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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.

National Library Week 2025

4/3/2025

Celebrate with these reading recommendations from familiar faces! Thanks to all the participants.

Jamie Batz
The Dry
by Jane Harper

John Baumann
The Basketball 100
by David Aldridge & John Hollinger

Nadine Brown
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
by Deepak Chopra

Judge Jane Bucher
My Brilliant Friend
by Elena Ferrante

Cara Carper
many favorites, including The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Mercedes Bibiana Gonzalez
God's Equal
by Alain Absire

Tracy Hamilton
Brothers
by Alex Van Halen

Andy Hill
Cat Kid Comic Club: Influencers
by Dav Pilkey

Stacy Hill
The Crayons' Book of Feelings
by Drew Daywalt & Oliver Jeffers

Luke Hoenecke & Ruth
Band of Brothers by Ambrose
Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site by Rinker & Lichtenheld

Ellen Hossman
Food for Thought
by Alton Brown

Sen. Ron Johnson
Holy Bible

Donna Kjendlie
Wisconsin: Its Counties, Townships & Villages

Sen. Howard Marklein
101 Reasons to Love the Packers
by Dave Green

Karin Monzón Krimmer
many favorites, including Culpa mía by Mercedes Ron

Jordan Nordby
The Snakehead
by Patrick Radden Keefe

Rep. Todd Novak
Wisconsin: Our State, Our Story
by Bobbie Malone, et al.

Olivia Otte
The Women
by Kristin Hannah

Judge Faun Phillipson
Black's Law Dictionary

Marcia Rayo
Lincoln's Notebooks
by Abraham Lincoln

Brittney Rindy
The Last Letter
by Rebecca Yarros

Belén Salazar
many favorites, including Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Amy Timmerman
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
by Dr. Seuss

Rick Waski
Friday Night Lights
by Buzz Bissinger

Staff Favorites 2024

11/27/2024

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

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.

Korea & Korean Americans - Adult Fiction

9/20/2024

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, Cho Nam-joo, trans. Jamie Chang, print | ebook
Nuclear Family, Joseph Han, print | ebook
The Vegetarian, Han Kang, trans. by Deborah Smith, print | ebook | eaudio
I’m Waiting for You, Kim Bo-Young, trans. Sophie Bowman & Sung Ryu, print
If You Leave Me, Crystal Hana Kim, print
The Kinship of Secrets, Eugenia Kim, print | ebook | eaudio
Beasts of a Little Land, Juhea Kim, print | eaudio
The Plotters, Un-Su Kim, trans. Sora Kim-Russell, print
The Incendiaries, R.O. Kwon, print | ebook | eaudio
Native Speaker, Chang-rae Lee, print | ebook
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
The All-American, Joe Milan Jr, print
Same Bed Different Dreams, Ed Park, print
Love in the Big City, Sang Young Park, trans. Anton Hur, print | ebook
The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See, print | ebook | eaudio
The Only Child, Mi-ae Seo, trans. Yewon Jung, print
The Last Exiles, Ann Shin, print | eaudio
Please Look After Mom, Kyung-sook Shin, trans. Chi-Young Kim, print | ebook | eaudio
Shelter, Jung Yun, print | ebook | eaudio

"A Place to Hang Your Hat" - Western Books for Elementary Readers

8/28/2024

Picture Books

Cow Boy Is Not a Cowboy, Gregory Barrington, print
Buster Goes to Cowboy Camp, Denise Fleming, print
Cowboy Sam and Those Confounded Secrets, Kitty Griffin, print
Puss in Cowboy Boots, Jan Huling, print
Every Cowgirl Loves a Rodeo, Rebecca Janni, print
Every Cowgirl Needs a Horse, Rebecca Janni, print
Little Red Cowboy Hat, Susan Lowell, print
The Zebra-Riding Cowboy, Angela Shelf Medearis, print
The Halloween Kid, Rhode Montijo, print
Birthday Mice, Bethany Roberts, print
Alice from Dallas, Marilyn Sadler, print
The Gingerbread Cowboy, Janet Squires, print
Sixteen Cows, Lisa Wheeler, print
Going West, Laura Ingalls Wilder, print
I Want to Be a Cowgirl, Jeanne Willis, print
Buffalo Thunder, Patricia Wittman, print

Emerging Readers

Wagon Wheels, Barbara Bremmer, print
The Golly Sisters Go West, Betsy Byars, print
Wagon Train, Sydelle Kramer, print
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa, Erica Silverman, print

