Category: Book Suggestions

Graphic novels offer a wide variety of options for all types of readers!  Today we’re sharing some of our newest titles for youth, teens, and adults.  Click the book cover to place a hold on your favorites! Youth Peter Pan – Didier Le Bornec Wendy, John, and Michael Darling learn they can fly with pixie…

Jess’s Pick Rome, 1953: Hal, an itinerant journalist flailing in the post-war darkness, has come to the Eternal City to lose himself and to seek absolution for the thing that haunts him.   Carolyn’s Pick There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught.  Jam and her best…

October is Cookbook Month AND Cookie Month, so let’s celebrate with these cookie cookbooks! Chocolatey, fruity, crisp, chewy, classic, inventivey—there’s a foolproof recipe for the perfect treat for everyone in this book.       The editors of Martha Stewart Living present a new, fun source for anyone looking to make their go-to cookies even better…

Jess’s Pick Kate Darling’s enigmatic mother–a once-famous ballerina–has passed away, leaving Kate bereft. When her grandmother falls ill and bequeaths to Kate a small portrait of a woman who bears a striking resemblance to Kate’s mother, Kate uncovers a mystery that may upend everything she thought she knew. Laura’s Pick Every city has a soul….

Carolyn’s Pick England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner.  As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. Sharon’s Pick Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a…

Whether you’re looking to escape our real-world worries, or you want to deep dive into pandemics in history, these are our recommendations. Fiction Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. So she barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. One snowy night a…

Summer is great time to read about the ocean and the animals that live in it.  Here are some great books that we have at the Adamstown Area Library! Click the picture to find the book in the catalog. A story about a fish who thinks he has to grumpy!  A new friend shows him…

Looking for a way to talk to your family and friends about race?  Or need to learn and process your own thoughts?  Here are our book and movie picks for all ages. Adults Recs From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir written at the crossroads of sex, race,…

Check out our list of some outstanding biographies and memoirs. After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now. The incredible true story of the women who fought America’s Undark danger. The…

Father’s Day is Sunday, June 21st! Four-year-old Susie gives her dad her idea of the perfect Father’s Day: A fast food restaurant for lunch, feeding birds at the park, a ride on the carousel, the swings . . . they even top their day off with balloons! It’s the night before Father’s Day, and Mom and…