<section><h2><h2><strong>Best Books 2023 Book Match Quiz</strong></h2></h2><p>Answer these questions and we'll give you a book recommendation from our Best Books 2023 list based on your answers!</p></section><section><h2><h2><strong><em>The Creative Act: A Way of Being</em> by Rick Rubin</strong></h2></h2><p><p>Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day and then ages out. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable. The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/85d4ab2d-93b2-bd3c-68ac-e6f4f8cbe19d-eng/Home?searchId=33828185&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=85d4ab2d-93b2-bd3c-68ac-e6f4f8cbe19d-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="" /></a></p> </p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>A Fever in the Heartland</em> by Timothy Egan</strong></h2></h3><p><p>A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist traces the Ku Klux Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, driven by the con man D.C. Stephenson, and how a seemingly powerless woman named Madge Oberholtzer brought them to their knees.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/026da71e-d907-0ec3-af68-699f89e873e8-eng/Home?searchId=33835556&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=026da71e-d907-0ec3-af68-699f89e873e8-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="Fever in the Heartland" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>Poverty, By America</em> by Matthew Desmond</strong></h2></h3><p><p>The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/5ea05d96-c9c1-b87a-aba7-9b9a87a55887-eng/Home?searchId=33836428&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=5ea05d96-c9c1-b87a-aba7-9b9a87a55887-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>It's Always Been Ours</em> by Jessica Wilson</strong></h2></h3><p><p>A dietitian, storyteller and community organizer offers a cultural discussion of body image, food, health and wellness by focusing on the bodies of Black women and how our culture's obsession with thin, white women reinforces racist ideas and ideals.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/2cc41dca-4103-73cb-0d50-602b6e50509a-eng/Home?searchId=34261792&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=2cc41dca-4103-73cb-0d50-602b6e50509a-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="It's Always Been Ours cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>The Things We Make</em> by Bill Hammack</strong></h2></h3><p><p>From Stonehenge to microchips, discover the one simple method used to engineer the world as we know it.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/23e37387-605f-bb49-34ea-a9948332a309-eng/Home?searchId=34262170&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=23e37387-605f-bb49-34ea-a9948332a309-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>The Other Family Doctor</em> by Karen Fine</strong></h2></h3><p><p>Karen Fine always knew that she wanted to be a vet and wasn't going to let anything stop her: not her allergy to cats, and not the fact that in the '80s veterinary medicine was still a mostly male profession. Inspired by her grandfather, a compassionate doctor who paid house calls to all his (human) patients, Dr. Fine persevered, and brought her Oupa's principles into her own practice, which emphasizes the need to understand her patients’ stories to provide the best possible care.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/817e8fab-1943-c41f-36ea-151ab64a5509-eng/Home?searchId=34262536&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=817e8fab-1943-c41f-36ea-151ab64a5509-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="The other family doctor book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>The Wager</em> by David Grann</strong></h2></h3><p><p>In this tale of shipwreck, survival and savagery, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon recounts the events on His Majesty's Ship The Wager, a British vessel that left England in 1740 on a secret mission, resulting in a court martial that revealed a shocking truth.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/62bf06b6-6460-2c4e-fcf8-08fe546f3ce9-eng/Home?searchId=34262758&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=62bf06b6-6460-2c4e-fcf8-08fe546f3ce9-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="The Wager book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>Necessary Trouble</em> by Drew Gilpin Faust</strong></h2></h3><p><p>A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/63b2634a-440c-6665-d830-8625e27e8f0d-eng/Home?searchId=34262981&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=63b2634a-440c-6665-d830-8625e27e8f0d-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="Necessary Trouble book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>The Many Lives of Mama Love</em> by Lara Love Hardin</strong></h2></h3><p><p>New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot-caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter in this harrowing, hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/c7c09a51-d16c-ea2c-62c6-254daef82ff8-eng/Home?searchId=34263268&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=c7c09a51-d16c-ea2c-62c6-254daef82ff8-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="The many lives of Mama Love book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>Spare</em> by Prince Harry</strong></h2></h3><p><p>It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling—and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw, unflinching honesty, <em>Spare</em> is a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/bd990781-1983-f6fd-2282-90b5fe10792f-eng/Home?searchId=35560851&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=bd990781-1983-f6fd-2282-90b5fe10792f-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="Spare