by Tracy Horodyski | Mar 27, 2019 | Librarian's Pick, Uncategorized
“The youngest of three children in a conservative Brooklyn family, Mizrahi was an outlier from the get-go. “The Syrian-Jewish community had never seen anything like me before,” he writes. “I stuck out like a chubby gay thumb.” While his peers were playing ball,...
by Tracy Horodyski | Mar 5, 2019 | Librarian's Pick, Uncategorized
“The novel follows a family of three grown sisters after Althea, the oldest sister and the family matriarch, is sent to jail along with her husband. Her sisters, Viola and Lillian, must rise to the occasion to care for Althea’s twin daughters. While each woman...
by Tracy Horodyski | Dec 6, 2018 | Librarian's Pick, Uncategorized
“Violet needs structure, certainty and, above all, advance plans. But what’s a deeply loving and controlling mother to do when her daughter, Cerise—happily partnered up with a woman named Barb—becomes pregnant? The father’s name is known only to Cerise and Barb,...
by Tracy Horodyski | Oct 26, 2018 | Librarian's Pick, Uncategorized
“Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you’re suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube (like gulp! a coffin) with hundreds of...
by Tracy Horodyski | Oct 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
“Nicole Chung has known she was adopted since she was old enough to understand the concept. It would be difficult to miss, anyway; she’s Korean-American and was raised by white parents in a lily-white Oregon town. Although Chung faced challenges as the only...
by Tracy Horodyski | Sep 27, 2018 | Librarian's Pick, Uncategorized
“Relying on meticulous research, Emre reveals the vulnerable mindset of young housewife Briggs when she happened upon Carl Jung’s psychological theories in the 1920s. Inspired by Jung’s theories—but with no real psychological credentials and a background in...
