There are two entangled mysteries- what happened to the villagers in the past and what’s happening to the film crew now? It’s unsettling and creepy and will keep you guessing on where the threats lie and what threats could remain decades later. The audiobook is captivating.
Aces Wild
17-year-old Jack’s mother has been arrested for crimes related to the Las Vegas casino she runs. He turns to his four best friends—asexual teens he only knows from online—to help him investigate his mom’s rival. Pick this up if you are looking for a fast-paced heist!
My Life in France
Vibrant, witty, and bursting with delicious-sounding food, My Life in France is not only a memoir. It’s also biography of Julia Child’s transformative cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and the years-long labor of love that led to its creation.
How We Got to Now
In this Young Reader’s Edition, Johnson describes how the developments surrounding glass, refrigeration, sound, cleanliness, time and light have shaped our current world. Learn how 19th century train routes impact the current time zones and other ways that we got to now.
Holiday Heroine
It’s not easy being your best friend’s personal assistant–especially when she’s also a superhero (and diva.) But when the world is about to end and Evie’s job duties reveal her own super powers? The fun, action-packed result will have you reaching for the sequel.
Replay
For fans of good time-travel yarns, this one deserves a look. What would you do differently if you started over again at 18? Does foreknowledge prevent us from making mistakes? Can you make your life better, or just different?
Borges and Me
By chance, Jay Parini, a Vietnam War draft dodger and grad student in literature at St. Andrew’s, meets the visiting blind Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges and winds up squiring him on an epic road trip through the Scottish landscape using Parini’s eyes and imagination.
Cyborg Detective
A razor-sharp poetic retort to the ableism found in Literature. Weise’s incisive poems directly respond to the ways authors use disability as metaphor and the way disabled writers are expected to perform disability. Smart, moving, often funny, and very powerful.
Lawless Spaces
This powerful novel in verse explores what it means to be sixteen, uncover family secrets, and discover that you have more in common with your family than you’d thought. Lawless Spaces is perfect for the #MeToo era and will stick with you long after you finish reading.
They Called Us Enemy
George Takei, best known as Star Trek’s Hikaru Sulu, recounts his family’s internment during World War II. Declared US enemies by President Roosevelt in 1942, thousands of American citizens of Japanese descent were imprisoned during the war.