Rainbow Book Month

Posted by karad on 02 June 23

Read all across the rainbow this June and celebrate the wonderful LGBTQIA+ characters and creators who have shared their stories! 🌈

Kids

• ABC Pride by Dr Elly Barnes and Louie Stowell; illustrations by Amy Phelps
• The Accursed Vampire by Madeline McGrane
• Bathe the Cat by Alice B. McGinty; illustrated by David Roberts
• The Best Bed For Me by Gaia Cornwall
• The Big Book of Pride Flags by Jessica Kingsley; illustrated by Jem Milton
• Bodies Are Cool by Tyler Feder (Read now on OverDrive)
• Calvin by JR and Vanessa Ford (Read now on OverDrive)
• Frankie & Bug by Gayle Forman
• Grandad’s Camper by Harry Woodgate
• If You’re a Kid Like Gavin by Gavin Grimm and Kyle Lukoff; illustrations by J Yang
• Kapaemahu by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson; illustrated by Daniel Sousa
• Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle by Nina LaCour; illustrated by Kaylani Juanita
• Me & My Dysphoria Monster by Laura Kate Dale; illustrated by Ang Hui Qing
• Meow or Never by Jazz Taylor (Read now on OverDrive)
• Paranorthern: And the Chaos Bunny A-hop-calypse by Stephanie Cooke; art by Mari Costa
• Prince & Knight by Daniel Haack; pictures by Stevie Lewis
• The Pronoun Book by Chris Ayala-Kronos, Melita Tirado
• Rainbow Revolutionaries: 50 LGBTQ+ People Who Made History by Sarah Prager; illustrated by Sarah Papworth
• Snapdragon by Kat Leyh
• Stitch by Stitch: Cleve Jones and the AIDS Memorial Quilt by Rob Sanders; illustrated by Jamey Christoph
• Strong by Rob Kearney & Eric Rosswood; illustrated by Nidhi Chanani
• What Are Your Words: A Book About Pronouns by Katherine Locke; illustrated by Anne Passchier
• The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag (Read now on OverDrive)

Tweens

• Answers in the Pages by David Levithan (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Artie and the Wolf Moon by Olivia Stephens
• Both Can Be True by Jules Machias
• A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix by C.B. Lee (Listen now on OverDrive)
• The Civil War of Amos Abernathy by Michael Leali
• Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff
• Drew Leclair Gets a Clue by Katryn Bury
• Ellen Outside the Lines by A.J. Sass
• The Golden Hour by Niki Smith
• The Greatest Superpower by Alex Sanchez (Read now on OverDrive)
• In the Key of Us by Mariama Lockington (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Lock-Eater by Zack Loran Clark (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The One Who Loves You the Most by Medina
• Other Boys by Damian Alexander
• Pride: An Inspirational History of the LGBTQ+ Movement by Stella Caldwell; illustrated by Season of Victory
• The Language of Seabirds by Will Taylor
• Moonflower by Kacen Callender
• The Real Riley Mayes by Rachel Elliott
• The Science of Being Angry by Nicole Melleby (Read now on OverDrive)
• Small Town Pride by Phil Stamper
• Thanks a Lot, Universe by Chad Lucas (Read now on OverDrive)
• Tiger Honor by Yoon Ha Lee; illustrations by Vivienne To (Read now on OverDrive)
• You Know, Sex: Bodies, Gender, Puberty, and Other Things by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth

Teens

• Adachi and Shimamura by Hitoma Iruma; art, Moke Yuzuhara; character design, Non
• The Backstagers by James Tynion, IV; illustrated by Rian Sygh
• Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan (Read now on OverDrive)
• Boys Run the Riot by Keito Gaku
• Café con Lychee by Emery Lee (Read now on OverDrive)
• Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow by Rainbow Rowell (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu
• Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram (Read now on OverDrive)
• Eighty Days by A.C. Esguerra
• Fence by C.S. Pacat; illustrated by Johanna the Mad
• Funny Gyal: My Fight Against Homophobia in Jamaica by Angeline Jackson; with Susan McClelland
• The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh (Listen now on OverDrive)
• The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper (Read now on OverDrive)
• Heartstopper by Alice Oseman (Read now on OverDrive)
• I Cannot Reach You by Mika; translation, Jan Mitsuko Cash
• I Think Our Son is Gay by Okura; translation, Leo McDonagh
• If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
• Jay’s Gay Agenda by Jason June (Read now on OverDrive)
• Kiss & Tell by Adib Khorram
• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki, illus. by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (Read now on OverDrive)
• A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy (Read now on OverDrive)
• Loveless by Alice Oseman (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Lumberjanes by Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson & Brooklyn Allen
• May The Best Man Win by ZR Ellor (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee (Read now on OverDrive)
• Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker; illustrated by Wendy Xu (Read now on OverDrive)
• Nothing Burns as Bright as You by Ashley Woodfolk (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales (Read now on OverDrive)
• Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Pumpkin by Julie Murphy (Read now on OverDrive)
• Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality by Eliot Schrefer; illustrations by Jules Zuckerberg (Listen now on OverDrive)
• A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality by Molly Muldoon; drawn and co-written by Will Hernandez
• Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
• The Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes
• What’s the T? by Juno Dawson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• You Brought Me the Ocean by Alex Sanchez; art by Julie Maroh

