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Title: *New - All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir - #1174
Author: Nicole Chung
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. But as Nicole grew up—facing prejudice her adoptive family couldn’t see, finding her identity as an Asian American and as a writer, becoming ever more curious about where she came from—she wondered if the story she’d been told was the whole truth. (256 p)
 
Title: *New - The Birds of Opulence - #1168
Author: Crystal Wilkinson
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
The Birds of Opulence centers on several generations of women in a bucolic southern black township as they live with and sometimes surrender to madness. (216 p)
 
Title: *New - Dearborn: Stories - #1173
Author: Ghassan Zeinddine
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab American community in Dearborn, Michigan. In ten tragicomic stories, Zeineddine explores themes of identity, generational conflicts, war trauma, migration, sexuality, queerness, home and belonging, and more. (240 p)
 
Title: *New - The Family Chao: A Novel - #1172
Author: Lan Samantha Chang
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao restaurant’s delicious Americanized Chinese food for thirty-five years, content to ignore any unsavory whispers about the family owners. Whether or not Big Leo Chao is honest, or his wife, Winnie, is happy, their food tastes good and their three sons earned scholarships to respectable colleges. But when the brothers reunite in Haven, the Chao family’s secrets and simmering resentments erupt at last. (320 p)
 
Title: *New - Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns - #1169
Author: Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisis in America and reveals the structural conditions that underlie it. (283 p)
 
Title: *New - My Love Story - #1175
Author: Tina Turner
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In this New York Times bestseller, Tina Turner—the long-reigning queen of rock & roll—reveals personal stories she’s never told before in print or film, about her complicated relationship with her mother, the tragic death of her son, and finally finding true love with Erwin, setting the record straight about her illustrious career in this eye-opening and compelling memoir. (296 p)
 
Title: *New - Part of Your World - #1176
Author: Abby Jiminez
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
After a wild bet, gourmet grilled-cheese sandwich, and cuddle with a baby goat, Alexis Montgomery has had her world turned upside down. The cause: Daniel Grant, a ridiculously hot carpenter who’s ten years younger than her and as casual as they come—the complete opposite of sophisticated city-girl Alexis. And yet their chemistry is undeniable. (400 p)
 
Title: *New - The Plot - #1177
Author: Jean Hanff Korelitz
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what’s left of his self-respect; he hasn’t written let alone published anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn’t need Jake’s help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears the plot. (336 p)
 
Title: *New - The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of... - #1170
Author: Anna Malaika Tubbs
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them. In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes. (272 p)
 
Title: *New - Verity - #1171
Author: Colleen Hoover
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. (336 p)
 
Title: 1776 - Kit (Large Print) #258
Author: David G. McCullough
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
Esteemed historian David McCullough details the 12 months of 1776 and shows how outnumbered and supposedly inferior men managed to fight off the world's greatest army.
 
Title: 24: What Can Happen in a Day - Kit #1017
Author: Michael Ford Jr.
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 8 copies
Location: Main Library
Life is a fragile, unpredictable adventure. Yet all too often, we squander our twenty-four-hour days with complacency, fear, and petty fights, not appreciating that none of us are guaranteed another day. Michael Ford Jr. wrote 24: What Can Happen in a Day from his perspective as a 24-year firefighter and emergency medical technician, and as someone who knows all too well how we should treasure every moment in the day. (244 p)
 
Title: The 5th Wave - Kit (Older Teen) #839
Author: Richard Yancey
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.
 
Title: 84, Charing Cross Road - Kit #870
Author: Helene Hanff
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
What started as a request for an out-of-print book evolved into a 20-year friendship between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York, and Frank Doel, a used-book dealer in London. (112 p)
 
Title: Above the Waterfall: A Novel - #1132
Author: Ron Rash
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Les, a long-time sheriff just three weeks from retirement, contends with the ravages of crystal meth and his own duplicity in his small Appalachian town. (272 p)
 
Title: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Kit (Older Teen) #438
Author: Sherman Alexie
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
 
Title: An Abundance of Katherines - Kit (Older Teen) #391
Author: John Green
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
 
Title: Abundance a Novel of Marie Antoinette - Kit #397
Author: Sena Jeter Naslund
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Stunning fictional portrait of Marie Antoinette who lived a brief--but astounding--life. She rebelled against the formality and rigid protocol of the court; an outsider who became the target of a revolution that ultimately decided her fate. (545 p)
 
Title: Address Unknown: A Novel - #1060
Author: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
A series of fictional letters between a Jewish art dealer living in San Francisco and his former business partner, who has returned to Germany, Address Unknown is a haunting tale of enormous and enduring impact. When it first appeared in Story magazine in 1938, Address Unknown became an immediate social phenomenon and literary sensation. (64 p)
 
Title: After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America - #1105
Author: Jessica Goudeau
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
The welcoming and acceptance of immigrants and refugees have been central to America's identity for centuries--yet America has periodically turned its back in times of the greatest humanitarian need. After the Last Border is an intimate look at the lives of two women as they struggle for the twenty-first century American dream, having won the "golden ticket" to settle as refugees in Austin, Texas. (368 p)
 
Title: After This - Kit #406
Author: Alice McDermott
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
This novel of a middle-class American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century captures the social, political, and spiritual upheavals of their changing world. (288 p)
 
Title: Afterlife - #1041
Author: Julia Alvarez
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. (288 p)
 
Title: Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life - Kit #1003
Author: Laura Thompson
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant and award winning biographer, Laura Thompson now turns her sharp eye to Agatha Christie. Arguably the greatest crime writer in the world, Christie's books still sell over four million copies each year more than thirty years after her death and it shows no signs of slowing. But who was the woman behind these mystifying, yet eternally pleasing, puzzlers? Thompson reveals the Edwardian world in which Christie grew up, explores her relationships, including those with her two husbands and daughter, and investigates the many mysteries still surrounding Christie's life, most notably, her eleven-day disappearance in 1926. (534 p)
 
Title: Ahab's Wife, or, the Star-Gazer - Kit #197
Author: Sena Jeter Naslund
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Inspired by a brief passage in Melville's Moby-Dick, this tale of 19th century America explores the strong-willed woman who loved Captain Ahab. (668 p)
 
Title: Aindreas: The Messenger, Louisville, Kentucky 1855 - Kit #315
Author: Gerald McDaniel
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Aindreas is a young Irish-Catholic boy living in gaudy, grubby Louisville in 1855, a city where being Irish, Catholic, German or black usually means trouble. Unwittedly, he finds himself in the midst of the infamous Bloody Monday riots. (293 p)
 
Title: Al Capone Does My Shirts - Kit (Juvenile) #495
Author: Gennifer Choldenko
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
 
Title: The Alchemist: a Fable About Following Your Dream - Kit #299
Author: Paulo Coelho
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A fable about undauntingly following one's dreams, listening to one's heart, and reading life's omens features dialogue between a boy and an unnamed being. (208 p)
 
Title: The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel - Kit (Younger Teen) #695
Author: Michael Dylan Scott
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
 
Title: Alias Grace - Kit #018
Author: Margaret Atwood
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The fictionalized account of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century who was convicted of murdering her employer and his mistress. (468 p)
 
Title: All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy - #1047
Author: Tom Clavin
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
Eugene Bullard lived one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. The son of a former slave and an indigenous Creek woman, Bullard fled home at the age of eleven to escape the racial hostility of his Georgia community. When his journey led him to Europe, he garnered worldwide fame as a boxer, and later as the first African American fighter pilot in history. After the war, Bullard returned to Paris a celebrated hero. But little did he know that the dramatic, globe-spanning arc of his life had just begun. (352 p)
 
Title: All Her Little Secrets: A Novel - #1096
Author: Wanda M. Morris
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Ellice Littlejohn seemingly has it all: an Ivy League law degree, a well-paying job as a corporate attorney in midtown Atlanta, great friends, and a “for fun” relationship with a rich, charming executive, who just happens to be her white boss. But everything changes one cold January morning when Ellice arrives in the executive suite and finds him dead with a gunshot to his head. And then she walks away like nothing has happened. Why? (384 p)
 
Title: All Over But the Shoutin' - Kit #225
Author: Rick Bragg
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A dirt-poor Southern boy grows up to be a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, mainly due to the strength and determination of his remarkable mother. (329 p)
 
Title: All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake - #1090
Author: Tiya Miles
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis, the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag with a few precious items as a token of love and to try to ensure Ashley’s survival. Soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the bag in spare yet haunting language—including Rose’s wish that “It be filled with my Love always.” Ruth’s sewn words, the reason we remember Ashley’s sack today, evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love passed down through generations. (416 p)
 
Title: All the King's Men - Kit #331
Author: Robert Penn Warren
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic is generally regarded as the finest novel ever written on American politics. It is the story of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power. (656 p)
 
Title: All the Light We Cannot See - Kit #890
Author: Anthony Doerr
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 COPIES
Location: Main Library
Pulitzer Prize winner about a book-loving blind girl from Paris and a gifted orphan boy from Germany whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. (544 p)
 
Title: All the Living - Kit #533
Author: C. E. Morgan
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Moving to a remote Kentucky tobacco farm that her lover inherited when the rest of his family was killed in a terrible accident, a young woman struggles with their isolated life, her lover's grief, and a budding friendship with a dynamic young preacher. (199 p)
 
Title: All the Pretty Horses - Kit #040
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The National Book Award-winning story of three friends who set out in 1949 to cross the Rio Grande in search of the cowboy life. (301 p)
 
Title: All the Ugly and Wonderful Things - Kit #923
Author: Bryn Greenwood
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents:
Location: Main Library
As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold. (432 p)
 
Title: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Kit #300
Author: Michael Chabon
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In 1939 New York City, Joe Kavalier, a refugee from Hitler's Prague, joins forces with his Brooklyn-born cousin, Sammy Clay, to create comic-book superheroes inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams. (684 p)
 
Title: American Bloomsbury: Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau - Kit #417
Author: Susan Cheever
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A revealing portrait of five Concord, Massachusetts writers at the center of mid-nineteenth-century American thought and literature. (240 p)
 
Title: American Born Chinese - Kit (Older Teen) #378
Author: Gene Luen Yang
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young ChineseAmericans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.
 
Title: American Gods - Kit #903
Author: Neil Gaiman
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
A scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death. (560 p)
 
Title: American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation - Kit (Large Print) #367
Author: Jon Meacham
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
A history of a nation grappling with religion and politics, telling the human story of how the Founding Fathers viewed faith, and how they ultimately created a nation in which belief in God is a matter of choice.
 
Title: An American Marriage - Kit #989
Author: Tayari Jones
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. (336 p)
 
Title: American Spy: A Novel - #1082
Author: Lauren Wilkinson
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
It’s 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She’s brilliant, but she’s also a young Black woman working in an old boys’ club. Her career has stalled out, she’s overlooked for every high-profile squad, and her days are filled with monotonous paperwork. So when she’s given the opportunity to join a shadowy task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the charismatic revolutionary president of Burkina Faso whose Communist ideology has made him a target for American intervention, she says yes. Yes, even though she secretly admires the work Sankara is doing for his country. (320 p)
 
Title: Americanah - Kit #745
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, where despite her academic success she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. (588 p)
 
Title: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir - Kit #166
Author: Frank McCourt
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The prize winning memoir of childhood in the slums of Limerick, Ireland, told with humor, compassion and forgiveness. (368 p)
 
Title: Animal Dreams - Kit #012
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A vivid tale of a young woman rediscovering the things which make her life whole when she returns home to take care of her aging father. Kingsolver was raised in Kentucky. (384 p)
 
Title: Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior - Kit (Large Print) #253
Author: Temple Grandin
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
Why would a cow lick a tractor? Why do dolphins sometimes kill for fun? How can a parrot learn to spell? Animals in Translation will forever change the way we think about animals.
 
Title: The Animators - Kit #1002
Author: Kayla Rae Whitaker
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In the male-dominated field of animation, Mel Vaught and Sharon Kisses are a dynamic duo, the friction of their differences driving them: Sharon, quietly ambitious but self-doubting; Mel, brash and unapologetic, always the life of the party. Best friends and artistic partners since the first week of college, where they bonded over their working-class roots and obvious talent, they spent their twenties ensconced in a gritty Brooklyn studio. Now, after a decade of striving, the two are finally celebrating the release of their first full-length feature, which transforms Mel’s difficult childhood into a provocative and visually daring work of art. (384 p)
 
Title: Anne Frank the Diary of a Young Girl - Kit (Older Teen) #486
Author: Anne Frank
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
A young girl's journal records her family's struggles during two years of hiding from the Nazis in war-torn Holland.
 
Title: Another Brooklyn - Kit #898
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 COPIES
Location: Main Library
For August and her friends,, 1970’s Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, and brilliant. But beneath the hopeful veneer, there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place for the young and vulnerable. (192 p)
 
Title: Anxious People: A Novel - #1088
Author: Fredrik Backman
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The victims are argumentative and difficult, the bank robber is distraught and the realtor is incompetent. (352 p)
 
Title: Arcadia - Kit #619
Author: Lauren Groff
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Bit, a boy born in a back-to-nature commune in 1970s New York State, must come to grips with the outside world when the commune eventually fails. (320 p)
 
Title: The Architect's Apprentice : A Novel - Kit #997
Author: Elif Shafak
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In her latest novel, Turkey’s preeminent female writer spins an epic tale spanning nearly a century in the life of the Ottoman Empire. In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Istanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan’s menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart elephant Chota and befriends (and falls for) the sultan’s beautiful daughter, Princess Mihrimah. A palace education leads Jahan to Mimar Sinan, the empire’s chief architect, who takes Jahan under his wing as they construct (with Chota’s help) some of the most magnificent buildings in history. Yet even as they build Sinan’s triumphant masterpieces—the incredible Suleymaniye and Selimiye mosques—dangerous undercurrents begin to emerge, with jealousy erupting among Sinan’s four apprentices. (432 p)
 
Title: The Art of Racing in the Rain - Kit #521
Author: Garth Stein
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Nearing the end of his life, Enzo, a dog with a philosopher's soul, tries to bring together his family, pulled apart by a three year custody battle between young Zoe's maternal grandparents and her father Denny, a race car driver. (321 p)
 
Title: Assassination Vacation - Kit (Large Print) #252
Author: Sarah Vowell
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
A road trip like no other -- a journey to the pit stops of American political murder, examining the myriad ways these locations have been used for fun and profit and for political and cultural advantage
 
Title: The Association of Small Bombs - Kit #876
Author: Karan Mahajan
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
After witnessing his two friends killed by a “small” bomb that detonates in the Delhi marketplace, Mansoor Ahmed becomes involved with a charismatic young activist, whose allegiances and beliefs are more changeable than he could've imagined. (288 p)
 
Title: Astonish Me - Kit #763
Author: Maggie Shipstead
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
After helping a world-famous dancer defect from the Soviet Union to the United States, ballerina Joan watches her friend's career soar while her own declines in the wake of her pregnancy and marriage, a situation that eventually exposes difficult secrets.(272 p)
 
Title: At Home in Mitford - Kit #176
Author: Jan Karon
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A warm and humorous look at everyday life of a rector and his parishioners in a charming southern village. (446 p)
 
Title: At Home, a Short History of Private Life - Kit #573
Author: Bill Bryson
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
With his signature charm, and seemingly limitless knowledge, Bill Bryson takes us on a room-by-room tour through his own house, using each room as a jumping off point into the vast history of the domestic artifacts we take for granted. (581 p)
 
Title: Atlas of Unknowns - Kit #506
Author: Tania James
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Winning a scholarship to a prestigious art school in New York under false pretenses, Anju leaves her sister behind in Kerala, India, and enters the elite world of her Hindu American host family. (336 p)
 
Title: Atonement - Kit #273
Author: Ian McEwan
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
On a hot summer day in 1935, a young girl witnesses a moment’s flirtation between her older sister and the son of a servant, bringing about a crime that will change all their lives. (351 p)
 
Title: The Audacity of Hope, Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream - Kit #407
Author: Barack Obama
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The junior senator from Illinois and future U.S. President calls for a return to America's original ideals and revealing how they can address such issues as globalization and the function of religion in public life. (375 p)
 
Title: The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Kit #181
Author: Malcolm X
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The classic collaboration of Alex Haley and Malcolm X who was once called “the most dangerous man in America.” (527 p)
 
Title: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - Kit #318
Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, and has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960's. (272 p)
 
Title: The Autobiography of My Mother - Kit #151
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A fictional chronicle of a woman obsessed with piecing together the story of the mother she never knew.(240 p)
 
Title: The Aviator's Wife : a Novel - Kit #672
Author: Melanie Benjamin
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
This vividly imagined novel, inspired by the complicated marriage between Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, traces the romance between a handsome young aviator and a shy ambassador's daughter. (448 p)
 
Title: The Awakening - Kit #011
Author: Kate Chopin
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The story of a woman who, unhappy with her indifferent husband and family, gives in to her adulterous desires regardless of Victorian religious and social pressures. (128 p)
 
Title: Away, a Novel - Kit #418
Author: Amy Bloom
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Arriving in America alone after her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian Leyb receives word that her daughter might still be alive and embarks on a risky odyssey that takes her from New York's Lower East Side to Siberia. (247 p)
 
Title: Bad Feminist: Essays - #1158
Author: Roxane Gay
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In these funny and insightful essays, Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of color (The Help) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years (Girls, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion, Chris Brown). The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture. (336 p)
 
Title: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Kit #297
Author: Sijie Dai
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Two hapless city boys are exiled to a remote village for re-education during China’s infamous Cultural Revolution where they discover a hidden stash of Western classics. (184 p)
 
Title: The Barbarian Nurseries - Kit #620
Author: He´ctor Tobar
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
When the recession hits, Araceli, a live-in maid in the Pacific Coast Torres-Thompson household, finds herself responsible for everything - including the family's two children. Then she wakes up to discover that the parents have vanished. (432 p)
 
Title: Bastard Out of Carolina - Kit #069
Author: Dorothy Allison
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A young illegitimate girl grows up in the south of the 1950's forming poignant relationships with the indomitable women in her family. (336 p)
 
Title: Beach Read - #1159
Author: Emily Henry
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. (400 p)
 
Title: The Bean Trees - Kit #195
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Taylor Greer leaves poor rural Kentucky in a ’55 Volkswagen and ends up in Tucson Arizona, ?inheriting a 3-year-old American Indian girl along the way. Kingsolver was raised in Kentucky. (232 p)
 
Title: The Bear and the Nightingale - Kit #924
Author: Katherine Arden
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Winter lasts most of the year at the edge of the Russian wilderness, and in the long nights, Vasilisa and her siblings love to gather by the fire to listen to their nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, Vasya loves the story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon. Wise Russians fear him, for he claims unwary souls, and they honor the spirits that protect their homes from evil. Then Vasya’s widowed father brings home a new wife from Moscow. Fiercely devout, Vasya’s stepmother forbids her family from honoring their household spirits, but Vasya fears what this may bring. And indeed, misfortune begins to stalk the village. (368 p)
 
Title: Beartown - Kit #972
Author: Fredrik Backman
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever-encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better than today. Their junior ice hockey team is about to compete in the national semi-finals, and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys. (432 p)
 
Title: The Beautiful and Damned - Kit #679
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Set in the heady Jazz Age of New York, "The beautiful and damned" chronicles the relationship between Anthony Patch, a Harvard-educated aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful trophy wife, Gloria, as they wait to inherit his grandfather's fortune. (206 p)
 
Title: Beautiful Ruins - Kit #658
Author: Jess Walter
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In April 1962 a young Italian innkeeper in a remote village, Pasquale Tursi, puts up the "ethereal" American actress Dee Moray, who has arrived from the extravagant Rome location of “Cleopatra” supposedly sick with stomach cancer.
 
Title: Because of Mr. Terupt - Kit (Juvenile) #757
Author: Rob Buyea
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Seven fifth-graders at Snow Hill School in Connecticut relate how their lives are changed for the better by "rookie teacher" Mr. Terupt.
 
Title: Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family - Kit #879
Author: Amy Ellis Nutt
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
When Wayne and Kelly Maines adopted identical twin boys, they thought their lives were complete. But by the time Jonas and Wyatt were toddlers, confusion over Wyatt’s insistence that he was female began to tear the family apart. In the years that followed, the Maineses came to question their long-held views on gender and identity, to accept Wyatt’s transition to Nicole, and to undergo a wrenching transformation of their own, the effects of which would reverberate through their entire community.(320 p)
 
Title: Bee Season - Kit #290
Author: Myla Goldberg
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
An ordinary girl with an exceptional gift for spelling embarks on the "spelling bee" circuit, where her quirky family will collide with the harsh realities of life. (275 p)
 
Title: The Beekeeper of Aleppo - Kit #1028
Author: Christy Lefteri
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Nuri is a beekeeper and Afra, his wife, is an artist. Mornings, Nuri rises early to hear the call to prayer before driving to his hives in the countryside. On weekends, Afra sells her colorful landscape paintings at the open-air market. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the hills of the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo—until the unthinkable happens. When all they love is destroyed by war, Nuri knows they have no choice except to leave their home. (352 p)
 
Title: The Beet Queen - Kit #157
Author: Louise Erdrich
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A family saga of two orphans who find refuge with their aunt in a North Dakota town. (368 p)
 
Title: Before I Go to Sleep - Kit #704
Author: S. J. Watson
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Without her husband's knowledge, Christine, whose memory is damaged by a long-ago accident, is treated by a neurologist who helps her to remember her former self through journal entries until inconsistencies begin to emerge, raising disturbing questions. (368 p)
 
Title: Before We Were Yours - Kit #1008
Author: Lisa Wingate
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children’s Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents—but they quickly realize the dark truth. (384 p)
 
Title: Beheld: A Novel - #1080
Author: TaraShea Nesbit
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil, Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of religious freedom, in reality the town is led by fervent puritans who prohibit the residents from living, trading, and worshipping as they choose. By the time an unfamiliar ship, bearing new colonists, appears on the horizon one summer morning, Anglican outsiders have had enough. (288 p)
 
Title: Behold the Dreamers - Kit #956
Author: Imbolo Mbue
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyalty—and Jende is eager to please. Clark’s wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at the Edwardses’ summer home in the Hamptons. With these opportunities, Jende and Neni can at last gain a foothold in America and imagine a brighter future. However, the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets, and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers’ façades.(396 pages)
 
Title: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Kit #922
Author: Atul Gawande
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 COPIES
Location: Main Library
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should. Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, Gawande reveals the suffering this dynamic has produced. (304 p)
 
Title: Bel Canto - Kit #228
Author: Ann Patchett
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A celebrated American soprano has just finished a recital in the home of the vice-president of a poor South American country when terrorists burst in, taking the international guests hostage. (352 p)
 
Title: The Bell Jar - Kit #908
Author: Sylvia Plath
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. Plath draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably real, even rational—as ccessible an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche, The Bell Jar has become a haunting American classic. (244 p)
 
Title: Beloved - Kit #532
Author: Toni Morrison
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. (321 p)
 
Title: Better Lucky Than Good: Tall Tales and Straight Talk From the Back of the Track - #1057
Author: Joe Manning et al
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
Louisville Story Program took three years to engage backside workers and residents of South Louisville in conversations and a collaboration that has led to the most caring, in-depth look into the lives and stories of equine workers ever published. Authored by thirty-two people who live and work on the backside, Better Lucky Than Good represents the first time in the history of American thoroughbred racing that equine workers have documented their own lives and experiences for the public.(320 p)
 
Title: Bettyville: A Memoir - Kit #823
Author: George Hodgman
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A laugh-out-loud memoir of a cultured gay man who leaves New York City to care for his aging, irascible mother in Paris, Missouri; examining the warm yet fraught relationship between mother and son, as well as growing up gay and small-town life in America. (288 p)
 
Title: Between the World and Me - Kit #824
Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In a letter to his adolescent son, Coates shares the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, asking the question of what is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it and how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden. (166 p)
 
Title: The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America - Kit #592
Author: Timothy Egan
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A tale of the 1910 blaze that burned across Montana, Idaho and Washington and put the fledgling U.S. Forest Service through a veritable trial by fire and laying the foundation of the National Park system. (352 p)
 
Title: Big Stone Gap - Kit #322
Author: Adriana Trigiani
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
A 35-year-old pharmacist and self-proclaimed spinster of a small Virginia village discovers a skeleton in her family's formerly tidy closet that completely unravels her quiet, conventional life. (304 p)
 
Title: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk - Kit #630
Author: Ben Fountain
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Three minutes of intense warfare with Iraqi insurgents has transformed the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America's most sought-after heroes. Now they're on a media-intensive nationwide tour, including the halftime show at a Dallas Cowboys game and Billy Lynn has a decision to make. (320 p)
 
Title: The Birth of Venus - Kit #296
Author: Sarah Dunant
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A novel of turbulent 15th-century Florence, a lavish city besieged by plague, threat of invasion and religious turmoil, where a young noblewoman must navigate her way into womanhood.
 
Title: The Birth of Venus - Kit (Large Print) #261
Author: Sarah Dunant
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
A novel of turbulent 15th-century Florence, a lavish city besieged by plague, threat of invasion and religious turmoil, where a young noblewoman must navigate her way into womanhood.
 
Title: The Blind Assassin - Kit #305
Author: Margaret Atwood
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
This brilliant novel within a novel tells the story of two sisters as a romance, a mystery and a fantasy all combined. (521 p)
 
Title: Blood Done Sign My Name : A Memoir - Kit #354
Author: Timothy B. Tyson
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In this outstanding personal history, Tyson, a professor of African-American studies who's white, unflinchingly examines the civil rights struggle in the South. (355 p)
 
Title: The Bluest Eye - Kit #741
Author: Toni Morrison
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, people will notice her, and her world will be different. (206 p)
 
Title: Bone Gap - Kit (Older Teen) #836
Author: Laura. Ruby
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying.
 