book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>King: A Life</em> by Jonathan Eig</strong></h2></h3><p><p>The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/9a41179e-f9fe-e334-1d70-f231014e9e5f-eng/Home?searchId=35561608&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=9a41179e-f9fe-e334-1d70-f231014e9e5f-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="King: A Life book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>The Country of the Blind</em> by Andrew Leland</strong></h2></h3><p><p>Part memoir, part historical and cultural investigation, the author, midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, explores the state of being that awaits him, not only the physical experience of blindness but also its language, politics and customs so he can not only survive this transition but grow from it.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/5b7ae39b-b23a-c053-65d1-98b143e1130d-eng/Home?searchId=35561774&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=5b7ae39b-b23a-c053-65d1-98b143e1130d-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="The Country of the Blind book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>Choosing to Run</em> by Des Linden</strong></h2></h3><p><p>This inspirational memoir from the two-time Olympian and Boston Marathon winner traces her unique path to the top of professional running and how she built her own personal business model and brand.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/05d26cf8-a6bf-460e-0f48-66d2bca8e460-eng/Home?searchId=35561900&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=05d26cf8-a6bf-460e-0f48-66d2bca8e460-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="Choosing to Run book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>Wake Up With Purpose!</em> by Sister Jean</strong></h2></h3><p><p>Known to millions as simply “Sister Jean,” the Loyola Chicago matriarch gives readers a remarkable memoir filled with history, wonder, and common-sense wisdom for this century and beyond. The driving force inside Wake Up with Purpose! is the narrative of Sister Jean's fascinating life -- from teaching at a Catholic school during the Second World War to serving on a Chicago college campus in the sixties and beyond to cheering from the sidelines of a men's basketball tournament in March 2018.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/3d3e7e28-cb25-b7e8-d384-b4b70df621e0-eng/Home?searchId=35562150&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=3d3e7e28-cb25-b7e8-d384-b4b70df621e0-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="Wake up with purpose book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>The Mitford Affair</em> by Marie Benedict</strong></h2></h3><p><p>After her sister Diana divorces her wealthy husband to marry a fascist leader and her sister Unity follows Diana to Munich, inciting rumors that she's become Hitler's mistress, novelist Nancy Mitford, after uncovering disquieting documents, must make difficult choices as Great Britain goes to war with Germany.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/cc7dec10-dbdd-b84b-622a-9427efde9fa5-eng/Home?searchId=35562599&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=cc7dec10-dbdd-b84b-622a-9427efde9fa5-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="The Mitford Affair book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>Birnam Wood</em> by Eleanor Catton</strong></h2></h3><p><p>Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way to finally set the group up for the long term: a landslide has closed the Korowai Pass, cutting off the town of Thorndike. Natural disaster has created an opportunity, a sizable farm seemingly abandoned. But Mira is not the only one interested in Thorndike.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/9bb812b6-cadd-c063-9d2c-e24d7969808d-eng/Home?searchId=35563019&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=9bb812b6-cadd-c063-9d2c-e24d7969808d-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="Birnam Wood book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>I Will Find You</em> by Harlan Coben</strong></h2></h3><p><p>Receiving evidence that his son might still be alive, an innocent father convicted of murdering his own child breaks out of prison to uncover the truth in the new novel by the author of <em>The Stranger</em>.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/8fc48fc5-0e68-9ac2-12f8-3bf60b18e264-eng/Home?searchId=35563511&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=8fc48fc5-0e68-9ac2-12f8-3bf60b18e264-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="I Will Find You book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>Our Share of Night</em> by Mariana Enriquez</strong></h2></h3><p><p>In 1981, a young father and son set out on a road trip across Argentina, devastated by the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travels to her family home near Iguazú Falls, where they must confront the horrific legacy she has bequeathed. For the woman they are grieving came from a family like no other--a centuries-old secret society called the Order that pursues eternal life through ghastly rituals.