The digital hotlist is back!
If you are on hold for any of the following digital titles on Libby by
Overdrive, here are some suggestions to tide you over while you wait.
Top five hold list titles for downloadable audiobooks:
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
If you’re waiting for A Promised Land by Barack Obama, try
one of these available or short-wait high-interest titles!
On Libby:
Notorious
RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon
She was a fierce dissenter with a serious collar game. A
legendary, self-described "flaming feminist litigator" who made the
world more equal. And an intergenerational icon affectionately known as the
Notorious RBG. As the nation mourns the loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, discover
the story of a remarkable woman and learn how to carry on her legacy.
Our
Time is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey
Abrams
Celebrated national leader and bestselling author Stacey
Abrams offers a blueprint to end voter suppression, empower our citizens, and
take back our country. A recognized expert on fair voting and civic engagement,
Abrams chronicles a chilling account of how the right to vote and the principle
of democracy have been and continue to be under attack. Abrams would have been
the first African American woman governor, but experienced these effects
firsthand, despite running the most innovative race in modern politics as the
Democratic nominee in Georgia. Abrams didn't win, but she has not conceded. The
audiobook compellingly argues for the importance of robust voter protections,
an elevation of identity politics, engagement in the census, and a return to
moral international leadership.
Her Way:
The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Don Van Natta Jr and
Erik Singer
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporters Jeff Gerth
and Don Van Natta Jr. bring us the first comprehensive and balanced portrait of
the most important woman in American politics. Drawing upon myriad new sources
and previously undisclosed documents, Her Way shows us how, like many
women of her generation, Hillary Rodham Clinton tempered a youthful idealism
with the realities of corporate America and big-league politics.
Lead
From the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change by Stacey
Abrams
Leadership is hard. Convincing others—and yourself—that you
are capable of taking charge and achieving more requires insight and
courage. Lead from the Outside is the handbook for
outsiders, written with an eye toward the challenges that hinder women, people
of color, the working class, members of the LGBTQ community, and millennials
ready to make change.
The
Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
Published before his election, the heart of this audiobook
is then Senator Obama’s vision of how we could move beyond our divisions to
tackle concrete problems. Underlying his stories about family, friends, members
of the Senate, and even the president is a vigorous search for connection: the
foundation for a radically hopeful political consensus.
The
Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham
Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and
in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln
called the “better angels of our nature” have repeatedly won the day. Painting
surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ulysses S.
Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S.
Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and illuminating the courage
of such influential citizen activists as Martin Luther King, Jr., early
suffragettes Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt, civil rights pioneers Rosa
Parks and John Lewis, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Army-McCarthy hearings
lawyer Joseph N. Welch, Meacham brings vividly to life turning points in
American history.
On Hoopla:
Democracy
in America by Alexis De Tocqueville
In 1831, a Frenchman named Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in
New York convinced that the democratic spirit America had embraced would
eventually spread across Europe. Democracy in America, a treatise on democratic
government written from his fresh perspective as an outsider, is now a classic
document of political history.
The
Faith of Barack Obama by Stephen Mansfield
In The Faith of Barack Obama, New York Times bestselling
author Stephen Mansfield takes readers inside the mind, heart, and soul of
presidential hopeful Barack Obama - as a person of faith, as a man, as an
American, and possibly as our future commander in chief.
The
RBG Way: The Secrets of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Success by Rebecca Gibian
Organized into three parts and then broken down into more
specific chapters within each part, The RBG Way offers wisdom from Justice
Ginsburg, based on comments she has made on particular topics of importance.
Insight is offered on subjects such as women's rights, creating lasting
partnerships, overcoming hardship, how to be brave, and how to create lasting
change.
Ruth
Bader Ginsburg: First in Her Class by David Hudson
Join bestselling author and constitutional scholar David L.
Hudson, Jr. for awe-inspiring listening on the life and career of one of the
most revered Supreme Court justices in U.S. history.
