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Pick for October 2024
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On Shelf
16 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Adult
FICT RUMFITT ALISON Tell
1 available
FICT RUMFITT ALISON Tell
1 available
Available Online
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Available Online
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"Alison Rumfitt's Tell Me I'm Worthless is a dark, unflinching haunted house story that confronts both supernatural and real-world horrors through the lens of the modern-day trans experience. "Ambitious, brutal, and brilliant." -Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends, Ila and Hannah. Since then, Alice's life has spiraled. She lives a haunted existence, selling videos...
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Pick for October 2024
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On Shelf
71 copies.
Springfield East Forest Park Branch - YA
YAFICT TRAN TRANG She is
1 available
YAFICT TRAN TRANG She is
1 available
Springfield East Springfield Branch - YA
YAFICT TRAN TRANG She is
1 available
YAFICT TRAN TRANG She is
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
Seventeen-year-old bisexual Jade Nguyrn is spending the summer in Vietnam at the French colonial house her estranged father is fixing up as a vacation rental, but unbeknownst to her family, the house and its ghosts have other plans.
When Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam for a visit with her estranged father, she has one goal: survive five weeks pretending to be a happy family in the French colonial house Ba is restoring. She's always lied to fit in,...
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Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award One of Granta 's Best Young British Novelists From the acclaimed author of Boy, Snow, Bird There's something strange about the Silver family house in the closed-off town of Dover, England. Grand and cavernous with hidden passages and buried secrets, it's been home to four generations of Silver women--Anna, Jennifer, Lily, and now Miranda, who has lived in the house with her twin brother, Eliot, ever since their...
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Pick for October 2024
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On Shelf
60 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Springfield Main Library - Adult
FICT GAILEY SARAH Just
1 available
FICT GAILEY SARAH Just
1 available
Springfield Forest Park Branch - Adult
FICT GAILEY SARAH Just
1 available
FICT GAILEY SARAH Just
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"Just Like Home is a darkly gothic thriller from nationally bestselling author Sarah Gailey, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House as well as HBO's true crime masterpiece I'll Be Gone in the Dark. "Come home." Vera's mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories -- she's come back to the home of a serial killer. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there,...
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Series
Machineries of empire volume 1
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pick for September 21, 2024
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On Shelf
10 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Adult
SCIFIC LEE YOON HA Ninefox
1 available
SCIFIC LEE YOON HA Ninefox
1 available
Springfield East Forest Park Branch - Adult
SCIFIC LEE YOON HA Ninefox
1 available
SCIFIC LEE YOON HA Ninefox
1 available
eAudiobook
Description
Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. Kel Command gives her the opportunity to redeem herself by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a star fortress that has recently been captured by heretics. Cheris's career isn't the only thing at stake. If the fortress falls, the hexarchate itself might be next. Cheris's best hope is to ally with the undead tactician Shuos Jedao....
6) Meru
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Series
Alloy era volume 1
Notes
pick for September 21, 2024
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On Shelf
16 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Adult
SCIFIC DIVYA S B Meru
1 available
SCIFIC DIVYA S B Meru
1 available
Description
In a future where human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy, Jayanthi, the adopted human child alloys, and her alloy pilot Vaha are sent to test the habitability of an Earthlike planet called Meru, an unoccupied new world, and the future of human-alloy relations.
7) Crownchasers
Author
Series
Crownchasers volume 1
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pick for September 21, 2024
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On Shelf
13 copies.
Springfield Main Library - YA
YAFICT COFFINDA REBECCA Crowncha
1 available
YAFICT COFFINDA REBECCA Crowncha
1 available
Springfield Indian Orchard Branch - YA
YAFICT COFFINDA REBECCA Crowncha
1 available
YAFICT COFFINDA REBECCA Crowncha
1 available
Springfield Mason Square Branch - YA
YAFICT COFFINDA REBECCA Crowncha
1 available
YAFICT COFFINDA REBECCA Crowncha
1 available
Description
A deadly race across 1,001 planets will determine more than just the fate of the empire. Alyssa Farshot has spent her whole life trying to outrun her family legacy, even leaving behind the Kingship and her uncle, the emperor, for a life of exploring. But when her dying uncle announces a crownchase--a search for the royal seal hidden in the empire that will determine the next ruler--Alyssa is thrust into her greatest, most dangerous adventure yet.
