Summer Reads

"A funny, perceptive, and much-needed book telling a much-needed story." --Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestseller Little Fires EverywhereFirst-generation American LatinX Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white...

Filled with warmth, wit and cosy magic, Bob is a whimsical and inspiring story of camaraderie and trust. Delightfully depicting the friendship between a girl and a mystical creature in search of a way back home, Bob explores the timeless questions of...

The blueprint for all the awkward, likeable teenage heroines who came after, Georgia Nicholson is a fabulous comic creation and Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging sings with Rennison’s impeccable timing and warm-hearted, laugh-out-loud set-pieces...

Do you remember the first time?Forever is still the bravest, freshest, fruitiest and most honest account of first love, first sex and first heartbreak ever written for teens. It was a book ahead of its time - and remains, after forty years in print, a...

How I Live Now is an original and poignant book by Meg Rosoff. How I Live Now is the powerful and engaging story of Daisy, the precocious New Yorker and her English cousin Edmond, torn apart as war breaks out in London, from the multi award-winning Meg...

Princess Mia Thermopolis has hit an all-time low. Lilly isn't speaking to her. Someone is posting horrible things about her on ihatemiathermopolis.com. Grandmere is forcing her to give a speech to two thousand of the most powerful businesswomen in...

Winnie Foster is in the woods, thinking of running away from home, when she sees a boy drinking from a spring. Winnie wants a drink too, but before she can take a sip, she is kidnapped by the boy, Jesse Tuck, and his family. She learns that the Tuck...

A deeply personal meditation on love, loss, stars and the solace of connection, The Smallest Light in the Universe is a deeply moving memoir from world-leading astrophysicist Sara Seager.   Sara Seager has made it her life's work to peer into the...

One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels, Romola is set in Renaissance Florence during the turbulent years following the expulsion of the powerful Medici family during which the zealous religious reformer Savonarola rose to control the...

As enlightening as The Facebook Effect, Elon Musk, and Chaos Monkeys--the compelling, behind-the-scenes story of the creation of one of the most essential applications ever devised, and the rag-tag team that built it and changed how we navigate the...

(Available after 3-20 days)"Bitter Brew deftly chronicles the contentious succession of kings in a uniquely American dynasty. You'll never crack open a six again without thinking of this book." -John Sayles, Director of Eight Men Out and author of A...

**THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE MONTH** THE GRIPPING TALE OF THE EARLY FRONTIER DAYS OF SILICON VALLEY FROM ACCLAIMED HISTORIAN LESLIE BERLIN. 'The book is compelling as it maps out the building of the Valley, the challenges its early tech...

(Available after June 5, 2022)How did IKEA become the world's largest design brand, as popular as Lego, CocaCola and Nike? Still privately held, the company is renowned for its secrecy. In this candid analysis, former IKEA top director Johan Stenebo...

The story of McKinsey & Co., America’s most influential and controversial business consulting firm, “an up-to-date, full-blown history, told with wit and clarity” (The Wall Street Journal).If you want to be taken seriously, you hire McKinsey &...

The 'Sage of Omaha', Warren Buffett, is well-known for his simple but invaluable principles regarding investing and finances, and countless businessmen and people looking to be smarter with their money have turned to Buffett for his advice. One of those...

A Sunday Times Best Book of the Year 2017 One day in November 1994, Lawrence Levy received a phone call out of the blue from Steve Jobs, whom he'd never met, offering him a job running Pixar, a little-known company that had already lost Jobs $50 million...

We live our lives immersed in name brand products. It's hard to drive down the street without seeing a plethora of chain restaurants, car dealerships, branded clothing they're all around us. What most of us don't know is that the origins of many of the...

(Available after 3-20 days)How does an iconic brand die?For more than two decades, Blockbuster was America’s favorite way to watch movies. Millions of customers visited more than eight thousand stores around the globe every week, providing more data...

What can you learn from the world's most successful companies? The Marvel Studios Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled a struggling comic book publisher to...

"Citizen Coke demostrate[s] a complete lack of understanding about…the Coca-Cola system―past and present." ―Ted Ryan, the Coca-Cola Company By examining “the real thing” ingredient by ingredient, this brilliant history shows how Coke used a strategy of...