The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 
by Mark Twain
(9/9/2024)

The mighty Mississippi River of the antebellum South gives the novel its colorful backdrop and its narrative shape, as the runaways Huck and Jim drift down its length on a flimsy raft. Their journey, at times rollickingly funny but always serious in its potential consequences, takes them ever deeper into the slaveholding South, and our appreciation of their shared humanity grows as we watch them travel physically farther from yet morally closer to the freedom they both passionately seek.

James
by Percival Everett
(9/9/2024)

James is a 2024 novel by African American author Percival Everett. It is a retelling of Mark Twain’s canonical novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) from the perspective of Jim, an enslaved man who is one of the principal characters in Twain’s text. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, like James, is serious in tone and wrestles with themes related to morality, the nature of freedom, and enslavement. James, too, delves deeply into The Brutality of Enslavement and Huck’s moral development.

Finding Dorothy
by Elizabeth Letts
(10/7/2024)

A richly imagined novel that tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud--from the family's hardscrabble days in South Dakota to the Hollywood film set where she first meets Judy Garland.

Horse
by Geraldine Brooks
(11/11/2024)

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred, Lexington, who became America's greatest stud sire, Horse is a gripping, multi-layered reckoning with the legacy of enslavement and racism in America.

The Doctors Blackwell demon copperheadw
by Janice Nimura
(12/2/2024)

Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment. In 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. She was soon joined in her iconic achievement by her younger sister, Emily, who was actually the more brilliant physician.

Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
(2/3/2025)

The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.

What the Tide Leaves Behind
by Malcolm McDowell Woods
(3/3/2025)

Thomas McKay is lost. He has shuffled through life since losing his father in one of the last explosive acts of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Now he finds himself tending to his late mother's cottage in the remote, wind scoured Donegal coast and trying to connect with her enigmatic border collie. As he adjusts to life in the small village of Dunnybegs, he discovers the rhythm of the community, filled with colorful characters and rich archaeological history.

Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
(4/7/2025)

The Lincoln Highway is a fast paced and reflective adventure story centered on three young men from disparate backgrounds, whose incarceration together in a juvenile detention center brings them together on the outside where conflicting motives and moralities set them on a course for collision across the United States. Set over 10 days beginning on June 12, 1954 with the release of Emmett Watson from Salina Juvenile Detention Center, each of the ten sections of the novel constitutes the proceedings of a single day.

The Measure
by Nikki Erlick
(5/5/2025)

When every person, all over the globe, receives a small wooden box bearing the same inscription and a single piece of string inside, the world is thrown into a collective frenzy, in this novel told through multiple perspectives that introduces an unforgettable cast of characters.