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LGBTQ+ Representation in Movies & TV

6/10/2025

 
Happy Pride Month! Gay and lesbian representation in film and television has come a long way, but LGBTQ+ representation as a whole still has a long way to go. Here are examples from our shelves—some dated, some with stereotypes, some with an overwhelming focus on pain—but most with a good-natured motive to portray a true aspect of lived experience. Check one out during June or anytime.
Killing Eve, season 1, dvd
  • This spy-versus-assassin drama features two women with undeniable chemistry, but a resolution that may leave some viewers disappointed.
Boy Erased, dvd
  • This drama, based on a true story, features a closeted gay teen forced to go to a conversion therapy program.
Bohemian Rhapsody, dvd | blu-ray
  • This musical drama tells the story of rock band Queen and its bisexual frontman, Freddie Mercury. Mercury's sexuality is not a focus of the film.
Moonlight, dvd
  • This Best Picture winner tells the heartrending story of Chiron finding his identity as a gay black man, at three points in his life.
Challengers, blu-ray
  • Built around a love triangle between three tennis players, two male and one female, this film concentrates on the athletic and romantic rivalry of Art and Patrick, and their attraction to and obsession with one another.
Knock at the Cabin, dvd | blu-ray
  • This psychological horror film based on a novel by Paul Tremblay features a family of two gay men and their daughter on vacation.
The Matrix, blu-ray
  • This groundbreaking sci-fi action film, directed by the Wachowskis, is often interpreted as an allegory for the transgender experience.
The Danish Girl, blu-ray
  • A historical drama based on a novel by David Ebershoff and loosely based on the true story of Lili Elbe, a painter who is one of the earliest recipients of gender reassignment surgery; it is criticized for diverting from true facts of Elbe's life and for the casting of cis man Eddie Redmayne as a transgender woman.
Brokeback Mountain, blu-ray
  • A love story of two repressed cowboys who meet up periodically through the years, based on the story by Annie Proulx.
Dallas Buyers Club, blu-ray
  • This film is based on the true story of a man who smuggled and sold experimental AIDS drugs during the 1980s; it was criticized for the casting of cis man Jared Leto as a transgender woman.
Love, Simon, dvd
  • Based on a YA novel by Becky Albertalli, this teen dramedy focuses on the difficulties of being queer and closeted in high school.
Rocketman, dvd | blu-ray
  • Taron Egerton gives an incredible performance as Elton John in this biopic about the life and career of the notable gay performer and activist.
The Color Purple, dvd | blu-ray
  • This is a film of the musical version of Alice Walker's groundbreaking novel that includes a queer relationship between two women. (Also a non-musical 1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg.)
Hairspray, dvd
  • This is the film of the musical version of John Waters' 1988 film. It includes some of the queer humor and subtext of the original, but John Travolta's performance as Edna (while funny and sweet) is the least queer incarnation of the character originally played by drag performer Divine and embodied by Harvey Fierstein on Broadway.
Bros, dvd | blu-ray
  • It's the mainstream gay romantic comedy everyone was waiting for! Charming and funny.
Jojo Siwa's DREAM: The Concert Experience, dvd
  • A fun concert video from the one-time Dance Moms star who has been a visible and outspoken bisexual person as an adult.
Some Like It Hot, blu-ray
  • This classic comedy farce features Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in drag throughout, posing as women to evade law enforcement.
Blockers, blu-ray
  • This silly, raunchy film about three girls wanting to have sex on prom night and the trio of parents who try to stop them includes a closeted lesbian character who comes out to her father and friends.
Lightyear, dvd | blu-ray
  • This Pixar film, the backstory for Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story, includes "a significant female character who is in a meaningful relationship with another woman." - Variety
I Love You Phillip Morris, ​blu-ray
  • A black comedy about a con artist who falls in love with a fellow inmate, then breaks out of prison multiple times in order to reunite with him.
The Mitchells vs the Machines, dvd | blu-ray
  • A kid-friendly animated comedy about a family roadtrip to save the world from a robot uprising with a queer lead character. Katie's queerness is implied, but also obvious, and is just one part of who she is.
Free Fall, dvd
  • A German film about a man torn between exploring his sexuality with a colleague and living a settled life with his pregnant girlfriend.
Spoiler Alert, dvd | blu-ray
  • This comedy-drama, based on a true story, features a committed gay couple throughout their relationship.
Before You Know It, dvd
  • This documentary follows three gay senior men.
We Were Here, dvd
  • A documentary about the impact of AIDS on the gay community in San Francisco.
Codebreaker, dvd
  • A "docudrama" about Alan Turing, who was a pivotal codebreaker for Britain in WWII, but was ultimately prosecuted for being gay and was chemically castrated as punishment.
Every Body, dvd
  • This documentary focuses on the lives of three intersex individuals, fostering community for intersex people, and speaking out against non-consensual surgery performed on infants and children.
No Ordinary Man, dvd
  • This documentary features the life of jazz musician Billy Tipton, who was revealed to be transgender after his death.
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Staff Favorites 2024

