Staff Picks
Anti-Valentine 💘
- Kimberly Jones
- Saturday, February 01, 2020
Collection
Not so in love? Getting over a breakup? These books get you through this mushy mess of a day because we are not all love-struck.
Six Goodbyes We Never Said
Published in 2019
Teens Naima Rodriguez, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, and Dew Brickman, who has social anxiety, bond over their mutual loss of both parents.
Kiss Kill Vanish
Published in 2014
"A teenage girl flees her opulent life in Miami when she witnesses her boyfriend commit a murder that was ordered by her father"-- Provided by publisher.
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
Published in 2010
Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his lucrative business of raising the dead.
Heartless
Published in 2016
In this prequel to Alice in Wonderland, Cath would rather open a bakery and marry for love than accept a proposal from the King of Hearts, especially after meeting the handsome and mysterious court jester.
Loveless
Published in 2021
Georgia has parents who are still in love, two sets of grandparents that are still together, and a brother who married his girlfriend, but at eighteen she has never even kissed someone (not even her lesbian best friend, Felipa) or particularly even wanted to; at the prom afterparty she is surrounded by couples making out, and she really does not know what is wrong--but in college she comes to understand herself as asexual/aromantic, and to capture the part of her identity that has always eluded her.
The Revenge Game
Published in 2023
Seventeen-year-old Alyson discovers her classmates' dark side when a top-secret competition to see who has the most sexual prowess ends with a popular LAX captain's disappearance.
Hatchet Girls
Published in 2023
In Fall River, Massachusetts, home to New England's infamous Bridgewater Triangle, Tessa must prove her brother innocent of murdering his girlfriend's parents with an axe, a mystery that proves all too close to the Lizzie Borden murders one hundred years earlier.