Counterfeit, a fictional fraud-novel by Kirstin Chen, is a fast-paced story that delves deeper than you might expect. The novel is initially narrated by Ava Wong, a Chinese-American Stanford graduate who is taking time away from her corporate law career. At first glance, her life seems perfect, and then Ava reveals that her husband works…
Rivers Solomon’s short novel The Deep is a riveting folkloric, afrofuturist novel that imagines a society of water-dwelling beings who descended from pregnant African women who were thrown overboard slave ships. This is by far the most interesting mermaid narrative I have ever read. The novella was inspired by a song of the same name…
Naomi Krupitsky’s novel The Family is an engaging, engrossing story about two young girls who grow up together in Brooklyn in the 1940s. Sofia and Antonia are neighbors and best friends whose immigrant fathers work in “The Family.” Sofia and Antonia do not understand what “The Family” is, exactly, but they do sense that people…
All Kinds of Lives (July 2022) by Shilpa Jacobie and Max McConnell
Ray is a talented young black musician who inherits an old violin from his grandmother. The violin turns out to be a very rare and priceless instrument. He is well on his way to achieving international success when the violin is stolen. The suspects are many, including members of his own family. As he tries…
By: Hallie Rubenhold Narrated by: Louise Brealey Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins “Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London – the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine, and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from…
Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club That Sparked Modern Feminism When I was working my history degree way back in the mists of time I took a class on the history of feminism. The class was very interesting and at one point the professor made a glancing reference to an organization in Greenwich…
Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman Nominated for the MCBA 2023, this middle grade historical fiction book is based on the Chernobyl Disaster of 1986 in Pripyat, Ukraine (then part of the USSR). It’s a glimpse into life under a communist regime and also sheds light on the prevalent anti-semitism of the time. The story follows…
The Last Dragonslayer “In the good old days, magic was indispensable. But now magic is fading: Drain cleaner is cheaper than a spell, and magic carpets are used for pizza delivery. Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs Kazam, an employment agency for magicians—but it’s hard to stay in business when magic is drying up. And then the…
Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed This is my very first read from YA author Samira Ahmed. Hollow Fires is a powerful read and I was wrecked for days while reading this book and for a few days after as well. The author does a tremendous job with this book based on real news stories. For…
I love books about libraries, and books about bookstores, and books about books… but I did not really love this book. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections is a mystery written by Eva Jurczyk, and the setting is a university library in Canada. Liesl Weiss has been given an unexpected promotion when her…
Cash Blackbear is back again in the second entry of Marcie R. Rendon’s Cash Blackbear Mystery Series, Girl Gone Missing. Just like its predecessor, the strength of Girl Gone Missing does not lie in the process of mystery-solving, but more so on how that process affects the titular character, Cash. Girl Gone Missing picks up…
Little Souls by Sandra Dallas This historical fiction book is set in 1918 Denver, Colorado during World War I and the Great Spanish Influenza. The book focuses on two sisters named Helen and Lutie who have moved from Iowa to start a new life in Denver after the death of their parents. Helen is a…
Abbi Waxman’s most recent novel, Adult Assembly Required, features some of the same characters seen in her earlier book The Bookish Life of Nina Hill. You do not need to read any of Waxman’s previous books before you read this one (but I am pretty sure that you will not regret reading The Bookish Life…
Coming in September, Charlotte will be curating a book display on books translated into English. Here are a couple to get you started. The Discomfort of Evening: A Novel by Marieke Lucas Rijnveld, Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison Winner of The International Booker Prize 2020 I asked God if he please couldn’t take my…
The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner The Summer Place is Jennifer Weiner’s newest book, a family drama in which EVERYONE seems to have a secret. And each of these secrets has the potential to greatly alter, if not ruin, someone else’s life. This book tells the story of three generations of a family, and is…
Whistleblower by Susan Rigetti In 2017, twenty-five-year-old Susan Fowler published a blog post detailing the sexual harassment and retaliation she’d experienced as an entry-level engineer at Uber. The post went viral, leading not only to the ouster of Uber’s CEO and twenty other employees, but ‘starting a bonfire on creepy sexual behavior in Silicon Valley…
The Drowning Sea: A Maggie d’Arcy Mystery by Sarah Stewart Taylor For the first time in her adult life, former Long Island homicide detective Maggie D’arcy is unemployed. No cases to focus on, no leads to investigate, just a whole summer on a remote West Cork peninsula with her teenage daughter Lilly and her boyfriend,…
Decimate by Christopher Rice Claire Huntley and her brother, Poe, were on a midnight hike in Montana when the woods went wild. A blinding, devouring light and a rumbling pulse that blasted them off their feet left both kids with little memory of what happened. Their father insisted it was a violent extraterrestrial abduction; his…
