Book Recommendations

Code Name Hélène

This book might be for you if you love books about bad-ass women, a revenge plot, and/or love stories; enjoy Kate Quinn, Kristin Harmel, Kelly Rimmer…

Jul 30

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

This book might be for you if you like a deep, soul-level read, magical realism, sweeping (but slow-burn) love stories, enjoyed The Time Travelers Wife…

Jul 20

Love & Other Words

I picked this one up expecting something fun and relatively uncomplicated. A second-chance romance, high school sweethearts, a coffeeshop reunion. I was…

Jun 10

Open Throat by Henry Hoke is about a mountain lion narrating their own displacement through LA. The lion observes the human condition—cell phones…

Jun 10

Spectacular Things

Spectacular Things is a moving, character-driven story about ambition, sacrifice, motherhood, and the people who help us become who we're meant to be…

Jun 7

The Girls Who Grew Big

This story follows three teenagers who are mothers, or soon will be. The three POV characters—Simone, Adela, and Emory—are part of a tight knit found…

Jun 2

Auggie Pullman is just a regular kid the summer before fifth grade…except he’s always been homeschooled because of a combination of rare genetic…

May 29

Heart the Lover

The narrator of Heart the Lover, nicknamed Jordan throughout, meets two boys and best friends her senior year of college. She joins their world fully…

May 24

The Correspondent

Sybil Van Antwerp writes letters—to her brother, to her daughter, to her best friend, to neighbors, to two men vying for her romantic attention, to…

May 18

Tell the Wolves I’m Home

Tell the Wolves I’m Home is about June Elbus, a fourteen-year-old-girl in the late 80s whose uncle—and best friend, confidante, and first love—dies of…

May 6

Big Kids, Bigger Feelings

A guide to supporting the social and emotional learning of elementary-aged kids, Big Kids, Bigger Feelings tackles issues common in those pivotal years.

Mar 27

“I used to resist the dark places, but now I knew that the fullness of life includes all of it: the light, the dark, and the shadows that creep…

Mar 10

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