Previews, Reviews, and Collection Development
Get ready to step into another world with the January LibraryReads list. Dynamic duo Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen offer a new and chilling psychological thriller; continue the journey with iconic heroine Louisa Clark in New York Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes’s novel Still Me; and travel to a fantasy world where the fate of a […]
This arresting array of titles gives newbies and Russophiles alike a taste of the culture and politics that have shaped this nation, while also revealing its ordinary people to be educated, creative, and often in possession of an earthy sense of humor.
Rooted in Russian history and folklore and told in language as extravagantly beautiful as the fire bird itself, Katherine Arden’s The Bear and the Nightingale brings us Vasilisa Petrovna, a village girl with royal bloodlines and more mysterious, magical antecedents who saves her corner of medieval Russia and effectively all humankind.
You will find the December/January LibraryReads list thrilling, with books like Peter Swanson’s Hitchcock-like thriller, a suspense filled murder mystery from Barry Brunonia, and award-winning author Jane Harper’s heart-racing debut mystery.
