{"id":101078,"date":"2024-11-25T10:48:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T15:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/?p=101078"},"modified":"2025-12-02T16:41:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:41:52","slug":"recommended-reads-for-intersession-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/2024\/11\/25\/recommended-reads-for-intersession-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Reads For Intersession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>GMS Student Affairs and The Alumni Medical Library present the annual book list of <\/span><span><em>Recommended Reads For Intersession<\/em> and raffle. We hope you enjoy these titles picked by the staff members of both GMS and the Library!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gms\/files\/2022\/11\/coffe-reading-picture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"284\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90778 aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span>Enter the raffle to be 1 of 20 students to win a book from this list to enjoy over winter break! <\/span>Raffle winners will be drawn at noon on December 3. Winners must respond by the end of the day as to which book from the list they prefer and their full mailing address (so we can send it directly to you!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bostonu.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_0GoXtTYkROKivMa\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Enter the raffle here!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gms\/files\/2024\/11\/The-Light-We.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"252\" class=\"wp-image-101135 alignleft\" \/>The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>By: Simran Jeet Singh<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em>Category: Religion; Memoir; Non-Fiction; Spirituality; Indian authors; Philosophy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Awards: 2023 Nautilus Book Award<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Book Summary<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;As a boy growing up in South Texas, Simran Jeet Singh and his brothers confronted racism daily: at school, in their neighborhood, playing sports, and later in college and beyond. Despite the prejudice and hate he faced, this self-described \u201cturban-wearing, brown-skinned, beard-loving Sikh\u201d refused to give in to negativity. Instead, Singh delved deep into the Sikh teachings that he grew up with and embraced the lessons to seek the good in every person and situation and to find positive ways to direct his energy. These Sikh tenets of love and service to others have empowered him to forge a life of connection and a commitment to justice that have made him a national figure in the areas of equity, inclusion, and social justice. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Light We Give lays out how we can learn to integrate ethical living to achieve personal happiness and a happier life. It speaks to those who are inspired to take on positive change but don\u2019t know where to begin. To those who crave the chance to be empathetic but are afraid of looking vulnerable. To those who seek the courage to confront hatred with love and compassion. Singh reaches beyond his comfort zone to practice this deeper form of living and explores how everyone can learn the insights and skills that have kept him engaged and led him to commit to activism without becoming consumed by anger, self-pity, or burnout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Part memoir, part spiritual journey, The Light We Give is a transformative book of hope that shows how each of us can turn away from fear and uncertainty and move toward renewal and positive change.&#8221; &#8211; Amazon<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h5><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gms\/files\/2024\/11\/The-Book-Censor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"230\" class=\"wp-image-101136 alignleft\" \/>The Book Censor&#8217;s Library<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>By: Buthaina Al Eissa<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em>Category: Speculative Fiction; Kuwaiti authors; Dystopia; Censorship; Literary Fiction; Science Fiction<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Awards: Sharjah Award for Creativity (Novel Category) 2021<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Book Summary<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;A perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret libraries, and the looming eye of an all-powerful government. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The new book censor hasn\u2019t slept soundly in weeks. By day he combs through manuscripts at a government office, looking for anything that would make a book unfit to publish\u2015allusions to queerness, unapproved religions, any mention of life before the Revolution. By night the characters of literary classics crowd his dreams, and pilfered novels pile up in the house he shares with his wife and daughter. As the siren song of forbidden reading continues to beckon, he descends into a netherworld of resistance fighters, undercover booksellers, and outlaw librarians trying to save their history and culture. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Reckoning with the global threat to free speech and the bleak future it all but guarantees, Bothayna Al-Essa marries the steely dystopia of Orwell\u2019s 1984 with the madcap absurdity of Carroll\u2019s Alice in Wonderland, resulting in a dreadful twist worthy of Kafka. The Book Censor\u2019s Library is a warning call and a love letter to stories and the delicious act of losing oneself in them.&#8221; &#8211; GoodReads<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h5><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gms\/files\/2024\/11\/Tokyo-Ueno.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"238\" class=\"wp-image-101137 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2024\/11\/Tokyo-Ueno.jpg 481w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2024\/11\/Tokyo-Ueno-448x636.