BLOG & STAFF PICKS

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Brooke's Pick: Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

A young woman attempts to navigate adulthood, new motherhood and her meager bank account in our increasingly online world. Rufi Thorpe...

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Brooke

Jun 28, 20243 min read

Brooke's Pick: The Divorcees by Rowan Beaird

Set in the glamorous, dizzying world of 1950s Reno, where housewives and movie stars rubbed shoulders at gin-soaked casinos, The...

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Brooke

Jun 27, 20243 min read

Van's Pick: My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand

In her own words, the living legend tells the story of her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her first...

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Van

Jun 26, 20242 min read

Brooke's Pick: The Someday Daughter by Ellen O'Clover

The daughter of a self-help superstar, Audrey is determined to create her own identity and agrees to go on her mother's book tour, hoping...

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Brooke

May 20, 20242 min read

Catherine's Pick: Meet Me By the Fountain by Alexandra Lange

An entertaining and evocative stroll through the rise, fall, and ongoing reinvention of malls, which proved to be a powerful draw for...

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Catherine

Mar 22, 20242 min read

Dione's Pick: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the...

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Dione

Feb 15, 20242 min read

Katina's Pick: The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

The beloved New York Times opinion writer and best-selling author presents this stunning literary devotional that follows the creatures...

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Katina

Feb 2, 20242 min read

Brooke's Pick: The Good Part by Sophie Cousens

When she makes a wish to skip to the good part of her life, 26-year-old Lucy Young wakes up to a handsome husband, a high-powered job and...

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Brooke

Jan 25, 20242 min read

Van's Pick: Empire Falls by Richard Russo

Milo Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once-successful logging town of Empire Falls, Maine,...

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Van

Jan 24, 20242 min read

Brooke's Pick: The Second Chance Year by Melissa Wiesner

When her wish to redo her awful year comes true, Sadie Thatcher, with her life in shambles, navigates her second chance, seeing the red...

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Brooke

Jan 9, 20242 min read

Brooke's Pick: Just Like Magic by Sarah Hogle

What’s a girl to do when her Christmas spirit levels are sinking to a disastrous low? Why accidentally conjure the Holiday Spirit in...

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Brooke

Nov 9, 20232 min read

Katina's Pick: The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt

Tells the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and...

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Katina

Oct 3, 20232 min read

Catherine's Pick: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone is the story of Red and Blue. Red is a time-traveling agent in...

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Catherine

Jun 16, 20232 min read

Shannon's Pick: The Duke's Estates Series by Jane Ashford

Fans of Bridgerton will fall in love with this sparkling Regency romance from bestselling author Jane Ashford. A duke accustomed to...

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Shannon

Jun 8, 20231 min read

Brooke's Pick: None of This Would Have Happened if Prince were Alive by Carolyn Prusa

Struggling to evacuate Savannah as a Category Four hurricane bears down, Ramona, along with her entourage, navigates police check points,...

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Brooke

Jun 1, 20233 min read

Brooke's Pick: Hayley Aldridge is Still Here by Elissa R. Sloan

A former child star fights the conservatorship that is governing every aspect in her life and uses social media to help in the new novel...

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Brooke

May 18, 20233 min read

Catherine's Pick: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

The much-beloved BookTok sensation from Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes is a novel of high fantasy and low stakes. At the heart of the...

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Catherine

Apr 4, 20232 min read