- March 9, 2023
The residents of The Rabbit Hutch are a diverse cast of characters; a mother secretly afraid of her newborn’s eyes, an elderly couple bent on revenge, an online obituary writer, a trio of former foster children all in love with the same girl. Weaving throughout their stories is Blandine, a strange and luminescent girl obsessed ...
Read more… - March 2, 2023
Bloomsbury Publishing has created two hyper-focused book series and I can’t stop reading them. The first is the 33 1/3 series, which includes 168 books, each one a deep-dive into a specific album. Each book has a separate author and each author, passionate about the album of his or her choice, chooses the direction they ...
Read more… - February 23, 2023
We’ve had Presidents’ Day, a snow day, and February Break all in the same week, which means there has been a lot of time for books! Check out the list below to see what PFL staff has been reading this week.
The Thing by Anne Billson
All the Broken Places by John Boyne
Before I Do by Sophie ...
Read more… - February 16, 2023
Each month Reference Librarian Aurora highlights a few of her most anticipated non-fiction new releases.
Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear by Erica Berry
Wolves have long held a unique place in the human imagination, at once a symbol of our worst fears and the wildness we cherish, both despised and revered. Combining memoir, ...
Read more… - February 9, 2023
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 your memory. Pelletier, a novelist born and raised in Allagash, lays out the story of the storm through the lives of the ordinary people who survived it, ...
Read more… - February 2, 2023
Literary fiction meets psychological thriller meets elements of true crime: Notes on an Execution is told through the voices of several complex women whose lives have been forever changed by a killer counting down his last hours on death row. The subject is unsettling, but the prose is gorgeous.
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Read more… - 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 ...
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