To
America by Stephen Ambrose
Ambrose's final book is a stirring collection of reflections
that covers such wide-ranging subjects as the Battle of New Orleans, the
transcontinental railroad, Crazy Horse and Custer, sexism and racism, the
author's personal ruminations on what it means to be an historian, and so much
more. Throughout the book, Ambrose is candid while assessing himself, legendary
historical figures, and the entire nation.
If you’re waiting for Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey, try
one of these available or short-wait high-interest titles!
On Libby:
Blood:
A Memoir by Allison Moorer
1986, Mobile, Alabama. A fourteen-year-old girl is awakened
by the unmistakable sound of gunfire. On the front lawn, her father has shot
and killed her mother before turning the gun on himself. Allison Moorer would
grow up to be an award-winning musician, with her songs likened to "a
Southern accent: eight miles an hour, deliberate, and very dangerous to
underestimate" (Rolling Stone). Now, Allison turns her lyrical
storytelling powers to recount the events leading up to the moment that forever
altered her own life and that of her older sister, Shelby Lynn, with whom she
shares an unbreakable bond.
Open
Book by Jessica Simpson
Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and
most intimate struggles. Guided by the journals she's kept since age fifteen,
and brimming with her unique humor and down-to-earth humanity, Open Book is as
inspiring as it is entertaining.
Roll Me
Up and Smoke Me When I Die by Willie Nelson (also avail. on Hoopla)
Willie Nelson muses about his greatest influences and the
things that are most important to him, and celebrates the family, friends, and
colleagues who have blessed his remarkable journey. Willie riffs on everything,
from music to poker, Texas to Nashville, and more. He shares the outlaw wisdom
he has acquired over the course of eight decades, along with favorite jokes and
insights from family, bandmates, and close friends.
Running
with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose
mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her
psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly,
at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated
Victorian in perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients, and
a pedophile living in the backyard shed completed the tableau. Here, there were
no rules, there was no school. The Christmas tree stayed up until summer, and
Valium was eaten like Pez. And when things got dull, there was always the
vintage electroshock therapy machine under the stairs....
Let’s
Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson
When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit
in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a
morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for
Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we
are all the better for it.
Revolution
by Russell Brand
In this book, Russell Brand hilariously lacerates the straw
men and paper tigers of our conformist times and presents, with the help of
experts as diverse as Thomas Piketty and George Orwell, a vision for a fairer,
sexier society that's fun and inclusive.
Eat,
Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and
Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
An intensely articulate and moving memoir of
self-discovery, Eat, Pray, Love is about what can happen when you
claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in
imitation of society's ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken
up to the unrelenting need for change.
On Hoopla:
Wear
Your Dreams: My Life in Tattoos by Ed Hardy
Your Dreams is a never-before-seen look at the tattoo artist
who rocked the art world and has left a permanent mark on fashion history.
The
Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 by Hunter
S. Thompson
Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate
correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive
journalists-Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a who's who of luminaries, from
Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to
Joan Baez-not to mention his mother, the NRA, and a chain of newspaper
editors-Thompson vividly catches the tenor of the times in 1960s America and
channels it all through his own razor-sharp perspective.
Magical
Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
This is the fabric of Augusten Burroughs's life: a
collection of true stories that are universal in their appeal yet unabashedly
intimate, stories that shine a flashlight into both dark and hilarious places.
With Magical Thinking, Augusten Burroughs goes where other memoirists fear to
tread.
Mentors
by Russell Brand
Brand describes the impact that a series of significant
people have had on the author – from the wayward youths he tried to emulate
growing up in Essex, through the first ex-junkie sage, to the people he turns
to today to help him be a better father. It explores how we all – consciously
and unconsciously – choose guides, mentors and heroes throughout our lives and
examines the new perspectives they can bring.
Walden,
or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Immersing himself in nature and solitude, Thoreau sought to
develop a greater understanding of society amidst a life of self-reliance and
simplicity. Originally published in 1854, Walden remains one of the most
celebrated works in American literature.
