![THIS IS THE STORY OF YOU by Beth Kephart [Book Thoughts]](https://i0.wp.com/3rsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/202/2017/01/9781452142845.jpg?fit=249%2C400&ssl=1&resize=520%2C400)
This Is the Story of You Written by Beth Kephart Published by Chronicle Books on April 12th 2016 ISBN: 9781452142845 Genres: Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, General Format: ebook Pages: 264 Source: purchased On Haven, a six-mile long, half-mile-wide stretch of barrier island, Mira Banul and her Year-Rounder friends have proudly risen to every challenge. But then a superstorm defies all predictions and devastates the island, upending all logic and stranding Mira’s mother and brother on […]
![WE ARE UNPREPARED by Meg Little Reilly [Book Thoughts]](https://i0.wp.com/3rsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/202/2016/12/9780778319436.jpg?fit=266%2C400&ssl=1&resize=520%2C400)
We Are Unprepared Written by Meg Little Reilly Published by Mira Books on August 30th 2016 ISBN: 9780778319436 Genres: Fiction, Literary Format: ARC Pages: 368 Source: publisher Meg Little Reilly places a young couple in harm’s way—both literally and emotionally—as they face a cataclysmic storm that threatens to decimate their Vermont town, and the Eastern Seaboard in her penetrating debut novel, WE ARE UNPREPARED. Ash and Pia move from hipster Brooklyn to rustic Vermont in […]
![WHEN SHE WOKE by Hillary Jordan [Book Thoughts]](https://i0.wp.com/3rsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/202/2016/12/9781616201937.jpg?fit=267%2C400&ssl=1&resize=520%2C400)
When She Woke Written by Hillary Jordan Published by Algonquin Books on 2012 ISBN: 9781616201937 Genres: Fiction, General, Dystopian Format: ebook Pages: 354 Source: purchased Bellwether Prize winner Hillary Jordan’s provocative new novel, When She Woke, tells the story of a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated but chromedÑtheir skin color […]
![BURN BABY BURN by Meg Medina [Book Thoughts]](https://i0.wp.com/3rsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/202/2016/12/9780763674670.jpg?fit=262%2C400&ssl=1&resize=520%2C400)
Burn Baby Burn Written by Meg Medina Published by Candlewick Press on March 8th 2016 ISBN: 9780763679989 Genres: Fiction, Young Adult, General Format: ebook Pages: 320 Nora Lopez is seventeen during the infamous New York summer of 1977, when the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam who shoots young women on the streets. Nora’s family life isn’t going so well either: her bullying brother, Hector, […]
Born to Run Written by Bruce Springsteen Audiobook read by Bruce Springsteen Published by Simon and Schuster on September 27th 2016 ISBN: 9781501141539 Genres: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Music Format: audiobook Pages: 528 Source: purchased “Writing about yourself is a funny business…But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I’ve tried to do this.” —Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of […]
![THE WANGS VS. THE WORLD by Jade Chang [Audiobook]](https://i0.wp.com/3rsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/202/2016/12/9780544734098.jpg?fit=265%2C400&ssl=1&resize=520%2C400)
The Wangs vs. the World Written by Jade Chang Audiobook read by Nancy Wu Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on October 4th 2016 ISBN: 9780544734203 Genres: Fiction, Literary, Asian American Format: audiobook Pages: 336 Source: purchased THE WANGS VS. THE WORLD is an outrageously funny tale about a wealthy Chinese-American family that “loses it all, then takes a healing, uproarious road trip across the United States” (Entertainment Weekly). Their spectacular fall from riches to rags […]
![ANOTHER BROOKLYN by Jacqueline Woodson {Audiobook]](https://i0.wp.com/3rsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/202/2016/11/9780062359988.jpg?fit=265%2C400&ssl=1&resize=520%2C400)
Another Brooklyn Written by Jacqueline Woodson Audiobook read by Robin Miles Published by HarperCollins on August 9th 2016 ISBN: 9780062359988 Genres: Fiction, African American, General Format: audiobook Pages: 192 Source: public library via Overdrive National Book Award FinalistNew York Times Bestseller The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years. Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion […]
TV (The Book) Written by Alan Sepinwall, Matt Zoller Seitz Audiobook read by Alan Sepinwall, Matt Zoller Seitz Published by Grand Central Publishing on September 6th 2016 ISBN: 9781455588206 Genres: Nonfiction, Television, History & Criticism Format: audiobook Pages: 352 Source: purchased Is The Wire better than Breaking Bad? Is Cheers better than Seinfeld? What’s the best high school show ever made? Why did Moonlighting really fall apart? Was the Arrested Development Netflix season brilliant or […]
![LITERARY WONDERLANDS [Book Thoughts]](https://i0.wp.com/3rsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/202/2016/11/9780316316385.jpg?fit=280%2C400&ssl=1&resize=520%2C400)
I received this book for review consideration from the publisher, via Shelf Awareness for Readers. All opinions are my own.Literary Wonderlands Published by Hachette Books on November 1st 2016 ISBN: 9780316316385 Genres: Fiction, Literary Criticism, General, Books & Reading Format: ARC Pages: 320 Source: publisher, via Shelf Awareness for Readers A glorious collection that delves deep into the inception, influences, and literary and historical underpinnings of nearly 100 of our most beloved fictional realms. Literary […]
![THE GIRL FROM VENICE by Martin Cruz Smith [Book Thoughts]](https://i0.wp.com/3rsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/202/2016/11/9781439140239.jpg?fit=270%2C400&ssl=1&resize=520%2C400)
I received this book for review consideration from the publisher, via Shelf Awareness for Readers. All opinions are my own.The Girl from Venice Written by Martin Cruz Smith Published by Simon & Schuster on October 18th 2016 ISBN: 9781439140239 Genres: Fiction, Historical, Thrillers Format: ARC Pages: 320 Source: publisher, via Shelf Awareness for Readers The highly anticipated new standalone novel from Martin Cruz Smith, whom The Washington Post has declared “that uncommon phenomenon: a popular […]
![CRUEL BEAUTIFUL WORLD by Caroline Leavitt [Book Thoughts]](https://i0.wp.com/3rsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/202/2016/11/9781616203634.jpg?fit=266%2C400&ssl=1&resize=520%2C400)
Cruel Beautiful World Written by Caroline Leavitt Published by Algonquin Books on October 4th 2016 ISBN: 9781616203634 Genres: Fiction, Literary Format: ARC Pages: 352 Source: publisher Sixteen-year-old Lucy Gold is about ;to run away with a much older man to live off the grid in rural Pennsylvania, a rash act that will have vicious repercussions for both her and her older sister, Charlotte. As Lucy’s default parent for most of their lives, Charlotte has seen […]
![BEHOLD THE DREAMERS by Imbolo Mbue [Audiobook Thoughts]](https://i0.wp.com/3rsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/202/2016/11/9780812998481.jpg?fit=265%2C400&ssl=1&resize=520%2C400)
Behold the Dreamers Written by Imbolo Mbue Audiobook read by Prentice Onayemi Published by Random House Publishing Group on August 23rd 2016 ISBN: 9780812998498 Genres: Fiction, Literary Format: audiobook Pages: 416 Source: public library via Overdrive A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy […]