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/>Tokyo Ueno Station<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>By: Yu Miri, <\/strong><strong>Morgan Giles (translator)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em>Category: Urban fiction; Japanese literature; Gothic; Horror; Magical Realism; Social justice; Korean authors<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Awards: Winner of the 2020 National Book Award in Translated Literature; New York Times Notable Book of the Year<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Book Summary<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo\u2019s busiest train stations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kazu\u2019s life in the city began and ended in that park; he arrived there to work as a laborer in the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and ended his days living in the vast homeless village in the park, traumatized by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and shattered by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Through Kazu\u2019s eyes, we see daily life in Tokyo buzz around him and learn the intimate details of his personal story, how loss and society\u2019s inequalities and constrictions spiraled towards this ghostly fate, with moments of beauty and grace just out of reach. A powerful masterwork from one of Japan\u2019s most brilliant outsider writers, Tokyo Ueno Station is a book for our times and a look into a marginalized existence in a shiny global megapolis.&#8221; &#8211; Penguin Random House<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h5><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gms\/files\/2024\/11\/The-Wager.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"250\" class=\"wp-image-101138 alignleft\" \/>The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>By: David Grann<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em>Category: True crime; Nonfiction; Mystery; Adventure; Nautical history<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Awards: Audie Award Nominee for Best Fiction Narrator 2024; GoodReads Choice Award for Favorite History &amp; Biography 2023; Barnes &amp; Noble Book of the Year Award Nominee 2023; Libby Award for Best Adult Nonfiction 2023<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Book Summary<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty&#8217;s Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as &#8220;the prize of all the oceans,&#8221; it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But then . . . six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes &#8211; they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death&#8211;for whomever the court found guilty could hang.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann&#8217;s recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O&#8217;Brian, his portrayal of the castaways&#8217; desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann&#8217;s work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.&#8221; &#8211; GoodReads<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h5><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gms\/files\/2024\/11\/The-Crucible.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"255\" class=\"wp-image-101141 alignleft\" \/>The Crucible<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>By: Arthur Miller<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em>Category: Classics; Plays; Fiction; Historical Fiction; Hysteria<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Awards: New York Drama Critics&#8217; Circle Award Nominee for Best American Play 1953<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Book Summary<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history,&#8221; Arthur Miller wrote of his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller&#8217;s drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town&#8217;s most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminates the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy&#8217;s &#8220;witch-hunts&#8221; in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing, &#8220;Political opposition&#8230; is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.&#8221; &#8211; GoodReads<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h5><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gms\/files\/2024\/11\/Tales-of-the.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"238\" class=\"wp-image-101142 alignleft\" \/>Tales of the City<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>By: Armistead Maupin<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em>Category: Humor; Classics; Urban fiction; LGBTQ+; Self-discovery; Coming-of-age; Queer authors; Contemporary; Novels<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Book Summary<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;San Francisco, 1976. A na\u00efve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry, touching, and outrageous\u2014unmistakably the handiwork of Armistead Maupin.&#8221; &#8211; GoodReads<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h5><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gms\/files\/2024\/11\/Please-Look.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"250\" class=\"wp-image-101143 alignleft\" \/>Please Look After Mom: A Novel<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>By: Kyung-Sook Shin<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em>Category: Fiction; Contemporary; Asian literature; South Korean authors; Family; Novels; Literary Fiction<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Awards: National Bestseller; Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Book Summary<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;W<span>hen sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well did they actually know the woman they called Mom?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Told through the piercing voices and urgent perspectives of a daughter, son, husband, and mother,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a-text-italic\">Please Look After Mom<\/span><span>\u00a0is at once an authentic picture of contemporary life in Korea and a universal story of family love.&#8221; &#8211; Amazon<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h5><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gms\/files\/2024\/11\/The-Six.