Weekly Staff Picks
What is the library staff most excited to get home and read? We recommend these latest releases!
How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel
Author: Sequoia Nagamatsu
ISBN: 9780063072640
For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague - a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from...
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Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today
Author: Valerie Bertinelli
ISBN: 9780358567363
Valerie Bertinelli shares an inspiring blueprint that offers women in midlife support and hope. She shares personal stories that many women will relate to from her past decade: hitting her fifties, taking care of her dying mother, the evolving relationship with her husband, a career change, her relationship with food...
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The Hard Sell: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup
Author: Evan Hughes
ISBN: 9780385544900
, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say NothingJohn Kapoor had already amassed a small fortune in pharmaceuticals when he founded Insys Therapeutics. It was the early 2000s, a boom time for painkillers, and he developed a novel formulation of fentanyl, the most potent opioid on...
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The Runaway
Author: Nick Petrie
ISBN: 9780525535508
Peter Ash is driving through northern Nebraska when he meets a young pregnant woman alone on a gravel road, her car out of gas. Peter offers her a lift, but quickly finds her angry ex-cop ex-husband hot on their trail. It seems Helene has seen something she was never meant...
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One Step Too Far: A Novel
Author: Lisa Gardner
ISBN: 9780593185414
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner, a thrilling new novel that sends Frankie Elkin into the woods in search of a lost man - and the shocking truth about why he went missing in the first place. Frankie Elkin, who readers first met in Before She Disappeared...
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Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?: A Novel
Author: Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
ISBN: 9780593299005
Yinka's Nigerian aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, her work friends think she's too traditional (she's saving herself for marriage!) , her girlfriends think she needs to get over her ex already, and the men in her life ... well, that's a whole other story. But Yinka...
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Desolation Canyon
Author: P. J. Tracy
ISBN: 9781250754950
LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan is struggling to move forward after the death of her brother in Afghanistan and taking a life in the line of duty. Her stoic parents offer little support - they refuse to address anything difficult, and she's afraid their relationship is eroding beyond the point of...
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The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilization
Author: Michael Brooks
ISBN: 9781524748999
In this captivating, sweeping history, Michael Brooks makes clear that mathematics was one of the foundational innovations that catapulted humanity from a nomadic existence to civilization, and that it has been instrumental in every subsequent great leap of humankind: from charting the movements of celestial bodies to navigating the globe...
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Love & Other Disasters
Author: Anita Kelly
ISBN: 9781538754849
Recently divorced and on the verge of bankruptcy, Dahlia Woodson is ready to reinvent herself on the popular reality competition show Chef's Special. Too bad the first memorable move she makes is falling flat on her face, sending fish tacos flying - not quite the fresh start she was hoping...
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Must Love Books
Author: Shauna Robinson
ISBN: 9781728240732
"A heartfelt and exciting debut...a wise and honest story of how it feels to be a young woman in search of yourself." -- Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Malibu RisingThe Bookish Life of Nina Hill meets Younger in a...
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Targeted
Author: Stephen Hunter
ISBN: 9781982169794
Mark Greaney, author of Mission Critical) .After his successful takedown of a dangerous terrorist, Bob Lee Swagger learns that no good deed goes unpunished. Summoned to court by the United States Congress, Swagger is accused of reckless endangerment by a hardheaded anti-gun congresswoman. But what begins as political posturing soon...
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