by JVBrown | Apr 6, 2021 | Dana, Staff Picks
I love the HONY Facebook and Instagram page and fell in love with photographer Brandon Stanton’s no-judgment interview style. This isn’t a book to sit down and read in one sitting, but rather a coffee-table style book to pick up and examine as time permits. Some...
by JVBrown | Apr 6, 2021 | Dana, Staff Picks
I am a huge fan of organizational psychologist Adam Grant. This book highlights a set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. He challenges readers to embrace being wrong but also continue to be lifelong learners. You don’t have...
by JVBrown | Apr 6, 2021 | Dana, Staff Picks
I heard about this book last year during the initial COVID outbreak. Rowling published the story on her website and asked children to publish various scenes. She then published the book with the winning illustrations and donated all her royalties to help medical and...
by JVBrown | Apr 6, 2021 | Dana, Staff Picks
This book kept coming up on my social media newsfeeds and it is gorgeous. Created by a British illustrator, this book features 100 black-and-white drawings and handwritten prose about kindness, hope, friendship and love. The four titular friends share adventures and...
by JVBrown | Feb 26, 2021 | Dana, Staff Picks
This is the first book in the Drowning Empire trilogy and is a fantasy book inspired by Asian cultures. Lin is heir to the throne but her father, the current emperor, wants her to prove herself to him. Her father rules with the mysterious Bone Shard Magic in which...
by JVBrown | Feb 26, 2021 | Dana, Staff Picks
This book-in-verse companion to Halse Anderson’s 1999 bestselling 1999, “Speak.” This book details Anderson’s life, from her childhood in upstate New York to her rape at age 13 to her college years and beyond. Anderson shares how “Speak” has changed her life and the...
