Librarian’s Pick: All Adults Here – Emma Straub
"No one engages a reader quite like Emma Straub. I was 30 pages into her warmhearted new novel, All Adults Here, before I even realized it. Her writing is witty, informal and deceptively simple, drawing readers in as if they’re having a conversation with a close...
Librarian’s Pick: My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell
"Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is...
Owl’s Nest Review: Nightbooks by J.A. White
Alex is great at writing scary stories, but this makes him the weird kid at school. One night, tired of being seen as different, he decides that he’ll destroy his notebooks in the basement burner of his apartment building and start fresh. Unfortunately, Alex gets...
Librarian’s Pick: Simon The Fiddler – Paulette Jiles
"In March 1865, the long and bitter War between the States is winding down. Till now, twenty-three-year-old Simon Boudlin has evaded military duty thanks to his slight stature, youthful appearance, and utter lack of compunction about bending the truth. But following a...
Librarian’s Pick: Afterlife – Julia Alvarez
"Antonia Vega is still reeling a year after the death of her husband, Sam, a beloved local doctor. Since then, she has been so adrift that she sometimes pours orange juice into her coffee. Ever the novelist, she often quotes favorite authors, from Wallace Stevens to...
Librarian’s Pick: Wow, No Thank You – Samantha Irby
"Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and has been friendzoned by Hollywood,...
Librarian’s Pick: Hidden Valley Road – Robert Kolker
"Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there...
Librarian’s Pick: The Glass Hotel – Emily St. John Mandel
"The Hotel Caiette, the glass hotel of the title, is a super luxury hotel in a remote corner of Vancouver Island, a “five-star experience where your cell phone doesn’t work.” A young local woman named Vincent winds up working there as a bartender after some youthful...
Librarian’s Pick: The Book Of Lost Friends – Lisa Wingate
"Bestselling author Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual Lost Friends advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as newly freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold away. Louisiana, 1875: In...
Librarian’s Pick: The Happy Ever After Playlist- Abby Jimenez
"Two years after losing her fiancé, Sloan Monroe still can't seem to get her life back on track. But one trouble-making pup with a "take me home" look in his eyes is about to change everything. With her new pet by her side, Sloan finally starts to feel more like...