Boo! Our new October releases are here!
Cozy up with with a book and a warm blanket!
It’s October and the days are growing shorter, giving way to cozy nights with a book and a warm blanket. Curl up and enjoy these fresh reads as the fall chill settles in.
Louise Erdrich’s latest, “The Mighty Red,” sees a trucker and her high school daughter navigating choices for the future in North Dakota’s Red River Valley during the 2008 economic crash. Along with choices between college and marriage come worries about fracking and industrial agriculture and the comic moments of small-town life.
In an apocalyptic New York, Mira starts a ham radio show offering relationship advice, hoping to reach the girlfriend she left behind. “How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnamable Disaster” by Muriel Leung sees Mira forge a new community with the residents and ghosts in the apartment building.
One wonders at the person who went to the Acropolis only to post a 1-star review saying, “You’ll just see some ruins.” In “Subpar Planet,” Amber Share illustrates each attraction in the style of vintage travel posters and juxtaposes information about each location with the bad reviews they’ve been given.
Actor Stanley Tucci structures his deliciously unique memoir as a food diary chronicling what he ate in 2023. In “What I Ate in One Year” his meals mark the passage of time and are occasions to reflect on what got him to this point and where he goes next.
In “Salt Pepper Season Spice,” Jacques Pasquet introduces middle-grade readers to eleven common spices and seasonings, exploring where they come from, how people use them, common lore and more.
In November 1980, malfunctioning weather buoys meant two lobster boats off the coast of Cape Code had no warning when they were suddenly hit with 80-mile-per-hour winds and 70-foot waves. “Fatal Forecast” by Michael J. Tougias chronicles their fight for survival in this gripping teen read.