Feed aggregator | Atlantic County Library System

YA Reads (Titles For All Ages): November 2021

LibraryAware - Wed, 11/03/2021 - 4:00am

All types of fiction for those who want to imagine different realities -- and nonfiction for those who are trying to understand ours! For high school readers age 14 and up. Monthly.

Delivered: 11/3/2021 12:00:00 AM

New York Times Nonfiction Bestsellers: November 7, 2021

LibraryAware - Wed, 11/03/2021 - 1:00am

An up-to-date list of the New York Times Nonfiction Bestsellers. Weekly.

Delivered: 11/2/2021 9:00:00 PM

New York Times Fiction Bestsellers: November 7, 2021

LibraryAware - Wed, 11/03/2021 - 12:00am

An up-to-date list of the New York Times Fiction Bestsellers. Weekly.

Delivered: 11/2/2021 8:00:00 PM

'My Monticello' grapples with the past, present and future of American racism

NPR Book Reviews - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 12:34pm

The title novella of Jocelyn Nicole Johnson's debut is set in the near future in Charlottesville, Va., where descendants of Sally Hemings' take shelter from a racist mob in Thomas Jefferson's manor.

(Image credit: Macmillan )

To Cover World War II, These Women Journalists Fought Sexism at Home

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 12:27pm

“The Correspondents,” by Judith Mackrell, is a group portrait of six pioneering female war correspondents, and the considerable challenges they faced.

Is It Possible to Explain How Consciousness Works?

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 11:23am

The neuroscientist Antonio Damasio has distilled his theories about consciousness in “Feeling & Knowing,” paring things down and using an accessible style.

Reality According to Tom McCarthy

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 5:00am

His new novel, “The Making of Incarnation,” examines the arcane technologies that help shape the modern world.

An Artist in Lockdown, Forged by Catastrophe

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 5:00am

In Sarah Hall’s novel “Burntcoat,” a fictionalized pandemic spurs a sculptor to productive heights.

Caught Between Worlds? So Are the Characters in These Books.

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 5:00am

Three new historical novels introduce us to characters who can’t be in two places at once.

The Manhattan ‘Madam’ Who Hobnobbed With the City’s Elite

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 5:00am

A new biography by Debby Applegate recounts the story of Polly Adler, who arrived in America from Russia at 13 and became New York’s most successful brothel owner, befriending mobsters, policemen, politicians and writers.

The Secret 53-Year-Old British Case That Could Have Legalized Trans Identity

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 5:00am

“The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes,” by Zoë Playdon, investigates a long-suppressed legal case involving an aristocratic Scotsman, who, raised, at least initially, as a girl, went to court to prove his male gender.

From a Small Nigerian Tribe to a Big American Publishing House

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 5:00am

In Uwem Akpan’s debut novel, “New York, My Village,” a Black African editor traces tribalism at home and abroad.

The Century-Old Russian Novel Said to Have Inspired ‘1984’

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 5:00am

“We,” by Yevgeny Zamyatin, transports us to an authoritarian society governed by technological efficiency.

Locked Down With Friends, Lovers and Rivals, in Gary Shteyngart’s New Novel

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 5:00am

The characters in “Our Country Friends” retreat to a Hudson Valley estate, but the virus and the world are at their heels.

Does Life Imitate Art or Is It the Other Way Around?

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 5:00am

In her new novel, “Still Life,” Sarah Winman delves into four decades’ worth of truth and beauty.

Was the Constitution Pro-Slavery? Jefferson Davis Thought So. Abraham Lincoln Didn’t.

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 5:00am

Noah Feldman’s “The Broken Constitution” argues that Lincoln had to remake the American Constitution in order to battle slavery.

How Black Performance and Presence Shaped America

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 5:00am

Michael Eric Dyson’s new book, “Entertaining Race,” compiles decades of his writing about the performance of Blackness and Black performance.

When the Nation That Shaped You Is Falling Apart

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 5:00am

In “The Interim,” a novel by Wolfgang Hilbig, a writer is torn between two Germanys as the Cold War begins to thaw.

Book Review: ‘The Least of Us,’ by Sam Quinones

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 5:00am

“The Least of Us,” by Sam Quinones, applies a kaleidoscopic approach to so-called designer drugs and efforts to combat addiction.

LibraryReads: November 2021

LibraryAware - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 4:00am

A monthly list featuring the top ten books loved by librarians across the U.S.

Delivered: 11/2/2021 12:00:00 AM

Pages

Search this Site