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<\/a>Best Fiction:<\/strong>\u00a0Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Gabrielle Zevin<\/p>\nOn a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn\u2019t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won\u2019t protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.<\/em><\/p>\n Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin\u2019s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.<\/em><\/p>\n This title is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by.<\/em><\/p>\n Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life\u2019s complexities all by herself. No matter\u2014she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. Her unique character, along with her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette, make her an ideal fit for the job. She delights in donning her crisp uniform each morning, stocking her cart with miniature soaps and bottles, and returning guest rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel to a state of perfection.<\/em><\/p>\n But Molly\u2019s orderly life is upended the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black, only to find it in a state of disarray and Mr. Black himself dead in his bed. Before she knows what\u2019s happening, Molly\u2019s unusual demeanor has the police targeting her as their lead suspect. She quickly finds herself caught in a web of deception, one she has no idea how to untangle. Fortunately for Molly, friends she never knew she had unite with her in a search for clues to what really happened to Mr. Black\u2014but will they be able to find the real killer before it\u2019s too late?<\/em><\/p>\n A Clue-like, locked-room mystery and a heartwarming journey of the spirit, The Maid explores what it means to be the same as everyone else and yet entirely different\u2014and reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart.<\/em><\/p>\n This title is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Grand Slam titles. And if you ask Carrie, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father, Javier, as her coach. A former champion himself, Javier has trained her since the age of two.<\/em><\/p>\n But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning player named Nicki Chan.<\/em><\/p>\n At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked \u201cthe Battle-Axe\u201d anyway. Even if her body doesn\u2019t move as fast as it did. And even if it means swallowing her pride to train with a man she once almost opened her heart to: Bowe Huntley. Like her, he has something to prove before he gives up the game forever.<\/em><\/p>\n In spite of it all, Carrie Soto is back, for one epic final season. In this riveting and unforgettable novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid tells her most vulnerable, emotional story yet.<\/em><\/p>\n This title is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n Sarah J. Maas’s sexy, groundbreaking CRESCENT CITY series continues with the second installment.<\/em><\/p>\n Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back to normal-they may have saved Crescent City, but with so much upheaval in their lives lately, they mostly want a chance to relax. Slow down. Figure out what the future holds.<\/em><\/p>\n The Asteri have kept their word so far, leaving Bryce and Hunt alone. But with the rebels chipping away at the Asteri’s power, the threat the rulers pose is growing. As Bryce, Hunt, and their friends get pulled into the rebels’ plans, the choice becomes clear: stay silent while others are oppressed, or fight for what’s right. And they’ve never been very good at staying silent.<\/em><\/p>\n In this sexy, action-packed sequel to the #1 bestseller House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas weaves a captivating story of a world about to explode-and the people who will do anything to save it.<\/em><\/p>\n This title is also available in the following format:<\/p>\n One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn\u2019t see coming\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n Nora Stephens\u2019 life is books\u2014she\u2019s read them all\u2014and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.<\/em><\/p>\n Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters\u2019 trip away\u2014with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she\u2019s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they\u2019ve met many times and it\u2019s never been cute.<\/em><\/p>\n If Nora knows she\u2019s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he\u2019s nobody\u2019s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again\u2014in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow\u2014what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they\u2019ve written about themselves.<\/em><\/p>\n This title is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal\u2014an experience that shocks him to his core.<\/em><\/p>\n Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She\u2019s traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive\u2019s best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him.<\/em><\/p>\n When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.<\/em><\/p>\n A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.<\/em><\/p>\n This title is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n Mallory Quinn is fresh out of rehab when she takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy.<\/em><\/p>\n Mallory immediately loves it. She has her own living space, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman\u2019s lifeless body.<\/em><\/p>\n Then, Teddy\u2019s artwork becomes increasingly sinister, and his stick figures quickly evolve into lifelike sketches well beyond the ability of any five-year-old. Mallory begins to wonder if these are glimpses of a long-unsolved murder, perhaps relayed by a supernatural force.<\/em><\/p>\n Knowing just how crazy it all sounds, Mallory nevertheless sets out to decipher the images and save Teddy before it\u2019s too late.<\/em><\/p>\n This title is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n An intimate, behind-the-scenes, richly illustrated celebration of beloved The Office co-stars Jenna Fischer & Angela Kinsey\u2019s friendship, & an insiders’ view of Pam Beesly, Angela Martin, & the unforgettable iconic TV show. Featuring Jenna and Angela\u2019s many personal photos.<\/em><\/p>\n Receptionist Pam Beesly and accountant Angela Martin had very little in common when they toiled together at Scranton\u2019s Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. But, in reality, the two bonded in their very first days on set and, over the nine seasons of the series\u2019 run, built a friendship that transcended the show and continues to this day. Sharing everything from what it was like in the early days as the show struggled to gain traction, to walking their first red carpet\u2014plus exclusive stories on the making of milestone episodes and how their lives changed when they became moms \u2014 The Office BFFs is full of the same warm and friendly tone Jenna and Angela have brought to their Office Ladies podcast.<\/em><\/p>\n This title is also available in the following format:<\/p>\n In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances\u2014a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection.