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Summer Reading 2025

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Summer Reading Program for Adults

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New Items at the
Plumb Memorial Library

Fog of War

Outlander: Season 7

Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman

Dear Alyne: My Years as a Married Virgin

I Regret Almost Everything

Making the Best of What's Left: When We're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered

My Next Breath: A Memoir

Karen: A Brother Remembers

50 Ideas That Changed the World of Work

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again

The Love Haters (Downloadable Audio)

Taste of Home Ultimate Outdoor Cookbook

The Anime Café: 50 Iconic Treats, Snacks, and Drinks from Your Favorite Anime

Steven Spielberg: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work

Change the Recipe: Because You Can't Build a Better World Without Breaking Some Eggs

How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists

How to Be Well: Without Spending All Your Money and Losing Your Mind

Experience Jesus. Really: Finding Refuge, Strength, and Wonder Through Everyday Encounters with God

Beach House Rules

Fog of War

DVDs

With WWII raging around them, an injured pilot and his fiancee find themselves stranded on a remote estate. As the Allies plan the D-Day Invasion, the couple become aware of a Nazi spy hiding amongst them with stolen documents bound for Germany. Unsure of who to trust, and facing danger around every

Outlander: Season 7

DVDs

Outlander: Season 7

The American Revolution has arrived, and the Frasers must navigate the perils of war to protect what they have built. They learn that sometimes to defend what you love, you have to leave it behind. As the conflict draws them into the heart of this fight for independence, Jamie and Claire are faced with

Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman

Biographies & Memoirs

Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman

By Brooke Shields. From generational icon Brooke Shields comes an intimate and empowering exploration of aging that flips the script on the idea of what it means for a woman to grow olderBrooke Shields has spent a lifetime in the public eye. Growing up as a child actor and model, her every feature was

Dear Alyne: My Years as a Married Virgin

Biographies & Memoirs

Dear Alyne: My Years as a Married Virgin

By Alyne Tamir. From world traveler, entrepreneur, and content creator @DearAlyne, a vulnerable and hilarious memoir of how she escaped the restrictive expectations of her family and faith and found herself in the process.Alyne Tamir was raised to live her life for others: for her husband, her family,

I Regret Almost Everything

Biographies & Memoirs

I Regret Almost Everything

By Keith McNally. The entertaining, irreverent, and surprisingly moving memoir by the visionary restaurateur behind such iconic New York establishments as Balthazar and Pastis.A memoir by the legendary proprietor of Balthazar, Pastis, Minetta Tavern, and Morandi, taking us from his gritty London childhood

Making the Best of What's Left: When We're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered

Biographies & Memoirs

Making the Best of What's Left: When We're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered

By Judith Viorst. From the bestselling author Judith Viorst comes a witty and poignant exploration of the joys and sorrows of life’s twilight years—one that leaves us laughing, pondering, and grateful for the moments we have left.In a career that has spanned more than fifty years, Judith Viorst has captivated

My Next Breath: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

My Next Breath: A Memoir

By Jeremy Renner. The gripping and inspiring story of acclaimed actor Jeremy Renner’s near-fatal accident, and what he learned about inner strength, endurance and hope as he overcame insurmountable odds to recover, one breath at a time.Two-time Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner was the second most googled

Karen: A Brother Remembers

Biographies & Memoirs

Karen: A Brother Remembers

By Kelsey Grammer. On July 1, 1975, Kelsey Grammer's younger sister, 18-year-old Karen Grammer, was raped and murdered—now, for the first time, Kelsey discusses how it has affected him and the hope and healing he has found in the decades since.Karen by Kelsey Grammer delves into the deeply personal and

50 Ideas That Changed the World of Work

Business & Investing

50 Ideas That Changed the World of Work

By Jeremy Kourdi and Jonathan Besser. Fifty key ideas that have changed the way we think about why we behave the way we do while at work.The world of work is full of ideas. Some of these ideas shape the work we do and the way we do it. But it can often be hard to sort the wheat from the chaff.When ideas

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

History

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

By John Green. John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest disease.Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized

Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again

Society

Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again

By Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. From two of America's most respected journalists, an unflinching and explosive reckoning with one of the most fateful decisions in American political history: Joe Biden's run for reelection despite evidence of his serious decline—amid desperate efforts to hide the extent

The Love Haters (Downloadable Audio)

Audiobooks & Courses

The Love Haters (Downloadable Audio)

By Katherine Center. Downloadable Audio It’s a thin line between love and love-hating in the newest laugh out loud, all the feels rom-com by New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center.Katie Vaughn has been burned by love in the past―now she may be lighting her career on fire. She has two choices:

Taste of Home Ultimate Outdoor Cookbook

Cooking, Food & Wine

Taste of Home Ultimate Outdoor Cookbook

Enjoy more than 390 easy recipes for barbecues, picnics and block parties as well as al fresco dinners perfect for any night of the week.Make the most of summer with this must-have collection, featuring 390+ recipes ideal for warm-weather dining! Featuring recipes for everything from juicy burgers and

