Weekly Staff Picks
What is the library staff most excited to get home and read? We recommend these latest releases!
A Lot Like Adiós: A Novel
Author: Alexis Daria
ISBN: 9780062959966
The national bestselling author of You Had Me at Hola returns with a seductive second-chance romance about a commitment-phobic Latina and her childhood best friend who has finally returned home.Hi Mich. It's Gabe.After burning out in her corporate marketing career, Michelle Amato has built a thriving freelance business as a...
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Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy
Author: Christopher Mims
ISBN: 9780062987952
The Wall Street Journal technology columnist reveals the fascinating story behind the misleadingly simple phrase shoppers take for granted - "Arriving Today" - in this eye-opening investigation into the new rules of online commerce, transportation, and supply chain management.We are at a tipping point in retail history. While consumers are...
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Harlem Shuffle: A Novel
Author: Colson Whitehead
ISBN: 9780385545136
"Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked . . ."To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child...
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Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
Author: Nathaniel Philbrick
ISBN: 9780525562177
When George Washington became president in 1789, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative political experiment. Washington undertook a tour of the ex-colonies to talk to ordinary citizens about his new government, and to imbue in them the idea of being one...
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The Love Hypothesis
Author: Ali Hazelwood
ISBN: 9780593336823
As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi...
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Apples Never Fall
Author: Liane Moriarty
ISBN: 9781250220257
The Delaney family love one another dearly -- it's just that sometimes they want to murder each other . . .If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father?This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings.The Delaney family...
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Her Perfect Life
Author: Hank Phillippi Ryan
ISBN: 9781250258885
.Everyone knows Lily Atwood -- and that may be her biggest problem. The beloved television reporter has it all -- fame, fortune, Emmys, an adorable seven-year-old daughter, and the hashtag her loving fans created: PerfectLily. To keep it all she has to do is protect one life-changing secret. Her own...
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Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Author: Tarana Burke
ISBN: 9781250621733
-- -- and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation.Tarana didn't always have the courage to say 'me too.' As a child, she reeled from her sexual assault, believing she was responsible. Unable to confess what she thought of as her own sins for fear of shattering...
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Author: Mary Roach
ISBN: 9781324001935
One of Bookpage's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2021 Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) , Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous...
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The Heroine with 1001 Faces
Author: Maria Tatar
ISBN: 9781631498817
How do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined our cultural aspirations in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, emphasizing the value of seeking glory and earning immortality. His work became the playbook for Hollywood, with its many male-centric quest...
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