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First Few Pages: Love Your Life

Posted on October 21, 2020| Posted in First Few Pages

Ava still thinks that love should be found in the real world, not just on apps that filter men by specific personal information — she believes in feelings, not algorithms. After a recent breakup and dating app debacle, she decides to put love on hold and escapes to a remote writers' retreat in coastal Italy.

First Few Pages: Bestiary

Posted on October 12, 2020| Posted in First Few Pages

Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland.

First Few Pages: Breathless

Posted on October 8, 2020| Posted in First Few Pages

Jennifer Niven brings us a new story about a sensitive girl ready to live her bravest life.

First Few Pages: The Hidden Habits of Genius

Posted on September 29, 2020| Posted in First Few Pages

Professor Craig Wright created the popular "Genius Course" at Yale University and had devoted more than two decades exploring what 'genius' really is, probing the nature of the term. He reveals what we can learn from the lives of those dubbed "geniuses," past and present.

First Few Pages: Watch Over Me

Posted on September 22, 2020| Posted in First Few Pages

A modern ghost story about trauma and survival, Watch Over Me is the much-anticipated new novel from the Printz Award-winning author of We Are Okay.

First Few Pages: The Book of Two Ways

Posted on September 9, 2020| Posted in First Few Pages

The flight attendant makes an announcement: Prepare for a crash landing.

Dawn Edelstein braces herself and the thoughts that flash through her mind are not of her husband, but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago.

First Few Pages: Transcendent Kingdom

Posted on September 7, 2020| Posted in First Few Pages

In Yaa Gyasi's follow-up to her acclaimed novel, Homegoing, we follow sixth-year neuroscience PhD candidate Gifty as she studies reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural science between depression and addiction. She's determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her, the suffering she saw in her own family. But even as a scientist, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and the church whose promise of salvation remainsas tantalizing as it is elusive.

First Few Pages: Tornado Brain

Posted on September 3, 2020| Posted in First Few Pages

Frankie is 13 years old and neurodivergent — she can't stand to be touched, loud noises bother her, she's easily distracted, and she has to go see a therapist while other kids go to the beach. She had one friend in Colette, and before the end of seventh grade, she vanishes. Frankie's convinced that Colette's left her clues to her disappearance that only she can decipher, and she persuades her sister Tess to help her before it's too late.

First Few Pages: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

Posted on August 25, 2020| Posted in First Few Pages

First Few Pages: Caste

Posted on August 20, 2020| Posted in First Few Pages

Isabel Wilkerson explores caste systems across civilizations and the eight pillars that underlie them — including divine will, bloodlines, stigma and more. This powerful caste system influences people's lives and behavior, even the nation's fate. Using riveting stories of people — from Martin Luther King Jr.'s to her own, and many others' — Wilkerson shows the ways caste is experienced every day.