Posted on: February 20, 2019
by Fatimah Asghar
Reviewed by CyndiA powerful and important read, this book provides us with poems that are vulnerable, compassionate, and bear both anguish and joy. Asghar, as a young Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America, shares her unique under...
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Posted on: January 23, 2019
by Anne Youngson
Reviewed by CyndiThis epistolary novel brings together two people with very different lives that form a deep friendship that begins with their shared fascination with the Tollund Man. Through their letters, and growing friendship, they are...
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Staff Pick of the Week
Posted on: January 9, 2019
by Christina Rickardsson
Reviewed by Lynne:A heartrending story of survival told from the point of view of a homeless child in a Brazilian favela. It begins with a recounting of shocking poverty, hunger, and unfathomable violence, followed by a jarring cul...
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Staff Pick of the Week
Posted on: September 6, 2017
by Sally Hepworth
Reviewed by Robin:An emotional tale of a single mom with a 15 year old daughter who suffers from social anxiety disorder and those who want to help but whose own lives have their fair share of life’s struggles. Nonethe...
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Staff Pick of the Week
Posted on: July 26, 2017
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Reviewed by Robin: Set on a college campus in the Amherst area with lots of local color, this story told with irreverent wit and suspense takes on issues of class, privilege, activism and the dilemmas faced by both...
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Staff Pick of the Week
Posted on: July 5, 2017
by Abbi Waxman
Reviewed by RobinA young book illustrator with two small children is trying to manage her life and that of her daughters after her husband’s sudden death. Although she hasn’t been doing a very good job of it, a new work a...
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Staff Pick of the Week
Posted on: June 14, 2017
by A.S. King
Review by MiaGlory O’Brien is on the cusp of graduating from high school, and doesn’t know where her life is going next. When she and her best friend drink the remains of a mummified bat on a dare, they begin to s...
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Staff Pick of the Week
Posted on: May 3, 2017
by Amor Towles
Reviewed by Linda:An utterly charming and moving tale of a Russian count, one Alexander Ilyich Rostov, who is called before a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922 for having written an incendiary poem, and is sentenced to house arrest at the Metropol,...
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