Along Those Lines: The Boundaries That Create Our World is a trip through and across the various lines that create and shape our lives, from the ones on maps to the ones demarking seasons or defining scholarly pursuits.
Though not …
Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O’Donnell, who is said to be living without food. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale’s Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl. As Anna’s life ebbs away, Lib …
Join Anna in her French year abroad where she goes to every movie she can find in her quest to become a film critic and falls hard for Etienne St. Clair, a British student who speaks perfect.
First in a …
Spanish-American Chef José Andrés arrived in Puerto Rico four days after Hurricane Maria ripped through the island in 2017.
This memoir, We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time recounts the chef’s …
Yewande Omotoso’s 2017 novel, The Woman Next Door, was a far-reaching examination of difficult personalities, and her debut, Bom Boy shares a lot of the same DNA.
Bom Boy follows the South African life of Leke, a young man …
In 2019, the Best Picture Oscar went to Green Book, a movie based very loosely on The Negro Motorist Green Book, an annual Jim Crow-era travel guide; known colloquially as “The Green Book.”
It listed hotels, restaurants, and …
Iris Lockhart is stunned when she receives news that her great-aunt Esme, a previously unknown woman edited out of her family’s history, is being released from Cauldstone Hospital, where she has been confined for more than sixty years, and soon …
As a teenager I was obsessed with UFOs. For a year or two I read only books about cop circles, close encounters, or alien abductions. I became very well versed in UFO lore. So when I heard the title of …
In 1946, Laura McAllan struggles to raise children without electricity or running water on her husband’s failing Mississippi Delta farm. As the war comes to an end, two young men return to work the land.
Jamie McAllan, Laura’s brother-in-law, is …
“The books I read were the dark kind—about scary things like disappearances and murders, especially the true ones. While other kids read J. K. Rowling, I read Stephen King. While other kids did history reports about the Civil War, I …
If your only reference to Farm Security Administration photographs during the depression is Dorothea Lange, take a look at the outstanding work of Wolcott who traveled the country with her Rolliflex and Speed Graphic cameras, highlighting the conditions of the …
A trippy, lush, wildly inventive, and gorgeously written Sci-Fi novel told in letters sent between two bitter enemies who find love that crosses and shapes both space and time.
What I love most about this book is how practical it is. You don’t have to be a master hand letterer or go buy a bunch of fancy tools – Kiley Bennet shows you how to use multiple art mediums …
Writer Steve Almond is a fanatic of many things, but perhaps nothing more so than music. This memoir is a joyous, raucous journey through how that happened.
Place a hold on Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life in the …
One of the first American writers to become internet famous, R. Eric Thomas’ columns in Elle have helped to create and shape a pop culture experience familiar to many: witty examinations of politics and celebrity online as a lens on …
I just finished the fifth in the Murderbot Diaries, a fast-paced science-fiction series by Martha Wells about a rogue construct (like a cyborg, but ‘born’ that way) who just wants to watch its shows and not talk to humans …
As a caseworker for the Department in Charge of Magical Youth, Linus Baker’s reports are impeccable; nothing but clinical observations about the state of the government-run homes where “gifted” children reside. This is why Extremely Upper Management increases his security …
When Kate Holland’s brother Frank approached Max Brooks with a tale about a volcanic eruption, a hi-tech-back-to-nature planned community, a Bigfoot massacre, and his missing sister’s journal, the author of World War Z wondered why Frank thought he would be …
When a young woman wakes up in the hospital with amnesia, she only knows there’s a head wound under her very trendy haircut, and that her phone addresses her as both “Mia” and “hello gorgeous.”
While perusing her phone, she …
This story is told in twelve plane flights. Each of the short chapters has as its title an airport departure and destination code (Chapter One, LGW-MAD, Chapter 12, BUD – LGW), beginning and ending in London.
The story moves through …
Need some love and laughs? Little Moments of Love and Snug by Catana Chetwynd are my go to fun reads about dating your best friend. You can read them in any order since they are a comic strip compilation. Snuggle …
Ripped from the headlines of 1914, Girl Waits with Gun is the first book in the unmissable historical mystery series by Amy Stewart.
Constance Kopp is everything we want in the first lady police deputy of Paterson, New Jersey: bold, …
For anyone who has or is intending to watch the new HBO miniseries The Plot Against America, the ebook and audiobook of Philip Roth’s 2004 novel (wonderfully read by Ron Silver) is available to download at Hoopla Digital and Libby/Overdrive.
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