Olivia's Staff Picks


Showing 1 - 20 of 26  There are a total of 40 valid entries on the list.
Book cover for "If Beale Street could talk"
Star rating for If Beale Street could talk
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
This novel is a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, the story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope...
Book cover for "Sleepytime"
Star rating for Sleepytime
Author:
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
It's sleepytime at the Heeler house! Bingo wants to do a Big Girl sleep. As she drifts away into a dreamy adventure with Flopsy, will Bingo make it through the night and wake up in her own bed?
Book cover for "The Hunger Games"
Star rating for The Hunger Games
Series:
Hunger Games volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. "In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol...
Book cover for "The maze runner"
Star rating for The maze runner
Series:
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
Book cover for "The house of the scorpion"
Star rating for The house of the scorpion
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
Book cover for "Paper towns"
Star rating for Paper towns
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
Book cover for "Turtles all the way down"
Star rating for Turtles all the way down
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
Book cover for "Their eyes were watching God"
Star rating for Their eyes were watching God
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
When Janie Starks returns home, she seeks identity and independence as the small southern black community buzzes with gossip about the outcome of her affair with a younger man.
Book cover for "Pink around the rink"
Star rating for Pink around the rink
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Pinkalicious's new ice skates are plain white, so before she takes them out on the ice she decides to color them with her cotton candy pink magic marker.
Book cover for "A court of thorns and roses"
Star rating for A court of thorns and roses
Series:
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
"Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him transform from hostility to a fiery passion, the threats against the faerie lands grow. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose Tamlin forever"--
Book cover for "Throne of glass"
Star rating for Throne of glass
Series:
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. In a land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She comes not to kill the king, but to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three...
Book cover for "Red, white & royal blue"
Star rating for Red, white & royal blue
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
"What if Alex Claremont-Diaz, the half-Mexican son of the first female president of the United States, fell in love with Prince Henry, England's heir? The two heartthrobs are arch-nemeses at first. After a scandalous mishap at a wedding, however, they are required to pretend to be best friends lest their enmity spark an international incident. Not surprisingly, their hate turns into a bromance. When Henry kisses Alex, the First Son goes into a mild...
Book cover for "Circe"
Star rating for Circe
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
Follows Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.
Book cover for "The song of Achilles"
Star rating for The song of Achilles
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate. Set during the Trojan War.
Book cover for "A monster calls"
Star rating for A monster calls
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
Book cover for "Dinosaurs before dark"
Star rating for Dinosaurs before dark
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic tree house, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.
Book cover for "The tale of Peter Rabbit"
Star rating for The tale of Peter Rabbit
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Peter disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor's garden and almost gets caught.
Book cover for "The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo"
Star rating for The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
"Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?"--Amazon.com.
Book cover for "Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children"
Star rating for Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children
Series:
Miss Peregrine volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.
Book cover for "The lightning thief"
Star rating for The lightning thief
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.