Book Reviews

cover of the book Sister Snake

Sister Snake by Amanda Lee Koe

Over the centuries, Su and Emerald have drifted in-and-out of…
Book cover features a pink rose in the center.

AWAKE: A Memoir by Jen Hatmaker

I have been familiar with Jen Hatmaker for a long time, mostly…

Fall Reads

Ahh, fall. The weather is crisp, the leaves are falling, the…

TIG by Heather Smith

Before moving to Wensleydale, Tig and Peter spent months alone,…

The Spinach King by John Seabrook

In John Seabrook's The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an…

The Busybody Book Club by Freya Sampson

What does a youth worker, a retired farmer, a teenage computer…
cover image of Klara and the Sun

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Klara is an Artificial Friend. She lives in a store with other…
Cover image of a book called The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz. There is a picture of a pencil and a knife.

The Word is Murder: A Novel (A Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery, 1) by Anthony Horowitz

New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz takes a crack…

POPCORN by Rob Harrell

All seventh grader Andrew Yeager, the protagonist of Rob Harrell’s Popcorn, wants…

The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig

Sybil Delling is a Diviner. She and the other five Diviners she…

The Fact Checker by Austin Kelley

A quick glance at the cover of Austin Kelley’s novel, The Fact…

Every Deadly Suspicion by Janice Cantore

Janice Cantore’s Every Deadly Suspicion is set in present day…
Book cover of The Love Haters by Katherine Center; features a woman in a purple swimsuit and a man in a red pair of swim shorts, both on round floaties

The Love Haters by Katherine Center

In an effort to avoid being laid off from the video production…

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

It’s 1909 and Emily Wilde is a professor of dryadology at…

Children’s Art Books for Summer Reading 2025

Summer reading is well under way at Joplin Public Library. In…