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
“Take My Hand” (Hardcover)
By Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Berkley, 368 pages, $27
A searing and compassionate new novel about a young Black nurse’s shocking discovery and burning quest for justice in post-segregation Alabama.
“New and Selected Stories” (Paperback)
By Cristina Rivera Garza
Dorothy, a publishing project, 280 pages, $16
A story collection drawn from across her career brings into English for the first time the extraordinary stylistic and thematic range of the Mexican writer and MacArthur “genius” Cristina Rivera Garza.
Nonfiction
“Lost and Found: A Memoir” (Hardcover)
By Kathryn Schulz
Random House, 256 pages, $27
Part memoir, part guidebook to living in a world that is simultaneously full of wonder and joy and wretchedness and suffering —a world that always demands both our gratitude and our grief.
“The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War” (Paperback)
By Louis Menand
Picador, 880 pages, $25
In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Metaphysical Club,” Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years.
Children
“Emile and the Field” (Hardcover)
By Kevin Young
Illustrated by Chioma Ebinama, 40 pages, $17.99
This relatable and lyrical ode to one boy’s love for his neighborhood field celebrates how spending time in nature allows children to dream, to imagine…and even to share. (Ages 4-8)
“Sisters of the Neversea” (Hardcover)
By Cynthia Leitich Smith
Heartdrum, 320 pages, $16.99
In this beautifully reimagined Peter Pan story, Native American Lily and English Wendy embark on a high-flying journey of magic, adventure, and courage to a fairy-tale island known as Neverland… (Ages 8-12)
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