June 2024

A year-long journey by the renowned psychiatrist and his writer wife after her terminal diagnosis, as they reflect on how to love and live without regret. Get out the tissues for this beautiful story.

I’m off on a hiking trip across the Pyrenees in a few weeks, so I need all the packing tips I can get. Palepu shows that what and how you pack are who you are. Confidence and comfort inspire success upon arrival, whether you’re exploring a new city, hoping to nail a job interview or relaxing on a beach. Wish I had discovered this book years ago.

Wiest shows that by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies, releasing past experiences at a cellular level and learning to act as our highest potential future selves, we can step out of our own way and into our potential. Motivational blueprint for anyone looking to be better.

Searing look into the world of a single Muslim family in the wake of 9/11. The story of a child of immigrants forging a blurry identity, falling in love, and finding hope – in the midst of a modern war by the National Book Award-nominated and Shatter Me series author.

Dreamy Thulani spends most of his time up on the roof, taking care of the flock of doves in the cote and watching the streets of Brooklyn bustle below him. Suddenly, for the first time since his mother died, he finally has a reason to come down from the roof. But as much as he wants to care for a girl, Ysa – more fragile and fiercer than his birds – she will not trust easily in this beautiful book by the always dependable Williams-Garcia. 

This is actually the 24^th in a Manga series. As players of Monster Hunter and Dungeons & Dragons know, the slime is not exactly the king of the fantasy monsters. So, when a 37-year-old Tokyo salaryman dies and wakes up in a world of elves and magic, he's a little disappointed to find he's become a blind, boneless slime monster. I get a kick out of these books, and I know a lot of reluctant teen readers who devour them.

Newbery Medal Winner from one of my favorite authors, this enthralling novel for tweens is told from the perspective of one uniquely endearing dog. Includes beautiful color artwork with illustrations by Caldecott honoree Shawn Harris.

From the award-winning author comes a middle-grade novel about a girl who, with the help of a true-blue friend, a big-hearted aunt and uncle and the dog of her dreams, unexpectedly learns the true meaning of family in the least likely of places.

Every great adventure needs a hero – or two! This playful take on storytelling and equity proves that two tellers can make a rhyming tale twice as nice.

From award-winning author de la Peña and illustrator Paola Escobar comes this heartwarming, uplifting picture book about a boy – at home in two worlds – discovering what it means to be at home with himself.