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/d0786603-b9b5-2b63-734d-6a01c268e1ef-eng/Home?searchId=35564219&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=d0786603-b9b5-2b63-734d-6a01c268e1ef-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="Our Share of Night book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>This Other Eden</em> by Paul Harding</strong></h2></h3><p><p>From the Pulitzer Prize--winning author of Tinkers comes a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/539bf623-cc4e-d95a-5cdd-51019cb74a07-eng/Home?searchId=35564696&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=539bf623-cc4e-d95a-5cdd-51019cb74a07-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="This Other Eden book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>The Paris Daughter</em> by Kristin Harmel</strong></h2></h3><p><p>As WWII ends, Elise returns to Paris to reunite with her daughter only to find her friend Juliette, the woman she entrusted her daughter with, has seemingly vanished without a trace, which leads Elise on a desperate search to New York -- and to Juliette -- one final, fateful time.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/898396e5-f412-b6e9-600c-166cd2cb682f-eng/Home?searchId=35565259&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=898396e5-f412-b6e9-600c-166cd2cb682f-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="The Paris Daughter book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>The Villa</em> by Rachel Hawkins</strong></h2></h3><p><p>While on a girls trip to Italy with her best friend, Chess, Emily discovers their high-end villa was once the scene of a brutal murder, and, digging into the past, finds the truth seeping into the present as dangerous betrayals emerge.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/2e223e47-9d65-d783-dcaa-e0d1618bdad8-eng/Home?searchId=35565752&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=2e223e47-9d65-d783-dcaa-e0d1618bdad8-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="The Villa book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>How to Sell a Haunted House</em> by Grady Hendrix</strong></h2></h3><p><p>Forced to return to the small Southern town where she grew up to sell her late parents' house, Louise discovers that her and her brother's old grudges pale in comparison to the terror that still lurks within its walls.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/d964b10c-cbc0-def5-34f1-800f801e4cac-eng/Home?searchId=35566184&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=d964b10c-cbc0-def5-34f1-800f801e4cac-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>The Great Reclamation</em> by Rachel Heng</strong></h2></h3><p><p>With the future of their fishing village in jeopardy after the Japanese army invades Singapore, Ah Boon, gifted with the unique ability to locate bountiful, movable islands that no one else can find, and Siok Mei, the spirited girl he has come to love, must decide who they want to be.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/29c6b510-b163-3d30-75af-1a8b62782ca4-eng/Home?searchId=35566661&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=29c6b510-b163-3d30-75af-1a8b62782ca4-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="The Great Reclamation book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>Pineapple Street</em> by Jenny Jackson</strong></h2></h3><p><p>A funny, sharply observed novel of family, wealth, love and tennis, this zeitgeisty debut follows three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan: one who was born with money, one who married into it, and one, the millennial conscience of the family, who wants to give it all away. Rife with the indulgent pleasures of affluent WASPS in New York and full of recognizable if fallible characters, it's about the peculiar unknowability of someone else's family, about the haves and have-nots and the nuances in between, and the insanity of first love-Pineapple Street is a scintillating, wryly comic novel of race, class, wealth and privilege in an age that disdains all of it.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/d82cea04-ee06-32f0-8b03-b34bc0dbc410-eng/Home?searchId=35567775&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=d82cea04-ee06-32f0-8b03-b34bc0dbc410-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="Pineapple Street book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>Holly</em> by Stephen King</strong></h2></h3><p><p>Stephen King’s Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly’s gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges’s partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King’s new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/c2936795-35a5-bb97-7723-8d489f6381fa-eng/Home?searchId=35568156&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=c2936795-35a5-bb97-7723-8d489f6381fa-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>Thornhedge</em> by T. Kingfisher</strong></h2></h3><p><p>The tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/972fa356-526a-ff23-d6e7-3f127205a138-eng/Home?searchId=35568535&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=972fa356-526a-ff23-d6e7-3f127205a138-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="Thornhedge book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>Just the Nicest Couple</em> by Mary Kubica</strong></h2></h3><p><p>When her husband Jack vanishes without a trace, Nina Hayes will stop at nothing to uncover the truth, which, unbeknownst to her, is inextricably linked to their close friends, who may have been the last to see Jake before he went missing.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/a8cc1a0e-9fd3-850b-a06f-f08d09499879-eng/Home?searchId=35569030&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=a8cc1a0e-9fd3-850b-a06f-f08d09499879-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="Just the Nicest Couple book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>Lone Women</em> by Victor LaValle</strong></h2></h3><p><p>In 1915, Adelaide Henry, after her secret sin killed her parents, sets out for Montana, dragging an enormous steamer trunk that's locked at all times, to become one of the "lone women" taking advantage of the government's offer of free land where she hopes to bury her past.