Kindred by Octavia Butler “I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.” Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of…
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice The time is now. We are in a small room with the vampire, face-to-face, as he speaks – as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first 200 years as one of the living dead… He speaks quietly, plainly, even gently…carrying us…
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty How do the living come back to life? Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere…
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey I’ve been in this life for 50 years, been trying to work out its riddle for 42, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last 35. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud.…
My Life Growing Up Asian In America by CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) (Format used for this book: Print–hardback) A collection of 30 heartfelt, witty, and hopeful thought pieces on the experience of growing up Asian American, for fans of Minor Feelings. There are 23 million people, representing more than 20 countries, each with…
Finding Me by Viola Davis (Format used for this read: Audiobook) In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New…
Now Is Not The Time To Panic by Kevin Wilson An exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever. Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge—aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner—is determined to make it through yet another summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she…