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Beasts of Prey

Featured Stories Young Adult

Get Ready to Battle the ‘Beasts of Prey’

September 28, 2021September 28, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Ayana Gray, Beasts of Prey, Oprah

The thrilling and eagerly-awaited first installment of an Africa-set YA fantasy trilogy has arrived

Knausgaard

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It’s a Struggle to Get Through the New Karl Ove Knausgaard Novel

September 27, 2021September 27, 2021 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Karl Ove Knausgaard, Linda Bostrom, My Struggle, The Morning Star, The October Child

Bring back that first-person narrator

Classrooms

FICTION NON-FICTION Politics

Classrooms Gone Wild

September 20, 2021September 23, 2021 Sharyn Vane 4 Comments A Big Mooncake for Little Star, Ashley Hope Perez, Erika Sanchez, Forget the Alamo, Ibram X. Kendi, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Jonathan Evison, Lawn Boy, Leander ISD, Tiffany Jewell

The push to control what your kids read and write is intensifying nationwide

turnout

‘Turnout’ For What?

September 14, 2021September 14, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Dare Me, Megan Abbott, The Nutcracker, The Turnout

Megan Abbott’s new “Nutcracker noir”

Harlem Shuffle

Colson Whitehead Plays It Safe

September 9, 2021September 21, 2021 Art Edwards 0 Comments

‘Harlem Shuffle,’ a light crime novel by a literary giant

Booker Prize

Back to the Booker Prize Grind

September 9, 2021September 13, 2021 Neal Pollack 4 Comments Booker Prize, Damon Galgut, Patricia Lockwood, Rachel Cusk, Second Place, The Promise, Tsitsi Dangarembga

This year’s novels are as dreary as ever

The War For Gloria

‘The War For Gloria’ Grabs You by the Throat

September 7, 2021September 21, 2021 Dean Jamieson 0 Comments Atticus Lish, Preparations For The Next Life, The War For Gloria

Atticus Lish deploys cold, unsparing realism to great effect

Stephen Graham Jones

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Stephen Graham Jones Slashes Into the Mainstream

September 1, 2021September 14, 2021 Philip Fracassi 0 Comments A Blade In The Dark, Intruder, My Heart Is A Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indian, Thomas Harris

An interview with the best horror writer you may have never heard of

Opt Out

Politics Young Adult

Parents, Don’t Opt Out

September 1, 2021September 6, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments book banning, Facebook, Jandy Nelson, Jason Reynolds, Laurie Halse Anderson

Why would you restrict what your children read in school?

Women of Troy

‘The Women of Troy’

August 24, 2021August 26, 2021 Art Edwards 1 Comment Homer, Madeline Miller, Pat Barker, The Iliad, The Song of Achilles, The Women of Troy

In a new novel, author Pat Barker gives voice to the tyrannized female characters of ‘The Iliad’

FICTION NON-FICTION Young Adult

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

August 23, 2021September 5, 2021 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?

Books

FICTION NON-FICTION

Eight Books to Take You Into Fall

August 20, 2021August 25, 2021 Katie Smith 0 Comments

And, no, Sally Rooney is not on this list

Lina Meruane

The Cosmic Brilliance of Lina Meruane

August 16, 2021August 18, 2021 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments Chile, Lina Meruane, Nervous System, Seeing Red, W.G. Sebald

A Chilean writer who defies categories

Reading ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ at 17 in Summer 21

August 12, 2021August 12, 2021 Karen Kurson 4 Comments DH Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

Pandemic inspires a new hs grad to get off Zoom and read, like, a real book. For fun.

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