Staff Picks
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Staff Picks
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
By Emily Porter
From the mesmerizing illustrations to the heartfelt writing, Thi Bui has created a hard to put down treasure.
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Staff Picks
How to Make a Plant Love You: Cultivate Green Space in Your Home and Heart
By Gabbi Cisneros
Gabbi reviews a book that teaches us how plants and people aren't so different.
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Sabrina & Corina
By Gabbi Cisneros
Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s eleven stories are woven together into a tapestry revealing the common threads between the diverse lives of Indigenous Latina women in the American West.
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Tales of the City
By Emily Porter
Armistead Maupin's San Francisco series is, quite simply put, a masterpiece.
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Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer
By Gabbi Cisneros
The newest member of our marketing team, Gabbi Cisneros, reviews Bren Smith's journey to becoming an ocean farmer.
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Tin Man: A Novel
By Emily Porter
Sarah Winman's Tin Man is a novel "full of love, loss, and the awe of rebuilding your soul after devastating grief."
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The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
By Emily Porter
Our newest employee, Emily Porter, reviews Meghan Cox Gurdon's new book about "The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction."
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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment
By Rebecca Schwartz
Our owner and CEO takes a look inside the country's prison industrial complex, and its long history, through the lens of journalist Shane Bauer's new book.
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What We're Reading Over Memorial Day Weekend
By Blyth Meier
Our staff members share the books they will be reading over the holiday weekend.
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Staff Picks
10 Books for New Graduates
By Blyth Meier
These ten books make perfect gifts for your new grads, as they begin to navigate the Rest of Their Lives.
Porchlight is a company filled with voracious readers—talented, creative individuals who know books, and who excel at moving them. Whenever we can, we like to do that by telling you about the books we’re reading.