Title: The Book of Delights: Essays - #1147
Author: Ross Gay
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
The winner of the National Book Critics Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyrical essays, written daily over a tumultuous year, reminding us of the purpose and pleasure of praising, extolling, and celebrating ordinary wonders. (288 p)
 
Title: The Book of Longings - #1055
Author: Sue Monk Kidd
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd takes an audacious approach to history and brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. Raised in a wealthy family with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebellious and ambitious, with a brilliant mind and a daring spirit. She engages in furtive scholarly pursuits and writes narratives about neglected and silenced women. Ana is expected to marry an older widower, a prospect that horrifies her. An encounter with eighteen-year-old Jesus changes everything. (448 p)
 
Title: The Book of Unknown Americans - Kit #764
Author: Cristina Henri´quez
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Moving from Mexico to the United States when their daughter suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras confront cultural barriers, their daughter's difficult recovery, and her developing relationship with a Panamanian boy. (304 p)
 
Title: The Book Thief - Kit #535
Author: Markus Zusak
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding. (608 p)
 
Title: The Book Thief - Kit (Older Teen) #699
Author: Markus Zusak
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 29 copies
Location: Main Children
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
 
Title: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - Kit #1009
Author: Kim Michele Richardson
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything—everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and a Blue is often blamed for any whiff of trouble. If Cussy wants to bring the joy of books to the hill folks, she's going to have to confront prejudice as old as the Appalachias and suspicion as deep as the holler. Inspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky. and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service. (320 p)
 
Title: The Book Woman's Daughter - Kit #1097
Author: Kim Michele Richardson
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Bestselling historical fiction author Kim Michele Richardson is back with the perfect book club read following Honey Lovett, the daughter of the beloved Troublesome book woman, who must fight for her own independence with the help of the women who guide her and the books that set her free. (352 p)
 
Title: The Bookseller of Kabul - Kit #352
Author: A°sne Seierstad
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Norwegian journalist Seierstad dons the burkha to live with a bookseller's family in post-Taliban Afghanistan, revealing intimate details of women's lives. (288 p)
 
Title: Born a Crime : Stories From a South African Childhood - Kit #974
Author: Trevor Noah
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents:
Location: Main Library
Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. (304 pgs)
 
Title: The Boston Girl : a Novel - Kit #779
Author: Anita Diamant
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Addie is the spirited daughter of an immigrant Jewish family, born in 1900, whose intelligence and curiosity take her to the twentieth century world her conservative parents can’t imagine—a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women. (336 p)
 
Title: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest For Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics - Kit #810
Author: Daniel Brown
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant. (404 p)
 
Title: Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Kit #920
Author: Susannah Cahalan
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she’d gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. What happened? (288 p)
 
Title: Brave New World - Kit #755
Author: Aldous Huxley
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity) dawns a world of tomorrow in which capitalist civilization has been reconstituted through scientific and psychological engineering, where the people are genetically designed to be passive, and useful to the ruling class. (288 p)
 
Title: Braving the Wilderness:The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone- Kit #1010
Author: Brené Brown
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives—experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. Brown argues that we’re experiencing a spiritual crisis of disconnection, and introduces four practices of true belonging that challenge everything we believe about ourselves and each other. (208 p)
 
Title: Breath, Eyes, Memory - Kit #063
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A novel of both the poverty and richness of Haitian family life told by a poor Haitian woman, reunited with the mother she never knew, and the family bonds that extend beyond generations. (288 p)
 
Title: The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Kit #324
Author: Thornton Wilder
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In this classic novel a bridge collapses in eighteenth-century Peru and five people die. Brother Juniper is committed to discover whether it was divine intervention that took the lives of these five disparate people, or a capricious fate. (138 p)
 
Title: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Kit #512
Author: Junot Di´az
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Living with an old-world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and believes that a long-standing family curse is thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness. (339 p)
 
Title: Britt-Marie Was Here - Kit #932
Author: Fredrik Backman
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 8 copies
Location: Main Library
When Britt-Marie walks out on her cheating husband and has to fend for herself in the miserable backwater town of Borg—of which the kindest thing one can say is that it has a road going through it—she finds work as the caretaker of a soon-to-be demolished recreation center. The fastidious Britt-Marie soon finds herself being drawn into the daily doings of her fellow citizens, an odd assortment of miscreants, drunkards, layabouts. Most alarming of all, she’s given the impossible task of leading the supremely untalented children’s soccer team to victory. (336 p)
 
Title: Brooklyn - Kit #809
Author: Colm To´ibi´n
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Leaving her home in post-World War II Ireland to work as a bookkeeper in Brooklyn, Eilis Lacey discovers a new romance with a charming blond Italian man before devastating news from home threatens her happiness. (288 p)
 
Title: Brother, I'm Dying - Kit #510
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
From the award-winning author of "The Dew Breaker" comes her first work of nonfiction: a deeply affecting story of home and family set in America and Haiti, of two men's lives and deaths, and of a daughter's great love for them both. (288 p)
 
Title: Bud, Not Buddy - Kit (Juvenile) #229
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30
Location: Main Children
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. Winner of the Newberry Medal
 
Title: The Buddha in the Attic - Kit #598
Author: Julie Otsuka
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” from their arduous journeys by boat, and their tremulous first nights as new wives; from their experiences raising children who would later reject their culture and language, to the deracinating arrival of war. (144 p)
 
Title: Burr: A Novel - Kit #869
Author: Gore Vidal
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A fictional telling of the fascinating career of Aaron Burr, America;s first anti-hero - vice-president under Jefferson, assailant of Hamilton in a famous duel on Weehawk Heights, and alleged arch-conspirator in a plot to set up a kingdom somewhere in Mexico. (448 p)
 
Title: Cakes and Ale - Kit #775
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
A bitter and witty novel about the business of writing and London literary society between the two World Wars focuses on the lives of a famous writer and his two very different wives. (320 p)
 
Title: Caleb's Crossing - Kit #714
Author: Geraldine Brooks
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Forging a deep friendship with a Wampanoag chieftain's son on the Great Harbor settlement where her minister father is working to convert the tribe, Bethia follows his subsequent ivy league education and efforts to bridge cultures among the colonial elite. (318 p)
 
Title: Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times - Kit #849
Author: Jennifer Worth
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Worth was just twenty-two when she volunteered for midwifery training in London's East End in the 1950s. Coming from a sheltered background, she found that conditions for many women giving birth just half a century ago were horrifying. (340 p)
 
Title: Calling for a Blanket Dance - #1167
Author: Oscar Hokeah
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles. His father’s injury at the hands of corrupt police, his mother's struggle to hold on to her job and care for her husband, the constant resettlement of the family, and the legacy of centuries of injustice all intensify Ever’s bottled-up rage. Meanwhile, all of Ever’s relatives have ideas about who he is and who he should be. (288 p)
 
Title: Canada - Kit #661
Author: Richard Ford
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The story unfolds around 15-year-old Dell Parsons, whose world collapses when his parents are jailed for a bank robbery, his twin sister flees, and he is transported across the border by a family friend to an obscure town in Canada. (432 p)
 
Title: Candide, or Optimism - Kit #914
Author: Voltaire
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A flamboyant and controversial personality of enormous wit and intelligence, Voltaire is one of the most intriguing figures of the eighteenth century Enlightenment. His masterpiece is Candide, a brilliant satire on the theory that 'the world is the best of all possible worlds.' The book traces the picaresque adventures of the guileless Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved Cunegonde, tortured by the Inquisition, etc., all without losing his resilience and will to live. (112 p)
 
Title: Cannery Row - Kit #222
Author: John Steinbeck
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A timeless American classic. Cannery Row is only a few blocks long, but the story it harbors is suffused with warmth, understanding and a great fund of human values. (185 p)
 
Title: Carol [Original Title - the Price of Salt] - Kit #816
Author: Patricia Highsmith
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Trapped in a boring, dead-end day job in a department store, stage designer Therese Belivet finds her life forever changed when she encounters--and falls in love with Carol Aird, an alluring suburban housewife in the midst of a divorce. (304 p)
 
Title: Carrie - Kit #279
Author: Stephen King
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The Master of Horror’s debut novel, Carrie is the story of a misunderstood high school girl, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge. (320 p)
 
Title: Case Histories, a Novel - Kit #419
Author: Kate Atkinson
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
As private detective Jackson Brodie investigates three cold cases startling connections and discoveries emerge and Jackson finds himself inextricably caught up in his clients' lives. (336 p)
 
Title: Casebook - Kit #746
Author: Mona Simpson
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Spying and eavesdropping on his separating parents at the side of his best friend, young Miles discovers what he least wants to know: the inner workings of his parents’ lives. And even then he can’t stop searching. (336 p)
 
Title: The Castle of Otranto - Kit #1070
Author: Horace Walpole
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole pioneered. Professing to be a translation of a mysterious Italian tale from the darkest Middle Ages, the novel tells of Manfred, prince of Otranto, whose fear of an ancient prophecy sets him on a course of destruction. (192 p)
 
Title: The Casual Vacancy - Kit #663
Author: J. K. Rowling
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The early death of a small town councilman reveals deep-rooted conflicts in the seemingly idyllic community of Pagford, which rapidly deteriorates in the face of cultural disputes, generation clashes, and a volatile election. (512 p)
 
Title: Catch-22 - Kit #933
Author: Joseph Heller
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy—it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he’s assigned, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. (544 p)
 
Title: The Catcher in the Rye - Kit #909
Author: J.D. Salinger
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
This story details the two days in the life of 16-year-old Holden Caulfield after he has been expelled from prep school. Confused and disillusioned, he searches for truth and rails against the "phoniness" of the adult world. He ends up exhausted and emotionally ill, in a psychiatrist's office. After he recovers from his breakdown, Holden relates his experiences to the reader. (288 p)
 
Title: The Cat's Table - Kit #606
Author: Michael Ondaatje
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The story by the author ofThe English Patient, begins at "the cat's table" of an ocean liner where 11-year-old narrator Michael shares meals and the company of an eccentric group of passengers as they journey from Sri Lanka to England. (288 p)
 
Title: Challenger Deep - Kit (Older Teen) #835
Author: Neal Shusterman
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
A teenage boy struggles with schizophrenia
 
Title: Changing Planes - Kit #360
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
From the Grand Mistress of speculative fiction comes A Gulliver’s Travels for the 21st century told in stories that are deeply thought provoking and heartbreakingly poignant. (272 p)
 
Title: The Chaperone - Kit #648
Author: Laura Moriarty
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and the 36-year-old woman who chaperones her to New York City for a summer in 1922, and how it changes both their lives. (416 p)
 
Title: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Kit (Juvenile) #242
Author: Roald Dahl
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.
 
Title: Charlotte's Web - Kit (Juvenile) #437
Author: E. B. White
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Fern raises the little runt pig, Wilbur, only to have her father give him away.
 
Title: Chasing Vermeer - Kit (Juvenile) #245
Author: Blue Balliett
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
 
Title: Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want To Know About Fast Food - Kit (Older Teen) #487
Author: Eric Schlosser
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Examines the fast food industry with facts about its evolution and practices, the effects of fast food consumption on public health, and the international success of fast food.
 
Title: The Children Act - Kit #781
Author: Ian McEwan
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge who presides over cases in the family division, must decide whether a teenage boy, a devout Jehovah's Witness, can be forced by the court to undergo the blood transfusion that is necessary to save his life. (240 p)
 
Title: Children of the Land - Kit # 1029
Author: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
When Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States, he suffered temporary, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. (384 p)
 
Title: A Children's Bible: A Novel - Kit #1133
Author: Lydia Millet
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
A Children’s Bible follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their parents, the children decide to run away when a destructive storm descends on the summer estate, embarking on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside. (240 p)
 
Title: A Christmas Carol - Kit #062
Author: Charles Dickens
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of past, present and future in the Victorian story of the meaning of redemption and benevolence. (70 p)
 
Title: Circe - Kit #1027
Author: Madeline Miller
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. (416 p)
 
Title: Circling the Sun: A Novel - Kit #850
Author: Paula McLain
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A fictionalized biography of the adventures and romances of beautiful, high-flying aviator and author Beryl Markham in British Kenya in the early 20th century. Her 1936 solo flight across the Atlantic in a two-seater prop plane transfixed the world. (400 p)
 
Title: Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour - Kit #650
Author: Lynne Olson
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The behind-the-scenes story of how the United States forged its wartime alliance with Britain, told from the perspective of three key American players in London: Edward R. Murrow, Averell Harriman, and John Gilbert Winant. (496 p)
 
Title: The City of Ember - Kit (Juvenile) #493
Author: Jeanne DuPrau
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
 
Title: City of Thieves - Kit #536
Author: David Benioff
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Documenting his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he tried to secure pardons by gathering hard-to-find ingredients for a powerful colonel's daughter's wedding cake. (258 p)
 
Title: City of Women - Kit #692
Author: David R. Gillham
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Hiding her clandestine activities behind the persona of a model Nazi soldier's wife at the height of World War II, Sigrid Schroeder dreams of her former Jewish lover and risks everything to hide a mother and two young children who she believes might be her lover's family. (437 p)
 
Title: Claire of the Sea Light - Kit #719
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The interconnected secrets of a coastal Haitian town are revealed when one little girl, the daughter of a poor fisherman, goes missing on her seventh birthday. (256 p)
 
Title: Clay's Quilt - Kit #224
Author: Silas House
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Orphaned at age four, Clay Sizemore is taken in by the residents of a small Appalachian mining town. As he grows up, his substitute family helps him find his true family roots. (324 p)
 
Title: Clementine - Kit (Juvenile) #431
Author: Sara Pennypacker
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.
 
Title: Cleopatra : A Life - Kit #581
Author: Stacy Schiff
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. (432 p)
 
Title: The Club Dumas - Kit #156
Author: Arturo Pe´rez-Reverte
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In this intellectual thriller a rare-book specialist, called in to authenticate a Dumas manuscript, is drawn into a web of mystery. (368 p)
 
Title: The Coal Tattoo - Kit (Large Print) #257
Author: Silas House
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
When a miner survives the collapse of a mine, he'll often surface with a permanent mark stamped onto his skin-- a coal tattoo. Everyone who is raised in Black Banks is indelibly marked by and forever connected to the place. House lives in Berea, KY.
 
Title: Cocoon - #1134
Author: Zhang Yueran
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Cheng Gong and Li Jiaqi go way back. Both hailing from dysfunctional families, they grew up together in a Chinese provincial capital in the 1980s. Now, many years later, the childhood friends reunite and discover how much they still have in common. Both have always been determined to follow the tracks of their grandparents’ generation to the heart of a mystery that perhaps should have stayed buried. (328 p)
 
Title: Code Orange - Kit (Younger Teen) #701
Author: Caroline B. Cooney
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York City.
 
Title: The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald - Kit #644
Author: Zelda Fitzgerald
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Her only published novel, Save Me the Waltz, an autobiographical account of the Fitzgeralds' adventures in Paris and on the Riviera; eleven short stories; and the letters she wrote to her husband over the span of their courtship and marriage. (512 p)
 
Title: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America - Kit #1030
Author: Richard Rothstein
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. (368 p)
 
Title: The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother - Kit #043
Author: James McBride
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
An inspirational memoir of growing up in an interracial family headed by a white Jewish mother. (295 p)
 
Title: The Color Purple - Kit #955
Author: Alice Walker
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Published to unprecedented acclaim, The Color Purple established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. This is the story of two sisters—one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South—who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. (300 p)
 
Title: Commonwealth - Kit #895
Author: Ann Patchett
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 COPIES
Location: Main Library
Two California families are forever intertwined and permanently shattered by infidelity after Bert leaves his wife for Beverly, who leaves her husband for Bert. The six children involved are forced to forge a childhood bond based on the combined disappointment in their parents. (368 p)
 
Title: Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker - Kit #797
Author: Dorothy Parker
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Dorothy Parker’s talents extended far beyond brash one-liners and clever rhymes. Her skilled social satire brings to life the urban milieu from the Jazz Age to the 1950s. This is the complete collection of stories including thirteen previously unpublished works. (480 p)
 
Title: A Confederacy of Dunces - Kit #056
Author: John Kennedy Toole
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 8 Copies
Location: Main Library
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a mother and son voicing insights and injunctions regarding their lives in back alley New Orleans. (405 p)
 
Title: Coraline - Kit (Juvenile) #492
Author: Neil Gaiman
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
 
Title: The Cornbread Mafia - Kit #978
Author: James Higdon
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. In doing so, he set into motion a series of events that defined him and his associates as the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history, also known as the Cornbread Mafia. (400 p)
 
Title: The Covenant with Black America - Kit #363
Author: Tavis Smiley
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A collection of essays that plot a course for African Americans to improve their circumstances in areas ranging from health and education to crime reduction and financial well-being. (254 p)
 
Title: Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa, School Days - Kit (Juvenile) #432
Author: Erica Silverman
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Cocoa the horse does not want Cowgirl Kate to go to school without him.
 
Title: The Cross-Country Quilters: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - Kit (Large Print) #220
Author: Jennifer Chiaverini
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Large Print Copies
Location: Main Library
A group of five far-flung friends come together to complete a “challenge quilt,” meanwhile learning that the powers of friendship can transcend any obstacle.
 
Title: Crow Lake - Kit #400
Author: Mary Lawson
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Orphaned young, Kate Morrison was her older brother Matt’s protégée, her fascination for pond life fed by his passionate interest in the natural world. Now a zoologist, she can identify organisms under a microscope but seems blind to the state of her own family. (304 p)
 
Title: Crying in H Mart: A Memoir - #1141
Author: Michelle Zauner
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. (256 p)
 
Title: The Crying of Lot 49 - Kit #665
Author: Thomas Pynchon
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
When Oedipa Maas is named as the executor of her late lover's will, she discovers that his estate is mysteriously connected with an underground organization. (160 p)
 
Title: The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper - Kit #882
Author: Phaedra Patrick
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
69-year-old Arthur Pepper stopped engaging with life a year ago, when his wife of 40 years died. But the discovery among her things of a charm bracelet he'd never seen before prompts a quest to discover the origins of the bracelet and all of its charms. (336 p)
 
Title: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Kit #288
Author: Mark Haddon
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, a mathematically-gifted, autistic teenager investigates the murder of a neighbor's dog, meanwhile uncovering family secrets. (226 p)
 
Title: Cutting for Stone - Kit #574
Author: Abraham Verghese
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Twin brothers born in Ethiopia of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon are bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine. (667 p)
 
Title: Daisy Jones and The Six - Kit #1019
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now. Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. (384 p)
 
Title: Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga - Kit #798
Author: Jane C. Beck
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her began among the Yoruba in West Africa and continued with her own century of life. (312 p)
 
Title: Dark Matter - Kit #1006
Author: Blake Crouch
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
“Are you happy with your life?” Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. (368 p)
 
Title: A Dark Room in Glitter Ball City: Murder, Secrets and Scandal in Old Louisville - #1153
Author: David Domine
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
This true crime saga—with an eccentric Southern backdrop—introduces the reader to the story of a murder in a crumbling Louisville mansion and the decades of secrets and corruption that live within the old house’s walls. (368 p)
 
Title: The Daughter of Time - Kit #747
Author: Josephine Tey
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A 20th-century policeman sees a picture of Richard III and reinvestigates Richard's role in the murder of the princes in the Tower using all available information about Richard's time. Voted the number one mystery novel of all time by the Crime Writers Association. (206 p)
 
Title: David Macaulay Collection - Kit (Juvenile) #379
Author: David Macaulay
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 49 copies Out of print copy missing
Location: Main Children
David Macaulay collection. 40 books; 10 Black and White, 10 Rome Antics, 10 Angelo, 10 Shortcut
 
Title: Dead Wake - Kit #901
Author: Erik Larson
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 COPIES
Location: Main Library
Larson masterfully chronicles of the sinking of the Lusitania, telling the stories of the passengers and crew of both boats and revealing the factors that led to the tragedy as well as the contributions of such figures as President Wilson and Winston Churchill. (480 p)
 
Title: Dear Edward: A Novel - #1140
Author: Ann Napolitano
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Halfway across the country, the plane crashes. Edward is the sole survivor. Edward’s story captures the attention of the nation, but he struggles to find a place in a world without his family. (400 p)
 
Title: The Death of Mrs. Westaway - Kit #994
Author: Ruth Ware
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person—but also that the cold-reading skills she’s honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money. Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased…where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of it. (416 p)
 
Title: Defending Jacob - Kit #662
Author: William Landay
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years when he is blindsided by his fourteen-year-old son being charged with the murder of a fellow student. (437 p)
 
Title: Delta Wedding - Kit #323
Author: Eudora Welty
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
Set in 1923 on a Mississippi delta plantation, this vivid and charming portrait of a large southern family is shown through the Fairchilds as they prepare for their daughter’s wedding. (336 p)
 
Title: Detransition, Baby: A Novel - #1111
Author: Torrey Peters
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
A whipsmart debut about three women–transgender and cisgender–whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex. (352 p)
 
Title: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America - Kit #335
Author: Erik Larson
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The true tale of two men: the brilliant architect behind the legendary Chicago 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. (447 p)
 
Title: The Diamond Eye: A Novel - #1142
Author: Kate Quinn
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son—but Hitler’s invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper—a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. (448 p)
 
Title: The Dictionary of Lost Words: A Novel - Kit #1098
Author: Pip Williams
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning that the word means “slave girl,” begins to collect other words that have been discarded or neglected by the dictionary men. As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women’s and common folks’ experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: the Dictionary of Lost Words. To do so she must leave the sheltered world of the university and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. ( 416 p)
 
Title: Did You Ever Have a Family - Kit #868
Author: Bill Clegg
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In small-town Connecticut, on the eve of her daughter's wedding, June Reid's house literarily explodes, killing ex-husband Adam, lover Luke, daughter Lolly, and Lolly's fiancé, Will. A devastatingly beautiful portrait of a community and a woman coping in the aftermath of tragedy. (320 p)
 
Title: Digging to America: A Novel - Kit #456
Author: Anne Tyler
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport, each awaiting the arrival of an adopted infant daughter from Korea. A penetrating light on the American way as seen from two perspectives. (291 p)
 
Title: Digging Up Love - #1135
Author: Chandra Blumberg
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Alisha Blake works her magic in the kitchen, creating delectable desserts for her grandfather’s restaurant in rural Illinois. Though Alisha relishes the close relationship she has with her family, she can’t help but dream about opening a cookie shop in Chicago. Then a dinosaur bone turns up in her grandparents’ backyard. When paleontologist Quentin Harris arrives to see the discovery for himself, he’s hoping that the fossil will distract him from a recent painful breakup.(345 p)
 
Title: The Dinner - Kit #707
Author: Herman Koch
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Meeting at an Amsterdam restaurant for dinner, two couples move from small talk to the wrenching shared challenge of their teenage sons' act of violence that has triggered a police investigation and revealed the extent to which each family will go to protect those they love. (320 p)
 
Title: Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta - Kit #851
Author: Richard Grant
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Adventure writer Grant takes on “the most American place on Earth”—the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mississippi Delta where he and his girlfriend decide on a whim to buy an old plantation house in Pluto, Miss and get to know all their neighbors - black, white, rich and poor. (320 p)
 
Title: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Kit #169
Author: Rebecca Wells
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A tale of four southern women and their daughters who find identity and acceptance through their lifelong friendships. (400 p)
 
Title: The Dogs of Babel - Kit #462
Author: Carolyn Parkhurst
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
After discovering clues that indicate his beloved wife may not have died accidentally Paul Iverson begins a perilous search for the truth while attempting to teach his dog, who witnessed the crime, to communicate. (264 p)
 
Title: The Dollmaker - Kit #152
Author: Harriette Simpson Arnow
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
A story of a strong Southern woman determined to hold onto her dreams of a rural family life while uprooted to Detroit during World War II. (688 p)
 
Title: Dr. King's Last Day - Kit #792
Author: Georgia Davis Powers
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The author, the first person of color and the first woman elected to the Kentucky State Senate, gives an eyewitness account of the hours leading up to Dr. King's 1968 death and the lives of the five friends who spent those last hours with him.
 
Title: The Dream Lover - Kit #826
Author: Elizabeth Berg
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
At the beginning of this powerful novel, we meet Aurore Dupin as she is leaving her estranged husband, a loveless marriage, and her family’s estate in the French countryside to start a new life in Paris. There, she gives herself a new name—George Sand—and pursues her dream of becoming a writer, embracing an unconventional and even scandalous lifestyle. Paris in the nineteenth century comes vividly alive, illuminated by the story of the loves, passions, and fierce struggles of a woman who defied the confines of society. As Sand welcomes fame and friendship, she fights to overcome heartbreak and prejudice, failure and loss. (400 p)
 
Title: Dreamers of the Day, a Novel - Kit #425
Author: Mary Doria Russell
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Agnes Shanklin at 40 decides to take a trip to Egypt and the Middle East. Her social status puts her in contact with members of the post-World War I Cairo Peace Conference who designated the boundaries of many of the Middle Eastern countries of today. (288 p)
 
Title: Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic - Kit #1020
Author: Sam Quinones
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America--addiction like no other the country has ever faced. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland. With a great reporter's narrative skill and the storytelling ability of a novelist, acclaimed journalist Sam Quinones weaves together two classic tales of capitalism run amok whose unintentional collision has been catastrophic. (400 p)
 
Title: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance - Kit #307
Author: Barack Obama
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The son of an African father and white American mother discusses his childhood in Hawaii, his struggle to find his identity as an African American, and his life’s accomplishments. (464 p)
 
Title: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - Kit (Large Print) #256
Author: David Sedaris
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
A collection of whimsical essays that inhabits Sedaris' deliriously twisted domain of hilarious childhood dramas infused with melancholy and the gulf of misunderstanding that exists between family members.
 
Title: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere - Kit #330
Author: ZZ Packer
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
This debut collection of short stories dealing with black men and women, mostly young and urban, treats listeners to the richness of highly developed characters and leads them to some intriguing scenarios. (288 p)
 
Title: The Dry - Kit #929
Author: Jane Harper
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in decades to attend the funeral of his best friend, Luke. Twenty years ago when Falk was accused of murder, Luke was his alibi. Falk and his father fled under a cloud of suspicion, saved from prosecution only because of Luke’s steadfast claim that the boys had been together at the time of the crime. But now more than one person knows they didn’t tell the truth back then, and Luke is dead. Amid the worst drought in a century, Falk and the local detective question what really happened to Luke. (352 p)
 
Title: Dumplin' :go big or go home #1038
Author: JULIE MURPHY
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Willowdean Dixon, the fearless, funny, and totally unforgettable heroine who takes on her small town’s beauty pageant.
 
Title: Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II- Kit #1122
Author: Robert Matzen
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
25 years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains one of the most beloved of all Hollywood stars. Several biographies have chronicled her stardom, but none has covered her intense experiences through five years of occupation in the Netherlands. Audrey's own reminiscences, new interviews with people who knew her in the war, wartime diaries, and research in classified Dutch archives shed light on the riveting, untold story of Audrey Hepburn under fire in World War II. (416 p)
 
Title: The Dutch House - #1040
Author: Ann Patchett
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. (352 p)
 
Title: Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search For Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia - Kit #449
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
This book traces the author's decision to quit her job and travel the world for a year after suffering a midlife crisis and divorce, a journey that took her to three places in her quest to learn the art of spiritual balance. (400 p)
 
Title: Educated: A Memoir - #1112
Author: Tara Westover
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University. (368 p)
 
Title: El Deafo - Kit (Juvenile) #761
Author: Cece Bell
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."
 
