Women's Hotel by Daniel M. Lavery

The Biedermeier might be several rungs lower on the ladder than the real-life Barbizon, but its residents manage to occupy one another nonetheless. There's Katherine, the first-floor manager, lightly cynical and more than lightly suggestible. There's Lucianne, a workshy party girl caught between the...

Shred Sisters by Betsy Lerner

Spanning two decades, Shred Sisters is an intimate and bittersweet story exploring the fierce complexities of sisterhood, mental health, loss and love. If anything is true it's what Amy learns on her road to self-acceptance: No one will love you more or hurt you more than a sister.

Entitlement by Rumaan Alam

Taut, unsettling, and alive to the seductive distortions of money, Entitlement is a riveting tale for our new gilded age, a story that confidently considers questions about need and worth, race and privilege, philanthropy and generosity, passion and obsession. It is a provocative, propulsive novel...

Dark Laboratory by Tao Leigh Goffe

Through the lens of the Caribbean, both guide and warning of the man-made disasters that continue to plague our world, Goffe closely situates the origins of racism and climate catastrophe within a colonial context. And in redressing these twin apocalypses, Dark Laboratory becomes a record of the...

Digital Madness by Nicholas Kardaras

In Digital Madness, Dr. Kardaras answers the question of why young people's mental health is deteriorating as we become a more technologically advanced society. While enthralled with shiny devices and immersed in Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat, our young people are struggling with...

Everything Must Go by Dorian Lynskey

As Dorian Lynskey writes, “People have been contemplating the end of the world for millennia.” In this immersive and compelling cultural history, Lynskey reveals how religious prophecies of the apocalypse were secularized in the early 19th century by Lord Byron and Mary Shelley in a time of dramatic...

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Reading over Spring Break

"Moved the furniture in the room"

Prior to spring break, Dean of Teaching and Learning, Emily Pressman, made an announcement at school meeting encouraging the community to "pick up a book and get reading." 

Emily acknowledged that throughout the busyness of the academic year, reading for pleasure becomes almost non-existent. She told...

Library Lovers Week

Library Lovers Week

This week marks a special celebration - Library Lovers Week. Libraries are more than just buildings filled with books. They are vibrant spaces where minds are nurtured, imaginations are sparked, and knowledge is freely shared. Today, many public and school libraries are losing funding and closing...
SAS Book Club

Book Club Pick

Khaled Hosseini's, The Kite Runner, his debut novel, was the book of choice for the SAS Book Club's winter read. This book is beautifully written and an emotionally powerful novel and explores themes of friendship, betrayal, and redemption. 

Hosseini's vivid storytelling immerses readers in the...

National Book Award

National Book Award Winner

Author Percival L. Everett is the 2024 winner of The National Book Award for Fiction for his novel James. James is a reimagining of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, focusing on the central character Jim. The novel delves deeply into Jim's perspective, with an emphasis on his...