Summer Reads

(Available after July 30th, 2022) This dark, lush, and beautiful reimagining of the story of Rapunzel presents the witch’s perspective in this tale of motherhood, magic, and the stories we pass down to our children. "Smart, swift, sure-footed and...

“Tender and healing... I’m prescribing a preorder to anyone who has ever felt lost. Stunning, kind, necessary.” —Sarah Gailey on book 1: A Psalm for the Wild-BuiltA Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a story of kindness and love from one of the foremost...

(Available after July 30th, 2022) The secrets of the past come back around when a woman, long believed dead, turns up alive. If that doesn’t set you on edge, may we recommend reading under dim lights on a stormy night? Things We Do in the Dark is a...

(Available after July 30th, 2022)From #1 New York Times bestselling author P. C. Cast comes INTO THE MIST, the first book in a pulse-pounding dystopian duology for our times.Practical Magic meets Station Eleven in this gripping take on female power and...

The masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives, set across the arc of the 20th century.Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is...

(Available after July 30th, 2022) Lions and tigers and bears, oh my ... and certainly plenty worrisome creatures. But Mamadou Ndiaye wants you to know just how many more there are out there ... waiting ... possibly for you, if you don’t read the book!...

The inspiration for the Syfy miniseries. Childhood’s End is one of the defining legacies of Arthur C. Clarke, the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey and many other groundbreaking works. Since its publication in 1953, this prescient novel about first contact...

A woman learns the hard way about mixing business with pleasure in this hilarious new romantic comedy by USA Today bestselling author Sharon C. Cooper.I am beautiful. I am confident. I am lovable. I am a lottery winner.This is the mantra that will get...

Two high school sweethearts get a second chance at their perfect ending in this charming new romance by Kerry Winfrey, author of Very Sincerely Yours.Once upon a time, Sandy Macintosh thought she would have her happily ever after with her high school...

A glorious retelling of the Russian folktale Marya Morevna and Koschei the Deathless from Catherynne M. Valente, set in a mysterious version of St. Petersburg during the first half of the 20th centuryKoschei the Deathless is to Russian folklore what...

Winner of the 2020 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel!A chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by New York Times bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran!A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her...

Chi is a michievous newborn kitten who, while on a leisurely stroll with her family, finds herself lost. Seperated from the warmth and protection of her mother, feels distraught. Overcome with loneliness she breaks into tears in a large urban park meadow...

Link must defeat evil at every turn in his perilous quest to help Princess Zelda!Once upon a time, wizards tried to conquer the Sacred Realm of Hyrule. The Spirits of Light sealed the wizards’ power within the Shadow Crystal and banished them to the...

Link must defeat evil at every turn in his perilous quest to help Princess Zelda!Once upon a time, wizards tried to conquer the Sacred Realm of Hyrule. The Spirits of Light sealed the wizards’ power within the Shadow Crystal and banished them to the...

The author of The House in the Cerulean Sea delivers another pitch-perfect slice of beautifully wrought queer fantasy, as violence tears apart the shapeshifting wolf pack Ox calls family and a face from his past reawakens powerful emotions...

'I am not my husband. I am innocent. Do you believe me?'The beautiful, enigmatic wife of a feared dictator stands trial for her late husband's crimes against the people. The world will finally know the truth. But whose? A BBC2 Between the Covers Book...

From Guernsey to California, Hinshaw’s immersive, beautifully crafted debut ties a fine web of interconnected stories into a globe-spanning meditation on the beauty and pain of human life.   Surrounded by the dramatic beauty of Guernsey, a teenager...

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZEWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZEONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEARA TIME, GQ, Vulture, and WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK of the YEARONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARFinalist for the...

The Way We Live Now is Anthony Trollope's radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism, edited with an introduction and notes by Frank Kermode in Penguin Classics.Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys...

(Available after 3-20 days)With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant. Canterbury Christ Church College. The tough-mindedness of the social satire in and its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollope's Literary...