Fiction
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow : a novel
Gabrielle Zevin
FICTION Zevin, Gabrielle
Fiction
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts. Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.
Firekeeper's daughter
Boulley, Angeline, author.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION Boulley, Angeline
Young Adult, Fiction
Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, either in her hometown or on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. When Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, she reluctantly agrees to go undercover, drawing on her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe traditional medicine to track down the source of a new drug. How far will she go to protect her community, if it threatens to tear apart the only world she's ever known? -- adapted from jacket
With the next title set in this community, Warrior Girl Unearthed, coming out soon, Firekeeper's Daughter might have to be my next read. -Casey
The mysterious Benedict Society
Stewart, Trenton Lee.
jFICTION Stewart, Trenton Lee
Fiction, Kids
After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
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The last true poets of the sea
Drake, Julia, author.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION Drake Julia
Fiction, Young Adult, Literary Fiction
Inspired loosely by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, teenaged Violet is shipped off to Maine after her brother's hospitalization, where she searches for the lost shipwreck that her great-great grandmother survived and for answers about her family's long struggle with mental illness, all while falling in love.
I'm always in for a Shakespeare retelling, and Twelfth Night is one of my favorites. I've heard The Last True Poets of the Sea is really good, but have yet to get to it. Maybe this year! -Casey
Hamnet : a novel of the plague
O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972- author.
FICTION O'Farrell, Maggie
Fiction, Historical Fiction
England, 1580. A young Latin tutor-- penniless, bullied by a violent father-- falls in love with an eccentric young woman who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer.
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Me (Moth)
McBride, Amber, author.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION Mcbride Amber
Fiction, Young Adult
Moth, who lost her family in an accident, and Sani, who is battling ongoing depression, take a road trip that has them chasing ghosts and searching for ancestors, which helps them move forward in surprising, powerful and unforgettable ways.
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Unsheltered : a novel
Kingsolver, Barbara, author.
FICTION Kingsolver, Barbara
Fiction
At the corner of Sixth and Plum in Vineland, New Jersey two families live in the same house-- centuries apart.
I've been told that I need to branch out from the one Barbara Kingsolver book I've read, The Poisonwood Bible. This one has had my eye for a few years now. -Casey
When you trap a tiger
Keller, Tae, author.
jFICTION Keller Tae
Fantasy, Fiction
When Lily, her sister Sam, and their mother move in with her sick grandmother, Lily traps a tiger and makes a deal with him to heal Halmoni.
I tried to get into this one as an audio book a year or so ago and it wasn't sticking. I'm going to give it another go with the physical format this time. -Casey
Juniper & Thorn
Reid, Ava, author.
SCIENCE FICTION Reid Ava
Fiction, Fantasy
"Marlinchen and her two sisters live with their wizard father in a city shifting from magic to industry. As Oblya's last true witches, she and her sisters are little more than a tourist trap as they treat their clients with archaic remedies and beguile them with nostalgic charm. And while Oblya flourishes with culture and bustles with enterprise, a monster lurks in its midst, borne of intolerance and resentment and suffused with old-world power. Caught between history and progress and blood and desire, Marlinchen must draw upon her own magic to keep her city safe and find her place within it"--Dust jacket flap.
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A gentleman in Moscow
Towles, Amor, author.
FICTION Towles Amor
Fiction, Literary Fiction
From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility--a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel
This is the book in 2023 that I am determined to tackle. It's been on my list for at least four years and I have multiple family members who adore this title. I'm coming for you, Amor Towles! -Casey
I loved the characters in this book, and also the little things it reminded me of from the 90s - like the PC game King's Quest! -Heidi K