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Very fun impromptu RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA book club with these...

Very fun impromptu RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA book club with these ladies today! Thanks @emily_behan for inviting me! (at Prospect Park)

AMY SCHUMER!!!! (at Madison Square Garden)

AMY SCHUMER!!!! (at Madison Square Garden)

Gorgeous photo and such a fascinating group of books paired with...

Gorgeous photo and such a fascinating group of books paired with The Outliers. The Handmaids Tale especially is such a perfect fit.

#bookstagram #ya (at Brooklyn, New York)

"Sometimes, it feels like he’s trying to rebuild our lives out of matchsticks. And I do love him for..."

“Sometimes, it feels like he’s trying to rebuild our lives out of matchsticks. And I do love him for that. But loving someone isn’t the same thing as understanding them.”

- Kimberly McCreight, The Outliers  (via quoted-books)

2016 Road Trip Titles

lakecountylibrary:

Check out these new Road Trip books (for those stuck at home this summer): 

(Background photo from “Wild Imagination” set shot by Patrick Chin for @deathtothestockphoto​.)

Picture Book:

Are We There Yet? by Dan Santat*
“A boy goes on a long car ride to visit his grandmother and discovers time moves faster or slower depending on how bored he is. Car rides can be boring. And when things get boring, time slows down. So much so that it might start going backward– into the time of pirates! Ancient Egypt! Of dinosaurs! After reading this wildly inventive book– that even turns upside down!– you’ll never look at being bored the same way again.”

*Librarian’s note: This is a picture book book you will need to shift around and upside down to read. If you pay attention to the arrows around the last word it will remind you which page to turn to get to the next part of the story.

Middle Grade:

Far from Fair by Elana K. Arnold
“As far as twelve-year-old Odette Zyskowski is concerned, her parents have ruined her life by selling the house she and her younger brother have grown up in, getting an RV, and giving her some little mutt instead of the Labrador Retriever she wanted–but as they travel north to see her grandmother, Odette becomes aware of an even more frightening problem: her parents may be on the verge of a divorce.”

Teen:

The Outliers by Kimberly McCreight*
“It starts with a text: Please, Wylie, I need your help. Wylie hasn’t heard from Cassie in over a week, not since their last fight. But if Cassie’s in trouble, Wylie must do what she has done so many times before: save her best friend from herself. But this time Cassie sends cryptic clues. And instead of having Wylie come by herself, Jasper shows up saying Cassie sent him to help. As Wylie and Jasper head farther and farther north into the dense woods of Maine, Wylie struggles to control her growing sense that something is really wrong. What isn’t Cassie telling them?”

*Librarian’s note: this is book one in an ongoing series!

Adult:

Double Cup Love by Eddie Huang*
“In the follow-up to his bestselling coming-of-age memoir Fresh Off the Boat, now a hit show on ABC, celebrity chef Eddie Huang tells a powerful story about love and family and what really makes us who we are. After growing up in a wild first-generation immigrant family in the comically hostile world of suburban America, Huang begins to wonder just how authentic his Chinese identity really is. So he enlists his brothers Emery and Evan and returns to the country his ancestors abandoned. His immediate goal is to sample China’s best food and see if his cooking measures up to local tastes—but his deeper goals are to reconnect with his homeland, repair his frayed family relationships, decide whether to marry his all-American (well, all-Italian-American) girlfriend, and figure out just where to find meaning in his life.”

*Librarian’s note: as of right now (June 2016) this book is only in LCPL’s ebook collection (on Overdrive)

Best thing I have done in months was help shape this Green...

Best thing I have done in months was help shape this Green Anole. And by help, I mean did what I was told in a purely assistant capacity. The 9 year-old does not suffer incompetence lightly. #parenting (at Brooklyn, New York)

I ❤️ NY. (at The High Line)

A video posted by Kimberly McCreight (@kimberlymccreight) on Jun 18, 2016 at 5:15pm PDT

I ❤️ NY. (at The High Line)

With love and sorrow for those who were lost. And hope, for all...

With love and sorrow for those who were lost. And hope, for all of us. We are with you Orlando. (at Brooklyn, New York)

Brooklyn Pop Up Party (at Nethermead, Prospect Park)

A video posted by Kimberly McCreight (@kimberlymccreight) on Jun 11, 2016 at 6:59pm PDT

Brooklyn Pop Up Party (at Nethermead, Prospect Park)

THE OUTLIERS on Glamour’s Best Reads of Summer 2016 list!...

THE OUTLIERS on Glamour’s Best Reads of Summer 2016 list! Hooray!

http://www.glamour.com/gallery/the-19-best-reads-of-summer-2016 (at Brooklyn, New York)