Lily Moayeri, Author at Book and Film Globe

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

FICTION Young Adult

The Undeniable Appeal of the YA Whodunnit

March 23, 2022April 10, 2022 Lily Moayeri 0 Comments A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Courtney Summers, E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud, Holly Jackson, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Jessica Goodman, Karen McManus, Maureen Johnson, Monday's Not Coming, Natasha Preston, One of Us Is Lying, Sadie, Stephanie Perkins, The Inheritance Games, The Lake, There's Someone Inside Your House, They Wish They Were Us, Tiffany D. Jackson, Truly Devious

Just as mysterious as adult cozies, but not as self-absorbed

Music

Music NON-FICTION

The Best Music Books of the Year

December 15, 2021April 10, 2022 Lily Moayeri 0 Comments Billie Eilish, Crying in H Mart, Dave Thomas, Metallica, Michelle Zauner, Permanent Damage, Renegade Snares, The Listening Party, Tim Burgess, Vanity Project

A holiday shopping guide for the music lover in your life

FICTION NON-FICTION Young Adult

A Realistic List of Books You Can Get Young Adults To Actually Finish

August 23, 2021March 29, 2022 Lily Moayeri 0 Comments A Child Called It, Angie Thomas, Ben Mikaelsen, Between Shades of Gray, Candy, Concrete Rose, Dave Pelzer, Demon Slayer, Divergent, Go Ask Alice, Jenny Han, John Green, Kevin Brooks, Lucy Christopher, Rainbow Rowell, Rick Riordan, Rupi Kaur, Ruta Sepetys, S.E. Hinton, Sara Zarr, Sonya Sones, Stephen King, Stephenie Meyer, Stolen, Story of A Girl, The Outsiders, Twilight, Veronica Roth

Who would you trust more? Time Magazine? Or our resident teacher librarian?

Sundance

Actually, the Revolution WAS Televised

July 29, 2021April 4, 2022 Lily Moayeri 11 Comments Hal Tulchin, Historic Films, Joe Lauro, Morgan Neville, Newmarket Films, Questlove, Robert Fyvolent, Robert Gordon, Summer of Soul

The true story of the ‘lost footage’ from Summer of Soul

Dávila

CREATORS FICTION Young Adult

The Amazing Covers of Erick Dávila

July 28, 2021July 30, 2021 Lily Moayeri 0 Comments Camryn Garrett, Elizabeth Acevedo, Elizabeth Gilbert, Erick Dávila, Off the Record, With The Fire On High

An interview with the in-demand illustrator of Young Adult novels

Mafi

The Raw Emotion of Tahereh Mafi

May 18, 2021March 15, 2022 Lily Moayeri 0 Comments A Very Large Expanse Of Sea, An Emotion of Great Delight, Tahereh Mafi

Her new YA novel, intense almost to a fault

Chad

‘Chad’ is Very Bad

May 5, 2021April 27, 2022 Lily Moayeri 16 Comments Aladdin, Anna Konkle, Chad, Maya Erskine, Nasim Pedrad, New Girl, Pen15, Shahs of Sunset

TV’s first Iranian-American sitcom, a disgrace to Iranians, and to Americans

Immortals of Tehran

‘The Immortals of Tehran’ Lacks Magic

April 20, 2021April 20, 2021 Lily Moayeri 0 Comments Ali Araghi, The Immortals of Tehran

Family saga of 20th Century Iran could use more realism, less whimsy

Women's History

NON-FICTION Young Adult

The Best Young Adult Nonfiction for Women’s History Month

March 2, 2021March 2, 2022 Lily Moayeri 1 Comment Alice Paul, Ann Angel, Becoming, Charles and Emma, Claudette Colvin, Deborah Heiligman, Deborah Kops, Hidden Figures, I Am Malala, Irène Curie, Janis Joplin, Lise Meitner, Lita Judge, Malala Yousafzai, Margot Lee Shetterly, Mary's Monster, Michelle Obama, Phillip M. Hoose, Radioactive!, Rebecca Skloot, Sally Ride, Sonia Sotomayor, Tam O’Shaughnessy, The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Twice Toward Justice, Winifred Conkling

From scientists to activists to singers, these women changed the world

young adult

FICTION Young Adult

An Exciting Year For Black Young Adult Authors

February 18, 2021March 3, 2021 Lily Moayeri 0 Comments Camryn Garrett, Debbie Rigaud, Fast Pitch, Ilyas'a Shabazz, Instructions for Dancing, Jay Coles, Leah Johnson, Love is a Revolution, Muted, nic stone, Nicola Yoon, Off the Record, Renee Watson, Rise to the Sun, Sharon Flake, Simone Breaks All The Rules, Tami Charles, The Awakening of Malcolm X, The Life I'm In, The Skin I'm In, Things We Couldn't Say, Tiffany Jackson

Great new narratives from returning favorites

FICTION Young Adult

Ten Great Young-Adult Fiction Debuts for the Next Two Months

February 8, 2021February 10, 2021 Lily Moayeri 0 Comments A Pho Love Story, Adrienne Tooley, Amelia Unabridged, American Betiya, Anuradha D. Rajurkar, Ashley Schumacher, Bethany Mangle, Denny S. Bryce, Hot British Boyfriend, Karen Bischer, Kristy Boyce, Loan Le, Louise Willingham, Monica Gomez-Hira, Not Quite Out, Once Upon a Quinceañera, Prepped, The Secret Recipe for Moving On, weet and Bitter Magic, Wild Women and the Blues

Across genres and cultures, publishing’s hottest sector continues to deliver