June: NonFiction Pick This reads like a thriller, it’s unbelievable. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with…

June: Fiction Pick The newest Donna Leon mystery, with Commisario Guido Brunetti,  has a very interesting and unusual plot for a mystery. It takes most of the book for it to unwind, so it’s a bit of a surprise.  As…

June: Fiction Pick An intriguing debut novel told in three parts from 2017 Whiting Award winner. Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and…

June: YA/J NonFiction Pick The inspiring memoir for young readers about a Latina rocket scientist whose early life was transformed by joining the Girl Scouts and who currently serves as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA. A meningitis…

June: Young Adult Fiction Pick The Serpent King meets Stranger Things in Emily Henry’s gripping novel about a group of friends in a small town who find themselves dealing with unexpected powers after a cosmic event. Almost everyone in the…