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BookFlix

BookFlix pairs animated stories with real-world concepts to help new readers improve their skills.

Hoopla Digital Comics

Enjoy thousands of digital comics and graphic novels in our Hoopla Digital Collection.

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Staff Picks

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Staff Picks for Adults 50+

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Hispanic Heritage Month 2025: Recent Fiction for Adults Latino/a/x Poetry Teen Reads Back to School Dark Academia

Hispanic Heritage Month 2025: Recent Fiction for Adults

The Unworthy

Bazterrica, Agustina María
VHS

Campanioni, Chris
The Possession of Alba Díaz

Cañas, Isabel
The Anatomy of Magic

Cervantes, J. C.
¡Pónk!

Clayton, Marcus
Along Came Amor

Daria, Alexis
Bochica

Flórez-Cerchiaro, Carolina

View the complete book list: Hispanic Heritage Month 2025: Recent Fiction for Adults

Latino/a/x Poetry

Good Monster

Antigua, Diannely
Yaguareté White

Báez, Diego
Consider the Rooster

Bendorf, Oliver
Homeland of My Body

Blanco, Richard
The Murmuring Grief of the Americas

Borzutzky, Daniel
Cipota Under the Moon

Castro Luna, Claudia María
Woman Without Shame

Cisneros, Sandra

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Teen Reads

Plain Jane and the Mermaid

Brosgol, Vera
The Enigma Girls

Fleming, Candace
Ruin Road

Giles, Lamar
A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants

Hirsch, Rebecca E.
[Earthsea

Le Guin, Ursula K.
Bye Forever, I Guess

Meadows, Jodi
When We Ride

Ogle, Rex

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Back to School

Scarecited on the First Day of School

Agostini, Alliah L.
Alpaca Goes Back-a to School

Bardhan-Quallen, Sudipta
Big Kids

Going, K. L.
Fall Is for Beginnings

LaRocca, Rajani
New

Mata, Nina
Tiny T. Rex and the First-day Oopsies

Stutzman, Jonathan
First Day Around the World

Zoboi, Ibi Aanu

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Dark Academia

The Atlas Six

Blake, Olivie
And He Shall Appear

Borgh, Kate van der
Society of Lies

Brown, Lauren Ling
Plain Bad Heroines

Danforth, Emily M.
The Things We Do to Our Friends

Darwent, Heather
The Two Doctors Górski

Fellman, Isaac R.
An Academy for Liars

Henderson, Alexis

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