11/27/2024

 
We wanted to end the year by sharing some of our favorites with you. We're always exploring books, movies, and music, new and old. Here's what we loved this year! 
​Children's Books | Teen Books | Fiction | Nonfiction | Graphic Novel | Movies | TV Series | Music

Carrie
  • Bad Dreams in the Night, Adam Ellis, print
  • The Box in the Woods, Maureen Johnson, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Yellowface, R.F. Kuang, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado, print | ebook
  • Yellowjackets, season 1, blu

Cindy
  • Bits & Pieces, Whoopi Goldberg, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Gathering Moss, Robin Wall Kimmerer, print | eaudio
  • Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver, print | large print | playaway | ebook | eaudio
  • West with Giraffes, Lynda Rutledge, print | large print | audio cd
  • Guardians of the Galaxy, blu 

Janel
  • The Wild Robot Protects, Peter Brown, print | ebook | eaudio
  • A Most Perilous Journey, Kathleen Ernst, print | ebook
  • Spirit Crossing, William Kent Krueger, print | large print | audio cd | playaway | ebook | eaudio
  • Pax, Sara Pennypacker, print | audio cd | ebook | eaudio
  • The Long Walk, Slavomir Rawicz, print | audio cd | eaudio

Laura
  • The Archive of Alternate Endings, Lindsey Drager, print | ebook
  • We Are Definitely Human, X. Fang, print
  • Being Frog, April Pulley Sayre, print
  • American Fiction, blu
  • The Secret World of Arrietty, blu | dvd

Olivia
  • The Haunting of Hecate Cavendish, Paula Brackston, print | large print
  • The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Ruins of the Heartless Fae, Maham Fatemi 
  • One Dark Window, Rachel Gillig, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros, print | large print | ebook | eaudio

Rachael
  • Daisy Darker, Alice Feeney, print | playaway | ebook | eaudio
  • The Forever Dog, Rodney Habib & Karen Shaw Becker, print | ebook
  • Someone in the Attic, Andrea Mara, print | eaudio
  • The Housemaid, Freida McFadden, print | large print
  • Home Is Where the Bodies Are, Jeneva Rose, print | ebook | eaudio

Rachel
  • Happy Place, Emily Henry, print | large print | audio cd | ebook | eaudio
  • The Chalice of the Gods, Rick Riordan, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect, Benjamin Stevenson, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • Bad Boys: Ride or Die, blu | dvd
  • Twisters: The Album, music cd

Sarah
  • Outlive, Peter Attia, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Tree. Table. Book., Lois Lowry, print | playaway | ebook | eaudio
  • Good Energy, Casey Means, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese, print | large print | playaway | ebook | eaudio

Summer
  • What Rose Forgot, Nevada Barr, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • Luigi, The Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten, Michelle Knudsen & Kevin Hawkes, print 
  • The Wife Upstairs, Freida McFadden, print | eaudio
  • What Alice Forgot, Liane Moriarty, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • All Thirteen, Christina Soontornvat, print | ebook
  • Trying, Kobi Yamada & Elise Hurst, print 

Suzann
  • Girls and Their Monsters, Audrey Clare Farley, print
  • The Man from the Train, Bill James, print | ebook
  • Selling the Dream, Jane Marie, print 
  • The Lost Tomb, Douglas Preston, print | ebook
  • The Situation Room, George Stephanopoulos, print | large print | ebook | eaudio

