Category: Books

An Inventory of Losses

Nov 24, 2020

Judith Schalansky; Harper Collins With each passing year, parts of the world are lost. Species become extinct. Old texts fade from print. Artifacts are buried. Islands slip into the ocean. In An...

The Cold Millions

Oct 30, 2020

By Jess Walter Jess Walter’s The Cold Millions centers around 16-year-old Rye Dolan and his 23-year-old brother Gig. The pair have spent months tooling around the western United States,...

Some Go Home

Aug 19, 2020

By Odie Lindsey; W.W. Norton & Company At first blush, Some Go Home explores veteran Colleen Friar’s acclimation back to her hometown of Pitchlynn, Mississippi following her deployment....

Inland

Jul 20, 2020

by Téa Obreht It’s 1893 and the sparsely populated settlement of Amargo, deep in the Arizona Territory, is experiencing a severe drought. With the town’s water supply fast depleting,...

Surviving Autocracy

Jun 25, 2020

By Masha Gessen; Penguin Random House – June 2020 Surviving Autocracy Masha Gessen Penguin Random House June 2020 Growing up in the Soviet Union and living in Russia off and on until...

The Easy Part of Impossible

May 26, 2020

By Sarah Tomp; HarperTeen Teenager Ria Williams is a skilled diver. She is on track to compete at the Olympic level, but injury forces her to abandon this dream and walk away from all she’s...