2024 Summer Staff Picks

Check out what we've been reading/watching and loving! We think you'll enjoy these titles, too.

Updated July 6, 2024
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2024 Summer Staff Picks

Check out what we've been reading/watching and loving! We think you'll enjoy these titles, too.

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Divine rivals : a novel
Ross, Rebecca
Audiobook
✨A LOVE STORY TO DEFY THE GODS✨ Begin the no. 1 Sunday Times bestselling international sensation from Rebecca Ross A LOVE THAT CONQUERS ALL Eighteen-year-old Iris dreams that one day her writing will make a difference. A war between gods is raging, and she's...

Maria says: One of my favorites this year!

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The frozen river
Lawhon, Ariel
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who investigates a shocking murder that unhinges her small community. Now a million-copy bestseller! ...

Bonnie says: I've always enjoyed a good historical novel! It starts with a body found in the river which makes the reader interested in who did it. Martha Ballard is a midwife from the 18th century who delivered hundreds of kids and kept diaries. It was interesting to see how her life was tied to the mystery of the body found.

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The island of missing trees
Shafak, Elif
Paper Book
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Winner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction * Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction "A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times." -David...

Jill says: This book is incredible and my favorite of the year so far. To pique your interest, half of it is narrated by a fig tree!

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