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Over the next few months, we’ll be hearing from different community voices about what a Modern First Library means to them! Below, author Xelena González shares her story. If you missed the introduction to the series, you can read it here. Before becoming an author I was a librarian. And before librarianship came motherhood. It … Continue reading Modern First Library: A Story of Skin by Xelena González
BINGE WARNING!!! IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY CAUGHT JENNY HAN'S TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE ON NETFLIX WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!! CHECK IT OUT TODAY! AND THEN MAKE SURE YOU GRAB YOUR MOVIE TIE IN COVER OF THE BOOK - OUT NOW! IT'S BOOK ONE OF LARA JEAN'S ADVENTURES AND YOU WON'T WANT TO … Continue reading To All The Teens We’ve Loved Before
This month the New and Noteworthy book club read Fight No More by Lydia Millet. I didn’t expect it to be a tough book to write a blog post about, but it’s the day of the book club and I’ve been at a blank for two weeks. Part of the reason is that the content of … Continue reading Let’s Talk About That One Short Story in FIGHT NO MORE
Crowning cinema’s GOAT is a hotly contested, often irrelevant, and always subjective argument. There are many qualifying actors, writers, and directors whose names float around such types of conversations and rankings, but very few individuals can go pound for pound with the body of work from Ingmar Bergman. Some of cinema’s highest acclaimed auteurs have … Continue reading Happy 100th Birthday, Ingmar Bergman
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I'm on the last fifty or so pages of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah and I'm kicking myself for having let this novel sit on my shelf untouched the last five years. This book is lush, self-aware, and feels like a book that's destined to be a defining work of this … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
Whiskey When We're Dry By John Larison: From this lover of the outdoors comes a debut novel set in the American West about a young woman who disguises herself as a boy and heads west. Set against an evocative, rich landscape, Whiskey explores a cast of characters and stories usually overlooked in traditional stories of … Continue reading New Releases 8/21
By Cathy Maxwell This summer is going fast. I came across a stray year-old pit bull pup. After a search of the world for his owner, I’ve found a nice foster for him. Austin is a pet-loving community . . . but he really cut into my reading time! Now that he is settled, I’m … Continue reading The Romance Bookshelves—Choices, choices, choices
Our Kids buyer Meghan G. kicks off the 2018 Modern First Library series. Over the next few months, we'll be hearing from different community voices about what a Modern First Library means to them! Learn more about the initiative below. Four years ago, I got a query from Chris Barton, wondering if there was a … Continue reading BookKids: What is a Modern First Library?
COMING SOON Sunday, September 23 at 2 PM Author NGOZI UKAZU speaking & signing Check, Please! On our shelves September 18. Pre-order Now! New Anthologies Fresh Ink - edited by Lamar Giles Thirteen of the most accomplished YA authors deliver a label-defying anthology that includes ten short stories, a graphic … Continue reading Teen Thursday: August 16
Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat! Vol. 1: Hooked On A Feline By Kate Leth: Wow, this book was the perfect lighthearted graphic novel read. Kate Leth's writing is fun, full of puns, and absolutely delightful. Patsy is so relatable and lovable, as are the rest of the cast of characters we meet (okay, maybe I'm bias, … Continue reading What We’re Reading This Week
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