Check Me Out - LKLD August 2025

ATMOSPHERE: A LOVE STORY

By Taylor Jenkins Reid

In 1980, Professor Joan begins training for the Space Shuttle in Houston with Top Gun pilot Hank, scientist John, mission specialist Lydia, warm-hearted Donna, and aeronautical engineer Vanessa, who become unlikely friends. In December 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything changed in an instant.

THE RIVER IS WAITING

By Wally Lamb

Corby Ledbetter, grappling with addiction, prison life, and the tragedy that shattered his family, finds unexpected kindness and connection behind bars, as he seeks redemption and hopes for forgiveness from those he’s hurt the most.

VERA, OR FAITH

By Gary Shteyngart

Both a bitter and humorous tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart, told through the eyes of their wondrous 10-year-old daughter, by the bestselling author of “Super Sad True Love Story.”

SNOOP

By Gordon Korman

Carter is stuck at home with both his legs in casts. Bored, he starts checking out the live feeds from police cams around his town. Before he knows it, he’s obsessed, watching his classmates when they don’t know he’s looking, and discovering some other VERY STRANGE things going on that no one else is noticing.

THE BEWITCHING

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia

While researching a forgotten horror writer, a graduate student uncovers a disturbing link between a vanished schoolgirl, a sinister novel, and her great-grandmother’s eerie childhood tales, leading her to suspect that an ancient, malevolent force still lingers in the halls of her university.

THE DAY THE BOOKS DISAPPEARED

By Joanna Ho, Caroline Pritchard, and Dan Santat

In an attempt to share his love of airplanes with his classmates, Arnold accidently wishes away all the books in his classroom until he learns that everyone’s individual interests bring them joy.

FADE IN

By Kyle Mills

When an ex-Navy SEAL ends up injured and imprisoned, a shadowy ring of power brokers offer him the only way out, through a high-stakes military mission, in this knockout punch of an international political espionage thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author.

NOT QUITE DEAD YET

By Holly Jackson

Thirty-six hours after being attacked, Jet wakes in the hospital to grim news that a bone fragment is putting pressure on her brain’s arterial wall and will cause a fatal hemorrhage. Instead of choosing surgery with a slim chance of survival, she uses her last week to find her murderer.