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Book Club Picks

Book of the Month: Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

After receiving a call from her friend Helen Corning, Nancy agrees to help solve a baffling mystery. Helen’s Aunt Rosemary has been living with her mother at the old family mansion, and they have noticed many strange things. They have heard music, thumps, and creaking noises at night, and seen eerie shadows on the walls.…
Author Highlight: Katherine Applegate

I first became acquainted with her when I was in lower school thanks to the ever popular (At least I hope it still is popular in a cult sort of way) Animorphs series. It even had a tv show as it dealt with PTSD, genocide, and despairing, everyone is miserable in the end alien invasion.…
Women’s History Books

Here it is, the annual updated list of women’s history books. One for each day of the month. Maybe even the year. Enjoy!
Women’s History Month Memoirs

After stealing the spotlight as a teenaged Broadway performer during the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Josephine then took Paris by storm, dazzling audiences across the Roaring Twenties. In her famous banana skirt, she enraptured royalty and countless fans—Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso among them. She strolled the streets of Paris with her pet cheetah…
DC Comic Heroines and Villainesses

Poison Ivy vol 1-7 by G. Willow Wilson, and various artists. Poison Ivy finds herself severely depowered and dying. Before she dies, she sets out to complete one final mission to save the Earth by spreading deadly fungal spores that will end humanity once and for all. I think many agree that Poison Ivy was…
Book of the Month: Neurotic Hitwoman #7-8

All reluctant hitwoman Maggie Lee really wants is to have a calm, normal life. She doesn’t want to go around killing people for money.She doesn’t want her sister to be terrified of her ex-pimp.She doesn’t want her Dad to disappear from the Witness Protection program. But Maggie rarely gets what she wants. Instead, she finds…
Bridgerton Adaptation

Obviously most know Bridgerton. It’s the tv show that brought historical romance to the conversation (even though it sadly hasn’t translated to book sales, booo!) and as with any adaptation there are endless critiques of what has stayed the same and what the show changed from the books. I won’t go into a thorough deep…
Women’s History Month Suggestions

Just as the title implies Kathryn Atwood’s books center on sung and unsung heroines during WW2. She has several popular ones like Sophie scholl, Carrie ten boom, Josephine Baker, Irene Sandler and Martha Gelhorn, Nancy Wake, Noor Inayat Khan, and Virginia Hall, but she also shares plenty new ones. Split into seven sections of each…
Comics

Out There by Seaerra Miller Julia didn’t always believe in aliens. It was her father who convinced her otherwise. You see—Julia’s dad believes he was abducted by aliens. And ever since then, he’s been obsessed with the extraterrestrial beings living out there. So when a festival commemorating the 75th anniversary of the infamous UFO crash in New Mexico…
Book Highlight: Vanished!

During the Golden Age of Magic from 1860 to 1930, seven women magicians in America defied Victorian conventions and created a unique place in history for themselves and future performers to come. There was Anna, the mindreader; Adelaide, who could float in midair; Talma, who could magically shower the stage with gold coins…and many more!…