Adult – What We’re Reading

Recommendations from Adult & Teen Services staff

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Collected, created, and written by Black chefs and authors, these books and video will deepen your appreciation for the foods, recipes, stories, and traditions woven into the fabric of American life….

David Lynch sitting in the Red Room with red curtain background and black and white chevron floor.

David Lynch brought the surreal to the big screen with mind-bending films such as Eraserhead and Blue Velvet. He then brought it to the small screen with the cult classic TV series Twin Peaks. In his work he mined the darkness of the human psyche with absurd imagery, alter egos, and senseless murder in an idyllic American town….

Laugh out loud at these hilarious books!

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Stem series: Space over image of outer space.

Explore space through these books and STEM kits….