In celebration of National Poetry Month this week’s staff pick is the works of E.E. Cummings. Known for his experimentation with form, punctuation, spelling and syntax, Cummings was the second most widely read poet in the US at the time of his death and remains one of the world’s most […]
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This week’s staff pick, Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon– and the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller, focuses on three of music’s best singer-songwriters. Read how each woman was shaped by and contributed to the emerging feminist movement. “Both scholarly and dishy. A superb journalist, […]
The star of SNL and Parks & Recreation shares stories, inspiration and behind the scenes insights in her hilarious and moving memoir, making Yes Please this week’s staff pick. Poehler shares the lessons she’s learned throughout her career in improv and on two hit tv shows. If you enjoyed Tina […]
Meet Kamala Kahn, the Pakistani American teenager from Jersey City who just discovered her extraordinary powers. Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson is this week’s staff pick. Kamala is certainly no damsel in distress as she fights to protect her friends and her city. A superhero who breaks the mold, […]
This week’s staff pick is the debut novel Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez. The story of four slave women who meet each summer at a resort in Ohio, brought along by their vacationing masters as both servants and mistresses. Seeing free blacks for the first time and hearing of abolition, the […]
This week’s staff pick is the multi-award winning Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson. Told in verse, Brown Girl Dreaming is Woodson’s autobiographical tale of growing up African American in the 1960’s and 70’s. Woodson is a masterful storyteller and gives the reader a real sense of time and place. […]
This week’s staff pick is the inspiring story of Misty Copeland, American Ballet Theater’s principal ballerina. In Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina, Copeland shares her story of discovering her natural talent for ballet at a community center through her rise to the top. Not a “typical” ballet dancer, Copeland […]
A powerful debut novel about a couple who find themselves trapped in the ultimate moral dilemma is this week’s staff pick. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman is the story of Tom and Isabel Sherbourne and their life on a remote island where Tom serves as the lighthouse keeper. […]
This week’s staff pick is a cozy, charming read that goes perfectly with an afternoon cup of tea. Published posthumously, A Week in Winter is Irish author Maeve Binchy’s final novel. After living in the US for many years, Chicky Starr decides to return to her hometown of Stoneybridge in […]
The first staff pick of 2016 is the riveting memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan. In the midst of a promising career and serious relationship, Cahalan suddenly finds herself plagued with migraines, panic attacks, memory loss and even severe psychosis. Several doctors are baffled by […]