A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of…

American Kingpin

American Kingpin Nick Bilton True Crime In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine…

A Man Of Iron

A Man Of Iron Troy Senik Presidents Grover Cleveland’s political career—a dizzying journey that saw him rise from obscure lawyer to president of the United…

The Cost Of Courage 

The Cost Of Courage Charles Kaiser Biography In the autumn of 1943, André Boulloche became de Gaulle’s military delegate in Paris, coordinating all the Resistance movements…

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Blue Sisters 

Blue Sisters Coco Mellors Fiction The three Blue sisters are exceptional—and exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer, lives…

Remarkably Bright Creatures

Remarkably Bright Creatures Shelby Van Pelt Fiction/Book Club Books  After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium,…

The House Across the Lake

The House Across the Lake Riley Sager Mystery Thriller Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated…

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Mystery Thriller Holmes and Watson face a so-called family curse on Dartmoor in 1889. Asked by…

The Final Girl Support Group

The Final Girl Support Group Grady Hendrix Horror Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s…

The Family Across the Street

The Family Across the Street Nicole Trope Mystery Thriller Everybody wants to live on Hogarth Street, the pretty, tree-lined avenue with its white houses. The…

The Exchange

The Exchange John Grisham Mystery Thriller What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert &…

The Devil Wears Scrubs

The Devil Wears Scrubs Freida McFadden Mystery Thriller Newly minted doctor Jane McGill is in hell. Not literally, of course. But between her drug addict…

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Suzanne’s Diary For Nicholas

Suzanne’s Diary For Nicholas James Patterson  Mystery Katie Wilkinson has found her perfect man at last. He’s a writer, a house painter, an original thinker…

Attachments

Attachments Rainbow Rowell Romance  Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It’s company policy.)…

November 9

November 9 Colleen Hoover  Romance  Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend…

Verity

Verity Colleen Hoover Romance  Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime….

It Starts With Us

It Starts With Us Colleen Hoover Romance Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into…

It Ends With Us 

It Ends With Us Colleen Hoover Romance  Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she…

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