Eraser

Looking for a book to share with a child that emphasizes the importance of unique abilities? The latest picture book from award-winning team Anna Kang and Christopher Weyant, Eraser, brings familiar writing and drawing tools to life to show just how important each of us truly is. Eraser, an adorable, pink pony-tailed, bespectacled desk mate knows […]

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Pieces of Her

Andrea is having lunch with her mother, Laura, when a gunman enters the restaurant and starts firing. Paralyzed with fear, she’s shocked when Laura not only confronts the shooter, but takes him down single handedly. When Andy later defends her mother against a home invader, Laura tells her to run, giving her the location of […]

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The Rough Patch

Brian Lies, well-known for his picture books Bats at the Beach, Bats at the Library, and Bats at the Ballgame, has created a new book with a more emotionally provocative theme. In The Rough Patch, readers meet Evan, an anthropomorphic fox who lives with his dog, his constant companion and best friend. They do everything together, most especially care for […]

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Under a Dark Sky

Eden Wallace, while going through her dead husband’s paperwork, discovered a reservation made for a dark sky park on the date of their 10th anniversary. The irony is stunning. Since her husband died in a car accident, Eden has been unable to bear the darkness at all. She spends each night with all the lights […]

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Who Eats Orange?

Not your traditional colors-themed picture book, Who Eats Orange? introduces a wide variety of animals grouped together by the colors of the foods they love to eat. Written by Dianne White and illustrated by Robin Page, it features boldly colorful and realistic images alongside short text that reads like a conversation. The titular color starts readers off […]

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Our House

When Fiona Lawson returns home to find strangers moving into her house, she insists there must be a mistake. She and her estranged husband, Bram, share the house with their two children in a bird’s nest custody arrangement, where each lives in the house half the week with the boys, and the other half at […]

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The Death of Mrs. Westaway

Ruth Ware has been very prolific recently, publishing 4 books in the last 2 years. Her latest, The Death of Mrs. Westaway, has been on every summer must-read list, and adds a Gothic bent to her suspenseful style. Hal is just getting by, making her living reading tarot on the pier near her home in […]

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After Nightfall

  Marissa Parlette is living the dream…sort of. She’s fallen deeply in love with Nate, who seems nearly perfect! He’s handsome, an EMT who cares deeply about other people, lives in a cliffside house northwest of Seattle, and has a darling 9 year old, Amy. She was the reason the two of them got together […]

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America for Beginners

A cross-country trip isn’t a new theme for a novel, but in Leah Franqui’s America for Beginners, the trio of traveling companions makes for a unique story of discovering one’s identity. If you’re looking for a summertime read that examines American culture through the lenses of foreign travelers and recent immigrants, this novel is a good […]

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What’s on Your Nightstand, July

As I promised last month, I set this up a month ago, so here it is — on time!

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Birds and Their Feathers

With a cover that would be appropriate on a museum wall, Britta Teckentrup’s Birds and Their Feathers makes for a unique book geared toward children but most definitely fitting for anyone who appreciates beautiful paintings and is interested in learning more about feathers, from their structure to the different types, colors, and purposes they serve. Unlike many […]

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Baby Teeth

When we’re pitched advanced copies of books, it can be hard to know which ones will be hits and which will be overlooked. Baby Teeth was not one I expected to be promoted, based on the description, but after finishing it, I can see why it’s on so many Must Read lists for the month […]

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The Summer List

Summer before freshman year of high school, mid 90s. Laura’s had a miserable year, bullied and mocked at school. She isn’t expecting much as she kayaks across the lake to meet the new neighbors. But Casey, exactly her age, and her young single mother Alex, aren’t like anyone Laura’s ever known before. The two are […]

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The Lost Vintage

Kate’s roots lie in the verdant wine-country of Bordeaux, but she’s avoided the area for years. Her mother left, and raised Kate in California. Kate returned as a college student, fell in love with a neighbor boy, and broke his heart when she returned to San Francisco. Ten years later, she’s a sommelier in an […]

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What’s on Your Nightstand, June

Second verse, same as the first. Again, I am late. Again, I thank a devoted participant for asking. I have actually set the July one up, so there will be no snafus — July 31!

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The Outsider

I’m a long-time fan of Stephen King and also a lover of audiobooks. So when King has a new book out, I wait impatiently for the email from Simon & Schuster offering it on audio, immediately sending in my request. I often don’t even bother to find out what the book is about, which was […]

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Goodbye Brings Hello

For parents, watching your child hit new milestones is an exercise in mixed emotions. Our perspective often is both sentimental for their quickly advancing childhood and excited for the new stage. Perhaps we don’t always consider the perspective of the child who is experiencing new challenges and newly acquired skills, as they, too, are likely […]

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The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (and Their Muses)

Well, that’s a mouthful: The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (and Their Muses), but it’s a fitting title for a novel about a bunch of wordsmiths. Terri-Lynne Defino has written a lyrical novel set firmly in reality that somehow holds a bit of magic. The famous writers live together in what they call […]

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Broken Ice

Nils Shapiro is back! The sharp-eyed and just as sharp-tongued private investigator working in Minnesota has a new case. 17 year old Linnea Engstrom has disappeared, and within an hour of her parents hiring Shap to find her, he’s been shot through the shoulder with an arrow, the kind with a special head that causes […]

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What Do They Do With All That Poo?

Leave it to children’s books to ask the tough questions, the ones that even adults wonder but might not be completely comfortable asking. Well, children are often pretty straightforward with their curiosity, so a new picture book written by Jane Kurtz and illustrated by Allison Black just might address what your child was wondering during […]

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