Author
Series
Imperial Radch volume 5
Notes
pick for September 21, 2024
On Shelf
51 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Springfield Main Library - Adult
SCIFIC LECKIE ANN Translat
1 available
SCIFIC LECKIE ANN Translat
1 available
Springfield East Forest Park Branch - Adult
SCIFIC LECKIE ANN Translat
1 available
SCIFIC LECKIE ANN Translat
1 available
Available Online
3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Available Online
4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Available Online
4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
Qven was created to be a Presgr translator. The pride of their Clade, they always had a clear path before them: learn human ways, and eventually, make a match and serve as an intermediary between the dangerous alien Presgr and the human worlds. The realization that they might want something different isn't "optimal behavior". It's the type of behavior that will have you eliminated. But Qven rebels anyway, determined to find a way to belong on their...
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Charlie Mack Motown mysteries volume 1
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August pick
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Description
"Charlene "Charlie" Mack is a PI in Detroit. Born and raised in the city that America forgot, Charlie has built a highly respected private investigations firm through hard work, smart choices, and relentless ambition. Her team of investigators are highly skilled and trustworthy, but she secretly struggles with her sexual orientation and a mother with early-onset Alzheimer's. When Charlie and her crack team head to Birmingham, Alabama following the...
10) Fadeout
Author
Series
Dave Brandstetter mysteries volume 1
Notes
August pick
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On Shelf
8 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Adult
MYST HANSEN JOSEPH Fadeout
1 available
MYST HANSEN JOSEPH Fadeout
1 available
Description
"Fadeout is the first of Joseph Hansen's twelve classic mysteries featuring rugged Dave Brandstetter, an insurance investigator who is contentedly gay. When entertainer Fox Olson's car plunges off a bridge in a storm, a death claim is filed, but where is Olson's body? As Brandstetter questions family, fans, and detractors, he grows certain Olson is still alive and that Dave must find him before the would-be killer does. Suspenseful and wry, shrewd...
11) The verifiers
Author
Series
Claudia Lin novels volume 1
Notes
August pick
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On Shelf
56 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Adult
FICT PEK JANE Verifier
1 available
FICT PEK JANE Verifier
1 available
Springfield East Forest Park Branch - Adult
FICT PEK JANE Verifier
1 available
FICT PEK JANE Verifier
1 available
Springfield Sixteen Acres Branch - Adult
FICT PEK JANE Verifier
1 available
FICT PEK JANE Verifier
1 available
Description
Claudia Lin is used to disregarding her fractious family's model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a nice Chinese boy. She's also used to keeping secrets from them, such as that she prefers girls--and that she's just been stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referrals-only online-dating detective agency. A lifelong mystery reader who wrote her senior thesis on Jane Austen, Claudia believes she's landed...
12) As you look
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Series
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August pick
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On Shelf
1 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Adult
MYST GUTIERRE VERONICA As you
1 available
MYST GUTIERRE VERONICA As you
1 available
Description
Former LAPD cop-turned private investigator Yolanda Ávila blames herself for her mother's death. If she'd only followed her cop instincts instead of the juju—her random prophetic dreams—the perpetrator would have been off the streets and her mother would still be alive. The only salve against her guilt is Yolanda's vow to reject that juju crap, and to solve cases using only good solid detective work.
But when her godson is kidnapped
...13) One last stop
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pick for June 2024
On Shelf
101 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Adult
FICT MCQUISTO CASEY One last
1 available
FICT MCQUISTO CASEY One last
1 available
Springfield East Forest Park Branch - Adult
FICT MCQUISTO CASEY One last
1 available
FICT MCQUISTO CASEY One last
1 available
Springfield Sixteen Acres Branch - Adult
FICT MCQUISTO CASEY One last
1 available
FICT MCQUISTO CASEY One last
1 available
Checked Out
4 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks... "Dreamy, other worldly, smart, swoony, thoughtful, hilarious - all in all, exactly what you'd expect from Casey McQuiston!" - Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and Party for Two Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn't believe in much. She doesn't believe in psychics, or...
