Albany PL Partners with Transportation Authority, Penn State Short Story Dispensers, RWA 2017

ReShonda Tate Billingsley's Seeking Sarah is one of three starred fiction selections this week. "NAACP Image Award winner and best-selling author Billingsley (Let the Church Say Amen) has written another engrossing page-turner about a complicated mother-daughter relationship that readers will enjoy into the wee hours." Robert Leonard Reid's Because It Is So Beautiful: Unraveling the Mystique of the American West is one of three starred nonfiction titles this week." Reid’s original voice is sure to capture all readers interested in the West. That two of his books are no longer in print makes this fine collection very timely indeed." Magda Szabó's The Door is this week's starred audiobook selection. "Every global citizen with an interest in superb literary fiction will want to open this intriguing Door.... Szabó’s literary achievement is further enhanced by [Siân] Thomas’s narration, utterly visceral, alternating between biting control and emotional outbursts so vivid as to almost see the tightly closed face and feel the flying spittle of desperate dialog." In graphic novels, By Chance or Providence by Becky Cloonan, with illustrations by Cloonan, Lee Loughridge, and Rachel Deering, "is marketed as Mature, [but] young adult readers will enjoy the collection, as will anyone who appreciates whimsical melancholy and bright, energetic illustration." And Barrel Proof, book three of Layla Reyne's "Agents Irish & Whiskey" series, is this week's starred e-original. "Readers looking for M/M titles or romantic suspense that focuses on an FBI partnership as well as a central love affair will be rewarded with delicious, angst-filled energy."