What would you do if your best friend falls in love with the man you’re destined to be with? That’s the premise of this wonderful love story. Dannie Kohan is a compulsively organized New York lawyer with specific plans for her future: the perfect job, the perfect apartment, and the perfect fiancé – David, an…
What do you do when your whole family is suddenly gone? How do you keep going, and how do you find any meaning in life? Even worse, how do you figure this out when you’re only 12 years old? This is the premise of Dear Edward, the best-selling book by Ann Napolitano. Young Eddie is…
At the start of this book, Matt Rose is in a Humvee in eastern Baghdad, not sure who he is or what he’s doing there. Five months later, Rose is back in Missoula, Montana, his hometown, discharged from the military with a traumatic brain injury and still trying to piece together memories of his past…
Was one of your New Year’s resolutions this year about stuff? Buying less, decluttering, reorganizing? Do you wonder what happens to everything we donate or recycle? If you do, pick up this book. Secondhand takes us on a trip throughout the world to show where all that stuff goes. Believe it or not, that old…
I would never have picked up this book had a friend not recommended it to me. I thought it might be self-congratulatory or preachy. But Melissa Gates is neither of those things. Quite the opposite: she is humble and refreshingly honest about how hard it can be to make change in the world. This book…
