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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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Sleeping Beauties
by Stephen and Owen King

In a near-future where women succumb to a sleeping disease and men revert to their primal natures, one immune woman struggles to survive in an Appalachian town where she is treated as both a demon and a lab specimen.

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The Dark Net
by Benjamin Percy

When the criminal underworld of the internet gives way to the viral spread of ancient demons, an adolescent with visual prosthetics, a technophobic journalist, a former child evangelist, and a cyber hacker activist become the world's unlikely defenders.

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Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng

When a custody battle divides her town, straitlaced family woman Elena Richardson finds herself pitted against her tenant and becomes obsessed with exposing her past, only to trigger devastating consequences.

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Love and Other Consolation Prizes
by Jamie Ford

A half-Chinese orphan whose mother sacrificed everything to give him a better life is raffled off at Seattle's 1909 World's Fair, only to land in the ownership of the madam of a brothel where he finds friendship and opportunities.

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Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward

Living with his grandparents and sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his mother's addictions and his grandmother's cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope.

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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.