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Updated December 5, 2023
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Dungeons and Drama
Boyce, Kristy.
Paper Book
A national bestseller! When it comes to romance, sometimes it doesn't hurt to play games. A fun YA romcom full of fake dating hijinks! No one loves musicals more than Riley Morris-her dream is to be a Broadway director. But when the spring show is canceled, Riley has...
All the living and the dead : from embalmers to executioners, an exploration of the people who have made death their life's work
Campbell, Hayley
Paper Book
A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people--morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners--who work in it and what led them there. We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet...
Things you save in a fire
Center, Katherine
Paper Book
**INDIE NEXT PICK FOR AUGUST** **AN AUGUST 2019 LIBRARYREADS SELECTION** **BOOK OF THE MONTH PICK FOR JULY** **AN AMAZON EDITOR'S PICK FOR AUGUST** "Center gives readers a sharp and witty exploration of love and...
Summerlost : a novel
Condie, Allyson Braithwaite
Paper Book
Summer will never be the same again for Cedar. Desperate to outrun their grief, her family move to their mother's hometown for the long holiday. Despite the change of scene, Cedar can't escape her memories, and then strange gifts start to appear in the night as if by magic. When Leo...
Remember : the science of memory and the art of forgetting
Genova, Lisa
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A fascinating exploration of the intricacies of how we remember, why we forget, and what we can do to protect our memories, from the Harvard-trained neuroscientist and bestselling author of Still Alice. "Using her expertise as a...
Still Alice
Genova, Lisa.
Paper Book
The doomsday mother : Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the end of an American family
Glatt, John
Paper Book
In The Doomsday Mother, bestselling true crime author John Glatt tells the twisted tale of Lori Vallow, accused of having her two children murdered to start a new life with her new husband, doomsday prepper Chad Daybell. At first, the residents of Kauai Beach Resort...
The midnight library
Haig, Matt
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year "A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."--The...
Evvie Drake starts over
Holmes, Linda (Radio talk show host)
Paper Book
A New York Times BestsellerIn a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her house nearly a year after her husband's death in a car crash. Everyone, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside. In New York City Dean Tenney, former Major...
At home in Mitford
Karon, Jan
Paper Book
A special edition of Jan Karon's first Mitford novel, complete with a new color map of America's favorite small town and the original chapter illustrations. Enter the world of Mitford and you won't want to leave. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is...
My not so perfect life
Kinsella, Sophie
Paper Book
A New York Times BestsellerEverywhere Katie Brenner looks, someone else is living the life she longs for, particularly her boss, Demeter Farlowe. Demeter is brilliant and creative, lives with her perfect family in a posh townhouse, and wears the coolest clothes. Katie's life, meanwhile, is a daily...
User friendly : how the hidden rules of design are changing the way we live, work and play
Kuang, Cliff
Paper Book
***Picked as a book of the year by Fortune magazine*** 'A tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and revelations from intrepid firsthand reporting' -- New York Times USER FRIENDLY is a must...
Eight perfect hours : a novel
Louis, Lia
Paper Book
ONE OF THE BEST FEEL-GOOD BOOKS OF 2021 BY THE WASHINGTON POST "I read Eight Perfect Hours in one sitting, in four perfect hours, because I couldn't bear to put it down without knowing the ending." --Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author...
Ordinary heroes : a memoir of 9/11
Pfeifer, Joseph
Paper Book
Ordinary Heroes is the unforgettable and intimate account of what Chief Pfeifer witnessed at Ground Zero on 9/11 and the days that followed. Through his eyes, we see the horror of the attack and the courage of the firefighters who ran into the burning towers to save others. We see him send his own...
The book woman of Troublesome Creek : a novel
Richardson, Kim Michele
Paper Book
RECOMMENDED BY DOLLY PARTON IN PEOPLE MAGAZINE! A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER A PBS BOOK PICK The bestselling historical fiction novel from Kim Michele Richardson, this is a novel following Cussy...
The Christmas pig
Rowling, J. K.
Paper Book
One boy and his toy are about to change everything... Jack loves his childhood toy, Dur Pig. DP has always been there for him, through good and bad. Until one Christmas Eve, something terrible happens - DP is lost. But Christmas Eve is a night for miracles and lost causes, a...
Field notes on love
Smith, Jennifer E.
Paper Book
Hugo and Mae want get their lives on track. What they're not expecting to find is each other.When Hugo's long-term girlfriend Margaret Campbell breaks up with him the summer before uni, she leaves him a parting gift: the US cross-country train trip they had planned to take together. The only problem...
Unexpected : the backstory of finding Elizabeth Smart and growing up in the culture of an American religion
Thomas, Chris
Paper Book
The backstory of finding Elizabeth Smart and how growing up in the Mormon culture pushed the author to develop the exact kind of intuition that was needed to help manage Elizabeth's kidnapping and rescue while the world watched. Chris Thomas is not yet thirty years old when he...
Get well soon : history's worst plagues and the heroes who fought them
Wright, Jennifer
Paper Book
A witty, irreverent tour of history's worst plagues--from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio--and a celebration of the heroes who fought them In 1518, in a small town in Alsace, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn't stop. She danced until she was carried away six days...

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