Classics

• Angels in America by Tony Kushner (Listen now or watch on DVD)
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (Read now on OverDrive)
• City of Night by John Rechy (Read now on OverDrive)
• The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Read now on OverDrive or watch on DVD)
• Death in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann (Read now on OverDrive)
• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Read now on OverDrive or watch on DVD)
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Read now on OverDrive)
• Maurice: A Novel by E.M. Forster
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf (Listen now on OverDrive)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (Read now on OverDrive or watch on DVD)
• Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (Watch on DVD)
• Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters (Read now on OverDrive)
• Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde (Read now on OverDrive)

Fiction

• The Absolutist by John Boyne (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Read now on OverDrive)
• At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill (Read now on OverDrive)
• Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx (Watch on DVD)
• Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran
• Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Disoriental by Négar Djavadi; translated from the French by Tina Kover
• Exalted by Anna Dorn
• The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Guncle by Steven Rowley (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Read now on OverDrive)
• Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead
• A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The People Who Report More Stress: Stories by Alejandro Varela
• The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr. (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat (Read now on OverDrive)

Memoirs

• All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening by Ari Shapiro (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Bettyville by George Hodgman (Read now on OverDrive)
• Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family by Garrard Conley (Listen now or read now on OverDrive or watch on DVD)
• Brave Face: A Memoir by Shaun David Hutchinson
• Burning My Roti : Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman by Sharan Dhaliwal (Read now on OverDrive)
• Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance by Francesca T. Royster (Read now on OverDrive)
• Continuum by Chella Man
• Do You Mind if I Cancel? (Things that Still Annoy Me) by Gary Janetti (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Fairest by Meredith Talusan
• Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles Blow (Read now on OverDrive)
• First Spring Grass Fire by Rae Spoon (Read now on OverDrive)
• Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual by Rebecca Burgess
• How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé by Michael Arceneaux (Listen now on OverDrive)
• I Have Something to Tell You by Chasten Buttigieg (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• I Was Better Last Night by Harvey Fierstein (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• I’m Just a Person by Tig Notaro (Listen now on OverDrive)
• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Is It Hot in Here (or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)? by Zach Zimmerman (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao with color and art assistance by Weiwei Xu
• My Life As a Goddess: A Memoir through (Un)Popular Culture by Guy Branum
• The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood by Krys Malcolm Belc
• Naturally Tan by Tan France (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity edited by Micah Rajunov (Read now on OverDrive)
• Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Officer Clemmons by François S. Clemmons (Read now on OverDrive)
• One Life by Megan Rapinoe (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz (Read now on OverDrive)
• Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story by Jacob Tobia (Read now on OverDrive)
• Skate For Your Life by Leo Baker
• Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen by Arin Andrews with Joshua Lyon (Read now on OverDrive)
• Sorted: Growing Up, Coming out, and Finding My Place by Jackson Bird (Listen on CD audiobook or read now on OverDrive)
• Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale
• We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson
• We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib
• When They Tell You to Be Good by Prince Shakur
• Wow, No Thank You: Essays by Samantha Irby (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)

