71 Books and Authors to Check Out in 2021!
Need a book to read in 2021? Want to find a new author to check out? Then, explore this list of 71 books and authors featured in our author spotlight series in a variety of genres.
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May 14, 2021
Do you need something to read? Here are 71 books that were published in 2021 that we ve featured in our author spotlight series. We ve tried to break them out into specific categories with the book title, author, publisher, published date, and an elevator pitch provided by the author.
If you want to read an interview with the author about writing and publishing the book and more general writing advice, then be sure to click on the learn more link for the book. Enjoy!
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Fireside Author Chat – Thursday, May 6 at 7 p.m.
Join us on Zoom for a fireside chat with Alex Kotlowitz, author of An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago, The Interrupters, and There Are No Children Here. The chat will be moderated by Pulitzer Prize winning, Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich. Alex and Mary will have a 45-minute discussion followed by about fifteen minutes to answer questions. Limited spots are available, so registration is required. Simply call our Reference Desk at 852-4505 or stop by to sign up!
Three Historical Novels Explore the Strength of Human Connection
By Alida Becker
It’s easy to see why Julia Claiborne Johnson filled
BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME (Custom House, 288 pp., $28.99) with movie-star look-alikes. Doesn’t a romantic comedy set on a 1930s Nevada dude ranch teeming with about-to-be-divorced women owe a certain debt to the era’s big-screen classics? Then again, it’s hard to believe a cinematic version could be any more fun than the small-page antics of the aptly named Flying Leap’s two hired hands and the pair of wealthy “guests” who seem determined to make their required stint as legal state residents as memorable as possible.