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Quidditch Through the Ages

Quidditch Through the Ages Ages 8+ If you have ever asked yourself where the Golden Snitch came from, how the Bludgers came into existence, or…

Fantastic Beasts & Where 

Fantastic Beasts & Where J.K. Rowling Ages 8+ This glorious new edition of Newt Scamander’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (considered a classic…

The Unteachables

The Unteachables Gordon Korman Ages 10-12 The Unteachables are a notorious class of misfits, delinquents, and academic train wrecks. Like Aldo, with anger management issues;…

The Boy, The Boat and the Beast

The Boy, The Boat and the Beast Samantha M. Clark Ages 8-12 A boy washes up on a mysterious, seemingly uninhabited beach. Who is he?…

The Long Way Around 

The Long Way Around Esther Elizabeth Carlson Adventure  During a family camping trip in my Sequoia National Park, three cousins—Vivian (11), Owen (12), and Amy…

The Chocolate Touch

The Chocolate Touch Patrick Skene Catling Ages 6-9 Can you ever have too much of your favorite food? John Midas is about to find out….

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy J.R.R. Tolkien  Ages 12+ One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring…

The Damar Series

The Damar Series Robin McKinley Ages 11-13 Harry Crewe is an orphan girl who comes to live in Damar, the desert country shared by the…

The Maze Runner Series

The Maze Runner Series Books 1-5 James Dashner Ages 10+ When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his…

Seafire Trilogy

Seafire Trilogy Natalie C. Parker Ages 12-17 The first in a heart-stopping trilogy that recalls the undeniable feminine power of Wonder Woman and the powder-keg…

Arc of Scythe 

Arc of Scythe Books 1-4 Neal Shusterman Ages 12+ Thou shalt not kill: A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity…

Uglies Series

Uglies Series Scott Westerfeld Dystopia In Tally Youngblood’s world, looks matter. She lives in a society created to function with perfect-looking people who never have…

Woodsong

Woodsong Gary Paulsen Ages 10-14 Gary Paulsen is no stranger to adventure. He has flown off the back of a dogsled and down a frozen…

What I Believe

What I Believe Norma Fox Mazer Poetry Vicki’s life had been perfect–now it’s definitely not. When her father is laid off from his job, her…

Twelve Angry Men

Twelve Angry Men Reginald Rose Classics A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it…

The War Outside

The War Outside Monica Hesse Ages 12+ It’s 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe and the Pacific. The war seemed far away…

The Hero of Room 13B

The Hero of Room 13B Teresa Toten Ages 12-17 Filled with moments of deep emotion and unexpected humor, this understated and wise novel explores the…

The Runner

The Runner Cynthia Voigt Ages 12+ Bullet Tillerman runs. He runs to escape the criticism of his harsh, unforgiving father. He runs to numb the…

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No One Can Take Your Place

No One Can Take Your Place Sheri Dew LDS Literature In No One Can Take Your Place, Sheri Dew offers powerful insights and profound testimony…

The Light Within

The Light Within Jeffrey Marsh LDS Literature How do we recognize the voice of the Spirit? How can we detect false or counterfeit “revelation”? How…

He Restoreth My Soul

He Restoreth My Soul Donald L. Hilton, Jr., MD LDS Literature  In this book, author Donald L. Hilton Jr. MD explores the destructive power of…

Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites

Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites Chris Heimerdinger LDS Young Adult Jim Hawkins has a bad attitude. What’s more, he enjoys having a bad attitude about…

Borrowed Light 

Borrowed Light (Books 1-5) Carla Kelly  LDS Fiction Julia Darling never expected to cook for some cowboys in Wyoming, but when she breaks off her…

Unlocking Isaiah

Unlocking Isaiah Reg Christensen LDS Scripture Isaiah’s resounding charge to the Assyrians was to “trust Jehovah and He will protect you.” We of modern Israel…

Mockingbird. A Portrait of Harper Lee

Mockingbird A Portrait of Harper Lee Charles J. Shields Biography Memoir  To Kill a Mockingbird—the twentieth century’s most widely read American novel—has sold thirty million…

Tattoos on the Heart

Tattoos on the Heart Gregory Boyle Memoir For twenty years, Father Gregory Boyle has run Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention program located in the Boyle Heights…

White Fragility

White Fragility Robin Diangelo Racism In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white…

When Character was King

When Character was King Peggy Noonan Memoir No one has ever captured Ronald Reagan like Peggy Noonan. In When Character Was King, Noonan brings her…

We Survived 

We Survived Genocide in Rwanda Memoir 28 personal testimonies.  

Today I Made a Difference 

Today I Made a Difference Joseph W. Underwood Inspirational Everyone remembers that teacher who made a difference. The one who went the extra mile to…

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Prague Spring

Prague Spring Simon Mawer  Historical Fiction In the summer of 1968–a year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter–Oxford students James…

Out of the Easy

Out of the Easy Ruta Sepetys Historical Fiction It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is…

Middlemarch

Middlemarch George Eliot Historical Fiction Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of…

For Whom The Bell Tolls

For Whom The Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway  Historical Fiction For Whom the Bell Tolls tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic…

Diary of a Dead Man on Leave

Diary of a Dead Man on Leave David Downing World War II  In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding…

A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry Historical Fiction Lorraine Hansberry’s award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on…

The Fifth Risk

The Fifth Risk Michael Lewis Politics Michael Lewis’s brilliant narrative of the Trump administration’s botched first presidential transition takes us into the engine rooms of…

The Envoy

The Envoy Alex Kershaw World War II  December 1944. Soviet and German troops fight from house to house in the shattered, corpse-strewn suburbs of Budapest….

