It’s National Poetry Month! It’s time to enjoy your favorite poets or find some new ones like Jalal al-Din Rumi, Billy Collins, e.e. cummings, an anthology of poets, or one of the many other famous and not-so-famous poets we have in the collection. Don’t like poetry? Not a problem. Try […]
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The shortlist for the 2014 Andrew Carnegie Medals has been announced! Have you read the books? Let us know what you think! The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, one of the fiction shortlist selections, is one of our staff picks. Also on the fiction shortlist are: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie […]
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S. also known as Ship of Theseus is a book within a book… or in truth, three books in one. If that sounds like a lot, it is, but it’s worth the read. It’s also perfect for April Fool’s Day with it’s very unusual triplicate story-line and miscellaneous notes stuck […]
The staff recommends The Can’t Cook Book: 100+ recipes for the absolutely terrified by Jessica Seinfeld. Simple, easy to follow recipes and directions with lots of photos to show you how what you’re cooking is supposed to look, Seinfeld breaks cooking down into manageable proportions. Her lemon ricotta pancake recipe is […]
Staff Pick Bookmarks are here! Don’t know what to read after the last Patterson? Why not try Ghostman by Robert Hobbs? Or, if you’re looking for some less suspenseful fiction, why not The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence, We Never Talk About My Brother by Peter S. Beagle, or one of […]
Join us on Saturday, April 12th at 1:30 pm in the Community Room for a discussion of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis. New members welcome! In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd, swept up by the tides of the Great Migration, flees Georgia and heads north. Full of hope, she […]
[booknet booknumber=”9780812995206″ templatenumber=”2″] For fans of Gillian Flynn, Scott Smith, and Daniel Woodrell comes a gripping, suspenseful novel about two mysterious disappearances a generation apart. The town of Henbane sits deep in the Ozark Mountains. Folks there still whisper about Lucy Dane’s mother, a bewitching stranger who appeared long enough […]
OK, I’m recommending a Star Wars book. But, it is a Star Wars book by James S. A. Corey an author whose Expanse series (Leviathan Wakes, Caliban’s War, Abaddon’s Gate, and the forthcoming Cibola Burn) is one of the best things to happen to the space opera genre in years. Not only […]
A new thriller series opener by Patrick Lee, Runner is a novel with a breakneck pace sure to please fans of authors like Lee Child, Nelson DeMille, and Steve Berry. From the publisher: Sam Dryden, retired special forces, lives a quiet life in a small town on the coast of […]