This month’s high-demand holds on the Libby app have a few changes,
so we want to make sure you know there are other options out there to tide you
over until your hold becomes available.
The titles in RED are the top ebook/eaudio holds with read-alikes
(as of this afternoon, these have little to no waitlist) are linked below them.
Where something is available on Hoopla, guaranteed no-lines-no-waiting, it is
noted.
The Giver of Stars by JoJo
Moyes
Moyes’ blockbuster new book is about the real-life packhorse
librarians of the Depression-era WPA.
The obvious choice, and one we’ve recommended before, is The Book
Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson. Not only does it star the packhorse
librarians, but also the famed “blue people” of Kentucky, based on the true
story of the Fugate family, carriers of a genetic trait that led them to
develop methemoglobinemia, which gives suffers blue-tinged skin. This book is
available on Libby, but it is waitlisted there as well. Look for the ebook
and eaudio on Hoopla for no lines-no waiting borrowing.
For a comparable reading/listening experience, explore the following
authors:
Other books by Kim
Michele Richardson on Hoopla
The Dutch House by Ann
Patchett
One of Patchett’s strongest appeal factors is her
characters. From opera singers (Bel
Canto LIBBY
- HOOPLA)
to research scientists (State of Wonder LIBBY
- HOOPLA),
Patchett seems to know what makes people tick.
The Dutch House is multi-generational tour de force about
overcoming your past, digging into questions of inheritance, love and
forgiveness, of how we want to see ourselves and of who we really are.
For a comparable reading/listening experience, explore the
following authors/books:
The
Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
The
Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
The
Son by Philipp Meyer
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Early success with a blog, Momastery, eventually led to memoir
success for Glennon Doyle when her second book, Love Warrior, was
selected to be part of Oprah’s
Book Club 2.0. Doyle always speaks
frankly about early struggles addiction and time spent in a mental institution
when she was a teen. Memoirs featuring the
struggles of the school of hard knocks are always in demand.
For a comparable reading/listening experience, explore the
following authors/books on Libby:
Other books by Glennon
Doyle
The
Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Educated
by Tara Westover
Blood,
Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by
Gabrielle Hamilton
Girl,
Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Brain
on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
Hidden
Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
The Alice Network by Kate
Quinn
This novel is fiction but the Alice Network was very real
and there is a fascinating author’s note in the back of the book explaining some
of the places where Quinn did have to take artistic license and where she did
not. Nicknamed “the queen of spies” by her British handlers and operating under
the pseudonym Alice Dubois, Louise Marie Jeanne Henriette de Bettignies ran a
network of up to 100 people smuggling soldiers out of harm’s way to England and
German military information to the British Intelligence service. It makes for
thrilling reading! Look
for the ebook on Hoopla for no lines-no waiting borrowing.
For a comparable reading/listening experience, explore the
following authors/books:
Other books by Kate
Quinn on Hoopla
American
Spy by Lauren Wilkinson (audio only)
The
Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
Liar,
Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen
Abbott (audio on Hoopla)
Code
Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (a young adult novel, but a thrilling read)
Transcription
by Kate Atkinson
Girl
in Disguise by Greer Macallister on Hoopla
American Dirt by Jeanine
Cummings
This novel about a mother and her son fleeing a Mexican drug
cartel has received a lot of negative press from people who point out that the
Caucasian author is writing about a culture of which she has no
experience. There is an entire
#ownvoices movement in publishing seeking to get books written about cultures
and ethnicities by members of those cultures and ethnicities. Use that hashtag to seek them out online. On
the other hand, it is a #1 New York Times Bestseller, an Oprah’s Book
Club Pick, and has received rave reviews from powerhouse authors like Stephen
King and Sandra Cisneros.
For a comparable reading/listening experience, explore the
following authors/books:
Unaccompanied
by Javier Zamora
Exit
West by Mohsin Hamid
American
War by Omar El Akkad
Little
Bee by Chris Cleave
Purple
Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Open Book by Jessica Simpson
Simpson’s tell-all autobiography lives up to the title as “America’s
Sweetheart” presents her life as and open book, sharing her remarkable journey
from preacher’s daughter, to pop phenomenon, to billion-dollar fashion mogul.
For a comparable reading/listening experience, explore the
following books:
Whiskey
in a Teacup by Reese Witherspoon
The
Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
Wildflower
by Drew Barrymore
The
Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
Just
Jessie: My Guide to Love, Life, Family, and Food by Jessie James Decker
Girl,
Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You are so You Can Become Who
You Were Meant to Be by Rachel Hollis (also
on Hoopla)
Troublemaker:
Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini
Inside
Out by Demi Moore
All Adults Here by Emma Straub
Warm, funny, keenly perceptive novels about adulthood and family
may just hit the spot right now!
For a comparable reading/listening experience,
explore the following authors/books:
Mrs.
Everything by Jennifer Weiner
Major
Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
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