Spring Staff Picks 2024

Spring has sprung! Want to enjoy a book in this beautiful Spring weather? We have you covered - take a look at what our staff are reading this season.

Updated September 12, 2024
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Khabra, Bal
Paper Book
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! She's an honors student with ambitious graduate school plans and he's a jock with only hockey on his mind, but once their worlds collide, their connection is hot enough to melt an ice rink. An ultimatum from Summer Preston's...
12 Months To Live
Patterson, James.
Paper Book
"Patterson and Lupica make a great team" (Carl Hiaasen) who get "deep into the lives of strong women" (Louise Penny) and Jane Smith is their greatest creation--a badass lawyer with a year to live. "Jane Smith is the best character we've ever created. Bar none."
The Women of Troy
Barker, Pat
Paper Book
A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it--an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy and "one of contemporary literature's most thoughtful...
The Book Of Elsewhere
Reeves, Keanu.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An "action-packed [and] profoundly stylish" (Los Angeles Times) epic from Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, unlike anything these two genre-bending pioneers have created before, inspired by the world of the BRZRKR comic books "[...
Praiseworthy
Wright, Alexis
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2024 MILES FRANKLIN AWARD WINNER OF THE 2024 STELLA PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2024 JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2023 QUEENSLAND AWARD FOR LITERARY FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD In a small town in the north of Australia, a...
The heart's invisible furies
Boyne, John
Paper Book
Named Book of the Month Club's Book of the Year, 2017 Selected one of New York Times Readers' Favorite Books of 2017 Winner of the 2018 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award  From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped...
Fisherman, the
Langan, John
Paper Book
In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other...
Can't spell treason without tea : tomes & tea cozy fantasies
Thorne, Rebecca
Paper Book
Now with beautiful jade sprayed edges and brand-new original art! In the tradition of Legends & Lattes, comes a cozy fantasy steeped in sapphic romance about one of the Queen's private guards and a powerful mage who want to open a bookshop and live...
The Dark Wives
Cleeves, Ann.
Paper Book
As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's beloved Vera series explodes in popularity in print and on TV, this stunning eleventh book explores the web of secrets surrounding a young man's death. The man's body is found in the early morning light by a local dog walker in...
Hex
Olde Heuvelt, Thomas
Paper Book
"This is totally, brilliantly original." --Stephen King "HEX is creepy and gripping and original, sure to be one of the top horror novels of 2016." --George R.R. Martin The English language debut of the bestselling Dutch novel,Hex, fromThomas Olde...
Illustrators' sketchbooks : inside the creative processes of 60 iconic and emerging artists
Salisbury, Martin
Paper Book
Explore the creative process with iconic and emerging illustrators through selections from their sketchbooks. This inspiring collection is an ode to the power and possibilities of the sketchbook. It features the journal pages of sixty artists from around the world...
Creative Abstract Watercolor : The Beginner's Guide to Expressive and Imaginative Painting
Leach, Kate Rebecca.
Paper Book
Learn how to create dynamic, original abstract art using easy techniques and nothing more than watercolor paints and a few pens. Let your creativity loose and start making art, without getting bogged down in detail or accuracy - just allow yourself to experiment, have fun, be...
One last stop
McQuiston, Casey
Paper Book
*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER* *INSTANT #1 INDIE BESTSELLER* From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks... ...
Fish out of water
Ruggle, Katie
Paper Book
WHY DATE A MOUNTAIN MAN? Because he knows how to pitch a tent. TROPES: Tall, dark & (adorably) grumpy hero charmed by heroine despite himself; quirky small mountain town; gorgeous Colorado Rocky wilderness; only one sleeping bag; slow burn to clothes melting off spice; extreme competence;...
The Mars House : The breakout genre-bender of 2024 from the internationally bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
Pulley, Natasha.
Paper Book
A compulsively readable queer sci-fi novel about a marriage of convenience between a Mars politician and an Earth refugee. Named as one of Amazon's Best Books of 2024 So Far As Recommended By: Amazon * LitHub * Gizmodo * New Scientist * LGBTQ Reads *...
The Life Impossible
Haig, Matt.
Paper Book
The New York Times Bestseller "An odyssey of action and awe." --The New York Times "A wry and tender love-letter to the best of being human." --Benedict Cumberbatch The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times...

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