#FridayReads: American Mermaid
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. Watch Julia Langbein on Our Debuts to Note Panel. Broke English teacher Penelope Schleeman is as surprised as anyone when her feminist novel American Mermaid becomes a best-seller. Lured by the promise of a big payday, she quits teaching and moves 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 The Bride Wore White by Amanda Quick “With her usual storytelling panache, Quick (When She Dreams, 2022) gracefully returns to the glamour-tinged, wit-infused world of her 1930s Burning […]
#FridayReads: All That Is Mine I Carry With Me
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Watch William Landay on Our Returning Favorites Panel. One afternoon in November 1975, ten-year-old Miranda Larkin comes home from school to find her house eerily quiet. Her mother is missing. Nothing else is out of place. There is no sign of struggle. Her mom’s pocketbook remains in […]
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Announcing the April LibraryReads List
Public library staff across the nation have spoken! Congratulations to the books selected for the April 2023 LibraryReads Top Ten List. Request eGalleys for Your April Readers’ Advisory. Natural Beauty: A Novel by Ling Ling Huang Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at […]
#FridayReads: Stars In An Italian Sky
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Click for a Book Club Kit. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. Genoa, Italy, 1946. Vincenzo and Giovanna fall in love at twenty-one the moment they set eyes on each other. The son of a count and the daughter of a tailor, they belong to opposing worlds. […]
An Author Letter from Elizabeth McKenzie
Dear Librarians: My name is Elizabeth McKenzie, and I’d like to thank all of the librarians and libraries across the country who put my last novel, The Portable Veblen, on their shelves and recommended it to readers. With librarian Linus in Veblen and now with librarian Hugh in The Dog of the North, it seems […]
An Author Letter from Elise Loehnen
Do you know those rooms, homes, and buildings that are so burned in your mind they become the background for your imagination? One of those settings for me is the Missoula Public Library, a two-story structure from the ‘70s, with a dark, cozy basement, and a long, indoor ramp paved with stones that I’d climb […]
#FridayReads: Times Undoing
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Click for a Book Club Kit. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. Birmingham, 1929: Robert Lee Harrington, a master carpenter, has just moved to Alabama to pursue a job opportunity, bringing along his pregnant wife and young daughter. Birmingham is in its heyday, known as the […]