Download, read, and nominate your favorite titles for the July 2018 LibraryReads list! *Nominations are due May 20! Click here for the full list of 2018 deadlines. BABY TEETH by Zoje Stage Also available in audio THREE starred reviews and Zoje is on the cover of Library Journal’s mystery issue! “WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT […]
Tag: humor
April 2018 Nonfiction
Add these amazing April nonfiction titles to your library’s shelves today: LOOK ALIVE OUT THERE by Sloane Crosley Also available in audio THREE starred reviews! The New York Times–bestselling author’s brand-new collection of essays is filled with her characteristic heart and punch-packing observations, but with a newfound coat of maturity. A thin coat. More of […]
Stars for HOW HARD CAN IT BE?
Remember Kate Reddy from Allison Pearson’s smash hit, I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT, made into a movie starring Sarah Jessica Parker? Now Kate’s back and tackling the trials of the “Sandwich Generation” with her signature wit and humor in HOW HARD CAN IT BE?, which was just optioned for TV and has THREE […]
Buzzfeed’s “Amazing New Books You Need To Read This Spring” 2018
Poetry, essays, short stories… these Buzzfeed-recommended books will spring off your library’s shelves! WADE IN THE WATER by Tracy K. Smith US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith returns with WADE IN THE WATER, a new collection of poems that feels both timely and timeless. In lines that are as lyrical as they are wise (and […]
Happy #BookBday (3/13/18 Edition)
Happy #BookBday to stories about families and all things literary, weird, and wonderful: THE MERRY SPINSTER: Tales of Everyday Horror by Mallory Ortberg A “Most Anticipated Book of 2018” with two starred reviews! “Unlike most modern versions of fairy tales, Ortberg’s sly, scathing renditions avoid clichés and self-referential edginess, and instead strike directly at the […]
February 2018 Nonfiction
Nature, history, humor, and sex—just a few of the subjects in this month’s new nonfiction releases: THE SEABIRD’S CRY: The Lives and Loves of the Planet’s Great Ocean Voyagers by Adam Nicolson THREE starred reviews! “Marveling at lives lived in some of the harshest places on the planet, Nicolson writes lyrically of birds most of […]
Happy #BookBday (2/13/18 Edition)
#BookBday stars all around! THE CHATEAU by Paul Goldberg The acclaimed author of THE YID takes us behind the scenes of a Florida condo board election, delivering a wild spin on Miami Beach, petty crime, Jewish identity, and life in Trump’s America. “A master of dark, cutting humor, restless and allusive… Goldberg confirms his status […]
Stars for Sloane!
We adore Sloane Crosley‘s brand-new essay collection, LOOK ALIVE OUT THERE, and reviewers do, too! Named a “Most Anticipated Book of 2018” by Entertainment Weekly, In Style, Glamour, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Buzzfeed, and more visit here! THREE STARRED REVIEWS “A marvel… The latest collection from the Manhattan-based essayist suggests she can write engagingly about nearly anything… […]
HOW HARD CAN IT BE? Signed Giveaway
Kate Reddy, star of Allison Pearson‘s smash hit I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT (Sarah Jessica Parker starred in the movie) is back and tackling the trials of the “Sandwich Generation” with her signature wit and humor in HOW HARD CAN IT BE? Allison happened to be in the Flatiron Building last week and […]
February is Black History Month!
Celebrate Black History Month with these new and forthcoming books: WHEN THEY CALL YOU A TERRORIST: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & asha bandele, with a foreword by Angela Davis Also available in audio A Most Anticipated Book of 2018 with three starred reviews! The emotional and powerful story about the founding […]
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