Summer 2023 Picks for Adults

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  • Against the Currant

    Little Caribbean, Brooklyn, New York: Lyndsay Murray is opening Spice Isle Bakery with her family, and it's everything she's ever wanted. The only thing getting a rise out of Lyndsay is Claudio Fabrizi, a disgruntled fellow bakery owner who does not want any competition.

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  • All the Beauty In the World

    A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard. Full title: All the Beauty In the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me.

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  • Ana Takes Manhattan

    Ana loves lists: her to-dos for her best friend's wedding, show ideas to pitch, and even her list of what she wants in Mr. Right. With only four requirements, why is it taking so long to find him?

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  • An Assassin in Utopia

    This astonishing true-crime odyssey traces a line from a free-love community in upstate New York to the assassination of President James Garfield. Full title: An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder.

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  • Bear With Me

    After being hospitalized for depression following his mother's death, charitable foundation CEO Teagan van Zijl finds himself at a wilderness therapy retreat in Montana.

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  • The Best Minds

    One day, Jonathan received the fateful call: Michael, his childhood friend had suffered a serious psychotic break and was institutionalized at a New York City psychiatric hospital where he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Full title: The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions.

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  • Best Served Hot: A Novel

    After hours, Julie Zimmerman is @JulieZeeEatsNYC, a social media restaurant reviewer with over 50,000 followers. At the Central Park Food Festival, she confronts the annoyingly handsome Bennett about his outdated opinions and posts the resulting video footage...

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  • Charytín: el tiempo pasa... ¡pero yo no!

    Desde una infancia dolorosa con complicados secretos familiares a un amor muy diferente al de las novelas, Charytín Goyco nos lo cuenta todo, con su peculiar tono cargado de drama y comedia a la vez.

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  • Chita: A Memoir

    The long-awaited and wildly entertaining memoir of the star of stage and screen, the legendary Chita Rivera—three-time Tony Award winner, Kennedy Center honoree, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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  • Delicious Martha: mis recetas saludables y sencillas

    ¡Prepara más de 90 recetas creativas, fáciles y deliciosas! Con el tono fresco y desenfadado que la caracteriza, Marta nos cuenta cómo empezó en el mundo de la gastronomía y por qué es tan importante cuidarse sin dejar de disfrutar en la cocina.

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  • Dominicana: una novela

    El último día del 1964, Ana Canción, de quince años, se casa en el campo dominicano con Juan Ruiz, un hombre que le dobla la edad. Al día siguiente, se convierte en Ana Ruiz, una esposa confinada en un apartamento de una habitación en Washington Heights.

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  • El amante polaco

    La destacada autora narra un fascinante viaje a través de dos tiempos históricos llenos de romances prohibidos y momentos intensos: el de las cortes europeas del siglo XVIII y el de la Ciudad de México en plena ebullición.

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  • El poder de las emociones

    El poder de las emociones es una guía sencilla, práctica y útil para ampliar tu conciencia por medio de los pensamientos, las emociones y las acciones.

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  • Every Man a King

    After being asked to investigate the charges against a white nationalist accused of treason and murder, Joe King Oliver, with help from bodyguard and mercenary Oliya Ruez, embarks on a winding quest to expose the truth.

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  • Gone Like Yesterday: A Novel

    Follows two Black women—Zahra, a college prep coach, and Sammie, a budding activist soon off to college—drawn to each other through the songs of gypsy moths. Williams employs magical realism to explore the majestic, haunting experience of being a Black woman in today's America.

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  • Indómita

    Pola, una mujer esclavizada en el Puerto Rico del siglo XIX ha sido forzada a vivir en el mundo brutalmente inhumano de las paridoras de esclavos. ¿Podrá una mujer sobrepasar la desconfianza y la amargura, aun cuando sobrevive a un mundo salvaje?

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  • Kismet: A Novel

    For as long as anyone can remember, it's been Amy, Jo, and Ryan. Together through high school, college, and weddings. As they age and life gets complicatd, it's become harder for the group to spend as much time together, but they always make it a priority to reunite every summer in Kismet on Fire Island.

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  • La hija olvidada: novela

    El autor de la obra destacada internacionalmente, La Niña Alemana, ofrece una inolvidable saga familiar de amor y redención durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, basada en la historia real de la masacre nazi de un pueblo francés en 1944.

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  • The Librarian of Burned Books: A Novel

    Berlin, 1933. Following the success of her debut novel, American writer Althea James receives an invitation from Joseph Goebbels himself to participate in a culture exchange program in Germany.

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  • Los ciclos del alma: un camino para vivir el verdadero propósito

    El autor lleva de la mano a sus lectores hacia un nuevo encuentro interior por medio de unos pasos sencillos, que han demostrado actuar como un catalizador espiritual para los que buscan la paz, el perdón y la plenitud, junto al propósito de vida y una renovada relación con Dios.

