If you’re looking for a new audiobook, take a peek at these titles that were named some of the best to listen to this year! Washington Post’s 10 Best Audiobooks of 2025THE QUEENS OF CRIME by Marie Benedict; read by Bessie Carter | 9781250379597 | 2/11/25 BookPage’s Best Audiobooks of 2025THE RIVER HAS ROOTS by […]
Tag: Civil War
Booklist Spring & Summer Book Club Picks Webinar Recap (1/15/25)
A big thank you to all who attended yesterday’s Booklist Spring and Summer Book Club Picks webinar! In case you missed it, check out the titles we talked about below, and click this link to watch the recording! HAPPINESS FOREVER by Adelaide Faith | 9780374608668 | 5/13/25 SPEAK TO ME OF HOME by Jeanine Cummins […]
Tore Olsson’s Letter to Librarians
Tore Olsson’s RED DEAD’S HISTORY: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America’s Violent Past is a pathbreaking new way to examine US history, through the lens of a bestselling video game. In Olsson’s letter, we learn that his local library provided an intellectual link to a world halted by a global pandemic. Within its walls, […]
Starred Review Roundup (4/10/2024)
Stars all around! These titles all received multiple starred reviews: THE STARDUST GRAIL by Yume Kitasei 9781250875372 | 6/11/24 “Broad in scope, covering everything from the rise and fall of alien civilizations to what it means to be a person, this is a luminous work, vacillating between the highs and lows of human experience and […]
PW Best Books of 2023
Announcing the Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2023! TOP 10 BIOGRAPHY OF X by Catherine Lacey FLEE NORTH: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland by Scott Shane ORDINARY NOTES by Christina Sharpe THE TALK by Darrin Bell FICTION AUGUST BLUE by Deborah Levy BEYOND THE DOOR OF NO RETURN by David […]
New Edelweiss E-galleys (4/24/23)
Hello e-galley readers! Check out some of the exciting e-galleys that were recently added to Edelweiss for your downloading pleasure: THE FRAGILE THREADS OF POWER by V.E. Schwab 9780765387493 | 9/26/23 Once, there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a single city: London. Until […]
Spotlight on America (10/28/20)
This spotlight on America features a collection of short stories inspired by the day thousands of women demanded the right to vote, controversial essays on politics in the West, and the politics behind the post-Civil War Amendments. STORIES FROM SUFFRAGETTE CITY Edited by M. J. Rose and Fiona Davis; introduction by Kristin Hannah “A landmark […]
Nonfiction Spotlight: LEARNING FROM THE GERMANS (8/28/19)
In today’s nonfiction spotlight, we learn about confronting the evils of the past with Susan Neiman’s LEARNING FROM THE GERMANS: Race and the Memory of Evil. In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Susan Neiman’s LEARNING FROM THE […]
Nonfiction Spotlight: EQUALITY by Charles Postel (8/21/19)
Prize-winning historian Charles Postel explores the roots of American social movements after the Civil War and their lessons for today in EQUALITY: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896. The Civil War unleashed a torrent of claims for equality—in the chaotic years following the war, former slaves, women’s rights activists, farmhands, and factory workers all engaged in the […]
Author Spotlight: Graywolf’s Alyson Hagy (10/8/18)
We love ourselves an underdog, a hidden gem, and Graywolf Press, to us, is just that. Their earnest pursuit to publish “underrepresented and diverse voices” is #winning and we love ’em. So should you. Start with Alison Hagy’s #1 Indie Next Pick, SCRIBE, and thank us later. SCRIBE by Alyson Hagy November 2018 #1 Indie Next […]
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