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Sandy's Staff Picks
Sandy is our Children's & Young Adult book buyer and has a voracious young reader at home, to help her find excellent books for kids and teens. She especially loves reading stories by and about women and enjoys fantasy, romance, quirky mysteries, and beautiful cookbooks.
This book helped me cope with a major loss in my life. Megan Devine discusses the experiences of loss and grieving in a way that helped me feel less alone and, well, ok. She addresses grief on both a personal level and on a cultural level, talking about the ways in which our society fails to support grieving people and how we can do better. If you are looking for something that is more of a hands-on book, she also has written How to Carry What Can't Be Fixed: A Journal for Grief. The two books can be used alone or as companion volumes.
This book made me laugh harder than just about anything I've come across in the past year. It was also one of the most raw pieces of writing I've read. Jenny Lawson writes with humor and honesty about her struggles with mental illness, reminding us all that being broken is part of being human.
This is a YA retelling of The Little Goose Girl. That fairy tale always haunted me, and I love the way that Margaret Owen has remade it, with a feminist bent and some cheeky humor that made it very fun to read. Spoiler: this is the first in a trilogy, so be prepared to be left wanting more at the end!
Firekeeper's Daughter is a genre crossing story that paints a vivid portrait of a young half-Native American woman searching for a place in her Ojibwe community while seeking to protect the same community by joining an FBI investigation into a lethal new drug that has already claimed the lives of people close to her. Wether you like coming of age stories, romance, mystery, or indigenous stories, you will find something to enjoy in this novel.
I don't always stick with series, but the group of characters in The Thursday Murder Club are too delightful not to return to. Luckily, this series continues to be fun and engaging, with unexpected twists and turns into the third novel. I hope there will be more!
I love character driven stories like this one. Told from multiple perspectives, the characters cross paths and their personalities emerge in unexpected and delightful ways.
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