Summer Reads

A pun-filled YA contemporary romance, The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar finds a teenage girl competing in a televised baking competition, with contestants including her ex-girlfriend and a potential new crush“Welcome to the first ever Junior...

(Available after April 30th, 2023)A young adult graphic novel about high school wallflower Belle Hawkins, who ends up in a love triangle after tutoring the girlfriend of her crush.High-school senior and notorious wallflower Hawkins finally works up the...

"Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy."So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein.Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from...

A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant novel presents with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.In "Memoirs of a Geisha," we enter a world where appearances are...

(Available after 3-20 days)The last thing in the world Thom Creed wants is to add to his father's pain, so he keeps secrets. Like that he has special powers. And that he's been asked to join the League - the very organization of superheroes that spurned...

Navigating through an intolerant world and their own insecurities, three teenage boys find each other and the confidence to come out of the closet.Three teenage boys, coming of age and out of the closet. Jason Carrillo is a jock with a steady girlfriend,...

Set in the New York City tech world, a wry and edgy debut novel about a heist gone wrong, a secret online life exposed, and a young man's search for true connection....Lucas and Margo are fed up. Margo is a brilliant programmer tired of being talked over...

(Available after April 30th, 2023)New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works.Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and...

The coming-of-age chronicle of a queer Latinx Southerner. In C. T. Salazar’s striking debut poetry collection, the speaker is situated in the tradition of Southern literature but reimagines its terrain with an eye on the South’s historic and ongoing...

*ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF FALL: Esquire, Time, LitHub, The Every Girl, BookPage*“Lively and thorough, Butts is the best kind of nonfiction—the kind that forces you to see something ordinary through completely new eyes.” —Esquire, Best Books...

In this “razor-sharp” and “dangerously hilarious” novel that “hooks readers from the beginning” (Los Angeles Times), a trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in a men’s prison, over one consequential Fourth of July...

(Available after 3-20 days)A formative coming-of-age graphic memoir by the creator of Afro-punk: a young man’s immersive reckoning with identity, racism, clumsy teen love and belonging in an isolated California desert, and a search for salvation and...

(Available after 3-20 days)A fighter without a purpose. A crusader with nothing to lose. Can she trust him with her heart, or is he just another lost cause?AngelBy day, I do all the grunt work at my family’s struggling L.A. brewery. By night, I blow off...

(Available after March 30th, 2023)A grim take on Grimm tales, one where the hunted become the hunters!In a world where fairy tales are fact and humans live in fear of werewolves, witches, and monsters, only the Hunters Guild can keep the monsters at bay...

(Available after May 30th, 2023)A grim take on Grimm tales, one where the hunted become the hunters!In a world where fairy tales are fact and humans live in fear of werewolves, witches, and monsters, only the Hunters Guild can keep the monsters at bay...

In this beautifully illustrated slice-of-life fantasy, a young girl sets out to become a valiant knight by first serving as a squire.Rosa dreams of taking up arms as a courageous knight! To be one, she must first be a squire. Those duties around the...

(Available after April 30th, 2023)THE MAIDEN AND HER KNIGHTExcitement fills the air! The jousting tournament has everyone energized. Rosa’s knight training continues. She’s learning to handle a bow and navigate the dense forest nearby. Her life in Castle...

(Available after April 30th, 2023)An epic fantasy of the powerful human hero who hates humans and aims to become the next Demon Lord!After the Demon Lord is slain at the hands of a lone human warrior, humans rejoice over the end of his reign of terror...

(Available after August 30th, 2023)An epic fantasy of the powerful human hero who hates humans and aims to become the next Demon Lord!After the demon lord is slain at the hands of a lone human warrior, humans rejoice over the end of his reign of terror...

CURSES!Between giving everyone a scare (or a thrill) by coming to work without clothes, eating something she found on the ground (again!), and other airheaded antics, Elma’s as busy as ever! But she still finds time to bond with her coworkers over...