Wheaton Public Library: Grow with Us!
What do you do when your whole world changes? That is the question Vasya must answer in Katherine Arden’s gorgeous story of Russian history and mythology. Vasilisa Petrovna has always been a strange girl. Everyone in her village says so; Read more
Brit Bennett‘s debut novel, The Mothers, earned well-deserved attention in 2016. The Vanishing Half, a compassionate and illuminating multi-generational saga published in 2020, has been received with even more enthusiasm by critics and readers alike, who have compared Bennett’s writing Read more
Although novelist Mary Beth Keane received strong reviews for her previous publications, The Walking People (2009) and Fever (2013), her third, most recent novel, Ask Again, Yes (2019), is considered by many to be her breakout book, having received high Read more
Written as an oral history of a fictional punk rock duo in the 70’s, The Final Revival of Opal and Nev draws a lot of comparisons to Daisy Jones and the Six. I loved both books, but this is a grittier story incorporating some of the problematic racial history Read more
Kindred, by classic science fiction author Octavia Butler, is a novel about a Black woman from 1970s Los Angeles who finds herself repeatedly pulled back in time to pre-Civil War Maryland, where she must save the life of her white Read more
Kathryn Stockett’s first historical fiction novel is amazing. It’s about the lives of African American maids/nannies who served white women in the 1960’s, particularly in Mississippi. The main character, Eugenia Phelan, nicknamed “Skeeter,” is an atypical and intelligent white woman, Read more
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is written in letter form, which, admittedly, was a little confusing at first, but once I had a firm grasp of the main characters, I was hooked. The story takes place right Read more
Becoming Mrs. Lewis tells the story of how Joy Davidman writes to C.S. Lewis and their correspondence changes both their lives. Joy moves to England and actually influences some of the works that C.S.Lewis has written. She eventually marries C.S. Read more