6/24/19 6/24/19

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

6/4/19 6/4/19

Dream Country by Shannon Gibney

6/4/19 6/4/19

Inheritance by Dani Shapiro

5/31/19 5/31/19

Devotion, A Memoir by Dani Shapiro

5/28/19 5/28/19

All that You Leave Behind by Erin Lee Carr

5/28/19 5/28/19

The City Always Wins by Omar Robert Hamilton

4/30/19 4/30/19

Tucker Lake Chronicle by Joan Crosby

4/30/19 4/30/19

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

4/30/19 4/30/19

Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with Recipes) by Lorna Landvik

4/30/19 4/30/19

Transcription by Kate Atkinson

4/6/19 4/6/19

The Shallows by Matt Goldman

As an Emmy-award winning writer for Seinfeld and the Ellen Show, Goldman has an ear for dialogue. His comedic roots are showcased in Nils Shapiro and in this installment, we get to know Nils on a deeper, more personal level. Goldman shines more light on the relationship between Nils and Micaela, which ups the ante for the next installment

4/6/19 4/6/19

There There by Tommy Orange

4/6/19 4/6/19

The Shakespeare Requirement by Julie Schumacher

4/6/19 4/6/19

The Shadows We Hide by Allen Eskens

2/26/19 2/26/19

All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer by Karen Babine

Babine is a poet and a scholar, and her essays are laced with lyricism, as well as scientific facts.

When her mother experiences neuropathy from the chemo she writes: “A lack of B12 can damage the nervous system as well as affect the brain functions.” Returning home after a doctor visit, she puts her pot named Phyllis on the stove to simmer soup for dinner, “that gorgeous cheerful shade of cobalt blue – Co – and I think about how cobalt is part of B12. I wonder if I could form an entire alphabet of neuropathy if I tried, if this is a new language I can create and put on the table.”

2/24/19 2/24/19

Annabel, A Novel by Kathleen Winter

Annabel is a heartbreakingly beautiful novel, one that addresses the topic of intersex children with grace and examines the fault lines of family and identity with a rare sensitivity.

2/22/19 2/22/19

Small Fry by Lisa Brennan Jobs

2/4/19 2/4/19

Until Tomorrow, Mr. Marsworth by Sheila O'Connor

O’Connor has written a love letter to our youth, a book that will provoke meaningful conversations between kids and their adults, and a book that will inspire future peacemakers and encourage a new generation of activists.

1/8/19 1/8/19

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter lives in two worlds – the poor black community where she lives and where her father runs the neighborhood grocery store and the suburban prep school she attends where her parents believe she will be safe. But everything changes one night when she attends a party with her childhood friend, Khalil, and on the way home they are pulled over by the police. Khalil is fatally shot by the police officer. He was unarmed. The only person who really knows what happened that night is Starr and she must testify at a trial. Starr and her family are torn between doing the right thing and keeping her safe. She is at the apex of a conflict, the birth of a social movement.

1/8/19 1/8/19

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

Kingsolver’s characters must give up their preconceived notions of what constitutes success and happiness, each generation entrenched in their way of thinking and being. Perhaps Mary Treat says it best of all:

“Their little families have come here looking for safety, but they will go on laboring under old authorities until their heaven collapses. Your charge is to lead them out of doors. Teach them to see evidence for themselves, and not to fear it. . . to stand in the clear light of day . . . unsheltered.”