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata I was REALLY looking forward to reading this book, and it did not disappoint! It was not at all the book I was expecting to read, however. This is Sayaka Matura’s tenth book, and it is her first book to be translated into English. The narrator is Keiko, a…
All Kinds of Lives (June 2022) by Shilpa Jacobie and Max McConnell
Jen’s note: I bought a (signed) copy from the author when he visited back in November. I forgot about it for a while and then waited until playoff time to start reading it. Awesome trip down memory lane. Any Celtics fan GenX or older will love it! “From award-winning Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy, an…
The Mozart Code by Rachell McMillan From author Rachel McMillan comes a richly researched historical romance that takes place in post-World War II Europe and features espionage and a strong female lead.Lady Sophia Huntington Villiers is no stranger to intrigue, as her work with Alan Turing’s Bombe Machines at Bletchley Park during the war attests. Her…
The Truth About Melody Browne by Lisa Jewell Single-mom Melody Browne cannot remember anything that happened in her life before her ninth birthday. When she turned nine, her house burned down and destroyed both her possessions and her memories. Melody is in her early thirties and lives with her seventeen-year–old son, Jack, in a subsidized…
Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee Maizy Chen is not happy to spend her summer in Last Chance, a small town in Minnesota away from her home and friends in California. But her family’s restaurant The Golden Palace where Maizy will be spending her time in Last Chance holds many secrets and stories. As…
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother’s death and her hidden past–a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind…
The Secret History by Donna Tartt Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality…
The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe This is the kind of book you want to read in one sitting. It was recently nominated for the Massachusetts Teen Choice Book Award and follows the story of Nora, a young girl who has been to hell and back, and has learned to survive. It’s a good…
Ordinary Monsters by J. M. Miro Sixteen-year-old Charlie Ovid, despite a lifetime of brutality, doesn’t have a scar on him. His body heals itself, whether he wants it to or not. Marlowe, a foundling from a railway freight car, shines with a strange bluish light. He can melt or mend flesh. When two grizzled detectives…
Everything Must Go by Camille Pagan Laine Francis is a home organizer living in Ann Arbor with her husband, and grieving the recent loss of her dog. Laine grew up in New York City, and one thing she knows for sure is that while she enjoys visiting her sisters and mom in New York, she…
30I have always loved birds of prey: hawks, falcons or eagles. Whether it was as child watching Red Tailed Hawks circle in the thermals over my grandfather’s farm or a cooper’s hawk crashing through the hedges of my backyard trying to chase down it’s next meal, I have been obsessed with the intensity and focus…
Cinder & Glass is a retold of the classic fairytale of Cinderella. The story is set in the late 17th century in the court of the king of France. Cendrillon de Louvois the main character in the story has a lot of beauty, charm, etc. compared to the other ladies in the king’s court and…
There is a corner of the app TikTok known as BookTok; it is all about books and reading, and it is growing quickly! People known as “BookTokers” post videos recommending books, showing their book collections, making jokes about books, sharing their favorite authors, etc. These short videos have had a huge impact on the publishing…
River Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts is an imaginative, violent science fiction novel that explores the brutality of plantation slavery in a generation ship setting, which holds the descendents of those who fled a dying Earth hundreds of years ago. The world of Matilda (the spaceship) is very well built, exploring a very diverse population…
The story of Cabeza de Vaca is one that I was dimly aware of from High School and College history classes but I never got the detail and perspective afforded by A Land So Strange. The basic story was de Vaca ends up being one of the few survivors of and expedition into Florida and…
If you liked Jen’s recommendation of Watergate: A New History by Garret M. Graf check out her Watergate reading list A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures by Ben Bradlee This is the witty, candid story of a daring young man who made his own way to the heights of American journalism and public life, of…
Cress Watercress by Gregory MaguireIn – “Picked it up because I loved Wicked (Both the book and the play) and it’s a good story with GREAT illustrations by David Litchfield.” – Chelsey When Papa doesn’t return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It’s a dangerous world for…
Reviewing Emery Lee’s Meet Cute Diary is a challenge because it is the most overt celebration of trans joy, trans culture, and trans love that I have ever had the privilege of reading, which makes it so hard to think about with a critical eye. The young adult novel follows main character Noah, a transgender…
While Susan Rigetti’s crime fiction novel Cover Story is not the best book I’ve read recently, it was engrossing and I couldn’t put it down. It has strong Inventing Anna vibes, and if you are enjoying all the con artist shows that are currently streaming as much as I am, I confidently recommend this book.…
Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman When Britt-Marie’s husband leaves her, she is left adrift, with no employable skills, no family and no home. Low on social skills and obsessed with cleaning, Britt-Marie doesn’t seem to have a lot to offer. When the employment office manages to get her a job in the dying town…