Title: Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life - Kit #306
Author: Alison Weir
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A vibrant portrait of this truly exceptional woman, one of the great heroines of the Middle Ages. Eleanor managed to defy convention as she exercised power in the political sphere and crucial influence over her husbands and sons. (441 p)
 
Title: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Kit #987
Author: Gail Honeyman
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. (416 p)
 
Title: The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Kit #502
Author: Muriel Barbery
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu. (325 p)
 
Title: Eligible - Kit #897
Author: Curtis Sittenfeld
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 COPIES
Location: Main Library
Love, sex, and relationships in contemporary Cincinnati provide an incisive social commentary set in the framework of Pride and Prejudice. A Bachelor-like reality show is a parallel to the scrutiny placed on characters in the neighborhood balls of Jane Austen’s novel. (528 p)
 
Title: Elizabeth and Her German Garden - Kit #728
Author: Elizabeth Von Arnim
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Originally published in 1898, this is a year's diary of a noblewoman. It includes commentary on the beauty of nature and on society, but is primarily humorous due to Elizabeth's frequent mistakes and her idiosyncratic outlook on life. (160 p)
 
Title: Ella Minnow Pea, a Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable - Kit #408
Author: Mark Dunn
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the Nollop Island’s Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. (208 p)
 
Title: The Emperor of Ocean Park - Kit #409
Author: Stephen L Carter
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 8 Copies
Location: Main Library
Set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the Eastern seaboard—families who summer at Martha’s Vineyard—and the inner circle of an Ivy League law school. A riveting novel of suspense with the saga of a unique family. (672 p)
 
Title: The Enchanted April - Kit #916
Author: Elizabeth Von Arnim
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The discreet advertisement in The Times, addressed "To Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine", offers a small medieval castle for rent, above a bay on the Italian Riviera. Four very different women - the dishevelled and downtrodden Mrs Wilkins, the sad, sweet-faced Mrs Arbuthnot, the formidable widow Mrs Fisher and the ravishing socialite Lady Caroline Dester - are drawn to the shores of the Mediterranean that April. As each, in turn, blossoms in the warmth of the Italian spring and finds their spirits stirring, quite unexpected changes occur. (240 p)
 
Title: Enchantress of Numbers - Kit #961
Author: Jennifer Chiaverini
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. But her mathematician mother, estranged from Ada's infamous and destructively passionate father, is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery, Ada’s mother provides her daughter with a rigorous education grounded in mathematics and science. Any troubling spark of imagination—or worse yet, passion or poetry—is promptly extinguished. (448 pages)
 
Title: The End of Your Life Book Club - Kit #904
Author: Will Schwalbe
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
During her treatment for cancer, Mary Anne Schwalbe and her son Will spent many hours sitting in waiting rooms together. To pass the time, they would talk about the books they were reading. Once, by chance, they read the same book at the same time—and an informal book club of two was born. Through their wide-ranging reading, Will and Mary Anne—and we, their fellow readers—are reminded how books can be comforting, astonishing, and illuminating, changing the way that we feel about and interact with the world around us. (352 p)
 
Title: Ender's Game - Kit #357
Author: Orson Scott Card
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. (384 p)
 
Title: The Enduring Hills - Kit #143
Author: Janice Holt Giles
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A story of a boy who yearns for wider horizons than his Eastern Kentucky home. Originally published in 1950, The Enduring Hills was Janice Holt Giles's first novel. It is based in part on her own courtship and introduction to the Kentucky mountain country. Here, Giles introduces Hod and Mary Pierce and begins her Appalachian trilogy. (256 p)
 
Title: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - Kit #1005
Author: Balli Kaur Jaswal
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Every woman has a secret life . . . Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local pub. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she’s spent most of her twenty-odd years distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community of her childhood, preferring a more independent (that is, Western) life. When her father’s death leaves the family financially strapped, Nikki, a law school dropout, impulsively takes a job teaching a "creative writing" course at the community center in the beating heart of London’s close-knit Punjabi community. Because of a miscommunication, the proper Sikh widows who show up are expecting to learn basic English literacy, not the art of short-story writing. When one of the widows finds a book of sexy stories in English and shares it with the class, Nikki realizes that beneath their white dupattas, her students have a wealth of fantasies and memories. (320 p)
 
Title: Esperanza Rising - Kit (Juvenile) #499
Author: Pam Muñoz Ryan
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
 
Title: Ethan Frome - Kit #939
Author: Edith Wharton
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Ethan Frome is set in the fictional New England town of Starkfield, where a visiting engineer tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man with a history of thwarted dreams and desires. The accumulated longing of Frome ends in an ironic turn of events. The engineer, staying temporarily in town while he works nearby, is the narrator who tells the story of Frome. (128 p)
 
Title: Euphoria - Kit #765
Author: Lily King
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Frustrated by his research efforts and depressed over the death of his brothers, Andre Banson runs into two fellow anthropologists, a married couple, in 1930s New Guinea and begins a tumultuous relationship with them. The story is loosely based on events in the life of Margaret Mead. (288 p)
 
Title: Every Last One - Kit #571
Author: Anna Quindlen
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Mary Beth Latham has built her life around her family, around caring for her three teenage children and preserving the rituals of their daily life, only to be blindsided by a shocking act of violence. (333 p)
 
Title: Everything I Never Told You [1] - Kit #766
Author: Celeste Ng
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
When a teenager’s body is dragged from the lake in the 1970s Ohio college town where she and her biracial family don't quite fit in, her parents, blonde home maker Marilyn and Chinese-American professor James, get swept into churning emotional conflicts. (297 p)
 
Title: Everything I Never Told You [2] - Kit #766
Author: Celeste Ng
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
When a teenager’s body is dragged from the lake in the 1970s Ohio college town where she and her biracial family don't quite fit in, her parents, blonde home maker Marilyn and Chinese-American professor James, get swept into churning emotional conflicts.(297 p)
 
Title: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - Kit #1011
Author: Matthew Desmond
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.(448 p)
 
Title: Exit West - Kit #950
Author: Mohsin Hamid
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors—doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through. . . . (256 p)
 
Title: The Expatriates - Kit #871
Author: Janice Y. K. Lee
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A complex story of three American women living in an expatriate community in Hong Kong: Mercy, a Korean American, fresh out of Columbia University, who's overshadowed by a terrible incident; Hilary, still struggling to have a child; and Margaret, once a happy wife and mother and now riven by loss. (352 p)
 
Title: The Eyre Affair - Kit #359
Author: Jasper Fforde
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality, and literature is taken very, very seriously. An ingenious fantasy that unites intrigue with English literature in a delightfully witty mix. (400 p)
 
Title: Fahrenheit 451 - Kit #356
Author: Ray Bradbury
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he meets a seventeen-year old girl who tells him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who tells him of a future where people could think. (249 p)
 
Title: Fair and Tender Ladies - Kit #319
Author: Lee Smith
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Ivy Rowe, turn of the century Virginia mountain girl, then mother, wife, and finally, "Mamaw," writes eloquent letters to friends and family. (384 p)
 
Title: A Family Affair - Kit #689
Author: ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
After she gives up a chance to attend Julliard to care for her sick mother, Olivia Dawson learns that her father is alive and well--and very wealthy--and decides to confront the man who left her and her mother in his wake. (336 p)
 
Title: The Family Fang - Kit #603
Author: Kevin Wilson
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Annie and Buster grew up as Child A and Child B, the daughter and son of acclaimed performance artists Camille and Caleb Fang, reluctant participants in their parents' odd brand of unscripted public art. When their parents suddenly disappear, Annie and Buster Fang find themselves back home. (336 p)
 
Title: Far from the Madding Crowd - Kit #286
Author: Thomas Hardy
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Although humble Gabriel Oak loves the proud Bathsheba Everdene, she willfully becomes involved with two other unsuitable men, with tragic consequences. (362 p)
 
Title: Fathers and Sons - Kit #716
Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In 19th century Russia, Evgeny Bazarov, a young student and nihilist, professes to believe in nothing but science and thus disappoints his adoring parents. (209 p)
 
Title: The Fault in Our Stars [1] - Kit (Older Teen) #703
Author: John Green
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.
 
Title: The Fault in Our Stars [2] - Kit (Older Teen) #703
Author: John Green
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.
 
Title: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Kit #921
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents:
Location: Main Library
This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken. (204 p)
 
Title: Fifth Born - Kit #811
Author: Zelda Lockhart
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Triggered by an accidental meeting with a relative she had not seen in a long time, long-buried memories resurface to reveal a shocking truth to Odessa about the sexual abuse that marked her early family life. (224 p)
 
Title: Finding Dorothy: A Novel - #1109
Author: Elizabeth Letts
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
This richly imagined novel tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum’s intrepid wife, Maud. (384 p)
 
Title: The Fire Next Time - #1043
Author: James Baldwin
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation, gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document from the iconic author of If Beale Street Could Talk and Go Tell It on the Mountain. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. (128 p)
 
Title: First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents - Kit #226
Author: Bonnie Angelo
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 8 Copies
Location: Main Library
First Mothers captures the daily lives, thoughts and feelings of the remarkable women who played such a large role in developing the characters of the modern American Presidents. (496 p)
 
Title: The First Part Last - Kit (Older Teen) #370
Author: Angela Johnson
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.
 
Title: Fish in a Tree - Kit (Juvenile) #976
Author: Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
"Ally's greatest fear is that everyone will find out she is as dumb as they think she is because she still doesn't know how to read"
 
Title: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Kit #314
Author: Mitch Albom
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Killed in a tragic accident, an elderly man who believes that he had an uninspired life awakens in the afterlife, where he discovers that heaven consists of having five people explain the meaning of one's life. (196 p)
 
Title: Five Quarters of the Orange - Kit #469
Author: Joanne Harris
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A sensual novel follows a woman as she returns to the French village where she lived as a girl during the German occupation. (307 p)
 
Title: Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation - Kit #754
Author: Judith Mackrell
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
Six women who defined the Jazz Age—Josephine Baker, Tallulah Bankhead, Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Tamara de Lempicka—would presage the sexual revolution by nearly half a century and would shape the role of women for generations to come. (512 p)
 
Title: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Kit #526
Author: Edwin Abbott Abbott
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Flatland, a place of two dimensions peopled by a hierarchy of geometrical forms, is the home of narrator A. Square, who takes readers along on a tour of his bizarre homeland that provides a hilarious satire on Victorian society. (102 p)
 
Title: Flight Behavior - Kit #659
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Dellarobia Turnbow is a discontent farmwife when she discovers an unusual group of butterflies in a forested valley behind her house. This curiosity causes a stir in the scientific and local communities, garnering a great deal of media attention and leads to Dellarobia confronting and questioning everything she thought she believed in. (464 p)
 
Title: Flora and Ulysses : The Illuminated Adventures - Kit (Juvenile) #756
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived. Winner of the Newberry Medal
 
Title: Flush - Kit (Juvenile) #841
Author: Carl Hiaasen
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
 
Title: For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind - Kit #742
Author: Rosemary Mahoney
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Not only the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school, but also a cultural history of blindness. (320 p)
 
Title: The Forgotten Waltz - Kit #609
Author: Anne Enright
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
During a peaceful snowfall in a suburb in Dublin, a woman remembers her younger days spent with her lover in various hotel rooms. (272 p)
 
Title: The Fortune Men: A Novel - #1151
Author: Nadifa Mohamed
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In Cardiff, Wales in 1952, Mahmood Mattan, a young Somali sailor, is accused of a crime he did not commit: the brutal killing of Violet Volacki, a shopkeeper from Tiger Bay. At first, Mahmood believes he can ignore the fingers pointing his way; he may be a gambler and a petty thief, but he is no murderer. He is a father of three, secure in his innocence and his belief in British justice. But as the trial draws closer, his prospect for freedom dwindles. Now, Mahmood must stage a terrifying fight for his life, with all the chips stacked against him: a shoddy investigation, an inhumane legal system, and, most evidently, pervasive and deep-rooted racism at every step. (320 p)
 
Title: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation - Kit #342
Author: Joseph J. Ellis
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic--Adams, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and Washington. (304 p)
 
Title: Founding Mothers : The Women Who Raised Our Nation - Kit #963
Author: Cokie Roberts
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
While much has been written about the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, battled the British, and framed the Constitution, the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters they left behind have been little noticed by history. #1 New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts brings us women who fought the Revolution as valiantly as the men, often defending their very doorsteps. Drawing upon personal correspondence, private journals, and even favoured recipes, Roberts reveals the often surprising stories of these fascinating women, bringing to life the everyday trials and extraordinary triumphs of individuals like Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Deborah Read Franklin, Eliza Pinckney, Catherine Littlefield Green, Esther DeBerdt Reed and Martha Washington–proving that without our exemplary women, the new country might have never survived. (382 p)
 
Title: The Fountain of St. James Court, or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman - Kit (Large Print) #667
Author: Sena Jeter Naslund
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies
Location: Main Library
Kathryn Callaghan has just finished her novel about renowned painter Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, a survivor of the French Revolution who was hated for her sympathetic portraits of Marie Antoinette. Although the manuscript is complete, its author remains haunted by Élisabeth's experiences. (464 p)
 
Title: The Fountainhead - Kit #455
Author: Ayn Rand
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Rand's hero is Howard Roark, a brilliant young architect who is engaged in ideological warfare with a society that despises him, an architectural community that doesn't understand him, and a woman who loves him but wants to destroy him. (743 p)
 
Title: Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age - #1076
Author: Annalee Newitz
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii on Italy’s southern coast, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today. (320 p)
 
Title: Four Spirits - Kit #329
Author: Sena Jeter Naslund
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Stella, a white college student, joins the freedom movement in 1960s Alabama, and her new friendships with black women alter her life forever. So does the dangerous conflagration engulfing everyone and everything she has known. (524 p)
 
Title: Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus - Kit #317
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
This 19th Century classic is a timeless terrifying tale of one man’s obsession to create life – and the monster that became his legacy. (352 p)
 
Title: Franny and Zooey - Kit #690
Author: J. D. Salinger
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Two interrelated stories, originally published in The New Yorker magazine, concern Franny and Zooey Glass, two members of the family that was the subject of most of Salinger's short fiction. (208 p)
 
Title: Freshwater - Kit #1026
Author: Akwaeke Emezi
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
One of the most highly praised novels of the year, the debut from an astonishing young writer, Freshwater tells the story of Ada, an unusual child who is a source of deep concern to her southern Nigerian family. Young Ada is troubled, prone to violent fits. Born “with one foot on the other side,” she begins to develop separate selves within her as she grows into adulthood. And when she travels to America for college, a traumatic event on campus crystallizes the selves into something powerful and potentially dangerous, making Ada fade into the background of her own mind as these alters now protective, now hedonistic move into control. (240 p)
 
Title: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe - Kit (Large Print) #382
Author: Fannie Flagg
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 8 Large Print Copies
Location: Main Library
After Idgie saves Ruth from an abusive marriage, these two friends become partners in running the Whistle Stop Cafe, where no one, "not even hobos and colored," is turned away for inability to pay. (416 p)
 
Title: The Friend: A Novel - #1156
Author: Sigrid Nunez
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. (224 p)
 
Title: Frindle - Kit (Juvenile) #496
Author: Andrew Clements
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
 
Title: Frog and Toad Collection [1] - Kit (Juvenile) #377
Author: Arnold Lobel
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 40 copies
Location: Main Children
Frog and Toad Are Friends. Frog and Toad Together. Frog and Toad All Year. Days with Frog and Toad. 4 sets of books (10 copies each)
 
Title: Frog and Toad Collection [2] - Kit (Juvenile) #377
Author: Arnold Lobel
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 40 copies
Location: Main Children
4 SETS OF BOOKS Year-10 books, Days- 10 books, Friends 10 books, Together 10 book + 2 CD discs
 
Title: From Here to Eternity : Traveling the World to Find the Good Death - Kit #967
Author: Caitlin Doughty
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world’s funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry, especially chemical embalming, and suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased. (272 p)
 
Title: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America - #1113
Author: Firoozeh Dumas
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey of Dumas’s family: her engineer father, a sweetly quixotic dreamer who first sought riches on Bowling for Dollars and in Las Vegas, and later lost his job during the Iranian revolution; her elegant mother, who never fully mastered English (nor cared to); her uncle, who combated the effects of American fast food with an army of miraculous American weight-loss gadgets; and Firoozeh herself, who as a girl changed her name to Julie, and who encountered a second wave of culture shock when she met and married a Frenchman, becoming part of a one-couple melting pot. (240 p)
 
Title: Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law - #1136
Author: Mary Roach
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology. (336 p)
 
Title: Gaudy Night - Kit #347
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
This famous Harriet Vane mystery takes place at the all-female Shrewsbury College at Oxford, where a powerful argument for women’s status as men’s intellectual equals is unfolding. Meanwhile, a group of graduates gathered for a reunion are facing violent death. (544 p)
 
Title: A Gentleman in Moscow - Kit #979
Author: Amor Towles
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery. (496 p)
 
Title: The German Woman - Kit #522
Author: Paul Griner
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Years after being mistaken for a spy and forced to flee a World War I field hospital, Kate, the English widow of a German surgeon, attracts the attention of Claus, a propaganda filmmaker and World War II British spy. (222 p)
 
Title: Getaway - Kit #927
Author: Nora Roberts
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Two fan-favorite stories about rivals turning into lovers… In Partners, Matthew Bates has wanted Laurel Armand for years—though professionally she’s his nemesis. With their dangerous attraction simmering just below the surface, Laurel and Matthew feed off their rivalry—until the two are thrown together to reinvestigate a murder case. In The Art of Deception, when Adam Haines shows up at Kirby Fairchild’s ancestral home looking for a quiet place to paint, she’s more than skeptical. Yet as days and nights wear on, the attraction she feels for him builds, whether she wants it to or not. (496 p)
 
Title: The Ghost Bride - Kit #910
Author: Yangsze Choo
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
Li Lan, the daughter of a respectable Chinese family in colonial Malaysia, hopes for a favorable marriage, but her father has lost his fortune, and she has few suitors. Instead, the wealthy Lim family urges her to become a “ghost bride” for their son, who has recently died under mysterious circumstances. Rarely practiced, a traditional ghost marriage is used to placate a restless spirit. Such a union would guarantee Li Lan a home for the rest of her days, but at what price? (384 p)
 
Title: Gift from the Sea - Kit #333
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The author, poet and wife of Charles Lindbergh reveals her compelling meditations on youth and age, love and marriage, solitude, peace and contentment, as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. (144 p)
 
Title: Gilded Cage - Kit #912
Author: Vic James
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In modern-day Britain, magic users control everything: wealth, politics, power—and you. Every nonmagical citizen owes the magical elite ten years of service. This is the darkly decadent world of Gilded Cage. The all-powerful Jardines and the everyday Hadleys meet with little in common, but their destinies entwine when one family enters the service of the other. They will all discover whether any magic is more powerful than the human spirit. (384 p)
 
Title: Gilead - Kit #271
Author: Marilynne Robinson
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Nearing death, the Reverend John Ames writes a letter to his son chronicling three generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets. (256 p)
 
Title: Gilead - Kit (Large Print) #248
Author: Marilynne Robinson
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
Nearing death, the Reverend John Ames writes a letter to his son chronicling three generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award
 
Title: Giovanni's Room - #1075
Author: James Baldwin
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. (176 p)
 
Title: A Girl Named Disaster - Kit (Younger Teen) #696
Author: Nancy Farmer
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.
 
Title: The Girl on the Train - Kit #866
Author: Paula Hawkins
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Rachel is a washed-up thirty-something who creates a fantasy about the seemingly perfect couple she sees during her daily train ride into London. When the woman goes missing, Rachel manages to insert herself into the investigation of the woman’s disappearance. (336 p)
 
Title: Girl with a Pearl Earring - Kit #198
Author: Tracy Chevalier
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The story of Griet, a 16-year-old Dutch girl, who becomes a maid in the house of the painter Johannes Vermeer and inspires one of the artist's most celebrated paintings. (240 p)
 
Title: The Girl with the Louding Voice: A Novel - #1092
Author: Abi Daré
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
The unforgettable, inspiring story of a teenage girl growing up in a rural Nigerian village who longs to get an education so that she can find her “louding voice” and speak up for herself, The Girl with the Louding Voice is a simultaneously heartbreaking and triumphant tale about the power of fighting for your dreams. (400 p)
 
Title: Girl, Interrupted - Kit #146
Author: Susanna Kaysen
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A sharp-edged memoir of a teenage girl and the two years she spent in a psychiatric ward. (192 p)
 
Title: Girl, Woman, Other - Kit #1020
Author: Bernardine Evaristo
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Bernardine Evaristo is the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and the first black woman to receive this highest literary honor in the English language. Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of Black British women that paints a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and looks back to the legacy of Britain’s colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. (464 p)
 
Title: The Girls - Kit #889
Author: Emma Cline
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 COPIES
Location: Main Library
Mesmerized by a band of girls in the park she perceives as enjoying a life of free and careless abandon, 1960s teen Evie Boyd becomes obsessed with gaining acceptance into their circle, only to find herself drawn into a cult and seduced by its charismatic leader. (368 p)
 
Title: The Giver - Kit #041
Author: Lois Lowry
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A Newbery Award winner depicting a future society and the young boy who realizes the truth about his world and struggles with its duplicity. (179 p)
 
Title: The Giver - Kit (Younger Teen) #103
Author: Lois Lowry
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 Copies
Location: Main Children
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. Winner of the Newberry Medal
 
Title: Glaciers - Kit #631
Author: Alexis M Smith
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A day in the life of Isabel, a twentysomething thrift-store shopper. Isabel's childhood snows from her youth in Alaska are juxtaposed against her adult trip to a vintage thrift store; her hopes for an evening party push against the echoes of war that haunt a young soldier whom she loves. (112 p)
 
Title: The Glass Castle: A Memoir - Kit #410
Author: Jeannette Walls
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities. (288 p)
 
Title: Go Set a Watchman - Kit #827
Author: Harper Lee
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s. (288 p)
 
Title: Go Tell It on the Mountain - Kit #807
Author: James Baldwin
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
An autobiographical novel that tells the story of the deep spiritual struggle of a fourteen year old black boy growing up in a Harlem community in the 1930s and of his attempts to find his own identity as the son of a Pentecostal minister. (240 p)
 
Title: God Help the Child - Kit #812
Author: Toni Morrison
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The story of a woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, boldness and confidence, her success in life; but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. (192 p)
 
Title: The God of Small Things - Kit #267
Author: Arundhati Roy
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In 1969 in Kerala, India, Rahel and her twin brother, Estha, struggle to forge a childhood for themselves amid the destruction of their family life. Winner of the Booker Prize for best fiction. (333 p)
 
Title: GodPretty in the Tobacco Field - Kit #878
Author: Kim Michele Richardson
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Her parents dead, 15-year-old RubyLyn lives with her stern, unbending Uncle Gunnar on their tobacco farm near the small town of Nameless, Kentucky. The year is 1969 and RubyLyn dreams of moving to the city, where she can pursue a career as a professional artist and where she can be free to marry Rainey, her uncle’s African American field hand. (288 p)
 
Title: Gods and Generals - Kit (Large Print) #189
Author: Jeff Shaara
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies
Location: Main Library
An epic fictional account of the lives and military careers of Stonewall Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joshua Chamberlain, and Robert E. Lee. (528 p)
 
Title: Gone Girl - Kit #708
Author: Gillian Flynn
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
When a woman goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, her diary reveals hidden turmoil in her marriage, while her husband, desperate to clear himself of suspicion, realizes that something more disturbing than murder may have occurred. (422 p)
 
Title: The Good Earth - Kit #597
Author: Pearl S. Buck
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
This great modern classic depicts life in China through one Chinese peasant and his family at a time before the vast political and social upheavals transformed an essentially agrarian country into a world power. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. (384 p)
 
Title: The Good Lord Bird - Kit #724
Author: James McBride
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Mistaken for a girl on account of his delicate features and sackcloth smock, 12-year-old slave Henry Shackleford is liberated by abolitionist John Brown and accompanies the increasingly fanatical Brown on his crusade to end slavery. National Book Award Winner. (480 p)
 
Title: A Good Man is Hard to Find, and Other Stories - Kit #074
Author: Flannery O'Connor
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
O'Connor keenly uses irony and dialogue to focus on the dark side of life in the rural south in this collection of short stories. (288 p)
 
Title: The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers - Kit #1004
Author: Maxwell King
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Fred Rogers (1928–2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. As the creator and star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, he was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. The Good Neighbor, the first full-length biography of Fred Rogers, tells the story of this utterly unique and enduring American icon. (405 p)
 
Title: The Grapes of Wrath - Kit #017
Author: John Steinbeck
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel spotlighting the struggle of a dust bowl family who migrate to California to become migrant workers. (464 p)
 
Title: The Graveyard Book - Kit (Juvenile) #758
Author: Neil Gaiman
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard. Winner of the Newberry Medal
 
Title: The Great Alone - Kit #998
Author: Kristin Hannah
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Alaska, 1974. Untamed. Unpredictable. A story of a family in crisis struggling to survive at the edge of the world, it is also a story of young and enduring love. (549 p)
 
Title: The Great Believers - #1160
Author: Rebecca Makkai
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. (448 p)
 
Title: The Great Gatsby - Kit #227
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers. (110 p)
 
Title: The Great Santini - Kit #793
Author: Pat Conroy
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Stern and unyielding Marine pilot Bull Meecham rules his family like his squadron, with an iron fist, challenging his gentle southern-bred wife and his top athlete son to stand up and fight back for the independence to make their own decisions. (512 p)
 
Title: The Greatest Generation - Kit (Large Print) #174
Author: Tom Brokaw
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Large Print Copies
Location: Main Library
The real-life stories of ordinary people responding in extraordinary ways to the defining events of the Depression and World War II.
 
Title: The Green Road - Kit #888
Author: Anne Enright
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Christmas day reunites the Madigan children, who all left their mother Rosaleen behind to follow their dreams, under one roof in County Clare, Ireland. Now they each must confront the terrible weight of family ties and the journey that brought them home. (336 p)
 
Title: Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance - #1095
Author: Angela Duckworth
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In this instant New York Times bestseller, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed—be it parents, students, educators, athletes, or business people—that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls “grit.” (368 p)
 
Title: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Kit #461
Author: Mary Ann Shaffer
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
An account of a writer's relationship with the members of a unique book club formed on the isle of Guernsey as an alibi to protect its members from arrest at the hands of the Nazis during WWII. (290 p)
 
Title: Guests on Earth - Kit #709
Author: Lee Smith
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A young orphaned piano prodigy in 1936 is admitted to a North Carolina mental hospital under the care of a celebrated doctor and receives innovative treatment based on exercise, diet, and art therapies alongside Zelda Fitzgerald. (368 p)
 
Title: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Kit #344
Author: Jared M. Diamond
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Diamond offers a convincing explanation of the way the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. (528 p)
 
Title: H Is For Hawk - Kit #813
Author: Helen Macdonald
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
When naturalist Helen Macdonald's beloved father died suddenly, she was devastated. An experienced falconer, she resolved to purchase and raise one of the most vicious predators, the goshawk, as a means to cope with her loss. Thus Mabel came into her life. (320 p)
 
Title: Half Broke Horses: a True-Life Novel - Kit #586
Author: Jeannette Walls
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Originally conceived as a biography of her pioneer grandmother based on family interviews and historical research, Walls ultimately assumed Smith's indomitable voice and set out to write a novelistic recreation of an unconventional life. (272 p)
 
Title: Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague - #1049
Author: Maggie O'Farrell
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. A young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever. (320 p)
 
Title: The Hand I Fan With - Kit #175
Author: Tina McElroy Ansa
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A love story set in a small Georgia town filled with eccentric residents follows the romance between a generous, large-hearted woman and a ghost from one hundred years ago. (480 p)
 
Title: The Handmaid's Tale - Kit #039
Author: Margaret Atwood
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A speculative allegory focusing on a world dominated by militaristic fundamentalists, with selective women designated for breeding purposes. (311 p)
 
Title: Hannah Coulter: A Novel - Kit #448
Author: Wendell Berry
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Now, in her late seventies, twice-widowed and alone, Hannah sorts through her memories: of her childhood, of young love and loss, of raising children and the changing seasons. An installment in Wendell Berry's story of the citizens of Port William, Kentucky. (190 p)
 
Title: Harlem Shuffle: A Novel - #1114
Author: Colson Whitehead
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
“Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked…” To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver’s Row don’t approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it’s still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time. (336 p)
 
Title: Hatchet - Kit (Younger Teen) #388
Author: Gary Paulsen
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
 
Title: The Haunting of Hill House - Kit #282
Author: Shirley Jackson
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
A tale of subtle, psychological terror has earned its place as one of the significant haunted house stories of the ages. (208 p)
 
Title: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Kit #274
Author: Carson McCullers
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The story of the passions of an adolescent girl and her friendships with social outcasts of her small southern town. (368 p)
 
Title: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Kit #311
Author: Dave Eggers
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A wrenching, hilarious, and stylistically groundbreaking story of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. (437 p)
 
Title: The Help - Kit #562
Author: Kathryn Stockett
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project. (544 p)
 
Title: The Help - Kit (Large Print) #559
Author: Kathryn Stockett
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project.
 