Graphic Novels

• Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden (Read now on OverDrive)
• Be Gay, Do Comics, edited by Matt Bors
• Bingo Love by Tee Franklin; Jenn St-Onge; Joy San; Cardinal Rae
• Cheer Up: Love and Pom-Poms by Crystal Frasier; art by Val Wise
• Chef’s Kiss by Jarrett Melendez; illustrated by Danica Brine
• The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
• Fine: A Comic about Gender by Rhea Ewing
• Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
• Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe (Read now on OverDrive)
• I am Not Starfire by Mariko Tamaki; art by Yoshi Yoshitani
• Jughead by Chip Zdarsky
• Kim & Kim by Magdalene Visaggio
• Liebestrasse by Greg Lockard; art by Tim Fish
• Love is Love: A Comic Book Anthology by IDW Publishing
• The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen (Read now on OverDrive)
• A Man’s Skin by Hubert; art by Zanzim
• Marry Me a Little by Rob Kirby
• Moonstruck by Grace Ellis; art by Shae Beagle
• My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi
• Nimona by ND Stevenson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• O Human Star by Blue Delliquanti
• The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang (Read now on OverDrive)
• A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni & Tristan Jimerson
• The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel (Read now on OverDrive)
• Skim by Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki
• Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank by Eric Orner
• Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
• The Third Person by Emma Grove (Read now on OverDrive)
• Wynd by James Tynion IV; illustrated by Michael Dialynas
• Young Avengers Omnibus by Kieron Gillen; art by Jamie McKelvie with Mike Norton (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)

Stonewall Book Awards & Honors

• Almost Flying by Jake Maia Arlow (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Beetle & The Hollowbones by Aliza Layne
• Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi (Listen now on OverDrive)
• The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience by Zoë Playdon (Read now on OverDrive)
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Memorial by Bryan Washington (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• More Than Organs by Kay Ulanday Barrett
• My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland (Read now on OverDrive)
• Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H. Jackson (Read now on OverDrive)
• Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (Read now on OverDrive)
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Stone Fruit by Lee Lai
• The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar (Read now on OverDrive)
• Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• We Are Little Feminists: Families by Archaa Shrivastav
• You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)

And more!

• The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture by Grace Perry (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast by Megan Marshall
• Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin
• Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein (Read now on OverDrive)
• ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer
• How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France
• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee (Read now on OverDrive)
• In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold life of Margaret Wise Brown by Amy Gary
• Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall  by James Polchin
• Let’s Talk About It: The Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan (Read now on OverDrive)
• Loud & Proud : LGBTQ+ Speeches that Empower and Inspire by Tea Uglow with illustrations by Jack Holland
• The Queens’ English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases by Chloe O. Davis
• A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski
• Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World by Sarah Prager; illustrations by Zoë More O’Ferrall
• A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969 edited by Noam Sienna
• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke by Andrew Maraniss
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Sounds Fake But Okay: An Asexual and Aromantic Perspective on Love, Relationships, Sex, and Pretty Much Anything Else by Sarah Costello and Kayla Kaszyca
• Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising that Changed America by Martin Duberman
• The Stonewall Reader by New York Public Library
• Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride
• Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard by Alex Bertie
• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman (Read now on OverDrive)
• We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride In The History of Queer Liberation by Matthew Riemer

Thank you to Marilyn Wilcox!

Posted by on 01 June 23

Please join us in celebrating Senior Library Associate Marilyn Wilcox, who will be retiring on June 30 after nearly 19 years of service in the Children’s Room at the Grafton Public Library. We will be honoring her with a reception on Friday June 30 from 10am-12noon at the Grafton Public Library, 35 Grafton Common, and the community is invited to attend.

Miss Marilyn staffed the children’s room service desk, navigated two library moves and several library renovations with grace and patience. She did a LOT of meticulous shelving and shelf-reading, helped with programs and displays, provided storytime, and served as volunteer coordinator. Miss Marilyn has provided a warm, welcoming presence to families, fostered compassion and kindness towards co-workers, and delivered excellence in connecting the right person with the right book at the right time. She was awarded a level II Paralibrarian Certificate from the MA Library Association in May 2022.

We wish her well and she will be greatly missed! We will both celebrate our joy in the next chapter of her life, and drown our sorrows in her leaving, with cake! Please RSVP via the event on our Facebook Page  or directly to Beth Schreiber  at 508-839-4649 x1836 or by email at schreiberb@graftonlibrary.org.

Free Comic Book Day 2023

Posted by karad on 01 May 23

After you’ve stopped by the library for the Free Comic Book Day giveaways and activities, keep the celebration going with these comics-loving titles!

Kids

• Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman by Marc Tyler Nobleman
• Marvel Black Panther: The Ultimate Guide by Stephen Wiacek
• Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee (Read now on OverDrive)
• A Parent’s Guide to the Best Kids’ Comics: Choosing Titles Your Children Will Love by Scott Robins (Read now on OverDrive)
• Superman: The Man of Tomorrow by Daniel Wallace
• What is the story of Batman? by Michael Burgan

Teens

• Batman Character Encyclopedia by Matthew K. Manning
• Comics Will Break Your Heart by Faith Erin Hicks
• DC Comics Cover Art by Nick Jones
• DC Comics Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Characters of the DC Universe by Matthew K. Manning
• DC Comics Year by Year: A Visual Chronicle by Daniel Wallace
• How to Paint Characters the Marvel Studios Way by The Artists of Marvel Studios Visual Development
• The League of Regrettable Sidekicks: Heroic Helpers and Malicious Minions from Comic Book History by Jon Morris
• The League of Regrettable Superheroes: Half-Baked Heroes from Comic Book History by Jon Morris
• Marvel Encyclopedia by Tom DeFalco
• Marvel: The Hip-Hop Covers edited by Axel Alonso, Chris Robinson & Rickey Purdin
• Marvel Year by Year: A Visual History by DK Publishing, Inc.
• The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters from Comic Book History by Hope Nicholson
• Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe by Tim Leong
• Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan

Fiction

• The Amazing Absorbing Boy by Rabindranath Maharaj – *On order*
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• A Hundred Thousand Worlds by Bob Proehl – *On order* (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)
• Secret Identity by Alex Segura – *On order* (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)

Comics About Comics

• 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking by Paul Levitz
• 80 Years of Batman: The Deluxe Edition by Detective Comics
• Aquaman: A Celebration of 75 Years by Various
• The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew
• Batgirl: A Celebration of 50 Years by Various
• Catwoman: A Celebration of 75 Years by Various
• Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present by Dan Mazur
• DC Comics Covergirls by Louise Simonson
• The Love and Rockets Companion : 30 years (and counting) by Marc Sobel and Kristy Valenti
• Marvel Cinematic Universe Guidebook: The Good, the Bad, the Guardians by Mike O’Sullivan
• The Marvel Vault: A Visual History by Roy Thomas
• The Other History of the DC Universe by John Ridley
• PS Magazine: The Best of the Preventive Maintenance Monthly by Will Eisner
• Wonder Woman: 80 Years of the Amazon Warrior by Various

And more!

• All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told by Douglas Wolk (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Comics Confidential: Thirteen Graphic Novelists Talk Story, Craft, and Life Outside the Box by Leonard S. Marcus
• DC: Women of Action by Shea Fontana
• Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics by Mike Madrid (Read now on OverDrive)
• Flapper Queens: Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age by Trina Robbins
• Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form by Paul M. Buhle
• How to Go Steady: Timeless Dating Advice, Wisdom, and Lessons from Vintage Romance Comics by Jacque Nodell
• Mail-Order Mysteries: Real Stuff from Old Comic Book Ads by Kirk Demarais (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)
• Manga for the Beginner Chibis: Everything You Need to Start Drawing the Super-Cute Characters of Japanese Comics by Christopher Hart (Read now on OverDrive)
• Manga for Dummies by Kensuke Okabayashi
• The Many Lives of Catwoman: The Felonious History of a Feline Fatale by Tim Hanley
• Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe (Read now on OverDrive)
• A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee by Danny Fingeroth (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Slugfest: Inside the Epic, 50-year Battle between Marvel and DC by Reed Tucker (Listen on CD audiobook)
• Investigating Lois Lane: The Turbulent History of the Daily Planet’s Ace Reporter by Tim Hanley
• Peanuts – A Golden Celebration: The Art and Story of The World’s Best-Loved Comic Strip by Charles M. Schulz
• Superheroes! Capes, Cowls, and the Creation of Comic Book Culture by Laurence Maslon (Read now on OverDrive)
• Superman: The High-Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero by Larry Tye (Read now on OverDrive)
• Super-Villains: The Complete Visual History by Daniel Wallace
• The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)
• Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere by Hillary L. Chute
• Wonder Woman: Ambassador of Truth by Signe Bergstrom

Autism Acceptance Month

Posted by karad on 30 March 23

© 2023 Autism Society

Celebrate differences this Autism Acceptance Month with one of these titles!

Kids

• All My Stripes: A Story for Children with Autism by Shaina Rudolph
• A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Can You See Me? by Libby Scott
• The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin by Julia Finley Mosca
• How to Talk to an Autistic Kid by Daniel Stefanski (Read now on OverDrive)
• I See Things Differently: A First Look at Autism by Thomas, Pat
• Ian’s Walk: A Story about Autism by Laurie Lears
• A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll
• London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd (Read now on OverDrive)
• Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse by Susan Vaught
• Mockingbird Mok’ing-bûrd by Kathryn Erskine (Listen on CD audiobook or read now on OverDrive)
• Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin (Listen on CD audiobook or read now on OverDrive)
• Real by Carol Cujec & Peyton Goddard
• The Real Boy by Anne Ursu (Read now on OverDrive)
• Rules by Cynthia Lord (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)

Teens

• Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Geek Girl by Holly Smale (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins (Read now on OverDrive)
• On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis (Read now on OverDrive)
• Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Same but Different: Teen Life on the Autism Express by Holly Robinson Peete
• This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp (Listen on CD audiobook or read now on OverDrive)
• When My Heart Joins the Thousand by A.J. Steiger

Fiction

• Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (Watch on DVD or read now on OverDrive)
• Heart Principle by Helen Hoang (Read now on OverDrive)
• House Rules by Jodi Picoult (Listen on CD audiobook or read now on OverDrive)
• The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Love Anthony by Lisa Genova (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Maid by Nita Prose (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Room Called Earth by Madeleine Ryan –*ON ORDER* (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)
• The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Two Wrongs Make a Right by Chloe Liese (Read now on OverDrive)
• Winter Knight by Jes Battis –*ON ORDER* (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)

Memoir

• Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man’s Voice from the Silence of Autism by Naoki Higashida
• Funny, You Don’t Look Autistic: A Comedian’s Guide to Life on the Spectrum by Michael McCreary (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• How to Be Human: An Autistic Man’s Guide to Life by Jory Fleming with Lyric Winik
• I Have Been Buried under Years of Dust: A Memoir of Autism and Hope by Valerie Gilpeer & Emily Grodin (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)
• Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism by Ron Suskind (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s by John Elder Robison (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)
• Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale

Graphic Novels

• Blue Bottle Mystery – The Graphic Novel by Kathy Hoopmann; Rachel Smith; Mike Medaglia
• Brother: A Story of Autism by Carlton Hudgens as told to Bridget Hudgens, Nam Kim
• Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women by Sarah Bargiela
• Drawing Autism by Jill Mullin (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)
• Frankie’s World by Aoife Dooley (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)
• My Life Beyond Autism: A Mayo Clinic Patient Story by Hey Gee & C Ano (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)
• Sensory: Life on the Spectrum – An Autistic Comic Anthology edited by Rebecca “Bex” Ollerton
• Two Heads: A Graphic Exploration of How Our Brains Work with Other Brains by Uta Frith, Chris Frith, Alex Frith and Daniel Locke (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)

And more!

• The Autistic Brain: Thinking across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Survival Guide for Kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders (and Their Parents) by Elizabeth Verdick and Elizabeth Reeve, M.D.
• Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism by Barry M. Prizant (Read now on OverDrive)
• Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation by Eric Garcia (Read now on OverDrive)
• Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age by Sarah Hendrickx

March into National Crafting Month!

Posted by karad on 01 March 23

Take a break and dive into crafting with these fiction titles!

Kids

• Cat Knit by Jacob Grant
• Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett
• Knit Together by Angela N. Dominguez
• Knit Your Bit: A World War One Story by Deborah Hopkinson
• Knitting for Dogs by Laurel Molk
• Knitty Kitty by David Elliott
• Leave Me Alone! by Vera Brosgol (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Princess Gown by Linda Leopold Strauss; illustrated by Malene Laugesen

Teens

• Cloaked by Alex Flinn (Read now on OverDrive)
• A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce
• Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern
• Kirby’s epic yarn – Nintendo Wii Game
• Six Angry Girls by Adrienne Kisner
• Threads and Flames by Esther M. Friesner
• With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)

Knitting & Crochet

• The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club by Gil McNeil
• Death By Cashmere: A Seaside Knitters Mystery by Sally Goldenbaum (Read now on OverDrive)
• Dyer Consequences: A Knitting Mystery by Maggie Sefton (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Hooked on Murder: A Crochet Mystery by Betty Hechtman (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• How to Knit a Love Song: A Cypress Hollow Yarn by Rachael Herron
• A Knit before Dying: A Tangled Web Mystery by Sadie Hartwell
• Knit One, Kill Two by Maggie Sefton (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Knit, Purl, a Baby and a Girl by Hettie Bell (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood
• Knitting Bones by Monica Ferris (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Knitting Diaries by Debbie Macomber, Susan Mallery, Christina Skye (Read now on OverDrive)
• Last Wool and Testament: A Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery by Molly MacRae (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Moon Spinners: A Seaside Knitters Mystery by Sally Goldenbaum (Read now on OverDrive)
• One for the Hooks: A Crochet Mystery by Betty Hechtman (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber (Read now on OverDrive)
• Spinning Forward by Terri DuLong (Read now on OverDrive)
• A Tangled Yarn: A Yarn Retreat Mystery by Betty Hechtman (Read now on OverDrive)
• Yarn to Go: A Yarn Retreat Mystery by Betty Hechtman (Read now on OverDrive)
• Yarned and Dangerous: A Tangled Web Mystery by Sadie Hartwell (Read now on OverDrive)

Quilting

• Alice’s Tulips by Sandra Dallas (Listen now on OverDrive)
• The Aloha Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini
• Confessions from the Quilting Circle by Maisey Yates (Read now on OverDrive)
• Forget Me Knot: A Quilting Mystery by Mary Marks (Read now on OverDrive)
• How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto – also on DVD
• Murder, Plain and Simple: An Amish Quilt Shop Mystery by Isabella Alan (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas (Listen now on OverDrive)
• The Quilter’s Apprentice: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini (Read now on OverDrive)

Embroidery

• Dire Threads: A Threadville Mystery by Janet Bolin (Read now on OverDrive)
• Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
• The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding by Jennifer Robson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Quick and the Thread: An Embroidery Mystery by Amanda Lee (Read now on OverDrive)
• Sew Deadly: A Southern Sewing Circle Mystery by Elizabeth Lynn Casey (Read now on OverDrive)
• Sewing Machine by Natalie Fergie (Read now on OverDrive)
• A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Stitches in Time by Barbara Michaels (Read now on OverDrive)

And more!

• The Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society by Darien Gee (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Craft of Love By EE Ottoman (Read now on OverDrive)
• Keepsake Crimes: A Scrapbooking Mystery by Laura Childs (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Looming Murder by Carol Ann Martin (Read now on OverDrive)
• Parchment and Old Lace: A Scrapbooking Mystery by Laura Childs (Read now on OverDrive)
• Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Vintage by Susan Gloss (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)

Book Lists

Posted by karad on 01 March 23

Check out our book lists for topical suggestions!

Authors

Tom Clancy in Memorium

Award Winners

Newbery Award Winners – most distinguished writing in a book for ages 0-14

Caldecott Award Winners – most distinguished illustration in book for ages 0-14

National Book Award – Fiction Winners – given by writers for writers

Celebrations, Displays, & Themes

Autism Acceptance Month

Black History Month

Emotional Wellness & Mental Health Comics

Frankenstein Day

Free Comic Book Day

Happy Birthday, Jane Austen!

Independence Day

March into National Crafting Month!

Public Domain Day 2023

Rainbow Book Month

Black History Month

Posted by karad on 28 February 23

Kids

• The ABCs of Black History by Rio Cortez
• All Because You Matter by Tami Charles
• Black is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy (Read now on OverDrive)
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• I am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Me I Choose to Be by Regis and Kahran Bethencourt
• Nina: A Story of Nina Simone by Traci N. Todd, Illustrated by Christian Robinson
• The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson, Illustrated by E.B. Lewis
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Soul Food Sunday by Winsome Bingham, Illustrated by C.G. Esperanza
• Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas (Read now on OverDrive)
• Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford (Read now on OverDrive)
• We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices edited by Wade Hudson & Cheryl Willis Hudson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• We Wait for the Sun by Dovey Johnson Roundtree & Katie McCabe, Illustrated by Raissa Figueroa
• The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson (Read now on OverDrive)

Teens

• The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta (Read now on OverDrive)
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas – also on DVD (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Me (Moth) by Amber McBride (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, Dawud Anyabwile

Classic Fiction

• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker – also on DVD (Read now on OverDrive)
• Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley – also on DVD (Read now on OverDrive)
• Fences by August Wilson – also on DVD (Read now on OverDrive)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Jubilee by Margaret Walker (Read now on OverDrive)
• Native Son by Richard Wright (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Sister, Sister by Eric Jerome Dickey (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Small Island by Andrea Levy (Read now on OverDrive)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Wedding by Dorothy West (Read now on OverDrive)

Current Fiction

• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi (Read now on OverDrive)
• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
• Deacon King Kong by James McBride (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• It’s Not All Downhill From Here by Terry McMillan (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Read now on OverDrive)
• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty (Read now on OverDrive)
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Swing Time by Zadie Smith (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)

Graphic Novels

• Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre by Alverne Ball, art by Stacey Robinson
• After the Rain by Nnedi Okorafor, adapted by John Jennings, art by David Brame (Read now on OverDrive)
• Bingo Love by Tee Franklin
• Bitter Root by David Walker & Chuck Brown, art by Sanford Greene
• Black by Kwanza Osajyefo
• Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Black AF: America’s Sweetheart by Kwanza Osajyefo
• BTTM FDRS by Ezra Claytan Daniels, art by Ben Passmore
• Class Act by Jerry Craft (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• I am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina
• Ironheart by Eve L. Ewing
• The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave’s Journey from Bondage to Freedom by David Walker
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (Read now on OverDrive)
• March by John Lewis (Read now on OverDrive)
• Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Saladin Ahmed
• Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation adapted by Damian Duffy
• Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings
• Quincredible: Quest to Be the Best! by Rodney Barnes
• Shuri: The Search for Black Panther by Nnedi Okorafor
• Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser
• Your Black Friend by Ben Passmore

Nonfiction

• Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism By bell hooks (Listen now on OverDrive)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X (Read now on OverDrive)
• Becoming by Michelle Obama (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing edited by Stephanie Stokes Oliver
• Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah (Read now on OverDrive)
• Finding Me by Viola Davis (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Hunger by Roxane Gay (Listen now on OverDrive)
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen by George McCalman with April Reynolds
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot – also on DVD (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness by Laura Coates
• Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun by Charles J Shields (Read now on OverDrive)
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Ordinary Light by Tracy K. Smith (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (Read now on OverDrive)
• Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim (Read now on OverDrive)
• Wow, No Thank You: Essays by Samantha Irby (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Valerie Boyd
• You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)

Poetry

• Citizen by Claudia Rankine (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes edited by Arnold Rampersad & David Roessel (Listen now to selected poems on OverDrive)
• The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus (Read now on OverDrive)

Public Domain Day 2023

Posted by karad on 03 January 23

Celebrate the new works entering the public domain this January 1, 2023!

Kids

• Emily’s Quest (Emily #3) by L.M. Montgomery
• Freddy Goes to Florida (Freddy the Pig #1) by Walter Rollin Brooks (Listen now on OverDrive)
• The House on the Cliff (The Hardy Boys #2) by Franklin W. Dixon [pseduonymous] (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Now We Are Six (Winnie-the-Pooh #4) by A.A. Milne (Listen on CD or read now on OverDrive)
• The Secret of the Old Mill (The Hardy Boys #3) by Franklin W. Dixon [pseduonymous] (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Tower Treasure (The Hardy Boys #1) by Franklin W. Dixon [pseduonymous] (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)

Adults

• Amerika by Franz Kafka
• Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster
• The Big Four (Hercule Poirot #4) by Agatha Christie (Listen now or read now on OverDrive; watch on DVD)
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
• The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (Listen now on OverDrive)
• The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft (Read now on OverDrive)
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud
• The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes by Anita Loos (Watch on DVD)
• In Another Country and The Killers by Ernest Hemingway (Found in The complete short stories of Ernest Hemingway)
• Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
• Mosquitoes by William Faulkner
• Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (Read now on OverDrive)
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven (Watch on DVD)
• The Tuesday Night Club: A Miss Marple Short Story by Agatha Christie (Read now on OverDrive)

Copyright & Public Domain

• Compact Copyright: Quick Answers to Common Questions by Sara R. Benson
• The Copyright Handbook by Stephen Fishman
• How to Fix Copyright by William Patry
• Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates by Adrian Johns (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Public Domain: How to Find & Use Copyright-free Writings, Music, Art & More by Stephen Fishman

Happy Birthday, Jane Austen!

Posted by karad on 01 December 22

A selection of books and movies to celebrate Jane Austen’s 247th birthday all December long!

Kids

• Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull
• The Next Great Jane by K. L. Going
• Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen: The Story of Six Novels, Three Notebooks, A Writing Box, and One Clever Girl by Deborah Hopkinson
• Pies & Prejudice by Heather Vogel Frederick
• Who was Jane Austen? by Sarah Fabiny

Teens

• Emoji Pride and Prejudice: Epic Tales Told in Tiny Texts by Katherine Furman
• A Guinea Pig Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Jane Austen’s Emma (Graphic Novel) by Nancy Butler; art by Janet K. Lee
• I Was Jane Austen’s Best Friend by Cora Harrison (Read now on OverDrive)
• Pride by Ibi Aanu Zoboi (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith (Read now on OverDrive)
• Pugs & Prejudice by Eliza Garrett
• Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben H. Winters (Read now on OverDrive)

Austen’s Classics

• Collected Works (Read now on OverDrive)
• Emma (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Lady Susan (Read now on OverDrive)
• Mansfield Park (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Northhanger Abbey (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Persuasion (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Pride and Prejudice (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Sense and Sensibility (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)

Fiction Inspired by Jane

• Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
• First Impressions by Charlie Lovett
• The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Jane Austen Made Me Do It: Original Stories Inspired by Literature’s Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart by Laurel Ann Nattress
• The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo
• Jane Austen in Scarsdale: Or Love, Death, and the SATs by Paula Marantz Cohen
• The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Jane Austen’s Lost Letters: Josie Prescott Antiques Mysteries Series by Jane K. Cleland (Read now on OverDrive)
• Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor: The Jane Austen Mysteries by Stephanie Barron (Read now on OverDrive)
• Killing Jane Austen: A Honey Driver Mystery by Jean G. Goodhind
• The Man Who Loved Jane Austen by Sally Smith O’Rourke
• The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen by Syrie James
• The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Mysterious Death of Miss Jane Austen by Lindsay Jayne Ashford (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev (Read now on OverDrive)
• Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)

The Life & Times of Jane

• Jane Austen: A Companion by Josephine Ross
• Jane Austen at Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley (Read now on OverDrive)
• Jane Austen Goes to Hollywood by Abby McDonald (Read now on OverDrive)
• Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics by Thomas Keymer
• The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)

Austen on Film

• Austenland
• Becoming Jane
• Bridget Jones’s Diary
• Clueless
• Lost in Austen
• Mansfield Park
• Pride & Prejudice
• Sense & Sensibility

And more!

• All Roads Lead to Austen: A Year-Long Journey with Jane by Amy Elizabeth Smith
• Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels by Rachel Cohen
• The Best of Jane Austen Knits: 27 Regency-Inspired Designs by Amy Clarke Moore
• Flirting with Pride And Prejudice: Fresh Perspectives On The Original Chick Lit Masterpiece by Jennifer Crusie (Read now on OverDrive)
• A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me about Love, Friendship, and the Things that Really Matter by William Deresiewicz
• The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After by Elizabeth Kantor (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Jane Austen Writers’ Club: Inspiration and Advice from the World’s Best-Loved Novelist by Rebecca Smith (Read now on OverDrive)
• The List Lover’s Guide to Jane Austen by Joan Strasbaugh (Read now on OverDrive)
• Marrying Mr. Darcy: The Pride and Prejudice Card Game
• Pride & Prejudice: The Graphic Novel by Laurence Sach; illustration, Rajesh Nagulakonda
• Pride and Preju-Knits: Twelve Genteel Knitting Projects Inspired by Jane Austen by Trixie von Purl

Emotional Wellness & Mental Health Comics

Posted by karad on 03 October 22

Kids

• Guts by Raina Telgemeier (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Inker’s Shadow by Allen Say
• My Own World by Mike Holmes
• Real Friends by Shannon Hale
• Stuntboy, in the Meantime by Jason Reynolds; art by Raúl the Third

Teens

• Almost American Girl by Robin Ha
• Becoming Unbecoming by Una
• Come Home, Indio by Jim Terry
• The Dark Matter of Mona Starr by Laura Lee Gulledge
• Fights by Joel Christian Gill
• It’s All Absolutely Fine by Ruby Elliot
• Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green
• Rainbow Bridge by Steve Orlando & Steve Foxe; art by Valentina Brancati
• Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
• The Unstoppable Wasp by Jeremy Whitley; art by Elsa Charretier

Adults

• Am I There Yet? by Mari Andrew
• And Now I Spill the Family Secrets by Margaret Kimball
• Anxiety is Really Strange by Steve Haines; art by Sophie Standing
• Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
• Chlorine Gardens by Keiler Roberts
• Dark Night: A True Batman Story by P. Dini
• Dear Scarlet by Teresa Wong
• Everything is an Emergency by Jason Adam Katzenstein
• Feelings: A Story in Seasons by Manjit Thapp
• Forgiveness Is Really Strange by Masi Noor and Marina Cantacuzino; art by Sophie Standing
• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
• Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
• Kind of Coping by Maureen Marzi Wilson
• The Little Book of Big Feelings: An Illustrated Exploration of Life’s Many Emotions by Maureen Marzi Wilson
• The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine
• Marbles by Ellen Forney
• Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness by Darryl Cunningham
• Rock Steady by Ellen Forney
• Rx by Rachel Lindsay
• Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke
• Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh (Read now on OverDrive)
• Swallow Me Whole by Nate Powell (Read now on OverDrive)
• When Anxiety Attacks by Terian Koscik