Watercress by Andrea Wang, Illus. by Jason Chin This beautifully illustrated picture book packs a punch. Watercress can be read to younger kids but is rich enough in story to discuss with older kids, teens and adults alike. Andrea Wang tells a story about pride, family, poverty and immigration in just a few words. Winner of…
Watergate: A New History – Garret M. Graf I’ve been a Watergate junkie since college and have consumed over the years, every book, documentary, podcast, and movie I could find on the subject. In recent years however, the stories behind these scandals have lost their appeal due to the extreme unlikelihood that we’ll ever see…
Amanda Pellegrino’s novel Smile and Look Pretty exposes the precariousness of industries which rely on the exploitation of assistants to maintain status quo. Cate, Lauren, Max and Olivia are four close friends who are all assistants to powerful figures in various entertainment industries. These twenty-something women all had big dreams when starting their careers, and…
Julie Otsuka’s new book, The Swimmers, is a little bit of a puzzle. It is beautifully written, and heartbreaking in its clarity. Is it a novel? Is it essays? Is it a collection of three novellas? Maybe it does not matter what it is, but it is a little jarring when the first “novella” or…
After finishing a reread of Martha Wells’ Murder Bot Diaries series I was looking for something similar to read. You may not know this but the library has access to a program that helps you pick new books to read: Novelist. I availed myself of its services and it suggested among other things The Salvage…
True Biz is Sara Nović’s latest novel, and takes the reader on an amazing journey. The story is told from the perspective of three narrators. One is February Waters, the headmistress at an Ohio boarding school for Deaf students. February is a hearing ally to the Deaf community, who grew up with a Deaf mother.…
When I saw the new CD audiobook of Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown hit our shelves, I figured that was my sign to revisit the ageless classic. And I was right! Our shelves are lined with her cozy mysteries, but this 1970s coming of age novel has a special place in my heart. Being…
Sally Hepworth’s latest novel, The Younger Wife, is an engaging domestic suspense story that will appeal to everyone who loves Sally’s writing as much as I do. The book begins at the wedding of Stephen Aston and Heather Wisher, and the narrator is an unnamed wedding guest. Stephen’s adult daughters Tully and Rachel are bridesmaids,…
In our Today In History Reading List feature, we take the events of a particular day in history and try to give you a work of fiction and a work of non-fiction relating to those events. 1689 – Bostonians Rise Up And Imprison Edmund Andros, the governor of the Dominion of New England In the…
Cuphead, Volume 1: Comic Capers & Curios by Zack Keller This graphic novel is a series of short stories and adventures of Cuphead and Mugman as they encounter old friends, enemies, shenanigans , thrills, and fun. The comics reflect the vintage animation of the popular video and computer game of Cuphead. The illustrations are amazing and…
The Fashion Orphans by Randy Susan Meyers and M.J. Rose [This book is so new no libraries own it yet. Please check back here to see about future availablity] In this novel by co-authors Randy Susan Meyers and M.J. Rose, estranged sisters Gabrielle and Lulu find themselves thrown together to solve some mysteries around their…
House Of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas Also Available On Libby The first in Maas’s new adult fiction series will feel at home to fans of her YA works. This series can feel as long as it’s 803 pages but there is a big surprise payoff around page 650 if you are willing…
April is poetry month so we thought we’d share some of our favorite poems and poetry collections. Poetry Collections Dog Songs: Thirty-Five Dog Songs and One Essay by Mary Oliver. Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments edited by Tony Trigilio. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho translated by Anne Carson Ariel by Sylvia Plath. Life on…
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The Me You Love in the Dark by Skottie Young and Art by Jorge Corona Also Available On Hoopla The premise is one we have all seen before in the horror genre. Seeking to find themselves, a person or family retreats to a quiet house in the country, but it seems something else already lives…
Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper series is the most comforting read I’ve picked up in a while. The young adult graphic novel romance series currently has four volumes with a fifth on the way (although if you’re too impatient to wait for the fifth to be published, author Alice Oseman releases updates three times a month on…
These books explore the experience of people from around the world who seek safety and a peaceful life after their countries are torn apart by war. Click For More Titles
The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free is about the residential hotel for women that was built in 1928 and functioned as a hotel until the 21st century when it was converted into condos. Bren writes about how and why the Barbizon was built, but the overall story is about the history of women working…
A friend of mine recommended Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers to me after I ranted about a different romance novel I disliked, and it was the perfect palate cleanser! At its most basic core, this is a lesbian spin on the classic “waking up married to a stranger in Vegas” trope, but it is so…
