New Year, New Reads Staff Picks (1/30/24)

In celebration of a new year, we’re getting out of our comfort zones and picking up books outside of the genres we normally read! AMANDA’S PICK: THE WEDDING PEOPLE BY ALISON ESPACH This book has been getting so much in-house love that I can’t wait to dive in. It introduces a woman who gets the […]

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Historical Spotlight (1/19/23)

Today we’re looking to the past with sweeping historical fiction set in the 1900s with a beautifully rendered love letter to the American West, and in a rural village in WWI Austria with a story based on the author’s own family history. WHERE COYOTES HOWL BY SANDRA DALLAS Available for download on Edelweiss know more. […]

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April 2018 All-Stars

April 2018 All-Stars

These books are swimming in stars—make sure to add them to your shelves ASAP! WITCHMARK by C.L. Polk “Polk’s stellar debut, set in an alternate early 20th century in an England-like land recovering from a WWI-like war, blends taut mystery, exciting political intrigue, and inventive fantasy . . . The final revelations are impossible to […]

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Books From Days of Yore

Books From Days of Yore

Hear ye, hear ye! Feast your eyes upon these books set in days long ago:
HILD by Nicola Griffith
Award-winning author Griffith's story of a girl named Hild who becomes St. Hilda’s of Whitby is "A book that deserves a place alongside T.H. White, to say nothing of Ellis Peters." — Kirkus Reviews. "Griffith expertly blends an exploration of seventh-century court life and a detailed character study of Hild as she balances a need for acceptance, love, and friendship and a desire to escape the strict gender roles of her time. In short, Griffith triumphs with this intelligent, beautifully written, and meticulously researched novel." — Booklist, starred review
In the fourth installment in the Robin Hood series, King Richard I, the Lionheart, is engaged in a bloody war to drive the French out of Normandy. Aided in his struggle are the outlaw Robin Hood, and Sir Alan Dale, his loyal friend who is also attempting to discover the identity the man who ordered his father's death ten years earlier. "This book is a bloodcurdling tale of medieval greed, cruelty and honor. A fast-paced and exciting story unsuitable for the squeamish." — Kirkus Reviews, starred review
HAVISHAM by Ronald Frame
Frame's prelude to Charles Dickens's classic GREAT EXPECTATIONS imagines the life of Catherine Havisham before she was cursed to a solitary life, roaming the halls of the mansion in the tatters of the dress she was never able to wear at her wedding. Everyone is simply mad for it—read more (and watch the book trailer) here.
Fare thee well, friends! [...]

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