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Catering to nobody
The chef
Chocolat
Kitchens of the great Midwest
With the fire on high
Last call at the Nightshade Lounge : a novel of magic and mixology

Let's Talk Books: Fiction for Foodies

Beth
The house in the Cerulean Sea
Four to score
Fool
The Wee Free Men
Equal rites
The Eyre affair

Let's Talk Books: Humor/Comedy

Beth
Racialism and the media : Black Jesus, Black Twitter, and the first Black American president
Carving out a humanity : race, rights, and redemption
Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019
The 1619 Project : a new origin story
The second : race and guns in a fatally unequal America
Vanguard : how Black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all

Obermann Center event booklist

Jason
To kill a mockingbird
Truly Devious
Ancillary justice
Lonesome Dove
A walk in the woods : rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
A man called Ove : a novel

Let's Talk Books: Our Favorite Books

Beth
How to be an antiracist
Beach read
Such a fun age : a novel
White fragility : why it's so hard for White people to talk about racism
The giver of stars
The ballad of songbirds and snakes

The most popular reads of the Adult Summer Reading Program so far

Beth
Trigger warning : short fictions and disturbances
The complete stories
The collected stories of Arthur C. Clarke.
The age of grief
The knitting diaries
Someone who will love you in all your damaged glory : stories

Let's Talk Books: Short Stories

Beth
To kill a mockingbird
The handmaid's tale
My grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry : a novel
The catcher in the rye
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
The Mermaid Chair

Let's Talk Books: Literary Fiction

Beth
School's first day of school
Wemberly worried
The Berenstain bears go to school
The pigeon has to go to school!
We don't eat our classmates!
Daniel's first day of school

Back to School Books

Anne W
How to apologize
Rita and Ralph's rotten day
Sorry (really sorry)
Horrible bear!
Turtle in a Tree.
That's my carrot!

Picture Books About Forgiveness

Angie
Serial griller : grillmaster secrets for flame-cooked perfection
Project fire : cutting-edge techniques and sizzling recipes from the caveman porterhouse to salt slab brownie s'mores
Black smoke : African Americans and the United States of barbecue
The South's best butts : pitmaster secrets for Southern barbecue perfection
Thank you for smoking : fun and fearless recipes cooked with a whiff of wood fire on your grill or smoker
How to grill everything : simple recipes for great flame-cooked food

It's Grilling Season!

Beth
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens agenda
Lobster is the best medicine : a collection of comics about friendship
We are each other's harvest : celebrating African American farmers, land, and legacy
This is my brain in love
Furia
Hani and Ishu's guide to fake dating

YA Books to Squeeze in Before School Starts!

Victoria
Stroller coaster
The house of grass and sky
Watercress
Is was
My nana's garden
Your mama

New Shelf Picture Books--Summer 2021

Casey