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Sacramento Public Library: This Month In Adult Books: August 2021

Reading recommendations for adults

August 17, 2021

Reading recommendations for adults Featured Title New & Upcoming

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  • Romance readers will be thrilled to check out Bombshell by Sarah Maclean, the first book in the new Hell’s Belles series featuring a group of lady justice fighters and a sizzling second chance romance. 
  • Bombshell

  • If you prefer chills as you turn the pages, Stephen Graham Jones returns with a homage to slasher films and biting critique of American colonialism in My Heart is a Chainsaw.
  • My Heart is a Chainsaw

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  • If a multigenerational family saga is more your style, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Dubois, the debut novel from poet Honoree Fannone Jeffers is a staggering and ambitious story celebrating the African-American family.
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