Elizabeth Started All the Trouble
School Library Journal 02/01/2016 Gr 1–4—This informational picture book offers up a brief account of how the women's suffrage movement in the United States began and developed momentum over the years. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was involved both in abolitionism and the women's rights movement, becoming an outspoken advocate in the two realms and leading the […]
The Iron Trial
Publishers Weekly ¡ï 07/21/2014 Set in a magic-inflected version of the present-day U.S., this first title in the Magisterium series combines the talents of Black (Doll Bones) and Clare (the Mortal Instruments series) in a thrilling coming-of-age story that embraces fantasy tropes while keeping readers guessing. Twelve-year-old Callum Hunt has been raised to distrust magic. […]
A Friend of Mr. Lincoln
¡ï 11/16/2015 Bestselling author Harrigan¡¯s 10th book, after 2011¡¯s Remember Ben Clayton, is superb historical fiction focusing on the period 1832¨C1861, from Lincoln¡¯s early years as a tireless circuit-riding lawyer and Illinois state legislator to his election as the 16th president. Lincoln¡¯s fictional friend here is Cage Weatherby, a struggling poet who first meets Lincoln […]
The Quality of Silence
Publishers Weekly š 12/21/2015 Astrophysicist Yasmin Alfredson, the heroine of this heart-stopping page-turner from bestseller Lupton (Afterwards), makes a desperate gamble to save her marriage and flies with her deaf 10-year-old daughter, Ruby, from their home in London to Alaska, where her husband, Matt, a wildlife filmmaker, has been shooting in a remote area north […]
The Portable Veblen
Publishers Weekly ¡ï 09/21/2015 A marriage proposal opens this offbeat and winning novel by New Yorker contributor and author McKenzie (Stop That Girl). Thirty-year-old Veblen Amundsen-Hovda, ¡°independent behaviorist… and freelance self,¡± has only known Paul Vreeland, a 34-year-old neurologist, for three months. This might explain Veblen¡¯s feeling of trouble, ¡°as if rushing toward a disaster,¡± […]
The Copper Gauntlet
Overview Callum Hunt's summer break isn't like other kids'. His closest companion is a Chaos-ridden wolf, Havoc. His father suspects him of being secretly evil. And, of course, most kids aren't heading back to the magical world of the Magisterium in the fall. It's not easy for Call . . . and it gets even […]
Paper Towns
VOYA – Molly Teague Based on the cover, I never would have picked up this book on my own because I-and I think we all secretly do-judge a book by its cover. But once I opened it, I couldn't put it down and read ninety pages in the first sitting. The book is a perfect […]
Early Autumn
Overview: A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own. With a contract out on his life, he […]
A Taste For Nightshade
Library Journal ★ 11/15/2015 Grace Moore is pleased to receive a proposal of marriage from a dashing suitor, but realizes soon after the wedding that he is far more interested in her money than in marriage, and that he may be concealing even darker secrets. After being whisked off to an isolated and rundown manor, […]
The High Mountains of Portugal
Library Journal ¡ï 02/01/2016 Like Martel's celebrated Life of Pi, this new book investigates a world of tragedy linked with animals, but the context is completely different. In three distinct yet connected parts, each centered on the high plains in northern Portugal, the narrative describes an innovative arc of endings and beginnings. The first section […]