Fangirl
The New York Times Book Review – Jessica Bruder : Rowell…specializes in young misfits charting their way in the world. She doesn't disappoint here. Though the theme of a young writer finding her voice may be familiar, Rowell brings to it fresh humor, heart and more than a few surprises. Cath's relationships, tender and untidy, […]
Loss of Innocence
Library Journal : Whitney Dane, an accomplished novelist at the age of 65, recalls her tumultuous summer of 1968. After graduating from a private all-girls college, she becomes happily engaged to the likable and very suitable Peter Brooks and retreats to the Dane family home on Martha's Vineyard to while away the summer with her […]
The Pure Gold Baby
Library Journal ★ 09/01/2013 : Anna is the daughter of anthropologist and writer Jessica Speight and is her "pure gold baby"—a happy and loving child with special needs and capabilities. As a single mother in 1960s London, Jess navigates career, relationships, and the National Health Service with compromise, determination, and the help of a close-knit […]
Silencing Eve
Kirkus Reviews 2013-10-01 After an explosive showdown in Colorado among the CIA, Eve Duncan's loved ones and a furious Jim Doane, Eve is Doane's captive again, but the stakes are higher than anyone imagined, and getting Eve to safety is shadowed by an even deadlier threat. Renowned forensic sculptor Eve is captive again to evil […]
The Hired Man
Publishers Weekly 09/02/2013 In this moving novel from Forna (The Memory of Love), the scars left by the Croatian War of Independence underlie a deceptively simple account of a Croat developing a relationship with foreigners moving into his village. Exactly what Duro Kolak experienced in the fighting that enveloped Gost, his small town, is only […]
Lives of the Scientists : Experiments, Explosions (and What the Neighbors Thought)
"Another wonderful addition to the series, detailing common knowledge and little-known facts about historical figures." —School Library Journal
Locomotive
Horn Book STARRED REVIEW " Talk about a youth librarian’s dream come true: a big new book about those ever-popular trains from a bona fide picture-book-nonfiction all-star. Striking cinematic endpapers lay the groundwork, describing the creation of the Transcontinental Railroad in the 1860s. Then, in a sort of historical-fiction-meets-travelogue narrative, Floca zeroes in on one […]
One Summer : America, 1927
"A glorious look at one summer in America…Bryson offers delicious detail and breathtaking suspense about events whose outcomes are already known." —Booklist, Starred Review
The Handy Astronomy Answer Book
From School Library Journal Gr 6 Up–Do your patrons wonder what an astrolabe is or how an X-ray telescope works? In this colorful, wide-ranging volume, notable astrophysicist Charles Liu provides answers to these questions and more about many aspects of the fascinating world of astronomy. The material is subdivided into seven categories: “Astronomy Fundamentals,” “The […]
The Signature of All Things
The New York Times Book Review – Barbara Kingsolver : …the prose is modern and accessible, leaning on plot rather than language to draw readers in. Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act. The Signature of All […]