A collection of books where the main character goes on a long walk.
FICTION
SCIENCE FICTION COLE
Open City / Teju Cole – Feeling adrift after ending a relationship, Julius, a young Nigerian doctor living in New York, takes long walks through the city while listening to the stories of fellow immigrants until a shattering truth is revealed….
Southeast Michigan has produced many talented writers. Check out these books from the area’s finest!
Fiction Books
How it happens / Jean Alicia Elster
How It Happens follows the story of author Jean Alicia Elster’s maternal grandmother, Dorothy May Jackson. Born in Tennessee in 1890, Dorothy May was the middle daughter of Addie Jackson,…
Explore titles by Hispanic authors available digitally from Libby/OverDrive and Hoopla as well as in print formats and audio audio cd. From romance to suspense to nonfiction, these titles will educate and entertain!
LIBBY
A Long Petal of the Sea / Isabel Allende
This novel follows two refugees from the Spanish Civil War,…
Popular titles enjoyed by our 2023 Summer Reading participants.
FICTION CUMMINS
American Dirt / Jeanine Cummins
Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has her son Luca, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels,…
FICTION LEILANI
Luster: a novel / Raven Leilani
Leilani’s debut novel, Luster, takes the reader through the daily ups and downs of a 23-year-old Black art school dropout living in a mouse-infested apartment in Bushwick. We immediately find that she is dating a man twice her age that she met on an app,…
