I really enjoyed John Green's other books like The Fault in Our Stars, Paper Towns, and Looking for Alaska. But The Anthropocene Reviewed is nothing like those. But that's a great thing! Green has really branched out and gone away from the young adult genre to bring us an adult essay-style feature. Green originally began... Continue Reading →
Eleanor "Nora" Beady was orphaned after her whole family was struck with a deadly pox. Her doctor, Horace Croft, took her in to continue to study her under the pretense of saving the girl from a fate of life in an orphanage. So Nora grows up under the care of the housekeeper Mrs. Phipps while... Continue Reading →
Twin sisters go separate ways when they are 16 years old. When their teenage daughters bring them together again will they be happy with the lives they chose? Desiree and Stella are from Mallard, a small town in the rural south that isn't on any map. It's a town of predominately black citizens who are... Continue Reading →
Nora wants to die. She tries to die. But she ends up in a library at midnight. It's not a typical library though. Sure there are shelves. They're lined with books. There's even a librarian. But all of the books are about her. Every book is a life she could have lived. Every version of... Continue Reading →
You read that title right; the gut is an organ. Gut by Guilia Enders is an inside look at the human digestive system. Learn what makes us go #2 and how bacteria can either help or hurt us. Figure out how and why certain foods make some of us sick and the role a vaginal... Continue Reading →
John Cole leaves his book shop one day with the intent to visit his brother. He gets in his car and drives. When he stops at an old house far from the beaten path, the last thing he expected was for them to be expecting him. He's greeted by name and they say they've been... Continue Reading →
Everyone loves a trip to the zoo. The animals are wild. The experience is beautiful. A day of fun-filled educational exhibits. Right? Well, actually, not everyone agrees that zoos are a wonderful place to spend the day. In David Grazian's American Zoo: A Sociological Safari, you'll read about the pros and cons of the American... Continue Reading →
A murder. A victim. A killer. And a group of four murder club members that are going to solve the mystery. The Thursday Murder Club takes the reader on a journey as Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim, and Ron use their detective skills to solve the murder of a man who was going to be building an... Continue Reading →
Can a city have a soul? A personality? Of course, it can. And a city like New York surely has a powerful one. In fact, New York City has six. One for each borough and one for the city collective. But all hell breaks loose when the souls of the city become people who embody... Continue Reading →
A $10 million Stradivarius violin has gone missing. Will Ray McMillian be able to pay the ransom in time to compete in the world's biggest classical music competition? Find out in this musical mystery studded with family history and high aspirations. Ray McMillian is a young Black man whose love of music might be his... Continue Reading →
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