The Man Booker Prize for Fiction announced its 2017 longlist last week and and our very own 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster was included among the list of 13. The judges will pare down the longlist to a shortlist of 6, which will be announced in September. […]
Flatiron Books is Seeing Stars! (7/31/17)
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks by Annie Spence “Library lovers will dig the apropos subject headings she gives each letter; fellow bibliophiles will swoon at her well-articulated feelings about her favorites; all will find the breakup notes oddly cathartic (“I’m putting you in a Little Free Library”) and appreciate her book’s final, […]
#thrillerthursday (7/27/17)
It’s #thrillerthursday and we’re reading: A Thousand Cuts by Thomas Mogford “Richly atmospheric… Throughout the series, Mogford has explored the multicultural tensions that define contemporary Gibraltar, and this time he ups the ante by adding a fascinating historical layer to that ambiguity-drenched cultural stew. Sanguinetti, naturally, feels caught in the middle as the riptide of […]
Way To Go It’s Wednesday! 7/26/17
Welcome to Wednesday and to some of our favorite new titles: Cartel 7: Illuminati by Ashley & JaQuavis The saga of love, loyalty, and crime continues in the next explosive book in the Cartel series from the minds of New York Times bestselling authors Ashley & JaQuavis. Unit 416 by J. Leon Pridgen, II, A. […]
#bookbday (07/25/17)
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power by Al Gore The follow up to the #1 New York Times bestselling An Inconvenient Truth, this timely book will publish in time for the premiere of Vice President Gore’s new documentary, An Inconvenient Truth 2. This new book will be a daring call to action, exposing the reality […]
Three Stars for THE NINTH HOUR
The Ninth Hour, a portrait of the Irish-American experience by National Book Award-winner Alice McDermott has received THREE starred reviews! “Enveloping, emotionally intricate, suspenseful drama… Like Alice Munro, McDermott is profoundly observant and mischievously witty, a sensitive and consummate illuminator of the realization of the self, the ravages of illness and loss, and the radiance […]
#thrillerthursday (7/20/17)
It’s #thrillerthursday and we’re reading: The Breakdown by B.A. Paris A Library Journal Spring 2017 Editors’ Pick “This psychological thriller is even harder to put down than Paris’ 2016 best-seller debut [and LibraryReads pick] BEHIND CLOSED DOORS; schedule reading time accordingly. With two in a row, Paris moves directly to the thriller A-list.” — Booklist, […]
CRAFTS (7/19/17)
CRAFTS . . . Rhymes with . . . WAIT FOR IT . . . CATS!!! #meow 350 + Knitting Tips, Techniques, and Trade Secrets: How to Be Better at What You Do by Betty Barnden Hundreds of tips for professional-looking knits, suitable for all skill levels! 350 + Crochet Tips, Techniques, and Trade Secrets […]
YA Debut Spotlight (7/18/17)
The Inevitable Collision of Birdie & Bash by Candace Ganger Birdie never meant to be at the party. Bash should have been long gone. But when they meet, a collision course is set off they may never recover from. Sebastian Alvaréz is just trying to hold the pieces together: to not flunk out, to keep […]
#bookbday (7/17/17)
Happy EARLY #bookbday to you! Happy EARLY #bookbday to you! Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Tamara Shopsin “Shopsin weaves a marvelous patchwork quilt of stories about a Manhattan that doesn’t exist anymore—that of 1970s Greenwich Village, where her father opened Shopsin’s General Store… An artistic ode to a way of life that people now living in […]
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