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Recommendations from Adult & Teen Services staff

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The podcast Thickens: Fiction Featuring Podcasts and Podcasters.

Fiction featuring podcasts and podcasters…

Composite image of 7 high-demand new novels including The Women by Kristin Hannah and The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

If you’ve put one of 2024’s hottest new releases on hold, we’ve got suggestions for other great books to pick up now….

Hand drawn clock with text "fast fiction: books at 200 pages or less."

Fast, but not flash, fiction and often more than a novella, you can read these titles from cover to cover during a long afternoon or a flight to LAX….

Books About Bugs. Image of books stacked up in the grass with bugs positioned nearby.

We know: not all wing-fluttering, web-spinning, and creeping-crawling critters are “bugs.” But you can still revel in springtime by reading about the littlest residents of the great outdoors….

True crime, but fiction. Image of a typewriter with clues and pictures in the background.

Each of these books recalls, or is in conversation with, a notorious true crime case. The case referenced in each book is noted in parentheses at the end of the description.

FICTION ATWOOD
Alias Grace / Margaret Atwood
It’s 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress….