This week’s staff pick is an enchanting adult fairy tale this novel was made into the movie Stardust. Utterly charming, this staff favorite is an adventure story like you haven’t seen before. We also have the audiobook read by the author, and it’s top-notch. “In the sleepy English countryside of […]
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This week’s staff pick is the beginning of an excellent fantasy series. Cover aside, our protagonist is Kate, a mercenary in a world gone topsy-turvy, and she’s funny, determined, and can kill you three times before you hit the floor. A couple of our staffers love this series, since each […]
This week’s staff pick is the lyrical, beautiful and lovely book The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George. Our staffer loved it, and we can pretty much guarantee this will be very popular with bookclubs. A truly excellent novel about love, loss, grief, and starting over, we can’t recommend this one enough. […]
This week’s staff pick is an old staffer favorite, and one that at least one of our staffer’s periodically rereads, because it’s that good. The novel is written entirely in letters and diary entries, and is completely engaging and utterly delightful. ““ I wonder how the book got to […]
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 […]
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 is the beginning of a new children’s/YA series full of adventure, male and female heroines, and the interesting and bizarre. Our staffer found it refreshing, original, and highly recommends it. Those who loved The Golden Compass, and fans of Garth Nix, Diana Wynne, Jones, and Tamora Pierce […]
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 […]