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/824ddcda-7707-f525-ae1a-bb7d9e207c3e-eng/Home?searchId=35569113&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=824ddcda-7707-f525-ae1a-bb7d9e207c3e-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="Lone Women book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>Small Mercies</em> by Dennis Lehane</strong></h2></h3><p><p>In 1974 Boston, as a heatwave blankets the city, Mary Pat Fennessey, in a desperate search for her missing daughter, asks questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, who doesn't take kindly to anyone who threatens his business.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/f34bd611-0e50-ec18-276a-83c4f996b686-eng/Home?searchId=35569188&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=f34bd611-0e50-ec18-276a-83c4f996b686-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="Small Mercies book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>I Have Some Questions For You</em> by Rebecca Makkai</strong></h2></h3><p><p>In the riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers, a woman must reckon with her past when new details surface about a tragedy at her elite New England boarding school.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/c906f209-9906-189b-801f-75cf3d002b3c-eng/Home?searchId=35569413&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=c906f209-9906-189b-801f-75cf3d002b3c-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="I Have Some Questions For You book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>The Happiness Plan</em> by Susan Mallery</strong></h2></h3><p><p>Three best friends -- Heather, who finally sees the beauty of family; Daphne, who is trying to fix her marriage after an emotional affair; and Tori, who has fallen in love with a longtime friend -- navigate the joy, and heartache, of letting people into their hearts for the very first time.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/70d33224-4e64-8b1c-35a1-b4ca53987713-eng/Home?searchId=35569606&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=70d33224-4e64-8b1c-35a1-b4ca53987713-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="The Happiness Plan book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>What Lies in the Woods</em> by Kate Alice Marshall</strong></h2></h3><p><p>Twenty-two years after her best friend was attacked in the woods, surviving seventeen stab wounds, Naomi Shaw, who has a secret worth killing for, returns home when the man responsible dies in prison to find out what really happened, no matter how dangerous the truth may be.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/64ec5a96-5edd-cb11-43ea-f64daeaff90a-eng/Home?searchId=35569910&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=64ec5a96-5edd-cb11-43ea-f64daeaff90a-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="What Lies in the Woods book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>The Bird Hotel</em> by Joyce Maynard</strong></h2></h3><p><p>After a childhood filled with heartbreak, Irene, a talented artist, finds herself in a small Central American village where she checks into a beautiful but decaying lakefront hotel called La Llorona at the base of a volcano. <em>The Bird Hotel</em> tells the story of this young American who, after suffering tragedy, restores and runs La Llorona. Along the way we meet a rich assortment of characters who live in the village or come to stay at the hotel. With a mystery at its center and filled with warmth, drama, romance, humor, pop culture, and a little magic realism, <em>The Bird Hotel</em> is a big, sweeping story spanning four decades.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/5a2b24af-6d5b-3cd7-38fe-2d5f45222703-eng/Home?searchId=35570431&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=5a2b24af-6d5b-3cd7-38fe-2d5f45222703-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="The Bird Hotel book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store</em> by James McBride</strong></h2></h3><p><p>When a skeleton is unearthed in the small, close-knit community of Chicken Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1972, an unforgettable cast of characters, living on the margins of white, Christian America closely guard a secret, especially when the truth is revealed about what happened and the part the town's white establishment played in it.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/4081c21a-2af8-14ef-a0df-f2ab06a9edb4-eng/Home?searchId=35570884&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=4081c21a-2af8-14ef-a0df-f2ab06a9edb4-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>The Quiet Tenant</em> by Clemence Michallon</strong></h2></h3><p><p>A psychological thrillers about a serial killer is narrated by those closest to him: his 13-year-old daughter, his girlfriend, and the one victim he spared.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/d92678e8-708e-2ad0-2242-2b56ce0b4fe4-eng/Home?searchId=35571466&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=d92678e8-708e-2ad0-2242-2b56ce0b4fe4-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="The Quiet Tenant book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>Homecoming</em> by Kate Morton</strong></h2></h3><p><p>Called home to care for her grandmother after a fall, Jess, a journalist, discovers a book chronicling the police investigation into an old unsolved murder that has a shocking connection to her family.