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CRRL My Librarian: August 2025 Picks

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  • Download and stream up to 5 items a month from hoopla’s catalog of 1 million+ audiobooks, eBooks, videos, music, and more on your mobile device or computer. These titles are available immediately.
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  • Sixteen-year-old Afia runs away from a future selling crystals like everyone else in her family and is led by a mysterious, shape-shifting stranger to a land of wonders ruled over by the beautiful, but dangerous, Queen Ukiwa. Stunning illustrations…
    Book, 2025New York : Scholastic Press, 2025. — FICTION Ara
  • Braiding Sweetgrass

    Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

    Kimmerer, Robin Wall
    Kimmerer is an American Indian and a professor of botany. Braiding Sweetgrass is about balancing science and spirituality: "to find a way that knowledge, mind, and spirit can all be brought into harmony;" of a world where "... wealth is understood…
    Book, 2013Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2013. — 305.897 Ki
  • Miss Silver, a governess turned private detective, must track down an elusive witness, who has the key facts to free an innocent man in prison for murder. If you like Miss Marple, you will enjoy reading how unassuming Miss Silver figures out the…
    Book, 2017New York : Open Road Integrated Media, 2017. — FICTION Wen
  • After years defending the frozen north, blood mage Rhoren has finally earned his retirement. He moves to the warmer south hoping for a fresh start, taking with him his most prized possession—his father's book of drink recipes. Soon Rhoren finds…
    Book, 2023[Place of publication not identified] : Aethervale Publishing, [2023] — FICTION Row
  • Dinner With King Tut

    How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations

    Kean, Sam
    A fun, fascinating, and engaging look at how archaeologists and like-minded history enthusiasts are increasingly taking a hands-on approach to history. Selected by CRRL_EricA
    Book, 2025New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2025. — 909 Ke
  • Struggling financially, Olivia ends up accepting a ghostwriting job from her estranged and ailing famous father and, in the process, finds herself immersed in family secrets, trying to uncover what really happened 50 years ago when her father’s…
    Book, 2025Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2025] — FICTION Cla
  • In this richly detailed mystery set in medieval Paris, widowed mother and occasional court scribe Christine de Pizan finds herself in a very dangerous position when she undertakes to save a young lady, accused of murdering her abusive husband, from…
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  • A small plane crash in the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana. A single survivor: 72-year-old Cloris, who sets off into the wilderness. Debra Lewis: a park ranger who won’t give up searching--and a criminal lurking somewhere in the hostile forest. This…
    Book, 2020New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — FICTION Cur
  • Five years ago, Savannah, Lucy’s best friend, was murdered, and Lucy was found covered in blood with no memory of the night. Her hometown believes she murdered Savannah, and Lucy isn’t sure she didn’t kill her, either. She reluctantly returns home…
    Book, 2024New York : Celadon Books, a division of MacMillan Publishers, 2024. — FICTION Tin
  • One girl's struggle in life after she is diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Several failed attempts to regulate this disease lead to heartbreak and chaos for Maddy and her family. But she persists, and we see how her life unfolds. Another eye-opening…
    Book, 2025New York : Scout Press, 2025. — FICTION Gen
  • A down-on-her-luck fire-witch talks her way into a lucrative bodyguard assignment for an upper-class family and finds romance while getting to the bottom of a murderous scheme. Also available on eAudio from hoopla streaming with no waiting. Selected…
    Book, 2021New York : Ace, 2021. — FICTION Wag
  • Book one of the SF trilogy that won the Hugo Award and became a Netflix series. In addition to numerous scientific details and fascinating concepts, the characters are well developed and the masterful plot twists make this an entertaining read, even…
    Book, 2014New York : Tor Books, 2014. — FICTION Liu