Summer Reads

“Perfect for those who reminisce on the melancholic feelings [of] John Green's Looking for Alaska.” —USA Today"Will have you hooked from the start and guessing till the very end. Jessica Taylor aces it. I inhaled this one!" —Jennifer Mathieu, author...

A sweet and nerdy contemporary YA novel set in the world of marching band perfect for fans of Late to the Party, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega and Kate in Waiting.Yasmín Treviño didn’t have much of a freshman year thanks to Hurricane Humphrey, but she’s ready...

The Conjuring meets Sadie in this queer ghost story, when seventeen-year-old podcaster Dare finds herself in a life-or-death struggle against an evil spirit.Dare Chase doesn’t believe in ghosts. But as the host of Attachments, her brand-new paranormal...

A smart and twisty debut YA that starts off like Friday Night Lights and ends with the power and insight of Dear White People.Seton Academic High is a prep school obsessed with its football team and their thirteen-year conference win...

(Available after November 30th, 2022)Veronica Mars meets Moxie in the hilarious and thought-provoking sequel to Margot Mertz Takes it Down.Margot faces senior year working on a campaign for local election while helping a fellow student run for class...

(Available after September 30th, 2022)A talented witch competes for a prestigious scholarship at her cutthroat high school in this contemporary YA fantasy for fans of Never Have I Ever and Sabrina the Teen Witch.“Captivating, romantic, and deeply...

*"Truly enchanting."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A loose retelling of Cinderella, about a high-school graduate who—after getting grounded for the whole summer—joins a local Quidditch league and finds her footing, perfect for...

In a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by a deadly Fly Flu, the few remaining survivors seek their paths to better lives based on stories and memories of the past. Through their interwoven existences, fraught with the pain of survival, we see the power of...

A dark and intricate fantasy, City of the Uncommon Thief is the story of a quarantined city gripped by fear and of the war that can free it."Guilders work. Foundlings scrub the bogs. Needles bind. Swords tear. And men leave. There is nothing uncommon in...

Sheriff “Big Bert” Tubb once cleaned up Craw County, Alabama with an iron jaw and a big ol’ stick. But that was 40 years ago. When his son, Earl Tubb, returns home to settle some family business, he finds his daddy’s grave unkempt, the stick he was...

Earl Tubb is an angry old man with a very big stick. Euless Boss is a high school football coach with no more room in his office for trophies and no more room underneath the bleachers for burying bodies. And they're just two of the folks you'll meet in...

Subtitled ‘A Gay Fantasia on National Themes’, Angels in America is Tony Kushner's epic, Pulitzer Award-winning two-part drama of homosexuality and the AIDS epidemic in 1980’s America. First performed in the UK at the National Theatre in 1992, Angels in...

(Available after 3-20 days) A sensational tale of obsession and murder from the author of The Wilding. England, 1640s. Jacob Cullen is an educated, vigorous and dauntingly strong manservant in a Royalist household, who has begun to develop a dangerous...

The intimacy of a cabin at Lake Tahoe provides the combustible circumstances that bring Diana Holland and Lane Christianson together in this passionate novel of first discovery.Candid in its eroticism, intensely romantic, remarkably beautiful, CURIOUS...

Pages for You is story of the beginning, blossoming and falling apart of a delirious love affair, by Sylvia Brownrigg.'A love letter written for a lost lover . . . mesmerizing' - Helen Dunmore, The TimesWhen Flannery Jansen arrives at university, she is...

“A dystopia so chillingly plausible that an entire review could be spent simply describing its components.... Marvelous.”  —The Boston GlobeThe time: not so long from now. The place: AutoAmerica, a country surveilled by one “Aunt Nettie,” a Big Brother...

Before the Apollo 11 mission succeeded in landing on the Moon in 1969, writers and visionaries were fascinated by how we might get there and what we might find. The Greeks and Romans speculated about the Moon almost 2000 years before H.G. Wells or Jules...

Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, PopSugar, Financial Times, Chicago Review of Books, Huffington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Thrillist, Book Riot, National Post (Canada), Kirkus and Publishers WeeklyFrom...

Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!“Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist.”—The Washington Post Book WorldFacing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup...

Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!“Wild satire . . . The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes.”—Chicago TribuneThe unhappy inhabitants of planet...