Pearl's Picks for September
Pearl's Picks provides monthly reading suggestions from Nancy Pearl, the most widely known librarian of our time. These richly diverse book suggestions provide great reading experiences for readers of all ages and interests.
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by Allan Ahlberg, illustrated by Bruce Ingman
Allan Ahlberg's whimsical take on the world comes through clearly in all of his books for young children, but perhaps never more so than in Previously where he teams up with . . . Read more
City of Thieves: a novel
by David Benioff
Leningrad in 1942 may seem to be a strange setting for a novel that is best described as a lively, good-hearted buddy tale, but there it is, and if you enjoy the . . . Read more
Origin of Haloes: a novel
by Kristen den Hartog
I really enjoyed Origin of Haloes by Canadian writer Kristen den Hartog. It's a sensitive and emotionally satisfying novel about the choices we make . . . Read more
Conspiracy of Fools: a True Story
by Kurt Eichenwald
Even if Conspiracy of Fools by Kurt Eichenwald weren't such mesmerizing and instructive reading, I still would have kept turning the pages . . . Read more
Death of a Cozy Writer: a St. Just Mystery
by G.M. Malliet
Here's a recipe for a classic cozy whodunit. Take one irascible, manipulative, cold (but wildly successful) mystery writer, Sir Adrian Beauclerk-Fisk . . . Read more
The Two Kinds of Decay
by Sarah Manguso
A belief that sustains many of us (or at least something we desperately hope) is that any disease that might befall us will be within the scope of . . . Read more
Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World
by David Maraniss
After finishing David Maraniss's Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World in the midst of the 2008 Summer Games, I was struck by . . . Read more
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
by Scott McCloud
If you're the sort of person who has always turned first to the comics section in the daily paper in order to see what's happening with Cathy, or Dick Tracy . . . Read more
Fidelity
by Grace Paley
Before her death (at 84) last year, Grace Paley finished what would be her final book, a collection of poems called Fidelity. Although I've long been . . . Read more
Metzger's Dog: a novel
by Thomas Perry
Perhaps all you need to know to decide whether or not to read Thomas Perry's thriller Metzger's Dog is that Dr. Henry Metzger happens to be a cat . . . Read more
Thrillers: The Kennedy Assassination
Two dandy thrillers that take as their central tenet that the conclusions of the Warren Commission about the 1963 death of John F. Kennedy are wrong wrong wrong, are The Berlin Conspiracy by Tom Gabbay and Charles McCarry's The Tears of Autumn. Both McCarry and Gabbay offer ingenious, different from one another, and page-turningly plausible scenarios to answer the questions of why the assassination happened and who was ultimately responsible.. . . Read more
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