|
|
Recent Releases On BRIDGES |
|
| Queenie by Candice Carty-WilliamsWhat it's about: Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places...including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth. |
|
|
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
by C. A. Fletcher
What it's about: My name's Griz. My childhood wasn't like yours. I've never had friends, and in my whole life I've not met enough people to play a game of football. My parents told me how crowded the world used to be, but we were never lonely on our remote island. We had each other, and our dogs. Then the thief came.There may be no law left except what you make of it. But if you steal my dog, you can at least expect me to come after you. Because if we aren't loyal to the things we love, what's the point?
|
|
|
Alice's Island
by Cassandra Campbell
What it's about: Alice Dupont’s perfect marriage was a perfect lie. When her husband, Chris, dies in a car accident, far from where he should have been, Alice’s life falls apart. After the police close the case, she is left with more questions than answers. While learning to cope with her loss and her new identity as a single mother of two, Alice becomes obsessed with unraveling the mystery surrounding her husband’s death and decides to start her own investigation.
|
|
|
The Book of Dreams
by Nina George
What it's about: Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri steps into the road without looking and collides with oncoming traffic. He is rushed to a nearby hospital where he floats, comatose, between dreams, reliving the fairytales of his childhood and the secrets that made him run away in the first place.
|
|
|
The Café By The Sea
by Jenny Colgan
What it's about: Returning to her family's Scottish island town in the aftermath of her mother's death, Flora opens a café when she discovers that her father and brothers are not quite up to the task of running the family farm.
|
|
|
Outside Looking In
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
What it's about: In this stirring and insightful novel, T.C. Boyle takes us back to the 1960s and to the early days of a drug whose effects have reverberated widely throughout our culture: LSD.
|
|
|
Lights All Night Long
by Lydia Fitzpatrick
What it's about: With the help of his American host family's daughter, Sadie, who has secrets of her own, Russian exchange student Ilya embarks on a mission to prove his brother Vladimir’s innocence in the murders of three girls back in Russia.
|
|
| On The Come Up by Angie ThomasWhat it’s about: When her fiery performance at a rap battle goes viral, 16-year-old Bri knows that her newfound fame could be her family’s ticket to survival -- but she doesn't know how to deal with the onslaught of people trying to label her. |
|
Contact your librarian for more great audiobooks!
|
|
|
|
|
|