All Stories

Paul Lynch wins the Booker Prize for Prophet Song. The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose leads holds this week. Jenna Bush Hager picks We Must Not Think of Ourselves by Lauren Grodstein (also People’s book of the week) for her book club. Two LibraryReads and five Indie Next picks publish this week. NPR releases Books We Love, NYPL publishes its Best Books of 2023, and NYT announces its 100 notable books of 2023. Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying turns 50. Plus, a new documentary, The ABCs Of Book Banning, explores the impact of book bans in Florida public schools.

Two iconic filmmakers have the lens turned on them in these in-depth examinations.

Dan Simmons, David Ignatius, Graham Moore, and Christopher Reich field spies across the globe and through history.

Sarah Perry returns to the world of The Essex Serpent, multiple debuts of note, and a new series title.

Sean Carroll explains the Standard Model of particle physics, the star of My Octopus Teacher urges a deeper connection to nature, and more titles explore the wonders of the universe. 

Beautifully atmospheric worlds powered by magic offer readers immersive stories.

Jane Austen’s classic second-chance romance, Persuasion, gets a modern twist, and her Sense and Sensibility is the inspiration for a work with super-sexy scenes, deeply emotional storylines, and strong Black and Indigenous characters.

Do you know your Shelley from your Poe? Have you read everything the Brontës wrote? Think you are an afficionado of Gothic literature? Take this quiz to see how well you really know your castles, ghosts, and scary stories.

It’s easy, as librarian-educators, to be overwhelmed and intimidated by the pace of technological change, as well as dismissive of the need for educating students and patrons about privacy on the assumption that they have fully embraced these technologies and likely don’t care. But the reality is that students do care about privacy, and want to be able to make informed, intentional choices about how they are known by and accessible to others.