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by Jane Kuo

For fans of Jasmine Warga and Thanhhà Lại, this is a stunning novel in verse about a young Taiwanese immigrant to America who is confronted by the stark difference between dreams and reality.

Anna can’t wait to move to the beautiful country–the Chinese name for America. Although she’s only ever known life in Taiwan, she can’t help but brag about the move to her family and friends.

But the beautiful country isn’t anything like Anna pictured. Her family can only afford a cramped apartment, she’s bullied at school, and she struggles to understand a new language. On top of that, the restaurant that her parents poured their savings into is barely staying afloat. The version of America that Anna is experiencing is nothing like she imagined. How will she be able to make the beautiful country her home?

This lyrical and heartfelt story, inspired by the author’s own experiences, is about resilience, courage, and the struggle to make a place for yourself in the world.

Find it in Juvenile Fiction here.

A gorgeously illustrated, first-ever graphic novel adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s beloved American classic.

First published in 1925, The Great Gatsby has been acclaimed by generations of readers and is now reimagined in stunning graphic novel form. Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, and the rest of the cast are captured in vivid and evocative illustrations by artist Aya Morton. The iconic text has been artfully distilled by Fred Fordham, who also adapted the graphic novel edition of To Kill a Mockingbird. Blake Hazard, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great-granddaughter, contributes a personal introduction.

This quintessential Jazz Age tale stands as the supreme achievement of Fitzgerald’s career and is a true classic of 20th-century literature. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy is exquisitely captured in this enchanting and unique edition.

Find it in GRAPHIC NOVEL FIC FIT here.

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We invite you to read or revisit this quintessentially American novel with us during our 2024 Winter Read.

The story of The Great Gatsby is held at The Community Library—in print in English and Spanish, digitally in eBook and eAudiobook, in film on DVD and streaming on Kanopy, and in music on CD. Find it here.

The Great Gatsby is also available with our partner libraries in Hailey, Bellevue, and Stanley.

Una extraordinaria fábula sobre el sueño americano.

Nominada por los estadounidenses como una de las 100 mejores novelas en la serie de PBS The Great American Read.

Jay Gatsby, el caballero que reina sobre West Egg, es el arquetipo de aquellos míticos años veinte en que pareció que todo era posible, un tiempo de felicidad entre el horror de la Primera Guerra Mundial y la barbarie de la Segunda. Junto al resto de los protagonistas, representa a la Generación Perdida, a todos aquellos que personificaron el mito de la pasión y el desamor, de la literatura que se funde con la vida.

Publicada por primera vez en 1925, El Gran Gatsby está considerada como La Gran Novela Americana. Simboliza el triunfo, la perpetua juventud y el deslumbramiento que desembocan en la tragedia, la decadencia y la caída, constantes reflejadas con asombrosa precisión en la propia vida de Fitzgerald.

We invite you to read or revisit this quintessentially American novel with us during our 2024 Winter Read.

The story of The Great Gatsby is held at The Community Library—in print in English and Spanish, digitally in eBook and eAudiobook, in film on DVD and streaming on Kanopy, and in music on CD. Find it in Spanish here.

The Great Gatsby is also available with our partner libraries in Hailey, Bellevue, and Stanley.

This is a book that endures, generation after generation, because every time a reader returns to The Great Gatsby, we discover new revelations, new insights, new burning bits of language.

—Jesmyn Ward
Two-time National Book Award winner, Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow

Set in the Jazz Age a hundred years ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby explores themes of class and wealth, industrialization and change. Set in a period of extravagance following a world war and global pandemic, The Great Gatsby is also a piercing narrative on the hopes and disillusionment of the American Dream.

A commercial disappointment during Fitzgerald’s lifetime, the novel surged in popularity during World War II after the Council on Books in Wartime sent free copies to soldiers overseas as one of its Armed Services Edition paperbacks. Founded by booksellers, publishers, librarians, and authors, the Council proclaimed that “books are weapons in the war of ideas,” and their work transformed publishing and helped soldiers through difficult situations far from home.

The Great Gatsby has since been adapted to film, stage, and radio. When the book entered the public domain in 2021, new interpretations blossomed across graphic novels, prequels and sequels, with many retellings tackling issues of race and sexuality through fantasy and fiction.

We invite you to read or revisit this quintessentially American novel with us during our 2024 Winter Read.

The story of The Great Gatsby is held at The Community Library—in print in English and Spanish, digitally in eBook and eAudiobook, in film on DVD and streaming on Kanopy, and in music on CD. Find it here.

The Great Gatsby is also available with our partner libraries in Hailey, Bellevue, and Stanley.

This is a fascinating story of perseverance, individual achievement and team spirit. Available in Spanish from Boundless/Axis360.

Es esta una fascinante historia de perseverancia, superación individual y espíritu de equipo

Con orígenes en la Depresión norteamericana y a pocos años de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Daniel James Brown narra la epopeya del equipo de ocho remeros y su timonel de la Universidad de Washington, y su épica misión de ganar la medalla de oro en 1936 en los Juegos Olímpicos del Berlín de Hitler. El equipo de remo estadounidense que sorprendió al mundo y que transformó este deporte atrajo la atención de millones de personas.
Fue una misión improbable desde el principio. Con un equipo compuesto por hijos de madereros, trabajadores de los astilleros y agricultores, el equipo de la Universidad de Washington no esperaba poder derrotar a los equipos de élite de la costa este y Gran Bretaña; sin embargo lo hizo, y llegó a sorprender al mundo al derrotar al equipo alemán de remo de Adolf Hitler.
Partiendo de los propios diarios de los chicos y de los vívidos recuerdos de un sueño, Brown ha creado el retrato inolvidable de una era, una celebración de un logro notable y una crónica de búsqueda personal a través de la visión de uno de estos jóvenes extraordinarios.

Find the ebook on Axis 360 here.

As the fate of some 11 million undocumented immigrants has become the political football of the 2016 campaign, actress America Ferrera heads to Texas, the state with the longest border and home to 1.65 million people living without papers.

Ferrera, whose parents and siblings are immigrants from Honduras, understands the challenges faced by the new arrivals to the U.S. fleeing in Central America. In Out of Reach, she witnesses the special difficulties for Central American refugees in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, where U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints inside the U.S., many miles from the border, keep undocumented people hemmed-in and place the American dream out of reach.

Streaming on Kanopy, free with your library card.