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Featured titles

Book cover of The girl in the middle

The girl in the middle

By Anais Granofsky

Biography

Book cover of  Love that story: Observations from a gorgeously queer life

Love that story: Observations from a gorgeously queer life

By Jonathan Van Ness

Humour, Anthologies

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Still just a geek

By Wil Wheaton

Humour, Family and relationships

Focus on: Pride Month!

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Celebrate Pride every month with LGBTQIA+ books in our collection! We've curated a list of new titles to check out, but also go to our browse by category page for more inspiring and amazing reads.

  • Raising Ollie: How my nonbinary art-nerd kid changed (nearly) everything I know by Tom Rademacher
  • Daughters of the deer by Danielle Daniel 
  • Bruised by Tanya Boteju
  • Dear Senthuran: A black spirit memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
  • Nothing burns as bright as you by Ashley Woodfolk
  • Love & other disasters by Anita Kelly

 

Top 5 Books

Most popular with our readers last month:

  1. Sea of tranquility: A novel by Emily St. John Mandel Science fiction
  2. Her Hidden Genius: A Novel by Marie Benedict Historical fiction
  3. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley Actors biography
  4. Run, Rose, run: A novel by Dolly Parton Suspense and thrillers
  5. State of terror: A novel by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Louise Penny Suspense and thrillers
​​​​​​​Sea of tranquility: A novel 

Featured on AMI

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Join us every other week on AMI between 10:30 and 11am, as we talk about new and notable books!

Recommended reads for Friday June 3rd, 2022:

  • The Push by Ashley Audrain
  • The children act by Ian McEwan
  • Overboard: V.I. Warshawski by Sara Paretsky
  • The Maid by Nita Prose 

New to read

On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was vacationing.  The largest manhunt in Montana’s history ensued, led by the FBI. As days stretched into weeks, and weeks into months, Special Agent Pete Dunbar attended a workshop at FBI Headquarters in Quantico, Virgina, led by two agents who had hatched a radical new idea: What if criminals left a psychological trail that would lead us to them?  At Dunbar’s request, Mullany and Teten built the FBI’s first profile of an unknown subject: the UnSub who had snatched Susie Jaeger and, a few months later, a nineteen-year-old waitress. When a suspect was finally arrested, the profile fit him to a T...

Read Shadowman: An elusive psycho killer and the birth of FBI profiling by Ron Franscell

Book cover of  Shadowman: An elusive psycho killer and the birth of FBI profiling by Ron Franscell

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