Summer Reads

A powerfully poignant tale of one of the most turbulent moments in Scotland's history: the North Berwick Witch Trials.IT’S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591.On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floors below Edinburgh’s High Street,...

One of Vanity Fair's 21 Best Books of 2020 (So Far)A Vulture, LitHub, and PureWow Most Anticipated Book of 2020"As precise as any scientific observation and far more tantalizing." —Vogue"A sophisticated, surprising take on the campus novel (with a...

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present...

(Available after 3-20 days)This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences of survivors of the Great War evoking days gone by, to the concerns of a younger...

The Creative Act sits at the intersection of self-help and spirituality. With his extraordinary career in the music business, Rick Rubin has plenty to say about the art of being an artist and what it takes to be truly creative. We love the...

The author of Miss Austen returns to the life of the celebrated Regency novelist with an elegant, atmospheric account of a young governess forming a firm friendship with the literary genius. On 21 January 1804, Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in...

Uncover the ghost animals within in this moving and uplifting story about finding help where you need it, from the highly acclaimed author and illustrator of The Hunt for the Nightingale.  Nora's mum has good days and bad days, but the bad days are...

Spiralling from Jazz Age New York to the wilds of the Yorkshire moors, Askwith's richly imaginative thriller revolves around a deadly family curse and a secret society who could either take a life or save it. Once I had four brothers. Three of them...

The author of the TikTok sensation Last One to Die delivers another spine-chilling, unputdownable YA thriller, as six strangers who meet online decide to continue a dangerous game in real life. Rules of The Midnight Game: Do not turn on the lights. Do...

A stunning and heartbreaking new novel from Jamila Gavin, the bestselling and award-winning author of Coram Boy and The Wheel of Surya. England, 1937. Gwen, Noor, Dodo and Vera are four very different teenage girls, with something in common. Their...

(Available after February 20th, 2023)Dumplin’ meets Geekerella in debut author Jenna Miller’s queer, body-positive love story that explores online and offline relationships in all of their messiness.   If you asked seventeen-year-old Cass Williams to...

The hotly anticipated sequel to the gripping Indian-inspired YA fantasy THE IVORY KEY.Four siblings. Two enemy territories. One long buried secret.Without magic to protect Ashoka's borders, time is running out. The whole country is at risk from enemy...

(Available after August 30th, 2023)Practical Magic meets Erika L. Sanchez in this propulsive YA fantasy about a Cuban American family of brujas who get entangled in love, magic, and murder, alternating between 1980s Cuba and present-day Miami.    Twin...

“A deft, delightful, and emotionally complex examination of intergenerational relationships.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review A Junior Library Guild Selection Moms.More complicated than an origin story . . .    Samantha Kang has always butted heads with...

The Haunting of Hill House meets Sadie in this evocative and mind-bending psychological thriller following two teen girls navigating the treacherous past of a mysterious mansion ten years apart.Daisy sees dead people—something impossible to forget in...

Afghan-American Mafi’s sophomore year gets a whole lot more complicated when she accidentally exposes family secrets, putting her family back in Afghanistan in danger in this smartly written YA debut.Sixteen-year-old Mafi Shahin is well-aware that life...

(Available after 3-20 days)It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune will be gruesomely murdered at the ball.Mina’s excited to attend the annual Argleton Jane Austen Experience at the stately Baddesley Hall...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nature of Witches and Wild is the Witch comes a lush romantic fantasy about forbidden love, the choices we make, and the pull between duty and desire.   Tana Fairchild's fate...

(Available after August 30th, 2023)The highly-anticipated sequel to the epic romance hailed as one of the best fantasies of the year!When the gods make the rules, the players must choose: Sacrifice their love to save the world, or choose love and let it...

From the Coretta Scott King and Printz Honor-winning author of How It Went Down, Light It Up, and Revolution In Our Time comes a moving contemporary YA novel about the bonds between a group of teens whose lives have been upended by tragedy...