by JVBrown | Dec 9, 2020 | Dana, Staff Picks
Backman has a unique way of capturing the everyday and unusual personality quirks in people and this book is no exception. The book opens with an attempted bank robbery the day before New Year’s Eve in Sweden. When the bank robber realizes that it’s a cashless bank...
by JVBrown | Dec 9, 2020 | Dana, Staff Picks
The book opens with two young rookie cops, Francis and Brian, who eventually get married and wind up living next door in the suburbs. Two of their children become best friends, but Francis’ wife Lena struggles to get Brian’s wife Anne to be welcoming. No one has a...
by JVBrown | Dec 9, 2020 | Dana, Staff Picks
I have really been into escaping reality right now and devouring books and genres that keep me completely immersed in the story and characters. The book is about two young women who become unlikely friends in Atlantic City. Clara is a teenage boardwalk psychic who...
by JVBrown | Dec 9, 2020 | Dana, Staff Picks
This was a fun, fast read. It opens in 1999, when a woman arrives in Philadelphia with no memory of who she is and where she came from. After bouncing from hospital to shelter to the streets, the woman, nicknamed “Wendy Doe,” finally is placed into the care of the...
by JVBrown | Nov 2, 2020 | Dana, Staff Picks
This is a young adult coming of age novel that follows to Mexican-American teenagers: Aristotle “Ari” Mendoza and Dante Quintana. Ari and Dante are unlikely best friends who each struggle with their racial and ethnic identities, their family relationships and their...
by JVBrown | Nov 2, 2020 | Dana, Staff Picks
Atleework grew up in the dry desert lands of the Eastern Sierra Nevada in California. Swall Meadows is beautiful, but prone to extreme weather conditions, such as wildfires and blizzards. Atleework and her two siblings love the outdoors and peaceful nature of the...
