Soccer On Sunday
Children's Literature – Phyllis Kennemer Jack and Annie are excited about their upcoming time-travel adventure, so when they see the symbolic streak of light, they run to the tree house. They spot a pamphlet for the 1970 World Cup event in Mexico with two tickets inside. The tree house lands across the street from the […]
High Time For Heroes
Children's Literature – Elisabeth Greenberg In the third book of the “Merlin Mission†series, Jack and Annie travel through time in the Magic Tree House to discover the third secret of greatness. Where do they end up? On the banks of the Nile by the city of Thebes in search of Florence Nightingale. Annie knows […]
Requiem
Library Journal In a world where love is criminal, how hard would you fight to resist becoming an emotional cipher? In Delirium (2011), Lena made the choice to leave her oppressive community, escaping to the Wilds with her true love, Alex. If she had not, like all of her peers, she would have undergone inoculation […]
The Day of Atonement
Library Journal 06/15/2014 Born Sebastião Raposa, separated from his family by Portugal's Inquisition, and trained by bounty hunter Benjamin Weaver (a Liss regular), Sebastian Foxx travels to Lisbon in 1755 to track down the man who killed his father. He finds the requisite accomplices but must then contend with that fearsome earthquake. From a best-selling […]
Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library
Publishers Weekly Librarians and English teachers will happily recommend this adventurous romp from Grabenstein (the Riley Mack books), which pays playful homage to books and libraries while engaging readers in a fast-paced competition involving research and reasoning skills. Twelve seventh-graders win a chance to spend an overnight lock-in previewing their town’s new public library—it’s a […]
Lisette's List
“Vreeland’s ability to make this complex historical novel as luminous as a Tiffany lamp is nothing less than remarkable.â€â€”The Washington Post
Lucky Us
Publishers Weekly ★ 05/12/2014 Two teenaged half-sisters make their way through WWII-era America in Bloom’s imaginative romp. After being left on her father’s Ohio doorstep by her absconding mother, 11-year-old Eva meets Iris, the older half-sister she never knew she had. They escape to Hollywood, where Iris hopes to become a movie star. But they […]
China Dolls
The New York Times Book Review – Jennifer Keishin Armstrong It all adds up to a fascinating portrait of life as a Chinese-American woman in the 1930s and '40s.
The One & Only : a Novel
“Emily Giffin ranks as a grand master. . . . She has traversed the slippery slopes of true love, lost love, marriage, motherhood, betrayal, forgiveness and redemption that have led her to be called ‘a modern-day Jane Austen.’ â€â€”Chicago Sun-Times
Midnight In Europe
“Through multiple novels, Furst has illuminated moments of reluctant courage and desperate love in a world teetering on the edge of destruction. He does so again here, and, as always, he does it exquisitely. . . . Furst is a master of mood, but, above all, he is able to show how the most personal […]