The McNaugton Collection is an assortment of current popular fiction and nonfiction titles, curated by library staff. This assemblage is frequently updated. This is your go-to location for the hottest titles, and is located on the first floor. Loan periods are 30 days.
After Annie by
When Annie Brown suddenly dies, her husband, best friend, and her children all struggle to find ways to go on after the loss of the woman who was the center of their lives, and who made life happy, fun, and secure.
First Lie Wins by
Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist.
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by
n 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Penn, were digging the foundations for a new development, they discover a skeleton. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill.
Martyr! by
A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.
Yellowface by
What's the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel.
Be a Revolution: How everyday people are fighting oppression and changing the world--and how you can, too by
This book aims to show how people across America are working to create real positive change in our structures. Looking at many of our most powerful systems -- like education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and more -- she highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity. She also illustrates various ways in which the reader can find entryways into change in these same areas, or can bring some of this important work being done elsewhere to where they live.
Class: a memoir by
From the author of the best-selling memoir "Maid," this title documents her final days of college and establishing her writing career.
The Coming Wave: Technology, power, and the twenty-first century's greatest dilemma by
We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon we will live surrounded by AIs. They will carry out complex tasks -- operating businesses, producing unlimited digital content, running core government services, and maintaining infrastructure. This will be a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. It represents nothing less than a step change in human capability. We are not prepared.
Extremely Online: The untold story of fame, influence, and power on the internet by
This book reveals how online influence came to upend the world, demolishing traditional barriers and creating whole new sectors of the economy. Lorenz shows this phenomenon to be one of the most disruptive changes in modern capitalism.
How to Say Babylon: A memoir by
How to Say Babylon is both a universal story of a woman finding her own power and a unique glimpse into a rarefied world we may know how to name, Rastafari, but one we know little about.