All That's Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir
by Emilee Hackney
Sure, you’ve read memoirs about Appalachia before. And yes, you’ve read memoirs about people who feel like fish out of water at Ivy League colleges. But you haven’t read All That’s Unseen by Emilee Ha... (Nancy)
An African in Greenland
by Tété-Michel Kpomassie, translated by James Kirkup
Many Phinney readers (me included) are drawn to tales of the Arctic, but none drawn to strongly as Kpomassie, who encountered a book called The Eskimos from Greenland to Alaska as a teenager in Togo i... (Tom)
Astronaut!
by Oana Aristide
Once upon a time—1989, to be exact—there was a girl who loved colors and who couldn't seem to stop telling the truth in a town where almost everyone wished she would just stay quiet. Lia is eight year... (Tom)
Strange Beasts
by Susan J. Morris
“Hel drew her revolver. Sam’s eyes hooked on the gleaming barrel. Oh, Hel.” 1903, in shadows cut by gaslight, Tout-Paris clutch at their pearls as a string of beastly murders thins their numbers. The... (Shane)