Title: Her Hidden Genius: A Novel - #1143
Author: Marie Benedict
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider-brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that guide her experiments. When she is assigned to work on DNA, she believes she can unearth its secrets. Then it finally happens-the double helix structure of DNA reveals itself to her with perfect clarity. (352 p)
 
Title: Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays - #1061
Author: R. Eric Thomas
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
R. Eric Thomas didn’t know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went—whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburban high school, his conservative black church, or his Ivy League college in a big city—he found himself on the outside looking in. In essays by turns hysterical and heartfelt, Thomas reexamines what it means to be an “other” through the lens of his own life experience. (304 p)
 
Title: Herland - Kit #394
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Utopian novel about a fictitious society of women who reproduce by asexual means resulting in an ideal society that is free of conflict and war. (125 p)
 
Title: Hex: A Novel - #1062
Author: Rebecca DInerstein Knight
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Nell Barber, an expelled PhD candidate in biological science, is exploring the fine line between poison and antidote, working alone to set a speed record for the detoxification of poisonous plants. Her mentor, Dr. Joan Kallas, is the hero of Nell's heart. Surrounded by Nell's ex, her best friend, her best friend's boyfriend, and Joan's buffoonish husband, the two scientists are tangled together at the center of a web of illicit relationships, grudges, and obsessions. (224 p)
 
Title: Hidden Figures - Kit #881
Author: Margot Lee Shetterly
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes. (368 p)
 
Title: Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - #1063
Author: Robert Kolker
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic. (400 p)
 
Title: Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains - #1046
Author: Cassie Chambers
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County is one of the poorest counties in both Kentucky and the country. Buildings are crumbling and fields sit vacant, as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women are finding creative ways to subsist in their hollers in the hills. Cassie Chambers grew up in these hollers and, through the women who raised her, she traces her own path out of and back into the Kentucky mountains. (304 p)
 
Title: Hillbilly Elegy - Kit #949
Author: J.D. Vance
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. (288 p)
 
Title: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Kit #1022
Author: Douglas Adams
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor. Together, this dynamic pair began a journey through space aided by a galaxyful of fellow travelers. (208 p)
 
Title: Holes [1] - Kit (Younger Teen) #231
Author: Louis Sachar
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. Winner of the Newberry Medal
 
Title: Holes [2] - Kit (Younger Teen) #231
Author: Louis Sachar
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 Copies
Location: Main Children
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. Winner of the Newberry Medal
 
Title: Homegoing - Kit #892
Author: Yaa Gyasi
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 COPIES
Location: Main Library
In 18th century Ghana two half-sisters, unaware of each other, are born into different villages and follow wildly different paths. Gyasi traces the sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. (320 p)
 
Title: Homeland Elegies: A Novel - #1064
Author: Ayad Akhtar
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made.(368 p)
 
Title: Hoot - Kit (Juvenile) #373
Author: Carl Hiaasen
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
 
Title: Hotel Du Lac - Kit #024
Author: Anita Brookner
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
After jilting her fiancé, Edith Hope retreats to a Swiss Hotel where she ponders her relationship with a married lover and reflects on life-at-large. Winner of the Man Booker Prize. (192 p)
 
Title: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Kit #541
Author: Jamie Ford
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered during renovations at a Seattle hotel, Henry Lee embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment. (301 p)
 
Title: An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood - Kit #211
Author: Jimmy Carter
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Jimmy Carter re-creates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed the country. (288 p)
 
Title: The Hours - Kit #298
Author: Michael Cunningham
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Virginia Woolf is brought back to life in an intertwining of her story with those of two more contemporary women who are struggling with the conflicting claims of love, hope and despair. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. (244 p)
 
Title: The House at Riverton - Kit #748
Author: Kate Morton
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Living out her final days in a nursing home, ninety-eight-year-old Grace remembers the secrets surrounding the 1924 suicide of a young poet during a glittering society party hosted by Grace's English aristocrat employers, a family that is shattered by war. (473 p)
 
Title: The House of Broken Angels - Kit #991
Author: Luis Alberto Urrea
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life. Across two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home. (336p)
 
Title: House of Sand and Fog - Kit #204
Author: Andre Dubus
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A gripping tale of a tragic triangle involving a woman evicted from her home due to a bureaucrat's error, the sheriff who evicted her, and the immigrant who purchases the home. (368 p)
 
Title: The House of the Spirits - Kit #048
Author: Isabel Allende
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
An epic tale of the influence of great families on history as well as the influence of history on great families set amidst the oppression and communism of Chile. (496 p)
 
Title: The House on Mango Street - Kit #617
Author: Sandra Cisneros
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, and she tries to rise above the hopelessness. (110 p)
 
Title: The House on Mango Street - Kit (Younger Teen) #107
Author: Sandra Cisneros
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes - sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous - it is the story of a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. 
 
Title: How Beautiful We Were: A Novel - #1087
Author: Imbolo Mbue
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue is the story of a decades-long fight for environmental justice. The novel centers around the Nangi family, telling their story from multiple different perspectives over the course of the book. And though How Beautiful We Were takes place in a fictional African country, it bears a close resemblance to some important modern-day climate themes. (384 p)
 
Title: How It Went Down - Kit (Older Teen) #845
Author: Kekla Magoon
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
 
Title: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Kit #068
Author: Julia Alvarez
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A vibrant tale of four sisters who flee the Dominican Republic during the 1960's and their stories of adjustment to the United States. (336 p)
 
Title: How the Irish Saved Civilization - Kit #947
Author: Thomas Cahill
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization -- copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost -- they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task. (246 p)
 
Title: How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America - #1161
Author: Clint Smith
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history, and ourselves. (352 p)
 
Title: How to Be an Antiracist - #1154
Author: Ibram X. Kendi
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities—that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves. (400 p)
 
Title: How to Change Your Mind:What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us - Kit #993
Author: Michael Pollan
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges of everyday life, he decided to explore the landscape of the mind in the first person as well as the third. Thus began a singular adventure into various altered states of consciousness, along with a dive deep into both the latest brain science and the thriving underground community of psychedelic therapists. (480 p)
 
Title: Howards End - Kit #082
Author: E. M. Forster
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A story of class conflict within British society as a wealthy family, two independent but cultured sisters, and a young man living on the edge of poverty struggle with their destinies and desires. (242 p)
 
Title: The Hunger Games [1] - Kit (Older Teen) #520
Author: Suzanne Collins
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
 
Title: The Hunger Games [2] - Kit (Older Teen) #520
Author: Suzanne Collins
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
 
Title: Hurry Please I Want To Know- Kit #872
Author: Paul Griner
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
A collection of short stories features a story of a soldier who crosses dangerous terrain to milk a cow in an enemy village, and a man who brings his mother back from the dead only to find her most irritating quirk magnified. (168 p)
 
Title: The Husband's Secret - Kit #749
Author: Liane Moriarty
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Discovering a tattered letter that says she is to open it only in the event of her husband's death, Cecelia is unable to resist reading the letter and discovers a secret that shatters her life and the lives of two other women. (496 p)
 
Title: Hush - Kit (Younger Teen) #859
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program.
 
Title: I Am Forbidden - Kit #691
Author: Anouk Markovits
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Of a Hasidic family’s two daughters, one breaks with tradition to pursue a life of intellectual and emotional freedom, the other cleaves to convention only to find her childless marriage leads her to consider a course of action outside her religious beliefs. (336 p)
 
Title: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education and Was Shot By the Taliban - Kit #767
Author: Malala Yousafzai
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one Malala refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On October 9, 2012 she was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. (368 p)
 
Title: I Am the Messenger - Kit (Older Teen) #376
Author: Markus Zusak
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.
 
Title: I Feel Bad About My Neck: and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman - Kit #542
Author: Nora Ephron
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
From the screenwriter who brought us When Harry Met Sally comes a hilarious, candid look at issues that concern women. (137 p)
 
Title: I Heard the Owl Call My Name - Kit #170
Author: Margaret Craven
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A young vicar is sent to a village in the Pacific Northwest, learning tolerance and love as he faces his own poignant destiny. (160 p)
 
Title: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Kit #799
Author: Maya Angelou
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. (304 p)
 
Title: Icy Sparks - Kit #199
Author: Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A coming-of-age story set in 1950s rural Kentucky, featuring a poor, orphaned child prone to "fits". (308 p)
 
Title: The Idiot - Kit #971
Author: Elif Batuman
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail. (432 p)
 
Title: If Beale Street Could Talk - Kit #066
Author: James Baldwin
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A starkly realistic tale of a talented young artist unjustly arrested and locked away in New York's infamous Tombs, and the sustaining love of his family. (197 p)
 
Title: If I Stay - Kit (Older Teen) #760
Author: Gayle Forman
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
 
Title: If This World Were Mine - Kit #149
Author: E. Lynn Harris
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
An engrossing and fast-paced novel about four African-African friends whose deep bonds of intimacy are threatened by conflicts of career and romance. (336 p)
 
Title: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer - Kit #980
Author: Michelle McNamara
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark—the masterpiece McNamara was writing at the time of her sudden death—offers an atmospheric snapshot of a moment in American history and a chilling account of a criminal mastermind and the wreckage he left behind. It is also a portrait of a woman’s obsession and her unflagging pursuit of the truth. Utterly original and compelling, it has been hailed as a modern true crime classic—one which fulfilled Michelle's dream: helping unmask the Golden State Killer. (368 p)
 
Title: The Illuminator - Kit (Large Print) #255
Author: Brenda Rickman Vantrease
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
A medieval illuminator with radical views finds himself sharing quarters with a widow struggling to preserve her independence in this novel set in the 14th century
 
Title: I'm Thinking of Ending Things - Kit #917
Author: Iain Reid
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In this deeply suspenseful and irresistibly unnerving debut novel, a man and his girlfriend are on their way to a secluded farm. When the two take an unexpected detour, she is left stranded in a deserted high school, wondering if there is any escape at all. What follows is a twisted unraveling that will haunt you long after the last page is turned. (256 p)
 
Title: Imagine Me Gone - Kit #883
Author: Adam Haslett
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
This chronicle of love and pain traces half a century in a family of five from the parents' engagement in 1963 through a father's and son's psychological torments and a final crisis. Each chapter is told by one of the family's five voices, shifting the point of view on shared troubles, showing how they grow away from one another without losing touch and how they cope with the challenges. (368 p)
 
Title: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Kit #582
Author: Rebecca Skloot
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. (381 p)
 
Title: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Kit (Large Print) #558
Author: Rebecca Skloot
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
Scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine.
 
Title: The Immortalists - Kit #1021
Author: Chloe Benjamin
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children--four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness--sneak out to hear their fortunes. The prophecies inform their next five decades. (368 p)
 
Title: In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences - Kit #401
Author: Truman Capote
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered. Capote yields poignant insights into the nature of American violence, as he reconstructs the murder and the investigation. (343 p)
 
Title: In Country : A Novel - Kit #527
Author: Bobbie Ann Mason
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Sam resents the effects of the Vietnam War, especially the death of her father and her uncle's suffering from Agent Orange ingestion. An American classic by a Kentucky author. (272 p)
 
Title: In the Time of the Butterflies - Kit #591
Author: Julia Alvarez
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A novelization of the true story the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands in the Dominican Republic. (352 p)
 
Title: In the Woods - Kit #505
Author: Tana French
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 8 Copies
Location: Main Library
Twenty years after witnessing the violent disappearances of two companions from their small Dublin suburb, detective Rob Ryan investigates a chillingly similar murder that takes place in the same woods, a case that forces him to piece together his traumatic memories. (464 p)
 
Title: Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love - Kit #1012
Author: Dani Shapiro
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
From the acclaimed, best-selling memoirist, novelist and host of the hit podcast Family Secrets, comes a memoir about the staggering family secret uncovered by a genealogy test: an exploration of the urgent ethical questions surrounding fertility treatments and DNA testing, and a profound inquiry of paternity, identity, and love. In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had casually submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her beloved deceased father was not her biological father. Over the course of a single day, her entire history—the life she had lived—crumbled beneath her. (272 p)
 
Title: The Innocents Abroad - Kit #519
Author: Mark Twain
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
This book offers a glimpse of a major writer when he was just beginning to flex his muscles, and also serves as an enduring no-nonsense guide for the first-time traveler of Europe and the Holy Land. (550 p)
 
Title: Inside Out and Back Again -Kit (Juvenile) #702
Author: Thanhha Lai
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
 
Title: The Interestings - Kit #710
Author: Meg Wolitzer
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Forging a powerful bond in the mid-1970s that lasts throughout subsequent decades, six individuals pursue respective challenges into their midlife years, including an aspiring actress who harbors jealousy toward friends who achieve successful creative careers. (560 p)
 
Title: Into the Wild - Kit #337
Author: Jon Krakauer
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Krakauer recounts the haunting and tragic mystery of young, idealistic Chris McCandless who disappeared in April 1992 into the Alaskan wilderness. (240 p)
 
Title: Into Thin Air - Kit #906
Author: Jon Krakauer
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more--including Krakauer's--in guilt-ridden disarray, would also provide the impetus for Into Thin Air, Krakauer's epic account of the May 1996 disaster. (332 p)
 
Title: The Invention of Wings - Kit #768
Author: Sue Monk Kidd
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Traces three decades in the lives of a wealthy Charleston debutante who longs to break free from the strictures of her household and pursue a meaningful life; and the urban slave, Handful, who is placed in her charge as a child. (400 p)
 
Title: Invisible Man - Kit #051
Author: Ralph Ellison
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The classic novel of the experiences of a young black man during the Depression as he travels from the Deep South to Harlem portray the invisibility of his life. Winner of the National Book Award. (135 p)
 
Title: Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham - Kit #852
Author: Emily Bingham
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the American South, Henrietta Bingham ripped through the Jazz Age like an F. Scott Fitzgerald character: intoxicating and intoxicated, selfish and often terribly troubled. (384 p)
 
Title: Isaac's Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History - Kit #334
Author: Erik Larson
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
This absorbing narrative of the 1900 hurricane that inundated Galveston, Texas, conveys the sudden, cruel power of the deadliest natural disaster in American history. (323 p)
 
Title: The Island of Sea Women - Kit #1023
Author: Lisa See
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook’s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility—but also danger. (400 p)
 
Title: The Jane Austen Book Club - Kit #292
Author: Karen Joy Fowler
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Fowler exuberantly pays homage to and matches wits with Jane Austen by portraying six irresistible Californians who meet once a month to discuss Austen's six novels. (320 p)
 
Title: Jane Eyre - Kit #081
Author: Charlotte Bronte¨
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The romantic classic set in Victorian England of an orphaned young woman who accepts employment as a governess with the mysterious Mr. Rochester. (480 p)
 
Title: The Japanese Lover : A Novel - Kit #853
Author: Isabel Allende
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In pre-war San Francisco a young Jewish refugee and the son of the Japanese gardener of her wealthy relations form a loving attachment that spans decades despite misfortunes, cultural differences and the realities of ageing. (336 p)
 
Title: Jayber Crow - Kit #326
Author: Wendell Berry
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
Set in the fictional small town of Port William, this is the story of a young man who abandons his plan to become a minister to instead become the town barber. (384 p)
 
Title: Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key - Kit (Juvenile) #230
Author: Jack Gantos
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription meds wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired.
 
Title: The Johnstown Flood - Kit #332
Author: David G. McCullough
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The story of one of the most devastating national disasters America has ever known told by a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning author. (304 p)
 
Title: The Joy Luck Club - Kit #003
Author: Amy Tan
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Four older Chinese women living in San Francisco recall their memories of pre-war China and pass their culture and visions on to their American-born daughters. (352 p)
 
Title: Jude the Obscure - Kit #773
Author: Thomas Hardy
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The story of the tragic relationship between Jude Fawley, a village stonemason who is thwarted in his aspirations to the ministry, and Sue Bridehead, a free-thinking cousin who is shunned by society for her social and sexual rebellion. (276 p)
 
Title: A Judgement in Stone - Kit #800
Author: Ruth Rendell
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
When a housekeeper carries out a modern "Valentine's Day Massacre" on the family that employs her, the investigation uncovers evidence of a personal tragedy that precipitated the crime. Often deemed the greatest work of one of the world's great crime novelists. (188 p)
 
Title: Just Kids - Kit #593
Author: Patti Smith
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
National Book award winner details Smith’s earlier years in New York City, where she meets Robert Mapplethorpe and they begin their journey together trying to make it as artists. (320 p)
 
Title: Kafka on the Shore - Kit #643
Author: Haruki Murakami
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
An unlikely alliance forms between Kafka Tamura, a fifteen-year-old runaway, and the aging Nakata, a man who has never recovered from a wartime affliction, as they embark on a surreal odyssey through a strange, fantastical world. (480 p)
 
Title: Kentucky Straight - Kit #177
Author: Chris Offutt
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Stories, sometimes poignant, about life in Kentucky Appalachia, told with no patina of nostalgia, but with a strong sense of place. (102 p)
 
Title: Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times - Kit #848
Author: Melissa McEuen
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Collection of essays from 17 scholars profiling twenty-three notable women from three centuries across the state —from the story of Shawnee chief Nonhelema Hokolesqua to the lasting impact of former Gov. Martha Layne Collins
 
Title: Killers of the Flower Moon - Kit #938
Author: David Grann
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In 1920s Oklahoma, many members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation were dying untimely and suspicious deaths. The widespread crimes against the Osage and the inability to identify those responsible led to the establishment of what is now known as the FBI. Grann makes a complex web of violence and deception easy to follow by keeping the focus on one Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, whose family members were murdered one by one. (400 p)
 
Title: Kindred - Kit #303
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
A modern black woman is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South where she must save the life of her white, slave-owning ancestor. (288 p)
 
Title: Kingdomtide - #1053
Author: Rye Curtis
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
The sole survivor of a plane crash, seventy-two-year-old Cloris Waldrip is lost and alone in the unforgiving wilderness of Montana's rugged Bitterroot Range, exposed to the elements with no tools beyond her wits and ingenuity. Intertwined with her story is Debra Lewis, a park ranger struggling with addiction and a recent divorce who is galvanized by her new mission to find and rescue Cloris. As Cloris wanders mountain forests and valleys, subsisting on whatever she can scavenge, her hold on life ever more precarious, Ranger Lewis and her motley group of oddball rescuers follow the trail of clues she's left behind. (291 p)
 
Title: Kinsey and Me : Stories - Kit #913
Author: Sue Grafton
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In 1982, Sue Grafton introduced Kinsey Millhone. Today, Kinsey is an icon of detective fiction and her creator is at the top of her form. This collection is both a look at Sue Grafton’s own early life in the guise of the character Kit Blue, and a fascinating glimpse of Kinsey Millhone in nine tales featuring “the spunkiest, funniest, and most engaging private investigator in the entire detective novel genre.” (304 p)
 
Title: The Kitchen God's Wife - Kit #321
Author: Amy Tan
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Pressured to reveal to her adult American-born daughter her secret past in war-torn China in the 1940s, Winnie weaves an account of loneliness, love, courage and endurance. (416 p)
 
Title: The Kitchen House - Kit #720
Author: Kathleen Grissom
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Orphaned aboard a ship from Ireland to America, a young girl is sent to a plantation where she works with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of the master's illegitimate slave daughter, she becomes deeply bonded to her adopted family, though set apart from them by her white skin. (368 p)
 
Title: The Kite Runner - Kit #284
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day. (400 p)
 
Title: The Kite Runner - Kit (Large Print) #249
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
 
Title: Klara and the Sun: A Novel - #1091
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her.(320 p)
 
Title: Knights of the Kitchen Table - Kit (Juvenile) #434
Author: Jon. Scieszka
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Joe's been caught up in a book before, but this is ridiculous! Joe's Book, a gift from his magician uncle, doesn't just tell stories, it zaps Joe and his friends Sam and Fred right into the middle of them. And when these thoroughly modern kids meet King Arthur and become Knights of the Round Table, the result can only be thoroughly amusing mayhem.
 
Title: The Known World - Kit #281
Author: Edward P. Jones
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
When a black slave owner dies, his widow Caldonia mismanages their Virginia plantation with disastrous results. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. (388 p)
 
Title: Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883 - Kit #355
Author: Simon Winchester
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
An erudite, fascinating account of the underlying causes, utter devastation and lasting effects of the cataclysmic 1883 eruption of the volcano island Krakatoa.
 
Title: Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883 - Kit (Large Print) #259
Author: Simon Winchester
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
An erudite, fascinating account of the underlying causes, utter devastation and lasting effects of the cataclysmic 1883 eruption of the volcano island Krakatoa. (416 p)
 
Title: La cola de la serpiente - Kit (Spanish) #942
Author: Leonardo Padura
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Spanish language mystery. "As ever with Padura, the story is soaked in atmosphere: the drinking of rum in deliciously smoke-filled bars, the friendships, the food and beautiful women." (192p)
 
Title: La Edad de Oro y otros relatos - Kit (Spanish) # 943
Author: Jose Marti
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
La actividad literaria de José Martí es tan relevante como su actividad revolucionaria; lo es en su jerarquía de valores y lo es en el balance final de sus frutos. Nunca dejará de sorprendernos que Martí sea, además del estadista imprescindible, uno de los primeros y mejores poetas modernistas, el creador de la primera novela propiamente modernista, el verdadero renovador de la prosa en lengua española en el siglo pasado y el pionero, en las letras hispanoamericanas, de la narrativa corta dedicada a la instrucción de los más jóvenes, aunque apta para todas las edades. "La Edad de Oro" condensa el cuerpo fundamental de esa narrativa corta. Es una obra profundamente original y con una carga ideológica fuera de lo común, a pesar de su dedicatoria: "a los niños de América". Concebida como una revista mensual para recreo e instrucción de menores, compuesta por diversos relatos de tipo fantástico, histórico, social y cultural, terminó siendo una de las obras clave del género en la literatura occidental. "Enseñar es crecer", son palabras de Martí consciente de que las ideas de aprendizaje e identificación han de calar en la juventud de América. Porque para él, el niño es el futuro, y el futuro es el del mejoramiento humano y el de la virtud, para conseguir los fines que él persigue: libertad, búsqueda de la verdad, americanismo, utilidad, independencia de Cuba, desarrollo, vuelta a la Naturaleza. (298 p)
 
Title: Lab Girl - Kit #952
Author: Hope Jahren
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist. In these pages, Hope takes us back to her Minnesota childhood, where she spent hours in unfettered play in her father’s college laboratory. She tells us how she found a sanctuary in science, learning to perform lab work “with both the heart and the hands.” She introduces us to Bill, her brilliant, eccentric lab manager. And she extends the mantle of scientist to each one of her readers, inviting us to join her in observing and protecting our environment. (304 p)
 
Title: The Lacuna - Kit #545
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds -- Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s -- and whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the twentieth century's most tumultuous events. (544 p)
 
Title: The Lady and the Unicorn - Kit (Large Print) #254
Author: Tracy Chevalier
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Large Print Copies
Location: Main Library
A story of the tapestries of the Lady and the Unicorn, interweaving narratives of the painter who conceived the famous images, the tapissier who weaved them onto cloth, and the women in both artists' lives.
 
Title: Lamb: the Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal - Kit #474
Author: Christopher Moore
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A humorous, speculative novel fills in the lost years of Jesus' life, told from the perspective of Biff, his childhood best friend. (444 p)
 
Title: The Lamplighters - #1085
Author: Emma Stonex
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
It's New Year's Eve, 1972, when a boat pulls up to the Maiden Rock lighthouse with relief for the keepers. But no one greets them. When the entrance door, locked from the inside, is battered down, rescuers find an empty tower. A table is laid for a meal not eaten. The Principal Keeper's weather log describes a storm raging round the tower, but the skies have been clear. And the clocks have all stopped at 8:45. Two decades later, the keepers' wives are visited by a writer determined to find the truth about the men's disappearance. (352 p)
 
Title: Land of Love and Drowning - Kit #875
Author: Tiphanie Yanique
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Chronicles the families of three siblings who survived a shipwreck off the Virgin Islands in 1916 and raised three generations on the islands, adapting to the unique language, rhythm and magic of island life over 60 years. (416 p)
 
Title: Lark Ascending: A Novel - #1164
Author: Silas House
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
With fires devastating much of America, Lark and his family first leave their home in Maryland for Maine. But as the country increasingly falls under the grip of religious nationalism, it becomes clear that nowhere is safe, not just from physical disasters but also persecution. (304 p)
 
Title: LaRose - Kit #891
Author: Louise Erdrich
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 COPIES
Location: Main Library
Having accidentally killed his friend's 5-year-old son while hunting, Landreaux Iron gives away his own son to his friend's family according to Native American tradition, leading to a tenuous peace that still tears the families and the tribe apart. (400 p)
 
Title: Las armas secretas - Kit (Spanish) #944
Author: Julio Cortazar
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Spanish Language. A book of five short stories written by Julio Cortázar. (167 p)
 
Title: The Last Castle - Kit #951
Author: Denise Kiernan
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
The fascinating true story behind the magnificent Gilded Age mansion Biltmore—the largest, grandest residence ever built in the United States. The story of Biltmore spans World Wars, the Jazz Age, the Depression, and generations of the famous Vanderbilt family, and features a captivating cast of real-life characters including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Teddy Roosevelt, John Singer Sargent, James Whistler, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. (416 p)
 
Title: The Last House Guest - Kit #1013
Author: Megan Miranda
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Littleport, Maine, has always felt like two separate towns: an ideal vacation enclave for the wealthy, whose summer homes line the coastline; and a simple harbor community for the year-round residents whose livelihoods rely on service to the visitors. Typically, fierce friendships never develop between a local and a summer girl—but that’s just what happens with visitor Sadie Loman and Littleport resident Avery Greer. Each summer for almost a decade, the girls are inseparable—until Sadie is found dead (368 p)
 
Title: The Last Lecture - Kit #528
Author: Randy Pausch
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Based on the extraordinary final lecture by Carnegie Mellon University professor Pausch, given after he discovered he had pancreatic cancer, this moving book goes beyond the now-famous lecture to inspire readers to live each day with purpose and joy. (206 p)
 
Title: Leap of Faith: Memoirs of An Unexpected Life - Kit #308
Author: Queen Noor
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The young American woman who became wife and partner to Lebanon’s King Hussein gives an intimate account of a woman who lost her heart to a king and to his people. (496 p)
 
Title: Leap of Faith: Memoirs of An Unexpected Life - Kit (Large Print) #246
Author: Queen Noor
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
The young American woman who became wife and partner to Lebanon’s King Hussein gives an intimate account of a woman who lost her heart to a king and to his people
 
Title: Leave the World Behind: A Novel - #1074
Author: Rumaan Alam
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple—it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area—with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service—it’s hard to know what to believe. (272 p)
 
Title: The Leavers - Kit #948
Author: Lisa Ko
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
One morning, Deming Guo’s mother, Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon—and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left mystified and bereft. Eventually adopted by a pair of well-meaning white professors, Deming is moved from the Bronx to a small town upstate and renamed Daniel Wilkinson. But far from all he’s ever known, Daniel struggles to reconcile his adoptive parents’ desire that he assimilate with his memories of his mother and the community he left behind. (368 p)
 
Title: The Left Hand of Darkness Kit #886
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A lone human ambassador is sent to Winter, an alien world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants can change their gender whenever they choose. He must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters. (304 p)
 
Title: A Lesson Before Dying - Kit #004
Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The story of a black man unjustly accused of a killing and a teacher who must struggle with the universal question of how to live and die with dignity in segregated Louisiana. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. (256 p)
 
Title: Libertie: A Novel - #1089
Author: Kaitlyn Greenidge
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Coming of age in a free Black community in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her mother, a physician, has a vision for their future together: Libertie is to go to medical school and practice alongside her. But Libertie is hungry for something else—is there really only one way to be independent? (352 p)
 
Title: The Library Book - Kit #1014
Author: Susan Orlean
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who? (336 p.)
 
