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Ready, set, CHANGE! Ever feel like you are meant to do something more with your life, but not sure what it is? Think you could use some guidance in mapping your way to a happier you and a career perfectly suited to your strengths? Then this book is for you! Read more

In Siracusa, two friendly couples take an uneasy vacation together to Italy. Uneasy because each adult character has a fraught relationship with their spouse and secrets they don’t want revealed, especially on this languorous summer tour through Italy’s ancient towns. Read more

Print awareness is the understanding that words have meaning. The big red STOP sign at the end of your street is probably one of the first environmental signs you will explain to your child. “See Tommy, that says stop. It’s very important that you stop at the corner and don’t go out in the street. Show me how you stop. Great!” That is print awareness. And the more experience your child has with print awareness between the ages of 0-5, the more successful they will be when learning to read. Read more

Know any teen book lovers? The Teen Book Lovers Club meets the third Wednesday of every month at the Sunset Library. Here’s a review from one of our teens! Read more

The July list includes novels about relationships, several mysteries, and two science fiction crossovers. Find out more about each selection in our catalog and visit the LibraryReads website to read brief reviews submitted by librarians from across the country. Read more

Taylor Jenkins Reid’s last novel, Maybe In Another Life, was one of my favorite books of last year. Her new book, One True Loves, does not disappoint in making the reader examine the choices we make at the present time in our lives. Oh Taylor Jenkins Reid, how you love to write about choices in life! Read more

Over the past 4 months I’ve been reading advance copies of books like a madwoman so that I could get a leg up on hot summer titles and have lots of recommendations for our patrons – you. The following ten titles are my choices for the best summer books of 2016. I think there is something here for everyone. Read more

Melanie doesn't know what's outside the classroom and her cell. She doesn't know why she and the other children are strapped into wheelchairs by soldiers pointing guns at them, or what the teachers mean when they say there are no cities anymore. She's afraid of Dr. Caldwell, and when the doctor took two of the children away with her, they never came back. Read more

The June list includes a retelling of a Shakespeare play, a "curious" look at military science, several suspenseful reads, a family saga, and a novel starring a mysterious Library. Find out more about each selection in our catalog and visit the LibraryReads website to read brief reviews submitted by librarians from across the country. Read more

We know at the beginning of The After Party that beautiful Houston socialite Joan Fortier is going to go missing again. It drives the story forward, this upcoming mystery. Read more