Librarian’s Pick: Transcendent Kingdom – Yaa Gyasi
"Gifty was born in Huntsville, Alabama, after her family emigrated from Ghana. Now she’s finishing up a Ph.D. at Stanford, studying addiction and reward-seeking behaviors in mice. She has a personal connection with her chosen subject: When she was 10, her adored older...
Librarian’s Pick: Caste- Isabel Wilkerson
"In The Warmth of Other Suns, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson eloquently traced the lives of the 6 million Black Americans who fled the Jim Crow South during the Great Migration. Never once in that 640-page book did she mention the word racism. “I...
Librarian’s Pick: Mother Daughter Widow Wife – Robin Wasserman
"Who is Wendy Doe? The woman, found on a Peter Pan Bus to Philadelphia, has no money, no ID, and no memory of who she is, where she was going, or what she might have done. She’s assigned a name and diagnosis by the state: Dissociative fugue, a temporary amnesia that...
Librarian’s Pick: Florence Adler Swims Forever – Rachel Beanland
"Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to “America’s Playground” and move into the small apartment above their bakery. Despite the cramped quarters, this is the apartment where they raised their two...
Librarian’s Pick: Take A Hint, Dani Brown – Talia Hibbert
"Talia Hibbert is quickly becoming a contemporary romance powerhouse. Her return to the adventures of the Brown siblings with Take A Hint, Dani Brown is an easy contender for best book of the year. Zafir Ansari and Dani Brown couldn’t be more different. Zaf is a...
Owl’s Nest Review: The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter by Aaron Reynolds
Rex is a dog person without a dog. When his birthday rolls around, his dreams of a puppy are dashed when he’s gifted a chicken! Why a chicken? His parents call it a practice pet; a chicken is definitely easier to take care of than a dog. As it turns out, Rex’s parents...
Librarian’s Pick: The Only Good Indians – Stephen Graham Jones
"With a lengthy bibliography full of titles like Mongrels (2016) and After the People Lights Have Gone Off (2014), Jones has proven his horror mettle, but his latest novel steers the genre into some unexpected territory. When a group of young friends hunt elk on a...
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Closing the digital divide was serious work before COVID-19. It is imperative now. While the effects of the coronavirus may be seen for some time and Americans isolate themselves at home, those without computers and the internet are cut off from libraries, essential...
Librarian’s Pick: The Girl From Widow Hills – Megan Miranda
"Arden Maynor was sleepwalking when a flash flood swept her away. The country breathed a sigh of relief when the 6-year-old was found—and on every anniversary of that day, the media’s spotlight has returned to Arden and her mother. In Megan Miranda’s The Girl From...
Librarian’s Pick: Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
"Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia begins as a dreamy gothic mystery but quickly unfolds into a visceral, almost hallucinogenic nightmare. Noemí Taboada is enjoying life as a young socialite in 1950s Mexico City when she receives a bizarre letter from her...