Staff Picks
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.
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
Book Review by Emily Porter
From the mesmerizing illustrations to the heartfelt writing, Thi Bui has created a hard to put down treasure.
Categories: staff-picks, narrative-biography, fiction
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Blog / Excerpts
Kingdom of Lies: Unnerving Adventures in the World of Cybercrime
By 800-CEO-READ
In the tradition of Michael Lewis and Tom Wolfe, a fascinating and frightening behind-the-scenes look at the interconnected cultures of hackers, security specialists, and law enforcement.
Categories: Blog, editors-choice, staff-picks, news-opinion, excerpts, current-events-public-affairs
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Blog / Staff Picks
How to Make a Plant Love You: Cultivate Green Space in Your Home and Heart
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
Gabbi reviews a book that teaches us how plants and people aren't so different.
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Sabrina & Corina
Book Review 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.
Categories: staff-picks, fiction
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Blog / Staff Picks
Tales of the City
Book Review by Emily Porter
Armistead Maupin's San Francisco series is, quite simply put, a masterpiece.
Categories: staff-picks, fiction
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Blog / Staff Picks
Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer
Book Review 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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Blog / Staff Picks
Tin Man: A Novel
Book Review 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."
Categories: staff-picks, fiction
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
Book Review 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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Blog / Staff Picks
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment
Book Review 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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Blog / Staff Picks
What We're Reading Over Memorial Day Weekend
Book Review by Blyth Meier
Our staff members share the books they will be reading over the holiday weekend.
Categories: staff-picks, the-company