At the age of twenty-nine, Hannah Martin still has no idea what she wants to do with her life. She has lived in six different cities and held countless meaningless jobs since graduating college. On the heels of leaving yet another city, Hannah moves back to her hometown of Los Angeles and takes up residence …
The End of Men by Christine Sweeney-Baird
The year is 2025, and a mysterious virus has broken out in Scotland–a lethal illness that seems to affect only men. When Dr. Amanda MacLean reports this phenomenon, she is dismissed as hysterical. By the time her warning is heeded, it is too late. The virus becomes a global pandemic–and a political one. The victims …
The Nature of Small Birds by Susie Finkbeiner
In 1975, three thousand children were airlifted out of Saigon to be adopted into Western homes. When Mindy, one of those children, announces her plans to return to Vietnam to find her birth mother, her loving adoptive family is suddenly thrown back to the events surrounding her unconventional arrival into their lives. Though her father …
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her …
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu 1983. Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party is here once again, and every attendee has wild expectations for the night. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, surfer, and supermodel; Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer and the other an established photographer; and Kit, the youngest, just starting to pave her way. …
There, There by Tommy Orange
Tommy Orange’s wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his …
Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart
Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat. Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete. An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe two. A bad romance, or maybe three. Blunt objects, disguises, blood, and chocolate. The American dream, superheroes, spies, and villains. A girl who refuses …
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
1791: A secret female apothecary in the Back Alley of London has one goal: to liberate women from the harmful men who’ve wronged them. Nella, the knowledge apothecary owner fatefully meets Eliza, her latest patron. Present-day London: Caroline ventures to London on what is supposed to be her tenth wedding anniversary, but the trip is …
One Life by Megan Rapinoe
More than just a two-time Women’s World Cup Champion and Olympic gold medalist, Megan Rapinoe is an icon and ally to millions. She has become a force of social change, strongly advocating for racial justice, LGBTQ+ rights, and equal pay for women in a well-known legal battle with the US Soccer Federation. In this powerful …
Ties That Tether by Jane Igharo
When a Nigerian woman falls for a man she knows will break her mother’s heart, she must choose between love and her family. At twelve years old, Azere promised her dying father she would marry a Nigerian man and preserve her culture even after emigrating to Canada. Her mother has been vigilant about helping–forcing–her to …