- September 8, 2022
After a fishing accident leaves Jill’s husband injured and hospitalized in Canada, Jill must go it alone with her teenage sons (or wolves, as Jill refers to them) in their small fishing village in Maine. It’s no easy task—seventeen-year-old Charlie is preoccupied with a new girlfriend, and Sam, sixteen, is still reeling from a personal ...
Read more… - August 31, 2022
Emma Starling has returned home in disgrace. Once blessed with healing hands that could cure all manner of small injuries, she has now not so much flunked out of med school as just not shown up. Now her motorcycle-riding ex-college professor father is dying of a mysterious brain disease, her brother is in recovery from ...
Read more… - August 25, 2022
Known for his writing about baseball, Angell has produced a book of short essays about small moments he has relished in life. Insightful, comforting, and funny. Well worth a read.
Paula, Circulation
Read more… - August 18, 2022
PFL staff love to read! Take a look at the titles we’ve been enjoying this week.
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing Vol. 1 The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Roots for Kids by Susan Provost Beller
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
The Emma Project by Sonali Dev “The fourth ...
Read more… - August 11, 2022
Beat the heat this summer by bringing one of these relaxing reads down to the beach or pool! Unwind with a light comedy, cool off with a spine-chilling thriller, or turn up the heat with a sizzling romance! Whatever your go-to vacation genre is, we have it! (Just try not to drop it in the ...
Read more… - August 4, 2022
A gorgeous blend of fairy tale, magical realism, fantasy, and literary fiction. A young girl and her father live in the wilderness after the collapse of civilization. When the girl finds herself suddenly alone in the wild, she turns to the creatures of the forest to help her find her way back home. Krivak’s blend ...
Read more… - July 28, 2022
This year’s Read ME selection bills itself as “a misfit’s memoir of great books, punk rock, and the fight to fit in.” Can you get any better than that?
A coming of age story told through the lens of classic literature, Phuc Tran’s memoir tells the story of his family’s immigration from war torn Saigon ...
Read more… - July 19, 2022
Elementary school teacher Taylor goes on vacation to Cape Cod where she stumbles upon a murder scene and unwittingly links up with a rough and tumble bounty hunter to solve the crime. It was a fun summer read (warning – very spicy!).
Read more… - July 14, 2022
Leigh Newman’s short story collection – Nobody Gets Out Alive – is a delight. I consumed it over a weekend, and have been recommending it to people ever since. All the stories in this debut collection (2022) are loosely but skillfully connected; all are set in or about Alaska, the author’s home state. The stories ...
Read more… - July 7, 2022
This collection of nine short stories focuses on several generations of Black women caught between their religion’s double standards and their own longings, loves, and identities. Philyaw’s prose is sharp and lyrical, her dialogue is spare and honest, and her characters are gratifyingly complex.
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