Book by Book:
Adult Summer Reading

Signed up for The Eden Test, a week-long getaway for couples in need of a fresh start, Daisy, a talented actress, and her husband, Craig, as the lies pile up, are forced to go to the extreme to save their marriage.

A ferryman, shepherding people through retirement - and, when necessary, enforcing it? Proctor Bennet, of the Department of Social Contracts, receives a disturbing and message, while The Support Staff, who keep Prospera running, organize a revolution.

In 1883 colonial Australia, when a 6-year-old goes missing during a dust storm, the entire community is caught up in the search for him as they confront their relationships with one another and with the landscape they inhabit.

As the Covid-19 pandemic spreads across the U.S., the only job Jamie can find is delivering food, until he begins to work for a secret NGO preserving large animals. What Jamie didn't know is just how large.

This is an epic space fantasy about all the “wrong” people, the tense relationships they build, and the single goal that unites them all. And this is only the beginning.

When an alien artifact turns her into Death’s adopted daughter, Sankofa, with her name being the only tie to her family and her past, searches for answers as cities fall in her wake.

Bartz, who is from Brookfield, set the majority of this story in Milwaukee, Emily’s home. The story is replete with Wisco details – old fashioneds, Brady Street, custard, going up north.

Clancy has a PhD in Creative Writing from UW-Milwaukee, and taught English for almost a decade at Beloit College. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her husband John. They have two kids, Olivia and Tim.

Short stories that portray of the lives of Cambodian-Americans still dealing with the inherited weight of the Khmer Rouge genocide including a young, disillusioned teacher obsessed with Moby-Dick and a child whose mother survived a school shooting.

When his son Isiah and his white husband, Derek, are murdered, ex-con Ike bands together with Derek’s father, another ex-con, to rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys while confronting their own prejudices about each other and their sons.