The Anime Café: 50 Iconic Treats, Snacks, and Drinks from Your Favorite Anime

Cooking, Food & Wine

The Anime Café: 50 Iconic Treats, Snacks, and Drinks from Your Favorite Anime

By Nadine Estero. Immerse yourself in your favorite anime worlds and café culture, in its myriad forms, through 50 different anime movies and series--from the beloved films of Studio Ghibli to popular series such as One Piece.Food plays an important role in anime, whether it is briefly shown in a slice-of-life

Steven Spielberg: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work

Entertainment

Steven Spielberg: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work

By Ian Nathan. This comprehensive and in-depth study delves into the life and works of the most famous director who has ever lived, Steven Spielberg.Spielberg is the medium’s defining artist—the embodiment of the Hollywood ideal: the commercial potential of film married to its creative possibilities.

Change the Recipe: Because You Can't Build a Better World Without Breaking Some Eggs

Health, Mind & Body

Change the Recipe: Because You Can't Build a Better World Without Breaking Some Eggs

By José Andrés and Richard Wolffe. A unique collection of life lessons from renowned chef and humanitarian José AndrésJosé Andrés is a chef, entrepreneur, author, TV host, and tireless humanitarian leader across the globe. A Michelin-starred chef with more than 30 restaurants, José is perhaps best known

How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists

Health, Mind & Body

How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists

By Ellen Hendriksen. Are you your own toughest critic? Learn to be good to yourself with this clear and compassionate guide.Do you set demanding standards for yourself? If so, a lot likely goes well in your life: You might earn compliments, admiration, or accomplishments. Your high standards and hard

How to Be Well: Without Spending All Your Money and Losing Your Mind

Health, Mind & Body

How to Be Well: Without Spending All Your Money and Losing Your Mind

By Amy Larocca. A deeply researched, lively, and personal exploration of the multibillion-dollar wellness industry -- about why women are feeling so un-well and how this trend has shaped our thinking about health and self-carePeloton. Pilates. Biohacking. Colonics. Ashwagandha. Today, the wellness industry

Experience Jesus. Really: Finding Refuge, Strength, and Wonder Through Everyday Encounters with God

Religion & Spirituality

Experience Jesus. Really: Finding Refuge, Strength, and Wonder Through Everyday Encounters with God

By John Eldredge. New York Times bestselling author John Eldredge reveals the path of the "ordinary mystic," and invites readers into the refuge of experiencing deep, lasting, real communion with Jesus.In this present age we are all becoming disciples of the Internet. We are addicted to distraction.

Beach House Rules

Literature & Fiction

Beach House Rules

By Kristy Woodson Harvey. “Southern bestselling sensation” (Katie Couric Media) Kristy Woodson Harvey returns with a delightfully moving new novel about a mother-daughter duo learning to lean on their community of women—and each other—after their world is turned upside down.When Charlotte Sitterly’s

New Items at the
Huntington Branch Library

Good Game, No Rematch: A Life Made of Video Games

Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson

Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech

The Purposeful Warrior: Standing Up for What's Right When the Stakes Are High

A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19

Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World

The Love Haters (Downloadable Audio)

Mario & Luigi: Brothership [Nintendo Switch]

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Open Up: Stories

Twelve Post-War Tales

Remember Her Name

The English Masterpiece

It's a Love Story

A Mind of Her Own

Written on the Dark

Deadly Dinosaurs

Me and Other Bunnies

The Mystery of the Haunted Dancehall

Good Game, No Rematch: A Life Made of Video Games

Biographies & Memoirs

Good Game, No Rematch: A Life Made of Video Games

By Mike Drucker. A hilarious, heartfelt and nostalgic memoir about the classic video games that entertain and inspire us, and even hold the power to transform our lives, from an Emmy®-nominated television writer, stand-up comedian and former writer for Nintendo, the perfect nonfiction read for fans of

Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson

Biographies & Memoirs

Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson

By Tourmaline. Black transgender luminary Tourmaline brings to life the first definitive biography of the revolutionary activist Marsha P. Johnson, one of the most important and remarkable figures in LGBTQIA+ history, revealing her story, her impact, and her legacy.“She is the preeminent and foremost

Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech

Biographies & Memoirs

Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech

By Maureen Dowd. A sly and chatty collection of the revered Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist’s most notorious celebrity profiles.Shining a white-hot spotlight on America’s famous, from Hollywood legends to Broadway stars to media moguls, Notorious is a captivating assortment of Maureen

The Purposeful Warrior: Standing Up for What's Right When the Stakes Are High

Biographies & Memoirs

The Purposeful Warrior: Standing Up for What's Right When the Stakes Are High

By Jocelyn Benson. From Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a roadmap for shattering the status quo and standing up for what's right across our lives, our communities, and our country.AN OPEN FIELD BOOK FROM MARIA SHRIVERDuring the 2020 presidential election, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn

