- January 26, 2023
Each month Reference Librarian Aurora highlights a few of her most anticipated non-fiction new releases.
Northeaster: A Story of Courage and Survival in the Blizzard of 1952 by Cathie Pelletier
Remember when it used to snow in Maine? Reading Cathie Pelletier’s bracing account of the calamities that befell Mainers during the infamous Blizzard of 1952 ought to jog ...
Read more… - January 19, 2023
This anthology features twenty-four contemporary horror stories that center on marginalized or othered characters. Themes include, but are not limited to: generational trauma, xenophobia, gender identity, and the objectification of women. Standouts for me involved an unusual form of peer pressure coming from a water aerobics class and a grocery delivery driver with an extremely ...
Read more… - January 12, 2023
A beautiful story that centers around the ballet scene in New York City in the 80’s and up to 2016. Carlisle’s mother was a Balanchine ballerina and her father taught at a dance school.
This is a story of acceptance and forgiveness that beautifully intertwines issues of the AIDS epidemic and how we reckon with our ...
Read more… - December 28, 2022
Fiction:
The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Ice by Anna Kavan
What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher
Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen Kirby
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
The Night Eaters Book 1: She Eats the Night by Marjorie ...
Read more… - December 22, 2022
Picture Books:
Coffee, Rabbit, Snowdrop, Lost by Betina Birkjær; illustrated by Anna Margrethe Kjærgaard
Dear Mr. Dickens by Nancy Churnin; illustrated by Bethany Stancliffe
Red House, Tree House, Little Bitty Brown Mouse by Jane Godwin; illustrated by Blanca Gómez
Noodle and the No Bones Day by Jonathan Graziano; illustrated by Dan Tavis
Ten Owies by Tony Johnston; illustrated by Annabel ...
Read more… - December 15, 2022
From the writer/illustrator team that has given us Monstress comes the first book in the new trilogy, The Night Eaters.
Unreachable, chain-smoking, and all-around unpleasant Ipo is living for a few months in Hawaii with her laid-back husband, Keon. They are staying with their twins, Milly and Billy, who are both in their early twenties and ...
Read more… - December 7, 2022
Set on a small Scottish island during and after World War II, this debut by Emma Seckel is wise and eerie at the same time. The sluagh are the blackbirds of Gaelic legend that hold the souls of the unforgiven. They mass on the island when the heroine, Leigh, arrives home after her father’s fall ...
Read more… - December 1, 2022
Benji has a lot going on in his life. The trans teen has just escaped from a destructive cult and is hiding out so that they can’t get him, or the weapon they planted within him, back. Can his new friends from a local LGBTQ+ group help keep him safe while he learns to control ...
Read more… - November 22, 2022
PFL staff love to read, and holiday weekends are no exception! Read on for a list of what we have on our shelves for Thanksgiving and beyond.
Sirens and Muses by Antonia Angress
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit
The Husbands by Chandler Baker
Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell
The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror edited by Toni Bovalino
A Psalm ...
Read more… - November 17, 2022
When Mara joins the cast of Civilization, she thinks she is well prepared. On this new survival reality show contestants must work together to last six weeks in the wilderness. Anyone who makes it to the end will win a cash prize, and Mara, a Wilderness Survival Instructor, really needs the money. Sure, her companions ...
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