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Lot By Bryan Washington: Name one of the most anticipated books of 2019, Lot is set in the city of Houston—a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America. The son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He’s working at his family’s restaurant, weathering his brother’s blows, resenting his older sister’s absence. … Continue reading New Releases 3/19
Too Much Is Not Enough By Andrew Rannells From the star of Broadway’s The Book of Mormon and HBO’s Girls, the heartfelt and hilarious coming-of-age memoir of a Midwestern boy surviving bad auditions, bad relationships, and some really bad highlights as he chases his dreams in New York City. When Andrew Rannells arrived in New … Continue reading New Releases 3/12
The River By Peter Heller: From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of leisurely paddling and picking blueberries, and nights of stargazing and reading paperback Westerns. But a … Continue reading New Releases 3/5
I'll Be Gone in the Dark By Michelle McNamara: Newly released in paperback, I'll Be Gone in the Dark is the chronicle of Michelle McNamara's research into the identity of a serial rapist and killer. Christina says it is "Absolutely fascinating. It's amazing what one tenacious woman can do to help solve a decades old … Continue reading New Releases 2/26
This Book Is Spineless By Lindsay Leslie: In This Book Is Spineless, the reader and book navigate the contents together, becoming friends as the book becomes braver with every page turn. It incorporates the five senses, multiple literary genres, and various book parts, with the relationship between book and reader bringing everything together. Does it … Continue reading New Releases 2/19
The City in the Middle of the Night By Charlie Jane Anders: Nationally bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky Charlie Jane Anders delivers a brilliant new novel set in a hauntingly strange future January is a dying planet—divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the … Continue reading New Releases 2/12
NEW IN FICTION The Care & Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls By Anissa Gray: The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, identity and family, and how the relationships that sustain you can also be the ones that consume you. Christina said "I LOVED this book. Anissa Gray joins the ranks … Continue reading New and Noteworthy Reads in February
Black Leopard, Red Wolf By Marlon James: Black Leopard, Red Wolf has taken the literary world by storm. Drawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination, Marlon James has written a novel unlike anything that’s come before it: a saga of breathtaking adventure that’s also an ambitious, involving read. Defying categorization and … Continue reading New Releases 2/5
Dr. Sami Schalk's recently published Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction is a remarkable study on how race, gender and ability/disability are represented in speculative fiction. Her study focuses on speculative fiction written by black women, and approaches it from both a black feminist theory and disability studies perspective - … Continue reading Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk
The Birth Guy's Go-To Guide for New Dads By Brian Salmon & Kirsten Brunner: In this one-of-a-kind guide, dad, doula, and certified lactation counselor Brian Salmon and perinatal mental health and relationship expert Kirsten Brunner offer practical, modern-day survival tips for expectant dads and birth partners. Based on Salmon’s Rocking Dads childbirth course, this book … Continue reading New Releases 1/29
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