<\/em><\/p>\n Over the past two decades, Brown\u2019s extensive research into the experiences that make us who we are has shaped the cultural conversation and helped define what it means to be courageous with our lives. Atlas of the Heart draws on this research, as well as on Brown\u2019s singular skills as a storyteller, to show us how accurately naming an experience doesn\u2019t give the experience more power\u2014it gives us the power of understanding, meaning, and choice.<\/em><\/p>\n Brown shares, \u201cI want this book to be an atlas for all of us, because I believe that, with an adventurous heart and the right maps, we can travel anywhere and never fear losing ourselves.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n This title is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor\u2014including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother\u2014and how she retook control of her life.<\/em><\/p>\n Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother\u2019s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called \u201ccalorie restriction,\u201d eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, \u201cYour eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn\u2019t tint hers?\u201d She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income.<\/em><\/p>\n In I\u2019m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail\u2014just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly, she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (\u201cHi Gale!\u201d), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.<\/em><\/p>\n Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I\u2019m Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.<\/em><\/p>\n This title is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those \u2018bad gays\u2019 whose unexemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Many popular histories seek to establish homosexual heroes, pioneers, and martyrs but, as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and dastardly deeds have been overlooked despite their being informative and instructive.<\/em><\/p>\n Based on the hugely popular podcast series of the same name, Bad Gays asks what we can learn about LGBTQ+ history, sexuality and identity through its villains, failures, and baddies. With characters such as the Emperor Hadrian, anthropologist Margaret Mead and notorious gangster Ronnie Kray, the authors tell the story of how the figure of the white gay man was born, and how he failed. They examine a cast of kings, fascist thugs, artists and debauched bon viveurs. Imperial-era figures Lawrence of Arabia and Roger Casement get a look-in, as do FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover, lawyer Roy Cohn, and architect Philip Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n Together these amazing life stories expand and challenge mainstream assumptions about sexual identity: showing that homosexuality itself was an idea that emerged in the nineteenth century, one central to major historical events.<\/em><\/p>\n Bad Gays is a passionate argument for rethinking gay politics beyond questions of identity, compelling readers to search for solidarity across boundaries.<\/em><\/p>\n Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they\u2019ve never met \u2026 until one day when they\u2019re made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn\u2019t think he has a chance.<\/em><\/p>\n But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realised.<\/em><\/p>\n By Alice Oseman, winner of the YA Book Prize, Heartstopper is about love, friendship, loyalty and mental illness. It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie\u2019s lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us.<\/em><\/p>\n The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman<\/em><\/p>\n Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, the luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, this beautifully designed volume features poems in many inventive styles and structures and shines a light on a moment of reckoning. Call Us What We Carry reveals that Gorman has become our messenger from the past, our voice for the future.<\/em><\/p>\n This book is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it\u2019s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel\u2013prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with\u2014of all things\u2014her mind. True chemistry results.<\/em><\/p>\n But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America\u2019s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth\u2019s unusual approach to cooking (\u201ccombine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride\u201d) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn\u2019t just teaching women to cook. She\u2019s daring them to change the status quo.<\/em><\/p>\n Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.<\/em><\/p>\n This title is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n Avery\u2019s fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about.<\/em><\/p>\n To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. Her life is intertwined with theirs. She knows their secrets and they know her.<\/em><\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Best Mystery & Thriller:<\/strong>\u00a0The Maid<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Nita Prose<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Best Historical Fiction:<\/strong>\u00a0Carrie Soto is Back<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>by Taylor Jenkins Reid<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Best Fantasy:\u00a0House of Sky and Breath<\/em><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>by Sarah J. Maas<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Best Romance:<\/strong>\u00a0Book Lovers<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>by Emily Henry<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Best Science Fiction:<\/strong>\u00a0Sea of Tranquility<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Emily St. John Mandel<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Best Horror:<\/strong>\u00a0Hidden Pictures<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Jason Rekulak<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Best Humor:<\/strong>\u00a0The Office BFFs<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Best Nonfiction:\u00a0Atlas of the Heart<\/em><\/a><\/strong> by Bren\u00e9 Brown<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Best Memoir & Autobiography:<\/strong>\u00a0I’m Glad My Mom Died<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>by Jennette McCurdy<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Best History & Biography:<\/strong>\u00a0Bad Guys<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/heartstopper1.jpg?resize=200%2C300&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Best Graphic Novels & Comics:<\/strong>\u00a0Heartstopper<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Alice Oseman<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/call-us-what-we-carry.jpg?resize=200%2C301&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Best Poetry:<\/strong>\u00a0Call Us What We Carry<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>by Amanda Gorman<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Best Debut:\u00a0Lessons in Chemistry<\/em><\/a><\/strong> by Bonnie Garmus<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Best Young Adult Fiction:<\/strong>\u00a0The Final Gambit<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>by Jennifer Lynn Barnes<\/p>\n