Cori’s Pick: Mary Jane: a novel by Jessica Anya Blau Today I offer the third installment of summer Beach Read Season 2021! I’m switching it up a bit with this recommendation in that it’s not a romance, but a coming-of-age story that I completely fell in love with. It transported me to a decade that…
Tag: Coming of Age
Impossible Music
Rebecca’s Pick: Impossible Music by Sean Williams Simon Rain is a musician. A budding rock star, if you will.He’s got the guitar. He’s got the clothes. He’s got the long hair. But one thing he doesn’t have: the ability to hear music. Not anymore. Simon woke up one morning and he couldn’t hear anything. He…
Dominicana
Cori’s Pick: Dominicana by Angie Cruz Dominicana is the third novel by Angie Cruz and was shortlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction. By the end, you’ll easily see how this beautiful but heartbreaking work has earned the prestigious award. Set in 1960s Dominican Republic, Ana Canción’s fierce mother has a plan to get…
Normal People
Cori’s Pick: Normal People by Sally Rooney This book was published April 2019 and I don’t recollect a ton of buzz about it back then. But then a couple of months ago, I started hearing about it more and more. Come to find out, it was released as a Hulu original series in April 2020. …
Dear Edward
Cori’s Pick: Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano This was one of those books where the author magically captured my heart and made me truly care for the characters. Eddie is twelve when his family, along with 179 other passengers, boards an airplane headed for L.A. But halfway there, tragedy strikes and the plane crashes, and…
Looking for Alaska
Dallas’ Pick: Looking for Alaska By: John Green John Green has come out with another book that grabs our emotions and ties them in knots. This book was actually published in 2005, seven years before The Fault in our Stars. Nobody had really heard of John Green as an author so it was not as…
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