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All of OPL’s staff recommendations in one page. You can browse the different lists based on topics, format or genres, or you can read some of the more detailed blog posts about specific items.

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Love Island(s)?

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    Disco Witches of Fire Island
    A Novel
    Fell, Blair
    2025
    It's 1989, and Joe Agabian and his best friend Ronnie set out to spend their first summer working in the hedonistic gay paradise of Fire Island Pines. Joe is desperate to let loose and finally move…
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    Island Vegan
    75 Flavorful Recipes From the Caribbean : Jamaica, Trinidad, Haiti, Dominican Republic & More
    Rose, Lloyd
    2024
    These plant-powered meals celebrate the rich cuisine and culture of the Caribbean without compromising on authenticity or flavor. Nourish your body and soul with a variety of classic and creative…
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    Dinner on Monster Island
    Essays
    De Rozario, Tania
    2024
    "In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lamba Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir…
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    Islands of Decolonial Love
    Stories & Songs
    Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake
    2013
    "... Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars…

Fashion, Poison, Debutantes, Spies and Curses – Oh YA!

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    Truth Cursed
    Dickinson, Angie
    2025
    Cressida Hoth is alone in the world. Orphaned and unwanted, she is inflicted with a peculiar curse by her mischievous aunts and banished to a finishing school in the secluded kingdom of Dernmont.…
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    House of Marionne
    Elle, J.
    2023
    A modern-day YA romantic fantasy series opener about a glamorous magical world of social elites, forbidden love, and a dark magic that could destroy it all... 17-year-old Quell has lived her entire…
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    Our Infinite Fates
    A Novel
    Steven, Laura
    2025
    They've loved each other in a thousand lifetimes. They've killed each other in every one. Evelyn can remember all her past lives. She can also remember that in every single one, she's been murdered…
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    The Protégée
    Ridley, Erica
    2025
    Eighteen-year-old Angélique dreams of designing extravagant gowns like the ladies in the bourgeoise wear to balls and soirées. Because she's working-class, Angélique knows that her life will,…

No Rain Check on These!

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    Weather Permitting
    Twenty-five Years of Ice Storms, Hurricanes, Wildfires, and Extreme Climate Change in Canada
    St. Clair, Chris
    2022
    "For more than twenty-five years, Chris St. Clair was on the frontline of Canada's biggest weather events as a popular presenter on The Weather Network. For the first time, he shares his…
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    The End of Eden
    Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown
    Welz, Adam
    2023
    "The stories we tell ourselves about climate change tend to focus on the damage inflicted on human societies by big storms, severe droughts, and rising sea levels. Walz provides a revelatory…
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    A Brief History of the Earth's Climate
    Everyone's Guide to the Science of Climate Change
    Earle, Steven
    2021
    "A Brief History of the Earth's Climate is an accessible, illustrated, myth-busting guide to the natural evolution of the Earth's climate over 4.6 billion years, how and why human-caused global…
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    Cloud Warriors
    Deadly Storms, Climate Chaos--and the Pioneers Creating A Revolution in Weather Forecasting
    Weber, Thomas E.
    2025
    "[A] wide-ranging look at the people, and the technology, predicting and tracking weather in order to raise public awareness to keep one step ahead of extreme weather. For millennia, humans have…

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