Color Our World

The 2025 Summer Reading theme is Color Our World! Check out one of these colorful books 🎨

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Updated May 29, 2025
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City of orange
Yoon, David
Paper Book
A man wakes up in an unknown landscape, injured and alone.      He used to live in a place called California, but how did he wind up here with a head wound and a bottle of pills in his pocket?     He navigates his...
Yellowface : a novel
Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.)
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "Hard to put down, harder to forget." -- Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences... Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who...
The Blue Hour
Hawkins, Paula.
Paper Book
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A taut, slow-burning thriller." -Boston Globe "Truly exceptional." - Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods Welcome to Eris: a...
Riders of the purple sage
Grey, Zane
Paper Book
A gentile sage-rider is about to be whipped by the Mormans to coerce the rich and beautiful Jane Withersteen to marry against her will. In desperation Jane whispers the prayer, "whence cometh my help!" Just then an unlikely hero, the infamous gunfighter, Lassiter routs the persecutors and is drawn...
The indigo girl : a novel
Boyd, Natasha
Paper Book
In this incredible story of ambition, betrayal, and sacrifice, an extraordinary sixteen-year-old girl in Colonial South Carolina defies all expectations to achieve her dream. The year is 1739. Eliza Lucas is sixteen years old when her father leaves her in charge of their family's three...
Pink lemonade cake murder
Fluke, Joanne 1943-
Paper Book
Fans of deliciously charming, page-turning whodunits rejoice! Beloved New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Culinary Mystery Joanne Fluke delivers the twenty-eighth mouthwatering Hannah Swensen Mystery! The Tri-County Summer Solstice Celebration has come to town, and...
Gray Mountain
Grisham, John
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From America's favorite storyteller comes "one of his best legal dramas" (Associated Press): a gripping thriller about a former big-city lawyer who finds herself up against Big Coal--and under attack. "Yes, Gray Mountain is fiction....
Brown dog novellas
Harrison, Jim
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison is one of America's most beloved writers, and of all his creations, Brown Dog--a bawdy, reckless, down-on-his-luck Michigan Indian--has earned cult status with readers in the more than two decades since his first appearance. For the first time...

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