The Siege by Ben Macintyre

A story of ordinary men and women under immense pressure, The Siege takes readers minute-by-thrilling-minute through an event that would echo across the next two decades and provide a direct historical link to the tragedy on 9/11. Drawing on exclusive interviews and a wealth of never-before-seen...

AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan

The book explains the crucial differences between types of AI, why organizations are falling for AI snake oil, why AI can't fix social media, why AI isn't an existential risk, and why we should be far more worried about what people will do with AI than about anything AI will do on its own. The book...

The Importance of Being Educable by Leslie Valiant

In this visionary book, Leslie Valiant argues that understanding the nature of our own educability is crucial to safeguarding our future. After breaking down how we process information to learn and apply knowledge, and drawing comparisons with other animals and AI systems, he explains why education...

The Wedding People by Alison Espach

In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach's The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined--and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.

Colored Television by Danzy Senna

A brilliant take on love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial-identity-industrial complex from the bestselling author of Caucasia. Funny, piercing, and page turning, Colored Television is Senna's most on-the-pulse, ambitious, and rewarding novel yet.

The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave

"Drama, mystery, and intrigue" (PureWow) unfold in this instant New York Times bestseller about estranged siblings chasing a fifty-year-old secret that shaped their father's mysterious life--and death--in this "emotionally charged and unforgettable story" (E!) from the author of The Last Thing He...

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National Book Award

National Book Award Winner

Author Percival L. Everett is the 2024 winner of The National Book Award for Fiction for his novel James. James is a reimagining of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, focusing on the central character Jim. The novel delves deeply into Jim's perspective, with an emphasis on his...

Booker Prize

Booker Prize Winner

Samantha Harvey's novel Orbital, earned the 2024 Booker Prize. The book portrays six astronauts grappling with life in the isolation of space over the course of one day. Harvey described the novel as "space pastoral - a kind of nature writing about the beauty of space." It is the first Booker Prize...

SAS Book Club

Book Club Pick

The SAS Book Club is diving into the mysterious world of Dan Brown's thrilling bestseller, The Da Vinci Code. This book promises suspense, mystery and intellectual intrigue. With its intricate puzzles and historical references, The Da Vinci Code has kept readers hooked for many years and has sparked...

Library Blog

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024

On October 10, 2024, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to South Korean author Han Kang for her book, The Vegetarian According to the press release Kang was awarded "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." The Vegetarian also...