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What Isabella wanted : Isabella Stewart Gardner builds a museum
Dorothy & Herbert : an ordinary couple and their extraordinary collection of art
A day at the gallery
The children's interactive story of art
Botanicum
The museum

Read These Books, Then Book An Adventure Pass!

Anne W
All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake
Beloved
Black cloud rising : a novel
Caste : the origins of our discontents
The color of abolition : how a printer, a prophet, and a contessa moved a nation
Conjure women : a novel

Reading for Juneteenth

Anne M
Exalted.
ISLAND TIME.
HUSBAND MATERIAL.
Bad girls
I'm so (not) over you
Siren queen

New and Popular Fiction titles to celebrate PRIDE!

Brian
BABY TEETH.
Home field advantage
Kings of B'more
Man o' war
The comedienne's guide to pride.
Only on the Weekends.

YA Picks for Pride

Victoria
A quick & easy guide to queer & trans identities
Becoming an ally to the gender-expansive child : a guide for parents and carers
She, he, they, me : for the sisters, misters, and binary resisters
Raising LGBTQ: allies A parent's guide to changing the messages from the playground
A quick & easy guide to they/them pronouns
Coping with gender dysphoria

Celebrate Pride: Adult and young adult nonfiction books

Candice
The last great road bum
The hour of land : a personal topography of America's national parks
Lulu and Milagro's search for clarity
Lost children archive
Onion skin
I thought you said this would work : a novel

Road Trip Reads

Bond
The rainbow parade
If you're a drag queen and you know it
Grandad's camper
Mama and Mommy and me in the middle
Our subway baby
Princess Puffybottom... and Darryl

Read With Pride! Picture Books

Casey
Borealis
Dark tourist : essays
Greedy : notes from a bisexual who wants too much
The kissing bug : a true story of a family, an insect, and a nation's neglect of a deadly disease
Dear Senthuran : a Black spirit memoir
Girlhood : essays

Celebrate Pride: Lambda Literary Nonfiction and Poetry Finalists

Melody
The night watchman : a novel
Hamnet : a novel of the plague
The Song of Achilles
The Lacuna
Home
The last thing he told me : a novel

Let's Talk Books: Award Winners

Beth
Travels with George : in search of Washington and his legacy
Journey : an illustrated history of travel
Overground railroad : the Green Book and the roots of Black travel in America
The Oregon Trail : a new American journey
Teardrops and tiny trailers
Fly girl : a memoir

History of Travel

Amanda
I am golden
A map into the world
Sakura's cherry blossoms
Eyes that speak to the stars
Eyes that kiss in the corners
Hundred years of happiness

Celebrate Asian Pacific Heritage Month with Stories from Picture Books

Fang
His hideous heart : thirteen of Edgar Allan Poe's most unsettling tales reimagined
A universe of wishes : a we need diverse books anthology
Octavia's brood : science fiction stories from social justice movements
Disability visibility: First-person stories from the twenty-first century
One world : a global anthology of short stories
When the light of the world was subdued, our songs came through : a Norton anthology of Native nations poetry

Refresh your reading: Try out new writers with anthologies

Bond