Staff Picks

  • Staff Pick: They’re Going to Love You by Meg Howrey

    January 12, 2023Staff Pick: They’re Going to Love You by Meg Howrey
    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 ...
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  • Staff Picks: Favorite Reads of 2022 (Adults)

    December 28, 2022Staff Picks: Favorite Reads of 2022 (Adults)
    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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  • Staff Picks: Favorite Reads of 2022 (Children and YA)

    December 22, 2022Staff Picks: Favorite Reads of 2022 (Children and YA)
    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 ...
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  • Staff Picks: She Eats the Night: The Night Eaters Book 1 by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

    December 15, 2022Staff Picks: She Eats the Night: The Night Eaters Book 1 by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
    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 ...
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  • Staff Pick: The Wild Hunt by Emma Seckel

    December 7, 2022Staff Pick: The Wild Hunt by Emma Seckel
    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 ...
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  • Staff Pick: Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

    December 1, 2022Staff Pick: Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White
    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 ...
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  • What We’re Reading: Thanksgiving Weekend 2022

    November 22, 2022What We're Reading: Thanksgiving Weekend 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 ...
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  • Staff Pick: Small Game by Blair Braverman

    November 17, 2022Staff Pick: Small Game by Blair Braverman
    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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  • Staff Picks: River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow by Sarah Gailey

    November 9, 2022Staff Picks: River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow by Sarah Gailey
    What if, in the 1800s, hippos were introduced to the Louisiana marshlands to be farmed as an alternative food source?  This little known actual historical possibility is would introduce whole new branches of capitalism, agriculture and animal husbandry, and of course, crime.     These two novellas, collected with two new short stories in American Hippo, introduces the ...
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  • Staff Pick: Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller

    November 1, 2022Staff Pick: Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller
    Set in a crumbling, abandoned, English manor home, main character Frances is brought in to assess the landscape architecture of the grounds for the new owner. She takes up residence in the home with a young married couple and becomes obsessed with watching them through a hole on her floorboards. It’s not a scary read, ...
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