Summer Reads

If you were tasked with finding a creative team to put a fresh spin on an all-time classic children's story, you'd be hard pressed to do better than Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen. You could build a bridge with the awards won between these two — which is...

Welcome to Ed Yong's Alice-in-Wonderland world of animal sense and sensibility. Vibrant poetic tales of creatures that crawl, swim, fly, those of the night, of the sun, of the hidden depths of oceans, or in our homes, each perceiving the world in vastly...

A jaw dropping wonder of a book in which art, history, production and design come together seamlessly in a love letter to the achievements of the Apollo space program and its manned flights. Four hundred images, culled from 35,000, all meticulously...

A child's plans are ruined when her parents have the gall to stop to talk to the neighbors in My Parents Won't Stop Talking!, a laugh-out-loud picture book about patience by Emma Hunsinger and Tillie Walden.It’s time to go to the park, and Molly can’t...

(Available after November 30th, 2022) A modern retelling of the immortal and dark Daphne and Apollo myth, The Latinist explores the pitfalls of extreme ambition, passionate desire, and dangerous obsession. With a moody backdrop of Oxford academia and a...

Celebrated poets Ted Kooser along with Connie Wanek, and illustrator Richard Jones, explore figures of speech in a spirited and magical way—and invite our imaginations out to play.A freewheeling romp through the world of imagery and metaphor, this...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner—for the first time in a beautifully produced stand-alone edition, with an introduction by Zadie...

(Available after December 30th, 2022)In a besieged city, Noor watches as his neighbors pack their bags and flee their homes—but a dog named Bobby is left behind. As Noor sets out across the ravaged city to save him, he discovers pockets of life and hope...

From the Man Booker Prize Finalist comes the third novel in her Seasonal Quartet—a New York Times Notable Book and longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2020What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven,...

“Levin’s luminous latest reckons with the disorientation of contemporary America. . . . Through the fog of doubt, Levin summons ferocious intellect and musters hard-won clairvoyance.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review   Dana Levin’s fifth collection is a...

This captivating book explores the real connection and communication that runs underground between trees in the forest. The well-researched details about trees' own social network will help readers see that the natural world's survival depends on staying...

Penned by an art history professor and combining the rich atmosphere of The Secret History with the sinister thrills of Ninth House, Hays' debut about a mysterious group of art researchers and an invaluable fifteenth-century tarot deck is...

A lush forest full of deadly supernatural monsters serves as the backdrop for The Luminaries, the first book in a new contemporary fantasy series from the author of the Witchlands series. This thrilling read rife with paranormal elements will keep...

A new page-turning thriller from USA Today bestselling author David Bell. When a girl disappears, who do you suspect? When 17-year-old Hunter Gifford wakes in the hospital on the night of homecoming, he's shocked to learn he and his girlfriend, Chloe...

Seventy-three years after the events of THE DEATH CURE, when Thomas and other immunes were sent to an island to survive the Flare-triggered apocalypse, their descendants have thrived. Sadina, Isaac, and Jackie all learned about the unkind history of the...

(Available after November 30th, 2022) Fans of The Witch Haven rejoice! Your Spooky Season reads just got that much better with this sequel that takes readers through Paris alongside Frances as she tries to fix the rift in the magical world that she...

(Available after 3-20 days) Kimberly Burns- a self-sufficient, nineteen-year-old- expects her customary camping trip to be a calming escape from the non-stop demands of college life but the attack from a recently turned vampire changes everything...

"A haunting, dreamlike tale of sacrifice, love, and obsession." -- Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author. Delaney Meyers-Petrov is tired of being seen as fragile just because she's Deaf. So when she's accepted into a prestigious program...

As the writer of over twenty Hallmark Christmas movies, author Tracy Andreen knows a thing or two about holiday romance. So, consider us sold when we first heard about So, This Is Christmas. This small town holiday romance set in – wait for it –...

(Available after 3-20 days)The world wants a hero. The curse needs a thief.The party of the decade stands between Jerek Holden and saving the people he would do anything to protect. After twelve years, he's finally found a way to break the curse that...