Access to Healthcare: A Reading List for Adults
We hope these selections serve to educate and encourage a dialogue around the biases and inequalities that affect access to healthcare and preventative care. These books highlight people and communities affected by these inequalities and the social justice activists and movements working towards change.
Posted by Alex C. on December 3, 2021
Happily Ever Afters
One of my favorite genres to read is romance, especially during the winter. With a guaranteed happily ever after, romance novels are the perfect pick-me-up for dreary days. With so Read more...
Posted by Natalie D. on December 2, 2021
The Jane Austen Book Society
A group of Jane Austen fans come together in the sleepy town of Chawton to help save what is left of their beloved heroines legacy.
Posted by Adult Services on November 30, 2021
2021 Best Suspense Novels
Below are a few of the top selling 2021 suspense novels. The Survivors by Jane Harper Kieran Elliott’s life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating Read more...
Posted by Adult Services on November 25, 2021
The Book of Lymph: Self-Care Practices to Enhance Immunity, Health, and Beauty
Lymphatic massage and self-care are important to creating a balanced, healthy life, and this book details how to achieve amazing results.
Posted by Adult Services on November 23, 2021
Celebrating 100 Years: 1921
The Village of Westmont is celebrating its 100th birthday! Wonder what folks were reading before the library was even founded? These titles, now available in electronic formats, were the most Read more...
Posted by Sara A. on November 18, 2021
Fangs
Elsie is a vampire. Jimmy is a werewolf. They meet and begin dating. And have a series of charming little encounters as they learn each other’s foibles. Fangs is a Read more...
Posted by Adult Services on November 17, 2021
Uzumaki
The inhabitants of a small Japanese village start to become obsessed with spirals. Sounds a little silly right? Well, in the hands of Junji Ito, this premise becomes a nightmarish Read more...
Posted by Adult Services on November 17, 2021
Balthazar Series 1
Rapheal Balthazar is a gifted but eccentric forensic pathologist who is constantly smiling and joking and eating, but underneath that is a deep pain stemming from his wife’s murder fifteen Read more...
Posted by Adult Services on November 15, 2021
Arsenic and Adobo
Lila Macapagal has just moved back home to Shady Palms, IL to recover from a breakup with her boyfriend and to help save her Tita Rosie’s failing Filipino restaurant. When Read more...
Posted by Natalie D. on November 9, 2021
Superb Science Fiction
Dune by Frank Herbert “Science fiction’s supreme masterpiece, Dune will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, it is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who will become the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib. Paul’s noble family is named stewards of Arrakis, whose sands are the only source of a powerful drug called “the spice.” After his family is brought down in Read more...
Posted by Alex C. on November 4, 2021
In the Tall Grass
In the Tall Grass is a novella by Stephen King and his son Joe Hill. It was first published in two parts in the Esquire in 2012 and later turned Read more...
Posted by Adult Services on November 2, 2021
Cozy Mystery
As the weather changes from greens to golds, snuggle up with these cozy mysteries from our collection.
Posted by Adult Services on October 28, 2021