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/c4dc0c17-f191-bfb8-b0a2-78c5a72b0710-eng/Home?searchId=35571865&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=c4dc0c17-f191-bfb8-b0a2-78c5a72b0710-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="Homecoming book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>Someone Else's Shoes</em> by Jojo Moyes</strong></h2></h3><p><p>When she accidentally takes the wrong gym bag, Sam Kemp tries on a pair of six-inch high Christian Louboutin red crocodile shoes that give her the confidence to change her life, while the shoes' owner tries to cling to her glamorous life after her husband cuts her off.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/6b4220e3-7d7f-05ef-bf45-8469da69b6b4-eng/Home?searchId=35572184&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=6b4220e3-7d7f-05ef-bf45-8469da69b6b4-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="Someone Else's Shoes book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>The Rachel Incident</em> by Caroline O'Donoghue</strong></h2></h3><p><p>Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it’s love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr. Fred Byrne, James helps her devise a reading at their local bookstore, with the goal that she might seduce him afterwards. But Fred has other desires. So begins a series of secrets that intertwine the fates of James, Rachel, Fred, and Fred’s glamorous bourgeois wife.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/d22b235f-0596-4e61-ffd5-e44bc40a0579-eng/Home?searchId=37829568&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=d22b235f-0596-4e61-ffd5-e44bc40a0579-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="The Rachael Incident book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>The House in the Pines</em> by Ana Reyes</strong></h2></h3><p><p>Seven years after the mysterious death of her best friend, Aubrey, Maya comes across a recent YouTube video in which a young woman dies in front of the same man Aubrey did, leading her back to a New England cabin to finally uncover a truth that could save her.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/3fdefb24-9105-f762-5e36-700d1bac5174-eng/Home?searchId=37829884&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=3fdefb24-9105-f762-5e36-700d1bac5174-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="The House in the Pines book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>The Celebrants</em> by Steven Rowley</strong></h2></h3><p><p>A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselves—by the bestselling and beloved author of The Guncle.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/0e30d4bf-ef35-823f-ce0d-12d595cb6ef9-eng/Home?searchId=37830229&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=0e30d4bf-ef35-823f-ce0d-12d595cb6ef9-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="The Celebrants book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>Loyalty</em> by Lisa Scottoline</strong></h2></h3><p><p>Set during the rise of the Mafia in 19th-century Sicily, this epic story of good vs evil follows four individuals -- a desperate lemon grower; an idealistic lawyer with a secret life; a new mother; and a reclusive goatherd under constant threat of being discovered as a Jew -- as their lives collide.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/aae795f3-30bb-2ffa-6d80-f12ffab33551-eng/Home?searchId=37830641&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=aae795f3-30bb-2ffa-6d80-f12ffab33551-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="Loyalty book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>The Bandit Queens</em> by Parini Shroff</strong></h2></h3><p><p>Five years ago, Geeta lost her no-good husband. As in, she actually lost him—he walked out on her and she has no idea where he is. But in her remote village in India, rumor has it that Geeta killed him. And it’s a rumor that just won’t die. It turns out that being known as a “self-made” widow comes with some perks. No one messes with her, harasses her, or tries to control (ahem, marry) her. It’s even been good for business; no one dares to not buy her jewelry. Freedom must look good on Geeta, because now other women are asking for her “expertise,” making her an unwitting consultant for husband disposal. And not all of them are asking nicely.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/3c2afe14-0cf8-0124-4fea-f07b74cd7a92-eng/Home?searchId=37831060&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=3c2afe14-0cf8-0124-4fea-f07b74cd7a92-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="The Bandit Queens book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>The Fraud</em> by Zadie Smith</strong></h2></h3><p><p>From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story—and who gets to be believed.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/d926608d-3af5-0392-9d70-e62fe33a6dd5-eng/Home?searchId=37831429&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=d926608d-3af5-0392-9d70-e62fe33a6dd5-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="The Fraud book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club</em> by J. Ryan Stradal</strong></h2></h3><p><p>In the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, Mariel Prager and her husband Ned, who's having an identity crisis, lose almost everything they hold dear and unexpectedly find salvation in their failing business -- the Lakeside Supper Club.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/6e48e92a-0ab1-ee54-b241-d8b467d18776-eng/Home?searchId=37831758&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=6e48e92a-0ab1-ee54-b241-d8b467d18776-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>All the Dangerous Things</em> by Stacy Willingham</strong></h2></h3><p><p>After her son is kidnapped while sleeping in his crib, a mother agrees to be interviewed by a true-crime podcaster with ulterior motives.