#FridayReads: The Three of Us
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. View or Download the Book Club Kit. Watch Ore Agbaje-Williams on Our Book Club Picks Panel. The wife has it all. A big house in a nice neighborhood, a ride-or-die snarky best friend, Temi, with whom to laugh about facile […]
What Will You Read for August? 2023
Request eGalleys of some of our favorite August titles, and if you love the books, please consider nominating them for LibraryReads! Remember, voting for the August list ends on 7/1. View our featured picks below, or browse extended Edelweiss collections for fiction here and nonfiction here. The Paris Mystery: A Novel by Kirsty Manning Intrepid reporter Charlotte “Charlie” […]
#FridayReads: Late Bloomers
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. View or Download the Book Club Kit. Watch Deepa Varadarajan on Our Summer Reading Panel. After thirty-six years of a dutiful but unhappy arranged marriage, recently divorced Suresh and Lata Raman find themselves starting new paths in life. Suresh is trying to […]
STARRED REVIEWS
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 Charm City Rocks by Matthew Norman “Norman (All Together Now, 2021) applies his signature wit and warmth to an unlikely relationship while making a convincing case for Charm […]
#FridayReads: The Midnight News
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. It is 1940 and twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond watches from her attic window as enemy planes fly over London. Still grieving her beloved brother, who never returned from France, she is trying to keep herself out of trouble: holding down a […]
An Author Letter from Lauren Belfer
Dear Librarians, Thank you. My life, my entire self, wouldn’t be possible without you. From the time I was very young, my mother took me to libraries. I clearly remember the North Park Branch of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, where my mother and I would go on Saturday mornings. When I was […]
Announcing the June LibraryReads List
Public library staff across the nation have spoken! Congratulations to the books selected for the June 2023 LibraryReads Top Ten List. Request eGalleys for Your June Readers’ Advisory. TOP PICK: The Quiet Tenant: A Novel by Clémence Michallon A pulse-pounding psychological thriller about a serial killer narrated by those closest to him: his 13-year-old daughter, […]
#FridayReads: Sisters of the Lost Nation
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. Anna Horn is always looking over her shoulder. For the bullies who torment her, for the entitled visitors at the reservation’s casino…and for the nameless, disembodied entity that stalks her every step—an ancient tribal myth come-to-life, one that’s intent on […]