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This book of the week feature was created by library ambassador Andon van Colen '25.
APRIL 24, 2025
FAT WITCH SUMMER by LIZZY IVES
FAT WITCH SUMMER by LIZZY IVES
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Thrash is a young, plus size witch who likes her body and is just beginning to use magic. In Thrash’s world, mothers choose the magical gift their children will receive, and Thrash’s mom wants to give her the Gift of Glamour to ‘fix’ her appearance. Thrash takes off with a group of witches called The Lunes to New Salem, where they plan to steal their own Gifts.
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This book of the week feature was created by library ambassador Andon van Colen '25.
APRIL 17, 2025
DELICIOUS MONSTERS by LISELLE SAMBURY
DELICIOUS MONSTERS by LISELLE SAMBURY
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Daisy and Brittney are staying in the same house in rural Canada, ten years apart. Daisy is there to recover from a traumatic breakup, and to get away from the ghosts she can see in Toronto. Brittney is there to make her way in the world away from her abusive mother, and to investigate the disappearance of Daisy ten years earlier. As Daisy learns more about the house’s history Brittney gets closer to discovering what happened to Daisy, and both find untold monsters in the house and their pasts.
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This book of the week feature was created by library ambassador Andon van Colen '25.
APRIL 10, 2025
GAY POEMS FOR RED STATES by WILLIE EDWARD TAYLOR CARVER JR.
GAY POEMS FOR RED STATES by WILLIE EDWARD TAYLOR CARVER JR.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
This book is a heartfelt and heartbreaking poetic memoir about growing up queer and poor in Appalachia, and the hopes for a beautiful future for the queer community. The author, once named Kentucky Teacher of the Year, wrote this book in response to the discrimination he faced as an openly gay man working in education.
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APRIL 3, 2025
RULES FOR GHOSTING by SHELLY JAY SHORE
RULES FOR GHOSTING by SHELLY JAY SHORE
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
To save his family’s failing funeral home—and his own chance at a queer love story—a reluctant clairvoyant must embrace the gift he long ignored in this poignant and warmhearted debut.
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This book of the week feature was created by library ambassador Andon van Colen '25.
MARCH 28, 2025
CATALINA by KARLA CORNEJO VILLAVICENCIO
CATALINA by KARLA CORNEJO VILLAVICENCIO
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Catalina is an undocumented immigrant about to graduate from Harvard into a world where she feels there is no place for undocumented citizens. On top of attempting to find love at school, she also faces a looming threat of deportation at home and a sense of alienation from her culture. Set in one year, this book follows Catalina’s stream of thought as she tries to face a world she had always felt separate from.
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This book of the week feature was created by Rose Lieber '26.
MARCH 6, 2025
A SECOND CHANCE ON EARTH by JUAN VIDAL
A SECOND CHANCE ON EARTH by JUAN VIDAL
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
16-year-old Marcos Cadena’s Papí was killed, so to accept this loss, Marcos travels to his parent's old home in Columbia. He meets an 18-year-old taxi driver, Camilo, who helps Marcos find his way. They bond over the book One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, which was in the possessions of Marcos’ late Papí.
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This book of the week feature was created by CSW Library Ambassador Alicia Kinge '25.
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
THE dividing sky by jill tew
THE dividing sky by jill tew
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
It's 2364 and 18 year old Liv Newman dreamed of a future beyond her lower class life. Using the neurochip in her brain, she sold emotional memories to wealthy clients illegally. After discovering that the dealings are messing with citizens' brain chemistry, Liv is tracked down. But there’s a big problem, her memory is gone. Should she be condemned for crimes she committed that she doesn’t remember?
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This book of the week feature was created by CSW Library Ambassador Alicia Kinge '25.
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE edited by Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell
THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE edited by Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
15 stories, both chilling and thought provoking, that place black girls front in center as heroes and survivors who slay monsters both supernatural and human, battle spirits, and face death.
