OBD Patron Picks Summer Reading 2025 - Adult | SWAN Consortium

Author

Patterson, James, 1947-

Series

Women's murder club volume 25

Description

"SFPD homicide detective Lindsay Boxer knows her way around a crime scene. But nothing can prepare her for the shock of recognition: the victim is Warren Jacobi, Lindsay's onetime partner who rose to chief of police. A top investigator until the end, Jacobi managed to leave Lindsay a clue. Following a trail of evidence along the west coast, the Women's Murder Club pledges to avenge Jacobi's death before the killer can take another one of their own."--Provided...

2) The 6:20 man

Author

Baldacci, David

Series

6:20 Man

Description

A cryptic murder pulls a former soldier turned financial analyst deep into the corruption and menace that prowl beneath the opulent world of finance, in #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci's new thriller. Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city's most prestigious investment firm....

3) Adventures in volcanoland: what volcanoes tell us about the world and ourselves

Author

Mather, Tamsin, 1976-

Description

An award-winning Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford explores the cultural role volcanoes have played in history and how they have shaped our planet and its future.

4) Ahmed Aziz's epic year

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Description

"A Indian American boy endures a family move from Hawaii to frigid Minnesota and, with the help of three life-changing books he reads in school, he learns to like reading, and ultimately, himself"-- Provided by publisher.

Author

Series

Thorndike Press youth large print

Description

"Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else...

6) All that life can afford: a novel

Author

Everett, Emily, 1986-

Series

Reese's book club

Description

"A taut, lyrical, and life-affirming debut, All That Life Can Afford is a tale of aspirations, high society, and the bittersweet journey of turning over a new leaf while staying true to one's roots. I would arrive, blank like a sheet of notebook paper, and write myself new. As a child, Eva devoured London through library books--savoring its soft, dreamlike edges of castles and dances, a far cry from her life of co-pays and Craigslist and caring for...

7) All the colors of the dark: a novel

Author

Whitaker, Chris

Series

Read with Jenna

Description

"1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges--Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer....

8) All the light we cannot see: a novel

Author

Doerr, Anthony, 1973-

Description

"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...

9) All these bodies

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Description

Summer 1958. A gruesome killer plagues the Midwest, leaving behind a trail of bodies completely drained of blood. Michael Jensen, an aspiring journalist whose father happens to be the town sheriff, never imagined that the Bloodless Murders would come to his backyard. Not until the night the Carlson family was found murdered in their home. Marie Catherine Hale, a diminutive fifteen-year-old, was discovered at the scene, covered in blood. She is the...

10) All's fair in love and pickleball

Author

Spencer, Kate, 1979-

Description

"When a young woman must win a pickleball competition alongside her longtime rival to save her family's business, sparks fly on and off the court in this charming romcom. Bex Martin's life isn't where she thought it would be at twenty-four. She dropped out of college and moved back home to her small, Southern California hometown to help out at her parents' racquet club after her dad got sick. But over a year later, she's still there, teaching pickleball...

11) Alone

Author

Freeman, Megan E

Series

Alone volume 1

Description

Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town. When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated...

12) Among the mad: a Maisie Dobbs novel

Author

Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955-

Series

Maisie Dobbs novel volume 6
Maisie Dobbs

Description

Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale.

13) Anne of Green Gables

Author

Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942

Series

Anne of Green Gables novels volume 1
Anne of Green Gables
Junior classics for young readers
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Description

"Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from...

14) The antique hunter's death on the Red Sea: a novel

Author

Miller, C. L. (Cara L.)

Series

Antique Hunter's Series volume 2
antique hunter's volume 2
Antique Hunters
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Description

"When a painting vanishes from a maritime museum and a dead body is found nearby, Freya Lockwood and her Aunt Carole -- the newly established Lockwood Antique Hunter's Agency -- are called to investigate. Following a lead that takes them aboard a glamorous antiques cruise sailing toward the Red Sea and Jordan, they quickly discover that the ship's art gallery is filled with stolen antiquities. Each antique is also listed in Freya's late mentor's journals...

15) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness

Author

Haidt, Jonathan

Description

"From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health-and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social...

16) The art thief: a true story of love, crime, and a dangerous obsession

Author

Finkel, Michael

Description

"The true story of the world's most prolific art thief--a spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, from the bestselling author of The Stranger in the Woods. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years--in museums and cathedrals all over Europe--Breitwieser,...

17) As good as dead: the final a good girl's guide to murder novel

Author

Jackson, Holly, 1992-

Series

Good girl's guide to murder novel volume 3
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Description

Pippa Fitz-Amobi is haunted by the two murder cases she solved, by the victims, by the attention her crime podcast garnered, and by the survivors, which is bad enough--but then it starts to feel like someone is watching her. Pip is about to head for college. She's blindsided when it starts to feel like someone is watching her. Small things at first: a USB stick with footage recording her and the same anonymous source always asking her: who will look...

18) Being mortal: medicine and what matters in the end

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Series

Geneva Public Library. Aging Well Nonfiction
Aging Well Collection

Description

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot....

19) The berry pickers: a novel

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Series

Thorndike Press large print dynamic drama

Description

"A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years. July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock...

Author

Hickey, Jon, 1981-

Series

Thorndike Press large print diverse voices

Description

"There, There meets The Night Watchman in this gripping literary debut about power and corruption, family, and facing the ghosts of the past. Mitch Caddo, a young law school graduate and aspiring political fixer, is an outsider in the homeland of his Anishinaabe ancestors. But alongside his childhood friend, Tribal President Mack Beck, he runs the government of the Passage Rouge Nation, and with it, the tribe's Golden Eagle Casino and Hotel. On the...