Bookworms

Whether you’re catching a chapter on your morning commute or staying up past your bed time to read just ‘one more page’, the search for new books never ends. So what better way to add to your to-read pile than getting recommendations from your friendly neighborhood library? Whatever your favorite genre might be, we’re here to help you discover your next literary love.

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The Red-Haired Woman
by Orhan Pamuk

Hired to find water on a barren plain during the hot summer, a master well digger and his young apprentice develop a filial bond neither has known until the boy becomes fatefully attracted to a red-haired actress from a traveling theatre company.

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Knots
by Gunnhild Øyehaug

Explores the complicated entanglements of love and desire as reflected by characters ranging from a man with an uncuttable umbilical cord who spends a life tethered to his mother, to a tipsy uncle whose toast has unexpected consequences.

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The Reason You're Alive
by Matthew Quick

Surviving a brain tumor linked to a wartime chemical exposure, David resolves to return a stolen object to a former Native American soldier from his past as part of an effort to find closure and recover from his wife's untimely death.

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Spoonbenders
by Daryl Gregory

A generations-spanning family of psychics, blessed and burdened by their abilities, is challenged to use their powers collectively to save themselves from the CIA, the local mafia, and a skeptic bent on discrediting them.

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The Essex Serpent
by Sarah Perry

In late-nineteenth century England, intellectually minded young widow Cora Seaborne and pious vicar William Ransome investigate rumors about a mythical sea creature that has been blamed for a death in coastal Essex.

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Magpie Murders
by Anthony Horowitz

When she realizes that the final chapter of mystery writer Alan Conway's latest manuscript is missing and Alan later turns up dead, editor Susan Ryeland follows clues buried in the text to investigate the author's suspicious death.

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Once, in Lourdes
by Sharon Solwitz

A novel of teen friendship set during a two-week span in the summer of 1968 follows a suicide pact made by four friends who plan to live for each other before leaping off a high bluff.

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Theft by Finding
by David Sedaris

An anthology of personal favorite diary entries by the best-selling author of Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls features excerpts that have inspired his famed autobiographical essays and shares insights into the intimate arenas of his life.

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Into the Water
by Paula Hawkins

When a single mom and a teen girl are found murdered at the bottom of a river in a small town weeks apart, an ensuing investigation dredges up a complicated local history involving human instincts and the damage they can inflict.

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The Simplicity of Cider
by Amy E Reichert

A fifth-generation, devoted, cider-maker in Wisconsin has her life upended with the arrival of single father looking for work and lodging with his young son.