Filled with magic, necromancy, ‘zombies’, a talking cat, and a teenage girl having to save her father and well, the world. This is a wonderful adventure and the beginning of the Abhorsen trilogy, although Sabriel can be read as a standalone novel. Perfect for young and old readers, this has […]
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This week’s staff pick is weird but really good (reportedly). Hawkins has been repeatedly hailed as a cross between Neil Gaiman and Joe Hill, and the genre-bending The Library at Mount Char definitely reflects that. This is a novel where you won’t know what’s going on immediately, but it’s an […]
This week’s staff pick is the debut from author Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes. Our staffer found it powerful, harsh, and multifaceted. On the surface, they said it seems like ‘one of those’ fantasy novels, but it quickly sucked them in, and they really enjoyed it. The first […]
This week’s staff pick has been making the rounds around the staff, and everyone who’s picked it up has loved it. This is a building-wide staff pick, and in November it’ll be a movie starring Matt Damon. The premise is that an astronaut finds himself stranded on Mars, with […]
This week’s staff pick is from a bestselling author, but maybe not one you’ve read before. Once again it has a long time span and one event effects a lot of people, with some suspense thrown in there, but it’s an excellent novel according to our staffer and worth […]
This week’s staff pick is a hysterical bite-s-zed novel, perfect for some beach reading. Our staffer literally laughed out loud several times reading this. This is a fast read, all written via letters of recommendation that a beleaguered creative writing professor writes over the course of a year, and his story […]
This week’s staff pick is Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. Six stories in one that follow the same reincarnated souls through time, this novel is wildly inventive. The first part may seem a bit slow, but once you get to the second story, the novel takes off. A wild, complicated ride […]
This week’s staff pick is a heist thriller that a lot of people couldn’t put down… our staffer loved it, and so we recommend to you: Ghostman by Roger Hobbs. “In a daring operation, two crooks-for-hire rob an Atlantic City casino. But their heist goes horribly wrong, and only one […]
This week’s staff pick is by Mireille Guiliano, and was read by a staffer for the Read Harder Challenge. She particularly enjoyed French Women Don’t Get Facelifts and found it full of great advice, stories, and recipes. The author of the bestselling French Women Don’t Get Fat shares the secrets and strategies […]
The incomparable Maya Angelou is this week’s Poet of the Week (in honor of National Poetry Month). She’s been a staff pick before, and she absolutely deserves to be again. An American author, activist, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, she published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books […]