If you’re waiting for The Guest List by Lucy Foley, try one
of these available or short-wait high-interest titles!
On Libby:
In a
Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
When reclusive writer Leonora is invited to the English
countryside for a weekend away, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip. But as
the first night falls, revelations unfold among friends old and new, an
unnerving memory shatters Leonora's reserve, and a haunting realization creeps
in: the party is not alone in the woods.
Magpie
Murders by Anthony Horowitz
From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger
Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit
worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day
mystery.
Behind
Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks
and wealth; she has charm and elegance. You're hopelessly charmed by the ease
and comfort of their home, by the graciousness of the dinner parties they
throw. You'd like to get to know Grace better. But it's difficult, because you
realize Jack and Grace are inseparable. Some might call this true love. Others
might wonder why Grace never answers the phone. Or why she can never meet for
coffee, even though she doesn't work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but
remain so slim. Or why she never seems to take anything with her when she
leaves the house, not even a pen. Or why there are such high-security metal
shutters on all the downstairs windows. Some might wonder what's really going
on once the dinner party is over, and the front door has closed.
An
Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena
The twisty new thriller from the New York
Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door and A
Stranger in the House
A weekend retreat at a cozy mountain lodge is supposed to be the perfect
getaway . . . but when the storm hits, no one is getting away.
The
Last by Hanna Jameson
This propulsive post-apocalyptic thriller "in which
Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None collides with Stephen
King's The Shining" (NPR) follows a group of survivors stranded at a
hotel as the world descends into nuclear war and the body of a young girl is
discovered in one of the hotel's water tanks.
On Hoopla:
Malice
by Keigo Higashino
Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally
murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and
relocate to Vancouver. His body is found in his office, a locked room, within
his locked house, by his wife and his best friend, both of whom have rock solid
alibis. Or so it seems.
The
Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux
In this, rival detectives try to crack the following case:
Madamoiselle Stangerson retires to bed in the Yellow Room. Suddenly, revolver
shots echo through the house and she screams for help. Her father and a servant
run to the locked room where they find the wounded girl - alone. The only other
exit, a window, is barred. How had the assailant escaped?
The
Secrets You Keep by Kate White
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wrong Man
and Eyes on You comes a harrowing new psychological thriller about a successful
self-help author who suddenly finds her life spiraling dangerously out of
control. What would you do if you realized that your new husband, a man you
adore, is keeping secrets from you-secrets with terrifying consequences?
If you’re waiting for American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, try
one of these available or short-wait high-interest titles!
On Libby:
Followers
by Megan Angelo
Orla Cadden is a budding novelist stuck in a dead-end job,
writing clickbait about movie-star hookups and influencer yoga moves. Then Orla
meets Floss—a striving, wannabe A-lister—who comes up with a plan for launching
them both into the high-profile lives they dream about. So what if Orla and
Floss's methods are a little shady—and sometimes people get hurt? Their legions
of followers can't be wrong. Thirty-five years later, in a closed California
village where government-appointed celebrities live every moment of the day on
camera, a woman named Marlow discovers a shattering secret about her past.
Dear
Edward by Ann Napolitano
What does it mean not just to survive, but to truly
live? 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. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming
to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured veteran returning from
Afghanistan, a business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her
controlling husband. Halfway across the country, the plane crashes. Edward is
the sole survivor.
American
War by Omar El Akkad
An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American
Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle—a
story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating
policies and deadly weapons upon itself.
The
Alice Network by Kate Quinn
In an enthralling new historical novel from national
bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the
real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional
American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a
mesmerizing story of courage and redemption.
Before
We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Based on one of America’s most notorious real-life
scandals—in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption
organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the
country—Lisa Wingate’s riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale
reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the
heart never forgets where we belong.
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
The unforgettable New York Times best seller
begins with the story of two half-sisters, separated by forces beyond their
control: one sold into slavery, the other married to a British slaver. Written
with tremendous sweep and power, Homegoing traces the generations of
family who follow, as their destinies lead them through two continents and
three hundred years of history, each life indeliably drawn, as the legacy of
slavery is fully revealed in light of the present day.
