Although Sarah’s Key is over a decade old, it seems fairly new – as if I first heard about it the other day. It’s been on my to-read list for years but try as I might, I can’t possibly dent that continually growing pile without major life changes, a lottery win, a nanny, and limitless…
Lauren McLaughlin is a local MA author. Lauren McLaughlin | 9781616957315 | Hardcover | PUB DATE: 2/28/2017 | $18.99 | Soho Teen Description: A 21st century response to Walter Dean Myers’s classic Lockdown, The Free takes a look inside a “juvie” jail, where Isaac West is fighting for a second chance. In the beginning, Isaac…
Hag-Seed is the fourth book in the Hogarth Shakespeare series published by Hogarth Press in which popular authors pen their versions of selected Shakespearean plays. In The Gap of Time, Jeanette Winterson tackles The Winter’s Tale. In Shylock Is My Name, Howard Jacobson re-imagines The Merchant of Venice. Pulitzer Prize winning author Anne Tyler takes on…
Nicholas Conley is a local Dover, NH author. From the author of the award-winning Pale Highway and the radio play Something in the Nothing comes a short fantasy of love, shyness, and the secrets of human communication. Katie Mirowitz is a small little girl with an even smaller little voice. She possesses a deep love…
Dr. Shiva is a local Cambridge, MA author and the INVENTOR of email. The Future of Email by V.A. Shiva, Ph.D. Email, the system I invented in 1978, while a 14-year-old boy, to enable collaboration and communication among office workers at a small medical college in Newark, NJ, has now become the center of many controversies….
Stone Riley is a local Worcester, MA author and lifelong activist. Tales of Men and Women – Seventh Edition by Stone Riley Magnum Opus: 500 pages of illuminating and inspiring poetry, prose and pictures by a life-long activist: We can awake; we can rejoice amid life’s pain and darkness, and treasure light. We can learn…
End of Days is the final book in the Penryn & the End of Days trilogy by Susan Ee, a post-apocalyptic, supernatural set of thrillers for young adults. In this dark urban fantasy, angels of Judeo-Christian lore herald the foretold apocalypse and have wreaked havoc on the earth, killing and destroying wherever possible. Unlike your…
World After is the second book in the wildly popular Penryn & the End of Days series by Susan Ee. This young adult fantasy is set in a post-apocalyptic United States after the world was essentially destroyed by warrior angels who heralded the coming judgement day. There will be spoilers on the first book, so…
Angelfall is the first in a series of young adult post-apocalyptic fiction where world destruction has been caused by an army of warrior angels. This novel was a Cyblis Award Nominee for Fantasy & Science Fiction but its popularity truly spread by word of mouth. The first book in the Penryn & the End of Days…
Don’t Dilly Dally, Silly Sally is a rhyming picture book for young children that provides a lesson on the importance of punctuality. Written by Marc Ferrari and colorfully illustrated by Felipe Diaz Huarnez, this charming tale easily captures the attention of children. It follows Sally who can’t be bothered to get ready on time. She is…