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2023 Abe Lincoln Nominees + FAQs

I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about the Lincoln Award and the Lincoln Nominee list for 2023 and answer some FAQs. What is Read 4 Pizza? Log the Lincoln Award nominees you read on Beanstack and get free pizza and other fun prizes! Open to high school students....

Why I Love…Celeb Memoirs

Well, more specifically, LISTENING to celeb memoirs. I need it to feel like these famous people are in the car with me telling me their life story. Yeah, sure, they can be frivolous, but they are entertaining and a lovely distraction from life sometimes…especially...

Black Future Month

Check out some of these books celebrating Black Joy for Black History Month. A little bit of everything! Featuring love, magic, space, and more.For a full list, click here to see the list in our catalog.[bookshelf id="14598"]

My Favorite Books of 2021

Every year I keep striving to read more and more books. This year I definitely went way passed my original goal that I had set. Being in reading competitions, listening to more audiobooks, and overall trying to spend more time reading has contributed to this...

My Favorite Books of 2021

[bookshelf id="13804"]The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan MeissnerMeissner does a great job of writing a captivating book set against the backdrop of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Although a devastating disaster, the earthquake actually seems a more minor part...

My Favorite Reads of 2021

[bookshelf id="14053"]The Camelot Rising trilogy by Kiersten White  Is this cheating? I don’t care. I LOVE Kiersten White, but especially when writing historical fantasy about kick-butt girls. I’m sure some people think Arthuriana can be boring, like how many times...

Best Reads of 2021 – Ola

There was once a time in my life where I was able to read 100 books in one year. This was not that year. But, as of this moment, I did read 34! And that’s a win, too. When I sat down to write this list, I already knew which ones I was going to pick…and then I finished...

My Favorite Reads of 2021 — Ang

For the first time in a looooong time it seems like I read fewer romance novels than in past years. This is going to get slightly in the weeds, but romance publishing has seen a little bit of a change recently, with almost all contemporary romances (and quite a few...

The Wheel of Time

Surprising no one, I am HOOKED on The Wheel of Time series on Amazon Prime. If you're also a lover of fantasy adventure, it will definitely be your jam. I also think many of these books would be your jam, check them out while you wait for more episodes to drop. Full...