Author
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pick for June 2024
On Shelf
31 copies.
Springfield Main Library - YA
YAFICT JAIGIRDA ADIBA Hani
1 available
YAFICT JAIGIRDA ADIBA Hani
1 available
Springfield East Forest Park Branch - YA
YAFICT JAIGIRDA ADIBA Hani
1 available
YAFICT JAIGIRDA ADIBA Hani
1 available
Springfield Forest Park Branch - YA
YAFICT JAIGIRDA ADIBA Hani
1 available
YAFICT JAIGIRDA ADIBA Hani
1 available
Description
"Everyone likes Humaira 'Hani' Khan--she's easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she can't be bi if she's only dated guys. Panicked, Hani blurts out that she's in a relationship...with a girl her friends absolutely hate--Ishita 'Ishu' Dey. Ishu is the complete opposite of Hani. She's an academic overachiever who hopes that becoming head girl will...
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pick for June 2024
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On Shelf
8 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Springfield Main Library - Adult
FICT AIMES PENNY For the
1 available
FICT AIMES PENNY For the
1 available
Description
"April French doesn't do relationships and she never asks for more. A long-standing regular at kink club Frankie's, she's kind of seen it all. As a trans woman, she's used to being the scenic rest stop for others on their way to a happily-ever-after. She knows how desire works, and she keeps hers carefully boxed up to take out on weekends only. After all, you can't be let down if you never ask. Then Dennis Martin walks into Frankie's, fresh from Seattle...
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pick for June 2024
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On Shelf
36 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Springfield East Forest Park Branch - Adult
FICT COCHRUN ALISON Charm
1 available
FICT COCHRUN ALISON Charm
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 14 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Ever since he was a kid, Dev Deshpande has believed in fairy tales, and he has spent his career crafting them for the reality dating show Ever After. As the most successful producer in the franchise's history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns off-screen. That is, until the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star. Charlie is far from the romantic Prince...
17) The charioteer
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pick for July 2024
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A WWII soldier embarks on affairs with two very different men in a landmark novel that “transcends categorizations” (The Telegraph).
After being wounded at Dunkirk in World War II, Laurie Odell is sent back home to a rural British hospital. Standing out among the orderlies is Andrew, a bright conscientious objector raised as a Quaker. The unspoken romance between the two men is tested when Ralph, a friend...
After being wounded at Dunkirk in World War II, Laurie Odell is sent back home to a rural British hospital. Standing out among the orderlies is Andrew, a bright conscientious objector raised as a Quaker. The unspoken romance between the two men is tested when Ralph, a friend...
Author
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pick for July 2024
On Shelf
48 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Adult
FICT SCHAFFER TIMOTHY Perfume
1 available
FICT SCHAFFER TIMOTHY Perfume
1 available
Description
"Clementine, sometimes known as Judge, is a 72-year-old reformed con artist with a penchant for impeccably tailored suits. Her life of crime has led her from the uber-wealthy perfume junkies of belle epoque Manhattan, to the scented butterflies of Costa Rica, to the spice markets of Marrakesh, and finally the bordellos of Paris, where she settles down and opens a legitimate shop bottling her favorite extracts for the ladies of the cabarets. In 1941...
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pick for July 2024
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Amelia Cole--Lia for short--is one of the first women studying abroad at Oxford University in the 1920s. Finally free from her overbearing Brooklyn parents, she finds a welcome sense of independence in British college life. Lia quickly falls for Scarlett Daniels, an aspiring actress and hardheaded protester. Scarlett introduces her to an exciting gender-equality movement with high stakes. But when their secret love clashes with political uprising,...
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pick for July 2024
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On Shelf
16 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Adult
FICT MAYR SUZETTE Sleeping
1 available
FICT MAYR SUZETTE Sleeping
1 available
Description
"The Sleeping Car Porter brings to life an important part of Black history in North America, from the perspective of a gay man living in a culture that renders him invisible in two ways. Affecting, imaginative, and visceral enough that you'll feel the rocking of the train, The Sleeping Car Porter is a stunning accomplishment. Baxter's name isn't George. But it's 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter...