Although the words people use to identify themselves have evolved over time, LGBTQ+ people have always existed. Here are some wonderful works of historical fiction featuring LGBTQ+ characters from throughout history.
Love is Love: LGBTQIA+ Romance
Happy Pride Month! Celebrate the good vibes with these new romance novels, featuring love across the LGBTQIA+ community.
June 2025 Puzzle: Basic Math
Bad news, everybody. Due to cuts in federal funding to libraries through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a service that costs 87 cents per person, we are for sure losing access to 21 databases on July 1st, wait times for ebooks and digital audiobooks through Libby will likely increase, and services like the Commonwealth Catalog have been threatened.
June 2025 Book of the Month
Celebrate Pride Month with our June Book of the Month pick: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai—a powerful story of love, loss, and the impact of the AIDS crisis.
Books for fans of the Murderbot series
Martha Wells' popular Murderbot book series is now a TV series on Apple TV! If you haven't read these books about a disenchanted security robot who names itself "Murderbot" and its trials and travails protecting its hapless humans, you're in for a treat. If you have read them, you may be looking for some similar new titles. Whether you like the found family of the PresAux team, Murderbot's desire to watch media all day, or general discussions of artificial intelligence and corporate malfeasance, you are sure to find something you enjoy in the following books.
Mental Health Memoirs
May is Mental Health Awareness Month! Take care of yourself and check out these memoirs written about life with mental illness.
New Fiction for Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage Month
May is Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage Month, which makes it a great time to check out some new fiction by authors with AAPI heritage! There's a little something for everyone on this list--horror, romance, sci-fi, historical fiction, and more!
May 2025 Mid-Month Sudoku
Dear Sudoku fans: As you know, Sudoku is all about numbers 1 through 9. Did you know that almost all books published in the last 50 years have a 10- or 13-digit unique number assigned to them that is made up of digits 0 through 9? It’s called the International Standard Book Number, or ISBN. The numbers in an ISBN can reveal all kinds of information about the book—language, country where published, publisher, etc. But it’s the last digit, the check digit, that we think some of you puzzle solvers may find especially interesting
Books for Fans of Sinners
Are you a fan of Ryan Coogler's genre-bending historical horror film Sinners? If so, here are some YA and adult books that are set in the same time period and/or addressing similar themes. (If you want to watch the movie itself, it's currently only in theaters.)
May Artist of the Month- Thea Shapiro
Thea Shapiro is a mixed media artist who has recently rediscovered the joys of painting Her current work which favors abstract images dominated by blues and greens seeks to illuminate an inner world where grief and joy and nature coexist Thea finds peace in the process of creating art work which she considers a form of meditation…