Category: Staff Picks

Ready Player One is about losing yourself in a video game, literally. It is full of pop cultural references that will take you back to the 80s & 90s. Its a fun romp with heart.

Robin – B & B Staff

Anyone would enjoy this book with its humor, compelling characters & beautiful prose. But those who have spent time “behind the apron” will especially appreciate its spot-on image of the hectic world of service industry life. Intoxicating & marvelous!

Emily – B&B Staff

Seriously dark and seriously creepy. It will keep you guessing until the end.

Mia – B&B Staff

You’ll love the spunk of twelve-year-old Marie-Laure, a blind girl who is relocated from Paris to the walled coastal city of St. Malo, where she and her father must guard a prized gem, while deceiving their Nazi overseers.

Just out in paperback after three years as a hardcober bestseller. You won’t want to miss reading it!

George – B & B Staff

You think you’ve read the story of what it would be like if the Nazis had won WWII, but not like this you haven’t. A cross-continental motorcycle race, a shape-shifting heroine and a plot to kill Hitler. Exciting, thought -provoking and fun.
Robin – B&B Staff

If you’ve read Lee Smith’s novels, or even if you haven’t, you’ll love her funny, compassionate voice and her story of growing up in the Appalachian south.
Judy Blume – B&B Staff

Don’t be fooled. This is not another self-help book…
Duhigg explores the neurology of how we form habits, using  stories from individuals, businesses & communities that have transformed themselves (from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Febreze!)
An extremely interesting and enjoyable read.
Emily Berg – B&B Staff

A fresh, funny take on Pride and Prejudice set in modern day Cincinnati. So entertaining you wont want to put it down. Perfect summer reading.
Judy Blume

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Wonderfully tender and hilariously funny, Eligible tackles gender, class, courtship, and family as Curtis Sittenfeld reaffirms herself as one of the most dazzling authors writing today.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE TIMES (UK)

“At its heart this is a love story, but it’s so much more. And the writing is as smooth as silk.” Cynthia Crossen, B&B Key West

Judith Whitman always believed in the kind of love that “picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio.” Long ago, she once experienced that love. Willy Blunt was a carpenter with a dry wit and a steadfast sense of honor. Marrying him seemed like a natural thing to promise. But Willy Blunt was not a person you could pick up in Nebraska and transport to Stanford. When Judith left home, she didn’t look back.

Twenty years later, Judith’s marriage is hazy with secrets. In her hand is what may be the phone number for the man who believed she meant it when she said she loved him. If she called, what would he say?

TO BE SUNG UNDERWATER is the epic love story of a woman trying to remember, and the man who could not even begin to forget.

I love this book! Gary is a charmer – you will fall for this boy’s story and finish wishing for more. – Judy B