A fun mashup of youthful rebellion with heartland quirkiness, For What It’s Worth is a nostalgic comic novel in which absurdities abound. In Nathan Pettijohn’s dark comedy novel For What it’s Worth, an Oklahoma man reminisces about... Read More

Who doesn’t like a good secret history? In "Silhouettes and Shadows", Adam Steiner takes a look at a pivotal moment in the musical life of David Bowie, the 1980 album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). Coming between Bowie’s... Read More

This poignant memoir about a midcentury military childhood exemplifies a girl’s zest for adventure. Vivienne Grilliot Worthington’s memoir "The Girl From Number 7, Windsor Avenue" is about her childhood as a military daughter.... Read More

Librarian Linda Maxie’s intriguing, original reference text does an impressive job of collecting notable books about interesting people. Librarian Linda Maxie’s "Library Lin’s Biographies, Autobiographies, and Memoirs" is a... Read More

In Erica Obey’s clever cozy mystery novel "The Brooklyn North Murder", a librarian teams up with her AI invention to solve a murder in a sleepy college town. Mary Watson is a reference librarian in the rural Hudson Valley, where she... Read More