Title: Life After Life: A Novel - Kit #683
Author: Kate Atkinson
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
As she grows up during the first half of the twentieth century in Britain Ursula Todd dies and is brought back to life again and again. With a seemingly infinite number of lives it appears as though she has the ability to alter the history of the world, should she so choose. (560 p)
 
Title: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Kit (Large Print) #381
Author: Bill Bryson
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
Bill Bryson’s laugh-out-loud pilgrimage through his Fifties childhood in heartland America is full of insights, wit, and wicked adolescent fantasies.
 
Title: Life as We Knew It - Kit (Younger Teen) #694
Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
 
Title: Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina - Kit #1123
Author: Misty Copeland
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Determination meets dance in this New York Times bestselling memoir by the history-making ballerina Misty Copeland, recounting the story of her journey to become the first African-American principal ballerina at the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. A true prodigy, she was attempting in months roles that take most dancers years to master. With an insider’s passion, Misty opens a window into the life of an artist who lives life center stage, from behind the scenes at her first classes to her triumphant roles in some of the world’s most iconic ballets. (304 p)
 
Title: Life of Pi - Kit #275
Author: Yann Martel
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Pi Patel, a zookeeper’s son, sets sail for America. When the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain. Winner of the Man Booker Prize. (326 p)
 
Title: The Life We Bury - Kit #873
Author: Allen Eskens
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Joe Talbert has finally left home, but not without guilt over leaving his autistic brother in the care of his unreliable mother. A college assignment gets the young man entangled in a cold case, racing to clear the name of a dying Vietnam veteran. Characters with layers of suppressed memories and emotions add to the suspenseful plot. (303 p)
 
Title: The Light Between Oceans : A Novel - Kit #671
Author: M. L. Stedman
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A novel set on a remote Australian island in the years following WWI, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a dead man and a living baby washes ashore. (345 p)
 
Title: Light in August - Kit #293
Author: William Faulkner
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white and can fit in neither world. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism. (512 p)
 
Title: The Light in the Ruins : A Novel - Kit #791
Author: Chris Bohjalian
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In Florence in 1955 a serial killer is at work, preying on the noble and once- wealthy Rosati family. Is it connected to 1943 when the family lived in the Villa Chimera and reluctantly played host to a number of Nazis who come to visit a recently discovered Etruscan tomb on their land? (309 p)
 
Title: Light Years from Home: A Novel - #1146
Author: Mike Chen
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Evie Shao and her sister, Kass, aren’t on speaking terms. Fifteen years ago on a family camping trip, their father and brother vanished. Their dad turned up days later, dehydrated and confused—and convinced he'd been abducted by aliens. Their brother, Jakob, remained missing. Kass, suspecting her college-dropout twin simply ran off, became the rock of the family. Evie traded academics to pursue alien conspiracy theories, always looking for Jakob. When Evie's UFO network uncovers a new event, she goes to investigate. And discovers Jakob is back.(400 p)
 
Title: The Lightning Thief - Kit (Younger Teen) #488
Author: Rick Riordan
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents:
Location: Main Children
After learning that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea, Percy Jackson is transferred from boarding school to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for demigods, and becomes involved in a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
 
Title: Like Water For Chocolate - Kit #155
Author: Laura Esquivel
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A bittersweet romance set in Mexico, where romance and sensuality are combined with magical realism in the celebration of food. (256 p)
 
Title: Lincoln in the Bardo - Kit #1015
Author: George Saunders
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. “My poor boy, he was too good for this earth,” the president says at the time. “God has called him home.” Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy’s body. From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. (368 p)
 
Title: Lincoln: A Novel - Kit #385
Author: Gore Vidal
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Isolated in a ramshackle White House in the center of a proslavery city, Lincoln presides over a fragmenting government as Lee's armies beat at the gates. An intimate depiction of the power struggles that accompanied Lincoln's efforts to preserve the Union at all costs. (672 p)
 
Title: The Line Becomes a River : Dispatches From the Border - Kit #985
Author: Francisco Cantu
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Driven to understand the hard realities of the landscape he loves, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. Plagued by a growing awareness of his complicity in a dehumanizing enterprise, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. But when an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the border has migrated with him, and now he must know the full extent of the violence it wreaks, on both sides of the line. (288 p)
 
Title: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - Kit (Juvenile) #842
Author: C. S. Lewis
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist its ruler, the golden lion Aslan, in defeating the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
 
Title: Lit: A Memoir - Kit #547
Author: Mary Karr
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A memoir that traces the author's descent into alcoholism and her conflicted, piecemeal return from that numb hell—it chronicles with searching intelligence, humor and grace the author's slow, sometimes exhilarating, sometimes painful recovery. (432 p)
 
Title: Little Bee - Kit #482
Author: Chris Cleave
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Presents a tale of a precarious friendship between an illegal Nigerian refugee and a recent widow from suburban London, a story told from the alternating and disparate perspectives of both women. (271 p)
 
Title: Little Fires Everywhere - Kit #1018
Author: Celeste Ng
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned—from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren—an enigmatic artist and single mother—who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. (368 p)
 
Title: The Little Paris Bookshop - Kit #884
Author: Nina George
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Jean Perdu is the owner of the Literary Apothecary, a floating bookshop on the Seine. When a new tenant in his apartment building sets in motion events that force Jean to re-evaluate his past, he finds himself floating off down the rivers of France in search of lost love. (416 p)
 
Title: The Little Prince - Kit #564
Author: Antoine de Saint Exupery
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life. (In English 96 p)
 
Title: Little Women - Kit #584
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, four sisters (Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March) evolve and mature from children into adulthood. (504 p)
 
Title: Lives of Girls and Women - Kit #668
Author: Alice Munro
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
This classic female coming-of-age novel is both the story of strong-willed Del Jordan, from schoolchild to passionate young woman, and an evocative portrait of small-town rural Ontario in the 1940s. (277 p)
 
Title: Lock Every Door - Kit #1031
Author: Riley Sager
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
The next heart-pounding thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager follows a young woman whose new job apartment sitting in one of New York’s oldest and most glamorous buildings may cost more than it pays. No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. (400 p)
 
Title: The Locket - Kit (Large Print) #188
Author: Richard Paul Evans
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 7 Large Print Copies
Location: Main Library
A story of faith, forgiveness, missed opportunities, and second chances
 
Title: Locomotion - Kit (Juvenile) #372
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.
 
Title: Lolita - Kit #272
Author: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. (317 p)
 
Title: A Long Petal of the Sea - #1051
Author: Isabel Allende
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
In the late 1930s, civil war grips Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage neither of them desires. (432 p)
 
Title: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Kit #548
Author: Ishmael Beah
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. (229 p)
 
Title: A Long Way Home - Kit #905
Author: Saroo Brierley
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
This is the miraculous and triumphant story of Saroo Brierley, a young man who used Google Earth to rediscover his childhood life and home in an incredible journey from India to Australia and back again. (288 p)
 
Title: Longbourn - Kit #726
Author: Jo Baker
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The servants in the Bennet household of Pride and Prejudice fame live their lives in Regency England during the Napoleonic Wars. And there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. (331 p)
 
Title: Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun - #1152
Author: Charles J. Shields
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Charles J. Shields’s authoritative biography of one of the twentieth century’s most admired playwrights examines the parts of Lorraine Hansberry’s life that have escaped public knowledge: the influence of her upper-class background, her fight for peace and nuclear disarmament, the reason why she embraced Communism during the Cold War, and her dependence on her white husband-her best friend, critic, and promoter. (384 p)
 
Title: Love That Dog - Kit (Juvenile) #232
Author: Sharon Creech
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.
 
Title: The Lover - Kit #801
Author: Marguerite Duras
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
An adolescent French girl living with her family in pre-World War II Indochina in the waning days of France's colonial empire has a scandalous and tumultuous affair with the son of a wealthy Chinese businessman. (128 p)
 
Title: Loving Frank - Kit #420
Author: Nancy Horan
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
This narrative, vividly portraying the conflicts and struggles of a woman forced to choose between the roles of mother, wife, lover, and intellectual, is based on the clandestine love affair between Mamah Borthwick Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright. (377 p)
 
Title: The Lowland - Kit #722
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Brothers Subhash and Udayan Mitra pursue vastly different lives--Udayan in rebellion-torn Calcutta, Subhash in a quiet corner of America--until a shattering tragedy compels Subhash to return to India, where he endeavors to heal family wounds. (415 p)
 
Title: Luster - #1058
Author: Raven Leilani
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics weren’t hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and invited into Eric’s home though not by Eric. She becomes a hesitant ally to his wife and a de facto role model to his adopted daughter. Edie may be the only Black woman young Akila knows. (240 p)
 
Title: The Lying Life of Adults- #1083
Author: Elena Ferrante
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
In this powerful novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend, fourteen-year-old Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: Naples of the heights, which wears a mask of refinement, and Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity, where her guide is the unforgettable Aunt Vittoria. (328 p)
 
Title: Madame Bovary - Kit #887
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The classic tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams. Emma craves passion and intimacy, but finds only greed, betrayal, and heartbreak, as she stumbles towards suicide. (190 p)
 
Title: The Magic School Bus In the Time of the Dinosaurs - Kit (Juvenile) #441
Author: Joanna. Cole
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
The Magic School Bus travels back in time, and Ms, Frizzle and her class run into a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a sandstorm, and possibly even their own extinction!
 
Title: The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body - Kit (Juvenile) #439
Author: Joanna Cole
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
A special field trip on the magic school bus allows Ms. Frizzle's class to get a first-hand look at major parts of the body and how they work.
 
Title: The Magic School Bus On the Ocean Floor - Kit (Juvenile) #440
Author: Joanna Cole
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
On another special field trip on the magic school bus, Ms. Frizzle's class learns about the ocean and the different creatures that live there.
 
Title: The Maid: A Novel - Kit #1124
Author: Nita Prose
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life’s complexities all by herself. No matter—she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. But Molly’s orderly life is upended the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black, only to find it in a state of disarray and Mr. Black himself dead in his bed. (320 p)
 
Title: The Maid's Version : A Novel - Kit #862
Author: Daniel Woodrell
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In 1929, Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the maid for a prominent family in Missouri, chases down justice after her younger sister is one of forty-two people killed in a mysterious explosion at a local dance hall. (192 p)
 
Title: Maisie Dobbs: A Novel - Kit #844
Author: Jacqueline Winspear
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Maisie Dobbs entered domestic service in 1910 at thirteen. When her remarkable intelligence is discovered by her employer, Maisie is educated and in 1929 she hangs out her shingle: M. Dobbs, Trade and Personal Investigations. (336 p)
 
Title: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Kit (Large Print) #530
Author: Helen Simonson
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 8 Large Print Copies
Location: Main Library
Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in an English village until his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the local Pakistani shopkeeper.
 
Title: Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America - Kit #642
Author: Nathan McCall
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
An honest and searching look at the perils of growing up a black male in urban America, Washington Post reporter Nathan McCall tells the story of his passage from the street and the prison yard to the newsroom of one of America's most prestigious papers. (448 p)
 
Title: The Maltese Falcon - Kit #287
Author: Dashiell Hammett
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Considered the author’s finest work, this mystery novel introduces Sam Spade, the prototype of the hard-boiled detective, as he searches for the murderer of his partner. (217 p)
 
Title: A Man Called Ove [1] - Kit #815
Author: Fredrik Backman
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A curmudgeon hides a terrible personal loss beneath a cranky and short-tempered exterior while clashing with his new neighbors, a boisterous family whose chattiness and freewheeling habits lead to unexpected friendship. (337 p)
 
Title: A Man Called Ove [2] - Kit #815
Author: Fredrik Backman
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A curmudgeon hides a terrible personal loss beneath a cranky and short-tempered exterior while clashing with his new neighbors, a boisterous family whose chattiness and freewheeling habits lead to unexpected friendship. (337 p)
 
Title: The Man in My Basement - Kit #561
Author: Walter Mosley
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
To save the home that has belonged to his family for generations, Charles Blakey, a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling around him, agrees to rent out his basement for the summer to a mysterious stranger. (249 p)
 
Title: Man in the Blue Moon - Kit #737
Author: Michael Morris
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Single mother Ella Wallace fights to keep a banker from buying the Florida land that has been in her family for generations when a mysterious stranger shows up and convinces Ella he can help her, until his shady past comes to light. (391 p)
 
Title: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales - Kit #968
Author: Oliver Sacks
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. (256 p)
 
Title: Manhattan Beach - Kit #965
Author: Jennifer Egan
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life, the reasons he might have vanished.(448 p)
 
Title: Maniac Magee [1] - Kit (Younger Teen) #117
Author: Jerry Spinelli
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries. Winner of the Newberry Medal
 
Title: Maniac Magee [2] - Kit (Younger Teen) #117
Author: Jerry Spinelli
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries. Winner of the Newberry Medal
 
Title: Man's Search for Meaning - #1084
Author: Viktor E Frankl
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Man's Search for Meaning tells the chilling and inspirational story of eminent psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz and other concentration camps for three years during the Second World War. Immersed in great suffering and loss, Frankl began to wonder why some of his fellow prisoners were able not only to survive the horrifying conditions, but to grow in the process. Frankl's conclusion - that the most basic human motivation is the will to meaning - became the basis of his groundbreaking psychological theory, logotherapy. (221 p)
 
Title: The Map of Knowledge - Kit #1115
Author: Violet Moller
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
The foundations of modern knowledge—philosophy, math, astronomy, geography—were laid by the Greeks, whose ideas were written on scrolls and stored in libraries across the Mediterranean and beyond. But as the vast Roman Empire disintegrated, so did appreciation of these precious texts. Christianity cast a shadow over so-called pagan thought, books were burned, and the library of Alexandria, the greatest repository of classical knowledge, was destroyed. Yet some texts did survive and The Map of Knowledge explores the role played by seven cities around the Mediterranean—rare centers of knowledge in a dark world, where scholars supported by enlightened heads of state collected, translated and shared manuscripts. (336 p)
 
Title: The Map of Salt and Stars - Kit #1024
Author: Zeyn Joukhadar
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
This stunning novel begins in the summer of 2011. Nour has just lost her father to cancer, and her mother moves Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family. In order to keep her father’s spirit alive as she adjusts to her new home, Nour tells herself their favorite story—the tale of Rawiya, a twelfth-century girl who disguised herself as a boy in order to apprentice herself to a famous mapmaker. But the Syria Nour’s parents knew is changing, and it isn’t long before the war reaches their quiet Homs neighborhood. (384 p)
 
Title: March - Kit #446
Author: Geraldine Brooks
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
From Louisa May Alcott’s beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has taken the character of the absent father, March, who has gone off to war. Spanning the vibrant intellectual world of Concord and the sensuous antebellum South, March adds adult resonance to Alcott’s optimistic children’s tale. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. (320 p)
 
Title: The Martian - Kit #784
Author: Andy Weir
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
After a bad storm cuts his team’s Mars mission short, injured astronaut Mark Watley is stranded. Now he’s got to figure out how to survive without air, shelter, food, or water on the harsh Martian landscape until the next manned mission in four years. (387 p)
 
Title: Mary Coin - Kit #684
Author: Marisa Silver
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Imagines the lives of the subject of the famous depression-era photograph and the photographer, as well as a college professor who finds a connection to a family legacy in the image of the iconic "Migrant Mother." (336 p)
 
Title: The Master - Kit #820
Author: Colm To´ibi´n
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Nineteenth-century writer Henry James is heartbroken when his first play performs poorly in contrast to Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" and struggles with subsequent doubts about his sexual identity. (338 p)
 
Title: Maus : A Survivor's Tale - Kit #325
Author: Art Spiegelman
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
Told in a graphic novel format, the story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself. (159 p)
 
Title: The Maze - Kit (Younger Teen) #096
Author: Will. Hobbs
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.
 
Title: The Maze Runner - Kit (Younger Teen) #759
Author: James Dashner
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
 
Title: Me Before You - Kit #675
Author: Jojo Moyes
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Taking a job as an assistant to wealthy and bitter Will, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident, Louisa struggles with her employer's acerbic moods. But when she discovers that he intends to end his own life, Lou makes it her mission to persuade him that life is still worth living. (369 p)
 
Title: Memoirs of a Geisha - Kit #179
Author: Arthur Golden
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A fictional memoir of a celebrated Japanese geisha describes how, as a little girl in 1929, she is sold into slavery; her efforts to learn the arts of the geisha; the impact of World War II; and her struggle to reinvent herself to win the man she loves. (434 p)
 
Title: Memoirs of a Geisha - Kit (Large Print) #194
Author: Arthur Golden
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies
Location: Main Library
A fictional memoir of a celebrated Japanese geisha describes how, as a little girl in 1929, she is sold into slavery; her efforts to learn the arts of the geisha; the impact of World War II; and her struggle to reinvent herself to win the man she loves.
 
Title: Memoria de mis putas tristes - Kit (Spanish) #945
Author: Gabriel Garci´a Ma´rquez
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Spanish Language. Memoria de mis putas tristes is the story of an eccentric, solitary old man, a narrative of his sexual adventures (of which there were many), for which he always paid, never imagining that this would be the way he would discover true love.(112 p)
 
Title: Memorial: A Novel - Kit #1102
Author: Bryan Washington
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and they've been together for a few years—good years—but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. Both men will change in ways that will either make them stronger together, or fracture everything they've ever known. And just maybe they'll all be okay in the end.(384 p)
 
Title: The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kit #453
Author: Kim Edwards
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A doctor is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. When his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down’s syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. (401 p)
 
Title: The Memory of Old Jack - Kit #031
Author: Wendell Berry
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Kentucky author Wendell Berry proves his mastery as a storyteller by sharing the life story of a 92-year-old small town Kentucky farmer, "Old Jack" Beechum. (176 p)
 
Title: Middlesex - Kit #411
Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. (544 p)
 
Title: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil : A Savannah Story - Kit (Large Print) #187
Author: John Berendt
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Large Print Copies
Location: Main Library
A murder mystery set in that very southern city of Savannah, where the characters are exotic, funny and intriguing.
 
Title: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story - Kit #148
Author: John Berendt
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A murder mystery set in that very southern city of Savannah, where the characters are exotic, funny and intriguing. (400 p)
 
Title: Midnight's Children - Kit #266
Author: Salman Rushdie
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai becomes inextricably linked to that of his nation and is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror modern India's course. Winner of the Man Booker Prize. (536 p)
 
Title: Migrations: A Novel - #1065
Author: Charlotte McConaghy
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
Franny Stone has always been the kind of woman who is able to love but unable to stay. Leaving behind everything but her research gear, she arrives in Greenland with a singular purpose: to follow the last Arctic terns in the world on what might be their final migration to Antarctica. Franny talks her way onto a fishing boat, and she and the crew set sail, traveling ever further from shore and safety. (288 p)
 
Title: Miles Morales, Spider Man - Kit (Younger Teen) #975
Author: Kadir Nelson
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Everyone gets mad at hustlers, especially if you're on the victim side of the hustle. And Miles knew hustling was in his veins. Miles Morales is just your average teenager. Dinner every Sunday with his parents, chilling out playing old-school video games with his best friend, Ganke, crushing on brainy, beautiful poet Alicia. He's even got a scholarship spot at the prestigious Brooklyn Visions Academy. Oh yeah, and he's Spider Man. But lately, Miles's spidey-sense has been on the fritz. When a misunderstanding leads to his suspension from school, Miles begins to question his abilities. After all, his dad and uncle were Brooklyn jack-boys with criminal records. Maybe kids like Miles aren't meant to be superheroes. Maybe Miles should take his dad's advice and focus on saving himself. As Miles tries to get his school life back on track, he can't shake the vivid nightmares that continue to haunt him. Nor can he avoid the relentless buzz of his spidey-sense every day in history class, amidst his teacher's lectures on the historical benefits of slavery and the modern-day prison system. But after his scholarship is threatened, Miles uncovers a chilling plot, one that puts his friends, his neighborhood, and himself at risk. It's time for Miles to suit up.
 
Title: Miller’s Valley - Kit #896
Author: Anna Quindlen
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents:
Location: Main Library
Coming of age in a dwindling 1960s farming community in eastern Pennsylvania, Mimi struggles with profound family secrets and the pain of falling in love with the wrong person against a backdrop of dynamic historical periods. (272 p)
 
Title: Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning - #1066
Author: Cathy Park Hong
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America.(224 p)
 
Title: Miss Fuller - Kit #633
Author: April Bernard
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
When feminist, journalist, and orator Margaret Fuller's family is drowned off the coast of New York upon their return from Europe, Henry David Thoreau visits the site of their shipwreck and discovers a revealing personal document of hers. (180 p)
 
Title: The Mistress of Spices - Kit #173
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Tilo, an Indian clairvoyant, becomes queen of the pirates who kidnapped her for her powers, and she gains immortality and the skills of a mistress of spices, which she uses to help mortals before she falls in love with a man. (352 p)
 
Title: Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali - Kit #549
Author: Kris Holloway
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Holloway blends a vivid description of her Peace Corps experiences in the West African nation of Mali from 1989 to 1991, with a warm tribute to her colleague, dear friend, and host. (215 p)
 
Title: Monster - Kit (Older Teen) #239
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
 
Title: The Monsters of Templeton - Kit #858
Author: Lauren Groff
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Returning in disgrace to her mother's home after an affair with her professor, temperamental Willie arrives as the remains of a prehistoric creature are discovered in the town's lake, a finding that leads to painful revelations about Willie's family. (384 p)
 
Title: The Moor's Account - Kit #785
Author: Laila Lalami
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Moorish slave Estebanico accompanies Spanish conquistadors on a voyage to the New World. Struggling to survive in the uncharted territory of La Florida Estebanico witnesses the Europeans' brutal treatment of the Indians and dreams of his own freedom. (336 p)
 
Title: Moral Disorder - Kit (Large Print) #380
Author: Margaret Atwood
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
An intriguing patchwork of poignant episodes, Atwood's latest set of stories chronicles 60 years of a Canadian family, from postwar Toronto to a farm in the present.
 
Title: Motherless Brooklyn - Kit #277
Author: Jonathan Lethem
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A P.I. who suffers from Tourette’s Syndrome tries to find out who killed the man who rescued him and three other misfits from a Brooklyn orphanage. (311 p)
 
Title: The Mothers - Kit #940
Author: Brit Bennett
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In entrancing, lyrical prose, The Mothers asks whether a "what if" can be more powerful than an experience itself. If, as time passes, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves, to the communities that have parented us, and to the decisions we make that shape our lives forever. (278 pages)
 
Title: Mountains Beyond Mountains - Kit #338
Author: Tracy Kidder
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A thought-provoking portrait of Harvard professor and world-renowned infectious disease expert Dr. Paul Farmer and his struggle to bring modern healthcare to Haiti and the world. (332 p)
 
Title: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Kit #915
Author: Robin Sloan
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and into the aisles of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after a few days on the job, Clay discovers that the store is more curious than either its name or its gnomic owner might suggest. (288 p)
 
Title: Mrs. Dalloway - Kit #237
Author: Virginia Woolf
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway’s preparations for a party she is to give that evening, Woolf ultimately manages to reveal much more. (212 p)
 
Title: Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker - Kit #718
Author: Jennifer Chiaverini
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Presents a fictionalized account of the friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and her dressmaker Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom from slavery and went on to become a well-known modiste in Washington. (384 p)
 
Title: Mrs. Sherlock Holmes - Kit #931
Author: Brad Ricca
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the true story of Grace Humiston, the lawyer, detective, and first woman U.S. District Attorney who turned her back on New York society life to become one of the nation's greatest crime-fighters during an era when women were still not allowed to vote. (464 p)
 
Title: Ms. Hempel Chronicles - Kit #550
Author: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
Ms. Beatrice Hempel, new to teaching, new to the school, newly engaged, and newly bereft of her idiosyncratic father, struggles to figure out what is expected of her in life and at work. (208 p)
 
Title: My Antonia - Kit #447
Author: Willa Cather
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Despite betrayal and crushing opposition, Antonia steadfastly pursues her quest for happiness—a moving struggle that mirrors the quiet drama of the American landscape. Considered by many to be Cather’s greatest novel. (144 p)
 
Title: My Beloved World - Kit #681
Author: Sonia Sotomayor
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Sotomayor recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself. (432 p)
 
Title: My Brilliant Friend. Book One, Childhood, Adolescence - Kit #854
Author: Elena Ferrante
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The world of Elena and Lila, Neapolitan girls growing up after the Second World War, is small, casually violent, and confined to their poor neighborhood. Lila: smarter and bolder than the others, does what she wants, drawing shyer Elena, who narrates the story, in her wake. (331 p)
 
Title: My Broken Language: A Memoir - #1103
Author: Quiara Alegria Hudes
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Quiara Alegría Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced their defiance in a tight North Philly kitchen. She was awed by her mother and aunts and cousins, but haunted by the unspoken, untold stories of the barrio—even as she tried to find her own voice in the sea of language around her, written and spoken, English and Spanish, bodies and books, Western art and sacred altars. Her family became her private pantheon, a gathering circle of powerful orisha-like women with tragic real-world wounds, and she vowed to tell their stories—but first she’d have to get off the stairs and join the dance. She’d have to find her language.(336 p)
 
Title: My Brother Sam is Dead - Kit (Juvenile) #443
Author: James Lincoln Collier
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town. A young boy tells of the tragic events leading up to his brother's death in the Revolutionary War. The story, based partially on fact, of a Connecticut family divided in loyalties during the Revolutionary War. A young boy tells of the tragic events leading up to his brother's death in the Revolutionary War.
 
