Readers Spotlight

Discover monthly highlights and delve into the beloved picks of our staff, tailor-made for avid readers like you. Click on book jacket to view availability.

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This Place Kills Me. By Mariko Tamaki, Illustrations by Nicole Goux
Assorted Crisis Events by Deniz Camp Illustrations by Eric Zawadzki
Absolute Wonder Woman Volume 1: The Last Amazon by Kelly Thompson, Hayden Sherman, Mattia De Iulis, and Jordie Bellaire
Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life. By Dan Nadel
Absolute Batman Volume 1: The Zoo by Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta, and Frank Martin
It rhymes with Takei, by George Takei
Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989 by Andrea Horbinski
Absolute Martian Manhunter Volume 1: Martian Vision by Deniz Camp and Javier Rodriguez
Milestone Compendium One. By Dwaye McDuffie, Ivan Velez Jr., John Rozum, Robert L Washington III, M.D. Bright, Denys Cowan, and John Paul Leon
Dragon Ball Volume 1. By Akira Toriyama
Bone Volume 1: Out From Boneville by Jeff Smith
Devilman: The Classic Collection Volume 1. by Go Nagai

Staff Favorites

Essential Labor - Mothering as social Change by Angela Garbes
Trees of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
The Unwanted Prophet by Carolina Cruz
The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
Atomic Habits - an Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break bad ones by James Clear
Godkiller by Hannah Kaner
The Creative Act: A way of Being by Rick Rubin
How to Become a Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler
Absolute Wonder Woman. Vol. 1, The last Amazon, by Kelly Thompson, Hayden Sherman, Mattia De Iulis, and Jordie Bellaire
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory
Musicophilia: tales of music and the brain, by Oliver Sacks
Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky
Never Whistle at Night -  An Indigenous dark Fiction Anthology, Edited by Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
Wild Dark Shore, by Charlotte McConaghy
artyr! by Kaveh Akbar
What My Bones Know - A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma, by Stephanie Foo
Dog show: Poems, by Billy Collins
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel In Letters, by Mark Dunn

What to Read Next

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GoodReads

GoodReads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations. Their mission is to help people find and share books they love.

What Should I Read Next

What Should I Read Next analyzes the favorites list of all their members in order to recommend the best next read for any book. You can either just get a book recommendation for free by going to their main page and choosing a book title, and it will provide you a list of titles that others who have favorite it have also read. Or, you can join for free and build your own list of favorites to add to their extensive database.

LibraryThing

Library Thing is a social cataloging service so that you can store and access your personal library’s metadata (the metadata is imported from other libraries and Amazon stores). You can share and connect with others who share your tastes and the site will even recommend books based on your library. While this is a very in-depth system with lots of great features, it does require a lot of time and commitment.

Literature Map

Literature Map is not only helpful, but it is a lot of fun to play with. Simply type in an author’s name and Literature Map generates a web of other authors that have similar writing styles and genres. The closer the author’s name is to another, the more alike the authors are.

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