staff recommendations

~Colleen Cambridge

American ex-pat Tabitha Knight lives in Paris with her best friend Julia Childs. Tabitha loves to taste the food at Le Cordon Bleu where Julia is a chef-in-training, but while observing a cooking demonstration open to the public, a master chef drops dead after drinking from a vintage bottle of wine that turns out to be laced with cyanide. Now Tabitha must solve the mystery of who is poisoning those around her and why.

~Madeline Miller

Not a fan of modern-day romance novels, but still want to read about love this Valentine’s day? This beautifully written Greek retelling features war, love, and heartbreak amongst the gods and mortals, through battle and strife. A wonderful modern classic.

~Ruthanna Emrys

A first contact book that's not what you're expecting. Full of people trying in earnest to understand each other and find out how best to cooperate on a generation-defining problem. And, maybe, a few human political enemies with their own goals.

~P.J. Nelson

After leaving Georgia to pursue a career on the stage with little success, Madeline Brimley receives news that her beloved Aunt Rose has died. Madeline, who is now the owner of her aunt’s unique bookshop, returns home to take over the business, but things take a turn when she begins to receive threats from an anonymous caller. When she fails to heed these warnings and a murder occurs in the bookshop, Madeline must find the killer in order to save the shop and her own future.

~by T. Kingfisher

A phenomenal, short stand-alone fantasy. My first five-star read of 2026.

This book has a lot of animals, such as a lamb, bunny, horse, zebra and a pig as the main character – so many! This book has a gazelle teacher named Madame Gazelle. The book has school and muddy puddles at the end. I liked reading it in both Spanish and English.