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 […]
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 […]
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 Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow “Stringfellow has crafted a rich tapestry of women’s familial relationships. Occasionally, she may restrain her characters emotionally, which flattens their dimensionality, but over […]
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. A must-read debut novel! Meet Elizabeth Zott: a one-of-a-kind scientist in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the star of a beloved TV cooking show. Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point […]
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 Return of Faraz Ali by Aamina Ahmad “This a nuanced, many-faceted story, fraught with complex interrelations of ethnicity, class and politics, of a man trying to unlock the […]
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 Booklist Review of the Day: March 9, 2022 Trust by Hernan Diaz “Pulitzer Prize finalist Diaz (In the Distance, 2017), returns with a multilayered novel that pieces together […]
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to an audiobook clip. An indie musician reeling from tragedy and a public breakdown reconnects with her estranged father on a week-long cruise in this “pitch-perfect story about the ways we recover love in the strangest places” (Rebecca Serle) from bestselling author Jennifer E. Smith. Just […]
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to an audiobook clip. ‘Read with Jenna’ pick for March is ‘Groundskeeping’ by Lee Cole For readers of This Boy’s Life, Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Ben Lerner, Chad Harbach, and Lily King In the run-up to the 2016 election, Owen Callahan, an aspiring writer, moves back to Kentucky to […]
