Book of the Week: My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper This collection of personal essays by the star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is just as kooky and charming as that character and other adorable ditzes she played in Bridesmaids and The Office. Yet in recounting scenes from her life–the backyard squirrel she once tried to…
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This Week’s People Picks
A wild child’s coming of age, a dangerous romance and a riveting dystopian thriller.–People Magazine Book of the Week: Where the Crawdads Sing Steeped in the rhythms and shadows of the coastal marshes of North Carolina’s Outer Banks, this fierce and hauntingly beautiful novel centers on Kya Clark, a little girl abandoned by her…
People’s Picks for the week of August 6
“Intrigue and danger on campus, a teenage girl with dark secrets and a true tale of anxieties vanquished” populate the August 6th People’s list of the Best New Books. (Reviews are from People magazine.) Book of the Week The Incendiaries Not long after she arrives on the campus of an elite East Coast college, freshman…
This Week’s People Picks
Book of the Week: You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld “Perfectly paced, witty and laced with unexpected twists: Every story here sticks its landing. Sittenfeld writes about suburban mothers’ groups, couples too caught up in family life to notice each other, flirtations born of boredom and more than one brush with fame…
This Week’s People’s Picks
Book of the Week: Alternate Side Anna Quindlen “With her signature wisdom and wit, Quindlen takes readers on a romp through a New York City zipcode many would kill to call home. When an act of violence rocks this tight-knit neighborhood, fault lines spread through friendships, marriages and brownstones. The takeaway? Be careful what you…