by Tracy Horodyski | Apr 20, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her...
by Tracy Horodyski | Apr 17, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“Fremont writes with wit and candor about growing up in a household held together by a powerful glue: secrets. Her parents, profoundly affected by their memories of the Holocaust, pass on, to both Helen and her older sister, a penchant for keeping their lives...
by Tracy Horodyski | Apr 15, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a louding voice, the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni’s father sells her...
by Tracy Horodyski | Apr 13, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“Judy never intended to start wearing the dog. But when she stumbled across her son Teddy’s old baby sling during a halfhearted basement cleaning, something in her snapped. So: the dog went into the sling, Judy felt connected to another living being, and...
by Tracy Horodyski | Apr 11, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“Where do you see yourself in five years? Dannie Kohan lives her life by the numbers. She is nothing like her lifelong best friend;the wild, whimsical, believes-in-fate Bella. Her meticulous planning seems to have paid off after she nails the most important job...