Title: My Grandmother's Hands - #1079
Author: Resmaa Menakem
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze. My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies is a call to action for Americans to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body. Author Resmaa Menakem introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide. (300 p)
 
Title: My Life in France - Kit #467
Author: Julia Child
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Exuberant, affectionate, and boundlessly charming, this is the delightful and highly acclaimed memoir from the woman who revolutionized American cooking in the 20th century. (368 p)
 
Title: My Name is Lucy Barton - Kit #864
Author: Elizabeth Strout
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Set in the mid-1980s, Lucy Barton, hospitalized for nine weeks, is surprised when her estranged mother shows up at her bedside. Her mother talks of local gossip, but underneath the banalities, Lucy senses the love that cannot be expressed. A beautiful lyrical story of a mother and daughter and the love they share. (240 p)
 
Title: My Own Words - Kit #957
Author: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In this collection Justice Ginsburg discusses gender equality, the workings of the Supreme Court, being Jewish, law and lawyers in opera, and the value of looking beyond US shores when interpreting the US Constitution. Throughout her life Justice Ginsburg has been (and continues to be) a prolific writer and public speaker. This book’s sampling is selected by Justice Ginsburg and her authorized biographers Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams, who introduce each chapter and provide biographical context and quotes gleaned from hundreds of interviews they have conducted. (400 p)
 
Title: My Sister, the Serial Killer - Kit #1001
Author: Oyinkan Braithwaite
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality is the sisters' saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body, and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures of her dinner to Instagram when she should be mourning her "missing" boyfriend. Not that she gets any credit. (240 p)
 
Title: My Sister's Keeper - Kit #270
Author: Jodi Picoult
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures. (448 p)
 
Title: The Namesake - Kit #278
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s. (336 p)
 
Title: Nation - Kit (Younger Teen) #490
Author: Terry Pratchett
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.
 
Title: Native Son: The Restored Text - Kit #677
Author: Richard Wright
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In 1930s Chicago Bigger Thomas, a young, poor black man, is caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. (504 p)
 
Title: Never Caught : The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave - Kit #995
Author: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
“A crisp and compulsively readable feat of research and storytelling” (USA TODAY), historian Erica Armstrong Dunbar weaves a powerful tale and offers fascinating new scholarship on how one young woman risked everything to gain freedom from the famous founding father. (288 p)
 
Title: Never Let Me Go - Kit #523
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A reunion with two childhood friends draws Kath on a nostalgic odyssey into the supposedly idyllic years of their lives at an isolated private school and a dramatic confrontation with the truth about their childhoods and about their lives in the present. (288 p)
 
Title: Neverhome - Kit #936
Author: Laird Hunt
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Laird Hunt's dazzling new novel throws a light on the adventurous women who chose to fight instead of stay behind. It is also a mystery story: why did Ash leave and her husband stay? Why can she not return? What will she have to go through to make it back home? In gorgeous prose, Hunt's rebellious young heroine fights her way through history, and back home to her husband, and finally into our hearts. (272 pages)
 
Title: New - Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays - #1061
Author: R. Eric Thomas
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
R. Eric Thomas didn’t know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went—whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburban high school, his conservative black church, or his Ivy League college in a big city—he found himself on the outside looking in. In essays by turns hysterical and heartfelt, Thomas reexamines what it means to be an “other” through the lens of his own life experience. (304 p)
 
Title: Niagara Falls, or Does It? - Kit (Juvenile) #433
Author: Henry Winkler
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Fourth-graders Hank, Ashley, and Frankie are excitedly preparing for a magic show at the Rock 'N Bowl when Hank's creative alternative to an English essay lands him in detention and grounded the week of the show.
 
Title: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America - Kit #343
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Determined to find out how anyone could make ends meet on $7 an hour, the author left behind her middle class life as a journalist to try to sustain herself as a low-skilled worker. (256 p)
 
Title: The Nickel Boys - Kit #1033
Author: Colson Whitehead
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling follow-up to The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. (224 p)
 
Title: Night - Kit #139
Author: Elie Wiesel
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
An autobiographical account about Wiesel’s terrifying and tragic experience as a child in Nazi death camps. (120 p)
 
Title: The Night Circus - Kit #624
Author: Erin Morgenstern
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
When Prospero the Enchanter discovers that he has a young daughter, Celia with extraordinary magical talents, he wastes no time in setting up a competition between her and Marco, the protégé of his longtime adversary. (516 p)
 
Title: The Nightingale - Kit #893
Author: Kristin Hannah
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
When the Second World War strikes, two sisters in the French countryside find themselves facing horrific situations and responding in ways they never thought possible as bravery and resistance take different forms in each of their actions. (608 p)
 
Title: Nineteen Eighty-Four - Kit # 877
Author: George Orwell
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. (328 p)
 
Title: Nineteen Minutes - Kit #476
Author: Jodi Picoult
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In the aftermath of a small-town school shooting, lawyer Jordan McAfee finds himself defending a youth who desperately needs someone on his side, while detective Patrick Ducharme works with a primary witness, the daughter of the judge assigned to the case. (455 p)
 
Title: No More Dead Dogs - Kit (Juvenile) #494
Author: Gordon Korman
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production.
 
Title: Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century - -#1054
Author: Jessica Bruder
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads. On frequently traveled routes between seasonal jobs, Jessica Bruder meets people from all walks of life: a former professor, a McDonald’s vice president, a minister, a college administrator, and a motorcycle cop, among many others including her irrepressible protagonist, a onetime cocktail waitress, Home Depot clerk, and general contractor named Linda May. In a secondhand vehicle she christens “Van Halen,” Bruder hits the road to get to know her subjects more intimately. (288 p)
 
Title: Nora Webster - Kit #769
Author: Colm To´ibi´n
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Struggling with grief and financial hardships after the death of her beloved husband, Nora struggles to support her four children and clings to secrecy in the intrusive Irish community of her childhood before finding her voice and creating a new life for herself. (400 p)
 
Title: Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West - Kit #601
Author: Dorothy Wickenden
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In the summer of 1916, two young women, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in the wilds of northwestern Colorado. (320 p)
 
Title: Nutshell - Kit #894
Author: Ian McEwan
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Trudy has betrayed her husband, John with his brother Claude, and the two of them have a murderous plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb. Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit. (224 p)
 
Title: O Pioneers! - Kit #032
Author: Willa Cather
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The classic story of a 19th century Nebraska family coming to grips with farm life and personal relationships. (116 p)
 
Title: Obedience: A Novel - Kit #795
Author: Will Lavender
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The students of Winchester University's class on Logic and Reasoning are given a strange assignment by the creepy Professor Williams, to follow a series of clues to find a missing girl who will be murdered if she has not been found by the end of the term.
 
Title: Of Women and Salt: A Novel - #1099
Author: Gabriela Garcia
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born. In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. (224 p)
 
Title: Olive Kitteridge - Kit #508
Author: Elizabeth Strout
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her. Winner of the Puliter Prize. (336 p)
 
Title: On Agate Hill - Kit (Large Print) #366
Author: Lee Smith
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
Diaries, letters, court documents, poems and ballads gradually divulge the tale of Molly Petree, a girl orphaned in North Carolina in the late 1860s whose life unfolds through Reconstruction
 
Title: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel - #1050
Author: Ocean Vuong
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. (256 p)
 
Title: The One and Only Ivan - Kit (Juvenile) #762
Author: Katherine Applegate
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies 4 Extra
Location: Main Children
When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life. Winner of the Newberry Medal
 
Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude - Kit #162
Author: Gabriel Garci´a Ma´rquez
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A weaving of spiritual, personal and political worlds into a history of the mysterious and magical Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town. (417 p)
 
Title: One Thousand White Women, the Journals of May Dodd - Kit #422
Author: Jim Fergus
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A colorful assembly of women, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians, a covert and controversial "Brides for Indians" program intended to help assimilate the Indians. (496 p)
 
Title: One True Thing - Kit #160
Author: Anna Quindlen
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A daughter is arrested for the murder of her critically ill mother in a mercy killing. (320 p)
 
Title: The One-in-a-Million Boy - Kit #937
Author: Monica Wood
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
The story of your life never starts at the beginning. Don't they teach you anything at school? So says 104-year-old Ona to the 11-year-old boy who's been sent to help her out every Saturday morning. As he refills the bird feeders and tidies the garden shed, Ona tells him about her long life, from first love to second chances. Soon she's confessing secrets she has kept hidden for decades. (336 p)
 
Title: Ordinary Grace - Kit #803
Author: William Kent Krueger
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Looking back at a tragic event that occurred during his thirteenth year, Frank Drum explores how a complicated web of secrets, adultery, and betrayal shattered his Methodist family and their small 1961 Minnesota community. Winner of the Edgar Best Novel Award. (336 p)
 
Title: Orphan Train - Kit #674
Author: Christina Baker Kline
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
As a child Vivian was packed off on one of the many orphan trains intended to bring children to Midwestern families who would care for them. Now elderly, she hires foster child Molly to help clean out her attic. As Molly sorts through old boxes, Vivian begins to share stories from her past. (275 p)
 
Title: The Other Black Girl: A Novel - Kit #1116
Author: Zakiya Dalila Harris
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she’s thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They’ve only just started comparing natural hair care regimens, though, when a string of uncomfortable events elevates Hazel to Office Darling, and Nella is left in the dust. Then the notes begin to appear on Nella’s desk: LEAVE WAGNER. NOW. (368 p)
 
Title: The Other Einstein - Kit #1032
Author: Marie Benedict
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In the tradition of Beatriz Williams and Paula McClain, Marie Benedict's The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. This novel resurrects Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated. (336 p)
 
Title: The Other Side of Everything - Kit #1000
Author: Lauren Doyle Owens
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
After her elderly neighbor is murdered, Amy Unger, a fledgling artist and cancer survivor, takes to the canvas in an effort to make sense of her neighbor’s death. Painting helps Amy recover from the devastating illness that ended her marriage and left her life in ruin. But when her paintings prove to be too realistic, her neighbors grow suspicious, and the murderer, still lurking, finds his way to her door. (288 p)
 
Title: The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates - Kit #569
Author: Wes Moore
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other. Both grew up fatherless and had difficult childhoods. But one grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar and White House Fellow, while the other ended up a convicted murderer. (250 p)
 
Title: The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates - Kit (Older Teen) #700
Author: Wes Moore
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other. Both grew up fatherless in similar Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods; both hung out on street corners with their crews; both ran into trouble with the police. How, then, did one grow up to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader, while the other ended up a convicted murderer serving a life sentence? 
 
Title: Our Missing Hearts: A Novel - #1165
Author: Celeste Ng
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old. He doesn’t know what happened to her—only that her books have been banned—and he resents that she cared more about her work than about him. Then one day, Bird receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, and soon he is pulled into a quest to find her. (352 p)
 
Title: Our Souls at Night - Kit #855
Author: Kent Haruf
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In Holt, Colorado, widower Louis Waters is initially thrown when the widowed Addie Moore suggests that they spend time together, in bed, to stave off loneliness, but soon they are exchanging confidences and memories. (192 p)
 
Title: Out of Africa ; And, Shadows on the Grass - Kit #804
Author: Isak Dinesen
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya. (480 p)
 
Title: Outlawed: A Novel - #1086
Author: Anna North
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, her survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows. She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of outlaws led by a preacher-turned-robber known to all as the Kid. Charismatic, grandiose, and mercurial, the Kid is determined to create a safe haven for outcast women. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan that may get them all killed. (272 p)
 
Title: Pachinko - Kit #953
Author: Min Chin Lee
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. (512 p)
 
Title: The Palace of Illusions - Kit #635
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Panchaali, wife of the five legendary Pandavas brothers, offers her own version of the ancient Indian epic, The Mahabharat, as she chronicles the story of her magical birth, the problems of dealing with five husbands who have been cheated of their birthright, the trials she endures, and her attraction to her husband's enemy. (384 p)
 
Title: Palaces for the People... - Kit #1016
Author: Eric Klinenberg
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country hasn’t seen since the Civil War. Pundits and politicians are calling for us to come together and find common purpose. But how, exactly, can this be done? In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, childcare centers, churches, and parks where crucial connections are formed. (304 p)
 
Title: A Parchment of Leaves - Kit #327
Author: Silas House
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In 1917, a Cherokee woman who leaves her community to marry a white man finds herself isolated and discriminated against as she tries to settle into her new life. (306 p)
 
Title: The Paris Apartment: A Novel - #1148
Author: Lucy Foley
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn’t sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn’t say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up – to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? – he’s not there. (384 p)
 
Title: The Paris Wife - Kit #626
Author: Paula McLain
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Meeting through mutual friends in Chicago, Hadley is intrigued by brash "beautiful boy" Ernest Hemingway, and after a brief courtship and small wedding, they take off for Paris, where Hadley makes a convincing transformation from an overprotected child to a game and brave young woman. (331 p)
 
Title: Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife - Kit #594
Author: Gioia Diliberto
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Hadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway were the golden couple of Paris in the twenties. Diliberto explores their passionate courtship, their family life in Paris with baby Bumby, and their thrilling, adventurous relationship. (400 p)
 
Title: Passing - Kit #772
Author: Nella Larsen
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
First published in 1929, Passing is a remarkable exploration of the shifting racial and sexual boundaries in America. Larsen, a premier writer of the Harlem Renaissance, captures the rewards and dangers faced by two Negro women who pass for white in a deeply segregated world. (160 p)
 
Title: A Patchwork Planet - Kit (Large Print) #190
Author: Anne Tyler
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies
Location: Main Library
Relates the story of Baltimore's Barnaby Gaitlin, a 29-year-old threadbare nonconformist and the black sheep of an affluent Baltimore family who has a history of misdemeanors and a fair-weather girlfriend.
 
Title: Peace Like a River - Kit #294
Author: Leif Enger
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The quiet 1960s midwestern life of the Land family is upended when son Davy kills two teenage boys who have come to harm the family. (320 p)
 
Title: A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean - Kit #483
Author: Tori Murden McClure
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Kentuckian Tori McClure rowed across the Atlantic Ocean solo in a twenty-three-foot plywood boat with no motor or sail. A true story of high adventure -- and of her personal quest to discover that embracing her own humanity was more important than superhuman feats. (304 p)
 
Title: People of the Book - Kit #504
Author: Geraldine Brooks
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Offered a coveted job to analyze and conserve a priceless Sarajevo Haggadah, Australian rare-book expert Hanna Heath discovers a series of tiny artifacts in the volume's ancient binding that reveal its historically significant origins. (372 p)
 
Title: Persepolis - Kit #517
Author: Marjane Satrapi
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Told in graphic novel format, the great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life. (160 p)
 
Title: The Personal Librarian - Kit #1101
Author: Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation, from New York Times bestselling authors Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray. (352 p)
 
Title: Le Petit Prince - Kit #565
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupe´ry
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life. (in French, 96 p)
 
Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Kit #034
Author: Oscar Wilde
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A classic tale of a well-to-do Englishman who buys his youth from the Devil, remaining young and handsome as his portrait reflects the evil that consumes his life. (140 p)
 
Title: Pictures of Hollis Woods - Kit (Juvenile) #435
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
 
Title: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Kit #061
Author: Annie Dillard
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A series of essays that combines scientific observation, philosophy and personal meditation with beautifully written prose. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. (304 p)
 
Title: The Pioneers - #1078
Author: David McCullough
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that’s “as resonant today as ever” (The Wall Street Journal)—the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would define our country. (352 p)
 
Title: The Plague of Doves - Kit (Large Print) #444
Author: Louise Erdrich
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
 
Title: Plainsong - Kit #525
Author: Kent Haruf
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
An unlikely extended family is formed when a high school teacher helps a pregnant student make a home with two elderly bachelor ranchers. (301 p)
 
Title: The Poisonwood Bible - Kit #196
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A story of a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family on a mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. A suspenseful epic of one family’s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction. (576 p)
 
Title: Pope Joan : A Novel - Kit #403
Author: Donna Woolfolk Cross
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
For a thousand years her existence has been denied. She is a legend that will not die–Pope Joan, the ninth-century woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to become the only female ever to sit on the throne of St. Peter. (425 p)
 
Title: The Portrait of a Lady - Kit #821
Author: Henry James
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt, she is resolved to determine her own fate, But then she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond, who, beneath his veneer of charm and cultivation, is cruelty itself. (768 p)
 
Title: Possessing the Secret of Joy - Kit #163
Author: Alice Walker
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Confronting the modern controversial issue of genital mutilation, Walker’s main character, Tashi struggles with understanding and madness. (286 p)
 
Title: The Postmistress - Kit (Large Print) #560
Author: Sarah Blake
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Large Print Copies
Location: Main Library
The stories of a small Cape Cod postmistress and an American radio reporter stationed in London collide on the eve of the United States's entrance into World War II, a meeting that is shaped by a broken promise to deliver a letter.
 
Title: The Power - Kit #966
Author: Naomi Alderman
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In The Power, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power--they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets. (400 p)
 
Title: Praise Song for the Butterflies - Kit #986
Author: Bernice McFadden
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Abeo Kata lives a comfortable, happy life in West Africa as the privileged nine-year-old daughter of a government employee and stay-at-home mother. But when the Katas' idyllic lifestyle takes a turn for the worse, Abeo's father, following his mother's advice, places the girl in a religious shrine, hoping that the sacrifice of his daughter will serve as atonement for the crimes of his ancestors. Unspeakable acts befall Abeo for the fifteen years she is held in the shrine. (224 p)
 
Title: A Prayer For Owen Meany - Kit #283
Author: John Irving
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
Owen Meany, a dwarfish boy with a strange voice, accidentally kills his best friend's mom with a baseball and believes--accurately--that he is an instrument of God to be redeemed by martyrdom. (627 p)
 
Title: Pride and Prejudice - Kit #067
Author: Jane Austen
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
An 18th century comedy of manners about a family’s attempts to marry off five daughters. (480 p)
 
Title: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Kit #618
Author: Muriel Spark
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Miss Jean Brodie teaches school and influences the lives of young girls in Edinburgh during the 1930s, until one of them betrays her. (160 p)
 
Title: The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure - Kit #983
Author: William Goldman
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
As Florin and Guilder teeter on the verge of war, the reluctant Princess Buttercup is devastated by the loss of her true love, kidnapped by a mercenary and his henchman, rescued by a pirate, forced to marry Prince Humperdinck, and rescued once again by the very crew who absconded with her in the first place. In the course of this dazzling adventure, she'll meet Vizzini—the criminal philosopher who'll do anything for a bag of gold; Fezzik—the gentle giant; Inigo—the Spaniard whose steel thirsts for revenge; and Count Rugen—the evil mastermind behind it all. Foiling all their plans and jumping into their stories is Westley, Princess Buttercup’s one true love and a very good friend of a very dangerous pirate. (456 p)
 
Title: El Principito - Kit #566
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupe´ry
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life. (in Spanish, 96 p)
 
Title: Prodigal Summer - Kit #328
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Kentucky born author weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives in southern Appalachia. (464 p)
 
Title: The Professor and the Madman: a Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary - Kit #171
Author: Simon Winchester
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Although confined to a British insane asylum, an American civil war veteran contributes to the Oxford English Dictionary. (242 p)
 
Title: Project Hail Mary - #1121
Author: Andy Weir
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. (496 p)
 
Title: A Proposal They Can't Refuse: A Rom-Com Novel - Kit #1117
Author: Natalie Caña
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Natalie Caña turns up the heat, humor and heart in this debut rom-com about a Puerto Rican chef and an Irish American whiskey distiller forced into a fake engagement by their scheming octogenarian grandfathers. (336 p)
 
Title: Push : A Novel - Kit #390
Author: Sapphire
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Told from the point of view of an illiterate, brutalized Harlem teenager, this intense, explicit novel charts the psychic damage of the most ghettoized of inner-city inhabitants. (192 p)
 
Title: The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution - #1157
Author: Joseph J. Ellis
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Founding Brothers tells the unexpected story of America’s second great founding and of the men most responsible—Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, John Jay, and James Madison. (320 p)
 
Title: The Queen's Gambit - #1042
Author: Walter Tevis
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she’s competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting.(256 p)
 
Title: The Quiet American - Kit #289
Author: Graham Greene
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In 1952, while the French Army in Indo-China is grappling with the Vietnamese, back at Saigon a young and high-minded American begins to channel economic aid to a 'Third Force'. (180 p)
 
Title: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women - #1067
Author: Kate Moore
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
The Radium Girls is a gruesome account of the effects of radium on young women who worked with radium-based paint in the first part of the twentieth century. Centering on two exploitative radium plants in Orange, New Jersey and Ottawa, Illinois, the sad story follows the lives and deaths of female workers who became known as the radium girls. (504 p)
 
Title: Ramona Quimby, age 8 - Kit (Juvenile) #436
Author: Beverly Cleary
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
The further adventures and misadventures of Ramona Quimby feature the heroine as she copes with her family, friends, and turning eight.
 
Title: The Razor's Edge - Kit #649
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In 1918, leaving wealth and loved ones behind, Larry Darrell journeys to the mountains of India in search of spiritual wisdom. But, Larry learns that the path to enlightenment is as painful and narrow as treading the sharp edge of a razor. (320 p)
 
Title: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - Kit #960
Author: Katarina Bivald
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her book-loving pen pal, Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds Amy's funeral guests just leaving. The residents of Broken Wheel are happy to look after their bewildered visitor--there's not much else to do in a dying small town that's almost beyond repair. You certainly wouldn't open a bookstore. And definitely not with the tourist in charge. You'd need a vacant storefront (Main Street is full of them), books (Amy's house is full of them), and...customers. The bookstore might be a little quirky. Then again, so is Sara. But Broken Wheel's own story might be more eccentric and surprising than she thought. (400 p)
 
Title: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - Kit #309
Author: Azar Nafisi
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A glimpse into women’s lives in revolutionary Iran; the story of the author and the women invited into her home to read and discuss forbidden works of Western Literature. (400 p)
 
Title: Ready Player One - Kit #907
Author: Ernest Cline
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the  OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. When Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape. (384 p)
 
Title: Ready Player One-Kit (Older Teen)
Author: Ernest Cline
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 COPIES
Location: Main Children
Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline. The story, set in a dystopia in 2045, follows protagonist Wade Watts on his search for an Easter egg in a worldwide virtual reality game, the discovery of which would lead him to inherit the game creator's fortune.
 
Title: Rebecca - Kit #145
Author: Daphne Du Maurier
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A young bride arriving at Manderley, is drawn into the life of the first Mrs. De Winter, the beautiful Rebecca, dead, but not forgotten. (416 p)
 
Title: Red at the Bone - Kit #1034
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
An unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes, and exposes the private hopes, disappointments, and longings that can bind or divide us from each other. (224 p)
 
Title: The Red Canoe - Kit #1125
Author: Wayne Johnson
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Buck, government name Michael Fineday, Ojibwe name Miskwa’ doden (Red Deer) is on the brink of suicide. He has just been served divorce papers by his wife Naomi, who is fed up with his savior complex and the danger it often attracts to their door. Living on the border of Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community reservation, Buck makes a living as a boatbuilder and carpenter. He spends his days alone, trying to win the trust of a feral cat…until a semi-feral girl shows up, fascinated by the canoe Buck is building. (344 p)
 
Title: The Red Garden - Kit #604
Author: Alice Hoffman
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Fourteen freestanding but consecutive stories trace the life of the town of Blackwell, Mass., from its founding in 1750 up to the present as the founders' descendents connect to the land and each other. (304 p)
 
Title: Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad's Fake Diving Resort - Kit #1126
Author: Raffi Berg
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort opened for business. Catering for divers, it attracted guests from around the world. Little did the holidaymakers know that the staff were undercover spies, working for the Mossad - the Israeli secret service. Written in collaboration with operatives involved in the mission, endorsed as the definitive account and including an afterword from the commander who went on to become the head of the Mossad, this is the complete, never-before-heard, gripping tale of a top-secret and often hazardous operation. (320 p)
 
Title: The Red Tent - Kit (Large Print) #217
Author: Anita Diamant
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 8 Large Print Copies
Location: Main Library
A fictional retelling of Genesis stories of the daily life of women, as told by Dinah, daughter of Jacob and Leah. Winner of Indies Choice Fiction Award
 
Title: The Red Tent - Kit #201
Author: Anita Diamant
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A fictional retelling of Genesis stories of the daily life of women, as told by Dinah, daughter of Jacob and Leah. (352 p)
 
Title: A Reliable Wife - Kit #484
Author: Robert Goolrick
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Ralph Truitt, a wealthy businessman with a troubled past who lives in a remote nineteenth-century Wisconsin town, has advertised for a reliable wife; and his ad is answered by Catherine Land, a woman who makes every effort to hide her own dark secrets. (336 p)
 
Title: The Remains of the Day - Kit #015
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The fictional account of an aging butler recalling his life at Darlington Hall which includes intrigue of world politics and upper-class English society. Winner of the Man Booker Prize. (245 p)
 
Title: Remarkable Creatures - Kit (Large Print) #529
Author: Tracy Chevalier
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
When Mary Anning uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home on the English coast, she sets the townspeople to vicious gossip and the scientific world alight.
 
Title: Remembering Babylon - Kit #077
Author: David Malouf
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A compelling tale of a young Australian left for dead who is brought up by the Aborigines, and the bigotry he faces when he returns to Australian society. (224 p)
 
Title: The Return of the Soldier - Kit #925
Author: Rebecca West
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and a soldier suffering from shell-shock. This novel of an enclosed world invaded by public events also embodies in its characters the shifts in England's class structures at the beginning of the twentieth century. (112 p)
 
Title: Riding the Rails: My Unexpected Adventures in Medicine, City Hall and Public Service - #1162
Author: Harvey Sloane
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
When one looks up in the dictionary the term “public servant” Harvey Sloane’s name is the example given. From a commitment to medical patients who lacked access and financial support, to neighborhoods throughout Louisville and Jefferson County who needed basic support for social services and infrastructure support, Harvey Sloane was their advocate. (315 p)
 
Title: Rise and Shine: a Novel - Kit (Large Print) #383
Author: Anna Quindlen
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
Muttering a string of bitter profanities sotto voce at the conclusion of a particularly contentious interview, Meghan Fitzmaurice, the queen of morning television, realizes too late that her microphone is still on.
 
Title: The River Between Us - Kit (Younger Teen) #860
Author: Richard Peck
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.
 
