Now Trending – Books in the News – June 2026

Kristin
Kristin

Even Library staff can struggle to keep up with all the bookish news out there. From social media to local papers, books are a hot topic. In this monthly post we are highlighting some regional literary news and connecting you with our library collections so you can keep your finger on the pulse of Pittsburgh. Check out what was trending and topical this past month from authors with Pittsburgh connections.

In the Catalog

Grizzled

Grizzled

Love Letters to 50 of North America’s Least Understood Animals

Jason Bittel

“Explore the lesser known side of 50 North American species”–Provided by publisher.

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Heart Wood

Heart Wood

Katey Hawthorne

The Stone City and the Heart Wood: uneasy neighbors separated by the Bluebird River. In the City, Hendrik is about to lose the only life he’s ever known, the only love he’s ever wanted. In the Wood, corruption threatens the carefully cultivated ecosystem and Dagan’s way of life. Two worlds, fated to collide at last. It could be the end. Or a new beginning.

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Mothership

Mothership

Tales From Afrofuturism and Beyond

Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond is a groundbreaking speculative fiction anthology that showcases the work from some of the most talented writers inside and outside speculative fiction across the globe.

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The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own

The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own

Gwendolyn Kiste

Enter a world possessed by recriminations from bygone eras, where the regrets and malice of years past still reverberate and shape our doom. Here, morally complex women and queer antiheroines swim against the current of a social structure that serves as a spectral prison in these layered stories of the weird and the Other.

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