- December 26, 2023
With a new year swift upon us, rather than spend our long midwinter nights brooding on the uncanny speed with which the months seem to flee, or stewing over unchecked items on the past year’s to-do lists, wouldn’t it be altogether more pleasant to reminisce about the best nonfiction offerings from 2023? Yes, let’s do ...
Read more… - December 21, 2023
PFL staff are back with more holiday recommendations! Did you miss Part 1? View it here.
Please note, not all of these gems are available in our catalog. We have put links to the ones that can be places on hold through Minerva. Visit the Information Desk for help tracking down anything else that looks interesting ...
Read more… - December 13, 2023
We all know library workers have the best recommendations. Here are some of the PFL staff’s holiday favorites! Stay tuned for Part 2 next week.
Please note, not all of these gems are available in our catalog. We have put links to the ones that can be places on hold through Minerva. Visit the Information Desk ...
Read more… - December 6, 2023
A favorite in our mixed-faith house is Latkes for Santa Claus by Janie Emaus. New step siblings Anna and Michael navigate celebrating both Christmas and Hanukkah for the first time by figuring out what kinds of Hanukkah snacks to leave out for Santa. You’ll never guess what Anna comes up with to pair with Michael’s ...
Read more… - December 4, 2023
For fans of Angeline Boulley’s debut Firekeeper’s Daughter, her this title is her follow-up; Warrior Girl Unearthed. Set ten years later, it is populated with some familiar characters of the Sugar Island Ojibwe community as well as new characters, including the endearingly brash protagonist, Perry Firekeeper-Birch, who stirs up trouble as a summer intern at ...
Read more… - November 15, 2023
Yellowface traces the story of a woman who steals her dead friend’s novel and has it published to great success. But the original writer is Asian and our antiheroine is not. So even without knowing she is posing as the author, people begin to question her appropriation of identity. We see her living in dread ...
Read more… - November 9, 2023
We’re closed for Veteran’s Day, so we’re stocking up on books! Here’s what PFL staff is reading this weekend:
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology by David Abram
Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Pet by Catherine Chidgey
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper
Vita Nostra ...
Read more… - November 2, 2023
White’s newest book seems at first to be a frightening and heartbreaking deep-dive into those odd, early-morning, public access children’s shows some of us used to stumble upon as kids (anyone else watch Mr. Dressup on CBC at 5 am?). A reunion of the cast of a mysterious children’s show leads to increasingly disturbing realizations ...
Read more… - October 25, 2023
Lay Them to Rest by Laurah Norton
At the heart of the story is a severed head. Found by two girls in a lakeside Illinois park in 1993, the head would languish in anonymity for almost thirty years, the woman to whom it had rightly belonged banished to the realm of generic Jane Does. Popular podcaster Laurah ...
Read more… - October 19, 2023
This tribute to The Thing and Aliens gives us the xenomorphic gore/loathing of tech billionaires mash-up we didn’t know we needed. When Riley accepts an opportunity to collect ice samples in Antarctica, she forces herself out of her comfort zone and joins several other teens who have also arrived at an isolated station. The teens ...
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