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With starred reviews from publications including Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal—your patrons will want to read these much-anticipated books that reviewers are raving about. FICTION Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah “Riveting. . . . Gurnah’s spare, unvarnished prose shines a harsh but honest light on the brutality of Africa’s colonial past. . . and […]
#FridayReads: When Women Were Dragons
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours, except for its most seminal event: the Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales, and talons; left a trail […]
Announcing the June 2022 LibraryReads List
Public library staff across the nation have spoken! Congratulations to the books selected for the June 2022 LibraryReads Top Ten List. Click to Request eGalleys to Prepare for Your June Readers’ Advisory. Click to Learn More About our LibraryReads picks on Audio. The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston A disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has […]
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#FridayReads: The Hacienda
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. Watch Isabel Cañas on the Spring Book & Author Festival Horror Panel. During the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father was executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first […]
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With starred reviews from publications including Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal—your patrons will want to read these much-anticipated books that reviewers are raving about. FICTION The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray “Gray provides plenty of backstory and enough depth to her characters that even those who mix up their Pride and […]
#FridayReads: I’ll Be You
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. View or Download the Book Club Kit Here. “You be me, and I’ll be you,” I whispered. As children, Sam and Elli were two halves of a perfect whole: gorgeous identical twins whose parents sometimes couldn’t even tell them apart. […]
#FridayReads: Blood Sugar
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. View or Download the Book Club Kit Here. “I could just kill you right now!” It’s something we’ve all thought at one time or another. But Ruby has actually acted on it. Three times, to be exact. Though she may be […]
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With starred reviews from publications including Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal—your patrons will want to read these much-anticipated books that reviewers are raving about. FICTION The Garden of Broken Things by Francesca Momplaisir “Superlative in her ability to portray the interior lives of mothers and their 24/7 litany of self-recrimination, Momplaisir also tackles […]