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  • July 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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  • 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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  • New Nonfiction about Artificial Intelligence

    Do you have questions about artificial intelligence? Check out our new nonfiction about AI. These insightful and recent nonfiction books cover a wide variety of topics related to artificial intelligence. This is by no means a complete list of books on AI, but is instead a small sampling of the new titles owned by the Davenport Public Library. Descriptions are provided by the publishers.

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  • Juneteenth Books for Children

    Juneteenth, June 19th, marks the day in 1865 when Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, and announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in said state were free by executive decree. This came over two and a half years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

    Below you will find a list of children’s books to celebrate Juneteenth. This is by no means a complete list of all the Juneteenth books available in our catalog and is instead a sampling of what we have. As of this writing, all of these titles are owned by the Davenport Public Library. Descriptions are provided by the publishers.

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  • New True Crime Nonfiction

    When I’m looking for a nonfiction title to read, one of the first sections I gravitate towards is true crime. True crime nonfiction investigates real-life crime cases, perpetrators, and the victims. Going beyond salacious headlines, these books dive into the investigate, psychological, and historical parts of true crime cases. As of this writing, all of these titles are owned by the Davenport Public Library. Descriptions are provided by the publishers.

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