What Makes a Classic? Building the Modern Canon

9/25/2024

 
Laura the Librarian here: I used a ton of different books and authors as examples during my talk about how we define classic books and what current books we might be reading years or centuries from now. As requested, here are the materials I referred to. Only one book is listed per author.
  • Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, print | large print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander, print | ebook | eaudio
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood, print | large print | playaway | ebook | eaudio
  • Emma, Jane Austen, print | ebook | eaudio
  • March, Geraldine Brooks, print | audio CD | ebook
  • The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown, print | ebook | eaudio​
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  • Kindred, Octavia E. Butler, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Mysterious Affair At Styles, Agatha Christie, print | large print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates, print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr, print | large print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Round House, Louise Erdrich, print | ebook | eaudio
  • My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, print | large print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn, print | large print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • Writings (Library of America), Benjamin Franklin, print | Autobiography ebook
  • The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen, print | eaudio
  • The Lord of the Flies, William Golding, print | playaway | ebook | eaudio
  • Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away, Rebecca Goldstein, print
  • Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, John Gray, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi, print | large print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris, print | large print | eaudio
  • The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Odyssey, Homer, trans. Robert Fagles, print | (editions not trans. by Fagles are available on ebook and eaudio)
  • It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini, print | large print | audio CD | playaway | ebook | eaudio
  • Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro, print | ebook | eaudio
  • 11/22/63, Stephen King, print | large print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver, print | large print | playaway | ebook | eaudio
  • Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson, print | large print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Life of Pi, Yann Martel, print | audio CD | playaway | ebook | eaudio
  • A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin, print | playaway | ebook | eaudio
  • The Color of Water, James McBride, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Road, Cormac McCarthy, print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Twilight, Stephenie Meyer, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Paradise Lost, John Milton, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison, print | ebook | eaudio
  • What to Expect When You’re Expecting, Heidi Murkoff, et al., print | ebook​
  • The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien, print | ebook
  • 1984, George Orwell, print | large print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • Collected Writings, Thomas Paine, print | Common Sense ebook
  • Gilead, Marilynne Robinson, print | large print | playaway | ebook | eaudio
  • The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, print | ebook
  • Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders, print | large print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • The Complete Works, William Shakespeare, print | (You can find individual works on ebook and eaudio)
  • Plays, George Bernard Shaw, print | (You can find individual works on ebook)
  • Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Jungle, Upton Sinclair, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care, print | ebook
  • The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • Dracula, Bram Stoker, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Wild, Cheryl Strayed, print | large print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout, print | large print | audio CD | playaway | ebook | eaudio
  • Working, Studs Terkel, print 
  • A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers…, Henry David Thoreau, print | Walden ebook
  • The Fellowship of the Ring, J. R. R. Tolkien, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Mississippi Writings, Mark Twain, print | (You can find individual works on ebook and eaudio)
  • The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward, print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, print | large print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
  • The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson, print | ebook
  • A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf, print | ebook
Here's a printable list (PDF) to help you find these materials on the shelves.

Adventure Begins: Nonfiction for Adults

5/30/2024

 
  • The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh, Kathryn Aalto, print
  • Magnificent Desolation, Buzz Aldrin, print
  • Savor, Fatima Ali, print | eaudio
  • Driving Miss Norma, Tim Bauerschmidt & Ramie Liddle, print | eaudio
  • Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Threads around the World, Deb Brandon, print
  • Dreams of El Dorado, H.W. Brands, print
  • America's Greatest Road Trip, Tom Cotter, print
  • The White Darkness, David Grann, print
  • Here, There, Elsewhere, William Least Heat-Moon, print
  • Clanlands, Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish, print | eaudio
  • Fly Girl, Ann Hood, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Jet Girl, Caroline Johnson, print | ebook
  • The Wild Mississippi, Dean Klinkenberg, print
  • River of the Gods, Candice Millard, print | ebook | eaudio
  • My What If Year, Alisha Fernandez Miranda, print
  • Ghost in the Wires, Kevin Mitnick, print | eaudio
  • The Man who Walked Backward, Ben Montgomery, print
  • The Catch Me if You Can, Jessica Nabongo, print | eaudio
  • Wally Funk’s Race for Space, Sue Nelson, print | ebook
  • Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come, Jessica Pan, print | ebook | eaudio
  • See You at the Campground, Stephanie & Jeremy Puglisi, print | ebook
  • America the Beautiful?, Blythe Roberson, print
  • Everything, Beautiful, Ella Frances Sanders, print | ebook
  • Chasing Shadows, Greg Skomal, print
  • Deep South, Paul Theroux, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • Every Dog Deserves an Adventure, L.J. Tracosas, print
  • A City on Mars, Kelly & Zach Weinersmith, print
  • A World beneath the Sands, Toby Wilkinson, print
  • The Very Worst Missionary, Jamie Wright, print
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Adventure Begins: Fiction for Adults

