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  • Her America: Eight Women Who Transformed the Nation

    by Heather B. Moore

    HistoryRecommended for Ages 18+
    Author Heather B. Moore takes an unconventional approach in the format of this look back at women from American history. Rather than straight-up fiction or straight-up non-fiction, she alternates the…

  • Scent of Hope

    by Susan May Warren

    Action/AdventureRecommended for Ages 18+
    Scent of Hope is the second book in Susan May Warren’s Call of the Wild series. It is set in Alaska and follows the same pattern as many of Warren’s books. Two characters who once knew each other, but…

  • Summer in the Spotlight

    by Liz Johnson

    RomanceRecommended for Ages 18+
    Summer in the Spotlight is Liz Johnson’s third and final book in her Prince Edward Island Shores series. It can be read as a standalone novel. It takes place on the beautiful Prince Edward Island, as …

  • Chase the Light

    by Suzanne Woods Fisher

    Action/AdventureRecommended for Ages 18+
    Suzanne Woods Fisher continues her National Parks Summers series with Chase the Light. If you haven’t read the first book, the richness of the characters and their stories is a bit less fulfillin…

  • The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles)

    by Anne Rice

    HorrorRecommended for Ages 21+
    In the second book of her Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice delivers a more intricate and expansive tale, with a broadened cast of characters, yet told with the same evocative description and musing …

  • You Had Me at Bigfoot

    by Nancy Campbell Allen

    MysteryRecommended for Ages 18+
    Nancy Campbell Allen’s You Had Me at Bigfoot starts off exactly as you might expect a series called a Daphne Drew Mystery to start. Yep, all of the clichés and stereotypes fall right into li…

  • The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli

    by Karina Yan Glaser

    Historical FictionRecommended for Ages 9+
    This gripping, middle grade, historical fiction novel is a 2026 Newbery Honor Book. Chapters are brief and alternate between Han Yu in China, 731 and Luli in New York City, 1931. This format, along …

  • The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest

    by Aubrey Hartman

    FantasyRecommended for Ages 9+
    For those who advocate that middle grade literature is the best, The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest validates that claim. Author Aubrey Hartman's voice and literary style exemplify first rate craftman…

  • Every Beat After

    by Sara B. Larson

    RomanceRecommended for Ages 18+
    Every Beat After by Sara B. Larson starts out swinging with some crazy dialogue and a lot of intense emotions. It is almost comical and feels a bit unrealistic, until you think about how often people …

  • A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez

    by María Dolores Águila

    Historical FictionRecommended for Ages 9+
    A simplistic definition of a corrido is it is a Mexican narrative folk ballad told through the eyes of the protagonist and often about social topics and oppression. There is quite a bit more to the a…
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