Summer Reads

Curated with care and intelligence, the fourteen essays within In the Garden ask profound questions about the nature of gardening and the connections and resonances of horticulture in both cultural and environmental life.    ‘Gardening, then, is a...

Taken from her globally influential TED talk, this is Ngozi Adichie’s feminist manifesto. A powerful, personal essay of hope and ambition for a better, fairer world: required reading. A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the...

Written as a letter to a friend's daughter, this is a powerful and personal manifesto about contemporary feminism in practice, asking key questions about what it means to be a woman today. From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All...

King's Classic bestseller about a famous novelist held hostage by his Number One Fan.Misery Chastain is dead. Paul Sheldon has just killed her - with relief, with joy. Misery has made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers. And now he...

"Incredibly strong and not a little disturbing." --Cory Doctorow, author of In Real LifeWelcome to a new age...the age of the internet.Allison is drowning under the weight of her manipulative stage magician father. When he brings home the family's first...

A stunning black-and-white graphic novel adaptation of Walter Dean Myers's Michael L. Printz Award winner and New York Times bestseller Monster, adapted by Guy Sims and illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile Monster is a multi-award-winning, provocative...

From Brian K. Vaughan, #1 New York Times bestselling writer of SAGA, and Cliff Chiang, legendary artist of WONDER WOMAN, comes the first volume of an all-new ongoing adventure.In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper...

2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Writer2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Painter/Multimedia Artist2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Continuing Series2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Publication for Teens2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Cover Artist2018 Harvey Award...

An undisputed masterpiece of the graphic novel form, representing Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, Spiegelman’s profoundly moving work traces his father’s harrowing experiences of Auschwitz and the challenges of adjusting to peacetime life after an...

The debut collection of raucous, dark, strange, satirical stories from the former Late Show with Stephen Colbert writer and New Yorker contributor, featuring a foreword by Stephen Colbert"Jen Spyra's stories are shocking, silly, smart, and absurdly funny...

(Available after 3-20 days)Poems of heartbreak and sex, self-care and self-critique, urban adventures and love on the road from the millennial quarantine queen and comedy sensation.in L.A. we got naked and swam in the oceanwe ate cured meats and...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline offers a sweeping and shattering epic of historical fiction fueled by shocking true events, the tale of a love triangle that unfolds in the heart of Rome...in the creeping shadow of fascism...

TEEN VOGUE BOOK CLUB PICK - A Harvard freshman becomes obsessed with her schizophrenic brother's suicide. Then she starts hearing voices."A rich, intricately plotted thriller . . . Serritella, who is a Harvard grad herself, writes about the campus with...

*The must-read book of the summer* 'Utterly transporting'  -- Stylist 'A gorgeous, one-gulp novel' --  Red 'Emma Brodie perfectly channels the languorous romance of the time . . . I got chills' --  Kevin Kwan, No.1 bestselling author of Crazy Rich...

An aircraft carrier adrift with a crew the size of a small town. A murderer in their midst. And the disgraced Navy SEAL who must track him down...'  --Sensationally good - an instant classic, maybe an instant legend' Lee Child The moment Navy SEAL...

The triumphant true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion"The gift Elizabeth...

The stunning novel about our fiercest loyalties, deepest desires and the power of forgiveness'A highly-charged love story' --  DELIA OWENS, bestselling author of WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING'This story has everything. Just thinking about it makes me feel that...

'It's a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isn't it?'My dislikes: Being an orphan, having red hair, being called 'carrots' by Gilbert Blythe. My likes: Living at the Green Gables with Marilla and Matthew,...

*"Rivaling the nonfiction works of Steve Sheinkin and Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat....Even readers who don't appreciate sports will find this story a page-turner." --School Library Connection, starred review*"A must for all library...

(Available after 3-20 days)America Is in the Heart is a semi-autobiographical novel from the celebrated author Carlos Bulosan. Beginning with the young Carlos' difficult childhood in the rural Philippines where he and his family face immense hardship,...