Genre Guide – Holiday Romance
‘Tis the Season to read romance! No matter what holiday or holidays you’ll be celebrating as the weather gets cooler, there’s a romance novel to meet your festive reading needs. … Continued
Genre Guide – Gothic Fiction
Welcome to the world of dark and stormy nights, gloomy mansions, family secrets, passionate yearnings, and (mostly) doomed romances. Help yourself to these old-school treats and contemporary tricks of the … Continued
Genre Guide – Paranormal Romances featuring Witches
Looking for love in all the weird places? In matters of the heart, magical mishaps make things a little more complicated, but a lot more fun! Paranormal Romance is a … Continued
Queer Science Fiction
Queer science fiction challenges cisnormativity and heteronormativity while also pushing the boundaries of possibility and the imagination. Robots, necromancy, aliens, spaceships, mind control, and more await you in these out-of-this-world … Continued
Genre Guide – Cozy Mysteries: The Ones That Won’t Keep You Up at Night
If they were a food, cozy mysteries (also known as cozies) would be the grilled cheese and tomato soup of the mystery genre. For the most part you know what … Continued
Genre Guide – Body Horror
Body Horror often features gross and terrifying transformations happening to humans. Like a rash, from Kafka’s The Metamorphosis to today, body horror is spreading! These selections using the body or … Continued
CLP’s Best of 2023 – Staff Favorites
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The season when we are bestowed with the greatest gift: Best of the year book lists. We love browsing every list from … Continued
Chilling Short Stories
Settle into the impending gloom of winter weather by reading a few stories in these collections. Although not all of these stories are wintry in atmosphere, the suspense and strange phenomena they contain will be sure to send chills down your spine.
It’s Playtime!
Fred Rogers said, “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” For parents and caregivers, this is a great reminder of the value to children of time spent playing games, enjoying movement, and exercising their imaginations.
Witches: Radical Figures, Feminist Icons
Let’s talk about witches. You know them, maybe you fear them, but you love them too because they are so undeniably cool!