- October 12, 2023
Middle schooler Maggie can’t wait to go to summer camp with her best friend and is devastated when her parents let her know, last minute, that they’re sending her to a fat camp instead. Camp Sylvania turns out not to be so bad, especially since Maggie immediately makes some great new friends, but what’s up ...
Read more… - October 5, 2023
Abandoning his theme of animals making questionable decisions about hats, Klassen’s newest book is an adaptation of a Tyrolean folktale. The Skull is first and foremost a folktale, but it has some definite Halloween crossover potential due to the disembodied skull and his fear of a headless skeleton who tries to steal him every night. ...
Read more… - September 27, 2023
How to Fall in Love with Tofu by Emma de Thouars
As an occasional vegan propagandist, one of the rebuttals I hear most often, besides strident assertions of the impossibility of a life without cheese, is, “But I hate tofu!” Although it is a myth that vegans subsist exclusively on blocks of tofu, it is a versatile ...
Read more… - September 21, 2023
A funny take off of Thelma and Louise, only this time it is an 84 year old woman and her 21 year old caregiver. They drive a dark green Jaguar across country to run away from finally being arrested for a crime the older woman committed 50 years ago.
-Mary Ellen, Interlibrary Loan
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Read more… - September 14, 2023
Set in 1990, this short novel about the fictional community of Dalton, Maine, serves as a thoughtful and affectionate portrait of small-town life, filled with characters who have known each other for decades and whose lives have come to overlap in countless ways. Any reader who has lived in rural America will recognize the author’s ...
Read more… - September 5, 2023
This book takes place in the universe of A Curse So Dark and Lonely, one of the best YA fantasies of the last few years. It follows the royal couples through the tumultuous first years of the new, united kingdom. Shockingly enough, not everyone in the kingdom is happy having to coexist with magic and ...
Read more… - August 31, 2023
Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead
The work of surrealist artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) glimmers with its own sideways species of magic, her landscapes like incantations spun from gilded half-light, run through with a revolving cast of ghosts and chimeras, haunted horses and glowing eggs. Given the mysteriousness of ...
Read more… - August 24, 2023
Inspired by his own grandmother, the novel follows Pearl Kahn and her sister Frieda as they escape their shtetl in Poland after WWI and try to get to America. Immigration laws keep them out of the country, however, so they are forced to bide their time in Cuba. It’s a fresh look at the immigrant ...
Read more… - August 17, 2023
Set in South Boston in 1974 when court ordered school busing began, this book skillfully evokes the joy and the tragedy of the whole time period. Though this is fiction, it is rich in the details of the city at the time and very believable. I know. I was living there then.
-Mary Ellen, Interlibrary Loan
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Read more… - August 9, 2023
It’s been a summer full of great weather for reading! A rainy June, a humid July, and some clear August skies have given PFL staff a chance to sit down with some great books. Read on for the list of our favorite titles of standouts new and old.
The All of It by Jeannette Haien
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