Title: The River King - Kit #664
Author: Alice Hoffman
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The two separate worlds of a small Massachusetts town--the residents and the students at the local prep school--are thrust together after an inexplicable death occurs. (336 p)
 
Title: River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey - Kit #465
Author: Candice Millard
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon.
 
Title: Robinson Crusoe - Kit #962
Author: Daniel Defoe
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three decades. An ordinary man struggling to survive in extraordinary circumstances, Robinson Crusoe wrestles with fate and the nature of God. This edition features maps. (288 p)
 
Title: Rocket Boys : A Memoir - Kit #150
Author: Homer H. Hickam
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
An inspiring account of the author’s coming of age in a West Virginia mining town, and the remarkable events that lead him to a career with NASA. (368 p)
 
Title: Room - Kit #817
Author: Emma Donoghue
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A five-year-old narrates a story about his life growing up in a single room where his mother aims to protect him from the man who kidnapped her when she was a teenager and has held her prisoner for seven years. (352 p)
 
Title: A Room of One's Own - Kit #164
Author: Virginia Woolf
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A brilliant essay on the importance of freedom for women, especially as it relates to creative writing. (128 p)
 
Title: The Rosie Project - Kit #725
Author: Graeme C. Simsion
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A professor of genetics sets up a project designed to find him the perfect wife, starting with a very specific questionnaire. Then he meets Rosie, who is everything he's not looking for in a wife, but she ends up his friend as he helps her try and find her biological father. (295 p)
 
Title: Rules of Civility - Kit #613
Author: Amor Towles
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A chance encounter in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow. (368 p)
 
Title: Runaway - Kit (Large Print) #368
Author: Alice Munro
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies + audio book
Location: Main Library
These short stories all concern Canadian woman facing pivotal moments in their lives, even if they're not aware of it at the moment. Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize
 
Title: Runaway: Notes on the Myths that Made Me - #1166
Author: Erin Keane
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
From Erin Keane, editor in chief at Salon, comes a touching memoir about the search for truths in the stories families tell. In 1970, Erin Keane’s mother ran away from home for the first time. She was thirteen years old. Over the next several years, and under two assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America, experiencing freedom, hardship, and tragedy. At fifteen, she met a man in New York City and married him. He was thirty-six. Though a deft balance of journalistic digging, cultural criticism, and poetic reimagining, Keane pieces together the true story of her mother’s teenage years, questioning almost everything she’s been told about her parents and their relationship. (250 p)
 
Title: Saint Monkey - Kit #789
Author: Jacinda Townsend
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Two friends from a 1950s small Black community in hardscrabble eastern Kentucky try to retain their friendship when one of them is invited to New York to play the Apollo Theater with a jazz group while the other sinks lower into the poverty and care of a scraping-by rural life. (368 p)
 
Title: Salvage the Bones - Kit #588
Author: Jesmyn Ward
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups. Winner of National Book Award. (288 p)
 
Title: The Sandcastle Girls - Kit #647
Author: Chris Bohjalian
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Parallel stories of a woman who falls in love with an Armenian soldier during the Armenian Genocide and a modern-day New Yorker prompted to rediscover her Armenian past. (320 p)
 
Title: Sarah's Key - Kit #485
Author: Tatiana de Rosnay
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
On the sixtieth anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond embarks on an investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah, a young girl caught up in the raid. (295 p)
 
Title: Savvy - Kit (Juvenile) #498
Author: Ingrid Law
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.
 
Title: The Screwtape Letters: with Screwtape Proposes a Toast - Kit #404
Author: C. S. Lewis
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In this humorous and perceptive exchange between two devils, C. S. Lewis delves into moral questions about good vs. evil, temptation, repentance, and grace. Through this wonderful tale, the reader emerges with a better understanding of what it means to live a faithful life. (209 p)
 
Title: Sea of Tranquility - #1137
Author: Emily St. John Mandel
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. (272 p)
 
Title: Seabiscuit : An American Legend - Kit #216
Author: Laura Hillenbrand
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The spellbinding true story of this marvelous animal, the world he lived in, and the men who staked their lives and fortunes on his dazzling career. (399 p)
 
Title: The Second Life of Mirielle West - Kit #1106
Author: Amanda Skenandore
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Based on the true story of America’s only leper colony, The Second Life of Mirielle West brings vividly to life the Louisiana institution known as Carville, where thousands of people were stripped of their civil rights, branded as lepers, and forcibly quarantined throughout the entire 20th century. As a registered nurse, Amanda Skenandore’s medical background adds layers of detail and authenticity to the experiences of patients and medical professionals at Carville – the isolation, stigma, experimental treatments, and disparate community. (384 p)
 
Title: The Secret History - Kit #711
Author: Donna Tartt
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A transfer student from a small town in California, Richard Papen is determined to affect the ways of his wealthy Hampden College peers, and he begins his intense studies under the tutelage of eccentric Julian Morrow. (576 p)
 
Title: The Secret Life of Bees - Kit #236
Author: Sue Monk Kidd
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A young girl returns to her dead mother’s Southern hometown where she meets an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters. (352 p)
 
Title: The Secrets of Mary Bowser - Kit #673
Author: Lois Leveen
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Based on the true story of Mary Bowser, an educated freedwoman who worked with the Underground Railroad and ultimately posed as an illiterate slave in the Confederate White House in order to spy on President Jefferson Davis. (453 p)
 
Title: Seedfolks - Kit (Juvenile) #500
Author: Paul Fleischman
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.
 
Title: Semiosis - Kit #982
Author: Sue Burke
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Colonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but they’ll have to survive on the one they found. They don’t realize another life form watches...and waits... Only mutual communication can forge an alliance with the planet's sentient species and prove that humans are more than tools. (336 p)
 
Title: The Sentence: A Novel - Kit #1127
Author: Louise Erdrich
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading "with murderous attention," must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning. (400 p)
 
Title: The Seven Storey Mountain - Kit #310
Author: Thomas Merton
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In 1941, a young man decided to give up a promising literary career to enter a monastery in Kentucky, from where he proceeded to become one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. (496 p)
 
Title: Seventh Heaven - Kit #138
Author: Alice Hoffman
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
An unconventional single mother moves to a Long Island suburb in 1959, and the place will never be the same. (272 p)
 
Title: Severance - Kit #990
Author: Ling Ma
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance. (304 p)
 
Title: The Shadow of the Wind - Kit #478
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafo´n
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written. (487 p)
 
Title: Shakespeare: The World As Stage - Kit #830
Author: Bill Bryson
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Shakespeare’s biographical information has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself rather than the myths. (224 p)
 
Title: Shanghai Girls - Kit #507
Author: Lisa See
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Forced to leave Shanghai when their father sells them to California suitors, sisters May and Pearl struggle to adapt to life in 1930s Los Angeles while still bound to old customs, as they face discrimination and confront a life-altering secret. (322 p)
 
Title: Shirley : A Novel - Kit #787
Author: Susan Scarf Merrell
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Novelist Shirley Jackson and her professor husband take a graduate student and his pregnant wife into their family home. Soon the young wife Rose is obsessed with Jackson, her life and work, and fascinated with the case of a female student who vanished 20 years ago. (288 p)
 
Title: Silence - Kit #885
Author: Shusaku Endo
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A Portuguese priest arrives from Rome to rebuild the outlawed, persecuted and shattered Christian community in feudal Japan and to find out why another tortured priest saved his own life by apostatizing. (256 p)
 
Title: The Silent Patient - #1068
Author: Alex Michaelides
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. (368 p)
 
Title: The Silver Linings Playbook - Kit #999
Author: Matthew Quick
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Meet Pat Peoples. Pat has a theory: his life is a movie produced by God. And his God-given mission is to become physically fit and emotionally literate, whereupon God will ensure him a happy ending--the return of his estranged wife, Nikki. (304 p)
 
Title: Silver Sparrow - Kit #636
Author: Tayari Jones
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In 1980s Atlanta, James Witherspoon is living a double life. He has two families, a public one and a secret one. When the daughters from each family become friends, James' secrets are revealed and lives are changed forever. (368 p)
 
Title: Sing, Unburied, Sing - Kit #954
Author: Jesmyn Ward
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. He doesn’t lack in fathers to study, chief among them his Black grandfather, Pop. But there are other men who complicate his understanding: his absent white father, Michael, who is being released from prison; his absent white grandfather, Big Joseph, who won’t acknowledge his existence; and the memories of his dead uncle, Given, who died as a teenager. (320 p)
 
Title: Singing in the Comeback Choir - Kit #140
Author: Bebe Moore Campbell
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A story of a woman and the grandmother who raised her rediscovering faith, hope and love. (305 p)
 
Title: Sisters - Kit (Juvenile) #838
Author: Raina Telgemeier
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
In a semi-autobiographical graphic novel, Raina's disappointing bond with a cranky, independent younger sister is further challenged by the arrival of a baby brother and an estrangement in their parents' marriage.
 
Title: Six Days in August: The Story of Stockholm Syndrome - #1069
Author: David King
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
A rollicking account of the bizarre hostage drama that gave rise to the term "Stockholm syndrome." Based on a wealth of previously unpublished sources, including rare film footage and unprecedented access to the main participants, Six Days in August captures the surreal events in their entirety, on an almost minute-by-minute basis. (304 p)
 
Title: The Skin I'm In - Kit (Younger Teen) #497
Author: Sharon Flake
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.
 
Title: Slam - Kit (Older Teen) #100
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.
 
Title: Slaughterhouse-Five - Kit #153
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A fictional account of Vonnegut’s experience as a prisoner of war during World War II and, in his words, is about the inhumanity of many of man’s inventions to man. (288 p)
 
Title: The Snow Child - Kit #733
Author: Eowyn Ivey
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
A childless couple working a farm in the brutal landscape of 1920 Alaska discover a little girl living in the wilderness with a red fox as a companion, and begin to love the strange, almost-supernatural child as their own. (389 p)
 
Title: Snow Falling on Cedars - Kit #025
Author: David Guterson
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A 1954 murder trial in an island community off the coast of Washington state broadens into an exploration of war, race, and the mysteries of human motivation. (460 p)
 
Title: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, a Novel - Kit #414
Author: Lisa See
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A story of friendship set in nineteenth-century China follows an elderly woman and her companion as they communicate their hopes, dreams, joys, and tragedies through a unique secret language. (288 p)
 
Title: Snow in August - Kit #159
Author: Pete Hamill
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A story of friendship between a Jewish rabbi and a Catholic boy, who battle anti-Semitic toughs in 1947 Boston with ancient magic and the power of words. (384 p)
 
Title: So Big - Kit #637
Author: Edna Ferber
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The unforgettable story of Selina Peake DeJong, a gambler's daughter, and her struggles to stay afloat and maintain her dignity and her sanity in the face of marriage, widowhood, and single parenthood. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. (288 p)
 
Title: Sold on a Monday - Kit # 1071
Author: Kristina McNorris
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
2 children for Sale: The sign is a last resort. It sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931, but could be found anywhere in an era of breadlines, bank runs and broken dreams. For struggling reporter Ellis Reed, the gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family's dark past. (352 p)
 
Title: Solito: A Memoir - #1150
Author: Javier Zamora
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito provides an immediate and intimate account not only of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also of the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is Javier Zamora’s story, but it’s also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home. (416 p)
 
Title: Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir - #1104
Author: Ashley C. Ford
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Somebody’s Daughter steps into the world of growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration, exploring how isolating and complex such a childhood can be. As Ashley battles her body and her environment, she embarks on a powerful journey to find the threads between who she is and what she was born into, and the complicated familial love that often binds them. (224 p)
 
Title: The Song of the Lark - #1144
Author: Willa Cather
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Inspired by Willa Cather’s own development as a novelist and by the career of an opera diva, The Song of the Lark examines the themes of the artist’s relationship with family and society, themes that would dominate all of Cather’s best fiction. (238 p)
 
Title: Song Yet Sung - Kit #396
Author: James McBride
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Liz Spocott, a beautiful young runaway slave, suffers a nasty head wound. When she awakes, she can see the future—from the near-future to Martin Luther King to hip-hop—in her dreams. Liz's visions help her and her fellow slaves escape, but soon there are new dangers on her trail. (369 p)
 
Title: The Songs of Trees : Stories From Nature's Great Connectors - Kit #973
Author: David George Haskell
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
David Haskell has won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world. Now, he brings his powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees, exploring connections with people, microbes, fungi, and other plants and animals. He takes us to trees in cities (from Manhattan to Jerusalem), forests (Amazonian, North American, and boreal) and areas on the front lines of environmental change (eroding coastlines, burned mountainsides, and war zones.) (304 p)
 
Title: The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels - Kit #1108
Author: John Meacham
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of our nature” have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and illuminating the courage of such influential citizen activists as Martin Luther King, Jr., early suffragettes Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt, civil rights pioneers Rosa Parks and John Lewis, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Army-McCarthy hearings lawyer Joseph N. Welch, Meacham brings vividly to life turning points in American history. (416 p)
 
Title: Southernmost - Kit #988
Author: Silas House
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In the aftermath of a flood that washes away much of a small Tennessee town, evangelical preacher Asher Sharp offers shelter to two gay men. In doing so, he starts to see his life anew—and risks losing everything: his wife, locked into her religious prejudices; his congregation, which shuns Asher after he delivers a passionate sermon in defense of tolerance; and his young son, Justin, caught in the middle of what turns into a bitter custody battle. (352 p)
 
Title: The Sparrow - Kit #316
Author: Mary Doria Russell
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The sole survivor of a crew sent to explore a new planet, Jesuit priest Emilio Sandoz discovers an alien civilization that raises questions about the very essence of humanity, an encounter that leads Sandoz to a public inquisition and the destruction of his faith. (408 p)
 
Title: Speak No Evil - Kit #981
Author: Uzodinma Iweala
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
On the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, D.C., he’s a top student and a track star at his prestigious private high school. Bound for Harvard in the fall, his prospects are bright. But Niru has a painful secret: he is queer—an abominable sin to his conservative Nigerian parents. No one knows except Meredith, his best friend, the daughter of prominent Washington insiders—and the one person who seems not to judge him. (240 p)
 
Title: A Spool of Blue Thread - Kit #832
Author: Anne Tyler
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Three generations of Whitshanks have lived in the family home in Baltimore since the 1920s, in which they have loved, squabbled and protected secrets. Now there are mounting tensions among the grown Whitshank siblings as their aging parents need looking after. (368 p)
 
Title: Stargirl - Kit (Younger Teen) #428
Author: Jerry Spinelli
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
 
Title: The Stars are Fire - Kit #959
Author: Anita Shreve
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In October 1947, Grace Holland is experiencing two simultaneous droughts. An unseasonably hot, dry summer has turned the state of Maine into a tinderbox, and Grace and her husband, Gene, have fallen out of love and barely speak. Five months pregnant and caring for two toddlers, Grace has resigned herself to a life of loneliness and domestic chores. One night she awakes to find that wildfires are racing down the coast, closer and closer to her house. (320 p)
 
Title: State of Wonder - Kit #600
Author: Ann Patchett
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, scientific miracles, and spiritual transformations, Dr. Marina Singh embarks upon an uncertain odyssey to find her former mentor in the insect-infested Amazon. (384 p)
 
Title: Station Eleven - Kit #770
Author: Emily St. John Mandel
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Twenty years after a devastating flu pandemic a small troupe of actors and musicians moves between the settlements of the altered world performing Shakespeare, dedicating themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. (352 p)
 
Title: Still Alice - Kit #458
Author: Lisa Genova
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A compelling novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by a first-time author who holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience. (292 p)
 
Title: The Stone Diaries - Kit #021
Author: Carol Shields
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A fictional account of one woman’s life presented through diary entries revealing her childhood, marriage, motherhood, and widowed years. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. (304 p)
 
Title: Stones from the River - Kit #052
Author: Ursula Hegi
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A dwarf becomes the librarian of a small German town. The work makes her privy to many of the town's secrets and she uses them to set people against each other. It's her way of paying them back for the taunts and humiliations she has endured. (525 p)
 
Title: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry - Kit #739
Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A. J. Fikry’s life is not at all what he expected it to be. He lives alone, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. But when a mysterious package appears at the bookstore, its unexpected arrival gives Fikry the chance to make his life over--and see everything anew. (288 p)
 
Title: The Story of a Soul: the Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux - Kit #934
Author: Saint Therese de Liseux
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
The Story of a Soul conveys St Therese of Liseux's "Little Way" of spiritual childhood - her "elevator" to Heaven, as she called it. This method was approved by Pope Pius XI as a way for all to grow in holiness through unfailing confidence and childlike delight in God's merciful love. (306 p)
 
Title: Strange Case of Origami Yoda - Kit (Juvenile) #926, The
Author: Tom Angleberger
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 Copies
Location: Main Children
Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future.
 
Title: The Stranger - Kit #302
Author: Albert Camus
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." (123 p)
 
Title: Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle For Racial Justice in the Cold War South - Kit #645
Author: Catherine Fosl
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
One of the few white people--particularly from the South--to join the southern black freedom movement in its nascent years in the 1950s, Braden became a role model and inspiration for the thousands of young white people that joined the mass movement a decade later. (464 p)
 
Title: Sula - Kit #083
Author: Toni Morrison
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The story of a young African-American girl who leaves her oppressive neighborhood to expand her dreams but finds many of her previous relationships tested when she returns ten years later. (192 p)
 
Title: Summer - Kit #442
Author: Edith Wharton
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A New Englander of humble origins, Charity Royall is swept into a torrid love affair with an artistically inclined young man, but her dreams of a future with him are thwarted. Summer was an immediate sensation when first published in 1917 and still stands as one of Wharton's greatest achievements. (208 p)
 
Title: The Sun Also Rises - Kit #285
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
This classic captures life among the expatriates on Paris's Left Bank during the 1920s, the brutality of bullfighting in Spain, and the moral and spiritual dissolution of a generation. (320 p)
 
Title: Susan, Linda, Nina and Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR - #1094
Author: Lisa Napoli
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
A group biography of four beloved women who fought sexism, covered decades of American news, and whose voices defined NPR. In the years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, women in the workplace still found themselves relegated to secretarial positions or locked out of jobs entirely. This was especially true in the news business, a backwater of male chauvinism where a woman might be lucky to get a foothold on the “women’s pages.” But when a pioneering nonprofit called National Public Radio came along in the 1970s, and the door to serious journalism opened a crack, four remarkable women came along and blew it off the hinges.(352 p)
 
Title: Swamplandia! - Kit #572
Author: Karen Russell
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family’s island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But then her mother falls ill, her sister falls in love and her brother, Kiwi, defects to a rival park. (400 p)
 
Title: Swann's Way - Kit #861
Author: Marcel Proust
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In this opening volume of Proust's great novel, Swann's jealous love for Odette, together with the comic antics of the Verdurins and the adoring members of their 'little clan', provide a prophetic model of the narrator's own love-relationships and peregrinations in salon society. (468 p)
 
Title: The Swans of Fifth Avenue - Kit #865
Author: Melanie Benjamin
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Benjamin transports readers to 1960s Manhattan. This story gives us the chance to spy on Truman Capote’s close friendship with Babe Paley and his society “swans,” and the betrayal and scandal that drove them apart. (400 p)
 
Title: Sweeping Up Glass - Kit #480
Author: Carolyn D. Wall
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Living behind her store with her son in 1938 Kentucky, Olivia is stunned when members of the exclusive Hunt Club suddenly turn their sights on the two of them, a dangerous situation complicated by the exposure of the community's horrifying secrets. (336 p)
 
Title: The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love - Kit #207
Author: Jill Conner Browne
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A group of "belles gone bad" look at love, life, men, marriage and always being prepared in a series of comic essays. (213 p)
 
Title: Sweetbitter - Kit #941
Author: Stephanie Danler
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Newly arrived in New York City, twenty-two-year-old Tess lands a job working front of house at a celebrated downtown restaurant. What follows is her education: in champagne and cocaine, love and lust, dive bars and fine dining rooms, as she learns to navigate the chaotic, enchanting, punishing life she has chosen. (356 p)
 
Title: The Sweetness of Water: A Novel - Kit #1100
Author: Nathan Harris
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad, an award-winning “miraculous debut” (Washington Post) about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever. (368 p)
 
Title: The Sympathizer - Kit #856
Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
A communist double agent, a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain, comes to America after the Fall of Saigon, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his communist superiors in Vietnam. (384 p)
 
Title: The Tale of Despereaux [1] - Kit (Juvenile) #238
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. Winner of the Newberry Medal
 
Title: The Tale of Despereaux [2] - Kit (Juvenile) #238
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. Winner of the Newberry Medal
 
Title: Tangerine - Kit (Younger Teen) #112
Author: Edward Bloor
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
 
Title: A Taste For Death - Kit #022
Author: P. D. James
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 7 Copies
Location: Main Library
Inspector Adam Dalgliesh investigates the murder of a member of the peerage who is found with his throat slit in the vestry of a church. (480 p)
 
Title: Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel - Kit #686
Author: Carol Rifka Brunt
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Fourteen-year-old June can only be herself in her Uncle Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies in 1987, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June's world is turned upside down. (384 p)
 
Title: Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table - Kit #142
Author: Ruth Reichl
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
This book by the former restaurant critic of the New York Times is the story of a life enhanced and defined by a passion for food, unforgettable people, and the love of tales well told. (320 p)
 
Title: Tenth of December: Stories - Kit #682
Author: George Saunders
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A collection of stories includes "Home," a wryly whimsical account of a soldier's return from war; "Victory Lap," a tale about an inventive abduction attempt; and the title story, in which a suicidal cancer patient saves the life of a young misfit. (288 p)
 
Title: Terrorist - Kit #445
Author: John Updike
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, is an alienated American-born teenager who spurns the hedonistic life he witnesses in his New Jersey hometown. Turning to the words of the pedantic imam of a local mosque, the threads of an insidious plot gather around him. (320 p)
 
Title: The Testament of Mary - Kit #687
Author: Colm To´ibi´n
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Years after her son's crucifixion, Mary lives alone and in fear, badgered by her son’s friends and hunted by his enemies, trying to piece together the events that led to her son's brutal death. (96 p)
 
Title: The Testaments - Kit #1035
Author: Margaret Atwood
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. (448 p)
 
Title: That Churchill Woman - Kit #1039
Author: Stephanie Barron
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Wealthy, privileged, and fiercely independent New Yorker Jennie Jerome took Victorian England by storm when she landed on its shores. As Lady Randolph Churchill, she gave birth to a man who defined the twentieth century: her son Winston. (416 p)
 
Title: That Summer - Kit (Older Teen) #778
Author: Lauren Willig
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
From modern-day England to the early days of the Preraphaelite movement, Lauren Willig's That Summer takes readers on an un-put-downable journey through a mysterious old house, a hidden love affair, and one woman's search for the truth about her past--and herself.
 
Title: The Hundred Dresses - Kit (Juvenile) #501
Author: Eleanor Estes
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson.
 
Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God - Kit #023
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The story of tragedy and triumph of an early 20th century African-American woman. When Janie Starks returns home, she seeks identity and independence as the small southern black community buzzes with gossip about the outcome of her affair with a younger man. (219 p)
 
Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God - Kit (Older Teen) #616
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
A novel about black Americans in Florida that centers on the life of Janie and her three marriages.
 
Title: There Are No Grown-Ups : A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story - Kit #992
Author: Pamela Druckerman
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Internationally best-selling author and New York Times contributor Pamela Druckerman leads us on a quest for wisdom, self-knowledge and the right pair of pants. A witty dispatch from the front lines of the forties, There Are No Grown-ups is a (midlife) coming-of-age story, and a book for anyone trying to find their place in the world. (288p)
 
Title: There There: A Novel - #1155
Author: Tommy Orange
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. They converge and collide on one fateful day at the Big Oakland Powwow and together this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism. (304 p)
 
Title: Things Fall Apart - Kit #049
Author: Chinua Achebe
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Traces the growing friction between village leaders and Europeans determined to save the heathen souls of colonial Africa. Caught in the conflict is the hero, a noble man who is driven by destructive forces. (209 p)
 
Title: The Things They Carried - Kit #223
Author: Tim O'Brien
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
An unparalleled Vietnam testament and a profound study of men at war that illuminates the capacity and the limits of the human heart as heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war. (233 p)
 
Title: This Boy's Life, a Memoir - Kit #415
Author: Tobias Wolff
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
This unforgettable, bestselling memoir by a gifted writer introduces the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. (304 p)
 
Title: This Is All I Got: A New Mother's Search for Home - #1081
Author: Lauren Sandler
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
Every day, more than forty-five million Americans attempt to survive below the poverty line. Every night, nearly sixty thousand people sleep in New York City-run shelters, 40 percent of them children. In This Is All I Got, Sandler brings this deeply personal issue to life, vividly depicting one woman's hope and despair and her steadfast determination to change her life despite the myriad setbacks she encounters. (352 p)
 
Title: This is How it Always is - Kit #930
Author: Laurie Frankel
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And it’s about the ways this is how it always is: Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, children grow but not always according to plan. And families with secrets don’t get to keep them forever. (336 p)
 
Title: This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto - #1044
Author: Suketu Mehta
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Drawing on his own experience as an Indian-born teenager growing up in New York City and on years of reporting around the world, Mehta subjects the worldwide anti-immigrant backlash to withering scrutiny. As he explains, the West is being destroyed not by immigrants but by the fear of immigrants. Mehta juxtaposes the phony narratives of populist ideologues with the ordinary heroism of laborers, nannies, and others, from Dubai to Queens, and explains why more people are on the move today than ever before. (320 p)
 
Title: A Thousand Acres - Kit #046
Author: Jane Smiley
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
An Iowan farmer who has worked a thousand acre plot owned by his family for generations, decides to leave his farm to his three daughters and retire. Soon the daughters notice a change in their father and events begin to unfold that will threaten the family and their farm.(384 p)
 
Title: A Thread of Grace - Kit #557
Author: Mary Doria Russell
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In September 1943, Claudette Blum and her father flee across the Alps into Italy with other Jews seeking refuge, only to find an open battle ground among the Nazis, Allied forces, resistance fighters, and ordinary Italians struggling to survive. (464 p)
 
Title: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations-- One School at a Time - Kit #389
Author: Greg Mortenson
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Dangerously ill after a climb in 1993, Mortenson was sheltered for seven weeks by a small Pakistani village; in return, he promised to build the impoverished town's first school, a project that has since constructed more than 50 schools across rural Pakistan. (349 p)
 
Title: Three Times Lucky - Kit (Juvenile) #840
Author: Sheila Turnage
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 Copies plus extras
Location: Main Children
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a cafe´ and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
 
Title: Three Ways to Disappear - Kit #1007
Author: Katy Yocom
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Leaving behind a nomadic and dangerous career as a journalist, Sarah DeVaughan returns to India, the country of her childhood and a place of unspeakable family tragedy, to help preserve the endangered Bengal tigers. Meanwhile, at home in Kentucky, her sister, Quinn--also deeply scarred by the past and herself a keeper of secrets--tries to support her sister, even as she fears that India will be Sarah's undoing. (316 p)
 
Title: Thunderstruck - Kit (Large Print) #384
Author: Erik Larson
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of the wireless - whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time.
 
