By The Cover: Chartreuse

A Song Over Miskwaa Rapids
by Linda Legarde Grover

5/10 Chartreuse Scale (a bit too olive)
10/10 Looks like a great read

A fifty-year-old mystery converges with a present-day struggle over family, land, and history

“Margie Robineau, fighting for her family’s long-held allotment land, uncovers events connected to a long-ago escape plan, and the burial–at once figurative and painfully real–of not one crime but two. While Margie pieces the facts together, Dale Ann is confronted by her own tightly held secrets and the truth that the long ago and the now are all indelibly linked, no matter how much we try to forget” Read more

Helping Mayor Patty
by Fran Manushkin
Illustrated by Laura Zarrin

9.5/10 Chartreuse works great with the purples and blues of this cover

Katie’s Aunt Patty is the new mayor, and Katie and her friends attend her first city council meeting, brimming with ideas about what their neighborhood needs–like free ice cream, puppies, and a new park where children can play in safety. Read more

The Addams Family 2 (DVD)

9.5/10 – LOVE the gradient!

In this all-new movie, we find Morticia and Gomez distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and totally consumed with ‘scream time.’ To reclaim their bond they decide to cram Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, and the crew into their haunted camper and hit the road for one last miserable family vacation. Their adventure across America takes them out of their element and into hilarious run-ins with their iconic cousin, It, as well as many new kooky characters. What could go wrong? Read more

My Vegan Year: a Seasonal Guide to Going Plant-Based
by Niki Webster

8/10 – If we mixed all the colors on the cover together, they would make a stronger Chartreuse

Millions of young people want to be more plant-based – and this is the first-ever young person’s guide to the whole vegan year. Read more

Serving Herself: the Life and Times of Althea Gibson
by Ashley Brown

2/10 – It’s really only the title that matches our theme
10/10 – looks like a great read

Althea Gibson, 1958 Four days after her historic victory at Wimbledon in July 1957, Althea Gibson sat at the head table between her parents during a luncheon held in her honor at New York City’s famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Wearing a dress of red and blue silk with a corsage pinned to her lapel, she listened as local officials sang her praises. Gibson was “an American girl,” “a real lady,” and “a wonderful ambassador … [and] saleswoman” for the country, they said. Speaker after speaker reached for superlatives and generalities to pay tribute to Gibson for rising improbably from “the sidewalks of New York,” in the words of Mayor Robert F. Wagner, to winning the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world. Read more

Start More Than you can Finish: a Creative Permission Slip to Unleash your Best Ideas
by Becky Blades

9/10 – Almost the exact shade I imagine when I think of Chartreuse

“Starting is a skill. And like any other skill, it can be learned, practiced and mastered. When we do it right, we can go anywhere, start anything. We all need to start more. Read more

Living Green: a Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability
by Greg Horn

9.5/10 – There is literally a leaf AND leafy green

Over 85% of Americans today express concern about health and the environment, but only a small fraction say they know where to begin. Whether you are concerned about climate change, personal health, or just want to live more lightly on the planet, this book is for you. It helps you get past the worry and take positive action to improve both your health and the health of our environment. Read more

Bread Book: Ideas and Innovations from the Future of Grain, Flour, and Fermentation
by Chad Robertson

3/10 – Not very chartreuse, +1 for bread

The cofounder of Tartine bakery and bistro shares his knowledge of the craft and science of bread making with sixteen formulas for naturally leavened doughs–including baguettes, flatbread, rolls, tortillas, gluten-free loaves, and fermented pasta doughs that use discarded sourdough starter. Read more

Rosemary’s Baby (DVD)

3/10 – Too sage colored
10/10 – A horror classic

Based on Ira Levin’s bestselling novel, a young mother-to-be grows increasingly suspicious that her overfriendly elderly neighbors and self-involved actor husband are hatching a satanic plot against her and her baby. Read more

Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense
edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers

10/10 – Great spooky glow, excellent notes of chartreuse

A collection of steampunk and supernatural tales that breathes new life into the Victorian and Edwardian ghost story for a new generation of readers. Read more

The Less Dead
by Denise Mina

10/10 – Great green and wonderful contrasting colors

She thought she was finding her birth mother. Now she’s searching for a killer. Dr. Margo Dunlop is at a crossroads. Read more

Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
by Wole Soyinka

10/10 – Definitely chartreuse! Love the purple and abstract images

In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka’s hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Dr. Menka shares the grisly news with his oldest college friend, bon viveur, star engineer, and Yoruba royal, Duyole Pitan-Payne. The life of every party, Duyole is about to assume a prestigious post at the United Nations in New York, but it now seems that someone is deter­mined that he not make it there. And neither Dr. Menka nor Duyole knows why, or how close the enemy is, or how powerful. Read more