by Tracy Horodyski | Jan 11, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“Award-winning poet and novelist Michael Crummey’s work draws imaginatively from the history and landscape of his native Newfoundland. The Innocents, his fifth novel, is the riveting story of an orphaned brother and sister whose relationship is tested by...
by Tracy Horodyski | Jan 9, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“Jaquira Díaz’s Ordinary Girls reaches deep into your heart and seizes your emotions from the very first sizzling paragraph. And as it carries you into some of Díaz’s darkest shadows and out into variegated light, it refuses to let go. In staccato sentences,...
by Tracy Horodyski | Jan 7, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“As graduate student Zachary Ezra Rawlins contemplates which book to choose in his university library, he muses that reading a novel “is like playing a game where all the choices have been made for you ahead of time by someone who is much better at that...
by Tracy Horodyski | Jan 5, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“Queer history is both old and new. We have been gay since the dawn of time, but only recently have queer people really started to speak our own stories into the historical record. The novelty of this—as well as the precarious lives many LGBTQ people still...
by Tracy Horodyski | Jan 3, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“Kids are unpredictable. They suddenly love food they once thought disgusting. And sometimes they just might spontaneously combust. In Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson doesn’t dwell on the science of human combustion. Instead, he uses the phenomenon as a...
by Tracy Horodyski | Jan 1, 2020 | Librarian's Pick
“The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini is hardly a typical biography; it’s more like taking an up-close-and-personal tour of the escape artist’s life, narrated not only by author Joe Posnanski in his wonderfully entertaining prose but also by a host of...
