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Crazy Rich Asians

Kevin Kwan - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding...
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The Girl in the Spider's Web: A Lisbeth Salander novel, continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series

David Lagercrantz - Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Format: Print book

Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return She is the girl with the dragon tattoo - a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit. He is a crusading journalist whose championing of the truth often brings him to the brink of prosecution. Late one night, Blomkvist receives a phone...
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New Mutants/X-Force: Demon Bear

Chris Claremont - Marvel
Format: Book

The visionary talents of legendary illustrator Bill Sienkiewicz bring the Demon Bear that has haunted Danielle Moonstars dreams to horrifying life! It took her parents, and now it has returned for Dani - and only the combined efforts of her fellow New Mutants can stop it from finishing...
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Sweetbitter: A novel

Stephanie Danler - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A thrilling novel of the senses and a coming-of-age tale, following a small-town girl into the electrifying world of New York City and the education of a lifetime at one of the most exclusive restaurants in Manhattan. Perfect for readers of Kitchen Confidential...
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The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas - Balzer & Bray
Format: Paperback

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police...
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To All the Boys Ive Loved Before

Jenny Han - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

To All the Boys Ive Loved Before is now a major motion picture streaming on Netflix! What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them...all at once? Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They arent love letters that...
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel

Annie Barrows - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers." January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet...
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Boy Erased: A Memoir

Garrard Conley - Riverhead Books, 2016.
Format: Print book

A beautiful, raw and compassionate memoir about identity, love and understanding. The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old...
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Queen Sugar: A Novel

Natalie Baszile - Pamela Dorman Books
Format: Hardcover

A mother-daughter story of reinvention - about an African American woman who unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in LouisianaWhy exactly Charley Bordelon's late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous....
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The Darkest Minds

Alexandra Bracken - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Soon to be a major motion picture!When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government "rehabilitation camp."...
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First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

James R. Hansen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

On 20 July 1969, the world stood still to watch 38-year-old astronaut Neil Armstrong become the first person ever to walk on the Moon. Perhaps no words in recent human history became better known than those few he uttered at that historic moment. Upon his return to Earth, Armstrong was honoured...
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Aquaman Vol. 1: The Trench

Geoff Johns - DC Comics; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A 1 New York Times Best Seller!The King of the Seven Seas Aquaman returns to his very own ongoing series for the first time in years at the hands of DC Entertainment Chief Creative Office Geoff Johns, who reteams with GREEN LANTERN collaborator artist Ivan Reis! Between proving himself...
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Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback

AN HBO LIMITED SERIES STARRING AMY ADAMSFROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRLFresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls....
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