The Demon of Unrest

The Demon of Unrest Erik Larson Civil War On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The…

Shake Hands with the Devil

Shake Hands with the Devil Romeo Dallaire Memoir When Romeo Dallaire was called on to serve as force commander of the UN Assistance Mission for…

Romney A Reckoning

Romney A Reckoning McKay Coppins Memoir Few figures in American politics have seen more and said less than Mitt Romney. An outspoken dissident in Donald…

Pearl Harbor Survivors

Pearl Harbor Survivors Harry Spiller History On December 7, 1941, Japan waged a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. It…

Wheat Belly

Wheat Belly William Davis, MD Self Help First published in 2011, Wheat Belly introduced the world to the hidden dangers of modern wheat and gluten, revolutionizing the…

The Omnivore’s Dilemma

The Omnivore’s Dilemma Michael Pollan Self Help What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question…

The Power of a Positive Mom

The Power of a Positive Mom Karol Ladd Self Help Every mother feels a profound sense of responsibility when it comes to parenting. The effects…

Captivate

Captivate Vanessa Van Edwards Self Help As a human behavior hacker, Vanessa Van Edwards created a research lab to study the hidden forces that drive…

A Radical Awakening

A Radical Awakening Dr. Shefali  Self Help A Radical Awakening lays out a path for women to discover their inner truth and powers to help…

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Pack Up the Moon

Pack Up the Moon Kristan Higgins  Romance They used to joke about her “honey do” lists. He just never realized how much he would need…

Magic Hour

Magic Hour Kristin Hannah Fiction In the rugged Pacific Northwest lies the Olympic National Forest—nearly a million acres of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From…

House Rules

House Rules Jodi Picoult Autism Spectrum Disorder  When your son can’t look you in the eye . . . does that mean he’s guilty?  Jacob…

Homegoing

Homegoing Yaa Gyasi Historical Fiction One of Oprah’s Best Books of the Year, Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through…

Hamnet 

Hamnet Maggie O’Farrell Historical Fiction England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and…

The Therapist

The Therapist Nicole Trope The therapist: I love my job. People tell me their worries, their fears. Then Sandy becomes my patient. Something about her…

The Step Child

The Step Child Nicole Trope It’s the phone call every mother dreads. I’m climbing into the car after a trip to the grocery store. As…

The Widow

The Widow John Grisham Simon Latch is a lawyer in rural Virginia, making just enough to pay his bills while his marriage slowly falls apart….

Someone Knows

Someone Knows Lisa Scottoline Allie Garvey is heading home to the funeral of a childhood friend. Allie is not only grief-stricken, she’s full of dread….

The Whistler

The Whistler John Grisham  We expect our judges to be honest and wise. Their integrity is the bedrock of the entire judicial system. We trust…

The Secret History

The Secret History Donna Tartt Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover…

Girl’s Burn Brighter

Girl’s Burn Brighter Shobha Rao Poornima and Savitha have three strikes against them: they are poor, they are ambitious, and they are girls. After her…

The Valley of Amazement

The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan Spanning more than forty years and two continents, The Valley of Amazementresurrects pivotal episodes in history: from the collapse…

Martyr!

Martyr! Kaveh Akbar Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the…

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist Charles Dickens Follow Oliver’s unforgettable struggle for survival, from the grim workhouse to the gritty London underworld, in a story that blends heart-wrenching…

Before You Know Kindness

Before You Know Kindness Chris Bohjalian For ten summers, the Seton family—all three generations—met at their country home in New England to spend a week…

A Thousand Acres

A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley When the youngest daughter objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that…

All That Life Can Afford

All That Life Can Afford Emily Everett  Romance Anna first fell in love with London at her hometown library—its Jane Austen balls a far cry…

Rakes and Roses

Rakes and Roses Josi S. Kilpack  Romance Lady Sabrina endured an abusive marriage, a miscarriage, and early widowhood to emerge as a smart, successful, confident…

Isabelle and Alexander 

Isabelle and Alexander Rebecca Anderson Romance Manchester, 1850 Isabelle Rackham knows she will not marry for love. Though arranged marriages have fallen out of fashion,…

Georgana’s Secret

Georgana’s Secret Arlem Hawkes Romance Georgana Woodall dreams of freedom—freedom from her past and freedom from her secret. She has been living on her father’s…

The Fragrance of Her Name

The Fragrance of Her Name Marcia Lynn McClure Romance Love, the miraculous, eternal bond that binds two souls together. Lauryn Kennsington knew the depth of…

The Time of Aspen Falls

The Time of Aspen Falls Marcia Lynn McClure Romance Aspen Falls was happy. Her life was good. Blessed with a wonderful family and a loyal…

The Water Knife

The Water Knife Paolo Bacigalupi Sci Fi Fantasy In the near future, the Colorado River has dwindled to a trickle. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel…

The Three-Body Problem

The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu Science Fiction Fantasy Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to…

The Princess Bride

The Princess Bride William Goldman Fantasy A tale of true love and high adventure, pirates, princesses, giants, miracles, fencing, and a frightening assortment of wild…

The Night Circus

The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern Fantasy The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within…

The Life Impossible

The Life Impossible Matt Haig Fantasy When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend,…

Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary Andy Weir Science Fiction Fantasy Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the…

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