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Did you know that July is Family Reunion Month? It might be hard to gather with family right now, but you can still read novels about complex families and their dysfunctional, crazy yet loving relationships. Here are six we recommend. Read more

Summer feels up in the air right now, with library programs cancelled and even some delayed publication dates on hot new books - but you can still keep reading! While we’re disappointed that we’re unable to chat with our Sizzlin’ Summer Reads fans in person, we’re still here to help you find a few good reads to escape all of the uncertainty. Read more

It is 1850 and Iris Whittle works at shop that sells custom made dolls, painting their faces and making their clothes. The work is routine drudgery and she longs for something more. She longs to paint on canvas. But then she meets Louis Frost, a young Pre-Raphaelite painter. He wants her for a model, and she wants him to teach her how to paint, so they strike a bargain and she leaves her life of dollmaking behind. But there is someone else who wants her, someone whose obsession is growing daily... Read more

Do you need ideas for what to read this summer? Do you want to know what the hottest vacation reads will be? Librarians Melissa and Anbolyn are back to present their Sizzlin’ Summer Reads on Saturday, June 8, at 10:30 a.m. at the Sunset Library! Read more

It’s 1913 and Greta Goldbaum is young and restless. She’s also a member of one of the wealthiest families in Europe, but she wants something different - she wants excitement and color and not to be a lady. Read more

Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy is a well-written and lively book about the writing and publication of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, which celebrates its 150th anniversary this year. Read more

In 1940 London, Emmeline Lake and her best friend Bunty are working and volunteering for the war effort and surviving the almost nightly bombing attacks on the city. Emmy has dreamed of becoming a war correspondent, so when she sees an ad in the paper for a journalist position she immediately applies and is hired. However, the job is not what she was expecting - at all. Read more

Imagine you are giving birth at the same time the world as we know it is ending. The unnamed narrator of the short, poetic novel The End We Start From faces just this trial as she enters the hospital to have her first child, while an epic flood is submerging London beneath a wall of water. Read more

Visit the dark days of WWII in Lucy Ribchester’s novel The Amber Shadows. Honey Deschamps is a typist at top-secret Bletchley Park, working in a hut on the park grounds and living in a billet in town with a not very welcoming couple. One evening she receives a package from a well-dressed, handsome young man who tells her the package was delivered to his work area by mistake. When she opens it... Read more

The Pope is dead. Now let the machinations, intrigue, back stabbing, and scheming commence! Conclave is a page-turning thriller with an unusual setting: Vatican City amongst the conclave of cardinals who are tasked with electing a new pope. Read more