On Hoopla:
A
Beginning at the End by Mike Chen
Six years after a global pandemic wiped out most of the
planet's population, the survivors are rebuilding the country, split between
self-governing cities, hippie communes and wasteland gangs.
Becoming
Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan Henry
From New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan comes
an exquisite novel of Joy Davidman, the woman C. S. Lewis called "my whole
world."
The
Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of hope and
heartbreak, raw courage and strength splintered with poverty and oppression,
and one woman's chances beyond the darkly hollows. Inspired by the true and
historical blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky
Pack Horse library service, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek showcases an
atmospheric, fascinating, and important footnote of Kentucky history that
should be prized and preserved.
If you’re waiting for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by
V.E. Schwab, try one of these available or short-wait high-interest titles!
On Libby:
Life
after Life by Kate Atkinson
On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an
English banker and his wife. Ursula dies before she can draw her first breath.
On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail,
and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she
grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century
marches on toward its second cataclysmic world war. Does Ursula's apparently
infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its
inevitable destiny? And if she can, will she?
The Time
Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
What if two people who loved each other deeply, married, and
faced a life in which one person remained constant while the other slipped
fluidly in and out of time? A modern love story with a twist that invites us to
linger over questions of how life and love change over time.
How to
Stop Time by Matt Haig
How to Stop Time tells a love story across the
ages—and for the ages—about a man lost in time, the woman who could save him,
and the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live. It is a bighearted,
wildly original novel about losing and finding yourself, the inevitability of
change, and how with enough time to learn, we just might find happiness.
The
Magic Strings of Frankie Preston by Mitch Albom
With its Forest Gump-like romp through the music world, The
Magic Strings of Frankie Presto is a classic in the making. A lifelong musician
himself, Mitch Albom delivers a remarkable novel, infused with the message that
"everyone joins a band in this life" and those connections change us
all.
Dark
Matter by Blake Crouch
"Are you happy with your life?" Those are the last
words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.
Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers
in hazmat suits. Before a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says,
"Welcome back, my friend." In this world he's woken up to, Jason's
life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never
born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated
genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.
On Hoopla:
To
Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
When too many jumps back to 1940 leave 21st century Oxford
history student Ned Henry exhausted, a relaxing trip to Victorian England seems
the perfect solution. But complexities like recalcitrant rowboats, missing
cats, and love at first sight make Ned's holiday anything but restful.
Time
Travelers Never Die by Jack McDevitt
When physicist Michael Shelborne mysteriously vanishes, his
son Shel discovers that he had constructed a time travel device. Fearing his
father may be stranded in time-or worse-Shel enlists Dave Dryden, a linguist,
to accompany him on the rescue mission.
Faust
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The story of the scholar Faust, tempted into a contract with
the Devil in return for a life of sensuality and power.
The
7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Evelyn Hardcastle will die. Every day until Aiden Bishop can
identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again,
Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest. And some of his hosts are more
helpful than others . . .The most inventive debut of the year twists together a
mystery of such unexpected creativity it will leave listeners guessing until
the very last second.
Top five holdlists titles for ebooks:
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
The Bridgerton Collection Volume 1 (Books 1-3) by Julia Quinn
If you’re waiting for The Guest Book by Lucy Foley , try one
of these authors!
On Libby:
Janelle
Brown
Lauren
Beukes
Maria
Peshl
Fiona
Barton
Kate
Atkinson
On Hoopla:
John
Dickson Carr
Agatha
Christie
Also, look for ebook versions of the audiobook
recommendations in that section!
If you’re waiting for The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, try
one of these available or short-wait high-interest titles!