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/c627a936-a3ac-eea2-4ed1-61d1f7237498-eng/Home?searchId=37832232&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=c627a936-a3ac-eea2-4ed1-61d1f7237498-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="All the Dangerous Things book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>The White Lady</em> by Jacqueline Winspear</strong></h2></h3><p><p>A former wartime operative and trained killer, Elinor White, settling in Kent, England, keeps to herself until the powerful Mackie crime family threatens her neighbors and former wartime colleagues, who know the truth about what happened in 1944, help free her from her past.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/f4e091f0-68f6-5b79-e57d-c7eafeaf19f8-eng/Home?searchId=37832598&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=f4e091f0-68f6-5b79-e57d-c7eafeaf19f8-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="The White Lady book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>A Soul of Ash and Blood</em> by Jennifer L. Armentrout</strong></h2></h3><p><p>The Primal of Blood and Bone has risen and the mortal realm hangs in the balance as Poppy and Casteel's love is put to the test, in the fifth novel of the series following The War of Two Queens.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/500bba29-cb0a-af3f-4f8a-9db1048697a8-eng/Home?searchId=37832976&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=500bba29-cb0a-af3f-4f8a-9db1048697a8-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="A Soul of Ash and Blood book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>Secretly Yours</em> by Tessa Bailey</strong></h2></h3><p><p>Returning home to his family’s winery, Professor Julian Vos, on sabbatical from his ivy league job, finds himself distracted from his plans to write a novel by eccentric, chronically late, unbelievably beautiful gardener Hallie Welch, who is a burst of color in his gray-scale life.</p><p><a 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is prepared to hate, sends her a letter, which leads to sharing lunch dates in her "sob closet," Dr. Briana Ortiz tries not to fall hard for this sexy new doctor, especially when he gives her the best gift imaginable -- a kidney for her brother.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/d5375fa7-6b4d-7c9a-93e6-396c2bc0318a-eng/Home?searchId=37834803&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=d5375fa7-6b4d-7c9a-93e6-396c2bc0318a-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="Yours Truly book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>The True Love Experiment</em> by Christina Lauren</strong></h2></h3><p><p>A bestselling romance novelist who doesn’t practice what she preaches, Felicity “Fizzy” Chen agrees to star in a reality TV show to find her perfect match if documentary filmmaker and single father Connor Prince meets her list of demands, and soon realizes her finds happily-ever-after may be behind the camera.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/4536716c-fb1d-7293-048b-27a0e1e82d4c-eng/Home?searchId=37835218&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=4536716c-fb1d-7293-048b-27a0e1e82d4c-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="The True Love Experiment book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>Exes and O's</em> by Amy Lea</strong></h2></h3><p><p>A romance novel-obsessed social media influencer revisits her exes on her hunt for true love in this romantic comedy from the author of <em>Set On You</em>.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/5e8f0abf-3fbf-fead-0c3d-3915a225bd6f-eng/Home?searchId=37835560&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=5e8f0abf-3fbf-fead-0c3d-3915a225bd6f-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="Exes and O's book cover" 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landscaper who's been revitalizing her garden -- and who seems as lost as she is.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/4dc6267a-6c6b-ff2b-4ade-87603d500389-eng/Home?searchId=37835967&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img src="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/bookcover.php?id=4dc6267a-6c6b-ff2b-4ade-87603d500389-eng&size=large&type=grouped_work" alt="Must Love Flowers book cover" /></a></p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong><em>Tastes Like Shakkar</em> by Nisha Sharma</strong></h2></h3><p><p>In the hilarious follow-up to the breakout rom-com <em>Dating Dr. Dil</em>, Nisha Sharma adds shakkar and mirch to Shakespeare’s iconic comedy for one sweet and spicy love story.</p><p><a href="https://csd.swanlibraries.net/GroupedWork/7a23d095-7764-3b5f-7f2d-11760a37e680-eng/Home?searchId=37836206&recordIndex=1&page=1&searchSource=local" target="_blank"><img 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Huang</strong></h2></h3><p><p>Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. 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Rao</strong></h2></h3><p><p>High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanity—plant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane science. Here, architects are revered deeply, with humanity’s survival reliant on a privileged few. Charismatic and powerful, Iravan is one such architect. His abilities are his identity, but to Ahilya, his archeologist wife, they are a method to suppress non-architects. Their marriage is thorny and fraught—yet when an expedition goes wrong, jeopardizing their careers, Ahilya and Iravan must work together to save their reputations. 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