by Walter Isaacson ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 12, 2023 Alternately admiring and critical, unvarnished, and a closely detailed account of a troubled innovator. Likes 70 Our Verdict GET IT Kirkus Reviews’Best Books Of 2023 New York Times Bestseller A warts-and-all portrait of the famed techno-entrepreneur—and the warts are nearly beyond counting. To call Elon Musk…
From the School for Good and Evil series , Vol. 1 by Soman Chainani ; illustrated by Iacopo Bruno ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 14, 2013 Rich and strange (and kitted out with an eye-catching cover), but stronger in the set pieces than the internal logic. Chainani works an elaborate sea change akin to Gregory Maguire’s…
by Stephanie Johnson & Brandon Stanton illustrated by Henry Sene Yee ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 12, 2022 A blissfully vicarious, heartfelt glimpse into the life of a Manhattan burlesque dancer. Likes 109 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered…
MOVING THROUGH GRIEF WITH GRIT, GRACE, AND GRATITUDE by Nicole Avant ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 17, 2023 Some of Avant’s mantras are overstated, but her book is magnanimous, inspiring, and relentlessly optimistic. Memories and life lessons inspired by the author’s mother, who was murdered in 2021. “Neither my mother nor I knew that her last…
by Alison Espach ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 30, 2024 Uneven but fitfully amusing. Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is plotting her own demise. Her husband, Matt, has left her for…
MOVING THROUGH GRIEF WITH GRIT, GRACE, AND GRATITUDE by Nicole Avant ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 17, 2023 Some of Avant’s mantras are overstated, but her book is magnanimous, inspiring, and relentlessly optimistic. Memories and life lessons inspired by the author’s mother, who was murdered in 2021. “Neither my mother nor I knew that her last…
Originally appearing in the 2009 title Yummy: Eight Favorite Fairy Tales, this shorter book is comprised of the titular “Goldilocks and the Three Bears,” as well as “The Three Billy Goats Gruff” and “The Little Red Hen.” Using “The Three Little Pigs” (also in Yummy) instead of “The Little Red Hen” would have given this…
by Tomi Oyemakinde ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 26, 2023 A descriptive and atmospheric paranormal social thriller that could be a bit tighter. After a Nigerian British girl goes off to an exclusive boarding school that seems to prey on less-privileged students, she discovers there might be some truth behind an urban legend. Ife Adebola joins…
An exciting trip to New York City turns terrifying when megalomaniac Hilda the witch attacks with an overwhelming army of elusive Shadowmongers, who can suck the magic from monsters and, as 10-year-old Theodora discovers, give ordinary humans nightmares for life. As the good monsters, who raised her in cozy Appleton village, gather under the leadership…
by Ta-Nehisi Coates ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, 2024 A revelatory meditation on shattering journeys. Bearing witness to oppression. Award-winning journalist and MacArthur Fellow Coates probes the narratives that shape our perception of the world through his reports on three journeys: to Dakar, Senegal, the last stop for Black Africans “before the genocide and rebirth…
