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| Genre: Biographies & Memoirs Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten Here, for the first time, Ina Garten presents an intimate, entertaining, and inspiring account of her remarkable journey. Ina’s gift is to make everything look easy, yet all her accomplishments have been the result of hard work, audacious choices, and exquisite attention to detail. In her unmistakable voice (no one tells a story like Ina), she brings her past and her process to life in a high-spirited and no-holds-barred memoir that chronicles decades of personal challenges, adventures (and misadventures) and unexpected career twists, all delivered with her signature combination of playfulness and purpose. New York Times Book Review Top Books of 2024, Vanity Fair Best Books of 2024 Also available on Libby as an ebook and an audiobook. | |
| Genre: History The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss Bookstores have always been unlike any other kind of store, shaping readers and writers, and influencing our tastes, thoughts, and politics. They nurture local communities while creating new ones of their own. Bookshops are powerful spaces, but they are also endangered ones. In The Bookshop, we see the stakes: what has been, and what might be lost. GoodReads Choice Award for Best History & Biography 2024, NYT Bestseller, TIME Magazine 100 Must-Read books of 2024 Also available on Libby as an ebook and an audiobook. | |
| Genre: General Nonfiction The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. Wall Street Journal Top 10 Books of 2024, Economist Magazine Best Books of 2024, GoodReads Choice Award for Best Nonfiction of 2024 Also available on Libby as an ebook and an audiobook. | |
| Genre: Journalistic Writing The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America by Saket Soni In late 2006, Saket Soni, a twenty-eight-year-old Indian-born community organizer, received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker in Mississippi. He was one of five hundred men trapped in squalid Gulf Coast “man camps,” surrounded by barbed wire, watched by guards, crammed into cold trailers with putrid toilets, forced to eat moldy bread and frozen rice. Soni traces the workers’ extraordinary escape, their march on foot to Washington, DC, and their twenty-three-day hunger strike to bring attention to their cause. PEN America Literary Award Winner 2024 for General Nonfiction, Library Journal Star Review Also available on Libby as an ebook and an audiobook. | |
| Genre: Self-Help Books The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins In her latest groundbreaking book, The Let Them Theory, Mel Robbins teaches you how to stop wasting energy on what you can’t control and start focusing on what truly matters: YOU. Written as an easy-to-understand guide, Robbins shares relatable stories from her own life, highlights key takeaways, relevant research and introduces you to world-renowned experts in psychology, neuroscience, relationships, happiness, and ancient wisdom who champion The Let Them Theory every step of the way. NYTimes Bestselling Author, Oprah’s #1 Self-Help Book to Read in 2025, Penguin Random House Bestseller Also available on Libby as an ebook. | |
| Genre: Poetry Tripas: Poems by Brandon Som Brandon Som follows up his debut with a book of poems built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in which he celebrates his Chicana grandmother, who worked nights on the assembly line at Motorola, and his Chinese American father and grandparents, who ran the family corner store. Enacting a cómo se dice poetics, a dialogic poem-making that inventively listens to heritage languages and transcribes family memory, Som participates in a practice of mem(oir), placing each poem’s ear toward a confluence of history, labor, and languages, while also enacting a kind of “telephone” between cultures. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2024, National Book Award Finalist | |
| Genre: Romance How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang Helen Zhang hasn’t seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years since the tragic accident that bound their lives together forever. Now a bestselling author, Helen pours everything into her career. She’s even scored a coveted spot in the writers’ room of the TV adaptation of her popular young adult novels, and if she can hide her imposter syndrome and overcome her writer’s block, surely the rest of her life will fall into place too. Grant has done everything in his power to move on from the past, including building a life across the country. And while the panic attacks have never quite gone away, he’s well liked around town as a screenwriter. Grant’s exactly as Helen remembers him—charming, funny, popular, and lovable in ways that she’s never been. And Helen’s exactly as Grant remembers too—brilliant, beautiful, closed off. But working together is messy, and electrifying, and Helen’s parents, who have never forgiven Grant, have no idea he’s in the picture at all. Entertainment Weekly’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024, Reese’s Book Club Pick | |
