Thursday, October 15th - 6:30pm
"The new thriller from writing duo E. G. Scott follows a woman looking for answers after her husband goes missing, and a corpse appears that implicates her in the murder of a woman she never met"-- Provided by publisher.
Thursday, October 15th - 8:00pm
"Queer black girls team up to overthrow the patriarchy in the former kingdom of Cinderella"-- Provided by publisher.
Thursday, October 15th - 8:00pm
The 7th graders of Windsor Middle School are excited to start the new school year in their Advanced Science classroom. They'll work on CRISPR-Cas9, a new gene editing technology exciting students all over the world. Marty shares his love of science and all things spy-related with his best friend, Christopher, who witnesses incidents Marty can't explain away. The two are soon testing Marty's superpowers. What about their classmate, Aisha? Does she have a superpower? A stealth high-tech drone, piloted by international goons, constantly monitors the kids. They awaken the annoying school bully, Wade, to his own superpowers and convince him to steal the valuable CRISPR-Cas9 data. Marty, Christopher and Aisha band together to stop the theft at their beloved International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. Who will win? International goons or the superhero team of "Advanced Science 303"--Back cover.
Thursday, October 15th - 8:00pm
"From the critically acclaimed author of Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune comes a delightful new novel about exploring all the magical possibilities of life in the most extraordinary city of all: Paris. Vanessa Yu never wanted to see people's fortunes-or misfortunes-in tea leaves. Ever since she can remember, Vanessa has been able to see people's fortunes at the bottoms of their teacups. To avoid blurting out fortunes, she converts to coffee, but somehow the fortunes escape and find a way to complicate her life and the lives of those around her. To add to this plight, her romantic life is so nonexistent that her parents enlist the services of a matchmaking expert from Shanghai. After her matchmaking appointment, Vanessa sees death for the first time. She decides that she can't truly live until she can find a way to get rid of her uncanny abilities. When her eccentric aunt Evelyn shows up with a tempting offer to whisk her away, Vanessa says au revoir to California and bonjour to Paris. There, Vanessa learns more about herself and the root of her gifts, and realizes one thing to be true: Knowing one's destiny isn't a curse, but being unable to change it is"-- Provided by publisher.
Thursday, October 15th - 8:00pm
"River Bend, Michigan, is the kind of small town most can't imagine leaving, but three women couldn't wait to escape. When each must return--Linda Williams, never sure what she wants; her mother, Paula, always too sure; and Beth DeWitt, one of River Bend's only black daughters, now a mother of two who'd planned to raise her own children anywhere else--their paths collide under Beth's father's roof. As one town struggles to contain all of their love affairs and secrets, a local scandal forces Beth to confront her own devastating past. Filled with the voices of mothers and daughters, husbands, lovers, and fathers, The House of Deep Water explores motherhood, trauma, love, loss, and new beginnings found in a most unlikely place: home"-- Provided by publisher.
Friday, October 16th - 10:00am
It's summer in Moose Junction, and twelve-year-old Abby McCourt should be excited about the approaching solar eclipse--especially because she's obsessed with astronomy--but she's not. After the incident at the Memorial Day barbecue, nothing has been the same. Her friends avoid her. Her parents are stressed. And the one person she felt closest to--her older sister Blair--has been sent to a treament facility to learn how to eat again. But wait . . . rewind a bit. This didn't really start with Blair's meltdown over a cupcake at the barbecue. When Abby thinks on it, she can see traces of her sister's eating disorder from years back. She just never imagined it would get this bad. Then world-renowned astronomer Dr. Leo Lacamoire arrives in town on a mission to find a telescope that was stolen from him and employs Abby's help. Together, they hatch a plan that might be able to get them both what they want--a way to heal what the past has broken.
Friday, October 16th - 1:00pm
Investigating the savage beating of a migrant worker who refuses to reveal his attacker, Sheriff Heidi Kick is catapulted into a murder case in the underground world of illicit cage fighting, before her husband suddenly disappears.
Friday, October 16th - 4:30pm
Award-winning author Tiffany D. Jackson delivers another riveting, ripped-from-the-headlines mystery that exposes horrific secrets hiding behind the limelight and embraces the power of a young woman's voice.
Friday, October 16th - 8:00pm
When the most successful of five women who have been friends since college publishes an advice book detailing the key life "mistakes" of the others--opting out, ramping off, giving half effort, and forgetting your fertility--they spend their fortieth year considering their lives against the backdrop of their outspoken friend's cruel words.
Friday, October 16th - 6:30pm
In 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a science fiction novel titled Lost City.The strange and beautiful novel is set in a near future where a sixteen-year-old Dominican girl searches for a golden eternal city believed to exist somewhere on a parallel Earth. Lost City earns a modest but enthusiastic readership, and Adana begins a sequel. Then she falls gravely ill. Just before she dies, she and her son, Maxwell, destroy the only copy of the manuscript. Decades later in Chicago, Saul Drower is cleaning out his dead grandfather's home when he discovers a mysterious package containing a manuscript titled A Model Earth, written by none other than Adana Moreau. Who was Adana Moreau? How did Saul's grandfather, a Jewish immigrant born on a steamship to parents fleeing the aftershocks of the Russian Revolution, come across this unpublished, lost manuscript?
Saturday, October 17th - 9:00am
Illustrations and easy-to-read text provide guidance for the tourist who wishes to bring a monster along to visit national parks and other locations across the United States.
Saturday, October 17th - 9:00am
A delightful picture book showcasing adorable baby animals and celebrating their glorious diversity, from "paws and claws and little flippers" to "feet that look like fuzzy slippers!"
Saturday, October 17th - 11:30am
An epic, unrelenting tale of destiny and sisterhood