Biblioasis Books

Wow. I haven't read a non fiction travel book in a hot minute and was surprised when this became a 5 star.

Blythe quits her job in 2019 and begins a journey through national parks west of the Mississippi River for the summer. This isn't your typical national park memoir. She takes care and writes with a critical lens about the creation of public lands, their current over use and much more.

Come for the nostalgic descriptions of some of your fave places in the US and stay for the perspective of driving through small towns as a woman and seeing anti abortion signs as well as a chapter on Theodore Roosevelt being a racist villain.

A used copy of this book is available in our online used bookstore for a limited time.

I am reading again! Which means new books are going live on the site and my attempts at book reviews are back.

James Baldwin is one of my fave authors and whenever I get to spend time with his writing is time well spent. Despite his novels being written in the 1960-70s, his writing is approachable and covers themes which are sadly still relevant today.

If Beale Street Could Talk reminded me a lot of the book An American Marriage by Tayari Jones. So if you liked that book or it moved you try this one. This book is told through the eyes of Tish a 19 yr old girl in New York who is in love with Fonny, a young sculptor and father of her child. Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to do whatever it takes to clear his name and free him.

A used copy of this book is available on our online bookstore for a limited time.

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Here are some books we have in stock in our online used bookstore by Indigenous authors.

Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty is a short story collection that examines the consequences and merits of inheritance set in a native community in Maine in the 21st century.

Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog is a straightforward and powerful autobiography that is emotional but has moments of humor.

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich is a novel about a small haunted bookstore in Minneapolis from November 2019-2020 by the store's most annoying customer.

If you read this far, here's a reminder all our books are 30% off until October 16th!

This has been a book that has sat on my shelf for years and I am happy I finally picked it up. It took me so long to pick it up because after ready Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, which I loved, but it was deeply sad and moving. It took me awhile to be ready to feel all those things again.

Gifty is a PhD candidate in neuroscience at Stanford. She is studying mice in relation to depression and addiction. Her brother, died of a he**in overdose after an injury hooked him on OxyContin. Her mother is fighting depression and can't get out of bed. gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her.

"Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief--a novel about faith, science,religion, love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut."