Calvert Library's Book Bites for Adults

There are two sides to every story: yours and mine, ours and theirs, His & Hers. Which means someone is always lying.

Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A high school math genius, he’s secretly fascinated with a series of children’s fantasy novels set in a magical land called Fillory, and real life is disappointing by comparison. When Quentin is unexpectedly admitted to an elite, secret college of magic, it looks like his wildest dreams have come true.

Elv, Claire and Meg are the Story Sisters, and each has a fate she must meet alone. One on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga and a love story of erotic longing.

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions.

Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big-time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron's prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend, a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead, the deal starts to go sour.

James McBride grew up in the all-black projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn with eleven siblings, and a mother who was as tough as nails. His mother was born a white, Orthodox Jew, who at the age of seventeen, left her family and past behind to marry a black minister. McBride reveals within this memoir the trials and hardships that his mother endured from a young age, and his own experiences of growing up in poverty with such a unique family.

On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. And then someone turns up dead. Who didn't wish the happy couple well? And perhaps more important, why?

After being killed in a car accident, fashion savvy Betsy Taylor becomes one of the undead and, with the help of her newfound friends, the lure of designer shoes, and a sexy vampire, must destroy a dark enemy and fulfill her destiny as the prophesied vampire queen.

In Brooklyn, eighteen-year-old Deya is starting to meet with suitors. Though she doesn’t want to get married, her grandparents give her no choice.

It’s the summer of 1947 in San Francisco, California. Sammy “Two Toes” Tiffin tends bar at Sal’s Saloon, and his daily life is about to be shaken up by some weird occurrences.