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This book of the week feature was created by CSW Library Ambassador Alicia Kinge '25.
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
PRINCE OF THE PALISADES by JULIAN WINTERS
PRINCE OF THE PALISADES by JULIAN WINTERS
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
A rebellious prince who is sent to America to clean up his image after a disastrous break up, but instead falls in love with a boy at his school. He tries to prove he's more than just a royal trouble maker and along the way he discovers how to be a true leader.
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This book of the week feature was created by CSW Library Ambassador Alicia Kinge '25.
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
24 SECONDS FROM NOW by JASON REYNOLDS
24 SECONDS FROM NOW by JASON REYNOLDS
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
This book follows a young black high school couple who face big moments in their senior year. This novel explores the decisions they make, particularly around love and intimacy, as they navigate their relationship while also receiving mixed advice from friends and family.
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This book of the week feature was created by Rose Lieber '26.
JANUARY 30, 2025
CRASHING INTO YOU by ROCKY CALLEN
CRASHING INTO YOU by ROCKY CALLEN
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
This is a story about two racer teens finding each other, and tackling deep emotions. There is tragedy and secrets within, but there is also love and self-realization shown.
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This book of the week feature was created by Rose Lieber '26.
JANUARY 23, 2025
IF HE HAD BEEN WITH ME by LAURA NOWLIN
IF HE HAD BEEN WITH ME by LAURA NOWLIN
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Old best friends-Autumn and Finn, ignore each other now that they have their own lives. Autumn battles her romantic feelings for Finn, wishing things could be different.
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This book of the week feature was created by library ambassador Bee Jacobs '26 and is featured of their display on Student Activism as part of MLK Jr. Day programming in the library.
JANUARY 16, 2025
TAKE THE MIC EDITED by BRITNEY C. MORROW
TAKE THE MIC EDITED by BRITNEY C. MORROW
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
A young adult anthology featuring fictional stories of everyday resistance, from facing online trolls to marches against injustice to simply continuing to live on. Told through poems, prose, and art.
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This book of the week feature was created by library ambassador Bee Jacobs '26.
JANUARY 9, 2025
GATHER by KENNETH M. CADOW
GATHER by KENNETH M. CADOW
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
A resourceful teenager in rural Vermont struggles to hold on to the family home while dealing with his mom recovering from addiction in this novel. Accompanied by his adopted dog, Gather, Ian uses his survival skills to get through the tragedies and complications within his life.
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This book of the week feature was created by library ambassador Bee Jacobs '26.
DECEMBER 19, 2024
THE VASTER WILDS by LAUREN GROFF
THE VASTER WILDS by LAUREN GROFF
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her.” Jumping back in time to her trek to the “new world” and through a deeply detailed sensory description, Groff takes the reader through a tale of horror and exaltation.
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This book of the week feature was created by library ambassador Bee Jacobs '26.
DECEMBER 12, 2024
KINDLING by TRACI CHEE
KINDLING by TRACI CHEE
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
A standalone fantasy set against a war-ravaged world where kindling warfare—the use of elite, magic-wielding teenage soldiers—has been outlawed. In this novel, seven kindlings search for purpose and identity as they prepare for one final battle, each from their own second-person viewpoint.
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This book of the week feature was created by library ambassador Bee Jacobs '26.
DECEMBER 5, 2024
TWELFTH KNIGHT by ALEXENE FAROL FOLLMUTH
TWELFTH KNIGHT by ALEXENE FAROL FOLLMUTH
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
In a modern retelling of Twelfth Night, the online alter-egos of high achieving gamer Viola Reyes and football player Jack Orsino unexpectedly meet in-game. They must face their in-person relationship as they connect through playing, and learn to let each other in.
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NOVEMBER 21, 2024
LOOKING FOR SMOKE by K.A. COBELL
LOOKING FOR SMOKE by K.A. COBELL
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
When local girl Loren includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet Giveaway to honor Loren's missing sister, Mara thinks she'll finally make some friends on the Blackfeet reservation. Instead, a girl from the Giveaway, Samantha White Tail, is found murdered.
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NOVEMBER 14, 2024
RULES FOR GHOSTING by SHELLY JAY SHORE
RULES FOR GHOSTING by SHELLY JAY SHORE
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
To save his family's failing funeral home--and his own chance at a queer love story--a reluctant clairvoyant (seeing ghosts makes growing up in a funeral home complicated!) must embrace the gift he long ignored.
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NOVEMBER 7, 2024
WHEN THE WORLD TIPS OVER by JANDY NELSON
WHEN THE WORLD TIPS OVER by JANDY NELSON
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
With road trips, rivalries, family curses, love stories within love stories within love stories, and sorrows and joys passed from generation to generation, this is the intricate, luminous tale of a family’s complicated past and present. And only in telling their stories can they hope to rewrite their futures.
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OCTOBER 31, 2024
OUR WICKED HISTORIES by AMY GOLDSMITH
OUR WICKED HISTORIES by AMY GOLDSMITH
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
After a disastrous accident at her school's Midsummer Ball leads to Meg's suspension, she agrees to attend a Halloween party at her old friends' ancestral home in Ireland in order to make amends, only to discover that the estate has a sordid past of its own.
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OCTOBER 24, 2024
blood at the root by LADARRION WILLIAMS
blood at the root by LADARRION WILLIAMS
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
A teenager on the run from his past finds the family he never knew existed and the community he never knew he needed at an HBCU for the young, Black, and magical.
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OCTOBER 17, 2024
DEAR WENDY by ANN ZHAO
DEAR WENDY by ANN ZHAO
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
In this tale of a budding friendship that hits all the beats and thrills of a will-they-won’t-they romance, aromantic and asexual Wellesley College student Sophie Chi, aka "Dear Wendy," finds herself in an online feud with her relationship advice rival, "Sincerely Wanda," while unwittingly becoming friends in real life, but will their friendship survive when the truth comes out?
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This book of the week feature was written by CSW Library Ambassador Gillian Lamb '26.
OCTOBER 10, 2024
VOTES OF CONFIDENCE: A YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO AMERICAN ELECTIONS by JEFF FLEISCHER
VOTES OF CONFIDENCE: A YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO AMERICAN ELECTIONS by JEFF FLEISCHER
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Fleischer delivers deep background knowledge on the American Government and how the voting system works. There is detailed discussion of various US political parties in and the importance of participation through voting.
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This book is available to check out from our physical collection, as well as on ebook.
OCTOBER 3, 2024
dead things are closer than they appear by robin wasley
dead things are closer than they appear by robin wasley
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
During a magical apocalypse, which has unleashed monsters and murderers, an ordinary teen teams up with a ragtag crew of would-be heroes to save the world as she knows it.
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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
BURN DOWN, RISE UP by VINCENT TIRADO
BURN DOWN, RISE UP by VINCENT TIRADO
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process.
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This book of the week feature was written by CSW Library Ambassador Gillian Lamb '26.
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
shut up, this is serious by caroline ixta
shut up, this is serious by caroline ixta
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Belén Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend. There's also her nerdy, super-Catholic best friend, Leti, who finds herself pregnant senior year. Life is messy. Shut up, This is Serious is a fierce, intimate examination of friendship, chosen family, and the generational cycles we must break to become our truest selves.
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This book of the week feature was written by CSW Library Ambassador Gillian Lamb '26.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
The one that got away with murder by trish lundy
The one that got away with murder by trish lundy
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
An edge of your seat thriller about a teen girl who comes face to face with her dark past in order to help catch a murderer before she becomes the next victim.
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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
THROWBACK by MAURENE GOO
THROWBACK by MAURENE GOO
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
A Gen Z Korean American girl gets stuck in the '90s with her teenaged mother in this fresh, funny adventure full of heart, humility, humor, and time-crossed romance.
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This book is available to check out from our physical collection and in audio.
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