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Every month, we choose a new book to really get behind and display on our metaphorical Top Shelf. Our hope is that you’ll read this title and encourage others to do the same, creating a sort of ripple effect. Join us on our mission to build a community bound by books! The world in Future … Continue reading Top Shelf: ‘Future Home of the Living God’ by Louise Erdrich
Every month, we choose a new book to really get behind and display on our metaphorical Top Shelf. Our hope is that you'll read this title and encourage others to do the same, creating a sort of ripple effect. Join us on our mission to build a community bound by books! Code Girls is a … Continue reading Top Shelf: ‘Code Girls’ by Liza Mundy
by Consuelo Hacker The best way for me to describe Sing, Unburied, Sing is to say that it is full of a devastating hunger. The characters struggle with physical hunger, but also hunger for a connection with each other. The main action takes places only over a couple days, and yet Ward captures the full … Continue reading Top Shelf: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
It's impossible to speak about Arundhati Roy without also speaking about The God of Small Things. Published in 1997, it won the Booker prize and has been translated into over forty languages, garnering worldwide acclaim. I first encountered it about a decade following that and immediately fell in love. The God of Small Things is … Continue reading Top Shelf: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
I loved this book. I loved it very much. And I'm not the only one on staff who did. Here is our review by Wil Barbour, our Inventory Manager for BookKids and the Teen Section: When I first started to read the new young adult novel Grave Mercy: His Fair Assassin by Robin Lafevers, I … Continue reading Top Shelf for April: Grave Mercy
You've already heard us mention Philipp Meyer's new novel American Rust when he was coming to the store last month, but we liked the book so much we made it our Top Shelf pick for April. Kester Smith, our New & Noteworthy Book Club leader, had this to say about American Rust. I have been … Continue reading Top Shelf of April
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson In May, I attended a meeting of independent booksellers in Indianapolis. At the beginning of the meeting we performed one of those annoying icebreaker exercises that are so common in both classrooms and boardrooms. Being booksellers, our icebreaker exercise was to introduce ourselves and then tell … Continue reading Top Shelf Pick for September
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