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• Atmosphere

  a Love Story

  Reid, Taylor Jenkins

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  NEW FOR JUNE! Adult Fiction. "Joan Goodwin has always been obsessed with space, which is why she became an astrophysics professor at Rice University. But then,...NASA announces that it's looking for female scientists to join the space program. Joan…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bad Company

  Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream

  Greenwell, Megan

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  NEW FOR JUNE! Adult Nonfiction. "Greenwell debuts with a scathing indictment of private equity. Profiling individuals whose lives were upended by such firms...she recounts how private equity's takeover of Toys 'R' Us in 2005 led to staffing cuts…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dry Season

  a Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex

  Febos, Melissa

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  NEW FOR JUNE! Adult Nonfiction. "After two decades of back-to-back romantic relationships, Febos knew she needed a change. She decided to trade in years of serial monogamy for temporary celibacy, which she defines as abstaining from sex and dating.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girls Who Grew Big

  Mottley, Leila, 2002-

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  NEW FOR JUNE! Adult Fiction. "Mottley has written a poignant and deeply engaging exploration of teenage motherhood through the lives of Adela, Emory, and Simone in Padua Beach, FL. As these young women navigate the complexities of raising children…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Great Black Hope

  Franklin, Rob

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  NEW FOR JUNE! Adult Fiction. "An arrest for cocaine possession on the last day of a sweltering New York summer leaves Smith, a queer Black Stanford graduate, in a state of turmoil. Pulled into the court system and mandated treatment, he finds…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Homemade God

  a Novel

  Joyce, Rachel

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  NEW FOR JUNE! Adult Fiction. "There is a heatwave across Europe, and four siblings have gathered at their family's lake house to seek answers about their father, a famous artist, who recently remarried a much younger woman and decamped to Italy to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Human Nature

  Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet

  Marvel, Kate

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  NEW FOR JUNE! Adult Nonfiction. "There is no doubt, Marvel asserts, that humans are changing the climate. And yet, we are the loose cannons here -- no one can predict what we will (or won't) do to address the problem. The doom and gloom in the book…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It Rhymes With Takei

  Takei, George/ Scott, Steven/ Eisinger, Justin/ Becker, Harmony (ILT)

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  NEW FOR JUNE! Graphic Nonfiction. "Takei (They Called Us Enemy) famously came out of the closet at age 68, in 2005. Ever since, the actor has been working passionately as an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and social justice. In this sprightly and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kuleana

  A Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai'i

  Goo, Sara Kehaulani

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  NEW FOR JUNE! Adult Nonfiction. "Goo's family kept a 90-something-acre piece of Maui, a small chunk of a much larger gift from King Kahmeamea III, under their ownership for nearly 200 years. In 2019, however, Goo's father revealed in an email that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Language of Limbs

  Hardcastle, Dylin,

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  NEW FOR JUNE! Adult Fiction. “Australia, 1972. On a sticky summer night, a choice must be made: To give in to queer desire or suppress it? To venture into the unknown or stay the course? In alternating chapters, we trace the two versions of a life…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• So Far Gone

  a Novel

  Walter, Jess, 1965-

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  NEW FOR JUNE! Adult Fiction. "Rhys Kinnick has gone off the grid. At Thanksgiving a few years back, a fed-up Rhys punched his conspiracy-theorist son-in-law in the mouth, chucked his smartphone out a car window and fled for a cabin in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The AI Con

  How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want

  Bender, Emily M., 1973-

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  NEW FOR MAY! Adult Nonfiction. "Linguist Bender and sociologist Hanna, the founders of a merrily debunking podcast about all things AI, write that there's hoopla aplenty about how AI will make our lives better - or perhaps worse. There are real…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Emperor of Gladness

  a Novel

  Vuong, Ocean, 1988-

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  NEW FOR MAY! Adult Fiction. "Vuong follows up his first novel with a searching and beautiful story of a troubled young man. The reader first meets Hai on a bridge in East Gladness, Conn., where he's about to jump to his death. He's stopped by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Is a River Alive?

  Macfarlane, Robert, 1976-

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  NEW FOR MAY! Adult Nonfiction. "Nature writer Macfarlane (Underland) serves up a lyrical inquiry into the implications of treating rivers as living beings worthy of reverence and legal rights. Macfarlane skillfully braids his immersive travel…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Manor of Dreams

  a Novel

  Li, Christina

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  NEW FOR MAY! Adult Fiction. "A week before her death, Vivian Yin mysteriously changes her will. The Oscar-winning actress' daughters are shocked when their family's beautiful but deteriorating estate in California goes to Elaine Deng, whose parents…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Marsha

  the Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson

  Tourmaline

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  NEW FOR MAY! Adult Nonfiction. "Black trans icon Marsha P. Johnson (1945-1992)...is best-known for being the person who threw the first brick at the Stonewall riots in 1969 and creating the STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries)…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moral Ambition

  Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference

  Bregman, Rutger, 1988-

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  NEW FOR MAY! Adult Nonfiction. "Historian Bregman (Humankind) presents a passionate ode to a life of activism. Arguing that most people waste their lives toiling away at 'mind-numbing, pointless, or just plain harmful jobs,' he calls on readers to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Old School Indian

  a Novel

  Curtis, Aaron John

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  NEW FOR MAY! Adult Fiction. “In Curtis's electrifying debut, a restless and gravely ill Miami bookseller takes stock of his life and his Mohawk heritage. Abe Jacobs, 43, returns to the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation on the border of New York State and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Spent

  a Comic Novel

  Bechdel, Alison, 1960-

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  NEW FOR MAY! Adult Graphic Novel. "In this self-deprecating and delightful graphic novel, an archly fictionalized Alison finds herself flummoxed by commercial success. Though each 'episode' of the graphic novel shares the title of a chapter in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Storybook Ending

  a Novel

  Macdonald, Moira

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  NEW FOR MAY! Adult Fiction. "April, a smart and lonely tech worker, worries work from home has gotten out of hand: she's left an anonymous note in a book for Westley, the clerk at her Seattle neighborhood bookstore... But thanks to fate, Laura - a…Read moreRead more of this annotation