by envisionmg | Sep 28, 2017 | Jen Reviews
I had kind of gone off John le Carre in the past few years. There was just something about his style of writing that, for me at least, didn’t translate well from Cold War to War on Terror. Maybe it was just the fact that its easier for me to read spy fiction...
by envisionmg | Sep 26, 2017 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
Released in 2015, the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Frank Sinatra, this sensitively written yet honest and raw portrayal of the life of the great entertainer is a real page turner for Sinatra fans. Tina Sinatra (Frank’s youngest daughter) brings the reader...
by envisionmg | Sep 21, 2017 | Jim Reviews
This book opens with an attempted terrorist attack in the early 2000s. A mail bomb intended to blow up over Chicago. The attack was foiled but the package containing the bomb was addressed to a man dead for hundreds of years: Reynald de Chatillon a knight who lived...
by envisionmg | Sep 19, 2017 | Non-fiction, Patrick Reviews, Pop Culture Spotlight
In 1946 something amazing happened in the world of comics and pop-culture. The Golden Age of Comics was coming to a close. In less than a decade Fredric Wetham’s Seduction of the Innocent would demonize the industry. Comic books would be smeared as leading to...
by envisionmg | Sep 13, 2017 | Reading Lists
Amy, one of our junior pages, really enjoyed these books (especially the first one on the list!), and thought that a young reader in your home might, too. Trumpet of the Swan – E. B. White “Like the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike...
