Category: Library
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Macado
Foster by Claire Keegan
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Swimming in the Dark
Two boys meet at an agricultural camp over the summer. Janusz is self-assured and popular; Ludwik is curious and weary. They fall for each other in the last years of communist rule in Poland “Some things cannot be erased through silence. Some people, some events, make you lose your head. They’re like guillotines, cutting your […]
Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
Cecile Pin’s Wandering Souls is about three siblings who leave Vietnam in 1978 and make it to Hong Kong. Their parents and younger siblings were supposed to follow on the next boat. They are found dead on the shore instead, and the three are left with each other. Anh is the oldest. The book opens […]
Protected: My Last Innocent Year by Daisy Alpert Florin
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is about two people who spend thirty years making video games together. There are a lot of games in it and Oregon Trail keeps coming back, but I’d call it a book about partnership more than a book about games. You don’t need to be a gamer to […]
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