staff recommendations

~Jonathan Evison

A heartwarming novel about a married couple in their eighties, flashing back to tell the story of their lives across their courtship, marriage, children, and long-standing, opposites-attract love. Abe Winter and Ruth Warneke were never meant to be together-at least if you ask Ruth. Yet their catastrophic blind date in college evolved into a seventy-year marriage and a life on a farm on Bainbridge Island with their hens and beloved Labrador Megs. 

~Charmaine Wilkerson

 When ten-year-old Ebby Freeman heard the gunshot, time stopped. And when  she saw her brother, Baz, lying on the floor surrounded by the  shattered pieces of a centuries-old jar, life as Ebby knew it shattered  as well. The crime was never solved—and because the Freemans were  one of the only Black families in a particularly well-to-do enclave of  New England—the case has had an enduring, voyeuristic pull for the  public.

~Marie Benedict

London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together  to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer  willing to be treated as second class citizens by their male  counterparts in the legendary Detection Club. Led by the formidable  Dorothy L. Sayers, the group includes Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh,  Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy. They call themselves the  Queens of Crime. Their plan? Solve an actual murder!

~Heather Fawcett

The follow up of the Encyclopaedia of Faeries and Map of the Otherlands. Emily Wilde takes her academic studies to another level while acting as queen of a fae realm. Wilde struggles to find her place in the world (fae or otherwise) as she deals with deadly intrigues, plots against the throne, and faerie treasures.

~Susannah Gibson

A circle of women calling themselves the Bluestockings defies standards of England in the 18th century by hosting salons to discuss and debate as equals of men in pursuit of education and changing the status quo.