Seeking your next good read? Emma Snyder, owner of The Ivy Bookshop at 5928 Falls Road in Baltimore, offers recommendations for must-read titles for adults and children.
Fiction
“The Cactus League” (Paperback)
By Emily Nemens
Picador, 288 pages, $17
Anchored by an expert knowledge of baseball’s inner workings, Emily Nemens’ “The Cactus League” is a propulsive and deeply human debut capturing a strange desert world that is both exciting and unforgiving, where the most crucial games are the ones played off the field.
“How to Order the Universe” (Hardcover)
By María José Ferrada, Translated by Elizabeth Bryer
Tin House Books, 180 pages, $19.95
María José Ferrada expertly captures a vanishing way of life — traveling salesmanship — and a father-daughter relationship on the brink of irreversible change.
Nonfiction
“Pure Flame: A Legacy” (Hardcover)
By Michelle Orange
FSG Books, 288 pages, $28
Told with warmth and rigor, Orange’s account of her mother’s life and their relationship is pressurized in critical and unexpected ways, resulting in an essential, revelatory meditation on becoming, selfhood, freedom, mortality, storytelling and what it means to be a mother’s daughter now.
“Susan, Linda, Nina, and Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR” (Hardcover)
By Lisa Napoli
Harry N. Abrams Books, 288 pages, $28
Napoli, a journalist, writes a captivating account of the four founding women of National Public Radio, their deep and enduring friendships and the trail they blazed to becoming icons.
Children
“Always Be You” (Board Book)
By Ioana Stoian, Illustrated by Dawn M. Cardona
Busy Hands Books, 18 Pages, $12.95
This colorful, rhyming board book celebrates accepting each and every child just as they are. Messages of love, acceptance, empathy, inclusion and diversity are paired with fun, unique hand-cut paper illustrations. Ages newborn-5.
“Dig” (Hardcover)
By A.S. King
Dutton Books for Young Readers, 240 pages, $17.99
A surreal and timely novel about the effects of isolation and what it means to be connected to the world from the Printz Award-winning author of “Dig.” Ages 14+
Seeking your next good read? Emma Snyder, owner of The Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore, offers recommendations for must-read titles for adults and children.
Seeking your next good read? Emma Snyder, owner of The Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore, offers recommendations for must-read titles for adults and children.
Seeking your next good read? Emma Snyder, owner of The Ivy Bookshop, offers recommendations for must-read titles for adults and children.
Seeking your next good read? Emma Snyder, owner of The Ivy Bookshop, offers recommendations for must-read titles for adults and children.