Quick Reads
Essays
- Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
- Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison
- Thin Places by Jordan Kisner
Graphic Novels
- Giant Days series by John Allison
- Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu
- Belonging by Nora Krug
TV/Movie/Media Related
- The Crown: The Official Companion Volume 1 by Robert Lacey
- The Story of the Great British Bake Off by Anita Singh
- Made in Abyss series by Akihito Tsukushi
- The Adventure Zone series by the McElroys
Comfort & Inspirational Reads
- Women in Sports by Rachel Ignotofsky
- Strong is the New Pretty by Kate T. Parker
- Book Love by Debbie Tung
- Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty
The instant New York Times bestseller and follow-up to Anthony Bourdain’s blockbuster classic on the cooking life, Kitchen Confidential
Medium Raw marks the return of the inimitable Anthony Bourdain, author of the blockbuster bestseller Kitchen Confidential and three-time Emmy Award-nominated host of No Reservations on TV’
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay$26.00ISBN: 9780374274641Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - March 3rd, 2020A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
A Lit Hub | Chicago Review | Ms. Magazine March pick
A Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Book
In this perceptive and provocative essay collection, an award-winning writer shares her personal and reportorial investigation into America’s search for meaning$9.99ISBN: 9781608867899Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: BOOM! Box - December 1st, 2015Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, “personal experimentation,” influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of “academia,” they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive.
$16.99ISBN: 9781250177964Availability: Not In Stock - Usually Available in 1-5 DaysPublished: First Second - September 18th, 2018Eric Bittle may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It is nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia! First of all?
$20.00ISBN: 9781476796635Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Scribner - September 17th, 2019* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators *
* Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Comics Beat, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal
This “ingenious reck$28.00ISBN: 9781524762285Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Crown Archetype - October 17th, 2017The official companion to the Emmy-winning Netflix drama chronicling the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, and starring Claire Foy and John Lithgow, The Crown by Peter Morgan, featuring additional historical background and beautifully reproduced archival photos and show stills
$29.95ISBN: 9781786694430Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Head of Zeus - January 15th, 2018Take one tent. Fill with 12 amateur bakers. Garnish with one venerable cookery writer, one blue-eyed bread-maker, and two comedy queens with a love of innuendo, and you have the recipe for the most popular show of our times. When The Great British Bake Off made its debut in August 2010, it had the makings of a modest hit.$13.99ISBN: 9781626927735Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Seven Seas - January 23rd, 2018EXPLORE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES IN THIS ALL-NEW FANTASY SERIES!
$19.99ISBN: 9781250153708Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: First Second - July 17th, 2018Welcome to the Adventure Zone!
SEE! The illustrated exploits of three lovable dummies set loose in a classic fantasy adventure!
READ! Their journey from small-time bodyguards to world-class artifact hunters!$16.99ISBN: 9781607749783Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Ten Speed Press - July 18th, 2017Illustrated profiles of fifty pioneering female athletes, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Women in Science.
Women for the win!$17.95ISBN: 9780761189138Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Workman Publishing Company - March 7th, 2017Girls being fearless. Girls being silly. Girls being wild, stubborn, and proud. Girls whose faces are smeared with dirt and lit up with joy.$14.99ISBN: 9781449494285Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Andrews McMeel Publishing - January 1st, 2019Bookworms rejoice! These charming comics capture exactly what it feels like to be head-over-heels for hardcovers. And paperbacks! And ebooks! And bookstores! And libraries!
Book Love is a gift book of comics tailor-made for tea-sipping, spine-sniffing, book-hoarding bibliophiles.$25.95ISBN: 9780393652703Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: W. W. Norton & Company - September 10th, 2019New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the 2019 Goodreads Choice Award for Science & Technology
Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.
