Staff Picks

This landmark album of ephemera relating to the Black experience over the last five hundred years was the publishing project Toni Morrison was proudest of—and where she found the germ of Beloved.

Manuela is hiding in Miami from her father's Argentinian crime family AND ICE. When her mother is arrested by ICE she follows a guy to a camp in the Everglades full of people like her. Except she's not legal here either.

Readers who enjoy modernist and postmodernist literature, Pynchon, Gaddis Wallace, and are gluttons for the unique punishment of reading difficult doorstop novels will LOVE this book.

I remember the magic I felt when getting mail as a child. Seeing my name on paper, written by someone else, made me feel important.

This historical novel confronts hard subjects like identity, tribal sovereignty, and historical as well as lifespan trauma. Nevertheless the characters surpass barriers to work their way into your heart because they are people you have known and loved.

A Viking-inspired fantasy with a fierce, determined, and clever heroine. This is a fast read with a villainous twist I did not expect.

Imagine Jaws but with creepy deep-sea mermaids instead of sharks! Monster movie fans will love the horror elements, while marine biology enthusiasts will love the science.

After a terrible accident, Kane wakes up with his memories erased and a mystery to solve without them. Not sure who to trust or where to find answers, he stumbles headfirst into a dream world and he's the only one who can unravel it - whatever that means!

This awkward romance, heavy on the awkward, was a steady flow of full-hearted sighs and audible laughter.

Margot is the only survivor of an accident that kills her family, and struggles with nightmares. After a stay at a group home, she gets a foster placement at a country house where she is to be the companion. But something is very weird about this house.

Shai is a forger who can re-create any item by magically rewriting its history. When caught replacing the Moon Scepter with her nearly flawless forgery, she must bargain for life and create--by Forgery--a new soul for the emperor in less than 100 days.

What Sound is Morning? will captivate young readers' interest with vibrant illustrations and tickle the senses as they explore the small yet significant details of the morning hours.

Max Brook brings the big scares again in Devolution, just the book for those of us who grew up in the Sasquatch obsessed 70's and 80's.

When Bridger finds out his new job is to assist an eccentric intermediary between the human world and its myths, he spends the school year chasing creatures like Sasquatch, mermaids, and hags, while also trying to keep his friends (and crush Leo) safe.

More than being a movie about racing cars, it's a movie about standing by your passions, your beliefs, and your friends--regardless if you win or lose.

Twitter wars have never been so adorable. A teen romance about dealing with other people's baggage (via your mom's corporate Twitter account!) while managing your own (homework, college interviews, swim team drama, cute boy on the diving team etc...))

Read powerfully by David Keith, Lewis gives his reader's many ways to cross "that" bridge. Whatever bridge that may be, the only way to do so is with love.

Pony is a trans boy who has moved to a new high school for his senior year. On the first day, he catches the eye of the most popular cheerleader at the school. The ending is heart-melting.

This book covers a wide range of topics, including how to deal with others, how valuable a friend can be even without speaking, and how a good dessert can be as a grounding technique.

Alternate history steampunk turns this Frankenstein retelling into a battle for equality in a world where people with clockwork prosthetics are marginalized.