It’s Friday. Let’s give something away.
This Friday, it’s going to be READY PLAYER ONE, the much-anticipated debut from screenwriter and “unrepentant geek” Ernest Cline. This one’s been an in-house favorite for some time now, complete with...
View ArticleMarci’s Pick: The Buddha in the Attic
The author of the classic When the Emperor Was Divine, has produced a second masterpiece: a dense, difficult, short work that follows a group of women brought from Japan to San Francisco in the early...
View ArticleA Contest for your Monday
Two more great reviews have rolled in for THE LAST WEREWOLF, Glen Duncan’s latest imaginative, cerebral novel about a world-weary werewolf. Here’s an excerpt from the NY Times: It’s easy to see why...
View ArticleA “Wait…what?” debut
Here’s a difficult one to categorize. Where would you put a book like this?: “A hurricane sweeps off the Gulf of Mexico and, in the back country of Alabama, assembles a passenger jet out of old bean...
View ArticleMy “hurry and up read before the end of 2011” list…
What will you read next? …Wait, I am still trying to catch up! Just wanted to take a moment and wish you all a happy and healthy holiday season and a great start to 2012. It has been an exciting year...
View ArticleALA Midwinter Staff Picks!
We’re excited that tomorrow Midwinter begins! Oh the fun, oh the joy! We wanted to give you a heads up on the personally selected Staff Pick books we’re bringing to Midwinter. If you’re at the...
View ArticleNew Staff Picks! Check Out What We’re Reading!
We have some new staff picks to share with you. Please enjoy our selections. JEN’S STAFF PICK: Chris Bohjalian The Sandcastle Girls: A Novel Bohjalian relies on his Armenian heritage to deliver a book...
View ArticleNominate Early, Nominate Often for LibraryReads!
November 1 is the deadline to vote for the December LibraryReads List! Remember, you can nominate early & nominate often for all your favorite reads. Here are our favorite December titles we’ve...
View ArticleBooks That Make Us Cry…
GET OUT THE TISSUES… Today we are talking about books that make us cry. I don’t mean the watery eyes, tearing up kind of cry, I mean the kind of cry where you are actually having trouble seeing the...
View ArticleFall in Love with Our February Picks!
February brings flowers, chocolates, candy hearts . . . and five books we are head over heels for. We hope you find one that strikes a chord with you as well! Click to request eGalleys of these...
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