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Ascendance of a Bookworm is a light novel series by Japanese author Miya Kazuki.

The Personal Librarian tells the story of Belle da Costa Greene, hired by J. P. Morgan to serve as the curator and librarian of his newly-constructed Pierpont Morgan Library.

Beasts of a Little Land is an epic saga set during Korea’s tumultuous history of Japanese occupation and the fight for Korean independence.

Here’s the set-up of Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Noemi Taboada, a debutante livi

In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson undertakes to hike the 2,200 mile Appalachian Trail that runs from Georgia to Maine. Bryson enlists the help of an unfit friend, Katz, who can barely tackle a staircase. Together they meander along the trail meeting other people with the same goal. Statistics are clearly against them.

How to heal a broken heart?

Australian author, Trent Dalton, is back with another highly imaginative, beautiful yet gritty story full of memorable characters. 

Antebellum Virginia is the setting of this eloquently written historical novel by Edward P. Jones, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 and the National Book Critics Award in 2003.

Author Byron Lane based his book, A Star is Bored, on the life of Carrie Fisher (he had been her assistant).  In the novel, a movie star called Kathi Kannon, who has made it big playing Priestess Talara in a runaway sci-fi movie sensation, hires Charlie B

In her latest collection of linked short stories Secrets of Happiness (2021), Joan Silber writes about the impacts of a father’s secrets on his extended family and the people in their lives.

In A Holidaze is a Christmas romance centered on Maelyn, who is in her mid-twenties, hates her job, and is unhappily single. The one happy place in Maelyn’s life is the cabin where her family always spends the holidays with her parents’ college friends and their children (including Andrew, Maelyn’s longtime crush). Unfortunately, this Christmas is the end of an era: the cabin is being sold.

I recently asked Laurel, a member of our circulation team, for a recommendation. Laurel was deep into We Begin at the End (2021) by British author Chris Whitaker.