Since people can't live in a library, Amy Krouse Rosenthal has created the next best thing at home. Watch the video, below. Amy Krouse Rosenthal, bestselling author of Encyclopedia an Ordinary Life returns with Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal: not exactly a memoir—a literary experience that is unprecedented, unforgettable, and explosively human. Why the title Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal? • Because the book is organized into chapters with classic subject headings such as Social Studies, Music, Language Arts, Math, etc. • Because textbook is an expression meaning “quintessential,” as in, Oh, that wordplay and unconventional format is so typical of her, so textbook Amy. • Because…
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Out today is The Light of Paris—the miraculous new novel from New York Times–bestselling author Eleanor Brown, whose debut, The Weird Sisters, was a sensation beloved by critics and readers alike. Click here for The Light of Paris book club kit. Madeleine is trapped—by her family’s expectations, by her controlling husband, and by her own fears—in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted. From the outside, it looks like she has everything, but on the inside, she fears she has nothing that matters. In Madeleine’s memories, her grandmother Margie is the kind of woman she should have been—elegant,…
To help keep kids reading and learning this summer, Brightly has put together a comprehensive summer guide with book lists and tips for readers of any age. You can find road trip games, printable activities, recommended reads for kids and adults, tips for parents, and more on Brightly, our online family resource that helps parents raise lifelong readers. Click here to see Brightly’s full summer reading central article with all of the season’s reading essentials, broken down by age and stage.
There is plenty of buzz about Jonathan Unleashed by Meg Rosoff, a beach bag-ready summer read for dog lovers: Marie Claire calls it “A humorous tale of a young New Yorker’s search for happiness, and the two dogs who help him find it." “Buoyant, witty. . . . a frequently thoughtful comedy.”—Publishers Weekly “Rossoff, best known for her award-winning youth books, makes another foray into the adult world here with this sprightly romcom. In reality, though, the age line in her books has never run true. And why should it? Her writings—thoughtful, mutable, and often with love, of one kind or another,…
Based on the novel of the same name by Philip Roth, Indignation tells the story of Marcus, a working class student from New Jersey who attends a small college in Ohio. In 1951, the second year of the Korean War, a studious, law-abiding, and intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio’s Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hardworking neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad– mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers…