| Genre: Fantasy The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to improve the family's social position. Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the lines between magic, science, and fraud are never certain. But as her notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition's wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive—even if that means enlisting the help of Guillén Santángel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both. NoveList Best Books of 2024, Kirkus Best Books of 2024, GoodReads Choice Award for Best Fantasy, #1 National Bestseller Also available on Libby as an ebook and an audiobook. | |
| Genre: Science Fiction The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. She is tasked with working as a “bridge”: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as “1847” or Commander Graham Gore. By the time the true shape of the Ministry’s project comes to light, the bridge has fallen haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences she never could have imagined. Forced to confront the choices that brought them together, the bridge must finally reckon with how—and whether she believes—what she does next can change the future. GoodReads Choice Award Winner 2024 for SciFi, Good Morning America Book Club Pick, NPR Best Books of 2024 Also available on Libby as an ebook and an audiobook. | |
| Genre: Fables & Retellings James by Percival Everett When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. Thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive promise of the Free States and beyond, while Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light. New York Times Top 10 of 2024, 2024 National Book Award, Publishers Weekly Top 10 of 2024, Kirkus Prize Winner Also available on Libby as an ebook and an audiobook. | |
| Genre: Comedic Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone by Benjamin Steveson Knives Out and Clue meet Agatha Christie and The Thursday Murder Club. Everyone in Ernie's family has killed someone. "Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I’m Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I’d killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it’s a little more complicated than that." Thurber Prize for American Humor 2024 Semi-Finalist, LibraryReads Favorite Books of 2024 Also available on Libby as an ebook and an audiobook. | |
| Genre: Horror The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim In Ji-won's dreams, she walks through bloody rooms full of eyes. Succulent blue eyes. Salivatingly blue eyes. Eyes the same shape and shade as George’s, who is Umma’s obnoxious new boyfriend. George has already overstayed his welcome in her family’s claustrophobic apartment. He brags about his puffed-up consulting job, ogles Asian waitresses while dining out, and acts condescending toward Ji-won and her sister as if he deserves all of Umma’s fawning adoration. No, George doesn’t deserve anything from her family. Ji-won will make sure of that. For no matter how many victims accumulate around her campus or how many people she must deceive and manipulate, Ji-won’s hunger and her rage deserve to be sated. TIME Magazine Must-Read of 2024, NoveList Best Books of 2024 Also available on Libby as an ebook and an audiobook. | |
| Genre: Westerns Tooth and Claw: A Longmire Story by Craig Johnson Craig Johnson is back with a short novel set in the Alaska tundra where a young Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear face off with powerful enemies who will do anything to get what they want. Tooth and Claw follows Walt and Henry up to Alaska as they look for work after they both returned from serving in Vietnam. While working for an oil company in the bitter cold of winter, they soon encounter a ferocious polar bear who seems hell-bent on their destruction. But it’s not too long until they realize the danger does not lurk outside in the frozen Alaskan tundra, but with their co-workers who are after priceless treasure and will stop at nothing to get it. 2024 Spur Award for Best Western Author, Publisher’s Weekly Starred Author, Barnes & Noble Western Bestsellers Also available on Libby as an ebook and an audiobook. | |
| Genre: Historical Fiction The Women by Kristin Hannah When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. But war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam. New York Times and USA Today #1 Bestsellers, NoveList Best Books of 2024, GoodReads Choice Award for Historical Fiction Also available on Libby as an ebook and an audiobook. | |
| Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers The God of the Woods by Liz Moore Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found. As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. People Magazine’s #1 Book of 2024, New York Times Top Crime Novels of 2024 Also available on Libby as an ebook and an audiobook. | |
| Genre: Audiobooks Funny Story [book on CD] by Emily Henry, narrated by Julia Whelan Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak. GoodReads Choice Award 2024 for Best Audiobook, LibraryReads Favorites 2024, TIME Magazine Must Read Book of 2024 Also available on Libby as an ebook and an audiobook. |