On Libby:
Red at
the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
"In less than 200 sparsely filled pages, this book
manages to encompass issues of class, education, ambition, racial prejudice,
sexual desire and orientation, identity, mother-daughter relationships,
parenthood and loss....With Red at the Bone, Jacqueline Woodson has
indeed risen — even further into the ranks of great literature." – NPR
God
Help the Child by Toni Morrison
At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose
stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and
confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to
deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves,
and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses
paths. And finally, Bride’s mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to
come to understand that “what you do to children matters. And they might never
forget.”
Mrs.
Everything by Jennifer Weiner
In this instant New York Times bestseller and
"multigenerational narrative that's nothing short of brilliant"
(People), two sisters' lives from the 1950s to the present are explored as they
struggle to find their places—and be true to themselves—in a rapidly evolving
world from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner.
The
Dazzling Truth by Helen Cullen
One Irish family. Three decades. One dazzling story. "A
love letter to family and to the arts. Beautiful." —Maggie Smith, author
of Good Bones
We Cast
a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
"You can be beautiful, even more beautiful than
before." This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga's clinic, where
anyone can get their lips thinned, their skin bleached, and their nose
narrowed. A complete demelanization will liberate you from the confines of
being born in a black body—if you can afford it. In this near-future Southern
city plagued by fenced-in ghettos and police violence, more and more residents
are turning to this experimental medical procedure. Like any father, our
narrator just wants the best for his son, Nigel, a biracial boy whose black
birthmark is getting bigger by the day. The darker Nigel becomes, the more
frightened his father feels. But how far will he go to protect his son? And
will he destroy his family in the process?
Kind of
Freedom by Margaret Sexton
"Brilliantly juxtaposing World War II, the '80s and
post-Katrina present, Sexton follows three generations of a black New Orleans
family as they struggle to bloom amid the poison of racism." —People
Silver
Sparrow by Tayari Jones
With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, "My
father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist," author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking
story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and two teenage girls
caught in the middle.
On Hoopa:
Passing
by Nella Larsen
Clare Kendry is living on the edge. Light-skinned, elegant,
and ambitious, she is married to a racist white man unaware of her African
American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past after deciding to
“pass” as a white woman.
Quicksand
by Nella Larsen
Brave, bold, and brilliant, this ground-breaking first novel
is the work of one of the Harlem Renaissance's most influential and enduring
writers. Larsen's autobiographical portrait of a biracial woman's quest for
self-identity and acceptance offers a cautionary tale of an individual lost
between two cultures.
The
Turner House by Angela Flournoy
The Turner House brings us a colorful, complicated brood
full of love and pride, sacrifice and unlikely inheritances. It's a striking
examination of the price we pay for our dreams and futures, and the ways in
which our families bring us home.
White
Like Her by Gail Lukasik
In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail
explores her mother's decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her
own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her
mother's fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her mother's racial
lineage, tracing her family back to eighteenth-century colonial Louisiana. In
coming to terms with her decision to publicly out her mother, Gail changed how
she looks at race and heritage
If you’re waiting for A Promised Land by Barack Obama, try
one of these available or short-wait high-interest titles!
On Libby:
The
Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham
Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and
in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln
called the “better angels of our nature” have repeatedly won the day. Painting
surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ulysses S. Grant,
Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman,
Dwight Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and illuminating the courage of such
influential citizen activists as Martin Luther King, Jr., early suffragettes
Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt, civil rights pioneers Rosa Parks and John
Lewis, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Army-McCarthy hearings lawyer Joseph
N. Welch, Meacham brings vividly to life turning points in American
history.
Sisters
in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme
Court and Changed the World by Linda Hirschman
The relationship between Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader
Ginsburg—Republican and Democrat, Christian and Jew, western rancher's daughter
and Brooklyn girl—transcends party, religion, region, and culture. Strengthened
by each other's presence, these groundbreaking judges, the first and second to
serve on the highest court in the land, have transformed the Constitution and
America itself, making it a more equal place for all women.
My
Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
In this story of human triumph that “hums with hope and
exhilaration” (NPR), Justice Sotomayor recounts her life from a Bronx housing
project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to
her own extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself.