In March 2007 the United Nations desiganted March 25 as a day to honor and remember the victoms of slavery and the internation slave trade. If you would like to observe this day of rememberance, the library is providing this reading list. This is by no means an exhaustive list on this topic. If you…
How Do I Un-Remember This?: Unfortunately True Stories Podcaster Danny Pellegrino’s new book will make you laugh-out-loud one minute, and shed some quick tears the next. Danny shares memories of growing up in the 1990s as a “closeted kid” in a small town in the midwest, and we learn how the internet and reality television…
In some ways The Brothers York is your standard history of the Wars of the Roses. It follows the myriad of factions vying for the English throne. All of the side switching and reverses of those factions. However, Penn does make an interesting argument. For all this civil war is presented as House of Lancaster…
Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan This book was an excellent read and when I saw it on the shelves I had to check this out. The book is about a young girl named Xinyin who is the daughter of the moon goddess Chang’e who explores various kingdoms on her quest to…
The Irish Assassins by Julie Kavanagh One sunlit evening, May 6 l882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were funded by American supporters of Irish independence and carried out by the Invincibles, a militant…
The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi, is the first book in the Jaipur Trilogy, and is currently being adapted for a TV series. The novel tells the story of Lakshmi, who escaped an abusive marriage at age seventeen and fled to the city of Jaipur. She establishes herself as a henna artist to the women…
My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress – this book about Anna Delvey (the infamous subject of Inventing Anna), written by her former friend Rachel DeLoache Williams. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup – this book is written by John Carreyrou, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. This nonfiction book…
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley. Winner of the Printz Award for best teen fiction of the year, this thriller features part-Obijwe native Daunis Fontaine, newly graduated from high school and about to start college in the fall. When a brutal murder-suicide thrusts her into the midst of an FBI investigation into drug dealers and fatally…
The Sisters Sweet by Elizabeth Weiss. The Sisters Sweet is the debut novel of author Elizabeth Weiss. The story is set in Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s, and narrated by Harriet. Harriet and her twin sister Josie are the daughters of Maud and Lenny. Maude is a former Vaudeville performer, whose rise to fame…
Some of the books that I have setting on my nightstand waiting to be read The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo the Transformation of Western Civilization by Paul Strathern Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something happened that transformed the entire culture of western civilization. Painting, sculpture,…
Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman This beautiful, heartbreaking story takes place in a small Australian town in 1968. Tom Hope, a farmer, is a dependable, solid man who suffers many painful losses. Tom’s wife, Trudy, leaves him, and then shows up a year later pregnant with another man’s child. Tom loves the…
All the titles link to a digital format of the book in our catalog. There may be other audio formats available so please search our catalog for them. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders The long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other…
David Green’s The Hudrend Years War is not a standard chronological history of the Hundred Years War. In fact if you need a history that follows the course of the war this probably isn’t the book for you. What this book does really well is cataloging the ways that a war that lasts for several…
Was Told It Would Get Easier by Abbi Waxman I Was Told It Would Get Easier is Abbi Waxman’s latest novel, and while I recommend it to fans of her books, be aware that it is not as great as The Bookish Life of Nina Hill. I Was Told It Would Get Easier is told…
Hola Papi!: How to Come Out In a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer The first time someone called John Paul (JP) Brammer “Papi” was on the popular gay hookup app Grindr. At first, it was flattering, but then it happened again and again…and again, leaving JP wondering: Who the…
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Tall of Boeing by Peter Robison A fast-paced look at the corporate dysfunction–the ruthless cost-cutting, toxic workplaces, and cutthroat management–that contributed to one of the worst tragedies in modern aviation Boeing is a century-old titan of American industry. The largest exporter in the US, it played a central…
Ari Reviews The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress By Ariel Lawhon I enjoyed reading this book very much. The story is set in 1920’s and 1930’s New York that focuses on three main characters Stella Crater the wife of Judge Crater, Maria the Crater’s Maid, and Judge Crater’s mistress Ritzi that are in a…
In our Today In History Reading List feature, we take the events of a particular day in history and try to give you a work of fiction and a work of non-fiction relating to those events. 748 – Abbasid Revolution The Abbasid revolution over threw the Umayyad Caliphate and establised the Abbasid Caliphate which lasted…
A Little Hope by Ethan Joella A Little Hope is a beautifully written novel, with an unusual balance of joy and heartbreak. The book begins with a young family, Greg and his wife Freddie, and their young daughter Addie. Greg and Freddie are reeling from Greg’s recent diagnosis of multiple myeloma, and trying to keep…