5/29/2024

 
  • Killadelphia: Sins of the Father, Rodney Barnes, et al., print
  • The Lioness, Chris Bohjalian, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • Small Game, Blair Braverman, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Gatekeeper, James Byrne, print 
  • The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, Shannon Chakraborty, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Life Flight, Lynette Eason, print | ebook | eaudio
  • James, Percival Everett, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Woman of Light, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Trackers, Charles Frazier, large print | audio CD | ebook
  • Monarca, Leopoldo Gout, print 
  • The Apollo Murders, Chris Hadfield, print | ebook
  • Dust off the Bones, Paul Howarth, print
  • The Dead Take the A Train, Richard Kadrey & Cassandra Khaw, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Vanishing Edge, Claire Kells, print
  • Everything She Didn’t Say, Jane Kirkpatrick, print
  • Lone Women, Victor LaValle, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Just Watch Me, Jeff Lindsay, print | ebook | eaudio 
  • No One Left to Come Looking for You, Sam Lipsyte, print | ebook
  • The Lawless Land, Boyd and Beth Morrison, print
  • Drowning, T.J. Newman, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Outlawed, Anna North, print | ebook
  • Westbound, Dusty Richards, print
  • The North Line, Matt Riordan, print
  • The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi, print | ebook
  • Raiders of the Lost Heart, Jo Segura, print | ebook | eaudio
  • What Happened to the Bennetts, Lisa Scottoline, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Beautiful and the Wild, Peggy Townsend, print 
  • How Much of These Hills Is Gold, C. Pam Zhang, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Where the Dead Wait, Ally Wilkes, print
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Bookshelf Coloring Logs

4/9/2024

 
Happy National Library Week! Celebrate your reading history with a bookshelf coloring sheet—fill in your recently read titles on the blank shelf, or read along with our book clubs on the sheet filled with recent and past book club discussion titles. Color by genre, how much you liked it, or however you want! Click on each image to download a printable PDF.
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Autism Acceptance Month

4/8/2024

 
Adult Nonfiction: Resources & Memoirs
  • Sincerely, Your Autistic Child, ed. Ballou, daVanport & Onaiwu, print
  • The Pattern Seekers, Simon Baron-Cohen, print
  • Right from the Start, Karen Donahue & Kate Crassons, print
  • I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust, Valerie Gilpeer & Emily Grodin, print | ebook
  • Navigating Autism, Temple Grandin & Debra Moore, print
  • Visual Thinking, Temple Grandin, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Odd Girl Out, Laura James, print
  • Divergent Mind, Jenara Nerenberg, print | ebook

Adult Graphic Novel
  • Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women, Sarah Bargiela & Sophie Standing, print
  • Sensory: Life on the Spectrum, Bex Ollerton, print

For Young Children
  • My Friend Julia: a Sesame Street Book about Autism, Jennifer Cook, print
  • My Life with Autism, Mari Schuh & Isabel Muñoz, print
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Historical Fiction for Black History Month

2/1/2024

 
February is Black History Month! Celebrate with one of these historical fiction titles by Black authors released in the last ten years, most since 2020. 
Enslavement
  • The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates, print | large print | audio | playaway | ebook | eaudio
  • Grace, Natashia Deón, print | eaudio 
  • Yellow Wife, Sadeqa Johnson, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Prophets, Robert Jones, Jr., print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • Citizens Creek, Lalita Tademy, print | audio | ebook
  • Let Us Descend, Jesmyn Ward, print | large print | ebook | eaudio

Civil War
  • An Extraordinary Union, Alyssa Cole, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Sweetness of Water, Nathan Harris, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • Black Cloud Rising, David Wright Faladé, print | ebook | eaudio

1900s-1920s
  • Ring Shout, P. Djeli Clark, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Coleman Hill, Kim Coleman Foote, print
  • Lone Women, Victor LaValle, print | ebook | eaudio

WWII
  • Sisters in Arms, Kaia Alderson, print | ebook | eaudio​

​1950s
  • The Reformatory*, Tananarive Due, print
  • The House of Eve, Sadeqa Johnson, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • On the Rooftop, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, print | ebook | eaudio
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1960s
  • Deacon King Kong, James McBride, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Saving Ruby King, Catherine Adel West, print | ebook
  • Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead, print | large print | ebook | eaudio

1970s
  • The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride, print | large print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson, print | large print | ebook | eaudio

1980s
  • The Unsettled*, Ayana Mathis, print
  • A Kind of Freedom, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, print | ebook | eaudio

1990s
  • What’s Mine and Yours, Naima Coster, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • What the Fireflies Knew, Kai Harris, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Memphis, Tara M. Stringfellow, print | ebook | eaudio

Multiple time periods
  • Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi, print | large print | audio | ebook | eaudio
  • The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, print | ebook | eaudio
  • In West Mills, De’Shawn Charles Winslow, print | ebook
  • Monster in the Middle, Tiphanie Yanique, print | ebook | eaudio

*These titles are very new—it's likely that ebooks will be added to the collection soon! 

