…veteran focuses on the complexities of life for soldiers on the front lines and after, exploring themes ranging from brutality and faith to guilt and survival. National Book Award: Best…
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
…call to fellow Americans to open their eyes to the immigration crisis and understand that it affects us all. Memoir; Global Affairs Afterlife by Julia Alvarez Reeling from her beloved…
Witches in Fiction
…life of strict submission to minimize discrimination for her mixed heritage, Immanuelle discovers dark truths about her community’s church and her late mother’s secret relationship with the spirits of four…
Best Books of 2020
…her better judgement, LA lawyer Olivia Monroe secretly starts dating a hotshot junior senator until their romance is made public and her life falls under intense media scrutiny, jeopardizing everything….
Best Films of 2020
…a wealthy landowners prized milking cow. The Assistant One day in the life of Jane, a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer, who has recently landed her dream job…
Celebrating Native American Authors
…the optional mini-challenge for Winter Reading this year! Below are stories pulled from a larger list of Native American authors, featuring modern life in its wit and struggles, historical trauma,…
Theme Reading: 24-Hour Stories
…confused love she feels for her oldest friend, and a trauma from her past that casts a deep and possibly permanent shadow not only over her own life, but over…
New Fiction in May 2021
…it up to stress. But there’s only one voice in her head, and it claims to be the ghost of her estranged grandmother, Ah Ma. In life Ah Ma was…
Are Helene Wecker Books for You?
…fantasy with lush worldbuilding and contemporary style. Learn even more by listening firsthand to a virtual conversation Tuesday, June 22, at 7pm. It’s the perfect opportunity to be enchanted! The…
New Fiction in July 2021
…by Grady Hendrix A real-life “final girl”–the one girl always left standing at the end of a horror movie, Lynette Tarkington, who survived a massacre 22 years ago, along with…