Staff Reading Picks

Sydney Green starts a Brooklyn walking tour and finds an unlikely assistant in her neighbor Theo. But their deep dive into history quickly becomes a dizzying descent into paranoia and fear

With his sponsor's blessing, recovering alcoholic Sam partakes in a healing ceremony involving an ancient herbal medicine administered by a shaman over the course of three days, in a novel about coming to grips with the past.

Kirkus Reviews

November 16, 2019

Shakespeare meets Dashiell Hammett in this satirical murder mystery based on the Bard's most performed play, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

A generation-defining examination of the new midlife crisis facing Gen X women and the unique circumstances that have brought them to this point, Why We Can’t Sleep is a lively successor to Passages by Gail Sheehy and The Defining Decade by Meg Jay.  

Monsters both figurative and very literal stalk the Turner family. The youngest child, Noah, narrates the family history: how in the late '60s, his bookish mother Margaret marries Lovecraft-lover Harry against her better judgment. The couple has two daughters--Sydney, born for the spotlight, and the brilliant but awkward Eunice, a natural writer and storyteller.