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Fall 2024 Featured Reads

Sep 24, 2024 - Waterloo Public Library
Featured Reads

Just in time for cozying up with a warm blanket and a hot drink, we’ve put together a selection of 12 new fiction and 12 new non-fiction books perfect for the fall season.

Fiction

The Leap Year Gene
Shelley Wood
The Full Moon Coffee Shop
Mai Mochizuki
Everything We Never Had
Randy Ribay
Adam & Evie’s Matchmaking Tour
Nora Ngyuen
The Queen City Detective Agency
Snowden Wright
Hunted
Abir Mukherjee
The Mighty Red
Louis Erdrich
The Last One at the Wedding
Jason Rekulak
There Are Rivers in the Sky
Elif Shafak
Freedom is a Feast
Alejandro Puyana
And So I Roar
Abi Daré
William
Mason Coile

Non-Fiction

Raising Resilience
Tovah P. Klein
And The Roots of Rhythm Remain
Joe Boyd
Women in the Valley of the Kings
Kathleen Sheppard
AI Snake Oil
Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor
Be Ready When Luck Happens
Ina Garten
Above the Noise
DeMar DeRozan & Dave Zarum
What If We Get It Right?
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Book and Dagger
Elyse Graham
The Inner Clock
Lynne Peeples
Who We Are
Murray Sinclair
Bite
Bill Schutt
Does This Taste Funny?
Stephen Colbert & Evie McGee Colbert
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