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  • 3 stars out of 5

The Life Impossible by Matt Haig

When retired Grace Winters is left a run-down house by a woman she barely knows in a place she’s never been before, she takes the opportunity before her to inject...

Posted by on October 1, 2025

  • 5 stars out of 5

The Boy at the Window by Lucy Strange

Looking for a haunting ghost story to deliver drama and suspense in equal measure? Lucy Strange’s ‘The Boy at the Window’ delivers both in this atmospheric tale that is sure...

  • 5 stars out of 5

The Cartoonist Club by Raina Telgemeier

Another hit from Raina Telgemeier! The Cartoonist Club follows a group of school friends who start a club to share their love of comics. With help from their school librarian, they learn...

Posted by on September 16, 2025

  • 4 stars out of 5

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

We all, unfortunately, have a general idea of how a pandemic can change the world.  But what if a global plague so deadly spread throughout the world that tens of...

Posted by on September 1, 2025

  • 5 stars out of 5

Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood by Melissa Wagner

This month’s book recommendation is that bit of sunshine that we all need sometimes. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood holds a special place in the hearts of many, a bastion of warmth...

Posted by on August 1, 2025

  • 4 stars out of 5

Eavesdropping on Animals by George Bumann

Chirping, buzzing, cawing, honking... have you ever wondered if there is a deeper purpose to these sounds, aside from annoying you?

Posted by on July 1, 2025

  • 5 stars out of 5

I’m a Dumbo Octopus! A Graphic Guide to Cephalopods by Ann Lambelet

Grimpy, a dumbo octopus, guides us through the depths of the ocean to meet several varieties of cephalopods.  Cephalopods include Octopuses (or octopodes as some prefer), squids, cuttlefish and nautiluses. ...

Level Up! Board Game Recommendations

In honor of our 2025 Adult Summer Reading theme, Level Up!, we're going to highlight some of the great games from WPL's board game collection! 

Posted by on June 1, 2025

  • 5 stars out of 5

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

This morning, Kady thought the hardest thing she was going to have to do was break up with her boyfriend. Until that afternoon when her planet was blown up, forcing...

Posted by on May 29, 2025

  • 5 stars out of 5

The Purple One: A Story of Prince by Matthew Burgess

The Purple One tells the story of Prince, from his days as a shy, small kid with a larger than life passion for music through his legendary path to fame...

Posted by on May 22, 2025

  • 5 stars out of 5

Greenwild: the world behind the door by Pari Thomson

11-year old Daisy Thistledown has spent her life traveling around the world with her investigative journalist mother. When her mother disappears while reporting on environmental politics in the Amazon rainforest,...

  • 4 stars out of 5

Sadie Mouse Wrecks The House by Elliott Kalan

Sadie mouse was always good, always did as she was asked, until the day she decided she would be BAD! Tired of being the “good mouse” always cleaning up after...

Posted by on May 8, 2025

  • 5 stars out of 5

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh

To flee her homeland and everything she’s ever known for the chance of safety, or to stay behind and do her duty to a country under fire. That is the...

Posted by on May 1, 2025

  • 4 stars out of 5

Baby Loves Structural Engineering! by Ruth Spiro

Ruth Spiro’s Baby Loves Science board books introduce complex STEM topics to babies and toddlers in a simplistic yet accurate manner appropriate for the very young. In Baby Loves Structural...

  • 5 stars out of 5

The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes

We’ve been conditioned to embrace these goods and services to enhance our lives, that they’re a positive force in society. Instead, it might be time to consider them as adversaries. 

Posted by on April 1, 2025

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