Book Buzzes with ALMA (4/14/20)

All your favorite library marketers have teamed up to bring you Bite-Sized Book Buzzes, straight to your screens.

This week features Amanda talking about Raven Leilani’s powerful and poignant debut, LUSTER, while Anthony from Tor raved about TJ Klune’s HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA.

LUSTER by Raven Leilani
ISBN 9780374194321
On sale August 4, 2020

Sharp, comic, disruptive, tender, Raven Leilani’s debut novel, LUSTER, sees a young black woman fall into art and someone else’s open marriage.

THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA by TJ Klune
ISBN 9781250217288
On sale now

Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He’s tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world. Arthur Parnassus is the master of the orphanage. He would do anything to keep the children safe, even if it means the world will burn. And his secrets will come to light.

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