Title: The Tiger's Wife - Kit #589
Author: Te´a Obreht
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A young doctor living in an unnamed country, crosses the border in search of answers about the death of her beloved grandfather, who raised her on tales from the village he grew up in, and where in 1941, a tiger escaped from the zoo in a nearby city and befriended a mysterious deaf-mute woman. (368 p)
 
Title: A Time to Kill - Kit #660
Author: John Grisham
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Criminal lawyer Jake Brigance faces the fight of his life when he is asked to defend Carl Hailey, who, in a rage of anger, shot and killed the men on trial for the rape of his daughter. (672 p)
 
Title: The Time Traveler's Wife: A Novel - Kit #269
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The timelessness of love takes on new meaning in this fantastical romance about a reluctant time traveler Henry and his love Clare, whose lives intersect in many non-chronological ways. (592 p)
 
Title: The Time Traveler's Wife: A Novel - Kit (Large Print) #247
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
The timelessness of love takes on new meaning in this fantastical romance about a reluctant time traveler Henry and his love Clare, whose lives intersect in many non-chronological ways.
 
Title: Tinkers - Kit #578
Author: Paul Harding
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The history and final thoughts of a dying grandfather surrounded by his family. George Washington Crosby repairs clocks for a living and on his deathbed revisits his turbulent childhood as the oldest son of an epileptic smalltime traveling salesman. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. (208 p)
 
Title: Titanic: Voices from the Disaster - Kit (Juvenile) #837
Author: Deborah Hopkinson
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
On April 15, 1912, the magnificent ocean liner the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank beneath the icy North Atlantic seas. Hopkinson weaves together archival photographs and the voices of real Titanic survivors and witnesses to the disaster to bring the horrors of that terrible night to life. 
 
Title: Tithe: a Modern Faerie Tale - Kit (Younger Teen) #790
Author: Holly Black
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.
 
Title: To Kill A Mockingbird - Kit #918
Author: Harper Lee
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime. (336 p)
 
Title: To Siri With Love - Kit #958
Author: Judith Newman
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
To Siri with Love is a collection of funny, poignant, and uplifting stories about living with an extraordinary child who has helped a parent see and experience the world differently. (256 p)
 
Title: To the Lighthouse - Kit #794
Author: Virginia Woolf
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
At their holiday home in Cornwall, a distant lighthouse holds a haunting attraction for the members of an Edwardian family as disillusionment, turmoil, and a world on the brink of war plague the family's relationships. (209 p)
 
Title: Token: A Novel - #1145
Author: Beverley Kendall
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Two years ago, Kennedy Mitchell was plucked from the reception desk and placed in the corporate boardroom in the name of diversity. Rather than play along, she and her best friend founded Token, a boutique PR agency that helps “diversity-challenged” companies and celebrities. Kennedy quickly discovers there’s a lot of on-the-job learning and some messes are not so easily fixed. When Kennedy’s ex shows up needing help repairing his company’s reputation, things get even more complicated. (368 p)
 
Title: Tortilla Flat - Kit #459
Author: John Steinbeck
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Danny is a paisano descended from the original Spanish settlers of Monterey, California. He and his cohorts value friendship above money and possessions. Their love of freedom and scorn for material things draw them into daring and often hilarious adventures. (174 p)
 
Title: Touching Spirit Bear - Kit (Younger Teen) #491
Author: Ben Mikaelsen
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
 
Title: Transcendent Kingdom - #1052
Author: Yaa Gyasi
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. (304 p)
 
Title: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Kit #399
Author: Betty Smith
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
This American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century captures a unique time and place. The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years. (528 p)
 
Title: The Trial - Kit #280
Author: Franz Kafka
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. (304 p)
 
Title: Trouble the Saints: A Novel - #1073
Author: Alaya Dawn Johnson
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
The dangerous magic of The Night Circus meets the powerful historical exploration of The Underground Railroad in Alaya Dawn Johnson's timely and unsettling novel, set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New York City, where an assassin falls in love and tries to change her fate at the dawn of World War II. (352 p)
 
Title: The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a Presidential Candidate - Kit #863
Author: Gwenda Blair
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A biography of three generations of a successful immigrant family profiles Friedrich, who built hotels for miners in Alaska during the Klondike gold rush, son Fred, using government subsidies to construct hugely successful housing developments, and billionaire real-estate mogul and US President Donald. (592 p)
 
Title: Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson - Kit (Large Print) #193
Author: Mitch Albom
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Large Print Copies
Location: Main Library
The remarkable true story of Morrie's affirmation of life as he faced death and the transformation of his friend and student with whom he shared it. (192 p)
 
Title: The Turner House - Kit #867
Author: Angela Flournoy
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Learning after a half-century of family life that their house on Detroit's East Side is worth only a fraction of its mortgage, the members of the Turner family gather to reckon with their pasts and decide the house's fate. (352 p)
 
Title: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption - Kit #721
Author: Laura Hillenbrand
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A biography of World War II hero Louis Zamperini, a former Olympic track star who survived a plane crash in the Pacific theater, spent 47 days drifting on a raft, and then survived more than two and a half years as a prisoner of war in several brutal Japanese internment camps. (528 p)
 
Title: Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man - #1093
Author: Emmanuel Acho
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
“You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have.” So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide to the truths Americans need to know to address the systemic racism that has recently electrified protests in all fifty states. In Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man, Acho takes on all the questions, large and small, insensitive and taboo, many white Americans are afraid to ask, yet which all Americans need the answers to, now more than ever. (256 p)
 
Title: Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West - Kit #009
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time. (521 p)
 
Title: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith - Kit #336
Author: Jon Krakauer
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
This chilling story of murder explores the nature of radical Mormon sects and poses some striking questions about the closed-minded, closed-door policies of many religions in general. (432 p)
 
Title: The Underground Railroad - Kit #928
Author: Colson Whitehead
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Cora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. (336 p)
 
Title: The Unfortunates - Kit #900
Author: Sophie McManus
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 COPIES
Location: Main Library
The story of a prominent New York family on the cusp of ruin in the face of a matriarch's wavering health; a bumbling son's scandalous opera production; and a life of wealth and inheritance belonging to a bygone era. (368 p)
 
Title: The Unquiet Grave - Kit #984
Author: Sharyn McCrumb
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Lakin, West Virginia, 1930—Following a suicide attempt and consigned to a segregated insane asylum, attorney James P.D. Gardner finds himself under the care of Dr. James Boozer. Eager to try the new talking cure for insanity, Boozer encourages his elderly patient to reminisce about his experiences as the first black attorney to practice law in nineteenth-century West Virginia. (368 p)
 
Title: Up from Slavery - Kit #874
Author: Booker T. Washington
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The African-American educator documents his struggle for freedom and self-respect and his fight to establish industrial training and educational programs for black Americans. (129 p)
 
Title: Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty - #1120
Author: Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires—one in shipping and another in railroads—that would make him the richest man in America. His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after his death in 1877, sowing familial discord that would never fully heal. Now, the Commodore’s great-great-great-grandson Anderson Cooper, joins with historian Katherine Howe to explore the story of his legendary family and their outsized influence. (352 p)
 
Title: The Vanishing Half: A Novel - Kit #1128
Author: Britt Bennett
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. (400 p)
 
Title: The Velveteen Rabbit, or, How Toys Become Real - Kit (Juvenile) #774
Author: Margery Williams Bianco
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
By the time the velveteen rabbit is worn out, he has almost given up hope of ever finding the magic called Real.
 
Title: Viaje a la semilla : Concierto barroco - Kit (Spanish) #946
Author: Alejo Carpentier
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Spanish Language. This novella is a bizarre and compelling fantasy, a labyrinth-like journey laced with layers of allusions, insights and humor through the transculturation between the Old World and New. (143 p)
 
Title: Vile Bodies: A Novel - Kit #822
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
This darkly comic novel does a scathing take on the 1920s London’s culture of hedonistic living and the hectic partying of the ‘Bright, Young People’, mostly men and women from the aristocracy and the upper classes as well as artists and bohemians. (320 p)
 
Title: The Violin Conspiracy: A Novel - Kit #1129
Author: Brendan Slocumb
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Growing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian’s life is already mapped out. But Ray has a gift and a dream—he’s determined to become a world-class professional violinist, and nothing will stand in his way. Not his mother, who wants him to stop making such a racket; not the fact that he can’t afford a violin suitable to his talents; not even the racism inherent in the world of classical music. (368 p)
 
Title: The Virgin Suicides - Kit #640
Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The narrator and his friends piece together the events that led up to suicides of the Lisbon girls - brainy Therese, fastidious Mary, ascetic Bonnie, libertine Lux, and saintly Cecilia. (269 p)
 
Title: A Visit from the Goon Squad - Kit #568
Author: Jennifer Egan
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Working side-by-side for a record label, former punk rocker Bennie Salazar and the passionate Sasha hide illicit secrets from one another while interacting with a motley assortment of equally troubled people from 1970s San Francisco to the post-war future. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. (352 p)
 
Title: Wagon Wheels - Kit (Juvenile) #777
Author: Barbara. Brenner
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.
 
Title: Waiting - Kit #472
Author: Ha Jin
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
An ambitious and dedicated Chinese doctor, Lin Kong finds himself torn between two very different women--the educated and dynamic nurse with whom he has fallen in love and the traditional, meek, and humble woman to whom his family married him when they were both very young. (308 p)
 
Title: A Walk in the Woods, Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail - Kit #416
Author: Bill Bryson
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail. The AT offers an astonishing landscape --and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, endless opportunities to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings. (416 p)
 
Title: Walk Two Moons - Kit (Younger Teen) #094
Author: Sharon Creech
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route and Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left. Winner of the Newberry Medal
 
Title: Walking Across Egypt - Kit #295
Author: Clyde Edgerton
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
Mattie Rigsby is an independent, strong-minded 78-year-old when she takes in a stray dog and teenage delinquent, offering an incredibly funny, balanced perspective on age and youth. (215 p)
 
Title: The Wanderer - Kit (Younger Teen) #429
Author: Sharon Creech
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, which, along with uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their grandfather in England.
 
Title: Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Claims Her Roots - #1077
Author: Morgan Jerkins
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 8 copies
Location: Main Library
Between 1916 and 1970, six million black Americans left their rural homes in the South for jobs in cities in the North, West, and Midwest in a movement known as The Great Migration. But while this event transformed the complexion of America and provided Black people with new economic opportunities, it also disconnected them from their roots, their land, and their sense of identity, argues Morgan Jerkins. In this fascinating and deeply personal exploration, she recreates her ancestors’ journeys across America, following the migratory routes they took from Georgia and South Carolina to Louisiana, Oklahoma, and California. (304 p)
 
Title: The War That Saved My Life - Kit (Juvenile) #843
Author: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
 
Title: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration - #1048
Author: Isabel Wilkerson
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. (640 p)
 
Title: Washington Black - Kit #996
Author: Esi Edugyan
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Eleven-year-old George Washington Black—or Wash—a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master’s brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning, and where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash’s head, they must abandon everything and flee together. (400p)
 
Title: The Water Dancer - Kit #1036
Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known. (432 p)
 
Title: Water For Elephants: A Novel - Kit #454
Author: Sara Gruen
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope. (368 p)
 
Title: The Water Is Wide - Kit #364
Author: Pat Conroy
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The true story of Pat Conroy's teaching experience on an impoverished South Carolina island in 1969. (320 p)
 
Title: The Watsons Go To Birmingham--1963 - Kit (Juvenile) #678
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they goto visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
 
Title: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Kit #685
Author: Karen Joy Fowler
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Coming of age in middle America, 18-year-old Rosemary evaluates how her entire youth was defined by the presence and forced removal of an endearing chimpanzee who was regarded as a family member and who Rosemary loved as a sister. (336 p)
 
Title: We Are Not Like Them: A Novel - #1118
Author: Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults, they remain as close as sisters, though their lives have taken different directions. Jen married young, and after years of trying, is finally pregnant. Riley pursued her childhood dream of becoming a television journalist and is poised to become one of the first Black female anchors of the top news channel in their hometown of Philadelphia. But the deep bond they share is severely tested when Jen’s husband, a city police officer, is involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager. (336 p)
 
Title: We Have Always Lived in the Castle - #1072
Author: Shirley Jackson
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. (146 p)
 
Title: We Need New Names - Kit #712
Author: NoViolet Bulawayo
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Follows ten-year-old Zimbabwe native, Darling, as she escapes the closed schools and paramilitary police control of her homeland in search of opportunity and freedom with an aunt in America. (320 p)
 
Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin - Kit #628
Author: Lionel Shriver
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
The mother of a teenage boy who killed seven fellow students in a high-school shooting writes a series of letters to her estranged husband on their son's upbringing and questions what she fears may be her own part in the tragedy. (432 p)
 
Title: We Were the Lucky Ones - Kit #969
Author: Georgia Hunter
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships threatening Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurcs will be flung to the far corners of the world, each desperately trying to navigate his or her own path to safety. (416 p)
 
Title: Weather - #1045
Author: Jenny Offill
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
Lizzie works in the library of a university where she was once a promising graduate student. Her side hustle is answering the letters that come in to Hell and High Water, the doom-laden podcast hosted by her former mentor. At first it suits her, this chance to practice her other calling as an unofficial shrink—she has always played this role to her divorced mother and brother recovering from addiction—but soon Lizzie finds herself struggling to strike the obligatory note of hope in her responses. (224 p)
 
Title: The Wedding - Kit #180
Author: Dorothy West
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A family saga of race and class focusing on the relationship of an African American woman and her white jazz musician husband. (256 p)
 
Title: The Weird Sisters - Kit #587
Author: Eleanor Brown
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Three sisters have returned to their childhood home, reuniting the eccentric Andreas family, with their father - a professor of Shakespeare who speaks almost exclusively in verse – who named them after the Bard's heroines. It's a lot to live up to. (400 p)
 
Title: Wellspring - Kit #575
Author: Janice Holt Giles
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The last book Giles published before her death in 1979, Wellspring brings together Giles's fiction, nonfiction, autobiography, and fictionalized autobiography to reveal a behind-the-scenes look at her life, her family, and her love for her adopted state of Kentucky. (272 p)
 
Title: Wench - Kit #556
Author: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Situated in Ohio, a free territory before the Civil War, Tawawa House is an idyllic retreat for Southern white men who vacation there every summer with their enslaved black mistresses. (293 p)
 
Title: West with the Night - Kit #857
Author: Beryl Markham
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west, describes her childhood on a farm in Kenya, her apprenticeship as a horse trainer, and her later career as a pioneer aviator in the remote corners of Africa. (293 p)
 
Title: What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma - #1149
Author: Stephanie Foo
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Foo interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies. She returns to her hometown of San Jose, California, to investigate the effects of immigrant trauma on the community, and she uncovers family secrets in the country of her birth, Malaysia, to learn how trauma can be inherited through generations. Ultimately, she discovers that you don’t move on from trauma—but you can learn to move with it. (352 p)
 
Title: When Books Went to War : The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II - Kit (Large Print) #819
Author: Molly Guptill Manning
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
The uplifting story of the Armed Forces Editions, small, lightweight paperbacks carried by American GIs in WWII. While the Nazis were burning millions of books across Europe, America printed and shipped 140 million books to its troops. (304 p)
 
Title: When I Sing, Mountains Dance: A Novel - #1138
Author: Irene Solà
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Near a village high in the Pyrenees, Domènec wanders across a ridge, fancying himself more a poet than a farmer, to “reel off his verses over on this side of the mountain.” He gathers black chanterelles and attends to a troubled cow. And then storm clouds swell, full of electrifying power. Reckless, gleeful, they release their bolts of lightning, one of which strikes Domènec. He dies. The ghosts of seventeenth-century witches gather around him, taking up the chanterelles he’d harvested before going on their merry ways. (208 p)
 
Title: When No One Is Watching: A Thriller - Kit #1130
Author: Alyssa Cole
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she’s known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community’s past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the block—her neighbor Theo. But Sydney and Theo’s deep dive into history quickly becomes a dizzying descent into paranoia and fear. (368 p)
 
Title: When the Emperor Was Divine - Kit #264
Author: Julie Otsuka
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A story told from five different points of view chronicles the experiences of Japanese Americans caught up in the nightmare of the World War II internment camps.
 
Title: When the Emperor Was Divine - Kit (Large Print) #250
Author: Julie Otsuka
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies
Location: Main Library
A story told from five different points of view chronicles the experiences of Japanese Americans caught up in the nightmare of the World War II internment camps.
 
Title: Where God Was Born: A Journey By Land to the Roots of Religion - Kit (Large Print) #369
Author: Bruce S. Feiler
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
Weaving together strands of theology, biblical exegesis, physical exploration, history and personal reflection, Feiler continues his journey of discovery, looking at the common roots of Christianity, Islam and Judaism. (448 p)
 
Title: Where the Red Fern Grows: the Story of Two Dogs and a Boy - Kit (Younger Teen) #697
Author: Wilson Rawls
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters.
 
Title: Where the Wild Things Are [1] - Kit (Juvenile) #457
Author: Maurice Sendak
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things where he becomes their king. Winner of the Caldecott Medal
 
Title: Where the Wild Things Are [2] - Kit (Juvenile) #457
Author: Maurice Sendak
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Juvenile
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of thewild things where he becomes their king. Winner of the Caldecott Medal
 
Title: Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel - Kit #669
Author: Maria Semple
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the earth to find her. (352 p)
 
Title: While I Was Gone - Kit #203
Author: Sue Miller
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The compelling story of a woman who places her marriage and family life at risk to follow a flirtation from her past. (304 p)
 
Title: Whistling Past the Graveyard - Kit #713
Author: Susan Crandall
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Fleeing her strict grandmother's home in 1963 Mississippi, 9-year-old Starla Claudelle becomes an unlikely companion to an African-American woman at whose side she learns harsh lessons about period segregation and family. (336 p)
 
Title: White Like Me : Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son : The Remix - Kit #806
Author: Tim J. Wise
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Wise examines white privilege as a social institution in America and how that it can ultimately harm its recipients in the long run and make progressive social change less likely. (208 p)
 
Title: White Oleander - Kit #202
Author: Janet Fitch
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
When her mother is jailed for killing a lover, 12-year old Astrid must navigate her way through a series of foster homes in her search to claim her own identity and adulthood. (480 p)
 
Title: White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide - Kit #919
Author: Carol Anderson
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains. From the Civil War to our combustible present, White Rage reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America--now in paperback with a new afterword by the author, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson. (304 p)
 
Title: White Teeth: A Novel - Kit #524
Author: Zadie Smith
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Set in post-war London, this novel of the racial, political, and social upheaval of the last half-century follows two families--the Joneses and the Iqbals, both outsiders from within the former British empire--as they make their way in modern England. (464 p)
 
Title: The White Tiger - Kit #567
Author: Aravind Adiga
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him from a driver and servant to a wealthy Indian family to the zenith of Indian business culture, the world of the Bangalore entrepreneur. Winner of the Man Booker Prize. (304 p)
 
Title: Who Asked You? - Kit #736
Author: Terry McMillan
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Already burdened with the dramas of her other adult children, her senile husband and her interfering sisters, BJ finds herself caring for her grandchildren when one of her daughters disappear. Winner of NAACP Image Fiction Award. (464 p)
 
Title: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Kit #276
Author: Gregory Maguire
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
There are two sides to every story. We’ve heard Dorothy’s in L. Frank Baum’s classic ?The Wizard of Oz. Now we hear from the Wicked Witch of the West. (448 p)
 
Title: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China - Kit #050
Author: Jung Chang
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A memoir reflecting upon the astonishing changes seen by three generations of women in 20th century China. (538 p)
 
Title: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Kit #670
Author: Cheryl Strayed
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. With nothing more to lose, with no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she hiked more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail. (315 p)
 
Title: Wise Blood - Kit #563
Author: Flannery O'Connor
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate fate, this tale of redemption, retribution, and false prophets gives us one of the most riveting characters in twentieth-century American fiction. (256 p)
 
Title: The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story - Kit #970
Author: Susan Hill
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Arthur Kipps is an up-and-coming London solicitor who is sent to Crythin Gifford—a faraway town in the windswept salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway—to attend the funeral and settle the affairs of a client, Mrs. Alice Drablow of Eel Marsh House. Mrs. Drablow’s house stands at the end of the causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but Kipps is unaware of the tragic secrets that lie hidden behind its sheltered windows. (176 p)
 
Title: The Woman in Cabin 10 - Kit #911
Author: Ruth Ware
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
In this tightly wound story, journalist Lo Blacklock has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. At first, Lo’s stay is nothing but pleasant, but as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for—and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Lo’s desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrong. (384 p)
 
Title: The Woman in the Library: A Novel - Kit #1119
Author: Sulari Gentill
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quiet, until the tranquility is shattered by a woman's terrified scream. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers, who'd happened to sit at the same table, pass the time in conversation and friendships are struck. Each has his or her own reasons for being in the reading room that morning—it just happens that one is a murderer. (288 p)
 
Title: A Woman Is No Man - #1056
Author: Etaf Rum
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Palestine, 1990. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. Over the course of a week, the naïve and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn. There Isra struggles to adapt to the expectations of her oppressive mother-in-law Fareeda and strange new husband Adam, a pressure that intensifies as she begins to have children—four daughters instead of the sons Fareeda tells Isra she must bear. (368 p)
 
Title: The Woman Upstairs - Kit #771
Author: Claire Messud
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Relegated to the status of schoolteacher and friendly neighbor after abandoning her dreams of becoming an artist, Nora advocates on behalf of a charismatic Lebanese student and is drawn into the child's family until his artist mother's careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal. (320 p)
 
Title: The Women of Brewster Place - Kit #1110
Author: Gloria Naylor
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 copies
Location: Main Library
In her heralded first novel, Gloria Naylor weaves together the stories of seven women living in Brewster Place, a bleak-inner city sanctuary, creating a powerful, moving portrait of the strengths, struggles, and hopes of black women in America. Vulnerable and resilient, openhanded and openhearted, these women forge their lives in a place that in turn threatens and protects—a common prison and a shared home. Naylor renders both loving and painful human experiences with simple eloquence and uncommon intuition in this touching and unforgettable read.(192 p)
 
Title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Kit #1107
Author: L. Frank Baum
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
One of the true classics of American literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has stirred the imagination of young and old alike for over four generations. Originally published in 1900, it was the first truly American fairy tale, as Baum crafted a wonderful out of such familiar items as a cornfield scarecrow, a mechanical woodman, and a humbug wizard who used old-fashioned hokum to express that universal theme, "There's no place like home." (320 p)
 
Title: The Work of Living: Working People Talk About Their Lives... - Kit #1139
Author: Maximillian Alvarez
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
As COVID-19 swept across the globe with merciless force, it was working people who kept the world from falling apart. Deemed “essential” by a system that has shown just how much it needs our labor but has no concern for our lives, workers sacrificed—and many were sacrificed—to keep us fed, to keep our shelves stocked, to keep our hospitals and transit running, to care for our loved ones, and so much more. Whose stories will be remembered? (260 p)
 
Title: The World Doesn't Require You: Stories - #1037
Author: Rion Amilcar Scott
Genre: Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Welcome to Cross River, Maryland, where Rion Amilcar Scott creates a mythical universe peopled by some of the most memorable characters in contemporary American fiction. Set in the mythical Cross River, Maryland, established by the leaders of America’s only successful slave revolt in the mid-nineteenth century, the town still evokes the rhythms of its founding. (320 p)
 
Title: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century - Kit (Large Print) #251
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Genre: Large Print
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Large Print Copies + 1 Audiobook
Location: Main Library
China and India are taking advantage of systems of communications, production, and distribution that can connect the entire globe instantaneously. With this "flattening" of the globe, can human beings and their political systems adjust in a stable manner?
 
Title: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl - Kit #514
Author: Timothy Egan
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Timothy Egan’s critically acclaimed account of the dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression, following a dozen families and their communities through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Winner of National Book Award. (340 p)
 
Title: Wuthering Heights - Kit #902
Author: Emily Bronte
Genre: Classic Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. (416 p)
 
Title: The Yard - Kit #964
Author: Alex Grecian
Genre: Mystery
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
A Scotland Yard Inspector has been found stuffed in a black steamer trunk at Euston Square Station, his eyes and mouth sewn shut. When Walter Day, the squad’s new hire, is assigned to the case, he finds a strange ally in Dr. Bernard Kingsley, the Yard’s first forensic pathologist. Their grim conclusion: this was not just a random, bizarre murder but in all probability, the first of twelve. The squad itself it being targeted and the devious killer shows no signs of stopping. But Inspector Day has one more surprise, something even more shocking than the crimes: the murderer’s motive. (448 pgs)
 
Title: The Year of Magical Thinking - Kit #424
Author: Joan Didion
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
Didion explores with electric honesty and passion a private yet universal experience. Her portrait of a marriage-- and a life, in good times and bad-- will speak directly to anyone who has ever loved a husband, a wife, or a child. Winner of National Book Award. (227 p)
 
Title: Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life - #1131
Author: Alice Wong
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
In Chinese culture, the tiger is deeply revered for its confidence, passion, ambition, and ferocity. That same fighting spirit resides in Alice Wong. Drawing on a collection of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more, Alice uses her unique talent to share an impressionistic scrapbook of her life as an Asian American disabled activist, community organizer, media maker, and dreamer. (400 p)
 
Title: Year of Wonders - Kit #304
Author: Geraldine Brooks
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The story of the plague in the year 1666 from the eyes of Anna Frith, a housemaid and an unlikely heroine and healer. A tale of hope and faith in a time of despair. (352 p)
 
Title: Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? - #1163
Author: Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 copies
Location: Main Library
Meet Yinka: a thirty-something, Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is “Yinka, where is your huzband?” Yinka’s Nigerian aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, her work friends think she’s too traditional (she’s saving herself for marriage!), her girlfriends think she needs to get over her ex already, and the men in her life…well, that’s a whole other story. (384 p)
 
Title: Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty - Kit (Older Teen) #693
Author: Greg Neri
Genre: Non-fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Contents: 30 copies
Location: Main Children
A graphic novel based on the true story of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, an eleven-year old African American gang member from Chicago who shot a young girl and was then shot by his own gang members.
 
Title: Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald - Kit # 880
Author: Therese Fowler
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 9 Copies
Location: Main Library
A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her father's opposition and her scandalous transformation into a Jazz Age celebrity in the literary party scenes of New York, Paris, and the French Riviera. (375 p)
 
Title: Zeitoun - Kit #577
Author: Dave Eggers
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
The tribulations of Syrian-born painting contractor Abdulrahman Zeitoun, who, while aiding in rescue efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, was inexplicably arrested by military personnel and swept into a bureaucratic maelstrom of civil injustices. (368 p)
 
Title: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Kit #361
Author: Robert M. Pirsig
Genre: Biography and Memoir
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and son becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions of how to live. (464 p)
 
Title: The Zookeeper's Wife - Kit #466
Author: Diane Ackerman
Genre: History and Current Events
Age Group: Adult
Contents: 10 Copies
Location: Main Library
A true story--as powerful as "Schindler's List"--in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. (384 p)
 
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