Adult 2/23

The Midnight Bargain (Paperback)

By C. L. Polk

$18.95

ISBN: 9781645660293

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Published: Erewhon Books - December 7th, 2021

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Bridgerton…but make it fantasy! Beatrice's family is on the brink of financial ruin, and the only way  to bring them back is to find a wealthy husband during this year's Bargaining Season. And while someone will surely agree to marry her, Beatrice isn't sure the payday is worth the price—her freedom to practice sorcery. Does she choose herself and her love of the magic within her? Or does she choose her family and their financial well-being? And what happens when she accidentally falls in love and gets a demon involved? For lovers of atmosphere, this one's got it in spades.
 

Meghan, Writer in Residence for Young Readers

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (Paperback)

By Deesha Philyaw

$18.99

ISBN: 9781949199734

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Published: West Virginia University Press - September 1st, 2020

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Respectable, upstanding people on the surface; a tangle of complicated desires and messy choices underneath. From the biting “Instructions for Married Christian Husbands” to the epistolary “Dear Sister” – a letter from four sisters to a possible fifth after their father’s death – Deesha Philyaw has a knack for creating characters who feel like sisters and cousins, and zeroing in on their intimate truths in just a few pages.

Pia, Writer in Residence for Adults

Tin Man: A Novel (Paperback)

By Sarah Winman

$16.00

ISBN: 9780735218765

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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - April 9th, 2019

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Tin Man is a sparse and sort of lonely book, but it is filled to the brim with those quiet moments that over a lifetime add up to something quite big. Your heart will ache, but in a good way.

Kendall

Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight (Hardcover)

By Betye Saar (Artist), Stephanie Seidel (Editor), Alex Gartenfeld (Foreword by)

$55.00

ISBN: 9781636810362

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Published: Delmonico Books - September 20th, 2022

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Betye Saar's body of work is just mindblowing. Her visual story-tellling and artistic talents are revolutionary, and I feel like she should receive much more recognition for her work. This particular collection, with its themes of the African Diaspora and the night sky, really just left me floored.

Stacey

Really Good, Actually: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Monica Heisey

$27.99

ISBN: 9780063235410

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Published: William Morrow - January 17th, 2023

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Actually, this book is really F’ing great. It is funny as hell, smart, poignant, painful and relatable. There is nothing romantic about divorce, and Monica Heisey captures the messy search for meaning (and joy?) with hilarity and tenderness. Too bad this book wasn’t around years ago because some of us would have clutched it to their chest as they cried in a heap in their closet over their failed marriage (or any failure for that matter) and thanked God Monica came into their life and was now their BFF. But don’t you worry - even if you are one of those happy, well-adjusted, non-single people (goodie for you) you will still ADORE this book and not be able to put it down!

Babbie

To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness (Hardcover)

By Robin Coste Lewis

$35.00

ISBN: 9781524732585

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Published: Knopf - December 6th, 2022

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In this breathtaking combination of photography and poetry Robin Coste Lewis again asks, what can we do with our history? Our past is the material for our future but only if we engage with it critically & creatively. Coste Lewis is doing powerful things with history, art, and poetry.

Josh

The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World (Hardcover)

By David K. Randall

$27.95

ISBN: 9781324006534

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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - June 7th, 2022

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When the west held no more gold, the rush for dinosaur bones began.

John

Brown Girl in the Ring (Paperback)

By Nalo Hopkinson

$17.99

ISBN: 9780446674331

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Published: Grand Central Publishing - July 1st, 1998

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Who was the first Black woman to be named a "Grand Master" of sci-fi by the Sceince Fiction Writers of America? Nope, not Octavia Butler, but the lesseer-known Hopkinson who kicked off her literary career with this tale of Afro-Caribbean magic, women's herbal wisdom, the strains of motherhood, and the cycle of trauma, set in a post-apocalyptic Toronto. Slow-stewing but meaty.

Rachael

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Akwaeke Emezi

$27.00

ISBN: 9781982188702

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Published: Atria Books - May 24th, 2022

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Imagine you're young, hot, & widowed and you get to travel all expense-paid to a beautiful island with a fine-ass man...only to fall hard for his even more fine-ass dad. Sexy. unhinged mess elevated with Emezi's fire and spark of wit.

Manasa