Be on the look out for Sweetbitter, out May 24th! These are the words that open Stephanie Danler’s extraordinary debut novel, Sweetbitter, introducing readers to Tess, the book’s twenty-two-year-old narrator: “You will develop a palate. A palate is a spot on your tongue where you remember. Where you assign words to the textures of taste. Eating becomes a discipline, language-obsessed. You will never simply eat food again.” A lush novel of the senses—of taste and hunger, seeing and understanding, love and desire— Sweetbitter is ultimately about the power of what remains after disillusionment, and the transformation and wisdom that come from our experiences,…
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The best post-apocalypse book Hugo, our resident backlist aficionado, has ever had the pleasure of reading. At times heartwarming and heart wrenching. An imagination capturing tale that will have readers thinking long after the last page has turned. Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley. But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside…
The Far Empty—A book to add to you TBR pile! In this gritty crime debut set in the stark Texas borderlands, an unearthed skeleton will throw a small town into violent turmoil. Seventeen-year-old Caleb Ross is adrift in the wake of the sudden disappearance of his mother more than a year ago, and is struggling to find his way out of the small Texas border town of Murfee. Chris Cherry is a newly minted sheriff’s deputy, a high school football hero who has reluctantly returned to his hometown. When skeletal remains are discovered in the surrounding badlands, the two are…
There's A Book for That: Friday the 13th #FRIDAYREADS: We’ve been waiting for you Friday the 13th! Though its origins are unclear (and could date back to biblical times), Friday the 13th is considered a day of bad luck by the superstitious in the Western Hemisphere and has entered popular culture as an auspicious date. We know the horror movie franchise it spawned, but did you know that there is a word for a fear of Friday the 13th? It is Paraskevidekatriaphobia - from the Greek words paraskeví (meaning ‘Friday’), and dekatreís (meaning ‘thirteen’). We don’t wish to make light of anybody’s…
May is almost here and we have six great new reads that will be coming to a library near you! Be the first to check these titles out! SWEETBITTER You will develop a palate. A palate is a spot on your tongue where you remember. Where you assign words to the textures of taste. Eating becomes a discipline, language-obsessed. You will never simply eat food again. These are the words that introduce us to Tess, the twenty-two-year-old narrator of Sweetbitter—and you will never again read a debut coming-of-age novel as stunning as this one. A LibraryReads Pick for May. THE…