First:
Sandra Day O’Connor by Evan Thomas
Women and men who want to be leaders and be first in their
own lives—who want to learn when to walk away and when to stand their
ground—will be inspired by O’Connor’s example. This is a remarkably vivid and
personal portrait of a woman who loved her family, who believed in serving her
country, and who, when she became the most powerful woman in America, built a
bridge forward for all women.
Becoming
by Michelle Obama
In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing
storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the
experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of
Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and
work, to her time spent at the world's most famous address.
This
America: The Case for the Nation by Jill Lepore
A manifesto for a better nation, and a call for a "new
Americanism," This America reclaims the nation's future by reclaiming its
past.
Songs
of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music that Made a Nation by Jon
Meacham and Tim McGraw
A celebration of American history through the music that
helped to shape a nation, by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and music
superstar Tim McGraw.
Democracy
in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (De
la démocratie en Amérique) is a classic text detailing the United States of the
1830s, showing a primarily favorable view by Tocqueville as he compares it to
his native France. Considered to be an important account of the U.S. democratic
system, it has become a classic work in the fields of political science and
history. It quickly became popular in both the United States and Europe.
On Hoopla:
On
Democracy by E.B. White
Anchored by an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning
historian Jon Meacham, this concise collection of essays, letters, and poems
from one of this country's most eminent literary voices offers much-needed
historical context for our current state of the nation-and hope for the future
of our society. Speaking to Americans at a time of uncertainty, when democracy
itself has come under threat, he reminds us, "As long as there is one
upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman . . . the scene is not
desolate."
A
Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence
Lost by Frye Gaillard
"There are many different ways to remember the
sixties," Gaillard writes, "and this is mine. There was in these
years the sense of a steady unfolding of time, as if history were on a forced
march, and the changes spread to every corner of our lives. As future
generations debate the meaning of the decade, I hope to offer a sense of how it
felt to have lived it. A Hard Rain is one writer's reconstruction and
remembrance of a transcendent era - one that, for better or worse, lives with
us still."
Reagan’s
America: Innocents at Home by Garry Wills
Updated with a new preface by the author, this captivating
biography of America's fortieth president recounts Ronald Reagan's life-from
his poverty-stricken Illinois childhood to his acting career to his California
governorship to his role as commander in chief-and examines the powerful myths
surrounding him, many of which he created himself.
1968
in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a
Generation by Charles Kaiser
Nineteen sixty-eight has come to be recognized as the
pivotal year in a period of nearly unprecedented change and upheaval-a year
that witnessed the turning point of the Vietnam War and the Tet offensive; the
shattering assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy; the near-breakdown
of the Democratic National Convention-and, some thought, of the American
political system itself.
If you’re waiting for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by
V.E. Schwab, try one of these available or short-wait high-interest titles!
On Libby:
How to
Stop Time by Matt Haig
How to Stop Time tells a love story across the
ages—and for the ages—about a man lost in time, the woman who could save him,
and the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live. It is a bighearted,
wildly original novel about losing and finding yourself, the inevitability of
change, and how with enough time to learn, we just might find happiness.
Keeper
of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
A charming, clever, and quietly moving debut novel of of
endless possibilities and joyful discoveries that explores the promises we make
and break, losing and finding ourselves, the objects that hold magic and
meaning for our lives, and the surprising connections that bind us.
The
First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he
does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where
he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen
times before. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his
eleventh life, a little girl appears at his bedside. "I nearly missed you,
Doctor August," she says. "I need to send a message." This is
the story of what Harry does next, and what he did before, and how he tries to
save a past he cannot change and a future he cannot allow.
Dark
Matter by Blake Crouch
"Are you happy with your life?" Those are the last
words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.
Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers
in hazmat suits. Before a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says,
"Welcome back, my friend." In this world he's woken up to, Jason's
life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never
born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated
genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.
