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CRRL My Librarian: February 2026 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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  • Innumerable civilizations rise and fall, but the Library always remains. After being kidnapped by Sabbers from her impoverished village in The Dust, Livira is determined to be accepted as an apprentice in the magical and mysterious Library. Evar,…
    Book, 2023New York : Ace, [2023] — FICTION Law
  • Twilight meets Game of Thrones in this epic romantasy series where you’ll be swept into court intrigue, magical monsters, and immortal affairs. Also available on eAudio from hoopla streaming with no waiting. Selected by CRRL_AnnL
    Book, 2020New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. — FICTION Maa
  • Mixing the absurdist humor of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy with the high-stakes survival of The Hunger Games, this series transforms a brutal alien invasion into a darkly comedic, action-packed spectacle. Selected by CRRL_EricA
    Book, 2024New York : Ace, 2024. — FICTION Din
  • A young, aspiring artist struggles with an art assignment themed around family, as her Taiwanese American family is hiding a secret she's not sure she even understands, and things only get more muddled when a death in the family necessitates a trip…
    Graphic Novel, 2025[New York] : Allida/Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025] — 741.5973 Ch
  • An obituary writer, unhappy with his life, drunkenly writes his own embellished obituary and accidentally publishes it. A laugh-out-loud funny, tear-tugging, sarcastic yet poignant story. A character's wake-up call that becomes a powerful reminder…
    Book, 2025New York : Zibby Publishing, [2025] — FICTION Ken
  • This story starts in 2023 with a wife plotting her husband’s murder and goes back in time each chapter to 1982, when the future couple sits next to each other on a school bus. The backwards narrative took getting used to, but unraveling the…
    Book, 2025New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025] — FICTION Swa
  • After years of living abroad and caring for her stepmother, Kirsty Gilmour finally returns home, where she collects a household of people to love and learns to live in her new community with understanding and grace. A quiet, comfort read set in…
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  • In an alternate England, faerie queen Moryen has tricked her way onto the throne and has ruled for the past 400 years. After a bargain with the fae, Ivy Benton’s sister has disappeared. Ivy enters the marriage contest to win the crown prince’s hand…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025] — FICTION Smi
  • J performs customized love songs at weddings. When his girlfriend, V, travels to New York for work, the distance causes the pair to re-examine their own relationship. A thoughtful and lyrical reflection on what it means to really be in love,…
    Book, 2025New York : Abrams Press, 2025. — FICTION Lev
  • Ms. Bailey, bedridden with illness, discovers a snail is living in the pot of woodland flowers after she realizes she can hear it eating. Enchanted by the comforting sound of a fellow being carrying on its daily activities, she observes her roommate…
    Book, 2010Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010. — 594.38 Ba
  • In this book, McPhee amended and collected pieces from his files of unfinished projects. I do not know of a better writer of creative nonfiction. Also available as an eBook and on eAudio from hoopla streaming with no waiting. Selected by CRRL_EdwardD
    Book, 2023New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. — 921 McPhe
  • If you enjoyed (or in many cases, loved) the Gilmore Girls' series, you will enjoy Kelly Bishop's memoir. Bishop's role as Emily is so convincing that her memoir is almost hard to believe. The book is an enjoyable, quick read and demonstrates how…
    Book, 2024New York : Gallery Books 2024. — 921 Bisho
  • Diana Reed is a lawyer, not a landscape architect. But that is what she is pretending to be while she investigates her brother's disappearance at an 18th-century mansion in Virginia. This 1990s cozy is free of tech but replete with spectres and…
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