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"274\" class=\"wp-image-101145 alignleft\" \/>The Six<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>By: Anni Taylor<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em>Category: Horror fiction; Suspense; Psychological thriller; Crime<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Book Summary<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;28 people travel to a remote island for a unique program that promises to heal their addictions. <\/span><span>But they&#8217;ve headed into their worst danger of their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the grip of a crushing gambling addiction, young mother Evie is desperate for a way out. She&#8217;s stunned when she&#8217;s offered a lifeline: A program that includes a six-day stay in a Greek monastery, six challenges and a chance at sixty thousand dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There is just one condition &#8211; she must keep it secret.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Evie&#8217;s husband Gray is gutted to find the note that Evie left behind. Why did she leave and where did she go? And is she ever coming back? But his anger turns to alarm as he begins to piece together the circumstances of his wife&#8217;s disappearance. When Evie&#8217;s car is found burned in woodland, the police suspect him of murdering Evie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gray has got one chance to get out of the country and find Evie &#8211; before he&#8217;s arrested for something he didn&#8217;t do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Too late, Evie discovers the chilling truth about the program and the island itself. <\/span><span>And the closer she gets to finding an escape, the closer the deadly danger lurking in the depths of the monastery gets to her.&#8221; &#8211; Goodreads<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h5><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gms\/files\/2024\/11\/A-Love-Song.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"249\" class=\" wp-image-101149 alignleft\" \/>A Love Song for Ricki Wilde<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>By: Tia Williams<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em>Category: Romance; Historical fiction; Black authors<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Awards: GoodReads Choice Awards for Reader&#8217;s Favorite Romance 2024; New York Times named one of 2024&#8217;s Best Romances; Publisher&#8217;s Weekly named one of Best Books of 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Book Summary<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;An epic love story one hundred years in the making\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn\u2019t one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she\u2019s the opposite of her famous socialite sisters. Where they\u2019re long-stemmed roses, she\u2019s a dandelion: an adorable bloom that\u2019s actually a weed, born to float wherever the wind blows. In her bones, Ricki knows that somewhere, a different, more exciting life awaits her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When regal nonagenarian, Ms. Della, invites her to rent the bottom floor of her Harlem brownstone, Ricki jumps at the chance for a fresh beginning. She leaves behind her family, wealth, and chaotic romantic decisions to realize her dream of opening a flower shop. And just beneath the surface of her new neighborhood, the music, stories and dazzling drama of the Harlem Renaissance still simmers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One evening in February as the heady, curiously off-season scent of night-blooming jasmine fills the air, Ricki encounters a handsome, deeply mysterious stranger who knocks her world off balance in the most unexpected way. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Set against the backdrop of modern Harlem and Renaissance glamour, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde is a swoon-worthy love story of two passionate artists drawn to the magic, romance, and opportunity of New York, and whose lives are uniquely and irreversibly linked.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8211; GoodReads<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h5><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gms\/files\/2024\/11\/The-Anxious-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"263\" class=\" wp-image-101151 alignleft\" \/>The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>By: Jonathan Haidt<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em>Category: Mental health; Nonfiction; Psychology; Self-help; Sociology; Parenting; Health education<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Awards: GoodReads Choice Award for non-fiction and audio 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Book Summary<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><span>In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the \u201cplay-based childhood\u201d began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the \u201cphone-based childhood\u201d in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this \u201cgreat rewiring of childhood\u201d has interfered with children\u2019s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the \u201ccollective action problems\u201d that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes\u2014communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children\u2014and ourselves\u2014from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.&#8221; &#8211; GoodReads<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h5><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gms\/files\/2024\/11\/A-Sunny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"257\" class=\" wp-image-101152 alignleft\" \/>A Sunny Place for Shady People<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>By: Mariana Enr<span>\u00ed<\/span>quez, Megan McDowell (translator)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em>Category: Horror; Fantasy; Thriller; Spanish literature; Argentinean authors; Short stories; Contemporary<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Awards: Nominee for 2024 GoodReads Choice Awards for Readers Favorite Horror<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Book Summary<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;On the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the possessed\u2014all those birds were once women. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Welcome to Argentina and the fascinating, frightening, fantastical imagination of Mariana Enriquez. In twelve spellbinding new stories, Enriquez writes about ordinary people, especially women, whose lives turn inside out when they encounter terror, the surreal, and the supernatural. A neighborhood nuisanced by ghosts, a family whose faces melt away, a faded hotel haunted by a girl who dissolved in the water tank on the roof, a riverbank populated by birds that used to be women\u2014these and other tales illuminate the shadows of contemporary life, where the line between good and evil no longer exists. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lyrical and hypnotic, heart-stopping and deeply moving, Enriquez\u2019s stories never fail to enthrall, entertain, and leave us shaken. Translated by the award-winning Megan McDowell, A Sunny Place for Shady People showcases Enriquez\u2019s unique blend of the literary and the horrific, and underscores why Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, calls her \u201cthe most exciting discovery I\u2019ve made in fiction for some time.\u201d &#8211; GoodReads<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h5><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gms\/files\/2024\/11\/Criers-War.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"255\" class=\" wp-image-101153 alignleft\" \/>Criers War<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>By: Nina Varela<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em>Category: Fantasy; Young adult; Romance; Dystopian; Queer authors; LGBTQ+<\/em><\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Book Summary<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Impossible love between two girls \u2014one human, one Made.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A love that could birth a revolution. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After the War of Kinds ravaged the kingdom of Rabu, the Automae, Designed to be the playthings of royals, took over the estates of their owners and bent the human race to their will. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now, Ayla, a human servant rising the ranks at the House of the Sovereign, dreams of avenging the death of her family\u2026 by killing the Sovereign\u2019s daughter, Lady Crier. Crier, who was Made to be beautiful, to be flawless. And to take over the work of her father. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Crier had been preparing to do just that\u2014to inherit her father\u2019s rule over the land. But that was before she was betrothed to Scyre Kinok, who seems to have a thousand secrets. That was before she discovered her father isn\u2019t as benevolent as she thought. That was before she met Ayla. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Set in a richly-imagined fantasy world, Nina Varela\u2019s debut novel is a sweepingly romantic tale of love, loss and revenge, that challenges what it really means to be human.&#8221; &#8211; GoodReads<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h5><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gms\/files\/2024\/11\/Residence.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"272\" class=\" wp-image-101154 alignleft\" \/>Residence on Earth<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>By: Pablo Nerudo, Donald D. Walsh (translator)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em>Category: Poetry; Spanish literature; Classics; Political oppression; Chilean authors; Bilingual books; Latin American literature<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Book Summary<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;These poems, written by the prolific Chilean poet between the 1920&#8217;s and 1940&#8217;s, illuminate his views on alienation and political oppression.&#8221; &#8211; GoodReads<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h5><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gms\/files\/2024\/11\/The-Silent.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"253\" class=\" wp-image-101155 alignleft\" \/>The Silent Patient<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>By: Alex Michaelides<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em>Category: Psychological thrillers; Crime fiction; Suspense<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Awards: Barry Award Nominee for Best First Novel 2020; GoodReads Choice Award for Mystery &amp; Thriller and Nominee for Debut Novel 2019; Barnes &amp; Noble Book of the Year Award Nominee 21019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Book Summary<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Alicia Berenson\u2019s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London\u2019s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia\u2019s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations\u2014a search for the truth that threatens to consume him&#8230;.&#8221; &#8211; GoodReads<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h5><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gms\/files\/2024\/11\/What-Youre.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"244\" class=\" wp-image-101156 alignleft\" \/>What You Are Looking For Is in the Library<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>By: Michiko Aoyama, Alison Watts (translator)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em>Category: Literary fiction; Heartwarming; Contemporary; Short stories; Japanese literature; Magical realism; Asian literature; Japanese authors<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Awards: shortlisted for the Japan Booksellers&#8217; Award<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h4 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Book Summary<\/h4><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;What are you looking for? This is the famous question routinely asked by Tokyo\u2019s most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. Like most librarians, Komachi has read every book lining her shelves\u2014but she also has the unique ability to read the souls of her library guests. For anyone who walks through her door, Komachi can sense exactly what they\u2019re looking for in life and provide just the book recommendation they never knew they needed to help them find it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Each visitor comes to her library from a different juncture in their careers and dreams, from the restless sales attendant who feels stuck at her job to the struggling working mother who longs to be a magazine editor. 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