Coming to your library on June 14th is The Girls by Emma Cline—an indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong. This promises to be an in-demand title. Place your hold today before the waitlist ramps up! Penguin Random House staffer, Elizabeth, highly recommends The Girls and says: "During the violent end of the 1960s, lonely teenager Evie Boyd becomes mesmerized with an older girl, and, desperate to be accepted, she is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult. Deftly capturing girlhood, peer pressure, and female friendship,…
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[Tweet "Don't miss these fun beach reads this summer!"]Fun Reads to Add to your Beach Bag this Summer Nine Women, One Dress by Jane L. Rosen A charming, hilarious, irresistible romp of a novel that brings together nine unrelated women, each touched by the same little black dress that weaves through their lives, bringing a little magic with it. Monsters: A Love Story by Liz Kay A cracklingly funny and poignant debut novel about the ways we love, even when we’re not at our best. Since her husband died eight months ago, Stacey’s been a certified mess—a poet who…
Happy Audiobook Month! In this special edition of There’s a Book for That! We have adapted our moniker to reflect June’s focus on audiobooks. Founded and promoted by the Audio Publishers Association (APA), this year’s National Audiobook Month campaign, “A Good Audiobook Speaks Volumes,” launches June 1st and lends us the opportunity to feature popular titles and highlight the fact that listening to books has never been more popular – whether they are read by the author or an accomplished narrator. APA’s annual survey results, as reported in Publishers Weekly, showed audio is one of the fastest growing segments of publishing.…
Calling all readers! If you haven't already read Five Days Left by Julie Lawson Timmer, add it to your TBR pile--now! And check out her latest, Untethered, out on June 7th. Praise for Five Days Left “This impressive debut novel heralds the arrival of an extremely talented writer.”—Jodi Picoult A book club favorite—a heart-wrenching debut about two people who must decide how much they’re willing to sacrifice for love.Mara Nichols is a successful lawyer, devoted wife, and adoptive mother who has received a life-shattering diagnosis. Scott Coffman, a middle school teacher, has been fostering an eight-year-old boy while the boy’s…
The movie we've all been waiting for: This Friday, Me Before You, based on the book by Jojo Moyes—hits theaters! They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . . Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he…
