Can anything good happen in a town called Shudder-To-Think?
For El and Octavia, the Pennsylvanian mining town is all they’ve ever known. They’ve done their best to hang out, have crushes, and be as normal as they can while the …
It’s Throwback Thursday! Forty-five years ago this month, Tom Robbins’s Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was published.
The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of fact, all “bursting with dimples and hormones”—and the FBI has …
If you read Jennifer Weiner’s Big Summer and need something similar or if you’re on the hold list and you’re looking for something to tide you over until it arrives, here’s a few read-a-likes we hope you’ll love.
Wedding Night…
At the last meeting of the Bring Your Own Book Club, a bunch of book lovers chatted about the books we’ve all been reading lately. Looks like we’ll be doing it again on April 23rd, if you’d like to …
Mirrorland by Carole Johnstone
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The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
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The Son of Mr. Suleman by Eric Jerome Dickey
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Unfortunately for high school graduate Becky Farwell, her family circumstances prevent her from leaving her small central Illinois farm town to attend college.
While working in the business offices of the local government she discovers a seemingly harmless accounting error. …
January Anderson is out of money, out of her long-term relationship, and rage-grieving her dead dad when she pulls up to the beach house on Lake Michigan. This is the cottage her father left for her after his sudden death, …
Moody and atmospheric, this is the type of horror book that seeps into your psyche, leaving you wondering who is controlling whom, and how.
The evil threaded through the novel manifests as both grotesque and obvious, and subtle and pervasive. …
We’re right in the middle of spring and, after the rough winter we had, it’s time to throw the windows open, let some fresh air in and get to work doing some spring cleaning.
Knowing that shoppers are in a …
It’s Throwback Thursday! Forty ago this month, Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love was published.
In his second collection, Raymond Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated and beloved short-story writers in …
April is National Poetry Month so this month’s task for our 2021 Reading Challenge is to read a book of poetry. Below you’ll find a few recommendations to meet the task, but for even more suggestions, give us a call …
The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
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Stargazer by Anne Hillerman
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Love in Color by Bolu Babalola
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Grief is as tricky as it is painful. Words that comfort one day come up short the next. It’s difficult to be that friend who knows what to say or do. The closest thing I’ve found to a manual for “being there for a suffering friend” is There is No Good Card for This by Kelsey Crowe and Emily McDowell.
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Everything is bad. Everyone is out to get you. And the world as you know it is ending soon. If you follow the news, that’s the narrative anyway.
Rutger Bregman, a historian from the Netherlands, argues that none of that …
This short, 138 page, dystopia novel won the 2018 National Book Award for translated literature.
Set in Japan at a time following an undisclosed disaster, the country has isolated itself from the rest of the world. Reminiscent of Orwell’s 1984, …
Wood burning is an easy and fun way to customize and personalize wooden objects. I have dabbled in it myself and love the low cost entry point, and versatility.
The Wood Burn Book is a handy guide for getting started …
The trailer for Netflix’s new series, Jupiter’s Legacy just dropped on the web. The show, based on the comic book series by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely, tells the story of a second generation of super heroes struggling to live …
It’s Throwback Thursday! Forty ago this month, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children was published.
Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime …
If you read Robert Kolker’s Hidden Valley Road and need something similar or if you’re on the hold list and you’re looking for something to tide you over until it arrives, here’s a few read-a-likes we hope you’ll love.
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Astrid Sees All by Natalie Standiford
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First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami
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Good Company by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
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A deliciously funny, remarkably poignant, and simply unputdownable novel about the power of friendship, the lure of frenemies, and the importance of making peace with yourself through all life’s ups and down. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author …
Named a best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, TIME, Slate, Smithsonian, The New York Post, and Amazon, Hidden Valley Road is the heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six …
Southern Book Prize representing southern bookseller favorites from 2020, is awarded to “the best Southern book of the year” as nominated by Southern indie booksellers and voted on by their customers. Winners were chosen by popular vote from a ballot …
