Apr 14

Apr 14 Black Woods, Blue Sky

Eowyn Ivey’s newest novel, Black Woods, Blue Sky (2024), transports readers to the wilds of Alaska’s interior and the loving, albeit dysfunctional family of a single mom and her eccentric daughter. Emaleen is five and lives with her mother, known to all as Birdie, in the Alaskan wilds along the fictional Wolverine River. Birdie has been trying to fly since childhood and often flirting with disaster as she courts her long-desired flight. This novel explores the complexity of mother-daughter love, the call of the Alaskan wilds, and the ways people grapple with memory, loss, and forgiveness over time.

Dec 6

Dec 6 A Court of Thorns and Roses Series

Chris Mathers Jackson

Contemporary Fiction

For readers who appreciate a suspenseful fantasy interwoven with a good dose of romance, Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses (2015) and the four books that come after it will delight.

The first in this series, A Court of Thorns and Roses (2015) establishes the divided world in which we find our heroine, Feyre Archeron.

Oct 6

Oct 6 Lanny

Chris Mathers Jackson

Contemporary Fiction

Max Porter does something both unique and disquieting in his novel Lanny (2019). Set in a sleepy English village (within commuting distance of London) in modern time, Lanny is family drama set amidst the cacophony of villager voices as overheard by mystical, other-worldly Dead Papa Toothwort.

Jan 6

Jan 6 The Snow Child

Chris Mathers Jackson

Contemporary Fiction

Eowyn Ivey’s The Snow Child (2012) brings a Russian fairytale amidst the Alaskan wilderness. The novel begins in the 1920s when Mabel and Jack, recently transplanted from their native Pennsylvania, face their second winter on their Alaskan homestead.

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