JUNE 2023
Recommended by: Shannon G.
Crystal Visions: The Very Best Of Stevie Nicks

Crystal Visions... The Very Best of Stevie Nicks is a compilation album released by the American singer-songwriter and Fleetwood Mac vocalist Stevie Nicks. It features songs from her solo career, as well as her career with Fleetwood Mac
 
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Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
by J. Ryan Stradal

In the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota lose almost everything they hold dear and unexpectedly find salvation in their failing business.
 
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Bad summer people
by Emma Rosenblum

Two Fire Island queen bees and their single friend who meant to spend summertime relaxing and gossiping discover a body face down off the side of the boardwalk and in addition to uncovering the murderer also reveal infidelity and backstabbing.
 
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Recommended by: Anne
Talking to Girls About Duran Duran : one young man's quest for true love and a cooler haircut
by Rob Sheffield

The best-selling author of Love Is a Mix Tape traces his adolescence in the 1980's, a journey during which pop culture trends marked his transformation from a reclusive geek to an independent young man with a first girlfriend.

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Throne of Glass
by Sarah J. Maas

Appearing before the Crown Prince after a year of hard labor in the salt mines, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is offered her freedom in exchange for representing the throne during a competition to find a new royal assassin, a challenge that is marked by grueling training and the murders of fellow contestants.
 
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Lungs

Lungs is the debut studio album by English indie rock band Florence and the Machine, released in 2009.
 
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Recommended by: LucyRose
Ugly
by Robert Hoge

Born with a large facial tumor and stunted legs, Robert Hoge shares how he refused to let what made him different stand in the way of leading a happy, successful life.

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Sometimes you barf
by Nancy L Carlson

When you are sick, vomiting can be a scary experience, but you'll get better.

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Recommended by: Brian
Y/N: a novel
by Esther Yi

When her K-pop idol Moon suddenly retires, vanishing from the public eye, the narrator, a Korean American woman living in Berlin, acts on her obsession, arriving in Seoul where she searches for the object of her love until she finds him at long last as art and real life converge. 
 
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Recommended by: Jenn
Wow, No Thank You: essays
by Samantha Irby

A new collection of humorous and edgy essays from the author of Meaty and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life that highlight the ups and downs of aging, marriage and living with step-children in small-town Michigan. 

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Stick Season / Noah Kahan

Stick Season is Vermont singer-songwriter Noah Kahan's third studio album. After 5 years of critical acclaim, global touring and numerous collaborations, Noah returned to his Vermont roots and sought a more organic style of writing and arrangement.

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Folklore / Taylor Swift

Departing from the mainly upbeat pop production of its predecessors, Taylor Swift's Folklore consists of mellow ballads driven by neo-classical instruments, pursuing indie folk, alternative rock, and electroacoustic styles. Influenced by loneliness during quarantine, Swift explores themes of escapism, empathy, nostalgia and romanticism in the album.
 
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Recommended by: Ariel
Yellowface
by R. F. Kuang

After the death of her literary rival in a freak accident, author June Hayward steals her just-finished masterpiece, sending it to her agent as her own work. As emerging evidence threatens her success, she discovers how far she'll go to keep what she thinks she deserves.

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All the Beauty in the World : the Metropolitan Museum of Art and me
by Patrick Bringley

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard.

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Recommended by: Abby
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
by Suzanne Collins

A prequel set in the world of Panem 64 years before the events of The Hunger Games begins on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games. 
 
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Recommended by: DeeDee
Dear Edward 
by Ann Napolitano

One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Halfway across the country, the plane crashes. Edward is the sole survivor. Edward's story captures the attention of the nation, but he struggles to find a place in a world without his family. He continues to feel that a part of himself has been left in the sky, forever tied to the plane and all of his fellow passengers.Then he makes an unexpected discovery, one that will lead him to the answers of some of life's most profound questions.

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The Secret History
by Donna Tartt

Richard Papen, a relatively impoverished student at a New England college, falls in with an exclusive clique of rich, worldly Greek scholars and soon learns the dreadful secret that keeps them together.  

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Breath : the new science of a lost art
by James Nestor

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how resilient your genes are, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Science journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong with our breathing and how to fix it. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.
 
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Recommended by: Barb
The Housemaid
by Freida McFadden

"Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny roomon the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew's handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it's hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina's life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband. I only try on one of Nina's pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it's like. But she soon finds out... and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it's far too late. But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don't know who I really am. They don't know what I'm capable of..."
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