Season Five is here and we have great expectations.

Christina walks the halls of dark academia with Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, continues her foray into the world of Alex Stern with Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo and signs off with runaway bestseller Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang.

Jen reviews The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz, a convoluted work of suspense that failed to enthrall. But no fear—Jen’s faith in the world of spine-tingling mystery is restored by Maureen Johnson’s The Box in the Woods.

Kat trudges through a blizzard of material starting with The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, the Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880-1881 by Cindy Wilson. Heard of SearchOhio and OhioLink? Learn about ASCPL’s partnership with public libraries and university libraries. Unwind with Paper Poetry: Creative Papercutting Projects by Simone Bendix & Helene Bendix and Send Something Beautiful: Fold, Pull, Print, Cut, and Turn Paper into Collectible Keepsakes and Memorable Mail by Emily Hogarth.