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Author:Warner, Sylvia Townsend
Summary:Genre: Historical fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Lee, Jennifer B.
Summary:If you think McDonald's is the most ubiquitous restaurant experience in America, consider that there are more Chinese restaurants in America than McDonalds, Burger Kings, and Wendy’s combined.
Genre: Food and drinkAvailable Formats:
Author:Bushman, David
Summary:The first-ever detailed account of one of the most notorious cases of police corruption in New York State history, the 1999-2000 FBI investigation into the Schenectady Police Department, resulting
Genre: True crime storiesAvailable Formats:
Author:Mishima, Yukio
Summary:Set in rural Japan shortly after World War II, this gripping novel tells the story of a strange and utterly absorbing love triangle that leads to psychological self-entrapment, seduction, and murde
Genre: Literary fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Hauser, CJ.
Summary:Fresh talent CJ Hauser makes her literary debut with The From-Aways, an irreverent story of family, love, friendship, and lobsters, in the tradition of J.
Genre: Domestic fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Daly, Erin Marie
Summary:What had happened to my baby brother? How did a tiny little pill shatter our family? When did we first begin losing Pat?
Genre: Social science, True crime storiesAvailable Formats:
Author:Handke, Peter
Summary:A major new novel from the Nobel laureate Peter Handke—one of his most inventive and dazzlingly original works. On a summer day under a blue sky a man is stung on his foot by a bee.
Genre: Literary fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Bassani, Giorgio
Summary:This haunting, elegiac novel captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy—particularly Ferrara—in the last summers of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving imperceptibly towar
Genre: Historical fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Spence, Jonathan D.
Summary:“A milestone in Western studies of China.” (John K. Fairbank). In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonathan D.
Genre: History and geographyAvailable Formats:
Author:Heinrich, Bernd
Summary:When award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich became the unwitting—but doting—foster parent of an adorable gosling named Peep, he was drawn into her world.
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Author:Barrett, Kerry
Summary:'Wonderful story which transfixes you from the start – this is the first novel I've read by this author but definitely not the last.
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Author:Kirino, Natsuo
Summary:On an island in the shape of a teardrop live two sisters. One is admired far and wide, the other lives in her shadow. One is the Oracle, the other is destined for the Underworld.
Genre: Mythological fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Bassani, Giorgio
Summary:Into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara, a new doctor arrives. Fadigati is hopeful and modern, and more than anything wants to fit into his new home.
Genre: Literary fiction, Classic fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Buchanan, Rowan Hisayo
Summary:An anthology of Asian diasporic writers musing on the notion of “home.” “Bold and devastating . . .
Genre: Essays, Literary artsAvailable Formats:
Author:Cunningham, Francine
Summary:Winner of the 2023 ReLit Award for Short Fiction. Shortlisted for the 2023 Indigenous Voices Awards. Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.
Genre: Short stories, Canadian fictionAvailable Formats: