- November 17, 2022
When Mara joins the cast of Civilization, she thinks she is well prepared. On this new survival reality show contestants must work together to last six weeks in the wilderness. Anyone who makes it to the end will win a cash prize, and Mara, a Wilderness Survival Instructor, really needs the money. Sure, her companions ...
Read more… - November 9, 2022
What if, in the 1800s, hippos were introduced to the Louisiana marshlands to be farmed as an alternative food source? This little known actual historical possibility is would introduce whole new branches of capitalism, agriculture and animal husbandry, and of course, crime.
These two novellas, collected with two new short stories in American Hippo, introduces the ...
Read more… - November 1, 2022
Set in a crumbling, abandoned, English manor home, main character Frances is brought in to assess the landscape architecture of the grounds for the new owner. She takes up residence in the home with a young married couple and becomes obsessed with watching them through a hole on her floorboards. It’s not a scary read, ...
Read more… - October 26, 2022
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
“Not seasonal, but it’s such a great story!”
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“The classic short story that made teenage-me fall in love with short stories.”
Road of Bones by Christopher Golden
Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
The Rats by James Herbert
My Heart is a ...
Read more… - October 20, 2022
17-year-old Hazel Sinnett has always wanted to be a surgeon, but that is not an option for a lady of society such as herself in Scotland in 1817. However, with her father away on military post and her mother on holiday with her younger brother, Hazel takes advantage of the lack of supervision to disguise ...
Read more… - October 13, 2022
Talty’s debut short story collection is a beautifully written glimpse into the lives and deaths of several families on the Penobscot Indian Nation reservation.
I always like reading books that take place in an unfamiliar setting, even better if it’s one that does not often appear in the media. The glimpse I got into this world, ...
Read more… - October 5, 2022
Three middle aged, middle income couples – all friends – get together for a backyard barbecue. What could be more generic? Boring? Typical? How utterly…life-changing?
Moriarty’s timeline zings back and forth from before the barbecue, to after, and before again, building the reader’s understanding of the characters’ lives and creating a tangle of backstories and aftereffects ...
Read more… - September 28, 2022
Happy Library Card Signup month! To celebrate we are sharing some of our favorite books about libraries for all ages.
Ron’s Big Mission by Rose Blue
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Book! Book! Book! By Deborah Bruss
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
I Took My ...
Read more… - September 21, 2022
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Ulysses by James Joyce
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by Orwell
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Color ...
Read more… - September 15, 2022
The book spans decades, but starts with the main character being introduced to The Library of Forgotten Books. He is expected to choose one book to protect. That book is the beginning of an intriguing, sometimes spooky, journey to learn more about the author and find out why that author’s books are being destroyed. One ...
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