- 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.
Read more… - June 30, 2022
In the summer of 1979, during “the troubles” in Ireland, two men arrive on a remote island off the coast of Ireland. One man, an artist, to paint the beautiful, wild cliffs. The other, a linguist, to record and write about the language of the island residents which is spoken by fewer and fewer people. ...
Read more… - June 23, 2022
Happy Pride Month! All June long we have been featuring staff favorite LGBTQA+ titles. Of course there are too many great books to ever feature them all, so we have compiled a list of a few more of our favorites:
Other Boys by Damian Alexander
The Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
Fun Home by Allison Bechdel
Tell ...
Read more… - June 16, 2022
Jessa-Lynn has a problem. Actually, she has a whole family of them. In the wake of her father’s suicide, Jessa-Lynn takes over his failing taxidermy business, even as her mother seems to be actively sabotaging what little dignity the business has left by sneaking in at night and posing the animals provocatively. Her brother, Milo, ...
Read more… - June 9, 2022
I’m so excited to review this book that will undoubtedly be one of my top 5 favorite books of the year. When we start our story, Violet Larkin is being sent to live with her uncle in his dilapidated Victorian home in the seaside town of Lyric, Maine. The town is named after a sunken ...
Read more… - June 2, 2022
Lily Hu is known as a “good Chinese girl” in her San Francisco Chinatown community– studious, helpful, loyal. But as 1954 and her senior year sweep past, she discovers new feelings for her old classmate Kath, feelings that are considered unacceptable in her community. Together Lily and Kath discover new love and a new world ...
Read more… - May 26, 2022
Set in the Vietnam Era, this book tells the story of the far-reaching effects of that war on the parents and three sons of a French family. A master storyteller, Hart manages to rip every emotion from the reader. Be warned; this story includes some pretty grisly depictions of the “hobbies” of a mass-murderer that ...
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