Here are some of the staff’s favorite audiobooks. Perfect for your commute, a quiet walk or a workout at the gym. Where possible we’ve linked them to our digital download services Overdrive (aka Libby) or Hoopla but they are often available in other audio formats as well. Check our catalog. Jade Dragon Mountain by Elsa…
Several People Are Typing This book was my book group’s January pick, and it is an unusual choice for my book group. We are divided on our opinions of the book, but we all agree that it is very thought-provoking. All of the dialogue and action is told through the Slack messages of employees at…
The unique thing about Thompson’s Sea People isn’t that it’s a history of Polynesia but that it is a history of the search to figure out who Polynesians were. Ever since Ferdinand Magellan first crossed the Pacific Europeans have been trying to figure out where the people who lived on the islands of the Pacific…
The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny Chief Inspector Gamache finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request. He’s asked to provide security for what promises to be a non-event. Then Gamache starts looking into Professor Abigail Robinson and discovers an agenda so repulsive he begs the university to cancel the lecture.…
Kindred by Octavia E Butler Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save…
The Voyagers. The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit the Pacific were astounded and perplexed to find populations thriving thousands of miles from continents. Who were these people? From where…
A Carnival of Snackery by David Sedaris In this follow-up to his previous volume of diaries, Theft by Finding, the award-winning humorist chronicles the years 2003-2020, charting the years of his rise to fame with his trademark misanthropic charm and wry wit. The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich From one of our most innovative and…
Crow by Barbara Wright This middle grade historical fiction novel was written in 2012 and covers the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot and only successful coup on American soil. The local elected government in Wilmington that included African American Alderman and white officials who supported them were threatened and banished from the town. White Supremacists completely…
Bright Ages is not your usual book about the Middle Ages and not just because it seeks to do away with the “dark ages” myth about the fall of Rome and the west. It’s lay out is episodic. It uses events throughout the middle ages to demonstrate how people in the middle ages saw themselves…
Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit By Colby Cedar Smith This novel in verse captures one young woman’s struggle for independence, equality, and identity as the daughter of Greek and French immigrants in tumultuous 1930s Detroit The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel: A Story of Sleepy Hollow. By Alyssa Palombo When her secret lover, Ichabod…
Walking in Two Worlds by Wab Kinew There is both a depth and a playfulness in the telling of this YA story about Bugz and Feng. They live in a post pandemic, futuristic world where young people live not just in a virtual reality but also in an augmented reality. They constantly see the world…
Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa. Emmy Award-winning NPR journalist Maria Hinojosa shares her personal story interwoven with American immigration policy’s coming-of-age journey at a time when our country’s branding went from “The Land of the Free” to “the land of invasion.” Nubia. Real…
The Unofficial Disney Parks Drink Recipe Book: From Lefou’s Brew to the Jedi Mind Trick, 100+ Magical Disney-Inspired Drinks by Ashley Craft. As a Disney lover when I saw this book in the new nonfiction display I knew I had to check this one out to bring home to try out the recipes. This book…
Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner Anne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood, when she met and befriended the future Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, the Princess Margaret. Though the firstborn child of the 5th Earl of Leicester, who…
I stumbled on this series when I was reading Seeking Truths Through: Historians on Writing Historical Genre Fiction in Perspectives On History. Laury Silvers is a scholar in the medieval Islamic world. She had moved from academia to writing historical fiction because it was one of the only ways to get at the lives of…
Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to…
Janis: Her Life and Music I loved this book so much! – Charlotte From GoodReads Janis Joplin’s first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an early sense of the power of the blues, music you could only find on obscure records and in roadhouses along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast.…
I highly recommend this nonfiction book and it was an interesting read to learn about the life of Empress Maria Theresa and her three daughters that includes Marie Antoinette, queen of France. Nancy Goldstone did an amazing job in how she wrote the book and laid out each chapter relating to a particular topic about…
I came across this book in the Children’s room and had seen it is really popular among patrons so I thought I would read it. The story follows a girl Emily, her brother, and mother as they process the sudden loss of their father and must move into their great-grandfather’s home to start over. Emily discovers…
Fran’s comment: This eerily prescient novel about a global virus is a well written but troubling read. The saving grace is the relationship and input of the doctor friends that give it a much needed human perspective. The healing power of their friendship is a testament to the resiliency of the human spirit. About the…
“Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper…