- December 22, 2022
Picture Books:
Coffee, Rabbit, Snowdrop, Lost by Betina Birkjær; illustrated by Anna Margrethe Kjærgaard
Dear Mr. Dickens by Nancy Churnin; illustrated by Bethany Stancliffe
Red House, Tree House, Little Bitty Brown Mouse by Jane Godwin; illustrated by Blanca Gómez
Noodle and the No Bones Day by Jonathan Graziano; illustrated by Dan Tavis
Ten Owies by Tony Johnston; illustrated by Annabel ...
Read more… - December 15, 2022
From the writer/illustrator team that has given us Monstress comes the first book in the new trilogy, The Night Eaters.
Unreachable, chain-smoking, and all-around unpleasant Ipo is living for a few months in Hawaii with her laid-back husband, Keon. They are staying with their twins, Milly and Billy, who are both in their early twenties and ...
Read more… - December 7, 2022
Set on a small Scottish island during and after World War II, this debut by Emma Seckel is wise and eerie at the same time. The sluagh are the blackbirds of Gaelic legend that hold the souls of the unforgiven. They mass on the island when the heroine, Leigh, arrives home after her father’s fall ...
Read more… - December 1, 2022
Benji has a lot going on in his life. The trans teen has just escaped from a destructive cult and is hiding out so that they can’t get him, or the weapon they planted within him, back. Can his new friends from a local LGBTQ+ group help keep him safe while he learns to control ...
Read more… - November 22, 2022
PFL staff love to read, and holiday weekends are no exception! Read on for a list of what we have on our shelves for Thanksgiving and beyond.
Sirens and Muses by Antonia Angress
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit
The Husbands by Chandler Baker
Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell
The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror edited by Toni Bovalino
A Psalm ...
Read more… - 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 ...
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