FICTION
Chouette by Claire Oshetsky
Tiny is pregnant. Her husband is delighted. “You think this baby is going to be like you, but it’s not like you at all,” she warns him. “This baby is an owl-baby.” When Chouette is born small and broken-winged, Tiny works around the clock to meet her daughter’s needs. Left on her own to care for a child who seems more predatory bird than baby, Tiny vows to raise Chouette to be her authentic self.
The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the secondhand bookstore he inherited from his beloved bookworm grandfather. Then, a talking cat appears with an unusual request. The feline asks for—or rather, demands—the teenager’s help in saving books with him. The world is full of lonely books left unread and unloved, and the cat and Rintaro must liberate them from their neglectful owners.
Suiza by Bénédicte Belpois
Tomás is a wealthy farmer, rough and taciturn, as rooted in the land as the eucalyptus trees he grows under the Galician sun. When he’s diagnosed with lung cancer, he tells no one. Suiza is a damaged young woman, strikingly beautiful, barely literate, a run-away. Her only dream, to see the sea. The relationship that ensues is as passionate and tender as it is troubling and nuanced.
Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan
Megs Devonshire, on a scholarship at Oxford, is brilliant with numbers and equations. She prefers the dependability of facts — except for one: The brother she loves with all her heart doesn’t have long to live. When George becomes captivated by a brand-new book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and begs her to find out where Narnia came from, there’s no way she can refuse.
NONFICTION
A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life by Heather Heying
We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet people are more listless, divided and miserable than ever. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, and yet our political landscape grows ever more toxic, and rates of suicide, loneliness, and chronic illness continue to skyrocket. How do we explain the gap between these two truths? What’s more, what can we do to close it?
Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite by John Glatt
By all accounts, Thomas Gilbert Jr. led a charmed life. The son of a wealthy financier, he grew up surrounded by a loving family and all the luxury an Upper East Side childhood could provide. With his striking good looks, he moved with ease through glittering social circles and followed in his father’s footsteps to Princeton. But Tommy always felt different. The cracks in his façade began to show in warning signs of OCD, increasing paranoia, and―most troubling―an inexplicable hatred of his father.
I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye: A Memoir of Loss, Grief, and Love by Ivan Maisel
In February 2015, Ivan Maisel received a call that would alter his life forever: his son Max’s car had been found abandoned in a parking next to Lake Ontario. Two months later, Max’s body would be found in the lake. There’d been no note or obvious indication that Max wanted to harm himself; he’d signed up for a year-long subscription to a dating service; he’d spent the day he disappeared doing photography work for school. And this uncertainty became part of his father’s grief.
Bob Goes to Jail: A Memoir by Rob Sedgwick
Rob Sedgwick was born into one of America’s oldest families and Manhattan royalty. His sister is Kyra Sedgwick, the actress; his brother is painter Nikko Sedgwick; his brother-in-law is movie star Kevin Bacon. So, to say Rob has struggled to stand out in a family of big personalities is a huge understatement. In his hilarious and touching memoir, Bob Goes to Jail, Rob relates his journey from lost little boy to hapless criminal with such honesty and heart that you can’t help but root for him.
CHILDREN’S
XOXO by: Axie Oh
Cello prodigy Jenny’s only goal is to get into a prestigious music conservatory. It’s all almost uprooted when she meets Jaewoo in LA and they spend one night going on unforgettable adventures. When Jenny and her mom move to South Korea to take care of her ailing grandmother, Jenny’s shocked to find that Jaewoo is also a student at the same elite academy she’s enrolled in for the semester. Not only that, he’s a member of the most popular K-pop band in the world — and he’s strictly forbidden from dating.
Ages: 13-17
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