SCPL Reads: Bingeworthy Books

Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early 18th-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.

Awarded a college basketball scholarship away from his childhood home silenced by tragedy, a young man befriends a spirited young woman who welcomes him into her loving, loud, chaotic household.

Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why -- or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch -- and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive.

A woman is wrongly implicated in a murder one decade after convincing the members of a deadlocked jury to return a not-guilty verdict.

On an idyllic island, 122 villagers and three scientists live peacefully until a scientist is murdered. This triggers the lowering of the island’s security system, which keeps a deadly fog at bay. If the murder isn’t solved within 107 hours, the fog will engulf the island, killing everyone.

Most of society lives “upcountry” in virtual reality to escape rising seas and epidemics, while those who can’t afford the subscription remain in crumbling “downcountry,” and two young soldiers must depend on unlikely allies in their fight for survival.