The
Oxford Time Travel series by Connie Willis
The series is set in the 2050’s and 2060’s. Time travel has
been invented. But since it is apparently impossible to bring objects back from
the past, commercial organizations lost interest, and time travel is now the
domain of the history departments of universities. Historians travel back in
time, to engage in research of the periods they are studying.
On Hoopla:
The
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
In this celebrated work, his only novel, Wilde forged a
devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young aesthete
in late-19th-century England. Combining elements of the Gothic horror novel and
decadent French fiction, the book centers on a striking premise: As Dorian Gray
sinks into a life of crime and gross sensuality, his body retains perfect youth
and vigor while his recently painted portrait grows day by day into a hideous
record of evil, which he must keep hidden from the world.
Holy
Fire by Bruce Sterling
In the late twenty-first century, technology has lengthened
lifespans far beyond what was once medically possible. Existence itself has
become relatively easy-if boring. In this futuristic paradise,
ninety-four-year-old Mia Ziemann longs for something different and undergoes a
radical new treatment that restores both her body and mind to that of a
twenty-year-old. After her dramatic transformation, Mia finds herself lost in
an avant-garde world of passion, designer drugs, and creative expression...
Wild
Seed by Octavia Butler
When two immortals meet in the long-ago past, the destiny of
mankind is changed forever. For a thousand years, Doro has cultivated a small
African village, carefully breeding its people in search of seemingly
unattainable perfection. He survives through the centuries by stealing the
bodies of others, a technique he has so thoroughly mastered that nothing on
Earth can kill him.
Immortality,
Inc by Robert Scheckley
Thomas Blaine remembered the car accident that killed
him-and then he woke up in the hospital. A nurse told him where he was.
"You'd call it being in the future." A future where bodies are sold
to the highest bidder as new homes for the minds of the rich, who are greedy
for more life when their own bodies wear out or are damaged. Suddenly, keeping
body and soul together has taken on a new, and very sinister, meaning.
If you’re waiting for Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series, try
one of these available or short-wait high-interest titles and travel to other
historical worlds!
On Libby:
Try Georgette
Heyer’s novels (also available
on Hoopla)
Georgette Heyer, born in London in 1902, had her first novel
published when she was nineteen years old and continued to write novels of many
genres for more than fifty years. During that time she never made a public
appearance or granted an interview. The great majority of her books are
historical romances set in Regency England and are admired to this day for the
meticulous research and profusion of essential ingredients - arranged
marriages, murder, fashion, upper classes, sarcasm and humor. Indeed, Heyer set
the tone for this entire genre.
The
Countess Conspiracy by Courntey Milan
Sebastian Malheur is the most dangerous sort of rake: an
educated one. When he's not scandalizing ladies in the bedchamber, he's
outraging proper society with his scientific theories. He's desired, reviled,
acclaimed, and despised — and he laughs through it all. Violet Waterfield, the
widowed Countess of Cambury, on the other hand, is entirely respectable, and
she'd like to stay that way. But Violet has a secret that is beyond ruinous,
one that ties her irrevocably to England's most infamous scoundrel: Sebastian's
theories aren't his. They're hers.
My Fake
Rake by Eva Leigh
Meet the Union of the Rakes—a new Regency romance
series inspired by the Breakfast Club and other classic 80s films! In the
first book, a bluestocking enlists a faux suitor to help her land an ideal
husband only to be blindsided by real desire...
The
Luckiest Lady in London by Sherry Thomas
Felix Rivendale, the Marquess of Wrenworth, is The Ideal
Gentleman, a man all men want to be and all women want to possess. Even Felix
himself almost believes this golden image. But underneath is a damaged soul
soothed only by public adulation. Louisa Cantwell needs to marry well to
support her sisters. She does not, however, want Lord Wrenworth—though he seems
inexplicably interested in her. She mistrusts his outward perfection, and the
praise he garners everywhere he goes. Still, when he is the only man to propose
at the end of the London season, she reluctantly accepts. Louisa does not
understand her husband's mysterious purposes, but she cannot deny the pleasure
in his touch. Nor can she deny the pull this magnetic man exerts upon her. But
does she dare to fall in love with a man so full of dark secrets, any one of
which could devastate her, if she were to get any closer?
