If you’re participating in the 2016 Read Harder Challenge and need a book for task #3, check out this week’s staff pick Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxanne Gay. Our staffer described it as funny and intelligent with a great variety. Covering politics, criticism and feminism readers can skip around to […]
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Whether you’ll be out grilling this weekend or want to get a head start on July 4th preparations, this week’s staff pick is sure to help! Here are some of our favorite grilling and BBQ books. Master of the Grill by America’s Test Kitchen The Essential New York Times Grilling […]
This week’s staff pick comes from the writer Jay Asher and it’s his debut young adult novel Thirteen Reasons Why. Librarians from FTPL were lucky enough to hear him speak at this year’s New Jersey Library Association Annual Conference and he was fantastic! Funny, insightful and engaging, he made everyone […]
This week’s staff pick is the young adult fantasy novel Scorched by Mari Mancusi. Post-apocalyptic time travel, reminiscent of the Terminator movies, with dragons and a love triangle! Save the Dragon. Destroy the World. Trinity Foxx is used to her grandfather’s crazy stories, so she doesn’t believe the latest treasure […]
In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, here is a list of books in which characters either have a mental illness or have a relationship (family, friend, romantic, etc.) with someone with a mental illness. And here’s some statistics that explain why reading about mental illness in order to better […]
If you’re working on the 2016 Read Harder Challenge this week’s staff pick is perfect for number 12- Read a book by or about a person that identifies as transgender. George by Alex Gino is the story of 4th grader George, who knows she’s a girl despite the fact that […]
If you’re participating in this year’s Read Harder Challenge and need a good book to fill your horror spot, look no further than this week’s staff pick Bird Box by Josh Malerman. What would you do if you lived in a world where you could no longer open your eyes […]
It’s National Poetry Month and we wanted to share another one of our favorite poets. This week’s staff pick is the the works of Gwendolyn Brooks. Author of more than twenty books of poetry, Brooks is a multi-award winning, critically-acclaimed poet. She is the first African-American female author to win […]
As National Library Week comes to an end, we thought we’d celebrate librarians one more time. This week’s staff pick is the dark comedy, Evil Librarian by Michelle Knudsen. It’s the story of Cynthia, her best friend Annie and the new high-school librarian, Mr. Gabriel. Horror, humor and romance…this one has […]
Want to participate in National Poetry Month but you just aren’t a fan of poetry? Why not try a novel in verse instead! This week’s staff pick One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones is a great choice. “It is true that the mother dies, […]