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  • Madame Restell

    A sharp, witty Gilded Age medical history which introduces us to an iconic feminist heroine: a glamorous women's healthcare provider in Manhattan. Full title: Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist.

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  • The Metropolitan Affair

    With a notorious forger preying on New York's high society, Met Museum curator Lauren Westlake is just the expert to track down the criminal. As she and Detective Joe Caravello search for the truth, they become entangled in a web of deception.

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  • Mott Street

    Mott Street follows Chinese American writer Ava Chin, who grew up estranged from her father, as she seeks the truth about her family history—and uncovers a legacy of exclusion and resilience. Full title: Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming.

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  • Natural Beauty: A Novel

    In this sly, surprising, and razor-sharp debut novel, a virtuoso pianist gives up her future as a musician to work at a high-end wellness store in New York City where the pursuit of beauty comes at a staggering cost.

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  • The Neighbor Favor: A Novel

    A shy bookworm enlists her charming neighbor to help her score a date, not knowing he's the obscure author she's been corresponding with, in this sparkling and heart-fluttering romance.

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  • The New Earth: A Novel

    A globe-spanning epic novel about a fractured New York family reckoning with the harms of the past and confronting humanity’s uncertain future.

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  • Palabras que nunca te dije

    Sara está a punto de cumplir los treinta y ya ha perdido la esperanza y la ilusión en un matrimonio que va a la deriva. Ha pasado demasiado tiempo ignorando su vida y sabe que no es feliz. Lo que Sara no sabe es que un suceso inesperado sacudirá su pequeño mundo por completo.

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  • Pat in the City

    From her Studio 54 disco-glam styling to her award-winning work in The Devil Wears Prada and Sex and the City, the iconic stylist and provocateur tells of a life spent challenging conventions. Full title: Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules.

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  • Pineapple Street: A Novel

    A deliciously funny, sharply observed debut of family, love, and class, this zeitgeisty novel follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn clan.

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  • Rikers: An Oral History

    What happens when you jam almost a dozen jails onto a spit of landfill, purposefully hidden from public view? The portrait that emerges from this oral history of Rikers Island calls into question the very nature of justice in America.

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  • The Sense of Wonder: A Novel

    When Won Lee, the first Asian American in the NBA, stuns the world with a seven-game winning streak, the media dubs it “The Wonder." Meanwhile, Won struggles to get attention from his coach, his peers, his fans, and most importantly, his hero—who also happens to be the captain.

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  • Si yo pude... ¡tú más!

    Una de las corresponsales de noticias más reconocidas de Latinoamérica, comparte la historia de su increíble transformación física y mental, los secretos que la llevaron a perder peso y el viaje en el que se embarcó para encontrar la autoestima, y cambiar su vida.

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  • Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

    Still Pictures begins with the image of a young girl leaving Prague for New York in 1939. From her fitful early loves to evenings at the old Metropolitan Opera House and her fascination with what it means to be a “bad girl,” Malcolm assembles a portrait of a New York childhood.

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  • Stone Cold Fox: A Novel

    A perfectly wicked debut thriller about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mother, wants to leave her dark past behind and marry the heir to one of the country's wealthiest families.

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  • The Survivalists: A Novel

    A single Black lawyer puts her career and personal moral code at risk when she moves in with her coffee entrepreneur boyfriend and his doomsday-prepping roommates.

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  • The Sweet Spot: A Novel

    In the heart of Greenwich Village, three women form an accidental sorority when a baby—belonging to exactly none of them—lands on their collective doorstep.

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  • Symphony of Secrets: A Novel

    A gripping page-turner about a professor who uncovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time—that his music was stolen from a young Black composer named Josephine Reed.

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  • The Tip Line: A Novel

    Eager to get married, 30-year-old Virginia Carey lands a job as an operator at a police tip line, where she thinks finding a husband will be easy. Until she answers a call from Verona—a mysterious woman who provides a tip about four bodies on a remote local beach.

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  • We Are a Haunting: A Novel

    We Are a Haunting is a debut, coming-of-age novel that mixes magical realism and the Southern Gothic and follows three generations of East New Yorkers struggling to maintain a connection to their history.

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  • What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez: A Novel

    When 13-year-old middle child Ruthy disappeared without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. 12 years later, her sister spots a woman on her TV screen in a raunchy reality show with a beauty mark under her left eye that's instantly recognizable.

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  • A Woman's Life Is a Human Life

    Coinciding with 50 years of Roe v. Wade, this book is the story of two New York cases that changed the politics of reproductive rights. Full title: A Woman's Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice.

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