Today’s Shelf Awareness Maximum Shelf pick is Emma Rosenblum’s BAD SUMMER PEOPLE, in which a picture-perfect couple’s summer vacation suddenly goes awry when a dead body turns up and exposes long-buried secrets between people who thought they knew each other. Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker rule the town of Salcombe, Fire Island every summer. They hold sway on the […]
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Maximum Shelf: ALL THE SINNERS BLEED (2/13/23)
Today’s Shelf Awareness Maximum Shelf pick is S.A. Cosby’s ALL THE SINNERS BLEED, which takes a hard look at the history of being black in the American South and the relationship between race and law enforcement. After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and […]
Maximum Shelf: WHITE HORSE (7/28/22)
Yesterday’s Shelf Awareness Maximum Shelf pick was Erika T. Wurth’s WHITE HORSE, a gritty, vibrant debut about an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she discovers a bracelet haunted by her mother’s spirit. Heavy metal, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and the occasional beer at the White Horse have defined urban Indian Kari James’s life […]
Maximum Shelf: FOUR TREASURES OF THE SKY (1/5/22)
Today’s Shelf Awareness Maximum Shelf pick is Jenny Tinghui Zhang’s FOUR TREASURES OF THE SKY, a propulsive and dazzling debut novel, set against the backdrop of the Chinese Exclusion Act, about a Chinese girl fighting to claim her place in the 1880s American West. Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom […]
Maximum Shelf: BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU (8/2/21)
Yesterday’s Shelf Awareness Maximum Shelf pick was BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU, a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of NORMAL PEOPLE and CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS. Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, […]
Maximum Shelf: THE ORPHAN WITCH (5/24/21)
Today’s Shelf Awareness Maximum Shelf pick is Paige Crutcher’s THE ORPHAN WITCH, a spell-binding story about the sisterhood of magic and one woman’s quest to find her place in the world. Persephone May has been alone her entire life. Abandoned as an infant and dragged through the foster care system, she wants nothing more than […]
Maximum Shelf: TOKYO EVER AFTER
Today’s Shelf Awareness Maximum Shelf pick is Emiko Jean’s modern fairy tale, TOKYO EVER AFTER. Izumi Tanaka has never really felt like she fit in it isn’t easy being Japanese American in her small, mostly white, northern California town. Raised by a single mother, it’s always been Izumi or Izzy, because “It’s easier this way” […]
Maximum Shelf: FINDING FREEDOM (11/30/20)
Today’s Shelf Awareness Maximum Shelf pick is Erin French’s heart-stopping memoir, FINDING FREEDOM: A Cook’s Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch. Make your way to Freedom, Maine, and you will find both an exquisite meal and a vivid memory. After the flood of calls for dinner reservations crashed the restaurant’s phone lines, Erin knew she […]
Maximum Shelf: OF WOMEN AND SALT (9/30/20)
Today’s Shelf Awareness Maximum Shelf pick is Gabriela Garcia’s sweeping, masterful debut, OF WOMEN AND SALT. In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a […]
Maximum Shelf: EVERYTHING IS SPIRITUAL (7/15/20)
Today’s Shelf Awareness Maximum Shelf pick is Rob Bell’s powerful exploration into understanding your purpose in the world, EVERYTHING IS SPIRITUAL: Who We Are and What We’re Doing Here. Our home is a universe of endless dynamic connections that never stop inviting us to participate in the great mysterious love at the heart of it […]