by Tracy Horodyski | Oct 13, 2019 | Librarian's Pick
“We are inundated daily with reports about the devastating effects climate change is wreaking on the planet. Just when we thought we had heard it all, former New York Times science writer Tatiana Schlossberg brings new issues to the forefront in her debut...
by Tracy Horodyski | Oct 11, 2019 | Librarian's Pick
“Tunde is the young son of Nigerian immigrants growing up in a very white Utah in the late 1980s and early ’90s. Despite his college education, Tunde’s father constantly shifts from one job to another, unable to find one that can support his family. When Tunde...
by Tracy Horodyski | Oct 9, 2019 | Librarian's Pick
“Wife and mother Nora Lark lives in an unincorporated Arizona town struck by drought. When Inland opens, her husband is out searching for potable water and her two older sons have disappeared, leaving her alone with her youngest son, Toby, and her husband’s...
by Tracy Horodyski | Oct 7, 2019 | Librarian's Pick
“The invitation seems a bit silly to Abigail Sorenson: attend an all-expenses-paid retreat on an island off the coast of Tasmania to learn about a self-help book. But it’s an opportunity she can’t refuse, even if she does expect a catch in the form of a sales...
by Tracy Horodyski | Oct 4, 2019 | Librarian's Pick
“Haben Girma was born deafblind in California, to refugee parents forced to flee war-torn Eritrea. While her mother and father struggled to cope as immigrants, Girma simply yearned to belong—“a deafblind girl in a sighted, hearing world.” As her vision and...
by Tracy Horodyski | Oct 2, 2019 | Librarian's Pick
“A Pure Heart grapples with the question of how to be many things at once—a condition that afflicts everyone but requires only some to justify their complexities. Rajia Hassib’s novel follows the divergent lives of two Egyptian sisters, Rose and Gameela Gubran....
