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  • October 2026 Bestsellers Club Fiction and Nonfiction Picks

    It’s a new quarter and that means new fiction and nonfiction picks have been selected for you courtesy of Bestsellers Club! Four fiction picks are available for you to choose from: diverse debuts, graphic novel, historical fiction, and international fiction. Four nonfiction picks are available for you to choose from: biographies, cookbooks, social justice, and true crime. Our fiction and nonfiction picks are chosen quarterly and are available in regular print only. If you would like to update your selections or are a new patron who wants to receive picks from any of those four categories, sign up for Bestsellers Club through our website!

    Bestsellers Club is a service that automatically places you on hold for authors, celebrity picks, nonfiction picks, and fiction picks. Choose any author, celebrity pick, fiction pick, and/or nonfiction pick and The Library will put the latest title on hold for you automatically. Select as many as you want!

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  • Conversion Therapy Dropout by Timonthy Schraeder Rodriguez

    “God’s love is bigger than any institution’s walls, wider than any doctrine’s boundaries, and deep enough to hold all of who we are.”
    ― Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez, Conversion Therapy Dropout: A Queer Story of Faith and Belonging

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  • In Memory of Dolly Parton

    Iconic country star and philanthropist Dolly Parton has passed away at age 80. Inspired by her father’s inability to read and write, she was an advocate for early childhood literacy. Her Imagination Library mails free books to children from birth to age 5, reaching over 3 million children around the globe.

    Learn more about her groundbreaking life and achievements with the following biographies available through The Library. (Descriptions below provided by the publisher.)

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  • That’s a Great Question, I’d Love to Tell You by Elyse Myers

    “Sometimes I feel scared to let people become a permanent part of my life because then, if or when they decide to leave, I’ll be forced to miss them. And I’ve been forced to miss a lot of people. I’m really tired of missing people. So it’s easier to just…not.”
    ― Elyse Myers, That’s a Great Question, I’d Love to Tell You

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  • First Freedom: the story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth written by Angélique Roché

    First Freedom : The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth written by Angélique Roché is an autobiographical graphic novel that tells the story of activist Opal Lee. This is a unique graphic novel that covers Opal’s personal history, as well as the history of the Juneteenth holiday.

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