LGBTQ+ Fiction - Teen & Adult

10/10/2023

 
October 11 is National Coming Out Day! Celebrate being who you are, proudly, with these LGBTQ+ fiction books and graphic novels from our Teen and Adult shelves.
  • Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Twelfth Grade Night by Molly Booth, et al., print | ebook
  • Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Lark and Kasim Start a Revolution by Kacen Callender, print | ebook
  • Crema by Johnnie Christmas, et al., print 
  • Flamer by Mike Curato, print | ebook
  • Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick, print 
  • You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Immeasurable Depth of You by Maria Ingrande Mora, print | ebook
  • Love and Other Disasters by Anita Kelly, print | ebook
  • Kiss & Tell by Adib Khorram, print | ebook 
  • 19 Love Songs by David Levithan, print | ebook
  • Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo, print | ebook | eaudio
  • I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Loveless by Alice Oseman, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park, print 
  • The Verifiers by Jane Pek, print | ebook | eaudio
  • A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett, print
  • The Guncle by Stephen Rowley, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Unpopular Vote by Jasper Sanchez, print 
  • Just Ash by Sol Santana, print | ebook
  • Golden Boys by Phil Stamper, print | ebook
  • Music from Another World by Robin Talley, print 
  • Real Life by Brandon Taylor, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Kings of B’more by R. Eric Thomas, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters, print | ebook | eaudio
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Hispanic Heritage Month - Adult Fiction

9/15/2023

 
National Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15 - October 15. Celebrate by reading novels by Hispanic and Latino creators! Starred titles are also available on our shelves in Spanish.​
  • ​Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The King Is Always above the People by Daniel Alarcón, print 
  • *The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende, translated by Frances Riddle, print | ebook | eaudio
  • *Afterlife by Julia Alvarez, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Storyteller’s Death by Ann Dávila Cardinal, print | ebook
  • Where We Come From by Oscar Cásares, large print 
  • Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton, print | ebook | eaudio
  • *The Night Travelers by Armando Lucas Correa, translated by Nick Caistor, Faye Williams & Cecilia Molinari, print 
  • *Dominicana by Angie Cruz, print | ebook | eaudio
  • *Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis, print | ebook
  • Death Comes in through the Kitchen, Teresa Dovalpage, print
  • Infinite Country by Patricia Engel, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Sisters of Alameda Street by Lorena Hughes, print 
  • The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias, print | eaudio
  • *Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
  • Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, print | ebook | eaudio
  • The Rock Eaters by Brenda Peynado, print | ebook
  • The Affairs of the Falcóns by Melissa Rivero, print 
  • The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez by Rudy Ruiz, print 
  • *Las Madres by Esmeralda Santiago, print | ebook
  • The Wedding Crasher by Mia Sosa, print | ebook | eaudio
  • Everyone Knows You Go Home by Natalia Sylvester, print 
  • Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea, print | ebook | eaudio
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Celebramos el mes de la herencia hispana desde el 15 de septiembre hasta al 15 de octubre. Estos libros ficción para adultos son de autores y artistes latines. Estos libros están disponibles en español en la biblioteca de Monroe. Los libros con estrellas también son disponibles aquí en inglés.
  • *El viento conoce mi nombre por Isabel Allende, libro | ebook | eaudio
  • *Más allá por Julia Álvarez, traducido por Mercedes Guhl, libro | eaudio
  • *La viajera nocturna por Armando Lucas Correa, libro | ebook
  • *Dominicana por Angie Cruz, traducido por Kianny N. Antigua, libro | ebook
  • *Cantoras por Carolina De Robertis, traducido por la autora, libro
  • En el viaje por Anaí López, libro
  • *Desierto sonoro por Valeria Luiselli, traducido por Daniel Saldaña París y la autora, libro
  • La fruta del borrachero por Ingrid Rojas Contreras, traducido por Guillermo Arreola, libro
  • *Las madres por Esmeralda Santiago, traducido por Eva Ibarzábal, libro
  • Peregrinos por Sofía Segovia, libro
  • Una novela criminal por Jorge Volpi, libro
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    After each title, you'll find links to reserve these items on LINKcat and Wisconsin's Digital Library. In many cases, you can choose from print, large print, audio CD, and Playaway, or ebooks and eaudiobooks.

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