Summer reading isn’t just for kids! Homewood Public Library has an adult summer reading program, too. Navigate to Homewood.beanstack.com and sign up (or log in) to start logging the adult books (fiction and/or nonfiction; audio, print, or ebook) that you read between June 3 and August 4, 2019. Each adult book logged earns a badge….
His Dark Materials at a Glance Author Philip Pullman’s trilogy, Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, has been given a two season order from the BBC, with HBO picking up the worldwide rights. to release in 2019. Pullman was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia Secondary education at the Ysgol…
The Alienist at a Glance The Alienist was first published in 1994 Spent six months on the New York Times bestseller list The novel was inspired by his relationship with his natural father Lucien Carr. The novel became a 10-part TV series and began on January 22, 2018 on TNT The TV series was nominated…
Book Overview Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a…
Author at a Glance: Walter Dean Myers Walter Dean Myers was born on August 12, 1937 in Martinsburg, West Virginia Moved to Harlem with his foster parents at age three- wrote throughout childhood After graduating high school and leaving the army, he earned a BA from Empire State College. He wrote full time after…
TITLE: Fresh Ink: An Anthology AUTHORS: Schuyler Bailar, Melissa de la Cruz, Sara Farizan, Sharon G. Flake, Eric Gansworth, Malindo Lo, Walter Dean Myers, Daniel José Older, Thien Pham, Jason Reynolds, Aminah Mae Safi, Gene Luen Yang, Nicola Yoon DESCRIPTION: These are twelve stories with endings that are still being written–whose next chapters are up…