A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19

Science

A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19

By Edna Bonhomme. In the vein of Medical Apartheid, The Color of Law, and Just Medicine, a prodigious history of global disease that reveals the devastating link between public health and systemic inequality.AIDS, cholera, the Spanish flu—epidemics become catastrophic not only by chance, but by human

Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

Society

Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

By Alec Karakatsanis. From the prizewinning rising legal star, the deeply researched and definitive book on the way the media and police distract us from what matters“Alec Karakatsanis is a leading voice in the legal struggle to dismantle mass incarceration. . . . What he says cannot be ignored.”—James

When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World

Society

When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World

By Jordan Thomas. A hotshot firefighter's gripping firsthand account of a record-setting fire seasonEighteen of California's largest wildfires on record have burned in the past two decades. Scientists recently invented the term “megafire” to describe wildfires that behave in ways that would have been

The Love Haters (Downloadable Audio)

Audiobooks & Courses

The Love Haters (Downloadable Audio)

By Katherine Center. Downloadable Audio It’s a thin line between love and love-hating in the newest laugh out loud, all the feels rom-com by New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center.Katie Vaughn has been burned by love in the past―now she may be lighting her career on fire. She has two choices:

Mario & Luigi: Brothership [Nintendo Switch]

Entertainment

Mario & Luigi: Brothership [Nintendo Switch]

All hands on deck for an island-hopping adventure starring Mario and Luigi The brothers return for a brand-new adventure on the high seas! Set sail with Mario and Luigi on Shipshape Island (part ship, part island) and journey through the vast world of Concordia. Launch out of Shipshape's cannon to visit,

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Literature & Fiction

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

By V. E. Schwab. From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying, unforgettable novel to sink your teeth into.Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532.London, 1837.Boston, 2019.Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their

Open Up: Stories

Literature & Fiction

Open Up: Stories

By Thomas Morris. “This brilliant, funny, unsettling book is a work of deep psychological realism and a philosophical inquiry at the same time. Thomas Morris is a master of the contemporary short story, and the stories in this collection are his best yet.”—SALLY ROONEY author of INTERMEZZOStrikingly

Twelve Post-War Tales

Literature & Fiction

Twelve Post-War Tales

By Graham Swift. An exquisite new collection of stories from the Booker Prize–winning author, about lives shaped and haunted by warHere are the soldiers and doctors and veterans, wives and lovers and children, who have been affected in ways both subtle and profound by the cataclysms of our times. In

Remember Her Name

Mysteries & Thrillers

Remember Her Name

By Lisa Regan. Her heart stutters as she draws closer. A woman's fingertips curl over the boat's edge. Dark crimson blood clashes with the faded blue peeling paint beneath. They're too late, the beautiful woman within has been dead for some time...Detective Josie Quinn lifts the baby from the pram, holding

The English Masterpiece

Mysteries & Thrillers

The English Masterpiece

By Katherine Reay. Set in the art world of 1970s London, The English Masterpiece is a fast-paced read to the end, full of glamour and secrets, tensions and lies, as one young woman races against the clock to uncover the truth about a Picasso masterpiece. Perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Ariel Lawhon.As

It's a Love Story

Romance

It's a Love Story

By Annabel Monaghan. “Anything Annabel writes, I’m reading it.”—Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling authorFrom the USA Today bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script, a novel about a former adolescent TV punchline who has left her awkwardness in the rearview mirror thanks to a fake-it-till-you-make-it

A Mind of Her Own

Romance

A Mind of Her Own

By Danielle Steel. Rising above the devastation of World War I, a young half -French, half -American woman remains true to her own independent spirit in this powerful historical novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel.Alexandra Bouvier is born in Paris in 1900, at the dawn of a new

Written on the Dark

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Written on the Dark

By Guy Gavriel Kay. From the internationally bestselling author of Tigana, All the Seas of the World, and A Brightness Long Ago comes a sweeping new novel of love and war that brilliantly evokes the drama and turbulence of medieval France.Thierry Villar is a well-known—even notorious—tavern poet, intimately

Deadly Dinosaurs

Children's Books

Deadly Dinosaurs

Learn what happens when dinosaurs come to life! Make reading your superpower with our non-fiction DK Super Readers!Help your child power up their reading skills and learn all a colorful cast of characters, with this fun-filled non-fiction reader – carefully levelled to help children progress.Deadly Dinosaurs

Me and Other Bunnies

Children's Books

Me and Other Bunnies

By Mo Willems. Mo Willems, #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author-illustrator creates a hare-larious picture book about bunnies.There are ME bunnies.There are YOU bunnies.There are US bunnies . . . and WE bunnies . . . and THEM bunnies.There are a lot of bunnies in Me and Other Bunnies.

The Mystery of the Haunted Dancehall

Children's Books

The Mystery of the Haunted Dancehall

By Charis Cotter. Set in the '60s at a summer camp, The Mystery of the Haunted Dancehall is a spooky, atmospheric middle-grade story for fans of classic ghost stories, unlikely friendships and intriguing mysteries.Bee's mom has a job in New York City for the summer, so Bee is being sent to summer camp.

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