Nonfiction

The Wild Mustang, Chris Duffy, print
In the Buffalo Pasture, Patricia M. Stockland, print
The Original Cowgirl, Heather Lang, print
A Little House Traveler, Laura Ingalls Wilder, print
Buffalo Bird Girl, S.D. Nelson, print
Charro, George Ancona, print
Going West, Carol A. Johmann, print
Bandannas, Chaps, and Ten-Gallon Hats, Bobbie Kalman, print
Cowboy, Eyewitness Books, print
Reflections of a Black Cowboy, Robert H. Miller, print
Black Heroes of the Wild West, James Otis Smith, print | ebook

Chapter Books

Western Pony, Jeanne Betancourt, print
Ghosts Don’t Ride Wild Horses, Debbie Dadey, print
The Quilt Walk, Sandra Dallas, print | ebook
Cowboy Pug, Laura James, print
Buffalo Before Breakfast, Mary Pope Osborne, print | ebook | eaudio
Twister on Tuesday, Mary Pope Osborne, print | ebook | eaudio

Movies

All about Cowboys for Kids, part 1 dvd & part 2 dvd
Dino Dan: Cowboys vs Dinosaurs, dvd
Dora the Explorer: Cowgirl Dora, dvd

Printable list (PDF) to help you find these items in the library!

Celebrate the Summer Games

7/31/2024

These picks from the children's and adult nonfiction shelves highlight athletes and events from past Olympic Games, and even consider the impact of the Games themselves. Within each age group, the books are listed in order by date, with the sport listed after, if applicable. Enjoy these sporting picks!

Kids

The Wildest Race Ever, Meghan McCarthy, (1904/marathon), print
Duke Kahanamoku, Laurie Calkhoven, (1912, 1920, 1924/swimming), print
Who Was Jesse Owens?, James Buckley Jr, (1936/track), print | ebook | eaudio
Sakamoto’s Swim Club, Julie Abery & Chris Sasaki, (1948/swimming), print | ebook
Touch the Sky: Alice Coachman, Olympic High Jumper, Ann Malaspina, (1948/track & field), print
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice, Tommie Smith, et al., (1968/track & field), print | ebook
Inaugural Ballers: The True Story of the First U.S. Women's Olympic Basketball Team, Andrew Maraniss, (1976/basketball), print | ebook | eaudio
Michael Phelps, USA Today, (2004-2016/swimming), print
I Am a Promise, Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce, (2008-2020/track & field), print
The Fab Five, Christine Dzidrums, (2012/gymnastics), print
Aly Raisman, Miranda Marshak, (2012/gymnastics), print
Katie Ledecky, Shana Corey, (2012-2024/swimming), print
Courage to Soar, Simone Biles, (2016-2024/gymnastics), print | eaudio
I Got This, Laurie Hernandez, (2016/gymnastics), print
Proud (Young Readers Edition), Ibtihaj Muhammad, (2016/fencing), print | eaudio

Adults

Path Lit By Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe, David Maraniss, (1912/track & field), print | audio cd | ebook | eaudio
Fire on the Track: Betty Robinson and the Triumph of the Early Olympic Women, Roseanne Montillo, (1928 & 1936/track & field), print
The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown, (1936/rowing), print | large print | ebook | eaudio | blu-ray
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice, Deborah Riley Draper, (1936), print | dvd
Berlin 1936, Oliver Hilmes, (1936), print
Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics, Jeremy Schaap, (1936/track & field), print | ebook
Rome 1960, David Maraniss, (1960), print | eaudio
Tokyo Olympiad, (1964), blu-ray
Dream Team, Jack McCallum, (1992/basketball), print | ebook | eaudio
It’s Not about Perfect, Shannon Miller, (1992-1996/gymnastics), print | ebook | eaudio
Off Balance, Dominique Moceanu, (1996/gymnastics), print
The National Team, Caitlin Murray, (1996-2012/soccer), print | ebook
Just Add Water, Katie Ledecky, (2012-2024/swimming), print
One Life, Megan Rapinoe, (2012/soccer), print | eaudio
The Race to Be Myself, Caster Semenya, (2012-2016/track & field), print
Proud, Ibtihaj Muhammad, (2016/fencing), print | eaudio
Coming Home, Brittney Griner, (2016-2024/basketball), print | ebook
Dear Black Girls, A’ja Wilson, (2020-2024/basketball), print | eaudio

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

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

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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