Tall,
Duke, and Dangerous by Megan Frampton
He needs a bride…she longs for love. After the death of her
father and wicked stepmother, Ana Maria goes from virtual servant to
lady-in-training, and while society life has its benefits—gorgeous gowns!—its
restrictive rules stifle her sprit. And when her independent actions put her in
danger, her half-brother insists Nash teach her some self-defense. While most
of London's ladies find Nash intimidating, she only sees a man who needs
introducing to all the joys life has to offer. So although officially they are
coming together for fighting lessons, unofficially their physical contact
begins to blur the line between friendship and begins to grown into something
more...
The
Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
Revolutionary turmoil in France threatens to cross the
English border—and tear apart an increasingly tense marriage—in this
"brilliant" gothic thriller (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
The
Visitors by Sally Beauman
Based on a true story of discovery, The Visitors is New York
Times bestselling author Sally Beauman's brilliant recreation of the hunt for
Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings—a dazzling blend of fact and
fiction that brings to life a lost world of exploration, adventure, and danger,
and the audacious men willing to sacrifice everything to find a lost treasure.
On Hoopla:
Dark
Days of Georgian Britain by James Hobson
A historian reveals the grittier side of Regency England,
far from the country houses and costume balls of high society.
The
Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare
They call him the Duke of Ruin. To an undaunted wallflower,
he's just the beast next door.
Wealthy and ruthless, Gabriel Duke clawed his way from the lowliest slums to
the pinnacle of high society-and now he wants to get even. Loyal and
passionate, Lady Penelope Campion never met a lost or wounded creature she
wouldn't take into her home and her heart. When her imposing-and attractive-new
neighbor demands she clear out the rescued animals, Penny sets him a challenge.
She will part with her precious charges, if he can find them loving homes. Soon
he's covered in cat hair, knee-deep in adorable, and bewitched by a shyly
pretty spinster who defies his every attempt to resist.
A
Gentleman Never Keeps Score by Cat Sebastian
Once beloved by London's fashionable elite, Hartley Sedgwick
has become a recluse after a spate of salacious gossip exposed his most-private
secrets. Rarely venturing from the house whose inheritance is a daily reminder
of his downfall, he's captivated by the exceedingly handsome man who seeks to
rob him.
Since retiring from the boxing ring, Sam Fox has made his pub, The Bell, into a
haven for those in his Free Black community. But when his best friend Kate
implores him to find and destroy a scandalously revealing painting of her, he
agrees. Sam would do anything to protect those he loves, even if it means
stealing from a wealthy gentleman. But when he encounters Hartley, he soon
finds himself wanting to steal more than just a painting from the lovely, lonely
man-he wants to steal his heart.
Brazen
and the Beast by Sarah MacLean
When Lady Henrietta Sedley declares her twenty-ninth year
her own, she has plans to inherit her father's business, to make her own
fortune, and to live her own life. But first, she intends to experience a taste
of the pleasure she'll forgo as a confirmed spinster. Everything is going
perfectly…until she discovers the most beautiful man she's ever seen tied up in
her carriage and threatening to ruin the Year of Hattie before it's even begun.
While
the Duke was Sleeping by Sophie Jordan
Sometimes the man of your dreams . . . Shop girl Poppy
Fairchurch knows it's pointless fantasizing about the Duke of Autenberry.
Still, dreams can't hurt anyone . . . unlike the carriage Poppy spies bearing
down upon the unsuspecting duke. After she pulls him to safety, the duke lapses
into a coma and Poppy is mistaken for his fiancée. But one person isn't fooled:
his arrogant and much too handsome half-brother, Struan Mackenzie. Soon Poppy
isn't sure what she wants more . . . the fantasy of her duke or the reality of
one smoldering Scot who challenges her at every turn.
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