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First Few Pages: Well Matched by Jen Deluca

Posted on October 14, 2021| Posted in First Few Pages

A pretend relationship gives two friends more than they bargained for in a Renaissance Faire rom com filled with flower crowns, kilts, corsets, and sword fights. Read the First Few Pages of Well Matched on the blog.

First Few Pages: Major Labels by Kelefa Sanneh

Posted on October 7, 2021| Posted in Featured, First Few Pages

An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it: rock, R&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance music, and pop. Read the First Few Pages of Major Labels on the blog.

First Few Pages: Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout

Posted on October 7, 2021| Posted in Featured, First Few Pages

Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they’ve come from—and what they’ve left behind. Read the First Few Pages of Oh William! on the blog.

First Few Pages: Just Like You by Nick Hornby

Posted on September 30, 2021| Posted in Featured, First Few Pages

This warm, wise, highly entertaining twenty-first century love story is about what happens when the person who makes you happiest is someone you never expected. Read the First Few Pages of Just Like You on the blog.

First Few Pages: The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

Posted on September 23, 2021| Posted in First Few Pages, Spotlight

When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman’s carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. Read the First Few Pages of The Love Hypothesis here.

Best Books of 2021 (So Far)

Posted on July 27, 2021| Posted in Book Reviews, Featured, Book News, Spotlight

We've seen a lot of interesting reads published this year. What's the best one you've read so far? Find out what the Best Books of 2021 (So Far) are, according to our resident bookworms, the First Look Club, and members of the Bookworm Corner community.

First Few Pages: My Time Will Come by Ian Manuel

Posted on June 1, 2021| Posted in First Few Pages

At the age of fourteen, Ian Manuel was sentenced to life in prison. He survived eighteen years in solitary confinement until he was freed as part of an incredible crusade by the Equal Justice Initiative. My Time Will Come is an inspiring story of a man who transcended adversity through determination and art—in Ian Manuel’s case, through his dedication to writing poetry. Read more here.

First Few Pages: Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen

Posted on June 1, 2021| Posted in First Few Pages

Eric Nguyen debuts with a stunning novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain connected to one another as their lives are inextricably reshaped. Things We Lost to the Water is an exquisite tale-telling of love, survival, loss, and a sense of family. Read more here.

First Few Pages: Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier

Posted on June 1, 2021| Posted in First Few Pages

Jean Kyoung Frazier's debut novel, Pizza Girl, is a coming-of-age novel about an audacious and wryly funny pregnant pizza delivery girl who becomes obsessed with one of her customers. Read more here.

First Few Pages: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farell

Posted on June 1, 2021| Posted in First Few Pages

Maggie O'Farell's Hamnet confronts a parent's greatest woe: the loss of a child. This fictional account imagines the emotional repercussions of Shakespeare and his wife after they lose their only son, 11-year-old Hamnet, to the black plague in 1596. Read more here.