Kids, don your jammies and join us for a Bedtime Story with the author/illustrator herself! Lori Joy Smith reads We Adopted a Lamb, an irresistible and unique twist on the pet story for fans of cute baby animals.

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The pandemic has scuppered many long-awaited travel plans. If you or a loved one will be kept home this year, fear not! Wellesley Books has just the solution: a moderated Zoom soirée to talk about books and dream of being in the City of Light!

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Kids, don your jammies and join us for a Bedtime Story with the author herself! Erin Dionne reads Balletball, in which a young ballet fan learns that her love of dance might just lead to a love of baseball.

This online event will take place through Zoom. In order to gain access, attendees must register by clicking the link below:

Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven, joins us to celebrate the paperback release of her bestselling 2020 novel, The Glass Hotel. Emily will be in conversation with Lily King, author of Writers & Lovers.

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If Bon Joon-ho's Parasite had taken place in the early 20th century American Midwest, it would look something like The Rib King. When a wealthy family falls on hard times, they sell their cook's meat sauce to a businessman. The catch? He uses a racist caricature of the groundskeeper, Mr. Sitwell, to promote it under the brand "The Rib King." Neither Sitwell nor the cook see a dime of the profits. When the Rib King's popularity skyrockets, Sitwell's behavior becomes increasingly erratic. This engaging, character driven novel deals with timely issues such as race and class, and it has some great plot twists that I loved!

Around the lobby of Le Sommet, glass boxes hang with medical debris from the hotel's past—a sanatorium—making it visible to guests. It's current darkness, a killer wearing the sanatorium's old breathing masks, haunts its grounds. But Elin, a detective on personal leave, doesn't know this before she and Will arrive for her brother's engagement party. Haunted by her own memories and wanting to confront her brother, she's thrown into the case when the fiancée, one of the hotel's managers, goes missing. Trapped in the hotel by an intense snowstorm, an avalanche blocking the mountain road to safety, she has to find the killer to right the wrongs of the past. All I have to say is while reading The Sanatorium, I was very uneasy about taking the dog out at night while it was snowing.

Reading Fireheart Tiger is like trying to watch the individual flames of a bonfire. Pretty in their own right, each flame, each character, each piece of dialogue, each sentence adds to a blaze that will leave you in awe. A queer love triangle, magical politics, betrayal, magical girls, ruthless girls, kindhearted and cunning girls, this novella has it all. Thanh is a royal member of the court in Eldris, who has fallen in love with the princess of the neighboring, domineering kingdom, Ephteria. Sent there as a political diplomat at a young age, Thanh is back in Eldris to help her mother negotiate with the Ephterians. But then the princess shows up. And the fire that burned the palace is back to haunt Thanh. But possibly, the fire wants something else. This novella is a perfect, warm read while you're waiting for the snow to melt and the world to thaw outside.

A Child's Library is a subscription service for children ages 0-5! Lauren, our children's book buyer, selects one newly released picture book each month to be sent or picked-up from the store. The goal of A Child's Library is to help foster a love for books within the child's home. It makes a great baby shower gift!

The February 2021 pick is Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Peña. To find out more about our subscription service, click here.

This is the best picture book ever and Cindy Derby is a mad genius. Okay, that's hyperbole, but don't miss it if you like rule-breakers, detailed full-page illustrations, divine silliness, and birds. You can look at this book again and again & find new jokes every time. PS Make sure to look at the endpapers too!